1 . When looking at ways to expand your business, does it make sense to go global? The answer is yes — expanding to international markets helps companies grow, increases buying power and diversifies market opportunities. It better prepares the company for changes in the _________ economy. It can result in increased profits, a diverse customer base and improved stability.

Before the pandemic, _________ expansion almost always meant international travel. _________ bias (偏见) in some countries historically made business expansion difficult for women, and international travel can _________ the delicate work-life balance entrepreneurs (企业家) of both sexes strive to maintain.

The Covid-19 pandemic _________ global e-commerce and opportunities. The world is conducting business _________ with far more success than anticipated. This shift to business by the internet presents tremendous global opportunities for women as it effectively makes the situation _________.

Conducting business on the internet _________ the complications of gender, race, religion, color and lifestyle, simplifying business down to the principles of supply and demand. This opens more doors for growth and enables entrepreneurs to study potential markets and the buyer’s journey from the _________of their own office.

So, how can you accomplish successful international expansion? First, identify your target market, and then develop an inbound marketing strategy.

This involves providing all the information your target consumers need on your __________ so consumers can find you and research the answers to their initial questions on their own. With a defined inbound strategy, well-written content and social media outreach, you can bring __________ buyers to you instead of continually searching for new buyers.

A vital part of your global inbound marketing strategy will be to translate important information from your website into your target consumer’s native language. Even if your target consumers are multilingual, most __________ to buy from sites that provide information in their native language.

Then how can you develop your inbound marketing strategy? The first step is to select a market that __________ your company goals and marketing strategy. Choose one country, one language, and develop a multilingual marketing strategy that defines your goals and prepares you to connect with prospective buyers. Once you create the plan and process for the first country, you can copy it when you’re ready to expand into __________ markets.

You might believe that your business is too small to get involved with __________ — but consider this: When you make use of the power of the internet, it doesn’t matter if your company is large or small. The key is to shift your focus from outbound to inbound marketing — and bring buyers to you.

1.

A．booming

B．domestic

C．current

D．industrial

2.

A．rapid

B．successful

C．further

D．global

3.

A．Gender

B．Media

C．Cultural

D．Political

4.

A．keep

B．upset

C．promote

D．restore

5.

A．looks into

B．breaks down

C．speeds up

D．responds to

6.

A．desperately

B．efficiently

C．securely

D．remotely

7.

A．fair

B．worse

C．real

D．reliable

8.

A．increases

B．promotes

C．removes

D．illustrates

9.

A．angle

B．comfort

C．relief

D．imagination

10.

A．desk

B．website

C．shoulder

D．market

11.

A．qualified

B．wealthy

C．foreign

D．optimistic

12.

A．intend

B．hesitate

C．volunteer

D．prefer

13.

A．attaches to

B．benefits from

C．sees through

D．agrees with

14.

A．commercial

B．additional

C．overseas

D．private

15.

A．marketing

B．financing

C．exporting

D．training

2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. battle	B. built-in	C. candidate	D. carbon-free	E. commercial	F. contained
G. costly	H. demonstrated	I. footprint	J. financed	K. growing

Several Carmakers Push Plans to Offer Hydrogen-powered Vehicles

Several big automakers recently announced plans to keep investing in hydrogen vehicle technology. The plans come even as many industry experts believe the technology faces a major uphill     1     to compete against battery-powered electric cars.

Hydrogen-powered cars are also known as fuel cell electric vehicles, or FCEVs. With these vehicles, fuel cells convert (转化) hydrogen gas into electricity. This differs from electric vehicles, or EVs, which get their power from a     2     battery.

Last month, the chief of Japan’s Toyota Motors, Akio Toyoda, attended a race that     3     an experimental hydrogen vehicle. The vehicle     4     a traditional gasoline-powered engine that had been converted to run on hydrogen.

Toyoda told reporters at the event such conversions could keep traditional internal combustion engines (内燃机) running in a     5     world. This, he said, could avoid the need to completely leave behind internal combustion and save millions of auto industry jobs.

In Germany, BMW and Volkswagen Group are both developing hydrogen-powered passenger vehicles along with a series of new EVs. BMW said last month it has developed a hydrogen prototype (原型) based on its X5 model in a project partly     6     by the German government.

Officials at South Korean automaker Hyundai have also spoken about the importance of continuing to explore hydrogen-based vehicles along with developing EVs. The company currently sells a passenger fuel cell vehicle called the NEXO. And Hyundai announced it plans to offer hydrogen fuel cell versions for all its     7     vehicles by 2028.

In fuel cell technology, hydrogen combines with oxygen to produce electrical power. It is considered clean energy because the process only releases water and steam into the atmosphere. This makes the technology a good     8     for helping the world reduce its carbon emissions.

