1 . How coming to China has changed my life and career

Hello, everyone. My name is Jonathan Lopez, and I am a dual(双重的) citizen from Colombia and Canada.     1    ， and how it has a potential to also change yours, if you allow it to have the opportunity to welcome you to China.

When I was 18 years old, I had the opportunity to leave Columbia for the first time to go to see my father in Canada. I studied in a university in Canada, during which I had a chance to go study abroad in universities in Netherlands and Australia, travelling to many countries.     2    ， because I got a scholarship to study at Tsinghua University as a choice for scholar.

When it came to China, I had so many ideas about what China was supposed to be about. The surprise is that it was nothing like I imagined in a more positive way than expected. When I come here,     3    . All the development and how fast things move in China really allow me to quickly realize that this is the place where I needed to continue growing in my career professionally.

    4    . After I graduated from Tsinghua university, I got a job at Bytedance Internet Company first, and currently for Tiktok. But the most important thing is that I can be able to become an ambassador, and share my story about how being in China—my another home—impacted me and change my life so much.

It's been only three years in China and it's just the beginning. There is so much more that I can continue to learn in this place, and it's just an open invitation for people that are thinking to study abroad, work abroad or do things anywhere in the world, to also consider China. Hence, this is a place to be, and this is a place where you can learn and grow a lot.     5    .

A．So I decided to stay

B．And then I was ready to come to China

C．Today I want to share why coming to China changed my life

D．And this is something that really can change your life as well

E．mobile payment was one of the things that struck me the most

F．By the time I graduated from university I had already traveled to 61 countries

G．I realize all the potential that this place has and all the things that I could learn about China

2 . We’ll finally grow up someday, leaving our parents and facing the challenges in life. Parents may not be able to solve every problem for us. Instead, we should have enough life skills to deal with the problems that come our way.

This is what our country tries to do now: Helping more students gain working spirit.To stress the importance of hardworking spirit education among students of different ages, the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council released a guideline recently.The guideline calls for students to respect work.Students should learn basic life skills and form good working habits through such education.

The government has been trying to stress the importance of hardworking spirit education. But this has been overlooked in recent years.Many teens do not value the importance of working hard and are uninterested in doing so. According to a study of nearly 3,000 students that was done by Ningbo Evening News in March, only 22 percent of primary and middle school students help with everyday chores around the house.

Schools and families play an important role in teaching students about the value of working hard, the guideline says. Primary and middle schools should provide students with hardworking spirit classes every week, according to the guideline. Schools can also hold activities to give students real- world work experiences.For example , schools can teach children how to plant trees on Tree-Planting Day.

As children’s first teachers, parents should also encourage children to learn how to do chores at home. Students should master one or two life skills every year.

These skills can include cooking,washing their own clothes and tidying their rooms.
1. The guideline was released in order to ______ .

A．teach students how to do chores at home	B．call for students to respect work
C．help students solve life problems	D．ask students to be more independent

2. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Challenges in life.	B．Basic life skills.
C．The recently released guideline.	D．Hardworking spirit education.

3. What is Paragraph 3 trying to tell us?

A．Only 3,000 students help with housework.

B．Students pay no attention to work spirit.

C．About one- fifth of students help with housework.

D．Students are very dependent on their parents.

4. According to the guideline,schools should ______ .

A．provide both guidance and chances for real work	B．hand out the guideline to every student
C．teach students how to plant trees	D．give parents homework

3 . A nurse at a Los Angeles hospital took a photo of a woman who accidentally damaged her own eyes with pencils, and the patient sued the hospital after the picture was sent on the Internet, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

The woman, whose name was not mentioned, was treated at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center after she unintentionally inserted the pencils through her eyes and was rushed to the hospital, her lawyer, Douglas Johnson, said. The injury left the woman blind, according to the lawsuit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The as-yet unidentified nurse took the photograph of the patient with the pencils still sticking out of her eyes, then shared the picture with another person, who passed the image to Joshua Shivers. Shivers, in turn, used his mother’s computer to post the image to a “ shock ” website, and the photo has since been viewed more than 192,000 times.

“Everybody knows that as soon as someone gets their hands on something like this, it spreads quickly and the harm is done,” said Douglas, who specializes in privacy cases.

County spokesman David Sommers said officials are investigating what is stated in the lawsuit, and he refused to comment further. The lawsuit also names as defendants Joshua Shivers and his mother, Linda. They could not be reached for comment.

The woman who blinded herself has since received mental help, learned to read braille and “gotten her life back on track” by enrolling in college, the lawsuit stated.

1. Why did the woman sue the hospital?

A．Because the nurse treated her badly.

B．Because her image was posted to a website.

C．Because the hospital didn’t cure her eye disease.

D．Because she was injured by a pencil in the hospital.

2. What does the underlined phrase “ gets their hands on” most probably mean?

A．steals

B．desires

C．misses

D．possesses

3. What’s Joshua Shivers and his mother’s attitude toward the lawsuit?

A．They said nothing.	B．They felt they were wronged.
C．They believed they could win the lawsuit.	D．They thought they were to blame for their deeds.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ______ .

