1 . Taking online classes is becoming increasingly popular, but students have different views about it.
 Wang Qi, 14: I love taking online courses. They give me a lot more choices and freedom. We can choose to learn whatever we want. Also, online classes allow us to study whenever and wherever we want, which is very convenient. |  Wu Jun, 13: I don't think taking online classes is a good way to study. There are many exciting things on the Internet. Students can be distracted （使分心） from their courses easily. The whole learning process is not as organized as it is in the classroom. | |
 Zhou Siya, 13: Online classrooms are advantageous. We might pay more attention to learning when we are alone in front of a computer with no one to distract us. Taking courses online also means we can have more time to use a computer, which is a good way to practice our computer skills. |  Li Chunjie, 14: I think the idea of taking online courses is terrible. It can increase our touch with computers and the radiation （辐射） from them could do harm to the human body, especially our eyes. Also, sitting in front of a computer for a long time without exercising can be harmful to our health. |
1. How many students support online learning?
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．teachers can teach whatever they want | B．it helps improve students' computer skills |
| C．online courses are free to take | D．there are many courses to choose from |
| A．has a lot of advantages in many ways | B．causes a lot of distractions |
| C．will make students go crazy | D．is harmful to students' health |
| A．Suggestions on taking online courses. | B．Opinions on taking online courses. |
| C．Ideas on becoming organized learners. | D．Ways of studying on the Internet. |
2 . Like any child, I also had my favorite thing to do and my super dream to follow. At twelve I was an avid lover of comic books—Supergirl being my favorite. I spent my pocket money on two twelve-cent comic books every day, I had a stack (堆) of Legion of Super Heroes and Supergirl comic books in my bedroom that was as tall as me. I had a repeated dream in those days that I had long blond hair and could fly.
In my dream I climbed the stairs to the top of our apartment building, but as I went up each flight, changes would be taking place—my legs would grow long, my arms would harden into steel and my hair would magically go straight and turn a golden color.
Once on the top of the building, my parents safely asleep in their bed, I would get on tip-toe, arms widely open in the position for flight, and jump out my fifty-floor-high window into the black sky. From up there, I could see everything. With my X-ray vision (透视眼) I could look inside the homes of people who interested me.
Once I saw my mother's boss, whom I knew she feared, sitting in a treasure-room. He sat on the floor counting his dollar bills. I played a trick on him. Going up to his building's chimney (烟囱), I blew my super-breath into his fireplace, spreading out his stacks of money so that he had to start counting all over again.
I could more or less control my Supergirl dreams in those days. This way I “saw” into the private lives of my neighbors and my teachers, and into the secret rooms of the boys I liked. In the mornings I'd wake up in my tiny white “princess” bedroom that my mother had designed for me, and find myself back in my body: my curly hair still sticking to my head, skinny arms and legs... unchanged.
1. The underlined word “avid” in paragraph1 is the closest in meaning to “________”.| A．young | B．crazy | C．common | D．rich |
| A．Turning a page in one of her comic books. |
| B．Playing a trick on her mother's boss. |
| C．Looking out over the houses in her neighborhood. |
| D．Climbing the stairs to the top of her apartment building. |
| A．She has a tiny white “princess” bedroom. |
| B．She likes to play tricks on her mother's boss. |
| C．She can look inside the homes of people who interest her. |
| D．She has long straight blond hair and strong arms hard as steel. |
| A．the pleasure of tricking the boss | B．the habit of buying comic books |
| C．the memory of dreaming to be a Supergirl | D．the magic ability of seeing into others' lives |
Thailand is one of the world's largest “supporters” to plastic pollution in the ocean. The problem is so serious that dead sea animals have been seen with plastic in their stomach.
At last, the country decided to take action. The movement introduced (推行) a nationwide ban (禁令) on single-use plastic bags. The ban came into effect on January 1, 2020. Stores are not allowed to offer customers single-use plastic bags. On television, plastic bags are pixelated (打马赛克). Many companies and supermarkets are encouraging people to say no to single-use plastics.
What do the local people think of the ban? How are they going without plastic bags? Well, it seems Thai people are among the most humorous in the world. They are filling their T-shirts, fishnets and suitcases with the things they buy. Pictures of creative shoppers have become popular on the Internet.
One shopper, Stupanee Burut-thong, said, “At first, I wasn't used to shopping without plastic bags. It's not easy to change your way of thinking and behavior. But I would often remind myself of the harm that plastic has done to sea animals. So I have been trying to forget about plastic bags.”
In 2019, another Asian county China announced a national standard for biodegradable (可生物降解的) plastic shopping bags. It is technologically prepared for their production. Some areas have also got valuable experience that others can learn from. For example, Mexico City rang with a ban on plastic bags in 2020. There, the law is bringing back traditional ways of packing thing. They are using bamboo baskets again.
