1 . The Internet plays a big part in human life. We use it for work and pleasure. We use it to learn a new language. We find advice on it. We use it to connect with family and friends. We use it to stay in touch with events we care about. The list goes on and on.
Well, that train has left the station. This expression means there is no going back to an Internet-free life. But can using the Internet too much be bad for our health? It might be, researchers say. A new study finds that heavy Internet use may be connected to high blood pressure in an unlikely group: teenagers.
High blood pressure makes your heart and blood vessels work too hard. Over time, this extra pressure increases your risk of a heart attack. High blood pressure can also cause heart and kidney disease. It is also closely linked to a brain disease.
The Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan did the study. 335 young people, from 14 to 17 years old , took part in it. 134 of the teens were described as “heavy Internet users.” And researchers found that out of these 134 teens,26 had high blood pressure. The researchers say the study is the first to connect heavy web use with high blood pressure. Other research has connected heavy Internet use with anxiety, depression and obesity.
The lead researcher is Andrea Cassidy Bushrow. She said, “Using the Internet is part of our daily life, but it shouldn’t ruin us.” Ms. Cassidy Bushrow adds that it is important for teens to take regular breaks from their computers or smartphones and do some kind of physical activity. She also suggests that parents limit their children’s use of the Internet to two hours a day, five days a week.
1. The expression “that train has left the station” in Para. 2 is used to show________.| A．the Internet develops rapidly | B．no one can escape from the Internet |
| C．the Internet can provide whatever we want | D．there is no going back to an Internet free life |
| A．Causes of high blood pressure. | B．The harm of high blood pressure. |
| C．The disadvantages of Internet use. | D．Ways to prevent high blood pressure. |
| A．teenagers shouldn’t use the Internet |
| B．the Internet will ruin human life in the future |
| C．smartphones are more harmful than computers |
| D．regular breaks are necessary when using the Internet |
| A．Heavy Internet users are mostly teenagers | B．How to prevent teenagers from the Internet |
| C．Too much Internet use may be bad for teenagers | D．Every coin has two sides—so does the Internet |
2 . We think of kids playing video games as being in a sort of loneliness, locked in their darkened bedrooms. In truth, they are usually communicating with other gamers, via audio or text, about the action on the screen. And sometimes the chatter shifts from the world of fantasy to real life.
That’s what happened to 14-year-old Reilly Howard from East Hampton, Connecticut last October. While playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, he noticed that an online friend, a-13-year-old from Florida, was not his normal self. Reilly’s sixth sense was confirmed when the friend messaged him, “Yo, we need to talk.” Reilly immediately called him.
“He starts to open up about what’s going on in his life: ‘I have nothing to live for; I’m going to kill myself.’ Reilly told nbcconnecucut.com. He couldn’t even talk, he was crying so much.” Unable to verbally convey his sufferings, his friend typed out, “Tonight is going to be the night.”
Suicide is a lot to throw at a high school kid, but Reilly, a sophomore(二年级学生)at the time, resolved to stay on the line for as long as he was needed. “I knew he didn’t want to be alone, and I didn’t want him to go.” he told WFSB. “He’s my friend. I didn’t want him to die.”
For two hours, Reilly said everything he could think of to persuade his friend to embrace life. “I just kept comforting him. You’ve got a lot to live for.” says Reilly. “I said, I’ll see you tomorrow, I’m going to be playing with you tomorrow. You promise, nothing is going to happen tonight.”
About that time, Reilly’s parents came home from dinner. He filled them in, and they contacted Florida police, who tracked down the boy.
The troubled teen is doing well now, thanks to a good friend—one he’d never met in person—who was willing to put down the keyboard and lend an ear. Says Reilly’s mother, Sheila Reilly, “You just have to show up and talk to people. And listen.”
