1 . How to stay healthy on holiday
Taking time to relax on holiday may be good for our health.
Plan before you go
Besides the stress of organizing your break in the first place, there’s the added anxiety of remembering to buy and pack everything you need, as well as getting where you need to go on time. To avoid this, as soon as you’ve booked your holiday, list the travel documents you’ll need. Check you have them and they’re valid (有效的). Then start packing several weeks in advance, giving yourself time to buy some daily necessities.
Try to forget the cares of everyday life. You can achieve this by ensuring you don’t check emails or social media, or feel obligated to use it to record your best holiday moments. Ideally, turn off notices, limit your screen time and try to focus on the present moment. That will enable you to relax and make special memories.
Eat and drink well and mindfully
Get active
Try a new activity. Consider walking and swimming or tennis.
| A．Ignore all the barriers in life |
| B．Get rid of the digital addiction |
| C．But there’s a physical reason for this |
| D．However, too much relaxation also has opposite effects |
| E．Part of the fun of going away is experiencing the cuisine of other places |
| F．On departure day, leave more time than you need to get to an airport or port |
| G．If you’re somewhere hot, it’s best to work out in the early morning or evening |
2 . Do you often feel nervous when speaking English?
●Concentrate on the positive, not the negative (消极的).
●Understand that most mistakes aren’t so serious. Understand that most mistakes don’t matter very much. If you’re always worrying about mistakes, then you’ll feel nervous about your English. But the truth is that when you’re speaking, most people won’t notice your small mistakes.
●Stand up straight, make eye contact, smile and breathe. One involves what you do with your body when you’re speaking English, and that is to stand up straight or sit up straight, make eye contact, smile and remember to breathe.
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| A．Speak louder and slower. |
| B．Practice as much as possible. |
| C．What you need to do is to improve your attitude. |
| D．Your body language has an effect on your confidence. |
| E．Are you wondering how to speak English confidently? |
| F．How do you correct your mistakes when writing English? |
| G．So relax and don’t put so much stress on yourself to be perfect. |
3 . Most schools ban chewing gum, but in a few years they might consider changing that rule. Why? Scientists are finding evidence that gum chewing may be good for your health. It may even help boost your test scores.
This exciting research is just beginning. And in the meantime, companies are also experimenting with adding vitamins, minerals, medicines, and other substances that could give gum the power to cure headaches and fight everything from serious diseases to bad breath. Many studies have shown that chewing gum after meals can stimulate the production of saliva (唾液). Saliva helps wash away bacteria (细菌) that damage our teeth.
Nutritionist Gil Leveille, executive director of the Wrigley Science Institute, says that chewing gum might also be good for your brain. One Japanese study of nine participants, found that chewing gum boosted the flow of blood to participants’ brains by up to 40 percent. Blood carries oxygen, which fuels brain cells.
Other small studies have found that people perform better on memory tests while chewing gum. And a study in the United Kingdom found that people who chewed gum while memorizing a list of words did about 25 percent better at recalling those words than people who didn’t chew gum.
“It certainly makes sense,” Leveille says, “that increased blood flow would be related to increased alertness.”
“Additional studies, with longer follow-up, are needed to confirm that chewing gum has benefits, ”he adds. So far, results of studies about memory have been mixed. What’s more, many of the studies that show gum’s benefits are funded by gum companies. “Too much chewing can damage the jaw joint,” warns Gayl Canfield, a researcher at the Pritikin Longevity Centre. “What’s more, no matter how healthy gum chewing proves to be,” she adds, “it will never be a match for a healthy lifestyle.”
