1 . 近年来大城市交通拥堵严重，影响了人们的生活和经济发展，对此人们十分抱怨。假如你是李华，请根据以下要点用英语给报社写封信。
要点：
1.交通现状及影响；
2.提出改进建议；
3.希望建议被采纳。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear editor,

I am writing to you to talk about the heavy traffic.

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I do hope my suggestions will be helpful and well taken.

Yours,

Li Hua

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。

A 30-year-old man was finally rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after his cabin burned down,     1     (leave)him trapped in the snow for almost three weeks.

Tyson Steele had been living alone     2     several months in a small house in Skwentna, a town     3    (locate)70 miles northwest of Anchorage. He had been burning a fire in     4    (he)woodstove back in December when a piece of flaming cardboard     5    (fly)up his fireplace chimney and landed on his roof, which started a slow fire that eventually left the cabin in ruins. Since Skwentna only has a population of about 35 people, Steele's     6    (near)neighbor lived about 20 miles away. With no means of     7    (communicate)to call for help, Steele endured sub-zero temperatures     8     severe weather conditions wearing long johns(秋裤), boots with no socks, and a heavy wool sweater.

When his family and friends hadn't heard from Steele for several     9    (week), they requested a welfare check from Alaska State Troopers. As a helicopter flew over the area, they caught sight of Steele waving his arms in the air next to a massive "SOS" sign     10     he had stamped into the snow.

3 . Healthcare staff and bank clerks have been on the front line of the health and economic crises striking the UK, but behind the scenes, another group of workers robots have been toiling away and overcoming both emergencies with no fear of COVID-19. But will COVID-19 speed up the rise of robots?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is software that robotizes repetitive back-office tasks. The National Health Service (NHS) has used it during the widespread disease to con-trol demand and capacity planning in caring for all levels of patients day and night. Jason Kingdon, Blue Prism's new chief executive who is recovering from COVID-19, says, “Before RPA, these were manual processes. You had to train a number of staff to put them in place. Now, you only need to train a single robot to manage the administration.” More than two fifths of bosses across 45 countries that responded to a survey by EY (Ernst & Young) said they were planning on accelerating spending on automation technology to prepare for a post-Covid world.

COVID-19 has already left tens of millions unemployed, so firms won't be short of cheap labour on the other side of the crisis. But experts still think Al will be the more cautious choice for companies. One of them said, “It's important to remember that even in China, which has much lower wages, 12.5 million manufacturing jobs have been cut over the past four years as more robots have been adopted.”

However, Al is overhyped (过分提倡)in many ways and poor application could lead to a rise in anxiety towards automation. Again, we should think of history as a guide. A lot of, workers riots(暴动) in the early 19th century happened during the continental blockade of the Napoleonic Wars when there was significant mess to trade in Britain. These things are not unrelated.

1. What does the underlined phrase “toiling away” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Walking slowly.	B．Working lazily.
C．Working hard.	D．Walking toughly.

2. What do Jason Kingdon's words in paragraph 2 mean?

A．He prefers to use robot workers.

B．He has refused to accept robots' service.

C．He wishes to employ more human staff.

D．He dislikes the survey by EY.

3. What's the author's attitude to robots?

A．Supportive.	B．Worried.
C．Indifferent.	D．Opposed.

4. Which is the best title for the text?

A．Robots Have Taken the Place of Humans

B．COVID-19 Has Terrible Effects on Our Life

C．It’s Time to Stop Robots from Taking the Place of Humans

D．COVID-19 Speeds up the Trend of Robots Replacing Humans

4 . 据报道，藏羚羊（Tibetan antelope）受非法捕杀而濒临灭绝，总数从1990年的100万只锐减到现在不足10万只。假设你是李华，请用英文给中国野生动物保护协会CWCA(China Wildlife Conservation Association)的会长写一封倡议信。
内容应包括：
1、 简述藏羚羊的现状；
2、 陈述原因（取羊皮获利等）；
3、 倡议大家保护藏羚羊并提出你的建议（加大宣传力度、增加资金、选派志愿者等）。
注意：
1、 词数80-100;
2、 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
3、 可根据内容需要适当增加细节。
词汇提示：illegally非法地;promote推动; conservation保护;make great profits获得巨大利润
Dear President,

I’m writing to give some suggestions to further protect the Tibetan antelope.

