| A．None. | B．Two. | C．Four. |
Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke and pretend you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous.
3 . One of the most outspoken supporters that I know of women and girls is actually a man. As co-founder of the ONE Campaign, my friend Bono spends a lot of time speaking out against global poverty(贫困). Together, we’re working to get out a simple, powerful message: poverty is sexist.
Women and girls are more likely to be in poverty, less likely to get an education and more likely to suffer bad health. And when they are born into poverty, it is much more difficult for them to lift themselves and their families out of it.
Why? One reason is that breaking out of poverty takes time--and that is a resource women around the world are short of. On average, women spend about twice as much time as men in doing the unpaid work that makes life possible for everyone, like cooking, washing, cleaning, shopping and caring. In developing countries, the gap is even much bigger. As a result, women have no time to finish their education, learn new skills, open a business, develop personal relationships or even go to the doctor. They dream of creating a better future for their children, but they cannot spare the hours to put those dreams that they have into action.
The fact that the possibility of so many women and girls is going unrealized is a sad thing-- but it is also an opportunity for us. We need to recognize, reduce and redistribute the burden of work that is holding them back because if women have time to invest in themselves and their ideas, they could change the world.
1. According to the author, what makes it more difficult for women to climb out of poverty?| A．Lack of education. |
| B．Heavy burden of housework. |
| C．Impossible dreams. |
| D．Poor health conditions. |
| A．the time women and men spend on their housework. |
| B．the space women and men need for their private life. |
| C．the income women and men earn each year. |
| D．the dream women and men have about their children. |
| A．Why poverty is sexist. |
| B．What global poverty is. |
| C．How to reduce female poverty. |
| D．How to break down sexism. |
4 . If you’ve visited a museum, you’ve seen it. Maybe you’ve even done it taken a picture of yourself with a piece of art. Perhaps it’s because you love the painting or sculpture, or maybe it was just a famous piece of art and you wanted to share with the world that you’d seen it in person. But the majority of museums ban（禁止） photography at the museum.
The reasons for banning photography differ. Some museums have pieces lent to them that aren’t allowed to be photographed according to the owner’s wishes, like most of the exhibits at The Tate in London. Others are concerned about what camera flashes will do to the art; bright lights can damage certain paints. Some want to preserve a certain atmosphere. Sir John Soane’s Museum,a small museum in London, states that it bans photography to “maintain the unique, magical atmosphere insides”.
For other museums the “no photography” rule is based on observed behavior that seems to fly against the idea of what the museum is for: “Personally, what I’ve noticed is that people spend more time taking pictures than looking at pieces of art,” said Benoit Parayre, the director of communications at the Center Pompidou in Paris. “They take a picture, and don’t even stop in front of the paintings. ”
For most museums. it’s purely practical. “People taking selfies（自拍）are more concerned with getting their shot than paying attention to where their bodies are. some nearly backing into objects,” complained Heidi Rosenau. the Frick’s communication director. What’s worse, in a busy museum, people taking photos with the art causes traffic-flow issues. Sure, some people only take a quick shot, but we all have a friend or two who spends minutes getting the “perfect” photo--now just imagine them in a museum blocking people from seeing famous works of art that they’ve spent time and money to come and see.
A selfie can be fun and harmless, but it can also be rude and get in the way of other people’s experiences.
1. What do we learn from the first paragraph?| A．Visitors can copy a famous piece of art. |
| B．Taking pictures is not allowed in most museums. |
| C．Most visitors carry cameras in the museum. |
| D．Most exhibits of art are borrowed from others |
| A．ensuring safety | B．preserving art works |
| C．keeping order | D．maintaining an atmosphere |
| A．selfie-takers may damage the exhibits |
| B．selfie-takers may inspire other visitors |
| C．selfie-takers may steal the piece |
| D．selfie-takers can better enjoy art |
| A．A harmless selfie should be allowed in all museums. |
| B．Some museums can be open to a selfie. |
| C．A selfie should be banned in museums |
| D．A selfie can be dangerous in museums. |
5 . Confident, smart and high-tech，they're followers of pop culture and know what social networking is all about. They’re tweens, children between the ages of 10 and 12.These young people are no longer little kids but they are not yet teenagers, because tweens are in a state of transition（转变）
The tween years are hard for children. From a social point of view, tweens are dealing with quite a lot. They have to face changing relationships, middle school and a whole lot of pressure（压力）to succeed and fit in. They may become angry over seemingly small things. A bad test grade, an argument with a friend, a bad day on the ball field, or a request to clean a bedroom might set them off.
Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, a parenting expert in London and author of Talking to Tweens, says. “The tween years are when young people begin to realize the wider world and to see themselves as separate from their families.”
Right now, tweens’ friends are everything to them. It’s universal for the age, but they show it in different ways. For boys, the whole friendship thing is through technology and sports. Girls like to talk.
