1 . When Mae Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, in 1956, no one would have predicted that she would circle the Earth one day. When she was three years old, her parents
Throughout her academic career, Jemison was a(n)
Returning to the United States in 1985, for a long-held
Jemison has been awarded many honors for her great
| A．turned | B．linked | C．moved | D．adapted |
| A．excited | B．surprised | C．frightened | D．bothered |
| A．attitude | B．behaviour | C．outcome | D．choice |
| A．gave up | B．calmed down | C．cut back on | D．tried out for |
| A．addicted | B．ordinary | C．contented | D．remarkable |
| A．relations | B．interests | C．programs | D．destinations |
| A．graduating | B．retiring | C．disappearing | D．escaping |
| A．engincering | B．science | C．medicine | D．chemistry |
| A．topic | B．degree | C．dream | D．root |
| A．appreciated | B．selected | C．attracted | D．honored |
| A．Amazingly | B．Normally | C．Faithfully | D．Originally |
| A．contacted | B．limited | C．attached | D．admitted |
| A．water | B．space | C．network | D．land |
| A．memories | B．confidence | C．achievements | D．impressions |
| A．principle | B．approach | C．reflection | D．ambition |
2 . You’ve probably thought about taking a break from social media from time to time, but can you imagine living without social media or cell phones entirely? This small town in West Virginia, USA, does just that. For the 182 residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, modern conveniences like Wi-Fi, smartphones, microwaves, and even digital cameras are a thing of the outside world.
This town neighbors a large radio telescope — a piece of technology that allows scientists to observe everything from the formation of stars to the remains of the Big Bang. And in order for these devices to listen to the most “remote whispers of the universe”, they require no interference (干扰) from the ground. To protect the sensitive technology, a National Radio Quiet Zone was established, covering an area of 13, 000 square miles and enveloping the town of Green Bank.
In the name of science, Green Bank has committed to living a lifestyle with limited digital connections. In the absence of Wi-Fi, this town has returned to a type of community connection that was common in the not-so-distant past. And though far from the digital world, the residents can sometimes be connected more closely. A report from the New York Times takes a look at the positive but complex impact Green Bank’s disconnected community has on its teenagers. The views they bring up about teens’ mental health, social skills, and a deeper connection to the natural world are thought-provoking.
The lives of the residents of Green Bank remind us of what we may be missing out on in our digital world. What could we gain if we spent more time just in the quiet presence of others or just ourselves and a good book? Maybe we don’t want to disconnect from the Internet, but maybe, we can experiment with disconnecting for a few hours a day and see how we feel. Perhaps we could discover a new way of living that better serves our mental health and our relationships with one another.
1. What is the purpose of the question in Paragraph 1?| A．To imagine a traditional life. | B．To introduce a small town. |
| C．To comment on social media. | D．To promote smartphones. |
| A．Function of the world’s largest radio telescope. |
| B．Lives of the residents of Green Bank. |
| C．Reasons for Green Bank’s absence of Wi-Fi. |
| D．Benefits of a National Radio Quiet Zone. |
| A．Distant. | B．Complex. |
| C．Mysterious. | D．Close. |
| A．It’s colourful. | B．It’s rewarding. |
| C．It’s modern. | D．It’s dull. |
3 . Sometimes life puts us in places where we are supposed to be. Whether we were headed that way or not, we just need to make the best of it. Here let’s read three stories.
In 2016, Wanda Dench sent a text to her college-aged grandson inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner. But she got the number wrong and reached Jamal Hinton. When Hinton asked who had sent the message, Wanda sent a picture of herself. “You’re not my grandma,” Jamal texted back, “Can I still get a plate, though?” Wanda replied. “Of course, That’s what grandmas do — feed everyone!” And for six years, Jamal has celebrated Thanksgiving with the Dench family.
