1 . Join us at Vancouver’s Family Day Charity Fun Walk

Families are like gardens: the more you water them, the more spectacularly they give more flower. Family time is an essential factor that helps to strengthen bonds among family members. Spending family time sharing experiences and creating memories develops a sense of security and forms family values. You get to discuss about what is going on in your individual lives, and everyone feels more valued, more heard. Now welcome to our project!

Basic information

Date	11 August 2025(Sunday)
Time	8 a. m.
Place	Maple Community, 13 Johnson Street, Vancouver 018910

*Sign up for the walk and get a fun pack worth over $100, which includes a T-shirt, a theatre ticket and more.
*Complete the walk and get a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack.
*Join us as we attempt to set a new record for the most number of participants in a mass walk in the Vancouver Book of Records.
*Take part in the carnival after the walk for more entertainment, food and shopping. (Carnival takes place from 9 a. m. to 12 p. m.)
Ticket information

Single ticket	$25
Pair ticket	$40
Happy family group	$60
Visit toggle.sg/ilovemyfamily for more details and buy your tickets in advance. Tickets will not be on sale at the event place on 11, August 2024 (Sunday). 60% of the ticketing proceeds will be donated to WCWA (World Children’s Welfare Association)

Organizer’s contact information
Add: Bridge Peter Ltd, 8 Vista Avenue, Vancouver 138 508
Email: mpbevents@mediacoms.com
1. What is the main purpose of the poster?

A．To develop a sense of family security.

B．To design a Family Day charity event.

C．To encourage people to bond with their families.

D．To invite people to set a new world record for walk.

2. What do you have to do if you want a Jackson Supermarket grocery pack?

A．Contact Bridge Peter Ltd.	B．Complete the fun walk.
C．Take part in the carnival.	D．Sign up before 11 August.

3. What can we learn about the project?

A．No registrations required.	B．WCWA will benefit a lot from it.
C．Participants must make donations.	D．Tickets are available both online and offline.

2 . Primary and secondary school learners, university students, and guests were invited on Wednesday and were treated to a colorful celebration at the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi, to mark the beginning of the year of the dragon which officially starts on Saturday. The place featured beautiful decorations with red and gold colors and lucky symbols.

Visitors got an opportunity to participate in cultural experiences including painting, papercutting and pot throwing as well as experiencing Chinese cuisines like spicy hotpot, steamed stuffed buns (包子) , Chinese hamburgers, dumplings and barbecue among others. They were also treated to heartwarming performances including face-changing, lion dance, dragon dance, drumming, Chinese opera, Chinese songs and a talent show featuring Chinese traditional clothes as well as a mixture of Chinese and Kenyan fashion.

Leah Muthoni, a student at the University of Nairobi lauded the Chinese cuisines served at the event, especially noodles and dumplings. She also appreciated the decorations, drawings, pictures and performances. Similar feelings were also shared by George Mwita, another student from the University of Nairobi who greatly enjoyed the pot throwing game.

In his welcoming speech, Professor Stephen Kiama, the vice headmaster of the University of Nairobi who doubles up as the Kenya director of the Confucius Institute, hoped this year will be a good year of development because the Chinese dragon horns represent power and strength, while the drums represent courage and energy.

Kiama said the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi has achieved a lot since its establishment in 2005, including winning the Confucius Institute of the Year Award seven times and pioneering the establishment of the Bachelor of Arts in the Chinese language in Kenya. “Last year, with the joint efforts of the various parties and stakeholders we established the first bachelor of education in Chinese in Kenya and we admitted the first group of students,” he said. Kiama hopes that this year the Confucius Institute will gain more force with the blessing of power, courage and vitality from the year of the Chinese dragon. He said the Confucius Institute offers a good platform for cultural exchange between China and Kenya through events like the Chinese Lunar Year celebrations. Kiama hoped that the relationship between China and Kenya would further be strengthened by the blessings of the year of the dragon.

In Chinese methodology (方法论) , the dragon has the power to control seasons, time and harvests, and it’s seen as a symbol of wealth. The Chinese consider dragons to be powerful. sympathetic, wise, kind and warm.

