11．阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案．
　　There was a businessman who was deep in debt (债务) and could see no way out. He sat on a park bench, head in his hands. Suddenly, an old man (1)      before him.
　　"I can see that (2)       is troubling you," he said. After listening to the businessman's story, the old man put a (3)       in the man's hand, saying, "Take it and pay me back here (4)       one year from today." Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
　　The businessman saw in his hand a check for ＄500, 000 (5)       by John Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world!
　　"I can pay off my (6)      !" he realized. But he didn't use the check at once. (7)      the businessman decided to save the check. Just knowing it was there might give him the (8)       to save his business, he thought. He went back and worked hard to make his business successful. Soon, he was out of debt and making (9)      again.
　　Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the check. The old man appeared (10)       it was planned. But just as the businessman was about to hand back the check and share his (11)       story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man. She told him that the old man was mentally (精神上) ill, (12)       from the rest home and always telling people he was John Rockefeller.
　　The businessman was shocked (震惊) to (13)      that. All year long, he'd been buying and selling, believing that he had half a (14)      dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money that had turned his life (15)      . It was his self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve success.

12．　　I walked into a wild third﹣grade classroom. Loud music was played, kids were throwing a football, and students were dancing wherever they could find space. I was a mid﹣year replacement (替补), The previous (之前的) teacher said he could no longer teach these children and left the job during the holiday break. As soon as I walked into the room, I understood why he left.
　　I sat down quietly in my chair and began reading their names softly. I then put up a mirror (镜子) on the wall next to the blackboard and began writing my name and a reading task on the blackboard.
　　I then asked the children to come up one by one and tell me their names and what they wanted to learn about. It was a difficult task because only two children said they wanted to learn something!
　　I set rules for the classroom and talked to the students' parents in the hope that I could fix the noisy kids. But it was the mirror that saved the day — no, the year!
　　The mirror allowed me to see my students' every move while I was writing on the blackboard. They soon became puzzled as to how I knew who was misbehaving while I looked at the blackboard. When one student finally asked me, I told him I had a special teacher's eye in the back of my head that my hair covered.
　　At first they did not believe me. But they did begin to behave better, especially while I wrote on the blackboard. They were starting to believe that I had magical vision. I never told them differently. Why mess u叩a good thing?

13．　　From the Summer Olympics in 2008 to the Winter Olympics 2022, it took Beijing less than 14 years to become the first city to host both. How much do you know about the 2022 Olympic Winter Games?

14．　　"They are going to attack, " said the captain, coming back in. "We have fewer men to fight them but we have the protection of the fort (堡垒)," The captain then gave his orders. "Doctor, guard the door, but do not let them see you. Hunter, guard the east side, Joyce, the west. Mr Trelawney, — you and Gray guard this north side with the five gun holes. Shoot when you see anyone."
　　We put out the fire, and put four extra guns, and our swords in the centre of the room. Joyce shot (射击) first, but he missed his man. Soon lots of shots hit our fort. Seven pirates (海盗) ran to the fort shouting loudly, while others fired at us from behind the trees. One bullet (子弹) came through the doorway, breaking the doctor's gun to pieces. The pirates climbed inside the fence. They ran up the hill towards our house. They pulled the guns from the holes and then ran towards the door.
　　"Outside, men!" shouted the captain. "We'll fight them in the open with our swords!"
　　We went outside and killed more of them. The rest of the pirates ran away. When the fighting was over, we went back inside. Two more of our men died in the attack and the captain was wounded. The numbers were now reduced from seven of us against nineteen pirates to four against nine. (Adapted from Treasure Island)

