1 . Mum was so excited that she ________ (drop) the phone into the sea. (所给词的适当形式填空)

3 . She doesn’t like ______ (label) as an incapable woman. (所给词的适当形式填空)

4 . With the continuous development of technology, more and more people are eager _________ (explore) mysterious space. （所给词的适当形式填空）

5 . How to Teach Time Management Skills to Teens

Teens usually have fairly structured schedules. Their school day and their after-school activities are planned out for them. As a result, many of them don’t learn how to manage their time wisely when they have some spare time.     1    .

Advise your teen to write down his schedule. Your teen’s time may easily get taken up with video games or social media if he’s not careful. Teach him to schedule his day so he can set aside time for chores (琐事), homework, and other responsibilities.     2    , so time doesn’t idly pass without feeling like he hasn’t done anything fun.

    3    . Whether it’s a planner that your teen writes everything in or an app that managesyour teen’s schedule, help your teen find the tools that will work best for him. Talk about the importance of creating a schedule and using lists to manage his time wisely.

Help him to set goals.     4    . Then, help him identify how much time he’ll need to work on that goal each day. Whether he wants to exercise for 30 minutes 3 times each week or he decides to apply for scholarships one Saturday afternoon each month, goal setting is a great way to help him manage his time.

Help your teen prioritize activities. It’s common for teens to have conflicts in their schedules. A basketball game, birthday party, and church activity may all coincide (同时发生).     5    , based on his values and promises.

A．Model good time management habits

B．Give your teen time management tools

C．Practise managing your own time wisely

D．Encourage him to schedule free time as well

E．Talk to your teen about how to prioritize activities

F．Here are some steps you can take to teach your teen

G．Talk to your teen about the personal goals he wants to reach

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。

A new branch of the Palace Museum is expected to rise on Beijing outskirts over the next few years to better showcase the     1     (museum) cultural relics.

After nearly a decade of preparation,   construction of the new branch began last December.     2     (locate) in Xiyehe, a village in Haidian District, the new branch will cover more than 100, 000 square meters, including     3    exhibition space of over 60, 000 square meters for cultural relics and more than 35,000 square meters for relic     4     (restore).

To date, over 1.86 million cultural relics     5     (house) in the museum. However, only about 10, 000 pieces are able to be displayed every year due to limited exhibition spaces and outdated offices,     6     calls for more space to unveil these precious relics in public.

Du Haijiang, deputy director of the Palace Museum, briefed the public on the project in an interview with CCTV on January 26th,     7     (explain) that calligraphy works and paintings couldn't be put on display.

during rainy seasons, in winter or summer, because of strict temperature and humidity requirements. Some silk and cotton artworks     8     (current) cannot be exhibited at all for lack of the necessary environment.

On completion of the new branch, it will be possible     9     (display) between 20, 000 and 30, 000 individual relics each year. The new venue will be a modern exhibition space     10     multiple functions to provide relic preservation, repair work, and visitor services.

7 . With a broad smile on her lips, 15-year-old Sirin rushed to her mom to show off her new painting. But her mom raised her eyebrows, and spoke in a hushed tone, “Shh... honey... don't shout. I am busy with a (n) _________ talk.”

Holding her oil painting, she _________ and then searched for her dad. “Dad, see what I have done,” Sirin announced aloud in a (an) _________ voice. Her dad smiled and just patted her on the back lovingly, saying, “No time, baby. I'm late for work.”

Hearing this, she stormed off to her own bedroom, slammed the door and_______ herself on her bed, sobbing. When her mom was calling her for dinner, Sirin arrived late deliberately. She kept silent, _________ the table mat with her nail. Her mom was puzzled at the _________ behavior. Suddenly, the morning _______clicked in her mind. Softly, she asked, “Honey, did we do anything wrong?”

At this very moment, Sirin could no longer _________ her anger. “Why is everybody so busy?”   she roared, tears streaming down. She assumed that, _______ignoring her like others in her school, her mom and dad would appreciate her painting, but they were no __________ . Shocked, mom threw her arms around her tightly, announcing __________ and firmly, “Baby, I am so sorry!”

When back from school the next day, Sirin was surprised to see her beautifully-decorated painting on the wall. It was beautifully __________ and just below the painting, it read, “Honey, we are really proud of you!”__________ her parents’ stress from daily routine, she felt sorry about her previous behavior. She________ her head and apologized.

Though everything came and went, mutual __________ would stay forever in their family.

1.

A．important

B．vivid

C．pleasant

D．insignificant

2.

A．wrinkled

B．frowned

C．trembled

D．whistled

3.

A．amused

B．annoyed

C．shocked

D．thrilled

4.

A．hid

B．planted

C．threw

D．settled

5.

A．rubbing

B．stimulating

C．seizing

D．feeling

6.

A．unusual

B．ridiculous

C．impolite

D．dishonest

7.

A．incident

B．accident

C．occasion

D．event

8.

A．hold onto

B．hold back

C．throw away

D．pick up

9.

A．in spite of

B．in favor of

C．instead of

D．on account of

10.

A．help

B．match

C．exception

D．luck

11.

A．sorrowfully

B．unwillingly

C．surprisingly

D．regretfully

12.

A．folded

B．decorated

C．polished

D．distinguished

13.

A．Recalling

B．Supposing

C．Declaring

D．Imagining

14.

A．nodded

B．shook

C．cleared

D．ducked

15.

