When did the woman come to the US?

A．In 1973.

B．In 1975.

C．In 1977.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are they talking about?

A．Their favorite subjects.

B．Their performance in class.

C．Their preparation for the coming exam.

2. How does the woman feel about organic chemistry?

A．It is beyond her ability.

B．It is difficult to understand.

C．It has too much to memorize.

3. According to the man, what is a good way to improve English reading comprehension?

A．Practising a lot.

B．Understanding the rules.

C．Memorizing more words.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．Taxi driver and passenger.

B．Guide and tourist.

C．Fellow workers.

2. At what place will the speakers stop first probably?

A．The company dorm.

B．A supermarket.

C．A restaurant.

3. What can we know about the new traffic lights?

A．They have 10 different combination ways.

B．They aren’t equipped with a timer.

C．They have no right-turn arrow.

4. What does the woman think of the new traffic lights?

A．Confusing.

B．Convenient.

C．Creative.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How old is the speaker’s brother?

A．15.

B．19.

C．20.

2. What is the speaker’s mother?

A．A police officer.

B．A nurse.

C．A firefighter.

3. Why is it hard for the speaker to see her brother now?

A．Her brother has been infected with COVID-19.

B．Her brother is in isolation because of COVID-19.

C．Her brother is busy helping fight against COVID-19.

4. What does the speaker decide to do in the future?

A．Help more people like her brother.

B．Spend more time with family.

C．Study in a police training school.

Location

St Helena is one of the remotest islands on Earth. The subtropical (亚热带的) British Overseas Territory sits in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,200 miles from the west coast of Africa and 1,800 miles from the east coast of South America.

Size Population

St Helena is only 16 km long and 9 km wide and the population is 5,000. This is 1/3 the size of the Isle of Wight, and the same size as Disney World Orlando. This is also the same size as San Francisco―yet the island has just 0.5% of San Francisco’s population. With an extremely low-crime community, you can freely explore the island’s natural and built attractions in peace.

Climate

As a subtropical island, St Helena’s temperature is 15-28°C all year round. While the four seasons are not recognized on St Helena, the “cooler months” are generally June to September and the “hotter months” are December to March. St Helena is free from extreme weather events, with even thunderstorms only occurring perhaps once a decade.

Accessibility

Until 2017, St Helena did not have an airport and was only accessible by sea. Reaching the island meant a five-day ship voyage from Cape Town, South Africa. However, since October 2017, the island’s first and only airport has enabled passengers to reach the island in just a six-hour flight.

1. In what aspect are St Helena and San Francisco alike?

A．Area.

B．Population.

C．Climate.

D．Crime rate.

2. What can best describe the climate of St Helena?

A．Tropical.

B．Dry.

C．Extreme.

D．Mild.

3. How could visitors gain entry into St Helena before 2017?

A．By plane.

B．By ship.

C．By car.

D．By bike.

About 30 years ago, an acoustic neuroma (听神经瘤) was found inside my body. The removal of the neuroma caused my temporary balance issues and permanent hearing loss in one ear. Apart from this, I was fine.

Unexpectedly, the neuroma came back years later. It had to be removed again. Otherwise it would threaten the rest of my brain. When I awoke from the second operation, I had stroke-like symptoms. The whole right side of my body almost stopped functioning, and still does.

Overnight my whole identity had changed. I used to effortlessly leap up the stairs two at a time, but now it takes fifteen minutes to struggle. Attempts at the recovery of the old me proved to be fruitless. My family role also shifted from a father to a dependent child, and coupled with my communication problems, this led to increased frustration (沮丧) and anger.

There were concerns too about whether I would ever be accepted again in the wider world. Soon after this I just managed to swim in a pool. A ten-year-old boy I didn’t know came up and asked me if I had been on the water slide yet. As politely as possible, I said no, and we struck up a conversation about it. For the first time a stranger was speaking to me as an equal like before. Though insignificant then, it opened doors to a whole new way of being seen, and seeing myself.

To make sure the neuroma did not reappear, I received radiation treatment for two hours regularly, during which I loved listening to music by Tom Waits, an eccentric (古 怪的) singer most people dislike, but I don’t care. For me, life after brain injury is like Waits’ odd works. Out of failure, ugliness, and horror-the most unpromising raw material-a beautiful diamond can be created that shines out even more brightly because of its dark surroundings.

1. What happened to the author after his single-sided deafness?

A．He lost the ability to keep balance.

