1 . I first heard about several cases of coronavirus in January, 2020. But I did not ______ the outbreak to have such a sudden and powerful effect on the rest of the world. In March, towards the end of winter quarter, it was ______ that we would take all the finals online. It was unexpected, and all university teachers and students were _______.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, our University of California at San Diego（UCSD） student-run free dental clinics are closed ______, and most research laboratories are only open for ________ personnel. Thus, I have had a lot more spare time than before, ______ most of the events have been switched to be held online. To ______ time, I learned to follow ______ to make different dishes. The period of quarantine（隔离） has become a time when I can learn some new life ______.

Besides cooking, I have been ______ a new hobby—playing puzzles. At first, solving a puzzle was just a way for me to ______ endurance（忍耐性） and patience. Then I realized that I learned much more than that. When I ______ 1,000 pieces of a puzzle on the table, I ______ not buying a simpler one. I suddenly realized how impatient I was that I couldn’t even focus on such a simpler task.

Electronic devices have been training me to constantly stare at a blinking（闪烁）screen and ____ what I was doing. I decided to solve a puzzle while ______ devices for several hours, and enjoy one simple task like a little child.

When I started to look for different pieces to see if they could fit in a larger ______, I started to look for shortcuts. I tried to collect puzzles with similar patterns or colors and ______ their edges.

During this time, I slowly forgot all the madness and ______ of quarantine life. Every time I got one piece in the right place, I was ______ awarded by such a small success and motivated to keep on trying. It was surprising and unexpected for me to receive so much ______ from focusing on solving puzzles.

1.

A．encourage

B．expect

C．require

D．remind

2.

A．announced

B．promised

C．hoped

D．discovered

3.

A．unhappy

B．unfortunate

C．uninterested

D．unprepared

4.

A．occasionally

B．formally

C．temporarily

D．gradually

5.

A．devoted

B．eager

C．excellent

D．limited

6.

A．unless

B．before

C．since

D．though

7.

A．treasure

B．kill

C．waste

D．save

8.

A．schedules

B．orders

C．targets

D．recipes

9.

A．secrets

B．tracks

C．skills

D．lessons

10.

A．exploring

B．spreading

C．reviewing

D．doubting

11.

A．support

B．practise

C．recommend

D．appreciate

12.

A．broke up

B．handed in

C．poured out

D．put away

13.

A．imagined

B．permitted

C．advised

D．regretted

14.

A．forget

B．guess

C．remember

D．emphasize

15.

A．putting up with

B．staying away from

C．watching out for

D．taking control of

16.

A．basket

B．poster

C．picture

D．board

17.

A．touch

B．remove

C．draw

D．compare

18.

A．danger

B．boredom

C．excitement

D．amazement

19.

A．mentally

B．physically

C．strangely

D．passively

20.

A．trouble

B．joyfulness

C．responsibility

D．praise

2 . 语法填空

On the     1     (one) day of my senior high school life in the USA,I showed a great interest in one of the     2     (lecture),marketing lecture. My teacher, Mrs. Tolman,     3     (recommend) that I should register a     4     (nation) marketing club called DECA which attracts many students with interest in business. So I did,

The first challenge was     5     (collect) money for the marketing competition later in the year by selling candles. Mrs. Tolman said the competition was due (到期的) in a week and that 40 percent of the income (收入) would go into my personal ac-count,     6     made me     7     (addict) to the selling.

At     8     beginning, I tried to sell some candles to my host mom. She said that if I could show the candles     9     (confident) and do a wonderful sales presentation, she would certainly buy some. I started my topic with a firm handshake. Then I focused     10     all the different kinds of candles and the special sales I could offer and convinced(说服) her that our candles were the best choices for gifts and home decorations. Finally she bought three candles.

