1 . 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。

The Shanxi Hongjiannao National Nature Reserve, with the Hongjiannao Lake at its core, is located in the north of Shanxi Province. With a total area of 107. 68 square kilometers, this wetland is one of the main     1     (habitat) for Central Asian gull, a migratory bird species     2     (list) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

The Central Asian gull breeds (繁殖) inland in places including Kazakhstan, Mongolia and the     3     (north) part of China, spending their winters around the Bohai Sea. In spring, they fly to desert lakes in Northwest China. However, the environment around Hongjiannao Lake worsened,     4     (cast) a shadow over the species.

In 2010, 7, 700 baby gulls were bred within a year. However, after 2012 the number of mid-lake islands     5     the gulls made their nests kept decreasing, leading to     6     number of the baby gulls dropping to 2,000. To protect the environment, the Hongjiannao Nature Reserve     7     (establish) in 2014.

So far, the Hongjiannao National Nature Reserve     8     (adopt) a series of measures to restore the ecology, like river management and water quality monitoring and control. According     9     the data obtained from China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, in 2017, there were only dozens of gull nests. Yet in 2019, the nests increased to 800, and in 2022     10     (far) increased to 4,700.

2 . In 2017, my husband-to-be, Ricardo, brought his border collie (牧羊犬), Jack, on our first date. I was swiftly struck by the pair of them. Fast forward 18 months and they’d fitted in _______ with me and my daughter, Cayla. The _______ between Jack and us is like no other — he brings us great joy and makes us happy. Now we were all _______ to take on a new family member.

Then came our _______ to the animal rescue centre. It was a love at first sight between Cayla and a little dog, Ruby. As I _______ this little creature instantly sat back. She made herself as tall and _______ as she could, trying to contain her _______ while apparently letting me know what a good girl she was. It _______ our adventures as a family of five _______.

One day, Cayla scootered (玩踏板车) off out of sight along the footpath, Jack and Ruby by her side. Before long, with an ________ bark. Jack ran back, forcing us to ________ we did, and found Cayla, bloody-kneed after falling off.

Cayla looked up smiling, overjoyed that the dogs had come through for her in her moment of ________. One went for help while the other ________ the wounded. It’s a wonderful ________ of how our dogs care for their pack. And I can’t ________ our family without them.

1.

A．beautifully

B．awkwardly

C．naughtily

D．passively

2.

A．secret

B．difference

C．bond

D．tension

3.

A．nervous

B．ready

C．cautious

D．patient

4.

A．letter

B．guide

C．introduction

D．trip

5.

A．approached

B．panicked

C．listened

D．left

6.

A．important

B．noisy

C．still

D．noble

7.

A．fear

B．excitement

C．surprise

D．despair

8.

A．failed

B．moved

C．hurt

D．worked

9.

A．continued

B．began

C．neared

D．slowed

10.

A．urgent

B．uncomfortable

C．amusing

D．annoying

11.

A．hide

B．escape

C．accept

D．follow

12.

A．anger

B．need

C．stress

D．loneliness

13.

A．carried

B．greeted

C．found

D．tended

14.

A．opportunity

B．excuse

C．example

D．concept

15.

A．support

B．contact

C．imagine

D．save

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

I must admit, I haven’t always liked animals. In fact, I distrusted them greatly while growing up, and I still fear the ones I don’t know personally. What set my beliefs in stone was being attacked—not once but many times, including the summer after second grade when I was bitten by a rabbit. Then, when I was nine and riding my dirt bike down the road, a large dog charged me and tried to bite my ankle. After all those negative experiences, there was one thing I knew for sure: All creatures, great and small, were no friends of mine.

After college in California, I returned to live the single life in Las Vega. Then I met Lisa. In no time at all, we fell in love, married and moved into a new house. Despite my avoidance of animals, Lisa had a dog called Bailey. Bailey didn’t like me, but he tolerated my existence once he realized I wasn’t going anywhere.

Things changed as spring came. We welcomed a new member of our family: our son Evan. One evening Evan grabbed hold of the dog’s tail. The irritated dog paused and turned to look at his stuck tail but waited patiently until being released. Still the stories I’d heard of animals attacking babies worries me.

Then my worst fear occurred. I sat on the couch (沙发) reading after a long day while my wife worked at the dining-room table paying the bills. I saw Evan crawl across the family-room carpet as he made his way behind the couch. One minute, all was quiet and then Bailey entered the room and headed to where Evan had crawled. I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard the dog start a fearful barking behind me.

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Throwing the book away, I rushed around the couch with great fear.

