第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
A
Book reading is certainly one of the most absorbing habits. For young adults who love to read, finding some good books to read is very essential. Writing a book review can help you to improve your language and writing skills.
The Book Thief
Listed onThe New York Times Children’s Best Seller List for over 100 weeks, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is the story of a young girl in the Nazi camps set during World War II. So, if you love history and wish to learn how the life was during Adolf Hitler’s time, read this historic book.
The Diary of Young Girl
Even Anne Frank can not have imagined that her personal diary written during World War II would become such a popular book. It’s a must read that describes the situation of a family in the evils of wars through the eyes of a teenager.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm is one of the most popular books by George Orwell. It is just a reflection of the Stalin and World War II period that has been so creatively presented in this book. It is an interesting example of how literature can be used to present conditions common in the society.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the great American novels in history, and is certainly a great pick for young adults. Young Huck Finn and his mischief along with the color1 ful description of people around theMississippi Rivermake this novel a great book to read.
1.Which book describes the author’s own experiences according to this passage? A.The Book Thief B.The Diary of Young Girl C.Animal Farm D.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2.What do the first three books have in common? A.All of them are about wars. B.All of them are about farms.
C.All of them are intended for history lovers. D.All of them were written during World War II. 3.The purpose of this passage is to _________. A.instruct youngsters how to improve skills B.tell youngsters some wonderful reading habits C.introduce several good books to youngsters D.give youngsters advice on writing a book review
B
In order to help discover spoilage and reduce food waste for supermarkets and consumers, researchers have developed new low-cost, smart phone-linked, eco-friendly spoilage sensors for meat and fish packaging.
One in threeUKconsumers throw away food just because it reaches the use-by date, but 60% of the £12.5 billion-worth of food we throw away each year is safe to eat.
The researchers, whose findings were published in ACS Sensors, say the sensors could also eventually replace the use-by date—a widely used indicator of being fresh and eatable.
The sensors cost two US cents each to make. Known as “paper-based electrical gas sensors (PEGS)”, they detect spoilage gases like ammonia (a poisonous gas with a strong unpleasant smell) in meat and fish products. The information provided by the electronic nose is received by a smart phone, and then you can know whether the food is fresh and safe to eat.
The Imperial College London researchers who developed PEGS made the sensors by printing carbon electrodes onto a special type of paper. The materials are eco-friendly and harmless, so they don’t damage the environment and are safe to use in food packaging. The sensors, combined with a tiny electronic system, then inform nearby mobile devices, which identify and understand the data about spoilage gases.
Lead author Dr Firat Guder of Imperial’s Department of Bioengineering, said, “Although they’re designed to keep us safe, use-by dates can lead to eatable food being thrown away. They don’t always reflect its actual freshness. In fact, people often get sick from food-borne diseases due to poor storage, even when an item is within its use-by date.”
“These sensors are cheap enough so we hope to see supermarkets using them within three years. Our goal is to use PEGS in food packaging to reduce unnecessary food waste.”
The authors hope that PEGS could have applications beyond food processing, like sensing chemicals in agriculture, air quality, and detecting disease markers in breath like those involved in kidney disease.
4. What is the function of PEGS according to the text?
A. To improve the taste of foods. B. To improve the service of stores. C. To help supermarkets store foods. D. To help people test food freshness. 5. What role does the smartphone play while PEGS are functioning? A. It acts as an electronic nose. B. It reads the data collected by PEGS. C. It helps print the gas sensors onto paper. D. It discovers the spoilage gases from foods. 6. What does Dr. Firat Guder say about use-by dates? A. They are not completely reliable. B. They can help reduce food waste. C. They are based on scientific research. D. They are not accepted by the consumers.
7. What does the author mainly talk about in the text? A. The process of researching spoilage sensors. B. A new technology in packaging to reduce food waste. C. The application of spoilage sensors beyond food processing. D. The influence of use-by dates on supermarkets and consumers.
C
This past year, I've found myself returning again and again to lines of poetry by Emily Dickinson. Like many people, I've needed the curing effects of reading more than ever. As scientists and psychologists will tell you, books are good for the brain and their benefits are particularly vital now.
Books expand our world, providing an escape and offering novelty, surprise and excitement. They broaden our view and help us connect with others. Books can also distract us and help reduce ourmental chatter.When we hit the “flow state\" of reading where we're fully lost in a book, our brain's mode network calms down. It's a network of brain that is active and gets absorbed in thinking and worrying endlessly when we are not doing anything else.
There is so much noise in the world right now and the very act of reading is kind of meditation. You disconnect from the chaos around you.You reconnect with yourself when you are reading. And there's no more noise.
In 2020, the NPD Group recorded the best year of book sales since 2004. Yet even as people are buying more books,many are reporting they're having a harder time getting through them. It's difficult for your brain to focus on a book when it's constantly scanning for threats to keep you alive.Our fight-or-flight response has been consistently activated.
Sometimes I picture my brain as a cartoon brain with little arms and legs, fighting with a book I am holding and screaming: “Can't you see I'm busy!” Anxiety causes our brain to produce a flood of stress,which consumes our energy and makes it harder to concentrate.