Tweens are also a hot market What do tweens consider cool? Music is at the top of the cool list followed by going to the movies “Being smart” comes third, tied with video games, followed by electronics, sports, fashion and protecting the environment, according to a report.
Undoubtedly, tweens have great spending power in the United States. It was the tween market that made Justin Bieber and Harry Potter household names Retailers（零售商）know tweens are a ho market for clothes, music and entertainment Tweens have their own sense of fashion and enjoy their own parts of popular culture.
1. Which of the following words best describes the tween years?| A．Entertaining. | B．Unchanging. | C．Admirable. | D．tough |
| A．Tweens remain dependent on their parents. |
| B．Friendship is very important in tweens eyes. |
| C．Retailers pay little attention to the tween market. |
| D．Playing video games is second to none on tweens’ cool list. |
| A．In a marketing report. | B．On a fashion website. |
| C．In an education magazine. | D．On a parenting poster. |
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7 . Notre-Dame, the cathedral (大教堂) that serves as one of Paris’s most beloved monuments, is on fire. According to The New York Times, the fire began around 6: 30 p.m. local time, when tourists urgently rushed out of the building. While Andre Finot, a spokesman for the cathedral, told The Times, that the cause of the fire is still unknown and that no one has been hurt while damage to the building appears catastrophic(灾难性的).
CNN reports that over 400 firefighters have been sent to fight the fire, but that they may be unable to save the cathedral. Built in the 12th century, Notre-Dame houses several relics important to Catholics (天主教徒). NBC News reports that relics from Saint Genevieve and Saint Denis may been lost, together with a relic believed to be from Jesus Christ’s crown of thorns, but it states that authorities now believe that the cathedral has been saved from “total destruction”.
Notre-Dame is visited by a reported 30, 000 people a day and 13 million people per year. Its destruction represents a global cultural loss. “This is just horrible”, Mohamed Megdoul, 33, a film producer and witness to the fire told The Times, speaking through tears. “A thousand years of history is being wiped away. This belonged to the whole world, and now it’s disappearing.”
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his sadness on Twitter. “Notre-Dame of Paris in flames,” reads an English translation of his statement. “Emotion for a whole nation. Thoughts for all Catholics and for all the French. Like all our countrymen, I’m sad together to see this part of us burn.” Other politicians, including Melanis Trump, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, U. K. Prime Minister Theresa May also shared their sadness on Twitter.
1. What do we know about Notre-Dame according to the passage?| A．It has been completely destroyed by the fire. |
| B．It’s a huge political loss to the world. |
| C．It’s only meaningful to Catholics. |
| D．The reason of the fire remained to be found out. |
| A．The history of France is destroyed because of the fire. |
| B．The loss the fire caused is huge. |
| C．The damage of Notre-Dame is being wiped off. |
| D．The cathedral has been saved from “total destruction”. |
| A．To report a disaster of Notre-Dame. |
| B．To express people’s sadness of the destruction. |
| C．To emphasize the value of Notre-Dame. |
| D．To show the concerns from the worldwide. |
8 . As you grow rapidly through your teenage years，you will experience a lot of changes. The changes may seem difficult and they may seem to happen quickly. Don't panic（恐慌）！You will deal successfully with them！You are a young adult now！
With more responsibility，you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed（知晓）about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future. You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine！Work hard and the right opportunity will present（展现）itself to you.
Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. You will probably want to be independent. But try not to shut your family out of your life. You should learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself. Your family have been with you since you came into this world.
It is also perfectly natural in this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family. Choose your friends wisely. A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens. This period is part of the life cycle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life's journey and there will be some people with whom you par（分离）and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again.
You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely！
1. Who do the underlined words "some people" in Paragraph 4 probably mean ___________?| A．your parents | B．your classmates |
| C．true friends | D．your relatives |
| A．a period of complete freedom |
| B．too hard for young people to get through |
| C．an important time for the young to make the right choices |
| D．a very important period for young students to leave their parents |
| A．Teenagers | B．Teachers. |
| C．Young parents | D．Adults. |
9 . Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinesestyle spelling bee (拼写大赛). In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.
Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy(书法) to be one of their primary contributions. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet (字母). The correct character is chosen from a list. The result? It’s possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.
But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write.
In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of sixyearolds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully trying to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?” we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin. “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture,” she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.
1. What can we learn about the Character Hero?| A．It draws great public attention across the country. |
| B．It’s the mostviewed TV programs in the world. |
| C．It means to spread Chinese culture to the world. |
| D．It’s open to people of all ages and all walks. |
| A．Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often. |
| B．Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy. |
| C．Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters. |
| D．Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology. |
| A．necessary for adults to survive in China |
| B．a requirement made by the Education Ministry |
| C．helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive |
| D．an ability to be developed only when you are students |
How do we help kids make wise choices about their money? Anne Kersten,
Long before Kersten began teaching other people’s kids about wise money management, she taught her own daughters. When her daughters
