One afternoon, Ava drove to her 4-year-old son’s kindergarten to pick him up. When she arrived, as usual, her son Noah came running and said, “Hi, Mom!” It brought a big smile to Ava’s face. “Did you have a good day, sweetie?” she asked. “Yes,” Noah replied.
“Alright, let’s get your things and go home,” Ava said. Noah sat down on one car seat in the back, carrying his school bag which contained books, candies, etc. Then, Ava started the car. “So tell me about the PE class today. Did you have fun?” Ava asked. Noah said he did and explained happily. Ava watched traffic while listening to him.
The mother and son were quiet for a couple of minutes. And Ava started to think about what to make for dinner. “How about having some pizza when we get home?” Ava asked Noah. When he didn’t answer, Ava wondered what he was thinking. She knew her son liked pizza, but maybe he wanted something else this time. “You like pizza, don’t you?” Ava asked. Still, Noah didn’t answer.
Ava looked over her shoulder, seeing Noah’s face turning red. He couldn’t speak at all. “Oh, my God! What happened?” Ava asked. She had just passed a four-ways top, and there was a wide, grassy shoulder on the road where she pulled off and jumped out of the car, She ran to the other side of the car and freed Noah from the car seat. His face was still bright red and he couldn’t speak, Clearly, he was choking (噎住)!
Ava cried out for help and called 911 while pounding her hand against Noah’s back, trying to save her son. But nothing was changing. Suddenly sat all man appeared next to them and took Noah from Ava’s arms. His truck was parked behind them. He held Noah with the boy’s back against his stomach. And, the man thrust (猛推) his hands into Noah’s abdomen (腹部), trying to remove whatever was choking him. Still, nothing happened. Then another family pulled over ahead of them.
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A woman ran towards them, saying she was a nurse and could help.
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That day, Ava realized the importance of first aid.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival in China. On this night, the moon is at its
The festival’s origin goes back to ancient times. Chinese people would get together on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
Moon cakes
3 . Bicycle riding has become popular world-wide. Bicycles are typically made of metals such as steel and aluminum(铝), but now there is a company making bikes differently. These bicycles are made from British-grown ash trees by the Welsh furniture maker Andy Dix.
“It’s great to push for more bikes and fewer cars on the road, but the traditional bike industry as a whole is using a large amount of energy,” Dix said. “I’ve always tried to reduce environmental impact in my work. Rather than using metals, or plastic, I’m building bikes from green materials—wood.”
It took two years to build a model bike that was made from the ash tree. Dix tested the wooden bike on the roughest road she could find and discovered that it was comfortable, strong, and excellent at absorbing vibrations (吸收震动) . He put more than 3, 000 miles on the bike. Then he rode a normal bike on broken roads, which would have shaken him to bits, and then the penny dropped. “Not only could I make a bike out of wood, but it had advantages over other materials,” Dix said.
While cutting down trees can add more carbon to the atmosphere to a certain degree，sustainable(可持续的) tree farming is possible, which can balance the needs of the environment and forest communities. And Dix said producing a tonne of aluminum results in 4, 532kg of carbon emissions while producing a tonne of wood only gives out 457kg. Making bicycles out of wood won’t make a huge difference. “We have this material growing naturally all around us. It’s time people started to think about using it,” Dix said.
The cost of a new wooden bike is out of reach for many bicycle riders. But the idea of using sustainable materials like ash trees could start a new cycling change that puts the environment first. Helping the environment could be just a pedal(踏板) away.
1. What do Dix’s words in Paragraph 2tellus?| A．The disadvantages of metal bikes. |
| B．The process of producing wooden bikes. |
| C．The changes happening to the bike industry. |
| D．The driving force for his turning to wooden bikes. |
| A．It is eco-friendly and has an excellent performance. |
| B．It is consumer-friendly but needs many materials. |
| C．It is energy-saving but hard to operate. |
| D．It is well-recognized and affordable. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Positive. | C．Worried. | D．Unclear. |
| A．Bikes made from trees may appear |
| B．Cycling is a good form of exercise |
| C．Let’s pay attention to our carbon footprint |
| D．Let’s challenge ourselves with a wooden bike |
4 . Participating in photography competitions can bring you various benefits. The following are four great photography competitions you may want to attend this year.
