Max reads more than anyone he knows. He loves to read during all of his free time. His friends laugh at him because he would rather read than play video games, but his parents and his teachers are proud of him. They say reading is important, and it will help him learn about the world around him. They also tell him it is a good habit.
One day Max was reading a magazine article about volcanos(火山). He told his friends all about volcanos and what causes them to erupt. The very next week, the teacher started a science project about volcanoes. Guess who everyone wanted in their project group! Max’s friends weren’t laughing at him anymore.
Max ended up being in a group with Liz, Anna and Josh. The work was to create a poster board with information about volcanoes and to build a volcano model. Max made copies of the magazine article about volcanoes so his project partners could read about them too. They also went to the library to look for more information about volcanos.
The group met at Anna’s house that night to organise the information and decide what they wanted to put on the poster board. They all asked Max what he thought was most important. Then they decided together to do what Max said. The next night they met at Josh’s house to build their volcano. They used cardboard and modeling clay. First they made a volcano shape with the cardboard, and then they covered the shape in brown and red clay.
The volcano looked great. Max, Liz, Anna and Josh were very proud of their hard work. When they turned in their project, their teacher was proud too. Thanks to Max’s good habit they came an A +on both parts of the project.
1. Why do Max’s friends laugh at him?| A．He is weak in all the sports. | B．All the teachers only like him. |
| C．He and his parents always stay at home. | D．He likes reading instead of playing video games. |
| A．His friendliness. | B．His good marks |
| C．His knowledge of volcanoes. | D．His writing skills. |
| A．He bought the clay to build the volcano. |
| B．He provided his idea of what was most important. |
| C．He went to the library alone to look for more information. |
| D．He read the magazine article about volcanoes to his partners. |
| A．Preparing for a Science Project | B．Building Teamwork |
| C．Max’s Good Habit | D．Making a Volcano Model |
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【推荐1】Due to the pandemic, many top US universities have introduced test-optional policies after standard tests such as GMAT, ACT and SAT were canceled.
Research topics related to your chosen major. Writing a paper or attending academic seminars could demonstrate not only your interest or expertise in your chosen area, but also your experiences, which will help match you to the relevant programs.
Gain Work Experience
Perform Volunteer Activities
Volunteer work shows your kindness and consideration for the greater community. Describe your experiences in an essay or personal statement to present your sense of leadership, creativity and vision.
All in all, social practice shows your talent and potential. Keep your target major in mind when researching or selecting an internship or volunteer organization.
| A．Internships help you gain practical experience |
| B．Improve leadership ability |
| C．Your test results will decide your future |
| D．Put in academic effort |
| E．But these examination results don’t show your overall abilities |
| F．The admissions officers are always looking for students with such qualities |
| G．As a result, you’re more likely to receive an offer from your dream university |
Han Jing’s World
So this is it—senior high school at last! I’m not outgoing so I’m a little anxious right now. I want to make a good first impression. Will I make any friends? What if no one talks to me?
7:00 a.m.
I just had my first maths class at senior high school! The class was difficult, but the teacher was kind and friendly. He even told us a funny story, and everyone laughed so much! I found most of my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful.
12:30 p.m.
This afternoon, we had our chemistry class in the science lab. The lab is new and the lesson was great, but the guy next to me tried to talk to me the whole time. I couldn’t concentrate on the experiment. I really wanted to tell him to please be quiet and leave me alone!
5:32 p.m.
What a day! This morning, I was worried that no one would talk to me. But I was wrong. I didn’t feel awkward or frightened at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I believe I will make new friends here, and there’s a lot to explore at senior high. I feel much more confident than I felt this morning. I think that tomorrow will be a great day!
10:29 p.m.
Read the text on Page 4 carefully and then choose the best answer.
1. How was the maths teacher?
| A．Kind and friendly. |
| B．Strict and cold. |
| C．Learned and handsome. |
| D．Outgoing and kind. |
| A．She is much more frightened. |
| B．She is afraid to go to school. |
| C．She is much more confident. |
| D．She is unwilling to make friends. |
| A．Because she didn’t like chemistry. |
| B．Because she didn’t feel well. |
| C．Because the teacher was not friendly. |
| D．Because a guy tried to talk to her all the time. |
| A．In a newspaper. | B．In WeChat Moments. |
| C．In a diary. | D．In a report. |
We’ve been in China for a month now. Dad, Mom, Harry and I moved to Tianjin on 25 August. We’re not very far from Beijing. Two days ago, we celebrated my 16th birthday. It was great celebrating in China; the only thing that was strange was the cake—here they’re not as sweet as the ones in New York. On Monday school starts—I wonder what it will be like.
