1 . How to Use a Modern Public Library

Has it been a while since your last visit to a public library? If so, you may be surprised to learn that libraries have changed for the better. It’s been years since they were dusty little rooms with books. They have transformed themselves into places where you can develop your love of knowledge meet interesting people, or find out how to start a business.

Check out a book. While libraries still loan out(出借)books, you’ll find it easier to get a copy of whatever you’re looking for, thanks to a cooperative network of area libraries. Via such networks, libraries share their books with each other through the use of delivery vehicles. Once the book you’ve requested is delivered to the nearest branch, they will inform you by e-mail, so you can pick it up.

Check out other items. The library is now a multimedia zone, loaded with information in many formats(载体形式). You can borrow movies on DVDs, music on CDs, and popular magazines. Some libraries even loan out toys and games. If a popular magazine you want isn’t offered and the library keeps a list of such requests, they may bring it in when enough interest is shown.

Join targeted reading groups. Libraries will often hold reading-group sessions targeted to various age groups. Perhaps you’d like to learn a language or improve your English. The library may sponsor a language group you could join. If you have difficulties reading, ask about special reading opportunities. Your library might be able to accommodate you. And you might find it relaxing to bring your small kid to a half-hour Story Time while you sit quietly in a corner with a good book.

Start a business using the help of your local library. If you want to have a business of your own, your local library can become a launch space for it. In library books and computers, you can find information on starting a business. Many libraries will help you with locally supplied information about business management shared through chambers of commerce(商会)and government agencies, and they will offer printing, faxing and database services you need.

1. Public libraries connected by a cooperative network benefit readers by______.

A．sharing their books on the Internet

B．giving access to online reading at a library branch

C．sending a needed book to a library branch nearby

D．making the checkout procedures diverse

2. According to Paragraph 3, what items may be checked out from a public library?

A．A magazine and an e-book.

B．A game and an oil painting.

C．A music CD and a kid’s toy.

D．A DVD and a video player

3. As is described in Paragraph 4, taking a small kid to a half-hour Story Time allows ______.

A．the kid to learn a new language

B．the parent to enjoy quiet reading

C．the kid to overcome reading difficulties

D．the parent to meet their program sponsor

4. Your local library can help you start a business by ______.

A．providing relevant information and supporting services

B．offering professional advice on business management

C．supplying useful information of your potential buyers

D．arranging meetings with government officials

5. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To point out the importance of public libraries.

B．To encourage people to work in public libraries.

C．To introduce the improved services of public libraries.

D．To call for the modernization of public library systems.

2 . Leslie Morissette’s son, Graham, was six years old when he was diagnosed with leukemia (白血病). Throughout Graham’s treatment in the hospital, Graham connected with everyone he met, from _______patients to younger children. “He would _______ his toys to other sick children or act silly to make them laugh.” Morissette said. “Graham’s special spirit is what kept me_______. He gave me the energy and the _______to fight with him.” In 1997, when he was eight years old, Graham passed away.

Inspired by how Graham lived his life caring about others, Morissette founded the _________Grahamtastic Connection in his late son’s honor. The organization provides free technology—including computers, iPads and robots—to children _________ against cancer and other serious illnesses.

One of the major goals of Morissette’s work is to _________kids to their classrooms. This helps them continue their education despite multiple hospitalizations and days _________ from school.

The robots “_________” children right into the classroom in real time. They can __________ the robots right from their hospital bed or home. If a child is unable to attend school, they can __________log on to their tablet or laptop and __________the robot. They can walk up and down the school paths, and go to lunch with their friends. But the real magic happens __________ classes. The robot enables them to walk down the hallway with their friends, talking about their weekend, their favorite foods and other things. It’s a really great ________ that gives children the feeling of control, when their world is maybe out of control.

“Every time I can help a child in need, I feel as if Graham is looking ________,” Morissette said. “I believe that Graham’s love lives on in the work that I do. And I’m proud and privileged to be able to do it in his honor.”

1.

A．lonely

B．elderly

C．daily

D．lively

2.

A．lend

B．submit

C．return

D．apply

3.

A．laughing

B．imagining

C．going

D．lying

4.

A．strength

B．warmth

C．opinion

D．direction

5.

A．associated

B．nonprofit

C．unconditional

D．appointed

6.

A．reacting

B．guarding

C．going

D．battling

7.

