1 . 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.

The last time a female British scientist won the Nobel Prize for chemistry was in1964. Her name was Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.     1     her, only two women had won the Chemistry prize: Marie Curie in 1911, and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie in 1935.

Hodgkin was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1910, as the eldest of four daughters of John Crowfoot and his wife Molly. The girls were sent back to England when the First World War broke out. By the time she was 11 years old, Dorothy’s schooling had been a bit hit and miss. But she had spent a term     2     (learn) to grow crystals (晶体), and chemistry had enthralled her. At the Sir John Leman School, she had to fight to be allowed to take chemistry, which was seen as a “boys’ subject.” But she did well, and in 1928 she entered Somerville College, Oxford Universiy, to do a chemistry degree.

At every stage her parents, particularly her mother, encouraged her ambitions. No one ever said to her, as they did to other clever girls at the time, that     3     she was too brainy she’d never get a husband. It was in a book her mother gave her     4     Dorothy learned about the technique of X-ray crystallography (X射线晶体学). It’s a way of working out     5     a complex molecule is arranged in three dimensions. She immediately decided that was       6     she wanted to do.

Hodgkin was the most important leader and innovator in her field. The impact of her work led to her becoming the only female British scientist     7     (win) a Nobel Prize so far. The 1964 award recognised her work in discovering the 3D shapes of penicillin (盘尼西林) and vitamin B12.

Accurate knowledge of the shape of penicillin was very important in understanding how it     8     overcome bacterial infections. Her work is still of great significance in the development of new antibiotics. They are currently badly needed as some bacteria     9     (develop) resistance to existing drugs.

Hodgkin’s work also had a huge impact on the treatment of diabetes. In 1969, after 35 years of hard work, she figured out the 3D shape of the insulin (胰岛素) molecule. Insulin is an important hormone (激素) used by the body to process sugars in food. Understanding     10     structure is significant for human diabetes control.

Hodgkin was not only an exceptional scientist but also was, and continues to be, an inspirational role model to generations of researchers, both male and female.

2 . 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。

People associate deafness, blindness, and other disabilities as weaknesses but that is not often the case, it     1     (certain) wasn’t the case for the famous American author Helen Keller. When she was a child, she was described     2     a “Monster” by her family members. That was because of her bad habits, temper tantrums, and     3     she behaved. However, all of that changed within a year and she transformed fully. She became one of the     4     (great) inspirations that the world has ever seen. She didn’t just change     5    (she) but she changed others.

Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, America. She was born normal, with normal sight and hearing abilities. All was good until Helen submitted to a rare disease,     6     the doctors referred to as “Scarlet Fever”. She recovered from     7     disease but at the cost of her sight and hearing abilities.

This did not stop her from pursuing the amazing     8    (accomplish) she would achieve. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan helped her and made her get the ability     9    (communicate) properly. Helen graduated from college in 1904 and was the recipient of many awards and honors. She became one of the best humanitarians the world has seen, along with     10    (become) the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

3 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

At the age of 73, Chen Shaoqin from Beijing has shown the world    1     life should be lived. Despite having only a middle school education, Chen began studying English at the age of 40 and passed a college entrance exam,     2     (transform) herself from a factory worker to a white-collar employee in    3     international trade company. Chen continued to pursue learning after    4     (retire), studying art and eventually becoming an art guide at the age of 67. Over the past five years, she    5    (guide) visitors at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art for three days a week    6    average, totaling 3,500 hours. From a retiree     7     knew nothing about contemporary art to a dedicated volunteer guide, Chen’s hard work and love for learning have inspired many. She said that it is     8    (precise) because she does not understand that she must continue to learn. As a guide, she is able to attend professional training sessions and has the opportunity    9     (learn) from curators and artists, giving her     10     (motivate) to continue.

4 . 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。

Since 1981, Pat Sajak has been the host of Wheel of Fortune. And the show     1     (it)has been around since 1975. With four     2     (decade) under his belt, Pat Sajak and his co-host Vanna White have become the faces of the popular show.

