1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Sports are the base of my life, next to my mother     1     raised me when my dad left us. I     2     (be) into sports since I was six years old. I have known many     3     (coach) and heard hundreds of their tips, but they usually     4     (focus) on drills(训练) to develop my skills and reach the next level of play.

When I was in Senior Two, I met the new school basketball coach, Brian Pawlowski. I thought I was certain to     5     (select) for the school team since I had been in it the year before. I showed up to the tryouts(选拔赛) and put out about 90% effort since I thought I’d make     6     with no problem. That was a big mistake.

Brian Pawlowski is the     7     (strict) coach I have ever met. He didn’t expect 100% effort, but he expected 200% effort. Some think this is crazy,     8     it isn’t. After training, as we were getting a cup of cold water to drink, I said, Mr. Pawlowski, your lesson was the best I ever had. I was     9     (complete) sincere. He expects us to be excellent     10     just on the court but in the classroom. If I am not working on basketball, I am reading a book that he thinks will help us better understand life’s challenges.

2 . WeChat, one of the world’s most popular mobile apps and social networks, brought home iF Gold Award for its smart retail innovation, Scan & Go. It is the first ever Chinese product to win4 gold in the iF Service Design category.

Established in 1953, the German-based iF Design Award has always been known for its “Independent, Rigorous(细致的) and Reliable” standards.

Scan & Go enables shoppers at retail stores to turn their mobile phone into a virtual checkout counter. When shopping, customers use their mobile phones to scan product barcodes(条形码), view product information, get discounts, complete self-checkout, and pay directly within the app via WeChat Pay. There is no queuing up at the cash register.

According to statistics, sales during peak hours in traditional supermarkets account for 60% of total turnover, and on average customers spend three to five minutes on queueing and payment during peak hours. With Scan & Go, customers no longer have to queue, and the payment time is shortened to one minute.

In order to realize queue-less purchasing, the WeChat team greatly optimizes retailers’ in-store customer handling efficiency during peak hours, and enables overall management of the consumer traffic flow. By introducing dedicated lanes for Scan & Go, supermarkets have achieved over a five-fold increase in converting(转变) digital members within two months.

In addition to improving retailers’ checkout efficiency and providing customers with a better shopping experience, Scan & Go also combines promotion and marketing modes through Mini Programs, to help increase sales. It helps retailers(零售商) to link the online and offline aspects of their business, and has become the standard tool in China for merchants to realize digital transformation. Scan & Go is now widely used by retailers in China.

1. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?

A．The convenience of Scan & Go.

B．The use of a virtual checkout counter.

C．Ways to get discounts from retailers.

D．Methods of scanning product barcodes.

2. One of the advantages of Scan & Go is that customers

A．can buy more items

B．can save a lot of money

C．don’t have to pay for what they buy

D．spend less time to pay for what they buy

3. What can retailers do by combining promotion and marketing modes?

A．They can sell more goods.

B．They can reduce the discounts.

C．They can create more Mini Programs.

D．They can make their goods more standard.

4. What is the author’s attitude toward Scan & Go?

A．Doubtful.	B．Positive.
C．Subjective.	D．Negative.

3 . 选择正确的短语填空。

as if        a number of        lose heart        turn to        think highly of in return        as well        be/get familiar with        in a way        die out

1. They are not ______ charity work, which is still at an early stage in China.
2. No one has come up with a convincing explanation of why dinosaurs ______.
3. ______, I’m a little surprised when she accepted the offer to work in such a badly managed company.
4. Often life is much slower outside the big cities, as is true in other countries ______.
5. I still remember my first trip to the Taishan Mountain ______ it were yesterday
6. As China develops fast and steadily, ______ foreigners are learning Chinese as a second language.
7. We ______ their research in this field.
8. ______, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers.
9. At last, I will be on my own, but I still want to have my parents to ______ whenever I need help.
10. She said that we shouldn’t ______ in times of difficulties and that we should be hopeful.

4 . Look! Many students are engaged ________ their study, because they are preparing ________ the final examination.

A．in; in

B．for; for

C．in; for

D．for; in

5 . The post card is sent by ________.

A．a friend of my father

B．a friend of my father's

C．my father friend

D．my father friend's

6 . —Which do you prefer, a bottle of orange or a bottle of milk?
—________, thanks. I’d like a cup of tea.

