1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What do we know about the area?

A．Lightning strikes mostly in December.

B．The people there worry about getting hit.

C．The area is near the Andes Mountains.

2. What did NASA call the area?

A．The Never-Ending Storm of Catatumbo.

B．The Lightning Capital of the World.

C．The Light of Venezuela.

3. How many people are struck by lightning near the Catatumbo River?

A．One in three per year.

B．One in 12,000 per year.

C．80% of people who live there.

4. What does the man say in the end?

A．He’s scared of storms.

B．He’ll never visit Venezuela.

C．He’d be careful if he lived in the area.

2 . “Who loves pizza?” is a question you almost never have to an American. A better question might be “Who doesn’t love pizza?”   Now, there’s a place for all pizza lovers to gather: the Museum of Pizza. It can be found in America’s pizza capital—New York City.

A company called Nameless Network came up with the idea for the museum, known as “MoPi” for short. “It’s often that the simplest ideas are the best. The company used the popularity of pizza as a way to get people “looking at art and hearing about history in a different way,” said Alexandra Serio, who is with Nameless Network. Many kinds of artists were asked to create art works about pizza. They, in turn, provided large photographs, sculptures and huge installations. So far, the museum has had lots of visitors. More than 6,000 people came through the door when it opened this month.

Visitors seem to love MoPi’s bright colors, which makes it perfect for taking selfies and other photographs for social media.

Nene Raye, from New Jersey, was a recent visitor. Raye didn’t expect to see what she saw—and she was happy about that. “Honestly, I thought it would be, like, more of a traditional museum,” She said. But instead, Raye got some of everything. “So You get a little bit of education and then some fun, which I love,” she said.

Lydia Melendez made plans to visit the pizza museum in April. For her, the experience was worth the wait. “I thought it was going to be kind of boring,” she said. She had imagined walking in and finding books on how to make pizza. But she was very pleased when her actual experience was different than what she had imagined.

While pizza may be what has captured the interest of crowds, the point of the Museum has been to help people exposed to fine arts world.

1. What’s the function of the two questions in the first paragraph?

A．To make a comparison

B．To introduce the topic—the Museum of Pizza.

C．To inform people of the popularity of Pizza.

D．To advertise the food.

2. What do we know about the Museum of Pizza?

A．The Museum took advantage of the long history of Pizza to attract visitors.

B．The Museum received over 6000 visitors during the first two months.

C．Both Nene Raye and Lydia Melendez didn’t expect the Museum to be so different.

D．The Museum is appealing in that it combines education and fun.

3. What’s the purpose of the museum?

A．To make art available to people

B．To draw attraction and earn more money

C．To change people’s attitude to museums

D．To enrich city people’s daily life.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Bored? Go To The Museum Of Pizza!

B．Pizza Museum Serves Up “Tasty” Art.

C．The Hook Of The Museum.

D．Simplicity Has Its Power

3 . Zhang Guimei Awarded CPC’s Top Honor July 1 Medal
1 July 2021

On June 29 this year, Zhang Guimei was awarded CPC’s top honor July 1 Medal at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. At the ceremony. she said she did all this out of her gratefulness and love for the country, as well as the original aspiration and mission of a CPC member.

Zhang Guimei, who has dedicated her 40 years to education at China’s southwestern border, is a principal motivating young girls from impoverished families in mountainous areas.

Zhang was born in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province in 1957. At 17, she came to Dali in Yunnan province to support the development of border areas, where she stumbled into teaching and started a career as an educator. After her husband’s death in 1996, she went to teach in Huaping county, Yunnan’s Lijiang. Five years later, she established a chilren’s home and worked as a part-time president of it. The organization adopted a total of over 170 children, who call Zhang mom though she has never given birth to a child..

While teaching there,she saw many girls drop out of school due to poverty. To change the destiny of the girls in the mountain, Zhang started her preparation to build a free all-girls high school in 2002. In 2007, Zhang went to Beijing for the 17th CPC National Congress as a deputy. Her report titled “I have a dream” delivered at the meeting made her dream of building a free all-girls high school known to all. Later, both the Lijiang and Huaping governments sponsored her with a million yuan. A year later, Zhang’s school was completed, becoming the first free all-girls high school in China. During the past 13 years, the school has nurtured over I,800 students who have made it to universities.

With no offspring and property, Zhang lives in a dormitory building with her students. She has donated all her cash awards, donations from others, and most of her salaries, more than a million yuan, to the children and other people in need. She suffers from 23 diseases, but she is still working selflessly.

Her story has moved millions of Chinese people and is now written into a newly published Brief History of the People’s Republic of China.

1. What’s the writing style of this passage?

A．A biography.	B．An argumentation.
C．A news report.	D．A narration.

2. What’s Zhang’s dream mentioned in the passage?

A．To change the destiny of the girls in the mountain.

B．To lift girls in the mountain out of poverty.

C．To establish a children’s home.

D．To found a free high school for girls only.

3. Which piece of information about Zhang Guimei is true?

A．She has committed herself to education in urban areas

B．She is a moral model burning herself to light others.

C．She has been teaching in Huaping county since she came to Yunnan.

D．She was awarded the Medal on 1 July.

4 . Napping is a common habit for many of us.     1    For example, it can improve memory and creativity. However, it can also have negative effects if done in the wrong way.

The ideal nap length, according to scientists, is 20 to 25 minutes. Any longer and you'll fall into a deeper sleep cycle, which lasts for about 90 minutes.     2    

There is a term for this short, effective nap: a power nap. It is a short sleep of 20 minutes or less which ends before the occurrence of deep slow-wave sleep, intended to quickly refresh the napper.

    3    Salvador Dali outlined tips for the one-second micro-nap, including sitting upright, key in hand and upturned plate beneath. Once asleep, the key will drop and the ensuing clang ensures instant revival.     4    

Exceptions to this include essential naps when sick, which are often longer because our bodies require more sleep when dealing with an illness.     5    This is because children have a higher sleep requirement than adults.

A．In fact, many celebrities in history are power nappers.

B．Napping brings us both positive and negative effects.

C．Take a nap between 1:00 and 2:30 instead of 3:00 or 4:00 p. m.

D．Albert Einstein deployed a similar technique, using a pencil instead of a key.

E．Napping has many benefits.

F．Also, fulfillment naps in children should not be limited to 20 minutes.

G．This means when you wake up you will experience “sleep inertia” (睡眠惰性) .