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Task 1

A new study suggests that healthy adults who get at least eight hours of sleep a night may be less likely to experience common exercise-related injuries. The study was based on information from over 7,500 United States soldiers in the Army's Special Operations Forces. About 95 percent of the study subjects were men.

The researchers found that soldiers who got no more than four to five hours of sleep a night were over twice as likely to report bone or muscle injury in the last year as those who slept eight hours or longer. During the year-long study, more than half of the soldiers said they had experienced at least one musculoskeletal（肌與骨骼的） injury. About 63 percent of the study subjects reported getting six to seven hours of sleep a night. About 10 percent reported getting no more than four hours. Only 16 percent got eight hours or more.

Compared to those who reported eight hours of sleep or more each night, soldiers who slept seven hours were 24 percent more likely to experience a musculoskeletal injury. The risk climbed as the hours of sleep dropped, with a 53 percent greater injury risk at six hours of sleep. At five hours of sleep, the risk of injury was twice greater.

In the Army, two-thirds of injuries are from musculoskeletal overuse. Most are caused by physical training or repetitive activities. About 42 percent of Army soldiers report an average of five hours of sleep or less each night. The study notes that making sure soldiers get enough rest could be a way to reduce injury risk.

One limitation of the study is that researchers depended on soldiers reporting how long they slept each night. And, additional research would be needed to test whether increasing sleep time really reduces injuries.

Getting too little sleep leads to decreased attention and mental energy, which can lead to people being more likely to get hurt. Sleep loss causes “cell damage in multiple organs”. Getting extra sleep might help reverse this cell damage over time. Most people are healthiest and perform their best with seven to nine hours of sleep a night.

1. What are the participants of the study?

A. Engineers. B. Soldiers. C. Doctors. D. Teachers.

2. How is the text developed?

A. By listing numbers. B. By giving examples.

C. By describing the fact. D. By explaining cause and result.

3. Why are people without enough sleep more likely to get injured?

A. They can lack enough nutrients. B. They don't take regular exercise.

C. They may suffer from mental disease. D. They can experience cell damage easily.

4. What's the purpose of the text?

A. To tell ways to keep healthy. B. To show a new research finding.

C. To call on people to reduce injury. D. To explain the importance of sleep.

Task 2

Nowadays facial recognition technology has crept into people's life and is being commonly used. How does the technology work? 1 In which areas is it applied? What are people worried about? The answers to these questions are as follows.

How does facial recognition work? It works by scanning faces and measuring facial features.2 The system then runs through a database to check it for a match.

Who are its users? Facial recognition is most common in China, where people can use it to pay for a coffee, visit tourist attractions, and even withdraw cash from ATMs.3 In Europe, high-end hotels and retailers also use facial recognition cameras to identify VIPs and celebrities as they enter, in order to give them good treatment. Several US airlines are ready to replace boarding passes with face scanners.

Where is facial recognition used? Many people know that facial recognition is being used in shops and high-speed train stations. But these are only the tip of the iceberg. Law agencies have had faces on file for decades.4 Doctors have already started using it to help them diagnose rare genetic diseases that produce distinctive facial characteristics. Facial recognition is increasingly being used by some companies,too. Facebook's system for “tagging” a photo—identifying who is in the picture—is now as accurate as users doing it themselves. Apple's iPhone X can be unlocked when its owner simply looks at it.

What are people's concerns?As the technology becomes more widespread, there are growing fears that it will invade privacy and cause other troubles, thus putting people at risk. 5

A. Who uses this technology?

B. But Chinese are not the only people using it.

C. We should think twice before putting this technology into use.

D. This creates a distinctive digital “faceprint”—much like a fingerprint.

E. Like any new tool,if it gets into the wrong hands, it can be used for ill purposes.

F. The following are things people should pay attention to when using this technology.

G. Their databases provide them with the identified person's name, age, address and any criminal history.

Task 3

Ross Salvo was a very special human being! He was1 in the way he lived and overcame challenges.

Ross was born prematurely. He had 2 health issues at birth and was given a less than 1% of living. Despite this, he survived his first days of life, but the health problems 3. Shortly after 4, doctors learned that Ross had a brain injury.5 by his parents and family, Ross continued to fight for his life. By the time Ross was only 2 months old, he had already had one heart surgery and three 6 surgeries. Despite many7 , Ross made it through those early days and months. As one doctor said, “There is no reason for him to be alive right now, but he is thriving! ”

When he was a few years old, it became clear that Ross would have trouble 8. Eventually,he got crutches (拐杖) to help him. And sometimes he had to use a wheelchair. At this time, he started going to 9 therapy sessions. These crutches, wheelchair and physical therapy sessions would be his companions for life.

