1 . 阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。

On a sunny Saturday in June, Alyson, 3, squealed(尖叫) with laughter as she and her mother, Marlen, played hide-and-seek in the front yard of their home. With Marlen close behind, tiny Alyson flashed into the backyard of an elderly neighbor. About halfway across the yard, Alyson suddenly disappeared, seemingly swallowed whole by a barely visible opening in the ground. Marlen screamed.

The neighbor’s caretaker, Luz, 26, was preparing dinner in the neighbor’s kitchen and assumed the shrieks were the sounds of children playing. But she ran outside anyway and found Marlen sobbing and Alyson’s sister Damary, 25, kneeing on the grass, dialing 911.

“Alyson fell in the hole！” Damary cried to Luz. Luz gave a quick glance down the hole in disbelief and saw only darkness. Then she heard Alyson’s wails(哭泣) from deep underground. “Hang on there, sweety. We’ll get you out soon.”

Luz ran inside the house and down to the basement for a ladder,which happened to be not very long. She then settled for a gray extension cord(延长线) to use as a rope with which to rappel(用绳索下降) into the hole. Back in the yard, she and Damary used their hands to dig at the hole,   widening the opening from 7 inches in diameter to about 20 inches.Marlen sat on the grass,too distracted to help.

At the thought that Alyson might get hurt and was too young to grasp and climb the rope on her own, Luz made up her mind to go down herself. When the police detective Aaron arrived a few minutes later, Luz was already in the hole up to her waist.

“Get out of here,” the officer told Luz, lifting her up by the arm. “It’s dangerous for you.”

“It’s more dangerous for the Baby,” she argued, “She’s going to die.”

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The detective begged Luz to wait for help, but she determined.

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Minutes later, the Fire Department and Rescue Squad arrived.

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While there is growing consumer     1     (realize) of the environmental impact of fast fashion, can the same be said about fast furniture? The chairs and tables that fill many of our homes and everyday spaces are manufactured on a mass scale, and the cheaper items often end up     2     landfills.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2020 over 12 million tons of furniture     3     (throw) out in America and some into the forest illegally. Buying furniture can be     4     (incredible) expensive. Many of us switch over to cheaper, instant brands like IKEA,     5     manufacturers use materials harder to recycle, which is likely to damage the environment.

With growing calls for sustainability, many brands are announcing to change though it remains     6     (see) whether they will keep these promises. In     7     (it) current sustainability strategy, IKEA commits itself to using only recyclable materials in all its products in an effort to practice “circular” design and cut emissions to net-zero. The concept of circular design     8     (win) increasing concern up to now. In     9     circular system, furniture products would be designed to last longer and be fully recyclable, thus forming a     10    (close) loop (环).

4 . The next time you’re at an airport or hotel, you might notice a traveling group that consists of young kids, parents, and grandparents vacationing together.     1    But more and more families tend to bring multiple generations with them.

    2    In larger groups, for example, child-care responsibilities can be shared across family members, allowing parents to take a break. But the real value of these trips might be how they give relatives an opportunity to freshen their perception of the people they’ve known for perhaps their entire life. Travel can take us out of our familiar contexts and offer people a chance to see one another differently.

The shift toward multi-generational travel has a few explanations. For one, grandparents today stay healthy later in life, allowing them more energy for travel.     3    Plus, the average U.S. household has become more multi-generational. Americans are not just traveling with grandparents in order to spend time with them, they are traveling with them because they are more likely to live with them in the first place.     4    Americans are taking fewer vacation days than they did in the 1970s. They might want to make the most of that time by including as many people as possible.

Whatever the reason for its popularity, a multi-generational trip can be a rare time when younger and older generations can glimpse the complex people they have each become. Away from the family home, older generations get to see their adult children as responsible parents. Kids get to see their grandparents encounter a new environment.     5    

A．Another explanation is time pressure.

B．The benefits of multi-generational trips are numerous.

C．Decades ago, only wealthy families vacationed together.

D．A scene like this would have been rare a few decades ago.

E．Multi generational family travel tops the list of travel trends.

F．Everyone gets to break out of their family roles and figure out how to be together.

G．Also, big-group accommodation has become more affordable through online platforms.

6 . Musa Haidar holds a coconut (椰子) to his ear and shakes it from side to side. Its sound pleases the market trader, who puts the large brown fruit back on the pile at his market stand in the suburb of Zanzibar, a city on the East African Island.

