1 . Searching online for the answer may get you a better grade on the homework. But it won’t necessarily help you learn. Guessing is a better method. Always first find the answers for yourself. It will help you do better on the exam. If you instead find and copy the correct answer, you’ll be less likely to remember it in the future.
For many years, students improved by answering questions and did best on the exam. But by the late 2010s, many students were doing more poorly on the exam than on the homework leading up to it. They would even ace the very first homework. That was the one that tested them on what they had not yet learned. In 2008 , only around 3 out of 20 students did better on their homework than on the exam. But that grew over time. By 2017 , more than half of the students did this way.
What had changed over those years?Students might blame(责怪)themselves.They’d think “I’m not smart enough,”or“I should have studied more.”But something else was going on. One big thing was the rise of smart phones. They appeared in 2008 , but were not common. Now almost everyone carries one. So it would be easier today to quickly go online and find the answer to just about my homework question. But students can’t use phones during an exam. And that might explain why they aren’t doing as well on the tests.
Coming up with answers on your own should lead to better learning for you students at any age. If you find and then copy the right answer, you’re taking the easy way out. And that is wasting a good practice chance .It may take a few more minutes to think of an answer on your own, then check to if it’s right. But that’s the way you’ll learn more.
Now that information is easily available to everyone all the time ,it probably doesn’t make sense for teachers to expect students to take exams without searching online.Instead , teachers should come up with homework and exam questions that Google can’t easily answer.
1. What is the author’s attitude to finding answers online?| A．Uncaring. | B．Mixed. |
| C．Unsupportive. | D．Unclear |
| A．They do worse on homework than on exams. |
| B．They do their homework as well as their exams. |
| C．Most of them do better on homework than on exams. |
| D．Most of them do better on exams than on homework. |
| A．Put effort into. | B．Do well in. |
| C．Pay attention to. | D．Get involved in. |
| A．They shouldn’t allow students to use phones. |
| B．They shouldn’t give a closed-book exam. |
| C．They must cut off the Internet in schools. |
| D．They should give students new questions. |
2 . The Silk Road is arguably the most famous long-distance trade route of the ancient world. This passage connected Europe in the West with China in the East, and allowed the exchange of goods, technology, and ideas between the two civilizations. Although merchants could make huge profits travelling the road, it was not without risk.
The main Silk Road started in Chang’an (known today as Xi’an), the early Han capital. Travelers commencing their journey from this city could take a northern route that would take them across China’s northwestern provinces. After this, they would face the Gobi Desert, arguably the greatest danger of the Silk Road.
The Gobi Desert, the largest desert in Asia, consists mainly of rocky, hard earth. This feature made it easier for traders to travel across, compared to sandy deserts like the neighboring Taklamakan Desert. Like other deserts, the Gobi Desert is dry and hot, and therefore the biggest challenge travelers faced was obtaining enough water for themselves as well as for their camels.
So, rest stops were created along the route, allowing travelers to rest, eat and drink. These places also promoted the exchange of goods, and even ideas, amongst the travelers who stopped there. Usually, the rest stops were placed within a day’s journey of each other. In this way, travelers could avoid spending too much time in the desert, which would make them targets for robbers, another danger of the Silk Road.
Once through the Gobi Desert, travelers would continue their journey into Iran, Turkey, and finally Europe. While this part of the journey may have been less dangerous, it is not entirely without its perils (风险).
1. The underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refers to _________.| A．making huge profits | B．traveling the Silk Road |
| C．exchanging goods and ideas | D．connecting different civilizations |
| A．The desert’s surface was easier to walk on. |
| B．Camels for transportation were easier to find. |
| C．It was smaller and could be crossed in less time. |
| D．There were more natural water sources available. |
| A．Travelers were offered free accommodation. |
| B．They were located around the edges of the desert. |
| C．They were shared by travelers from different countries. |
| D．Exchanging goods and ideas there was entirely without risk. |
| A．The origins of the Silk Road. |
| B．The benefits of the Silk Road. |
| C．The difficulties faced by Silk Road travelers. |
| D．The cultural exchanges among Silk Road travelers. |
3 . Japan's Momiji Nishiya, 13, made history on Monday. At the Tokyo 2020 Games, she took home the first women' s street skateboarding Olympic gold medal. Standing next to her on the podium (领奖台) was Rayssa Leal, also 13, from Brazil. Japanese skater Funa Nakayama, 16, took bronze.
The women's skateboarding final was a huge moment for the Games. Some of the Olympic youngest competitors appeared there. Half of the skaters in the final were younger than 18. In Tokyo's burning heat, they decided to try their best. They managed to fill the mostly empty skatepark with joy as hip-hop music sounded in the background.
After winning gold, Momiji was asked what she wanted to tell young skaters.“Skateboarding is fun and interesting,” she said. “I hope everyone can give it a try.”
