1 . Traveling means going from one place to another or from one country to another. It is immensely beneficial in many ways. From cutting down on stress to lowering your chances of developing heart disease, the health benefits of traveling are huge. Furthermore, traveling fosters understanding between nations. It is an important factor in establishing world peace.
Traveling and education both are interrelated. During traveling, a traveler visits different places and comes into contact with people in different regions. Thus it provides the traveler with first-hand knowledge. The knowledge we acquire in schools and colleges is mainly bookish in nature.
In general, it can be said that traveling essentially has a great educative value. Traveling is adventurous, exciting, and a great stress buster. So, educational institutions of our country should give greater facilities to their students to undertake tours to various places of importance at home and abroad.
| A．Finally, traveling has great educative value. |
| B．Traveling widens our view and removes our stress. |
| C．Thus, traveling should be made an essential part of our education. |
| D．Traveling is to gather experience, and wisdom comes from experience. |
| E．They seldom go out of their classroom and most have a narrow outlook. |
| F．But we can know much more of them if we see those with our own eyes. |
| G．In most cases, theoretical studies have no practical applications in our life. |
Marie was upset. The single mom worked late shift but never managed to sleep past 6: 00 am because of the garbage collectors! “Don’t make any noise!” she screamed out of her window. “People are trying to sleep!”
“Sorry, Madam,” Jeff the garbage collector, said. “We’re trying our best to avoid producing noise. And we’re just doing our job!” Marie stared at him and shut her window angrily. Jeff emptied the heavy garbage cans into the back of the truck. “You fool,” Marie said. She never expected that very soon she’d be very grateful to the young man she had just screamed at.
A week later, Marie woke at 5: 55 am because of the stomach pain. She got up and headed for the bathroom, but on her way she started feeling dizzy and sick and broke into a cold sweat. “David!” Marie cried for her six-year-old son. “David, help me!” When David got up and reached her, Marie was lying on the floor. “Get help,” she whispered to him. The little boy saw his mom was lying on the floor unconscious and started crying.
He wondered whom he could turn to for help. They were new in town and had no family there. And at that time, neighbors were all sleeping. Just then, the garbage truck came to collect garbage. David then rushed outside and cried anxiously, “Help! Help!” Hearing it, Jeff and his teammate quickly got to David! After knowing what had happened, Jeff called an ambulance and comforted David.
Soon, the ambulance arrived. The medical workers checked Marie and found the unconsciousness was caused by anaemia(贫血). They gave her first aid and claimed that Marie would recover soon. But she needed to go to hospital and be treated with injections. Then, Marie was taken away.
David cried sadly for his mom. Jeff accompanied him, patting him on the shoulder and saying, “Don’t be afraid, and your mom will be back soon.” The six-year-old boy nodded as if he could understand. Jeff couldn’t bear to leave the little boy alone at home. After asking for a leave of absence, Jeff stayed to take care of David.
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Then, Jeff followed David into his room and tried his best to help him.
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Several hours later, Marie headed home hurriedly after she was allowed to leave hospital.
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3 . The world is on a fast track toward an autonomous future. From off-road tractors and rural transit systems to air vehicles and space exploration, automation will enhance safety, increase efficiency and improve people’s lives. The more we can automate, the more we can protect people’s life and happiness.
To make the autonomous future safe and secure, manufacturers and operators will need reliable, assured positioning, said Michael Ritter, president of Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division. At the HxGN LIVE Global 2022 event, he gave an overview of assured positioning and demonstrated how it provides the foundation for safe autonomy.
Ritter explained how positioning technologies can enable the future of autonomy for good publicity across industries including agriculture, mining and automotive. “We’ve all heard about autonomy,” he said. “What’s one of the big problems there? It doesn’t always work as advertised.” He mentioned Tesla’s AutoPilot as an example. “In our industry, the non-consumer world, we can’t have that,” he added. “We need to have autonomy solutions that we can trust.” “If that is not a hundred percent waterproof, crystal clear, and protected from outside interference (干扰) and cybersecurity threats, you can’t trust that positioning,” he said. “We have to know where we are at all times, and we cannot have that signal falsified (歪曲).”
