1 . From self-driving cars to carebots (care+robots) for elderly people, rapid development in technology has long represented a potential threat to many jobs normally performed by people. But experts now believe that almost 50 percent of occupations existing today will be completely unnecessary by 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to change businesses.

“The next fifteen years will see a revolution in how we work, and a revolution will necessarily take place in how we plan and think about workplaces,” said Peter Andrew, Director of Workplace Strategy for CBRE Asia Pacific.

A growing number of jobs in the future will require creative intelligence, social skills and the ability to use artificial intelligence.

The report is based on interviews with 200 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. It shows that in the US technology already destroys more jobs than it creates.

But the report states: “Losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobs — just changing what people do.” Growth in new jobs could occur as much, according to the research.

“The growth of 20 to 40 person companies that have the speed and technological know-how will directly challenge big companies,” it states.

A report by Pew Research found 52 percent of experts in artificial intelligence and robotics were optimistic about the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few years. The optimists pictured “a future in which robots do not take the place of more jobs than they create,” according to Aaron Smith, the report's co-author.

“Technology will continue to affect jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created. Although there have always been unemployed people, when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs. There is no shortage of things that need to be done and that will not change,” Microsoft's Jonathan Grudin told researchers.

1. We can infer from the text that in the future ________.

A．people will face many difficulties

B．people will take up more creative jobs

C．artificial intelligence will threaten people's lives

D．most jobs will be done in traditional workplaces

2. According to the report, ________.

A．people won't necessarily lose jobs

B．big companies will face fewer challenges

C．small companies will win against big companies

D．most people will become interested in technology

3. What is the attitude of most experts in artificial intelligence and robotics to the future?

A．Mixed.	B．Worried.
C．Doubtful.	D．Optimistic.

4. Jonathan Grudin's words in the last paragraph suggest that ________.

A．there will be enough jobs for people

B．things will change a lot in a few years

C．many people will become unemployed

D．technology will totally change future jobs

2 . We have, like in many more countries, refugees(难民)in our country. Through the years I have tried to   _________ without pay by teaching women our country's language as one of their _________ . They have to learn the language, and also our culture, for example, what to_________when they have to go to the doctor, or how to express what's_________in such a place like a farm.

Only by_________the language will they be able to join in our society. Once a year, just before Christmas break, all the women from different countries make delicious food which are _________ for us all together.

Many _________ I have noticed that it seems _________ for women to accept any help than men, probably   _________ the children that they have to raise.

Problems with the kids __________ happen due to being in a __________ country with a different culture and another __________ . The women often miss their homes very much and feel __________ , because they have to get used to this life as __________ as possible. I have seen the __________and pain in their eyes. It is so good to give some comfort(安慰)in one way or another, even just to be there for them. And it is really __________when you make friends.

They and many more new, people are trying to __________ up their new homes in this new country. Will we be able to get them out of __________ , for everyone? And nowadays, though at times their lives look almost broken, I __________ it won't always. Because wherever we __________ , we are together, as we are citizens of the world.

1.

A．continue

B．help

C．escape

D．explain

2.

A．jobs

B．tests

C．tools

D．signs

3.

A．devote

B．say

C．forecast

D．suffer

4.

A．blowing up

B．getting along

C．showing up

D．going on

5.

A．learning

B．speaking

C．mastering

D．expressing

6.

A．served

B．judged

C．Organized

D．rewarded

7.

A．kinds

B．times

C．moments

D．chances

8.

A．calmer

B．nicer

C．sadder

D．harder

9.

A．in case of

B．in front of

C．because of

D．instead of

10.

A．mostly

B．peacefully

C．finally

D．personally

11.

A．mean

B．cruel

C．rich

D．different

12.

A．lifestyle

B．accent

C．attitude

D．disaster

13.

A．moved

B．worried

C．determined

D．excited

14.

A．carefully

B．hurriedly

C．quickly

D．smoothly

15.

A．Fear

B．happiness

C．support

D．matter

16.

A．generous

B．legal

C．surprising

D．great

17.

A．give

B．burn

C．set

D．make

18.

A．order

B．trouble

C．luck

D．pleasure

19.

A．Prove

B．Doubt

C．dream

D．believe

20.

A．Vote

B．rescue

C．go

D．compete

3 . Each applicant to Harvard College is considered with great care. We consider each applicant to Harvard College as a whole person, and put enormous care into evaluating every application. We hope you will explore the information in this section to understand what we look for in our admissions process.