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Looking forward to your reply.

Yours ,

Li Hua

5 . For many Chinese consumers, a satisfying breakfast is one that includes either hot porridge or steamed buns. Cold sandwiches, which are usually popular with Westerners, are probably one of the last options on their minds. But that is not to say that consumers, especially those in an international city like Shanghai, would avoid everything considered Western for breakfast. For instance, coffee, which has steadily grown in popularity in the country, is one drink that many cannot do without today.

To satisfy this growing demand for breakfast sets that combine elements from the East and the West, food companies have been rolling out a host of new offerings to attract the customer. One example is Shanghai Qiao Coffee, which was launched by local time-honored food company Qiaojiashan at the end of 2019. Apart from its traditional dim sum, the store also sells various types of coffee.

According to Shen Yan, deputy manager of Shanghai Qiaojiashan Food Development Cold, the most popular breakfast set at the moment is the steamed vegetable bun paired with black coffee. “The calories that one gets from a meal featuring Chinese dim sum and coffee are less than those of a Western breakfast. Since a steamed bun has nearly 200 calories and a cup of black coffee barely has any calories, this combination can be considered healthy and delicious," said Shen.

Even the smaller shoppers in the food scene are jumping on the East-West breakfast trend. Western food establishments, too, have been rolling out Chinese breakfast options. "Consumers and even cultural heritage will also benefit from the increased competition. If not for the current trend which has revived interest in certain traditional dim sum, these foods could soon be lost to history," Shen said.

1. What can we leant about breakfast in Shanghai in paragraph!?

A．People prefer porridge and steamed buns.	B．Cold sandwiches are a popular choice.
C．People avoid western food for breakfast.	D．Coffee is a must for many people.

2. Why does the set of the steamed vegetable bun with black coffee sell well?

A．Because it's newly launched.	B．Because it contains more vegetables.
C．Because it's traditional.	D．Because it's tasty and healthy.

3. What can we learn from Shen's words in the last paragraph?

A．The competition for breakfast sets is of no benefit to consumers.

B．Only big companies have the ability to seize the market share.

C．Western food companies don't care about East-West breakfast.

D．Some traditional foods might disappear without the combination trend.

4. What does the author intend to tell us?

A．Chinese consumers show more interest in western food.

B．Western breakfast is warmly welcomed by Shanghai people.

C．The Chinese-Western breakfast set is becoming a hit in Shanghai.

D．Shanghai Qiao Coffee has won great success for its breakfast sets.

6 . One day, Lisa Holman told her family she would be out that night visiting her friend, only about half an hour drive from her house. So it was not alarming as the night grew on and she did not arrive home. As 11 pm passed, her family began to worry. They called her but did not get any answer. They then reached out to Lisa's friend, who said Lisa had left to drive home at 9 that night.

The family thought about calling the police that evening but the police typically don't define a person missing unless there is no contact for 24 hours. The next morning there was still no sign of Lisa. All the family could do was sit home and wait. Lisa's son decided to drive along Lisa's route and carefully look for her. He found Lisa's car had crashed into a tree. What's worse，there was no sign of Lisa at all.

The family called the police. The police began their search. But due to the heavy rain the search team was called back. The family was very disappointed but still hopeful and continued the search 700 feet from Lisa's car, they finally found Lisa under a rock.

After a few days in hospital, Lisa recovered. She explained that she passed out after her car slid off the road in the rain. After she came to herself, Lisa managed to climb out of the car. While walking to find help, Lisa was exhausted and unable to figure out the direction. So she couldn't walk on and climbed under a rock as it started raining again. Scared as she was, she turned to her faith in hopes of living to see her son again.

1. When should Lisa arrive home after visiting her friend?

A．About 9 pm.	B．About 9： 30 pm.
C．About 11 pm.	D．The next morning.

2. Why did the family give up calling the police that night?

A．The police usually refused to come at night.

