1 . San Francisco Fire Engine Tours

San Francisco Winery Tour
Running: February 1st through April 30th

This delicious tour goes through the city on its way to Treasure Island where we will stop at the famous Winery SF. Here you can enjoy 4 pours of some of the best wine San Francisco has to offer.(Included in tickets price)

Departing from the Cannery: Tour times upon request.
Duration(时长): 2 hours
Price: $90
Back to the Fifties Tour
Running: August 16th through August 31st

This tour transports you back in time to one of San Francisco’s most fantastic periods, the 1950s! Enjoy fun history as we take you through San Francisco for a free taste of ice cream.

Departing from the Cannery: 5:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Duration: 2 hours
Price: $90
Spooky Halloween Tour
Running: October 10th through October 31st

Join us for a ride through the historical Presidio district. Authentic fire gear(服装) is provided for your warmth as our entertainers take you to some of the most thrilling parts of San Francisco.

Departing from the Cannery: 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Price: Available upon request
Holiday Lights Tour
Running: December 6th through December 23rd

This attractive tour takes you to some of San Francisco’s most cheerful holiday scenes. Authentic fire gear is provided for your warmth as you get into the holiday spirit.

Departing from the Cannery: 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Advance reservations required.
1. Which of the tours is available in March?

A．San Francisco Winery Tour.	B．Back to the Fifties Tour.
C．Spooky Hallowen Tour.	D．Holiday Lights Tour.

2. What can tourists do on Back to the Fifties Tours?

A．Go to Treasure Island.	B．Enjoy the holiday scenes.
C．Have free ice cream.	D．Visit the Presidio district.

3. What are tourists required to do to go on Holiday Lights Tour?

A．Take some drinks.	B．Set off early in the morning.
C．Wear warm clothes.	D．Make reservations in advance.

2 . 英语课上,老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下短文为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I went to Ningxia University to visit my brother in last June. After lunch, he said what he would bring me to the playground but didn’t tell me why. When we arrived there, to my greatly surprise, the playground was like a bigger book market. I was curious about it. My brother told me some students who would graduate soon was selling their old books. My brother chose several books he was interested. See that my brother loved the book so much, the students decided to give them to him for free. In my opinion, it is really the good way to make full use about old books.

3 . Every year I write a letter to my daughter on her birthday. I fill it with ________ things that happened to her on unpleasant days or happy days. I add to the letter photos and report cards that would have ________ as the year passed.

I have a small ________ in which I keep the things that I want to send my daughter. Every week, I ________ short notes of what I can think of from the week’s events. When her birthday approaches, I ________ that box and find it full of beautiful cards and ________ memories.

________ the letter is written and all the treasures are put into the envelope, I seal (密封) it. It then becomes that year’s ________ letter. On the envelope I always write: A letter to Ann from Daddy – to be opened when you’re twenty-one years old. It is a gift of ________ from Dad to her daughter. It is a lasting ________ of her life written as she was actually living it.

That tradition of ________ her birthday letters is now one of my duties. As Ann grows ________, I can see that it is a growing and ________ part of her life, too. One day, we were talking about life in the ________. It went like this: I jokingly told Ann that on her 61st birthday, she will be ________ with her grandchildren and having fun with them; on her 31st birthday, she will be taking her own kids to school; on her 21st birthday, she will be ________ university and will be offered a good job soon. “No,” she said, “I will be too busy ________.”

One of my greatest ________ is to be alive and present to ________ that wonderful time in the future when those letters are ________ and the accumulated (积累) love walks into her life.

1.

A．strange

B．unforgettable

C．terrible

D．natural

2.

A．arrived

B．increased

C．disappeared

D．remained

3.

A．bag

B．box

C．basket

D．pocket

4.

A．make

B．send

C．leave

D．get

5.

A．look for

B．break down

C．fill in

D．take out

6.

A．sweet

B．short

C．magical

D．painful

7.

A．While

B．Once

C．Before

D．Unless

8.

A．business

B．thank-you

C．Christmas

D．birthday

9.

A．courage

B．hope

C．love

D．art

10.

A．peace

B．friendship

C．record

D．impression

11.

A．writing

B．posting

C．receiving

D．answering

12.