His customers are less happy, however. A coconut going for 500 shillings a few years ago today sells for 1,500 shillings. That makes it more expensive to cook curries or other dishes using coconut milk. “The prices are not normal,” says Mr. Haidar. “Coconuts have become expensive for local people.”

Why have prices gone nuts? “People are chopping (砍), chopping,” he explains. A count in 2014 found just 3.4 million coconut trees, down from 5.7 million in the late 1990s. Since hungry Zanzibaris still demand creamy fish curries and beans baked in coconut milk, falling supply has led to higher prices. Coconuts from the mainland are pricier because of high transport costs.

The logging of coconut trees reflects the urbanization wave in Zanzibar and the rest of Africa where urban sprawl is the most striking feature, cities extending outwards rather than growing upwards. Because of that, when people move to a new land, they chop down the coconut trees to make space for their new homes.

Moreover, some houses and island hotels have furniture made from coconut wood. Emmanuel Elias, a woodworker, explains that it is cheaper than the imported one. By law farmers cannot chop down fruit-bearing trees for furniture; in practice it is hard to stop them. Even if they obey the rules, many do not plant new trees, since these take at least six years to produce fruits, and fifteen years to reach maximum production levels. State subsidies (补贴) for seeds have proved no match for urban population growth.

In his workshop, Mr. Elias dusts off a solid dressing table he is selling for 400,000 shillings. He points out that it is made of coconut wood. “This is the land of coconut trees,” he says. But for how much longer?

1. What leads to the high price of coconuts in Zanzibar?

A．The demand going beyond the supply.

B．Local people raising the price randomly.

C．The transportation developing too slowly.

D．Residents consuming too much coconut milk

2. What does the underlined word “sprawl” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Structure.

B．Capacity.

C．Expansion.

D．Management.

3. Why are farmers in Zanzibar unwilling to plant coconut trees?

A．They can’t get the state subsidies.

B．They can’t afford to wait for fruits.

C．They are following the existing regulations.

D．They have switched to the furniture industry.

4. What can we infer about the author’s opinion on coconut trees from the text?

A．He worries about their future.

B．He expects their faster growth.

C．He takes pride in their number.

D．He doubts their value for furniture.

8 . Sending a thumbs-up can be seen as passive aggressive(冒犯的), according to Gen Z (those born between 1995 and 2009) who say they feel attacked whenever it is used. Whether the chat is informal, between friends or at work the symbol appears to have a very different, ‘rude’ meaning for the younger generation.

A 24-year-old on Reddit summed up the Gen Z argument, saying it is best ‘never used in any situation’ as it is ‘hurtful’. “No one of my age in the office does it, but the Gen X (those born between 1966 and 1980) people always do it. Take me a bit to adjust and get it out of my head that it means they’re mad-at me,” he added. Other young people agreed it is bad form, especially at work where it can make the team appear unfriendly and not easygoing.

“My last workplace had a WhatsApp chat for our team to send information to each other on, and most of the people on there just replied with a thumbs up. I don’t know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me,” one woman said. One Reddit user also said the thumbs up actually means that “I’ve read your message and have nothing to add and I hope and pray...all the people in this group chat have nothing to say on it too.”

Older workers appear confused by the reaction, saying they use the thumbs up in work-related chats to show “I agree” or “I understood and will follow.”

Part of the issue is that young people tend to use the thumbs-up in jokes. Barry Kennedy, 24, he said he only used it to communicate with older people like his parents or older colleagues. A survey of 2, 000 people conducted by Perspectus Global showed that a majority of people between the ages of 16 and 29 believe that you are “officially old” if you use thumbs-up or heart emoji.

1. Which of the following point is not the Gen Z’s understanding of the emoji thumbs-up?

A．Being rude.	B．Being agreeable.
C．Being hurtful.	D．Being unfriendly.

2. What does the underlined word “hostile” mean in paragraph 3?

A．Unfriendly and aggressive.	B．Tough and difficult.
C．Unwanted and unacceptable.	D．Strange and unusual.

3. Why can’t older workers understand the young’s reaction to the thumbs-up emoji?

A．Because of their poor communications kill.

B．Because of their being old with worse memory.

C．Because of their less communicating with the young.

D．Because of their different understanding of the emoji.

