1 . Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist (打击乐器独奏演员) in spite of her disability.

“Early on I decided not to allow the ____of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began ____ piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion (酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my ____. Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the ____ and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never____me.

“My ____ was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I ____ to ‘hear ’music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can ___ the pitch of a note (音调高低) by the vibrations (振动). I feel through my body and through my ____. My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every ____ that I have.”

“I was ____ to be assessed as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had ____ this before and some teachers ___ my admission. Based on my performance, I was ____ admitted and went to ____ with the academy’s highest honors.”

“After that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I ____ and arranged a lot of musical compositions since ____ had been written specially for solo percussionists.

“I have been a soloist for over ten years. ____ the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t ____ that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be ____ by others. Follow your passion; Follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”

1.

A．conditions

B．opinions

C．actions

D．recommendations

2.

A．enjoying

B．choosing

C．taking

D．giving

3.

A．sight

B．hearing

C．touch

D．taste

4.

A．evidence

B．result

C．excuse

D．cause

5.

A．left

B．excited

C．accompanied

D．disappointed

6.

A．purpose

B．decision

C．promise

D．goal

7.

A．turned

B．learned

C．used

D．ought

8.

A．tell

B．see

C．hear

D．smell

9.

A．carefulness

B．movement

C．imagination

D．experience

10.

A．sense

B．effort

C．feeling

D．idea

11.

A．dissatisfied

B．astonished

C．determined

D．discouraged

12.

A．done

B．accepted

C．advised

D．admitted

13.

A．supported

B．followed

C．required

D．opposed

14.

A．usually

B．finally

C．possibly

D．hopefully

15.

A．study

B．research

C．graduate

D．progress

16.

A．wrote

B．translated

C．copied

D．read

17.

A．enough

B．some

C．many

D．few

18.

A．However

B．Although

C．When

D．Since

19.

A．mean

B．seem

C．conclude

D．say

20.

A．directed

B．guided

C．taught

D．limited

2 . 假定你是学生会主席李华，为了丰富校园生活，增强体质，你校将举办春季运动会。请根据提示写一篇书面通知。内容包括：
1. 举办时间和地点；
2. 比赛项目及注意事项；
3. 希望同学们积极参加。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；          
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：接力跑relay race       跳高high-jumping   
跳远long-jumping     百米跑100-meter race                                      

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3 . 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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改：在错词下划一横线，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。

It was quiet, sunny afternoon. I was sitting in the garden, reading the Sunday newspaper and expected a couple of hour of peace. Then I hear a loud knock on the door. I saw about twelve ladies wearing her Sunday clothes. They said, “Well, we hope we are not late, so it is not easy to find your house.” One lady said, “Well, your husband is very kind to invite us to tea.” I thought, “My God, my husband must have been mad.” I asked for them into the house and they sat down and started talking happy. But when my husband appeared, it was quickly discovered that they could have gone to the house on the another side of the street.

5 . 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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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。

When studied in elementary school, I talked to a better friend about volunteering. I was sorry to hear she has never volunteered before. More surprising, several days later I was told that opportunity to volunteer was not easy to get for other classmates either. Then I came up with an idea, this was to organize one volunteer opportunity a month at school. Other kids would make a difference through simple act of service if I could offer situations to teach them the importance of giving back. However, I presented my idea to our headmaster. To his great happiness, it was recognized. It started as one project in a small classroom, and eventually was turned out a success in my whole school.

6 . 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。

China     1     (be) the largest producer and consumer of watermelons in the world since 2018. And Wu Mingzhu, 92 years old now, is the unsung hero who has helped make this possible. It’s no exaggeration to say that about 80 percent of the watermelons     2     (serve) at people’s dining tables every day are the result of painstaking efforts made by Wu and her team over more than 60 years.

Admitted to Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing in the late 1940s, Wu is an alumnus (校友) of Yuan Longping, the “father of hybrid rice”. After two years of application setbacks, Wu succeeded in     3     (realize) her dream of starting her career in Xinjiang in 1955. Since then, she has devoted     4     (she) to breeding sweet melons.

Wu’s efforts to grow quality melons began paying off in 1973,     5    she set up an offseason breeding base in tropical Hainan. Shuttling between Xinjiang and Hainan     6     (annual) for many years , Wu cultivated more than 20,000 of China’s new seed     7     (variety) through offseason breeding.

Wu’s contribution has won her many praises. She became     8    academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999 and an honorary citizen of Sanya in 2004. In addition, growers affectionately (亲切地) call her the “Queen of Melons”.

Now suffering from Alzheimer’s (阿兹海默) disease, Wu is often     9     (able) to recognize her former colleagues or even her family members. However, the memory of her melon work     10     (remain) in her mind.

