第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
A
Theatre and film fans will be excited about what's on stage and on screen. THEATRE
☆Take in a Broadway show at Mirvish Venues. The Grand Theatre hosts plays and musicals in London, Ontario. The building dates back to 1901 and starts a rare architectural feature.
☆In the heart of Ontario's bread-basket, treat yourself to uniquely Canadian modern productions at the Blyth Festival in Goderich.
☆Ontario becomes popular on the stage as theatre festivals. The Stratford Festival produces classic productions mainly on Shakespeare in Stratford. Works by Bernard Shaw, the founder of social realism in English literature enrich the stage at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
FILM
☆Expand your mind with great modem, independent film during the Reel Asian FilmFestival or visit the TIFF Bell Lightbox for exhibitions related to film and theatre.
☆Making productions that don't reach half an hour by new filmmakers, the Breakthroughs Film Festival provides some of the most video movies.
☆Five amazing programs feature films from across the globe during the Durham Region International Film Festival.
☆One of the top film festivals in the world, the 'Toronto International Film Festival features everything from mainstream Hollywood productions to international cinema.
COMEDY
☆For a laugh, head to a comedy club. Absolute Comedy, Second City and Yuks Yuks all specialize in finding your funny bone.
☆The Toronto Alliance for the Peforming Arts will keep you up to date on what 's playing on
Toronto's stages; you can look through their “TOnight” for on-the-go performing arts tickets, reviews and searches on your mobile.
1. Where should those preferring realistic dramas go?
A. London. B. Stratford.
C. Goderich. D. Niagara-on-the-Lake. 2. What does the Breakthroughs Film Festival focus on? A. Short films. B. Films across the world. C. Modern films. D. Films by young directors. 3. What might “TOnight” be?
A. A comedy. B. An application. C. A guidebook. D. An organization.
B
Whena person in the United States gets the COVID-19 vaccine (疫苗), the person receives a small piece of paper called a “COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card”.
It is a piece of paper with the logo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, and the name and date of the vaccine. Because it is so simple, it could be easy to fake.
Many people in theU.S.are still unsure about getting the vaccine. As universities, workplaces and other places are requiring proof of vaccination, some people are now buying fake vaccination cards without getting a shot.
The Associated Press reports that students and teachers at universities around theU.S.are worried about fake cards. Sellers are using social media apps like Instagram to advertise fake vaccination cards. The prices range from $25 to $200. The AP notes that many college students seem interested in buying the cards. On the site Reddit, one person wrote, “I need one, too, for college. I refuse to be a guinea pig.”
It is reported that more than 700 universities and colleges require proof of vaccination. Most schools simply ask their students to take a photo of their card and send it to a school website. Benjamin Mason Meier is a professor at theUniversityofNorth CarolinaatChapel Hill, UNC. He studies international health policy. He said, unlike some countries, theU.S.is not using a digital system to record vaccine status. He said theU.S.is depending on “aflimsypaper card”, and students have told him they knew of others who had used fake vaccination cards. Rebecca Williams also works at UNC. She is a researcher at the school’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She said she was not surprised that people were worried about fake vaccination cards. “This is why I think the development of a reliable national digital vaccine passport app is very important,” she said.
There is a law that should prevent people from making false vaccination cards. If someone uses the CDC logo without permission, they can be lined and punished by up to five years in prison. The U.S. Department of Justice recently charged a person inCaliforniawith making fake vaccination cards.
College students who already have the vaccine are criticizing those who would rather spend money to buy a fake than get a free shot. Maliha Reza is an electrical engineering student atPennsylvaniaStateUniversity, She called those students “dumb”. “I’m angry about that,” she said. “Like, there is more anger than I could describe now.”
4. Why do some college students buy fake vaccination cards? A. They are easy to get.
B. Many Americans are still uncertain about getting the vaccine. C. Students have an interest in the fake vaccination cards. D. To get a vaccine shot is expensive.
5. Which of the following measures can NOT be used to stop the fake cards? A. Having a law that should prevent people from making false vaccination cards. B. Developing a reliable national digital vaccine passport app. C. Using a digital system to record vaccine status.
D. Having all the students take a photo of their vaccination card and send it to the school website. 6. What does the underlined word “flimsy” probably mean? A. Weak. B. Effective. C. Detailed. D. Professional,
7. What might be the writing purpose for the news report? A. To promote a digital system to record the vaccination shots.
B. To explain why theU.S.should prevent making the fake vaccination cards. C. The stress the influence of the COVID-19 vaccination.
D. To reduce theU.S.university leaders’ worry about fake vaccination cards.
C
There is no such thing as a “safe\" level of drinking, with increased consumption of alcohol associated with poorer brain health, according to a new study.
In an observational study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers from the University of Oxford studied the relationship between the self-reported alcohol intake of some 25,000 people in the UK, and their brain scans. The researchers noted that drinking had an effect on the brain's gray matter-regions in the brain that make up \"important bits where information is processed,\" according to leadauthor Anya Topiwala, a senior clinical researcher at Oxford.
