1 . 随着岁月的流逝，他越发能理解大自然带来的充满诗意的快乐。(passage, poetic) （汉译英）

2 . 善于观察的人们往往更容易对一些事件做出归纳总结。(make generalizations about) （汉译英）

3 . 每当遇到令我感兴趣的项目时，我总是不自觉地加班加点，废寝忘食。(engage) （汉译英）

4 . 通过实时检测，研究人员能够跟进海洋的快速变化。(keep pace with) （汉译英）

5 . 这本书一经出版，就被批评家们誉为杰出的文学作品。(acclaim)（汉译英）

6 . Whether you’re an introvert or extrovert, quiet or loud, one of the keys to success in every area of your life is learning how to be more confident. Here are some things that can help you become more self-confident!

Train your brain.     1     Instead of immediately assuming you can’t accomplish something, believe you have what it takes to figure it out. Like Marie Forleo always says, “Everything is figureoutable.”

Watch your words. Whether you realize it or not, the words you speak shape your beliefs about yourself and what others believe about you.     2     The act of gossiping and putting others down always comes from a place of insecurity, so if you catch yourself wanting to say something sarcastic, redirect those thoughts to something better.

    3     In her research, social psychologist Amy Cuddy found that confident people have higher levels of testosterone and that people’s levels of testosterone can rise simply by exhibiting a “high power pose.” We’ve all heard the phrase “Fake it till you make it,” but Amy took this a step further and said, “Fake it till you become it.”

Be secure. Being secure in who you are means that, although you might make a mistake or fail, you know you’re not a failure.    4    

Get experience. Nothing builds self-confidence like experience. After you’ve done: the thing once you’ve led the company meeting, published your first blog, or coached your first client-your confidence in your ability to do it again will soar.     5    

A．Stay positive.

B．Change your body language.

C．That also goes for what we speak about others.

D．Just do it, and watch your confidence take off.

E．You have the power to be more confident within yourself.

F．You can learn how to be more confident in your mind.

G．It means someone might disagree with you, but it doesn’t shake you up.

7 . Shanghai became the first city in China to restrict the use of loudspeakers and consumption of food & drink on its subway system onDec. 1, 2020. And similar restrictions to the city’s buses took effect on Dec. 28, 2021.     1    So far, they have won positive feedback and great support. On Sina Weibo, a man wrote, “These restrictions have promoted a clean and sound transportation environment.     2    And we seldom hear people playing loud music which used to disturb other passengers a lot.”

    3     One said in a comment posted online, “A small part of passengers still play out their videos loud without immediate management”.

Others suggested more specific measures should be included in the regulations. “The staff in charge and their phone numbers are made public on buses.     4    ” said Duan Yue, a Shanghai office worker.

There are some new policies benefiting all the citizens. Portable electric bicycles and live animals are strictly banned.     5     In addition, two children under 1.3 meters tall can travel free of charge when accompanied by an adult.

A．Few people litter in buses or subway in our city.

B．The types of banned drink & food are also clarified to the masses.

C．However, some netizens questioned how the regulations will be enforced.

D．Some office workers have limited time for meals especially in the morning.

E．Therefore, some residents called for such restrictions in the whole country.

F．Besides, elderly and disabled people can enjoy more conveniences when taking rides.

G．Both aim to increase passenger comfort and reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

8 . Batman may not have any superpowers, but his inspiration certainly does.

More than 1,400 bat species live around the world, except in Antarctica and a few remote islands. Over their 50 million years of evolution, bats have developed clever solutions to life’s challenges, from a built-in sonar (声呐) system for finding food to fast, flexible wings that produce the fastest level-flight speed of any animal on Earth.

“There is still a lot to learn, but it is clear that bats really do have superpowers,” says Rodrigo Medellín, an ecologist. “Bats are showing us how to live a better life, for instance, by serving as models for healthy living and long lives.”

As a general rule in biology, smaller animals have shorter lives than larger ones. But bats are rule breakers: they’re the longest-lived mammals (哺乳动物) relative to their body size. Recently, scientists looked inside bats’ cells for the secrets to their exceptionally long lives. They focused on telomeres (端粒), which are the protective structures found at the ends of chromosomes (染色体). In most animals, telomeres tend to get shorter with age. But the telomeres of the longest-lived group of bats, Myotis, do not appear to shrink (收缩) with age. Understanding why bats live so long may help humans live longer one day.

In addition to living longer, bats remain healthy throughout their lives, with very low risk of developing cancer. Furthermore, bats can carry deadly viruses without getting sick. So further research into their unique immune (免疫的) systems may actually give insight into how people can live with viruses and not get sick.

Beyond their own abilities, bats also support many other parts of their ecosystems. Three out of every four bat species eat insects. Many are pests that cause damage to important agricultural crops, such as cotton. Scientists estimate that insect-eating bats may save U.S. farmers about 1 billion per year. In addition, many bat species help improve plant health and diversity.

“Bats are unsung heroes of biodiversity,” says Medellín. “It’s about time we appreciated them.”

1. What can be learned about bats from the text?

A．They fly the fastest of all land animals.

B．They are at low risk of falling sick with a virus.

C．They live mainly on the islands of Antarctica.

D．They are the longest-lived animals given their size.

2. What did scientists recently find?

A．Animals’ telomeres rarely shrink with age.

B．Myotis’s telomeres do not shorten as they age.

