完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
Our beautiful daughter Lara had been very unhappy for months, and her action had become more and more radical (极端的). She was 1 all the time and hurtful to the whole family. Her brother couldn't 2 being in the same room with her. 3 home was no longer a home but a camp under siege (包围).
After careful consideration, we had to send her to a wonderful 4 in northern Idaho. What a beautiful and alive place! The teachers greeting us were like warm clothes on a 5 day. But "I never want to see your face again" were Lara's parting words. They hurt my heart.
For five months we didn't 6 Lara- not a card, not a call, nothing. I called the school almost every day.
7 , a written letter arrived from Lara, thanking me for her new clothes. I'm sure that was the teacher's order. I was excited to have it. Gradually, our communication got better. leading to our first 8 .
The love and teaching of the 9 were beginning to pay off. Each time we came for a visit we saw more improvement in our 10 . I could see her face softening, the anger and the hardness were gone. Her girlish face was beautiful and soft, 11 and caring. And she discovered she had a beautiful voice. With encouragement. she began to 12 every chance she got. The more she sang, the more confident she felt. She 13 began to love herself.
Lara's graduation from the school was a time of pride and love. She wore a dress knitted (编织) for seven months herself. Her grandmother, her father, brother and I excitedly watched 14 she made her graduation speech.
Lara truly found her 15 . She graduated with honors, getting a bachelor's (学士) degree in music and singing performance.
阅读理解，阅读下面四篇短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
What's the huge dog in the picture below?
It is the Dog Bark Park Inn, a bed-and-breakfast (B&B) In Idaho. U. S. A.
The inn is in the shape of a dog. It is lovingly known as Sweet Willy. You can climb the stairs (楼梯) outside Sweet Willy. You can climb the stairs and enter the stomach of the dog. It is actually a bedroom. The inn has two bedrooms. The other bedroom is in the nose of the dog.
The inn is also famous for its delicious food. You can help yourself to some of the special foods of a B&B breakfast. There are also many homemade goodies. The owner makes them with secret recipes (食谱).
Sweet Willy has a friend called Toby. It stands beside Sweet Willy. However, you can't sleep inside this smaller dog. It's just for show.
The Dog Bark Park Inn is very special and interesting. Guests often have to book months in advance (预先). So, if you want to stay in this huge dog for a few nights, you had better hurry up and book now!
To change their city's bad traffic, students at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NIPC) have designed a new type of manned (载人的) plane. It is from a rather usual furniture—a school chair. The group hope to use it to carry people around capital city and even help fight fires.
With eight propellers (螺旋桨) and a school chair for the pilot's seat, the plane was developed on the outskirts (郊区) of the capital.
"We wanted to solve some problems for our society by making a taxi plane and…inventing for firefighters. " said Lonh Vannsith, 21, the pilot of the plane. They hoped it could reach the upper floors of a building to bring a hose (软管) where a fire truck could not reach.
It took three years of research and development and cost around $20, 000 to build. The plane can carry a 60-kilogram pilot and fly for about 10 minutes for a distance of 1 km. When manned, the plane now only rises to as much as four meter. The team plans to improve the design to allow it to take more weights, as well as fly further and more smoothly at a higher level.
"The project faced delay (延期) because of the international transport. Many parts of the plane had to be ordered from abroad, " said Sarin Sereyvatha, who is NPIC's head of research and development technology.
"Generally, if we make one plane, the cost is expensive but if we make them to sell on the market, the cost will go down. " said Sarin.
In September 1966, I faced my first class of kids in a primary school in Toronto. Mike was one of the street kids, who lived with his old grandmother, not knowing his mother or father.
I took him out for breakfast. I taught him sewing and mending. We shared our lunch. I taught him new skills like using a microscope properly, making a pinhole camera, and classifying rocks and minerals. Mike would then "help" teach the rest of the class these skills. A father-son relationship began to build up between us.
One day Mike secretly told me of his dream-to be a gangster (匪徒)！This was no joke.
Everyone has the same chance to be the best person. Mike had a great gift. I thought if he wanted to be a gangster, I'd do my best to help him become the very best "gangster".
After making a special arrangement, I took him to the Osgoode Law Library. I said a good gangster must know criminal law, and reading upon law was the only way to learn. He was eager to study.
Each Saturday, I'd drop him off at the law library. Three hours later, I'd return, and we had lunch together. Then I'd take him home. I sure felt like a father. With a promise between us, I was not going to let him, or myself, down.
The following year I moved to another school, which prevented me from continuing to be physically with him. But I provided him with public transportation tickets so he'd continue his regular study at the law library. I still often visited him and took him out for lunch, so I'd keep up with his life.
Soon afterwards I married, and started a new life in London. I lost contact with Mike.
Then, one day in 1995, I was in Toronto on business. Looking up the telephone directory (电话簿)，I saw Mike's surname as "Barristers (大律师)！" How could it be? What are the odds?
Not knowing why, I rang the phone, telling a secretary my name, and was put on hold. A very long fifteen seconds later, a deep gentleman's voice said, "Mr. Kowalchuk, I've really…missed you. " Then there was silence.
My eye swelled up with tears. "Mike, I'm really proud of you, proud of you. "
With an excited voice, Mike answered. "____".
New York City in the United States has an unusual way of cleaning up its polluted Hudson River: oysters (牡蛎). It is part of a plan to create a healthier ecosystem in the river by increasing the oyster population. Oysters may help to restore the waters and bring back more sea life. How do oysters do it?
