新起點英語熱身演練（三）

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一完形填空（共15小題 ，每小題 I分，滿分 15分）

閱讀下短文 ，從短文后各題所給的A.B.C.D四個選項中 ，選出可以填人空白處的最

The expression 'take a penny， leave a penny" may not have been created by 14-year-oldNomaan "Nomi" Bilal， but he's taken it to a whole new

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Bilal collected quite a few pennies and

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them with organizations helping people inneed. With mostly pocket change， Bilal

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a total of $4，150 from neighbors， family andfriends. He donated it all to a program for poor families in the community. The organizationsused the money raised to buy the gift cards and

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them out to about 20 families.

While finishing up his first year of high school online. Bilal started collecting smaller billsor

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he found. Through Facebook. Bilal and his mother. Nadia Pervez， got the 6

0ut.and soon plenty of people were stopping by t0

7 bags upon bags of change. Every day， Bilalspent most of his spare time sorting（分類） and hand-rolling（用手工卷） coins. Then a strangerheard about his

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and sent Pervez a coin sorter. which has made the

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quicker andeasier.

Roseann Miceli. clirector of a charity organization. called what Bilal had done helpful andvery great. Miceli will buy more gift cards with the rest of Bilal's change， whic：h continues to

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. She said the families appreciated it very much-they would cried "Thank you so much".Miceli wanted Bilal to know that he's made a big _11

with small change. The idea came toher while she was

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the change from his house. "I think a 'thank-you' and a wave throughthe door 6 feet away is not

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for this kid who has been rolling pennies for the past 20days，" Miceli said. She

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a thank-you activity to drive past Bilal's house. Cars lined thestreet. with the drivers all waving， holding signs and shouting "thank you".

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that so many people should come out of their way just to see me." hesaid. One of the people who took part in the activity gave Bilal a handmade sign that said. "Nomiis our hero."

"It shows how such a small effort can turn into such a big thing，" he said. And that mycommunity is very helpful throughout these times."

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）1. A. life

B. level

C. culture

D. standard

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）2. A. left

B. filled

C. recorded

D. provided

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）3. A. raised

B. made

C. expected

D. created

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）4. A. turn

B. hand

C. pick

D. try

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）5. A. tickets

B. stamps

C. prizes

D. coins

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）6. A. word

B. prormse

C. truth

D. way

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）7. A. drop off

B. take away

C. leave out

D. give up

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）8. A. feelings

B. efforts

C. choice

D. task

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）9. A. need

B. business

C. process

D. method

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）10. A. grow

B. move

C. return

D. follow

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）II. A. noise

B. discovery

C. mistake

D. differeme

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）12. A. giving out

B. picking up

C. making out

D. giving away

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）13. A. easy

B. lucky

C. enough

D. necessary

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）14. A. kept away from B. ran out of

C. went on with

D. came up with

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）15. A. relaxed

B. surprised

C. worried

D. embarrassed

二、閱讀理解（共15小題，每小題2分，滿分30分）

閱讀下面三篇材料，從每篇材料后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳答案。

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）16. The news about Indian workers saving an elephant was first reported by____

A. People ' s News

B. News Today

C. Global News

D. Dainik Jagran

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）17. Why did the elepliant fall into the well？

A. It wanted to drink water from the well.

B. The well was hidden and unovered.

C. It was ill.

D. It had no place but to live in the well.

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）18. In which section can we read the news？

A. ANIMALS.

B. ZOO.

C. MAN & NATURE.

D. MYSTERY.

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）19. According to the reading， it ' s TRUE about the elephant that

A. it was badly hurt by pipes

B. it was saved easily

C. it will live in the village

D. it went back to forests finally

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）20. What can we know from the news？

A. There are fewer and fewer elephants in the forests.

B. The doctors saved the elephant instead of the workers.

C. Elephants' living areas are smaller than before.

D. It was not until the elephant woke up that people tried to save it.

B

With their school still closed a group of teenagers felt too bored and decided to do some-thing meaningful.

Since April， students from Lake Highland Preparatory Sc：hool in Florida. US. started a freeonline tutoring service to help younger students with their schoolwork. Since then. Orlando StudentTutoring has lined up about 50 students. All of the children do schoolwork from home.

Their services， using Zoom， are open to any student who is interested. They've receivedapplications from across central Florida and much to their surprise， from students in other statessuch as California and Pennsylvania. "We ' ve been very happy to actually help，" said Jeffrey Zhou，17. "1 didn' t expect we'd get as many students as we did."

The main members of the tutors are from Lake Highland ' s science club. "We were all justso bored." said Pavan Kanumalla. 17. who helped get the tutoring program running. Knowing thepandemic（流行病） had hurt many others. they were "feeling guilty （內疚的） about being bored inquarantine （隔離期），" he said. While not sure what to do at first， the group chose tutoring andwas soon designing a website and lining up other students to serve as tutors. "We' re just trying tohave the biggest influence we can." Kanumalla said.

Brooks Ellson 17. also joined in as a tutor. He helped a third-grade student who neededhelp with math， saying it felt good "just to offer something， to give back". And， he agreed， it wassomething to help fill the long days. The students plan to continue over the summer. offering fun，summer-camp type classes to younger kids.

