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China’s new-generation high-speed train, the Fuxing Hao, is now one of the
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2 . The robots are coming！
All the efforts you put into studying at university may not have been enough—because robots could be coming for your job. A new study finds that as many as 800 million workers could be replaced by robots by 2030.
The study from the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that “between 400 million and 800 million individuals could be replaced by automation (自动化) or robots and need to find new jobs by 2030 around the world”. It estimates that 30 percent of the hours people spend on working globally could have been automated by that time.
Those most affected will be people who work in “predictable environments” doing tasks such as operating machines and preparing fast food. Those who make a living collecting and processing data also face a high risk of being replaced by robots. But people who work in less predictable environments such as gardeners, plumbers, and childcare staff face a smaller risk, because their roles “are technically difficult to be automated and often command relatively lower wages, which makes automation a less attractive business proposition”.
However, it's not all doom (厄运) for the future of employment. The study notes that automation sometimes allows workers to remain employed in a different position. “Even when some tasks are automated, the employment rate in those occupations may not decline because workers may perform new tasks，” McKinsey & Company wrote in a release on its website.
It noted that China has the largest number of employees who would need to switch occupations, up to 100 million if automation was adopted rapidly, or 12 percent of the 2030 workforce. The numbers are higher in more advanced economies, with up to onethird of the 2030 workforce in America and Germany needing to switch occupations, along with nearly half of the 2030 workforce in Japan. Countries which fail to prepare workers for transition to new jobs will feel the impact of a rise in unemployment and depressed wages, according to the study.
1. Why will lots of people need to find new jobs by 2030 around the world？| A．They don't put efforts into their study at university. |
| B．The world's working population is on the steady increase. |
| C．They will be paid less with the development of technology. |
| D．Robots or automation will take the place of their positions. |
| A．Machine operation. | B．Fast food cooking. |
| C．Childcare in kindergarten. | D．Data collection. |
| A．Optimistic. |
| B．Pessimistic. |
| C．Unconcerned and indifferent. |
| D．Having no personal preference. |
| A．Education. | B．Technology. |
| C．Lifestyle. | D．Business. |
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4 . Children’s heavy digital media use is associated with a risk of being overweight later in adolescence. A recent study shows that six hours of leisure-time physical activity per week at the age of 11 reduces the risk of being overweight at 14 years of age associated with heavy use of digital media.
Obesity (肥胖) in children and adolescents is one of the most significant health-related challenges globally. A study carried out by the Folkhalsan Research Center investigated whether a link exists between the digital media use of Finnish school-age children and the risk of being overweight later in adolescence. In addition, the study looked into whether children’s physical activity has an effect on this potential link.
The study involved 4,661 children who reported how much time they spent on sedentary (久坐的) digital media use and physical activity outside school hours. The study indicated that heavy use of digital media at 11 years of age was associated with a heightened risk of being overweight at 14 years of age in children who reported taking part in under six hours per week of physical activity in their leisure time. In children who reported being physically active for six or more hours per week, such a link was not observed.
The study also took into account other factors potentially impacting obesity, such as childhood eating habits and the amount of sleep, as well as the amount of digital media use and physical activity in adolescence. In spite of the confounding (混杂的) factors, the protective role of childhood physical activity in the connection between digital media use in childhood and being overweight later in life was successfully confirmed.
“The effect of physical activity on the association between digital media use and being overweight has not been further investigated in follow-up studies so far,” says Postdoctoral Researcher Elina Engberg. “In this study, the amount of physical activity and use of digital media was reported by the children themselves, and the level of their activity was not surveyed, so there is a need for further studies.”
