1 .

How to Look at Shape

Take a seat at the virtual(虚拟的) table. At our new, monthly membership program, you'll join MoMA staff and fellow members for lively discussions about our collection and exhibitions. Ask questions, share your thoughts, and broaden the mind. A live Q&A, with Michelle Kuo and Anny Aviram, about shape and its role in MoMA's collection is also arranged.

Draw, Write, and Connect with Others

Experiment with drawing and writing exercises as ways to connect with others, even when physically distant, in this 45-minute online workshop. This workshop is part of the Creativity Lab at Home plan. This session is led by Francis Estrada, Assistant Educator, and Hannah Fagin, Coordinator. Ifs open to anyone, but registration is limited and space is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Storytelling Through Art

There are many ways to tell a story — through words, through theater and dance, or through visual art, for example. Discover how artist Jacob Lawrence shared the history of an important event by combining words and art in a series of paintings called The Migration Series. For kids ages seven to fourteen. Parent participation is encouraged in this online event. Don' miss the opportunity to spend meaningful time with them.

The Human Shelter

In 2016, MoMA opened Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, an exhibition that examined how contemporary architecture arid design addressed ideas of shelter in light of global refugee(难民) emergencies. Danish Boris Benjamin Bertram documented the exhibition, and the result is a movie by him asking what makes a home, and, perhaps more importantly, when shelter becomes home. This online event is part of Member events.

1. What is special about How to Look at Shape?

A．It provides an interactive part.	B．It is accessible to everyone.
C．It is organized by Michelle Kuo.	D．It focuses on MoMA's new collection.

2. Which event is family-friendly?

A．The Human Shelter.	B．How to Look at Shape.
C．Storytelling Through Art.	D．Draw, Write, and Connect with Others.

3. In which aspect might Bertram do well?

A．Shelter design.	B．Storytelling.
C．Art education.	D．Film-making.

2 . Picking up a free newspaper at the Tube station, I see the title “Hot! Hot! Hot!”. Today, the temperature in London is ______ to reach 30 plus degrees! The average high temperature in July is only 22 degrees, so over 30 is unusual for London. It’s going to be ______ on the Central Line, with no air conditioning.

Sure enough, going down the stairs and onto the ______ is like jumping into a volcano that’s erupting. This, _____, is nothing compared to the train. Because there’s no air conditioning, the temperature ______ the train can reach 35 degrees! It’s lovely at the beach, but not so when you’re wearing a suit and in a ______ of passengers! I’m sure the passenger next to me and I are ______ and becoming one!

Yes, each summer in London ______ seems hotter than the last. I suddenly feel a bit ______. Perhaps now is the time to start planning for the future? I should probably ______ my flat on the market and buy a boat.... Most importantly, I’ll need to learn to swim! I’ll join a beginner’s swimming class ______. Then I’ll be able to ______ even when the tall buildings are flooded.

______ my newspaper, I’m shocked by photos showing that a hurricane in Asia has destroyed a town. Experts say this bad weather has occurred due to ______ change. News like this makes me feel nervous. ______ it’s hard to avoid a disaster on Earth, perhaps I should start thinking about moving to space...

1.

A．allowed

B．stopped

C．encouraged

D．expected

2.

A．awful

B．powerful

C．helpful

D．peaceful

3.

A．stage

B．lift

C．platform

D．playground

4.

A．therefore

B．moreover

C．however

D．otherwise

5.

A．outside

B．inside

C．beside

D．alongside

6.

A．crowd

B．group

C．series

D．score

7.

A．travelling

B．melting

C．sweating

D．freezing

8.

A．possibly

B．eventually

C．accidentally

D．definitely

9.

A．tired

B．scared

C．excited

D．disappointed

10.

A．set

B．make

C．put

D．hit

11.

A．immediately

B．gradually

C．slowly

D．suddenly

12.

A．choose

B．engage

C．breathe

D．survive

13.

A．Looking for

B．Looking through

C．Looking into

D．Looking after

14.

A．environment

B．location

C．time

D．climate

15.

A．Now that

B．Unless

C．Though

D．Where

3 . Searches on Google, finding friends through Facebook and being able to buy simply anything on Amazon have all been made possible thanks to major leaps forward in technology over the past 15 years.

However, that comes at a price. As our lives are gradually automated, many people are losing their jobs. And advancing technology has not delivered jobs as it should. At the end of 2015 a total of 74, 505 employees were working for Google's Alphabet and Facebook, accounting for less than a third of Microsoft's total staff. However, the combined stock-market value of these companies was twice as big as Microsoft's. Newcomer tech giants in the market are in need of even fewer workers. In 2016, semiconductor manufacturers slashed their number of workers by half to just 359,000.

