1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the main purpose of the talk?

A．To criticize British for creating so much rubbish.

B．To call on people to solve the rubbish problem.

C．To explain why people pay little attention to the rubbish.

2. What do we know about the research?

A．It’s studied by a person who comes from a university.

B．People who live on their own create more rubbish.

C．The rubbish situation is not so serious as the scientists thought.

3. How much rubbish do people create in Britain this year?

A．416 million tons.

B．384 million tons.

C．400 million tons.

4. What is the worst thing according to Dave?

A．People don’t like to use rubbish bags.

B．The rubbish always creates a bad smell.

C．People’s wrong behavior makes it hard to recycle rubbish.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Who is Martha talking to?

A．Her professor.

B．Her boss.

C．A farmer.

2. Why did Martha fail to catch the early bus?

A．She was too sleepy to get up early.

B．She had to look after her sick mother.

C．She needed to go to the field.

3 . All kinds of activities are welcomed to arouse students’ interest in learning English, r________ from English speech competition to imitation show. （根据首字母单词拼写）

4 . Rice was the main food in ancient India, and rice beer was a popular drink on festive ________ (场合), when a little drunkenness was socially acceptable. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

5 . 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。

Tooth Fairy Day

In many cultures around the world,     1    (vary) traditions around the tooth fairy are celebrated! The tooth fairy herself or himself     2    (be) around since at least the Middle Ages, although the exact origins are still    3    (know). In any case, this is certainly an iconic childhood symbol that brings joy and smiles to children all over the world.

    4    (fall) on February 28^th, Tooth Fairy Day is a time     5     is designed to pay respect to this generous spirit to leave treats or coins underneath children’s pillows. Devoted to oral health for children, it also helps balance children’s fear of the pain of tooth-losing     6     the joy of collecting wealth.

For kids who want to celebrate Tooth Fairy Day, making a craft or enjoying a tooth-related activity can be loads of     7     (funny). Some dentists’ offices sponsor a coloring page contest that kids can participate in. Parents might like to help their kids to make their own tooth pillow or bag, a tiny fabric envelope which serves as a place to keep loose teeth     8     they don’t get lost while waiting for the tooth fairy. Other parents or teachers might like to use this as     9    educational opportunity to help their kids learn some interesting facts about teeth that will keep them     10    (motivate) to brush and care for their teeth in a responsible and healthy manner.

6 . The 11-year-old girl who fought off an attempted kidnapping this week was considered as “Brave Teenager” for her quick thinking that helped police identify the suspect.

That’s exactly what happened. Alyssa was _______ her school bus in Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday morning when a man drove up. The man got out of his vehicle holding a knife and came towards her _______. Predicting what was going on, the girl was trying to escape before the man could grab her, but _______. There’s a violent _______ before she broke free from the man’s _______ grasp and they both fall to the ground. Fortunately, Alyssa was running away _______ the man hurried back to his car and drove off.

The girl was _______ blue slime, sort of thick liquid, at the time of the kidnapping attempt. _______ she was able to get the slime onto his upper arm and a little bit on his lower arm because she knew that might be better _______ if the policemen did find him. As expected, the suspect 30-year-old Jared Paul Stanga got ________ in no time due to the blue slime Alyssa marked on his arm.

Alyssa told investigators that the same man had ________ her about two weeks ago at the bus stop and made her feel ________. She told her mother and school officials what had happened, and her mom had been walking her to the bus stop each day. Tuesday was the first day since the previous ________ that the girl’s mother did not go with her to the bus stop.

Asked how she felt after her ________ escape, Alyssa said, “mostly proud of myself,” and the officer praised, “Alyssa’s detailed observation and quick thinking did make a big difference to save herself in such an ________.”

1.

A．searching for

B．looking for

C．waiting for

D．working for

2.

A．curiously

B．excitedly

C．eagerly

D．cruelly

3.

A．failed

B．fell

C．formed

D．filled

4.

A．attempt

B．struggle

C．effort

D．escape

5.

A．firm

B．cautious

C．specific

D．devoted

6.

A．when

B．where

C．how

D．while

7.

A．playing against

B．dealing with

C．playing with

D．pressing against

8.

A．Therefore

B．Since

C．However

D．Instead

9.

A．evidence

B．idea

C．image

D．decision

10.

A．sentenced

B．punished

C．prisoned

D．seized

11.

A．confirmed

B．approached

C．questioned

D．stared

12.

A．uncomfortable

B．dissatisfying

C．unusual

D．annoyed

13.

A．accident

B．event

C．incident

D．affair

14.

