1 . For the most part, American children aren’t great at math. But Chinese children tend to be excellent. It’s consistently found Chinese students at the top of the academic pile and Americans much nearer the bottom.

In Lenora Chu’s book “Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School”, she begins to reveal the cultural differences that lead to this gap. The differences she notices in children’s focus and discipline are dramatic, but she also notices cultural differences that influence how Chinese schools are run, and the reason why its students test so well. Along with factors such as highly trained teachers and an emphasis on memorizing before pursuing deeper understanding, the difference comes down to a belief that has begun slowly making its way across the US: achievement is the result of hard work, not natural ability.

This approach comes from a firm belief that anything is possible with hard work, with chiku, or “eating bitter”. Studies show that for kids who score poorly. Chinese teachers believe a lack of effort—rather than of smarts — is to blame.

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, author of “Mindset (心态)”, is responsible for making up the terms “growth mindset” and “fixed mindset”. Chinese students are trained to have a growth mindset: if they aren’t doing well, they’11 work harder, and they’ll be successful. American children tend to be trained to have a fixed mindset about academics: their abilities are largely predetermined and static. If they aren’t doing well, it’s because they’re not good at it.

In America students are told that learning is fun and easy. But real learning is actually very difficult and takes suffering and anxiety. If you’re not willing to go through that you’re not going to learn deeply. The downside is these students often give up when something gets hard or when it’s no longer fun.

1. According to Lenora Chu, what contributes most to the Chinese students’excellent academic performance?

A．School operation model.	B．The emphasis on memorizing.
C．High-qualified teachers.	D．Chinese culture.

2. According to Chinese teachers, students failing an exam are______.

A．lazy	B．slow
C．unfocused	D．foolish

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to Carol Dweck’s theory?

A．A majority of Chinese students are born excellent learners.

B．American students tend to believe learning ability is genetically determined.

C．Amerlcan students should choose a Chinese school to achieve success.

D．American students are lacking in a fixed mindset, compared to Chinese students.

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Students should study in a fun way.

B．American students are always anxious about their study.

C．American students have no difficulty in learning deeply.

D．Diligence plays an essential part in learning.

2 . 假如你是李华，是你校“英语报”的主编，请你根据提示，用英语写一封邮件向你的笔友Tom为“To be the master of your cellphone”栏目约稿。
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Dear Tom,

How is everything going?

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Yours,

Li Hua

3 . The sixth mass extinction is not a worry for the future. It’s happening now，much faster than previously expected，and it's entirely our fault，according to a study puhlished Mooday.

Humans have already wiped out hundreds of species and pushed many more to the brink of extinction through wildlife trade，pollution，habitat loss and the use of toxic substances. The findings published in the scientific Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences( PNAS)show that the rate at which species are dying out has accelerated in recent decades.

Gerardo Ceballos González，a professor of ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and one of the authors of the study，said approximately 173 species went extinct between 2001 and 2014. “173 species is 25 times more extinct species than you would expect under the normal extinction rate. ”he told CNN in an email. He and his team found that in the past 100 years，more than 400 vertebrate(脊椎动物的)species went extinct. In the normal course of evolution，such extinctions would have taken up to 10，000 years，they said.

Mass extinctions are just as severe as their name suggests. There have been five mass extinction events in the Earth’s history，each wiping out between 70％and 95％of the species of plants，animals and microorganisms. The most recent，66 million years ago，saw dinosaurs disappear. The past events were caused by catastrophic changes of the environment，including massive volcanic eruptions or collision with an asteroid.

The sixth mass extinction the one happening now—is different：scientists say it’s caused by humans. The researchers also said the current coronavirus(冠状病毒)crisis shows people’s recklessness(鲁莽)towards nature can seriously hurt themselves. Many endangered species are dying in large numbers due to the trade in wild animals and plants.

1. What does the underlined word“toxic”in Para. 2 mean?

A．Poisonous	B．Useful
C．Alternative	D．Environment-friendly

2. How does the writer convince readers of the seriousness of the mass extinctions?

A．By listing reliable statistics.

B．By imagining a picture of the extinctions.

C．By mentioning some news from CNN.

D．By explaining the history of the extinctions.

3. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?

A．To tell the difference between the fifth and sixth extinction.

B．To explain the cause of the coronavirus crisis.

C．To warn humans to get rid of their wrong actions.

