1 .

A．Flowers.

B．A gardening tool.

C．Cooking appliances.

D．A cookbook.

2 .

A．She is confused about the software program as well.

B．She understands the software program completely.

C．She doesn’t care about the software program.

D．She has lost the software password.

3 .

A．He wants more recognition for his volunteer work.

B．He prefers to keep his volunteer work private.

C．He regrets volunteering at the animal shelter.

D．He wants to discuss his volunteer work further.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Improving artistic theory.	B．Putting forward flow theory.
C．Holding attractive activities.	D．Studying business matters.

2.

A．To promote the painters’ spirit.	B．To discover the exception to the theory.
C．To study the way to get the flow state.	D．To discover the best flow quality.

3.

A．When they consider nothing seems to matter.

B．When they began to learn new skills.

C．When they work in different professions.

D．When they are engaged in their pursuits.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。1.

A．It was stolen.	B．It was involved in an accident.
C．It ran out of gas.	D．It was parked illegally and pulled away.

2.

A．It’s only for loading purposes.	B．It’s reserved for motorcycles.
C．It’s free for anyone to park there.	D．It’s for library use only.

3.

A．The parking services office.	B．The main entrance of the library.
C．The vehicle storage facility.	D．The campus gymnasium.

4.

A．$10

B．$50

C．$75

D．$85

6 .

A．A fridge.

B．An electric cooker.

C．Laundry machines.

D．Dishes.

7 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. contrast   B. instructed   C. concentrating   D. potential   E. touching   F. played G. better   H. specialized   I. spot   J. follow   K. tracing

Unfamiliar Music May Help People Chat at Parties

If you want your guests to be particularly sociable at an upcoming party, make sure you play music they probably haven’t heard before.

To explore how background music affects the way we     1     conversations, researchers Jane Brown and Gavin Bidelman conducted a study analyzing the brain activity of 31 individuals aged21 and 33. During the experiment, participants listened to 72 minutes of an audiobook (有声读物), which the pair used as a replacement for     2     on someone talking, while background music was accompanied by the audiobook for most of the time.

For half of the experiment, the participants were asked to focus on2-minute parts of an unfamiliar audiobook read by a man. The rest of the time, they were told to focus on four background songs, which were similarly     3     for2 minutes at a time. This     4     in voices aimed to assess participants’ ability to shift attention between two distinctly different voices.

During the experiment, all the participants wore     5     caps to monitor the electrical activity taking place in their brains. This     6     of electrical activity was the key. It allowed Brown and Bidelman to discover how efficiently these individuals could focus on either the audiobook or the music when     7     to do so. The finding revealed that the participants could     8     turn their attention to the audiobook if the background music was unfamiliar to them.

Following the task, the participants completed a music perception survey evaluating their musical skills, such as the capacity to     9     whether a pair of similar-sounding tunes are the same. Notably, those with lower musical scores demonstrated slower attentional shifts between songs and audiobooks, suggesting a(n)     10     link between musical ability and attention management skills.

8 . Growing up in Ukraine, Vadim didn’t know what it was like to live in a safe, stable home. His parents were alcoholics who would often beat him. They’d even stuff him into a wine container, breaking his little body and leaving only a small opening at the top so he could breathe and see — but only just a little.

By the time Vadim turned 9, he was living in an orphanage (孤儿院). Unfortunately, as is the case with far too many little ones, his life only got worse there. Not only was he hurt, but he was placed in a room on the third floor, making it impossible to get downstairs in a wheelchair.

This left Vadim crawling up and down the stairs, an activity that was both physically and mentally exhausting. He’d often be late for meals. If the food wasn’t already gone by the time he arrived, other kids would steal from him.

Then, a chain effect began when some special folks visited the orphanage. They told him a story about a spiritual figure who advocated love and forgiveness. This conversation helped the 14-year-old find his faith and, in turn, he had more hope than he ever had before.

Today, Vadim is on longer the boy subject to fate. He is a father to his own kids, and his life couldn’t be more different or better. Over the years, he’s discovered a gift for expressing himself through art. This inspired Tim Tebow Foundation, an organization fighting for the most vulnerable (脆弱的) people around the world, to ask if he’d like to create a piece that represented what it looked and felt like for him to have gone from “darkness to light.”

The result? A truly remarkable painting that features Vadim, in his wheelchair, leaving behind his old home, including the wine container his parents stuffed him into. His new direction includes a beautiful forest full of fall leaves and bright light, showing the hope he is said to have found in the inspiring story.

1. According to the passage, Vadim’s parents treated him ________.

A．abusively

B．forgivingly

C．thoughtfully

D．strictly

2. Why did Vadim crawl up and down the stairs when living in the orphanage?

A．Because his little roommates often did damage to his wheelchair.

B．Because other children would take his meal without permission.

C．Because he couldn’t use the wheelchair to go downstairs from a high floor.

D．Because getting downstairs was demanding for him physically and mentally.

3. The phrase “a chain effect ” in paragraph 4 refers to ________.

A．an effective treatment for Vadim’s disability

B．a series of positive changes occurring in Vadim’s life

C．a sense of hope from the story of a spiritual figure

D．a helping hand from Tim Tebow Foundation

4. What is the message that Vadim wants to convey in his remarkable painting?

A．He admires the beauty and harmony of nature.

B．He leads a miserable life with his own kids.

C．He excels in delicate painting techniques.

D．He says farewell to the past and harvests happiness.

9 . 她在街上走时，听说了关于她朋友的一些事情。(汉译英)
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10 . Time to end Santa’s “naughty list”?

Many of us have magical memories of Santa secretly bringing gifts and joy to our childhood homes — but is there a darker side to the beloved Christmas tradition?

I was — and I’m happy to admit it — a loyal believer of Santa. I absolutely loved the magic of Christmas, especially Santa Claus, and my parents went above and beyond to encourage it. However, as I begin to construct my own Santa Claus myth for my daughter, I can’t help but feel guilty. Could it undermine her trust in me?

    1     Back in 1978, a study published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (矫正精神医学) found that 85% of four-year-olds said they believed in Santa. In 2011, research published in the Journal of Cognition and Development found that 83% of 5-year-olds claimed to be true believers.

I guess it’s not all that surprising.     2     He features in every Christmas TV show and movie. Each year the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) allows you to track Santa’s journey on Christmas Eve. To reassure children during the pandemic in 2020, the World Health Organization issued a statement declaring that Santa was “immune” from Covid 19. And it’s precisely this effort on behalf of parents, and society in general, to create such seemingly overwhelming evidence for the existence of Santa Claus that David Kyle Johnson, a professor of philosophy at King’s College in Pennsylvania, describes as ‘The Santa Lie’ in his book The Myths That Stole Christmas. He highlights how we don’t simply ask children to imagine Santa, but rather to actually believe in him.     3    

The “Santa lie” can reduce trust between a parent and a child.     4     It is the creation of false evidence and convincing kids that bad evidence is in fact good evidence that discourages the kind of critical thinking we should be encouraging in children in this era. “The ‘Santa lie’ is part of a parenting practice that encourages people to believe what they want to believe, simply because of the psychological reward,” says Johnson. “That’s really bad for society in general.”

A．But the biggest danger is the anti-critical thinking lessons that he is teaching.

B．It’s this emphasis on belief over imagination that he sees as harmful.

C．Interestingly, belief in Santa Claus has actually promoted children’s critical thinking.

D．There are plenty of cultural evidences we create for the existence of Santa.

E．He begins to probe and question the things he has seen and heard.

F．Fascinatingly, belief in Santa Claus has remained remarkably consistent.