1 . 阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。

Crystal breathed in the sweet January air. It was a cold, sunny day. Sunlight shone between the branches and fell onto the street.

It was so quiet, this neighborhood. Wandering down the road at a leisurely pace, Crystal noticed an open curtain in the window of one neighbor. They were busily typing on their home network. Remote workers, obviously.

Crystal’s glance shifted to a kid who had just come home from school. He looked down to the cell phone in his hand.

“Hey，kid!” Crystal waved.

The boy didn’t raise head, some game keeping his attention.

Crystal sighed and closed her eyes. It took her back to when she was a little girl back in the late 1980s. Neighbors knew each other by name then. Crystal’s best friend Anne was the next door neighbor. They often played for hours using imaginary names for far-off places, pretending to be or do something they hoped someday they could be or do.

Nowadays, to pretend to be somewhere else, you could just click on some random program for a virtual reality video of Italy or Australia, and your wish was instantly satisfied. You could do that alone. And if you needed a person to chat with, you could pick a random person in your interest group online.

“You don’t need neighbors anymore,” Crystal commented to herself.

And yet, there is so much that can be missed for the simpler times. Those who grow up not knowing the invisible person-to-person simplicity of being a good neighbor, have missed an entire piece in their maturity. It’s not about personal space. It’s about being there for another person. How could a metal chip replace a life? Crystal could never understand.

As she turned onto her home sidewalk, she noticed a little girl about 5 years old looking confused and afraid. There was no coat on her thin arms. Must be some neighbor’s girl. Crystal was very concerned. W here were her parents?

“Are you alright, honey?” Crystal asked.

1. Why did the boy give no response to Crystal?
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2. What did Crystal do with her next door neighbor in her childhood?
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3. Decide which part of the following statement is wrong. Underline it and explain why.
▶Crystal believed that technology advanced and the relationship with neighbors mattered less than before.
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4. What do you think the relationship between neighbors should be like nowadays?(In about 40 words)
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2 . 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个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用 括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

“It’s so cute!” “I want one!” Since such posts spread on social media, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen     1     (become) a star across the globe. The lovable panda wears a full-body “shell”     2     (make) out of ice, which looks like an astronaut suit. With the popularity of the Olympic mascot, it has served     3     an ambassador for winter sports, bringing joy to those     4     participated in and watched the Olympic Winter Games.

3 . 语法填空

There are two different ways to think about an old shipwreck(沉船). Some people value its financial worth. They’ve spent a lot of time and money searching for the wreck. When they     1    (final) find it, they believe that the ship and its contents should be     2    (they). These people are usually referred to as treasure hunters. For other people, however, a ship     3    (lie) at the bottom of the sea is a valuable opportunity to study how citizens from past cultures lived and traveled. Those people are marine archaeologists,     4     study underwater historical sites.