1 . A digital footprint is a record of a person’s online activity, and it’s becoming more common for companies to perform social media checks before hiring people, Business News Daily reported.

When posting on social media platforms, some students don’t think enough about how it could affect them in the future. Sometimes students post reckless (鲁莽的) content to their social media profiles without considering the potential consequences: They could be creating a damaging digital footprint that may prevent them from getting hired.

Before determining who to hire, 70 percent of companies screen potential applicants and look at their social media, with 18 percent of employees losing their job due to their social media posts, according to a September 2022 study by CareerBuilder, a company that helps employers hire in the United States. “Sometimes some people’s social media tell a lot more about somebody than an interview,” said Rithika Mothukuri, a senior media studies and production major.

A 17-year-old lost out on a job opportunity after the company performed a background check and saw her videos on TikTok, Buzzfeed reported. Many of the videos shared overly personal stories, which was enough to cost her a job.

Therefore, students should ensure a search for their name doesn’t surface inappropriate content because even one unprofessional post could potentially ruin job opportunities. They should perform a digital declutter if there is such content though it may be very challenging to do that. So the most important is to refrain (避免) from posting content that contributes to a negative image in the first place.

“I never had anything controversial or something that could get me fired from a workplace or school or something, but there are many cases of that happening and we should be learning from their mistakes,” said Kieran Mc Carney, a junior social work major.

While having a clean digital is important, it’s also important that students avoid doing anything that can be considered inappropriate in their real life. In this way, even others cannot post inappropriate images or videos of them on social media.

1. What problem is discussed in the second paragraph?

A．Students have too many reckless behaviors in life.

B．Social media platforms could harm students’ future

C．Too much inappropriate content is present on social media.

D．What students post online may damage their images.

2. Why does the author mention that September 2022 study conducted by CareerBuilder?

A．To recommend a way of understanding people.

B．To show interviews have become less important.

C．To show most companies consider social media content.

D．To prove companies are cautious when hiring people.

3. What does the underlined word “declutter” in Para-graph 5 mean?

A．Clear-up.

B．Add-up.

C．Check-in.

D．Take-over.

4. Which of the following statements shows the author’s opinion?

A．Content founded on social media platforms is very reliable.

B．Students should avoid inappropriate behavior in life.

C．Companies shouldn’t care about people’s personal life.

D．Students should stop posting anything on social media.

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。

Whether it is watching television or using computers, teens experience serious physical and mental health     1     (consequence) after just two hours of screen use, according to University of Queensland-led research.

UQ researcher Asad Khan said the     2     (globe) study of more than 400, 000 teens is the first     3     (provide) evidence that teens are more likely to report physical and psychological complaints, if they exceed (超过) two hours of screen time.

“Psychological complaints from teens included feeling low, nervousness and sleeping difficulty, and physical complaints included headaches, backaches and     4     on, ” Khan said.

Key study findings showed teen boys who watched more than two hours of television per day, compared with those     5     watch less than two hours per day,     6     (be) 67 percent more likely to report high physical and psychological complaints while girls were at     7     (slight) higher risk at 71 percent.

High computer use for entertainment purposes was also reported to result       8     high physical and psychological complaints, with 84 percent higher risk in boys and 108 percent in girls.

“Our findings support existing public health recommendations of     9     (limit) screen use to a maximum of two hours per day for teens’ health,” Khan said.

The research     10     (conduct) in collaboration (合作) with Queen’s University of Ottawa, Canada.

4 . In 2019, Gotham Greens opened its 9,300-square-metre Baltimore farm on the former site of Bethlehem Steel, which was the largest steel-manufacturing plant in the world.     1     It aimed to repurpose unused rooftop spaces and abandoned factories for food production.

Urban populations are projected to increase by 2. 5 billion by 2050.     2     But despite the rise in city-based farms, there’s still a lot we don’t know about them, including the economic and environmental costs.

Florian Payen, an environmental scientist, and his colleagues looked at previous studies done in 53 countries where crops were grown in different urban environments, including “grey” spaces such as rooftops, and by using different growing methods. They found that yields(产量) of urban crops were often the same as those from conventional farms. Just as importantly, they revealed the most commonly-grown types of crops and the most effective growing methods.     3    

It’s known that the benefit of urban farming is a reduction in food miles.     4     In one study, researchers analyzed the carbon footprint of different vegetables grown in greenhouses in Canada and that of the importing vegetables from the USA. “They found that it was less carbon-intensive to import the crops because of the high energy input required to grow them locally in greenhouses,” says Payen.

