1 . Schuylerville High School students have a broad range of interests, which are reflected by the number of clubs and organizations in which our pupils participate. Here are some of the most popular clubs.
Environmental Club
Open to students in grades 9-12
Advisor: Mrs. Flores
The High School Environmental Club is open to all students interest increasing environmental awareness throughout the school. Activities include: recycling, environmental competitions, volunteering with green schools and outdoor events. This run student club collects and recycles paper products throughout the school building.
Freshman Class
Open to students in grades 9-10
Advisor: Mr. winslow
The freshmen class participates in several activities throughout the year to raise money for the class account. The class officers meet once a month to discuss business that affects the entire class. All members of the freshman class are encouraged to participate in some type of community service during the year.
Literary magazine
Open to students in grades 10-12
Advisor: Mr. Sgambati
Members of the Literary Magazine collect, edit and often contribute to the body of student work. Literary Magazine meetings will also give students the opportunity to share and receive feedback on the creative pieces that they re working on, as well as the chance to learn about writing practices and strategies.
Mock Trial Team
Open to students in grades 11-12
Advisor: Mrs. Lewis
Mock Trial is an after-school activity that helps students develop useful knowledge about the law. Students play out all the roles and use general rules of evidence and fact explanations in a school court. They will work with a real lawyer and an advisor to further understand the court process.
1. At which club can you take part in the community service?| A．Environmental Club. | B．Freshman Class. |
| C．Literary Magazine. | D．Mock Trial Team. |
| A．To encourage students to be lawyers. | B．To develop students’ writing skills. |
| C．To explain all kinds of facts at school. | D．To help students learn more about laws. |
| A．A news report. | B．A school website. |
| C．A research paper. | D．A science magazine. |
2 . Annoying brother or sister may break your toys, but he or she may help you when you are in trouble. A new study suggests that younger siblings might be good for your health.
Children who didn't welcome a baby brother or sister into the family before first grade had almost three times the likelihood of obesity compared with kids who experienced the birth of a sibling when they were around 3 to 4 years old, the study found.
“It is possibly because when there is a younger sibling in the family, a child might become more active—for example, running around more with their younger sibling,” said Julie Lumeng, a public health researcher at the University of Michigan.
“Maybe families are more likely to take the kids to the park when there is a younger sibling, or maybe the child is less likely to sit, watching TV, when there is a younger sibling to ask them to join more active pretend play,” she added.
Mealtimes might also be different with a second kid at the table.Parents of only child can often focus too much on what their kid eats, which can lead to bad eating habits, some previous research suggests.
“When parents use restrictive or pressuretoeat feeding practices, children have an increased risk of being overweight,” said Jerica Berge, a researcher at the University of Minnesota.
“When a new child is introduced, parents may relax their focus on the older child's eating behaviors, making it possible for the older child to selfregulate their eating,” said Berge. “This selfregulation may lead to a healthier weight for the child with a sibling.”
For their study, Lumeng and colleagues followed 697 U．S. children from birth through age 6.However,the authors acknowledged that their study lacked objectively measured birth weights and information on events such as a divorce, a move or a job loss in the family—all of which can influence the odds of children becoming obese. For more information about this topic, please click here.
1. Compared to children with younger siblings, an only child may .| A．become overweight | B．become selfish |
| C．have a healthier lifestyle | D．get better parental care |
| A．They may refuse to play at home. | B．They may have more physical activities. |
| C．They may feel annoyed and unhappy. | D．They may spend more time with their parents. |
| A．Paying more attention to kids' eating habits. |
| B．Using some restrictive feeding practices. |
| C．Allowing kids to control their eating. |
| D．Letting the older child regulate the diet of the younger child. |
| A．On TV. | B．On the Internet. | C．On the radio. | D．In the newspaper. |
3 . As artificial intelligence(AI) systems become more advanced, we can expect them to be used more often in the world of human medicine and health care.
The Georgia Medical Union gives money to the AI project as a part of its Future Health 2025 program, the aim of which is to get great ideas from the lab to the market and support world healthcare and the aging problem.
Georgia Institute of Technology built an experimental robot called PR2 that is capable of abstracting knowledge and developing their own experience to share with other AIs. PR2 can gather information about patient’s information in a big room in hospital.
PR3 is the second robot model that can collect data.PR3 is trained on large data sets gathered from real-life cases. People are sharing more and more of their health data through apps on mobile and wearable devices.PR3 will gather and share all the data with the experimental robot.
Moving around between the PR2 and the PR3, PR4 is an AI Robot which can also be put to work in hospitals to help doctors and nurses spend more time with their patients. Moxi is a robot assistant that helps staff by completing general tasks such as delivering lab samples, collecting laundry or gathering medical supplies.