In another community, Robert’s wife asked him to drop some books off at a local elementary school after a book drive. When he carried the books to the classroom on his lunch hour, the teacher mistook him for one of the volunteer tutors. “Thank you for coming,” the teacher said, “Isabella is struggling with comprehension and is a grade level behind. Here is a book and her worksheets.” Robert thought, “I have time. I’ll just sit down and help.” Robert, an artist, drew the pictures of words and illustrated their meanings. Isabella was delighted. “I think that’s when the light went on for her,” Robert says, For a full year, Robert tutored Isabella during his lunch hours. Her reading comprehension quickly caught up and then shot past grade level. “Seeing her learn so fast made my day,” Robert says.
Twenty years ago, Gladys Hankerson in Florida dialed up her sister in Maryland for a chat. But she misdialed the area code and reached Mike Moffit in Rhode Island, Mike said Gladys was a bit shy but very sweet. Gladys loves her sister and tried to call again a few days later — and made the same mistake on the area code. Mike answered again and recognized Gladys’ voice. They had a nice chat and laughed about it. Since then their friendship has deepened — and it has carried on for 20 years.
1. What did Jamal Hinton do with Wanda’s invitation?| A．He accepted it willingly. | B．He refused it politely. |
| C．He played a joke on it. | D．He sent a gift for it. |
| A．He taught her to draw pictures. |
| B．He tutored her while eating lunch. |
| C．He explained words in an artistic way. |
| D．He used books with pictures. |
| A．She was carcless. | B．She was attractive. |
| C．She was anxious. | D．She was curious. |
| A．Head for where we should go. |
| B．Learn much from mistakes in life. |
| C．Meet whoever thinks alike. |
| D．Make the best of life’s arrangements. |
4 . 
Years of Living Dangerously, 2014, directed by Joel Bach
Over the course of two seasons, this popular series involves more than 30 topics. With the help of expert climate scientists and famous people, each part covers a range of climate factors and impacts, such as drought, extreme weather and sea level rise.
Meltdown, 2021, directed by Fredric Golding
This documentary is about the world’s ice sheets becoming smaller. Fans chasing ice will enjoy the work of Arctic photographer Lynn Davis. Meltdown offers viewers a sense of admiration: awe-inspiring beauty mixed with sadness and a bit of terror, as the full consequences of humanity’s impact on the planet, including Greenland’s ice disappearing.
Chasing Coral, 2017, directed by Jeff Orlowski
The film describes the long- term process of coral bleaching (白化) in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2016. The documentary follows a highly skilled team of filmmakers on a mission to document the mostly hidden impact of climate change.
Antarctica: Ice and Sky, 2015, directed by Luc Jacquet
Claude Lorius found his lifelong passion in the frozen continent and climate science after making his first trip to Antarctica as a field expert in 1956. In Ice and Sky. narrated (解说) throughout by Lorius, viewers meet a remarkable French scientist and find how dangerous, exhausting and thrilling the work in Antarctica could be.
1. Who is the director of Years of Living Dangerously?| A．Joel Bach. | B．Fredric Golding. |
| C．Jeff Orlowski. | D．Luc Jacquet. |
| A．Years of Living Dangerously. | B．Melidoun. |
| C．Chasing Coral. | D．Antarctica: Ice and Sky. |
| A．Greenland. | B．Arctic. |
| C．Iceland. | D．Antarctica. |
5 . Different countries have different customs in giving presents. In China you must never give a clock to a Chinese person, because the sound of the word for “clock” is similar to the sound of “death”. Also, don’t wrap (包) a present in white, black or blue paper, because they are the colours for funerals (葬礼). Don’t give a knife, because something sharp can cut a friendship.
In Russia if you give flowers as presents, you have to give an odd number of them (one, three, five, etc.) because even numbers of flowers are for funerals.
In Germany if you are invited to dinner, flowers are good presents to take to your dinner hostess (女主人), but don’t take her red roses because it means you are in love with her. Don’t take thirteen of anything because it’s an unlucky number. Don’t take an even number of anything, either. Don’t wrap your presents in white, brown, or black paper.
1. According to the passage, ________ must never be given to Chinese people as presents.| A．flowers | B．clocks | C．food | D．clothes |
| A．甚至 | B．奇数 | C．偶数 | D．第七 |
| A．Germany | B．China | C．both China and Germany | D．both China and Russia |
6 . Though you are a teenager now, there will finally come a time when you start to earn money. While it may be fun to have your own money to spend, it can also be difficult trying to manage it properly. Here are some tips on how to manage your money.
