1 . Wellness tourism refers to trips that are organized on the principle of wellness.    1    The purpose of it is to allow tourists to enjoy healthy food, spa treatments, exercise, and other healthy experiences. You also get to learn how to take better care of yourself, psychologically and physically.

On a wellness trip you usually visit locations where food and activities support your best health. This is the very foundation on which a wellness trip is built.

When you take a wellness trip, you get a chance to taste many healthy cuisine styles.    2    Nutrition experts will educate you on how to nourish（滋养）your soul and body through a balanced diet. Most of the food will come straight from the farms, ensuring that you only eat fresh healthy food.

    3    You can enjoy water rafting, zip-lining, scuba diving, surfing, and other popular activities. After these adventurous experiences you can have deep relaxation. There are activities that are suitable for the elderly as well, like biking.

However, you can't expect wellness tourism to be a perfectly enjoyable experience.    4    Thus, you have to be able to adjust, act, and respond, so that you keep moving forward. You need to be realistic. A day in the spa will not immediately bring wellness into your life.    5    

Your general attitude toward life has to be positive. This should also go hand in hand with being open-minded and tolerant.

A．There will be difficulties and disappointments.

B．You can make choices according to your personal taste.

C．These trips are wellness experiences that expand your cultural views.

D．Your expectations can never be too high for such a perfect experience.

E．You need to develop goals that you can reach in a given amount of time.

F．Wellness tourism also combines the best physical options: nature and activity.

G．You'll understand the importance of health over flavor when selecting your meals.

2 . The capital of a country is often a very populated city where much history has been made due to the high-level political and economic functions that occur there. However, sometimes government leaders decide to move the capital from one city to another. Capital relocation has been done hundreds of times throughout history. The ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Chinese changed their capital frequently.

Some countries choose new capitals that are more easily defended in a time of invasion (侵略) or war. Some new capitals are planned and built in previously undeveloped areas to promote development. Countries sometimes change their capital because they expect some type of political, social, or economic benefit. They hope and expect that the new capitals will surely develop into cultural treasure and hopefully make the country a more stable place.

Here are capital relocations that have occurred in approximately the last few centuries.

Asia	Japan	from Kyoto to Tokyo — 1868
	Turkey	from Istanbul to Ankara — 1923
	Israel	from Tel Aviv-Jaffo to Jerusalem — 1950
Europe	Poland	from Krakow to Warsaw — 1596
	Finland	from Turku to Helsinki — 1812
	Italy	from Turin to Florence to Salerno to Rome — 1871
The Americas	The US	from New York to Washington — 1800
	Jamaica	from Port Royal to Spanish Town to Kingston — 1872
Oceania	New Zealand	from Auckland to Wellington — 1865

1. Why did some countries decide to move the capital?

A．To further expand their land.

B．To uncover ancient treasure.

C．To develop undeveloped areas.

D．To declare war on another country.

2. Which country was the earliest to move its capital?

A．Turkey.	B．Poland.
C．The United Sate.	D．New Zealand.

3. What do Italy and Jamaica have in common?

A．They moved the capitals more than once.

B．Their capitals were destroyed in the war.

C．They moved their capitals in the same year.

D．Their capitals moved because of the economy.

3 . In 2020, American National Youth Tobacco Survey found that more than 3.6 millon youth had used e-cigarettes. That means e-cigarette use has gone beyond traditional cigarette use in young people.

There are some reasons for that. Many young people are curious to try out some new flavors (味道) in e-cigarettes, like chocolate, lemon and strawberry. In fact, research has shown that the interesting flavors are what lead kids to experiment with e-cigarettes in the first place. Besides, when seeing some friends using them, the youth would probably have a try, too, believing that e-cigarettes are much cooler than traditional cigarettes. Last, they falsely believe me-cigarettes are harmless to their health since no smelly gases are produced in the process.

Many young users do not realize e-cigarettes have dangerously high levels of nicotine (尼古丁), sometimes as much as that of an entire pack of cigarettes, so that they are pretty harmful to their health and highly addictive. There has been a rise of stories in the media about kids who use e-cigarettes developing serious breathing problems. And nicotine may harm their developing brain, as brain development continues through about age 25. Also, nicotine can affect their ability to concentrate, learn and exercise.

Another huge risk is the fact that e-cigarettes blow up, thus causing serious injuries. According to a 2019 study from the U.S. Fire Department, e-cigarettes caused serious injuries to users including breaking their jaws (下巴 ) or knocking out their teeth. Meanwhile, another study found that injuries from e-cigarette use resulted in nearly 2,000 emergency room visits between 2018and 2020.

In the U.S, it is now illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to buy e-cigarettes. What's more, the government now requires e-cigarettes to contain a warning about the addictiveness of nicotine.

1. What is the major reason why teenagers begin to smoke e-cigarettes?

A．They want to copy what their friends have done.

B．They think using e-cigarettes makes them look cooler.