Together, the robots can make a working group, like a group of bees going about their jobs, or birds moving together as one in the sky. As they work together ,they appear to be learning themselves in the same way living things do.
One problem the researchers had in the beginning was how the robots would communicate with each other. The robot cannot exchange information without WI-FI and GPS equipment does not work with different floors. These robots can work in short distance well. The electric field the robots send out lets them sense what is near them and react to it.
The acceptance of AI in medicine will continue to gather pace in the future as it becomes more widespread.
1. What is the aim of the Future Health 2025 program?| A．To develop the experimental robot. | B．To detect health problems. |
| C．To improve new technology in medicine. | D．To collect data of the people. |
| A．It is a good assistant for doctors and nurses. | B．It can move as PR2 and PR3. |
| C．It can wash the clothes for patients. | D．It is the most advanced scientific equipment. |
| A．They unite to finish the experiment. | B．They move freely like human beings. |
| C．They depend on each other all the time. | D．They work as a team to do their individual job. |
| A．AI Becomes More Widespread | B．Future Health 2025 Program |
| C．Robots and Bees in Hospital | D．Artificial Intelligence in Medicine |
4 . On June 12,1942,Anne Frank’s parents gave her a small diary for her 13th birthday.She and her family had been living in Amsterdam for nine years after fleeing their native country in 1933.They could not escape the influence of the war sweeping across Europe.
On July 6,1942,her family was forced to go into hiding.For the next two years,Anne put down her innermost thoughts and feelings to her diary.Her reports of daily life painted a picture of a bright girl.She described her love of writing and her desire to make a career of it one day,saying,“I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people,even those I’ve never met.I want to go on living even after my death.”
She got her wish far too soon.Her diary came to an abrupt end in August of 1944,when she and others hiding in the“Secret Annex”were discovered,arrested,and sent to prison.Tragically,Anne,her sister and her mother,all died there.
Her father,Otto,the only survivor among those who hid in Annex,returned to Amsterdam after the war.He was deeply moved by his daughter’descriptions of life in Annex and her feelings about her family and other residents.He devoted the rest of his life to sharing her story with the world so that the same tragedy that happened to his family might never be repeated.Through her courage,her hope,and her unshakable faith in the goodness of people,her short life left a long legacy(遗产),touching and inspiring generation after generation of people she never met.
I would never forget visiting the Anne Frank House when I was just 23 and thought that I had already been alive eight years longer than she had been.Like millions of people moved by Anne Frank’s story,I have tried my best since then to live my life.We all would do well to remember the wisdom of a young girl who taught us that our differences make life more interesting,but our common men matter more.
1. Why did the Franks leave their native country in 1933?| A．To make a living | B．To look for equality. |
| C．To fight for their civil rights. | D．To escape the bad effect of the war. |
| A．She wants to live forever. |
| B．She wants to get her diary published. |
| C．She wants to have a good influence on people by writing. |
| D．She wants to make a fortune by writing. |
| A．13. | B．15. | C．23. | D．31. |
| A．Anne Frank has an unlucky life experience. |
| B．The writer has the same life experience as Anne. |
| C．We should try our best to make our life meaningful. |
| D．Common human beings can’t make life more meaningful. |
5 . In 2015,Gardiner and two other friends, founded an online publishing company called JKX Comics(漫画). At the time, the three were pursuing Doctor of Philosophy in different fields at the University of Wisconsin. They decided to use the easy-to-digest cartoon format and light humor to promote scientific knowledge. Their first comic book was published in 2016.The book describes how the common virus copies by telling a story about the virus going clubbing with friends inside a human cell.
“Having comics as a way of opening that door into what science is could hopefully inspire the next generation to pursue STEM(science, technology, engineering and math).”says Gardiner. And comics can make information more accessible by presenting it through both text and illustrations. In 2018,seven more scientists at UW–Madison joined the JKX Comics crew, bringing fields such as psychology, astronomy and microbiology to the table. Local artists were drafted to help illustrate the scientists’ research.
For the volunteer crew, the comics(are now offered online for free) have also given scientists a friendlier face. “We can show who the scientists are…that they are also just people,” says Gardiner, a cancer biologist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. “We’re not all geniuses with Einstein-like hair that are antisocial and just have Eureka moments all the time. And using comics is a nice way to tell their story. Their latest, Gilbert’s Glitch Switch, released March 2,sees a biochemist get involved in a video game where he has to test amino acid(氨基酸)combinations to get proteins to communicate effectively.
