1 . Do you think you need to shout at yourself to force yourself to finish your homework? If so, think again.    1     Research shows that practicing self-compassion (自我关怀) improves our mental and physical well-being and supports long-term success.

Self-compassion is the practice of being kind and supportive to ourselves. The opposite is being self-critical and mean to ourselves when we make a mistake.     2     These negative responses are related to depression, stress and reduced quality of life.

A 2017 study found people who practice self-compassion tend to handle stress better. Their bodies have less of a stress response when, for example, they meet with difficulties at work or school.     3     Let’s say they do poorly on a geometry test. Self-compassion helps them use the experience to make changes going forward, like seeking out a math tutor.

    4     We can start with mindfulness. First of all, practice observing our thoughts — are they understanding or critical? Don’t judge ourselves too severely then. Rather than getting caught up in how we could have done better, forgive ourselves and think about what to change while remaining respectful, and loving to ourselves.     5     We can read a novel, play a musical instrument or kick around a soccer ball with friends.

With practice, we can learn to treat ourselves with kindness and unconditional love — not tough love.

A．So how do we develop self-compassion?

B．It may be more effective to be kind to yourself.

C．It includes letting go of your strict self-criticism.

D．Mindfulness is the key to practicing self-compassion.

E．But this approach does not make us feel or perform better.

F．They have more confidence to look for areas where they can improve.

G．Also, show ourselves kindness in ways that nourish (滋养) our spirit and body.

2 . Students at West Side Elementary School in California, with the help of their art teacher, created a telephone hotline to offer cheerful advice during difficult times. In just days, the hotline began getting thousands of calls an hour. The hotline, available in English and Spanish, offers the happy voices of children of different ages sharing positive messages.

Most people agree that with concerns like Covid-19, extreme weather, and the climate crisis, the last years have been stressful.

“To hear the pure joy from kids is extremely comforting in these difficult times,” art teacher Jessica Martin says.

Ms. Martin called the project “Pep Talk”, which later changed to “PepToc” to draw an ad for the hotline. The project had two parts, one the hotline, and the other creating encouraging posters. Along with artist Asherah, she worked with students from kindergarten to sixth grade. Students working on the hotline thought of what they would like to say. When they were ready, Ms. Martin recorded each one. Later, she sorted out the recordings into the different parts of the telephone hotline. For example, pressing 2 results in words of encouragement and life advice. This includes messages like: “The world is a better place with you in it.” and “You are okay!” Pressing 4, you hear the sounds of children laughing — a sound certain to bring a smile to anyone’s face. Other students took part in making encouraging posters to hang up around the town. Many posters had strips of paper that people passing by could tear off and take with them.

Ms. Martin thought the project would attract interest from people near the school. But word of the hotline spread quickly on social media. The hotline has become popular with stressed adults, patients in hospitals, older people in homes, and others to beat stress by hearing the happy voices of children.

1. What’s the purpose of the telephone hotline?

A．To get people to express themselves.

B．To provide a way for people to cheer up.

C．To inspire children to face difficulties.

D．To have children learn foreign cultures.

2. Why was the name changed to “PepToc”?

A．To satisfy the need of an advertisement.

B．To make it attractive to people of all ages.

C．To add to the humorous effect of the hotline.

D．To show the work value of Ms. Martin.

3. What did Ms. Martin do after making the recordings?

A．She sorted out the most cheerful information.

B．She advertised them in the local radio station.

C．She put them into different parts for the hotline.

D．She added children’s laughter as the background.

4. What can we infer about the hotline from the last paragraph?

A．It will grow popular all over the city.

B．It greatly reduces people’s loneliness.

C．It puts ads in media for its existence.

D．It can help people deal with stress.

3 . 假定你是学生会主席李华，你校英语社团排练的话剧King Lear在市话剧比赛中获得二等奖。请根据下面的信息，给提供帮助的外教Susan写封邮件。

Aim	express one’s heartfelt thanks to…
Details	·win the second prize in our city ·thanks for your generous support and patient guidance ·spend countless hours perfecting our pronunciation and analyzing the characters in the play
Thanks and wishes	·appreciate your generous help ·wish I could repay it one day

注意：1.词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数;
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Susan,

I am Li Hua, chairman of the Student Union.

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4 . 根据上下文内容，将文中划线部分译成汉语或者英语。

Anger is a kind of feeling.    1     很多事情能使你愤怒。When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, and when a friend borrows your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get really angry.

    2     Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe faster, your face turns red, and you may want to break something or hit someone, but sometimes, you hide your anger.

For example, you may hide it in your heart. he problem is that if you do this, you may get a headache or your stomach may hurt.

