1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

After winning a precious silver medal at the 2006 Turin(都灵) Winter Olympics, pairs skater Zhang Dan became a household name in China and    1    (continue) to work in the sport since retiring from competition.

With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics    2     (draw) near, the country is starting    3    exciting newera in its winter sports journey, of which Zhang Dan feels surely proud.

“    4    (final), this year, we have this wonderful opportunity    5    (host) the Beijing Winter Olympics. As a part of the Chinese ice and snow sports community, I’m so proud and excited to welcome the    6    (arrive) of Beijing 2022. I have witnessed China’s winter sports go from strength to strength through the years,” said Zhang Dan.

The most memorable moment of Zhang Dan’s career could     7    (consider) a perfect representation of the Olympic spirit.

Partnering with Zhang Hao at the 2006 Turin Games, Zhang Dan injured     8    (she) in a fall as the pair narrowly failed to do a quadruple salchow (四周抛跳), a jump    9    had never before been landed in competition. Rather than quitting, however, Zhang Dan skated through the pain to finish the program and won the silver medal.

Zhang Dan notes that experience has had a huge influence     10    her life. encouraging her to “be braver and directly face any difficulties with that Olympic spirit”. Now she hopes her story can inspire China’s young athletes at Beijing 2022.

2 . The Covid-19 pandemic has forced millions of us to participate in one of the biggest social experiments of our time: what would happen if office workers largely abandoned their workplaces and began working from home?    1    

One thing seems clear: more people working remotely has brought some benefits for the environment. Wildlife has be enable to reclaim urban spaces while people have been tapping away at their home keyboards, with less commuter (通勤者) traffic.

    2    The major benefits of home working include people having more flexibility to do jobs around their family, and balance exercise and leisure time, thus being able to wear whatever they like, controlling their own heating and lighting and not having to commute.

Many people have also been able to get more done while working remotely.    3     “There used to be a lot of resistance to working from home because managers thought employees would just go of off and watch soap operas, but there’s a lot more trust now,” says Sue Williamson at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia.

    4    Many people forced to work from home have reported feeling isolated and finding it harder to switch off due to the unclear boundary between work and home life.    5    This is probably because it’s hard to get those accidental conversations between people that spark ideas when everyone is physically separated.

As vaccines help to control Covid-19, many organizations are hoping to reap the best of both worlds by letting employees work from home on some days and travel to the office on others.

A．But what about the benefits to people?

B．More than 2 years in, it is time to reflect.

C．After a severe period, there is no turning back.

D．However, the experiment hasn’t been all positive.

E．It is time to reset and rethink how we actually work.

F．Many managers have also reported declines in innovation.

G．The productivity level is found to rise as they work from home.

3 . One New Year’s Day, ecologist Rob Wolton came up with an unusual resolution—to spend the next 12 months studying a hedge(树篱) 40 metres from his house in the middle of Devon. He wanted to make a list of every plant, animal and fungus(真菌)that used it. After a year of observations he had found 2, 000 species—far more than he imagined. Wolton says he enjoyed it hugely and his findings contribute to the growing body of evidence that hedges should not be overlooked.

“There is increasing recognition that much of the wildlife finds shelter in the hedges. But they’re much more than just wildlife passages—they are really important as habitats in their own right,” he says. The European commission’s Joint Research Centre recently argued that as the climate crisis worsens, hedges are expected to play more roles as they move in response to environmental change. Their deep roots help sequester carbon(固碳), and they also reduce the likelihood of flooding downstream, suck nutrients and pollutants out of water, and prevent soil loss. Alongside these functions, there is a cultural benefit to hedges too—I think lots of us who live in England think of the hedge landscape as being quite typical, says Wolton.

After the Second World War many hedges were removed to create more productive land. Only about one in three hedges in England are in good condition, according to the most recent research done in 2017.

The main issues are hedges being cut too severely and too frequently, which leads to loss of wildlife and gaps. A squirrel, for example, will turnaround if there is a gap of five metres. New hedges are being planted with single species, instead of many, which decrease the wildlife they can support.

It’s hard to say if interest in hedges will translate into action on a national scale，and much depends on what landscape features Environmental Land Management scheme.

1. What is the significance of Wolton’s study of the hedge?

A．It makes Wolton’s resolution come true.

B．It shows Wolton’s fondness of the hedge.

C．It indicates the important role of the hedge.

D．It points out the number of animals and plants.

2. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A．Hedges provide home for wildlife.

B．Hedges are used to fight climate crisis.

C．Hedges area typical symbol of England.

D．Hedges have advantages in different aspects.