3 . When I first started taking photographs of the night sky, I never thought I’d end up doing it for a living. I’d always been interested in photography. I used to drive my family and friends crazy because I was always taking photographs of them. Then one day I saw a poster of the Earth taken from outer space. Posters like that were really popular in the 1970s. I had seen lots of them, but there was something different about this one. It attracted me and it ended up changing my life!

It hasn’t always been easy though. I remember trying to take a picture of the Comet Hale-Bopp for a photography competition in 1997. I checked with the experts at the local weather station to make sure they weren’t expecting clouds or strong winds. At 3: 30 am I set the camera on a tripod（三脚架）in my garden, and then I began the countdown to 4: 00 am, when the comet was scheduled to appear. I recall thinking, “If everything goes as planned, the photo will show the comet as a line of light moving across a background of stars.” But suddenly everything was terribly wrong! At 3: 59 am, just as I was making the final adjustments, out the bushes came a streak（色条）of black heading straight for my feet, and before I knew it, the camera, the tripod and I were on the ground! The streak of black was my neighbor’s cat Tiddles out for his late-night exercise, and he had ruined the only chance I had for the next 2,000 years of taking photographs of the spectacular（壮观的）comet!

Missed photo opportunities aside, astrophotography is a great job, and it can also be an enjoyable hobby. Surprisingly enough, you don’t need any special equipment: just a 35 mm camera, a tripod and some slow-speed film. But you must remember to take care of your equipment.

1. What does the author mainly describe in the text?

A．How he was trained to be a weather expert.

B．How he took photographs for posters.

C．How he took photographs of people.

D．How he became an astrophotographer.

2. What changed the author completely?

A．Taking family photographs for a living.

B．Taking up astrophotography as a hobby.

C．An attractive poster of the Earth taken from outer space.

D．A popular photograph of the comet.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．The author wanted to take a picture of the comet for a competition.

B．The author showed people how the comet moved across the sky.

C．The comet was expected to appear at 3:30 am.

D．The comet once appeared in the year of 2000.

4. What destroyed the authors last opportunity to take the picture of the comet?

A．Unexpected clouds.	B．A line of light.
C．A neighbour’s cat.	D．Strong winds.

4 . In my whole life I’ve been interested in martial arts. But it was only when I _______ in another city where there was a kung fu club that I really enjoyed it and fully understood why they call it an art. It is fighting and _______ yourself, but it’s also understanding your body more, making it stronger and healthier. Kung fu is a big _______ of Chinese culture. I have always watched kung fu movies (who doesn’t know Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan or Jet Li?), because I love their _______. When I started to practise kung fu, I realised how _______ it was and a simple kick demanded months of practice. But I loved it! A whole new world was opening to me.

After I _______ four years of kung fu in New York, I wanted to go to the _______ where this martial art originated. I went to China with a travel organisation. It was a trip that included some kung fu and tai chi lessons. It was a(n) _______ group, so there were people from all over the world. We went from Hong Kong to Guilin,Yangshuo, Xi’an, Luoyang and Shaolin Temple and _______ Beijing. We did two kung fu lessons in Yangshuo with the brothers Gao, who had a family style which was ________ Bu Di Zhen. We did one tai chi lesson in Xi’an and two more kung fu lessons in Shaolin Temple. I was ________ by Yangshuo and the Gao brothers. Yangshuo is a beautiful town in the middle of mountains and near the Li river. The Gao brothers’ family ________ of kung fu practice was close to mine in New York. I could only ________ of my next trip to China.

The next year my dream ________: I went to China again, together with some friends of my kung fu club. We ________ one month in Yangshuo, just to practise kung fu, which made me understand more of the rich culture of China.

1.

A．settled

B．shared

C．travelled

D．went

2.

A．defeating

B．saving

C．protecting

D．hurting

3.

A．barrier

B．part

C．origin

D．tradition

4.

A．behaviours

B．movements

C．qualities

D．deeds

5.

A．easy

B．perfect

C．special

D．hard

6.

A．practised

B．conducted

C．observed

D．prepared

7.

