1 . Every boy and every girl expects their parents to give them more pocket money. Why do their parents just give them a certain amount?     1    

The amount of money that parents give to their children to spend as they wish differs from family to family.     2     Some children get weekly pocket money. Others get monthly pocket money.

First of all, children are expected to make a choice between spending and saving. Then parents should make the children understand what is expected to pay for with the money. At first, some young children may spend all of the money soon after they receive it. Parents are usually advised not to offer more money until it is the right time.     3    

In order to encourage their children to do some housework, some parents give pocket money if the children help around the home. Some experts think it not wise to pay the children for doing that.     4    

Pocket money can give children a chance to experience the three things they can do with the money. They can spend it by giving it to a good cause. They can spend it by buying things they want.     5     Saving helps children understand that costly goals require sacrifice. Saving can also open the door to future saving and investing for children.

A．They can save it for future use.

B．Timing is another consideration.

C．As helping at home is a normal part of family life.

D．Some children are not good at managing their pocket money.

E．Learning how to get money is very important for every child.

F．One main purpose is to let kids learn how to manage their own money.

G．By doing so, these children will learn that spending must be done with a budget (预算).

2 . 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

I am a proud mother of three children, my last little one being delivered in the middle of this pandemic (疫情). She was born in August and her name is Aida.

Shortly after having Aida, my mother-in-law Ann showed me something she learned from her friend’s mother in an art class she attended weekly, She had showed me how to knit (编织) a scarf.

I spent a lot of time breastfeeding my sweet little girl, so I had some extra time to do something with my hands throughout the day. I enjoyed making the scarf so I purchased tons of yarn (线) since it was winter. I wanted to make scarves for my three children as Christmas gifts.

There was a new family that moved in down the street. The only daughter of the family was Jane, a shy girl, aged 14, the same age of my oldest son David. It seemed that she came from a financially disadvantaged family, for she always wore old clothes. Worse still, in such cold days, she had no more clothes to wear and trembled with cold.

Due to the pandemic, society was thrown into crisis mode. Schools were closed, food supplies and deliveries were suspended and children were stuck at home. In such discouraging time, however, they became good companions, talking and playing at home or around the houses.

It was dreadfully cold this winter. Every time David came back from outside, with red face, he always cried, “Mum, it is freezing outside!” Then, he came over to see whether I finished the scarf. I could tell how impatient he was to wear my scarf sooner! I had to speed the project to satisfy his expectation. But David comforted me by saying he could wait a few days. What a kind and considerate boy he was! Then my great art project finally was accomplished on the morning ahead of Christmas.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150词左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语己为你写好。
Paragraph 1: I wrapped the scarf around David’s neck.
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Paragraph 2: Later that day David came back saying Jane also deserved a scarf.
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4 . Endangered polar bears are breeding (繁殖) with grizzly bears (灰熊), creating “pizzly” bears, which is being driven by climate change, scientists say.

As the world warms and Arctic sea ice thins, starving polar bears are being forced ever further south, where they meet grizzlies, whose ranges are expanding northwards. And with that growing contact between the two come increasing hybrids (杂交种).

With characteristics that could give the hybrids an advantage in warming northern habitats, some scientists guess that they could be here to stay. “Usually, hybrids aren’t better suited to their environments than their parents, but these hybrids are able to search for a broader range of food sources,” Larisa DeSantis, an associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, told Live Science.

The rise of “pizzly” bears appears with polar bears’ decline: their numbers are estimated to decrease by more than 30% in the next 30 years. This sudden fall is linked partly to “pizzly” bears taking up polar bears’ ranges, where they outcompete them, but also to polar bears’ highly specialized diets.

“Polar bears mainly consumed soft foods even during the Medieval Warm Period, a previous period of rapid warming,” DeSantis said, referring to fat meals such as seals. “Although all of these starving polar bears are trying to find alternative food sources, like seabird eggs, it could be a tipping point for their survival.” Actually, the calories they gain from these sources do not balance out those they burn from searching for them. This could result in a habitat ready for the hybrids to move in and take over, leading to a loss in biodiversity if polar bears are replaced.

“We’re having massive impacts with climate change on species,” DeSantis said. “The polar bear is telling us how bad things are. In some sense, “pizzly” bears could be a sad but necessary compromise given current warming trends.”

1. Why do polar bears move further south?

A．To create hybrids.	B．To expand territory.
C．To relieve hunger.	D．To contact grizzlies.

2. What makes “pizzly” bears adapt to natural surroundings better than their parents?

A．Broader habitats.	B．More food options.
C．Climate preference.	D．Improved breeding ability.

