1 . Hong Kong and Macau are home to several well-known universities that offer diverse courses and programs to students. Here are some of the universities and their key information.
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
This university is one of the oldest and most prestigious in Asia, offering undergraduate, graduate, and research programs in various fields. Popular majors include business, engineering, law, and medicine. Admission requirements vary depending on the program, but all applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent and be fluent in English. HKU offers scholarships and financial assistance to both local and international students.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
This university is famous for its programs in science, engineering, and business. It also offers programs in social sciences and humanities. Admission requirements include high academic achievement and language proficiency (English). HKUST provides a range of scholarships and financial aid packages to deserving students.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
This university offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in areas such as business, science, social sciences, and humanities. Admission requirements include academic performance, language proficiency (English and Chinese) and personal qualities. CUHK provides scholarships for students from different backgrounds and regions.
The University of Macau (UM)
This university is the only public comprehensive university in Macau, offering programs in business, science, social sciences, humanities, and education. Admission requirements vary depending on the program, but all applicants must be fluent in English or Portuguese. UM offers scholarships only for local students and does not provide accommodation for any students.
1. What majors are liked and chosen more at the University of Hong Kong?| A．Science, engineering, and business. | B．Al technology and English. |
| C．Business, engineering, law, and medicine. | D．Business, science, social sciences, and humanities. |
| A．UM does not provide financial aid to international students. |
| B．UM is one of the best public universities in Macau. |
| C．UM has the best business program in Macau. |
| D．UM does not admit international students. |
| A．They all have high tuition fees. | B．They all offer great scholarships. |
| C．They all have high-quality dormitories. | D．They all have language requirements. |
2 . Work starts early on White Gate Farm in East Lyme, Connecticut. By 7 a. m., farm manager Dan Wood was at the East Lyme Post Office dropping off a box of fresh produce that later in the day would be delivered by mail to Chelsea Gubbins, who lives across town.
White Gate Farm is a member of Farmers Post, a pilot programme that enables smallholder farms across eastern Connecticut to ship fresh produce and other farm products to local households through the United States Postal Service (USPS). Farmers Post takes advantage of a USPS programme called Connect Local that allows small businesses to offer same-day and next-day delivery at a fixed low cost.
Food remains in the fields because either market prices are too low or the cost of the workforce is too high, or because the size and shape of the produce make it unattractive to stores. Each year, around 10 million tons of crops never get harvested, causing about 16% of total US food loss and waste.
“Food that is wasted has a much larger influence than just the loss of the food itself,” says Julia Kurnik, senior director of Innovation Start-ups at WWF. “Everything that went into growing it goes out the window as well—the water, the land, and the energy. And as the food breaks down, it produces greenhouse gases. The bad effects amplify greatly.”
Besides reducing food waste, selling farm products directly to local customers cuts down on the cross-country shipping of food grown in California or elsewhere. This reduces the so-called food miles that researchers believe cause about 6% of the world’s greenhouse gases. Fruits and vegetables, which are often transported out of season and require refrigeration, produce lots of greenhouse gases between farms and people’s plates.
Wood understands that Farmers Post can help to end that waste. “Farming is kind of like cooking for a big group.” he says. “This is helping us get right on the money, using almost 100% of what we grow and harvest.”
1. Why was Farmers Post started?| A．To provide professional modern farming methods. |
| B．To create more delivery jobs for local people |
| C．To pick up and carry customers to different farms. |
| D．To make the delivery of produce easier and cheaper. |
| A．The limited need for farm products. | B．The shortage of workers and harvesting tool. |
| C．Their low value and poor quality. | D．Bad weather and road conditions. |
| A．Increase. | B．Slow. | C．Switch. | D．Weaken. |
| A．The Food Safety Movement Has Met Some Challenges |
| B．A Farm-to-Table Programme Helps Reduce Food Waste |
| C．Farmers Post Explores Ways to Make High-Quality Products |
| D．Small Farms Play a Leading Role in Serving Communities |
3 . The rate of childhood obesity in the U. S. has tripled over the past 50 years. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) made waves this year by recommending that doctors put obese kids as young as two years old on intensive, family-oriented lifestyle and behavior plans. It also suggested prescribing weight-loss drugs to children l2 and older and surgery to teens 13 and older. This advice reflects the organization’s adoption of a more active position on childhood obesity.
Yet the lifestyle programs the AAP recommends are expensive, inaccessible to most children and hard to maintain. Few weight-loss drugs have been approved for children. And surgery has potential risks and few long-term safety data. Furthermore, it’s not clear whether interventions in youngsters help to improve health or merely add to the psychological burden overweight kids face from the society.
Rather than paying close attention to numbers on a scale, the U. S. and countries with similar trends should focus on an underlying truth: we need to invest in more and safer places for children to play where they can move and run around, climb and jump, ride and skate.