A．limited

B．close

C．narrow

D．tight

15.

A．argument

B．emergency

C．impact

D．opportunity

7 . The children’s clothing section at Uniqlo in China has gained unexpected new customers: adult women, who pose for dressing-room selfies in children’s T-shirts from the Japanese fashion giant. This fashionable trend has aroused a heated debate on the Internet about whether it promotes body shaming.

On Weibo where “Adult tries on Uniqlo Children’s clothing” has been viewed 680 million times, criticism is divided into groups between those who object to the unrealistic beauty standards that the challenge promotes and those who express the more practical concern that women are stretching out the clothes and making them not suitable for sale.

The challenge has been labeled as the latest edition of “BM style” in fashion trend, a type of fashion recently popularized by the popular Italian brand Brandy Melville, which is youthful, casual and, above all, thin (its stores carry out only one size: extra small).

Similar online challenges have gone viral on Chinese social media before. In 2016, women—and even some men—all posed with their waists behind a sheet of A4 paper going straight up to show the fact that they were “paper thin” in their WeChat Moments.

Jia Tan, an assistant professor in cultural studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that the clothing industry is a most important driver of what is considered “standard” sizing.

“I think we need to first question the tremendous social pressure on women, and why the clothing industries can have so much power in standardizing how we look, before we point out fingers on those adult women who show off in children’s sizes,” Tan said.

1. What’s the people’s attitude towards the new customer on Weibo?

A．Favorable.

B．Concerned.

C．Disapproving.

D．Mixed.

2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．Gain popularity.

B．Show off.

C．Get through.

D．Go standard.

3. What do Jia Tan’s words tell us?

A．The whole society has shown off in children’s sizes.

B．We can’t just blame the adult women wearing children’ clothing.

C．The social pressure makes clothing industry standardize our look.

D．Only the clothing industry is responsible for the standard sizing.

4. What’s main idea of the whole passage?

A．Online challenges of paper-thin figure lead to body-shaming concerns.

B．Criticisms of adults trying on Uniqlo children’s clothing are raised.

C．The trend of women posing in children’s clothing attracts wide attention.

D．The clothing industry plays a significant role in driving the standard sizing of women.

8 . It may come as a surprise that human beings are not alone in inventing vaccine. Work published in the Journal of Experimental Biology by Gyan Harwood of the University of Illinois, confirms that honeybees got there first.

The scientists discovered in 2015, that queen bees vaccinate their eggs before they are laid. The vaccine is some pieces of proteins from diseasing-causing pathogens. They act as antigens which cause a protective immune response. But it raised the question: how the queen received her antigen? For she is fed purely on royal jelly, a thing produced by nurse bees. Meanwhile, work bees fly out looking for food to feed nurse bees. Dr Harwood therefore wondered if the nurses received the pathogens while eating the food from the outside, and then got them into their royal jelly, as the queen’s food at last.

To find the answer, Dr Harwood collected 150 nurse bees and divided them among six queenless mini boxes equipped with baby bees to look after. They fed the nurses on sugar-water, and for three of the boxes he placed Paenibacillus, a bacterium causing young bees’ death.

In this case, Dr Harwood marked the dead bacteria with a color, to make their footprint easy to track. And, sure enough, microscope confirmed that pieces of Paenibacillus were getting into royal jelly produced by those bees which had been fed with sugar-water, which is thought to help bee develop immune system.

All told, these findings suggest that nurse bees are indeed, via their royal jelly, passing antigens on to the queen for transferring into her eggs. They also mean, because baby bees, too, receive royal jelly for the first few days after the birth, that the nurses are vaccinating the baby bees as well. Each baby bee is therefore being vaccinated twice.

1. What did Dr. Harwood want to prove in Para 2?

A．What causes an immune response.	B．Whether the nurses brought in the antigen.
C．Why honeybees have strong immune system.	D．How the queen got the antigen.

2. How did Dr Harwood confirm his idea?

A．By tracking the colored bacteria.	B．By comparing the boxes.
C．By dividing the nurse bees.	D．By feeding sugar water.

3. Where can we find the passage?

A．A business website.	B．A lifestyle magazine.
C．A Sci-tech textbook.	D．A biology paper.

4. What’s the finding of Dr Harwood?

A．The queen passes antigens through sugar water into their eggs.

B．The nurses also vaccinate the baby bees through royal jelly.

C．The honeybees are the first to invent vaccines in the world.

D．The baby bees are vaccinated by the queen twice.

