1 . When we’re in trouble, we always turn to our parents for help. But would you like them to hear the conversations you have with your friends on the school playground or lunch queue? Social networking sites have become extensions (延伸) of the school hallways, so would you add your parents as “friends” and allow them to view your online activities and conversations with friends?

In the past the generation gap included a technology gap, where children were up to date with the latest technology and parents were left behind, content to continue their day-to-day lives as they always had because they had no need to know more about technology. However, more and more parents are beginning to realize just how important social networks are in their lives. This realization has given many parents the motivation (动机) to educate themselves about social networking sites.

These days many people are attracted to social networking sites because they can choose who they have around them, there’s also a certain amount of control over privacy (隐私) that we don’t get in real life. Sometimes we feel that privacy is violated (违背) when we must accept a “friend” request from a parent or family member.

It’s a difficult choice whether or not to allow a parent to become a part of our online lives. On the one hand we don’t want to “refuse” their request because that might hurt their feelings or make them feel you have something to hide. On the other hand if you do accept, then you could have a sense of being watched and no longer feel free to comment or communicate the way you did before.

A recent survey suggested that parents shouldn’t take it personally if their children overlook (忽略) their requests. When a teenager overlooks a parent’s friend request, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he is hiding something, but it could mean that this is one part of his life where he wants to be independent.

Perhaps talking with parents and explaining would help soften the blow if you do choose not to add them to your friend list.

1. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A．Parents feel se cure about their privacy online.

B．Parents have realized the importance of social networks.

C．Social networks successfully fill the generation gap.

D．Social networks offer a chance for parents to communicate.

2. What maybe the reason for teenagers to refuse a parent’s friend request?

A．Their parents make negative comments on them.

B．They hide something from their parents.

C．Their parents tend to fall behind in technology.

D．They are unwilling to be watched by parents.

3. What does this overlook of a parent’s friend request by a teenager potentially indicate?

A．The teenager is hiding something from his parents.

B．The teenager does not respect his parents’ requests.

C．The teenager wants to be independent in certain aspects of his life.

D．The teenager is unfamiliar with the use of social media.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Parents’ friend requests.	B．Privacy online.
C．The generation gap.	D．Social networks.

5 . I recently read Pablo Picasso’s quote, “I’m always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” It reminded me of myself — and how I do, learn, and improve. I recalled one of my earliest memories of doing before learning: baking scones (烤饼) when I was 10 years old. I wanted to bake scones for my mom.

I always sat at the kitchen table when my mom baked, and I had observed her process numerous times. She always used a recipe book and followed the process carefully. As I started to try, I didn’t know I shouldn’t handle the dough (面团) with my hands too much once I had added the baking powder (发酵粉). However, I knew exactly how to roll out the dough and use a cookie cutter to cut the scones, because I had repeated it in my mind hundreds of times.

As my mom arrived home, the smell of freshly baked scones welcomed her into the kitchen. They were baked to golden brown perfection — flat, as a result of over-handling the dough, but they tasted OK. My mom praised me for my attempt, rather than blaming me for the state of the kitchen, which was a surprise! That night she told my dad how proud she was, and what a good job I’d done. Over time, she taught me the finer tricks of baking and cooking.

My habit of doing before learning still stands me in good stead. Whatever computer program or application I have to learn, I do so by simply starting to use it. I learn as I go on, and I’ve often been able to help others because I’ve gone through the process of learning from beginning to end. What I discovered from my experience is the wisdom to know when it’s OK to do and then learn, and when it’s probably better to learn and then do!

1. How did the author learn to bake at first?

A．She taught herself.

B．She watched the cooking videos.

C．She learned it from the recipe book.

D．She followed her mother’s instructions.

2. How did the author’s mother feel about her baking?

A．Concerned.

B．Regretful.

C．Grateful.

D．Pleased.

3. What can be learned about the author from the last paragraph?

A．She was skilled at programming.	B．She benefited a lot from her habit.
C．She recommended her habit to others.	D．She had good arrangements for her time.