In fact, it’s not good to hide your anger, and it’s normal for you to get angry sometimes.     3     But anger must be let out in the right way, ithout hurting others or yourself.

When you get angry, you can talk about it with other people. It’s helpful to talk about your anger with an adult such as parents, a teacher, etc.     4     When you talk about anger, those bad feelings can start to go away. Here are some other things you can do when you start to feel angry: talk to a good friend; count from 1 to 100; give someone a hug; go for a bike ride; think about good things, etc.

Remember that how you act when you are angry can make everything better or worse.    5     不要让你的愤怒控制你。

5 . I was in first grade in Mrs. Bauer’s class at a time when elementary schools held student gift swaps. I was to _______ toys with Paul, a boy I knew little about.

I bought a Matchbox car for Paul. After all, all boys _________ such toys. However, the gift Paul _________ for me was a small plastic Santa Claus on green snow skis. It surely cost much less.

As Paul and other boys raced their new Matchbox cars delightedly in the classroom, I tried to hold back hot tears. Though I felt _________, I started racing my skiing Santa alongside the Matchbox cars. Truthfully, I wasn’t trying to erase any _________ Paul might have felt for giving such a cheap gift. I _________ didn’t want to feel left out.

When school was over, Mrs. Bauer asked me to remain behind for a moment. I sat _________ at my desk, having no idea what I’d done wrong. When we were alone, she said to me with great _________, “I’m proud of you for not showing your _________. That would have hurt Paul’s feelings. You gave him a very nice __________ that made him cheerful, and you should be __________ about that.” Mrs. Bauer’s message, which I didn’t fully __________ at that time, was that it is better to give than to receive.

Afterwards, I became __________ with Paul. I found his socks always had holes in them. He shared a tiny bedroom with two sisters, and his dad had died. That skiing Santa might have been all Paul could __________ to give. I suddenly realized it was far more __________ than any other gift.

1.

A．arrange

B．exchange

C．create

D．share

2.

A．needed

B．identified

C．possessed

D．loved

3.

A．took apart

B．put away

C．picked out

D．checked up

4.

A．excited

B．sorrowful

C．concerned

D．proud

5.

A．amusement

B．punishment

C．puzzlement

D．embarrassment

6.

A．generally

B．simply

C．eventually

D．instantly

7.

A．nervously

B．shyly

C．comfortably

D．casually

8.

A．respect

B．courage

C．kindness

D．confidence

9.

A．shame

B．regret

C．intention

D．disappointment

10.

A．toy

B．tool

C．decoration

D．prize

11.

A．certain

B．hopeful

C．happy

D．serious

12.

A．understand

B．assess

C．remember

D．ignore

13.

A．strict

B．content

C．popular

D．familiar

14.

A．afford

B．choose

C．expect

D．agree

15.

A．useful

B．fashionable

C．precious

D．necessary

6 . 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。

Joe worked as a night watchman in a factory after he graduated from high school. It was a lonely job, but he was content. He stopped by the beach every day on his way home to watch the sunrise.

One day, he was walking on the beach when he noticed a bottle in the surf. Joe picked it up and saw a roll of paper inside it. His heart beat fast. He removed the lid and opened the letter. “Hi! My name is Ritchie. I’m sending this message in the hope that somebody will find it and become my friend.”

It saddened Joe to think of this boy waiting and hoping somebody would answer his message. He took his cell phone from his pocket and dialed the number written near the bottom of the page.

However, the number didn’t exist anymore. Joe was determined to find Ritchie, so he went straight to the city library for help. A librarian took him to a section of the library that felt deserted. There, she pointed him to the shelves filled with old telephone books. She sat down with him, and they searched the telephone books for Ritchie’s phone number together. Two hours later, the librarian let out an excited scream. “I found him!”

“Thank you,” Joe said, quickly copying down the address. He immediately headed for the address from the phone book. He almost screamed when he saw that the house at the address had been transformed into a hair salon. Joe stared at the sign. He held the message from the bottle in one fist and the paper with the address in the other. He walked in and explained everything to the barber. “Ritchie was born with disabilities. He has been using a wheelchair since he was a kid. Well, he’s an old man now. If you still want to find him, I hear he’s at the Serenity nursing home.” Joe thanked the man and drove to the nursing home.

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。

After asking to see Ritchie, Joe was shown to a sunlit room.

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One day, Joe received a call, learning that Ritchie had passed away the previous night.

