1 . Children should spend at least one hour playing and spending time in nature each day, according to the Wildlife Trusts （野生生物基金会）.     1     It is now calling on the government to include nature time into daily school life.

    2    Its 451 students in the study were 8 or 9 years of age. They were interviewed before and after nature activities. The activities were run by the Wildlife Trusts over the course of several weeks, such as learning about plants and trees.

The children showed a great increase in personal health.     3    90 percent said they learned something new about the natural world； 79 percent felt the experience would help their schoolwork；    4    Perhaps most importantly, 79 percent mentioned they would believe more in themselves.

    5    And the time has been reducing greatly in recent years. A 2017 report found that less than 10 percent British kids enjoys themselves in nature, compared to 40 percent of adults when they were younger years ago. To improve the situation, the organization is calling on the government to free up a daily hour for nature time for kids.

A．Parents care much about their kids' nature time. ”

B．However, parents on their own aren't giving kids that time.

C．81 percent said they had better relationships with their teachers.

D．The calling comes from a study by University College London.

E．The students are asked to study in University College London for one day.

F．The UK organization speaks for 46 groups and 2,300 nature protection areas.

G．And they also showed a sense of connection with the natural world and high levels of enjoyment.

2 . Young girls are waiting in long lines to shop at Brandy Melville, an Italian fashion brand. You can find small skirts, tiny T-shirts and skinny jeans there.     1    

With celebrities (明星) and fashion vloggers posting photos of Brandy Melville clothing online, the brand has got popular all over the world. However, many girls are finding that the brand’s clothes are too small. The brand’s idea of “one size fits all” has made them feel uncomfortable.

“    2     Everyone has a different shape,” a girl named Allison told Buzzfeed.

“It sends a message that if you don’t fit into the clothing, whether it’s too big or too small, you’re not ‘normal’, which leads to all sorts of body dissatisfaction,” Allison added.

    3     According to a survey by Girl Guiding UK, 47 percent of girls aged 11-21 say the way they look holds them back. In China, more than half of teenagers want to lose weight to make themselves look better, according to a survey by Southern Weekly.

Fashion trends set by companies like Brandy Melville are “ruining the girl’s self-esteem (自尊心)”, as Nicolette Simons wrote for Odyssey. The unrealistic sizes of their clothes can make girls feel like they are too fat.     4     They might not even realize that this is not their fault, but the fault of the trend.

“Girls should learn to accept different body shapes and show themselves with confidence,” as TMT Post said. Nobody needs to be a “Brandy Melville girl”.     5    

A．Just be yourself.

B．Your clothes say a lot about you.

C．There’s clearly no such thing as one size fits all!

D．They might try to lose weight at the cost of their health.

E．Everything in the shop is designed only for one body type: thin.

F．In fact, it’s common for teenagers to feel unhappy with their bodies.

G．Following fashion trends has little to do with your personal comfort.

3 . Growing up, we are constantly reminded that young people are heavily affected by technology. We are the “antisocial club”, those who prefer to text our friends in the same room rather than make eye contact with them. And even though never-ending studies reveal to us the extent of our social media addiction, we should at least consider that it’s not only our young people’s problem any more.

There’s the rise of the Instagram mums, who like to post an abundance of cute baby pictures, share their mom feelings along the way and show their wonderful lifestyles. They are the so-called “Facebook mum generation”, a growing group of parents that like to overshare.

While all of this might be fine, and even a little humorous, new research suggests that parents’ technology addiction is negatively affecting their children’s behavior. According to the study, 40% of mothers and 32% of fathers have admitted having some sort of phone addiction. This has led to a significant fall in verbal interactions within families and even a decline in mothers’ encouraging their children.

There is no denying that I get annoyed when receiving the words “I’ll be with you soon” from a parent, when all I want to do is ask one question. But, at the same time, every day leaving the room to wait until my father is finished with his “serious business” (Farmville), has now become the norm. Whether you want to escape your disturbing children for a bit, or want to stay up late flicking through Twitter, know that wanting to do all of these is normal. We, your children, know how addictive it can be and how difficult it is to switch off. But before telling us to put our phones away at the table or even worse, listing statistics of how damaging social media can be for us, maybe lead by example, considering how much time you spend on the phone and how this is impacting your children and your relationship with us. Maybe in this way we can work on our addiction together.

1. From Paragraph 1, we can know that teenagers nowadays ________.

A．enjoy socializing with their friends	B．send messages to their friends every day
C．hate to make eye contact with their friends	D．are heavily addicted to their mobile phones

2. What does the author think of mums’ oversharing?

A．Boring.

B．Selfish.

C．Funny.

D．Meaningful.

