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2022届江苏省泰州市高三下学期第二次调研测试
When Narayanswami was invited to a dinner by a friend who worked at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she was excited. Many of the guests flew planes. “I must have expressed some yearning(渴望),”she says, because someone told her “You should join the flying club!” The next day Narayanswami, who was 57 at the time, arranged to meet an instructor. “I said ‘Aren’t I too old?” He said “We’ve got students in their 80s.”
Narayanswami grew up in Southwest London, and at grammar school suffered horrific racist bullying. The library provided shelter. But, as she reached her late teens, she feel family pressure for an arranged marriage; “I really protested,” she says. “But I want to be an astronaut! My mother made a promise. As long as you are getting an education we will not look for a husband for you.”
Narayanswami studied biology at Leicester University, then did a PhD at St Andrew, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of California. “Every time you move you get further away,” her dad remarked on the phone. “I didn’t feel I would be able t escape unless I did that,” she says.
In 2020, aged 64, Narayanswami finished 423 light hours she needed to earn her pilot's license. Then she applied to Nasa’s astronaut corps, but received a very appreciative rejection. Even now, at 66, she says “I haven't been able to figure out how to deal with it. It doesn’t go away.” The racist bullying she received as a child has cast a very long shadow.
Flying has helped. It is a workout: she has to tow the plane out to the taxiway. And it offers a different perspective. “I can see eagles, bears, mountain lions, birds of prey. I love the beauty of the clouds. They are like hills. Vaster than our hills,” she says.
New possibilities have arisen—Narayanswami chairs the board of the General Aviation Awards in the US—but she finds relaxing difficult. In light, she is part of a huge network of people who are communicating by radio frequency. There is no sense of skin colour. We are all tied together by our voices.
4. How did the instructor’s words sound to Narayanswami?
A. Disappointing. B. Embarrassing.
C. Annoying. D. Encouraging.
5. What does the,underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Accepting an aged marriage. B. Receiving an education.
C. Keeping a distance. D. Making a promise:
6. What does Narayanswami think of Nasa's rejection?
A. It indicates prejudice against her. B. It ruins her childhood memory.
C. It raises concern for her age. D. It leaves room for negotiation.
7. What does flying bring to Narayanswami?
A. A good way of relaxation. B. A different dimension of life.
C. A rich knowledge of wild lie. D. A full exhibition of leadership.

2022届福建省漳州市高中毕业班第二次质量检测
Guy Bryant never intended to be a father figure. But over the past 12 years, he’s housed more than 50 foster kids in his Brooklyn apartment.
For decades, Bryant, 61, worked with teens aging out of New York’s child welfare system. His job was to find services that would make the transition (过渡) to living on their own easier. But he felt that what he could accomplish at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services office wasn’t enough. So in 2007, he decided to become a foster parent.
In an interview last month, Bryant told Romario Vassell, 21, one of his foster children, that agreeing to care for him was definitely one of the best decisions he made in foster care. Bryant told Vassell that he was nervous when he took in his first foster child. He said, “I lived alone at that point, and he was a kid that nobody wanted to take because of his behaviors. He got in a fight and he appeared at my house.” Bryant said his family thought he was out of his mind for making such a big lifestyle change and wondered how Bryant would adjust.
Bryant had been Vassell’s assigned case worker when they met. Bryart suggested that Vassell, then an untidy 18-year-old, consider foster care as an option to get out of the home lead shelter where he was staying.
At first, Vassell was hesitant. “I didn’t know how foster care was.” he said.
Since living with Bryant, Vassell now feels like he has a support network. “If I feel down and like I’m cornered, I have someone I can reach out to and talk to.” he said. “And that’s what I really love.”
Bryant told Vassell, “Whatever you’ve learned from me, I want you to teach it to someone else. Because that’s what’s important to me.”
4. What is the second paragraph mainly about ?
A. The shift of teens’ life.
B. An introduction of Bryant’s task.
C. Bryant’s challenge as a foster parent.
D. The reason for Bryant’s being a foster parent.
5. How did Bryant’s family feel about his decision?
A. Disappointed. B. Ashamed. C. Puzzled. D. Embarrassed.
6. What can we know about Vassell from the text?
A. He is now living alone.
B. He was Bryant’s first foster kid.
C. He refused Bryant’s offer at first.
D. He was instructed to pay kindness forward.
7. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text ?
