1 . 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

2 . 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

3 .

Take a look at the following ads! You may find some useful information you need here!
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	B Lost dog Medium size, with brown spots and white short hair. Answer you when you call it David. Many thanks for sending it back. Call Susan at 7328059.
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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.

4 . Every family goes through its ups and downs. Most often, the root cause of this situation is the lack of communication.     1    .

Lack of patience can be one of the biggest factors. If people are not patient with their parents or children or other members, the levels of closeness will be weakened. And it can be quite difficult for a bad-tempered child, or even a bad-tempered parent to deal with the problems.

Lack of time for family members is always a reason leading to the problems.     2    . In order to survive, everyone must focus all their attention on the work, so they do not have enough time to have a good talk with others.

Lack of discipline is the worst problem in terms of children.    3    . It is known that most parents want to control the children, even their children get older, which can lead to a constantly disharmonious atmosphere within the family.

If the solutions to the problems are OK, all these problems can be easily solved. If lack of patience is one of the problems, obviously the solution is to develop the virtue of patience. You’d better hear out what the children have to say on a certain matter, or even consult them about their significant ideas.     4    .

It would be natural to see childish behavior of the younger members of a family but it is up to the elders to control the atmosphere and keep it calm.    5    .

The above are some of the most common problems that most families face. So it is important to maintain the best relations with your family, because family is the strongest support system for you.

A．Everyone has a say in each family meeting

B．By doing this, you can avoid a coming quarrel

C．A badly behaved child can ruin the peace of a family

D．the elder should talk things out instead of keeping silent

E．Don’t discuss the family problems when you’re still feeling upset

F．With the development of society, all people face fierce challenge and competition

G．There are some common factors that lead to communication problems in the family

5 . The effect of climate change extends beyond ruining Earth’s environment and our physical safety. A report published this week suggests that climate change has a negative effect on our mental health, too.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States(PNAS), links an increase in monthly temperatures to a rise in mental health issues. The experimental evidence stems from meteorological (气象的) data paired with information collected from nearly 2 million randomly sampled residents in the United States. The data was collected over the span (跨度) of a decade.

“We find that experiences with hotter temperatures and added rainfall each worsen mental health, that long-lasting warming associates with an increased popularity of mental health issues, and that exposure to tropical cyclones(热带气旋), likely to increase in frequency in the future, is linked to worsened mental health,” authors of the study stated. “These results provide added large-scale evidence to the growing link between climate change and mental health.”

The report specifically focused on mental health outcomes due to the effects of environmental stress - such as temperature, rainfall, and tropical cyclones - but other climate change-related issues are likely to affect mental health as well - specifically, the stress and anxiety of knowing natural disasters could be more frequent as temperatures rise.

1. From the newly-published report, we learn that the climate change may _________.

A．save a lot of people’s lives

B．cause unbelievable disasters

C．influence people’s mental health

D．greatly change people’s life styles

2. Why did the author mention “the span of a decade” in Paragraph 2?

A．To stress the importance of the study.

B．To show that the study cost too much money.

C．To explain the difficulties and hardships of the study.

D．to indicate that the study is objective and believable.

3. Where can we find some specific results of the study?

A．In Paragraph 1	B．In Paragraph 2
C．In Paragraph 3	D．In Paragraph 4

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．The study has its limits.

B．The results of the study aren’t satisfactory.

C．The environmental problems can’t be solved.

D．Mental health is determined by climate change.

6 . As I walked onto the soccer field I had a knot(结) in my stomach. I was too shy to _________ the year before but decided to go for it this year.

When the coaches came, I felt as if I was going to pass out. With no _________ ability I began to wonder why I was _________ here. Everyone immediately took a ball and began to _________. I stood there, not knowing what to do. My friends came over to _________ me a few quick moves and drills. I had fun and _________ enjoyed playing. Every other girl on the team was far more skilled than I. The moment I _________ that to myself, I was fine.

This _________ has stuck with me all through high school. Without _________ it, I learned a valuable lesson about myself. __________ I tried out for the soccer team, I always wanted to be __________ at everything. Previously(以前), I would do anything to achieve the high __________ I set for myself. I was so stressed out over schoolwork that I never had fun. I decided it was time for a (n) __________.

Like most high school students, my __________ with more responsibilities and worries, began to change as I got older. Balancing school and sports has not been easy. But through it all, I have become a __________ person. No longer do I __________ that I have to be perfect. Although my athletic ability doesn’t __________ a ticket to universities, I have other good __________ that make me important. Knowing that I have put 100% __________ into everything I do and am honest with myself, I am completely __________ with the person I am.

1.

A．give up

B．pass by

C．try out

D．walk away

2.

A．logic

B．sports

C．language

D．communication

3.

A．just

B．even

C．never

D．always

4.

A．warm up

B．make up

C．calm down

D．turn around

5.

A．ask

B．pass

C．show

D．throw

6.

A．nearly

B．really

C．hardly

D．partly

7.

A．kept

B．expressed

C．proved

D．admitted

8.

A．match

B．activity

C．experience

D．performance

9.

A．checking

B．realizing

C．practicing

D．considering

10.

A．When

B．After

C．Unless

D．Before

11.

A．quick

B．clever

C．perfect

D．pleased

12.

A．speed

B．record

C．position

D．standard

13.

A．break

B．escape

C．change

D．holiday

14.

A．life

B．team

C．friends

D．coaches

15.

A．better

B．kinder

C．warmer

D．quieter

16.

A．beg

B．feel

C．pretend

D．imagine

17.

