1 . How to stay focused in class
Being relaxed during class is a bad habit, and it is also bad to your grade. Focusing in class not only proves to teachers that you are a capable student but also shows that you have the ability to control yourself, which will be very important.
Look at teacher and make eye contact. Your teacher is not just standing up there talking.
Take notes. By taking notes, you’ll be able to “get into” the lesson. Write down key points as your teacher speaks. And listen to the key phrases such as “This is important” “This is the main idea” “This will be the test” etc.
Get involved in class discussions. This is a wonderful way to become a more focused, successful student. When a teacher asks a question, offer to answer it.
Ask a question.
| A．Avoid sitting with friends. |
| B．This can help you listen more attentively. |
| C．If he or she ask for an opinion, share your own. |
| D．He or she is trying to give you a good education. |
| E．Talking with friends will make you lose interest in class. |
| F．If you don’t understand something, never be afraid to ask. |
| G．The more quickly you answer, the more attention you pay. |
16-year-old Tim looked up to his father Roger, who worked as a firefighter. While the teenager always talked about his dream of joining the fire department, the man didn’t believe the boy was cut out to be a firefighter because Tim left the usual stereotype (刻板形象) of a bookworm: a straight-A student who wore large glasses, and was physically weak.
It was a typical school day. Tim’s math teacher announced their weekly test results, and the boy was delighted to learn that he had scored the highest mark. His friend Christine however, was upset because she got a bad grade.
Seeing her sit in a corner with her head resting on the table, he approached her and said, “Hey, Christine I know you got a bad grade, but I can teach you these topics. You’ll grasp it in no time, I’m sure. And you can improve your grade next week. What do you say?” “That’s so sweet of you, Tim! Let’s meet at my house after school today,” Christine saidwith a smile. “Sure!” Tim replied.
Christine lived on the outskirts (郊区) of town. It took Tim, who passed his driving test recently, half an hour to drive there. Once his car neared Christine’s estate, he was shocked to see a blazing (熊熊燃烧的) fire. Upon driving closer, he realized her house was on fire. Frightened, he quickly picked up his phone and called 911.
Then, Tim took off bis shir, grabbed a bottle of water from his car, and poured it on the shirt. He wrapped the wet shirt around his face, as he had seen in movies, and entered the house. He started climbing towards the hallway window of Christine’s bedroom.
Tim found a baseball bat in the hall. It took him five whole minutes to swing it hard enough to break the window. Once the glass was broken, he rushed towards Christine’s room. He couldn’t see much because of the thick black smoke floating in the air, but he managed to locale her. She was lying unconscious (昏迷的) on her bed after breathing in the smoke.
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Roger received an unexpected call from the hospital telling him of Tim’s heroic act.
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| A．rejected | B．protected | C．separated | D．banned |
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| A．refused | B．ate | C．valued | D．smelled |
| A．exchange | B．send | C．accept | D．express |
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6 . How to be more patient every day
These days, patience is practically on the endangered species list as far as virtues go.
Set up cues
Choose an activity you perform frequently throughout the day and think of the word “patience” every time you do it. If you find yourself forgetting about this as the day wears on, simply resume(重新开始) the practice as soon as you remember.
Visualize success
Visualize a situation that would normally challenge you. See yourself smiling and breathing as you wait for the line to move, and add some positive statements.
Meditate (冥想)
Slow down
When racing around seems like the only way to get where you need to be on time, it becomes your default setting. But most adults do not feel happy when they’re rushing, and children are even less capable of doing it with a good attitude.
| A．Continue every day for a week. |
| B．For example “I will enjoy this magazine while I wait.” |
| C．Our tolerance for waiting isn’t much better in other areas of our lives. |
| D．People who meditate say that they feel more peaceful, open-minded, and content. |
| E．However, mastering patience makes you a more engaged and confident member of society. |
| F．In fact, with a little know- how and effort, everyone can learn to wait out delays, big and small. |
| G．Instead of sweating through your routine, turn on some background music and move at a normal pace. |
7 . Plato (柏拉图) was upset about the invention of the alphabet (字母表) because, with this “technology”, learners would not use their memories and thus appear to be a know-it-all but actually know nothing. If Plato were alive today, what would he say about ChatGPT? ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence program released recently by OpenAI, is a significant advancement that can produce articles comparable to good high school essays.
