China’s two elite science and technology institutes on Wednesday announced their results for the new academicians, offering 133 top scientists and scholars nationwide the
The new academicians are from various fields,
Yan Ning, head of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation and a renowned structural biologist
2 . “But I want that blue car!”
The blue car didn’t make it through our checkout line. The tears
A car accident in my teens left me paralysed (瘫痪) from the chest down. From sixteen on I was
It wasn’t until having children that my abandon to independence was forced to
Kneeling down, I tried my hardest to
Becoming a
So, I tried again with a smile. I touched my now
| A．broke | B．welled | C．went | D．joined |
| A．embarrassment | B．disappointment | C．fright | D．amusement |
| A．hand over | B．hold on to | C．pick up | D．throw away |
| A．nursery | B．office | C．store | D．hospital |
| A．permitted | B．recommended | C．expected | D．forced |
| A．repeatedly | B．casually | C．cautiously | D．independently |
| A．panic-stricken | B．able-bodied | C．carefree | D．misshaped |
| A．refer to | B．conflict with | C．keep away from | D．make room for |
| A．consequences | B．availabilities | C．courses | D．intentions |
| A．approach | B．apologize | C．adapt | D．follow |
| A．reflect | B．explain | C．admit | D．contradict |
| A．in detail | B．on demand | C．on agreement | D．in vain |
| A．win | B．take | C．watch | D．get |
| A．worked | B．continued | C．faded | D．returned |
| A．mom | B．babysitter | C．shopper | D．victim |
| A．Meanwhile | B．Moreover | C．However | D．Otherwise |
| A．experience | B．example | C．partner | D．leader |
| A．aggressive | B．lovely | C．sweaty | D．cheerful |
| A．most desperate | B．most caring | C．greatest | D．worst |
| A．promised | B．struggled | C．prepared | D．managed |
3 . We asked dental professionals to answer five basic questions about how to care for our teeth and keep them healthy. Here’s what they had to say.
How often should I really brush my teeth?
Brush your teeth first in the morning, before eating breakfast. It breaks up the biofilm and gets it ready to re mineralize(使再矿化) your teeth. Immediately after meals, you can rinse or drink water to remove acids and sugars from the mouth.
Do I really need to floss(剔牙)?
You may not want to hear it, but the answer is yes.
How do I whiten my teeth?
There are all kinds of products and methods to help whiten your teeth. But dental professionals say you should be cautious.
Do I really have to go to the dentist?
While proactive care at home can help keep your teeth healthy, yes—you still have to see a dentist. There are a lot of factors to deal within your dental health—but you don’t have to do it alone.
| A．You should floss at least once a day. |
| B．That’s what your dental appointments are for. |
| C．Do I need to brush my teeth immediately after meals? |
| D．Is there an ideal time of day when I should brush my teeth? |
| E．Don’t use home solutions like brushing teeth with lemon juice. |
| F．You should brush your teeth twice a day for two minutes at a time. |
| G．They can make your teeth sensitive and potentially wear your teeth down. |
4 . Ask any business leader what big challenges they face and it’s likely that skills and labor shortages will be high on their list. They’re concerned about how to develop the skills they need for the jobs of tomorrow. According to the World Economic Forum’s latest Future of Jobs Report 2023, organizations across all industries identify skills gaps and an inability to attract talent as the key barriers preventing industry transformation.
There’s a potential solution to all of this: a “skills-first” approach. The new report, Putting Skills First: A Framework for Action, launched during the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit, finds that switching to a skills-first mindset can directly benefit over 100 million people globally who’re currently under-utilizing their existing skills, because they’re under-employed in their current job or because they’re unemployed. The analysis, which covers 18 economies, finds workforce under-utilization ranges from 4% of the working population in Thailand, to 7% in the US, 13% in France, 27% in Brazil and 43% in South Africa.
A skills-first approach focuses on a person’s skills and competencies rather than on their qualifications or job history, so that what someone can do becomes far more important than which university they went to. Crucially, this focus on skills continues long after the worker has been hired, with an emphasis on continually developing their abilities right through their career.
Making skills a priority is fairly advantageous. For businesses, taking a skills-first approach dramatically increases the potential pool of talent from which they can draw on. For individuals, it provides access to good jobs that offer skills building, career progression and higher earning potential which they’d otherwise have been excluded from without the right qualifications.
