2 . 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。

Students looking forward to     1     (study) magic and the occult (神秘学) could soon pursue an academic program. According to     2     Guardian, the University of Exeter in the UK will offer a Master’s Degree in Magic and Occult Science.

The program will begin holding courses in September 2024. As the UK’s first postgraduate program in magic,     3     will combine the study of the history of magic with a wide range of other subjects such as history, philosophy and drama     4     (show) the role of magic in both the West and the East.

Emily Selove, the leader of the program, said that as yet there     5     (be) a lot of interest in the course, with the university receiving more than 100     6     (inquiry).

The goal of the program is to help students develop skills such as creative and     7     (analysis) thinking, curiosity, and a commitment     8     lifelong learning.

“This course will allow people to re-examine the     9     (assume) that the West is the place of rationalism and science     10     the rest of the world is a place of magic and superstition,” Selove told the BBC.

4 . Directions: After reading the passage belows fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Though a student’s complaint that a question is too hard might be more a matter of effort than ability, it is true       1    some questions are just harder than others. The difficulty of a question or assignment comes down to the level of critical thinking it requires.

        Simple skills such as identifying a state capital are quick and easy to assess, while complex skills such as the construction of a hypothesis are more difficult     2    (quantify). Bloom’s taxonomy(认知分类)     3    be used to make the process of categorizing questions by difficulty easier and more straightforward.

Blooms taxonomy is a long-standing cognitive framework that categorizes critical reasoning in order to help educators set more well-    4    (define) learning goals. Benjamin Bloom,     5     American educational psychologist, developed this pyramid to define levels of critical thinking required by a task. Since its inception in the 1950s and revision in 2001, Bloom’s Taxonomy     6     (give)teachers a common vocabulary for naming specific skills required for proficiency.

There are six levels in the taxonomy that each     7    (represent) distinct levels of abstraction. The bottom level includes the most basic cognition and the     8    (high) level includes the most intellectual and complicated thinking. The idea behind this theory is that students cannot be successful in applying higher-order thinking to a topic     9    they have first mastered a ladder of rudimentary tasks.

The goal of education is to create thinkers and doers. Bloom’s taxonomy gives a path to follow from the beginning of a concept or skill to its end, or to the point       10    students can think creatively about a topic and solve problems for themselves. Learn to incorporate all levels of the framework into your teaching and lesson plans in order to scaffold(提供支架) the learning that your students are doing.

6 . 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。

When Juni Stefanus Santoso from Indonesia rode a camel in a desert in Dunhuang, Gansu Province — an important cultural center on the Silk Road     1     cultures from the East and the West met and mixed hundreds of years ago — he felt like he was “stepping into another world” that was foreign, and very different from his previous     2     (impress) of China.

On a four-day trip to Dunhuang in late April, Santoso, together with other foreign students, mostly from nations along the Silk Road,     3     (be ) on a cultural journey to explore the desert landscape, to visit the local museum, the Mogao Caves and craftsmen,     4     to communicate with students from the Dunhuang College of Northwest Normal University. All of these activities offered the 23-year-old Indonesian an impressive experience,     5     which he could learn the culture of ancient China.

“It was so     6     (amaze). It’s like another side of the country,” says Santoso. Before he came to China, he thought it was a country full of technology-related companies — an impression that was supported by the fast and convenient technology-     7     (drive) services that came to be a part of his daily life when he moved to Tianjin.

“I was impressed by China’s science and technologies before coming to China. You can do everything on your phone,” says Santoso,     8     (refer) to services like electronic payment and online shopping.

The cultural trip, however, showed Santoso a view of China     9     art and goods were transported along the Silk Road more than a thousand years ago. The young man said he     10     (teach) a little bit about the Silk Road in his middle school history class.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Since last year a fascinating new phenomenon     1     (sweep) through major cities across China — the explosive rise of night schools catering to young professionals. Usually with one class a week, these schools offer short learning courses regarding     2     (subject) from dancing to vocal training, from traditional handicrafts, beauty, and fitness classes, to wine tasting and vlog filming, and the list of possibilities for new learning experiences is seemingly     3     (limit).

The pacesetter has been the Shanghai Night School, which offers 12 classes     4     (lead) by masters in their fields for only 500RMB ($70). When Shanghai’s autumn 2023 semester enrollment began, a striking number of students, approximately 650, 000,    5    (immediate) flooded on to the registration website. Soon the trend     6     (follow) by some major cities like Beijing, Xi’an, and Shenzhen, which launched their own distinctive night schools.

These night schools do not just provide standard academic content,     7     are tapping into the personal passions and unfulfilled dreams of China’s urban youth. Yang Song, a student at Shanghai Night School, said, “I have many hobbies and I want to learn all the things     8     I didn’t take the time to learn when I was studying in the past.”

For ambitious yet overworked urban professionals, these schools also promise self-cultivation, community bonding, and most importantly, a happy environment     9     (lack) in the irregular workplaces, which seems to offer an escape     10     the burnout workplaces, even only for a few hours each week.

9 . 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。

All kids desire more screen time. Code. org wants to make that time     1     (meaning) and fun by sharing online coding (编程) classes for kids of all ages     2     skill levels —all for free.

From pre-K to high school, kids can learn how to build video games and smartphone apps. It     3     (be) all thanks to the easy-to-follow course instruction. The time     4     (spend) learning how to problem-solve may one day lead to careers (事业) focused on high-tech innovation (创新), according to Beth Nickel     5     leads the program.

Nickel says that there are many     6     (advantage) for parents who sign up, too. “You can talk the same language if you know that they are working on an activity or an app, and you can share a common language. They also have     7     whole lot of really fun hands-on interactive activities, where families and students can create     8     (they) own game or app using the resources that Code. org offers.”

The creators of Code. org have a mission of     9     (get) computer science into the hands of students, teachers, and educators to help build a general     10     (understand) . Nickel shares that programs like this will help to build the talent pool needed to fill Arizona’s high-tech jobs of the future.