7 . Pooja Rani entered the boxing area at age 18 all thanks to her coach Sanjay Kumar. However, even with much _______, Pooja felt shy to wear the boxing gloves. She also knew that her father would not _______ her taking up this “violent” sport. But Pooja went after her interest_______ anyway until one day when _______ came to her father — he discovered the truth and stopped her playing the sport. “My father wasn’t _______ of boxing because he thought it violent. He didn’t _______ me playing other sports but boxing was a _______ no-go zone,” Pooja said. It then took six months of continuous _______ from Pooja and her coach Sanjay to _______ her father to change his attitude.

She won the National Youth Boxing Championship (锦标赛) in 2009, which ________ her career on an upward path. In 2012, she ________ two silver medals at the Asian Boxing Championship and the Arafura Games. Later, she acquired a gold medal at the South Asian Games in 2016, thus making her ________ for the Rio Olympics that year.

Unstoppable as she was, her wins came to a ________ for some reason. During that time, she was ________ by many people. It took her a whole year to get back on ________ with their assistance. And what a comeback! Pooja ________ in an impressive way, winning back-to-back gold medals at the Asian Boxing Championship in 2019 and 2021. This ________ her to be the first woman boxer to ________ the title. Given the long and ________ road she took to get here, for us, Pooja is ________ the “queen of boxing”.

1.

A．attention

B．guidance

C．assistance

D．encouragement

2.

A．approve of

B．go over

C．take in

D．turn up

3.

A．at will

B．in secret

C．at ease

D．in person

4.

A．word

B．warning

C．reward

D．praise

5.

A．confident

B．hopeful

C．fond

D．certain

6.

A．leave

B．favor

C．keep

D．mind

7.

A．common

B．strict

C．severe

D．vital

8.

A．discussions

B．demands

C．efforts

D．quarrels

9.

A．convince

B．remind

C．advise

D．force

10.

A．pushed

B．threw

C．knocked

D．beat

11.

A．missed

B．bagged

C．expected

D．targeted

12.

A．anxious

B．celebrated

C．qualified

D．ready

13.

A．pause

B．point

C．head

D．close

14.

A．forgotten

B．backed

C．questioned

D．approached

15.

A．stage

B．board

C．show

D．track

16.

A．recovered

B．responded

C．returned

D．recalled

17.

A．prepared

B．inspired

C．urged

D．enabled

18.

A．desire

B．earn

C．deserve

D．accept

19.

A．even

B．broad

C．winding

D．steep

20.

A．generally

B．obviously

C．merely

D．truly

8 . In the digital age, opportunities are arising for everyone. However, only those putting plans into action can stay ahead. Alexandr Wang is one such example.

Los Alamos National Laboratory was where Alexandr spent his childhood. Both his parents were physicists there. Alexandr, from a young age, had a sharp mind. As a kid, he was regarded as a math wizard (奇才) and competed in national math and computer competitions. Finishing high school, Alexandr entered MIT where machine learning and AI amazed him. He saw the potential (潜力) of AI, and was excited about how it could change the world. But it wasn’t making a real impact. His ambition to set up a company in that field was seeded then.

At 17, he got the role of tech lead at Quora and dropped out of MIT. “I told my parents it was just going to be a thing I did for the summer. Obviously, it wasn’t,” Alexandr said. Surely, his parents were disappointed. They all knew he made that change filled with unexpected risks. But Alexandr said, “If you aren’t willing to take a risk now, then when?” Alexandr met Lucy Guo at Quora, with whom Alexandr founded Scale AI, which turned out to be a considerable success.

In fact, at that time, there were various opportunities in the tech world. It was hard to decide which road they should go down. Then he and his team decided to take a different approach — instead of following diverse paths, they agreed to focus on one. They went with “imagery, computer vision and other kinds of sensor data”. And that is what made the company’s profits rise quickly. Scale AI has a net worth of about $7.3 billion at present, with Alexandr being the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.

When asked lessons he’d like to share with founders, Alexandr stated there are a number of things. “The top one is always doing things that go with your values and how you want to build a company at the beginning. When you talk to investors (投资者), they’ll contribute advice that may go against your goal. Figure out your focus and what gets you started.”

1. What inspired Alexandr to build Scale AI?

A．The work at Quora.	B．His experiences at university.
C．The influence of his parents.	D．His talent for math and computer.

2. What is mainly talked about in paragraph 4?

A．The key to the success of Scale AI.	B．Challenges of Alexandr’s career.
C．Alexandr’s great achievements.	D．The process of founding Scale AI.

3. What did Alexandr advise founders to do?

A．Stick to one particular direction.	B．Keep an open mind on suggestions.
C．Remain true to the original intention.	D．Find a friend to start a company.

4. Which of the following can best describe Alexandr?

A．Clever and generous.	B．Courageous and outgoing.
C．Ambitious and sociable.	D．Adventurous and determined.