2 . Kyra Peralte thought keeping a diary during the pandemic (流行病) might help her sort out her feelings. In April 2020, the mother of two in Montclair, New Jersey, now 46, started writing about the challenges of work, marriage and motherhood during a global crisis. She invited women from near and far to fill the notebook with their own pandemic tales.She named the project The Traveling Diary.

Peralte created a website for people to add their names to the queue. Each person gets to keep the diary for three days and fill as many pages as she wishes. Then she is responsible for mailing it to the next person, whose address Peralte provides. So far, more than 2, 000 women from 30 countries have joined in.

The diary reached Colleen Martin in Florham Park, New Jersey, in November 2020. “I had just recently lost my brother. By the time I actually got it and wrote in it, it was much more of a relief,” she says. Adding to the diary, she says, helped her look for meaning and “the growth and development that occurs in terrible times.”

Martin shipped off the diary to the next person, and Dior Sarr, 35, received it at her home in Toronto just before the new year. “I wrote about my ambitions(抱负), my goals and how I wanted to step into the new year, ” she says, “It felt meaningful to pass on something so personal. It felt like these were women that I had known even though I didn’t know them at all.”

Like many of the women who wrote in her diary, Peralte feels a strong bond with the people who filled its pages, none of whom she would have otherwise known. Her idea, Peralte says, has had a great effect on her and, she hopes, the other women who were part of it.

1. Why did Peralte start the project “The Traveling Diary”?

A．To become famous online.

B．To offer women an emotion outlet.

C．To meet more people on the Internet.

D．To popularize medical knowledge of pandemic.

2. What did Colleen Martin get from writing the diary?

A．Achieving her goals.

B．Receiving timely help.

C．Promoting personal growth.

D．Improving her writing skills.

3. What does the underlined word“bond” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Connection.	B．Competition.
C．Impression.	D．Need.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Power of Unity

B．Warmth in a Global Crisis

C．The Sisterhood of the Traveling Diary

D．Friendship on the Internet

4 . Recently I had the opportunity to reconnect with an old friend, Chris Besse. One of the things I always admired about Chris was the way that he saw education as a mission, not a job. Chris called me last week to tell me he is CEO of a company called EdgeMakers, which is a new company that is bringing one of the missing ingredients(要素)to education: innovation.

I am always calling for changes in the way we educate our children. It is important that we prepare our children for a different economy and a different world. Employers of the future will demand creativity from their employees.

A tech company owned by a friend of mine has grown from a handful of employees to over 100 in the last seven years, and he still has 90 percent of all the employees he hired. He doesn’t pay more than other tech firms. He doesn’t have a Disney-like campus. What he does is pose interesting problems, not get involved in the solutions and allow employees to get to the solution in any way they want. His employees stay because they are motivated and interested.

This is the definition of modern industry and in many ways, the future of education. Successful employers now encourage innovation. Schools should create an innovative environment. But it appears that our current education system has a long way to go to achieve this.

The good news is that some schools are making changes. California and Texas just approved EdgeMakers’ courses for use in their high schools. According to John Kao, founder of EdgeMakers, “Creativity is inside every student, waiting to be freed. But without intentional programs in our schools, creativity is underdeveloped. We cannot allow this to continue, as our society is faced with problems that appear unsolvable unless we innovate to find solutions. Our goal with these courses is to combine students’ natural creativity with purpose, helping them develop as innovators whose work is truly meaningful and makes a difference to issues that matter.”

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To remember a friend.	B．To bring up a topic.
C．To recommend a course.	D．To explain a phenomenon.

2. What do the author and Chris have similar views on?

A．The future of job searching.	B．The major mission of their company.
C．The role of parents in kids’ development.	D．The importance of innovation in education.

3. How does the author’s friend keep his employees?

A．By offering high salaries.	B．By providing a comfortable workplace.
C．By creating an environment of innovation.	D．By helping them solve problems.

4. Which statement will John Kao agree with?

A．Natural creativity can be enhanced.

B．Intentional teaching should be avoided in schools.

C．EdgeMakers’ courses have proved to be efficient.

D．We should pay less attention to unsolvable problems.

5 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In recent years, many Chinese museums have opened online stores to sell cultural and creative products. Among them, the Palace Museum stands     1     Collectively more than 500 Palace Museum products are available for purchase online.

According to the Vice President of the Palace Museum, sales of the museum’s cultural and creative products     2     (total) 1 billion yuan last year. The museum has developed nearly 10,000 different cultural and creative products either     3     (independent), through IP authorization, or in     4     (cooperate) with other companies, with partners such as LKK,     5     creative design company, having designed over 800 categories of products across 17 themes for the Palace Museum.