“There’s a lot of misinformation in our communities,” Montgomery says. “And it scares people away from science. If we could limit some of those misunderstandings when they’re kids or when their parents are reading with them, I think that would be a really good impact.”
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 1?| A．Gardiner’s book is about the virus basic structure. |
| B．Gardiner and her friends have graduated from university. |
| C．Gardiner’s book can explain scientific ideas in a simple way. |
| D．Gardiner and her friends got Doctor’s degree in the same field. |
| A．It is very complex and the pay is low. | B．It doesn’t attract any other scientist. |
| C．It contains all about science and technology. | D．It shows cooperation among scientists. |
| A．Scientists can tell stories by using comics. |
| B．Scientists are similar to Einstein in life style. |
| C．Scientists can use comics to explain their ideas. |
| D．Scientists can communicate effectively with each other. |
| A．Just so-so. | B．Positive. | C．Horrible. | D．Boring. |
6 . Many students think about how to best spend their time while studying, But what comes before study sessions can be important too-especially if you want to improve your memory of what you have learned. There are some useful, no-cost things you can do before you study to improve your memory and learning.
Before you study, doing cardiovascular exercise (有氧运动) may help you better remember what you learn. In a 2018 study, published in the journal Physiology and Behavior, researchers found that a group of young people who did 15 minutes of cardiovascular exercise remembered more words. Some studies have also shown cardiovascular exercise can help improve the memories of older people.
Location is also important for improving your learning. Some research suggests that changing where you study could help you remember more of what you study. Our memories sometimes depend on things in our environment. Researchers found that environmental context played a big part in how well people remembered words. The researchers noted that subjects who learned from a list remembered an average of 15.9 words, while subjects who learned in two different contexts remembered an average of 24.4 words.
Another way you can improve your study session is taking a pre-study test. Students often consider the test the final step to show how much they have learned. But, students need to test themselves often. Testing is one of the best ways to make yourself remember new information. In 2018, researchers found that students who took a test before learning new material did much better after studying the material. The students failed on the tests, but they were better able to remember the material than students who were only asked to read the information.
1. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?| A．To tell you doing exercise is good for health. |
| B．To introduce some good ways to deal with a test. |
| C．To teach you how to best spend time while studying. |
| D．To introduce several ways to do before study to improve your memory. |
| A．By studying in the same environment. | B．By studying in different contexts. |
| C．By reading aloud when remembering words. | D．By remembering the things in our environment. |
| A．The students who took a test after studying the material did much better. |
| B．The students failed on the tests for they didn’t take a test before leaning. |
| C．Cardiovascular exercise helps improve the memories of both the young and the old. |
| D．Young people doing cardiovascular exercise remembered more words than older people. |
| A．Entertainment. | B．Sports. | C．Business. | D．Education. |
7 . Short video applications are not only developing rapidly and successfully in China, but gaining more strength as people across various age groups and geographical locations are using them to kill time, record lives, and even make a fortune.
Douyin, the most popular short video app in the country, said on Monday that the number of daily active users on its app had risen to 400 million by January, 2020. That represented awhoppingrise from the 250 million recorded during the same period a year ago. Such an achievement is successful, considering that the app first appeared in 2016.
People of almost all ages use the app, and they double as both viewers and content creators, the company said. For instance, those in their 50s were. more keen on creating dance-related videos and enjoyed watching video clips on wedding scenes. Those born in the 1980s liked recording childhood memories with phones and watching beautiful scenery while teenagers and younger customers were keen on videos about animes (日本动漫), comics (漫画) and cute pets.
As an emotional bond, Douyin saw 1.76 million new born babies, 180,000 college entrance exams, 380,000 graduations and 7.09 million shares, of weddings as users chose to record and upload videos of these important occasions in their life onto the platform.
With flowers increasing at high seed for top influencers, businesses are also sensing marketing opportunities. This year more marketing dollars will be given to short videos for better contact with customers and the creation of interesting content, according to Maggie Wang, president of data marketing technology firm AdMaster.
“For social marketing, it has become more important to create original content,” she said. “It’s highly likely to turn clicks into cash if the contents are to viewers’ tastes.”
