1 .

A．Only true friendship can last long.

B．Letter writing is going out of style.

C．She has lost contact with most of her old friends.

D．She keeps in regular touch with her old classmates.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How much does the woman have to pay for a long distance call?

A．A fortune.	B．Nothing at all.
C．Twice the fortune.	D．A little.

2. What do we know about the man’s phone card from the conversation?

A．The company won’t accept it.	B．It is partly broken.
C．The date on the card isn’t correct.	D．It is in use today.

3. According to the woman, how will the man use the phone card?

A．Answer the password, dial his dad’s number and the number on the card.

B．Dial the number on the card and his dad’s, then input the password.

C．Dial the number on the card, answer the password, and dial his dad’s number.

D．Dial his dad’s number then input the password and the number on the card.

4. What time is it here when they are talking?

A．3:30 p.m.

B．3:30 a.m.

C．6:30 p.m.

D．6:30 a.m.

3 .

A．He relies much on his family.	B．He will come to their home by himself.
C．He enjoys sitting in the kitchen.	D．He will walk to the station.

4 .

A．Difficult.

B．Memorable.

C．Uninteresting.

D．Worthwhile.

5 . To us, the kitchen was a mysterious place. Our kitchen at home was so simple: an old Sparks oven, a refrigerator, a sink, and a table. At the New Eastern, it was a busy factory. Almost an entire wall was taken up by a line of huge black woks (锅). This was my father’s stage. He strode (大步走) the length of the four woks, each one fired up by gas flames underneath. Beneath him, blocks of wood, raised off the ground an inch or two, served to give his legs and feet some spring.

       The sink was the size of a bathtub (浴); the refrigerator had glass doors and stretched three times as wide as the one at home. Every appliance was bigger, and there were things we never saw anywhere else, like the big metal oven in which my father hung long poles holding large pieces of pork. We could hear the fire roaring from the bottom of it. My dad would go about his business, and then, always at exactly the right time, he’d wander over, lift off the top, and take out several poles of barbecued pork—bright red, with black at the tips. If I happened by at that magical moment, I’d stop. “Yeet-gow!” I’d say. And he’d skillfully chop off a piece of the juicy, sweet meat. “One dollar!” he’d shout, and then hand it over.
       My father made the best food in town. There was nothing he wouldn’t try. He was once proud of a rock candy he invented and determined to sell at the front counter of the New Eastern. We, of course, served as his guinea pigs—we couldn’t bring ourselves to tell him the sad truth: The candy was so hard that it was uneatable. I rolled a piece around my mouth. “Tastes good, Ba-Ba, ”I said. Then, when he looked away, I spat it out.

Sometimes, he liked to invent stories to us. Watching my little sister Shirley biting on an apple, he’d lean over. “Don’t eat the seed,” he said, “or an apple tree will grow inside you.” “What?” “Yes. Right inside your stomach, an apple tree!”

1. It can be learned from paragraph 1 and 2 that____________.

A．the author’s father can repair springs	B．the author enjoys observing in the kitchen
C．the author helps to cook difficult dishes	D．the author’s family lives in a busy factory

2. How does the author develop the idea that “the kitchen is a mysterious place”?

A．By describing how his father manages various tasks in the kitchen.

B．By classifying the kitchen appliances into different categories.

C．By contrasting the restaurant kitchen with the kitchen at home.

D．By explaining why large pieces of pork were placed in the oven.

3. The author mentions the incident of a rock candy in paragraph 3_____________.

A．to highlight how he disliked the food his father made

B．to illustrate why they often kept secrets from his father

C．to emphasize the troubled relationship with his father

D．to show the family’s support for his father’s experiments

4. Which of the following words can best describe the author’s father?

A．dynamic and playful	B．strict and innovative
C．talented and greedy	D．hardworking and outdated

6 . Turkey is not my thing, but one dish I cannot live without on Thanksgiving is my mom’s Snowy Mashed Potatoes. I start________these potatoes, my annual time release capsule of pure joy in early November. I’m pretty sure I’ve had them at every Thanksgiving since I was a kid, and bites often transport me back to different years and different dining rooms.

How and why is it that certain foods give us so much________ ? And what can be said about the kinds of foods we consider most comforting? Science tells us that taste and nutritional content affect how foods make us feel, but certain foods are especially________ satisfying for reasons that have little to do with their taste or nutritional content. Much of the happiness we get from our favorite foods comes from the memories they stimulate for us and the people we’re with while we________them. Past and present________shape the foods we find comforting.

Often, we love food because we have________ memories associated with it. My mom’s mashed potatoes (土豆泥) remind me of holiday joy and past reunions with extended family. We are also drawn to foods we were given early in life by people who cared for us, which can help explain our________ love for chicken noodle soup, which many parents feed their sick children to make them feel better.

