2 . The benefits of gratitude have long been championed in religious and philosophical thinking. In recent years, the science has been catching up: it shows that people who feel most grateful generally get a psychological boost as a result. They also have greater life satisfaction, fewer visits to the doctor and better sleep. This has led to gratitude becoming part of our daily routine, starting a trend of gratitude journals, in which you record things you are thankful for, and meditation practices in which you focus thoughts on them. However, the benefits of actually expressing this gratitude have received less attention. Now evidence is stacking up that shows turning our inner gratitude into action can make our lives even better.

For instance, a simple thank you can build relationships, even with strangers. Take people who have received a note of thanks for something they have done from a peer they don’t know. They are more likely to share their contact details with that person in an attempt to continue the relationship than people who receive a note that doesn’t contain thanks. A simple thank you seems to signal interpersonal warmth.

Expressing gratitude to a friend also changes your view of that relationship, making it feel stronger. In 2010, Nathaniel Lambert, at Florida State University, and his colleagues found that people who simply thought grateful thoughts about a friend, or even took part in positive interactions with them, didn’t experience the same effects.

But the benefits go further than just strengthening social bonds, they can have an impact on health, too. A study of more than 200 nurses working in two Italian hospitals found that gratitude expressed by patients could protect nurses from burnout. That was especially so in the emergency room, where personal interactions with patients are typically shorter and less rewarding. This positive feedback from patients reduced feelings of exhaustion among nurses, says Mara Martini at the University of Turin, who carried out the work.

1. What do the underline words “stacking up” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．disappearing

B．approaching.

C．ringing.

D．increasing.

2. Which of the following is a benefit of expressing gratitude?

A．Building stronger relationships

B．Sleeping well during the night.

C．Getting a psychological boost.

D．Having attractive body shapes.

3. What does the study by Mara Martini indicate?

A．Nurses should require positive feedback from patients.

B．Patients should speak out their appreciation to nurses.

C．Doctors should improve their interpersonal skills

D．Hospitals should protect nurses from burnout.

4. What message does the text want to convey?

A．Friendship is worth sparing every effort.

B．Gratitude journals work for people who act.

C．Positive feedback helps improve health service

D．Thankfulness in action has unexpected benefits.

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1. Who would be the most interested in the magazines described here?

A．People dedicated to protecting animals.

B．People who are afraid of dogs.

C．People who keep dogs as pets.

D．People working with pets.

2. Which of the following is TRUE about The Bark?

A．It’s a complete guide for kids to better understand dogs.

B．It has received the Maxwell Award for Special-Interest Magazines.

C．It’s a how-to-care-for-your-dog magazine.

D．Its contents are something associated with canine culture.

3. You are likely to find the passage _________.

A．on the Internet	B．in a medicine magazine
C．in a textbook	D．on a notice board

5 . David Bennett, a 57-year-old man from the US, received the world’s first pig heart transplant in January. He died two months later, on March 9.

It may sound like a failure, but it actually is a big step forward in medical history towards xenotransplantation (异种器官移植) success.

Xenotransplantation has been a hot topic in medical research for many years, as doctors and scientists look for ways to solve the big problem of organ transplant waiting lists. In the US alone, over 100,000 patients are on a list waiting for new organs. Many of them will die before getting their chance to receive a heart, lung or kidney. Therefore, medical science has turned to animal organs.

Doctors have experimented with xenotransplantation since the early 20th century. There are few success stories. Usually, patients’ bodies reject (排斥) the animal organs. Bennett lived much longer than other xenotransplant patients. That’s because scientists removed pig genes that would cause fast rejection. Then they added human genes to help the body accept the organ.

“A lot of new information will come out that will help the field move forward at a faster pace,” Muhammad Mohiuddin, director of the transplant program, told The Guardian.

Aside from Bennett’s gene-edited pig heart, late last year doctors at New York University achieved some success in attaching pig kidneys to human blood vessels outside the body in patients on life support. Meanwhile, at the University of Alabama, doctors managed to actually implant gene-edited pig kidneys into a patient on life support.

Though these recent successes were short-lived, they show that there may be a way forward for xenotransplants.

1. Why do scientists study xenotransplantation?

A．Because many of its experiments are successful.

B．Because animal organs are the same as humans’.

C．Because human-donated organs are easily rejected.

D．Because human-donated organs are in short supply.

2. What helped Bennett live longer than other xenotransplant patients?

A．The organ was gene-edited to avoid fast rejection.

B．Bennett’s heart was put into another patient’s body.

