| A．A theft. | B．A thief. | C．An accident. |
2 . Ideally, childhood is a time of growth and learning. But for many children around the world, this time is cut short when they are forced to work, sometimes in dangerous conditions. As a result, June 12 is recognized as the annual World Day Against Child Labor.
As of 2020, around 160 million children worked as child laborers, which means that one child in 10 was a child laborer. Overall, child labor has decreased over the past 20 years, but in recent years, this progress has stalled. Child labor is distinguished from ordinary housework, helping with a family business or working to earn pocket money after school. Work done by children is classified as child labor when it harms the child physically, mentally, socially or morally, or when it hinders(阻碍) the child’s education.
About 79 million children are engaged in hazardous child labor. Sometimes this means the work is extremely dangerous because of heavy machinery or exposure to chemicals. Hazardous child labor can also involve harsh conditions, long hours, or exposure to various kinds of abuse.
The primary goal of the World Day Against Child Labor is raising awareness of the issue and encouraging individuals, organizations and governments to take action. Fighting child labor is a complex task. It involves social workers who identify child laborers and take action to provide these children and their families with other options. But it also involves change in communities as a whole, challenging the social norms(行为准则) that can lead adults to make their children work.
Child labor and poverty often go hand in hand as parents feel that removing their children from school is necessary to earn money so the family can survive. So, measures or policies meant to fight poverty are also tied to preventing child labor. Being harmful to children and to communities, child labor hinders children from growing into healthy, educated citizens who could make a difference in society. By highlighting the problem and offering a variety of solutions, the World Day Against Child Labor can make the situation a bit better.
1. What does the underlined word “stalled” in the second paragraph mean?| A．Slowed | B．Speeded | C．Stopped | D．Disappeared |
| A．Helping parents with the daily housework. |
| B．Assisting family business during the holidays. |
| C．Earning money for one’s camp trip after school. |
| D．Working in a shoe store every weekday afternoon. |
| A．The consequences of child labor. | B．The main types of child labor. |
| C．The seriousness of child labor. | D．The reasons against child labor. |
| A．Social workers. | B．Parents. | C．Governments. | D．Communities. |
3 . Family vlogging — the frequent recording and uploading of personal videos of the family, usually on video sharing website — has become big business nowadays, especially among parents of young children. The more viewers such videos can get, the more money the family can make. At first thought, it does seem like an easy way to make money. However, are we doing right by putting their lives up for public attention?
For one thing, as the children grow up, they increasingly become aware that what they do needs to be admirable enough for the public to enjoy — Being young children, they also would want to do whatever it takes to please others. They then feel the pressure to be perfect, and as that is something not always possible, they become anxious and stressed. Comments from viewers and the expectations of sponsors (赞助者) can also affect the parents’ reactions towards their children.
Another problem is the lack of privacy in the children’s lives. As the children reach adolescence, there is a greaser need for personal space. At 12 or 13, very few children would appreciate being filmed while eating or having a conversation with their friends. Teenhood is a time of significant change in an individual, both physically and emotionally, and is a time when parents need to protect their children and guide them, instead of exposing them to the eyes of the public.
Family vlogging can be irresistible, given how it allows parents to bring greater fun to their family lives. There is also the easy money and the fame to look forward to. Indeed, all would probably go well, but only as long as parents keep in mind that, if not managed well, making their children live their lives in the unforgiving eyes of the public could prove to be a big mistake.
1. How does vlogging about children’s lives influence the family?| A．Children will get used to public attention. |
| B．Children may suffer from too much pressure. |
| C．Parents may show no concern for their children. |
| D．Parents become addicted to exposing their children to the public. |
| A．By providing examples | B．By listing numbers |
| C．By making comparisons | D．By analyzing causes |
| A．To introduce a new big business |
| B．To show how vlogging influence people’s lives. |
| C．To persuade parents to watch out for comments from viewers. |
| D．To convince parents of the danger of vlogging about children’s lives. |
| A．negative | B．positive | C．neutral | D．uninterested |
4 . We can text WhatsApp, Facebook message and Snapchat — but are we losing the convenience of the phone conversation? Who has time to chat when you can spend hours on WhatsApp?
Most of my phone calls are less than a minute long. If I unintentionally hit answer instead of pressing the ignore button, I usually say, “Hold on, I’ll call you back,” before quickly typing out a “what’s up?” text. My list of recent phone calls is limited to four people and unless we live together, are related, or dating, there’s very little chance that you’ll be added to that list.
It seems I’m not the only who’s abandoning the phone call. The average adult spends more time on media or communication per day than on sleeping, but among all that communication, the phone call is the medium that’s falling.
So why has the phone call fallen out of favor? Many messaging apps seem to have created a grade of communication, so that the phone call is no longer the standard way of conversing long distance, but a relatively intimate (亲密的) thing.
Rachel, 24, says that she used to speak to all her girlfriends on the phone but now only calls a few. “I rarely even speak to good friends on the phone and if they call me I’m like, ‘Hello, is something wrong?’,” says Rachel. “If I do a phone call it feels really official, like it’s a big deal.”
Instead of taking the time to ring a friend and catch up, it now seems easier to send a short message. And unless you’re very close to someone, an unscheduled phone call can feel like an intrusion (干扰). While text messages can be put to one side for hours or even days, a phone call demands attention in the moment.
But while text messages and emails may be a more efficient way of sharing basic facts and information, they’re not necessarily the best way of communication. We may be communicating more than ever before, but we seem to be listening far less.
