1 . Pennsylvania-When Connie Beck and her husband awoke to strange noises last weekend, they thought high winds were rattling their home. What they found was even more unexpected: A deer was taking a bubble bath in their bathtub. “I wasn’t exactly dressed for company,” Mrs. Beck said. “We were just waking up.” The deer burst through the front door early on Saturday, ran past the couple’s bedroom and into the bathroom. Somehow he managed to turn on the water in the bathtub and knock over a bottle of bubble bath into the bathtub. He then got himself into the bubbly water. “You could hear the water running over the kicking,” Beck said. The Becks called State Game Commission officials, who arrived with tranquilizers and a lot of laughter. “A guy said, ‘There’s nothing wrong… he’s just in there taking a bubble bath,’” Mrs. Beck said. The animal was soon brought under control, removed from the house and released. “He was unharmed except for a little cut above the eye,” said Mrs. Beck. “We were also fortunate. There wasn’t much damage, except for the front door, some marks on the tub, and a few hoof prints on the floor.”

1. When did the story take place?

A．On the night of Friday.	B．On the late night of Saturday.
C．On the early morning of Saturday.	D．On Sunday evening.

2. When Mrs. Beck said, “I wasn’t exactly dressed for company,” (in paragraph 3) she ______.

A．was joking about the incident	B．meant she never liked people to visit
C．explained she was about to go to work	D．wished she could have new clothes

3. After the animal burst through the door and entered the bathroom, he _______.

A．managed to cover himself with bubbles	B．kicked over the tub
C．began to swim in the tub	D．happened to turn on the bath taps

4. When he was removed from the house, _______.

A．the deer was set free

B．the deer destroyed the tub and the floor

C．the officials made fun of the couple

D．the officials discovered the deer was badly injured in the eye

2 . There were signs that she struggled with the robber before she was r_________ (重复地) stabbed.

3 . Thanks _____the Silence Machine,a British invention,you can get rid of the sound without upsetting the boy or his parents. （用适当的词填空）

4 . Young athletes can learn how to   __________ (合作）with others, make friends,and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

5 . Stuart Bee prayed that rescue would come before his ship slipped completely under water. The 62-year-old sailor had been washed out of his boat by a wave while he was sleeping at about midnight on Saturday, leaving him fighting for survival in the Atlantic, 86 miles off Florida.

Mr. Bee set out at 4 pm on Friday and was reported missing on Saturday by friends. On Sunday morning, 11 hours later, he was found by a container ship. “What day is it?” he asked Lacruiser Relativo, the container ship’s second officer who threw him a lifebuoy and helped him aboard.

“My ship suffered engine failure. There were long and sharp noises and I was asleep when the water gushed in the back and forced me up the front,” Mr. Bee told the US coast guard after his rescue. He said he swam in jeans and heavy work boots through the boat’s forward hatch (船口) and surfaced, with no life jacket or any flotation. Mr. Relativo said later, “He stuck to the only part of his boat that was not sunk. He told me that he thought maybe that it was to be his last night and that if it was, had he lived his life well enough? He said he realized he had a beautiful life, out there watching the moon on the open water. It was dark but he found an inner peace as he looked at the sky.”

Leisa Bee, his niece, said, “Another half hour and his boat would have completely sunk and no one would have found it or him. I keep looking at the pictures of his rescue and I can’t stop crying. My uncle lived on that boat, so his home is gone now and all his possessions, though he did manage to keep his wallet. When he called my family, he said, ‘Hey, you’ll never guess what happened to me!’ I had no clue of the thousands of people who’d been praying for me.”

1. Who first found Stuart Bee missing?

A．His niece.

B．His friends.

C．Mr. Relativo.

D．Coast guards.

2. How did Stuart Bee feel while waiting for the rescue?

A．Peaceful in mind.	B．Satisfied with his career.
C．Depressed in heart.	D．Hopeful to his future.

3. What would happen if Stuart Bee waited for another half hour?

A．He would have saved his wallet.

B．He wouldn’t have been rescued.

C．He would have been found by his niece.

