1 . 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。

A delicate pottery-making video went viral on popular video sharing app TikTok,     1     (attract) more than 45 million views and 4.2 million likes overseas, leading to the     2     (popular) of the craftsman     3     made the miniature ceramics (微型陶瓷) with his fingertips, bamboo sticks and tweezers.

Wang Wenhua, a post-80s ceramicist in Jingdezhen, who     4     (produce) miniature ceramics for more than five years, says he will proceed to develop the craft.     5     (learn) through lectures at a university, he established his own studio making medium and large-sized porcelains.

This business experience gave him the chance to shift his focus to the creation of miniature ceramics because he    6     (believe) traditional pottery doesn’t     7     (easy) grab people’s attention in the modern world.

In 2018, Wang Wenhua     8     (register) his own account on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok,     9     uploaded videos of his manufacturing process. The videos soon became viral online, with the most popular viewed more than 10 million times in China. His videos also earned him a reputation overseas. On TikTok, his videos     10     (receive) over 120 million clicks, likes and comments till now.

2 . 2022年10月1日，特斯拉(Tesla)的CEO埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)公布了该公司的第一个人形机器人(humanoid robot)原型。舞台上的机器人以缓慢的速度挥手，做简单的舞蹈动作。该公司还展示了一些机器人做其他任务的视频片段，比如搬箱子、给植物浇水。
请你以此为英语课课前演讲的主题，演讲内容包括：
1.简述Elon Musk的人形机器人新闻；
2.简述人工智能发展带来的利与弊。
注意：词数应为80左右；请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Hello everyone.

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That’s all. Thank you.

3 . Some little boys are addicted to Legos. Others can’t get enough of dinosaurs. But it is Blackpool Tower in England that has captured one 6-year-old’s imagination.

The Blackpool Tower was built in 1894. It is twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in NYC. Now Charlie Barratt has achieved his dream by becoming the voice of the attraction’s lift (电梯). Charlie did a project about the tower at school, recording his own version of the lift’s existing speech. In the voice-over, Charlie welcomes visitors to the attraction. He also offers interesting facts about the tower. One of his teachers contacted Kenny Mew, the tower’s operation manager, and told him about Charlie’s love for the 518-foot (157 meter) structure.

Mew told BBC Radio Lancashire, “His school reached out to me and said they had this young boy who was passionate about Blackpool Tower and had actually recorded the lift speech and I was thinking to myself: how’s he done that? I played it back and he had the speech word for word that we’d had recorded already in the lift and it just sounded amazing. And we thought we were going to give Charlie the opportunity to do it. He was absolutely brilliant. He’s done an amazing job, and we’re really proud of what he’s done.”

Charlie was then invited into a professional recording studio to perform his version and his mum, Wendy, is as thrilled as he is. She told the BBC, “He adores the tower.” Wendy first took Charlie to visit the tower when he was a baby. She said he loved it “from the minute he can walk”.

Now Charlie is the voice of the attraction’s lift. As well as the lift, there are plans in progress for Charlie to lend his voice to other areas in the future.

1. Why does the author mention other boys in the first paragraph?

A．To imply that Blackpool Tower is better than Legos and dinosaurs.

B．To highlight that Charlie Barratt has a unique passion.

C．To indicate that Charlie Barratt cannot get along with other boys.

D．To criticize other boys who fail to achieve their dreams.

2. What can we know about Blackpool Tower?

A．It did not have a lift speech until Charlie made one.

B．Its manager attempted to find a boy to record lift speech.

C．It is now using Charlie’s remade recording in its lift.

D．It is the highest tower in England with interesting facts.

3. Why did Charlie record the voice-over for Blackpool Tower on his own?

A．His mother Wendy inspired him.

B．His teacher encouraged him to do so.

C．He had a strong interest in Blackpool Tower.

D．He decided to attract more tourists to it.

4. Which words can better describe Charlie?

A．Passionate and unselfish.

B．Hard-working and persuasive.

C．Promising and kind.

D．Enthusiastic and committed.