A．the nurse has done nothing wrong	B．the woman lived a normal life eventually
C．the woman forgave Joshua Shivers finally	D．the woman’s eyesight recovered completely

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What problem did the sculptor Rodin have when he was young?

A．He had a mental problem.

B．He had no good ideas.

C．He had difficulty learning to read and write.

2. Which of the following is NOT true about young Thomas Edison?

A．His teacher said he was stupid.

B．He always went to school on foot.

C．He was sure of himself.

3. What point is this speech trying to tell us?

A．You should believe in yourself.

B．Boys with difficulty in learning will grow out of it.

C．What your teachers/parents say is not necessarily right.

5 . At the present time, the Internet is a major part of our lives. It’s always in our hands or pockets. Whatever we are doing is somehow linked(连接) to the Internet. We start finding our connections online as well, which is quite impressive. We find a person on a social media platform (社交媒体平台),see we have a shared interest and start chatting!

Online friendships in the past were doubted and not considered reliable because you didn’t know who was behind the screen. But now, when we can go shopping online, clear bills in online banks, and virtually attend schools, why can’t we find some real friends online?

With online friends, there are several advantages. When we find something catchy in someone — the very first quality of our online friend, we only then encourage ourselves to find ways to talk to them. We can share with them our everyday things, and what’s better than texting our friends our secrets? We can be present together with them on interested forums(论坛). We can share looks just through a click. And the best part is that we can shoot them a real quick message whenever we need their expert advice.

With all these strengths of an online friend, also come some weak points which make some people afraid to find their friends online. Some people believe that the person they are talking to on the screen is not real or trying to get information about their private life. They feel uncomfortable sharing and chatting with a person who they’ve never met in real life. Another problem that comes in the way of online friends is hanging out. People can’t really hang out with their online friends. The other problem is miscommunication, which sometimes leads to the end of a friendship.

Despite all these problems, online company is a perfect form of relationship between two or more. After all, we would notice these problems in any other kind of relationship or friendship. Miscommunication or a trust issue is always present even in face-to-face communication.

1. What is paragraph 1 mainly about?

A．How the Internet has changed our daily life.

B．whether people should make online friends.

C．Why a good friendship is difficult to develop.

D．What made making friends online a reality.

2. What might the underlined word “reliable” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Easy.

B．Possible.

C．Dependable.

D．Lasting.

3. How does the author support his view?

A．By telling stories.	B．By making comparisons.
C．By explaining general rules.	D．By providing research results.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards online friendship?

A．Doubtful.

B．Neutral.

C．Unclear.

D．Supportive

6 . Yu Yi, Honorary President of Shanghai Yangpu Senior High School, is among the first generation of Chinese teachers after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Yu was born in 1929, not long before Japan invaded (侵略) China. Her road to education was very difficult. During the war, Yu studied in many schools before she was admitted to Zhenjiang High School.

In 1947, Yu was admitted to the Department of Education of Fudan University in Shanghai. In 1951, as she was about to become a teacher, Yu decided to tie her future to the motherland.

As a Chinese teacher, Yu has been thinking about how to teach every class well. Rather than follow the traditional teaching method, in which teachers keep speaking while students just listen, Yu used a different one. She had her students read revolutionary (革命) books, which put the “red gene (基因)” in their blood and helped them set higher goals. In her view, Chinese classes not only teach children to use the language, they also shape children’s souls. For decades, Yu has devoted herself to her work. She has also written many books on teaching.

“I have said I will be a teacher for the rest of my life, and I will also learn to be a teacher for the rest of my life, which is by no means empty talk. I have been learning all my life, constantly improving and perfecting my personality. I keep thinking about how many lessons I have given and how many are really taught to students,” Yu says.

1. Which of the following orders is right about Yu’s experiences?
①She became the honorary president of Shanghai Yangpu Senior High School.
②She went to the Department of Education of Fudan University.
③She decided to connect her future with her country.
④She attended Zhenjiang High School after studying in many schools.

A．④②①③

B．④②③①

C．②③④①

D．②④③①

2. How should students learn Chinese in Yu’s view?

A．They should just learn more about Chinese history.

B．They should only learn and use revolutionary works.

C．They should speak Chinese and listen to teachers more.

D．They should have their souls shaped besides using Chinese.

3. What do Yu’s words mainly suggest?

A．She finds it not easy to work as a teacher.

B．She decides to devote herself to teaching.

C．She has written a lot of books on teaching.

D．She is fond of commenting on others' lessons.

4. How can we describe Yu according to the text?

A．Creative and learned.	B．Wise but selfish.
C．Caring and forgiving.	D．Energetic but careless.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The impact of pandemic (流行病) on life expectancy (预期寿命), one of the most widely used standards to assess population health, was assessed by a study    1    (publish) in the Informational Journal Epidemiology. The study    2    (conduct) by the Oxford University's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic (人口的) Science.

