1 . 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. |
2 . Beer Worth Traveling For
One could give to beer the higher status of a universal human truth. Think Irish Guinness or Japanese Sapporo, each culture has a beer all its own. But in recent years, smaller, more local craft breweries (啤酒厂) have been on the rise, necessitating globe-trotting to gain a taste of the regional takes on the classics.
From well-established breweries in South Africa and California, to the growing markets in Southeast Asia, craft beer is worth travelling for.
Szot Brewery
Talagante, Chile
A Californian and Chilean husband-and-wife team established this brewery outside Santiago in 2016. ......
The Dancing Camel Brewery
Tel Aviv, Israel
Located in a converted grain storage facility dating from the 1930s and established in 2005, Dancing Camel is Israel’s oldest microbrewery. ......
Young Master Brewery
Hong Kong SAR, China
As one of the first craft breweries in Hong Kong, Young Master Ales has been a hot spot since 2013. In addition to......
Young Henrys Brewery
Sydney, Australia
In the heart of the city, this brewery is all about the community, including reducing its environmental impact.......
Where does the text probably come from?| A．A travel guidebook. |
| B．A science magazine. |
| C．A biology textbook. |
| D．A wine advertisement. |
3 . 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. |
4 . 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. |
5 . 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. |
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“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. |
8 . 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. |
9 . But, it doesn’t have to be all bad news. “One major motivation in studying the link between climate change and human-wildlife conflicts is finding solutions,” said Abrahms. “As we learn about specific incidents, we can identify patterns and tends-and come up with interventions(干预) to try to address these conflicts.”
Some interventions maybe as simple as public-awareness campaigns. Governments can also plan forties when extreme climate events will bring people and wild if e into closer contact. “Once you know the root causes of a conflict, you can design interventions to help both people and wildlife,” said Abrahms. “We can change.”
What does Abrahms think of interventions?| A．They are too simple. | B．They are out-of-date. |
| C．They are changeable. | D．They are beneficial. |
10 . It’s mid-afternoon. You’re full from lunch. The day is warm. You’re starting to feel sleepy. Should you give in to the comfort of a nap (打盹)? In point of advantage, it is worth it. Though there is some disagreement as to whether napping benefits everyone, research suggests naps can boost at least some people’s mental process of understanding in the short term.
Several studies find that a well-timed nap can provide a short-term boost in brainpower. For example, scientists reviewed past research that focused on healthy participants with regular sleep cycles. That review, published in 2009 in the Journal of Sleep Research, shows that napping improves factors ranging from reaction time to alertness (警觉) to memory performance.
“A brief nap can also inspire people with creativity,” a 2021 study in Science Advances found. In that research, participants were given math problems that could be solved with an easy short cut that they weren’t told about. Some participants were encouraged to take a brief nap before tackling the problems. The researchers found those who napped-and spent even just 30 seconds in the first, lightest phase of sleep — were 2.7 times more likely to figure out the short cut than those who stayed awake. But entering a deeper sleep phase had a negative effect on this creative insight. In other words, there may be a “sweet spot” of mental relaxation that clears the way for moments of inspiration.
“Timing your naps right can reduce sleep inertia (睡眠惯性),” says Natalie Dautovich, a psychologist at Virginia Commonwealth University. “A 20-minute nap is recharging and 60 to 90 minutes of sleep can be even more restorative. The nap to avoid is the one lasting more than 20 minutes and less than 60 minutes, which is most likely to lead to sleep inertia.”
“The short-term benefits of naps are well established, but pinning down the relationship between naps and any specific health outcomes, long-term effects of napping, is not always simple. For example, greater daytime sleepiness is symptomatic of many health conditions, and therefore napping may not necessarily be the cause of these conditions but rather a consequence,” says Victoria Garfield, a professor of University College London.
What will the author probably talk about next?| A．The reasons for unhealthy physical conditions. |
| B．The ways to set the appropriate time of napping. |
| C．The association between nap and health conditions. |
| D．The means to get into the habit of long-term napping. |
