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。

The Miracle of Love

A college professor had his sociology class go into slums(贫民窟) to get case histories(个案史) of 200 young boys. They were asked to write an     1     (evaluate) of each boy’s future.

In every case the students wrote, “He hasn’t got     2     chance.” Twenty-five years later another sociology professor came across the     3     (early) study. He had his students follow up on the project to see     4     had happen to these boys. With the exception of 20 boys who     5     (move) away or died, the students learned that 176 of the     6     (remain) 180 had achieved more than ordinary success as lawyers, doctors and businessmen. The professor was     7     (shock) and decided to pursue the matter further.

    8     (fortunate), all the men were in the area and he was able to ask each one, “How do you account     9     your success?” In each case the reply came with feeling, “There was a teacher.” The teacher was still alive, so he sought her out and asked the old but still alert(思维敏捷的) lady what magic formula(方法) she had used     10     (pull) these boys out of the slums into successful achievement. The teacher’s eyes sparkled and her lips broke into a gentle sm1le.

“It’s really very simple,” she said. “I loved those boys.”

2 . It was an after-dinner walk around the neighborhood. My 12-year-old daughter, Audrey, told me that she would never _________ this pandemic, and that she would never take for granted having friends around, visiting _________ family or hugging her grandparents again. She _________, though, whether people would really live with new appreciation. Over time, would we all forget? Would a _________ or a handshake become commonplace again?

“Write down how you feel so your future self will remember,” I _________.

Audrey was only a toddler when her father—my husband—_________ at age 33. I learned that it takes intention, hard work and a lot of hope to make it through grief.

Living through that _________ didn’t automatically give me a lasting appreciation for life.

Wisdom, I found, is not a guaranteed byproduct of losing a _________ one, or a job or a sense of normalcy as we have during this pandemic. For me, that kind of _________ took lots of reflection and introspection (自省) —which is why I advised my daughter __________ her feelings.

The next day, I spotted this letter on my daughter’s desk,__________ herself to read it in the future and remember what’s important in life, and __________ her of it.

The letter is in full of affection, and she has gladly given __________ for it to be published, with the hope of inspiring others. As we start to see a __________ at the end of the tunnel with the vaccine approval, it might be __________ for other people to write letters of their own.

1.

A．expect

B．forget

C．doubt

D．reject

2.

A．dismissed

B．attracted

C．combined

D．extended

3.

A．wondered

B．suspected

C．requested

D．argued

4.

A．flash

B．surprise

C．hug

D．gift

5.

A．mentioned

B．allowed

C．suggested

D．persuaded

6.

A．died

B．disappeared

C．survived

D．retired

7.

A．adventure

B．experience

C．pressure

D．occasion

8.

A．devoted

B．glued

C．loved

D．blessed

9.

A．support

B．harvest

C．emotion

D．growth

10.

A．settle down

B．write down

C．cut down

D．break down

11.

A．concentrating

B．regarding

C．urging

D．pressing

12.

A．reminded

B．approved

C．sheltered

D．commanded

13.

A．expectation

B．schedule

C．description

D．permission

14.

A．light

B．hope

C．signal

D．vehicle

15.

A．awful

B．valuable

C．peaceful

D．comfortable

3 . How to Break Bad Habits

Habits are ways of dealing with issues in your environment. You often do not think about them. James Clear, in his book Atomic Habits, describes a four-step process by which habits are made. These steps are cue (提示), craving (渴望), response, and reward.

A cue is a signal.    1    . A craving is a desire for something. The response, or reaction, is the habit that you perform. The response gives you a reward.

    2    . Perhaps you are learning new words or expressions. But then you feel the need to check your phone. You return to your studies, only to look again at your phone a short time later. This process, when repeated many times, could reduce your ability to learn new material.    3    —a custom or repeated action that has a negative effect on you or your goals.

James Clear notes that to break bad habits, you need to think about each step in the habit-making process. In the cell phone example, the cue is seeing the cell phone. The craving is the desire or urge to check your phone.    4    . The reward might be seeing something interesting on social media. To break a habit, he writes, you should think about making the bad habit invisible, unattractive, difficult and unsatisfying by hiding it away, stopping checking, increasing the space between you and your phone, making a habit contract (合同) and so on.

The important thing to remember is that people can change their habits. Habit changes take time.     5    .

