1 . 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

2 . Whenever I arrive home late from work, my dog Poppins saves her dinner. She always waits for me ________ I sit down for mine.

For someone who recovered from a(n) ________ disorder (紊乱), the importance of my caring dog’s ________ surprised me. In the years of treatment, my family and friends were very ________, but nothing quite touched me like the ________ of my dog.

My eating disorder started when I was in university. Then I was an early bird, sporty and ________ to outdoors. But a few comments about weight proved (证明是) enough for me to begin ________ my looks. I stopped eating enough. I forced myself to exercise and lost sight of why I loved to move. All that ________ was that I ticked (勾) off the boxes in the checklist.

When Poppins came to live with me, my life took a turn. I’d ________ wake early. But on the road I had sped through, we walked slowly in ________. We enjoyed streetcars, Don Valley, Humber River and many animals.

I ________ for many years working out how to live an active life. Poppins feels like the missing ________. This sweet dog has ________ me to the life I’ve dreamed about — one still filled with exploration and ________ but not driven by force to move. I know that the life I used to only ________ has come now. I feel content and able to contribute to society in a meaningful way.

1.

A．if

B．until

C．although

D．because

2.

A．breathing

B．nervous

C．eating

D．emotional

3.

A．diet

B．look

C．revival

D．habit

4.

A．supportive

B．wealthy

C．graceful

D．honest

5.

A．image

B．survival

C．company

D．growth

6.

A．forced

B．attracted

C．limited

D．shown

7.

A．questioning

B．describing

C．forgetting

D．appreciating

8.

A．returned

B．failed

C．fitted

D．mattered

9.

A．ever

B．still

C．never

D．even

10.

A．fear

B．shame

C．excitement

D．surprise

11.

A．struggled

B．waited

C．traveled

D．trained

12.

A．dog

B．love

C．key

D．wealth

13.

A．led

B．followed

C．cheated

D．hurried

14.

A．threat

B．failure

C．glory

D．adventure

15.

A．adapt to

B．dream about

C．show off

D．go through

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。

During summer vacation when I was twelve, a sawmill (锯木厂) was operating in the woods near our farm. Early each morning, I’d watch the men cut down big trees, saw them into logs, and deliver the logs to the mill.

The logs were dragged by a team of horses named Jack and Billy. They were gentle, and I petted them every chance I got.

One day, Mr. David, the mill owner, said he’d pay me 15 cents a day to bring fresh water to his men. In 1942, that was a lot of money! I said yes.

One afternoon when Jack and Billy were pulling a log up to the mill, a stick injured Jack’s right front hoof (蹄). After Mr. David removed the stick, the horse driver said that the foot should be doctored. But Mr. David said he didn’t have time for that. He said if the horse couldn’t earn his keep, he’d get one that could.

I felt sick inside. Jack and Billy were my best friends! I couldn’t stop thinking about Jack’s foot and what Mr. David had said.

For the rest of the day the team pulled logs from the woods. By nightfall, Jack was limping badly. Mr. David told his crew that the mill would be closed for three days because he’d be away for the Fourth of July. He offered to pay me a dollar to feed and water the horses while he was gone. I quickly agreed.

The next morning, I rode my bike to Mr. David’s barn. I wanted to look at Jack’s hoof. I reached down and grabbed the hair on the back of his leg, as I’d seen Mr. David do, and Jack lifted up his foot so I could see.

The part inside of the big iron shoe looked red and mushy (烂糊的).

I didn’t know anything about medicine, and Mr. David said he wouldn’t pay for a doctor. But if he didn’t earn his keep, Mr. David would get rid of him. But what could I do?

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。

At my house, I saw our neighbor, Mr. Sherman who raised horses and knew how to care for them.

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The morning when Mr. David returned, I jumped on my bike to the mill.

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4 . A bill to conserve endangered species was passed by the U.S. House in a 231-to-190 vote on Tuesday.

