1 . While taking a 20-hour train ride along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in northwestern China, I had the kind of humbling, educational, and above all else, wonderful
| A．experiment | B．encounter | C．competition | D．appointment |
| A．treated | B．saved | C．lectured | D．approached |
| A．true | B．so-called | C．new | D．long-lost |
| A．chance | B．advice | C．trouble | D．right |
2 . On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have
| A．designed | B．followed | C．changed | D．finished |
| A．delay | B．chance | C．trouble | D．excuse |
| A．judge | B．volunteer | C．classmate | D．competitor |
1. gumbo n.
2. nachos n. [pl.]
3. chip n.
4. cheese n.
5. spicy adj.
6. ethnic adj.
7. mission n.
8. graffiti n. [pl.]
9. comic n.
adj. 滑稽的；
10. historical adj.
11. immigrant n.
12. china n.
13. jazz n.
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What makes modern science uniquely powerful is its refusal to believe that it already possesses ultimate truth. The reliability of science is based not on certainty but on a complete absence of certainty. As John Stuart Mill wrote in “On Liberty” in 1859, “The beliefs which we have most warrant (依据) for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.”
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What is the main idea of paragraph 4?| A．It is unwise to believe in science. |
| B．Too much uncertainty lies in science. |
| C．The foundation of science is unfounded. |
| D．The lack of certainty makes science credible. |
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Assuming alcohol does enhance the likelihood of a person interacting with someone they find attractive. Bowdring believes her findings could reveal one process supporting the rewarding yet potentially dangerous nature of alcohol - including its impact on risky behaviour.
“If you’re going to consume alcohol, I think it is worth reflecting on how can you do it in a way that’s safe and consistent with your goals,” Bowdring said. “People may benefit by recognizing that valued social motivations and intentions change when drinking, in ways that may be appealing in the short term but possibly harmful in the long term.”
What does Bowdring mainly talk about in the last paragraph?| A．The significance of her research. |
| B．Reflection on her previous research. |
| C．The negative effects of drinking. |
| D．Social morality and standards. |
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In my twenties, when I was almost constantly in a state of anxiety, I never went on holiday. I was scared of flying, scared of my boss noticing how much nicer life was without me in the office. I thought not going on holiday made me a harder worker,when actually it just made me a more tired one. Then, a boss pulled me aside to tell me that he wasn’t going to thank me for not taking my holidays. I then booked a cheap beach holiday with a friend, and was genuinely amazed to find I felt much better for it.
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What is paragraph 4 mainly about?| A．The benefit the author obtained from travelling. |
| B．The source of the author’s stress during office hours. |
| C．The change of the author’s attitude to taking holidays. |
| D．The reason why the author tried to be a harder worker. |
7 . The term “beer goggles” is said to have been coined by male North American university students in the 1980s. Yet despite unconfirmed evidence for the phenomenon, the link between alcohol intoxication (醉酒) and physical attraction has not been systematically studied.
Prof Bowdring of the University of Pittsburgh invited 18 pairs of male friends into the laboratory to rate the attractiveness of men and women they viewed in photos and videos. On one occasion, both men were given enough cranberry juice to raise their blood alcohol concentration to about 0.08% - the legal limit for driving in England — and on the other occasion, they both received a non-alcoholic drink. After providing attractiveness ratings for the photos, they were asked to select which of these individuals they would most like to interact with in a future experiment.
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What is paragraph 2 of the text mainly about?| A．The comparison of two experiments. |
| B．The process of Bowdring’s experiment. |
| C．The underlying logic of beer goggles effect. |
| D．The methods of appreciating attractiveness. |
8 . The Yurok people have lived along the Klamath River, which flows from the Cascades in Oregon southwest through Northern California, for thousands of years, protecting the region and river from which they — and others — draw sustenance (生计).
But as development and pollution continue to reduce the number of fish in the river and the quantity and quality of its waters, the Yurok Tribe is legalizing (合法化) the tribe’s longstanding care by granting the Rights of Personhood to the Klamath, the first river in North America to have such rights declared.
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What is paragraph 2 mainly about?| A．The process of legalization. | B．The tradition of Yurok tribe. |
| C．The reason behind the legalization. | D．The importance of the Klamath River. |
9 . To reduce coffee cup waste, Cup Club is already replacing millions of takeaway cups in the UK, while Recup in Germany, has performed a deposit system that simply adds a small extra fee to any coffee cup which is returned to the buyer after the cup is deposited in any registered collection point.
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What does the word “which” in the last paragraph refer to?| A．A collection point. | B．A deposit system. |
| C．A small extra fee. | D．Any coffee cup. |
10 . Nick Verel, a 53-year-old kidney transplant (肾脏移植) recipient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine (疫苗). Yet like millions of others, he wasn’t having any luck scheduling an appointment. Nick would sit with computers on his lap trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, which ended up in vain no matter how concentrated he was. “I felt hopeless,” Nick says.
Then he heard about Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mother of three who was helping to secure appointments for vulnerable individuals like Nick. So he messaged Zwinggi on Facebook: Can you help? Thirty-five minutes later, Zwinggi reported back — Nick successfully had an appointment to get the vaccine.
The underlined words “vulnerable individuals” in paragraph 2 refer to those ______.| A．who are too old to book an appointment | B．who need vaccine badly with serious disease |
| C．who have little experience with computers | D．who have little spare time with many kids |
