1 . Stepping into the period of aging life means a new chapter in the life. It brings great problems and challenges to both the elder people and their family members.
You can become an advocate for seniors by helping them individually where they live. Volunteering in a nursing home to help with daily life is one of the common ways to offer help. Speaking and spending time with the elderly will increase your awareness of their daily concerns and challenges.
Helping get seniors online is another way to win them more resources for self-help. One major daily challenge faced by seniors is that they fail to locate certain necessary services because they lack vital computer knowledge. Work with seniors to get wired and train them in basic computer skills.
It’s essential for you to learn some basic healthcare practices.
| A．You can also arouse awareness in your community. |
| B．You can organize a community speech on eldercare, too. |
| C．There are many ways you are able to help professionally for the elderly. |
| D．Healthcare is a major part of senior care, and it helps improve the lives of the seniors. |
| E．These facts may include common health problems, nutritional needs and social isolation. |
| F．Ask the seniors, “What are your goals when you go online?” so that you provide specific guidance. |
| G．Elder abuse, lack of access to healthcare, and transportation challenges are a few difficulties. |
1. What does the man do?
| A．A policeman. | B．A firefighter. | C．A journalist. |
| A．2. | B．5. | C．28. |
| A．On the carpet. | B．On the sofa. | C．On the table. |
| A．His father asked him to throw it. |
| B．His father was drunk and sleeping. |
| C．His father left him alone at home. |
3 . In the last decade, scientists have been going back and forth on one question: does recycling really help the environment? The conclusion at which they have arrived seems to be: yes, it does. However, experts warn that our efforts should not stop there. While recycling is an important part of the solution, it is not necessarily the most important factor. Therefore, I disagree that recycling is the key to a sustainable(可持续的) future.
Compared to other methods to save the earth, recycling is a much smaller player. According to a recent study, the twenty top petrochemical(石化) companies in the world are responsible for 55% of the world’s single-use plastics, most of which are practically impossible to recycle. This means that asking these major polluters to take responsibility for their harm to the environment would do much more than if every one of us recycled our waste. In addition, a dependence on recycling can take attention away from reducing and reusing, which are more effective in lowering missions(排放) and in turn helping to create a sustainable future. Therefore, it would do us a lot of good if we focus on the other high-priority solutions rather than simply recycling.
Recycling supporters may argue that recycling is indeed the key to a sustainable future because it helps save a lot of energy by taking what already exists and changing it into something new. While it is true that recycling is a valuable tool in the fight against climate change, it is not the key. Regrettably, it alone is not sufficient to sustain our earth. So, while we should continue recycling, we need to go further by taking other actions for our planet.
In conclusion, I disagree that recycling is the key to a sustainable future. Having said that, recycling is still beneficial. It is but a small part of an interconnected web of solutions, which on its own cannot accomplish much, but together with other efforts, can truly create a sustainable future for us all.
1. Why does the author write this article?| A．To raise a question. | B．To explain a rule. |
| C．To present a solution. | D．To express an idea. |
| A．Stopping using plastics. |
| B．Using fewer high-emission cars. |
| C．Individuals recycling their waste. |
| D．Changing used things into something new. |
| A．It does not help with protecting the environment. |
| B．It stops major polluters from taking responsibility. |
| C．It can only save 45% of the energy people need. |
| D．It plays a small and limited part in sustaining the earth. |
| A．Reducing and reusing of single-use plastics. |
| B．Asking petrochemical companies to be responsible. |
| C．Combined efforts of all the solutions. |
| D．More and more people joining in recycling. |
4 . The US tech giant Microsoft Corp and the leadership consulting firm DDI worked together on a new project on Thursday, with the goal of helping more than 1 million women in China improve their digital skills and embrace the digital future.
The Women Digital Future project came as reports show that women have been more negatively impacted by the COVID-19 than men, and an improvement in digital skills is expected to help them better deal with the bad results from it.
