| A．At the airport. | B．On the bus. | C．In the hotel. |
2 . When I was 10 years old, my aunt and uncle lived far away from my parents.
Suffering from a severe disease
One day, my father and I went to see them, and my aunt asked me to get a
I learned a lot from my father about
| A．forced | B．enabled | C．arranged | D．expected |
| A．detected | B．wished | C．considered | D．reserved |
| A．Already | B．Instead | C．Also | D．Strangely |
| A．social | B．different | C．mental | D．financial |
| A．box | B．cup | C．shock | D．rise |
| A．turned over | B．put back | C．reached into | D．looked at |
| A．pitiful | B．curious | C．guilty | D．lucky |
| A．result | B．account | C．establishment | D．amount |
| A．admitted | B．agreed | C．believed | D．learned |
| A．hidden | B．returned | C．found | D．withdrawn |
| A．supported | B．attracted | C．embarrassed | D．surprised |
| A．forgotten | B．declined | C．blamed | D．offered |
| A．instruction | B．leave | C．help | D．discovery |
| A．comment | B．introduction | C．speech | D．debate |
| A．generosity | B．praise | C．honesty | D．friendship |
I still remember what I felt on a bright Saturday morning in late September, at a five-kilometer race in Clarkston, Georgia.
It was an unusual morning. About an hour earlier, when we drove into town to participate in the race, my 11-year-old son noticed a green tree cricket（蟋蟀） on my car. It was friendly, no longer than a fingernail. It jumped onto my son’s finger, and walked across my shirt, and then went back to my son’s hand, where it stayed so long that we eventually gave it a name: Little Friend.
The walk from the car to the registration table was perhaps a quarter of a mile. Little Friend stayed with my son. Then, we walked back across the railroad tracks and waited for the race to start. A few minutes before the race, Little Friend either fell or jumped off my son’s hand and landed on the sidewalk. Maybe it wanted to go free. But this was not a good place for that. Pedestrian（行人） traffic was heavy, so Little Friend was in danger. My son knelt and reached out his hand. It came back.
The race was about to start, and the tiny green insect was in for a wild ride. My son would run fast, and the race would be long. The race began. I ran well enough, and felt excited at the finish line. But that thrill gave way to anxiety when my son didn’t show up.
I knew he could run 5 kilometers in about 30 minutes. When I didn’t see him at the 35-minute mark, I began to wonder what had gone wrong. And as the 40-minute mark approached and he still didn’t appear, I went out looking for him. Had he got lost? I crossed the railroad tracks and looked down a long straightaway, hoping to see his face. Finally, there he was, just ahead of the 45-minute mark.
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Little Friend was riding proudly on one finger of my son’s right hand.
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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4 . If you’re looking for inspiration to get healthy and stay active, look no further than Edna Giordano.
Edna, who lives in Canada, has become famous for the fitness level she maintains at age 91. The mom of five, grandmother of twenty-one and great-grandmother of four still drives now. “I’ve always had a busy lifestyle because, let’s face it, with that many children, you have to be busy,” Edna said. “So, I never really thought about it. That’s just the way I live.” She said she only really began to focus on her fitness in her 60s, when she was forced to retire from her job at a local hospital. She had to face the fact that she was 60.
To keep herself busy, Edna began gardening again that she had to abandon due to her busy work. She said she also started going to the gym in her 60s, which she still does every other day. “I have to keep my feet to the fire because it’s cold in the morning in winter, and when it’s snowy or icy out there, I don’t really get enthusiastic about going outside,” she said. “But I make myself do it and mark it on the calendar. So I cannot take any shortcuts.”
Edna said she focused on walking at the gym for her cardiovascular (心血管) health and also included lots of weight lifting in her routine to maintain her bone strength. “When in the gym, I don’t try to break any records or compete with anyone else,” Edna said. “I only push myself to do better all the time, and I only compete with myself.”
When it came to her age, Edna said the people at the gym didn’t realize she’s 91. She prefers it that way, because when people do realize she’s in her 90s, they’ll surely demand to help her. “I know them well. But I don’t really want help,” said Edna. “It’s funny to say that, but I like to be independent.”
1. What made Edna leave her job in the hospital?| A．Her turning 60. | B．Her looking after many kids. |
| C．Her wish to live a busy life. | D．Her suffering from a disease. |
| A．She lives in a cold place all year round. | B．She manages to be a regular at the gym. |
| C．She develops a new hobby for gardening. | D．She likes to take shortcuts in her daily life. |
| A．Competitive. | B．Humorous. | C．Humble. | D．Caring. |
| A．The elderly also enjoy trends. | B．Experience beats youth. |
| C．A positive attitude extends life. | D．Fitness is fit for everyone. |
5 . Organizations design courses to help you learn new skills or improve your current skill set. Here’re the best course providers of 2024.