Monday, 1 September
On my first day I was looking around for a locker to put my books in. However, here all the students keep all of their books at their desks. We stay in the same classroom because apparently we don’t have to go from class to class—teachers come to us!
Today we selected teacher assistants for each subject. Their duties are to collect homework, make announcements, and do other stuff (事情) for the teachers and the students. It’s kind of a big deal here! Since I am from the US, I was asked to be the English assistant. I felt so proud but quite nervous at the same time because I wasn’t sure what I had to do, but I accepted the job anyway.
Friday, 3 October
Boy, what a week! Now we have nine classes every day, including the morning class, a combination of our American schools “Homeroom”and “Study Hall”. I think Chinese students work too much! I have to do my homework when I get back home. I don’t even have time to watch TV or surf the Internet like before. I sometimes miss New York and my school because we didn’t have to study so much. We had more time to hang out with our classmates and neighbors; here, besides their usual classes, students are involved in weekend classes in subjects such as English, Chinese and math.
I get a lot of attention, being from another country. Everyone wants to practice English with me! A really cute girl even asked me for my phone number on my second day and sent me a text message! I’m making a lot more friends now. I just need a lot of help to improve my Chinese. Some students want to do a language exchange program with me. Nice!
1. The passage mentions all the following points EXCEPT .| A．physics study |
| B．food flavour |
| C．free time activities |
| D．language exchange programs |
| A．Collecting homework. |
| B．Making announcements. |
| C．Helping teachers with small errands (差事). |
| D．Teaching classmates. |
| A．A storybook. | B．A guide book. |
| C．A diary. | D．A magazine. |
【推荐1】If art preserves the culture of the Crow people, then Crow women are the keepers of that culture, cultivating it to reflect the modern day.
Fashion designer Bethany Yellowtail grew up riding horses and running in the fields and swimming in the river and being around her people in the Crow Nation and Northern Cheyenne Indian reservations in southeastern Montana. She knows first-hand the importance of art to maintaining native traditions. In 2015 she turned that knowledge into her own brand: B. Yellowtail. A year later, she created the B. Yellowtail Collective, made up of native artists, to foster economic opportunities for their communities. Many of those artists are women from different tribes but all of them preserve their culture and move it forward through their medium of choice.
Yellowtail and her team work for the native-owned business that’s rooted in community. Artists within the Collective typically receive 70% of profit from retail sales, and for a portion of the pandemic (流行病) the brand has upped that to 100%. The extra money has, of course, increased artists’ income in the past year, but the relationship is interdependent: without the work of those artists, B. Yellowtail wouldn’t exist and native culture would feel the loss.
Dewanda Little Coyote is Yellowtail’s mother. Family is deeply important to their tribe. So is art, which often runs in the family — and along the matriarchal (母系的) side. Little Coyote picked up her entrepreneurial spirit from her parents, who owned a gift shop. “My parents said, ‘If you have hands, create something. Do something, and make a living off of that,’” she said. After her parents passed away, the artist began learning beading (串珠) earrings herself. Dentalium, a tusk shell often used in native jewelry, caught her eye in particular. “I love it, because back in the day, our Cheyenne women wore a lot of dentalium,” she said. “So I wanted to give a contemporary look to that — to what our ancestors wore.”
Yellowtail herself learned sewing from her aunts and grandmothers before moving to Los Angeles in 2007 to study fashion design. Now, native women support native women — and matriarchal art evolves.
