1 . Technology use seems to be the new wave of addiction hitting people of all ages. Its extreme use can be compared to the use of drugs, which is called Plugin Heroin.
The next time you’re in a crowded public place, look at the people around you. It’s hard to find someone who isn’t glued to the tiny screen, fingers moving at lightning speeds, texting their friends, emailing co-workers or listening to music. It may seem ridiculous that someone is that addicted to such a small object. I’ve seen people who seem to be at their wits’ end (不知所措) if their phone or iPad has been taken away, lost or left at home.
Some people may ask, “What’s wrong with technology use? It’s a way for people to communicate.” While this is true, the overuse of technology isn’t always appropriate in certain settings. Schools are becoming stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms. Various workplaces have signs hanging on their walls warning employees that “Cell phone use is not permitted” or “Cell phones are forbidden.”
Electronics may be a way for people to communicate and stay in touch with each other, but the disadvantages may outweigh the benefits. People are losing the ability to hold face-to-face conversations with others. However, it’s hard to avoid electronics in this day and age because almost everything is turning into an electronic format. Books, originally meant for paper design, are now being transferred (转存) to electronic forms. Photo albums, and even yearbooks, can now be viewed via the internet. With this growing trend, future generations are bound to become even more addicted to technology.
Is there a cure for electronic addiction? Simply turning electronics off for an hour or two a day may help to an extent, but it will not completely rid electronic addiction. There only seems to be one cure left, and it may be the hardest: self-control.
1. What is Plug-in Heroin?| A．The growing popularity of electronics. |
| B．The serious consequences of technology use |
| C．The unreasonable dependence on electronics. |
| D．The future possibility of technology development. |
| A．tell people it is ridiculous to use electronics | B．persuade people to quit electronics |
| C．prove electronics are harmful to people | D．show people’s addiction to electronics |
| A．Too many things are available in electronic forms |
| B．The design of paper books is less interesting. |
| C．It is a must to use electronics to keep in touch. |
| D．Fewer choices are left for communication. |
| A．Turn off the electronics for an hour or two. |
| B．Be stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms |
| C．Learn to control yourself. |
| D．Cell phones are forbidden in the workplaces. |
2 . It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red.Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middleaged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that!” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code(电子源码) on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?”A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.
“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2015 only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor says you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain special vaccines. With the strawberries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.
It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot,”you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your enewspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.
1. What changes the color of your shirt?| A．The mirror. |
| B．The preprogrammed electronics. |
| C．The sunlight. |
| D．The medicine. |
| A．By pouring the breakfast into a bowl. |
| B．By getting the doctor’s advice. |
| C．By testing the food supplies in the kitchen. |
| D．By checking the nutrition details of the food. |
| A．breakfast | B．lunch |
| C．vaccines | D．nutrition |
| A．In order of time. |
| B．In order of space. |
| C．In order of preference. |
| D．In order of importance. |
3 . Learning to say “yes, and”
When I first heard about the improvisation (即兴交流) class, I was hesitating. As a quiet and shy girl, I feared improvising in front of strangers. However, I knew I wanted to work as a science communicator after finishing my Ph.D., so it seemed like a perfect chance to learn how to speak and communicate with others effectively. I signed up, knowing the experience would give me help.
During our first class, we learned an important concept of improvisation: “yes, and.” It means that, as improvisers, we’d better accept what fellow performers say. If someone says that rhinos (犀牛) are librarians, for example, then rhinos are librarians. We do not question the logic; we say “yes” and then continue with the scene as if nothing is wrong.
The first few scenes were hard, but as weeks turned into months, I became more comfortable and even started to enjoy our classes. I became better at listening, relating to my conversation partners, and communicating clearly in the moment. Once when I was giving a presentation about my science, an audience member surprised me with a question that didn’t grow out of the information I’d presented. Instead of getting confused and nervous, I took the “yes, and” approach—accepting the question and letting my mind focus on why it was asked. That helped me find an appropriate answer. I got pretty excited about it.
The benefits of improvisation go beyond communication. Before attending the class, I would get stuck when my experiments produced unexpected data, thinking that I had made a mistake. But now, instead of getting discouraged, I will stay open to the possibility that the results are real, keep exploring the data and end up identifying a new type of cell—one that isn’t behaving as expected.
I think all scientists can benefit from this lesson. If the data say rhinos are librarians, then it’s worth finding out whether rhinos are, in fact, librarians. As scientists, our job isn’t to challenge data that support, a preconceived story, but to say “yes, and.”
