| A．A bomb exploded in the area. |
| B．The police have taken the bombs away. |
| C．People are attacked by terrorists. |
| D．The area with unexploded bombs is locked down. |
1.
| A．Because she likes yoga very much. | B．Because she goes to work by bike. |
| C．Because she has got some fresh air. | D．Because she has been given a ride. |
| A．Illegal parking. | B．Lack of financial support. |
| C．Accidents involving children. | D．Deliberate damage and theft. |
| A．GPS equipment. | B．Customers’ feedback. |
| C．Adequate supervision. | D．Children’s curiosity. |
| A．An introduction of bike sharing. |
| B．How to solve the problems of bike sharing. |
| C．The reason why bike sharing is so popular. |
| D．The advantages and problems of bike sharing. |
| A．Violence sports are the source of social instability. |
| B．Violence sports are to blame for crime and school bullying. |
| C．Violence sports serve as an escape for negative emotions. |
| D．Violence sports won’t attract many people’s interest in the long run. |
| A．The man bad poor imagination because of the car accident |
| B．The man must have advised the woman to wear the seat belt |
| C．The woman was likely to have got seriously injured in the car accident |
| D．The woman wasn’t wearing the seat belt when the accident happened |
5 . Each year, backed up by a growing anti-consumerist movement, people are using the holiday season to call on us all to shop less.
Driven by concerns about resource exhaustion, over recent years environmentalists have increasingly turned their sight on our “consumer culture”, with Groups such as The Story of Stuff and Buy Nothing New Day growing as a movement that increasingly blames all our ills on our desire to shop.
We clearly have a growing resource problem. The products we make, buy and use are often linked to the destruction of our waterways, biodiversity, climate and the land on which millions of people live, but to blame these issues on Christmas shoppers is misguided, and puts us in the old trap of blaming individuals for what is a systematic problem.
While we complain about environmental destruction over Christmas, environmentalists often forget what the holiday season actually means for many people. In fact, for most, rather than an add-on to an already heavy shopping year, Christmas is likely the only time of year they have the opportunity to spend on friends and family, or even just to buy the necessities needed for modern life.
This is particularly true for Boxing Day, often laughed at by anti-consumerists the most. While we may look down on the queues in front of the shops, for many, those sales provide the chance to buy things they've needed all year. As journalist Leigh Phillips argues, “This is one of the few times of the year that people can even hope to afford such ‘luxuries’, the Christmas presents their kids are asking for, or just an appliance that works.”
Indeed, the richest 7% of people are responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. This becomes particularly harmful when you take into account of our consumption “problem” anyway. Why are environmentalists attacking these individuals, while ignoring people like Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has his own £ 1.5bn yacht with a missile defence system?
Anyway, anti-consumerism has become a movement of wealthy people talking down to the working class about their life choice, while ignoring the real cause of our environmental problem. It is no wonder no one is changing their behaviour—or that environmental destruction continues without becoming any less severe.
1. What can be inferred about the environmentalist movement from Paragraphs 2 and 3?| A．It has targeted the wrong persons. | B．It has achieved its intended purposes. |
| C．It has solved the environmental problems. | D．It has persuaded consumers not to shop any more. |
| A．A trap for consumers. | B．A tough problem to deal with. |
| C．A precious shopping opportunity. | D．A positive contribution to the economy. |
| A．To show how rich he is. |
| B．To announce he is a Russian. |
| C．To present his contributions to the environment. |
| D．To suggest the real cause of environmental problems hasn't been found. |
| A．The environmental problems are very serious. |
| B．Less shopping can't solve the environmental problems. |
| C．Resources are becoming fewer and fewer on the earth. |
| D．Measures should be taken to protect the environment. |
6 . California officials are praising workers for rescuing a 13-year-old boy who fell into a river of sewage(下水道) in Los Angeles. The boy, Jesse Hermandez, spent more than 12 hours in the city’s large underground sewage system. It is filled with liquid refuse and other waste materials, some of them poisonous.
Jesse had been playing at a public park with other children during a family gathering on Sunday. At one point, the children were on pieces of wood that covered an opening leading to the sewer system. One of the wooden planks broke. The boy fell about eight meters down and landed in fast-moving sewage, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department. The other children quickly told adults what had happened. The adults then called an emergency telephone line for help. Rescuers immediately began searching for Jesse underground. They set cameras on floatation devices, which they put into the sewage system. They finally found Jesse after seeing images of handprints on a pipe. A crew of sanitation(公共卫生) workers hurried to the area and opened a manhole. “The first thing they heard was ‘Help!’” said Adel Hagekhalil, an official in the Los Angeles Sanitation Department.
