1 . Before she could react, I gave her a big hug and told her she didn’t need to keep it a secret _________ me. (用适当的词填空)

2 . The ________ doesn’t/don’t work for this kind of problems.
这种手段对这类问题不起作用。

3 . Modern zoos aim to promote animal conservation, educate people, and support further wildlife research. Staff are devoted to providing species specific housing and appropriate diets to ensure that the animals’ lives are as natural as possible within captivity (圈养).

In fact, most zoo animals have been born and bred in captivity. They have never experienced “the wild”, which many people assume is a wonderful and safe place, despite destruction of natural habits for palm oil threats from climate change or the increase in poaching.

There are two ways capturing animals helps conserve them. Zoo conservation work can be in-situ (在原处)where money: expertise and sometimes staff are provided to protect animals and their habitats in the wild. Large, charming animals such as pandas, tigers or elephants draw the crowds. These flagship species help to raise the image and funds for in-situ conservation efforts for the not so well known species

“Ex-situ” conservation, meanwhile, takes place outside of the animals’ natural habitats, usually back at the zoo and often involving international captive breeding programs. These studbooks(良种登记册) can outline suitable genetic matches for breeding, to keep a sustainable captive population of a certain species and ensure genetic variation.

In the UK a least, zoos must have a written education strategy and an active education programme.If you have been to an accredited (官方认可的) zoo recently you will have noticed they use games and technology to go way beyond these basic requirements.

Research within zoos often looks at animal behaviour or welfare helping to ensure the animals are well housed and fed. Other research investigates the impact humans have on the zoo animals from the visitor effect to the relationships which can be formed between the animals and their keepers. Research also focuses on biological functioning of animals. Much of this is work that cannot be conducted in the wild if the animals live in remote or inhospitable areas.

Overall, zoos provide opportunities to observe and engage with exotic (外国的) animals, many of which may be threatened with extinction in the wild. Seeing them up close can cause a passion for biology, conservation and the environment.

1. What do people think of “the wild”?

A．It poses a danger to humans.

B．It is perfect for large animals

C．It is an ideal habitat for animals.

D．It guarantees the safety of animals.

2. What highlights “ex-situ” conservation?

A．Saving the conservation cost.

B．Attracting more visitors to zoos.

C．Keeping a species’ population stable.

D．Changing the genes of a certain species.

3. What is Paragraph 6 mainly about?

A．How zoo keepers get along with animals.

B．How zoos can contribute to research work.

C．What researchers are expected to do in zoos.

D．Why it is difficult to carry out research in the wild.

4. What is the author’s purpose in wring the text?

A．To show zoos ways to raise animals.

B．To stress modern zoos research value.

C．To defend zoos role in protecting animals.

D．To advise zoos to release animals into the wild.

4 . Scholars have found music and language seem closely linked But how? Some similarities are obvious. Both can express emotion. And both are highly social. AI a structural level the parallel are striking too. With a limited set of notes or words, and a limited set of rules, a limitless variety of novel melodies or sentences can be created Animal communication, by contrast, is only able to convey a limited number of thoughts.

Aniruddh Patel of Tufts University has argued that music and language, rather than being essentially the same, rely on the same bit of the brain. In an experiment he presented his subjects with a sentence that contained a grammatical trick ("The scientist confirmed the hypothesis was being studied in his lab"), revealing one word at a time. The subjects were to press a button for each word at their own pace. Many pushed at the unexpected “was. "The scientist confirmed the hypothesis" seemed a complete sentence.

They also heard music as they performed this exercise. Some were treated to a new chord (和弦) in a pleasing progression with every word that was revealed. Others herd an annoying chord at the moment they reached the trick word "was". Both groups slowed down but those given the discordant(不和谐的) notes did so much more.

Another striking contrast lies in the range of human talent for each ability. Nearly all children produce complex sentences by the age of three and become fluent speakers just a few years after that. By contrast, only a minority of adults are talented musicians; even fewer are skilled composers of new works.

Victor Wooten, a music teacher, points out, children learn to talk by being constantly surrounded by fluent older speakers who are practicing with them almost from birth. Their awkward efforts are encouraged. On the other. hand, students of music often keep company with other beginners, and are stopped when having a mistake.

It is not that simple, thinks Jay Keyser, a professor of linguistics. For him, music is not like spoken prose, which almost everyone can learn without any difficulties, but instead resembles a specific form of language: poetry, whose rhythm is hard to find.

1. What is the similarity between music and language at the structural level?

A．Both have complicated structures.

B．Both have strict grammatical rules.

C．Both can form unlimited structures.

D．Both can express limited meanings.

2. What can we learn about Aniruddh Patel's experiment?

A．Different music varies greatly in the impact on people's life.

B．Appreciation of music helped them understand the sentence.

