1 . Why We Still Need Newspapers

If you needed information about the past, you went to the library. If you needed information about the present or the future, you looked to the newspaper. It offers everything you need to know-news, analysis, commentary(实况转播) and practical knowledge.

    1     Movie times? The theater website. Jobs? LinkedIn. Restaurant reviews? Yelp. Science breakthroughs? Glzmodo. com. Travel recommendations? Trip-advisor.com. If you want information on companies, politicians, sports teams, events, etc., you go straight to the source-websites-and skip the intermediary(中介), the newspaper.

The information age, which made us richer in knowledge, is now making us poorer.     2     In the past, the technical and visual quality of online material was a reliable indicator for determining legitimacy(合法性). Most people were not taken in by emails from “wealthy Nigerian princes” thanks to their extremely bad grammar and spelling.

During the last presidential election, however, Russian Facebook posts and Twitter blogs may have been sophisticated(复杂巧妙的) enough to affect quite a few Americans. Unfortunately, it’s going to get worse. Emerging technology can alter photographs and video without leaving obvious signs. In the future，fact and forgery(伪造) will be more indistinguishable.     3    

While some bloggers provide thoughtful, factually accurate commentary, it is just that, commentary. Good commentary is useful, but it is not news. Similarly, websites operated by industries, think-banks, universities, governments, businesses and community groups, even when 100 percent factual, are selective in their content and biased(倾向性的) toward their own interests. Though valuable, their content presents the whole picture.

    4     The breadth and depth of the news coverage guided by professional standards that limit bias, however imperfectly, ensure readers are exposed to information that they are not looking for or expect to see.

We human beings don’t really want to see the whole picture most of the time because we are motivated to seek information that we believe.

A．Newspapers have not yet tarted to shut down in large numbers, but it is only a matter of time.

B．The same internet that has eased access to information is enabling the spreading of false and incomplete information.

C．Newspapers don’t present the whole picture either, but they take us a little closer.

D．But today, if you want political commentary you may go to a blog instead.

E．Since the dawn of mass media, newspapers, radio and television have all been used to inform and educate the public.

F．That’s why we must rely on trustworthy intermediaries to tell s and interpret what happened.

2 .

A Night to Remember VIP Fundraiser Gala The Board of Directors of Love and Hope request     the honor of your presence at our Fundraiser Gala. Friday, July 17, 2020 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Sandito Hotel Ballroom 3586 Westdashe Road Torimo, MN Three-Course Meal High-Quality Drink Bar Silent Auction Entertainment∙ and much more! Special Guest Dr. Maverick Stones, Ph.D. Director of Charities International Keynote Speech: An Initiative for More Effective Ministries Worldwide Black tie Hosted by: Love and Hope To invite a friend, please send an email by July 10, 2020 to RSVP@ loveandhope.org Love and Hope is a 501(e) (3) Non-Profit Corporation

●To: RSVP@loveandhope.org ●From: nell.harrison@confiture.com ●Subject: Friend invitation - Fundraiser Gala ●Date: January 5, 2020

To Whom It May Concern: Thank you, first of all, for the invitation to the Love and Hope Gala. I am excited to attend another one of your wonderful events. I am emailing to request an invitation for my friend, Robert Miller and his wife, Rebecca, both of whom are distinguished and charitable people that support many causes in the Abbotsfield area. They would love to attend this gala as well, and I am sure that their presence will also create additional publicity for your organization. If this request is approved, please send an invitation to them at 123 Hopeful Way, Torimo, MN, 38586. I appreciate your time and your efforts in helping refugees, and I am sure to continue to be an enthusiastic supporter of your organization. Sincerely, Nell Harrison

1. What can be learned about the gala?

A．Its guests should dress formally.	B．It will hold some special lectures.
C．It's to be held to promote its bar.	D．It will provide a vacation package.

2. The e-mail on the right column is written mainly to ________.

A．donate some money	B．inform the organization of his presence
C．compliment the organization	D．ask for permission to invite two friends

3. What is Ms. Harrison's relationship with Love and Hope?

A．She's one of its founders.	B．She's one of its regular sponsors.
C．She's the organizer of its gala.	D．She's a refugee who received its help.

