1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。1.

A．By trading physical items.	B．By exchanging artistic creativity.
C．By hosting art exhibitions.	D．By making artistic advertisements.

2.

A．Painting and writing.	B．Graphic design and photography.
C．Music and album cover design.	D．Video editing and project management.

3.

A．Members can benefit without efforts.

B．Members can make money by providing artistic services.

C．Members can get copyrights of other artistic offerings.

D．Members can have access to the creative exchange list.

4.

A．Competitive individualism.	B．Artistic cooperation and inspiration.
C．Individual fame in the art field.	D．Material collaboration and exchange.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Many people are shy in social life.

B．Most people are shy by nature.

C．Your shyness won’ t hurt others.

D．Shyness is difficult to overcome.

2.

A．By prediction.

B．By recording.

C．By observation.

D．By examination.

3.

A．The detailed records of people’s actions.

B．Public attitudes towards being shy.

C．People’s real behaviors in social settings.

D．The specific degree of shyness of every interviewee.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．To reduce unemployment rates.

B．To increase workers’ salaries.

C．To attract international companies to the UK.

D．To check if a shorter workweek is achievable.

2.

A．To reduce employees’ expenses.	B．To meet employees’ preferences.
C．To increase productivity.	D．To follow government regulations.

3.

A．A way to attract and keep talent.	B．A trend in the workplace.
C．A try-out of a new workweek policy.	D．A demand for higher pay.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Low-income Mexican students who want to be pilots.

B．Low-income Californian students who live in Mexico.

C．Low-income Mexican students who live near the US border.

D．Low-income Californian students who want to attend community colleges.

2.

A．$1,500.

B．$7,200.

C．$8,000.

D．$10,000.

3.

A．Helping Californians become lawmakers in the US.

B．Increasing diversity among workforce in the US.

C．Making it easy for Mexicans to achieve education.

D．Avoiding loss of talent in the United States.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What did the drivers on the motorway to Warsaw find?

A．The road was blocked.	B．The road was flooded.
C．The road was frozen with snow.	D．The road was covered with spilled gas.

2. What did the report say about the accident?

A．A truck hit a barrier and overturned.	B．The truck driver slept while driving.
C．The heavy snow made driving difficult.	D．A truck plunged into a pool of chocolate.

3. What did the firefighter representative tell the local TV?

A．It was lucky that no passenger got injured.	B．It was hard to remove the spilled substance.
C．It was long before the cleanup was finished.	D．It was difficult to contact the manufacturer.

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What were the college students in both groups required to do in the study?

A．To install some audio equipment in a lab.	B．To test their eyesight using a phone app.
C．To send smartphone messages.	D．To solve word search puzzles.

2. What do we learn about many of the students in the second test group after the phone rang?

A．They no longer concentrated on their task.	B．They didn’t go on until the ringing stopped.
C．They called back right away.	D．They wanted to answer the phone.

3. According to the passage, what is the most dramatic impact of using smartphones?

A．A decline in sports activities.	B．A rise in emotional problems.
C．A decline in academic performance.	D．A reduction in the amount of sleep.

8 . 假如你是明启中学的高中学生李华，你在报纸上读到这样一则新闻：一个景区为解决游客爬山累的问题，在山石之间架起了一条条自动扶梯(见右图), 游客可实现“无痛爬山”。请以李华的口吻给该报纸编辑写一封邮件，要求：
1. 介绍一下你在报纸上看到的内容；
2. 自己针对此事的态度以及理由。
注，自动扶梯escalator

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9 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Drawing High Schoolers to Science

A group of educators and plant scientists at Michigan State University (MSU) are connecting to reshape science classes. And this particular partnership isn’t just helping students get a better understanding of biology; it’s turning them into young scientists, even if only during class.

It doesn’t take long to see that the curriculum born from this collaboration makes for a much different experience than the traditional high school biology classes. For starters, it has a comic book for a workbook. Secondly, students are getting their hands dirty growing plants. MSU researchers are also studying the plant. The high schoolers are asking some of the same questions professional plant scientists are trying to answer.

“We’re getting them engaged with science in science practices, not just having them learn about science,” says Hildah Makori, a researcher at MSU. “They learn to look at things differently. That’s a life-time impact.”

The main characters of the comic book are a pair of young field scientists. They invite the high school students to help with plant research inspired by a real project at MSU. By growing their own plants, the students learn about genetics, evolution and how these interact with the environment.

The team has seen how this practice could keep students in the driver’s seat of their learning. To help the characters out, students set up different experiments to test their ideas.

The program is working. “This comic personally gave me a click that sparked my curiosity,” reads one student’s survey response. “The comic book put a lot of creative atmosphere into the story instead of just looking at words, instead of just listening to the teacher talk,” says another.

Teachers also had positive reviews. In a survey, one remarked how helpful it was to have the comic to refer to. The students could see the comic’s characters doing something in the lab and realize, “I’m able to do this right here at my table and I can do the same thing,” the teacher says.

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10 . How Young Americans Spend Their Money

Young people have always puzzled their elders. Today’s youngsters are no different; indeed, they are confusing. They have thin wallets and expensive tastes. They prize convenience and a social conscience. They want shopping to be personal.     1     As they start spending in earnest, brands are trying to understand what these walking paradoxes with conflicting features want and how they shop. The answers will define the next era of consumerism.

Their absolute numbers are impressive. The European Union is home to nearly 125m people between the ages of ten (the youngest will become consumers in the next few years) and 34. America has another 110m of these Gen-Zs and millennials, a third of the population. The annual spending of households headed by American Gen-Zs and millennials hit $2.7trn in 2021, around 30% of the total.

    2     Forrester, a market-research firm, found that most users of “buy now, pay later” apps are around 20. Megan Scott, a 20-year-old student from London, speaks for many of her peers by admitting that, when shopping, she has no self-control—until the bill arrives.

The light-speed online world also appears to have lowered tolerances for long delivery times. A study by Salesforce, a business-software giant, found that Gen-Z Americans, who prefer to use their phones to pay for shopping, are the likeliest of all age groups to want their groceries delivered within an hour.     3    

The Internet has also changed how the young discover brands. Print, billboard or TV advertising has given way to social media. Instagram, part of Meta’s empire, and TikTok, a Chinese-owned app, are where the young look for inspiration, particularly for goods where looks matter such as fashion, beauty and sportswear.     4     Such apps are increasingly adding features that allow users to shop without ever leaving the platform. According to McKinsey, six in ten Americans under the age of 25 had completed a purchase on a social-media site.

A．They desire genuineness while constantly immersed in a digital world.

B．TikTok’s user-generated videos can lead even tiny brands to speedy viral fame.

C．The lifestyle of the “moonlight clan” has made many young people feel overwhelmed.

D．Easy access to means of spreading payments may encourage spending money like water.

E．A heightened expectation of convenience comes with being raised in the age of Amazon.

F．These “always-on purchasers” often shift from a weekly shop to quicker fixes of everything from fashion to furniture.