Recently, Chinese people from all walks of life
Our society is becoming increasingly competitive when population outgrows resources. Accordingly,
Netizens now use involution to describe their current conditions, especially in the study of children. Parents feel stressed
Too much pressure is bound to do harm to children physically and mentally. Parents should cool down firstly and relieve their own anxiety, taking
2 . If someone were to ask me what it is like to be a student in today’s society, I would probably answer them something like this: Being a student in today’s society is not always easy.
Adults often tell us that we don’t know what stress (压力) is. But we as teenage students have our own levels of stress. For example, all school activities require you to uphold your grade point to high standards.
Then, getting your homework turned in on time seems simple, but you still hope to have a life outside of school as well. Many students in their high school years start their first job, so now you have school in the mornings and then you’re off to part-time work. By the time you are done there, you are too tired to finish your school work, but you stay up late to try and return to school feeling sleepy the next day. What good is that?
Let’s not forget about peer (同龄人) pressure. All high school students meet with it at some point in their lives. High school can be a place where students are made fun of and pointed at.
My point is, it is more stressful to be a student in high school than adults believe. Our “stress” may not include paying bills or taking care of a family, but I’m sure if the adults in our lives could go back to school today, they would be surprised at how much it has changed.
I know that the world outside of school is often hard and that the responsibilities are serious. That’s exactly why I know that the focus I give to my future is important in leading me to a career (事业) that will allow me to contribute (贡献) to society.
1. What is the text mainly about?| A．The way of dealing with stress of study. |
| B．The stressful life of high school students. |
| C．The role of students in today’s society. |
| D．The differences between teenagers’ and adults’ life. |
| A．He is against it. | B．He feels disappointed at it. |
| C．He thinks it is worth a try. | D．He shows great interest in it. |
| A．Adults are more stressful than students. |
| B．Adults should help students to deal with stress. |
| C．Adults have undervalued students’ stress. |
| D．Adults should go back to school to experience students’ life. |
| A．Society. | B．Study. | C．School. | D．Stress. |
3 . For so long, failure has been pictured as something negative, something to be ashamed of and something to be kept a secret. But a Swedish psychologist, Samuel West, has decided to put our worst fears on the table. He is opening a museum - the Museum of Failure - in Helsingborg, Sweden, this June.
Instead of showing successes, as museums usually do, the Museum of Failure will display over 60 “failed” products from big-name companies such as Nokia, Apple and Coca-Cola. “I really hope you see that these mega-brands that everybody respects, they screw up too,” West told The New York Times. “I hope that makes you feel less nervous about learning something new.”
West’s opinion isn’t a new one. Albert Einstein once said, “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” And this idea has been embraced by lots of companies in the US. Silicon Valley, for example, is the home of some of the world’s most creative companies, yet its slogan turns out to be, quite surprisingly, “Fail fast, fail often.”
However, there are reasons for his. “The best companies are those that encourage failure, embrace out-of-the-box thinking, and allow employers to make mistakes and see what happens,” wrote Simon Casuto of Forbes.
But some people are doubtful of this so-called “culture of failure”. They are worried that if failure becomes a “symbol of honor”, as Wired magazine put it, it may even be seen as “uncool” when someone tries to reduce the risk of failure. This may push people to care too little and try too little.
“Sometimes people hid behind failure, when they could have prevented it,” wrote Anna Isaac of The Telegraph.
So it’s important that you set apart the two kinds of failure—the kind that makes you a loser and the kind that takes you forward. The key is whether you’ve learned something from your mistakes.
“Learning is the only process that turns failure into success.” West said The Guardian. “If you don’t learn from your failures, then you’ve really failed.”
1. What does the underlined phrase “screw up” in the second paragraph mean?| A．Make a profit. | B．Make a mess. | C．Make a highlight. | D．Make a risk. |
| A．The more failure, the better. |
| B．Accept failure, and try new things. |
| C．The more you fail, the less success you achieve. |
| D．Failure is more important than success. |
| A．Failure’s value lies in learning from it. |
| B．If you fail, you are a loser. |
| C．It’s not necessary to try to reduce the risk of failure. |
| D．Failure is the key to put you forward. |
4 . The thought of low material need and being unwilling to work, marry and have children, is described as a “lying down” lifestyle recently. It creates an emotional reaction among many young Chinese who are eager to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly competitive society.
Many young people complained to the Global Times that duties, including work stress, family argument and financial pressure, have pushed them “against the wall”. They said they hate the “involution (内卷)”, joking that they would rather give up some of what they have than get stuck in an endless competition against peers(同龄人).
“Instead of always following the ‘good quality’ of struggle and sacrifice to bear the stresses, they prefer a temporary(暂时的) lying down as release and adjustment,” said an expert. “It is no wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the mortgage (按揭) today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind.”
Interestingly, the majority of young people, who claim to be big fans of the lying down philosophy, admit that they only accept a temporary lying down as a short rest. It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some Chinese youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard work. But in fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel ashamed about their constant loss of morale (士气).
“Young people have both ambition and confusion about their future, but most of us have refused to waste opportunities and challenges,” a postgraduate student told the Global Times. “It’s no use running away. I have to ‘stand up’ and face the reality sooner or later.”
