In my community, there is a little boy who suffered from congenital muscle disease. He always considered himself the most unfortunate person in the world. Although he looked no different from ordinary people, it’s difficult for him to do some delicate movements. He often lost control of his hands and dropped things on the ground. Even after a short run, he would easily get out of breath. Depression and inferiority made him almost always alone. All of these make his mother very worried.
Then one spring, the boy’s mother bought some saplings (树苗) from a nearby market. She intended to plant them in the forecourt. She told her children to plant a sapling each person. The mother said to her three children, “Whose seedling grows best, I will buy him or her a favorite gift.” The boy also wanted to get his mother’s gift. But seeing his brothers and sisters carrying water to water the trees happily, anyhow, an idea hit him: he hoped the tree he planted would die soon. So watering it once or twice, he never attended to it.
Several days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was surprised to find it grew some fresh leaves instead of withering (枯萎), and compared with the trees of his brother and sister, his appeared greener and more vital. He wondered what on earth had happened. As expected, his mother kept her promise, bought the little boy his favorite gift and said to him, “From the tree you plant, you will become an outstanding botanist (植物学家) when you grow up.”
Since then, the little boy slowly became optimistic. One day, the little boy lay on the bed but couldn’t sleep. Looking at the bright moonlight outside the window, he suddenly recalled what the bi ology teacher once said, plants generally grow at night.
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“Why not go to the forecourt and take a look at my tree?” he said to himself.
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From that night on, he understood what his mother meant and decided to change himself.
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Amanda had been trying for Auditions (试演) for All-State Band. Then, the day before the audition. she met into Janet Jacobs. “So, Amanda, I hear you are auditioning for All-State. Do you really want to embarrass yourself?” Janet said snottily (自负的). Janet and Amanda had been fighting for first chair in the school band ever since Amanda had gotten it. “Janet, I’m still first chair,” Amanda replied.
That afternoon, Mr, Johnson, the school band director, stood up to make an announcement. “Kids.” he said, “today Janet Jacobs would like to challenge Amanda Foster for first chair.”Amanda wasn’t worried; Janet had challenged her four times and nothing had come of it. However, Amanda hit the note wrong, and her sound was not good at all. Janet, on the other hand, played perfectly. Amanda was shameful. It was one of the band pieces she should have known. Janet was given first chair and Amanda left the band room with tears. She went through the rest of her classes in a haze.
“We’re leaving for the audition in one hour!” said Mr. Foster the next morning. “I don’t feel well. Maybe next year, ”said Amanda. Then she burst into tears and ran from the room.
Her mom followed her into her bedroom and sat on the foot of her bed. “Oh. Amanda. First of all, I’ve heard you play your song, and you’re not going to shame yourself. Bravery isn’t about not being scared — it means doing something despite the fact that you’re afraid. And if you go out there and do your best, we’ll be proud of you, no matter what the outcome.” Amanda’s mom smiled. “So what do you say? Do we have an audition to go to?”
“Yeah, I guess,” Amanda replied. “Good girl! Get dressed now. We still have half an hour.” Amanda sat outside the audition room nervously grasping her flute (笛子). Finally, they called her name.
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Paragraph 1: Amanda stepped onto the audition stage.
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Paragraph 2: “Congratulations! You deserve it,” Janet said, sticking out her hands.
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
Dubai was a 6, 000-person fishing village half a century ago. Since 1966, when oil was discovered there, the population of Dubai
Indeed, travelling around this country will
5 . Exams are an important type of assessment almost all students will need to undertake.
The best way to study is not to recite it all in hours or minutes before an exam.
How do you face such an important day? If you have not been able to study the complete contents till now, don’t long to finish it all. Firstly, prepare a test kit for the duration of your examination.
When you arrive at the hall, surround yourself with friends who are supportive or just go through your notes quietly.
Finally, after each paper, go home and rest.
| A．Try to relax and remember to fill the answer. |
| B．When you are in the examination room, follow these steps. |
| C．Always make it a point to study the subjects which you find easier to learn first. |
| D．In your bag, collect all your supplies such as pencils, several pens and other important writing materials. |
| E．Do not worry about what you could have done or haven’t done. |
| F．Many students are nervous when they are facing their first examination. |
| G．Exam stress affects most students in various ways. |
6 . Although-London’s red telephone boxes may not get as much use these days, they are one of the city’s most recognizable features-but some could soon have a new purpose.
