1. What was a group of volunteer motorcyclists doing?
| A．Making their community beautiful. |
| B．Building hospitals around the world. |
| C．Helping hospitals by delivering blood. |
| A．1,400. | B．262. | C．35,000. |
| A．Suggestions from her nephew. |
| B．Her coach’s influence. |
| C．Her community’s encouragement. |
| A．Safety rules of driving motorbikes. |
| B．An appeal for blood donation. |
| C．An introduction to a voluntary job. |
1. What did the woman buy?
| A．Dancing shoes. | B．Dancing clothes. | C．Dancing classes. |
| A．Modern dance. | B．Ballet. | C．Tap dance. |
| A．Carl. | B．Shelley. | C．Jane. |
| A．To teach others to dance. | B．To improve her dance skill. | C．To enjoy the free lessons. |
I have an older brother who suffers from cerebral palsy (脑瘫). For as long as I can remember, his struggles with basic movements and speech caused me a deep sense of embarrassment, I was afraid of the stares and the whispered questions from others, so I kept my distance, thinking it would protect me from their judgment. This avoidance became a habit, a way to protect myself from the discomfort I felt over something I didn’t fully understand. Eventually, it became a barrier I built not around my heart, but around my life.
Even when I kept my distance, my brother would often offer me warm smiles, providing comfort and help during my difficult moments. There were times when I directed my frustrations towards him, perhaps because he was an easy target or because I hated his existence. His reactions, however, often took the form of silent understanding. He wouldn’t demand explanations for my behavior. Instead, he might reach out with a gentle gesture -- a touch, a smile, or simply his presence-reminding me that, despite my unnecessary outbursts, I was not alone.
The more he cared about me, the more I hated him. I believed he brought me shame, disgrace, and embarrassment. How I wished to stay away from him! But I had to choose a university in our city in order to see my ill mother when convenient. My brother, however, would prepare meals and have them delivered to my school, each time attaching a note filled with concern, asking why I hadn't come home, if I was unwell, or if something was wrong. After my graduation and the loss of my mother, I decided to distance myself from my city and, more significantly, from my brother, to seek a fresh start in a different city.
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Paragraph 1 : I was in my own world in the city when I was badly ill with COVID-19 and had nobody to turn to.
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Paragraph 2: I returned to my city with a newfound purpose
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| A．Doing business with the woman. |
| B．Opening a coffee shop of his own. |
| C．Saving as much money as possible. |
5 . In Georgia students will be required to build “background knowledge” by reciting all or part of significant poems and speeches. The Arkanses plan calls for students to recite a passage from a well-known poem, play or speech. That’s it: an old-fashioned demand that students memorize the Gettysburg Address or Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” or Gwendolyn Brooks’s We Real Cool and recite it to an audience.
Most parents would probably call this a worthy exercise once abandoned for long, gathering the courage to speak in public and firing the adolescent imagination. Who could object to store memorable words in teenage heads otherwise packed with short videos?
English teachers, that’s who. Modern educators view memorization as empty repetition, mechanical and prescriptive (规定的) rather than creative or thoughtful. Reciting texts from memory, they say, merely drops information into students’ minds. It’s repetitive learning instead of critical analysis.
That’s wrong. Recitation allows students to experience a text as a living thing, ready to be taken up by a new generation. Committing a poem or speech to memory means stepping into the author’s shoes and pondering what he meant. Deciding which words to stress when reciting means thinking about what those words mean.
In our age of social media and artificial intelligence, the practice of recitation has never been more needed. Memorizing classic words reminds us that they are alive.
Watch the faces of parents as they listen to their children urging us all toward what Martin Luther King called “a dream deeply rooted in the American dream,” or saying with Robert Frost, “I have been one acquainted with the night,” or with Shakespeare, “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...”
When young reciters return to their seats, they know they have made ageless words their own. What parents and students feel at that moment transcends (超越) a good grade. For a few minutes, hardworking teens become King, Frost or Shakespeare.
1. Why are educators against storing memorable words in teenage heads?| A．Memorization is nothing but thoughtful learning. |
| B．Memorization is anything but repetitive learning. |
| C．Memorization does injure teenagers’ heads. |
| D．Memorization does no good to critical analysis. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Objective. |
| C．Opposed. | D．Unclear. |
| A．Learning from. | B．Reflecting on. |
| C．Bringing out. | D．Arguing against. |
| A．By giving examples. | B．By analyzing causes. |
| C．By displaying methods. | D．By listing figures. |
6 . Orange chicken, sweet and sour pork, fried rice… Max Burns lists several typical Western-style of Chinese dishes that disappoint him. For a 21-year-old native British young man who spent his first thirteen years in China, those cuisines are far from authentic, but rather a category which is invented to cater to Western preferences.
What also upsets Burns is that the view of Chinese food has been subsequently skewed (扭曲). Quite a few Westerners recognize that particular type of fa re as the whole of Chinese cuisine.
“They almost have no clue about the extent of Chinese cuisine, about how it varies because people forget how big China is. It is a country that has deserts from one side, jungles and sea from the other side. Each area has its unique style of cooking.” he says.
