1 . Dorothy Lee and her husband were driving home from a study group one night when their car suddenly hit something. Mrs. Lee looked at her husband, who was driving, and saw his head move down and up several times and fall. In the next minutes Mrs Lee managed to avoid a serious accident while stopping the car, called 911 on her cellphone and tried to make her husband come back to life before an ambulance arrived. But at the hospital, soon after learning her husband had died of sudden heart trouble, Dorothy’s heart appeared to give out as well. She experienced sudden sharp pains in her chest (胸腔), lost senses and knew nothing.

Doctor’s of that hospital were surprised at finding: There wasn’t any evidence of heart trouble. Finally, doctors thought that Mrs. Lee had suffered from a broken-heart syndrome (伤心综合症). The disease looks like heart trouble, but appears to have little connection with heart trouble. It is caused mainly by stress and other strong feelings. The disease is uncommon, making up for about 1% to 2% of people — and about 6% of women — who are likely to suffer such sudden heart trouble. It can be very dangerous sometimes, but for the most part patients recover quickly, with no lasting damage to their hearts.

If patients are hospitalized with the broken-heart syndrome, their hearts might be beating as little as 20% of what it should work. But within 48 to 72 hours, many recover to the 60% level that is considered healthy. It is uncommon.

Mrs. Lee’s heart was so weakened by her husband’s death that she nearly died. The 63-year-old woman needed a special balloon pump (球囊泵) during the first days in the hospital. But in spite of warnings by her doctors, she attended her husband’s funeral (葬礼) five days later.

1. What can we learn about the accident?

A．The husband died in it.	B．The wife died later in the hospital.
C．The husband died because time was wasted.	D．The husband died of heart trouble after it.

2. What might be the cause of Dorothy Lee’s broken-heart syndrome?

A．Her bad health.	B．Worry, anxiety and sadness.
C．Her seriously damaged heart.	D．The aging of the heart.

3. Which of the following can best describe Mrs. Lee?

A．She was calm in case of emergencies.	B．She was unhealthy but strong minded.
C．She was easily hurt and moody.	D．She was caring and generous.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The broken-heart syndrome is less common among women.

B．Patients with the broken-heart syndrome can recover by themselves.

C．The broken-heart syndrome could come and go both quickly.

D．Most people may suffer from the broken-heart syndrome.

2 . 假设你叫李华，上周五你校邀请林海博士给同学们做了“发生事故时如何实施急救”的专题讲座。请你根据下列提示，给你的美国笔友Tom写一封邮件，介绍这个专题讲座的内容，并谈谈你的感想。
(1) 检查事故现场是否安全；
(2) 看到有人严重受伤，应立即叫救护车；
(3) 急救的简单措施。
注意:
(1) 词数80左右；
(2) 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
(3) 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,

Last Friday, our school invited Doctor Lin Hai to give us a lecture on how to give first aid in case an accident happens.

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I wish you all the best.

Yours,

Li Hua

3 . A huge fire broke out on 2 September 1666 in London. The fire, known as the Great Fire of London, was the worst fire in the history of London. It burned down more than three quarters of the old city.

The fire started in the very early hours of Sunday morning in the house of the king’s baker. A strong wind blew the fire from the baker’s house into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was the beginning.

At that time, most of the buildings in London were made of wood, so it was easy for the fire to spread quickly. By eight o’clock, three hundred houses were on fire. By Monday, nearly a kilometre of the city was burning along the Thames River. On Tuesday, which was considered the worst day, the fire destroyed many well-known buildings, including the old St Paul’s Cathedral.

The fire burned until finally hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire were destroyed to create a firebreak. The fire then died out eventually with nothing left to burn.

1. Why is the fire of 1666 called the Great Fire of London?

A．The fire broke out in the capital of England.

B．The fire was the worst fire in the history of London.

C．People in England will never forget the fire.

D．The fire spread fast into Thames Street.

2. Where did the fire break out?

A．In the house of the king’s baker.

B．In Thames Street.

C．In the house of the baker’s neighbour.

D．In St Paul’s Cathedral.

3. Why did the fire spread quickly?

A．It started in a baker’s house.

B．It broke out on a Sunday morning.

C．A hotel was next to the baker’s house.

D．Most of the buildings in London were wooden.

4. What was destroyed in the fire?

A．The old St Paul’s Cathedral.

B．Hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire.

C．Hundreds of wooden houses.

D．All of the above.

4 . It was an early morning. The hike up the lower part of Jewell was ________. Bales, an experienced hiker, felt excited as she walked up into snowy paths.

At 10:30 a.m., the ________ was showing its teeth. Bales ________ more layers to keep herself from the cold winds. She ________ to make her way toward Mount Washington. Then she noticed a single set of ________ in the snow ahead of her. She’d been following faint tracks all day and didn’t give them much thought, ________ so many people love climbing Jewell Trail.

