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
I once taught in a small private school. Each morning at nine o’clock all the students, ranging in age from three to seven years old, gathered in the Great Room for a warm-up in preparation for the day.
One morning the headmistress made an announcement to all the children gathered,“Today we begin a great experiment of the mind.” She held up two ivy(常春藤) plants, each potted in an identical container. She continued, “Do they look the same?”
All the children nodded. So did I, for, in this way, I was alsoa child.
“We will give the plants the same amount of light, the same amount of water, but not the same amount of attention,” She said. “Together we are going to see what will happen when we put one plant in the kitchen away from our attention and the other plant right here in this room. Each day for the next month, we shall sing to our plant in the Great Room and tell it how much we love it, and how beautiful it is. We will use our good minds to think good thoughts about it.”
Four weeks later my eyes were as wide and disbelieving as the children’s. The kitchen plant was leggy and sick-looking, and it hadn’t grown at all. But the Great Room plant, which had been sung to and surrounded by positive thoughts and words, had increased threefold in size with dark leaves that were filled with energy.
In order to prove the experiment, the kitchen ivy was brought to the Great Room to join the other ivy. Within three weeks, the second plant had caught up with the first ivy. Within four weeks, they could not be distinguished, one from the other.
I took this lesson to heart and made it my own. 1. Why did the headmistress do the experiment? A. She wanted to teach me a lesson.
B. She expected the students to learn to grow plants. C. She meant to prove the impact of good minds on growth. D. She intended to show students how to save a sick-looking plant. 2. What happened to the ivy in the kitchen at last? A. It stopped growing and died.
B. It was leggy and sick with dark leaves. C. It looked almost the same as the other one. D. It grew better than the one in the Great Room. 3. What can be a suitable title for the passage? A. Life Means Growth B. Things Grow with Love C. Equality Makes a Difference D. Positive Thoughts Really Count
B
You've probably heard it suggested that you need to move more throughout the day, and as a general rule of thumb, that \"more\" is often defined as around 10,000 steps. With many Americans tracking their stepsvia new fitness-tracking wearables, or even just by carrying their phone, more and more people use the 10,000-step rule as their marker for healthy living. Dr. Dreg Hager, professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins, decided to take a closer look at that 10,000-step rule, and he found that usingitas a standard may be doing more harm than good for many.
“It turns out that in 1960 in Japan they figured out that the average Japanese man, when he walked 10,000 steps a day burned something like 3,000 calories and that is what they thought the average person should consume so they picked 10,000 steps as a number” Hager said.
According to Hager, asking everyone to shoot for 10,000 steps each day could be harmful to the elderly or those with medical conditions, making it unwise for them to jump into that level of exercise, even if it's walking. The bottom line is that 10,000 steps may be too many for some and too few for others. He also noted that those with shorter legs have an easier time hitting the 10,000-step goal because they have to take more steps than people with longer legs to cover the distance. It seems that 10,000 steps may be suitable for the latter.
A more recent study focused on older women and how many steps can help maintain good health and promote longevity (长寿).The study included nearly 17,000 women with an average age of 72. Researchers found that women who took 4,400 steps per day were about 40% less likely to die during a follow-up period of just over four years: Interestingly, women in the study who walked more than 7,500 steps each day got no extra boost in longevity.
4. What does the underlined word \"it' in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. The phone recording. B. The 10,000-step rule.
C. The healthy living. D. The fitness-tracking method. 5. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about? A. How many steps a Japanese walks. B. How we calculate the number of steps. C. If burning 3,000 calories daily is scientific. D. Where 10,000 steps a day came from.
6. Who will probably benefit from 10,000 steps each day according toHager? A. Senior citizens. B. Young short-legged people. C. Healthy long-legged people D. Weak individuals.
7. How many steps may the researchers suggest senior citizens take each day? A. 4,400 steps. B. 10,000 steps. C. 2,700 steps. D. 7,500 steps.
C
Self-esteem is an abstract concept, which refers to people’s beliefs about their own worth and value. American psychologist Abraham Maslow thought self-esteem was a basic human need and included self-esteem in his hierarchy of human needs. He described two different forms of “esteem”: the need for respect from others in the form of recognition, success, and admiration, and the need for self-respect in the form of self-love, self-confidence, and skill. Respect from others was believed to be more fragile and easily lost than inner self-esteem. According to Maslow, without the fulfillment of the self-esteem need, individuals will be driven to seek it and unable to grow and obtain self-realization.
Basically, high self-esteem is achieved through a series of real accomplishments, which is good for people. However, the excessive high self-esteem, based more on a sense of entitlement than on any accomplishment, is considered to be less psychologically healthy. And just as self-esteem can be too high, it can also be “under-inflated”. Those having poor self-esteem do have a basis for feeling good about themselves but they may not recognize their accomplishments and actions as meaningful.