When I asked ChatGPT a range of simple questions, the answers were well-reasoned and clear. It’s also interactive: I could ask for more details or request changes. But then, on trickier topics or more complicated concepts, ChatGPT gave completely wrong answers.
However, that doesn’t mean ChatGPT can’t be a useful tool in education. Schools have already been dealing with the Internet’s wealth of knowledge, along with its misleading essay mills (制造厂). One way has been to change how they teach. Rather than listen to a lectures in class and then go home to research and write an essay, students listen to recorded lectures and do research ai home, then write essays in class, with supervision, even cooperation with peers (同龄人) and teachers. This is called flipped classrooms, in which students wouldn’t use ChatGPT to create a whole essay. Instead, they’d use it as a tool to generate critically examined building blocks of essays.
Plato was wrong to think that memory itself is a goal rather than a means for people to have facts so they can make better analyses and arguments. As Plato was wrong to fear the written word as the enemy, we would be wrong to think we should resist a process that allows us to gather information more easily.
The way forward is not just to feel regret for replaced skills, as Plato did, but also to recognize that as more complex skills become essential, our society must fairly educate people to develop them. And then it always goes back to the basics. Value people as people, not just as packs of skills. And that isn’t something ChatGPT can tell us how to do.
1. What would probably be Plato’s attitude toward ChatGPT?| A．Supportive. | B．Objective. | C．Critical. | D．Tolerant. |
| A．They use it for error correction. |
| B．They rely on it to conduct peer reviews. |
| C．They rely on It to create a whole essay. |
| D．They use it as part of their research. |
| A．He confused facts with opinions. |
| B．He used written words to attack his enemy. |
| C．He put too much emphasis on memory. |
| D．He doubted easily accessible information. |
| A．Improving ChatGPT |
| B．Equipping all people with necessary skills. |
| C．Bringing people with different skills together. |
| D．Bringing new life to replaced skills. |
8 . Despite the bad reputation of sharks, they are crucial to the health of the marine ecosystem and can even help fight climate change.
In the shallows of Shark Bay, Western Australia, seagrass is food for the sea cows, which can weigh as much as 500kg and eat roughly 40kg of seagrass a day. Sea cows are a rich source of food for tiger sharks. By keeping the sea cow population in check, tiger sharks here help the seagrass meadows (草地) grow. A flourishing seagrass meadow stores twice as much CO2 per square mile as forests typically do on land.
But tiger shark numbers are declining. Off Australia’s northeast coast of Queensland, tiger sharks are estimated to have fallen by at least 71 percent, largely due to overfishing. A reduction in tiger sharks means more seagrass consumed by herbivores (食草动物) and less carbon stored in sea vegetation. This begged the question: What if they were absent from the Shark Bay—would the seagrass dominated ecosystem survive?
To find out, researchers led by Rob Nowicki of Florida International University, spent time in Eastern Australia, where shark numbers were lower and sea cows ate seagrass largely undisturbed. “When unchecked, sea cows can rapidly destroy wide areas of seagrass,” said Nowicki. “When the seagrass recovers, the seagrass community looks different, with more tropical species dominating than before.”
Those findings underlined the role that tiger sharks were playing in Shark Bay. If their populations continue to decline, the resilience of carbon-rich ocean ecosystems will likely decrease.
When it comes to boosting shark numbers, there have been movements toward more sustainable fishing, but a large percentage of the industry have not changed their methods, which is a reason why the population of many marine top predators continues to decline.
Aside from supporting sustainable fishing, Nowicki said the only way to truly protect marine life is to reduce our global greenhouse gas emissions. “Ultimately, if we are going to conserve our ecosystems in the centuries to come, we are going to need to solve climate change while undertaking species conservation at the same time.”
1. What does the underlined phrase “in check” in paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．in sight | B．on the rise | C．under control | D．up to date |
| A．How sea cows destroy the seagrass community. |
| B．How shark population influences the ocean ecosystem. |
| C．What was contributing to the declining number of tiger sharks. |
| D．What to do to recover the seagrass-dominated ecosystem. |
| A．Unsustainable fishing practices. | B．Water pollution. |
| C．Loss of seagrass | D．Climate change |
| A．Regulating fishing activities. |
| B．Solving ocean pollution problems. |
| C．Establishing natural reserves. |
| D．Reducing our carbon footprint. |
9 . When the French and Indian War concluded in 1763, the result was a complete British victory over the French. Then Britain enacted several new tax laws, intending to raise revenue (收入) from Britain’s American colonies(殖民地) to pay for the war.
