She ______ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.

A.phoned B.had phoned

C.was phoning D.has phoned

I’ve ordered some pizza, so we _______ worry about cooking when we get home tired.

A.can’t B.dare not C.needn’t D.may not

—Is it true that Mike refused an offer from Yale University yesterday?

—Yeah, but I have no idea _____________ he did it; that’s one of his favorite universities.

A.when B.why

C.that D.how

It was John who broke the window. Why are you talking to me as if I      it?

A.had done B.have done C.did D.am doing

Unless some extra money________, the theatre will be close.

A.was found B.finds

C.is found D.found

—What did you do last weekend?

—Oh, nothing ________.

A.much B.else C.ever D.yet

阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Our house has always been full of plant life. My mom has green thumb (园丁能手). Every summer, she transforms our backyard into a fruit and vegetable farm. For two months, our dinner plates are filled with snow peas, sweet green tomatoes and spicy peppers.

Mom puts the same care and attention into her family as she does into the houseplants and garden. I grew under the sunshine of her smile I loved spending summer afternoons digging up worms in the backyard with my mom. I listened to stories about her childhood in remote northern China. Her favorite was about how she used to get up before the sun to get to school and how the corn stalks (玉米杆), which grew twice as tall as her on both sides of the path, moved in the wind, making her scared.

This November will mark 21 years since my parents left their comfortable life in China for Canada’s cold weather. Their first years were hard. They got by in a rented basement apartment. My mom held me in her lap while she sewed wedding dresses. Compared with my mom, I’ve had an easy life.

I’ve been thinking lot about my identity and how it was shaped by my mom’s influence. I might have never discovered a love for reading if she hadn’t read me a bedtime story every night or a love of music if she hadn’t taught me to play the piano. I have so much to learn, so much still to do. But thanks to my mom, I’ve got solid roots that I can draw on as I grow into my future.

My goal for university is to keep plants alive in my dorm for an entire year. My mom has been teaching me how. In September, I’ll go off to university, and these plants will sit on my dorm windowsill (窗台). They’ll stay alive because I’ll take care of them the same way that my mom took care of me. They’ll thrive, even. How could they not, when they’re supported by one (and a half) green thumbs?

假定你是李华，下周三有一个英国师生访问团将来参观你校开设的茶艺课。请你写一篇英文发言稿欢迎他们的到来并介绍茶艺课，内容包括：1.开课目的；2.学习内容；3.邀请来宾品茶。

参考词汇：茶艺课tea art class

注意：1.词数80左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

    Last winter vacation, I had a wonderful 12-day trip to Los Angeles. During my stay, I experienced the _________ of my host family.

On my way to Los Angeles, I kept _________ my host family: a _________ house with a garden and family members with blue eyes. _________ my arrival, I met them—an Asian woman named Theresa and her daughter, Mikayla. To be honest, I was a bit _________ in the beginning. _________, they were very delighted to see me arrive. After a short introduction, they drove me home.

My _________ to see a big American house was not met. 20 minutes after we arrived, I _________ that there wasn’t even a garage. Theresa _________ my dissatisfaction and insisted that I have a __________, so I did. The moment my head hit the pillow, my __________ feelings were gone, but homesickness set in. __________, the warm room and the pink quilt gave me some comfort.

Staying with the family for several __________ found they were probably the nicest host family in the world. Theresa treated me like her own __________. Every day, she __________ me up from school and __________ forgot to carry my coat. She usually took me around the town to __________ its beauty. Sometimes, she even prepared delicious Chinese __________ for me.

The warmth the family showed me was the best and most incredible __________ on my first trip to the US. I can still __________ Theresa’s tears when we had to say goodbye. One day, I hope I have the chance to host a nice family in China.

1.A.efforts B.problem C.warmth D.memories

2.A.asking B.calling C.observing D.imagining

3.A.big B.bright C.wooden D.pink

4.A.During B.Before C.Upon D.Since

5.A.anxious B.excited C.curious D.disappointed

6.A.Besides B.Therefore C.However D.Instead

7.A.excuse B.action C.expectation D.example

8.A.came out B.found out C.got up D.looked up

9.A.expressed B.cleared C.changed D.noticed

10.A.meal B.rest C.drink D.talk

11.A.bad B.empty C.strange D.great

12.A.Slightly B.Luckily C.Occasionally D.Constantly

13.A.days B.months C.seasons D.years

14.A.student B.daughter C.sister D.husband

15.A.woke B.brought C.sent D.picked

16.A.never B.even C.yet D.ever

17.A.play B.relax C.research D.explore

18.A.food B.computer C.clothing D.books

19.A.plan B.gift C.friend D.dream

20.A.forget B.regret C.remember D.enjoy

    When you are walking on the road, your phone ring invites you to check it. 1. After texting, your eyes remain glued to the screen, even though you are walking across the street.