1. Why did the author attend the improvisation class?| A．To get a different experience. |
| B．To finish her Ph.D. at university. |
| C．To give up her job as a science communicator. |
| D．To improve her speaking and communicating ability. |
| A．She formed her own idea quickly. |
| B．She came up with lots of creative responses. |
| C．She paid more attention to the logic of answers. |
| D．She became a good listener before giving an opinion. |
| A．explain the process of using the method |
| B．prove the benefits of the improvisation class |
| C．share her own research experiences with readers |
| D．attract fellow scientists to attend the improvisation class |
| A．They should attend the improvisation class. |
| B．They should question all preconceived ideas. |
| C．They should carry on research by admitting earlier data. |
| D．They should try to improve their academic knowledge. |
4 . Within just one year, Jack had abruptly changed from riches to rags. Today was his birthday and rather than go down to the shelter for a meal, he decided he would
On his way to the town, Jack noticed a young woman dressed in
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| A．leave | B．part | C．desert | D．abandon |
| A．wealth | B．fortune | C．equipment | D．possession |
| A．tidy | B．worn-out | C．casual | D．thick |
| A．sank | B．beat | C．struck | D．lost |
| A．something | B．anything | C．nothing | D．everything |
| A．provide | B．split | C．spare | D．receive |
| A．Looking | B．Focusing | C．Staring | D．Seeing |
| A．food | B．money | C．hope | D．idea |
| A．eyes | B．face | C．tears | D．head |
| A．town | B．road | C．destination | D．position |
| A．put up | B．called up | C．made up | D．welled up |
| A．happy | B．pleased | C．frightened | D．disappointed |
| A．center | B．tracks | C．home | D．approach |
| A．time | B．meal | C．watch | D．opportunity |
| A．but | B．or | C．since | D．until |
| A．bring out | B．bring in | C．bring forward | D．bring up |
| A．more | B．less | C．quite | D．just |
| A．active | B．positive | C．selfish | D．negative |
| A．lately | B．generally | C．instantly | D．exactly |
| A．sought | B．wanted | C．gave | D．hoped |
5 . ByteDance（字节跳动）Group’s TikTok, an overseas version of Chinese short video sharing app Douyin, faces an existential crisis in the United States, as murmurs of a “crackdown”（强制取缔）from the White House forced the Chinese company to engage in talks on selling its US business to Microsoft.
TikTok is the fastest-growing registered global mobile internet app, with more than 100 million users, and its rapid growth, especially in the US, is seen as a threat to Facebook. The US government has long viewed globally competitive Chinese high-tech companies including Huawei as a threat and done whatever it could to crack down on（打击）them in the name of “national security”.
The US government has not introduced any specific policy against TikTok, only threatened it through a number of unclear statements.
According to the latest media reports, Microsoft is prepared to press ahead with the negotiations to take over TikTok’s US operations and complete the negotiations by Sept 15, following talks between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and US President Donald Trump.
This means that TikTok will have to hand its fate over to some unpredictable power, and even have to sell its assets without the option of setting a price.
The US government has failed to find a reasonable legal excuse to deal with TikTok. All private data of TikTok’s US users are stored in the US and are unlikely to be transferred. Considering the US government is trying to deal with TikTok in a political way, TikTok should consider incorporating（合并）the dispute into the US legal process to assert（坚持）its legal rights and interests.
TiKTok’s core value lies in its unique algorithms, a product of artificial intelligence that represents the expertise of Chinese engineers and programmers with high-value intellectual property.
The US government’s move, which has forced ByteDance to sell TikTok to a US company, is similar to a forced technology transfer and an example of the US’ open seizure of Chinese intellectual property.
If ByteDance sells TikTok to a US company for “security reasons", that would set a dangerous precedent, motivating other countries where TikTok operates to follow the US administration's example and cause a chain reaction.
ByteDance is a young Chinese private company that cannot deal with a political game played by the US. But as a Chinese company that has gone global, ByteDance has reasons to take up legal means to defend its legal rights. The Chinese government can also consider examining whether the technology transfer in the deal violates China’s law and harms the country’s national interests.
1. What is the most valuable as for TikTok?| A．Its global popularity. |
| B．Its artificial intelligence. |
| C．Its registered global mobile internet app. |
| D．Its private data of TikTok’s worldwide users. |
| A．Out of so-called political reasons. | B．Out of so-called debt reasons. |
| C．Out of so-called technical reasons. | D．Out of so-called security reasons. |
| A．An untrue spoken statement about someone. |
| B．The use of legal authority to take sth from sb. |
| C．The crime of stealing sth from a person or place. |
| D．The act of trying to hurt somebody using physical violence. |
| A．TikTok must defend its rights legally |
| B．TikTok is seen as a threat to Facebook |
| C．ByteDance has to sell TikTok to a US company |
| D．ByteDance agrees to transfer technology |
6 . 4-Day Classic Beijing Tour
The 4-day classic Beijing tour is designed for tourists who come to visit China for the first time. It covers the most popular and typical places in Beijing, fully displaying the scenery, culture, history, local lifestyles and features, food and drinks, business, etc. to you.
Day 1: Arrival in Beijing
Your guide meets you at Beijing Capital International Airport, and helps you check in at your hotel.
Enjoy Peking duck as welcome dinner.