1. What does the author intend to tell us in paragraph 1?| A．People chat much less on the phone now. |
| B．People are addicted to messaging apps. |
| C．People find no time to chat face-to-face. |
| D．People have many ways to communicate. |
| A．will ignore the call. |
| B．will call back immediately. |
| C．will make an official visit to her friend. |
| D．will think her friend has some problems. |
| A．Text messages demand immediate attention. |
| B．An unscheduled phone call may be unwelcome. |
| C．Using a phone call to communicate is out of date. |
| D．It is hard to keep track of friends on messaging apps. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Uncaring. |
| C．Supportive. | D．Hopeful. |
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6 . Last month, Dongxiang County in Gansu Province was officially removed from the “List of Poorest Counties in China”.
Landlocked in China’s northwest, Dongxiang County is
So, how did they do it?
Most of Dongxiang people are
The potatoes here are
Fan Chenyang, who works in the Dongxiang potato industry, said that one of the
Dongxiang County is also famous for its
| A．witness | B．access | C．home | D．entry |
| A．crew | B．population | C．police | D．children |
| A．farmers | B．fishermen | C．singers | D．hunters |
| A．unbelievable | B．acceptable | C．avoidable | D．understandable |
| A．center on | B．apply for | C．give up | D．suffer from |
| A．small | B．sweet | C．famous | D．expensive |
| A．cleaning | B．cutting | C．planting | D．preparing |
| A．rotten | B．baked | C．fried | D．hidden |
| A．rocks | B．products | C．chips | D．tools |
| A．wrong | B．different | C．main | D．tough |
| A．training | B．exhibition | C．festival | D．export |
| A．damage | B．development | C．spread | D．prevention |
| A．reducing | B．meeting | C．improving | D．judging |
| A．lamb | B．architecture | C．dancing | D．rice |
| A．appeal | B．return | C．decline | D．stop |
Billy was 15 years old then. He grew up in a very poor neighborhood. No one in his family had gone to college before. Actually, few people around him had received higher education. They all struggled to live a good life. Therefore, Billy knew nothing about colleges or scholarships and he never thought he would go to college one day. Although he was a smart boy, he didn’t study hard al school and often got into trouble with other teenagers in his neighborhood.
One day, while Billy was walking on the playground, a boy of his age started making fun of him. Then that boy pushed him hard and Billy fell onto the ground. Billy became so angry that he stood up and beat that boy. So a fight began.
It happened that Billy’s English teacher Mr. Smith was walking nearby. He immediately ran to the boys to stop the fight. Billy was a bit worried because he knew his teacher was very strict with students. He was afraid his teacher would punish him. However, to his astonishment, his teacher didn’t do that.
“Billy, let’s have a talk,” said his teacher.
Billy, not knowing what his teacher wanted to do, was very worried. But he nodded. So they went to a bench nearby and sat down. After they sat down, Mr. Smith began, “Billy, I know you’re a smart boy, but you’re wasting your life now. Why don’t you study hard to go to college so that you can change your life and have a bright future?”
Hearing that, Billy didn’t know what to say. He had never thought about it. Billy was in silence. Mr. Smith continued, “I know you may have never thought about going to college. But everything is possible. When I was at your age, I was a troublemaker just like you and never thought I’d be able to go to college, either. It was all because of the support and encouragement of Mr. Howard, my math teacher in high school.”
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1. What weapon was used in the first robbery case?
| A．A gun. | B．A knife. | C．A metal pole. |
| A．They left by the front door. |
| B．They ran down Seventh Ave. |
| C．They fled the scene in a white car. |
| A．At a T-shirt store. | B．At a bike store. | C．At a jean store. |
| A．Get some help from the public. |
| B．Remind the public of their safety. |
| C．Tell the public the cases have been solved. |
| A．A traffic jam. | B．A car accident. | C．A broken bridge. |
10 . If you cut in line, you might just be a bad person. The queue is a regulation where the reward (the ice-cream stand/dining room/ticket booth) is earned through patience. Your choice to avoid this time-honored process will be bound to draw the anger of those you pass by, drawing remarks like “Whoa there, Chief,” the passive-aggressive “There’s a line, you know!” and of course, the incredibly common “Hey, Copernicus, why don’t you guide yourself to the back of the line?”
But, in the moment in which you really cannot wait, for example, the entire royal family has prepared a dinner party upon you last minute, then there is a way to cut the line correctly.
There are a few different ways to consider and a few different methods to employ. The regularity of the situation is very important. If you’re waiting to use the photocopier at work, you might be more likely to manage a successful cut than if you were waiting for a lifeboat on the Titanic. Sure, that might be an extreme example. But the importance of the event does matter.
For those requests in normal situations, emphasizing either the urgency of your task or the simplicity of your task proved to be effective: experimenters who said “Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the photocopier?” had a cut rate of 60 percent and experimenters who said “May I use the photocopier because I need to make copies?” saw a success rate of 90 per cent when queuing for the copy machine.
If you have a couple of extra dollars lying around, bribing members of the line also proved to be effective. And most of the time, the person being bribed didn’t end up accepting the money, because even the offer showed that the briber had a sense of desperation.
1. Why does the author use the remarks about Chief and Copernicus in paragraph 1?| A．To illustrate the reaction from members in line. | B．To encourage those who want to cut in line. |
| C．To praise the behavior of cutting in line. | D．To provide advice which helps cut in line. |
| A．Giving the members in line money. | B．Stating the emergency of the event. |
| C．Considering the regularity of the situation. | D．Defending the right of cutting in line. |
| A．Be Patient When Queuing. | B．Acceptable Ways to Cut in Line. |
| C．Time and Tides Waits for No Man. | D．Special Rights under Emergency. |
