1 . Why should I stay off Facebook and other social media when I am involved in a lawsuit or personal injury case? Social media has become an important part of our everyday lives. Facebook, Instagram, and other social media have changed the way we communicate with friends, family, and colleagues. Many of us use these platforms to post opinions, show off our achievements or show your opinions on public affairs.
This means that social media is public information and can be used against you. Lawyers can use social media as evidence. They often look for pictures and posts that could potentially disprove your injury claim. Your posts can still be found even if your information is private when the posts potentially are related to your case. The court may determine that your public posts may lead to admissible evidence. They will not make you offer entire information, but only what they think is related. Defense lawyers wish to prove that the injured party, physically, emotionally, or financially, is lying about their injuries.
Even posting about your emotions can discount your claim greatly. Say, you are suing (起诉) someone for your pain and suffering because you are depressed, yet you post pictures of yourself smiling and you have quoted “Life is good” attached to the photo. If and when the defense lawyers get a hold of the posts, your pain and suffering claim may not hold up in court.
Most people only post about the good times on social media, rarely about the hardships and misfortunes. Insurance companies are allowed to follow you and gather information as evidence. Social media makes it easier. Before social media, insurance companies and lawyers had to hire investigators to follow people around to spy on them. Social media makes this entirely a lot easier.
If you have posted content related to your claim, you must not change evidence. Deleting your account would be considered you’re destroying evidence and that will affect your case. The best practice would be to stay off social media until your case has come to a close.
1. Why does the writer begin the passage with a question?| A．To describe the drawback of Facebook. | B．To provide the background information. |
| C．To give his argument and attract readers. | D．To stress the function of the social media. |
| A．Powerful. | B．Final. | C．Acceptable. | D．Equal. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Cautious. | C．Disapproval. | D．Indifferent. |
| A．Keep away from social media. | B．Post good and bad things on social media. |
| C．Communicate with your friends face to face. | D．Stay off social media for a personal injury claim. |
2 . A teacher decided to let her class play a game. She told each child in the class to bring along a bag with several tomatoes. Each tomato would be given a name of a person that the child hated. So the number of tomatoes in his or her bag would depend on the number of people the child hated.
When the day came, every child brought some tomatoes with the name of the people he or she hated. Some had two tomatoes. Some had three tomatoes. Some even had five tomatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry the tomatoes with them wherever they went for a week. Days passed, and the children started to get annoyed because the rotten (腐烂的) tomatoes let out terrible smell. Besides，those having five tomatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After one week, the children were very happy because the game had finally ended.
Then the teacher told them the meaning behind the game. The teacher said,“This is the same situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The terrible smell of hatred will pollute your heart, and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot stand the smell of rotten tomatoes for just one week, can you imagine what it is like to have the smell of hatred in your heart for your lifetime?”
1. The teacher asked students to give each tomato a name of a person they| A．disliked | B．helped | C．knew | D．recognized |
| A．surprised | B．scared | C．unhappy | D．frightened |
| A．善意 | B．憎恨 | C．遗憾 | D．喜欢 |
| A．hatred can make us happy and it's good for our health |
| B．hatred can make our life full of happiness |
| C．hatred has a strange taste which make us polluted |
| D．carrying our hatred for someone will make our life hard |
My teenage son, Jordan, always complained about having to be home earlier than all his friends. He would tell me that he was already seventeen, but still had a curfew (宵禁). He believed he was practically an adult. I pointed out that he was not an adult as he was still in high school.
“You don’t trust me!” he yelled. Before I continued, he rolled his eyes, slammed the door and walked away. I sighed. How could I make Jordan see that I only wanted to keep him safe?
I decided to go for a walk, hoping the December air would clear my head. I opened the front door and nearly stepped on her: a small black cat, just like a meatball. “Hi, Meatball,” I said, bringing her into my arms. I walked back in, touching her neck gently. Meatball seemed happy enough to come in the house, but after an hour or two, she sat by the door, meowing to go back outside.
“Why won’t she just stay in with us all the time?” Nathan, my youngest son asked.
I explained to him that she was happy here but she liked being able to come and go as she pleased.
“That must be nice,” Jordan muttered from the other room, complaining why the cat, not him, could come and go. He even asked me to give Meatball a curfew.
Meatball became a regular.
One night, temperatures were unusually low. Meatball stood at the door, meowing to go outside.
I shook my head at her, afraid that she might freeze to death. She stared at me and meowed again. I patted her head, “I know you’re not happy, but it’s for your own good.”
“Mom’s not being mean to you,” Nathan told the cat. “She’s just trying to keep you from turning into a frozen meatball.” We both laughed at his joke.
The next morning, I couldn’t find Meatball. I asked the kids if anyone had seen her.
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Jordan nodded, “I let her out last night.”
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________As I drove to the animal hospital, Jordan sat in the back, holding Meatball inside his coat.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4 . Sammie Vance is an extraordinary kid. She was just named one of People's Girls Changing the World in 2021, and she is only 12 years old.
