1 . 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。

The Lion Rock mountain stands not only as one of the most famous scenic spots in Hong Kong,     1     has become a spiritual symbol representing the persistent efforts of ordinary Hong Kong people     2     (live) a better life.

The Lion Rock spirit has also     3     (deep) touched those outside Hong Kong, such as Cui Xiaodong,     4     ink artist and director of the Yan Huang Art Museum in Bejing. “The mountain stands like a giant, symbolizing the industrious and persistent spirit which, over the past decades,     5     (pull) people in Hong Kong together through hard times. It is a recollection of the youth and vigor (活力) of a generation of people in Hong Kong     6     struggled to make the city what it is today.” he says.

Cui created Lion Rock in Hong Kong, a colored ink painting. In his painting, Cui depicts (描绘) the cliffs of the Lion Rock, surrounded by blooming trees and     7     (overlook) the city’s skyscrapers. Made earlier this year, the painting is now     8     show at Greater Bay Area in the Eyes of Artists, a display marking the 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The     9     (exhibit) displayed there hail (向……致敬) the ecological diversity of the area and also presents to the audience     10     (success) reformative accomplishments since 1997.

2 . Print newspapers dominated the early 1900s, but in November 1922, the dawn of radio news arrived when the BBC launched its first daily radio service. It marketed itself as news by and for social elites (精英), and broadcasters were required to use “received pronunciation”. News shifted to television broadcasting in the 1950s.

The creation of the WorldWideWeb in the 1990s changed things again. The internet has become a key site for sharing information, and news is more accessible than it has ever been before. Crises can be reported from on the ground by people who directly understand them. Stories can be shared with the click of a button which can be dangerous. In the time it takes for a story to move from a news site to Facebook to your WhatsApp group chat, context lost and facts go unchecked.

In 2016, we witnessed a BBC watershed moment for the news landscape. Negative coverage was the order of the day in the general election. Clinton was criticized for everything from her speaking style to her use of emails. As Clinton was being attacked in the press, Donald Trump was attacking the press, claiming that it is was trying to “influence” the election in her favor. The news is not about what’s ordinary or expected, but what’s new and different, better yet when filled with anger and conflict. Following the election troubled by dishonesty and misinformation spread largely on social media, Oxford Dictionaries announced “post-truth” as its international word of the year. Frequency of the word’s usage rose by 2,000 percent that year.

With so much information at our fingertips, the massive volume news can be ovenwhelming. Couple this with the increasing uncertainty about what is true and what is not, it is perhaps no wonder that recent years have seen the birth of the “slow journalism” movement. First coined in 2007 by Susan Greenberg, it invites us to slow down and really pay attention to what’s happening around us.

1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A．The target audience of BBC,	B．The key to News’ development.
C．The transformation in news reporting.	D．The qualifications of BBC’s reporters.

2. What can we learn about the creation of WorldWideWeb?

A．It marks what good news is about.

B．It provides people with the best choice.

C．It fails to satisfy people’s sharing demand.

D．It contributes much to ungoverned information.

3. What can be inferred from Paragraph3?

A．BBC news gained wide popularity.

B．Negative news sells and travels wide.

C．Facts are more influential than emotion appeals.

D．More supervision should be added in the election.

4. Which statement will the author probably agree with?

A．Negative news also bears value just as the positive news.

B．Great importance should be attached to news’ truthfulness.

C．The information on social media is uncertain and unreliable.

D．People are overwhelmed with massive volume news nowadays.

3 . Microbiologists have designed a sustainable way to remove polluting microplastics from the environment by using bacteria. Initial design as it is, it paves the way for sustainably lowering plastic pollution levels and stop the “plastification”.

Bacteria naturally tend to group together and stick to surfaces, and this creates a sticky material called “biofilm”. Researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) want to use this adhesive bacteria character and capture microplastics in polluted water to form an easily disposable and recyclable blob(团) .

Sylvia Lang Liu, microbiology researcher at PolyU and lead researcher on this project, together with his team, has engineered a bacterial biofilm, which can fix and absorb microplastics floating around in the water, and make them sink to the bottom of the water. Then the researchers can separate the microplastics from the bacteria traps and get them ready to recycle.

