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

A．A speech contest.

B．A writing contest.

C．A singing contest.

2. Which place did Anna win in the contest?

A．First place.

B．Second place.

C．Third place.

3. What is the man doing?

A．He is introducing an author.

B．He is encouraging the woman.

C．He is saying sorry to the woman.

4. What are the speakers going to do next?

A．Have a class.

B．Write a story.

C．Drink some coffee.

2 . Donna Urquhart is an experienced runner. She ran 1,402 kilometers over the course of 28 days in Antarctica (南极洲), _______ the record for the longest-ever run in a polar region.

Urquhart spent 10 months training for the _______, turning to some unusual training methods. A company allowed her to run in a _______ storage unit where she ran in temperatures below zero. Besides, she ran along the beaches with uneven (凹凸不平的) surfaces that are like the _______ grounds in Antarctica. All those proved useful _______.

The difficulties that Urquhart faced in Antarctica were _______: taking in about 5,000 calories each day, _______ in a tent. Combined with the sound of _______ winds and the continent’s 24 hours of sunlight in the summer months, these were _______ favorable to a good night’s sleep. Urquhart would usually wear four layers of coats and keep ________ her own body temperature while running.

Urquhart launched the Run Antarctica aiming to encourage more women to ________ sport. Though still unsure about what her next running challenge will have, she has set a ________ of raising $1.5 million for charity.

“Confidence is a real issue for females,” says Urquhart. “And a sporting environment provides them with a great opportunity to ________ themselves.” This served as a huge ________ for her to take on a challenge that no other woman had attempted before. “It was actually showing that we can push our ________, and explore what seems impossible,” says Urquhart.

1.

A．closing

B．keeping

C．missing

D．setting

2.

A．puzzle

B．outcome

C．challenge

D．examination

3.

A．painted

B．refrigerated

C．heated

D．crowded

4.

A．varied

B．soft

C．smooth

D．high

5.

A．purposes

B．messages

C．preparations

D．suggestions

6.

A．new

B．tough

C．interesting

D．exciting

7.

A．accommodating

B．recovering

C．harvesting

D．complaining

8.

A．gentle

B．slight

C．warm

D．wild

9.

A．likely

B．significantly

C．hardly

D．really

10.

A．noticing

B．taking

C．decreasing

D．forgetting

11.

A．refer to

B．apply for

C．carry on

D．take up

12.

A．price

B．record

C．target

D．rule

13.

A．support

B．trust

C．prevent

D．wait

14.

A．inspiration

B．impression

C．symbol

D．adventure

15.

A．processes

B．positions

C．schedules

D．limits

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Mike loves     1    (cycle) very much. He is a passionate     2    (cycle). He tried out for the school’s cycling team and is always occupied with large     3    (amount) of exercise, in particular leg muscles training, to make sure that he is     4    (strength) and       5    (flexibility) enough, and also to keep himself in good shape. Once, he participated in a cycling     6    (compete). To his     7    (disappoint), he crashed into an obstacle next to the     8    (tracking) because he couldn’t respond to that     9    (time). He     10    (defeat).     11     (inspire) by his     12    (competitor), he sought     13    (tip) from the champion and strengthened the speed of his     14    (respond) to prevent the same problem from happening. Soon, he participated in the competition again. Before the competition, he took a deep     15    (breathe) to     16    (relief) tension and checked the     17    (equip) of the competition. At the beginning of the game, due to his     18    (tense), he fell behind by half a lap. However, he reminded himself     19     the champion’s words and cheered himself up. He sped up to catch up with others. He took advantage of his rich experience to defeat other competitors. In the end, he finally got ahead. His extra effort also paid off. He did not let himself down and defended his honor. He     20    (beneficial) a lot from this competition.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who started the competition?

A．A company.

B．A teacher.

C．A student.

2. What are the participants invited to do?

A．Organize a program.

B．Write an essay.

C．Plant a garden.

3. What will the winning school receive beside some money?

A．A lot of computers.

