1 . It takes Sanduk Ruit about five minutes to change someone’s life. The Nepalese doctor can make a small incision (切口) in his patient’s eye, remove the cataract (白内障) damaging the patient’s vision and replace it with an inexpensive artificial lens. He said, “Some of our younger doctors even do it faster than that.”
In the past decades, Ruit has personally restored the sight of more than 100,000 people across Asia and Africa, and taught his rapid-fire technique to countless other eye doctors in parts of the world. His patients suffer from eye conditions that are mostly preventable. But because of poverty and limited access to public health services, they have been unable to seek treatment. Their stories are all too common in the developing world.
Driven by a belief that the world’s poorest people deserve safe, affordable and high-quality eye care just as much as anyone else, Ruit has made it his mission to root out avoidable blindness.
In 1994,he joined the late Australian eye doctor Fred Hollows, who was his mentor and close friend, in establishing Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology-an eye hospital in Kathmandu devoted to providing world-class eyecare for the people of Nepal. The hospital makes the state-of-the-art lens that is commonly used in treating cataracts or myopia, and exports it to more than 30 countries worldwide.
For the patients who cannot reach urban areas, Ruit and his team conduct mobile eye camps in remote parts of Nepal and neighboring countries. They often trek for days to those areas and clean out structures like tents, classrooms or even stables for use as temporary operating rooms. When the eyepatches (眼罩) come off the day after an operation, it’s an extremely moving moment for all relevant persons. Ruit said that he was so grateful that he could make a difference in so many people’s lives.
1. What do we know about Ruit?| A．He refused to do operations for the rich. |
| B．He wasn’t mean with his excellent technique. |
| C．He joined Fred Hollows in the nineteenth century. |
| D．He restored more than a million people’s sight in person. |
| A．Making a lot of money. |
| B．Obtaining relevant data to write scientific papers. |
| C．The desire to make his technique well-known. |
| D．The idea that all sick people should get proper treatment. |
| A．Kind-hearted and responsible. |
| B．Friendly and energetic. |
| C．Open-minded and outgoing. |
| D．Clever and brave. |
| A．Science. | B．Sports. | C．Education. | D．Figures. |
2 . The Best US National Parks You’ve Never Heard of
Dry Tortugas National Park
Located 70 miles west of Key West, this group of seven islands is a great destination to enjoy some of Florida’s nature. The islands are composed of coral reefs (珊瑚礁) and sand, and they are famous for the birds and sea life. Tourists can also enjoy Fort Jefferson, which dates back to the 19th century.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is divided into two units, a northern unit and a southern unit. Between the two sections, this park gives tourists the opportunity to experience some of North Dakota’s unique scenery, including the Badlands, canyons (峡谷) and more. The hiking trails (小径) allow tourists to see some of this country’s natural wonders and amazing wildlife.
Isle Royale National Park
Isle Royale is one of the special parks in the US. The island is only accessible by boat. Once there, you can enjoy the unique wilderness that has been protected in a special way. The island has a beautiful coast that can be explored by boat. You can also explore the island by hiking its many trails. Another unique feature of the island is the ships that have been destroyed at sea.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park extends from the low desert to the high mountains. Tourists to this park can enjoy over 80 miles of trails throughout the park, which travel through canyons, woodlands, springs, mountainous wilderness and more. It is also home to the Salt Basin Dunes, which are an amazing windswept landscape.
1. What can tourists do in Theodore Roosevelt National Park?| A．Walk along the hiking trails. | B．Admire coral reefs. |
| C．Enjoy the Salt Basin Dunes. | D．See Fort Jefferson. |
| A．By train. | B．By car. | C．By water. | D．By air. |
| A．Isle Royale National Park. | B．Dry Tortugas National Park. |
| C．Theodore Roosevelt National Park. | D．Guadalupe Mountains National Park. |
3 . Fahim was only 11 years old when he first met Alberto Cairo in 1993 in a hospital in Kabul, the Afghan capital. At the time, Kabul was caught in a bloody civil war. After his left leg was blown off, Fahim went to the hospital to seek treatment. This is a hospital run by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). There, he met Alberto Cairo, who arrived in Kabul in 1990.
Over the next three decades, Fahim has made countless trips to the hospital. During those visits, the compassionate (慈悲的) treatment from Cairo deeply moved him. “He is a friend of the Afghan people,” Fahim said of Cairo. When Fahim decided to study medicine, it was Cairo who kept encouraging him. Today, Fahim works as a nurse and an anesthetist (麻醉师) in a hospital in Afghanistan.
Fahim is only one example of what Cairo leaves behind in Kabul, the city that has become his home for the past 30 years.
For Cairo, the job as a doctor came by chance. “I was a teenager in Italy when I saw a man doing something that seemed so simple and so helpful: helping people to walk. That moment left a strong impression on me. I eventually left my training as a lawyer behind to choose medicine.”
