1 . Compean was no stranger to Los Angeles National Forest. He’d hiked the park several times. But after hiking along a
As dusk
Compean climbed to a higher
Sixty miles away in Ventura County, Ben Kuo was reading a tweet
“There’s an amazing amount of information you can get from satellites, ”says Kuo. The first thing he
Thanks to Kuo’s
A.new | B.familiar | C.old | D.primitive |
A.burst | B.came | C.fell | D.sank |
A.turned out | B.turned to | C.turned up | D.turned down |
A.maintaining | B.remaining | C.presenting | D.restoring |
A.spot | B.basin | C.peak | D.top |
A.power | B.signal | C.battery | D.sign |
A.exhibited | B.conveyed | C.exposed | D.attached |
A.slowly | B.steadily | C.frequently | D.quickly |
A.about | B.in | C.from | D.of |
A.looking for | B.deciding on | C.pointing out | D.counting on |
A.predict | B.release | C.comprehend | D.identify |
A.trees | B.flowers | C.grass | D.woods |
A.precise | B.accurate | C.surrounding | D.subsequent |
A.noticed | B.thought | C.mentioned | D.watched |
A.while | B.so | C.instead | D.because |
A.continued | B.accelerated | C.deepened | D.proved |
A.original | B.clear | C.perfect | D.complete |
A.entered | B.matched | C.finished | D.differed |
A.specific | B.rough | C.special | D.sustainable |
A.thank | B.envy | C.owe | D.contribute |
2 . After a two-hour flight from Shanghai and an hour’s drive, I reached my destination: Jielingkou Village in Qinhuangdao City of Hebei Province, China. The tiny and
In 2018, an anti-poverty project began in the village, with the
But gaining the locals’
Ge said he hopes that as conditions are
A.rich | B.great | C.old | D.nearby |
A.reach | B.significance | C.view | D.control |
A.cost | B.knowledge | C.favor | D.goal |
A.increasing | B.ignoring | C.considering | D.deciding |
A.benefits | B.measures | C.disadvantages | D.conditions |
A.in charge of | B.in response to | C.in sight of | D.in search of |
A.independence | B.weight | C.trust | D.experience |
A.worried | B.curious | C.angry | D.enthusiastic |
A.carry | B.sell | C.boil | D.produce |
A.mistakes | B.apologies | C.improvements | D.documents |
A.hurt | B.helped | C.failed | D.escaped |
A.workers | B.fighters | C.managers | D.supporters |
A.occasionally | B.gradually | C.hardly | D.regularly |
A.clean | B.decorate | C.destroy | D.run |
A.attracted | B.monitored | C.postponed | D.welcomed |
1. What is the man looking for?
A.A restaurant. | B.A hotel. | C.A gym. |
A.£30. | B.£25. | C.£22. 50. |
A.The man’s sister. |
B.The woman’s mother. |
C.The woman’s father. |
1. How will the speakers go to New York?
A.By air. | B.By taxi. | C.By bus. |
A.For business. | B.For shopping. | C.For holiday. |
A.Driver and passenger. | B.Husband and wife. | C.Fellow workers. |
5 . Wu Ming, a young German born after 1995, is a big fan of Chinese culture. As he thought some diseases can’t be treated
Studying TCM also
Wu
Wu thinks there’s no big difference between China and Western countries. “
A.immediately | B.gradually | C.thoroughly | D.consistently |
A.depend on | B.dig into | C.look up | D.work out |
A.created | B.enjoyed | C.advanced | D.acknowledged |
A.overcame | B.seized | C.divided | D.shifted |
A.raised | B.sorted | C.cooked | D.tasted |
A.aspects | B.standards | C.themes | D.means |
A.enriched | B.secured | C.expanded | D.changed |
A.exposed | B.reduced | C.restricted | D.addicted |
A.businesses | B.recreations | C.routines | D.tasks |
A.balanced | B.wealthy | C.humble | D.efficient |
A.employs | B.promotes | C.outlines | D.conveys |
A.scanning | B.checking | C.exploring | D.comparing |
A.concern | B.wish | C.demand | D.passion |
A.Misunderstanding | B.Destruction | C.Stress | D.Failure |
A.source | B.basis | C.bridge | D.tool |
6 . You can tell a lot about people’s general state of mind based on their social media feeds. Are they always tweeting(发微博)about their biggest annoyances or posting pictures of particularly cute kitties? In a similar fashion, researchers are turning to Twitter for clues about the overall happiness of entire geographic communities.
