1 . “Ni Hao! I am your foreign friend. Just have a bite of our organic apples (有机苹果) and place your orders here!” Erik Nilson, a Swedish traveler, greeted through TikTok livestreams (抖音直播) in a village of Jiangxi Province. His livestreams increased that day’s sales greatly. After experiencing a special day of livestreaming, Erik said jokingly. “I wish I could change my job.”
This village is not alone. Nowadays, China’s e-commerce platforms (电商平台) like TikTok and Taobao have helped open up online markets for Chinese farmers’ produce. This has made livestreaming sales a new way to help poor farmers, with mobile phones becoming “new farm tools”.
“How can you make the audience believe that your products are delicious just through the screen in front of you?” The government in Hainan Province invites experts to teach farmers some necessary skills including how to make short videos and how to increase livestreaming sales. “However, at first, only a few villagers gave it a shot. So we helped them get training in livestreaming, short video marketing, and other courses. It wasn’t fancy, but simple, practical, and effective.”
“Everybody, please take a look. This is the best banana. Taste it.” said Pei Yanqin, 59, speaking with a strong local accent but communicating carefully with audience through her livestreaming software. Just over a year ago, she was one of those villagers with the least interest to get training.
Today, the village has developed eight e-commerce livestreaming courtyards. Some farmers work alone, while others are husband and wife teams. In the next step, the government will train more farmers to conduct the livestreams and develop multi-variety online sales.
1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?| A．To promote the organic apples. | B．To share a travel experience of Erik. |
| C．To introduce the topic of the text. | D．To explain what the livestreams are. |
| A．turned it down. | B．had a try at it. | C．had access to it. | D．argued about it. |
| A．Erik Nilson came to China because he wants a new job. |
| B．Pei Yanqin has no interest in livestreaming sales at all. |
| C．Livestreaming has become the best way to help poor farmers. |
| D．Government is helping farmers become skilled in marketing online. |
| A．Business. | B．Education. | C．Science. | D．History. |
2 . The Red Cross is known for performing some of the most heroic acts in the world. There are Red Cross societies in 190 countries all over the world. Their task is to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of sudden serious situations by organizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of those who want to donate(捐献).
In 1860, Swiss businessman and social activist, Jean Henri Dunant, saw the effects of war, and countries not prepared or able to deal with the suffering of those who had been injured in the Battle of Solferino during the second War of Italian Independence. Dunant organized a group of volunteers to help bring water and food to the injured, to help with medical treatment, or to write letters to the families of those who were dying. After that moment, he knew that more had to be done, and he wrote the book, A Memory of Solferino, which encouraged the public to create an organization which would help the wounded. His writing encouraged more people to support him in creating the International Federation of the Red Cross. And in 1863, International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
The modern-day Red Cross does more than nursing soldiers during wartime. The group began to devote itself largely to disaster relief(灾难救援) and epidemic(流行病) treatment. It has achieved even greater service in humanitarian(人道主义的) programs that serve continuously in both peace and war.
One of the easiest ways you can help the Red Cross is to make sure you are able to donate blood and make an appointment at the Red Cross website. But, donating blood isn’t the only way you can help out—the Red Cross also encourages you to donate your time if you can, along with other things the modern-day Red Cross wants you to know.
1. What does the underlined word “alleviate” in Paragraph 1 mean?| A．Lighten. | B．Report. | C．Express. | D．Find. |
| A．To make more people know the Red Cross. |
| B．To ask more people to help the wounded. |
| C．To let people see the cruelty of wars. |
| D．To call on people to stop wars. |
| A．In Paragraph 1. | B．In Paragraph 2. | C．In Paragraph 3. | D．In Paragraph 4. |
| A．To introduce the Red Cross website. |
| B．To explain the Red Cross’s future work. |
| C．To show how the Red Cross helps needy people. |
| D．To encourage people to offer help in the Red Cross |
Over half of adults in China or more than half a billion people are now overweight, an official report has found. The figures have increased
The country’s rapid economic(经济)
The obesity has come under renewed focus during the pandemic(流行病)as
A growing love for meat and a low consumption(消耗)of fruit were also thought of as factors behind the rise. Wang Dan,
China is one of the countries
In 1985, there was little rainfall in Ethiopia, which
Today, some developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America still need help in order not to fall further behind. The sad truth is that
A lot is being done,
5 . Forced by the COVID﹣19 outbreak， Pooja Chandrashekar spoke to mobile health﹣clinic （卫生所） workers across the city about their needs during the pandemic（大流行病）． The first﹣year Harvard Medical School student discovered that most information about the widespread virus was only available in English and a small number of other languages， leaving those who do not speak those languages in the dark．
"This makes it very difficult for immigrants（外来移民） and non﹣English﹣speaking communities to seek care for COVID﹣19，" Chandrashekar said． "We know from past epidemics like the swine flu（猪流感） that the lack of accessible information in one's native language places these populations at a higher risk of infection．"
She decided to take action， creating the COVID﹣19 Health Literacy Project． Chandrashekar brought together a group of students from more than 30 universities to create fact sheets in languages not commonly represented in the American health care system． She tweeted about her effort on March 14 and included an interest form in a following tweet that collected more than 500 responses． From there， she formed a still﹣growing team of over 175 medical students． Together， the students created seven fact sheets， in 35 languages．
"Our goal is to make sure we're producing accurate， evidence﹣based information，" Chandrashekar said． "When you're putting information out to the public and health care organizations are distributing it to their patients， you really want to make sure the information you're providing is correct．"
Going forward， Chandrashekar plans to keep building the network of partners and expanding the languages offered to serve the greatest number of people．
1. What does "their needs" in paragraph 1 probably mean？| A．The information about the the COVID﹣19． |
| B．The care for people in the dark． |
| C．The medical students coming from other countries． |
| D．The accessible information about the COVID﹣19 in more languages． |
| A．More than 30 universities． |
| B．Followers of Chandrashekar's tweet． |
| C．Students in medical teams． |
| D．Health care providers all over the world． |
| A．Providing correct and evidence﹣based information． |
| B．Offering accessible information in different languages to the people in need． |
| C．Working with health care providers around the world． |
| D．Displaying and distributing fact sheets to patients in their care． |
| A．Entertainment． |
| B．Lifestyle． |
| C．Community． |
| D．Advertisements． |
6 . The word “adulting” started as a kind of joke—whenever a millennial (千禧一代) would do something as an adult does, this was an act of “adulting”. However, now, millennials clearly need training in being an adult.