4. What’s the best title for this text?

A．My favorite quotes	B．Do. Learn. Improve
C．Apply theories to practice	D．My attempt at baking scones

6 . “I’ll be there in a few minutes. I’m playing a game with a friend, a guy named Snoopy,” my 15-year-old son shouted from his room. “Oh, what is Snoopy’s real name?” I asked. “I have no idea,” he said. “Where is he from?” I continued. He responded, “I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn’t even matter because Snoopy just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot.” “Your friend is replaced by a robot?” “It doesn’t matter, Dad. It happens all the time! The game continues.” My son doesn’t mind playing with a person or a robot, which is typical of gamers these days. I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our ohildren.

Aristotle, the great Greek thinker and educator. has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily quit because such bonds are weak and uncerturn. Deep friendship, by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices (牺牲) for each other.

Presence in friendship requires “being with” and “doing for”. Perhaps the most typical feature of deep friendship is “doing for”, as my friend has my back in trouble or brings me soup when I’m sick. Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices. But it is unclear why online “friends” would bother to do the hard work of friendship. When I asked my students whether they had people in their lives who would bring them soup when they were sick, they laughed at my Stone Age question and said they’d just order soup online.

Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example cases of friendship, like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods, etc. In this way, digital life may produce false friendships.

1. How does the author lead in the topic of the text?

A．By presenting a dialogue.	B．By bringing in a robot friend.
C．By telling an interesting joke.	D．By introducing an online game.

2. What can we know from the text?

A．False friendships are sure to arise in digital life.

B．Real care and commitment strengthen real friendship.

C．Strong connections can be formed easily in Internet age.

D．Teenagers today can turn to online friends in tough times.

3. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Youth Friendship in Digital Background

B．Deep Friendship and Stliless Friendship C

C．Face-to-face Experience of Friendship

D．Benefits from Online Friendship

7 . Tea culture is varied in different countries by the way tea is made and drunk, and by the places for tea drinking. How to make tea may be different. According to the ways of making tea, tea is classified into white tea, green tea, black tea, etc. And how to prepare tea may be different, too. In Tibet, tea is commonly boiled with salt and butter. People may drink tea at home or in public, for example, at tea houses.

As part of culture, tea has a relationship with history, health, education, communication and so on. It is commonly used at social activities. For example, afternoon tea is a British custom. Families or friends can communicate with each other while having afternoon tea.

Tea has remained a way of daily life in China and drinking tea has a lot of advantages. It makes people less tired, clears heat in the human body and helps people lose weight.

Chinese people are good at using tea to make other things delicious. Tea, originally served as a medicine in ancient times, is now not just a kind of drink, but also excellent seasoning (调味品). Here are two delicious dishes made with tea:

Tea Eggs: You can find them cooked and sold in street markets in almost every city in China. Dragon Well Tea Shrimp (龙井虾仁). It’s one of the most well-known dishes in Hangzhou. Before you drink tea please check the following tips:

◆Drink tea hot.

◆The best time to drink is in between meals. It is bad for your stomach if you drink tea just before meals, during meals or soon after meals.

◆Do not drink too much strong tea.

1. Which of the following is similar to the underlined phrase “classified into”?

A．carry out

B．sort out

C．turn into

D．burst into

2. Afternoon tea in Britain is a ___________ according to the passage.

A．weekend activity

B．hobby

C．way of communication

D．game

3. In ancient China, tea was originally served as ___________ according to the pas-sage.

A．a drink

B．a dish

C．seasoning

D．a medicine

4. The passage doesn’t mention ___________.

A．ways of making tea	B．places to drink tea
C．tools for drinking tea	D．advantages of drinking tea

8 . John Dewey

Birthplace: Burlington, Vermont, United States

A faithful advocate of progressive education and liberalism, the American philosopher was the founder of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. John Dewey’s famous writings included The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology and Human Nature and Conduct. According to him, passion for knowledge and intellectual curiosity were central to a teacher.

