1 . Born in New York in 1918, scientist Gertrude B. Elion had an impressive career, during which she developed medicines to cure many major diseases. Elion spent her early youth in Manhattan. She attended senior high school and had, in her words, an unbelievable thirst for knowledge.

Influenced by the death of her grandfather, who died of cancer, Elion entered Hunter College at the age of 15 and graduated in chemistry at the age of 19. She had difficulty finding employment after graduation because many laboratories refused to hire women chemists. She found a part-time job as a lab assistant and went back to school at New York University. Elion worked as a high school teacher for a few years after finishing work on her master’s degree.

The start of World War II created more opportunities for women. At the age of 26, Elion was able to get a job at Burroughs Welcome, where she began a 40-year partnership with Dr. George H. Hitchings. Her thirst for knowledge impressed Dr. Hitchings, and he permitted her to take on more responsibility.

Elion and Hitchings set out on a course of creating medicines by studying the chemical composition of diseased cells. Rather than relying on old trial-and-error methods, they used the differences in biochemistry between normal human cells and pathogens(病原体)to design medicines. In all, Elion obtained 45 patents on medicine and was awarded 23 honorary degrees.

In 1988, Elion received the Nobel Prize for Medicine, together with George H. Hlitchings and Sir James Black. She received other awards for her work, including the National Medal of Science in 1991, and that same year, she became the first woman to be absorbed into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 1997, she was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award.

1. What can we say about Elion as a high school student?

A．She had a satisfying part-time job.

B．She had a strong desire for learning.

C．She had a gift for chemistry at high school.

D．She made great achievements in chemistry.

2. Why did Elion choose to study chemistry at college?

A．To meet her grandfather’s wish.

B．To find a good job after graduation.

C．To create medicines to cure diseases.

D．To be a chemistry teacher in the future.

3. When did Elion started working for Burroughs Welcome?

A．In 1944.

B．In 1937.

C．In 1933.

D．In 1984.

4. What does the author mainly tell us about Elion in the last paragraph?

A．Her later life.	B．Her contributions.
C．Her interest in chemistry.	D．Her honors.

2 . 假定你是李华，你校外教Mr Smith要求你总结开学以来你的英语学习情况。请你就此写一篇短文，内容包括：
1.知识收获（词汇、语法等）；
2.能力的提高（听、说、读、写等）；
3.今后英语学习的打算。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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。

Last Saturday afternoon we take part in a voluntary activity called “Clean Home”, which was organizing by our school. We got to the People’s Square in our town but then handed out leaflets to passers-by to remind them of the importance of protect the environment and cleaning their homes. The leaflets were used to calling on people to start with ourselves. Some students made out public speeches to tell people to take action immediate. All of us really learned lot from the voluntary activity and it offered us an opportunity to make some differences to the society.

4 . 假定你是李华，交换生Peter受邀参加中国朋友的生日聚会，特向你打听合适的生日礼物。请你用英语给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1.推荐礼物；
2.阐述理由；
3.提醒他准时到达。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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6 . Habitat loss, pesticides (农药) and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insects species are declining (减少) globally and that a third of them are endangered.

And while it may sound nice to live in a world with fewer bad insects, environmental writer Oliver Milman says that human beings would be in big trouble without insects. That’s because insects play important roles in pollinating (给……授粉) plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other larger animals—including humans—rely upon.

“It would be an extremely terrible place to live in—and certainly not something we should ever aim for,” Milman says of an insect-free existence. “You would certainly have mass starvation and social unrest... It’d be a place where there would be smelly waste and dead bodies everywhere because insects that break down those materials would be gone.”

Milman charts the troubling decline of insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. He says that while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening with every insect species in the world, the overall trends are not good: The butterfly population in North America has declined quickly in the past 40 years, for example, and a U. N. assessment done in 2019 found that half a million insect species are under threat of extinction, some in the coming decades.

“The world, our surroundings, would be far quieter, far duller without insects,” he says. “When you start kind of digging down into these figures looking at the research, it’s clear that there’s something seriously wrong... There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.”

1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about insects?

A．Their importance.	B．Their classification.
C．Their food chain.	D．Their population.

2. What can be inferred about Milman’s new book?

A．It tells what’s happening with all insect species.

B．It describes the worrying decline of insects.

C．It shows half a million butterfly species will be in danger of extinction.

D．It explains why the number of butterflies in South America has increased.

3. What is the author’s attitude to the decline of insect population?

A．Positive.

B．Worried.

C．Unconcerned.

D．Doubtful.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The introduction of the endangered insects.

B．The ways of increasing insects’ population.

C．The effects of the declining insects’ population.

D．The reasons of threatening insects’ population.

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处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及-个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号( Ʌ),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- -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- -词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last year, I went to Hainan Island with my friends and stay there for two days. Hainan Island, a beautiful tourist attraction, located on the south of China, is well know for its beautiful blue sea and pleasant beaches with golden sands. On the first day, they went to the seaside and hiked here. It was so exciting for me to walking on the sands, leaving me some unforgettable memory. On the second day, we had some local food but sweet fresh juice. We spent that night in a tent, which was made us happy. In a word, we had good holiday on Hainan Island.

9 . When she was 2 years old, Blosberg’s dad was diagnosed (诊断) with a serious illness that disrupts the central nervous system — MS (多发性硬化症). But 13 years later, her eyes started moving around rapidly and uncontrollably and her skin became extremely sensitive. The symptoms she was experiencing felt “familiar” because they really looked a lot like the things that her dad was experiencing.

After Blosberg was officially diagnosed with MS in 2011, she realized she needed to connect with other teenagers who had MS and truly understood what she was going through. “I knew there had to be other kids out there, and I wanted to connect with them,” she says. Blosberg then decided to create a Facebook page for young people with MS and obtained the help of the National MS Society. “If you find anyone else young, let me know,” Blosberg recalls saying to the organization. “I want to talk to them. I want them to know that they’re not alone.”

MS is often considered “an adult illness”. Blosberg’s Facebook page was her way of bringing young people with MS together. But she decided to take things one step further by founding a nonprofit, the MS Monkey, that supports children and teenagers who have been diagnosed with the illness. Through it all, Blosberg says her entire family has been proud of her — especially her father. “He knows what it’s like to live with MS,” she shares. “He’s my role model, though. I grew up watching him live with MS and not let MS get in the way.”

1. What can we know about Blosberg?

A．She had difficulty in her study.	B．She was diagnosed with an illness.
C．She helped her dad out of trouble.	D．She followed his father’s dream.

2. Why did Blosberg create a Facebook page?

A．To advertise the National MS Society.

B．To record her experience to fight against MS.

C．To call for more volunteers like her father.

D．To connect more young people with MS.

3. Which of the following can best describe Blosberg?

A．Outgoing and humorous.	B．Open-minded and generous.
C．Warm-hearted and strong-willed.	D．Determined and energetic.

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

A．No one has to fight alone	B．A common illness
C．My dad and I	D．A charity for treating MS