1 . Due to social events in recent years, the relationship between social media and teenagers mental health has been under heated discussion.

On Sept 30, a British court decided that content on social media platforms contributed to the depression of 14-year-old Molly Russell. Russell interacted with 2,100 posts related to pessimistic, self-harm in the six months, leading up to her depression, reported the Observer website.

The correlation has also been proved by science. A study in 2019 showed that the frequent use of social media by teenagers can lead to a decrease in their mental health.

So, how can we make sure that teenagers won’t get hurt while using social media? Chan, 18, from the University of Macao shared her experience. Chan said that she once came across short videos romanticizing mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. She immediately reported them to the platform.

But she said that the users’ power to regulate videos is still limited. “It is ultimately the responsibility of the social media platforms to filter out content that is potentially harmful.” She also noticed that the age of social media users has become increasingly younger. Society should pay attention to this, she said. “Since it’s not possible to cut off access to social media for younger users, why not introduce a ‘supervision mode’ with which parents can regulate the content to be viewed by teenagers beforehand?” she said.

Wu Chengyu, 18, studies at Tianjin Experimental High School. He said that several years ago he came across a game that lures teenagers to self-abuse and depression. He quickly chose to ignore it so he wouldn’t be influenced. This is the same way he reacts when exposed to negative content on social media.

In Wu’s opinion, teenagers today should improve their social media literacy(素养), telling real from fake and good from bad. “Also, everyone can be a content creator on social media.” he said, “We should all strengthen our awareness of ethics”.

1. What led to Russell’s depression according to a British court?

A．Her interaction with others online.

B．Negative information on social media platforms.

C．Short videos she watched on the Internet.

D．Her addiction to online posts.

2. Which of the following statements does Chan probably agree with?

A．The number of younger social media users should be limited.

B．Parents should monitor the content to be viewed by teenagers in advance.

C．A supervision mode ought to be introduced by parents.

D．It is the responsibility of the society to romanticize mental illnesses.

3. Who should be ultimately responsible for removing negative content according to Chan?

A．Parents.	B．Internet users.
C．Content creators.	D．Social media platforms.

4. What does Wu suggest teenagers should do?

A．Use social media wisely.	B．Reduce social media usage.
C．Stay away from online games.	D．Learn more about social media.

2 . 随着电脑的普及和因特网的发展，上网已经成为生活的一部分。某中学高一（10）班同学就中学生上网的利与弊进行了讨论。请你用英文给某报社写一封信，描述此次讨论的结果。

利	弊
1. 及时了解国内外时事，开阔视野 2. 看电视、听歌、聊天、放松身心 3. 收发邮件又快又省钱	1. 导致上课注意力不集中，影响学习效率 2. 浪费时间和钱 3. 不利于身体健康

注意：
1. 不要逐字逐句翻译；
2. 词数100左右；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear editor,

With the development of the computer and Internet, surfing the Internet has become a part of our life. Students are no exception. Our class has had a discussion.

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Yours,

Jamie

3 . 在社交网络日渐流行的今天，高中生使用QQ、微信、B站等平台的频率日渐增多。网络平台给同学们提供学习资源的同时，也带来了虚假新闻、滥用言论自由等问题。请就这一社会现象发表看法，内容包括：
1. 简述目前网络平台的一些问题；
2. 提出你对改善网络环境的建议及理由。
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4 . Internet addiction is a common problem.     1     If you are concerned that you may be too dependent on the Internet, there are several strategies you can use to control your Internet usage. Removing the temptation (诱惑) to go online is one of them. Here are some tips to get you started.

    2     If your devices are on and within arm’s reach, you may find yourself mindlessly checking them during meal times and other social activities. Just turn off your device or at least put it on silent and place it somewhere out of sight.

Charge your devices in another room at night to prevent bedtime browsing (浏览). Bedtime browsing can impact your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep due to the blue light your smartphone emits.     3    

Remove social media apps from your phone. If you find yourself picking up your phone and going on the Internet every time you get a notification (通知), delete the social media apps on your phone. Make it a rule that you can only check these apps on your computer.     4    

Look at one website at a time instead of having multiple websites open.     5     This can help you to avoid going back and forth between multiple sites and wasting time.

