1 .

A．Because she doesn’t like the flat.

B．Because she needs a better roommate.

C．Because the present flat is too small.

D．Because it’s cheaper to live in the dormitory.

2 .

A．Disappointment.

B．Disapproval.

C．Sympathy.

D．Passion.

3 . Critical thinkers start by asking questions about whatever is in front of them. They consider ______. If this, then what? lf that, then how is the outcome different? They understand that every action has a ______, and they think about all possible outcomes of decisions before they make them. Asking questions helps this process.

Once you have asked every question you can come up with about a matter, ______ information that will help you answer those questions.____! Do some research. You can learn almost anything on the Internet, but it’s not the only place to do your research. _____ people. I’m a big fan of polling (民意调查).Ask the experts around you. Gather ____ and various opinions you can use to make your own determination. The wider the variety, the better.

You’ve got _____ information, and now it’s time to analyze it all with an open mind. This is the most _____ part, in my opinion. It can be pretty difficult to recognize the filters that were instilled (灌输) in us from our first families. We are products of our environments, of the ways in which we were treated as a child, of the role models we've had throughout our lives, of the opportunities we have said yes or no to, of the sum of all of our experiences.

Try to be as aware as possible of those ______ and biases (偏见), and turn them off. Question everything during this step. Are you being _______? Are you speculating? Assuming anything? This is the time to look at every thought as _____ as possible. Do you know it to be absolutely true? What are the facts? Have you considered the situation from every different point of view?

Critical thinkers are more interested in solutions than in placing ____ complaining, or gossiping. Once you’ve reached a conclusion through critical thinking, it’s time to communicate and ______ a solution if one is called for. This is the time for compassion (同情), empathy (同理心), diplomacy. Not everyone involved will have thought the situation through as ______ as you have. It’s your job to understand that, and to _____ solutions in a way that everyone can understand.

1.

A．cause and effect

B．ups and downs

C．gains and losses

D．back and forth

2.

A．frequency

B．consequence

C．reason

D．border

3.

A．analyze

B．stress

C．prioritize

D．seek

4.

A．Assume

B．Advocate

C．Investigate

D．Initiate

5.

A．Interact

B．Interview

C．Accuse

D．Spare

6.

A．proof

B．evidence

C．argument

D．information

7.

A．a pile of

B．a piece of

C．a flock of

D．a command of

8.

A．demanding

B．imposing

C．challenging

D．appealing

9.

A．bubbles

B．filters

C．prejudice

D．hatred

10.

A．objective

B．respective

C．informative

D．confident

11.

A．perfectly

B．curiously

C．subconsciously

D．purely

12.

A．emphasis

B．value

C．importance

D．blame

13.

A．pursue

B．suspect

C．implement

D．confirm

14.

A．carefully

B．critically

C．cautiously

D．crucially

15.

A．present

B．represent

C．review

D．comprehend

4 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. wonder   B. regular   C. doubt D. physically E. breathing F. wealth G. functioning   H. flexibility I. flow J. generally K. mood

Sometimes it’s the simplest daily practice that can have the biggest impact on your health, and yoga is proof of that. Although most forms of yoga aren’t considered to be as intense as other workout regimens, practising yoga on a daily basis has been scientifically demonstrated to help you mentally and     1    . Through breath work, meditation and holding poses that increase strength and     2    the body and mind gain benefits from yoga that positively impact your long-term health. It’s no     3    people have been practising yoga for over 5000 years, and that the number of Australians practising yoga doubled between 2008 and 2017 to over two million, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Yoga teacher, Jenni Tarmar, shares, “we have a     4    of research demonstrating that a regular mindfulness practice - the act of paying attention to the sensation in the body, thoughts and emotions without judgment - can reduce stress and help us to feel calmer, more productive, and     5    more even-keeled in our daily lives.”

After evaluating yoga history and research, one 2014 review published in Frontiers in Human Neouroscience concluded that     6    yoga practice can help facilitate self-regulation. Another study of adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 found that practising yoga positively benefited emotional regulation and self-esteem. “Movement releases beneficial neurotransmitters (神经转发器) in the brain, which helps us feel good as well as assist in     7    regulation,” says yoga instructor, Evan Lawrence. “One of the things that I like about yoga specifically is that there is, at the same time, a focus on physical movement and     8    .”

According to associate professor of psychiatry, Dr Gail Saltz, “practising yoga improves overall blood     9    to the body, including the brain, which is helpful for cognition and memory.”

One 2019 review published in Brain Plasticity concluded that behavioural interventions like yoga can help “mitigate age-related and neurodegenerative decline” due to the positive effects a daily practice has on different parts of the     10    brain, like the hippocampus (which plays a major role in learning and memory) and the prefrontal cortex (cognitive control functions).

5 . Directions: After reading the passage belows fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Though a student’s complaint that a question is too hard might be more a matter of effort than ability, it is true       1    some questions are just harder than others. The difficulty of a question or assignment comes down to the level of critical thinking it requires.

        Simple skills such as identifying a state capital are quick and easy to assess, while complex skills such as the construction of a hypothesis are more difficult     2    (quantify). Bloom’s taxonomy(认知分类)     3    be used to make the process of categorizing questions by difficulty easier and more straightforward.

Blooms taxonomy is a long-standing cognitive framework that categorizes critical reasoning in order to help educators set more well-    4    (define) learning goals. Benjamin Bloom,     5     American educational psychologist, developed this pyramid to define levels of critical thinking required by a task. Since its inception in the 1950s and revision in 2001, Bloom’s Taxonomy     6     (give)teachers a common vocabulary for naming specific skills required for proficiency.