C．Smaller animals usually live shorter lives than larger ones.

D．More research into bat telomeres could help people live more healthily.

3. What is the author’s intention in writing the last paragraph but one?

A．To show what bats feed on.

B．To call on people to protect bats.

C．To explain how bats benefit the farmers.

D．To highlight the importance of bats to the ecosystem.

4. What would be a suitable title for this text?

A．Bats Offer Clues to Treating Diseases

B．How Bats Deal with Life’s Challenges

C．Scientists Unlock the Secrets to Long Lives

D．Why Bats Are Superheroes of the Animal World

9 . Wholesale prices for gas and electricity are increasing suddenly across Europe,raising the possibility of increases in already-high utility (公共事业）bills and further pain for people who have taken a financial hit fromCOVID-19.

Governments are struggling to find ways to limit costs to consumers as scant natural gas reserves present yet another potential problem, exposing the continent to even more price increases and possible shortages if it’s a cold winter.

In the U.K., many people will see their gas and electricity bills rise next month after the nation’s energy regulator approved a 12% price increase for those without contracts that lock in rates. Officials in Italy have warned that prices will increase by 40% for the quarter that will be billed in October.

There are multiple causes for the price increases, energy analysts say, including tight supplies of natural gas used to generate electricity, higher costs for permits to release carbon dioxide as part of Europe’s fight against climate change, and less supply from wind in some cases.

Analysts at S&P Global Platts say electricity prices have risen due to strong demand from places like data centers and electric cars, but above all because of the rise in the price of natural gas used in generating plants. Utility companies’ exposure to natural gas prices has increased as high-emission coal plants have been retired, while utilities face higher costs for carbon allowances required by the European Union’s emissions trading system, which is aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

The tight gas market could bite even more sharply if there’s an unusually cold winter. That’s because European distributors did not refill reserves reduced during last winter as they typically had done in summer months. In March 2008, when the freeze named “the beast from the east” hit Europe, industrial users in the U.K got a notice that there was a risk of interruption, although it didn’t come to that.

Could Europe run out of gas? “The short answer is Yes, this is a real risk,” said James Huckstepp, an analyst at S&P Global Platts. “Storage stocks are at record lows and there isn’t currently any spare supply capacity that is exportable anywhere in the world.The longer answer is that it’s hard to predict how it will play out given that Europe has never run out of gas in two decades under the current distribution system.”

1. What does the underlined word “scant” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Total.

B．Additional.

C．Limited.

D．Regular.

2. What has actually led to the rise of electricity prices?

A．The closure of some coal plants.

B．The great demand for electric cars.

C．The competition between utility companies.

D．The change in the emissions trading system.

3. Why could an unusually cold winter make the gas market tighter?

A．More natural gas will be needed for industrial use.

B．European distributors don’t make good preparations.

C．It is not easy to fill reserves during the cold weather.

D．Utility companies work can be easily interrupted.

4. What can we learn from James Huckstepp’s words in the last paragraph?

A．Europe is expected to seek help from other countries.

B．It is hard to control the gas price in Europe at present.

C．Europe might face a serious shortage of gas in the future.

D．There’s something wrong with Europe’s distribution system.

10 . Animal rescuer and cinematographer Douglas Thorn’s passion for animals began when he was a little kid. “I started rescuing orphaned baby animals,” Thorn says. “And I wanted to be a wildlife cinematographer.”

When Thron grew up, he did just that, working for shows like Discovery Channels Shark Week, filming the great white sharks off the coast of Santa Cruz, California. But Thron says it was the Paradise Fire in California in 2018 that “pushed” him to do animal rescue activism work, putting his aerial cinematography skills to good use.

At the time, Thron was filming a man who was rescuing cats after the fire using an infrared hand-held camera. The camera uses heat to detect the animals at night Thron and the man talked about how incredible it would be to put one on a drone to detect animals more easily. “The animal's body temperature will glow on the screen and you can pick them out among the bricks and stones,” explains Thron.

The first animal Thron ever rescued was a dog in the Bahamas after a category-5 hurricane hit, which wiped out hundreds of houses. Thron tested out putting an infrared scope on a drone and found the dog.

“The drone really shaves off critical time so that the really badly hurt animals are able to be rescued,” Thron says. Once the scope picks up the “heat signature of an animal”, Thron turns a spotlight on the animal and zooms in on it, so he and the rescue crews can go and save the animal.

Thron has basically been “going non-stop since then”. His TV show, Doug to the Rescue, shows some of his heart-warming animal rescues, including after Hurricane Laura in Louisiana in 2020 and after fires in Northern California and Oregon. Thron also helped rescue koalas after fires damaged parts of Australia in 2020.

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

A．Researching rare animals.	B．Rescuing homeless animals.
C．Becoming a disaster rescuer.	D．Working as a wildlife cinematographer.

2. What's Thron's purpose for attaching the infrared camera to the drone?

A．To locate an animal quickly.	B．To shoot more inviting photos.
C．To take animals' body temperature.	D．To give warnings of dangers timely.

3. What's the fifth paragraph mainly about?

A．The difficulties Thron has to overcome.

B．The skills Thron will need to operate the drone.

C．The way Thron uses the drone to rescue animals.

D．The reason why Thron chooses his present job.

4. According to the passage, which word can best describe Thron?

A．Modest.

B．Creative.

C．Generous.

D．Outgoing.