1 . Directions: After reading the passage and the sentences below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.

A. generally       B. unnecessary       C. attitudes       D. reluctant       E. respect       F. cause G. incorrectly       H. sparkly       I. communities       J. protect       K. contributions

During the outbreak of COVID-19, almost everyone in China wears a mask to     1     themselves against the virus.However, many people in the West feel     2     to wear masks, even if there is an increasing number of their compatriots being infected.

According to the Global Times, different attitudes toward wearing masks largely lie in the cultures. In the West, what people     3     believe that unless one is already ill, wearing а mask is simply     4    .

Siva Kumar from the US is one of them. “Masks can only protect you from particulate matter in the air you breathe, but they can' t hold up microbes," Kumar told China Daily. “Wearing a mask when you’re healthy will     5     tension for others.”

US infection prevention specialist Eli Perencevich told Forbes, The average healthy person shouldn' t be wearing masks." She added, “If they wear them     6     it can increase the risk of infection because they’re touching their faces more often.”

However, for people in Asian countries like China, wearing a mask is deep- rooted in their culture.Valuing collectivism(集体主义), people in Asia always want to make     7     to the groups that they belong to. In such uncertain and potentially dangerous time, many people have taken their responsibility to wear masks to ensure the safety of their     8    .

Chen Xinjie, a media worker in Beijing, said, Wearing the mask for a long time is hot, stuffy (闷热的) and uncomfortable...But as a member of the group, it’s our duty to do so.

Influenced by social cultures, the     9     toward wearing а mask can be different in the East and West. But as US essayist Ralph Emerson once said, “We must each     10     others even as we respect ourselves.”

2 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

A San Francisco Museum Tackles Art's Instagram Dilemma

A woman held tightly her phone to her heart, the way a missionary might hold a Bible. She was anxious to take a picture of a stunning bouquet of flowers that sat not 10 ft away, but first she had to get through a crowd of others who were doing the same.

    1    . For the 34th year, florists were asked to create bouquets that respond to pieces of art on display, from ancient carvings to contemporary sculptures. A tower of baby's breath imitates a waterfall in a nearby painting by Gustav Grunewald. Red flamingo flowers and neon blue sticks echo a surreal portrait of a woman by Salvador Dali.

It’s amazing and also extremely Instagrammable, to the point that it has become a problem.     2    . Institutions of fine art around the world face similar problems as the desire to take photographs becomes a huge draw for museums as well as something that upsets some of their sponsors.

So the de Young responded with a kind of agreement: carving out “photo free” hours during the exhibition’s six-day run.

One common complaint in the ongoing debates over the effect of social media on museum culture is that people seem to be missing out on experiences because they are so busy collecting evidence of them. A study published in the journal Psychological Science suggests there is truth to this. It found that people who took photos of an exhibit rather than simply observing it had a harder time remembering what they saw.

    3    . Linda Butler, the de Young’s head of marketing, communications and visitor experience, acknowledges that not everyone wants a museum to be “a selfie playland”. Yet a lot of other people do, and her take is that the de Young is in no position to claim that one motivation for buying a $28 ticket is more valid than another.

If we removed social media and photography, she says, “we should risk becoming irrelevant”.     4    . On this visit to the museum, most people seemed to treat the photo craze as the new normal. Many politely waited their turn and got out of other people’s shots,even as visitors bumped into each other in crowded galleries.

A．If this is a battle, signs indicate that the pro-phone crowd has already won.

B．But rather than expressing frustration about this awkwardness, she said she felt guilty, as if she were the one challenging convention.

C．In recent years, the de Young received more than a thousand complaints from people who felt that cell phones had spoiled their experience of the exhibit.

D．The cause of this recent craze was Bouquets to Art, one of the most popular annual events at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

E．The truth is people like selfies more than the exhibits way beyond researchers' imagination.

F．But the issue is complicated for the professionals running museums.

3 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. suitable       B. unfortunately       C. worsen       D. afford       E. risk       F. expensive G. ideally       H. provide       I. solution       J. remain       K. concern

In recent weeks, many parents have realized the difficult truth about school this fall because of COVID-19. Hoping for a better     1    , parents around U.S. have started organizing “pandemic (流行病) pods”, or home schooling pods, for the fall, in which groups of 3 to 10 students learn together in homes under the guidance of the children’s parents or a hired teacher.

For parents who can organize and     2     them, pods seem like an easy choice. “I don’t believe that the online courses for that age group are     3    . Kids at this age really need that multimodal sensory learning (多模式感官学习).” one parent said.

These pods could     4     families with a schooling choice that feels safe—yet also allows kids to have fun and build social skills. However, it also has unavoidable shortcomings.

Depending on how the pods are set up, they may offer parents break. But given that pods can be     5    , complicated to organize and self-selecting, it is possible that they are most popular among wealthy families, experts say, and may     6     educational inequality.

