1 . Zhang Zening, a hanfu supporter and lover in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province, started a surprising journey eight years ago to restore (使复原) this traditional Chinese clothing. Inspired by ancient murals (壁画), Zhang, 41, studied the artistry of hanfu in various museums, changing paintings into touchable and wearable pieces.
Upon graduating from college, Zhang first worked in material research, burying herself in the laboratory, conducting chemical experiments for the study of raw materials. At the time, she was one of the earliest lovers of hanfu in China, frequently organizing various hanfu activities in her spare time. Now as the owner of a hanfu studio, Zhang has worked with women’s re-employment organizations, looking for full-time stay-at-home women with sewing (缝纫) skills. This matched with her need for the production of hanfu.
Around 2015, Zhang began to focus independently on the process of hanfu restoration. In that year, she visited Dunhuang, Northwest China’s Gansu Province where she was attracted by the beautiful murals there, wondering how she could possibly change them into beautiful costumes.
In the past years, she has traveled to more than 10 cities across China, constantly studying murals and conducting research to restore hanfu from different dynasties. She managed to restore more than 50 sets. She referred to different materials including various murals, other cultural relics and literature to make sure that the restoration is as correct as possible. Thanks to her work, many young people wear restored hanfu when they visit museums, and Zhang is excited to see more of them doing so.
1. What can we learn about Zhang Zening according to paragraph 1?| A．She longed to be a scientist. |
| B．She was addicted to traveling widely. |
| C．She was fond of Chinese traditional art. |
| D．She enjoyed watching museum visitors. |
| A．To recover traditional Chinese clothing. |
| B．To reduce employment pressure. |
| C．To increase her business influence. |
| D．To help the companies in trouble. |
| A．To explain how hard Zhang works. |
| B．To show the start of Zhang’s independent hanfu restoration work. |
| C．To promote various Dunhuang’s artworks. |
| D．To introduce Zhang’s rich travel experiences. |
| A．Effective. | B．Short-lasting. | C．Dangerous. | D．Costly. |
2 . Frosty Ridge Resort (FRR) is a popular tourist attraction with a long history. Do you want to join the proud tradition of service at FRR? Welcome to join us!
Parking Host
The responsibility of a parking host is to help guests properly park their vehicles (交通工具), informing guests of parking steps and answering questions. You must be at least 18 years of age. A driver’s license (执照) is required. It’s necessary to have a team player attitude and be able to work with people of diverse cultures. The ability to work with different groups of people in a calm and professional manner is also a must.
Child Care Provider
Previous child care experience is preferred. You should provide quality child care, by meeting the needs of various age groups and guest demands in a positive way. Show positive communication skills, and offer children funny activities. Climb stairs to work space and work at a desk or computer work station for one or two hours.
Ski InstructorTeach ski lessons to guests with the specific focus on students’ goals while emphasizing (强调) safety, fun and learning. You should be able to ski or snowboard. Great customer service skills and good adaptability are required. In particular, unlike the two positions above, you must work during the Christmas week.
1. What should people in the parking host position do?| A．Teach ski lessons to guests. |
| B．Help guests park their cars. |
| C．Look after guests’ children. |
| D．Answer questions from FRR director. |
| A．Being communicative. | B．Providing fun for guests. |
| C．Working during Christmas week. | D．Having related working experience. |
| A．Job hunters. | B．Project managers. | C．Local visitors. | D．College students. |
3 . The big French pet care company AgroBiothers Laboratoire will no longer sell very small containers for raising fish.
The company has a 27 percent share of the French market for products used by people who raise animals at home. But it said it would no longer sell any fishbowls that hold less than 15 liters of water. They will only offer four-sided ones.
The company said it was animal abuse (虐待) to put fish in small bowls without added oxygen and filtration. Filtration is the process of removing small waste from the water with a device.
AgroBiothers chief Matthieu Lambeaux recently used the term “impulse”—meaning a sudden strong desire to do something—to describe why many adults buy goldfish. “People buy a goldfish for their kids on impulse, but if they knew what torture it is, they would not do it. Turning round and round in a small bowl drives fish crazy and kills them quickly,” Lambeaux added.
Goldfish can live up to 30 years and grow to about 25 cm in large aquariums (养鱼缸) or outdoor ponds. But in very small bowls they often die within weeks or months. Lambeaux said goldfish are social animals that need other fish, lots of space and clean water. He added that having an aquarium requires some special equipment and knowledge.
