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一、閱讀理解

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C 和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。

A

Melvin Gray,a resident of Kansas City,Kansas,recently discovered a biological brother and granddaughter he never knew existed through one simple DNA test.

Gray,61,had been searching for his daughter for decades,who he had given up for adoption when she was a baby.An adoptee himself,the military veteran（老兵）came across a public service activity by the global family history site MyHeritage.com called“DNA Quest”— a project focused on reuniting adoptees with biological families.He applied and received a free kit（用具包）.

Gray thought he was the last one left in his family and there was nobody after him.However,shockingly,while Gray sadly learned his daughter had passed away,the results of the MyHeritage test matched him with other immediate family members:a granddaughter Ophelia Moles and a younger brother Tom Davis.

For many years,Gray’s brother unknowingly lived only blocks away from him—less than a one-mile walk.It was also quite a shock for Davis to find out he had a brother out there that he’d never known about.Gray shared that Davis often visited a shop where his wife worked.She often spoke with him,not knowing that he was the brother of her husband.Not long before,Gray and his younger brother Davis said they have already spent many weekends together,including Thanksgiving,and were planning to share more holidays in the future.

Gray said he was so glad he was able to find his granddaughter and his younger brother and doing this DNA test has opened his eyes to the possibilities for the future.He concluded that it showed him that the world was a lot smaller than it really was,and at the same time,a lot bigger— living so close together all our lives and not even knowing that they were brothers.

1.How did Gray get the DNA test kit?

A.By applying his own initiative.

B.By purchasing from the online shop.

C.By borrowing from his doctor friend.

D.By being donated randomly by DNA Quest.

2.What made Gray shocked?

A.His daughter’s death.

B.His younger brother’s arrival.

C.The results of the MyHeritage test.

D.The number of immediate family members.

3.What can we know about Gray?

A.He has met Davis many times.

B.He lives in the same city as Davis.

C.He spent Thanksgiving Day with Moles.

D.He abandoned his daughter when she was at birth.

4.What’s the purpose of the passage?

A.To tell the moving story of Gray.

B.To advertise the MyHeritage test.

C.To show accidents are everywhere.

D.To present the benefits of DNA tests.

（王瑩 黑龍江省依安縣第一中學）

B

We all may know someone we consider to be a picky eater,who tends to dislike some common food regularly and causes social embarrassment when ordering at restaurants.But for some people,picky eating can actually become a serious disorder,and clinical definitions of picky eating behaviors often include people who only consume around 20 different kinds of foods for a long period of time.

“Having restricted diets can lead to nutritional deficiencies（缺乏，不足）as well as health problems like heart disease,poor bone health and dental issues,”explained Lorenzo Stafford,one of the authors of the latest study.“There is also a social cost because normally enjoyable moments between family members can easily turn into stressful,anxious and conflict-causing situations when picky eaters feel ashamed or pressured to eat food.”

New research homed in on the effect of plate colors on food desirability for picky eaters.The experiment was based on a foundational study from 2018 which looked at the way different colored food bowls affected a person’s perception of taste.

Using a design similar to the 2018 research,the new experiments had participants rate the sweetness,saltiness and overall desirability of a snack food eaten from different-colored bowls.In this instance,the snack was salt and vinegar potato crisps consumed from either a red,blue or white bowl.Around 50 participants were recruited（招 募）,classified as either picky or non-picky eaters based on a standard questionnaire.

The results revealed picky eaters perceived the snack to be saltier when it was eaten from a red or blue bowl compared to a white bowl.And overall,picky eaters found the snack generally less desirable when eaten from a red bowl.

It is worth mentioning that a recent survey estimated nearly one in five American adults could be clinically categorized as picky eaters.So exploring ways to help these people better engage with more types of food could result in valuable health outcomes.

1.Which of the following may be a picky eater?

A.Tom who ate only some bread this morning.

B.Lisa who only has vegetables to lose weight.

C.Peter who often orders little at restaurants.

D.Alex who likes only a small range of dishes.

2.What’s Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A.Health problems caused by picky eating.

B.Moments that are ruined by picky eaters.

C.Potential consequences of picky eating.

D.Quotes of Lorenzo to support the research findings.

3.What is the finding of the new research?

A.Containers’ colors directly affect the eaters’appetites.

B.Blue containers can make the food in them saltier for eaters.

C.Food in red containers seems less attractive to picky eaters.

D.The color of the container can change the taste of the dishes.

4.What’s the value of the research?

A.Enhancing people’s appetites effectively.

B.Reducing picky eaters’ anxiety and stress.

C.Improving picky eaters’awareness of healthy eating.

D.Helping some eaters to try a wider variety of foods.

（陳文煒 浙江省寧波市五鄉(xiāng)中學）

C

Along with a rising number of space missions by government agencies and private industry comes a fresh set of problems for Earth,potentially dangerous space junk（垃圾）.