Despite major concerns about the future of jobs and the economy in general, 140 years of data has shown technology as a whole has actually brought to life more jobs than it has ended. Technology has been described as a “great job-creating machine”. For instance, while roles in the agriculture, washers, and examples of repetitive services, have decreased, there has been a rise in caring posts, such as teaching, educational support assistants; welfare, housing, youth and community workers; and care workers and home caring.

The aging battle between man and machine will continue as it has for centuries. The question is “Are machines taking over our jobs, or is our workload being eased by their presence?” This will be an ongoing debate especially with the current rise in machine learning technology and artificial intelligence.

1. What does the underlined word “slashed” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Cut.

B．Increased.

C．Counted.

D．Predicted.

2. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3?

A．Introduce a view.

B．Prove a theory.

C．State the opposite.

D．Draw a conclusion.

3. What posts are on the rise thanks to the development of technology?

A．Farmers.

B．Washers.

C．Miners.

D．Teachers.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Is technology leading us nowhere?	B．Is technological progress real progress?
C．Does technology destroy or create jobs?	D．Does technology bring convenience to humans?

4 . Wakeful Rest

When many students finish studying, they often go straight to another activity.     1     Some might even play a video game or watch television. But research suggests that resting after your study may be a both no-cost and effective way to help you remember what you have studied and improve your learning.

    2     Resting is difficult when you have too much stimulation(刺激) from electronic devices, lights and so on. While this might sound unusual to you, many studies have explored benefits of resting after learning-what is called "wakeful rest". A study examined how well old people in good health could remember certain words, from which researchers found old adults who rested for 10 minutes after learning had better memory. "A period of wakeful rest immediately after new learning improves free recall, "the researchers wrote.     3    

Another study found that both young and old adults were able to better remember, or recollect, information from given passages after doing wakeful rest. The findings appeared in Neuroscience Letters.     4     “Wakeful rest led to higher overall recollection in both age groups," there searchers noted. 'They thought wakeful rest allows for superior memory consolidation(巩固), resulting in stronger representations of experienced events which can be discovered by tests of free recall and recognition.

    5     Rest quietly for five to ten minutes. Do not look at your phone, read stories or play games. Just limit the amount of stimulation you get. It is really that easy!

A．Such an activity promotes good health.

B．Perhaps they look at their phone or go online.

C．The results were strong even after seven days, they added.

D．This study involved 45 young people and 40 elderly adults.

E．If you want to give “wakeful rest” a try, here are a few simple things to do.

F．Working long hours can greatly increase the risk of suffering injury or illness, a study says.

G．The basic idea is that your brain gets a chance to rest by reducing your activity after the study.

5 . On July 31, 1697, a French lawyer named Jacques Sennacques wrote a message to remind a cousin in the Netherlands to send him a relative’s death certificate. To prevent others from reading the message, the note was carefully folded, or “letter locked.” The technique was used before the invention of envelopes. However, for reasons unknown, the note never reached the recipient and was instead stored in a postmaster’s trunk, where it remained undetected for centuries. Now, a team of international researchers has deciphered (破译) the contents of the over 300-year-old sealed letter — without opening it!

The chain of events leading to this technology began in 2015 when MIT expert Jana Dambrogio got a call from Daniel Starza Smith, a researcher at King’s College London. “He asked me, ‘What would you do if I told you there was a trunk with 600 unopened letters?’”

The trunk had once belonged to 17th-century postmaster Simon de Brienne. Historians believe the post office stored the undelivered letters. That’s because, in the 17th century, it was the recipient, not the sender, who bore the postage cost. When Brienne died in 1707, he donated the trunk of letters to an orphanage. Somehow, the trunk eventually made its way to the postal museum, where it lay until recently.

Since opening the letters would destroy them, Dambrogio and her team decided to develop technology to unseal them virtually. They began by using a high-resolution X-ray scanner to create a detailed three-dimensional image of a sealed letter. While the writing inside showed up very clearly, the numerous layers of folded paper pressed close together caused the words to overlap (重叠).

To solve the issue, the researchers created sophisticated algorithm (算法) capable of deciphering the writing in the cleverly folded letter, crease by crease. The virtual opening allowed the team to read the contents “while preserving letter locking evidence.” The algorithm took almost five years to perfect. Once perfected, they used it to open four locked letters and fully decode(解码) the one from Sennacques.

1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．Quite a few people could write letters.	B．Envelopes were not invented in 1697.
C．Jacques Sennacques was a postmaster.	D．Researchers couldn’t figure out the letter.

2. Why did the post office store the undelivered letters?

A．To get paid.	B．To find the senders.
C．To save the cost.	D．To scan the letters.