Codecademy
It provides information technology (IT) and other technical users with courses in coding and other software engineering areas. You can choose from several subscription plans or choose a free option to explore the website’s course collection.
Memrise
It’s a website and an application created to help you learn another language. It’s free to use and offers up to 23 languages to pursue. It aims to work on developing your long-term memory to support your learning journey and make it more effective. Additionally, it provides video examples of individuals using the language’s terms and phrases in everyday life.
Pluralsight
It’s a paid subscription site but offers a free trial, so you can try a few classes to determine if it fits your needs. You can take a Skill IQ assessment to know your skill levels and help you determine a plan to improve your abilities. It employs certified experts as the course instructors, which benefits you as a learner.
Alison
It’s a free learning platform offering classes, including fields such as personal development, health, language, finance and science. It offers learners the flexibility of taking the courses anywhere and anytime, so users can fit it into their schedule. And the platform is for individuals with various skill levels, from beginner to expert. Additionally, the site has two types of courses, allowing you to choose between earning a certificate or getting a diploma.
1. Which is most likely to be the course provided on Codecademy?| A．Computer Science. | B．Drawing for Beginners. |
| C．Advanced Parenting Skills. | D．Civil Engineering. |
| A．Codecademy. | B．Pluralsight. | C．Alison. | D．Memrise. |
| A．They are designed for adults. | B．They require learners to pay. |
| C．They offer no certificates. | D．They are self-paced. |
6 . The Florida Aquarium (Meets animal welfare guidelines)
Open hours: 9:30 AM — 5:00 PM
The Florida Aquarium is an educational and fun-filled wonderland, home to thousands of animals and plants. Kids will especially enjoy wearing a wetsuit to walk among the underwater inhabitants and explore coral caves. It’s an immersive learning journey for the whole family. Ticket prices vary based on several factors including weather, day of week, holidays, local events and attendance patterns. Click here for more information.
Monterey Bay Aquarium (Meets animal welfare guidelines)
Open hours: 10:00 AM — 5:00 PM (Tuesday — Friday); 10:00 AM — 6:00 PM (Saturday — Sunday)
Located by the oceanfront, the Monterey Bay Aquarium offers a window into the rich marine life of the area with over 200 exhibits and 80,000 plants and animals on display. Here, you can see leopard sharks weave through kelp forests at one of the tallest aquarium exhibits in the world, sardines swimming past a 90-foot aquarium window, and cute sea otters frolicking.
Tickets are only available online so be sure to book before you go.
Admission: Adult (ages 18 — 69) $59.95; Youth $49.95 (ages 13 — 17); Child $44.95 (ages 5 — 12) Four and under free; Senior $49.95 (ages 70+).
Tennessee Aquarium (Meets animal welfare guidelines)
Open hours: 10:00 AM — 5:00 PM (Sunday — Friday); 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM (Saturday)
This aquarium has two buildings: River Journey, which showcases freshwater habitats from around the globe, and Ocean Journey, where travelers can view magnificent sea creatures. We recommend spending at least three hours at the aquarium as there are over 10,000 animals here. Weekends are the busiest, so consider visiting on a weekday for a quieter and more intimate experience. There’s timed entry to the aquarium, so plan ahead when booking your tickets.
Admission: Adult $39.95; Youth (Ages 5 — 17) $29.95
1. What do the three aquariums have in common?| A．They never abuse animals. | B．They offer underwater activities. |
| C．Tickets are only available online. | D．Ticket prices vary based on visitors’ ages. |
| A．8:00 AM — 10:00AM, Tuesday. | B．4:00 PM — 6:00 PM, Thursday. |
| C．2:00 PM — 5:00 PM, Friday. | D．9:00 AM — 12:00 AM, Saturday. |
| A．A geography textbook. | B．A travel website. |
| C．A trade journal. | D．An animal encyclopedia. |
Mamianqun, also known as Horse-face Skirt, is one of the
This traditional skirt is composed of two overlapping panels of fabrics, each of
Up to now, Hanfu designers and enthusiasts
8 . “A fish out of water.” “A bike without a chain.” There are many metaphors for culture shock, all of which attempt to describe the unique experience of being far from one’s home country and culture.
Scientists have studied culture shock for over a century. Rather than focus on the purely negative aspects, psychologists describe it as a process of stress and adjustment. The first stage is the honeymoon phase, when we are filled with excitement about being in another country. Eventually, as daily challenges arise, we enter a state of crisis and anxiety, harboring unfriendly feelings about the host culture. The longer we are immersed in the culture, we adjust and recover from those negative feelings. Finally, after some time we adjust even more and fully accept the new culture.
One of the factors that determines how we react to cultural stress is our personality. Not surprisingly, extraverts (外向者) tend to have an easier time adjusting to new cultures. That is because being in a new country means meeting many new people and spending a lot of time around them, and extraverts thrive in these situations. But introverts simply prefer to be alone after spending time in groups, and only have limited energy to spend in social settings.
