1 . Gurnah, growing up in Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
He is the first Black writer
Gurnah’s first language is Swahili, but he
Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, which is now
Though Gurnah hasn’t lived in Tanzania since he was a
| A．to confirm | B．to receive | C．to search | D．to appreciate |
| A．section | B．selection | C．collection | D．consultation |
| A．themes | B．opinions | C．passages | D．suggestions |
| A．explode | B．conclude | C．provide | D．include |
| A．adopted | B．advised | C．adapted | D．affected |
| A．as much as | B．as well as | C．as long as | D．as often as |
| A．was awarded | B．was discussed | C．was celebrated | D．was suspected |
| A．jobs | B．works | C．labors | D．careers |
| A．part | B．name | C．home | D．country |
| A．Admirable | B．Respectable | C．Fashionable | D．Miserable |
| A．higher | B．stronger | C．heavier | D．longer |
| A．reading | B．hearing | C．writing | D．watching |
| A．Frontwards | B．Forwards | C．Backwards | D．Afterwards |
| A．writer | B．teenager | C．scholar | D．professor |
| A．As a result | B．At the same time | C．On the other hand | D．In his own word |
When I was in middle school, my family moved to Seattle, where my parents started their new business — a small grocery store downstairs my house. As a girl of shy and reserved nature, I had to take a fresh start to fit into the sophisticated city life.
One sunny day, my school announced an exciting event, a talent show for the local food bank. Students were encouraged to showcase their unique talents in front of the public in the city hall on National Day. A buzz of excitement fed the school as everyone began preparing for the big day. Deep down, I felt a spark of curiosity and a desire to participate. However, my self-doubt held me back, “I don’t have any special skills to share.”
Days turned into weeks, and the talent show drew closer. I couldn’t shake the upsetting feeling until one day, Emma, one of the most popular girls in my class, came to me while I was helping in the grocery store after class. “How about singing together in the talent show?” She grinned, “I heard you singing a tune, along the way back home. I can’t help following you here.” Gosh, I couldn’t believe my ears. Emma, with personality and popularity, acknowledged my little talent. Since Emma had the world’s prettiest voice, I felt like being favoured by fortune.
“You two? The talent show for the food bank?” My mum bent towards us and her face lit up. “A big occasion.” Then a light bulb seemed to go in her head. “Why not practise right now upstairs? I bet you’ll be a perfect match.” Winking at us, she seemed to know we were thinking alike.
Emma and I embarked on rehearsing almost every single day after school. We brainstormed, exchanged ideas and rehearsed the scene. As the days rolled by, I was feeling pretty good about our act. But the day before the performance, Emma called that she had an acute stomachache and was not in any shape to perform.
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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I was completely knocked out by the news.
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Finally came the big moment.
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Location: Rosewood Center for Family arts
Important Information:
● Tuition paid on the first day of class.
● No tuition refunds (退款) for not attending the class.
● Please accompany students to the first day of class.
● Registration begins one and half an hour before class time.
How To Register:
● Mail: fill out the form on the last page, black ink only.
● Be sure to list the class and group that you want & the dates.
| Drama Days—$175 Entering Grades: Group A: 1st-2nd Group B: 3rd-5th Time: July 2-July 6 ● Create the situations and scenes ● SHOWTIME—invite family and friends to your Friday Showcase! ● Bring a sack lunch and drink each day! |
| Hot Comedies—$175 Entering Grade: 5th Time: July 23-July 27 ● Tell a joke! Learn why old jokes can be the best! ● Work with your class to put on a Comedy Show for family and friends! |
| Acting—Just Acting—$225 Entering Grades: Group A: 1st-2nd Group B: 3rd-4th Time: August 4-August 8 ● Start with the characters: Who are you? Be the Star of your Dreams. ● Work with your class to create the plot. |
| Summer Scenes—$225 Entering Grades: 5th-6th Time: August 11-August 15 ● Do you want to be an actor? ● Improve your skills with instructions from professional actors & directors. |
| A．tuition must be paid before July 2 |
| B．there will be refunds if you miss the class |
| C．registration begins half an hour before class time |
| D．students had better not go alone on the first day |
| A．Drama Days. | B．Acting-Just Acting. |
| C．Hot Comedies. | D．Summer Scenes. |
| A．A brochure. | B．A research paper. | C．A textbook. | D．A health magazine. |
(1)书目名称；
(2)内容简介；
(3)推荐理由。
注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jason,
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Yours sincerely
Li Hua
5 . What your dinner photos on Instagram say about you
Posting pictures on Instagram is a modern day version of writing a journal: It’s all about creating a connection between ourselves, our lives, friends, family and the wider public.
If someone posts photos of a meal that they have just cooked, the message they’re trying to convey is that they are a capable person. For example, if someone is on a health kick, they often seek social approval. If they’ve made a really healthy meal, they will typically post it with hashtags “#” like diet or health, which tie into other people’s experiences.
There is also a growing trend of people taking photos of their food when they dine out at a restaurant.
