We went to New York a few years ago and I had a wonderful time living there. I made many good friends both in the neighbourhood and at school. Then one night, Dad told me, "We're moving back to L.A. You'll go first, and then your mom and I will follow."
It was hard for me to adapt to the new school. I didn't like this school, a high school with some strange rules that I had never heard of. I had no friends there and struggled a lot with study. Besides, I disliked living in the house of my aunt. Luckily, my parents returned and we moved into a small apartment.
However, living with them didn't make my school life much better. They were busy unpacking and managing to adapt to the new environment and their work. They even didn't know what I was experiencing at school, I felt lonely and helpless. "Come on, darling. This move has been difficult for all of us." Mom encouraged me. However, her words didn't help at all.
Then one Friday night, my mom said to me delightedly, "I'm taking you to your grandma's house tomorrow. She has said you're welcome to spend this weekend with her. "But I wasn't happy about this idea. I had never seen my grandma since I was 5. What was I going to do there with her? The next morning, my mom drove me to my grandma's house in the country.
On the long ride, my mom kept reminding me to help grandma do housework and listen to her suggestions. But I just thought, "Grandma isn't anything like me. She can't possibly understand what I am going through. What good suggestions or encouragement can she offer?"
After arriving, my mom left for work. "Hi, Barbie," Grandma said excitedly." Come in. I've got many fun things planned." I just entered the room and said all I wanted was to watch TV.
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Then I walked forward，wanting to turn on the TV.
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After hearing that，Grandma told me a story of her to encourage me to adapt to my new life.
2 . The solemnness (肃穆) of the occasion mixed with the realization of the man’s mistake appeared inside me and came out as laughter. I cupped my hands over my face, hoping it would be
At the final “Amen”, we ran out of a door and into the parking lot. “I do believe we’ll be the
That afternoon
In my time of sorrow, life gave me
| A．exchanged | B．interpreted | C．predicted | D．remembered |
| A．took | B．kept | C．gave | D．put |
| A．game | B．conversation | C．situation | D．challenge |
| A．confused | B．awful | C．familiar | D．sorrowful |
| A．hesitating | B．assessing | C．thinking | D．laughing |
| A．rest | B．exit· | C．fight | D．excuse |
| A．hope | B．regret | C．dream | D．talk |
| A．funeral | B．invitation | C．appointment | D．interview |
| A．blocked. | B．waited | C．began | D．survived |
| A．right | B．real | C．last | D．awful |
| A．hall | B．library | C．fair | D．church |
| A．appreciation | B．test | C．laughter | D．recognition |
| A．loneliness | B．embarrassment | C．reputation | D．ambition |
| A．reserved | B．received | C．deserved | D．celebrated |
| A．missed | B．introduced | C．accompanied | D．attracted |
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), approximately three billion people rely on seafood as their
Seaweed farming has traditionally been carried out in Asia, and now other countries including the UK and US are catching onto the benefits. Not only is seaweed considered to be
4 . A new type of rechargeable battery can rapidly produce charges in large quantities even at-70° Celsius, a temperature where the typical lithium-ion(锂离子) batteries that power many of today's devices don't work. Batteries that bear such extremely cold conditions could help build electronics that function in some of the coldest places on Earth or on other planets.
Inside lithium-ion batteries, ions flow between positive and negative electrodes(电极), where the ions are fixed and then set free to travel back through a substance called an electrolyte(电解质) to the other end. As the temperature drops, the ions move slowly through the electrolyte. The cold also makes it hard for ions to get rid of the electrolyte material that sticks onto them. As they cross the battery, ions must cast the matter to fit into the electrode material, explains a battery researcher at Fudan University. At-40℃, conventional lithium-ion batteries deliver about 12 percent of the charge they do at room temperature; at-70℃, they don't work at all.
The new battery contains a special kind of electrolyte that allows ions to flow easily between electrodes even in the bitter cold. The researchers also fitted their battery with electrodes made of organic compounds(有机化合物) rather than the typical transition-metal-rich materials. lons can flow freely in this organic material without having to get rid of the electrolyte material attached to them. So these organic electrodes catch and release ions more easily than electrodes in normal batteries, even at low temperatures, Dong says.
