1 . 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。

Ai Jing’s exhibition All The World Is Green opened on Tuesday, at the Helen J Gallery in Los Angeles. This     1     (mark) the debut solo (首次个人) exhibition in Los Angeles for the     2     (high) recognized multitalented artist, musician, writer, and actress.

The exhibition showcased     3     diverse range of artworks, including paintings, videos, and installations (现代雕塑装置),     4     (demonstrate) Ai’s artistic skills on and unique approaches to life, nature, and emotions.

At the heart of the exhibition, Girl on a Swing     5     (surround) by block-color paintings and a recreated grassy area, reflecting the artist’s inner world with colors of golden cornfields, shining sun, and expansive greenery spreading out.

In her younger years, Ai longed to leave home,     6     now she finds herself seeking a sense     7     belonging. This emotion pushed Ai’s exploration into painting, video, and installation art.

During the early stages of her career, she sang: “At 17, I left my hometown of Shenyang / For it seemed my dreams lay elsewhere.” It wasn’t until she gained international     8     (recognize) and spent years abroad that Ai began to feel a longing for home. “Childhood     9     (memory) leave deep impressions on one’s growth,” reflected Ai.

Running until April 16, the exhibition offered enough time for audiences     10     (explore) and appreciate Ai’s artistic vision.

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Jameson Lobb, a 24-year-old investment banker from Toronto, was just one week into his new job on Wall Street. Over the past month, he’d been settling in to the New York City apartment he was sharing with his friend, an artificial intelligence engineer named Raphael Jafri.

Now, on Oct.4, the two were taking a quick lunchtime workout on Pier (码头) 15, overlooking the East River, when Lobb froze. “Somebody’s in the water,” he said. Before Jafri could respond, Lobb climbed over the rail at the edge of the pier and jumped into the cold, polluted water without taking the time to remove his shoes. What Lobb had heard was an alarming shout from Pier 16, nearly 50 yards away, “Help! He’s in the water!” And what he’d seen was a person floating (漂浮), motionless.

Approaching the victim, Lobb saw that it was a middle-aged man. He was big, around 200 pounds, respectably dressed and sinking fast. He was 3 feet below the surface by the time Lobb reached him. The rescuer dived, felt around, grasped the man and kicked upward until they both resurfaced.

Jafri was in water now. The two friends used all their strength to float the man on his back, even as the water threatened to overtake them. As Jafri put his arms around the man’s shoulders and Lobb supported him, the pair struggled back to Pier 15. Their lungs cried out for air and their muscles burned as they pushed and pulled the immobile figure through the freezing and fast-moving water.

The man was breathing shallowly, his face pale. When at last they reached Pier 15, they faced a new uncertainty. How to get out? The pier’s decking (甲板) stood an unreachable 10 feet above their heads. It is unlikely for them to climb onto the pier.

Suddenly the man made a slight move, struggling confusedly.

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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

On the pier, a crowd had gathered.

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As Lobb and Jafri climbed onto the pier, they were met with cheers and applause.

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3 . Have more fun. Learn new things. These aren’t bad New Year’s resolutions. But where do you start?

    1    

Ask yourself how you want to feel

Hobbies present an escape — they can help you get out of your head and calm down, says Matthew J. Zawadzke, an associate professor of health psychology at the University of California.     2     Mentally engaged? Distracted? Relaxed? Socially connected? It’s also helpful to consider what your life is missing, like creativity or physical activity.

Start small

    3     Ease in to figure out if it’s right for you, advises Rebecca Weiler, a mental health advisor. “You can always do more later,” she says. If you’re wondering if paintballing might be a good fit, join an outing or two with a local Meetup group. Or sign up for a one-time pottery class rather than a set of eight.

    4    

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? The answer could point you toward an appealing hobby, Weiler says. “If you wanted to be a major league player, what can you do now that fulfills that urge for you?” she asks. Joining a softball team or coaching some neighborhood kids could awaken a passion.

Go back to school

Consider signing up for a lesson to learn more about a potential hobby, Weiler advises. Always dreamed of producing a novel?     5     Interested in family history? Take a genealogy (宗谱) class. Plenty of e-courses are available free or at a low price.

A．Take a trip back in time.

B．Join a fiction writers group.

C．There’s no such thing as one perfect enthusiasm.

D．Don’t invest a ton of time and money in a new hobby immediately.

E．He suggests asking yourself how you want an activity to make you feel.

F．His research indicates that people feel guilty about spending time on leisure.

