1 . 阅读下面材料，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。

Everyone needs to know how to prevent a fire. It is also important to know what to do when it     1    （break）out .

Every year, over 11, 000 people     2    （kill）or injured in house fires. These fires could have been avoided. Smokers who are     3    （care）cause about 200 deaths and over 6,000 fires. More than half of those     4     die in fires are poisoned or harmed by smoke.

If fire happens, do not attempt to fight the fire unless it is small. Try putting out a small fire with water. If     5     fire has spread or if the flames are more than 20 inches high, shut the door on it. Warn everyone else in the building and tell them to get out. You should leave and dial 119for the fire department.

Before     6    （go）into a room, check the door. If the handle or the door is hot, do not open it! Instead, put clothing or a wet towel at the bottom of it to keep smoke out. If the door is not hot, open it     7    （slow）. If there’s a rush of smoke or heat, close it again and shout to warn     8    （other）in side.

Now open the window and shout “Fire!”. See whether you can drop safely to the ground. Use this     9     your escape course if you can. If you are not on ground level, break your fall by pushing a mat out first. Lower yourself at arm’s     10    （long）before dropping. Once outside, stay outside and make sure the fire department is called.

2 . When Pope Francis recently told a reporter that he stopped watching television 25 years ago, it reminded me that several of my friends had gone TV-free as well. They had really quit TV? It seemed fairly unlikely.

And so it was. It turned out that most Americans who "cut the cord ^" are not getting rid of their TV sets. What they're doing, like my friends, is canceling their cable or satellite TV contracts. Not such a major move, but nice cost savings. You can still watch lots of TV programming these days on your computer or TV by subscribing to an online streaming service. Netflix is currently the most popular of those.

There is, however, a small group of the population that has adopted a true zero-tolerance policy when it comes to television. Listen to what was said about TV by none other than Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor In 2010 following his terminal cancer diagnosis, he called out TV as the enemy of productivity. "If you really want to have time back in your life," he said, "unplug you TV and put it in a closet and put a blanket over it."

My friend Laura Schiff, a former journalist, appreciates that point all too well. "Television always felt like a waste of time," she told me the other day. When her old TV failed, she decided not to replace it. "No regrets. Without TV I get a much deeper understanding of the world and what's going on around us." The amazing irony (讽刺): Schiff's late father, Arthur Schiff was the genius behind such memorable TV marketing catchphrases (广告语) as "Act now and you'll also receive...and "But wait, there's more!"

For some Americans, there is no "more". There is already too, too much 一 too much stupid programming, too much commercials for products no one needs. Most of all, “TV robs us of our precious time," as author Joshua Fields Millbum said in his book, Everything That Remains.

1. We learn from paragraph 2 that most Americans who cut the cord ______.

A．stop watching TV completely

B．get rid of their TV sets

C．canceling their TV contracts to save money

D．still watch lots of programs through cable TV

2. According to the passage, Netflix is probably ________ .

A．a popular online streaming service

B．a satellite TV station

C．a new brand of TV sets

D．a most popular TV program currently

3. Why was Randy Pausch against television?

A．It was a waste of money.

B．He had little time to spare for it.

C．It was a waste of productive time.

D．He suffered from headaches because of it.

4. We can infer from the last paragraph that some Americans _______.

A．demand changes in television

B．will never believe TV catchphrases

C．spend more time watching TV

D．will never watch TV

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

    1    Wednesday morning, a group of protesters broke into the Legislative Council (LegCo) in Hong Kong .This incident       2     (shock) Hong Kong society. Even the three     3    （found） of the Occupy Central movement , Tai Yiu-ting, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming condemned such     4    (violence) actions, along with pro-democracy lawmakers. This action will make the Hong Kong public become even more    5         （exhaust） with the Occupy Central movement.