B．His acoustic neuroma regrew.

C．He underwent two operations in a row.

D．His vision was accidentally damaged.

2. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The author’s efforts to rebuild his disabled body.

B．The author’s self-reflection on his cultural identity.

C．The different attitudes of the author’s family to him.

D．The considerable impact of the author’s brain injury.

3. How did the author find his talk with the boy?

A．Reasonable.

B．Engaging.

C．Life-changing.

D．In-depth.

4. What lesson did the author learn from Tom Waits’ music?

A．Music is the universal language of mankind.

B．Suffering often leads to new self-discovery.

C．Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear.

D．Live for yourself, not for the approval of others.

The world of underwater slumber is unlike what we see on the surface. For mammals (哺乳动物), a good night’s sleep sends an animal into a state of unconsciousness (无知觉) during hours of restorative sleeping that helps heal the body and solidify memories firmly in the mind. For fish, however, sleep isn’t such a well-defined process. Instead, many fish species have taken to spending short periods in a state of reduced activity or rest while keeping their eyes open to scan the water for potential threats. During these periods of reduced activity, a fish’s bodily functions slow down and its watchfulness drops.

The breadth of animals in the ocean that exhibit this type of reduced activity is wide-reaching. Among the hundreds of thousands of creatures in the sea, some merely ride along with the current, such as jellyfish. Others find rocky bedrooms for the night, while those such as stingrays bury themselves in the sand to rest. However, it must be really hard to get a good night’s sleep when you breathe air but live in water. This is something that the world’s underwater mammals have to deal with.

To prevent themselves from drowning (溺死) in their sleep, underwater mammals such as dolphins and manatees have developed the ability to “turn off” one side of their brain to rest, known as unihemispheric sleep. While one side is fast asleep, the other keeps all the animal’s vital functions running, such as breathing. Manatees, for example, love to sleep, spending up to 12 hours a day in a deep slumber. However, as air-breathing animals, manatees need to surface every 20 minutes or so for oxygen. To achieve this, the half of the brain that’s still awake sends the sleeping manatee to the surface to get some air.

1. What does the underlined word “slumber” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Rest.

B．Sleep.

C．Danger.

D．Activity.

2. Why is it hard to define sleep for fish?

A．Because fish remain partially awake.	B．Because fish need short resting time.
C．Because fish possess no consciousness.	D．Because fish pretend not to be sleeping.

3. What is a challenge faced by underwater mammals?

A．Hiding in sand.	B．Riding the current.
C．Finding spots to rest.	D．Breathing while sleeping.

4. How do manatees ensure their oxygen supply during sleep?

A．By sleeping less.	B．By adapting to the sea.
C．By surfacing periodically.	D．By controlling their breath.

Sonia Kleindorfer was a new director of the Konrad Lorenz Research Center in Austria. At her institute, Konrad Lorenz was a famous Austrian zoologist who could correctly name each kind of goose, which made Kleindorfer feel a certain amount of pressure. “I can do five, but when the next five come, I start to have a mental meltdown,” she says. So she contacted a more technically-minded colleague and asked him: Could he write a program to distinguish these faces?

He said, yes, but he’d need a database of geese photos to work with. Kleindorfer got her team out there, snapping pictures of the geese from every angle. After building the database, they wrote a piece of facial recognition AI that could ID a goose, by looking at specific features of its beak (喙). After a couple of years, the team reports that their goose recognition software is now about 97% accurate.

“Geese have such drama—there are archrivals (劲敌), and jealousy and retribution (报答),” Kleindorfer says. To find out how faces figured into this drama, she presented the geese with full-sized pictures of themselves, their partners, or another member of the flock. She showed evidence that geese seemed to recognize photos of their partners and friends, but not themselves. For further study, Sonia Kleindorfer hopes birdwatchers will someday be able to snap a picture of a goose, ID it, and share its location with scientists. But she adds, just remember, her new research suggests that bird watching goes both ways: Geese can remember faces too. “If you are ever not kind to a goose,” she warns, “that goose may find you again.”

Kleindorfer thinks that facial recognition is going to play a really important role in conservation and ecology. “We need more computer scientists trained in behavioral ecology and we need more conservation scientists trained in computer science,” she says. “But working together, I think we can do this.”

1. What was the problem of Sonia Kleindorfer at work?

A．She was always stressed.	B．She was not able to count the geese.
C．She suffered a mental illness.	D．She couldn’t recognize all the geese.

