1 . 假定你是校报英语版总编李华，你邀请到了美国环保专家White教授作主题为“Livingin Harmony with Nature”的讲座。请你在讲座前简要发言，内容包括：
1. 相关介绍；2. 注意事项。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
Dear fellow students,
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2 . 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。

There are many things in senior middle school that I still remember clearly. I studied three years in a country school, which is faraway. However, it has a good environment and strict but kind teachers, so I loved the school and all my teachers very much.

One Friday, just as we began to read books in reading class at our desks, our teacher, Mrs. Hill, said that she needed to be out of the classroom for a few minutes. She asked the class to read in silence while she was gone. And she said that those who didn’t read books in silence would have to be punished when she returned. It was well-known that Mrs. Hill was strict. So we had to be on our best behaviour.

But that Friday, Mrs. Hill hadn’t been gone for ten seconds before some students in the classroom started to talk. From one corner of the room I heard Josh ask Nick, “Can I trade my candies for your toy?” At the other end of the room I heard Samantha tell Kayla, “Let’s sit together on the bus for the museum field trip tomorrow.” And so it went all around me, until about half of the students communicated with each other.

After a while, I, too, forgot about Mrs. Hill’s instructions. I turned back and asked my friend Liza, “Can I borrow your storybook and keep it for a day?” As soon as the words were out of my mouth, Mrs. Hill walked into the classroom. The whole class returned to silence immediately. And we were full of fear.

Mrs. Hill slowly looked around the classroom and said, “If you were talking while I was gone, then please stand up.” The guilt (内疚) suddenly weighed heavily on me. “I shouldn’t have talked while she was not in the classroom. And now I should be honest and admit my mistake bravely. This is what my parents have always told me.” I thought. Then, I summoned up (鼓起) my courage to stand up, worried about the punishment that waited for me. Then I looked around.

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。

To my surprise, no one followed me and I was the only one in the classroom standing.

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With Mrs. Hill’s encouragement, another student stood up.

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3 . 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。

On September 17, 2023, the Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Puer     1    (gain) World Heritage Site status, becoming a new Chinese entry on that list.   This means that it has been recognized     2     an important place of cultural significance.

    3    (locate) about 1,500 meters above the sea level, the heritage site in Puer, Yunnan province, contains five large-scale, well-preserved old tea forests. It is the first World Heritage Site with the theme of tea. It was     4    (joint) created by ancestors of Blang people,     5     immigrated to Jingmai Mountain in the tenth century, and by the ancestors of Dai people. Their     6    (contribute) have turned it into     7     unique and beautiful place that we see today.

    8    (ensure) lastingly inherited(继承) outstanding universal values of the old tea forests, China     9    (guide) local communities to join in protection and regulate tourism.   It will also advance international cooperation     10     cultural exchanges in the World Heritage circle. The heritage site presents the ecological wisdom that can be inspiring for sustainable development of the world today.

4 . The homelessness popularity across the Pacific Northwest is now going to be disposed of in a unique kind way by two Seattle-born non-profit organizations. Through The BLOCK Project, tiny sustainable homes are being built in the backyards of the charitable volunteers to be delivered to the homeless people of the neighborhood.

Architect and founder of The BLOCK Project, Rex Hohlbein joined Facing Homelessness, another non-profit organization to launch the collaborative project. The latter organization has the responsibility for finding land in the household backyards, on which Hohlbein’s The BLOCK Project will build small, low-emission housing. The name of the company and the project comes from Hohlbein’s pioneering design of the tiny sustainable houses. To support their initiative, thousands of Seattle residents have already offered their house backyards to the project. The government also stepped in to make the entire process as legally convenient as possible.

Seattle has been facing a double problem of having expensive houses on the one hand, and being a large homeless community on the other. In such context, Hohlbein realized that willingness of kindly neighbors could provide a much better and quicker solution than a long waiting for state allowances (补贴) or government programs. The good idea of the architect is now getting proved by continuous construction of thousands of tiny backyard homes across Seattle.