4 . When I was eight years old, my father left us. Mom tried her best to _________ the three of us. Our electricity often got shut off and I’d take myself to a grocery store, staring at all the stuff we couldn’t _________.

At age 15 I got a job at McDonald’s. To keep myself _________, I’d turn each customer moment into an 11-second mini performance. I had a gift for mimicry (模仿). I would _________ the actors I watched on TV and the customers would laugh, which made me feel _________.

Two years later, I left and made my way to Hollywood. I _________ as an assistant for a talent manager. Then I became an agent. But a voice said, “Don’t you think you should be an _________ too?” I’d say it was difficult to _________ a good job for the uncertain rewards of being a performer. _________, after recalling my mom’s toughness, I decided to fulfill my ____________.

But it wasn’t an easy road. Sometimes I got parts but eventually found my scenes were cut. Once, I had only 81 cents when driving to the final screen test for a new show This Is Us. ____________, my phone rang. It was the producer of the show. “You’re our Kate,” he said. It was completely beyond ____________.

This Is Us turns out to be ____________. People recognize me in the street. Some people call me an overnight star. But I don’t think so. Success doesn’t happen by chance. It takes ____________ in the right direction. There are more ____________ during the journey than most people can imagine.

1.

A．control

B．applaud

C．raise

D．accept

2.

A．make

B．afford

C．abuse

D．supply

3.

A．prepared

B．occupied

C．informed

D．amused

4.

A．imitate

B．consult

C．watch

D．trap

5.

A．stressed

B．familiar

C．good

D．embarrassed

6.

A．reached

B．continued

C．finished

D．started

7.

A．adult

B．actor

C．organizer

D．educator

8.

A．give up

B．look for

C．take up

D．apply for

9.

A．Therefore

B．Moreover

C．Nevertheless

D．Otherwise

10.

A．duty

B．promise

C．job

D．dream

11.

A．Honestly

B．Fortunately

C．Gradually

D．Purposefully

12.

A．expectation

B．recognition

C．capacity

D．question

13.

A．special

B．fresh

C．different

D．successful

14.

A．actions

B．ideas

C．facts

D．feelings

15.

A．choices

B．results

C．failures

D．experiences

5 . How to be more organized

You’re in danger of missing a deadline, your important files are never where you thought they were, and it’s a lottery (彩票) whether you’ll even have clean clothes to wear tomorrow! Sound familiar? You can lose a great deal of time to disorganization. The more you can live and work in an organized way, the sooner you’ll change your habits for the better.     1    .

Celebrate small wins. For example, if you complete three things on your to-do list, treat yourself to a cup of coffee, or allow yourself 10 minutes of free time.

Use one calendar. If you record some things on your desk planner, and others on your email calendar, it’s going to be hard to organize everything.     2    . If you do it digitally, you’ll find that the technology can pull everything together for you.

Schedule small tasks. If a task or project requires action beforehand (like sending out an agenda before a meeting), make sure that you schedule those into your day, too.     3    .

Get organized at home. Don’t just restrict your organized approach to work.     4    . Declutter (简化) where you live to make mornings easier. Plan your whole day carefully. And talk to the people you live with, so that they know how they can help.

    5    . Whether you’re prioritizing your professional tasks for the week, or mapping out your family commitments, think about how to make every second count. Try to delete low-value tasks where you can to make time for what’s really important.

A．Put a high value on your time.

B．Strike a balance between your work and life.

C．Here are five everyday strategies worth trying.

D．A chaotic home life will bring its own problems.

E．Instead, you should start putting it all in one place.

F．Missing small jobs can have big knock-on effects on everything else.

G．For some people, a paper notebook is still the best way to stay in control of plans.

6 . 选择划线词(组)最恰当的释义项，或划线词语义相近词的句子
1. “Out-With Camp,” he continued, stumbling over the name as usual. “June nineteen fory.”

A．I stumbled through the piano piece with difficulty.

B．He had stumbled down and torn the skin from his knees.

C．I stumbled along in the dark, trusting to luck to find the right door.