A．older

B．stronger

C．cleverer

D．wilder

13.

A．early

B．special

C．separate

D．difficult

14.

A．school

B．family

C．past

D．future

15.

A．arguing

B．meeting

C．playing

D．sleeping

16.

A．studying at

B．going to

C．teaching at

D．graduating from

17.

A．reading

B．working

C．cooking

D．learning

18.

A．worries

B．abilities

C．successes

D．wishes

19.

A．make

B．enjoy

C．remember

D．tell

20.

A．hidden

B．shown

C．opened

D．burnt

4 . Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline (衰退) when they reach middle age.

The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power (供血动力) with age.

“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells (细胞) that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process (衰老过程).”

What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.

“This gender (性别) difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.

They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, concentrating on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.

The team will have to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.

The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.

1. The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _________.

A．health

B．effect

C．ageing

D．long life

2. According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _________.

A．the female heart loses few of the cells with age

B．women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat

C．women have more cells than men when they are born

D．women never lose their pumping power with age

3. The text mainly talks about ________.

A．men’s heart cells	B．hearts and long life
C．the gender difference	D．women’s ageing process

4. We can know from the passage that _______.

A．the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out

B．the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss

C．scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells

D．women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20

5 . After receiving several complaints (投诉) from the customers, the owner of an Italian restaurant in Mooresville, North Carolina, has taken the decision to forbid(禁止) children under the age of five. Although facing criticism in social media, he says that business has grown greatly.

The owner describes his restaurant as a traditional and wonderful restaurant, but young children cry, scream or play on iPads at full volume (音量). It disturbs other customers and clearly doesn’t fit in too well in a wonderful meal. So the owner, Pasquale Caruso, set up a “no child under five” rule in January 2020.

“Some customers complain, get up and leave because children are bothering them, and the parents are doing nothing,” Caruso told the newspaper. “It starts to feel like it isn’t the Caruso’s anymore, that it’s a local pizzeria instead." Caruso added that he didn’t like taking this kind of decision, but in the end, he had to do what was best for his business. Since then, people have been voicing their opinions on the restaurant’ s unofficial Facebook page.

“You have forbidden small children. Then who are the next: blacks, Jews, native people? Shame on you!” one Facebook user called John commented. But for every critical comment, there are some that congratulate Caruso’s for taking such a brave decision. “Thank you for taking a stand,” some people wrote on its Facebook page.

“I’m the parent of 5. Don’t bring little ones to a nice restaurant or expect them to quietly sit still for an hour. They CAN NOT DO IT,” one person posted. Caruso said the online support for his controversial (有争议的) rule is reflected in the success of his business. The number of customers has risen from 50 a day to around 80.

1. The controversial rule of the Italian restaurant is that ________.

A．he doesn’t accept complaints from customers

B．children under 5 are forbidden in this restaurant

C．customers cannot come in with their iPads

D．a child area will be built in the restaurant

2. According to the passage, young children in Caruso’s restaurant always ________.

A．do their homework	B．eat pizzas from other shops
C．make a lot of noises	D．talk with their parents in a low voice

3. What’s the result of Caruso’ s rule?

A．Most of people go against his behavior.

B．His restaurant gets into trouble.

C．He has to stop his rule at once.

D．There are more customers than before.

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

A．A strange restaurant in Italy

B．The trouble from young parents

C．Pasquale Caruso’s brave decision

D．The impolite behavior in restaurants

7 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误, 每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除: 把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改: 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起)不计分。

My name is Jane. I want be a journalist. Journalists have to be very independently, and they need many different skill. They especially need to communicate well with people, what I believe I’m good at. Also I liked travelling and doing challenging things. I think work for a newspaper and reporting from all over the world are really exciting. My parents think being a journalist is the dangerous job, but I’m not scared of. I like taking risks. I know I won’t make many money and bringing news to people around the world will be enough.

8 . Alcohol was the leading risk factor for disease and premature death in men and women between the ages of 15 and 49 worldwide in 2016, accounting for nearly one in ten deaths, according to a study published in The Lancet in 2018. “It has been known for decades that heavy drinking is bad for brain health,” said Sadie Boniface, head of research at the UK’s Institute of Alcohol Studies. While there is no such thing as a “safe” level of drinking, with increased consumption of alcohol associated with poorer brain health, according to a recent study.