3. Why does the author mention “A squirrel” in Paragraph 4?

A．To show the diversity of wildlife in hedges.

B．To explain the bad effect of gaps in hedges.

C．To call for more species of plants in hedges.

D．To present what the loss of wildlife is like.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．The favorable policy on hedges is undecided.

B．Public attention in hedges will be intensified.

C．A national scale protection is soon underway.

D．Environmental Land Management will fund hedges.

4 . 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。

Sacrificing Hair for a Friend

My seven-year-old daughter Sue looked frightened with tears in her eyes. In front of her was a bowl of medicine, which tasted so bitter. “Sue, why don’t you take the medicine? Just for Dad’s sake, dear.” Sue softened a bit. “Dad, if I take the medicine, will you give me whatever I ask for?” “Oh sure, darling.” I replied. “Promise?” “Promise.”

Slowly and painfully, she finished taking the medicine and then looked at me with her eyes wide with expectation. “Dad, I want to have my head shaved off, this Sunday!”

“A girl child having her head shaved off? Why don’t you ask for something else? We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven head,” I said. “I do not want anything else,” Sue said with finality. “Dad, you promised to give me whatever I ask for. Was it not you who told me a story yesterday, and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?”

I had to give in.

On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school. It was a sight to watch my daughter walking towards her classroom with her head clean-shaven. She turned around and waved. I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy got out of a car, and shouted, “Sue, please wait for me!”

What struck me was the hairless head of that boy. Then a lady got out of the car, and said to me, “Sir, that boy is my son Mike, and your daughter visited him last week. Mike is suffering from leukemia. He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy. He refused to come back to school for fear that he would be made fun of by the schoolmates.”

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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
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“Your daughter is great indeed!” the lady continued.

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Sue’s story spread quickly and soon many other children showed their care for Mike in various ways.

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5 . 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。

Confucius once said: “Studying and guiding my students will never tire me.” He would be more than glad to know that 2,500 years later his ideas     1    (spread) worldwide and even been translated into other languages.

Ben Giaimo,     2     is an international student from Chicago, is now pursuing a master’s degree at Shaanxi Normal University. Majoring in ancient Chinese philosophy and literature, he     3    (attract) by ancient Chinese culture, especially Lunyu, a book by Confucius,     4     ancient Chinese educator and philosopher.

While     5    (read) the book Lunyu, Ben found that Confucius is like one of his old friends, Santa Claus.

“Confucius brings wisdom, and he brings wisdom to everyone who is a     6    (true) good person. And Santa brings presents to everyone who is nice and respectful,” Ben explained.

“So I took this whole book     7     translated all of it into English, into words that people can understand,” he said. From time to time, Ben would turn to his Chinese roommate to discuss whether he had made a proper     8    (translate).

“America and China are two big     9    (power) in the world now. They need to work together and better understand each other     10    (benefit) from each other,” said Ben. “It’ll be a really big impact on the whole world.”

6 . While I was in our garden yesterday morning. I saw a little newborn bird that appeared to have just fallen from a tree. I was amazed at how tiny it was, with its little ________ open and looking all around. So I ________ and it just stayed there in my hand and opened its mouth really wide. “Oh yes, it’s ________,” I said to myself. So I fed it with some tiny pieces of bread. Although I couldn’t see any physical ________ of injury, it was obvious that it was hurt. I took the bird into the house and took care of it, hour after hour. I just wanted it to get ________ and reunite with its parents.

This morning, as soon as the bird ________ my hand on its little head, it opened its mouth so wide. It amazed me how it would ________ outside and then look for me. It was the cutest thing ever! I haven’t been so ________ for months. I spoke to it and told it that it was meant to fly and be free, not to be ________ behind or hurt by humans or animals.

Luckily, I ________ to find the nest in the garden and placed the little bird back in it. I was overjoyed to see that its parents ________ to take care of it as soon as I left.

The little bird’s presence in my life was ________. It made me melt with just one look! It was so tiny, and so ________. When it wanted food, it would try to move around and fly but couldn’t, in a way I feel the same way with ________, when you know you are supposed to be flying high and you feel stuck and just want to have a ________ to give you some hope that things will be better tomorrow.

1.

A．mouth

B．wings

C．eyes

D．feathers

2.

A．put it down

B．took it in

C．got it back

D．picked it up

3.

A．hungry

B．tired

C．lonely

D．scared

4.

A．sign

B．effect

C．reason

D．signal

5.

A．happier

B．bigger

C．faster

D．better

6.

A．remembered

B．felt

C．saw

D．needed

7.

A．fly

B．arrive

C．eat

D．look

8.

