1 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。

1. What does the woman think of electronic music?

A．It is clever.

B．It is loud.

C．It is modern.

2. How old was the woman when attending a classical concert?

A．16.

B．17.

C．18.

2 . What are the speakers talking about?

A．Polite greetings.

B．Table manners.

C．Body language.

4 . Is there a link between social media and depression? Do Facebook and Instagram have a negative impact on your mental health? It’s complicated.

Sometimes, looking through Instagram just makes you feel bad. You try not to envy your friends, but they always seem to be traveling somewhere cool, eating something fancy, or looking cute in perfect just-rolled-out-of-bed hair. On the other hand, there are times when you laugh at funny memes (表情包), catch up with old friends, and feel happy to belong to fun social media communities. Clearly, social media isn’t all bad.

People are increasingly suspecting that there’re potential problems of social media. Things like cyberbullying (网上欺凌) , screen addiction, and being exposed to endless filtered images (美颜) that make it impossible not to make comparisons between yourself and others often make the news. In July, a big study came out in the journal JAMA titled “Association of Screen Time and Depression in Adolescence.” This big headline seems to confirm what a lot of people have been saying — screen time is horrible for young people.

The study followed over 3,800 adolescents over four years as part of a drug and alcohol prevention program. Part of what the investigators measured was the teens’ amount of screen time, including time spent on social media, as well as their levels of depression symptoms. One of their main findings was that higher amounts of social media use were associated with higher levels of depression. That was true both when the researches compared between people and compared each person against their own mental health over time.

Case closed? Not so fast. Before we end the debate once and for all, let’s take a closer look at this and other studies. Let’s ask ourselves: what exactly is the relationship between social media use and depression? It turns out there are several warnings.

1. Why do people sometimes feel bad when looking through Instagram?

A．They lack contact with old friends.	B．They can travel nowhere.
C．They don’t look perfect.	D．They feel unbalanced.

2. Why is the article in journal JAMA mentioned?

A．To comment.

B．To prove.

C．To suggest.

D．To explore.

3. Which may agree with the findings of the study?

A．Depression is related to social media use.

B．Teens’ amount of screen time is limited.

C．It is not easy to tell reasons for depression.

D．Social media contributes to physical health.

4. What’s the best title of the text?

A．How to reduce depression?	B．Does social media cause depression?
C．Shall people reduce screen time?	D．Why is it time to give up social media?

5 . The following four famous paintings—from Jan van Eyck’s portrait to Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece—have stood the test of time.

The Arnolfini Portrait

The Arnolfini Portrait of Jan van Eyck, an oil painting on wood produced in 1434, in which a man and a woman hold hands with a window behind him and a bed behind her, is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces in the National Gallery, London. This painting is as visually interesting as it is famed. It is also an informative document on fifteenth-century society, through Jan van Eyck’s heavy use of symbolism—while husbands went out to engage in business, wives concerned themselves with domestic duties.

The Starry Night

During his 12—month stay at the mental hospital near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France between 1889 and 1890, Vincent Willem van Gogh painted The Starry Night, an oil on canvas(帆布), a moderately abstract landscape painting of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York City purchased the painting from a private collector in 1941, it was not well known, but it has since become one of Van Gogh’s most famous works.

The Harvesters

The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicted the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of August and September. Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting. The painting has been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1919.

Guernica

Guernica, a large black-and-white oil painting, was painted by the Cubist Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso in 1937. The title “Guernica” refers to the city that was bombed by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War. The painting depicted the horrors of war and as a result, has come to be an anti-war symbol and a reminder of the tragedies of war. Today, the painting is housed at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

1. Which of the following paintings was produced earliest?

A．Guernica.	B．The Harvesters.
C．The Starry Night.	D．The Arnolfini Portrait.

2. Who created the painting describing the harvest season?

A．Pieter Bruegel the Elder.	B．Vincent Willem van Gogh.
C．Jan van Eyck.	D．Pablo Picasso.

3. What do we know about The Starry Night?

A．It was an oil painting on wood.

B．It depicted the painter’s life in mental hospital.

C．It wasn’t widely recognized before 1941.

D．It was given away to the museum by a private collector.

6 . A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.

“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.

While this first robotic fly is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”

1. Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly?

A．They did not have sufficient fund.

B．No ready-made components were available.

C．There was no model in their mind.

D．It was hard for them to assemble the components.

2. What do we know about the robotic fly?

A．The robotic fly has been put into wide application.

B．The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.

C．The robotic fly can collect information from many sources.

D．The robotic fly can fly well with the cooperation of individual components.

3. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?

A．The robotic fly can replace animals in some experiments.

B．Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.

C．The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.

D．There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．The development of robotic fly.

B．Robotic fly promotes engineering science.

C．Harvard’s efforts in making robotic fly.

D．Robotic fly imitates real life insect.

7 . Empathy (同理心) is one of those strange qualities — something almost everyone wants, but few know how to truly give or receive it. In a world where self-satisfaction is emphasized, it is in short supply but high demand. This is all the more reason to teach the next generation what it means to have empathy for those around them.

What Is Empathy? — Many people confuse sympathy and empathy, but they are two distinct values. Empathy is not just the ability to understand someone's feelings; criminals often take advantage of people by appearing to understand their feelings and subsequently gaining their trust. Empathy is more than that. Not only is it the ability to recognize how someone feels, but it also values and respects the feelings of another person. It means treating others with kindness, dignity, and understanding.

Kids Need To See Adults Show Empathy — While some children are gifted with naturally kind hearts, in most cases kids need to see empathy modeled by the adults around them. It begins with the way parents relate to their children. Parents who show an interest in the things that matter to their kids and respond to emotions in a positive and caring way are teaching the skill of empathy.