In his early years in Afghanistan, Cairo was shocked by the great number of patients seeking treatment for wounds caused by the war. Each year, the rehabilitation centers (康复中心) treat more than 13,000 new patients—most of whom, like Fahim, require lifetime treatment.
At first, the ICRC’s treatment center only focused on war sufferers, but Cairo expanded its treatment to include all people with disabilities in the country. He made two decisions that have left a lasting impact. One was to employ former patients to work in the treatment center. The second was to organize an athletic group for people with disabilities.
1. When did Fahim first meet Cairo?| A．When he became a nurse. | B．Before civil war broke out. |
| C．When Cairo treated his leg in a hospital. | D．When he started to learn medicine. |
| A．The cruelty of war. | B．Fahim’s experience. |
| C．A man helping people walk. | D．His training as a lawyer. |
| A．Demanding. | B．Determined. | C．Outgoing. | D．Caring. |
| A．People wounded in the war. | B．People with disabilities. |
| C．People with mental illnesses. | D．People needing lifetime treatment. |
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| C．Goodwill Southern California. | D．Missouri Goodwill Industries. |
| A．There’s trace of use in it. | B．It’s got the most ratings. |
| C．It has a brand new cover. | D．Its product keys are useless |
| A．To collect used goods. | B．To sell second-hand books. |
| C．To advertise a book launch. | D．To promote a delivery company. |
In Xixian county, located in Linfen, Shanxi province, a smart pear orchard (果园)
In this orchard, every pear is given
So far, Xixian
According to Wang, the platform not only helps with production but also promotes sales, as its tracking system can collect first-hand marketing feedback data. Pear farmers can learn about the market demand through the system to
6 . There is a wide gap between China and developed economies such as the US and South Korea in terms of the chip industry. However, the nation has taken big steps in charting its own course, which is evident in its chip industry’s growth. And China can meet 85 percent of its domestic demand if the chip industry fully applies the 14-nanometer transistor (晶体管) technology. In fact, this could become a reality in three to four years. Still, China lags behind in the processing and manufacturing of chips, as well as chip design and packaging.
Yet there is a silver lining for China, because the US’ technology blockade (封锁) helps remove the domestic objections to the development of the chip industry. The story of China’s LCD industry could be repeated in the chip industry this time: China has made joint efforts in the past ten years and now secures more than 60 percent of the LCD market.
Nevertheless, there should not be a mad rush across the country to develop chips. The government should offer encouragements to state-owned as well as privately owned enterprises to produce high-quality chips. The measure of freeing integrated circuit-making enterprises of paying corporate income tax for two years is a good move in this direction.
Also, China has about 1,700 semiconductor enterprises. They should be encouraged to pool their resources and technologies and strengthen their business operations so they can achieve breakthroughs in core technologies.
Besides, China should build a friendlier environment to attract talents from across the world to its chip industry. It’s indeed alarming that China faces a shortage of 300, 000 professionals in the chip industry. As Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei, said, “We had adopted a money-pumping approach in the past to develop the electronic industry. However, it takes more than money to develop chips. We should try our best to win over mathematicians and physicists.”
1. What’s the author’s attitude towards China’s chip industry?| A．Subjective. | B．Objective. | C．Indifferent. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．A great success. | B．A strong desire. | C．A positive side. | D．A slim chance. |
| A．It is a highly profitable industry. | B．It developed rapidly ten years ago. |
| C．It is less important than the chip industry. | D．It went through difficulties previously. |
| A．To list some disadvantages of China’s chip industry. |
| B．To analyze the US’ influence on China’s chip industry. |
| C．To show the rapid development of China’s chip industry. |
| D．To provide advice on the development of Chin’s chip industry. |
7 . Guqin-making is a process that takes patience and carefulness. Patience is one of the key parts in making a guqin.” It takes about two years to finish making one,” says Sui Yiyangg, 37, who, has been applying himself to guqin-making for over ten years.
The body of a guqin is made of two parts, a fat bottom and an arched (拱形) top. The body of the instrument is carefully and repeatedly covered with a thin layer of oil paint, which can take months to finish.
The strings (琴弦) of a guqin are traditionally made of silk; today they are often specially developed into steel-and-nylon strings.
Sui learned guitar as a teenager. He was introduced to the guqin when he travelled with his father. During the seven-hour drive from Beijing to the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, he listened to the guqin recording in his father’s car and was attracted.
“The beautiful and lasting sounds of the guqin are different from the Western musical instruments I learned,” he remembers.
After returning to Beijing, he started learning the instrument. Later, he learned how to make the guqin from HAN Tingyao, now 85, a Beijing-based master artist.
Sui travels nationwide and even abroad to buy high-quality materials and tools. For example the kind and quality of the wood is very important, so he often travels to Fujian and Jiangxi provinces in search of the right materials. He gets the paint, which is used to protect the guqin from corrosion (腐蚀)，from a single place — Rentoushan, a village in Maoba township, Lichuan city, Hubei province.
