1 . In 2000, Andréa Speranza achieved her dream of becoming a firefighter joining the Halifax Regional Fire Service. Her job was exactly as satisfying as she imagined it would be, except for one thing: she still hadn’t seen another woman in her role — not in a magazine, not on television, not in real life. Even today, less than five percent of firefighters in Canada are women. Speranza decided that she wanted to help young women see that they, too, could have a career like hers.

The result is Camp Courage, a program for girls aged 15 to 19 who want to learn more about firefighting. In 2006, Speranza and about 20 volunteers welcomed their first 17 participants, recruiting (招募) attendees through advertising in schools and recreation centers. Over the course of eight days, the girls discovered the ins and outs of being first responders: learning how to put out fires, deliver first aid and even use the jaws of life (救生钳) on a car.

Camp Courage now runs one session every year in Halifax and is free to attend. To offset costs, Speranza and her fellow campers fundraise by holding everything from car washes to comedy nights. Hopeful campers must also submit an essay describing how they plan to help their community, or a specific individual in need. And they have to deliver on the plan—from building a bench (长椅) for a senior at a bus stop to launching a local chapter of the Kids Help Phone.

Hundreds of girls have passed through Camp Courage, and 36 percent are doing exactly what 52-year-old Speranza hoped they would: working as first responders across the country. This past summer, the camp held its first session for young women in Halifax, as well as its first national camp in Calgary with plans to roll out more in 2023.

1. What was probably Speranza’s wish in 2001?

A．To see more female firefighters.

B．To make contact with more teenage girls.

C．To be recruited to the Halifax Regional Fire Service.

D．To work part-time in schools and recreation centers.

2. What does the underlined part “ins and outs” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Risks.

B．Chances.

C．Details.

D．Purposes.

3. What can be inferred about Camp Courage?

A．It is a nonprofit international organization.

B．It teaches the value of being helpful to others.

C．It requires its campers to write an essay every week.

D．It introduces boys and girls to the emergency services.

4. What can we say about Speranza?

A．She had a burning ambition to play comedy.

B．She used to be reserved and disciplined.

C．She is intellectual and scholarly.

D．She is brave and inspiring.

2 . At a museum in Vietnam, Lena Bui’s film Where Birds Dance Their Last reflected on the beauty and vulnerability of Vietnamese feather farms after Bird Flu. During a festival in Rwanda, Ellen Reid’s audio experience Soundwalk was shared in a hopeful discussion about music, parks and mental health. These are a few of the things I have helped bring to life over the years, working at the intersection of scientific research, the arts and advocacy to support science in solving global health challenges.

Science is key to addressing these issues. But it isn’t the only key. To achieve its potential and for its advances to be implemented and reach all who could benefit, science depends on trust and good relationships. People might not always see science as relevant, trustworthy or meaningful to their lives. There are reasons why some see science as having a chequered past, from nuclear weapons to eugenics, and are therefore uninterested in, or suspicious of, what it proposes. Others feel excluded by the incomprehensibility of hyper specialist knowledge.

In its capacity to build upon and test an evidence base, science is powerful, but researchers and funders haven’t been as good at ensuring this evidence base responds to the needs and interests of diverse communities, or informs policy makers to take action. Science might be perceived as distancing itself from the personal, the poetic and the political, yet it is precisely these qualities that can be most influential when it comes to public interest in atopic or how a government prioritizes a decision.

A moving story well told can be more memorable than a list of facts. This is where the arts come in. Artists can give us different perspectives with which to consider and reimagine the world together. They can redress the proclaimed objectivity in science by bringing stories —subjectivities —into the picture, and these can help foster a sense of connection and hope.

In 2012, I set up artist residencies in medical research centres around the world. Bui was attached to the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam. The head of the research team was delighted, finding that Bui, as a Vietnamese artist, had license to be in, and to share useful insights from, villages where infectious disease researchers weren’t welcome. Six years later, I led Wellcome’s Contagious Cities program, which established artist residencies worldwide to support locally led explorations of epidemic preparedness. The recent pandemic made this work more noticeable, and has informed our Mindscapes program which is currently sharing experiences of mental health through the work of artists.