Those     6    broke into LegCo were youngsters wearing masks. It's worth     7    （consider） how such a riot could have occurred in Hong Kong, a place known     8     following the rule of law.     9     is naive to believe that the incident has nothing       10     （do） with Occupy Central.

4 . People in Japan tend to live longer and stay healthier in their later years, with an increasing number of old people living alone. Japan is on a fast track to “ultra-age” with people aged 65 or above accounting for 28 percent of its total population in 2019；it was 26.7 percent in 2017. On the other hand, the number of births in 2019 fell to its lowest (about 941,000) since records began in 1899.

Demand for care services for elderly people has increased. A shrinking (缩小) working population means fewer able-bodied adults are available to look after the elderly. State-provided facilities for the elderly are not enough, which causes elderly people to turn to private ones but they are expensive.

The country will be short of 380,000 of health nurses by 2025. The government has to turn to advanced robots to meet the shortage. A study found that using robots encouraged one third of the people to become more active and independent. Yet there is no robot that can provide the emotional support to the elderly.

Japan provides a case study for China, which is also faced with a fast aging population. 17.23 million babies were born in China in 2019, about 630,000 fewer than in 2018. People aged 60 accounted for 17.3 of China’s population in 2019. With a shortage of elderly care facilities and unbalanced supply, China may find it hard to deal with the rapidly increasing number of senior citizens.

To meet the challenge, the Chinese government should make policy changes, which Japan is unwilling or unable to do or even consider. China should pay attention to the signals its aging population is sending and take proper and timely action.

1. What do we learn about the old Japanese?

A．More and more old Japanese prefer to live on their own.

B．A lot of old Japanese have to continue working at old age.

C．Some old Japanese remain active with the help of robots.

D．Japanese aged 65 or above make up one third of its population.

2. What can we know about state-provided care facilities for the elderly in Japan?

A．They are expensive.	B．They are inconvenient.
C．They are affordable.	D．They are fashionable.

3. What do the Japanese do to deal with the shortage of health nurses?

A．They hire foreign health nurses.

B．They employ advanced robots.

C．They set up more nursing schools.

D．They train the elderly to tend themselves.

4. What is the main idea of the last two paragraph?

A．Japan has to take action to deal with the aging population.

B．Robots can’t provide emotional support to the elderly.

C．China is now faced with a fast aging population.

D．Japan’s aging population issue is a timely lesson for China.

5 . 假定你是李华，最近你就“高中生是否应利用课余时间打工”这一话题在全校范围内进行了调查。请根据表格内容，用英语写一篇调查报告并发表在校英语报上。

态度	所占比例	理由	结论
赞成	30％	1.可以了解外面的世界 2.有助于经济独立	……
反对	70％	1.       学生的主要任务是学习 2.       兼职工作有不安全因素

注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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6 . The Millennial Trains Project is a non-profit organization that enables young people to get involved in creative projects. The organization leads crowdfunded train journeys.     1     The organization has already completed two journeys, through the northern and central United States. Twenty-four people are now getting ready to be a part of the third.

To earn a place on the train, each person has to raise $5,000.     2     At each stop, they get off the train to explore a different town or city. The idea is to visit small businesses, community centers, schools -or wherever their projects take them.

    3     He knows that universities are becoming more and more expensive each year, and many people think higher education is no longer affordable. Over the next 10 days he is visiting seven universities. He wants to see what they are doing to meet these challenges.

Catherine Tsavalas is planning to explore how bookstores and libraries improve local communities.     4     She also wants to know if they are using social media to connect with people.

Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods—research suggests these are going to happen more and more. Jenny Gottstein thinks she can address these challenges. At each stop, she is planning to interview local leaders, emergency workers, and computer game designers.     5     She believes people are more likely to remember something important when the information is fun and game-like.

These 24 people are strangers now, but not for long. The next week is going to be a life-changing learning experience for many.

A．She then plans to create a game to help people prepare for disasters.

B．Trevor Eagle wants to make s difference to the education system.