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Having witnessed our dog killing a scorpion (蝎子) and saving my son, I was speechless.

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4 . Silkworms(蚕)were first brought from Asia to the ancient city of Byzantium around A. D. 550. It was two men who presented some silkworm eggs from China to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople, where he created a fruitful silk industry. Silkworms reached Italy through Sicily in the 12th century, and by the 13th century, silkworm farming had moved north to the Po River Valley. By the 16th century, silkworm farming had been introduced to the Como area.

Since silkworms require a constant, mild temperature, entire sections of farmhouses were turned over to them and whole families would often join in the work, adding fuel round the clock to fires to maintain the proper warmth. “Some even gave the worms the house and slept outside with the animals, ”says Ester Geraci, an official at Como’s Educational Silk Museum.

The process began with the 10-to 14-day incubation(孵化)of silkworm eggs. According to the museum, keeping the tiny, delicate eggs at just the right temperature was the task of the women. Once hatched, the worms, only about one millimeter long, had to be fed night and day. From a birth weight of only half a milligram, they would grow 10, 000-fold to a final weight of around five grams and a length of 8 to 9 centimeters in just 30 days. Then, in the final three days of their youth stage, the worms would start to make their cocoons (茧) out of one continuous thin silk-up to 1, 200 meters long-which they produced from near their mouths. After about a week, the cocoons were placed briefly in a hot, dry place to kill the adult insects inside. These cocoons were then put in hot water to facilitate the difficult and boring task of obtaining the silk. The minute end of the cocoon’s silk had to be located and placed onto a round object, which then unwound it from the water-warmed cocoon. The silk was then cleaned and made into fabric.

1. Which can best describe silkworm farming outside China?

A．It was a short-term investment.

B．It benefitted fruit growers.

C．It upset local emperors.

D．It was a success story.

2. What is stressed in the second paragraph?

A．Raising silkworms was a backbreaking job.

B．Silkworms like living in a cool environment.

C．Raising silkworms in farmhouses was common.

D．Silkworms living with other insects grow healthy.

3. What can be learned about young silkworms?

A．They produce silk 3 days after being hatched.

B．They gain weight quickly in about a month.

C．They grow to 8 to 9 centimeters in two weeks.

D．They need one week to come out of their eggs.

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

A．To explain how silkworms reached Italy.

B．To encourage people to raise silkworms.

C．To introduce the farming of silkworms.

D．To show the life cycle of silkworms.

5 . The sun was beginning to sink as I set off into the Harenna Forest. I was on my way to _________ a unique honey harvest. Here, in south-east Ethiopia, hand-carved beehives(蜂箱)are placed in the _________. Reaching them to get the honey is difficult—and often _________ .

I _________ beekeeper Ziyad over a wide stretch of grassland before entering a thick jungle. Ziyad began preparations. He _________ handfuls of damp tree leaves, wrapped them with string, and _________ the bunch to create a torch(火把). Then, with one end of a rope tied to his waist and the other end around the trunk of a tree, Ziyad began _________ . He stopped every few minutes to move the _________ higher up the tree trunk.

_________ , Ziyad got close to the hive which was around 20 metres above the ground. Sitting on a branch, he __________ towards it and blew smoke from his torch into a tiny hole in the hive. Suddenly, Ziyad let out a sharp cry. Within seconds, he’d __________ the trunk and was back on the ground.

It was too __________ to collect the honey. A cool summer had delayed __________ . Baby bees were still in the honeycombs(蜂巢). The adult bees were __________ and kept attacking as Ziyad escaped from the tree. He had to wait for the right __________ to go back up.

1.

A．share

B．collect

C．celebrate

D．witness

2.

A．courtyards

B．fields

C．treetops

D．caves

3.

A．urgent

B．dangerous

C．expensive

D．pointless

4.

A．searched

B．recognised

C．followed

D．invited

5.

A．gathered

B．cleaned

C．dropped

D．checked

6.

A．shook

B．lit

C．measured

D．decorated

7.

A．jumping

B．talking

C．testing

D．climbing

8.

A．hives

B．leaves

C．rope

D．honey

9.

A．Finally

B．Surprisingly

C．Naturally

D．Immediately

10.

A．backed

B．dived

C．shouted

D．inched

11.

A．cut off

B．gone up

C．slid down

D．held onto

12.

A．high

B．early

C．fast

D．close

13.

A．hatching

B．training

C．sowing

D．trading

14.

A．curious

B．hungry

C．bored

D．angry

15.

