2 . As Mrs. Brown revealed in her award acceptance speech about her journey to creating Eden Village, helping homeless people is something personal, “I watched as my homeless friends walked off into the darkness to a hidden, wet and cold camp while we went home to a warm bed. I had to do something.”

Why is Mrs. Brown’s award acceptance speech mentioned in the paragraph?

A．To express her sympathy for her friends.

B．To highlight the influence of the village.

C．To show her sincere gratitude for the award.

D．To give her reason for setting up the village.

3 . Navigating growing up alongside academic demands is a difficult phase of life for anyone. “The hardest part of having dyscalculia in my K-12 experience was dealing with a disability on top of the normal aspects of growing up,” Cladek said. “Growing up with dyscalculia greatly affected myself-worth and not feeling like I am enough,” said Cladek, who is now a college student. “If I could only be able to fit in with the rest of the kids and not have this anxiety and frustration every time I look at a math problem on my worksheet, then I’ll be enough, which was a common thought I had.”

What does the author want to say by men toning Cladek’s experience?

A．Cladek has fantastic memories of schooling.

B．It’s better to have dyscalculia diagnosed earlier.

C．Growing up with dyscalculia is a big challenge.

D．Academic demands outweigh struggling with dyscalculia.

5 . Special Food Places to Try In Singapore

It’s an unpleasant fact that local food places are usually meant to cater to meat-eaters. It can be difficult to find a tasty food place that caters to meat-free diet. Here are some options to show you don’t need meat for a satisfactory treat.

Who is the passage intended for?

A．Those who want to lose weight.

B．Those who don’t eat meat.

C．Those who can’t go without meat.

D．Those who prefer home-made food.

6 . In his latest Twitter shake-up, Elon Musk has decided to temporarily control how many tweets users can read each day.

On Saturday, Musk announced the daily limit, with some accounts restricted to 300 posts. Musk said verified users would be able to read 6,000 posts per day, while unverified and newly created unverified accounts would only be able to read either 600 or 300 posts per day.

Where is this article most likely to occur?

A．In a free magazine offered on an airplane.

B．In a yearly review book concerning Internet and society.

C．In a newspaper published within one month.

D．In a literature criticism book on politics.

7 . When you think about it, food is an important part of our lives. Family gatherings center around food and the celebration of major life events and milestones involves food in one way or another. The same holds true for us here on the Space Station. Food is important and ends up usually being a topic of discussion for almost every crew.

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Our food also comes packaged in many ways. But no matter what the form of the food though, you still have the same problem eating it- - you do not want it flying away from you and making a mess when you open it up. In this case a little bit of extra water is extremely helpful. It keeps the food kind of sticking together and to the package and to your spoon. Small things do escape from time to time, but we really try hard to minimize the random flying food problem. That is enough for now! Next time I will write about how to cook in space.

Where is the text most probably taken from?

A．A food magazine.	B．An astronaut’s journal.
C．A sci-fi handbook.	D．A space history website.

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These kids are admittedly luckier than those for whom going back home is sadly not an option. But when choosing to live with your mum is the only way of coping with an insecure job, or with the costs of renting in the city, then that’s not much of a choice. Home is still the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. But a healthy and successful society shouldn’t be sending quite many overgrown children hurrying back for shelter, and nor should it leave quite many parents feeling bad about it.

What is the author’s attitude to this trend?

A．Favorable.

B．Confused.

C．Tolerant.

D．Disapproving.

9 . ......

“No one can read a pamphlet (小册子) about cars and suddenly expect to drive,” said Rollins. “Driving is a skill that requires education and practice. The same is true of responsive parenting. Public health professionals, clinicians, and researchers must collaborate to help families develop psychosocial assets, including responsive parenting and a structured home environment. This could improve childhood obesity rates and other important quality-of-life outcomes,” she continued.

Which of the following would Professor Rollins agree with?

A．Kids’ early exposures to family psychosocial assets are hard to measure.

B．Kids’ academic success largely depends on family psychosocial assets.

C．Responsive parenting is the most important family psychosocial asset.

D．Developing psychosocial assets is a joint effort of experts and families.

10 . Of course, all of these are predictions. Scientists have said it’s almost impossible to truly predict how evolution will unfold. As we go further and further out, the prediction is less accurate. And it’s even more difficult to predict whether another species will develop human-level intelligence, Some think that it could happen. Others, however, are less optimistic because they don’t think nature will make mistakes twice.

Which of the following best describes the future of other species filling the same role as humans?

A．Hopeless.	B．Challenging.
C．Promising.	D．Uncertain.