1 . It can be truly terrifying to fall through ice on a frozen lake, but if you remain calm, it can save your life. Most people don t realize that you have more time than you think. This is due to the concept of body temperature and how your body deals with the shocking cold that immediately covers the body.

As you first hit the freezing water, you will almost immediately breathe quickly. It is important that you remember to get control of your breathing and not to move around. It can help to remember the “1-10-1 principle.” This means that it takes about one minute to gain control of your breathing, and then you have 10 minutes to move before you get too cold. The final one is to remind you that it will take one hour before you become unconscious.

Take that first minute and fully focus on your breathing. Slow it down, and then look around to see if you can locate the thickest area of ice. When you locate the ice, stretch your arms over the surface, and then begin to flutter-kick（上下打水）until your body becomes horizontal with the surface. Kick hard and use your arms and hands to climb out of the water.

It is possible that you can live for several hours after passing out if you can get out of the freezing water. This, however, does require some planning. You only have about 10 minutes after falling in before your muscles and nerves become too cold to work. If you feel too weak to get out, place your arms over the surface of the ice and remain still. The point is to encourage your coat to freeze to the ice so that if you lose consciousness, you will keep your head out of ice. Additionally, you will remain visible for rescue, even if you pass out.

1. What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph I refer to?

A．Keeping calm	B．Pushing through ice
C．Having enough time	D．Dealing with the cold

2. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A．How to use the first minute.	B．How to locate the thickest ice.
C．How to control the floating ice.	D．How to pull yourself onto the ice.

3. What advice does the author give in the last paragraph?

A．Take off your coat.	B．Do some workouts.
C．Keep your head above water.	D．Relax your muscles and nerves.

2 . The New Year is the moment when people vow to improve their fitness. They join gyms, swear off alcohol and adopt healthier diets. These resolutions usually do not last beyond January.

But some employers try to help their workers stick to their goals by offering “wellness” programmes. One of the longest-running examples began in 1979 at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), an American health-care company. The plan promotes weight loss, smoking quitting and efforts to reduce blood pressure. The firm claims it reduced medical costs by $400 an employee per year, and resulted in fewer workers suffering from heart disease or high blood pressure.

Yet an examination of the data by Martin Cherniack of the University of Connecticut found that in 2005-2008, a sharp jump in alcohol use, depression and stress among J&J employees occurred. This took place just at the same time when the firm had a target of lifting productivity by 9% a year. So the employees may have been leaner and fitter, but it is possible that workplace pressure to produce more means greater stress.

All this suggests that employee well-being is a rather more complex topic than can be tackled by a programme devoted to exercise and healthy living. A study by RAND Europe, a research institute, found that obvious bad habits such as smoking and high alcohol use were in fact not associated with lower productivity, while obese workers were no more likely to take time off than anyone else. The biggest productivity problems were associated with lack of sleep, financial concerns and mental-health issues—factors that may well be directly linked to work-related stress.

It seems reasonable for companies to expect some level of economic return on any wellness programme that they provide. But a better impact on confidence and enthusiasm (and thus productivity) might occur if workers felt that their managers had a real interest in their welfare.

1. What is Johnson & Johnson’s plan?

A．To improve employees’ fitness.	B．To increase their productivity.
C．To reduce their medical cost.	D．To raise their welfares.

2. How did the plan go?

A．It solved all the health problems.	B．It worked to a certain extent.
C．It could do nothing about health.	D．It hardly improved their health.

3. What really caused productivity problems?

A．Exercise and healthy living.	B．The New Year resolution.
C．Work-related stress.	D．Heavy medical costs.

4. How can the program really achieve better result?

A．By focusing on productivity.	B．By being carried out continuously.
C．By winning managers’ support.	D．By improving employees’ welfares.

3 . Chinese students always complain that they’re under great pressure and don’t get enough sleep. But they may be surprised to learn that they’re much luckier than their peers in South Korea and Japan, according to a recently published report, conducted by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences on the physical and mental health of senior high school students in the three Asian countries.

According to the study among nearly 6,000 high school students in the three countries, Chinese students are the tallest but poorest in physical fitness. Chinese students are on average 168.17cm, compared with 167.61cm for South Korean students and 164.70cm for Japanese students. Chinese students asked for sick leave more than students in other countries. About 72 percent of Korean students never asked for sick and injury leave during high school, compared to 53 percent for Japanese students and 45 percent for Chinese students. Moreover, Chinese students drink alcohol and smoke earlier than Korean and Japanese students. Around 70 percent of Chinese students have drunk alcohol, compared to 50 percent for Korean and Japanese students.

According to the survey, Japanese and South Korean students suffer more pressure than their Chinese peers. Statistics show 16 percent of students in China said they experienced mental pressure often over the past year, while the numbers in Japan and South Korea were 33 percent and 47 percent respectively. Their worries come from “study”, “future after graduation”, “friendships” and “relationship with their parents”. To go with stress, 57.9 percent of Korean students sleep the least, less than six hours a day, compared with 46.6 percent of Japanese students and 30 percent of Chinese students.