Accommodation: Downtown Beijing
Day 2: The Great Wall & the Summer Palace
Start your day at the most famous part of the Great Wall, the Badaling Great Wall. Leave the downtown for the Great Wall at 8 am. Since it is a long drive to the Great Wall (about 2 hours' riding), have a break at the Beijing Bona Jade Museum on the way. Lunch will be enjoyed in a local restaurant. In the early afternoon come back to the city and have a sightseeing (观光) tour of the Summer Palace.
Suggested activity: Beijing opera shows (Liyuan Theatre, 19:30-20:30 every evening)
Accommodation: Downtown Beijing
Day 3: Beijing city sightseeing & the local experience
Your guide meets you at the hotel at 8 am and set out for the day's touring: Tian'anmen Square and the Forbidden City.
After visiting the two sites, have a break and get ready for lunch.
Hutong visit: see some traditional arts of the old Beijing, such as paper cutting and kite making, and visit a local family.
Accommodation: Downtown Beijing
Day 4: Beijing Olympic sites
Visit the Olympic sites: the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube and the Olympic Green, showing the fast developing modern China. Enjoy some free time after visiting the sites.
After lunch, it is shopping time and then the tour is over.
1. Whom is this advertisement aimed at?| A．Experts who study history and cities. |
| B．People who are interested in touring. |
| C．Kids who were born in other cities. |
| D．Foreigners who are new to China. |
| A．Visit the Summer Palace on the first day. |
| B．Go to Liyuan Theatre in the evening. |
| C．Go sightseeing in a Beijing hutong. |
| D．Live and eat downtown in Beijing. |
| A．Day 1. | B．Day 2. | C．Day 3. | D．Day 4. |
7 . The demand for digital audio (音频的) books is growing very rapidly. Let’s first look at why this has happened. The busy lifestyle leaves us little time to sit down and read a paper book. Besides, we all have time in the day when we are not really busy mentally. Therefore, we listen and “read” when doing other things.
An audio book, read by a professional narrator who is telling you the story, is an ideal way to “read” books that you wanted to read for long but that lack of time did not permit you to read. Storytelling has a very long tradition and with the new technology, it is gaining popularity again.
“For many people, listening to an audio book is an opportunity to hear an author firsthand,” says Mary Beth Roche, president of the Audio Publishers Association. “It’s like having the very best lecture series, not just in your own town, but in your own car or home — and at your command, they’ll read when YOU are ready to listen.”
Audio books used to be thought of as limited special products for only the blind and sight-impaired (视力受损的) or for kids and lazy people who either can not or do not want to read themselves. This has greatly changed over the last few years. A study found that the average listener of audio books is about 45 years of age and has an average yearly income of over $50,000, and at least a college education and often more advanced degrees. And these people have practical knowledge or understanding of the Internet.
Moreover, audio books are especially good for children who hate to read because of problems in school. That way they are familiar with the adventure of using their own imagination to paint their mental pictures of what they hear, rather than just staring at the TV screen. Also, if they have the book and the audio, reading along can help them overcome reading problems.
1. Who most probably like digital audio books?| A．People who love high-tech products. |
| B．People who prefer listening to stories. |
| C．People who read anytime and anywhere. |
| D．People who cannot spare time for reading. |
| A．By doing experiments. | B．By giving examples. |
| C．By analyzing causes. | D．By making comparisons. |
| A．Reduce their screen time. | B．Raise their interest in reading. |
| C．Develop their imagination. | D．Improve their listening skills. |
| A．Audio Books — A Popular Choice Now |
| B．Audio Books — An Alternative to Paper Books |
| C．Audio Books — A New Source of Knowledge |
| D．Audio Books — A New Idea about Reading |
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删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。
修改：在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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A big fire break out in a clothing factory in our city the last Wednesday. On 9：18 that morning, when the employees were working busy in the 4-storeyed building, heavy smoke was seeing coming out of the windows on the second floor. The fire lasted nearly a hour, and the majority of the 345 employees managed escape from the fire. Unfortunately ,seven were killed，and 23 were injured,lightly or serious. It’s reported that the only two exits of the building was not enough for such many people to escape in a hurry.
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参考词汇：家风family spirit
良好品质 good qualities
代代相传pass on from generation to generation
Dear Michael，
I'm glad to receive your email in which you said that you wanted to know something about my family spirit.
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Zhong Fangrong, a girl student from the small village, made headlines for her high score. Describing as a “left-behind girl” by Chinese media, Zhong was raised by her grandparents. what surprising people most was that she signed up archaeology, one of the least popular major in China. Zhong reaffirmed her decision to major in archaeology(考古学) on Tuesday, ignoring the head-shaking of shocked netizens. Zhong, who score in the latest Gaokao was among the best in China, could have chosen virtual any major at any university in the country. She once said it was the famous Chinese archaeologist Fan Jinshi which had influenced her and gave in her the confidence to study archaeology, and she wanted to follow in Fan's footsteps and devote himself to the field.