Meet Emotional Needs — When children have their emotional needs met, two things happen. They learn how to meet the emotional needs of others and they are anchored in what they are receiving, meaning that they are secure enough to give to others when the need arises but first they need to receive. An empty jug cannot fill a cup.

It's a good idea to talk to kids about emotions and how other people experience them. Give their emotions names (for example, jealousy, anger, and love) and teach them that these are normal. Talk to them about how to handle emotions in a positive way and point out situations where other people are experiencing emotions. Teach them about respecting the emotions of others and show them how to act in a situation where a response is required.

1. Why is it that the next generation are taught to have empathy?

A．Because people tend to center themselves.	B．Because everyone lacks empathy.
C．Because empathy is a strange quality.	D．Because it's better to give than to receive.

2. Which situation can empathy be used in?

A．When a mathematician is calculating the area of a farmland.

B．When a teacher is comforting a student about his failure in exams.

C．When a criminal is cheating a victim.

D．When a dancer is dancing to music.

3. What does the underlined sentence "An empty jug cannot fill a cup" mean?

A．An empty jug is too small to hold a cup.

B．It's a must to talk to kids about emotions.

C．Adults should set an example to kids.

D．Kids give empathy with their emotional needs met first.

4. What is the main topic of the passage?

A．How to train kids to have empathy.

B．How to distinguish sympathy and empathy.

C．How to help kids finish empathy-related tasks.

D．Whether kids can be trained to be more empathetic.

8 . 假定你是李华，你的留学生朋友Jack来信询问国庆节假期你印象最深的事情。请给他回信，要点如下：
1. 观看中华人民共和国成立70周年阅兵式直播；
2. 学做家常菜；
3. 询问他的假期经历。
参考词汇：阅兵式 a military parade
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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9 . A few years ago, I moved to Aurora, Ontario. I was a radio broadcaster, but I didn’t have the _______ of colleagues. That was because I worked not in the office, but at home, and I _______ it to the power of technology. Shortly after the move, _______, I found myself feeling lonelier than ever before. I was _______ to make a friend.

Then I saw her. From the window of my _______, I caught sight of a beautiful, tall girl taking her recyclables and walking _______, and I was attracted. I thought, “I recycle too! We have something in common!”

The question was _______ we would meet. “Should I knock on her door and say hi, or what if I just _______ to be running by?” But after _______ a few times around the block, I still didn’t see her. Finally, I decided to ________ the one thing I already knew about her — recycling.

The following Tuesday, I got up a bit earlier. Around 8 a.m., she ________ again, with the same confidence. “Just act ________,” I said to myself. Then I walked outside, ________ a trash can fast. “Nice to meet you. I’m Megan,” I said, trying to ________ nervousness back and appear calm. “Good morning. Michelle,” she replied.

________ a big smile, I walked back inside. After our “________”   recycling meet-ups continued for a few weeks, I gathered my ________ to invite her to my home. Then at my home we ________ down, sharing stories about our own life. We also found more ________ between us two young women: putting ourselves out for what we’ve been looking for — a new ________ to fall in love with.

1.

A．recognition

B．help

C．company

D．pressure

2.

A．preferred

B．owed

C．attached

D．devoted

3.

A．however

B．therefore

C．besides

D．instead

4.

A．grateful

B．fortunate

C．upset

D．desperate

5.

A．flat

B．office

C．station

D．hotel

6.

A．hurriedly

B．cleanly

C．cheerfully

D．confidently

7.

A．when

B．where

C．how

D．why

8.

A．managed

B．prepared

C．happened

D．refused

9.

A．looking

B．recycling

C．searching

D．jogging

10.

A．seize on

B．carry on

C．insist on

D．figure on

11.

A．came back

B．turned up

C．worked out

D．dropped by

12.

A．natural

B．gentle

C．sincere

D．generous

13.

A．grasping

B．clearing

C．delivering

D．throwing

14.

A．pay

B．take

C．give

D．choke

15.

A．Squeezing

B．Enjoying

C．Wearing

D．Pretending

16.

A．final

B．chance

C．impressive

D．planned

17.

A．power

B．plan

C．thought

D．courage

18.

A．settled

B．fell

C．set

D．lay

19.

A．links

B．differences

C．similarities

D．communications

20.

A．neighbor

B．friend

C．visitor

D．colleague

10 . Walk with a Purpose

Humans were made for walking. With our upright postures, agile(灵活的) joints, and strong leg muscles, our bodies were exactly designed with walking in mind - which is what makes it such perfect exercise.     1     And best of all, it’s a great way to see new things and meet new people!

Maybe you already love to walk, but you’re getting tired of tracking your same old route day after day — or maybe you’re new to walking and aren’t sure how to get started. Either way, it’s time to consider the idea of walking with a purpose.

    2     Ask yourself, what do you want to get out of walking aside from the health benefits? Do you want to meet other people?     3     Get out into the wilderness or explore a city? Knowing your priorities will help you decide on the type of walk you want to do.

    4     Then call up your friends and schedule walks with them. Ask your friends where they like to walk and go there, since this will introduce you to new places and trails. Go online and look up your local mall or shopping center. Many malls have groups that come every day, or every weekend, to “walk the mall”. These groups are always happy to include one more walker!

Similarly, you might find open groups of dog walkers at your local park as well. Your RV(野营车) park might conduct group walks and hikes or your campground personnel might know about fun local walking groups you can join.     5     In cities large and small all over the country, walks are going on almost every weekend in support of cancer research, diabetes research, and so on.

A．See new places?

B．Head to a new city with friends?

C．Making friends and socializing is your goal?

D．It’s kind to our bodies and great for our waistlines.

E．And be sure to stay on the lookout for charity walks.

F．To get started, sit down with a map and make a plan.

G．This might be just the way to get you off the beaten path.