The seventh grader from Indiana is collecting bottle caps to upcycle them into benches for her school and neighborhood parks. But these benches are more than just for sitting. There are many kids in her school who have trouble in finding friends.
Sammie learned about buddy benches at a camp she attended one summer. At the camp, there were benches set up when children felt lonely. They would sit down signaling to other kids that they were in need of a friend.
She loved the idea and told others, “This would be really cool to have them at my school.” Then she sprang into action by initiating a meeting with her president and the Parent-Teacher Association to present her idea.
Sammie used a comic strip she created showing how a simple bench could help classmates understand when one of their own needed a friend. The adults were surely impressed by her initiative but were more impressed with how she planned to make the benches.
Sammie continued her efforts and expanded her project to collect more benches for other schools. She made an online page where she calls for others to follow her journey and make bottle cap donations.
Today, Sammie has helped fix 200 recycled benches in schools and neighborhoods and she has no plans of stopping. She knows first-hand that a young age has no limitations to impacting the world. “I just look forward to making a difference,” she said, “and inspiring other people to make a difference.”
1. Why did Sammie want to set up buddy benches?| A．She was in need of friends. | B．She wanted to win recognition. |
| C．She had to finish an assigned project. | D．She intended to help kids make friends. |
| A．Sammie's comic strip. | B．Sammie's strong determination. |
| C．Sammie's plan of making benches. | D．Sammie's meeting with the president. |
| A．Demanding. | B．Honest. | C．Caring. | D．Humorous. |
| A．More Donations Have Come as a Help | B．This Kind-hearted Girl Inspires Friendship |
| C．A Young Girl Is Named People's Girl | D．200 Buddy Benches Are Equipped in Schools |
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With the fast development of science and technology, our studies are sure to change great. As for us, lifelong learning is the must in the future.
First, we can study in anywhere in the future, not just at school. For example, we can have various online class from the best teachers without leaving our home, make our learning more convenient. Besides, there will have more tools like Ding-ding and Wechat help us study. We will have no exams at school as all of us students can study easily and do that we have a gift for. Learning will also be delighted for all of us.
Every time I look forward to the future, I can’t feel more excited because many kinds of possibilities were waiting for me.
David Beckham, an English footballer, was born in London in 1975,
His talent was obvious from an early age and he signed with Manchester Union
Beckham has many interests off the soccer field and
7 . A map is a drawing that give us information about a place at a particular time. Maps are a representation of the real world drawn
There are two main types of maps—physical maps and political maps. Physical maps show the
People use or “read” maps because of different
Maps have an exciting history of their own. Over time, they
| A．accurately | B．purposely | C．occasionally | D．permanently |
| A．wider | B．larger | C．longer | D．smaller |
| A．behavior | B．language | C．learning | D．communication |
| A．experiment | B．instrument | C．science | D．result |
| A．downloaded | B．put | C．reported | D．updated |
| A．locations | B．aspects | C．landscapes | D．histories |
| A．origins | B．views | C．outlines | D．benefits |
| A．Historic | B．Delicate | C．Political | D．Abstract |
| A．changed | B．disappeared | C．arisen | D．spread |
| A．time | B．directions | C．weather | D．spots |
| A．just | B．ever | C．also | D．even |
| A．area | B．width | C．length | D．distance |
| A．reasons | B．hobbies | C．stands | D．levels |
| A．careful | B．concerned | C．satisfied | D．familiar |
| A．how | B．where | C．why | D．when |
| A．pilots | B．drivers | C．astronomers | D．sailors |
| A．ranged | B．advanced | C．differed | D．rose |
| A．written down | B．heard of | C．passed on | D．set aside |
| A．charming | B．funny | C．direct | D．true |
| A．development | B．appearance | C．operation | D．function |
8 . There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. Information in long-term memory can be recalled at a later time when it is needed. The information may be kept for days or years. Sometimes information in the long-term memory is hard to remember. Students taking exams often have this experience. In contrast, information in short-term memory is kept for only a few seconds, usually by repeating the information over and over.
Dr. Hunter studied short-term memory in rats. He used a special device which had a cage for the rat and three doors. There was a light in each door. First, the rat was placed in the closed cage. Next, one of the lights was turned on and then off. There was food for the rat only at this door. After the light was turned off, the rat had to wait a short time before it was released from its cage. Then, if it went to the correct door, it was rewarded with the food that was there. Hunter did this experiment many times. He always turned on the lights in a random order. Hunter’s results show that rats have a short-term memory of about ten seconds.
Later, Dr. Henning studied how people learning English as a second language remember vocabulary. To begin with, the participants listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in English. Following the recording, the participants took a 15-question test where they circled the word they remembered having in the recording. Some of the questions had four choices that sounded alike, while others had four choices having the same meaning.
Henning found that people with a lower level in English made more of their mistakes on words that sound alike; people with a higher level made more of their mistakes on words that have the same meaning. Henning’s results suggest that beginning learners hold the sound of words in their short-term memory, while advanced learners hold the meaning of words in their short-term memory.
