1 . In 2019, Wang Jibing, a food delivery rider, had an unpleasant experience due to the wrong address left by a customer. Wang searched three buildings and climbed 18 floors before he finally managed to deliver the food to the customer, who rudely scolded Wang for arriving late. Wang was sad and frustrated. As a husband and father of three children, who shouldered the majority of the financial responsibility in his family, he had to bear all silently. On his way home that day, Wang wrote a poem, Man in a Hurry, expressing his feelings.
Since then, Wang has been writing poems inspired by his daily life, including a poem New Temple, which occurred to him after he delivered food to construction workers repairing an old temple, and Forgive, based on his observation of a young couple fighting.
Wang’s poems, simple yet real, are seen as a tool to process his emotions, especially the personal experiences he has during his work. His heart is healed by writing the poems, and he has shared them with his friends. In 2022, one of his friends posted Man in a Hurry online. It quickly went viral and was viewed for over 20 million times. The same year, Wang published a collection of more than 180 poems, under the same title. So far, Wang has written about 4,000 poems. This April, Wang published his second poetry collection, titled I Love This World Clumsily, featuring about 130 poems he has written since July 2022.
“Poetry is like a distraction from stress and an opportunity to record my life. Whether it’s coping with pain, dealing with stressful situations, or coming to terms with life’s struggles, poetry makes me confident and happy,” says Wang.
“The feedback from the readers is a big encouragement to me. Those poems carne to me naturally and I enjoyed writing them very much. However, the priority is to look after my family, so I will keep my regular job delivering food,” says Wang.
1. What can we know from paragraph 1?A.Wang was in a hurry for the bad weather. |
B.Wang released his feelings by writing a poem. |
C.Wang lost his job for an unpleasant experience. |
D.Wang misunderstood the customer’s need. |
A.Became a hit. | B.Got updated. |
C.Disappeared online. | D.Received criticism. |
A.Talented and generous. | B.Responsible and creative. |
C.Ambitious and considerate. | D.Intelligent and humorous. |
A.An unpleasant experience. |
B.A good way to process emotions. |
C.A man delivering a feast of poetry. |
D.A popular collection of poems online. |
2 . A worldwide shift from fossil fuel-powered cars to electric vehicles could significantly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that humans emit to the atmosphere. But current strategies for vehicle electrification (电气化) can also shift some pollution to communities already suffering under higher economic, health and environmental burdens, researchers warn.
California, which leads the United States by a mile when it comes to EV adoption, offers a window into this evolving problem. The state is aggressively seeking to reduce its carbon footprint and has made substantial increases in wind and solar power generation as well as in the promotion of electric vehicle purchases. One tool the state has used is the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, or CVRP, which kicked off in 2010 and offers consumers money back for the purchase of new EVs.
Now, an analysis of the CVRP’s impact on the state’s air quality from 2010 to 2021 reveals both good and bad news, researchers report May 3 in PLOS Climate.
The good news is that the CVRP is responsible for making a dent in the state’s overall CO2 emissions, reducing them by about 280,000 metric tons per year on average. The bad news is that the most disadvantaged communities in the state didn’t see the same overall improvement in air quality. Those communities in fact saw an increase in one type of air pollution, tiny particulates known as PM2.5. That increase may be indirectly related to putting more EVs on the road. Although electric vehicles themselves don’t produce PM2.5 from their tailpipes, increased electricity generation, if it’s not fossil fuel-free, can. Renewable resources, including rooftop solar cells, supplied about half of California’s electricity in 2022. But natural gas-fired power plants still provide a large part of the state’s power.
“Electric vehicles are often incorrectly referred to as ‘zero-emission vehicles’, but they’re only as clean as the underlying electric grid (电网) from which the energy is sourced,” Mejía-Duwan says. The most disadvantaged 25 percent of the state’s communities also contain 50 percent of the power plants, the team found.
1. What do we know from paragraph 2?A.California takes the lead in environmental protection. |
B.Wind and solar power generation has dominated California. |
C.California’s carbon footprint has been reduced as planned. |
D.The launch of CVRP is intended to promote electric vehicle purchases. |
A.adjustment. | B.shift. | C.reduction. | D.increase |
A.Putting more EVs on the road. | B.Increased electricity generation. |
C.Warming climate. | D.Increased rooftop solar cells. |
A.Zero emission for EVs can’t be ensured nowadays. |
B.‘Zero emission’ isn’t good enough to describe EVs. |
C.EVs, with no zero emission, shouldn’t be advocated. |
D.EVs have a promising future as zero emission vehicles. |
3 . HONG KONG — At the school where Ko Cheuk-kiu works, there are neither school bells ringing nor students running around the playground. “You look good today. Shall we review the text together?” After greeting her student Hei Hei, Ko, in a light blue uniform, turns on her tablet computer and begins to teach at the bedside.
