1 . Humans are driving climate change. That means we can change our path.
Extend product lifespan (寿命).
Switch to electric cooking. Not only is gas-powered cooking releasing harmful chemicals into the environment, but it could be contributing to health problems for you if you’re cooking indoors.
Plant trees where you can. Trees can help control temperatures and improve air quality.
| A．Eat more sustainably |
| B．Fix what you have instead of replacing it |
| C．The time it gives you back this fall is an added bonus |
| D．As climate change causes temperatures in many areas to rise |
| E．Just make sure the plants you’re adding are approved for your area |
| F．Plus, research has shown some gas stoves can leak pollutants even when they’re off |
| G．While governments and businesses have a key role to play in addressing climate change |
2 . Four YouTube Channels for Learning English
Bob the CanadianBob is a high school teacher from Toronto, Canada, who lives on a flower farm with his wife and five kids. Bob’s videos mostly deal with everyday situations. Bob describes common places, scenes and conversations using simple English. He has taken his viewers to a great mix of places, from hardware stores to hotels. Bob’s ac cent is very clear and he subtitles his videos.
JenniferESLJenniferESL has been making YouTube videos teaching US English with her family since 2007, so there’s a huge collection to discover. Like Bob the Canadian, one of the enjoyable things about Jennifer’s videos is that you get a brief look at someone’s life in an English-speaking country. She also uses her channel to advertise other teachers’ videos that she finds useful.
Learn English with Mr. DuncanMr. Duncan has been running a successful English-language YouTube channel for over ten years. He lives in a pretty town in the UK and has an upper-class British ac cent to match. Mr. Duncan’s huge video catalog covers nearly every topic in the world of British English. For the past few months, he has stopped creating short video lessons, and started running free livestream lessons three times per week instead. Unlike Bob the Canadian, Mr. Duncan’s videos are quite funny and most viewers find them fun and memorable.
EnglishClass101This is a channel designed to sell an interactive online English course. However, if you don’t mind a sales pitch(推销行话), the videos themselves are a great learning resource. They are all completely free, whether or not you buy the course. This channel is particularly good at explaining grammatical rules and common expressions. If you’ve ever become so bored trying to understand the use cases for a tense, there’s almost certainly an EnglishClass101 video that can help you!
1. What do Bob and Jennifer have in common?| A．They both add subtitles to their videos. |
| B．They both teach English with their families in videos. |
| C．They both promote valuable videos from other educators. |
| D．They both share life in English-speaking countries in videos. |
| A．He is producing shorter video lessons. |
| B．He is conducting free livestream lessons. |
| C．He has tried to make his videos more fun. |
| D．He has started teaching English with a British accent. |
| A．JenniferESL. | B．Bob the Canadian. |
| C．EnglishClass101. | D．Learn English with Mr. Duncan. |
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One morning last December, Bill McDonald read in the paper that a local man, Joe Day, was sick with lung cancer. That meant Day couldn’t assemble(组装) the magnificently lit, handcrafted Christmas displays that had made his house in Versailles, Indiana, a yearly holiday site for 95,000 people.
It wouldn’t be Christmas without Day’s lights, thought McDonald. Somebody had to come to his aid, he decided.
Day had made his own quick decision 33 Christmases ago when he came home one afternoon from his job as an electrician and found his five-year-old grandson, Nicholas, waiting. “What do you want to do today?” Day asked.
“Let’s build a reindeer(驯鹿),” Nicholas said. They fashioned one using wood from a fallen tree, then set it out on the lawn and lit up its cherry-red nose for the holidays.
Each year, Day added to his handiwork, placing reindeer on a track above his roof and winding lights as if they were electric vines(藤) around his windows and doors. Finally, thousands of lights, figures, and models filled his yard.
Then came December 2019. Day’s cancer, diagnosed in March, had spread to his liver. After 19 rounds of chemotherapy(化疗) and 43 radiation treatments, he was too tired and depressed to celebrate Christmas until McDonald called.
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“You don’t know me, but I want to help get your lights up,” McDonald said.
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7 . The fast development of AI-generated content (AIGC), especially AI translation, is accelerating (加快) the speed at which China's online novels are being introduced to the world, while global online writers tend to flood to a common platform to expand the world's online novel market, according to the 2023 China Online Literature Exporting Overseas Trend Report.
"Online literature not only brings Chinese culture and works to the world, but also witnesses the global development of this Chinese model," said the president of a publisher.
"After going through publishing authorization (授权), overseas translation and exporting models overseas, China's online literature has reached a new stage of global IP co-creation as writers from different countries and regions work together to develop online literature IP, which has led to a new wave of globalization in online literature," he added.
"As of October 2023, an overseas website owned by the publisher, had launched about 3,600 translated works of Chinese online literature," said the report. The platform has been visited by more than 220 million users, who spend more than 1.5 hours daily on reading. More than 150,000 comments are usually made in a single day, including exchanges about works and discussions about the cities, food and culture from various countries.
With the help of AI, the translation efficiency (效率) of online novels has increased by nearly 100 times, and the cost has been reduced by more than 90 percent. "Due to these advantages, the platform WebNovel will introduce AI translation for English, Spanish, French, Japanese and other languages, to help good Chinese and foreign stories to reach a wider international audience," said Yang Chen, editor-in-chief of the publisher.
Chinese online literature has been exported overseas for more than 20 years. It has shared with the world not only excellent cultural works, but also a set of creative mechanisms (机制) and industrial models based on the digital age. As such, global industrial integration has become a significant trend in the development of online literature.
