1 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段文字，150字左右，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

In Rome there was once a poor slave whose name was Androclus. His master was a cruel man, and so unkind to him that Androclus ran away. He hid himself in a wild wood for many days; but there was no food to be found, and he grew so weak and sick that he thought he would die. So one day he climbed into a cave and lay down to wait for death, and soon he was fast asleep.

After a while, a great noise woke him up. A lion had come into the cave, and was roaring loudly. Androclus was very afraid, for he felt sure that the beast would kill him. Soon, however, he saw the lion was not angry, but that his foot were hurt.

Then Androclus grew so courageous that he started to examine the lion’s paw to see what was the matter. The lion stood quite still, and rubbed his head against the man’s shoulder. He seemed to say, “I know that you will help me.”

Androclus lifted the paw from the ground, and saw that it was a long, sharp thorn that hurt the lion so much. He took the end of the thorn between his fingers; then he gave a strong, quick pull, and out it came. The lion was full of joy. He jumped about like a dog, and licked the hands and feet of his new friend.

The two became such good friends that Androclus found his new life a very happy one. One day some soldiers found Androclus in the cave and took him back to Rome. It was the law at that time that every slave who ran away from his master should fight a hungry lion. For each of these occasions, a fierce lion was locked up for a while without food, and a time was set for the fight.

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When the day came, thousands of people crowded in to see the fight.

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The people, who had expected to see the man killed by the lion, were filled with wonder.

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2 . No matter how many times Sandy has rescued an animal, she never gets over the casual cruelty some people display toward unwanted pets. When she lost her own “angel” dog, she started Logan’s Legacy to help other pets in need.

Sandy recently received a phone call about a small dog, possibly a puppy, that had been abandoned on a street. Since she was too far to help on, she called a friend who lives nearby to get there as soon as possible. When her friend Tom arrived, he found a tiny dog curled(蜷缩)in a tight ball with the chain firmly tied to a tree. Someone had left food and water for her, but the puppy was too frightened to eat or drink. Once gathered up in a blanket and placed into the back seat of the car, she began to get weak quickly from dehydration(脱水)and exhaustion.

The moment she got some water and food, the puppy made a rapid recovery, and her lovely and sweet personality could finally shine! “We have named her CiCi,” Sandy added, “She is feeling so much better. She has been observed at my place and she is doing great. This sweet baby girl will never feel fearful again, and won’t ever be abandoned again.” After winning hearts at Sandy’s office, CiCi has been approved for adopting and will soon leave for her new life. Sandy and her fellow rescuers are trying their best to find her the perfect family to love her and treat her with the respect all living creatures deserve!

1. What did Sandy feel it hard to overcome?

A．The casual humanity.	B．The cruelty of humanity.
C．The kind human nature.	D．The weakness of kindness.

2. How was the dog’s condition when first found?

A．She suffered a serious illness.

B．She had nothing to eat or drink.

C．She got lost far away from home.

D．She was scared and in poor health.

3. What will be CiCi’s probable future life?

A．She will stop taking medicine.

B．She will continue further treatment.

C．She will have a perfect match for home.

D．She will get on well with Sandy forever.

4. What can be the best title of this passage?

A．A Warm Home for CiCi

B．Dog Saved Heart Fulfilled

C．A Terrible Experience of CiCi

D．Saving Dogs Saving Themselves

3 . In 2014, a second year student at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts went to Beijing Zoo with friends. Little did he know that an encounter at the aquarium there would ________ a lifelong passion. As Xu Yitang ________ corals of complex shapes in the glow of the tank’s light, a sense of wonder washed over him. Lost in the beauty and ________ of the creatures, he spent the entire afternoon in front of the tank.

Today, Xu, a Beijing native, has ________ Hainan Province, where he serves as a coral ________ for a Sanya-based tropical biological laboratory.

Each day, he spends several hours diving deep under the waves to observe and ________ the growth of the creatures that ________ him all those years ago. In the laboratory, he would film ________ videos of the artificial coral breeding system to explain the relationship between corals and reefs. His goal was to raise ________ and knowledge about corals, so that people can learn how to protect them ________.

Xu is actively engaged on social media platforms like Sina Weibo, where he regularly shares ________ amazing photos and entertaining videos of corals. He aims to encourage individuals to ________ to protecting coral: reefs and the oceans as a whole from the ________ impact of climate change and human activities.

While pursuing his passion to protect corals, he met his life partner, Liu Xiwen, through their ________ hobby of diving in Hainan. The couple have been invited to share their stories in the recently released online program Burning Youth that aims to use documentary shorts and ________ studio interviews to present the inspiring stories of young Chinese people from various walks of life.

1.

A．celebrate

B．change

C．excite

D．strengthen

2.

A．watched over

B．gazed on

C．spied on

D．looked into

3.

A．mystery

B．vitality

C．prosperity

D．nobility

4.