C．The transplanted heart was attached outside of his body.

D．The transplanted organ was from a pig, not other animals.

3. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Xenotransplants is developing step by step.

B．Patients with xenotransplants won’t die in the future.

C．Xenotransplant experiments will only fail sometimes.

D．Gene-editing is a mistake in the field of xenotransplants.

4. Where can we most probably read this article?

A．In a novel.

B．In a newspaper.

C．In a guidebook.

D．In a poster.

7 . A company called Compass Pools has some good news for height and swimming enthusiasts.Recently，the company announced their novel design—a first of its kind 360­degree pool which is set to be placed on a skyscraper in London.The Infinity London will be the first and only building in the world to include this cutting­edge pool design.The pool will be laid on top of a 55­story skyscraper and will allow people to float over 200 meters above the London skyline with unobstructed(没有障碍的) views of the city.

The entrance to the pool is hidden.People began to raise questions about how anyone would get inside the pool.Compass Pools explains：“Swimmers will access the pool through a rotating spiral(螺旋形的) staircase based on the door of a submarine，rising from the pool floor when someone wants to get in or out.”

But that is not the only unique technology of the pool.The designers found a way to make sure the wind doesn't blow the water down to the streets.They included a built­in anemometer(风力计) to monitor the wind speed.It is linked to a computer­controlled building management system which will also take care of the temperature of the water.

Alex Kemsley promises that this unique pool will surpass everyone's expectations.“It's quite a strange feeling to swim in the SkyPool at The Shard and have helicopters flying past at your level but this pool takes it a step further，”he says.“Putting your goggles(游泳镜) on and with a 360­degree view of London from 220m up，it really will be something else—but it's definitely not one for the acrophobic(恐高的)！”

While the exact date of the construction is not clear yet，if things go well，it may begin in 2022.The location has yet to be confirmed too.

1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．The Infinity London is the only building to swim in.

B．Swimmers can enjoy the views of London in the pool.

C．The pool is located on the first floor of a skyscraper.

D．Compass Pools has built many 360­degree pools in the world.

2. What does the underlined word“that” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．How to get a view of London.

B．How to monitor the wind speed.

C．How to get into or out of the pool.

D．How to keep the water in the pool.

3. Who might not be suitable to swim in the SkyPool?

A．People who enjoy flying.

B．People who lose weight.

C．People who fear heights.

D．People who have poor sight.

4. What can we know about the SkyPool at The Shard?

A．It is not certain when people can swim in it.

B．The exact location of the construction is clear.

C．Swimmers can expect its designs easily.

D．It's impossible to monitor the temperature of the water.

8 . Parents who want their kids to succeed more than anything are now being sold a high-tech solution. Class 120 is $199-a-year smartphone app that tracks teenagers and alerts parents if the kid isn’t in his or her scheduled class.

Is it a good idea for parents to track whether their young adults are in class? In short: No. This is a terrible idea.

One of the fundamental purposes of a college is learning to be an independent person. That means learning how to do what needs to be done, whether one particularly feels like doing it or not.

It’s easy to see why parents are keen on tracking their kids. A student is admitted to college by a process that focuses mainly on grades and scores. Monitoring grades and scores is easy. The parents may think that:

“Our child is succeeding. We are good parents. We are happy.” But grades and scores can’t tell everything.

They don’t take into account whether their kids have the strength of self-discipline (自律) and the skill needed to care for himself or herself.

Monitoring the development of character is much harder for parents. Character growth happens through encountering (遇到) and learning to deal with disappointments and failure. You never know which problem will be the point for growth.

However, letting kids fail can be really difficult for anxious parents. They believe that success means being perfect and never failing. The truth is that kids need to learn to fail.

College is an ideal place to practice adults’ responsibility and independence. Students need to make their own decisions about whether to get out of bed and go to work in the morning.

Maybe your child hasn’t learned this lesson by now, but he or she has to learn it sometime. An alarm clock’s job is to wake you up, but it does not provide a reason.

1. What’s author’s attitude toward tracking teenagers?

A．Supportive.

B．Opposed.

C．Indifferent.

D．Disappointed.

2. According to the author, what’s the most important thing should a college student learn in school?

A．Avoiding failure.	B．Keeping healthy.
C．Professional knowledge.	D．Living independently.

3. What’s the author’s opinion on failure?

A．Failure means that a kid is not good enough.

B．Failure may be the key part of kid’s development.

C．Everyone should manage to avoid failure at any time.

D．Failure will bring many negative influences to children.