2. This behavior has aroused debates among lawmakers about whether walking and texting should be illegal. Some cities, such as Honolulu and Rexburg, Idaho, have banned distracted (思想不集中的) walking altogether.

But we shouldn’t let that make us less worried. Last year, pedestrian (行人) deaths in the United States were at their highest point since 1990, with distracted drivers and bigger vehicles the chief culprits (肇事者). 3.

“When you’re busy doing secondary tasks like texting, you don’t judge gap distances in traffic as well. You walk slower. You make poor decisions. 4. That is the main reason of some traffic accidents.” said Mr. Kolosh of the National Safety Council.

5. I talked to neuroscientists (神经学家) and psychologists about our conduct. All agreed that texting while walking might be a form of addictive behavior.

But this article isn’t about pointing fingers. Rather, now is a good time to reflect on why we are so glued to our phones, what we know about the risks and how we can take control of our personal technology rather than let it control us.

A.So why do we do it?

B.You type a message.

C.You’re not aware of your surroundings.

D.We don’t ever want to blame the drivers.

E.We all do this kind of distracted walking.

F.So being fixed on a screen while walking can’t be safe.

G.You put your phone in your bag instead of your pocket.

    Many of us spend part of each day surrounded by strangers, whether on our daily commute (上下班往返), or sitting in park or cafe. But most of them remain just that-strangers. However, new evidence has shown that plucking up (鼓起) the courage to strike up conversation might be good for our health.

Nicholas Epley from the University of Chicago and Juliana Schroeder from the University of California are behavioural scientists. They wanted to know whether solitude is a more positive experience than interacting with strangers, or if people misunderstand the consequences of distant social connections. They found that many people feel uncomfortable and frightened talking to others and their research suggested that when we make an initial conversation “we consistently underestimate (低估) how much a new person likes us.” It seems we think that all the things could go wrong and why someone wouldn’t want to talk with us.

Their research involved an experiment with a group of Chicago commuters and found that “every participant in our experiment who actually tried to talk to a stranger found the person sitting next to them was happy to chat.” From this and other research, the conclusion is that connecting with strangers is surprisingly pleasant and it has a positive impact on our wellbeing. It’s true that talking can make you feel happier and happiness can lead to better mental health.

However, if you’re’ an introvert (性格内向者), the thought of speaking to someone new might make you anxious. But the American research found “both extroverts (性格外向者) and introverts are happier when they are asked to behave in an extroverted manner.” So maybe, if you’re a loner, it’s time to come out of your shell and make some small talk with a stranger-it could be the beginning of a new friendship.

1.What does the underlined word“solitude”in paragraph 2 mean?

A.Being calm. B.Being pleasant. C.Being alone. D.Being healthy.

2.Why might we not want to speak to a stranger?

A.Because we don’t trust a new person.

B.Because we can’t find a common topic.

C.Because we like distant social connections.

D.Because we carry a negative voice in our head.

3.What could help start a new friendship?

A.Making a small talk. B.Sitting next to a stranger.

C.Sharing personal details. D.Behaving in polite manner.

4.Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A.How to be an extrovert. B.Talking to strangers.

C.How to speak to strangers. D.Making new friends.

    Growing up in Venezuela, there was never really much cause to learn English. For years I knew nothing but “hello,” until I started high school. For five years, I spent two hours a week in understanding the verb “to be”, numbers, colors and the difference between saying “good evening” and “good night”.

I thought two hours a week was enough time to invest in learning a foreign language. I would always get top marks, and my teachers would regularly praise me. Even as an adult, I still thought I spoke the language, just by understanding English menus or translating common phrases.

Yep, that used to be me, walking like a queen among everyday Spanish speakers.

“Bring it on, life,” I said. “I can handle whatever you’ve got; I’m a rock star.” But when I moved to Canada, life hit me so hard that it knocked me down. Years later, I am still recovering. Living in a new land, with different people, new rules, new weather, a new culture and language, I was no long a queen.

Did I speak English? No, not at all.

So, I went back to school, thinking that it was a challenge would conquer. But the reality was different. English was more like a solid wall in my path. Even after getting job, it took all my courage to stop myself from hiding in the washroom during my lunch break, crying, completely overwhelmed (不知所措的) and scared Learning English, speaking, listening-it hurt me. Not the language. Not the unkind people, it hurt because I wasn’t good, despite my efforts.

