【常州专版】2022-2023学年中考英语二模汇编-阅读理解Ⅰ（28篇）

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【常州专版】2022-2023学年中考英语二模汇编-阅读理解Ⅰ（28篇）
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（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）When my oldest son was in high school, he planned to attend a concert with his young friends. To my surprise, Aron invited me to go along. I quickly accepted. However, by the time the date of the concert arrived, my youngest son had been ill, and I was worried about him. My husband encouraged me to attend the concert, promising he would look after our youngest son. Finally, it hit me. Aron was 16 years old. How many years would I have to do something fun with him before he went to college? And how many youths invite their mothers to attend a concert with them that was clearly for teens? The decision was made. I’d not miss this chance.
At the concert, I sat with Aron in the third row, stuffing (填满) cotton in my ears to block out the loud music of the first performer. I stood when the kids stood, clapped (鼓掌) when they clapped, and never let anyone know how nervous I was to feel the floor shaking under my feet. Aron and his friends were amazed at my enthusiasm (热情).
When we left the concert, my ears were ringing, but it quickly passed. So did my son’s teenage years. Soon he was in college and away from home. I missed him more than I could say. On days when I was especially lonely for his happy smile, I would think back to the concert we attended and thank myself again that I didn’t miss a chance to spend time with my son.
Aron is now grown and has a family of his own, but we are still very close. Some days he calls just to chat and tell me about his day. I drop everything and enjoy the moment, knowing these times shall pass.
1．Why did Aron’s mother decide to attend a concert with Aron?
A．Because she showed great interest in a concert with loud music.
B．Because Aron’s father promised her to look after the sick 16-year-old child.
C．Because she valued the chance to spend time with her son.
D．Because it was not polite to refuse Aron’s rare invitation.
2．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Aron’s mother loved Aron more than her youngest son.
B．Aron’s mother really enjoyed every minute of the concert.
C．Though Aron was very shy, his mother was still proud of him.
D．It was the loud music that led to the shaking of the floor during the concert.
3．What can we learn from the passage?
A．It’s necessary for parents to spend time with their children all the time.
B．Aron’s mother sometimes regretted attending the concert when thinking back.
C．Aron felt lonely from time to time after he attended college far from home.
D．Aron still has a close relationship with his mother even after he becomes an adult.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）The term “social phobia（社交恐惧症）” seems to have taken on popularity these days. Young people in particular are describing themselves as having “social phobia”. They prefer not to go out much, saying that it’s hard for them to make new friends or socialize. But is this a “real” disorder（病症）?
In fact, this is just a reaction to certain social situations. US researcher Ty Tashiro wrote the book Awkward（笨拙）: The Science of Why We’re. Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome. He explains that some people don’t “read” social situations correctly and therefore end up feeling uncomfortable.
For example, they might be afraid of breaking some kind of unspoken rule. Therefore, they start to act awkwardly because they don’t want this to happen. This might make them unwilling to socialize. They prefer to stay in instead of going out to meet new people. But this doesn’t mean they have social phobia.
“Real” social phobia—also known as social worry—is much more serious. People with social worry want to go out and interact with people but are so terrified of doing it that they cannot leave their homes. Their brains simply won’t allow them to interact with others in a normal（正常地）way. People with social phobia disorder can even experience panic attacks（惊恐发作）.
Luckily, social worry can be treated. Some people use self-help books to help them gain more control over their minds. Therapy can also help.
4．What does Paragraph 1 say about some young people?
A．They often go out alone.
B．They find it hard to socialize in different situations.
C．They develop new social skills to make themselves go out.
D．They don’t like to make new friends.
5．What causes people to have social worry?
A．They have a disorder in their brains. B．They aren’t interested in social interaction.
C．They are experiencing illnesses. D．They don’t trust anyone except families.
6．What does the story try to explain?
A．How to improve our social skills. B．Why people often feel worried.
C．What real social phobia is like. D．How social phobia influences everyone.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Imagine this: you and your friend are on a video call. He or she picks up a book, and you feel like you are holding the book as well. You can shake hands or give your friend a high five, even though you are in different places.
A pair of special gloves might make this a reality. Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have made gloves that can recreate the sense of touch. They call this haptic device（触觉装置）a “soft skin stretch device”（SSD）.
The SSD works like this: One user’s gloves create 3D force signals when they touch something. The signals are sent to the other user’s gloves, which vibrate（震动）to create the same force that the first user is experiencing. This allows the second user to experience the same sense of touch.
The SSD allows you to feel force, vibration and movement. “It is like wearing a second skin,” said Thanh Nho Do, one of the researchers who created the gloves.
Haptic technology is already being widely used. For example, the trackpads（触控板）in notebook computers use vibration to make it feel like you are clicking a real mouse. However, it is difficult to recreate the sense of touch in virtual（虚拟的）environments or remotely, according to Mai Thanh Thai, lead researcher of the SSD project. The SSD is special because it has a high level of sensitivity（灵敏度）even when it is used continuously. This makes it feel more realistic.
The SSD could be used in medical practice. Two doctors in separate places could work together during an operation—one touches the patient with the SSD while the other doctor feels the same sensation and completes the real operation.
7．What is the “SSD” in the story?
A．A video chat app. B．A special pair of gloves.
C．A computer hard drive. D．A winter overcoat.
8．What does the underlined word “signal” mean in Paragraph 3?
A．标志 B．信号 C．符号 D．姿势
9．Why does the SSD feel so realistic?
A．Because it creates vibrations. B．Because it strengthens the senses.
C．Because it is highly sensitive. D．Because it works remotely.
10．What do we know from the story?
A．The SSD aims to improve video calls. B．Haptic devices are hard to use.
C．The SSD makes remote operations possible. D．Haptic technology is mostly used in games.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）
There are a few different kinds of hockey, including ice hockey and field hockey. One of the biggest differences between the sports is the surface on which they are played. Some suggest that field hockey has been around for thousands of years. There is evidence to support that a similar game was played by ancient people in Greece and Rome.
Ice hockey has been around, officially, since the late 1800s. This is when the rules were made by J.A．Creighton. The first league was in place by the early 1900s. Later, ice hockey became an Olympic sport.
Hockey is a team sport with six players on two opposing teams. The game is played on a rink of ice with two goals at each end. The standard rink size is 200 feet long and 85 feet wide. Players, all wearing ice skates, move a disk called a puck around the ice. Their purpose is to shoot the puck into the other team’s goal. The goal is a net that is six feet wide and four feet tall. Each goal is guarded by a goalie, who is the only one that can touch the puck with his hockey stick as well as any part of his body. Goalies can even use their feet to stop the puck from getting into the net.
A hockey stick is what players use to move the puck. It is usually 5 to 6 feet in length with a flat blade at the end. Hockey sticks are straight sticks made of wood. The puck is made of vulcanized (硫化的) rubber, which is a much better material than the first pucks. It’s said that the first informal hockey games were played with pucks made of frozen cow waste! The modern puck is typically one inch thick and three inches in diameter.
36 Instead, the names of the winning hockey team’s players, coaches, and managers are added to the presentation cup. There are five rings of names. The oldest ring is removed when a new one is added.
Today, ice hockey is the most popular team sport played on the ice all over the world.
11．From the passage, we know that ________ decides what kind of hockey it is.
A．the rules to follow B．the time of appearing
C．the material of puck D．the place for playing
12．What is the correct order of the events in ice hockey’s history?
a. The rules of ice hockey were made.
b. Ice hockey became an Olympic sport.
c. The first league of ice hockey was set up.
d. Ice hockey became the most popular ice sport.
e. People played with frozen cow waste in the field.
A．e-a-c-b-d B．e-c-d-a-b C．a-d-e-b-c D．a-c-b-d-e
13．Which of the following sentences is proper at the beginning of Paragraph 5?
A．Compared with other sports, all the members of the champion can get a ring.
B．Unlike other sports, the champion team can get one more cup each year.
C．Unlike other sports, a new cup for the champion isn’t created each year.
D．Compared with other sports, at most five names in all can be added to the cup.
14．The main purpose of the article is to ________.
A．explain the rules of ice hockey
B．show the materials of the ice hockey
C．tell us the championship of the ice hockey
D．introduce the development of the ice hockey

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）
Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover
by: Markus Moturm
On August 6, 2012, the rover Curiosity touched down on the rocky surface of Mars—and now she’s ready to guide you through her journey firsthand. From idea to creation and beyond, this fact-filled, fashionable book introduces readers to Curiosity and her mission: to discover more about the red planet and search for evidence of life.
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Give me some Space
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Una dreams of a life in Space. Life on Earth is just so-so. But how will she get there? And will she complete her mission to discover life in Space?
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Now fully updated with results from the Curiosity rover and much more, the new second Goes to Mars picks up where Max Goes to the Moon left off, taking Max and his friends on the first human mission to Mars. There, you’ll learn how Max helps make one of the most important discoveries of all time. After returning home, Max and Tori reflect on the beauty and fragility of our own planet Earth.
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During a sleepover, Ada’s best friend Nina hears something strange coming from the radio in the middle of the night. A distant voice says, “Release（释放） the swarm!” convincing Nina that aliens are about to invade the Earth.
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15．Which book was ever read to kids from the ISS?
A．Give me some Space B．Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover
C．Max Goes to Mars D．Ada Lace, Take Me to Your Leader
16．Whose book introduces Curiosity and her mission?
A．Philip Blunting. B．Markus Moturm. C．Jeffrey Bennett. D．Emily Calandrelli.
17．What does the underlined word “invade” probably mean?
A．welcome B．visit C．attack D．attract

