1 . Due to the fact that the average life expectancy in Ghana is 64 years old, and the most common causes of death are largely treatable conditions, such as malaria, stroke, and respiratory infections. Boateng, growing up in a small village in southern Ghana/struggling to access basic health care, felt an urgent call to help and decided he would make it his life’s mission to bring health care to remote communities in Ghana.
Boateng worked hard in school, getting a scholarship to study biology at Cornell University in the US, and ultimately earned his master’s in Healthcare Administration. Later he started his nonprofit, OKB Hope Foundation, and converted a van into a mobile doctor’s office called the Hope Health Van to bring health care directly to those in need in 2021.
A few times a week, the mobile clinic and medical team travel long distances to remote communities in Ghana and provide free routine medical care. On each trip, Boateng’s team consists of a nurse, a physician’s assistant, a doctor, and an operation assistant. In the van, they can run basic labs like bloodwork and urinalysis as well as prescribe and provide medications. “It’s like a one-stop shop for people,” said Boateng, adding that most of the people they see have one health issue or another.
Since its launch, Boateng says the Hope Health Van has served more than 4, 000 Ghanaians across more than 45 rural communities who otherwise don’t have easily accessible medical care. To supplement the mobile clinic, Boateng’s organization has also trained 20 volunteers to serve as local health advocates. They check people’s vitals and provide the medical team with timely data for assessing how to move forward with care and treatment, especially for those whose health is at risk.
In the future, Boateng hopes to expand to provide more consistent and high-quality medical care not only to those living in remote areas of Ghana but in other countries as well. “I believe that our model can be replicated in sub-Saharan Africa,” he said.
1. What inspired Boateng to set his life goal?| A．He wanted to get a scholarship. |
| B．Many locals died of deadly diseases. |
| C．The birthplace of him was small and poor. |
| D．Basic health care was inaccessible for locals. |
| A．How Boateng’s team functions. | B．Why Boateng’s team was founded. |
| C．What Boateng’s team has achieved. | D．Where Boateng’s team has travelled. |
| A．Ambiguous. | B．Ambitious. | C．Indifferent. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．A van bringing medical care to thousands |
| B．A country lacking basic health care |
| C．Efforts to provide people with medications |
| D．Mobile vans travelling through Ghana |
2 . With the development of computers, increasing students type with a greater-than-ever reliance on them to take notes and write papers.
A line of research shows the benefits of an “innovation” that predates computers: handwriting.
One of the best-demonstrated advantages of handwriting seems to be in superior note- taking. In a study from 2014 by Pam Mueller and. Danny Oppenheimer, students typing wrote down almost twice as many words and more passages word for word from lectures.
Many studies have confirmed handwriting’s benefits, and policymakers have taken note.
Although nearly all will eventually need typing skills, in an age of typing, handwriting still matters.
| A．Studies have found that handwriting can improve everything. |
| B．This aids conceptual understanding at the moment of writing. |
| C．But today a different debate is raging about the dangers of typing. |
| D．It suggested they didn’t understand the material so much as parrot (鹦鹉学舌) it. |
| E．However, several schools in America have gone so far to ban most laptops. |
| F．Especially. studies have found that writing on paper can better students’ performance. |
| G．For instance, about half the states in America have commanded more teaching of handwriting instruction. |
3 . In 2015, Misty Copeland was named a principal dancer-a ballerina of the highest rank — at American Ballet Theatre. She is the first African American woman to
In her childhood, Misty was shy and
Misty suddenly gained
“No matter what that dream is, ”she says, “you have the power to make it come true with hard work and
| A．finish | B．create | C．make | D．perform |
| A．prohibited | B．avoided | C．abandoned | D．ignored |
| A．movement | B．practice | C．gesture | D．cycle |
| A．confirm | B．attend | C．sign | D．tend |
| A．anxious | B．curious | C．eager | D．afraid |
| A．out of date | B．out of place | C．out of order | D．out of breath |
| A．appearance | B．limbs | C．body | D．organs |
| A．Approximately | B．Obviously | C．Partially | D．Gradually |
| A．weight | B．muscle | C．strength | D．independence |
| A．true | B．fair | C．right | D．real |
| A．self-esteem | B．self-confidence | C．self-consciousness | D．self-discipline |
| A．disturbed | B．ashamed | C．confused | D．discouraged |
| A．specified | B．tailored | C．expected | D．positive |
| A．broke | B．fitted | C．took | D．gave |
| A．engagement | B．contribution | C．subscription | D．commitment |
4 . Formula One Lenovo Chinese Grand Prix 2024
From April 19 to 21, the much-anticipated 2024 Formula One Lenovo Chinese Grand Prix will come alive with the roar of engines at the Shanghai International Circuit. Details about tickets for the event are as follows.