Now, after almost seven years in Canada I’ve decided not to apologize for my accent, grammar mistakes, or pronunciation. I’m going to chase my dreams and enjoy beautiful, rich, and fascinating language without being ashamed. Don’t get me wrong, my brain still screams “Give a break!” from time to time, but that’s completely natural. I know it’s going to take a while, but at least now I accept the person I am-not the perfect person I thought I was.

1.What do we learn about learning English in Venezuela?

A.Everyone invested a lot of time in it. B.It didn’t cost students much efforts.

C.The standard was very high in high school. D.It could bring lot of benefits to students.

2.What happened after the author moved to Canada?

A.She adjusted to the new environment. B.She regretted not working hard in English.

C.She put her language talent to use. D.She expected to improve her English.

3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A.The author has a realistic understanding of herself.

B.The author has conquered English eventually.

C.The author now can pass as a native speaker.

D.The author is disappointed with her English.

Towers Worth Visiting in Sanya

The sightseeing tower in East Coast Wetland Park in Sanya, South China’s Hainan province, boasts six floors and is 21 meters high, which is able to provide visitors a bird’s-eye view of the park. The tower’s walls are full of holes of various sizes, allowing visitors to enjoy different views of landscapes as they climb the staircase to the top of the tower.

The watchtower on the mountaintop of Linchunling Forest Park is an ideal place to get a bird’s-eye view of Sanya. It has five floors and is 195.6 meters high. Modeled like an ancient pavilion (亭), the tower is painted in red and has been praised for its beauty.

The Tower of the Silk Road in the fishing port in Sanya’s Yazhou district is the tallest lighthouse in China, with a height of 95 meters. Sanya had been an important part of the ancient Maritime (海洋) Silk Road. The tower was built in the shape of Zun, type of Chinese wine cup.

Built during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng (831-1861), Yingwang Tower in Sanya has seven floors and is about 15 meters high. Its name bears the meaning of talents thriving due to prosperous education. Located at the bank of the Ningyuan River,the tower is the only surviving ancient tower in the city.

1.Which tower provides the whole view of Sanya?

A.The tower in East Coast Wetland Park.

B.The Tower of the Silk Road.

C.The watchtower in Linchunling Forest Park.

D.Yingwang Tower.

2.What is special about The Tower of the Silk Road?

A.The tallest tower in Sanya. B.The function as lighthouse.

C.The only surviving ancient tower. D.The bird’s-eye view of the port.

3.Where is the text probably from?

A.A guidebook. B.A dictionary. C.A news report. D.A book review.

阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Bobby had been in his backyard for about an hour already. The thin sneakers he wore had a few holes in them and they did a poor job of keeping out the cold. Try as he might, he could not come up with an idea for his mother’s Christmas gift.

Ever since his father passed away three years ago, the family of five could only live on his mother’s small wage.

What the family lacked in money and material things, they more than made up for in love and family unity. Bobby had three sisters to undertake all the household. All the sisters had already made beautiful gifts for their mother.

It was Christmas Eve already and he had nothing. Wiping a tear from his eye, Bobby kicked the snow and started to walk down to the street where the shops and stores were. It wasn’t easy being six without a father, especially when he needed man to talk to.

Bobby walked from shop to shop, looking into each decorated window. Everything seemed so beautiful and so out of reach. He knew it was time to head home when suddenly his eyes caught the glimmer of the setting sun’s rays reflecting off of something along the road. He reached down and discovered a shiny dime (10美分). Never before has anyone felt so wealthy as Bobby felt at that moment. As he held his new found treasure, a warmth spread throughout his entire body and he walked into the first store he saw.

His excitement quickly turned cold when salesperson after salesperson told him that he could not buy anything with only a dime. He saw a flower shop and went inside to wait in line. When the shop owner asked if he could help him, Bobby presented the dime and asked if he could buy one flower for his mother’s Christmas gift. The shop owner looked at Bobby and his ten cent offering. Then he put his hand on Bobby’s shoulder and said to him, “You just wait here and I’ll see what I can do for you.” leaving him waiting alone and afraid.

注意：

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下画线的关键词语；

3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4. 续写完成后，请用下画线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

In a while, out came the shop owner.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2:

Just then, the shop keeper’s wife appeared.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

假设你是李华，你的外国朋友Bill初到中国，他看到中国人聚会时常会喝酒，对中国酒文化很感兴趣，写信给你，希望你给他介绍一下。请给他写一封回信，内容包括：

1. 写信目的；

2. 介绍中国的酒文化；

3. 你的建议：饮酒要适量。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Bill,

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

    In a couple of hours my son Daniel was flying out to France and to spend at least a year learning French in a different culture. It was a ________ for him.

When we were to say goodbye, I looked ________ at his face, attempting to give him good advice. But no sound came over my ________. I stood motionless and silent.