Technological tools are meant to serve us, not the other way around. Take action right away to free yourself from Internet dependency and take control of your life.

A．Cut your home Wi-Fi access if it is really necessary.

B．It can be just as damaging as any other form of addiction.

C．So stopping bedtime browsing may help you to sleep better.

D．This may help prevent you from accessing them on and off all day.

E．Turn off your smartphone, iPad, and computer during social activities.

F．If you are on a website and it leads you to another one, close the old site.

G．Developing healthy habits can also help you to cut back on your internet use.

5 . For Italy, part of the challenge is to transform places like Colle di Tora, a small town outside Rome, which are not so much cut off from the modern world, as a little behind.

At the moment the post office-which the town’s 360 residents rely on to withdraw cash, as there is no bank-sometimes closes down because its Internet fails. Bad weather can interrupt the signal, and is also a problem for mobile phone reception and streaming TV services.

The last time a customer tried to pay by card in Anna Rita Pani’s grocery store, things got a bit awkward. They had to wait 15 minutes for the card reader to work.

Simona Cardella said her teenage daughter struggled with online lessons while schools were closed. Sometimes the audio was off, sometimes the video was off, and if the weather was bad, the signal was cut off completely.

Mayor Pandolfi notes that taking latest generation broadband（光纤宽带）to isolated（隔绝的）areas like Colle Di Tora could make them attractive locations for remote working. For other residents, it would just bring them into the 21st century. Pani’s 22-year-old son Nicolas is a keen gamer, but he complains it can take “four-five days” to download a game that his friends in Rome can get in a couple of hours.

Fortunately, Colle di Tora is on a government list of 200 cities for building the fibre optic broadband. This week, workers were laying fibre optic cables in one of the main squares, and telecoms company Open Fiber said super-fast Internet would be operational by the year’s end.

Nearly a quarter of Italians do not use the Internet, and one third of households have no fixed connection, according to figures by national statistics agency Istat. The government wants every Italian to have access to super-fast Internet by 2026-but it has a long way to go.

1. What does the author think of towns like Colle di Tora?

A．Places in imagination.	B．Places everyone wants to visit.
C．Places falling behind.	D．Places with unique cultures.

2. Why are Anna’s and Simona’s cases mentioned in the text?

A．To present their lifestyles.	B．To make a comparison.
C．To clarify a concept.	D．To show the bad network.

3. What does Pandolfi think the newest broadband can do for his town?

A．Make it fit for telework.	B．Attract many more visitors.
C．Bring peace to the residents.	D．Allow the government to manage the town.

4. What is the author’s attitude to the Italian government’s plan?

A．Tolerant.

B．Negative.

C．Optimistic.

D．Cautious.

6 . At the present time, the Internet is a major part of our lives. It’s always in our hands or pockets. Whatever we are doing is somehow linked(连接) to the Internet. We start finding our connections online as well, which is quite impressive. We find a person on a social media platform (社交媒体平台),see we have a shared interest and start chatting!

Online friendships in the past were doubted and not considered reliable because you didn’t know who was behind the screen. But now, when we can go shopping online, clear bills in online banks, and virtually attend schools, why can’t we find some real friends online?

With online friends, there are several advantages. When we find something catchy in someone — the very first quality of our online friend, we only then encourage ourselves to find ways to talk to them. We can share with them our everyday things, and what’s better than texting our friends our secrets? We can be present together with them on interested forums(论坛). We can share looks just through a click. And the best part is that we can shoot them a real quick message whenever we need their expert advice.

With all these strengths of an online friend, also come some weak points which make some people afraid to find their friends online. Some people believe that the person they are talking to on the screen is not real or trying to get information about their private life. They feel uncomfortable sharing and chatting with a person who they’ve never met in real life. Another problem that comes in the way of online friends is hanging out. People can’t really hang out with their online friends. The other problem is miscommunication, which sometimes leads to the end of a friendship.

