1 . What if you threw a party and nobody came, but that's exactly what you expected? That's precisely what famous physicist Stephen Hawking did on June 28, 2009. He rented a space at Cambridge University and got balloons and decorations. Then he sat in the empty room for a few hours and left.
Essentially, Hawking's time travel party was held for our future generations, should they ever solve the mystery of time travel, one of the biggest challenges in modern physics. The setup may seem silly, but Hawking was actually experimenting. That's because our current knowledge of physics does not strictly forbid time travel. Indeed, in some cases, it's clearly allowed.
The general theory of relativity provides several situations that might enable time travel into the past. One involves a limitlessly long cylinder（圆柱体）, which rotates（旋转）fast enough to allow you to travel a path around it and end up in the past. Another is the creation of a worm hole with different time at each end, allowing you to travel down one end and exit into the past.
Since nobody showed up to Hawking's time travel party, we have a few possible conclusions:
1. Time travel into the past is allowed, but we figure it out so far into the future that Hawking's invitation doesn't survive long enough.
2. Time travel into the past is allowed, but we never figure it out. Maybe our human intelligence isn't quite powerful enough to detect the deeper mysteries of the universe.
3. Time travel into the past is allowed, but there are rules. Maybe it is exceptionally complicated to build a time machine, or we can send signals into the past, but not entire persons.
Of course, if someone from the future had shown up, it would've been a big deal. But, as experiments go, Hawking's party wasn't a total failure. In this case, it showed that the mystery of time travel will remain unsolved-at least for the time being.
1. Why did Stephen Hawking throw the party?| A．To celebrate a breakthrough. | B．To benefit future generations. |
| C．To welcome certain visitors. | D．To test a physics assumption. |
| A．Its vital significance. | B．Its possible methods. |
| C．Its potential influence. | D．Its practical applications. |
| A．Lost invitation. | B．Disturbed signals. |
| C．Powerful intelligence. | D．Insufficient attention. |
| A．It was valuable. | B．It was impractical. |
| C．It was confusing. | D．It was frightening. |
2 . Several years ago, I read about William Helmreich walking every street in New York City. I thought, “I can do that for Montreal.” With little hesitation, I devoted the next five years of my life to the project.
I never walked through any shabby (破旧的) neighborhoods. From one end of my map to the other, all houses were well looked after. People went to great lengths to decorate their homes, and with this came one of the great pleasures of my walks: the different measures they took to decorate their frontage (正面). I discovered that pigs are a popular decorative element throughout the city. The type that is dressed up as humans, I mean. I saw pigs wearing dresses, shirts, and even swimming costumes.
Every outing has its wonders. Never assume a neighborhood has little of interest to offer. You must be trained to seek out strange things. Otherwise, you might never spot the clothes on the sidewalks. If I stopped to collect everything I saw lying around abandoned, I could fit out a small country. Where did they come from? How did people lose their shoes while walking out ? A puzzle.
As my project progressed, I felt like I owned the city. I could get off at any subway station and my feet remembered the route to the best shops. There was enough fun in my walks that I’d have a few laughs and feel more light-hearted than when I left.
Anyone can get in on this walking game. I admit with some shame. I used to huddle (蜷缩) in my part of town, feeling isolated, but walking its streets has truly opened my eyes to Montreal’s full menu. Now I’m quite satisfied with what I obtain. So just head to a neighborhood to nose around. I can assure you that you’ll feel like a pioneer with the discoveries you bring back.
1. Why did the author decide to walk the streets of Montreal?| A．She wanted to collect strange things. |
| B．She wanted to do some research. |
| C．She had to conduct a project. |
| D．She drew inspiration from an article. |
| A．The shabby houses are abandoned. |
| B．People enjoy dressing up as pigs. |
| C．People enjoy decorating their houses. |
| D．All the houses are equal in length. |
| A．The houses in good condition. |
| B．The clothes left on sidewalks. |
| C．The routes of subway stations. |
| D．The animals walking on the streets. |
| A．Cheerful and content. | B．Excited and energetic. |
| C．Relieved and grateful. | D．Puzzled and upset. |
3 . A dozen children ran around laughing and playing in the yard, while we parents sat chatting. The barbecue had been cleared away when our host announced a(an)
“Come on, let’s go get in line,” my husband Neil
With all the
I enjoyed my success. It was such a relief that I
| A．game | B．race | C．danger | D．emergency |
| A．angry | B．annoying | C．cautious | D．enthusiastic |
| A．turned back | B．ran around | C．moved off | D．lined up |
| A．aimlessness | B．carelessness | C．fearlessness | D．restlessness |
| A．aware | B．proud | C．afraid | D．ashamed |
| A．urged | B．promised | C．complained | D．whispered |
| A．choices | B．intentions | C．excuses | D．experiences |
| A．forgetting | B．seeing | C．creating | D．ignoring |
| A．precious | B．dangerous | C．interesting | D．dull |
| A．forced | B．forbade | C．commanded | D．persuaded |
| A．courage | B．wisdom | C．inspiration | D．confusion |
| A．move | B．escape | C．fall | D．ski |
| A．immediately | B．steadily | C．unwillingly | D．hesitantly |
| A．kept | B．tried | C．began | D．avoided |
| A．doubted | B．overcame | C．gained | D．presented |
4 . How to handle changes in your friendship group?
Friends are important. From time to time, however, the balance in friendships can change. One of the biggest reasons is that someone new joins the group.
Changes in friendship groups can be unsettling, especially if everything had been going well beforehand. You might be concerned things feel awkward or different, or that you might become jealous if a new person joins your circle.
If your best friends seem to stop being interested in you and appear to be investing all their time in a new friend, take time to think about the situation before rushing to confront（对峙）them.
