1 . In most situations, the responses of bystanders (旁观者)like negative body language, uninvited comments or pieces of advice on a child’s angry behavior can add to the stress of the situation. But sometimes bystanders’ understanding, and sometimes their words or actions can make a positive difference. One mom experienced this first-hand.

This mom was obviously pregnant and traveling alone with her young son at the Los Angeles International Airport. Then things took a turn for the worse.

The boy, about 18 months old, according to Beth, a Facebook user, was running all over the place, kicking, screaming, and lying on the floor, unwilling to get aboard the plane. His mom did her best to calm him down, but Beth said, “She couldn’t pick him up because he was so upset. He kept running away from her, then lying down on the ground, kicking and screaming again.” Finally, the mom was at her wits’ end. She sat down on the floor next to her son, buried her face in her hands, and began to cry.

Then the most amazing thing happened.

A group of six or seven women, Beth included, circled around the mother and son and did something to help. Beth sang him the “Itsy Bitsy Spider”. Another offered an orange. Another gave him a toy she had on hand. Another helped get his cup out of Mom’s bag. Yet another tended to Mom by offering her a water bottle. With the help of these women, the kid and his mother calmed down and were able to board the plane.

And then life moved on. All of the strangers went their separate ways without speaking of what had happened. But Beth said it was something she’d never forget. “We were strangers, gathering to solve something,” she wrote. “It occurred to me that a circle of passers-by, with a mission, can save the world.”

1. What are the bystanders supposed to do according to the first paragraph?

A．Laugh at the parents.	B．Give parents some advice.
C．Comment on the situation.	D．Be kind and offer assistance.

2. What does the underlined part “was at her wits’ end” probably mean?

A．Made up her mind.	B．Felt worried and totally at a loss.
C．Gave up and ran away.	D．Collected her thoughts and calmed down.

3. Which of the following can best describe the scene in Paragraph 5?

A．Alarming.

B．Exciting.

C．Romantic.

D．Warm.

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

A．Strangers can help out.	B．Beth, a great mom.
C．Women can save the world.	D．Let’s care for children.

3 . What if we had the power to control time, instead of moving from the past to the present to the future? What if we could jump and travel through time in a machine? What if we could go wherever and whenever we pleased?

The mysterious puzzle of time has kept people debating its nature for hundreds of years. Science fiction writers have turned it into imaginative stories. Some scientists have even attempted to explain it using math, trying to make the dream of time travel come true.

Albert Einstein said that time and space are one thing called “spacetime.” He said there are three dimensions in space: height, width and depth. A scientist named Hermann Minkowski added time as a fourth dimension.

Einstein introduced two ideas that have led to theories about the possibility of time travel. The first is relativity. The idea of relativity is that the force of gravity causes space to bend, which causes time to twist. The second idea focuses on special relativity. The idea is that a traveler moving super-fast through flat spacetime will enter the future. Einstein considered time “relative” because it is measured based on where we are on Earth or in space.

Stephen Hawking believes that a time machine will never be built. If it were possible, he thinks we would already know. If a time machine could be built, how come no one from the future has invaded us?

The first science fiction story with this theme is The Clock That Went Backward by Edward P. Mitchell, which was published in 1881. Since then, thousands of books, films and television shows have explored the idea of time travel, in which some tools such as phones, watches, photographs and old books take travelers backward and forward.

Will time travel ever happen? Who knows? Most important is to keep your eyes open and have a sense of wonder.

1. What is the author’s purpose of writing the first paragraph?

A．To show time and space are connected.

B．To ask some questions about time travel.

C．To draw readers’ attention to time travel.

D．To make people believe time travel is possible.

2. Which of the following statements could Einstein agree with?

A．Time travel is possible in the future.	B．People can’t move faster than light.
C．Time travel is against scientific rules.	D．Spacetime is not a real thing in theory.

3. What is the last but one paragraph mainly about?

A．The first science fiction story.	B．Different works about time travel.
C．Edward P. Mitchell, the pioneer.	D．Some tools used in time travel.

4. What is the writer’s attitude toward time travel?

A．Negative.	B．Pessimistic.
C．Sceptical.	D．Hopeful.

4 . Four things that you can’t miss in Macao

Macao Tower AJ Hackett Bungee Jump

The Macao Tower, 338 meters is the world’s 10th highest tower, with a variety of activities, such as gambling, eating and entertainment. One of the acclaimed activities is the bungee jump. The AJ Hackett Macao Tower Bungee Jump is 233 meters high, making it the highest commercial bungee jump in the world. Raise your arms and off you go! If you are not daring enough to jump that height, you can try the skywalk on the 57th floor ---it’s still remarkable.

Grabbing a traditional Portuguese dinner

Macao was colonized by Portugal before 1999. As a result, Portuguese culture is deeply immersed into many comers of Macao. Many Portuguese settled and opened Portuguese restaurants in the special administrative region, but the flavor is more adaptable to Chinese people.

