1 . Four Libraries of Oxford University

Education Library

Located within the Department of Education at 15 Norham Gardens, the Education Library supports all members of the University studying and researching in the field of education. The books we hold are based around the Department’s teaching. We also have journals, online resources, study rooms and super staff to help you throughout your studies and research.

Opening hours: Mon-Wed: 8:30 a. m.-5:30 p. m./ Thurs-Fri: Closed

English Faculty Library

Established in 1914, the English Faculty Library (EFL) primarily serves all those reading and teaching English at Oxford. The EFL holds over 104,000 volumes to support the range of teaching, study and research in the English Faculty. Most of the EFL’s collections are borrowable. We offer borrowing services, IT and printing facilities and a variety of study lounges (自习室).

Opening hours: Mon-Thurs: 9 a. m.-5 p. m./ Fri: Closed

Social Science Library

The Social Science Library (SSL) is one of the University of Oxford’s busiest lending and reference libraries, supporting staff and students in the Social Sciences Division. We have around 250,000 books on a range of subjects and extensive collections of academic journals. We offer a wide range of individual study rooms, as well as printing and IT facilities and research support.

Opening hours: Mon-Thurs: 9 a. m.-7 p. m./ Fri: 9 a. m.-5 p. m./ Sat: Closed

Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library

The Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library is one of the Bodleian Libraries’ principal research libraries, with collections focusing on the study of archaeology and the ancient world, art and architectural history. We offer borrowing services, IT and printing facilities and study halls.

Opening hours: Mon-Thurs: 9 a. m.-9 p. m./ Fri:9 a. m.-5 p. m./ Sat-Sun: Closed

1. What is the right time for visiting the English Faculty Library?

A．Tuesday, 8:30 a. m.	B．Wednesday, 9:30 a. m.
C．Thursday, 5:30 p. m.	D．Friday, 10:00 a. m.

2. If a person is interested in buildings in the past, which library will he visit?

A．Education Library.	B．English Faculty Library.
C．Social Science Library.	D．Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library.

3. What do the listed libraries have in common?

A．They offer learning spaces.	B．They serve outsiders and students.
C．They provide printing facilities.	D．They have archaeological journals.

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

My sister Josie and I wanted a dog more than anything else. We begged our parents many times but always got the same answer. One summer night, however, in our yard stood a big black female dog. We couldn’t believe our eyes!

Josie made a little kissing noise and held out her hand. The dog came to us slowly, taking a few steps forward, then a step back. She was so skinny and her coat was full of dirt. When she came closer, I was glad to find no tags around her neck.

Josie brought milk and several eggs for her. But when she finished them, she ran into the bush and disappeared. “Don’t go!” Josie cried, “Come back!” But she was gone. “I think she’ll be back when she gets hungry again,” I said.

The next night, we set the food in the driveway. Soon the dog appeared. We called her Lucky, hugged her gently and showed her the food. She sniffed it, drooling (垂涎) and licking her mouth, but for some reason she wouldn’t eat it.

The next minute Lucky did something unexpected. She grabbed the plate in her mouth and dragged it away. In the following nights it was the same scene. But the strangest thing was that even though Lucky kept taking the food, she didn’t seem to be putting on any weight.

On the fifth night, Lucky didn’t come as usual. We were worried. When we almost gave up, she appeared. She barked at us and ran back and forth. Then she ran towards the bush slowly, still barking. We chased after her. She ran and barked, turning to see if we were following. After about ten minutes, Lucky finally stopped, wagging her tail quietly. She looked at us, barked and disappeared through a dark hole in the wall of leaves and branches. I pointed toward the hole. “No way I’m going in there,” Josie said.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
However, after hesitating for a little while, we finally made a decision.
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Worried but excited, we went home with Lucky and her four little babies.
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4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Wantang Primary School,     1     (locate) in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, came into the spotlight after all     2     (it) 536 students cleared the myopia (近视) test.    3     (surprising), no nearsighted student was found in the school.