I knew that this wasn’t the ________ time I had let such an opportunity pass me by. On Daniel’s first day in preschool, I followed him to the bus. I hadn’t said a word before he ________ the bus and disappeared. Some ten ________ later, his mother and I drove Daniel to his university. He was ill in bed ________ I wanted to say goodbye. Again the ________ let me down. I only ________ words like “I hope you’re better. Dan.” Then I ________ and left.

Among all those________ there was one I didn’t miss, however. One day, I ________ Dan that he could have traveled around the ________ because I believed that was the best way to ________ a deeper insight into life. Dan thought about it and chose Paris. The night before his ________ for Paris, I lay twisting and turning in bed, ________ what to tell him. But in vain. Maybe, I thought, it wasn’t really ________ after all.

But when I stood ________ Dan, I knew that it really did mean something. My mouth was dry. “Dan,” finally stammered out (结结巴巴地说), “If I had the ________ myself, would have chosen you.” That was all I could say, ________ and commonplace. It was nothing, and yet it was everything.

1.A.holiday B.talent C.milestone D.risk

2.A.closely B.seriously C.elegantly D.dreadfully

3.A.head B.ears C.lips D.mind

4.A.last B.first C.right D.precise

5.A.missed B.braked C.dropped D.boarded

6.A.decades B.years C.days D.hours

7.A.when B.while C.because D.and

8.A.sounds B.words C.comfort D.advice

9.A.declared B.shouted C.interpreted D.uttered

10.A.came to B.rang off C.paid off D.turned around

11.A.opportunities B.assessments C.profits D.outcomes

12.A.reminded B.contradicted C.told D.informed

13.A.city B.world C.country D.countryside

14.A.obtain B.adore C.restore D.resist

15.A.decision B.application C.arrangement D.departure

16.A.leaving alone B.objecting to C.puzzling about D.adjusting to

17.A.practical B.messy C.disgusting D.necessary

18.A.in favor of B.in terms of C.in front of D.in need of

19.A.choice B.money C.status D.privilege

20.A.pure B.clumsy C.fulfilling D.fateful

    Before your feet hit the floor in the morning, think of something that you’re grateful for. Making this a focus for yourself and teaching your kids to do the same can have a significant impact on your emotional health during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 1. And if we begin our day with a feeling of hopeless and sadness, then we have let the negative feeling start going freely.

2. One way to counteract (消除) that feeling is by making regular schedule and sticking with it. When you organize and structure your life you know what to expect. Make sure you have a family routine. Remember, kids are used to routine and structure in schools. Many kids grow having consistency in their lives, which consequently helps them feel in control, something kids need now more than ever.

Not only will having plan help you stay centered, it will also keep you focused on the tasks at hand. A study published in the Annual Review of Psychology on psychological habits showed people rely on their routines and habits when they are stressed. 3. Establishing healthy routines could help with physical, emotional and mental health during difficult times like these.

4. The first item on the list should be to make your bed. According to a survey by OnePoll and Sleepopolis, which provides mattress reviews, people who make their beds regularly tend to report feeling happier and more productive. 5.

A.Go ahead and make a schedule.

B.Get up early and make your bed.

C.That helps them get through difficult times.

D.The heaviness of our current situation can quickly weigh us down.

E.Don’t forget, with COVID-19, you are not alone in how you are feeling.

F.Depression and anxiety can prevent you from feeling in control of your life.

G.Plus, if making your bed is on your list you can attain your first goal of the day.

    It can’t be easy playing the movie version of a noble real-life figure like Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN diplomat from Brazil who in career devoted to humanitarian (人道主义) efforts, died in the 2003 terrorist bombing of the Canal Hotel in Baghdad. But in Sergio, director Greg Barker’s drama about the last years of Sergio’s life, Wagner Moura (from Netflix’s Narcos) gives it his all.

Sergio was sent to Irag in 2003 as the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General to help the country move forward after the fall of Saddam Hussein. In an early scene, we see Moura’s Sergio and his small followers rolling up to the hotel that will serve as headquarters for what’s intended to be a four-month assignment. They’re greeted by U.S. troops who have been assigned to protect them, but whose every presence speaks of menace and mistrust, Sergio leaves his vehicle and approaches one of the soldiers for what looks like a friendly conversation but we don’t hear what he’s saying.

That moment will be vital, but we don’t understand its meaning until near the end of Sergio. This is a short description of one man’s life of service to the world. The film also covers Sergio’s time in East Timor, where, seemingly against all difficulties, he assisted with the country’s independence from Indonesia. And it’s there that he meets and falls in love with Carolina Larriera (Ana de Armas), who will accompany him to Bagdad on his last, fatal mission.