3. The underlined word “norm” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

A．security

B．standard

C．routine

D．custom

4. What’s the main purpose of the article?

A．To share the author’s own experience with the readers.

B．To call on parents to get rid of their own media addiction.

C．To reveal that parents are always addicted to mobile phones.

D．To show the author’s dissatisfaction with parents’ phone use.

4 . Twenty-five years ago, most young Britons wanted a career in law, to be a doctor, or, if they were creative enough, to take up singing. But today, things stand differently.

According to a survey by Tesco Mobile, a UK company, the “dream job” of young people aged between 16 and 25 in the UK is a video blogger, or “vlogger” (视频博主). The survey, carried out among 1,002 people, found that as much as 40 percent of them put vlogger as their number one choice on a list of ideal careers.

This change is undoubtedly as a result of the Internet and social media. They have made it so much easier to reach audience of the world, without having to enter a career in show business in the traditional way.

In the past, the biggest stars were trained by the Hollywood studios; now, anyone with a computer camera can become a star. Vloggers are the big stars of today because they are normal people interacting with their fans about everyday life.

However, what people see is only the bright side of being a vlogger and they fail to notice the fact that only those who are successful earn fame and fortune. For every success there are hundreds of others who never get off the starting line. There are the dreams that come true and the dreams that remain dreams forever.

Although being vloggers is popular, some young people choose to follow careers that don’t necessarily earn them fame, but allow them to make good use of the Internet to share their hobbies. Young Israeli David Leshaw, for example, runs a business called the Finishers Club. It’s an online platform for runners to keep a record of their races. His job allows him to express his enthusiasm, and is always a learning experience. And that's enough for him.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Most young Britons choose to be vloggers as their job.

B．The Internet is influencing young Britons’career choice.

C．The Internet is taking the place of traditional studios.

D．Young Britons can not find jobs without the Internet.

2. Why do more and more young Britons choose to be vloggers?

A．Vloggers can earn greater fame and more money on the Internet.

B．There is too much competition in the traditional show business.

C．The Internet makes it convenient to enter show business.

D．Anyone with a computer will surely become a star.

3. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?

A．Only a few vloggers can be famous and wealthy.

B．A vlogger can not earn fame and fortune.

C．People often see the bright side of being a vlogger.

D．Dreams will always remain dreams.

4. What do young people like David do on the Internet?

A．Learn from others.	B．Become an online hit.
C．Hold running races.	D．Combine jobs with hobbies.

5 . An NPC deputy (人大代表) during this year's two sessions suggested dividing the winter and summer vacations into four shorter vacations. Though it seems helpful, the proposal is out of the realities.

Firstly, the deputy believed that shorter vacations could alleviate (缓解) parents' burden of caring for their children at home and offer families more opportunities to travel together. However, the general consensus (共识) is that most parents are often so busy trying to make enough money to provide for their children's education and household costs that they don't even have enough time to keep their kids company, let alone to be able to take their kids on vacation.

Secondly, each of the breaks will only last for about three weeks. Even though this is generally a long enough time for students to go to tutoring centers (培训机构) if their parents pay extra attention to their children's studies, they may end up finding themselves continuously having to fight between a busy school term and a busier vacation. While this may help to prevent children from playing with their mobile phones or video games, is it really necessary to create a new term system to do so? As the saying goes, “Penny wise and pound foolish.”

Moreover, as some netizens have mentioned, the main purpose of winter and summer vacations is to give students more time to celebrate the Spring Festival and to escape the summer heat. Not only do longer vacations spare many students the efforts of travelling from home to school, but they also offer chances for them to do things with long-lasting positive effects, such as volunteering in the community or joining in overseas exchanges.

In a word, there is still a long way to go to improve the vacation system before a better option turns up. So what we students need to do for now is just make the best of our vacation time and prepare ourselves for the future terms.

1. Why did the deputy make the new proposal?

A．To pay more attention to children's learning.

B．To encourage children to relax themselves.

C．To increase parents-children caring and love .

D．To greatly reduce children's learning burden.

2. If kids have shorter vacations, they may        .

A．have more time to learn their school subjects.

B．find their study and rest both poorly affected.

C．feel more relaxed and will do better in new terms.

D．not be interested in phones or computer games.

3. What’s the meaning of the underlined "spare" (para 4) ?

A．空闲

B．备用

C．解除

D．匀出

4. The author thinks the proposal is          .

A．valuable	B．charming
C．unpractical	D．challenging

6 . In the subway station, I notice a black teenage boy waiting for the train, sitting on a railing(栏杆) just in front of a moving escalator(扶梯). It’s a hot evening; there is no air in the station. This black kid is just sitting there, settled on the railing, and I’m just standing there about 10 feet away looking for the faraway lights of the oncoming train. Then suddenly a white police officer is asking the kid for identification. The kid turns a little annoyed and asks what he’s been bothering about. The officer doesn’t explain. The kid pulls out some I.D. and hands it to the officer who looks at it and then barks out a demand for something with an address on it, a driver’s license.