Microplastics are the plastic fragments, usually smaller than 5mm, which are accidentally released into the environment during production and breakdown of grocery bags or water bottles, or during everyday activities such as washing synthetic (合成的) clothes or using personal care products with scrubbing microbeads in them. Microplastics are visually tiny, making it challenging to develop effective solutions to trap, collect, and recycle them.

Microplastics are not easily biodegradable (生物降解的), so they stick around for long and absorb and accumulate poisonous chemicals. They spread into wastewater and into the oceans, endangering marine animals and eventually threatening human health, Microplastics had been found in more than 114 species living in the water and also salt, lettuce, apples, and more in 2018 according to the International Maritime Organization.

“This is an innovative application of biofilm engineering l0 address the plastio pollution crisis,” said Dr Joanna Sadler, researcher at University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in this study. “One of the biggest challenges in dealing with microplastics is capturing such small particles. Liu and co-workers have denmonstrated an elegant solution to this problem, which holds great potential to be further developed into a real-world wastewater treatment technology.”

1. Which of the following best explains the underlined word “adhesive” in Paragraph 2?

A．Floating.

B．Sticky.

C．Diverse.

D．Visual.

2. Why are microplastics hard to capture?

A．They are visually too small.	B．They are hard to biodegrade.
C．They continue to exist for long.	D．They are poisonous chemicals.

3. What can be learned from the last paragraph?

A．Small particles are essential to address water pollution

B．Biofilm bas been widely used to settle plastic pollution.

C．Sadler thinks little of the biofilm engineering application.

D．Biofilm application is promising for wastewater treatment.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Microplastic removal.	B．Uses of bacteria.
C．Wastewater treatment.	D．Plastic pollution.

4 . Heavy clouds threaten rain, but this doesn’t seem to weaken the spirits of the gardeners who are cheerfully weeding in a community vegetable garden which lies deep inside Manguinhos, previously a rubbish dump.

The Manguinbos garden is part of the Hortas Cariocas project (Carioca Gardens). Launched in 2006 by Julio Cesar Barros, an agriculturist who works for the government, the project now includes 55 gardens that are located either in schools or in ‘vulnerable’ neighbourhoods, such as favelas (棚户区). The gardens produce organic food that is then supplied to feed low-income families around.

Barros explains that the expansion of the largest garden which will benefit five nearby favelas is under way. It will follow the same model as existing gardens. Each of the five favelas will provide a team of local gardeners. Half of the produce must be donated locally, but the team is then free to sell the other half, adding to the salary they receive,

Hortas Cariocas is run and funded by the government, but each garden is tended by a group of locals who receive a small salary for their work. The favela residents involved in the gardens are nevertheless enthusiastic about the project’s other benefits, such as education and bringing people happiness. “I always tell people, ‘Hortas Cariocas’ is the name of the project, but its surname is ‘Saving Lives’,” says Ezequiel Dias Areas, who manages the team of gardeners in Manguinhos. Dias Areas was unemployed for five years before getting involved in 2013. Without the garden “today I might be doing something illegal, I might be dead, I might be in prison”, he says.

Douglas dos Santos, a 30-year-old father-of-four, tells his story. “I feel valued,” he says, explaining how he learned about agriculture via the project. Despite his pride, dos Santos isn’t blind to the project’s shortcomings. He readily admits that juggling a pleasant relationship with the favela’s residents’ association is no easy task.

1. Where may the vegetable gardens be?

A．In some football pitches.	B．In Barros’ neighbourhood.
C．In low-income communities.	D．In local government yards.

2. What can we learn about Hortas Cariocas?

A．Benefits of it are many-sided.	B．Local gardeners work for it for free.
C．The produce is sold by the government.	D．It is financially supported by the locals.

3. What is Santos’ attitude towards the project?

A．Negative

B．Suspicious

C．Objective

D．Not clear

4. Which can be a best title for the text?

A．Organic Farming	B．Life-saving Gardens
C．A Wise Agriculturist	D．Hard-working Gardeners

5 . The great pilosopher Vlaire once said “Reding makes people see and think clearly.” If you want to be a better self, try the following books.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is kind of a literary Rosetta Stone, the inspiration, basis, and model for so many modern novels. For a book written in the early 19th century, its modernity is surprising only until you realize that this is the novel that in many ways defined what a modern novel is.

A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals

From New York Times bestselling author Millie Marotta comes this gorgeous celebration of the animal kingdom. Highlighting the difficulty of 43 endangered species from around the world, the book takes readers on a trip through freshwater, oceans, forests, mountains, deserts, grasslands and wetlands while learning about rare and well- known animals and their habitats.