A．decided on

B．settled in

C．flown to

D．adapted to

5.

A．collector

B．gardener

C．enthusiast

D．conservationist

6.

A．analyze

B．trace

C．document

D．boost

7.

A．attracted

B．ruled

C．broke

D．cured

8.

A．fundamental

B．educational

C．environmental

D．biological

9.

A．status

B．standard

C．awareness

D．fondness

10.

A．positively

B．effectively

C．actively

D．comprehensively

11.

A．actually

B．naturally

C．scientifically

D．visually

12.

A．take time

B．take charge

C．take side

D．take action

13.

A．destructive

B．aggressive

C．passive

D．active

14.

A．widespread

B．cultivated

C．shared

D．agreed

15.

A．in-charge

B．in-depth

C．in-width

D．in-store

4 . A shark was spotted off the shore of LeCount Hollow Beach, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The sighting was immediately reported to the Sharktivity app that's a public-safety tool created by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy （AWSC）.

John Chisholm is a biologist who studies sharks. He monitors reports made to the Sharktivity app. When he gets a message, he contacts the person who spotted the shark. “Hopefully, you have a photo or a video,” he says. “If you don't, then I have to try to study what you saw, based on your description and the location. ”Some sightings are false alarms, but when Chisholm is able to confirm a sighting, it's labeled as confirmed on the app. “Lifeguards can use that data and close beaches if they have to,” he says.

Cape Cod（CC） is a hot spot for sharks. That part of Massachusetts is known for its beaches. In 2021, there were more than 150,000 shark detections in CC waters. Sharks have always been a natural part of the CC ecosystem. But since the 1970s, their numbers have dropped by more than 70% worldwide. Since 1972, America has banned hunting seals（海豹）. Over time, their numbers have gone up. Today, there're an estimated 50,000 gray seals around the Massachusetts coast. More gray seals mean more food for sharks. Seals often swim and gather near the shoreline. That's one reason why great sharks are showing up near CC beaches.

Sharks might mistake people or objects for food. So the AWSC's Shark Smart Beach Program takes information directly to the public. It has workers on CC beaches ready to teach people about shark behavior. “A big thing for folks to remember, if they're going to the beach, is that they're going to an environment where there're wild animals,” says Marianne Walsh, AWSC's education director. “By paying attention to lifeguards, not going out past waist-deep water, and not swimming alone, people can easily coexist with sharks,” Chisholm says.

1. What does Chisholm advise you to do for him when you report a shark sighting?

A．Delete the false information in person.	B．Inform lifeguards immediately.
C．Label the location on the Sharktivity app.	D．Take pictures or make a video.

2. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A． A conservation success story.	B．The reasons for protecting sharks.
C．The disasters caused by sharks.	D．A prediction of the CC ecosystem.

3. What is the purpose of the AWSC's Shark Smart Beach Program?

A．To collect information about sharks.	B．To teach how to avoid sharks' attack.
C．To sharpen beach goers' swimming skills.	D．To strengthen animal-human relationships.

4. Where is the text probably taken from?

A．A travel brochure.	B．A research paper.
C．A biology textbook.	D．An animal magazine.

5 . A major limitation in behavioral research is that scientists can either study animals under highly-controlled, yet often unrealistically simplified and small, environments in the lab, or in largely uncontrolled conditions in the wild. This has limited our ability to study many aspects of behavior, including collective behavior—the movements and interactions among animals that underlie their complex social lives. What is needed to address this?

To do so in a multidimensional way, researchers have developed a tool called SMART-BARN. “It’s a new tool that allows studying complex behavior characteristics of an individual or interactions between groups of animals like insects, birds, or mammals (哺乳动物),” says Hemal Naik. Together with Máté Nagy, co-speaker of the Cluster, Iain Couzin, and colleagues developed SMART-BARN. Biologists, physicists, engineers and computer scientists developed it together.

“SMART-BARN is designed to enhance the scale of typical indoor behavioral experiments in terms of experimental volume and measured behavior characteristics and group sizes,” computer scientist Hemal Naik says. The facility can—depending on the size of the animals—host hundreds of animals simultaneously and extend the possibility of experiments to novel species typically not studied in indoor environments. “In fact, we have now scaled this to work with many thousands of animals,” adds Couzin. “We recently conducted a study in the Imaging Hangar where we tracked 10,000 plague locusts. This would have been impossible without our SMART-BARN technology. ”

So far, SMART-BARN has been used within different experimental use cases involving subjects as diverse as pigeons, moths, bats, and humans. Naik says, “SMART-BARN offers the ability to track 3D stare and posture of birds in a group of ten or more while maintaining their identity. This technique is being used by researchers to explore the role of stare in decision making.”

The team imagines the facility to be a cooperative space where researchers from all over the globe can contribute to the exploration of behavioral questions. Therefore, the team invites researchers across the world to connect with them and plan experiments.

