1 . A lot of people assume the more work they put in at the gym, and the longer and harder they push themselves, the better their results will be.
Your body is capable of making only tiny adaptations and improvements at any one time. Once you've given it enough push to make these changes, any additional work you do after that point won't be making you any better.
As a general rule, regardless of your experience, aim to only increase the volume of any exercise by one step from workout to workout.
| A．It seems logical. |
| B．Instead, it'll harm your progress. |
| C．It's natural that you may want to keep fit. |
| D．After that, you can stop exercising during the day. |
| E．Only in this way can you enjoy the benefit of exercise. |
| F．They would just increase the chance of injury for beginners. |
| G．How much exercise you need to do depends on your current fitness level. |
2 . The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The Spring Equinox, the fourth term of the year, signals the equal length of the day and night time.
The ancient Chinese people divided the fifteen days of the Spring Equinox into three “hou’s,” or five-day parts. As the old saying goes, “swallows fly back to the North in the first hou; thunder cracks the sky in the second hou; lightning occurs frequently in the third hou.”
Standing an egg upright is a popular game across the country during the Spring Equinox. It is an old custom that dates back to 4,000 years ago.
In ancient times, people did not have good medical resources. So to pray for health, they wrote their medical issues on paper kite. When the kite was in the air, people would cut off the string to let the paper kite float away, symbolizing the flying away of diseases.
This practice is popular in the southern area of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. As the Spring Equinox comes, farm work starts and both the farmers and the cattle start to become busy. Farmers will reward cattle with sticky rice balls to express their gratefulness.
| A．Reward farm cattle |
| B．Hold sacrifice ceremonies |
| C．Later, it developed into a tradition of spring |
| D．On the day of it, the sun is directly above the equator |
| E．As the Spring Equinox comes, the weather frequently varies |
| F．People practice this tradition to celebrate the coming of spring |
| G．They vividly reveal the climate feature during the Spring Equinox |
3 . Like almost every set of new parents, Bryan and Elizabeth Shaw started snapping pictures of their son, Noah, practically from the moment he was born. When he was about three months old, Elizabeth noticed something odd.
The flash on their digital camera created the typical red dot in the center of Noah’s left eye, but the right eye had a white spot at the center, almost as if the flash was being reflected back at the camera by something. When Elizabeth took Noah to an eye doctor, Noah was diagnosed with retinal (视网膜) cancer with the white reflection as a sign. He endured months of treatment, but it was too late.
Noah’s cancer is treatable if caught early. Bryan Shaw wondered whether there were signs he’d missed. He went back over every baby picture of Noah he could find and discovered the first white spot in a photo taken when Noah was 12 days old. As time went on, it appeared more frequently. “By the time he was four months old, it was showing up in 25percent of the pictures taken of him per month,” Bryan recalled.
Later, Bryan was determined to put his hard-won insights to good use. He created a database that recorded the cancer’s appearance in every photo of Noah. He also collected photos and compiled the data from eight other children with the same cancer. Armed with that data, he began to work with colleagues to develop a smartphone app that can scan the photos in the user’s camera roll to search for white eye and can be used as a kind of ophthalmoscope (眼底镜). Called White Eye Detector, it is now available for free on Google Play and in Apple’s Apple Store.
“I just kept telling myself, I really need to do this,” Bryan said. “This disease is tough to detect. Not only could this software save vision, but it can save lives.”
1. Why did Bryan and Elizabeth take pictures of Noah?| A．To record his growth. |
| B．To celebrate his birth. |
| C．To test their digital camera. |
| D．To collect evidence of eye diseases. |
| A．Terrified. | B．Regretful. | C．Lonely. | D．Exhausted. |
| A．It serves as a detector. |
| B．It presents expert advice. |
| C．It saves photos on users’ phones. |
| D．It provides a worldwide database. |
| A．How a boy lost his eye. |
| B．How a new app works. |
| C．How a father saved his son. |
| D．How an app came into being. |
4 . Social media companies are often compared to tobacco companies, for they both market harmful products to children and design their products for maximum customer loyalty (that is, addiction), but there’s a big difference: Teens can and do choose, in large numbers, not to smoke. Social media, in contrast, applies a lot more pressure on non-users, at a much younger age and in a more unnoticed way.
Once a few students in any middle school open accounts at age 11 or 12, the pressure on everyone else to join becomes intense. Even a girl who consciously knows that Instagram can foster beauty obsession, anxiety, and eating disorders might sooner take those risks than accept the seeming certainty of being out of the picture and excluded. In this way, social media unlocks a remarkable achievement: It even harms adolescents who do not use it.
