1 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Recently, the Dunhuang Academy and Tencent have cooperated     1     (launch) a series of cartoons to help people better understand the cultural relic. The cartoons adapted from the     2     (story) painted in the caves in Dunhuang consist of five episodes (集), each running less than five minutes. Visitors can watch the cartoons on a mini-program on the social media platform WeChat. In addition to the popular cartoon series, some other creative cultural productions     3     (list) in the Yunyou Dunhuang program also include an interactive game of coloring and a VR cave exploration.

2 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A warning system to prevent people from falling asleep while driving     1     ( introduce) at the China International Fair for Trade in Services. It can judge whether the driver is sleepy     2     monitoring how long the driver’s eyes close or if his or her head drops.     3     the driver enters a state of tiredness, the system will immediately sound an alarm until the driver’s eyes reopen.

3 . Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better. However, social changes brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes.

An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college. Surveys on this topic suggests that parents today continue to be “very” or “somewhat” overly-protective even after their children move into college dormitories. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago. This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.

However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their “adult” children.

In the context (背景) of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents’ involvement with their grown children. If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently, would this have been possible? Probably not. On the other hand, does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago? Many studies show that older parents—today’s grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

Furthermore, studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children. The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home. This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.

Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication. This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.

1. The surveys inform us of ________.

A．the development of technology

B．the changes of adult children’s behavior

C．the parents’ over-protection of their college children

D．the means and expenses of students’ communication

2. The writer believes that ________.

A．parents today are more protective than those in the past

B．the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages

C．technology explains greater involvement with their children

D．parents’ changed attitudes lead to college children’s delayed independence

3. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Technology or Attitude?

B．Dependence or Independence?

C．Family Influences or Social Changes?

D．College Management or Communication Advancement?

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据题目要求回答问题。

Is it better for our bodies to work out at certain times of the day? Scientists have known for some time that every tissue in our bodies contains a kind of biological clock that goes off in response to messages related to our daily exposure to light, food and sleep.

However, whether and how exercise timing might influence metabolic (新陈代谢的) health has been less clear, and the results of past experiments have not always agreed. A much-discussed 2019 study found that men with Type 2 diabetes (糖尿病) who completed a few minutes of high-intensity interval (间隔) sessions in the afternoon improved their blood-sugar control after two weeks. Patrick Schrauwen, a professor of nutrition and movement sciences read that 2019 study with interest. He had been studying exercise in people with Type 2 diabetes, but had not considered the possible role of timing. Now, seeing the varying impacts of the intense workouts, he wondered if the timing of workouts might similarly affect how the workouts changed people’s metabolisms.

Incidentally, he and his colleagues had a ready-made source of data in their own prior experiment. Several years earlier, they had asked adult men at high risk for Type 2 diabetes to ride stationary bicycles at the lab three times a week for 12 weeks, while the researchers tracked their metabolic health. They also had noted when the riders showed up for their workouts. The researchers pulled data for the 12 men who consistently had worked out between 8 and 10 a.m. and compared them with another 20 who always exercised between 3 and 6 p.m. They found that the benefits of afternoon workouts far outweighed those of morning exercise.

He says, “This study does suggest that afternoon exercise may be more beneficial for people with disturbed metabolisms than the same exercise done earlier. The particular and most effective exercise for each of us will line up with our daily routines and exercise tendencies because exercise is good for us at any time of day—but only if we choose to keep doing it.”

1. What inspired Professor Schrauwen to carry out the research related to the timing of workouts?
2. What did Schrauwen’s new study figure out?
3. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
Professor Schrauwen and his colleagues carried out the research by using the newly-collected data and making comparisons between two different subject groups.
4. When do you think is the best time for you to exercise? Why? (about 40 words)

5 . 语法填空

That evening I drove home     1     (fill) with negativity. Then I remembered a time long ago when my father was out of work. Mom wrote a note to Jim, the milkman,     2     (ask) him not to deliver any more milk. Two days later Jim picked up the emptied bottle and left four liters of milk. He wrote his own message on the back side of mom’s. It read, “Kids need milk.” The milk delivery continued as usual and Jim left four liters of milk every other day, never collecting     3     cent from us.