A national myopia survey     4     (conduct) from September to December 2020, which found 52.7% of Chinese students had myopia in 2020, 2.5 percentage points     5     (high) than that in 2019.The rate was as high as 80.5%among high school students and 14.3% among 6-year-olds.

Against this situation,    6     Wantang Primary School has achieved is no less than a miracle.

Reports say students there follow     7     healthy routine with three hours of outdoor games every day, and at least 10.5 hours of sleep. They are not allowed to carry smartphones to school. The most effective of all these     8     (measure) is the three hours of outdoor games every day. Exposure to sun is known to decrease the severity of myopia, because natural light stimulates the retina (视网膜) and releases dopamine (多巴胺). As students adjust their eyes     9     different light patterns while playing outside, from very bright to less bright, it helps prevent myopia.

In contrast, when children spend a long time     10     (study) indoors, their eyes cannot get enough sunlight and therefore produce less dopamine, which leads to them getting myopia.

Other schools should let their students play outdoors more often.

5 . How to Carry out Consistent Practice

Consistency is a great characteristic to build in your life. The key to consistency is setting and achieving specific goals. Here are some ways to help you through the process.

Create specific and realistic goals.    1     When starting your new path, create easy, simple goals with specific, measurable results. Once you’ve identified your end goal, come up with smaller steps to reach it. For example, if you want to become physically fitter, you might set the goal to exercise for 5 days out of the week or to sign up for a class.

Create a schedule. It can be easy to pile on tasks and promises, but a calendar, planner, or schedule will keep you on track. A schedule will help you plan your day so that you get everything done on time.    2     Use a paper planner or a desk calendar. Alternatively, download a scheduling app on your phone, like Google Calendar or Outlook.

    3     Sometimes, it is easy to forget our new goals, habits, commitments, or promises, especially when we make them to ourselves. To remind yourself throughout the day, put messages to yourself in visible areas. Write down your goals on post-it notes and place them around your home, workspace, and belongings.

Make promises only if you can keep them. Consistency often involves making commitments and keeping them. It is easy to fail, however, if you make too many promises.    4    .

Reward yourself when you get something done. If you do complete your goals, give yourself a reward. For example, if you’ve managed to complete your work by 5 pm every day for a week, take an evening off.    5     Even small goals deserve small rewards to help keep you motivated throughout the process.

A．Find a suitable place.

B．Place reminders around.

C．Go to a movie or treat yourself to a special dinner.

D．If you think a request may be difficult to do, say no.

E．If you can not keep your promises, your friends won’t be rewarded, either.

F．It will also help you understand what tasks you do and do not have time for.

G．It’s hard to be consistent if you don’t have a strong idea of what you need to do .

6 . Small mobile robots carrying sensors could perform tasks like catching gas leaks or tracking the goods in shops. But moving robots demand a lot of energy and batteries, limit lifetime and raise environmental concerns.

Various alternatives have been explored: attaching sensors to insects, keeping charging mats nearby. Each has shortcomings. Insects wander. Chargers limit range.

Researchers at the University of Washington have now created MilliMobile, a self-driving robot powered only by surrounding light or radio waves. It is about the size of a penny, weighs asmuch as a raisin, and can move about the length of a bus in an hour. It can drive on solid ground, for example, packed soil and carry nearly three times its own weight in equipment like a camera or sensors. It uses a light sensor to move automatically toward light sources.

“We took inspiration from ‘intermittent computing (间歇计算)’, which breaks complex programs into small steps, so a device with very limited power can work increasingly.” says co-lead author Kyle Johnson, “We applied this concept to motion. We reduced the robot’s size and weight so it takes only a small amount of energy to move, and turn its wheels using small pulses of energy.” MilliMobile was tested both indoors and outdoors. Even in very low light situations powered only by the lights under a kitchen counter, the robots are still able to inch along, though much slower.

Running continuously opens new abilities for a crowd of robots employed in areas where other sensors have trouble producing accurate data. The robots are also able to drive themselves, directed by onboard sensors and tiny computing chips. The robotic sensors can collect data at multiple points throughout a space to create a more detailed view of its environment, for example, a factory where they’re seeking out electromagnetic noise to find equipment failures.

