1 .

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1. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．News on teaching.	B．News on creativity.
C．News on technology.	D．News on caffeine.

2. Which headline as follows is suitable for Mar. 14, 2022?

A．More Methods Help You Creative	B．Many Ways Help You Succeed
C．Anyone Can Be Creative	D．Everyone Can Be Stimulated

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Highly creative people work differently than others.

B．Anyone can find inspiration and new ways to create.

C．Encouraging kids to help others is a way to improve their creativity.

D．A new neuroimaging study leads to human creativity.

2 . Adjusting to a new sleep schedule at the start of the school year can lead to disturbed rest, daytime tiredness and changes in mood and focus for teens. Although they need eight to ten hours of sleep per night to maintain physical health, emotional well-being and school performance, according to the National Sleep Foundation, most adolescents get less than eight.

Newly published research from RUSH in the journal SLEEP reveals how adolescents can get more shut-eye. “There are a lot of changes a teen goes through,” said Stephanie J. Crowley, PhD. “One specifically is a change to sleep biology that happens during adolescence.” Crowley said, “there are two competing forces: one to go to bed earlier for the school schedule and the other a biological change that happens naturally to a teen’s body.” Because of this complex conflict, RUSH researchers set out to test a two-week intervention that targets the circadian(昼夜节律的) system with different behavioral measures and tries to help the teens figure out a better nighttime routine.

To solve teen sleep shortage, the researchers used bright light therapy on two weekend mornings for a total of 2.5 hours. The bright light helps the internal clock to wake up a little earlier. This shift should make it easier for the teens to fall asleep at an appropriate time. Crowley and her team then helped them make up for sleep problems by providing time management tools and addressing barriers to an earlier bedtime, like limiting certain after-school activities.

Researchers were able to shift the teens’ bedtime by an hour and a half earlier, and their total sleep time increased by approximately an hour. “The interesting thing is that teens with late circadian clocks shifted by up to two hours earlier,” Crowley said. “And the teens who had an earlier circadian clock didn’t need to be shifted any earlier. They just needed the behavioral support of trying to manage their time in the evening and increase their sleep duration.” The researchers also found the teens in the intervention group were less tired, and less angry, and they exhibited better concentration. The students’ morning attention improved as well.

1. According to the author, what’s the major sleeping problem in teens?

A．Most teens’ circadian clocks have changed.

B．Most teens get less than eight hours of sleep.

C．Too much sleep affects teens’ academic performance.

D．Teens have to get more sleep in order to go to school.

2. What’s the author’s purpose of mentioning two competing forces?

A．To highlight the importance of circadian clock changes in teens.

B．To emphasize the significance of teens’ night-time routine.

C．To show the conflict between sleeping early and not wanting to sleep.

D．To build connection between sleeping earlier and rising earlier.

3. What can we learn about the bright light therapy?

A．It makes teens go through many different changes.

B．It makes teens without enough sleep concentrate on their study.

C．It helps teens go to bed three hours earlier every day.

D．It does help teens develop good sleep patterns.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Teens’ Sleeping Time	B．Helping Teens Get More Sleep
C．Experiment on Teens’ Behavior	D．Improving Teens’ Concentration

3 . What do you know about fashion? The fashion industry, which has become one of the most _________ to the planet, is having a moment of punishment. But which changes make a difference, and which ones just _________ in the wash? In fact, the fashion industry is second only to the oil industry, the most environmentally unfriendly industry.

A friend of mine _________ an antique clothes store in the north of London. Business has been good for many years, which makes her acquire a large fortune. Every few weeks, she visits a vast storehouse on the edge of the city to go through piles of clothing. Most of it is _________, but if you know what you are looking for, there are raw diamonds. The storehouse has a long history. It was once a clearing house for the low-quality wool scraps(碎料) that were used to make cheap clothing for the _________ in Victorian Britain. A century on, _________ has changed. Nowadays, it is full of modern-day inferior products, all _________ cheap clothing made for the masses around the world. Except that this stuff is going to be burned or buried, not being reused.

The items are the products of an industry that, in the past 30 years, has become one of the most successful and also most _________ on the planet. Known as fast fashion, it has filled our wardrobes(衣柜) with cheap and cheerful clothes. But after three decades of continuous growth, the model is in _________ with fundamental environmental limits and there is widespread agreement – even from within the industry – that it is time to ____________. Otherwise, “Fast fashion” creates a mountain of unsellable, cheap clothing that ends up in a terrible place.

