1 . Diet can influence a person’s height, but only during childhood-until the age of 2 years. From the age of 2 to 12 years, stunted growth (发育不良) can be modified in some children, but not all of them. There is no scientific data currently available to suggest that an adult’s height can be increased through diet.
Calorie intake (热量摄取) from birth to about 2 years of age will influence the height of children. An article in The Journal of Nutrition monitored diet and socio-economic factors in more than 2,000 children, aged 2 to 12 years of age. The researcher found that each additional 100 calories in the diet was associated with an increased height of 0.13 inches in boys and slightly less in girls. The study concluded that beyond 2years of age, socio-economic status could have an impact on the height of children.
Malnutrition (营养不良) in children younger than 2 years old will cause stunted growth in comparison with their parents and well-fed brothers and sisters, but malnourished (营养不良的) children can “catch up” with proper nutrition (营养). The researcher found that about 63 percent of the children were classified as “stunted” based on height-for-age measurements set by the World Health Organization. With increased calorie and vitamin intake, 30 percent were no longer stunted by the age of 8.5 years, and 32.5 percent were no longer stunted at 12 years old.
Drinking milk has the greatest impact on the cognitive (认知的) and physical development of babies in their first year. A study examined the effects of drinking milk on the height and weight of 6,669 babies from six countries and found that drinking milk contributed to an increase in height of children.
1. What does the underlined word “modified” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Measured. | B．Experienced. | C．Improved. | D．Accepted. |
| A．Boys grow at a higher speed than girls on average. |
| B．Keeping a balanced diet is important to children’s health. |
| C．Economic conditions have decisive effects on a person’s height. |
| D．Ensuring children under 2 enough calories is important for their height. |
| A．By quoting data from studies. | B．By analyzing possible causes. |
| C．By explaining scientific terms. | D．By sharing his personal experiences. |
| A．Nutritious diets for children’s health y growth. | B．Instructions on how to raise children properly. |
| C．The determining factors in a person’s height. | D．The influence of diet on children’s height. |
2 . With a leather book cover, a golden overhang, made from colored paper and edges of the book painted red, the French version of An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius《论语入门》is a classic from the Age of Enlightenment in France. The book is about the political ideas, ethical thoughts and moral concepts of China more than 2,000 years ago. Francois Bernier, the author of the book, would never have expected that the French version of the Chinese classic translated by him could be brought to China more than 300 years after he finished it.
The French version of An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius is a national gift. 2019 marked the 55th anniversary of the establishment of China-France diplomatic ties. On March 24 of that year, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Nice, France. Before their meeting, Macron presented Xi with the original French version of An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius published in France in 1688.
As a classic of traditional Chinese culture, The Analects of Confucius《论语》was introduced to Europe as early as the 17th century. Commenting on the influence of Chinese culture in France, Macron said the thoughts of Confucius had deeply inspired French thinkers such as Voltaire and had a long-lasting influence on the French Enlightenment (启蒙运动).
After hearing Macron’s introduction, Xi said he would take this precious gift back to China’s National Library. President Xi once said that the rich philosophical ideas, humanistic spirit, edifying thoughts (教化思想) and moral concepts of China’s fine traditional culture can provide useful inspiration for understanding and transforming the world, for governing the country, and for moral construction.
1. What does An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius mainly deal with?| A．Music history, ethical thoughts and folk songs. |
| B．Political ideas, ethical thoughts and fairy stories. |
| C．Moral concepts, classic works and military ideas. |
| D．Ethical thoughts, moral concepts and political ideas. |
| A．Macron saw them as an inspiration to many French inventors. |
| B．Macron saw them as guidelines for the French Enlightenment. |
| C．Macron considered them great valuable to French in some ways. |
| D．Macron considered them the best way to spread Chinese culture. |
| A．Science. | B．Travel. | C．Culture. | D．Technology. |
3 . While considering comfortable places to hibernate (冬眠) in winter, a 6-year-old black bear picked out a storm culvert (涵洞) near Wannaska, Minnesota. Unfortunately for the bear, this decision didn’t turn out well.
In late February, the snow around him started melting, causing the culvert to flood and then freeze again. The poor fellow was trapped in snow and ice for three days before some kind humans noticed him and called authorities for help.
By the time experts arrived, people had already tried digging the bear out and luring him with a variety of unhealthy (for bears) treats. Luckily, the bear wasn’t interested in food because he was still in hibernation mode.
A wildlife research biologist Andrew Tri arrived on the scene to assess the situation. “He tried to push himself out but got stuck in the place and tired,” the biologist explained. The team injected the bear with an anesthetic (麻醉剂). Once he was asleep, it took five strong men to pull the bear, estimated to weigh between 375 and 400 pounds, out of the culvert. Andrew gave him a full check-up and determined he was in great physical shape, even though he was still a bit sleepy!