D．He wouldn’t have reached his family.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．The Old Man and the Sea

B．A Hardworking Sailor Survived

C．A Narrow Escape from the Wave

D．A Lone Sailor Hung in Atlantic for Hours

6 . Born in California and representing the United States before switching to China, teenager Gu Ailing will be most likely to be one of the faces of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

The 17-year-old is a freeskier(自由式滑雪运动员) and grade-A student with an American father and Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019 she made the “quite difficult” decision to compete for China. She wrote on Instagram that she was “proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringings (培养)”.

As for the decision to compete on behalf of China, she said it is “valuable opportunity to help inspire millions of young people in China where my mom was born.”

Gu graduated from a San Francisco high school last year and is focusing on her Beijing 2022 training. It is reported that She scored 1,580 points out of a maximum 1,600 in the SAT (美国大学入学考试), and has been offered a place at Stanford.

Gu started on the snow at the age of 3, was competing in national competitions at 9 and won her first World Cup event at 15. She won two gold medals and a silver for China at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Jan. 30th, 2021, Gu made her debut(首次亮 相) at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado and won two golds and a bronze.

“My goal is to win Olympic gold,” she told the official Olympic website. “It’s the top achievement. And that would be rewarding for all the work that I’ve done to achieve greatness in the sport.”

1. What do we know about Gu Ailing?

A．She grew up in China.	B．She is an average student.
C．She will graduate from a high school.	D．She decided to compete for China.

2. Which of the following words can best describe Gu Ailing?

A．Helpful and knowledgeable.	B．Modest and hard-working.
C．Clever and ambitious.	D．Creative and confident.

3. What’s the main idea of the fifth paragraph?

A．Gu Ailing won her first World Cup event at 15.

B．Gu Ailing’s achievements as a freeskier.

C．Gu Ailing’s training when she was young.

D．Gu Ailing learned to do snow sports in China.

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Gu Ailing—An American Freeskier	B．Gu Ailing—A Stanford Graduate
C．Gu Ailing—A talented Chinese Freeskier	D．Gu Ailing—An Olympic Champion

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。

Mahru-Z, a robot developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (韩国科学技术研究所) can clean a home, put clothes in a washing machine and even heat food in a microwave. It     1     (take) the institute two years to develop Mahru-Z,     2     is 4.3 feet tall and 121 pounds in weight. The new robot has a human-like body including rotating (旋转的) head, arms, legs     3     six fingers. The most special feature of Mahru-Z is     4     (it) ability to observe objects (物体), recognize tasks, and complete them.

Mahru-Z can also work with an earlier robot     5     (call) Mahru-M. Mahru-M can move on wheels (轮子). Both Mahru-M and Mahru-Z can be     6     (remote) controlled by a computer.

A scientist of the institute regarded Mahru-Z as     7     most advanced robot in terms of     8     (copy) human movements. Apart from doing the housework, it can also be used in conditions too difficult or     9     (danger) for humans. But production for commercial use is some way away.

The science institute spends about 3.5 million dollars     10     robot research every year. It began receiving state funds for the project in 2006.

8 . Basketball is a team sport played in a court with two netted rings attached to 10-foot poles on either end of the court.     1     Variations (变种) on the basic game include beach basketball, wheelchair basketball and banks hot basketball. Here’s how to play the basic game.

    2     Two players from the opposing teams try to take possession of the ball. The team that catches the ball first plays offense, and the opposing team plays defense. Players of the same team pass the ball back and forth as the opposition attempts to take possession of it. Team players are assigned different positions.     3    

The ball must be continually dribbled (运球) as players try to move it toward the extreme ends of the court where the netted rings wait.     4    . You have to dribble or shoot the ball. Each player must throw the ball within a maximum of 35 seconds. The players cannot kick the ball.

Making illegal body contact is a foul (犯规). If a team commits consecutive (连贯的) fouls, their opponents are awarded a free throw.     5    

The team that scores the most points in the stipulated time is the winner. If the teams are tied at the end of regulation, the game goes into overtime. Overtime periods are played until one team has more points than the other at the end of an overtime period.

A．The referee throws up the ball to start the game.

B．Don’t walk with the ball，which is called traveling.

C．You can learn to dribble, pass, shoot and defend at a high level.

D．Start your journey by playing against the best players in your age group.

E．They are point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center.

F．Five active players per team attempt to score points by getting a ball through one of the nets.

G．If a player commits six fouls in an NBA game, he or she will be disqualified from finishing the game.