1 . 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．Doctors.

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. What caused the accident according to Mr. Bates?

A．The red car.

B．The dog.

C．The blue car.

2 . 目前，中国很多城市出现了共享单车（bicycle-sharing），受到人们的欢迎，同时也出现了一些问题。请以“Bicycle Sharing”为题写一篇英语短文，内容要点如下：
1.方便出行；健康环保；
2.随意停放；人为损坏；
3.你的看法。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：randomly     adv.随意地

Bicycle Sharing

Nowadays, bicycle sharing has come into people’s lives in many cities in China and it has become a popular means of transport .

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3 . In various restaurants worldwide, there’s a new sight-child-sized robots. These robots can welcome guests, show them to their tables, deliver food and drinks, and even transport dirty dishes back to the kitchen. Some believe these robot waiters could be a solution to today’s worker shortages in the restaurant industry, with tens of thousands of them now in use.

But other people think that robots can’t replace human workers. Robot waiters can’t take orders, and they struggle with steps, limiting their abilities.

Despite these disadvantages, their use is growing. For example, in Madison Heights, Michigan, Li Zhai faced difficulty finding enough workers for his restaurant, Noodle Topia. To address this, he purchased robots from Pudu Robotics. These robots have been a success, with one leading diners to their seats, another delivering food, and a third transporting dirty dishes.

Zhai found that using these robots reduced his need for employees. Three robots now do the work of what used to require five or six people. In terms of cost, a robot costs around $15 000, while a human can cost $5,000 to $6,000 per month. These robots also have a surprising benefit-they free up human servers to spend more time with customers, resulting in increased tips, Additionally, diners often share videos of the robots on social media, attracting more visitors to the restaurant.

However, not all restaurants have had the same success. For instance, Chili’s (奇利斯餐厅)introduced robot servers in 2020, expanding the test to 61U.S. restaurants before suddenly stopping the program. The robots were criticized (批评) for their slow movement and getting in the way of human servers. A survey showed that 58% of guests believed the robots didn’t improve their overall dining experience.

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To introduce a survey about robot waiters.

B．To show the success of robot waiters in restaurants.

C．To describe the appearance of child-sized robots in restaurants.

D．To discuss the challenges of hiring human workers in restaurants.

2. What does the underlined word “address” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Solve.

B．Narrow.

C．Ignore.

D．Control.

3. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A．The history of robot waiters in the U.S.

B．The challenges of introducing robot servers.

C．The effect of social media on the restaurant industry.

D．The advantages of using robots in the restaurant industry.

4. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．All restaurants with robot servers are successful.

B．The use of robot waiters still has a long way to go.

C．Robot waiters are cheaper to employ than human workers.

D．The restaurant industry is not affected by worker shortages.

4 . 假设你是李华, 时下，你校不少学生带手机上学。为此，你班组织了一次班会，讨论中学生上学是否有必要带手机。请你给英语笔友Tom写封信，根据下表提供的信息，客观地介绍讨论的情况。可结合你校实际进行适当发挥，并发表自己的看法。

一些同学认为	一些同学认为	你的观点
方便；时尚。	中学生自控能力差；玩手机浪费时间。	(请你实话实说)

Dear Tom,

I’m so glad to hear from you.

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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . Due to the heavy academic pressure and safety issues, our children’s movements are limited by a lack of extra-curricular activities, which usually ensure that they meet the daily recommended level of physical activity.

For those children attending a high school, my own included, the morning and afternoon walk could be the only chance that they get to spend time outside. This is a golden opportunity to add sports into their day, without taking part in group sports or going to a closed indoor gym(健身房).

For walking to school, there are also many other benefits, such as improving school performance, reducing anxiety, improving spirits, better sleep, a sense of independence,opportunities to meet friends or think alone, paying attention to small details and being amazed by the surrounding environment.

However, parents still have fears. Parents fear cars, injury, extreme weather and even wild animals. These fears, many of which are almost impossible to happen, prevent parents from allowing their children to do something that’s actually beneficial to them. “Removing an opportunity to be active leads to an increase in childhood obesity(肥胖), which can have a greater negative impact on a child’s life than the risk of being injured due to being active,” saidDr. Mariana Brussoni, a professor who researches children’s outdoor and risky play.

When it comes to changing the culture around parents driving children to school, much work still needs to be done. Therefore, parents should try to let go slowly and give up the idea that driving their children to school is convenient. Brussoni said, “We hope to shift parents from focusing on protecting their children to trusting their independent abilities.Schools can also play a role in encouraging children to walk to school.”

1. Who is the text most probably written to?

A．Professors.

