When I was a baby, I jumped and ran around you and made you laugh. Whenever I was “bad”, you’d shake your finger at me and ask “How could you? ”—but then you'd give up, and played with me and I thought that life could not be any more perfect.
My house training was a long process, because you were terribly busy, but we worked on that together. We went for long walks, runs in the park and car rides. We stopped for ice cream. I took long naps in the sun waiting for you to come home at the end of the day.
Gradually, you began spending more time at work, and more time searching for your human friend. Later, you fell in love. She, now your wife, is not a dog person, but I still welcomed her into our home. I was happy because you were happy. Then your babies came along and I shared your excitement, I was excited by their pinkness, how they smelled, and I wanted to look after them, too. Your wife was afraid I would bite them. However, as they began to grow, I became their friend.
Now, you have a new job in another city and you and they will be moving to an apartment that does not let pets in. You’ve made the right decision for your “family”, although I wish I could be your family all the time.
I was excited about the car ride until we arrived at the dog house. There were many fearing and hopeless cats and dogs in the cage. You filled out the paper and said to the staffs there, “I know you will find a good home for her.” They said nothing. The children were in tears as they waved me goodbye. And “How could you?” were the only three words in my mind.
Is it better to live with hope or without hope? At first, whenever anyone passed my dog house, I rushed to the front, hoping it was you, hoping you had changed your mind and hoping this was all a bad dream.
My owner, I will think of you and wait for you forever. I hope you receive more faithfulness from your family than you showed to me.
1. Who tells this story?| A．A dog | B．A child. | C．A dog's owner. | D．A dog trainer. |
| A．He had a newborn baby | B．His wife did not like the dog. |
| C．He was moving into a new building. | D．He thought the dog was too dangerous. |
| A．hoped to live with another family | B．still loved it owner very much |
| C．did not want to see its owner again | D．was excited about the dog house |
| A．Get ready for changes. | B．Never ask for too much. |
| C．Always be positive about your life. | D．Be faithful to those who love you. |
2 . One day when some government officials (官员) were rebuilding a house, they found a mouse hole in a corner and used smoke to make the mice inside come out. A while later, they saw mice running out, one after another. But they saw two mice didn’t run away immediately. It seemed that one was trying to bite ( 咬 ) the tail of the other.
Everyone was puzzled, so they came nearer to take a look. They realized that one of the two mice was blind, and the other was trying to make the blind mouse bite his tail in order to pull the blind one with him to run away.
During the meal time , they started to talk about the two mice. One serious American said, “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of king and guard.”
A smart Frenchman said, “I think the relationship between them was that of husband and wife.”
A Japanese said,“ I think the relationship between them was that of mother and son.”
At that moment, one Chinese asked, “Why did those two mice have a certain relationship?”
Suddenly, they looked back at the Chinese. The American, the Frenchman and the Japanese who had spoken earlier all lowered (低下) their heads in shame, and didn’t answer.
In fact, the great love is not built on friendship or blood relationship. Instead, there’s no relationship.
1. Neither of the two mice ran away immediately because one was trying to help the blind one.2. After the meal, the officials began to talk about the two mice.
3. The government officials came from different countries.
4. The officials lowered their heads in shame because they didn’t realize the importance of protecting animals.
5. The passage mainly tells us that love is all.
Tens of thousands of Chinese people came together in Weifang, Shandong Province from Sep 26 to Oct 8 for the International Kite Festival. Since 1984, this festival has been held once a year in Weifang, also known as the World Kite Capital.
The event has invited kite-flying lovers and traditional craftsmen from across the country to show off their skills and develop kite culture. People can enjoy kite flying shows during the festival. From animals to cartoon heroes, the kites form different shapes in the air.
The most interesting kites in 2020 were the huge ones in the shape of medical workers and the Long March 5 rocket, which showed the hot topics in 2020, and also carried people’s wishes of health, happiness and peace. ‘‘Doctors and nurses worked hard against COVID-19, so we made kites with their pictures to show our thanks,” said Zhang Huagang, a kite lover at the festival.
In the past thirty years, ▲ , which is not only a place to enjoy kites, but also a special cultural event to encourage international communication. In 2019, more than 100 teams from 65 countries took part in it. Because of the COVID-19, overseas teams showed their kites online in 2020.
Guilherme Linares, a kite lover from Brazil, took part in the festival for the fourth time. “Flying a kite is like flying your dream.” he said. “Here you can meet many kite makers and flyers from all over the world. It is interesting to communicate experiences with them.”