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Dr. Nate Lewis patiently adds a chemical to a machine in his laboratory. The chemical smells a little bit like rotten (变质的) fish. We know that because we have our noses to smell and know it. Dr. Lewis, however, wonders if his machine can smell the chemical, too. The machine is actually an electronic nose.
You might wonder why anyone would want to build an electronic nose. After all, if you want to smell something, you can just breathe in through your own nose. For example, it’s common for someone to smell a bottle of milk to check if it has gone bad. But imagine if a person had to smell the thousands of bottles of milk that farms produce every day-all that milk would go bad long before the testing was done! The food industry uses electronic noses every day to test the foods for freshness.
There are millions of different smells in the world. How can our nose tell the difference between all these smells? Scientists know there are cells in our noses that act as smell detectors (探测器). They think that a certain pattern of cells respond (回应) to every smell. Our nose creates a fingerprint for each smell using this pattern. Our brain understands all the odor (气味) fingerprints, Dr. Lewis’s electronic nose works like the human nose to detect odor fingerprints.
The biggest difference, however, between human noses and the electronic noses that have been built so far is the brain. We need our brains to explain each smell we meet. But the electronic nose can only identify the chemical makeup of a smell while our brain can decide whether something your nose smells is good or bad. “It doesn’t know which smells it likes and which is terrible because it can’t think.” explains Dr. Lewis.
Dr. Lewis is working on how to make the electronic nose get smarter. Maybe someday fridges with electronic noses will tell you when food has gone bad, or your locker room will use them to remind you to wash your sports clothes. There are many possible uses for a machine to take the place of the human nose. Every day scientists are getting closer to building a more perfect electronic nose.
18．What does the writer mean by saying the underlined sentence “all that milk would go bad long before the testing was done” in Paragraph 2?
A．It’s necessary to invent an electronic nose.
B．The test machine usually makes the milk go bad.
C．We don’t need to test the smell of the milk every day.
D．It takes electronic noses a long time to test the smell.
19．What can we know about Dr. Lewis’s electronic nose?
A．It must work together with human noses. B．It works like other electronic noses.
C．Its working process (过程) is similar to human noses. D．It can’t tell the rotten food at all.
20．Which of the following statement might the writer agree with?
A．Electronic noses will help us wash clothes.
B．Electronic noses will disappear sooner or later.
C．Electronic noses will be widely used in our daily life.
D．Electronic noses will completely take the place of human noses to tell the smell.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）On Dec.9, 2021, three Chinese astronauts gave a science lecture 400 kilometers above Earth. Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, who are working abroad the Tiangong space station, showed millions of students their life there. They also did some fun science experiments. Let’s take a look at some of them.
Use it or lose it
The human body grows with the pull of Earth’s gravity. But in space, our bones and muscles (肌肉) don’t need to sustain our body’s weight. This will cause bone and muscle loss. NASA says that astronauts can lose up to 20 percent of their muscles after just a couple of weeks. That is dangerous because they will be too weak to work.
Astronauts have different ways to prevent this. During the lecture, Zhai introduced a special uniform Ye was wearing. It’s called a “penguin suit”. There are many elastic bands (弹力带) inside the suit. Wearing it, astronauts use their muscles to stretch the bands. This keeps their muscles strong.
________
During another experiment, Wang made a water film (膜). Then she added more water drops onto the film to make it a water ball. This can never happen on Earth. Why?
We need to first understand the surface tension (表面张力) of water. It is like a “skin” of water. The “skin”is there because water molecules (分子) are drawn to each other. Most of the time, gravity is too strong and it breaks the “skin”. But with zero gravity in space, the “skin” stays strong and the water ball will not break.
Water in space acts differently from water on Earth in other ways. For example, water will not flow downward if you try to pour it into a cup. That’s why astronauts usually drink water through straws in sealed bags.
21．What can we learn about the lecture from space?
A．It is a part of the astronauts’ daily work. B．It took place in the International Space Station.
C．It is one of the astronauts’ ways to ask for help. D．It took place 400 kilometers above Earth.
22．What does the underlined word “they” in the passage refer to?
A．astronauts B．muscles C．bones D．bodies
23．Which of the following is the best to fill in“________”in the passage?
A．Space water is valuable B．Space water is different
C．Space water is important D．Space water is interesting
24．What’s the writer’s purpose in this passage?
A．To raise people’s interest in space exploration.
B．To explain the importance of space experiments.
C．To ask readers to do more science experiments.
D．To introduce the space lecture given by Chinese astronauts.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）I have tried to write a ghost story that won’t make you unhappy with yourselves, with each other, with seasons, or with me. I hope it haunts your houses pleasantly.
Charles Dickens
One Christmas Eve, old Scrooge and Bob were working busily in his office. It was a cold, foggy day. The fog was so thick that the houses opposite were like ghosts. It was only three o’clock in the afternoon, but it was already quite dark.
“Merry Christmas, Uncle! God bless you!” cried a happy voice. It was Scrooge’s nephew (侄子).
“Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug (骗人的话)! ”
“Christmas is a humbug! Surely you don’t mean that, uncle.” said his nephew.
“I do.” said Scrooge “Merry Christmas! What reason have you got to be merry? You are poor.”
“OK, then,” replied the nephew cheerfully. “What reason have you got to be sad? You are rich. Don’t be angry, Uncle!” said his nephew.
“What else can I be?” answered the uncle. “I live in a world of fools! Merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you? It’s a time for paying bills without money. It’s time for finding yourself a year older, but not richer. Everyone who goes around saying “Merry Christmas” should have his tongue cut out. Yes, he should!”
“Uncle! Please don’t say that!” said the nephew. “I’ve always thought of Christmas time as a good time, a kind, and a charitable happy time. And so, Uncle Christmas has never put any gold or silver in my pocket, but I think it has done me good. And it will do me good. And I say, God bless it!”
Bob, standing in the corner of the room, applauded (鼓掌). He realized his mistake very soon, and went quickly back to his work, but Scrooge had heard him.
“One more sound from you. Bob Cratchit,” said Scrooge, “and you’ll celebrate Christmas by losing your job!”
“Don’t be angry with him, Uncle. Come and have dinner with us tomorrow.”
“No.” said Scrooge.
“I’m sorry you don’t want to cerebrate Christmas. But I do. So a Merry Christmas, Uncle!”
“Good afternoon!” said Scrooge.
“And happy New Year!” said his nephew.
“Good afternoon!” said Scrooge again.
His nephew left the room. He stopped to wish Bob a Merry Christmas. And Bob replied, “A Merry Christmas to you, too.”
25．In which season did the story take place?
A．Spring. B．Summer C．Auturmn D．Winter
26．What did Scrooge think of Christmas wish?
A．It was simple. B．It was important. C．It was foolish. D．It was necessary.
27．Which of the following is TRUE about Scrooge and Bob?
A．Scrooge was Bob’s uncle B．Bob worked for Scrooge
C．Scrooge celebrated Christmas with Bob D．Bob was Scrooge’s visitor
28．What can we infer (推断) from the story?
A．Scrooge was working busily in his office before Christmas
B．No rich people wanted to waste their time to celebrate Christmas
C．Bob believed in Christmas wish as well as Scrooge’s nephew
D．Scrooge accepted his nephew’s invitation to dinner on Christmas day

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Mr. Gong was angry when he found out that his 12-year-old child had spent 13,272 yuan from March 17 to 21 when playing video games on his mobile phone. Gong made a complaint and required the video company to return all the money. But “It’s in the air so far.” Gong told workers’ Daily.
This is not a single case in which children have paid a great deal of money to play online games. The Guangdong Consumer Council (消费者委员会) has received more than 10,000 similar complaints from local parents in the first three months of this year.
Because of the increasing number of similar cases, the council talked with many online game companies in the province, strongly suggesting that they should introduce useful methods to protect the consumer rights of children.
In fact, many online companies and mobile apps have provided a youth mode, announcing that parents can control the content and limit the time their children spend in using the apps.
However, according to the consumer survey report by the Jiangsu Consumer Council. Some of the protection modes of companies such as Huya, Douyu, Bilibili and Team Talk are far from useful.
For example users of all of the above companies can extend watching time by entering a password. Team Talk’s youth mode is no different from the usual mode, which means that children can watch all content. Wang Yihan, 16, from Fuzhou No. l High School, shared her experience. She said “Some apps would only send a notice to check whether the user is over 18 years old. The user can simply choose “Yes’ and star playing the game. It’s no good.”
According to Guangdong Consumer Council, game companies are being advised to introduce different methods to check who the players are, including fingerprint, password or facial recognition (人脸识别) when children pay to play online games.
29．From the underlined sentence “It’s up in the air so far”, we can guess ________.
A．the company ran out of money then B．Mr. Gong hasn’t got the money back
C．the company threw the money into the air D．Mr. Gong thanked Workers’ Daily for helping him
30．What’s the meaning of the word “extend” in Paragraph 6?
A．Change the way. B．Make something longer.
C．Improve the quality. D．Cut something shorter.
31．What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
A．A father is angry with video games. B．Famous video game companies will be against by the public.
C．All pro1oction modes of online games work well. D．Stricter rules are needed for online games.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）A travel journal (日志) is one of the best ways to keep a long journey in memory. Many details that don’t seem important while you are writing your travel journal often turn out to be so memorable.
________. When you are on a busy journey, it is easy to forget to write. You may promise yourself that you will write later, but that almost never happens. Take a few minutes every day and put down your memories. It doesn’t have to be long, just on a regular basis (定期).
Use your “down time” for your travel journal. There is a surprising amount of sitting around while traveling. You can always put down a few lines in your travel journal when you are on trains, waiting for planes, drying your clothes or waiting in line.
________. They include the day, where you are, who you are with, maybe even the weather and what you eat. Years later when you read your journal, you will know exactly what you were doing on that day.
________. Listing facts is fine but that isn’t why you travelled. A long journey is a time for careful thoughts. Memories of these feelings disappear quickly with time. Writing about the experiences while the memories are fresh is important.
Keep ticket stubs (存根). Whenever you use a ticket for a train or a museum or a ride. Tape the stubs to your journal. They are pieces of history from your journey. Years later you can look at the ticket stubs and see exactly what you were doing on a specific day and how much it cost.
32．According to the ticket stubs, we can learn the following EXCEPT ________.
A．the costs of our trip B．our feelings at that time
C．the things we were doing D．the places we were visiting
33．What’s the writer’s main purpose of writing the passage?
A．To advise us the ways to write a travel journal.
B．To explain the importance of keeping ticket stubs.
C．To tell us the activities that make the journey memorable.
D．To encourage us to have a long journey as often as possible.
34．What’s the correct order of the three missing sentences?
1.Never forget to write about how you feel.
2.Get into the habit of writing your travel journal every day.
3.At the beginning, write down the first details people usually forget easily.
A．2→3→1 B．1→3→2 C．3→2→1 D．2→1→3

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）I have been a staff writer for the school newspaper, the Dagligtale, since my first day here at the University of Alberta. I probably won’t work as a journalist after my graduation, but this doesn’t mean my experience in student journalism has been useless. In fact, I have picked up many important skills through this job.
I still remember my first news story. It was about the victory of the school baseball team. I attended the celebration and was told to do some interviews. I was frightened. Talking to strangers was one of my fears. But I gathered my courage and did it. I talked to the students, the players and the team leader. It was something I had never dreamed of doing before. This opportunity gave me confidence and helped me to improve my social skills.
In journalism, everything has to be based on facts. As a student journalist. I have learned to do research and to think critically about what I read. Discovering the facts is important when you are writing for the school newspaper, but in the Information Age, this is also an increasingly useful skill in everyday life.
As a student journalist, I always know that I have a lot to learn. I’m never afraid of asking people for feedback (反馈意见). I have learned how not to take negative feedback personally and how to use it to make improvements to myself.
Journalism is a stressful field to work in, but I’m thankful that I have had the opportunity to try my hand at it. It has taught me to be a better storyteller, student and citizen. If you are ever given a chance to write for a campus newspaper or magazine, take it and learn everything you can!
35．According to the article, after her university graduation, the author will be likely to ________.
A．stop working in journalism B．work as a fill-time journalist
C．continue to write for the Dagligtale D．introduce the Dagligtale to more people
36．The first story that the author wrote for the Dagligtale most likely appeared on the page.
A．Entertainment. B．Business. C．Sports. D．Opinion.
37．According to the author, what skill has become more and more useful in our daily lives?
A．Storytelling. B．Critical thinking. C．Time management. D．Social communication.
38．By writing this article, the author mainly wanted to ________.
A．thank the person who let her join the Danglig1ale
B．talk about her experience of interviewing strangers
C．share how journalison had made her a better person
D．encourage students to work for a school publication

