1 . When people get old and have difficulty working full time, they retire and begin a new, more relaxing lifestyle. But what about old industrial buildings? Can they start anew?
China seems to find a good solution for them. In recent years, many abandoned factories, railway yards, warehouses and mills( 磨 坊 )have been transformed into cultural and tourist sites. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, there are now 194 items on the country’s national industrial heritage list.
The 798 Art Zone in Beijing is an iconic example. Built in the 1950s as No. 718 Joint Factory, it was gradually abandoned in the 1990s as production slowed down. In 2006, Beijing’s municipal government invested over 120 million yuan and improved its infrastructure( 基础设施)condition, turning the factory complex into a cultural and creative industrial base. Now the art zone holds about 200 galleries, art centers as well as fashionable boutiques( 精品店), cafes, and restaurants, which also earns it a place on the bucket list of many tourists, noted The Paper.
Jack Liu is a frequenter of the art zone who visits it every weekend. “In the art zone, you can refresh memories of the development of Chinese manufacturing through its old buildings,” said the 28-year-old to Teens. “However, in art galleries here you will feel pulled into a fashionable, modern world. It’s amazing.”
Industrial heritage sites, which used to be filled with the rumbling of machines, are now precious pages of the book on the industrial culture of China, noted People’s Daily.
Since these heritage sites are rich and diverse in content, cities in China also spare no effort to explore new ways and models to protect and utilize them.
For example, a beer museum has been set up inside a century-old plant of the Tsingtao Brewery in Qingdao, Shandong province, bringing people closer to the long history of the brewery. Some abandoned plants in Beijing have also been remade for city explorers to take adventures in.
Just as the elderly need our care and love, these industrial heritages are also expected to be injected with vitality through protection and development. “It is not only an inevitable trend of the innovation-driven development of cities, but a necessity for promoting new drivers of development,” noted People’s Daily.
1. What is China’s solution for old industrial buildings?| A．Expanding their space and uses. |
| B．Upgrading them to become attractions. |
| C．Integrating them with new buildings. |
| D．Returning them to their original condition. |
| A．It was established in the 1990s. |
| B．It mainly provides venues for fashion shows. |
| C．It’s China’s first cultural and creative industrial base. |
| D．It’s a successful example of transforming old industrial sites. |
| A．To show the popularity of industrial heritage sites. |
| B．To explain the importance of remaking old plants. |
| C．To introduce the features of industrial heritage sites. |
| D．To illustrate how industrial heritage sites can be used effectively. |
| A．They deserve to be brought back to life. |
| B．They can be drivers for city development. |
| C．They should give way to modern buildings. |
| D．They are reminders of a city’s development. |
| A．Used to be filled with the rumbling of machines, industrial heritage sites are valuable pages of the book on the industrial culture of China. |
| B．The transformed old industrial buildings are an inevitable trend of the innovation-driven development of cities. |
| C．The transformed old industrial buildings really bring back memories of the development of Chinese manufacturing through its old buildings. |
| D．The transformed old industrial buildings are highly required for promoting new development. |
2 . No student of a foreign language needs to be told that gram mar is complex. By changing the order of the words and by adding a range of auxiliary verbs(助动词)and suffixes(后缀),we can turn a statement into a question, state whether an action has taken place or is soon to take place, and perform many other word tricks to convey different meanings. However, the question which many language experts can’t understand and explain is who created grammar?
Some recent languages evolved due to the Atlantic slave trade. Since the slaves didn’t know each other’s languages, they developed a make-shift language called a pidgin. Pidgins are strings of words copied from the language of the landowners. They have little in the way of grammar, and speakers need to use too many words to make their meaning understood. Interestingly, however, all it takes for a pidgin to become a complex language is for a group of children to be exposed to it at the time when they learn their mother tongue. Slave children didn’t simply copy the strings of words used by their elders. They adapted their words to create an expressive language. In this way complex grammar systems which come from pidgins were invented.