Unwillingly, the kid pulls out a second piece of identification. The officer looks at it and tells the kid to come with him. Nothing I have seen or heard explains the officer’s strict approach or why the kid is being led away.

I get up to the officer and politely ask what this guy did and where he is taking him. He looks at me like I’m armed and crazy and tells me that it’s none of my business and to stay out of this.

“Could I please take down your badge(警徽) number, sir, as I’d like to report all this,” I say.

“Take down my badge number and then you show me a piece of identification. What are you, some lawyer?”

I copy down his badge number and then show him my driver’s license, asking, “Could you please tell me what this is all for?”

Looking at me over and again asking if I’m a lawyer, he tells me he’s taking the kid in for blocking the escalator and me in for “obstructing a police action.” Another black man hearing all this asks what’s going on and the officer gets very nervous. So I decide to go with him to his office. Then the officer gives his version of what happened and I politely interrupt to explain that the kid was in no way blocking the escalator traffic and that I was in no way “obstructing a police action”, not adding that I thought the way the officer handling the situation was racist and unnecessarily strict.

After this experience in the police station, I’m still wondering whether a well-dressed white man will be faced with a sharp command for identification for sitting on an escalator railing waiting for a train? If a bystander does want to get involved and inquire about an apparently unfair arrest, is a policeman’s only response a second arrest? Will our police officers always be seen by black kids as evils? Is my charge with racism too strong?

1. What is the black teenager doing at the train station?

A．He is blocking the escalator.

B．He is escaping the police.

C．He is waiting for the train.

D．He is damaging the escalator.

2. Why does the author stand out to help the black teenager?

A．He is a racist.

B．He is not afraid to get involved.

C．He is black.

D．He has a sense of justice.

3. According to the passage, we can know that.

A．The black boy doesn’t obey the police officer.

B．Subway stations are good places to hang about.

C．The white policeman thinks ill of the black teenager.

D．Situations like this in the passage will never change.

4. Which of the following best explain the underlined word in the passage?

A．blame.

B．forbid.

C．prevent.

D．defend.

7 . Parties and social gatherings no longer excite us the same way they once did. This is not due to a lack of desire to socialize, but the smartphone.

At parties, people focus more on their smartphones than on their drinks. According to a recent study from International Data Corporation，over half of all Americans have a smartphone and reach it the moment they wake up, keeping it in hand all day. In addition, too many people are using smartphones while driving and as a result, they get into car crashes. 34 percent of teens admit to text while driving，and they confirm that texting messages are the major interruption while driving. People’s attachment (依恋) to their smartphones is unbelievably becoming more important than the lives of themselves and others.

Just as drivers dismiss the importance of focusing while on the road, many people also fail to recognize the significance of human interaction. When with their friends, some people pointlessly (无谓地) check or send messages in the presence of their friends., which means that their friends are less important. In addition, relying on our smartphones to make friends does not give us the same advantages as making new friends in the real world. Face-to-face conversations will give us the chance to improve our communication skills in the long run.

As many people risk their lives and the lives of people around them just to send a text or mindlessly check their messages, smartphones are in many ways more dangerous to people. The technology shows the achievement weaken the value of communication. Not only is the smartphone affecting our desire to interact face to face, but it is also lowering people’s ability to communicate.

1. The purpose of this text is to _______________.

A．express a concern about the overuse of the smartphone.

B．appeal to us to pay attention to communication skills.

C．call for an end to the use of the smartphone while driving.

D．advise us to be cautious about the addiction to the smartphone.

2. The second paragraph is developed by _______________.

A．analyzing the effects.	B．listing figures.
C．giving examples.	D．comparing facts.

3. The author advocates making new friends _______________.

A．under a free circumstance.	B．in different ways.
C．in a face-to-face way.	D．by using smartphones.

4. Too much dependence on the smartphone leads to the fact that _______________.

A．people are more and more narrow-minded.

B．parties and gatherings limit people’s social circle.

C．face-to-face communication becomes less important.

D．people’s communication skills are weakened.

8 . After bikes and umbrellas are made sharable across China, some companies started eyeing the fitness market, so shared gym rooms have hit the streets in Beijing.

Unlike regular gyms that provide large, open spaces for many members to share at the same time, the newly built shared gym rooms are small, stand-alone rooms for a person to use, often set up near living communities.