Currently, however, most of the hydrogen produced worldwide is made using natural gas or coal — both of which cause pollution. Supporters of the technology expect that to change over time. They say the     9     use of electricity from wind and solar energy will be able to separate hydrogen and oxygen in water. Those production methods, however, are more     10    .

3 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Laziness and Lack of Sleep Can Shorten Your Life, Especially When Combined

You already know that smoking is bad for you and that drinking too much alcohol may shorten your life. Now a new study says that spending too much time in a chair and not having enough sleep should join a short list of behaviors     1     (know) to increase your risk of premature death.

Sitting for a long time and lack of sleep were damaging in their own way, but when combined with more traditional risk factors,     2     had a multiplier effect that made an early death far more likely.

The findings, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, make clear that “some risk behaviors tend to come together and     3     the joint risk could be much higher than the sum of the individual risks”.

For instance, smoking was     4     (dangerous) single risk factor among the six studied. The small number of people for     5     smoking was their only bad habit were 90 percent more likely to die during the course of the study than people who were with practical clean living in every aspect. People who reported high alcohol consumption as their only risk factor did not seem     6     (put) their lives in danger. But for those who combined heavy drinking with smoking, the risk of premature death was doubled. And when lack of sleep     7     (add) to the mix, the likelihood of an early death was nearly five times greater     8     lack of sleep by itself had only a light effect on death.

These numbers are based on the lives of 231,048 Australians.

    9     (consider) factors such as age, gender, education and other factors, the researchers saw a clear pattern. It was a person’s bad lifestyle     10     contributed to his or her risk of premature death.

4 . Engaging in Family Meals

Engaging in family meals may be a matter of improving communication and support at home. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, connects less family discouragement and better family communication with a higher likelihood to eat evening family meals and family breakfasts together, and not in front of a television. The researchers surveyed 259 patients who participated in weight management and weight loss programs at the Ohio State University or Wake Forest University.     1    

“It’s important to note all family members in the home have influence,” lead study author Keeley J. Pratt, PhD, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, said of the findings that any family member can influence the adoption and maintenance of healthy patterns and behaviors in the home.     2     The study also found parents who perceived their child to be overweight were more than four times as likely to talk to them about the kid’s weight, also called “weight talk.”

“While open communication with children about health is beneficial, it’s important to ensure communication directly about children’s weight is not harmful in their development of a healthy body image and behaviors. That includes older children and adolescents who are at greater risk of developing eating disorders and disordered eating behaviors,” Professor Pratt said.     3     Families with younger children, regardless of gender, were more likely to eat family dinners and breakfasts together, and parents of older children were more likely to talk about their own weight with the child. As kids grow up, the relationship between kids and their parents becomes better.

    4     “Understanding these associations will provide essential evidence needed to design future family-based interventions for these patients to help in their behavior change and weight loss, prevent the beginning of obesity in children, and enhance positive family meal practices and healthy communication about weight,” Professor Pratt said.

A．The study shows parents of older children were more likely to talk about their own weight with the child.

B．They found parents with better family communication were more likely to participate in family meals.

C．There was no significant difference between male and female children in this study.

D．This was the first study specifically to examine the home eating habits of adult patients.

E．Previous study has shown parental obesity (肥胖) is the strongest risk for children’s obesity.

F．Someone has no power to influence the family, but they are influencing each other.

5 .

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1. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．News on teaching.	B．News on creativity.
C．News on technology.	D．News on caffeine.

2. Which headline as follows is suitable for Mar. 14, 2022?

A．More Methods Help You Creative	B．Many Ways Help You Succeed
C．Anyone Can Be Creative	D．Everyone Can Be Stimulated

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Highly creative people work differently than others.

B．Anyone can find inspiration and new ways to create.

C．Encouraging kids to help others is a way to improve their creativity.

D．A new neuroimaging study leads to human creativity.

6 . Shanghai Regulation to Help Boost AI

Shanghai’s decision to boost the development of the artificial intelligence industry will promote the city’s digital transformation and its efforts to build itself into an international AI highland, experts said in an interview.

The city passed a regulation on boosting AI just months ago, marking the first such effort in China at the provincial level.     1    

“This regulation emphasizes industry innovation and guidance for future development,” said Yan Rui, director of legal affairs in the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress, at a recent media briefing. “    2     It will also strongly support the digital transformation of Shanghai, and assist creation of an AI highland with global influence.” Yan said.

One highlight of the AI regulation is that the municipal departments concerned could draw up lists of minor violations during the development of the AI industry which would not receive administrative punishment. “    3     It is the same case with AI. Therefore, it is an international agreement to allow for minor errors during the research and development process,” said Weng Guanxi, a lawyer at a Shanghai-based law firm. The regulation gives a clear definition of AI and the AI industry and encourages innovative activities in the field by people, enterprises and organizations.

