1 . ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK TOUR

Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) spans over 415 square miles. It contains more than 300 miles of hiking roads and one of the most amazing sights and landscapes (风景) that Colorado has to offer in summer and winter. It’s a perfect place to take a day vacation just for yourself.

Ride by the Iconic Flatirons and the City of Boulder

Your tour kicks off in Boulder which is hidden in a classical little valley near the Flatirons. This community is home to over 100,000 people and features booming tech, food industries, and world-class University of Colorado.

Have a Tasty Picnic Lunch at Rocky Mountain National Park

There’s nothing better than enjoying a meal with the Rocky Mountains in the background. With the unbelievable beauty of the area, it offers plenty of opportunities for taking photos. People have chance to see local wildlife. It’s no wonder that nearly 3 million people visit this national park every year.

Go for a Scenic Ride down Trail Ridge Road

There’s no better way to discover the Rocky Mountains than taking a scenic (风景优美的) ride down Trail Ridge Road. Stretching for 48 miles, it gives you the chance to enjoy the Rocky Mountains in leisure.

Finish with a Ride Through Estes Park

Taking a ride through Estes Park is the best way to end this tour. This town is well known for being the main base of RMNP and provides an unbelievable view of Prospect Mountain.

1. Where does the tour begin?

A．In Boulder.	B．In Prospect Mountain.
C．At Trail Ridge Road.	D．In Estes Park.

2. What can people do at the Rocky Mountain National Park?

A．Cook a meal with family.	B．Ride a horse.
C．Take photos.	D．Hunt wildlife.

3. From which is the text probably taken?

A．A sports website.	B．A news report.
C．A travel magazine.	D．A geography textbook.

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1. If readers want to know about an actor, which one should they read?

A．Community Power.	B．If Grace Dent ruled the world.
C．An interview with Hugh Dancy.	D．Saving the sound of the Stradivaius.

2. How much will you save if you take out a full one-year subscription today?

A．£22.99.

B．£3.

C．£47.88.

D．£24.89.

3. What kind of writing is the passage?

A．A part of a fiction.

B．An introduction.

C．An advertisement.

D．A research report.

3 . Once there was a little girl who had many misfortunes in life and was struggling with problems. One day she felt so upset that she couldn’t help ________ to her father why her life was so ________.

Sensing her ________, her father, a chef, took her to their ________. He asked her to just ________ till he finished everything. He filled three small pots with water and placed each on a burner. Once the water began to ________, he placed a potato, an egg, and some ground coffee beans in each pot. Curious, though, she kept ________ as her father instructed her to do so.

About twenty minutes later, he turned off the ________. The chef turned towards his daughter and said, “See, the potato went in strong and hard but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was ________, but now the egg became hard. ________, the ground coffee beans were unique. After being ________ the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.”

Seeing the little girl was still confused, he then ________, “The potato, the egg and coffee beans had each faced the same ________-the boiling water. However, each reacted ________. When hardships come your way, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?” Hearing these words, the girl made her choice inside-she would be the ________, which could not only change the whole situation but also change in its own way. After all, life is 10% what happens to you and 90%how you react to it.

1.

A．explaining

B．complaining

C．requesting

D．obtaining

2.

A．fortunate

B．permanent

C．memorial

D．miserable

3.

A．depression

B．desire

C．enthusiasm

D．curiosity

4.

A．study

B．kitchen

C．bedroom

D．cupboard

5.

A．absorb

B．listen

C．observe

D．seize

6.

A．cool

B．freeze

C．melt

D．boil

7.

A．cruel

B．silent

C．noble

D．modest

8.

A．lights

B．microwaves

C．burners

D．taps

9.

A．rough

B．plain

C．precious

D．fragile

10.

A．Therefore

B．Moreover

C．However

D．Otherwise

11.

A．exposed to

B．connected with

C．committed to

D．motivated by

12.

A．revolved

B．proceeded

C．teased

D．responded

13.

A．emergency

B．dilemma

C．choice

D．adversity

14.

A．sufficiently

B．generously

C．differently

D．primitively

15.

A．coffee beans

B．potato

C．egg

D．chef

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A girl on a great journey to find her destiny (命运) realizes the power of wrong doings, unsung heroes, and most of all, love. What I Saw on the Hibiscus Airship is a story of adventure and family.