1. What is the new finding of chewing gums?| A．It is beneficial to our teeth. | B．It can boost our test scores rapidly. |
| C．It can cure various diseases. | D．It may benefit people’s health. |
| A．Negative. | B．Uncertain. | C．Objective. | D．Supportive. |
| A．Gums contain vitamins good for brain. |
| B．Chewing gums promotes blood flow in brain. |
| C．Chewing gums may improve people’s memory. |
| D．Gums may kill bacteria that damage brain cells. |
| A．New Findings in Health | B．Chewing for Your Health |
| C．Protecting Teeth with Gums | D．Gums Boosting Test Scores |
4 . Believe it or not, humans spend roughly one-third of their lives asleep. No wonder the quality of our sleep is so closely linked to the quality of our lives.
How do astronauts sleep?
A person in space goes to bed at night then wakes up the next day. But it’s a little different since there is no up or down and no pull of gravity.
We’re all familiar with songs getting stuck in our heads while we’re awake. This phenomenon is called earworms. It turns out that this can happen during sleep as well. Even if we’re asleep, our brains continue to process music, which could cause problems in getting to sleep and staying asleep.
Sleep with your pet?
Is it good for you to sleep with a pet? Experts have traditionally said no. Pets, like dogs and cats, do not sleep continuously and they will often get up and walk on the bed. All of the activities will lead to a disturbed sleep.
Socks can help us sleep?
| A．Can you feel the music clearly? |
| B．Earworms happen while sleeping? |
| C．This might cause you to sleep even worse. |
| D．Hence, weightless astronauts can sleep anywhere. |
| E．Your sleep will improve with a pair of warm feet. |
| F．A sound sleep can bring a good mood and energy. |
| G．Too little sleep will affect academic performances. |
5 . How to Change Bad Habits
Bad habits are harmful. Whether your bad habit is a minor one or something more serious such as smoking, it takes conscious effort and smart planning to break the cycle.
Write down details of your habit. Keep a notebook around to keep a record of your habit. For at least a week, anytime you perform the bad habit, write down a description of what you were doing and how you were feeling.
Get rid of temptation. Try to avoid objects, places, and people that make you want to fall into your bad habit. It’s much easier to remove the stimulus than to stop the habit with pure force of concentration.
Replace a bad habit with a good one. A good habit can be a source of pleasure, making the old one easier to break. Many people find a daily exercise routine or jog becomes similarly satisfying once they’ve turned it into a habit. Some bad habits can be broken if you can focus on improving the good habit.
| A．Call in the help of friends and family. |
| B．Add something unpleasant to the habit. |
| C．This helps you to think about the habit consciously. |
| D．Don’t hesitate to seek professional tips if you can’t break it on your own. |
| E．If you’re trying to avoid checking your cell phone all the time, shut down the phone or put it in airplane mode. |
| F．If you find yourself in a situation where it’s easy to return to the habit, repeat “don’t do it, don’t do it” to yourself in your head. |
| G．For instance, to avoid unhealthy food, challenge yourself to cook a healthy dinner a certain number of times per week. |
6 . We’re shopping online more than ever now, including various personal care and food items. Of U.S. Internet users, one-third do it at least once a week. Seeing your limited toilet paper (TP), you might pull up your smartphone and after a few taps have a fresh order of TP set to arrive in a day, maybe even less, and all done right from the toilet seat.
But this type of shopping — numerous small, quick-to-ship orders placed through e-tailing companies like Amazon — might be the worst for the environment, according to a recent study in Environmental Science & Technology. With their current business model of free shipping and fast delivery, greenhouse gas emissions linked with transporting “fast consumer goods” are high. “The online-only retailers are growing rapidly,” says lead author Sadegh, a scientist at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Previous analyses haven’t agreed on whether online or in-store shopping is better. In fact, some studies have found that online shopping has a lower impact, because it saves the emissions associated with driving your car to the store (95 percent of Americans drive to go shopping). But this benefit can vary, or even disappear, depending on how fast we want that TP to arrive. And if you’re shopping in real life, factors like how you transport those items, how far you travel, and how much you buy at once all affect the carbon footprint of your purchase. “There have been some contradicting results, with some saying online shopping is better and some saying traditional shopping is better,” says Sadegh. So he tried to settle the debate with an approach that showed how likely one option was to be better than the other.