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）When visitors to the Palace Museum feel a need to sit down for a cup of tea or find a bathroom without a long line, they soon will be able to turn to their smart phones for the information they need.
This modern solution comes thanks to an agreement signed on Friday by the museum and Huawei Co., the telecommunication giant, to build a “smart network” using 5G technology. Under the agreement, 5G Wi-Fi signals will cover the Palace Museum, China’s royal palace from 1420 to 1911.
“It’s important to always stay close to the latest technology to better serve the public,” said Shan Jixiang, former director of the Palace Museum. Shan said there is still much room for improvement in the handling of a huge number of cultural relics, such as when the priceless painting “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” is exhibited again in the future. When it was last exhibited in 2015, visitors stood in long lines until 3 a.m. to have a look. The museum ended up preparing fast food to serve the hungry visitors. “I don’t want that scenario to happen again”, Shan said. “Our operation can be done in a more scientific way.”
The new system will also make use of the closed-cameras that are set up all over the Palace Museum to safeguard the museum’s precious relics. More than 1.86 million of them are housed at the museum, which recorded nearly 20 million visits from the public last year. “How can we make sure no single visitor who might have evil ideas threatens these treasures?” Shan said. “After adopting the Internet of Things, we can instantly (立即) detect any motion involving the relics to prevent such threats.”
The 5G network also will be used to improve remote meeting through webcams, which will discuss with scholars to jointly find the best answers for repair and store issues.
39．What do we know about the Palace Museum?
A．Its visitors won’t have to queue up for the bathroom.
B．It has served as China’s royal palace for over 500 years.
C．It will cooperate with Huawei to promote its management.
D．It will set up advanced television cameras only for the purpose of safety.
40．What are the figures (数字) in Paragraph 4 intended to show about the Palace Museum?
A．It is better than any other museums. B．It has a rich collection of cultural relics.
C．It enjoys great popularity all over the world. D．If faces a tough challenge of protecting relics.
41．With the 5G network, the Palace Museum can ________.
A．exhibit many paintings again B．make fast food for visitors
C．safeguard the relics instantly D．improve more face to face meetings
42．Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A．A Feast for safeguard B．A Revolution in Exhibition
C．A Protector of Cultural Relics D．A Connection Between Old and New

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43．The above material is probably from ________.
A．a website for buying books B．a book review
C．a poster in a book shop D．an advertisement in a newspaper
44．If you buy a second-hand hardcover box set from Amazon, you’ll pay ________.
A．$62.99 B．$139.00 C．$88.88 D．$34.35
45．Which is NOT TRUE according to the material?
A．People in China can buy this box set from Amazon.
B．The books were written and illustrated by J.K.Rowling.
C．There are all together seven books in this box set.
D．You can read the Kindle eBook on your phone with the free Kindle app.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Trees are one of the oldest “citizens” of our Earth. They keep our air clean, reduce noise pollution, improve water quality and provide food and building materials.
Just like us, trees change a lot as they grow. At 1 to 3 years old, young trees learn how to protect themselves. For example, many trees grow thorns (刺) to warn animals not to go near. Most young trees have large, deep green leaves so that they can catch enough sunlight and change it into their food and energy.
When trees are 4 years old, they begin to grow very rapidly and become strong enough to face challenges later in life. At the age of 15, trees become young adults. They grow more slowly and begin to produce flowers and fruit. It is not until the tree is 20 to 25 years old that it becomes a real adult. The tree reaches its largest size. The adult tree gives us shade, oxygen and natural beauty; it is also a great place for a tree house, or a place for us to read a book, listen to music and so on. If we give the adult tree proper care, it will go on to live healthily for many years.
Gradually, trees begin to grow older and older and even die. At this time, they still have their important place in nature. When a tree becomes hollow or part of it becomes dead, it provides a home for small animals and is a source of food for many other animals.
In many ways, the life of a tree is similar to our own life experience. When we are looking at the life of a tree, we learn about that each period of life brings its own form of joy and challenge. Life is hard but the value of life is how you live it bravely. A man who overcomes himself is a real strong man in life. Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Enjoy every minute of the life of the trees as well as ours!
46．What does the writer want to tell us in paragraph 3?
A．When trees are four years old, they are just like little weak children.
B．At the age of 15, trees grow rapidly and become a real adult.
C．Trees are very useful but they can only live to 25 years at most.
D．Trees are natural treasures and are well worth protecting.
47．What does the underlined word “hollow” probably mean?
A．枯死的 B．空心的 C．腐烂的 D．脆弱的
48．Why should we enjoy every minute of our own life according to the passage？
A．Because just like trees, we change a lot as we grow.
B．Because trees devote all their lifetime to satisfying people and protecting the Earth.
C．Because life is meaningful though there are challenges in different periods of life.
D．Because life is becoming better and better with so many beautiful and useful trees.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Once upon a time, there lived a girl in ancient China named Mulan. Her father was too old and weak to fight, but not too old to teach her how to ride a horse and use a sword. Girls usually did not learn these skills at that time, but Mulan’s father believed everyone should know how to fight, even girls.
One day, the government officials sent soldiers to Mulan’s village. Because the war was coming, men were needed for the army. The military leader of the group posted a list of names on the village’s wall. Each name represented one volunteer, one man from each family.
Mulan saw her father’s name on the list. She knew her father would never return alive if he was there. Mulan’s brother was a young child. There was only Mulan who could take her father’s place. But the military did not take girls as replacements for fighting men.
Quietly, the next morning, before her father could report for duty, Mulan stole his armor (盔甲). She acted herself as a man. She reported for duty. The soldiers accepted “him” in her father’s place. Mulan was very careful over the years. No one ever knew that she was a girl. When the war was over, Mulan received a special award from the emperor himself for her great courage. The emperor gave her a horse and a bag of treasure, and wished her a safe trip home. Her family greeted her with joy. Her brother was pleased with the gift of her military clothes. Mulan dressed herself once again in the clothes of a woman. That evening, Mulan and her family got together to watch the sunset.
Two of the men who had served with Mulan stopped by her home on their way home. When Mulan came to greet them, they could not believe their eyes. One shouted,“You are not Mulan! Are you Mulan?” After recounting many memories, they finally believed that Mulan was a woman who had fought by their side in the war. They spread Mulan’s story across China. Mulan’s story inspired many young women who wanted to learn how to ride a horse and use a sword.
49．Mulan took her father’s place for the war because ________.
A．she loved the life in the army because she was very brave
B．her father believed everyone should know how to fight, including girls
C．her father was too weak and old to fight against the enemies
D．The military leader wanted her to come because she had no elder brothers
50．Which is the RIGHT order of Mulan’s story?
a. Mulan’s younger brother liked her military clothes.
b. Mulan’s father thought everyone should know how to fight.
c. Mulan got together with her family to watch the sunset.
d. The emperor gave Mulan an award for her great courage.
e. Mulan took away her father’s armor and acted herself as a man.
A．b-e-d-a-c B．e-b-d-c-a C．b-a-e-d-c D．e-a-b-d-c
51．From the story, we know ________.
A．Mulan taught many young women how to ride a horse and use a sword
B．two soldiers finally knew Mulan was a woman and spread her story in China
C．Mulan’s brother was an adult when Mulan joined the army
D．the war was over after Mulan was in the army for a year

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Do you have good friends? Do you sometimes feel so close to them that they are like family to you?
It turns out that this isn’t just an expression. A study by Yale University has found that you and your friends have more genes(基因) in common than strangers do. Researchers looked at the genes of 1, 932 people and compared them in pairs of unrelated friends and strangers. They found that friends have 1% of genes that match.
“1% of genes may not sound like much to the layperson(外行), but to geneticists(遗传学家) it is a larger number,” Professor Nicholas Christakis of Yale University told Discovery News. In fact, this is the same amount of genes you share with your fourth cousins, those who have the same great-great-great grandparents as you.
So do you happen to become friends with people who share your genes? Not at all. In fact, it is evolution(进化) that brings you together.
People who share certain genes also share skills and have similar likes and dislikes, researchers said. In ancient times, it was important that people who were alike stayed together. For example, people who had a similar susceptibility(易感性) to the cold were more likely to help each other build a fire, giving them a better chance to stay alive.
Researchers also found that among all the genes studied, those producing a change in sense of smell were the most similar in friends. This is probably because people who smell things in the same way are more easily drawn to similar environments. For example, people who like the smell of coffee may hang out at cafes(咖啡馆) more often and as a result are more likely to meet and become friends with each other.
With their findings, the team has developed an interesting test called the “friendship score”. It can help tell how big the chances are that two people will be friends by studying their genes.
So, here is a question for you: would you like to take this test and know in advance(提前) who your friends are going to be, or would you still prefer to learn about it by yourself and let time be the judge?
52．From the passage, we know that friends ________.
A．look like our cousin B．share 1% of genes with us C．feel close to our family D．can help us when we feel cold
53．According to the passage, the writer probably agrees ________.
A．we develop our friendship by chance B．our genes decide who we can make friends with
C．everyone should take the test called “friendship score” D．people sharing certain genes have skills and interests in common
54．The writer takes the example of ancient people in Paragraph 5 to ________.
A．study how ancient people dealt with the cold B．predict that similar environments lead to friendship
C．prove that it is evolution that brings friends together D．explain why ancient people gave each other chance to keep alive
55．Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A．Friendship: Its Influence on People and Behavior B．Friendship: Its Benefits to Teens and Decision Making
C．Friendship: Is It Necessary to Be Judged by Time? D．Friendship: Is It Possible to Be Influenced by Genes?

（2022·江苏常州·统考二模）American girl Gabrielle Anderson is one of the greatest players on her school basketball team. But many outside of her school also know the 17-year-old girl well not because of her skills on the playground but because of her artwork.
Anderson says that drawing had been her hobby long before she began playing basketball. She likes to paint on things that aren’t meant to be painted. When she was a little girl, he liked to draw on the walls of her bedroom.
One day, Anderson saw someone covering his tennis shoes in newsprint(报纸图案). She was interested in this creative idea. A friend of hers happened to ask if she could paint on an old pair of shoes. Since then, the girl has never stopped drawing on shoes. She likes the idea of each pair being customized(定制)so that no two pieces of her work are exactly the same. Anderson has now set up her own shoe art company. Over the past year, she has painted and sold more than 200 pairs of sneakers, some of these orders even came from famous basketball layers and sports coaches.
Anderson says she doesn’t paint customized shoes simply for the money. She always wants to spread important messages through her work. On this year’s International Women’s Day, for example, Anderson created designs to show the power of women. “This is the decade(十年) of women,” she said. “My generation has been quite lucky. We have seen women do many amazing things, from starting companies to wining at sports.”
She says she hopes to play her favourite sport at he highest level. And, of course, she is going to attend different lessons so as to get better at her craft(手艺) and help her company to grow.
56．Why do many outside of Gabrielle Anderson’s school also know the 17-year-old girl well?
A．Because of her skills on the playground.
B．Because of her artwork.
C．Because of her school basketball team.
D．Because of her beauty.
57．When did drawing become Gabrielle Anderson’s hobby?
A．Before she began playing basketball.
B．After she began playing basketball.
C．After she could paint on an old pair of shoes.
D．After she played her favourite sport at the highest level.
58．According to the passage, what will Anderson do to get better at her craft?
A．She’ll help her company grow.
B．She’ll start her own shoe art company.
C．She’ll draw on the walls of her bedroom.
D．She’ll have different lessons.

