1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper from of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Yang Nan, who was a KTV operation manager, has recently gained a new identity. He has become a temporary workers at a local Hema Fresh, Alibaba’s Retail grocery chain in     1     has become a new trend: workers sharing among companies to offset (抵消) labor shortages caused by coronavirus outbreak.

China’s e-commerce platforms are seeing booming sales     2     more people choose to stay at home and shop online under the impact of the epidemic. Worker’s     3     (delay) return from virus-affected regions and growing orders were leading to labor shortages.

    4     (address) this mismatch in the labor force, Hema has taken the initiative to offer part-time jobs to laid-off employees from other companies. As of February 14, around 2,700 employees from over 40 companies in different industries had joined Hema’s temporary job-sharing plan     5     some quick training.

While job-sharing has helped fill the labor gap for online retailers, jobs requiring experience still lack people. In a statement on February 12, Hema said surging orders made the demand for couriers (快递员) especially urgent even     6       80 percent of its delivery force had returned to work after the holiday.

The participation of employees from car rental companies has partially addressed the problem. Car rental and car-hailing companies such as Shanghai-based Dazhong Chuxing     7     (send) experienced drivers to assist Hema’s delivery services in several cities. This has improved the delivery efficiency since cars can carry more than the motorcycles commonly used by deliverymen.

The labor gap during this special period has made flexible employment a rising star. Among the over 5,000 domestic enterprises investigated, nearly 70 percent were planning to adopt the model. Couriers and salespeople are     8     (common) position in flexible employment.

Flexible employment will bring a major change in China’s human resources supply. Through digital economic platforms, domestic enterprises     9     develop partnerships more efficiently and promote mutually beneficial flows of the labor force, one of the directors in Hema Fresh said, suggesting that third-party service platforms     10     (provide) enterprise and employee information be developed to simplify recruitment.

2 . 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。

A simple badge (徽章) is playing an important role in helping lost seniors return home. By scanning a QR code on a plastic badge, anyone with a smartphone can reach the person’s emergency contact     1     (immediate). “It’s efficient and     2     (save) effort,” said Li Caoliang, head of the Lei Feng police station in Fushun, Liaoning province.

The idea came to Li and his     3     (colleague) four years ago when dealing with more than 200 lost seniors in a year. Some of the old people got lost because they had illnesses such as memory     4     (lose) or Alzheimer’s. They couldn’t tell their identity, address or phone number. Sometimes, the officers had to spend hours     5     (try) to figure out who to call from vague descriptions by the lost seniors. In some cases, the lost seniors had to stay overnight at the station before their families     6     (contact). The number of lost seniors has dropped to around 30 a year since     7     the police developed came into use.

China has 264 million old people, accounting     8     18.7 percent of its population according to its seventh population census     9     (conduct) last year. Wang Jiajuan,     10     has long focused on improving public services for an aging society, says the innovative QR code ID helps guarantee the travel safety of seniors.

3 . 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。

Peer pressure can influence how people dress,     1     music they like and how they behave. Teenagers want to be liked, to fit in and     2     (accept), which means peer pressure can be hard to resist. People who are unsure of themselves may seek their peers’ approval by     3     (choose) the wrong path. In one study, a student who knew the correct answer gave the wrong answer just     4     others gave the wrong answer and he didn’t want to be different. What can people do     5     (avoid) peer pressure? The most important thing is to build up self-confidence. It’s also a good idea to surround themselves with people     6     don’t make fun of them.

4 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Lost at sea

Two men from the Solomon Islands have been rescued after spending 29 days lost at sea.

The men     1     (travel) to another island when heavy rain and wind took them out to sea. The two men survived on oranges they had packed, coconuts they found in the sea and by gathering rainwater.

“I look forward to going back home     2     I guess it was a nice break from everything,” one of the men, Livae Nanjikana, told The Guardian.

Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni took off from Mono Island on Sept. 3 in a motorboat to travel 200 km to Noro on New Georgia Island. However, soon after they set out, their boat was hit by heavy winds and rain, which made unclear the coastline they were following     3     a guide. 

“When the bad weather came, it was bad, but it was     4     (bad) and became scary when the GPS died,” he said. “We couldn’t see where we were going and so we just decided to stop the engine and wait,     5     (save) fuel.”

When the rain had finally passed, Nanjikana and Qoloni had already drifted far out to sea. They spent the next 29 days     6     (live) off of limited supplies and by gathering rainwater with     7     they could make use of to keep themselves alive.

A fisherman found and rescued the two men on Oct. 2 off the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, about 400 km from     8     they had started.

Nanjikana and Qoloni     9     (bring) to a local health clinic for treatment and are staying temporarily with a local man, Joe Kolealo, until they     10     return home.

5 . 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 walk into a museum, stop in front of a masterpiece and wish to observe it up close. Instead of having       1     good view of it, however, you see nothing but raised arms and smart phones. Isn`t it     2    (surprise)?