The smell of food can________powerful memories, too. The part of the brain responsible for processing smell directly connects to the amygdala, a brain region that processes emotions, and the hippocampus, which handles memory. And our memory for smells is________and precise, especially when it comes to smell we were first exposed to in childhood. That’s why you might catch the smell of pumpkin pie baking in the oven and be transported back to the first tine you baked it with your grandmother.

These________can go the other way, too. Sometimes you might feel________when you eat foods that remind you of loved ones you miss. We may also________foods that we associate with bad experiences.

In addition to past memories, the________in which we eat foods shapes how much we enjoy them in the moment, and our gustatory (味觉的) experiences can be________by a sense of community, a sense of warmth and enjoying it together.I________my mom’s Snowy Mashed Potatoes that much more today because I got to eat them with my husband and two children, the three people I love most in the world.

1.

A．cutting down on

B．looking forward to

C．making for

D．putting away

2.

A．perspective

B．pleasure

C．space

D．transition

3.

A．emotionally

B．financially

C．physically

D．visually

4.

A．enjoy

B．memorize

C．order

D．recall

5.

A．company

B．menus

C．outlook

D．recipes

6.

A．cultural

B．fond

C．photographic

D．shared

7.

A．collective

B．creative

C．lost

D．parental

8.

A．awake

B．correct

C．preserve

D．record

9.

A．bitter-sweet

B．fresh

C．long-lasting

D．selective

10.

A．associations

B．experiences

C．foods

D．memories

11.

A．alert

B．amazed

C．disappointed

D．sad

12.

A．avoid

B．consume

C．store

D．swallow

13.

A．area

B．background

C．context

D．emotion

14.

A．enhanced

B．offered

C．reflected

D．weakened

15.

A．adapted

B．appreciated

C．copied

D．digested

7 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．To recall his own childhood.

B．To help his children become more mature.

C．To spoil them on purpose.

D．To make up for his pity that he didn’t have it in his childhood.

2.

A．They take possessions and support from their peers for granted.

B．They are responsible for building the life that their parents desire.

C．They are willing to support their peers if necessary.

D．They become more mature and responsible.

3.

A．To love and provide for children.

B．To help children become kind and responsible.

C．To help children get what they need.

D．To help children meet their goals.

8 . How to support a struggling friend

We’ve all been in situations like this, both big and small and everything in between: from missing the bus to work to struggling with the loss of a loved one. Common wisdom suggests that a problem shared is a problem halved. We really want to help, yet we don’t quite have the words or the tactics.

Research shows that many people don’t really know what works best to help their friends effectively.     1     A survey of the methods that people used to manage their friends’ emotions identified 378 distinct strategies. Given this large variety of strategies, it’s no wonder that deciding what to do when you have a friend in tears can be a little challenging.

The good news is that there are simple strategies you can learn that will help you provide more effective support to your friends.

Ask questions and really listen

Just as playing down a friend’s problem is unwise, so is trying to empathize too quickly. While this impulse is understandable and quite normal, it is also likely to go wrong.     2     So how might you best address the situation instead? A recent research suggests that it would be better to slow down and start by asking directly how your friend is feeling, rather than thinking about how you might feel in a similar situation.

A related technique to try is active listening, which is commonly used by therapists, and relatively simple to implement.     3     For example, your friend might spend some time explaining a series of stressful events across their week, describing arguments with their spouse, a mounting workload and some worries about debt, and you might respond by saying that it sounds like they are overwhelmed both at home and at work right now.

Don’t take charge

If your support is too directive and take-charge, it might make your friends feel like they aren’t able to handle things on their own, like a kid who needs their parent’s help to manage their problems.

Instead, it would have been better to ask them what they want, and how they might be able to change this situation, and then listen to them talk through their options one by one. In doing this, you provide a sounding board for them to take control of the situation on their own.     4     This will help them organise their thoughts and come to some solutions, without feeling like you did it for them.

A．One useful skill is to paraphrase what your friend is saying in your own words.

B．A friend who is going through hardship may benefit from a helpful gesture.

C．Part of the challenge is that there are just so many possible ways to intervene.

D．It’s important not to put too much pressure on your friend to talk.

E．Research has shown that we’re actually really bad at taking other people’s perspectives.

F．Your aim should be to facilitate the other person’s choices, rather than dominating them.

9 .

A．Employees pay attention to paid leave.

B．Mr. Johnson’s company is always empty.

C．The high salary and pay leave are rarely guaranteed.

D．The man should take the job Mr. Johnson mentioned.