1 . For many kids, the Internet is at their fingertips. From computers to smart phones, a web of information is open to them. According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, about three out of four kids aged 12 to 13 connect the Internet using a mobile device from time to time. Many younger kids are online too.
Julian Zeitlinger, 9, from New Jersey, uses his computer to watch videos and play games. To keep him safe online, his parents monitor his web use and discuss Internet safety with him. “I ask my parents if something is wrong,” Julian says.
Mobile devices offer more ways than ever to share personal information. The information can be dangerous in the wrong hands. A study found that 62% of children aged 8 to 17 have had an unpleasant online experience.
Have you ever had to enter a parent’s e-mail address when signing up for a website? That safety net is there because of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law says sits for kids under 13 cannot collect personal information, such as a phone number or full name, unless their parents agree.
This July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will update COPPA for the first time since the law was created in 1998 when there were no smart phones. “The nature of the way kids get online has changed,” FTC lawyer Phyllis Marcus said. When the changes take effect, COPPA will apply to mobile devices and newer forms of advertising. It will expand what falls under “personal information” to include videos, photographs and services that give user location.
COPPA doesn’t cover everything that can go wrong online. That’s why kids and parents need to know what to look out for and to stop and think before sharing information online. “There is a misunderstanding that if a site is following COPPA, it is totally safe,” says privacy expert Shai Samet. He runs kidSAFE, which checks whether a site meets kidSAFE standards and is safe. “It’s important that kids know how useful the Internet is but that it also can be dangerous if you are not careful.” he adds.
1. Julian’s parents check his web use to make sure ________.| A．he doesn’t watch too many videos | B．he doesn’t play computer games |
| C．he stays safe on the Internet | D．he controls his online time |
| A．By describing his own experiences. | B．By presenting research. |
| C．By showing differences. | D．By using examples. |
| A．formal websites are always safe | B．the Internet is becoming safer and safer |
| C．COPPA can ensure their complete online safety | D．daily checks prevent future online problems |
| A．To ask parents to look out for their kids. | B．To state children’s online safety. |
| C．To offer tips on online safety. | D．To introduce an online law. |
2 . Hints on safety
Nearly everyone is attracted to water, whether it is the sea, canals, rivers or the village pond. Beautiful as it is, water should be regarded with respect as it can be hazardous. Around 300 children up to the age of ten die each year from drowning. It should be every parent's responsibility to ensure that both he and the child can swim and that as the child get older, he has some knowledge of lifesaving and artificial respiration(人工呼吸).
The basic rules of water safety are:
—don't leave small children playing alone in water.
—never swim an hour before or an hour after a main meal.
—if it's a danger area, find out before you start swimming where the lifeguard is or where a life belt is available(可提供的).
—as children get older, try to teach to remain calm in an emergence(紧急情况)
—look out for warning signs to see whether you're in a danger area(see under this).Be especially careful of inland stretches of water-pools, reservoirs(水库) and dykes(沟)
—where there are often fewer people about than at the seaside.
YOU SHOULD KNOW  THE NATIONAL CODE FOR BATHERS—the code deals only with warnings that indicate(标示) “Unsafe to Bathe" 1. Colour: red, UNSAFE BATHE—do not enter the water. 2. Colour: red board, white lettering. UNSAFE TO BATHE AT ALL TIMES. Lifesaving equipment is also painted read for easy identification(识别). 3. Colour: red and yellow. PATROLLED(巡逻) BATHING AREAS. Bathing areas with life—saving facilities(设施) provided by patrols of lifeguards. 4. Colour: black and white check. SURFING(冲浪) AREA. Area set aside for surf of malibu board(冲浪板) riding. 5. Colour: white and blue. The divers' flag means DIVERS DOWN. Boat users keep well clear of this area. |
| A．Everyone is attracted to the water in the village pond. |
| B．It is attractive but dangerous. |
| C．It is beautiful and respected by everybody. |
| D．The sea, the canals, the rivers affect the weather. |
| A．Around 30 ten- year- old children die every year. |
| B．Ten children each year die from drowning. |
| C．There are about 300 children, aged ten or under, who are drowned every year. |
| D．The 300 children who are drowned every year are usually more than ten years old. |
| A．How to be able to save his or her own life. |
| B．How to get older through knowledge of artificial respiration. |
| C．How to swim and breathe under water. |
| D．How to swim & how to save other people's lives if they get into trouble in water. |
| A．Do not use a surfboard here. | B．Lifeguards patrol this area. |
| C．This area is not for ordinary swimming. | D．Unsafe to bathe at all times. |
After a full year of corona-virus pandemic stay-at-home life, all of it — face masks, social distancing, constant anxiety, Zoom calls, and COVID-19 itself as a
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4 . Many people prefer eating out instead of cooking at home. A change appears to be taking place, though, and millennials (千禧一代) are leading the way. According to one survey, more young people are starting to cook at home for three basic reasons: They can save money, eat healthy and waste less food.
