1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What was the speaker like as a child?

A．She loved math.

B．She was interested in spelling.

C．She was addicted to word games.

2. How did the speaker become a successful word game player?

A．She found spelling is similar to math.

B．She learned to speak several languages.

C．She met a great tutor in elementary school.

3. With whom did the speaker first play the game?

A．Her family.

B．Her classmates.

C．Online players.

4. Why did the speaker quit gaming?

A．She became bored with playing games.

B．She became too involved in the games.

C．She got married and became a mother.

2 . Antoine Craig, a blind athlete, has been blind since 2010. He gradually lost his sight due to a genetic disease. Working through difficulties, Craig says, he has found his value. “Once I lost my eyesight, I began the process of rediscovering myself.” he says.

Craig, now 40, heard from a friend about people running at the school’s gym with their hands linked by shoestrings (鞋带). Craig decided to give it a try. “In the beginning, it was pure coping (应对).” he says. “It allowed me to do something I could be proud of. More importantly, here people became my friends, who were always ready to help me. These people became my family.”

In 2017, he won a silver medal in the 200-meter race at the 2017 US Paralympic Nationals. In 2019 he competed at the Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. In 2021, running for a chance to compete in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo — delayed for a year, he finished second in the 100.

Learning a US national team was forming for blind soccer, he went for it. Last fall. Craig was named to the team, which will play in the Los Angeles Paralympics in 2028. On March 19 and 20, 2023, the team hosted its first two “international friendly” games against Canada in Chula Vista, California. Craig couldn’t play as planned due to a concussion (脑震荡) in practice before the games. He spoke with his teammates before both games and, on his Facebook page, asked friends and supporters to lend support. When asked how the team performed, Craig answered cheerfully, “You know, we won!”

Craig finished a psychology degree from VCU in 2016 and completed his master’s degree in mental health counseling (咨询) in December 2022. Now he has his own business, LegendaryU Counseling. focusing on athletes with disabilities. He also regularly posts videos to his Instagram, hoping to inspire others.

1. Why did Craig want to try running at first?

A．To meet friends.	B．To help others in need.
C．To find himself.	D．To escape from his family.

2. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

A．It is important to run.	B．Craig was running well.
C．Running is easy for Craig.	D．Craig succeeded in Tokyo.

3. What can we learn about Craig from paragraph 4?

A．He had a positive attitude.	B．He performed well in the game.
C．His team played in Canada.	D．His supporters were disappointed.

4. Why does Craig start his company?

A．To make improvements to himself academically.

B．To help people see beyond their challenges.

C．To win more medals in the competitions.

D．To post videos to the disabled people.

3 . UN FAO World Food Day Poster Contest 2023

We are aware at mytopschools.com that you are searching for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) World Food Day Poster Contest 2023,then you are not alone.

Calling out to all children and teens around the world! If you’re between ages 5 to 19, the UN FAO wants you to use your imagination and create a poster of your favourite food hero at work and submit it for their World Food Day Poster Contest.

The world is full of food heroes, who despite various challenges, work hard to make sure that food makes its way from farms to our table. Let’s celebrate their great efforts this World Food Day. Young minds can be inspired to support these food heroes who provide the healthy diets we need, while protecting the planet.

Requirements

·Only one entry should be submitted per person. Multiple entries from one person will result in disqualification.

·Poster entries may be drawn, painted or sketched using pens, pencils, crayons or using oil, or watercolour paint. Digitally created artwork is also permitted. No photographs are allowed.

·All poster entries must be original and should not include photographic images of the Contestant or other personal information.

·Submissions must be made through the online form provided – please do not send in physical posters. The deadline is November 6.

Prizes：

·Three winning poster designs will be selected as finalists by a jury in each category.

·Winners will also receive a Certificate of Recognition and a surprise gift bag.

·When winning posters are published, only the first initial, full family name and country of origin will be published. No other personal information about the Contestants will be published or shared.

1. What is the Poster Contest intended for?

A．Protecting the planet.	B．Providing healthy diets.
C．Honoring food heroes.	D．Developing farms.

2. Which of the following will result in disqualification?

A．Only drawn entries.	B．A copied entry.
C．Two entries from a kid.	D．A physical poster.

3. What will a poster winner get?

A．A school certificate.	B．An amazing present bag.
C．A creative artwork.	D．A watercolour painting.

4 . Poetry Writing Contest

Contest information

Deadline: November 30th

Results: Announced on December 31st

Prizes: Win $ 1,600 in prize money

Guest judges: Ken Liu, Brian Evenson, and Faylita Hicks

Entry requirements

Your poetry can be laid out as you wish, as we understand that form often relates to the effect of a poem. However, please be sure to stick to a maximum of 3 pages per poem.

Submission guidelines

We accept works, written in English, from anywhere in the world. But we don’t accept works previously published elsewhere.

Writers over the age of thirteen are welcome to participate. Please note that if you’re aged 13-16 and your work is selected for publication, we’ll require a signature from a parent or a guardian.

Please include your name and contact information in your cover letter only and remove any identifying information from both the submitted work and the file name.