Founded in 1954, the Hong Kong Red Cross Hospital Schools initially provided services in only one public medical institution. Now, it is a special education institute funded by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, with 26 school units attached to 19 public hospitals. Its services are mainly divided into three fields — general specialty, psychiatry, and homebound teaching programs. The first two provide services for hospitalized students to reduce their difficulties in returning to school, while homebound teaching is aimed at students who need to stay at home to recover for a long period. Teachers are assigned to different hospitals or students’ homes and shift on a regular basis. Depending on the situation, teachers will carry out small group or one-on-one bedside teaching, and each session lasts about 30 minutes.
“Teaching children in a hospital? I was curious and keen to know more about it,” Ko recalls, explaining she first learned about the school from a newspaper report in 2009 when she had just finished her master’s degree in language. Ko, who also studied special education, applied for a teaching position at the school and was hired as a Chinese language teacher.
Teachers in hospitals have to meet students with different medical conditions and face all kinds of challenges every day, but Ko regards these experiences as training, which have led her to have a deeper appreciation of life. Over the years, Ko has received a lot of greeting cards from parents and students showing their appreciation. Looking at these warm words of encouragement, she silently sends her best wishes to the students. “I hope they can soon recover and go back to school, and continue to pursue their dreams,” she says.
1. What is Ko doing?A.Teaching at home. | B.Teaching online. |
C.Teaching in a hospital. | D.Teaching in a regular classroom. |
A.It was founded by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government. |
B.It offers teaching services for students both in hospital and at home. |
C.It runs on money raised from the public. |
D.It assigns teachers to the same hospitals or students’ homes. |
A.Because she was curious about teaching. | B.Because she knew a lot about the school. |
C.Because she just graduated from university. | D.Because she could apply what she had learned. |
A.Passionate and dedicated. | B.Responsible and diligent. |
C.Genuine and aggressive. | D.Self-centered and sensitive. |
4 . There have been many studies that show being in nature is good for your health. Walking in the woods is good for your well-being. Living near trees can help you live longer. But when you go for a walk in the woods, what is it particularly about being in nature or being outdoors that makes you feel good? Is it the sights or smells or sounds? A new study finds it might have something to do with the birds you hear while you have a walk.
Researchers from California Polytechnic State University analyzed how much the natural sounds people hear when they’re outdoors influence well-being. They found that the “chorus (合唱)” of birds singing increased well-being in protected natural areas.
For the study, researchers placed 10 hidden, evenly spaced speakers(扬声器) on two parts of trails(小路) in the Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks in Colorado. They played recorded songs from 11 kinds of birds. The researchers take turns to play the birdsong for a few hours a day for a week, and then turned off the speakers for a week at a time. They interviewed hikers after they passed through the areas with the speakers.
“The main result is that hikers that heard the birdsong responded to questions that showed a higher level of well-being compared to those that did not hear the birdsong,” Biology Professor Clinton Francis, who led the research, says.
Hikers who heard more birdsong on the first part of the trail said they felt better. Those who heard more birdsong on the second part reported that they thought more birds lived along that part of the trail. This feeling of more birds helps make the hikers feel better. “With the chorus, we were able to show that natural sounds have a clear effect on the quality of hikers’ experiences,” says Francis.
1. What’s the function of the questions in paragraph 1?A.To bring in the topic of the text. | B.To advise people to walk in nature. |
C.To call on people to care about nature. | D.To raise doubt about the research done before. |
A.To broadcast chorus live. | B.To remind hikers of their health. |
C.To improve people’s well-being. | D.To play sounds of different birds. |
A.Recording. | B.Comparing. | C.Photographing. | D.Interviewing. |
A.Being in nature is good for people’s heath. |
B.Walking in forests help people live longer. |
C.Hearing birdsongs is good for people’s health. |
D.Raising birds improves people’s living quality. |
5 . It is lunchtime. At a long table inside a restaurant, some young people sit together over lunch. There is less conversation than you might expect from a typical group of friends: a boy seems to talk only to himself, and a girl looks anxious.
These young people met through a program organized by the nonprofit Actionplay, where young people with autism work together to write and stage a musical. Each Sunday, they work and have lunch together. “You meet other people just like you,” says Lexi Spindel. “That was the first time my daughter had a friend,” says Lexi’s father. “That never happened before Actionplay.”