D．To show the writer’s concern about the endangered species.

4. What does this article mainly talk about?

A．The changes of the environment do harm to wildlife.

B．The sixth mass extinction is much faster than expected.

C．Mass extinctions are just as severe as their name suggests.

D．The current coronavirus has arisen from the illegal trade.

4 . A first-year undergraduate student in Chengdu, recently complained online that her mother refused to raise her monthly allowance to 4,500 yuan ( $ 633) even when she said her current allowance 2, 000 yuan was not enough to cover her expenses, sparking a debate on how much money a college student needs per month. One expert shares his views on the issue with China Daily: Students should pursue education, not comfort.

Even for a college student studying in a first-tier city in China, 2,000 yuan is enough to cover all his or her monthly expenses. In fact, for a college student in Chengdu a monthly allowance of 2,000 yuan is more than enough. According to a survey conducted by a bookkeeping platform, the average monthly expense for an undergraduate in cities other than Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou was less than 2,000 yuan in 2019； for Chengdu, it was 1,900 yuan.

Claiming that she can hardly afford new clothing and cosmetics with her 2,000 yuan monthly allowance, the undergraduate student in Chengdu criticized her mother for refusing to raise her pocket money. Her "meager" allowance, she said, prevented her from buying branded goods that her hostel-mates enjoyed.

By the time a person enters a college, she or he should have developed a healthy consumption habit. And a youth should adjust her or his consumption according to her or his family income. On a deeper level, the money they spend in college should depend on how much they value their parents' hard work. Besides, some college students could take UP part-time jobs to meet their monetary needs if they feel their parents don't or can't send them enough money. In this way they can also learn to meet the requirements of life in the future and develop healthy consumption habits. More importantly, they should always bear in mind that education is their top priority in college

1. What's the expert's attitude to the issue about the undergraduate student?

A．He was critical.

B．He was neutral.

C．He was supportive.

D．He was unconcerned.

2. In 2019, the undergraduates' average monthly expense in Hangzhou was

A．more than 2,000	B．633 dollars
C．less than 2,000 yuan	D．1,900   yuan

3. Which of the following best explains “meager” in paragraph 3?

A．Empty.	B．Pitiful.
C．Mean.	D．Fruitful.

4. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．College students should keep their expenses in line with their family conditions.

B．College students consumption level is determined by their parents.

C．College students should take up a part-time job to cover their expenses .

D．College students should deal with their living expenses problems reasonably.

5 . When you’re a teenager, of course, you want to stress the difference between your age group and the older generation, and changing the language you use is a great way to do this.

One way in which teens change their language is to introduce new vocabulary or change the meaning of existing words.     1    . Bad suddenly meant good and sick took on the meaning of very cool. These uses don’t last for long, though. They change again very quickly.

    2    . One example of a teen-led change is the fashionable use among some young people of innit (a shortened form of isn’t it) as a substitute for all question tags. Although some people are concerned that this trend towards “text-speak” is harming the language, Professor David Crystal doesn’t agree. According to him, the fact that teens use “text-speak”, shortened words and even emoticons does not mean the end of the language. Texting is just a new type of English that has evolved as a result of Internet technology.     3    .

Although teenagers are often criticised for ignoring linguistic rules and ruining the language, we should bear in mind that languages are not fixed.     4    . New vocabulary develops as speakers need new words to match the new things in their lives, Grammar also changes over time, which explains why many present-day speakers find Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century plays difficult to read.     5    , but realizing that language change is normal and unavoidable and that teens are important to this process might help the older generations to sleep better at night.

A．Young people also make changes to grammar

B．It hasn’t had any influence on the rest of the language

C．Adults may not like the way teens speak to each other

D．They all change naturally over time for a lot of reasons

E．Young people tend to adapt themselves to new language

F．We continue to need to create many new words and phrases these days

G．Some recent examples of teen-speak show how big these changes in meaning can be

6 . It seems that the great desire among the young is to be popular. And once they achieve ________, they want to keep it and ________ it. But the desire to be popular can________ you into looking and acting like everyone else. You can lose yourself in a sea of ________ hairstyles and thinking styles.

I was forced to ________ popularity long before in a talk I had with my daughter. Margy had to ________ schools when my busy work schedule made it ________ for me to move houses. I suppose that, for a girl in her teens, ________ a new school is as easy as spending a season alone in the tropical jungles. However, as the school year ________ to an end, one student after another came to her. They said they would have liked to be friends sooner.

