1 . Beauty and Well-being Benefits of Handed Massage Guns

What are they?

Originally beloved by athletes, massage guns are gaining popularity as a stress or pain-relieving tool. A quick and convenient alternative to a traditional deep-tissue massage, many offer detachable heads to target calves, ankles or the top s of shoulders, available in a range of sizes and speeds.

What are the supposed benefits?

If you often find yourself aching after the gym or a long day of work, a massage gun may well be your new best friend. Sending pulses at a steady frequency that is difficult to achieve manually, they allow you to target a specific area of tightness, loosening lactic acid buildup muscle and allowing for greater mobility and muscle flexibility. Even if you’re not so physically active, a couple of minutes of regular massaging can do wonders for your complexion.

Through vibration frequency, the movement of a massage gun will encourage blood and lymphatic (淋巴的) circulation, giving a new vibrancy and comfort to skin as toxins (毒素) drain out and oxygen flows through. If you’ve been feeling heavy or struggling to unwind, massage guns are also thought to be a useful tool in the rehabilitation (康复) of depression, anxiety, digestive disorders and stress-related insomnia.

Do they actually work?

Once you get used to the quiet humming noise, the swift, targeted relief a gun can offer more than justifies the initial spend. Leading the market is the Lola, a lightweight handheld gun in a sleek matte finish with four speeds that tucks easily into the pocket of an overnight bag. The key is to operate within your own comfort-be sure to fit the adjustable heads firmly and work through the speed functions slowly, building up to higher pressures only if necessary. While concerns about suitability for specific conditions or injuries should always be discussed with a doctor, the massage gun is certainly proof that both internal and external beauty can be achieved by listening that little bit closer to our bodies.

1. What is not the supposed benefits of handed massage guns?

A．To target a specific area of tightness.

B．To allow for greater mobility and muscle flexibility.

C．To encourage blood and lymphatic circulation.

D．To help lactic acid build up in muscles.

2. What can we learn about handed massage guns?

A．Many offer fixed heads to target diverse muscles.

B．The initial spend is too high to be justified by their functions.

C．They can help rehabilitate people with depression and anxiety.

D．Their suitability for specific conditions and injuries is certain.

3. What is the purpose of this passage?

A．To show the beauty and well-being benefits of handed massage guns.

B．To inform us the availability of different sizes of handed massage guns.

C．To share with us the popularity of handed massage guns among athletes.

D．To compare handed massage guns with doctors on suitability for injuries.

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“I do know the pain of suffering from disease and the     1     ( help) of having no cure… I     2     (see) so much sadness and regret in the past years that made me want to make my contributions to medical research, and I believe that cancer can be defeated someday.” A 17-year-old young man from Hangzhou in East China,     3     fought cancer for over four years, wrote in his last request for his organs to be donated, People’s Daily reported.

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With the support of fast and stable communication networks, service robots     1     (perform) various functions at makeshift hospitals have become a force. They are hard     2     (ignore) in Shanghai’s fight     3     the latest COVID-19 resurgence.

Inside the makeshift hospital in Shanghai New International Expo Centre, the first batch of 28 “disinfection robots” have been put into use. Each of them     4     (equip) with three disinfection modules: an ultraviolet lamp, an ultra-dry fog generator and a plasma air purifier, and can work 24 hours a day.

4 . Thus people who wanted to use them had to take them to another special parking place near their d________ and leave them there.(目的地) (根据中英文提示填空)

5 . Problems can also develop, like the t ________ of bikes and parking issues. (偷窃)   (根据中英文提示填空)

6 . Both the l________ and tourists like to use shared bikes because bike-sharing is a cheap and easy way to save energy, reduce air and noise pollution, and enjoy the benefits of exercise in cities.(当地人)（根据中英文提示填空）

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Chinese people have a strong need for cultural consumption, and the need pushes people who work in the field of cultural relics and museum to explore     1    (effect) ways to make cultural relics popular, said Ma Xiaolin, the head of Henan Museum.

In recent years, TV shows, performances and cultural products     2    (relate) to cultural relics have gone viral one by one.     3     inspired their creation was the combination of traditional Chinese culture and modern life. Moreover, innovative ideas and new technology come together to enable immersive experience of stories in the history, and social media helps the spread of new cultural products.

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Balancing Trees and CO₂

Tree planting used to be regarded as an effective means of reducing climate change. Perhaps it’s time for us to rethink this practice. Trees pull CO₂ from the air. This effectively removes CO₂ from the atmosphere. But trees only hold onto CO₂ as long as they’re alive. Once they die, trees decay (腐烂) and release that CO₂ back into the atmosphere.

Recent studies have found that trees around the world are growing faster than ever. The rise of CO₂, mainly due to burning fossil fuels, is probably driving that rapid growth, said Roel Brienen, a forest ecologist at the University of Leeds, UK. High levels of CO₂ are increasing temperatures, which in turn speeds tree growth in those areas, he added.

The faster trees grow, the faster they store carbon. It seems like good news. However, it is known that fast-growing tree species, in general, live shorter lives than their slow-growing relatives.

In order to see whether the growth-lifespan trade-off (生长与寿命之间的权衡) is a universal phenomenon, Brienen and his colleagues analyzed over 210,000 individual tree ring records of 110 tree species from more than 79,000 sites worldwide. They found that, in almost all habitats and all sites, faster-growing tree species died younger than slow-growing species, and even within a species, the trade-off between growth and life span held strong.

The team also created a computer program that modeled a forest and tweaked (微量调整) the growth of the trees in this model. Early on, it showed that “the forest could hold more carbon as the trees grew faster”, Brienen reported. But after 20 years, these trees started dying and losing this extra carbon again. “We must understand that the only solution to bringing down CO₂ levels is to stop emitting (排放) it into the atmosphere,” said Brienen.

1. What does “this practice” in Para.1 refer to?
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2. Why are trees around the world growing faster than ever?
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3. Read the following statement, underline the false part of it and explain the reason. The team has found that the faster trees grow, the faster they store CO₂, and the longer lives they live.
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4. Please briefly present what you can do in daily life to reduce the emission of CO₂.（about 40 words）
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9 . What does the man like about bars?

A．The delicious drinks in bars.

B．The location of the bars.

C．The things to do in bars.

10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A．Causes of early death.

B．Changing to a healthier job.

C．Fighting the damage of sitting by exercising.

2. What is the problem with office workers?

A．They smoke a lot.

B．They are overworked.

C．They are physically inactive.