1 . By clicking the thumbs up, posting a comment, or sharing a post, people are validating (认可) each other at an increasing rate. This, as well as the need for in-person validation, can create anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem and make it addictive to hear praise, acceptance, and acknowledgment in all aspects of life.
To break free from external validation, it’s key to learn to be aware when you are seeking it.
Be mindful. Look carefully at what you are doing.
Do not ask for validation.
Keep in mind that validation is not a bad thing in your life; it is positive without doubt.
| A．Take a social media break. |
| B．Ignore the need for praise and acceptance. |
| C．It’s only problematic when it’s your single focus. |
| D．Track and record improvements, mentally or on paper. |
| E．Problems arise when self-validation is valued too much. |
| F．Instead of seeking validation from others, ask yourself first. |
| G．This self-awareness can lead to growth through internal validation. |
2 . Hip-hop started 50 years ago as an escape from poverty and violence in Bronx, New York City. The music and style appealed to Black and Latino teenagers. As hip-hop spread throughout New York, so did the culture.
People often mix up hip-hop with rap. Rap is a musical style that combines quick recitation of rhymes with musical beats. But hip-hop is more than just music. It is a culture, and rap music is one part of it. Hip-hop also includes other activities, like breakdancing, disc-jockeying and graffiti art. In his 1993 song Hip Hop vs. Rap, KRS-One said: “Rap is something you do. Hip hop is something you live.” In the early days of hip-hop, playing music on the streets or turning a basketball court into a dance floor may have seemed like a simple invitation to have fun and party. But it actually was an answer to social and economic injustice in poor neighborhoods. It was a way to show joy and imagination even without resources and wealth.
As hip-hop and rap music grew into a force in American culture, entertainers used it to speak to their personal realities. In 1982, in the song The Message, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five criticized poverty and a lack of investment in Black communities. Several years later, Tupac Shakur complained about police violence in the song Changes. Today, hip-hop’s influence on music and other industries is so widespread that experts say it becomes difficult to measure.
There is also hip-hop’s influence on protest, resistance and political dissent (异议) around the world. From the Arab Spring and the Palestinian freedom fight to feminism and class struggles, rap music is a popular expression for calls to action. Music videos produced by artists in Africa, Europe, Asia and South America often include breakdancers, graffiti and other elements of hip-hop.
“Hip-hop took the chains off us and said, ‘No, we’re gonna say it our way,’ ” Al Sharpton, American civil rights leader, said, “It was that freedom. It was that raw, non-watered down kind of expression.”
1. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about as for hip-hop?| A．Its background. | B．Its content. |
| C．Its diversity. | D．Its popularity. |
| A．Hip-hop develops quickly in the world. |
| B．Hip-hop carries an attitude towards life. |
| C．Hip-hop makes people confused about life. |
| D．Hip-hop focuses on having fun and partying. |
| A．A competition in dance and music. | B．A call for peaceful global relations. |
| C．A response to poverty and violence. | D．A trend of musical experimentation. |
| A．It fits in with social values. | B．It’s associated with wealth. |
| C．It satisfies the public’s tastes. | D．It helps speak out for the poor. |
3 . If you are planning for your summer reading list and are lost in numerous choices, check out the following book reviews on modern classics for consideration.
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2003).Apart from having won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004, this amazingly beautiful novel about Black slave owners in an imaginary town is still under-read. It’s a work of genius and profound humanity.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (孤独) by Gabriel García Márquez (1967).García Márquez deals with Colombia’s Thousand Days’ War of 1899 — 1902, but in the most indirect way possible and in some of the most charming and excited words possible. The vast majority of people consider this Nobel Prize winning novel as a must-read book in life.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017).As a book on National Book Award finalist, this novel focuses on the issues of Japan’s occupation of Korea and the impact of World War II through the painful and inspiring stories of multiple (多个) characters over four generations with the best level of modern classic storytelling skills.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969).This novel brings its readers back to the fire and bombing days of Germany. It breaks so many rules that it will make you rethink what is possible in fiction.
1. What do these four books have in common?| A．They are all prize-winning works. | B．The writers are American-born. |
| C．They belong to the same literature style. | D．The writers set their stories in real cities. |
| A．Readers into Germany. | B．Readers keen on slavery. |
| C．Readers fond of modern poems. | D．Readers interested in Asian history. |
| A．Literature. | B．Business. | C．History. | D．World News. |
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In this course, students will learn how an editor approaches a submitted piece, going beyond sentence-level error and looking at the big picture around accuracy, style and organization. Understanding the different challenges in an editor’s job, students will get a behind-the-scenes look at this sometimes busy and often exciting career. Meanwhile, students will grow their own technical editing skills and return home a more competent editor.
Using Gen Z Era as their case study, students will meet and study under the people who decide what topics are relevant and valuable to the audience and who determine the overall editorial strategy, ensuring that the content meets the standards and tone of the publication.
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1. Which is the probable name of the course?| A．Career Development in Media. | B．Editorial Decision-making. |
| C．Fundamentals of Editing. | D．Introduction to Publication. |
| A．Interview award-winning guests. | B．Help authors improve their articles. |
| C．Connect with professional publishers. | D．Edit one article for Gen Z Era. |
| A．$5,100 | B．$5,500 | C．$6,200 | D．$6,600 |
5 . Today, it’s impossible to imagine life without highways which connect goods with markets, employees with work places. “Everything in life is somewhere else,” wrote E.B.White, “and you get there in a car.”
