1 . 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。

“Englishes” is a funny word.       1     (usual) the name of a language cannot be plural(复数的). But English is     2     (difference). It is spoken by more people in     3     (many) countries than any other language. Everywhere, people speak it differently. The result is many Englishes. Englishes differ in accent, grammar, and vocabulary. There isn’t just one “correct” way     4     (speak) the language. What is the word for a baked snack (烘烤的点心)     5     (make) with chocolate? The Australian and British answer is “biscuit.” The Canadian and American answer is “cookie.” And both answers are right.

There are many other Englishes. Indian English has     6     (it) own vocabulary. Do you know what “half-pants” are? Maybe not, since this word is unique to Indian English. It     7     (mean) “shorts.” In Singapore, people speak “Singlish” in everyday communication. Singlish mixes English with Mandarin and other languages. It has unique grammar.     8     example, “I’ve eaten already” becomes “Eat already.” Other countries with their own Englishes include Nigeria, South Korea,     9     Malaysia. And more people are learning English every day. So how many Englishes are there, exactly?     10     is impossible to answer this question.

2 . Do ________ your parents ask you to do, but never ask why, which is a good habit in my opinion. （用适当的词填空）

3 . Luggage-free travel, boarding queues and self-flying planes will be common for travelers in 20 years' time. You'll even be able to go on a holiday without leaving your sofa. The bold predictions have been made by futurologist and author Ray Hammond, who is based in the UK.

According to Hammond’s predictions published in the Future Travel Report by Allianz Insurance, it's likely that tourists will be flying to and from the moon regularly by 2040. What's more, passports could disappear, as airports move more and more into the land of facial pattern recognition systems at check-in gates. Computer systems that can scan your face and check you into your flight will be standard in 20 years, the report notes.

When you board your flight, after checking in with your smiling dial, don’t expect to be greeted by the pilot. Hammond bets that planes will be flying themselves in 2040. No pilots and no supervision. It'll play well for the special routes of plane travel-extra-long flights, which have raised concerns about the aircraft staffs tiredness. Are you nervous at the thought of a plane under its own control? You'll be calmer by the time you step aboard Hammond says. Well already be used to self-driving cars.

When you do arrive at your destination and check into your hotel, there won’t be a porter carrying your heavy suitcase to your room. By 2040, we'll have the ability to send our clothing measurements to our hotel ahead of our arrival, where they'll have a 3D printer ready to print out our clothing. And when we check out, our clothes will be shipping off for recycling.

Virtual reality will be so advanced within 20 years that it'll allow us to experience other countries and destinations without stepping foot outside our door. The report says, “Multi-sensory virtual reality technology will allow armchair travel planners to ‘step into’ virtual hotel rooms, explore museums or walk into restaurants.” However, it won’t kill the real-life tourism industry-instead, it's expected to give it an even bigger improvement.

1. What did Ray Hammond say about traveling by self-flying plane?

A．It is boring.

B．It is challenging.

C．It is relaxing.

D．It is frightening.

2. How will the advanced 3D technology affect tourism?

A．Make it easier for tourists to book tickets.	B．Make clothes easily available to tourists.
C．Make recycling more common in tourism.	D．Make it possible to travel without passports.

3. What is possible by 2040 according to Ray Hammond?

A．Flying to the moon and back regularly.	B．Having no need to book trips.
C．Enjoying virtual reality only in museums.	D．Traveling with anyone as you please.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Predictions on Travel by 2040	B．Possible Changes About Life in 2040
C．Changes of the Means of traveling	D．The Bright Future of the Tour Industry

4 . A Virginia teen is doing his part to make sure frontline health care workers are getting the meals they need to help them take care of themselves and others.

Arul Nigam, 17, of Tyson's Corner, Va. , has had to make several adjustments since his school year ended abruptly in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic(新冠疫情）。“We didn't have any classes for like over a month and then after that there were a lot of technical difficulties. So I started to have a lot more free time,” he tells Yahoo Life. “It was really saddening, but it was also something that really surprised me, that our health care workers are facing something like that,” Nigam says. “So I wanted to see what I could do to help them because obviously, they're sacrificing so much and giving so much for all of us. ”

In late March, the teen started fundraising efforts with the help of friends and family to help these health care workers receive much-needed meals. He also began doing research about what hospitals had the most amount of coronavirus cases, so he could prioritize those places first. He was also arranging for the orders to be fulfilled at local family-owned restaurants impacted by shutdown orders. So far, Nigam has delivered over 1,000 meals to 22 hospitals in 13 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.

Nigam's efforts have not only helped health care workers, but restaurants as well. With quarantine restrictions taking a toll on the food industry, places like Best Coast Burrito in Oakland, Calif. , have lost business over the last few weeks. Best Coast's owner,Alvin Shen, tells Yahoo Life that being able to partner with Arul and others in efforts to feed those on the frontline has been a big help.

1. What would Nigam probably do according to his words?

A．Study at home by himself.

B．Spend the more free time playing.

C．Donate some money to health care workers.

D．Do something helpful for health care workers.

2. What is Nigam's priority when delivering food?

A．The urgency of meals.

B．The severity of the virus.