A．trust

B．understanding

C．appreciation

D．admiration

8 . Snow crab legs, the centerpiece of any self-respecting seafood, are no longer on the menu. They are the victim of a massive population crash that led Alaska to cancel its Bering Sea snow crab harvest for the first time in recorded history this year. The $132 million-a-year industry saw the state’s snow crab population drop 87%, from 8 billion in 2018 to 1 billion last year. Officials suggested that climate change might be to blame; Alaska is the fastest-warming state in the U.S. “But that’s only part of the story,” says Wes Jones, an Alaska-based fisheries expert. According too the marine biologists he works with, the most immediate cause of snow crab death is something even seasoned fishermen didn’t see coming: a mass cannibalism (同类相食) frenzy.

Back in 2017, Jones says, local crabbers started reporting a population explosion of juvenile snow crabs. The boom continued into 2019, creating what Jones says was the largest population on record. At the time, the young crabs were too small for a legal harvest- juvenile snow crabs take four to five years to be fully mature. Meanwhile, Bering Sea temperatures , which is usually close to freezing, jumped several degrees from 2017 to 2019 and caused the species to speed up their metabolisms (新陈代谢). “All of a sudden you had this huge number of little crabs coming up, eating themselves out of house and home.” says Jones. “Then the water warmed, which meant they had to eat more. It was a double whammy, and the results were unenviable for a hungry species that has run out of its usual food source. They basically cannibalized each other.” he says.

Snow crabs are only the latest victims of climate change in the Bering Sea. Rising temperatures have often led to unpredictable boom-and-bust cycles, which have had unanticipated consequences up and down the food chain. A population explosion of sockeye salmon is one likely reason for the recent collapse of Alaska’s red king crab harvest, which was also canceled this year. Meanwhile, the warming waters of the Bering Sea have opened the door for Pacific cod, a predator of juvenile crabs.

It will be years before the Alaskan snow crab population recovers to harvest-worthy levels, says Jones. And that’s only if temperatures in the Bering Sea stay cool enough for the cold-loving juveniles — and climate change is making everything harder to predict. “When you start seeing things outside of the range of what you’ve seen before,” says Jones, “you don’t know how that is gonna affect something until it’s happened, like rising water temperatures and cannibalism.”

1. Why did Alaska cancel its Bering Sea snow crabs harvest this year?

A．Customers are no longer crazy about snow crab.

B．Snow crabs consume another species as food.

C．They population of snow crab dropped sharply.

D．Alaska suffers from severe climate change.

2. What does the underlined phrase “double whammy” mean in paragraph 2?

A．A shortage of food source and cannibalism.

B．Climate change in the Bering Sea illegal sea harvest.

C．The advanced metabolism and freezing sea temperature.

D．A population explosion of snow crabs and a rise of the sea temperature.

3. What can we learn from Wes Jones’ words in the last paragraph?

A．Bering Sea is certain to stay cool enough for the snow crab.

B．Alaskan snow crab population will recover instantly.

C．The current situation is hard to predict until it`s happened.

D．It is effortless to research how fast the climate changes.

4. What’s the best title of the text?

A．Alaskan fishing industry suffers heavy losses

B．Climate change leads to victims in the Bering Sea

C．Alaska delayed a snow crab harvest

D．The curious case of the cannibal crabs

10 . There’s been an enormous amount of progress in language-generating AI over the past couple of years. OpenAI’s GPT-3, for example, is a language generator that’s been trained on 570 GB of text, and is able to write convincing essays. Google, of course, is working on language generators too, and its latest one helps you write like a legendary poet.

Google’s new AI tool, Verse by Verse, allows users to compose a poem using “suggestions” from classic American poets. The AI generates these suggestions based on what it’s collected from reading the poets’ respective oeuvres. That is the program uses machine-learning algorithms (算法) to identify the language patterns of a particular poet’s work, then applies those to text it as the suggestions.

The tool works by allowing users to select from 22 American poets for the suggestions; including legends like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allen Poe. After a user has selected up to three poets, they then pick the type of poem they’d like to write. The program offers poetic forms including free verse and quatrain (四行诗), and even allows users to select the number of syllables per line.

Users then give the program a first line, and AI generates the rest of the poem. The AI makes suggestions line by line, however, making it more interactive than other top language generators out there. As far as results, they’re interesting, but not nearly as impressive as GPT-3’s writings.

According to Google engineer Dave Uthus, “The system was trained to have a general understanding of what lines of verse would best follow a previous line of verse. So even if you write on topics not commonly seen in classic poetry, the system will try its best to make lines that are relevant. The widely varying degrees of Verse by Verse output quality show that while good lyrical gems (宝石) may occasionally emerge, further work by the AI team remains to be done.”

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To introduce a new AI tool for writing poetry.	B．To compare different language-generating tools.
C．To discuss the progress of language-generators.	D．To analyze the latest essays of OpenAI’s GPT-3.

2. What does the underlined word “oeuvres” mean in paragraph 2?

A．Suggestions.

B．Works.

C．Messages.

D．Patterns.

3. What can the Verse by Verse tool do?

A．Help users appreciate poems.	B．Give the program starting lines.
C．Generate different poetic forms.	D．Compose as good poems as GPT-3.

4. What is Dave Uthus’s attitude to the capability of Verse by Verse tool?

A．Doubtful.

B．Objective.

C．Puzzled.

D．Confident.