Then one day in December sitting on my couch, I remembered how much I like to read\"The House of Mirth\" every few years around the holidays. The memory inspired me to pick up the familiar book, opened it up and started reading.I just kept going.The comfort and distraction and brain-opening experience gave me peace.So return to something familiar.
8. What does the underlined part “mental chatter” in Paragraph 2 mean? A. Getting lost in a book. B. Non-stop inner anxiety. C. Chatting with the author. D. Powerful network of brain.
9. What do we know about reading according to the text? A. It can treat our headache. B. It can calm down the noisy people. C. It forces us to concentrate.on thinking. D. It makes us communicate with ourselves.
10. Why was it difficult for people to finish reading books in 2020? A. People bought too many books.
B. The books were too difficult to understand. C. People just wanted to escape from the threat. D. The life threat disturbed people's focus on books.
11. Why is the author's experience mentioned in the last paragraph? A. To rid people of concern for safety. B. To present an effective reading way. C. To wake up memories of an old book.
D. To recommend the book he/she reads.
D
One billion people in the world are short of water. How can this problem be solved. Some suggestions have been to desalinate ocean water or to build enormous water pipelines from areas where water is abundant. (Suggestions such as these prove extremely expensive when they are actually used.) One possibility that scientists are considering is pulling icebergs from either the North Pole or the South Pole to parts of the world with a water shortage. Although many questions must be answered before such a project could be tried, moving icebergs seems a reasonable possibility in the future.
Engineers, mathematicians, and glaciologists from a dozen countries have been considering the iceberg as a future source of water. Saudi Arabia is particularly interested in this project because it has a great water shortage. Scientists estimate that it would take 128 days to transport a large iceberg (about 1/2 square mile) to Saudi Arabia. Yet the iceberg would be completely melted by the 104th day. Therefore, insulation would be essential, but how to insulate the iceberg remains an unsolved problem.
The problems in transporting an iceberg are numerous. The first problem is choosing the iceberg to pull. The icebergs that form in the North Pole are quite difficult to handle because of their shape. Only a small portion extends above the water — most of the iceberg is below the surface, which would make it difficult to pull. South Pole icebergs, on the other hand, are flat and float like table tops. Thus they would be much easier to move.
How can a 200-million-ton iceberg be moved. No ship is strong enough to pull such enormous weight through the water. Perhaps several ships could be used. Attaching ropes to an iceberg this size is also an enormous problem. Engineers think that large nails or long metal rods could be driven into the ice. What would happen if the iceberg splits into several pieces during the pulling. Even if an iceberg with very few cracks were chosen, how could it be pulled through stormy waters. Furthermore, once the iceberg reached its destination, very few ports would be deep enough to store it.
All of these problems must be solved before icebergs can become a reasonable source of water. Yet scientists estimate that it will be possible to transport them in the near future. Each year, enough icebergs form to supply the whole world with fresh water for a full year. In addition, icebergs are free and nonpolluting. As a solution to the world’s water problems, icebergs may be a workable possibility. 12. What is a problem in transporting iceberg? A. The size of the iceberg. B. The colour of the iceberg.
C. The salt in the iceberg. D. The movement of air and water.
13. What is the author’ attitude towards transporting iceberg? A. Pessimistic. B. Objective. C. Optimistic. D. Unconcerned. 14. What does the last paragraph mainly tell us?
A. It is hard to use iceberg. B. Iceberg are a good choice.
C. There are problems with iceberg. D. Man finds no other ways to solve water shortage. 15. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Shortage of water. B. Icebergs for water.
C. Scientists and icebergs. D. Iceberg—scientists headache. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项
Critical（批判的）thinking is the art of using reason to analyze ideas and dig deeper to get to our true potential. It doesn’t mean you’re thinking harder or longer.____16____Here are some tips and ideas to help you build a foundation for critical thinking.
Question your assumptions. We make a lot of assumptions about almost everything. It’s how our brain processes certain pieces of information, and how we get along in everyday life. You could say they are the foundation of our critical framework.____17____Then the whole foundation needs to be rebuilt, from the bottom up.
Don’t take information on authority until you've investigated it yourself. Instead of double-checking everything anyone says, we tend to label information as either coming from a trustworthy or not trustworthy source. This keeps us from double-checking every piece of information that comes our way, saving time and energy. But it also keeps us from getting to the bottom of things we think of as coming from a trustworthy source, even when they don’t.___18___
Put yourself in other people’s shoes. Empathy can also help you develop your critical thinking skills.____19____You may find that a little understanding facilitates a deeper insight into other people and their behavior. The deeper your insight into yourself and others, the wiser your decisions will be.
___20___There is no way to learn better than learning from your friends. If you only want to be a big fish swimming in the little pond just because your ego（自负）feels good, keep this part. If you are wondering about
how to develop critical skills, make friends with smart people and throw away your ego. A. Actually, it’s about thinking better.
B. Surround yourself with people smarter than you. C. Be someone that people know that they can count on.
D. You should not judge others until you fully understand their situation. E. But what if they turned out to be wrong, or at least not entirely truthful? F. The reason is that understanding does not always go with the right action. G. So what is published in a magazine or online doesn’t mean it’s necessarily true.
