1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What was Annie Oakley famous for?

A．Her perfect shooting skill.

B．Her adventures while traveling.

C．Her friendship with Native Americans.

2. What is true about Annie Oakley?

A．She grew up in the Wild West.

B．She fought in a battle before.

C．She was born in Ohio.

3. Why did Annie Oakley begin to learn how to hunt?

A．To support her family.

B．To become famous in her town.

C．To make her grandfather’s dream come true.

4. At what age did Annie Oakley die?

A．46.

B．56.

C．66.

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

Perhaps no other scientist has had a     1    (great) impact on China’s aerospace than Qian Xuesen. He was a well-respected man,     2    served his homeland with effort, achievement, and devotion. Born in Hangzhou in 1911, Qian attended schools in Beijing and Shanghai. In 1935, he went to the US    3    further study and then worked there. After overcoming some difficulties, he returned to China in 1955, and was put in charge of developing China’s rocket science as well as the space and missile programme.     4    (face) with challenges, Qian didn’t feel discouraged. When     5    (ask) “Can we Chinese possibly make missiles?”, his reply was “Why not?”Under his leadership, China developed its own missiles, rockets, and man-made satellites successfully. Qian was     6    (knowledge). However,    7     made him an outstanding and creative scientist was    8    (probable) his interest in other things like music and drawing, which gave him     9    (inspire) in scientific research. The whole country was     10    (sad)by Qian’s death in 2009.

3 . Thirteen-year-old Sean Nichols plays basketball, rides horses, and competes in Taekwondo. That surprises some people because Sean uses a wheelchair.

“If someone has a physical disability, they can still do things that other kids can,” Sean explains. “They either have to do it in a different way, or it’s just a bit harder.” He’s been sharing that message with kids and adults in his community since he was three.

When Sean was a baby, his family learned that he has a spinal condition that makes walking difficult. As he started school each year, he and his mom would talk with his class to help the kids understand why Sean uses a wheelchair. He now talks with kids in younger grades and answers their questions himself.

He also speaks at a nearby university each year and works with people who are studying physical therapy. He helps them understand what it’s like to live with a disability and learn how to treat kids with challenges like his. “It’s great helping people who are going to help other kids down the line,” Sean says.

Sean finds lots of ways to increase disability awareness, including through events at school and in Scouts. He and his coaches demonstrate wheelchair basketball, then observers get to try out a chair. They see how much arm strength it takes. “It’s funny to see all the people say, ‘Oh, this is going to be easy’,” Sean says. “Then after, they take back what they said!” If kids want to race, Sean will race them. At times he goes backward—and still wins!

Sean hopes to change how people with disabilities are seen. “My goal is, if a person later sees someone with a disability, they see a person,” he says, “like themselves.”

1. According to the passage, which of the following words best describe Sean Nichols?

A．Inspiring and helpful.	B．Devoted and outgoing.
C．Confident and ambitious.	D．Funny and committed.

2. What do we know about Sean?

A．Sean was not optimistic about his disability.

B．Sean enjoyed talking with younger kids about their disability.

C．Sean contributed greatly to arousing people’s awareness of disability.

D．Sean ran so fast that he never lost race though he sometimes started backward.

3. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To remember a tough hero.	B．To encourage disabled people.
C．To introduce an inspiring person.	D．To increase people’s awareness of disability.

4 . 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。

Shen Kuo (沈括) was a scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was     1     all-round scholar of astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology and medical science.     2     , Shen Kuo's reputation has been mostly in the field of scientific writing: he was the first     3     (build) graphic maps.

Thanks     4     his mother, Shen Kuo received a formal education in his childhood. He was diligent and he read so much that he suffered eye pain later in life. While in his     5     (thirty), Shen Kuo frequently dreamed of a place. In the dream, he climbed a hill, the top of     6     was covered with brightly colored flowers and trees. Clear waters     7     (flow) at the base of the hill, with trees on either side. Later on, when     8     (travel) around, he was shocked to find a piece of land that was     9     (exact)the one in his dream. There he settled and wrote of the discoveries he had made in his lifetime.

This extraordinary story is the origin of Shen's the Dream Rivulet Diary (《梦溪笔谈》). The Dream Rivulet Diary was a milestone in the history of Chinese science. So far, this amazing scientific work     10     (put) into a number of different languages, including English, French, German and Japanese.

