1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What happened to boats and ships in the Bermuda Triangle?

A．They caught fire without reason.

B．They crashed into each other.

C．They disappeared.

2. Who mentioned the Bermuda Triangle for the first time?

A．A famous explorer.

B．A popular writer.

C．A well-known reporter.

3. When did the Bermuda Triangle become a popular story?

A．In the 15th century.

B．In the 20th century.

C．In the 17th century.

4. What does the speaker say about the Bermuda Triangle?

A．All of the reports on it are untrue.

B．It is a dangerous area in the ocean.

C．It is completely safe at the moment.

2 . TOKYO-Japan marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing in its western city of Hiroshima (广岛) on August 6th amid growing calls for Tokyo to reflect on crimes the Japanese army committed during World War II. At a memorial ceremony held at the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui delivered the Peace Declaration,urging world leaders to stop believing in the theory that nuclear weapons can prevent war.

“They must immediately take concrete steps to lead us from the dangerous present toward our ideal world,” said Matsui, who also urged policymakers to “move toward a security system based on trust through dialogue in pursuit of civil society ideals”. “Mistrust and division are on the rise,” warned United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message readout at the ceremony.

A moment of silence was observed at 8:15 am local time, the exact moment when an atomic bomb dropped from a US bomber and exploded over the city on Aug.6, 1945, killing around 140,000 people by the end of that year.

At the event which about 50,000 people attended, Matsui placed in a monument a list of the names of 339,227 victims, including 5,320 deaths confirmed last year. “Japan must immediately sign the Treaty (条约) on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,” Matsui noted in the Peace Declaration, further urging the government to heed the wishes of survivors from the bombing and the peace-loving Japanese people.

The number of survivors of the two atomic bombings including Nagasaki with an average age of over 85, has dropped by 5,346 from a year earlier to 113,649 as of March, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke at the ceremony, saying an atomic bomb made more than 100,000 lose their lives without mentioning whether Japan would sign the treaty, let alone (更不用说) the historical background of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

The prime minister was criticized for hosting the Group of Seven leaders' summit in Hiroshima in May.

While Japan inwardly looks at the tragedies it experienced at the end of WWII, historians and political minds of the international community have encouraged Japan to come to see itself not only as a victim of the atomic bombings but also as the criminal (罪犯) who was involved in these tragic incidents in the first place.

1. Why was the moment of silence was observed at 8:15 am local time?

A．It was the time when the atomic bombing happened in Hiroshima.

B．It was the time when the atomic bombing happened in Nagasaki.

C．It was the time when the US bomber reached Japan.

D．It was the time when the US bomber took off.

2. What is the possible meaning of the underlined word “heed” in paragraph 4?

A．Make fun of.

B．Put up with.

C．Take delight in.

D．Pay attention to.

3. What did Japanese Prime Minister mention in his speech?

A．Japan's signing the treaty.

B．The result of the atomic bombing.

C．America should make up for the loss.

D．The background of the atomic bombing.

4. What can be the best title for the news report?

A．Number of survivors of two atomic bombings drops in Japan

B．Japan — a victim of atomic bombings that kill so many people

C．Japan marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima

D．Hiroshima Mayor expresses nuclear weapons can't prevent war

3 . 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the spring of 1944, the Allied powers in World War Ⅱ took the fight against Nazi into the fifth year.     1    (plan) for months or even years, the D-Day called “Operation Overlord” was designed     2    (free) north-west Europe from German occupation. After waiting for the perfect combination of weather, moon and tides, the date for the start of Operation Overlord     3    (set) for June 6, 1944.

With General Eisenhower’s encouraging words     4    (ring) in their ears, Allied soldiers prepared for     5     would become known as D-Day. The Allied invasion     6    (stretch) across five beaches code-named “Utah”, “Omaha”, “Gold”, “Juno” and “Sword”. The fiercest fighting was at Omaha Beach. Countless Allied soldiers gave their lives on D-Day in violent attacks. Even though they were     7     the terrible cost of human life, the D-Day landings were     8     success and were considered     9    (wide) as the beginning of the end of World War Ⅱ. By the end of August 1944, the Allies had reached the River Seine. Paris was liberated.

Seventy years later, people including     10    (survive) came together for memorial ceremonies in honour of those who fought and died on D-Day.

4 . Beanstalks (豆萁) are burned to cook beans
The beans cry in the pot
We grow from the same root (根)
Why should we boil each other with such impatience?

The poem is thought to be written by Cao Zhi, one of Cao Cao’s sons, Cao, who lived between 192 and 232 during the Three Kingdoms period.