Why is it so hard to get kids moving? Experts blame the problem on the privatization of sports — as public investment in school-based athletics dwindles, expensive private leagues have grown, leaving many kids out. In addition to fewer opportunities at school, researchers cite increased screen time and a lack of safe places for them to play outside the home. New York City, for example, had 2,067 public playgrounds as of 2019 — a very small amount for its large population. In Los Angeles in 2015, only 33 percent of youths lived within walking distance of a park.
Kids everywhere need more places to play. Public funding to build and keep up these areas is crucial, but other options such as shared-use agreements can make unused spaces available to the public. These opportunities aren’t primarily about changing children’s waistlines — they’re how we keep childhood healthy and fun.
1. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?| A．Childhood obesity is well under control in recent years. |
| B．Weight-loss surgery are recommended to children 12 and older. |
| C．AAP plays a more active role in fighting against childhood obesity. |
| D．Expensive as it is, lifestyle programs are practical for most children. |
| A．decline | B．quit | C．increase | D．develop |
| A．Prepare fitness equipment at home. |
| B．Live within walking distance of a park. |
| C．Promote investment in private athletics. |
| D．Open up playgrounds when school’s out. |
| A．Sports play an important role in children’s growth. |
| B．More safe areas for outdoor fun are in urgent need. |
| C．Family-oriented lifestyles are crucial to children’s health. |
| D．Medical intervention is important to ease psychological burden. |
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6 . When I was growing up, I had an old neighbour named Dr Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never
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| A．desert | B．reserve | C．forest | D．wetland |
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| A．wasted | B．planted | C．cut | D．treasured |
| A．broke away | B．passed away | C．gave away | D．put away |
| A．roots | B．branches | C．trunks | D．leaves |
| A．grew | B．ruined | C．trembled | D．revived |
| A．challenge | B．anxiety | C．survival | D．comfort |
| A．in thought | B．in pain | C．in peace | D．in despair |
| A．the back and forth | B．the ups and downs | C．the rising and falling | D．the coming and going |
| A．failure | B．hardship | C．well-being | D．freedom |
7 . On April 18—the International Day for Monuments and Sites, China Daily’s digital employee Yuanxi and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes’ official virtual carto on figure Jiayao together introduced an interactive digital platform that hosts a virtual copy of the Mogao Grottoes’ Library Cave (藏经洞) to the world.
The platform was developed jointly by the Dunhuang Academy and the Chinese tech firm Tencent. It uses gaming technologies to show the historical scenes of the Library Cave in the digital world.
The Library Cave in Mogao Grottoes was discovered in 1900, with more than 60,000 cultural relics dating from the 4th century to the 11th century unearthed. It was one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the 20th century.
On the platform, visitors can role-play and “time travel” to ancient dynasties and talk with eight historical figures. The public can enter the platform through the Digital Dunhuang website and its WeChat mini program.
In the digital age, the model of “culture+technology” has been introduced to facilitate the development of Chinese culture. The digitalization rate of China’s precious cultural relics is now over 70 percent, according to the 2022 China Digital Collection Industry Research Report released by iResearch.
Institutions such as the Palace Museum have also started online digital services of their own. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology allows the public to view the interior of the buildings through the Palace Museum’s WeChat mini program.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has also encouraged the development and transformation of cultural intellectual property (知识产权) by digital means. China Central Television has created a series of digital collections with different Dunhuang themes, such as the Dunhuang divine deer (神鹿) Youyou. It was created based on the image of the nine-colored deer from Dunhuang murals (壁画). The public can see the divine deer on CCTV’s own digital platform.
Digital collections cater to the consumption habits of young people, who grow up in the information age. They not only protect the intellectual property of the collections but also bring the public closer to China’s “excellent traditional culture”, noted Dunhuang Art Institute.
Su Bomin, director of the Dunhuang Academy, told Xinhua that more efforts will be made to explore new forms for showing cultural relics and offer the public greater cultural experiences to develop Dunhuang culture.
1. Which of the following statements about the virtual copy of the Mogao Grottoes’ Library Cave is true?| A．It was developed by the Dunhuang Academy alone. |
| B．The public can have access to it through Wechat mini program. |
| C．It has applied the latest time-traveling and gaming technology. |
| D．It was unearthed in 1900 with more than 60,000 cultural relics. |
| A．To show the latest gaming technologies. |
| B．To help cultural institutions make a profit. |
| C．To promote the development of Chinese culture. |
| D．To encourage people to explore Chinese cultural relics. |
| A．By listing figures. | B．By making comparisons. |
| C．By giving definitions. | D．By giving examples. |
| A．China’s new way in rebuilding Mogao Grottoes’ Library Cave. |
| B．China’s success in promoting the digitization rate of cultural relics. |
| C．China’s interactive digital platform in developing Dunhuang culture. |
| D．China’s latest advances in the development of cultural intellectual property. |
8 . Learning any language is hard, but learning English can be especially challenging. Why? Because native speakers use the language in ways that textbooks could never describe. In particular, words that British people use cause many language students to scratch their heads.