And the young medalist is already offering powerful inspiration for new skaters. Outside of the skateboarding field, 9-year old Keito Ota and 8-year-old Ayane Nakamura were eagerly waiting to catch sight of the new Japanese medalists. The two friends started skateboarding about a year ago. They arrived at the park wearing Team Japan skateboarding shits. Every time a bus left the field, they held up pieces of paper that said,“Thank you for your hard work" and “Congratulations on your gold medal.”Keito says he' s adding Momiji to his list of favourite skateboarders. In August, Keito will enter his first competition at a skateboarding student cup.
Just 13 years and 330 days old at the time of her win, Momiji is Japan's youngest-ever gold medalist. She’s one of the youngest in Olympic history. That record, though, goes to American diver (跳水选手) Marjorie Gestring. Gestring to the gold medal at the Berlin 1936 Games at the age of 13 years and 267 days. At age 13 years and 203 days, Leal would have set a new record had she finished first.
1. What can we know about the women’s street skateboarding at the Tokyo 2020 Games?| A．It is included in the Olympic Games for the first time. |
| B．It produced the first gold medal of the 2020 0lympic Games. |
| C．It was the first event in which the Japanese won the gold medal. |
| D．It was the sport whose winner was the youngest in the Olympics. |
| A．No audience. | B．Difficult moves. |
| C．The hot weather. | D．The background music. |
| A．To present a fact. | B．To give an example. |
| C．To introduce a topic. | D．To make an expectation. |
| A．Rayssa Leal. | B．Momiji Nishiya. | C．Funa Nakayama. | D．Marjorie Gestring. |
4 . When it comes to feeling good with ourselves and our lives, there are so many different things that could affect us and our environment. However, most of them are still within our control.
Smile
The muscles to smile in your face actually send signals to the brain to produce a feel-good chemical that will actually make you feel better. Smiling improves your mood, whether it’s genuine or not. Seriously—try it.
Take Care of Your Skin
Everyone needs to take care of their skin.
Find a Relaxing Hobby
Express Admiration for Other People
You feel better when you praise someone else. When you are kind towards people, it will make you feel better as a result. In fact, positive feeling or idea works on others while working on yourself as well.
Make Time to Talk to Your Loved Ones
At times, you might find yourself being too busy to talk to your family or friends.
| A．We really have so many things to be thankful for! |
| B．This will change the way you think and see things. |
| C．You should set aside some time to talk to someone you love. |
| D．We all need to stop worrying or thinking about problems at times. |
| E．In short, when you’re nice to others, you’ll feel much better about yourself. |
| F．We have decided to talk about some small things to make yourself feel better. |
| G．Maintaining your skin every day will ensure you start and finish your day in the best way possible. |
5 . Over the past two years, Wang Yaping has experienced over 6,000 hours of strict training, the most exhausting exercise was the seven-hour underwater training session during which she had to wear a special suit that weighed over 100 kilograms to stimulate (模拟) activities in space outside a spacecraft in a weightless environment.
Wang’s dream of becoming an astronaut was inspired by Yang Liwei’s 2003 space flight, which was China’s first manned space mission. “Now China has its first man in space, when will our country have its first woman?” thought Wang, who was then working as a fighter pilot in China’s air force.
In May 2010, Wang became a member of China’s first group of female astronauts. The joy of being selected did not last long as the cruel nature of the training quickly sank in. In the first year, Wang couldn’t get the top level in the high-G training, during which she had to tolerate eight times the force of gravity in a spinning centrifuge (离心机). The training simulates the environment when the spacecraft takes off, enters orbit and returns. Blood can’t flow to the brain properly, causing a temporary lack of oxygen and even blindness. Astronauts must operate the spacecraft while facing that condition.
Wang improved her performance by doing extra core-strength exercises every day to strengthen her back and abdominal (腹部的) muscles. She got the top level finally at the end of 2011. Wang realized her space dream a year later as part of the Shenzhou-10 mission.
Wang Yaping has become the first female astronaut to work in China’s Tiangong space station as well as the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk.
1. Why does Wang need to wear a heavy suit during training?| A．To stand the pressure under the water. |
| B．To protect herself from harm in outside space. |
| C．To put on her weight in the weightless situation. |
| D．To practice some activities in zero gravity outside the capsule. |
| A．The China’s space tasks launched in 2003. |
| B．Wang has served as a fighter pilot in China’s air force. |
| C．Wang was eager to become the first woman astronaut in China. |
| D．Yang Liwei sets a good example for other Chinese astronauts. |
| A．Weight loss. | B．Extreme physical pain. |
| C．The cruelty of training. | D．Mental stress. |
| A．The future of Chinese manned space mission |
| B．The Chinese achievements in space exploration |
| C．The first Chinese female astronaut Wang Yaping |
| D．The process of Wang Yaping’s training as an astronaut |
6 . The 2000 anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Bronte, whose novel Jane Eyre has attracted generations of readers, is being marked in Britain today.