G．Experts can help you to discover the hobbies you don’t yet know you’ll love.

4 . Delivery driver Alan Moncayo had his 5-year-old daughter Sabrina along with him when he took lunch to an animal shelter in Lorton, Va., on a recent Saturday.

As Moncayo approached the shelter, he ________ a sweet-looking dog staring at him through the window. The sight of the dog ________ him of his previous one, Rusty. “They’re ________,” said Moncayo. “Rusty was exactly the same build.” Although his daughter had been ________ him to get a dog, Moncayo said, “being a delivery driver, it’s not in my ________ to pay for a dog.” But this dog really drew him in.

Shelter staff introduced Moncayo and Sabrina to Jihoo, a 6-year-old 65-pound pit bull mix (比特犬混种). “Since big dogs were ________ more difficult to adopt out,” said Rebecca Cavedon, the manager, “Jihoo remained at the ________ for longer than usual. He’s just an amazingly gentle, sweet, kind boy.” It only took a few minutes for Moncayo and his ________ to feel the same way about Jihoo. Moncayo decided that the dog was ________ to be theirs. “It was like an ________ space in my heart that just needed to be made full,” Moncayo said. “Now it’s ________ so much love for our beautiful new dog.”

After ________ paperwork and completing consultation with shelter staff, Moncayo ________ the dog that day.

So far, Jihoo has been adjusting well to his new home and family. “He brought joy and ________ into our lives,” said Moncayo. “We feel like a(n) ________ family now,” he added.

1.

A．cured

B．spotted

C．bathed

D．bought

2.

A．warned

B．informed

C．reminded

D．convinced

3.

A．messy

B．striking

C．threatening

D．identical

4.

A．begging

B．ordering

C．helping

D．instructing

5.

A．memory

B．budget

C．duty

D．pocket

6.

A．randomly

B．immediately

C．luckily

D．generally

7.

A．firm

B．station

C．shelter

D．habitat

8.

A．daughter

B．manager

C．staff

D．driver

9.

A．rescued

B．delivered

C．introduced

D．meant

10.

A．optional

B．empty

C．abnormal

D．artificial

11.

A．dug out

B．filled with

C．checked out

D．covered with

12.

A．going through

B．turning down

C．sorting out

D．giving away

13.

A．stole

B．protected

C．adopted

D．ignored

14.

A．laughter

B．liberation

C．moral

D．wisdom

15.

A．immediate

B．complex

C．complete

D．temporary

5 . I started to imagine how I’d lead my own tour. Working as a guard at the Guggenheim, I first liked reading the wall text—the paragraph-long explanation on the wall beside many of the artworks. Occasionally it’s helpful, and for years I thought it was downright rude when museums and galleries didn’t label each work. But now, more often than not, I wanted to tear all the labels down. The wall text stays just to the side of art, like the answer key at the bottom of a word search, its definitive tone sending the message that there’s only one right answer to the art.

I realized that art historians could be unreliable narrators (叙述者). The Richard Serra sculpture “Tearing Lead,” consisting of wrinkled lead (铅), took on a different look every time it was exhibited. Guards were given a board with the original photo of the sculpture and instructions “Please indicate where the piece was touched,” so an assistant could reposition the sculpture to match the picture. But an assistant I talked with told me that the sculpture was meant to have the metal pieces arranged haphazardly (杂乱地). The work looks different every time it’s shown —not that you’d know it from the wall text.

Therefore, I insist that you don’t look at the little label beside each artwork. When I guarded a Brancusi sculpture, I tried to stand in front of the wall label so people couldn’t see it, and I heard their interpretations go wild. They saw a finger, a woman giving birth, a graph, a Kurosawa character, a dolphin, a nose, a fish.

If I learned one thing as a guard, it’s that sometimes being forced to look at an artwork, even when you don’t want to, is life-changing. Fight the urge to see what you expect to be there; focus instead on what is there. I’m not concerned with whether you think it’s good. Just watch the thing in front of you.

1. What can we learn about the author from paragraph l?

A．He is forming his own judgement.	B．He likes traveling with his friends.
C．He wants to make his voice heard.	D．He writes explanations for artworks.

2. What is the author’s purpose in mentioning “Tearing Lead”?

A．To introduce a special assistant.	B．To prove that wall texts can be wrong.
C．To call for protection of artworks on show.	D．To show how art historians describe works.

3. Why did the author stand in front of the label on the wall?

A．To prevent the visitors getting closer to the sculpture.

B．To make visitors have a better view of the sculpture.