A．invite

B．show

C．connect

D．limit

8.

A．gained

B．missed

C．suffered

D．graduated

9.

A．turn

B．transform

C．exchange

D．transport

10.

A．build

B．operate

C．teach

D．separate

11.

A．hardly

B．randomly

C．mostly

D．simply

12.

A．call in

B．catch on

C．give away

D．leave behind

13.

A．over

B．during

C．between

D．within

14.

A．responsibility

B．ability

C．personality

D．technology

15.

A．in

B．out

C．down

D．over

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

According to Xinhua News Agency, the Palace Museum and Huawei signed a strategic cooperation agreement on March 15. The two sides will set an example     1     5G application.

The Palace Museum received more than 17 million visitors in 2018,     2    (make) it the most visited museum in the world. In the past 20 years, an office information network covering the whole museum     3     (build) gradually. The museum has developed an App that provides an in-depth     4    (explain) of cultural relic information and cultural services. Also, the museum has research on the application of VR, AR, Al and other     5    (technique) in museums.

    6     signing of the agreement marks a new chapter in the strategic cooperation between the Palace Museum and Huawei Technologies Co. So, Huawei will make efforts     7    (accelerate) the intelligent construction of the Palace Museum.

“The 600-year-old Palace Museum has never been so close to science and technology.” Shan Jixiang said     8     (proud), director of the Palace Museum.

Shan shared many ideas about the 5G Palace Museum. With the help of advanced technology,    9     is expected that in the future, audiences around the world will be able to experience and visit the Palace Museum, whether it is a field trip or a virtual tour. Also, the use of Al technology provides a     10    (broad) platform and stronger knowledge support for cultural relics among young people.

The Students’ Union

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the talk mainly about?

A．A town.

B．A hospital.

C．An organization.

2. What does the speaker say about the project this year?

A．It is interesting.

B．It is successful.

C．It is difficult.

3. What is required to become a volunteer for MSF?

A．The ability to handle pressure.

B．The ability to get along with others.

C．The ability to cope with emergency incidents.

4. What kind of volunteers are in urgent need?

A．Doctors.

B．Building engineers.

C．Food experts.

5 . Every year, over 7.72 trillion kilograms of plastic is washed into the oceans. There are five huge areas in the world’s oceans that are a “soup” of floating rubbish. One of these areas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), is three times as large as France.

Over a year ago, a group called Ocean Cleanup began using a huge floating screen to try to clean up plastic pollution in the ocean. After several failures, the group is now collecting plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But the plastic is spreading out over a large area, so it's impossible to collect it piece by piece. So, the Ocean Cleanup had a plan. They got a long floating U-shaped tube with a screen hanging below it. As the tube and screen are pushed by the water and the winds, the U is meant to collect plastic rubbish, making it easy for a ship to collect and remove the plastic. The system uses the power of the wind and ocean, so it doesn’t need fuel.

The group began testing the first version, called “System 001”, last September. But it soon became clear that the screen was just moving with the plastic, not collecting it. Sometimes plastic would wash over the top of the tube. Even worse, System 001 got broken by surging seas and had to be towed to Hawaii for repairs.

But Mr. Slat, who got the idea for the Ocean Cleanup system, sees the project as an experiment, which means a failure is a chance to learn. The team collected and studied lots of information about what worked well and what didn’t. Then they changed the design. In June, an improved version, called “System001/B” was towed back to the GPGP.

The new version has a parachute (降落伞) attached to it. This makes the system move slightly slower than the plastic, allowing the plastic to be collected inside, as planned. But this success is still just the beginning of the work of the Ocean Cleanup. They want a better and larger system.

1. What does the author want to show in Paragraph 1?

A．Humans should try to prevent plastic waste.

B．The GPGP is facing different kinds of pollution.

C．Plastic pollution in the oceans has become a serious problem.

D．A series of problems has been caused by plastic pollution.

2. What was the group’s plan?

A．To make use of the water and the winds.

B．To create a ship to collect waste in the oceans.

C．To collect the floating plastic waste piece by piece.

D．To gather up the floating plastic waste in the oceans.

3. What can we know about the “System001”?

A．It was a failure.	B．It was a great success.
C．It worked with a parachute.	D．It needed to be fueled regularly.