A. To call for social care. B. To praise Bryant’s deeds.
C. To tell the story of Vassell. D. To comment on Bryant’s life.


广东省佛山市2022届高三4月教学质量检测（二）
Like many constructions, it started small. But now thousands of children with autism (自闭症) are making friends and learning social skills by playing a special version of online building game Minecraft.
Stuart Duncan got the idea through a popular blog he ran about his own experiences with autism as well as bringing up a son with autism. Other parents with autistic children started telling him that their kids were crazy about a game that let them explore a randomly generated wilderness. However, despite loving the game, many of the children were being bullied (霸凌) by other players.
So, in 2013, Duncan, a web developer in Canada, set up a server to run a version of Minecraft only for children with autism and their families. He thought the invite-only server would attract 10 or 20 people, but hundreds requested to join in the first few days. Now, almost three years later, running the special version, Autcraft, is his full-time job. The community has nearly 7000 members, along with a team of engineers to help manage its many activities. “Parents see such a benefit for themselves and their children,” says Duncan.
In Minecraft, you use blocks of materials like wood and stone to build whatever you like. “This is a great way for them to play a game they love, but also have a social experience,” says Kate Ringland from the University of California, who has spent 60 hours inside this virtual world, watching how the kids play and chat to one another. “It’s giving an alternative way for these kids to express themselves and communicate without the stresses of the physical life stuff.”
Everyday social situations can be challenging for autistic children, who may struggle to pick up on social signals or understand another person’s viewpoint. Duncan thinks Minecraft removes the pressures typical of the real world. There is no noisy or unfamiliar environment to distract (使分心) you, no pressure to track the other person’s facial expressions or worry about eye contact. Joining a community like Autcraft could be a good first step to feeling less socially anxious and more engaged.
4. What inspired Duncan to run Autcraft?
A. Online Bullying.
B. His son’s request.
C. Some parents’ advice.
D. His blog about autism.
5. What can we learn about Autcraft from Paragraph 3?
A. It has about 7,000 engineers.
B. It was an unexpected success.
C. It helped parents play with their kids.
D. It remains accessible to all the people.
6. How does Minecraft help children according to Duncan?
A. By teaching communication skills.
B. By solving their real world problems.
C. By explaining other people’s viewpoints.
D. By offering stress-free social experiences.
7. What is the best title for the text?
A. How Can We Deal With Autism?
B. What Makes Minecraft So Famous?
C. Why Do Online Games Benefit Children?
D. How Does Autcraft Help Autistic Children?

2022届河北省石家庄市高中毕业班教学质量检测二
At just 19 years old, Akiša Peters teaches at the Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal College. He specializes in a language that is thousands of years old, the Dakota language, spoken by the Dakota people.
“The Dakota language is 'the most important aspect' of Dakota culture. Without it, our Dakota culture would no longer exist.” Peters claimed. “I was lucky to grow up around many first-language Dakota speakers. But now the elderly continually passed away and at the end of their lives, they just wanted to know their families would continue to have the language. One of the problems our people have is finding ways to get at-length and consistent exposure to the language.”
Aside from instructing at the college level, Peters uses social media to share videos that integrate humor, culture, and basic-level conversation to help teach Dakota. In his free time, he visits Dakota elders. He also started an online group of youth to converse and share the knowledge of the language in a safe and supportive space.
Akiša Peters wants to tell the youth that if they want to learn their own language, sit with their elders and learn from them. Endless vocabulary sheets could discourage them from learning. Standards created by non-speakers could also do that. “Within the next decade, I assume, me, my colleagues, and other Dakota-learning relatives will have children and start a new generation of Dakota. I also hope my brothers and sisters will take the path we laid out for them and continue to learn and speak Dakota On my reservation there are numerous young people working on the comeback of the language. I'm hopeful because I'm definitely not alone.” Akiša Peters told Teenvogue.