A．moment

B．equipment

C．person

D．order

6 . If you live near a deep forest, you might have come across some wildlife animals hiding in your backyard, but nothing beats the surprise this woman got when she found three baby deer hiding in her house to wait out the storm.

The woman then posted several photos of the baby deer taking refuge (避难) in one of her rooms on her Imgur account “Amscolie”. She wrote that it was a very stormy day and a rainstorm was coming so she left her back door open just in case some animals wanted to take refuge in her house. In the meantime, she went out in the storm to check whether there were any animals that were stuck in the bad weather, especially a number of deer. However, she could not find any of them so she went back to her home.

Surprisingly, she found that the deer had already made their way inside her house!

Like many other animals, deer too can predict stormy weather and know when it is best to find a shelter from the dangerous weather. As the back door was opened, she did not notice when the deer entered her house. The three lovely baby deer made their way inside but there was no sight of their parents. The woman did try to find if there was any deer nearby her house but to no avail. The woman thought that the baby deer might have lost their parents so she welcomed them with open arms.

“I raise orphaned (孤儿的) wildlife. Recently, the back door was open as a storm was coming. The deer were nowhere to be found. I went inside, only to see them next to an end table in the living room. I told them they could sleep in the house for the night because the weather was going to be terrible,” the woman wrote on Little Things. com.

1. How did the baby deer enter the woman's house?

A．The woman invited them in.

B．The woman led them in.

C．They entered through the back door.

D．They entered through the window.

2. What do we know about the woman from paragraph 2?

A．She raises deer in her own house.

B．She lost her deer on a stormy night.

C．she is devoted to protecting wildlife.

D．She hardly came across wild animals.

3. Which of the following can best replace the underlined phrase “to no avail” in paragraph 4 ?

A．Failed

B．Resigned

C．Missed.

D．Disappeared.

4. Why were the deer found in the woman’s living room?

A．They were hungry

B．Their parents lost them on purpose

C．They were being hunted

D．Bad weather forced them to find a shelter

7 . Milo is a rescue dog, adopted by 20-year-old Makayla Swift. One morning in November 2021, Swift opened her front door in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Milo _______ running. Milo ran to the house across the street. He seemed unsatisfied with this house, so he ran to the one next door, Swift on his _______.

“He started _______ on the front door,” Swift says. “I’m thinking, ‘Why is he literally trying to _______ the house?’” She was _______. Not everyone wants a strange dog on their _______. But as she tried to drag Milo away, she could hear a sound coming through an open upstairs window. It was a voice yelling “Help!”

Hours earlier, around 4 a. m., Sherry Starr had _______ from her bed. “All of a sudden, standing there between the toilet and the bathtub, I _______,” she says. “I went down hard on the floor.” Starr is 85. “I could not move at all,” says Starr, who was stuck between the toilet and the bathtub. Starr was _______. “I’m thinking: I’m just going to die here,” she says. Her best ________, she decided, was to listen for the letter carrier in the afternoon and scream at the top of her lungs.

“Her voice was very ________,” says Swift. “You had to be right at the front door to hear Mrs. Starr yell for ________ unless you were Milo who ________ heard Starr when I opened my own front door.”

Swift called 911. The rescuers thought they’d have to remove the toilet, but they gave one last pull and out she popped. Though injured, Starr ________ a trip to the hospital. Swift has known her share of pain. Two years ago, her mother died. She says Milo has helped her with her grief. “That dog is a ________,” she says.

1.

A．woke up

B．took off

C．caught up

D．held back

2.

A．head

B．feet

C．tail

D．ear

3.

A．scratching

B．struggling

C．opening

D．pulling

4.

A．break down

B．settle down

C．sign up

D．break into

5.

A．disturbed

B．embarrassed

C．discouraged

D．disappointed

6.

A．own

B．way

C．property

D．business

7.

A．risen

B．sprang

C．raised

D．jumped

8.

A．skipped

B．crashed

C．slipped

D．wept

9.

A．amazed

B．hopeful

C．angry

D．scared

10.

A．aim

B．bet

C．opinion

D．point

11.

A．sweet

B．deep

C．faint

D．familiar

12.

A．fun

B．help

C．practice

D．sale

13.

A．instantly

B．confidently

C．slightly

D．merely

14.

A．considered

B．offered

C．declined

D．remembered

15.

A．lesson

B．treat

C．blessing

D．pet

8 . She came in the dead of night, in the cold. She was more than half dead, _______ down to bones. Her hair was completely eaten away by mange (兽疥癣). And finally, she peered into an empty doghouse in the trees. _______ she was out of the winds.