Sergio’s intentions are pure, and the movie is pleasingly old-school in the way it combines political drama—and tragedy—with romance. Moura makes us see the shining role model, but it’s much harder to see the man underneath—and you can’t leave a property without first having had a heartbreak.

1.Which of the following is true about the movie?

A.Sergio Vieira de Mello stars in the movie.

B.Greg Barker is the director of the movie.

C.The movie focuses on love and friendship

D.Wagner Moura is a man hard to understand.

2.What does the underlined word “menace” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A.Fear. B.Caution. C.Sympathy. D.Threat.

3.Where did Sergio meet Carolina Larriera?

A.In Indonesia. B.In Baghdad. C.In East Timor. D.In Brazil.

4.What is the best title for this passage?

A.A Noble Sergio. B.A Devoted Soldier.

C.A Movie Review. D.A Critical Moment.

    Problem-solving is part of everyone’s daily life. If you’re facing a tough problem at work, you truly are better off getting a good night’s sleep before making any decisions, as findings from a study at Northwestern University suggest.

Because many tricky problems are solved by thinking of them in a fresh way, Sanders and cognitive researchers Samuel Osburn, Ken A. Paller, and Mark Beeman assumed that processing unsolved problems during sleep would help people purify their memories of the problems, and improve their chances of solving them the next day.

To test that assumption, they used a technique known as targeted memory reactivation (TMR) with 61 study participants. In two evening laboratory sessions, the participants attempted to solve verbal, space, and other puzzles one at a time with the experimenters randomly pairing each puzzle with a musical sound. If the participants failed to solve a puzzle within 2 minutes, the corresponding sound played one more time. After failing to solve six puzzles each evening, they replayed the puzzle-sound pairings until they had them down.

After those sessions, participants took home technology that provided the sound cues while they slept.

Across the two mornings, they solved more cued puzzles than uncued puzzles. In fact, they solved 55 percent more puzzles when the corresponding sound had been played while they slept.

“While we use tricky puzzles in our study, the underlying cognitive processes could relate to solving any problem on which someone is stuck or blocked by an incorrect approach,” Sanders explains. “They advised, however, that the effect may only apply to situations in which an individual already has some background information to help solve a problem.” Beeman says.

Still, the study reveals important information about sleep, memory, and incubation (潜伏期) for problem-solving. The team plans to further study these processes, to further pin down the mechanisms and to see how it occurs in real-life problem-solving.

1.What is the assumption mainly about?

A.Sleep’s effect on problem-solving. B.Solving problems during sleep.

C.Memory’s impact on problem-solving. D.Improper ways of solving problems.

2.What can we learn about the experiments?

A.they set six puzzles for each participant. B.they had the puzzles solved in the evenings.

C.they applied matching sounds to puzzle-solving. D.they met with disapproval.

3.What’s the writer’s attitude towards the study?

A.Subjective. B.Objective. C.Indifferent D.Pessimistic

    While testing capacity is gaining ground, the road ahead remains long. The health system has never had to manage testing at the scale needed to control this pandemic, and doing so may require extraordinary solutions, expecting that the gap between testing need and testing capacity will only be wider as states reopen.

Health experts have called for testing well beyond current levels. But increasing capacity will be a challenge at every step in the process.

Step 1

A sample, such as saliva (唾液) or sample from the nose or throat, is collected.

Challenge:

Supplies such as swabs (拭子) and vials (瓶子) are specialized and controlled. This makes the supply chain weak to demand increases. In March, testing was held up by a shortage of swabs.

Step 2

The sample is placed in a solution and delivered to lab technologist.

Challenge:

Workforce is already an issue at many labs Hiring is difficult, as only certified technologists are trained to handle the patient samples.

Step 3

Chemical liquids called reagents (试剂) extract and strengthen the virus’s genetic material.

Challenge:

Labs have faced reagent shortages, and industry groups have already noted that a rise in testing demand has the potential to use up supplies.

Step 4

Machines detect the presence of the virus in a sample.

Challenge:

Dozens of test systems have been FDA approved, but many labs lack the up-front money to invest in the technology and growing up.

1.Which organ will we fail to get a testing sample from?

A.The mouth. B.The throat. C.The nose. D.The ears.

2.What is the challenge for Step 4?

A.Supply shortage. B.Workforce in demand.

C.Genetic substances. D.Financial support in advance.

3.What does the passage intend to tell us about?

A.Ways to fight pandemic. B.Testing capacity for viruses.

C.Roadblocks to testing goals. D.Efforts to test viruses.