A recent study published in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy concluded that“current practices have a 10 percent chance of one or more deaths over a decade”.In other words,according to researchers from the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia,there’s roughly a one-in-ten chance that the next decade will witness falling space junk kill someone.

The space junk orbiting the earth is an unfortunate by-product of our desire to explore and document space.According to 2021 figures from NASA and the Department of Defense’s Space Surveillance Data,the agencies were actively tracking more than 27 000 pieces of space junk,most of which are larger than a softball and that casually orbit the planet.While the floating space junk is certainly a problem,not all that the objects that went up must come down,and,in fact,a number of pieces simply burn up in the atmosphere.But sometimes those objects,particularly large ones like spent rocket attachments,give in to gravity and fall back down to Earth,to be dealt with,once again,by their human makers.Typically,people don’t get injured or even die because of this phenomenon —much of the falling pieces crash into the ocean.

They also have to deal with the unsettling feeling of knowing that large rocket pieces can just fall from the sky,and as the new study details,it might affect people in certain parts of the world more than others.

This poses an apparent safety risk to people on the ground.“When some large parts of space junk return to Earth,the parts of their mass survive the heat of the atmosphere.Many of the surviving pieces are potentially dangerous,giving serious risks on land,at sea,and to people in airplanes.How to solve it is worth thinking about,” the study explains.

1.What is the conclusion of the study?

A.People will see space junk easily in the future.

B.Some people may be hit to die by some objects from space.

C.Government agencies and private industry will develop fast.

D.There will be a 10 percent chance for humans to die in 10 years.

2.What can be inferred from the third paragraph?

A.Space junk will get burnt in the sky.

B.The large space junk will pollute the ocean.

C.The floating space junk will come down finally.

D.Normally we should not worry about space junk.

3.Which title is suitable for the text?

A.We should take back space junk

B.Space junk causes great pollution

C.Harmful pace junk can put people at risk

D.Exploring space results in unfortunate results

4.What might be discussed in the following part of the text?

A.How to find space junk effectively.

B.How to deal with the surviving pieces.

C.How to avoid generating space garbage.

D.How to inform people of possible danger.

（魏勇 寧夏石嘴山市第一中學）

二、完形填空

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C 和D 四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

About a week after Glenda and Savitz welcomed their daughter Samantha to the world,they learned that she was unable to hear anything.“She was the first 1 person we had known,so obviously it was a surprise and a 2 ,” Glenda says.They knew they had to connect with the deaf 3 ,which devotes to helping the deaf learn how to communicate.Soon the whole family started fully 4 in learning American Sign Language（美式手語）（ASL）.What the new 5 didn’t know was that their neighbors would decide 6 to start learning ASL,too.

The Savitzes 7 to their neighborhood just three months ago.“We are called‘newbies’ to the area.It’s a place where people are serious about being 8 neighbors,”Glenda says.When young Samantha was out with her parents,neighbors like McNeil were 9 that they couldn’t talk to her.

McNeil,living across the street from the Savitzes,was one of the neighbors who really wanted to 10 with Samantha and play with her.“Since she couldn’t learn our language,we 11 to learn hers.” McNeil and three other neighbors quietly 12 for local adult education classes in ASL.“We met a teacher there that we really loved,and we 13 asked him if he would come and 14 more neighbors,”McNeil explains.“That was how it started.”

Instructor Rhys teaches his students the skills that will 15 them to communicate with Samantha as well as other deaf people using ASL.The classes have been such a 16 that it brought the 17 of neighbors learning ASL to 80—almost all the neighbors attended them.

Thanks to the community 18 ,even without her parents accompanying her,Samantha moves with 19 around the street where her family lives.“We’re just so 20 that we live here and are surrounded by these wonderful people,”says Savitz.

1.A.lucky B.deaf

C.blind D.stupid

2.A.challenge B.fortune

C.chance D.task

3.A.district B.hospital

C.community D.family

4.A.persisting B.sharing

C.succeeding D.engaging

5.A.daughter B.parents

C.teacher D.neighbors

6.A.regularly B.selfishly

C.aimlessly D.firmly

7.A.complained B.travelled

C.moved D.admitted

8.A.knowledgeable B.considerate

C.creative D.elegant

9.A.confused B.impressed

C.stressed D.frustrated

10.A.interact B.check

C.compete D.debate

11.A.hesitated B.reminded

C.determined D.persuaded

12.A.signed up B.made up

C.looked out D.stood up

13.A.abruptly B.eventually

C.recently D.immediately

14.A.interview B.investigate

C.coach D.judge

15.A.force B.take

C.allow D.attract

16.A.symbol B.hit

C.barrier D.trick

17.A.number B.level

C.score D.age

18.A.awareness B.effort

C.donation D.inspiration

19.A.trouble B.respect

C.curiosity D.ease

20.A.grateful B.optimistic

C.apologetic D.anxious

（常素霞 山西省晉城市第一中學校）