1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?| A．Repetition contributes to people’s short-term memory. |
| B．The information in long-term memory is easier to forget. |
| C．People can rarely memorize the information learnt when young. |
| D．Students taking exams are experienced in long-term memory. |
| A．How the rat experiment was conducted. | B．The process of rats’ developing memory. |
| C．Why the rat experiment was carried out. | D．The relationship between rats’ memory and intelligence. |
| A．A Chinese expert in second language learning. |
| B．An American student learning a second language. |
| C．A British teacher teaching English as a second language. |
| D．A Korean employee learning English as a second language. |
| A．Beginning learners have a bad memory. |
| B．Beginning learners depend more on short-term memory. |
| C．Advanced learners easily remember words according to their pronunciation. |
| D．Advanced learners can confuse the words just heard with those meaning the same. |
9 . Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest place on Earth. It is also the remotest, a fact which demystifies its unspoiled environment. It is difficult for people to get there, and not a comfortable place for people to stay once they arrive. It is widely described as the last true wilderness on our planet.
The cold climate is responsible for maintaining the continent’s year-round ice fields: They never melt. Even though Antarctica receives more sunlight than the equator, the temperatures are lower because the ice sheet reflects the heat back into space. Thus, the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was in Antarctica in July, 1983. Soviet scientists shivered (瑟瑟发抖) through temperatures that fell to minus 89.2 degrees Celsius.
Once completely inaccessible, Antarctica has more recently been playing host to adventurers seeking excitement, scientists interested in experimenting, and companies looking to exploit this wild zone for profit: gold, uranium and oil are just some of the valuable resources which lie beneath the continent’s icy covering.
For centuries, Europeans wondered about the existence of a South-pole continent, but no one actually knew for certain Antactica was there until 1820 when European explorers “discover” it. Since then, men have gone to Antarctica in search of adventure. Testing their abilities, several teams of explorers set out in 1911 to be the first men to stand at the South Pole.
Yet, Antarctica’s fragile and complicated ecosystem is threatened by its human visitors. Damage to the environment occurs as people come looking for resources beneath the ice, or carelessly leave their garbage behind. Currently, countries are working to ensure that the damage to Antarctica’s environment is minimized, and that the last wilderness on Earth will remain an unspoiled place.
1. What does the underlined word “demystifies” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Does harm to. | B．Lies in. | C．Accounts for. | D．Stays away from. |
| A．To make a comparison with other places. | B．To show Soviet scientists’ fearless spirits. |
| C．To stress the freezing weather of Antarctica. | D．To explain the reason for Antarctica’s cold climate. |
| A．In the late eighteenth century. | B．In the early eighteenth century. |
| C．In the early nineteenth century. | D．In the late twentieth century. |
| A．Measures are being taken to protect Antarctica. |
| B．Antarctica’s eco-system has been destroyed by men. |
| C．People visiting Antarctica leave garbage on purpose. |
| D．In the icy covering are buried few precious resources. |
10 . Every year, the biggest and the best garden designers get together to create the Chelsea Flower Show, providing inspiration, trendsetting ideas and a glimpse of how our gardens might look next year.
On Trend: Green garden
Sustainable gardens have become a big trend in our towns and cities. Joe Swift inspired gardeners with his gold-winning design for the Homebase Teenage Cancer Trust that featured drought-buster (治理) architectural planting.
It could cope with even the driest conditions typically found in places where water is precious. His large pools of water had a cooling effect on people and plants.
On Trend: Space-saving Herbs
The Brewin Dolphin garden designed by Cleve West and Steve Swatton followed the Arts and Craft tradition, showing the beautiful strong lines of neatly beech (山毛榉) among its soft herbs planting. It proved to be a style that has never gone out of fashion.
You don’t need a large garden to have a piece of topiary (树木造型). These evergreens, which can be boxed or grown in pots, are easy to cut into shapes, such as balls, cubes and pyramids.
On Trend: Rhododendrons (杜鹃花) Woodland
Chris Beardshaw’s gold-winning design was packed with rhododendrons woodland bushes. It paid tribute (致敬) to Furzey Gardens in Hampshire, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.
Rhododendrons might not be the trendiest choice but they deserve a comeback.
On Trend: Drought Buster
The Herbert Smith garden for WaterAid was inspired by the work of the charity and the transforming power of clean water.
Using water wisely is today’s issue, so invest in water butts (积水桶) to collect rainwater and gather waste water from baths, sinks and washing machines.
1. Who can inspire those having a garden with limited space?| A．Joe Swift. | B．Cleve West and Steve Swatton. | C．Chris Beardshaw. | D．Herbert Smith. |
| A．Large pools. | B．Rhododendrons woodland. | C．Evergreens in shapes. | D．Clean water transforming. |
| A．They are the trendiest choices. | B．They are gold-winning designs. |
| C．They promoted the balance of environment. | D．They attach great importance to saving water. |
