6 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Zaha Hadid

Born in Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid was the first woman to win the Pritzker prize, the field’s highest honor. But for years, she had to fight to prove that her designs could even be built. She was a pioneer in Deconstructivism: Designing buildings that looked unstable, jagged, or frozen in mid-explosion. She gained a reputation for her gorgeous, fantastical designs—painted by hand. But her ideas looked impossible to build, so they remained on paper.

Then, in 1983, she won a big competition to design a club in the hills of Hong Kong. Hadid proposed carving chunks out of the mountainside, which she called a “man-made geology.” The project was eventually canceled, but the world of architecture then knew her name.

Still, it took another decade before one of her concepts actually got built: A fire station in Germany with no right angles; looking like it could take flight. It was a great success—quickly becoming a prime example of Deconstructivist architecture.

Around the same time, she won an international competition to design an opera house in Wales, but it was overruled by local politicians, and the funding was pulled. Later, Hadid said it was resistance and prejudice that killed the project.

But she kept winning competitions, building momentum—and finally, buildings! By the early 2000s, she was an architecture superstar. She still drew by hand, but adopted new computer technology to model her designs. The software made even wilder shapes possible—including the curves that became her signature. A Hadid design was no longer crazy or impossible—it was simply a Hadid.

Sadly, she died of a heart attack in 2016. By then she had built hundreds of buildings, with many more in progress. And she had proved she could build nearly anything she could imagine.

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7 . Of Special Interest to Freshman

Freshman Seminars are small classes just for freshmen, with some of York’s most distinguished faculty members. Some seminars provide an introduction to a particular field of study; others take an interdisciplinary (跨学科的) approach to a variety of topics. All seminars provided a friendly environment for developing relationships with faculty members and peers.	STARS (Science, Technology, and Research Scholars) provides undergraduates of every year with an opportunity to combine research, course-based study, and development of mentorship skills. The program offers research opportunities and support to students historically underrepresented in the fields of natural science and quantitative reasoning, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and the physically challenged. More than 100 students each year participate in STARS, during the academic year or over the summer months.
Directed Studies is a selective freshman interdisciplinary program focusing on Western civilization that includes three yearlong courses —literature, philosophy, and historical and political thought — in which students read the foundational works of the Western tradition.	Perspectives on Science and Engineering is a lecture and discussion course for about 75 selected freshmen who have exceptionally strong backgrounds in science or mathematics. The yearlong course explores a broad range of topics, exposes students to questions at the frontiers of science, and connects the first-year students to York’s Scientific community.
Academic Advising is a collective effort by the residential colleges, academic departments and various offices connected to York University Dean’s office. Students’ primary academic advisors are their residential college deans, to whom they may always turn for academic and personal advice. The deans live in residential colleges and supervise the advising networks in the college. Students also have a freshman advisor who is a York faculty member or administrator affiliated with their advisees’ residential college. Each academic department has a director of undergraduate studies (DUS) who can discuss with students the department’s course offerings and requirements for majors.	Science and Engineering Undergraduate Research York is one of the world’s foremost research universities. Independent engineering research and design projects and scientific research are an essential part of undergraduate science education at York. Science students can begin conducting original research as early as the freshman year. Ninety-five percent of undergraduate science majors engaged in research with faculty mentors.

1. An African female freshman seeking opportunities of research is most likely to choose _____.

A．Freshman Seminars	B．Directed Studies
C．STARS	D．Perspectives on Science and Engineering

2. In which program may the science majors be guided to read Shakespeare’s works?

A．Academic Advising.

B．Directed Studies.

C．STARS.

D．Freshman Seminars.

3. Which freshman may have priority to attend Perspectives on Science and Engineering?

A．The one who has already got a novel published.

B．A medalist of the International Mathematical Olympiad.

C．The one who has designed an original engineering project.

D．An applicant for York’s Scientific Community.

4. Which of the following is TRUE about the residential colleges?

A．Deans of most academic departments live with students there.

B．Directors of undergraduate studies of most majors work together there.

C．The college deans serve as the principal figures in an advising network.

D．The college deans engage in scientific research with selected freshmen.

8 . Many people learn at an early age to associate the color red with danger. So might it make sense to print medication   ________ in red ink? And since the color blue is known to call to mind the freedom of open skies, might it help artists to   ________ in a studio painted in that color? According to new research into how the brain reacts to ________ , the answer to both of these questions is yes. The study revealed that the color red seems to improve a subject’s attention to ________ , while blue appears to stimulate creativity—all without the subject realizing that his or her brain is being influenced.

“People are not ________ this effect at all,” marveled the study’s lead researcher Juliet Zhu, who studies the effects of environmental cues on behavior. To study the brain’s response to specific colors, Zhu’s team administered a series of   ________ tests to college students. For most of the tests, the students were placed in front of a computer screen that was colored either red or blue.

The researchers found that when the screen was red, subjects performed better on detail-oriented tasks. In one test,   ________ , students were asked to memorize a list of words. Zhu found that students who studied the list displayed on a red screen were able to recall more words than students who studied the list on a ________ screen.

In other tests, creative abilities seemed to be ________ by looking at the color blue. For instance, the students were asked to brainstorm potential uses for bricks. Students sitting in front of blue screens tended to come up with ideas that were   ________ , such as “make a paperweight” and “build a pet scratching post.” Students sitting in front of a red screen, on the other hand, were more likely to list ________ uses for bricks, such as “build a house.”

Researchers concluded from the tests that seeing red causes people to take the extra time to think ________ when performing detail-oriented tasks, such as ________ , proofreading— and, of course, reading those all-important warning labels. ________ most people learn early in their development that red signifies potential danger, Zhu said, seeing red perhaps helps people to slow down in order to perform at their best in a potentially risky situation. Seeing blue, on the other hand, produces images of the sky, freedom and peace. Perhaps these images, researchers supposed, ________ feelings. “It’s really this learned association with these colors that drives these different motivations,” Zhu said.

1.

A．instructions

B．symptoms

C．warnings

D．treatments

2.

A．create

B．relax

C．decorate

D．design

3.

A．skies

B．medication

C．colors

D．paint

4.

A．danger

B．detail

C．emotions

D．vigor

5.

A．distracted by

B．aware of

C．content with

D．curious about

6.

A．cognitive

B．intelligence

C．mental

D．memory

7.

A．on one hand

B．at the same time

C．for example

D．that is

8.

A．grey

B．blue

C．green

D．white

9.

A．proven

B．acquired

C．recognized

D．enhanced

10.

A．more abstract

B．more positive

C．more innovative

D．more valuable

11.

A．practical

B．academic

C．economical

D．profitable

12.

A．critically

B．logically

C．carefully

D．independently

13.

A．painting

B．memorizing

C．designing

D．brainstorming

14.

A．Unless

B．When

C．Since

D．Though

15.

A．turn up

B．stir up

C．set off

D．give off

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。1.

A．“Internet of Everything” enables smarter food labels.

B．Milk bottles will be installed with computer smarts.

C．Computers and smartphones are equipped with smart chips.

D．Flexible chips for everything have been developed currently.

2.

A．The way they are produced will be traced.

B．The user’s physical health will be monitored.

C．The use-by date will be changed remotely.

D．Their prices will be raised accordingly.

3.

A．Lack of profits.	B．Technological problem.
C．Protection of data.	D．Lack of enthusiasm.