    4     In 2021, the combined output value of AI enterprises above a designated size, or with an annual revenue of 20 million yuan ($16.85 million) or above, reached 305 billion yuan, 2.28 times that of 2018, according to China Securities Journal. The number of talented professionals working in the AI field in Shanghai has soared from 100,000 in 2018 to 230,000 in 2021, said a Xinhua News Agency report.

A．The AI industry worldwide is undergoing orderly transformation.

B．The regulation came into effect on October 1, just as planned.

C．Shanghai’s AI industry scale has expanded dramatically in the past few years.

D．Government and the related division’s responsibilities are all within the framework of established laws and regulations.

E．The regulation on AI intends to facilitate various stimulations for the high-quality development of the AI industry.

F．The core of scientific research is that it is a process of constantly making mistakes and distinguishing right from wrong.

7 . Alain Aspect, a French physicist, who won a long-expected Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday (October 4, 2022), contributed a lot in proving the theory of quantum entanglement (量子缠绕), a theory — famously raised by Albert Einstein — that when a particle (粒子) is split into two, the properties of the two new particles remain connected, as if by an invisible piece of string, regardless of how far apart they are. It remained a theory until Aspect and his team proved it in a laboratory experiment for the first time in 1981, involving two photons (光子) at a distance of 12 meters.

Quantum strangeness has fascinated Aspect as a physicist. Awarded along with Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger and John Clauser from the United States, Aspect emphasised the importance of international scientific cooperation. “He is one of those professors in physics. A whole community today works under his leadership,” said Retailleau, a former president of Paris-Saclay University. “Aspect is also a ‘tireless teacher’ who gives impressive lectures”, she added. His former student Olivier Reymond, who is now working on developing a quantum processor, said, “As well as passing his passion for physics on to his students, Aspect is also a food lover who will tell you all about his recipes for the goose liver.”

Alain Aspect is widely recognized for his experimental test of Bell’s inequalities, proposed by the late John Bell in 1964, and the related tests require measurements to be made on photons moving apart in opposite directions to look for connections between some of their physical properties, for instance, their polarizations. Aspect’s major contribution was to propose a feasible experimental scheme to make these measurements by rapidly changing the orientation of polarizers while photons moved through the device, and even more importantly, to implement it successfully in his experiments.

Sheila Rowan, president of the Institute of Physics which publishes Physics World, congratulated the team on their “well-deserved” recognition. “This is an area of physics with ongoing, profound impact, at a fundamental level to help understand the world around us and being explored for use in highly novel technologies for sensing and communication today,” she added.

Indeed, Aspect’s experiments have attracted enormous attention and triggered a string of theoretical and experimental work on quantum entanglement. As a result, new avenues have been explored in quantum computers, which in principle could outperform traditional computers at some tasks. We are generating more data now than ever before, need to analyse that data in more complex ways, and get results out faster. Quantum computing could help us to find new properties in the production of new materials for everyday use and it could also reduce power consumption within the manufacturing process. With quantum computing, research can be moved from the lab onto the computer where multiple imitations can be run while stretching your companies research and development budget further.

1. According to paragraph 2, Aspect is ______ as well as a physicist.

A．a tiresome professor	B．an inspiring teacher
C．a cross-cultural food lover	D．an empathetic community leader

2. It can be concluded about Aspect’s experiment that ______.

A．few people can comprehend its complicated process

B．interpersonal communication is promoted because of it

C．it was conducted successfully decades before Aspect won the Nobel Prize

D．Sheila Rowan played quite an important role in the publication of the result

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Aspect deserves the Prize for theoretical contributions to computing.

B．The team’s findings will bring about changes both in science and daily life.

C．Aspect is working as the president in Paris-Saclay University for the moment.

D．The team’s main contribution is the finding of practical methods in experimenting.

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A．Fruitful Joint Efforts in Popular Science

B．Alain Aspect — A Theoretical Physicist

C．Nobel Prize — For Experimental Purpose

D．Ground-breaking Achievement in Physics

8 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Closer to Equality

Left. Right. Left. Right again.

Getting lost in the rhythm of my turns was one of my favorite parts of skiing. Whenever I feel the soft, powdery snow beneath my skis, I feel like I’m capable of     1    .

I started skiing when I was just three years old. While the other children in my group     2     (mess) around, I was busy rolling down the small slopes. Although there were many difficulties, I soon mastered the basic concepts     3     (underlie) the art of turning.

I decided to take my skiing     4     the next level and joined a team when I was seven. Riding the chairlift with my mother, I saw free skiers spinning through the air. I immediately knew which team I wanted to join: free skiing, an event heavily     5     (dominate) by boys.

As soon as I joined the team, I was placed at its       6     (low) level. However, I never stopped climbing the rankings     7     I was placed into the highest group. At that point, I was the only girl on my team. I was put down at first; nobody wanted to ride the chairlift with me. But as time passed, I slowly became more accepted. And this entire process took three years.