3 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. feed        B. crucial        C. remarkable        D. bond          AB. novel          AC. captured AD. reinforcement        BC. relate          BD. deliberate          CD. carved        ABC. associate

Since its launch in September 2016, TikTok has taken the social media world by storm. Reaching half a billion active users worldwide in just under 2 years, it is the fastest app ever to reach that milestone.

From the creator-first user experience to their flawlessly-executed global expansion, the Chinese video-sharing social network's meteoric rise has been nothing short of     1    . TikTok's secret sauce, however, could well be found by looking into something far simpler than their algorithms(算法) and marketing tactics. Human evolution.

Over the course of human history, as our ancestors began to live in larger and more complex social structures, the quality of our relationships became more     2     to our survival. As the size of our networks increased around 10 million years ago, humans began developing a series of more advanced social behaviours that allowed us to connect larger groups and communities together.

The first new behaviour was laughter. Laughter kicks our endorphins system into action, releasing feel-good hormones that relieve pain and increase pleasure. In doing so, we also create pathways that support the formation,     3    , and maintenance of social bonds with other humans.

Next came dancing and singing. Around 500,000 years ago, our social networks had dramatically increased in size again, tripling to approximately 150. At that point, humans needed even more sophisticated ways to     4     with their social networks. It is then that scientists believe that music was 'invented' and that we first learned to sing and dance.

Singing and dancing are intensely social and highly synchronised activities. They too release the same powerful endorphins as laughter. If you've ever been to a live music event or sung along to your national anthem in a major sporting event, you will certainly be able to     5     to the euphoria this brings.

It is no wonder then that TikTok, a video-sharing app built entirely on people singing (or lip synching), dancing and laughter, has so quickly     6     the minds of so many people. The app is in essence an infinite     7     of endorphin-inclucing content that triggers a strong sense of unity and belonging within us as we consume each video.

Whether it was through     8     design decisions or a happy coincidence, the app's creators have successfully     9     their niche(商机)in an extremely competitive vertical through more than just smart technology or well-executed marketing. TikTok's rocket fuel has been derived from simply understanding and leveraging the human psychology that underpins the offline social world.

In an era where questions are being asked of whether incumbent social platforms are really connecting us, perhaps we will see     10     opportunities for social apps to do much better by bringing more of our offline social behaviours online. With COVID-19 highlighting the importance of offline social interaction and human connection, the market is certainly more ripe than ever for further disruption.

4 . Jobs at Apple

Amaze Yourself, Amaze the World

A job at Apple is unlike any other you've had. You'll be challenged. You'll be inspired. And you'll be proud. Because whatever your job is here, you^’ll be part of something big.

Every detail matters.

Every piece of packaging. Every swipe of the finger. Every "How can I help you?” Everything. And it doesn^’t matter just some of the time. It matters all of the time. That's how we do things at Apple. The result is some of the best-loved products in the world.

Simplicity isn't simple.

Ask anyone here. It's hard work. It means forever asking, “Why is it this way?” and “How can it be better?” It means rethinking every customer experience until the clutter has fallen away — until all that remains is what's essential, useful and beautiful. That might be a new product feature that delights even die-hard fans. It might be a customer support call, or even a display in an Apple store, arranged and lit exactly so.

Creativity from every comer.

When you imagine the creative process at Apple, at first you may not picture someone in HR. Or operations. Or finance. But we expect creative thinking and solutions from everyone here, no matter what their responsibilities are. Innovation takes many forms, and our people seem to find new ones every day.

1. Where will you probably find this passage?

A．In a booklet introducing Apple's management.	B．On the official website of Apple Inc.
C．In the help-wanted ads section of a newspaper.	D．In a magazine telling business stories.

2. The word “clutter” probably means________?

A．customers' complaint

B．simple question

C．unnecessary part

D．old feature

3. According to the passage, the concept of “simplicity” should be revealed in the following EXCEPT_______.

A．die-hard fans with new Apple products	B．a customer support call
C．the arrangement of the display	D．the lighting of an Apply store

5 . A Little Is A Lot For Those With Nothing

Each year, 22 million people die from preventable causes, such as polluted water or the lack of nutrition, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. These groups are taking some of the top lights:

**** A child dies every eight seconds from water-borne disease. Global Water builds wells in very poor communities in Romania, Central America and Africa. Go to global www.water.org.