Because the ions flow better and connect more readily with the electrodes at low temperatures, the new battery keeps about 70 percent of its room-temperature charging capacity even at-70℃. Still, battery cells in the new design pack less energy per gram than standard lithium-ion batteries, says Shirley Meng, a material scientist in California. She would like to see whether a more energy-dense(能量密度高的) version of the battery can be built.
1. We can learn from Paragraph 1 that the new battery___________.| A．is applied to most of the electronics | B．can work longer than lithium-ion batteries |
| C．will replace lithium-ion batteries in the future | D．makes using electronics possible in extreme cold |
| A．Because it's hard for ions to fit into electrodes at low temperatures. |
| B．Because electrolytes can't conduct electricity in the cold. |
| C．Because electrodes are unstable in too hot temperatures. |
| D．Because lions don't move at low temperatures. |
| A．Containing more ions. | B．Making ions more active. |
| C．Making the battery rechargeable. | D．Casting more electrolyte materials. |
| A．have a longer life | B．carry more energy | C．charge more quickly | D．be easier to get |
5 . When I was a kid I was a bit of a scaredy-cat. The "adventurer" in my family has always been my big brother. Still, I'm always trying to shake up the scaredy-cat inside me. And I've always known how important it is for girls to feel brave. However, girls, at large, experience so much hesitancy and a drop in confidence as they grow up.
One way to stop losing heart is to encourage a sense of adventure in girls before they are teenagers. Such adventures don't have to be big. Research from Angelia Ruskin University shows that even just going for a walk or a run outside leaves people feeling more confident and better about their bodies. After all nature doesn't care how we look. It doesn't care who our friends are or what grades we get. It is a place where we can really be ourselves.
That's why I teamed up with Amy Blackwell, the award-winning illustrator, to create a middle-grade book containing real-life women's adventures from around the world, from 2,000 years ago to today. The Girl Who Rode a Shark and Other Stories of Daring Women has been receiving star reviews in lots of places.
It is all of those amazing women that make the book a hit. While reading, they can trace the ocean-soaring flights of pilot Amelia Earhart, follow Isabella Bird's exploration up the Yangtze River and meet Kimi Werner, the freediving chef who met with a great white shark. That's why kids just can't get enough of those stories. I hope these stories can help so many kids feel confident and excited when they walk into the world.
As for me? While I still feel a little nervous to begin an adventure up a big mountain or across a frozen river, I feel I have more courage than I did as a kid. I now have a lot of role models to help me.
1. What does the underlined part in the first paragraph probably mean?| A．The author wants to keep a pet cat. |
| B．The author makes effort to overcome her fear. |
| C．The author wishes to beat her brother in the game. |
| D．The author plans to experience an adventure on her own. |
| A．Playing outdoor sports. | B．Having a long-term hobby. |
| C．Making friends with strangers. | D．Improving their school performance. |
| A．They are all travel diaries. | B．They are based on true stories. |
| C．They teach girls how to succeed. | D．They are designed for preschool kids. |
| A．To express her pride in her career. | B．To attract more readers to writing. |
| C．To present the trouble of creating her stories. | D．To explain the reason for the book's popularity. |
A drama series named “Medal of the Republic”
The series tells heart-warming stories about
Among the recipients are Tu Youyou, awarded with the 2015 Nobel Prize,
“Medal of the Republic”
7 . Analysis of the trial of the four-day working week has revealed great efficiency, reduced stress and increased staff engagement, fueling hopes that a better work-life balance for employees could be in sight.
Perpetual Guardian, a New Zealand financial services company, switched its 240 staff from a five-day to a four-day week and maintained their pay. Productivity increased in the four days when they worked, so there was no drop in the total amount of work done, a study of the trial released on Tuesday revealed. The trial was monitored by academics at the University of Auckland and the Auckland University of Technology. The eight-week experiment was closely watched by employers and policymakers around the world. “This is an idea whose time has come,” said Andrew Barnes, Perpetual Guardian’s founder. “We need to get more companies to give it a go.”