Delivering such ground-breaking change requires more than simply the involvement of HR teams. It’ll require the commitment of CEOs and policy-makers at the highest level to drive it through. So far a company in UK has introduced a range of degree apprenticeship (学徒制) programs which enable applicants without a degree to gain one while working at the firm. The organization is also developing new career paths to ensure it has the right skills to meet the changing needs of the economy.
1. What plays a key role in industry transformation?| A．Working environment. | B．Employees’ job history. |
| C．Employees’ competence. | D．Business leaders’ management. |
| A．It was launched by 18 economies. |
| B．It focuses on a skills-first mindset. |
| C．It shows the decline of global economy. |
| D．It points out employment trends. |
| A．Further research needs to be done. |
| B．It depends on global cooperation. |
| C．Some measures are already underway. |
| D．It is well accepted around the world. |
| A．A skills-first approach. |
| B．A more inclusive society. |
| C．Developing new career paths. |
| D．Creating a framework for job markets. |
5 . Here are some musicals on Broadway.
Back to the FutureWhen Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past and send himself back to the future. It’s recommended for ages 6 and up.
How to Dance in OhioAt a group counseling center in Columbus, Ohio, seven autistic(患孤独症的) young adults prepare for a spring formal dance—a rite of passage that breaks open their routines and sets off heartbreaking encounters with love, stress, excitement, and independence. It is a story about people standing at the turning point of the next phase of their lives, facing their hopes and fears, ready to make a very big first move and dance. It’s based on the award-winning documentary.
Mother PlayOutside of D.C., Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and Martha, as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and how to succeed, and troubles the child faces when finding their own path. Combining flares of imaginative theatricality, surreal farce, and deep tenderness, this beautiful rollercoaster ride reveals timeless truths of love, family, and forgiveness.
I Need ThatSam doesn’t get out at all, opting instead for the safety of his house in the company of his many things. But when a notice from the government arrives alerting Sam that he must cleanup hi property or face eviction(驱逐), he’s forced to deal with what’s trash, what’s treasure, and whether we can ever know the difference between the two.
1. What can be learned about Back to the Future?| A．It is kid-friendly. | B．It is based on the history. |
| C．It explores the value of time. | D．It encourages people to connect more. |
| A．Parenting. | B．Family relationships. |
| C．Mother’s troubles. | D．Fiction and reality. |
| A．Back to the Future. | B．How to Dance in Ohio. |
| C．Mother Play. | D．I Need That. |
6 . Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad courage feeling. These are all phrases many people use to describe fear and anxiety.
You have likely felt anxiety inside your chest or stomach, and your brain usually doesn’t hurt when you’re scared. Many cultures tie weakness and bravery more to the heart or the guts than to the brain. But science has traditionally seen the brain as the birthplace and processing site of fear and anxiety. Then why and how do you feel these emotions in other parts of your body? Research confirms that while emotions do begin originally in your brain, it’s your body that carries out the orders. While your brain gradually changed and developed to save you from a falling rock or speeding man-eating animals, the anxieties of modern life are often a lot more abstract. Fifty-thousand years ago, being rejected by your tribe could mean death, but not doing a great job on a public speech at school or at work doesn’t have the same consequences. Your brain, however, might not know the difference.
There are a few key areas of the brain that are heavily involved in processing fear. Amygdala (杏仁体) is a small area of the brain located near your ears which detects obvious features, or the emotional connection of a situation and how to react to it. Threat search is a vital part of this process, and it has to be fast.
The hippocampus (海马体) is near and tightly connected to the amygdala. It’s involved in memorizing what is safe and what is dangerous, especially in relation to the environment — it puts fear in conditions.
The prefrontal cortex (前额叶皮质), located above your eyes, is mostly involved in the realization and social aspects of fear processing. For example, you might be scared of a snake until you read a sign that the snake is not poisonous or the owner tells you it’s his friendly pet.
As is described by a singer in his song “Lose Yourself”, the reason his hands sweated, his knees got weak and his arms became heavy was that his brain was nervous.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 2?| A．Emotions can lead to reactions in the body. |
| B．The brain keeps up with the pace of modern life. |
| C．Fear and anxiety do much damage to the brain. |
| D．Nowadays people have more anxieties than before. |
| A．Receiving outside information. |
| B．Storing memories. |
| C．Identifying different features. |
| D．Adjusting emotions. |
| A．To show the singer’s love for music. |
| B．To present a common phenomenon. |
| C．To illustrate the singer’s physical condition. |
| D．To explain physical discomfort originates from brain. |
| A．The response to fear and anxiety |
| B．A study about sense of fear |
| C．What negative emotions affect your body |
| D．What is the root of fear and anxiety |
7 . I grew up in Florida, surrounded by my extended family, but we can trace our ancestry back to Texas when it still belonged to Mexico. Our language, customs and even the names my ancestors called themselves have since largely been lost to forced assimilation (同化). Yet our oral traditions, expressed through storytelling, poetry and jokes, persist.