The crew lowered down a long hose (软管) to Jesse, who was in the pipe about three meters deep. The boy held onto the line while workers pulled him up. He was taken to a hospital for a full physical examination and reunited with his family. In addition to the major rescue effort, Humphrey credited the boy with being able to survive. Not only did he survive being pushed through sewage moving at speeds of 24 kilometers an hour, but also Jesse was able to find a small area of breathable air and wait there until he was found.
“Many would call it a miracle,” Humphrey said about Jesse’s survival. He added that the chances of someone surviving such an event are low.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was among those closely watching the rescue effort. On Twitter, Garcetti praised rescuers and thanked Jesse’s family for their “patience and optimism” during the frightening experience.
1. According to the text, the accident took place__________.| A．before Jesse got to the park. |
| B．just after Jesse left the park. |
| C．right before the rescuers arrived at the park |
| D．when Jesse was playing in the park with other children. |
| A．Jesse fell 24 meters down into the sewage system. |
| B．The park should take some responsibility for Jesse’s accident. |
| C．The consequence of falling into the sewage system is disastrous. |
| D．Jesse’s being saved was not surprising thanks to the rescuers’ efforts. |
| A．Careless. | B．Sensible. |
| C．Hesitant. | D．Determined. |
| A．They were tolerant of the bad management of the park. |
| B．They brought up their son in a right and respectable way. |
| C．They stayed calm and hopeful about Jesse’s being saved. |
| D．They voluntarily participated in rescuing Jesse together with the rescuers. |
7 . I have just started my job as an English Language Assistant in the Parisian suburbs（郊区）. I was
The schools that I
For my first lesson I
One of the teachers told me that despite the
I never
| A．impressed | B．encouraged | C．delighted | D．frightened |
| A．large | B．different | C．quiet | D．beautiful |
| A．dirtiest | B．poorest | C．easiest | D．richest |
| A．grow | B．teach | C．study | D．miss |
| A．people | B．farmers | C．workers | D．pupils |
| A．brought in | B．took in | C．asked for | D．gave up |
| A．scenery | B．advantages | C．castle | D．mountain |
| A．nearly | B．necessarily | C．hardly | D．rarely |
| A．meant | B．practised | C．lost | D．explained |
| A．habit | B．effort | C．fact | D．disadvantage |
| A．ever | B．just | C．never | D．already |
| A．spoiled | B．kept | C．offered | D．provided |
| A．proved | B．realized | C．knew | D．admitted |
| A．valuable | B．convenient | C．practical | D．simple |
| A．families | B．academics | C．futures | D．abilities |
8 . Some futurists have gone so far as to say that, intelligent machines will replace teachers within 10 years. Not surprisingly, this causes concern among educators. As artificial intelligence (AI) develops, it is playing an increasingly important role in education. But should teachers really be worried?
I have been involved in AI in education throughout my career, developed award-winning AI-based products. While I am more excited than ever about the potential of AI to improve the quality and economies of learning, I don’t think educators should worry about being replaced by machines. Instead, AI is more likely to empower teachers: reduce overwork, and make their jobs more rewarding.
Studies show that teachers have more impact on students’ achievement than any other aspect of schooling, and effective teachers have a lasting impact on students’ success. Yet many teachers report that their workload is unmanageable, and much of their time is devoted to activities other than teaching. This is an area where AI can help. For example, by automating the scoring of student work teachers spend less time on grading assignments and data input and management and focus instead on responding to students’ needs.
Teachers with large classes find it stressful to meet the needs of individual students. AI can give these the practice opportunities and individualize feedback that they otherwise might not receive. Teachers have few opportunities to interact with students outside of the classroom. AI-based learning environments can be made available to students anywhere and anytime. Leaning can continue outside of the classroom. This helps every learner to make rapid progress toward mastery of their subjects.
Thus, the question should not be whether AI will replace teachers, but how it can support teacher and learners both inside and outside the classroom.