4. Why does Akiša Peters teach the Dakota language?
A. To enrich his experience. B. To record its written form.
C. To prevent it dying out. D. To make it known globally.
5. What can we say about Akiša Peters according to Paragraph 3?
A. Learned. B. Creative. C. Approachable. D. Cooperative.
6. What does Akiša Peters expect the young people to do?
A. Deal with vocabulary sheets. B. Sustain the given standards.
C. Communicate with their elders. D. Learn from their teachers.
7. Which section of a website is the text probably taken from?
A. Research. B. Business. C. Fashion. D. Culture.

湖南省雅礼十六校2022届高三第二次联考
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible insect. He lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.
“What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table—Samsa was a travelling salesman—and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur scarf who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff (暖手筒) that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.
Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the window, which made him feel quite sad. “How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense,” he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn’t have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.
He thought, “What a heavy career it is that I’ve chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them.” He felt a slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little white spots which he didn’t know what to make of; and when he tried to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold tremble.
He slid back into his former position. “Getting up early all the time,” he thought, “it makes you stupid. You’ve got to get enough sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my boss; I’d get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that would be the best thing for me. If I didn’t have my parents to think about I’d have given in my notice a long time ago, I’d have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He’d fall right off his desk! And it’s a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your inferiors from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing. Well, there’s still some hope; once I’ve got the money together to pay off my parents’ debt to him—another five or six years I suppose—that’s definitely what I’ll do. That’s when I’ll make the big change.
“First of all though, I’ve got to get up, my train leaves at five.”
12. According to the passage, Gregor initially believes his transformation is a ________.
A. curse
B. disease
C. nightmare
D. fraud
13 The author most likely includes a description of Gregor’s itch in paragraph 4 to ________.
A. remind the reader that Gregor has already turned into an insect
B. stress the disconnection between Gregor’s thoughts and his actual situation
C. present important details about what Gregor’s new body looks like
D. show that Gregor’s thoughts are focused on the changes to his body
14. The passage most strongly suggests which of the following about Gregor’s attitude toward his profession?
A. He is angry.
B. He is eager to please.
C. He is depressed.
D. He is diligent.
15. The main rhetorical (修辞的) effect of the final sentence of the excerpt （“First of all though, I’ve got to get up, my train leaves at five.”） is to ________.
A. provide a solution to the conflict Gregor faces
B. foretell the conflict between Gregor and his boss
C. illustrate Gregor’s flexibility and ability to move on
D. emphasize Gregor’s extreme sense of duty

泉州市2022届高中毕业班质量监测（二）
In Stornoway, the biggest town in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands, a yellow van (厢式货车) sits 0na narrow, one - way street.Driver lain Mackenzie has loaded his books in the van, organized his customers’orders and is preparing for his last turn of the week on the island of Lewis and Harris. The 16-year-old van runs three days a week,covering more than 800 miles of rough roads to deliver books to more than 800 residents.
The Outer Hebrides are home to Scotland’s highest concentration of "very remote rural" residents.When mobile libraries began operating in 1952 as a local council service, they were the main source of books for residents there. Even now, mobile libraries still serve as a lifeline to many, residents. Without them, some residents would be more than an hour’s drive from their nearest library branch. Mobile Iibraries remain integral to these communities. Visits by drivers like Mackenzie are sometimes the only regular face - to - face contact customers can count on in any given week.
Still, there are worries about the mobile libraries' future. As many people have moved away, in search of greater opportunity, villages across the islands are facing depopulation and a decreesse in resources. As a result, services have declined. In more remote areas, when school is not in session, public transport is available only once a week. Budget - saving proposals have offered to substitute the mobile libraries with online books and volunteer - run community centers. But residents say theee don't come close to the personal experience of physically choosing books, and none offered access to the limited Gaelic(盖尔语) resources available.
When the mobile library service was at risk of being cut, the Outer Hebrides communities, which own Scotland’s highest density (密度) of Gaelic speakers, voted to save it. In December, the local council approved two new vans. For longtime drivers Mackenzie, the approval for replacement vans marks a victory.
12. Why does the author mention Driver Iain Mackenzie and his van?
A. To highlight the simple life on the island.
B. To show the traffic conditions on the island.
C. To describe how books reach residents on the island.
D. To introduce the function of mobile libraries on the island.
13. What does the underlined word "integral" in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Essential. B. Familiar. C. Convenient. D. Challenging.