“It’s     3     honor to have been in people’s living rooms for that long. People were out there welcoming us. We’re happy and     4     (pride),”Pat Sajak shared. “In most television shows, by this time, you would have said, ‘That’s     5     (probable) enough.’ But this show will not die.”

With Pat Sajak being 75 years old and Vanna White being 65, he shares that their time on the show will not be for much longer.

“Years go by fast,” Pat Sajak acknowledged. “We     6     (get) near the end. It’s been a long time. We’re not gonna do this for another 40 years. The end is near.”

In all his time hosting Wheel of Fortune, Pat has only stepped away once, and that was     7     he needed a surgery.     8     that time, Vanna White was the host of the show.

Back in December 2021, when this     9     (respect) host celebrated his 40-year hosting anniversary, his fans shared a     10     (touch) speech to him online.

5 . 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。

A Chinese swimmer has made history again. Last week, Qin Haiyang,    1     won all the 23 gold medals in the men’s breaststroke (蛙泳),     2     (award) as the Best Male Swimmer of the Year 2023 of World Aquatics in Budapest, Hungary. This    3     (recognize) came just a day after he secured the Swimming World Cup Overall Male Award.     4     (amazing), at the championships in Fukuoka, the 24-year old broke the Asian record five times and became the first swimmer in history    5     (earn) all three breaststroke titles at a single edition of the event.

Chinese swimming in men’s breaststroke events was hardly talked about    6    the sudden appearance of Qin. Before him, China’s    7     (late) achievement in the men’s 100m breaststroke even was made by Qi Lieyun when he beat the word record in 1957. Qin’s winning in Fukuoka has filled a 66-year gap    8    China’s history. In breaststroke    9    almost all the movements are underwater, swimmers required high technical skills. “Even    10    slight difference in the angle of your palms is likely to affect your speed in the water,” Qin told Jimu News.

6 . 阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。

Thomas Eakins, a painter, photographer,     1     (sculpt) and fine arts educator, received little     2     (recognize) during his lifetime but he is now widely considered as one of the most     3     (influence) figures in American art history. Eakins was interested in bringing     4     the individuality of his models and created     5     are now regarded as masterpieces in portraiture (肖像画法). His most famous work, The Gross Clinic, is “celebrated as a great 19th-century medical history painting,     6     (feature) one of the greatest portraits in American art.”

Apart from his art, Eakins     7     (credit) for introducing “the camera to the American art studio”     8     for being a famous art teacher. As an early pioneer of photography, he used the medium extensively throughout his career as both a way of documenting his own work and as a tool for     9     (explore) new visual ideas. He is recognized as the most important     10     (real) in American art in the 19th and early 20th century.

7 . 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。

Xu Xiake was born in 1587.     1     (he) parents were rich landowners. Yet he gave up a     2     (comfort) life, and decided to explore the mountains and rivers on foot.

China has more famous explorers. There was: Zhang Qian, who traveled into Central Asia during the second century BC, opening a trade road that became     3     is known as the Silk Road. Or Zheng He, the sailor who in the 15th century sailed as far away as Africa. Yet these explorations     4     (support) by governments. Xu was totally different.

“On the surface, Xu’s travels can neither be classified as great affairs of state     5     great adventures that changed the course of history,” writes cultural historian Cheng Pei-kai. “Xu travelled to satisfy his own     6     (curious).”

Scholar Julian Ward agrees, describing the lonely Chinese wanderer like the Middle Kingdom’s version of John Muir: “Deep in love with nature and eager to find freedom     7     worldly concerns, Xu was a man addicted to     8     (see) and describing the landscape.”

“The few coins     9     (slip) from a hole in my pocket while I was climbing a mountain in Yunnan. When I finally managed to the town, I sold all my clothes, bought myself a bottle of wine and a good dinner     10     (celebrate) my survival,” the dreamy explorer wrote in his diaries, which mix details of geology, geography and botany with such personal travel experiences.

8 . 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。

Many people must have read The Art Of War but how many have     1     (true) understood it? What does it have to teach us? This is too big     2     question to explore.