（2022·江苏常州·统考二模）How far can scientists let their curiosity go? The Ig Noble Prize（搞笑诺贝尔奖）, a spoof（模仿）of the prestigious（权威的）Nobel Prize, is to award unusual or unimportant achievements in scientific research.
The awards are given every year to the 10 strangest research projects of the year. It is to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think?”
On Septermber 12, the 2019 winners of the Ig Nobel prize were announced. Here are three of them. See how they bring you fun and make you think.
Medicine Prize: Pizza
It’s one of the world’s most popular food, but what if we told you that a pizza can protect you against illness and death? According to the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner, eating more pizzas can lower the risk of cancer and heart disease-if your pizza is filled with fruits and veggies. These provide flavonoids to fight against certain disease. So, if you’re a pizza lover, you now have one more reason to love it.
Economies Prize: Dirty Money
As one of the most frequently passed items on the planet, paper money is known to pick up all kinds of bacteria（细菌）. Which country’s money is the dirtiest? To find the answer, an international team of scientists compared seven countries’ paper money. They found that the Romanian Leu, carry more drug-resistant pathogens（病原体）. Perhaps this will make cashless（无现金的）payments more popular.
Biology Prize: Cockroach（绿耗）
Cockroaches are well known for their survival abilities, but few people know they can sense magnetic（磁性的）fields. More surprisingly, an international team found that dead cockroaches have more magnetic qualities than live ones. That’s because magnetic qualities drop when the temperature gets higher.
So if you can stand cockroaches, they may be good magnetic sensors.
59．According to the survey, which country’s paper money is the dirtiest?
A．Roman. B．Lebanon. C．Russia D．Romania.
60．What kind of cockroach may have more magnetic qualities?
A．A dead one near the stove. B．A live one near the stove.
C．A dead one near the ice. D．A live one near the ice.
61．Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?
A．The Ig Nobel Prize is a kind of prestigious Nobel Prize.
B．If a person has cancer and heart disease, he shouldn’t eat too many pizzas.
C．Because paper money is useless, this makes cashless payments more popular
D．Because cockroaches have magnetic qualities, people may apply（应用）them to sensors.

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How can people in ancient times do calculations(计算)? In the very beginning, the cleverest thought of using stones and seashells. Then, around the 2nd century BC, they invented the abacus. Some researchers consider the invention to be the world’s oldest “calculator”. In China, people used abacuses to do calculations quickly for thousands of years before electronic calculators became popular.
The abacus is usually made of wood. It has many beads(珠子). Each bead above the horizontal divider(横向分隔竿) stands for five, and each bead below the divider stands for one. As for the vertical rods(竖向分隔竿), each one stands for a different digit(数位). The rightmost is ones, the second is tens, the third is hundreds, and so on. Each bead in the central area has a value. Those away from the horizontal divider are ready to use. By moving the beads up or down, one can do all kinds of calculations. Because of this, abacus computations are also called “bead computations”.
It is a joy to watch a skilled hand use an abacus. Fingers move, beads knock and after a few seconds, the result comes out. It requires lots of practice to use the abacus well. In the past, the use of the abacus was taught in all schools. It was considered to be an important skill that everybody needed to pick up.
Today, abacuses are no longer widely used. However, we can still feel the important roles they once played. Abacuses have become a symbol. Because they used to be a must—have for business people, some have come to believe that abacuses can help their owners gather wealth. People often gift a newborn a golden abacus—shaped amulet. It is believed that the amulet will help the kid grow up to become a wealthy person!
62．How did Chinese people in ancient times do calculations quickly?
A．They used stones and seashells to do calculations.
B．They used electronic calculators to do calculations.
C．They used electronic abacus to do calculations.
D．They used abacuses to do calculations.
63．The bead above the horizontal divider is one in the rightmost vertical rods, and the bead below the divider is four in the second vertical rods. What is the number?
A．45 B．41 C．14 D．15
64．The underlined word “pick up” in Paragraph3 means “_________” in Chinese.
A．检起 B．采摘 C．习得 D．接送
65．What’s the passage mainly about?
A．What the world’s oldest “calculato” is.
B．How people used the abacus before.
C．Which gift is the best for a newborn.
D．Why abacus computations are called “bead computations”?

（2022·江苏常州·统考二模）Delia was a young pianist. Her husband, Joe, was a young artist.
Each of them was taking lessons: Joe with a famous art teacher, and Delia with a great pianist from Germany. Their teachers were the very best, so lessons were expensive, more than they could really afford, but … when you love your art, nothing is too much.
But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn’t afford the lessons any more.
Then one day Delia came back home and told Joe that she had met a man whose daughter, Sally, wanted to learn the piano, and he was going to pay her $ 50 an hour.
“Delia,” Joe said, “I’ll be much happier if you keep up your lessons,” Delia said it didn’t matter. “When I’ve had some money, I’ll continue.” But Joe also decided to stop his lessons, to draw pictures and sell them.
A few days later, Joe came home and proudly took $ 200 from his pocket. “I met a man from Vermont,” he said, “who bought one of my pictures. And he wants to buy more!”
_________________. They didn’t have to worry any more about money.
Then, one day, Joe came home and saw that Delia’s hand was wrapped in a bandage (绷带). He asked her what had happened. “Oh,” said Delia. “My student, Sally, asked me to make some coffee for her. I dropped the coffee and burned my hand. Sally went straight to the drugstore and got this bandage for me.”
“Delia, what have you been doing the last two weeks?” Joe asked. She tried not to tell him, but the tears came. “Oh Joe, I couldn’t get any students, so I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Today, I burned my hand with hot water. So I can’t work any more. But we’ll still have money from the man in Vermont, won’t we?”
Joe looked at her. “There’s no man in Vermont, ” he said. “I’ve been working in a drugstore, and today someone came in to buy bandages for a woman who’s burned her hand. So when I saw you, well, I guessed.”
They both laughed.
[A story by O. Henry — adapted (改编)]
66．The writer of the story is _______.
A．Joe B．Delia C．O. Henry D．Sally
67．Which of the following can be put in the “_______” in Paragraph 7?
A．A bigger plan came to their mind
B．Since then Joe became very famous
C．So the two of them were very happy
D．Delia stopped her lessons and stayed home
68．Both of them laughed in the end because _______.
A．they would go on with their lessons soon
B．they had both told lies to make the other happy
C．they didn’t have to worry about money any more
D．they thought they had done something meaningless
69．The best title for the passage can be _______.
A．Blind love B．A pleasant gift
C．A service of love D．An unforgettable lesson

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Want to find a job. Now read the following advertisements.
EAIRMONT HOTEL
WILSON BOOKSTORE
Five Waiters and ten Waitresses—Aged under 22
—At least high school graduate
—Good looking: men at least 1.72 meters tall and
women at least l.65 meters
—Those knowing foreign languages preferred
—Paid 1600—2000 dollars per month
Accountant—Aged between 25 and 40
—With an experience of at least two years
—With a degree（学位）and an accountant certificate
—Paid 3800 dollars monthly
—With a practical knowledge of computer
One Secretary—Aged under 30
—Female preferred
—Good at writing and skilled at computer
If interested, call 4654768 or write to Mr. Jack Hundris
Room 0825, Fairmont Hotel
567 Wood Street, San Markers, 78003
Fax: 6954828
Salesclerk—Basic education of 12 years or more
—Good at computer
—Paid 2000 dollars monthly
Tel: 4474398
Fax: 3485269

70．If you aren’t good at computer, you can just apply for（申请）the position as .
A．a secretary B．a waiter or waitress C．an accountant D．a salesclerk
71．If a person wants to work as a waiter or waitress in Fairmont Hotel, he/she .
A．has to know foreign languages B．should be a university graduate
C．has to be taller than 1.72 meters D．should be younger than 22 years old
72．Which of the following about the passage is TRUE?
A．The salary of being a waiter at Fairmont Hotel is not mentioned.
B．One can find contact information of Wilson bookstore.
C．Fairmont Hotel prefers to find the man to join the company.
D．If you are good at writing, you can have much fun in Wilson bookstore.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）Fresh green grass, hundreds of colorful wild flowers, water running into little pools, birds making their homes in boxes, the 9,500-square-meter Augustenborg Botanical Garden may look just like any other well-organized park, but there’s a difference. It lies on the roofs (屋顶) of industrial and office buildings in the city of Malmo in Sweden.
Green roofs are not a new invention. And now they are getting popular again. The common roofs of a modern city have endless black surfaces with no life or water. Perhaps that’s why a garden on a roof becomes such a perfect choice for more and more people.
Green roofs are not just pretty. They also help to moderate the city temperature. The high temperatures on common roofs in the summer can make top floor flats uncomfortably hot. What is more, they play a part in making the cities hotter than the countryside around them, causing the “urban heat-island effect”. On a green roof, however, with its plants and water, temperatures change only a little, as they do in a park. Rooftops covered with plants help keep buildings cool. Green roofs take in rain water and protect the city drainage (排水) system. They can reduce water runoff into streets and storm water systems. This can greatly cut the costs of heating and cooling in the building below.
Also, _______. Small animals and birds can make their homes on it. Thanks to this, the city may become part of nature, rather than something completely separate from it. Though they won’t directly replace ground environments, they’re perfect for attracting birds and other wildlife to create a eco-friendly habitat (栖息地).
A green roof helps to improve the overall air quality, too. According to a study, green roofs help reduce (减少) up to:
37% of sulfur dioxide
21% of nitrous acid
0.2kg of dust particles / square meter each year
While the cost of building such a roof can still be higher, it can be cheaper in the long term as a result of energy savings. And wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to walk out into a garden high above the city’s noise and traffic, whether you’re at school or in an office or just at home in a ten-floor block?
73．With the example of Augustenborg Botanical Garden, the writer wants to explain ________.
A．how wildlife is protected B．what a green roof is like
C．how to organize a good park D．what to do with a spare roof
74．The word “moderate” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”.
A．raise B．check C．record D．control
75．Which of the following is the best sentence to fill in the blank in Paragraph 4?
A．a green roof is alive B．a green roof protects animals
C．a green roof is perfect D．a green roof helps the environment

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford has suggested catching COVID-19 may lead to changes to the brain.
It is as yet unclear if the changes are lasting, but Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans have shown that even in mild（轻症）cases of infection（感染）, patients’ brains have become a little smaller. The lost tissues（组织）have influenced areas of the brain connected to memory and the sense of smell.
“We were looking at small infection, so to see that we could really see some differences in their brain and how much their brain had changed,” Gwenaelle Douaud, a professor the University of Oxford,told the BBC．
The findings of the team’s study are published in the Journal Nature. It got help from the findings of an early long-term research project looking at the health of half a million people that the UK Biobank has been carrying out for more than ten years.
This allowed researchers to compare people’s health before and after infection. It looked at 401 participants（参与者）who had been infected, about four and a half months after their infection, which in 96 percent of cases were seen as mild, and compared their overall health with 384 people who had not been infected.
Among the differences noted were brain shrinkage（脑萎缩）of up to 2 percent. Another part of the study reported that people who had tested positive（阳性）needed more time to complete many different cognitive tests, with researchers explaining “an important, harmful influence connected to COVID-19” .
It may also shine some light on the topic of long COVID, which some patients have experienced long after early infection.
76．What’s NOT the possible change after catching COVID-19 in the passage?
A．Patients’ brains will become a little smaller.
B．Patients will lose their tissues gradually.
C．Patients will have a worse memory.
D．Patients will have a better sense of smell.