Patriarchy and Capitalism

Chizuko Ueno, a leading Japanese sociologist, feminist (女权主义) critic and public intellectual, has been a pioneer in women’s studies and the author of many books, including Patriarchy and Capitalism, which discusses the status of Japanese women.

Know My Name

Chanel Miller’s breathtaking memoir is praised to be the Best Book of the Year in People magazine. In this book, she recalls all her whole life. It’s a story of trauma (创伤) and transcendence (超越), shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.

1. What is special about Pride and Prejudice?

A．It has a long history.	B．It encourages readers.
C．It defines modern novels.	D．It includes surprising plots.

2. Which should you choose if you want to know about nature?

A．Marcovaldo.	B．Pride and Prejudice.
C．The Rings of Saturn.	D．A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals.

3. What kind of book is Know My Name?

A．A record about endangered animals.	B．A folk tale.
C．A novel discussing female status.	D．An autobiography.

6 . Everybody wants to hang out with fun people. Nobody wants to be classified as “boring”. It’s just that some of us need a little help in this department. Being fun to hang out with fun people starts with developing healthy self-esteem (自尊) , an adventurous spirit, and a kind personality.     1    .

Be confident.     2    . Before you even begin trying to become a fun person, you have to believe you can be a fun person. Nothing is wrong with believing in yourself, and it’s looked up to but never looked down on. Most confident people have insecurities.

Show interest. Listen and show kindness to others during conversation. If people think they can talk to you about anything, they’ll invite you to hang out more often.     3    . If you ignore people or always talk about yourself, they won’t invite you anymore.

    4    . Focus on the positive aspects of your life, what you are looking forward to, or what you want to do. We all know that sadness needs company, but if you are unhappy all the time, others won’t want to hang out with you.

Smile. Looking the part of a fun person is half the battle, and it’s not even really much of a battle because once you get the hang of it, smiling just becomes a reflex, and an attractive one at that.

Learn how to “hang out”.     5     . Some people like to just sit around casually, watch TV, play games, or just talk. For others, hanging out can mean doing interesting activities outside the home. Figure out what your friends consider hanging out to be and then tailor your interests to that crowd.

A．Be positive

B．Hold the conversation

C．Don’t control the conversation

D．Have a healthy sense of self or good self-esteem

E．Hanging out means the same thing to every person

F．All of this will make you an ideal person to hang out with

G．Hanging out can mean different things to different people

7 . Dandelion (蒲公英) seeds can travel for miles before finally floating down and settling somewhere new. Researchers recently discovered how the plants decide to spread. “We noticed that the dandelion parachute (降落伞) is closed in foggy mornings but then open again when the sun is up during the day,” according to Naomi Nakayama, a researcher of bioengineering. “The dandelion uses a bunch of hairs to improve air drag and aid its flight. Unlike insects or birds, they don’t need any energy input to fly a long distance- even hundreds of kilometers—they simply catch the wind.”

Researchers discovered the parachutes open and close using what they say is like an actuator (触动器), a device that changes energy and signals into movement. But this actuator doesn’t use any energy. The middle of the dandelion’s parachute is able to sense the amount of humidity (湿度) by absorbing water molecules (分子) in the air. Using signals about humidity information, they either open their parachutes and fly off or they close them and stay where they are.

“The center of the parachute changes its shape, moving the hairs altogether in harmony,” Nakayama says. “It’s basically a sponge made of no-longer living plant cells, which are arranged in a tube empty inside. The inner side and the outer side swell with water to different degrees, and that drives the movement.”

Knowing what causes dandelions to spread their seeds could help scientists learn how they deal with climate change. They say understanding the response could help researchers design new soft robots, which are those made from flexible materials that imitate soft bodies. “How plants move their body parts are different from animals and a simple, localized expansion could be enough to move arms,” Nakayama says. “Movement of a few arms has been achieved, but this is the first of many arm actuators. It is simple in design, so there is a lot of space for biomimicry (仿生学)”.

1. What makes the dandelion fly?

A．Energy.

B．Wind.

C．Fog.

D．Parachute.

2. How do the dandelion parachutes decide to work from the second paragraph?

A．By spreading their seeds.	B．By changing energy into movement.
C．By feeling humidity information.	D．By staying where they are.