Sadegh and his team compared three shopping styles: traditional in-store shopping, online ordering from a physical store (which they called “bricks and clicks”), and ordering through an online-only retailer. Nearly two-thirds of the time, bricks and clicks shopping resulted in fewer emissions per item than in-store shopping — and was better than online shopping 97 percent of the time. In-store shopping had fewer emissions than online — only 81percent of the time.
1. Why was “ordering TP on the smartphone” mentioned in paragraph 1?| A．To state convenience of TV shopping. |
| B．To show importance of smartphones. |
| C．To encourage people to purchase TP online. |
| D．To stress people’s frequency of online shopping. |
| A．It requires more energy to produce these products. |
| B．Its current business model generates more greenhouse gas. |
| C．It causes people not to care much about the environment. |
| D．Its packaging of goods produces numerous harmful waste. |
| A．Traditional in-store shopping. |
| B．Online ordering from a physical store. |
| C．Ordering through an online-only store. |
| D．Driving to shop in huge supermarkets. |
| A．By analyzing causes. | B．By listing theories. |
| C．By making comparison. | D．By giving examples. |
7 . Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque painter from the “Golden Age of Dutch Painting”. He was obscure during his lifetime; but in the nineteenth century, his work was brought to light, and he is now regarded as one of the greatest figures of Baroque painting-with his focus on simple portraits and household scenes. He is admired for the ability to present everyday objects with great dignity（庄重）and light.
There is not much information about Jan Vermeer’s early life, He didn’t travel much outside Holland, and most of his paintings were bought by a local man. His father was a dealer of paintings and also a local inn owner. When his father died in 1652, Jan took over the business of selling pictures and ownership of a small inn. When his mother died in 1670, he also inherited her local restaurant, and he often worked there at night selling alcohol and dishes to customers.
In 1653, Jan married a young girl named Catherina Bolies. Together they had fourteen children, though four died soon. Jan did a significant portion of his painting within his large house. He liked to paint in his own studio, even though household life may have been noisy with 14 children and his mother-in-law, whom he often argued with.
Jan was a slow worker, producing only three paintings a year. This was partly due to his technique of granular（似颗粒状的）painting. He was careful in capturing the light and colour of his various subjects. Unusually for the time, Jan often focused on simple household scenes such as “The Milkmaid” or the “Music Lesson”.
An important aspect of Vermeer’s paintings were his portraits--often of women. The portraits capture a style of reassuring calm, dignity and contentment with everyday life. To Vermeer, they may have represented an idealized view of life and women, which did not always match reality. “The Girl With A Pearl Earring” is widely considered a Vermeer masterpiece-It is also regarded as one of the greatest portrait pictures ever painted and is sometimes referred to as the “Mona Lisa” of the North.
1. What does the underlined word “obscure” mean in paragraph 1?| A．Not clear. | B．Quite poor. | C．Not well-known. | D．Rather confusing. |
| A．A local inn. | B．A restaurant. | C．Several paintings. | D．A job of selling wines. |
| A．Hills around his town. | B．Children in the school. |
| C．A boat on the foggy sea. | D．A young woman in his house. |
| A．A novel about a painter. | B．A biography of a person. |
| C．An analysis of painting styles. | D．A review of Vermeer’s painting. |
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1. Where does this text probably come from?| A．A magazine. | B．A newspaper. | C．A website. | D．A TV ad. |
| A．The Artist’s Magazine. | B．Artnewes Magazine. |
| C．Art In America Magazine. | D．Modern Painters Magazine. |
| A．They are monthly magazines. |
| B．They are for both artists and art lovers. |
| C．They focus on providing art gallery news. |
| D．They are only intended for American readers. |
9 . A group of researchers have advised that throwing a great deal of salt into the atmosphere should slow down climate change because salt is highly reflective and it can reflect sunlight back into outer space, helping to cool the earth. But other climate scientists are not sure. This idea falls into the category of geoengineering (气候工程) — a deliberate, large-scale attempt to change the environment as a means to fight climate change.