1. Why did Bethany Yellowtail set up B. Yellowtail?| A．To make their culture continue. | B．To become rich as soon as possible. |
| C．To reflect the modern fashions. | D．To inspire more women to work. |
| A．Native-owned businesses make money more easily. |
| B．The profit from the Collective has fallen sharply. |
| C．Local artists love to work in their community. |
| D．Artists, income is related to the development of native culture. |
| A．To prove she loves her daughter deeply. |
| B．To show how native culture is handed down. |
| C．To praise her efforts to help the young. |
| D．To appeal to more women to join in jewelry design. |
| A．Humorous, modest and cooperative. | B．Traditional, cautious and outgoing. |
| C．Independent, competitive and creative. | D．Creative, determined and selfless. |
【推荐2】Rome is recognized across the globe for its classical artwork, but recently the city's street art has been drawing attention. While many urban artists stick to painting murals（壁画），one Italian sculptor is resisting the trend with his wonderful works made from an unusual material. Andrea Gandini, a native of Rome in his early twenties, has been recognized for his wood carvings of old tree trunks scattered across the city's landscape.
Gandini's Trocomorto, or "dead trunk" project, began in 2018, when the artist ran out of sculpting clay. That's when he noticed the remains of an old tree stump in his neighborhood. He realized that Rome was full of potential canvases（画布）just waiting to be given a new life. "Bringing trees back to life" is exactly how Gandini and others describe his art.
Due to years of poor care by the city, many trees became diseased and had to be cut down. This resulted in lots of old stumps that degraded the streets of Rome, which were costly to remove. However, they have been a perfect canvas of Gandini, who has completed over 50 carvings across the city.
Gandini gives each old tree trunk a face and personality of its own. By recognizing each formerly living tree as individual, he hopes to give them some dignity in death and respect each of them with their own headstone of sorts. For those that can't make the trip to Rome, Gandini documents his works of art on Facebook.
Gandini's “dead trunk" project reminds us of what Auguste Rodin says, "There is no lack of beauty in the world, but a lack of eyes to find it." All is beautiful in the eyes of the artist, for his keen eye sees through the heart of all living things. To discover its character is to pierce its outer form and touch its inner truth. This "truth" is also "beauty".
1. What has drawn people's attention recently in Rome according to the passage?| A．Its classical artwork. | B．Its traditional murals. |
| C．Its street wood carvings. | D．Its unusual material. |
| A．They are full of life. | B．They follow the trend of murals. |
| C．They beautify the city. | D．They are appreciated by some artists. |
| A．Dignity and respect. | B．Beauty and kindness. |
| C．Hope and personality. | D．Death and art. |
| A．Beauty is always around for keen eyes. |
| B．Inner truth is difficult to find. |
| C．We live in a world lacking beauty. |
| D．Grandini is a person who loves nature and truth. |
【推荐3】An 8-year-old therapy dog(治疗犬) named Moose was among the graduates at this year's virtual graduation ceremony at Virginia Tech — and this good boy has a lot to celebrate．
Moose, who came to Virginia Tech in 2014, received an honorary doctor's degree in vet medicine, the university said．He is one of four dogs who work at the school's Cook Counseling Center, serving as working therapy animals and ambassadors for merrtal health awareness．
The Labrador retriever has aided in more than 7,500 counseling sessions(心理治疗课程) and over 500 outreach events in his six years at Virginia Tech, according to his owner Trent Davis, the coordinator of animal-assisted therapy and a counselor at the center．
Recently, Moose has faced a challenging few months after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer just a week after his birthday in February．The pup began radiation, chemotherapy and other therapies and has been given a positive result．
In 2019, the cute pup was honored with the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association's Animal Hero Award, an honor given to an animal that has performed “a heroic act of service or provides daily outstanding service for humans．”
“Moose loves you if you're super smart, and he loves you if you got an F．He loves you if you've been in the hospital, and he loves you if you're a sports star,” Davis said of the honor．“Moose doesn't care if you have a mental health concern．He doesn't care if you got an A or a B or if you didn't get into college…That's got a magic to it．”
When Moose isn't working, he enjoys swimming, playing a classic game of tug of war, and most of all, eating．
1. When did Moose receive an honorary degree?| A．In 2014． | B．When he was eight years old． |
| C．In 2019． | D．When he was six years old． |
| A．Getting all kinds of therapies． | B．Assisting in therapy for mental health． |
| C．Working as an ambassador． | D．Receiving honors for outstanding service． |
| A．Moose is a dog with magic power | B．Moose got cancer because of challenging work． |
| C．Moose likes eating while working． | D．Moose loves you even if you didn't go to college: |
| A．The importance of therapy dogs． | B．The amazing work done by a therapy dog． |
| C．The comfortable life of therapy dogs． | D．The story of a therapy dog． |
