1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where is the speaker now?

A．In a hospital.

B．In a college.

C．In a pet school.

2. In which aspect is a visit from a dog helpful?

A．It cures the patients.

B．It makes patients feel better.

C．It helps do a lot of things.

3. What are the dogs first trained to do in the program?

A．Play with patients and their children.

B．Accompany patients to their hospital rooms.

C．Be familiar with the hospital and pick up things.

3 . Cooking or baking has become a common cure for stress or feeling down, but there might actually be some science behind it. A study conducted by researchers followed 658 people for two weeks and found that a little creativity each day can go a long way towards happiness and satisfaction in daily life.

“There is growing recognition in psychology research that creativity is associated with emotional functioning,” Tamlin Conner, lead author on the study, explained. “However, most of this work focuses on how emotions benefit or prevent creativity, not whether creativity benefits or hampers (妨碍) emotional well-being.” By following detailed diaries kept by the study subjects, Conner found that in addition to feeling happier, people who worked on little creative projects every day also felt they were “flourishing”—a psychological term that describes the feeling of personal growth.

This isn’t the first time researchers have drawn a line connecting making food with positive feelings. In recent years, psychologists have started spending more time exploring cooking and baking as a therapeutic (治疗的) tool to help people dealing with things like depression and anxiety.

“When I’m in the kitchen, measuring the amount of sugar or butter I need for a recipe—I am in control,” baker John Whaite, who won “The Great British Bake Off” in 2012, told BBC.

For people like Whaite, who is suffering from manic depression, baking can help their mood by providing small tasks to focus on in a manner similar to meditation (冥想). In order to put together a good meal, cooks have to be constantly in the moment, adding ingredients, adjusting the heat of the stove and tasting their food—all of which can be helpful techniques in treating some forms of mental illness.

“A lot of us turn to baking when we’re feeling low.” Melanie Denyer, the founder of the Depressed Cake Shop, a bakery designed to draw awareness to mental health conditions, says. “Some of us even started baking because they were ill and needed something simple as a focus. And there is genuinely something very therapeutic about baking.”

Baking may not be a be-all and end-all cure for mental illness, but anyone in need of lifted spirits should consider pulling out the flour and warming up the oven.

1. What is the focus of most psychology research on creativity and emotions?

A．The benefits of creative projects on emotions.

B．The impacts of emotion on creativity.

C．The harm of creativity to emotional well-being.

D．The effects of creativity on emotional well-being.

2. Why do some psychologists explore cooking as a therapeutic tool?

A．To provide an alternative form of meditation.

B．To promote healthy and balanced eating habits.

C．To assist individuals in handling mental problems.

D．To help people with serious physical illnesses.

3. How did John Whaite benefit from baking?

A．It won him “The Great British Bake Off”.

B．It helped him gain a sense of control.

C．It cured his depression through meditation.

D．It enabled him to become more creative.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Cooking and baking are creative activities.

B．Baking is a complete cure for mental illness.

C．Small creative tasks lead to improved emotional well-being.

D．Following recipes leads to personal growth in creativity.

4 . Speaking to The Guardian at the Third International Conference on Human genetic editing, Prof Jennifer Doudna, a 2020 Nobel chemistry prize winner, said, “We’ll definitely be seeing genetic therapies (治疗；疗法) for heart diseases, brain diseases, and eye conditions.” But she warned, “One of the riskiest and most realistic potentials is that trials of gene editing in embryos (胚胎) will probably follow.”

The technology can and will smooth the way for therapies for enhancing healthy humans, to make them faster, smarter, stronger, or more resistant to diseases, though enhancement would be more difficult than mending single faulty genes. According to the experts at the conference, including geneticists, public health researchers and philosophers, a wave of gene editing therapies were expected to reach clinics in the next five years or so. The therapies will correct disease-causing disorders in tissues and organs and become mature as researchers work out how to make multiple edits at once and reach difficult areas such as parts of the brain.

However, Doudna and the other experts also expressed their concern that the next generation of advanced genetic therapies raises serious issues that must be tackled to ensure the technology benefits patients and society. Prof Françoise Baylis, a philosopher at Dalhousie University in Canada, was worried that in addition to the sure sign of genetic enhancement coming, the cost of the new therapies would be too high for much of the global population. Prof Mayana Zatz, at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, said she was against editing genes for improvement but added, “There will always be people ready to pay for it in private clinics and it will be difficult to stop.”

One conclusion almost all experts shared was that while all these potential problems and risks did exist, a future full of promise would definitely be witnessed. After all, it is not technology itself but ways in which people employ it that decide the result.

1. Which is not considered as beneficial by Prof Jennifer Doudna?

A．Gene editing for diseases in heart.