Another     7     about pods is that families may not know how to minimize Covid risks. Pods shouldn’t have more than five kids     8    , said Saskia Popescu, an infection prevention expert. When you add together the teacher and all of the kids’ family members, a seemingly small pod ends up including dozens of people, and the more people in it, the greater the     9     for coronavirus exposure (接触). Furthermore, families in learning pods shouldn’t socialize with people outside the pod unless they wear masks and     10     socially distant, Dr. Popescu said. Pods should have clear rules on wearing masks and washing hands.

4 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

People can be addicted to different things,for example,alcohol,drugs,certain foods,or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive(强迫的);i. e.,they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists,many people are compulsive spenders.    1    This compulsion,like most others,is impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders,charge accounts(赊购帐户)are even more exciting than money.     2    Their pleasure in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.

There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money,of course,most people look for sales,low prices,and discounts.     3     They want to believe that they are helping their budgets,but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people,they feel that they are winning. Most people,experts claim,have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason.

It is not only scientists,of course,who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people.     4     They consider people's needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and sales methods.

Psychologists often use a method called “behavior therapy” to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money.

A．Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business.

B．Recognize and change the spending habits that can cause you to be overloaded with debt.

C．Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that they don't need just because they are cheap.

D．In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything.

E．They feel that they must spend money.

F．Stop buying so much stuff and try to spend more money on experiences.

5 . 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 family who eats together

What’s the price of a family meal? For many families in the world’s wealthiest countries, the answer seems to be, ‘too much’. For instance, in the United States,     1     is often a trendsetter in such things, the majority of families report eating a single meal together fewer than five days a week. In fact, the frequency of shared meals     2     (decrease) in American families by 33 per cent over the last twenty years. The meals     3     have shortened too: from an average of 90 minutes to just 12 minutes.

So perhaps we’re better off asking ourselves     4     the cost of not eating together is. Once again, we could turn to the figures. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has found that 15-year-olds who reported not regularly     5     (share) family meals were twice as likely to be absent from school. In Europe, research has suggested that children who don’t eat dinner with their parents at least twice a week face a 40 per cent higher risk of fatness. Another study,     6     (conduct) by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (滥用) at Columbia University, found that kids who eat dinner with their parents five or more times a week are     7     (likely) to have problems with drugs and alcohol.

But those numbers, impressive     8     they seem, may be beside the point. After all, having a meal together is more than just a preventive measure     9     future misfortune. The primary cost of the family meal is also the very thing that makes it important: time.

The time spent together over food leads to all the positive outcomes that are measured in the studies. That time spent together has less noticeable—but no less real—effects too. So often,     10     is at the family meal that the family as such—the family as an organic unit with shared memories and feelings and ambitions—is made.

6 . Directions:Write an English composition in 100-120 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
请你谈谈读了以下报道后的感想。
【英国《每日电讯报》网站报道】题：推特(Twitter)和脸谱网(Facebook) “有害儿童发展”。据称，在早期过度沉溺于网络世界后，青少年的大脑将不能得到适当发展。牛津大学药理学教授格林菲尔德说，与人实际接触减少意味着孩子们难于形成基本的社交技巧和情绪反应。她批评某些用户“不健康地”沉溺于推特网，称他们在网络的掩护下情绪日趋冲动易怒。就在格林菲尔德发表这番言论前一天，教师们警告，过度沉溺于高科技产品正在损害孩子们在课堂上集中注意力的能力。中学语文教师的一次调查发现，超过四分之三的教师认为，如今，学生的注意力持续时间短于以往任何时候。格林菲尔德援引的一些数据显示，如今，超过一半的13岁至17岁孩子每周花在电子游戏机、计算机、电子书、手机和其他以显示屏为基础的高科技产品上的时间超过30小时。
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7 . Whenever Michael Carl, the fashion market director at Vanity Fair, goes out to dinner with friends, he plays something called the phone pile game:Everyone places his __________ in the middle of the table;whoever looks at their device before the check arrives __________ for the dinner.

Brandon Holley, the former editor of Lucky magazine, had trouble __________ her mobile phone when she got home from work. So about six months ago, she began putting her phone into a milk tin the moment she walked in. It remains there until after dinner.

And Marc Jacobs, the fashion designer, didn’t want to sleep next to a noisy phone. So he __________ computers and phones from his bedroom, a house rule he __________ with audiences during a screening of his film Disconnect.

As smartphones continue to __________ into our lives, and wearable devices like Google Glass threaten our personal space even further, users say these disconnecting __________ are improving their relationships and their brains.

“Disconnecting is something that we all __________ , “Lesley M.M, Blume, a New York writer, told The New York Times. “The expectation that we must always be available to everyone creates a real problem in trying to __________ private time. But that private-time is more important than ever.”

A popular method for __________ is to choose a box for your cellphone, like Ms. Holley. “If my phone is lighting up, it’s still a distraction, so it goes in the __________ “she said.

Others choose new __________ . “No screens after 11 pm, “said Ari Melber, a TV host. “I found the evenings were more __________ , and I was sleeping better, “he said.

Sleep is a big factor, which is why Peter Som, a fashion designer, doesn’t”want to sleep __________ something that is full of photos and emails”, said Mr. Som, who keeps his phone charging in the living room overnight.”It __________ is a head-clearer.”

1.