C．To push the visitors to appreciate on their own.

D．To interact with the visitors in a fun way.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．How I Rose from a Museum Guard to an Art Expert

B．What Categories of Artworks Museums Like Showing

C．How Working in a Museum Makes Me Have a Life Purpose

D．What Being a Museum Guard Taught Me about Looking at Art

7 . We have all experienced that feeling of mental exhaustion (疲惫) after focusing on a tricky problem. Detailed thinking certainly feels like hard work, but is it? The answer is a touch less obvious than you might suspect.

The brain is certainly a hungry organ. “It is the most energy-consuming part of the body,” says Nilli Lavie at University College London. Although it accounts for around 2 percent of our body weight, it uses some 20 percent of the energy we burn at rest.

Interestingly, when it comes to energy use, the brain doesn’t distinguish between tasks that we traditionally regard as “hard” and those that come more naturally. This was first demonstrated in the 1950s in a study showing that the brain’s level of metabolic (代谢的) activity is remarkably constant, regardless of whether we are concentrating or letting our mind wander.

Your brain distributes resources to its different parts depending on the mental activity being carried out. But there is a trade-off. For instance, in a study published in November, Lavie and her teammates measured energy use in the brain region responsible for daydreaming and found that it decreased when volunteers carried out a problem-solving task that required focused attention.

So thinking hard does burn more energy in the brain region involved, but this is offset by energy savings in other parts of the brain. The amounts of energy involved are very small. Actually, a self-control task, such as keeping your hand in icy water for as long as you can, “burns up 1 calorie of glucose”, says Ewan McNay, at the University at Albany in New York. However, although this is a tiny amount of fuel, your brain doesn’t see it that way. “It worries about an imbalance of supply over demand,” he says. If the brain detects local drainage (排泄) of glucose—the sugar that fuels the brain—it perceives it as something bad, says McNay. This is what gives rise to the feeling of being exhausted after prolonged (长时间的) focus.

1. How does the author look at detailed thinking?

A．It can develop the less-used brain areas.	B．It can make the brain become tired quickly.
C．It is beyond the assumption of most people.	D．It is both mentally and physically demanding.

2. What does the study in the 1950s tell us about our brain?

A．It is always in a hungry state.	B．It treats mental tasks equally.
C．It burns less calories when at rest.	D．It has a natural tendency to wander.

3. When the brain settles a problem, the brain region for daydreaming ______.

A．connects with other regions	B．solves a difficult task
C．receives more resources	D．becomes less active

4. Why do we feel tired after prolonged focus?

A．Our brain has anxiety over the proper distribution of energy.

B．Our brain burns much more energy than it is supplied.

C．Our brain distributes energy to the wrong brain areas.

D．Our brain sometimes miscalculates the energy used.

8 . About one in four Americans are physically inactive, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But for many of us, physical inactivity is not an intentional choice. It stems from sitting all day at a desk job, driving to work because there are no suitable walking or cycling routes. But what if the infrastructure (基础设施) around you gave you the opportunity to move your body without taking extra time out of your day?

“An active city would offer you loads of ways to get from A to B,” said Anna Boldina, an architectural researcher and designer who studies active cities at the University of Cambridge in the U. K. “Not only would these active cities be full of variety, but the various elements of an active city also have their own specific benefits: for example, stepping stones improve balanced co-activation of a variety of upper and lower body muscles as well as mindfulness and concentration on’ here and now,’ known as a stress relief.”

This all sounds great for future city design and planning, but how can we integrate these feature s into existing city infrastructure? “The best way to transform a place into an active city is through small interventions here and there: an extra stepping stone shortcut across the grass or extra log across the rain garden,” Boldina said. “Sometimes it is not about adding; it is about removing. It is also important that these routes are accessible to people of all ages and abilities.”

Of course, if there are always less challenging alternatives available, how can we encourage those who are able to take the more physically active routes? “One of our studies was aimed specifically at encouragement,” Boldina said. The study found that the most effective means of encouragement was providing a shortcut. “Other factors included playfulness, crossing water, using natural materials and adding handrails for confidence,” added Boldina, whose group is currently working with architects in Cambridge to create such active landscapes.

1. Which of the following best explains “stems from” underlined in paragraph 1?

A．Relies on.

B．Is caused by.

C．Mixes with.

D．Is changed into.

2. What can we learn about active cities?

A．They contribute to better health.	B．They offer personalized activities.
C．They rely on governmental support.	D．They generally look like each other.

