1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How long has the man played the piano up to now?

A．For 10 years.

B．For 15 years.

C．For 20 years.

2. What do we know about the man?

A．He started to write music at ten.

B．He enjoys giving concerts in schools.

C．His CDs have become the best seller.

3. How does the woman like the man?

A．Creative.

B．Excellent.

C．Just so so.

2 . Some little boys are addicted to Legos. Others can’t get enough of dinosaurs. But it is Blackpool Tower in England that has captured one 6-year-old’s imagination.

The Blackpool Tower was built in 1894. It is twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in NYC. Now Charlie Barratt has achieved his dream by becoming the voice of the attraction’s lift (电梯). Charlie did a project about the tower at school, recording his own version of the lift’s existing speech. In the voice-over, Charlie welcomes visitors to the attraction. He also offers interesting facts about the tower. One of his teachers contacted Kenny Mew, the tower’s operation manager, and told him about Charlie’s love for the 518-foot (157 meter) structure.

Mew told BBC Radio Lancashire, “His school reached out to me and said they had this young boy who was passionate about Blackpool Tower and had actually recorded the lift speech and I was thinking to myself: how’s he done that? I played it back and he had the speech word for word that we’d had recorded already in the lift and it just sounded amazing. And we thought we were going to give Charlie the opportunity to do it. He was absolutely brilliant. He’s done an amazing job, and we’re really proud of what he’s done.”

Charlie was then invited into a professional recording studio to perform his version and his mum, Wendy, is as thrilled as he is. She told the BBC, “He adores the tower.” Wendy first took Charlie to visit the tower when he was a baby. She said he loved it “from the minute he can walk”.

Now Charlie is the voice of the attraction’s lift. As well as the lift, there are plans in progress for Charlie to lend his voice to other areas in the future.

1. Why does the author mention other boys in the first paragraph?

A．To imply that Blackpool Tower is better than Legos and dinosaurs.

B．To highlight that Charlie Barratt has a unique passion.

C．To indicate that Charlie Barratt cannot get along with other boys.

D．To criticize other boys who fail to achieve their dreams.

2. What can we know about Blackpool Tower?

A．It did not have a lift speech until Charlie made one.

B．Its manager attempted to find a boy to record lift speech.

C．It is now using Charlie’s remade recording in its lift.

D．It is the highest tower in England with interesting facts.

3. Why did Charlie record the voice-over for Blackpool Tower on his own?

A．His mother Wendy inspired him.

B．His teacher encouraged him to do so.

C．He had a strong interest in Blackpool Tower.

D．He decided to attract more tourists to it.

4. Which words can better describe Charlie?

A．Passionate and unselfish.

B．Hard-working and persuasive.

C．Promising and kind.

D．Enthusiastic and committed.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1. What did the man do last night?

A．He visited a friend.

B．He went to a party.

C．He watched a table-tennis game.

2. What does the woman think of the game?

A．Exciting.

B．Boring.

C．Interesting.

3. What do we know about the man?

A．He doesn’t want to watch games on TV.

B．He regrets missing the game.

C．He is quite a table-tennis fan.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers talking about?

A．Plans for the summer holiday.

B．Activities at school.

C．Dangerous sports.

2. Who will be the man’s soccer coach?

A．His father.

B．His teacher.

C．A professional player.

3. What does the woman think of swimming?

A．It will help her get into shape.

B．It’s a good way to make friends.

C．It takes up too much of her time.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the boy like doing?

A．Walking around.

B．Making up stories.

C．Playing ball games.

2. What does the boy think of the woman’s advice?

A．Interesting.

B．Reasonable.

C．Unattractive.

3. Why will the woman go into the other room?

A．To give the boy some space.

B．To find a perfect seat.

C．To clean the window.

6 . When I was in high school, I was _______ and always felt depressed. At that time, playing basketball was the only thing that could make me happy. Unfortunately, _______, I broke my leg in a street basketball match one summer evening.

The doctor said that I had to stay in bed for three months because of this _______. Three months, far away from my beloved basketball! It was so _______!

I could do nothing to _______ the time but return to my love in primary school: painting and drawing. My mother managed to acquire such drawing _______ as paint and brushes, along with drawing books and pencils. This, of course, _______ my range of expression and allowed me to have a greater choice of subjects. After the first few weeks of uncertainty and _______, I settled down with my new pastime(消遣). I painted every day upstairs in the bedroom, _______ by myself.

I would sit on the bed for hours, all my paint and brushes around me and I would get Mother or Father to ________ the finished pictures on the wall.

Slowly, I began to ________ from my leg injury as well as my earlier depression. I had a feeling of pure ________ while I painted, a feeling I hadn’t had for a long time. I didn’t ________ going out to play basketball now, for I had something to keep my mind ________ Each day became a thing to ________, a thing to lift me above myself.

1.

A．in full measure

B．in low spirits

C．in the wrong

D．in great pressure

2.

A．therefore

B．instead

C．however

D．rather

3.

A．emergency

B．surgery

C．adventure

D．treatment

4.

A．memorable

B．desirable

C．admirable

D．horrible

5.

A．kill

B．balance

C．ignore

D．skip

6.

A．facilities

B．options

C．designs

D．materials

7.