“The fashion industry represents a key environmental ____________,” says Kirsi Niinimäki at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. “Eventually, the long-term stability of the fashion industry ____________ the total abandonment of the fast-fashion model.” Like fast food, fast fashion is all about instant ____________ on the cheap.

One wonders: What can we do about it? Don’t you have any clothes on? It’s not that ____________. More importantly, don’t waste, learn to control your desires and ____________ falling into this “Fast fashion” lifestyle. As the guardian columnist Lucy Seagal once said, the “Fast fashion” industry is profit-driven, but consumers who have experienced “over-consumption” will naturally grow tired of it, and the market will have its choice.

1.

A．convincing

B．interesting

C．confusing

D．damaging

2.

A．carry out

B．come out

C．set out

D．break out

3.

A．builds

B．runs

C．supports

D．controls

4.

A．expensive

B．useless

C．worthless

D．attractive

5.

A．businessmen

B．children

C．locals

D．masses

6.

A．little

B．few

C．much

D．many

7.

A．on behalf of

B．in the form of

C．for the sake of

D．in terms of

8.

A．effective

B．destructive

C．preventive

D．alternative

9.

A．quarrel

B．argument

C．fight

D．conflict

10.

A．tell the truth

B．hit the brakes

C．pave the way

D．break the ice

11.

A．threat

B．effect

C．problem

D．protection

12.

A．results from

B．consists of

C．brings about

D．relies on

13.

A．ambition

B．action

C．satisfaction

D．attraction

14.

A．far

B．extreme

C．bad

D．complex

15.

A．enjoy

B．imagine

C．miss

D．avoid

4 . Hot Air Balloon Sydney For 2, Weekend Flight includes FULL GOURMET BREAKFAST

Item: HO12955TA Location: Windsor Sydney Our Price: $299 (per person for groups of 2)

•Hot Air Balloon Flight for 2 (there will be others in the balloon basket with you)

•NOTHING MORE TO PAY ON THE DAY! YOUR FULL GOURMET BREAKFAST IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE

•Travel with the Tourism Award winners with over 20 years of experience

•Float over beautiful Hawkesbury Valley

•Color flight certificate

Experience the wonder of a Hot Air Balloon Flight for 2 people. Rising before dawn, you can join the crew in unpacking and preparing the balloon for flight—which is a spectacle in itself! After an exciting launch, you’ll drift with the wind silently over the parklands, homes and hills of the Hawkesbury region of Sydney.

Hot Air Ballooning begins in the cool, still hours of the early morning, when the air is more stable. The launch site, determined by the weather on the morning, will be in or around the beautiful Hawkesbury Valley. The adventure begins by inflating (使…充气) the balloon using a giant portable fan. Once the balloon starts to take shape the burner is lit, heating the air inside. The hot air inside is lighter than the cool air outside and this is what creates the lift and why it is called a Hot Air Balloon. Passengers are welcome to assist the pilot and crew with inflating the hot air balloon at the launch site, which only takes about 20 minutes.

The Hot Air Balloon Flight for 2 is both quaint and peaceful. You hear very little sound from the awakening world below. The silence is only broken with blasts from the propane burner heating the air in your balloon to keep you cruising across the skies. Watch as the sun bursts from the horizon and paints the sky pink in a spectacular morning sunrise. To top off the morning you’ll celebrate with a full gourmet breakfast. This adventure is for 2 people.

There will be other people in the balloon basket with you.

Hot Air Balloon flights take place at sunrise. The exact time of your Hot Air Balloon flight experience will vary based upon the time of year and will be sent to you upon booking.

1. The price $299 includes ________.

A．tips for the Tourism Award winners	B．full gourmet breakfast
C．two persons’ Hot Air Balloon Flight	D．the accident insurance of the participants

2. Why does Hot Air Ballooning begin before dawn?

A．Tourists needn’t queue for the flight.

B．The air at that time is cooler and more stable.

C．Tourists can see the spectacular sunrise in the sky.

D．Travelers have to start the adventure with their stomach empty.

3. Which of the following statement is True?

A．The people in the basket are all tourists.

B．The burner is off after the balloon is launched.

C．The balloon is launched at the fixed time and place.

D．Those who have experienced the flight can get a certificate.

