1 . When Bob Cialdini was a senior in high school, he was really good at baseball. Good enough that a scout (球探)
The scout then had a
He pushed Cialdini about his interest in college, asking him if he
“He said, ‘Go to
Cialdini
Decades later, Cialdini is still
“Don’t just go where your
| A．called up | B．hanged out | C．set up | D．showed up |
| A．ticket | B．permit | C．contract | D．prize |
| A．argument | B．conversation | C．experiment | D．holiday |
| A．work | B．business | C．position | D．college |
| A．enjoyed | B．completed | C．continued | D．pursued |
| A．school | B．baseball | C．training | D．work |
| A．disappointed | B．quick | C．good | D．creative |
| A．considered | B．followed | C．sought | D．ignored |
| A．carried on | B．turned up | C．paid off | D．broke down |
| A．confused | B．struck | C．amazed | D．annoyed |
| A．qualities | B．efforts | C．intentions | D．interests |
| A．advice | B．experience | C．choice | D．success |
| A．changes | B．decisions | C．breakthroughs | D．mistakes |
| A．belief | B．purpose | C．dream | D．courage |
| A．potential | B．time | C．support | D．patience |
2 . Youth Speech Competition
UNICEF is working towards a world where every child has what they need to survive and develop. But we can’t do it without big ideas from young people — young people who are brave enough to share their brilliant ideas with the world. UNICEF USA and TED-Ed invite young people to create their own talks on the rights of children and the problems young people face around the world.
One winner will be invited to UNICEF USA’s Annual Student Summit to make his/her speech on stage!
Criteria (标准)Youths aged 10-18 (if you are under 13, you must have a parent or teacher to help you register (报名)).
Must register online.
Your video must be under 2 minutes.
Deadline (截止时间): Your video must be handed in by midnight, January 27, 2023.Topics of Discussion:
●Migration ●Sustainable (可持续的) Development ●Values and Beliefs
Prizes
Winners will be announced on February 4, 2023.
One winner will be invited to make his/her speech on stage on UNICEF USA’s Annual Student Summit in Washington, D. C. on March 16-17, 2023!
UNICEF USA will pay for all travel expenses (flights and hotels). The student will be responsible for personal meals and personal expenses. If you are under the age of 18, you will need to travel with a responsible adult chaperone (监护人). UNICEF USA will pay for the chaperone’s travel expenses as well.
How to RegisterCreate an account (账户) using this link: ed.ted.com/unicefusa.
Once your account has been created, return to the TED-Ed Student Talks page and register!
Once you’ve handed in your registration, allow 2-3 days for processing.
Once you’ve recorded your talk, upload it using the “Upload” tab in your Resource Library on the TED-Ed website.
1. What will UNICEF USA and TED-Ed welcome?| A．Excellent paintings. | B．Brilliant articles. |
| C．Interesting stories. | D．Creative ideas. |
| A．Pay an entry fee. | B．Attend a training class. |
| C．Send a speech video within 2 minutes. | D．Perform on stage in Washington, D. C. |
| A．It has no age limit. | B．It focus on social issues. |
| C．It provides free meals. | D．It is held every two years. |
| A．On January 27, 2023. | B．On February 4, 2023. |
| C．On April 18, 2023. | D．On March 16-17, 2023. |
| A．visit TED-Ed’s website | B．send an e-mail |
| C．sign up in a library | D．call workers from TED |
| A．appearance | B．impression | C．attitude | D．expression |
| A．which | B．of them | C．when | D．of which |
5 . I was out shopping with my kids doing my best to budget (谨慎花钱) the last of my paycheck. I saw a lady sitting beside my car with a sign that she was
The next day I was down to about $ 12 and
| A．alone | B．homeless | C．cold | D．unhappy |
| A．spend | B．lend | C．spare | D．make |
| A．paycheck | B．water | C．key | D．money |
| A．work | B．pay | C．home | D．school |
| A．special | B．good | C．upset | D．curious |
| A．bakery | B．park | C．field | D．restaurant |
| A．save | B．keep | C．design | D．deliver |
| A．credits | B．tickets | C．change | D．gold |
| A．In return | B．In addition | C．In turn | D．Instead |
| A．thanked | B．met | C．asked | D．shook |
| A．equal | B．cheap | C．extra | D．small |
| A．gesture | B．bag | C．amount | D．request |
| A．depended | B．commented | C．lived | D．based |
| A．wisdom | B．appreciation | C．love | D．kindness |
| A．go | B．receive | C．give | D．say |
6 . In the Hollywood movie The Martian, actor Matt Damon plays an astronaut who grows food on Mars (火星) to survive alone on the red planet.
After seeing the movie, Washington State University physicist Michael Allen and University of Idaho food scientist Helen Joyner decided to carry out a case study helping students figure out how to farm on Mars. In the case study, students had to imagine they were mining on Mars and decide how to feed themselves there before starting on the journey. They got advice from Allen and Joyner on how to select crops and take the challenges of growing crops over long periods on Mars. Students used a scoring system to select three foods to plant on Mars.
Allen found the results impressive: among 30 students, “no two people have ever gotten the same answer”, he said.
Human travelers to Mars will likely have to make use of resources on the planet rather than take everything they need with them on a spaceship. This means farming their own food on another planet, one that has a very different ecosystem (生态系统) from Earth’s.
One challenge for those who would like to live on Mars is the fact that there can be no farming tools. Like real astronauts, students taking part in the study cannot take farming tools with them. As Joyner put it to his student astronauts, “You are starting with nothing.” Besides, students also have to deal with a very limited choice of diet. “If you had to eat a single food for the rest of your life, could you do it?” Joyner asked.
