1 . My twin sister and I studied in the same school for ten years. The first day we entered the campus, we were ________ by its beauty and bright-colored stone sculptures of fairies (精灵) that ________ there.

As we got older, I discovered the school wasn’t always where beauty was an everyday ________. The weather-beaten stone statues badly needed ________. However, there weren’t enough staff to get everything done.

I decided to do something to give the campus a new ________. My sister had a similar idea and we came up with a plan to secretly ________ the school. Having carefully worked out a project, we got ________ from the administration (管理层) to do it.

We first painted the stone sculptures, refreshing the few remaining fairies. To bring ________   and magic to the campus, we painted on the doors of the boy’s and the girl’s bathrooms the sun and moon representation ________ designed by my sister.

The tree by the school gate was dead and its bare branches were ________, leaving only the trunk. The young schoolmates were ________ by the loss of this tree and the trunk left was a sad ________ to them of the once-living tree. ________ transforming this trunk into a fairy house for visiting fairies to stop by and have a little snack, I put little ________ in the house so that the children could look into the little fairy kitchen while walking by. While cutting and shaping the trunk took many hours, it was well worth it for we ________ a wound in our natural environment.

Everything done, we smiled heartily looking around the fantastic “new” school.

1.

A．educated

B．struck

C．relaxed

D．disturbed

2.

A．settled

B．visited

C．worked

D．chatted

3.

A．routine

B．habit

C．expectation

D．purpose

4.

A．removing

B．replacing

C．wrapping

D．painting

5.

A．chance

B．look

C．background

D．culture

6.

A．explore

B．publicize

C．beautify

D．protect

7.

A．permission

B．reward

C．promise

D．concern

8.

A．security

B．honesty

C．politeness

D．imagination

9.

A．proudly

B．bravely

C．artfully

D．anxiously

10.

A．turned in

B．cut off

C．picked out

D．given up

11.

A．astonished

B．disappointed

C．annoyed

D．upset

12.

A．flag

B．reminder

C．tool

D．start

13.

A．Instead of

B．In hope of

C．In addition to

D．In spite of

14.

A．windows

B．bells

C．handles

D．curtains

15.

A．recorded

B．hid

C．cured

D．spotted

2 . Eye Opener Volunteer

Description

For about 30 years, the Museum of Science Eye Opener Program has been working with the Boston Public Schools to bring the exciting world of science to second grade students from across the city. Each year, about 3, 000 students from over 45 Boston schools visit the museum to explore, ask questions and find answers. Since 1986, funds from the Germeshausen Family Foundation have supported the Eye Opener Program in providing a guided museum experience for second graders.

With the help of a large corps of volunteers, the program introduces these students to the museum and gives them a chance to engage in science. Eye Opener volunteers encourage exploration and the excitement of discovery as they share the museum with the children. They achieve these goals through conversation, hands-on experiments, exploration of exhibits, and Practicing scientific thinking skills with program participants.

Responsibilities

Each Tuesday morning, the students are grouped into sets of 4 to 6 with a pair of volunteers who give them a tour of the museum. Tours last about two hours and are tailored to the interests of the students.

Learn the lay-out of the museum to share and explore with second graders the exhibits which May be interesting to them.

Encourage children to observe, compare, describe, ask questions and share ideas.

Know museum emergence and safety procedures.

Work in close collaboration with a diverse group of volunteers.

Minimum Qualifications

● Patience, sensitivity, and understanding.

● Willingness to work with young children and high school students of all backgrounds and abilities.

● Interest in informal science education.

Additional details

Commitment: Four-to six-month commitment.

Time: Tuesday mornings (9:30-12:30) throughout the school year.

Training: Attendance at the New Volunteer Orientation session is required.

1. The Museum of Science Eye Opener Program aims at ________.

A．encouraging teenagers to visit the museum

B．guiding young girls fall in love with science

C．directing Boston schools to teach science

D．helping kids engage in science in the museum

2. What can students do through the program?

A．Pay a visit to the museum any day they like.

B．Learn about what they are interested in.

C．Take a tour of the museum in a group of two.

D．Look around the museum for 4 hours each time.

3. The Volunteers are required to ________.

A．work on Tuesday mornings	B．get a diploma in science
C．have a sense of humor	D．volunteer for at least one year

3 . World’s richest woman Gina Rinehart is suffering a media firestorm over an article in which she blames the middle class for “drinking, or smoking and socializing” rather than working to earn their own fortune. What if she has a point?

