1 . An immigrant is a person who has come to live permanently in a foreign country.    1    .

Immigrants move to other countries for different reasons. Some people move because of war, political or economic problems, or natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.    2    , while others are looking for better living conditions.

Where are immigrants moving from?     3    ? One of the largest immigration flows is from Latin America and Asia to the United States. Another immigrant flow is from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Republics and North Africa to Western Europe. Many immigrants also move from Africa and Asia to the Middle East. In countries such as Saudi Arabia, 90%of the total population is now foreign born.

    4    , they often live in urban neighborhoods. As a result of immigration, many city neighborhoods change. Immigrants open new stores, restaurants and other businesses. For example, the historic Esquilino neighborhood in Rome is now the home of a large number of Chinese immigrants. There are also many new immigrants from Albanian, Moldova, Bulgaria and Ukraine. In some schools in Athens, 50% of the children are foreign born.    5    . In Los Angeles, 37% of the population is foreign born, and children in the public schools speak 82 different languages. In New York,40%of the population is foreign, and children speak 140 different languages in the schools.

A．And what countries are they moving to

B．When immigrants arrive in a new country

C．Immigrants have contributed to British culture in many ways

D．Some immigrants are reunited with their families or get married

E．More than 145 million immigrants live outside their native countries

F．Moreover, Los Angeles has a track record of successfully accepting immigrants

G．Los Angeles and New York are two cities in the US with very large immigrant populations

2 . 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。

Beijing will carry out measures to help bridge     1     has become a digital divide for many older people to make sure they share in the benefits of a smart society. Given that technology brings       2     (convenient) to society in many ways and has become widespread, such as the use of scanned codes for payment, entrance to buildings and registration, seniors who are not tech-savvy face     3     (grow) difficulty in daily life.

Li Xiaoli,     4     63-year-old Beijing resident, said she once waited for 40 minutes along a street trying to hail a cab but none     5     (stop) for her. She didn’t know how to use those car-hailing apps. Public venues are increasingly using online reservation systems,    6     (especial) since the start of COVID-19, which presents a barrier to health, cultural and leisure facilities for the older population.

    7     (help) solve difficulties facing those seniors, the Beijing city government will carry out 52 specific measures this year. An additional 37 measures     8     (take) in 2023.

“Smart technology should serve them, instead of blocking them     9     a happier life, ” said a volunteer. He is helping to teach seniors to use smartphones and become more familiar with the internet and related services. “They need unhurried and patient explanations. That's the way to bring them to where they can enjoy these     10     (benefit), too. There is no shortcut for caring,” he said.

3 . We are all born social and company to live happy and fruitful life. Healthy and supportive mutual relationships help reduce stress and promote the physical, mental and emotional well-being by building skills like time management, assertiveness(自信), sociability and empathy.

Making friends has made me feel secure. However, I have to be cautious to pick up friends sharing similar tastes and values. In addition, having added to one’s circle of friends helps one feel supported.

It is true that finding time to cultivate relationships is all about effective time management. My busy uncle finds time to catch up with family and friends during his tea and lunch breaks. Similarly my friend Somya uses her time on her way back home from work in her chauffeur-driven car to catch up with people. The modern inventions of SMS and e-mail help send wishes for birthdays and anniversaries to show your love and care.

Assertiveness is as much applicable to relationships. My friend Mohana emphasizes that neither being a passive observer nor being aggressive helps relationships. It is assertiveness in our relationships that opens the lines of effective communication. It emphasizes helping friends in need and also strengthens mutually supportive relationships.

It is also true that assertiveness by intuition promotes discretion of friends and helps Lalitha distinguish positive people from drains of energy. She can easily figure this out by the flow of the conversation, the way each feels understood, accepted and supported, and by how I feel, happy, bored or energized in the relationship. It also helps to know whether all benefit from each other’s positive aspects.

Handling stress in life is all about cultivating mutually supportive relationships and working on them. Manisha always says she feels great when sharing her feelings after a hard clay with people who share similar ideas. Actually we all need someone who would not just hear us, but listen to us, and we need to cultivate the art of listening and understanding people.

1. How can a busy person develop his/her social relationships?

A．By inviting friends for dinner.	B．By working hard for high salary.
C．By making friends with colleagues.	D．By getting together in the intervals of business.