14. What made the mobile library service at risk of being cut?
A. Poor road conditions. B. Insufficient vans.
C. A lack of offline books. D. Budget - saving proposals.
15. What can we say about the residents?
A. They expect to move away from the islands.
B. They enjoy the traditional book delivery.
C. They are attached to online Gaelic books.
D. They volunteer to set up community libraries.

2022届山东省枣庄市高考二模试题
Jahkil Jackson is the creator of the famous Project I Am. Through the project, Jahkil looks to raise awareness for reducing homelessness in Chicago and beyond.
Even at a very tender age, his deeds already drew the recognition of former U. S. President Barack Obama in 2017. Jahkil also pushes to motivate and influence fellow kids to get more active and useful in their communities. When he was five years old, Jahkil assisted his aunt in distributing food to the homeless in Chicago. Then the little boy was unhappy to find out that people could not afford a home. He was always eager to find out how he could offer help to people. And he would be mad for not being able to give money to anyone asking for help on the streets. He was determined to help the homeless in every way he could.
That strong desire later gave birth to the Project I Am, his nonprofit organization, which focused on helping the homeless people. He founded it at the age of eight, and has since then never looked back on his journey of charity.
Through Project I Am, Jahkil Jackson reaches out to the homeless by distributing “Blessing bags”. Provided in the blessing bags are diverse kinds of materials to help the needy, including wipes, hand sanitizers, toothbrushes, toothpaste, socks, bottled water, among other things.
Jahkil Jackson is also one of the key workers in Dream for Kids, another nonprofit organization founded by Tom Tuohy, a social entrepreneur. Jahkil met with Tuohy at a Holiday for Hope event organized by the Dream for Kids. From there, he became the youngest ever student in the YES (Youth Enterprise Solution) program by the Dream For Kids. He has been working with them since then.
4. For what purpose did Jahkil create Project I Am?
A. To get awards. B. To collect money.
C. To do charity. D. To make friends.
5. How does Project I Am help?
A. Doing voluntary work. B. Giving out daily necessities.
C. Donating money to the poor. D. Offering shelters for the homeless.
6. Which of the following can best describe Jahkil?
A. Friendly and sociable. B. Kind-hearted and generous.
C. Energetic and powerful. D. Innocent and thoughtful.
7. What’s the best title of the text?
A. New Homes for the Homeless B. An Anti-poverty Project in Chicago
C. Do Your Charity at an Early Age D. Jahkil Jackson and His Blessing Bags

2022年深圳市高三年级第二次调研考试
Wang Shuang was just five when her parents divorced, dropped her at her uncle's and left. Football, as it often is, became an escape.
At seven, she was spotted by coach Xu Yilong, who found Wang quick in her playful behaviour. As the only girl in the boys' team, Wang's performances were impressive, earning her the nickname “Iron Girl. ” And soon, she sensed the sport's power. Football allowed her to “release herself" and realize “whatever happens, football never leaves you alone. ”
However, life was never smooth sailing. The constant jibes （嘲讽） from some people, who always tried to push her down and destroy her hopes, affected her so deeply that she lost confidence. “They were saying I had no talent at all. Gradually, I felt really so. ”Wang once wrote. But never did she stop playing. When she was called up to the national team, aged 17, Wang thought, “Me? Are you sure?” When a world-famous club wanted to sign her, she was “excited that an excellent coach thought I was good. ” It was only then that she felt confident in her abilities. “I felt recognized. Perhaps I had a bit of talent after all. ”
Not any “bit of talent”; the genius is praised as China's once-in-a-generation player.
China is a pioneer of women's football in Asia and has won the continental championship eight times, including seven straight titles between 1986 and 1999. That was their golden age. Gradually, though, the dynasty declined. It is hoped that Wang will inspire the women's football of the country to its former height.
Coaches are almost always hesitant to speak about individual players. But when coach Shui was asked about Wang before the match against Vietnam, she couldn't stop mentioning her influence on the team. Unfailingly performing on the big stage, Wang did not let her team down. When they lacked a quality ball, she delivered two high assists that finally led her team into the last-four clash （四分之一决赛）.