Despite all these problems, online company is a perfect form of relationship between two or more. After all, we would notice these problems in any other kind of relationship or friendship. Miscommunication or a trust issue is always present even in face-to-face communication.

1. What is paragraph 1 mainly about?

A．How the Internet has changed our daily life.

B．whether people should make online friends.

C．Why a good friendship is difficult to develop.

D．What made making friends online a reality.

2. What might the underlined word “reliable” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Easy.

B．Possible.

C．Dependable.

D．Lasting.

3. How does the author support his view?

A．By telling stories.	B．By making comparisons.
C．By explaining general rules.	D．By providing research results.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards online friendship?

A．Doubtful.

B．Neutral.

C．Unclear.

D．Supportive

7 . Screen time includes all those hours you spend in front of your computer at work, and the time you spend playing with your cell phone or watching TV.     1     According to some research, there are some convincing reasons to make the effort to look at something else other than a screen.

It's bad for your health. Being in front of a screen is almost always sedentary (久坐的) behavior, which relates to things like lower fitness levels. Turn this around by choosing something active. You do not have to do exercise at the gym.     2     They can help you keep healthy.

It messes up your sleep. When teenagers have more than four hours of screen time per day, and especially when they use their screens before going to bed, they have trouble falling asleep. If you're not sleeping well, it will not only make you feel tired the next day, but it can also affect your performance at work or in school.     3    

It hinders (妨碍) your brain’s performance.     4     Researchers aren't yet sure why this is true, but it probably has to do with the ways that technology teaches the brain to function. If kids want to perform well in situations that involve memorization or problem solving, limit their screen time.

    5     People who spend more time online, especially young people, are more likely to struggle with communication. If interpersonal communication is important to you or part of your job, you will likely get benefits if you spend less time in front of your screen.

A．It all adds up.

B．Here comes a solution.

C．If you should use a screen, try to do just that.

D．It’s not good for developing communication skills.

E．You can take a walk, or work on a project at home.

F．Kids do better in school when they have less screen time.

G．So it’s worth the effort to use your screen less and get more rest.

8 . I realized this spring that I have spent far too much time on the internet this past year, for obvious reasons, I suspect I'm not alone. And just like magic, Suzanne park's Sunny Song will never Be Famous came across my desk, a story about a 17-year old Korean American influencer who ends up in a digital detox (脱瘾) camp. My first reaction was to shrink (退缩), worried about how much of my social media self I would see in this book, and how much relative cure I would undoubtedly require as a result. But Sunny Song is such an amazing character that I was laughing out loud by page 10.

Sunny was literally born an influencer. Thanks to a video of Sunny dancing as a child, “Goggle Girl” became internet famous. She kept up the character as she grew older, obtaining almost 10,000 subscribers to her You Tube channel alone. But disaster strikes when she forgets to turn off the camera one afternoon during a live stream and a brownie ( a cake ) cooking video turns into an unprepared show with Sunny in underwear. The widely spread “Brownie Gate” will result in Sunny's being kicked out from her L A. private school-unless her parents send her to a digital detox camp, under the principal's request.

The customers in the camp are internet addicts ranging from fantasy sports and gaming players to mean girl internet celebrities. Sunny is forced to spend a month in the cornfields of Iowa on this historic family farm among these celebrities with no digital devices whatsoever, except the burner phone she brought secretly in because she's in the running for an influencer competition, and she actually has a shot!

Sunny Song Will never Be Famous was a total joy to read. I appreciate that Park does not approach social media as the enemy in this book, and for that reason I can enthusiastically recommend it to any young folks who are particularly skillful at web. Sunny reminds readers of the power of internet fare, and the consequences if that power isn't used widely.

1. How did the author feel when first seeing the book?

A．Amazed

B．Excited

C．Confident

D．Concerned.

2. Why did Sunny go to the camp?

A．To promote her popular videos,	B．To experience a life as a celebrity,
C．To avoid being removed from her school.	D．To acquire more knowledge about social media.

