1 . As a means of dealing with loneliness and social isolation (孤立) in English towns, local police forces have begun providing specific public benches that can be used for making friends and having conversations.
The “Chat Benches”, which are now located in two different parks and outdoor areas in Somerset, are recognized by a little sign reading: “Sit here if you don’t mind someone stopping to say hello!”
The Avon and Somerset Police Department Facebook page recently published photos of their two new “Chat Benches” in Burnham and Taunton with an encouraging note for readers to stop by and use them for socialization (社交). “The sign simply helps to break the silence between strangers who find themselves sharing a common place,” says the police department. “We can all play a part. Simply stopping to say ‘hello’ to someone at the ‘Chat Bench’ could make life a little better for many people.”
According to a survey of the department, 17% of old people are only in contact with family, friends and neighbors less than once a week. This rises to about 9 million British people who suffer from loneliness and isolation each year.
The police force started the Chat Bench earlier this month to go with World Elder Abuse (虐待) Awareness Day. Though the officers say that there are many different forms of elder abuse which need our concern (关心), they hope that the Chat Bench will help to deal with senior loneliness in their communities. “The Chat Bench is a fantastic new thing and I hope people of all ages start many more conversations in the future,” says Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens.
1. What can we know about the Chat Bench according to the text?A.It is intended for prisoners. |
B.It can be seen in every English town. |
C.It has helped many people get rid of loneliness. |
D.It has signs encouraging strangers to start conversations. |
A.Most old people in Britain live alone. |
B.The British pay less attention to mental health. |
C.The British have little interest in social activities. |
D.Increasing British old people feel lonely and isolated. |
A.He has high expectations for the Chat Bench. |
B.Elder abuse hasn’t drawn public attention. |
C.He doesn’t think people can enjoy using the Chat Bench. |
D.Senior loneliness has been a serious social problem in Britain. |
A.The history of “Chat Benches” |
B.New tourist attractions in British towns |
C.British police find communication areas in the towns |
D.British police create “Chat Benches” to fight social isolation |
2 . Our teenagers are lonely. A new study by Harvard’s Making Caring Common (MCC) shows just how that feeling has been common and become serious during the past year when we had to keep the social distance. One year’s online learning and life in the bedrooms rather than the classrooms or dorm rooms can make teenagers feel lonelier than before. Teenagers have been more likely to be influenced by loneliness than older adults.
Experiencing loneliness is certainly sad, but it is also perilous. Researchers found that 63% of the young were suffering from bad sleep, anxiety, and poor health during the lockdown(活动限 制 ) and that nearly a quarter had started or increased some bad habits, including smoking, drinking and staying up late to deal with their feelings.
About half of the young people in the study, who said they had felt lonely, explained that over the past weeks not one person had taken more than just a few minutes to ask how they had been lately. It made them feel they had no one who really cared about them. Their parents thought they had much free time after lessons and it seemed that they only worried whether their children could perform their schoolwork at the level they once did. They didn’t know the problem.
Sian Leah Beilock, the president of Barnard College, explains that young people depend on social media, which makes them especially weak to social media’s harms. She also suggests that fewer close friends may explain some of the feelings of loneliness. She reports that in 1985 the average American had three close friends with whom they could share important things about their lives. In 2004, that number had dropped to just two friends. And in 2019. one in five millennials(千禧一代) had no friends at all.
These levels of loneliness are heartbreaking. MCC suggests, as a nation, we first should focus on teaching the young to make meaningful connections between people and support them.
1. What is the finding of MCC’S study?A.Every teenager has lonely moments. |
B.Parent-child communication becomes less. |
C.Teenagers care too much about others’ opinions. |
D.Lockdown lifestyles increase teenagers’ loneliness. |
A.Dangerous. | B.Funny. | C.Helpful. | D.Uncommon. |
A.Their parents misunderstood them. |
B.They found their schoolwork heavy. |
C.They needed more care and attention. |
D.Their online courses made them bored. |
A.Teenagers are short of outdoor exercise. |
B.Teenagers should make more close friends in real life. |
C.Teenagers enjoy developing close relationships online. |
D.Teenagers should avoid sharing important things online. |
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删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
3.改错格式错误不计分
China is facing seriously traffic problems. Too much cars travel on the roads. This heavy traffic causes delays and a plenty of air pollution. Although many cities in China have traffic problems, some of the worse are in Beijing. One of the reason why there is so much traffic is what only a small number of people use public transportation.
I think one way solve the traffic problems was to make people use the public transportation system. For example, they can take buses instead of drive cars. Meanwhile, the government should make them more reliable and convenient to travel by bus.
