1 . The Beijing Expo Park, where the International Horticultural Exhibition (国际园艺展) took place in 2019, has become a camping resort this summer. Twelve camping areas each named after the constellations (星座) have recently opened to the public at the park.
“When I see parents and children put down their mobile phones and enjoy their family time, I feel happy. At this moment, all our efforts in organizing this camping festival have paid off, ”said Xue He, a camping operator at the park.
“Located in the Yanqing district of Beijing, the camping area covers about 280, 000 square meters. It provides more than 1, 000 camping spots where tourists can spend their leisure time on picnics, fishing, horse riding, boating, and many other activities, ” said Han Weiwei, a manager of the Beijing Expo Park Investment and Development.
At the camping area named after Sagittarius, tents are spread throughout the woods, while a wooden trestle (支架) connects the campsites. “We pursue harmony between humans and nature, so the original plants were preserved as much as possible, ” said Liu Xiao’ou, an operator in the area.
“Horse riding is one of the most popular activities here, ”Liu said, adding that campers can ride horses in the Sagittarius area under the guidance of coaches. Children can also interact with some little cute horses which are less than one meter in height.
As the altitude in Yanqing is higher than that in downtown Beijing, the expo park is much cooler in summer. “This is favorable for camping. These abundant activities have given is so much fun, ” said a resident surnamed Yin from downtown Beijing.
In the coming three months, the Beijing Expo Park is going to host more than 30 activities during the camping festival, including bicycle races, fishing contests and night runs, according to the organizers.
1. What has happened in the Beijing Expo Park?| A．Horse riding performance has been offered. |
| B．Twelve camping areas have opened. |
| C．Art exhibitions have taken place. |
| D．A traditional festival has been celebrated. |
| A．Successful. | B．Unwelcome. | C．Boring. | D．Important. |
| A．The camping area is only for children. |
| B．Campers have little fun at the Sagittarius area. |
| C．Horse riding becomes popular only among children. |
| D．Campers are offered a natural environment. |
| A．The Beijing Expo Park will be open to the public. |
| B．The Beijing Expo Park has changed its course for the future. |
| C．The Beijing Expo Park becomes popular for its abundant exhibitions. |
| D．The Beijing Expo park offers memorable camping experiences to the public. |
2 . A student from Phoenix learned a life-saving skill in his health class. It was the skill he learned that helped him
It was a school day. Two
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The teacher regained consciousness before being taken to the hospital. It turned out that she
Doing CPR (心肺复苏) or chest compression may seem
| A．leave | B．damage | C．save | D．master |
| A．teachers | B．editors | C．volunteers | D．players |
| A．fell | B．buried | C．got | D．turned |
| A．positively | B．narrowly | C．gracefully | D．rapidly |
| A．flat | B．hospital | C．classroom | D．gym |
| A．homework | B．exercise | C．comments | D．struggles |
| A．checked in | B．lost heart | C．went out | D．fell apart |
| A．contacted | B．followed | C．took | D．slowed |
| A．in need | B．in advance | C．in excitement | D．in ruins |
| A．admiration | B．medal | C．subject | D．health |
| A．hand | B．playground | C．phone | D．occasion |
| A．applications | B．events | C．instructions | D．impressions |
| A．majored | B．suffered | C．studied | D．checked |
| A．difficult | B．powerful | C．formal | D．effective |
| A．adventurous | B．economic | C．rare | D．normal |
Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was failing. Surprisingly, he could read, yet, in spite of his reading skills, Steve had been failing since the first grade. Steve was a big boy, yet, he went unnoticed until Miss White came.
Miss White was a smiling, beautiful, young lady. For the first time in his young life, Steve couldn’t take his eyes off his teacher; yet, still he failed. In the middle of the first term, the entire seventh grade was tested for basic skills. Steve hurried through his tests, and continued to dream of other things, as the day passed slowly. One day, Miss White’s impatient voice broke into his daydreams. “Steve!” Startled(吓了一跳), he turned to look at her. “Pay attention!” She began to go over the test results. “You all did pretty well,” she told the class, “except for one boy, and it breaks my heart to tell you this, but...” She hesitated, pinning Steve to his seat with a sharp stare. “The smartest boy in the seventh grade is failing my class!”
After that, Steve still couldn’t do his homework. “Just try it,” Miss White said one day. “Steve! Please! I care about you!” Wow! Suddenly, Steve got it! Someone cared about him? Someone, so beautiful and perfect, cared about him?! Steve went home from school, thoughtful that afternoon and decided to work hard.
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The following Monday, Steve arrived at school earlier than usual because Miss White would give a quiz on the weekend homework.
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After Miss White checked Steve’s test paper, she was in total shock!
