1. 多与当地人面对面交流；
2. 与当地人交朋友；
3. 多听中文歌曲等。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 开头已给出，不计入总词数；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Leo,
I’m more than delighted to hear that you will study at a Chinese university as an exchange student.
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Yours,
Li Hua
This summer has been full of unforgettable
Known as “Chinese flying man”, Su has been working hard
Now in his third Olympics, his
4 . Avoid Misunderstanding Idioms (习语)
An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning is not always straightforward or easy to understand.
Check your understanding. If you want to make sure your understanding is correct, you may want to change the sentence into simple language and ask the person you are talking to if the meaning is correct. It never hurts to try to make something that you have heard in a conversation clearer.
Consider the body language of the speaker.
| A．If you don’t ask, you don’t learn. |
| B．Consider the context of the sentence. |
| C．Guess the idiom through its literal meaning. |
| D．Enlarge your knowledge by reading all the time. |
| E．It is important for English learners to know all idiomatic expressions. |
| F．Body language can give you hints to help you understand confusing phrases. |
| G．An example would be when someone says, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” |
5 . If you turn over a plastic bottle, like those we use to drink water, you’ll notice a number “1”—that means it’s made of a material called PET. Some bags, like the kind that holds milk or coffee, get a “2”，meaning they’re made of a material called HDPE. At material recovery factories, plastics get sorted (分类) based on these numbers (they go up to 7)，which shows how recyclable (可回收的) they are.
Plastic marking numbers 1 and 2 are recyclable. They can be made into carpet, clothing, plastic package, as well as other products, according to Live Science.
Recycling gets more difficult with higher numbers, called “mixed plastic”. This waste makes up 69% of all the plastic we use in the daily life. It’s much more expensive to deal with than numbers 1 and 2. In the past, mixed plastics would be sent to other countries. But two years ago, almost no country was allowed to buy foreign plastic waste.
Recycling companies had to find a new market, but many failed. For example, in Los Angeles, recycling companies still won’t recycle any plastics with numbers higher than 2. Instead, they are burying or burning them.
According to Live Science, what the USA needs is machines that can be used to recycle other kinds of plastic. But Hocevar, a scientist, comes up with a different solution: “The really simple answer is there isn’t so much throwaway plastic in the world.”
Someone may ask, “Is recycling worth it?” For bottles with “1” or “2”, the answer is “yes”, said Hocevar. There’s also a growing market for plastics marked “5”, a flexible (灵活的) plastic that includes yogurt containers (酸奶容器). For other numbers, the answer was simpler; a “no” on numbers 3, 4, 6 and 7.
1. What does the number on plastic products mean?| A．How recyclable the products are. |
| B．Where the products were made. |
| C．What recycle technology is needed. |
| D．Where the products would end up. |
| A．The cost to recycle mixed plastic. |
| B．The solution to dealing with plastic waste. |
| C．The plastic waste in our daily life. |
| D．The difficulty in recycling mixed plastic. |
| A．Burn or bury mixed plastic. |
| B．Stop producing mixed plastic products. |
| C．Sell the mixed plastics to other countries. |
| D．Make more machines to recycle mixed plastic. |
| A．On a medicine bottle. | B．On a coffee bag. |
| C．On a yogurt container. | D．On a water bottle. |
6 . Starting a new term always feels a little bit like a beginning of a new year. Last year, as a fresher, I felt a little worried at the beginning of each term. That’s why, this year, I want to start the term with a positive mind. I have collected some ways that can really help improve my confidence.
It has been found that if we want to succeed, we should break our new plan into smaller tasks. It sounds easy, but how do we start? It is a good idea to write down things you will do every evening. Start with the most important task and then focus on smaller tasks that you are sure you will be able to complete. If you are not a fan of a paper to-do list, there are so many fun apps. Sticking to the plan will stop you from doing everything at the last minute.
It is also very important to stay active. Set a goal of 10,000 steps a day or go for a run with a friend. Honestly, you don’t even need to go to a gym, because there are different kinds of exercises online. You can even stretch (伸展) for 15 minutes every day. Just choose whatever works for you. Exercise can improve our ability to sleep, reduce stress and make us healthy.
