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The Chinese speaking and listening test of Ireland’s Leaving Certificate exam this year were held on Saturday, marking the     1     (one) time the country has included Chinese as a foreign language elective subject on the national college entrance examination.

This year’s Chinese test     2     (include) speaking，listening and     3     (write) sections, which contain multiple choices, cloze tests and a composition. The speaking and listening parts have been tested, while the rest will be held on June 20.

The Irish government is     4     (full) aware of the importance of creating the opportunity to learn Chinese     5     its students, especially against the backdrop of economic globalization,    6     deepening China-Ireland trade ties, said Mary Mitchell 0’Connor, Ireland’s former minister of higher education.

More Irish people have become     7     (interest) in learning Chinese, and the number of Irish students     8     (come) to study in China is also expanding, O’Connor said in 2017, adding     9     personnel exchanges and educational     10     (cooperate) between the two countries are growing well.

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Many are still playing a mobile game called Travel Frog. You play as the “mother” of a frog who lives alone and enjoys traveling.     1     you need to prepare are food and tools for his trips. The frog will send you postcards while he is away.

The game’s popularity may have something to do with     2     lonely people are these days. Many players have said    3     the lonely frog is just like them. But playing with the frog helps them forget their loneliness for a while.

It seems     4     loneliness is common today. About 40 percent of American adults say     5     they are lonely. And in the UK,about one in five people in the country is “always or often lonely”. This is     6     The Telegraph reported recently.

This might be     7     the UK government declared the country’s first “Minister of Loneliness” in January. The minister’s job is to find     8     we should help the UK citizens feel less lonely.

This loneliness problem may be partly due to     9     social media does.When we see pictures of friends having fun or posting selfies(自拍) without us, we may compare their “perfect” lives with our own and feel inferior(较差的) and lonely.

But we should remember     10     no one is bound(注定) to be lonely. As a poet once wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent(陆地), a part of the main.”

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The average Chinese person is getting around 90 minutes less sleep a day than 10 years ago, with    1    length falling from 8.5 hours in 2012 to just over seven hours last year, according to a report    2    (release) ahead of World Sleep Day on Monday. The report said Chinese people went to bed at around 12:33 am last year, more than two hours later than a decade ago.

Jointly prepared by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the sleep institute of mattress supplier Sleemon, the report said people are tending    3    (sleep) less and average sleep quality is declining. The study    4    (survey) more than 6,000 people aged between 18 and 71. More than 60 percent of respondents had less than eight hours of sleep a day, with new mothers, college students and office workers    5    (have) more trouble sleeping. Surfing the Internet, long work    6    study hours, and sleep disorders such as    7    (sleepless) are major factors affecting sleep hours, according to the report.

The Chinese Sleep Research Society also released a white paper last week    8    analyzed the sleep conditions of different groups in China. It said that more than 60 percent of teenagers use smartphones, play games and watch TV series when they should be sleeping. The white paper also looked at sleep patterns among eight income groups. Those    9    no income slept best, followed by    10    on high-middle annual incomes of 300,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan.

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.

The rituals(仪式) of office work used to mean communication with colleagues was a given. Chats in the coffee room, communal birthday cakes or a shared walk to the car park at the end of the day provided brief moments to connect outside daily tasks.     1     people didn’t directly work together or weren’t on the same team, employees had at least some colleagues to exchange a few casual words with throughout the workday.

The switch to remote work     2     (change) that recently. Now, employees work via virtual channels: they interact with the people they share tasks with. For many, there is no work-related reason to seek out colleagues     3     aren’t connected to their roles and workloads, and many people’s work worlds have shrunk – no more ‘just because’ chats to the woman in IT or guy in accounts. Colleagues who used to be small – but important – parts of workers’ office lives are now effectively ghosts.

It’s clear this impacts workers; research shows many remote employees feel less connected to their teams and companies. Solving the problem is difficult – after all, Slacking or Zooming a co-worker you don’t know well, for no work-related reason, could feel decidedly odd. Yet finding ways    4     (restore) these post-pandemic work communities     5     be key to ongoing wellbeing at work.

A study by a team of US academics and Microsoft researchers analysed email data sent from 1.4 billion professional email accounts across thousands of organisations, including Microsoft, between July 2018 and November 2020, and identified similar results. Organisational silos (组织孤岛) became     6     (define) during the pandemic, and these silos also became less connected to each other     7     people talked mainly to their own team members. This trend persisted even as the silos themselves became unstable, for example when members left the company.

When the pandemic forced a sudden switch to full-time remote work, connections with colleagues were very different. The shift came as the company prepared for a global launch, meaning the workload was intense. Instead of being a joy, long virtual meetings with external contacts left Thomson     8     (drain). Interactions with colleagues were reduced to daily 15-minute check-ins, as opposed to the casual chats she used to have on and off all day.

“It was pretty productive,     9     there wasn’t any downtime at all,” she says. The opportunity to chat, to joke or to have conversations had been squeezed out. Contact with some of her indirect colleagues and work contacts stopped altogether,     10     (shrink) her social circle at work. “For those of us who are more extrovert, a lot was lost,” she says.