Use your money wisely
Most teenagers earn money for everyday use, or because they are saving up for something. So when they receive their money, they must first decide what they want to do with it. However, try to avoid the temptation (诱惑) to spend it all in one go (一口气)! Remember: Money takes a long time to earn,but it goes very quickly．
Bank your savings
The money you don't need can be saved at home or in a bank. If you want to save your money at home,get yourself a piggy bank or something else to keep your money in. The other choice is to save your money in a bank. One of the advantages is that you can earn interest (利息) on it.
Use the money to make money
Rather than saving your money at home or in a bank, you can use the money you earn to invest (投资) in things to make more money. For example, if you are selling something around your neighborhood, you could pay someone else to sell your things in their neighborhood. This way, by spending a little, you can make a lot.
1. The first thing for the teenagers to do after receiving their money is _________| A．to invest in things correctly | B．to spend it for everyday use |
| C．to let it go very quickly | D．to consider how to deal with it |
| A．to get yourself a pig | B．to save your money in a bank |
| C．to make some other choices | D．to leave your money at home |
| A．Don’t earn it for everyday use | B．Don’t save up anything |
| C．Don’t spend it all in one go | D．It takes a long time to earn |
| A．spend less money | B．give less money |
| C．make more money | D．waste more money |
7 . Paper is one of the most important products ever invented by man. The invention of paper meant that more people could be educated because more books could be printed. Paper provided an important way to communicate with knowledge.
Paper was first made in China about 2,000 years ago. In Egypt and the West, paper was not very commonly used before the year 1400. Paper was made in southern Europe after about the year 1100. After that, the forestry countries of Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States became the most important in paper-making. Today Finland makes the best paper in the world. And it has the biggest paper industry in the world.
When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes, and writing paper. So paper plays an important role in our lives.
Paper is very good for keeping you warm. Houses are often insulated (隔热) with paper. You perhaps see homeless men sleep on a large number of newspapers. They are insulating themselves from the cold. In Finland, in winter it is sometimes 40 degrees below zero. The farmers wear paper boots in the snow. Nothing could be warmer.
1. Which country makes the best paper?| A．Finland. | B．Norway. | C．The United States. | D．Canada. |
| A．Before 1100. | B．After 1100. | C．After 1400. | D．Before 1400. |
| A．more people could be educated | B．more books could be printed |
| C．paper is one of the most important products | D．Paper was invented by man |
| A．Books are warmer. | B．Newspapers are warmer. |
| C．Houses are the warmest. | D．Paper is the warmest. |
8 . When my mother took me out of high school, I knew that my life would become
One night while I was watching TV, an advertisement came on about
About a month later he called me and asked me to come to his office. He told me he would get me in the military but I had to
| A．difficult | B．easy | C．simple | D．sad |
| A．celebrate | B．imagine | C．remember | D．ruin |
| A．happy | B．hopeless | C．angry | D．satisfied |
| A．how | B．what | C．who | D．which |
| A．discussing | B．criticizing | C．joining | D．commanding |
| A．forgot | B．called | C．read | D．copied |
| A．advertisement | B．agreement | C．appointment | D．equipment |
| A．support | B．promise | C．warn | D．chance |
| A．homeless | B．hopeless | C．helpless | D．careless |
| A．promise | B．order | C．tell | D．suggest |
| A．least | B．worst | C．best | D．full |
| A．program | B．dialogue | C．bargain | D．advertisement |
| A．lonely | B．ashamed | C．successful | D．fashionable |
| A．attempt | B．ability | C．desire | D．wish |
| A．hoped | B．refused | C．organized | D．received |
9 . A 71-year-old Swedish man “can’t put into words” how thankful he is for the new technology that quickly flew him into the small category of only ten percent of people who survive sudden heart stopping.