2. How does the program distinguish the geese?

A．By snapping pictures of the geese.	B．By presenting the full-sized pictures.
C．By identifying the beaks in the photos.	D．By building the database of the geese.

3. What is the finding of the new research?

A．Birdwatching is a dangerous activity.

B．Geese can locate and find human beings.

C．Geese have the ability of facial recognition.

D．Birdwatchers can snap a picture of a goose.

4. What does Kleindorfer stress in the last paragraph?

A．Science training.	B．Computer science.
C．Photo-taking skills.	D．Cross-subject study.

John, 69, wanted to retire from running his small-town grocery store. However, he didn’t want to ________ his local community without a grocery store to shop at. He was facing a dilemma (困境).

John’s parents opened the store in 1940, and John ________ it over in 1985. When the store first opened, it was one of four grocery stores in town. Now, it’s the last one ________. Since there was no one in his family who could continue running it, John ________ selling it and put the store on the ________ three years ago. Although he got some interest, no ________ came in. ________, he pulled the store off the market, as he worried that whoever bought the building might not continue the grocery store, which would make life harder for people in the community — especially those without ________ to a vehicle.

Then last summer, Elizabeth, who grew up in a nearby town, ________ John with an idea. She offered to raise money to buy the store, with the goal of ________ it into a sustainable social enterprise. Thus, Elizabeth turned to local residents and people ________. Local residents, as well as people with ________ to the town, donated.

In a matter of months, the community ________ half a million dollars, which was enough for them to ________ the property and renew the store.

John, for his part, is ________ that his family’s legacy (遗产) will live on, and the residents will still have a local place to shop for fresh food.

1.

A．give

B．cause

C．lead

D．leave

2.

A．handed

B．took

C．turned

D．looked

3.

A．changing

B．standing

C．closing

D．developing

4.

A．considered

B．opposed

C．missed

D．avoided

5.

A．list

B．spot

C．line

D．market

6.

A．calls

B．charges

C．offers

D．complaints

7.

A．Gradually

B．Eventually

C．Annually

D．Constantly

8.

A．addiction

B．attention

C．adaptation

D．access

9.

A．defended

B．blessed

C．approached

D．equipped

10.

A．dividing

B．downgrading

C．transforming

D．restoring

11.

A．sat up

B．stepped up

C．sped up

D．spoke up

12.

A．disrespect

B．commitment

C．ties

D．contributions

13.

A．invested

B．borrowed

C．saved

D．collected

14.

A．purchase

B．promote

C．sell

D．rent

15.

A．excited

B．frightened

C．annoyed

D．astonished

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。

When something that’s important to you disappears, don’t be hopeless. It may miraculously (奇迹般地) come back sooner or later. I learned it on one winter day.

It was one of those busy days. Especially, I had lots of clothes to wash. and Karen, my four-year-old kid, kept following me, pulling my shirt and crying for attention. I was annoyed. To stop her troubling me and make her quiet, I searched the drawers in the bedroom and found-a bag of forgotten balloons. “Yellow,” she said with joy.

The balloons were the gifts for her that her uncle had bought abroad. These balloons were of good quality and very unique, unable to be found at least in our small town. Among the balloons, the yellow one was Karen’s favorite. And there was only one yellow balloon. She viewed it as her best friend and even signed her name on its surface.

After I blew the balloon up, she cheerfully took it with tiny fingers, touching it and telling it her secrets. Immediately. her attention was attracted.

After lunch. we prepared to go to the local public clothes-washing shop. Before long. I was ready. Carrying her yellow balloon. Karen followed me into oat car. On the way, she was singing and had fun with the balloon. She kept beating the balloon against the back of the car seat. As I turned the corner, trying to keep my attention on my driving, I felt a sudden, big wind blow across my feet. I called out at once, “Karen! Close the window. It’s cold out!”

And then I heard her frightened scream. In a hurry, I looked over my shoulder, expecting to see some terrible insects that led to her being frightened. But there wasn’t one. Karen was looking out of the window. both arms reaching out, as if to get something. And she cried, “Balloon, balloon. Come back! Come back!” Then. she turned to me, calling out, “Mom, please stop the car! My balloon has escaped.”

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。

“Alright, “I said and slowly pulled over.

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While walking in the park, we suddenly found a yellow balloon flying over a tree.

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