1. Where does the conversation take place?
| A．At a restaurant. | B．In a hospital. | C．Over the phone. |
| A．The prices of dishes. |
| B．The open area for customers. |
| C．The opening hours. |
| A．To limit customers’ contact. |
| B．To save customers’ time. |
| C．To touch less food. |
| A．Chicken. | B．Seafood. | C．Beef. |
1. 检测的时间和地点；（明天，星期天上午5点到12点；学校操场）
2. 检测的原因；
3. 检测温馨提示、注意事项等。
参考词汇：新冠肺炎COVID-19；核酸检测a whole-resident nucleic acid testing
检测码 passport；居民resident
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡相应位置作答。
Dear everyone,
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Best wishes,
Li Hua
1. When was the hospital mentioned in the speech completed?
| A．On January 23rd. | B．On March 3rd. | C．On February 2nd. |
| A．The 5G network can download movies within minutes. |
| B．The Tianhe-1 supercomputer has a 60-percent increase in its processing speed. |
| C．The new generation maglev train can reach a top speed of 160 km per hour. |
| A．4. | B．5. | C．3. |
| A．China’s long history. | B．China speed. | C．China’s story. |
4 .
Who do you count as your friends? From our best friend forever to a work mate, it’s good to have someone to chat with or offer comfort and support. But when it comes to friendship, is it more important to have quantity or quality?
The recent isolation we have experienced due to the coronavirus pandemic(冠状病毒流行病) has made some of us question our friendships. We’ve fallen out of touch with friends and acquaintances(熟人), and it may feel awkward, but do we actually have to reawaken every relationship we once had? It might be time to think about who you kept in touch with, who you missed talking to, and who you didn’t. In short, maybe it’s time to reset your list of real mates.
There’s no duty to stay friends, and writing for BBC Worklife, Bryan Lufkin says: “While people have known for years that friendships are unquestionably good for your health, experts say it’s only natural for acquaintances and even friends to lose contact with each other as time goes on – and it’s nothing to feel guilty about.”
Of course, it can be hard to choose who’s in your friendship circle. This is what Suzanne Degges-White, professor at Northern Illinois University, calls our ‘friendscape(朋友圈)’. She says, “in life, as we go through certain stages and ages, our attention changes, and we want to be around people who are like us.”
So, changing friends is normal, but we still need those special friends who’ve known us long term. These are friendships we spend time on. According to Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford, these are your inner circle of friends — your “shoulders to cry on” — and you have to see them at least once a week to keep them. He adds the friends that do keep at a distance are mostly “friendships of convenience”. But the advice for maintaining a good friendship is to share how you feel with someone you trust — this can help strengthen your friendship as well as giving you both a chance to support each other.
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?| A．It was awkward to fall out of touch with friends. |
| B．People need to rethink who are their real friends. |
| C．The coronavirus made people question friendships. |
| D．It is necessary to reawaken all the lost relationships. |
| A．Positive. | B．Negative. | C．Unclear. | D．Indifferent. |
| A．Try to stay friends whenever we like. |
| B．Regain every friendship we once owned. |
| C．Share how we feel with our trusted friends. |
| D．Feel guilty when losing contact with others. |
| A．A friend is a second self. |
| B．Is there a friend for life? |
| C．A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
| D．Need a friend keep a certain distance? |
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7 . If you have a high temperature or are recovering from heart surgery, it is difficult to be fully focused at work. Sick days are meant to prevent people from hurting themselves, their co-workers, or customers on the job. However, working from home has changed this logic.
The work-from-home revolution has raised the bar for what counts as being sick. At the height of the pandemic people worked from home even with serious symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath or nausea. Many still do. Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University has been tracking work- from-home habits since before the Covid-19 popularized them. In a recent working paper, he presents the results of a randomized controlled trial at a large multinational company, where sick days fell by 12% for employees working from home two days a week relative to those coming in full time.
To be in bed not doing anything means discomfort both physically and mentally. Salaried workers, who are often evaluated on the basis of their attendance, find it hard to call in sick for a few days now that they don’t need to worry about spreading germs in the office. For high-achievers, putting in the hours is not a chore but a way of life. As the economic recession (萧条) puts future job security into question, showing yourself to be useful becomes even more important.
