1. What probably is the speaker?
| A．A host. | B．A tour guide. | C．An official. |
| A．Pears. | B．Oranges. | C．Potatoes. |
| A．Idaho. | B．Alabama. | C．Oregon. |
2 . “My painting is both about modern China and traditional China,” 13-year-old Mahshid Ghasemi said on Wednesday when introducing her work, which won the first prize in the first China-themed painting competition for Iranian children and teenagers.
The contest, together organized by the Chinese Embassy in Iran and Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon), was divided into two age groups, and received 427 paintings from young people across Iran. Each group was awarded one first prize, two second prizes, and three third prizes.
Ghasemi, from Isfahan province, said she used a dragon, fans, and ancient buildings to depict the traditional part of China with red as the main color and illustrated scenes of Chinese people celebrating the Lunar New Year. Meanwhile, in the modern China part, she focuses on China’s skyscrapers and urban development, and there are also celebratory farmers, representing the country ‘s progress in poverty alleviation(减轻，缓解).
Mehrnaz Tolouei, the first prize winner in the 7-11 age group, painted a scene of ancient Persians trading with the Chinese on the ancient Silk Road routes, an idea inspired by his father, Mahmoud Tolouei.
“The ancient Silk Road connected China and Iran,” he said, “the two countries today enjoy a friendly relationship and their cultures should be reunited again to reconnect through these routes.”
Noting that Iranian literary and artistic works contain a lot of Chinese stories and elements, Hamed Alamati, Kanoon’s general manager, said that his institute stands ready to work with the Chinese embassy to further strengthen the exchanges between the young people of the two countries with painting, a common artistic language of mankind, and constantly improve their mutual understanding. “Such efforts will add new strength to the long-standing friendly exchanges between the two countries,” Alamati added.
1. How many awards will be presented with in the competition?| A．Seven. | B．Eleven. | C．Twelve. | D．Thirteen. |
| A．Paint. | B．Explain. | C．Combine. | D．Describe. |
| A．Mahshid Ghasemi. | B．Mehrnaz Tolouei. |
| C．Mahmoud Tolouei. | D．Hamed Alamati. |
| A．Working with more Chinese youths. |
| B．Being long-standing friendly to each other. |
| C．Containing more Chinese stories in paintings. |
| D．Strengthening youth exchange through painting. |
3 . Rahul Aggarwal was in medical school when he got the surprising news that his mother-a fit woman in her 40s-had been diagnosed with type2 diabetes (糖尿病). “I always thought of diabetes as a disease of people at higher weights and with certain lifestyle practices.” he recalls, “but my mom was an Indian American woman with a healthy weight and good diet and exercise practices.”
Aggarwal, now a clinical fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston began thinking about how diabetes seems to affect certain ethnic and racial groups. It quantified diabetes risk in minority groups to determine if current screening recommendations are correct and equal.
The current standard was released in 2021 by the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which issues evidence-based guidance on disease prevention. The recommendation is to test adults aged 35 to 70 for diabetes if they are overweight or obese, defined as having a body mass index (BMI)of 25 kg/m2 or more. Aggarwal and his cooperators looked at the lowest-risk individuals qualified to screen under that rubric(评价量规). The researchers were shocked to find that the rate was about double for Hispanics and even higher among Black and Asian Americans. They concluded that to detect diabetes equally across all these groups, you would need to test Asian Americans with a BMI of 20 and Black and Hispanic individuals with a BMI of just 18. 5-measures considered to be in the healthy range.
Ngo-Metzger, who was the USPSTFs scientific director from 2012 to 2019, notes that “most studies of diabetes were done in middle-aged white individuals,” She argues that they ‘should be revised. “The study found that you would miss so many Blacks, Hispanics and Asians when you use these guidelines. I think it’s a kind of harm.”
1. What can we learn about Aggarwa’s mother?| A．She seldom had exercise. |
| B．She was diagnosed with diabetes at an old age. |
| C．Her poor diet and overweight accounted for her disease. |
| D．Her disease probably had a connection with her race. |
| A．Critical | B．Positive | C．Neutral | D．Indifferent |
| A．New findings about cure diabetes. |
| B．The causes of diabetes are complicated. |
| C．More and more people suffer from diabetes. |
| D．The current screening standards are not proper. |
| A．Detecting diabetes early. |
| B．Diabetes prevention. |
| C．Revising the current screening standard. |
| D．New ways to cure diabetes in the future. |
4 . An immigrant is a person who has come to live permanently in a country that is not their own. More than 145 million immigrants live outside their native countries.
Where are immigrants moving from?
When immigrants arrive in a new country, they often live in urban neighborhoods. As a result of immigration, many city neighborhoods change.
| A．And what countries are they moving to? |
| B．Immigrants move to other countries for different reasons. |
| C．Immigrants have contributed to British culture in many ways. |
| D．Immigrants open new stores, restaurants, and other businesses. |
| E．Many immigrants also move from Africa and Asia to the Middle East. |
| F．Moreover, Los Angeles has a track record of successfully accepting immigrants. |
| G．Los Angeles and New York are two cities in the US with very large immigrant populations. |
