1 . 假定你校英文报在征文，话题是：家庭和外界哪一个对孩子的成长影响更大？请用英语写一篇短文投稿，内容包括以下要点：
1. 表明你的观点；
2. 阐述所持观点的理由。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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2 . What is the man's attitude toward the rise of fuel cost?

A．Worried.

B．Positive.

C．Ambiguous.

4 . Taking photographs at a birthday or a wedding has become as natural as blowing out candles or cutting the cake. But our obsession (痴迷) with recording every detail of our happiest moments could be damaging our ability to remember them, according to a new research. A study has shown that taking pictures rather than concentrating fully on the events in front of us prevents memories taking hold.

Dr. Linda Henkel, from Fairfield University, Connecticut, described it as the “photo-taking impairment effect”. She said: “People so often pull out their cameras almost mindlessly to capture a moment, to the point where they are missing what is happening right in front of them. When people rely on technology to remember for them—counting on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves—it can have a negative impact on how well they remember their experiences.”

Dr. Henkel and her team carried out an experiment in a museum, to learn if taking pictures of the exhibits was hindering(阻碍)the ability of visitors to remember what they had seen.

A group of university students were led on a tour at the Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University and were asked to either photograph or remember objects on display. The next day their memory was tested. The results showed that people were less accurate in recognizing the objects they had photographed than those they had only looked at. It was found that their memory for the details of the objects they had photographed was poorer.

Henkel’s lab is currently investigating whether the content of a photo, such as whether you are in it, affects later memory. She is also researching whether actively choosing what to photograph might influence what we remember.

Previous research suggests that reviewing photos we have taken does help us remember the objects, but only if we take the time.

“Research has suggested that the sheer volume and lack of organization of digital photos for personal memories discourages many people from accessing and recalling them. In order to remember, we have access and interact with the photos, rather than just collect them,” said Dr. Henkel.

1. What does the word “them” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A．Gifts a birthday.	B．People who go to parties.
C．Photos taken at a wedding.	D．Details of the happiest moments.

2. What is the “photo-taking impairment effect”?

A．Some unhappy events may weaken the effects of photos.

B．Taking photographs of objects ruins one’s memory of them.

C．The effects of photos are strongly affected by bad cameras.

D．Memories last forever when people take the photos they like most.

3. What can we learn about Dr. Linda Herkel’s study?

A．A group of high school students were involved.

B．The memory of participants was tested the following week.

C．People who just looked at the objects remembered fewer details.

D．People who photographed objects were worse at recognizing them.

4. The passage is probably taken from ______.

A．a health magazine	B．a cultural overview
C．an economics report	D．an entertainment website

5 . Perhaps you’ve heard the old saying “curiosity killed the cat.” It’s a phrase that’s often used to warn people — especially children — not to ask too many questions.     1     In fact, research has shown that curiosity is just as important as intelligence in determining how well students do in school. Curiosity can also lead us to make unexpected discoveries, bring excitement into our lives, and open up new possibilities.     2     For example, one day in 1831, Michael Faraday was playing around with a coil and a magnet when he suddenly saw how he could produce an electrical current. At first, it wasn’t clear what use this would have, but it actually made electricity available for use in technology, and so changed the world.

    3     On one level, this is because technology has become so advanced that many of us are unable to think too deeply about how exactly things work anymore. While it may be possible for a curious teenager to take a toaster apart and get some sense of how it works, how much do you understand about what happens when you type a website address into a browser? Where does your grasp of technology end and the magic begin for you?

In addition to this, there’s the fact that we all now connect so deeply with technology, particularly with our phones. The more we stare at our screens, the less we talk to other people directly.     4     Then we feel we know enough about a person not to need to engage further with them.

The final — and perhaps most worrying — way in which technology stops us from asking more has to do with algorithms, the processes followed by computers. As we increasingly get our news via social media, the big data find out what we like and push more of the same back to us.     5     Perhaps the real key to developing curiosity in the 21st century, then, is to rely less on the tech tools of our age.

A．Yet it’s widely agreed that curiosity actually makes learning more effective.

B．All too often we accept the images of people that social media provides us with.