Communication Arts Photography Competition
Most photo competitions come with cash prizes. This competition doesn’t. But it is still a respected competition. To be qualified (符合资格的), your images need to be first produced or published in a period from the previous March to this March. Each participant can present five images at most, and the images must be created for the same project. The winning images will spread worldwide in Communication Arts and on commarts.com.
Sony World Photography Awards
The competition provides winners with cash prizes as well as Sony equipment. Another great thing about this competition is its travelling exhibition. No matter which country you are in, you can always notice the winning images. Participants are allowed to present five to ten images. You will love this competition because it is free to enter, and you can choose from many different categories (类别).
Moscow International Foto Awards
The goal of the competition is to discover and recognize talented photographers worldwide and introduce them to the creative community in Russia. There is a discount on entry fees for students. Participants can enter up to twenty images, both individual images and photo series in any of its nine categories.
Nikon Small World
Being a long-standing camera producer, Nikon has been running this competition since 1975. This competition is all about photomicrography. Anyone can enter, and each participant can present three images. If you don’t feel like entering even if it is free, checkout the previous winners. The images are amazing, and that might just get you in the mood for application.
1. What can we know about the Communication Arts Photography Competition?| A．It awards winners a large sum of money. |
| B．It accepts images that have been published only. |
| C．It enables the winning works to be widely seen. |
| D．It allows a participant to present works on various topics. |
| A．Nikon Small World. |
| B．Moscow International Foto Awards. |
| C．Sony World Photography Awards. |
| D．Communication Arts Photography Competition. |
| A．They both enable one participant to compete in many categories. |
| B．They both offer the winning images worldwide exhibition tours. |
| C．They both only qualify photos taken by their own-brand cameras. |
| D．They both give participants free entrance. |
5 . Earlier this month, I paid a visit to Baluran National Park in eastern Java with my family. This park, named after a dead volcano, is the only place in Indonesia that looks like an African savanna (热带草原). Therefore, it is called Africa in Indonesia. You can see deer, large water buffalo, small mice, peacocks, eagles, monkeys and much more animals.
When walking in the park, we really had the feeling that we were in Africa. This was mainly due to its climate. The air was hot and dry rather than warm and wet. It was completely different from what I got used to in Indonesia and I was so surprised.
In the park, you will never get bored because the whole neighborhood is full of monkeys. But thesemonkeys are rude and aggressive (好斗的). Monkeys guarded our house and wanted food. When we didn’t give them food, they would rob us of food. So each of us was offered a stick by the rangers (护林员). They taught us that when the monkeys were too aggressive we must lift the stick. And it worked perfectly.
In the late afternoon, we went for a walk to explore the area. On the way, we saw many species of trees that couldn’t be found anywhere else in Indonesia. Soon the sunset approached so we decided to go back. But darkness fell about halfway through the journey. We only had poor light from our phones. And we heard only the sounds of animals around us. It was possible that hungry animals might come close to us and take us as their dinner. We started to feel scared and quickened our steps. Just when we were about to reach our breaking point, we saw a ranger, who comforted us and led us to safety.
In the evening, we talked with the ranger about his life in Baluran. And after dinner, he invited us to fish with him at sunrise. We really had a great time in the park, and I always look forward to coming back and experiencing all the excitements again.
1. What do we learn about Baluran National Park?| A．It is a great place for wild animals. | B．It is located in the middle of Africa. |
| C．Tourists find its climate very pleasant. | D．Tourists usually visit it for its volcano. |
| A．To help them walk easily. | B．To drive away unfriendly monkeys. |
| C．To play games with monkeys. | D．To use it to give monkeys food. |
| A．The anxiety to charge their phones. | B．The desire to tell the rangers about their adventure. |
| C．The worry about being robbed at night. | D．The fear of being attacked by wild animals. |
| A．Encourage people to travel to Indonesia. |
| B．Give tips on how to visit Baluran National Park. |
| C．Share her experience at Baluran National Park. |
| D．Advertise Baluran National Park. |
6 . Do you like to bury your head in a good book? Getting absorbed in a good story is a great way to relax. It improves your literacy, and, according to some experts, it’s good for your health as well.
For the purist, the only way to digest a good story is with a paperback or hardback book. Being in print, it’s possible to feel and even smell the book. And of course it’s very portable.
The e-book has become popular in schools, too, and according to one school in London, it’s encouraged more children to read.