Though all this is understandable, it is also troubling. Being even mildly sick can impair brain function. It is difficult to exercise proper judgment if one cannot focus on the task at hand. It is why people with lower oxygen concentration sometimes remove protective clothes atop Mount Everest; some freeze to death. Firing off emails while feeling dizzy will put the body under further stress. Soldiering on (硬挺) may make the employee both sicker and less productive for longer. Digital presenteeism (超时工作), for that is what such persisting amounts to, is in no one’s interest.
1. How has the work-from-home revolution affected employees?| A．It has heightened their enthusiasm. |
| B．It has made it harder to ask for sick leave. |
| C．It has popularized relevant studies. |
| D．It has improved their welfare. |
| A．Whether to take a sick or not is a random choice. |
| B．The Covid-19 has popularized work-from-home habits. |
| C．Those who work full time in office tend to get more sick leave. |
| D．Work-from-home habits mostly happen in big companies. |
| A．Endangering their current jobs. |
| B．Bringing germs to the office. |
| C．Failing to be high-achievers. |
| D．Feeling uncomfortable in bed. |
| A．The importance of staying healthy. |
| B．The future of flexible working habit. |
| C．The proper attitude towards taking a sick leave. |
| D．The benefits of working from home. |
8 . It has happened to us all: sitting on the sofa, toying with the idea of sending an old friend an unexpected text, but worrying that a message out of the blue may seem unusual or just unwelcome.
However, research suggests such fears are unfounded, with those on the receiving end often far more grateful than the sender may expect.
Dr Peggy Liu, the lead author of the research said the team began their research because they felt a lot of people were losing touch with each other. “We wondered why that might be,” she said.
Liu and her colleagues conducted a series of experiments, based on hypothetical (虚构的) and real-life plots, involving more than 5,900 participants. In one experiment, 54 participants wrote a note to a fellow college student they hadn’t been in touch for a while. This note was emailed to the latter by the researchers, who asked both the writer and recipient to indicate how much they felt the message was appreciated.
The results show that on average senders rated recipients’ (接收者) appreciation at 5.57 on a seven-point scale, while the recipients themselves rated their appreciation at 6.17. The team said this and other experiments revealed that people receiving messages appreciate them significantly more than the sender tends to expect.
But Liu said questions remained. “While we show that people typically underestimate how much others appreciate being reached out to, it remains an outstanding question how we can actually motivate people to reach out to others more,” she said. “That’s what we’re going to do next.”
Stephen Reicher, a professor of social psychology at the University of St Andrews, said the results made sense. “If the pandemic (疫情爆发) has taught us anything, it is that we have a pandemic of loneliness causing massive harm and we need to address it urgently as a matter of public health,” “Feeling connected to others has consistently been shown to be good for our physical and mental health. Such connections can be remarkably effective in everything from protecting against depression to recovery from heart attacks,” he said, adding that simply feeling part of a group was equally effective.
1. What does Liu’s research want to find out?| A．How people are overcoming fears of contacting friends. |
| B．Why people are getting disconnected with each other. |
| C．When people can send texts to rebuild an old friendship. |
| D．Whether people should send friends an unexpected text. |
| A．Its design. | B．Its impact. | C．Its process. | D．Its theory. |
| A．Find ways to connect people. |
| B．Increase trust between people. |
| C．Shape people’s perception of friends. |
| D．Call on people to appreciate friendship. |
| A．The pandemic is to blame for mental illness. |
| B．Reaching out to others is beneficial to health. |
| C．Joining a group is preferable to getting connected. |
| D．The authorities should address loneliness urgently. |
9 . There have been few positives during the Covid pandemic but British academics may have spotted one: People look more attractive in protective masks.
Researchers at Cardiff University were surprised to find that both men and women were judged to look better with a face mask covering the lower half of their faces. They also discovered that a face covered with a disposable-type surgical mask (一次性外科罩) was likely to be considered the most attractive, which may be a blow for producers of fashionable coverings and the environment.
Dr Michael Lewis, a reader from Cardiff University’s school of psychology, said research before the pandemic had found that medical face masks reduced attractiveness because they were associated with illness.
“We wanted to test whether this had changed since face coverings became popular,” he said.
