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Honesty Is a Virtue

It is universally accepted     1     honesty is an important virtue in China. I’m glad to stand here and share my understanding of honesty     2     you .

    3     (consider) a virtue, honesty is admired by even our ancestors. I have to admit that there are still some dishonest people 4.    4     (try) to take advantage of others whenever they can. But being       5     honest person, we can benefit a lot. First, we can have a     6     (peace) life, for we will not have the burden of remembering every lie we have told. Second, we can     7     (trust) by other people and make more friends ,     8     may earn us a good reputation .

I do believe honesty is a virtue which contributes     9     a harmonious society. Let’s try our best     10     (be) honest people.

Thank you for your listening.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Giant Panda National Park,     1     officially came into being in 2021, is a hugely ambitious project.     2     (cover) an area of 27, 000 square kilometers of countryside in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, the park is a massive drive     3     (protect) China’s pandas.

In Wannian Village, however, the news     4     (greet) with some anxiety. Thousands of people were already living in the area when the park was announced. And many of them were making a living through     5     (activity) that were illegal under the new policy.

For decades, mining and hydropower (水电) were the main industries in Wannian. The projects were     6     (profit) and created a lot of jobs. But the mines were ruinous to the local environment.

There only appeared to be one way out: turning the village     7     a tourist hotspot. Wannian has several natural advantages: it’s only 200 kilometers from Chengdu. The village also sits right on the southern tip of the park, making it     8     great jumping-off point for visitors. Plus, the nearby panda training center is famous all over China.

Local officials     9     (immediate) set about rebranding (重塑形象) Wannian as a “panda village”. The place was given a complete makeover. Cute panda sculptures were placed along the winding path leading from the highway. The newly     10     (build) hotels have attracted visitors nationwide.

3 . Fed up with her _____ (wrinkle) face, Mary is exploding every means to make herself look youngest. (所给词的适当形式填空)

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The 6.2-magnitude earthquake    1    hit an ethnic county lying    2     Northwest China’s Gansu province midnight Monday has killed 111 people in Gansu and neighboring Qinghai province, according to local earthquake relief headquarters.

According to China Earthquake Networks Center, the quake    3     (strike) at 11:59 pm Monday and has a focal depth of 10 km. The epicenter, Liugou township, is about 8 km from the county seat of Jishishan Bao’an, Dongxiang, Sala autonomous county in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture, Gansu.

Witnesses told Xinhua the earthquake caused damages on houses, roads and other infrastructures. Several villages have suffered power failures and shortage of water.

According to local meteorological authorities, the    4     (day) low temperature in Jishishan is reported    5     (reach) minus 10 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.

The provincial fire and rescue department has sent 580 rescuers    6     (aid) with 88 fire engines, 12 search and rescue dogs, more than 10,000 sets of equipment to the disaster area.

The railway authority has suspended passenger and cargo trains     7     (pass) through the quake zone and ordered a safety check of railway tracks.

Hu Changsheng, Party chief of Gansu, and Ren Zhenhe, governor of Gansu, rushed to the disaster area to command rescue and    8     (relieve) effort.

It was reported that every effort    9     (make) to provide assistance to    10    were affected and to restore normality to the region as quickly as possible.

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On my way home, traffic was held up in front of the University stadium-it is a busy area     1     I saw a young woman trying     2     (get) a tiny (maybe 8 weeks old) cat out of     3     road. The kitten (小猫)     4     (terrify) and she finally got the little one but dropped him. The kitten ran to the roadside and lay there in shock. I pulled over and got out as she had gone back into her truck (maybe since the kitty was out of the road her part was done) and     5     (simple) took him to safety.

As I was doing so, two beautiful young men pulled over and asked if I needed help. Well, I said, maybe. I showed them the kitten and put him     6     the cab of their truck. They were instantly in love. They also knew where the     7     (shelter) were in town.

I told them I could take the kitten to one if they couldn’t, but they told me they would take the kitten and if they didn’t keep him, they would take him to a shelter. As I left, I heard one say, “kittens deserve     8     (well) than this.” There     9     (be) some truly wonderful young people out there. My heart broke with     10     (happy) to see these guys caring so obviously.

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

When China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei blasted off into space in 2003, it was a history- making moment that declared his country’s arrival     1     an emerging space power.

So far, China     2     (become) a major presence in space. It now has its own permanent outpost in orbit—a     3     (full) operational space station-and routinely rotates (轮值) crews to live and work there.

On Thursday, three Chinese astronauts lifted off on the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center deep in the Gobi Desert,     4     (head) for the Tiangong space station for a six-month stay.

They are the     5     (young) crew China has ever sent to space—with     6     average age of 38. Among their tasks on board is to repair the solar panels which     7     (destroy) by space debris years ago—the first time Chinese astronauts will carry out repair work outside the station.