2. ______ helps build mutually supportive social relationships.

A．Being passive

B．Being relaxed

C．Being assertive

D．Being aggressive

3. What can we inter from the passage?

A．Mohana seems like a passive observer.

B．Lalitha has great powers of observation.

C．Manisha won’t get supportive social relationship.

D．Somya has trouble managing her time effectively.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Build Mutually Supportive relationship	B．Applicable Relationships
C．Pick up Friends Supporting Us	D．Relieve the Pressure in Life

4 . Have you always wanted to visit Disney World or Disneyland, but were waiting for different reasons? The happiest place on earth isn’t far out of reach.     1    .

Disney gets bad fame for raising their ticket prices often. Throughout much of the 2010s, Disney raised fees at almost double the rate of inflation (通货膨化), according to the Wall Street Journal.     2    . In February 2020, Disneyland, in California, raised prices on its one-day park tickets about 5 percent. This is a rather large price increase because it’s the first time Disneyland park tickets have crossed $200.

When Disney World opened, staying at the Bora Bora Bungalows cost $29 per night. Now it can cost as much as $3,400!     3    ? Disney isn’t hunting for money, with a net income in 2019 of $10.44 billion. But here are some reasons:

    4    

Since Walt Disney World opened in Orlando in 1971, Disney has expanded faster and faster, with new parks and attractions, pulling ahead of the competition and attracting double the visitors of its closest competitor.

To Attract Wealthier Customers

    5    , with private tours dinners with princesses, and the opening of a five-star hotel. “They know that the money is in the upper class, the top 10 percent, the top 1 percent.” Niles says. “They’ve created a wide variety of new products to try, and, honestly, earn more money from the rich people.”

A．To occupy the market

B．How does Disney become popular

C．So why are the tickets getting so expensive

D．To earn more money from different people

E．However, its continuously rising ticket prices might make you frustrated

F．Disney has also increasingly attracted people with more money to spend

G．In fact, both U. S. parks have already made price increase in 2020

5 . If you ever have a chance to go to Finland, you’ll probably be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.

________ the taxi drivers for example. You can go anywhere on a journey, and tell the driver to ________ you at any place, saying that you have some business to ________, and that you will pay the taxi driver later. He will agree without any ________ but just accept your words in good ________.

The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their ________, but also provide food for outside ________. Hotel guests have their meals free, so they ________ go to the free dining rooms to have their meals, and the ________ they would do to show their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such ________ check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends to wine and dine free of ________.

Finnish workers are paid by the hour. If you work in Finland and have ________ with the boss on the hourly rate, then you just say how many hours you have worked and you’ll be paid ________.

With so many loop boles in everyday life, surely Finland must be a good country to those who ________ to take “petty advantages”. But the ________ thing is, all the taxi passengers always come back to pay their ________ after they have attended to their business; not a ________ outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms; workers always give the exact hours they have ________, As the Finns always act on good faith and always have a(n) ________ of “right is right” and “wrong is wrong” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”.

What we regarded as “foolish” is ________ the Finnish people’s way of life.

1.

A．Make

B．Put

C．Take

D．Set

2.

A．stop

B．pass

C．drop

D．pick

3.

A．attend to

B．take care

C．take up

D．appeal to

4.

A．pleasure

B．anxiety

C．passenger

D．money

5.

A．condition

B．place

C．seal

D．faith

6.

A．guests

B．visitors

C．meals

D．cards

7.

A．waiters

B．drivers

C．diners

D．workers

8.

A．naturally

B．respectively

C．secretly

D．contently

9.

A．best

B．most

C．worst

D．least

10.

A．strict

B．complete

C．troublesome

D．loose

11.

A．registration

B．charge

C．care

D．noise

12.

A．paid

B．debated

C．talked

D．agreed

13.

A．accordingly

B．reluctantly

C．separately

D．abruptly

14.

A．hesitate

B．hate

C．love

D．refuse

15.

A．strange

B．difficult

C．complex

D．imaginative

16.

A．business

B．trip

C．fine

D．fare

17.

A．familiar

B．faithful

C．single

D．usual

18.

A．worked out

B．put in

C．took in

D．ran out

19.