1. What do people usually think of kids who are playing video games according to Paragraph 1?| A．They are warmhearted, ready to lend an ear to others. |
| B．They are lonely, always immersed (沉迷；陷入) in their games. |
| C．They never communicate with anyone when playing video games. |
| D．They are not interested in study and get on badly with parents. |
| A．Suicide is a tough problem for a high school kid to deal with. |
| B．Suicide is common among high school kids. |
| C．Suicide is a problem a high school kid has to throw away. |
| D．Suicide is a problem a high school kid has to live with. |
| A．Reilly didn’t notice his online friend behaved in a strange way until his friend messaged him. |
| B．Reilly’s mother rang up the police but the police refused to offer help. |
| C．Reilly never met his friend in person although they both were familiar online. |
| D．Reilly was informed of the reason why his friend wants to commit a suicide. |
| A．Listening to others has many benefits. |
| B．A good relationship with others is important. |
| C．A teen saves another teen’s life online. |
| D．Good communication skill can helps save a life. |
3 . At the 4th Street Photo Gallery on the comer of the Bowery, many photos are strung together like clothes on a laundry line. There are portraits of Muhammad Ali and Jean-Michel Basquiat, plus a series of cityscapes detailedly captured over 60 years by Alex Harsley, a neglected but talented New York photographer.
The city has been Mr Harsley’s home since 1948, when, aged ten, he moved there from South Carolina. He took his first photograph ten years later, and became the first black photographer to work for the city’s district attorney’s office. His vivid pictures freeze moments in New York’s evolution from the 1950s to the present. “It could start with the smell of something burning.” he says of his method. “And then you see a family sitting on the steps of a funeral home sadly looking at the firemen going through their routine.”
Some of the scenes in the collection were captured from the window of his old apartment in Harlem; they include images of black activists, streets submerged in snow and shots of the Crown Heights riots of 1991. A.D. Coleman, a photography critic, says Mr. Harsley has been able to capture the lives of minority groups by making himself “invisible”. His aim has been to assemble these fragments (片段) into an extended history of the city.
Mr. Harsley’s gallery is a time capsule. For decades, it is also a hub for the city’s artistic underworld. In the 1970s New York’s photography scene was flourishing, but exclusive. As Mr. Harsley puts it, “a number of great artists were swept aside” because they lacked connections. Helping talent became part of his mission. In 1971 he established The Minority Photographers, an organization that helps up-and-coming artists exhibit their work. He opened his gallery two years later; many photographers have had their first shows there.
1. How does the author describe Alex Harsley in the first paragraph?| A．Undervalued but expert. | B．Gifted but exclusive. |
| C．Unknown but devoted. | D．Gifted but awkward. |
| A．His pictures show freezing weather in New York from the 1950s to the present. |
| B．His pictures capture the cheerful moments in New York since the 1950s. |
| C．His pictures record some historic occasions of New York over the past decades. |
| D．His pictures illustrate the vivid lives of minority groups in New York over the past decades. |
| A．To assemble the minority groups of the city. |
| B．To highlight the lives of minority groups. |
| C．To help promising artists attract more public attention. |
| D．To build connections between the minority groups and himself. |
| A．He excluded those who looked down upon the unknown artists. |
| B．He set an organization displaying their works. |
| C．He established the connections between up-and-coming artists and famous ones. |
| D．He reduced the rents of the gallery where their photography works were shown. |
4 . We live in a world where it's often not easy to find someone to trust. A smiling person always inspires trust. Even economists consider that smiles are valuable.A smile may increase other people's trust by about 10%.
People may also smile when they are caught doing bad things.According to a study made by LaFrance and Hecht，this can in fact be to their own advantage.We have a tendency to be kinder towards those who make mistakes if they wear a smile while being caught.Even a guilty smile may help you get away pretty easily when you make mistakes.
We may also smile when we hear a piece of good news.In this case，women tend to smile more often than men.Smiling can also be a means of reducing the pain caused by a troubling situation.Even if we force ourselves to smile when we don't want to，this may be enough to lift our spirits just a little bit.
When we feel angry or anxious，our attention tends to narrow down.We can no longer see what's going on around us and we can only notice what is in front of us.But if we smile，we feel better and increase flexibility of our attention and the ability to think.Smiling can help us focus and understand better.
“Keep on smiling，and the world will smile with you.”One of the greatest social pleasure is to smile and be smiled to in return，especially because this comes like a natural thing.
People who smile often live longer.A study based on some pictures taken of some baseball players suggested that those who used to smile a lot survived about 7 years longer than those who did not smile very often.
