1 . My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.
My best friend Betsy’s father was a manager at Hough Bakeries, which, at Easter time,
Our
Dad
| A．sold | B．ordered | C．made | D．reserved |
| A．stores | B．families | C．schools | D．citizens |
| A．generous | B．financial | C．technical | D．temporary |
| A．plans | B．problems | C．excuses | D．hobbies |
| A．offer | B．earn | C．set | D．suggest |
| A．worked | B．closed | C．developed | D．survived |
| A．ambition | B．permission | C．experience | D．invitation |
| A．joys | B．ideas | C．roles | D．choices |
| A．Save | B．Keep | C．Stop | D．Remove |
| A．harder | B．better | C．longer | D．cheaper |
| A．Calm down | B．Slow down | C．Stay on | D．Move on |
| A．indicated | B．witnessed | C．expected | D．remembered |
| A．cried | B．smiled | C．hesitated | D．refused |
| A．tasting | B．finding | C．sharing | D．delivering |
| A．withdraw | B．donate | C．receive | D．appreciate |
2 . Simply saying thank you doesn’t seem enough in certain situations. I was considering this while working as a
My thoughts were soon
She was
And there you have it. To many people,
| A．cleaner | B．chemist | C．nurse | D．doctor |
| A．grades | B．meanings | C．needs | D．expectations |
| A．brushed aside | B．put to the test | C．brought under discussion | D．taken into account |
| A．departing | B．escaping | C．retiring | D．recovering |
| A．attempting | B．choosing | C．pausing | D．promising |
| A．eventually | B．fortunately | C．casually | D．secretly |
| A．assessing | B．requiring | C．forming | D．proving |
| A．slightly | B．accidentally | C．slowly | D．happily |
| A．grateful | B．thoughtful | C．sorrowful | D．fearful |
| A．surprise | B．delight | C．curiosity | D．disappointment |
| A．operating | B．thinking | C．hesitating | D．leaving |
| A．sorry | B．hello | C．goodbye | D．yes |
| A．reached | B．consulted | C．introduced | D．persuaded |
| A．wished | B．pretended | C．failed | D．refused |
| A．enjoying | B．doing | C．securing | D．starting |
| A．repeated | B．recited | C．replied | D．reported |
| A．courage | B．patience | C．duty | D．care |
| A．goal | B．given | C．push | D．greeting |
| A．risking | B．changing | C．saving | D．building |
| A．honour | B．ability | C．opening | D．extra |
3 . When I was 9, we packed up our home in Los Angeles and arrived at Heathrow, London on a gray January morning. Everyone in the family settled quickly into the city except me. Without my beloved beaches and endless blue—sky days, I felt at a loss and out of place. Until I made a discovery.
Southbank, at an eastern bend in the Thames, is the center of British skateboarding, where the continuous crashing of skateboards left your head ringing .I loved it. I soon made friends with the local skaters. We spoke our own language. And my favorite: Safe. Safe meant cool. It meant hello. It meant don’t worry about it. Once, when trying a certain trick on the beam(横杆), I fell onto the stones, damaging a nerve in my hand, and Toby came over, helping me up: Safe, man. Safe. A few minutes later, when I landed the trick, my friends beat their boards loud, shouting: “ Safe! Safe! Safe!” And that’s what mattered—landing tricks, being a good skater.
When I was 15, my family moved to Washington. I tried skateboarding there, but the locals were far less welcoming. Within a couple of years, I’d given it up.
When I returned to London in 2004, I found myself wandering down to Southbank, spending hours there. I’ve traveled back several times since, most recently this past spring. The day was cold but clear: tourists and Londoners stopped to watch the skaters. Weaving(穿梭)among the kids who rushed by on their boards, I found my way to the beam. Then a rail—thin teenager, in a baggy white T—shirt, skidded(滑)up to the beam. He sat next to me. He seemed not to notice the man next to him. But soon I caught a few of his glances. “I was a local here 20 years ago,” I told him. Then, slowly, he began to nod his head. “Safe, man. Safe.”
“Yeah,” I said. “Safe.”