Researchers have equipped MilliMobile with light, temperature sensors and Bluetooth, lettingit transmit (传输) data over 200 meters. In the future, they plan to add other sensors and improve data-sharing among crowds of these robots.

1. Which is MilliMobile’s advantage in comparison with other moving robots?

A．It consumes less energy.	B．It is smarter and quicker.
C．It is much easier to direct.	D．It has a sharper sense of smell.

2. What is the purpose of paragraph 4?

A．To explain the ways to test MilliMobile.

B．To introduce the invention of MilliMobile.

C．To present the practical value of MilliMobile.

D．To uncover the inner workings of MilliMobile

3. What can we learn from the passage about MilliMobile?

A．It has been widely used in factories.

B．It can work continuously without breaks.

C．It can be helpful in detecting machine problems.

D．It can immediately transmit data over long distances.

4. What can be the most suitable title for the passage?

A．Self-Driving Robots Are Faced with Problems

B．Will MilliMobile Be the Future of Moving Robots

C．Scientists Create MilliMobile that Runs Efficiently

D．Are Self-Driving Robots Friendly to the Environment

7 . Individuals tend to befriend others similar to them for a range of physical factors (e. g. age, gender).To test whether friendship is connected with increased similarity of real-time mental responding, researchers used fMRI (功能性磁共振成像) to scan subjects’ brains during free viewing of naturalistic movies.

Forty-two students participated in the study by Professor Carolyn Parkinson of the University of California, Los Angeles. During the fMRI study, each subject watched the same collection of video parts. The videos covered a variety of topics and genres (e.g. comedies, documentaries, and debates).

The current results suggest that nerve responses when viewing audiovisual (视听的) movies are exceptionally similar among friends, and they are quite alike to one another in terms of how they perceive, interpret, and react to the world around them. These data also demonstrate that it is possible to predict whether two individuals are friends based only on the similarity of temporary patterns in their nerve responses during free viewing of complex, real-world scenes.

A follow-up study analyzing the social relationships of 1,186 children in 49 classrooms showed that similarity of the social brain varied by friendship distance: shared friends showed greater similarity in social brain networks compared with friends-of-friends and even more remotely connected peers.

“Although the results of the current study suggest that friends have incredibly similar nerve responses to naturalistic stimulation, due to this study’s cross-sectional nature, we cannot figure out, based on these results alone, whether nerve response similarity is a cause or consequence of friendship,” Dr Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist(人类学家)said. She described how two tightly bonded people mirror each other’s behavior. Best friends may have similar heart beats, body temperature and hormonal responses.“ It’s as if every part of your body is engaged in having a relationship with that person,” said Machin. “That for me sums up how important best friends are. We wouldn’t have developed this way if those relationships weren’t critical for survival.”

1. Why did the researchers carry out the fMRI study?

A．To find out the effects of fMRI.

B．To help the students analyze videos.

C．To test whether the students are true friends.

D．To check if friendship goes with nerve responses.

2. What does the underlined word “genres” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Subjects.

B．Types.

C．Results.

D．Responses.

3. What can be learned about the findings of the studies?

A．Friends have the same mental responses.

B．It is impossible to tell whether two are friends.

C．Friendship distance affects similarity of the social brain.

D．Stronger relationships bring about more similar appearance.

4. What can we infer from Machin’s words?

A．Friendship is of great significance in our life.

B．Nerve response similarity is a cause of friendship.

C．Naturalistic stimulation leads to friends’ similar responses.

D．We develop because relationships are unimportant for survival.

8 . After walking for nearly 10 kilometers by China’s Huangshan Mountain, and just as he was on the edge of giving up, Phil Lecomte caught sight of a beautiful village.

