1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．The call to prayer happens too frequent and should be reduced.

B．The loudspeakers announcing prayer time damage people’s life.

C．The first call to prayer is too early and should be after sunrise.

D．Arabs make too much noise during the prayer time in mosques(清真寺).

2.

A．He thinks Israel is a country of Judaism(犹太教).

B．He is a racist and his aim is ti reduce Arab population.

C．He intends to create an atmosphere of freedom and equality.

D．He believes the country should protect citizens from the noise.

3.

A．The bill destroys the harmony between Jews and Arabs.

B．The bill doesn’t respect the right of the Arabs.

C．The bill shows the hatred against the Arabs.

D．The loudspeaker hurts all of the society.

2 . Road traffic accidents are caused by a number of factors which can be grouped into three categories: human factors, vehicle factors and road environment factors. Table 1 explains each factor and gives examples.

Table 1: Factors involved in road traffic accidents

Factor	Description	Example
Human	Things people do or don’t do	Speeding, not obeying traffic rules, using phone while driving
Vehicle	Things that are wrong with the vehicle	?
Road environment	Things outside the vehicle that affect driving	Condition of road, time of day, weather conditions, road repairs

One factor alone or several factors together can cause an accident. However, human actions are by far the greatest causes of car accidents. Diagram 1 shows that human factors are involved in 95% of all car accidents. Although other factors are also involved in 28% of these accidents, in 67% of cases, human factors alone are the cause of the accident.

Although behavior such as not paying attention to road, swerving to avoid an animal and eating while driving causes accidents, most road deaths are caused by speeding, driving after drinking alcohol, driving when tried and not wearing seat belts. As shown in Diagram 2, speeding is involved in more deaths than any other behavior in both city (50%) and country accidents (32%). Drivers and / or passengers not wearing seat belts is the second most common cause of road deaths.

1. Which of the following is best suited in the blank in table 1?

A．Vehicles of this type to be recalled at once.

B．Weak brakes, no seat belts in cars, old tyres.

C．250,000 people killed in car accidents in 2023.

D．Regular car maintenance, professional service.

2. What can be concluded from diagram 2?

A．Speeding kills more drivers in cities than in countries.

B．Two or more factors are combined to cause an accident.

C．Country drivers are more likely to get tired when driving.

D．Drunk driving cause more deaths than not wearing seat belts.

3. The passage is just one section of a larger report. What do you think the title of the larger report is?

A．The dangers of driving a car.	B．The effects of alcohol on driving.
C．Human factors in road traffic accidents.	D．How to prevent deaths on our roads.

5 . Directions: Write a passage about at least 120 words.
当今社会，我们周围充斥着各种短视频（short video），如辅助学习类，休闲娱乐类，生活技能类等等。短视频已成为高中生获取信息的渠道之一，有些学生认为其大有益处，如获取信息高效便捷，但有些学生认为会带来很多弊端，因为高中生容易沉迷其中。对此请谈谈你的看法，并阐述理由。
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6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. allowing   B. detectable   C. hazard     D. irresponsible E. linked    F. optimism   G. punishing   H. routes     I. sowed     J. unavoidable   K. widespread

Time for a clean-up

You are probably aware of the term “forever chemicals”, if not entirely clear on the specifics. What they are is a class of around 16, 000 artificial compounds called PFAS that break down very slowly, if at all in the environment and our bodies. They are extremely useful, but also a potential     1     to wildlife and human health. After more than 80 years of     2     and often unlimited use, PFAS pollution is more or less everywhere, from the soil on our farms to the rain that waters them. In all likelihood, you have a(n)     3     amount of these chemicals in your body.

A growing body of research has     4     exposure to some types of PFAS to harmful effects, such as kidney disease, immune dysfunction and certain types of cancer. Just a few parts per trillion of some forms accumulated over time is enough to be damaging. Moreover, exposure is more or less     5    . Skipping greaseproof (防油的) packaging or filtering tap water may limit acute exposure, but there are many other pollution     6    . In any case, for most of us, it is already too late.

How did we let it come to this? To some extent, society is reaping what it     7     by permitting so many novel chemicals to be released without a proper system to test their safety first. That has to change, and not just for PFAS. Time and again we find, too late, that industrial chemicals are harmful—as now seems the case with those in some climbing shoes—while     8     the firms that make them to carry on business as usual. There is nothing illegal in that. Nevertheless, the PFAS industry has been extremely     9    . There is good evidence that some producers have known for decades that the chemicals could cause harm, but actively confuse that knowledge. As the science of PFAS advances, there is     10     that they can be replaced, as well as rounded up (聚集) from the environment and destroyed.

7 . If you are experiencing physical symptoms that could indicate burnout, consider seeing your primary care doctor or a mental health professional to determine whether they are driven by stress or rooted in other physical condition, Dr. Dyrbye said. Don’t just take no notice of the symptoms and assume they are _________.

“It’s really easy to _________ your own symptom, especially in our culture, where we are taught to work hard,” Dr. Gold said.

If it is burnout, then the best solution is to _________ the root of the problem. Burnout is typically recognised when it is job-driven, but chronic stress can have a variety of _________ — financial problems, relationship difficulties, and caregiving burdens, among other things. “Think about the pebbles in your shoe all the time that you have to _________,” Dr. Maslach said, “and brainstorm ways to _________ some of them, at least some of the time. Perhaps you can ask your partner to help more with your toddler’s bedtime routine, or get takeout when you’re especially busy so you don’t have to plan dinner, too.”

