1 . Chinese culture values family bonds (纽带) very much. Family members don’t just gather during the holidays, in fact they often live under one roof all year round.
Different cultures have different family values.
In most East Asian cultures, extended families (大家庭) are common.
In many Western countries, most families are nuclear families (小家庭). These are only made up of children and their parents.
Additionally, the duties parents have toward their children can also differ.
In most Western countries, however, kids usually move out of the house after they turn 18.
While the East cares more about close family bonds, the West values privacy and independence.
| A．But in the end, home is best — east or west. |
| B．Nuclear families are the most common type in China. |
| C．Both Easterners and Westerners value quality family time. |
| D．Families in the east and west are very different from each other. |
| E．These families have three or even four generations living together. |
| F．In China, many parents look after their children all the way into adulthood. |
| G．Many college students often work part-time in order to pay for tuition and rent. |
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Square dancing is becoming increasingly popular nowadays, that can be easily found in public places like squares and parks. The dancers gather in the large numbers and dance some joyful music happily. Therefore, not everyone is happy with this. Some people complain the music is too noisy that it affects their life serious. But I don’t agree with them. On the one hand, most of the dancers are retire women. By dancing, they can make more friend and enjoy their life after retirement. On the other hand, the places they chose are public, so everyone has the right to enjoy them there.
3 . Frato’s Pizza looks like a typical family restaurant, with its black-and-white checkered floor and red chairs. But in the kitchen, the cooks are cooking for four other restaurants at the same time.
There is, of course, the delicious pizza that customers have come to expect from Frato’s when they walk through the door. But there are also spicy chicken gyros for Halal Kitchen, barbecue chicken tenders for Tenderlicious, salmon grilled cheese for Cheesy Deliciousness and Butterfinger milkshakes for Heavenly Shakes, all of which can only be ordered through online sites Grubhub, DoorDash and UberEats.
Owner Michael Kudrna launched the four spin-offs (分店) earlier this year in a matter of weeks as he races to keep his Chicago-area business ahead of a growing trend: restaurants designed only for delivery or take-out.
Thousands of restaurants are experimenting with these virtual spin-offs tucked (隐藏) inside their own kitchens. Others are opening “ghost kitchens”, where all food is prepared to go.
Both concepts have come out to take advantage of the rising popularity of ordering out instead of dining in. The trend also speaks to the growing power of third-party delivery companies, which have transformed the way many people find restaurants and raised expectations for speed and convenience.
The $26.8 billion online ordering market is the fastest-growing source of restaurant sales in the United States, according to David Portalatin, a food industry adviser for The NPD group. Digital orders, while still accounting for just 5% of all restaurant orders, are growing by some 20% each year. Restaurant visits, meanwhile, are remaining mostly flat.
In this case, UberEats has helped launch 4,000 such virtual restaurants worldwide and about half of them are in the U.S. and Canada, according to Kristen Adamowski, head of Uber’s virtual restaurant program.
Grubhub and UberEats say their virtual restaurant programs help small businesses compete in this landscape. Both actively reach out to restaurants with suggestions for online spin-offs based on data collected from customer searches — extending their influence from how people get their food to what should go on the menu.
Virtual restaurants also have the obvious benefit of testing new concepts without taking on the high rent or hiring more staff, said Rick Carmac, head of restaurant management at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York.
1. What is the purpose of paragraphs 1-3?| A．To introduce a famous restaurant. | B．To list some examples of diverse food. |
| C．To add some background information. | D．To introduce the topic of the passage. |
| A．People find restaurants have changed. | B．Ordering out has become a trend. |
| C．Customers expect speed and convenience. | D．The delivery companies grow quickly. |
| A．Smooth. | B．Calm. | C．Inactive. | D．Boring. |
| A．The Rise of Virtual Restaurants | B．The Benefit of Online Restaurants |
| C．Restaurants Designed for Delivery | D．Booming Stores on the Internet |
4 . Teenage life: better now, or in the past?
Does this situation sound familiar(熟悉的)?
You’re complaining(抱怨) to your parents about something. Maybe your computer isn’t powerful enough to play the latest games.
“When I was your age, there weren’t any computers or video games. And I didn’t get a bike until I was 16. And it was second-hand.
So is it really true that life is better for teenagers now? It is certainly true that many teenagers have got more things nowadays.
However, technology often means we spend more time at home. And often it’s just us, with our computer or television. Teenagers don’t do enough exercise.