1. The passage mainly talks about .| A．the benefits of smiling |
| B．the occasions when you smile |
| C．the ways of smiling |
| D．the reasons why people smile |
| A．admit their mistakes |
| B．show they are excited |
| C．avoid blame or punishment |
| D．prove they are kind |
| A．men seldom smile at a piece of good news |
| B．smiles can be helpful whatever the situation is |
| C．we should force ourselves to smile whenever it is |
| D．in general，men are more likely to smile than women |
| A．if we smile, it is hard to be smiled to |
| B．if we smile, others will smile to us in return |
| C．if we want to smile, the world will smile to us in time |
| D．if we smile sometimes, we will make the world full of smiles |
5 . No one can believe that the Great Wall might disappear some day. Believe it or not, the Great Wall is being destroyed by people. Less than 20 percent of the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty is still perfect, but about 80 percent is in danger. The Great Wall can be called “great” mostly because of its amazing length. But we should realize that the length was made up of one brick at a time. If we do nothing to save the Great Wall, it will become a series of separate wasteland rather than a historic site.
The Great Wall is actually a series of walls built and rebuilt by different dynasties over the past 2,000 years. It began in the rule of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang of the Qin Dynasty, and lasted into the Ming Dynasty. The parts built before the Ming Dynasty have nearly disappeared. People are familiar with sections such as Badaling in Beijing and Jiayuguan in Gansu because they have been open to tourists for many years. But those sections far away from the public eyes have been almost forgotten.
Few local people knew the 3metrehigh walls made of earth and stones beside them are part of the Great Wall. The lack of knowledge is considered as one of the main reasons.
The bricks on the Great Wall were carried off by local countryside people to build their houses, sheep corrals (畜栏) and pigsties (猪圈). Some were taken away to build roads. Bricks carved with people’s names are put away as remembrance (纪念). Rubbish is spread over the battlements (城垛). The bricks can be sold for 15 yuan per tractor load. Those who destroyed and are destroying the Great Wall know its name, but are not clear about its cultural meaning. It will take a long time to let them know this. The local farmers not only carried off the body of the Great Wall but dug out the entire base.
It is necessary to preserve the Great Wall. The officials should be aware of the importance of the Great Wall. Young Chinese should know more about the nation’s great civilization and learn to love it.
1. The underlined part in Paragraph 2 refers to the parts of the Great Wall ________.| A．that are too difficult to understand |
| B．that nobody can watch |
| C．that are not well known to the public |
| D．that are too far to be seen |
| A．The local people are short of cultural knowledge. |
| B．The local people need bricks and stones to build houses. |
| C．The local people think the Great Wall is not important. |
| D．The bricks of the Great Wall can be sold for money. |
| A．It is useless from now on. |
| B．It will be replaced by a new one. |
| C．Some parts of it are being destroyed. |
| D．It's too old to be used once again. |
6 . What makes one a great person? The legendary volleyball coach Lang Ping gave the answer in the recent documentary The Iron Hammer, titled after her nickname for her powerful strikes.
The documentary features Lang' s inspiring journey from her gold medal victory as a volleyball player in the 1984 Olympics to her unparalleled(无可比拟的）career as a successful coach for both Team USA from 2005 to 2008 and China since 2013.She led the US to a silver medal finish and China to a gold medal triumph in the 2008 and 2016 Olympic Games, making her the first person to win Olympic volleyball gold as a player and coach.
Lang Ping revealed the secret to such remarkable achievements in the documentary. “I believe volleyball was my destiny," she said.
But glory and challenges go hand in hand. Troubled by severe injuries to her cervical vertebra(颈椎），back, waist and knees, caused by intense exercise and hard work, the 60-year-old has undergone more than 10 surgeries. “No parts of my body function well," she joked.
But illness is certainly not the only difficulty Lang has faced throughout her career. In 2005, she struggled with balancing raising her daughter Lydia Bai Lang, who lived in the US, and her coaching career, according to China Sports Daily. She eventually decided to work for USA Volleyball that year and this decision aroused a lot of negative comments back in China.
“I'm proud of being Chinese.” Lang responded in an interview.Later,she returned to head the Chinese women 's volleyball team in 2013, leading the team successfully defending its World Cup crown with a perfect record of 11 straight wins last year.
There is no doubt that Lang is one of the greatest players and coaches in history. As an athlete commented in the documentary, “Lang Ping is like Michael Jordan in our minds.”
1. What does this passage mainly talk about?| A．Ways to become a great person. |
| B．Reasons for Lang Ping's success. |
| C．Lang Ping and her successful career. |
| D．Great athletes and their achievements. |
| A．To make a big fortune. |
| B．To take care of her family. |
| C．To avoid negative comments. |
| D．To establish her reputation abroad. |
| A．Success comes at a price. |
| B．Challenges are as important as glory. |
| C．Athletes are likely to get their hands injured. |
| D．Lang Ping has trouble in achieving her goals. |
| A．To honor the legendary pop star. |
| B．To draw the attention of readers to another field. |
| C．To illustrate there are lots of great people in the world. |
| D．To acknowledge Lang Ping's status and achievements. |
7 . The UN Environment Programme says that raising temperatures could mean the end of some migrating (迁徙) animals.