Fans are hosting a birthday party in the house in northern England where Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne grew up and wrote their books. The anniversary reflects the global popularity of the Brontes, whose works are seen as among the most important ever written by female authors. A wreath (花环) will be laid for Bronte in Westminster Abbey tomorrow and a ballet version (版本) of Jane Eyre is opening next month, while the National Portrait Gallery is hosting an exhibition in her honour.
The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, a remote village in Yorkshire, draws tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year, and the sisters books are an important part of British bookshops and school curriculums.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were a clergyman’s (牧师) daughters who wrote for pleasure and dreamt of becoming published authors but feared they would not be taken seriously because they were women. They therefore adopted the pen names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell when they sent Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to publishers in the 1840s.
Emily Bronte fell ill and died in 1848, followed by Anne the following year. Charlotte lived for a further six years before dying in Haworth in 1855 at age 38. Jane Eyre, which has never been out of print in Britain, tells the story of Jane Eyre’s youth as an orphan and how she falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester, while working as a teacher.
Charlotte Bronte’s other works include Shirley and Villette. Her biographer Claire Harman told the BBC this month that she was someone “who longed to be forever known, but relied on anonymity (匿名) in order to achieve it; a woman much more concerned about truthfulness than personal fame and someone who put into words her own terrible sufferings... as being the only way to deal with them.”
1. What does the underlined word “marked” in Paragraph One mean?| A．celebrated | B．announced |
| C．informed | D．signed |
| A．The global popularity of the Brontes. |
| B．The activities in honor of Charlotte Bronte’s 200th birthday. |
| C．The introduction of Charlotte Bronte’s birthday party. |
| D．The achievement of Charlotte Bronte and her sisters. |
| A．To take pleasure. | B．To attract readers attention. |
| C．To meet publishers requirement. | D．To avoid prejudice. |
| A．was unwilling to be known forever. |
| B．achieved success by means of anonymity. |
| C．dealt with her sufferings by writing them out. |
| D．valued personal fame most. |
7 . As city officials argue under the pressure to reduce urban violence, residents in some of the most violent neighborhoods in the U.S. have chosen instead to pull up a chair, and have a sit down. One such movement has been the 21 Days of Peace event in Minneapolis, a place where sometimes 11 violent crimes were seen a month. Here, community members are simply seating themselves in lawn chairs on street comers in the most dangerous neighborhoods, and acting as Violence interrupters—and police statistics show it's working. Compared to last summer, in June 2021 violent crime numbers took a dive during the 21 Days of Peace, and continued to stay low in the following months.
“Our group asked the Minneapolis Police Department to identify the most dangerous spots in our neighborhood, and then we went there, pulled out our chairs and sat down,” write Louis King and Jeny McAfee in the Washington Post, both being part of this new wave of violence interrupters.
Similar movements of violence interruption have broken out with success in Nashville, where similar groups are working through community outreach to rebuild trust and therefore decrease crime by 40%, while arrests dropped sharply.
“We thought that was going to make it safer, and what we ended up doing was breaking down trust in those communities,” said police Jason Picanzo. Now, he says, it is the community that has made these neighborhoods safer. Violence of any kind, whether it involves us or not, is a difficult situation to risk being caught up in, but desperate times also call on our “better angels”—and these Minnesotans are stretching their wings.
1. Why is the 21 Days of Peace event carried out?| A．To create crime-free communities. |
| B．To reduce violent crimes in cities. |
| C．To place more chairs on street comers. |
| D．To admit more violence interrupters. |
| A．Decreased significantly. | B．Rose immediately. |
| C．Changed unbelievably. | D．Swam freely. |
| A．Nashville has suffered failure. |
| B．Previous measures remain effective. |
| C．Jason has made great contributions. |
| D．The community has played a key role. |
| A．Violence Interrupters: Our True Heroes |
| B．Neighborhood Safety Is of Urgency |
| C．More Lawn Chairs, Less Violent Crimes |
| D．Better Angels Are Stretching Their Wings |
8 . I met Ariep on an island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Being the last fluent Naati speaker in the area, he sadly expressed his fear that, with his death, the language would disappear.
Naati is just an example of dying languages. Today, 50% to 90% of the world's languages are considered at risk of falling out of use by the end of the century.
Over the last 10 years, this has attracted more public attention. While we praised the efforts made to protect dying languages native to certain places and spoken by local people, let's stop and ask: Why does it matter?
Should Naati's future matter to the world? Many speakers of dying languages, including Ariep, communicate fluently in other languages. Is the hope of "saving" these small languages just a romantic idea of unrealistic experts?