Germany and several other European countries have long banned (禁止) fishbowls, but France has no laws on the problem.
Lambeaux explained the company’s decision further by saying, “We cannot educate all our customers by explaining that keeping fish in a bowl is terrible. We consider that it is our responsibility to no longer give customers that choice.”
“There is demand for fishbowls,” he said, “but the reality is that what we offer children is the possibility of seeing goldfish die slowly.”
1. What makes the French company stop selling certain fishbowls?| A．Their size. | B．Their price. |
| C．Their weight. | D．Their popularity. |
| A．Progress. | B．Pleasure. |
| C．Difficulty. | D．Suffering. |
| A．The age goldfish can reach. | B．Costs of keeping goldfish. |
| C．Proper living conditions for goldfish. | D．The advice on how to choose fishbowls. |
| A．Raise the price of the fishbowls. | B．Remove the chances of harming goldfish. |
| C．Keep goldfish outside in the wild. | D．Educate parents to care for goldfish. |
4 . Why was school created?
If you’re honest with yourself, though, you know what a great place school is.
Schools are not a new invention. You may have seen some old one-room schoolhouses that have been around for several hundred years or more.
In fact, education dates back to the very first humans ever to live on Earth. Why? To survive, every generation has found it necessary to pass on its knowledge, skills, values, and traditions to the next generation. How can they do this? Education! Each subsequent generation (后代) must be taught these things.
Rather than every family being responsible for education, people soon found out that it would be easier and more efficient to have a small group of adults teach a larger group of children.
| A．In this way, the idea of school was born. |
| B．The earliest schools, though, date back thousands of years. |
| C．At that time, schools focused on reading, writing, and maths. |
| D．Ancient schools weren’t like the schools we know today, though. |
| E．We’re sure that’s a question that every student asks from time to time. |
| F．The earliest human beings didn’t need schools to pass along information. |
| G．You have fun, learn all kinds of interesting things, and get to spend time with your friends. |
5 . When put to tests, bees have long proved that they’ve got a lot more to offer than pollinating (授粉), making honey and being loyal to a queen. The hard-working insects can change their behavior when things seem difficult, and now some scientists find there is proof that they also like to play.
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London performed an experiment, in which they set up a container that allowed bees to travel from their nest to a feeding area. But along the way, the bees could choose to pass through a separate section with some small wooden balls. Over 18 days, the scientists watched as the bees “went out of their way to roll wooden balls repeatedly, despite no apparent incentive (刺激) to do so.”
Earlier studies have shown that the black and yellow bugs are willing to learn new tricks in exchange for food or other rewards. In this case, to get rid of external factors, scientists made sure the bees had adapted to their new home and that their environment was stress-free.
The finding suggests that like humans, insects also interact with objects as a form of play. Also similar to people, younger bees seem to be more playful than adult bees. “This research provides a strong indication that insect minds are far more complicated than we imagine. There are lots of animals who play just for the purpose of enjoyment, but most examples come from young mammals and birds,” said Lars Chittka, a professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, who led the study.
The study’s first author. Samadi Galpay, who is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London, states that it is more evident that bees may be capable of experiencing feelings. “They may actually experience some kind of positive emotional states, even if basic, like other larger animals do. This finding has effects on our understanding of the sense and welfare of insects, which, consequently, encourages us to respect and protect wildlife on Earth ever more,” she says.
1. What is the new finding about bees?| A．They are fond of having fun. | B．They are faithful to the queen. |
| C．They are adaptable to changes | D．They are skilled at rolling balls. |
| A．By teaching bees new tricks. | B．By rewarding bees with food. |
| C．By making bees feel at home. | D．By building new homes for bees |
| A．The forms of bees’ interaction. | B．The complexity of bees’ minds. |
| C．The examples of mammals’ play. | D．The purpose of mammals’ enjoyment. |
| A．It backs up prior understanding of insects. |
| B．It reveals reasons for bees’ positive feelings. |
| C．It drives research on animals’ emotional state. |
| D．It contributes to wildlife conservation on Earth. |
6 . As we all know, children are fast learners when learning a second language. However, adults can study a second language as fast as children, a new study reports. Adults can develop the increased neural (神经的) connections with language study that can avoid dementia (痴呆) by four years, as well as make traveling a lot easier.