5 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Technology has made paying all sorts of bills incredibly easy. The real-time budget apps, which capture our spending and pay our bills automatically, should theoretically give us more control over our money. But why, in real life, do they do the opposite?

It helps to think about how we used to pay. My parents describe a process that would involve three separate points of contact whenever they paid for something with a credit card: first, at the cash register, then when a bill came in the mail and finally when they wrote a check to cover it. While each of the checkpoints is technically still there, automation has given us a chance to skip the second and the third. For bills paid automatically through a banking app, even the first checkpoint can be gone. We know that it is happening in the background, but it’s so far out of view that it might as well not be there. How do we get that connection back, without giving up the convenience that technology has brought us?

The good news is that though technology has taken away something, it can also give. Much of the battle is simply recognizing what we’ve lost. If we want to be smart about our money and have thorough control over it, we need to bridge that gap between what we spend on and how much we pay. We can start using personal-finance apps to do more than make our lives easier. These apps can send us notifications when each automatic payment is being made and categorize purchases, sending us instant spending reports. Admittedly, those tools require the user to sign up for these services and make conscious efforts to take full advantage of them. In this way, they are arguably better practice than balancing a checkbook on a Saturday morning.

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6 . Shanghai Regulation to Help Boost AI

Shanghai’s decision to boost the development of the artificial intelligence industry will promote the city’s digital transformation and its efforts to build itself into an international AI highland, experts said in an interview.

The city passed a regulation on boosting AI just months ago, marking the first such effort in China at the provincial level.     1    

“This regulation emphasizes industry innovation and guidance for future development,” said Yan Rui, director of legal affairs in the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress, at a recent media briefing. “    2     It will also strongly support the digital transformation of Shanghai, and assist creation of an AI highland with global influence.” Yan said.

One highlight of the AI regulation is that the municipal departments concerned could draw up lists of minor violations during the development of the AI industry which would not receive administrative punishment. “    3     It is the same case with AI. Therefore, it is an international agreement to allow for minor errors during the research and development process,” said Weng Guanxi, a lawyer at a Shanghai-based law firm. The regulation gives a clear definition of AI and the AI industry and encourages innovative activities in the field by people, enterprises and organizations.

    4     In 2021, the combined output value of AI enterprises above a designated size, or with an annual revenue of 20 million yuan ($16.85 million) or above, reached 305 billion yuan, 2.28 times that of 2018, according to China Securities Journal. The number of talented professionals working in the AI field in Shanghai has soared from 100,000 in 2018 to 230,000 in 2021, said a Xinhua News Agency report.

A．The AI industry worldwide is undergoing orderly transformation.

B．The regulation came into effect on October 1, just as planned.

C．Shanghai’s AI industry scale has expanded dramatically in the past few years.

D．Government and the related division’s responsibilities are all within the framework of established laws and regulations.

E．The regulation on AI intends to facilitate various stimulations for the high-quality development of the AI industry.

F．The core of scientific research is that it is a process of constantly making mistakes and distinguishing right from wrong.

7 . Alain Aspect, a French physicist, who won a long-expected Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday (October 4, 2022), contributed a lot in proving the theory of quantum entanglement (量子缠绕), a theory — famously raised by Albert Einstein — that when a particle (粒子) is split into two, the properties of the two new particles remain connected, as if by an invisible piece of string, regardless of how far apart they are. It remained a theory until Aspect and his team proved it in a laboratory experiment for the first time in 1981, involving two photons (光子) at a distance of 12 meters.

Quantum strangeness has fascinated Aspect as a physicist. Awarded along with Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger and John Clauser from the United States, Aspect emphasised the importance of international scientific cooperation. “He is one of those professors in physics. A whole community today works under his leadership,” said Retailleau, a former president of Paris-Saclay University. “Aspect is also a ‘tireless teacher’ who gives impressive lectures”, she added. His former student Olivier Reymond, who is now working on developing a quantum processor, said, “As well as passing his passion for physics on to his students, Aspect is also a food lover who will tell you all about his recipes for the goose liver.”

Alain Aspect is widely recognized for his experimental test of Bell’s inequalities, proposed by the late John Bell in 1964, and the related tests require measurements to be made on photons moving apart in opposite directions to look for connections between some of their physical properties, for instance, their polarizations. Aspect’s major contribution was to propose a feasible experimental scheme to make these measurements by rapidly changing the orientation of polarizers while photons moved through the device, and even more importantly, to implement it successfully in his experiments.

