1 . The first day at school has left a deep
As soon as I rushed into the classroom, the bell rang. A young beautiful woman came in, but she was
The first day at school has stayed in my
| A．memory | B．impression | C．imagination | D．feeling |
| A．modern | B．humorous | C．gentle | D．serious |
| A．trouble | B．question | C．interrupt | D．excuse |
| A．voice | B．sound | C．noise | D．word |
| A．get | B．throw | C．accept | D．wear |
| A．saying | B．meaning | C．crying | D．shouting |
| A．fixed | B．laid | C．opened | D．shut |
| A．care | B．interest | C．attention | D．notice |
| A．beat | B．jumped | C．struck | D．felt |
| A．small | B．dirty | C．shaking | D．own |
| A．add | B．count | C．recognize | D．write |
| A．careful | B．sitting | C．quiet | D．seated |
| A．sorry | B．relaxed | C．disappointed | D．puzzled |
| A．body | B．classroom | C．memory | D．heart |
| A．strange | B．sweet | C．bad | D．terrible |
2 . Last year a group of friends and I began a project called The World Needs You. Its aim is to show how
“Do the children need anything else?” I asked the coordinator(协调人) when we sent our
“Umbrellas!” she said. “Most of our
Of course! I thought. It doesn’t snow much here,
| A．lucky | B．easy | C．wealthy | D．quick |
| A．glasses | B．needles | C．gloves | D．bowls |
| A．rewards | B．pleasure | C．tips | D．love |
| A．common | B．scientific | C．simple | D．good |
| A．own | B．use | C．accept | D．afford |
| A．donations | B．screens | C．luggage | D．staffs |
| A．customers | B．kids | C．teachers | D．employees |
| A．concerned | B．angry | C．wet | D．nervous |
| A．but | B．so | C．and | D．or |
| A．candles | B．umbrellas | C．tickets | D．houses |
| A．weep | B．recover | C．work | D．understand |
| A．suffered from | B．made out | C．talked up | D．looked into |
| A．response | B．level | C．pay | D．height |
| A．in need of | B．in favor of | C．for lack of | D．in time for |
| A．Surprisingly | B．Hopefully | C．Interestingly | D．Luckily |
| A．To face | B．Having faced | C．Faced | D．Facing |
| A．Although; and | B．Although; but | C．Since; and | D．Though; or |
5 . Food is part of who we are. We all need it, survive because of it and derive happiness from it. So if food matters so much, why do we let so much of it go rotten in our fridges, or get thrown out in our stores? Sadly, we love food, but we don’t take care of it.
• Reduce your food waste.
Buy only the food you need, store food wisely, donate excess and turn leftover food into the next day’s meals. When we waste food, all the resources used for growing, processing, transporting and marketing that food are wasted too.
• Support your local food producers.
Chefs get awards, stars and recognition for their creations. But what about our farmers?
• Adopt a healthier, more sustainable diet.
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By treating each meal with pride, we respect the farmers who produced it, and the resources that went into it. Respect can be passed on. Talk to the people around and to the next generation about making informed, healthy and sustainable food choices.
Respecting food means appreciating the back-story of food. When we know the full picture, it is easier to see what our food really stands for and how precious it really is.
| A．Have a conversation. |
| B．Learn where food comes from. |
| C．Our bodies consume calories and nutrients. |
| D．For many people on the planet, food is giving. |
| E．Food is so much more than what is on our plates. |
| F．One third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted. |
| G．Without them, we wouldn’t have the fresh food we need on a daily basis. |
6 . A water-proof drone (无人机) is being used by Australian scientists to collect the highly-treasured snot (鼻涕) of migrating whales. The snot is rich with fresh DNA, viruses and bacteria, and is collected by a drone that hovers over the blowholes of humpback whales as they set off their annual journey along Australia’s east coast.
Vanessa Pirotta, a marine biologist at Macquarie University, says that snot indicates the health of the whale. She states, “It is the juicy biological mixture that you see as a humpback whale takes a breath when they surface from the water. It sounds like sounds of sharp breaths as a whale breathes, because, unlike sharks or other fish, they are mammals like humans and they have two openings for breathing on their back as well. So, as they take a breath, there are a lot of lung bacteria coming out from their lungs, which we can collect to provide a brief introduction of whale health.”
Australian researchers have attached a petri dish that is used in scientific tests to a drone which flies through the whale’s nasal mist (鼻腔喷出雾). Vanessa Pirotta added, “As a whale comes to take a breath, you can actually see it coming to the surface on really good weather days. That is the time—the drone lowers, and the petri dish is then opened and the drone is flown through the densest part of the whale snot, collecting the sample in the petri dish. Now once this happens the lid is shut and the drone is flown back to the research vessel and we collect the sample to later process it in the laboratory.”
The research could help to solve one of the mysteries of another magnificent creature of the deep sea—the southern right whale. Its numbers have recovered on Australia’s west coast since hunting was outlawed but its population on the eastern seaboard remains stubbornly low.