Burns tries to showcase the richness of delicious Chinese dishes by vlogging (拍摄并上传) about making Chinese dishes at home. “Food is probably the most accessible way for everyone to learn an alien culture.” he says.
Sometimes, his British friends would join to help. “And quite often, they were shocked by the diversity of Chinese cuisine. They’ve had a long time to figure out that Chinese food is just a lot more complex.” The food adventure has helped Burns grow into an influencer with more than three million of subscribers worldwide today. “So, I can definitely say that I’ve changed some people’s ideas about Chinese food.”
Interestingly, when Burns first started vlogging in 2016 directly after moving back to Brighton, England from Beijing, copying Chinese food at home was a then “stupid idea”, as he puts it, because he was never super into cooking. At the time, the videos centered more on explaining aspects of Chinese culture, including movies, snacks, restaurants and more.
Looking ahead, Burns has some plans in mind. “I would love to do a travel food show throughout China on TV. Also, I would love to have my. own restaurant in the future. That’s definitely going to happen.”
1. When did Max Burns return to Brighton, England according to the text?| A．Aged 13. | B．Aged 14. | C．Aged 16. | D．Aged 21. |
| A．Treat them to Chinese dishes. | B．Write reports on Chinese cuisines. |
| C．Cook Chinese dishes for them in person. | D．Display authentic Chinese cuisines on. |
| A．Burns’s ambitions. | B．Burns’s achievements. |
| C．Burns’s adventures. | D．Burns’s subscribers. |
| A．Influencer Develops a Taste for Chinese Cuisine. |
| B．Influencer Has Done What He Can to Change. |
| C．Chinese Cuisines Have to Cater to Westerners. |
| D．Chinese Cuisines Have Been Around the World. |
1. What’s Henry doing?
| A．Reading about a study on Wi-Fi. |
| B．Preparing for his lessons online. |
| C．Doing a study on health problems. |
| A．He lost his laptop in a cafe. |
| B．His computer was attacked. |
| C．His laptop failed to connect network. |
| A．Beneficial. | B．Outdated. | C．Complicated. |
1. What can you mainly learn in the online course?
| A．Scotland’s history and culture. | B．Some useful grammar rules. | C．How to communicate in English. |
| A．Visiting some main attractions. |
| B．Trying traditional Chinese food. |
| C．Attending classes in universities. |
| A．Six days. | B．Eight days. | C．Eleven days. |
1. Why did the man change his name?
| A．For good luck. | B．For a new job. | C．For his ID card. |
| A．He shouldn’t complain much. |
| B．He should believe in his leader. |
| C．It was foolish to change his name. |
| A．He was unfortunate. | B．He made little effort. | C．He disliked his leader. |
10 . Some ultra-processed foods increase the risk of developing cancer, heart disease and diabetes, but others are good for you, new research suggests. A major new international study has found that regular consumption of meat products, such as sausages and sugary drinks make it more likely that someone will get those diseases. But bread and cereals actually reduce someone’s risk of them, because they contain fibre despite also being ultra-processed foods (UPF), the same researchers also concluded in findings published in The Lancet.
Similarly, sauces, spreads and condiments are also bad for human health, but not as much as animal products and soft drinks. However, several other major types of UPF previously seen as harmful: sweets and desserts, ready meals, savoury snacks and plant-based alternatives to meat products also got the all-clear. They are “not associated with risk of multi-morbidity (多重病症)”, said the authors.
Experts said the findings showed that regarding all UPF products as bad for health is unwise and unwarranted. Like several other recent research projects, the new study did conclude that UPF harms human health and makes it more likely that someone who consumes a lot of it would suffer a potentially fatal event, such as a heart attack or stroke. However, it also gives a more detailed picture of exactly which UPF products do and do not heighten that risk.
The authors said, “We found that higher consumption of UPF was associated with a higher risk of multi-morbidity of cancer and cardio-metabolic diseases.” People keen to lower their risk should replace some but not all UPF in their diet with “similar but less processed foods for the prevention of cancer and cardio-metabolic multi-morbidity” or follow the Mediterranean diet. Multi-morbidity is when someone has at least two life-shortening diseases at the same time, such as cancer and heart disease.
Heinz Freisling, a co-author of the paper and expert at the World Health Organization said, “Our study emphasises that it is not necessary to completely avoid ultra-processed foods; rather, their consumption should be limited, and preference be given to fresh or minimally processed foods.”
1. What ultra-processed foods did the researchers find to be good for health according to the new research?| A．Bread and cereals. | B．Sweets and desserts. |
| C．Sausages and sugary drinks. | D．Sauces, spreads, and condiments. |
| A．Illegal. | B．Unavoidable. | C．Misleading. | D．Unreasonable. |
| A．It consists of less processed foods. |
| B．It encourages the consumption of UPF. |
| C．It increases the risk of developing multi-morbidity. |
| D．It proves effective in treating cancer and heart disease. |
| A．To warn people of the danger of eating UPF. |
| B．To promote the consumption of processed foods. |
| C．To deepen the insight into ultra-processed foods. |
| D．To encourage people to follow a Mediterranean diet. |
