1 . 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。

High school years are a large part in shaping    1    person you are going to become. A school often    2     (provide) education for you, and it can also be a place    3    you can develop relationships with many different people, join clubs, and take part in a variety of different sports. These years can make you become a high school student filled with many different     4     (emotion), including happiness, anger, sadness, admiration, loneliness, stress, and a large amount more. This is also a time when peer (同龄人) pressure is most commonly put upon a vast majority of teens.

Peer pressure is the influence from members of one’s peer group. This can include influencing another to drink, smoke, cheat on a test, lie, skip class, and etc. The list is    5     (end). Peer pressure at high school is both    6     (harm) and effective because it can lead to teen depression, high stress levels, negative behavior    7     (issue), and poor decision making and outcomes.

Despite the fact that peer pressure is most commonly seen as a very negative issue, it can    8     (see) positively in some situations. This can contain pressuring your peers to avoid drugs, be honest, avoid alcohol, respect others,work hard, exercise, be kind, be responsible, and more. Friends and peer    9     (actual) affect the choices you make. Choosing to have good friends can have a very strong effect     10    you.

3 . When plates are set on the table, phones, rather than forks, are at the ready. At this point in our social media entanglement (纠缠), the fact that the camera eats first is pretty much a given. Sure, some chefs, including Michelin rated star chefs, express their displeasure at this, but efforts to make the table a screen-free domain have mostly fallen flat.

New research from Aston University has found that people are indeed influenced by the food photos that their friends post on social media. For example, for every serving of fruits and vegetables that a person thinks their friends are eating, they’ll eat one-fifth of a serving more. This number makes more sense within the context of the recommended “five a day”, meaning someone who’s being influenced would make a point of eating six portions of fruits or vegetables. Similarly, for every three portions of junk food that a person sees friends consuming on social media, they’ll eat an extra one.

The researchers have also suggested that social media can be very beneficial when it comes to people’s choices of food and their diets. Study supervisors Dr. Jason Thomas said, “The implication is that we can use social media as a tool to encourage each other’s eating choice within friendship groups, and use this knowledge as a tool for public health interventions.”

Actually, the daily food situation is somewhat different from everything else posted on social media. People also desire to copy what they see but they need good social media literacy skills in order to grasp what’s realistic and what’s absurd. It is necessary to avoid the fake perfection of social media.

It gets boring trying to figure out what to eat three times a day, week after week, so no wonder people want to take the path of least resistance and eat what their friends are eating. Unfortunately, most of what gets posted is the more time-consuming recipes or the attractively styled restaurant meals. By all means, keep your antennae (触角) out for new ideas, but gather them from food magazines, cookbooks, store flyers, reliable cooking websites, and recommended recipes from friends and family.

1. What phenomenon is talked about in Para.1?

A．The influence of social media on people’s diet.

B．People’s taking photos of food before eating.

C．Chefs’ efforts to make the table screen-free.

D．The pursuit of dining in fancy restaurant.

2. What’s the consequence of people’s seeing their friends’ online post?

A．They’ll copy what their friends do.

B．They’ll take junk food more seriously.

C．They’ll consume more than their friends.

D．They’ll care more about their friends’ eating habits.

3. What’s Dr. Jason Thomas’s attitude towards social media?

A．Positive.

B．Doubtful.

C．Concerned.

D．Unclear.

4. What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?

A．Point out the unreality of social media.

B．Call on people to enrich their knowledge in cooking.

C．Introduce the general classification of food posted online.

D．Encourage people to broaden their sources of food inspiration.

6 . Nowadays with the development of technology, people have gradually depended on the mobile phones seriously. Many people, especially young adults, like to use social media to connect with others. However, everyone takes no notice of an important point. That’s face-to-face communication between people is missing.

Social media is all about connecting with others. But a new study suggests that too much social media use makes people feel alone and lonely. The study finds that heavy use of platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram leads to isolation among young adults.

In the study Brian Primack and his team interviewed 1,787 U.S. adults aged 19 to 32 about their use of social media platforms. Surprisingly, people that spend more time on social media feel lonelier than others.