The long-term goal of the project is to copy the globally changing definition of lodging (暂住) brought about by Airbnb. According to Hohlbein, in his childhood, it was absurd to think about hosting complete strangers in any regular household just in exchange for little money, especially with the risk factors of a night-time stay. But the Airbnb has made the concept as casual as it can get. Through The BLOCK Project, Hohlbein aims to copy the same kind of “cultural shift” with future sustainable housing, starting from the grass-roots level of local neighborhoods.

1. What does the underlined phrase “disposed of” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Observed.

B．Increased.

C．Addressed.

D．Restored.

2. What’s the main duty of Facing Homelessness?

A．Attracting more architects and supporters.

B．Finding places to build sustainable houses.

C．Building some low-emission houses.

D．Making houses legally convenient.

3. What is one of Hohlbein’s reasons for coming up with the project?

A．Low state allowances.	B．Seattle’s housing conditions.
C．Willingness of kindly neighbors.	D．Emergence of backyard houses.

4. Which of the following agrees with Airbnb’s definition of lodging?

A．Trying to help strangers overcome difficulties.

B．Solving the house problem in a short time.

C．Hosting strangers in private housing.

D．Reducing the risk of a night-time stay.

5 . Levi Millers life changed during an ordinary dinner with his family. That evening, director Joe Wright called to _______ the 11 year old the starring role in Wrights upcoming movie Pan.

The phone call led Levi to leave his home in Australia to _______ in London, England. His mother _________ her job to accompany him.

Levi began _______ when he was 2 or 3. He joined in some of his older sister’s dance shows. He wanted to share the _______ she was getting. When he was 5 or 6, he won a drama competition as Peter Pan.

_______ Levi still had a lot to learn on the set of his first movie. First, he had to change his _______ to sound like he was from London. He learned about life in London during World War II, which was when the movie _______. He also needed to figure out how to cry on cue (提示). His _______ was to think about his dog, who had died not long before.

At first, Levi felt very awkward around the ________ actors he worked with. For example, it took him several weeks to feel ________ calling Hugh Jackman “Hugh”. Before that, he would ________ address him as “Mr. Jackman.”

Since that ________ experience, Levi has continued acting on ________. His next movie was a smaller Australian production called Red Dog. And this year he has a starring role in the movie A Wrinkle in Time.

Levi loves the ________ that acting provides. He says, “Every time I go on a set, it’s a whole different world, and I love that.”

1.

A．assist

B．tell

C．offer

D．submit

2.

A．film

B．wander

C．struggle

D．explore

3.

A．decreased

B．quit

C．refused

D．continued

4.

A．walking

B．dancing

C．traveling

D．performing

5.

A．applause

B．burden

C．memory

D．exposure

6.

A．Thus

B．And

C．Or

D．But

7.

A．role

B．lifestyle

C．accent

D．dialect

8.

A．made out

B．took place

C．consisted of

D．ended up

9.

A．reaction

B．advice

C．trick

D．misery

10.

A．desperate

B．famous

C．proud

D．strange

11.

A．vivid

B．confident

C．ambitious

D．comfortable

12.

A．only

B．hardly

C．casually

D．actually

13.

A．personal

B．long

C．first

D．amazing

14.

A．screen

B．stage

C．peak

D．purpose

15.

A．awards

B．techniques

C．advantages

D．possibilities

7 . It is difficult for a teacher to decide whether to allow students to listen to music in the classroom. Every time students need to write an essay or work on a problem, they say, “Can I put my headphones on? I think better that way.” But is that really true? Does music help concentrate?

Research offers little to back up the idea that listening to music improves concentration. In one small study, 133 students performed reading tasks while listening to either light music, hip hop, or no music at all. Students who performed the reading tasks in silence scored the highest. Music with a higher intensity (强度) like hip hop was more distracting and had a greater negative effect on task performance and concentration.

