1 . The world's largest painting has been sold in Dubai for almost $62 million. British artist Sacha Jafri created the painting and
During the spread of COVID-19 last year, Mr. Jafri was in Dubai. Rather than feeling
Using the children's
Jafri had aimed to
| A．held | B．played | C．set | D．confirmed |
| A．ashamed | B．lost | C．hidden | D．stuck |
| A．decided | B．hesitated | C．agreed | D．happened |
| A．wish | B．difference | C．comment | D．mark |
| A．called on | B．arranged for | C．appointed | D．warmed |
| A．return | B．accept | C．take | D．contribute |
| A．hard | B．happy | C．fantastic | D．wrong |
| A．notes | B．ideas | C．dialogues | D．applications |
| A．standard | B．cheap | C．huge | D．round |
| A．just | B．even | C．seldom | D．still |
| A．worked | B．behaved | C．calculated | D．discussed |
| A．handing over | B．puzzling over | C．bending over | D．turning over |
| A．decorations | B．brushes | C．collections | D．patterns |
| A．repeated | B．delayed | C．continued | D．finished |
| A．length | B．width | C．size | D．shape |
| A．save | B．raise | C．borrow | D．offer |
| A．on the bench | B．through the floor | C．under the hammer | D．in the air |
| A．earned | B．charged | C．deposited | D．paid |
| A．money | B．prize | C．credit | D．share |
| A．split | B．buried | C．absorbed | D．put |
2 . Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist？A successful scientist is generally a good
The
Galileo(1564—1642)，
What makes those people good scientists？From the
| A．farmer | B．observer | C．worker | D．student |
| A．use | B．sense | C．speed | D．trust |
| A．boost | B．investigate | C．accept | D．predict |
| A．refuses | B．desires | C．intends | D．regrets |
| A．to | B．as | C．with | D．for |
| A．casually | B．quickly | C．carefully | D．privately |
| A．proof | B．reaction | C．infection | D．rise |
| A．date | B．keep | C．look | D．come |
| A．command | B．suspect | C．suggest | D．conclude |
| A．casting | B．pouring | C．experimenting | D．digesting |
| A．brought | B．announced | C．handled | D．discovered |
| A．but | B．however | C．though | D．therefore |
| A．outstanding | B．naughty | C．awful | D．ordinary |
| A．slowly | B．rapidly | C．lightly | D．heavily |
| A．big | B．small | C．similar | D．unequal |
| A．skill | B．spirit | C．theory | D．wish |
| A．put forward | B．turned to | C．set up | D．led to |
| A．vision | B．finding | C．shadow | D．instance |
| A．likely | B．naturally | C．clearly | D．unwillingly |
| A．whose | B．how | C．what | D．which |
3 . Although Friends came to an end in 2004, it’s still considered one of the best sitcoms to ever make its way onto our screens. This show thrust the likes of Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Courteney Cox into the limelight (聚光灯), and everyone had their favorites. Women wanted to have their hair cut just like Rachel, many people wanted to be as confident as Joey, and others wanted to be able to sing just like Phoebe! However, it seems as though Lisa Kudrow’s experience on the set of Friends wasn’t as perfect as it seemed.
Recently, Lisa Kudrow was asked to speak on Marc Maron’s podcast (播客), and she opened up about her experiences with her own body image. She noted that, while working on Friends, she would often compare herself to her co-stars. She would look at Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, and she would then see her flaws compared to their perfections. She would see them as extremely thin and beautiful women, but then she looked at herself on her screen and saw someone who was much larger.
Because she often felt as though she was less of a woman because she felt larger than her co-stars, Lisa would lose weight on purpose to feel better about herself. The more she lost weight, the more she received compliments from those who knew her, and complete strangers. This heightened the idea that she needed to be thin to be beautiful.
Now, Lisa has put weight back on and feels more beautiful than ever.
1. Who were most probably Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston?| A．Stars from Friends. | B．Characters from Friends. |
| C．Fans of Friends. | D．Coauthors of Friends. |
| A．Because she didn’t work well with other stars. |
| B．Because she thought she was too fat. |
| C．Because she wasn’t her audience’s favorite. |
| D．Because she was poor at playing her role. |
| A．Don’t think much of your appearance. |
| B．Don’t express your true feelings to your fans. |
| C．Don’t focus much on the comments of co-stars. |
| D．Don’t make too much comparison with others. |
| A．Dislike. | B．Comment. | C．Praise. | D．Requirement. |
Henry was a famous sales man who worked in the U.S. When he was a young man, he wasn't rich because he was born in a poor family, but he was optimistic (乐观) about life. He didn't go on having his higher education due to his family condition, but he has a gift
We should never lose hope for life until the last minute. No one knows
5 . Before Douglas Engelbart, computers were as big as rooms and used mostly for handling numbers. But in the late 1960s, Engelbart invented almost everything your personal computer has today: a mouse, hypertext, screen sharing and more. Engelbart was adding real-time edits, graphics, hyper-linking and sharing screens — all before the birth of the World Wide Web. “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing,” said Engelbart, and as it turns out, he held all the right cards.