1. According to the passage, Weifang International Kite Festival ________.| A．has a history of 37 years | B．is held by showing kites online |
| C．lasts for twenty-six days | D．is held just for kite-flying lovers |
| A．he hoped for happiness and peace | B．he wanted to show off his skill |
| C．they were the symbols of the festival | D．he was thankful for their work |
| A．the festival has been warmly welcomed by local people |
| B．the event has developed into a world-famous kite festival |
| C．the kite festival has ever faced some serious problems too |
| D．the big event has created many wonderful kites for people |
| A．show the development of kites | B．describe special shapes of kites |
| C．introduce an international festival | D．tell the history of the kite festival |
4 . Have you ever wondered if you see the same colors as other people? Most people know what blue is when they see it. They see the color and call it “blue” because they were taught the word and connected it with what they saw. But how do you know what you see as blue isn’t someone else’s red?
The ability to see colors depends on receptors (感受器) in our eyes. Light waves hit these receptors which will send information to the brain. The brain then deals with the information to make sure which color light the eyes are receiving. Some people’s receptors are more developed than others. People with weaker receptors usually have color blindness. That the receptor can’t translate the light waves correctly means some people cannot tell different shades of a color.
In the past, most scientists argued that everyone saw colors in the same way. However, research was done on monkeys, in which they were injected (注射) with a virus to influence their receptors. This made them understand more about colors than usual and brought an interesting discovery. Normally, monkeys can only see blue and green, but the virus allowed monkeys to see red. Their brains were made to be able to understand new colors, which might mean the brains are not instinctive (本能的) to understand which color is which. This shows that our brains may get used to new information depending on what they receive during the development. Color could be a very personal experience to everyone.
So, the next time you talk about your favorite color, just remember if yours is blue and your friend says red, you might actually be thinking about the same color. What if everyone in the world has the same favorite color, but just calls it different names.
1. Which is TRUE about people who have color blindness from paragraph 2?| A．They cannot see light at all. | B．They have developed receptors. |
| C．They can’t tell colors correctly. | D．They can’t see any colors. |
| A．Scientists | B．Receptors | C．Monkeys | D．Brains |
| A．Monkeys can only see two colors at any time. |
| B．Our brains can understand colors instinctively. |
| C．Everyone has the same experience about a color. |
| D．The same color might be given different names. |
| A．It tells people that different colors have different names. |
| B．People call a color blue because that’s how they were taught. |
| C．It mainly explains why people see the same color differently. |
| D．One’s favorite color is different from that of another one’s. |
| A．A science fiction. | B．A science magazine. | C．A story book. | D．A guide book. |
5 . You might feel full after having a big meal. But you may actually suffer from “hidden hunger”. This means that what you eat may fill your stomach, but it’s not giving you the proper nutrition that your body needs.
This happens when food lacks the vitamins and minerals people need to stay healthy, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
At present, “hidden hunger” affects 2 billion people worldwide, including 300 million people in China. It is most commonly seen among children and teenagers and can result in bad immune system, blindness or even death, China News Service reported.
Many Chinese people don’t get enough iron, calcium, vitamin A and vitamin D. One main reason is that agricultural products don’t have much of these nutrients. Over 40 percent of China’s farmland is lost its vitamins and minerals, lowering the nutritional value of the crops that grow on it, according to Xinhua.
Many of the processed foods that people enjoy eating today, such as chips, burgers and cookies, have made the situation worse. Vitamins and minerals area easily lost when these foods are processed. People’s Daily noted.
The human body needs 16 kinds of minerals, including iron and calcium, and 13 kinds of vitamins, including vitamins A and D, to stay healthy. Vitamins help maintain healthy eyes and skin and allow your bones to grow properly. Minerals are important for maintaining blood pressure and making new cells.
In response, China’s government has created several action plans to improve public health, as well as develop and promote nutritious foods.
Eating more fresh nutrition—rich food like vegetables, whole grains and dairy can help us stay healthy. For vegetables like carrots and broccoli, boiling and steaming can better preserve their nutrition when compared to frying them, CNN suggests.
Word Bank nutrition 营养 immune system 免疫系统 promote 推广 preserve 保留 |
1. “Hidden hunger” happens when ________.
| A．what you eat include some fresh nutrition—rich food like vegetables. |
| B．what you eat can’t give you the proper nutrition your body need. |
| C．what you eat fills your stomach but you still feel hungry. |
| D．what you eat isn’t a big meal. |
| A．People eat too much processed foods such as chips, burgers and cookies. |
| B．Over 40 percent of China’s farmland is losing its vitamins and minerals. |
| C．Children and teenagers are in bad immune system. |
| D．Some agricultural products don’t have much. |
| A．污染的 | B．加工的 | C．出口的 | D．改进的 |
| A．Vitamins may cause blindness. |
| B．Vitamins include iron and calcium. |
| C．Vitamins help maintain healthy eyes and skin. |
| D．Vitamins are hardly lost when foods are processed. |
| A．a shopping poster | B．a science report | C．a guidebook | D．a health magazine |
For most people, graduation is an exciting day. But my graduation day was not.