Ticket Price:
[Grandstand] [Session] [Price (RMB)]
A Platinum 3 Day Ticket 3880
• A High 3 Day/Fri./Sat./Sun. Ticket 2880/490/890/2490
• A Low 3 Day/Fri./Sat./Sun. Ticket 2280/390/690/1990
• H/K 3 Day/Fri./Sat./Sun. Ticket 1480/290/590/1290
• C/F/J/L 3 Day Ticket 480
Ticketing Instructions:
• This event adopts electronic tickets with one ticket per person. Children require a full-priced ticket, and children under the age of three are not allowed entry.
• For each session of this event, a maximum of 4 tickets per mobile phone number and 1 ticket per ID card number can be purchased. When purchasing tickets, buyers must provide the audience’s real name, a valid personal ID, and a valid mobile phone number. After a successful purchase, ticket purchasers should retain e-ticket seat information appropriately.
• Ticket refunds can be requested without fees from the date of purchase until 24: 00 on February 29, 2024. From 00:00 on March 1, 2024, to 24: 00 on April 15, 2024, refunds will invite a 10% handling fee. No refunds will be accepted from 00: 00 on April 16, 2024. Returned within 7 working days.
• This event implements real-name verification with ID card and facial recognition for entry.
• The schedule and arrangement of the competition may be subject to changes, and please stay tuned to Formula One Lenovo Chinese Grand Prix official WeChat and Weibo for the latest information.
1. What should be offered to buy a ticket?| A．The audience’s nickname. | B．The audience’s e-ticket seat information. |
| C．The audience’s WeChat number. | D．The audience’s available phone number. |
| A．59 yuan. | B．531 yuan. | C．1, 062 yuan. | D．1, 180 yuan. |
| A．It will last 7 days. | B．It will be exciting and noisy. |
| C．It doesn’t limit the audience’s age. | D．It will never be postponed or cancelled. |
5 . The world’s largest ape Gigantopithecus blacki (G. blacki) vanished from Earth between 295, 000 and 215, 000 years ago, more than 100, 000 years earlier than once thought, pushed to extinction as the environment around it shifted, researchers reported recently in Nature.
The fate of G. blacki, twice the size of the largest modern apes and resembling a super-sized version of its close cousin, the orangutan, has long been a mystery. For about 2 million years, G. blacki inhabited a landscape of forests and grasses in what’s now southern China. It left behind only scattered remnants: thousands of teeth and four jawbones, unearthed in cave sediments in the region.
To establish a chronology for the ape’s extinction, paleoanthropologist Yingqi Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues used different dating techniques to determine the ape’s habits, diet and environment. In the teeth, they looked for data on the ape’s diet, measuring isotopes (同位素) of carbon and oxygen as well as examining the teeth for tiny evidence of wear and tear — which can reveal not only diet, but also give hints of repeated behaviors and stress. The team also analyzed the cave sediments bearing the fossils, hunting for fossil pollen and conducting luminescence dating (光释光测年) on radioactive elements within the sediments.
The team’s reconstruction revealed that — around 700, 000 to 600, 000 years ago, southern China shifted from its forested landscape to a more seasonally-driven environment. Some apes, including the orangutans, were able to adapt to these changes. But G. blacki was unable to change rapidly enough, and its numbers slowly dwindled before going extinct, the team suggested.