While Ritter doesn’t think he’ll see the universal use of autonomous vehicles in passenger traffic during his lifetime “because laws will be in the way,” he said applications in “off-road autonomy—construction, mining and agriculture—are here today, which all take place in controllable spaces; laws are not such a big problem,” he said. “This is happening right now. We don’t have to wait 10 to 20 years for that.”
However, a big safety challenge in expanding autonomy is anticipating all the corner cases, or “all the stuff that could happen once in a lifetime,” Ritter said. Those can be overcome by real-life testing, multiplying that with simulation (模拟) “a hundred million times over,” and then going “back into real life” and performing “real, extreme Testing.”
1. What’s Ritter’s purpose of mentioning Tesla’s AutoPilot?| A．To show its good publicity. | B．To advocate its assured positioning. |
| C．To put forward reliable autonomy solutions. | D．To serve as a reminder for the non-consumer world. |
| A．Cautious. | B．Optimistic. | C．Doubtful. | D．Objective. |
| A．Real and extreme testing. | B．Real-life testing. |
| C．A big safe challenge. | D．Expanding autonomy. |
| A．Big challenges for future automation. | B．The impact of automation on daily life. |
| C．Necessary regulations for safe automation. | D．Different fields of automation development. |
4 . Indonesia has an ambitious biofuel program, which promotes the use of crude palm oil (CPO)(棕榈油), in increasingly higher mixes with conventional diesel(柴油)to reduce the non-renewable element and increase the renewable. Currently 30 percent is CPO and 70 percent is diesel. And it has been believed to become one of the key contributors for Indonesia’s action plan for meeting its carbon-emissions-reduction(减少碳排放)target. Of course it has an additional benefit as well in reducing Indonesia’s dependence on expensive oil imports.
During a recent Group of 20 conference, an official from Indonesia’s Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry (ESDM) stated that “biofuels are vital for the development of a green economy to achieve a just and people-centered energy transition”. According to ESDM, Indonesia produced 16.3 million kiloliters (kl) of B30-biodiesel in 2021, a significant increase from 13.3 million kl in 2020, giving the government the confidence to expand the biofuel program and funding.
However, the most positive direction to take is the processing of used cooking oil into biofuel as this makes use of a readily available and massively under-recycled product. Every hotel, restaurant and café has used cooking oil and then usually just throws it away, which wastes a valuable resource and pollutes the places where it goes at the same time! Recycling and processing the used cooking oil is a great way to make biofuel, which can be organized on a city level through the hotel and restaurant associations, and at the residential level through the RT/RW network.
The use of CPO, while better than the use of petrol based oil, still has the stigma of the origins of the artificial forests which have all replaced primary forests over the last 50 years, and therefore cannot claim 100 percent sustainability. However, using grown and replaceable resources is better than the non-renewable route. The best of all is trying to do at least a semi-circular economy approach with the repurposing of the used cooking oil. Let us hope there will be an entire petrol-purifying plant for this in the near future as well.
1. What contribution has the biofuel program made for Indonesia7| A．Decreasing the renewable resources. |
| B．Helping reduce the release of carbon. |
| C．Increasing profit by exporting biofuel |
| D．Gaining total independence on foreign oil |
| A．Every restaurant has recycled the used cooking oil. |
| B．We can cook with the abandoned cooking oil. |
| C．The government is responsible for the wasted oil. |
| D．Used cooking oil for processing biofuels is sufficient. |
| A．Minor fault. | B．Challenge. | C．Trick. | D．Strong point. |
| A．Reserved. | B．Negative. | C．Optimistic | D．Curious. |
5 . Contrary to “popular opinion”, the scientific pursuit for knowledge is not a predictable process. To make new discoveries, researchers need the freedom to be creative, fail, and learn by chance. This aspect is similar to art. This is why Wageningen scientists look to artists for inspiration and exchange ideas about how to increase creative freedom.
