What makes an open office unwelcome to many people?
| A．Personal privacy unprotected. |
| B．Limited working space. |
| C．Restrictions on group discussion. |
| D．Constant interruptions. |
We can learn from the passage that Danielle Steel _____.
| A．lives an exciting life | B．values her readers a lot |
| C．writes about quiet women | D．is pleased with her achievements |
3 . Theatres and Entertainment
New Theatre
The New Theatre has been the home of quality drama, musicals, dance and children’s shows for more than 100 years. Presenting the best of the West End along with the pick of the UK’s touring shows, the New Theatre is Cardiff’s oldest surviving traditional theatre. Be sure to pay a visit as part of your stay in the city.
Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3LN
www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
Which website can you visit to learn about Cardiff’s oldest surviving theatre?
| A．www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk | B．www.shermancymru.co.uk |
| C．www.glee.co.uk/cardiff | D．www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk |
4 . After taking a degree at Chichester University in Related Arts, Ginni began to travel the world, eventually getting work teaching English in Japan and Chile. And it was in Chile she discovered she could get last-minute cheap deals on ships going to Antarctica from the islands off Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of the South American mainland. “I just decided I wanted to go,” she says. “I had no idea about what I’d find there and I wasn’t nervous, I just wanted to do it. And I wanted to do it alone as I always prefer it that way.”
What made Ginni decide on the trip to Antarctica?
| A．Lovely penguins. | B．Beautiful scenery. |
| C．A discount fare. | D．A friend’s invitation. |
5 . Cuaya and her colleagues decided to use brain images from MRI scanning to shed light on her hunch. They worked with dogs of various ages that had, until the experiment, only heard their owners speak just one of the two languages, Spanish or Hungarian. Not surprisingly, getting the dogs to happily take part in the experiment took some creative coaxing and animal training! The researchers first needed to teach Kun-kun and her 17 fellow participating dogs including a labradoodle, a golden retriever and Australian shepherds, to lie still in a brain scanner. Their pet parents were always present, and they could leave the scanner at any point.
What did Cuaya consider when choosing dogs for study?
| A．Age limits. | B．Brain patterns. |
| C．Language exposure. | D．Owners' commands. |
6 . Kate Wilson, a 16-year-old girl from England, holds up a book and smiles. “This is Day One of my reading The Little Prince,” she says. Then the video jumps forward. “And now”, she sighs deeply, her face covered with tears, “I end up crying so much that I have to change my shirt”.
This is BookTok, a collection of TikTok book-related videos on the short video platform. It has been an official reading community since April 2020. Bookworms gather on the platform to share their reading experiences by editing a video carefully at the length of less than 3 minutes. They “play”, “read” and “recommend” their favorite books, or recommend treasure writers who have never been discovered. It may sound like a simplified way to talk about books, but the most appealing point is that they can visually record videos to share the feelings of reading moment, and arouse a strong emotion, which written reviews cannot express instantly. So BookTok offers book lovers special reading experiences.
It has also driven a wave of old book sales in the market. A list of bestsellers from 20 years ago has been dug out, which most readers have never heard of. In fact, many of the books like It Ends With Us should not have been forgotten. On Amazon, BookTok is so influential that it has been added into the titles of books themselves. For instance, the novel It Ends With Us: BookTok made me buy it! is now riding high in the top 100. Under its influence, old titles were returning to the bestseller charts. Therefore, BookTok is devoted to bringing these classic books back.
Eventually, a great book finds its faithful readers. Thanks to BookTok, not only can more original works be appreciated, but the authors can attach more importance to literary creation. It is BookTok that offers such books “a second lease of life”.
(以下是A种题型)
1. What is paragraph 1 mainly about?
| A．The importance of reading. | B．The influence of great books. |
| C．An example of using BookTok. | D．A story of a teenager booklover. |
| A．Users can apply editing skills. |
| B．Bookworms can gather regularly. |
| C．It can give instant book reviews visually. |
| D．Users can share reading experiences freely. |
| A．BookTok is added into their titles. |
| B．Book publishers find a new market. |
| C．They' re recommended by the treasure writers. |
| D．BookTok brings them back to people’s attention. |
| A．Classics Back to Life | B．Young People 's Favorites |
| C．A New Market for BookTok | D．A Platform for Visual Reading |
(以下是B种题型)
5. Where does Kate share her feeling of reading The Little Prince?
6. How do the bookworms share their reading experiences on BookTok?
7. What benefit does BookTok bring to the novel It Ends With Us?
8. Why do we say BookTok offers books “a second lease of life”?
7 . If you were to throw, say, a banana peel out of your car while driving along the motorway, that would be a completely harmless action, due to the fact that it’s part of a fruit—right? Actually, no. A banana peel can take up to two years to be naturally processed, and with a third of motorists admitting to littering while driving, that’s a whole lot of discarded banana peels. An orange peel and a cigarette butt has a similar biodegrading (生物降解) term to that of a banana peel, but in cans last up to 100 years; and plastic bottles last forever, as do glass bottles.
Which of the following has the longest biodegrading term?
| A．Glass bottles. | B．Tin cans. |
| C．Cigarette butts. | D．Banana peels |
8 . In the 1750s the Swedish chemist Karl Scheele was the first person to find a way to produce phosphorus. He in fact discovered eight more chemical elements including chlorine , though he didn't get any praise for them. He was a very clever scientist, but his one failing was a curious habit of tasting a little of every substance he worked with. This risky practice finally caught up with him, and in 1786 he was found dead in his laboratory surrounded by a large number of dangerous chemicals, any of which might have been responsible for his death.
What do we know about Karl Scheele according to this text?
| A．He was killed by tasting phosphorus. |
| B．He killed himself with some dangerous chemicals. |
| C．His habit of tasting chemicals might account for his death. |
| D．He got a large number of honors for discovering many chemical elements. |
9 . China Science and Technology Museum has teamed up with space experts to spark students’ interest in the final frontier by opening an experience center to share knowledge about the country’s Tiangong space station.
The museum says it hopes to help young people understand how the space station works and foster greater interest in China’s manned space program. The experience center’s first event on Monday attracted space enthusiasts of all ages. To satisfy the students’ curiosity, the museum even had a replica (复制品) of the Tiangong space station’s core module on exhibit.
“I learned that the core module of Tiangong actually has three parts. I thought it was just one,” said Lang Xujun, an eight-year-old student from Yuxin School in Beijing.
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1. Why has the museum cooperated with experts?
| A．To open an experience center in space. |
| B．To develop students’ interest in space. |
| C．To display China’s great achievements in space. |
| D．To attract more people to take part in the event. |
| A．Differently. | B．Critically. | C．Curiously. | D．Enthusiastically. |
10 . Dr. Jubilado first met the Bajau while growing up on Samal Island in the Philippines. They made a living as divers, spearfishing or harvesting shellfish. “We were so amazed that they could stay underwater much longer than us local islanders,” Dr.Jubilado said. “I could see them actually walking under the sea.”
Why was the young Jubilado astonished at the Bajau?
| A．They could walk on stilts all day. |
| B．They had a superb way of fishing. |
| C．They could stay long underwater. |
| D．They lived on both land and water. |