C．That means we end up inside our own little bubbles, no longer coming across new ideas.

D．We are always encouraged to challenge our pre-existing beliefs

E．In science, basic curiosity-driven research can have unexpected important benefits.

F．However, curiosity is currently under the biggest threat, coming from technology.

G．It is still not known why learning gives us such pleasure

7 . 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。

With the rapid development of third-party mobile payment tools,     1    increasing number of consumers across China are using cashless payment methods.

Transactions(交易)    2    (involve) third-party mobile payments rose by 39. 1 percent in the first quarter of 2021 compared     3     the previous quarter to 74 trillion yuan. Although China has the most third-party payment accounts in the world, it is not the first country     4    (seek) a cashless society. Developed states like Sweden, Denmark and Singapore are also witnessing that increase.

However, the rapid development of cashless payments does not mean there are no challenges and criticisms. Alibaba’s Hema Fresh Store,     5     customers can shop, dine and order goods for delivery from their mobile phones via Alipay,     6    (come) into the spotlight recently. Media reports say that consumers can’t purchase goods with cash there, which would be considered     7    (legal).

Alipay and WeChat Pay, the nation’s two major third-party mobile payment tools, have also launched     8    (campaign) to encourage more merchants and customers to use cashless payment methods, which has caused concerns over     9     cash will soon disappear.

However, experts believe that a cashless society does not mean that cash will     10    (complete) disappear. As the economy grows, the circulation of cash is still very huge. In the long term, various payment methods will be used by consumers, and merchants should respect consumers’ payment habits.

9 . What would you think if someone suggested pulling down Big Ben to make way for a car park? It would be ridiculous, right? But when it comes to devastation (毁灭) of the natural world, we aren’t so easily shocked. But we should be...or we’ll be in a lot of trouble.

Nature is shrinking by the day. Ancient forests are destroyed. Wetlands are becoming dry. Woodland is disappearing. And all in the name of progress. This is bad in itself, but it’s devastating for biodiversity.

Biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals and other living things which are all inter-connected. The ecological services provided by biodiversity are vital to everyday life. The air we breathe is a product of photosynthesis (光合作用) by green plants. In fact, all life on earth exists thanks to the benefit of biodiversity. More than 90 percent of the calories consumed by people worldwide are produced from 80 plant species. And 30 percent of medicines are developed from plants and animals. Maintaining a wide diversity of species in each ecosystem is necessary to preserve all living things.

The loss of biodiversity could be devastating. “It is wrong to think that biodiversity can be reduced indefinitely without threatening humans,” said Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson, known as “the father of biodiversity”. He warned, “we are about to reach a critical point beyond which biodiversity loss will be unavoidable.”

But what can we do? The problem is that the concept of biodiversity is so vague. People might care about giant pandas, but it is much harder to excite them about the fate of tiny sea creatures which are being boiled to death in the cooling systems of power stations along coastlines. The Guardian newspaper is trying to help. It has started the Biodiversity 100 campaign to try to convince governments around the world to take action to deal with the widespread concerns about biodiversity. This includes persuading the UK government to create a series of marine reserves to reverse the decline in sea-life caused by industrial fishing, banning the fishing sharks by the Japanese fishermen and stopping the killing of dingoes in Australia, among many other things.

There is a lot to do. And we’d better get a move on if we don’t want to end up with a planet that can’t support life!

1. What does the author want to tell us by the comparison in paragraph 1?

A．It is unreasonable to pull down Big Ben.	B．People take devastation of nature for granted.
C．The differences between Big Ben and nature.	D．The great trouble we have been faced with.

2. What can we infer from Edward O. Wilson’s words?

A．It doesn’t matter to reduce biodiversity.	B．People have done enough to preserve biodiversity.
C．The situation of biodiversity is very serious.	D．Biodiversity loss has become unavoidable.

3. What does the underlined word “It” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A．The UK government.	B．The concept of biodiversity.
C．The action to deal with problem.	D．The Guardian newspaper.

4. Which of the following can be the suitable title for the text?

A．Biodiversity Battle

B．Biodiversity Loss

C．Planet Conservation

D．Planet Changing