B．A hybrid school bus.

C．Some beautiful lights.

4. What is the advantage of hybrid school bus over the ordinary one?

A．It is much safer.

B．It runs much faster.

C．It is more environmentally.

5 . 2023 UAiTED Creation Competition

The 2023 UAiTED Creation Competition is designed to make full use of high-tech creation to improve ideas and solutions for problems related to global development.

In this competition, students will need to identify any existing problems of the selected theme and think out solutions. There will be 2 rounds of judging — the preliminary (初步的) and final. All the finalists will have a chance to win the UAiTED Fellowship Award.

Competition themes

•Challenge#1: Home and Social Care for the Aging Communities

•Challenge#2: Domestic Waste Handling for Large City Communities

Eligibility (参赛资格)

Participants (参加者) must be registered students at any of the UAiTED partner universities on the date of entry (参赛作品) into the competition.

How to enter

Stage One: Individual Registration (March 15, 2023-March 29, 2023)

1. All participants must register through the UAiTED official website no later than the 29th of March 2023.

2. Entries must be handed in in English and can only be handed in via the UAiTED website.

Stage Two: Team Registration (April 1, 2023-April 16, 2023)

1. Only individuals that have completed Stage 1 registration are able to hand in team registration.

2. Participants will be added to a Facebook group to form teams after Stage l registration.

3. All teams must register via the UAiTED official website no later than the 16th of April 2023.

4. Only one representative of the team will need to hand in the team registration.

Team formation

4-6 students per team. No pre-team formation is required.

1. When should individuals turn in their team registration?

A．Between March 15, 2023 and April 1, 2023.	B．Between March 15, 2023 and March 29, 2023.
C．Between April 1, 2023 and April 16, 2023.	D．Between March 29, 2023 and April 1, 2023.

2. How can individuals enter the competition?

A．By setting up a team before the competition.	B．By handing in their entries in two languages.
C．By registering via the UAiTED official website.	D．By adding their entries to a Facebook group.

3. Which of the following is true about the competition?

A．It is designed for all the students.

B．It has two rounds of judging.

C．It requires participants to start a new business.

D．It calls for solutions to all the problems in the world.

6 . ACL 500 Word Story Competition

We are pleased to announce the launch of the ACL 500 Word Story Competition. This time the theme is “Awakening”. We’re looking for our community to pen a story that quickly catches our attention and tells a great tale. You can submit (提交) an entry as an individual achievement or as a team effort — we want to read both kinds! Our judges will include a range of our experienced instructors, staff and local Essex Author Sarah Armstrong.

Sarah Armstrong is the author of three novels, most recently The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt and The Starlings of Bucharest, the first and second in the Moscow Wolves series. She is also the author of A Summer of Spying, a book mainly about her own experience. Sarah teaches undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing with The Open University, and lives in Essex with her husband and four children.

Rules:
◆ Your story can be a poem, an essay or any other kinds of writing.
◆ Entries will need to be in a Word format. PDF files are unacceptable.
◆ Please ensure your story is suitable for all to read.
◆ Use the given submission form to submit your details and story. The deadline for submissions is 12th April.
Benefits:
◆ Prizes include a book voucher (代金券), a short creative writing course, and your work published.
◆ Discover new and exciting skills at writing while exploring your creative writing and sharing inspirational moments with others. We have a fantastic range of Creative Writing courses for you to choose from.
1. What do we know about the competition?

A．It’s organized in honor of Sarah Armstrong.

B．It looks for both individual and group works.

C．It aims to awaken an interest in writing.

D．It’s targeted at undergraduates and postgraduates.

2. Which is a requirement for the entries?

A．They should be submitted as a Word file.	B．They must be poems or essays.
C．They must be based on personal experience.	D．They should be about life in Essex.

3. What can participants get?

A．A voucher for a course.	B．An expert training class by Sarah.
C．A vast range of courses.	D．An improvement to writing skills.