6 . Fitness trackers are damaging youngster's mental health.     1    A leading preparatory school headmaster has issued this warning. William Dunlop, head of Clayesmore Preparatory School in Dorset, said that "well-meaning" mothers and fathers are increasingly buying their children activity trackers as gifts.

    2     Therefore, they are viewed by many parents as a good way to encourage their children to exercise. But parents are buying the gadgets without necessarily considering the negative side-effects.     3    .

"You have physical as well as mental consequences," he said. "I see the early stages of that. It is not long before the competitive instinct (本能) could become quite unhealthy." Then, writing in Attain, the Independent Prep School Association's magazine, he said: "Wearable activity trackers have become steadily more mainstream over the last few years, so much so that an increasing number of children are wearing them.     4    . The trouble is that the data is very rarely used well. In fact, the way it is presented can be positively harmful."

Mr. Dunlop said that some children are "particularly easy to be influenced by obsessive (过度沉迷的) behavior in pursuit of certain goals, such as 30,000 steps a day". He said "responsible, well-meaning parents" may think they are helping their children by responding to the problem of childhood inactivity.

In fact, Mr. Dunlop says that such items are "entirely unnecessary" as in most cases,       5     The fitness trackers can lead to unpredictable risks of obsessive behavior and overwork as well as the issue of online safety, since so much data about a child's health is uploaded.

If parents really want their children to develop active lifestyle, they should encourage them to take part in sociable sporting activities, Mr. Dunlop advised.

A．because their children are already very active.

B．Parents should stop encouraging their children to wear them.

C．A new tracker designed for children over eight has been launched.

D．Used well, the data they provide can be invaluable in promoting fitness.

E．Those include contributing towards anxiety or other mental health issues.

F．By all means use these things but make sure to get them involved in sports clubs.

G．The trackers can measure data from the number of steps you take to your heart rate.

7 . Leap year

    1     It normally occurs every four years always on an even-numbered year. The extra day is added to our shortest month. That is the second month of the year, which in non-leap years has 28 days, two fewer than any other month. When you see Feb. 29 on a calendar, you know that year is a leap year.

Leap year is also called the bissextile year.     2     In our calendar system there is a need for a leap year because the solar year (the time it takes the earth to go around the sun once) is actually slightly more than 365 days long. That extra day-Feb. 29 every four years-helps correct the difference between our calendar and the solar calendar.     3    

Leap year was first made part of the calendar by the ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar. His astronomers had calculated the length of the solar year to be 365 days and six hours. So Caesar declared that an extra day be added to the calendar.

Caesar’s adjustment, however, was not entirely accurate because his astronomers’ year exceeded the true solar year by eleven minutes and fourteen seconds. By 1582, a difference of ten days had developed between the calendar year and the true solar year. To correct this error, Pope Gregory XIII ruled that every fourth year would continue to be a leap year except for century years that could not be divided evenly by 400.     4     This may seem complicated, but is works

Persons born on Feb. 29 celebrate their growing up a little differently from the rest of us.     5     But if they go strictly by the calendar, they have only one-fourth as many birthday celebrations as most people.

A．This is done every four years.

B．This is its formal, or scientific title.

C．They acknowledge that they get older each year.

D．The leap year was introduced in the Julian calendar in 46 BC.

E．Leap year is a year that has 366 days instead of the usual 365.

F．In a leap year, the extra day is added to the second month, giving it 29 instead of the usual 28 days.

G．By this system, century years like 1700 and 1800 were not leap years, but the year 2000 was a leap year.

8 . It is a bright morning in the Ethiopian countryside. Yohannes walks beside a pair of donkeys that are pulling a two-wheeled cart. They arrive at the agricultural town of Awassa where Yohannes opens the sides of the cart to display, not the usual vegetables or tools, but children’s books. This is the Donkey Mobile Library, the first of its kind in Ethiopia and one of only a few in the world.

Yohannes was born in Ethiopia, North Africa, but trained to be a librarian in the USA and returned to Ethiopia years ago. The cart is full of picture books donated by American libraries, teachers and school children.