My grandmother and mother taught me, a lovely girl, that the natural world around us has stories to tell if you listen closely. After all, language is not unique to humans. One of my earliest memories is sitting on my grandmother’s cracked concrete porch watching one of the many doves she had nursed back to health land in her raised hand after she called out to it. When dark storm clouds gathered over the half-finished roof, my mother would take a steak knife from the kitchen to the outside of the house, pointing it to the sky to cut the rain away. My friends thought it was magical how nature seemed to bend to my mother’s will.
It makes sense that I became an author. My life is built around stories. When I lived in New York and Los Angeles, I’d have to hike very far to find a piece of nature to be in—the rare tree in downtown Los Angeles, or the ginkgoes near Inwood Hill Park in New York City. Now in East Tennessee, I walk a few steps past my porch, into my garden—two small pieces of land that borders my two-story white and greenish-blue farmhouse. When I first moved here, non-native European grass blanketed the thirsty clay, red as dried blood. I dug up eight garden beds in the middle of that grass, filling them with plants native to my region: cone flowers and aromatic aster, bee balm and Virginia blue bells. I tried growing squash peppers, yellow watermelon and white eggplant but the plants languished. My land seems to want nothing but flowers. So I am trying my hand at planting zinnias, cosmos and dahlias instead.
If I am creatively blocked, I walk barefoot on the earth, no matter what the season, allowing stories to feed the roots of my entire body. If I have a plot hole I need to fix, I visit my lemon and lime basil, keeping my fingers with their sweet scents (气味).
1. What plays a role in keeping traditions alive in the author’s view?| A．A close family relationship. | B．The practice of storytelling. |
| C．The values of society members. | D．An atmosphere of growth. |
| A．How the author became a gardening expert. |
| B．How the author fed himself with stories. |
| C．How the author connected with nature. |
| D．How the author was inspired by stories. |
| A．Stood out. | B．Survived. | C．Developed. | D．Faded away. |
| A．She’s a very responsible person. |
| B．She’s a nature-loving writer. |
| C．She’s a passionate traveller. |
| D．She’s a professional gardener. |
8 . Jack Prelutsky is an American poet. He is known for his humorous and fantastic poetry for children, which has earned him numerous awards.
Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940. As a child, he did not enjoy poetry, finding it boring and pointless. Instead, Prelutsky expressed his artistry through music, taking voice and piano lessons. While Prelutsky claims he got into poetry almost by accident, he also states that he was always a poet. It just took him some time to realize his love for poetry.
Prelutsky explored quite a few options before he found his niche in poetry. He was a folk singer and guitar teacher in Greenwich Village in his late teens and early twenties. Prelutsky also held a variety of odd jobs. He worked as a furniture mover, piano mover, taxicab driver, coal shoveler, fruit picker, truck driver and photographer, among other jobs.
At the age of 23, Prelutsky decided to try illustrating. Just before presenting his illustrations to a children’s book editor, he added a few lines of poetry to the pictures. The editor told him that the illustrations were not publishable but the poems showed the talent. Over the next months and years, Prelutsky worked with the editor to create a collection of animal poems inspired by his love of the Bronx Zoo. His first book, entitled A Gopher in the Garden and Other Animal Poems, was published in 1967.
In addition to writing, Prelutsky has edited various poetry collections and translated poetry from German and Swedish into English. He currently resides in Seattle, where he writes and performs his work. Prelutsky is considered one of the most popular children’s poets. His work pioneered a new era of children’s poetry. In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Jack Prelutsky the first Children’s Poet Laureate, a position designed to promote poetry for children and raise awareness of the power and relevance of poetry for young people.
1. Why did Prelutsky dislike poetry in his early years?| A．It was too difficult. | B．He wasn’t good at it. |
| C．He thought it meaningless. | D．It took up too much of his time. |
| A．Mistake. | B．Dream | C．Comprehension. | D．Interest. |
| A．23. | B．27. | C．40. | D．66. |
| A．To introduce a poet. | B．To attract poetry lovers. |
| C．To display some excellent poems. | D．To encourage readers to write poems. |
9 . A recent research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could hold the potential for predicting sudden cardiac (心脏的) death and assessing an individual’s risk to potentially prevent future deaths. This development may mark a novel step towards prevention and global health strategies.