For decades, scientists have supposed people with autism don’t have or need friends. A new research is forcing a rethink of those long-held beliefs. Autistic people report they want friends. One significant barrier to friendships is common people’s opinion that autistic people are not interested in connecting with them. Appearing uninterested, however, is not always the same as being uninterested. An autistic child looking uninterested in games may in fact be overcome by the noise. And behaviors like clapping hands repeatedly are a way to manage their anxiety and uncertainty, not a sign of their low social interest.
For some autistic people, friendships develop through experimental programs. In a program Lerner developed, participants play a game called Gibberish. where teenagers must interpret each other’s intentions without using real language. The point is not to get it right. but to attend to what the other person is doing in a way that creates opportunities to connect.
Lerner’s ideas were inspired by a moment 16 years ago after he established a small camp for children with autism called Spotlight. On the second day an l1-year-old boy ran up and pulled his clothes. “Lerner, Lerner, where did you find these kids?”
“All over the place,” Lerner answered. “Everyone wants to come to camp, just like you.”
“This is the first normal group of kids I have never met.” the boy said.
1. The scene in paragraph 1 is described to ________.A.reveal the lack of an interpersonal conversation |
B.prove the difficulty in reducing teenage anxiety |
C.stress the great necessity of forming friendships |
D.show the different behavior of a particular group |
A.Curing young people of autism. | B.Developing autistic people’s taste in art. |
C.Offering autistic people a social platform. | D.Improving young people’s family relationship. |
A.Autistic people have no intention to make friends. |
B.Noise sets barriers to autistic people’s views on games. |
C.Repetitive movements make autistic people feel secure. |
D.Common beliefs cause autistic people’s low social interest. |
A.He feels at ease with his autistic fellows. |
B.He no longer regards himself as an autistic kid. |
C.Lerner’s guidance helps him get out of autism. |
D.Autistic kids don’t long to socialize with normal ones. |
6 . Are you a book lover? Here are some of the hottest books of the season.
The One Thing You’d Save
The One Thing You’d Save is about a homework assignment. Ms. Chang has students choose what they’d save if their home was on fire. Some choose baseball cards or animal toys. One picks a sweater that was passed down for generations. Another chooses a box of memories about a sister who died. This book helps readers learn to figure out what matters most in life.
War and Millie McGonigle
It’s 1941. Millie McGonigle, a 12-year-old girl, was supposed to be living a carefree life. However, she lives in the shadow of World War Ⅱ. War and Millie McGonigle is an inspiring story that tackles the topic of life and death. The story line is driven by vivid characters and their relationships. The interaction between Millie and her little sister, Lily, mirrors the real-life sibling (兄妹) relationships in many families.
Simon B. Rhymin’
Simon is starting fifth grade and hopes to become a famous singer. But he’s shy about using his voice to express his ideas and thoughts. When a teacher asks the class to give an oral presentation, Simon must find the strength to change and overcome his fears. Simon B. Rhymin’ is a book that gives confidence to readers who are going through similar struggles.
Rez Dogs
Rez Dog is a book about an eighth grader named Malian. She’s visiting her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation when COVID-19 hits. To stay safe, Malian has to stay away from school” and her friends. Many kids will understand this tough situation. During the lockdown, Malian learns to think about what other people have gone through and how they are feeling during the pandemic (疫情).
1. How can The One Thing You’d Save influence us?A.It gets us to preserve sweet family memories. |
B.We may find it essential to ensure home safety. |
C.We will try our best to improve our academic performance. |
D.It reminds us to discover what we should treasure most in life. |
A.They are both inspirational stories. |
B.They are both set in cruel war times. |
C.They both reflect character weaknesses. |
D.They both involve principles of survival. |
A.The One Thing You’d Save. | B.War and Millie McGonigle. |
C.Simon B. Rhymin’. | D.Rez Dogs. |
7 . The martial art of Tai Chi is on the rise as more and more people discover the benefits that come from regular practice.
Tai Chi is quite easy to learn. Many recreation centers and community groups offer classes, sometimes in parks and other public places.
One of the major benefits of Tai Chi is that it's a sport you can practice for life. In China, many elderly people continue to do Tai Chi into their eighties and nineties, and the strengthening and balance moves are hugely beneficial to their continued mobility.
A.Tai Chi is more than a just a sport. |
B.There are many styles and forms of Tai Chi. |
C.Best of all, Tai Chi can be performed anywhere. |
D.Tai Chi's true name in Chinese is Tai Chi Chuan. |
E.More old people than young men practice Tai Chi |
F.Often these classes are free and open to anyone who shows up. |
G.Also, the slow moves and focus make Tai Chi a relief from stress. |
8 . Artemis is NASA’s new lunar exploration program. Through the Artemis program, NASA will use new technology to study the Moon in new and better ways, and prepare for human missions to Mars.