Microsoft said it will partner with a number of companies and organizations to help women in multiple ways, as COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation worldwide and women are faced with more challenges in both life and work.
Alain Crozier, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China, said, “Microsoft has always placed a high value on the development of our female employees and strongly promoting the power of women to drive the world forward.”
Mindy Yeh, managing director of Greater China, said the company’s global survey shows that there are nearly double the number of female leaders at the top 20 percent of well-performing companies than in the bottom 20 percent. Moreover, they have clear advantages in terms of teamwork and interaction.
Cecilia Qi, general manager of GSK China, said, “Digital transformation is both an opportunity and a challenge for women. This is especially the case in the new era, which requires companies to provide women with more support to help them achieve better work-life balance and continue to gain success as they continue forward in their career. Success belongs to everyone, and I believe that, in the future, society will be more supportive of women and provide them with more equal career opportunities.”
1. What is the main purpose of the new project?| A．To help women fight against COVID-19. |
| B．To reduce the bad impacts from COVID-19 on women. |
| C．To help women better prepare for the digital future. |
| D．To promote the products of Microsoft Corp. |
| A．speeded up | B．lived up to | C．influenced | D．prevented |
| A．Women are more popular in good companies. | B．Women receive more support from society. |
| C．Women leaders have more advantages over men. | D．Women leaders perform better in some fields. |
| A．Women have no chance to succeed in the digital age. |
| B．Women are treated unfairly in pursuing a successful career. |
| C．Women need support to achieve a balance between work and life. |
| D．The world is too complex for women to achieve their dreams. |
5 . Parenting styles have evolved over the years in response to the rapid social changes. Whether it is tapping technology or applying the best parenting practices, parents nowadays generally invest more time in finding out how best to raise their child.
Modern parents have access to the internet and social media for ideal parenting advice and tips. There are also numerous parenting groups for different age groups on social media that parents can join. A parent can post questions from how to manage the constant cries of an infant to how to talk to a moody teenager, and chances are, the parent will be flooded instantly with advice and relevant articles. The availability of resources has helped modern parents to be more involved and supportive of their children’s development, academically, emotionally and socially. Modern parents are also keener to find out about effective parenting methods to raise disciplined and confident children.
Meanwhile, one of modern parenting styles, helicopter parenting, arises. When parents become over-involved, over-concerned and over-controlling, they start helping children with what they are capable of on their own, for example, selecting activities and friends for them. Such a parenting style can restrict the children’s ability to handle responsibilities independently. Children might be ill-equipped with life skills such as operating a stove or monitoring their schoolwork. Overprotecting children from failures may also be prevented from developing resilience (韧性) and acquiring skills like problem-solving.
On the other hand, parents in the past tended to supervise (监管) less. Children were given more control over how they managed their schoolwork and the friends they chose to play with. They were often expected to shoulder the responsibilities of caring for younger siblings and managing household chores. Living in the preinternet era, parents were less informed about different parenting approaches and personalities.
There is no one right way to raise a child and there is no need to doubt about the best parenting style. Each child is unique and should be raised differently by parents who are present, but not hovering (盘旋);who are supportive but not controlling; and who protect but not spoil.
1. What does the author explain by mentioning “an infant” and “a moody teenager” in paragraph 2?| A．Devotion to kids. |
| B．Easy access to guidance. |
| C．Effective parenting. |
| D．Tricky parenting problems. |
| A．Its benefits. | B．Its influence. |
| C．Its characteristics. | D．Its type. |
| A．They had strengths and weaknesses in parenting. |
| B．They were wiser than modern parents in1 parenting. |
| C．They were to blame for child development prospect. |
| D．They contributed to the children’s well-rounded abilities. |
| A．To recommend how to parent wisely. |
| B．To appeal to learn from modern parents. |
| C．To inform how parenting has changed. |
| D．To introduce two parenting strategies. |
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Money is vital in everyday life. Is it the people earning lots of money which are successful? In some people’s eyes, being rich is equal to be successful. They say we live a materialistic world where everything including relationships is defined by money. To be successful, that is essential to acquire a good education and it came from money. Success and money are close related to each other.