“Science and art are two different ways to make something understandable. They both provide a perspective on reality,” says Biochemistry Professor Dolf Weijers. “From the outside, the research process looks very formal and the artistic process looks somewhat messy. But the scientific process can also unfold in an unpredictable way.”
“Scientists can learn a lot from artists,” says Weijers. “Association and creativity are central to art. Those aspects require more attention in science as the creative process is the key of science.”
“As a scientist, you use different methods, but it is equally about how you visualize(可视化) your understanding of reality and the connections that there are. This is sometimes just as visual as art,” says Weijers. One example is a recent special project in which Weijers and his colleague Joris Sprakel, professor of Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter, measured the forces that act on plant cells. A molecular(分子的)sensor was used to visualize the different forces. They showed the results in colorful images, each representing a different force.
What science and art also have in common is that they are topics of discussion in society. There are people who say that they do not value art and people who mistrust science. Weijers says, “It often creates the wrong impression because only the results of scientific studies are presented, and people do not have any insight into the process leading to discovery. As a scientist, you are doubted if you say that something is different a few years later. Then you are viewed as unreliable. But what is often poorly understood is that there are no final results in science. What we scientists can achieve in the coming period is to provide more chances for people to focus on the process. Personally, I think that the connection with art can help to lead the focus on the process than the result.”
1. What might be the “popular opinion” about the scientific discovery?| A．It is creative. | B．It can be accidental. |
| C．It allows failures. | D．It is predictable. |
| A．totally differs from the scientific one |
| B．normally looks formal and controlled |
| C．offers inspiration for scientific research |
| D．focuses on putting the messy in order |
| A．To prove that science can be visualized like art. |
| B．To stress that understanding science is difficult. |
| C．To show the value of his scientific achievements. |
| D．To tell obvious differences between science and art. |
| A．They have little to do with the discoveries. |
| B．Their process should be more open to people. |
| C．They always present unchanged final results. |
| D．Their focus is not the process but the result. |
I had never noticed her. She was not the kind of girl who could draw attention. She was not tall and just plain. In class, she liked sitting at the back, reading or taking notes. It was once I asked her to read aloud the text that I looked at her with new eyes when I heard her standard American pronunciation. Later on, the National College English Speech Contest would be held. I thought it over and filled in her name with a smile. I red-penciled her draft of speech, corrected her pronunciation, and even adjusted her body language.
However, I was always kind of worried because she was too introvert(内向的)and too quiet. Could she seize this rare opportunity?
On the night of the contest, I told her to take it easy. Blushed(脸红的), she looked at me and said nothing.
My heart sank. It seemed that she did tense up. I pated her and let her go to draw lots(抽签). As a result, what she drew was No. 9 while No. 8 was recognized English master-hand(高手).
Sure enough, the English master-hand was fairly successful in the speech with his humor and highly personal style. The whole audience would make a warm applause almost every 30 seconds until she appeared on the stage, still talking over his speech with excitement.
My palms began to sweat. I sat there, with no courage to look at her. It was the first time that she went up the stage, so I couldn't blame her for any slips. But at that moment, I found I was so scared of her failure.
The strong spotlight made her so small and so insignificant that nobody seemed to notice she had been on the stage, I said to myself, no hope.
But the moment that shocked me occurred. I clearly heard a voice, a very loud voice, “Now, please focus on me.” She said this sentence three times in all, louder and louder.
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The whole audience fell silent.
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______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7 . The “little voice in your head” can be your worst critic and greatest supporter. It’s been known to help with directions, give advice, and even remind you to put potatoes on the grocery list.
But does everyone have an inner monologue(独白)? For a long time, it was assumed that an inner voice was simply part of being human. But it turns out, that’s not the case—not everyone processes life in words and sentences.
“By inner monologue, we mean that we can have private speech that’s addressed to ourselves and that is carried out without any sound,” said Helene Loevenbruck, a senior neurolinguistics researcher at CNRS.
With true inner speech, you almost “hear” your inner voice, she told Live Science. You’re aware of its tone and intonation (语调). For example, the voice can “sound” angry or worried.