By 11 a.m., Bales was getting ________, even though she was moving fast and ________ some body heat. As she ________ shelter from heavy snow, the sneaker tracks ahead suddenly turned left. Following them for 30 yards, Bales saw a man sitting still. She ________ him and said, “Oh, hello. What’s your name?” He didn’t ________. His skin was pale, and he had a glazed (呆滞的) look on his face. ________, he was in really big ________.

Bales got all her warm, dry clothes from her ________ and pulled them onto his body. Then she fed him some hot cocoa with electrolyte cubes (电解质块). Over the next hour, the man ________ moving his arms and speaking.

Luckily, he was saved.

1.

A．pleasant

B．hard

C．terrible

D．different

2.

A．path

B．beast

C．weather

D．mountain

3.

A．prepared

B．added

C．stored

D．sewed

4.

A．hesitated

B．refused

C．continued

D．failed

5.

A．steps

B．stones

C．rails

D．footprints

6.

A．until

B．unless

C．because

D．though

7.

A．freezing

B．warm

C．tired

D．disappointed

8.

A．releasing

B．generating

C．using

D．losing

9.

A．missed out

B．watched over

C．searched for

D．looked at

10.

A．approached

B．stopped

C．recognized

D．appreciated

11.

A．remember

B．notice

C．react

D．understand

12.

A．Consequently

B．Naturally

C．Gradually

D．Obviously

13.

A．trap

B．silence

C．shame

D．trouble

14.

A．backpack

B．home

C．camp

D．car

15.

A．kept

B．began

C．suggested

D．practiced

5 . Cassie Thomas thought she was just meeting with the media at her lunch break. Instead, the nurse at Janet Weis Children’s Hospital near Danville got a surprise party from her workmates. It was her first day back to work after a family vacation in Clearwater, Florida, and what a vacation it was!

“Just as I looked up, there was this big pinks lightning that just came down and hit the beach, ” Cassie said. Cassie, her husband, and their two daughters were on their hotel balcony last week when they heard and saw the storm.

After Cassie saw the lightning, she saw two boys lying on the beach. So, she shouted to them. “Then one boy sat up and he just started shouting back, and I said, ‘Jay, call 911; I’m going. ” Cassie said. So the 31-year-old nurse sprang into action. She ran down 16 flights of stairs onto the beach where she found the two boys, Jansen and Cameron, who are from North Carolina. Cameron had no heartbeat.

“I rolled Cameron over and I just started compressing(按压),”Cassie said. She didn’t realize it at the time, but she-was risking her own life to save the teenage boys.

“My daughters were on the balcony and it was a very dangerous situation to put myself in. I just wished to keep me safe because I was going, ” Cassie said. “It just goes to her character to help others. And you know what? When it’s your kid, you’d want someone to be coming in and saving his life, ” one of her workmates said.

Cassie was there when Cameron got out of the hospital. “He just said, ‘Thank you; thank you; thank you.’ He gave me so many hugs, ” Cassie said. “A nurse never truly goes on vacation. I just keep telling everybody the same thing. It’s just what you do. ”

Cassie and two other people got Good Samaritan awards from the Clearwater Police Department for saving Cameron’s life. Cassie’s workmates said they couldn’t be any prouder of this-life-saving nurse.

1. Why did Cassie’s workmates give her a surprise party?

A．To welcome her back to work.

B．To see her off for her vacation.

C．To honor her for her heroic act.

D．To congratulate heron the interview.

2. What happened to the boys?

A．They were pulled into the sea.

B．They were hit by lightning.

C．They fell off from the balcony.

D．They got caught in a rain.

3. What did Cassie do when she saw the two boys?

A．She called 911.

B．She took them to a hospital.

C．She jumped into the sea to save them.

D．She gave first aid to one of them.

4. What did Cassie mean by saying “A nurse never truly goes on a vacation”?

A．Nurses have no time to go on a vacation.

B．Nurses are ready at all times to help others.

C．Nurses don’t like to go on a vacation.

D．Nurses may be called back to work during vacation.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man do?

A．A policeman.

B．A firefighter.

C．A journalist.

2. How many kids died from the fire?

A．2.

B．5.

C．28.

3. Where did the boy throw the cigarette end?

A．On the carpet.

B．On the sofa.

C．On the table.

4. Why was the boy able to touch the cigarette end?

A．His father asked him to throw it.

B．His father was drunk and sleeping.

C．His father left him alone at home.

7 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

A brave dog fought off a coyote (丛林狼) twice her size to protect her 10-year-old owner after it attacked them. Owner Lily Kwan, 10, said she had just heard her neighbors in her Toronto, Canada community on Tuesday warning people of a coyote going after children in the area when the animal started biting at her heels while she was walking dog Macy.