If he’d been British, Engelbart would have been knighted (授爵), but the Portland, Oregon, native instead lived out the rest of his years as an unsung hero, trying to fry even bigger fish in Silicon Valley. His blueprint of the Internet was totally different from today’s profit-driven, streamlined version. Engelbart imagined an information system built on the backbones of cooperation and education, all meant to enhance the collective human mind. He wanted a computerized network of real-time, human-wide cooperation, with the open-source spirit of Wikipedia and the purposefulness of Change.org.
By the late 70s and early 80s, Engelbart and his ideas were cast aside in favour of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, along with their profit-generating vision for personal computing, and a user-friendly approach to the Internet. Engelbart’s team of researchers abandoned him, and he had a lesser position at a company called Tymshare while still battling with his pie-in-the-sky visions of a better world. Even worse, when Engelbart’s mouse invention gained widespread use years later, he never gained the profits — it had been licensed to Apple for around $40,000, Engelbart revealed.
And if Engelbart had won? “Hard to say,” says Jefferson of the Internet Archive in San Francisco. “The Web was bound to grow in ways its founders never intended,” he says. He notes his belief that the same spirit of knowledge-sharing and cooperation Engelbart tirelessly pushed for will one day become part of our fast-evolving Internet, even if a commercial layer clouds the original vision. But even so, fame is difficult to achieve; it often ridicules great thinkers like Galileo or Tesla, only to meet them decades after death. Granted, Engelbart was eventually allowed into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1998, and into the Pioneers Circle in the Internet Hall of Fame after his death, but the heart of his dream has yet to be realized.
1. The expression “his pie-in-the-sky visions of a better world” in Para 3 refers to ________.| A．the function of computer data processing |
| B．a real-time video chat on the Internet |
| C．a user-friendly approach to the Internet |
| D．an Internet of knowledge-sharing and cooperation |
| A．he was too crazy about his vision of the Internet when totally ignored |
| B．he was not profitably rewarded for his landmark inventions of computer |
| C．he was admitted to the U. S. National Inventors Hall of Fame too late |
| D．the Internet was commercially oriented against his original intention |
| A．Engelbart rose and fell in his all-out battle over the future of the Internet. |
| B．Engelbart could have succeeded in the Internet with his landmark inventions. |
| C．Engelbart’s achievements have never been recognized. |
| D．Engelbart didn’t get any profit for his mouse invention. |
| A．Who Benefits from the Internet? |
| B．Who Lost the Internet Wars? |
| C．Who pioneered the World Wide Web? |
| D．Who Commercialized the Internet? |
6 . Age has never been a problem for 16-year-old Thessalonika Arzu-Embry. After all, she’s already got her master’s degree.
The North Chicago-area teen started homeschooling at the age of 4. She began having an influence on others soon after. When she was 6 years old, she was an inspirational speaker at an organization called Tabitha House Community Service, which is for people who were forced to leave their homes because of earthquake, flood and other natural disasters.
At the age of 11, she graduated from high school and then earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2013. She completed those classes online as she was traveling for church events and leadership meetings.
She doesn’t stop there, though. The teen plans to focus on aviation psychology (航空心理学) for her further study, a decision inspired by her father who is a pilot. She grew up around airplanes and took fights all the time. Her goal is to use it to help pilots deal with problems that could have deadly results once the plane takes off — a topic that has been in the news lately. For her, it’s a mix of two of her interests.
In her free time, Thessalonika enjoys playing tennis, swimming and being active in her youth group at church. She also has three self-published books, which are on her site. Jump the Education Barrier is written to help students finish college, and in the future aims to help business owners with trends. Her third book The Genius Race is designed to help people to be talents in various areas of life.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about Thessalonika?| A．When she was 6 years old, she started homeschooling. |
| B．She gained her master’s degree at the age of 11. |
| C．She majored in science and technology. |
| D．In 2013 she got her bachelor’s degree through completing courses online. |
| A．Major in aviation psychology. |
| B．Deliver inspiring speeches for church events and leadership meetings. |
| C．Be active in her youth group at church. |
| D．Write another book to help people to be talents. |
| A．It aims to help people to be geniuses. |
| B．It is intended to give students a hand to complete college. |
| C．It is designed to arouse people’s awareness of psychology. |
| D．The author hope to share her own experience with others. |
| A．The Story of Thessalonika | B．To be a talent |
| C．Three Published Books | D．Homeschooling |
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8 . Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881—1973 ) was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. It was said that everything his brush touched turned to gold. But in truth, his works could be worth more than any precious metal. Picasso created more than 20,000 works in his life, including two of the world's 10 most expensive paintings.