3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Scientists make a robot out of dandelion.	B．Plants move just like the animals.
C．Dandelions move with arms.	D．Plants can inspire biomimicry.

4. What would be the best title for this passage?

A．Observing Dandelions	B．Dandelions and Climate Change
C．Making Soft Robots	D．Dandelions and Biomimicry

8 . Twin sisters Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi won the women’s double free title to take China’s third gold in artistic swimming at the 19th FINA World Championships on Thursday.

The 25-year-old twins, who also won the women’s technical double and the women’s team technical, beat the Ukrainian and Austrian teams with a score of 95.5667 points. The Ukrainian Aleksiiva sisters, Maryna and Vladyslava, got the silver medal with 94.1667, while Anna-Maria and Eirini Alexandria of Austria came third on 92.8000.

“I feel very happy and excited to win the third gold medal for the Chinese artistic swimming team,” older sister Wang Liuyi told Xinhua. “The help of the coach and the encouragement of teammates have given us a lot of motivation. We have overcome tiredness and various difficulties. I did very well today and I’m satisfied with my performance.”

Wang Qianyi said: “This is the first time for us to compete in both the double and the team events, so I felt a little bit of pressure.”“In spite of tiredness, we were able to withstand (承受) this pressure. I feel very happy,” she added.

Since the start of the FINA Worlds, the sisters have delivered seven performances in the preliminaries and the finals.

According to Qianyi, a key to success was the winter training plan by the coach, which has laid a very good foundation for them. “In terms of physical fitness, both of us have greatly improved. The coach gave us a solid training and gave us a lot of trust. We are encouraging each other too,” she said.

On Friday, the sisters will compete in the team free final, which is their last event in the Championships. Wang Liuyi said: “We hope to be able to work together with our teammates in the final tomorrow, to have a better performance and achieve better results.” “The World Championships is a big test for us. We hope to play steadily, step by step, and do a good job. I believe that no matter what kind of difficulties we meet, we can overcome them,” Qianyi added.

1. At what score did the twin sisters win the third gold?

A．92.8000.

B．94.1667.

C．95.5667.

D．95.5692.

2. What is the vital factor for their success in Qianyi’s words?

A．Others’ encouragement.	B．Their strict training plan.
C．Their self-confidence.	D．Their physical condition.

3. What can we learn about the twin sisters from the last paragraph?

A．They are honest.	B．They are experienced.
C．They are determined.	D．They are talkative.

4. In which section of a newspaper may the text appear?

A．Sports news.	B．A science report.
C．Entertainment.	D．Advertisement.

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1. What is mentioned in Sky100 Hong Kong Observation Deck Tickets?

A．The exact price of food.	B．Booking tickets ahead.
C．Getting 360° views of The Ritz-Carlton.	D．The introduction of Victoria Harbour.

2. How long will it last if you attend Brush Calligraphy Class?

A．One to eleven hours.	B．Three to twelve hours.
C．Four hours.	D．One and a half hours.

3. What does the four destinations have in common?

A．Lowest Price Guarantee.	B．Different price by group size.
C．Art creation and cultural teaching.	D．The best local dishes to try.

10 . 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。

Today’s skiers are used to relying on ski lifts at resorts to take them to the top of a mountain before     1     (experience)the addictive thrill of skiing down the mountain.     2    , in some snow-covered villages in Altay prefecture (辖区) of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it’s common in winter to see local herdsmen, with boards     3     (attach) to their feet, climb the snowy slopes without any other forms of assistance.

The pair of boards are wrapped with horsehide(马革),     4     serves a double purpose. Remarkably, the horsehide not only can provide friction (摩擦) to prevent skiers from slipping while going up, but also helps them slide more     5     (smooth)down the slopes.

According to rock carvings uncovered in the area by archaeologists, such     6     (ski) have served for around 12,000 years     7     a means of transportation for the snowfield inhabitants of Altay. The fur skiing boards gradually lost     8     (they) popularity in recent decades after paved roads linked houses to the outside world.

However, Altay plans to protect and promote its skiing culture. The local government department     9     (want) to pass its skiing tradition to future generations. The prefecture is working     10     (develop)the area as a popular destination for skiers and snowboarders. As a result, the ancient fur skiing boards and the craft of making them have found a new lease of life in modern times.