“Nobody knows how hard it was, ” declared Wang after the match. “We overcame difficulties. We also showed our strong spiritual power. I am proud of my team. ”
24. What can we infer about Wang from the second paragraph?
A. She earned a living on her own.
B. She was released from the team.
C. She was laughed at by the boys.
D. She found a sense of belonging.
25. How did Wang regain faith in her abilities?
A. By winning recognition.
B. By obtaining inspiration.
C. By playing in the national team.
D. By ignoring other people's jibes.
26. Which would best describe coach Shui's attitude to Wang?
A. Conservative. B. Contradictory.
C. Favourable. D. Demanding.
27. What's the best title for the text?
A. Wang Shuang: A Steel Rose
B. Wang Shuang: A Child Genius
C. WangShuang: A Football Pioneer
D. Wang Shuang: A Golden Age Creator
2022 年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试（二）
Andrew Bastawrous was 12 when he found out he could barely see. He was then socially awkward, failing at school and terrible at ball games.
Glasses turned his life around, yet even as a child he was aware of how lucky he was. Bastawrous grew up in the UK, but his family would visit poor parts of Egypt, where his parents were from. “Nobody there wore glasses, but I knew some people needed them,” he says. “It felt
incredibly unfair. At 16, I decided I wasn’t going to feel guilty about it any more.” He determined there and then to become an eye surgeon, and he did.
In 2012, he and his wife moved with their one-year-old son to a small town 5 hours’ drive from Nairobi. They had limited electricity and running water. For 18 months, every time Bastawrous and his team set up their “mobile” eye clinic in yet another new location, they had to drag heavy, fragile hospital equipment cross-country. There was another problem, as one local doctor described it, “We don’t even have enough doctors and now you also want eye surgeons? That’s probably a pipe dream.”
All this convinced Bastawrous that something fundamental was needed. So he started exploring ways to replace his clinic with a single, convenient device: a smartphone. He co-developed an app-based visual test that gathers as much information as the classic one, using similar principles. The critical difference is that almost anyone can carry it out after just a few minutes of training. Bastawrous co-founded a charitable company to develop and apply the technology more widely. His team also developed technologies that enabled a smartphone camera to take hospital-grade images of the back of the eye.
That’s a pretty good start, but Bastawrous has his sights set sky high. “I feel we’re at a tipping point now where this enormous problem will become a historical thing. That’s when I’ll sleep easy,” he says.
21. What drove Bastawrous to become an eye surgeon?
A. His personal misfortune.
B. His burning sense of injustice.
C. His ambition to turn his life around.
D. His guilt about leaving his home country.
22. What can we infer about Bastawrous’s first 18 months in Africa?
A. It’s hard and problematic.
B. It’s challenging but fruitful.
C. It’s adventurous and unrealistic.
D. It’s fundamental but innovative.
23. Bastawrous’s innovation can be described as .
A. cheap and convenient treatments for patients
B. a virtual and complete change from a classic test
C. a smart and popularised application of technology
D. fast and effective trainings of medical professionals
24. What do Bastawrous’s words in the last paragraph show?
A. His modest attitude to his past achievements.
B. His optimistic views on the cure for blindness.
C. His strong belief in the effects of future technology.
D. His firm determination to carry on his challenging career.

湖南省长沙市第一中学2021-2022学年高三下学期月考（七）
Jennifer Rocha, who graduated from UC San Diego, said she wanted to thank her parents for their support by taking graduation photos in the fields where she worked alongside them since high school. “I wanted to take those pictures out there, specifically in the field, because that’s what made me go to college,” Rocha said. “That was my dad’s lesson of saying: if you don’t pursue a higher education, you’re going to be working here the rest of your life.” Rocha said her parents encouraged her and her siblings to pursue a higher education.
She started working in the fields with her parents when she was a junior in high school. Each day, she would leave cross country practice to go home and work planting strawberries overnight. “It was tough labor,” Rocha said as she remembered working late nights in the fields. “I was like, ‘You know what? I don’t want to be doing this my whole life.’”