1. What is spoken of as one of the cultural experiences the visitors participated in?

A．Tasting Chinese cuisines.	B．Writing with brushes.
C．Reciting Chinese poems.	D．Guessing lantern riddles.

2. Which can replace the underlined word “lauded” in Paragraph 3?

A．Mixed.

B．Praised.

C．Delivered.

D．Sold.

3. What is the fact about the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi?

A．It has the biggest number of students in Africa.

B．George Mwita is one of the Chinese teachers there.

C．It has won the Confucius Institute of the Year Award seven times.

D．They set up the first bachelor of education in Chinese in Kenya in 2005.

4. What is the best title for the news report?

A．Kiama considers dragons to be powerful and sympathetic

B．Confucius Institute offers good platform for cultural exchange

C．Kiama wishes year of dragon good for development of Confucius Institute

D．Confucius Institute at University of Nairobi marks year of dragon celebrations

3 . ________my teacher’s help, I can pass the exam.

A．Thanks to

B．Thanks

C．Thank to

D．Thank

4 . 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。

Wearing Hanfu and sitting in front of a Chinese zither (筝), Peng Jingxuan, a young Chinese student, moves her fingers gently along the strings on a street in Paris, France.

Peng has shared more than 200     1     (origin) videos online, with the most popular one featuring the theme song of the movie A Chinese Ghost Story viewed over 16.61 million times. “I love how she’s representing her culture in a     2     (set) where people are not familiar with it. You can tell she’s proud of her background and her music,” one of her fans commented.

Chinese zither (筝), or guzheng, is an ancient musical instrument with 21-26 strings and a length of 1.63 meters. Peng     3     (fall) in love with it when young and has been practicing it for years. Hardly finding Chinese instruments     4     (play) on the streets in Paris, she took along her guzheng     5     began her street performances to sharpen her skills. The more she performed, the more she felt a greater sense of responsibility     6     (spread) Chinese music and culture.

Considering her audience’s     7     (unfamiliar) with Chinese songs, Peng made adaptations, for     8     she received positive responses. She also performed Western pop songs that local people could relate     9    , entertaining them with beautiful melodies in a     10     (refresh) style.

5 . Alexis was a student, the only son of his wealthy parents, and felt entitled to the luxuries he had in his life. On a class field trip, Alexis met the forester, Justin, who had been living in a wooden house in the forest over ten years. When learning Justin’s life, Alexis laughed at him with his friends.

During the field trip, Alexis and his classmates passed by an entrance to a cave. “This looks so cool!” Alexis exclaimed. He wanted to go inside the cave, but his teacher stopped him.

The next day, Alexis reached the cave with his four friends, only to find they couldn’t take their schoolbags through the entrance. One by one, the teenagers entered the cave and were amazed to see how wide it was from the inside. Albert picked a large stone up and hit one of the walls with it. “This place is so cool!” he laughed quietly before the rocks from the wall came falling.

“Watch out, Albert!” Alexis said and pulled Albert towards himself. The teenagers screamed in fear when they saw the rocks fall. They couldn’t see anything because of the dust floating in the air.

The friends were scared when they realized they were trapped in the cave. “HELP! WE ARE STUCK!” the teenagers started screaming for help, hoping someone would hear them.

Fate sent Justin to the cave. The forester picked berries every day from the trees near the cave. While he was walking back to his house, five bright-colored schoolbags caught his attention. Then he approached the cave and shouted, “Hey! Who’s in there?”

“I’m Alexis ! I came here yesterday with my teacher! Help us, please! We are stuck!”

“Okay, calm down, children! I’ll help you out!” Justin said.

Justin quickly called 911 and informed them about the kids in the cave. Thinking the paramedics (护理人员) would take at least twenty minutes to arrive, he decided to help the kids himself before it was too late. Justin quickly grabbed a shovel and a flashlight and rushed back to the cave’s entrance. Meanwhile, Alexis and his friends tried to stay calm. A few minutes later, Alexis and his friends could see the flashlight shine through the cave’s entrance. Seconds later, they rushed outside the cave and took a deep breath in the fresh air.