But Allen believes the case study is about more than farming and eating on the Red Planet. “I’m not teaching about growing food on Mars,” Allen said, “I’m teaching about living with choices. I’m teaching about problem solving.”
1. What made Michael Allen and Helen Joyner carry out the case study?| A．A trip. | B．A book. | C．A movie. | D．A lecture. |
| A．start with everything | B．try different tools |
| C．watch the movie | D．select three foods |
| A．They have a limited choice of diet. | B．They have a lot of farming tools. |
| C．They have to take part in the study. | D．They have to select crops on Mars. |
| A．how to look for foods on Mars | B．to know more about Earth |
| C．how to solve problems | D．to learn about gardening |
| A．a research on how to farm on Mars | B．a Hollywood movie The Martian |
| C．how to survive alone on Earth | D．how to design a scoring system |
| A．stupid | B．positive | C．negative | D．sad |
8 . I would often watch the kids from my window as they played basketball. One day, among the children a girl
One day I asked her
I
Sensing her
The next year, the girl was
| A．attracted | B．worried | C．satisfied | D．troubled |
| A．expected | B．learned | C．managed | D．remembered |
| A．why | B．how | C．when | D．where |
| A．strange | B．bad | C．young | D．big |
| A．helped | B．watched | C．taught | D．respected |
| A．sleeping | B．working | C．dancing | D．sitting |
| A．Coldly | B．Angrily | C．Quietly | D．Sharply |
| A．frequently | B．never | C．sometimes | D．always |
| A．comfort | B．disappointment | C．happiness | D．relief |
| A．careless | B．serious | C．impolite | D．wrong |
| A．sign | B．world | C．power | D．source |
| A．sing | B．teach | C．cheer | D．play |
| A．for | B．except | C．from | D．with |
| A．offered | B．posted | C．produced | D．donated |
| A．college | B．hospital | C．shop | D．charity |
9 . Many years ago, I was fresh out of school and working in Denver. One day, I drove to my parents’ home in Missouri for Thanksgiving Day. Suddenly, I found the gas was running out. I stopped, wondering what I was supposed to do. A car pulled up behind me and an old couple came out. They offered to pull my car to a gas station. When we said good- bye to each other. the husband gave me his business card.
When I arrived home, I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note. I soon received a note saying that helping me had made their holiday meaningful.
Years later, I drove to a nearby town for a meeting in the morning. In the late afternoon, I returned to my car and found that the battery was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford Dealership — a shop selling cars — was right next door. I walked over and found a salesman waiting beside the door.
“Would you please do me a favor?” I asked and explained my trouble. He quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. He would accept no payment. When I got home, I wrote a note to thank him. I received a letter back from the salesman. He said no one had ever taken the time to write him a note of thanks and it meant a lot.
Although it is easy to say thanks to others, it means so much.
1. Why did the author drive to his parents’ home in Missouri?| A．To repair his car. | B．To see a friend. |
| C．For Thanksgiving Day. | D．For a meeting. |
| A．An old couple helped him go to a gas station. |
| B．He had a word with a policeman nearby. |
| C．He pushed his car to a car dealership. |
| D．He called up his best friend for help. |
| A．The author got a gas from the old couple. |
| B．The author’s car battery was dead. |
| C．The author wrote a letter to the old couple. |
| D．The author bought a car from the dealership. |
| A．moved | B．worried | C．nervous | D．sad |
| A．how to write a thank-you note | B．how to deal with car problems |
| C．the kind-heartedness of old people | D．the importance of expressing thanks |
10 . Modern technology has a strong influence on every part of our life, including the education in the universities.
Ashok Goel, a professor of Georgia Institute of Technology, says he uses the Internet in almost all of the classes he teaches. Every term over 300 graduate students take his class on artificial intelligence (人工智能). The students never meet in person. All of the classes take place online — through a website, which lets students ask questions and complete their work from anywhere in the world.
Having hundreds of students in a class means Ashok Goel has to answer thousands of questions. He has eight teaching assistants to help him. But even that is not enough to give all the students the help they need.
So, in January, Goel had an idea. He decided to try an experiment. At the start of the spring 2016 term, he added a new member to his teaching team: Jill Watson. She was able to answer questions faster than most other teaching assistants. And she was available 24 hours a day.
It was only at the end of the term that Goel’s students learned Watson’s true identity: she was not a real person like the other teaching assistants. Jill Watson was an AI computer program.
And it seems Goel’s stories will become more common in the universities.
A website called Campus Technology publishes stories about how colleges and universities use new technology. In August, the site published a survey of over 500 professors and their use of technology. Fifty-five percent of the professors asked students to use study materials online before coming to class. And, more than 70 percent combined (使相结合) online materials and face-to-face teaching in their classrooms.
1. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?| A．Goel seldom uses the Internet in his class. | B．The students take Goel’s class online. |
| C．Goel occasionally meets his colleagues. | D．Goel’s students dislike going to college. |
| A．He is not a clever professor. | B．He wants to have a good sleep. |
| C．He does not want to give answers. | D．He has no time to answer all the questions. |
| A．She was a real person. | B．She helped Goel with his work. |
| C．She was one of Goel’s students. | D．She could ask all the questions. |
| A．Who a person is. | B．The name of a person. |
| C．Where a person is from. | D．A person’s contribution. |
| A．Ashok Goel has eight assistants to help him. |
| B．New technology is changing our way of living. |
| C．Modern technology greatly influences college education. |
| D．Teachers will be completely replaced by the computers. |
