1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the prime minister attempting to do?

A．Pass some new laws.

B．Visit some of the foreigners.

C．Calculate the number of foreigners.

2. How many foreigners are there in the country right now?

A．About 50,000.

B．About 500,000.

C．About 5,000,000.

3. What do the foreigners do in the country?

A．Most do business and some do service or labor work.

B．Many do service or labor work and many study.

C．Most study and some do business.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the population of Ottawa?

A．More than 1,100,000.

B．More than 2,000,000.

C．More than 300,000,000.

2. What do we know about Ottawa?

A．It is divided into two parts by a bridge.

B．It is the fifth largest city of Canada.

C．Its public transportation is good.

3. What’s the size of America?

A．9, 500, 000 square kilometers.

B．9, 050, 000 square kilometers.

C．950, 000 square kilometers.

4. Who are having the conversation?

A．Two Americans.

B．Two Canadians.

C．A Canadian and an American.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who is the speaker talking to?

A．Tourists.

B．Students.

C．Writers.

2. What are the places where people park cars in the UK?

A．Parking lots.

B．Car lots.

C．Car parks.

3. What is the speaker’s opinion of British humor?

A．It is dry.

B．It is boring.

C．It is obvious.

4. What are compared between the two cultures in the end?

A．The numbers of artists.

B．Styles of buildings.

C．Standards of living.

4 . 语法填空

You get to choose: Do you want to use your life to make the world a better place     1     people, animals and the environment? Do you want to make Roots & Shoots rooted in everyone’s heart? Do you want to be a part of a community for a     2    (share) future? You cannot be absent. It is by    3    (act) together, in this exciting way, that we can involve thousands — millions — of people, and this is     4     is going to change the world.

5 . 语法填空

Ancient Rome began as a small village, possibly     1     (build) in the 8th century BCE, which then grew to become one of the most powerful civilizations in history.

The Romans developed their own system of writing numbers     2     (call) Roman numerals. We still use Roman numerals today on clock faces.

The Romans were also excellent engineers and architects who built impressive stadiums, temples and statues. They also built many hard-surfaced roads to other countries and       3     (develop) advanced heating systems.

6 . 语法填空

When we talk about ancient Greece,     1     (know) as “the birthplace of Western civilization”, we usually mean the years between 800 BCE and 146 BCE when there was a lot of cultural, social and scientific progress.

Ancient Greek literature and poetry are still popular today. You can find Greek myths (神话)     2     (study) by school children worldwide. The Olympic Games,     3     (hold) in Greece in 776 BCE for the first time, still take place every four years.

7 . COVID-19 shutdowns forced people out of work and pushed tens of millions into poverty worldwide. Governments tried hard to provide aid. It was easy in a small country, but difficult for a country with large population and vast rural areas.     1     Doing a detailed, nationwide, house-to-house survey takes people time and money. Luckily, satellites can see poverty from space.

Researchers have been finding ways to identify areas of wealth and poverty in satellite images. Through some satellite data and aerial images of one town or another, you can sort of tell whether it’s wealthy or not. Wealthier homes tend to have metal roofs while poor homes tend to have thatched roofs. Wealthier neighborhoods have paved roads and bigger plots of lands, more spaced out.     2     The researchers trained artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize these patterns.

    3     The researchers put AI to work studying patterns of mobile phone use in those regions. Rich people will make just more phone calls than poor people. They also might make more expensive international calls. They might use more mobile data because they have smartphones.     4    

The researchers use the system to identify about 60,000 people to receive benefits. The advantage of the satellite imagery and phone data approach is that it’s extremely fast and very convenient.     5     In shocks like climate disasters where there’s no time or way to get detailed information on the ground, satellites mobile phones and AI could help deliver aid quickly to people in need.

A．It was opposite in a big country.

B．How do they locate the neediest people?

C．So there’s a lot of information in the images.

D．Most importantly, it’s very cheap to carry out.

E．Worse still, it’s not so economical as a house-to-house survey.

F．However, in general, poorer people will just have feature phones.

G．What the researchers did next was to target the neediest people in those regions.

8 . Take a battlefield tour of WW I in 1917

On Labor Day, I watched a British movie named 1917. As indicated by the title, 1917 is set in the disorder and confusion of World War I.     1    , separating British and German troops.

