1 . By now, most people know they should be eating more vegetables. But are there ways to get more from the vegetables you already eat? A research shows that when it comes to vegetables, it’s not only how much we eat, but also how we prepare them, that decides the vitamins and other nutrients that enter our body.
Many studies show that people who eat lots of vegetables have less heart disease, and eye problems and even cancer. But raw vegetables are not always best. The researchers found that 198 Germans who eat raw food were short of lycopene, the matter found in tomatoes and other red vegetables. “There is an idea that raw foods are always going to be better,” says Steven K. Clinton, a professor at Ohi o State University. “For fruits and vegetables, sometimes a little bit of cooking can be helpful.”
A number of factors decide how the vegetables do good to people’s health before they reach the table, including where and how they were grown and stored before being bought. No single cooking way is best. Some nutrients are easily lost in cooking if they are cooked in different ways.
Vitamins C and B are often lost. In January, another report said that boiling was better for carrots than frying or serving them raw. Frying was the worst way to cook.
What cooked with the vegetables can also be important? When the vegetables were cooked with fat, the diners can get more nutrients. Fat can also make the taste of vegetables better, meaning that people will eat more of them. Putting on some other things that make it taste better—a little salt—can make the food taste better.
1. The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.| A．people should eat more vegetables |
| B．the way people eat vegetables is important |
| C．eating vegetables is good for us |
| D．how much vegetables one should eat |
| A．have the eyes problems | B．have heart disease |
| C．be in need of lycopene | D．hate eating tomatoes |
| A．the place where the vegetables are grown |
| B．the way how the vegetables are stored |
| C．the way how the vegetables are prepared |
| D．the price at which the vegetable are sold |
| A．It’s better to cook vegetables with fat |
| B．the more fat in the cooking, the fewer vegetables people will eat |
| C．It’s better to cook the vegetables without salt |
| D．the fat will increase the nutrition of the vegetables |
1. 活动情况(时间、地点、参加人员等)；
2. 注意事项；
3. 发出邀请。
2. 申请理由。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可根据题目要求适当增加内容。
Dear Peter，
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Yours,
Li Hua
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Mr. Philipp,
I’m Li Hua, a senior 3 student in China. I’ll graduate in half a year and I want to apply to your college for far education after graduation. Would you please to tell me some detailed informations about apply to your college?
The first thing I want to know is, as a foreign student, what I should prepare to be admit to your college. Beside, I would like to know how many I should pay for my studying and whether I can apply to scholarship. Last but not least, whether the school provides accommodation are what I am concerned about as well.
I would appreciate if you could give me an early reply.
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First, we need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the capabilities in achieving our desires.Like the Sunflower, it knew it had the capability to overcome its obstacle because it trusted in the Universal Truth and had faith it would succeed.
Stand tall like the Sunflower and be proud of who and what you are and the environment will begin to support you. You will find a way to go under or around your big obstacle in order to reach your desires.
1.| A．personality | B．impact | C．fortune | D．job |
| A．forecast | B．expressed | C．moved | D．determined |
| A．looking like | B．heading to | C．turning to | D．looking into |
| A．other than | B．along with | C．apart from | D．instead of |
| A．as if | B．even if | C．although | D．while |
| A．built | B．called | C．limited | D．changed |
| A．ground | B．green | C．color | D．light |
| A．school | B．factory | C．farm | D．yard |
| A．cleared | B．reached | C．crossed | D．climbed |
| A．admit | B．know | C．identify | D．acknowledge |
| A．either | B．too | C．neither | D．also |
| A．sink | B．stop | C．finish | D．continue |
| A．broke out | B．figure out | C．brought out | D．put out |
| A．whistle | B．signal | C．made | D．warning |
| A．look after | B．look for | C．look up | D．look down |
| A．regular | B．common | C．usual | D．unusual |
| A．suddenly | B．actually | C．especially | D．specially |
| A．specialized | B．organized | C．recognized | D．realized |
| A．potential | B．disability | C．capability | D．reality |
| A．attain | B．admire | C．accompany | D．support |
6 . Sleep problem may happen in many people. Good news is that people can actually“Train”their brains to fall asleep.
1. Make a schedule, and stick to it
Melatonin(褪黑素)is a hormone produced by the body to regulate when you get sleepy and when you wake up. As night approaches, levels of melatonin rise, becoming a signal to the body that it’s time for bed. To work properly, the release of this hormone needs to occur at regular times.
2.
“The best sleep tip you can ever give somebody is get up - don’t lay in bed awake but not sleeping,” clinical psychologist and sleep expert Michael Grandner said. Why is that so important?
3. Change your attitude about sleep
Many people view sleeping as the final thing they have to do in a busy day, worth delaying to finish the housework, schoolwork, office work or the latest television series.
