1 . Recently, I have got a new job. I help to
Last week, I set up a(n)
My
In business, we often worry too much about the
| A．organize | B．coach | C．reform | D．protect |
| A．evil | B．good | C．young | D．new |
| A．game | B．appointment | C．agreement | D．program |
| A．school | B．place | C．age | D．level |
| A．intelligent | B．happy | C．shy | D．precious |
| A．weak | B．rude | C．nervous | D．violent |
| A．tired | B．frightened | C．motivated | D．amused |
| A．arguing with | B．adapting to | C．fighting against | D．focusing on |
| A．rejected | B．rented | C．knew | D．determined |
| A．brave | B．polite | C．sensitive | D．panicky |
| A．friends | B．girls | C．colleagues | D．classmates |
| A．application | B．image | C．reminder | D．document |
| A．decoration | B．virtue | C．permit | D．competition |
| A．care | B．talk | C．learn | D．hear |
| A．pick | B．abandon | C．repeat | D．assume |
2 . UN FAO World Food Day Poster Contest 2023
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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. |
| A．Only drawn entries. | B．A copied entry. |
| C．Two entries from a kid. | D．A physical poster. |
| A．A school certificate. | B．An amazing present bag. |
| C．A creative artwork. | D．A watercolour painting. |
3 . 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
4 . 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. |
| A．It was amazing. | B．It was important. |
| C．It was uninteresting. | D．It was difficult. |
| 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. |
| A．build a closer friendship |
| B．express their homesickness |
| C．share a common topic |
| D．show their pride in their motherlands |
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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6 . The Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon, an endurance race of 875km, was considered the toughest in the world. It used to be a five-day race, with only the world-class athletes daring to attempt it. Most athletes who took part in this ultramarathon were under 30 years of age.
Cliff was a farmer from Australia with a dream of running a race. When he attended the race, he was 61 years old. He had no specialized sportswear. Instead, he wore galoshes overalls. When he appeared at the venue, the onlookers thought he was probably a spectator. To their surprise, Cliff picked up a race number.
Having grown up on a farm, Cliff had to go out to round up the sheep every time there was a storm, because his family could not afford horses or tractors. Two thousand sheep scattered across two thousand acres of land—it took him as long as three days of chasing the animals, but he always succeeded.
The race began, and the strong and young racers started leaving Cliff behind. The racers had a strategy. They would be running hours each for the five days of the race, and sleep for the remaining 6 hours. Nonetheless, Cliff had no such strategy! Being an amateur athlete, he was not familiar with any such game plan. So, he just ran on and on, and the next morning, when the other athletes woke up, they found that the old man had caught up with the others by jogging all night. By the final night of the race, he had surpassed the other competitors and became the champion.
The next time Cliff caught attention again when he was 76. He took up the challenge of running along Australia’s border, across a distance of 16,000 km with the aim of raising money for homeless children. Unfortunately, his crew member fell ill, and Cliff had to withdraw from the race, after running for 6520 km.
Cliff, a simple farmer, created a one-of-a-kind history. Instead of withering away, he started his new life, and showed the world that it’s never too late to start following the heart and pursuing dreams.
1. Why the age of the athletes is mentioned in the first paragraph?| A．To explain the rule of the race. | B．To introduce the level of the race. |
| C．To show the popularity of the race. | D．To stress the toughness of the race. |
| A．His hard training. | B．His advanced sportswear. |
| C．His working experience. | D．His well-designed strategy. |
| A．Intelligent and generous. | B．Persevering and sympathetic. |
| C．Ambitious and optimistic. | D．Determined and insightful. |
| A．Cliff, the winner of many running races |
| B．Cliff, a senior farmer pursuing his dream |
| C．Cliff, a kind charitarian keen on raising money |
| D．Cliff, a simple Melbourne ultramarathon runner |
7 . Fourteen-year-old Harini Logan won the Scripps National Spelling Bee last Thursday, defeating 12-year-old Vikram Raju in a tiebreaker. It’s the first time that the contest has ever been decided by a tie-breaking round of spelling.
A spelling bee is a contest where players take turns spelling words. Though the bee is mainly about spelling, it also focuses on the meaning of the words. During parts of the contest, students were asked to choose the correct meaning of a word.
That caused trouble for Harini. She was asked about the meaning of the word “pullulation”. She said the word described the nesting of birds. The contest organizers had expected the answer to be the “swarming of bees”. Harini was removed from the contest. But soon she was back in- the judges double-checked and learned that Harini’s definition was also correct. One by one, the other students spelled a word wrong and got out. Finally, only Harini and Vikram were left.