A．city

B．town

C．country

D．suburb

8.

A．local

B．native

C．national

D．international

9.

A．finally

B．directly

C．officially

D．naturally

10.

A．shown

B．seen

C．called

D．given

11.

A．disappointed

B．amused

C．impressed

D．confused

12.

A．habit

B．style

C．feature

D．rule

13.

A．think

B．know

C．approve

D．dream

14.

A．came over

B．came true

C．came up

D．came out

15.

A．spared

B．searched

C．recorded

D．contributed

5 . I have never understood why we keep a garden and why years ago when I bought my first house, I started digging up a small land for vegetables before doing anything else. It is so easy and cheap to buy carrots; why raise them? When April comes, I always find myself looking at that miserable land, resolving not to plant it again. But unavoidably a morning arrives when, just as I am awakening, a refreshing scent, as if from the very center of this planet, comes through the window. And the sun suddenly, seems to have a different, deeper yellow in its light on the carpet.

It is not only pleasure sending me back to stare at that plot of soil, it is real conflict. The question is the same each year—what method should we use? The last few years we put black plastic between the rows, and it worked perfectly. But plastic looks so industrial, so unromantic, that I have gradually moved over to hay. We cut a lot of hay and it does improve the soil. Besides, it looks lovely and comes to us free.

The attractions of gardening, I think, at least for some gardeners, are moral. Whenever life seems pointless and difficult to grasp, you can always get out in the garden and get something done. Also, your parental instinct comes into play because helpless living things are depending on you, requiring training and protection from enemies. In some cases, as with beans and cucumbers, your children—as it were, begin to turn upon on you in great numbers, growing more and more each morning and threatening to follow you into the house.

1. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?

A．He always likes buying carrots.	B．He always makes decisions in April.
C．He takes good care of the small land.	D．He enjoys the garden in spring.

2. What drove the author to abandon plastic?

A．High price.	B．Environmental concern.
C．Poor function.	D．Personal preference.

3. Why does the author say the attractions of gardening are moral?

A．Gardening requires wisdom.	B．Gardening offers moral advice.
C．Gardening improves parenting.	D．Gardening brings spiritual content.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．To Garden or Not	B．What I Garden for
C．How to Garden	D．Wisdom from Gardens

6 . 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。

Crocheting (钩针编织)is a fun hobby anybody can pick up!

Nowadays many students enjoy     1    .(spend) their free time on phones. I encourage them to pick up a small hobby to kill time, instead     2    scrolling (滚动)mindlessly on the Internet.

While crocheting may sound intimidating (令人胆怯的)to get into without any former knowledge, it's pretty simple to pick up, with many instructional     3    (video) online for beginners.

Crocheting is a large stress-reliever (减压品) for me and allows me     4    (get) my mind off schoolwork.     5    is also very meaningful to have made something with your own hands,     6     (especial) after putting much time and effort into it.

One of the most fun things about crocheting is that you can make gifts for friends and family, or just keep     7    (they) for yourselves. A homemade gift     8    (be) always more thoughtful, and crocheting is an easy way to put in a special effort for a loved one. For example, making a simple scarf for my grandmother     9    (take) me about 45 minutes and was both cheaper and more appreciated than something I could buy at the store.

So I'd highly recommend (推荐)crocheting for students     10    are bored and finding a new hobby or some form of creative expression.

7 . It has been difficult to sit on the bench most of the time, watching my team from the sideline. I always_______why I am not good enough to be on the floor. After endless hours of work and devotion,_______myself through drill after drill, the last thing I want is to be a cheerleader. The feeling of being worthless is sometimes too much and drives me to quit on the spot. I often feel as though my_______are wasted and my time is eaten away, devoted to nothing. It is heartbreaking to be a spectator（旁观者）for the game I love, knowing that no one has enough faith to give me the chance to perform on the floor. Tears well up, but I_______them back. I shouldn't be so upset over something so silly.