We edit every piece accepted for publication whether your work is selected for publication through our online blog or in our print magazine. For this cooperative process we’ll pair you with one of our senior editors. All our editors have been trained to help guide the development of each piece to reach its fullest potential in keeping with the author’s vision. This doesn’t mean we’ll take on a wild jumble of words and half-formed thoughts.

Notes

The contest reserves the right to NOT award a winner if the submissions don’t reach a publishable standard. In this case, the winner won’t be announced. Although this has rarely come to pass in our six-year publishing history, our top priority must remain with the quality of the work we publish.

1. What do you have to avoid in order to participate in the contest?

A．Writing a 3-page-long poem.

B．Writing your work in English.

C．Providing your contact information.

D．Submitting your entry after November 30th.

2. What do we know about the contest?

A．It is held on an annual basis.

B．It is intended for teenagers only.

C．It is open to global poetry lovers.

D．It is aimed at making poetry more popular.

3. What are you expected to do if your poem is selected for publication?

A．Make sure that it is original.

B．Polish it as you’re required to.

C．Go to receive the prize on time.

D．Give your permission to publish it.

5 . My family first moved to Colorado 22 years ago. Los Angeles was too expensive and it was difficult to find well-paying jobs and affordable housing. Colorado became our next dream place. Settling into a small town in the Front Range, my parents found hard jobs.

Growing up in this small town, I remember my parents working hard to get past the language barrier. My mom, especially, tried her best to ensure she knew all that she needed to know about like my parent-teacher meetings and extracurricular (课外的) activities. One of those extracurricular activities that I signed up for was football. At that age, football was cool and all, but I was more into playing Pokémon and other video games. Football didn’t draw me in.

Big football tournaments (联赛) would come around like the World Cup, the Copa América and the Gold Cup, and the Mexican National Team would play in these tournaments. I would sit there in our living room and unmindfully watch the games while my parents would go crazy with enthusiasm ( 热情). I would sit there and play my game. My dad would look over and tell me that I should be paying attention carefully to the game and that I should care more about whether Mexico would win the match than my video games.

Both of my parents’ workspaces were crowded (占满的) with other workers. My mom worked with people from all over Latin America. Everyone’s topic of choice at work would always turn to how their national football team was doing. It was a way to show pride in the countries where they had grown up.

I grew up loving football more and more. The more I learned about my Mexican roots (根), the more I tried to find ways to express pride in them in the United States.
1. Why did the author’s family move to Colorado?

A．To make a better life.

B．To attend more activities.

C．To follow their football dream.

D．To receive a better education.

2. How did the author feel about football at first?

A．It was amazing.	B．It was important.
C．It was uninteresting.	D．It was difficult.

3. What would the author’s father do when watching football games?

A．Remind the author to watch them carefully.

B．Play video games with the author.

C．Learn English in their living room.

D．Guess who would be the winner.

4. The author’s mom and her workmates talked about football in order to _________.

A．build a closer friendship

B．express their homesickness

C．share a common topic

D．show their pride in their motherlands

6 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

An impossible peace

Once upon a time, on a piece of land there lived giants and dragons, who had been enemies for years on end. However, after years of bloody fights, they had learned a lot. They were no longer so foolish as to wage wars with terrible battles in which thousands died. Now, every year they held bowling matches instead. A giant competed against a dragon. Whoever lost would become the winner’s slave. If a dragon won, he could use the giant’s muscles for all that heavy lifting. If a giant won, he would have free flights and fire for the whole year.

That was how they prevented their deaths and yet with the match going round and round, they hated each other more and more. Every year the winners were so cruel to the losers, in revenge (报复) for the time they had lost. The losers would be at the mercy of the winners, giants tired from lifting loads while dragons worn out from constant flying and breathing fire. There came a time when what mattered most was not winning the bowling match, but not losing.

Yonk the Giant was the best bowler, and the most afraid. He had never lost. Many dragons had been his slaves and they were dying to see him lose so they could get their revenge. This was why Yonk was terrified of losing. Especially since last year’s match, when he missed his first ever strike, he had decided that something had to change.

The following year he won again. When he arrived home, his slave dragon feared the worst but Yonk did nothing bad to him, for he had a different idea in mind.

“This year you will not be my slave. We will go bowling and I will teach you all of my techniques and secrets. But you must promise me one thing: when you win your match next year, you will not be cruel to your giant. Do the same as I am doing with you.”

注意:
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The dragon gladly accepted.

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Much later Yonk lost his first bowling match but he was no longer afraid of losing.

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7 . I remember everything about my first Cubs game, although it was a few years ago. My uncle took me to it on a Saturday in spring, a bright sunny day. When we got there, I_________that even though we were at the upper level, I could see everything clearly, the_________field. It was great-seeing it this way was much better than watching it on TV. Then the game started, and everyone cheered when the Cubs_________on the field.The man next to me said, “This is going to be the year. This year they’re going all the way.” My uncle said to him, “Let’s hope this is the one.” But then he_________to me, “I think he is too hopeful. We’ll have to wait and see I always start the year thinking they’ll win the World Series, but then I remember the_________year. They started the season_________and then they had a long losing streak.” The final score was 7 to 0, so it was nine winnings of hoping and then losing. We were_________about that score.