Popular TV chefs are also getting millennials excited about learning some basic cooking skills. Many millennials view cooking as a form of entertainment and self-expression. They proudly post pictures of their cooking creations on Facebook or Instagram, and invite friends over to share the cooking experience.
Many millennials have also found ways to avoid wasting food. After roasting a chicken, they put the leftover bones in their freezer instead of the garbage can. Later, they use the bones to make chicken soup which is an important ingredient in many dishes.
They also hate throwing out fruit that’s too old. To avoid that situation, they bake ripe fruit like berries and bananas for 15 minutes at 175 degrees C. Then they freeze it overnight. After that, they place the fruit in plastic bags and store it their freezer for later use.
Now any millennials only eat at restaurants that have excellent food-waste policies. These servants use every part of the vegetables they buy, including their stems and roots, in dishes. They also use beef, chicken and pork bones to make their own stock.
Millennials also reduce food waste by only buying what they require. Before going to a market, they write down what they need and don’t buy anything else. They say they won’t purchase more food than they can consume.
1. Young people prefer cooking at home for the following reasons except_________.| A．reducing waste | B．lowering life expenses |
| C．enjoying the cooking experience | D．staying slim |
| A．When they dine out together. | B．When they share their cooking experience. |
| C．When they post pictures online. | D．When they freeze their food. |
| A．a supply of goods | B．a share of a company |
| C．a kind of farm animal | D．a kind of soup |
| A．A novel cooking technique that millennials like. |
| B．A plan that millennials have for donating food. |
| C．A cooking trend that has attracted millennials. |
| D．A food production system favored by millennials. |
5 . BEIJING Oct.16 (Friday) (Xinhua)—The Chinese government will enact (将……制成法律) more support policies to lift the country’s 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged (保证) on Friday ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication (根除) of Poverty.
Addressing the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum (论坛) in Beijing, Xi said China will work to fight the hard battle against poverty. In his speech, Xi drew on his personal experience in the 1960s working as a farmer in a small village in northwestern Shaanxi Province, where he was struck by the poor living conditions in rural China. But over the past several decades, China has made remarkable progress in poverty relief.
China has lifted more than 600 million people out of poverty in the past 30 years, accounting for about 70 percent of those brought out of poverty worldwide. It was the first developing country to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of reducing the population living in poverty by half ahead of the 2015 deadline. “Despite the achievements, China remains the world’s biggest developing country, and narrowing the urban-rural gap remains a big challenge for us,” Xi said.
As of the end of 2014, China still had 70.17 million people in the countryside living below the country’s poverty line of 2,300 yuan (376 U. S. dollars) in annual income by 2010 price standards. The president said poverty alleviation will be a major part of China’s post-2015 agenda. While striving to reduce poverty at home, China has also actively supported the cause in other developing countries. Over the past 60 years, China has provided 166 countries and international organizations with nearly 400 billion yuan in assistance.
China has also announced seven times it would exempt (免除), without any conditions, the matured inter-governmental interest free loans owned by heavily-indebted poor countries and least developed countries. At a United Nations summit last month the goal of eliminating poverty in 15 years was laid out and China pledged an initial 2 billion U.S. dollars to establish an assistance fund to help developing nations fight poverty.
In a video message for Friday’s Forum, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (潘基文) praised China’s remarkable achievements in poverty alleviation, saying the UN welcomes those significant and generous proposals from President Xi and looks forward to further progress with an indispensable partnership with China.
Saturday also marks China’s second National Poverty Relief Day.
1. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?| A．President Xi once worked as a farmer in a small village. |
| B．China has made great contributions to poverty relief in the past decades. |
| C．China has announced to exempt loans owned by heavily-indebted poor countries and developed countries. |
| D．The UN thinks highly of China’s extraordinary achievements in poverty relief. |
| A．relief | B．line |
| C．reform | D．rise |
| A．a magazine | B．a newspaper |
| C．a research paper | D．a brochure |
6 . "I’ll be there in a few minutes. I'm playing a game with a friend,a guy named Scuzbll,"my 15-year-old son shouted from his room."Oh,what is Scuzzball's real name?"I asked."I have no idea,"he said."Where is he from?"I continued. He responded,"I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn't even matter because Scuzball just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot."