4. Which is the most suitable title for the text?

A．The Thumbs-up Emoji: Rejected by the younger generation

B．The Thumbs-up Emoji: Highly Welcomed by Old People

C．The Thumbs-up Emoji: A Sign of Generation Gap

D．The Thumbs-up Emoji: A Sign of Being Aggressive

9 . At some point in the stretch of days between the start of the pandemic’s third year and the feared launch of World War III, a new phrase unfolded itself before us, a mysterious foretell of an age to come: people were going “goblin mode”.

The term embraces the comforts of depravity(堕落): spending the day in bed scrolling endlessly through social media; pouring the end of a bag of chips in your mouth; leaving the house in your pajamas and socks only to get a single Diet Coke from the store.

First appearing on Twitter as early as 2009, “goblin mode” represents a direct departure from the “cottagecore” influence of early pandemic days, a standout trend of 2020 that thrived under the wistful ethos of making the best of what many people assumed would be only a few boring weeks at home in 2020.

But as the pandemic wears on endlessly, and the chaos of current events worsens, people feel cheated by the system and have rejected such goals. “The trend sets an unrealistic standard for people to think that if they aren’t waking up early to exercise, their lives are not put together”, one blog indicting “cottagecore” culture reads.

Most people tweeting about goblin mode characterize it as an almost spiritual-level embrace of our most debased tendencies and call it a logical progression into nihilism(虚无主义)after years of disappointment. However, Marnell, an author who has been tweeting extensively in recent weeks about entering goblin mode, says there is “healthy goblin mode and destructive goblin mode”. For her, it represents a certain air of harmless mischief. “It is cool to be a goblin,” Marnell says. “Everyone is so perfect all the time online, it is good to get in touch with the strange little creature that lives inside you.”

1. Which of the following does not belong to “cottagecore” culture?

A．Organizing refrigerators full of freshly cut vegetables.

B．Wearing makeup and doing elaborate skincare routines.

C．Making organic food and putting them in a delicate plate.

D．Wearing nothing but a long T-shirt to make a weird snack.

2. According to the passage, what leads to people’s entering of goblin mode?

A．The financial crisis.	B．The endless pandemic.
C．The comforts of depravity.	D．The worsening system.

3. What does “indict” mean in Paragraph 4?

A．Accuse.

B．Praise.

C．Credit.

D．Destroy.

4. What attitude do most people hold towards goblin mode?

A．Positive.

B．Neutral.

C．Negative.

D．Favorable.

10 . If you’re an Instagram user, you may have recently seen a pop-up (弹出窗口) asking if you want the service to “use your app and website activity” to “provide a better ads experience.” This is an example of a dark pattern; design that manipulates (操纵) or heavily influences users to make certain choices. Instagram uses terms like “activity” and “personalized” instead of “tracking” and “targeting,” so the user may not realize what they’re actually giving the app permission to do. Most people don’t want Instagram to know everything they do and everywhere they go. But a “better experience” sounds like a good thing, so Instagram makes the option it wants users to select more attractive than the one it hopes they’ll avoid.

Harry Brignull coined the term “dark patterns” in 2010. Dark patterns existed in the physical world long before the Internet came along, but the Internet has made dark patterns so much more powerful, Although you may not have heard the term before, you've surely seen countless examples of them and experienced their effects, such as the trial streaming service you signed up for, only to be automatically charged when the trial ends.

Dark patterns have for years been tricking Internet users into giving up their personal data. But if some lawmakers get their way, they may not be able to do that for much longer.

Some of the more obvious and scammy (欺诈的) dark patterns — sneaking extra items into shopping baskets or adding unexpected charges — have been made illegal. But the law isn’t so cut and dried when it comes to privacy and data.

Harry Brignull and a growing number of advocates and lawmakers feel that legislation (立法) is necessary to stop these dark patterns to consumers can use the Internet without constantly being manipulated into spending money, signing up for services they don’t need, or giving up their data.

1. Why are Instagram users tricked by the new pop-up?

A．It has a stylish design.	B．It uses misleading words.
C．It offers too many choices.	D．It promises not to track users.

2. What can we learn about dark patterns?

A．They improve user experience.	B．They came along with the Internet.
C．They provide personalized service.	D．They influence users' decision making.

3. Which of the following does the underlined word “they” refer to in Paragraph 4?

A．Dark patterns.	B．Internet users.
C．Personal data.	D．Some lawmakers.

4. What is an example of illegal dark pattern practices?

A．Recording shopping lists.	B．Tracking online habits.
C．Charging hidden fees.	D．Presenting unwanted ads.