“The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter,“ Topiwala said via email. \"Brain volume reduces with age and more severely with dementia(痴呆症).Smaller brain volume also predicts worse performance on memory testing,“ she explained. \"While alcohol only made a small contribution to this(0. 8%), it was a greater contribution than other \"modifiable\" risk factors,\" she said, explaining that modifiable risk factors are “ ones you can do something about, in contrast to aging.”
The team also investigated whether certain drinking patterns, beverage types and other health conditions made a difference to the impact of alcohol on brain health. They found that there was no \"safe\" level of drinking-meaning that consuming any amount of alcohol was worse than not drinking it. They also found no evidence that the type of drink— such as wine, spirits or beer—affected the harm done to the brain. However, certain characteristics, such as high blood pressure, obesity or binge-drinking, could put people at higher risk, researchers added.
The risks of alcohol have long been known：Previous studies have found that there's no amount of liquor, wine or beer that is safe for your overall health. Alcohol was the leading risk factor for disease and premature death in men and women between the ages of 15 and 49 worldwide in 2016, accounting for nearly one in 10 deaths, according to a study published in The Lancet in 2018.
“It has been known for decades that heavy drinking is bad for brain health,\" Sadie Boniface, head of research at the UK's Institute of Alcohol Studies, said via email. \"We also shouldn't forget alcohol affects all parts of the body and there are multiple health risks. ” 8. What is the function of gray matter?
A. Control the mount of alcohol B. Process information C. Scan the brain D. Predict the performance on memory 9. Which is NOT true in the following statements according to the study? A. Drinking alcohol is worse than not drinking. B. With people getting older, brain volume reduces.
C. Alcohol was the major risk factor for disease and premature death. D. The less people drink alcohol, the more the volume of their gray matter. 10. Which is one of the \"modifiable\" risk factors?
A. Smoking B. Aging C. Death D. Disease 11. What is the main idea of the text?
A. The mount of alcohol is not related to people's health.
B. People drinking alcohol do harm to their brain health. C. People drinking alcohol lead to dementia.
D. Theresa great deal of liquor, wine or beer that is safe for health.
D
Children's average daily time spent watching television or using mobile device increased from 53 minutes at age 12 months to more than 150 minutes at 3 years, according toan analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). By age 8, children were more likely to log the highest amount of screen time if they had been in home-based children or were born to first-time mothers.
“Our results indicate that screen habits begin early, ”said Edwina Yeung, an investigator in National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).“This finding suggests that interventions(干涉) to reduce screen time could have a better chance of success if introduced early.”
In the research, mothers of 4, 000 children responded to questions on their kids' media habits when they were 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months of age.
TheAmericanAcademyof Pediatrics recommends avoiding digital media exposure for children under 18 months of age, introducing children 18 to 24 months of age to screen media slowly, and limiting screen time to an hour a day for children from 2 to 5 years of age. In the current study, researchers found that 87% of the children had screen time exceeding (超过) these recommendations. However, while screen time increased throughout toddlerhood, by age 7 and 8, screen time fell to under 1.5 hours per day. The researchers believe this decrease relates to time consumed by school-related activities.
The study authors classified the children into two groups based on how much their average daily screen time increased from age 1 to age 3. The first group, 73% of the total had the lowest increase, from an average of nearly 51 minutes a day to nearly an hour and 47 minutes a day. The second group, 27% of the total, had the highest increase, from nearly 37 minutes of screen time a day to about 4 hours a day. Higher levels of parental education were associated with lower odds of inclusion in the second group. 12. Who use mobile device longest according to the NIH's analysis? A. 10-year-old born to first-time mothers. B. 3-year-old children in low income families. C. 8-year-old children in home-based childcare. D. 1-year-old children with parents poorly educated. 13. What does the research suggest according to Edwina?
A. Parents should stop their children using media. B. Parents should limit the use of digital media themselves. C. Parents should reduce their children's screen time earlier.
D. Parents should avoid their children using digital media at infancy (婴儿期). 14. Why does children's screen time fall when they age 7 and 8?
A. They are studying at school. B. They can control themselves. C. They are tired of using them. D. They are forbidden to use them. 15. Which of the following may be the best title?
A. Keep Away from Media B. Screen Habits Begin Early
C. Urgency of Parental Education D. Harm of Home-based Childcare 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项
Every day is a gift, and if you look forward to enjoying each day, then you need to learn to make the most of your day. Here are some tips that can help you.
• Have a great morning routine (常规). A good start will make you feel good and is sure to make the rest of your day good as well. Rise early and get readyfor your new day. Go for a morning walk or run. Listen to good music.___16___All these will help you start your day in a positive way.
•____17____Since we spend most of our day in the workplace，it is necessary to relax between different tasks. Set a timeron your phone or computer to remind you it’s time to get up, leave your desk, go out and get some fresh air.
•Try something new and learn from it.___18___To prevent this, step out and take some time to do things that you have never done before. This will not only make a day exciting, but it’ll also build your confidence.