4. What does the underlined word mean in Paragraph 3?

A．vast

B．rough

C．calm

D．peaceful

6 . Whether you prefer history, art, special programming or something altogether different, the Museums in Atlanta will impress and delight you.

High Museum of Art

As one of the top art museums in the Southeast, High Museum of Art has an extensive collection of 19th and 20th-century American art and a significant amount of European artwork. There is a growing collection of African American art as well as modern and contemporary art. It is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a department specifically devoted to folk and self-taught art.

Delta Flight Museum

The Delta Flight Museum is an aviation and corporate museum located near the airline’s main hub. It is a nonprofit organization relying on volunteers, donations, special event rentals and Museum Store sales. It is considered an ongoing project and it collects various items year round.

Fernbank Museum of Natural History

Located along Ponce, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History is an interactive museum that will appeal to people of all ages. Permanent exhibits include dinosaur fossils and massive skeletons. Regularly scheduled educational and social events add to the appeal. The museum is also home to a five-story IMAX theater airing acclaimed nature films.

Children’s Museum of Atlanta

Founded in 1988 as a “Museum Without Walls,” the 16,316-square-foot museum includes exhibits designed for children under the age of nine and hosts field trips from schools and learning centers. The Imaginators invent fun hands-on activities for children, and create terrific programming, including original and lively 20-minute mini-musicals.

1. What’s the most distinct feature of High Museum of Art?

A．It has an extensive collection.

B．It has a folk and self-taught art section.

C．It’s the top art museum in the Southeast.

D．It has collections of modern and contemporary art.

2. In which museum can you watch fantastic IMAX films?

A．High Museum of Art.	B．Delta Flight Museum.
C．Fernbank Museum of Natural History.	D．Children’s Museum of Atlanta.

3. What are available in Children’s Museum of Atlanta?

A．Educational and social events.

B．Field trips and hands-on activities.

C．Original and lively 20-minute mini-movies.

D．Exhibits about dinosaur fossils and massive skeletons.

7 . “Without trust,” writes Rachel Botsman, “society cannot survive, and it certainly cannot thrive."

Clearly, we are in trouble. Two-thirds of people surveyed last year in 28 countries expressed low levels of trust in "mainstream institutions" of business, government and media.

In “Who Can You Trust?” Botsman, an Oxford lecturer offers a timely and accessible framework for understanding what trust is, how it works, why it matters and how it is evolving. It is an important guidance to the obstacles and opportunities we face as a society if we are to repair and redefine trust.

Through human history, trust has evolved in three basic stages: Local trust was enough when people lived in small communities and everybody knew everybody else; industrialization and urbanization required institutional trust so that people could trust complete strangers running governments, corporations, and standards for international trade, commerce and finance. We are now living through a massive global .shift of trust from institutions to individuals: distributed trust facilitated by high-tech platforms, many of which are run by the private sector.

This shift is caused by several factors. First, accountability is unequal. Rich, powerful and well-connected individuals have been able to accumulate vast quantities of often undocumented wealth by avoiding tax and anti-bribery laws, while ordinary people are likely to be caught and punished for lawbreaking. Second, people in power are no longer seen to deserve greater respect as the details of their lives are exposed.

Botsman does not prescribe how we deal with that. But if the old ways of giving and cancelling trust such as voting, markets and consumer choice are no longer functioning, then we must change or replace them. Systems must be "driven democratically and rationally," become more "transparent, inclusive, and accountable" and, most important, be designed to "put people first," which profit-driven platforms have failed to do sufficiently.

Tech executives are responding to the trust crisis mainly with promises of more and better technology. But Batsman warns that the responsibility for ensuring that the robots being used are trustworthy lies with the human beings who design and use them. We have not thought through how we hold those people accountable, let alone their robots. She warns against a natural tendency "to become over-reliant on machines." Ideally machines should be programmed to "understand" their own limitations and even seek human help or intervention.

A growing number of people hope that new trust mechanisms can be established through the use of exciting new technologies such as the blockchain（区块链）. In essence, blockchains are digital public ledgers of transactions that cannot be changed, thereby creating greater transparency and accountability and making corruption much harder.

However, Botsman warns that the blockchain is no panacea for human trust. Whether blockchain systems lead to more accountable governance and a more just global economy will depend on their design and the intentions of those who build them. There is no app for fixing trust.