The study revealed that women from 15 countries and men from 10 ended up    3    a lower life expectancy at birth in 2020 compared to 2015.     4    biggest drops in life expectancy, however, were witnessed in men instead of women in most countries. American men were the worst off, with 2.2 years shaved off their life expectancy at birth. Men in Lithuania faced the second    5    (large) impact on their life expectancy, with a cut of 1.7 years.

Reductions in life expectancy overall    6    (occur) in 27 of the 29 countries analyzed by the study. Only men and women in Denmark and Norway and women in Finland managed to    7    (successful) avoid drops in life expectancy, the study said. Non-pharmaceutical interventions and strong healthcare systems in these countries were cited as    8    (factor) that could help explain this.

All the countries    9    life expectancy dropped had taken an average of 5、6 years    10    (achieve). Just a one year increase in life expectancy. The pandemic wiped out of this progress, the study said.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The COVID pandemic will “go on for a year     1    (long) than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Dr Bruce Aylward, senior    2    (lead) at WHO, said it meant the COVID crisis could “easily drag on deep into 2022”. Less than 5% of Africa’s population have been vaccinated,     3    (compare) to 40% on most other continents. Aylward appealed     4    wealthy countries to give up their places in the queue for vaccines so that pharmaceutical    5    (company) can prioritize the lowest-income countries instead. The People’s Vaccine — an alliance(联盟）of charities — has released new figures     6    (suggest) just one     7     seven of the doses promised by pharmaceutical companies and wealthy countries are actually reaching their destinations in poorer countries. The vast    8    (major) of COVID vaccines    9    (give) in high-income or upper middle-income countries. Africa accounts for just 2.6% of doses administered    10     (globe).

9 . 阅读 下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

You are in the car on the way to work. You’re a little nervous,     1    (fear ) that you might be late. Then you come to a crossing. You look around and realize you have got     2    (stick) in traffic. Oh, no! Cars in everydirection    3    (be) all round you and none of the cars are moving.

If you’ve ever experienced a traffic jam at the worst moment, whether it’s being late for school     4    missing the first few minutes of a movie, you may have wondered     5    ( exact) how many cars there are on the road at any given time. Unfortunately, it' s impossible to answer the question, for there are too many vehicles in the world,

In the early 20th century, Henry Ford, the founder of the Henry Ford Motor Company, probably never imagined     6     his production system would mean to the world. While he hoped to make automobiles    7    (access) to the average Americans, he likely never dreamed the world     8     (reach) the point it has today. There are over one billion automobiles in our world now. China has over 200 million automobiles. The US has even more.     9     is believed that there will be 2.5 billion automobiles worldwide by 2050. If that happens, traffic jams are likely to be    10     (bad) than ever.

10 . Young Chinese couples are increasingly abandoning large formal wedding ceremonies for smaller, intimate ones at unconventional locations and coffee shops, wedding planners said.

When Sun Hongxu started a wedding service business in Beijing in 2012, she found most weddings were celebrated in a “typically Chinese way” at venues such as hotels and restaurants, with a large number of guests, often 200 or more. There were friends and relatives of the young couple, or their parents, sitting at 20 or more tables, waiting the bride, groom and their parents enter the venue. Then the couple exchanged vows and rings.

The newly weddings would give out presents and even cash to show their appreciation for the attendance of their guests. Despite some couples not wanting such traditional nuptials, they felt obliged to meet the wishes of their parents who thought this was what a wedding should be like.

However, a reporter released in July by wedding service website Hunliji and science and technology media platform 36Kr shows that the generation born after 1990 is against formal weddings with too many complex procedures. Instead, they are paying more attention to having a happy and joyful small wedding that reflects the personalities of the bride and groom. They may only choose to have a meal with their family members, or have a trip with his or her lover in a romantic site. In their eyes, it is more meaningful , economical and unforgettable.

According to a survey, the average cost of a wedding in 2020 was 231,000 yuan, 3.7 times higher than five years ago, the reporter said.

However, it added that the majority of young couples take cost into consideration and spend reasonably on their weddings. XuLin, a wedding planner in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said compared with those born in the 1980s, who took into consideration their parents’ wishes for grand traditional indoor weddings, couples today prioritize their own wedding preferences.

1. In the second paragraph, the underlined word “vows” means __________.

A．special gifts	B．a name for a kind of flower
C．private words	D．promise in a formal occasion

2. Mary was born in 1995, she hopes her wedding is __________.

A．grand	B．complex
C．formal	D．simple

3. According to the text, which statement is wrong?

A．The couples in 1980s seldom care about parents’ feelings.

B．Today more new couples prefer smaller wedding.

C．The cost of wedding today is higher than before.

D．Parents in 1980s wanted a grand wedding for their sons and daughters.

4. The passage is mainly about _________.

A．the differences between traditional wedding and new wedding

B．traditional wedding is more popular.

C．fewer people like the new wedding

D．the cost of traditional wedding.