Sheila Rowan, president of the Institute of Physics which publishes Physics World, congratulated the team on their “well-deserved” recognition. “This is an area of physics with ongoing, profound impact, at a fundamental level to help understand the world around us and being explored for use in highly novel technologies for sensing and communication today,” she added.

Indeed, Aspect’s experiments have attracted enormous attention and triggered a string of theoretical and experimental work on quantum entanglement. As a result, new avenues have been explored in quantum computers, which in principle could outperform traditional computers at some tasks. We are generating more data now than ever before, need to analyse that data in more complex ways, and get results out faster. Quantum computing could help us to find new properties in the production of new materials for everyday use and it could also reduce power consumption within the manufacturing process. With quantum computing, research can be moved from the lab onto the computer where multiple imitations can be run while stretching your companies research and development budget further.

1. According to paragraph 2, Aspect is ______ as well as a physicist.

A．a tiresome professor	B．an inspiring teacher
C．a cross-cultural food lover	D．an empathetic community leader

2. It can be concluded about Aspect’s experiment that ______.

A．few people can comprehend its complicated process

B．interpersonal communication is promoted because of it

C．it was conducted successfully decades before Aspect won the Nobel Prize

D．Sheila Rowan played quite an important role in the publication of the result

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Aspect deserves the Prize for theoretical contributions to computing.

B．The team’s findings will bring about changes both in science and daily life.

C．Aspect is working as the president in Paris-Saclay University for the moment.

D．The team’s main contribution is the finding of practical methods in experimenting.

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A．Fruitful Joint Efforts in Popular Science

B．Alain Aspect — A Theoretical Physicist

C．Nobel Prize — For Experimental Purpose

D．Ground-breaking Achievement in Physics

8 . Whenever I ask to go to the movies, my mom’s first response is always “No!” When I want to go dancing, she adds a firm “No! No! No!” for emphasis. She claims she is only trying to protect me from what she calls “bad elements”.

On a sunny day, Mom rejected my request to go to West Indian Day Parade and insisted I accompany her as she worked cleaning a large house. I followed her to a grand dining room, watching her apply lemon-scented polish to the furniture. I imagined my friends dressing up in fancy costumes, enjoying the celebratory time at the parade. I glared at my mother, hoping she could feel the anger I was directing her way.

But as I watched, my emotions began to change. I noticed how tenderly she rubbed her dusting cloth along a large piano in the corner. “Is this like your piano in Guyana, Mom?” I asked. “Yes. This baby grand piano is exactly like the one my Dad bought me when I was your age.” Her sigh was full of longing.

I knew that my mother had been a talented pianist. I vaguely recalled dancing under the piano when she practiced for hours every day. Now she could barely play for our church choir because her fingers were gnarled from so many days spent cleaning other people’s homes.

“Stop!” Mrs. Smithers, the homeowner, yelled, “That’s a very valuable instrument!”

“I am well aware of that.” she said slowly, “I play for my church.”

“But that’s not a church-music piano. We play classical music on that piano.”

I watched as my mother’s eyes narrowed and her face tightened. I felt the same tightening in my chest.

“You don’t know anything about us … or pianos!” I screamed. Immediately I worried I had done something wrong, but I also felt the tightening in my chest loosened.

I waited for my mother to blame me, but instead she glanced my way, smiling proudly. “That’s all I have time for today. My daughter and I are going to the parade. Come on, love.”

“But Veronica, you will return next week, right?”

“No!” said my mother, “No! No! No!”

1. The underlined word “gnarled” in paragraph 4 probably means ______.

A．rough and twisted	B．clean and swift
C．painful but sensitive	D．bent but flexible

2. What do you know about the mother according to the article?

A．She regretted being a cleaning woman.

B．She quit her hobby to support the family.

C．She refused the daughter’s request due to the tight budget.

D．She wished her daughter to become a well-respected pianist.

3. How did the writer’s attitude toward her mother change on the day?

A．From critical to ashamed.	B．From fearful to respectful.
C．From pitiful to understanding.	D．From angry to sympathetic.

4. What does the story mainly want to express?

A．Don’t look down upon those inferior to you.

B．Reaching out for those in trouble can be rewarding.

C．Understanding others’ experiences helps identify with them.

