1 . IT’S A TYPICAL morning: you wake up, take a shower, brush your teeth, and then prick (刺;扎) your arm with a tiny needle. Wait, what? Unless you have a serious disease such as diabetes, you probably haven’t ever tested your own blood. But in the future, that might change.

The company Cor already sells a system for home blood testing. You stick your arm using a supposedly painless, one-off, blood-drawing cartridge (针筒) about the size of a lipstick. Then you stick the cartridge into a device (装置) that looks like the base for an electric toothbrush. A few minutes later, an app on your phone buzzes with updated information, including your current health data (数据) and tips on what to eat and how to exercise during the day.

It’s true that blood contains a wealth of information about a person’s health. Blood tests can show if a person is infected with a disease or at risk for a variety of problems, including a heart attack or a stroke. But most people don’t test their own blood until a doctor says it’s time. Healthy young adults get regular blood tests about every five years. These tests happen at a lab, where a technician or a nurse sticks a long needle into the arm to draw out several tubes full of blood. Cor and similar companies, such as Wellness FX, are trying to change all that. They think people deserve access to more information about their own health.

But not everyone is convinced that regular blood testing for health y people is a great idea. Cor’s system is expensive and may not offer much benefit. “The lightest result here is that you lose your money and then you’re reminded to get more sleep and to eat more fruits, vegetables, and fish,” Pieter Cohen of Harvard Medical School told the New York Times. “The worst result is that you end up getting frightened by probably abnormal results that are actually completely normal for you.”

Plus, the results of a home blood test might be wrong. It’s hard to get accurate results from a tiny amount of blood. So what do you think? Is monitoring your own health via pinpricks the way of the future? Or is it better to leave blood testing to medical professionals?

1. Why does the author mention the typical morning in the first paragraph?

A．To explain a scene.	B．To provide an example.
C．To make a comparison.	D．To introduce the topic.

2. What can we learn about the company Cor’s blood-testing system?

A．It is painless and cheap to use.

B．It has won popularity among people.

C．It may give advice on our diet according to the health data.

D．It offers accurate health information about our body

3. What’s Pieter Cohen’s attitude towards this kind of system?

A．Negative.

B．Unclear.

C．Supportive.

D．Objective.

4. Which of the following could be the best title for the text?

A．Home blood testing: your health monitor!

B．Home blood tests: yes or no?

C．A new system of improving your health.

D．Should blood tests be allowed at home?

2 . Food acts as a form of communication in two fundamental ways. Sharing bread or other foods is a common human tradition that can promote unity and trust. Food can also have a specific meaning, and play a significant role in a family or culture’s celebrations or traditions. The foods we eat—and when and how we eat them—are often unique to a particular culture or may even differ between rural and urban areas within one country.

Sharing bread, whether during a special occasion or at the family dinner table, is a common symbol of togetherness. Many cultures also celebrate birthdays and marriages with cakes that are cut and shared among the guests. Early forms of cake were simply a kind of bread, so this tradition has its roots in the custom of sharing bread.

   Food also plays an important role in many New Year celebrations. In the southern United States, pieces of corn bread represent blocks of gold for prosperity (兴旺) in the New Year. In Greece, people share a special cake called vasilopita. A coin is put into the cake, which signifies success in the New Year for the person who receives it.

Many cultures have ceremonies to celebrate the birth of a child, and food can play a significant role. In China, when a baby is one month old, families name and welcome their child in a celebration that includes giving red-colored eggs to guests. In many cultures, round foods such as grapes, bread, and mooncakes are eaten at welcome celebrations to represent family unity.

Nutrition is necessary for life, so it is not surprising that food is such an important part of different cultures around the world.

1. What can we know about sharing bread?

A．It indicates there is not enough food.	B．It can help to strengthen unity.
C．It is a custom unique to rural areas.	D．It has its roots in wedding celebrations.

2. What does the coin in vasilopita signify for its receiver in the New Year?

A．Money.

B．Success.

C．Luck.

D．Togetherness.

3. How does the author explain the role of food in celebrations?

A．By using examples.	B．By making comparisons.
C．By analyzing causes.	D．By describing processes.

4. What’s the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To show the role of food in ceremonies.

B．To persuade the readers to share bread with others.

C．To tell the specific meaning of food.

D．To introduce the importance of food in culture to readers.

3 . In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work. But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequently follows an unclear and complicated route. We aim to be objective, but we cannot escape the context of our unique life experience. Prior knowledge and interest influence what we experience. Opportunities for misinterpretation are everywhere.