77．Who did the study to find the changes in brain?
A．Researchers at the University of Oxford.
B．Patients who caught the COVID-19.
C．Researchers at the UK Biobank.
D．Workers in the Journal Nature.

78．What can we learn from the passage?
A．The present findings got help from the early one.
B．Most of the cases in the study were regarded as serious ones.
C．People tested positive needed less time to complete cognitive tests.
D．The lasting changes brought by COVID-19 were proved clearly.

79．What’s the passage mainly about?
A．Solutions to avoid the influence of COVID-19.
B．Recent findings connected to COVID-19.
C．Complaints about the bad result of COVID-19.
D．Differences between COVID-19 and other diseases.

（2022·江苏常州·校考二模）As we walked down the shore, Ben Gunn told his story.“I was alone here for years,” he said. “One day, I found the skeleton(骷髅). I saw it was pointing to a tree. I dug around that tree and found the treasure. I was living in a cave, so I took the treasure to the cave. This morning, when Long John Silver and his men came to look for the treasure, I showed myself to one of them. He thought I was a ghost.” Ben laughed. “He ran off, and this gave me time to get back to the squire(乡绅) and the doctor. They were waiting at the cave.”
“Now I know,” I said to the doctor, “why you gave the map to Silver.”
“It was useless by then,” the doctor said. “There was no buried treasure. Ben Gunn had it. My plan was to get Long John Silver and his men away from the stockade(木寨). We could then get some stores from it.”
When we got back to the cave, the squire was waiting for us.
“Three of the mutineers(反叛者) got away,” the doctor told him. “But if we hurry, we can get to the boat before them. They ran back to the stockade on the other side of the island. We are nearer to the boat than they are.”
I went into the cave. The captain was lying inside it next to the treasure—a pile of gold coins.
“Hello, Jim,” he said. “I am pleased to see you. But I don’t think you or I will be going to see again.”
That night, the captain died. We carried the treasure down to the boat. We lit a fire on the shore and had a fine meal together. We were not afraid of the three mutineers. We had pistols(手枪). They had none. There were more of us than of them.
The next morning, we went in the boat towards the Hispaniola. We didn’t care about the three men. We left them on the island.
I will not tell you about the journey home. Nothing important happened.But as soon as we got to Bristol, Long John Silver ran away. He took some of the gold with him. None of us cared. We were pleased to see the back of him. We each shared the treasure and used it in a different way.
(Adapted from Treasure Island)
80．Who found the treasure?
A．Jim. B．Ben Gunn. C．Long John Silver. D．Three mutineers.
81．Why did the doctor give the map to Long John Silver?
A．He wanted to help Long John Silver find the treasure.
B．Ben Gunn had taken the treasure away and the map was useless by then.
C．His plan was to get Long John Silver and his men to come to the stockade.
D．He wanted Long John Silver to get some stores for him.
82．Where was the squire waiting?
A．At the cave. B．In the stockade. C．In the boat. D．Behind the tree.
83．According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A．Ben Gunn explained the treasure and the cave.
B．The three mutineers were afraid to fight with the doctor and his men because the doctor had pistols and more men.
C．Jim, the doctor, the squire, Long John Silver and Ben Gunn left the three mutineers on the island and went back to Bristol with the treasure.
D．Long John Silver took all the treasure away as soon as they got to Bristol.

（2022·江苏常州·常州市第二十四中学校考二模）It’s believed that people reach their mental peak (顶峰) in their 20s. However, this isn’t completely true. According to a recent study by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, people are best at doing different things at different ages. They studied many people aged 10 to 90 years old, who were asked to take part in different memory tests.

84．This passage is probably a(n) ________.
A．novel B．notice C．advertisement D．report
85．At what age can people reach the peak of their attention?
A．18. B．32. C．43. D．50.
86．Which fact does the passage provide?
A．The younger people are, the better memory they have.
B．The study is based on some research on people of all ages.
C．People in their 40s can understand others’ feelings best.
D．Different people are good at different things at the same age.

（2022·江苏常州·常州市第二十四中学校考二模）Bertie was sad for weeks, months after the lion died. There was nothing I could do to cheer him or even console him. He would sit for hours in his room, or go off on long walks all on his own. He seemed so shut away inside himself. Try as I did, I could not reach him.
 Then one day I was in the kitchen here, when I saw him hurrying down the hill, waving his stick and shouting to me. “I’ve got it,” he cried, as he came in, “I’ve got it at last.” He showed me the end of his stick. It was white. “See that, Millie?” “Chalk! It’s chalk underground, isn’t it?”
“So?” I said.
“You know the famous White Horse on the hillside at Uffington, the one they carved (雕刻) out of the chalk a thousand years ago? That horse never died, did it? It’s still alive, isn’t it? Well, that’s what we’re going to do, so he will never be forgotten. We’ll carve the White Prince out on the hillside — he’ll be there forever, and he’ll be white forever too. ”
“It’ll take a bit of time, won’t it?” I said.
“We’ve got plenty, haven’t we?” he replied, with the same smile he had smiled at me when he was a ten-year-old boy asking me if he could come back and mend my kite for me.
‚ Every spare hour we had, we were up there scraping (刨土) away with spades (铲子), and we had buckets (桶) to carry away the earth. It was hard, back-breaking work, but it was a labour of love. We did it, Bertie and I, we did it together — paws, claws, tail, mane, until he was complete and perfect in every detail.
ƒ It was just after we’d finished that the butterflies first came. We noticed that when the sun comes out after the rain in the summer, the butterflies — Adonis Blues, they are, I looked them up — come out to drink on the chalk face. Then the White Prince becomes a butterfly lion, and breathes again like a living creature.
„ So now you know how Bertie’s white lion became the White Prince and how the White Prince became our butterfly lion.
                               (Adapted from The Butterfly Lion)
87．The sentence “It took the next twenty years to do it.” should be put at the beginning of one paragraph. Where should we put it?
A． B．‚ C．ƒ D．„
88．The correct time order of the events about the story is _________.
a. The lion died and Bertie was sad.         
b. Butterflies flew to the chalk face.
c. Bertie decided to carve the lion on the hillside.
d. Bertie and Millie spent all the spare time carving.
A．a-c-d-b B．a-d-b-c C．d-a-b-c D．c-b-a-d
89．Millie told the story to express _________.
A．how she and Bertie carved the lion
B．how Bertie cheered up
C．how much Bertie loved the horse
D．how much Bertie loved the lion

（2022·江苏常州·常州市第二十四中学校考二模）Empathy（同理心）is one of those strange qualities—something almost everyone wants, but few know how to truly give or receive it. In a world where self-satisfaction（自满）is much talked about, it is in short supply（供应）but highly needed. The most important thing is to teach the young kids what it means to have empathy for those around them.
What Is Empathy?
Many people have trouble telling sympathy（同情心）from empathy, but they are two different values. Empathy is not just the ability to understand someone’s feelings; criminals often take advantage of people by appearing to understand their feelings and gaining their trust. Empathy is more than that. Not only is it the ability to understand how someone feels, but it also values and respects the feelings of another person. It means treating others with kindness, respect, and understanding.
Kids Need To See Adults Show Empathy.
While some children are gifted with naturally kind hearts, in most cases kids need to see empathy showed by the adults around them. It begins with the way parents communicate with their children. Parents who show an interest in the things that matter to their kids and reply to emotions（情感）in a friendly and caring way are teaching the skill of empathy.
Meet Emotional Needs.
When children have their emotional needs met, two things happen. They learn how to meet the emotional needs of others and they are based on what they are receiving, meaning that they are safe enough to give to others when the need appears but first they need to receive. An empty jug can not fill a cup.
It’s a good idea to talk to kids about emotions and how other people experience them. Give their emotions names (for example, jealousy, anger, and love) and teach them that these are normal. Talk to them about how to deal with emotions in a healthy way and point out situations where other people are experiencing emotions. Teach them about respecting the emotions of others and show them how to act in a situation where a reply is required.
90．Why should the young kids be taught to have empathy?
A．Because people try to care more about themselves.
B．Because everyone feels satisfied with themselves.
C．Because empathy is more important than sympathy.
D．Because it’s better to give empathy than to receive it.
91．Which situation can empathy be used in?
A．When a student is working hard for an important test.
B．When a teacher is comforting a student about his failure in exams.
C．When a criminal is trying to gain people’s trust.
D．When a father is showing his son how to do gardening.
92．What does the underlined sentence in Para.4 mean?
A．An empty jug is too small to hold a cup.
B．It’s important to talk to kids about emotions.
C．Adults should set an example to kids.
D．Kids give empathy with their emotional needs met first.
93．What is the main topic of the passage?
A．How to train kids to have empathy.
B．How to tell sympathy from empathy.
C．How to help kids finish empathy-related tasks.
D．Whether kids can be trained to be more empathetic.