1. According to what futurists say in the first paragraph, we can learn ________.| A．intelligent machines are developing fast |
| B．teachers are irreplaceable in school |
| C．the teacher is playing an important role in education |
| D．Al might be a threat to educators |
| A．AI has the potential to replace teachers. |
| B．AI is less useful than educators |
| C．AI can make education very profitable |
| D．AI can replace teachers |
| A．helping teachers organize class activities |
| B．reducing the time teachers spend on activities other than teaching |
| C．interacting with students |
| D．helping teachers check how students are mastering what they have learnt |
| A．The development of AI. |
| B．The impacts that teachers have had on education. |
| C．The importance of educators in education. |
| D．The ways that AI can help educators. |
9 . Do you ever pull your phone out of your pocket, thinking it is vibrating (振动), only to find that it isn't?
This phenomenon, which scientists call "phantom(幻觉的) phone vibration", is very common. Around 80%o of people surveyed say they have imagined their phones vibrating when they were actually still.
So, what leads to this universal behavior? According to the BBC, the explanation lies in your brain’s ability to discover signals from the outside world.
When your phone is in your pocket, there are two possible states it is either vibrating or not. Meanwhile, you also have two possible states of mind: the judgment that the phone is vibrating, or that it isn’t. Ideally, you match the four states correctly. Howewer, sometimes your brain decides that the consequences of missing a call are more serious than a "false alarm". Therefore you become more sensitive to vibrations so that you don’t miss anything.
This is just like the fire alarm in your home- it can be annoying when it goes off in response to just a tiny bit of smoke. But that's a small price to pay compared to a fire really breaking out because the alarm fails to alert you. Now, you might still ask why can’t our brains just make every judgment correctly without being too sensitive to false signals? The answer is that your brain bears a heavy burden every day. “You get a large amount of sensory information that’s coming from your eyes, ears and skin, and you can’t deal with all that information all the time,” Michael Rothberg a researcher at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, US, told Live Science.
For example, the rustling(沙沙声) of clothing or the growling(咕咕声) of your stomach may both lead your brain to believe that they come from the vibration of your phone -it is like trying to hear your name being called in a noisy room.
So, perhaps you should just check your phone whenever you think it's vibrating. It's not too much trouble to do that. is it?
1. According to this passage phantom phone vibration| A．is common among people with mental problems |
| B．happens when our brains react sensitively to false signals |
| C．can measure people’s ability to collect information |
| D．helps our brains to make decisions quickly and accurately. |
| A．To help us understand the cause of phantom phone vibration better. |
| B．To tell us the phone vibration usually happens when a fire breaks out. |
| C．To show us the fire alarm is as sensitive as the phone vibration,. |
| D．To convince us it's important to check our phones like checking a fire alarm |
| A．A lack of much attention | B．A noisy background. |
| C．An overflow of sensory information. | D．A heavy burden every day. |
| A．We should always fully believe our own sense of listening. |
| B．We should just check our phones whenever we think they’re vibrating |
| C．We should ignore the vibration bothering when our phones are actually still. |
| D．We should think of the vibration carefully. |
As 17-YEAR-old Torri’ell Norwood drove through St. Petersburg, Florida, last February, the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to screams. As they approached a crossroads, another car T-boned (侧面撞击) them, sending their black car sailing into the yard of a nearby home, coming to a stop only when it crashed into a tree.
As smoke rose up from the other car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to blow up! Get out!” The impact had caved in Norwood’s driver’s side door, jamming it shut. Shaken, but otherwise OK, she crawled out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who’s also managed to free themselves, she ran for her life.
But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, A’zarria Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood shivered a little as she watched her friends, running back to the car and found Simmons slumped in the back seat. “She wasn’t moving,” Norwood told Inside Edition. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, avoiding the broken glass as best she could. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground. “I checked her pulse after calling 911.” Nothing. “I put my head against her chest.” No sign of life. Without immediate medical care, Simmons would die. “That’s when I started CPR(心肺复苏).”
Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier she might not have known what to do. But Norwood, who wants to pursue a career in medicine, had earned her CPR certificate just the day before. Still, she hesitated. She didn’t think she knew it well enough. But she knew the single best chance for survival is having someone nearby step in and do CPR quickly. “It was scary. I knew it was the difference between life and death,” says Norwood. Kneeling on the lawn and looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had precious little time to practice what she’d learned.
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She started pressing Simmons’s chest with her interlocked(扣紧) fingers.
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Soon, doctors arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital.
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