Migrating animals move through several environments as they travel away from the cold area into winter to warmer ones. Birds may fly from one part of the world to another, perhaps stopping at feeding grounds on the way. Whales and turtles travel through huge areas of ocean. A report says that changes in any one of the places where these animals stay can cause serious problems. “Obviously these animals have developed their traveling ways over thousands of years. But weather changes much greater over the next 25 to 50 years. And it is impossible for these animals to change their habits fast enough,” said the report writer Dr. Robert Hepworth.
Turtles are hit hardest by rising temperatures. Scientists have found that at higher temperatures, Turtles have far more female eggs than male ones. In parts of Malaysia, Turtles are only giving birth to female babies. And some turtles are more probable to develop cancer as the waters get warmer.
With birds, the main problem is the harm to important areas at the end of their travels or at resting places along the way. About one-fifth of immigration birds are now in danger because of these changes, including rising sea levels, land loss and more strong storms.
Some other animals are now in great danger. For example , the North Atlantic Right Whale is losing their food because of the changing ocean flows; The White-Nose Dolphin is out-competed (淘汰) by other kinds in warmer waters.
The report is not all bad news. Even with the temperature changing, protecting the environment can still help migrating animals return. "We need governments to start taking action all over the world. The clock is ticking. We should make full use of every minute. " said Dr. Hepworth. And now some projects are already working! Whales are changing their feeding habits , finding new feeding grounds and new foods to eat.
1. Why does this raising temperature mean the end of some migrating animals?| A．They stop moving through several environments. |
| B．They can't suit the changes during their travelling. |
| C．Their travelling habits will be changed fast enough. |
| D．They keep flying from one part of the world to another. |
| A．The North Atlantic Right Whale may find new food. |
| B．Some turtles may develop cancer with the warm waters. |
| C．1/5 of migrating birds change their feeding habits. |
| D．The White-Nosed Dolphin may have only female babies. |
| A．It takes time to achieve the project. |
| B．It may be too late to save the world. |
| C．It's time to solve the problems at once. |
| D．It's important to stop animals from returning. |
| A．Ways to prevent world warming. |
| B．Steps to save the animals in danger. |
| C．Animals' competition with others for food. |
| D．Effect of rising temperatures on migrating animals. |
8 . We’ve all seen them. They were the unfamiliar and often socially awkward kids. “Who are they?” we all whispered. When we asked our parents about these kids, they replied in that slightly high-nosed tone, “Oh, they’re homeschooled.”
Despite the disgrace which still surrounds homeschooling, parents who choose this form of education are finally getting their benefits. Since 1999, the number of parents who choose to homeschool their children has grown by 75%. And although the number of children in a homeschooling environment still only account for only 4% of the total number of school-going youth, the number of parents choosing to give up “traditional” public education is growing seven times faster than the rate of children being enrolled in public schools each year.
For those who argue that these numbers do not justify the effectiveness of a homeschooled education, we might instead look to the statistics. The typical homeschooled child scores in the 65th to 89th percentile on standardized testing, while the average child in a public school environment scores somewhere around the 50th percentile. Further, homeschooled children have been shown to score consistently higher on the ACT and go on to earn higher GPAs as college students. Homeschooled children have even been shown to achieve four year degrees at much higher rates than students from public school and private schools.
The benefits don’t stop there. Whereas the average total expenditures for a child in public school is near $10,000 a year, those for the homeschooled child average is somewhere between $500 and $600 a year. So not only does homeschooling provide educational benefits, but it provides financial payoffs as well.
But what about socialization? Homeschooled children are considered by many to lack basic social skills, supporters of homeschooling claim this is not true. The National Home Education Research Institute claims that homeschooled children have actually shown to become more socially engaged individuals than their peers, showing “healthy social, psychological, and emotional development, and success into adulthood.”
So what might the future bring? Will more parents opt for homeschooling than public schooling? And what can be done to stop the apparent downfalls in public schooling?