We graduates had degrees (学位), but very few job opportunities (机会). I knew that the next day I would no longer have a place to call home. I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had traveled from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy (经济状况) turn from bad to worse in my fourth year of university.
I knew my small university town couldn’t offer me any opportunities, so I drove to southern California to find work. But what I thought would take a week lasted for two weeks, and then four weeks, and I found myself in the same spot as I was before.
You know that feeling when you wake up and you are full of fear? Fear about something you can’t control. You hope that everything that has happened to you so far is just a bad dream. So what did I do to stay calm? I wrote. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer—a little brighter. Something about writing gave me hope. If you want something enough, sometimes a little hope is all you need!
I turned my scary feelings into a children’s book—about a surprising hero who simply refused to (拒绝) give up on his dream.
Then one day, without a writing degree or contacts in the writing world—just a lot of hard work- I was offered a publishing deal (出版约稿) for my first book! After that, things slowly began to fall into place. I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with a big company and got a good job.
It takes time, but just hold on - things can change when you don’t expect it.
1. The writer didn’t think her graduation day was exciting because ________.| A．her family and friends didn’t come | B．she got a bad score in her senior year |
| C．she didn’t get her university degree | D．she worried about how to make a living |
| A．She got a job offer in California. | B．She still couldn’t find a job. |
| C．She drove back to her hometown. | D．She found a job in her university. |
| A．Calm. | B．Scared. | C．Excited. | D．Hopeful. |
| A．Try to get as much education as you can. | B．Don’t fear what the future will be like. |
| C．Life can change for the better if you just hold on. | D．You might not get the job you want at first. |
7 . 17-year-old Shreyas Venkat has developed great passion(激情) for helping others since childhood. She runs her own non-profit organization (非营利机构), NEST4US, to feed the homeless in the US.
NEST4US was born after Venkat realized how much food waste there is, how many hungry people there are, and how simple it would be to use the former to help the latter. “There was a homeless man standing on a street corner with a sign ‘Hungry Need Food’ in his hands,” she remembers. “So I gave him my simple lunch, and his whole face lit up (流露出喜悦) at once.” It only took her 30 seconds, and it really helped the man. This small act inspired (激励) her to find a way to get food to the people who need it the most.
Now NEST4US has helped tens of thousands of people in the US. Hundreds of volunteers have joined Venkat to help. In every bag of food, they put a handwritten note with a message of love. Venkat said those homeless people needed more than just food; they needed care from others.
Not only does Venkat get a lot of joy and satisfaction from her volunteer work but she says running NEST4US has given her important life experience. “What it has really taught me is to always put others first.” she says “Whatever I do in the future, I know I want to keep helping people.”
1. What’s the purpose of Venkat’s creating NEST4US?| A．To make money. | B．To make profit. | C．To feed the homeless. |
| A．Venkat’s giving her small lunch to a homeless man. |
| B．Putting a sign ‘Hungry Need Food’ in his hands. |
| C．Venkat’s creating NEST4US. |
| A．Homeless people only need food. |
| B．We should buy homeless people houses. |
| C．Homeless people also need care from others. |
| A．We should always put ourselves first. |
| B．We should always think of others. |
| C．We should also run NEST4US. |
8 . Scientists found that people who have fewer friends in real life are happier than those with far more if many of theirs were online.
Social media, the researchers said, has encouraged younger people to have larger but more impersonal networks of “friends”. But instead of trying to get more friends, they added, a better cure for loneliness might be spending time with those you’re closest to.
Researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, studied data from two online surveys of nearly 1, 500 people. Those who took the survey gave details about their ages, social interactions (相互影响), and how satisfied they were with their social lives. They included details of how often and how they interacted with family or neighbours, and whether they included people who provided services to them in their networks.
The researchers found that those who had a small number of close friends generally were happier than those who had a large number of superficial (关系浅的) friends. “Loneliness has less to do with the number of friends you have, and more to do with how you feel about your friends,” said Dr. Bruine de Bruin, one of the researchers. “It’s often the younger adults who admit to having negative perceptions (负面看法) of their friends. Loneliness happens in people of all ages,” she added. “If you feel lonely, it may be more helpful to make a positive (积极的) connection with a friend than to try and find new people to meet,” she also said.
In her study Dr. Bruine de Bruin found that older people had smaller social circles than young people, but the people in these circles were closer to them. Younger people, on the other hand, had bigger circles that were made up of “peripheral others”—people who are not true friends, but just people they know. These so-called friends didn’t influence the younger people’s happiness.
The results of the study show that the stereotypes (偏见) society has about old people being sad and lonely might not be right. “The research shows that older adults’ smaller networks didn’t have a bad influence on social satisfaction and happiness. In fact, older adults had a better feeling of happiness than younger adults,” said Bruine de Bruin.
Based on these results, the study believes that people should pay more attention on the ties with close friends instead of increasing the number of friends.
1. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?| A．Who studied the surveys. | B．What were included in the surveys. |
| C．How the surveys influenced people. | D．How many people took part in the surveys. |
| A．Young people make close friends online. |
| B．You’d better try to meet new people if you feel lonely. |
| C．Older people have closer friends in their small social circles. |
| D．The so-called friends bring more happiness to young people. |
| A．Different Types of Close Friends | B．Friendship between Old and Young |
| C．Friends: The More, the Better? | D．Friends: Online or Offline? |
We’ve all felt confused before. The feeling of not knowing what the answers or solutions are can make us feel useless, stupid, and cause us to worry.
People are often likely to think the person who has all of the answers is smarter than the one who asks a lot of questions. As a result, people often try to hide their confusion in different ways. People sometimes act as if they have the answers. At other times, people make guesses or create an answer even if they know it isn’t right.
But confusion might actually be a good thing. When we jump to an answer, we don’t have time to explore (探索) the thing we’re confused about. Instead of paying no attention to your confusion, accepting it and taking the opportunity to think about what’s confusing can benefit our learning. In fact, scientific studies show that confusion actually leads to deeper understanding. A 2004 study explored six moods that people feel while learning, including upset, bored, and confused. They found that students who spent more of the lesson confused learned the most. In another study, scientists tried to confuse students by giving them contradicting (矛盾的) information. Students who expressed confusion during the lesson did better on the final test. Not knowing the answer to a problem gives us space to look at different ways to solve it. The feeling of confusion also encourages us to look more deeply into the problem. In the end, this helps us understand the topic on a deeper level.
Confusion is also important for learning your identity (身份). People find out their identity in two steps. The first step is exploration, where you try out different groups and values and see what fits. The next step is commitment, when you decide firmly (坚定地) about some parts of your identity. You make up your mind that you will act in a way that fits your identity. Exploring your identity can feel very confusing. But a study found, that people who do the most exploring about who they are have better outcomes such as higher self- confidence and self-esteem (自尊) later in life.
So, instead of trying to hide your confusion, try a new method, ask for help, or research different ways to deal with the problem to work through your confusion.
1. Why does a person try to hide his confusion?| A．Because he wants others to make good judgement on him. |
| B．Because he has good ability to guess and create an answer. |
| C．Because hiding his confusion helps him work out a solution. |
| D．Because telling others his confusion will make them confused. |
| A．Good understanding leads to less confusion. |
| B．Confusion can have helpful effect on learning. |
| C．Digging deeply into a problem may cause confusion. |
| D．Confusion prevents the development of self-confidence. |
| A．promise | B．imagination | C．challenge | D．argument |
| A．To call on readers to study confusion on a deeper level. |
| B．To tell readers about the research results on confusion. |
| C．To explain to readers it’s normal to feel confused. |
| D．To encourage readers to clear up their confusion. |
10 . During the 1980s, artist Wilder created a song in about 30 minutes. That song, Break My Stride, has been played in films and TV shows over the years and turned him into a one-hit wonder.
Now, nearly forty years later, the song is being listened to by people who weren’t even born when it was created, thanks to its popularity on the social media（社交媒体）TikTok.
On TikTok, users usually share very short, usually 15-second, videos of themselves dancing, singing or doing something funny, most often set to music. Break My Stride became popular on TikTok earlier this year and has been used in over 800,000 videos. School students have posted videos of themselves dancing to the song. The pop song has the magic to make people feel like dancing. In one TikTok video that was liked 3.5 million times, the creator took a video of his mom sleeping and then photoshopped her into different backgrounds related to the words of the song, such as traveling across the sea to China in the row boat.
“Now with the coming of TikTok, it’s like having a hit record all over again with a whole new generation（一代人）,” Wilder, 67, told CNN. Break My Stride recently has been on Apple Music’s Top 100 songs in over 20 countries.
Break My Stride isn’t alone. A number of other artists have seen their songs become popular on TikTok. The success of Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road depends heavily on its popularity on TikTok, where the song has been used in 7.5 million videos. The song finished 2019 in the UK as “Song of the Year”.
The success of these songs, both old and new, highlights the influence that social media have on arts and culture. TikTok is changing how musicians create and publicize their work.
1. What can be learned about the song Break My Stride?| A．It has become popular again. | B．It was written 20 years ago. |
| C．It was first used in a TV show. | D．It was hardly known at first. |
| A．To get music for free. | B．To watch long videos. |
| C．To share videos of their own. | D．To study different kinds of music. |
| A．Famous artists on TikTok. | B．The success of social media. |
| C．“Song of the Year” in the UK. | D．The popularity of other songs on TikTok. |
| A．It has a long history. | B．It has about 7.5 million users. |
| C．It is more popular than TV shows. | D．It has a strong influence on arts. |
| A．catches | B．shows | C．promises | D．uses |