C．Besides money, they also need to have an idea for a project.

D．Community leaders will travel by train across American South.

E．These journeys provide the young with the chance to help different communities.

F．Tyson Foods had supported the project for a 10-day journey across the US.

G．She wants to find out what they are doing to encourage more people to read.

7 . Andrew Grey doesn’t fit most people’s idea of an astronomer. He works in a car repair shop, not in a lab or university, yet the Australian repairman discovered a star system hiding in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

Mr. Grey is one of millions of citizen scientists helping researchers to expand collective understanding. For centuries, only a few ordinary people had been contributing to science, but advances in technology have brought a higher level of democratization (民主化) to science.

“This is a collaborative (合作的) effort that anyone could get involved in,” says Chris Lincoln, an Oxford University astrophysicist (天体物理学家) and cofounder of Zooniverse, a platform that hosts dozens of citizen science projects. Citizen scientists can contribute to breakthroughs in almost any field, from ecology to astrophysics.

“As long as pattern recognition is involved, there are no limits to what can become a citizen science project,” Dr. Linton says. “Anyone can identify patterns in images, graphs, or even seemingly boring data after a short tutorial. Machine learning allows computers to do some pattern recognition. But humans, particularly amateur scientists, don’t stay focused on what they’re supposed to. And that’s good, because people who do that notice the unusual things in s data set.

“And citizen science doesn’t have to be directed by a scientist,” says Sheila Jasanoff, director of the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University. “Citizens producing knowledge in places where official organs have failed then can also be citizen scientists,” she says. That’s what happened in Flint, Michigan, when a local mother started drinking water tests that caused a broader investigation of lead levels.

Citizen-powered research is as old as scientific inquiry. For centuries before science became professionalized, regular people looked for patterns in the world around them. Despite a lot of advanced equipment and computer models, scientists still welcome help from everyday people.

As a professional scientist himself, Lintott says, “People think that were intelligent, but science is easy and we need your help.”

1. What made citizen scientists appear?

A．The high level of science projects	B．The development of technology.
C．The support of the government.	D．The foundation of Zooniverse.

2. What is a human advantage in pattern recognition compared with machines?

A．Humans can identify patterns mare swiftly.

B．Humans focus their attention on data.

C．Humans can observe uncommon things.

D．Humans have stronger emotions.

3. What is Lincon’s attitude towards citizen science?

A．Favorable.	B．Cautious.
C．Indifferent.	D．Doubtful.

4. What would be the best title of the text?

A．Citizen scientists can be intelligent.	B．Science is important to everyone.
C．Anyone can be a scientist.	D．Science is everywhere.

8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中 共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：I.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

In most cases, the very first thing that we ask for when visit a cafe or friend's house is the WiFi password. It's almost like the internet has become one of your basic needs. And according to technology website Digital Trends, up to 60 percent of people in the world still didn't have an internet connection. The situation is even more worse in the least developed countries—only one tenth of the people has regular access to the internet. That's why in the recent survey in the US, 68 percent of the respondents think of internet access to a privilege instead of a human right.

However, the United Nations made this clear in a report back in 2011 that it believes internet access should be a human right, and it "should be a priority (优先考虑的事)for all states" to make sure everyone has access to the web.

9 . Alison Malmon was ending her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania. US, when she got the news: Her older brother Brian, a student at Columbia University; was suffering from mental illness.

Inspired by this, Malmon formed a group at her university to organize students to talk openly about mental health. It soon blossomed into a national organization that today has more than 450 campus chapters. Leaders with the organization spend their time talking with college students about the pressure that today's young people face.

"What you hear often is just a need to be perfect,” said Malmon, "and a need to present oneself as perfect.” A new study in the UK proved that this need for perfectionism is simply part of today ”s society. In the study, two researchers studied more than 40,000 students from the US, Canada, and the UK. They found that what they called "socially-prescribed （社会定向型的） perfectionism” increased by a third between 1989 and 2016.

