1 . With the development of our society, cellphones have become a common part in our lives. Have you ever run into a careless cellphone user in the street? Maybe they were busy talking, texting or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them. As the number of this new "species" of human has kept rising, they have been given a new name—phubbers (低头族).
Recently a cartoon created by students from China Central Academy of Fine Arts put this group of people under the spotlight. In the short film, phubbers with various social identities bury themselves in their phones. A doctor plays with his cellphone while letting his patient die. A pretty woman takes a selfie (自拍) in front of a car accident site. And a father loses his child without knowing about it while using his mobile phone. A chain of similar events will finally lead to the destruction(毁灭) of the world.
Although the ending of the film sounds unrealistic, the damage phubbing can bring is real. Your health is the first to bear the effect and the result of it. "Always bending your head to check your cellphone could damage your neck," Guangming Daily quoted doctors' words. "The neck is like a rope that breaks after long-term stretching." Also, staring at cellphones for a long time will damage your eyesight gradually, according to the report.
But that's not all. Being a phubber could also damage your social skills and drive you away from your friends and family. When getting together with family or friends, many people prefer to play their cellphones while others are chatting happily with each other and this creates a strange atmosphere, Qilu Evening News reported.
It can also cost your life. There have been lots of reports on phubbers who fell to their death, suffered accidents, and were robbed of their cellphones in broad daylight.
1. Why does the author give the example of a cartoon in Paragraph 2?| A．To suggest phubbers will destroy the world. |
| B．To call for people to go walking without phones. |
| C．To tell people the bad effects of phubbing. |
| D．To advise students to create more cartoons like this. |
① Destructing the world.
② Affecting his social skills.
③ Damaging his neck and eyesight.
④ Getting separated from his friends and family.
| A．①②④ | B．②③④ | C．①③④ | D．①②③④ |
| A．Supportive. | B．Confident. | C．Disapproving. | D．Unconcerned. |
| A．Ways to avoid the risks of phubbing. | B．Bad effects of phubbing. |
| C．Daily life of phubbers. | D．Behaviours of phubbers. |
2 . Most polar bears could disappear by the end of the century, scientists say. Global warming is to blame. According to a study published this month in Nature Climate Change, most polar bear populations will be in serious decline by 2080. The cause is melting sea ice.
Polar bears hunt seals on the ice. Without ice, the bears must wander on the shore, where they are spending more and more time away from their main food source. That means the animals could starve.
“There’s not enough food on land to sustain a polar bear population,” Péter K. Molnár told the New York Times. He is the study’s lead author.
Lack of food leads to another problem: Mother bears may not be fat enough to produce milk for their cubs. Some bear populations could stop having babies, leading to a rapid decline in numbers.
Arctic sea ice usually melts in the spring and summer, then grows in the winter. But now, the ice is taking longer to grow back. Weather statistics say the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Ice in the region has declined 13% every 10 years since the 1970s.
The Arctic is home to roughly 25,000 polar bears. Scientists have long known that the animals are in danger. This study, which looked at 13 of the world’s 19 polar bear populations, is the first to identify when they could disappear.
But the study also notes that it is still possible to slow Arctic melting. The world can reduce the burning of fossil fuels and lower the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. It would have to be a drastic reduction. Bringing emissions to only a moderate level will still mean the loss of some polar bears.
Saving the bears is up to us, Holland says. “I believe that there is hope,” she says. “But humans need to act quickly to turn that hope into a reality.”
1. Why are polar bears in danger of disappearing?| A．Lack of seals. | B．Global warming. |
| C．Less milk for cubs. | D．The loss of home. |
| A．Reduce. | B．Suffer. | C．Support. | D．Increase. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Neutral. | C．Negative. | D．Positive. |
3 . Dolly Alderton， a journalist and co-host of The High Low podcast chooses her five favourite books. Her memoir(回忆录), Everything I Know About Love, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher, 1987 (Simon &Schuster £8.99)
Fisher’s first writing was this novel about an actress with a drug addiction who is trying to start again. Most of it is from rehab(戒毒所) —— a mixture of self-aware soul-searching and funny accounts of the characters she meets in crisis. It’s warm but pessimistic, and funny as well as sad.
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy, 2017 (Fleet £8.79)
This is one of the most extraordinary memoirs I’ve read, written by one of my favourite journalists. It is a raw account of ambition, sorrow, heartbreak and what it means to accept that you don’t always get everything you want.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 2005 (Penguin £8.89)
This novel is a moving exploration of the end of a marriage. I’m always interested in the love stories that pick up after happily ever after. This one is gentle and tragic, packed with deep observations on how love waxes and wanes(兴衰）through various ages and phases of life.