B．The heavy rain had blocked all the roads up.

C．They thought Lisa would come back herself.

D．They had been out of touch with Lisa for less than a day.

3. Who found Lisa under the rock?

A．The friend she had visiteD.	B．A hiking team passing by.
C．The police search team.	D．Lisa's family.

4. Why was Lisa unable to go home by herself?

A．She was lost.	B．Her legs were badly injured.
C．She was locked in her car.	D．She was caught by heavy rain,

7 . “A CAREER BOOK about Asians? Aren’t they doing fine…?” So begins Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, a very large scholarly book by Jane Hyun published in 2005. Because Asian-Americans had higher incomes and education levels and committed fewer crimes than their average countrymen, they were seen as a model minority. Despite this, they rarely rose to the top of companies. A mix of individual, cultural and organizational barriers — the “bamboo ceiling” of the book’s title — seemed to prohibit them from rising.

Fifteen years later Asians are still under-represented. In the technology sectors, Asians make up over 30% of the workers but less than 15% of bosses. In 2017 Asians made up roughly 6% of the country’s population but only 3% of the bosses of S&P 500 (标准普尔 500 指数) firms.

Some prominent Asians run big companies. Arvind Krishna is IBM’s new boss. Satya Nadella runs Microsoft and Sundar Pichai leads Alphabet. But few other Asians have joined their ranks — and, revealingly, these stars all have Indian roots. There are fewer South Asians in America than East Asians, but they still made up 13 of all 16 Asian S&P 500 CEOs.

Why are there so few Asians among America’s business elite? And if a bamboo ceiling is to blame, why do South Asians break through more easily? These questions are the focus of a study by Jackson Lu of MIT Sloan School of Management and colleagues, who surveyed hundreds of senior executives and business-school students. They found that while discrimination exists, it is not destiny. South Asians endure greater racism than East Asians but still outperform even whites (if success is weighed against share of population). Their research also rules out lack of ambition: a greater share of Asians than whites endeavor for high-status jobs.

That leaves culture. The researchers conclude that South Asians tend to be more determined and confident than East Asians in how they communicate at work, which fits Western concepts of how a leader should behave. The same tendency for confident remarks featured in “The Argumentative Indian”, a book by Amartya Sen, a Nobel-prize winning economist. The researchers owe East Asians’ silence to Confucian values of modesty and respect for social ranking. Sometimes bravery and bombast are needed to break bamboo.

1. What does “bamboo ceiling” refer to?

A．The top of an American technology company.

B．A roof made of bamboo typical of Asian buildings.

C．Promotion obstacles facing Asian employees in America.

D．The invisible discrimination against Asians in the USA.

2. What does “under-represented” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Lacking representatives.	B．Hard to show their talents.
C．Being underestimated.	D．Unable to land a job.

3. According to Jackson Lu, what mainly accounts for fewer promotions of East Asians than South Asians?

A．A small population.

B．Discrimination.

C．Lack of ambition.

D．Culture.

4. Why do South Asians succeed in American business more easily?

A．Western people prefer modesty to confidence in communication.

B．The confidence they demonstrate consists with Western leadership.

C．They endure greater racism and become more ambitious.

D．Their ambition urges them to endeavor for high-status jobs.

8 . Feeling hungry? Then what’s the easiest way to satisfy your hunger? Many of us will reach for a takeaway menu and order some delicious- but possibly unhealthy -food. And our increasingly busy and stressful lives add to our need to buy ready-made food on the go or delivered to home.

Eating options are endless, and new technology means we can feed our desires at the push of a button. Takeaway delivery apps make ordering food quick and convenient, and during the recent coronavirus（冠状病毒）crisis, it provided a lifeline to those stuck at home with nothing to cook or who lacked the skills to prepare a meal for themselves. It’s estimated that in the UK alone, people eat three million takeaway meals a day, and the three biggest delivery apps together offer a choice of 100 dishes from 60, 000 restaurants.