5 . Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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 other.

Beauty bias: We tend to think pretty people are morally superior

Humans have always associated beauty with goodness. The prevalence of the assumption that beautiful people are good     1     (study) for the past few decades, with extensive research on the subject going back to the 1970s.     2     you start thinking that you’d never judge somebody by how they look, the studies suggest that you likely do it all the time — very quickly and not fully aware of it.

This bias has real-world impacts. The attractive are     3     (likely) to be found guilty by simulated juries and more likely to get reduced punishments when they are. People tend to vote for more attractive politicians, promote better-looking underlings, and even give more attention to better-looking children than those with —     4     George Carlin put it — “severe appearance deficits”.

A study recently published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior shed new light on the bias. Different from previous studies,     5     not only looked to see whether people associate positive traits with good-looking people (we know they do), but also took a closer look at which traits are associated with appearance, with two tests respectively focused on purely moral traits, such as being fair, trustworthy, or honest, and positive but non-moral traits, such as being funny,     6     (organize), or calm.

Lining up with previous studies     7    (show) that people associate beauty with all manner of positive traits, the results of both tests also gave new insight into     8     traits are most affected by the “halo effects” that good looks provide. In both studies, moral traits were more likely to be associated with beauty than non-moral traits. The effect was particularly notable in the second study, in which beautiful people were 20% more likely to be considered     9    (have) these traits than the average person, compared to only a 10% increase in the perceived likelihood they would have the non-moral traits.

The authors of the study noted that they expect their findings to have real-world implications. Given how many previous studies demonstrate that there are serious consequences from this bias, their stance should not surprise us. They pointed out, however, that     10     the long history of science knowing that this bias exists, “there is no intervention available that may reduce prejudice toward or discrimination against unattractive individuals.”

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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.

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All-out search and rescue efforts     1    (be)underway on Monday, 21st, Mar, 2022, after a China Eastern Airlines aircraft     2     (carry) 132 people crashed in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the afternoon-ending China’s 12-year air safety record.

Flight MU5735 left Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, at 1:11 pm and was scheduled to arrive     3     Guangzhou, Guangdong province, at 3:05 pm. Air traffic controllers lost track of the plane over Wuzhou, Guangxi. The flight was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members.

In an instruction issued (发布) shortly after the crash, President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said he was     4    (shock) to learn about the accident and asked for the immediate launch of an emergency response.

Premier Li Keqiang also made     5     instruction on Monday, urging that utmost (最大限度的) efforts     6     (make) to search for survivors and treat the injured. He also stressed that efforts be made     7    (comfort) the victims’ families and provide them with necessary help.

Li asked authorities to release relevant information in a     8    (time), accurate and evidence-based manner, find the cause of the accident and take     9     (measure) to strengthen civil aviation safety management.

More than 640 firefighters from nearby Yunnan and Guangdong provinces were dispatched (急遣) to the crash site. Police officers and members of the People’s Armed Police Force were also sent to the crash scene for search and rescue work,     10     was a clear reflection of local authorities’ immediate response to the emergency.

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Born in a wealthy family, my nephew, Jack, leads such a thoroughly decent and cosy life that he hardly meets with cruel adversities. He has been dreaming of an adventure since he was young. At 18, Jack resolved to join an expedition     1     (advertise) in the newspaper, but the leader turned him down, thinking Jack was not     2     (qualify). Full of vigour, Jack never abandoned his dream for he was so enthusiastic about a great voyage. At 19, he joined the navy and     3     (assign) to be a steward with low wages. On a bitter cold day, the crew went aboard a massive ship bound for Atlantic Ocean. Jack was genuine, good-tempered and loyal and he wasn't selfish, cither. He often played the banjo for recreation. So those who were on the ship all liked him.     4     (fortunate). one day, the motor broke down and the ship got crushed on a huge iceberg. When the ship sank, their hearts also sank. At that time, the calm captain made a     5     (commit) to save them and commanded them to throw away     6     (they) belongings such as stoves, blankets, bats. cupboards and other pieces of furniture. Finally, they were fortunate enough     7     (escape) the ship. It was their endurance, resolution and perseverance     8     helped them survive. On the distant island, Jack managed to make fire with animal fat.     9     gave off a smelly smell and then he cooked sea animals. One month later, they were saved by a passing ship. In summary, it has been     10     unforgettable episode in Jack’s life.

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Today, there are groups of native people around the world that still live a traditional lifestyle. Some live in remote parts of South America,     1     way of life is in danger of disappearing. The Korubo are native people who live in the Amazon rainforest. They make their own tools, grow their own crops, and hunt and fish. Their main weapons are clubs and poison-tipped arrows, used     2     both hunting and protecting their territory against     3    (outsider).

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Homework is an important part of engaging students outside of the classroom. It carries educational benefits for all age    1    (group),   including time management and organization. Homework also provides students with the ability to think beyond what is taught in class. The not-so-good news is that these benefits only occur    2    students are engaged and ready to learn. But, the    3    (many) homework they get, the less they want to engage. So too much homework can affect students’ health. social life and grades.