With pandemic, climate and mental health crises upon us, rising inequality and what feels like an increasingly broken world, never has there been more need to build and nurture hopeful and imaginative spaces to grow human connection and shared purpose for the common good. Science and the arts can work hand in glove to achieve this.

1. The author lists two works in Paragraph 1 mainly to ______.

A．reveal the gap between science and art	B．prove his competence in both science and art
C．introduce successful science-related artworks	D．show that science can be promoted in art forms

2. What does the underlined word “chequered” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Recent and remote.	B．Good and bad.
C．Usual and unusual.	D．Peaceful and scary.

3. Which of the following would the author agree?

A．Policy-makers base their decisions on science.	B．Researchers popularize science effectively.
C．Science is well received among the public.	D．The arts help people build connections.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．The Value of the Arts to Science	B．Where Do Science and the Arts Meet?
C．A New Way to Fight Pandemic—the Arts	D．Which Matters More, Science or the Arts?

3 . If you’ve ever emerged from the shower or returned from walking your dog with a clever idea or a solution to a problem you’d been struggling with, it may not be an unusual thing.

Rather than constantly wearing yourself out at a problem or desperately seeking a flash of inspiration, research from the last 15 years suggests that people may be more likely to have creative breakthroughs or insights when they’re doing a habitual task that doesn’t require much thought — an activity in which you’re basically on autopilot. This lets your mind wander or engage in spontaneous cognition or “stream of consciousness” thinking, which experts believe helps recollect unusual memories and generate new ideas.

“People always get surprised when they realize they get interesting, novel ideas at unexpected times because our cultural narrative tells us we should do it through hard work,” says Kalina Christoff, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. “It’s a pretty universal human experience.”

Now we’re beginning to understand why these clever thoughts occur during more passive activities and what’s happening in the brain, says Christoff. The key, according to the latest research, is a pattern of brain activity — within what’s called the default mode network — that occurs while an individual is resting or performing habitual tasks that don’t require much attention.

Researchers have shown that the default mode network (DMN) — which connects more than a dozen regions of the brain — becomes more active during mind-wandering or passive tasks than when you’re doing something that demands focus. Simply put, the DMN is “the state the brain returns to when you’re not actively engaged,” explains Roger Beaty, a cognitive neuroscientist and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab at Penn State University. By contrast, when you’re trapped in a demanding task, the brain’s executive control systems keep your thinking focused, analytical, and logical.

A cautionary note: While the default mode network plays a key role in the creative process, “it’s not the only important network,” Beaty says. “Other networks come into play as far as modifying, rejecting, or implementing ideas.” So it’s unwise to place blind faith in ideas that are generated in the shower or during any other period of mind wandering.

1. When do people expect to get an innovative idea according to the research?

A．When doing routine work.

B．When working attentively.

C．When tackling tough problems.

D．When desperately seeking inspirations.

2. What is the cultural perception for getting exciting, unusual ideas?

A．Getting by good luck.

B．Getting by great efforts.

C．Getting by unexpected accident.

D．Getting by universal experience.

3. Who is most likely to get a novel idea?

A．A student who is playing football.

B．A student who is focusing on papers.

C．A student who is closely monitoring his research.

D．A student who is fully engaged in math questions.

4. What does the last paragraph imply?

A．We can get novel ideas by the default mode network.

B．We should take the idea popped in the shower seriously.

C．Believe in ideas that are generated by the default mode network.

D．Think twice before putting ideas playfully crossing your mind into practice.

4 . 你班上举行以My Spare Time为题的讨论会。请你根据下面是四个同学的发言全面的说说My Spare Time。注意：①词数100左右，开头语已为你写好。②文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称。

My Spare Time

I am a middle school student.Though I’m busy with my lessons,

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5 . 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。

In today’s Science class, we learnt that human beings have five senses. Our teacher, Mr. Smith, asked us to find out    1    plants have senses, too. After some research, I found that,     2    (like) human, plants have only one or two senses.