Oysters act as natural "water purifiers". They are filter feeders (滤食动物) . That means they take in water through their gills and filter out the food in it, such as algae (藻类) ，which they then eat. A single adult oyster can filter up to 189 litres of water in a day. As they feed, oysters also filter other harmful things out of the water.
One of these is nitrogen, a chemical found in septic tanks (化粪池) . Sometimes nitrogen gets washed into rivers and oceans when it rains. Too much nitrogen in the water causes much algae to grow. The algae uses up the oxygen in the water, which can harm other sea life. Oysters filter nitrogen out of the water and use it to grow their shells.
Oysters also build reefs (珊瑚礁) ，which are important to the whole ecosystem. Oysters attach (依附) themselves to hard surfaces underwater like rocks. Then more oysters attach themselves on top of those. As the oysters grow, their shells mix together to form a reef. When the new oysters are placed in the Hudson River, they are attached to metal cages in the water. These become the foundations for new reefs, which will get larger as more oysters build on top of them.
Oyster reefs provide homes for plants and animals. Reefs also help to protect the shoreline. Large reefs reduce the effect of waves coming in from the ocean, and help to reduce flooding and protect the coast.
Over the years, the New Yorkers have done a lot for the river, but it will still take tens of years before the new reefs being created in the Hudson River grow as the reefs that were destroyed long ago, but there are already signs that the ecosystem is healthier.
任务型阅读（本题有5小题，每小题2分；共计10分）
Several months ago. New Zealand announced a plan. Under the plan, the country would make it illegal (非法的) for people born after 2008 to buy cigarettes (香烟). And it won't make a difference to smokers now.
Starting in 2023, people under the age of 15 would be stopped from buying cigarettes. After that, the age limit (限制) for buying tobacco products would be raised every year. In short, the move will stop people born after 2008 from ever buying tobacco products.
Tobacco products contain something poisonous (有毒的) called nicotine (尼古丁). Though nicotine is a poison, when people have a little bit of it, it can give them an excited feeling. Over time, nicotine changes the body so people feel like they need more of it. Then people are unable to stop taking it. That's why it's so difficult for people to stop smoking.
It's one of the leading causes of deaths around the world. In New Zealand, about 5, 000 people die every year from illnesses connected with smoking.
No country has ever tried an age limit-raising smoking plan like New Zealand's before. We expect the plan to have important influences.
A. This may be a good try. B. They may feel sick if they don't get more. C. Smoking is very dangerous to human health. D. People spend a lot of money in buying cigarettes every year. E. The plan is made to prevent young people from ever starting to smoke. F. By 2050, someone would have to be at least 42 years old to buy cigarettes |
词汇运用（共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分）
as late write product humorous |
Dong, who used to be an English teacher at New Oriental Group (新东方), became popular a livestreamer (主播) in June, 2022. Thanks to his hosting style, he soon had a huge number of fans. They bought lots of from East Buy just because of him. His fans on Douyin hit a surprising 31 million. The news on December 6th spread rapidly throughout the Internet. It is said that the words said by Dong was by the team and not by himself. It quickly made many of Dong's fans question the company for taking away his longtime efforts. The number of fans dropped to 28 million by December 10th.
Some parents may have had trouble getting their children away from c games and playing outdoors this summer. But for one Virginian family, that wasn't the case.
Josh and Cassie Sutton just hiked the Appalachian Trail (AT) from Georgia to Maine in 209 days with their 5-year-old son, Harvey. or "Little (英雄)". The Appalachian Trail is one of the longest trails in the world. The 3500-kilometer-long trail passes through fourteen states in the (东部的) US.
Harvey's parents have been hiking with him (自豪地) since he was two years old. To develop his ability, they (准备) him for hiking the AT by starting out with plenty of shorter walks and hikes. Harvey was four years old when he and his parents began their walk in January of this year. He turned five years old before they finished the trip on A 9th.
They slept in a tent, woke at 5:30 in the morning and hiked about ten miles a day. Harvey's dad, Josh Sutton, said, "To (避免) boredom, we can meet and talk with other hikers along the way. To make sure of the s, we should bring professional equipment (设备) with us. "
Harvey's trip was praised by another hiker, Dale Sanders. He is the oldest person to hike the trail, which he did at the a of 82.
"It's going to change his life forever. The kid went through some hardships. Hardships make us stronger. " Sanders (提到). "That kid is going to smile through his life. "
语法填空（本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
Now more and more people like keeping pets. They think pets are useful to them. Many families see pets as (they) family members like their daughters or sons. On the one hand, they think pets can stay with them when they are alone, because they are afraid being lonely. On the other hand. some pets are brave. When some people are in (dangerous), the pets can save them, even in an earthquake. Several days ago, some guide dogs even helped to send some old people to the hospital (successful).
, other people are against keeping pets because of so many reasons. They think it is very wasteful to spend hundreds of dollars pets. In their opinion, the money should (use) to help the poor. Some people are also worried about the illness that pets may bring to them. Pets don't know that people need a quiet environment. so their sounds become the (big) problem in their lives.
How different the (opinion) about pets are! I think keeping pets is personal habit. But if you can't deal with it well, that will make your neighbors dislike you.
书面表达（本题共20分）
Who is the person you will never forget?
What did he/she do?
What can you learn from him/her?
要求：⑴征文必须包括所有提示内容，可适当发挥。
⑵文中不得出现真实姓名、学校名等信息。
⑶80-100词。短文首句仅供参考，不计入总词数。
In our lives, we may meet different people. The person I will never forget is