But none of this_10_Ross from becoming the best version of himself and making a big impact on the people and world around him. The key was his 11 attitude and spirit. He wanted to be like everyone else. Where others saw differences, he saw things they had in 12 . As he once said to a kid who was being 13 to him, “So I have crutches... What's the difference?” His family said that he did not have a 14 , but “different ability”.

Ross was 15 to try anything! And he did! He played soccer and basketball, joined the Scouts, learned kung fu, was an active member of the youth group at St. Rose of Lima Church and, of course, attended school, at Reed Intermediate. At school, he was also a_16_of the Garden Club and the sixth-grade chorus.

Not only did he_17_these activities, but also he stuck with them, despite challenges. He was 18 about things he cared about. In kung fu, he became a 2nd-degree brown belt at Shaolin Studios. And he didn't just do things to benefit 19. He 20 his great attitude to the people and the community around him.Ross passed away in June 2018 from complications related to his surgery.While Ross is physically gone from the earth, his incredible attitude, impact, and spirit live on.

1. A. embarrassed B. special C. curious D. ordinary

2. A. slight B. rare C. serious D. universal

3. A. continued B. disappeared C. arose D. controlled

4. A. growth B. strength C. youth D. birth

5. A. Supported B. Created C. Told D. Guided

6. A. face B. brain C. nose D. leg

7. A. aids B. solutions C. challenges D. comments

8. A. talking B. smiling C. communicating D. walking

9. A. mental B. physical C. practical D. crucial

10. A. benefited B. protected C. stopped D. broke

11. A. amazing B. strange C. childish D. reasonable

12. A. brief B. advance C. fact D. common

13. A. fatal B. mean C. devoted D. essential

14. A. talent B. thought C. disability D. fortune

15. A. willing B. familiar C. equal D. unable

16. A. teacher B. coach C. singer D. member

17. A. prefer B. try C. launch D. advocate

18. A. passionate B. angry C. certain D. doubtful

19. A. friends B. parents C. himself D. elders

20. A. lent B. forced C. returned D. spread

Task 4

Ⅰ. 語法填空

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, many areas across the United States have closed schools and businesses temporarily. As 1.______result, nearly 15% of workers in the US have lost their jobs.

Actress and model Jami Kinton of Cleveland, Ohio, is among those 2._______(place)workers. She 3_____.__(typical) would be serving as a media personality for the Cleveland Indians baseball team. With Major League Baseball and other professional sports 4.______(cancel) indefinitely, she has been stuck at home, like millions of other Americans.

Kinton has used her free time 5.______(become) a sensation on TikTok, a social media platform that has been growing in popularity. I first learned about her talents in 2018, when I interviewed her and her dog, Snowball,6.______is also an actor and model. It has been the greatest joy of Kinton's life. Snowball is a co-star in many of Kinton's TikTok skits（滑稽短劇） now. It sometimes appears disinterested in the action, which 7._______(make) the skits even funnier.

I recently spoke with Kinton via Zoom to learn more about her virtual quarantine adventures. She created her TikTok account in January. She wanted to learn more about current music trends and dance moves. Like many Tik-Tok stars, she is an accomplished 8.______(dance).

But it was not until the pandemic outbreak 9._____Kinton's TikTok career took off. She began to look at TikTok as a job. While others make the short videos for fun, she spends hours planning and 10._______(film) each TikTok.Kinton changes costumes according to the story she is telling. When filming one video, she may change her outfit up to 10 times. Because of her career in entertainment, she has accumulated lots of props over the years.

Ⅱ. 書面表達

假定你是李華，你的外國朋友Tom 聽說你暑假期間在社區醫院做義工，給你發來郵件詢問相關情況，請根據以下信息給他回一封郵件。

1. 工作時間；

2. 工作內容；

3. 你的感想。注意：

1. 詞數100左右；

2. 可以適當增加細節，以使行文連貫；

3. 開頭和結尾已給出，不計入總詞數。

Task 5

讀后續寫

My fiancé (未婚夫) and I were excited about shopping for our first home. But our funds were limited, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.

One agent recommended a house in particular. Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was beyond our range, so we declined. But she kept urging us to have a look at least. We finally did and we loved it at first sight. It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake.Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and happiness of the marriage within that home.Perfect as it was,the price remained too high for us.But every day,we would sit by the lake,looking at the house and dreaming of what it would be like to live there.

Days later, we made an offer—far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn't laugh at us.They renewed their offer instead. It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.

The next day, we got a disappointing message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the owners directly. We made our final offer, which was still thousands of dollars less than the other buyer's bid. We knew it, but we had to try. Nobody knew if we could get it.

注意：

1. 所續寫的短文詞數應為150左右；

2. 續寫部分分為兩段，每段的開頭語已經為你寫好。

Paragraph 1:

We went to the owners' home after we made our final offer.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2:

Turning around, the owner looked at us and made a big decision._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________