1. Which of the following is NOT a “lying down” lifestyle according to the passage?| A．Being uninterested in material enjoyment and refusing to shoulder duties. |
| B．Being involved in various social activities. |
| C．Stopping to breathe in a stressful life. |
| D．Giving up struggle and sacrifice. |
| A．Poor health from working so hard. | B．Increasing material wealth from families. |
| C．Growing pressure from family and social life. | D．Temporary adjustment to failure in competitions. |
| A．Understanding. | B．opposed | C．Supportive. | D．Unclear. |
| A．They would rather escape than take challenges. | B．They really enjoy the “lying down” lifestyle. |
| C．They find their dreams far beyond their reach. | D．They never really drop their responsibilities. |
According to the Shaanxi Online News, a pavement along the Yanta Road in Xi'an has now got
The pavement is a busy channel and cars often come onto it. As
The news website Shaanxi Online News interviewed locals. Some welcomed the introduction of the lane. One said it was the first time he
However, others' view about the lane is
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面与出该加的词。
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；
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With the growing popularity of the Internet, more and more children are addicted to play online games day and night. It does harm not only to our health, especially to their eyes, but also to their studies.
Comparing with online games, many traditional games, like hide-and-seek, benefits kids mentally and physically. They were ever popular to several generations, which not only learned something valuable but also had fun playing the games. Therefore, the games are dying away now.
Personal, I think teachers and parents should take measures to limit their children's Internet time. Let children to know the harm of online games and the benefits of traditional games. Help children judge the healthy and unhealthy games. What's more, we should often organize events for children in which traditional games played.
7 . Imagine, it's Saturday at a busy shopping centre. People are doing all the things you'd
The definition of a flash mob is “a group of people who meet suddenly in a
Bill wasn't
| A．hardly | B．finally | C．normally | D．repeatedly |
| A．screens | B．people | C．toys | D．robots |
| A．shocked | B．wrong | C．lost | D．still |
| A．more | B．few | C．enough | D．some |
| A．innocent | B．constant | C．confused | D．disappointed |
| A．remain | B．match | C．feel | D．work |
| A．smiled | B．stopped | C．finished | D．decided |
| A．ever | B．still | C．yet | D．just |
| A．private | B．traditional | C．public | D．official |
| A．visit | B．time | C．flight | D．chat |
| A．ended up with | B．fed up with | C．put up with | D．came up with |
| A．inviting | B．forcing | C．teaching | D．allowing |
| A．mention | B．overhear | C．supply | D．commit |
| A．roughly | B．narrowly | C．accurately | D．identically |
| A．attachment | B．appearance | C．disturbance | D．preference |
| A．passing | B．waiting | C．improving | D．performing |
| A．run off | B．taken off | C．called off | D．put off |
| A．organized | B．permitted | C．watched | D．compared |
| A．accidents | B．affairs | C．incidents | D．events |
| A．appealed | B．stuck | C．added | D．addicted |
8 . Mobile phones have become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have prevented students from carrying mobile phone during school hours.
Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students will want them.
Mary Bluett, an official, said mobile phone use is a distraction(悲伤的事) to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.
She said some schools had tried not to let students use mobile phones at school. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with their children.
Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at school offices. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school. They were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.
Many people say that they understood why parents would want their children to have mobile phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.
1. Middle schools are prevented from carrying mobile phones ________ .| A．because they often talk with their friends | B．when they are free from homework |
| C．when they are at school | D．because they cheat in exams |
| A．by telling lies to their parents | B．by making trouble in class |
| C．from their parents and friends | D．from some mobile phone users |
| A．No school in Australia has done anything about the mobile phone use among students. |
| B．Teachers don’t allow the students to leave their mobile phones at school offices. |
| C．Some students had their mobile phones stolen at school. |
| D．Parents give their children mobile phones for no good reason. |
| A．students shouldn’t have mobile phones at school except for some special reasons |
| B．it is impossible to stop students from using mobile phone at school |
| C．some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t use their phones at school |
| D．parents should teach their children how to use mobile phones during school hours |
9 . In a fast-paced world driven by noise, excitement, and continuous connections due to technology, I think we've lost a(n)
I’m not talking about the library style version of soft whispers, but about the soul-defining quiet of self-reflection of being alone and of being
This past weekend, I found myself
We got into our truck and drove ten minutes to a local state park, a place that has
Gone were the rings of notifications(通知），the honking horns of cars flying by, and the
In these peaceful moments, I found a(n)
Our world
So take a moment, take a break and take some time to find the quiet in your life. Let the quiet moments in life remind you that your inner voice
| A．appreciation | B．confidence | C．cooperation | D．opportunity |
| A．unfolded | B．unconfirmed | C．unplugged | D．unaccompanied |
| A．focused | B．glued | C．occupied | D．spared |
| A．curious about | B．fond of | C．sensitive to | D．drowning in |
| A．showed | B．forced | C．led | D．sucked |
| A．dislikes | B．flowers | C．followers | D．applauses |
| A．marked | B．experienced | C．presented | D．undertaken |
| A．turned on | B．shut off | C．worn out | D．hung on |
| A．trapped | B．involved | C．bathed | D．anchored |
| A．existence | B．impression | C．separation | D．draw |
| A．removed | B．restricted | C．refreshed | D．reflected |
| A．sight | B．hope | C．control | D．touch |
| A．exploration | B．imagination | C．prediction | D．connection |
| A．with | B．beyond | C．against | D．about |
| A．chaos | B．values | C．mess | D．quality |
| A．In short | B．Above all | C．After all | D．In addition |
| A．avoids | B．spells | C．desires | D．transfers |
| A．opposed | B．entitled | C．addicted | D．limited |
| A．glorious | B．crucial | C．unique | D．superior |
| A．remains | B．tends | C．appears | D．deserves |
10 . 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. |