A．advanced

B．challenged

C．broadened

D．exchanged

8.

A．independence

B．awkwardness

C．eagerness

D．curiosity

9.

A．completely

B．extremely

C．definitely

D．immediately

10.

A．concentrate

B．strike

C．stick

D．count

11.

A．suffer

B．recover

C．escape

D．heal

12.

A．amazement

B．confidence

C．joy

D．strength

13.

A．remain

B．remind

C．mind

D．miss

14.

A．energetic

B．interested

C．effective

D．active

15.

A．look forward to

B．live up to

C．come up with

D．end up with

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When does the conversation take place?

A．In spring.

B．In summer.

C．In winter.

2. What is the woman pleased about?

A．Collecting stamps.

B．Playing computer games.

C．Doing indoor sports.

3. Why won’t the boy play table tennis?

A．He is afraid to lose.

B．He finds nobody to play with.

C．He thinks it boring.

8 . To this paper-cutting artist, Shi Qinling, scissors are like what brushes are to painters, or what pens are to writers. Always having a pair of scissors on her also allows her to create art whenever inspiration hits. “Some people like to pen their feelings in diaries. I prefer to cut them out,” says the 35-year-old, who is currently working at the Fenglin community cultural activity center in Shanghai.

Shi developed an interest in handicraft when she was a child who often found herself alone at home. Out of boredom, she would play with paper, folding and cutting them into different shapes. This interest later developed into a passion, one that she decided to pursue by majoring in arts and crafts design during her time in university.

After graduation, however, she found herself working at a ship design company as she was unsure about what she wanted to do with her future. About a year later, the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Research Institute offered her a position in their paper-cutting department. Realizing that she still had a love for the craft, she switched her career.

In 2010, she started learning paper-cutting from Xi Xiaoqin, the national inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage for paper-cutting. Three years later, one of her works, The Fighting Fish, won third place at the Baihua Cup, a competition for Chinese arts and crafts. Six years later, Shi was named a Shanghai paper-cutting inheritor and become the city’s “youngest inheritor” of the paper-cutting heritage.

1. What can we learn about Shi from Paragraph 1?

A．Scissors are important for her for self-protection.

B．Scissors are significant for her for artistic expression.

C．She creates art by drawing whenever she has inspiration.

D．She is a paper-cutting artist as well as a painter and writer.

2. Why did Shi work at a ship design company after graduation?

A．She was at a loss what to do in the future.	B．She majored in ship design in university.
C．She was sure that she loved to design ships.	D．She wanted to be an inheritor of the company.

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

A．Adopted.

B．Hatched.

C．Changed.

D．Reformed.

4. What can we infer from Shi’s experience?

A．Interest is the best teacher.	B．Pride goes before a fall.
C．It’s never too late to learn.	D．All roads lead to Rome.

9 . Barbara, 70, and me, at 71, have swum together for at least 50 years. We swim in a quiet cove (小海湾). It’s home to seagulls, a duck or two, and kayaks (独木舟) on occasion. The difficult summer drought of 2021 brought a burning sun that warmed the water. As the drought eased and the water cooled in late August, we decided to keep swimming. We have both read Bonnie Tsui’s Why We Swim, a fine book about cold-water swimming. We challenged ourselves to swim for as long as possible through September and into October.

I have long loved swimming, though the fear of being seen as fat has dogged me. I am one of those female bodies poorly displayed in bathing suits. Cold-water swimming deepened my sense of well-being and let me use my body. It became a ritual Barbara and I embraced as swimming sisters. When she returned to the United States immediately after our Canadian Thanksgiving, I did not know how I could continue our cold-water tradition. I wasn’t prepared to freeze alone.

But, I had to swim; there were larger commitments I should stick to. In the summer, we planned to cross from the cove to an island across the lake. I had to stay fit. We also planned to host a cold-water swimming race for locals in the fall. We would make it an annual event, improving our strength and endurance (耐力) so that, in our 80s, we might swim through October and into November.

With these plans in mind, I joined my local city pool. I had not been in a public pool for about 30 years. But my body said swim, my brain said swim and my heart, could not let go. So I went anyway.

I am swimming. I am alive to my love of the water, alive to my promise for the spring and the summer that will come. I intend to step back into the lake in May, and through September and October with Barbara. We are perfectly matched in our devotion, and increasingly aware of the miracle of being able-bodied enough to share the cold-water wonder side by side.

1. Why was the book Why We Swim mentioned in the first paragraph?

A．It guided the author to learn to swim.

B．It analyzes the advantages of swimming.

C．It is the author’s favorite book about swimming.

D．It partly contributed to the author and Barbara’s common interest.

2. What does the underlined word “commitments” probably mean in paragraph 3?

A．Promises .

B．Preparations .

C．Requirements .

D．Opportunities .

3. What effort did the author make to achieve her goals?

A．She went to a gym to improve her strength.

B．She became a member of the local public pool.

C．She swam across the lake to the island on her own.

D．She participated in a local cold-water swimming race.

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

A．To describe her friendship with Barbara.

B．To express her passion for cold-water swimming.

C．To recommend people to go swimming to keep fit.

D．To explain how she overcame her fear of swimming in public places.