C．They believe e-cigarettes are much safer than cigarettes.

D．They are curious about the inviting flavors of e-cigarettes.

2. According to the passage，what may result in the concentration problem in young people?

A．Nicotine in e-cigarettes.	B．Slow brain development.
C．Lack of physical exercise.	D．Serious breathing problems.

3. Why does the author mention the two studies in Paragraph 4?

A．To prove his opinion.	B．To compare different results.
C．To give detailed information.	D．To explain research methods.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．E-cigarettes are rather harmful to young people.	B．Many young people get addicted to e-cigarettes.
C．People under 21 are forbidden to use e-cigarettes.	D．Risk awareness of e-cigarette smoking should be raised.

6 . "Could you load(把碗碟放入)the dishwasher?" How many times have we asked our teenage children to do a chore(家务活)and found later that it was done so poorly that we have to finish the job?     1     Kate Kelly, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager, has some suggestions.

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Don't expect teens already know how to do something. Kelly says."We left my teenage daughter alone for a few days.     3     What a mess!" If you explain a chore, you will probably find it's been done well.

Use the team method.

Kelly says, "We do so much for our kids.     4     "So, according to Kelly, when teens do something like cleaning the floor, they enjoy giving something back to the family."And always remember teens should be thanked and praised."Give one task at a time.

If you can’t stand how clothes are always being left on the floor, don’t let your teens got away with it .    5    Tell them that if they keep throwing their clothes on the floor, they won’t be allowed to see their friends at the weekend, and that’s it.

Keep chores gender-neutral(不分性别的).

Don't leave all the kitchen chores for daughters, and jobs like washing the car or fixing things for sons.

A．Explain the job.

B．Remember to say thank you.

C．However, she had no idea how to separate rubbish.

D．Watering the plants can be a good way of relaxation.

E．We drive them everywhere, and help with their homework.

F．Few parents are happy with the way housework is done by their teenagers.

G．Make them pick the clothes up, but don’t add on other chores at the same time

9 . We live in a town with three beaches. There are two parts less than 10 minutes’ walk from home where neighborhood children gather to play. However, what my children want to do after school is pick up a screen — any screen — and stare at it for hours. They are not alone. Today’s children spend an average of four and a half hours a day looking at screens, split between watching television and using the Internet.

In the past few years, an increasing number of people and organisations have begun coming up with plans to counter this trend. A couple of years ago film-maker David Bond realised that his children, then aged five and three, were attached to screens to the point where he was able to say “chocolate” into his three-year-old son’s ear without getting a response. He realised that something needed to change, and, being a London media type, appointed himself “marketing director from Nature”. He documented his journey as he set about treating nature as a brand to be marketed to young people. The result was Project Wild Thing, a film which charts the birth of the World Network, a group of organisations with the common goal of getting children out into nature.

“Just five more minutes outdoors can make a difference,” David Bond says. “There is a lot of really interesting evidence which seems to be suggesting that if children are inspired up to the age of seven, then being outdoors will be on habit for life.” His own children have got into the habit of playing outside now: “We just send them out into the garden and tell them not to come back in for a while.”

Summer is upon us. There is an amazing world out there, and it needs our children as much as they need it. Let us get them out and let them play.

1. What is the problem with the author’s children?

A．They often annoy their neighbours.	B．They are tired of doing their homework.
C．They have no friends to play with	D．They stay in front of screens for too long.

2. How did David Bond advocate his idea?

A．By making a documentary film.	B．By organizing outdoor activities.
C．By advertising in London media.	D．By creating a network of friends.

3. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “charts” in paragraph 2?

A．records

B．predicts

C．delays

D．confirms

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Let Children Have Fun	B．Young Children Need More Free Time
C．Market Nature to Children	D．David Bond: A Role Model for Children

10 . You’ve heard that plastic is polluting the oceans — between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, forcing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products.

At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called “Strawpocalypse,” a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source (来源) of plastic pollution, but they’ve recently come under fire because most people don’t need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that’s part of Von Wong’s artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear.

In a piece from 2018, Von Wong wanted to illustrate (说明) a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckload’s worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled “Truckload of Plastic,” Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they’d been dumped (倾倒) from a truck all at once.

Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint.

1. What are Von Wong’s artworks intended for?

A．Beautifying the city he lives in.	B．Introducing eco-friendly products.
C．Drawing public attention to plastic waste.	D．Reducing garbage on the beach.

2. Why does the author discuss plastic straws in paragraph 3?

A．To show the difficulty of their recycling.

B．To explain why they are useful.

C．To voice his views on modern art.

D．To find a substitute for them.

3. What effect would “Truckload of Plastic” have on viewers?

A．Calming.	B．Disturbing.
C．Refreshing.	D．Challenging.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Artists’ Opinions on Plastic Safety

B．Media Interest in Contemporary Art

C．Responsibility Demanded of Big Companies

D．Ocean Plastics Transformed into Sculptures