My mother and brother found her in the daylight of the next day. They could not even _______ she was a dog. “And it broke my heart,” my mother said,

They are the kind of people who _______ to give up on anything. My mother even _______ pens that stopped writing in 1974. My brother Mark looked at her tragic face and _______ her, “Hey, Pretty Girl.” It was as if he could see _______ the ruin.

Mark and my mother fed her, gave her water and bathed her in burned motor oil, the way my people have been curing the mange for _______. A month later, a beautiful white German shepherd stood in the garden. She was _______ to last, at most, a few weeks or months, yet she lived three more years-decades, in dog years——________ my brother to watch for rainbow in the garden.

“I ________ for her,” my mother said. “Some people say you needn’t ask for God’s blessing for your dog, but ...” And then after the __________ of years, Pretty Girl began to __________ and died.

Some things in the garden were planted according to science, according to soil and weather. And some things were planted according to traditions, the shape of the moon, and more. However, there are things we cannot __________ things beyond science, like how a man could name a dying dog and have her rise inside that, somehow, to __________.

1.

A．starved

B．burnt

C．swallowed

D．settled

2.

A．At length

B．At least

C．At large

D．At present

3.

A．predict

B．suspect

C．recall

D．tell

4.

A．tend

B．vote

C．hate

D．determine

5.

A．appreciates

B．abandons

C．possesses

D．keeps

6.

A．inspired

B．recognized

C．named

D．congratulated

7.

A．through

B．beyond

C．off

D．beneath

8.

A．pleasure

B．generations

C．profits

D．convenience

9.

A．supposed

B．assigned

C．aimed

D．appointed

10.

A．commanding

B．supporting

C．following

D．consulting

11.

A．prayed

B．spoke

C．sought

D．struggled

12.

A．lesson

B．punishment

C．reward

D．gift

13.

A．fail

B．adapt

C．develop

D．wander

14.

A．complain

B．explain

C．obtain

D．claim

15.

A．take it easy

B．make it clear

C．put it off

D．make it true

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

    1    (dress) in orthopedic(矫正的) shoes, a penguin from the San Diego Zoo, who could not walk due to illness, got another chance to run like other penguins.

Lucas, the African penguin,     2    (have) trouble walking for more than three years because of the problem in his spine(脊柱), which causes its muscle weakness and pain in the legs.

The penguin looked lonely and different     3     other ones for its limited mobility. Wildlife     4    (researcher) decided to do something.

“I’ve known Lucas for a long time, so being able to provide him with a     5    (possible) to live a normal life brings a smile to my face,” said Dr. Beth, a senior vet at the zoo.

The boots     6    (fit) in place, so they will help Lucas to fully participate in the colony and show behaviors that are more typical for    7     penguin-such as climbing the rocks, swimming, nesting and finding a suitable mate.

With his new boots, Lucas’s walking has improved, which makes his exploration in his rocky habitat     8    (easy) and his posture(姿势) became more natural,     9    (allow) him to gain better balance while standing.

“We were pleasantly surprised at the change the boots bring,” said one animal keeper. “Seeing him move about now gives us hope     10     he may be able to live a full life.”

10 . Whether they are furry, feathered or scaly (多鳞的), the non-human members of your family help you in more ways that you knōw.     1     .

They keep you active. If you have a dog, chances are that you’re walking it at least 30minutes a day, and likely more — an activity that goes a long way towards keeping you fit.

They boost your immune system. Growing up indoors in disinfected spaces later causes our bodies to over-react to harmless substances, making us more allergic. As is often the case, pets have muddy paws, abundant furs and affection for licking (舔) us.     2    .

They lower your risk of a fatal heart attack. Researchers found that cat owners had a 30per cent lower risk of dying of a heart attack.     3    . The researchers assumed — and most cat owners would agree — that cats’ unbothered nature has a calming effect. Spending time with any pet lowers stress, an important contributor to heart disease.

They help you manage a chronic disease.     4    , animals always keep their owners busy — and that can be a good thing for chronic disease sufferers of all types. When distracted from the pain. they will perceive less pain, and therefore they are in less pain.

    5    . Studies have shown that pet ownership is beneficial for people with depression, anxiety, PTSD. and other long-term mental health conditions. Pet owners themselves report that their animal pals benefit them mentally a lot, like providing emotional support and helping them form social bonds.

A．They also improve your mental health

B．They contribute a lot to our strong body

C．With the considerate care from the owners

D．Here are some ways that your pet pal benefits you

E．With their regular tasks of feeding, walks and play

F．They introduce more bacterial diversity that our body adapts to

G．But you may wonder how it comes about without taking a cat for walks