Consequently, discovery claims should be thought of as early forms of science and are full of potential. But it takes collective inspection and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery. This is the credibility process, through which the individual researcher’s me, here, now becomes the community’s anyone, anywhere, anytime. Objective knowledge is the goal, not the starting point.

Once a discovery claim becomes public, the discoverer receives intellectual credit. But the community takes control of what happens next. Within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, the public (including other scientists) receives the new discovery and possibly accompanying technology. As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and battle between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

Two problems exist throughout this credibility process. First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of current knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect. Little reward accompanies repetition and confirmation of what is already known and believed. The goal is new-search, not re-search. Not surprisingly, newly published discovery claims and credible discoveries that appear to be important and convincing will always be open to challenge and potential modification or contradiction by future researchers. Second, novelty itself frequently provokes disbelief. Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” But thinking what nobody else has thought and telling others what they have missed may not change their views. Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.

In the end, credibility “happens” to a discovery claim — a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind. “We reason together, challenge, revise, and complete each other’s reasoning and each other’s conceptions of reason.”

1. According to the first paragraph, the process of discovery is characterized by its ________.

A．uncertainty and complexity	B．misconception and falsehood
C．logicality and objectivity	D．systematicness and regularity

2. It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that credibility process requires ________.

A．strict inspection

B．shared efforts

C．individual wisdom

D．persistent innovation

3. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi would most likely agree that ________.

A．scientific claims will survive challenges	B．discoveries today inspire future research
C．efforts to make discoveries are justified	D．scientific work calls for a critical mind

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the test?

A．Novelty as an Engine of Scientific Discovery	B．Collective Inspection in Scientific Discovery
C．Evolution of Credibility in Doing Science	D．Challenge to Credibility at the Gate to Science

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Listeners are ready to talk about anything you are going through. The most common topics teens reach out about are relationships, anxiety, depression and loneliness.

1. Who is the text written for?

A．Teachers.

B．Parents.

C．Teenagers.

D．Adults.

2. What will Teen Line do if they receive a call?

A．They will tell the caller what to do directly.	B．They will work with the caller to solve the problem.
C．They will turn to professionals for help.	D．They will only listen to the caller.

3. What can we know about “Listeners”?

A．They haven’t received much professional training.	B．They are high school students in New York.
C．They only talk about how to deal with relationships.	D．Then can’t answer your call after 10:00 p.m.

8 . What no one ever tells college students is how little they’ll be prepared for the real world. Many graduates will not get the _________ they wanted and the one they do get will be different from what they dreamed about.

After graduating, I packed my bags and headed _________ to the big city for a well paying job with good potential (潜力). I hoped this would be my _________ to expand my professional experience and figure out what I was supposed to do with my life.

But I was _________ . Before I knew it, I was swept into the entry level job world: long hours before a_________, service calls from rude customers and repetitive work I wasn’t _________in. Having studied Psychology, English, and Sociology, I was supposed to be working in a job that _________ me to use my passion, not to _________ it. This was not at all what I had_________. So I decided to hand in my __________ .

Two weeks later I __________again and moved back to my college town. I found a full time job working with kids with special needs and began a part time __________ career. And I found out special needs kids are the greatest and that writing is__________and easy.

The key to __________ may very well be doing what you love. What you need to do is just to follow your heart and make a __________ to bring back your joy.

1.

A．honor

B．job

C．qualification

D．award

2.

A．eagerly

B．secretly

C．discouragedly

D．unwillingly

3.

A．wish

B．experiment

C．opportunity

D．right

4.

A．realistic

B．responsible

C．incorrect

D．sensitive

5.

A．picture

B．mirror

C．house

D．screen

6.

A．lost

B．stuck

C．experienced

D．interested

7.

A．forced

B．allowed

C．reminded

D．persuaded

8.

A．appreciate

B．ignore

C．share

D．forgive

9.

A．dreamed

B．found

C．stood

D．paid

10.

A．notice

B．offer

C．suggestion

D．conclusion

11.

A．hesitated

B．escaped

C．packed

D．graduated

12.

A．educating

B．marketing

C．drawing

D．writing

13.

A．cheap

B．smooth

C．boring

D．tough

14.

A．wealth

B．friendship

C．happiness

D．teamwork

15.

A．decision

B．call

C．wish

D．style

9 . A few days before New Year 1944, Patricia Krueger received a telegram from the U. S. Army. She hoped it would contain a belated birthday greeting from her husband, an army flight engineer, Charles Krueger, whom she had not heard from for 2 weeks. Instead, the message said he wasn’t coming home: His B-29 had been lost and he was later declared MIA (missing in action). Their son, John Krueger from Middleton, Wisconsin, is still in tears when he recounts this story.

