1 . 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。

In 2023, Indonesia started Southeast Asia’s first-ever high-speed rail line that connects two of its biggest cities, Jakarta and Bandung. The $7.3 billion project, largely funded and built by Chinese firms, opened to the public on October 2nd. The builders planned     1     (complete) the project in 2019 but they had to face many operational difficulties and delayed.

Videos taken     2     board and shared on social media showed off the large air-conditioned cabin inside and clear window views of the Indonesian countryside as the train     3     (speed) off. The 142-kilometer high-speed rail line, officially named WHOOSH,     4     stands for “time saving, optimal (优化) operation, reliable system” in Indonesian, runs on electricity with no direct carbon emissions and travels at a speed of     5     (rough) 350 kilometers per hour,     6     (cut) travel time between Jakarta and Bandung from three hours to under     7     (little) than an hour.

The trains, modified for Indonesia’s tropical climate, are equipped with a safety system that can respond to earthquakes, floods and other emergency     8     (condition). The train has eight cars, all equipped with Wi-Fi and USB charging points, and     9     (seat) 601 passengers.

The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway will not only improve Indonesian infrastructure (基础设施)     10     promote the development of Indonesia’s railroad and manufacturing industries.

5 . 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。

During the Tang Dynasty, poet Li Bai wrote a poem about the tough journey to Shu, comparing it to scaling the vast blue sky. The Shu Roads are named     1     the ancient state of Shu. The builders of the expressway     2    (link) Jigzhi County in Qinghai Province to Barkam County in Sichuan Province know how complex it is to build a road in the region.

Extending for 219 kilometers, the expressway lies at     3     height of over 3,300 metres. This means that the annual average temperature is just 1.4°C, and can drop as low as -36℃. Since the construction began in 2020, this extreme climate     4    (limit) work to roughly six months a year. The     5    (hard) section was the 5.5-km Shenzuo tunnel, running through weak and jointed rock masses and     6    (exceptional) complicated land conditions. Ma Kelin, the only female project manager, has learned a tough lesson since she joined the project. It took her over a month     7    (recover) from vomiting and breathlessness.

The expressway, with an     8    (invest) of 30.2 billion yuan, will open to traffic by the end of next year. Many of those     9     live along its length are waiting, expecting it to contribute to economic development. The local authority plans an area of 12 square kilometers for potential     10    (tourist) attracted by the new road.

6 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

China’s first domestically made passenger jet (喷气式飞机)     1     (fly) its first successful commercial flight on Sunday,     2     (mark) a milestone in the nation’s decades-long effort to compete with industry giants such as Boeing and Airbus in the global aircraft market.

The C919 plane, carrying about 130 passengers on the flight, was built by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC).     3     (operate) by state-owned China Eastern Airlines, the jet took     4     on Sunday morning from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and landed less than two hours later in Beijing. Passengers received special red boarding passes     5     enjoyed a themed meal to commemorate the flight.

“I’m confident about the plane. The flight was     6     (smooth) than expected,” one of the passengers said.

The flight comes as COMAC seeks     7     (break) into the jet market in a direct challenge to Airbus and Boeing. Airbus’s A320 and Boeing’s B737 jets are the most popular aircraft     8     (typical) used on domestic and regional routes.

The C919,     9     had been in development for 16 years, has a maximum range of about 5,630 kilometers and is designed to carry between 158 and 168 passengers. It made its first flight in 2017 and had conducted numerous test     10     (flight) before Sunday’s first commercial flight. The company plans to build 150 C919 planes each year in the next five years. Over 1,200 C919 jets have been ordered, COMAC says.

7 . It was not until photographer Rita Nannini left New York that she grew fascinated by the city’s subways. While living in Manhattan for some 15 years in the 1980s and early 1990s, Nannini only commuted (通勤) on the one train-given the subway system’s bad reputation. But after relocating to New Jersey for several years where subway is not an option, Nannini found that absence did make the heart grow fonder — maybe even for pizza rats. During her visit back to New York, Nannini nodded, noticing improvements in the subway’s facilities.

While Nannini was waiting for a train, a bench on the platform opposite caught her attention due to the ever changing faces and characters. They were people of different accents, colors and beliefs. They were from all walks of life, a diverse mix of New Yorkers all there for their own different reasons. Having learned the teenagers’ popular “End of the Line” challenge — boarding trains at random and riding them until their final destination; Nannini decided to visit every first and last stop across the NY subway’s lines with her beloved camera.

Nannini’s “End of the Line” experience saw her traveling some 665 miles across 26 routes in New York city. She took over 8,000 photos of the final stations, as well as the communities they served. In many cases, she rode the routes two or three times over to ensure she got “the shot”. “The project really shows me how important the subway is, and how sustainable it makes our lives,” she said

“It’s often said that my photos show the end of the lines — the last stops,” she said. “But theend of the line is indeed the start for so many people. That made me think about who the people and the communities that live at the two ends are and what it is that the subway means to them.”

Nannini was proud of her set of images directly challenging the traditions of story telling, which echoed both the boredom and excitement of travel on tracks.

Nannini enjoyed taking her time, starting her challenge in 2013 and only shooting the final photos last year. Her first monograph on the terminal stops of the NY subway was released in April 2023.

“When you drive in the suburbs, you don’t have those encounters,” she continued. “People enter your life on the subway. That’s what strikes me most on my jouney on tracks.”

1. How did Nannini find the New York subway during her revisit?

A．It tumed out fine.

B．It was depressing.

C．It still held the same bad reputation.

D．It would be her only commuting option.

2. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The diversity of New Yorkers’ daily life.

B．The inspiration for Nannini’s subway shots.

C．The popularity of “End of the Line” challenge.

D．The challenges of Nannini’s job as a photographer.

3. What can we infer from Nannini’s “End of the Line” experience?

A．Her way of telling stories is traditional.

B．She expressed sympathy for the subway riders.

C．Her photography is highly expected by the encounters.

D．She found life on tracks was more interesting than life on wheels.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．“End of the Line” Challenge: A New Trend in NY Subways

B．The Road Home: Rita Nannini’s Record of her Subway Ride

C．Last Stop to New Start: A Photographer’s Rediscovery of NY Subways

D．New Yorkers’ Routine: A Surprising Mixture of Boredom andExcitement

10 . 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。

Hundreds of kids and parents are riding their bikes to school every Friday in Barcelona, Spain. They are part of a unique bike bus—bicibus in Spanish. It all    1    (begin) in the Eixample District of Barcelona when five families were looking for a safe and    2    (environmental) friendly way to get to school. Then it mushroomed.

The bicibus operates just like a school bus with three    3    (stop) along the way for the riders to join and then it stops at several schools in the district. Every week, the organizers publish the route and post    4    to social media so that the families know where    5    (join) the bus. The route is a very busy road    6    20,000 vehicles usually ride every day. It is a    7    (danger) road for kids to go along to school, even    8    (accompany)by their parents.

While these types of bikeways already exist in other parts of Barcelona, they are absent in this neighborhood. The parents of the community are hoping that the city will create school-friendly bikeways that are separated     9    the main road.

“Bicycles are a means of transportation. If the population uses their bikes, there will be a healthier, quieter     10    overall better city to live in,” parent Mireia Boix said.