1 . The proposal to change the rules was narrowly d________ by 201 votes to 196. (根据首字母单词拼写)

2 . Extremely p________ about the colors he used, Andrew spent millions on rare paints. (根据首字母单词拼写)

3 . You might have heard of the expression “a guilty pleasure”—maybe it’s the chocolate bar you buy on the way home from work, or the new clothes that you don’t really need. It comes from the idea that when we treat ourselves, it can sometimes leave us feeling guilty. Perhaps we don’t feel we deserved it, or we don’t think it was a responsible way to spend our money. But should we feel like this?     1    

Perhaps not. Psychologists have suggested that buying things for yourself can make you feel better as it provides an opportunity to take control of your situation. It can give you social contact as well as a confidence boost from changes you make to your self-image.     2     When you buy a treat, you might just be looking after yourself.

Of course, there are also examples of people turning to destructive behaviour when faced with stressful circumstances.     3     Psychologist Leon Seltzer considers the difference between self-indulgence (放纵) and self-nurturing. Self-indulgence can have negative consequences, while self-nurturing is described as the result of taking responsible decisions to look after ourselves.

    4     Many universities publish guides with advice for coping with pressure. Reflecting the difference between self-indulgence and self-nurture, they recommend rewarding yourself for your efforts. Do things that you enjoy and are good at so that you can feel accomplishment and to avoid things that may make you feel worse afterwards.

So perhaps,     5     we shouldn’t feel guilty about our guilty pleasures. Indulging in those guilty pleasures that bring us joy is sometimes okay.

A．It can also be a great way to lift your mood.

B．as long as we make responsible decisions,

C．Do we really have to feel guilty about treating ourselves?

D．when guilty pleasures are getting in the way of our goals,

E．One stress that people may need to deal with is exam stress.

F．Is it because we’re afraid of being judged or teased by others?

G．People might spend money that they don’t have or turn to dangerous addictions.

6 . Here is a great way for you to explore the beautiful countryside and colorful Chinese minority culture of southwest Guizhou during three days. Here is a suggested plan of a journey.

Day 1 Arrive in Zhaoxing Dong Village

Your personal guide will meet you at Congjiang train station and then drive you to Zhaoxing Dong Village. Your guide will walk around with you, explaining the style of the Dong wooden buildings, local customs, and the Dong people’s lifestyle. You can try a popular local snack: oil tea and sticky rice cakes with roast pork. The Dong people’s dancing and singing evening show is very enjoyable, too.

Day 2 Zhaoxing Rice Terraced Fields Hike and Villages

On the way to Huanggang Dong Village in the morning, you will stop to walk around the terraced fields and enjoy great views of the rice terraces and the villages on the mountain slopes. You will see more of the culture of the Dong people. They still live their traditional lives there, which have not been touched by tourism. In the afternoon, you will visit Biasha Miao Village and enjoy their traditional dancing and ceremony with guns.

Day 3 Zhaoxing Departure (离开)

In the morning, your guide will take you to visit a batik (蜡染) workshop. There, you can learn and experience making batik in the Dong style and appreciate the Dong people’s taste in art. You may even make a unique souvenir (纪念品) on your own. After that, your guide will send you to Congjiang Train Station for your departure.

1. When can people enjoy the Dong people’s dancing and singing during the journey?

A．On the first night.	B．On the third night.
C．On the first morning.	D．On the second morning.

2. What will visitors do on the third day?

A．Try oil tea.	B．Make batik.
C．Go around the terraced fields.	D．Visit Biasha Miao Village.

3. In which part of a newspaper may this text come from?

A．Entertainment.

B．Health.

C．Travel.

D．Business.

7 . A professor at the University of South Florida recently published a paper she knew barely anyone would read. At least, not outside her field. The paper had to do with the impact of algae (海藻) blooms and depletion (退化) of coral reefs on the region’s tourism industry.

The work of completing the paper was glum, says Heather O’Leary. It involved tracking visitors’ reactions to the environment on social media. “Part of the data for months was just reading posts: dead fish, dead fish, dead fish,” she recalled. “We were really thinking every day about the Gulf of Mexico and the waters that surround us, about those risks, and the risks to our coastal economy.”

O’Leary wanted people to pay attention to her paper and raise their environmental awareness. But she couldn’t come up with any solutions. However, attending concerts at USF’s School of Music inspired and gladdened her. She reached out to its director of bands, Matthew McCutchen. “I’m studying climate change and what’s going down at the coral reefs,” he remembered her saying. “And I’ve got all this data from my paper and I’d like to know if there’s any way that we can turn it into music. So people can know about my paper.”

Indeed there was. Composition professor Paul Reller worked with students to map pitch, rhythm and duration to the data. It came alive, O’Leary said, in ways it simply couldn’t be done on a spreadsheet.

“My students were really excited to start thinking about how students from other majors, such as the music students, heard patterns that they did not normally hear in some of the repetitions,” she said. In this case, she said, the patterns revealed the economic impact of pollution on coastal Florida communities.

With music, she added, “you can start to sense with different parts of your mind and your body that there are patterns happening and that they’re important.” “The world is going to see more and more of these ‘wicked problems’, the ones that take multiple people with different types of training and background to solve.”   

Now, a group of professors and students are working to bring together music and the environment in related projects, such as an augmented (增强的) reality experience based on this composition. The group wants to spread awareness about the algae blooms, data literacy (数据认知) and environmental protection.

1. What does the underlined word “glum” mean?

A．Repetitive.

B．Emotional.

C．Routine.

D．Miserable.

2. What favor did Heather ask Matthew to offer?

A．Turn her algae data into music.	B．Find some music about coral reefs.
C．Teach her some musical terms.	D．Compose songs regarding climate change.

3. What do patterns in Paul’s music reflect?

A．The different types of training.

B．The repetition of pitch and rhythm.

C．The threat of pollution on the costal economy.

D．The complex challenges of wicked problems.

4. What role did Heather think music plays?

A．Providing solutions to the algae problem.

B．Exposing more wicked problems to the public.

C．Showing the economic growth in coastal cities.

D．Helping people experience the problems better.

9 . __________ (gentle), she took hold of the door handle and turned it. (所给词的适当形式填空)

10 . He wished to join the army, but __________ (reject) as medically unfit. (所给词的适当形式填空)