【推荐1】After posting a short video on April 27 about planting and cooking peas, Chinese food blogger Li Ziqi witnessed her followers on YouTube over 10 million. Li shares short videos recording her traditional and peaceful lifestyle in China's countryside. This makes her shot to fame.

“It's really surprising. I didn't expect such a wide response," Li said in an interview, noting she was surprised by how foreigners on the Internet were taken with her works. Li's videos center on her life with her grandmother in the rura（乡下）parts of Sichuan Province. In the videos, Li, is often dressed in beautiful traditional clothes, rises at sunrise, rests at sunset, plants seeds and harvests flowers, cooks Chinese dishes and makes bamboo furniture.

In response, Li, who was raised in the countryside, said "Most people today are facing huge stress in work and life, so I hope they can feel relaxed when watching my videos." "There are so many ideas in my mind of old craftsmanship（手艺）and food we have been enjoying for thousands of years. Some are almost forgotten. I hope to preserve them through my small efforts.”

"China has tried for so many years to promote our culture globally but made little progress, and that's because of a lack of spontaneity（自发性）and few focus on Chinese people's daily lives," Zhang Xiaoming, director of the China National Center for Culture Studies, said in a recent interview with The Beijing News. "China needs more Li Ziq”.

1. Which of the following can best replace the phrase “shot to fame” in Paragraph1?

A．become widely known	B．feel extremely hopeful
C．grow up	D．gain confidence

2. What can we learn about Li Ziqi?

A．Her video is about her life in the city.

B．She wears formal uniform in her video.

C．All her furniture is created and designed by herself.

D．She hopes her video can help reduce people's pressure.

3. What is Li Ziqi's attitude towards Chinese old craftsmanship?

A．Indifferent.	B．Negative.
C．Concerned.	D．Confused.

4. What can be inferred from what Zhang Xiaoming said?

A．China has made much progress in promoting its culture globally.

B．There are enough videos about Chinese people's daily lives online.

C．Chinese culture has been famous globally because of Li Ziqi.

D．More efforts should be made to spread Chinese culture.

【推荐2】It was just after 17:00 on a mid-September evening at a historical Church in Harlem, New York City. Mostly the low-income black neighborhood sat at dining tables. In front of them was a menu listing three courses, which they only saw on TV. Each dish was prepared with “leftover” ingredients(食材), offered free of charge and placed alongside a blue card that read “you are loved” in hand-written script.

This-is-one of 14 community centers created around the world in cities like Milan, Paris, Mérida, Lima, Sydney and now New York through three-Michelin starred chef Massimo Bottura’s Food for Soul project. He started the project in 2016 with his wife, Lara Gilmore, to help fight the global problem of food waste-by using ingredients that might otherwise be thrown away by suppliers and to give socially and economically vulnerable people access to high quality meals.

Partnering with architects, artists and community leaders, the project is transforming spaces, which are not fully taken advantage of, such as churches and even a historical home into intentionally designed cultural centers equipped with kitchens, dining rooms and other facilities that help create a sense of well-being, connection and inclusion.

When I asked Bottura why he created such thoughtful. meals within beautifully appointed spaces for the low-income, he told me that everyone deserves respect and beauty-and of course, healthy food. “They come in and are completely lost because they’re not used to coming into beautiful places, like this. But once they’re here, they realize that this place is their place. It’s not my place,” he said.

Bottura’s philosophy is one that comes from the heart. T-shirts worm by volunteers at his community centers say “cooking is an act of love”, and he approaches the food served there with as much care as he does at his restaurants — “probably even more”, he said since the diners are extremely stressed and need healthy food to feel better. Bottura insists that it’s important to change the language around the food served in his community centers.

1. Why does the author describe such a scene in the first paragraph?

A．To introduce Bottura’s project.	B．To show the appeal of the dishes.
C．To emphasize the warm atmosphere.	D．To explain how the event is organized.

2. What does the underlined word “vulnerable” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Privileged.

B．Independent.

C．Conservative.

D．Disadvantaged.

3. Which of the following best describes Massimo Bottura?

A．Skilled and strict.	B．Caring and considerate.
C．Wealthy and humorous.	D．Economical and influential.

4. What fundamental philosophy does Massimo Bottura express?

A．Respect and beauty are for all.	B．Beautiful places inspire respect.
C．Cooking should be a profession.	D．Community centers bring people together.