1. What can we learn about the author soon after he moved to London?| A．He felt disappointed. | B．He gave up his hobby. |
| C．He liked the weather there. | D．He had disagreements with his family. |
| A．Be careful! | B．Well done! | C．No way! | D．Don’t worry! |
| A．To join the skateboarding. | B．To make new friends. |
| C．To learn more tricks. | D．To relive his childhood days |
| A．Children should learn a second language. |
| B．Sport is necessary for children’s health. |
| C．Children need a sense of belonging |
| D．Seeing the world is a must for children. |
4 . It’s the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.
Burchill was
That’s when things went
Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).
“I have
His letter
| A．studying | B．staying | C．looking | D．packing |
| A．visit | B．help | C．follow | D．make |
| A．sell | B．have | C．bring | D．taste |
| A．filled | B．locked | C．abandoned | D．lost |
| A．surprised | B．pleased | C．excited | D．worried |
| A．dug | B．cleared | C．cut | D．laid |
| A．delicious | B．safe | C．soft | D．ready |
| A．left | B．nodded | C．waited | D．regretted |
| A．far | B．funny | C．wrong | D．blind |
| A．beach | B．driveway | C．hall | D．table |
| A．application | B．apology | C．request | D．invitation |
| A．hungry | B．dead | C．missing | D．wild |
| A．wake up | B．get out | C．take off | D．break in |
| A．mess | B．puzzle | C．fight | D．challenge |
| A．recovered | B．retired | C．escaped | D．matured |
| A．suffering | B．plans | C．madness | D．actions |
| A．hands in pocket | B．nose in the air | C．hat in hand | D．feet on the ground |
| A．indirectly | B．deliberately | C．cautiously | D．secretly |
| A．replace | B．remember | C．reconsider | D．renew |
| A．arrived | B．worked | C．ended | D．disappeared |
5 . My long-distance cycling career of 13 years and 35, 000 kilometres ended as I approached 75. Although I am now no longer strong enough to
The road behind is just memories, some soon to be forgotten, others to be
Real
Long distance cycling brings unbearable exhaustion, long hours of anxiety, even fear and desperation, but these
Most importantly, cycling taught me to know myself better. It eventually dawned on me that I had more
| A．appreciate | B．choose | C．expect | D．stand |
| A．treasured | B．explored | C．created | D．discussed |
| A．boring | B．annoying | C．confusing | D．discouraging |
| A．overcomes | B．greets | C．throws | D．ignores |
| A．loneliness | B．joy | C．convenience | D．panic |
| A．making | B．changing | C．beating | D．finalizing |
| A．reasonably | B．admittedly | C．fortunately | D．hopefully |
| A．battling | B．slipping | C．falling | D．wandering |
| A．owned | B．offered | C．mentioned | D．promised |
| A．fit | B．pale | C．run | D．back |
| A．reflection | B．anticipation | C．satisfaction | D．motivation |
| A．secrets | B．rules | C．decisions | D．dimensions |
| A．reliable | B．flexible | C．inaccessible | D．unforgettable |
| A．toughness | B．curiosity | C．imagination | D．wisdom |
| A．insight | B．knowledge | C．power | D．admiration |
I and the other fifty girls sat on the chairs in the gym of my middle school.We waited there for the coach to give the results of the competition for roles as cheerleaders (啦啦队队员)．One by one, each girl left her seat, jumping up and down as their number was called out. “Will I be one of them?” I wondered. I was getting more nervous, and each second felt like a century.
“Number seventeen.” the coach called out. Hearing it, I jumped right away from my seat. And I ran over to stand next to the girls who had been chosen to be cheerleaders. We smiled and hugged each other because we became members of the 10girl cheerleading team.
During the following days, I and the other nine cheerleaders practiced for the performance. We were dressed in our blue uniforms before the upcoming sports meet. It was going to be held on a Friday morning. However, the night before the sports meet, I got very nervous, and worried what if I made a mess in the performance. I tried to comfort myself, “You can make it. Just calm down and relax.” The next morning, my parents left home for work and I hurried to go to school.
Unluckily, when I arrived at school, I found the other nine cheerleaders were all in their white uniforms. But I was still in my blue uniform. At once I realized I had made a mistake: wearing the wrong uniform. There was not much time left before the cheerleading performance started. What should I do? Both my team members and the coach were worried. Then a cheerleader called Tammy offered to help me. She said, “My home is quite close to our school.Maybe I could give my mother a call. She is at home now. She could drive Jane to her home, so Jane can change her uniform quickly.”