A．amused

B．puzzled

C．touched

D．inspired

9.

A．thrown

B．left

C．taken

D．moved

10.

A．managed

B．intended

C．continued

D．decided

11.

A．came

B．waited

C．stopped

D．offered

12.

A．common

B．unexpected

C．great

D．strange

13.

A．helpful

B．alive

C．clever

D．careful

14.

A．health

B．knowledge

C．nature

D．life

15.

A．strong body

B．helping hand

C．kind heart

D．warm smile

7 . Blood: Water Mission

Blood: Water Mission is founded by the Grammy Award-winning band, Jars of Clay.     1     And Blood: Water Mission is one of them with a mission to help communities to fight against the HIV/AIDS and water crisis.

    2     So Blood: Water Mission has launched the 1,000 Wells Project as a nationwide movement to raise enough money to provide clean water to 1,000 communities in Africa based on the equation (公式) that $1 provides one African with clean water for an entire year.     3     It includes a variety of clean water solutions and sanitation (卫生) training, as well as funding health clinics, which help in the prevention, treatment, care and support of communities affected by AIDS.

The results of our efforts paint a new picture in these communities. There has been a remarkable improvement in the water situation and community health.     4     Women and children no longer walk several miles a day to get water. Village leaders have the resources and training to bring sanitation and healthcare into their communities. Water-related diseases have disappeared. Those with AIDS are living longer lives.

    5     In the process, we learn about how AIDS affects African communities. By connecting with the people in Africa, we are developing social responsibility. In the meanwhile, Blood: Water Mission’s movement engages Americans in social justice and thoughtful action.

It’s a beautiful story. We invite you to be a small part of a larger, beautiful story.

A．Clean water wells have been built.

B．Most children get the opportunity to go to school.

C．There is a vital link between HIV/AIDS and clean water.

D．Meanwhile, the 1,000 Wells Project has expanded along the way.

E．Blood: Water Mission has also created social effects in the United States.

F．Blood: Water Mission has developed a close friendship with these communities.

G．There are many projects providing much-needed assistance to African communities.

8 . Chinese speakers have got a new thing to be proud of. The language they are speaking is more difficult than English.

Understanding Chinese requires both sides of the brain, but English speakers listen with only half their minds on the job, UK scientists say.

UK psychologist Sophie Scott and researchers from hospitals in Oxford and London performed brain scans on volunteers as they listened to their native languages. When English speakers heard the sound of their language, the left parts of their brains lit up on screen. When Chinese speakers heard their native tongue, there was an action in both the right and left sides.

“We were very surprised to discover that people who speak different sorts of languages use their brains to decode speech in different ways.” said Scott.

The left side is normally connected with putting sounds together into words; the right with processing melody (音调) in music and speech, so this part “lights up” when English speakers hear music. The researchers do not yet know whether the right side is active in English speakers when they hear Chinese.

In Chinese, a different intonation (语调) delivers a different meaning, the syllable (音节) “ma”, for instance, can mean mother, hemp (麻), horse or scold according to its musical sound.

“Speech really is a complex sound,” said Scott. “As well as understanding words, the brain uses the way in which words are spoken, such as intonation and melody, to turn spoken language into meaning.”

“We think Chinese speakers interpret intonation and melody in the right sides of their brains to give correct meaning to the spoken words.”

The study suggests that language itself might affect the way the brain develops in a young child. It could explain why native speakers of English find it so extraordinary hard to learn Chinese.

1. What does the underlined “volunteers” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Chinese speakers.	B．English speakers.
C．People who speak different languages.	D．Researchers and Chinese and English speakers.

2. Which can best explain why understanding Chinese requires both sides of the brain?

A．Music.	B．Meanings.
C．Intonation and melody.	D．The way the brain develops.

3. Why do native English speakers find it hard to learn Chinese?

A．The left sides of their brains are not used for language.

B．They can hardly understand words when there is music.

C．The right sides of their brains are never used in childhood.

D．They can hardly understand words in the right side of the brain.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．How the Brain Responds to Music

B．How the Brain Responds to Chinese

C．The Brain Responds to Languages Differently

D．The Two Sides of the Brain Work Differently

9 . When drawing scientists. U. S. children now depict (描画) female scientists more often than ever, according to new Northwestern University research, which has analyzed five decades of “Draw-A-Scientist” studies conducted since the 1960s.

This change suggests that children’s stereotypes (刻板印象) linking science with men have weakened over time, said the researchers, consistent with more women becoming scientists and children’s media depicting more female scientists on television shows and other media.