In the observational study, researchers from the University of Oxford studied the relationship between the self-reported alcohol intake of some 25,000 people in the UK, and their brain scans. The researchers noted that drinking had an effect on the brain’s gray matter — regions in the brain that make up “important bits where information is processed,” according to lead author Anya Topiwala, a senior clinical researcher at Oxford.

“The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter,” Topiwala said via email. “Brain volume reduces with age and more severely with dementia (痴呆). Smaller brain volume also predicts worse performance on memory testing,” she explained. “While alcohol only made a small contribution to this (0.8%), it was a greater contribution than other ‘changeable’ risk factors,” she said, explaining that changeable risk factors are “ones you can do something about, in contrast to aging.”

The team also investigated whether certain drinking patterns, beverage types and other health conditions made a difference to the impact of alcohol on brain health. They found that there was no “safe” level of drinking — meaning that consuming any amount of alcohol was worse than not drinking it. They also found no evidence that the type of drink — such as wine, spirits or beer — affected the harm done to the brain.

However, certain characteristics, such as high blood pressure or obesity, could put people at higher risk, researchers added. So we shouldn’t forget alcohol affects all parts of the body and there are multiple health risks.

1. How was the observational study developed?

A．By comparing brain and health.

B．By comparing people and the researchers.

C．By comparing information and gray matter.

D．By comparing alcohol intake and brain scans.

2. What is the result of the research?

A．Drinking wine have no impact on brain.

B．Drinking spirits have more impact on brain.

C．Drinking alcohol can cause reducing of brain volume.

D．Drinking alcohol can lead to obesity.

3. Which of the following groups has a higher risk when drinking alcohol?

A．People drinking more types.	B．People with high blood pressure.
C．People selling the wine.	D．People with diabetes.

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

A．Stay Away From Alcohol	B．Lack of Sleep
C．Consumer Health	D．Keep-fit Exercise

10 . Jessica Long, from Baltimore, Maryland, USA is a champion by all definitions of the word. She is one of the world’s most decorated swimmers. Jessica was the youngest athlete to win a Paralympics (残奥会) medal. But her path to becoming a champion has been anything but easy.

Jessica was born in Irkutsk, Russia with a severe and rare disease — fibular hemimelia (腓侧半肢畸形). This means that part of her leg bones was missing or abnormal. Because of that, her young mother placed her in a Russian orphanage (孤儿院), fearing she could not care for Jessica.

Fortunately, she was adopted by an American family when she was 13 months old. She required 25 different surgeries to help her leg condition. But unfortunately, both of her legs had to be removed when she was just 18 months old. Jessica learned to walk with artificial legs. As a child, she took to sports including gymnastics, cheerleading, ice skating, biking and rock climbing.

She began swimming at her grandparents’ house when she was 6. She started competitive swimming about 4 years later. She did really well in swimming. Shortly after she started competing, Jessica was selected as Maryland’s Female Swimmer of the Year with a Disability. Even though Jessica was annoyed with her physical limitations, she was encouraged to enter her first Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. She won three gold medals in swimming at 12! But she did not rest on her success.

Jessica has gone on to win 23 medals for Team USA at the Paralympics! While she began her career out of anger and annoyance, she now has a positive force on a mission to inspire the next generation of Paralympians! Her attitude and growth have been keys to her success. Jessica always believed she could do anything. As she says, “The only disability in life is a negative attitude.”

1. What happened to Jessica when she was a baby?

A．She was abandoned in the wild.	B．She had 25 operations on her leg.
C．She had her legs cut because of a disease.	D．She was adopted by a Russian family.

2. When did Jessica begin to receive professional swimming training?

A．At the age of 4.	B．At the age of 6.
C．At the age of 10.	D．At the age of 12.

3. What can we infer about Jessica from the text?

A．She was the youngest athlete in US history.

B．She has set a good example to Paralympians.

C．She has won 23 gold medals in Paralympics.

D．She took part in several sports in Paralympics.

4. What does the author want to tell us?

A．Difficult the first time, easy the second.

B．Never hit a man when he is down.

C．A common danger causes common action.

D．Nothing is impossible to a determined heart.