1 . ________ remains important is ________ we have an incredible desire to think.

A．Which; what

B．Why; that

C．What; that

D．Whether; that

2 . Some famous online shopping platforms have taken action to ensure consumers can buy high-quality and ________goods.

A．artificial

B．authentic

C．confidential

D．correctional

3 . I feel it is you as well as your wife that _______for your son’s bad performance at school.

A．are to blame

B．is to blamed

C．are to be blamed

D．is to be blamed

4 . Mike Myers is a teacher at Chauncey Rose High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. Last year, he taught his students about the world’s rain forests. They learned that rain forests are important because the plants and animals of the rain forest give us food, wood, and medicine.

Destruction of the world’s rain forests is a serious problem. Unluckily, rain forests are disappearing at a rate of 80 acres per minute! As part of a class project, Myers’ students bought three acres (英亩) of rain forest in Central America. They paid $25 per acre. The students hope that the land they bought will be protected and not destroyed. The students became so interested in rain forests that they decided to get a closer look at a real rain forest.

So last June, Myers and four of his students took a boat ride down a river. They saw alligators and crocodiles. In the middle of the week, a guide took Myers and his students into the rain forest. “The monkeys were not happy that we were in their forest. They broke small branches off the trees and threw them at us,” one of the students said. “It was a great learning experience for all of us,” said Myers.

Each student chose something specific about Costa Rica to study involving the plants, animals, food, and culture. During the last few days the group had time to do fun activities. They went whitewater rafting and horseback riding, and visited Costa Rica’s active volcano.

Myers hopes to make the trip every year with a different group of kids.

1. How much did Myers’ students pay for the rain forest they bought?

A．$25.

B．$75.

C．$80.

D．$2000.

2. The word “Destruction” in Paragraph 2 probably means “the process of being ______”.

A．destroyed

B．developed

C．described

D．discovered

3. When the monkeys saw Myers and his students they ______.

A．felt excited	B．felt angry
C．jumped off the trees	D．left the rain forest

4. The passage mainly shows that Myers and his students ______.

A．were interested in the culture of Costa Rica

B．wanted to buy the rain forest in Costa Rica

C．did something to protect rain forest

D．went to the rain forest for various fun activities

5 . Why doesn’t the woman like the subway?

A．It doesn’t stop near her office.

B．There are too many people.

C．The prices are too high.

6 . Which place is the man looking for?

A．A drugstore.

B．A bookstore.

C．A bank.

7 . When will the concert start?

A．6:00.

B．7:00.

C．8:00.

8 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Holiday plans.

B．Cultural traditions.

C．The size of their families.

9 . What is the weather like now?

A．Wet and rainy.

B．Foggy and windy.

C．Sunny and warm.

10 . Before the Internet age, critical thinking was the most important skill of people. But in the digital age, according to Anastasia Kozyreva, a famous psychologist, a more important skill is critical ignoring..

As researchers point out, we live in an attention economy where content producers on the Internet compete for our attention. They attract us with many eye-catching stories while providing little useful information, so they can expose us to profit-generating advertisements. Therefore, we are not customers but products, and each link we click is a sale of our time and attention. To protect ourselves from this, Kozyreva advocates (提倡) for learning the skill of critical ignoring, in which readers can control their information environment to reduce exposure to raise information.

According to Kozyreva, critical ignoring includes three strategies. The first is to design our environments, which includes removing low-quality yet hard-to-resist (难以抵制的) information from around. Successful dieters need to keep unhealthy food out of their homes. Similarly, we need to set up a digital environment where attention-grabbing items are kept out of sight. Like dieting, if one tries to depend on willpower not to click eye-catching "news", he'll surely fail. So, it's better to keep them out of sight at first!

The next is to evaluate the reliability (可靠性) of information, whose purpose is to protect you from false information. It can be realized by checking the source in the mainstream, news agencies, which are trustworthy.

The last is: "never feed the trolls." Trolls are some people who spread false information online to cause harm. Do not correct them, because they do not care about whether the information is correct. Annoying others is their goal. So, never respond to their bad behaviour with our attention.

By using the above critical ignoring skills, we can make the most of the Internet while avoiding falling victim to those who try to control our attention, time, and minds.

1. What can we learn about the attention economy from paragraph 2?

A．It offers more information.	B．It features depressing stories.
C．It saves time for Internet users.	D．It seeks profits from each click.

2. Why does the author mention dieters in paragraph 3?

A．To discuss the quality of information.	B．To prove the benefits of healthy food.
C．To show the importance of environments.	D．To explain the effectiveness of willpower.

3. What should we do to deal with Internet trolls according to the text?

A．Review their intention.	B．Turn a deaf ear to them..
C．Correct their behaviour.	D．Send hard facts to them.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Reasons for critical thinking in the attention economy.

B．Practising the skills of critical ignoring in the digital age.

C．Maximizing the benefits of critical ignoring on the Internet.

D．Strategies of abandoning critical thinking for Internet users.