Steve Siebold, author of “How Rich People Think”, spent nearly three decades interviewing millionaires around the world to find out what separates them from everyone else. It had little to do with money itself, he told Business Insider. It was about their mentality.

Average people think money is the root of all evil (罪恶). Rich people believe poverty is the root of all evil. “The average person has been brainwashed to believe rich people are lucky or dishonest,” Siebold writes. That’s why there’s a certain shame that comes along with getting rich in lower-income communities. “The rich knows that while having money doesn’t guarantee happiness, it does make your life easier and more enjoyable.”

Average people believe you have to do something to get rich. Rich people believe you have to be something to get rich. “While the masses are attached to the doing and the immediate results of their actions, the great ones are learning and growing from every experience, whether it’s a success or a failure, knowing their true reward is becoming a human success machine that eventually produces outstanding results,” he writes.

Average people would rather be entertained than educated. Rich people would rather be educated than entertained. The rich don’t think it a must to earn their wealth through formal education, and they appreciate the power of learning long after college is over, Siebold says. “Walk into a wealthy person’s home and you often see many books used to educate themselves on how to become more successful,” he writes. “The middle class reads novels, tabloids (小报) and entertainment magazines”.

1. What’s the function of the first paragraph?

A．To lead in the topic of the text.

B．To describe the life of the middle class.

C．To introduce the richest woman in the world.

D．To show readers the supporting details of the article.

2. Why is it considered a shame when an ordinary man gets rich?

A．Probably because he succeeds by dishonest means.

B．Probably because people are misled by false ideas.

C．Probably because he becomes rich by pure chance.

D．Probably because people think of him as the root of evil.

3. According to Siebold, what do the rich think of education?

A．Everyone can go to the library for further education.

B．Education should be received through formal ways.

C．Learning should last for one’s whole life.

D．Novels and tabloids bring people poverty.

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

A．Rich People Think Differently	B．Education or Entertainment?
C．Average People Long for Fortune	D．How to Earn Wealth?

4 . “Your playful days are over,” my brother said to me when he knew I was going to be a Senior One student. Then he continued telling me that senior school life was boring because I had to do a large amount of homework every day. The subjects were much more difficult than those of junior school.

I stepped into the school gate with a nervous heart. However, I was surprised to find what I experienced there was completely different from what my brother had told me.

The teachers gave excellent lessons in their own special way. They talked with me in a natural and fair way, as if I was an adult. All of them are so knowledgeable (学识渊博) and they not only explained the contents of textbooks but also provided extra information from other sources. Every word they said in classes made me so excited and interested that I had a strong desire to take in as much as I could.

In fact, my playful days were not over at all in senior school. There were many kinds of activities I could take part in. For example, sports meetings, the art festival, English corner, outing and so on. Best of all, generally, students organized the activities rather than teachers. Through this process, I improved my leadership abilities and communication skills. I've become mature (成熟的). I am not a kid any more.

Now if anyone asks me: “Through your process of growing up, which part is most impressive up till now?” Well, the answer will absolutely be my “senior high school life”.

1. How did the writer feel when he started his senior high school?

A．Very excited.	B．A little worried.
C．Quite relaxed.	D．Embarrassed.

2. What was the writer's general impression of his teachers?

A．Strict and organized.	B．Modest and hardworking.
C．Learned and easy going.	D．Helpful and kind-hearted.

3. What has the writer learned by joining in different after-class activities?

A．Reading and writing skills.	B．The understanding of textbooks
C．Leadership and social skills.	D．Doing housework.

4. What can you learn from the last paragraph?

A．His senior school life is the most memorable.

B．Senior school life was boring and tiring.

C．He will no longer believe in his brother.

D．The writer did well in all his subjects.

5 . Here are some of the best fall fairs from New England states.

Connecticut: Durham Fair
Dates: September 22-25

The 98th Annual Durham Fair might not be Connecticut’s oldest (that honor goes to the Four Town Fair), but it is the state’s largest. And it has a special focus on kids, making it well worth the two-hour drive from Boston.