【推荐3】A cancer treatment no longer means what it used to be. Just a few decades ago, the survival rate beyond five years was less than 50%. Now, nearly 70% of those who get cancer survive that long, and that rate is set to rise. Why? Because, more than ever, chemotherapy (化疗) and radiation, once the only ways of cancer treatment, are being paired with or replaced by varieties of new drugs and treatments.

For example, the first medication for what was previously considered an “undruggable” lung cancer was recently approved in the United States, Canada, Europe and the U.K. And a brand-new precise chemotherapy drug delivered directly to breast cancer cells is giving hope to patients with the HER 2-positive form of the disease.

Another discovery has been the promise of a treatment called immunotherapy, as researchers around the world have discovered ways to use the body’s own immune (免疫) system to battle cancer cells.

Also driving hope is a focus on prevention. Decades of research and public education have led to greater awareness of how lifestyle changes can reduce our risk of developing cancer. According to an article from the journal Pharmaceutical Research and published by the National Institutes of Health, 90% to 95% of cancers can be owed to environment and lifestyle, rather than to genetic (基因的) factors.

Employing vaccines (疫苗) is another effective way of prevention. Take the mRNA cancer vaccines for example. The speedy development of COVID-19 vaccines was thanks to foundations already laid by researchers who had been working for years to create mRNA vaccines to fight cancer. These vaccines use a specially programmed molecule (分子) to activate an immune response in the body’s cells. Unlike the COVID-19 vaccines designed to help protect billions of people, each cancer mRNA vaccine is tailored to treat a single patient’s cancer.

In fact, this personalized approach can be made for everyone, and for every cancer.

1. Why is the survival rate beyond five years rising now?

A．Because new drugs and treatments have come out.

B．Because chemotherapy and radiation get advanced.

C．Because new drugs have been paired with old ones.

D．Because new treatments have replaced the old ones.

2. What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?

A．All the cancers are not related to genetic factors.

B．Most cancers have no relationship with lifestyle.

C．A focus on prevention is our only hope to deal with cancer.

D．All cancers have relationship with environment and lifestyle.

3. What can we infer about cancer mRNA vaccine according to the text?

A．The COVID-19 vaccines can be used to fight some cancers.

B．One cancer mRNA vaccine can’t be used for another cancer.

C．One cancer mRNA vaccine can be used to treat patients of the same cancer.

D．The COVID-19 vaccines were created from previous cancer mRNA vaccines.

4. What is the text?

A．A diary entry.	B．A news report.
C．A book review.	D．A science fiction.

【推荐2】No one knows exactly when jazz was invented, or by whom. But it is said that it began in the early 1900s. Jazz was a new kind of music, for America and the world, and New Orleans was its birthplace.

Who were the jazz pioneers? Most were blacks. This music was not written down, and at first only blacks played it. It was hard for white musicians to learn the new style. But soon they, too, were playing jazz.

The popularity of this music spread. From New Orleans, it traveled up the Mississippi to Chicago, then to Kansas City and New York. By the 1920s, there were many jazz musicians, both black and white. Many of them were famous. One man was better than the rest. His name was Louis Armstrong.

Louis Armstrong was a born musician. He was not only talented but also hard—working. He also had a good sense of humor and a big, good—natured smile. These personal qualities were valuable in his rise to fame. After he became famous, he traveled around the world. It seemed that everyone wanted to hear Louis play. But life was not always easy, especially at the beginning.

Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 in New Orleans. His father never went to school and his mother could hardly read. When Louis was still a kid, his parents separated, and Louis lived with his mother. How hard their life was can readily be imagined. And yet Louis smiled through everything. He later wrote, "My whole life has been happiness. Life was there for me and I accepted it. Whatever happened has been beautiful to me. I love everybody."

1. The underlined word "they" in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

A．New styles	B．Jazz pioneers
C．White musicians	D．Black musicians

2. What made Louis Armstrong become the best jazz musician?

A．His family background.	B．His big, good- natured smiles.
C．His good sense of humor.	D．His talent and hard work.

3. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The development of jazz.

B．The development of jazz and its best musician.

C．The achievements of Louis Armstrong.

D．The influence of jazz on Americans.

【推荐3】Even as a child, the best-known North American woman painter, Frida Kahlo exhibited an independent, rebellious spirit and lack of restraint that often got her into trouble.

