4 . Sandra was a businesswoman in Orlando. Approaching her 50th birthday, she decided to___________ her love of cats and her work experience to start the Orlando Cat Cafe.

As a lifelong cat fan, Sandra's main goal in opening the cafe was to help _________ cats up for adoption with proper pet parents. What she didn't ___________at the time was that her café would help human visitors as much as the cats!

“The most___________thing in the cafe is that they always have new cats and cats need socialization, so both sides ___________!”says Laurie, who is one_________guest. She, like many other cat lovers, who _________have pets at home because of allergies (过敏反应) in the family, often comes to the cafe to experience the benefits of ___________with cute animals whenever she likes.

Plus, Sandra's cat-adoption ___________aren't the only charitable initiative happening at the cafe! The coffee and food______________for visitors are made by Axum Coffee, a company that was also started to____________others. Axum is a city in Ethiopia where fresh water is ____________and even poverty is widely visible. In fact, the coffee and food are sold at a low price at the cafe, some of whose____________go to the people of Axum, Ethiopia, to help improve their____________ of life.

“My cafe and Axum Coffee have a(n)____________ mission to reach out to others. We hit it off and became partners, ”says Sandra.

Maybe the next time you visit Orlando，you'll____________Sandra's cafe, and hit it off with one of the cats up for__________ ! Adoption specialists are always on-site to help match the personalities of potential ____________ with those of the cats in the play area. And it ____________ ! More than 80 cats have been adopted since Sandra__________ her business in 2016.

1.

A．compare

B．combine

C．confirm

D．clarify

2.

A．match

B．cut

C．hold

D．wake

3.

A．manage

B．understand

C．realize

D．expand

4.

A．controversial

B．awkward

C．optional

D．wonderful

5.

A．disapprove

B．win

C．compromise

D．leave

6.

A．careless

B．generous

C．mysterious

D．regular

7.

A．unlikely

B．occasionally

C．permanently

D．merely

8.

A．interacting

B．competing

C．reasoning

D．agreeing

9.

A．influences ,

B．efforts

C．difficulties

D．reasons

10.

A．in debt

B．out of date

C．on sale

D．in no way

11.

A．help

B．change

C．reward

D．praise

12.

A．cheap

B．widespread

C．scarce

D．accessible

13.

A．risks

B．costs

C．resources

D．profits

14.

A．quality

B．efficiency

C．stages

D．theories

15.

A．false

B．easy

C．similar

D．debatable

16.

A．clean up

B．seek out

C．set up

D．point out

17.

A．trade :

B．discussion

C．check

D．adoption

18.

A．founders

B．experts

C．owners

D．pets

19.

A．ends

B．fails

C．appears

D．works

20.

A．abandoned

B．ran

C．reduced

D．switched

5 . For many people, selfies(自拍照) have been so popular as to be a must. New hairstyle? Snap a selfie. Dining out? Selfie. They’ve even been taken from beyond Earth’s atmosphere. A Japanese astronaut, Aki Hoshide, snapped one while visiting the International Space Station. In what may be one of the coolest selfies of all time, Hoshide caught his likeness alongside the sun, Earth, a robotic arm. a spacesuit and the inky darkness of the universe. In 2013, Oxford Dictionaries even crowned “selfie” as the word of the year.

It isn’t difficult to judge someone’s mood when a selfie is snapped—the images are, by their very nature, mood-driven. Whether you capture yourself with a smile or a fierce facial expression, scientists are figuring out ways to study self-portraits taken by smart phones and analyze what they say about you. Selfie studies will allow them to predict not only the subject’s mood, but also the mood of an entire region. A team of researchers led by Dr. Lev Manovich of the City University of New York has been studying thousands of Instagram self-portraits in select cities, including Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paulo, to analyze how mood affects selfie poses. While many wondered if it was even possible to determine an entire city’s mood based on a smattering of self-portraits, the study has delivered promising results. Among the most interesting findings: People in Moscow smile the least of all the selfie cities that were analyzed, while Bangkok and Sao Paulo selfie subjects looked the happiest. The researchers were even able to uncover data on gender and age differences: On the whole, women were more expressive than men in their self-portraits, but men older than 30 were more likely to post selfies on Instagram than women.

Another study, started by Manovich and researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the City University of New York, studied 1 million selfies posted on Twitter. Is it possible to judge a person’s mood, or even a city’s mood from a selfie? The answer, researchers say, is yes. They posit(断定) the ability to measure “happiness” of geographic regions using selfies and hope to use the method as an alternative to traditional surveys.

1. What does the example of the Japanese astronaut try to show?

A．Snapping selfies isn’t easy.

B．Snapping selfies is a high technology.

C．Snapping selfies has become very popular.

D．Snapping selfies seriously affects people’s life.

2. Why can we easily judge people’s mood by their selfies?

A．Selfies can affect the mood.	B．Selfies can reflect the mood.
C．Selfies are supported by technology.	D．Selfies may improve the mood.

3. What is the purpose of Dr. Lev Manovich’s study?

A．To know why people love selfies.

B．To know the number of selfie lovers.

C．To know whether selfies predict moods.

D．To know the disadvantages of snapping selfies.

4. What can we learn from the text?

A．Men like selfies more than women.

B．People in Moscow seldom smile at others.

C．Living in Bangkok is the happiest in the world.

D．Selfies may be used as a way of surveying a city’s mood.

6 . Alongside air and water, food is a necessity for human beings to survive and thrive. But it’s a lot more than that. As Mariette Dichristina of Scientific American wrote: “The most intimate (亲密的) relationship we will ever have is not with any fellow human being. Instead, it is between our bodies and our food.”

Nowadays, for most people in the world’s wealthiest countries, food is a hobby, an enthusiasm, and even something fashionable.

Turn on the TV in the US, UK or France, and you’ll find at least one channel feeding this popular obsession.

And most of us know at least one person who thinks of themselves as a “foodie”. It’s almost impossible nowadays to check our social media apps without at least two or three photos of delicious meals appearing on our screen.

But behind the fancy recipes and social media bragging (夸耀), many of us forget how much we take food for granted. This is why World Food Day is held each year.

Take Kenya for example. This east African nation has been suffering terrible droughts. The result is that people are beginning to starve. Children in particular are suffering, with some of them even dying.

This may seem shocking to know, especially as many cultures outside of Africa think of food in a completely different way. But even in the UK, families on low incomes are forced to use food banks—European organizations that hand out donated food to those who can’t afford to pay for it themselves.

So what can we do on World Food Day? One good way to spend it would be to feel humble and appreciate what we have. After all, food is essential for survival, but not everyone is as lucky as we are when it comes to dinner time.

1. According to Mariette Dichristina, what has the closest relationship with us?

A．Air.	B．Water.
C．Food.	D．Human beings.

2. What does the underlined word “foodie” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Delicious food.	B．A person fond of food.
C．A social media app.	D．A photo of delicious meals.

3. Who can get help from food banks?

A．Poor people in the UK.	B．Poor people in Africa.
C．Starving children in Kenya.	D．People in the drought-stricken.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Treat Food as a Hobby	B．Time to Appreciate Food
C．Food Shortage in Some Countries	D．How to Spend World Food Day