In the past, having been forced to assume the roles of stay-at-home and motherly figures, women couldn’t imagine       8     they wanted to be. Even today, in some countries, there are still so many cases     9     people are not yet accepting the idea that women can make their own choices or pave their own paths. But if we are to fully accept these views, we will be able to move closer to equality.

Being a girl in such a sport can be difficult, but I’m actually thankful that my experiences have taught me to face whatever setbacks I meet with in life. I encourage you, all the girls,     10     (step) out of your comfort zone to show the boys that girls are just as powerful as they are.

9 . How to show others you care

The idea that kindness can boost happiness is hardly new. Studies have shown that prosocial behavior — basically, voluntarily helping others — can help lower people’s daily stress levels, and that simple acts of connection, like texting a friend, mean more than many of us realize.     1    

“I have found that kindness can be a really hard sell,” said Tara Cousineau, a clinical psychologist, “People desire kindness yet often feel troubled by the thought of being kind.”     2     They may question whether their gesture or gift will be misinterpreted, or whether it will make the recipient feel pressured to pay it back.

    3     Jennifer Oldham, who lost her 9-year-old daughter Hallie in July, recently created a Facebook group — Keeping Kindness for Hallie — that encourages participants to engage in random acts of kindness. People have bought groceries and donated school supplies in Hallie’s honor. “It will help your own heart, maybe even more than the recipients,” said Ms. Oldham.

If you are not already in the habit of performing random kind acts, or if it does not come naturally to you, start by thinking about what you like to do. It’s not about you being like, ‘Oh man, now I have to learn how to bake cookies in order to be nice’. It’s about:     4     And how can you turn that into an offering for other people?

A．What skills and talents do you already have?

B．Stress can also keep people from being kind to others.

C．Why are recipients less likely to appreciate a random act of kindness?

D．But an act of kindness is unlikely to fail, and in some instances it can create even more kindness.

E．People who perform a random act of kindness tend to underestimate how much the recipient will appreciate it.

F．But researchers who study kindness and friendship say they hope the new findings strengthen the scientific case for making these types of gestures more often.

10 . Colleges today often operate as machines for putting too many opportunities before already advantaged people. Our educational system focuses too much on helping students take the next step. But it does not give them adequate _______ in thinking about the substance of the lives toward which they are advancing. Many institutions today have _______ that it is an essential part of education to teach the young the art of choosing, and to train them to use _______ to decide which efforts deserve the investment of their lives.

We spent many years teaching on a college campus, trying to help students struggling with their confusion. Eventually, we sought to address this problem _______, by designing a course intended to introduce the young to the art of choosing. The course begins with Plato’s “Gorgias” — a messy dialogue that turns on a(n) _______ over whether the pursuit of virtue or of pleasure is the way to a good life. The dialogue ends _______; no one is satisfied. But with remarkable regularity, it _______ the kind of thinking that students need to better understand the choices that shape their lives.

Students’ first reaction to the “Gorgias” is disbelief, sometimes even horror. It is the dialogue’s _______ that alarms them: the idea that we can seriously argue about what represents the human good. Everything in their education has led them to believe that such arguments cannot bear fruit.

Most students are _______ to discover this art of choosing. Learning to reason about happiness is as delightful as discovering that one’s voice can be made to sing. Why, then, do institutions ________ teach it? In some cases, intelligence members are encouraged to ________ specialized research rather than thinking about the good life. In others, they share the belief that feeling is a more ________ guide to happiness than the mind.

Colleges should self-consciously prioritize initiating students into a culture of ________ reflection on how to live. Doing so will hold them ________ performing their proper work: helping young people learn to give reasons for the choices that shape their lives and to ________ about the ends they pursue.

1.

A．assistance

B．protection

C．recognition

D．treatment

2.

A．forgotten

B．promised

C．repeated

D．responded

3.

A．determination

B．imagination

C．memory

D．reason

4.

A．controversially

B．effortlessly

C．resistantly

D．systematically

5.

A．argument

B．lecture

C．performance

D．session

6.

A．automatically

B．inconclusively

C．indirectly

D．unnecessarily

7.

A．abuses

B．awakens

C．demonstrates

D．echoes

8.

A．assumption

B．pattern

C．progress

D．variation

9.

A．grateful

B．quick

C．reluctant

D．shocked

10.

A．commonly

B．effectively

C．rarely

D．strictly

11.

A．direct

B．emphasize

C．review

D．sponsor

12.

A．detailed

B．formal

C．qualified

D．reliable

13.

A．logical

B．moral

C．spiritual

D．theoretical

14.

A．eager for

B．patient with

C．responsible for

D．skilled at

15.

A．complain

B．experiment

C．question

D．reflect