3. We can conclude that the folded letters________.

A．were badly damaged	B．were all decoded
C．remained very fresh	D．were very fragile

4. How did the researchers decode the letter from Sennacques?

A．Physically.

B．Chemically.

C．Occasionally.

D．Digitally.

6 . Four Underwater Cities You Must Visit

Dwarka - India

Dwarka is located 70 feet under the sea near the inhabited island of Bet Dwarka. It was built sometime between 9000 and 12,000 years ago and those fortunate enough to visit can witness a diverse variety of buildings in addition to a seaport and protective walls made of sandstone. Furthermore, large stone anchors indicate that overseas trade took place in Dwarka during the Age of Antiquity all the way through medieval times.

Pavlopetri - Greece

Pavlopetri was founded around 5000 years ago, making it one of the oldest underwater lost cities in the world. Since it was rediscovered in 1967, archeologists and tourists alike have been fascinated by the well-preserved handicrafts. What makes Pavlopetri stick out is that it has a nearly - complete town plan, including at least 15 buildings. There is also evidence that it was once a major producer of textiles, with some of the equipment still complete!

Antirhodos - Egypt

This ancient underwater island was rediscovered in 1996 near the Alexandria harbor. In addition to being the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Ancient Wonders of the World that had been presumed (推测) lost forever, explorers can find a marble-floored 3rd century B. C. palace. The best thing is that the island is only a few meters under the water, which makes it easy to explore even for new divers!

Atlit - Yam - Israel

This underwater site was discovered in 1984 off the coast of Atlit near Haifa, and is estimated to have been settled between 6900 and 6300 B. C. This location offers the clearest evidence of where humans made the transition (过渡) from hunter-gatherers to settled farmers. Dive insurance is required, so make sure you are covered when you plan your trip.

1. In which place can visitors admire handicrafts?

A．Dwarka	B．Pavlopetri
C．Antithodos.	D．Atlit - Yam

2. What can we learn about Antirhodos?

A．It has various ancient buildings	B．It has a completely preserved town
C．It is easily accessible to divers	D．It is where ancient hunters gathered

3. What do visitors need to do before visiting Atlit - Yam?

A．Take a map and a compass	B．Book the trip online
C．Learn about the history of farming	D．Buy dive insurance

7 . When my daughter, Mia, was invited to a kids’ pool party, my heart sunk. My ________ sometimes got in the way of me doing activities with her.

There were moments that should have ________ as a warning, like the family party where I had frightening heart palpitations(心悸) and saw Mia looking at me in ________, but I just nut it to the back of my ________.

One day, one close friend ________ me, “Seriously, you are the biggest YOU I’ve ever seen. So, from now on you’re coming to the Slimming World group with me.” Later, her words ________ in my mind. There I was, aged 33, overweight and starting to have heart ________. What would Mia do if she lost her dad?

________, I was pulled into the group. With the consultant’s explanation of the eating plan, I started a dinner with lots of vegetables. The next week, I was ________ to find I’d lost 6 pounds—this might actually ________!

With more confidence, I decided to practise swimming,________ one day being a body-confident dad, splashing(戏水) around ________ at a pool party with Mia. As I ________ my swimming distance, my weight loss become even ________. Mia loved seeing the change in me and the ________ shone on her face.

I’m also proud of myself for turning my life around, for Mia.

1.

A．weight

B．sight

C．height

D．look

2.

A．escaped

B．served

C．stopped

D．disappeared

3.

A．joy

B．excitement

C．curiosity

D．horror

4.

A．neck

B．hand

C．mind

D．shoulder2

5.

A．taught

B．laughed

C．asked

D．warned

6.

A．worked

B．circled

C．woke

D．rose

7.

A．examinations

B．functions

C．problems

D．researches

8.

A．Immediately

B．Calmly

C．Gradually

D．Fairly

9.

A．upset

B．sad

C．amazed

D．nervous

10.

A．fade away

B．settle down

C．break out

D．pay off

11.

A．imagining

B．forgetting

C．admitting

D．worrying

12.

A．slowly

B．happily

C．secretly

D．cautiously

13.

A．observed

B．predicted

C．increased

D．measured

14.

A．evident

B．dull

C．reliable

D．strange

15.

A．anger

B．anxiety

C．fear

D．pride

8 . Given a choice, Peter Coke would like to try his hand at paper-making and feather-work. For the moment though, he would stick to the skill that he had been delighted to perfect over the past ten years, making shells delicate and unusual objects out of shells.

Peter Coke’s apartment was filled with shell-covered ornaments（装饰品）and he said that he would not be at all bothered if people would not buy them. He had never meant to sell his work commercially. Five years ago, his friends came to visit him and insisted that he have an exhibition. After talks with an art gallery owner in London, he had his first exhibition in which seventy percent of the objects were sold, commanding enormous prices.