The crew pulled him out and transported him to the Thief Lake Wildlife Management Area in Marshall County to finish out the winter. “He’s in the back of a pickup truck now, and we’ll make him a new den (窝点),” said Andrew. “He probably won’t stay, but at least it will give him some protection from the elements after that.”
“If you’re ever concerned about a bear’s safety, by all means give us a call,” the experts advised. “But don’t try to move it or feed it! Doing so can result in a bad situation (either for you or for the bear).” We’re glad this bear got the help he needed.
1. Why was the black bear in trouble?| A．He hasn’t eaten anything for many days. |
| B．He chose the wrong place to hibernate. |
| C．He was in bad condition. |
| D．His feet were caught by a trap. |
| A．exchanging | B．improving | C．attracting | D．beating |
| A．He was very excited. | B．He was very angry. |
| C．He ate many foods. | D．He was still a bit sleepy. |
| A．Don’t try to move a hibernating bear by yourself. |
| B．Bears can be very dangerous when they are sleeping. |
| C．Bears always attack people when people are alone. |
| D．Let the trapped bears continue to sleep, and do nothing. |
4 . I had gone into a chief’s office to talk about a couple of issues that needed to be addressed. She, like all of the men and women in her department, had been through the well-known ‘ringer’. The stress was so intense, one could almost taste it.
I had been assisting the department during a crucial period of being very short-handed, and was watching everyone get close to burn-out. When I inquired about her state of mind, she admitted that her home life was almost non-existent, because she was ‘zombieing through the evening’. The next words out of her mouth expressed a frustration of my own: “This work is not my gift from God. My family is!”
I had heard of hanging all of one’s problems from the office on a“Trouble Tree”while driving home, to be picked up on the way back to the office in the morning, and for a brief second thought about suggesting that scenario to the chief.
But what came out was:“Why don’t we do something different? Let’s have a Blessing Tree. On the way home in the evening, we could pull down a blessing to write a character we adore in our spouse, a particular reason we love them, the love they or our children have for us. The list could be endless.”
When I tried it on the way home that night, the stress seemed to melt away. There was a ‘spring in my step’ and when I arrived, a smile of joy was bubbling up from within! For the first time in 2 weeks, I was overjoyed to greet my wife and children!
The Blessing Tree could make a major difference in your evenings, especially after those REALLY tough days.
1. What is paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．The stress of the author. | B．The staff’s stress in the department. |
| C．The issues requiring addressing. | D．The famous ringer of the chief. |
| A．Becoming a zombie in the evening. | B．Being extremely tired in the evening. |
| C．Spending the evening in confusion. | D．Feeling like a zombie during the day. |
| A．By talking about them in the office. | B．By sharing them with family members. |
| C．By making use of a “Trouble Tree”. | D．By making use of a “Blessing Tree”. |
| A．To show the pressure in modern life. |
| B．To persuade readers to pray for blessings. |
| C．To introduce stress — relieving approaches. |
| D．To share how to raise suggestions for the chief. |
5 . When I first picked up Michelle Zauner’s memoir (自传) “Crying in H Mart”, I was attracted by the familiar name of the local Korean market 10 minutes away from my house. Looking through its pages was no different from looking through an old photo album (相册), reminding me of my old memories. And I wanted to look at each and every photo, up close.
Despite being a struggling artist making up for lost time with a sick mother, Zauner somehow made her unique experiences relatable to her audience. One of the factors that helped make this possible was food. Every food and every aspect of Korean culture she described seemed so familiar to me, as I’m a Korean American. Not only this, we have similar experiences, and have common feelings of being torn apart by two cultures that seem to refuse to accept us just for being who we are. Zauner shone a new light on my attitude to my own identity.
In other ways, this relatability to such a specific target audience can become a weakness. This memoir was obviously meant for a Korean, specifically a Korean American audience. With such a small audience of 0.6% of the United States population in 2019, the story that Zauner wanted to tell would not be received by many.
An avoidable point of the memoir that caused confusion could have been the organization of the timeline. Looking at the book as a whole, there was no specific order in which Zauner organized the events of her life. The most effective way to do this would have been to progress through the book starting with her earliest memories with her mother and ending with her moments of grieving (悲痛).
I felt thankful that I was able to discover such a novel that made me feel understood for the first time in years. And most of all, I felt inspired that there are people like Zauner who make mistakes but try again. Even when the world tells them it’s too late, they try again Even when they feel lost, they try again and find a way. And there was one thing I was sure of after I read the book: I will try again.