However, there are many people who have huge amounts of money, and in no case can they be said to be successful. Being successful means being satisfying with whatever things we have. Money cannot buy satisfaction or happiness, and a person who without such feeling cannot be called a success.
7 . Scot Case, Vice President of the environmental marketing firm Terra Choice, was not happy. Case last year sent his researchers into a big-box retail store to evaluate the green advertising claims of some of the products on its shelves. The results were shocking, of the 1,018 products Terra Choice surveyed, all but one failed to live up fully to their green boasts.
He couldn’t believe the result, and had his team redo the survey, but the results came back the same. “It just shows we’re awash in greenwash.” He said.
Many consumers may not have heard the term green washing, but they’ve surely experienced it — misleading marketing about the environmental benefits of a product. Greenwashing isn’t new — ever since the environment was an issue in the early 1970s. As going green has become big business, environmental advocates worry that truly green companies could get lost in the situation.
“We have such a challenge ahead of us on climate change, says Kevin Tuerff, a co-founder of the marketing consultancy EnviroMedia. “Greenwashing harms the effort we need to be making.”
The first step to cleaning up greenwashing is to identify it, and Tuerff and his partners have hit on an innovative way to spotlight particularly abnormal examples. They’ve launched the Greenwashing Index a website that allows consumers to post ads that might be examples of greenwashing and rate them on a scale of 1 to 5 — 1 is a little green lie; S is a big green lie.
It’s a simple device, but it shows the power of the Interne to uncover misleading ads with a simple Web search, any consumer can find out the index they want to know. Googling isn’t the only way to take out the greenwashing, however. The Terra Choice website offers a list of what it calls the “six sins of greenwashing” — six simple signs that should remind consumers of a company that is more interested in selling the earth than saving it.
“We have better green products but a lot of exaggerated (夸张的) claims,” says Case. “That could be enough to destroy the whole green movement” — and that’s not a little green lie.
1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about greenwashing?| A．It is harmful for the environment. |
| B．It is a special way to wash so as to save water. |
| C．It is environment-friendly so it should be advocated. |
| D．It is beneficial for both the consumers and the companies. |
| A．Holding hearings to tell genuine environmental claims from false ones. |
| B．Launching the Greenwashing Index a website to expose greenwashing. |
| C．Offering a list of “six sins of greenwashing” for companies’ reference. |
| D．Updating Green Guide for consumers which hasn’t changed since 1998. |
| A．Organic products but without any certificates. |
| B．Energy-efficient products made of harmful material. |
| C．Food which is low in nutrition but high in calorie. |
| D．Pesticides which are said to be environment-friendly. |
| A．The effort on environmental protection. |
| B．The advocation of green advertisements. |
| C．The distinction between green products and common ones. |
| D．The distinction between real environmental claims and false ones. |
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Our class recently had a heated discussion about whether to help strangers in trouble. There are two opinions.
Some thought we'd try to help them. Helping others is helping us. We may get into several similar situation where we need help some day. If everyone is unwilling to help us, you can imagine what enjoyable our life will be! However, others disagreed. From the news over the past years, there were some kind people who had charged and even had to pay much money just because of they helped strangers.
Personally, we should try to help those with need. Meanwhile, we also need to take measures to protect ourselves, such as take photos and finding witnesses on the spot.
9 . Dozens of US cities, and many around the world, have closed some streets to cars to create more outdoor spaces for residents to enjoy. These efforts grew during the COVID-19 pandemic(流 行), and a recent survey found that many US cities plan to make the changes permanent.