The assembled evidence told a convincing story that “the extinction of G. blacki coincided in southern China with a decrease of forest cover and expansion of savanna-like environments,” said Hervé Bocherens, a biogeologist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. Still, he said, documenting the extinction of this species from the fossil record is tricky — and it’s impossible to rule out the possibility that pockets of G. blacki may have lingered in still-undiscovered caves for longer.
1. What can be known about G. blacki according to paragraph 2?| A． G. blacki shared certain similarities with the orangutan. |
| B． G. blacki was twice larger than the largest modern apes. |
| C． G. blacki lived in places full of basins and deserts. |
| D． G. blacki might have thousands of teeth. |
| A．They checked the situation of G. blacki. |
| B．They repeated the behaviors done by G. blacki. |
| C．They applied radioactive elements to the analysis of the cave sediments. |
| D．They measured isotopes of carbon and hydrogen in G. blacki diet. |
| A．Increased. | B．Reduced. | C．Unchanged. | D．Multiplied. |
| A．Many hands make light work. |
| B．One good turn deserves another. |
| C．Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps. |
| D．Experience must be bought. |
Over 400 pieces or sets of Dehua white porcelain (德化白瓷) are
Dehua white porcelain is famous for
Sitting in Quanzhou city,
Despite the past glories, Dehua craftsmen never stop improving their skills. One
By combining traditional Chinese artistic skills with modern disciplines(学科) like material science and humanities, Blanc de Chine will continue to enhance the cultural confidence of the Chinese people as they create even more outstanding
1. 活动主题和内容；
2. 活动反响。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
School Sports and Culture Festival Draws Excitement
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2. 吃饺子、放焰火、走亲访友等其他活动；
3. 邀请来中国过春节。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：春节 the Spring Festival 放焰火set off fireworks
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On a sunny afternoon, the off-duty registered nurse, Samantha Baxer, at St. Mary’s Hospital was on her way to a store for mothers and babies with her best friend Kieran Horn, preparing to buy some necessities for her unborn baby — she was six months pregnant (怀孕的).
Samantha was in such a good mood at that moment, just like the white clouds in the blue sky, because as a nurse, she seldom had time to relax. “She was always on-duty and putting everybody first before herself.” Kieran said.
Suddenly, terrible things happened. A loud crash came into her ear, followed by people screaming. A car crashed at the comer of West Broad Street and West End Drive in Henrico. The damaged car rolled round and round, and finally stopped at the side of a telephone pole. “Jesus!” passers-by stood there stunned. Seeing this, two police officers and a citizen soon rushed towards the car, positioning their body weight against the vehicle to keep it from moving.
“Help! Help! The driver is bleeding heavily!” A man shouted anxiously. Samantha’s heart was in her mouth, and her professional ability sent her rushing to the scene of the accident, even if she didn’t know whether anyone was alive or not. Although she knew that pregnancy might cause trouble to her actions, she did not hesitate because she knew that every second could make a difference between life and death.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1: Samantha hurried to the driver.
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Paragraph 2: An ambulance soon arrived and Samantha was rushed to the hospital.
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10 . Minor Cold is the 23rd solar term of the 24 traditional Chinese solar terms. For most areas of China, it marks the start of the coldest days of the year. Still, bitter cold can’t prevent people from enjoying their lives.
Enjoy Mutton hot pot and baked sweet potato.
Mutton hot pot, and baked sweet potato are two recommended foods for Minor Cold.
Eat Laba porridge.
Another important traditional food for Minor Cold is Laba porridge.
People in Nanjing used to take Minor Cold quite seriously, and they still keep a custom of eating vegetable rice to celebrate this solar term. The rice is steamed with aijiaohuang, sausage and salted duck that are all the specialties in Nanjing.
Make Chinese traditional herbal medicine.
| A．Stock up for New Year. |
| B．Taste Nanjing vegetable rice. |
| C．It is made from over 20 kinds of nuts, cereals and dried fruits. |
| D．Minor Cold is also the busiest time for doctors and pharmacies, |
| E．Here are some things that help us stay warm during Minor Cold. |
| F．Beef, sesame and walnuts are also good choices for Minor Cold. |
| G．According to Chinese tradition, people eat food containing more yang energy. |