15．　　When you look at the night sky, what you see are actually lots of "power plants" (发电厂). Every star makes a huge amount of energy through nuclear fusion (核聚变). For years, scientists have tried to make this kind of energy. They need to make a "mini star" on Earth. Recently, some scientists made a big step forward.
　　In February, 2022, the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, the UK doubled a world record set in 1997. The latest equipment (设备) there used fusion engines (发动机) to make as much energy as four wind turbines (涡轮机) did, reported The Guardian.
　　In the past, no experiment could make more energy than what was used to start the fusion engine. This new experiment, although it only lasted five seconds, showed it's possible to make more power.
　　Another good thing about the experiment is that the reaction (反应) stopped when the equipment got too hot. This problem can be solved with cooling systems. Future fusion reactions may last much longer than five seconds — minutes or even hours.
　　Why do we care so much about star power?Fusion reactions could offer power to everyone on Earth一enough for everyone to use for thousands even millions of years. They're also clean — they don't produce carbon dioxide or radioactive (放射性的) waste.
　　You may wonder why fusion energy is so hard to make. Creating conditions similar to a star is not easy. The machine must reach temperatures 10 time as high as that of the sun's core (核).
　　Even so, it's time to get excited about star power. If it can be successfully carried out, it will be a landmark (里程碑) in human history.

16．根据句子意思, 从方框中选用恰当的单词或短语填空．

29．　　After the 2022 Spring Festival Gala, an amazing show called The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting (《只此青绿》) became a hit. The show is based on a classical Chinese painting — A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains by Wang Ximeng, an artist who lived during the Song Dynasty (960 —1279). Watching the show is like going on a journey back to the Song Dynasty. The painting is now kept in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
　　Netizens made a word for the challenging move — "blue-green waist". In fact, the bend (弯曲) in the show is meant to sketch the shape of steep cliffs and winding mountains in the painting. A number of people take on the challenge by bending backward. Some dancers even bend backward at a 90-degree angle. The graceful but difficult backbend has become very hot. However, without years of training or proper instructions, people may hurt their bones.
　　The dancers in the show have trained for years before getting on stage. To show the beauty of the painting through traditional Chinese dance movements, the directors studied a lot of materials and read almost all the poems of the Song Dynasty. It took them almost 20 months to put the show on the stage.

根据短文内容回答问题, 每题答案不超过6个词．

30．　　For more than a thousand years, Cairo has been the capital city of Egypt (埃及). This is finally coming to an end. The country is moving its capital.
　　Last month, some officials began to work in the new capital as part of a six-month trial. Not officially (官方地) named yet, the city is located in the desert to the east of Cairo and is known as the New Administrative (行政) Capital (NAC). It began to be built in 2015.
　　Why does the government decide to build a new capital?That's mainly because there are more and more people in Cairo. When it is completed, the new capital will be about 714 square kilometers in area, nearly twice the size of Cairo. In other words, it's almost the same size as Singapore. It is planned to house 6. 5 million people. Government offices, embassies (大使馆) and other organizations will move there.
　　Egypt's leader says that building the new capital will help create jobs for many people. He also says all kinds of projects are planned, such as building airports. hotels and stadiums. Moreover, there is a public park twice the size of New York's Central Park. This is the second reason for building a new capital.
　　Another reason is that Egypt needs a smart and green capital. It will use a smart traffic system and people will use e﹣payment. Engineers have set up solar panels (太阳能板) on rooftops. Everyone in the capital will have 15 square meters of green land.
　　"We are trying to solve all the problems we had in the past in the new capital," spokesman for the new capital told Reuters.
根据上面短文的内容完成下列各句．

31．决战中考的号角已经吹响, 距离中考还有不到100天的时间．100天, 短, 则如白驹过隙, 转瞬即逝;长, 则有144, 000分钟．只要努力, 一切皆有可能．让我们以梦为马, 不负韶华．你准备好了吗?请根据以下表格写一篇题为"Let's get ready"的文章, 给出你的建议并谈谈你的梦想．

注意: 1. 短文必须包括表格中所有内容, 可适当发挥;
2. 词数:80﹣100, 短文首段已经给出, 不计入总词数;
3. 文中不得出现真实的人名、校名和地名．
Let's get ready
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