The recent lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic have certainly given us all time to read more, and in the UK at least, sales of physical books have risen strongly.
| A．Last year, some 202 million paperbacks and hardbacks were sold. |
| B．Reading books does not rate highly among Britons as a leisure activity. |
| C．For adults, e-books are certainly a lightweight way of accessing our favourite literature on the move. |
| D．But for those who can’t or don’t want to look at the text in a book, there are audiobooks to listen to. |
| E．Research has shown that readers remember more information reading from paper books than e books. |
| F．But the traditional book has had a rival (竞争对手) in recent years from e books, which are read on e-readers or tablets. |
| G．Studies show that it can increase our emotional intelligence as we understand a range of perspectives and motivations. |
7 . In the 1980s, millions of western monarchs gathered in trees from northern California down to western Mexico. Now, their wintering sites are mostly on California’s central coast.
Western monarch butterflies travel south from the Pacific Northwest to California each winter. They return to the same places and even the same trees, where they gather. The monarchs usually arrive in California at the beginning of November. They spread across the country once warmer weather arrives in March.
The western monarch butterfly population has decreased by more than 99 percent since the 1980s. Another monarch population on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains travels from southern Canada and the northeastern US to spend the winter in western Mexico. Scientists estimate the monarch population in the eastern US has fallen about 80 percent since the mid-1990s.
Monarchs from across the West migrate (迁徙) yearly to about 100 wintering sites along central California’s Pacific coast. One of the best-known wintering places is the Monarch Grove Sanctuary in the city of Pacific Grove.
Pacific Grove, California, known as “Butterfly Town, USA”, has worked for years to help the decreasing monarch population. The city holds a parade to celebrate the butterflies every October. It also bans human interference with the monarchs. The crime carries a $ 1,000 fine.
In 2020, no monarchs appeared in Pacific Grove. But in 2021, an early count found that more than 13,000 of the insects had moved in.
Scientists do not know why the population increased in 2021. But Jepsen, director of Endangered Species at Xerces Society, said it is likely a combination of reasons, including better conditions on their breeding grounds. The non-profit science group Xerces Society carries out the official study every year. Volunteer counters have reported the presence of as many as 50,000 monarchs in the last few weeks.
Monarch butterflies lack legal protection that could keep their territory from being destroyed. Last year, the butterflies were denied federal protection. But the insects are now among the candidates for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act.
1. What is the text mainly about?| A．Introducing California’s central coast. |
| B．Revealing the migration and quantity change of monarchs. |
| C．Attracting more visitors to Pacific Grove in California. |
| D．Introducing the reason for western monarchs’ migration. |
| A．Apparent. | B．Unique. | C．Multiple. | D．Mysterious. |
| A．Disturbance. | B．Commitment. | C．Adaptation. | D．Consumption. |
| A．To provide readers with more interesting information. |
| B．To urge to add more animals into the list of endangered species. |
| C．To express the author’s satisfaction with protective measures. |
| D．To introduce the development of legal basis for protecting Monarch butterflies. |
8 . A recent study shows a shared genetic (基因的) ancestry for millions of people who speak what the researchers call Transeurasian languages. Such languages had their origin with millet farmers who lived in an area in northeastern China about 9,000 years ago.
Millet was an important early crop as hunter-gatherers became farmers. The study’s findings show how the use of agriculture following the Ice Age powered the movements of some of the world’s major language families.
There are 98 Transeurasian languages. Among these are Korean and Japanese as well as several Turkic languages, Mongolic languages, and Tungusic languages in Manchuria and Siberia. The language family’s beginnings were followed to ancient millet farmers in the Liao River valley, which includes parts of the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin, as well as Inner Mongolia. As the ancient farmers moved across northeastern Asia, related languages spread into Siberia, Korea and Japan over thousands of years.
The research highlighted the complex beginnings of modern populations and cultures. The researchers studied data of vocabulary from the 98 languages. They identified a group of words related to agriculture and created a language family tree.
Mark Hudson, writer of the study, said the researchers examined data from 255 archaeological (考古的) sites in China, Japan, Korea and eastern Russia. They studied ancient objects including potteries, stone tools and plant and animal remains. They also included the dating of 269 ancient crop remains from different areas.
The researchers found that farmers in northeastern China eventually grew rice and wheat along with millet. The crops spread along with farming populations to Korea by about 1300 BC and from there to Japan after about 1000 BC.