Before starting the term, think of your goals—not only those towards which you are working, but also those that you’ve already managed to achieve. Don’t feel too anxious, notice your progress and always remember to take a rest. Keep in mind that everything takes time. Take a 10-minute rest between lessons, which can be a conversation with a friend, checking the news, or taking a walk. In short, do something for yourself.
1. How did the author feel when he started a new term last year?| A．Worried. | B．Curious. | C．Frightened. | D．Confident. |
| A．Keep a diary. | B．Change plans often. |
| C．Make a to-do list. | D．Focus on what we like. |
| A．Online exercises are much better. | B．Taking exercise in a gym is useless. |
| C．We must spend a lot of time on exercise. | D．It is important to choose exercise that is helpful to us. |
| A．Relationship. | B．Lifestyle. | C．News. | D．Travel. |
7 . The thought of low material need and being unwilling to work, marry and have children, is described as a “lying down” lifestyle recently. It creates an emotional reaction among many young Chinese who are eager to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly competitive society.
Many young people complained to the Global Times that duties, including work stress, family argument and financial pressure, have pushed them “against the wall”. They said they hate the “involution (内卷)”, joking that they would rather give up some of what they have than get stuck in an endless competition against peers(同龄人).
“Instead of always following the ‘good quality’ of struggle and sacrifice to bear the stresses, they prefer a temporary(暂时的) lying down as release and adjustment,” said an expert. “It is no wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the mortgage (按揭) today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind.”
Interestingly, the majority of young people, who claim to be big fans of the lying down philosophy, admit that they only accept a temporary lying down as a short rest. It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some Chinese youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard work. But in fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel ashamed about their constant loss of morale (士气).
“Young people have both ambition and confusion about their future, but most of us have refused to waste opportunities and challenges,” a postgraduate student told the Global Times. “It’s no use running away. I have to ‘stand up’ and face the reality sooner or later.”
1. Which of the following is NOT a “lying down” lifestyle according to the passage?| A．Being uninterested in material enjoyment and refusing to shoulder duties. |
| B．Being involved in various social activities. |
| C．Stopping to breathe in a stressful life. |
| D．Giving up struggle and sacrifice. |
| A．Poor health from working so hard. | B．Increasing material wealth from families. |
| C．Growing pressure from family and social life. | D．Temporary adjustment to failure in competitions. |
| A．Understanding. | B．opposed | C．Supportive. | D．Unclear. |
| A．They would rather escape than take challenges. | B．They really enjoy the “lying down” lifestyle. |
| C．They find their dreams far beyond their reach. | D．They never really drop their responsibilities. |
According to a recent survey, violence (暴力) did exist in schools. Students showed their fear and parents and teachers also
Nowadays, school violence is a hot topic, which
If I meet with school violence, I will not answer violence with violence, for it will result in
All in all, we students should behave
9 . It was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. Needless to say, it was too hot to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. He suggested we could see a movie. It was a brilliant plan.
Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all day and — most important — sit in air conditioning. In those days, you could buy one ticket and sit through two movies. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again. If you wanted to, you could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater. Mr. Bellow did not mind if you did.
That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before. It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.
We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. But we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we did it the next day too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke.
Still, to this day I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and recite half of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of the few I have of the heat wave of 1962. They’re really memories of the screen, not memories of my life.
1. In which year did the author first live in a place with an air conditioner?| A．1952 | B．1962 |
| C．1972 | D．1982 |
| A．He loved children very much. | B．He was a fan of John Wayne. |
| C．He sold air conditioners. | D．He was a movie star. |
| A．The two movies were really wonderful. |
| B．They wanted to avoid the heat outside. |
| C．The manager of the theater was friendly. |
| D．They liked the popcorn and the soda at the theater. |
| A．The author turned out to be a great singer. |
| B．The author enjoyed the heat wave of 1962. |
| C．The author’s life has been changed by the two movies. |
| D．The author considers the experience at the theater unforgettable. |