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would create an annual fund of more than $1.3 billion, given to states, and territories for wildlife conservation on the ground. While threatened species have been recognized and protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1973, that law does not provide constant funding to actively maintain their numbers.

The effort comes as scientists and international organizations sound the alarm about accelerating species decline.

“Too many people don’t realize that about one-third of our wildlife is at increased risk of extinction,” said lead House sponsor Debbie Ding-ell, echoing (呼应) a recent study about climate change.

In the United States, there are more than 1,600 endangered or threatened species, but state agencies have identified more than 7 times that number in need of conservation assistance in their wildlife action plans.

“The bottom line is, when we save wildlife we save for ourselves,” said Collin O’ Mara, CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, which supports the bill. He said species loss threatens everything from the insects that pollinate (授粉) plants in the food chain, to sea life that helps to reduce damages to coastlines from storm.

The bill would improve a 1937 law, the Pittman-Robertson Act, which was passed in response to decreasing game and waterfowl species. That law allows states to tax hunting supplies to pay for wildlife and habitat restoration, but that money is not enough to do the same for non-game species.

The act would also invest more in conservation than the existing program for threatened non-game species, called the State Wildlife Grant Program, which awarded states a total of $56 million this year.

1. What do we know about the Endangered Species Act?

A．It does not involve continuous funding.

B．It was passed by the House this Tuesday.

C．It has proved to be a failed Act.

D．It ensured the population of all the species.

2. What did Debbie Dingell show us in paragraph 4?

A．Human behavior causes species to decline.

B．People’s efforts matter a lot in conservation.

C．People lack awareness of animal protection.

D．The decline of species is beyond imagination.

3. Why are “insects” and “sea life” mentioned in paragraph 6?

A．To indicate they are at risk of dying out.

B．To illustrate how to protect them properly.

C．To show they’re more important than others.

D．To tell man and nature are an organic whole.

4. In which section of the website would this text appear?

A．Entertainment.

B．News.

C．Technology.

D．Health.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What led to Puri’s research?

A．A wildlife exhibition.

B．Her family’s hope

C．A market visit.

2. What’s the problem with present monitoring systems?

A．They aren’t accurate.

B．They can’t catch pictures

C．They can’t locate hunters

3. How does ELSa work?

A．By using better visual recognition.

B．By analyzing movement patterns.

C．By studying animals’ living situations.

4. What does Jasper think of ElSa?

A．It is not as good as his system

B．It will stop much illegal hunting.

C．Its performance needs to be proved.

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How tall is Panda?

A．About 30cm.

B．About 60cm.

C．About 160cm.

2. Why do people train Panda?

A．To help blind people.

B．To compete with dogs.

C．To dance in the shows.

3. Who is Ann Edie?

A．An English trainer.

B．A reporter.

C．The Panda’s owner.

4. What makes Panda a better guide than a dog?

A．She can’t get lost.

B．She will live longer.

C．She can go everywhere.

7 . Hannah Huxford encountered the fry-stealing gull in Bridlington, a coastal town on the Yorkshire coast. Huxford snapped the well-timed photo on her iPhone in 2011; it went viral soon after. A decade later, the fry-stealing gull is appearing on billboards, as part of an advertising campaign for Google.

Researchers recently discovered that food may actually become more attractive to gulls when the birds observe humans handling it first, according to a 2020 study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

Because the birds seem to be attracted to food items that they’ve watched humans touch, another of the study’s authors, says that it’s even more important to properly throw food waste and snack wrappers in the trash. “Our findings suggest that gulls are more likely to approach food that they have seen people drop or put down, so they may associate areas where people are eating with an easy meal, ‘‘ Dr. Laura Kelley said.

The scientists approached 74 herring gulls in coastal towns in Cornwall, tempting them with weighted bags of fried potatoes. Only 19 gulls were curious or hungry enough to linger (逗留), allowing the scientists to place the bag on the ground and retreat a short distance away, waiting in a crouched (蹲下) position to see if a gull would approach.