1. The subjects of the study were ________.| A．surveyed three years later after the first one |
| B．those who kept sitting and used digital media a lot |
| C．4,661 school-aged children suffering from obesity |
| D．lacking in sufficient leisure-time physical activity |
| A．Major | B．Particular. |
| C．Increasing. | D．Slight. |
| A．Different factors contributing to kids’ overweight problem. |
| B．The influence of childhood eating habits on children’s obesity. |
| C．The relationship among kids’ exercise, digital media use and obesity. |
| D．Children’s academic challenges resulting from heavy digital media use. |
| A．Reasons for carrying out further studies. |
| B．Guidelines for children and adolescents. |
| C．Approaches to solving teens’ weight problems. |
| D．Connections between obesity and physical activity. |
A recent survey by China Youth Daily found that 60 percent of respondents spend a daily average of more than an hour
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6 . My friend was recently alarmed when she was told that her two-year-old must wear a mask in preschool. Her little girl already struggles to make herself understood, and her mother worries that the mask will make it harder for her daughter to be understood and that she will have trouble telling what her masked peers and teachers are saying.
Now that the face mask has become the essential accoutrement of our lives, the COVID pandemic has laid bare our fundamental need to see whole faces. Babies and young children, who must learn the meaning of the communicative signals normally available in their social partners’ faces, could be puzzled by those only partially visible(可见的) faces.
Faces are a complex and rich source of social, emotional and linguistic signals. Babies and young children see and hear communicative signals and learn to attach meanings to them through their everyday interactions with their caregivers and social partners. Take, for example, a baby in a day care center where only masked people can be heard and seen talking. However, to understand what they are saying, that baby must look at the mouth, which is essential for figuring out whether a particular person’s face goes with a particular voice. So, seeing partially visible faces robs them of sufficient linguistic signals that are essential for communication.
The visible articulations(发声)that babies normally see when others are talking play a key role in their acquisition of communication skills. This suggests that masks probably hinder babies’ acquisition of speech and language.
Of course, the news is not all bad. Babies spend much of their time at home with their unmasked caregivers. It is only in day care or when out and about with their parents that they don’t see whole talking faces. Therefore, it may only be those situations that may have long-term negative consequences for babies.
1. What’s the problem will the daughter of author’s friend face?| A．Lack of necessary social skills at school. |
| B．Fear of expressing herself before others. |
| C．Communication trouble brought by masks. |
| D．Inability to reply to what others are saying. |
| A．By comparing different lip patterns of speakers. |
| B．By combining facial expression and speech together. |
| C．By listening carefully to what people are talking. |
| D．By looking directly at the mouth of the speaker. |
| A．harmful but limited. | B．positive and favorable. |
| C．unsure and doubtful. | D．negative and worrying. |
Bullying has been an exceeding issue over the years. Bullying is a major problem that we haven’t been able to stop. Every year more and more people become bullied at school and online.What is worrying us most is that the numbers of kids who are starting to become victims are increasing. Bullying doesn’t just affect the victims of bullying but harms everyone around it, including the bullies themselves.
Bullying has gone viral in the new communication era. People have been bullying over the internet on social media sites such as Facebook, twitter as well as social networking sites. People have also used our new technology of texting to harass people. Cyber bullying is what it's called when you bully someone over the internet. It is really not rare to see people bullied through the internet. People who are bullied feel great pressure and many of them committed suicide. Just in 2020, as many as 1,200 teens were reported to have acted suicide because of cyber bully.
Bullying in school is still in play as well. It may be the “old fashioned” and it is still just as effective! School teachers should be aware that it IS HAPPENING!!! Parents think that bullying in schools is just “a part of school” , which is complete utter nonsense! When students get bullied they feel unsafe, scared and sad. Statistics show that on a daily average 160, 000 children miss school because they fear they will he bullied again.
Nobody likes a bully and being one may be a nightmare of the kids. It is high time that we attached great importance to it. Bystanders could really help stop bullying if they stood up right when it is happening! Stop bullying on the spot therefore it cant go anywhere or develop anymore, If a teacher or anyone sees the bullying, don’t be afraid! When adults respond quickly and consistently, they sent the message that it is not acceptable. When stopping bullying on spot you should intervene immediately, separate the kids involved and make sure everyone is safe. If we all take a stand against bullying and not ignore it or even encourage it, I believe that we can put an end to it!
We probably know that smoking is bad for our health. But what about e-cigarettes? Introduced as a "less-harmful or safer" alternative to smoking, e-cigarettes or "vaping" has gained increasing popularity. However, the Chinese government released a notice to ban the online sales of e-cigarettes from Nov. 1st and further reduce the young's access to the products.
