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. |
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I’m honored to make a speech here with the topic “Experience makes me grow up”.
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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 |
| A．virtually | B．initially | C．immediately | D．exceptionally |
5 . I will never forget the darkness, the pain and strong desire to escape.
November
On Saturday, I watched a TV program teaching
The thanks I received later from the neighbors made me light up. It felt so good, and it distracted me from my dark
By January I had
Then things started
I was shifting into a new season of light, while letting go of a season of darkness. What had begun
| A．arrived | B．solved | C．created | D．mentioned |
| A．curious | B．excited | C．anxious | D．confident |
| A．skating | B．teaching | C．sharing | D．baking |
| A．to | B．with | C．for | D．as |
| A．neighbors' | B．friends' | C．roomates' | D．classmates' |
| A．how soon | B．how much | C．how often | D．how long |
| A．wish | B．paper | C．package | D．book |
| A．thoughts | B．questions | C．methods | D．knowledge |
| A．trained | B．got | C．missed | D．developed |
| A．puzzled | B．required | C．added | D．invited |
| A．taking up | B．showing up | C．showing off | D．taking away |
| A．even | B．also | C．hardly | D．yet |
| A．Though | B．So | C．Since | D．But |
| A．regret | B．honor | C．contribution | D．relationship |
| A．simple | B．valuable | C．different | D．secret |
| A．allowed | B．protected | C．advised | D．reminded |
| A．for | B．to | C．without | D．as |
| A．never | B．ever | C．neither | D．yet |
| A．admiration | B．inspiration | C．beauty | D．performance |
| A．alone | B．polite | C．considerate | D．active |
6 . 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 |
7 . 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. |
8 . I believe in miracles (奇迹) because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a
Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would
During her next appointment, I explained to her the
I thought otherwise. After considerable
About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and
“How are you?” I asked.
“I’m just fine, honey,” she responded
Surprised to see her at all, I answered
I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had
I had read of such things happening, but had
Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is
| A．cut | B．pain | C．wound | D．cancer |
| A．declared | B．suspected | C．promised | D．insisted |
| A．refuse | B．continue | C．attempt | D．manage |
| A．roof | B．corner | C．bottom | D．surface |
| A．confirmed | B．convinced | C．considered | D．concluded |
| A．possibility | B．importance | C．seriousness | D．resolution |
| A．old | B．sick | C．fine | D．glad |
| A．permission | B．support | C．approval | D．effort |
| A．persuade | B．please | C．encourage | D．astonish |
| A．declined | B．provided | C．received | D．required |
| A．healthy | B．elegant | C．optimistic | D．humorous |
| A．to | B．in | C．with | D．by |
| A．worriedly | B．confusedly | C．patiently | D．confidently |
| A．covered | B．reached | C．spread | D．grown |
| A．cured | B．faded | C．expanded | D．remained |
| A．ever | B．also | C．never | D．already |
| A．easier | B．rarer | C．happier | D．closer |
| A．or | B．so | C．yet | D．for |
| A．read | B．make | C．keep | D．see |
| A．whatever | B．wherever | C．whoever | D．whichever |
①征文比赛的评选（评出优秀作品、颁奖、获奖征文展示等）。
②参赛作品的特点（反映阅兵场面、爱国热情等）。
③自己的感想和愿望。
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2. 必须包含提示内容；
3. 请勿提及真实学校名称；
4. 可适当加入细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯。
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