Friends are amazing and can carry you through good and bad times, but you’re not defined by others, and you deserve people who want to be in your life. Everyone changes, and there might come a time when friends no longer wish to spend time with you.
| A．Help your friends be open-minded. |
| B．Imagine how you’d feel if you were left alone. |
| C．This doesn’t mean giving up on your best friends. |
| D．Even if you can’t change their minds, you can keep your dignity. |
| E．Remind yourself that friendships develop throughout life - it’s natural. |
| F．You might dislike the change, wishing things had stayed as they were. |
| G．Ask yourself if they’re really ignoring you or just widening their circle? |
Shoes are made for walking.
But Aamir, a homeless Indian boy, doubted it. Wandering the noisy railway platform, he found one of his flip-flops (人字拖鞋) broken again. He hurried to a corner, sat down and tried to fix it, his bare foot pressing awkwardly against the ground. However, it was beyond repair.
He gave up and looked around aimlessly, staring at people’s shoes. Suddenly, his eyes were drawn to two boyish legs wearing perfectly white socks and equally perfect black leather (皮) shoes, which were shining in the mid-day sun. It was a boy of his age. He treasured his shoes so much, obviously, because every ten seconds, he stopped, bent down and carefully wiped his shoes. His father was constantly glancing over and saying, “Hurry up! The train is coming!”
Aamir’s eyes followed the father and son, but mostly the beautiful shoes, as if enchanted (被施魔法的). Imagining himself wearing them, the comfort from the good leather, jaw-dropping look on his friends’ faces, he couldn’t help cracking a big smile.
The bell of the train drew him back; the fancy-shoe boy and his father were about to get aboard. They tried to crowd into the doorway. However, the instant the boy entered the compartment (车厢), one of his shoes fell off and before he could pick it up, the train began to pull away.
The shoe was now lying alone on the platform. Aamir’s eyes lit up with excitement. Like an arrow, he shot for the shoe and then picked it up, holding it with both hands as if holding the Queen’s crown. After a few seconds of hesitating and looking from the shoe to the train and back, he began racing--with only one good shoe, his flip-flop.
He held the leather shoe up, trying to pass it to the boy through the window, who was desperately reaching out his hand as well. However, it was never close enough.
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That left Aamir no choice but to throw the shoe onto the train.
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Young Chinese bring Hanfu to the world
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In the final of the men’s 100m freestyle at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Chinese athlete Pan Zhanle achieved an astonishing time of 46. 40 seconds, breaking the world record and
Pan Zhanle not only won honor for the Chinese swimming team
After the competition, Pan Zhanle said that this gold medal is
8 . Since the mid-1990s, tourists have paid storm-chasers to take them to places in the American Great Plains where they expect to see tornadoes (龙卷风), whose winds may top 250 miles an hour and can clear a pathway a mile wide and 50 miles long. Why, a reasonable follow-up question might go, would anyone want to get so close to something so disruptive? These tourists, a study found, characterized their relationship to severe weather as a “passion”, describing their feelings about tornadoes using words like “enjoyment”, “fascination” and “love”. But the main motivator seemed to be simple: Twisters are cool.
America has many more tornadoes than any other country, and its people have long regarded twisters with a mix of fear, awe and thrilled pleasure. Fast-moving and dramatic, tornadoes have been irresistible parts for popular entertainment. One needn’t be an extreme-weather enthusiast, however, to take a brief and far-less dangerous tour: of culture tornadoes have inspired and of the transformation of American society’s feelings about these storms from fear to excitement.
European colonists (殖民者) in the future United States were fascinated - and sometimes horrified - by their new land’s weather. In the Early Republic, some people began to write about tornadoes in terms of awe, and to produce art that explored the phenomenon’s natural beauty. Since the 1930s, American tornadoes have been less deadly: the country has much better early-warning systems, fewer people live in rural areas and tornado activity has largely shifted from the southeast to the thinly-populated Great Plains.
Storm-chasing-a scientific, thrill-seeking activity that most Americans found out about via the 1996 film Twister, is still incomprehensible to many who don’t practice it. “I find it difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t chased what forces us to seek pleasure from risk,” wrote Jennifer Henderson, a crazy storm-chaser, characterizing her feelings while chasing as “a sense of exposure and revelation (揭露) tightly coupled”.
1. What does the underlined word “disruptive” in the first paragraph mean?| A．Amazing. | B．Ruinous. | C．Essential. | D．Complicated. |
| A．They are small high-speed weather events. |
| B．They are less common in American history. |
| C．They have aroused interest in weather tours. |
| D．They are less dangerous than normally supposed. |
| A．The population of America declined dramatically. |
| B．The tornadoes didn’t exist in the southeastern area. |
| C．The natural disaster warning got improved. |
| D．The environment was damaged by colonists. |
| A．The Thrill of Storm Chasing | B．The Tour of Watching Tornadoes |
| C．The Formation of Tornadoes | D．A Unique Phenomenon in Nature |
1. Where can you most probably hear this talk?
| A．In a class of the Greek language. |
| B．In a class of the French language. |
| C．In a class of the English language. |
| A．30 weeks. | B．15 weeks. | C．13 weeks. |
| A．Taking more courses. |
| B．Learning how words are formed. |
| C．Reading basic words aloud. |
| A．It helps to master useful rules. |
| B．It’s taught by Professor Morris. |
| C．It is offered at a given time. |
1. Who is likely to be at the top of his class this year?
| A．Jason. | B．Jack. | C．Mark. |
| A．Becoming a professor. | B．Making money from sports. | C．Going to Harvard University. |
| A．Law. | B．Baseball. | C．Football. |
| A．To make future plans for Jason. |
| B．To have a talk with Mark. |
| C．To have a talk with his wife. |
