1 . I went to get a coffee this morning. A lovely lady came up to me and said, “You’re so pretty and I love your dress.” It made me feel
Then I dropped my car off for repair, and the girl
I then got an Uber back with a middle-aged Asian man, and on the way, we
Later today, I got an Uber back to get my
I left her a huge tip, too, just as a reminder that sometimes a simple
| A．worried | B．peaceful | C．nice | D．strange |
| A．comforting | B．serving | C．cheering | D．admiring |
| A．beautifully | B．simply | C．thickly | D．completely |
| A．calmed down | B．called on | C．watched over | D．picked up |
| A．speak | B．apologize | C．refer | D．turn |
| A．walked | B．sent | C．forced | D．drove |
| A．healthy | B．energetic | C．grateful | D．safe |
| A．smile | B．tip | C．message | D．card |
| A．goodbye | B．yes | C．thanks | D．sorry |
| A．car | B．groceries | C．bicycle | D．awards |
| A．familiar | B．common | C．lovely | D．expensive |
| A．checked | B．reached | C．rooted | D．brought |
| A．gift | B．prize | C．reminder | D．wonder |
| A．honor | B．encouragement | C．chat | D．praise |
| A．teach | B．lend | C．say | D．introduce |
We’ve been having a heat wave on the East Coast this summer, along with the rest of the U.S. So the very thing you wouldn’t want to do is sleep in a hot car! That’s what I thought when I saw a woman doing just that.
Well, she wasn’t asleep at the time, but I guessed that was her difficulty when I noticed that the inside of the car was piled high with her belongings from the passenger seat to the back seats. I’d been noticing this car parked in the same space on this quiet lot for a few weeks.
I finally went over to the car and asked if I could get her something from the nearby store. She refused but at least I got a look close enough to see that she was normal, not on drugs, spoke English and was not in any immediate suffering despite how it looked. This made me all the more curios. The woman said her name was Justine. As we talked, darkness began to set in, so I told her I had to leave, thinking I’d return another day. Then I started for home.
A week later, I was back shopping at a store near the lot and there was Justine in that car on a hot day! I had had enough. I went over to the car, hoping to hear her story. That’s the way everyone would do. It’s what all kind people should do. But I wonder how many persons would have simply passed by without stopping. I was there to help, not to judge or criticize (批评).
What if we all try our best to help people in trouble? How much better would this world be? How many more good activities than bad would make paper headlines? There would be so many acts of kindness, and the media would have no choice but to switch the focus from the bad to the good. I decided to be such a good person.
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My concern touched Justine and she told me about her troubles.
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I wanted to help her find a job to build up her confidence in life.
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Over eighty years ago, the internationally praised Chinese-French painter
Now, on the 10th anniversary (周年) of his death, Zao’s famous art works have found their way back to their home before.
Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki opened at the Art Museum of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou last month. Divided
As
“His works create a modern Eastern style by
Zao’s work has found a proper place in the collections of 150 major
In 2017, Zao’s painting “29.01.64” (1964)
4 . During the Halloween season, many people visit pumpkin (南瓜) fields or carve pumpkins. But paddle (用桨划) a 1,000-pound pumpkin in a race? On October 22 in Oregon, paddlers in Halloween clothes did just that.
The West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta took place on the lake in Tualatin, a small city outside Portland. Back in 2004, a club called the Pacific Giant Vegetable Growers (PGVG) came up with the idea for the event. The PGVG wanted to alter their large pumpkins into boats and paddle them. They asked the city of Tualatin if they could use the lake for a party.
The first year, about 100 people showed up. Now, about 20,000 come to watch the races. “It’s just a good time to finally have some fun with these pumpkins that we’ve spent countless hours all year long trying to grow,” said Jim Sherwood, a champion pumpkin grower, who is one of the Regatta’s founders and organizers.
The PGVG provides pumpkins for the Regatta’s five races. This year, paddlers came from across the country and from as far away as France and Japan. “Surprisingly, it’s on a lot of people’s wish list to paddle a pumpkin,” said Heidi Marx, the event’s director for the city of Tualatin.
Just before the races began, the growers emptied the pumpkins. The paddlers dressed in holiday clothing jumped in, and the first race started.
Gary Kristensen from Happy Valley, Oregon, won the first race. He was dressed as the movie character Mrs. Doubtfire. It was Kristensen’s fourth year winning a pumpkin race. “Once everybody thinks you will win, it starts to give you a little bit of pressure,” he said. “Fortunately, my pumpkin was pretty fast.”
For the less competitive players, the Regatta was all about fun. “The best part is just watching all the families enjoying the day.” Marx, a player, said. People are going to remember it for a long time.”
1. What does the underlined word “alter” in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Move. | B．Grow. | C．Change. | D．Hide. |
| A．His pumpkin boat ran the fastest. |
| B．He made the biggest pumpkin boat. |
| C．He sold his pumpkins to the players. |
| D．He won a competition by growing pumpkins. |
| A．He had been expected to win the race. |
| B．His pumpkin boat was not fast enough. |
| C．He feared to make mistakes in the race. |
| D．It was his first time to take part in the race. |
| A．Pleasure. | B．The prize. |
| C．Staying with their families. | D．The impression they left on others. |
5 . In the early part of his life, Seiichi Sano was a busy business owner. Later in life, he took on other difficult activities. At the age of 80, he climbed Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain. Soon after, he started surfing.