A．religion

B．law

C．idiom

D．attitude

20.

A．eventually

B．accidentally

C．actually

D．temporarily

6 . About 5,000 children die each day because of preventable diseases such as cholera (霍乱) and dysentery (痢疾), which spread when people use unclean water for drinking or cooking. A lack of water for personal health leads to the spread of totally preventable diseases like trachoma (沙眼), which has blinded some six million people.

Water troubles also trap many low­income families in a cycle of poverty and poor education and the poorest suffer most from lack of access to water. People who spend much of their time on ill health, caring for sick children, or collecting water at a distance averaging 3.75 miles a day don’t have educational and economic chances to better their lives.

Agriculture is called the lion’s share of clean water worldwide, using some 70 percent, and industrial use needs another 22 percent. Water areas have no political borders and nations don’t always work together to share common resources, so water can be a frequent source of international problems as well.

Day­by­day demand keeps growing, further draining water sources, from great rivers to groundwater. “We’re going deeper into debt on our groundwater use,” Postel said, “and that has great effects on global water safety. The rate of groundwater use has doubled since 1960.”

Some of Earth’s groundwater is fossil water created when Earth’s climate was far different. Today such water is as limited as petrol. “But we’re pumping much of them out faster than ever,” Postel explained. “Man’s growing thirst also causes a major problem about water and our ecosystems. And that also creates a cost to us, to our sons and to our grandsons, not just to nature.”

1. What does the author mainly discuss in the passage?

A．Water shortage has been a most serious challenge.

B．So many children die of polluted water every day.

C．Diseases should be properly controlled and treated.

D．Wasting water leads to the unrest of the world.

2. Why is agriculture called the lion’s share of clean water?

A．Because nations don’t always work together to save water.

B．Because agriculture uses about two ­thirds of clean water.

C．Because more people live on the agricultural produce.

D．Because agriculture is much stronger than industry.

3. According to what Postel said we can know ________.

A．groundwater is rich for us to use	B．there is no need to dig deep for groundwater
C．we are using our next generation’ water	D．we should use river water instead of groundwater

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Water should be distributed equally.	B．Laws should be passed from groundwater.
C．We shouldn’t use water from rivers.	D．We should protect our ecosystems.

7 . 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：1. 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 response to the call of nationwide labor education, a series of hands-on courses launched last term in our school, ranging from planting vegetables to making tradition handicrafts.

Sewing is one of my favorite course where I obtained a fundamental knowledge of essential life skills such as sewing a button, knit a scarf, and making a cushion by operating the sewing machine. It was sure a rewarding and fulfilling experience, that not only enriched our extracurricular life but also helped us acquire practical basic working capabilities for livelihood and form the good habit of labouring.

The hands-on courses have won a popularity among students and had a positive effect to the personal growth of everyone involved. If possible, an exhibition could be held to demonstrate students well-designed works and displayed their creativity.

8 . There is always something that happens in the world that everyone fears will happen to their town, city or country: natural disasters. The scariest part of it is that no one will ever see it coming. Though technology helps us prepare, but it never actually tells the people what time it’s going to hit. It is always estimated, but the result is never 100% accurate.

However, that is not the point of this article. Two different natural disasters in two different parts of the world have happened in the past few weeks. One is a major flood that has hit Louisiana in the United States. The other was an earthquake that hit Amatrice, Italy. However, there is a major difference in the news coverage(新闻报道) of the two tragedies.

As for the flooding in Louisiana, it is reported that this disaster is the worst to hit the United States since super-storm Sandy and it’ll cost at least $30 million. In only the first couple of weeks, 13 people had died. However, like me, many people did not hear about this tragic event. I did not learn about it until about three weeks after it happened.

In Italy, however, it covered all media instantly. The earthquake in Italy happened on Tuesday morning. That same day, I was on Twitter and that was all that was over the news feed. Every other post was about the earthquake. Some would have the opinion that Amatrice, Italy was one of the most beautiful towns in that country. I got in deep sorrow because there were more people killed in this quake than the flooding. So far, they have a total of 73 dead and over one-hundred missing.

I understand that technically the earthquake in Italy was worse than the floods in Louisiana. However, I believe that if a natural disaster happens, they all should be equally covered and taken equally as serious. We are one world united and should be there for all of the people out there who are in need of help. We may not be able to accurately predict disasters, but we can surely lend a hand out for the needy.