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The coach allowed Tammy to give it a try.
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I joined the other girls for the cheerleading performance.
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I’ve had my fair share of travelling around China, and a recent week-long trip to Guizhou was my first time to the province. I tried looking up the meaning and significance of the name Guizhou before the trip,
Last year, China’s League of Legends Pro League (LPL) English broadcast expanded its live show
Xia An was a student majoring in philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in 2019 when she applied for the position. After fierce competition, she got the job doing translation work for LPL. At the beginning of last year,
“I had studied in Singapore since 2012 and easily picked up English because all the courses were taught in the language. As for Korean, I was interested in K-pop and watched a lot of LCK
“Also, since I was interested in E-sports, and Mandarin, English and Korean
“During the interviews, I’m not representing myself
9 . When my son first began competing in school chess tournaments, I often chatted with other parents. Occasionally, I would ask if they played chess themselves. Normally, the reply was no. When I volunteered that I was learning to play, their tone was cheerfully joking, “Good luck with that!” If this game is so good, why are adults ignoring it? Seeing someone playing smart phone games, I preferred to say, “Why are you having your kids do chess while you play?”
Sure, we parents had work to do, work that helped pay for the lessons our kids were enjoying. But I was also wondering if we were sending an unnoticeable message that learning was for the young. During one tournament, I saw a group of parents playing chess! Just then, a group of kids passed me, “Why are adults learning chess?” One asked, in an apparently joking tone.
I was tired of sitting on the sidelines. I wanted in, and that is why I got a membership card and started throwing myself in. “Early on, I was nervous, even the master can sometimes play badly,” as one Grandmaster put it “a fan never”. And a fan I was. It was three hours of concentration and thinking with my phone off. It felt like a gym where I was trained to solve problems with focus, memory, logic, and occasional headaches. And of course hours of absence of digital devices would never be no good for thinking sharply.
Being a beginner can be hard at any age, but it gets harder when you are older. The phrase “adult beginner” has an fairly gentle pity. It implies the learning of something that you should have perhaps already learned.
1. What can we learn about other parents from their remarks?| A．They were ignoring other learners. |
| B．They agreed on the idea of learning chess. |
| C．They thought it odd for an adult to learn chess. |
| D．They gave congratulations to the adult lessons. |
| A．Laughable. | B．Unimaginable. | C．Understandable. | D．Sensible. |
| A．Not being noticed. | B．Not being involved. |
| C．Expressing confusing ideas. | D．Following what others do. |
| A．It helped him remain calm. | B．It helped him train his brain. |
| C．It made him proud of himself. | D．It made him look rather funny. |
As a child, I clearly remembered watching the PBS cartoon character Arthur get glasses. The poor guy felt ashamed and was laughed at by other kids due to his glasses. So I was thankful that I had good eyesight.
However, when I entered the eighth grade, I could no longer see very clearly the writing on the blackboard. Luckily, I was usually seated in the front of the classroom, and my study was not affected. So I didn't turn to glasses.
During my first year in high school, my eyesight became poorer. My eyes were examined, and the doctor determined that my eyesight was quite bad. I would either have to wear glasses full time, or try contact lenses (隐形眼镜). Since I had watched the cartoon character Arthur before, I was afraid to be judged by others due to my glasses — it made me believe the glasses would affect a person’s beauty. And being a teenage girl, I cared much about my self-image. Besides, at that time, there were few students around me wearing glasses. So I chose to wear contact lenses. I felt they would not affect my appearance. On the contrary, they would make me more attractive. And after wearing contact lenses, my entire world was transformed. Trees actually had leaves. People around me showed clear expressions. I was overjoyed at my new-found sight and appearance, and I had more self-confidence.
But when my junior year came along, I began to have trouble with my eyes. Once in a while, the contact lenses would irritate (刺激) my eyes, almost to the point where the pain was unbearable. It would take me thirty minutes just to get the lenses in comfortably every day, which made me so upset. With time going by, the pain only got worse.
In spite of endless visits to the hospital, my doctor found nothing wrong with my eyes. He tried countless mediations to ease my pain, However, none of them worked, and there was nothing left to try.
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He suggested that I wear my glasses full-time. __________________________
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Later in my summer camp, I met a very outgoing girl who also wore glasses.
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