3. What does the underlined phrase “a tipping point” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A．A rare chance.	B．A critical stage.
C．A positive factor.	D．A constant change.

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A．Polar bears are changing diets for climate change.

B．Polar bears have already adjusted to climate change.

C．“Pizzly” bears are on the rise because of global warming.

D．“Pizzly”bears have replaced polar bears for global warming.

6 . 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。

A little girl with crystal blue eyes was walking up slowly to a house. The house was not new, in fact, it was shabby. The girl had heard of the owner of the house, a weird old man, who seldom came out. If he ever came out, he would not say hello to his neighbors but just glared at them. “If it were not for the school magazine to be sold…” she sighed. Now she was in front of the door. Pausing for a moment, she lifted her hand and knocked on the door gently. No answer. “Stay away from that house.” Her parents’warning rang in her ears.

Dusk found the girl lingering on and hesitating what to do. As she was ready to walk away, the door slowly opened. “What do you want?” the old man said impatiently. The little girl was very afraid but she had a quota (份额) to meet for school with selling the magazines. So she got up the courage and said, “Uh, sir, I am selling these magazines and uh, I was wondering if you would like to buy one from me.”The old man just stared at the girl without a word. The girl could see inside the old man’s house and saw that he had dog figurines (小雕像) on the fireplace mantle (白炽罩). “Do you collect dogs?” The little girl asked. “Yes, I have many collections in my house. They are my family here and they are all I have.” The girl then felt sorry for the man, as it seemed that he was a very lonely soul.

“Well, I do have a magazine here for collectors. It is perfect for you. I also have one about dogs since you like dogs so much.” the old man was ready to close the door on the girl and said, “No, girl. I don’t need any magazines of any kind, now goodbye.”

The little girl was sad that she was not going to make her quota with the sale. She was also sad for the old man being so alone in the house that he owned. The girl went home and then had an idea. She had a little dog figurine that she got some years ago from an aunt. The figurine did not mean nearly as much to her since she had a real live dog and a large family.

继写要求
1. 所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The little girl headed back down to the old mans house.

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From that day on something changed inside the old man.

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8 . It is inevitable that we come across problems in our daily life in school. They may be relationship problems or difficulty with our study.     1     As long as you are breathing, the problems can be settled.

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Firstly, it is important to have a good idea of the problem. Knowing the problem means solving half the problem itself. Following questions like why, what, how, when, where and who will help you find the root cause of the problem.

Analyze the problem.

By analyzing the problem, you will be given time to think of a proper solution.     3     They can be diagrams (饼状图), flowcharts or lists and so on.

Plan a strategy.

Planning a strategy will help you waste less energy and time in attempting all the solutions.     4     In this way, you can abandon the strategy that you don’t find worthy to apply.

Delete irrelevant information.

Leave out the information that is not required for the solving of the problem. You need to be accurate with the details. Keep the unrelated information can sometimes complicate the simple problems as we tend to overlook the important information.

Carry out the solution.

Putting the solution into effect in a correct way to get the result expected is important while solving a problem. You need to be creative while actualizing a solution just in case some other problem arises while applying the solution.     5    

A．Use yes or no questions to get better information.

B．Being ready with alternatives is also important for fear that a solution works only halfway.

C．Be aware of the problem.

D．As a consequence, you will benefit from simple problems.

E．Don’t worry.

F．This step includes knowing the weaknesses and strengths of employing a solution.

G．You can use various tools to study the problems.

9 . Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic (极端的) experiment of Fredrick in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent. All the infants (婴儿) died before the first year. But clearly there was more than a lack of language here. What was also missing was good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously influenced.

Today no such serious lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. However, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again.

Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence (顺序) and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and utters vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple conmmands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from his parents’in style rather than grammar.

Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with the brain of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy-bear with the sound pattern “teddy-bear”, and even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language for the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.

But speech has to be induced and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother   recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling (含糊不清地说) and smiling, and is sensitive to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.

1. As for Frederick’s experiment, we may know that _____.

A．the infants in it lived only over a year

B．there was absolutely no difference between food and language for the infants

C．the infants in it died because there was not any sound

D．the death of the infants was not merely due to an absence of language

2. The reason why some children are backward in speaking is most likely that ______.

A．they are not able to learn language rapidly

B．they are exposed to too much language at once

C．their mothers respond inadequately to their attempts to speak

D．their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them

3. The underlined words “be induced” in the last paragraph probably means ______.

A．be encouraged

B．be forced

C．be banned

D．be monitored

4. Which of the following is NOT implied in the passage?

A．The ability of speech is inborn in man.

B．A child starting to speak later than others may not necessarily be backward.

C．Most children learn their language in definite stages.

D．Children may dull their mother through interaction.