1 . We place a great deal of importance on our history, but how important is it really?
A famous writer from the 20th and 21st centuries, Michael Crichton, once said, “if you don’t know history, you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a
History tells us where we come from, what we did right, and what we
As we head into the future together, it’s crucial to know not only our own history but also the history of our
We have
So, join us on a journey around the world and through time. Take a quick but condensed trip through the entire history of England, from its
| A．book | B．tree | C．history | D．world |
| A．optimistic | B．ambiguous | C．realistic | D．negative |
| A．nothing | B．everything | C．something | D．anything |
| A．miracle | B．tragedy | C．tale | D．friction |
| A．difference | B．mistakes | C．choices | D．decisions |
| A．did wrong | B．did differently | C．did the same | D．did the mess |
| A．hopes | B．signals | C．predictions | D．warnings |
| A．regret | B．confidence | C．gratitude | D．knowledge |
| A．rivals | B．friends | C．alliances | D．neighbors |
| A．culture | B．government | C．people | D．faith |
| A．brought up | B．brought back | C．brought together | D．brought about |
| A．collect | B．post | C．recommend | D．rewrite |
| A．reflecting on | B．digging into | C．depending on | D．appealing to |
| A．oldest | B．latest | C．earliest | D．farthest |
| A．ocean | B．continent | C．skyline | D．globe |
2 . People may typically think of memory as the recollection of the past. Memory enables people to learn from past experiences and apply that knowledge in present circumstances. It is a vital part of our identity. So is culture, the way of life specific to a group of people.
Cultural memory is the constructed understanding of the past that is passed from one generation to the next through text, oral traditions, monuments and other symbols. Cultural memory is often amassed in objects, such as museums or historical monuments. To understand culture, humans access a mass of cultural symbols, such as books. Artifacts (历史文物) of the past provide insights into where we came from. Libraries and the Internet keep a seemingly boundless amount of data on what it means to be part of a culture. Cultural memory is the longest-lasting form of memory.
Like all forms of memory, cultural memory has important functions. For example, it makes the experiences a nation owns clear. It provides us with an understanding of the past and the values of the group to which we belong. Besides, it creates a form of shared identity and a means for communicating this identity to new members. The most powerful forms of cultural memory may involve memories of past disastrous experiences undergone by groups of victims. For example, in Russia, their role in World War Ⅱ — in which tens of millions of Russians were killed — is still an important part of modern Russian identity. Because all groups have cultural memory, it can bring about a spirit of resistance or survival among threatened groups.
The main function of cultural memory is not to recall the past, whether it is good or bad. Rather, it is to use knowledge of past experiences to avoid making the same mistakes again and again. Aleida Assmann, a professor who has worked on memory theory since the 1960s, calls this “remembering forward”. Cultural memory enables people to adapt to their culture; it enables cultures to adapt to new circumstances by keeping traces (痕迹) of what worked in the past.
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?| A．Reporting a discovery of cultural memory. |
| B．Leading to the concept of cultural memory. |
| C．Introducing the importance of memory in identity. |
| D．Making a connection between memory and culture. |
| A．Stored. | B．Overlooked. | C．Evaluated. | D．Created. |
| A．the features of cultural memory | B．the formation of cultural memory |
| C．the role of big events in Russian identity | D．the impact of cultural memory on identity |
| A．Pass previous wisdom down. | B．Keep traces of history. |
| C．Get people to know about the past. | D．Remind people of their identity. |
3 . When it comes to going green, intention can be easier than action. Case in point: you decide to buy a T-shirt made from 100% organic (有机的) cotton, because everyone knows that organic is better for Earth. And in some way it is; in conventional cotton-farming, pesticides (杀虫剂) strip the soil of life. But that green label doesn’t tell the whole story. Or the possibility that the T-shirt may have been dyed (染色) using harsh industrial chemicals, which can pollute local groundwater.
It’s a question that most of us are ill equipped to answer, even as the debate over what is and isn’t green becomes all-important in a hot and crowded world.
But what if we could seamlessly calculate the full lifetime effect of our actions on the earth and on our bodies? What if we could think ecologically? That’s what psychologist Daniel Goleman describes in his forthcoming book, Ecological Intelligence. Using a young science called industrial ecology, businesses and green activists alike are beginning to compile the environmental and biological impact of our every decision — and delivering that information to consumers in a user-friendly way.
| A．If you knew all that, would you still consider the T-shirt green? |
| B．That’s thinking ecologically — understanding the global environmental consequences of our choices. |
| C．It’s going to have a radical impact on the way we do business. |
| D．Ecological intelligence is ultimately about more than what we buy. |
| E．Not just carbon footprints but social and biological footprints as well? |
| F．But nothing in evolution has prepared us to understand the accumulative impact industrial chemicals may have on us. |
| G．That’s because our ability to make complex products with complex supply chains has outpaced our ability to comprehend the consequences. |
During the May Day holiday, many Chinese people went out for travel,
Aside from traditional popular destinations, county tourism has developed into a new fashion and brought in new vitality (活力) into the tourism market. The tourism growth rate of small counties and towns is higher. Data from Alipay showed that many young
Tourists’ continuous enthusiasm for domestic travel is also proved by other factors, such as the number of short videos
Furthermore, the inbound (入境的) tourism market is further heating up as visa-free policies and easy payment services provide
Have you ever been so depressed that you can’t sleep? You also can’t eat. You can’t read. You have no friends to call up and nothing is good on TV. So you sigh, press your face down harder into your pillow, and shed a few tears.
