1 . We’re living in stressful times. Stress, anxiety, and depression are on the rise. Even worse, resilience (适应力) is on a downturn. The dip is especially noted in teens and young adults. Some students are often overwhelmed by fear of failure.

Kids need resilience if they are to live mentally healthy lives. Resilience helps us deal with stress and adversity. It helps us recover from difficulties. Resilience makes us more willing to try new and challenging things. It’s a helpful trait (特性) to have as an adult or a child, with so much stress in the world. Resilient kids recover more easily from setbacks, bouncing back (重整旗鼓) if they fail.

As parents, we want to raise “resilient kids” but how exactly do we do that? Are they just born with it or not? The good news is that resilience is not a “trait” that children do or do not possess. It is shaped by our experiences. But it doesn’t come easy. Kids have to earn it. Nature offers many chances for them to do so.

The effect of nature on the mental well-being of children has been well-documented. In one study, two groups of children were observed: one group attending a nature preschool; the other group attending play-based, non-nature preschools. The study showed that the nature preschool group made significantly greater growth in factors relating to resilience than children in the non-nature preschool group.

As parents, we see nature teaching our kids to be more resilient every day. When you take your children on a long hike, a child may be hungry, tired, and thirsty at times. But a hike is a commitment. Yet there’s a reward waiting at the end, perhaps a view or maybe a chance to cool off in a refreshing waterhole. Even when they are tired, kids have to keep going, putting their needs aside until the hike is over and they can earn the reward. And the reward feels so much more earned. That’s resilience.

1. What does the underlined word “dip” in paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Decrease in resilience.	B．Influence of depression.
C．School stress.	D．Social anxiety.

2. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．How to raise resilient kids.

B．How to overcome difficulties.

C．The mental health problems of children.

D．The importance of resilience on individuals.

3. What does the study mainly find?

A．Nature can positively influence resilience.

B．Children play harder outdoors than indoors.

C．Resilience skills can hardly be learned at a young age.

D．Children in play-based schools are more resilient than others.

4. Why does the author describe a hike in the last paragraph?

A．To give a definition of resilience.

B．To suggest suitable rewards for children.

C．To teach parents how to hike with children.

D．To explain how children navigate challenges during the hike.

5 . Since the early to mid-2010s, social media apps have made a permanent home in many people’s phones and spending time on social media has become as much of a daily activity as eating food or drinking water. Since so many people — especially kids, teens, and young adults — are on it for much of their days, there is increased concern over what social media is doing to people with its overwhelming (巨大的) information. Many argue that social media is an unhealthy way to pass the time, and false information from online is causing panic and confusion.

While social media may sometimes be linked to negativity, it is not as bad as many make it out to be. In fact, it has given birth to a whole new way to advocate for important movements, and it’s easy to spread one’s message to reach a large audience. For example, the Black Lives Matter movement started with online advocacy and it eventually reached practically everyone around the world during the civil rights movement over the summer in 2020. Activists online can create informational fliers, post resources to further educate people on any given topic, and interact with like- minded people that want to help as well within a matter of minutes without even having to leave the house.

Honieh Hemati, a social activist, agrees that social media can be extremely helpful. “It can be really educational and inspirational. Sometimes it can open your eyes to a new perspective (视角) you wouldn’t have seen yourself,” she explained.

It is unjust to demonize (使妖魔化) social media, when it seems that most issues around social media are user errors, like anyone complaining there are too many people voicing opinions they don’t agree with, or being addicted to social media. It really is up to the individual— how they think of social media, and how they make use of it. People who have any grasp on reality wouldn’t spend every waking second on the phone, and they are responsible for what they post online.

1. What are people worried about in terms of social media?

A．Confusion and panic it causes to young people.

B．Difficulty to delete apps once they are downloaded.

C．Unhealthy habits of using it while eating or drinking.

D．Bad effects it brings about with too much information.

2. What does Honieh Hemati think of social media?

A．Harmful.

B．Changeable.

C．Beneficial.

D．Addictive.

3. What does the author advise people to do with social media?

A．Forbid the young from it.	B．Mind how they see it and use it.
C．Be aware of the errors on it.	D．Make the most and best use of it.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Social Media: Now or Never!	B．Social Media: Demon or Angel?
C．Activists: Social Media Are Helpful	D．Teens: Stay Away from Social Media

7 . Our culture sees grief as a disease: a terrifying, messy emotion that needs to be cleaned up and put behind us as soon as possible. We see grief as something to overcome, something to fix, rather than something to care or support. Even our doctors are trained to see grief as a disorder rather than a natural response to deep loss. When the professionals don’t know how to handle grief, the rest of us can hardly be expected to respond with skill and grace.

If we want to care for one another better, we have to redefine grief. We have to talk about it. We have to understand it as a natural, normal process rather than something to be avoided. We have to start talking about the skills needed to face the reality of living a life changed entirely by loss.

There’s no one perfect way to respond to or to support someone you care about, but there are some good ground rules.

First, remember that you play a supporting role, not a central role, in your friend’s grief. You may believe you would do things differently if this loss had happened to you. I hope you don’t get the chance to find out. This grief belongs to your friend. Follow their lead.