There were eighty-six pieces in the exhibition, with prices starting at five hundred dollars for a shell- flower in a crystal case. Coke insisted that he had nothing to do with the high prices and claimed there was nobody in the world who could produce work like this. Coke wished that he had taken up the art a lot earlier because he could have been able to produce really wonderful pieces then. Although the ideas were still there and he was doing the best he could now, he was more limited physically than he was when he started. Still, the work that he had managed to produce was a long way from the common shell constructions that could be found in seaside shops. His masterpieces included miniature boxes covered in thousands of tiny shells, little shaded pictures made from shells and baskets of astonishingly realistic flowers.

Coke’s pursuit for beautiful and especially tiny shells had taken him to different parts of the world. He insisted that he only collected dead shells and defended himself against people who wrote him letters accusing him of stripping（剥夺） the world’s beaches.

“When I’m collecting shells, I hear people’s feet crunching them faster than I can collect them and the ones that are left, the sea breaks up. I would not dream of collecting shells with living creatures in them,” he said.

1. What can we learn about Peter Coke in the first paragraph?

A．He is quite delighted that his skill in making shell objects is already perfect.

B．He is praised for the shell ornaments he made many years ago.

C．He hopes to work with other materials besides shells if possible.

D．He has produced hand-made ornaments using paper and feathers.

2. When mentioning the prices of his shell objects, Coke ________.

A．meant to sell his work commercially

B．said he had no idea why the price was so high

C．feared that his work would not always be so popular

D．thought the price was reasonable due to the originality of the work

3. What did Coke regret about his work?

A．He was not as energetic as he used to be.

B．He was less imaginative than he used to be.

C．He was not as famous as he should have been.

D．He made less money than he should have made.

4. Which of the following statements about Coke’s shell-collecting activity is TRUE?

A．Not everyone approved of what he had done.

B．Other tourists got in the way of his shell collecting.

C．He felt ashamed of stripping the world’s beaches of shells.

D．Not all the shells were the right size and shape for his work.

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A recently released Chinese documentary featuring the Forbidden City’s cultural relics (遗迹) and their restorers’ lives is becoming     1     hit, with more than 2.4 million     2     (watch) it online.

Called Master in Forbidden City, the documentary reveals the unsung life stories of restorers, together     3     the history of the antiques and the palace, the procedures of restoration and the development of cultural protection. The three-part documentary     4     (receive) impressive rating of 9.5/10 on Douban.com up to now, one of the     5     (big) film and TV review websites in China.

Compared with movies and TV shows, a documentary     6     (focus) on history and culture rarely becomes so popular.

    7     is more touching in the documentary is the craftsman (工匠) spirit in these restorers. Years of boring work requires not only skills,     8     faith and spirit as well. The pursuit of preciseness and perfection, devotion to work, strong patience... all these qualities are a vivid     9     (reflect) of “craftsman spirit”. This lifts and broadens the theme of the documentary.

Master in Forbidden City     10     (delicate) tells the stories of both modern individuals and historical cultural relics in a touching yet natural way. No doubt people love it so much.

10 . A dog is man’s best friend, and quite a few scientific studies have proved that dogs can improve human health in many ways.    1    We all know the benefits of exercise, but it can be a struggle to get moving every day. A dog provides strong motivation and develops your interest in a daily walk or running schedule.     2    

Many people living alone worry about thieves and those who illegally enter their houses, and a dog can help make its owner feel safe.     3    Dogs generally have remarkable hearing and can warn you at the first sign of something strange. Maybe your dog is older and struggles to move around, but you can still rest easy knowing that your dog will get to a thief before you do.

    4    Dogs provide you with a valuable chance to meet and interact with other people. Even if you’re shy, it’s easy to start a conversation with another person if you’re both talking about your animals. Trips to a vet (兽医), visits to the dog park and meeting with other pet owners also provide you with great chances to interact.    5    You’ll quickly find yourself making new friends in addition to learning a lot about your best friend—your pet!

In a fast-paced and high-pressure world, mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression have reached a new. But, comparatively speaking, pet owners have fewer mental illness, and animals are even used as an effective therapy for people suffering from mental illnesses.

A．Dogs give us motivation to take exercise.

B．Thieves are less likely to break into a house with a barking dog.

C．Dog owners are also less stressed than people who don’t own dogs.

D．Moreover, you’ll consume extra calories when taking exercise with your dog.

E．People who have healthy interactions with others tend to live longer and be happier.

F．If you struggle with negative emotions, an animal can help you avoid focusing on them.

G．If you’re still anxious about meeting new people, join an online group with similar pets.