Savitribai Phule

Birthplace: Naigaon, India

Savitribai Phule was a revolutionary social reformer who devoted her life to educating girls and bringing about gender (性别) equality in the face of resistance from the conservative Indian society. Phule, who was illiterate (文盲的) until her marriage, went on to become a teacher, an achievement accomplished first by an Indian woman. With her husband, she founded schools for girls in Maharashtra.

Maria Montessori

Birthplace: Chiaravalle, Italy

Maria Montessori was an Italian educator and physician best known for developing the Montessori method of education, a student-friendly method, which is being used in several public and private schools around the world. In 2020, she was nominated (提名) by Time magazine as one of their Top 100 Women of the Year.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, composer, and writer. His political philosophy influenced aspects of the French Revolution. He also helped develop modern economic, political, and educational thought. His writing inspired a complete change in French drama and poetry. His works also influenced such writers around the world as Tolstoy.

1. Who set up the University of Chieage Laboratory Schools?

A．Savitribai Phule.	B．John Dewey.
C．Maria Montessori.	D．Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

2. What do we know about Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

A．He founded schools for girls in Maharashtra.

B．He emphasized teachers’ passion and curiosity.

C．He developed a student-friendly teaching method.

D．He had a great impact on French drama and poetry.

3. What do the four figures mentioned have in common?

A．They were all influential in education.

B．They all fought for gender equality in schools.

C．They were all nominated as Top 100 Teachers of the Year.

D．They all helped develop political and educational thought.

9 . Jack London, one of America’s major writers of adventure tales, was born in California in 1876. During his life, London worked at many jobs. His broad life experiences would become the background for his writing.

London, loved to read. As a teenager, he spent many hours educating himself at the Oakland, California, public library. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, but he stayed for only six months. He though Berkeley was “not lively enough” and wanted to do something more exciting.

London wrote stories about working people and the hard times they had making a living. He knew their problems first hand. He worked as a sailor, farmer, factory employee, railroad worker, and gold prospector, to name just a few of his many jobs.

London grew up near the waterfront in Oakland. He loved the water. When he was fifteen years old, he bought a small sailboat called a sloop. Later he sailed to Japan on a schooner, which is much large sailing boat. Like many people of the time, London caught the Klondike Gold Rush Fever. In 1897, he headed for Alaska. He didn’t find gold, but he discovered something even more valuable. He discovered that people enjoyed listening to the stories he made up with his vivid imagination. London entertained the miners with story after story. Later, using his experiences during the Gold Rush, he created many more colorful stories.

London resolved to live a full, exciting life. He once said, “I would rather be a superb meteor (流星), every atom of me in magnificent glow,than a sleepy and permanent planet.” Each day, he pushed himself. Once London determined that he was going to be a writer,nothing could stop him. His goal was to write at least one thousand words everyday. He refused to stop even when he was sick. In eighteen years, the writer published fifty-one books and hundreds of articles. He was the best-selling and highest-paid author of his day. Many people also considered him to be the best writer. White Fang and The Call of the Wild are his most famous stories and are about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness. Readers can enjoy Jack London’s energy and his talent for telling wonderful stories each time they open one of his novels.

1. Why was Jack London able to write on many topics?

A．He pushed himself to reach goals.

B．He had a variety of experiences and jobs.

C．He was drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush.

D．He was the best-selling and highest-paid author.

2. What prevented Jack London from finishing college?

A．That he was hired to sail to Japan.

B．That he traveled to Alaska in 1897.

C．That he spent much of his time writing.

D．That he was not interested in college life enough.

3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph indicates that Jack London________.

A．is expert at universe.

B．aims high and strive to succeed.

C．is excited about life of the wildness.

D．face a choice between life and death.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To support the statement that London was the “best writer”.

B．To describe life during the Klondike Gold Rush.

C．To provide information on Jack’ s life.

D．To identify books written by Jack London.