假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Henry发邮件向你询问有关中国抗疫专家钟南山的一些情况，请你回复邮件。内容包括：

1. 人物简介；

2. 抗疫贡献；

3. ……

注意：1. 词数100左右。

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：冠状病毒 COVID-19，epicenter (疫情)中心

Dear Henry,

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Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua

阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Why do we have deserts today? Deserts have not always been here. Most deserts that we have today were once green lands full of plant life. One of today’s biggest deserts is in North Africa. However, in the 1st century BC farms in North Africa grew corn and wheat to make bread for the whole city of Rome. How did this area become desert?

Both weather and people can help form a desert. Hot weather or very little rain makes the land so dry that nothing can grow. While in some regions, the increase in desert areas is occurring largely as a result of a trend toward drier climatic conditions.

Continued gradual global warming has produced an increase in aridity (干旱) for some areas over the past few thousand years. The process may be sped up in the following decades if global warming resulting from air pollution seriously increases.

The primary reason for desert formation is human activities, though. If people cut down or burn trees and plants to make land clear for farming, the wind can blow the soil away and turn the dry land into sand. Another big problem is farming on land that is not very good. This poor land can very quickly turn into desert, if it is farmed too much. One of the biggest causes, however, is when people take their animals to the same fields to feed over and over, and the fields finally lose all their nutrition. Because of these problems, deserts are slowly taking over green land in many parts of the world, including China.

However, we can fight the growing deserts! In some parts of China people are working to prevent desert from expanding. In Xinjiang, for example, some farmers are trying new scientific farming methods. These methods make it possible to use less land for crops, so farmers then can plant trees on the rest of their land!

One Xinjiang farmer used only HALF of his fields to grow the SAME amount of crops as last year. On the other half of his land, he planted fruit trees. The work of people like this is helping to fight the world’s growing deserts.

    Recently, a Philadelphia teen has been a hot topic in the US. Having always been hard-working in studying, Richard Jenkins has now ________ a full ride (奖学金) to Harvard University.

However, life is not always ________ for Jenkins. When his mother couldn’t ________ a motel room, they would stay in shelters. ________ by his situation, he would lie to classmates about where he lived. Jenkins knew there was one thing that could give him a better life: ________. Then, he attended a program called Mighty Writers, which teaches Philadelphia kids to think and write clearly.

“I realized I’ve got to try my best ________ I can’t have my future kids ________ through what I’m undergoing now,” Jenkins thought to himself. Though being ________, he decided to ________ academics and kept working hard on it. His ________ in school would pay off in a major way.

Jenkins applied to Harvard in his junior year of high school. He said he was ________ of his acceptance on a class trip to Paris. He was so ________ that he threw his cellphone. Jenkins was not only ________ to the university, but also got full ________! He recently went back to Mighty Writers to ________ his good news to the program’s director.

Jenkins was quite ________ of his mother, and says to the reports that he doesn’t like to talk about his past ________ in homeless shelter. However, he does say his ________ as a child gave him the ________ and desire to get into Harvard and he was ________ in the end.

1.A.demanded B.received C.achieved D.represented

2.A.easy B.practical C.ordinary D.impressive

3.A.build B.afford C.buy D.exchange

4.A.Amazed B.Discouraged C.Encouraged D.Embarrassed

5.A.creativity B.profession C.education D.development

6.A.though B.because C.if D.when

7.A.going B.looking C.putting D.coming

8.A.poor B.hungry C.ashamed D.regretful

9.A.live on B.call up C.focus on D.bring up

10.A.feeling B.idea C.nature D.effort

11.A.informed B.warned C.made D.reminded

12.A.moved B.confused C.excited D.satisfied

13.A.taken B.changed C.devoted D.admitted

14.A.salary B.scholarship C.life D.mark

15.A.show B.spread C.deliver D.supply

16.A.proud B.protective C.fond D.sure

17.A.hiding B.existing C.moving D.living

18.A.knowledge B.suffering C.experiences D.happiness

19.A.drive B.ability C.imagination D.influence

20.A.praised B.convinced C.inspired D.rewarded

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When you go to and get up is the key to having a good sleep. Once you are used to your body’s biological (生物钟) clocks, your body will know when to sleep and when to be awake.

2.. As soon as your eyes open, light shoots down and into the brain’s clock. There it starts the production of the hormones (荷尔蒙) that are about growth, reproduction, eating, sleeping, thinking, remembering even how you feel from minute to minute. Sunlight makes your brain awake, and wakes up your body’s biological clock. Then your body has a clear understanding that at midnight it should be asleep and at noon it should be awake. 3..

When you are sleepy, your eyes are tired and you can’t hear what people are saying to you.