Away from the game, it's easier to put my thoughts together, rather than letting my_______drive my reasoning. I consider why I am where I am. I have played basketball my whole life. I have a strong_______for the sport and always have. There is nothing like the excitement of playing: the swish（飕飕声）of the net, the sweat rolling off my cheeks, even the bruises（青肿）are battle wounds worn_______after every game.

Even if I don't play much, I participate in every game. I am part of a team of girls who_______together like a family. I am there for them, as they are for me.

Should I move on? Or should I stay with my team and continue playing basketball with great passion just a little longer? The decision isn't difficult when I consider the joy that being a part of a team_______me—and not just any team, but my team. I love basketball and my teammates. When I think about that, my__________from the bench really isn't so bad after all.

1.

A．wonder

B．promise

C．accept

D．realize

2.

A．following

B．supporting

C．discovering

D．pushing

3.

A．beliefs

B．chances

C．efforts

D．experiences

4.

A．hold

B．give

C．take

D．call

5.

A．hardships

B．possessions

C．feelings

D．achievements

6.

A．imagination

B．admission

C．caution

D．passion

7.

A．bravely

B．proudly

C．regretfully

D．painfully

8.

A．fix

B．add

C．argue

D．stick

9.

A．cheats

B．brings

C．urges

D．controls

10.

A．request

B．intention

C．view

D．ambition

8 . Weeks ago, the longest I had ever run was 5K.What’s more, I didn’t like running, so often I would fasten my old shoes, walk out of the house with heavy steps, get less than a mile in and wonder why I was bothering, especially when there are many more satisfying ways of exercising.Before last summer, I had never participated in any kind of race at all.

At the end of July, I had completed triathlon(铁人三项) after two weeks of training. At the end of it came the run—which ended up more like a walk. But afterwards, I realized something about it appealed to me. The extremely painful fun of doing something I hated and was unprepared for turned out to be like a difficult task to test my abilities and skills.

So when an invitation to do the Berlin Marathon dropped into my inbox a couple of weeks later, it felt like a twist of fate. After the triathlon, hadn’t I been saying that I should start running, precisely because I hated it so much? The joy of the triathlon had been that I challenged my limits. It felt necessary to find out again where those limits might lie. There was a very good chance that I would not only fail but embarrass and hurt myself in the process. But there were plenty of reasons not to do it, I said yes.

Marathon training is supposed to take at least 20 weeks or more, and that is for someone who has run before. But I don’t even know what speed I’m aiming for. Finally the training plan becomes something to stop me worrying when the race seems too frightening. This happens often, as I count the days to the race and picture I fell over in the middle of a Berlin street. This anxiety feels sure to happen, but there is something equally unavailable about the training plan; if I follow it, then I have done everything I can; if I do everything I can, then I can’t regret what comes at the end. In the most extreme training week, I run about 40 miles.

1. What can we infer from the first paragraph about the author?

A．He had less practical experiencing in running.

B．He had difficult in walking after try hard.

C．He failed to find satisfying ways of exercising.

D．He preferred staying indoors to do exercise.

2. Which of the statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A．He did a perfect job in the triathlon.

B．Running is part of triathlon.

C．He knew his limits in the triathlon.

D．He start running because he liked it after the triathlon.

3. Why did the author accept the invitation to the Berlin Marathon?

A．To adjust himself.

B．To amuse himself.

C．To protect himself.

D．To challenge himself.

4. What lesson does the author learn after taking the marathon training?

A．Nothing is impossible

B．Roman is not build in a day.

C．Everything is worth trying.

D．It is no use crying over spilt milk.

9 . 以“我最喜欢的运动”为题写一篇短文，内容包括以下几个方面：
1. 喜欢的运动项目；
2. 喜欢此项运动的原因；
3. 将来的愿望。
注意：词数：100词左右。

My favourite sport

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