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When I was 13 years old, I was given an opportunity to join a soccer team. The team was consisted of some of the best players in the state of Pennsylvania. Because I had been playing soccer for five years, I never thought I was good enough to be on this team. At first, I had a hard time fit in, but after our first couple training session, other players accepted me. I gained confidence because I learn not many of players could play in different positions like me. Our first game was in Chicago and I won by a lot. I counted myself very luckily to have joined such a amazing team. That opportunity was the reason that I became a coach. I am proud being the coach for the same team!

3 . Online eating shows, or Mukbang(直播吃饭), originated in South Korea and have gained popularity globally.

Many hosts of such shows have become popular for their ability to eat large amounts of food. But these shows have also received criticism for their waste of food. While some hosts actually do consume the amount of food shown, others may be faking it.

On Aug 12, CCTV exposed several Chinese hosts who were pretending to eat large amounts of food while on camera, but actually later threw it away.

To discourage this practice, many video and livestreaming platforms, including Douyin, Kuaishow and Bilibili, have removed videos that show food waste, and have promoted messages to “stop food waste and eat reasonably.”

In June 2020, the United Nations warned that the world is on the verge of the worst food crisis in 50 years.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about a third of the world’s food-1.3 billion tons- is wasted every year. In China alone, 50 million tons of food ends up in landfills every year, according to Beijing News.

Recently, campaigns against food waste have been further promoted. In August, President Xi Jinping stressed the need for safeguarding food security and stopping food waste.

According to China Daily, restaurants and catering associations in more than 18 provinces and all 4 municipal cities have issued guidelines to control food waste.

In Shanxi province, local restaurants have been asked to serve half portions to avoid waste. The Wuhan Catering Association proposed that restaurants adopt the “N-1 mode”. For example, a group of 10 diners should only order enough for nine people first. More food is only brought to the table if required.

In addition, a nationwide “Clear Your Plate” campaign has been launched online. Users of Sina Weibo are encouraged to share photos or videos of empty plates after finishing their meals.

Meanwhile, new laws are also being considered, according to China daily. “We will make new laws that give clear instructions on avoiding food waste,” said Zhang Guilong from the legislative Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress. The instructions will be detailed in every year of food production, purchasing storage, transportation, processing and consumption, according to Zhang.

1. What is CCTV’s attitude toward online eating shows?

A．Supportive.

B．Critical.

C．Objective.

D．Unclear.

2. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．Most video media are contributing to stopping food waste.

B．We should eat up all the food on the table.

C．It’s hard to carry out "Clear Your Plate campaign.

D．All the videos that show food waste have been removed.

3. What can we do to avoid food waste?

A．We can adopt the “N+1 mode”.

B．We can eat more food than we need.

C．We can choose not to watch online eating shows.

D．We can ask the restaurants to serve us half portions.

4. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Online eating shows should be banned.

B．New laws should be made to avoid food waste.

C．Measures are being taken to stop food waste.

D．We should share photos or videos of empty plates.

4 . For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?

Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.

In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

1. Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?

A．Both are about where to draw the line.

B．Both can continue for generations.

C．Neither has any clear winner.

D．Neither can be put to an end.

2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents.

B．The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.

C．The teens cause their parents of misleading them.

D．The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.

3. Parents and teens want to be right because they want to ______.

A．give orders to the other

B．know more than the other

C．gain respect from the other

D．get the other to behave properly

4. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A．Solutions for the parent-teen problems.

B．Examples of the parent-teen war.

C．Causes for the parent-teen conflicts.

D．Future of the parent-teen relationship.

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

As the first domestic soy sauce (酱油) factory in Cuba has     1     (begin) to produce Chinese-style soy sauce, the history of such products being imported by the island may soon come to an end.

The factory is part of a project     2     (support) by the Chinese Association Min Chih Tang in the     3     (center) province of Ciego de Avila, located some 400 km east of the Cuban capital Havana.

The project is headed by Mey Ru Chen,     4     34-year-old Chinese woman     5     came to Cuba in 2006 to study tourism. “This is another way to promote Chinese culture. It is     6     (actual) a project whose outcome will highly benefit Cuba, as all soy sauce consumed on the island     7     (import) mainly from Europe. It will help the country reduce imports,” she said.