Don’t stay in bed when you’re awake. 4. Being up increases your sleep drive which just could make you sleepy enough to actually fall asleep when you return to bed.

Before going to bed, you need to relax yourself and turn into the person who can sleep from the person who can do everything.

Try not to stay up late on Friday and Saturday nights and sleep in on Saturday and Sunday mornings, which is enough to destroy your biological clock. 5.. And you will not be the happy person as you expect when Monday morning comes.

A.Ways to get a good quality sleep

B.Ways to relax yourself before sleeping

C.A good night’s sleep in fact starts in the morning

D.You’d better get up at the same time every morning

E.You’d better get up or go to read a book in the living room

F.Even if you go to bed early on Sunday nights you will not be ready to sleep

G.If you wake up at a different time every day your biological clock will be disordered

    Robots often star in popular science fiction movies as the bad guys that take over the world and control mankind. But with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic (新型冠状病毒), robots are increasingly being employed as helpers, performing often dull, difficult and dangerous tasks and thus reducing humans’ exposure (暴露) to COVID-19.

Across the world, robotics companies are teaming with health care providers and government officials to develop technological solutions for dealing with the global health crisis. In China, robots have rolled down streets spraying disinfectant. In at least one hospital in South Korea, robots are being used to check patients’ temperatures and give out hand wash.

In the United States, two of the major ways in which robotic technology is being used are to disinfect hospital rooms and to act as telemedicine portal (远程医疗门户), allowing doctors and health care workers to communicate via video conference directly with patients without unnecessarily exposing themselves to the virus.

In Boston, doctors, researchers and robotics engineers have cooperated to bring a friendly, dog-like robot named Spot into Brigham and Women’s Hospital, allowing doctors to interact with COVID-19 patients via telemedicine. What sets Spot apart is its four-legged design, which allows the robot to move about easily in different settings, such as the tent set up outside the hospital.

In March, researchers began developing and testing the robot’s design to enable Spot to interact with patients, thus reducing the exposure of frontline health care workers to the virus. In the place of head, Spot has an iPad fixed to stand, allowing doctors to conduct telemedicine sessions with their patients.

Researchers are working to increase the robots’ diagnostic (诊断) abilities, enabling it to test the patient’s temperature and measure his or her respiratory rate.

Dr. Peter Chai, an emergency medicine physician, predicts that hospitals will continue to find ways to use robots even after the coronavirus pandemic is over, whether it may be through delivering supplies to rooms or seeing patients with other contagious (传染性的) diseases.

1.In China, robots are used to ________.

A.rid the streets of the virus B.hand out hand wash

C.communicate with patients D.measure the patients’ temperature

2.What does the underlined word “sessions” in Para. 5 mean?

A.greetings B.decisions C.experiments D.conferences

3.What can we infer from Dr. Chai’s prediction in the last paragraph?

A.More robots will be used to fight the virus.

B.New robots will be invented to fight the virus.

C.Robots will still play a part in medical treatment.

D.Robots will be invented to deliver medicines to patients.

4.Which can be the best title for the passage?

A.Robots, deliverers of COVID-19 B.Robots, fighters against COVID-19

C.Robots, helpers in fighting COVID-19 D.Robots, pioneers in fighting COVID-19

    I grew up 3 hours outside of Pittsburgh, with my mother and 3 younger brothers and sisters. My mom was a single mother and worked a minimum wage job, so we never had much, but that was OK, we made ends meet anyhow.

In Senior 1, I started saving money for college by taking a part-time job. I was accepted into the University of Pittsburgh and received some scholarships. But I couldn’t afford the housing because it was way too expensive for me. As result, put mattress (床垫) in an old van (货车) and had the windows painted. I bought parking pass on campus, chose spot on the top level of the parking garage and lived there for the next 2 years.

The weather in Pittsburgh was bad Being homeless forced me to take advantage of everything the campus had to offer since I wanted to spend as little time in my van as possible. I ended up spending most of my time throughout the week at the library and studying and reviewing classroom material a lot more than I would have if I had the luxury of going home and turning on the TV or falling asleep for hours in my room. I got close to some of my professors because of visiting them often, which really helped me become outstanding among my classmates. I made lot of new friends by attending social events, plays, charities, student life events around campus too.

Before college I would have considered myself shy, I didn’t really speak much unless spoken to, but I move out of my comfort zone and do new things, then develop an outgoing personality.

I really think that having to deal with the struggles that I had to go through really made me a better person.

1.From the first paragraph, we can learn that the author lived a ________ life.

A.hard B.painful C.boring D.happy

2.Where did the author live during his college life?

A.In the van. B.In his own house.

C.In the library. D.In professors’ office.

3.What helped to shape a person according to the author?