The government has conducted a study of the possibility of four-day weeks. However, research points to the complexity of achieving productivity gains in major industries such as retail(零售), where being present is a key part of the job. Smaller companies experimenting with four-day working weeks have found performance was better in the first few weeks as excitement about the project took hold, before falling slightly. “The biggest concern is ensuring that the full-time introduction of the policy doesn’t lead to self-satisfaction, as there is a risk that peopled productivity will slip back,” said Tammy Barker, a branch manager who was part of the trial. “Therefore, we’ve spent a lot of time making sure every person in every team has their own plan as to how they’re going to maintain and even improve productivity.”
According to Jarrod Haar, a professor of human resource management at the Auckland University of Technology, significantly lower job stress was reported with four-day working weeks. “Beyond wellbeing, employees reported their teams were stronger and functioned better together, more satisfied with their jobs, more engaged, and that they felt their work had greater meaning,” he said. “It is really a great way to make employees be more committed to the organization and less likely to look elsewhere for a job.”
1. What changes took place in Perpetual Guardian during the experiment?| A．The length of daily working hours | B．The amount of pay per week |
| C．The efficiency of the employees | D．The work done per month |
| A．Some workers may become lazy. | B．The policy doesn’t suit all industries. |
| C．The four-day working week won’t work. | D．Many employers don’t approve of the trial. |
| A．By making plans for each of the employees. |
| B．By dividing all the employees into different teams. |
| C．By helping every employee get satisfaction from the work. |
| D．By encouraging every employee to be responsible for their plan. |
| A．Unclear. | B．Concerned. | C．Approving. | D．Negative. |
8 . The technology research company International Data Corporation, or IDC, has predicted a huge surge in total worldwide data in the coming years. It predicted world data demand will grow from 33 zettabytes（泽字节）in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025. The world is about to have a serious data-storage problem that will only become more severe over time.
Several companies say they are exploring a possible solution. They suggest using genetic material, DNA, to store data. Experts have estimated data stored by DNA systems could be one billion times as many as those held in traditional electronic devices of comparable size.
Information about living things is stored in DNA using four different kinds of molecules（分子）. They can be represented by the letter codes A, T, C and G. Researchers have discovered that data can also be stored within DNA in the sequences of these letters. Electronic devices, however, store information in a two-letter code that produces combinations of ones and zeroes.
In order to make DNA storage succeed, digital information has to be changed to DNA storage and then back to digital data. One company working on DNA storage development is Microsoft. The company announced earlier last year that it had shown the first “fully-automated” DNA storage system. The research team from Microsoft and the University of Washington reported it had successfully encoded the word “hello” in pieces of DNA and changed it back to digital data. A chemical process is used to get the DNA into a storage device.
Microsoft said DNA storage systems can not only store more data, but also hold data for much longer periods of time. For example, DNA samples from the ancient bones of animals and humans have proven that the material can last thousands of years in tough conditions.
Experts from the World Economic Forum have praised recent developments in DNA storage technologies. But the organization says much more work needs to be completed before DNA storage systems can effectively compete with electronic ones. Currently, the systems are costly and the processing time can be very long.
1. What does the underlined word “surge” in Paragraph I mean?| A．Loss. | B．Exchange. | C．Increase. | D．Share. |
| A．Its bigger size compared with electronic devices. |
| B．Its way of storing information in a four-letter code. |
| C．Its function of combining letters freely. |
| D．Its self-reproduction characteristics. |
| A．Developing DNA storage needs support from big companies. |
| B．The DNA storage system has drawn worldwide attention. |
| C．The DNA storage system faces great challenges. |
| D．Using DNA to store data can possibly be a reality. |
| A．Researchers need to perfect the systems greatly. |
| B．Experts are supportive of the electronic devices. |
| C．Experts are dissatisfied with the recent advance in the systems. |
| D．Researchers need financial support to develop the systems. |
9 . Simon Groot, a seed expert of the Netherlands, is credited with introducing high-quality, disease-resistant vegetable seeds to more than 60 countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. He was awarded the World Food Prize on Monday.