In fact, one of the best things you can do for a grieving friend is anticipating(预测) his needs. Don’t say, “Call me if there’s anything I can do,” because your friend will not call. Instead, make concrete offers: “I will stop by each morning on my way to work and take the dog for a quick walk.” Then show up and do it. Of course, the real work of grieving is not something you can do for your friend, but you can lessen the burden of everyday life. Assist in small, ordinary ways， such as taking in the mail, or shoveling snow. These tasks are evidence of love.

Above all, show your love. Say something. Do something. Be willing to stand beside the gaping hole that has opened in your friend’s life. Listen. Be there. Love. Love is the only thing that lasts.

1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A．Grief is a disease.	B．How to handle grief.
C．Response to deep loss.	D．General views about grief.

2. What is the author’s opinion on grief?

A．He believes it can be avoided.

B．He thinks it is a deadly disease.

C．He thinks it is natural and we should face it.

D．He believes that it can be understood only by doctors.

3. What does the underlined word “concrete” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Specific.

B．External.

C．Financial.

D．Complete.

4. What does the author think is the most important when comforting grieving friends?

A．Following their lead.	B．Showing your love to them.
C．Giving them a lot of money.	D．Accompanying them all day long.

9 . We all know that unpleasant feeling when we’re talking about something interesting and halfway through our sentence we’re interrupted. But was that really an interruption? The answer depends on whom you ask, according to new research led by Katherine Hilton from Stanford University.

Using a set of controlled audio clips (录音片段), Hilton surveyed 5, 000 American English speakers to better understand what affects people’s perceptions of interruptions. She had participants listen to audio clips and then answer questions about whether the speakers seemed to be friendly and engaged, listening to one another, or trying to interrupt.

Hilton found that American English speakers have different conversational styles. She identified two distinct groups: high and low intensity speakers. High intensity speakers are generally uncomfortable with moments of silence in conversation and consider talking at the same time a sign of engagement. Low intensity speakers find it rude to talk at the same time and prefer people speak one after another in conversation.

The differences in conversational styles became evident when participants listened to audio clips in which two people spoke at the same time but were agreeing with each other and stayed on topic, Hilton said. The high intensity group reported that conversations where people spoke at the same time when expressing agreement were not interruptive but engaged and friendlier than the conversations with moments of silence in between speaking turns. In contrast, the low intensity group perceived any amount of simultaneous (同时) chat as a rude interruption, regardless of what the speakers were saying.

“People care about being interrupted, and those small interruptions can have a massive effect on the overall communication,” Hilton said. “Breaking apart what an interruption means is essential if we want to understand how humans interact with each other.”

1. What does Hilton’s research focus on?

A．What interruptions mean to people.

B．Whether interruption is good or not.

C．How to avoid getting interrupted.

D．Why speakers interrupt each other.

2. What do participants of the study need to do?

A．Record an audio clip.	B．Answer some questions.
C．Listen to one another.	D．Have a chat with a friend.

3. What do low intensity speakers think of simultaneous chat?

A．It’s important.	B．It’s interesting.
C．It’s inefficient.	D．It’s impolite.

4. What can we learn from Hilton’s research?

A．Human interaction is complex.

B．Communication is the basis of life.

C．Interruptions promote thinking.

D．Language barriers will always exist.

10 . Shi Wenlan said the only thing that interests her is dealing with smelly centuries-old books. “I don’t want to drink, I don’t want to eat or move. I like sitting alone under the warm lights, mending holes and cutting pages. I’m a boring person, but I’m doing an interesting thing, ” she said. In the past 26 years, the 51-year-old restorer of ancient books at the Hunan Library in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, has brought about 100,000 pages of ancient books back to life. Her work helps to ensure that ancient knowledge can be read and appreciated by people today. Shi has great faith in her little- known job. “Ancient books are precious documents and important achievements of Chinese civilization. To restore them is to rescue cultural relics that are dying out, ” she said.

Books age and decay(腐烂)over time. Though technology, such as accurately controlled temperatures and humidity levels, can be used to slow the process, a number of old books are on the edge of withering away forever, experts said. At the Hunan Library alone, a third of its 680,000 ancient books are in urgent need of restoration, which means each of its eight restorers needs to complete 3,000 pages a year, said Liu Xueping, director of the library’s special collection department. More young restorers must be trained to promote the production of ancient books, so human civilization can be preserved despite the damage of time, experts said.

In recent years, the government has attached great importance to the restoration of ancient books and has put forward many policies to encourage more people to take up the work. The number of restorers has now reached about 1,000. They have better educational backgrounds and receive more systematic training, as well as better salaries and higher social status, Shi said.

1. Which of the following best describes a book restorer’s job?

A．Boring.

B．Well-paid.

C．Demanding.

D．Dangerous.

2. What does the underlined phrase “withering away” mean in paragraph 2?

A．Falling.

B．Reducing.

C．Weakening.

D．Disappearing.

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．It is important to restore books.

B．Restorers will receive better education.

C．Restorers are receiving more attention.

D．It will be easier to be a restorer in the future.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Human Civilization Can Be Preserved

B．Ancient Books Have Been Brought Back to Life

C．Ancient Books Are in Urgent Need of Restoration

D．Restorers Preserve Ancient Books for Descendants