1. Which of the following statements about snot is true?| A．It helps to know about the health of the whale. |
| B．It always carries many deadly lung bacteria. |
| C．It can only be collected during annual migrations. |
| D．It is a biological mixture without DNA. |
| A．To lower the water-proof drone. |
| B．To identify the densest part of the snot. |
| C．To gather samples of the snot. |
| D．To process snot samples in the lab. |
| A．to sum up the entire passage |
| B．to introduce the endangered species |
| C．to show the application of research. |
| D．to show the population changes of whales |
| A．Snot Indicates the Health of Whales. |
| B．Snot Contains Many Lung Bacteria. |
| C．Drones Fly Through Snot of Whales |
| D．Drones Monitor Whale Health in Australia. |
8 . About 20 years ago, while on the way to a student’s house, Zhang Guimei, then a rural teacher in Huaping county, Lijiang, Yunnan province, noticed a girl sitting on the hillside. The girl, 13, told Zhang she was about to get married though she wanted to go to school. It was arranged by her parents.
Zhang went to her house and tried to persuade her parents to let the girl return to school and promised to pay for her tuition herself. However, they didn’t agree. Zhang felt sorry for not being able to help. “We always say that each child should stand on the same starting line, but these girls didn’t even have a chance to get on the track,” Zhang said.
It persuaded Zhang to build a free high school for girls with the objective of helping break the cycle that saw women drop out of education, marry early and spend their whole life in the remote mountain. Zhang had spent years trying to raise funds, and in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls, a free public high school, was founded, where Zhang is the principal. Over the decades, Zhang has walked thousands of kilometers, visiting students’ families in the deep mountain, talking to villagers, and persuading girls to go back to school. It has been worth it. More than 1,800 graduates have been admitted to college. It is regarded as a “miracle” in the remote area, as most students didn’t perform well in academic study before the school was established.
Though lacking full health, Zhang insists on a daily routine—get up around 5 a.m. to call students to get up with a loudspeaker, accompany students to classes and sleep after senior students’ study ends at midnight. Zhang’s husband died in the 1990s. She doesn’t have children or a house, so she lives at the student dormitory. Besides girls in her school, Zhang also donates all her income to help rural education and poor people.
In early December, she was given the honor of the country’s “role model for teachers” and “outstanding woman”. Her commitment to her education career inspires thousands of people.
1. Why did Zhang feel sorry when the girl’s parents refused to let the girl return to school?| A．The girl’s family was too poor to pay for her tuition fees. |
| B．The girl had to marry a man who was much older than her. |
| C．The girl didn’t even have the chance to complete her education. |
| D．The girl was unable to find a high school nearby to continue her education. |
| A．Not many girls want to attend this school. |
| B．Few parents support their girls’ going to school. |
| C．The local government didn’t offer the land for the school. |
| D．It was not easy for Zhang to get enough money to build the school. |
| A．Most students didn’t study well before Huaping High School for Girls was founded. |
| B．Huaping High School for Girls was founded. |
| C．Many girls can go to Huaping High School for Girls for free. |
| D．Many girls from Huaping High School for Girls have gone to college. |
| A．A teacher shows girls how to reach the top. |
| B．Let girls stand on the same starting line. |
| C．Inspiring stories of girls’ education. |
| D．Huaping High School for Girls. |
9 . A broken heart. A sad ending to a love affair. That’s something most of us have experienced, or probably will. After all, it’s part of human life. But no question, the experience can be hard to get over.
But research shows there are pathways through the heartache. Listening to sad music is a major one. It can help you begin to feel joy and hopefulness about your life again. It can arouse (激发，唤醒) the desire (渴望) to connect with others.
Sad music can help heal and uplift you from your broken heart. A recent study from Germany found the emotional influence of listening to sad music is an arousal of feelings of empathy (共情), and a desire for positive connection with others. That, itself, is psychologically healing. It draws you away from concentration on yourself, and possibly towards helping others in need of comfort.
Another experiment, from the University of Kent, found that when people were experiencing sadness, listening to music that was “beautiful but sad” improved their mood. In fact, it did so when the person first consciously accept the situation causing their sadness, and then began listening to the sad music. That is, when they intended that the sad music might help, they found that it did.
These findings link with other studies that show accepting your sad situation emotionally leads to healing and growth beyond it. It seems unbelievable but it does make sense. For example, research from Cornell University, published in Psychological Science, found that accepting discomfort about a life experience or new situation, and viewing it as a step towards growth and change, encourages people to find a pathway through it, beyond it. As Churchill famously said, “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” That discomfort points you towards creating a plan, a new action. It fuels hope.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 3 and paragraph 4?| A．Sad music can make people help others. |
| B．Sad music can make sad people feel better. |
| C．Sad music can make people believe in themselves. |
| D．Sad music can make people concentrate on themselves. |
| A．Listen to a sad song. | B．Avoid unwise actions. |
| C．Find support from others. | D．Face the discomfort directly. |
| A．By listing figures. |
| B．By giving directions. |
| C．By comparing examples. |
| D．By presenting research findings. |
| A．How to Find Pathways through Heartaches |
| B．How We React to A Broken Heart Matters a Lot |
| C．What We Can Do to Overcome Discomfort in Life |
| D．Why Listening to Sad Music Heals Your Broken Heart |
| A．were enjoying | B．would have enjoyed |
| C．would be enjoying | D．will enjoy |