Between 1907 and 1913, Picasso and his colleague Georges Braque started a revolution(革命) in painting. Before that, paintings were like windows—they were painted to look as if they had depth. You could tell which objects were "close" to you and which objects were "far away". But Picasso and Braque didn't want to paint like that any more. To them, a painting wasn't a window to the world; it was marks and lines on a flat surface. Why, they thought, should an object like a guitar be shown only from one angle (角度)? A guitar can look very different depending on which angle one looks at it from. Their answer was to show all the angles. They broke the guitar up into pieces. Their style of painting is called cubism (立体主义).
But why did they feel such a need to change things? Well, the world around them was changing, too. Science was turning people's ideas upside down. Albert Einstein's theory proved that what we knew about time and space was wrong. The world was becoming different; artists needed to start seeing and painting it differently.
The famous and terrifying painting Guernica (1937) shows a terrible scene during the Spanish Civil War. In the painting, you can actually see the sky falling. Picasso couldn't have painted it without the skills he learned during his cubist period. Breaking a guitar up into pieces was his preparation for showing the world being blown to pieces.
1. What is mainly discussed about Picasso in this article？| A．The high price of his paintings. |
| B．His difficulties in career. |
| C．The popularity of his paintings. |
| D．His achievements in art. |
| A．They painted objects with different depth. |
| B．They made their paintings look like windows. |
| C．They painted an object from different angles. |
| D．They broke objects up into pieces and painted them. |
| A．Einstein's theory. |
| B．The changing world. |
| C．A broken guitar. |
| D．Spanish Civil War. |
| A．To show the theme of Picasso's paintings. |
| B．To express Picasso's anger at the war. |
| C．To describe the preparations Picasso made before. |
| D．To present the artistic effect of cubism. |
9 . Born in California and representing the United States before switching to China, teenager Gu Ailing will be most likely to be one of the faces of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
The 17-year-old is a freeskier(自由式滑雪运动员) and grade-A student with an American father and Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019 she made the “quite difficult” decision to compete for China. She wrote on Instagram that she was “proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringings (培养)”.
As for the decision to compete on behalf of China, she said it is “valuable opportunity to help inspire millions of young people in China where my mom was born.”
Gu graduated from a San Francisco high school last year and is focusing on her Beijing 2022 training. It is reported that She scored 1,580 points out of a maximum 1,600 in the SAT (美国大学入学考试), and has been offered a place at Stanford.
Gu started on the snow at the age of 3, was competing in national competitions at 9 and won her first World Cup event at 15. She won two gold medals and a silver for China at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Jan. 30th, 2021, Gu made her debut(首次亮 相) at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado and won two golds and a bronze.
“My goal is to win Olympic gold,” she told the official Olympic website. “It’s the top achievement. And that would be rewarding for all the work that I’ve done to achieve greatness in the sport.”
1. What do we know about Gu Ailing?| A．She grew up in China. | B．She is an average student. |
| C．She will graduate from a high school. | D．She decided to compete for China. |
| A．Helpful and knowledgeable. | B．Modest and hard-working. |
| C．Clever and ambitious. | D．Creative and confident. |
| A．Gu Ailing won her first World Cup event at 15. |
| B．Gu Ailing’s achievements as a freeskier. |
| C．Gu Ailing’s training when she was young. |
| D．Gu Ailing learned to do snow sports in China. |
| A．Gu Ailing—An American Freeskier | B．Gu Ailing—A Stanford Graduate |
| C．Gu Ailing—A talented Chinese Freeskier | D．Gu Ailing—An Olympic Champion |
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Terry Fox, is born in 1958, studied physical education in university. At 19, his right leg was fitted with a artificial leg due to bone cancer. In 1980, he decided to run the “Marathon of Hope” across Canada, hoped to let people know about the suffering of cancer patients and to raise money for cancer research. On April 12, he start his run in Newfoundland. It was a difficult run, and he was very determined and kept running. Soon people were gathering along his route to cheer her on and to give money to his cause. The media began to report on his progresses. Terry had covered 5,373 kilometers before he had to stop because the spread of cancer. He dead in 1981, which great saddened the nation.