5 . On James Owen’s 70th birthday, he saw a video of himself walking with difficulty up to the stage where he was giving a talk. “I looked like an old man,” says Owen, who built a successful career on Wall Street.

He was about 25 pounds overweight and had chronic trouble with his back, knees, and shoulders. But instead of giving in to age, Owen decided to set an ambitious five-year goal: He wanted to be pain-free, and he decided the way to get there was through exercise —even though at the time he couldn’t do a single push-up.

Owen began his new exercise regimen (养生计划) by walking, though he became out of breath after five minutes. But that didn’t discourage him. He kept at the walks every day, along with some stretching. Once he had those basics down, he started weight lifting and hired a personal trainer to teach him and to design a routine he could follow on his own. The last piece was finding other activities he enjoyed, which turned out to be cycling and swimming.

In less than five years, Own was able to do three sets of 50 push-ups each and walk for miles each day. And yes, he was free of aches and pains.

Owen used his experience to write a book called Just Move! A New Approach to Fitness After 50, in which he details how older adults can safely get off the couch and add more movement to their lives. The key: getting started, even if you walk just three blocks, which was all he could manage at first. “Think of it as movement, not exercise,” he says. “The key is slow and steady progress.”

Now 81 and retired, Owen exercises an hour a day, six days a week. “It is the best investment I’ve ever made in my life,” he says.

1. Why did Owen make up his mind to do exercise?

A．To celebrate his 70th birthday.

B．To get rid of his physical pain.

C．To write a book about exercise.

D．To find a hobby after retirement.

2. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A．The exercise he preferred to do.

B．The routine his trainer designed for him.

C．The difficulty he met during exercise.

D．The process he undertook to keep fit.

3. What advice did Owen give to the people after 50 in his book?

A．They should invest on Wall Street.

B．They should only do some slow exercise.

C．They should do exercise step by step.

D．They should exercise an hour a day.

6 . 你校英语报正在征文,请根据下列表格内的内容投稿。

姓名	陈薇,一位军人,中国著名的科学家之一
出生	1966年2月,浙江
个人信息	1988年毕业于浙江大学,1998年获得博士学位,因为科研贡献多次获奖,并于2020年获得“人民英雄”国家荣誉称号
贡献	2020年疫情爆发，为了对抗疫情陈薇和她的团队成功研制出抗新冠疫苗,对抗击新冠肺炎做出了巨大贡献

参考词汇:
“人民英雄”国家荣誉称号： the “People's Hero” national honorary title
新冠疫苗：the Coronavirus vaccine     军人： soldier   博士学位doctorate 疫情epidemic
注意:1.词数80左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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7 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is Bill Gates famous for according to the speaker?

A．His family background.

B．His position in society.

C．His educational background.

2. What did Bill Gates do in 1975?

A．He went to Harvard University.

B．He began to develop new software.

C．He sold his inventions to MITS.

3. When did Bill Gates leave Microsoft?

A．In 2000.

B．In 2008.

C．In 2014.

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the talk?

A．Bill Gates grew up in Washington.

B．Bill Gates' mother worked as a lawyer.

C．IBM partnered with Microsoft for a short time.

8 . I am a reporter and I feel privileged to have been a witness to history being made. Every time I watch taikonauts salute as the rocket carries them thunders away and flies toward the skies, my heart beats faster and my eyes begin to moisten.

When Yang Liwei, a former fighter jet pilot, displayed the flags of China and the United Nations together during the Shenzhou V mission in 2003 and wrote, “To make use of outer space peacefully and for the benefit of all humankind, the Chinese came to outer space.” He was remembered in the history of China as the person who fulfilled the nation’s l,000-year-old dream of “flying to the heavens”.

In the years that followed, I saw Zhai Zhigang floating out of his spacecraft and waving a Chinese flag among the stars; Jing Haipeng entering China’s first space lab; Wang Yaping demonstrating the beauty of physics to 60 million students far outside the Earth’s atmosphere; and Nie Haisheng creating the China’s record for the longest stay in space.

However, few people realize how taikonauts prepare themselves to be qualified. They need to study advanced mathematics, aerodynamics, astronomy, space science and technology, English, environmental science, medicine, psychology and many other theoretical courses, all in one year, a superhuman task equal to shortening a normal college student’s four-year study plan to 12 months.

