6 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为 150 左右。

During a vacation one year, my mom and I left our home. We went on a two-week trip to the countryside where my mother had grown up. I was excited because I couldn’t wait to see my grandparents. The last time I had visited them was when I was only three years old. I also wished to go sightseeing, ride elephants, and do many more things there. They must be very wonderful.

With great wishes, we arrived at my grandparents’ house in the countryside. During the first several days, I stayed in their house for fun. But soon, I got bored. I wondered what adventures were in store for me. One morning I said to my mom, “I really want to go outside to play.” My mom replied, “Stephanie, today we’re going to a school. The children there are studying in poor conditions. I decided to use some of my own money to buy some school supplies (日用品) for them.” Hearing that, I was a bit unhappy. “We can go out and play another day. Today we need to spend a little time helping these poor children,” Mom added. I had no choice but to agree.

A few minutes later, my mom drove me to the school. On the way, she said, “We’d first visit the school to know what kind of things these children want most. Then we’ll try to buy them.” I thought to myself: what a vacation I am having! I come here to go sightseeing, not do charity (慈善)work.

When we reached the school, I just couldn’t believe my eyes. There was only one small building, which looked as if it were a hundred years old. There was no playground, no parking lot... It was so small; the school I went to back home was a million times bigger. How unlucky the children here were! We met a teacher in the school, and my mom told him the purpose of our visit. The teacher was very glad and thanked us.

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Then the teacher guided us into a classroom.

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Holding the shopping list, my mom and I headed for a store.

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7 . 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 thought of a natural disaster can be    1    (frighten). But you can prepare your family for it with some simple steps. Below are some common    2    (measure) of preparing for disasters.

Have enough ways to get warnings. There    3    (be) different ways to receive a warning of a disaster. The common ones include using the television, phone, etc. To avoid missing the warning, you’d better make sure you have at least three ways to receive the warning.

Decide how to make family members communicate. Come up with    4    communication plan in case you are    5    (separate) in a disaster. Provide each member of the family with a phone, for example. And make a contact card for each family member so they have the phone numbers and addresses    6    they may need.

Choose    7    least two meeting places. Do it in case all of your family members can’t   reach a designed meeting place. Choose one place in your neighborhood or close to your home as well as one that’s out of town. Consider    8    (meet) at the closer place first in a disaster. And keep the out-of-town place as a backup.

Run practice drills (演习). It’s important    9    (practice) what to do in case of a natural disaster,    10    (especial) if you have children. Each year, you’d better organize a practice drill for a possible disaster. And try to let all the family members take part in it.

8 . Many people struggle with writing in English. And it can seem like a real challenge（挑战）.     1    Here are some simple steps that you can take to improve your written English and to impress people with your writing skills.

Enlarge your vocabulary.

To express yourself clearly, you need a good active vocabulary. It’s not enough just being able to recognize lots of words.     2     Do this by learning new words with example sentences,   not just word lists. When you learn a new word, try to learn all the forms of that word and the prepositions(介词) that are usually used with it.

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Even though you don’t have to “study” grammar, your English writing will improve a lot if you work on grammar exercises. Also remember that grammar is more important when you write than when you speak because it is usually more formal and more structured.

Read as much as you can.

    4    Learning shouldn’t be boring. Read each text several times to make sure you understand how to use new words and expressions in the text. And when reading, don’t pick up books which are too difficult for you to read.

Write as much as possible.

One good way is by keeping a diary in English. It will make you write every day to turn writing into a routine activity. You don’t need to write many complex（复杂的）sentences at the beginning.    5    .

A．Don’t worry, though.

B．Improve your grammar.

C．Get someone to read what you’ve written.

D．You can ask your teacher to help to check.

E．Just keep them as simple as you want.

F．You actually need to be able to use them correctly.

G．Choose books or articles with topics that interest you.

9 . Our teenagers are lonely. A new study by Harvard’s Making Caring Common (MCC) shows just how that feeling has been common and become serious during the past year when we had to keep the social distance. One year’s online learning and life in the bedrooms rather than the classrooms or dorm rooms can make teenagers feel lonelier than before. Teenagers have been more likely to be influenced by loneliness than older adults.