In the video captured by a neighbor’s security camera, Lily can be seen running down the sidewalk with her six-year-old rescue dog while the coyote followed them so closely.

“I thought, ‘Am I next, what is going to happen to me?’” Lily told the local newspaper. “I was screaming for help but no one heard me,” said Lily. “I saw this coyote trying to attack my dog and I tried to ring people’s doorbells and knock on people’s doors. Luckily, this one neighbor let me in.”

But while Lucy made it to safety, Macy wouldn’t follow her inside. Instead the little dog turned around toward the coyote. After briefly screaming Macy’s name, Lily ran onto the neighbor’s second floor. Macy could be seen fighting with the coyote, before it caught her and bit her in its mouth and shook her violently. She cried in pain, but kept barking and bit the coyote back until it gave up and ran away finally.

“She’s a super brave dog,” Lily said “I love her so much, and I just thought this tiny dog could protect this huge human being, trying to fight off this huge coyote.”

Lily’s mother, Dorothy Kwan, said she was not surprised when hearing Macy’s action. “My dog would do anything for our family, so I’m actually not surprised that she did that,” Dorothy Kwan said.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dorothy said she was shocked by the coyote’s scaring behavior.

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Macy was taken to the ICU on Tuesday, and returned home on Thursday.

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8 . There's a loud bang, and then it starts: A battery of an electric car is on fire in the test tunnel. A video of the test impressively shows the energy stored in such batteries: meter-long flames flee in disorder and produce enormous amounts of thick, black smoke. The visibility in the previously brightly lit tunnel section quickly approaches zero. After a few minutes, ashes have spread throughout the room.

"In our experiment we were considering in particular private and public operators of small and large underground or multi-storey car parks," says project leader Lars Derek Mellert,"all these existing underground structures are being used to an increasing extent by electric cars. And the operators ask themselves: “    1    ?"But until now there has been hardly any meaningful technical literature, let alone practical experience for such a case. So Mellert developed three test scenarios（场景）, the results of which were published in a final report in August 2020.

“    2    . Besides, they are possibly fatal regardless of the type of drive or energy storage system." says the final report. The primary objective has to be to get everyone out of the danger zone as quickly as possible. The highly poisonous hydrofluoric（氢氟）acid has often been discussed as a particular danger in burning batteries.    3    . The real problem, however, is the extinguishing and cooling water that is produced when fighting such a fire and storing a burnt-out battery in a water basin. The analyses showed that some chemical substances in the extinguishing water goes beyond the limit values for industrial wastewater by a factor of 70; the cooling water is even up to 100-times above limit values.

    4    Firefighters know that the battery of an electric car is impossible to extinguish and that it can only be cooled with large amounts of water. But this is already known to the specialists and is being practiced.

A．The pollutants emitted by a burning vehicle have always been dangerous

B．What on earth causes Lithium batteries to catch fire

C．Even the fire brigades do not have to learn anything new on the basis of the tests

D．The acid can possibly result in death, while its effects may delay after exposure

E．But in the three tests in the tunnel the concentrations remained far below critical levels

F．What will happen if such a car catches fire

9 . 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The factory     1     I worked caught fire last winter. All of us were    2     (shock) to find we     3     (trap) in a workshop. The walls cracked and bricks    4     (fall) down frequently. The    5     (electrical) was also cut off. The thick smoke was hard     6    (breathe) . It seemed as if everything were    7     (destroy). We were about to give up     8     a good idea suddenly     9     (strike) me. I told others to wet their coats and covered their heads to protect themselves from heavy smoke and fire. We ran out of the workshop before it lay in    10     (ruin). It was my wisdom that saved our lives.

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Lost at sea

Two men from the Solomon Islands have been rescued after spending 29 days lost at sea.

The men     1     (travel) to another island when heavy rain and wind took them out to sea. The two men survived on oranges they had packed, coconuts they found in the sea and by gathering rainwater.

“I look forward to going back home     2     I guess it was a nice break from everything,” one of the men, Livae Nanjikana, told The Guardian.

Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni took off from Mono Island on Sept. 3 in a motorboat to travel 200 km to Noro on New Georgia Island. However, soon after they set out, their boat was hit by heavy winds and rain, which made unclear the coastline they were following     3     a guide. 

“When the bad weather came, it was bad, but it was     4     (bad) and became scary when the GPS died,” he said. “We couldn’t see where we were going and so we just decided to stop the engine and wait,     5     (save) fuel.”

When the rain had finally passed, Nanjikana and Qoloni had already drifted far out to sea. They spent the next 29 days     6     (live) off of limited supplies and by gathering rainwater with     7     they could make use of to keep themselves alive.

A fisherman found and rescued the two men on Oct. 2 off the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, about 400 km from     8     they had started.

Nanjikana and Qoloni     9     (bring) to a local health clinic for treatment and are staying temporarily with a local man, Joe Kolealo, until they     10     return home.