Rachel Flehinger has founded an Adulting School, which includes online classes on simple sewing (缝纫), problems solving and cooking. The cause for such classes is that many millennials haven’t left childhood homes—in America 34 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 still lived with their parents in 2015, up from 26 percent 10 years before. There’s a good deal of truth to this. If you’re living at home, with Mom and Dad doing their best to spoil (溺爱) you, you’re less likely to know how to wash clothes, cook or make the bed. Dependency leads to enervation. Over time, you are unable to adult.
But living at home doesn’t necessarily bring dependency. Back in 1940, 30 percent of 25-to-29-year-olds lived at home with parents or grandparents. But they were adulting. Parents expected their kids to do housework, and to prepare for life. Then, what’s the real problem now?
Instead of blaming (责备) living at home, we have to blame our style of parenting. The truth is that we’ve simply become lazier as parents. We’re more likely to let our kids lie on a sofa than tell them to get a job. We don’t push our kids to build families of their own, because life cost has increased. Then the question is how we can encourage young people to “adult” in such a situation.
1. What is the purpose of showing the data (数据) in paragraph 2?| A．To show that millennials liked to live with their parents. |
| B．To show that the Adulting School became popular in 2015. |
| C．To show that more adults still depended on their parents. |
| D．To show that the online courses were necessary to learn. |
| A．Emergency | B．Argument | C．Tension | D．Weakness |
| A．Living at home certainly leads to dependency. |
| B．Parents are too lazy to do housework. |
| C．We often tell kids to get a job. |
| D．Kids are not pushed to start their own families. |
| A．What the life of the millennials is like. |
| B．Why millennials need adulting training. |
| C．How parents encourage millennials to “adult”. |
| D．How parents educated kids in the past. |
7 . For more than 60 years, Lego bricks (乐高) have sparked children's imaginations. Now, a new version of these toys is in the works. They’re Lego Braille Bricks, and they’re being tested around the world.
Lego Braille Bricks are designed to help people learn Braille. That’s a system of writing in which letters are represented by raised dots. People who are blind or visually impaired use their fingertips to read it.
According to the World Health Organization, 36 million people worldwide are blind. In the United States, it’s estimated that only 10% of blind children learn Braille. Lego Braille Bricks can help change that. The small dots on the bricks are arranged as Braille letters. Blind children can use these dots to learn Braille.
Lego plans to launch Braille Bricks next year. For some schools and institutions, Braille Bricks will be free. Each will contain about 250 bricks. Along with the alphabet, the bricks will feature numbers and math symbols.
The Danish Association of the Blind was one of the first organizations to come up with the idea of using Lego bricks to teach Braille. Thorkild Olesen is the president of the group. Olesen is blind. He says many teachers don’t have the tools and skills to help kids learn Braille. So they teach with audio tools, such as audio books. “Like any other people, we need to express ourselves in writing,” Olesen said. “Audio is great. But it can never replace Braille. Braille is the single most important tool for us in order to learn to spell correctly, write, and gain literacy like sighted people.”
1. Braille is .| A．a new toy for blind children. |
| B．a new version of Lego bricks. |
| C．a writing system for blind people. |
| D．a kind of book for blind people. |
| A．raised dots. |
| B．numbers and math symbols. |
| C．Braille letters. |
| D．printed letters. |
| A．art. |
| B．numbers. |
| C．math symbols. |
| D．English letters. |
| A．In the US, one in ten blind children learn Braille. |
| B．Lego will send Lego Braille Bricks to some schools for free. |
| C．Lego Braille Bricks will help more blind children learn Braille. |
| D．Many teachers are now teaching Braille with Lego Braille Bricks. |
8 . The World Health Organization has said it would set up international working team of various functions to offer countries advice on fighting against flu(流感).
The health agency said in a report that it would render necessary report to the countries where animal or human flu cases(病例) were found and those who were making flu vaccine（疫苗) search or preparing to produce vaccines ,a poisonous substance(物质) containing a virus used to protect people against disease.
The working teams would be formed to offer advice directly to the government of the nations according to their needs, concerns and capabilities(能力)，
The groups would pay attention to the problems related to human vaccine production. They meant to increase vaccine production in an efficient and economic benefits(利益).
The WHO also said that several countries' practice of fighting bird flu were worthwhile but too expensive. It suggested that an international expert team be set up to carry out such exercises to make sure the fighting experiences can be shared among countries.
1. The WHO was trying to .| A．earn as much money as possible by offering advice to several countries. |
| B．assist(帮助) several countries suffering from bird flu or making flu vaccine. |
| C．send experts to cure the patients infected by did flu. |
| D．offer advice on how to improve these countries' health care. |
| A．force. | B．press. |
| C．pick. | D．give. |
| A．several countries were carrying out practical exercises of bird flu. |
| B．the international working teams of various functions already came into being (形成). |
| C．the working teams thought both increasing vaccine production and helping the countries could get profits efficiently. |
| D．several countries are fighting flu seriously but lacking in cooperation with each other. |