This means that e-cigarette makers have to close their online stores and take down online advertisements for e-cigarettes. So far, some e-cigarette firms have closed sales links on their websites, and more than a dozen online stores have removed related products, Xinhua reported. This is not the first government measure to limit the use of e-cigarettes. In August 2018, e-cigarettes were banned from sale to people under the age of 18.
Research has shown that e-cigarette companies tend to target young people with their advertising campaigns, according to the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. It's found that many firms have been misleading young buyers with messages like, "E-cigarettes could help you quit smoking," and, "E-cigarettes are healthy and harmless." Some even claim that vaping symbolizes "young," "fashionable" and "trendy" to attract the young. Michael Blaha, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, also mentioned that a lower per-use cost than traditional cigarettes and a wide range of sweet flavors, like apple pie and watermelon, contribute to vaping's popularity among young people.
However, e-cigarettes contain nicotine(though not always), flavorings, and other chemicals, they are harmful to health. Taking in nicotine during youth can lead to addiction and cause long-term harm to brain development. Flavorings added to e-cigarettes can produce more harmful toxins after heating. Thus, it is advisable that the young should limit the exposure to e-cigarettes.
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9 . Would you drink water that had once been washed down a toilet after it’s been cleaned? Think about it! The climate is warming and fresh water is falling short. So recycling wastewater into drinking water may become a necessity.
However, “People are disgusted (使厌恶，使作呕) by recycled water, because it was once wastewater, the water that goes down your showers or your toilets. And even though it’s cleaned up to a standard that is the same if not better than commercially bottled water, the key barrier to accept it is people’s disgust regarding it.” Riverside psychologist Daniel Harmon said.
In a recent set of experiments, Harmon and his colleague Mary Gauvain learned how difficult it can be for people to get over their disgust at the thought of drinking recycled water. Harmon said, “Our study was aimed at investigating whether commercials, or these pro-environmental messages actually work. That is, whether they can get people to accept recycled water and consume recycled water.”
In one experiment, the researchers had some participants watch a short video promoting water conservation. And in another experiment, they added a video explaining why recycled water might result in disgust, even though all pollutants have been cleared away. And neither video had a strong effect on people’s willingness to drink recycled water or to sign a document supporting the practice. In fact, watching the video that directly explained recycled water’s disgusting factor was no more persuasive than the water conservation video alone. Perhaps because reason or logic doesn’t work at all. Harmon thought, “Disgust is such a powerful reaction that simply giving more information is not going to be effective because disgust is not really a reasonable response.”
Harmon said it’s probably going to take a lot more to get people to accept recycled water. For example, it might help to see members of their community drinking water that’s gone, as it’s called, from “toilet to tap”, with no ill effects.
1. What does wastewater refer to in Paragraph 2?| A．Water once used in showers. |
| B．Water polluted by industrial waste. |
| C．Water used to wash down streets. |
| D．Water causing diseases to spread widely. |
| A．To check if commercials are reliable. |
| B．To prove pro-environmental messages do matter. |
| C．To investigate if people know about waste water. |
| D．To see whether recycled water will be accepted. |
| A．It is an unreasonable reaction. |
| B．There is no persuasive evidence about it. |
| C．It needs more logic and reasons to overcome it. |
| D．It is caused by pollutants in recycled water. |
| A．A biology textbook. | B．A travel brochure. |
| C．A scientific magazine. | D．A medicine magazine. |
10 . For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?
Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.
In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.
1. Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?| A．Both are about where to draw the line. |
| B．Both can continue for generations. |
| C．Neither has any clear winner. |
| D．Neither can be put to an end. |
| A．The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents. |
| B．The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict. |
| C．The teens cause their parents of misleading them. |
| D．The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict. |
| A．give orders to the other |
| B．know more than the other |
| C．gain respect from the other |
| D．get the other to behave properly |
| A．Solutions for the parent-teen problems. |
| B．Examples of the parent-teen war. |
| C．Causes for the parent-teen conflicts. |
| D．Future of the parent-teen relationship. |
