1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the program mainly about?

A．College courses (课程).

B．Firefighter training.

C．Emergency escape (紧急逃生).

2. Where will people practice?

A．On trains.

B．In tall buildings.

C．In a college.

3. What is the requirement (要求) of applying for (申请) this course?

A．Being over 16 years old.

B．Sacrificing (牺牲) some free time.

C．Having leadership skills.

4. What information does the speaker offer?

A．Her office address.

B．Her phone number.

C．Her e-mail address.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What’s the talk mainly about?

A．Some good habits at home.

B．Waste in the workplace.

C．Some important natural resources.

2. What’s the speaker’s attitude towards the problem?

A．Bored.

B．Concerned.

C．Excited.

3. Which is proper to save more resources from the passage?

A．Trying not to use copies.

B．Trying to use single-use plastic cups.

C．Trying to use both sides of paper.

4. What does the speaker ask people to do in the end?

A．Wash their hands before meals.

B．Use less paper in the office.

C．Turn off the tap in time.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How many car thefts were reported last week?

A．20.

B．22.

C．24.

2. Why did the car owner falsely report missing?

A．His wife drove it away without telling him.

B．His car was pulled away by the local police.

C．He forgot where he had parked his car.

3. What is the common feature of the owners who lost their cars?

A．They didn’t lock their cars.

B．They left the cars in unlocked garage.

C．They often parked their cars on the road side.

4. What do the police advise car owners to do?

A．Park their cars in garage at night.

B．Lock up their cars wherever they are kept.

C．Lock the garage when they park the cars in.

5 . 听下面一段长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the man?

A．A policeman.

B．A firefighter.

C．A journalist.

2. How many kids died from the fire?

A．2.

B．5.

C．28.

3. Where did the boy throw the cigarette end?

A．On the carpet.

B．On the sofa.

C．On the table.

4. Why was the boy able to touch the cigarette end?

A．His father asked him to throw it.

B．His father was drunk and sleeping.

C．His father left him alone at home.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Who might the speakers be?

A．Police officers.

B．Observers.

C．Passengers.

2. What did the old lady say?

A．She didn’t see anything.

B．The traffic lights broke down.

C．The red car was driving very fast.

3. What were the kids doing when the accident happened?

A．Crossing the street.

B．Playing in their front yard.

C．Standing on the street corner.

4. Which of the following caused the accident according to Mr Bates?

A．The red car.

B．The dog.

C．The blue car.

7 . For a place with a reputation for bottling up feelings, Britain is remarkably honest about mental health problems. The British are more likely than people in any other rich country to think that mental illness is a disease like any other and that support should be sought. Only the Swedes hold the idea that a history of mental health problems should not disqualify someone from public office.

Much of the rich world has struggled with rising rates of self-reported mental health problems. But the numbers in Britain are frightening. Around 4.5 million Britons were in contact with mental health services in 2021-2022, which was almost 1 million higher than five years ago. A National Health Service (NHS) survey in 2023 found that one in five 8-to 16-year-olds in England had a probable mental disorder, up from one in eight in 2017. In 17-to 19-year-olds the figure had increased from one in ten to one in four.

It is good that people do not feel they must bottle things up. Awareness of mental health has raised public knowledge of mental health disorders and revealed that many Britons’ needs are not met, but it has caused damage, too.

Despite the best intentions, campaigns intended to raise awareness are leading some people to combine normal responses to life’s difficulties with mental health disorders. Special treatment creates motivations for people to seek diagnoses (诊断) and to medicalise problems unnecessarily. The need to treat people with milder conditions competes with care for those who have the most severe ones. Medicalising mild worry may not benefit patients; instead, normal teaching is just as good for mental health. But the great harm from over diagnosis is to those who most need help.

Britons’ approaches to mental health require several changes. More money should go on research so that individuals are treated appropriately. More time and effort should be given to those most in need of help. All suffering should be taken seriously, but a diagnosis is not always in someone’s best interests.

1. What is Britons’ attitude towards mental health problems?

A．Conservative.

B．Uncaring.

C．Critical.

D．Open.

2. How does the author describe the mental health problems in Britain in paragraph 2?

A．By listing examples.	B．By analyzing the causes.
C．By presenting the statistics.	D．By referring to professionals’ views.

3. What is the side-effect of increased awareness of mental health?

A．Ignorance of milder mental cases.	B．Over-medicalisation of normal stress.
C．The lack of teaching in mental health.	D．Unnecessary treatment for most diseases.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Britain’s Mental Health Mess	B．New Social Crisis in Britain
C．Reform in Britons’ Mental Health	D．Britons’ Rising Mental Disorders

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the Sandwich Generation?

A．People who make sandwiches.

B．People who like to eat fast food.

C．People who support both parents and children.

2. What is the biggest problem for women employees according to the speaker?

A．The nursery problem.

B．The financial problem.

C．The emotional problem.

3. What does the speaker suggest at the end of the speech?

A．Men should work hard.

B．The government should take action.

C．Women should look after their families.

10 . When the Zimbabwean editor Irene Staunton and her husband Murray McCartney set up their publishing business in 1998, it seemed natural to call it Weaver Press. Their modest headquarters in the back garden of their home looked out on the landscape that was peppered with many complex nests of the weaver birds (织布鸟).

For more than 25 years, the company’s location has not changed and the number of the team member has rarely been more than two. But in the words of one distinguished Zimbabwean scholar, Weaver Press has “quietly shaped post-independence Zimbabwean literature”. “Publishing in Zimbabwe has always mainly focused on textbooks, with very few exceptions,” McCartney says. “Weaver was one of those exceptions. We focused on literary fiction and academic nonfiction and in doing so, we tried to put Zimbabwe on the map — not because we’ve published hundreds of books, but because we presented a complex and sweeping picture of Zimbabwe that may otherwise not have existed to the outside world.”

One of the first books Weaver published was The Stone Virgins, a novel by Yvonne Vera that won the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction in 2002. “Fiction is an important form of truth-telling, because a good writer will look at a situation from many different points of view — you don’t want the social history of a country to come out of a single description,” Staunton says.

Among the most successful writers Weaver has worked with is No Violet Bulawayo, author of Glory, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022. Bulawayo stresses Staunton’s editing skill. “Her sharp eye, intelligence and honesty helped me define my own ethics (道德标准) around reading and editing mine and the work of others, which I especially needed when I was a young writer,”she says. Despite the praise, Staunton says she doesn’t want to be center stage. “Editors are backroom people, like stagehands, doing everything they can to push the author to be front and center.”

1. Where did the inspiration for the name of Weaver Press come from?

A．A kind of bird.	B．A natural nest site.
C．The complex landscape.	D．The modest back garden.

2. Why does Weaver Press focus on literary fiction and academic nonfiction?

A．To expand its publishing business.	B．To establish its reputation as a publisher.
C．To extend Zimbabwe’s international influence.	D．To get the world fully informed of Zimbabwe.

3. What is a good writer like according to Staunton?

A．Familiar with the country’s history.	B．Able to see things multidimensionally.
C．Experienced in single-event descriptions.	D．Expert at uncovering and telling the truth.

4. What can we learn about Staunton from the last paragraph?

A．She has an inborn gift for editing.	B．She deserves praise for all her efforts.
C．She assists writers in the background.	D．She trained many successful writers.