1. The underlined words “Oh, they’re homeschooled” in Para. 1 suggests that parents__________.| A．are proud of their own children | B．respect homeschooled kids |
| C．don’t accept socially awkward kids | D．have a low opinion on homeschooling |
| A．is worrying | B．is on the rise |
| C．remains consistent | D．is going downward |
| A．homeschooled kids do better |
| B．public school education is more effective |
| C．homeschooled children earn higher GPS at college |
| D．public school children score in the 50th percentile |
| A．critical | B．negative | C．supportive | D．neutral |
9 . Ever since Zion Williamson was 5 years old, he wanted to be a basketball star. But to get there, he needed a lot of encouragement and coaching along the way, and there was no one that better than his mother, Sharonda Sampson. She coached Zion in every youth basketball league he ever played. Sampson was a collegiate track star and later became a middle school health and physical education teacher.
He has got up at 5:30 a.m. to head to the outdoor court and play basketball since he was 9 years old. Zion's hard work began to pay off when he entered high school, where he became a YouTube hit for his high-flying dunks （灌篮）and powerful moves. But Sampson wanted her son to not only work hard at being great but study how the legends of the game went about their skills.
“When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch — Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan,” Williamson said. “Even though I wasn't alive when he （Jordan） was doing those things, it just attracted me. Everything he did was just incredible.”
The national spotlight shined on Zion during his one year of collegiate basketball at Duke University, where he was coached by five-time national champion Mike Krzyzewski. The most storied rivalry in the collegiate game is between Duke and North Carolina, where Jordan won a national championship back in the 1980s.
Shortly after his freshman season, Zion declared for the NBA Draft. Sampson was by her son's side when he was chosen by the Pelicans as the top player. “I wouldn't be here without my mom” said Zion with tears streaming down his face after his selection.
Zion was brilliant in the first 19 games of his regular-season NBA career, averaging over 23 points and six rebounds per game, before the coronavirus （冠状病毒）crisis forced the league to shut down. The 19-year-old Zion says he's been staying fit and will be ready to go when the league resumes.
1. What do we know about Zion from the first two paragraphs?| A．He was trained mainly by his mother. |
| B．He dreamed of being a basketball star at 9. |
| C．He was famous for his mother at YouTube. |
| D．He coached his mother in basketball leagues. |
| A．She wanted to make Zion beat them one day. |
| B．She expected Zion to learn much from them. |
| C．She required Zion to join their basketball teams. |
| D．She wished Zion to like the same players as she. |
| A．He would join the NBA with his mom |
| B．He would stand beside his mother firmly. |
| C．His success related to what his mom did. |
| D．He followed her wherever his mother went. |
| A．To encourage people to learn from Zion. |
| B．To explain why Zion likes playing basketball. |
| C．To prove Zion has a gift for playing basketball. |
| D．To introduce an NBA basketball player. |
10 . Shakespeare, more perhaps than any other writer, made full use of the greatest resources of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twentyfive thousand! There is probably no better way for a foreigner to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort, even though some aspects of English usage and the meaning of many words have changed since Shakespeare’s day.
However, it is surprising that we should know comparatively little about the life of the greatest English author. We know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, and that he died there in 1616. He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town, but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was married there in 1582 to Anne Hathaway and that he had three children. We know that he spent much of his life in London writing his masterpieces. But this is almost all that we do know.
However, what is important about Shakespeare’s life is not its details but the products, the plays and the poems. For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare’s life to the small number we already possess and for an equally long time critics have been theorizing about the plays. Sometimes, indeed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappear under the great mass of comment that has been written upon it.
Fortunately, this is not likely to happen. Shakespeare’s people have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and critics and all their works have been forgotten.
1. What’s Para.1 mainly about?| A．The great varieties in writing styles. |
| B．The great length of Shakespeare’s works. |
| C．The richness of the content in Shakespeare’s works. |
| D．The rich English language used by Shakespeare in his works. |
| A．His date of birth. | B．His marriage. |
| C．His life in the Grammar School. | D．His date of death. |
| A．People can’t see the poetry of Shakespeare any more. |
| B．The comment is printed on the poetry of Shakespeare. |
| C．People don’t think the poetry of Shakespeare good any more. |
| D．Some people pay more attention to the comment than to Shakespeare’s poetry. |
| A．the characters in Shakespeare’s works | B．the people whose native language is English |
| C．the people living in Shakespeare’s day | D．the readers of Shakespeare’s works |