B．Gene editing for diseases in brain.

C．Gene editing for diseases in embryos.

D．Gene editing for diseases in eyes.

2. What can we infer in paragraph 2?

A．Genetic therapies are more difficult than mending.

B．Society will benefit from genetic therapies entirely.

C．Genetic therapies have already reached some clinics.

D．All disorders can’t be corrected by genetic therapies.

3. What did Prof Françoise Baylis and Prof Mayana Zatz agree on?

A．Editing genes for improvement is unavoidable.

B．Editing genes for improvement is promising.

C．The cost of the new therapies would be too high.

D．Editing genes for improvement should carry on.

4. What is the attitude of most experts towards genetic therapies in the text?

A．Objective.

B．Negative.

C．Supportive.

D．Unconcerned.

5 . Every day on the respiratory (呼吸道) ward at one of Kyrgyzstan’s biggest hospitals, Aidai Temiraly kyzy, a 24-year-old nurse, puts on the music and leads her patients in the Kara Jorgo, the national dance of the central Asian country.

This involves a range of body movements and leaves everyone smiling — but Temiraly kyzy is not doing it for fun. The session is part of a treatment programme offered to people with COPD — a common, preventable and treatable lung condition.

COPD develops from midlife onwards; symptoms include breathlessness, a chronic cough, and tiredness. It is one of the top three causes of death worldwide, and 90% of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Globally, there are 3 million deaths a year from COPD but this number is expected to rise to 5.4 million by 2060.

Treatment for COPD in many countries involves prescribing (开处方) oxygen, inhalers and antibiotics (抗生素), which patients have to buy. In Kyrgyzstan this can cost more than a monthly salary. Sooronbaev, director of the National Centre of Cardiology and his team started experimenting with pulmonary rehabilitation, a physical exercise programme designed in 2016 for people with lung conditions.

Over the years, the programme has expanded and now it is already in place in three hospitals. Added to lectures and patient support groups is a regime (体系) of physical exercise incorporating (融合) elements of volleyball, walking, cycling on exercise bikes and dance.

Dr. Azamat Akylbekov, a pulmonologist in Bishkek, has seen the transformative effect. “I remember one woman who was 63,” he says. “She cried because she had severe shortness of breath, coughed all the time and took a lot of strong antibiotics and inhalers. She was really depressed.”

She was invited to take part in the programme and the results surprised him. “Afterwards, she was like a flower — she smiled and her body language was more active. That sticks in my mind.”

Sooronbaev wants pulmonary rehabilitation to be available throughout the country from this year. Patients who have undergone the programme are being trained to teach others, and Sooronbaev and colleagues are due to speak at medical conferences to inform other healthcare professionals about their progress with the programme.

1. Why does the author mention Temiraly kyzy’s story?

A．To show the hardship of being a nurse.	B．To stress the significance of happiness.
C．To call on patients to dance to music.	D．To introduce a new approach to COPD.

2. What does the data in Paragraph 3 indicate?

A．The causes of COPD.	B．The severity of COPD.
C．The distribution of COPD cases.	D．The various symptoms of COPD.

3. What do we know about pulmonary rehabilitation?

A．It has proved to be effective.	B．It needs more tests on patients.
C．It is a heavy cost to COPD patients.	D．It is widely practiced in Kyrgyzstan.

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．The programme will be extended.

B．The programme will be difficult to practice.

C．The programme is being taught in schools.

D．The programme lacks professional support.

7 . 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。

Did you ever imagine that one day we could enjoy the benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a cup of coffee?

Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, is    1    approach used to help people re-balance their health and mind. A typical way of making a TCM formula (配方) is to get a prescription from a    2    (license) doctor, shop for all the medicinal materials, and then brew(煎) them with water in a pot. These materials    3    (say) to have a restorative effect by re-balancing one’s natural energy, or Qi,     4    runs through series of invisible meridians (经脉) throughout the body.

But if you ask younger generations of Chinese, few visit TCM shops nowadays, let alone brew these time-tested remedies for    5    (they). However, social media has recently seen a type of coffee    6    (feature) goji berry juice get popular.

The concept of combining TCM herbs    7    popular drinks could make young people access TCM more easily. The key of TCM is    8    (prevent). By trying such drinks, young people can take more care of their health, and nip sicknesses in the bud. Most people, attracted in such a cafe by the”new TCM drinks“ at first, would also be offered other TCM products like dried herbs and teas, after which they stay    9    (learn) more about TCM.

As Traditional Chinese Medicine becomes more    10    (access) to young people, many are integrating these ancient drinks into their daily wellness routines.