In the first study, conducted between 1968 and 1979, less than one percent of 5,000 children drew an image resembling a woman when asked to draw a scientist. Almost all their artwork depicted men working with laboratory equipment, often with lab coats, glasses and facial hair.

But in later studies (1988 to 2019), 28 percent of children drew a female scientist, on average. In addition, both girls and boys drew female scientists more often over time, though girls overall drew female scientists much more often than boys.

“Our results suggest that children’s stereotypes change as women’s and men’s roles change in society.” said study lead author David Miller. “Children still draw more male than female scientists, but that is expected because women remain a minority in several science fields.”

The researchers also studied how children form stereotypes about scientists across child development. The results suggested children did not associate science with men until grade school; around age 5, they drew roughly equal percentages of male and female scientists. During elementary and middle school, the tendency to draw male scientists increased strongly with age. Older children were also more likely to draw scientists with lab coats and glasses, suggesting that children learn other stereotypes as they mature.

“These changes across children’s age likely reflect that children’s exposure to male scientists accumulates during development, even in recent years.” said Miller.

“To build on cultural changes, teachers and parents should present children with multiple examples of female scientists across many contexts such as science courses, television shows and informal conversations,” Miller said.

1. What is the change in children drawing scientists?

A．Children draw more male scientists.

B．Children draw more female scientists.

C．Girls draw more scientists than boys.

D．Children draw more female than male scientists.

2. What does Miller think of children drawing more male scientists than female scientists?

A．It’s not surprising.	B．It’s not reasonable.
C．It’s unexpected.	D．It’s not acceptable.

3. What does paragraph 6 mainly talk about?

A．How children develop their drawings.

B．How children’s stereotypes change with age.

C．Why children draw more male scientists.

D．What scientists look like in children’s drawings.

4. According to Miller, how can we make children draw more female scientists?

A．By encouraging children to attend science courses.

B．By encouraging children to become scientists in the future.

C．By giving children an example of drawing female scientists.

D．By making female scientists known to children in various situations.

10 . Lunch hour is crazy at SAME Café, the restaurant my husband, Brad, and I run in Denver.

One day a woman dressed in a business outfit (套装) stepped in. “Hi, Libby.” she said. I recognized her. The first time she came two years ago, she had no money to pay for a meal. No problem. Like many customers, she volunteered to work. After her meal, she washed dishes. Look at her now. I stole a glance at Brad, in the kitchen. Wasn’t this what we’d hoped for?

In 2015, on a flight home from Texas, we’d hatched this crazy dream. We’d both done a lot of volunteering at soup kitchens. It was something we felt called to do, feeding the poor.

“I wish we could start our own place,” I said. “No cash register (收银机). Just a donation box on the counter.”

“Why don’t we?” Brad said.

It would be a charity, but we didn’t want our diners to think of it as a charity. “If they can’t pay.” Brad said, “they can help wash dishes or sweep the floor. We must treat people with dignity.”

Our first customer was a woman in her forties. She told me she was recently divorced and she and her two kids had no place of their own. “Could I have a salad?” she asked. I brought her a plate of greens with fresh fruit and nuts. Her eyes grew wide. “These are the first fresh vegetables I’ve had in four months,” she exclaimed. That alone made our struggles to open the café worth it.

SAME is short for our belief: So All May Eat. Customers came for Brad’s cooking. But they also liked what our café stood for.

“What do I owe you?” one customer asked. “Whatever you think the meal’s worth,” I said, “and whatever you can afford.” Most customers gave what they could, even if it was just a dollar.

Something was different about the woman that day. Something besides her outfit. She stopped at the counter and ordered greens with sun-dried tomatoes, and a ham and pineapple pizza

“I have something to tell you.” she said. “The last time I was here, I started talking to a woman I’d met here before. She said. ‘There’s an opening in my office. Why don’t you come in and apply?” I did—I got the job!” I knew what was different about her—confidence.

She opened her purse. “I can pay now. How can I ever thank you?”

“You just did,” I said.

1. What did the author and her husband do at soup kitchens in Texas?

A．They learned how to cook.	B．They helped feed the hungry.
C．They trained the volunteers.	D．They made a living there.

2. Which of the following best explains the underlined part “with dignity”?

A．With respect.

B．With pity.

C．With care.

D．With effort

3. What is special about SAME Café?

A．Customers can pay as they like.	B．Customers needn’t pay for a meal.
C．Customers help with charity work.	D．Customers get paid for what they do.

4. What did the author really mean when she said “You just did”?

A．The woman paid for her meal.

B．The woman expressed her thanks.

C．The woman helped to wash dishes.

D．The woman gave her what she had hoped for.