If people are on a diet or trying to eat a bit better, they can use platforms like Instagram to track what they’ve been eating. It’s a way of motivating other people as well as holding themselves responsible, while subconsciously saying “
| A．I am willing to take risks in my diet. |
| B．There are some reasons to post photos online. |
| C．I’m the sort of person who takes care of myself. |
| D．It’s the same idea as wanting to feel part of a community. |
| E．The types of content we choose to post hold significance. |
| F．It generally implies an attempt to associate with luxury and taste. |
| G．We have a fundamental need to be part of something bigger than ourselves. |
注意:
(1) 内容具体, 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯;
(2)80词左右。
参考词汇: 雾霾 n. haze
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| A. come across B. feel at home with C. catch up D. bring up E. barrier F. went to the trouble G. in harmony with H. reflect on I. the solution to J. brave the elements K. eventually L. accommodation M. typical N. incredibly O. pleasant |
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8. She
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A MOTHER’S DAY SURPRISE
The twins were filled with excitement as they thought of the surprise they were planning for Mother’s Day. How pleased and proud Mother would be when they brought her breakfast in bed. They planned to make French toast and chicken porridge. They had watched their mother in the kitchen. There was nothing to it. Jenna and Jeff knew exactly what to do.
The big day came at last. The alarm rang at 6 a.m. The pair went down the stairs quietly to the kitchen. They decided to boil the porridge first. They put some rice into a pot of water and left it to boil while they made the French toast. Jeff broke two eggs into a plate and added in some milk. Jenna found the bread and put two slices into the egg mixture. Next, Jeff turned on the second stove burner to heat up the frying pan. Everything was going smoothly until Jeff started frying the bread. The pan was too hot and the bread turned black within seconds. Jenna threw the burnt piece into the sink and put in the other slice of bread. This time, she turned down the fire so it cooked nicely.
Then Jeff noticed steam shooting out of the pot and the lid starting to shake. The next minute, the porridge boiled over and put out the fire. Jenna panicked. Thankfully, Jeff stayed calm and turned off the gas quickly. But then she caught the smell of burning. Oh dear! The piece of bread in the pan had turned black as well.
As the twins looked around them in disappointment, their father appeared. Seeing the black bread and the spilled porridge, Dad suddenly figured out their secret. A smile of understanding flashed across his face. Without a second thought, Dad offered to help. A ripple of excitement ran through them. They helped clean the kitchen while their father cooked a sandwich and some porridge skillfully. Soon, the delicious smell of breakfast filled the kitchen. Dad hinted to show that it was a secret and went back to the bedroom, asking the twins to go on to carry out their great plan.
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The twins carried the breakfast upstairs and woke their mother up.
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9 . Driverless taxicabs have been swarming (蜂拥) in the streets in San Francisco, Phoenix and Austin for months, and they’re most likely driving themselves soon to your city. One freaked-out passenger has documented his experience on TikTok, “I was startled by the empty front seats during a ride to a coffee shop!”
The comment of the anxious TikToker reminds historian Victor McFarland of what it was like when cars first hit American streets around a hundred years ago. The pedestrians yelled “Get a horse” to motorists in the 1910s. But McFarland, who teaches at the University of Missouri, says the new beasts known as automobiles were more threatening and unfamiliar to people a century ago than driverless cars are to us now. “Automobiles were frightening to a lot of people at first,” he says. “The early automobiles were noisy, dangerous, had no seatbelts and ran over pedestrians.”
Some people also felt threatened by the freedom and independence newly available to entire classes of people, says Saje Mathieu, a history professor at the University of Minnesota. They included black people whose movements were restricted by Jim Crow Laws (种族歧视法). Cars let them more easily search for everything from better employment to improved healthcare.
Larger concerns today move to numerous laws that can be broken when no one is at the wheel. Who is to blame if a pregnant person takes a driverless car across state lines to obtain an abortion, for example? Or when driverless cars transport illegal drugs?
And back then, like now, Mathieu adds, there were concerns about the future of certain jobs. Once we were worried about Teamsters, who then drove teams of horses, being out of work. Truckers today fear that they might soon compete with driverless vehicles in their own dedicated lanes.
“You can’t have congestion-free driving just because you constantly build roads,” observes history professor Peter Norton of the University of Virginia. Now, he says, is an excellent time to learn from what did not work in the past. “It doesn’t automatically get safe just because you have cutting-edge tech.” Such advanced tech even terrified one TikToker taking a driverless cab in Phoenix last Friday. “We’re making a left-hand turn without using the left-hand turn lane!”
Are these devilish machines going to change the face of the world? Maybe they won’t add to the beauty of the world, but they have come, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring.
And now that they drive themselves, historians say, we need to remember that the world and the streets belongs to us and not to the cars. We need to stay behind the wheel, even if that’s only a figure of speech.
1. Why did pedestrians shout “Get a horse” in the 1910s?| A．They wanted to own a horse themselves. | B．They had pity on the poor horses. |
| C．They tried to warn motorists of danger. | D．They disapproved of automobiles. |
| A．It brings gray areas in responsibility. | B．It favors a certain socioeconomic group. |
| C．It weakens competition in certain jobs. | D．It makes car driving a lost art. |
| A．Exploring new technology further. |
| B．Overcoming worries about driverless cars. |
| C．Putting humans physically behind the wheel. |
| D．Building more roads to avoid congestion. |
| A．Driverless Cars: Pioneering a New Era |
| B．Driverless Cars? How Innovations Shape the World |
| C．Driverless Cars: Bridging the Past and Present |
| D．Driverless Cars? What History Teaches Us |