Car-free streets have become a place for residents to gather, play, dine, shop, and listen to live music. But the closed-off streets have also increased car and truck traffic on nearby roadways, which upsets some people. While many people want more pedestrian zones like these, others worry they disturb everyday life. What do you think?
Some people hold the belief that outdoor and green spaces can be hard to get in cities. Opening up car-free streets creates more of these spaces for everyone and encourages people to get outside, interact with neighbors, and build a sense of community. Shops and restaurants on those streets benefit from increased foot traffic from potential customers, which helps increase sales. Plus, slow streets encourage new businesses, such as food trucks and outdoor vendors(小贩), to develop in the area. Cars cause accidents and air and noise pollution. Closing streets to cars motivates people to use public transportation or ride bikes instead, which is safer and better for everyone.
While, there are a lot of people thinking that car-free streets cause other problems. More outdoor space sounds like a good idea, but car-free streets cause traffic jams and longer journeys in surrounding areas. That makes it harder for residents to go to work or school and for people such as delivery boys and truck drivers to do their jobs. Businesses on open streets can suffer, because foot traffic doesn't always mean more sales, and they could lose customers who want to drive to their shops but can't get there or find parking, Even when streets are car-free, there are usually still light motorcycles and bikes. People, especially kids, may not be looking out for these kinds of vehicles, which could put them at risk.
1. Who will not be affected by car-free streets in cities according to the passage?| A．Drivers | B．Farmers | C．Outdoor vendors | D．Delivery boys |
| A．They cause traffic jams and longer journeys. |
| B．They contribute to building more shops and restaurants and helping increase sales. |
| C．They create more outdoor spaces and encourage people to get outside. |
| D．They force people to use public transportation or ride bikes, which is safer and better. |
| A．Skeptical | B．Supportive | C．Objective | D．Indifferent |
| A．Should residents go out to play? |
| B．Should cities have car-free streets? |
| C．Should people create more outdoor spaces? |
| D．Should cities increase car and truck traffic? |
10 . The world is about to get a lot greener over the next 10 years. The United Nations has begun 2021-30 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and many countries, with help from donors, have started ambitious programs to restore forests. But little is known about how best to achieve that.
Between 2000 and 2020, the amount of forest increased by 3 million square kilometers, an area larger than Peru, according to the World Resources Institute, with China and India leading the way. But about 45% of those new forests are less beneficial for biodiversity (生物多样性) and long-term carbon storage than natural forests.
Many reforestation (新造林) projects focus on the number of trees planted, with less attention to how well they survive, how various the resulting forests are, or how much carbon they store. “We still know relatively little about what is working well or not, where, and why.” says Laura Duncanson of the University of Maryland, College Park, who studies carbon storage in forests.
Lindsay Banin, a forest ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and her colleagues examined data on how well newly planted trees survived at 176 reforested sites that differed in soil and environmental conditions as well as in what was planted. In some places, fewer than one in five saplings (幼树) survived, and on average only 44% lasted more than 5 years.
There is encouraging information: When saplings were planted near adult trees, an average of 64% survived, possibly because those spots were not as degraded. Other research has shown that some animals enjoy eating saplings which seem delicious. So measures such as fencing out cattle and improving soil conditions can be taken to increase saplings’ chances of survival as well, but they can be costly
Many other issues need attention as well, says Marshall, also a co-editor of the theme issue.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 2?| A．The amount of forest increased to 1. 3 million square kilometers in 2020. |
| B．Peru has an area of 1. 3 million square kilometers. |
| C．China and India take an active part in forest increasing. |
| D．45% of new forests are a lot more useful for biodiversity. |
| A．Bringing up. | B．Keeping off. |
| C．Exchanging with. | D．Coming up. |
| A．Near deserts. | B．Around cities. |
| C．Along riversides. | D．Near adult trees. |
| A．Trees play an important role in environment protection. |
| B．Forest badly needs our protection. |
| C．Plant more trees, enjoy a better life. |
| D．Reforestation means more than just planting trees |