It’s no wonder we are tempted to skip the grocery shopping, bypass the kitchen, and enjoy something that someone else has prepared. But ordering a pizza, a spicy curry or a box of noodles, can come at a price both financially and to our health. Eating too much processed and unhealthy fast food has some effect on obesity and the risk of developing certain diseases. A few years ago, The BBC Good Food Nation Survey found that most people ate fast food on average two days per week. But, in the 16 to 20-year-old category, one in six ate fast food at least twice a day.

Of course, reducing salt, sugar and fat is one way to make takeaway food healthier, as well as offering smaller portion sizes. But the best advice is to find a cooking book and try making your own healthy meal. And if you haven’t got time, try ordering a healthier alternative from the menu.

1. What has made ordering and delivering takeaway food easy?

A．The fast-pace lifestyle.	B．Takeaway delivery apps.
C．The coronavirus crisis.	D．Lack of cooking skills.

2. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

A．Processed food is usually sold at a low price.

B．It’s unbelievable for people to enjoy fast food.

C．Fast food does less harm to the health of adults.

D．The youth consume fast food more frequently.

3. According to the article, how can you eat most healthily?

A．Preparing meals yourself.	B．Eating in large restaurants.
C．Eating takeaway occasionally	D．Adding vegetables and fruit.

4. What’s the text mainly about?

A．The popularity of takeaway.	B．The necessity of cooking at home.
C．The harm caused by takeaway.	D．The dilemma takeaway faces.

9 . Can ducks help solve the problem of locust（蝗虫）? That is a question being asked in Southern Asia? Like the region of East Africa, the nation of Pakistan is trying to keep masses of locusts from eating the country's crops.

But while the insect invasion in Africa has been blamed on weather, experts say the one in Pakistan is a side effect of a civil war in the Middle Eastern country of Yemen. Because of that war, officials haven't been able to do enough pest control to keep Yemen's locust population from growing, so the insects obviously multiplied and made their way north east eventually landing on Pakistan.

Locusts don't directly attack people. They threaten us by eating our crops. And so many of these insects in such large numbers can destroy regional food supplies. That's why Pakistan declared（宣布） a state of emergency early this month, saying it was dealing with the highest number of locusts in more than 20 years. So what can be done about it? Some experts say pesticides are needed to kill masses of these insects, but there's another idea being considered in China. It may send ducks to Pakistan --as many as 100,000 of them-- to fight the locusts by eating them. An expert interviewed by the Bloomberg media company says one duck can eat more than 200 locusts per day, and China has reportedly used ducks to successfully solve a locust problem in the past. But not everyone is on board with this. A member of China's delegation（代表团）to Pakistan says there's not enough water in Pakistan's hot dry climate to keep the ducks going. Whatever methods are used to control locusts in Asia the situation in Africa is getting more hopeless by the day.

1. According to the paragraph 2, what caused the locust outbreak in Pakistan？

A．There are no natural enemies to eat locusts.

B．The civil war of Yemen affected pest control.

C．The government of Yemen didn't do any pest control.

D．The weather in Pakistan caused the increase of locusts.

2. What harmful effect will masses of locusts bring about?

A．Destroying crops.

B．Changing the weather.

C．Tensing international relations.

D．Directly threatening human security.

3. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase in paragraph 3?

A．Asks for

B．Relys on

C．Agrees on

D．Thinks about

10 . Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that "addicted" was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.

I see people trapped in a pathological(病态的) relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for proclaiming the wisdom that "too much of a good thing is wonderful." But it's time to discover that it does not work for technology.

Richard Fernandez an executive coach at Google acknowledged that "we can be swept away by our technologies." To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused technology.

1. What does the underlined word "allure" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Advantage.

B．Attraction.

C．Adaption.

D．Attempt.

2. What is the purpose of technology companies?

A．To attract people to buy their products.	B．To provide the latest information.
C．To improve people's quality of life.	D．To deal with cultural diseases.

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A．People will get sick when using technology.

B．People have realized the harm of high-tech devices.

C．People can regain freedom without high-tech devices.

D．People may enjoy life better without overused technology.

4. What's the author's attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?

A．Neutral.

B．Indifferent.

C．Disapproving.

D．Supportive.