3. What can we learn about the camp from paragraph 3?

A．People there are physically abused	B．Life there is cut off from the outside.
C．It holds many competitions monthly	D．It is specially designed for internet celebrities.

4. What's the purpose of the text?

A．To review a book.	B．To introduce a great camp,
C．To record an unforgettable experience	D．To stress the advantage of social medin.

9 . 假定你是李华，你们班最近举行了一场关于网络新闻媒体优缺点的辩论会。某杂志编辑李博士知道情况后，邀请你就此话题向他们投稿，请你给李博士写一封邮件，词数80字左右。
要点如下：1.网络新闻媒体的现状；
2.网络新闻媒体的优缺点；
3.网络新闻媒体的未来发展趋势。
Dear Doctor Li,
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Yours,

Li Hua

10 . Faster, cheaper, better — technology is one field many people rely upon to offer a vision of a brighter future. But as the 2020s dawn, _______ is in short supply. The new technologies _______ the past decade seem to mess up the things. Social media are better known for invading privacy, spreading fake news. E-commerce is   _______ with underpaying workers and exacerbating inequality. Parents worry that smartphones have turned their children into screen-addicted zombies.

_______ the technologies expected to dominate the new decade also seem to cast a dark shadow. Artificial intelligence (AI) may well threaten your job. Autonomous cars still do not work, but manage to kill people all the same. Internet giants have changed from talent _______ to outcasts (被排斥者). The New York Times sums up the gloom. “A mood of pessimsim”, it writes, has _______” the idea of inevitable progress born in the scientific and industrial revolutions.”

_______ that particular technologies might be doing more harm than good, have arisen before. In the 1970s the gloom was prompted by concerns about overpopulation, environmental damage and the prospect of nuclear immolation. The 1920s witnessed a backlash against cars, which had earlier been seen as a _______ answer to the affliction of horse-drawn vehicles — which filled the streets with noise and dung, and caused congestion and accidents. Similarly, in the 19^th century industrialization was greeted with _______ from socialists, who worried (with good reason) about the displacement of skilled artisans.

However, that pessimism can be ________ .Too often people focus on the drawbacks of a new technology while taking its benefits for granted. Worries about screen time should be ________ the much more substantial benefits of instant communication and the easy access to information and entertainment that smartphones make possible. A further danger is something Carl Benedikt Frey, an Oxford academic, calls a “technology trap”. Fears that robots will ________ people’s jobs may motivate politicians to tax them, for example, to discourage their use. ________ in the long run countries that wish to maintain their standard of living as their workforce ages and shrinks will need more robots, not fewer.

Any powerful technology can be used for good or ill. Technology itself has no agency: it is the ________ people make about it that shape the world. Thus the tech-lash is a necessary step in the adoption of important new technologies. At its best, it helps frame how society ________ innovations and imposes rules and policies that limit their destructive potential. Healthy skepticism means that these questions are settled by a broad debate, not by a small group of technologists.

1.

A．challenge

B．imagination

C．optimism

D．innovation

2.

A．dominating

B．featuring

C．spoiling

D．justifying

3.

A．exploited

B．charged

C．loaded

D．threatened

4.

A．Undoubtedly

B．Fortunately

C．Frustratingly

D．Importantly

5.

A．spells

B．rings

C．remedies

D．magnets

6.

A．mirrored

B．replaced

C．intensified

D．proved

7.

A．Concerns

B．Recommendations

C．Expectations

D．Notices

8.

A．unnecessary

B．commonplace

C．impractical

D．miraculous

9.

A．competition

B．reform

C．criticism

D．applause

10.

A．adjusted

B．extended

C．underestimated

D．overdone

11.

A．combined with

B．weighed against

C．substituted for

D．compared to

12.

A．steal

B．facilitate

C．generate

D．assess

13.

A．Likewise

B．Furthermore

C．However

D．Therefore

14.

A．assumptions

B．choices

C．warnings

D．criticisms

15.

A．comes up with

B．comes clean with

C．comes out with

D．comes to terms with