What they’re finding is that regional variation in the use of common phrases produces predictions that don’t always reflect the local state of well being. But removing from their analyses just three specific terms -- good, love and LOL - greatly improves the accuracy of the methods.
“We’re living in a crazy COVID-19 era. And now more than ever, we’re using social media to adapt to a new normal and reach out to the friends and family that we can’t meet face-to-face.” Kokil Jaidka studies computational linguistics at the National University of Singapore. “But our words aren’t useful just to understand what we, as individuals, think and feel. They’re also useful clues about the community we live in.”
One of the simpler methods that many scientists use to analyze the data involves correlating words with positive or negative emotions. But when those records are compared with phone surveys that assess regional well-being, Jaidka says, they don’t paint an accurate picture of the local zeitgeist(时代精神).
Being able to get an accurate read on the mood of the population is no laughing matter. “That’s particularly important now, in the time of COVID, where we’re expecting a mental health crisis and we’re already seeing in survey data the largest decrease in subjective well-being in 10 years at least, if not ever.”
To find out why , Jaidka and her team analyzed billions of tweets from around the United States. And they found that among the most frequently used terms on Twitter are LOL, love and good. And they actually throw the analysis off. Why the disconnect?
“Internet language is really a different beast than regular spoken language. We’ve adapted words from the English vocabulary to mean different things in different situations.” says Jaidka. “Take, for example, LOL. I’ve tweeted the word LOL to express irony, annoyance and sometimes just pure surprise. When the methods for measuring LOL as a marker of happiness were created in the 1990s, it still meant laughing out loud.”
“There are plenty of terms that are less misleading,” says Jaidka. “Our models tell us that words like excited, fun, great, opportunity, interesting, fantastic and those are better words for measuring subjective well-being.”
1. The researchers turn to social media feeds to ________.A.help with the analysis of people’s subjective well-being |
B.integrate into a mainstreamed lifestyle more quickly |
C.prove the disconnect between language and emotions |
D.collect specific terms associated with specific zeitgeist. |
A.It didn’t reflect the mood of the entire geographic community |
B.It didn’t match the assessment result of the phone surveys. |
C.It didn’t consider the features of Internet language. |
D.It didn’t take the regional variations into account. |
A.Face-to-face communication is never replaced to ensure happiness. |
B.Internet use is to blame for the decrease in subjective well-being. |
C.Internet language should be originally used as a source of scientific analysis. |
D.Less misleading words should be used in assessing subjective well-being. |
A.Internet Shock Need A Break | B.Underlying LOL Never Fade Away |
C.Virtual Mirror Of Era Being | D.Gulf Between Old And New |
7 . At the age of 16, Einstein failed in several exams because he often played with some bad kids. One weekend morning, Einstein Carried a fishing net and prepared to go fishing with those
“What are you worrying about? Jack and Robert also
“My boy, you can’t think so,” Looking at Einstein, his father said lovingly. “There is a
“There were two cats playing on the roof.
“Einstein,
After that, Einstein often took himself as a mirror to be
1,000 people have 1,000 kinds of wishes in life. Different wishes will produce different
You must see yourself clearly, and know what you want to get. Your future doesn’t
A.adults | B.kids | C.teachers | D.artists |
A.playing | B.working | C.reading | D.studying |
A.excited | B.curious | C.worried | D.crazy |
A.checked | B.passed | C.dreamed | D.failed |
A.song | B.story | C.speech | D.saying |
A.Luckily | B.Hopefully | C.Suddenly | D.Naturally |
A.while | B.or | C.so | D.for |
A.mouth | B.tail | C.nose | D.face |
A.somebody | B.nobody | C.anybody | D.everybody |
A.poor | B.rich | C.lazy | D.clever |
A.tired | B.angry | C.strict | D.satisfied |
A.regretted | B.graduated | C.succeeded | D.survived |
A.ideas | B.reasons | C.mistakes | D.secrets |
A.sometimes | B.often | C.always | D.never |
A.try on | B.depend on | C.live on | D.insist on |
8 . Cheating in sport is as old as sport itself. The athletes of ancient Greece used potions to strengthen themselves before a contest, and their modern counterparts have everything from anabolic steroids (类固醇) to growth hormones with which to
The agencies have had remarkable success. Testing for anabolic steroids was introduced in the 1970s, and the incidence of cheating seems to have
The test employed for testosterone (睾酮素) abuse usually relies on measuring the
The result was remarkable. Nearly half of the men who carried no functional copies of UGT2B17 would have gone undetected in the standard doping test.