This was my life two years ago. I had just turned 14 but already found life a struggle. As I lay in my bed one Saturday, Mom peeked (瞄) into my room to make her regular “Is Emily still alive” check. I knew that if I spent more time like this, she would begin dusting me. After suggesting a few things for me to do that I immediately rejected, Mom made her move, “Emily! Get dressed! I’m taking the dog out for a walk, and you’re coming with me!” “Why?” I protested. “Because it’ll make you feel better.”
The thought of moving was unbearable. I felt as if all of my body parts were weighed down by tons of bricks I couldn’t remember the last time I had gone outside. Somehow I found the strength to slip on a pair of jeans and a black sweatshirt. Mom was waiting at the door, leash (狗绳) in hand and dog at her side.
Then, we stepped outside. It was a warm March day and it had been a long time since the warmth of the sun had touched my cheeks. Mom led the dog and me down some dirt paths, through a big field and reached Halsey Pond. But the signs of spring had yet to appear and the scene was rather colorless throughout the entire journey.
“I’m tired! It’s boring, Mom! When can we go home?” “Not yet,” she’d say. Mom stopped to say hi to every jogger, dog walker, runner, and bicyclist who passed us. Sometimes she would get into a conversation. They would talk about weather, dogs, and all small talk topics. She seemed happy, and was literally glowing (容光焕发). After walking for what seemed an age, Mom finally said it was time to go back.
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Paragraph 1: When I got home, a new feeling seemed to be awakened.
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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6 . Born in 1973 in Wenzhou, Jiang Shengnan is the youngest daughter in the family and her name, Shengnan, translates as “better than men”. She was a bookworm as a primary school student and often spent what she calls “a colorful day” at the school library, reading one or two books a day, absorbed in her own world.
Jiang began reading ding Qing Dynasty (1644 — 1911) author Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber in the second l grade, when she did not even fully understand all the characters. She also loved reading history and the first historical books she read were the Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, stories that are more than 2,280 years old.
In 1996, she wrote her first martial arts novel Modao Fengyun to entertain herself. In 1997, she bought a computer and typed in the manuscript (手稿), but with nowhere to publish, only family and friends read the book.
Jiang focused on women, who were usually overshadowed and presented as simplified characters in Chinese literature, particularly important historical women. She realized that Chinese historical novels tended to focus on emperors, kings, and generals, and women often featured as vehicles, such as virtuous wives and good mothers.
Among the 2, 000 ratings on Douban, a major review aggregator (聚合器) in China, nearly 70 percent of readers gave Jiang’s most famous novel four stars or more out of five. One reader, nicknamed Yinrendeponiang, who gave the novel four stars, commented that, “The book describes the life of China’s first empress dowager (女皇) , through a mix of fiction and history. It details her journey from birth to rule, and how the changes in her life influenced her, shaping her into a kind yet tricky yet tricky individual. She resists others’ control over her...This book not only informs us about her path to growth, but also shows how a woman can achieve success through her own efforts.”
1. What can we learn about Jiang from the first two paragraphs?| A．She had an extremely romantic view of life. |
| B．Her reading choices were family-influenced. |
| C．Her hobby was comparable to men’s early on. |
| D．She tackled complex literature at a young age. |
| A．To persuade her out of writing. |
| B．To kill their time for entertainment. |
| C．To encourage her writing enthusiasm. |
| D．To help her find mistakes in her work. |
| A．To call on women to achieve success. |
| B．To show his dissatisfaction with the novel. |
| C．To make comments on China’s first empress dowager. |
| D．To demonstrate Jiang’s work is well-received on Douban. |
| A．Knowledge is power | B．Women holdup half the sky. |
| C．One good turn deserves another. | D．Constant dripping wears away the stone. |
1. What did the man do during the conversation?
| A．He signed his name. | B．He paid some money. | C．He parked the car. |
| A．The man. | B．The man’s wife. | C．A taxi driver. |
| A．America. | B．Canada. | C．Australia. |
I was never “that girl” — the one who had charming appearance, and who enjoyed a colorful social life. I was another girl entirely, one who was considered “nice girls”, and the top student in class. Not that I didn’t care about friends or fun, I just didn’t think it was worth putting lots of time and effort into changing how I looked, how I acted, even as I started high school.
