3 . 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。

At the Tokyo Olympics semifinals on Sunday, Su Bingtian set     1     new Asian record in the men’ s 100-meter race with a time of 9.83 seconds. Since the digital timer     2    （introduce）, Su, 32, has also become the first Asian athlete to reach the Olympic final of the event.

Su     3    （eventual） achieved his long-time goal in his third Olympic Games. He had already run below 10 seconds in two 100-meter     4    （compete） this year. Su’ s semifinal time matched that of American runner Ronnie Baker,     5     also marked it as a personal best.

It was in May, 2015 at the Prefontaine Classic     6     the Chinese clocked a historic 9.99s,           7    （become） the first Asian to achieve the level. Bingtian hasn’ t looked back ever since adding seven gold medals     8     his name. He rewrote the Asian record at the 2018 Meeting Madrid event clocking a timing of 9.91 seconds.

    9    （bear） in Guzhen, Guangdong, China, Su was noticed by his middle school’s running coach because of his     10    （wonder） physical condition. He also took up the position of associate professor at Jinan University in Guangzhou, before deciding to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

4 . Like anyone else, I have social media personalities that I like to follow. I watch their Insta stories, YouTube videos and generally keep track of what they are up to by means of social media. These “celebrities (名人)” encourage me to pursue my dreams, and unlike my physical friends, are often more accessible — just a YouTube click away.

So when I found myself telling a story the other day to one of my friends at a cafe and then casually referring to one of these online personalities as “my friend”, I suddenly became aware of the blurred (模糊的) line between my physical and virtual social lives. I was retelling a YouTuber’ s story about how to practice appreciation as if it were my story to tell. The scary part is that it came so naturally that I had to pause and think twice about what had just come out of my mouth. How did I get to the point of referring to someone I had never actually spoken with as a “friend”?

Between trying to make a living and maintaining social relationships, it has become especially easy for millennials (those born between the early 1980s and 1990s) to turn to artificial social closeness to meet their basic human needs for social interactions. So how do we really know who our friends are in a world where the term “friend” seems so blurred? Is it right to call someone a friend who you’ ve never spoken with in real life?

Sometimes I worry that my online friendships are taking away the time I could be spending forming meaningful relationships in real life. In an article in Psychology Today, Alex Pattakos claims that our quest to create more and more friends through popular social media platforms has led to us feeling more disconnected in reality. His research states that we can only maintain around 150 real friendships and the desire to have more connections leads to emotional attachments to online celebrities, referred to as parasocial interactions, and consequently detachment (分离) from our real life connections.

Do you make a distinction between your online and offline “friends” ? If so, how?

1. What does the author think of his real-life friends?

A．They are more difficult to reach.

B．They often cause him much trouble.

C．They are fond of following “celebrities”.

D．They mostly lack interest in social media.

2. Which of the following puzzled the author?

A．The definition of physical friends.

B．Some phrases used in online language.

C．The proper way to practice appreciation online.

D．The distinction between physical and online friends.

3. What can we infer about “millennials” from paragraph 3 ?

A．They are skillful in AI technology.

B．They have great difficulty making a living.

C．They are eager to seek online friendships.

D．They rarely build firm social relationships.

4. What’s the author’s attitude to online friendships?

A．Casual.

B．Opposed.

C．Supportive.

D．Ambiguous.

5 . These days, you frequently hear “scaremongering（危言耸听）” on social media, but what about “caremongering” ? Even as I write this article my spelling software ______ that I should change caremongering into scaremongering—because there has never been such a（n）______.

Well, that’ s no longer the ______, since Toronto residents Mita Hans and Valentina Harper set up the first Facebook “Caremongering” groups to ______ people in Canada during the coronavirus epidemic. People are joining the groups to either ask for help or offer help—______     to people most at risk of the more ______ symptoms of COVID-19.

“Scaremongering is a big ______,” Harper says. “We wanted to ______ that and get people to ______ with each other on a positive level. ‘Caremongering’ has spread the opposite of ______     in people, brought out community and ______, and allowed us to ______ the needs of those who are ______ all the time—now more than ever.”

On the Toronto Caremongering group, 10,000 members ______ write one of three typical posts（帖子）: ISO, which stands for “in search of”; OFFER posts, where people offer goods or services to people ______ in self-isolation; SHOPS, which gives ______ about shops that are open or stocked.

However, there are also ______ posts like the one that Harper posted about how learning the Cree language can be something that people can do while isolating themselves. “I think there is an international ______ that the majority of Canadians are so nice,” she said. “As our population is small as a country, we ______ to care about each other, ______ there are a few bad apples who buy all the toilet paper!”

1.

A．means

B．suggests

C．orders

D．guarantees

2.

A．word

B．activity

C．method

D．scene

3.

A．case

B．time

C．excuse

D．address

4.

A．wake up

B．pick up

C．help out

D．sort out

5.

A．selflessly

B．gradually

C．generally

D．particularly

6.

A．common

B．serious

C．stubborn

D．stable

7.