At the age of six, however, Frida's life changed dramatically. She got polio and confined to her bed for nine months. The disease left Frida's right leg shorter and thinner than her left, and when she had recovered enough to return to school, she walked with a limp. She was often teased by her playmates, and although that was emotionally painful for her, she compensated by being outgoing and gained a reputation as a "character".

A turning point occurred in Frida's life in September, when she was involved in a near-fatal accident. The bus in which she was riding home after school crashed into a trolley car. The impact caused a metal rail to break loose, piercing Frida's entire body with the steel rod. The red Cross doctors who arrived and examined the victims separated the injured from the dying, giving the injured first priority. They took one look at Frida and put her with the hopeless cases.

The doctor eventually treated Frida, and miraculously she survived. She suffered a broken spine and two broken ribs. Her right leg was broken in 11 places, and her right foot was smashed. Her left shoulder was dislocated. From that point on, Frida Kahlo would never live a day without pain.

Although Frida recovered enough to lead a fairly normal life, the accident had severe psychological and physical consequences. she had to abandon her plan to become a doctor. Her slowly healing body kept her in bed for months, and it was during this time that Frida began to paint. Some artists look to nature or society for their inspiration, but Frida Kahlo looked inward. After her accident, Frida described her pain in haunting, dreamlike self-portraits. Most of her 200 paintings explore her vision of herself. The Broken Column（1944）, a small deer with Frida's head and a body pierced with arrows runs through the woods.

When she was in her forties, her health seriously declined, but Frida always kept her lively spirit. By then she was internationally known. When a Mexican gallery wanted to have a major exhibition of her work, she arranged to have her elaborately decorated, four-poster bed carried into the gallery so that she could receive people.

1. Polio left Kahlo with a limp, and as a result she became________.

A．shy and withdrawn	B．polite and graceful
C．friendly and unconventional	D．weak and silent

2. Kahlo began to paint________.

A．when she was still a child

B．after she suffered from polio

C．after a serious traffic accident happened

D．while she was already in her forties.

3. Which of the following doesn't describe Kahlo's artwork?

A．She painted many beautiful landscapes.

B．She painted pictures showing pain and suffering

C．She often used herself as a subject for her work

D．Her painting only reflected her inner world.

4. At the time of her death, Kahlo was________.

A．still an unknown artist	B．sorry she had taken up art
C．not accepted as an accomplished artist	D．a famous North American woman artist

【推荐2】Record pressing companies are handling ongoing supply chain issues and accelerating demand for vinyl releases pushes long-playing sales to record highs.

According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), more than five million vinyl records were bought in 2021. It means that vinyl comprised 23% of all albums sold in the UK last year, the trade body (行业机构) says that vinyl is on course to beat CDs as the dominant physical medium of choice for music fans this year.

Some big-name releases in the latter half of the year are expected to push the sales even higher. The latest release from Harry Styles, Harry’s House, broke records in May has become the quickest-selling vinyl album in the US since 1991, selling 182,000 copies in its first week.

In the US, profits from the sale of vinyl albums grew by 61% in 2021, far outpacing growth rates for paid music and streaming services like Spotify, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. But in the wake of the revival (复兴) are some significant production problems. Dozens of record-pressing factories have been built to try to meet demand in North America — and it’s still not enough.

The industry “has found a new gear, and is accelerating at a new pace”, said Mark Michaels, boss of United Record Pressing, America’s largest record producer, in Nashville, Tennessee. There are now about 40 plants in the US – most of them smaller operations – but challenges remain. Where major record labels may have once pressed the records for their artists, now the manufacture of the discs is increasingly carried out by independent plants. Some, like Jack White’s Third Man Pressing, based in Detroit, are run by musicians themselves.

Backlogs (积压的工作) are preventing new releases, however, as the capacity of smaller firms to press new vinyl releases is held up by growing demand and supply chain failures. Shortages of raw materials melted and flattened into the actual records, have caused widespread problems. It is uneasy to launch a new plant because there are a handful of companies that make record-pressing machines. Those machines are backordered, as well.

In the UK, Press On Vinyl, have been established in recent years to meet increasing demand from acts of all sizes to have their tunes preserved in a physical format. The pressing plant adapts cutting-edge technology to make records with lower energy consumption, better quality control and a smaller chance of adding surface noise to the records than other manufacturing techniques.