•Ask someone to be your accountability partner (责任同伴). It could be your brother or sister, or a good friend.___19___He or she will help you get over difficulties and achieve your goals.
•Plan your schedule for the next day the night before.____20____This will help you save much time later in the day. Focus on one thing at a time and give it your best shot before moving on to the next day. A. Make time for short breaks. B. Have a wonderful breakfast.
C. Review your day before going to bed at night. D. Doing the same things every day is very boring.
E. Do everything you can to have a good time every day. F. This person encourages you, supports you and loves you. G. Make a list of all the tasks you want to complete the next day.
第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
As I work in the garden, I take my time. And the garden is____21____me about working with the earth. I recognize that there will be both successes and failuresand there are many factors that____22____them both. The____23____of the seeds can affect the growth of the plants. The____24____can be too hot, too cold, or____25____right. Weeds need to be____26____and thrown away to____27____that the fruits, vegetables, and flowers we have planted grow well.
I take time to stand back and rest, and to____28____the plants. Each plant is____29____and develops in the way that is best for them. Some have large broad leaves to____30____their fruit from the rays of the sun, while other plants are more____31____, their fruit needing the____32____to grow and ripen.
Getting my hands____33____and feeling the sweat on my forehead, as I work under the summer sun, reminds me I am____34____in the ways I wouldn't have remembered sitting on the couch.
I feel attracted to move things around to transplant and to____35____the natural order of how plants grow. The garden teaches me the importance of knowing when to disturb things and when to let them be. The garden's life cycle____36____a pattern that is repeated according to the____37____of nature. Birth, growth, and then death and it teaches me to accept this fact.
Perhaps life is like the____38____, successes and failures, time to be active and time to____39____to let go of what is no longer needed, to cultivate what helps us to grow into our light and power, and to readily____40____life from beginning to end.
21. A. telling B. concerning C. worrying D. teaching 22. A. destroy B. affect C. promote D. exchange 23. A. quality B. color1 C. shape D. weight 24. A. water B. air C. weather D. wind
25. A. approximately B. constantly C. exactly D. occasionally 26. A. pulled B. planted C. guarded D. provided 27. A. make sense B. find out C. work out D. make sure 28. A. tend B. observe C. count D. examine
29. A. beautiful B. average C. amazing D. unique 30. A. prevent B. separate C. shade D. remove 31. A. open B. delicate C. straight D. vivid 32. A. energy B. light C. soil D. space 33. A. empty B. dirty C. broken D. free 34. A. awake B. tired C. alive D. independent 35. A. disturb B. find C. enjoy D. guide
36. A. discovers B. transforms C. draws D. follows 37. A. changes B. reflection C. laws D. development 38. A. plant B. sun C. fruit D. garden 39. A. rest B. quit C. offer D. fight
40. A. expect B. accept C. picture D. receive 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
A new study___41.___（publish）in the journal Health found that taking a photo（any photo）every day and sharing it online___42.___（improve）your well-being.
Researchers found that selfieing and sharing isn't___43.___（simple）an exercise in narcissism（自我陶醉）but___44.___act of self-care.
Taking the photo encourages mindfulness, while the sharing promotes social interaction.
\"I'll stop and take a photograph of this insect___45.___is sitting on my computer or something. Just taking a moment is very___46.___（benefit）I think,\" a person tells___47.___（scientist）at the UK's Lancaster University and University of Sheffield.
Looking at photos gives the subjects a sense of purpose, and planning to take them is a motivational force, the researchers say.
\"It encourages me out of the house sometimes,\" another___48.___（participate）says.
On the social side, comments keep people___49.___（connect）with their friends and family, and even help some fight____50.____loneliness.
Researchers concluded in a press release that posting photos online is \"an active process of meaning making.”
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(☆),并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My mother tongue is English, so I like Chinese. I believe that in a decade's time, Chinese will be important as English. Also, I hope to live in Beijing one day. To make my dream realize, I need to have a high level of fluent. And I must speak it accurate. At the moment, I make too much mistakes. The reason why I want to live in Beijing is that it's what my parents meet. My dad was working here and my mum was being traveling on her way to studying pandas in China.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是李华，报名参加了“全市中学生英语口语大赛”（National English speaking English Contest for Middle School Students）并初赛已经通过，下周要进行决赛，但你很紧张。请给你的外教Mr Lee写封邮件，让他帮忙进行赛前指导并给出建议。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇：the preliminary contest初赛
参考答案
1. D 2. A 3. B
4. A 5. D 6. A 7. B
8. B 9. D 10. A 11. B
12. C 13. C 14. A 15. B
16. B 17. A 18. D 19. F 20. G
21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. A 32. B 33. B 34. C 35. A 36. D 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. B
41. published
42. improves
43. simply 44. an 45. that##which 46. beneficial 47. scientists 48. participant 49. connected 50. against
51.(1). so→but
(2). important前加as (3). realize→realized (4). fluent→fluency
(5). accurate→accurately (6). much→many (7). what→where (8). meet→met (9). here→there (10). 删掉being
52.略
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