第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
I understood Chinese cultures only seen on TV and in books but I made little headway learning Chinese.___21___，it did not matter. The patience, generosity and___22___of strangers left me pleasantly surprised with Beijing.
I___23___needed Chinese. On my birthday, for example, I was___24___in the city. Everyone I knew was out of town, so I decided to___25___a day of it myself. I went shopping. After three happy hours, I went confidently up to the___26___and for a minute, I___27___everyone spoke English.
But after___28___my items, the woman behind the counter spoke in Chinese, and all I could do was stare___29___. I thought she was asking cash or card, so I pulled out some notes, but she____30____her head. We stood there for a few minutes____31____another cashier said, “A couple of your____32____are part of the sale and cannot be exchanged or____33____once bought.”
Another day, I went to the police station as I had lost my____34____in a foreign land. During that 20minute talk, I realized the eagerness and____35____of people. Speaking in a mix of Chinese and English, the young police officer did all he could to put me____36____. He knew that as foreigners we were nervous at the police station, so he smiled and spoke. In the end, the____37____took a couple of hours and the wallet did not____38____anymore. I had made a friend.
There are many____39____and unforgettable memories of getting by without____40____，but perhaps without the friends’ help, Beijing maynot have been so easy to navigate.
21. A. Lastly B. Thus C. However D. Instead 22. A. warmth B. efforts C. sacrifice D. promise 23. A. totally B. basically C. completely D. rarely
24. A. still B. alone C. only D. even 25. A. do B. need C. make D. cost 26. A. counter B. store C. exit D. hall
27. A. guessed B. recognized C. assumed D. guaranteed 28. A. pursuing B. showing up C. assessing D. ringing up 29. A. helplessly B. poorly C. quickly D. patiently 30. A. waved B. shook C. nodded D. hung 31. A. after B. as C. until D. for
32. A. purchases B. expenses C. supplies D. parcels 33. A. accepted B. canceled C. broken D. returned 34. A. car B. pack C. wallet D. key
35. A. wisdom B. kindness C. excitement D. happiness 36. A. for sure B. in place C. in order D. at ease 37. A. incident B. procedure C. question D. survey 38. A. return B. stay C. change D. matter
39. A. perseverant B. pleasant C. ambitious D. innovative 40. A. Chinese B. police officers C. cellphone D. cashiers 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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
Every year on October 9, Leif Erikson Day____41.____(celebrate) in the U.S. Leif Erikson is aNorseadventurer fromIceland,____42.____is believed to have settled inAmericahundreds of years even before Christopher Columbus.
According to legend, there are two different____43.____(story) that describe how Erikson supposedly first discoveredAmerica. One says thatAmericawas found____44.____accident afterErikson’sroute went wrong. The other one, however, states that the discovery was part ofthe plan.Many believe that the former is what____45.____(actual) happened, and thatAmericawas accidentally found by the____46.____(explore).
It’s believed by historians and scholars that after____47.____(arrive) inNorth Americajust in time for winter, Erikson’s team settled in and____48.____(enjoy) the milder conditions. However, Native Americans were not pleased about their visit, and drove many of____49.____(they) back toGreenland.
While Erikson died about a thousand years ago, his legend lives on. Erikson finally got his day in 1964, when
October 9 was selected as national holiday to celebrate_____50._____country’s Nordic-American heritage. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)并在其下面写出该加的词。 修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 删除:把多余的词用斜线(\\)划掉。 注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Last Sunday, my parents and I went to the countryside, which we had a great time together. To make it a green journey, we all agree to cycle there. With everything ready, we set out. Upon arrival, we got down to making preparation. Everyone was enjoying the pleasant but relaxing family atmosphere in open air. After the meal, my father and I couldn’t wait to fly kites. We watched our kites dancing high in the sky, laugh happily together. Mum couldn’t help cheering for them. Dusk fell down before we realized it. Seated together at ease, we quietly watched the gold setting sun, wishing to have more joyfully weekends like this. 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Jim发来邮件说他下周要来你所在的城市参加一个竞赛活动，询问能否借住你家。请你用英语给他回封邮件，内容包括：
1.表明意愿；
2.询问他参赛后的计划安排； 3.你将去机场接他. 注意；1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯.
参考答案
1. B 2. A 3. C
4. D 5. B 6. A 7. B
8. B 9. D 10. D 11. B
12. A 13. C 14. B 15. B
16. A 17. E 18. G 19. D 20. B
21. C 22. A 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. B 31. C 32. A 33. D 34. C 35. B 36. D 37. B 38. D 39. B 40. A
41. is celebrated
42. who 43. stories 44. by 45. actually 46. explorer 47. arriving 48. enjoyed
49. them 50. the
51.(1).which →where (2).agree→agreed
(3).preparation→preparations (4).but→and
(5).在open前面加the (6). laugh →laughing (7). them →us
(8). 将fell后的down去掉 (9).gold→golden (10). joyfully →joyful
52.略
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