9 . Saturday, Jacob Kohut finally had breaktime during his 12-hour standing guard outside the U.S. Capitol. He could have spent his break resting. Instead, he sat in the back of a Humvee, teaching students via his laptop how to play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, which meant he was on double duty, as an active member of the National Guard and as a devoted school band teacher.

“I’m a soldier for the Guard, but I’m as much a solider for music education,” he says.

When on duty, Kohut’s days began in the morning with teaching his elementary class remotely from the drill floor of the DC Armory, finishing the lesson minutes before his Guard shift started at 10 a.m. Later in the day, during his break, he would go online to teach his middle school students from the back of a Humvee.

Music has always been a driving force in Kohut’s life. He was a saxophone player throughout high school, and finally earned his doctor degree in music composition at George Mason University.

“What I really wanted was to teach,” says Kohut, who is married and has a three-year-son. “My mom, who is a single mother, was a music teacher. That’s why I do what I do, because she was such a good role model.”

Kohut’s double duty has caught the attention of parents at Canterbury Woods Elementary.

“I just wanted to share how impressed I am with Dr. Kohut this week,” Susi Britain said. “This morning he taught band online from DC, in his tiredness—which just seems so beyond the expectations of a teacher in these circumstances.”

But during the long and sometimes stressful hours of standing guard, Kohut said his teaching time offered comfort. As the 11 instruments were played by his virtual students, the familiar melody of “Ode to Joy” rang through the Humvee. In that moment, Kohut realized there wasn’t a timelier tune to teach his students.

“It’s a symbol of unity and peace,” he says. “And that’s what the world needs right now.”

1. Where did the students study music from Kohut?

A．In the back of a Humvee.	B．At the drill floor of DC Armory.
C．In online courses.	D．Outside the U.S. Capitol.

2. Which of the followings best describes Kohut?

A．Peace-loving and mild.	B．Enthusiastic and devoted.
C．Hopeful and positive.	D．Faithful and helpful.

3. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in the last but one paragraph?

A．He should teach the tune to his students earlier.

B．No tune was taught to students before.

C．It’s the time that he should teach the tune face to face.

D．The tune is the most suitable for students at that moment.

4. What can be the best title of the passage?

A．Fighting for Country and Beethoven	B．A Symbol of Unity and Peace
C．Double Duty at Canterbury Woods Elementary	D．A Virtual Music Teacher

10 . Some Amazing Places around the World to Daydream

Here are some amazing places around the world to daydream about and look forward to visiting one day in the future.

Lord Howe Island, Australia

The island in the Tasman Sea lies between Australia and New Zealand. The number of tourists is not allowed to be over 400. It’s known for many birds, plants and marine life.

Lord Howe Island Group, the collective name for the mainland and the nearby islands, has been regarded a World Heritage Site of global national importance, thanks to the fact that its plants and animals are found nowhere else.

Keahiakawelo (Garden of the Gods), Hawaii

Don’t try to attempt to reach Keahiakawelo, on Lanai Island. The Mars-like landscape gets its nickname from Alexander Ford, who visited in 1912 for an article and compared the place to the Garden of the Gods.

Hawaiians call Keahiakawelo “wahi pana”, which means legendary places which have cultural significance. As legend goes, the priest of neighboring island, a man named Lanikaula, was angry at the people of Lanai, so he lit a fire wishing ill will to the island’s people.

Balamku (Cave of the Jaguar God), Mexico

Re-discovered in 2018, the cave was discovered accidentally by archaeologists who were searching for a sacred well.

Located in the ancient Maya city, the cave was initially discovered in 1966 but was sealed up and forgotten about. The cave is so unexplored, that archaeologists are still mapping it out, and have only been into the first 450 meters of the cave.

Lençóis, Brazil

This protected area on Brazil’s north Atlantic coast is known for its vast desert landscape of towering white sand piles and seasonal rainwater lakes.

Although the rolling sand piles look like they belong to a dry desert, the area gets around 47 inches of rain a year and is flooded with rainstorms which form crystal clear rivers reaching up to 10 feet deep, making them a great spot for swimming.

1. What is Lord Howe Island Group known for?

A．The small number of the tourists.	B．The unique plants and animals.
C．The diversity of species.	D．The global national importance.

2. How did Keahiakawelo get its nickname?

A．Its landscape looks like Mars.

B．Hawaiians named it for cultural significance.

C．Lanikaula named it after a legend.

D．Alexander Ford named it through his visit.

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．The original aim of archaeologists is Balamku.

B．Lençóis is only famous for its vast desert.

C．Cave of the Jaguar God has been discovered twice.

D．Tourists can swim in rainwater lakes all the year round.