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Hi, my name is Adam and I’m a freshman at senior high school. Going from Junior high school to senior high school is a really big     1    . The first week was a little    2    .

First, I had to think very carefully about which courses I want to take. The school adviser helped me choose the     3     ones: maths, English, chemistry, world history and Chinese. I know that Chinese is a very difficult language, but I hope to be     4     when I graduate. My adviser    5     that I should sign up for    6     literature because I like English and I am good at it.

I had to choose extra-curricular    7     , too. I tried to join the school football team, but the Coach told me that I didn’t play well enough. Obviously, I was unhappy, but I won’t quit. I will find a way to     8     on my own so that I can     9    the team next year, I join a volunteer club instead. Every Wednesday, we work at a soup kitchen and hand out food to homeless people in the community.

I know I will have to study harder as a senior high school student and get used to being    10     for a lot more .

2 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

“Melting pot” means a place where people from many different ethnic groups or cultures form a united society. The idea comes from     1     (heat) metals in a container. When they melt, the metals unite and become       2     new and stronger. This term has been used to describe the United States as a nation created from people who came here from many different countries.

A Frenchman who was living in America expressed the idea more than 200 years ago. J. Hector de Crevecoeur     3     (publish) a book called Letters From an American Farmer in 1782. He wrote that America had people from many different countries. He said that they would become a new people     4     work would one day change the world.

For many years, Americans generally accept the idea     5     their country is a melting pot. They welcome immigrants from many nations. Yet some of those immigrants criticize the melting pot idea. They feel they are forced to lose their culture and language     6     (accept) in America. Other people also criticize the idea. They say the aim of the melting pot is to make different cultures disappear into the one     7     (represent) the largest group.

New groups of immigrants from Asia and Latin America are changing the United States today. Some are resisting learning American culture and language. Reports say some Americans fear that the nation is separating into many groups that have no     8     (share) purpose. Others say the melting pot is no longer changing the nation’s immigrants, but the immigrants are changing America.

Some experts who study immigration say they now compare American society     9     a salad bowl. A salad is made of many different foods. They each keep their own taste     10    being part of a successful product. In this way, cultural groups keep their customs and language and are still part of American society.

3 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A lonely Japanese billionaire    1    (plan) to fly to the moon on Elon Musk’s rocket is looking for the love of his life to join him on his journey. He just hasn’t found her yet.

Yusaku Maezawa, the first paying passenger on Space X’s maiden tourist voyage to the moon in 2023, tweeted a link on Sunday to a website where women can apply to be his companion     2     the week-long space flight. “I’m 44 now,” Maezawa said on the website. “As feelings of     3     (lonely) slowly begin to surge(涌上) upon me, there’s one thing that I think about: Continuing to love one woman.”

4 . John Carter was rescued from the sea near his holiday home yesterday. The accident happened while he     1     (walk) along a steep cliff at the edge of the sea. He was blown off by a strong wind and     2     (fall) into the sea, 30 meters below. Luckily, a woman saw him in the sea soon afterwards and she called the police rescue service. Mr. Carter was taken to hospital with a     3     (break) arm. “I’m very lucky to be alive,” he said. “I can’t thank the woman enough.”

5 . To upcycle something is to take a used object and change it to a new function.
Recycling usually breaks down the material that an object is made from    1    it is made into something else. By that means it wastes plenty of energy.     2    recycling, upcycling just uses something in a new way without reprocessing     3    material it's made from. In addition to being    4    energy-saving, another major benefit of upcycling is     5    it reuses items made of materials which couldn't be dealt with by traditional recycling methods. When something is upcycled, nothing,     6    very little, is thrown away, with every component part having a potential use.
An upcycled product is generally    7    higher value than the materials or objects which are used to create    8    , like metal ring pulls becoming pins or earrings, low-value coins becoming cufflinks(袖扣), and so on.