It may sound like a small shift in thinking, but it’s important. Most adults need between seven and eight hours of sleep to be fully rested, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So if a person needs to rise at 7 am each day, he would require a bedtime of 11 pm. When you have to stop and get ready to go to bed, do it without hesitation.
| A．Go to bed early and get up early. |
| B．Don’t lay in bed awake. |
| C．Otherwise, it will makes the next day more stressful. |
| D．Because lying in bed awake can form an association in your brain that can lead to long-time sleep problem. |
| E．Because lying in bed awake may make you more tired when getting up. |
| F．Therefore, it’s important to have a standard wake up time, even on weekends or vacations. |
| G．That thinking needs to be changed. |
7 . Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members — even if they’re dead. The capability, announced at Amazon’s Re: Mars conference in Las Vegas, is in development and would allow the virtual assistant to reproduce the voice of a specific person based on a less than a minute of provided recording.
Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa, said at the event Wednesday that the desire behind the feature was to build greater trust in the interactions users have with Alexa by putting more “human qualities of empathy and affect.”
“These qualities have become even more important during the ongoing pandemic when so many of us have lost ones that we love,” Prasad said. “While AI can’t get rid of that pain of loss, it can definitely make their memories last.”
In a video played by Amazon at the event, a young child asks “Alexa, can Grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz?” Alexa then acknowledges the request, and switches to another voice imitate the child’s grandmother. The voice assistant then continues to read the book in that same voice.
To create the feature, Prasad said the company had to learn how to make a “high-quality voice” with a shorter recording instead of hours of recording in a studio. Amazon did not provide further details about the feature, which is bound to spark more privacy concerns and moral questions.
1. Which one can best replace the underlined word in paragraph one?| A．reproduce | B．reduce | C．rebuild | D．review |
| A．To make Alexa easier to use. |
| B．To get rid of users’ pain of losing their family member. |
| C．To develop more trust in the communications between users and Alexa. |
| D．To make Alexa more like human. |
| A．To tell the reader how the child misses his grandma. |
| B．To show Alexa can read stories for young children. |
| C．To show the significance of Alexa during the pandemic. |
| D．To give an example on how the new feature works. |
| A．Amazon’s Alexa will bring back your lost beloved ones. |
| B．Amazon’s Alexa will replicate the voice of lost family members. |
| C．Amazon’s Alexa will make your memories last. |
| D．Amazon’s Alexa will get rid of your pain of loss. |
8 . Large numbers of employees in the United Kingdom will begin a four-day work week from Monday without cutting their pay in the largest trial of its kind. The pilot, which will last for six months, involves 3,300 workers spanning 70 companies, ranging from providers of financial services to a fish-and-chip restaurant.
During the program, workers receive 100% of their pay for working only 80% of their usual week, in exchange for promising to maintain 100% of their productivity. The program is being run by not-for-profit 4 Day Week Global, Autonomy, a think tank, and the 4 Day Week UK Campaign in partnership with researchers from Cambridge University, Oxford3 University and Boston College.
Sienna O’Rourke, brand manager at Pressure Drop Brewing, an independent brewery5 in London, told CNN Business that the company’s biggest goal was to improve the mental health and well-being of its employees. “The pandemic has made us think a great deal about work and how people organize their lives,” she said. “We’re doing this to improve the lives of our staff and be part of a progressive change in the world.” Given the company manufactures and ships products, workers have less flexibility about when and where they work, O’Rourke said. But any difficulties in navigating holiday and sick leave would be tackled as a team.
Until now, Iceland had conducted the biggest pilot of a shorter working week between 2015 and 2019, with 2,500 public sector9 workers involved in two large trials. Those trials found no corresponding drop in productivity among participants, and a dramatic increase in employee well-being.
Calls to shorten the working week have gathered steam in recent years in several countries. As millions of employees switched to remote work during the pandemic — cutting onerous commuting time and costs — calls for greater flexibility have only grown louder.
Government-backed trials are set to take place in Spain and Scotland later this year, the 4 Day Week Campaign said in a press release.Joe O’Connor, CEO of 4 Day Week Global, said that the workers have shown they can work “shorter and smarter.”
1. What does the underlined part refer to in paragraph 1?| A．The trial to carry out a four-day work week in large scales. |
| B．The trial to cut workers’ pay. |
| C．The trial to increase workers’ productivity. |
| D．The trial to defeat the pandemic. |
| A．To allow workers to work more flexibly. |
| B．To decrease workers’ time and costs in traffic. |
| C．to improve workers’ mental fitness and boost their happiness. |
| D．To cut workers’ work hours and pay. |
| A．UK | B．Scotland | C．Spain | D．Iceland |
| A．culture | B．society | C．politics | D．sports |
9 . Liu Shuqi broke up with her boyfriend two months ago and has now found a new companion.
The handsome “man” is dressed in a white suit with a stylish haircut. He understands her emotions and feelings perfectly and gives her comfort, encouragement and support. “He is very humorous and offers some comfort when I am in a bad mood,” the 26-year-old bank employee said. The only problem is he is a virtual being and not a real boyfriend.
Liu is not alone in her choice of companion. In a digital era where people are heavily reliant on their smart devices, many of those who live alone increasingly turn to the virtual field to seek companions.
The artificial intelligence-powered digital humans, who are similar to real humans in appearance and behavior, are capable of providing 24-hour online companionship, humanlike conversation and emotional support.