But Danny Lowe, co-founder of the business along with David Todd, says: “Widespread problems along the supply chain are leaving record pressers at risk of being unable to meet the growing appetite for vinyl.” “Demand has grown from all quarters,” says Lowe, “whether from smaller independent artists who only order a run of 100 or so records, up to bigger acts who can take up the plant’s capacity for a while at a time.” “We’ve just added more machinery to our production line so that we have more available capacity.” he explains.

1. Which understanding of the underlined words is WRONG?

A．Vinyl: a kind of material.

B．Big-name: famous.

C．Backorder: delay filling the order.

D．A physical format: a finding in physics.

2. What can we infer from Para. 2 - Para. 3?

A．Physical medium has dominated the CD industry this year.

B．Vinyl comprised 23% of albums’ total sale of more than five million according to BPI.

C．The latest release from Harry House, Harry’s Styles, sold more than 180 thousand copies in its first week.

D．Big-name releases contributed to even higher sales.

3. Which statements COULD be the reasons of the increase in the sale of vinyl albums?
① Because of fans economy.
② Thanks to paid music and streaming services.
③ It was the newly-built factories that met the huge requirement.
④ The efficiency promotion, benefited from a new technique.

A．①④

B．①③④

C．①②④

D．②③④

4. Why was Press On Vinyl founded?

A．Because it had advanced technology.

B．To fill in the industry blank.

C．To arouse people’s love for vinyl.

D．Because of considerable benefits.

5. What can we know about David Todd and Danny Lowe?

A．David Todd pointed out that the problem was they couldn’t meet needs.

B．Danny Lowe thought there was a need to supplement workers.

C．David Todd put more effort in the foundation of Press On Vinyl.

D．They both held a positive attitude towards the industry prospect.

6. What may be talked next in the article?

A．What made the record industry so low.

B．The importance of promoting physical medium.

C．Other ways adopted to improve the situation.

D．Where records could have a better sale.

【推荐3】Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to allow restaurants to sell drinks to go with reasonable limitations was met with great enthusiasm all across New York. But New York's liquor (酒) stores have already begun a campaign of misinformation in an effort to block this.

Their basic argument is that the governor's proposal will result in an increase in underage sales, drunken driving, or any other public health problems. However, they throw these statements around without offering any support for their claims — because there is none.

While the liquor stores frequently claim that the laws have been unchanged since the abolishment (废除) of Prohibition in 1934, in just the past 20 years the rules governing liquor stores have been changed, permitting the use of online third-party delivery services and allowing stores to open on Sundays. Restaurant advocates didn't oppose these expanded privileges because they didn't have a significant impact on restaurant sales.

What hasn't changed of the law since Prohibition is the restriction on new liquor store licenses that give liquor stores a geographic territorial monopoly (垄断) to protect them from competition. Under typical circumstances, the State Liquor Authority will only issue a new liquor store license if the nearby stores report steadily increasing sales. However anti-competitive and outdated this restriction may be, it does serve as a protection against their concerns — in the very unlikely event they come to pass.

Economically, the pandemic has been a major help to the liquor store business. Before the pandemic, liquor stores sold 76% of all liquor in New York State and now they sell nearly 85%. And remember, during this period, restaurants were allowed drinks-to-go sales, showing their false claims of economic collapse are not grounded in reality or experience. The sales shift from restaurants to liquor stores over the past two years demonstrates clearly that restaurants have lost sales to liquor stores — we just want to stop the bleeding. While the restaurant industry rebounded for a part of 2021, employment still remains more than 20% below pre-pandemic levels.

1. Why did liquor stores oppose the proposal according to the author?

A．Threat to public health.	B．Boost of underage sales.
C．Concerns about their sales.	D．Limitations to drinks to go.

2. What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?

A．Liquor stores are in a dog-eat-dog world.

B．Prohibition makes liquor stores dead in the water.

C．The number of liquor stores is under control.

D．What liquor stores worry about is reasonable.

3. What does the underlined word “their” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Restaurants.	B．Governors.
C．New Yorkers.	D．Liquor stores.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Let restaurants sell drinks to go.

B．Defend liquor stores privileges.

C．Liquor industry is losing money.

D．Restaurants are racing with liquor stores.