A recent study in the University of Chicago illustrated the effects of the social media trap precisely. The researchers asked more than 1,000 college students how much they would need to be paid to deactivate (停用) their accounts on Instagram for four weeks. On average, the students said they would need to be paid roughly $ 50. Then the experimenters told the students that they were going to get most of their friends to do the same, and then asked, Now how much would you have to be paid to deactivate, if most others did so? The answer, on average, was less than zero — most students were willing to pay to have that happen.
Most students are on social media only because everyone else is too. This is the textbook definition of what social scientists call a collective-action problem. It’s what happens when a group would be better off if everyone in the group took a particular action, but each actor is discouraged from acting, because unless the others do the same, the personal cost outweighs the benefit. Cigarettes trapped individual smokers with a biological addiction. Social media, however, has trapped an entire generation in a collective-action problem.
1. What drives teenagers to start using social media?| A．The longing to stand out. |
| B．The fear of being left out. |
| C．The wish to impress others. |
| D．The pressure from non-users. |
| A．They are happy to interact online. |
| B．They are fed up with social media. |
| C．They choose Instagram over friends. |
| D．They use social media to make money. |
| A．Athletes changing strategies to win a race. |
| B．Students taking exercise for better health. |
| C．Fishermen limiting their catch to protect fish. |
| D．Companies investing more for bigger profits. |
| A．To present new findings of a research. |
| B．To introduce a branch of social science. |
| C．To explore a reason for social media addiction. |
| D．To argue against the benefits of social media. |
5 . Greek Odyssey Reader Event
Join Gourmet editor Joann a Hunkin for an evening of Greek celebration at Kafeneion in Melbourne, Australia.
Escape to the warm waters of the Mediterranean as we celebrate the new, permanent home of Kafeneion, a Greek restaurant, on Spring Street with a shared feast of traditional Greek favorites, inspired by the owners’ own family recipes.
Kafeneion was originally established as a pop-up on Bourke Street, but the co-owners quickly realized they were onto a good thing. As word spread of the simple-yet-vibrant menu — which is built on dishes passed through the team’s families for generations — the race was on to find somewhere to continue the legacy (传承), which set the restaurant apart from others.
Now, following a brief absence, Kafeneion is back, taking over The Supper Club for dinner service (with the late-night favourite still in action from 11pm each night). And what better place to settle in for an evening of good food and great conversation, as we celebrate the rich history of Greece and share stories of adventures old and new? Join us as executive chef Fellipe Mezzavilla immerses us in the flavors of Greece and inspires new journeys to come.
VENUE: Kafeneion, Level 1, 161 Spring St, MelbourneDATE & TIME: 6:30 pm, Wednesday, 19 June 2024
PRICE: $140 per person, all-inclusive four courses with paired drinks throughout
BOOK NOW: Scan the QR code or visit greekodyssey. eventbrite. com.au
ENQUIRIES: Email rsupgt@aremedia.com.au
| A．It includes typical Australian dishes. |
| B．It is served with popular ingredients. |
| C．It is chosen from The Supper Club. |
| D．It shows family cooking heritage. |
| A．By calling the restaurant. | B．By scanning a QR code. |
| C．By sending an email. | D．By purchasing off-line. |
| A．A travel brochure. | B．A cooking recipe. |
| C．A food magazine. | D．A research paper. |
6 . Our National Public Radio staff and trusted crities have made some recommendations about must-reads.
Rough Sleepers Tracy Kidder
This uplifting book is about Dr. Jim O’Connell’s work of bringing health care to unhoused people for more than three decades, first in Boston and now in nearly every American city. His work might be a band-aid on the bigger problem of homelessness, but as he said, “This is what we do while waiting for the world to change.”
The Right Call Sally Jenkins
Sally Jenkins has had a superb career recording the highest achievements in sports by individuals and by teams. With The Right Call, she captures what makes some athletes and coaches reach their peak. Whatever part of life you want to excel in, this book will have you rethinking what you do and how you might do it differently.
The Secret of Cooking Bee Wilson
More than a cookbook, this is a guide to how to make cooking work for you — and even become a joy. What if you have picky eaters, a full time job and a kitchen with only half the ingredients the recipe calls for? This book has the answers, explaining everything from how to figure out what flavors go together, to how to get easy when everything goes wrong.
Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang
Set in a future where a mysterious smog has swallowed Earth, causing widespread crop failures and food shortages, the story follows an unnamed chef who finds herself in a world of cooking delights and unequalled sensory experiences among a landscape of despair (绝望). It’s an exploration of human nature, and the choices we make in the face of difficulties.