1. What is the first paragraph mainly about concerning SMART-BARN?

A．Its limitation.

B．Its necessity.

C．Its popularity.

D．Its feature.

2. What can we learn about the research team?

A．They engage in different areas of knowledge.	B．They are expert at studying biodiversity.
C．They have the same social background.	D．They base their study on previous data.

3. What is SMART-BARN used to do according to the text?

A．To rescue the endangered.	B．To protect the environment.
C．To study animal groups.	D．To keep track of birds.

4. What does paragraph 4 want to tell us about SMART-BARN?

A．How it will be tested.	B．What it will be used for.
C．Why it is so popular.	D．Where it can be used.

6 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Humankind’s growing need for food is running up against thousands of other species’ need for space. By 2050, humans may need to clear an additional 3.35 million square     1     (kilometer) of land for agriculture.     2     (transform) these largely natural habitats would squeeze more than 17,000 vertebrate species from some of their lands. But changing how and where food     3     (grow) can minimize the impacts. “We can feed the planet without messing it up too badly,” says conservation scientist David Williams.

7 . 阅读下面短文，有5处划线，从每题所给四个选项中选出与划线意义的最匹配选项。

Once he was back in his pasture, we’d chat over the fence (栅栏), covering such topics as hard days at work and exciting happenings _________ at home. He did most of the listening, giving knowing glances and huffs when appropriate. When it was time to end the conversation, he’d turn and walk away. He had impeccable _________ timing.

I posted Buster photos and stories on Facebook-he had quite a following. One admirer’s dying wish was to muster_________ the strength to meet him. The fan arrived bearing apples. Buster rarely ate apples except from one tree in his pasture, but he gobbled them up _________ that day. In return, Buster stopped eating long enough to pose for photos with the ailing _________ man who thought the world of him.

1.

A．events

B．photos

C．topics

D．decorations

2.

A．impossible

B．perfect

C．limited

D．improper

3.

A．reduce

B．organize

C．gather

D．move

4.

A．threw away

B．ate quickly

C．held up

D．gave away

5.

A．happy

B．mean

C．old

D．weak

8 . 假如你是李华，请结合以下信息，给21世纪报社写一份倡议书，倡议大家关注野生动物的保护。
1.简述野生动物的现状；
2.野生动物减少的原因以及采取的措施；
3.呼吁大家保护野生动物。
注意: 字数控制在80词左右; 可以适当增加细节, 以使文章连贯。
提示词：减少 decrease   野生动物 wild animals

Save Endangered Animals

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9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What did the boy notice about the dog?

A．It was hungry.

B．It was cold.

C．It was scared.

2. What did the boy do for the dog once he got home?

A．He found a raincoat for it.

B．He got a box of food for it.

C．He made a simple home for it.

3. How did the dog help the boy in the storm?

A．By bringing him back home.

B．By barking loudly to ask for help.

C．By keeping him warm in the snow.

10 . Adrienne Tully, an amateur photographer, went to the coast of a beach in Belmar, New Jersey. She planned to take photos of the ______ against the sea. Instead, she was able to ______ a frightening but happy journey. It all started last Sunday morning when she noticed a crowd ______ on the beach. Naturally, she joined them in the ______ of learning what was going on.

For a minute, Adrienne was ______ about what everyone was looking at. From how far away they were, it almost seemed like a bird. Looking closer, ______ , it was clearly a deer who was ______ on a raised rock in the middle of the ocean. The deer made a couple of ______ to swim back to the shore but the turbulent (汹涌的) water ______ all its efforts. Then someone who came out of nowhere ______ rode his surfboard to the deer. After a short magic while, the ______ managed to guide the deer out. Upon ______ ashore, the deer just ran north on the beach. Those watching nearby were no doubt ______ at the way this nameless young man ______ to help. But he somehow disappeared too, leaving people to hope he knows that he is greatly ______ for what he did.

1.

A．wildlife

B．city

C．fight

D．sunrise

2.

A．launch

B．anticipate

C．shoot

D．report

3.

A．cooperating

B．forming

C．arguing

D．encountering

4.

A．hope

B．charge

C．absence

D．face

5.

A．confused

B．desperate

C．anxious

D．depressed

6.

A．fortunately

B．however

C．otherwise

D．therefore

7.

A．defeated

B．deserted

C．stuck

D．seated

8.

A．routines

B．attempts

C．excuses

D．routes

9.

A．ruined

B．interrupted

C．canceled

D．postponed

10.

A．purposely

B．randomly

C．elegantly

D．heroically

11.

A．onlooker

B．tourist

C．surfer

D．guide

12.

A．going

B．washing

C．thundering

D．struggling

13.

A．ashamed

B．mad

C．amazed

D．expert

14.

A．went off

B．turned up

C．settled down

D．set out

15.

A．appreciated

B．understood

C．awarded

D．supported