Years of guqin-making experience has gifted Sui with the ability to make high-quality instruments. “Each guqin has its unique sense of reality, which you can only get to know after you feel it with your own hands,” he says.
1. Which of the following can best describe Sui Yiyang?| A．Out-going and loving. | B．Easy-going and careless. |
| C．Patient and careful. | D．Confident and responsible. |
| A．Five years ago. | B．After the trip with his father. |
| C．During a party with his friends. | D．While visiting a famous artist in Beijing. |
| A．Because he wanted to learn guitar. |
| B．Because he wished to visit the places of interest. |
| C．Because he hoped to become an artist like Han Tingyao. |
| D．Because he wanted to find the good wood of making the guqin. |
| A．People. | B．Sports. | C．Travel. | D．Nature. |
8 . I was driving from Harrisburg last night, a distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I was clinching(紧握) my fists with impatience.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossing with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I approached the light, it turned red and I braked to stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.
I started wondering why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being arrested, because there were clearly no police around, and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it.
Much later that night, the question of why I'd stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it's part of an agreement we have with each other.It's not only the law, but it's an agreement we have, and we trust each other to honor it: we don't go through red lights.
It's amazing that we ever trust each other to do the right thing, isn't it? And we do. Trust is our first tendency. We have to make a deliberate decision to mistrust someone or to be suspicious or skeptical. Those attitudes don't come naturally to us.
It's a very good thing too，because the whole structure of our society depends on mutual trust, not distrust. This whole thing around us would fall apart if we didn't trust each other most of the time. We do what we say we'll do; we show up when we say we'll show up；we deliver when we say we'll deliver; and we pay when we say we'll pay. We trust each other in these matters, and when we don't do what we've promised, it's far from the normal. It happens often that we don't act in good faith and in a trustworthy manner, but we still consider it unusual, and we're angry or disappointed with those badly-behaved people. Anyway I was so proud of myself for stopping for the red light that night.
1. The author stopped at the traffic light because ______.| A．there were passers-by crossing the road |
| B．some policemen were on duty just at that point |
| C．the trust between people influenced the author |
| D．there was potential danger |
| A．All the things would run normally. |
| B．The social system would be thrown into disorder. |
| C．Hie social traditions would be abandoned. |
| D．Strict rules and laws would be made. |
| A．Mutual Trust is the best policy. | B．A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. |
| C．Actions speak louder than words. | D．Among the blind the one-eyed is the king. |
9 . Drive in Ontario
Welcome to Ontario! Here’s what you need to know if you are, or will be, visiting Ontario — and want to drive while you’re here.
Visiting: less than 3 months
If you are visiting Ontario for less than 3 months and want to drive while you’re here, you can use a valid driver’s license from your own province, state or country.
Visiting: more than 3 months
If you will be visiting from another country for more than 3 months, you will need an International Driver’s Permit (IDP) from your own country. This is a special license that allows motorists to drive internationally when accompanied by a valid driver’s license from their country. You need to have this permit with you when you arrive in Ontario. You cannot apply for one once you are here.
Rules of the road
As a visitor, you are responsible for knowing Ontario traffic laws. Here are just some:
● keep to the right of the road
● obey posted speed limits (e.g. 50 km/hour)
● do not use handheld devices while driving (e.g. cell phones, tablets or music players)
● slow down and pull to the right, if an emergency vehicle is driving behind you with their lights and sirens (e.g. an ambulance, fire truck or police car)
If you break a traffic law, you will face a penalty. Penalties range from fines to making your license invalid or your car taken away. For more information, please click here.
1. Who is the text intended for?| A．Potential immigrants. | B．General visitors. |
| C．Exchange students. | D．Ordinary drivers. |
| A．Keeping to the left of the road. | B．Using tablets with both hands. |
| C．Giving way to fire trucks. | D．Driving beyond the speed limits. |
| A．A local website. | B．A travel journal. |
| C．An advertisement. | D．A geography magazine. |
10 . One day, someone had to pick colors for the traffic lights and they decided on green, yellow and red. Why is that? Maybe you have never really thought about this. Or maybe you have wondered this for years.
To find out why these colors were chosen, it would be helpful to know where traffic lights (and their colors) come from. In 1910, the first traffic signals were installed in the country. Officers were using whistles and lights to maintain the flow of cars by letting drivers know when to stop or go.
So, where did the specific colors come from?
But then why red? The color red is the color with the longest wavelength.
| A．This is why traffic lights are green, red and yellow |
| B．In 1920, William Potts created the first traffic light |
| C．And that means that you can see it from further away |
| D．These lights would look different everywhere you went |
| E．Trains already used light signals before the traffic lights |
| F．Either way, you will get an answer to this question today |
| G．That manual required the traffic lights to be red, yellow and green |