8 . Hospice (临终安养院) services benefit only about one person in three who dies in the US. “There are still over one million Americans who die each year without receiving hospice services,” according to a report produced in 2003. And for most who do get hospice care, their time in hospice is so short that staff members often lack the opportunity to provide the best care for their physical and emotional needs.

There are several reasons that more patients do not go into hospice care earlier. One is that Medicare (医疗保险) doesn’t cover the cost of patients’ life-extending treatment if they enter hospice. Medicare also requires that the doctor referring someone for hospice care must declare that the patient is expected to die within six months. As a result, some doctors hesitate about making an early referral to avoid being accused of cheating. Finally, there are simply not enough hospice centers and services available to meet the needs of dying patients throughout the country.

Many patients still have some concern over how hospice works. The philosophy of hospice is to neither accelerate nor postpone death. As Dr. Matt Kestenbaum, a hospice director, put it: “We let nature take its course, and we give patients all the things they need to be comfortable.”

Dying “naturally” in hospice does not deny patients the treatment for common diseases like blood clots. Hospice expenses are automatically covered by Medicare and most insurers provide hospice coverage as well.

Choosing hospice care does not mean patients lose the services of their personal doctors. They can return to regular insurance benefits when they leave hospice care because their condition improves or they want a therapy the hospice does not provide.

One thing bothering doctors is that patients will lose hope if they go into hospice. But the goal should be to refocus hope on what might be realistically achieved in the time remaining. A patient who enters hospice can have the opportunity to spend quality time with family and friends and settle unfinished business.

1. Why don’t many patients go to hospice earlier?

A．Because patients have to stay in hospice for a long time.

B．Because Medicare requirements aren’t in favor of hospice.

C．Because doctors can’t predict how long patients will live.

D．Because most hospice services are far away from patients.

2. What is the aim of hospice services?

A．To extend patients’ life.	B．To ease patients’ sufferings.
C．To reduce patients’ costs.	D．To settle patients’ business.

3. What concern might patients have about entering hospice?

A．They will lose treatment for common diseases.

B．Hospice can’t provide the treatment they need.

C．Doctors may give them unrealistic hope.

D．They will be separated from their family.

4. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

A．To criticize America’s Medicare system.

B．To explain why hospice is unpopular.

C．To introduce the way hospice works.

D．To popularize hospice services.

9 . A cancer treatment no longer means what it used to be. Just a few decades ago, the survival rate beyond five years was less than 50%. Now, nearly 70% of those who get cancer survive that long, and that rate is set to rise. Why? Because, more than ever, chemotherapy (化疗) and radiation, once the only ways of cancer treatment, are being paired with or replaced by varieties of new drugs and treatments.

For example, the first medication for what was previously considered an “undruggable” lung cancer was recently approved in the United States, Canada, Europe and the U.K. And a brand-new precise chemotherapy drug delivered directly to breast cancer cells is giving hope to patients with the HER 2-positive form of the disease.

Another discovery has been the promise of a treatment called immunotherapy, as researchers around the world have discovered ways to use the body’s own immune (免疫) system to battle cancer cells.

Also driving hope is a focus on prevention. Decades of research and public education have led to greater awareness of how lifestyle changes can reduce our risk of developing cancer. According to an article from the journal Pharmaceutical Research and published by the National Institutes of Health, 90% to 95% of cancers can be owed to environment and lifestyle, rather than to genetic (基因的) factors.

Employing vaccines (疫苗) is another effective way of prevention. Take the mRNA cancer vaccines for example. The speedy development of COVID-19 vaccines was thanks to foundations already laid by researchers who had been working for years to create mRNA vaccines to fight cancer. These vaccines use a specially programmed molecule (分子) to activate an immune response in the body’s cells. Unlike the COVID-19 vaccines designed to help protect billions of people, each cancer mRNA vaccine is tailored to treat a single patient’s cancer.

In fact, this personalized approach can be made for everyone, and for every cancer.

1. Why is the survival rate beyond five years rising now?

A．Because new drugs and treatments have come out.

B．Because chemotherapy and radiation get advanced.

C．Because new drugs have been paired with old ones.

D．Because new treatments have replaced the old ones.

2. What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?

A．All the cancers are not related to genetic factors.

B．Most cancers have no relationship with lifestyle.

C．A focus on prevention is our only hope to deal with cancer.

D．All cancers have relationship with environment and lifestyle.

3. What can we infer about cancer mRNA vaccine according to the text?

A．The COVID-19 vaccines can be used to fight some cancers.

B．One cancer mRNA vaccine can’t be used for another cancer.

C．One cancer mRNA vaccine can be used to treat patients of the same cancer.

D．The COVID-19 vaccines were created from previous cancer mRNA vaccines.

4. What is the text?

A．A diary entry.	B．A news report.
C．A book review.	D．A science fiction.