4. What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?

A．An alarm clock is necessary for a kid.

B．A kid should buy a talking alarm clock.

C．A kid should get up early for learning without any reason.

D．A kid should always maintain a sense of responsibility and independence.

9 . Do you still remember the scene in the famous movie Titanic, directed by Cameron, where Jack was frozen to death in the icy cold water so that Rose could survive on the floating door alone? It broke many people’s heart.

Two decades later, people are still asking the question, “wasn’t there enough room on the door for both of them?”

Cameron once responded by saying it wasn’t a question of room, but buoyancy—if both of them had tried to stay on the raft, he argued, the whole thing would sink.

But several guys from “Mythbusters”, an Australian-American science entertainment television program, decided to test the theory themselves. They discovered that if Rose had took off her life jacket to the bottom of the raft, there would have been enough buoyancy to keep both of them afloat.

When they presented their findings to Cameron, the director insisted that Jack couldn’t be saved.

“The answer is very simple,” Cameron said. “Because it says on page 147 of the script that Jack dies. To Cameron, it was an artistic choice to have the beloved character of millions, Jack drown into the cold sea. Jack had to die because Cameron thought it would be best if we did.

“It was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him,” Cameron said. “I think it’s all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later. But it does show that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die. The film is about death and separation; he had to die.”

Since Jack was doomed to die, Cameron said, it could have happened in a variety of different ways. It’s not about the door not being big enough: that’s just a practical method for his death. “Whether it was that, or whether a chimney fell on him, he was going down,” Cameron said. “It’s called art: things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.”

1. What do we know about the character Jack according to the text?

A．He intended to kill himself.	B．He sacrificed himself to save Rose.
C．He didn’t have money to buy ticket.	D．He lacked basic knowledge of physics.

2. According to Cameron, why did the audience argue about Jack’s death for 20 years?

A．They are fragile people.	B．They don’t like the movie.
C．They love the character Jack.	D．They are crazy about physics.

3. Why was a chimney mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To introduce the structure of the ship.	B．To show the original plan of the movie.
C．To present the missing part of the movie.	D．To explain the unchangeable fate of Jack.

4. What is best title of the text?

A．Jack in Titanic Must Die.	B．Big Enough for Both.
C．Cameron is Wrong.	D．Jack could Survive.

10 . As the commercialization of 5G accelerates in China, more companies are exploring what smart cities will look like in the 5G times.

US chip giant Intel Corp, for instance, is teaming up with partners such as China Unicom to build a 5G smart park in Nanjing, to offer a peek into the future of such smart cities.

The future smart city must be data-centric (以数据为中心) and intelligently interconnected. So how to better capture, transmit, store and analyze data will be the center of the future. Intel’s advantages can be found in its hardware and software solutions which can meet demands of multiple scenarios (多情景分析). The company will be devoted to opening cooperation, creating an innovative ecology and working with partners to create an intelligent future.

The company’s project, the Future Technological Smart Center in Nanjing, aims to gather a wide range of domestic and foreign partners around artificial intelligence, internet of things, 5G, cloud computing and other technological innovations to explore what future cities will look like. Intel said the Nanjing project is designed to build industry benchmarks, implement excellent solutions, and offer experience for the construction of smart cities and parks in the Yangtze River Delta region and even the entire country.

A Deloitte report said that China has already included the smart city initiative in its national strategy and made significant investments in these projects.

Both first-tier cities and small and medium-sized cities are home to smart city projects. The nation has formed many smart city groups across the eastern and southern coastal areas of China, Deloitte said.

Deloitte senior partner Ma Jionglin said in an earlier interview that China is one of the most active countries in the world in building smart cities. With advances in urban management and the increasing emphasis on the work and lifestyle of people, smart cities will be entering a new stage of development.

1. Why is the US Intel company mentioned?

A．To show Intel is a high technical company.

B．To accelerate 5G commercialization in China.

C．To offer a peek into the future of such smart cities.

D．To prove many companies are exploring 5G smart cities.

2. How will Intel Corp create an intelligent future?

A．Through intelligent interconnection.

B．Through the help of foreign partners.

C．Through teamwork and innovative ecology.

D．Through advanced hardware and software technology.

3. What’s Ma Jionglin’s attitude towards building smart cities in China?

A．Negative.

B．Positive.

C．Critical.

D．Indifferent.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The construction process of smart cities.

B．Intel’s exploration to build smart cities in China.

C．Chinese national strategy and investments on smart cities.

D．China’s leading role in building 5G technology in the world.