Yohannes arranges small painted benches in the shade of the trees, and suddenly Ethiopian children come shouting and racing down every road and path. It’s mobile library day! They circle the bookshelves with great excitement. Until the Donkey Mobile Library began its regular two-monthly visits, many of these children had never seen a book.

“Without books, education is very dull, like food without salt. You can survive but you can’t really come alive,” says Yohannes. “The ability to read is the basis for greater productivity, better health and longer life. Even though the children lack material goods, with books they can imagine a world of possibilities.”

Yohannes first worked in the children’s section of the main library in America. Surrounded by books he had never seen before, he realized how joyful and imaginative children’s literature is. He says, “I always thought of Ethiopia. But how could I bring children’s books to my home country when it had almost no libraries to keep the books in?”

He contacted Jane Kurtz, a writer born in America but brought up in Ethiopia, and together they created the Donkey Mobile Library. The children say that the Library has given them ideas about what they might do in the future. A child called Dareje wants to be a scientist and find a cure for life-threatening diseases. An eleven year-old girl, Fikerte, wants to do research about the moon and discover new facts about outer space. Tamrat, aged 10, comes every time.

“What brings you back here time and time again?” the librarian asks him.

“The stories,” Tamrat replies instantly.

1. How do the children feel when they see the donkey mobile Library ______.

A．Curious.	B．Surprised.
C．Interested.	D．Excited.

2. We can conclude from the passage that ______.

A．Ethiopian children have no idea about their future.

B．Yohannes and Kurtz share similar life experiences.

C．donkey carts in Awassa usually carry vegetables and tools.

D．most books in the donkey mobile library were brought in America.

3. Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?

A．A news report.	B．a book review.
C．A historical story.	D．An advertisement.

9 . Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to receive candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. “The preliminary (初步的) results of our study suggest that people are more likely to disclose sensitive information via text messages than in voice interviews,” says Fred Conrad, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

“This is sort of surprising,” says Conrad, “since many people thought that texting would decrease the likelihood of disclosing sensitive information because it creates a persistent, visual record of questions and answers that others might see on your phone and in the cloud.”

With text, the researchers also found that people were less likely to engage in “satisficing”— a survey industry term referring to the common practice of giving good enough, easy answers. “We believe people give more precise answers via texting because there's just not the time pressure in a largely asynchronous (非同步的) mode like text that there is in phone interviews, ” says Conrad. “As a result, respondents are able to take longer to arrive at more accurate answers.”

Conrad conducted the study with Michael Schober, a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research. “We're in the early stages of analyzing our findings,” says Schober. “But so far it seems that texting may reduce some respondents' tendency to shade the truth or to present themselves in the best possible light in an interview, even when they know it's a human interviewer they are communicating with via text. What we cannot yet be sure of is who is most likely to be disclosive in text. Is it different for frequent texters, or generational, for example? ”

For the study, the researchers recruited approximately 600 iPhone-users through Google Ads, offering them iTunes Store rewards to participate in the study. Their goals were to see whether responses to the same questions differed depending on several variables: whether the questions were asked via text or voice, whether a human or a computer asked the questions, and whether the environment, including the presence of other people and the likelihood of multitasking, affected the answers.

1. The underlined word “candid” in Para.1 probably means _________.

A．straightforward

B．appropriate

C．ambiguous

D．objective

2. We can learn from the passage that __________.

A．people fond of text messaging are more honest.

B．texting will give away less sensitive information.

C．different variables might affect the responses of messaging.

D．about 600 iPhone users have been awarded iTunes by researchers.

3. Compared with phone interviews, texting has the strength that people could _________.

A．present their best to the interviewers	B．have more time to make a reply
C．pay less for sending a message	D．enjoy more freedom of speech

4. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Texting Downs Responses	B．Texting Exposes Identity
C．Texting Benefits Interviewees	D．Texting Ups Truthfulness

10 . 语法填空

“Go” originated in China and was called “weiqi”,     1     means “encircling game”. But Japanese players later presented the game     2     (international). Consequently, the Japanese name of “weiqi” became the first associated with the game by the Western world. To     3     (simple) pronunciation, “Go” was then settled on as the game's accepted English name. That is why the now famous game-playing artificial intelligence (Al) program was given the name Alpha Go by its developers.