【正文】 W:Maybe you don’ t need the car. M:I like the car. W:? There is a shopping center just opposite the road. M: ?Yes, that’ s a good point. W:And the swimming pool, and a gym downstairs. M:I don’ t have time for sports? ?Now can we take a look at the place? I don’ t have so much time all day. W:Sure. ? Here’ s the main bedroom. Isn’ t it lovely? M:But is it quiet? W:Oh, it’ s very quiet. And ? here is the second bedroom. M:Hmm, it’ s very small. W:Well, second bedrooms are never as big as the master suite? M: But this is too small. Well, we’ ll have to think about it. 聽下面一段對話，回答第 15 至第 17 三個小題。 Text 9 M： ? Darling， I’ ve decided to bee a tomorrow on，I will stop eating meat. W： Why? M： ? Because people nowadays eat too much meat and it’ s healthier to eat less. W： Is this another one of your crazy ideas?It won’ t last a month， in order to lose weight， you decided to jog to work every only lasted a week because you were late for work every day. M： ? That’ s not the reason why I stopped！ I stopped jogging because I pulled a muscle in the leg. W： Well， what about the bicycle? M： What bicycle? W： Exactly！ You can hardly remember you own a bike as it’ s been locked away in the garage ever since you bought it. M： That’ s not pletely soon as the weather improves， I’ m going to start using it again. 聽下面一段獨白，回答第 18 至第 20 三個小題。 Text 10 Wang Ying was among the 313 college graduates employed by Changxing County of east China’ s Zhejiang Province in 2021. She is ?now a village official in Gangkou Village. Recently， Wang Ying was awarded the“ Agricultural Pacemaker”prize of Zhejiang Province. ?The prize was given to her because she took villagers to a new level in modern agricultural development. However， Wang Ying says she had a tough time when she first came here.?Most villagers did not trust her at the beginning because she was a college graduate with no experience in agriculture. The village was mainly based on traditional had little knowledge about modern agriculture. Wang Ying borrowed 20,000 yuan from her parents to and some villagers began to set up a vegetable production base and have earned a total of more than 2 million yuan after a year’ s hard plan a result， Wang Ying has won the approval and trust from the villagers. Many college﹣ graduate village officials， like Wang Ying， are contributing greatly to the development China’ s rural they are expected to acplish more in the future. 第二節(jié) 到此結(jié)束。 If you need to spend time on the road, it’ s important to find ways to keep safe on your feet. Don’ t suppose it’ s your right of way. Yes, you might be crossing at the right place, at the right time, within the crosswalk area, but you are still exposed to danger. It could be a distracted driver, or a cyclist with a loose sense of traffic rules, so you could still get hurt. You can be in the right legally, but that won’ t be much help when you’ re in the hospital. Follow pedestrian signals. Just as drivers aren’ t supposed to speed up to beat a light when crossing through an intersection, pedestrians need to take the same care when obeying their own signals. If the hand is flashing and the countdown is into single digits (數(shù)字）， stay where you are. Trying to outrun the flashing hand is unsafe， especially as cars try to clear the intersection before the light turns red. Give drivers enough time to stop when crossing. Don’ t suppose that drivers will jam on their brakes when you hit the crosswalk signals. Some provinces, such as Alberta, issue (發(fā)出） a ticket if you don’ t give drivers enough time to brake. Cross quickly. Once you’ ve followed all of the other rules, and it is safe to cross the street, don’ t then just wander along in front of six lanes (車道） of traffic. There’ s no need to run or jog, but respect the drivers who respect you enough to stop for you. 21. Who is the text intended for? . . . . 解析： D 推理判斷題。 does the underlined word ? distracted? in Paragraph 2 mean? . . ﹣ hearted. ﹣ minded. 解析： D 詞義猜測題。 23. In what case would pedestrians in Alberta be fined? against time with drivers. crosswalk signals. the crosswalk area. outside six lanes. 解析： A 細節(jié)理解題。 Here are some kids who had great ideas that they turned into inventions. We call these kids ? brain children? . Six﹣ year﹣ old Suzanna Goodin, tired of cleaning the cat food spoon, came up with the idea of a spoon﹣ shaped cracker that can be eaten. She won a grand prize for her invention in the Weekly Reader National Invention Contest. Eight﹣ year﹣ old Theresa Thompson and her 9 year old sister Mary were the youngest sisters to receive a US patent. They invented a solar tent for a science fair project in 1960. They called the device a Wigwarm. At age 9, Margaret Knight began working in a cotton mill, where she saw a steel﹣ tipped shuttle(梭子 ) fly out and hit a nearby worker. As a result, Margaret made her first invention: a shuttle restraining device. She went on to invent the machine that makes the square﹣ bottom paper bags we still use for shopping today. That machine was patented in 1871. Eleven﹣ year﹣ old Jeanie Low received a patent on March 10, 1992, for inventing the Kiddie Stool(凳子 )— a fold﹣ up stool that fits under the sink so kids can unfold it, stand on it, and reach the sink on their own! Becky Schroeder began her patenting career when she was 14 years old. She put phosphorescent paint on paper under her writing paper so that she could write in the dark. This invention was later used in all sorts of ways. Doctors use it in hospitals to read patients’ charts at night without wak