A．Either

B．Neither

C．Both

D．None

7 . In the picture there are many________ and two________.

A．sheep; foxes

B．sheeps; fox

C．sheeps; foxes

D．sheep;foxs

8 . Hundreds of people are ________ now, so there are about 50 people trying for the same position.

A．out of the work

B．out work

C．out of work

D．out of a work

9 . Chase Friedman awoke inside the hospital paralyzed from the neck down,________ whether he’d walk again, Friedman, 25,________ and fell on his friend’s bathroom floor, an accident that ________ injured his spine (脊柱) and left him unable to move his arms and legs. Doctors told him his ________ of walking again were “50-50”. The Los Angeles ________ thought “my life was over”. But on a Saturday less than three months later, Friedman climbed the Art Museum steps, bringing friends, family and strangers to ________. After he raised his ________ at the top of the steps, Friedman told the crowd that “anything is possible”. “I’m glad that people are ________ because it does prove that you can beat everything,” Friedman said.

His journey up the 72 steps started well before Saturday. After surgeons put pins (钢针) in his spine, he learned to walk again at Magee Hospital. He practiced on instruments and stairs, held up by a belt or his physical therapist, Erin Freimuth.________, his recovery attracted hundreds of thousands of people on TikTok, the social media platform where he would post videos of his ________. A video ________ Saturday’s journey up the Art Museum steps received 1.8 million ________.

Friedman arrived in a wheel-chair and ________ a walker as he approached the steps. The crowd of about a hundred people, who were dancing, exercising and ________ for photos beforehand, fell silent. With the ________ gone, Friedman took each step slowly. The crowd ________ when he reached each ________.

When his mother visited, the sight of her son unable to do anything was ________ . But seeing him ________ the Art Museum steps, she said. “This is definitely a time when everybody in the world needs ________.”

1.

A．pitying

B．wondering

C．believing

D．telling

2.

A．walked

B．leaped

C．slipped

D．struck

3.

A．deadly

B．bitterly

C．urgently

D．severely

4.

A．abilities

B．risk

C．competence

D．chances

5.

A．resident

B．friend

C．doctor

D．student

6.

A．laughter

B．sweat

C．tears

D．approval

7.

A．fists

B．money

C．voice

D．nose

8.

A．excited

B．inspired

C．delighted

D．thrilled

9.

A．Instead

B．However

C．Meanwhile

D．Therefore

10.

A．fitness

B．interest

C．life

D．progress

11.

A．proving

B．witnessing

C．indicating

D．identifying

12.

A．check

B．consultant

C．scanning

D．views

13.

A．took

B．moved

C．became

D．exchanged

14.

A．posing

B．standing

C．sitting

D．smiling

15.

A．steps

B．wheelchair

C．crowd

D．stick

16.

A．erupted

B．sighed

C．prayed

D．waited

17.

A．roof

B．routine

C．landing

D．foot

18.

A．unbearable

B．regretful

C．troublesome

D．imaginary

19.

A．wandering on

B．jumping off

C．running through

D．marching up

20.

A．help

B．hope

C．love

D．praise

10 . Moving Forward With Small Steps

Frustration is the state of feeling incompetent.     1    . As your guilt rises, your self-esteem (自尊) might be going down.

We've all seen those TV programs about organizing closets and handling the junk in the basement. Those shows can be fun to watch.    2    . Why? Our own unfinished business starts coming to mind. To reduce frustration, it pays to keep moving forward on changing small things. Little chores do add up. These kinds of techniques can move you in the right direction:

Picture the steps from A-Z on completing a larger task. It's easier to divide chores into manageable pieces if you can foresee the outcome.

Make sure money isn’t holding you up. We can all delay getting things done because of money needed.    3    

    4     Mental energy really plays into the mix of moving your life forward. Be sure to think about good things on purpose to lessen a downfall.

While you want to live in reality, don't forget that you have the power to bring positive thinking to your world. If you don’t, your relationships will suffer.    5    .

A．Don’t forget to talk positively to yourself on purpose

B．Other people will fear to have you around

C．But we can get very frustrated after those go off the air

D．We imagine everyone else is functioning well, while we're failing to keep up

E．Get excited about what you want to improve

F．Let your good thoughts outweigh your bad ones

G．Lining up how to pay for changes is often the real battle