Her     8     (product) are well accepted by locals, Chen said. “Cubans love soy sauce or ‘Chinese sauce’ as they also call it here. It is used to dress a wide variety of dishes; that is why it is so popular     9     the people of Ciego de Avila.”

“We     10     (receive) high quality training in China two years ago. Our main interest at the moment is to diversify our production in the factory and to continue to foster our traditions,” Morgado, Chen’s husband, said.

6 . Having hundreds of friends on Facebook is no substitute for a handful of close friends in real life, a study has found. Researchers discovered that people with only a few friends were at least as happy as those with far more if many of theirs were online. The number of “peripheral others” someone connected with online — former classmates and coworkers, for example — had no bearing on how satisfied they felt.

Social media, the researchers said, has encouraged younger people to have larger but more impersonal networks of “friends”. But instead of trying to amass friends, they added, a better cure for loneliness might be spending time with those you’re closest to.

Scientists from the University of Leeds did their study using data from two online surveys conducted on 1,496 people by a non-profit research organization. People taking part in the study offered their ages, the make-up of their social networks, how often they had different types of social interactions, and their own feelings of happiness. They included details of how often and how they interacted with family or neighbors, and whether they included people who provided services to them in their networks. The number of close friends someone had appeared to be the only thing which influenced how satisfied they were with their social life.

“Loneliness has less to do with the number of friends you have, and more to do with how you feel about your friends,” said Dr Wändi Bruine de Bruin. “It’s often the younger adults who admit to having negative opinions of their friends. Loneliness occurs in people of all ages. If you feel lonely, it may be more helpful to make a positive connection with a friend than to try and seek out new people to meet.”

1. What does the underlined word “amass friends” probably mean?

A．Make more friends.	B．Help their friends.
C．Meet their friends.	D．Recognize their friends.

2. What does Para.3 mainly talk about?

A．Introducing research ways.	B．Social interaction.
C．Feelings of happiness.	D．Carrying out the study.

3. What makes people happy in social life?

A．Having good appearance.	B．Living alone.
C．Having close friends	D．Making as many friends.

4. What does Dr Wändi Bruine de Bruin talk about?

A．The quantity of friends.	B．Loneliness.
C．Negative opinions.	D．Friendship.

7 . Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children, prematurely born and frail. Her _______ was doubtful. When she was four years old she had double pneumonia (肺炎) and scarlet fever--a _______ combination that left her with a paralyzed (瘫痪的) and _______ left leg. She had to wear an iron leg _______. Yet she was fortunate in having a mother who _______ her. She told her that all she needed to do was to have _______, persistence and indomitable spirit.

So at nine years of age, the little girl _______ the leg brace, and she took the step the doctors told her she would never take _______. In four years, she developed a rhythmic step, which was a medical _______. Then this girl got the ________ idea that she would like to be the greatest woman runner. Now, what could she ________ to be--a runner with a leg like that?

At age 13, she entered every race in high school, and in every race she came in last. Everyone ________ her quit! However, there came a day when she won a race. From then on, Wilma Rudolph won every race. Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a ________ named Ed Temple. Temple saw the ________ spirit of the girl and that she had great natural talent. He trained her so ________ that she went to the Olympic Games. There she was ________ against the greatest woman runner named Jutta Heine. And in the 100-meter dash, Wilma Rudolph won. She beat Jutta again in the 200-meters.

Finally came the 400-meter ________. It would be Wilma against Jutta once again. The first two runners on Wilma’s team made perfect ________ with the baton. But when the third runner handed the baton to Wilma, she was so excited that she dropped it, and Wilma saw Jutta

________ down the track. It was impossible that anybody could catch this fleet and quick girl. But Wilma did just that! Wilma Rudolph had ________ three Olympic gold medals.

1.

A．potential

B．death

C．survival

D．achievement

2.

A．artificial

B．poisonous

C．permanent

D．deadly

3.

A．tireless

B．useless

C．worthless

D．hopeless

4.

A．crutch

B．wheelchair

C．stick

D．brace

5.

A．explored

B．encouraged

C．obtained

D．predicted

6.

A．fortune

B．energy

C．faith

D．opportunity

7.

A．removed

B．recovered

C．replaced

D．refreshed

8.

A．bravely

B．nervously

C．normally

D．eagerly

9.

A．treatment

B．wonder

C．operation

D．disaster

10.

A．significant

B．suspicious

C．jealous

D．incredible

11.

A．agree

B．dare

C．intend

D．need

12.