Developing seeds has been the Groot family business for a long time. He is the sixth generation of, what is called, a seedsman. He began his search for better vegetable seeds to help farmers in Southeast Asia in 1981. When he was 47, his family’s company had just been taken over by a larger corporation.
Sixteen years earlier, he had made his first trip to Indonesia. There, Groot learned that vegetable seeds which were developed for the moderate climate of Europe, did poorly when planted in the hot tropics（热带地区）. He thought there was a great possibility of introducing hybrid（杂交的）vegetables to the area. The area lacked vegetable seed developers who were trying to create hybrids for the local climate.
“It was neither charity nor business. It was a passion for providing farmers all over the world with good seeds,” said Groot. Now 85, he said developing seeds has always concerned him, “I noticed the seed quality in that part of world was so much below our standards and below achievable standards.” He added that he “could not stand” that the farmers there did not have better seeds.
At the time, farmers in Southeast Asia usually saved seeds from season to season. That was because the seeds available for sale were often old. Those seeds were usually from Europe or North America and did not grow well in their tropical climate. This meant that the farmers ended up with smaller crops, and lower quality that changed greatly from season to season. The plants also could easily become infected with diseases.
Groot received the $250, 000 World Food Prize during an award ceremony at the Iowa Capitol.
1. What do we learn about Groot from Paragraph 2?| A．He learned vegetable feeds did poorly in Europe. |
| B．He carried on a business of several generations. |
| C．He has introduced seeds to countries worldwide. |
| D．He turned his family’s company into a larger one. |
| A．Doing charity. | B．Making money. |
| C．Support from farmers. | D．Sense of responsibility. |
| A．Having no access to high-quality seeds. |
| B．Having no financial support for better seeds. |
| C．Lacking advanced technology for growing crops. |
| D．Failing to export their produce to western countries. |
| A．Business Has Been Passed from Generation to Generation |
| B．Vegetable Seeds for Hot Areas Have Been Created |
| C．Family Business Serves Farmers in Southeast Asia |
| D．World Food Prize Goes to Dutch Seed Developer |
10 . National Parks Recreational Vehicle Trips
Trip 1: Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands&Capitol Reef
Visit the five Utah’s national parks. Activities include going boating on the Colorado River, and hiking Angels Landing for an impressive view of Zion Canyon. One thing is guaranteed：you’ll see the Milky Way, the pale white band of stars across the sky at night, like never before in this beautiful area of the country.
Available: Apr. 1 to Oct. 23; Duration: 8 to 13 nights
Price（for up to 4 guests): $4, 990-9, 840
Trip 2: Banff&Jasper
Travel along the Icefields Parkway which connects the parks and towns of Banff in Alberta, Canada, Lake Louise and Jasper Lake. Book a ride in a big snowcoach（雪车）onto the Athabasca
Glacier, and take a flight-seeing tour over the huge icefields that cover the area of the Rocky Mountains.
Available: Jun. 15 to Sept. 15; Duration: 8 to 13 nights
Price (for up to 4 guests): S5, 260-6, 080
Trip 3: Mount Rushmore & Colorado
This trip is perfect for anyone interested in America’s history, from forts to huge rock carvings of historical figures. Starting in Denver, your journey will take you through Colorado and into Wyoming.
Available: Start as early as Feb. 1 to Oct. 10; Duration: 8 to 13 nights
Price（for up to 4 guests): $5, 124-7, 880
Trip 4: Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon
Start your journey in the Bay Area and then head cast to Yosemite with its impressive waterfalls, and towering cliffs（悬崖）. Combine your visit to Yosemite with stops at Sequoia National Park to see the five largest sequoia trees in the world, and Kings Canyon.
Available: May 19 to Oct 8; Duration: 8 to 13 nights
Price（for up to 4 guests): $5, 224-9, 540
1. What’s special about the five Utah’s national parks?| A．The beautiful starry sky. | B．The impressive waterfalls. |
| C．The rich history of America. | D．The adventurous activities. |
| A．Banff & Jasper. |
| B．Mount Rushmore & Colorado. |
| C．Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon. |
| D．Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands & Capitol Reef. |
| A．The location. | B．The tourist activities. |
| C．The nights included in the trip. | D．The target groups of tourists. |