Scientists hope more countries will introduce a plastic bag ban. Everyone should do something to save this beautiful plant.
1. With the example of the sea animals in paragraph1, the writer wants to show ________.| A．some sea animals like to eat plastic | B．Thailand has seen serious water pollution |
| C．sea animals in Thailand are not properly protected | D．plastic pollution in the ocean has been very serious |
| A．lazy and silly | B．friendly and helpful | C．humorous and creative | D．careless and dishonest |
| A．plastic bags have been banned there |
| B．plastic bags have become very expensive there |
| C．bamboo baskets are easier to carry than plastic bags |
| D．the local government offers them bamboo baskets for free |
| A．discover the reasons for sea animals' death | B．describe the advantages of plastic bags |
| C．show the shoppers' amazing behaviors | D．encourage the introduction of plastic bag ban |
4 . Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia（栀子花） was sent to my house. No card or note came with it. I was greatly surprised by the beauty and smell of the flower.
But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. My mother helped me to imagine. She’d ask me if I had been kind to someone, perhaps the neighbor I’d helped carry the groceries for. As a teenager, though, I had more fun thinking that it might be a boy I loved.
One month before my high-school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. I lost all my interest in graduation, the senior-class play and the prom（毕业舞会）. But my mother would not hear of my skipping（略过） any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and be lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a magic in the world and beauty in the face of hard times. Actually she wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia—lovable, strong and perfect.
When I was 22, a boy broke my heart. The night he called me the last time, I cried myself to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, there was a message on my mirror in red lipstick: “Heartily know, / when half-gods go, / the gods arrive.” I thought about those words from Emerson for a long time. When I finally went to get the glass cleaner, my mother knew everything was all right again. She did understand me.
My mother died 10 days after I was married. I was 24. That was the year the gardenias stopped coming.
1. After the writer turned 12, she began to receive_____________ on her birthday every year.| A．a birthday card | B．a birthday cake |
| C．a white gardenia | D．a beautiful book |
| A．her father died of a heart attack | B．she lost her mother |
| C．a boy sent her some flowers | D．a boy broke up with her |
| A．The writer didn’t like the white gardenia. |
| B．The writer’s father didn’t love her. |
| C．The writer’s mother was very wise. |
| D．The writer sent a gardenia to her mother every year. |
| A．Life Without Father | B．High School Graduation |
| C．Mystery of the White Gardenia | D．A Girl’s Growing Pain |
5 . Supermarkets only sell food before its “sell-by” date. So where does food past its “sell-by” date go? The answer is in the trash bin. Besides shops, people also get rid of a lot of food when they buy too much and can't eat it up. To stop food waste, people have come up with great ideas. Take a look and try to join the action!
▲ . When we have extra money, we save it in banks. This idea made people think. Could they set up “banks” for food? The world's first food bank started in the US in 1967. Many other countries, including China, have caught up with this great idea. For example, Shanghai has recently made a “share fridge”. It stores cakes and canned food donated（捐赠） from nearby markets and restaurants. It's free for anyone to enjoy.
Pay as you feel. The Real Junk Food Project is a company in the UK. It says that food past its “sell-by” date could still be OK to eat. So they collect it from supermarkets, and put it on shelves in special cafes. There, the food has no price label（标签）. You can give as much money as you want. If you don’t want to spend money, you can help do some work there. There are now 125 Real Junk Food cafes worldwide. And the number is growing quickly.
Buy less. When there's no food bank around, what can we do to help stop food waste? In two words: Buy less. Dining halls in more than half of US colleges are going tray-less（无托盘）. It makes it harder for students to take too much. This small change brings a big difference. It reduces food waste by 25 to 30 percent, and saves water and energy because there are no trays to wash.
1. The underlined words “get rid of” in Paragraph 1 probably means “ ”.| A．throw away | B．take away | C．give away | D．put away |
| A．People need to pay for food from “share fridge”. |
| B．Dining without trays helps to reduce food waste and save water. |
| C．Fifty percent of American restaurants are going tray-less. |
| D．The food in the Real Junk Food Project is free for anyone. |
| A．Save extra money in banks | B．Set up food banks |
| C．Donate food to markets | D．Come up with a good idea |
| A．To show how important the food bank is. |
| B．To introduce some ways of stopping food waste. |
| C．To ask people to buy food past its “sell-by” date. |
| D．To discuss where the food past its “sell-by” date goes. |
Now people depend more on the Internet to store information. Do people remember less? If you know your computer will store information, why do you put it in your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what and how we remember.