4 . When I was a college student, I did a lot of traveling abroad. That was because a professor
Since I started to work for a
Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were
Today there are people who
A.promised | B.allowed | C.hurried | D.encouraged |
A.build up | B.use | C.practise | D.exchange |
A.agreed with | B.learned from | C.followed | D.obeyed |
A.computer | B.food | C.clothing | D.machine |
A.life | B.rivers | C.sights | D.houses |
A.plans | B.bargain | C.progress | D.trips |
A.information | B.taste | C.cooks | D.feelings |
A.even more | B.no longer | C.much | D.actually |
A.people | B.drink | C.atmosphere | D.environment |
A.shoes | B.dishes | C.customers | D.situations |
A.friends’ | B.parents’ | C.professor’s | D.boss’s |
A.produces | B.advertises | C.forms | D.advances |
A.news | B.pleasures | C.troubles | D.places |
A.avoid | B.keep | C.lose | D.enjoy |
A.meeting | B.talking | C.playing | D.traveling |
A.stopped | B.met | C.surrounded | D.hurt |
A.look at | B.employ | C.travel | D.meet |
A.communication | B.study | C.work | D.action |
A.spare | B.increase | C.reduce | D.make use of |
A.wisely | B.correctly | C.or less | D.slowly |
5 . Advertising plays a major role in the competitive business world. Many industries take advantage of the power of advertising to attract or to win customers away from their business competitors. The influence of advertising is so huge that it causes many people to buy things that they do not want at the start.
Advertising encourages people to buy things they don’t want through misleading ideas. Advertising is proven to be a successful tool to stress the features of their product to the public even though it is regarded undesirable (不受欢迎的) such as cigarettes, drugs, alcohol and so on. For example, Dunhill, a cigarette company which sponsors (赞助) many football teams, seems to be promoting cigarettes to the public. Without the sponsorship, the company will be less known to the public, resulting in fewer sales of cigarettes.
Besides that, advertising has a large influence on the decisions made by the people in their everyday life. Many businesses use advertising as a form of promotion to create awareness (意识,认知) about their product in the market. For instance, in a fast food industry, the introduction of a new flavor o f burger needs advertising to reach the public while the other burgers require advertising to increase sales. Children, especially, are easily influenced by the advertisement and will have the desire to dine at fast food restaurants after that. Although fast food is bad for health, it has successfully become attractive to the public through advertising
However, advertising plays a part in helping customers to compare a product in terms of price, quality, reliability (可靠性) and so on. Without advertising, it will be very difficult for customers to judge the worthiness( 价值) of a product. For example, advertisements published by various companies have given the customers the opportunity to choose wisely when buying an item. Without the power of advertising, customers will choose a brand (品牌) which may not offer the best choice.
1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A.Advertising. | B.The product. | C.Feature. | D.The public. |
A.food industry is having a hard time |
B.the information passed on in advertisements is unreal |
C.children are easily influenced by the advertisement |
D.advertisements influence people to make decisions |
A.plays a role in fast food industry |
B.helps industries attract customers |
C.encourages people to make the right choices |
D.makes people buy some unnecessary things |
A.objective | B.supportive |
C.uncared | D.doubtful |
6 . When parents talk about school safety these days, they’re usually referring to the increase in violence at schools. But research shows that school-age children are actually nine times more likely to suffer an injury while doing sports than to be the victim of violence while at school. Accidents can be prevented if parents are on the lookout for potential dangers. To help you keep your kids free from harm, here are some safety tips:
● Teach your child never to talk to strangers or accept rides or gifts from strangers. Remember, a stranger is anyone you or your child doesn’t know well or trust.
●Be sure that your child walks to and from school with a sibling, friend or neighbor.
●Teach your kid, whether walking, biking or riding a bus to school, to obey all traffic signals, signs and traffic officers. Remind him to be extra careful in bad weather.
●When driving your kid, deliver and pick them up as close to the school as possible. Don’t leave until they are in the schoolyard or building.
● If your child rides a bike to school, make sure he wears a standard helmet. Research shows that a helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85%.
●Teach your kid to arrive at the bus stop earlier, stay off the street, and wait for the bus to come to a complete stop.
● Be sure that your kid knows his or her home phone number and address, your work number, the number of another trusted adult and how to call 911 for emergencies.
1. Which of the following word has the same meaning as the underlined word “sibling”?A.brother or sister | B.neighbor | C.friend | D.stranger |
A.Kids should be taught never to talk to strangers. |
B.Kids should obey the traffic rules. |
C.Kids should be taught to call 911 for anything. |
D.Kids should stay off the street while waiting for the bus. |
A.talk about school safety | B.call on readers to fight against school violence |
C.discuss the injuries at school | D.give advice on school-age children’s safety |
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删除:把多余的词用斜线( \)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
One of a most important sections of the Human Development Report are the Human Development Index. China is in the middle of the list, that is one of the examples of successful development. In the last ten years , China has increased life expectancy to 13 years and 150 million people have been moved out of poverty. But, a great many people in developing countries still remain hungrily. Over half of these are in South Asia or Africa. In developing countries about 115 million children are not complete being educated . And more than 1 billion people don't have safe water drink, so the report suggests that we make greater effort in the future.