A．add

B．buy

C．deserve

D．promise

18.

A．ideas

B．attitudes

C．creations

D．qualities

19.

A．effort

B．money

C．brain

D．trust

20.

A．happy

B．strict

C．careful

D．patient

7 . Catherine Garland, a physics professor, started seeing “the problem” in 2019. She’d laid out the assignment clearly during an engineering course, but student after student was calling her over for help. They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files.

Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student where they had saved their project. “Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in the Documents folder?” But over and over, she was met with confusion. “What are you talking about?” multiple students inquired. Gradually, Garland came to the realization: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations, understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.

Garland’s mental model is commonly known as “directory structure”, the hierarchical system (层级体系) of folders used to arrange files. What have caused the mental model to change? It is possible that many students spent their high school years storing documents in the cloud storage like OneDrive and Dropbox rather than in physical spaces. It could also have to do with the other apps they’re accustomed to. “When I want to scroll (滚屏) over to Snapchat, Twitter, they’re not in any particular order, but I know exactly where they are,” says Vogel, who is a devoted iPhone user. Some of it boils down to muscle memory.

It may also be that in an age where every user interface includes a search function, young people have never needed folders or directories. The first internet search engines were used around 1990, but features like Windows Search are products of the early 2000s. While many of today’s professors grew up without search functions, today’s students increasingly don’t remember a world without them.

Some may blame the generational incompetence. An international study claimed that only 2 percent of Generation Z (born from 1997 onwards) had achieved the “digital native” level of computer literacy. But the issue is likely not that modern students are learning fewer digital skills, but rather that they’re learning different ones. Garland, for all her knowledge of directory structure, doesn’t understand Instagram nearly as well as her students do. “They use computers one way, and we use computers another way,” Garland emphasizes. “That’s where the problem lies.”

1. The word “gibberish” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to________.

A．common

B．accessible

C．nonsense

D．fundamental

2. What can be concluded from paragraph 3 and 4?

A．There is no search function in the directory structure.

B．College professors have weaker muscles than students do.

C．Modern students like to store documents in physical drives.

D．The change in mental models reflects the progress in technology.

3. By mentioning Garland’s and Vogel’s stories, the author________.

A．highlights the different mindsets of two generations

B．criticizes modern students’ overuse of online apps

C．shows the difficulty of teaching today’s students

D．calls on a change in the education of physics

4. According to the passage, what can best address “the problem” mentioned at the beginning and the ending?

A．Teaching students directory structure.

B．Improving generational understanding.

C．Enhancing Generation Z’s digital skills.

D．Urging teachers to learn search functions.

8 . 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.

9 . Personality may play only a small part in leadership effectiveness, but there is no doubt that some leaders have a certain magic that leaves peers envious and followers entranced. If you could bottle this leadership X-factor—charisma—the queue of interested executives would be a long-one. But what qualities can these often highly successful leaders be said to possess?

As individuals, charismatic leaders have highly developed communication skills, including the ability to convey emotions easily and naturally to others, says Ronald Riggio, professor of leadership and organizational psychology. “They are able to inspire and arouse the emotions of followers through their emotional expressiveness and verbal skills.”

“They connect with followers because they seem to truly understand others’ feelings and concerns.”

“And they are great role models because they have the ability to engage others socially and display appropriate role-playing skills that allow them to walk the talk” Professor Riggio says.

“One quality we like in our leaders is if they are seen to really represent us. We think someone is more charismatic, the more they represent our collective identity,” Professor Van Knippenberg says. In this way, a charismatic leader is somehow a larger-than-life version of ourselves.

Academics say that charismatic leaders also manage to stand out from the crowd. They might do this by being unconventional or by taking a different approach to problem-solving, for example.

“They are up for new things, and they are not stuck in the status quo. They are open to out-of-the-box thinking, etc. An optimistic, energetic quality helps us to see leadership qualities in them and makes us open to their influence,” he says.

“A lot of charismatic leadership, and leadership in general, is very contextual. It’s really good in entrepreneurial firms. It’s also good for turnarounds if the organization is in a bad state because it inspires”, says Kai Peters, the chief executive of Ashridge Business School.

But not every organization needs a charismatic leader. Leaders loaded with the X-factor can be narcissistic (自恋的), self-glorifying, exploitative and authoritarian. As Peters says: “Where it is a problem is where you have ‘look at me, I’m a star.’’’

1. Which word is closest in meaning to “charisma” in the first paragraph?

A．Charm.

B．Character.

C．Gratitude.

D．Optimism.

2. The charismatic leaders become great role models due to their ______.

A．proper role-playing skills	B．subtle emotional expressiveness
C．marvellous problem-solving ability	D．unconventionality in the crowds

3. According to Professor Knippenberg, what kind of leaders would be welcomed by us?

A．The one who has a heroical image.

B．The one who can speak for us.

C．The one who is a collective version of us.

D．The one who resembles us in characteristic.

4. What is Peters’ attitude towards the contextual feature of charismatic leadership?

A．Critical.

B．Approved.

C．Neutral.

D．Suspicious.

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where does the conversation take place?

A．In a coffeehouse.

B．In a company.

C．At the office.

2. Why does the woman take the part-time job?

A．Because She is a volunteer.

B．Because she is an English student.

C．Because she wants to improve oral English.

3. What can we know about the man?

A．He seldom comes here.

B．He wants some cookies.

C．He tries to improve his English.

4. What’s not allowed for the woman?

A．Accepting tips.

B．Talking with customers.

C．Speaking English.