1. The underlined word “whopping” in Paragraph 2 most probably means “__________”.| A．gentle | B．gradual | C．popular | D．huge |
| A．Most of the people just watched video clips on Douyin. |
| B．People in their 30s liked watching beautiful scenery on Douyin. |
| C．The number of daily active users on Douyin was about 150 million in 2019. |
| D．The users preferred to upload funny videos on Douyin. |
| A．Short videos will get more financial (金融的) support this year. |
| B．All of the users of Douyin will be given money this year. |
| C．The viewers will pay for the contents that are to their tastes. |
| D．The more videos the viewers watch, the more dollars they’ll be given. |
| A．Douyin: An App for People to Record Lives. |
| B．Douyin: The Most Popular App around the World. |
| C．Short Videos Apps: Fast Becoming Popular in China. |
| D．Social Marketing: An Important Key to Business. |
8 . Something strange has been happening to me lately: Women in the street have been telling me I'm brave.
My act of courage isn't much-I just stopped coloring my hair. I had brown hair that started going gray when I was 30. So, like a lot of women, I started dyeing (染)it. It was expensive and time-consuming. And my hair grows fast, so I needed to go back to the hair salon(美发厅) every 5 weeks.
Many people seem to enjoy holding onto their youth for as long as possible, giving off the impression that they don' t have much wisdom or many accomplishments. But our hair starts to turn gray and suddenly we start spending $500 or more a year to cover something our male colleagues don’t need to cover.
Of course, People should do what they want with their own body -my mother is 91 and still has "blond" hair, and why not? I just wish more of us would feel that it was OK to be ourselves, because going gray has done more for me than saving me time and money.
I like my natural hair, just as it is. I like how it has got curly and full again. It is recovering after years of being damaged by chemicals. I also like that it has given me some needed attitude in a society that makes youth seem so important, while being against maturity. It reminds me that I'm not a kid anymore - and this isn't a bad thing. Not being a kid anymore means I read the books I want, and not the books i feel I should read. It means not wasting my time at events I don' t need to attend when I’d rather be with my family and friends.
When I see my hair in the mirror, it's a reminder that my time is limited, and I should spend it doing what matters. There's nothing shameful about growing older And pretending it's not happening is a way of giving up our power.
I see my gray hair as a little act of rebellion(反叛)against the idea that people lose value as they age, instead of gaining it. I see gray hair as my "flag" and I'm letting it fly proudly.
1. How does the author feel about coloring hair?| A．It shows people’s great courage. |
| B．It is a good way to hold onto youth. |
| C．It shows wisdom and accomplishments. |
| D．It is not worth the time and money spent on it. |
| A．Give up our power. |
| B．Pretend to be still young. |
| C．Accept it and act positively. |
| D．Read as many books as possible. |
| A．To explain why youth is valued. |
| B．To share her opinion on growing older. |
| C．To stress the importance of different attitudes. |
| D．To analyze the advantages and disadvantages of aging. |
| A．Holding Onto Youth |
| B．Dyeing Your Hair |
| C．Gaining Value With Age |
| D．Valuing Wisdom Of Age |
9 . As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.
In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.
In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder (文件夹). Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location (位置) better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory (交互记忆)”
According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn’t mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.
1. The passage begins with two questions to ________.| A．introduce the main topic | B．show the author’s attitude |
| C．describe how to use the Internet | D．explain how to store information |
| A．Sparrow’s team typed the information into a computer. |
| B．The two groups remembered the information equally well. |
| C．The first group did not try to remember the formation. |
| D．The second group did not understand the information. |
| A．keep the information in mind |
| B．change the quantity of information |
| C．organize information like a computer |
| D．remember how to find the information |
| A．We are using memory differently. |
| B．We are becoming more intelligent. |
| C．We have poorer memories than before. |
| D．We need a better way to access information. |
Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today's stars, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world's attention. Paparazzi(狗仔队) camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids(小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature!
According to psychologist Christina Villarreal, celebrities—famous people—worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way their fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. “Over time，” Villarreal says, “they feel separated and alone.”
The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century B．C., painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his soldout readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain(抱怨) about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about filmstars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.
Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modern cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their “story” alive forever.
If fame is so troublesome, why aren't all celebrities running away from it? The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place.
Sometimes a few celebrities can get a little justice. Still, even stars who enjoy full justice often complain about how hard their lives are. They are tired of being famous already.
1. It can be learned from the passage that stars today ________.
| A．are often misunderstood by the public |
| B．can no longer have their privacy protected |
| C．spend too much on their public appearance |
| D．care little about how they have come into fame |
| A．Great heroes of the past were generally admired. |
| B．The problem faced by celebrities has a long history. |
| C．Wellknown actors are usually targets of tabloids. |
| D．Works of popular writers often have a lot of readers. |
| A．Availability of modern media. |
| B．Inadequate social recognition. |
| C．Lack of favorable chances. |
| D．Huge population of fans. |
| A．Sincere. | B．Sceptical. |
| C．Disapproving. | D．Sympathetic. |
