1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What’s the discussion about?

A．Children’s independence.

B．Teachers’ medical treatment.

C．Parents’ accompanying(陪伴)their children at school.

2. How many students are against the opinion?

A．About 30%.

B．About 50%.

C．About 70%.

3. In some students’ opinion, what can parents help them to do at school?

A．Set up goals.

B．Do the housework.

C．Finish their homework.

4. Which opinion does the girl prefer?

A．Neither.

B．The first one.

C．The second one.

4 . Many of us enjoy doing it: you turn on the camera on your mobile phone and hold it at a high angle, making your eyes look bigger and your cheekbones more defined. You turn to your best side and click. There it is-your selfie.

Over the past several years , the “selfie” has become a well-known term across the globe. The Oxford English Dictionary added the word to their online dictionary and defined it as: “A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.”

Today it’s not difficult to find social web pages full of photos that people have taken of themselves and their friends. And selfie culture has become especially relevant to young people. As many as 91 percent of teenagers have posted photos of themselves online, according to a recent survey by the US Pew Research Center.

So what are the reasons for the rise of selfie culture?

“Ordinary people shows the cult（狂热）of the selfie,” Pamela Rutledge, a professor from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, told Vogue magazine. “There are more photographs available now of ordinary people than models.”

Posting selfies also allows you to control your image online. “I like having the power to choose how I look, even if I’m making a funny face,” Samantha Barks, 19, a high school student in the US, told Vogue.

In addition to self-expression and documentation, selfies “allow of a close friendship for long-distance friends, because you can see each other’s faces every day”, wrote Casey Miller at The Huffington Post.

But Jill Weber, a US psychologist, is concerned that selfies might lead to social problems. “There’s a danger that your self-esteem may start to be tied to the comments and ‘likes’ you get when you post a selfie, and those comments and likes aren’t based on who you are-but based on what you look like,” Weber told Vogue. “When you get nothing or a negative response, your confidence can plummet.”

1. In the first paragraph, the author intends to ________.

A．tell us the fun of taking a selfie	B．describe what a selfie is
C．introduce where the selfie comes from	D．inform readers that the selfie is popular among teenagers

2. Why is selfie culture so popular according to the article?
a. It enables people to choose how they look.
b. It helps people improve their self-esteem.
c. It’s a chance for ordinary people to show off themselves.
d. It is believed to be a helpful way to develop a new friendship.
e. It is considered a good way to keep in touch with friends that are far away.

A．a, c, e

B．b, c, d

C．a, b, c

D．b, d, e

3. What is Jill Weber’s attitude towards selfies?

A．She thinks they are a good form of self-expression and documentation.

B．She believes the disadvantages of selfies outweigh the advantages.

C．She worries that people’s self-esteem might be affected by how others react to their selfies.

D．She thinks that selfies can help people learn about their friends based on who they really are.

4. The underlined word “plummet” in the last paragraph probably means ________.

A．rapidly develop

B．greatly exaggerate

C．become dangerous

D．quickly fall

5 . Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals, while the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think so much of them that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general.     1    .

It is possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight, so do savages; so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized.     2    . People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some ways of settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won.     3    . For that is what going to war means; it means saying that power is right.

This is what the story of mankind has on the whole been like. But we must not expect too much. After all, the race of men has only just started. From the point of view of evolution, human beings are very young indeed, babies of a few months old. Scientists assume that there has been life of some sort on the earth for about twelve hundred million years; but there have been men for only one million years, and there has been civilized men for about eight thousand years.

    4    . Taking man’s civilized past at about seven or eight hours, we may estimate his future at about one hundred thousand years. Thus mankind is only at the beginning of its whole a pretty beastly business, a business of fighting and killing. We must not expect even civilized peoples not to have done these things. All we can ask is that they will sometimes have done something else.

A．Even being good at getting others to fight most efficiently is not being civilized.

B．Most people believe those who have conquered the most nations are the greatest.

C．However, every year conflicts between countries and nations still claim thousands of lives.

D．And not only has it won, buts also because it has won, it has been in the right.

E．So there has been little time to learn in, but there will be oceans of time in which to learn better.

F．People don’t fight and kill each other in the streets, but nations still behave like savages.

6 . If someone were to ask me what it is like to be a student in today’s society, I would probably answer them something like this: Being a student in today’s society is not always easy.

Adults often tell us that we don’t know what stress (压力) is. But we as teenage students have our own levels of stress. For example, all school activities require you to uphold your grade point to high standards.

Then, getting your homework turned in on time seems simple, but you still hope to have a life outside of school as well. Many students in their high school years start their first job, so now you have school in the mornings and then you’re off to part-time work. By the time you are done there, you are too tired to finish your school work, but you stay up late to try and return to school feeling sleepy the next day. What good is that?