B．Parents.

C．Teachers.

D．Grandparents.

2. What is parents’ worry about children’s walking to school?

A．Children’s school performance.	B．Children’s physical health.
C．Children’s men tal health.	D．Children’s safety.

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards driving children to school?

A．Unclear.

B．Unconcerned.

C．Doubtful.

D．Negative.

4. What’s the main idea of this text?

A．Walking to school is beneficial to students.

B．Children prefer to go to school on foot.

C．Parents worry about their children ‘s obesity.

D．It’s too dangerous for children to walk to school.

7 . Like millions of other parents, Emily Hobey drops her son at day care before she heads to work every morning. But what makes her mornings different from other parents’ mornings, is that she gets to leave her one- and half-year old in a day care center run by her employer, Whirlpool.

The day care, called the Eddy, is located at the company’s global headquarters in Benton Harbor, Mich. — a five minute drive away from her office at the company’s North America Headquarters building. “Every day there is a safe environment waiting for him with great teachers.” said Hobey. “And we can really depend on that.”

A small but growing number of workplaces are offering on-site day care for their employees, according to data from network The Best Place for Working Parents, which covers over 600 businesses of varying sizes and services.

The organization has tracked how many businesses within its network offer on site child care since right before the pandemic (疫情). In 2020, the Best Place for Working Parents found that 8.5 percent of those companies offered on-site child care. That number grew to 11.9 percent in 2021. fell slightly to 11.4 percent in 2022 and climbed to 13.9 percent this year, a network spokesperson said.

A 2022 survey from McKinsey & Company found that 45 percent of mothers with children aged 5 or younger who left the workforce during the COVID-19 cited child care as a major reason for their departure. And 24 percent of mothers with children 5 years old or younger said they considered reducing their work hours or switching to part time work because of child care. Only 14 percent of fathers said the same.

Like Whirlpool, many workplaces offer on-site day care to help make their companies more attractive to employees. Research also shows that when companies offer on site child care, workers are happier at their job and are less likely to leave. This has been the case at clothing company Patagonia, which has offered on-site child care since 1983. Hilary Dessouky, general counsel at Patagonia, said that the on-site child care has resulted in almost 100 percent of mother’s returning to work after maternity leave (产假).

1. What makes Emily Hobey’s morning routines unique?

A．She drops her son at day care.

B．Her office is very close to her home.

C．Her employer provides on site day care.

D．She has a well-paid job in Whirlpool.

2. How does the author mainly organize Paragraph 4?

A．By making comparisons.	B．By providing examples.
C．By listing data.	D．By analyzing cause and effect.

3. What can be inferred from the fifth paragraph?

A．Mothers love their children more than fathers.

B．Many women became jobless due to the pandemic.

C．Whirlpool offers the most attractive on-site day care across the world.

D．Lack of child care made many mothers leave work during the pandemic.

4. Why is the company Patagonia mentioned?

A．To describe some best child care services.

B．To show the positive effects of on site child care.

C．To stress the challenges faced by working mothers.

D．To compare it with companies without on-site child care.

8 . A small town in western France has gone viral for marking a busy crossroads with overlapping (重叠的) white lines in order to confuse motorists and make them slow down.

The town of Bauné, near Angers, is home to only about 1,700 people, but it has to deal with heavy traffic on a daily basis because of its location at the crossroads between two departmental roads — D74 and D82. Some of the roughly 2,300 vehicles that pass through Bauné every day can have speeds of over 100 km/h, even though the town’s crossroads is clearly marked with signs limiting the speed at 30 km/h. In order to get drivers to slow down, local authorities came up with the idea of using confusing road markings in the form of overlapping continuous lines. Interestingly enough, the strategy worked like a charm!

Photos of the odd road markings on the busy crossroads of Bauné went viral on French social media recently and left a lot of people scratching (抓) their heads. Many people have pointed out that a continuous white line is impassable (不可通行的), so having the lines overlap and cover the entire square doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Others simply wondered why the local authorities didn’t use more traditional means of decreasing vehicle speed, like a roundabout (环形交叉路口) or traffic lights.

According to Grégoire Jauneault, deputy mayor of Loire-Authion and the person in charge of local development, the deliberately confusing road markings started working on the day they were completed, with data showing a significant decrease in motorists’ speeds. However, a part of the local community predicted that the result was only temporary and that as soon as motorists figured out the game, they would go right back to their speeding ways.

1. What’s the purpose of marking a busy crossroads with overlapping white lines?

A．To make headlines on social media.

B．To reduce traffic jam at the crossroads

C．To make drivers slow down their speed.