What do you think? How is teenage life better these days?
| A．And it was too big for me. |
| B．A typical family is smaller now. |
| C．You get very unhappy with this. |
| D．Or your friends’ bikes are better than yours. |
| E．So they aren’t as healthy as the teenagers in the past. |
| F．Life was not easy in the past. |
| G．Technology is probably the greatest change in our life. |
A fifteen-year-old boy
6 . Shoppers around the world are crazy buying because of fears over the COVID-19(新型冠状病毒), which caused a critical epidemic(流行病)in China and even other countries at the beginning of 2020. People in countries such as England, Japan, Singapore and Australia have been emptying supermarket shelves of toilet paper, face masks, hand wash products and dried and canned food. Photos and videos of shoppers in Australia quarreling over the last pack of toilet roll in a supermarket have spread across social media swiftly.
However, governments have advised their citizens that there is no need to “panic buy“. They added that panic buying would only reduce the supply of products needed by patients and medical staff which could exacerbate the problems the COVID-19 virus is causing. Singapore’s prime minister comforted Singaporeans that: ”We have enough supplies. There’s no need to stock up.“ A week after the panic buying fever, things have calmed down and shoppers have gone back to purchasing items in normal quantities.
Psychologists say panic buying is an “unwise” behaviour that is part of a condition called FOMO the fear of missing out. Dr. Katharina Wittgens said a herd mentality(从众心理)sets in during disasters that causes people to copy the actions of others. People watch the news of items being bought in quantity and immediately rush out to the stores to do the same. She said people were taking on too much the risks of dying from the virus. She said: “Far more people die in car accidents or household accidents per year but we don’t panic about these things in the morning before we go to work.”
1. What made shoppers in different countries crazy buying?| A．Their concern about the virus. |
| B．The discount from supermarkets. |
| C．The approach of 2020 New Year’s Day. |
| D．The shortage of resources and supplies in their nations. |
| A．solve | B．release | C．worsen | D．quicken |
| A．People do not believe what others said. |
| B．People are wiser in making decisions. |
| C．People think no one needs the supplies. |
| D．People tend to follow others’ actions in the period of disaster. |
| A．We should panic about the situation. | B．More people die from car accidents. |
| C．People should not panic over the virus. | D．People buy little when they go to the stores. |
7 . 17-year-old Norwood was driving three friends home in St. Petersburg, Florida, on February 20. As they reached a crossroads, a black car
As smoke rose from the car, a bystander
But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran
She started pumping Simmons’s chest and breathing into her friend’s mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. No
Soon, paramedics (急救人员) arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital,
| A．stopped | B．hit | C．guided | D．passed |
| A．said | B．commented | C．whispered | D．shouted |
| A．Relaxed | B．Shaken | C．Amazed | D．Embarrassed |
| A．over | B．to | C．through | D．across |
| A．free | B．defeat | C．meet | D．protect |
| A．back | B．around | C．forward | D．outside |
| A．astonished | B．worried | C．unconscious | D．puzzled |
| A．pushed | B．rolled | C．drove | D．dragged |
| A．life | B．success | C．breath | D．pulse |
| A．lost | B．tested | C．earned | D．provided |
| A．trouble | B．response | C．preparation | D．exception |
| A．laughs | B．teams | C．breaths | D．measures |
| A．begun | B．finished | C．failed | D．worked |
| A．where | B．which | C．when | D．what |
| A．calm | B．surprised | C．upset | D．nervous |
It’s certainly enjoyable to catch up with friends’ activities or watch your favorite content creator while you’re eating.
If you have kids, dinner time can be your chance to be a role model for them. When you’re not on your phone, unaware that you’re sitting at a table with other people, it will engrave (铭记) polite table
When in reality, the story is
It’s not that hard to keep your phone away from the dinner table
9 . About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked: “So, how have you been?” And the boy, who could not have been more than seven or eight years old, replied, “To tell the truth, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”
His words stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and l didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?
Human development is based not only on innate ( 天生的 ) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involved learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adults secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation machine has come into 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practiced. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.
1. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world ________.| A．through contact directly with society |
| B．gradually and under adults’ guidance |
| C．naturally and by biological instinct |
| D．through exposure to social information |
| A．the widespread influence of television |
| B．the poor arrangement of TV programs |
| C．the fast development of human’s intelligence |
| D．the constantly rising of standard of living |
| A．It enables children to gain more social information. |
| B．It develops children’s interest in reading and writing. |
| C．It helps children to remember and practice more knowledge. |
| D．It can control what children are to learn at a proper age. |
| A．He feels amused by their behaviors and thoughts. |
| B．He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note. |
| C．He considers it a positive and good development. |
| D．He seems to be upset about these strange behaviors. |
1. What is the relationship between the speakers?
| A．Father and son. | B．Mother and son. | C．Husband and wife. |
| A．It was hit from behind. | B．It hit a running boy. | C．It hit a bus. |