（2022·江苏常州·常州市第二十四中学校考二模）My 6-year-old granddaughter stared at me as if she saw me for the first time. “Grandma, you are an antique,” she said. “You are old. Antiques are old. You are my antique.”
I was not satisfied to let the matter rest there. I took out a dictionary and read the definition（定义）to Jenny. I explained, “An antique is not only old. It’ s an object existing since or belonging to earlier times...a work of art...a piece of furniture. Antiques are treasured, “I told Jenny as I put away the dictionary.” They have to be handled carefully because they sometimes are very valuable. To look as good as an antique, the object has to be at least 100 years old.”
“I’m only 67,” I reminded Jenny.
We looked around the house for other antiques, besides me. There was a desk that was handed down from Aunt Rome to another and finally to our family. “It’s very old,” I told Jenny. “I try to keep it shiny and I show it off whenever I can. You do that with antiques.”
There was a picture on the wall bought at a garage sale. It was dated 1867. “Now that’s an antique,” I said with pride. “Over 100 years old.” Of course it was marked up and scratched（刮坏） and not in very good condition.” Sometimes age does that,” I told Jenny. “But the marks are good marks. They show living, or being around. That’s something to show with pride. In fact, sometimes, the more an object shows age, the more valuable it can become.” I believed this was important for my own self-worth.
Our tour of antiques continued. There was a flower vase on the floor. It had been in my house for a long time. I was not certain where it came from but I didn’t buy it new. One thing about antiques, I explained to Jenny, was that they usually had a story. They’d been in one home and then another, handed down from one family to another, traveling all over the place. They’d lasted through years and years. They could have been thrown away, or ignored, or destroyed, or lost. But instead, they survived.
For a moment, Jenny looked thoughtful. “I don’t have any antiques but you,” she said. Then her face brightened. “Could I take you to school for show and tell?”
“Only if I fit into your backpack,”I answered. And then Jenny’s antique lifted her up and gave her a hug that would last through the years.
94．Grandma read the definition of “antique” to Jenny in order to ________.
A．express her unhappiness at being called “antique”
B．list all the important characteristics of antiques
C．tell Jenny the importance of protecting antiques
D．change Jenny’s understanding of antiques
95．Which of the following information did grandma express to Jenny?
A．The desk reminded her of her dear relatives.
B．The marks on the picture showed its age and value.
C．There was usually a sad story behind each antique.
D．She planned to buy a new flower vase to replace the old one.
96．What can be inferred（推断）from the last paragraph?
A．Grandma was too old to lift Jenny up.
B．Jenny was too young to know grandma’s humor.
C．Grandma had a deep long-lasting love for Jenny.
D．Jenny had a strong wish for grandma’s love.
97．What can be the best title for the passage?
A．A list of Antiques B．Grandma’s Antique
C．Jenny’s Antique D．A Story of Antiques


参考答案：
1．C 2．D 3．D

【导语】本文主要讲了作者受大儿子的邀请去参加音乐会的事情。
1．细节理解题。根据“Aron was 16 years old. How many years would I have to do something fun with him before he went to college? And how many youths invite their mothers to attend a concert with them that was clearly for teens? The decision was made. I’d not miss this chance.”可知Aron的妈妈决定和他一起参加音乐会是因为她珍惜与儿子共度时光的机会。故选C。
2．推理判断题。根据“At the concert, I sat with Aron in the third row, stuffing cotton in my ears to block out the loud music of the first performer. I stood when the kids stood, clapped when they clapped, and never let anyone know how nervous I was to feel the floor shaking under my feet.”可知音乐的声音太大了，作者耳朵里塞了棉花，因为音乐声带来的地板晃动而紧张。故选D。
3．细节理解题。根据“Aron is now grown and has a family of his own, but we are still very close. Some days he calls just to chat and tell me about his day.”可知即使成年后，Aron仍然和他的母亲保持着亲密的关系。故选D。
4．B 5．A 6．C

【导语】本文主要讲真正的“社交恐惧症”是什么样子的。
4．细节理解题。根据“They prefer not to go out much, saying that it’s hard for them to make new friends or socialize.”可知第一段说年轻人不喜欢外出，并说交朋友或社交很困难，故选B。
5．细节理解题。根据“Their brains simply won’t allow them to interact with others in a normal（正常地）way. People with social phobia disorder can even experience panic attacks（惊恐发作）.”可知此处提到有社交恐惧的人大脑不允许他们正常地去社交。故选A。
6．主旨大意题。根据“But is this a ‘real’ disorder（病症）?”可知本文主要解释什么是真正地社交恐惧症。故选C。
7．B 8．B 9．C 10．C

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了SSD——一副特殊的手套。
7．词句猜测题。根据第二段可知，一副特殊的手套可能会让这成为现实，这个触觉设备就称之为SSD，故选B。
8．词句猜测题。根据“One user’s gloves create 3D force signals when they touch something. The signals are sent to the other user’s gloves”可知，一名用户的手套在触摸物体时产生3D力信号，而信号被发送到另一个用户的手套上，所以划线单词表示“信号”，故选B。
9．细节理解题。根据第五段“The SSD is special because it has a high level of sensitivity（灵敏度）even when it is used continuously. This makes it feel more realistic.”可知，SSD很逼真，是因为它有高的灵敏度，故选C。
10．推理判断题。根据“Two doctors in separate places could work together during an operation—one touches the patient with the SSD while the other doctor feels the same sensation and completes the real operation.”可知，两个医生共同手术，一个医生操作手术，而另一个也会有相同的触感，可见SSD使得远程操作成为可能，故选C。
11．D 12．A 13．C 14．D

【导语】本文主要介绍了冰球运动的发展。
11．细节理解题。根据“One of the biggest differences between the sports is the surface on which they are played.”可知，这两种运动之间最大的区别之一是它们的比赛场地，故选D。
12．细节理解题。根据“It’s said that the first informal hockey games were played with pucks made of frozen cow waste!”；“Ice hockey has been around, officially, since the late 1800s. This is when the rules were made by J.A. Creighton.”；“The first league was in place by the early 1900s.”；“Later, ice hockey became an Olympic sport.”以及“Today, ice hockey is the most popular team sport played on the ice all over the world.”可知，正确的顺序是e-a-c-b-d，故选A。
13．推理判断题。根据“Instead, the names of the winning hockey team’s players, coaches, and managers are added to the presentation cup. There are five rings of names. The oldest ring is removed when a new one is added.”可知，当一个新的戒指被添加时，旧的戒指被移除，也就是说并不是每年都会为冠军创造一个新的奖杯，故选C。
14．推理判断题。根据全文内容可知，本文主要介绍了冰球运动的发展，故选D。
15．A 16．B 17．C

【导语】本文是一篇应用文。本文推荐了四本书，包括作者以及主要内容等介绍。
15．细节理解题。根据第二本书“On May 19th 2021, Give Me Some Space! was read to over 1.98 million children across Australia and New Zealand by NASA astronaut Shannon Walker-from the International Space Station (ISS)!”可知，Give me some Space已经给超过一百九十八万的来自ISS的孩子们读过了。
16．细节理解题。根据第一本书“From idea to creation and beyond, this fact-filled, fashionable book introduces readers to Curiosity and her mission...”可知，这本书介绍给读者“新奇之物”和“她的使命”。这本书作者是Markus Moturm，故选B。
17．词义猜测题。根据最后一本书“During a sleepover, Ada’s best friend Nina hears something strange coming from the radio in the middle of the night. A distant voice says ...convincing Nina that aliens are about to invade the Earth.”可知，Ada的最好的朋友在午夜听到来自录音机的奇怪陌生声音，使得Nina相信外星人将要“袭击”地球。“attack”译为“袭击”，“welcome”译为“欢迎”，“visit”译为“拜访”，“attract”译为“吸引”，故选C。
18．A 19．C 20．C

【导语】本文主要介绍了电子鼻。
18．推理判断题。根据文章第二段中的“But imagine if a person had to smell the thousands of bottles of milk that farms produce every day-all that milk would go bad long before the testing was done”可知，通过人工闻牛奶需要的时间太长，因此有必要发明一个电子鼻。故选A。
19．细节理解题。根据文章第三段中的“Our brain understands all the odor fingerprints, Dr. Lewis’s electronic nose is modeled after the human nose to detect odor fingerprints”可知，Dr. Lewis的电子鼻的工作过程类似于人的鼻子。故选C。
20．推理判断题。根据“Dr. Lewis is working on how to make the electronic nose get smarter. Maybe someday fridges with electronic noses will tell you when food has gone bad, or your locker room will use them to remind you to wash your sports clothes”可知，作者可能会同意电子鼻将广泛应用于我们的日常生活中。故选C。
21．D 22．A 23．B 24．D

【导语】本文一篇说明文。文章主要讲述中国宇航员在地球上空400千米的地方举行的太空讲座。
21．细节理解题。根据第一段“three Chinese astronauts gave a science lecture 400 kilometers above Earth”可知，讲座发生在地球以上400千米的地方。D选项表述正确。故选D。
22．词义猜测题。根据前文“NASA says that astronauts can lose up to 20 percent of their muscles after just a couple of weeks.”可知，宇航员在一两周之后就会失去高达20%的肌肉。根据“ too weak to work”可知，句子表达宇航员太虚弱不能工作。“they”指的是“astronauts”。故选A。
23．推理判断题。根据“This can never happen on Earth”及“Water in space acts differently from water on Earth in other ways”可知，讲述的是太空的水和地球上的水的行动方式不同。小标题可概括为“Space water is different太空的水是不同的”。故选B。
24．推理判断题。通读全文可知，文章的目的是为了讲述中国宇航员在地球上空400千米的地方举行的太空讲座。故选D。
25．D 26．C 27．B 28．C

【导语】本文是狄更斯的一个小说的节选，圣诞节就要到了，Scrooge还在忙着工作，他的侄子祝他圣诞节快乐，但是他觉得那都是骗人的话，什么都不如钱更重要。
25．推理判断题。根据短文中“One Christmas Eve, old Scrooge and Bob were working busily in his office.”可知，文章的这个故事发生在圣诞节的前夕，圣诞节是12月25日，在冬天的时候。故选D。
26．细节理解题。根据短文中“‘Bah!’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug(骗人的话)!’”和“‘What else can I be?’ answered the uncle. ‘I live in a world of fools! Merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you?’”可知，当他的侄子祝他圣诞节快乐的时候，他的回应是那是骗人的话，而且Scrooge觉得过圣诞节的都是傻子。故选C。
27．推理判断题。根据短文中“Bob, standing in the corner of the room, applauded( 鼓掌). He realized his mistake every soon, and went quickly back to his work, but Scrooge had heard him.‘One more sound from you. Bob Cratchit,” said Scrooge,“and you’ll cerebrate Christmas by losing your job!’”可知，当Bob为Scrooge的侄子所说的话鼓掌的时候，Scrooge警告他说“再发出声音就要丢掉工作”，由此可知，Scrooge是Bob的老板。故选B。
28．推理判断题。根据短文中“Bob, standing in the corner of the room, applauded( 鼓掌). He realized his mistake very soon, and went quickly back to his work, but Scrooge had heard him.”，Bob为Scrooge侄子说的话鼓掌。以及短文最后“He sopped to wish Bob a Merry Christmas. And Bob replied, “A Merry Christmas to you, too.””可知，Bob和Scrooge的侄子一样，都相信圣诞节的愿望。故选C。
29．B 30．B 31．D

【导语】本文关注的是网络游戏问题，通过对龚先生孩子网游消费的报道和江苏省消费者委员会的消费者调查报告，结合对高中生王仪涵的采访，指出网游公司的青少年模式尚需改进，建议采用不同的方法来检测玩家身份，包括在儿童付费玩网络游戏时使用指纹、密码或面部识别。
29．推理判断题。“It’s in the air so far.”句意为：到目前为止，事情悬而未决。根据此句可推知龚先生的投诉还没有得到很好的解决，钱还没有拿回来。故选B。
30．词义猜测题。根据“limit the time their children spend in using the apps.”可知，这里是“用户可以通过输入密码来延长观看时间”，extend表示“延长”，即：Make something longer.故选B。
31．推理判断题。根据“According to Guangdong Consumer Council, game companies are being advised to introduce different methods to check who the players are, including fingerprint, password or facial recognition (人脸识别) when children pay to play online games.”可知，游戏公司需要对网络游戏制订更严格的规则。故选D。
32．B 33．A 34．A