The Tiger and the Leopardess (母豹)

Ho Khong Ming

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An old hungry tiger is on the hunt for a meal and meets an unhappy leopardess. Can enemies trust each other? In this story, The Tiger and the Leopardess, will hate or love influence their relationship?

Privatization of Facility Management in Public Hospitals

Hong Poh Fan

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Hong Poh Fan explores the transition public hospitals have undertaken (负责) to improve services in Malaysia. He shares lessons learned over a fifteen­year period of hospital privatization in this detailed examination of how to improve health care.

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Tetsuo Fukuyama

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Fukuyama decided to leave his homeland and experiment with a completely different lifestyle: living in New York City. This story of how the author’s courage and determination helped him survive in difficult conditions will encourage readers to find their own happiness.

1. Which of the following is all adventure book?

A．Privatization of Facility Management in Public Hospitals.

B．What I Saw on the Hibiscus Airship.

C．The Tiger and the Leopardess.

D．Escape to America.

2. Who explored love and hate in his book?

A．Tetsuo Fukuyama.	B．Hong Poh Fan.
C．C.L.Heng.	D．Ho Khong Ming.

3. What do we know about Escape to America?

A．It describes life in Malaysia.

B．It is for practical use.

C．It is based on real­life events.

D．It tells a story about friendship.

5 . I don’t think it is polite to break in when people are having a conversation, ________?

A．isn’t it

B．do I

C．is it

D．do you

6 . With roaring ships, hammering oil drill, industrial fishing and coastal construction, humans have strongly influenced the underwater soundscape (声音景观) over the past couple of hundred years — in some cases posting a threat to whales, dolphins and other ocean creatures. Until recently, underwater sound pollution had not attracted the same attention. Now, a new paper published in the journal Science lays out the impacts, demonstrating that noise pollution can be just as harmful to the ocean environment as other kinds of pollution.

Even the cracking of glaciers and any drop of rain falling on the water’s surface can be heard deep under the sea. Sea life uses sound to study their habitat, and to keep in communication with each other. They also use sound by listening to know something about their environment.

“It’s a long-lasting problem that certainly weakens the animals all the way from individuals to populations,” says lead author Carlos M. Duarte, distinguished professor at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), “We are hoping that this report will not only reveal elements of how humans impact the ocean through sound pollution, but that it will also bring the topic to the attention of policymakers who will be able to act based upon the very real solutions.”

Marine (海洋) ecologist Kirsten Thompson of the United Kingdom’s University of Exeter, who was not involved in the study, said the report could not have come at a better time. “It summarizes the fact that we are in this new phase of human-caused noise in our oceans that is having a dramatic impact on different species.” What matters most, she notes, is the fact that the paper “doesn’t just point at the problem, it shows how to solve it.”

Unlike plastic pollution or fertilizer runoff, noise pollution will not take years to fix. The moment we switch our noise off the impact disappears, Duarte says, pointing to marine life surveys conducted around April 5, 2020. Having the world use more renewable energy would lessen the need to drill for oil and gas. The international team of researchers also called for a global regulatory framework for measuring and managing ocean noise.

1. Which of the following threatens ocean creatures?

A．Travel industry.	B．Human activities.
C．Construction companies.	D．Sailing off the coast.

2. Why noise pollution is harmful to the ocean environment?

A．Ocean animals can’t fall asleep.	B．It causes the cracking of glaciers.
C．It’s a signal to the lower sea level.	D．It disrupts the behavior of sea life.

3. What can we learn from Kirsten Thompson?

A．She is one of the paper’s co-authors.

B．The report does not come at the right time.

C．The solutions are already available.

D．The report has raised great attention from seamen.

4. What is needed to reduce the underwater noise?

A．Technical advances and regulation.

B．A policy to measure the depth of ocean.

C．A global ban on drilling for oil and gas.

D．Noise standards for cars and trucks.

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。

Do you know what the ballet, jeans, and eyeglasses have in common? They     1     (invent) in Italy. Now, another Italian symbol is making headlines as a possible solution to a huge     2    (environment) problem. In a time when the world searches for ways     3     (reduce) plastic waste, pasta straws might be one of the answers.