In an examination of Spanish second-language learners, the researchers found that after simplest training, the brain activity between sentences that relied on grammatical features unique to each language was similar to that of native speakers. “I think it is the reason why people think university foreign language teaching is good. It shows that, even with limited time in the college classroom, learning can happen quite quickly and well.” said professor Alison Gabriele, the co-author of the paper.
Beyond that, it gives parents more reasons to study a second language as part of a family effort. Further research has shown that learning a language as a family effort improves everyone’s abilities and gives opportunities for learning something that are mostly absent from classroom settings. National Leographic reports in an interview with Christine Jemigan, author of Family Language Learning: Learn Another Language, Raise Bilingual Children, that as for immersion (沉浸) in language study, practicing a second language with people is the most important part, and who talks to each other more than a family? Language learners need to be brave. Besides, they should ready themselves for making mistakes and receive others’ advice.
Most people will be far more comfortable making mistakes around family members than in a classroom setting. Furthermore, any home activity. whether that’s gardening. playing in the yard, watching movies, going shopping, cleaning, or cooking a meal, becomes an opportunity for language learning Jernigan suggests preparing vocabulary before an activity and using it as short homework. Jernigan suggests using subtitles (字幕) too, so you can see which words are being used.
1. What does the new study in paragraph 1 find?| A．Kids often travel a lot on their own. |
| B．Adults have learnt a second language better than kids. |
| C．Adults can study a second language as quickly as kids. |
| D．Kids are likely to develop the increased neural connections. |
| A．It is boring. | B．It is successful. |
| C．It is challenging. | D．It is disappointing. |
| A．Making parents control kids easily. | B．Helping kids form good learning habits. |
| C．Keeping kids focusing on the classroom. | D．Having more chances to learn in other situations. |
| A．Be brave to take more risks. | B．Fit in with new learning environment. |
| C．Be ready to accept other’s comments. | D．Spend much time doing home activities. |
7 . Keeping a travel journal (日志) is one of the best ways to keep the memory(记忆) of a trip alive. There’s nothing like going back and reading your own words describing a day in a foreign country to realize how easy it is to forget little details. For people who do not write often, keeping a travel journal doesn’t have to be hard. It doesn’t require much work. I usually set aside 15-20 minutes at night before going to bed.
I like to use a notebook and pen because it feels different from typing on a computer, which makes journaling more special. Besides, I believe that handwritten journals will last longer than digital documents(数字文档) and won’t become dated. I recently came across a bag of old travel journals from my grandmother’s home, describing a year of camping around Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s as well as her life on the island of Crete for three years. They’re still readable and I love seeing her handwriting once again.
While I recommend paper journals for daily writing, it doesn’t hurt to have a multi-media approach(多媒体方法).For example, on a bus in Sri Lanka, it was too bumpy (颠簸的) to write by hand, so I used my phone to take notes whenever thoughts came to me. This turned out to be a rich store of information that might have been meaningless to anyone else, but made perfect sense to me.
When keeping a travel journal, I also suggest focusing on the most important or memorable part of each day, rather than doing an hour-by-hour description. Ask yourself what made you smile, laugh, or cry, what you ate or smelled in the air, and what the locals were doing. Keeping a travel journal should be fun, but it is important to make it a daily habit.
1. What does the author think of keeping a travel journal?| A．It helps improve our language skills. | B．It makes our trips seem planned. |
| C．It is less difficult than we think. | D．It should be a bedtime habit. |
| A．How he organized his journals. | B．How long he has kept journals. |
| C．Who he learned journaling from. | D．Why he likes handwritten journals. |
| A．He read a local paper. | B．He wrote on his phone. |
| C．He reviewed his daily journals. | D．He thought about the meaning of writing. |
| A．Doing it every day. | B．Including more details. |
| C．Focusing on local history. | D．Sharing less personal feelings. |
8 . Two weeks ago, a 5-year-old girl named Sunshine Oelfke emptied out her piggy bank (存钱罐) onto the living room floor and immediately started counting. Her grandmother, Jackie Oelfke, thought she was playing as she carefully lined up the coins, but then she saw the girl put the coins into a plastic bag and place it in her backpack.