1.分析新能源汽车与传统汽车相比受欢迎的原因,(节约能源; 花费;环境;气候变化)。
2.你对新能源汽车的看法
3.对其前景的展望。
参考词汇:新能源汽车new energy car 燃料:fuel
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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9 . Surfer Dudes to the Rescue!
About 50 feet from shore of the Northern California’s Trinidad State Beach, two brothers were fighting for their lives. They had been swept out to sea in a rip current (激流), their mouths barely able to stay above the water. Thick fog made it difficult for beachgoers to see the guys, but the screams were unmistakable. And every second counted. The brothers, ages 15 and 20, were wearing shorts and T-shirts, unsuitable for a November day, let alone the freezing water. Keven Harder, a supervising ranger (巡查员), told the North Coast Journal in nearby Eureka that swimming in such a temperature “takes the fight right out of you.”
Luckily, four surfers in wet suits were nearby. Narayan Weibel, Spenser Stratton, and Adrian York, all 16, along with Taj Ortiz-Beck, 15, were on their surfboards riding up and down the coast on five-foot waves when they heard the cries. They turned and saw two bobbing heads and four struggling arms. “We looked at each other and knew these guys were about to drown,” Weibel told the Washington Post.
Weibel, Stratton, and Ortiz-Beck paddled toward the distressed swimmers while York headed to shore to warn someone to call 911. He then dived back in to help his friends.
As the surfers drew close, the brothers were still fighting hard for their lives. “It was pretty stressful, but there wasn’t any time to think about it, and that helped me keep my cool,” Ortiz-Beck says.
Ortiz-Beck pulled up alongside the younger brother. Grabbing him under his arms, he raised him up onto his board. Stratton and Weibel, meanwhile, hurried to help the older brother. He was large, 250 to 300 pounds, and he was panicked.
“I told them, ‘Calm down—we got you!’” says Weibel. “They thought they were going to die.”
York arrived in time to help get the older brother atop the second board. The surfers then paddled several minutes through choppy water to the medical help waiting onshore. The brothers were scared but fine.
“When we get a call like this one, it’s usually too late by the time we get there,” says Dillon Cleavenger, a first responder. “I can’t say enough about what these boys did. They were willing and prepared to risk their lives.”
1. What can we know from the first paragraph?A.Two brothers were almost drowned in the sea. |
B.Beachgoers happened to meet the two brothers. |
C.The supervising ranger warned them not to swim then. |
D.Surfers barely wore T-shirts and shorts in such weather. |
A.Swimming in a rip current. | B.Surfing on high waves. |
C.Struggling with their arms to shore. | D.Practising diving in the sea. |
A.Andrian York dived back to call the police |
B.Keven Harder played the most important role |
C.Narayan Weibel tried to calm down the brothers |
D.Ortiz-Beck saved the larger and panicked brother |
A.Hardworking and friendly. | B.Kind and humorous. |
C.Devoted and talented. | D.Brave and determined. |
10 . Teaching is not an easy career (职业) to go into, yet it’s one of the most important careers in a culture. The future of a country depends on the quality of education that its next generation (代) receives and the character that the children develop. Even though educators are the most important part of our schools, the structure (结构) of the education system in the United States is not set up to fully support them. In fact, it often puts them in difficult situations.
In most careers, salaries (工资) are based on education, experience, and performance. Not so with teaching. In many schools, teachers aren’t paid based on their level of education or experience. Though many go into the career because of their love of teaching and working with children, being fairly rewarded for their work is a problem.
Add to the fact that many teachers have to spend their summers making enough money to support their family, so many teachers are leaving the field. A 2019 study reported that about 8% of teachers gave up the career each year. The result will soon be that there won’t be enough educators.
One of the reasons why teachers are leaving the field is that they don’t get respect in the classroom. Disrespect, in my view, is the biggest problem that our teachers face and it has got worse in recent years.
How to improve this situation? Schools should take care of teachers in them, and our teachers need more of us to support them. They need us to raise our voices for a stronger education system that supports them. They should be offered better salaries and more chances of career improvement. These will encourage more people to be teachers.
1. How does the author like the structure of the American education system?A.It is unsatisfying. | B.It is full of risks. |
C.It fully supports teachers. | D.It puts teachers in good situations. |
A.They need some training in teaching. |
B.They have to visit students' parents. |
C.They have to look after students. |
D.They need to make extra money. |
A.Enough respect. | B.Increase in salaries. |
C.Rights to control students. | D.Teaching methods. |
A.Requiring kids to work hard at school. |
B.Calling for a better education system. |
C.Encouraging more people to be teachers. |
D.Having a better understanding of books. |