Recently, a picture     4    （show）the initiative (倡议) some bars in Italy have been taking was posted on the Internet,     5     has been spreading like crazy.

    6     (interest), there are already a couple of companies that sell pasta straws: Stroodles and The Amazing Pasta Straw. The straws are tasteless while in cold beverage, as they're just made of wheat and water. According to the Stroodles website, the straws last roughly     7     hour before softening up, after which they can be composted (制成堆肥) or even consumed.

"Stroodles is not just a straw company and there is a much     8     (big) picture, as I feel I can leave a long-term impact by creating a ripple effect (连锁反应) by triggering many small challenges all across the world, especially among people that are less conscious     9       sustainability and their respective     10     (act) and behaviors, "company founder Maxim Gelmann said.

8 . Joel Boyers and his wife, Melody Among, were heading home in their helicopter (直升机）when he received a call for help from a stranger. The caller’s brother and her ___________ were trapped on their roof in Waverly because of the rising floodwater.

The caller ___________ Joel Boyers to come to their aid. Boyers looked west towards Waverly at the storm clouds. Aware of the danger to __________ in such bad weather, though, he __________ put the brother’s address into his ___________. Soon, he and Among were in the air,___________ for what they were about to see in Waverly.

Upon arriving, he found the water below was __________. People were holding on to anything that didn’t move—roofs, trees. The flooding also ____________ cell phone service, meaning Boyers couldn’t use his phone to locate the ___________ he was looking for. He flew on anyway.

As Boyers drove the helicopter, Among began _________ people on roofs and bridges—anywhere Boyers could __________ and get them onboard. A rescued man pointed to a teenager. The teenager held onto a branch with one hand and the other held a dog she’d saved earlier while both were ___________ in the current (水流). With no place for Boyers to land, he __________ the helicopter until it hovered (盘旋) just above the water line. The rescued man jumped out and swam to the tree, where he helped the teen and the dog to the ___________.

Though the experience was ___________, Boyers admitted it was fun.

1.

A．neighbour

B．wife

C．friend

D．daughter

2.

A．ordered

B．attracted

C．begged

D．challenged

3.

A．pack

B．fly

C．quit

D．swim

4.

A．immediately

B．secretly

C．gradually

D．creatively

5.

A．card

B．pocket

C．computer

D．phone

6.

A．unprepared

B．intended

C．relieved

D．recognized

7.

A．peaceful

B．rapid

C．familiar

D．clean

8.

A．revised

B．delivered

C．damaged

D．registered

9.

A．house

B．tree

C．car

D．bridge

10.

A．debating with

B．adapting to

C．commenting on

D．searching for

11.

A．land

B．rise

C．jump

D．look

12.

A．training

B．exploring

C．experimenting

D．struggling

13.

A．reserved

B．lowered

C．followed

D．designed

14.

A．home

B．school

C．helicopter

D．truck

15.

A．plain

B．awkward

C．adventurous

D．formal

9 . 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。

Last year, China’s League of Legends Pro League (LPL) English broadcast expanded its live show     1     (include) post-game interviews. As a host and interviewer who can speak three languages, Wendy Xia An became the English broadcast’s most recognizable interviewer. Her translation had bridged the gap     2     Chinese and Korean players, and international fans.

Xia An was a student majoring in philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in 2019 when she applied for the position. After fierce competition, she got the job doing translation work for LPL. At the beginning of last year,     3     LPL English started a new section which was the backseat interview, she     4    (choose) as the LPL English host.

“I had studied in Singapore since 2012 and easily picked up English because all the courses were taught in the language. As for Korean, I was interested in K-pop and watched a lot of LCK         5    (match). I also took up some Korean-related courses at university. Besides, I kept using those languages     6     (frequent).”

“Also, since I was interested in E-sports, and Mandarin, English and Korean     7    (be) three most commonly used languages in this industry, I put more effort into     8     (practice) those languages.”

“During the interviews, I’m not representing myself     9     LPL English or the whole LPL. So, I think that I bear the     10     (responsible) of setting up all the questions well, and faithfully translating every sentence.”

10 . 直到上世纪末，人们才逐渐意识到人工智能将对生活产生重大影响。 (Not until) （汉译英）