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）21. What does Orlando Student Tutoring do？

A. It looks after younger children.

B. It helps younger children with their schoolwork.

C. It teaches younger children science.

D. It trains younger children to do housework.

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）22. Jeffrey Zhou felt surprised about the fact that

A. their service wasn' t welcomed in California

B. many parents found it hard to teach their children

C. their program had drawn many students from other states

D. many students across the country had come to be tutors

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）23. The underlined word 'applications" in the passage is closest in meaning to

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A. requests

B. instructions

C. services

D. replies

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）24. Why did Pavan Kanumalla feel guilty？

A. He couldn ' t tutor during the pandemic.

B. He didn ' t know what to do during the pandemic：.

C. He failed to continue the program into the summer.

D. He felt bored while others were in pain during the pandemic.

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）25. What did Brooks Ellson think about Orlando Student Tutoring'l

A. It should be more fun.

B. It was helpful for children of all ages.

C. It allowed him to kill time in a meaningful way.

D. It should offer more types of classes to meet parents' need.

C

This summer， I went to Sports Camp with my little brother.Charlie. When we walked to thelake， I was the only one who didn' t jump in.¨Can ' t you swim， Brandon？" asked Henry. I can， butafter you ' ve seen the water in the lake under a microscope （ 顯微鏡）， you 're less excited to cool offin it.

Tonight after sundown we' re playing Capture the Flag. All of us are divided into two teams.Blue and Red. Each team hides a flag， then has an hour to find and take the other team's flag.Charlie and I are on the Blue team. When Kenneth. our team leader. asks who wants to scoutout the Red flag. My brother raises his hand.

Charlie goes with a group of boys from our team. The rest of us stay behind to guard ourflag， which we've hidden in a nearby tree. Soon. Charlie is bark， and his face is as red as paint."All the others were caught. But I saw their flag！ " he breathes quickly. "Inside the door of thedirector's house！ "

Kenneth gives us a sign to come over. "Time ' s running out. Any ideas？"

"I'll stay with Charlie and Isaiah and guard our flag，" offers Henry.

Kenneth looks at Marshall and me. "Let's go，" he says.

We run through the woods. Unluckily， two boys from the Red team notice Kenneth andMarshall， and they are caught. I hide behind a tree and try to think of which house is the director' s.

A whistle （口哨） sounds. and my heart beats fast. Only five minutes leftf

No time to checkevery house. Which one is the right one？ Suddenly， I smell something I know. The director's af-ter-shave（須后水）！ I'm sure of it.

I climb up the steps and open the door. The flag！

"Get him！ " Someone shouts.

I catch the flag and run for our home base. Two boys from the Red team are right behindme. I reach our home base just before I hear the final whistle blow loud and long. Blue wins！

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）26. Why doesn' t the writer want to swim in the lake？

A. He can ' t swim.

B. The lake is too deep.

C. The water is not clean.

D. The weather is too cold.

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）27. The writer finds out where the Red team' s flag is__

A. with his brother's help

B. after the final whistle blows

C. before Kenneth and Marshall are caught

D. through the smell of the director' s after-shave

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）28. The underlined phrase "scout out" in the passage means

A. set up

B. search for

C. think of

D. go through

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）29. Which one of the following is caught by the Red team ？

A. Brandon.

B. Henry.

C. Marshall.

D. Isaiah.

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）30. The best title for the passage should be

A. Catching the Flag

B. Sports Camp

C. A Great Success

D. A Valuable Experience

三、閱讀理解填詞（共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分）

閱讀下面短文，在空白處寫出各單詞的正確形式，單詞的第一個字母已給出。

When Emma Yang was 7 0r 8 years old her grandmother got Alzheimer 's disease（阿爾茨海默病）. It made her grandmother lose her memory. She couldn't even know her own family members.Yang， now 14. decided to c

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Her app is called Timeless. It uses facial recognition （面部識別） technology. Alzheimer' sp

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can use the app to look at photos of their friends and family. The app will tell themwho those people are and what are their r

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with the patients.

Yang got the i

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after seeing how facial recognition is used in different areas， espe-cially health care. She put a lot of e

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into working with a tech company to make the fa-cial recognition software（軟件） that her app uses.

The app is not perfect and still in d

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. Yang is trying to r

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money in manyways so she can take the next step. Though some may think that the app is too h

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forolder people to use， Yang is hopeful. "If you i

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it to them the right way. it's actually pos-sible for them to use it and it can really help them live better，" she said.

Memory expert Katherine Possin agrees. Possin said it can i

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their memory. Andlooking at photos on the app can help patients feel more sotial. she added.

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四、書面表達（共1大題，滿分15分）

假如你是李華，端午節（Dragon Boat Festival）將至，周末你和父母去看望爺爺奶奶，并學習了包粽子（Zongzi）。請你根據下面的內容提示，給你們學校的英語校刊寫一篇英語文章，記敘你這一天的經過。

內容要點如下：

1.看望爺爺奶奶之前，去超市買了包粽子用的糯米和粽葉：

2.奶奶展示了怎樣包粽子：

3.包粽子很難，但是我學得很快：

4.我們不僅一起進餐，還分享了有趣的故事：

5.補充一兩點有關信息或想法。

注意：

1.文中不得透露個人姓名和學校名稱：

2.詞數：60-80;

3.內容連貫，不要逐條翻譯：

4.開頭和結尾已給出，不計人總詞數。

參考詞匯：sticky rice糯米 bamboo leaf粽葉 share v.分享

My parents and l went to see my grandparents last Saturdav. We enjoyed our family time to-gether.____

I'll alwavs remember this day.