D．Don’t abandon your idea even if one shows strong disagreement.

9 . The invention of the printing press eventually led to our modern world.

What does the printing press do and why is it important?

A printing press is any form of technology that applies pressure between an inked surface and a print medium (like paper or cloth). _______, it is a means of transferring ink from an inked surface to the medium.

The modern printing press was an enormous improvement on the _______ system. People used to record by hand using a “pen” and ink or brushing and rubbing repeatedly to achieve ink transfer. Such methods were historically used primarily for texts, which _______ a small circulation (流通) and a high prize.

However, the invention of the printing press _______ bookmaking and distribution around the world. As the prices of book production fell, less wealthy members of society could suddenly gain access to this former _______ item.

Where was the printing press invented?

When someone mentions the printing press, the western world will _______ think of Johannes Guttenberg’s revolution in the 15th Century. While his invention was a(n) _______, it wasn’t the first printing press to be developed.

Actually, its initiation stretches back to the 3rd Century in a small number of areas, with its _______ into wide use during the Tang Dynasty. 

Despite this fact, Guttenberg _______ his place in history for the fantastic mass-production of books for the first time. Before his invention, ideas were spread in a(n) ________ process. That effectively meant access to the printed world was limited to those who could ________ its high price.

Did the Chinese invent the printing press?

The earliest copy of The Diamond Sutra (《金刚经》) was discovered inside a cave near Dunhuang, which was printed in the 9th Century. This text is described as “the earliest complete ________ of a dated printed book”. Its discovery ________ what the westerners thought they knew about the development of the printing press.

Printing process was heavily ________ in the 11th Century after Bi Sheng, who was born into a common family, developed a form of early movable type. Although little else is known about Bi, his ________ method of producing hundreds of individual characters was a huge stepping-stone on the path to the modern printing press.

1.

A．For example

B．By contrast

C．In other words

D．As a result

2.

A．repetitive

B．progressive

C．recordable

D．previous

3.

A．featured

B．eliminated

C．reversed

D．promoted

4.

A．discharged

B．revolutionized

C．prioritized

D．implemented

5.

A．vigor

B．luxury

C．visible

D．plain

6.

A．neutrally

B．jealously

C．instinctively

D．distressingly

7.

A．insight

B．downturn

C．outburst

D．breakthrough

8.

A．restriction

B．investigation

C．perception

D．adaptation

9.

A．deserves

B．insists

C．forecasts

D．strengthens

10.

A．time-limited

B．tech-addicted

C．effort-consuming

D．money-saving

11.

A．impact

B．afford

C．revise

D．boast

12.

A．destruction

B．renewal

C．survival

D．motivation

13.

A．inherited

B．declared

C．misled

D．rewrote

14.

A．modeled

B．fueled

C．industrialized

D．suspended

15.

A．innovative

B．unimpressive

C．abnormal

D．conventional

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Closer to Equality

Left. Right. Left. Right again.

Getting lost in the rhythm of my turns was one of my favorite parts of skiing. Whenever I feel the soft, powdery snow beneath my skis, I feel like I’m capable of     1    .

I started skiing when I was just three years old. While the other children in my group     2     (mess) around, I was busy rolling down the small slopes. Although there were many difficulties, I soon mastered the basic concepts     3     (underlie) the art of turning.

I decided to take my skiing     4     the next level and joined a team when I was seven. Riding the chairlift with my mother, I saw free skiers spinning through the air. I immediately knew which team I wanted to join: free skiing, an event heavily     5     (dominate) by boys.

As soon as I joined the team, I was placed at its       6     (low) level. However, I never stopped climbing the rankings     7     I was placed into the highest group. At that point, I was the only girl on my team. I was put down at first; nobody wanted to ride the chairlift with me. But as time passed, I slowly became more accepted. And this entire process took three years.

In the past, having been forced to assume the roles of stay-at-home and motherly figures, women couldn’t imagine       8     they wanted to be. Even today, in some countries, there are still so many cases     9     people are not yet accepting the idea that women can make their own choices or pave their own paths. But if we are to fully accept these views, we will be able to move closer to equality.

Being a girl in such a sport can be difficult, but I’m actually thankful that my experiences have taught me to face whatever setbacks I meet with in life. I encourage you, all the girls,     10     (step) out of your comfort zone to show the boys that girls are just as powerful as they are.