In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow did some experiments（实验）. She and her team wanted to know if the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts and then stored them into a computer. The first group of people were told that the computer had stored the information. But the second group didn’t know that. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.
In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a certain computer folder（文件夹）. Surprisingly, people later remember the folder’s location（位置） better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Instead, they remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory（交互记忆）”.
According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories, that is, people are learning how to organize a great deal of information so that they are able to find it at a later date. This doesn’t mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.
1. The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 2 refers to “_____________”.| A．the way we use the Internet |
| B．the information was stored in the computer |
| C．the information which was asked to remember |
| D．the memory which is being changed by the Internet |
| A．the first group remembered the information better |
| B．Sparrow gave people 40 unimportant numbers to remember |
| C．the second group did their best to remember the information |
| D．the two groups of people knew the computer had stored the information |
| A．remember the facts easily |
| B．keep the information in mind |
| C．remember how to find the information |
| D．store the information on the Internet easily |
| A．The Internet makes us less intelligent. |
| B．The Internet has influenced the way we live. |
| C．The Internet makes our memories become worse. |
| D．The Internet has changed the way we remember. |
7 . 17-year-old Brennan Agranoff, a colorblind boy, started his custom sock business in middle school. With a small loan (贷款) he got from his parents. Up till now. he has sold over $1 million worth of socks online in the last four years.
Brennan thought of the idea for his custom sock company at just 13 years old. He was attending a high-school basketball game in his hometown of Sherwood. Oregon. and noticed that many kids his age were wearing the same white Nike sport socks. The boy told himself that if these white plain socks were so popular with kids, then some cool custom designs would surely be an even greater hit.
But the boy didn't tell his parents about the business idea immediately. He spent six months researching things like printing machines and technology and drawing up a business plan. Only when he had everything planned out did he ask his parents for a loan." They thought the idea was a little out there." Brennan recently told CNN Money, but he kept pushing, and finally received a $3,000 loan to start his company. Then he began to work on his own designs. The fact that he was colorblind didn’t stop him and he has created over 200 designs now.
Business was slow the first year, but then Brennan started pushing his HoopSwagg products heavily on the Internet. Orders soon started coming in in large numbers, and HoopSwagg became a popular brand among custom sock lovers. Right now. his designs can be found on HoopSwagg website. Amazon and eBay.
Four years after starting his business, Brennan has achieved great success while balancing（平衡）school,house chores and his social life. And he says he loved every minute of it.
1. The second paragraph mainly tells us how Brennan| A．designed his custom socks | B．got his business idea |
| C．organized the basketball match | D．managed his company |
| A．bought some Nike socks | B．made a business plan |
| C．asked teachers for advice | D．got money from friends |
| A．got no support from his parents | B．was too busy to do house chores |
| C．stopped designing because of his eyes | D．enjoyed both his study and business |
| A．Honest. | B．Kind. | C．Creative. | D．Helpful. |
L. Giambra, a psychologist, says, “Daydreaming isn’t a waste of time.
Early psychologists paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even thought they were harmful(有害的). At one time people thought that some psychological illness caused daydreaming. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinges, a professor, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinges says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures. Daydreams really are a window on the things that we are afraid and the things we long for (渴望) in life.”
Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams. Sleep dreams may be hard to understand. It’s easier to get a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine (分析)your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you know the difficult situations in your life and found out a possible way of dealing with them.
Daydreams cannot be predicted: they move off in unexpected directions which may be creative and full of useful ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source(来源) of creative energy.
1. The passage is mainly about _______ .
| A．winter sleeps | B．sleep dreams |
| C．daydreaming | D．predictions |
| A．总之 | B．相反 |
| C．毕竟 | D．因此 |
| A．daydreams cause some psychological illness |
| B．daydreams are usually difficult to understand |
| C．daydreams may be creative and full of useful ideas |
| D．daydreams are usually very simple and can be predicted |
| A．list out two opposite ideas |
| B．point out the wrong ideas of early experts |
| C．support his own ideas |
| D．report the latest research on daydreaming |
Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself: He was a tall , good looking young man with big , happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on David’s door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!
1. Jean is a clever young woman who comes from a _________ family.
| A．poor and big | B．rich and famous |
| C．big and rich | D．big and famous |
| A．he made her quite happy on QQ . |
| B．he was from San Francisco. |
| C．he was tall and good-looking . |
| D．he could sing and dance well. |
| A．pop music and sports |
| B．music and science |
| C．stories and jokes |
| D．rock music and modern dance |
| A．not to spend much time on QQ |
| B．not to use real names on QQ so often |
| C．not to go to meet those we get to know on QQ |
| D．not to believe those we get to know on QQ so easily |