Let’s not forget about peer (同龄人) pressure. All high school students meet with it at some point in their lives. High school can be a place where students are made fun of and pointed at.

My point is, it is more stressful to be a student in high school than adults believe. Our “stress” may not include paying bills or taking care of a family, but I’m sure if the adults in our lives could go back to school today, they would be surprised at how much it has changed.

I know that the world outside of school is often hard and that the responsibilities are serious. That’s exactly why I know that the focus I give to my future is important in leading me to a career (事业) that will allow me to contribute (贡献) to society.

1. What is the text mainly about?

A．The way of dealing with stress of study.

B．The stressful life of high school students.

C．The role of students in today’s society.

D．The differences between teenagers’ and adults’ life.

2. What is the author’s attitude towards students’ doing a job after school?

A．He is against it.	B．He feels disappointed at it.
C．He thinks it is worth a try.	D．He shows great interest in it.

3. Which of the following is the author’s opinion?

A．Adults are more stressful than students.

B．Adults should help students to deal with stress.

C．Adults have undervalued students’ stress.

D．Adults should go back to school to experience students’ life.

4. What does the underlined word “it” in the fifth paragraph refer to?

A．Society.

B．Study.

C．School.

D．Stress.

7 . At the foot of the Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, a homestay (民宿) is attracting travelers from far and wide, which has won architectural medal at the 2021 German iF Design Awards.

The owners of the homestay are a couple in their late 30s who decided to return to their hometown three years ago. Li Xiumei used to be in charge of a division at a company in Hangzhou, and her husband was a sales director. It was an ordinary situation where Li’s husband was on business trips a lot and Li still worked on weekends. City life sometimes is not easy.

In 2018, they quit jobs and went back to Dongtianmu village, which lies in a forest of bamboo. The first time they drove into the village was one late afternoon. The cooking smoke was rising from the foot of the mountain, which gave them a very different feeling from the city.

The homestay was built beside her husband’s old countryside house. The old house is preserved (保留), while a brand-new building was built on its side and the whole site is made up of four courtyards. It has been updated to have a hall, a tea room, a kitchen, a dining room. Japanese cherry trees are planted in the east courtyard. A swimming pool is placed in the west courtyard, with a bar located on one side.

Li and her husband love gardening and music, and their new home gives them enough space to continue their interests and relax in the heart of nature. Li wants to share the quiet country life, so she makes her new home a homestay. In 2019, the homestay became an online hit after guests shared their experiences on social media. “The longer I stay here, the more I feel it was the right choice to come back, and this is more meaningful than making money,” Li says.

1. How did Li feel about city life?

A．Satisfied.

B．Noisy.

C．Attractive.

D．Tired

2. What impressed the couple when first driving to the village?

A．The forest of bamboo.	B．The smoke of cooking.
C．The fresh air in the village.	D．The feeling of loneliness.

3. What can we infer about the homestay from paragraph 4?

A．It is ancient and broken.	B．It can hold many guests.
C．It must have been carefully designed.	D．It has been rebuilt by the couple.

4. What’s more meaningful than earning money according to Li?

A．Continuing their music dream.	B．Living in the countryside.
C．Staying at the old house.	D．Developing a city.

9 . Every kid wishes to be an adult. Do you remember playing house as a child-pretending to be a grownup like your parents? Did you imagine you were a doctor, a soldier or a teacher? At that time, anything seemed more exciting than being young. But now some grownups become “kidults”（kid+adult), who participate in the culture and activities traditionally intended for children.     1    

Some kidults collect toys they once played with.     2    It is not unusual to see a 20- something woman with a big, Snoopy-shaped cushion(坐垫）on her sofa or a Hello Kitty mobile phone accessory(配件）。

    3     For example, Bloomsbury even published the Harry Potter novels with an adult cover. That way, no one else on the subway will know that an adult is actually reading a children's book!

“Kidults can be like vitamins to society. Adults who value their childhood and hold on to pure, childlike emotion may be needed in such a rough and dry society,”said Lee Sojung, professor of Foreign Studies at Hankuk University.     4    It could give children and their parents books; movies, and cartoon shows to enjoy together. He may be right.

Tim Greenhalgh, a professor in London explained that some kidults just refused to grow up.    5     Kidults would like to forget their age and openly show their fear of society and adulthood. “So, they can escape from increasingly complex and stressful lives that are hard to deal with,” Greenhalgh said.

A．They find they cannot leave childhood behind

B．Other kidults still enjoy children's stories and fairy tales.

C．Kidults often run into the problem of finding a job at their level.

D．They do so because life in a busy and stressful city frightens them.

E．Hello Kitty, Garfield, and Snoopy have many adult fans around the world.

F．He added that kidult culture may fill the generation gap between adults and kids.

G．They may not be great parents as well as able to take on adult responsibilities.