1 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. multiple       B. scores       C. proud       D. unthinkable       E. heritage       F. elaborate G. echoed       H. request       I. apparent       J. massive       K. comprehend

Thibaud Binetruy was walking home Monday when he saw smoke rising in the distance. Notre Dame Cathedral, the beloved landmark in the heart of Paris, was in flames.

“It’s awful to see such a symbol disappear ng in front of you. It’s been there for so many years and in a few minutes half of it disappears... crazy,” Binetruy told CNN.

“Paris without Notre Dame... madness.” he added.

His words     1     the sorrow and disbelief felt by many Parisians as they watched the historic structure burn. CNN correspondent Hadas Gold said people crowded the banks of the Seine to gaze helplessly at the     2    .

Many Parisians, who grew up with the gothic structure towering over the river, burst into tears and hugged each other on the scene. The city was in deathly quietness, except for the helicopters and fire trucks. Katherine Finney said she and other onlookers couldn’t even     3     what was happening at first. But as the hostoric cathedral continued to burn, crowds let out helpless gasps and groans.

No other site represents France quite like Notre-Dame. It has given its name to one of the country’s literary masterpieces. Victor Hugo’s novel Hunchback of Notre Dame is known to the French simply as Notre Dame de Paris. The novel has been filmed     4     times, including an Academy Award-nominated Disney version in 1996.

The last time the cathedral suffered major damage was during the French Revolution, when statues of saints were hacked by terrorists. The building survived this uprising.as well as two world wars, largely undestroyed. It is impossible to overstate how shocking it is to watch such an enduring embodiment of our country burn. It is much more than a religious site. President Emmanuel Macron has expressed the shock of a “whole nation” at the fire. Notre Dame is “part of our common     5    .

The cathedral is home to     6     of priceless artifacts, artwork and relics collected over the centuries, each with their own story. But many people feared these treasures might be lost forever.

The Pars Fire Brigade tweeted that the cathedra’s stone construction has been “saved,” as have the “main works of art.” As more information emerges, what has been rescued from Notre Dame is becoming     7    . Yet many details, such as possible water damage from the operation to save the building, are still unclear.

The Crown of Thorns, which some believe was placed on the head of Jesus and which the cathedral calls its “most precious and most respected relic,” was rescued from the fire.

On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that the company will make a donation to restore the iconic 850-year-old cathedral. He didn’t     8     on how much Apple is planning to donate. The company dd not immediately respond to a     9     for comment.

Some of France’s wealthiest families have made a funding effort to rebuild the Paris cathedral following the     10     fire.

2 . “For the families of the seven, we can not bear, as you do,     1    But we feel the loss, and we are thinking about you so very much. You     2     , and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a challenge and     3    ”. They had     4    and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.”（根据句意填空）

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone needs to know how to prevent a fire. It is also important to know what to do when it     1    （break）out .

Every year, over 11, 000 people     2    （kill）or injured in house fires. These fires could have been avoided. Smokers who are     3    （care）cause about 200 deaths and over 6,000 fires. More than half of those     4     die in fires are poisoned or harmed by smoke.

If fire happens, do not attempt to fight the fire unless it is small. Try putting out a small fire with water. If     5     fire has spread or if the flames are more than 20 inches high, shut the door on it. Warn everyone else in the building and tell them to get out. You should leave and dial 119for the fire department.

Before     6    （go）into a room, check the door. If the handle or the door is hot, do not open it! Instead, put clothing or a wet towel at the bottom of it to keep smoke out. If the door is not hot, open it     7    （slow）. If there’s a rush of smoke or heat, close it again and shout to warn     8    （other）in side.

Now open the window and shout “Fire!”. See whether you can drop safely to the ground. Use this     9     your escape course if you can. If you are not on ground level, break your fall by pushing a mat out first. Lower yourself at arm’s     10    （long）before dropping. Once outside, stay outside and make sure the fire department is called.

4 . We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough,_________suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What always_________is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at_________same moment.

Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided (猛撞) and both drivers began to_________. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a_________. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her_________hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown_________, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying_________the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car,_________all of a sudden. The lorry was__________with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet__________angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to__________the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of__________bottles. Only two stray dogs__________from all this confusion, for they greedily ate what was left of the__________. It was just one of those days!

1.

A．thus

B．but

C．so

D．and

2.

A．comes

B．strikes

C．happens

D．works

3.

A．exactly

B．possibly

C．practically

D．probably

4.