Further evidence can be seen in studying sign languages for the deaf. Sign languages are not simply a group of gestures; they use the same grammatical machinery that is found in spoken languages. The creation of one such language was documented quite recently in Nicaragua. Previously, although deaf children were taught speech and lip reading in the classrooms, in the playgrounds they began to invent their own sign system, using the gestures they used at home, It was basically a pidgin and there was no consistent grammar. However, a new system was born when children who joined the school later developed a quite different sign language. It was based on the signs of the older children, but it was shorter and easier to understand, and it had a largerange of special use of grammar to clarify the meaning. What’s more, they all used the signs in the same way. So the original pidgin was greatly improved.
Most experts believe that many of the languages were pidgins at first. They were initially used in different groups of people without standardization(标准化)and gradually evolved into a widely accepted system. The English past tense—“ed” ending — may have evolved from the verb “do”. “It ended” may once have been “ It end-did”. It seems that children have grammatical machinery in their brains. Their minds can serve to create logical and complex structures, even when there is no grammar present for them to copy.
1. What can be inferred about the slaves’ pidgin language? ________.| A．It was difficult to understand. |
| B．It came from different languages. |
| C．It was created by the landowners. |
| D．It contained highly complex grammar. |
| A．No consistent signs were used for communication. |
| B．Most of the gestures were made for everyday activities. |
| C．The hand movements were smoother and more attractive. |
| D．The meaning was clearer than the previous sign language. |
| A．English grammar of past tense system is inaccurate. |
| B．Children say English past tense differently from adults. |
| C．The thought that English was once a pidgin is acceptable. |
| D．Experts have proven that English was created by children. |
| A．in the end | B．at the beginning | C．long ago | D．long before |
| A．The Creators of Grammar |
| B．The History of Languages |
| C．Why Pidgins Came into Being |
| D．How Grammar Systems Are Used |
3 . You watch a sad film and get caught up in your emotions. You cry your eyes out at the dramatic plot — you feel sad for the characters if they suffer, or happy for them when they are successful. It is only when the movie is over that you realize that what you were watching is not real.
But why couldn’t you accept that when you were so absorbed in the movie? It was reported in Science Daily this week that scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US, discovered that people simply cannot think emotionally and logically at the same time.
It has long been known that something different goes on in our brain when we use logic, rather than responding to something emotionally. Thinking logically is a step-by-step process, in which people make decisions through reasoning and find answers rationally. When we think emotionally or empathize (有同感), we look at things from someone else’s point of view and try to feel their pain.
Now scientists have found that thinking logically and emotionally are like the two ends of a seesaw (跷跷板). When we’re busy empathizing, the part of the brain used for cold, hard analysis is suppressed. And it’s also true the other way round.
To come to this conclusion, scientists gathered 45 people — men and women — to take brain scans as they solved different kinds of puzzles. Some of the puzzles were tough and involved math and physics and others were social problems that required participants to put themselves in other people’s shoes.
Scientists found that when participants were doing a math problem, the region in their brain that is associated with logical thinking lit up, and when asked to make emotional decisions, the region for emotional thinking lit up. But the most interesting part is that when asked to solve problems that required both logical and emotional responses, the participants always used one of the regions at a time while the other one went dark.
“Empathetic and analytic thinking are mutually (相互之间地) exclusive (排斥的) in the brain,” said Anthony Jack, leader of the study. “You don't have to favor one, but cycle efficiently between them, and employ the right network at the right time.”
However, people sometimes ended up using the wrong one. This explains why some people are good at solving complex math problems but have poor social skills. And why even the smartest people get taken in by fake but touching stories.