To make ties much less likely, a “spell-off” was added to the contest in recent years. In the spell-off, Vikram and Harini each took turns trying to spell the words they were asked, but both made blunders. At one point, Harini could have won by spelling the word “drimys” (a kind of plant) correctly. But she missed it.
That put the two into a super tie-breaking event, where they were each given 90 seconds to correctly spell as many words as they could. The New York Times reports that the two spelled so quickly that the judges needed to review the video to see who had won. In 90 seconds, Vikram had spelled 15 words correctly, Harini had 21 correct spellings, making her the new winner.
This was Harini’s fourth at the Bee and it’s the first time she’s made it to the finals. Describing her win, she said, “This is just such a dream!”
1. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about the spelling bee?| A．Its significant meaning. | B．Its competition content. |
| C．The importance of spelling. | D．Players’ struggle for spelling. |
| A．She failed to enter the final round. | B．She was confident about her answer. |
| C．Her answer was misjudged at first. | D．She refused to accept the judgement. |
| A．Efforts. | B．Ways. | C．Senses. | D．Mistakes. |
| A．A Tie-Breaking Event |
| B．Scripps National Spelling Bee |
| C．Teen Wins Spelling Bee in Exciting Tie- Breaker |
| D．A Girl’s First Time to Make Her Dream Come True |
8 . Saddle attached. Mount up. Reins in hand. Racing with the wind and jumping to the sky, freshmen Natalle Gordon and Lauren Tate become one with their horses. Gordon and Tate participate in equestrian (马术) jumping and hunting with the Texas Rose Horse Park and King’s Equestrian organizations. They will be competing in jumping and hunting events during October.
“My favorite part about riding and jumping is the high speed,” Gordon said. “I’ve had a lot of exciting and crazy moments.” Gordon has been riding for 4 years and participates in hunting events, a slow and complicated variation of jumping. Hunting events are subjectively judged based on how well the horse performs over fences. The pair of rider and horse is judged on style, pace, and manners as well.
Gordon’s horse, Casino, is a Welsh pony. Together the two have achieved impressive results including first place in a Derby, a large competition in the equestrian world, which was a big accomplishment.
Tate, on the other hand, participates in jumping events and has been riding since childhood. Jumping is a fast paced and less formal event. Jumping is scored objectively. The horse and rider’s goal is to clear all the fences in the course as quickly as possible without making any mistakes by knocking over the bars of the fence.
“It’s a speed round,” Tate said. “You just have to be the fastest person and get to the jump and win.” Tate’ horse, Chief, is a Chestnut Appendix. Together they have gotten champion awards in jumpers. “I love Chief,” Tate said. “I’m really proud of the work we’ve done together.”
Both Tate and Gordon have bonded through horse riding. Along with bonding with each other, they have established a deep love of their horses. “It’s you and your horse out there,” Tate said. “You are never alone. You’re partners through it all.”
1. What can we know from the text?| A．Tate began to ride 4 years ago. | B．Gordon and Tate have got champions. |
| C．Jumping is scored subjectively. | D．Gordon and Tate fight in the same race |
| A．move away | B．tidy up | C．leap over | D．figure out |
| A．They grow inseparable for their harmony in races. |
| B．They find it challenging to make progress every time. |
| C．They become competitive because they fight against each other. |
| D．They turn enthusiastic about trying other games about horse riding. |
| A．Sport. | B．Entertainment. | C．Economy. | D．Education. |
9 . 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
“Tomorrow, they’ll win. I’m certain!” I heard one person say as we left to go home. “
And the next year we were there too, cheering.
| A．understood | B．realized | C．memorized | D．mentioned |
| A．entire | B．familiar | C．mysterious | D．comfortable |
| A．reached out | B．tried out | C．came out | D．gave out |
| A．said | B．smiled | C．nodded | D．whispered |
| A．last | B．next | C．recent | D．original |
| A．waiting | B．winning | C．playing | D．hiding |
| A．overjoyed | B．embarrassed | C．touched | D．disappointed |
| A．Possibly | B．Finally | C．Definitely | D．Fortunately |
| A．wonderful | B．promising | C．optimistic | D．potential |
| A．what | B．who | C．why | D．how |
| A．experience | B．guidance | C．persuasion | D．expectation |
| A．hobby | B．loyalty | C．wisdom | D．preference |
| A．commenting | B．approaching | C．supporting | D．awaiting |
| A．though | B．despite | C．unless | D．if |
| A．end up | B．put up | C．take up | D．jump up |
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.
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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。
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As for Tyler, it seemed that the intense situation didn’t affect his movement.
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“The Sportsmanship Award goes to Tyler Marsden!”, the host added in the awards ceremony.
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