A．Imagine you are studying English

B．It is what you might call a bad habit

C．You may realize that this is a mistake

D．The response is checking your phone

E．It tells your brain to do something to begin a behavior

F．Let’s say you’re always looking up words on your phone

G．But with patience, planning, and repetition, you can do it

4 . “We are what we eat”—or so the saying goes. From high-calorie meals to low-fat lunches, much of our health depends on what we eat. We know about the benefits of eating properly for our physical well-being, but food and cooking it is proving to be good for our mental well-being as well.

Some people are now advocating the therapeutic (治疗的）value of cooking food. It’s not just about the end result but the experience someone goes through.

TV chef and author Nadiya Hussain agrees that cooking is great for helping our mind. She loves to bake and became the champion of the TV show, The Great British Bake Off. She says that “Baking’s always been about therapy... It’s never really been about the cake.” And she thinks that baking is an important tool for our socialisation and mental health.

Certainly, creating some delicious food has helped some of us get through the recent lockdown; it’s helped take our mind off things and given us something to do. People have said that kneading dough (面团) to make bread, for example, has given them a sense of calm and control. Research has shown that doing creative tasks, like cooking, makes us feel happier.

Nicole Farmer, who studies how food impacts our biology, behavior and mental health, told BBC online that “cooking represents the shared human experience of food, and nurturing people through food, so I think that’s where it integrates opportunity into immediate positive emotions”.

Of course, cooking can be a very sociable activity and sharing the end result, a rewarding experience. Hopefully, as we start to mix with friends and family again, we can enjoy the benefits once more and put us all in the right frame of mind.

1. What does the underlined word “well-being” mean in the first paragraph?

A．Happiness.	B．Recovery.
C．Preference.	D．Influence.

2. Why does the author mention “TV chef and author Nadiya Hussain” in paragraph 3?

A．To explain a regulation.	B．To support a viewpoint.
C．To present a fact.	D．To make a prediction.

3. How does cooking do good to people during the lockdown?

A．By creating delicious food.

B．By offering a sense of quietness.

C．By impressing human experience of food.

D．By drawing one’s attention to be occupied.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．We Are What We Eat

B．How Food Affects Our Behavior

C．Cooking Benefits Mental Health

D．Cooking Helps Connect Friends and Family

5 . A major new facility to pull CO₂ out of the atmosphere has started operating in Iceland. Experts say the new technology could eventually play an important role in reducing greenhouse gases.

The plant in southwest Iceland is the biggest of its kind. It is able to capture 900 tons of CO₂ every year but it needs heat and electricity to work. It is using energy produced from waste and is built on the roof of a waste incineration (焚烧) plant, and through the burning of rubbish, energy is generated.

Human-sized fans are built into a series of boxes. They take CO₂ out of the air, catching it in sponge like filters (过滤器). The filters are exploded with heat, freeing the gas, which is then mixed with water and pumped (用泵输送) into deep underground caves, where over time it turns into dark-gray stone. Pumping CO₂ into the ground is just one way to deal with it.

The makers are also selling the gas to be used again. The CO₂ can be captured just a few 100 miles away. It is pumped through an underground pipeline directly into a greenhouse.

Vegetables and plants love CO₂ and higher concentrations of the gas within the greenhouse improve the growth of plants.

By 2050, humanity will need to pull nearly a billion metric tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year through direct air capture technology to achieve carbon neutral goals.

The plant in Iceland will be able to capture 4,00 metric tons annually—just a small amount of what will be necessary， but one that Climeworks, the company that built it, says can grow rapidly as efficiency improves and costs decrease.

“This is a market that does not yet exist, but a market that urgently needs to be built,” said Christoph Gebald who co-founded Climeworks. “This plant is really the blueprint to further increase the size and really industrialize.”

1. How does the carbon capture facility work?

A．It needs heat and water to work.

B．Energy is produced by burning waste.

C．Carbon capture generates a lot of heat and electricity.

D．It produces lots of heat and electricity during operation.

2. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

A．The methods of breaking down CO2.

B．The approaches to reusing waste gas.

C．The necessity of building greenhouses.

D．The workings of the carbon-catching plant.

3. What can we expect from the future carbon capture technology?

A．It will decrease the cost of energy production.

B．It can help reach the carbon neutral goals in advance.

C．It will speed up the reduction of CO2 levels in the air.

D．It may replace the traditional carbon storage system.

4. What is Christoph Gebald’s attitude towards building the plants?

A．Supportive.	B．Neutral.
C．Disapproving.	D．Uncaring.