Every four-square-meter room is equipped with a treadmill (跑步机), an air cleaner, a mirror, a television and an air conditioner, and users can let down the curtains for privacy. When exercising, users can listen to music, watch movies and check emails by connecting to the Internet by the screen fixed on the treadmill. There’s no shower or washbasin.

Similar to using a shared bike, users can locate a shared gym room by smartphone application, book a room in advance and then need to scan (扫描) a QR code for use. A refundable deposit (保证金) of 99 yuan is required, and users are charged 0.2 yuan per minute.

The shared gym rooms are created by Misspao, a Beijing-based technology company founded in July. Within two weeks since it was founded, the company has already got two rounds of funding valued over 100 million yuan, Yicai Global reports. The idea of the shared fitness experience is not entirely nascent. Last December, the Shanghai-based technology company VRUN set up shared treadmills in office and apartment buildings.

The sharing economy is still becoming popular in China. According to Yicai Global, confident investors are pouring millions into sharing start-ups. In March, the State Information Center published a report which predicts that the total value of China’s sharing economy will see a yearly growth of 40% in the coming years, and it is expected to contribute around 10% to the country’s GDP by 2020.

1. What makes the shared gym room different from the regular one?

A．Offering open spaces.	B．Standing in the living zone.
C．Holding one person at a time.	D．Having some advanced equipment.

2. What can we learn about the shared gym room from the text?

A．Users can have a shower in it after exercise.

B．Users who want to use it need a smartphone.

C．Users who use it first need to pay for 99.2 yuan.

D．Users’ privacy can’t be protected while they are exercising.

3. What does the underlined word “nascent” probably mean in Paragraph 5?

A．Simple.

B．Popular.

C．Satisfying.

D．New.

4. What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?

A．To introduce shared gym rooms.

B．To advertise a technology company.

C．To predict the future of the sharing economy.

D．To persuade people to support the sharing economy.

9 . I work at a grocery store in Montreal's Plateau neighbourhood, which gets a lot of regulars. On March 12, the Quebec government announced to close all public places to stop the spread of the pandemic(流行病)of coronavirus.

The next day the store was the busiest I've ever seen. The six cash registers had to be kept open from 10 a. m. until close. It was nuts. I didn't have time to eat lunch, and whenever one of us on cash had to use the bathroom, we^’d have to bring in a coworker off the floor to cover for us.

Since then, the atmosphere in the store has been different. Customers are mostly considerate, but whenever someone coughs or sneezes, everyone turns around to make sure that person sneezed into their elbow. I've even seen customers come in wearing some strange get-ups. One guy even came in with a plastic Walmart bag wrapped around his entire head, with a slit cut out for his eyes.

A lot of my coworkers have left to avoid a public-facing job during the pandemic. Grocery store workers across Canada are putting their health at risk every time they come in to work, but a lot of us are still making close to minimum wage. I realized that I feel more exhausted than normal even though I'm working the same hours.

There still have been some moments of kindness in the midst of the chaos. I've overheard people talking on the phone who sounded as though they were organizing grocery deliveries for those stuck at home. And this past weekend a very nice lady thanked us for continuing to work. I know everyone is worried, but it's uneless having the same scary conversations day after day. Instead, tell us a funny anecdote, or about Homething nice. We'll appreciate the distraction, and you'll make our day just a bit brighter.

1. What does the author intend to show by " It was nuts." in paragraph 2?

A．The goods were in short supply.

B．The store was having a big sale.

C．The cashiers complained about their work.

D．The locals rushed to do shopping like crazy.

2. What does paragraph 3 convey about customers?

A．They like to shop here in disguise.

B．They are panicky about the disease .

C．They are more friendly to each other.

D．They have taken proper preventive measures.

3. Which of the following best describes the author?

A．Optimistic.

B．Talented.

C．Ambitious.

D．Efficient.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．It is not work but worry that kills

B．Helping others is helping ourselves

C．Moments of kindness shine in a time of chaos

D．Here is what it's like working in the pandemic

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。

When Tom was in high school, he was very    1    (interest) in computers and enjoyed writing programs of his own. With time    2    (go) by, he began to study the World Wide Web and used    3    Internet to communicate    4    computer programmers all over the world. After    5    (graduate) from high school, he went to university    6    he studied IT and developed a special interest in IT.

At the age of 22, Tom was able to go abroad for further education. He made up his mind    7    (realize) his dreams there. But things were not as good as expected. Tom had thought that his English was much    8    (good) than his classmates at home. However, at first, the professors spoke so fast in class that he couldn’t follow them. He made every effort and    9    (gradual) he made it. Though Tom has a long way to go, let’s give our best    10    (wish) to him!