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7 . Anger is a natural feeling that everyone experiences in life. Some researchers believe the first sound a baby makes when born could be a sign of anger. Anger may be the first feeling we have and respond to. It’s in many cases a perfectly healthy feeling. Anger can cause people to make very positive changes in their lives. Sometimes we have to be angry at injustice (不公正), at wrong doings, or even at nature, before we can do what needs to be done to correct wrongs or make things better. But of course, that is not how we usually think of anger.

Most people think of anger as a feeling we must keep under control. Children are sometimes sent to their rooms or punished for expressing anger in an uncontrolled way. Parents tell a child to control himself when the child shows anger. We may be angry with friends or at work, but we know it’s not right to show it. Very early in life, we learn that anger is something that must be controlled.

We learn this for a good reason. Uncontrolled anger can lead to fights, car accidents, bad relationships with others, unacceptable social behavior, and many other problems. However, many experts say that if one suppresses his anger, he may suffer serious mental and physical health problems. So what can we do to understand and calm this feeling?

One solution is to talk about it with someone we trust, for example, a good friend. We can also try to walk away from a situation that causes anger, ask a doctor for advice, or just exercise more in our daily life. And of course we may have many other methods. Whatever solution we choose, as long as we are trying to find the solution to the problem, we have already taken the first step in the right direction.

1. According to Paragraph 1, anger can _____.

A．lead to justice	B．keep us healthy
C．help us tell right from wrong	D．help us make things better

2. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?

A．We are taught to control anger.

B．Anger appears early in life.

C．We shouldn’t get angry at work.

D．Angry children should be punished.

3. The underlined word “suppresses” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.

A．holds in

B．takes in

C．expresses

D．understands

4. Which of the following can help deal with anger?

A．Excellent physical health.

B．A talk with a close friend.

C．Some exercises given by teachers.

D．A good relationship with others.

5. What does the author think of anger?

A．Anger shown by children is unacceptable.

B．Anger leads to deadly mental and physical illnesses.

C．Anger can be a healthy feeling and need be treated properly.

D．Anger builds up relationships with our friends or workmates.

8 . 假如你是李华，周末学校布置了劳动作业，要求学生选择给父母做一顿饭、洗一次衣服或者打扫家里的卫生。请给你的外国朋友John写一封email，交流你做家务的体会。内容要点如下：
1. 完成的情况；
2.父母的评价；
3. 其他。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已为你写好。
Dear John,
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Yours,

Li Hua

9 . Teen anger takes many forms. What we can see is the expression of it — the behavior. Teenagers will continue their behavior, until they decide to find out the roots (根源) of their anger, which is usually caused by something going on in a teen’s life.

Teen anger can be a frightening feeling, which can destroy lives and relationships, hurt others, affect (影响) health, and cloud futures. But there is a positive aspect, as it can show that a problem exists and can help us face our issues.

Teenager face a lot of emotional (情感的) issues during this period of development. They’re faced with doubts of identity, relationships, and independence. The relationship between teens and their parents is also changing as teens become more and more independent. This can bring about anger for both parents and teens.

So what can teens and parents do? Listen to your teen and focus on feelings. Try to understand the situation from his or her opinion. Blaming (责备) only builds up more walls and ends all communication. Tell them how you feel, stick to facts, and deal with the present moment. Show that you care and show your love. Remember that anger is the feeling and behavior is the choice. Unless we work to change our own behavior, we cannot help another change their behavior.

1. Which of the following is NOT true about teen anger?

A．Teenagers show the anger in many forms.

B．Teen anger can’t show that a problem exists.

C．Teen anger can destroy lives and relationships.

D．Teenagers face emotional issues when growing.

2. What should parents do according to the last paragraph?

A．Listen to their children.	B．Focus on children’s mistakes.
C．End all communication.	D．Deal with the past moment.

3. What doubts are teenagers faced with?

A．Classmates and homework.	B．Relationships and health.
C．Identity and independence.	D．Communication and study.

4. Which is the best title of the text?

A．How to Describe Teen Anger?	B．How to Deal with Teen Anger?
C．How to Be Good Parents?	D．How to Communicate with Parents?

10 . 阅读下列文本，在空白处填入适当的单词(部分空有首字母或中文提示)。

When you enter an unfamiliar environment, what do you feel? Do you second-guess yourself? Although confident people are not immune from self-doubt, they enjoy a strong s    1    of safety, clarity, and trust in themselves.

Studies indicate that confident people tend to be healthier and live longer. It could be due to the    2    (积极的) effects of emotions associated with confidence, happiness and     3    (满足，满意). People who l    4    confidence often struggle with emotions like fear,    5    (忧郁，沮丧), and anxiety, which will harm health. Confidence can also help you with fitness goals.