Nowadays, the use of smart phones in museums     3    (continue) to rise and art experts are concerned about how to get people to truly appreciate artworks rather than simply take photos or record videos to post     4     social media. Some museums do not allow photography,    5     is less about camera flashes and more about encouraging people to enjoy the experience. Amsterdam`s Rijksumuseum, for example, already     6    (wage) the Big Draw campaign,    7    visitors are encouraged to keep their smart phones in their pockets or bags and pick up paper and pencils instead. The national museums is hoping to help visitors discover and appreciate the beauty of art, architecture and history through drawing. Some museums are also asking people to get prepared before their visit by learning about the artworks first.     8    (hope), with these     9    (measure), the experience of visiting museums will be more satisfying than simply recording everything with a smart phones. There have already been some signs of improvement, which is very encouraging, but there is still a long way     10    (go).

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当地单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Online learning becomes more common. Some people have suggested that public libraries should be shut down and, in their place, everyone should be given an iPad with     1     e- reader subscription (订阅).

Supporters of this idea state that it will save money     2     the operating costs of libraries are expensive. They also believe it will encourage more people to read because they can simply click on     3     they want to read and read it from wherever they are.

    4     ,it would be a serious mistake to replace libraries with tablets (平板电脑). First, digital books and resources are related to less learning and more problems than print resources. A study     5     ( do) on tablet vs book reading found people read 20-30%     6     ( slow) on tablets, keep 20% less information, and understand 10% less of what they read compared to people who read the same information in print.

Second, libraries have lots of benefits, including acting as a quiet study space,     7     ( give) people a way to communicate with their neighbors, keeping the community connected, holding classes on     8     ( vary) topics, and so on. People think of libraries     9     a way to connect with others and get their questions answered.

In many areas, libraries are such an important part of the community network that they could never     10     ( replace) by a simple object.

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。

We tend to think about success in terms of wealth and accomplishments. That’s a fair measurement, but the problem is that when we addict into the     1     (victory), we tend to overlook the sacrifices required in order to get there. In fact,     2     (neglect) to account for the existing sacrifices is one reason why so many of us have a hard time sticking to     3     (health) habits and following up on goals.

Time is a factor when it comes to making sacrifices. As Warren Buffett famously     4     (say), “It’s the only thing you can’t buy. I mean, I can buy anything I want, basically, but I can’t buy time.” He’s     5     (absolute) right. Should you watch another section of your favorite Netflix show     6     give up TV for two months so you can plant that garden you always dreamed about?

Making the decision isn’t easy, but the good news is     7     we already do this naturally. A 2009 study found that people are “far    8     (little) willing to keep many choices open” when some have bigger rewards than others. If the payoffs are unknown, however, we have a harder time giving them up. That’s why doing an activity check is so important. You have to actually take the time     9     (figure) out the opportunity costs, gains of each and what to pursue over the     10    .

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。

With the development of technology, online shopping    1    (become) popular in people’s life. As many of us might have witnessed, more people are buying products     2     the Internet. It tends    3    (be) a common phenomenon.

Undoubtedly, online shopping has brought us many     4    (convenient). For one thing, online shopping doesn’t need you to pour a lot of time and energy into buying things. If you go shopping in this way, you     5    (spend)a few minutes choosing the things that you need online instead of going out. Moreover, online shopping doesn’t need us to get the things in person. For another, online     6    (store) can provide various goods to satisfy our endless need. Besides, we can save much money by online shopping.

From above, we can know that online shopping has    7     positive effect on our life. However, every coin has two sides, online shopping is no exception. First, for example, we maybe buy something wrong online     8    we don’t take much notice of the goods. Second, there are many cheaters     9    may cheat us out of money by opening a fake online store.

As far as I am     10     (concern), shopping online is an irreversible trend. More and more people will be accustomed to it. It will be much more popular in the near future.

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。

A recent survey by China Youth Daily found that 60 percent of respondents spend a daily average of more than an hour     1    (watch) short videos, with 11 percent spending three hours or more on     2    (they). Of the 2,017 total respondents, 74.2 percent said     3    (reason) time management is necessary     4    (avoid) excessive viewing of short videos.

Short videos can be addictive     5    social media platforms keep recommending relevant content once a video ends, said Yang Binyan,    6    is a researcher with the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She     7    (add) that short videos, often showing fragments from day-to-day life, can induce (诱导) a feeling of social connectedness in viewers.

    8     total of 73.7 percent of those surveyed said netizens (网虫) should take part in more offline     9     (activity), including outdoor ones, to avoid overindulgence in short videos, while 50.8% suggest such platforms set up an anti-addiction system.

The number of China’s online short video users reached 873 million by the end of 2020, accounting    10     88 percent of total internet users.

10 . 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。

China has barred online gamers under the age of 18 from playing on weekdays and limited     1     (they) play to just three hours most weekends, marking a     2     (significance) increase of restrictions on the country's massive gaming industry.

    3     (start) this week, minors will be allowed     4     (simple) an hour of play time between 8 pm and 9 pm on Friday, weekends and public holidays, according to     5       statement from Chinese media watchdog — the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) — that was posted by state news agency Xinhua on Monday.

The move represents a huge tightening of earlier limits     6     (set) by the agency in 2019,     7     had restricted play to 90 minutes on weekdays and three hours on weekends for children. Authorities said that the restrictions     8     (put) in place to help prevent young people becoming addicted     9     video games. The NPPA noted this week that the rules were being issued at the beginning of the new school semester, putting specific     10     (require) for preventing the addiction to online games, and protecting the healthy growth of minors."