It is said that after Cao Cao’s death, his oldest son Cao Pi became the emperor. Cao Pi was jealous (嫉妒的) of his younger brother Cao Zhi’s talent, so he wanted to find an excuse to kill him. One day, Cao Pi ordered Cao Zhi to make a poem about their relationship within seven steps, and was determined (决定) to have the younger brother killed if he failed. Cao Zhi then made the poem in front of him, which showed Cao Pi’s cruel idea to kill his own brother. Cao Pi, feeling ashamed, let Cao Zhi go in the end.

In China, the poem is taught to primary school students and is often used by people to describe unnecessary competitions or fighting between people, businesses, or organizations who are in the same area or want the same things.

The poem was posted on Tweeter by the CEO of Tesla and Space X Elon Musk, and it was given a title Humankind on purpose by Musk. The post drew tons of attention on both Western and Chinese social media, and internet users have been guessing what it was used for. People thought it could be an answer to the director of UN food organization, who mentioned that world hunger could be stopped if Elon Musk could give away 2% of his wealth.

1. The poem is said to be written by ________.

A．Cao Cao

B．Cao Zhi

C．Cao Pi

D．Elon Musk

2. Cao Pi wanted to kill Cao Zhi because ________.

A．Cao Zhi was one of his brothers

B．Cao Pi was jealous of Cao Zhi’s talent

C．Cao Zhi refused to follow Cao Pi’s orders

D．Cao Pi wanted to become the only son of Cao Cao

3. By writing the poem, the poet wanted to show that ________.

A．his brother was cruel to him	B．he was not afraid of his brother
C．the beans were close to its stalks	D．the beanstalk should die for its beans

4. Which one is TRUE according to the last paragraph?

A．Elon Musk posted the poem on Tweeter for fun.

B．Only Western internet users noticed the poem.

C．The purpose of the poem became a hot topic.

D．Elon Musk is mean and doesn’t care about others.

6 . 根据提示用本单元所学词汇及语法知识完成下列短文。（每空一词）

A decade after America     1     (退出) from Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart-breaking history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others       2     (回想) the time they spent in Vietnam as part of the 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses in the military. After working on too many mutilated (截肢的) young     3     (士兵), one nurse talked of wanting to ask her mother to “check around and see if she could find one whole eighteen-year-old”.

Many returned with post-traumatic stress disorder (创伤后精神紧张性障碍). They still felt     4     (惊恐) rising within them. “The one thing Vietnam did for me was that I felt like I could walk on water,” said a nurse.

8 . 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.

The Time Capsule of Colorado Springs

In 1901, the citizens of Colorado Springs in the USA decided to collect everyday items and to seal (密封) them in a steel box. The box, marked “To be opened after midnight, December 31st, AD 2000”,     1    (store) in the Colorado College library.

One hundred years later, on the appointed day, 300 people gathered to watch the opening of the box. Many in the crowd were the descendants (后代) of people who     2    (place) things inside the box.

When the box was opened after midnight, the contents were     3    very good condition. There were newspapers, photographs, diaries, name cards, family trees, books and dozens of letters, including one     4    (write) by Theodore Roosevelt, who became the president of the USA later that year. One of Roosevelt’s friends lived in Colorado Springs at that time.

Many of the letters     5    (address) to their descendants. They described the hopes that the people of 1901 had for the people of the next century. At that time, Colorado Springs had just a few thousand residents. Now there are nearly half a million people     6    (live) there.

Colorado College Library has scanned the materials and put them on a website. Cecil Muller,     7    grandfather had placed a collection of post-cards in the box, said that the time capsule was a great treasure. “This is such a wonderful educational resource     8    we can learn a lot about our history,” he said. “I never knew my grandfather,     9    now I feel very close to him.”

In April 2001, a committee filled the time capsule with items from modern Colorado Springs and     10    (reseal) it for another hundred years.

9 . Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Her mysterious smile? The mystery surrounding her identity? The fact she was painted by Renaissance charming boy Leonardo da Vinci? Sure, all of these things helped increase the popularity of the 16th century masterpiece. But what really threw the small, unassuming portrait to international stardom was a daring burglary over 100 years ago.

When Italian handyman Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, he never could have guessed her absence would be the very thing that made her the most recognizable painting on the planet. Suddenly images of the artwork were seen across international newspapers, as the two-year police hunt hit dead-end after dead-end. It wasn’t until December 1913 that Peruggia was finally caught and the Mona Lisa recovered, becoming the best known painting in a time before we shared images on TV, internet, and phones.

