1 . Every festival has its own meaning. Labor Day, for example, celebrates the value of hard work. Thanksgiving is about showing thanks to people around you. And Valentines’ Day is a time when you express love to your loved ones. But somehow it now seems that all festivals we just care about one thing — shopping. And that can be a big problem.

“In a way, over-consumption (过度消费) is the mother of all our environmental problems,” Kalle Lasn once told CNN. Lasn is the organizer of Buy Nothing Day, a day set up in Canada in 1992 to fight against unhealthy spending habits, and has now become an international event. It’s held on the day, which is known as Black Friday — a famous shopping day in the US and Canada.

You can see the irony (讽刺) here.

Even though the idea of Buy Nothing Day was brought up 26 years ago, we seem to need it now more than ever. It’s just as Lasn said, all the different kinds of pollution in our lives today — bad air quality, the reduction of forest area, endangered animal species, and plastic bags found in the ocean — seem to be the same cause: over-consumption.

The latest example is the Singles’ Day shopping craze of Nov 11, which saw a new sales record. But as Nie Li, a campaigner at Greenpeace, told Reuters, “Record-setting over-consumption means record-setting waste.” And it was reported that last year the Singles’ Day packages left more than 160,000 tons of waste, including plastic and cardboard. The Collins Dictionary has also just named “single-use” its Word of the Year, pointing out the problem that there’re too many things we tow out after only using them once.

So, Buy Nothing Day might only be here for one day a year, but it’s not just to remind us to the a break from shopping on that day, but to change our lifestyle completely, focusing on fun “with people we care about” rather than wasting money on useless things.

1. What’s the authors purpose of writing the first paragraph?

A．To express the people’s love for all festivals.

B．To talk about the meaning of the festivals.

C．To appreciate the value of the festivals.

D．To bring out the topic of the passage.

2. Why did Kalle Lasn organize Buy Nothing Day?

A．To help people save money.	B．To cut the cost for daily life.
C．To prevent over-consumption.	D．To set up a new sales record.

3. What’s Nie Li’s attitude towards the shopping craze?

A．Opposed (反对的).	B．Supportive.
C．Unknown.	D．Neutral (中立的).

4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A．Creating a New Lifestyle	B．Buy Nothing Day
C．Festivals Around the World	D．A Change in People’s Life

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

More and more children are suffering from eco-anxiety, which is     1    problem that causes people to worry a lot about the future of Earth and the life on it. They worry about climate change,    2    (pollute) and the loss of biodiversity. This has urged education experts     3    (call) for more teaching in schools about climate change, wildlife and the environment. So necessary is knowledge of them nowadays     4    experts believe it should be taught to all year groups.

The Teach the Future campaign finds that only one in four schoolchildren    5    (feel) they know enough about the climate crisis. It says this is leading to move children    6     (struggle) with eco-anxiety and worrying about the planet. A conservation organization, Earth Rangers,    7    (take) action to address the problem of eco-anxiety since it noticed that.

It says, Eco-anxiety does have a big effect    8    children in many ways. This includes feelings of fear and hopelessness. It is    9    (importance) to research and understand the ways in which we can help children deal with these feelings     10    (effective). In the meanwhile, schools should create conservation activities and help children teach their parents how to protect nature.

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式(不超过3个单词)。

What’s the price of a family meal? The answer seems to be, “too much”. For instance, in the United States, as is often     1    case, a majority of families report eating a single meal together fewer than five days a week. In fact, the frequency of     2     (share) meals has declined in American families by 33 percent over the last twenty years. The meals     3     (they) have shortened too, from an average of 90 minutes to just 12 minutes．

So perhaps we had better ask ourselves     4    the cost of eating together is. A study, conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (滥用) at Columbia University,     5    (find) that kids who eat dinner with their parents five or more times a week are     6    (likely) to have problems     7    drugs and alcohol.

But those numbers, impressive     8    they seem, may be beside the point. After all, having a meal together is more than just a preventive measure against future misfortune. So often,     9     is at the family meal that the family as such—the family as an organic unit with shared memories and     10    (feel) and ambitions—is made.

5 . 短文改错

Nowadays, we can see phubbers watching their mobile phones everywhere. They can’t stop sending messages, surfing the Internet, listening music and even taking photos by using the mobile phone.

Actually, phubbing disturbs not only our study and our life. On the one hand, phubbers waste plenty of time play cell phone games and sending messages, particularly in the class. On the other, using the mobile phone for a long time can lead to healthy problems.

As far as I am concerned, it is high time that we put down the mobile phone and raise our heads up. Do cherish that is around us and appreciate the sceneries ahead of us. Only when we use the mobile phone reasonable, can you realize the happiness of life.

6 . My wife and I were at a crowded grocery store not long ago. It was a weekday evening, cold and wet and tense. People were carelessly blocking aisles, complaining and cutting one another off with their carts. At one point, two women quarreled for several minutes in the freezer section.

Things got worse at the checkout line. The cashier scanned a man's discount card, but he misread the savings on her screen as an additional charge. He decided she was acting on purpose and began to argue.

Other customers looked away as the cashier tried to reason with him. She called a manager, who took him to customer service. Shaken, she moved to the next customer in line.