I told Margy that I would have been more concerned if she had been a(n) ________ social success in her new school. That, to me, would have been the ________ that she had betrayed her ________ self in order to become popular. Sometimes young people try to force friendships into blossom by opening ________ their innermost thoughts to people they have just met. Such friendships are the least likely to ________.

I know that it has become harder and harder for a young person to stand up against the popularity wave and to ________ his or her own way. This leads to a great ________ for the young person who wants to find his or her own ________. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The road is worth ________. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. Well, come on! Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come with the people who ________ you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really ________.

1.

A．permission

B．popularity

C．safety

D．ambition

2.

A．improve

B．create

C．abandon

D．express

3.

A．persuade

B．cheat

C．frighten

D．force

4.

A．personal

B．childish

C．similar

D．ridiculous

5.

A．think about

B．speak out

C．comment

D．discuss

6.

A．leave

B．change

C．arrange

D．apply

7.

A．famous

B．important

C．necessary

D．impossible

8.

A．believing

B．finding

C．entering

D．handling

9.

A．came

B．developed

C．finished

D．spent

10.

A．academic

B．slim

C．political

D．instant

11.

A．evidence

B．means

C．qualification

D．purpose

12.

A．innocent

B．numb

C．complex

D．true

13.

A．thoroughly

B．exactly

C．partly

D．typically

14.

A．form

B．last

C．break

D．adjust

15.

A．recall

B．desert

C．transfer

D．seek

16.

A．choices

B．lessons

C．barrier

D．goals

17.

A．motivation

B．path

C．hobby

D．potential

18.

A．destroying

B．following

C．preparing

D．noticing

19.

A．encourage

B．sympathize

C．respect

D．remind

20.

A．varies

B．differs

C．does

D．counts

7 . Have you ever noticed that after about 6 months your perfectly new 1，000 dollar smartphone begins to slow down? What if I told you that it’s a sales strategy that pretty much all phone companies use to force people into buying new phones?

In late 2015，when Lisa Young was in charge of iOS security and beta software testing teams，her boss revealed a dark secret to her，saying that they were using a new strategy that would purposely slow down older phones every time the phone would upgrade to the latest opera ting system. This new method would force customers to buy the latest phone model，increasing sales by 70％.

She was a little disturbed to hear the news，but she just kept her head down and continued to do her job. After a while，the guilt of being involved with such a shady sales model started to weigh heavy on her. “How could a multi—billion dollar corporation continue to take advantage of the public like this?” she thought. In March of 2017，she contacted a reporter from CNN to finally leak the information concerning Apple slowing down phones.

The scandal(丑闻)went viral overnight，and every media outlet in the world，in every language was talking about it，making it one of the biggest controversies in consumer electronics history. A week later，she was secretly let go after her 8 years of service. Although she was taking a huge risk going against one of the most powerful corporations in the world，she felt a sense of relief exposing them. The public deserved to know and the fear became her motivation to find a way to destroy their shady sales model.

Several of her colleagues were fired with her. They quietly united，and after a year of extensive research they designed a unique product called Circa Charge that would reverse the negative effects of “software updates.” Phone companies have recently caught wind of their overnight success with CircaCharge and are trying to do everything they can to make this product illegal and ban it forever. Lisa and her team have ma de unbelievable progress in increasing battery life，battery health，and optimizing phone performance，and they will continue to develop new technology that will beat phone companies at their own game until they change their ways.

1. What can we learn about the new method mentioned in paragraph 2?

A．It is essential in the 1atest operating system.

B．It benefits users in upgrading their old phone.

C．It fool s customers into buying the latest model on purpose.

D．It is a successful sales strategy for advertising new soft wares.

2. What does the underlined phrase “kept her head down” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Lowered her head.

B．Nodded to show approval.

C．Pretended to know something.

D．Tried not to show she knows something.

3. How did Lisa Young feel after leaking the secret?

A．Disturbed.

B．Relieved.

C．Frightened.

D．Disappointed.

4. From the passage，we know______________.

A．it's too tough for Lisa and her team to increase battery life

B．CircaCharge helps phone companies with software updates

C．Lisa struggles to force phone companies to change their current ways

D．phone companies find it essential to ban their illegal software for updating