16．　　A father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was happy when he saw the sky full of colorful kites. He wanted to fly a kite, too. The father then (1)      a kite for his son in the shop.
　　The son started to fly the kite. (2)      , his kite was high up in the sky in a few minutes. Then, the son said, "Father, it seems (似乎) that the string (线) is stopping the kites from flying higher.
　　If we cut it, it will be (3)       and fly higher. Can we cut it?" The father cut the string off.
　　The kite started to go (4)      . This made the little boy happy.
　　But then, slowly, the kite started to (5)      . It finally fell to the ground. The son was (6)      to see this. He asked his father, "Why did it fall down?I thought that the kite would fly higher (7)      cutting the string."
　　The father said, "The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it stay in the sky. You helped the kite go up in the right (8)       by using the string. But it can no longer support (支撑) the kite if you cut the string."
　　We may sometimes feel like there is (9)      holding us back and stopping us from growing. But (10)      , it might be the thing that supports us the most.

17．　　Mr. Smith works in an office of a computer company. He is very busy and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back from his office, he's always tired and didn't want to say anything. All he hopes is to go to bed early. But his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after dinner. She doesn't stop talking before she goes to sleep.
　　Because of this he felt terrible and couldn't go to work So one day he decided to go to see a doctor. And Mrs. Smith went to the hospital with him, Before her husband asked the doctor what was wrong with him, the woman told the doctor all and the doctor understood why. He wrote out a prescription (处方). And when Mrs. Smith brought the medicine to the doctor, the doctor said to her. "This bottle of medicine is for your husband, and these sleeping pills (药片) are for you". "For me" the woman was astonished and then said: "I feel very well. I don't need any medicine!You must be mistaken!" "I don't think so, madam", said the doctor. "They are sleeping pills. Your husband will soon be all right if you take them."

18．　　We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world. There're more than 2,500 kinds of them.
　　No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide that she loves you. She?Yes, she. It's true that male (雄性的) mosquito doesn't bite (咬) and only the female (雌性的) mosquito bites because she needs blood (血) to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn't like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You're different from the others!If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different.
　　After she bites, you will have an itch (痒) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. By the time the itching begins, and she has flown away.
　　And then what happens?After her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She just wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, on a leaf or a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs.

19．　　"Dreams is more important than sleep. We all need to dream" some scientists say.
　　Dreams take up about 1/4 of our sleeping time. People have several dreams each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.
　　Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may be thinking about their work all day. These ideas can come into dreams.
　　Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't remember the dream. Dreams can disappear quickly from memory (记忆).
　　Too much dreaming can be harmful. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind (大脑) is hard at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.
判断正(T)误(F)．

20．A: Can I help you, sir?
B: (1)      
A: Could you tell me when you would like to fly?
A: The tenth? Just a minute, please. I have to check the computer. Hmm, I'm sorry. (2)       What about the ninth?
B: The ninth? No, I can't leave before the tenth. What about the eleventh?
A: Let me see, (3)      
B: What's the flight (航班) number?
A: Flight number?It's HU703.
B: HU703. (4)      
A: Yes, that's half past four in the afternoon. One-way or round-trip?
B: One-way.
A: How many seats (座位), please?
B: (5)      
A: OK. I'll get them for you at once.

21．用所给词或短语的适当形式填空．

22．　　The story goes that two friends were walking (1)t       the desert (沙漠).
　　(2)D       the journey they had an argument (争论), and one friend hit the other one in the face. The one who got hit was (3)h      , but without (4)s      anything, he wrote in the sand :"Today my best friend hit me in the face. "They kept on walking (5)u      they found an oasis (绿洲), where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been hit got stuck in the mire (陷入泥潭) and started going down, but the friend saved him. After he was out of (6)d      , he wrote on a stone:"Today my best friend saved my life."
　　The friend who had hit and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why? The other friend replied, "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness(宽容)can blow it (7)a      . But when someone does something good for us, we must carve (雕刻) it on stone (8)w       no wind ever blows it away."
　　Learn to write your hurts in the (9)s      and to carve your benefits (好处) on the stone. Send this phrase to the people you will never forget. It's a short message to let them (10)k      that you will never forget them.

23．自从国家实施"双减"政策以来, 如何以饱满的精神高效学习, 从而取得良好的成绩, 成为老师、家长和同学们关心的话题．假如你是张宏, 请你用英文写一篇短文, 就如何高效学习发表演说, 给同学们提出一些建议．这些建议要包括以下内容:
1. 课上认真听讲, 认真做笔记, 仔细地思考．
计划时间, 高效作业, 认真复习．
分担家务, 锻炼身体, 健康饮食．
博览群书, 增长知识, 放松自己．
睡眠充足, 消除焦虑, 充满信心

注意:1. 不可逐字逐句翻译, 根据内容提示可以适当发挥．
2. 语言流畅、书写规范、卷面整洁, 要有适当的连接词．
3. 文中不得出现你的真实姓名和校名等．
4. 80﹣﹣100词左右, 文章的开头已给出, 不计入总词数．
5. 在所给出的文章的空白处填上适当的内容, 并续写这篇演讲稿．
　　Hello, everyone. I'm Zhang Hong. With the rapid (迅速的) development of society, recently the problem of ________________________________ is causing(引起) people's concern (关注). Here are my ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
　　Thank you for listening.