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lly 41 them. But as a girl, I once thought that I could never play basketball. I like playing basketball though I39。s team at Harvard started with a used kidney. Scientists added kidney cells from rats and blood vessel cells from people to the matrix(母體) . These cells attached themselves and began to multiply. Before long, they formed new kidney tissue. The scientists placed this renewed kidney into another rat. There it produced a small amount of urine. This experiment shows that the labgrown kidney can do at least some of the work performed by a healthy kidney. The results are a promising first step toward helping people with serious kidney problems. This is still very early, but they39。s really beautiful work, Edward Ross, a kidney researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville, told Science News. He didn39。s largest international youth football tournament. MattiasRonge, chief executive of Stockholmbased advertising agency Deportivo which anized the stunt(驚人的表演 ) said the machine had helped raise awareness for UNICEF, but in reality had its limitations. People haven39。s Royal Institute of Technology. It uses a technique called membrane distillation(膜蒸餾 ), he told the BBC.We use a substance that39。s study, we know that ________. A. school kids cannot find drinkable water easily B. boys are more likely to get dehydrated than girls C. sugary drinks are very popular with school kids D. most kids know the importance of drinking plain water . 27. From the last paragraph we learn that kids________. A. should drink plain water to lose weight B. can try to take in water from sugary drinks . C. can eat celery, melons and tomatoes for water . D. should drink no more than 10 cups of water every day 28. The text mainly tells us that many kids_____________ A. don 39。s lead author, Erica Kenney, at first planned to look into the amount of sugary drinks kids were drinking in schools. However, during her research she found that many kids were simply not drinking enough water. Kenney and her team examined data from a group of 4,000 children, aged 6 to19, between the years of 2020 and 2020. The data was taken from the National Health and Nutrition Survey,a study on the health of children in the United States conducted each year by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.. While looking through the survey results, she noticed that more than half of the kids who took part in the study were dehydrated (脫水的 ). Of39。s young couples. Born in Zhengzhou, Henan province, Song works as an independent songwriter along with his team there, including singersongwriters Yu Runze, Xu An and Wu Bai. Song says that he finished the lyrics within an hour and sent it to his team via cellphone. The team finished posing(作曲 ) that night. They also made the music video by themselves, which was the first time that they had ever produced a music video and uploaded it online. The video of the song contains 33 photos and 2 cartoon illustrations(插圖 ) of the couple, displaying small interactive moments, including tacit(心照不宣的 ) eye contact between the couple and hand touching when the couple played a swing. Nine children between 4 and 12 years old were invited to rap and sing along with the team. When I watched the couple appearing on TV, they seemed just like any other ordinary couple and I felt close to them. With some small sweet moments, I could feel the love between the couple, says Song. Xi Dada and Peng Mama have both bee Inter buzz words, referring to the Chinese president and his popular wife. Song notes that the couple has attracted worldwide attention and even what Peng wears bees headlines. Yu Runze, 32, is one of the singers and also es from Zhengzhou. She says the team started to release songs online around four years ago, mostly pop love ballads(歌曲,歌謠 ). Though they could make ends meet by making music, they remained unknown before this song. We didn39。 17. What difficulty did the speaker have when starting to learn French? A. Grammar. B. Vocabulary. C. Pronunciation. 18. Why did the speaker go to France? A. To settle there. B. To look for a job. C. To continue her studies. 19. What did the speaker think of her French after she arrived in France? A. Poor. B. Acceptable. C. Excellent. 20. What is the most important in learning a language according to the speaker? A. Mastering the grammar rules. B. Using the language in real life. C. Knowing a large number of words. 第二部分 閱讀理解 (共兩節(jié) ,滿分 40 分) 第一節(jié)(共 15小題 。 6. What will the woman do this evening? A. Attend a party. B. Visit her grandma. C. Do some shopping. 7. What does the man advise the woman to do? A. Make a skirt. B. Buy a handbag. C. Wear a necklace. 聽第 7段材料 , 回 答第 9題。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題 , 從題中所給的 A、 B、 C三個選項中選出最佳選項 , 并標在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。每段對話后有一個小題 , 從題中所給的 A、 B、 C三個選項中選出最佳選項 , 并標在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后 , 你都有 10 秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。聽每段對話或獨白前 , 你將有時間閱讀各個小題 , 每小題 5秒鐘;聽完后 ,各小題將給出 5秒鐘的作答時間。 8. Where does the conversation take place? A. At a hotel. B. At an airport. C. At a police station. 9. What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Wait where she is. B. Make a request for the loss. C. Give him her telephone number