7 . Torsongan Bullik is a 28-year-old cross-country skier. When he was a freshman in junior high school in 2009, he excelled at long-distance running. As an amateur in 2016, he finished third in the Xinjiang Wusu International Marathon. And then a passion for cycling revealed itself as his hometown hosted the Tour of Sayram Lake, a national road race for amateur cyclists.

“The high-spirited cyclists, their flashy costumes and helmets fascinated me,” he recalls. “I felt that cycling was really cool.”

In 2012, Torsongan’s father gave him a mountain bike that cost 5,000 yuan ($695), which was a lot of money for his family. He loved the bicycle so much that he used it at every opportunity. Two years later, he entered his first competition, although there was no fairy-tale ending as he lost his balance on a steep slope. But he was determined and kept testing his limits. This paid off as he has won medals at all levels of the sport in China.

On Oct 18, 2018, Torsongan was the first to cross the finish line during a high-altitude bike race in the Xizang autonomous region. But surprisingly, it was the national cross-country skiing team that he impressed with his endurance (耐力). They were in search of new talented athletes for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Accepting the invitation from the team marked a turning point for Torsongan’s career, but challenges remained. “After training with the team during the day, I had to go to the gym to level up my upper-body strength in the evening,” Torsongan said in an earlier interview.

He didn’t make the final list, but worked as a technician assisting (帮助) in the operations of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Regardless of the outcome of the 14th National Winter Games, Torsongan enjoyed the challenge of competing, and has his eyes set on the next race.

“I will continue with my efforts. As long as I don’t give up, I still have a chance to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics,” he says.

1. What set Torsongan on the cross-country skiing road?

A．He felt that skiing was really cool.

B．He studied on cross-country skiing.

C．A professional team looked for someone with talent.

D．He hoped to fulfill his father’s expectations.

2. Which of the following can best describe Torsongan?

A．Determined and hard-working.	B．Cautious and responsible.
C．Strong and humorous.	D．Talented and productive.

3. Which of the following can we know from the Torsongan?

A．He used to be a professional long-distance runner.

B．His hard work of bike training didn’t paid off.

C．He didn’t accept the invitation from the team.

D．He was a technician in the Beijing Winter Olympics.

4. What is Torsongan’s next plan?

A．Encouraging others to join in his activity.

B．Becoming a technician assistant in his hometown.

C．Continuing his dream at the next Winter Olympics.

D．Becoming a long-distance running player.

8 . In 2022, a father and his son set out to begin the first of three legs of the Ironman (铁人三项) competition. Jeff, 59, and son, Johnny, 28, weren’t the typical ________. Johnny is disabled and Jeff would ________ his arms and legs. To ________ the competition, athletes must complete a(n) ________ 140 miles of swimming, bicycling and running within 17 hours.

“I wanted to ________ his dreams,” Jeff said. “I started doing things I never would have dreamt possible.” Finishing the Ironman competition would be another dream come true.

The race began with a 2.4-mile swim in the Choptank River. The ________ completed the swim in 90 minutes, and completed the difficult bike part in eight hours, then set their sights on the ________ leg of the race — a 26.2-mile marathon with Jeff ________ Johnny in the racing chair. They’d been competing for 5 hours, leaving another 3 hours to make their time. But at mile 19, Jeff began to panic, convinced they were going too slow. Somehow he ________ the energy to pick up the pace.

With 15 minutes left and 200 feet to the finish line, Jeff stopped to help Johnny out of his racing chair. In the first decade of his life, Johnny could only walk 23 steps. ________, after years of painstaking work, he ________ his step number and was determined to finish his races on his own. Johnny saw the clock ticking down and ________ they wouldn’t complete it. “Not because I wouldn’t get my moment,” he says, “but because Dad had worked so hard.”

After 16 hours, 55 minutes and 35 seconds — with just four minutes and 25 seconds to ________— father and son crossed the finish line together.

As the crowd cheered on an excited Johnny, a(n) ________ Jeff kept a low profile (保持低调).