“Tomorrow, they’ll win. I’m certain!” I heard one person say as we left to go home. “_________”another replied. When we were returning, I asked my uncle, “Why were they so_________ when the score was 0 today-how can they be sure that tomorrow the team will win?” That’s__________it means to be a Cubs fan: we believe in tomorrow. When they win, it’s the best. If they lose, we expect it will get better, even though__________may tell us it won’t. Every year, we hope; every game we hope and we don’t abandon hope, that’s__________. It’s about__________your team no matter what.

And the next year we were there too, cheering.__________they lost, then it was amazing what happened this year. The Cubs won the whole thing-they won the World Series.Their fans were so excited-I’ve never seen adults scream and__________that way.

1.

A．understood

B．realized

C．memorized

D．mentioned

2.

A．entire

B．familiar

C．mysterious

D．comfortable

3.

A．reached out

B．tried out

C．came out

D．gave out

4.

A．said

B．smiled

C．nodded

D．whispered

5.

A．last

B．next

C．recent

D．original

6.

A．waiting

B．winning

C．playing

D．hiding

7.

A．overjoyed

B．embarrassed

C．touched

D．disappointed

8.

A．Possibly

B．Finally

C．Definitely

D．Fortunately

9.

A．wonderful

B．promising

C．optimistic

D．potential

10.

A．what

B．who

C．why

D．how

11.

A．experience

B．guidance

C．persuasion

D．expectation

12.

A．hobby

B．loyalty

C．wisdom

D．preference

13.

A．commenting

B．approaching

C．supporting

D．awaiting

14.

A．though

B．despite

C．unless

D．if

15.

A．end up

B．put up

C．take up

D．jump up

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的短文。

Tyler, my son, has a passion for playing basketball. He always asks me to take him to the gym an hour before practice begins. I often have to convince him to leave the gym after practice is over. Despite not being the most talented player, he still won two trophies (奖杯), one for his team, second place and the other for himself, a special award.

The story of winning the two trophies began when he was ten years old. The first game of the season arrived. The gym was surprisingly crowded. I saw the happy look in my son’s eyes when he saw me sitting in the stands.

As I watched the other kids running up and down the court, I saw my son sitting on the bench. By the fourth quarter, Tyler hadn’t even touched the ball, and his team had won the game.

The games that followed were pretty much the same. The team kept winning, but Tyler barely touched the ball. He ran so hard when he was on the court, but when he got the ball, he would quickly throw it to a teammate. I would sit there with my heart pounding out of my chest.

On the way home from one of his games, I asked, “Tyler, do you still enjoy basketball?”

He replied, “I like basketball a lot. But I know that some of the kids play better than me, so when I get the ball, I just throw it to them. We are on the same team. It doesn’t matter who scores.”

Weeks of Tyler’s unending enthusiasm and devotion to basketball flew by. Never discouraged, he played hard and kept practicing. I watched him improve. He told me how proud he was to be on such a good team. They were undefeated until last Saturday.

It was the final, their toughest game yet. They played well but the other team were just too strong for them. The championship was slipping out of their reach. Tyler’s teammates started to lose heart.

注意：
1.续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:

As for Tyler, it seemed that the intense situation didn’t affect his movement.

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Paragraph 2:

“The Sportsmanship Award goes to Tyler Marsden!”, the host added in the awards ceremony.

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9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

With near-perfect shows of strength and balance, the Chinese men’s artistic gymnastics (竞技体操) team has returned to the top of the sport. On Nov. 2 Team China     1    (win) its 13^th world men’s gymnastics championship in Liverpool, UK.

Team China went through a     2    (disappoint) qualification round, in which they had eight falls and finished as No. 4. But they proved     3    (they) in the final with the highest scores in five of the six events. They finally got 257.858 points,     4    (beat) longtime rival Japan by 4.463 points—the biggest win since the 2007 World Championships, reported China Daily. This gave Team China a ticket     5     the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Chinese men’s gymnastics team seemed to have had its golden age around 2008     6     they got a team gold medal at the Beijing Summer Olympics. Star     7     (athlete) like Li Xiaopeng, Yang Wei and Chen Yibing made up the “golden generation”. Now, the world title may suggest a comeback. Zhang Boheng, a member of the team, is 22 and already     8     all-rounder. He     9    (name) “Li Xiaopeng II” by fans. Zhang’s teammate, 24-year-old Zou Jingyuan, is also a rising star. This time, he got a personal gold medal in parallel bars     10     a silver (银牌) in the still rings competition. “The Chinese men’s gymnastics team is rising again. There’s a great future for gymnastics,” said Zhang.

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What did David do today?

A．He went to the bookstore.

B．He watched TV news.

C．He read some books.

2. How many countries took part in the race?

A．91.

B．39.

C．22.

3. Why doesn’t David run a marathon race?

A．He dislikes running.

B．He finds it challenging.

C．He has no time to practice.

4. What is the woman?

A．An athlete.

B．A lawyer.

C．A teacher.