A.Being devoted to studies.

B.Living a tough life in college

C.Developing an outgoing personality.

D.Learning to overcome difficulties in life.

    You may be familiar with the following famous people, but have you heard of their graduation speeches, in which they either share their unforgettable experiences or give you some great inspiration.

● Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin

And now you’ve accomplished something great and important here, and it’s time for you to move on to what’s next. And you must not let anything prevent you from taking those first steps... You must also commit to the adventure Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you’ve been blessed with and go.

● J. K. Rowling, Harvard University

Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between my ambition and the expectations from my parents who were not rich... But what I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you know little about failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.

● Steve Jobs, Stanford University

Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith... Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle.

● Bill Gates, Harvard University

We need as many people as possible to have access to the advanced technology to lead to a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches and deal with the world’s inequities (不公平) like hunger, poverty and so on.

1.What Michael Dell said is to encourage us to ________.

A.love our work B.listen to expectations

C.follow our dreams D.follow others’ example

2.When she was in university, J. K. Rowling was afraid ________.

A.to dream B.to fail

C.of being poor D.of being hungry

3.What does Bill Gates suggest students doing?

A.Making contributions to their own country.

B.Taking responsibility for their own behavior.

C.Helping solve some global problems together.

D.Mastering as much advanced technology as possible.

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。续写的词数应为150左右。

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The streams were long gone back into the earth.

I was in the kitchen making lunch for the family when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. I could only see his back. He wasn't walking in his usual way. He was obviously walking with a great effort, trying to be as still as possible. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house.

Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow and long step toward the woods. This activity went on for over an hour—walking cautiously to the woods, then running back to the house. Finally, my curiosity got the best of me. I crept out of the house and followed him on his journey.

He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked, being very careful not to spill the water he carried. Branches and thorns slapped (拍打) his little face but he did not try to avoid them. He had a much greater purpose. As I came closer, I saw the most amazing sight. Several large deer stood in front of him. Billy walked right up to them, at the sight of which I almost screamed for him to get away. A hug buck (雄鹿) was dangerously close, but it neither threatened Billy nor even moved as Billy knelt down. And I saw a baby deer lying on the ground, obviously suffering from heavy loss of water and heat exhaustion, lifting its head with great effort to lap (舔) up the water in my boy's hands.

Paragraph 1:

When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the house.

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Paragraph 2:

This time I joined him, with a small pot of water from the kitchen.

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假定你是李华，是学校的学生会主席。请你用英语写一则通知，告知你校的外国留学生，受新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情的影响，学校将延期开学。内容包括：

1.严禁在疫情期间到校；

2.开展在线教育、心理指导；

3.如有调整，另行通知。

注意：1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.参考词汇：新型冠状病毒novel coronavirus心理指导psychological guidance

NOTICE

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The Students' Union

    I sat on the park bench beneath the branches of a tree, feeling _______. The world seemed to be against me.

A young boy _______ me, out of breath. He stood right before me with his head bowed down and said with great _______ , "Look what I found!" In his hand was a flower, but its petals (花瓣) were all _______ .Wanting him to take his dead flower and go off to play, I _______ a small smile and then looked away.

Instead of leaving, the boy sat down next to me. He placed the flower to his _______ and said, “It smells pretty and it's beautiful, too. That's why I _______  it. Here, it's for you.”

I _______ I must take it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower. _______ , he didn't place it in my hand. Instead, he held it in midair. It was then that I noticed the boy was ________ .

I heard my voice. ________ , tears shone in the sun as I thanked him for giving me the best one. "You're welcome," he smiled, and then ran off to play, unaware of the ________ he'd had on my day.

I sat there and ________ how he managed to see a sad woman under the tree. Perhaps he'd been blessed with true sight in his ________ . At that moment I knew for all of those times I myself had been blind. I vowed (发誓) to see the beauty in life, and ________ every second that's mine.

1.A.cheerful B.content C.angry D.upset

2.A.approached B.found C.chased D.frightened

3.A.voice B.sorrow C.excitement D.curiosity

4.A.fresh B.old C.worn D.fallen

5.A.hid B.forced C.developed D.showed

6.A.face B.nose C.mouth D.hand

7.A.searched B.bought C.picked D.held

8.A.assumed B.hoped C.dreamt D.suspected

9.A.Sadly B.Surprisingly C.Obviously D.Aimlessly

10.A.lame B.dumb C.deaf D.blind

11.A.rising B.dropping C.trembling D.floating

12.A.flower B.manner C.visit D.impact

13.A.wondered B.imagined C.recalled D.checked

14.A.body B.hand C.head D.heart

15.A.count B.appreciate C.spare D.operate