The origins of modern Chinese languages arose independently, though in a similar fashion with millet also involved. While millet was grown in the Liao River valley, the originators of the Sino-Tibetan language family farmed millet at roughly the same time in China’s Yellow River region, paving the way for a separate language spread, Hudson suggested.
1. What is the fundamental reason for promoting Transeurasian languages’ movements?| A．Lack of millet planting area. | B．The arrival of the Ice Age. |
| C．The development of ancient agriculture. | D．The increase in the number of hunter gatherers. |
| A．The number of Transeurasian languages. |
| B．The concept of Transeurasian languages. |
| C．The location of Liao River valley. |
| D．The distribution and spread of Transeurasian languages. |
| A．By scientific experiments. |
| B．By identifying historical sites. |
| C．Through questionnaire (问卷) survey. |
| D．By combining linguistic (语言学的) and archaeological evidence. |
| A．The Origin of the Independence of Modern Chinese |
| B．Large Language Family Had Ancient Origins in China |
| C．The Internal Relationship Between Various Languages |
| D．Korean and Japanese in a Language Family Tree |
9 . Surf’s Up
Riding the wave can be the thrill of a lifetime. But what does it take to become a surfer?
Surfing—it’s addictive
Surfing is the most exciting watersport there is. Serious surfers must be very brave, love adventure and have lots of energy. Once they’ve experienced the excitement of a ride on top of the waves, they never want to stop.
Finding the waves
Many surfers travel around the world searching for the perfect wave, moving from one surf festival to another and checking weather forecasts to see where the really exciting waves are expected next. A surfer’s greatest disappointment would be missing the opportunity to surf in the best weather conditions.
The international sports
Hawaii is where the sports began—the place which most surfers see as their “true home”. They love nature and the excitement they get from the deep waters. Enormous waves crash along mile after mile of beautiful sand, and every surfer dreams of experiencing surfing in Maui or Oahu. Other greatest locations include Australia, the west coast of the US, the Caribbean, Brazil, South Africa, The Canary Islands, and Cornwall.
Two essentials: strength and fearlessness
It takes time for a beginner to learn the technique, but during a long hot summer, who minds practising? The professionals are in the sea every day, and then come back onto the beach to do some exercise. They need to be strong swimmers with good balance and plenty of courage to be expert surfers.
Never easy—but always enjoyable
It can take a few weeks or a whole summer for you to learn to catch a wave at the right moment, stand up on your board and stay there. It’s an amazing feeling when you look down and see your feet on the board and realize you are finally standing up on the sea, even if you aren’t very steady.
1. What is the special concern of the surfers participating in a succession of festivals?| A．The local weather information. |
| B．Personal experiences and qualities. |
| C．The training process and technique. |
| D．Geographical situation and equipment. |
| A．Australia. | B．South Africa. |
| C．The west coast of the US. | D．Maui or Oahu in Hawaii. |
| A．An advice leaflet. | B．A sports textbook. |
| C．A science magazine. | D．A travel and fitness guide. |
I’m a hurdler (跨栏运动员). Last year, I won a gold medal. However, I might not have won it without a girl’s help.
I was in a city in a foreign country where I participated in a very important competition. I usually took a bus to the venue where the races were held.
One day, I was supposed to take part in my final men’s 110-meter race. I set off to go to the venue about an hour before the race. I got on the bus that would take me to the venue. I looked around the bus and saw nobody I knew. Soon I began to feel bored. Therefore, I decided to listen to some music. I put on my earphones and the loud music began.
I listened and listened and when I looked out of the window, I became worried. I was not familiar with the surroundings. “No, I have missed my bus stop,” I said to myself. I immediately went to the bus driver and asked him to stop the bus, but it took him about 5 minutes to understand what I was saying
Luckily, the bus stopped at the next bus stop. I immediately got off the bus. Looking at the totally new surroundings, I was very anxious. I wanted to take a bus that would take me to the venue, but I didn’t know when it would come. I knew I had to take a taxi, but I had no money for the taxi fare. I feared I’d be late for the race, not to mention having time for a warm-up.
Just then a local girl walked to me. She looked very nice. She stopped before me and asked me in English if I needed any help. I told her that my race was going to take place soon. It turned out that she was a volunteer. She told me not to worry. Then she stopped a taxi for me. She told the driver where I was going, and she also paid for the ride for me.
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I got into the taxi which would take me to the venue.
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I decided to take the same bus to find the girl
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