Despite popular culture coverage of the issue, burnout can’t be “fixed” with better self-care, Dr. Maslach said — in fact, this _________ only worsens the problem, because it lays the blame and responsibility on those with burnout and implies that they should do more to feel better, which is not the case, she said. However, some lifestyle _________ can make burnout less likely. Social support, for instance, can help, Dr. Gold said. This could include talking to a therapist or meeting with friends (even if over Zoom). It may also help to _________ mental health or exercise benefits offered by your employer. Sleeping more can help too — so if you’re __________ from a lack of sleep, talk to a doctor about possible treatments, Dr. Bennett suggested.

When burnout __________ job-related difficulties, it may help to request better working conditions. Dr. Maslach suggested brainstorming with co-workers and presenting your __________ with ideas that would help — like providing quiet areas for breaks and personal phone calls, creating “no meeting” days so that employees can have more time to __________, or ensuring that there’s always coffee in the break room. Even small changes like these can reduce the risk for burnout if they fix a problem people __________ at work every day. “It’s the lasting job stressors that make people really __________ after a while. They don’t have the right equipment, they don’t have the things they need, they don’t have enough people to do the work,” Dr. Maslach said.

1.

A．beneficial

B．insignificant

C．straightforward

D．overwhelming

2.

A．stress

B．ignore

C．observe

D．recognize

3.

A．address

B．discount

C．conceal

D．stretch

4.

A．subjects

B．signs

C．causes

D．impacts

5.

A．pass on

B．write down

C．rely on

D．deal with

6.

A．relieve

B．remove

C．recover

D．remark

7.

A．implication

B．innovation

C．indication

D．intention

8.

A．audiences

B．choices

C．performances

D．sentences

9.

A．take charge of

B．have interest in

C．take notice of

D．make use of

10.

A．suffering

B．shocking

C．spreading

D．motivating

11.

A．accounts for

B．depends on

C．results from

D．contributes to

12.

A．employer

B．librarian

C．customer

D．participant

13.

A．ensure

B．focus

C．revise

D．check

14.

A．neglect

B．witness

C．encounter

D．emphasize

15.

A．amazed

B．delighted

C．surprised

D．frustrated

9 . What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there’re no quick or easy answers. There’s work to be done, but workers aren’t ready to do it — they’re in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills. Our problems are structural, and will take many years to solve.

But don’t bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak (暗淡的) view. There isn’t any. On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand. Saying that there’re no easy answers sounds wise, but it’s actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act. In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared. Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category. Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%. So the evidence contradicts the claim that we’re mainly suffering from structural unemployment. Why, then, has this claim become so popular?

Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment — in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

I’ve been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now. Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is “unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer.” A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a financial stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs — and suddenly industry was eager to employ those “unadaptable and untrained” workers.

But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy. And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling (损害) our economy and society.

So what you need to know is that there’s no evidence whatsoever to back these claims. We aren’t suffering from a shortage of needed skills; we’re suffering from a lack of policy resolve. As I said, structural unemployment isn’t a real problem, it’s an excuse — a reason not to act on America’s problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

1. What does the author think of the experts’ claim concerning unemployment?

A．Self-evident.

B．Thought-provoking.

C．Groundless.

D．Objective.

2. What does the author say helped bring down unemployment during the Great Depression?

A．The booming defense industry.	B．The wise heads’ benefit package.
C．Nationwide training of workers.	D．Thorough restructuring of industries.

3. What has caused claims of huge structural problems to multiply?

A．Economists, failure to detect the problems in time.

B．Very Serious People’s attempt to cripple the economy.

C．Evidence gathered from many sectors of the industries.

D．Powerful opposition to government’s stimulus efforts.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To confirm the experts’ analysis of America’s problems.

B．To offer a feasible solution to the structural unemployment

C．To show the urgent need for the government to take action.

D．To alert American workers to the urgency for adaptation.

10 . I once got lost on East Nanjing Road in a boiling sea of people. Music blared from every store. Having nowhere to sit and nowhere to stand, I was begging to be teleported to some deserted island. Even for extroverts (性格外向者) like me, who get energy from the _________ , Shanghai is overwhelming (令人难以招架的). I can’t imagine what it’s like during the holidays when the party animals, who have a fear of missing out, hit the streets to have fun. 

At times like these, I truly envy people who are introverted (内向的) and prefer their own thoughts and _________ world to being around other people. Introverts are self-sufficient and don’t need other people to be happy. They can be happy by themselves. It’s a _________ belief that introverts are lonely or shy, and that they would be much happier if they _________ their comfort zones and became more talkative. 

It is, therefore, fitting that January 2 is World Introvert Day. Following _________ full of glittering lights, bright colors and small talks, introverts might feel in need of some alone time to recharge. The day also _________ the positive points of introverted personalities, emphasizing that being the quiet one is not only acceptable but something to be _________.

Yet, society in general prefers _________ because, among other reasons, they tend to go out more and spend more money, which is good for the economy. For this reason, families often pressure their introverted kids to attend large _________ and fake being social butterflies to improve career prospects (前景). __________ this is sometimes necessary, to be happy, it is essential to be accepted for who we are.

1.

A．street

B．crowd

C．adventure

D．thoughts

2.

A．inner

B．outer

C．material

D．real

3.

A．negative

B．common

C．false

D．true

4.

A．came along with

B．kept staying in

C．looked forward to

D．stepped out of

5.

A．nights

B．holidays

C．weekends

D．weekdays

6.

A．gathers

B．highlights

C．loads

D．prefers

7.

A．discussed

B．criticized

C．praised

D．pursue

8.

A．introverts

B．customers

C．extroverts

D．teenagers

9.

A．schools

B．meetings

C．gatherings

D．lectures

10.

A．While

B．Since

C．If

D．Once