【导语】本文介绍了很多人都喜欢旅行，但是可能没有太多人写旅行日记。其实旅行日记可以帮助我们把这些旅行的经历记录下来，很长时间保存在我们的记忆里，短文中关于如何写旅行日记作者给了我们一些建议。
32．细节理解题。根据“Keep ticket stubs (存根). Whenever you use a ticket for a train or a museum or a ride. Tape the stubs to your journal. They are pieces of history from your journey. Years later you can look at the ticket stubs and see exactly what you were doing on a specific day and how much it cost.”可知，从保留的票根中看不出当时的感受。故选B。
33．主旨大意题。根据“A travel journal (日志) is one of the best ways to keep a long journey in memory. Many details that don’t seem important while you are writing your travel journal often turn out to be so memorable.”可知，作者写这篇文章的主要目的是建议我们如何写旅行日记。故选A。
34．细节理解题。根据“Take a few minutes every day and put down your memories. It doesn’t have to be long, just on a regular basis (定期).”可知，这里是说养成每天写旅行日记的习惯，此为2；根据“They include the day, where you are, who you are with, maybe even the weather and what you eat. Years later when you read your journal, you will know exactly what you were doing on that day.”可知，这里介绍了日记的内容，此为3；根据“Memories of these feelings disappear quickly with time. Writing about the experiences while the memories are fresh is important.”可知，这里是说不要忘记写下你的感受，此为1。因此正确的顺序是2→3→1。故选A。
35．A 36．C 37．B 38．D

【导语】本文作者是想通过分享自己做校报记者的经历，来鼓励学生们为大学刊物工作。
35．推理判断题。根据“I probably won’t work as a journalist after my graduation, but this doesn’t mean my experience in student journalism has been useless.”可知，作者毕业后可能不会做记者，所以根据这篇文章，作者大学毕业后，可能会停止从事新闻工作。故选A。
36．细节理解题。根据“It was about the victory of the school baseball team. I attended the celebration and was told to do some interviews.”可知，作者写的第一个故事很可能出现在学校报纸上的体育页面。故选C。
37．推理判断题。根据“As a student journalist, I always know that I have a lot to learn. I’m never afraid of asking people for feedback (反馈意见). I have learned how not to take negative feedback personally and how to use it to make improvements to myself.”可知，批判性思维在我们日常生活中变得越来越有用。故选B。
38．主旨大意题。根据“If you are ever given a chance to write for a campus newspaper or magazine, take it and learn everything you can!”及全文内容可知，作者是想通过分享自己做校报记者的经历，来鼓励学生们为大学刊物工作。故选D。
39．C 40．D 41．C 42．D

【导语】本文主要讲了故宫与华为合作，实现5G WIFI信号覆盖。同时采用物联网，利用遍布故宫博物院的闭路电视影像机，保护故宫的珍贵文物。并且5G网络还将用于通过网络摄像头改善远程咨询，促进与海外学者的对话，共同寻找修复和保存问题的最佳答案。
39．细节理解题。根据“This modern solution comes thanks to an agreement signed on Friday by the museum and Huawei Co., the telecommunication giant, to build a “smart network” using 5G technology. Under the agreement, 5G Wi-Fi signals will cover the Palace Museum, China’s royal palace from 1420 to 1911.”可知，故宫将与华为合作，提升其管理水平。故选C。
40．推理判断题。根据“The new system will also make use of the closed-cameras that are set up all over the Palace Museum to safeguard the museum’s precious relics. More than 1.86 million of them are housed at the museum, which recorded nearly 20 million visits from the public last year. ‘How can we make sure no single visitor who might have evil ideas threatens these treasures?’ Shan said.”可知，第四段的关于故宫博物院的数字是想要表明它面临着保护文物的艰巨挑战。故选D。
41．细节理解题。根据“The new system will also make use of the closed-cameras that are set up all over the Palace Museum to safeguard the museum’s precious relics.”可知，有了5G网络，故宫博物院可以即时保护文物。故选C。
42．最佳标题题。结合全文内容可知，本文主要讲了故宫与华为合作，实现5G WIFI信号覆盖。同时采用物联网，利用遍布故宫博物院的闭路电视影像机，保护故宫的珍贵文物。并且5G网络还将用于通过网络摄像头改善远程咨询，促进与海外学者的对话，共同寻找修复和保存问题的最佳答案。由此可知，本文的标题应为“新旧之间的联系”。故选D。
43．A 44．C 45．B

【导语】本文是一则关于买书的网站亚马逊的图书价位以及总体的情况表单。
43．推理判断题。根据文中“amazon”以及图片整个信息分析可知，这是一个买书的网站，故选A。
44．细节理解题。根据文中的信息“Hardcover”下面的信息“10 used from $88.88”可知，如果从亚马逊购买二手精装套装，需要付费$88.88，故选C。
45．细节理解题。根据文中“by J.K. Rowling(Author), Mary Grandpre(illustrator)”可知，图书的作者的J.K. Rowling，而插图作者是Mary Grandpre，故选B。
46．D 47．B 48．C

【导语】本文是说明文。文章讲述了树的一生，树的贡献，树木是自然的宝藏，非常值得保护。由树引申出人的一生和树的一生很相似。
46．段落大意题。第三段讲述了树从4岁到25岁的生长经过，它的一生给我们提供了很多，由此告诉我们：树木是自然珍宝，非常值得保护。故选D。
47．词句猜测题。根据“…it provides a home for small animals …”它为小动物提供了一个家。可以猜出树变成空心的，hollow表示“空心的”。故选B。
48．推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“When we are looking at the life of a tree, we learn about that each period of life brings its own form of joy and challenge. Life is hard but the value of life is how you live it bravely.”可知，在很多方面，一棵树的生命与我们自己的生活经历相似。当我们观察一棵树的生命时，我们了解到生命的每个时期都带来了自己的喜悦和挑战。这就是为什么享受生命的每一分钟。故选C。
49．C 50．A 51．B

【导语】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了在古代花木兰代父从军的故事。花木兰的故事传遍了整个中国。花木兰的故事激励了许多年轻女性，她们想学习如何骑马和使用剑。
49．细节理解题。根据“Her father was too old and weak to fight”和“She knew her father would never return alive if he was there.”可知花木兰父亲太老，身体太虚弱，如果参加战斗，就不会活着回来，所以木兰代父从军。故选C。
50．细节理解题。根据第一段“…Mulan’s father believed everyone should know how to fight, even girls.”花木兰的父亲认为每个人都应该知道如何战斗，甚至女孩。故事顺序排在第一位，可知与选项AC符合，故排除选项BD。根据第四段“Mulan stole his armor (盔甲). She acted herself as a man.”花木兰偷走了父亲的盔甲，把自己扮成一个男人。可知木兰穿上盔甲，扮成男人，想代父从军。而第四段“Mulan’s younger brother liked her military clothes.”花木兰的弟弟喜欢她的军装。可知这是花木兰代父从军凯旋归来之后的事。故排除选项C。故选A。
51．细节理解题。根据“After recounting many memories, they finally believed that Mulan was a woman who had fought by their side in the war. They spread Mulan’s story across China.”可知和花木兰一起服兵役的两个士兵知道了花木兰是女子，并把花木兰的故事传遍了整个中国。故选B。
52．B 53．D 54．C 55．D

【分析】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了“基因对一个人交友选择的影响”的研究成果。
52．题意：根据本文内容，我们知道朋友__________。
细节理解题。根据原文They found that friends have 1% of genes that match可知，朋友之间有1%的基因是相同的。B选项share 1% of genes with us“与我们共享了1%的基因”符合题意，故选B。
53．题意：根据本文内容，作者可能同意__________。
观点态度题。根据原文So do you happen to become friends with people who share your genes? Not at all. In fact, it is evolution(进化) that brings you together … People who share certain genes also share skills and have similar likes and dislikes可知，不是拥有部分相同基因的人就一定会成为好朋友，而是拥有某些相同基因的人也会拥有相同的技能和好恶，因此他们成为朋友的概率大于其他人。D选项people sharing certain genes have skills and interests in common“分享某些相同基因的人有共同的技能和兴趣”符合题意，故选D。
54．题意：作者以第5段中的古人为例来__________。
推理判断题。根据原文In fact, it is evolution(进化) that brings you together. People who share certain genes also share skills and have similar likes and dislikes可知，作者举古人的例子是为了证明，是进化把朋友聚集在了一起。C选项prove that it is evolution that brings friends together“证明是进化把朋友聚集在一起”符合题意，故选C。
55．题意：以下哪一项是本文的最佳标题？
最佳标题。通读全文可知，本文是一篇说明文，介绍了“基因对一个人交友选择的影响”的研究成果。D选项Friendship: Is It Possible to Be Influenced by Genes?“友谊：有没有可能受到基因的影响？”符合题意，故选D。
56．B 57．A 58．D

【导语】本文主要介绍了加布里埃尔·安德森从喜欢画画到创办公司的故事。
56．细节理解题。根据“But many outside of her school also know the 17-year-old girl well not because of her skills on the playground but because of her artwork.”可知，学校以外的许多人了解她是因为她的艺术作品。故选B。
57．细节理解题。根据“Anderson says that drawing had been her hobby long before she began playing basketball.”可知，早在她开始打篮球之前画画就是她的爱好。故选A。
58．细节理解题。根据“...she is going to attend different lessons so as to get better at her craft(手艺) and help her company to grow.”可知，她会参加不同的课程来提高手艺。故选D。
59．D 60．C 61．D

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。介绍的是搞笑诺贝尔奖的三个内容，看看它们是如何搞笑并带给了你什么思考。
59．细节理解题。根据“Economies Prize: Dirty Money”这一部分的倒数第二句“They found that the Romanian Leu, carry more drug-resistant pathogens.” 可知，罗马尼亚庄胜钦携带更多的耐药性病原体。这个属于“Dirty Money”“脏钱”这一部分，故选D。
60．细节理解题。根据“Biology Prize∶Cockroach（绿耗）”这一部分的最后两句“More surprisingly, an international team found that dead cockroaches have more magnetic qualities than live ones. That’s because magnetic qualities drop when the temperature gets higher.” 可知，死去的绿耗比活着的更有磁性，当温度升得越高，磁性就会越下降。所以最具有磁性更多的是在冰附近的死的绿耗。故选C。
61．细节理解题。根据最后一句“So if you can stand cockroaches, they may be good magnetic sensors.” 可知，如果你能忍受绿耗，它们是好的有磁性的传感器。故选D。
62．D 63．A 64．C 65．A