1. Which factor of the book attracted the author?| A．Korean audience. | B．Korean families. |
| C．American culture. | D．Similar experience. |
| A．Its small readership. | B．Its difficult languages. |
| C．Its weak market in Korea. | D．Its sales in America in 2019. |
| A．To point out one limitation of the book. |
| B．To describe Zauner’s life in order of time. |
| C．To explain why he falls in love with the book. |
| D．To introduce an effective way to write a memoir. |
| A．To be thankful. | B．To stay positive. |
| C．To understand others. | D．To avoid making mistakes. |
6 . A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s surface. Through that opening, red-hot rock and hot gases escape. This can be a sudden and thunderous puff of ash and gas, or it can be a continuous flow of lava (岩浆) destroying everything in its path. The danger of a volcano may explain why its importance are often ignored. They exist for hundreds of thousands of years, and the gases they release come from the inside of our planet. They are probably the very gases that created Earth’s atmosphere (大气层) billions of years ago. Both awful and amazing, volcanoes have much more to offer than other geographical events.
Volcanic regions are hotbeds of biodiversity. The lava islands of the Galapagos in the Eastern Pacific are textbook examples in action. As lava hardens and begins to erode (风化) over the course of years or centuries, the nutrients and minerals from the volcanoes create rich soil.Some of the world’s most productive regions for farming, such as in Indonesia and Central build up underground aquifers (含水层). For example, without the Tibesti and its five volcanoes in the north of Chad and in southern Libya, the eastern Sahara would be even drier.
Volcanoes also produce geothermal energy, which makes up significant shares of electricity supply in a growing number of countries, including EI Salvador, Kenya and New Zealand. The most common type of volcanic rock, basalt (玄武岩), is capable of permanently trapping (卡住) carbon dioxide. This will make volcanoes an important player in the game of catching and storing carbon. Long viewed as a fearsome enemy of humankind, volcanoes may yet become a savior.
1. What is the text mainly about?| A．The definition of volcanoes. |
| B．The value of volcanoes. |
| C．The danger of volcanoes. |
| D．The type of volcanoes. |
| A．They are both made up of gases. |
| B．The Earth’s atmosphere comes from volcanoes. |
| C．They formed in the same time period. |
| D．There might be some connection between them. |
| A．The cause of a volcano. |
| B．The procedure of a volcanic eruption. |
| C．The contribution of volcanoes to rich soil. |
| D．The influence of biodiversity on volcanoes. |
| A．Carbon dioxide. |
| B．The most common type of volcanic rock. |
| C．Basalt’s being the most common type of volcanic rock. |
| D．Volcanic rocks’ ability to permanently trap carbon dioxide. |
7 . Abel Cruz is an industrial engineer living in Lima, the capital of Peru, which is located in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. When Abel Cruz was a boy,his weekly routine was to climb down a valley in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes to get the family’s water from a spring.
“It was downhill from the house, far away and steep,” he says.
The Peruvian Andes are under the weather influences coming both from the Pacific Ocean and from the jungle and traditionally there is a “dry” and “rainy” season. Recent climatic changes have made the dry seasons even drier and longer.
Cruz began dreaming up better ways to collect water. He noticed that some plants, for example, capture (捕获) rain and mist with their wide leaves. Eventually, he struck upon the idea of a fog net, a concept that he would go on to share around the world.
Each vertical (垂直的) net is 215 square feet of man-made resin (树脂). Micro-droplets (滴液) of water gather together and then fall down into collection tanks. One net can collect 50 to 100 gallons per day. Locals can carry back the water in small containers like buckets for their small farms.
Working in Lima, Peru, with support from the Creating Water Foundation, Cruz has installed (安装) more than 3,600 nets on the bare hillsides around the city to capture fog coming from the Pacific Ocean. This should help bring relief to the city of more than 9 million, which tends to have little rainfall and suffers from frequent lack of water. “The planet has less and less fresh water,” Cruz points out, “because the glaciers (冰川) that are natural water collection tanks are disappearing. So, we must find a way to store and save water for times of drought.”
1. Which of the following can best describe Abel Cruz’s work of getting water from a spring?| A．Tiring. | B．Entertaining. |
| C．Unnecessary. | D．Economic. |
| A．Capturing rain with wide leaves. |
| B．Gathering fog droplets with big nets. |
| C．Turning resin into water droplets. |
| D．Carrying water into collection tanks. |
| A．The net is man-made. |
| B．The collection tanks are made of resin. |
| C．The net is vertically installed on the hillsides. |
| D．Locals must carry water in small containers. |
| A．His concerns over world’s lack of water. |
| B．His engineering experience. |
| C．Support from Creating Water Foundation. |
| D．His geographic knowledge on his home country. |
8 . If you struggle to meet new people or join in a conversation at social events, it might be that your body language is sending the message to others to stay away.
