1. Why did Murphy go to a doctor?
| A．He failed to see anything. | B．He needed some help. | C．He became deaf. |
| A．Cooking a meal. | B．Having dinner. | C．Laying the table. |
| A．She’s generous. | B．She’s nervous. | C．She’s impatient. |
| A．Introducing a treatment. | B．Giving a speech. | C．Telling a story. |
1. What will the speakers do first?
| A．Buy drinks. | B．Return home. | C．Visit a university. |
| A．Water. | B．Coffee. | C．Hot chocolate. |
| A．By bus. | B．On foot. | C．By bike. |
| A．In the street. | B．In a bank. | C．In a coffee shop. |
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“Why did Dad’s job make us move to South America anyway?” I asked Mom. “The TV shows are in Spanish and I miss going to school. The worst part is that I don’t have any friends here. All of the kids speak Spanish.”
“I know it’s hard, sweetheart. I’m lonely here too,” Mom said. “It’s hard to make friends when I can’t talk to anybody.”
Mom hugged (拥抱) me. “We’ll only be living here for eight more months.”
At that moment, eight months sounded like forever. A few days later, Dad said that a man at his work had a daughter my age. “Would you like to invite her over to play?”
“Does she speak English?”
“No,” Dad said, “but I can teach you a few Spanish words so the two of you can talk a little bit.” I shrugged ( 耸 肩 ). “It’s hard to be friends with someone when you can’t really talk to them.” Dad nodded. “I understand, but you wished for a friend.”
“I mean a friend who speaks English.”
“I know, but this might be fun anyway. I’m going to ask her dad to bring her over to our house.”
The following afternoon, Maria and her dad came over. I felt funny because I didn’t know how we’d play together without being able to talk to one another.
“Hola,” I said quietly, which means “hi” in Spanish.
Maria smiled and said something I didn’t understand. I looked at Dad and whispered (低声说), “This isn’t going to work.”
“Give it a chance,” he said.
Then Maria showed me a cardboard box. She’d brought a game called Connect Four. Dad smiled. “You don’t need to speak the same language to play that game.”
Maria and I went to my bedroom and set up the game. We took turns putting the colored disks (圆片) into the board, trying to get four in a row. Suddenly Maria smiled and pointed at the four red pieces in a row.
I smiled and said, “You won. Good game.”
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Although I’m sure Maria didn’t understand my words, I could tell she understood my smile.
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As we were both laughing, I realized that although we spoke different languages, I’d actually made a friend.
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9 . Movies and TV shows see dolphins as helpful, playful creatures. “The world loves a good dolphin story,” Blake Morton, a scientist who studies animal behavior, told TIME. “And I think one reason for that is we see a lot of ourselves reflected in their behavior.”
Morton used scientific methods to test this. The result of this work is a new report showing that humans and dolphins share certain personality traits (个性特点).
The study included 134 bottlenose dolphins in eight countries. Each dolphin was observed and rated by several people, using a “dolphin personality questionnaire (调查表).” The questionnaire had more than 40 items. It included adjectives such as “playful” and “intelligent”. Scientists gave every dolphin a score from 1 to 5 for each item, based on how well it described the animal’s behavior.
From these ratings, Morton and his team were able to find personality traits that are common in dolphins. The results show that dolphins and humans have some similar personality traits. Most obviously, the two species (物种) share traits related to curiosity and sociability.
Morton’s dolphin study and others like it help us learn about other species. But they also help us learn about ourselves. “My kind of work comes from the spirit of trying to understand what made humans the way we are,” Morton says. “One way we can do that is to compare our behavior to other species.”
Scientists around the world are researching different animal species. Their research raises important questions that future scientists will work to answer. “It’s all a big puzzle (迷宫),” Morton says. “It takes thousands of careful papers being printed before you start to see the puzzle coming together.” He compares scientific research to pointillism. That’s a painting style in which an artist makes a picture using lots of tiny dots (点). “If you take a step back and look at all those little single points of work,” Morton says, “you’ll see a big picture come into view.”
1. What did Morton’s dolphin study find?| A．Dolphins are more popular in TV shows than other animals. |
| B．Dolphins have personality traits very similar to humans. |
| C．Dolphins are helpful and playful creatures. |
| D．Dolphins are more curious than humans. |
| A．The importance of studying dolphin behavior. |
| B．Why Morton’s team created the questionnaire. |
| C．How Morton’s team carried out the study. |
| D．The methods of observing dolphins. |
| A．Finding the similarities between dolphins and humans. |
| B．Having a deeper understanding of humans. |
| C．Protecting dolphins more scientifically. |
| D．Learning about other animals. |
| A．Progress in science is made little by little. |
| B．Scientific research should be taken seriously. |
| C．Art plays an important role in scientific research. |
| D．Scientists around the world should work together. |
10 . In her new book, Kate Leaver explores modern friendship. If the Internet is the cause of loneliness, she writes, it’s also the cure (解决方法).
Scientists have done studies that suggest a connection between social media and loneliness. But even they have to admit (承认) we do not know what came first: loneliness or social media. Does Twitter make us lonelier, or do we pick up our phones when we’re already lonely, looking for some kind of connection?
I’ve spoken to many people, both my own friends and strangers from the Internet, who would simply not have the same social life without social media. I know a woman who met all three of her bridesmaids ( 伴 娘 ) on Twitter. She says she feels her most real self when she’s online and the friends she’s made there are her closest friends. I met the woman on Twitter, did this interview online and now we’re also friends.
This is perhaps exactly the point: we can no longer quite so easily tell our online selves from what we’d call our in-real-life selves. We are becoming confident enough to put our online and offline selves together as we realise that using social media is an important way to develop friendships.
My best friends in the world live in Melbourne, New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans. I am, at any time, at least 5, 000 km away from them. Catch-ups (谈论近况) over dinner are not possible for us. And so, we spend most of our friendship exchanging stories and emojis on WhatsApp and Facebook.
Our group has become home to career advice and moral support (精神支持). I am saddened by anyone who would suggest our largely online friendship is in any way less important than people who have the chance to sit in the same room. We live in a world where technology is everywhere. So embrace it and you’ll get more than you expect.
1. What is the purpose of paragraph 1?| A．To explore the reasons for loneliness. |
| B．To introduce Kate Leaver’s new book. |
| C．To bring up the topic of modern friendship. |
| D．To discuss the negative influence of the Internet. |
| A．She helps her online friends find their true selves. |
| B．She considers her social life very different. |
| C．She has lots of short-term online friends. |
| D．She speaks highly of online friendship. |
| A．She tries hard to have face-to-face catch-ups. |
| B．She pays more attention to her online friends. |
| C．She uses the Internet to maintain friendships. |
| D．She writes stories to stay in touch with her friends. |
| A．Stop. | B．Accept. |
| C．Change. | D．Discover. |