C．Understanding of the structure was not affected by the music.

D．The discordant music made the sentence structure more difficult.

3. What leads to the difference according to Victor Wooten?

A．The influence cast by those around them.

B．The age when they start to acquire the abilities.

C．The way their mistakes in learning are handled.

D．The expectations they get from those around them.

4. What does Jay Keyser want to say in the last paragraph?

A．It is difficult to compose music.

B．Language can hardly make life fun.

C．Music is not as easy to learn.

D．Music comes from spoken prose.

5 . When my father, who grew up on Tyneside, moved to the country in the 70s, he rapidly began accepting invitations to blood sports. He enjoyed the company, the sport and the hours spent out in the wild.

From about the age of eight, I was invited to accompany him on these weekend excursions, much like a child being taken to their first football matches. I was fed up with the early starts and standing around in freezing conditions, waiting for birds to be driven into the sky, to their deaths, over a line of booming guns. But I wanted to please my dad.

So years later-aged 27, I accepted an invitation to go deer hunting in Scotland with my father.

The hunting party assembled one Friday in September. The driver was also our ghillie, a tough figure whose job it was to identify elderly or weak deer that were selected for hunting and guide us to them through wind, fog and rain.

“Why are you doing this?” I kept asking myself. “What would have been wrong with a walk? Or a guided wildlife tour?”

And then, suddenly, the ghillie almost pushed me to the ground. He pointed at a cloud of fog about a hundred yards ahead. I was baffled, until the cloud lifted like a curtain to reveal-directly in front of us one of the most magnificent living creatures I have ever seen.

“Now!” the ghillie hissed in my ear. “Now’s your chance. The deer! Remember. You want to kill it, not wound it.”

I adjusted my position, focused down the scope once more and placed my finger on the trigger (扳机). And, of course, I didn’t fire. Another curtain of mist came; when it lifted, seconds later, the stag had disappeared.

But I wasn’t disappointed. I was elated. I had come — via a telescopic sight — face to face with an old but most beautiful, iconic and noble beasts of Britain, roaming free in an empty and deserted land of his kingdom.

It was moment of truth and lasting inspiration. I could never have killed that deer-not in any context, for any reason But I would, a decade Inter, write a story about him Not just one book, but four, about little boy and the stag that persuades him to help save the world’s last remaining animals The encounter with that magnificent stag changed my life And guess what-those stories did please my dad.

1. What is the writer’s inner feeling of blood sports?

A．They involve various risks.	B．They will lose popularity.
C．They are simple but pleasing.	D．They are unpleasant to deal with.

2. What does the underlined word “baffled” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．Disappointed.

B．Confused.

C．Amazed.

D．Reliable.

3. Why didn’t the writer take the shot?

A．He was struck by the elderly deer.

B．His sight was blocked by the mist.

C．The guide found the old deer was injured.

D．The deer ran away before he positioned himself.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．A miracle adventure	B．An unforgettable moment
C．Wildlife tours: a way of protection	D．Blood sports: an inspiration for stories

6 .
1. Why are pencil and paper needed?

A．To make marks on the places.	B．To compare notes with researchers.
C．To keep track of the changes.	D．To write down the survival tips.

2. How often are you advised to check the cups before the growth of mold?

A．Several times a day.	B．On a daily basis.
C．Every other day.	D．At regular intervals a month.

3. Why is leftover food kept in a refrigerator?

A．Molds can live in the dark.	B．Molds prefer warm temperature.
C．Molds are less likely to grow.	D．Molds don’t need sunlight.

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。

A video clip about harassment (骚扰) in a gill house went viral and caused nationwide outrage. The footage (片段) shows a man     1     (pass) a lady who was at a table with her friends and touched her back. He punched the lady     2     the face when she tied to stop him.    3     happened next was like a scene from a street crime movie: the girl and her friends were dragged out and beaten up, and the gang walked off     4     the police arrived. It happened at 2:10 a.m. on Friday in the city of Tangshan; by Saturday all the suspects     5     (catch) by local police.

People think the suspects may have some criminal background, and are calling for     6     (far) investigation. The anger     7     the video aroused shows how the public value justice and their concern for personal safety. What would a society come to     8     such violence were tolerated? Under public     9     (press), the local authority acted swiftly. But     10     remains to be seen whether public violence can be rooted out in this northern city.

8 . In life, there’re a mass of choices we have to make. What we choose may ________ our destiny (命运). Therefore, it’s ________ to make the right choice at stake. To tell the truth, we should do many things about making a _______ choice, but I believe the two ________ I’ll mention are the most significant.