Among the Palace Museum’s most popular cultural and creative products     6     (be) sticky tape inspired by beautiful     7     (pattern) from ancient bowls, plates or clothes. Many customers have used the tape to customize the casing of     8     (person) items, with the posting of finished goods     9     (become) a popular trend online.

“When developing cultural and creative products, we study people’s daily needs     10     that our products perform some sort of function. We hope users use our products to spread our culture,” the Vice President said.

6 . The Art of Wearing Works of Art

The Smithsoman’s Craft2Wear Show will be held in Washington D.C.’s National Building Museum from October 20 to 22, transforming the building into a one-stop shop for the finest in American contemporary wearable craft (手工艺) and design

Nanibaa Beck

Beck is a jeweler (珠宝师) of Beck Studio At 13 years old, she became an assistant to her father and learned silversmith shills from him as well as her mother, who worked as a professional jewelry craftsman Beck’s ties to the process of creating jewelry inspired her to develop a deeper understanding of Native American art.

Alicia Appleton

Appleton is a corporate fashion designer and the founder of Amber Poitier inc, a leather accessories (配饰) company founded in 2015 in New York. Appleton attempts to empower women through her jewelry and fashion accessories.

Holly Anne Mitchell

Mitchell is an artist who will be showcasing jewelry made from recycled newspaper at the event. She began exploring newspaper as an artistic medium while taking a metalsmithing class at the University of Michigan in 1990.

Judith Carr

Bumbershoots by Nana, a business that handcrafts wearable art for babies, will display clothing at Craf2Wear Founded by artist Judith Carr, Bumbershoots by Nana seeks to create high-quality sleeping bags that are parent-friendly and functional.

General Admission

$17 per person if purchased before October 17 or $20 after October 17,

$10 per ticket for groups of 10 or more,

$8 per student ticket with Student ID Cards presented at the door (Students under age 18)

1. What can be learned about Beck?

A．She founded Amber Poitier Inc in 2015.

B．She graduated from the University of Michigan.

C．She was well-known as a jeweler at a young age.

D．She benefited a lot from her parents daily work.

2. What is a feature of Mitchell’s jewelry?

A．It is eco-friendly.	B．It empowers women.
C．It helps to promote sleep.	D．It stresses Native American art.

3. How much should a group of 6 adults pay if they buy tickets on October 15?

A．$48.

B．$60.

C．$102.

D．$120.

7 . Billy Mills was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the Oglala Lakota people. His mother died when he was 9 years old. Hurting from the________, young Billy took up sports,________ an article that stated that Olympians are chosen by the gods.

So Billy started running. He ran his first race ________   jeans and basketball shoes. He finished dead last but fell in love with the sport. Then his father ________, and with a broken heart, he stopped running. Being orphaned at 12 and feeling ________, Billy didn’t run again ________   he reached high school.

He came out of high school with the fourth-fastest mile in the nation. He went on to the University of Kansas and ________ hard, hoping to make the Olympic team. He finished second in the trials and was on his way.

At the start of the 10, 000-meter race in that 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Billy Mills, an orphaned boy from ________ Pine Ridge, South Dakota,________ up to run for his country, his parents, his people. As the race wore on,________   fell behind, lap (一圈) after lap, until four led the pack. With one lap to go, he was nudged out of his lane from behind, then bumped off his stride again. He was ________ at a distant fourth place.

In the last 100 meters, an unheard-of Billy Mills ________ into a dead sprint from lane four and strode his way into the ________ books with an Olympic record.

“It was ________ a belief,” Billy remembers. “Beliefs ________ us or destroy us, but we have that opportunity to create our own journey. ”

1.

A．affair

B．case

C．loss

D．situation

2.

A．believing

B．reading

C．noticing

D．writing

3.

A．in

B．with

C．for

D．on

4.

A．passed out

B．passed away

C．passed off

D．passed up

5.

A．independent

B．free

C．bored

D．alone

6.

A．until

B．before

C．after

D．when

7.

A．studied

B．trained

C．ran

D．performed

8.

A．accessible

B．damp

C．advanced

D．unknown

9.

A．grew

B．came

C．boiled

D．lined

10.

A．professionals

B．judges

C．pedestrians

D．runners

11.

A．wandering

B．fighting

C．struggling

D．breathing

12.

A．developed

B．circled

C．broke

D．entered

13.

A．national

B．history

C．diverse

D．contemporary

14.

A．mostly

B．nearly

C．simply

D．only

15.

A．create

B．fix

C．freeze

D．hide