1 . 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。

Sarah grew up in West Virginia as a normal American girl. Jim, a professor at WVU, and Judy, a teacher, showered their youngest daughter with love and encouragement. Sarah picked roses in her garden, rode her bike around the neighborhood, and enjoyed vacations with her parents and two sisters. Sil, she could never quite shake off the sense that she didn’t belong in her fair-haired family or the community with few minorities. Worse, she felt the anxiety shared by many adopted children: if one set of parents abandoned you, why wouldn't another? She tried very hard to be a good kid so that her present parents would never want to give her up. This feeling kept haunting her all through her childhood and teen years.

Sarah studied drama and in 2001 got some minor roles in films after graduation. She moved to California to pursue her career. It was then that she felt the urge to find her birth parents. She hired a private detective, who, after some investigation, found that her biological mother was long dead, and her father was then an exchange student from the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone, an African country on the Atlantic coast. In fact, her father, Kposowa, belonged to the ruling family, which made Sarah a princess in her father’s tribe.

But she leaned through the news that a brutal civil war had been raging in Sierra Leone, and her native county was let in ruins. Sarah also noticed that the local news in Sierra Lcone made no mention of her father as the head of Mende tribe, and she couldn’t help wondering if her inquiry was too late. But she sent a letter anyway, with her contact information, hoping it would somehow reach her biological father half way across the globe. To drown her doubts and regrets, she threw herself into her acting and was on the fast track to success, the letter to her father half forgotten amid actress’s life.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Then one day, her cell phone suddenly rang out, showing an African number.
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Sarah talked it over with her American parents who encouraged her to go and find her roots.
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2 . 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。

Mount Wutai, or Qingliang Shan, located in northeastern Shanxi province, China, is home to many of China’s most important temples. It takes its name     1     its unusual topography (地形), consisting of five rounded peaks (North, South, East, West, Central), of     2     the North peak, called Beitai Ding or Yedou Feng, is the highest.

Mount Wutai is one of the Four Sacred Mountains in Chinese Buddhism. Each of the four mountains     3       (view) as the abode (道场) of one of the four great bodhisattvas (菩萨). Wutai is the home of the bodhisattva of     4     (wise), Wenshu in Chinese.

Mount Wutai is also home to some of the oldest existent wooden buildings in China that    5     (survive) since the era of the Tang Dynasty (618- 907). This includes the main hall of Nanchan Temple and the East Hall of Foguang Temple, which were built in 782 and 857     6     (respective). They were discovered in 1937 and 1938 by a team of people, including the famous early 20^th-century    7     (history) Liang Sicheng.

    8     architectural design of these buildings has since been studied by leading experts in traditional Chinese architecture such as Nancy Steinhardt. Steinhardt classified these buildings according to the hall types featured in the Yingzao Fashi Chinese building manual (手册)    9    (write) in the 12th century. Her classification helped a lot in convincing UNESCO    10    Mount Wutai is worthy of a place in its heritage site.

3 . There were some scheduling difficulties in 2020 for our company ReedPop. During two of our shows, the first death in the U.S. from COVID-19 occurred. Within a short time, our team decided to_____________or move our events to 2021.

With instructions to work _________, all team members were quickly forced to make   _________ The thirty day remote quarantine turned into another thirty days. Morale (士气) was really low.

I kept _________ ways to cheer up the team. At first, I thought I’d send postcards. But I wasn’t sure if it was _______. Remember how we were all reading our mail with gloves on? Later that day, my chat group had a ZOOM call. When only a few people _________ on the call, I shared my idea about using anonymous (匿名的) ___________ note. Sean suggested I send e-mails from an anonymous account. Britt ___________ there was an e-mail database where we could find our team of 75 people.

“What should we call ourselves?” I asked.

“The ReedPop Note Fries” Brit answered. We decided to abbreviate it to RPNF.

We divided up the list among ourselves based partly on who we___________ best. Once everyone had been ______________, we typed up individual personalized messages that highlighted their accomplishments yet didn't give away our ______________.