    3     (appreciate) The Art Of War fully, we must first understand who Sun Tzu was. The thing about Sun Tzu is that his whole existence remains     4     (hide) in mystery. Where did he live? Where was he born? How did he become so successful? How did he die? No one knows the exact answers     5     these questions.

Some people actually believe Sun Tzu did not live and that he     6     (be) just a myth, to begin with. This claim is strongly supported by many people     7     Sun Tzu does not appear in many important historical records, but then again, there could be an error.

But it could be possible that Sun Tzu was born under the name of Sun Wu around 544 BCE. Sun Tzu made the major     8     (appear) of his life as a military strategist for King Ho-Lu, in the state of Wu, also known for     9     (win) many great battles in history. According to researchers, he supposedly wrote the texts during the Warring States period. This was the time     10     China was divided into seven states that waged war against each other for supremacy (霸权).

9 . 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。

Walking along the Great Wall is a once-in-a-lifetime dream for many, but Jim Spear has taken it one step     1     (far), spending the last 18 years living in a village beneath the ancient wonder.

    2     68-year-old, a self-taught architect from the US, made the most important decision of his life to move to China in 1986, a year before the Great Wall     3     (list) as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today, Spear calls Mutianyu village home. In this quiet place,     4     (locate) at the foot of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall, he lives with his dog in a home with a courtyard garden he tended     5     (he).

As an architect, not only did Spear renovate (翻新) his own dream house,     6     comes with multiple views of the Great Wall, but he also explored ways to boost the local business and support rural residents. Over the years, the architect     7     (help) renovate around 20 households in Mutianyu, most of which now operate     8     hotels or restaurants, while     9     (do) his best to preserve the original structures as much as possible.

In     10     (recognize) of his contributions, Spear was given the Great Wall Friendship Award in 2014.

10 . Direction：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.

ZHONG SHANSHAN was largely unknown in business circles outside China until a few years ago. But the low-key entrepreneur     1     (hold) onto his crown as China’s richest person for three years in a row. Zhong has also emerged as one of the very few who did not make their fortune in the tech industry. His signature company, Nongfu Spring, is an old-school enterprise     2    makes one of the plainest products in history ---bottled water.

Zhong’s inspirational journey to becoming a self-made (白手起家的) billionaire started with decades of perseverance (毅力) and hard work.     3     (get) to his current position, Zhong learned the hard way, gaining experience in media, sales and even farming.

At a young age, Zhong was forced to drop out of school. He struggled to help support his family,     4     (work) as a construction worker for 10 years.

After the gaokao was reinstated (恢复) in 1977, Zhong took the college entrance examination twice,     5     both times he failed to get admitted to a university. At the suggestion of his parents, Zhong gave up on another run and enrolled himself in a less-than-ideal college.

After graduation, Zhong worked as a reporter for the Zhejiang Daily. In 1988, the declaration of the Hainan Special Economic Zone (海南经济特区) inspired him to quit his job and move to the island province. There he established the Pacific Post newspaper and after its failure, a mushroom business.

The climate of Hainan did not favor mushrooms, and soon Zhong had lost all his money. He had more success selling curtains, but then lost all his money when he started a shrimp farming business.

    6     (inspire) by the potential in the health foods market, Zhong established Hainan Yang Sheng Tang in 1993 to launch various supplements (保健品). He had his first taste of success after rolling out a self- designed product. Despite a positive response in the market, intense (激烈的) competition in the industry prompted (促使) Zhong to think about other possible ways to grow. He concluded that     7     happened, people would need to drink water, and in 1996 he started Nongfu Spring.

The company became known for its obsession (执着) with water quality,     8    has been burned deep into the minds of Chinese consumers thanks to its catchy slogan, “Nongfu Spring, kind of sweet.” These simple words reveal a marketing strategy Zhong has mastered all too well, which is demonstrated by the entrepreneur’s famous quip (妙语): “We are not manufacturers of water. We are porters of nature.”

    9     his immense wealth and influence, Zhong has maintained a low public presence. In Chinese media, he is often referred to     10     a “lone wolf”. His reserved nature stands in contrast to the public personas of other famous entrepreneurs. This quality adds an air of mystique (神秘性) to his already fascinating story.