1. How does the author develop the passage?

A．By narration.	B．By comparison.
C．By definition.	D．By classification.

2. Why did the author learn about the flood so late?

A．He didn’t care about the flood.	B．He felt nervous about the news.
C．The media didn’t cover it in time.	D．The flood frightened the author a lot.

3. How does the author feel about the earthquake in Italy?

A．Proud.

B．Critical.

C．Pitiful.

D．Sad.

4. What does the author really want to say in the text?

A．Italy isn’t good at predicting the natural disasters.

B．All natural disasters should be covered equally.

C．The world should be united into one instantly.

D．America should help Italy predict natural disasters.

9 . 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。

Cotton bags have become a means for brands, retailers and supermarkets to indicate a planet-friendly mindset-or,     1     least, to show that the companies are aware of the overuse of plastic in packaging.

So far, so Earth-friendly? Not exactly. It turns out the wholehearted acceptance of cotton bags may     2     (actual) have created a new problem.

An organic cotton bag needs to be used 20,000 times to reduce     3     (it) overall impact of production, according to a 2018 study. That equals daily use for 54 years-for just one bag.

Cotton is water-intensive, and figuring out ways of     4     (deal)with a bag in an environmentally low-impact way is not nearly as simple as people think, according to     5     environmental science professor at the University of Maine.

“You can’t, for example, just put a bag in a bin. Even when a bag does make it to a treatment plant, most materials used to print logos onto them are PVC-based and thus not     6     (recycle); they’re extremely difficult     7     (break) down chemically,” said Christopher Stanev, the co-founder of Evmu, a Seattle-based textile recycling firm. Printed     8     (patten) have to be cut out of the cloth; Mr. Stanev estimates 10 to 15 percent of the cotton Evnu receives     9     (waste) in this way.

That’s not to say cotton is worse than plastic. In the end, the     10     (simple) solution may be the most obvious. “Not every product needs a bag,” Comey says.

10 . There is always something that happens in the world that everyone fears will happen to their town, city or country: natural disasters. The scariest part of it is that no one will ever see it coming. Though technology helps us prepare, but it never actually tells the people what time it’s going to hit, It is always estimated, but the result is never 100% accurate.

However, that is not the point of this article. Two different natural disasters in two different parts of the world have happened in the past few weeks. One is a major flood that has hit Louisiana in the United States. The other was an earthquake that hit Amatrice, Italy. However. there is a major difference in the news coverage (新闻报道) of the two tragedies.

As for the flooding in Louisiana, it is reported that this disaster is the worst to hit the United States since super - storm Sandy and it’ll cost at least $ 30 million. In only the first couple of weeks, 13 people had died. However, like me, many people did not hear about this tragic event. I did not learn about it until about three weeks after it happened.

In Italy, however, it covered all media instantly. The earthquake in Italy happened on Tuesday morning. That same day, I was on Twitter and that was all that was over the news feed. Every other post was about the earthquake. Some would have the opinion that Amatrice, Italy was one of the most beautiful towns in that country. I got in deep sorrow because there were more people killed in this quake than the flooding. So far, they have a total of 73 dead and over one - hundred missing.

I understand that technically the earthquake in Italy was worse than the floods in Louisiana. However, I believe that if a natural disaster happens, they all should be equally covered and taken equally as serious. We are one world united and should be there for all of the people out there who are in need of help. We may not be able to accurately predict disasters, but we can surely lend a hand out for the needy.

1. What really concerns the author about the two natural disasters?

A．The death and the injured.	B．The media report.
C．The government’s responsibility.	D．Their economic loss.

2. Why did the author learn about the flood so late?

A．He didn't care about the flood.	B．He felt nervous about the news.
C．The media didn't cover it in time.	D．The flood frightened the author a lot.

3. How does the author feel about the earthquake in Italy?

A．Proud.

B．Critical.

C．Pitiful.

D．Sad.

4. What does the author really want to say in the text?

A．Italy isn’t good at predicting the natural disasters.

B．All natural disasters should be covered equally.

C．The world should be united into one instantly.

D．America should help Italy predict natural disasters.