Immediately, there was buzz on ZOOM.

“Are you the RPNF?”

“What did your note say?”

“I didn't even know anyone ______________ I had accomplished that!”

The chats were __________. Many people replied to the e-mail, talking about how__________ they had been feeling and how suddenly they felt seen, __________, and loved. It was incredibly rewarding.

1.

A．mark

B．cancel

C．describe

D．witness

2.

A．steadily

B．slowly

C．randomly

D．remotely

3.

A．investments

B．improvements

C．assessments

D．adjustments

4.

A．changing

B．clarifying

C．seeking

D．mending

5.

A．true

B．safe

C．necessary

D．popular

6.

A．bargained

B．advertised

C．emerged

D．remained

7.

A．positive

B．warming

C．informative

D．amusing

8.

A．concluded

B．remembered

C．insisted

D．acknowledged

9.

A．taught

B．dressed

C．knew

D．served

10.

A．recognized

B．comforted

C．assigned

D．interviewed

11.

A．identities

B．ambitions

C．feelings

D．possessions

12.

A．sensed

B．noticed

C．guaranteed

D．complained

13.

A．showing off

B．dropping off

C．looking up

D．blowing up

14.

A．guilty

B．innocent

C．bad

D．good

15.

A．choked

B．ignored

C．abandoned

D．missed

4 . Mind-wandering can help boost our mood

Prior research suggests a wandering mind is an unhappy mind: We tend to be less happy when we're not focused on what we're doing. That's likely true.    1     For example, as one 2013 study showed, when people found their wandering thoughts more interesting, their moods actually improved while mind-wandering. Similarly, other studies have found that thinking about people you love or thinking more about your potential future than about what happened in the past produces positive results.

How you use mind-wandering may also be important.     2     It has been mostly unexplored in previous research, but likely has distinct effects. As one 2017 study found, people who use daydreaming for self-reflection typically have more pleasant thoughts than people who simply think about unpleasant experiences.

There is even some evidence that mind-wandering may be more of an antidote (缓解方法) to depression than a cause. People who are depressed may simply replay events from their past to better understand what happened to cause their dark mood and avoid future problems. Also, when researchers studied whether a negative mood preceded or allowed a mind-wandering episode, they found poor moods led to more mind-wandering but not vice versa.       3    

Now, findings from a 2021 study suggest that mind-wandering that is more freely moving can actually improve your mood. In this study, participants were prompted randomly via cell phone over three days to report how they were feeling and how much their thoughts were freely moving and related to what they were doing. After analyzing the data, the researchers found that when people's thoughts were of-task, they generally felt more negative—similar to what earlier findings showed.       4    “Our findings suggest there might be positive aspects of mind-wandering," the researchers conclude.

    5     If I simply put myself in a space that lets my mind move freely, I don’t get depressed. On the contrary, I'm happier because of it.

A．In some cases, people intentionally mind-wander.

B．Mind-wandering is part of our human inheritance.

C．Again, I find that science supports my own experience.

D．There may be a right and a wrong way to mind-wander.

E．But if their thoughts were free -moving, it had the opposite effect.

F．In fact, the content of wandering thoughts makes a big difference.

G．It suggests that mind-wandering may be helping people feel better.

5 . “A novel, like a letter should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of morality and decay,” Saul Bellow once wrote. Like many novelists, in his spare time the author of The Adventures of Augie March was also an enthusiastic letter writer.

A selection of Bellow’s huge correspondence, reproduced in a recent issue of the New Yorker, provides a fascinating insight into the writer’s character. Witty, often brief and almost always entertaining, Bellow’s letters are a reminder of why writers’ letters often prove so popular with readers. At their best, literary letters have something for everyone: general readers get a glimpse of how authors write when freed from the expectation to produce a work of conventional literary worth, and scholars get enough scholarly writings.