Volume (音量) plays a more important role than the type of music. The study found that the louder the music, the worse the performance in concentration. The type of music didn’t matter. Data from the study showed once again that silence was the best environment to improve concentration.

However, music has a positive effect on work performance. Studies have showed that listening to music leads to positive changes in mood, as well as creativity. In fact, in music-listening cultures, which students are certainly part of, there’s actually a change in mood when the music is taken away.

It’s hard to convince my students that music doesn’t help with their concentration. Taj, a senior told me, “I wouldn’t be able to concentrate if I were listening to music and trying to read. However, when I write, I feel like music helps me concentrate deeply. I don’t have writer’s block. It’s easy for me to put my words on paper.”

“Maybe not with reading, but when it comes to math, listening to music certainly helps,” Danela told me. “You could actually be singing along with what you’re listening to and doing well in math.”

1. Which word can be used to replace the underlined word “distracting” in paragraph 2 ?

A．Worrying.

B．Exciting.

C．Interesting.

D．Relaxing.

2. What can we learn from the small study?

A．Students do well in reading tasks while listening to music.

B．Music can’t improve people’s mood and creativity.

C．Different types of music lead to different performances.

D．The volume of music affects concentration.

3. What do Taj and Danela have in common?

A．They believe music doesn’t help concentrate.

B．They use music to help with their paper-writing.

C．They can’t focus on reading while listening to music.

D．They don’t listen to music while doing math problems.

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

A．Should Students Listen to Music?	B．Does Music Help Concentration?
C．Is Music Related to Reading?	D．Can Music Change Mood?

8 . Fifteen years ago, when darkness used to fall in Yobe Nkosi, a remote village in northern Malawi, children did their school homework by candlelight: There was no electricity. But that started to change in 2006, when villager Colrerd Nkosi finished secondary school in Mzimba some 40 kilometers away, and returned home, and found he could no longer live without power.

Aged 23 at the time, Nkosi soon figured out that a small river past the house where he grew up had just enough force to push the pedals on his bicycle. He created a generator (发电机) that brought power into his home. Word spread quickly among brick houses and neighbors began paying regular visits to charge their mobile phones. “I started getting requests for electricity and decided to upgrade,” said Nkosi.

With no previous training, he turned an old fridge compressor (压缩机) into a water-powered turbine and put it in a nearby river, generating electricity for six households. Today, the village is supplied by a bigger turbine.

The users pay no fee for the power but give Nkosi some money for maintenance — slightly more than $1 per household per month. “The electricity is basically free,” Nkosi said, speaking in local Chichewa. He admitted that the maintenance income was too small to cover repair costs, which he mainly funded from his own pocket.

Despite the challenges, he was determined to expand his mini electricity network to surrounding areas. “Once more villages and schools have electricity, people will no longer cut down trees for charcoal (木炭),” he said. “Students will have a lot more time to study.”

As dusk settled over Kasangazi Primary School, groups of learners rushed into a classroom for a night-time study session. “Before we had electricity here, we used to use candles to study,” said student Gift Mfune, sorting through a pile of textbooks on his desk. “Now, we all have no excuse but to pass our examinations,” he laughed. Courtesy of Nkosi, the building is the only school with power out of 17 others servicing the area.

1. Why did Nkosi upgrade his first generator?

A．To make much more money.	B．To meet people’s need for power.
C．To match new mobile phones.	D．To attract more people to his home.

2. Which words can best describe Nkosi?

A．Open-minded and tolerant.	B．Creative and generous.
C．Easy-going and courageous.	D．Intelligent and cooperative.

3. What can we infer about the students in Kasangazi Primary School?

A．They have to stay up late.	B．They do well in exams.
C．They are very grateful to Nkosi.	D．They must have a promising future.

4. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To advertise a remote village.	B．To share an encouraging story.
C．To show students’ love for a teacher.	D．To put forward a practicable project.