1. How does Dr. Jim O’Connell view his own work?| A．It doesn't help in solving the housing problem. |
| B．It shows a way to be excellent in life differently. |
| C．It will make a difference in caring about the homeless. |
| D．It offers a way to get food in times of shortage. |
| A．Tracy Kidder. | B．Sally Jenkins. |
| C．Bee Wilson. | D．C Pam Zhang. |
| A．They tell readers how to reduce food waste. | B．They provide personal cooking experience. |
| C．They both have something to do with cooking. | D．They try to cover some aspects of family life. |
7 . The chorus of the theme song for the movie Fame, performed by actress Irene Cara, includes the line “I’m gonna live forever.” Cara was, of course, singing about the longevity (长存) that fame can bring after she dies. But in Silicon Valley, plenty of big names in big tech have sunk funding into solving the problem of death as if it were just an upgrade to your smartphone’s operating system.
Yet what if longevity will always have a ceiling, no matter what we do? Researchers have now taken on the question of how long we can live if we do not die from cancer, heart disease or getting hit by a bus. They report that when omitting things that usually kill us, our body still fades with time. And even if we make it through life with few stressors, this decline sets the maximum life span for humans at somewhere between 120 and 150 years.
For the study, Timothy Pyrkov, a researcher at a Singapore-based company, and his colleagues looked at this “pace of aging” in the U. S. , the U. K. and Russia. They assessed changes in blood cell counts and the daily number of steps taken and analyzed them by age groups.
For both blood cell and step counts, the pattern was the same; as age increased, some factor beyond disease drove a predictable and incremental (递增的) decline in the body’s ability to return blood cells or pace to a stable level after a disruption. The researchers also found that with age, the body’s, response to injuries could increasingly range far from a stable normal, requiring more time for recovery.
Measurements such as blood pressure and blood cell counts have a known healthy range, however, whereas step counts are highly personal. The fact that the researchers chose a variable that is so different from blood counts and still discovered the same decline over time may suggest a real pace of aging factor in play across different domains.
Study co-author Peter Fedichev says that although the majority of biologists would view blood cell counts and step counts as “pretty different”, the fact that both sources “paint exactly the same future” suggests that this pace of aging component is real.
1. Why did the author mention Irene Cara?| A．To introduce a concept. | B．To bring in the topic. |
| C．To prove the longevity of fame. | D．To show everyone’s dream. |
| A．Ignoring. | B．Testing. | C．Analyzing. | D．Changing. |
| A．The pattern of blood cells. | B．The results of the research. |
| C．The process of the experiment. | D．The body’s response to injuries. |
| A．Advanced. | B．Unreliable. | C．Conventional. | D．Unusual. |
8 . The tales and the tone vary, and the story-tellers are “journal influencers”, mostly young women reading their teenage diaries to audiences online. One influencer, Carrie Walker, draws 1. 2 million views for a half hour read online. And sharing secrets presents commercial opportunity: selling notebooks and pens on shopping website. or copies of diaries on auction (拍卖) website.
Sally Bayley of the University of Oxford, author of The Private Life of the Diary, regards sharing diaries on social media as the contrary of diary keeping. saying the journal is an internal territory, inseparable (分不开的) from privacy. Yet diaries have also long been shared. In the 19th century, when keeping a journal rose in popularity, diary-sharing then was “extremely common”. Diaries were read aloud or sent to friends. “That distinction between public and private really doesn’t hold at all, ” says Professor Huff. Some diaries served practical uses, sharing advice on self-improvement, pregnancy or childbirth. British women in a strange land often sent diaries back home. They were creating an extended family through these diaries.
Many journal videos also create a sense of community. They share stories of loneliness of struggles with body image or early romantic trouble. They make fun of the improper expectations of youth and the disappointments of adulthood, with the ear of sympathetic strangers.
The co-existence of secrecy and celebration was perhaps best understood by Anais Nin, a 20th-century French-born American whose diary was an exercise in self-creation. “I’m in my journal, and in my journal only. Nothing shows on the outside. Perhaps I don’t exist except as a fantastic character in this story. ”
And Nin published her journals. Its content won her fame that her fiction had not. Her confessional (忏悔的) texts broke through the thin screen between public and private. The diaries are a masterclass in broadcast secrecy.
“We write to taste life twice.” Nin wrote, “in the moment and in reflection. ” She spent her last years reading her diaries to crowds. Like today's influencers, she knew that reflection tastes much sweeter in company.