This long-held assumption was first challenged in the late 1990s by Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Hurlburt studied participants’ inner speech by asking them to wear a beeper(传呼机). Whenever the device beeped, they had to write down what they were thinking or experiencing in their mind just before the sound.
Perhaps the participant wrote down, “I need to buy some bread.” He would then ask if that’s what they actually thought. “Or did you think ‘bread’? Or were you hungry?” Loevenbruck explained. After several meetings, participants got better at articulating (流利连贯地表达)their true thoughts, she said. Eventually, this method revealed that some people had inner speech every time the device beeped. But others had less inner speech than usual, and some didn’t have inner speech at all. They experienced images, sensations and emotions, but not a voice or words.
The lack of an inner monologue has been linked to a condition called aphantasia (心盲症)sometimes called “blindness of the mind’s eye.” People who experience aphantasia can’t mentally picture their bedroom or their mother’s face. Many times, those who don’t experience visualizations don’t experience clear inner speech, either, Loevenbruck noted.
1. What was previously assumed about the inner monologue?| A．It rarely existed in humans. | B．It could help solve all kinds of problems. |
| C．It was something everyone was born with. | D．It was mainly displayed in the form of writing. |
| A．It lacks tone and intonation. | B．It is delivered in public. |
| C．It can be heard by others. | D．It can convey emotions. |
| A．He used a beeper to note down participants’ inner speech. |
| B．He required participants to describe their grocery lists. |
| C．He checked participants’ notes and asked about their true thoughts. |
| D．He placed something in participants’ heads to record their inner speech. |
| A．They suffer serious brain damage. | B．They cannot distinguish what they see. |
| C．They misunderstand their true thoughts. | D．They fail to mentally picture what they see. |
A week before Halloween, my young children wild with great happiness were walking and running around our home in their Halloween costumes. Just then the babysitter called, telling me that she was extremely sorry for asking for a day off. I knew that emergencies did occur, and I told her that I completely understood. But what was actually going through my mind were feelings of frustration and self-pity. And I had to pack my three kids into the car, and then drove to the hospital.
On the way, numerous things flooded into my mind, and I especially thought about how life should be going. I was thirty years old, a mother of three girls-five-year-old twins and a one-year-old baby. At this moment, I should be playing with them in the park or visiting the library together. But I was, once again, going to see the doctor. It had been a year since I was diagnosed with cancer. I knew that I was one of the lucky ones. I was grateful that surgery and chemotherapy (化疗) were over, and this was just a routine blood test. As always, there was the remaining fear that the cancer would come back. To be honest, my family and friends were great during the past year when I was in bad condition, but they were also busy with their lives. Therefore, I did not want to burden them with my feelings of unhappiness. What I just wanted to see were the positive things in life and I really wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to them.
When we finally arrived, we sat in a crowded waiting room. Nothing special occurred until my youngest daughter, dressed up as an angel, walked up to a woman who was in a wheelchair and accompanied by her caregiver. My daughter looked at the woman and pointed to the vending (售货) machine next to her, saying sweetly, “Tweet.” This was how she said “Trick or Treat”, who had been coached previously by her twin sisters.
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Surprisingly, the woman, a complete stranger to us, knew exactly what my daughter meant.
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My daughters thanked everyone who gave them treats.
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9 . I grew up like every other teenager of the 80’ and 90’—watching MTV. One day, I decided I was also going to become a rock star and perform on MTV. Then I set off to work to make that dream come true, but I found that doing my own thing was a completely different ball game.
For the first time, I started to listen to things I’d never listened to before, like the drums.
Music taught me a lot about being a creator. The world is so full of stuff that it’s easy to sit back and just consume it.
| A．However, creating is hard. |
| B．I became curious about life. |
| C．I became an active hunter-gatherer of ideas. |
| D．Music opened up to me on a whole new level. |
| E．The beat and the sounds even made me dance. |
| F．You’ll transform from a consumer to a creator some day. |
| G．This required a whole new way of thinking, seeing and listening. |
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