"Who Can You Trust?" does make a clear case for why it is important for the companies, governments and other institutions to be much more transparent and subject themselves to new mechanisms that can credibly hold them accountable. It is the only way they can hope to earn and maintain trust in the future.

1. Which of the following orders of trust evolution is right?

A．institutional trust→ industrialized trust→ individual trust

B．urbanized trust→ local trust→ institutional trust

C．local trust→ institutional trust→ distributed trust

D．local trust→ urbanized trust →individual trust

2. What can we conclude from the passage?

A．Profit-driven platforms pay no attention to the importance of people.

B．It is the people who design and use technology that count in restoring trust.

C．New technologies, such as the blockchain can prevent corruption from happening.

D．People should rely on new technologies to create transparency and accountability.

3. What do the underlined words “no panacea" mean?

A．not a Herculean task	B．a hard nut
C．not a cure-all medicine	D．a catch -22

4. What's the author's attitude toward the possibility of using technology to restore trust?

A．Supportive	B．Negative
C．Indifferent	D．Skeptical

8 .

Twin Cities Campus · Office of Admissions

240 Williamson Hall · 231 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Dear Blair Connie,

Congratulations! You have been admitted to the University of Minnesota (U of M) Twin Cities. Your college of admission is the College of Science and Engineering.

We believe your accomplishments have prepared you well to thrive here. When you step on campus as a Golden Gopher, you will be involved in our world-class academic programs and will shape your future in cutting-edge facilities.

Choose a community bursting with Gopher pride. By choosing the U of M, you choose to work with classmates and professors who are “Driven to Discover.” When you choose the U of M, you will...

■Discover exceptional academics. With thousands of courses to pick from each semester, you can engage with professors who are leaders in their fields and make meaningful connections with your fellow students in our technology-packed active learning classrooms.

■Discover unique opportunities. At the U of M, your college experience goes beyond the classroom. Your knowledge and talents can shine in one of our 900+ student organizations.

■Discover an ideal location. Campus is in the center of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where you can work as trainees at one of the 18 Fortune 500 companies or thousands of startups and nonprofits in the Twin Cities.

■Discover great value. The U of M is committed to four-year graduation, which lowers your costs and gets you an internationally recognized degree sooner. The University has been named “best value” by Forbes, Princeton Review, and Kiplinger’s.

On behalf of the U of M, we are honored to have you join our academic community. In the coming weeks you will receive additional information about your next steps to becoming a U of M student. Welcome to the Class of 2024!

Executive Director of Admissions

Sincerely

Heidi Meyer

1. What does the underlined phrase “a Golden Gopher” refer to?

A．A freshman.

B．A professor.

C．An amateur.

D．An inspector.

2. Which of the following is the benefit of choosing the U of M?

A．The university invites leaders in different fields to teach on campus.

B．There are numerous clubs which offer students various activities.

C．It is so ideally located that you have easy access to famous top brands.

D．Many magazines rank it among the top universities with high tuition.

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How does the man feel about joining the association?

A．Uninterested.

B．Relaxed.

C．Worried.

2. How much is the one-year membership fee?

A．£5.

B．£10.

C．£35.

3. How often do guest speakers meet?

A．Once a month.

B．Twice a month.

C．Once a week.

4. What is peer coaching about?

A．Students doing sports after study.

B．Senior students helping other students out.

C．Students making speeches on various topics.

10 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the United States, over 25 percent of senior citizens (people over 65) live alone. Without friends and family nearby, seniors are at risk of     1     (have) depression (抑郁).

Many communities are trying to deal with this problem. Providence Mount St. Vincent, a retirement home (退休疗养院) near Seattle, Washington, has     2     (recent) run a program. Over 400 senior citizens live at Providence Mount St. Vincent, and over 40 children from a few months old     3     age five go to daycare there. The children spend the day there with the senior citizens while     4     (worker) look on.

The program has clear advantages. For the older people, their social life improves (改善); they read to and play games with the children, and encourage     5     (they) to do other activities. This makes the seniors feel     6     (use) and happy, and if they feel happy, their health may improve.

The children also get a lot from the program. They have     7     patient group of people to play with in a safe environment. Some of the older people     8     (be) disabled, and staying with them helps children learn     9     (be) more understanding of people with disabilities.

Now, there are many programs like the one at Providence Mount St. Vincent.     10     is believed that even if the very young and the very old don’t have a shared past or future, their shared present can be perfect.