All this is well and good—except for one small problem: nobody writes letters anymore, at least not the kind of intellectual, humorous letters that distinguish great correspondence. As we are so often told, we live in the digital age. Like the rest of us, authors now largely correspond with their agents, friends, and occasionally, fans through email, not “snail mail”.   

As literary vehicles, emails are severely lacking. Digital messages tend to alternate between the deathly dull and formal and the casually daring complete with BTW, LOLs and unclear text—speak with little middle ground. Letters can be revealing, friendly, humorous; emails, even at their best, tend to exhibit only one of these characteristics of good writing.

Future literary archivists (档案管理员) will need to be digital experts, hacking through hard drives and email accounts, mobile phones, in their attempts to fully document the lives and thoughts of their subjects. But who among us has all their email correspondence from the past five years, let alone a lifetime? Hardware is disposed (废弃) of and forgotten about; mobile phones are replaced every few years. The idea that we can construct a complete record of a writer has always been unrealistic, but technological advances have made it physically impossible, too. With so much material digitalized, and often wiped, writers will no longer leave behind boxes suffered with letters, ripe for investigation and possible publication.

Back in 1898, the New York Times named the long-dead Lord Byron the greatest letter writer in the English language, celebrating his letters’ humor, the force and spirit of their substance, the grace and purity of their style. Saul Bellow’s letters might not be remembered quite so fondly 70 years from now, but chances are that, by then, the entire genre of collected writers’ letters will have disappeared completely—leaving readers significantly poorer for their loss.

1. Authors’ letters are often popular with readers probably because ______.

A．well-known magazines like New Yorker choose to publish them

B．authors write them with a specific audience in mind

C．not only are they scholarly, but they are also funny

D．readers can gain an insight into how the classics are created

2. According to paragraphs 3 and 4, one advantage of email over traditional letters is that _____.

A．email exhibits characteristics of good writing

B．email reaches its receivers much faster

C．email is full of variation alternating between “formal” and “casual”

D．email conveys clear messages with little ambiguous middle ground

3. Why does the author mention future archivists work?

A．To illustrate that technological advances can contribute to greater literary loss.

B．To arouse readers’ interest in how digital property will be treated in the future.

C．To point out that it is impossible to document the life experience of a writer.

D．To warn that there will be no writers’ letters left for research.

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

A．Exploring Literature through Letters.	B．Well-Written “Letters”: Saul Bellow Shows Us How
C．The Dying Art of Letter Writing	D．The Power of a Letter in the Digital Age

6 . Metaphorically speaking, the vast tropical rainforest in South America’s Amazon River basin is often called the “lungs of the planer”. Some people claim that the Amazon Rainforest alone is responsible for 20 percent of Earth’s oxygen, but is this really true? As the region experiences more fires in 2019 than it has seen in almost a decade, some people are wondering what would happen to Earth’s oxygen supply if the whole of the Amazon were to burn away. Would Earth actually lose 20 percent of its oxygen, or are there other unexpected consequences that would await us instead?

Relationships between tropical forests and oxygen are complicated. Growing plants produce oxygen, and tropical rainforests are huge contributors, but dead and rotting plants—as well as burning plants—consume oxygen to release carbon dioxide as a by-product during decomposition and combustion (燃烧). Often the ratio between a plant producing oxygen in life and consuming oxygen in death is 1:1, so many atmospheric scientists don’t see the Amazon, or even Earth’s forests as a whole as net oxygen producers, because all plants die sooner or later.

Instead, Earth’s oxygen mainly comes from marine algae (海藻) Marine algae bloom in the oceans, sting on the surface and taking advantage of the nutrients that are stirred up in seawater and pulling in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. While algae live, they use carbon dioxide to grow, and they release oxygen into the atmosphere. However, when they die, algae do not decompose on the ocean surface, so they do not draw from the atmosphere the same amount of oxygen that they produce in life. Instead, algae sink. Some dead algae consume oxygen dissolved in seawater and largely or completely decompose as they sink, releasing the carbon stored in their bodies into the water. However, others sink deep enough fast enough that they fall below the ocean’s oxygenated layers before they decompose in earnest. They land on the ocean floor almost completely, so the carbon in their bodies stays put. Over millions of years, this process results in a net oxygen gain in Earth’s atmosphere.