A．fight

B．talk

C．discuss

D．argue

5.

A．learner

B．passenger

C．driver

D．instructor

6.

A．stop

B．brake

C．burst

D．quit

7.

A．upward

B．backward

C．forward

D．sideward

8.

A．through

B．over

C．around

D．across

9.

A．pulled down

B．pulled up

C．pulled in

D．pulled out

10.

A．occupied

B．burdened

C．loaded

D．equipped

11.

A．the other

B．other

C．others

D．another

12.

A．get

B．have

C．keep

D．take

13.

A．empty

B．full

C．dirty

D．broken

14.

A．benefited

B．suffered

C．separated

D．differed

15.

A．beer

B．vehicle

C．cake

D．bottle

5 . Who saw the accident?

A．Kevin

B．Kate

C．Mike

6 . Typically, a person sitting in the driver's seat of a car opens the door with the hand closest to it. It makes sense since doors are designed to be opened that way. Pull the handle(把手) and immediately the door is open. But if you happen to do that at the wrong time, you may create an obstacle(阻碍) for a passing cyclist without knowing it. Then the cyclist will be sent falling off the bike, and the car door is likely to be damaged by the fast-moving bicycle.

The car door design and long-time habits have made the process instinctual but clearly the solution is for the person getting out of the vehicle to check for traffic. Luckily, there's a simple way to solve the problem: the Dutch reach. In other words, instead of using your left hand, reach for the door latch(门锁) with your right hand. This will force you to turn your body and look into your side view mirror to see whether any car or bike is coming.

''It's just what Dutch people do,'' said Fred Wegman, the former managing director of the National Institute for Road Safety Research in the Netherlands. ''All the Dutch are taught it. It's part of regular driver education.''

The technique dates back about 50 or 60 years, and it was very popular between the 1960s and the 1980s. But it didn't really become known as the Dutch reach until American physician named Michael Charney started the Dutch Reach Project in 2016 in an effort to popularize the practice in the United States. According to The Times, he was motivated by the death of a 27-year-old who rode into an open car door and died just five blocks from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Charney's efforts may be paying off. Both Massachusetts and Illinois now include the Dutch reach in their drivers’ manuals(手册).

1. What is the first paragraph intended to show?

A．The poor design of the car door and handle.

B．A common conflict between cars and bicycles.

C．A main cause of traffic accidents related to cyclists.

D．Possible risks connected with opening the car door.

2. What does the underlined word ''instinctual'' in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Difficult	B．Possible
C．Natural	D．Dangerous

3. How does the Dutch reach help to reduce traffic accidents?

A．By making the person open the car door more easily.

B．By forcing the person to check for approaching traffic.

C．By reminding the person of the traffic lights frequently.

D．By helping the person see the side view mirror more clearly.

4. What made Charney introduce the Dutch reach into America?

A．Its popularity among Dutch people.

B．Its appearance in drivers’ manuals.

C．A project started in the year 2016.

D．The death caused by a traffic accident.

7 . 阅读下面短文,根据所给情节进行续写,使之构成一个完整的故事。

My sister and I boarded a small plane together with 40 other passengers. Unluckily, while flying over the mountains, the plane met with violent airflow. Losing control suddenly, it hit an unknown mountain top. The crash killed a few passengers immediately, leaving many injured including my sister. In order to add a slight chance of being found out, we waited in the open, as opposed to waiting in the plane, even though it was freezing cold. At night, we slept side by side to keep ourselves warm. We melted snow into water to drink. We knew our food could not last us long, sticking to the hope that we would be rescued soon.

We knew from radio that the outside world was trying to look for the missing aircraft. However, the aircraft was white and blended(混合) in with the snow, making it impossible to be seen for helicopters from the sky. Later, our hope was dead when we found out through our radio that the rescue effort ended. Most of us were very depressed though it’s no use.

Now climbing over the mountains ourselves to search for help seemed to be our only chance of survival. Although the crash site was an awful place, with urine(尿)everywhere and smelling of death, I still wished to stay there. But my sister would give in to her injuries soon if we were not rescued. Thus, together with two other people, Canessa and Vizintin, I decided to walk through the icy wilderness for help. Carrying some food and water, the three climbers started our journey.

注意:1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语;
3.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好;
4.续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 4:

The mountain we were to challenge was one with slopes so steep(陡峭) that it would scare away a team of expert climbers.

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Paragraph5:

Standing on the top, disappointed and regretful, we were about to give up hope when I spotted a village at the bottom of the mountain.