Two British young soldiers, Blake and Schofield, are awakened from what could have only been a few minutes of sleep.     2    . A few miles away, another company (连队) including Blake’s brother, has planned an attack in a few hours, designed to push the Germans back even farther following a recent retreat (撤退). However, recent intelligence suggests that the retreat is a trick that will land them in an ambush (埋伏) that will cost thousands of British lives.     3    , so Blake and Schofield are ordered to head on foot to that company in order to call off the attack before it can start, a journey that, will force them to travel through the enemy territory. They witness carnage (大屠杀), and one of them happens to stick his hand into the open wound of a dead body.

The movie is not only known for its unbroken shot (连续镜头) but also for its adaptation of a true story from its director Sam Mendes’ grandfather. Through the eyes of Blake and Schofield, the movie shows the horror of a war that cost the lives of countless innocent people. As US scientist Benjamin once said, “    4    .”

Through this classic and moving movie, we can learn the preciousness of peace and the evil of war.     5    . We ought to always think about how we can prevent war and how we can achieve peace.

A．It can lead to disorder

B．The radio line was down

C．They join the army during World War I

D．There never was a good war, or a bad peace

E．They are ordered to report for a new assignment

F．We also know that we should always try our best to defend the former

G．It takes place in and around the so-called “no man’s land” in northern France

9 . Sharon Estill Taylor has no firsthand memories of her father. The World War II fighter pilot was shot down over Germany in April 1945, when Taylor was just three weeks old. When Taylor was young, her grandmother often shared stories about their fallen hero. “Nana, it’s OK,” Taylor assured her, “I’m going to find him and bring him home.”

Grandmother gave Taylor a silver box containing some 450 handwritten letters between her parents, spanning from their high school to the year 1945. Also included were six months’ worth of unopened letters. Taylor learned that on April 13, 1945, Estill had taken off to attack a railway station and destroy Nazi supply lines. She found a reference to a possible crash site near the town of Elsnig in eastern Germany.

With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, it became possible for Taylor to visit the potential crash site. She connected with German military historian Hans-Guenther Ploes, who agreed to help her try to find and identify any aircraft and human remains. In 2005, a team, accompanied by Ploes and Taylor, led a three-week unearthing. From the moment she set foot on the site, Taylor could feel that her dad was there. DNA analysis confirmed that the remains were his. On a sunny day, Taylor and her family buried her father’s remains at Arlington National Cemetery. Beyond fulfilling her promise to her grandmother, Taylor says her mission has been to get closer to her father and his legacy.

She has also come to realize that there’s an entire population of Americans who’ve lost parents and loved ones in military conflicts overseas and wish they knew more. Taylor shares her story widely, raising awareness of soldiers who never return from war and the significance of recovery efforts. An estimated 81,000 American service members’ bodies remain unaccounted for from past conflicts, but fortunately there are constant efforts to locate the fallen and bring relief to their families.

Taylor will never know exactly what her father’s final moments were like but she feels, in a way, that father has finally come home.

1. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A．Taylor’s father delivered supplies in the war.

B．Taylor got along well with her father as a kid.

C．The battle Taylor’s father attended was documented.

D．Taylor’s grandmother got to know all about the letters.

2. What probably discouraged Taylor from seeking her father at first?

A．No one was willing to assist her.	B．Germany wasn’t reunited at that time.
C．There weren’t any clues about the battle.	D．Science and technology were not advanced

3. Why does Taylor want others to know her story?

A．To help make her grandmother’s wish come true.

B．To let the readers know more about World War II.

C．To pay her respect to fallen heroes like her father.

D．To show the possibility of regaining heroes’ remains.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Cherish Parents’ Love	B．Let Heroes Return Home
C．Never Forget the History	D．Meet Grandmother’s Wish

10 . Complete the personal account with the correct form of the verbs below.

tell   shout   reply   greet   weep   speak

We were in Rome when World War Ⅱ ended. The first we knew of it was when we heard bells ringing and people running into the streets. Everyone was     1     with joy and excitement. “What’s going on?” I asked. “It seems like the war is over,”     2     one of the soldiers. Everyone started     3     at once. Some people began     4     with joy and relief. Others were     5     each other that it was a day that they would go down in history. Later that day we     6     the allied tanks as they rolled into the square. It was a day of great joy and one I will never forget!