Cultural intelligence, or CQ, also plays its part. Cultural intelligence is defined as the capability of an individual to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity. It has to do with our interest in interacting with people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and our ability to adapt to new cultural context. It is argued that the higher our CQ, the lesser the effect of culture shock on our ability to cope in new situations.
Many effective coping strategies are interpersonal. A recent study found that relating to others with empathy is significantly associated with lower stress levels abroad. The more we are able to take on other people’s points of view, the more positive our interpersonal relationships and thus our adaptation to the stress of culture shock.
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?| A．Explaining the quotes. | B．Raising an argument. |
| C．Introducing the topic. | D．Presenting an example. |
| A．Anxious. | B．Thrilled. | C．Shocked. | D．Grateful. |
| A．An active boy interested in anything new. |
| B．A shy boy unwilling to socialize with strangers. |
| C．A quiet girl open to diverse cultural backgrounds. |
| D．A communicative girl fluent in the local language. |
| A．Lowering the stress level. | B．Developing self-awareness. |
| C．Analyzing the cause of discomfort. | D．Understanding others with sympathy. |
9 . Our National Public Radio staff and trusted crities have made some recommendations about must-reads.
Rough Sleepers Tracy Kidder
This uplifting book is about Dr. Jim O’Connell’s work of bringing health care to unhoused people for more than three decades, first in Boston and now in nearly every American city. His work might be a band-aid on the bigger problem of homelessness, but as he said, “This is what we do while waiting for the world to change.”
The Right Call Sally Jenkins
Sally Jenkins has had a superb career recording the highest achievements in sports by individuals and by teams. With The Right Call, she captures what makes some athletes and coaches reach their peak. Whatever part of life you want to excel in, this book will have you rethinking what you do and how you might do it differently.
The Secret of Cooking Bee Wilson
More than a cookbook, this is a guide to how to make cooking work for you — and even become a joy. What if you have picky eaters, a full time job and a kitchen with only half the ingredients the recipe calls for? This book has the answers, explaining everything from how to figure out what flavors go together, to how to get easy when everything goes wrong.
Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang
Set in a future where a mysterious smog has swallowed Earth, causing widespread crop failures and food shortages, the story follows an unnamed chef who finds herself in a world of cooking delights and unequalled sensory experiences among a landscape of despair (绝望). It’s an exploration of human nature, and the choices we make in the face of difficulties.
1. How does Dr. Jim O’Connell view his own work?| A．It doesn't help in solving the housing problem. |
| B．It shows a way to be excellent in life differently. |
| C．It will make a difference in caring about the homeless. |
| D．It offers a way to get food in times of shortage. |
| A．Tracy Kidder. | B．Sally Jenkins. |
| C．Bee Wilson. | D．C Pam Zhang. |
| A．They tell readers how to reduce food waste. | B．They provide personal cooking experience. |
| C．They both have something to do with cooking. | D．They try to cover some aspects of family life. |
10 . You are in: North Yorkshire > Places > Great Yorkshire Show > Wall to wall
Wall to Wall
A dry stone wall is a remarkable achievement of engineering! The Yorkshire Dry Stone Walling Guild will be demonstrating the craft at this year's Great Yorkshire Show. Find out about the eye-catching structures.
Winding their way across some of Britain's most beautiful landscapes. for many hundreds of years, dry stone walls remain a typical and much-loved feature of the Yorkshire countryside. The Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors are no exception.
Dry stone walling is an old craft which marks the boundaries between fields and parcels of land. The walls are built without using any cement (水泥) jointing and the walls fit in with the surroundings, providing shelter and habitat for a wide range of animals and insects. They can last for more than a lifetime and need repairing and preserving. However, far from dying out, the craft is alive and kicking all over the county.
The Yorkshire Dry Stone Walling Guild (YDSWG) was founded 20 years or so ago and is dedicated to the craft. It is a voluntary, non-profit-making organisation with around 130 members. Its aim is to preserve the walls and the skills involved in building and maintaining them. It also encourages an interest in the history of dry stone walls.
Brian Wood, secretary of the YDSWG, told us about their involvement with the Great Yorkshire Show.
“Last year we finished a wall we were building around the pond near the showground's Brown Gate. The Guild hopes to build more walls and we look forward to meeting all our enthusiasts again. Hope you will lay a stone or two as you have done in the past.”1. What do we know about dry stone walls?
| A．They are newly discovered. | B．They hold no more appeal to the public. |
| C．They now face extinction. | D．They are harmonious with the environment. |
| A．Training craftsmen. | B．Preserving the tradition. |
| C．Promoting tourism. | D．Enrolling volunteers |
| A．Local. | B．Fashion. | C．Opinion. | D．People. |