Marking at the Ruins of St Paul

The Ruins of St. Paul is the significant landmark of Macao. The ruins consist of the St. Paul’s College and the Church of St Paul, built in 1583. However, after three intense fires in 1595, 1601 and 1835, the church was seriously damaged. It is beyond belief that after the vigorous cycles of rebuilding and fires, the huge surface and the front stairway remain unburned.

Visiting a museum

Macao, as a tiny city with only an area of 30.5 square kilometers, has 23 eye-catching museums. Due to its unique history, both eastern and western historical sites can be found. Many of them are preserved for cultural heritage, tourist spots or museum, such as the Grand Prix Museum, Maritime Museum and Wine Museum.

1. Which activity probably interests John, an adventure lover, when he visits Macao?

A．Visiting a museum.	B．Going Bungee Jumping.
C．Marking at the Ruins of St Paul.	D．Grabbing a traditional Portuguese dinner.

2. What do “Grabbing a traditional Portuguese dinner” and “Visiting a museum” have in common?

A．Trying the skywalk.

B．Finding historical sites.

C．Enjoying a breathtaking experience.

D．Feeling both eastern and western cultures.

3. Where do you think this passage come from?

A．A tour brochure.	B．A travel schedule.
C．A sports report.	D．A story book.

5 . Some people can walk into a room and instantly put everyone at ease. Others seem to make teeth clench and eyes roll no matter what they do. A small body of psychology research supports the idea that the way a person tends to make others feel is a consistent and measurable part of his personality. Researchers call it “effective presence.”

This concept was first described nearly 10 years ago in a study led by No ah Eisenkraft, a business professor at Washington University. He put business-school students into groups, had them register for all the same classes for a semester, and do every group project together. Then the members of each group rated how much every other member made them feel eight different emotions: stressed, bored, angry, sad, calm, relaxed, happy, and enthusiastic. The researchers found that a significant portion of group members ‘ emotions could be accounted for by the effective presence of their peers.

It seems that “our own way of being has an emotional signature.” says Elfenbein.

It’s been known for some time that emotions are infectious. But effective presence is an effect one has regardless of one’s own feelings—those with positive effective presence make other people feel good even if they personally are anxious or sad, and the opposite is true for those with negative effective presence

Unsurprisingly, people who consistently make others feel good are morn central to their social networks—in Elfenbein’s study, more of their classmate considered them to be friends. Sector Madrid, an organizational-behavior professor, has found that leaders with positive affective presence have teams that are better at sharing information, which leads to creativity. Inferiors are more likely to voice their ideas, too.

However, Elfenbein notes that positive effective presence isn’t naturally good. Psychopaths(精神变态者) are infamously charming and nay well use their positive effective presence for calculating ends. Neither is negative effective presence necessarily always a bad thing in a leader— think of a football coach yelling at the team at half time, motivating them to make a comeback. She suspects that effective presence is closely related to emotional intelligence which one can use to cure cancer or to be a criminal master mind.

1. What does the underlined phrase “make teeth clench” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．Make people upset or angry.	B．Make people glad or refreshed.
C．Make people comfortable or relaxed.	D．Make people amazed or thrilled.

2. Why does the author mention Elfenbein’s study in Paragraph 5?

A．To suggest leaders are better at sharing information.

B．To prove leaders also have negative effective presence

C．To indicate positive effective presence has a greater influence,

D．To show positive effective presence can promote social interaction.

3. What do you know about effective presence according to the text?

A．It is for calculating ends.	B．It is a double-edged sword.
C．It is affected by one’s own emotion,	D．It is the positive emotional influence on others.

4. Which could be the best title for the text?

A．Effective Presence: How You Make People Feel

B．Emotional Signature: Why Emotions are Infectious

C．Effective Presence: Negative Part of Your Personalities

D．Emotional Intelligence: Big Part of effective Presence

6 . Each year, backed up by a growing anti-consumerist movement, people are using the holiday season to call on us all to shop less.

Driven by concerns about resource exhaustion, over recent years environmentalists have increasingly tamed their sight on our “consumer culture” with Groups such as The Story of Stuff and Bay Nothing New Day growing as a movement that increasingly blames all our ills on our desire to shop.

We clearly have a growing resource problem. The products we make, buy and use are often linked to the destruction of our water ways, biodiversity, climate and the land on which millions of people live, but to blame these issue on Christmas shoppers is misguided, and puts us in the old trap of blaming individuals for what is a systematic problem.

While we complain about environmental destruction over Christmas, environmentalists often forget what the holiday season actually means for many people. In fact, for most, rather than an add-on to an already heavy shopping year, Christmas is likely the only time of year they have the opportunity to spend on friends and family, or even just to buy the necessities needed for modern life.

This is particularly true for Boxing Day, often laughed at by ant i-consumerists the most. While we may look down on the queues in front of the shops, for many, those sales provide the chance to buy things they’ve needed all year. As journalist Neigh Phillips argued, “This is one of the few times of the year that people can even hope to afford such’ luxuries’ the Christmas presents their kids are asking for, or just an appliance that works.”

Indeed, the richest 7 % of people are responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. This becomes particularly harmful when you take into account of our consumption “problem” anyway. Why are environmentalists attacking these individuals, while ignoring people like Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has his own f 1.5 bn yacht with a missile defense system?