“Our study suggests faces are considered most attractive when covered by medical face masks. This may be because we’re used to healthcare workers wearing blue masks and now we associate these with people in caring or medical professions. At a time when we feel weak, we may find the wearing of medical masks secure and so feel more positive towards the wearer.”
The first part of the research was carried out in February 2021 by which time the British population had become used to wearing masks in some places. Forty-three women were asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 --the attractiveness of images of male faces without a mask, wearing a plain cloth mask, a blue medical face mask, and holding a plain black book covering the area a face mask would hide.
The participants said those wearing a cloth mask were much more attractive than the ones with no masks or whose faces were partly covered by the book. But the surgical mask- which was just a normal, disposable kind-made the wearer look even better. Lewis said it was also possible that masks made people more attractive because they directed attention to the eyes. He said other studies had found that covering the left or right half of a face also made people look more attractive, partly because the brain fills in the missing gaps and beautify the overall effect.
The results of the first study has been published in the journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. A second study has been carried out, in which a group of men look at women in masks; it has yet to be published but Lewis said the results were probably the same.
1. Why were protective masks not welcome before the pandemic?| A．Because it reminded others of diseases. |
| B．Because the masks wore uncomfortably. |
| C．Because only doctors had the right to wear them. |
| D．Because some wearers couldn’t take a smooth breath. |
| A．Those with cloth masks. | B．Those with surgical masks. |
| C．Those without any covering. | D．Those with “book” masks. |
| A．Those wearing masks may look more like doctors. |
| B．Viewers focus more on eyes when judging a person. |
| C．People like to imagine what a covered face look like. |
| D．It’s recognized that masks can hide facial imperfections. |
| A．A book on biology. | B．A medicine magazine. |
| C．A newspaper. | D．A guidebook. |
10 . I’ve spent a long time thinking about one of the lessons life has to offer uncertainty. I often hear,“ Nothing could have prepared us for this pandemic.” While it came as a surprise, some of us have had to deal with times of great uncertainty before.
This was the case for my family when my father began falling over. We would blame the ice. Then just the road.“ Who makes these things so high?” we wondered. Then, he slowed. He began to drag his feet.“ Well,” we said,“ he’s getting older.”
When his speech became worse, it became harder to explain. When did he last see a doctor anyway? We searched the Internet as he worsened—because we felt real medical attention was not required.
Uncertainty.
It’ s uncomfortable. It makes your stomach tighten. If you don’ t fight it, it will seep through (渗入)your body, lighting your brain up with anxiety. When a neurologist(神经病学家) explained the problem, it wasn’t what we wanted to hear. Instead, we opened a Pandora’ s box of even more unknowns.
When we found out he had AIS (肌肉萎缩性侧面硬化病)the uncertainty became a burden. He was losing control of his muscles, his speech, ability to swallow—and we were paralyzed on how to prepare.
ALS is cruel. It traps you in your body. When the future looks so dark, you have to take comfort in the tiniest pleasures. I wish I’d done more. But I was new to uncertainty. I’d never experienced such a lack of control. I was focused on solving problem that couldn’t be solved.
I worried about how my father would get worse. I read everything I could to try and help his situation, but there was nothing I could do. But my dad didn’t live long enough for me to prepare for his condition to get worse. Life doesn’t go according to plan and there is a difference between preparation and worry.
As we battle global uncertainty, it is teaching us the same lesson. A lesson about humility (谦卑) . About the fact that you cannot save something you love alone. If COVID -19 is disturbing everyone, we should consider what we can learn. These lessons are hard, teaching us to hold on to what matters and how to let go.
1. Why is the pandemic mentioned in the beginning ?| A．To explain its impact on the author’s life. |
| B．To lead up to the topic of uncertainty. |
| C．To show how the author got used to it. |
| D．To tell the lessons the author learned from it. |
| A．Anxious | B．Peaceful | C．Annoyed | D．Optimistic |
| A．It makes people stronger. | B．It leads to a lack of control. |
| C．It brings family closer to each other. | D．It can remove the darkness in life. |
| A．Be humble to the unknown. | B．Prepare for uncertainty in advance. |
| C．Express our love before it’s too late. | D．Cherish what matters and learn to let go. |