   

So how did Peruggia carry out one of the greatest art robberies of all time? The handyman had been hired by the Louvre to make protective glass cases for some of its famous works—including the Mona Lisa. After hiding in a closet overnight, he simply removed the painting, hid it under his smock (罩衣), and was about to waltz out of the building when he discovered the door was locked. Desperate Peruggia removed the doorknob, but still it wouldn’t open—until a helpful plumber passing by opened the door with his key. It was 24 hours before anyone even noticed the Mona Lisa was missing, with artworks often removed to be photographed or cleaned.

Over the next two years, the careless police investigation dragged on, with Pablo Picasso a suspect at one point. The force even interviewed Peruggia twice, before concluding he couldn’t possibly be the man behind the shameless burglary. The head of the Paris police retired in shame.

And then two years later, an art dealer in Florence received a letter from a man saying he had the Mona Lisa. It was signed ”Leonardo.” The man was of course Peruggia. After setting up a meeting with the dealer and the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Peruggia turned up with the painting which had spent years hidden in a trunk in his apartment.

Peruggia, then 32 years old, claimed to have stolen the artwork to return her to her native Italy. He was arrested and eventually sentenced to seven months in jail. He seemed to have genuinely been convinced he would be praised as a national hero and genuinely dismayed to discover he wasn’t.

1. According to the passage, what contributed to the tremendous popularity of the Mona Lisa?

A．The mysterious smile of Mona Lisa.

B．People’s desire to figure out the identity of Mona Lisa.

C．The theft of the painting in 1911.

D．The fact that it was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

2. What does underlined word “unassuming” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Humble.

B．Realistic.

C．Magnificent.

D．Objective.

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE about how the Mona Lisa was stolen?

A．Peruggia slipped into the Louvre from the outside after it was closed.

B．It took Peruggia a lot of time to take the painting from the gallery wall.

C．Peruggia’s stealing of the painting would have failed but for the appearance of a plumber.

D．The theft of the painting was immediately discovered by the staff of the Louvre.

4. Peruggia stole the painting because he ________.

A．was defending the honour of his native country	B．wanted to show his appreciation of great art
C．dreamed of making a great fortune by selling it	D．was worried about the fate of the painting

10 . In 1961, President John F. Kennedy Jr. set a goal: he wanted to land a man on the moon to show America’s_________ in the Space Race.

_________ a decade later, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969. Aldrin later joined him on the moon’s surface and they_________a US flag, took photographs, and_________ the first samples from our satellite.

The Apollo crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins travelled 240,000 miles in 76 hours to reach the moon. During the mission, the food items the astronauts ate on the surface of the moon in the lunar module_________ the following: beef stew, bacon squares, date fruit cake, and grape punch.

Over 400,000 people supported the_________, including people from the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Armstrong’s famous first words “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”_________ on television channels and through newspapers around the world.

After World War Ⅱ_________ on September 2, 1945, a new conflict began between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States and the Soviet Union had_________ ideologies(意识形态): the United States was capitalist,__________ the Soviet Union was socialist.

The Space Race started when a Soviet missile launched Sputnik(Russian for “traveller”), the world’s first artificial satellite on October 4, 1957. Sputnik became the first man-made__________ to orbit Earth. The US decided to act quickly in order to prove __________. From 1961 to 1964, NASA’s budget __________ by 500 percent. When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, America was declared the__________ of the Space Race. The US had spent about $25 billion on the program, over $100 billion in today’s dollars.

More than 50 years after Apollo, NASA vows to land the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program and with the help of an increase in NASA’s budget by $1.6 billion by former President Trump. The new mission,__________ the twin sister of Apollo and Greek Goddess of the moon, will be headed to the moon’s south pole where the craters(火山口)hold large deposits of water ice.

1.

A．dominance

B．rule

C．regulation

D．management

2.

A．More than

B．No more than

C．No less than

D．Less than

3.

A．grew

B．rose

C．planted

D．carried

4.

A．brought up

B．brought back

C．brought in

D．brought about

5.

A．persisted in

B．consisted of

C．made up

D．insisted on

6.

A．task

B．landing

C．contest

D．mission

7.

A．were showed

B．were printed

C．echoed

D．expressed

8.

A．stopped

B．ended

C．paused

D．suspended

9.

A．similar

B．special

C．political

D．conflicting

10.

A．where

B．while

C．so

D．when

11.

A．machine

B．facility

C．object

D．equipment

12.

A．superiority

B．ability

C．position

D．influence

13.

A．decreased

B．dropped

C．shrank

D．increased

14.

A．amateur

B．winner

C．competitor

D．loser

15.

A．taken after

B．taking on

C．named after

D．looking after