1. Why does the author mention watching movies at the beginning of the article?| A．To show that we are easily moved by things that are not real. |
| B．To show that sometimes we only use emotional thinking. |
| C．To introduce the research based on this kind of experiences. |
| D．To prove emotional thinking is powerful. |
| A．logical thinking works differently from emotional thinking |
| B．logical thinking is much more efficient than emotional thinking |
| C．logical thinking and emotional thinking take turns to function independently |
| D．logical thinking and emotional thinking could work together |
| A．starting to react actively |
| B．being completely damaged |
| C．to prevent something from working effectively |
| D．to obtain an opposite function |
| A．people have to frequently switch between different types of thinking |
| B．adopting the wrong thinking mode could have bad results |
| C．people could only either have excellent logical thinking or emotional thinking |
| D．people who think logically could easily be manipulated |
| A．Movies and Your Emotions | B．Math and Physics |
| C．Your Heart vs Your Mind | D．Logical Thinking |
4 . Biologists from the John Innes Centre in England discovered that plants have a biological process which divides their amount of stored energy by the length of the night. This solves the problem of how to portion out（分配） energy reserves during the night so that the plant can keep growing, yet not risk burning off all its stored energy.
While the sun shines, plants perform photosynthesis（光合作用）. In this process, the plants change sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into stored energy in the form of long chains of sugar, called starch（淀粉）. At night, the plants burn this stored starch to fuel continued growth.
“The calculations are precise so that plants prevent starvation but also make the most efficient use of their food,” said study co-author Alison Smith. “If the starch store is used too fast, plants will starve and stop growing during the night. If the store is used too slowly, some of it will be wasted.”
The scientists studied the plant Arabidopsis, which is regarded as a model plant for experiments. To give the plants some math tests, the biologists let night arrive unexpectedly early or late for them.
During one of the exams, they shut off the lights early on them that had been grown with twelve-hour days and nights. Putting them into darkness after only an eight-hour day means they didn’t have time to store as much starch as usual. And this forced the plants to adjust their normal nightly rhythm.
Amazingly, even after this day length trick, the plants did very well in their exams and ended up with just five percent of starch left over at the end of the night. They had neither starved, nor stored starch that could have been used to fuel more growth.
The authors suggested that similar biological calculators may explain how a migratory bird, the little stint, can make a five-thousand-kilometer journey to their summer habitat in the Arctic and arrive with enough fat reserves to survive only approximately half a day more, on average.
The results of the study were published in e Life.
1. According to the passage, plants _________.| A．use little energy during the day |
| B．usually stop growing at night |
| C．waste a lot of energy at night |
| D．store starch during the day |
| A．They changed the plant’s light conditions. |
| B．They provided the plant with more starch. |
| C．They tried to keep the plant’s natural rhythm. |
| D．They attached a biological calculator to the plant. |
| A．nearly died of lack of food |
| B．used most of their stored energy |
| C．began to regulate their food store |
| D．stored enough starch for the next day |
| A．They may have a system to control energy consumption. |
| B．They often die during their long and difficult journey. |
| C．They leave the Arctic in summer every year. |
| D．They are unable to calculate the distances. |
| A．plants feel hungrier day by day |
| B．plants are good at storing energy |
| C．plants do math to survive the night |
| D．plants use starch to fuel their growth |
5 . Inspired by the movement to protect the Carmanah Valley and Clayoquot Sound, I decided to devote myself to producing images for conservation full-time in 1992. Since that time my work has taken me all over the world and my photos have appeared in many major magazines. However, many of my most rewarding moments have come from working on projects in British Columbia, Canada, and sharing those images in slide show tours I have given throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
The more I travel and photograph in other parts of the world, the more I have come to realize the wilderness we have in Canada is truly special and rare.
I have always felt that as a photographer my goal is to approach the natural environment with the sense of wonder and curiosity that comes so naturally to children. This, I believe, is one of the basic keys not just to producing meaningful images, but more importantly, to gaining a full appreciation and enjoyment of the natural world.