Sano turned 90 this year. After being recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest male to surf, he’s considering trying other activities. “Maybe I’ll try bouldering,” he said, suggesting he might do it first in a gym. “Outside it might be a bit dangerous.”
But maybe he will just stick with what he knows. “I think it would be interesting to surf until I’m 100,” Sano said. “I think I can take better care of myself when I have goals like this. Even now, I take better care of myself than I did before.”
Sano said he got the idea to try surfing from a worker at his local bank. The man’s skin was always dark but healthy. He did not look like a usual banker. His secret, he said, was surfing. So Sano found a teacher.
“I don’t consider myself an old man,” he said in his wet suit, board standing next to him. “I have never thought of myself as an old persona. I always feel that I can still move forward. I can still do it. I can still enjoy it.”
Sano joined hundreds of other surfers recently at Enoshima. All the surfers were younger, of course. Several young students who also worked with Sano’s surf teacher, 46-year-old Kazuto Shimizu, talked about Sano.
“To be honest, I was surprised by his age,” said Shimizu. “I was most worried that he would get injured. I did not know how fit he was, physically.”
Sano still runs a business that supplies wood to building companies. He works 9-to-5 at the job. Surfing reduces tension for him.
1. What made Sano get a Guinness World Record for surfing?| A．His age. | B．His wonderful skill. | C．His fast speed. | D．His competition result. |
| A．The idea of enriching his life. | B．The decision to improve his health. |
| C．His dream of becoming world-famous. | D．The unusual appearance of a bank worker. |
| A．Creative. | B．Adventurous. | C．Careful. | D．Generous. |
| A．He has difficulty training Sano. | B．He prefers to teach young people. |
| C．He was concerned about Sano’s health. | D．He praised Sano for his love for work. |
6 . For more than 50 years, seawater has flowed through the Hong Kong’s toilets. And in 2013, Hong Kong built a system that used seawater to cool part of the city. The system sends cold seawater to a factory with heat exchangers. The seawater takes in heat to cool pipes full of circulating (循环的) water. That cooled water then flows into buildings to cool rooms. The slightly warmed seawater is sent back to the ocean. Known as district cooling, this type of system tends to use far less energy than typical air conditioners.
How much water and energy had this strategy saved Hong Kong? And why weren’t other coastal cities doing this? A team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology set out for answers. They focused on Hong Kong and two other big coastal cities: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Miami, Fla. The idea was to see what it might look like if all three adopted city-wide saltwater systems.
All three places would save lots of fresh water and energy, the researchers found. These savings came from the more efficient saltwater air conditioning. Though costly to build, saltwater-cooling systems could pay off in the long run for many cities.
The researchers figured out how emissions (排放) of greenhouse gases would drop if each city instead used seawater for cooling and flushing (冲刷). Next, they studied how much pollution would be created to build the new system. They compared these results to see how emissions of climate-warming gases would change for each city.
Hong Kong would see the biggest cut in greenhouse gases if the system were expanded to the whole city. It could drop by some 250,000 tons each year. Miami could see a drop of around 7,700 tons of carbon pollution per year. Saltwater cooling would cause more planet-warming gases in Jeddah than it would save. The reason: Jeddah’s unplanned urban expansion and all the pipes that would be needed to service it. The pollution coming from building such a large system would be higher than what the system would save.
1. What can seawater do in Hong Kong’s district cooling system?| A．It is used to flush all of the toilets. | B．It runs into buildings to cool rooms. |
| C．It circulates in pipes to warm the air. | D．It absorbs heat to cool the water in pipes. |
| A．To test if saltwater-cooling systems are fit for all coastal cities. |
| B．To find ways to build more efficient saltwater-cooling systems. |
| C．To popularize Hong Kong’s energy reduction measures. |
| D．To apply Hong Kong’s experience to Jeddah and Miami. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Unclear. |
| C．Mixed. | D．Opposed. |
| A．Kill two birds with one stone. | B．There is no one-size-fits-all way. |
| C．Two wrongs don’t make a right. | D．One man’s fault is another man’s lesson. |
7 . Many previous studies have indicated that frequent walking was associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes (糖尿病) in the general population, in a way that those with more time spent walking per day were at a lower risk. But their findings haven’t offered much guidance on the best habitual walking speed needed to lower diabetes risk.
A new study’s authors reviewed 10 previous studies conducted between 1999 and 2022, which assessed (评估) the links between walking speed and the development of type 2 diabetes among adults from the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. After a follow-up period of eight years on average, compared with those who took easy or casual (休闲的) walking(less than 2 miles per hour), those who walked at an average or normal pace (2 to 3 miles per hour)had a 15% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the researchers found. Walking at a “fairly quick” pace (3 to 4 miles per hour)meant a 24% lower risk than those who easily or casually walked. And quick walking(more than 4 miles per hour)had the biggest benefit: a 39%reduction in risk.