Firstly, we’d better think about and compare the positive and ________ sides of specific objects and get the one whose ________ are more than that of the other or the one which is more ________ for us. The process is like choosing a person between two ________ for a job. the relevant qualities such as previous work experience, academic record in college will be ________, and then naturally, you’ll ________ the most qualified candidate for the job.

Secondly, we also ________ observe objective both on short terms and on ________ terms. Take hunting for a job as an example, when we think about different kinds of ________, we should not only take the short-term salary or treatment into ________ but also we should see the employee training and promotion so that we can learn a lot and have a ________ development in the future through hard work. There’s also an example. It often takes ________ for a start-up to begin an undertaking (事业) in the beginning. It seems that he doesn’t make a good choice. ________, he may become a successful businessman after ________ for years and solving problems in the way.

All in all, whenever we face ________, it’s wise that we not only select the option with more ________ but also see objects on long terms, and then make a choice finally.

1.

A．cause

B．destroy

C．predict

D．decide

2.

A．comfortable

B．constant

C．believable

D．important

3.

A．stupid

B．clever

C．tough

D．noble

4.

A．factors

B．topics

C．bonuses

D．paragraphs

5.

A．necessary

B．normal

C．negative

D．mistaken

6.

A．disadvantages

B．advantages

C．possibilities

D．interests

7.

A．active

B．suitable

C．optimistic

D．natural

8.

A．candidates

B．athletes

C．choices

D．talents

9.

A．insured

B．charged

C．judged

D．guided

10.

A．reject

B．choose

C．praise

D．appoint

11.

A．had better

B．rather than

C．prefer to

D．tend to

12.

A．long

B．professional

C．secondary

D．remote

13.

A．tasks

B．occasions

C．jobs

D．conditions

14.

A．timetable

B．sheet

C．account

D．chart

15.

A．upset

B．flexible

C．comprehensive

D．promising

16.

A．risks

B．measures

C．spirits

D．wisdoms

17.

A．Anyway

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Afterwards

18.

A．studying

B．persisting

C．hesitating

D．considering

19.

A．challenges

B．persons

C．attitudes

D．options

20.

A．effects

B．incomes

C．desires

D．benefits

9 . 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 China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced on April 16 that the Shenzhou-13 return capsule    1    (complete) touchdown at the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desert, northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, marking the full success of the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceflight mission.

The Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft    2    (launch) from the country’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on October 16, 2021, then docked with Tianhe core module. Three astronauts entered the core module and stayed for six months,    3    (set) a new record for Chinese astronauts’    4    (long) stay in orbit. During their time aboard, the astronauts executed two successful spacewalks    5    carried out a range of scientific experiments and technological tests.    6    (take) advantage of the mission gaps, the trio (三人小组) also conducted two space lectures for students on Earth and a series of unique popular science education and cultural communication    7    (activity).

The complete success of the Shenzhou-13 manned mission marks the completion of the key technology verification stage of the China Space Station,    8    will soon be followed by the construction stage. Hao Chun, head of the CMSA, said that    9    construction of the China Space Station is divided into two stages — the key technology verification stage and the construction stage —    10    six missions planned respectively.

10 . How Old Mascara Wands Can Help Wildlife

When injured and orphaned animals are found by wildlife rehabbers (野生动物康复者), they often need baths and can be covered in all sorts of unwanted pests. Opossums, squirrels, rabbits, and owls all need lots of care.    1    .

One refuge (庇护所) in North Carolina found an innovative way to use discarded mascara wands (丢弃的睫毛膏刷棒) to clean the coats of these rescued animals.    2    .

Appalachian Wildlife Refuge, a nonprofit wildlife sanctuary (庇护所) in North Carolina, began asking people to donate used mascara wands so they can be used to help care for animals. And a nonprofit “Wands for Wildlife” took off in 2017 when wildlife rehabilitator and the refuge's co-founder Savannah Trantham posted on her Facebook page asking for used wands. “Did you know something as simple as an old mascara wand can help wildlife?    3    . They work great because the bristles (刷毛) are so close together!” she wrote.    4    . Since then, the refuge has received hundreds of thousands of wands from every state in the U.S. and from places around the world.

If you'd like to donate, clean old mascara wands in warm, soapy water, then mail them to “Wands for Wildlife”.     5    . Instead, you can help in other ways by collecting them from family and friends, by contributing to the refuge's wish list, or by making a financial donation.

A．We use mascara brushes to help remove fly eggs and bugs from the fur of the rescued animals

B．The post was shared tens of thousands of times

C．It can be painstaking to pick fly eggs and bugs out of the coats of tiny animals as they're being bathed

D．The refuge immediately received package after package filled with wands

E．If you don't have mascara wands, the refuge asks that you don't buy news ones

F．By collecting used wands, we extend the life of a disposable plastic item

G．Because the wands make quick work of the task plus it repurposes an item that would've ended up in a landfill