C．The number of doctors.

D．The position of hospitals.

3. What does the phrase “taking a toll on” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Turning a blind eye to.

B．Keeping an eye on.

C．Causing lots of damage to.

D．Answering completely for.

4. Where can you probably read this text?

A．Science fiction.

B．Fashion magazine.

C．Life magazine.

D．Entertainment newspaper.

5 . Exciting Adventure Options to Choose From!

BIRD WALK(Any time of year)-Join us for a private bird walk through our sanctuary(保护区）。 The Bent's grasslands, trees and woods provide great habitat(栖息地）for birds moving from one place to another, such as Warblers, Vireos, Indigo Buntings, Thrushes, Orioles, and more. This walk will be made to the members in your party.

Suitable for ages 5 and up

Program Fee:$150

NATURE HIKE(Any time of year)-Take a private hike with Bent of the River! Your personal guide will show you notable habitats and wildlife around the center trails. Nature is exciting and always changing, so you never know what we will find along the way! This program is ideal for people who want to enjoy beautiful scenery while hiking.

Suitable for ages 8 and up

Program Fee:$150

POMPERAUG RIVER EXPLORATION(June and July only)-Many fascinating creatures live in and around the Pomperaug River! During this recreational(休闲的） program, an Audubon naturalist will share the human and natural history of the river and teach you how to catch fish and animals. The Bent will supply you with necessary tools, such as nets, containers, and field guides. Once the animals are caught, we will observe and identify(确定身份） them and learn how they can help show the health of the river before we put them back to the wild.

Suitable for ages 8 and up

Program Fee:$150

OWL PROWL(January and February only)-Enjoy a special guided adventure in search of one of the most beloved groups of birds-owls(猫头鹰）！We will be prowling for owls on a walk through the grassland and forests in hopes of seeing one of the three owl species known to live in Connecticut: the Great-horned Owl, Barred Owl, or Eastern Screech-Owl.

Evening event

Suitable for ages 10 and up

Program Fee:$225

1. Which of the programs is suitable for the Browns with a girl of five years old?

A．BIRD WALK.	B．NATURE HIKE.
C．POMPERAUG RIVER EXPLORATION.	D．OWL PROWL.

2. What will you do with the fish you catch in POMPERAUG RIVER EXPLORATION?

A．Find out their health.	B．Do a scientific research.
C．Cook them as food on the table.	D．Set them free back to the river.

3. Whom is this text written for?

A．Students.

B．Teachers.

C．Scientists.

D．Adventurers.

6 . As you get older, you'll meet a wider range of people from different cultures. Culture is an idea that isn't easy to understand. People often use the term to refer to things like food, holidays, clothing and music.    1    Religion, customs, beliefs and values are also part of your culture. So when meeting people from different backgrounds, you can sometimes find that there're huge differences in how you see the world.

    2    For example, when you meet people from a different culture, ask them about their lives. It is one of the best ways to understand the culture. But be polite about it and remember they don't owe you an answer, and might not want to give it—not everyone wants to explain everything about their culture.

Maybe you've recently met someone from a different culture you find interesting.    3    Get to know his/her families and see how their customs and traditions differ from yours. You might be surprised to find how culturally different two people living even in the same town can be!

Read books by and about people who are different from you. Reading memoirs (回忆录), biographies and other nonfiction books is an obvious way to learn about a country or someone's life.    4    Like with books, you can also watch movies to learn more about a culture. What's more, keeping yourself in a different culture through travel is also an amazing way to understand another culture.

    5    So accept and respect the differences between yourself and your friends from different cultures—remember that what is a difference to you is just their normal life!

A．Make friends with him/her.

B．But it also goes much deeper than that.

C．Show respect towards people from other cultures.

D．You may think you know a lot about a culture or place.

E．Differences between us are what makes life so interesting.

F．There are many ways to understand other people's cultures.

G．Also don't ignore novels that have been translated from other languages.

7 . To adjust your baby to the world, educating him is your main assignment. How will you educate him? What role will he play in the world?

According to Darwin's theory of evolution (进化) of the species, we are a competitive species and one survives by adapting itself biologically to various environments through various ways. Competition was a resource useful for the progress of society and for the survival of human beings.

Today, however, the challenges are different. The 21st century is a computer science age, but there are environmental imbalances, deaths of thousands of children every day by starvation and countless epidemics (流 行病). Therefore, it is important that the philosophy of preparing our children for competition and power be replaced by one of preparing them for love and cooperation.

The earth is a unique home to us all. The ecological balance has to be pursued (追 求) and this pursuit shows the internal balance of each living being. We must educate our children so that they want to protect nature and thus to protect the opportunity to make themselves more powerful and able in society. Our children have to learn that we don't need to practice actions that benefit only our homeland while all other countries are destroyed. The destruction of other countries and lives leads to the impossibility of the future existence of the place we call home.

It imbalances the ecosystem and shades the hope of a better future, We would not show hate to a flower, grabbing it and throwing it to the floor and stepping on it. It would be foolish! But we are insensitive to the sight of a homeless person thrown to the ground and pretend it’s not our problem! Competition has led us to a state of total insensibility! Therefore, we must teach our children that the main necessity of men is love. Love is being good to ourselves , others and nature.