“It’s an interesting idea,” Michael Mann, a professor at Penn State, told Live Science. “However, though potentially appealing at the surface, most of these geoengineering plans are seen to be filled with potential unintended consequences when you look at them in more detail.”
Science magazine has reported that the “salty” suggestion is to meet climate change in case humans fail to greatly lower greenhouse gas emissions, such as CO2, which are contributing to the earth’s rising temperatures. The idea is to throw salt into the upper troposphere (对流层), the atmosphere layer most commercial airplanes fly over because of its weather conditions and clouds.
The idea was put forward, in part, by Robert Nelson, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, whose scientists study planetary systems (行尾系) , including the solar system.
Their suggestion is hardly the first geoengineering idea out there. Other scientists have considered injecting tiny particles into the stratosphere (平流层) — the region above the troposphere, as a way to cool the planet. In effect, the particles could cool the planet after a volcanic eruption (爆发) . For instance, Live Science previously reported a series of big eruptions from the Icelandic volcano Eldgju from AD 939 to AD 940 led to one of the coldest summers the northern Hemisphere had experienced in l,500 years.
1. Why has salt been advised for the project?| A．It cools down rapidly. | B．It is effective in reflecting sunlight. |
| C．It can stay in space for a long time. | D．It can release a great deal of energy. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Rude. | C．Appreciative. | D．Confident. |
| A．To calculate the amount of CO2. |
| B．To present the danger of big eruption. |
| C．To show the cooling effect of some particle. |
| D．To research the formation of warm summers. |
| A．A cause of climate change. | B．A plan to reduce greenhouse gas. |
| C．An idea intended to cool the earth. | D．An introduction to weather conditions. |
10 . The Sanxingdui Ruins site is one of the greatest archaeological (考古学的) discoveries of the 20th century in the world. It is located near the Yazihe River at Guanghan City, Sichuan Province and as Sichuan is where the ancient state of Shu (蜀国) was located, it is believed that Sanxingdui was the capital of the ancient “Shu culture”.
The site was originally discovered in the 1920s by a farmer. A huge surprise came in 1986 when two sacrificial pits (祭祀坑) filled with more than 1,000 cultural relics, including gold masks, bronze sacred trees, bronze ware, jade ware and ivory, were discovered by local workers excavating (挖掘) clay for bricks.
On March 20, 2021, officials announced that they had discovered six new sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui Ruins site and have found nearly 500 important cultural relics to date. The finding quickly gained attention worldwide.
During about a year of hard work, nearly 2,000 cultural relics were unearthed in these six newly discovered sacrificial pits. In September, officials held another media briefing and announced the discovery of 1,771 cultural relics from the number three and number four pits, of which 557 relics were relatively complete and the rest are fragments.
Among the items, the gold mask is the most impressive. It was found in June. After restoration, it turned out to be the biggest complete gold mask found at the site, with fine texture and quality. Three bronze figures (雕像) with their palms pressed together and their heads twisted to the right, were also a unique find among Sanxingdui items in terms of their shape and decorative pattern.
Experts said that these new discoveries provided further material for studying the bronze casting (铸造) technology of the Shu people as well as their art, religious beliefs, social system and cultural exchanges with surrounding areas.
1. Who was the first to have discovered the Sanxingdui Ruins?| A．An official. | B．A farmer. | C．A worker. | D．An archaeologist. |
| A．Large items. | B．Broken pieces. | C．Good qualities. | D．Impressive looks. |
| A．The religious symbols. | B．The fine texture and quality. |
| C．Their size and material. | D．Their shape and decorations. |
| A．The importance of the new discoveries. | B．The further studies of Sanxingdui Ruins. |
| C．The casting technology of the Shu people. | D．The cultural exchanges with other countries. |