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8 . A few years ago, a doctor gave a wrong prescription to a 9-year-old boy because he had accidentally clicked the next medicine listed in the drop-down menu. Unfortunately, the boy died.

Dr. Gidi Stein heard the story and felt forced to do something. “It was like killing someone with a spelling error. He just clicked on the wrong button,” Stein said. “One would have thought there’d be some kind of spell-checker to prevent these terrible things from happening. But apparently this is not the case.”

Several things were immediately obvious to the 54-year-old Stein, who had previously studied computer science. “If you look at this problem from a bird’s eye view, there were so many places down the line where this decision could have been stopped — from the physician to the pharmacy (药房) even to the mother. All of them had all the relevant information to have a judgment call that this was just the wrong drug for the wrong patient.” For Stein, it represented a systemic failure.

Stein compared this with credit cards. “If you use your credit card in the daily routine over time, a pattern of how we use our cards comes out: the grocery store, the gas station in our local town. If your credit card would appear tomorrow in Zimbabwe, it would be unusual. The credit card company would call you and say, ‘Hey, was that you?’”

But nothing like that existed in the field of prescription drugs. So Stein set up a company called MedAware. He came up with a machine learning outlier detection (异常检测值) system. In other words, he trained the computers to realize if a doctor accidentally prescribed the wrong medicine.

The system is already used in hospitals and doctor’s offices. To date, MedAware has used their technology to help nearly six million patients in the United States and Israel.

1. What led to the boy’s death?

A．The doctor’s carelessness.	B．The drawback of the computer.
C．The doctor’s poor medical skill.	D．The incomplete health care system.

2. What does Stein feel about this medical accident?

A．Angry.	B．Frightened.
C．Embarrassed.	D．Regretful.

3. What can MedAware’s technology do?

A．Help doctor choose right medicine.	B．Reminds patients to take medicine.
C．Introduce new drugs to doctors.	D．Check the prescription.

4. Where is this text most likely from?

A．A diary.	B．A guidebook.
C．A magazine.	D．A science fiction.

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What happened to the woman?

A．She lost her luggage

B．She lost her air tickets

C．She lost her contact(联系)with her friend

2. What was the woman’s flight number?

A．Flight 1489

B．Flight 4479

C．Flight 4089

3. What’s the woman’s phone number?

A．38725781

B．37825681

C．38725871

10 . A bull bison(野牛)in Yellowstone National park charged at a 9-year-old Florida girl. Luckily, the girl was left with only relatively minor injuries. Eyewitnesses say that a group of around 50 people—including the unidentified girl—were standing within 5 ~ 10 feet of the bison for at least 20 minutes near Observation Point Trail before the animal decided to charge. "We saw through the trees some people petting the bison, super close,” Hailey Dayton, 18, an eyewitness who filmed the incident. " Because it was agitated by all the people and noise, it just attacked.''

In Yellowstone, there are about 4 ,500 bison, the nation's largest and most important bison population on public land. Yellowstone is the only place in the lower 48 states where free-ranging bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times, according to a statement from the National Park Service (NPS). The Yellowstone population is also significant for being one of the few herds(群)in the country that has not been inter- bred(杂交)with cattle.

While they feed primarily on grass, they can be aggressive if annoyed. " Stay 25 yards away from all large animals—bison, bighorn sheep, deer etc. —and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves," the statement read. " If need be, turn around and go the other way to avoid interacting with a wild animal in a close distance. ”

Despite the presence of seemingly more dangerous animals such as bears and wolves, bison have injured more people in Yellowstone than any other creature. "This is what happens when you make fun of wildlife and pay no mind to an animal's personal space,'' Dayton wrote in a tweet. " This family was petting the buffalo before it charged. And as you can see the parents saved themselves over their daughter. That really put me off. ”

1. What does the underlined word "agitated" probably mean?

A．Amused.	B．Released.
C．Comforted.	D．Disturbed.

2. What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．The remaining population of bison.	B．What Yellowstone means to bison.
C．How bison survived the hardships.	D．Bison's living conditions in Yellowstone.

3. What is the NPS statement in Paragraph 3 meant to do?

A．To warn people not to tease bison.	B．To inform readers of some large animals.
C．To persuade readers to protect the wildlife.	D．To urge people to give bison enough space.

4. What is Dayton 's attitude towards the family's act?

A．Positive.	B．Pitiful.
C．Unfavorable.	D．Admirable.