As a linguist(语言学家), I'm on the opposite side of those answering "yes". I understand how pressing and serious language loss is. Communities depend on languages to form culture and identity, and for the world, languages are an invaluable source of information about human cognition(认知).
If a language is lost, its community culture will disappear. For instance, people who speak Lulamogi in Uganda feel anxious that as people forget the terms describing ways of catching and eating white ants, they will also forget this important cultural practice.
Language loss also means a loss of community identity and self-determination. Measuring their damage is hard, but the loss certainly harms the well-being of community members. By contrast, the ability of community members to speak their local language together improves well-being. In British Columbia, research has shown that the young generations in communities where at least 50% of the people speak the native language tend to have a stronger sense of well-being.
When a language is disappearing, more is lost than just certain bits of information. Understanding language is important to understanding human cognition. Every language provides us with a tool for finding out how language works in our mind, without which we are prevented from seeing the full picture.
1. Why is Naati mentioned in Paragraph 1?| A．To lead in the topic. | B．To sum up the main idea. |
| C．To tell a story. | D．To put forward a question. |
| A．Ariep's fear. | B．Naati's future. |
| C．Public worry over the problem | D．Protecting dying languages. |
| A．Its examples. | B．Its reasons. |
| C．Its influence. | D．Its development. |
| A．Doubtful | B．Supportive | C．Unclear | D．Worried |
9 . In so many ways, cyberspace (网络空间) mirrors the real world. People ask for information, play games, and share hobby tips. Others buy and sell products. Still others look for friendship, or even love.
Unlike the real world, however, your knowledge about a person is limited to words on a computer screen. Identity (身份) and appearance mean very little in cyberspace. Rather, a person’s thoughts—or at least the thoughts they type—are what really count. So even the shyest person can become a chat-room star.
Usually, this “faceless” communication doesn’t create problems. Identity doesn’t really matter when you’re in a chat room discussing politics or hobbies. In fact, this stress on the ideas themselves makes the Internet a great place for exciting conversation. Where else can so many people come together to chat?
But some Internet users want more than just someone to chat with. They’re looking for serious love relationships. Is cyberspace a good place to find love? That answer depends on whom you ask. Some of these relationships actually succeed. Others fail.
Supporters say that the Internet allows couples lo gel lo know each other intellectually (智力地) first. Personal appearance doesn’t get in the way. Bill others argue that no one can truly know another person in cyberspace. Why? Because the Internet gives users a lot of control over how others view them. Internet users can carefully change their words to fit whatever image (形象) they want to give. In a sense, they’re not really themselves.
All of this may be fine if the relationship stays in cyberspace. But not knowing a person is a big problem in a love relationship. With so many unknowns, it’s easy to let one’s imagination “fill in the blanks.” This unavoidably leads to disappointment when couples meet in person. How someone imagines an online friend is often quite different than the real person.
So, before looking for love in cyberspace, remember the advice of Clifford Stoll: “Life in the real world is far richer than anything you’ll find on a computer screen.”
1. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?| A．It is possible that people can’t find true love online. |
| B．Appearance and identity is of little importance for relationship online. |
| C．A shy person will surely become talkative online. |
| D．Internet users are encouraged to create images in cyberspace. |
| A．Cyberspace mirrors the real world. |
| B．Don’t judge a book by its cover. |
| C．Inner beauty is more important than appearance. |
| D．Things are not always what they seem. |
| A．The online friend. | B．One’s imagination. |
| C．Love relationship. | D．The real friend. |
| A．He is against it. | B．He supports it. |
| C．He cares little about it. | D．He is interested in it. |
10 . Before I went to Nature High Summer Camp, I didn't have many opinions about the environment-I
The person who
Diane
Diane said that
I've
| A．disagreed | B．explained | C．appreciated | D．considered |
| A．intention | B．course | C．plan | D．opinion |
| A．finally | B．normally | C．secretly | D．unwillingly |
| A．argue about | B．care about | C．hang around | D．sail around |
| A．supported | B．believed | C．influenced | D．admired |
| A．forest | B．factory | C．school | D．city |
| A．polite | B．experienced | C．satisfied | D．curious |
| A．invitation | B．role | C．choice | D．word |
| A．warned | B．informed | C．shocked | D．cheated |
| A．likely | B．hardly | C．always | D．ever |
| A．necessary | B．easy | C．worthless | D．difficult |
| A．knowledge | B．mind | C．situation | D．soil |
| A．less | B．more | C．harder | D．better |
| A．complete | B．endless | C．selective | D．free |
| A．dead | B．thick | C．newborn | D．artificial |
| A．help | B．ignore | C．enjoy | D．destroy |
| A．borrowed | B．learned | C．suffered | D．ordered |
| A．promised | B．regretted | C．realized | D．decided |
| A．reasons | B．victims | C．resources | D．ways |
| A．cutting | B．saving | C．making | D．using |
