1 . 语法填空

Mount Wuyi lies at the junction (交叉点) of Fujian and Jiangxi Provinces. It is among     1     first group of China’s top tourist cities. In December 1999, Mount Wuyi     2     (list) as World Heritage-Mixed Property by UNESCO.

With rich tourism     3    resource), Mount Wuyi is a famous tea center in China. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046—771 BC), it was well known     4     a place of interest. It has a species-rich ecosystem, with 2,527 kinds of plant species     5     about 5,000 species of wild animals. Mount Wuyi belongs to the typical Danxia landform. Except for the     6     (amaze) Danxia landform here, the Daoism culture and tea culture also attract tourists at home and abroad,     7     (especial) those coining from Singapore and Malaysia.

The Mount Wuyi scenic area     8     (be) quite large. Attractions in the mountain are dotted(布满的) and the distance between each other is quite long. It is not recommended     9     (visit) all the sites in the mountain, but some main attractions. With the ticket, you can reach all the attractions,     10     (include) Tianyou Peak, Wuyi Palace, Dahongpao Scenic Area, Shuilian Cave, etc.

2 . A team of researchers from several institutions in the UK and one in Estonia has created a type of buoy(浮标)that has proven to be effective at frightening seabirds, thus preventing them from getting caught in gillnets - a type of vertical fishing net that is made of a material that makes it nearly invisible underwater.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of seabirds die when they get caught in gillnets. Some estimates suggest that up to a half-million birds are caught in them each year. Over the years, researchers have created devices to prevent the birds from trying to catch fish near or in gillnets, but those didn’t work well.

To find a way that would work for all seabirds, the researchers first studied seabirds in a general sense, looking to find things that they would avoid. They noted that seabirds avoided eye contact with other creatures. Then the researchers came up with a simple idea - they put a small pole to a regular buoy and then attached a pair of googly eyes(金鱼眼) to the top of it. They made the eyes big enough so that even birds with poor eyesight, such as geese, would see them. Adding to the effectiveness of the device, waves made the eyes move back and forth. And the wind made the buoy spin very slowly, making sure that birds from every direction would get a good look at the eyes.

To test their idea, the researchers selected several sites near gillnets and counted how many birds approached and how many attempted to catch fish near the nets. They then set up their googly-eyed buoys and once again counted birds. Over the course of 62 days, they found the number of birds that tried to catch fish near the gillnets dropped by approximately 25% for a distance of up to 50 meters. They also found that the birds were less likely to fish near where the buoys had been for up to three weeks after they had been removed.

1. What is the function of Paragraph 2?

A．Introducing a new topic to discuss.

B．Providing background information.

C．Summarizing the previous paragraph.

D．Pointing out the main idea of the text.

2. Why did the researchers make the googly eyes big?

A．To clearly observe seabirds’ eye contact.

B．To ensure all the seabirds can see them.

C．To effectively identify the right direction.

D．To allow them to survive the strong wind.

3. What does the researchers’ test result mainly suggest?

A．The new device still needs improving.

B．Gillnets are a death valley for seabirds.

C．The googly-eyed buoy proves effective.

D．Seabirds hardly catch fish near the nets.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．A device keeping seabirds safe from gillnets.

B．A way to help seabirds catch fish effectively.

C．A googly-eyed buoy guiding seabirds to hunt.

D．A group of researchers interested in seabirds.

3 . 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。

Tom brought a box of biscuits to a summer camp, he ate a few and placed the rest under his bed. After lunch, he found the box was     1     (go). He went to tell his camp coach about it.

The next day, the coach saw a boy     2     (eat) Tom’s biscuit behind a tree. He came up with an idea     3     (solve) the problem. He found Tom and said to him, “I know who took away your biscuits. Will you help me to teach him     4     lesson?” “Well, yes,...are you going to punish him, sir?” Tom asked. “No, I am not.” The coach explained     5     (patient). That would only make him hate you. I want you to write to your mother and ask for more     6     (biscuit).

Tom received another box of biscuits by mail from his mother a few days later. “Now” said the coach. “Go and share them with the boy who stole your biscuit.”. Tom didn’t understand that the coach’s intention,     7     he still followed his    8     (advise). Half an hour later the coach saw the two boys come up the hill, arm in arm. The boy was trying to ask Tom to accept his toy robot in payment for the     9     (steal) biscuits. And Tom was refusing the gift from his new friend, he said that a few biscuits were not so     10     (importance).

In some situations. Forgiveness is better than punishment.

4 . 假定你是李华，你校将举办一年一度的校园科技展(School Science Fair)，请给邻校的留学生朋友Tom写封邮件，邀请他参加。内容包括：
1. 发出邀请；
2. 活动时间和地点；
3. 活动内容。
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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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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。

Chinese agronomist (农业科学家) Yuan Longping, the “father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻)”, died of an illness at 1:07 p.m. on Saturday at the age of 91.

    1     a serious nationwide starvation (饥荒) in the 1960s,Yuan,decided to devote     2     (he)to studying how to increase the production of rice, the main food of China. Yuan     3     (succeed) in developing the world's first high-yielding hybrid rice in 1973,     4     production could reach over 500kg per mu. For the following years, he continued to develop hybrid rice, achieving     5     (increase) higher outputs than before. On September 29, 2019, Yuan     6     (award) the “Medal of the Republic”, the highest honor in the country, for his outstanding     7     (contribute) to China's agricultural development and food supply. In 2020, hybrid rice     8     (develop) by Yuan’s team achieved a new world record.

