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. forbid
2. freeze
3. steal
4. grow
5. throw
6. tear
7. fly
8. shrink
9. swim
10. lie (躺)
1. upset
2. leave
3. wind
4. lose
5. stand
6. spring
7. eat
8. foresee
9. shake
10. ride
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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. |
7 . 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. |
8 . 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. |
9 . If you are of the “no regrets” school of life, you may think that all this regret is a recipe for unhappiness. But that isn’t the case. Letting yourself be overwhelmed by regret is indeed bad for you. But going to the other extreme may be even worse. To extinguish your regrets doesn’t free you from shame or sorrow but causes you to make the same mistakes again and again. To truly get over our guilt requires that we put regret in its proper place.
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What does the underlined word “extinguish” in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Admit. | B．Destroy. | C．Treasure. | D．Encounter. |
10 . In the study, the researchers sought to understand how the brain uses this following information to adjust our perception of what we initially heard. To do this, they conducted a series of experiments in which the subjects listened to isolated syllables and similarly sounding words. Their results produced three primary findings: The brain’s primary auditory cortex (听觉皮层) is sensitive to how ambiguous a speech sound is at just 50 milliseconds after the sound’s appearance. The brain “replays” previous speech sounds while interpreting the following ones, suggesting re-evaluation as the rest of the word unfolds. The brain makes commitments to its “best guess” of how to interpret the signal after about half a second.
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What does the underlined part “the signal” in the last paragraph refer to?| A．The previous speech sound. | B．The similarly sounding word. |
| C．The unclearly sounding word. | D．The following speech sound. |