Marissa was “that girl” — fun to be around, good to know. We are different, but our friendship began the first time we met at an exciting soccer match, on the second day of freshmen year. The excitement of the game and our shared interest in soccer connected us, I was deeply impressed with her enthusiasm, while she admired my calm. Our conversations went smoothly, and our relationship quickly turned into a close bond.
However, as the school year progressed, Marissa’s outgoing personality began to conflict with my reserved nature. She stood out in social situations, constantly asking me to attend parties and social events. While I appreciated her efforts to include me, I felt awkward and uncomfortable to be forced into unfamiliar surroundings. Our once harmonious friendship started to crack, I tried to turn down her invitations, but in vain.
One evening, Marissa persuaded me to attend a large party at a classmate’s house. Surrounded by loud music and strange faces, I felt uneasy and upset. Marissa was the queen of the party, leaving me feeling extremely lonely. Her personality attracted others to her, creating a barrier between us.
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At that moment, I realized the growing divide between us.
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Since then, we worked together to find a balance of our personalities.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Most nights, there was a light coming from the tiny island on the other side of the lake. I always thought that was strange because supposedly, no one lived there anymore. That’s why people called it Ghost Island. Stranger still, one night, the light flashed.
“There’s the light again,” I said to my brother, Dale.
“Yeah, strange,”he said.“Take a look, Ben,”Dad said. He had set up his telescope to view the planets, but now it was aimed at Ghost Island. I found that there was a spotlight (聚光灯).Dale looked too and guessed it was a tree branch, blowing back and forth in the wind.
Then I asked Dad what he knew about Ghost Island. “Mr. Mori has owned it since I was a kid. I remember he once served in the Coast Guard. And he must be quite old by now,” Dad said. “He used to spend summers there, but I wonder if he still comes up at all.”
The next day, we planned to go fishing. We always go before sunup and I was so worried about oversleeping that I woke up extra early. Dale was already on the boat. I looked across the lake, which was smooth as glass. “Huh,” I said. “There’s the light again. Only this time there was no wind, and the flashes appeared in a specific way. “It’s an SOS distress signal!” I said immediately. Dale laughed. “Morse code (摩斯密码)? No one uses that old thing anymore.”
“No, watch,” I said. “It goes dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot. That’s SOS. I learned it at Boy Scouts. I had to send and receive messages using Morse code.”
“You guys are going to scare all the fish away!” Dad said. “What’s going on?”
I told him about the light but it had stopped. And he advised us to check if Mr. Mori was at his cabin (小木屋). He might know Morse code due to his Coast Guard experience.
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Dale doubted if we’d find anyone, but we set out for Ghost Island.
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We visited Mr. Mori several times after he returned to Ghost Island from the hospital.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10 . When Colleen Telfer moved to Monash with her two daughters, none of them expected just how much it would change their lives.
It started with buying the small town’s general store and ended with the Telfers volunteering together at a South Australian fire brigade (消防队).
In the first two years of the store, she would see the Monash Country Fire Service (CFS) engines fly past, located just across the road. Whether they were getting into the trucks at a moment’s notice or coming into her shop for a feed, she got to know the brigade and decided to join them.
Her desire to give back was shared by her 20-year-old daughter, Lara. “When the siren (警报器) would go off, I used to hate missing out,” Lara said. The pair joined in February last year, and about a year later they were joined by Colleen’s youngest daughter, 18-year-old Sophie.
As a senior volunteer firefighter, Colleen’s responsibilities have grown to include driving the brigade’s trucks. “I know it is often male-dominated, but don’t look at it like that. Females are just as good as males in any role,” Colleen said.
In November 2021, Georgie Cornish became the first woman to be appointed chief officer for the CFS. Ms. Cornish said there were still misconceptions that women might find it hard to do some jobs. “Women are sometimes better suited to some of those roles,” she said. “It’s very easy for us to assume that strength is everything we need in a firefighter. It’s not. Sometimes it’s agility and nimbleness (敏捷性和灵活性) that we actually need in the jobs we’re going to.”
Being part of something greater has strengthened the Telfers’ mother-daughter connections in more ways than one. “As a mother, you do worry about your children, but we’re not there by ourselves,” Colleen said. “We’ve always got other firefighters around who can help us.”
1. What did Collee n decide to do after moving to Monash?| A．Sell off her local store. | B．Become a truck driver. |
| C．Join CFS as a volunteer. | D．Set up a volunteer fire brigade. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Doubtful. | C．Uninterested. | D．Thankful. |
| A．Women are more likely to get hurt in fires. |
| B．Women are less interested in physical work. |
| C．Women are well aware of other people’s feelings. |
| D．Women are capable of performing firefighting duties. |
| A．Celebrate women’s contributions to fire safety |
| B．Meet the family fighting fires and misconceptions |
| C．The real challenge of being a professional firefighter |
| D．The continuing rise of female leadership in firefighting |