D．To reduce the number of people crossing the crossroads.

2. What is true about the town?

A．Only 1,7000 people living there.

B．The speed limit is 100 km/h at the crossroads.

C．Traffic jam happens every day at the crossroads.

D．Roughly 2,300 vehicles pass through Bauné every week.

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards the strategy?

A．Doubtful

B．Supportive

C．Opposed

D．Objective

4. Where can you probably find the passage?

A．In a textbook	B．In the newspaper
C．In a research paper	D．In a travel magazine

9 . Josie, who is 17 years old, said, “Why do my parents do the same things they tell me not to do? For example, my mum stops me from shouting through the walls and asks me to go and speak to her face-to-face, but she always shouts through the walls to me. What can I do?”

That is a very good point. Parents can be completely inconsistent (不一致), and usually they don’t realize it. You see this a lot in many things like smartphones. Parents always say to their kids, “Oh, you can’t use that. That device (设备) is bad for you, so stop using it at the table. It’s harmful.” But then they are on theirs continually. So what do you expect teenagers to do?

The whole “Do as I say, not as I do” thing is an annoyance, especially for a teenager who is dying for independence and respect but isn’t getting them.

What can teenagers do with it? I would say you should point it out by calmly saying something like “You tell me not to scream through the walls, but you do it to me, so you can understand where I’m coming from. That’s not ideal.” They might object to it, but I think most parents who care about being parents would logically say, “That’s a reasonable point.”

There are a lot of conflicts (矛盾) going on between teenagers and their parents, but a lot of studies show that the conflicts are resolved a lot more when they turn into a dialogue.

If you can talk at a time when you’re both feeling a bit calmer, like just in the kitchen or doing something unimportant, then go in and say, “Can I just mention it? You tell me not to do this, but you do it too.” If you can approach it in a more calm and stress-free manner, most parents will respond positively.

1. How did Josie feel according to her words in paragraph 1?

A．Hopeful.

B．Bored.

C．Proud.

D．Confused.

2. What does the underlined word “theirs” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The parents’ smartphones.	B．The tables in the house.
C．The devices in the house.	D．The teenagers’ points.

3. What should teenagers do with their parents’ inconsistency?

A．Object to it personally.	B．Complain of it continually.
C．Talk with their parents calmly.	D．Do some studies differently.

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

A．To list a fact.	B．To offer a suggestion.
C．To show a result.	D．To ask a new question.

10 . A fire swallowed a warehouse (仓库) on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, threatening to spread to a historic World War II-era ship before firefighters controlled it. One firefighter got a hand injury while battling the fire.

After the fire, investigators searched the building to determine whether homeless people were inside. “We’re trying to confirm if anybody is in this building,” San Francisco Fire Lt. Jonathan Baxter said. “Nobody is supposed to be in the building and we are hoping that there is no victim.”

However, at least two workers were inside the warehouse when the fire broke out before dawn. Alejandro Arellano was cleaning out a fish storage locker when the fire began shortly after 4 a.m. “I saw a lot of smoke. A few minutes later, fire was everywhere,” he said. “It was very scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

More than 130 firefighters fought the fire, some using ladder trucks to drench (浸湿) the warehouse from above. A fireboat was used to protect a ship that stormed Normandy on D-Day in 1944. The ship is among numerous tourist attractions on the wharf. Coast Guard crewmembers and police assisted by keeping other ships away.

Shops and restaurants on the wharf have been shut in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus (冠状病毒) and were expected to reopen on May 31. Fishing companies said the fire worsened an already tough business climate. Kenny Belov, owner of the seafood wholesaler TwoXSea, said his building near the warehouse was not damaged but he worried the fish in his freezer could be ruined. Fire investigators were still assessing the damage and were looking into the cause.

1. Why did investigators search the building after the fire?

A．To search for valuable things.

B．To make sure the fire was really out.

C．To make sure nobody was trapped in the fire.

D．To look for the person who caused the fire.

2. How did Coast Guard crewmembers and police help?

A．They kept other ships away.	B．They protected tourist attraction.
C．They carried ladder trucks.	D．They sent the injured to hospital.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．The cause of the fire was still unknown.

B．The fire helped slow the spread of the disease.

C．Kenny Belov’s building was damaged in the fire.

D．Shops and restaurants were closed because of the fire.

4. What is the best title of the text?

A．A Big Fire Was Put out by Firefighters

B．A Big Fire Broke out Early in the Morning.

C．Firefighters Are Looking for Victims of a Big Fire

D．Investigators Are Looking for the Cause of Big Fire