Four main taxes created tension in the colonies: the Sugar Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1773. The first, the Sugar Act, was enacted to prevent the smuggling (走私) of molasses. Under the Molasses Act of 1733, colonists had to pay a duty of six pence per gallon on the importation of molasses. Yet customs officials routinely accepted bribes (贿赂) of around one and a half pence per gallon and permitted the molasses to be shipped untaxed. The Sugar Act actually reduced the duty to three pence, but the colonists still refused to pay it. Only when it was lowered to one penny in 1766 did it become cheaper to pay the duty than the bribes.
The Sugar Act was not widely opposed because it primarily affected those involved in trade and shipping. The same cannot be said of the Stamp Act, which had a wide-ranging effect on every colony. It required that many documents the colonists used, especially those related to legal affairs and publishing, could only be written on paper with a crown revenue stamp on it. Essentially, the colonists had to buy special paper from the British government at a higher price than normal paper. Regarding this as a direct form of taxation, the colonists resisted the act so strongly that it was ended in 1766.
The Townshend Acts were designed to tax a wide variety of imported items to raise money to pay the salaries of government officials in the colonies. Once again, however, the colonists objected as they believed that British control of American colonial government officials’ salaries would result in more widespread British influence in North America. The acts were ended in 1770 except for a tax on tea. This led to the Tea Act, which was to allow the East India Company to gain a monopoly (垄断) on the sale of tea in the colonies. On December 16, 1773, American colonists stormed aboard British ships in Boston Harbor and cast their tea into the water in what came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. This eventually led to the American Revolution.
1. How much tax were American colonists required to pay on molasses m 1765?| A．1 penny per gallon. | B．1.5 pence per gallon. |
| C．3 pence per gallon | D．6 pence per gallon. |
| A．Its influence on trade and shipping. |
| B．Its official position as a direct form of taxation. |
| C．The complex documents required by the British. |
| D．The high cost of paper from the British government. |
| A．Britain might gain more control over the colonies. |
| B．There might be much fewer imported items. |
| C．The colonial officials’ salaries might be lowered. |
| D．The East India Company might have a monopoly on tea. |
| A．American colonists and British lawmakers |
| B．British taxation and the American Revolution |
| C．Cause and effect of the French and Indian War |
| D．The introduction to Britain’s American colonies |
10 . Wells Traditions
Traditions are a part of life at Wells College. They connect us with each other, providing a sense of timelessness and continuity. The experiences and memories that make up these traditions make us all a part of a special community-and they’re really fun! Some of the most long-standing traditions include the following:
MOVING UP DAY
Each spring the senior class promotes students to the next class year. This all-student occasion is organized by the senior class. This tradition has recently been split in two with a Senior Roast happening on the Thursday before the last day of classes. At this event, seniors sing songs and tell jokes. On the last day of classes, seniors gather students around the Sycamore where juniors are given college pins and seniors are given roses.
CONVOCATION
Opening Convocation celebrates the beginning of the academic year and the formal introduction of the new incoming class. A traditional part of this convocation is the candlelight ceremony. Symbolized by a candle flame, the sprit of the Wells connection is passed from alumni (校友) to students, signifying that Wells students give one another throughout their lives.
TEA TIME
Tea and coffee are served every Wednesday afternoon. Though the long dresses and china cups are gone, this break from afternoon classes is still a great time to get together with friends and professors.
MINERVA
Outside of Main, the College’s first building, sits the lovely statue of the Roman goddess Minerva, symbolizing wisdom and invention. The senor class decorates Minerva at the beginning of the school year, and Minerva remains decorated throughout the year. During the morning of the last day of classes, after singing around the Sycamore tree, the senior class takes turns kissing the feet of Minerva, believing she will bring success and prosperity to all graduating seniors.
1. What do we know about Moving Up Day?| A．It is organized annually by juniors. | B．It is held to reward excellent seniors. |
| C．It is celebrated on two separate days. | D．It is celebrated in two different colleges. |
| A．MOVING UP DAY. | B．CONVOCATION. | C．TEA TIME. | D．MINERVA. |
| A．Minerva. | B．Senior Roast. | C．Tea and coffee. | D．The candlelight. |