Burning the Amazon won’t have a significant effect on oxygen levels, but it is warned that burning will add enormous amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, which will further strengthen global warming and produce more severe climate changes. And there are other very serious long-term consequences to destroying Earth’s most biodiverse region.

1. Why does the writer mention “unexpected consequences” in paragraph 1?

A．To convince the readers of topical forests’ importance.

B．To inform the readers of other discoveries about tropical forests.

C．To argue against the “lungs of the planet” metaphor.

D．To present a more balanced view on the importance of tropical forests.

2. Why won’t the destruction of Amazon have much impact on the planets oxygen level?

A．The oxygen consumed by the dying plants cancels out what they produce in life.

B．The plants in Amazon Rainforest tend to disappear before they are fully grown.

C．Tropical forests have a complex relationship with oxygen generation.

D．Carbon dioxide is only a by-product of the process of decomposition.

3. What makes marine algae a net oxygen contributor as a whole?

A．That marine algae produce more oxygen than plants.

B．That some dead marine algae don’t break down.

C．That marine algae spread fast in the ocean.

D．That some dead marine algae don’t reach the ocean bottom.

4. What can be another useful feature in some marine algae’s death?

A．Mineral accumulation.	B．Carbon fixation.
C．Water purification.	D．Marine nutrition.

7 . Apple on Wednesday launched a self-service repair program that would allow its customers to purchase Apple made components to replace worn-out or broken parts. The service will be first available in the US early next year for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 ranges, enabling customers to repair their screens, batteries and cameras at home. The service will be extended to other markets throughout 2022 and cover Mac computers with MI chips.

The U-turn is abrupt. As recently as last month, Apple was fighting a shareholder proposal in support of right to repair. The iPhone maker said its own experts were best placed to service its products. The latest move, though, comes after an executive order from the Biden administration in July, directing the FTC (联邦贸易委员会) to address “unfair anti-competitive restrictions on third-party repair or self-repair of items”.

Apple has long been criticized by consumer protection bodies for fiercely guarding its monopoly on the repair process, which has become so strict that iPhones fail to function properly even if two identical models have their parts swapped. Consumers have been forced to pay for “official” repairs at Apple stores whose costs can be so high that many consumers would rather buy a new device altogether.

Right-to-repair advocates say that when a consumer replaces a broken model, it serves Apple’s bottom line but taxes the environment, so this step is likely to be widely welcomed. “Still, there is a risk that Apple is trying to increase the cost of spare parts by freezing out third-party manufacturer,” said Vallauri, a right-to-repair advocate. “Regulation needs to force manufacturers to make products that are easier to repair at an affordable price so devices can be in use for a longer time, limiting the environmental impact.”

1. What can be inferred from paragraph 2?

A．Apple adopted the proposal made by its shareholder after careful consideration.

B．Apple is pressured into easing restrictions on independent repair shops.

C．Apple has always been a firm supporter of customers’ right to repair.

D．Apple has its growth restricted deliberately due to its enormous profits.

2. The underlined word “monopoly” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to_____.

A．complete control	B．huge interests
C．massive influence	D．tight security

3. Which of the following might be a consequence of Apple’s policy U-turn?

A．The cost of fixing iPhones and iMacs will rise.

B．Their products will lose favor with environmentalists.

C．The life cycle of consumer electronics will be extended.

D．The competition in iPhone parts market will be less intense.

4. What is Vallauri’s attitude towards Apple’s new move?

A．Favorable.

B．Enthusiastic.

C．Skeptical.

D．Cautious.

8 .