Professor Xavier Jouven, lead author of the study, said, “Sudden cardiac death, a public health burden, represents 10% to 20% of overall deaths. Predicting it is difficult, and the usual approaches fail to identify high-risk people, particularly at an individual level. We proposed a new approach.”
The scientific team employed AI to analyze medical data obtained from registries and databases in Paris, France and Seattle. They examined records of 25,000 individuals who had experienced sudden cardiac arrest and compared them with data from 70,000 people from the general population. The matching process involved age, sex and residential area. Using AI, the scientists created about 25,000 personalized health models to evaluate the data and identify individuals at high risk of sudden cardiac death. Additionally, they established a risk file for each participant in the study.
The AI analysis was able to identify people who had more than 90% of risk dying suddenly, and it can predict about more than one-fourth of all cases of sudden cardiac death. “We have been working for almost 30 years in the field of sudden cardiac death prediction. However, we did not expect to reach such a high level of accuracy,” said Jouven, who is the founder of the Paris Sudden Death Expertise Center.
Jouven added. “While doctors have efficient treatments, the use of AI is necessary to detect in a given subject a succession of medical information registered over the years. We hope that with a personalized list of risk factors, patients will be able to work with their clinicians to reduce those risk factors and ultimately decrease the potential for sudden cardiac death.”
1. What can be known about sudden cardiac death?| A．It is hard to predict and prevent. |
| B．Researchers still can do nothing about it. |
| C．It accounts for the highest percentage of all deaths. |
| D．Old approaches can effectively identify its high-risk people. |
| A．Its result. | B．Its process. | C．Its purpose. | D．Its participants. |
| A．Worried. | B．Amazed. | C．Annoyed. | D．Disappointed. |
| A．The Biggest AI Development in 2024 | B．Using AI to Stop Future Cardiac Attack |
| C．Improved Prediction of Death in Patients | D．Predicting Sudden Cardiac Death Using Al |
10 . Traditionally, people have been forced to reduce complex choices to a small handful of options that don’t do justice to their true desires. For example, in a restaurant, the limitations of the kitchen, the way supplies have to be ordered and the realities of restaurant cooking make you get a menu of a few dozen standardized options, with the possibility of some modifications (修改) around the edges. We are so used to these bottlenecks that we don’t even notice them. And when we do, we tend to assume they are the unavoidable cost of scale (规模) and efficiency. And they are. Or, at least, they were.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to overcome this limitation. By storing rich representations of people’s preferences and histories on the demand side, along with equally rich representations of capabilities, costs and creative possibilities on the supply side, AI systems enable complex customization at large scale and low cost. Imagine walking into a restaurant and knowing that the kitchen has already started working on a meal optimized (优化) for your tastes, or being presented with a personalized list of choices.
There have been some early attempts at this. People have used ChatGPT to design meals based on dietary restrictions and what they have in the fridge. It’s still early days for these technologies, but once they get working, the possibilities are nearly endless.
Recommendation systems for digital media have reduced their reliance on traditional intermediaries. Radio stations are like menu items: Regardless of how nuanced (微妙) your taste in music is, you have to pick from a handful of options. Early digital platforms were only a little better: “This person likes jazz, so we’ll suggest more Jazz.” Today’s streaming platforms use listener histories and a broad set of characters describing each track to provide each user with personalized music recommendations.
A world without artificial bottlenecks comes with risks — loss of jobs in the bottlenecks, for example — but italso has the potential to free people from the straightjackets that have long limited large-scale human decision-’making. In some cases — restaurants, for example — the effect on most people might be minor. But in others, likepolitics and hiring, the effects could be great.
1. What does the underlined word “bottlenecks” in paragraph 1 refer to?| A．Facing too many choices. | B．Choosing from limited options. |
| C．Avoiding the cost of choosing. | D．Having too many desires to satisfy. |
| A．By meeting both ends of supply and demand. |
| B．By decreasing representations on the supply side. |
| C．By disconnecting the sides of supply and demand. |
| D．By reducing people’s preferences on the demand side. |
| A．They are a necessary part in people’s life. | B．They offer limited choices. |
| C．They depend on digital platforms. | D．They provide reasonable suggestions. |
| A．The variety of human’s choices. | B．Standardized optrarts in daily life. |
| C．AI settlements to the option bottlenecks. | D．Recommendation systems for digital media. |