"Your friend is replaced by artificial intelligence?""It doesn't matter, Dad. It happens all the time! The game continues."My son doesn't mind playing with a person or a robot,which is typical of gamers these days. I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our children.
Aristotle,a great thinker and educator,has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily abandoned because such bonds are fragile. Deep friendship,by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices for each other.
Presence in friendship requires"being with"and"doing for". Perhaps the most defining feature of deep friendship is "doing for",as my friend has my back in trouble or brings me soup when I'm sick. Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices.But it is unclear why online"friends"would bother to do the hard work of friendship. When I asked my students whether they had people in their lives who would bring them soup when they were sick,they laughed at my Stone Age question and said they'd just order soup online.
Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example cases of friendship,like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods,etc. In this way,digital life produces false friendships.
1. How does the author lead in the topic of the text?| A．By quoting mottos. |
| B．By presenting a conversation. |
| C．By introducing a game. |
| D．By showing robots' storage data. |
| A．Selfish friendship. | B．Selfless sacrifices in life. |
| C．The formation of shallow friendship. | D．The meaning of deep friendship. |
| A．Strong bonds are formed easily. | B．Ordering food online is convenient. |
| C．Robots will have our back in trouble. | D．Virtual friends won't make real sacrifices. |
| A．Digitalized friendship. | B．The benefits of digital life. |
| C．Face-to-face communication. | D．The sacrifices of online friends. |
7 . It was a comfortable sunny Sunday. I was going to meet an old university friend I hadn't seen for years, and was really excited.
My train was running a little late, but that was no big problem—I could text him to say I would be late. He would understand. But where was my mobile phone? I had that familiar sinking feeling. Yes, I'd left it at home.
No mobile phone. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling anxious, on edge and worried when I don't have my phone with me. In fact, I know I'm not alone: twothirds of us experience nomophobia (无手机恐惧症), the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
That's according to a study from 2012, which surveyed 1,000 people in the UK about their relationship with mobile phones.
It says we check our mobile phones 34 times a day, and that 18—24 year olds, especially girls, are the most likely to suffer fear of being without their mobiles: 77% of them say they are unable to be apart from their phones for more than a few minutes.
Do you have nomophobia?
·You never turn your phone off.
·You frequently (频繁地) check for texts, missed calls and emails.
·You always take your phone to the bathroom with you.
·You never let the battery run out.
It's funny to think that around 20 years ago the only people with mobile phones would be businessmen carrying their large, plastic ‘bricks’. Of course, these days, mobile phones are everywhere. A UN study from this year said there would be more mobile phones than people across the world by the end of 2020.
And when there are more phones than people in the world, maybe it's time to ask who really is in charge (主管). Are you in control of your phone, or does your phone control you?
So, what happened with my university friend? When I arrived a few minutes late, he just laughed and said, “You haven't changed at all—still always late!” And we had a great afternoon catching up, full of jokes and stories, with no desire (欲望) to check my phone.Not having the mobile phone with me makes me feel strangely free. Maybe I'll leave it at home on purpose next time.
1. What does the passage talk about?| A．The history of mobile phones. | B．The story of meeting an old university friend. |
| C．The attraction of playing mobile phones. | D．The terrible feeling of being without the mobiles. |
| A．Worried. | B．Positive. | C．Neutral. | D．Negative. |
| A．A successful manager. | B．A 21-year-old girl. |
| C．A 21-year-old boy. | D．A lonely middleaged person. |
8 . C：Cell Phones: Hang Up or Keep Talking?
Millions of people are using cell phones today. In many places it is actually considered unusual not to use one. In many countries, cell phones are very popular with young people. They find that the phones are more than a means of communication--- having a mobile phone shows that they are cool and connected.
The explosions around the world in mobile phone use make some health professionals worried. Some doctors are concerned that in the future many people may suffer health problems from the use of mobile phones. In England, there has been a serious debate about this issue. Mobile phone companies are worried about the negative publicity (宣传) of such ideas. They say that there is no evidence that mobile phones are bad for your health.