Here’s an example: You overhear a Briton calling someone a “wazzock”. But what exactly is a wazzock? This word, in fact, means a foolish person, although there’s nothing about it that would help you guess that. There are many strange terms like this in British English — the Oxford English Dictionary would be much smaller without these odd usages filling its pages.
How can these odd words be explained? Part of the answer is the British sense of humor. Britons don’t like to take things too seriously, and this is evident through many British words and phrases. For example, to “spend a penny” means to use the bathroom. It refers to the days when people had to pay a penny to use a public toilet.
In an interview for the BBC’s website, British linguist David Crystal suggested there may be historical reasons for the large number of odd words and phrases in British English. He thinks that they began in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This was a great age for the theater, when Shakespear e and other writers worked hard to keep up with the demand for new plays. The theater’s popularity also created an incentive to invent new words. With this in mind, perhaps Shakespeare and his peers are to blame for unusual British words such as “codswallop” and “balderdash” — which both, mean “nonsense”.
While these strange words may be confusing to non-native speakers, they certainly make studying English a lot more interesting.
1. According to the text, why may non-native speakers find it more challenging to learn English?| A．Dictionaries are too complicated to understand. |
| B．The English vocabulary is too large for them to learn. |
| C．A large number of strange expressions confuse them. |
| D．The English textbooks they use are usually out of date. |
| A．stress the large number of strange terms |
| B．explain the origin of the strange phrases |
| C．show British people’s attitude towards odd phrases |
| D．show the usefulness of the Oxford English Dictionary |
| A．concern | B．inspiration | C．application | D．opinion |
| A．Aerious. | B．Anxious. | C．Indifferent. | D．Humorous. |
9 . China is one of the world’s ancient civilizations and has the earliest outstanding bronze casting (青铜冶铸) technology. Here we’ve created a list of 4 museums where you can gain an in-depth understanding of Chinese bronze.
Sanxingdui Museum Address: Sanxingdui Ruin Site, 133 Xiangxin Road, Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan province Hours: Comprehensive Gallery (the first exhibition hall): 8: 30-18: 00;Bronze Gallery (the second exhibition hall): 8: 30-18: 30.(no entry after 17: 00). Closed Mondays Ticket booking: 0838-5651526 General admission: Gallery ticket 80 yuan Note: Children shorter than 1.2m (including 1.2m ) can visit the gallery free of charge. The ticket must be used on the day it is sold. |
National Museum of China Address: East side of Tian’ anmen Square, Dongcheng district, Beijing Hours: 8: 30-17: 00(no entry after 16: 30) General admission: Free (passport required for entry). Closed Mondays (except for national holidays) E-mail: webmaster@chnmuseum.cn |
Shanghai Museum Address: 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu district, Shanghai Hours: 9: 00-17: 00(no entry after 16: 00). Closed on the morning of Chinese New Year’s Eve E-mail: webmaster@shanghai-museum.org General admission: Free(a max of 8,000 admitted daily). |
Hunan Museum Address: 50 Dongfeng Road, Changsha, Hunan province Hours: 9: 00-17: 00(no entry after 16: 00). Closed Mondays (except for national holidays) and the eve of Chinese New Year Tel: (+86-731) 84415833,84475933 E-mail: web@hnmuseum.com General admission: Free(passport required for entry). |
1. Which museum should you choose for your family to visit next Monday?
| A．Shanghai Museum. | B．Hunan Museum. |
| C．Sanxingdui Museum. | D．National Museum of China. |
| A．They are free to children under 12. | B．They close on national holidays. |
| C．They can be reserved through e-mail. | D．They need a passport for entry. |
| A．A website. | B．A newspaper. | C．A travel journal. | D．A history book. |
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| A．arouse | B．contain | C．tackle | D．disguise |
| A．equipped | B．rewarded | C．blessed | D．showered |
| A．admired | B．teased | C．envied | D．encountered |
| A．turn in | B．make out | C．fit in | D．find out |
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| A．stopped by | B．called on | C．came across | D．subscribed to |
| A．exposed | B．glued | C．connected | D．limited |
| A．scariest | B．sweetest | C．saddest | D．wildest |
| A．crisis | B．mess | C．point | D．case |
| A．reduced | B．extended | C．preferred | D．postponed |
| A．support | B．complaint | C．intervention | D．disapproval |
| A．shut | B．depart | C．separate | D．cease |
| A．desperate | B．grateful | C．guilty | D．regretful |
| A．challenge | B．conquer | C．decline | D．treat |
| A．commitment | B．bravery | C．patience | D．determination |