Experiencing loneliness is certainly sad, but it is also perilous. Researchers found that 63％ of the young were suffering from bad sleep, anxiety, and poor health during the lockdown(活动限 制 ) and that nearly a quarter had started or increased some bad habits, including smoking, drinking and staying up late to deal with their feelings.

About half of the young people in the study, who said they had felt lonely, explained that over the past weeks not one person had taken more than just a few minutes to ask how they had been lately. It made them feel they had no one who really cared about them. Their parents thought they had much free time after lessons and it seemed that they only worried whether their children could perform their schoolwork at the level they once did. They didn’t know the problem.

Sian Leah Beilock, the president of Barnard College, explains that young people depend on social media, which makes them especially weak to social media’s harms. She also suggests that fewer close friends may explain some of the feelings of loneliness. She reports that in 1985 the average American had three close friends with whom they could share important things about their lives. In 2004, that number had dropped to just two friends. And in 2019. one in five millennials(千禧一代) had no friends at all.

These levels of loneliness are heartbreaking. MCC suggests, as a nation, we first should focus on teaching the young to make meaningful connections between people and support them.

1. What is the finding of MCC’S study?

A．Every teenager has lonely moments.

B．Parent-child communication becomes less.

C．Teenagers care too much about others’ opinions.

D．Lockdown lifestyles increase teenagers’ loneliness.

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

A．Dangerous.

B．Funny.

C．Helpful.

D．Uncommon.

3. What do the young people’s words in the study mean?

A．Their parents misunderstood them.

B．They found their schoolwork heavy.

C．They needed more care and attention.

D．Their online courses made them bored.

4. Which of the following may Sian Leah Beilock agree with?

A．Teenagers are short of outdoor exercise.

B．Teenagers should make more close friends in real life.

C．Teenagers enjoy developing close relationships online.

D．Teenagers should avoid sharing important things online.

10 . One Brazilian chef（主厨）, Regina Tchelly, is using traditional ways to repurpose(赋予新的用途) leftover food（吃剩的食物）, feeding her community via her social project Favela Organica. Tchelly was shocked by the amount of food she saw thrown away daily in the city’s markets, because she had grown up with the knowledge of how to use every part of fruits and vegetables.

Favela Organica began as a grassroots project, with Tchelly teaching small groups of women from her community how to repurpose leftover food that they got from local markets and grow their own produce in their yards.

“It started in my house with six stay-at-home moms,”she said. “We wanted to bring a new way to the food inside our houses. It was from this that Favela Organica grew. With these six moms, it became ten; then it became fifteen; then it was fifty, and then the world welcomed the project.” Later, she expanded(扩展) her offerings to courses such as urban gardening and so on.

But the benefits (益处) of Tchelly’s courses go beyond helping the environment. From her free courses for the locals, people learn tips on using food waste that help them save money on their bills. One of Tchelly’s students, Ivonides Silva uses the skills she learned to start a small baking business. She sells some cakes, earning about ＄42 a month. The extra income from the project is a huge boost to her family. “Tchelly gives us the tools to create a small business to make some money, which changes our life greatly,” Silva said.

With no signs of slowing down, Favela Organica continues to develop from the ground up. The good environmental and social influences of Tchelly’s project set the stage for a healthier future for all.

1. Why did Tchelly start the project Favela Organica?

A．To cut down food waste.

B．To improve her cooking skills.

C．To help people eat healthy food.

D．To encourage people’s creativity.

2. What does Tchelly say about Favela Organica in Paragraph 3?

A．It was costly to carry out.

B．It created new jobs for women.

C．It became increasingly popular.

D．It received little support from others.

3. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Encouraging her family to work hard.

B．Improving her family’s living conditions.

C．Causing her family to value healthy food.

D．Changing her family members’ relationships.

4. What kind of person is Tchelly probably?

A．Strict and smart.	B．Kind and traditional.
C．Courageous and calm.	D．Creative and helpful.