Decades later, the military continues to work to bring back the remains of soldiers like Charles Krueger. The job of finding them falls to DPAA (Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency), created in 2015 after critics charged that the previous MIA search process was slow, and behind on innovations in science and technology. Between 1973 and 2014, the remains of only 1,849 missing service member s were returned to their families; in 2021, the agency accounted for the remains of 141 MIAs; according to DPAA figures.

To accelerate the work, Congress gave DPAA the authority to develop public-private partnerships with scientists and groups outside the government. “Teaming up with academic scientists introduces new ways of thinking,” says military historian Michael Dolski. “Working with partners allows us to tap into their technologies and capabilities in ways that we just can’t maintain.”

For scientists, the work is more than technically satisfying. “It’s the most rewarding aspect of my career,” says Mires, a scientist working with the agency. “In other archaeology sites I’ve worked on, the history is remote,” he says. “Here, you’re doing something not for a thing, but for a person, and all the people they touched.”

1. What was the telegram about in paragraph 1?

A．A New Year dinner.	B．Krueger’s disappearance.
C．A birthday greeting.	D．John Krueger’s memory.

2. Why did people criticize the previous MIA search process?

A．Because DPAA wants to continue the search.

B．Because it took long and lacked creativeness.

C．Because the work was stopped by the military.

D．Because 141 MIAs’ remains were found in 2021.

3. What is Michael Dolski’s attitude to the cooperation with scientists and groups?

A．Patient.

B．Critical.

C．Doubtful.

D．Approving.

4. What is a suitable title for the text?

A．A long search for MIAs.	B．Achievements of DPAA.
C．Assistance from science.	D．Consequences of wars.

10 . Virtual reality is quickly becoming the new technological frontier. Tech companies everywhere seem to be racing to get their foot in the VR door. However, virtual reality has a set of challenges and hurdles that it must overcome in order to work well. It should be noted that VR is heavily dependent on being very fast, very accurate and very good-looking. If it isn’t, the viewer will feel motion sick or disconnected from the world that VR is trying to create.

Now that we can actually build VR headsets that begin to meet these requirements, we are seeing a rising interest in VR. As it rises, so does the interest in creating new media to be experienced in using virtual reality. Journalism is a medium built on relevance. Journalists should always be finding new ways to tell stories and deliver content. It is a goldmine for storytelling. What better ways to tell a story to someone than to put them right in the center of it?

Virtual reality is a powerful tool for journalists. The consumer isn’t just reading or watching something play out; they’re experiencing it. The immersive nature of VR allows for people to connect with the subject matter on a much deeper level than just reading about it. The experience is emotional, speaking more to our instinct than our intellect. The possibilities for storytelling here are legion, and any storyteller wanting to do something more interesting than their peers should surely be considering the sheer power of VR.

The question of virtual reality, though, is not how powerful it is. That is immediately apparent. The question of VR is one of viability and availability. Telling stories must be easy to do, and access to those stories must be readily available. This is the biggest challenge that VR faces. If the tools to tell a story with VR aren’t easy to pick up and learn, VR will fail. If VR technology isn’t both top-of-the-line and affordable, VR will fail.

Accessibility was one concern for Thomas Hallaq, assistant professor of journalism and mass communications, who said that current VR technology, is pretty exclusive right now. Despite that, he said he doesn’t think the exclusivity of this technology will be a problem in the long run.

“I think it’s very promising,” Hallaq said. “We’re seeing more technology become accessible, and more people having access to that technology. Just look at smartphones.” Like radio, TV and the Internet before it, virtual reality will change the way we tell stories.

1. Why is VR considered a powerful tool for journalism?

A．Because it is an exclusively new tool.

B．Because it is very powerful and popular.

C．Because people can experience the story in person.

D．Because it is very fast, accurate and good-looking.

2. According to the passage, what is the biggest challenge VR is facing?

A．How powerful and interesting it can be.

B．Whether people will have easy access to it.

C．Whether qualified VR headsets can be built.

D．What new ways people will find to deliver content.

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards the future of VR technology?

A．Optimistic.

B．Neutral.

C．Pessimistic.

D．Concerned.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．The Wide Popularity of Virtual Reality

B．The Future Development of Virtual Reality

C．Challenges and Hurdles of Virtual Reality

D．Virtual Reality is the Future of Storytelling