Completing the past four years of college was not always an easy feat for Rocha. While being a full-time student, she also worked at the university’s police department to help pay for her tuition. She worked long hours to fund her education. At times, her work shifts wouldn’t end until 4 or 5 am, leaving only a few hours to spare before the next class. “I have class at like 8 am, and it’s not worth me driving and then coming back,” Rocha said. “So, I would just nap in my car and then go to class after that. It was tough times, but I mean,we got that diploma.”
Rocha hopes her photos and her story will be an inspiration to immigrant families. She said it was important to include her parents in her graduation photos. “I wanted to not just honor them but honor all the migrant skilled workers, because a lot of times they aren’t recognized and we forget about them. My parents being migrant workers were able to have three girls get their college education, and you can do it, too, and your kids can,” she said.
4. Why did Rocha take graduation photos in the field?
A. To thank her parents for their hard work. B. To memorize her help with parents in fields.
C. To show her preference for field work. D. To show her success in ending field labor.
5. What did Rocha’s dad expect her to co?
A. Get a higher agriculture education. B. Stay away from working in fields.
C. Devote her whole life to fields. D. Become a learned field worker.
6. Which word can be used to describe Rocha’s college life?
A. Exciting. B. Boring. C. Carefree. D. Difficult.
7. What hope does Rocha have about her photos?
A. To stress the importance of education. B. To remind others of labor’s value.
C. To inspire others to pursue education. D. To win awards at graduation.

2022届黑龙江省齐齐哈尔市高三第二次模拟考试
It sounds impossible for a 500-pound bear to break into a house through a small window. But the animal known as Hank the Tank is no ordinary bear: He has used his extraordinary strength to force into at least 28 garages in South Lake Tahoe and is responsible for 152 reports of conflict behavior with the local people over the past seven months.
“This smart bear does not break into a garage where trash is kept,” the police department said in a statement. “He hangs out in the neighborhood quite often because he has been continuously rewarded with food stored in garages.”
The most recent incident occurred late last week, when local police officers were called to a home on Catalina Drive when Hank broke into another garage and the police department has planned a special trapping effort to remove Hank the Tank from the neighborhood. After he’s caught, it will decide whether he can be placed in a controlled habitat or whether he should be killed. “We hope that Hank can avoid the sad ending of another famous bear from the Tahoe area, ” it said.
Like Hank the Tank, the 500-pound bear named the Safeway Bear had lost its fear of people. It was known for driving away Kings Beach get-togethers, helping itself to a birthday cake and other treats. In 2020, it was caught on camera stealing food from a grocery store at Lake Tahoe’s northern shore.
The bear was eventually trapped and sent to a remote wild habitat in El Dorado County. Its tracking collar was found in the woods in the spring of 2021, leading biologists to hope that it had successfully gotten used to a natural diet and lost weight, allowing the collar to slip off.
But the truth was very heart-breaking. The big bear was reduced to a shell of its former self and was killed at a campground where a family gathering included small children.
“The action of the shooter was the most humane outcome for this bear,” said one of the biologists.
4. What do the police officers probably suggest the public do?
A. Avoid mixing food leftovers with garbage.
B. Replace small windows with bigger ones.
C. Call the police once they see Hank the Tank.
D. Put food outside to help the trapping effort.
5. Where was the Safeway Bear sent?
A. El Dorado County. B. Kings Beach.
C. Catalina Drive. D. Lake Tahoe.
6. What can be learned about the Safeway Bear?
A. It had a hard life in the Tahoe area.
B. It lost its ability to live in the wild.
C. It successfully got used to a natural diet.
D. It stole food and killed people on the beach.
7. What is the biologist’s attitude to the action of the shooter?
A. Opposed. B. Skeptical. C. Supportive. D. Unconcerned.

江西省上饶市六校2022届高三第二次联考
Igor Sikorsky was born on May 25th, 1889. Sikorsky developed an interest in natural sciences in his youth. He began studying at the Saint Petersburg Maritime Cadet Corps at the age of 14. In 1906, he decided that his future lay in engineering, so he left to study in Paris. In 1907, he returned home to complete his studies at the Mechanical College of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
A year later on a trip to Germany with his father, he learned of the achievements of the Wright Brothers and Ferdinand von Zeppelin’s airships. Sikorsky later said about this: “Within twenty-four hours, I’d decided to pursue aviation.”