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank, 1999 (Penguin £8.69)
A hugely hopeful, wise and funny book about a woman’s search for love.The Interconnecting
stories all show recognisable mistakes made and lessons learnt. It had a huge effect on me and, although it’s fiction, was the major influence on my memoir Everything I Know About Love.
Money by Martin Amis,1984 (Vintage £8.99)
Based on Amis’s own experiences as a script（剧本) writer on a Hollywood feature film, Money is a appealing, cinematic novel that takes a searing look at greed. It’s dark and funny, frightening and deep.
1. Which book will you choose if you want to learn something about drug addiction?| A．Money. | B．On Beauty. |
| C．Postcards from the Edge. | D．The Rules Do Not Apply. |
| A．On Beauty. | B．Postcards from the Edge. |
| C．The Rules Do Not Apply. | D．The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing. |
| A．To introduce some favourite books of Alderton. |
| B．To present some Sunday Times bestsellers. |
| C．To sell some books at a reasonable price. |
| D．To call on readers to read more books. |
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Once during a flight, I sit next to an old man named Cliff, which was a fan of China. He had been studying Chinese for years, and he tried his best to learning a few new words every day. My friendly neighbor shared some of his life story with me, too. He had owned several businesses and had been failed in a number of them. However, Cliff thought his life was quite successfully. He spoke of his failure with same interest as he talked about his success. His life was wonderful but his experiences were meaningful. I never spoke ill of the people in his life and was thankful with all of them.
5 . Stress is one of the most common causes of health problems in modern life. Too much stress results in physical, emotional, and mental health problems.
There are numerous physical effects of stress. Stress can affect the heart. It can increase the pulse rate, make the heart miss beats, and can cause high blood pressure. Stress can affect the respiratory (呼吸的) system. It can lead to asthma and cause a person to breathe too fast, resulting in a loss of important carbon dioxide. Stress can affect the stomach. It can cause stomachaches and problems of digesting food. These are only a few examples of the wide range of illnesses and symptoms resulting from stress.
Emotions are also easily affected by stress. People suffering from stress often feel anxious. They may have panic attacks and feel tired all the time. When people are under stress, they often overreact to little problems. For example, a normally gentle parent under a lot of stress at work may yell at a child for dropping a glass of juice. Stress can make people angry, moody, or nervous.
Long-term stress can lead to a variety of serious mental illnesses. Depression, an extreme feeling of sadness and hopelessness, can be the result of continued and increasing stress. Alcoholism and other addictions often develop as a result of overuse of alcohol or drugs to try to relieve（释放）stress. If stress is allowed to continue, then one’s mental health is put at risk.
It is obvious that stress is a serious problem. It attacks the body. It affects the emotions. Untreated, it may eventually result in mental illness. Stress has a great influence on the health, our feelings and our minds. So, reduce stress: stop the world and rest for a while.
1. What physical effects does stress result in?| A．Overreacting to little problems. |
| B．Making blood pressure low. |
| C．Suffering from depression. |
| D．Increasing the pulse rate. |
| A．Alcohol abuse. |
| B．Drug addiction. |
| C．MuchAnxiety. |
| D．Heartbeat missing. |
| A．Stress causing mental problems. |
| B．Stress causing physical problems. |
| C．Stress causing emotional problems. |
| D．Stress causing panic attacks. |
| A．that | B．which | C．what | D．it |
| A．who lent | B．that lends | C．whom lent | D．whose lend |
| A．should eat | B．will eat | C．can eat | D．would eat |
| A．will attend | B．had been attended |
| C．would attend | D．would have attended |
10 . A
I am a student and part-time waitress in Chicago. Growing up, I was used to words such as “Don’t talk to strangers”. As a result, I don’t talk to unknown people at work except taking orders.
One night, a little old man, probably in his eighties, came in. I took his order and went on my way. But I noticed that he came in week after week. Slowly, I began having short conversations with my new guest, whose name was Mr Rodgers, but he insisted that I call him Don. I learned that he and his wife had gone to dinner and a movie every Saturday. Since she had died, he carried on the tradition alone. I began looking forward to him coming in and telling me his movie reviews.
As the weeks went on I began to sit and really talk with Don. We talked about his wife, his days and his son. Eventually, we began to talk about my dreams and studies.
Since meeting Don, I have learned that strangers can become friends and that life can be much more enjoyable if I make friendly conversations. After all, I became more than just his waitress. I became his friend, too.
1. What did the author talk about with Don finally?| A．Dreams. | B．Movies. |
| C．Friends. | D．Orders. |
| A．A stranger. | B．The waitress. |
| C．Don. | D．His wife. |
| A．Because her service was good. |
| B．Because she had gentle behavior. |
| C．Because she could make friends . |
| D．Because her conversations were friendly. |