A．ordered

B．required

C．commanded

D．begged

13.

A．coach

B．tutor

C．expert

D．priest

14.

A．indomitable

B．available

C．considerable

D．estimable

15.

A．fiercely

B．perfectly

C．cruelly

D．intensely

16.

A．competed

B．cooperated

C．discriminated

D．ignored

17.

A．match

B．contest

C．tournament

D．relay

18.

A．handmade

B．hand-offs

C．handshake

D．handwriting

19.

A．taking off

B．taking in

C．taking on

D．taking up

20.

A．possessed

B．acquired

C．won

D．caught

8 . Activities to Get You Outdoors While Traveling

Many of us would enjoy getting outside and escaping our day to day with some fresh air while traveling. But where do you start? Try out a few of these activities and you’re sure to find a new outdoor hobby to help you enjoy nature on your next holiday.

Horseback Riding

Many people may shy away from this, excusing lack of experience with horses, but most operators have horses for riders of any experience including none if they meet the physical requirements. Horses can take you greater distances in a shorter time, covering areas that would be difficult or inaccessible otherwise.

Fly-Fishing

For an excuse to stand in a river enjoying the sounds, smells and scenery of some of the most beautiful places, try fly-fishing. Fishing is a perfect activity to enjoy with children, grandparents or whoever. With enough practice, you may even catch a delicious big fish.

Cycling + Mountain Biking

On the path or the road, spending time on a bike allows you to slow down and leisurely take in the scenery around you. Mountain biking can give you the biggest excitement, while road cycling may offer a more peaceful and calming experience. Travel with your bike or rent one at your travelling places, and your possibilities for exploration have already increased.

Rock Climbing

For a more physical and challenging experience outdoors, try your hand at rock climbing. You can get a feel for climbing in a gym, but its real rewards lie in putting those skills to use outside. Many popular travel places have great climbing within a day trip distance.

1. Who can take a horseback ride?

A．Anybody who wants to take a horse ride.

B．Travelers without experience of horse riding.

C．Those who have the basic physical conditions.

D．The explorers who like to travel in dangerous places.

2. Which activity is fittest for all the families?

A．Fly-Fishing.	B．Rock Climbing.
C．Horseback Riding.	D．Cycling + Mountain Biking.

3. What do mountain biking and road cycling have in common?

A．Allowing travelers to fully enjoy the scenery.

B．Slowing down the travel to have an enough rest.

C．Getting the travelers to have the biggest excitement.

D．Offering a more peaceful and comfortable experience.

9 . Two of the saddest words in the English language are “if only”. I live my life with the goal of never having to say those words, because they convey regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and disappointment.

My father is famous in our family for saying, “Take the extra minute to do it right.” I always try to live by the “extra minute” rule. When my children were young and likely to cause accidents, I always thought about what I could do to avoid an “if only” moment, whether it was something minor like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding (衬垫) onto the sharp corners of a glass coffee table.

I don’t only avoid those “if only” moments when it comes to safety. It’s equally important to avoid “if only” in our personal relationships. We all know people who lost a loved one and regretted that they had foregone an opportunity to say “I love you” or “I forgive you.” When my father announced he was going to the eye doctor across from my office on Good Friday, I told him that it was a holiday for my company and I wouldn’t be here. But then I thought about the fact that he’s 84 years old and I realized that I shouldn’t give up an opportunity to see him. I called him and told him I had decided to go to work on my day off after all.

I know there will still be occasions when I have to say “if only” about something, but my life is definitely better because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that eventuality. And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to make a personal connection, I know that I’m doing the right thing. I’m buying myself peace of mind and that’s the best kind of insurance for my emotional well-being.

1. Which of the following is an example of the “extra minute” rule?

A．Start the car the moment everyone is seated.

B．Leave the room for a minute with the iron working.

C．Wait for an extra minute so that the steak tastes better.

D．Move an object out of the way before it trips someone.

2. The author decided to go to her office on Good Friday to ______.

A．keep her appointment with the eye doctor

B．meet her father who was already an old man

C．join in the holiday celebration of the company

D．finish her work before the deadline approached

3. The underlined word “foregone” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

A．abandoned	B．lacked
C．avoided	D．taken

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．To Keep Emotional Well-being	B．To Prevent “If Only” Moments
C．To Follow the Most Useful Rule	D．To Achieve the Peace of Mind