2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. When and where does the reality show start?

A．At 7:00 on channel 2.

B．At 7:00 on channel 5.

C．At 9:00 on channel 2.

2. Why doesn’t the man want to watch the home improvement show?

A．He wants to go to bed.

B．He hates fixing things.

C．He watched it many times.

3. What do the two speakers decide to watch?

A．A TV play.

B．A reality show.

C．A sports event.

4. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A．Husband and wife.

B．Father and daughter.

C．Brother and sister.

4 . Expecting to travel abroad but lacking a loose budget? Interested in meaningful volunteering programs but worried about issues like your security or working conditions? Here comes a right place for you — Kindred Spirit Elephant Sanctuary (保护区).

Highlights

 Volunteering with elephants and bringing them back into their natural habitat

 Making a difference in the conservation efforts to save elephants living under awful conditions

 Helping teach English to the communities and raising awareness about the captive (圈养的) elephant situation

 Wandering the forests and observe elephant’s natural behaviors in their home environment

Our Sanctuary

Our sanctuary has rescued 5 elephants from the tourism industry and we have now brought them home to live out their lives in the forest, in semi-wild conditions. We need volunteers to help us keep these elephants happy and healthy in their natural habitat. With volunteer support, we hope to return more elephants to the forest soon.

Your tasks

 Performing research on the natural elephant behaviors and the surrounding forest

 Taking part in community projects such as teaching English at the school and to other locals

 Carrying out litter pick-ups with the kids to educate on waste management

Your Rough Schedule:

Day 1: Pickup from Chiang Mai at 9 am. Travel through a national park and stunning mountains until you arrive in our unique village. Meet your homestay family and the other volunteers, and immerse yourself in hill tribe culture.

Day 2: Wake up early to hike in the forest and find our elephants. Spend the morning recording and learning about these amazing animals and their natural behaviors. Return to the village in the late afternoon and take part in our community & camp & teaching projects.

Day 3: Another early start to hike to observe our elephants one last time. Return to Chiang Mai in the afternoon.

1. Which of the following is a feature of volunteer work at the sanctuary?

A．Looking after captive elephants with the locals.

B．Seeking and observing elephants in natural forests.

C．Helping rescue elephants living in the poor environment.

D．Teaching people to conserve elephants’ natural habitat.

2. What should you do as a volunteer there?

A．You should participate in anti-poverty projects.

B．You should have the great ability to go hiking for days.

C．You should master local languages and know about tribe culture.

D．You should undertake research into wild elephants independently.

3. Where does this text most probably come from?

A．A holiday brochure.	B．A travel journal.
C．A geographical essay.	D．An educational website.

9 . 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.

    1    most TV stations and video-streaming platforms try to attract viewers by producing star-studded(明星荟萃的)reality shows, Henan TV has gone viral(走红)by promoting traditional culture through Chinese dance.

This year, Henan TV produced seven dance pieces    2    (highlight)traditional culture, such as Rhapsody on the Luo River Goddess(《洛神水赋》), a two-minute underwater dance, and Dragon Boat Festival and Guardian Warriors of Longmen(《龙门金刚》), a dance piece    3    (support)by AR technology against the backdrop of the Longmen Grottoes.

Last month, Yao Wei, director of the TV station’s Innovation Center, was invited to talk about how the TV station     4    (produce)the hit dance pieces at a three-day forum centering on the research of Chinese dance.

The pieces made an emotional impact on audiences, most of    5    are members of Gen Z(people born between 1995 and 2009), Yao said.

“It    6    (be)over forty years since the country’s reform and opening-up and the younger generations have grown up with a more open mindset. With plenty of resources and opportunities, they embrace Chinese culture and are proud of it,” said Yao. “    7    we need to do is present Chinese culture and tradition in interesting ways for those young people.”

Yao added that Henan TV has been producing shows highlighting traditional culture, such as traditional operas and kung fu, for nearly 30 years.

“    8    (appeal)to younger audiences, we are also changing our shows. One of the keys is to produce content with strong visual creativity,” Yao said. “For example, the latest technology and unconventional stage settings, like underwater scenes, have become our new ways of telling stories about traditional Chinese culture, rather than simply narrating history with traditional video content.”

Another key to successfully    9    (reach)younger audiences is using social media platforms to promote their shows.

“Social media    10    (shape)and driven by young people. It’s a powerful form of communication. When they take a quick scroll through their phones, they easily become interested in an eye-catching video,” Yao said.

10 . In this world of rapid changes, everything seems to be possible. There will eventually come a day when the New York Times stops _________ stories on paper. Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate. “Sometime in the future,” the paper’s publisher said back in 2010.

Nostalgia (怀旧)   as people are for ink on paper, there are plenty of reasons to _________   print. The basic facilities required to make a _________ newspaper—printing presses, delivery trucks — isn’t just expensive. Readers are keeping away from print anyway. And though print advertisement sales still _________ their online and mobile counterparts, income from print is still declining.

Cost may be high and circulation lower but rushing to _________   its print edition would be a mistake, says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Petretti.

Petretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way. “Figuring out a way to speed up that _________   would make sense for them,” he said, ‘‘but if you discontinue it, you’re going to have your most faithful customers really upset with you.”

Sometimes that’s well worth _________ anyway. Petretti gives the example of Netflix   _________   its DVD-mailing service to focus on streaming (流媒体). “It was once seen as a(n) _________,” he said. The move turned out to be foresighted. “If I were in charge at the Times, I wouldn’t pick a year to__________ print,” Petretti said, “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product, which has some advantage over a modern product, making it appealing for customers to keep it around.”

As a matter of fact, the most loyal customers would still get the product they __________. The idea goes, and they’d feel like that they were helping maintain the quality of something they believe in. “So if you’re __________   print, you could feel like that you were helping,” Peretti said. “Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional __________.” In other words, if you’re going to print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it, which may be what the Times is doing already. Getting the print edition seven days a week costs nearly $500 a year — more than twice as much as a digital-only __________.

“It’s a really hard thing to do and it’s a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn’t have a legacy business,” Petretti remarked. “But we’re going to have questions like that. We’re doing things that don’t make sense when the market __________ and so does the world. In those situations, it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.

1.

A．commenting

B．publishing

C．initiating

D．describing

2.

A．restore

B．promote

C．stimulate

D．abandon

3.

A．physical

B．influential

C．worthy

D．profitable

4.

A．follow

B．transfer

C．overtake

D．outlook

5.

A．reverse

B．eliminate

C．maintain

D．evaluate

6.

A．transition

B．existence

C．application

D．isolation

7.

A．playing safe

B．following a general rule

C．keeping to a routine

D．making a definite change

8.

A．stimulating

B．discontinuing

C．regulating

D．fulfilling

9.

A．achievement

B．tendency

C．opportunity

D．mistake

10.

A．sponsor

B．fund

C．end

D．establish

11.

A．favour

B．facilitate

C．share

D．afford

12.

A．benefiting from

B．referring to

C．overpaying for

D．trying out

13.

A．identity

B．variation

C．loyalty

D．income

14.

A．subscription

B．advancement

C．policy

D．technology

15.

A．shrinks

B．changes

C．emerges

D．dominates