A．advantage

B．project

C．ambition

D．problem

8.

A．record

B．switch

C．gather

D．check

9.

A．agree

B．fight

C．connect

D．argue

10.

A．panic

B．failure

C．freedom

D．fairness

11.

A．excitement

B．equality

C．right

D．friendliness

12.

A．predict

B．satisfy

C．change

D．affect

13.

A．at risk

B．on a diet

C．under control

D．in a hurry

14.

A．unwillingly

B．finally

C．regularly

D．casually

15.

A．rescued

B．experienced

C．trapped

D．discovered

16.

A．secrets

B．explanations

C．evidence

D．information

17.

A．adventure

B．entertainment

C．advertisement

D．discussion

18.

A．joke

B．belief

C．tradition

D．lecture

19.

A．determine

B．pretend

C．tend

D．demand

20.

A．even if

B．so that

C．as if

D．in case

7 . The Public Garden’s world-famous Swan Boats is one of Boston’ s most popular tourist attractions.

The pedal-powered boat takes riders on a leisurely tour around the garden’s lagoon (礁湖), giving a unique glimpse of its 24 acres of blooming flowers and lush lawns.

As well as enjoying nature, passengers are supporting a long-standing family business. Robert Paget launched the first Swan Boats in 1877. It’s said that he was inspired by the Richard Wagner opera Lohengrin, where a knight crosses a river in a boat drawn by a swan. While the design of the fleet of boats has evolved through the decades, the Swan Boats continues to be operated by the Paget family. The newest boat in operation is 25 years old, and the oldest is 109.

Schedule May, 1 - June 25 Open daily 10: 00 am to 4:00 pm June 26 to September 2 (Labor Day) Open daily10:00 am to 5:00 pm The Swan Boats operates on a weather permitting basis for safety. We cannot operate in rain, high winds or extreme heat.

Tickets Tickets are purchased at the Swan Boat dock prior to   boarding the   boat. No reservations are needed. We accept cash or credit card. The wait for a ride is typically no more than 5-10 minutes. The Swan Boat ride lasts about 12-15 minutes while the driver pedals you around the Public Garden lagoon. Adults: $4.50 Children: $3.00 (aged 5 to 15) Under 5: Free Seniors: $4. 00

1. Where does the Swan Boats get its name from?

A．A novel.

B．An opera.

C．A movie.

D．A TV program.

2. The operation of the Swan Boats is largely affected by _________.

A．visitors

B．water level

C．weather

D．ticket sales

3. How much should a couple with their kid aged 3 pay for the boat ride?

A．$9.00.

B．$12.00.

C．$7.50.

D．$12.50.

8 . When Dr. Dana Suskind began doing cochlear implants (耳蜗移植) at the University of Chicago — a surgical technique that allows once-deaf babies to hear — in her follow-ups with families, she noticed a big difference in how the now-hearing children acquired language. Once they could hear, some children’s language skills grew rapidly, while others’ languished (停滞不前). Why this was so began to confuse her. What was causing some children to leap ahead in their language skills?

The difference turned out to be the words children heard from their parents and caregivers, millions of them. Baby talk, explaining and describing, asking questions even when they weren’t going to get an answer — adults’ “using their words” is the thing that some parents and caregivers do thousands of times a day and that builds a baby’ s brain.

While attending a course on child language development, Suskind heard about the groundbreaking Hart and Risley study on the differences in how parents from different income levels interacted with their children. After painstakingly following around families and recording how often they talked to their children, Hart and Risley found that the children of professional parents heard approximately 11 million words in a year, while children from poor welfare families heard only 3 million. Hart and Risley predicted that, by the time poor children turned 4, they had heard 30 million fewer words than their richer peers.

There was a direct connection between how much parent talk the children had heard and how prepared they were to learn once they arrived at school. Hart and Risley wrote, “With few exceptions, the more parents talked to their children, the faster the children’s vocabularies grew and the higher the children’ s IQ test scores were at age 3 and later.”

“The truth is, much of what you see in children born into poverty is analogous to children born deaf,” Suskind said. “It’s a really important point. The most fundamental science shows that it’s really language, and all that comes with it, the brain-building aspect of things, that make a difference,” said Suskind.

1. What confused Dr. Dana Suskind?

A．Some artificial cochlears failed to function properly.

B．Deaf babies behaved strangely after cochlear surgery.

C．Kids with cochlear implants acquired unusual language skills.

D．Kids with cochlear implants differed greatly in language skills.

2. What can we infer about professional parents from paragraph 3 ?

A．They spend more time with their kids out of work.

B．They teach their kids language skills at an earlier age.

C．They use a larger vocabulary talking to their kids.

D．They communicate more frequently with their kids.

3. Which can best replace the underlined word “analogous” in the last paragraph?

A．Similar.

B．Superior.

C．Contrary.

D．Attractive.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Language development of deaf children

B．Talking to children helps their brain develop

C．Cochlear Implant Project benefits deaf kids

D．The role of parents in their children’s IQ tests