On the other hand, why do some medical-studies show changes in the brain cells (细胞) of some people who use mobile phones? Signs of change in the tissues (组织) of the brain and head can be detected with modern scanning (扫描) facility. In one case, a traveling salesman had to retire at a young age because of serious memory loss. He couldn't remember even simple tasks. He would often forget the name of his own son. This man used to talk on his mobile phone for about six hours a day, every day of his working week, for a couple of years. His family doctor blamed his mobile phone use, but his employer's doctor didn't agree.
What is it that makes mobile phones potentially (可能地) harmful? The answer is radiation (辐射). High-tech machines can detect very small amounts of radiation from mobile phones. Mobile phone companies agree that there is some radiation, but they say the amount is too small to worry about.
As the discussion about their safety continues, it appears that it's best to use mobile phones less often. Use your regular phone if you want to talk for a long time. Use your mobile phone only when you really need it. Mobile phones can be very useful and convenient, especially in emergencies. In the future, mobile phones may have a warning label that says they are bad for your health. So for now, it's wise not to use your mobile phone too often.
1. People buy cell phones for the following reasons EXCEPT that _______.| A．they are popular | B．they are convenient |
| C．they are useful | D．they are cheap |
| A．he disliked using mobile phones |
| B．he was tired of talking on his mobile phone |
| C．he couldn't remember simple tasks |
| D．his employer's doctor persuaded him to |
| A．deny (否认) the existence of mobile phone radiation |
| B．develop new technology to reduce mobile phone radiation |
| C．hold that the amount of radiation is too small to worry about |
| D．try to prove that mobile phones are not harmful to health |
| A．to use mobile phones less often |
| B．to buy mobile phones |
| C．to update regular phones |
| D．to stop using mobile phones |
9 . Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16 - year - old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.
“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?” says Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”
Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.
Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families. Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and common. And parent - child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.
No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.”
But family experts warm that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “There's still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents.”
Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.
“My parents were on the "before' side of that change, but today's parents, the 40 - year - olds, were on the ‘after’' side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It's not something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”
1. The underlined word gulf in Para. 3 most probably means ________ .| A．interest | B．distance |
| C．difference | D．separation |
| A．Parents help their children develop interests in more activities |
| B．Parents put more trust in their children's abilities |
| C．Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs |
| D．Parents share more interests with their children. |
| A．follow the trend of the change | B．can set a limit to the change |
| C．fail to take the change seriously | D．have difficulty adjusting to the change |
| A．describe the difficulties today's parents have met with |
| B．discuss the development of the parent - child relationship |
| C．suggest the ways to handle the parent - child relationship |
| D．compare today’s parent - child relationship with that in the past |
10 . A PhD student surnamed Sun is in the hot seat for occupying a woman's seat on a high - speed train on Aug 21.
In a video posted on Sina Weibo, the man can be seen sitting relaxedly in a seat. When the woman asked him to give her seat back, he refused and said, “You have three choices - stand, take my seat or go to the dining coach.”
A train attendant then came to try to ask him to give the seat back. Sun claimed he wasn't able to stand on his own and asked for a wheelchair. Left with no other way out, the staff led the female passenger to another seat, China Daily reported.
The video quickly lighted debate online Mary have expressed anger at the man’s behavior. Some people even dug up the man's name, as well as his education and work experience, and Put this information online.
Rumor had it that Sun works at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) However, CASS denied the rumor, saying, “Sun was a Master of Law student at the academy between 2013 and 2016. but never worked there.”
The Jinan Public Security Bureau handed down a punishment for Sun on Aug 24. He was fined 200 yuan and will not be allowed to buy train tickets for a set period of time. the People’s Daily reported.
However, some think the punishment was not strict enough, adding that those who act like Sun on airplanes can be found guilty (有罪的) China News Service noted.
Experts explained that the bureau could only punish Sun in this way according to present laws and regulations. But they added that such laws could be improved to stop train passengers from behaving poorly.
1. What does the underlined phrase “in the hot seat” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?| A．sitting in the center of a room | B．becoming others' heated topic |
| C．sitting on an uncomfortable seat | D．becoming popular with people |
| A．They showed their understanding | B．They started to beat him |
| C．They felt angry about what he did | D．They were afraid of his behavior |
| A．Sun was a student at CASS from 2013 to 2016 |
| B．The female passenger got another seat with the help of passengers |
| C．Videos on Weibo can be seen by the public |
| D．People reacted differently to the punishment |
| A．Sun's legs were seriously injured |
| B．It's fine to put others' personal information online |
| C．Bad behavior on planes is not punished |
| D．Laws that punish bad behavior on trains are not as strict as those for planes |