I find that not only my best images, but also my most enjoyable experiences in nature, occur when I have an open mind and follow my intuition (直觉). When I feel drawn to a certain scene, I try to make the scene simple and not include anything that is not relevant. I also try all ways to look for beautiful light. Early morning and the end of the day almost always produce light that results in more pleasing images than those taken under the strong light in the middle of a sunny day. Soft cloudy skies are wonderful for photographing all day, especially in our beautiful forests or for small subjects like wildflowers. Rain, storms, and snow also provide wonderful opportunities for new and different kinds of images.
1. In the first paragraph, the author mainly tells us about________.| A．his working experiences | B．his goal as a photographer |
| C．his skills in photographing | D．his understanding about conservation |
| A．was born in the United Kingdom |
| B．now works mainly in the United States |
| C．has worked as a full-time tour guide since 1992 |
| D．is aware of the importance of environmental protection |
| A．To produce beautiful pictures |
| B．To take his children to approach the nature. |
| C．To gain people’s appreciation and admiration. |
| D．To get close to nature with strong desire to know about it |
| A．They are not easy to be produced in soft cloudy skies. |
| B．Sometimes the scenes in them are simple and don’t include irrelevant things. |
| C．If they are wildflowers, the best time to produce them is in the rain. |
| D．If produced at the end of the day, they are more beautiful than in the early morning. |
| A．To study the key to becoming a famous artist. |
| B．To show thoughts about nature photography. |
| C．To praise wonderful scenes they have in Canada. |
| D．To tell the most enjoyable experiences in nature. |
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Perhaps no one knows the power of imagination better than Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin. Until four years ago, Liu worked full-time as a computer engineer at a power plant in Yangquan, Shanxi province. He only wrote science fiction in his spare time. But it was during this time that Liu，s imagination took flight. He did what he might never have the chance to do in real life 一 wander in space，fight with aliens, and visit planets light-years away.
But even with such a powerful imagination, Liu, 55，probably hadn’t expected that he would become the first Asian to win the Hugo Award, science fiction’s highest prize, in 2015. Perhaps neither did he think that former US president Barack Obama would read his novel The Three-Body Problem (《三体》, 2006), nor that on Nov 9 in Washington DC, he would win the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. It’s the first time a Chinese writer has ever won the award.
In his acceptance speech, Liu said that he owed his imagination to Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), a famous UK sci-fi author. He said that reading Clarke’s classic novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (《2001太空漫游》) in the early 1980s had a great effect on him and his inspiration (灵感).
“My mind opened up like never before. I felt like a narrow stream finally embracing the sea, That night, in my eyes, the starry sky was completely different from the past. For the first time in my life. I was awed (使……敬畏) by the beauty and mystery of the universe.” Liu said.
But no matter how far away Liu，s imagination takes him，somehow his novels always stay grounded (理性的). In The Three-Body Problem, for example, Liu tells a tale of aliens invading (侵略) Earth. But unlike other alien stories, with their fancy weapons and strange creatures, Liu talks more about relationships between civilizations, rules of survival, and the meanings of life. And in The Wandering Earth (《流浪地球》, 2008), Liu looks ahead to the day when our solar system comes to an end and humans have to look for a new place to live. However, all his visions (设想) and solutions are based on “hard science”. Liu’s works aren’t simply daydreams.
Rather, it’s the fact that his imagination is based on reality that makes it such a powerful tool. In this Liu is like his mentor (引路人) Clarke, who, we read on the website of the Arthur C. Clarke Award，believed that “Humankind’s most powerful tool to shape its future is its imagination.”
1. What did Liu Cixin do before he became famous in 2015? (within 15 words)2. What are Liu Cixin’s words quoted in Paragraph 4 mainly to show? (within 8 words)
3. Why did the author mention The Three-Body Problem and The Wandering Earth in Paragraph 5? (within 10 words)
4. What’s the text mainly about? (within 10 words)
5. Would you like to read Liu Cixin’s novels? Why or why not? (within 20 words)