6 . My kid’s new school is a construction area now. Even though the new building is very exciting, in the meantime there is no real playground for all the kids to use. They just run around the front of the school during the lunch break.

This gets me thinking about starting a book club for the upper elementary kids to meet in during lunch. This idea has the added benefit of giving my very shy daughter a chance to make some connections with other kids who like books as much as she does.

This is how I’m starting our book club. After getting permission from the principal and finding a space in the school to hold our meetings, I’ll send out a flier (传单) in our Friday school notes with my contact information. At our first meeting we’ll think of a name for our book club and decide together on the first two books we will read.

I absolutely love the idea of a mother-daughter book club. The reason is that my friend, mother of a teenage daughter, told me she always tried to befriend all the mothers of her daughter’s friends. As a group they’re better able to know what the girls are doing.

Now that my daughter is in the fourth grade and we’re at a new school, I’m feeling especially drawn to start forming relationships with the mothers of her friends. A book club seems like a good way to do that with the added benefit of getting to open up communication between daughters and mothers, because in a few years a lot of our daughters won’t really want to talk to us.

1. What is the original reason why the author wants to start a book club?

A．Her daughter is too shy.

B．There are no books for children to read.

C．There is no playground for children to play on.

D．The children fail to communicate with each other.

2. What can we know about the book club according to the text?

A．Her daughter’s grades will promote.

B．It can help her daughter communicate with others.

C．His daughter is more and more fond of reading in the book club.

D．This makes his daughter more and more busy with her housework.

3. Why does the author claim she likes mother-daughter clubs?

A．The club attracted more students to read.

B．His daughter can make more good friends.

C．It’s easy for her to get to know her daughter better.

D．His daughter likes to communicate with more people.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To share a valuable plan.

B．To apply for joining a book club.

C．To give the school a piece of advice.

D．To ask people to befriend by reading.

7 . Waste Not

This eco-conscious shoulder bag is cut from old truck cloth, so each handmade bag features a unique look. The rest of the bag is constructed out of strong nylon from recycled water bottles. Sorry, pack addicts: students only. (Seriously, you need a student ID to buy one. ) Freitag F601 Malcolm Student Backpack $170

Agenda Item

Most calendars have a systematized accounting of time boring. The Every Day Calendar is a touch-sensitive device that encourages you to keep up with a daily routine. Each day you follow through on a promise to yourself tap the corresponding (相关的) number on the face and an LED lights it up. You don’t have to use it every days—it’s there when you need it and functions as glorious wall art when you don’t. Every Day Calendar $300

Night Rider

Lumenus pill-shaped bike light smartly helps cyclists see and be seen in the park. Pair it with the companion app and it taps into your phone’s GPS for some location-aware tricks. It can increase visibility at night. The 30-hour battery is good for weeks. Lumenus ioLight $100

Light Cycle

At 35 pounds, the Turbo Vado SL is light for an ebike. It’s also slim enough to swing over a shoulder, with the 320-watt-hour battery and powerful motor all hidden in the frame.

Still, the bike’s range is 80 miles, and its speed reaches 28 mph. Specialized Turbo Vado SL 5.0 EQ $4,500

1. Which of the following products is made of recycled materials?

A．Lumenus ioLight.

B．Every Day Calendar.

C．Specialized Turbo Vado SL 5.0 EQ.

D．Freitag F601 Malcolm Student Backpack.

2. If you want to buy a light for your bike from the above, how much should you pay?

A．$100.	B．$170.
C．$ 300.	D．$ 4,500.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．Using the Every Day Calendar is boring.

B．Lumenus ioLight can improve cyclists’ eyesight.

C．Specialized Turbo Vado SL 5.0 EQ is convenient to be taken away.

D．Everyone is encouraged to buy Freitag F601 Malcolm Student Backpack.

8 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the center aim to do?

A．Offer a relaxing place for sick people to recover.

B．Encourage people to live a healthy life.

C．Provide a colorful life for the retired people.

2. What advice does the speaker give about exercising?

A．Doing exercise after lunchtime.

B．Exercising as planned.

C．Trying all kinds of exercise.

3. What entertainment does the center offer?

A．Relaxing in the garden.

B．Watching TV.

C．Holding parties.

4. How can the members have newspapers sent to their rooms?

A．By informing the library of demands.

B．By paying a little more booking fee.

C．By contacting the people at reception.