Dr. Schulze also says there is substantial
In the meantime, Dr. Schulz’s study does seem to offer innocents a way of
A.disrupt | B.enliven | C.stretch | D.track |
A.broken down | B.torn apart | C.disapproved of | D.stocked up |
A.fallen | B.needed | C.recorded | D.secured |
A.scarce | B.reliable | C.convenient | D.universal |
A.verify | B.guard | C.evade | D.beat |
A.ratio | B.make-up | C.bulk | D.trace |
A.innocent | B.stubborn | C.outweighed | D.suspicious |
A.hypothesized | B.imposed | C.confirmed | D.explained |
A.signified | B.detected | C.mined | D.released |
A.In turn | B.Or rather | C.On the contrary | D.By contrast |
A.mass-testing | B.false-positive | C.anti-doping | D.drug-taking |
A.gender | B.behavioral | C.ethnic | D.indigenous |
A.low | B.stable | C.high | D.identical |
A.educating | B.concealing | C.defending | D.examining |
A.birth certificate | B.genetic profile | C.reference letter | D.medical report |
9 . It was an evening when my parents and I ventured across Nemeiben Lake, in Northern Saskatchewan. This
The sun was
And then suddenly the boat
The overloaded boat was now deep in water. The
A strong wind blew
When a fisherman found us the following
As I lay in the hospital bed
A.tiny | B.little | C.vast | D.shallow |
A.falling | B.rising | C.shining | D.setting |
A.trees | B.clouds | C.mountain | D.rain |
A.after | B.as | C.before | D.if |
A.threatening | B.interesting | C.charming | D.encouraging |
A.touched | B.beat | C.hit | D.struck |
A.over | B.away | C.back | D.off |
A.entering | B.dropping | C.rushing | D.rolling |
A.luckiest | B.better | C.best | D.worst |
A.removed | B.fastened | C.spread | D.locked |
A.imagined | B.produced | C.created | D.made |
A.into | B.through | C.up | D.across |
A.daylight | B.death | C.island | D.hope |
A.usual | B.normal | C.common | D.extraordinary |
A.anger | B.despair | C.amazement | D.sorrow |
A.sick | B.happy | C.lonely | D.hungry |
A.okay | B.true | C.false | D.right |
A.night | B.afternoon | C.morning | D.evening |
A.disappointing | B.recovering | C.disappearing | D.discouraging |
A.gazed at | B.looked at | C.listened to | D.watched over |
10 . The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was invented by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is a self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The MBTI personality inventory (量表) sorts people into 16 type categories, each of which is represented by four-letter codes such as INFP and ESTJ. Every year, about 1.5 million people have enjoyed discovering their personality type by completing the MBTI. Many companies, as well as hundreds of universities, use it in hiring and training.
Nevertheless, the MBTI has received a noticeable criticism from the academic community. Some research suggests the MBTI is unreliable because the same person can get different results when retaking the test. Other studies have questioned the validity of the MBTI, which is the ability of the test to accurately link the “types” to outcomes in the real world -for example, how well people classified as a certain type will perform in a given job.
Merve Emre, a professor a Oxford University, points out that it would be more scientifically advisable to score the MBTI scales continuously to show people the degree to which they resemble the types. Even when the MBTI’s results don’t quite match your intuition (直觉) about yourself or are just wrong, they can still provide self-insight and insight into differences and similarities between people.
Scoring and interpreting the MBTI the way other personality inventories are scored and interpreted might be less fun than finding. All of the folklore (民间看法) about INFPs, ESTJs, etc. would have to be dismissed. But, in the end the MBTI is sufficiently reliable and valid enough to be useful in a number of real-world contexts.
1. What do we know about the MBTI from the first paragraph?A.It is a personality-testing tool. | B.It is divided into 16 categories. |
C.It is a study of personal preference. | D.It is a questionnaire on four-letter codes. |
A.It performs badly in job interviews | B.Its reliability has been questioned. |
C.It requires people to retake the test | D.Its advantages are not fully shown. |
A.It is beyond criticism. | B.It is a more scientific test. |
C.It is less fun than other tests. | D.It is useful for self-exploration. |
A.How Can We Use the MBTI? | B.Why do We Criticise the MBTI? |
C.Is the MBTI Totally Meaningless? | D.Is Scoring the MBTI Really Necessary? |