“What are you doing with that money?” Jackie asked her granddaughter.
“I’m taking it to school,” Sunshine replied. “I’m going to take it for milk money. My friend Layla doesn’t get milk— her mom doesn’t have milk money and I do.”
Jackie’s heart melted at Sunshine’s words. Choked with strong feelings, Jackie held her sweet granddaughter tightly in her arms.
Last week, Jackie and Sunshine met with her teacher, Rita Hausher, and handed her the $30 the kindergartner had saved. There are 20 kids in Sunshine’s class and about half don’t get milk. It costs $ 0.45 a carton (纸盒). The total adds up to about $180 a month for every child in the class to have milk every day.
After dropping Sunshine off at school, Jackie posted a tearful video on Facebook to explain her granddaughter’s plan. To her surprise, many people offered to donate toward the cause. Within a week, Jackie raised more than $1,000. Now every student in Sunshine’s class can get free milk for the rest of the year.
Jackie said Sunshine doesn’t see her kind act as a big deal. She was just trying to look out for her friends. “She doesn’t understand the effect she’s brought about,” Jackie said. “But now she knows she can do whatever she puts her mind to.”
1. Why did Sunshine empty her piggy bank?| A．She hoped to show off her savings in class. | B．She needed to train her counting skills. |
| C．She wanted to play with the coins. | D．She intended to pay for her friend’s milk. |
| A．Relieved. | B．Touched. | C．Curious. | D．Proud. |
| A．Two heads are better than one. | B．A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
| C．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. | D．There’s no such thing as a free lunch. |
| A．Small Coins, Big Changes. | B．Jackie’s Piggy Bank. |
| C．Piggy Bank and Carton Milk. | D．A Moved Grandmother. |
9 . There are some places around the world you can travel to with your family.
London
London is situated in southeastern England. Home to over 8 million people, London has very convenient transportation and it’s possible to explore London on foot. At the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben’s comforting chimes (钟声) ring throughout the city on time every hour. Buckingham Palace is one of the most famous palaces in the world.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen sits on the eastern coast of the Danish islands of Zealand and Amager. The city has more than 250 miles of bike lanes, and cycling is a way of life for all ages. The Little Mermaid is one of Copenhagen’s most recognizable characters, which is created from a fairy tale. Catch the ceremony for the changing of the guards, which takes place every day at noon. For more fairy-tale magic, head to the Tivoli Gardens.
New York
New York is situated in the northeastern region of the USA. More than 8.8 million people live there and the city attracts millions of visitors a year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The museum is located in two iconic sites in New York City — The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters.
Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a small island that lies at the south of Spain. Just an about 3-hour flight from London, it has over 300 days of sunshine each year. Take the cable car right to the top of this about 1,400-foot high limestone ridge (石灰岩山脉) and enjoy the spectacular views. Visitors come together here to watch the only wild monkey population on the European continent.
1. Which place best suits children who love fairy tales?| A．Copenhagen. | B．London. | C．Gibraltar. | D．New York. |
| A．See the Little Mermaid. | B．Listen to Big Ben’s chimes. |
| C．Appreciate Buckingham Palace. | D．Visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| A．It is sunny all the year round. | B．It is 3 hours’ drive from London. |
| C．People can admire amazing scenery there. | D．People can play with monkeys in person there. |
10 . Remote learning (远程学习) was challenging for us, especially for a teacher like me. I do not like to
A lot of my students’ parents were first
| A．wait | B．stay | C．sleep | D．play |
| A．lectures | B．plans | C．trips | D．forms |
| A．libraries | B．shops | C．streets | D．museums |
| A．continue | B．start | C．complete | D．organize |
| A．encouraging | B．confusing | C．challenging | D．relaxing |
| A．visit | B．design | C．build | D．draw |
| A．followed | B．warned | C．forced | D．allowed |
| A．bored | B．excited | C．annoyed | D．scared |
| A．employers | B．customers | C．responders | D．leaders |
| A．education | B．attention | C．destination | D．honour |
| A．neighbors’ | B．parents’ | C．friends’ | D．pets’ |
| A．depend on | B．make sure | C．insist on | D．figure out |
| A．scientifically | B．absolutely | C．especially | D．evidently |
| A．camera | B．button | C．television | D．phone |
| A．embarrassed | B．active | C．addicted | D．normal |