The Durham Fair even has a mini-fairground designed especially for children that features activities like a pedal tractor pull and all sorts of games, plus a stage with little animals and magic shows.
Maine: Fryeburg Fair
Dates: October 2-9

The Fryeburg Fair is the farthest away from Boston, but that doesn’t stop people from travelling from all over the country with their kids to experience one of New England’s finest fall fairs. The fair has some unique spins that celebrate what makes Maine special, like Woodsmen’s Field Day with an exciting competition featuring log-rolling, axe-throwing, and tree falling. The fair has all kinds of farm animals, from draft horses to camels.

Massachusetts: Topsfield Fair
Dates: September 30 - October 10

Probably the most well-known fair on the list for Bostonians is the Topsfield Fair, which takes place in our backyard. The origins of this fair go back nearly 200 years ago and it’s truly a classic fall agricultural fair. Topsfield has everything from the rides for children to many farm animals, like pigs, goats, cows, chickens and rabbits.

New Hampshire: Sandwich Fair
Dates: October 8-10

Two hours north of Boston, you will find the Sandwich Fair. Saturday at the fair is Children’s Day, which includes a kid’s pedal tractor pull and Mo the clown. Sunday is Family Day, where you will find a miniature horse demo and the Grand Street Parade. While you are at the fair, hike nearby West Rattlesnake or check out some of the other things to do near Lake Winnipesaukee.

1. What can you do if you go to the Durham Fair?

A．Walk around Connecticut’s oldest fair.

B．Drive a pedal tractor for a competition.

C．Celebrate Woodsmen’s Field Day.

D．Watch some live performances.

2. Which of the following fairs will last the longest time?

A．The Durham Fair.

B．The Fryeburg Fair.

C．The Topsfield Fair.

D．The Sandwich Fair.

3. What do the four fairs have in common?

A．They are created for fun.

B．They are old fairs in New England.

C．They are famous in the United States.

D．They are suitable for families with children.

6 . On September 7, 1930, Yuan Longping was born in Beijing. Fluent in English, his mother often read Friedrich Nietzsche's works to him. Influenced by his mother, Yuan Longping liked English, geography and chemistry at school. After graduating from university, he became a teacher in the countryside of Hunan in 1953.

With lots of crop failures, nationwide hunger hit China in the 1960s, making many people live a bad life. Yuan was sad and felt he must do something. Since the climate in Hunan was not friendly to growing wheat. He decided to devote himself to studying how to increase the production of rice, a basic food for over 60 percent of Chinese people. From then on, he began a lifelong connection with rice.

Yuan Longping succeeded in growing the world's first high production hybrid rice (杂交水稻) variety in 1973, which could reach a yield of over 500 kg per more than 200 kg than before. For the next four decades, he continued to work on the research of hybrid rice. In 2020, hybrid rice developed by his team achieved 1,500 kg per mu in two growing seasons, a new world record.

Nowadays, the hybrid rice is grown in almost half of China's rice fields and its production accounts for 60 percent of the total rice production in China. The hybrid rice production is 20 percent more than the common kinds , the yearly increase of which feeds up to 100 million people.

In 2019, Yuan Longping, known as the “Father of hybrid rice”, was awarded with Medal of the Republic, China's highest honor.

Yuan Longping's biggest dream in life was to develop more hybrid rice varieties, which could be grown all over the world to help solve the global food problem. So far, the hybrid varieties he developed have been grown in over 40 countries, including the USA, Brazil and India.

1. What do we know about Yuan Longping according to the text?

A．He began to study hybrid rice in 1973.

B．He received the highest honor in China at 90.

C．He ever taught math in the city after graduation.

D．He ever hoped Chinese would be free from hunger.

2. How does the author mainly show the achievements of Yuan Longping in hybrid rice?

A．By listing figures.	B．By quoting reports.
C．By imagining results.	D．By explaining reasons.

3. Which of the following best describes Yuan Longping according to the text?

A．Patient and honest.	B．Energetic and athletic.
C．Capable and remarkable.	D．Humorous and adventurous.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The life of Yuan Longping.	B．The team of Yuan Longping.
C．The honor of Yuan Longping.	D．The education of Yuan Longping.

7 . Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (麻省理工学院) have turned spider webs into music——creating an strange soundtrack that could help them better understand how the spiders output their complex creations and even how they communicate.

The MIT team worked with Berlin-based artist Tomas Saraceno to take 2D (two- dimensional) laser (激光) scans of a spider web, which were linked together and made into a mathematical model that could recreate the web in 3D in VR (virtual reality). They also worked with MIT’s music department to create the virtual instrument.