Their experiments demonstrated that gulls were more cautious about approaching a tempting treat if there was a person nearby who was watching them closely. However, the scientists also found that far fewer of the birds than expected showed interest in investigating the food at all when being stared at.

In fact, people may be able to protect their lunches from gulls by avoiding areas where the birds tend to gather and keeping a closer eye on their meals, she added. “Gulls have a bad reputation but, like all animals, they are just trying to survive,“ Goumas said. “We can try to alleviate the conflict we have with them by making changes in our own behavior. ”

1. Why does the author mention “the fry-stealing gull photo“ in Paragraph 1?

A．To open up the topic.	B．To kid about the gull.
C．To tell us an episode.	D．To introduce the background.

2. What did gulls prefer according to the study?

A．Photos taken by people.	B．Areas full of food waste.
C．Food that visitors are eating.	D．Snack wrappers in the trash.

3. What can we know about gulls from the scientists’ experiments?

A．They don’t like the food left over by humans.

B．They approach the treat when they are hungry.

C．They are interested in eating food with humans.

D．They probably won’t eat the treat when being watched.

4. What’s Goumas’s attitude to the action of the fry-stealing gull?

A．Conservative.	B．Sympathetic.
C．Skeptical.	D．Indifferent.

8 . As Gwen Erickson approached 97, she began raising one of America’s most popular, yet endangered butterflies—the monarch butterfly (帝王蝶). She managed to _________ 27 butterflies last year and this year the _________ has gone up to 61.

The whole process is a little _________, beginning with collecting eggs from the milkweed leaves that grow in her backyard. Four days after Erickson placed the eggs in jars on her living room table, the caterpillar (毛毛虫) appeared, and then, within several weeks, formed a chrysalis (蛹). Two weeks later the beautiful butterflies _________. Erickson then released the butterflies into the wild, but a couple seemed a little _________ to leave their loving home and _________ the senior by flying around the house.

Erickson remembered her first attempt to raise _________ and said she hoped it could enable her grandchildren to _________ an interest in these beautiful insects. However, it’s she who has found the _________ in raising butterflies in the end.

Erickson doesn’t like to talk about herself and what she does, but she does so this time as she wants to ____________ others to care for this endangered species. Happily, a friend and her son have joined her in her new-found ____________. Hopefully, we will see a(n) ____________ in those decreasing numbers.

This new ____________ is a fine example of people caring for the smaller things in life. It ____________ us that it’s never too late to be ____________ in life.

1.

A．steal

B．donate

C．keep

D．photograph

2.

A．number

B．size

C．range

D．variety

3.

A．money-saving

B．labor-demanding

C．energy-efficient

D．time-consuming

4.

A．sped up

B．turned up

C．woke up

D．grew up

5.

A．impatient

B．delighted

C．surprised

D．unwilling

6.

A．accompanied

B．attended

C．greeted

D．impressed

7.

A．flies

B．pests

C．butterflies

D．bees

8.

A．regain

B．develop

C．remove

D．express

9.

A．decoration

B．fossil

C．herb

D．pleasure

10.

A．allow

B．encourage

C．arrange

D．invite

11.

A．passion

B．exit

C．species

D．fiction

12.

A．opportunity

B．result

C．change

D．inspiration

13.

A．hobby

B．version

C．rumour

D．exercise

14.

A．promises

B．reminds

C．upsets

D．strengthens

15.

A．polite

B．generous

C．optimistic

D．purposeful

9 . What fisherman Moul Thun from a remote island in the Mekong River, in northern Cambodia, didn’t know was that stingray he hooked would eventually be named the largest recorded freshwater fish. For Zeb Hogan, who’s been documenting large freshwater fishes for almost two decades, the discovery of the stingray, which was released alive back into the river, filled him with hope. “It proves these underwater big fish, which are in critical danger, still exist,’’ says Hogan.