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4 . When I was in my fourth year of
About a month
John answered, “well, I like tennis, but you told me that you believed in me, and that you thought I could do well in
From then on, I often remember my student’s
| A．discussion | B．suffering | C．friendship | D．teaching |
| A．boring | B．interested | C．anxious | D．confused |
| A．encouraged | B．disagreed | C．regretted | D．continued |
| A．because | B．when | C．even though | D．as if |
| A．goal | B．reaction | C．event | D．impact |
| A．tired | B．willing | C．ashamed | D．fond |
| A．ordered | B．accepted | C．hated | D．protected |
| A．late | B．lately | C．latest | D．later |
| A．prizes | B．companies | C．inventions | D．ideas |
| A．help | B．notice | C．play | D．include |
| A．special | B．good | C．wonderful | D．beautiful |
| A．schedule | B．plan | C．trap | D．track |
| A．reply | B．effort | C．goal | D．lesson |
| A．buy | B．read | C．share | D．collect |
| A．trust | B．report | C．admit | D．record |
5 . Want to find out how you can learn a new language as fast as possible? If you commit to your new language, study hard, and have an open mind about making mistakes, you can go from basic conversational skills to fluency.
Pronunciation is the key to being understood by native speakers. There’s no point in memorizing hundreds of words and phrases if you pronounce them so oddly that they can’t be understood.
Hands down, the best way to learn a new language is to speak it. Too often, people spend all of their time studying grammar and memorizing lists of words instead of actually going out there and putting what they’ve learned into practice.
Be willing to make mistakes.
| A．Study smarter, not harder. |
| B．The following tips can help you learn a new language fast. |
| C．Knowing a few keywords can help you grasp what someone is saying. |
| D．So it’s important for you to learn the pronunciation while learning a word. |
| E．Speaking with a person is better than staring at a book or computer screen. |
| F．You’ll learn better if you’re okay with making mistakes and learning from them. |
| G．If you are up for a challenge, memorize all the numbers up to one hundred in one day. |
6 . This may be the 21st century but when it comes to information communication technology(ICT), the gender(性别)divide between boys and girls, shows no sign of closing.
This is bad news for the ICT industry where men outnumber women by over five to one; the industry needs at least an extra million recruits(新成员)over the next five years. Obviously, women as well as men are going to have to fill these recruitment gaps(空缺).The ICT companies are worried about the shortage of men and women to fill their gaps in the future.
It is believed that women are very well suited to working in ICT-they enjoy working in teams and like looking for creative connections. Many women have the kind of personal skills which are considered important to develop “new technology”. Professionals who work in Information Technology are constantly creating the world around us, and this can’t be done if you don’t know how people work and how they play.
In spite of the fact that ICT jobs are well paid and women are more likely to do well in them, findings show that girls’ opinions of the industry are uniformly negative. Only 5% would consider entering the ICT industry compared to 14% for law and 26% for medicine. Up to the age of 11 girls see ICT as entertaining and interesting but after that age negativity sets in; by the age of 13,this negative view of ICT is confirmed.
After school activities encourage some girls to use Information Technology, and getting ICT staff and other teachers together helps to develop imaginative use of ICT. Imaginative use of ICT especially in music, art, drama, geography and media studies, all helps to open girls’ eyes to the fact that careers in computing can cut across so many different areas.
Students complete the same class task by rote(死记硬背)in the ICT class. Although girls follow successfully, they will achieve enjoyment and excellence if allowed to diversify and be creative. For girls, just pressing buttons is not enough.
Another method is setting up computer clubs aimed at younger girls aged 8 to 14. This is known to inspire girIs to develop their ICT skills and to show them that ICT can be both creative and interesting.
We can’t afford to have girls missing out.
1. What do we know about ICT?| A．It has a serious division between male and female. |
| B．The ICT companies don’t need to hire more workers. |
| C．ICT is a more promising career than the cause of law. |
| D．ICT attracts more women to join in because of its high salary. |
| A．Because of their high skills of studying. |
| B．Because of their creativity of new games. |
| C．Because their responsibility for their career. |
| D．Because of their spirit for teamwork and exploration. |
| A．Completing the class task by rote in the ICT class. |
| B．Making competitions in ICT class. |
| C．Developing imaginative use of ICT. |
| D．Connecting ICT to their scores. |
| A．The ICT will have a promising future. | B．Some measures to attract girls into ICT. |
| C．The advantages of ICT over medicine. | D．The differences between ICT and law. |
7 . Habitat loss, pesticides (农药) and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40％ of all insects species are declining (减少) globally and that a third of them are endangered.
And while it may sound nice to live in a world with fewer bad insects, environmental writer Oliver Milman says that human beings would be in big trouble without insects. That’s because insects play important roles in pollinating (给……授粉) plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other larger animals-including humans-rely upon.
“It would be an extremely terrible place to live in-and certainly not something we should ever aim for,” Milman says of an insect-free existence. “You would certainly have mass starvation and social unrest...It’d be a place where there would be smelly waste and dead bodies everywhere because insects that break down those materials would be gone.”
Milman charts the troubling decline of insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. He says that while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening with every insect species in the world, the overall trends are not good: The butterfly population in North America has declined quickly in the past 40 years, for example, and a U.N. assessment done in 2019 found that half a million insect species are under threat of extinction, some in the coming decades.