3. What does Boldina think matters when we transform a place into an active city?

A．Protecting the local environment.	B．Adding a variety of safety equipment.
C．Making it easy for people to use.	D．Designing as many routes as possible.

4. What does Boldina’s study try to find?

A．How to motivate citizens to use active routes.

B．How to make active routes functional and fun.

C．Why citizens have little interest in active routes.

D．Why Cambridge can succeed, in adopting active routcs.

9 . Cats are often considered to be colder especially when compared with dogs. But if you find your cat friend is a little hard to get close to, maybe you’re just not speaking their language.

Research shows that it’s actually not so difficult. You just need to smile at them more. Not smile in the human’s way, by showing your teeth, but the cat’s way: by narrowing your eyes and blinking (眨眼睛) slowly. It’s similar to how human eyes narrow when they are smiling, and usually occurs when cats are relaxed and content. The expression is explained as a kind of cat smile.

Jackson Galaxy, a cat behavior expert, says there are some pretty strong feelings behind the cat’s slow blink. He calls it “I Love You Blink”. Galaxy says the cat will blink slowly when cats and people are completely opening up to one another in sharing affection.

Researchers carried out two experiments. In the first experiment, owners slow-blinked at 21 cats from 14 different families. Once the cat was settled and comfortable in one spot in their home environment, the owners were asked to sit about a meter away and slow-blink when the cat was looking at them. The second experiment included 24 cats from 8 different families. This time, it wasn’t the owners doing the blinking but the researchers, who’d had no earlier contact with the cats. They found that not only were the cats more likely to blink back, but that they were more likely to reach the human’s hand after the human had blinked.

Dr Tasmin Humphrey, the first author of the study from the University of Sussex, said: “Understanding positive ways in which cats and humans interact can increase public understanding of cats, improve its welfare, and tell us more about the socio-cognitive (社会认知) abilities of this species.”

1. What is “a kind of cat smile”?

A．Showing teeth.	B．Narrowing eyes.
C．Narrowing eyes and blinking slowly.	D．Smiling like a human.

2. How many cats were there in the experiments?

A．45

B．24

C．21

D．14

3. Why did the researchers do the experiments?

A．To help cats live well.	B．To explain cats are clever.
C．To provide a way in which humans can touch cats.	D．To show how humans can communicate with cats.

4. What is the best title of the text?

A．Cats and their “I Love You Blink”	B．Love your cats more
C．Ways to get close to your cats	D．Cats and their owners

10 . It was in the mountain s of Kashmir that we realized how people can show kindness.

On our ________ toward Pahalgam, we came to a sudden ________. We had been driving along the mountain roads of Kashmir, ________ the beautiful views spreading before us. Five hours into the ________, we came across a long line of vehicles ahead of us.

We waited for the roads to ________. Soon we learned that the roads were all ________ because there was a terrible accident. We were full of ________ as we waited, feeling nervous that we wouldn’t reach the town before sunset. ________, it was already afternoon and we were hungry. Even worse, we’d already finished whatever food and water we had with us.

For a long time, we sat there, ________. At one point, we saw a group of people ________ the buses, taking out stoves and some food and starting to cook. They then ________ whatever food they had with all the ________ people that were stuck in the traffic jam.

After waiting for what felt like a century, the cars started ________ slowly. Our driver had all the while been the perfect gentleman. Being a local, he offered to put us up in his home, if required. We reached our destination almost around midnight, and he ________ that we got a proper place to stay that night.

We were really ________ for his care. Truly, there are still many people who live by the values of kindness and understanding.

1.

A．boating

B．riding

C．drive

D．flight

2.

A．stop

B．realization

C．end

D．decision

3.

A．recognizing

B．expecting

C．keeping

D．watching

4.

A．task

B．journey

C．job

D．research

5.

A．cross

B．turn

C．empty

D．clear

6.

A．widened

B．blocked

C．protected

D．checked

7.

A．anger

B．interest

C．worry

D．pleasure

8.

A．Naturally

B．Finally

C．Hopefully

D．Additionally

9.

A．helpless

B．relaxed

C．alone

D．satisfied

10.

A．waiting for

B．running into

C．getting off

D．looking at

11.

A．cooked

B．shared

C．collected

D．sold

12.

A．hungry

B．homeless

C．young

D．sick

13.

A．changing

B．moving

C．leaving

D．returning

14.

A．figured out

B．doubted

C．made sure

D．questioned

15.

A．concerned

B．ready

C．sorry

D．thankful