**** As much as 80 percent of the world’s population may be lacking in iron. UNICEF supplies iron supplements (补充) to women and children in more than 100 countries, preventing anemia (贫血症), low birth weight and death. Their greeting cards, calendars and gifts help fund the program; visit www.unicef.org

**** Mercy Corps fed more than 150,000 mouths in 2003. Still, more than one-quarter of children worldwide are underweight. One dollar helps feed 15 kids in developing countries like India; learn more at www.mercycorps.org.

1. What is the purpose of the advertisement?

A．To ask readers to do their bit for the people who are likely to die from preventable causes.

B．To attract people’s attention to the problem of water pollution.

C．To help the homeless children in developing countries.

D．To ask the readers to surf the Internet and become aware of the miserable things in the world.

2. You can help the children lacking in iron by ________.

A．buying special greeting cards or gifts from UNICEF

B．helping the program of digging wells in poor area

C．doing some volunteer work for them

D．keeping our environment from being polluted

3. Supposing there are 300,000 starving children, how much money will be needed to help them according to 2003 standard?

A．15 dollars.	B．20, 000 dollars.
C．4, 500, 000 dollars.	D．2, 200, 000 dollars.

6 . Public Notice of Sleep No More Shanghai

1. What protective measures at Sleep No More have been put in place?
• The show area will be cleaned with disinfectant three times a day, including before and after each performance.
• The number or audiences for each performance will not exceed 75% or maximum capacity.
• All audience and staff' members are required to wear face masks in the show area.
• To leave sufficient time for disinfection, the start time for matinee (日场) performance on weekends has been adjusted to 14:00.
2. What do I need to prepare before the show? Are there any adjustments to the show?
• Please apply for the Shanghai Health Code and check that it's green in advance.
• Before entry, the body temperature of all audience members must be taken.
• Audience members will not be admitted under any of the following circumstances:
• don't wear your face mask;
• your Shanghai Health Code is invalid or not in a green status;
• your body temperature is above 37.3℃;
• any other symptom of COVID-19 is observed.
• The McKinnon Hotel's customized will be on sale for audience.
3. Is the Sleep No More company monitoring the health status of its performers as well as staff members?
All Chinese and international performers as well as staff members of Sleep No More have been quarantined for 14 days with no symptoms.
• Body temperatures are taken and recorded daily.
• Any member of the company will be put in self-quarantine if they report any symptoms and sent to hospital if necessary.
4. After booking online, can I collect my paper ticket beforehand?
• To minimize risk, it is now possible to collect paper tickets before the date of show at the box office.
• Please collect your tickets at the Sleep No More box office up to two weeks in advance.
• Audience members will be admitted via their paper tickets.
• Kind reminder: please keep your papers ticket safe as it will not be replaced if lost.
• The box office will be open from 10:30 to 17:00, seven days a week.
5. After booking, can I get a refund for my ticket or exchange it for another date?
If the booked performance is cancelled due to force majeure, ticket refunds or exchanges will be available.
Otherwise, ticket exchange is only available under any of the following circumstances:
• The audience member cannot come to show due to COVID-19.
• The audience member's body temperature is above 37.3℃ and cannot be admitted to Sleep No More.
1. Which of the following is not included in protective measures?

A．The show area must be thoroughly disinfected.	B．The audience number is limited.
C．All the audience must wear face masks.	D．Public restrooms are forbidden.

2. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A．Audience can enter the show area at noon on weekends.

B．Audience can exchange e-tickets for paper tickets up to 14 days in advance.

C．If audience hold the Shanghai Health Code, they don't need to take body temperature.

D．International performers have been quarantined for 14 days before entering China.

3. Which of the following situation allows audience to keep the ticket valid?

A．Audience meet with force majeure.	B．Audience lose the paper tickets.
C．Audience are infected with COVID-19 after booking the tickets.	D．Audience have close contact with performers of the show.

8 . Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Television shows on interior design are bringing down the house

A wife and daughter arrive home to their living room transformed: Daddy is sitting in a soundproof room, playing his guitar. He offers his shocked wife a drink at his new bar, and delightedly shows off his table-football skills. He is the star of a recent episode of “Macho House’’, a new television show that creates dream spaces for South Korean men.

    1    . But it taps into a growing desire among South Koreans to rearrange their private living spaces. At first sight that is surprising for a nation that spends more hours at office desks than any other among rich countries. Yet in a recent poll by a local market researcher, over half said they had spent more time at home in the past year due to ‘‘growing social anxieties’’.