Do highways bring any benefit to our natural world? Yes. Arizona’s highways rainfall softens desert soils for underground-living animals, while vultures (秃鹫) get to expand their diet by roadkill. Butterflies find home on the roadside grassland. In Britain, such habitat is called the “soft estate”—a concept that roads are able to create new ecosystems, even though they sometimes destroy existing ones. A biologist once led me under a highway bridge to show me hundreds of bats resting beneath the bridge, not bothering with the traffic overhead.
But the positive situation isn’t always the case. We tend to ignore the death number as the unavoidable cost of modernity. Although few people ever flatten an animal on purpose while driving on the road, the attraction of the car is so strong that it has caused Americans to kill about 40,000 human lives in car accidents each year, what chance does wildlife have on the road?
Northern America and Europe used to build their road networks with little regard for how they would affect nature. Today, in theory, we know better. Over the last several decades, America and European countries have built bridges for bears, tunnels for turtles, rope webs that allow monkeys to swing over highways without going down to the forest floor. In Kenya, elephants walk under the highways and railways via passages as tall as two-story houses. And road ecology has brought more than crossings: We’ve also learned to map and protect the migrations of animals to design roadsides that benefit bees and butterflies－proof that old mistakes will surely be corrected in the upcoming future.
1. What do E.B.White’s words mean in Paragraph 1?| A．Highways benefit the natural world. | B．People can’t get everything in life. |
| C．A good car is needed to get somewhere. | D．Highways are essential for our daily life. |
| A．Destroying the ecosystem. | B．Building new ecosystems. |
| C．Planning road networks. | D．Repairing habitats for animals. |
| A．To reveal the negative effects of highways. |
| B．To explain people flatten animals on purpose. |
| C．To stress the importance of American modernity. |
| D．To show the number of animals killed on the road. |
| A．Optimistic. | B．Unclear. | C．Worried. | D．Doubtful. |
Since respect for elders is very important in Chinese culture, there is a special festival
During the festival, Chinese families
In Chinese culture, it’s important to respect our elders. In life, we respect them by making them
1. How tall does a child have to be to ride the “Waterfall” alone?
| A．42 inches. | B．45 inches. | C．48 inches. |
| A．Oceana. | B．Lakeland. | C．Rainforest River. |
| A．The sink. | B．The basin. | C．The wave pool. |
| A．The plan for a family trip. |
| B．The introduction of a water park. |
| C．The rules of outdoor water activities. |
1. Who gave the woman her first mountain bike?
| A．Her uncle. | B．Her father. | C．Her brother. |
| A．A fallen tree blocked the road. |
| B．Someone appeared on the road suddenly. |
| C．A photographer suddenly fell off the tree. |
| A．Four. | B．Five. | C．Six. |
1. What kind of dress does the woman usually like?
| A．Short dresses. | B．Mid-length dresses. | C．Long dresses. |
| A．In summer. | B．In autumn. | C．In winter. |
| A．Attend a wedding. | B．Change her dress. | C．Go to the store. |
10 . As teens spend more time online, there is an old challenge that has taken on a new form: cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying is in some ways worse than traditional bullying because the attacks can live forever on the internet and can reach a much broader audience. And it’s especially urgent to address at a time when teen mental health has already taken such a hit.
But there’s some encouraging news from a new study suggesting that nurturing gratitude in students could reduce this online abuse.
The study included almost 50011-to-17-year-olds from three different schools In Spain. The students participated in either a four-week gratitude program, a four-week cyberbullying education program, or neither.
Across the four one-hour sessions in the gratitude program, the students learned about gratitude, practiced through activities, and role-played scenarios using gratitude to reduce the risk and harm of cyberbullying. For example, teens were asked to think about a difficult experience related to cyberbullying and then think about someone who helped them in one way or another through that experience.
The cyberbullying education program involved discussions about what cyberbullying is, how it is different from traditional bullying, and how the students might be able to prevent or take action during a cyberbullying incident.
All the students took a survey at the beginning and end of their program, as well as three months after ward, which asked them how much they had engaged in cyberbullying in the recent past, including calling someone names via text or online messages and spreading rumors about someone on the internet.
The result suggests that learning about and practicing gratitude may have lasting impacts on an adolescent’s tendency to engage in cyberbullying—after only four hours of lessons. The fact that a decrease in cyberbullying didn’t occur right away for gratitude, as it did with cyberbullying education, suggests that it may have taken time for the young people to think about and incorporate it into their lives. A combination of these two approaches could be most helpful, the authors suggest.
1. Which is the worst situation of bullying according to the text?| A．Jack forced Sam to do homework for him. | B．Julia named Lily a stupid donkey in her vlog. |
| C．Tina asked classmates not to play with Linda. | D．Tom kicked his classmate hard during a break. |
| A．Give up. | B．Find out. | C．Deal with. | D．Bully online. |
| A．The purpose of the research. | B．The principle of the research. |
| C．The procedure of the research. | D．The application of the research. |
| A．Caber Education: A New Threat to Tradition. |
| B．Education Program: A New Way of Teaching. |
| C．Program Survey: A New Approach to Research. |
| D．Gratitude Education: A New Solution to Online Abuse. |