Anyway, anti-consumerism has become a movement of wealthy people talking down to the working class about their life choice, while ignoring the real cause of our environmental problem. It is no wonder no one is changing their behavior— or that environmental destruction continued without becoming any less severe.

1. What can be inferred about the environmentalist movement from Paragraphs 2 and 3?

A．It has targeted the wrong persons.	B．It has achieved its intended purposed.
C．it has solved the environmental problems.	D．It has persuaded consumers not to shop any more

2. What does neigh Phillips think of Boxing Day?

A．A trap for consumers.	B．A tough problem to deal with.
C．A precious shopping opportunity.	D．A positive contribution to the economy.

3. The example of Roman Abramovich is used to show environmentalists’ __________

A．sadness about life choice	B．discontent with rich lifestyle
C．disrespect for holiday shoppers	D．ignorance about the real cause

4. What is the test mainly about?

A．The environmental problems are very serious.

B．Less shopping can’t solve the environmental problems.

C．Resource are becoming fewer and fewer on the earth.

D．Measures should be taken to protect the environment.

9 . Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution to two of our country’s persistent problems: garbage and poverty. It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking a favor of local snack lovers: Rather than toss your empty chip bags into the trash, donate them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip eaters drop off their empty bags from Doritos, Lay’s, and other favorites at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they sanitize the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open, lay them flat, and iron them together. They use padding and liners from old coats to line the insides.

It takes about four hours to sew a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve or family size. The result is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry around,” Oleita told the Detroit News. Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has collected more than 800,000 chip bags and, as of last December, created 110 sleeping bags.

Sure, some people believe it would be simpler to help the homeless by raising money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the goal for Oleita — whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of attaining a better life — and her fellow volunteers. “We are dedicated to making an impact not only socially, but environmentally,” she says.

And, of course, there’s the symbolism of recycling bags that would otherwise land in the trash and using them to help the homeless. It’s a powerful reminder that environmental injustice and poverty often go hand in hand. As Oleita told hourdetroit.com, “I think it’s time to show connections between all of these issues.”

1. What’s Oleita’s solution to the problem of garbage and poverty?

A．Talking people out of eating chips.

B．Conducting garbage classification.

C．Buying sleeping bags for the homeless.

D．Recycling chip bags to make sleeping bags.

2. Which word below can be used to replace the underlined word “sanitize” in Para.2?

A．Clean.	B．Displace.
C．Classify.	D．Analyze.

3. Which statement best describes the sleeping bags made by the Chip Bag Project?

A．Costly and time-consuming.	B．Complex and fireproof.
C．Functional and light.	D．Fancy and environmentally friendly.

4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Environmental protection comes first.

B．Poverty results in environmental issues.

C．Garbage and poverty could be dealt with together.

D．The homeless should help each other hand in hand.

10 . Todd Bol, a retired businessman, could never have expected that a wooden container he built in his front yard one day would have the global impact it does today.

Bol built a dollhouse-size structure that looked like a schoolhouse on a post and he put it in his yard as a free community library to remember his mother, who was a book lover and school teacher. Bol’s design gave birth to Little Free Library (LFL), a nonprofit organization that seeks to place small, accessible book exchange boxes in neighborhoods around the world. The concept is simple: Neighbors are invited to share a book, leave a book, or both. Today, there are over 50,000 of these libraries registered in 70 countries.

Almost everyone can register with LFL and start a library as long as the person keeps it in good shape and makes sure that book materials are appropriate for his/her neighborhood. Library owners can create their own library boxes; therefore, the libraries are usually unique in appearance, and there seems to be no limit to the possibilities. One library in California was built out of a used wine container; another in Texas had tiny stairs and bright colored walls. Once registered, libraries are assigned a number at LFL’s website. The LFL Index lists the locations of all libraries with GPS coordinates (坐标) and other information. Owners receive a sign saying “Little Free Library”.

People say they have been attracted to pick up a book when walking by a Little Free Library, out of curiosity and because it’s convenient. Some sidewalk librarians say they have met more neighbors since having a little library in their front yard. Bol is also most proud of the way Little Free Library is bringing communities together. “It’s started a neighborhood exchange. It gets people talking and more comfortable with their neighbors,” he says. “This leads to them helping each other.”

1. What does the underlined word “design” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．A community center.	B．A dollhouse on a post.
C．A book exchange box.	D．A nonprofit organization.

2. What can we learn about the operation of a Little Free Library?

A．There is no limit to the selection of books.

B．The library can come in any shape and color.

C．The library needs to hire many professional librarians.

D．The owner must first be assigned a number from the LFL website.

3. What can be inferred about Little Free Library?

A．It helps improve GPS functions.	B．It connects libraries around the world.
C．It makes reading accessible to the poor.	D．It helps restore human connections.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．LFL: A Booster to Shared Reading	B．LFL: The Best Place to Meet Neighbors
C．Todd Bol: A Successful Book Businessman	D．Reading: An Approach to Improving Yourself