Jipbang — “house broadcasts” that often weave tips on design makeovers with advice for unhappy inhabitants — promote a new approach to domestic well-being. “Let Me Beautify Your Home” is a spin-off of “Let Me In”, a controversial series that offered radical plastic surgery as a cure for misery.     2    . It suggests, for example, new divisions to create privacy or to force all family members to pass through a shared living space in order to get to their bedrooms. In ‘‘Old House, New House”, two teams of experts compete to rebuild a celebrity’s house, recreated in a studio.

Disorder is a big theme. Designers pride themselves on ideas for storing things, such as under sofas. They regularly suggest ways of creating what for some is their first experience of a room dedicated just to accommodating a Western-style bed.     3    . A bedroom might, once a sleeping mattress is rolled up, turn into a tea-room by day. Oddly, given the state of the economy, sales at a home-furnishings store, rose by nearly a third last year compared with 2014.     4    . These involve the sharing of photos of restored flats: in South Korea people “bangstagram” after the word for ‘‘room”.

A．In urban apartments, rooms are commonly multifunctional.

B．More homeowners may feel readier to spend more time hanging out with friends in their own appealing lounges.

C．The programme is more of a show than one on thoughtful redesign.

D．DIY shoppers collect tips from internet forums and online “housewarmings” on social-media sites such as Instagram.

E．Among an economic decline, city-dwelling South Koreans are seeking comfort in their narrow flats.

F．The new show tailors interior designs to a family’s problems: an uncommunicative teen, or a retired father who lacks authority.

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.

A．To tell adults what to do at home.

B．To discipline naughty children.

C．To take good care of a house.

D．To help a family bring up children better.

2.

A．Their badly-behaved children are out of control.

B．Their children need help in doing homework.

C．They’d like to devote themselves to their work.

D．They’d like to share with others how to help kids out.

3.

A．To tell parents how to educate their children.

B．To recommend the TV show to people in need.

C．To give people advice on how to set family rules.

D．To entertain people having family problems.

10 . PAGE ONE

Water Supply of the World

The Antarctic Icecap is the largest supply of fresh water, nearly 2 % of the world’s total of fresh and salt water. As can be seen from the table below, the amount of water in our atmosphere is over ten times as large as the water in all the rivers taken together. The fresh water actually available for human use in lakes and rivers and the accessible ground water amounts to only about one third of one percent of the world’s total water supply.

	Surface area (square miles)	Volume (cubic miles)	Percentage of total
Salt Water The oceans Inland seas and saline lakes	139,500,000 270,000	317,000,000 25,000	97.2 0.008
Fresh Water Fresh water lakes All rivers (average level) Antarctic Icecap Arctic Icecap and glaciers Water in the atmosphere ......	330,000 -- 6,000,000 900,000 197,000,000 ......	30,000 300 6,300,000 680,000 3,100 ......	0.009 0.0001 1.9 0.21 0.001 ......
Total (rounded)		326,000,000	100.00

PAGE TWO

Top Eight Most Visited National Park Sites, (2019)

Rank	Name and Location	number of visitors
1	Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia - North Carolina	19,030,550
2	Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California	14,046,600
3	Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee	9,989,000
4	Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada - Arizona	8,788,055
5	Gateway National Recreation Area, New York - New Jersey	7,134,022
6	George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia - Maryland - DC	6,584,801
7	Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi - Alabama -Tennessee	5,803,094
8	Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York - New Jersey	5,200,633

1. According to the information on Page One, ________ provide(s) us with the largest quantity of fresh water.

A．the Atlantic Icecap	B．the Arctic Icecap and glaciers
C．the water in the atmosphere	D．the Antarctic Icecap

2. According to Page One, we are pretty sure that ________ account for the lowest level of the total water supply on the earth.

A．glaciers	B．fresh water lakes
C．rivers	D．inland seas and saline lakes

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to Page Two?

A．Page Two is a list of some of the most popular national waterways in the U.S.A.

B．The annual visitors to Blue Ridge Parkway are almost a third of the number of visitors to George Washington Memorial Parkway.

C．California is the only state that does not share national park with other states.

D．Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Statue of Liberty National Monument are located in the same state.