1. What's the value of China's online literature according to paragraph 2?| A．It contributes to regional cooperation. |
| B．It encourages global development. |
| C．It benefits overseas translation. |
| D．It helps spread Chinese culture. |
| A．To stress the importance of translating Chinese works. |
| B．To show the popularity of Chinese online literature. |
| C．To explain why Chinese literature develops so fast. |
| D．To call on people to read Chinese literature online. |
| A．It produces better quality works. | B．It enables writers to work together. |
| C．It provides more language choices. | D．It's more productive and economical. |
| A．China Online Literature Faces New Challenges |
| B．AI Translation Boosts Global Cooperation |
| C．AI Helps Chinese Web Novels Sail Overseas |
| D．Online Literature Goes Viral Globally |
8 . Teenagers have long been told that being active and taking part in various sports is good for their health. But new research suggests that too much sport for teenagers could negatively affect their well-being just as much as too little sport.
Researchers from Switzerland say their study suggests that 14 hours of physical activity a week is best for promoting good health in teenagers. However, they found that more than 14 hours appears to be detrimental to their health. To reach their findings, the researchers surveyed more than 1,245 teenagers aged between 16 and 20 from Switzerland.
All participants were required to answer questions on height and weight, sports practice, sports injuries and well-being. Their well-being was assessed(评估) using the World Health Organization (WHO) Well-Being Index,and the average well-being score for all participants was 17.
The researchers divided sports participation into low (0—3.5 hours a week), average (3.6— 10.5 hours), high (10.6— 17.5 hours), and very high (more than 17.5 hours).The researchers found that participants in the low and very high activity groups were more than twice as likely to have well-being scores below 13, compared with participants in the average group. The researchers found that the highest well-being scores were gotten by participants who carried cut around 14 hours of physical activity a week, but exercising beyond 14 hours resulted in lower well-being scores.
Commenting on their findings, the researchers say physical activity has been connected with positive emotional well-being, reduced sadness, anxiety and stress disorders, and improved self-respect in teenagers.
The researchers suggest that their study stresses the importance for physicians caring for teenagers to check their level of sports practice and ask them about their well-being. Teenagers probably need a supportive and closer follow-up of their health and well-being. The findings can provide information for guideline groups who produce recommendations on sports practice for teenagers.
1. What does the underlined word “detrimental” in paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．Useless. | B．Important. | C．Reasonable. | D．Harmful. |
| A．To much sport is less healthy than what is traditionally believed. |
| B．Both low and high sports participation help teenagers improve confidence. |
| C．Very high activity groups tend to get higher well-being scores. |
| D．Low spirit participation is proved to be the cause of obesity. |
| A．A research paper. | B．A health magazine. |
| C．A business report. | D．A fitness diary. |
| A．Measures to improve teenagers’ well-being. |
| B．Concerns of physicians about teenagers' well-being. |
| C．Importance of physical activities on teenagers'well-being. |
| D．Relationship between sports participation and teenagers' well-being. |
9 . Most people in their eighties would consider themselves lucky not to have health problems, but this is not the case with Toshisuke Kanazawa. The 82-year-old Japanese bodybuilder is not only in perfect physical condition, but also looks better than a lot of men a quarter his age.
Kanazawa is a living example that you’re never too old to hit the gym and achieve the body you’ve always dreamed of. A champion bodybuilder in his youth, Kanazawa stopped exercising completely after he retired(退休) at age 34, drinking, smoking and eating whatever he liked. It wasn’t until he turned 50 that he wanted to regain the perfect body of his younger years.
Kanazawa’s wife felt sick frequently, and the former bodybuilder remembered that she had never been happier than when he won the national championship. So, to please her, he decided to return to the gym and completely change his diet.
His workout schedule had to change according to his age. In his youth, he would spend up to six hours training in the gym every day, and his body would recover within two days after a particularly intensive workout, but that was not the case anymore. He cut the daily gym time to three hours and started giving his body one week to recover after exercising every muscle group.
Kanazawa’s efforts paid off. In 2016, at the age of 80, Kanazawa defeated many opponents and placed sixth in the world in a match for bodybuilders over 65, and won the admiration of the crowd.
Sport keeps this elderly man healthy, as he has not suffered so much as a cold since he started bodybuilding again at age 50.
“I want to be a super old man in the bodybuilder community,” Kanazawa said, “If I have a goal, I can continue moving forward. I have to work much harder.”
1. What can we learn about Kanazawa from paragraph 2?| A．He started bodybuilding at the age of 34. |
| B．He seldom exercised when he was young. |
| C．He had serious health problems in his youth. |
| D．He developed an unhealthy lifestyle after he retired. |
| A．To make a living | B．To help change his diet. |
| C．To cheer up his wife. | D．To recover from illness. |
| A．He went on a diet. |
| B．He turned to the doctor for advice. |
| C．He combined relaxation with exercise. |
| D．He spent up to six hours training every day. |
| A．Bodybuilding: No Age Limit |
| B．Champion: The Result of Workout |
| C．Understanding: A Secret to Happiness |
| D．Exercise: The Best Medicine for Illnesses |
10 . I grew up in northern Arizona, where it has the most beautiful landscapes on the planet. Until I was invited to
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| A．play with | B．argue with | C．start with | D．share with |
| A．had given | B．had gone | C．had received | D．had seen |
| A．experience | B．chance | C．idea | D．ability |
| A．comfortably | B．creatively | C．likely | D．virtually |
| A．taking up | B．taking in | C．taking on | D．taking off |
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