“Even though the web looks really random (随机)，there actually are a lot of inside structures and you can visualize (可视化) them and you can look at them, but it’s really hard to grasp for the human imagination or human brain to understand all these structural details,” said MIT engineering professor Markus Buehler, who presented the work on Monday at a virtual meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Listening to the music while moving through the VR spider web lets you see and hear these structural changes and gives a better idea of how spiders see the world, he told CNN. “Spiders use vibrations (振动) as a way to locate themselves, to communicate with other spiders and so the idea of thinking really like a spider would experience the world was something that was very important to us as spider material scientists,” Buehler said.

Spiders are able to build their webs without shelves or supports, so having a better idea of how they work could lead to the development of advanced new 3D printing techniques. “The reason why I did that is I wanted to be able to get information really from the spider world, which is very weird and mysterious,” Buehler explained. In addition to the scientific value, Buehler said the webs are musically interesting and that you can hear the sounds the spider creates during construction. “It’s unusual and eerie and scary, but finally beautiful.” he described.

1. What have MIT scientists done according to the passage?

A．They have translated spider webs into sounds.

B．They have made a mathematical model to produce webs.

C．They have created a soundtrack to catch spiders.

D．They have known how spiders communicate.

2. What can we know about spider webs from paragraph 3?

A．Their structures are beautiful and clear.

B．Professor Markus Buehler knows them well.

C．The American Chemical Society presents the result.

D．They are complex for people to figure it out.

3. In which field will the study be helpful?

A．virtual reality	B．printing
C．painting	D．film-making

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．It tells us that the music created by spiders is scary.

B．It shows how the researchers carry out the experiment.

C．It presents a new and creative way to study spiders.

D．It explains why scientists did the experiment.

8 . All eyes were on me as the other moms quieted down. Someone had just asked, “Are you going to _________ us?”

“Yeah, you should dance with us,“ another_________ .I was waiting for my daughter's dance class to finish while the other moms got_________ for their adult dance class.

"No," I said. I'd_________ these moms from the sidelines through the years. However, I didn't have a dancer's body.

But my husband said to me, "You’ll never know if you don^’t try." So I_________ for ballet. At my first class, I was the_________ woman in the room. What did the others think of me?

The instructor started us with basic, simple steps. _________ nobody made comments about my size and till the end of the class, I realized I had_________ the night. So I kept going each week.

The instructor moved on to more_________ steps. My muscles were painful, but I__________ it. The steps continued to be harder, but I__________ at home with my daughter. Later, I realized something __________ My legs weren^’t painful anymore.

I saw a(n) __________ in the way I carried myself too. I was stronger. My muscles weren't the only part of me that had been__________. " I don't care what others think when I'm dancing," I told my husband with my new__________. "Anyway, I've learned ballet!"

1.

A．serve

B．attend

C．help

D．join

2.

A．contacted

B．encouraged

C．commanded

D．repeated

3.

A．addicted

B．rewarded

C．prepared

D．involved

4.

A．approached

B．assisted

C．welcomed

D．watched

5.

A．signed up

B．cheered up

C．stood up

D．sped up

6.

A．slimmest

B．shortest

C．ugliest

D．biggest

7.

A．Eventually

B．Undoubtedly

C．Unexpectedly

D．Gradually

8.

A．survived

B．recorded

C．treasured

D．observed

9.

A．precise

B．challenging

C．practical

D．ordering

10.

A．responded to

B．stuck to

C．belonged to

D．referred to

11.

A．played

B．relaxed

C．practised

D．chatted

12.

A．confusing

B．appealing

C．disappointing

D．surprising

13.

A．difference

B．essence

C．limitation

D．inspiration

14.

A．relieved

B．removed

C．strengthened

D．straightened

15.

A．courage

B．confidence

C．belief

D．balance

9 . 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。

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 the stove was a mess now. Jenna told Jeff to clean it up so they could continue to cook the rest of the porridge. But Jeff’s hand touched the hot burner and he gave a cry of pain. Jenna made him put his hand in cold water. Then she caught the smell of burning. Oh dear! The piece of bread in the pan had turned black as well.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右。
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

As the twins looked around them in disappointment, their father appeared.

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The twins carried the breakfast upstairs and woke their mother up.

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