To appreciate what it would be like to have high self-esteem, one can consider how they may feel about things in their lives that they value. For instance, some people really like cars. They take good care of their cars. They may even decorate the car and then show it off to other people with pride. Similarly, people with high self-esteem love, care for and feel proud of themselves. Take children for example. When they have high self-esteem, they believe they are valuable and important. They enjoy different activities and can handle criticism
easily without taking it personally.
People need to develop positive self-esteem. This can convince them they deserve happiness. Besides, the development of positive self-esteem increases the capacity to treat other people with respect, thus favoring a variety of interpersonal relationships and avoiding destructive ones. 8. What can we infer from Abraham Maslow’s theory about self-esteem? A. Self-esteem ensures us a successful life. B. Self-esteem is essential to self-realization. C. Self-esteem means little to psychological health. D. Others’ respect is more important than self-respect.
9. What does the underlined word “under-inflated” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Adequate. B. Insufficient. C. Moderate. D. Lifelong. 10. How does the author explain the feelings of having high self-esteem? A. By giving examples. B. By analyzing causes. C. By providing figures. D. By making contrasts. 11. Which of the following does the author support? A. Self-esteem ultimately leads to happiness. B. Self-esteem earns you respect from others. C. Positive self-esteem benefits people’s social lives. D. Positive self-esteem helps people out of difficulties.
D
Jake Oldershaw and his daughter Mollie from Birmingham, Britain have asthma (哮喘). Mollie, 11, has required hospital treatment several times while Jake Says he always finds breathing more difficult when there is heavy traffic. Air quality has an enormous impact on their lives and both noticed a marked improvement during the spring lockdown because of the epidemic (疫情). Jake said, “During lockdown there was a noticeable difference in air quality. I didn't suffer any asthmatic attacks during that period. These days you can feel the effects.”
However, under current COVID-19 restrictions in the UK this winter, many people probably will have to work from home. The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) says while emissions (排放) have dropped this year because we've been travelling less and doing less, the expected use ofgas boilers to provide heating and hot water could rise by more than half.
Heating accounts for nearly 37% of the UK's total carbon emissions. Modelling by the ECIU suggests a 56% increase in boiler usage this winter resulting in a 12% increase in emissions of carbon. The ECIU says that's enough to offset the last two years' worth of progress on reducing traffic emissions.
Jess Ralston, author of the analysis for the ECIU, said, “Working from home and having increased gas use in the home could be really critical for air pollution and also climate change. The way we heat our homes needs to change if we are to get to net zero by 2050.”
Jess Ralston said, “The increase in pollution from gas boilers expected this winter provides a graphic illustration (图解) of their forgotten role in air pollution. And it is a role set to continue without practical policies to decarbonize home heating. ”
The government is set to publish its Heat and Buildings Decarbonisation Strategy in a few weeks which is expected to give details on plans to try to switch British homes to cleaner sources of heat. 12. How did the spring lockdown in the UK affect Jake? A. He was cured of his asthma.
B. He had to go to hospital for retreatment. C. He suffered a noticeable difficulty in study.
D. He didn't suffer any asthmatic attacks during that period. 13. What is concerning the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit? A. The epidemic will become worse. B. Air pollution will get worse this winter. C. People may have to work from home longer. D. There is less energy for gas boilers in winter. 14. What would Jess Ralston agree with? A. People prefer to work from home in winter. B. The government failed to protect the environment. C. People tend to ignore the harmful effect of home heating. D. The climate has suffered a lot from the epidemic this year.
15. How to improve air quality during winter according to Jess Ralston? A. A warmer winter season. B. Less and less gas boilers.
C. Practical plans from the government.
D. Improved awareness of cutting down pollution. 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
All over the world people are hooked on sports, which help them to strengthen their body and build their character.___16___They improve the participants’ physical skills, and provide entertainment for the audience as well.
Many people like to watch others play games.___17___Often they get very excited when “their” player or team wins. If they are crazy about the game or the player, then they’ll become their diehard fans. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.___18___And think of people in cold countries. Masses of people love to skate or ski inJapan,NorwayorCanada.
___19___Chinese boxing, also has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new, which started in the late of the nineteenth century. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. Water skiing, as a modern game, is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries or races may not be able to understand each other, but after a game, they get to know each other better and they often become good friends.___20___One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace. A. They can make friends with each other. B. Sports help to train a person’s character.
C. They buy tickets or turn on the TV to watch the games. D. Chinese people liked doing sports even in ancient times.
E. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether inChina,EgyptorItaly! F. Some sports or games date back thousands of years, like running or jumping.