NASA’s new rocket will carry the Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit. Then, astronauts will dock (对接) Orion at a small spaceship called the Gateway, from which the crew will take trips to the lunar surface in a new human landing system, and then return to the Gateway. The crew will return to the Earth aboard Orion.
NASA will test the rocket and spacecraft in flight, then send a crew for a test flight:
Artemis 1 will be a test flight of the SLS rocket with the Orion spacecraft with no crew.
Artemis 2 will fly SLS and Orion with a crew past the Moon, then circle it and return to the Earth. This trip will be the farthest any human has gone into space.
Artemis 3 will send a crew with the first woman and the next man to land on the Moon by 2024. The Artemis 3 crew will visit the Moon’s South Pole. No one has ever been there.
At the Moon, astronauts will:
Search for the Moon’s water and use it.
Learn how to live and work on the surface of another celestial body (天体) where astronauts are just three days from home.
Test the technologies we need before sending astronauts on missions to Mars, which can take up-to three years round trip.
The Moon is a good place to learn new science. NASA will learn more about the Moon, the Earth and even the Sun. The Moon is a “test bed” for Mars. The Moon is a place to show that astronauts will one day be able to work away from the Earth on Mars for long periods of time.
1. What is the aim of the Artemis program?A.To help astronauts return to the Earth. | B.To be ready for the landing on Mars. |
C.To study the Mars using new science. | D.To test the Moon landing spacecraft, Orion. |
A.Going to the Moon’s South Pole. | B.Making the farthest trip into space. |
C.Sending the first man to the Moon. | D.Flying to the Moon with three persons. |
A.Send astronauts to Mars. | B.Run a three-year-long test. |
C.Find and make use of water. | D.Learn to live not far from home. |
A.It is possible to live on another planet now. |
B.The crew will reach the lunar surface from the Orion. |
C.NASA has sent the first woman astronaut to the Moon. |
D.The Artemis program is of great help to Mars exploring. |
9 . Germans have a word wanderlust which translated into English would be ‘the desire to wander'. Nowadays the chance to travel is endless. Thanks to cheap air tickets, travelling abroad is very easy and sometimes it's even cheaper to fly out of the country than to travel within your own. So, yes, travelling is cheap but there have to be other reasons to travel and you've right, there are plenty!
I have always had this feeling of wanderlust. It started from me wanting to explore my local woods at the back of my garden as a young girl and as I have grown, so has my sense of adventure. And I found my local woods being replaced with the Brazil wetland, Pantanal, where I went last summer in search of jaguars, snakes and crocodiles. The thing with travelling is it's always different. Even if you went to the same country, to the same town and stayed in the exact same hotel it would be a completely different experience. The people you meet will be different, and they will tell you their own travelling stories: stories of holiday romance, holiday worries and stories that seem so outrageous that you can hardly believe them until something similar happens to you.
Or maybe the difference is you? Maybe you have changed since last time you were there? And that's the thing with travelling - it changes you. When you travel you are forced to experience a new culture. Whether it's eating guinea pig, or staying with a family where neither of you speak a common language and you have to communicate through hand actions and smiles, the experience gives me itchy feet to do it all again. And although wanderlust is a German word, the English idiom "to have itchy feet" has a similar idea. Someone who has itchy feet needs to leave or travel. This desire to explore is found not only in language but in us.
1. According to Paragraph 2, what is the most important part of travelling? ______A.You can have different experiences. |
B.You can hear many travelling stories. |
C.You will experience holiday romance. |
D.You are able to take more adventures. |
A.interesting | B.surprising |
C.moving | D.disappointing |
A.Staying with a family without common languages. |
B.Communicating through hand actions and smiles. |
C.Eating guinea pig with a family. |
D.Experiencing a different culture. |
A.give various reasons for travelling |
B.encourage people to travel abroad |
C.explain the German word "wanderlust" |
D.share the writer's travelling experiences |
10 . The English language has many ways to talk about something that is funny.
Humour comes in many forms. The most obvious and traditional way we use humour is in jokes.
Another way people can use humour is through telling a funny story. Perhaps something bad happened to the person but they can laugh about it now. People also invent funny stories in order to make people laugh. The advantage of this is that the characters aren’t real.
Physical comedy usually divides opinions. For some, seeing someone fall down, whether it is planned or not, is one of the funniest things they can see.
A.Humour is just one of the ways. |
B.Everyone needs to laugh once in a while. |
C.Other forms of humour are word play and puns(双关语). |
D.Therefore, you don’t have to feel bad for laughing at them! |
E.People of all ages and cultures have a strong sense of humour. |
F.Most people know how to use some form of humour in their native languages. |
G.For others, finding physical humour and non-serious accidents funny seems cruel. |