Recently, a developer wants to turn two run-down telephone boxes on Coventry Street in London’s West End into vending machines(自动售货机) that will operate 24/7. These telephone boxes will be filled with snacks for sale.
Application for this interesting redevelopment has been submitted by Nuriyeh Popalzi as part of the Young Entrepreneur Support Scheme (VESS), with plans currently in the consulting stage. If successful, this would mean the boxes on Coventry Street, which have sadly been subject to disrepair, get a fresh red lick(一点) of paint and have their doors removed to create the machines.
In her application, Nuriyeh Popalzi said, “Both telephone boxes are out of service and kept in poor condition of maintenance, creating an unpleasant site in one of the most historic and touristic parts of London, “she added. “These red telephone boxes are considered a key part of London not only for the Londoners but also for the tourists from all over the world. For decades, these red telephone boxes have been a symbol of London and in fact a symbol for the whole of Great Britain. ”
Popalzi believes the transformed boxes will have a positive effect on the community, much like other telephone boxes that have been turned into libraries. All profits made by the machines will go to charity, meaning happiness can be spread in multiple ways.
Before long some Londoners’ next afternoon pick-me-up could come from one of London’s iconic red boxes. However, there should be a speed dial(快速拨号) option-we know Londoners are always in a rush, after all.
1. What may be the future use of the two red telephone boxes?| A．To sell snacks. | B．To raise money. |
| C．To store snacks. | D．To serve as libraries. |
| A．The two telephone boxes will be taken down soon. |
| B．The two telephone boxes’ color will be changed. |
| C．Popalzi’s idea has drawn many Londoners’ attention. |
| D．Popalzi’s idea hasn’t been put into effect currently. |
| A．They will offer a great discount. | B．They will make a difference to charity. |
| C．They will provide the delivery service. | D．They will help attract more tourists. |
| A．A book review. | B．A science report. |
| C．A newspaper. | D．A travel brochure. |
7 . If you can’t trust an expert to make a good prediction, who can you trust?
Try a crowd. Under the right conditions, crowds can make better predictions than the individuals in them-a crowd can even beat a single expert.
More than a hundred years ago, the scientist Francis Galton visited an English country Faithere, he came across a contest to guess the weight of an ox. Interested in mathematics, Galton gathered 800 guesses and dealt with the numbers. To his surprise, Galton found that the crowd’s guess (the average) was just 1 pound different from the ox’s real weight. Did Galton happen to collect a lot lucky guesses?
David Kestenbaumand Jacob Goldstein, a pair of reporters, wanted to find out. One steamy summer day in 2015, they visited the “Burlington County Farm Fair” in New Jersey. There, Penelope, a black and white cow, shining with good health, greeted them. She was as tall as Goldstein’s shoulder. The reporters led the cow onto a large, flat truck scale (秤). A curious crowd had gathered, but Kestenbaum and Goldstein carefully guarded the scale’s digital display (数字显示), It flashed 1, 355 pounds.
Later, far from the sweet smell of warm hay, the reporters uploaded a photo of Penelope to the Planet Money website. They invited people to guess her weight, and more than 17, 000 people did. The crowd’s guess was 1, 287 pounds. That was just 5 percent less than Penelope’s true weight. Impressive!
Among the crowd, some called themselves cow experts, while others probably couldn’t tell a cot from an ox. When Goldstein and Kestenbaum calculated the guesses only from the experts, the result wasn’t any better. In fact, it was even worse:83 pounds off for the experts compared to 68 pounds for the whole crowd.
Crowds aren’t just lucky. Lots of people with different bits of information and ideas can make crowds collectively smart. A crowd will always make a prediction at least as good as the typical person in it. Often a crowd will do better. If people in a crowd have reasonably good information, they can make excellent predictions. Some businesses, financial markets, and Internet searches rely on this phenomenon (现象).