The man now has made a full recovery and returned home, after the speedy delivery of a defibrillator(除颤器)—via autonomous drone(无人驾驶飞机). The company behind the drone pilot project says it’s the first time in medical history, a drone has played an important part in saving a life during a heart stopping.
He was in his driveway when the attack happened. Normally, you have about ten minutes to get help in such a situation. Luckily, a telephone call was immediately placed requesting emergency services and he lived in a region that had partnered with Everdrone’s innovative life-saving programme called EMADE (Emergency Medical Aerial Delivery service). EMADE drones delivered a defibrillator to the scene—and the amount of time from the alarm(警报) until the defibrillator was safely delivered at the doorstep of the incident address was just over three minutes.
Even luckier, a doctor happened to be driving by and stopped to see if he could help. “I was on my way to work at the local hospital when I saw a man collapsed in his driveway and I immediately rushed to help,” says Dr. Mustafa Ali. After the ambulance arrived, the patient was rushed to the hospital.
The man said, “If it wasn’t for the drone I probably wouldn’t be here.”
275,000 patients in Europe and 350,000 in the US, suffer from heart stopping annually. About 70% of heart stopping occur in private homes without defibrillators on site. The chance of survival decreases by 7%—10% with each minute following the collapse(突然倒下)—and as a result, the current survival rate among heart stopping patients is merely 10%.
1. How’s the 71-year-old Swedish man now?| A．He is much better in hospital. | B．He is very fine at home. |
| C．He still needs a defibrillator. | D．He’s made a recovery in hospital. |
| A．About 20 minutes. | B．About 10 minutes. |
| C．About 8 minutes. | D．About 4 minutes. |
| A．He was there by accident. | B．People called him for help. |
| C．He saw a drone with a defibrillator. | D．People rushed to him for help. |
| A．Most people in Europe and the US die from heart stopping. |
| B．Saving people with heart stopping quickly is important. |
| C．Most people can’t afford expensive defibrillators. |
| D．It’s necessary for every family to prepare for a defibrillator. |
10 . Jay Hewitt completed the Ironman race in under 14 hours despite having gone through 2 brain surgeries and a year of chemo (化疗). His inspiration? His 7-year-old daughter named Hero. Hewitt, 39, said he first saw an Ironman race on TV in 1989 and recalled thinking to himself “they must be superhuman”. It never crossed his mind that he could do something like that.
After his daughter’s birth in 2015, the memory of seeing that competition popped into his mind. Hewitt decided he would compete in an Ironman when she was around 10 years old to show his daughter she can do anything she sets her mind to. Then in 2018, when Hero was around three years old, Hewitt was diagnosed with terminal (晚期的) brain cancer. So, he had to start training earlier than he had planned.
“My first day of chemo therapy in August 2019 was the first day I started my Ironman training,” Hewitt said. On October 9, Hewitt started in Newport Beach’s Back Bay with a 2-mile swim. During the race, he couldn’t digest (消化) food or water, but pushed through the sickness. The stomach pain was serious. When he came around the corner to the finish line, there were hundreds of people there cheering him on.
Hewitt said seeing his daughter made everything worth it. I didn’t have much energy, but I gave my wife a kiss, handed my wife and daughter flowers and got down on my knees to say to Hero. “If I can do it, you can do it. Dream big and never give up hope.” “I got to tell her that it was really hard for me but I had thought about coming home to her, and that she had given me the strength to finish.”
1. Which of the following was regarded impossible by Hewitt before 1989?| A．He would suffer from cancer. | B．He might one day be a superman. |
| C．He would compete in an Ironman race. | D．He could become the best in an Ironman race. |
| A．Hewitt’s daughter was born. | B．Hewitt decided to train for his competition. |
| C．Hero was diagnosed with deadly brain cancer. | D．Hero learned she could do anything by herself. |
| A．It ended in failure. | B．It worsened Hewitt’s cancer. |
| C．It was hard but Hewitt made it at last. | D．It was easy because of Hewitt’s hard training. |
| A．The desire to see and inspire his daughter. | B．The determination to beat the terrible cancer. |
| C．The support of the people cheering him on. | D．The happiness of reunion with his wife. |