	Lord of the Flies An airplane evacuating schoolboys from Britain during World War II is shot down over a remote tropical area. Two boys, Ralph and Piggy find the other surviving boys and begin to organize the group. As time passes, rivalries are formed, rules are broken and civilized behavior has turned savage. Lord of the Flies is a classic study on human nature, adolescence, and competition by William Golding.
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer’s best friend, stakes out his own adventure in this classic coming-of-age tale. Tired of trying to be good and fearful of his drunken father, Huck Finn runs away and takes Jim, a man who has escaped enslavement, with him. Together they sail down the Mississippi River on a raft and experience dangerous as well as comical adventures along the way. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an enduring classic.
	A Separate Peace A friendship forms between two boys attending a New England boarding school during World War IL. Gene, smart and socially awkward, draws the attention of Phineas, a handsome, athletic and outgoing boy. The two become friends, but war and rivalry lead to a tragic accident. John Knowles is the author of A Separate Peace, a classic story about friendship and adolescence.
	Of Mice and Men Best friends Lennie and George travel from farm to farm in California looking for work while trying to avoid trouble. Although both men are good workers and have dreams of owning their own farm, they never stay at one job long because of Lennie. Lennie is a simple-minded gentle giant who doesn’t know his own strength and often gets into trouble. When tragedy strike, George must make am awful decision that will alter the plans he and Lennie have made for their future. Of Mice and Men is a classic John Steinbeck story about migrant workers and the downtrodden surviving the Great Depression.

1. Which pair of books covers the subjects of adolescence and competition?

A．Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies

B．Lord of the Flies and A Separate Peace

C．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Lord of the Flies

D．A Separate Peace and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2. What often upsets George’s plan for the future?

A．George’s tendency to get into trouble.	B．Lennie’s dependence on George.
C．Lennie’s inability to manage his own strength.	D．George’s identity as a migrant worker.

3. Which of the four books includes the element of humor?

A．Lord of the Flies	B．A Separate Peace
C．Of Mice and Men	D．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

9 . Individuals with social intelligence can sense how other people feel, know clearly what to say in social situations and appear confident even in a larger crowd. You might think of these folks as having “people skills”, but what they truly possess is social intelligence.

People who are socially intelligent display core traits (核心、特质) that help them communicate and connect with others.    1     A person who possesses social intelligence doesn’t listen merely to respond but truly pays attention to what another person is saying. The other folks in the conversation walk away feeling like they were understood and that they made a connection.     2     Someone with social intelligence understands that arguing or proving a point by making another person feel bad isn’t the right thing to do.     3     Instead, they tend to listen to him/her with an open mind — even when it’s not an idea that they personally agree with.

Some people may seem to develop social intelligence without really trying.     4     Luckily, certain strategies, such as practicing active listening and respecting cultural differences, can help a person build social skills. Studying social situations is also an effective way to develop social skills. Pay attention to what people are doing well and the mistakes you want to avoid. Afterward, think about what you want to do differently in the next social situation you are in.

    5     If it were, there wouldn’t ever be another awkward conversation at a party. However, working toward a strong social intelligence can lead to a richer life — or, at least, an easier time making a few new friends.

A．They are usually effective listeners.

B．Social intelligence isn’t easy to master.

C．But others have to work to develop it.

D．They don’t directly reject another person’s ideas.

E．And remember that you can mess up sometimes.

F．Develop your social intelligence by working on your communication skills.

G．Lack of arguing is another important trait that people with social intelligence exhibit.

10 . 假定你是李华，上周末你所在的城市在人民广场举办了主题为“The Earth Is Our Only Home的活动，探讨了环境污染的方方面面，并宣传环保措施。你的外国朋友Henry对此很感兴趣，请你用英语写-封邮件，告诉他活动的具体情况，内容包括:
1.活动时间和地点;
2.活动的内容;
3.活动的效果。
注意:
1.写作词数应为80左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Henry,

Is everything all right with you?

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If you want to know more about similar activities you can email me.

Yours,

Li Hua