Hogan’s pursuit for big fish, called the Megafishes Project and supported by National Geographic Society , began in 2005 when fishermen in northern Thailand pulled a 646-pound cafish out of the Mekong River. The species is known that it was the largest, that is, the heaviest-ever caught in the area.

Arriving at the island, the team found Thun’s fish, a female that appeared to be in good health. It was more than 13 feet from nose to tail. The researchers were shocked to see her weight at 661 pounds. She set a new world record. The original aim of the Megafishes Project was to find, study, and protect the world’s largest freshwater fishes. The project focused on species that could grow to at least the size of a human and that lived only in freshwater.

Hogan initially drew up a list of roughly 30 species to focus on.

The challenge, as Hogan soon learned, was that many of these fish are hard to find. They live in remote, inaccessible places, and often in deep waters. Early on in the search, there were relatively few scientists studying them.

What was clear was that the river giants were shrinking in number, threatened by a host of factors including overfishing, water pollution, and the presence of dams, which block migrating fish from completing their life cycles. As Hogan’s work progressed, its focus increasingly turned to conservation. “It was never about just finding the biggest fish,” Hogan says, “but looking for ways to protect these extraordinary animals that, in some cases, have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years but are now drifting out of entities.”

1. Why was Zeb Hogan full of hope?

A．Freshwater fishes weren’t in danger.	B．Some large fishes didn’t die out
C．The stingray was put into the river.	D．Many large fishes existed in rivers.

2. What can we know about the 646-pound catfish?

A．It was also caught by Moul Thun.	B．It’s the largest recorded freshwater fish.
C．It was injured very seriously.	D．It was caught in the Mekong River.

3. Which of the following is the original goal of the Megafishes Project?

A．Finding about 30 species of big fishes.	B．Studying fishes smaller than humans.
C．Protecting big freshwater fishes.	D．Setting new record in finding fishes.

4. What does the underlined part “drifting out of entities” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Dying out.	B．Getting ill.
C．Being protected.	D．Living well.

10 . I went for a walk up to a local park and Chester was running about. Suddenly, two dogs appeared, attacking him. He got _________ and ran off in an unfamiliar direction. I can only _________ myself-it’s like losing a family member. My daughter didn’t sleep for three days. She just thought her pet was _________.

My family had almost lost _________ until Erica decided to offer her services. She uses a drone(无人机)to help find lost dogs. Equipped with a hi-tech thermal imaging(热成像)camera, the drone can detect heat _________ from 250 feet in the air. _________, when asked to help out in a search for a _________, Erica simply turns up to the dog’s last known _________ and sets up the drone. Having found more than 160 dogs, it’s proved pretty _________.

And it’s easy to see why. Can you __________ Chester running around these woods? To the naked eye(肉眼), it’s virtually impossible, but pop the thermal image up and he jumps out, __________ his owner to bring him safely back home.

Having saved hundreds of dogs, the method is clearly __________. Erica doesn’t __________ for her services and instead does it for the pleasure of seeing the owners __________.

Erica’s drone has helped create countless happy __________ and is sure to make many more in the future.

1.

A．concerned

B．annoyed

C．scared

D．confused

2.

A．speak for

B．focus on

C．turn to

D．adapt to

3.

A．sick

B．gone

C．injured

D．stuck

4.

A．attitude

B．contact

C．track

D．hope

5.

A．impressions

B．signals

C．experiments

D．behaviors

6.

A．Besides

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Otherwise

7.

A．family

B．job

C．chance

D．dog

8.

A．location

B．company

C．adventure

D．arrangement

9.

A．particular

B．familiar

C．successful

D．suitable

10.

A．spot

B．explore

C．concentrate

D．rescue

11.

A．forbidding

B．allowing

C．ordering

D．warning

12.

A．challenging

B．improving

C．working

D．surviving

13.

A．apply

B．wish

C．answer

D．charge

14.

A．reunited

B．recognized

C．requested

D．admired

15.

A．destinations

B．solutions

C．goals

D．endings