D．He stumbled and fell backwards into the water.

2. Bruno scrunched up his face, not sure that he had heard the little boy right.

A．held up

B．lifted up

C．choked up

D．wrinkled up

3. Sometimes they’d offer the information themselves and sometimes they wouldn’t stop talking about it for months on end, but on this occasion Bruno thought that he should wait before saying anything.

A．freely

B．casually

C．continuously

D．enthusiastically

7 . 词组填空

find one’s way into       bring sth to light       keep sth in perspective fall victim to       at the expense of       at the forefront of

1. Many of the poisons in e-waste have ________________ the environment.
2. To ________________ things ________________, it’s important to consider the good news as well as the bad.
3. His fame was bought ________________ health and happiness.

8 . 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.

After six hours of fishing, John Franklin and his sister Jane were ready to call it a day. It was 7 pm. The summer sun was setting, and the fishes had stopped biting. But Jane’s 12-year-old son Conrad was having so much fun that he begged “Let’s do just one more run,” Since the mild weather was holding out, why not? John turned the boat around and headed back.

Yet, you never knew. They hadn’t even cast their lines when the wind picked up suddenly. Rough waves began battling against the little boat. “Check your life jackets and hold the boat!” John shouted, As Jane and her son were on the point of screaming, two big waves rolled over, one right after the other. Within a few seconds, the boat tipped(倾斜). Backward and turned over, throwing three of them into the water.

Out of the worst, the luckiest thing was that they had life jackets on and the boat didn’t sink immediately. Everyone grabbed onto it. “Let’s get back in the boat, Mommy,” Conrad cried, trembling with fear.

“Don’t panic. People know we’re out here,” Jane comforted him. “They’ll send help soon.”

Treading(踩) the water, the adults exchanged worried looks. They were floating in the middle of nowhere. “I knew we were in a tight spot,” said John, a third-generation commercial fisherman who, like Jane, had been raised on the bay.

When a strong wind blew through about half an hour with no sign of dying down, they had to make some decisions. It had been a perfect July day, with the water at a temperate 20 degrees centigrade, but everyone was cold by 9 pm.

If they weren’t rescued soon, they might not survive the night, John recognized, but the closest shoreline was about three miles away, starred by only a few glowing house lights.

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.
Looking at the lights in the distance, John asked his sister in a low voice, “Should I do it?”
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About three hours later, John reached the shoreline and saw the house in lights.
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9 . 假如你是学校新闻社School News的记者,你们学校上周五举行了每年一届的校运会,请为此写一篇英文报道。内容包括:
1. 运动会概况；
2. 典型事迹；
3. 反响和作用。
注意: 1.词数80左右。
2. 标题已给出,不计算在词数内。
3. 不得出现学校名字和学生姓名。

Annual sports meeting, a complete success

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10 . 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.

The ability to think critically is important. Imagine a person incapable of critical thinking: this would be someone     1     suggestible that he or she takes every commercial’s advice to rush out and buy the product     2     (advertise), and finds every politician convincing (令人信服的). Obviously, few people are that weak. Yet while     3     (become) suspicious (怀疑的) of what we’re told by people who want to sell us something is a useful skill, it isn’t enough. We     4     (constant) encounter claims in news stories, books, and articles; from radio, television, and online personalities; in blog posts, pod casts, downloaded     5     (video), and social media. How are we to evaluate all these claims? How can we separate ones that probably can be accepted as true from those that we should doubt? People have different standards for making these judgments. One popular standard throughout history     6     (be) to assume that we already know what is true.

Instead of simply assuming that we already know what is true, critical thinking required that we consider the     7     (possible) that our assumptions might be wrong. At bottom, critical thinking is about evidence. Evidence is information that can help us judge whether     8     claim is true. When we hear a claim, we ought to evaluate the evidence for and     9     it. The claim may be about something small and personal (“I love your hair in that style”)     10     aimed at a much larger audience (today’s top news story). It doesn’t matter. Thinking critically involves examining the evidence for a claim and deciding whether it is convincing.