“The world, our surroundings, would be far quieter, far duller without insects,” he, says. “When you start kind of digging down into these figures looking at the research, it’s clear that there’s something seriously wrong...There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.”
1. What should be the proper opinion about the insects according to the passage?| A．They can benefit the growth of plants. | B．They can prevent plants from harvesting. |
| C．They are harmful to humans. | D．They can produce a lot of waste. |
| A．The insects might make the world a terrible place to live in. |
| B．The insects might make much trouble to the dead bodies. |
| C．People would certainly have mass starvation with an insect-free existence. |
| D．The insects might produce too much smelly waste. |
| A．By comparing two insects. | B．By giving some examples. |
| C．By analyzing the data. | D．By using his research. |
| A．Positive. | B．Uninterested. | C．Supportive. | D．Worried. |
8 . I grew up with a four-year gap between myself and my younger brother. It was a distance in age to keep us close as we got older, but also an age gap to make sure we lived our own lives in completely different ways. Having a younger brother while I was a girl was a lot of work, for there was a lot of fighting.
However, as we’ve got older, we’ve become closer, and I’ve learned several things in life from my younger brother that I didn’t realize I needed before.
My younger brother is one of the most talented and creative souls I’ve known. He’s continually feeding his creativity with new art forms and new instruments. He always seeks to understand and learn more about the world around him. He’s helped remind me through his actions and words that giving up on creativity is something a person should never do.
My younger brother has also been through hard times, but he’s able to focus on learning from the hard times, unlike me, who tends to hold on to every little thing from my life. It’s always been difficult for me to let things go and move on, but my younger brother has been an inspiration for me to try harder at letting go.
My younger brother has always been a more introverted type, and if you speak to him, you’re lucky to get over three words out of him at a time. Because of this, he’s certainly learned the whole “actions speak louder than words” thing. But, I’ve realized from my brother that I needn’t speak to fill the silence. Sometimes, it’s necessary to spend some of your time in silence and reflect in it.
1. What can we know about the author’s childhood according to paragraph 1?| A．The author thought the four-year gap made them distant. |
| B．The author had to do a lot of work for her brother. |
| C．There was a lot of fighting between the author and her brother. |
| D．The author often beat her brother. |
| A．New art forms. | B．Creativity. | C．New instruments. | D．Talents. |
| A．The attitude to hard times. | B．The ability of studying. |
| C．The aim of future. | D．The way to spend time. |
| A．Depressed. | B．Attractive. | C．Favorite. | D．Quiet. |
China has the longest railway in service. When Chinese people’ take a trip to other cities, the best
First of all, it is very convenient for you to book the tickets online. However, tickets cannot be purchased without an ID card, which
The high-speed train is changing the living habits of Chinese people,
10 . Recently, a research on how a new virtual reality (VR) experience educated primary children about the fire disasters was done. It was developed by the University of South Australia, aiming to educate children to learn how to be safer in a fire.
Focusing on children aged 10-12 years, the new VR experience presents a situation where children are tasked to look after a friend’s dog just before a fire event begins to unfold. They participate in a series of problem-solving activities to help save and protect themselves and the dog.
The findings showed that more than 80 percent of children reported that they felt more confident to calmly evaluate the options and make wise decisions to protect themselves from a fire. This is especially significant considering that 91 per cent of participants originally lacked any knowledge of fires, and that 67 per cent had said that they were too young to make safety decisions in a fire.
The researchers believed such immersive (沉浸式的) VR experiences had real potential to engage, educate and empower the young. “As children born in digital times, they are engaged by such technology and they can experience events realistically yet within the safe environment,” said Delene Weber, one of the researchers. “Well-designed VR can provide an opportunity for children to apply newly acquired knowledge, strengthen their learnt concepts, and enable immediate feedback — all incredibly valuable learning tools.”
Meanwhile, because children have fewer life experiences, aren’t as physically strong, and are less likely to have learned much about fire safety, they’re often most at risk. Yet the capacity for children to contribute to fire safety at their household should not be underestimated.
“Children do not need to be passive victims of disasters and with purpose-built virtual reality experiences such as these, we can help empower children to understand the risks but realize they can help,” said Weber.
1. How does the new VR experience try to educate children?| A．By introducing a virtual friend to them. | B．By analyzing the causes of a fire event. |
| C．By letting them solve virtual problems. | D．By guiding them to ask a dog for help. |
| A．Many children found it hard to adapt to them. |
| B．They could greatly help ensure children’s safety. |
| C．They benefited children with knowledge of fire. |
| D．Most children had a misunderstanding about them. |
| A．Unrealistic. | B．Dangerous. | C．Unnecessary. | D．Significant. |
| A．VR experiences educate kids to survive a fire |
| B．VR experiences make learning easier for kids |
| C．VR education appeals to the young generation |
| D．VR technology makes no sense in fighting a fire |