The overall message is that walking is an important way to improve your health. It may be true that walking faster is even better. But given the fact that most Americans do not get sufficient walking in the first place, it is most important to encourage people to walk more as they’re able to.
If you want to challenge yourself, however, using a fitness tracker—via a watch or smartphone app—can help you measure and maintain your walking pace, experts said. If you can’t get a fitness tracker, an easy alternative for tracking exercise intensity (强度) is the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “talk test”, which relies on understanding how physical activity affects heart rate and breathing. If, while walking, you’re able to talk in a labored voice but not sing, your pace is probably quick.
1. How did the researchers get the new findings?| A．By studying former research. | B．By interviewing volunteers. |
| C．By carrying out an experiment. | D．By conducting an online survey. |
| A．Easy walking. | B．Quick walking. |
| C．Average walking. | D．Casual walking. |
| A．Buying a fitness tracker. | B．Avoiding eating too much. |
| C．Following the “talk test” rule. | D．Walking as much as possible. |
| A．Walking: the Secret to Physical Health |
| B．Walking: the End of Diabetic Patients’ Worries |
| C．Walking: a Simple Way to Reduce Diabetes Risk |
| D．Walking: an Effective Treatment for Diabetes |
8 . Most children like watching TV. It’s very interesting. By watching TV, they can learn a lot and know many things about their country and the world. Of course, they can also learn over the radio (收音机). But they can learn better and more easily over the TV. Why? Because they can hear and see at the same time, while they can’t see anything over the radio.
Watching TV helps to open children’s eyes. Watching TV helps to open their minds, too. They learn new and good ways of doing things. Many children watch TV only on Saturday and Sunday evenings. They are very busy with their lessons on weekdays. But a few children watch TV every night. They go to bed very late, so they can`t have a good rest. How about you, my young friend?
1. Children can study better over the TV because they________.| A．can hear something | B．can see more things than on the radio |
| C．can hear and see at the same time | D．can see the pictures on TV |
| A．open their eyes | B．open their minds |
| C．make their lives busier | D．both A and B |
| A．A few of | B．A lot of | C．A lot | D．A little |
| A．do their homework | B．watch TV every night |
| C．are busy with their lessons | D．listen to the radio |
9 . Mr. Evans works in Sydney. Last week he had a two-week holiday, but he didn’t know where to go. He said to his friend Robert, “I hate the hot weather here, but I can’t find a cool place in Australia. Where shall I take my holiday?”
“That’s easy,” said Robert, “You can go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the ground there now.”
Mr. Evans agreed with his friend. He bought a plane ticket and soon got to Moscow. He had a happy time there. But one day he got into trouble. After lunch he went to a park outside the city. He saw a dog following him while he was walking past a house. It was hungry and wished him to give it some food to eat. But he had no piece of bread or cake in his pockets. He tried to send it away, but it began to bark at him. Just at that moment, he saw a stone on the ground. He tried to pick it up but he couldn’t.
“How strange these Russians are!” Mr. Evans said to himself, “They do not tie their dogs, but firmly tie the stones!”.
1. Mr. Evans works in________| A．Sydney | B．London | C．New York | D．Beijing |
| A．hot weather | B．cool weather | C．rainy weather | D．cold weather |
| A．by train | B．by bus | C．on foot | D．by air |
| A．跳 | B．叫 | C．追 | D．咬 |
10 . Mother-Daughter Trips To Add To Your Bucket List
Despite general differences, mothers and daughters can have plenty of quality time together while taking a fun trip. There are so many destinations that can appeal to just about any mother and daughter.
Trip To The Big City: NYC
Of course, when it comes to culture, almost no other city can touch New York City. Research any interesting pop ups, Broadway shows, art exhibits, and anything in between, and try to go to as many as possible. You can book a VIP pass through Get Your Guide so you can skip lines and make the most of your time.
For The Outdoorsy Types: Sedona
If the two of you do your best bonding while hiking, then look no further than Sedona, Arizona. The sights are absolutely beautiful, and you can hike your way through all of the beautiful formations and red rocks. There are trails suited to every level, so you can find what suits you best.
Trip For Foodies: Chicago
If food is the main thing that you and your mom can bend over, Chicago is a great city for you. Of course, you must try deep dish pizza, but there are plenty of other delights to experience as well. It’s home to several Michelin star restaurants like Alinea, HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen, Girl & The Goat, Galit Restaurant, The Publican, Oriole, and Monteverde.
Star Searching: Los Angeles
If the pair of you love the charming of Hollywood, then of course you should head over to Los Angeles. You can take a walk on Melrose and perhaps even run into a film star or two. Visit Craig’s, a hotspot and favorite for celebrities like Kate Upton and Kim Kardashian. You can also visit Pendry West Hollywood if you want to try to spot some stars.
1. How can you visit New York City most efficiently?| A．Traveling with a VIP pass. | B．Following a tour group. |
| C．Taking public vehicles. | D．Renting a family car. |
| A．New York City. | B．Chicago. | C．Sedona. | D．Los Angeles. |
| A．Art exhibitions. | B．Beautiful sunset. | C．Fancy restaurants. | D．Well-known persons. |
