1.参赛人员； 2.现场描述； 3.比赛反响。4. 80词左右。
A Speech Contest About “Health and Sport”
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 . A program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is hoping to fight against loneliness brought on by the pandemic by forming friendships between students and seniors in the community. They’re making it possible through weekly calls.
“It’s been a thing I look forward to every week,” Miranda Savioli, a VCU medical student said.
The program is run by students involved with the American Geriatrics Society and pairs medical and health science students with seniors in the community.
VCU education administrator for the School of Medicine, Chuck Alexander, says it was formed to fight against loneliness and give students valuable interaction with that age group — something that’s been missing since training programs stopped earlier this year. “It’s mostly just social — just chatting,” Alexander said. “A lot of times they just need someone to talk to. A lot of times they feel that they have a connection with someone younger who is just entering a new phase in their career and that they have some wisdom to impart to them — medically and socially as a friend.”
So far, the volunteer program has paired around 40 students with seniors.
Every week, Savioli video calls retiree Joan Kerby, who lives in a retirement community in Henrico.
“It’s a really good connection because in lockdown you really don’t have long conversations with anybody,” Kerby said. Those long conversations soon turned into a visit. The two participants decided to meet in person back in November and Kerby said it was a special moment. “We talked for two hours. We probably could have gone on longer but we had to stop,” Kerby said.
Savioli says they plan to keep the program going, and encourages others to pick up the phone and call a loved one who may be isolated. “It was developed to help seniors with isolation, but mean, we all got isolated during this pandemic,” Savioli said. “It’s been nice to talk to someone every week.” The group has no plans to stop the program. “We’re going to keep the program going and as for Joan and I, we’ve established ourselves as lifelong friends,” Savioli said.
1. What can be learned about the program?| A．It is run by college teachers. | B．It asks students to write to seniors. |
| C．It charges participants for weekly visits. | D．It connects college students with elderly people. |
| A．It should involve families. | B．It should be more professional. |
| C．It reduces students’ training time. | D．It benefits both students and seniors. |
| A．It was boring. | B．It was stressful. | C．It was wonderful. | D．It was humorous. |
| A．Stop face-to-face visits. | B．Reduce conversation time. |
| C．Inspire people to talk to each other. | D．Switch from weekly calls to daily visits. |
1. Where is the woman going?
| A．To the shop. | B．To the museum. | C．To the post office. |
| A．Go straight forward along this street. |
| B．Go down the street and turn right. |
| C．Go down the street and turn left. |
| A．10 minutes by taxi. | B．10 minutes by bus. | C．10 minutes on foot. |
It is no secret that China has an incredibly rich, complex and ancient history and culture. My first
Culture and food are closely connected and perhaps nowhere else can this be seen more clearly
5 . Technology seems to discourage slow, immersive reading. Reading on a screen tires your eyes and makes it harder for you to keep your place. Online writing tends to be more skimmable and list-like than print. The cognitive neuroscientist Mary Walt argued recently that this “new norm” of skim reading is producing “an invisible, game -changing transformation” in how readers process words. The neuronal circuit that sustains the brain’s capacity to read now favors the rapid absorption of information.
We shouldn’t overplay this danger. All readers skim. From about the age of nine, our eyes start to bounce around the page, reading only about a quarter of the words properly, and filling in the gaps by inference. Nor is there anything new in these fears about declining attention spans. So far, the anxieties have proved to be false alarms. “Quite a few critics have been worried about attention spans lately and see very short stories as signs of cultural decline,” the American author Selvin Brown wrote. “No one ever said that poems were evidence of short attention spans.”
And yet the Internet has certainly changed the way we read. For a start, it means that there is more to read, because more people than ever are writing. And digital writing is meant for rapid release and response. This mode of writing and reading can be interactive and fun. But often it treats other people’s words as something to be quickly harvested as fodder (素材) to say something else. Everyone talks over the top of everyone else, desperate to be heard.
Perhaps we should slow down. Reading is constantly promoted as a social good and source of personal achievement. But this advocacy often emphasizes “enthusiastic” “passionate” or “eager” reading, none of which adjectives suggest slow, quiet absorption. To a slow reader, a piece of writing can only be fully understood by immersing oneself in the words and their slow comprehension of a line of thought.
The human need for this kind of deep reading is too tenacious for any new technology to destroy. We often assume that technological change can’t be stopped and happens in one direction, so that older media like “dead-tree” books are kicked out by newer, more virtual forms. In practice, older technologies can coexist with new ones. The Kindle has not killed off the printed book any more than the car killed off the bicycle. We still want to enjoy slowly. formed ideas and carefully-chosen words. Even in a fast-moving age, there is time for slow reading.