We’ve all witnessed uncomfortable scenes like this in public places. My reaction when I see them is both personal and professional. I am a data analyst and sociologist who studies how and why people interact with one another--or why they choose not to. To me, the grocery scene was another example of how our trust in others has disappeared. But it was also a teachable moment on how we can rebuild our faith — starting with just one person.

Therefore, my wife and I reached the disturbed cashier. I grabbed a bottle of water from a nearby cooler and handed it to her. We learned her name was Beth.

“We felt bad about how that man treated you and wanted to buy this for you.” I said.

Beth’s face lit up, and we talked as she scanned our items. She told us she had been working that evening through severe foot pain and would be having surgery later that week. We wished her well in her recovery, and she thanked us as we left.

That is the balancing act, the moment of countering social and emotional pain with healing, that will add up to restore trust across the United States. You can start that pattern in someone else's life , even in a place as ordinary as the neighborhood grocery store.

1. By describing the arguments, the author wants to show________.

A．the job as a cashier is not easy.	B．people in the U.S are unfriendly.
C．arguments in public are very common.	D．confidence in each other has worn off.

2. How did Beth probably feel when the couple gave her a bottle of water?

A．Sad and regretful.	B．Sorry and embarrassed.
C．Cheerful and rewarded.	D．Grateful and relieved.

3. What's author's attitude towards Americans' regaining trust?

A．Doubtful.

B．Optimistic.

C．Uncaring

D．Cautious

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．A Miserable Cashier.	B．A Helping Hand.
C．Learning to Trust Again.	D．Starting a new life.

8 . How to stop technology addiction

Research suggests that at least 64% of people now spend up to four hours daily of spare time in front of a screen. Just as TV watching has been linked to higher chances of being fat and getting diseases, this extra sedentary(久坐不动的) time is bad news for our health.    1    

Choose outdoor activities over technology

When you’re at home, make it a rule that you can’t be online if the sun is shining.     2    Then, after taking these healthy physical activities, you can take out your phone or laptop, or take a seat at the computer. This rule should be fit for everyone in your family.

Limit social media use

According to some experts, the effect of technology on human relationships is worrying as technology has become a substitute for face-to-face human relationships. And social networks have changed computer and mobile use for people of all ages.     3    Avoid aimless browsing(浏览) and give your time online a purpose: research holidays or catch up on the news of the day. Then log off.    4    

Challenge yourself to read at least 30 pages of a great book before you check your computer or mobile phone. Pick the right reading material and you’ll soon find you’ve discovered an enjoyable pastime.

Create projects for yourself

It’s amazing how much you can achieve when you’re not glued to(全神贯注地看) a screen.    5     Some suggestions are organizing the book shelf and cleaning your bedroom. Then try to do one each evening.

A．Set aside reading time

B．Choose the suitable reading materials

C．Make a list of one-hour evening projects.

D．Here are some ways to stop technology addiction.

E．Whether it’s Wechat or QQ, limit the time online.

F．The following are some ways to make better use of leisure time.

G．Instead, you have to go for a walk, ride a bike, or swim at least an hour.

9 . When we see a person in trouble our immediate reaction is to lend a hand. But what if we se an animal in trouble, does the same rule apply?

This question was raised after a group of penguins were saved from an icy gully (峡谷) in Antarctica. It was filmed for the BBC wildlife series Dynasties. After seeing that a group of penguins had fallen into a gully and been trapped with their young the film crew were so concerned about their safety that they built a slope (斜坡) so that a few of the penguins could save themselves.

The case has taken the international media by storm. Viewers watching this film let out a sigh of relief. "I'm so glad. I understand not taking action directly involved, but a helping hand isn't bothering, right?" viewer Kathryn Shaw said on her Facebook.

However, others think human interference (干涉) is unnatural. "You can't have sunshine throughout your life. To have done anything else would only make matters worse," said the show's creator David Attenborough, according to The Times.

In this case, however, Mike Gunton, the executive producer of the series, said that this was a one-off situation. "There were no animals going to suffer by interfering. You weren't touching the animals and it was just felt by doing this. They had the chance not to have to keep slipping down the slope," he told the BBC.

Such cases are familiar to Paul Nicklen, wildlife photographer for National Geographic. He told Metro, "If it's ever a predator (捕食者) situation，no matter how gut-wrenching，you stay out of the way. Even when you're watching a male polar bear eat a baby bear."

"There's no rule book in those situations. You can only respond to the facts that are right there in front of you," Will Lawson, the show's director, told Daily Mail.

1. What has caused to a heated media discussion?

A．People's various comments on penguins.

B．The ways of helping the trapped penguins .

C．Some penguins' sufferings in a gully.

D．Ways of filming the series Dynasties.

2. How did the film crew feel when seeing the trapped penguins?

A．Anxious.	B．Sad.
C．Annoyed.	D．Thrilled.

3. Which human activity is considered proper in Paul Nicklen's opinion?

A．Shooting an eagle catching a snake.

B．Preventing a polar bear eating a baby bear.

C．Watching a lion attacking a deer.

D．Distracting a crocodile biting an antelope.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Necessity of Lending a Hand to Animals in Trouble.

B．Suggestions on How to Save Animals in Trouble.

C．Effects of Human Interference on Animals in Trouble.

D．Opinions on Whether to Help Animals in Trouble.