1. According to Paragraph 2, competition is________.

A．interesting	B．beneficial
C．unnecessary	D．ineffective

2. Why should we prepare children for cooperation in the 21^st century?

A．We are faced with new challenges.

B．Many diseases are threatening people.

C．They will live in a more competitive society.

D．Environmental imbalance has caused many deaths.

3. What is the benefit of keeping an ecological balance?

A．It will help keep our internal balance.

B．Our kids will have more chance to succeed.

C．It will help make our future existence possible.

D．Our kids will have a better natural environment.

4. What is the purpose of this text?

A．To introduce ways of helping children overcome fears.

B．To explain the role competition plays in education.

C．To suggest an education of love and cooperation.

D．To explain why competition and cooperation should coexist.

8 . 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。

China's first Mars rover has been named Zhurong, announced the China National space Administration (CNSA) on Saturday. Zhurong is     1     god of fire in ancient Chinese legend. Fire     2     (bring) warmth and brightness to the ancestors of humankind, and fire lit up human civilization. Naming China's first Mars rover after the god of fire     3     (mean) lighting the flame of China's space     4     (explore) , according to Wu Yanhua, director of the CNSA.

Literally, Zhu expresses the good wishes for humankind's exploring the universe. Rong reflects China's wish for the peaceful use of space and the building of a community with a     5     (share) future, Wu said.

The name is another example of Chinese space workers'     6     (science) romance as they have named spacecraft, including Tianwen, Chang'e and Beidou, after Chinese traditional culture, which also shows the Chinese people's culture confidence, he said.

The most     7     (challenge) part of the mission will be the soft landing    8     May, a   process of the rover lasting seven to eight minutes. Chinese space engineers    9     scientists have chosen a     10     (relative) flat region in the southern part of the Utopia Planitia, a large plain, as the potential landing zone.Chinese scientists are looking forward to finding more evidence of water-ice.

9 . I got my first bike when I was nine years old. Jimmy, the bike, was my first love. I rode it everywhere. The suburb, the back lanes, the fields and forests, the river paths and swampland were far more exciting than any adventure novel or television series.

There’s nothing quite like the relationship between a child and his bicycle and the endless happiness two wheels and a pair of strong legs offer. No video or computer game can replace the liberation of being alone on a bicycle.

As parents, to deny children the simple pleasure of riding a bike is a failure of our responsibilities to raise independent and stable young citizens. We should offer our children a healthy alternative to hours in front of an addictive screen. Studies have shown that cycling promotes not only muscle growth but brain growth. Guess which country has children with the best mental health outcomes and is regularly the top of listings of the happiest young people. No surprise it’s the Netherlands, the unquestioned leader among industrial countries in encouraging bicycle use.

Our dependence on cars has degraded the public transport system, polluted our sky, led to the untimely death of thousands every year, and denied children safe access to their suburbs. A recent study found that 69% of children were accompanied to school. The same study found that a similar number of parents drove to work.

In some regions of Japan, when children start their first year of school, parents are expected to walk with them for the first few weeks, introducing them to residents and shopkeepers along the chosen route, letting the community take care of these children. However, driving children to school is proscribed. Children can choose to ride a bike or walk to school after they are familiar with the community, and it’s the community’s role to keep them safe.

Therefore, I strongly advise the government to provide better infrastructure (基础设施). Build separated cycle lanes, decrease speed limits, and design street scapes that favour people over cars. The results will be less pollution, quieter suburbs, a healthier population and, best of all, happy and independent children.

1. What can we infer about the author from the text?

A．He was addicted to computer games.

B．He liked taking adventurous trips in nature.

C．He had   great fun exploring the outside by cycling.

D．He got his first birthday present at the age of nine.

2. Why does the author mention the Netherlands in Paragraph 3?

A．To introduce his good way of raising independent children.

B．To illustrate the great influence riding has on mental health.

C．To stress the importance of being physically and mentally healthy.

D．To explain cycling does best in city development in the Netherlands.

3. What does the underlined word “proscribed” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Recommended.

B．Protected.

C．Delayed.

D．Forbidden.

4. How does the author mainly support his idea?

A．By analyzing causes.	B．By listing examples.
C．By giving definitions.	D．By analyzing scientific data.

10 . 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 Xi’an City Wall is the most complete city wall that has survived China’s long history. It     1     (build) originally to protect the city     2     the Tang dynasty and has now been completely restored (修复). It is possible       3     (walk) or bike the entire 14 kilometers.

We accessed the wall through the South Gate. The wall is 12 meters high and from here you can see streams of people moving inside and outside the City Wall.

After     4     (spend) some time looking at all the defensive equipment at the wall, we decided it was time for some action and what     5     (good) than to ride on a piece of history!

We     6     (hire) our bikes from the rental place at the South Gate. My bike was old and shaky     7     did the job. It took us about 3 hours to go all     8     way around the Xi’an City Wall. Supposedly you can do it in two hours, but we stopped at the different gates and     9     (watchtower) to take pictures or just to watch the local people going about their     10     (day) routines.