Yuan once said he had two dreams: one was to “enjoy the cool breeze under rice crops     9     (tall) than men,” and the other was that “hybrid rice could be grown all over     10     world to help solve global food shortage.

Professor Yuan’s devotion to China and the world will inspire us to value food and try our best to serve our country.

8 . When Kirk Alexander went missing for 11 days, an unlikely savior came to his rescue: his neighborhood pizza store.

Almost every night for more than ten years. Kirk Alexander, 48, of Salem, Oregon ordered a late dinner from his local Domino’s pizza store. He had no signature order. Sometimes he would call for a salad, sometimes a pie, sometimes chicken wings. The only sure thing for the staff of the Silverton Road Domino’s was that they would see Alexander’s name show up on their online ordering site sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight several times a week.

Until suddenly, for nearly two weeks at the end of April 2016, they didn’t.

It was a slow Saturday night on May 7th when Domino’s general manager Sarah Fuller felt she could no longer ignore Alexander’s recent absence.

“I went and looked up to see how long it had been since he last ordered,” Fuller told KATU.com. It was 11 days, which was not like him at all.

Fuller knew Alexander worked from home, and neighbors said he rarely left. She also knew that he had suffered some health issues in the past. Something, Fuller worried, was wrong.

Around 1 a.m. on Sunday, May 8, Fuller sent longtime delivery driver Tracey Hamblen to stop in at Alexander’s home. Hamblen approached Alexander’s door as he had countless times before and knocked. He could plainly see that Alexander’s TV set was on, as were his lights; but after several minutes, Alexander still didn’t answer the door.

Hamblen rushed back to the store to relay the upsetting developments to Fuller. She encouraged Hamblen to dial 911. Soon, officers were on their way.

When deputies from the Marion County Sheriff’s office arrived at Alexander’s house, they heard a man calling for help from inside the residence, deputies said. They broke the door down, and found Alexander on the floor in need of immediate medical attention. One day later, and they might have been too late.

Alexander was rushed to Salem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition shortly after the dramatic rescue. In the following weeks, Fuller, Hamblen, and other store employees went to visit him with flowers and cards, noting that Alexander greeted them with knowing smiles.

1. How did Fuller sense that something was wrong?

A．She knew Alexander had serious health problems.

B．Alexander hadn’t ordered chicken wings for nearly 2 weeks.

C．Alexander had never broken his routine in the store for 10 years.

D．Alexander had disappeared from the store’s ordering system for about 2 weeks.

2. What does the underlined word mean in the eighth paragraph?

A．Convey.

B．Emphasize.

C．Complain.

D．Share.

3. In which column of a newspaper will you probably read this article?

A．Life.

B．Technology.

C．Healthy.

D．Entertainment.

4. Which of the following saying can we learn from the story?

A．Born in distress (忧患), die in peace.

B．Details determine success or failure.

C．Even the wise are not always free from error.

D．Better late than never.

9 . Have you ever got the thought or feeling that you’re being watched? Well, guess what? You might be right.

According to a study published in Nature on June 23, astronomers have found that 1,715 stars have had a direct view of Earth since humans have been here.

In order to do this, scientists used a previous method that looked for life on other planets. But instead, they changed the method so it could try to determine what places could see us.

The team looked at 331,312 stars within 326 light-years of Earth, with each light-year equaling 9.4 trillion kilometers. Out of all those stars, only 1,715 of them could see Earth within the last 5,000 years, with an extra 319 stars that will be able to see us in the next 5,000 years.

“When I look up at the sky, it looks a little bit friendlier because it’s like, maybe somebody is waving,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute (研究所) at Cornell University, US, and the study’s lead writer.

If a planet circling around one of those 1,715 stars is home to advanced life, they could easily see that there is life here because of the oxygen on Earth. If that didn’t give it away, then the radio waves we have sent out into space would also be an indicator (标志). In fact, human-made radio waves have already traveled through 75 of the closest stars on Kaltenegger’s list.

Why haven’t we heard from anyone yet, then?

It takes a long time for messages to travel between star systems. By the time a message could be received, that advanced civilization (文明) would probably not exist anymore.

Alan Boss, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in the US who wasn’t part of the study, wrote in an email that this long time would limit the chances for different life to exchange “emails and TikTok videos”.

“So we should not expect aliens to show up anytime soon,” Boss said.

1. Which word can best describe Lisa Kalteneggers’ attitude towards the sky that he looked up at?

A．Objective

B．Indifferent

C．Critical

D．Positive.

2. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 6 refer to?

A．The oxygen on Earth.	B．Human-made radio waves.
C．Advanced life in other planets.	D．A planet circling around one of those 1,715 stars.

3. What could prevent humans from exchanging messages with aliens according to Boss?

A．Aliens don’t exist.	B．They cannot understand each other.
C．It takes a long time for messages to travel.	D．Human-made radio waves cannot travel far.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To present new findings published in a study.

B．To raise readers’ interest in aliens and the universe.

C．To discuss if there is advanced life on other stars.

D．To explain how messages travel between different star systems.