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了算盘的的各组成部分及运算方法、它曾经在人们生活中的作用以及它对今天人们生活的影响。
62．细节理解题。根据“In China, people used abacuses to do calculations quickly for thousands of years... ”可知，古代中国人用算盘来计算。故选D。
63．推理判断题。根据“Each bead above the horizontal divider stands for five, and each bead below the divider stands for one...The rightmost is ones, the second is tens...”可知，分割杠上面的每个珠子代表5，分割杠下面的每个珠子代表1，竖向分割杠最右边一列是个位，右边第2列是十位。所以答案应该是45。故选A。
64．词义猜测题。根据“It was considered to be an important skill that everybody needed to pick up.”可知，打算盘被认为是一门重要的技能，所以每个人应该去“学习”它。故选C。
65．主旨大意题。根据文章第一段及整体内容可知，文章一直在给我们介绍算盘，并且一些研究者认为它是世界最古老的计算器。故选A。
66．C 67．C 68．B 69．C

【导语】本文主要讲述一对年轻的夫妇，一个是钢琴家，一个是画家。他们都想继续学习专业，但是费用昂贵，他们俩为了彼此，说出善意的谎言，愿为对方考虑、付出。
66．细节理解题。根据短文最后一行“[A story by O. Henry—adapted(改编)]”可知，这个故事的作者O. Henry。故选C。
67．词句猜测题。根据短文第三段“But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn’t afford the lessons any more”可知年轻的夫妇俩没有钱上课了；和第六段的描述可知他们不必再为钱担心，所以应当很高兴。故选C。
68．细节理解题。根据文中描述可知他们俩都说了谎，但是都是善意的谎言，所以都笑了。故选B。
69．最佳标题。根据短文大意可知，夫妇两人，都为对方考虑，可知最佳标题是“爱的奉献”。故选C。
70．B 71．D 72．B

【导语】本文主要介绍了几个招聘广告，包括这些工作的要求、工资和联系方式等。
70．细节理解题。根据“With a practical knowledge of computer”“Good at writing and skilled at computer”以及“Good at computer”可知会计、秘书和销售业务员都需要擅长计算机，只有服务员没有要求计算机能力。故选B。
71．细节理解题。根据“Aged under 22”可知服务员要求年龄在22岁以下。故选D。
72．细节理解题。根据“Tel: 4474398Fax: 3485269”可知这是Wilson bookstore的联系方式，选项B表述正确。故选B。
73．B 74．D 75．A

【分析】本文以奥古斯登植物园为例，介绍了什么是绿色屋顶及其好处。它不止漂亮也有助于调节城市温度。此外，绿色屋顶吸收雨水，保护城市排水系统。绿色屋顶充满生机，使这座城市成为自然的一部分。
73．细节理解题。根据第一段内容可知，作者此处以奥古斯登植物园为例，解释绿色屋顶是什么样子的。故选B。
74．词句猜测题。raise升高；check检查；record记录；control控制，调节。根据“The high temperatures on common roofs in the summer can make top floor flats uncomfortably hot…Rooftops covered with plants help keep buildings cool.”可知，夏天普通屋顶的高温会让顶层公寓热得不舒服，但是绿色屋顶有助于保持建筑物的凉爽，所以此处moderate表示“控制，调节”的含义。故选D。
75．推理判断题。根据下文“Small animals and birds can make their homes on it.”可知，动物和小鸟可以在上面安家，所以绿色屋顶是充满生机的。故选A。
76．D 77．A 78．A 79．B

【导语】本文主要是关于“感染新冠病毒后导致大脑的变化”的研究和发现。
76．推理判断题。根据“The lost tissues（组织）have influenced areas of the brain connected to memory and the sense of smell.”可知，大脑中缺失的组织会影响记忆和嗅觉，所以D项表述错误，故选D。
77．细节理解题。根据“A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford has suggested catching COVID-19 may lead to changes to the brain.”可知，牛津大学的研究人员发现了大脑的变化，故选A。
78．细节理解题。根据“The findings of the team’s study are published in the journal Nature. It got help from the findings of an early long-term research project ...”可知，研究小组的研究结果发表在《自然杂志》上，这项研究得到了一项早期长期研究项目的帮助，故选A。
79．主旨大意题。本文主要是关于“感染新冠病毒后导致大脑的变化”的研究，B项“有关COVID-19近期的发现”符合主题大意，故选B。
80．B 81．B 82．A 83．D

【分析】本文是是小说《金银岛》故事。本·冈恩发现了宝藏，并带到了山洞里。吉姆和本去山洞见乡绅和医生。有三个反叛者逃跑了。吉姆回到山洞，船长正躺在宝藏旁边。那天晚上，船长死了。他们把宝藏带到船上。第二天早上，吉姆、医生、乡绅、长约翰·西尔弗和本·冈恩把三个反叛者留在岛上，带着财宝回到布里斯托尔。到了布里斯托尔，约翰·西尔弗带了一些金子跑了。吉姆、医生、乡绅、和本·冈恩分享了宝藏。
80．细节题。根据第1段“As we walked down the shore, Ben Gunn told his story.‘… I dug around that tree and found the treasure….’（ 当我们沿着海岸走时，Ben Gunn讲述了他的故事，‘……我在那棵树周围挖掘，发现了宝藏…’。）”可知Ben Gunn发现了宝藏；故选B。
81．细节题。根据第3段“‘It was useless by then,’ the doctor said. ‘There was no buried treasure. Ben Gunn had it. My plan was to get Long John Silver and his men away from the stockade(木寨). We could then get some stores from it.’（“到那时已经没用了，”医生说。“没有埋藏的宝藏了。本·冈恩得到了它。我的计划是让长约翰·西尔弗和他的手下离开寨子。我们可以从那里获得些备用物。”）”可知“医生把地图给了约翰·西尔弗是因为Ben Gunn把宝藏拿走了，那时候地图已经没用了。”故选B。
82．细节题。根据第4段“When we got back to the cave, the squire was waiting for us.（我们回到山洞时，乡绅正等着我们。）”可知乡绅正在山洞里等着。故选A。
83．细节判断题。根据第一段“As we walked down the shore, ．．．They were waiting at the cave.””可知Ben Gunn解释了宝藏和洞穴，故A正确。根据第7段“We were not afraid of the three mutineers. We had pistols(手枪). They had none. There were more of us than of them.（我们不怕那三个反叛者。我们有手枪。他们一个也没有。我们比他们多。）”可知“这三个反叛者不敢和医生和他的人打架，因为医生有手枪和更多的人。”故B正确。根据第9段第2句和第10段第3句“But as soon as we got to Bristol, Long John Silver ran away. He took some of the gold with him. … We each shared the treasure and used it in a different way.”可知“吉姆、医生、乡绅、长约翰·西尔弗和本·冈恩把三个反叛者留在岛上，带着财宝回到布里斯托尔。长约翰·西尔弗一到布里斯托尔拿走了部分财宝。”故C正确，D错误。选D。
84．D 85．C 86．C

【导语】根据美国麻省理工学院的科学家通过研究许多年龄在10岁到90岁之间的人，发现人们在不同的年龄擅长做不同的事情。这篇短文用图片展示了研究结果。
84．推理判断题。根据第一段“According to a recent study by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, people are best at doing different things at different ages”可知，短文介绍的是美国麻省理工学院的一份研究报告。故选D。
85．细节理解题。根据图示中“As you grow up, you may find it easier to focus. The age of 43 is the peak time for this ability”可知，人们在43岁的时候更容易集中注意力。故选C。
86．细节理解题。根据48岁的图示中“Now you’re best at understanding other people’s feelings and emotions”可知，人们在48岁时最擅长理解别人的感受和情绪。C选项符合文意，故选C。
87．B 88．A 89．D

【导语】本文是童话书《蝴蝶狮》的节选，讲述了小男孩伯蒂与一只白狮子之间神秘而动人的故事。
87．推理判断题。根据“It’ll take a bit of time, won’t it?” I said.“We’ve got plenty, haven’t we?” he replied”可知他们雕刻The White Prince用了很长的时间，It took the next twenty years to do it和‚处联系紧密。故选B。
88．推理判断题。根据故事内容：“Bertie was sad for weeks, months after the lion died”狮子死后几个月，伯蒂伤心了好几个星期；“We’ll carve The White Prince out on the hillside-he’ll be there forever”我们将在山上雕刻出白王子——他将永远在那里；“It took the next twenty years to do it. Every spare hour we had, we were up there scraping away with spades, and we had buckets to carry away the earth”接下来的二十年才完成。每当有空闲的时间，我们都在上面用铲子铲地，用桶把土运走； “the butterflies...come out to drink on the chalk face”蝴蝶出来在粉笔脸上喝水；可知a-c-d-b顺序正确。故选A。
89．主旨大意题。根据短文内容，狮子死后伯蒂异常伤心，他在家人的帮助下花了二十年的时间雕刻出了白狮子，蝴蝶飞来变成了一只蝴蝶狮子，于是像一个生物一样呼吸，可见伯蒂十分喜爱这头狮子。故选D。
90．B 91．B 92．D 93．A

【导语】本文主要讲述了同理心是什么以及如何培养孩子的同理心。
90．细节理解题。根据“In a world where self- satisfaction（自满）is much talked about, it is in short supply（供应）but highly needed. The most important thing is to teach the young kids what it means to have empathy for those around them.”可知，在一个经常谈论自我满足的世界里，自我满足供不应求，但却非常需要。最重要的是教会孩子们什么是对周围的人有同理心；故选B。
91．推理判断题。根据“Not only is it the ability to understand how someone feels, but it also values and respects the feelings of another person. It means treating others with kindness, respect, and understanding.”可知，同理心不仅是理解别人感受的能力，而且它也重视和尊重另一个人的感受。它意味着善待他人，尊重他人，理解他人；考试失败，老师安慰，这是同理心的展现；故选B。
92．句意猜测题。根据“They learn how to meet the emotional needs of others and they are based on what they are receiving, meaning that they are safe enough to give to others when the need appears but first they need to receive.”可知，孩子们首先要情感得到满足，然后才能给予。故选D。
93．主旨大意题。根据全文内容可知，本文主要讲述了同理心是什么以及如何培养孩子有同理心；故选A。
94．D 95．B 96．C 97．C

【导语】本文讲述了作者和孙女之间对于古董这个单词的理解，作者就是她的古董，作者对她充满了深深的爱。
94．推理判断题。根据“To look as good as an antique, the object has to be at least 100 years old.”可知，给Jenny阅读“古董”的定义是为了让她理解什么是真正的“古董”，故选D。
95．细节理解题。根据“But the marks are good marks. They show living, or being around.”可知，这幅画上的痕迹显示出它的年代和价值；故选B。
96．推理判断题。根据“Jenny’s antique lifted her up and gave her a hug that would last through the years”可知，奶奶对Jenny的爱很深；故选C。
97．最佳标题题。根据全文内容和“Jenny’s antique lifted her up and gave her a hug that would last through the years”可知，本文讲述了作者和孙女之间对于古董这个单词的理解，作者就是她的古董，作者对她充满了深深的爱；因此选项“Jenny’s Antique”符合句意；故选C