1. Selvin Brown would probably agree that ________.| A．poetry reading is vital to attention spans |
| B．the gravity of cultural decline is urgent |
| C．fears of attention spans are unnecessary |
| D．online writing harms immersive reading |
| A．It demands writers to abandon traditional writing modes. |
| B．It leads to too much talking and not enough deep reflection. |
| C．It depends heavily on frequent interaction with the readers. |
| D．It paves the way for enthusiastic, passionate or eager reading. |
| A．Deep-rooted. |
| B．Fast-advanced. |
| C．Slowly-changed. |
| D．Rarely-noticed. |
| A．The Wonder of Deep Reading |
| B．Slow Reading is Here to Stay |
| C．The Internet is Changing the Way We Read |
| D．Digital vs Print: A Life-and-Death Struggle |
6 . Exercise and I have never had a good relationship because of my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad
When I entered University of Regina, my dad
The spring semester came. A friend of mine
I went, and that was it. Zumba became my
| A．expected | B．allowed | C．invited | D．pushed |
| A．therefore | B．though | C．instead | D．besides |
| A．avoided | B．kept | C．regretted | D．risked |
| A．in shape | B．for fun | C．at ease | D．on business |
| A．decided | B．happened | C．bothered | D．refused |
| A．hardly | B．merely | C．constantly | D．gradually |
| A．eager | B．content | C．embarrassed | D．disappointed |
| A．teased | B．comforted | C．approached | D．annoyed |
| A．happy | B．proud | C．careful | D．certain |
| A．share | B．part | C．cup | D．mouth |
| A．curiosity | B．passion | C．fright | D．confidence |
| A．ambitious | B．enthusiast | C．adorable | D．perfect |
| A．feel | B．accept | C．display | D．compare |
| A．save | B．witness | C．discourage | D．separate |
| A．trouble | B．sense | C．peace | D．contact |
7 . Just a few months earlier, I would never have pictured myself acting in a play in front of two hundred people. If not for my teacher Mr Bricker, I might never have found that
In the first and second grade, I was extremely
One day, he announced our class was going to
“You’re great at
I realized it was time to
| A．intention | B．opportunity | C．solution | D．commitment |
| A．shy | B．pessimistic | C．energetic | D．ambitious |
| A．required | B．allowed | C．encouraged | D．persuaded |
| A．drawback | B．peace | C．fear | D．strength |
| A．present | B．introduce | C．write | D．evaluate |
| A．shocked | B．anxious | C．thrilled | D．ordinary |
| A．annoyed | B．grateful | C．embarrassed | D．surprised |
| A．ashamed | B．regretful | C．doubtful | D．terrified |
| A．analyzing | B．observing | C．memorizing | D．predicting |
| A．store | B．mind | C．place | D．comparison |
| A．throw off | B．show off | C．give off | D．call off |
| A．practicing | B．adapting | C．adjusting | D．debating |
| A．accounting | B．calling | C．cheering | D．praying |
| A．praise | B．efforts | C．beliefs | D．performances |
| A．advantage | B．confidence | C．character | D．evidence |
8 . 近日，中国的传统节日春节被确定为联合国假日。请你为广播站写一篇面向全校师生的英文发言稿，分享这个好消息。内容包括：
1. 告知消息内容；
2. 说明它的意义；
3. 表达你的感想。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 涵盖要点，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Dear teachers and fellow students,
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Thanks for your listening.
9 . People are always living with technology nowadays. Here comes a smart home, which is controlled by the touch of a button.
Home automation is designed to introduce efficiency to a home.
Families with children or elderly adults in the home may be reassured by some safeguards in smart home security, like fire alarms that alert the appropriate agencies in the event of a problem. Lighting activation runs on timers, which can be a life saver if an oven is left on when someone leaves the home.
Home automation is not just for safety, however.
| A．A smart home doesn’t apply to all family members. |
| B．It achieves this by saving homeowners time and money. |
| C．There are some drawbacks with an automated home system. |
| D．It can also provide convenience for people living in the home. |
| E．Home automation depends on furniture and home temperatures. |
| F．Through home automation, an entire house can be connected via a smart controller. |
| G．Besides protecting people, it also offers security for expensive items inside a residence. |
10 . How important is fish farming? Very. Although it’s an ancient business, the rise of aquaculture (水产养殖) has been one of the biggest revolutions in food supply over the past half century.
Aquaculture has made fish more affordable for consumers around the world, popularizing the consumption of what used to be expensive, and easing the pressure on hard- pressed wild stocks (库存). Aquaculture also has many clear environmental benefits: compared with other ways of growing animal protein, it uses little or no land, and has low greenhouse emissions. And while the world has traditionally had a bad record of regulating wild fishing, fish farming generally occurs within the boundaries of governments, meaning it should, in theory, be much easier to ensure that good practices are upheld.
Crowding large numbers of fish into limited spaces means that waste products, including waste, uneaten food and dead fish, are poured into the surrounding waters, polluting them. Besides, the pesticides and drugs used to treat conditions that upset fish in concentrated numbers can also affect local wildlife. Many farmed fish are fed on other fish, so the industry also puts pressure on wild stocks: about a fifth of all caught fish, some 18 million tonnes, is used for fish oil and fish meal production. There is also the problem of fish escaping, with potentially dangerous effects on surrounding ecosystems.
In 2018 the Scottish Parliament’s environment committee published a report into the fish farming industry’s environmental effects, stating that key problems simply hadn’t been tackled, and that the Scottish government’s plan to double salmon output by 2030could cause “irrecoverable damage” to ecosystems. Since then, protections have been toughened. There is now more pressure from regulators to situate farms in remote, deep-water locations. Meanwhile, though, catches of Scottish wild salmon have fallen to their lowest level since records began in 1952. “There are good reasons for fish farming and real dangers to it as well.” concludes an official. “The question is how to make it work.”
1. What does the underlined word “upheld” in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Supported. | B．Allowed. | C．Prohibited. | D．Admitted. |
| A．The reasons for fish farming. |
| B．The downsides of aquaculture. |
| C．The development of sea exploring. |
| D．The effects of aquaculture on surrounding farming. |
| A．The Scottish government plans to double fish output now. |
| B．The problems of fish farming are likely to be solved. |
| C．The fish farming industry has no effect on environment. |
| D．The massive fish farming may damage ecosystems. |
| A．Objective. | B．Doubtful. | C．Critical. | D．Disapproving. |