“He didn’t want his finish line moment,” says Johnny. “He wanted it to be ________.”

1.

A．competitors

B．coaches

C．leaders

D．experts

2.

A．make up

B．act as

C．work out

D．watch over

3.

A．regard

B．demand

C．start

D．finish

4.

A．familiar

B．easy

C．challenging

D．ordinary

5.

A．ruin

B．achieve

C．dream

D．abandon

6.

A．twins

B．pair

C．team

D．group

7.

A．first

B．final

C．second

D．middle

8.

A．lifting

B．pushing

C．beating

D．kicking

9.

A．sweated

B．carved

C．showed

D．gathered

10.

A．However

B．Instead

C．Therefore

D．Otherwise

11.

A．decreased

B．counted

C．increased

D．changed

12.

A．disappointed

B．delighted

C．worried

D．excited

13.

A．spare

B．save

C．spend

D．scream

14.

A．healthy

B．strong

C．energetic

D．tired

15.

A．his

B．theirs

C．mine

D．yours

9 . Following its recent success in hosting the 19th Asian Games, Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, celebrated the opening of a related grand sporting event, the 4th Asian Para Games, with an emotohally engaging opening ceremony on Sunday night.

The ceremony, themed “Hearts Meet, Dreams Shine”, was held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium. also known as the “Big Lotus”.

While the opening ceremony on Sept 23 of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou showcased to the world the host city’s rich cultural heritage, picturesque scenery and technological prowess (造诣), the opening ceremony of the Asian Para Games focused more on the softer side of Hangzhou and its people.

The ceremony featured the osmanthus (桂花), the city flower of Hangzhou, as the key element to convey the “sunny, harmonious, persevering and sharing” spirit of the Para Games.

Following an opening show featuring a first-person narration by a partially sighted young girl who welcomed guests from a long distance while the osmanthus is in full blossom, spectators cheered as Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang declared the opening of the sporting gala.

Twenty-two massive bunches of golden osmanthus, which represent the 22 sports featured in the event, served as the centerpiece of the ceremony.

With the help of technology, the bouquets took on different configurations —sometimes as water, sometimes as arched bridges —before eventually turning into a giant crown hung in the air, welcoming the athletes as they entered the stadium.

Majid Rashed, the president of the Asian Paralympic Committee, expressed appreciation for the Chinese host’s thorough organization. “The huge efforts of the Chinese government and the organizing committee in making these Games a success, is helping us to get closer to achieving our vision of creating an inclusive Asia through sport,” said Rashed, who thanked the organizing committee for its “tireless efforts, which will make these the best ever Asian Para Games, I’m sure”.

In the next six days, the Para Games will see 3,100 athletes from 44 countries and regions compete in 564 medal events in 22 sports.

1. What is special about the opening ceremony of Asian Para Games?

A．The host city’s inner spirit.

B．The host city’s pretty scenery.

C．The host city’s abundant cultural tradition.

D．The host city’s advanced skills of technology.

2. What does the underlined word “configuration” mean?

A．forms

B．styles

C．equipment

D．modes

3. What can we learn from Para.8?

A．The host city is ill-prepared.

B．Success of the event is just down to Hang Zhou.

C．The host city gains only minimal recognition for its efforts.

D．What the host city does contributes a lot to an inclusive Asia.

4. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The grand opening ceremony was held at HangZhou involved with advanced technology.

B．sports taking center stage during holiday inspired by HangZhou Asian Games.

C．The 19th Asian Games and the 4th Asian Para Games were a huge success.

D．The 4th Asian Para Games are fully prepared and win wide recognition.

10 . 假如你是李华，你校即将举办英语风采大赛(English Talent Show)，请写一则通知，内容包括：
1. 活动背景和意义
2. 表演内容、时间、地点(2024年4月9日下午3:50—5:20；演出中心)
3. 动员大家参加，欢迎对表演提出意见。
注意: 1. 词数 100 字左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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