There are six levels in the taxonomy that each     7    (represent) distinct levels of abstraction. The bottom level includes the most basic cognition and the     8    (high) level includes the most intellectual and complicated thinking. The idea behind this theory is that students cannot be successful in applying higher-order thinking to a topic     9    they have first mastered a ladder of rudimentary tasks.

The goal of education is to create thinkers and doers. Bloom’s taxonomy gives a path to follow from the beginning of a concept or skill to its end, or to the point       10    students can think creatively about a topic and solve problems for themselves. Learn to incorporate all levels of the framework into your teaching and lesson plans in order to scaffold(提供支架) the learning that your students are doing.

6 . Some things we cannot copy where I live. We will never celebrate Christmas inside a picture postcard. We have no winter wonderland, though once, inspired by a snowfall seen on the black-and-white television, I did collect some ice from the inside of the freezer to throw at my brother. By the time I got to him, all I had was a handful of rain.

What we do have is electricity. As long as the Tennessee Valley Authority can light up the southern night with strands of color, shining from every house and mobile home, they can have their white Christmas. I have seen lights wrapped around mailbox posts. In the country, you need a whole lot of extension cord (电缆) to electrify a mailbox.

I have seen them strung across the Peterbilt trucks. My mother never takes down her lights, strung on a cedar beam (雪松木梁) in the living room, though she does unplug them. The rich folks have switched to white lights, a lot of them, to be elegant. But it will always be lights of color, shining through a night which smells of woodsmoke, that mean Christmas to me.

I find it especially hard not to live in the past at this time of year, when I would do anything to see the world like a child again. It is why I fill the refrigerator every December with chocolate-covered cherries and watch, for the hundredth time, those 50-year-old Christmas specials about Santa Claus.

It is important that some things stay the same—that, at some point this season, someone will say, “We’re going to look at Christmas lights. Do you want to come?”

I go sometimes and sometimes just say no. It is enough to know someone is going. I have a fine memory of the lights; I do not want it to grow less than it was by putting on it new lights bought at Walmart.

1. What is the primary feature that the author values about Christmas in their location?

A．Snow-covered landscapes.	B．Traditional winter wonderland scenes.
C．Colorful Christmas lights.	D．Cedar beams in living rooms.

2. By saying “What we do have is electricity.”, the author means electricity can _______.

A．bring convenience to his life	B．create a Christmas atmosphere
C．generate warmth in harsh winter	D．save cord to power a mailbox

3. How do the rich folks differ from others in terms of Christmas lights?

A．They prefer white lights for elegance.	B．They use fewer lights for simplicity.
C．They avoid using extension cords.	D．They rely on woodsmoke for lighting.

4. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．He takes delight in bidding farewell to the past.

B．He gets fed up with looking at Christmas lights.

C．He dislikes the color options available at Walmart.

D．He feels relieved that Christmas lights tradition is preserved.

7 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

From Passion to Structure: The Journey of Small Businesses

Wal-Mart started small. So did Microsoft. So did Apple. So did General Electric and Ford and almost every other company     1     made it big. They didn’t start by acquisition or achieve mass scale overnight. Nearly every company or organization starts the same way: with an idea.     2     an organization grows to become a multi-billion-dollar corporation like Wal-Mart or fails in the first few years, most of them started with a single person or small group of people who had an idea.

At the beginning, ideas     3     (fuel) by passion — that every convincing emotion that causes us to do quite irrational things. That passion drives many people to make sacrifices so that a cause bigger than themselves can be brought to life. Some drop out of school or quit a perfectly good job     4     a good salary and benefits to try to go it alone. Some work extraordinarily long hours without a second thought, sometimes     5     (sacrifice) the stability of their relationships or even their personal health. This passion is so exciting that it can affect others as well.     6     (inspire) by the founder’s vision, many early employees demonstrate classic early-adopter behavior. Relying on their courage, these first employees also quit their perfectly good jobs and accept     7     (low) salaries to join an organization with a 90 percent statistical chance of failing. But the statistics don’t matter; passion and optimism persist and energy is high. Like all early adopters, the behavior of those who join early says more about them than     8     does about the company’s prospects.

The reason why so many small businesses fail, however, is     9     passion alone can’t cut it. For passion     10     (survive), it needs a structure. A WHY without HOWs, passion without structure, has a very high probability of failure.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。1.

A．To make preparations for a new publication.

B．To learn how couples spend their weekends.

C．To know how housework is shared.

D．To investigate what people do at the weekend.

2.

A．He goes to exercise classes.	B．He goes sailing.
C．He goes to the cinema.	D．He stays at home.

3.

A．Friday.	B．Saturday.
C．Sunday.	D．Any weekday.

4.

A．Surname.	B．Job title.
C．Address.	D．Age.

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Physics.

B．Chemistry.

C．French.

D．Media studies.

2.

A．More than 144,000.	B．About 147,500.
C．7.5% of all the test takers.	D．4.6% of all the test takers.

3.

A．Few students avoid harder subjects.

B．Each subject has the same level of difficulty.

C．Some subjects are more difficult than others.

D．Pupils are important to the country’s development.

10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Peaceful.

B．Considerate.

C．Generous.

D．Cooperative.

2.

A．Someone dumped the clothes left in the washer and dryer.

B．Someone broke the washer and dryer by overloading them.

C．Mindy Lance’s laundry blocked the way to the laundry room.

D．Mindy Lance threatened to take revenge on her neighbours.

3.

A．Asking the neighbourhood committee for help.

B．Limiting the amount of laundry for each wash.

C．Informing the building manager of the matter.

D．Installing a few more washers and dryers.