This is China’s sixth manned mission to its space station since 2021. The new crew will take over from the Shenzhou-16 astronauts,     8     have been on board since May.

    9     (complete) late last year, the Tiangong—or “heavenly palace” in Chinese—is one of the two space     10     (station) currently in orbit. With a lifespan of 15 years, it could become the only one left when the NASA-led International Space Station(ISS) retires in 2030.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

If a person lost an arm, how could he or she still play basketball? Zhang Jiacheng, a 17-year-old Chinese boy, did it and     1     (impress) everyone.

After a short video of the teenage basketball player playing a     2     (compete) was recently posted online, Zhang soon became a hit and     3     (praise) for his strong will and extraordinary skills. In the video, Zhang showed his unusual abilities and shooting skills and received     4     loud cheer from the audience. He posted some short     5     (video) of him practicing basketball skills on social media,     6     has earned him over one million likes in just a few days.

Born in Guangdong, Zhang lost his right arm in an accident at just five years old, which was a disaster for a little kid. But Zhang never gave     7     to his bad fortune as his love for basketball grew stronger. The one-armed teenager dreamt of     8     (become) a basketball player. “Give it a try, or give it up,” he wrote when posting a video.

“I didn’t even realize he had only one arm when I first watched the video,” one commentator said. Another said, “Hard work makes dreams come true. He is living his unique life to the     9     (full).”

Zhang said he was     10     (extreme) thankful for the support and praise he had received and he would keep studying and training hard.

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More than 500 years ago, explorers sailed to the Americas. They    1     (bring) a few four-legged passengers along with them: pigs. Today, there are     2     (near) six million wild pigs, also known as boars (野猪),    3     (run) free in the US.

Boars can cause a lot of damage to crops and soccer fields.They eat baby birds and turtle eggs. Every year, they cause $1.5 billion in damage. People do all they could to stop them,     4    boars keep going strong.

Texas is home to half of the country’s boar population. Some     5     (county) offer hunters $5 for every boar tail they bring in. High-tech means are also used     6     (battle) the wild pigs. The latest is a steel (钢) cage     7    hangs off the ground— officials lay a track of tasty corn leading to     8    cage. Special cameras record the boars approaching. Officials watch from afar. At just the right moment, the officials press a button on an app. The cage drops and traps a dozen boars all at once.

But boars are smart. They’ve learned ways to avoid getting     9     (catch). They know that humans hunt in daylight. Now the animals sleep during the day and eat at night, when it’s much    10     (safe). Until we find a way to outsmart them, boars will keep pigging out on farms and gardens.

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Researchers have discovered that honeybee venom (毒液) and its active component, melittin (蜂毒肽) could be used against two breast cancer     1     (type)   which   are   hard   to   treat:   triple-negative   and HER2-enriched.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer     2     (affect) women around the world. While there are thousands of chemical compounds (化合物) which can fight cancer cells in a lab setting, there are few which can be produced as     3     (treat) for humans.

The study by the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Western Australia     4     (publish) in npj Precision Oncology last month. The honeybee venom was found to be “extremely     5     (power)”, said Ciara Duffy, a PhD researcher     6     led the study. It could kill cancer cells within an hour, with minimal ha`rn to the other cells.     7     researchers also found the melittin compound on its own was effective “in shutting down” cancer cell growth. While melittin     8     (natural) occurs in honeybee venom, it can also be artificially produced.

Prof Peter Klinken, Western Australia’s chief scientist, described the research     9     incredibly exciting. “It provides another wonderful example of where compounds in nature can be used to treat human diseases,” said Klinken.

But researchers warn more work is needed for us     10     (see) if the venom could actually work as a cancer-fighting drug.

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More than a century ago, large numbers of Hainan people spread across Southeast Asia,     1     (take) with them their native dish Hainanese chicken rice.

As time went by, Hainanese chicken rice gradually became a popular dish in Southeast Asian     2    (country), including Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. Located in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, the Andrew Wong Hainanese Chicken Rice restaurant     3     (be) quite popular among the locals now.

Hainanese chicken rice     4     (cook) by the owner, Andrew Wong Hin Hausince since 2003. Andrew Wong Hin Hausince,     5     ancestral home is in Qionghai, Hainan province, gets up at around 4 am every day to buy the necessary ingredients at the market, starts to prepare the dish at 5:30 am     6     gets everything ready around 10:30 am. His     7     (create)way of cooking attracts many people.

Wong has been constantly improving the recipe. “If the guests are not     8     (satisfy). I will find a way to make it better,” he says, adding that he has never replaced the ingredients with cheaper ones. “You can’t cheat your customers by using inferior ingredients just due     9     the fact that prices keep rising,” he says.

Over the past years, Wong has tried local Hainanese chicken rice whenever he visits a new place, such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and cities in Thailand. He wants     10     (make) his restaurant better by studying the dish at other restaurants. In his eyes, Hainanese chicken rice is a heritage (文化遗产) from his home.