Lead researcher Thomas Curran said that while so many of today's young people try to present a perfect appearance online, social media isn't the only reason behind this trend. Instead, he said, it may be driven by competition in modern society, meaning young people can't avoid being sorted and ranked in both education and employment. That comes from new normal situation like greater numbers of college students, national examination and parenting that increasingly emphasizes success in education.

For example, in 1976, half of high school seniors expected to get a college degree of some kind. By 2008, more than 80 percent expected the same. The researchers also said changes in parenting styles over the last two decades might have had an impact. As parents feel increased pressure to raise successful children, they in turn pass their "achievement anxieties" onto their kids through "too much participation in their child's activities or emotions

Those in the mental health community like Malmon say they're concerned about the impact the culture of perfectionism has on mental health on campuses. "Mental health has truly become this generation's social justice （公正）issue," she said. “It's our job to equip them with the tools and to let people know that it's not their fault."

1. What inspired Alison Malmon to start a group related to mental health?

A．Her brother's mental illness.	B．Her project during the freshman year.
C．The pressure she had experienaed.	D．Her strong interest in mental health.

2. What may be pushing today^'s young people to struggle to be perfect, according to the article?
a. The impact of social media.
b. Parents' high expectations of their children.
c. The decreasing number of college students.
d. The fierce competition in society.
e. Their desire to draw their parents' attention.

A．a.b, c	B．a, d, e
C．a,b, d	D．b, c, e

3. What does Malmon think is a way to help young people manage the pressure of perfectionism?

A．Enabling them to know what is to blame for their pressure.

B．Lowering their expectations of themselves.

C．Reducing parents' involvement in their children's life.

D．Making them aware of what true social responsibility is.

4. What is the article mainly about?

A．A new study on college students.

B．Research into the trend of perfectionism.

C．A group devoted to helping people stay mentally healthy.

D．Various pressures that today's young people are facing.

10 . Throughout history, music spread among people of different cultures. In today’s technological advanced society, however, people spread music online, sometimes without an artist’s permission. This can lead to many problems, and music companies are now cracking down on this practice. Sharing music online without permission is theft.

Sharing music online prevents recording companies from making money from their efforts. They say that sharing music online has resulted in a huge drop in profits and sales over the past 10 years. People who find music for free online are not paying for CDs or every MP3 downloaded. To truly understand the influence of music piracy (盗版行为) on creators, one must understand how many people are involved in the recording process. For the sale of each album, profits must be shared between musicians, sound engineers, music producers, managers, advertisers, and the company selling the product. Many people believe sharing music only affects the recording artist, but the reality is that sharing hurts business for all companies involved.

There are many people who don’t see the harm in sharing music online and even think they have the right to do it. One online blogger states that he originally paid for an entire CD and that he should be able to do with the material whatever he wants. While he may have legally paid for the music, he does not have the right to provide permission, which means people like the blogger are thieves.

Although we don’t spread today’s music the same way we did before, there’s no doubt that people around the world love to share music. However, internet piracy would prevent musicians from continuing producing albums for fear of theft. Therefore, if people want to continue listening to their favorite artists, they need to buy their music so that artists will make enough profit to continue their music careers.

1. The underlined phrase “cracking down on” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ___________.

A．bringing up carefully	B．speaking highly of
C．dealing seriously with	D．destroying completely

2. What can we infer from the text?

A．Artists are taking action to protect their right.

B．Sharing music files online affects a lot of people.

C．Online music sharing increases sales of music CD.

D．A person who bought a CD has the right to share it online.

3. How is the text organized?

A．Topic—Argument—Explanation.

B．Opinion—Discussion—Description.

C．Main idea—Comparison—Supporting statements.

D．Introduction—Supporting statements—Conclusion.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．Music piracy is kind of theft.	B．Sharing music is Acceptable.
C．Downloading music should be punished.	D．Music piracy is good for music lovers.