If you want to predict who’s going to win the big game on Saturday or when school buses will fly, ask a crowd of reasonably knowledgeable people instead of a single expert. Just make sure the crowd has people who know different things and have different ways of thinking. Without a diverse crowd, predictions can go badly.
1. Why is the example of Francis Galton mentioned in the passage?| A．To explain why crowds can’t make an accurate prediction. |
| B．To state Francis Galton happened to collect many lucky guesses. |
| C．To show how to predict an ox’s weight. |
| D．To prove crowds can make a better prediction. |
| A．By conducting a series of research. | B．By explaining the theories involved. |
| C．By making comparisons. | D．By doing experiments. |
| A．An expert who has a different way of thinking from others. |
| B．A crowd of people with different backgrounds and knowledge. |
| C．A single expert who is knowledgeable. |
| D．A crowd of experts who have the same way of thinking. |
| A．Two heads are better than one. |
| B．You never know what you can do till you try. |
| C．Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. |
| D．Seek the truth from facts. |
8 . When you wake up, you find you are stuck in a time-loop (循环) on a bus. It will either knock into an oil truck, or be blown apart by bombs (炸弹) carried by a passenger. What will you do?
That’s a short part of a Chinese TV series Reset. College student Li Shiqing and game designer Xiao Heyun fall asleep on a bus and when they wake up, time’s ticking (滴答作响) on the last 20 minutes of their lives. They have to use everything they have to fight for their lives. The best ending is that everyone on the bus is saved. With each loop they discover more information about the other eight passengers. Soon they find one of the passengers is carrying homemade bombs and planning to set them off at a certain time and place.
Even though the TV series doesn’t have a perfect setting (背景), the sci-fi elements (元素) make it stand out. It shows the complete process of the leading actors finding out possible criminals. Starting to be aired on Tencent Video on January 11, the series has been watched more than 800 million times in China. It’s also been well-received on YouTube and been watched more than I million times up to now. Overseas fans have been asking for it to be aired on their major platforms such as Netlix.
The Chinese TV series most watched overseas are not the ones adapted from famous works such as Journey to the West. Instead, those adapted from love stories and online novels which are filled with light-hearted, exciting or funny elements are enjoyed better.
1. How was the passage started ?| A．By giving a suggestion. | B．By introducing a film. |
| C．By describing a scene | D．By listing some numbers. |
| A．have to try to save themselves | B．refuse to get off the bus |
| C．come from the same college | D．find it hard to wake up other passengers |
| A．It has been aired on many different platforms in China. |
| B．It is popular with people in foreign countries. |
| C．It has been watched over 1 million times on Netfix. |
| D．It is much more famous than Journey to the West. |
| A．encourage us to create more Chinese TV series |
| B．show how popular the Chinese TV series are |
| C．tell us which kinds of Chinese TV series are popular overseas |
| D．remind us to pay more attention to famous Chinese works |
9 . After three decades of teaching. Jim Stanley, a chorus and piano teacher at Cartersville High School in Cartersville, Georgia, Atlanta, is getting ready to retire. But before he goes, there was one thing he wanted to do:
Stanley
Little did he
“I choked up a little bit. But I tried to keep the
Stanley was
| A．review | B．restore | C．repeat | D．reunite |
| A．came out | B．calmed down | C．came true | D．woke up |
| A．spread | B．appeared | C．copied | D．debated |
| A．kept up with | B．came up with | C．ended up with | D．put up with |
| A．deciding | B．sharing | C．considering | D．showing |
| A．condition | B．situation | C．choice | D．opportunity |
| A．mistake | B．discuss | C．witness | D．realize |
| A．gathering | B．jumping | C．winning | D．singing |
| A．swam | B．flew | C．bounded | D．sought |
| A．tears | B．laughter | C．emotion | D．happiness |
| A．undoubtedly | B．tightly | C．violently | D．deeply |
| A．smart | B．delightful | C．loyal | D．difficult |
| A．sent | B．inspired | C．achieved | D．reserved |
| A．acceptance | B．arrival | C．charm | D．encouragement |
| A．positive | B．negative | C．proper | D．strong |
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