Apart from theoretical study, taikonauts must undergo a large amount of physical training. In a pressure chamber, they go through a simulated ascent from ground level to an altitude of 5,000 meters in five minutes, with all the dizziness, sickness and even shock. While training for spacewalks in a weightless environment, they wear a suit weighing over 160 kilograms and stay underwater for four hours at a time, losing two kilograms or more in each period.

I have once interviewed Huang Weifen, who is in charge of taikonauts training. ''Without exceptional perseverance, they don't make it," she said. “Our space knows no boundary, and our exploration will never end.”

1. Which of the following is correct about Yang Liwei according to the passage?

A．He was remembered as the greatest taikonaut in China.

B．He thought space exploration could make the world peaceful.

C．He was the first taikonaut to realize China’s dream of flying to space.

D．He once floated out of spacecraft and displayed the flags of China and the UN.

2. What preparations do taikonauts make to be qualified?

A．12-month course study.

B．5000-meter climbing task.

C．Two-kilogram weight loss.

D．Four-hour underwater walk.

3. Why does the author write this passage?

A．To comment on taikonauts’ achievements.

B．To introduce some extraordinary taikonauts.

C．To present the huge development of China’s space exploration.

D．To praise taikonauts’ commitment to China’s space exploration.

9 . People love Shakespeare’s vocabulary and creativity. He used more than 15,000 words in this writing! But Bible’s Old Testament (旧约圣经) only contains 5,642 words, Shakespeare also invented many new terms and phrase.

If someone’s behavior suggested they were not honest and should not be trusted. Shakespeare called them suspicious. If someone was silly and perhaps looked like a fool, Shakespeare found their actions laughable. And for those who offered their opinions on something’s quality, Shakespeare called them critics (评论家). Today, for instance, food critics and film critics give their opinions on food and film.

The familiar phrase “break the ice” comes from Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew. The “ice is broken” when people in a group, who have never met before, begin to talk to each other by doing some activities. More common words were first used by Shakespeare including “road”, “gossip”, “lonely”, “bump” and “hurry”.

Four hundred years after his death. Shakespeare surely lives on, in everyday speech, as the most famous writer of all time.

1. Shakespeare’s writings contain ________.

A．over 15,000 words	B．less than 15,000 words
C．only 5,642 words	D．less than 5,642 words

2. Which of following can replace the underlined word “suspicious” on Paragraph 2?

A．meaningful	B．doubtful
C．thoughtful	D．powerful

3. Whose actions are considered laughable from Paragraph 2?

A．Dishonest people’s	B．Silly’s people
C．Food critics	D．Film critics

4. What may be the best title for the text?

A．Famous Words in Shakespeare’s Plays

B．Shakespeare’s Influence on English

C．The Famous Writer --- Shakespeare

D．Shakespeare’s Great Life

10 . It's not easy to make an award-winning film. It's even harder for a filmmaker to win a lifetime achievement award. Chinese director Ang Lee was recently given this honor by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

The academy called him “one of the world's most pioneering and revered contemporary filmmakers”. He has made many classic films in different genres. More importantly, whether it's an Eastern or Western story, he is able to bring out its “original flavor” Sohu News said.

Lee came to fame in the 1990s with a comedy trilogy that he calls Father Knows Best. In these three films, he told stories about Chinese families. The success of the trilogy paved his way to Hollywood. He then was hired to direct an adaptation of the British novel Sense and Sensibility, as well as the American drama The Ice Storm and superhero movie Hulk. His career reached a peak with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film is an exciting combination of different genres—historical romance, martial arts and the classic American Western.

Lee's deep understanding of both East and West comes from his life experience. Born in Taiwan, Lee later studied filmmaking in the US. After graduation, he stayed in Hollywood to look for opportunities. He experienced six years of “development hell” in which he had nearly no income and no chance to direct.

But Lee says the “movie gods” have been very good to him, so he values every chance. In recent years, he has been trying new filmmaking technology, including high-frame rate filming, 3D and other innovations that he believes are the future of film, “A part of you has to keep honest and fresh. I just hope my whole career is like a never-ending film school,” Lee said.

1. Ang Lee won the lifetime achievement award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for ________.

A．his excellent English-language films	B．winning every other BAFTA film award
C．his outstanding work in filmmaking	D．selflessly helping young filmmakers

2. Which film helped Lee reach the highest point in his career?

A．Hulk.	B．The Ice Storm.
C．Sense and Sensibility.	D．Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

3. What does the underlined word “hell” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．A serious punishment.	B．A difficult situation.
C．Secret preparations.	D．A process of learning.