How to Apply

Submit your application through the Common Application, the Coalition Application, or the Universal College Application. Each is treated equally by the Admissions Committee. Complete and submit your materials as soon as possible to ensure full and timely consideration of your application. View our Application Tips for step-by-step information.

When to Apply

Date	Deadline	Date	Deadline
November 1	Early Action Deadline	March 1	Financial Aid Application deadline
November 1	Early Financial Aid Application deadline	Late March	Decision letters mailed
Mid-December	Early Auction decisions released	May 1	Reply date for Admitted Students
January 1	Regular Decision deadline

What We Look For

We seek promising students who will contribute to the Harvard community during their college years, and to society throughout their lives.

While academic accomplishment is the basic requirement, the Admission Committee considers many other factors—strong personal qualities, special talents or excellences of all kinds, perspectives formed by unusual personal circumstances, and the ability to take advantage of available resources and opportunities.

We outline everything you need to apply to Harvard.

Click https: //college. harvard. edu/admissions/apply to get detailed requirements.

1. You can submit your application through the following approaches except________

A．Common Application.	B．Coalition Application.
C．Universal College Application.	D．Application Tips.

2. Which is the final day for Financial Aid Application?

A．November 1.

B．January 1.

C．March 1.

D．May 1.

3. What is the basic requirement to apply for Harvard University?

A．Academic accomplishment.	B．Strong personal qualities.
C．Special talents.	D．Unique perspectives.

4 . 下面短文中有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

This morning on my way to school, I was deep moved by what I saw outside a bank. An old man was counting his money in the front of the bank. Suddenly a young man came running and knocked him down. To make things bad, his money was lying in all direction. In no time the people around rush to pick the money up while the old man stood there, not know what to do. Surprisingly, everyone gave back the money they had just picked. The old man counted the money again and found that not a single bill was missed. To my great joy, there are now a lot nice people in your life. It’s true what honesty is more important than money!

5 . It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old. Welcome to our future life.

Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle aged!

As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal（谷物） into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the nutrition details on the cereal box. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the table as the kitchen checks its food supplies.

“Ready for your trip to space,” you ask your son and daughter. In 2021 only specially-trained astronauts went into space---and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for daytrips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods like strawberries contain specific vaccines(疫苗). With the strawberries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.

It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and move smoothly into traffic on the highway.

1. What changes the color of your shirt?

A．The mirror.	B．The shirt itself
C．The counter.	D．The medicine.

2. How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal?

A．By pouring the breakfast into a bowl.

B．By listening to the doctor’s advice.

C．By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.

D．By checking the nutrition details of the food on the cereal box.

3. The strawberries the children eat serve as ______.

A．breakfast

B．lunch

C．vaccines

D．nutrition

4. How is the text organized?

A．In order of time.	B．In order of frequency.
C．In order of preference.	D．In order of importance.

6 . With people wearing face masks to protect themselves from being infected with the novel coronavirus, a concern now is how they are dealing with their used masks. As used face masks may carry the coronavirus, they shouldn't be carelessly thrown away as waste. Since the virus can survive for one or two days in wet conditions, the used masks may become a new source of infection.

Given that the garbage sorting has recently been carried out in only a few cities, mixed waste commonly exists. The mixture of polluted masks and recyclable waste may cause a possible danger to rubbish collectors when they put hands in the garbage cans to collect recyclable items. What's worse, if someone just throws a used mask on the street, someone might pick it up, or try to collect it to sell second-hand.

With the spread of the novel coronavirus, there has obviously been a high demand for protective equipment such as face masks among ordinary people, with the resulting generation of a huge quantity of what may be considered medical waste. Thus, the problem is how to deal with this mass of medical waste, particularly the used face masks outside of hospitals. Communities should have special trash cans around to collect used masks. If these are not provided, people should put the waste into plastic bags before casting them aside, so they are not exposed to the air.

As the main risk of medical waste is infectivity, disinfection, whether by steam, chemicals or microwave, is very important. According to regulations, only licensed companies should collect, transport and do the final management of medical waste. For example, medical waste must be collected in special containers,and be transported in special vehicles by qualified people.

1. What problem is described in paragraph 1?

A．Used masks may cause infection.	B．Used masks are difficult to recycle.
C．The virus spreads quickly in wet conditions.	D．The novel coronavirus infection is worsening.

2. What is paragraph 2 mainly talking about?

A．The causes of sorting garbage.	B．The ways of recycling used masks.
C．The harm of using second-hand masks.	D．The risk of handling used masks improperly.

3. What do the underlined words "casting them aside" in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Destroying rubbish.