1. How does Carrie Walker attract viewers?| A．By advertising her stories, | B．By reading her journals online. |
| C．By telling stories in a humorous way. | D．By influencing others to write journals. |
| A．It won’t break the privacy of journals. | B．It should be forbidden on social media |
| C．It develops one’s sense of community. | D．It's an age-long custom to observe. |
| A．She shared her advice on exercising in a group. |
| B．She criticized her parents’ unrealistic expectation. |
| C．She publicly reflected on her body image problem. |
| D．She regretted her past mistakes through the journal. |
| A．Writing Journals Is a New Trend | B．Media Platforms Set Stages for Writers |
| C．Who Are the Personal Journals Written for? | D．What Breaks the Barrier of Public and Private? |
9 . There have been assumptions about possible detrimental long-term consequences of school closures on young children and adolescents, but now a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides convincing evidence that the mental health of school children was damaged by school closures during the pandemic.
The study surveyed 907 adolescents and their parents in Germany between May and June of 2020. Depression and psychosomatic symptoms were evaluated, in addition to other aspects of mental health. Telephone call volume to German youth crisis helplines was also analyzed. Both sets of data found higher depression and psychosomatic symptoms, particularly among boys, younger children, and adolescents, especially those living in homes with limited space. The research suggests that increased pressure on families forced to adapt to new work, school, and family life situations during the pandemic school closures promoted the increase in mental health problems in school children.
Not all children suffered the effects equally. Young children suffered the most from the pressure caused by school closures. Boys coped much worse with school closures than girls. The effects were strongest in school-aged children living in homes that had limited living space. That factor supports the conclusion that family living stresses promoted the decline in mental health.
Disrupting daily routine and social interactions do damage to the mental health of school children, the researchers conclude. Given the obvious importance of wholesome daily routine in family life and the value of health y social interactions in nurturing the well-being of children, it is not surprising that kids’ mental health suffered when their schools were closed for long periods and their family life was greatly changed.
COVID-19 is not the first, nor will it be the last serious infectious disease sweeping the globe. These new findings will be valuable in deciding how best to manage such outbreaks in the future.
1. What does the underlined word “detrimental” in paragraph1 mean?| A．Harmful. | B．Improper. | C．Beneficial. | D．Desirable. |
| A．By making telephone calls. |
| B．By consulting a former study. |
| C．By analyzing different groups of data. |
| D．By examining teenagers’ physical activities. |
| A．Boys with severe mental problems. |
| B．Kids engaging in many social interactions. |
| C．Teenagers with disturbed daily routines. |
| D．Adolescents lacking adequate living space. |
| A．COVID-19 School Closures Harmed Children’s Well-being |
| B．COVID-19 Remains A Major Threat To School-aged Children |
| C．Mental Health Problems Greatly Increased After The Pandemic |
| D．The Closure of Schools Has Affected School Children’s Performance |
10 . The Yurok people have lived along the Klamath River, which flows from the Cascades in Oregon southwest through Northern California, for thousands of years, protecting the region and river from which they — and others — draw sustenance (生计).
But as development and pollution continue to reduce the number of fish in the river and the quantity and quality of its waters, the Yurok Tribe is legalizing (合法化) the tribe’s longstanding care by granting the Rights of Personhood to the Klamath, the first river in North America to have such rights declared.
The Yurok Tribal Council’s May 2019 resolution means the river has the same legal rights as a human under tribal law. This order allows people to bring law cases on behalf of the river when its rights are violated. According to the resolution, the tribe’s intention is to provide a legal basis for safeguarding the river and its ecosystem, especially in the face of water diversion, industrial pollution, and climate change impacts, among other threats. In a testimony (证词) delivered to the U. S. House of Representatives in October 2019, Yurok Tribe Vice Chairman Frankie Myers said this legal framework could create a path to ward a more thoughtful view of the rights of nature in other communities and courts, and that any money awarded by the Yurok courts will fund cleanup and restoration projects to remedy the litigated harms.
The Yurok Tribe’s resolution draws lessons from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and echoes the efforts of other Indigenous tribes, including the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, which adopted the Rights of wild rice, in December 2018. “This is a very important step forward in the Rights of Nature movement,” Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund commented.
1. Which of the following can be used to describe Yurok people?| A．A conqueror. | B．A guardian. | C．A governor. | D．A consumer. |
| A．The process of legalization. | B．The tradition of Yurok tribe. |
| C．The reason behind the legalization. | D．The importance of the Klamath River. |
| A．Win an award in cleanup projects. |
| B．Protect the personhood of the river. |
| C．Fight against global water pollution. |
| D．Improve the government legal system. |
| A．Time and tide wait for no man. |
| B．Birds of a feather flock together. |
| C．Past experience is a guide for the future. |
| D．All things are difficult before they are easy. |