Tom Kersting，a psychotherapist(心理治疗师)，said “Although people think being on social media all the time makes them connected to others, they are actually disconnected, because the more time one spends behind a screen, the less time one spends face-to-face.”Kersting continued. “They are spending a lot of time looking at everyone else’s posts, where they are, where they are going and what they are doing. The constant connection to others’ perfect life experiences causes feelings of being left out, and of being lonely.”

So what’s the answer? “It’s simple,” says Kersting, “All you need to do is to have a strong will. The solution to this is to refuse the addiction to looking at everyone else’s life. Just focus on your own life, where you’re going, what you are grateful for, and what you want to achieve in this world. Then go out and do it, and stop wasting so much time comparing.”

1. What can be known about young adults in Paragraph 1?

A．They feel forgotten by their friends.

B．They lack face-to-face communication.

C．They depend too much on social media for learning.

D．They can’t keep up with the development of technology.

2. What does the underlined word “isolation” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Addiction.

B．Loneliness.

C．Satisfaction.

D．Sadness.

3. What can be done to prevent people feeling left out and lonely?

A．Learn to improve one’s social ability.

B．Share one’s own perfect life with friends.

C．Cut down the time spent on social activities.

D．Concentrate on one’s own life rather than others’.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．Social Media May Not be so Social

B．Others’ Perfect Life May Not be Perfect

C．Face-to-Face Communication Comes First

D．Our Life Will be Destroyed by Social Media

7 . Did you watch the popular TV series Meet Yourself during your winter vacation? In the TV series, the heroine Xu Hongdou travels to a village in Yunnan province and volunteers at a local cafe. She gets free meals in return. As the show finds a growing audience, volunteer travel - an old-yet-modern form of travel similar to Xu*s type of work - has attracted more attention.

Volunteer travel refers to taking a trip where all or part of the purpose of the trip is to participate in an arranged service opportunity to help others, according to Wise Tour, an online provider of tourist information.

These volunteer trips are usually arranged by church organizations, human interest groups or nonprofit organizations, and they take form of equal exchanges. During the trip, volunteer travelers often provide services like teaching, cooking, animal caring, and cultural activities. In exchange for their help, the volunteers may get free or discounted accommodation, meals and laundry (洗衣服务 )，activities, or classes.

It seems as if these long journeys could only be made possible in recent years by modern transportation. Nevertheless, volunteer travel dates back to the 1960s, when Alec Dickson and his wife Mora from the UK founded Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), an international volunteer organization.

Traditionally, the volunteer activities take place in a foreign country. However, just as what Meet Yourself describes, more volunteer trips have taken place within the same countries or regions the volunteers originate from in recent years. Sanlian Lifeweek magazine commented that volunteer projects in rural areas are now attracting more urban visitors as a break from the fast and stressful pace of urban living. Yang Yan, a founder of a volunteer platform, told the magazine that it has indeed been a growing trend for urban residents to volunteer in rural areas.

People try volunteer travel for several reasons. By working voluntarily while traveling, travelers may make a real, positive impact on the world. The services volunteers provide can be through charities with lower costs for the communities they serve. Another benefit of volunteer travel is that it helps urban dwellers(居民)to get a taste of rural life. For those who are sick of urban pressure but can’t make up their minds whether to move permanently to the countryside, volunteer travel can be a solution. In this way, as Yang comments, travelers can catch some relief from their busy lives, while rural communities also benefit by receiving more customers for local tourism industries and temporary high-quality labor.

1. Why does the author mention Meet Yourself in the beginning of the article?

A．To introduce a new way of travel.

B．To raise readers’ interest in the TV series.

C．To show the popularity of this TV series.

D．To lead up to the topic of volunteer travel.

2. What does the article tell us about volunteer travel?

A．It dates back to the 19th century in the UK.

B．It combines travel with meaningful work to help others.

C．It requires travelers to be highly educated.

D．Travelers can earn money on their trips.

3. What is the second-to-last paragraph mainly about?

A．A new trend of volunteer trips.

B．Different views on volunteer trips.

C．The significance of volunteer trips.

D．The current development of volunteer trips.

4. Why are more urban residents attracted by volunteer projects in rural areas nowadays?

A．To follow a new trend.	B．To support the rural tourism industry.
C．To give back to society.	D．To get away from the worries of city life.