A．wallet

B．handbag

C．watch

D．phone

2.

A．pays

B．waits

C．prepares

D．reaches

3.

A．examining

B．ignoring

C．charging

D．finding

4.

A．banned

B．observed

C．collected

D．adjusted.

5.

A．communicated

B．agreed

C．dealt

D．shared

6.

A．keep their word

B．make their way

C．take their time

D．fix their attention

7.

A．techniques

B．achievements

C．images

D．appliances

8.

A．learn

B．produce

C．receive

D．need

9.

A．figure out

B．take up

C．set aside

D．get over

10.

A．distributing

B．entertaining

C．monitoring

D．disconnecting

11.

A．box

B．room

C．pocket

D．bag

12.

A．games

B．orders

C．sections

D．rules

13.

A．urgent

B．upsetting

C．relaxing

D．virtual

14.

A．ahead of

B．next to

C．beyond

D．within

15.

A．definitely

B．originally

C．scarcely

D．considerately

8 . Directions: Write an English composition in 100 - 120 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
你的同桌每个月花很多钱在流行服饰上，请就此事谈谈你的看法。
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9 . France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women. Its lawmakers gave approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra (过分的)-thin models on runways.

The parliament also agreed to ban websites that “ encourage unreasonable thinness” by promoting extreme dieting.

Such measures ;have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health. That’s a start. And the ban on ultrathin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death - as some have done.

The bans, if fully carried out, would suggest to women (and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters (仲裁人) of their beauty. And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero.

The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep and bone-showing. Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.

In contrast to France’s actions, Denmark’s fashion industry agreed last month on rules regarding the age, health, and. other characteristics of models. The newly revised Danish Fashion Ethical Charter clearly states: “We are aware of and take responsibility for the impact the fashion industry has on body ideals, especially on young people.” The charter’s main tool of enforcement (执行) is to deny access for designers and modeling agencies to Copenhagen Fashion Week, which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute.

Relying on moral persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step. Even better would be to help uplift notions (观念) of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.

1. According to the first paragraph, what would happen in France?

A．Physical beauty would be redefined.

B．New runways would be constructed.

C．Websites about dieting would develop.

D．The fashion industry would decline.

2. The phrase “impinging on "in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

A．heightening the value of

B．indicating the state of

C．losing faith in

D．doing harm to

3. A designer is most likely to be rejected by CFW for ________.

A．using extravagant material

B．caring too much about models’ character.

C．showing little concern for models’ health

D．pursuing the perfect physical conditions of models

4. Which of the following may be the best title of the text?

A．The Great Threats to the Fashion Industry

B．Beauty Is Skin-deep

C．A Campaign for Promoting True Beauty in France

D．A Challenge to the Fashion Industry’s Body Ideals

10 . “Selfie”, taking a picture of yourself to post on social media, became an official word in the Oxford dictionary in 2013. The idea seems simple, just pose and snap a photo of yourself with your cell phone camera. How difficult could that be?

But in 2014 a reported 15 people died while taking selfies. That number has risen each. year since then. Thirty-nine deaths connected to selfies were reported in 2015. And, this year has seen more than 70 such deaths.

Researchers from universities in the US and India have released findings from the first study of deaths due to selfies. The investigators examined the causes and characteristics of the deaths.

The researchers found that people who take selfies for sharing on social media often have a narcissistic tendency. The report says these people “use selfies as a form ‘of self-identification and expression”. They may take selfies in more dangerous settings because they seek greater attention. These dangerous situations can lead to injury, and even death. The researchers define a selfie death as “death of an individual or a group of people that could have been avoided had the individual(s) not been taking a selfie.”

One example of a dangerous selfie in the study involved bicycle races. People sometimes get on the track to take a picture of themselves with the racing bicycles behind them. Crashes and injuries have resulted. Another example described people standing on train tracks trying to get a selfie’ as a train moves toward them from behind. The most common cause of selfie death was falling from high places. It caused 32 of the 172 deaths during the last two and a half years. Drowning was another common cause of death.

And it might be more dangerous to be a man with a smartphone. Although women take more selfies, males were far more likely to die during selfies.75.5% of the reported deaths were of mien. About one-third of the 172 reported selfie deaths had a single death while 24 incidents involved the deaths of groups. Two of the incidents killed seven people each.

1. The passage is mainly about _________ .

A．selfie deaths on the rise	B．the danger of taking selfies
C．what a selfie death is	D．the causes of selfie deaths

2. What does the underlined phrase “a narcissistic tendency” in Paragraph 4 probably refer to?

A．A physical state.

B．A psychological state.

C．A difficulty.

D．A camera.

3. Which of the following is an example of selfie deaths?

A．A man addicted to taking selfies died.

B．A taxi-driver died with one of his. passengers taking selfies.

C．A man fell off the cliff while taking a selfie and died.

D．An old lady. died from heart attack when taking a selfie.

4. From the passage; we can learn that _________.

A．selfie deaths are always single deaths

B．women are more likely to die during selfies

C．it is dangerous to participate in .bicycle races

D．selfie deaths happened in various ways