More Chinese students were satisfied with their physical appearance, double that of students in the survey from Japan and South Korea. The report said that over half of students in South Korea had tried to lose weight in the past year, while in China the figure was only 22 percent. In measures of self-worth, such as “I think I am valuable” and “I think I am successful”, “I can complete many things”, “I won’t give up to failure,” Chinese students showed greater self-confidence than students in Japan and South Korea.

1. What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?

A．Chinese teenagers are tallest, but most unhealthy.

B．Chinese students drink most alcohol and smoke earliest.

C．Japanese students ask for least sick leave.

D．Chinese students ask for sick leave most often.

2. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Chinese students are luckiest, yet most unsuccessful.

B．Chinese students are confident in themselves and luckier.

C．Japanese students are most stressed.

D．South Korean students sleep the least.

3. What does the underlined word “that” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The height.

B．The percentage.

C．The weight.

D．The number.

4. The worries that cause students to be stressed come from the following factors EXCEPT ________.

A．study and career

B．physical appearance

C．friendships

D．family relationship

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)画掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

In my village a lot of children have left school for many different reason. Some families are so poor to send their children to school, so their kids have to earn money to support their families. There are also many parents which do not think it useless to send their children to school. They prefer to have their children do something else rather than let them to go to school. I feel worried this. I think every child should have the opportunity to receiving education. And it is necessary of us to care about the children, because one day they will play a important part in the construction of our country. So ways must be found to prevent children from leave off their studies.

8 . For much of human history and in many places, girls were considered property, or required to obey their fathers until the day they had to start obeying their husbands. In most of the world that vision of girlhood now seems not merely old-fashioned but unimaginably remote. In field after field girls have caught up with boys. Globally, young women now outnumber (数量超过) young men at university. Girl babies are more wanted than ever before. Even in places, such as China, where the sex-selective abortion of girls has been common, it is becoming less so. Girls are also less likely to be married off in childhood. In 1995 almost six in ten girls in South Asia were married before reaching 18; that has fallen by half.

When societies handle girlhood well, the knock-on effects are astonishing. A girl who finishes secondary school is less likely to become a child bride or a teenage mother. Education boosts earning power and widens choices, so she is less likely to be poor or to suffer domestic abuse. She will have fewer children, and invest more in them. They will be less likely to die in babyhood, or to grow up stunted physically or mentally. She will read to them more and help them with their homework. All this means they will learn more, and earn more as adults. A recent study estimated that, if 100% of their girls completing secondary school is ensured, it could lead to a lasting boost to GDP.

Despite the benefits of nurturing girls, some countries have still failed to grasp them. Only one girl in three south of the Sahara finishes her secondary education. The COVID-19 pandemic could disturb progress for girls in poor countries, or even reverse it. When Ebola forced west African schools to close in 2014, many girls dropped out, never went back and ended up pregnant or as child laborers. UNICEF warns that something similar could happen with COVID-19—but on a larger scale.

1. What's the main idea of the first paragraph?

A．Girls suffer a lot in human history.

B．Girls' situation has improved a lot globally.

C．Girl babies are more welcomed than ever before.

D．Girls do much better than boys in many fields.

2. What can we infer from the passage?

A．There are more young women than young men at university in China.

B．A girl who completes secondary school will have more children.

C．Children of the girls with schooling may end up earning more as adults.

D．Economy of countries is largely determined by the education level of girls.

3. What does the underlined word “stunted” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Healthy.

B．Confident.

C．Underdeveloped.

D．Unstable.

4. Why is Ebola mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To prove COVID-19 is more serious than Ebola.

B．To warn that girls may suffer a lot in COVID-19.

C．To appeal to all to pay attention to the poor countries.

D．To stress the importance of controlling the disasters.

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

When my friends ask me    1    (take) pictures of them, I will take a lot of pictures but they only keep a few of them because they are not    2    (satisfy) with most pictures, and they think they are not perfect.     3     fact, when I look at the pictures, there is nothing     4    (difference) in my eyes. Every picture I take looks almost the same.

People run after the perfect side and that's     5    more and more people choose to take the plastic surgery（整形手术）．Take many stars for example. In order to make themselves look perfect, most of them take the plastic surgery,    6    makes them look unnatural. Meanwhile,many people spend too much time     7    (go) after the perfect side,     8     no one is perfect.They always focus    9    what they want instead of what they have. If we accept our imperfect sides, we will live    10    (comfortable) and enjoy the life.

10 . 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。

You may often see young people in Asian countries wear their masks in public. What makes them do so?

Asians often wear face masks to prevent one’s own germs or sickness from spreading in public places. In many Asian countries, people value collectivism,     1     means they will try their best to make a contribution to their group. Amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, Asians will wear masks to prevent both     2    (they) and others from being infected which will ultimately benefit the whole group.

Apart from physical protection, masks    3    (develop) into social firewalls among young people in Asian countries already as well. Young people are more concerned about their     4    private) than their parents and grandparents. In public such as on a crowded subway,     5    (hide) their faces with masks can sometimes help them feel at ease. For some young girls, wearing masks can give them confidence and     6     sense of security when they don’t have enough time to do makeup.

    7    this reason, wearing masks has become a fashion trend among young people. They wear them, along with audio headsets, to signal a lack of desire     8    (communicate) with those around them, according to Quartz.

Not only     9     (use) to prevent the spread of disease, masks have indeed made their way into the mainstream and are here to stay in Asian     10     (country).