Just then, the paramedics arrived.

1. What may lead to Alexis looking down on Justin?

A．His lower education.	B．His poor family.
C．His bad reputation.	D．His living condition.

2. How did Alexis feel about the cave at first?

A．Doubtful.

B．Curious.

C．astonished.

D．Scared.

3. Why did Justin appear near the cave?

A．It was his daily routine.	B．He saw five colorful schoolbags.
C．He came to look for the children.	D．He heard the screaming for help.

4. What lesson can we learn from the story ?

A．Lucky or unlucky.	B．Don’t judge a person by his looks.
C．Curiosity kills the cat.	D．Once in a blue moon.

6 . In early July, FDA granted traditional full approval of Leqembi for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This is the first approved medication proven to slow the progression of AD’s clinical symptoms. A phase three trial among 50-to-90-year-old patients with early AD showed that it can do so by about 27% over an 18-month period. While we cannot extrapolate (推断) beyond 18 months, this represents about a six-month delay in progression of AD symptoms.

A second disease-slowing drug, donanemab, has recently shown similar effects and may get FDA approval by the end of the year.The development of Leqembi is a notable success for medical science in that a disease previously impervious to any disease-modifying medical intervention now has an available, effective treatment. However, paraphrasing Winston Churchill, this is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning. The drug does not reverse disease symptoms or prevent progression, it slows progression. And there are considerations that make it inappropriate for many patients with AD. It does, however, lay the groundwork for future AD medications that could alleviate (减轻) suffering from this devastating disease for generations to come.

An important factor for new drugs is their cost. Leqembi’s price tag is $26,500 per year — much more than the current symptomatic medications for AD but comparable or less expensive than new medications for other conditions, for example multiple sclerosis or ALS.

Medicare has announced that it will provide coverage for this medication, although it is requiring that physicians perform certain clinical measures and enter the patient’s data in a registry in order for the drug to be covered, which will increase physician and patient burdens. What’s more, traditional Medicare only covers 80% of outpatient costs, so for those patients without supplemental insurance, a 20% copay for the drug and required MRI scans (核磁共振扫描) might amount to up to $10,000 or more per year out of pocket, but still only a fraction of the cost of a year of in a nursing home.

1. What can we learn from the first two paragraph?

A．Leqembi can make a six-month delay of AD’s symptoms over a two-year period.

B．To some degree, Leqembi is effective to slow the progression of AD symptoms.

C．Both donanemab and Leqembi have got FDA approval.

D．The drug is appropriate for any patient with AD.

2. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means _____ in the passage.

A．although the new drug has undergone trials, it is still not effective enough

B．though Leqembi can slow the progression of AD’s symptoms, we still have a long way to go

C．the research of the Leqembi will come to an end

D．some others problems related to the the medicine have been caused

3. Leqembi’s price is _____ according to the passage.

A．much cheaper than other medications for AD

B．much more than current medications for other conditions

C．affordable to almost every patient

D．cheaper than new medications for ALS

4. Medicare will provide coverage for this medication on condition that _____.

A．physician and patient burdens are increased

B．patients do not have supplemental insurance

C．patient’s data is registered and clinical measures are carried out by doctors

D．patients pay the cost of a year of in a nursing home

7 . Out in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 60 miles off the northwest coast of Africa, lie the Canary Islands. In the 1950s, the boom in package tourism showed promise as a new cash crop. But while the Canary Islands had the sunshine, warm climate and ease of access from Europe needed for this new industry, they were missing a vital element picture postcard sandy beaches.

So the developers on Tenerife in the Canary Islands constructed a breakwater (防波堤) over half a mile long. And then, from the Western Sahara on Africa’s northwest coast, they shipped in 270, 000 tons of sand. By 1973, the project was complete. As anticipated, tourists arrived. Along the engineered beach, rows and rows of tourists relax on beach chairs under umbrellas or walk across soft sand to cool down in the water.