Smile. Although it is possible to overdo smiling, generally it is better to smile than frown (皱眉). Try to find things that really make you happy or laugh and your smile will come across as natural rather than forced.
Use eye contact. When you do end up talking with someone, be sure to maintain eye contact. Avoiding eye contact makes you appear untrustworthy or disinterested. If direct eye contact feels hard, try looking at only one eye at a time, or at a part between a person’s eyes.
Avoid nervous habits. Even though you might be nervous, avoid the habits that go with it.
Although it may feel unnatural at first, with time you should start to feel more open and confident as a result of changing your body language.
| A．Avoid blocks |
| B．Use objects on hand |
| C．They won’t be able to tell the difference |
| D．Apart from body language, always be positive |
| E．Stop touching your face or playing with your hair |
| F．How can you read different types of body language properly |
| G．How can you improve your body language to appear more approachable |
9 . Have you ever sent a text or shared something online that you immediately regretted? Most of us have. Now a growing number of apps and services are offering users the attractive ability to edit those messages.
In September alone, Twitter and Apple introduced editing features. Twitter kicked off September by announcing it would test an edit button (按钮). Within two weeks of that move, Apple introduced its new iOS 16 operating system, which lets users-for the first time-edit and unsend iMessages.
Users can now edit an iMessage up to five times within 15 minutes after sending it and unsend any message up to two minutes after it’s sent. To do this, users need only tap and hold their sent message, then choose “edit” or “undo send.” On Twitter, the edit button will give people a “generous” time, says Christina Wodtke, a lecturer in computer science at Stanford University. Users will be able to edit a tweet (推文信息) up to five times in the 30 minutes after it’s posted. Once a change is made, a tweet will be marked with a time stamp, and a label (标签) that says “Last Edited.”
“What they’re doing is creating an edit button that allows the Twitter audience to be your personal editor,” Wodtke says. “So if you say something that is difficult to believe, you could quickly change it to be clearer or less open to being misunderstood.” Wodtke does warn that especially on Twitter, editing could be used for harmful purposes. Someone looking to spread disinformation, for example, could edit their originally harmless tweet to make it false or harmful after it’s already started reaching an audience.
To ensure edit tools are used for good purposes, experts say, tech companies must take certain safety measures. “The importance of an ‘edit trail (痕迹)’ that prevents the spread of mis-and disinformation can’t be overstated,” says Wodtke, “especially when the information is part of the public record.”
Twitter says the feature was designed to be transparent (透明的) and protect the integrity (完整性) of the conversation. “We’re purposely starting this test with a smaller group to learn and deal with possible issues before bringing it to more people,” a Twitter spokesperson says.
1. How is Apple’s edit button different from Twitter’s?| A．It offers its users less time to regret. |
| B．It offers its users fewer chances to edit. |
| C．It allows its users to tap more words into a message. |
| D．It allows its users to label the message they have edited. |
| A．It can make its users more organized. | B．It can be used to spread wrong messages. |
| C．It can help messages reach more audiences. | D．It can cause people to take messages lightly. |
| A．It is still being tested. | B．It will add more functions. |
| C．It should be more transparent. | D．It has led to unexpected issues. |
| A．A growing need for an edit button | B．The deep thinking behind the edit button |
| C．The past and present of the edit button | D．Promises and risks of a new edit button |
In a world where monster wrestling (怪物摔跤) is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie tries to follow in her father’s footsteps as a manager by coaching a loveable but inexperienced monster named Steve into a champion.
Release date (上映日期): December 15,2021
Runtime:1 hour 44 minutes
Ron’s Gone WrongIt is the story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device (数字连接设备), which is supposed to be his “Best Friend out of the Box.” Ron’s failure to work leads them on a journey to learn about true friendship.
Release date: October 22, 2021
Runtime:1 hour 47 minutes
LucaA young boy experiences an unforgettable seaside summer on the Italian Riviera. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, Alberto, but all the fun is threatened (威胁) by a deeply-held secret:
he is a sea monster from another world just below the ocean’s surface.
Release date: June 18,2021
Runtime:1 hour 35 minutes
OnwardTwo teenage elf (精灵) brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot, go on a journey to discover if there is still a little magic left out there in order to spend one last day with their father, who died when they were too young to remember him. Their journey is filled with magic spells, impossible challenges and unimaginable discoveries.
Release date: March 6, 2020
Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
1. Who is one of the main characters in the latest movie?| A．Alberto. | B．Barley. | C．Barney. | D．Steve. |
| A．Luca. | B．Rumble. |
| C．Onward. | D．Ron’s Gone Wrong. |
| A．1 hour 35 minutes. | B．1 hour 42 minutes. |
| C．1 hour 44 minutes. | D．1 hour 47 minutes. |