This moment took place 14 years ago, when the Frenchman traveled to a small town at the foot of the mountain with his camera and backpack. In 1999, Lecomte traveled to China for the first time. He says that the vast lands and beautiful scenery of China, including mountains, rivers, ancient villages and terraced fields (梯田), are things he never forgets. In 2009,he traveled to Huangshan Mountain in Anhui province, a place that changed his life.

“I didn’t want to leave here anymore. I wanted to change my life and be a dreamer like I was when I was a child,” Lecomte said. His trip to China turned into a long-term stay. In 2012, Lecomte became a tour guide. Unlike other guides, he rarely takes his guests to the most popular attractions. Instead, he searches for unknown scenery in the surrounding area.

Lecomte often hikes or rides a motorcycle with his friends to find hidden scenery scattered around Huangshan Mountain. He enjoys time spent camping and hiking with his Chinese and foreign friends. They sing and play the ukulele by clear streams, chat with locals herding cattle or picking tea, and fall asleep to the sounds of frogs.

Lecomte has taken more than 118,000 photos in China to date. He still has a photo of his childhood home. A house with a red roof is reflected in the clear lake, surrounded by forests, like a picturesque oil painting. “When I was a child, I loved camping in this forest with my friends. When I would wake up at night in my sleeping bag, I could see the stars when I looked up. Now, when I camp on Huangshan, I can also see the stars that can’t be seen in the cities,” he said.

1. When did Lecomte travel to China’s Huangshan Mountain for the first time?

A．1999

B．2009.

C．2012.

D．2013.

2. What made Lecomte decide to stay in Huangshan?

A．The urge to take better photos.	B．The desire to live a different life.
C．The demand to be a tour guide	D．The wish to enjoy Chinese food.

3. What can we learn about Lecomte’s trips according to the passage?

A．Lecomte was deeply impressed by the scenery.

B．Lecomte often went camping and hiking alone.

C．Lecomte herded cattle and picked tea with locals.

D．Lecomte usually took visitors to famous attractions.

4. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．You can be a dreamer like a little kid.

B．A French photographer tours around China.

C．Huangshan is a fantastic mountain in China.

D．A Frenchman goes after an ideal life in Huangshan.

9 . Four Best Hotels for Walking Holidays in the UK

As the autumn gets into full swing, what could be more glorious than walking? Here the Good Hotel Guide shares 4 top UK hotels for walking and hiking.

Cedar Manor

Cedar Manor, built in 1853,is a homelike hotel that has been highly praised for its eco-friendly facilities. The inn (客栈) recommends walks ranging from gentle walking to tougher hikes. Follow the Riverside Walk along the River Brathay, or the Coffin Road and revive yourself with one of delicious afternoon teas in the cafes of Grasmere.

The Rock Inn

The Rock Inn is a historic inn made of multiple cottages. They were built in 1820 and have become a much-loved four star resort. Guests enjoy comfortable rooms, considerate service, and excellent food in the cottage dining room. Staff recommend gentle routes from the doorstep, such as the delightful “bluebell (风铃草) walk” in spring.

Dolffanog Fawr

An 18th-century farmhouse turned B&B (bed and breakfast), Dolffanog Fawr brings contemporary indoor designs to a heritage property. Dining, meanwhile, is a feast of local seafood and the best beef. The inn recommends various pathways along Cader Idris, or the rather more challenging and less explored Tarren Hills.

Biggin Hall

A Grade II listed,17th-century house is now a three star hotel with an award-winning restaurant. Charmingly designed to honor its heritage but provide a contemporary stay. It’s also a splendid location for exploring the surrounding area.

1. What can we know about Cedar Manor?

A．It is environmentally friendly.	B．It provides a splendid restaurant.
C．It is made of multiple cottages.	D．It offers delicious afternoon teas.

2. What do The Rock Inn and Dolffanog Fawr have in common?

A．They are both four star inns.	B．They supply excellent foods.
C．They have contemporary designs.	D．They recommend challenging routes.

3. Which hotel has the longest history?

A．Cedar Manor.

B．The Rock Inn.

C．Dolffanog Fawr.

D．Biggin Hall.