Unanticipated was what their presence gave to one of the world’s most endangered fish species, angel sharks — visibility. The gentle wind creates tiny waves on the water’s surface, a magical cover for what lies beneath — an angel shark nursery. Female angel sharks regularly migrate to these ideally sheltered waters to give birth to pups (幼崽), who remain in the shallows for about a year. Feeding on small fishes, they grow to around the same length as a newborn human baby.

Surveys have shown that other beaches in the Canary Islands are also potential nursery sites. Interestingly, most of them have been remade to make them more attractive to people. Playa Chica has another long sweep of imported sand. It’s an attraction for divers as well as angel sharks, so the number of sightings of mature angel sharks of this shoreline is one of highest in the islands.

Normally, massive, environmentally disruptive projects are bad for wildlife. But what’s clear is that after the breakwater was built and the sand arrived, people followed, and in the calm, shallow waters they began to see baby angel sharks. And unlike how many an association between humans and wildlife ends-in conflict and dead animals, this time it led to conservation.

1. Why did the developers on Tenerife carry out the project?

A．To build a base for shipping.	B．To boost the local tourism industry.
C．To fight against the rising sea.	D．To protect the island’s eco-system.

2. What was an unexpected result of the project?

A．It caused the disappearance of some fishes.

B．It made a magical tourist attraction.

C．It gave angel sharks a home.

D．It created conflicts between sharks and tourists.

3. What is the author’s attitude toward the engineered beach?

A．Favorable.

B．Doubtful.

C．Unclear.

D．Intolerant.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To highlight the financial benefits of tourism.

B．To introduce potential human-wildlife coexistence.

C．To explain the situation of endangered species.

D．To emphasize the importance of wildlife conservation.

8 . My name is Carmen Cruz and I am seventy-seven years old. Two years ago, I was diagnosed (诊断) with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. A few years prior, I ________ that I was ________ parts of my daily routine, and was tested. To my ________, the results were negative. A year later, I ________ noticed bouts (发病期) of forgetfulness, only this time they were more ________. Again I requested the appropriate ________, and this time, it was ________ that I had early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

Despite Alzheimer’s intention to rob (剥夺) me of my experiences, I have triumphed (成功) since my diagnosis.

The first thing I did was to ________ my reality. I absorbed all the information I could find, ________ the doctor’s recommendations, and committed to ________ them out. I am determined to fight, the ________ of what the disease wants me to do. And with my family’s ________, I continue each day living life to the fullest of my abilities.

Upon being diagnosed, I made it my goal to write the story of my life and I managed to complete this task in one year’s time. It was an incredible ________; I put my mind to work at full speed.

I’m ________ that in my situation, the disease is progressing extremely slowly. The final stage may be unavoidable, and as human beings, we can only do so much. However, in pursuing ________ tasks that put your mind to work, you make the most of the life you have.

1.

A．noticed

B．disagreed

C．wondered

D．reported

2.

A．establishing

B．breaking

C．forgetting

D．following

3.

A．regret

B．relief

C．anger

D．doubt

4.

A．seldom

B．even

C．again

D．soon

5.

A．normal

B．preventable

C．natural

D．frequent

6.

A．explanation

B．changes

C．treatment

D．tests

7.

A．hoped

B．mistaken

C．confirmed

D．recommended

8.

A．accept

B．explore

C．ignore

D．appreciate

9.

A．talked about

B．passed on

C．gave up

D．listened to

10.

A．living

B．seeking

C．sorting

D．leaving

11.

A．result

B．opposite

C．cause

D．truth

12.

A．permission

B．guarantee

C．advice

D．support

13.

A．effort

B．dream

C．moment

D．promise

14.

A．anxious

B．fortunate

C．depressed

D．afraid

15.

A．dangerous

B．enjoyable

C．troublesome

D．accessible

9 . Art and culture should care about the existence of human beings, that is to say, the development of art and culture should be ______ human existence.

A．in charge of

B．in control of

C．in harmony with

D．in communication with

10 . How others are feeling is not something that we should make ______ about, because it’s not always obvious who is truly happy.

A．assumptions

B．efforts

C．contributions

D．recommendations