1 . Directions: Fill in the blanks with proper words. The first letter has already been given.

Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong’s biggest airline, has fired three cabin crew members after a passenger aboard a flight from Chengdu to Hong Kong complained of d    1    .

In a viral post on the lifestyle app Xiaohongshu on Monday, the passenger said flight a    2     had made fun of non-English-speaking passengers aboard the plane. The author of the post said she was aboard flight CX987 and overheard cabin crew chatting with each other in Cantonese and English.

“If you cannot say blanket, you cannot have it…the carpet is on the floor, feel free if you want to lie on it,” people are heard saying in a recording. The author also alleged that a woman sitting next to her was also r    3     dismissed when seeking help in English to fill out the customs declaration card.

“I can’t understand why they have such great hostility toward passengers who don’t speak English or Cantonese,” the post said. “Why can’t they give even basic r    4     to passengers?”

Amid the social media storm that ensued, Cathay Pacific said in a statement on Weibo that the three flight attendants involved in the incident were fired after an investigation. The airline added that a cross-departmental working group led by its CEO Ronald Lam would u    5     a comprehensive review of services, staff training, and other systems to prevent such incidents from occurring again.

“The most important thing is to make sure that all our e    6     must respect passengers from different cultural backgrounds and provide professional and consistent services in all serving areas,” Cathay Pacific stated.

On Wednesday, Lam a    7     and reiterated the company’s statement during an off-line event in Guangzhou.

But the spate of apologies and official statements, which even included one from Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, f    8     to quell public outrage.

“For a company that seems unrepentant, is a mere apology sufficient?” asked China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, claiming that the anger on social media highlighted the company’s “arrogance in its bones and cc for its customers.”

Lee said on Weibo Tuesday that he was “very infuriated and disappointed” by the i    9    .

“These disrespectful words and d    10     have hurt the feelings of compatriots in Hong Kong and the mainland, and also undermined the city’s existing culture and values of respect, courtesy, and inclusiveness,” he said.

2 . 阅读下面短文，根据中文或首字母，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Throughout the course of history, it is the morals and v    1    of humanity that makes us human the paragon (模范) of the world.

Think of Dr. Lin Qiaozhi. Unlike the m    2     of girls of her time, she studied hard     3    (admit) to the medical university, and finally became a great woman     4    (know) as the“mother of ten thousand babies”.

Then think of the immigrants who went to America to seek their f    5    during the goldrush. They s    6     down and opened up shops to e    7     a living. They brought their own cultures to the country,     8     (make) it a nation with great cultural d    9    .

Finally, there are scientists and a    10    who are intelligent,     11    (有耐心的) and brave enough to carry on this mission     12    the huge risks.They believe the     13    (explore)of this final f     14     can help them     15    (追求) a better future for mankind.

3 . Complete the passage with correct signposts.

SOHO working style is advanced and should be encouraged.     1    , working at home instead of office is cost-efficient to the whole society. It can save a lot of unnecessary costs. The employers no longer have to pay for Internet use, electricity and other expenses related to the office daily work.     2    , the SOHOs do not need to wake up early every morning just for taking the bus. They can spend longer time in sleeping than before, which will make them energetic at work. I think working at a flexible time schedule is beneficial to us to balance between family and work.     3    , this working style should be encouraged.

Not everyone can be a freelancer.     4    , being a freelancer requires some special qualities, such as self-control, perseverance, commitment to the plan and the like.     5    , I think not everyone can be a freelancer.     6    , being self-employed is not easy. Although this kind of lifestyle is attractive to a lot of people, it is also a riskier proposition than working at a traditional job.

4 . 语法填空。

American teens are seen as “in a state of     1     disaster”. A report released last week paints a deeply disturbing     2     of the mental health of high students.

    3     more than 17, 000 teens conducted in a survey in 2021, 42 percent said they experienced the     4     of sadness or hopelessness. The issue is     5     more widespread than in a     6     survey in 2011, and girls are dramatically worse. A     7     of girls — 57 percent — reported persistent despair,     8     with 29 percent of boys.

Nearly 1     9     3 girls seriously considered suicide (up from 19 percent in 2011), and 13 percent say they attempted it in the     10    . “What caused this?” The CDC offered     11     definitive answers, but consider     12     has happened over the past decade. “Instagram was released in late 2010. TikTok in 2016.” Soon     13    , 90 percent of teen girls reported using social     14     every day. These apps, create more “social comparison, social pressure, and     15     peer interactions,” with teens measuring their self-worth — or lack of it — in likes and followers. Then in 2020 Covid-19     16     the picture.

    17     its root causes, this epidemic of hopelessness should     18     considered “a national crisis”. Did the reopening of schools and social spaces this year help     19     teens’ suffering? The CDC survey comes out only every other year, so we’ll have to wait to     20     out.

5 . 短文填空

In reality,    1     (使我们震惊的是，主语从句) large amounts of food have been wasted in restaurants and canteens. Food waste can not only lead to the environment’s being polluted     2     (而且引发更为严重的食物短缺). 3.     3     (考虑到这个令人苦恼的情况), a campaign has been launched in the past months to     4     (阻止学生们浪费粮食).     5     (对于我们学生来说，少点食物比浪费食物更重要，主语从句). Now,   with students forming the habit of cleaning their plates, we are     6     (convince) that our school canteen will soon be kept free of wasted food.

6 . 课本原文填空。

The feeling of happiness and sense of     1     can become particularly important for people     2     move away from their home country.    3     to some experts, there are some     4     of culture that people will lose right away, but with food, there are more opportunities to     5     to memory, family and place.

7 . ● The human population has never been bigger, but in some ways the planet seems to be     1         2         3    . In the past, travelers from     4         5         6     spent months at sea. Now you just have to sit on a plane for a few hours. When you arrived in another country a hundred years ago, you saw     7         8         9     of clothing and buildings and discovered a     10         11         12     culture.（Fill in each blank with the missing words according to the text.）

8 . 用所学语段中的原词填空。

However,     1     the Internet brings many valuable advantages, being connected has its problems. As with any great invention, we must be     2     of these problems and be careful to use the Internet properly and     3    . Only in this way can the Internet be a place of discovery, wonder and     4     for everyone. It is truly a world without     5    .