G. Sports are competitive physical activities or games through casual or organized participation. 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
Have you ever given a thought to inspiration？In fact, inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might____21____, and sometimes, it can come from the most____22____places.
I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor. When she was in college, she had a serious spine disorder. Okorafor was told that a simple operation could____23____it. But when she woke up from
her____24____, she found that she couldn’t move her legs and was in great pain.
Okorafor got____25____later. But before she did, she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her____26____as a beast that hunted her from the shadows. But she also____27____a woman-a woman who could fly, in fact. This____28____woman inspired her and helped her____29____her pain. “I felt myself become_____30_____,” she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.
We_____31_____know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a_____32_____, most of my inspiration comes from other people’s music. But I also find_____33_____in other places. Books, movies and_____34_____just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.
_____35_____, I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I’ve seen it plenty of times before; it’s one of my favorite movies. But this time, for some reason, I saw it_____36_____.I decided to make music that could create the same feeling as the_____37_____. It’s not done yet, but the music I’m working on now is heavily_____38_____by the movie’s setting and characters.
Anything can_____39_____us. You just have to be_____40_____to catch inspiration when it hits. 21. A. work B. hit C. exist D. pass
22. A. interesting B. ordinary C. unexpected D. dangerous 23. A. fix B. make C. remove D. control 24. A. dream B. shock C. recovery D. operation 25. A. well B. bad C. worried D. annoyed 26. A. curiosity B. pain C. anger D. fear 27. A. asked B. met C. imagined D. visited 28. A. confident B. smart C. honest D. magical 29. A. forget B. recognize C. describe D. practice 30. A. richer B. better C. busier D. quieter 31. A. always B. never C. sometimes D. still 32. A. director B. dancer C. musician D. writer 33. A. tips B. messages C. examples D. ideas 34. A. even B. again C. not D. only
35. A. In short B. In addition C. For example D. After all 36. A. differently B. perfectly C. vividly D. smoothly
37. A. story B. song C. play D. film
38. A. changed B. supported C. disturbed D. influenced 39. A. impress B. inspire C. amuse D. challenge 40. A. free B. thankful C. ready D. careful 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
My friend and I took a two-hour ferry ride from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Stone Town, Zanzibar. We headed to its famous spice (香料) farms. Cloves, peppers, cinnamon and ginger___41.___(be) just a few of the spices___42.___grow there and we learned a lot about them. After the tour, we went to the seafood market.___43.___was satisfying to pick out some crab and fish for the cooks to prepare. Then we went to bed fat and happy. The next day we went to stay at a beach___44.___(call) Paje. We swam, read and danced to African music there.
Very early on the morning of the third day, we___45.___(journey) to the island’s southern tip. The guide told us the dolphin came every morning to eat and play. So we rode out and waited in the boat until we saw a dolphin fin. The guide drove the boat near the dolphins and asked us___46.___(jump) in. So we did! The dolphin was shy, but___47.___(eventual) they swam closer. One came so close and I could have touched it!
After that, we returned to Stone Town to explore the big old houses. Hundreds of years ago, the city was a huge trading port. All shipments___48.___(go) east to the Indian Ocean stopped in Stone Town. The city was rich, and___49.___(wealth) people built big houses with beautiful doors. I also visited a museum there and learned how Zanzibar had been influenced by the Kingdom of Oman. That is___50.___the people look like they are from North Africa.
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。
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。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(¥）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 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。
Patience is of great importance in our daily life. Once I waited a bus to come at a stop. 30 minutes past, but
no bus came. Both upset and annoyed, I decided to walk on feet. But no sooner had I left when the bus arrived. I thought if I had waited for one more minute, I would have caught it. If I chose to take a next bus, I would have to wait for other 30 minutes. Only then do I realize my problem. Being impatient will possible waste all the effort that we have put it in. Now whenever I am close to lose my patience, I’ll think of this experience. 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.本届东京奥运会中国队表现精彩纷呈，英语外教Dan要求大家推荐一个让你印象最深的本届赛事短视频，并附上一篇英语推荐文字，内容包括：
1.视频内容； 2.你的观看感受； 3.推荐观看。 注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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参考答案
1. C 2. C 3. B
4. B 5. D 6. C 7. A
8. B 9. B 10. A 11. C
12. D 13. B 14. C 15. C
16. G 17. C 18. E 19. F 20. B
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. B 31. B 32. C 33. D 34. A 35. C 36. A 37. D 38. D 39. B 40. C 41. are
42. that/which 43. It 44. called 45. journeyed 46. to jump 47. eventually
48. going 49. wealthy 50. why
51.(1).waited 和 a 之间加for (2). past →passed (3). feet →foot (4).when →than (5). a →the
(6).other →another (7). do →did
(8).possible →possibly (9).去掉it
(10).lose →losing 52.略
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