1 . The unprecedented decision – described by Chapek as a "one-off" for a Disney blockbuster – is the latest major blow for movie theater chains in the US already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic since mid-March, as the rising-again coronavirus cases stalls reopening plans for theaters in key markets such as New York and Los Angeles.
翻译：_____________________________
剖析：本句的主干为：_________________________________这一前所未有的决定是对美国连锁影院的最新重大打击。
本句的枝叶分析：枝叶1： ______________________为过去分词短语做后置定语修饰主语：The unprecedented decision。
枝叶2：_________________________________为现在分词短语做后置定语修饰表语the latest major blow for movie theater chains in the US
枝叶3： as the rising-again coronavirus cases stalls reopening plans for theaters in key markets such as New York and Los Angeles.为____________________。

2 . Returning to a book you’ve read many times can feel like drinks with an old friend. There’s a welcome familiarity - but also sometimes a slight suspicion that time has changed you both, and thus the relationship. But books don’t change, people do. And that’s what makes the act of rereading so rich and transformative.

The beauty of rereading lies in the idea that our bond with the work is based on our present mental register. It’s true, the older I get, the more I feel time has wings. But with reading, it’s all about the present. It’s about the now and what one contributes to the now, because reading is a give and take between author and reader. Each has to pull their own weight.

There are three books I reread annually The first, which I take to reading every spring is Emest Hemningway’s A Moveable Feast. Published in 1964, it’s his classic memoir of 1920s Paris. The language is almost intoxicating (令人陶醉的)，an aging writer looking back on an ambitious yet simpler time. Another is Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm, her poetic 1975 ramble (随笔) about everything and nothing. The third book is Julio Cortazar’s Save Twilight: Selected Poems, because poetry. And because Cortazar.

While I tend to buy a lot of books, these three were given to me as gifs, which might add to the meaning I attach to them. But I imagine that, while money is indeed wonderful and necessary, rereading an author’s work is the highest currency a reader can pay them. The best books are the ones that open further as time passes. But remember, it’s you that has to grow and read and reread in order to better understand your friends.

1. What does the underlined word “currency” in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Debt

B．Reward

C．Allowance

D．Face value

4 . Older women who walk a little over three kilometers each day might live longer than less active women of the same age, a new study suggests.

Many Americans hoping to stay healthy set a daily goal of 10, 000 steps, or about eight kilometers. They often have this goal because they are wearing electronic devices which set that target, note researchers in the United States. Their findings appeared recently in the publication JAMA Internal Medicine.

But it is not clear how much intensity(强度)or speed matter when counting the health benefits of every step, the researchers write. They add that 10,000 steps per day might not be the right goal for everyone.

For the study, researchers observed 17,000 women, all in their early 70s. They asked the women to wear accelerometers for at least four days. Accelerometers are small devices that measure the number of steps and the intensity of movement. The researchers followed up with the women much later, around 4. 3 years later, on average. Since the beginning of the study, 504 women had died. Compared to women who took no more than 2, 718 steps daily, the women who took at least 4,363 steps per day were 41 percent less likely to die.

“Even a modest amount of steps is associated with lower death rates, ” said I-Min Lee, the lead writer of a report on the study. “The rate of stepping did not matter in these older women: it was the number of steps that mattered.”

The study had a few limitations. For example, the researchers only measured women’s movements once, at the start of the study period. It is possible that the women’s behaviors changed over time. Still, the results are “good news for older adults who may have difficulty walking at faster paces, ”said Keith Diaz, a researcher at Columbia University. He was not involved in the study.

“Any walking is better than nothing, ” Diaz said by email. “With even small amounts of walking, your risk of death will be sharply reduced. For those who have difficulty walking, other research shows that any form of aerobic activity provides health benefits,” he added. “Swimming, bicycling or any form of activity that is continuous in nature will provide health benefits.”

What conclusion can we come to from the text?

A．People who walk about 10,000 steps can live longer.

B．10,000 steps per day might be the right goal for people.

C．The more steps one walks per day, the longer life he may live.

D．The number of steps is important for a long life among older women.

6 . Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly   during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties（地方特色菜）in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens   of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network. Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality（个性）and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show. ”

The Food Network got to know Lieberman ____.

A．at one of his parties	B．from his teachers
C．Through his taped show	D．on a television program

7 . About five weeks ago, I noticed the skin of our pet lizard was growing dusty. It worried me. I reported the strange surface on the skin of the lizard to my husband and children the next morning. Seconds later, our lizard emerged from its tank with its old skin flowing behind it.

I didn’t think about it much until a morning last week when I knocked my favorite teapot off the table. It burst into hundreds of pieces. As I swept up the mess, I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.

The destruction started three months ago. It was my husband's birthday. He had just lost his job. The uncertainty was starting to wear on us, so I wanted to do something special.

“Let’s make a cake for Dad!” I cried.

My kids screamed with joy. We baked, iced and sprinkled for most of the day. Candles on the cake! Balloons on the walls! Flowers on the table!

Two hours before my husband came back home from another job interview, my daughter climbed up to grab a glass vase from a high shelf. It fell and crashed beside the cake. Tiny pieces of glass were everywhere. She sobbed loudly as I threw the cake away. My husband had banana pudding for his birthday.

Three days ago, the light in our living room suddenly went out. After several frustrating hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix it, my husband suggested watching the Michael Jordan documentary series The Last Dance.

The poignancy of Jordan retiring from his beloved basketball to play baseball and what had pushed him to make such a tough decision took me by surprise. As I watched him take off his basketball uniform and replace it with a baseball uniform, I saw him leaving behind the layer that no longer served him, just as our lizard had. Neither of them chose the moment that had transformed them. But they had to live with who they were after everything was different. Just like us. I realized that we have to learn to leave the past behind.

Humans do not shed skin as easily as other animals. The beginning of change is upsetting. The process is tiring. Damage changes us before we are ready. I see our Lizard, raw and nearly new.

Jordan said that no matter how it ends, it starts with hope. With our tender, hopeful skin, that is where we begin.

What does the author most likely want to tell us?

A．Love of family helps us survive great hardships.	B．It’s not the end of the world if we break things.
C．We should move on no matter what happens.	D．Past experiences should be treasured.

9 . The researchers focused on Qinghai because it's one of several provinces where the Chinese government is experimenting with using GEP as part of its formal decision-making process.
【翻译】研究人员把重点放在青海省， ______________________。
【剖析】本句为because引导的主从复合句。主句：________________________.
本句的枝叶1：because it's one of several provinces where the Chinese government is experimenting with using GEP as part of its formal decision-making process.为______________从句。
本句的枝叶2：__________________为定语从句修饰先行词：provinces。

10 . If we are actually going to have a sustainable civilization, then we have to pay attention to, kind of, the infrastructure, basically—the essential things that nature does for us—and not continue to just take them for granted.
【翻译】如果我们真的要有_______________，那么我们就必须关注，_________________，基础设施，基本上是大自然为我们做的最基本的事，____________________。
【剖析】本句为if引导的__________________句
主句：we have to pay attention to the infrastructure and _____________________.
本句的枝叶1：If we are actually going to have a sustainable civilization,为___________________从句。
本句的枝叶2： the essential things that nature does for us中___________________为定语从句修饰things；the essential things是_________________的同位语。