B．Throwing waste.

C．Marking rubbish.

D．Reusing waste.

4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．It costs a lot to collect and transport medical waste.

B．The hospital infection is mainly from medical waste.

C．The rules of dealing with medical waste are very strict.

D．License companies should be responsible for infection.

7 . Who needs friends? According to most psychologists (心理学家), we all do, especially nowadays when so many other aspects (方面) of modern life are changing. It seems that having friends keeps us both healthy and happy.

The number of TV series about groups of friends shows just how important friendship is to us. Psychologist Dorothy Rowe says that many of us now turn to our friends, instead of our families, for advice, comfort and security (安全感). One woman named Rebecca she interviewed even told her that if she had got to choose between her husband and her friend, she would choose her friend.

Since our friends mean so much to us, it is not surprising that the happiest marriages are also friendships. “Once the romantic stage of a relationship has passed, it is friendship that holds people together,” says Rowe. If the couple do not make some change, they will either get tired of each other and break up or stay together and seek friendship with others.

But is friendship equally important to women and men? According to author Rhonda Pritchard, women are more likely than men to have close friends. “You tell a friend things that you’d never tell a partner”, says one woman she interviewed. For men, friendship is usually based on doing things together rather than the private conversations that are typical of women friend. Men share time and activities like building a fence or a business, running, riding a bike, fishing or watching football, but they don’t often share their feelings.

Although many women find their relationships with a husband or boyfriend is not enough, many men say that their partner is their best friend. Even women who are very happily married are likely to become very unhappy without a close friend and can even find the breakup of a close friend as painful as the end of a marriage.

1. What did Rebecca think about friendship?

A．Families are reliable forever.

B．Her friend means more to her than her husband

C．One needn’t have too many friends.

D．Friends are as important as families.

2. Some couples look for friends outside their relationships because         .

A．they are encouraged by their partners.

B．they are not fairly treated by their partners

C．they don’t get what they need from their partners.

D．they think their friends are more romantic.

3. What is the main difference between men’s and women’s friendships?

A．Women often do things together.

B．Women often talk about business with friends.

C．Men seldom talk about their feelings.

D．Men often talk to their friends about work and family.

4. When a friendship ends, some women may      .

A．feel as upset as when a marriage ends.

B．share feelings with their partners.

C．treat their partners as friends.

D．turn to their husband for comfort.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式

Have you ever dreamed of being famous     1     a popular musician? Many musicians, at first, may form a band     2     (practice) their music. And then they may get the chance to give     3     (perform) in pubs or clubs. Later they may     4     (gradual) become popular. However, the Monkees started in a different way. Only one of     5     (they) was good enough and the other three members pretended to sing. To be honest, it couldn’t be called a real band at the     6     (begin). Anyhow, their shows were     7     (humor) and they became popular. After a year or so, they worked even     8     (hard) and produced their own records and started touring. The Monkees broke up in about 1970     9     they reunited in the mid-1980s and     10     (produce) a new record in 1996 to celebrate their former happy time.

9 . Rising through stages to realize ourselves

Many modern people have the problem that they don’t know who they are and what their purpose is.     1    . Once high school seniors graduate, they seem to lose their identity. They once studied hard. But after they stop working, they begin to lose their way.

In the theory of the Hierarchy of Needs (需求理论), Abraham Maslo, put forward a similar situation, which consists of the five levels of a person’s need. The fifth and final level is self-realization, which is where our final achievement lies.     2    .

I think self-realization has three major aspects. The first stage is acceptance, the second stage is discovery and the last stage is perseverance.

Acceptance is the first stage. We should be reminded that we are all born unique, so we all have our own strengths and weaknesses. Only when we understand these, can we pursue them or change them.     3    .

Once we’ve accepted ourselves, we can discover what we are interested in and what we want to be.     4     but indeed we should live for ourselves. So before we start working towards a purpose, we should ask ourselves “Is this what we truly desire?” and “Is this going to change the situation we’re in?”

The last stage is perseverance.     5    . Those who can self-realize are people who focus on the things they want to change.

Through the three stages, we could gain recognition of ourselves. And by this point, whatever our lives were like, we would be able to stand tall, confident of ourselves.

A．It’s nothing to a man of perseverance

B．Only by acceptance of the past can we change it

C．This is especially common among college students

D．Many people tend to go along with social expectations

E．Being objective and yet tolerant is the key to acceptance

F．It is the process of knowing ourselves and finding a purpose

G．Exploring our potential isn’t going to be done in a short time