Sikorsky then started his work on designing a helicopter. The first two attempts failed in 1909 and 1910 so he stopped and turned to fixed-wing aircraft (飞行器). His first attempt, the S-l, also failed. But his second attempt, the S-2, was a success. He continued to develop his knowledge to improve his airplane models. During this time，he also got his pilot’s license(执照). His fifth plane, the S-5, won him national attention. His sixth plane, the S-6-A, won him the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition. He built the first four-engine plane in 1913.
To continue to seek his dream, Sikorsky went to the United States in 1919, where he began teaching mathematics. He worked day and night and saved enough money to establish his own aviation company in Long Island in 1923. The company did pretty well but Sikorsky was dreaming big.
All this time his dream of building a helicopter had just grown bigger and he never stopped writing down his designs and ideas. In 1939 his dream came true. Sikorsky finally completed the VS-300 and piloted its first flight himself. It was the first successful helicopter of the United States and by 1940 served as the model for all single-rotor (单旋翼)helicopters.
Sikorsky’s work contributed greatly to the aviation industry and he was recognized as the father of helicopters because of his pioneering designs. He officially retired in 1957, but he continued to work as a consultant (顾问)until his death in 1972 at the age of 83.
24. What did Igor Sikorsky do after a trip in 1908?
A. He made engineering his major.
B. He moved from France to Germany.
C. He decided to change his life’s work.
D. He returned home to continue his studies.
25. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. Igor Sikorsky’s continuous hard work.
B. The life lessons Igor Sikorsky learned.
C. The reasons for Igor Sikorsky’s past failures.
D. Igor Sikorsky’s attempts to design helicopters.
26. What happened in the 1930s?
A. Igor Sikorsky’s helicopter was a success.
B. Igor Sikorsky received his pilot’s license.
C. Igor Sikorsky’s own company was set up.
D. Igor Sikorsky became a mathematics teacher.
27. What does the story of Igor Sikorsky inspire people to do?
A. face danger fearlessly B. treasure what they are
C. seek help from others D. stick to their dreams

宁夏石嘴山市2022届高三适应性测试二
Frederick Phiri is the junk-art king of Zambia: at just 22, he started to earn an international reputation for being able to make complex and elegant sculptures from scrap (废弃的) metal found in his community.
Phiri’s father died when he was starting primary school. Then his mother abandoned him and he had to stay with his grandfather. His grandfather paid for his schooling through primary school but when he entered secondary school, he had to get various jobs to pay for his fees. Yet even in school, he was always drawing and making things in class.
After graduating, he did what he could to support himself by making animal sculptures from wires and sold them to tourists. His work was so popular that it caught the eye of Karen Beattie, director of Project Luangwa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and economic development in central Africa.
“I introduced him to a local welder (焊工),” Beattie told Newsweek.
In 2017, Phiri worked with welder Moses Mbewe during the rainy season, helping to make a complex set of doors for Project Luangwa. The piece sparked an idea in Beattie’s mind: “I handed him a bunch of scrap metal and said, ‘Make something with this.’ And he did. It was wonderful.”
Today, Phiri continues his art, using pieces of junk people bring him—keys, broken bike chains, old metal plugs and whatever scrap metal is lying around. He then turns the junk into abstract animals—elephants, cranes, giraffes, chameleons—and sells them at Project Luangwa headquarters. The community has recognized his talents.
“My dream is to earn enough to study art at the Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka and be able to make a living from it,” Phiri said “and then to make very large sculptures.”
4. What is Phiri known for?
A. Serving his community. B. Collecting works of art.
C. Being the king of Zambia. D. Turning trash into treasure.
5. What can we learn about Phiri from paragraph 2?
A. He had an unhappy childhood. B. He paid for his primary school.
C. He had to support his grandfather. D. He missed school to do part-time jobs.
6. How does Phiri feel about his future?
A. Uncertain. B. Confident.
C. Depressed. D. Satisfied.
7. What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A. A Successful Path of Art. B. The Junk-art King of Zambia.
C. A Young Man’s Wildest Dream. D. The Modern Junk Works of Art.

山西晋城市2022年高三第二次模拟考试
A girls’ soccer team has gone from losing 20-0 each week to winning promotion to the top division—after a dad started coaching.