Some plants can see the light from the sun, and grow towards    3    . What is    4    (amaze) is that plants    5    like eating small insects can sense the soft touches of the insects on their leaves. After they sense the insects, they move their    6    (leaf) all of a sudden to catch them. It has also been discovered that some plants can feel whether the animals around them want to hurt them or not. No one really knows how the plants can do this. The results of a recent experiment    7    (carry) out by some Italian and German scientists are amazing.

It    8    (observe) that when some plants sense dangerous insects, they give    9    a kind of smell for protection—the smell can attract other insects in the distance which can kill the dangerous ones.

I never    10    (know) plants were so clever.

6 . Howard Carter was bright and_________about the world outside his hometown when he was young. In 1891, he_________across the sea to Alexandria, Egypt. By the 1920s, he had become an_________who searched for the tomb of the Egyptian Kings.

Carter’s team found the tomb of King Tutankhamen._________, people in Carter’s team began to fall ill and die_________not long after the tomb had been opened._________seven years, 21 people who had something to do with the_________of the tomb died.

Some people say the_________were just a coincidence. Others believe that they were the result of the mummy’s curse. Still_________believe that there is a scientific explanation, because inside the tombs there are many viruses.__________is certain, though, is that “the curse of the mummy” remains a riddle to this day.

1.

A．serious

B．curious

C．dangerous

D．famous

2.

A．sailed

B．went

C．walked

D．flew

3.

A．murderer

B．inventor

C．discoverer

D．explorer

4.

A．But

B．Instead

C．However

D．Though

5.

A．strangely

B．happily

C．hurriedly

D．wonderfully

6.

A．Within

B．For

C．Over

D．Beyond

7.

A．digging

B．opening

C．belonging

D．searching

8.

A．damages

B．works

C．deaths

D．lives

9.

A．ones

B．another

C．other

D．others

10.

A．Which

B．That

C．What

D．It

7 . 下面文章中有3处需要添加小标题。请从以下选项(A、B、C和D)中选出符合各段意思的小标题，选项中有一项是多余选项。

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A. Best Weekend Projects
B. Parents
C. Amazing People
D. Fashion Guide

8 .

Take a look at the following ads! You may find some useful information you need here!
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	D Apartment for sale Two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Hot water 8:00-18:00. Beautiful sights out of the windows. E-mail: sdgt@yahoo.cn.

1. If you want to have a guitar lesson, you may ________.

A．call Susan at 7328059	B．e-mail sdgt@yahoo.cn
C．telephone Mr. White at 5132683	D．surf the website of Larry

2. Who is the owner of the lost dog?

A．Susan.

B．Larry.

C．Mr. White.

D．David.

3. If you want the job as a taxi driver, you should ________.

A．know the city very well	B．master at least three languages
C．visit Mr. White	D．do it full time

4. Which information about the apartment is not mentioned in the table?

A．It has a beautiful view.	B．It has three floors.
C．It has hot water in the daytime.	D．It has a kitchen.

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where is Lisa?

A．Liverpool.

B．London.

C．Paris.

2. What kind of people does London Week need?

A．Reporters.

B．Advertisers.

C．Sales representatives.

3. How much did Lisa earn monthly in her last job?

A．2,500 pounds.

B．3,000 pounds.

C．3,500 pounds.

10 . 一个英语网站面向中学生征稿。下面是一篇关于“中秋节”的介绍，请你参照这篇短文及提示，写一篇关于“端午节”的介绍。

The Mid-autumn Festival

The Mid-autumn Festival, which is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, falls on August 15th of the Lunar calendar every year. Not only is it popular in China but it is also celebrated in many other Asian countries.

On that day people usually go back home to have family reunion, enjoying a large meal with their family. They will also eat moon cakes, which are round cakes with meat, eggs, nuts and other things inside. It’s a family reunion festival when people express best wishes to the beloved ones at this particular time.

注意：1. 可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯；
2. 词数100左右；
3. 要点提示：
① on May 5^th of the Lunar calendar
② popular in China
③ celebrate in many other Asian countries
④ eat Zongzi (meat, rice, beans)
⑤ have dragon boat races
⑥ in memory of Quyuan

The Dragon Boat Festival

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