They will likely become an essential part of people’s daily lives, industry experts said. Lin Kaikai and Ye Youyou, two companion-oriented virtual beings, were recently launched by Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc. Powered by Baidu’s Plato, an AI model for dialogue generation that is trained on over 10 billion parameters collected from social media conversations in both English and Chinese, the two digital humans have a smooth, more humanlike interaction.
For instance, they can participate in conversations through various forms such as texts, voice and emojis. They offer customized wake-up call services and learn about the preferences of their users, mainly through increased frequency of chats and interactions, Baidu said.
Other tech companies have also jumped on the companion-oriented virtual being trend.
Xiaoice is an AI-powered chatbot that seems to redefine the conceptions of romance and relationships among young Chinese. It has helped to comfort lonely hearts through more than 17 million virtual “girlfriends” and “boyfriends” in China.
“The rise of digital humans that serve as emotional companions is a result of technological innovation, such as the improvement in appearance, functions and interactive experience of digital humans, fueled by the enhanced deep-learning capacities based on massive user data,” said Chen Duan, director of the Digital Economy Integration Innovation Development Center at the Central University of Finance and Economics.
A set of problems though have also emerged. They include ethics, morals, data security and personal privacy protection in the industry, Chen said, while calling for efforts to formulate relevant laws and regulations on the ownership of digital characters and standardizing their behaviors.
1. What is Liu’ new companion like according to Liu Shuqi herself?| A．Handsome and stylish | B．Humorous and helpful |
| C．Perfect and supportive | D．Clever and understanding |
| A．Because virtual companions look very like real humans. |
| B．Because virtual companions can offer a whole-day online companionship. |
| C．Because these people rely on their digital devices heavily. |
| D．Because these people need emotional support very much. |
| A．Texts | B．emojis | C．voice | D．eye-contact |
| A．Making relative rules and laws. | B．Regularize the behaviors of virtual companions. |
| C．Stop producing virtual companions. | D．Both A and B. |
10 . Pacific Coast Holiday
4 Days Coach Tour of Los Angeles - Malibu - Santa Barbara - Central Coast - Monterey - San Francisco
Day 1 Arrival in Los Angeles
Thanks for choosing us and welcome to join our USA group tours. After arriving in Los Angeles, the “City of Angels”, please go to our pre-booked hotel and check in by yourself. In the evening, meet our tour director and fellow travelers at the hotel. The tour director will give a brief introduction about the following schedule.
Accommodation: Sonesta Los Angeles Airport LAX 
Day 2 Have a leisure day in Los Angeles
You are free to travel around throughout the day. Griffith Observatory, Getty Center, Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens, and Hollywood Bowl are all popular attractions. Besides, Grand Central Market is a great place to enjoy the food and get cheap pupusas, carnitas tacos and aguas frescas. You can also choose to take an optional full-day tour to the world’s largest film studio and theme park: Universal Studios. There, you may take a look at Wisteria Alley in the hot-selling TV series “Desperate Housewives”, visit the actual behind-the-scenes production and special photography skills of the movie, and take the tour bus on the spot to experience the exciting scenes in the movie and other interesting activities.
Meals: Breakfast.
Day 3 Transfer to visit Malibu, Santa Barbara and Central Coast
On the third day, enjoy a motor coach tour. We’ll head north along the beautiful Pacific coast, pass by the famous Santa Monica and Malibu beaches, and have a stop at the historic end of the Route 66 - Santa Monica Beach. Route 66 established on November 11, 1926, popularly known as the Mother Road, holds a special place in American consciousness. The highway ultimately stretched 2,448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. Remember to take a photo in front of the California Lifeguard Tower, which is famous for “Beach Ambulance”. Then, we’ll arrive in Santa Barbara, where a walkway lined with palm trees meets the white sandy beach in distance. After, enjoy the self-paid lunch and admire the Spanish architecture of the city, and then continue going to a quaint central coast town and stay for one night there.
Meals: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Santa Maria 
Day 4 Continue the journey to Carmel and Monterey, Get to San Francisco and say goodbye
This is the last day of the tour. We will head north to Carmel to visit the shops and galleries where famous artists gather. Then, continue northward to visit the old Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey. Stroll along the wharf to Cannery Row, famous for the novel by John Steinbeck. In the afternoon, we will drive through the fertile Casterville and Santa Clara Valleys to the “city of the bay” — San Francisco.
The trip will be over after we arrive in San Francisco. If you need, we can book a hotel in San Francisco or arrange other visits for you. Hope you have had a wonderful time with us and look forward to serving you again in the near future.
Meals: Breakfast.
1. Which statement is not true according to the passage?| A．Only breakfast will be served by the tourists agency. |
| B．The travelers will go to the pre-booked hotel and check in guided by their tour director on Day 1. |
| C．Day 3 will be ended in a quaint central coast town. |
| D．San Francisco is the last stop of this travel. |
| A．Appreciate some art works. |
| B．Enjoy the food in Grand Central Market. |
| C．Play a role in the TV series “Desperate Housewives”. |
| D．Experience some exciting scenes in the movie. |
| A．Day 1 | B．Day 2 | C．Day 3 | D．Day 4 |