Golden Hill got routinely thrashed every time they competed in a game. The team now win regularly and secured promotion for next year. That is thanks to Stuart Henley. The 41-year-old car valeter (代客泊车的人), whose 14-year-old daughter plays for the team, took the job two years ago when the previous manager quit because no one else would.
Stuart renamed the team Leek Town Devils and started training hard in February 2020. Many players had never kicked a soccer before joining the team, so training them took hours of hard work and patience. Stuart’s first season was disturbed by the pandemic (疫情), which forced him to get creative with training. He organized team-building activities with the girls to help them bond on and off the field. Stuart then spent the sessions they could hold focusing on the basics of soccer like passing, shooting and movement. Each week the girls were asked to work on the bits that went wrong the previous Saturday and learn from them, which really helped the team improve.
Stuart recalled,“In our first game together, when we scored a goal it was like winning the World Cup. Although we lost the game, we didn’t care because the goal was a sign of progress.”
Stuart watched the girls develop over the course of last year, and in September they played their another match. They won the game, and since then went on an unbeaten run of eight games. Their newfound form led them to a top-of-the-table battle this February, where they were sadly beaten. However, the team still have gone beyond expectation by winning promotion to the county's top division.
Stuart added,“We are about giving girls the chance to play soccer. We’re going into next season full of confidence and ready to compete against tougher competitors, but for now we’re really enjoying our victory.”
4. What does the underlined word “thrashed” in paragraph 2 probably mean？
A. Defeated. B. Challenged. C. Trained. D. Praised.
5. What did Stuart Henley ask the team to do for the training？
A. Learn from the wrong. B. Avoid team-building activities.
C. Abandon previous kicking skills. D. Focus on high-level techniques.
6. What did Stuart Henley think of the team’s performance for their first game？
A. It meant nothing to him. B. It was a complete failure.
C. It hardly lived up to his expectation. D. It deserved recognition and cheers.
7. What does the author intend to stress about the team in paragraph 5？
A. Its future expectations. B. Its amazing achievements.
C. Its disappointing failures. D. Its true competing goals.

2022年甘肃省第二次高考诊断考试
Paparella first became aware of foster care(寄养中心)in elementary school when her parents were considering adopting a child. The plan didn’t work out, but Paparella often found herself thinking about that girl.
At 16, Paparella visited Summit County Children Services in Akron, Ohio, with a list of questions, trying to understand what aging out looked like. One of her questions was “What do these young people need most?” Near the top of the list was furniture. “That struck home!” say Paparella. The idea of moving into an apartment and not having a bed to sleep on or a sofa to sit on pulled at my heartstrings.
Paparella contacted her parents’ friends, asking if they had spare furniture to donate. A local furniture store, Chez-Del Interiors, offered free warehouse space and its delivery truck. Social workers provided delivery. In between lacrosse games and college applications, Paparella --with her dad’s help --added furniture delivery person to her résumé.
Watching the receiver’s faces when they receive a bed a couch-whatever-would change her in a way. Paparella remembers delivering a gold lamp to a woman and watching her polish it lovingly, getting rid of dust and fingerprints. To think that this lamp which hadn’t been thought about in years now brought so much happiness to somebody was amazing.” Paparella says.
Today, Paparella has given furniture to nearly 200 young adults across six Ohio counties. As word has gotten out, Paparella has received donations from people who have bought new furniture and want to get rid of their old pieces. People who are moved, and people who have heard of her work on social networking sites. She’s convinced these contributions give the receivers hope and confidence.
4. Why did Paparella visit Summit County Children Services?
A. She considered adopting a child.
B. She planned to take care of the children there.
C. She wanted to know the life of grow-ups there.
D. She intended to persuade her parents to help the children.
5. What does the underlined sentence “That struck home!” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Moving. B. Shocking. C. Amusing. D. Disappointing.
6. What do we know about the woman who received a gold lamp?
A. She didn’t like the dusty old lamp.
B. She loved the gold lamp very much.
C. She made little difference to Paparella.
D. She owned many different lamps in the past.
7. Which word can best describe Paparella’s character?
A. Humorous. B. Honest. C. Imaginative. D. Devoted.