    5    Urban agriculture has the potential to enhance local ecosystems, attracting pollinators (传粉媒介) such as bees and birds that boost urban biodiversity while providing more green spaces to help keep cities cool and counter the urban heat island effect.

A．But there are other benefits.

B．Urban agriculture can help feed our growing cities.

C．It’s well worth investing in rooftop gardens or greenhouses.

D．The farm was one of the farms the company had set up in cities.

E．Urban agriculture in any given city can take lots of different forms.

F．However, urban-grown crops aren’t a more environmentally friendly option.

G．Surprisingly, they found little difference in overall yields between indoor and outdoor spaces.

5 . We talk to the Perfect Planet experts about their experiences, hopes and advice.

We caught up with Dr Asha de Vos (Marine Biologist) and Dr Niall McCann (Biologist), who provided their expertise to the A Perfect Planet series. They have both witnessed, first-hand, the myriad (无数的) ways that humans have upset the delicate balance of our planet’s ecosystems.

Asha is a world-renowned marine (海洋的) biologist, TED Senior Fellow and ocean educator. She’s a pioneer in the research of blue whales and an expert on the current state of our oceans. Niall is a biologist, explorer and conservationist (环境保护主义者). He’s conducted remote-area biological research all over the world, and is a jungle expert, as well as a specialist in endangered species research. We discussed their hopes for the future, and what they want the audience to take away from the programme.

Seeing the damage caused by climate change can be a very bleak experience, but that hasn’t dampened Niall’s outlook. “I feel very positive about the future,” he explains, “because I spend so much time talking with young people — our future leaders — about nature, the environment, and humankind’s place in the world. The ‘Greta generation’ care deeply about the environment and are rightly holding those in power to account for their poor stewardship (管理) of the planet.”

Asha shares Niall’s view. When it comes to what practical steps viewers can take to tackle climate change, both experts have ideas.

“There are lots of little things we can all do to take care of our planet,” says Asha. “My favourite is a little unorthodox (非正统的). I ask people to share the stories of our planet, and specifically our ocean. Oftentimes, inaction or negative action comes from a place of ignorance, so empowering more people with the stories of our ocean and our incredible planet will help us to drive change. After all, if 70% of our planet is ocean, shouldn’t we have at least 50% of the world working for it?”

1. The underlined phrase in the second paragraph probably means ________.

A．interviewed

B．recorded

C．waited for

D．noticed

2. What can you know about Asha and Niall from Paragraph 3?

A．Asha is the first one in research of blue whales.

B．Asha is a well-known jungle expert.

C．Niall is an ocean educator and conservationist.

D．Niall is an expert in endangered species research.

3. What is Niall’s attitude towards environment?

A．Optimistic.	B．Negative.
C．Uncaring.	D．Doubtful.

4. What is the possible reason of people’s negative action?

A．Their laziness.	B．Their optimism.
C．Their ignorance.	D．Their poverty.

6 . When I made the decision to quit my full-time employment, I never thought that I could get involved in an increasing global trend. I had to leave my relatively high-profile position for an unexpected move that hurt my pride and prevented me from getting promoted. Yet, I excused my departure by saying “I wanted to spend more time with my family”.

Curiously, after around two and a half years, my experience in what Americans refer to as “downshifting” has turned my excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of Linda Kelsey’s “have it all” concept, which she has been promoting for the past seven years in the pages of She magazine, into a woman who is content to accept a little bit of everything.

I have discovered that abandoning the idea of “juggling your life” and adopting the alternative strategy of “downshifting” has benefits that go far beyond financial success and social status. Nothing could convince me to go back to the lifestyle Kelsey used to promote and which I had previously enjoyed: 12-hour workdays, tight deadlines, the terrifying pressure of office politics, and the demand of being a parent on “quality time”.

After the widespread layoffs (裁员) brought on by cost-cutting in the late 1980s, America started to move toward a simpler, less materialistic way of life as a response to the economic downturn. In America, simplifying one’s life is frequently done for financial reasons, but in Britain, at least among the middle class I know, we have different motivations for doing so. For the women of my generation who were encouraged to keep juggling, downshifting is not so much a search for a mythical (虚无的) good life—growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one—as a personal recognition of your limitations.

1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A．The writer didn’t take pride in her original job.

B．Full-time employment is a new international trend.

C．The writer was eager to spend more time with her family.

D．The writer was forced to resign due to an external factor.

2. What do we know about downshifting according to the text?

A．The writer abandoned her high social status for downshifting.

B．Downshifting allowed the writer to make her dream come true.

C．The writer changed her way of thinking through downshifting.

D．The writer accepted the concept of She magazine because of downshifting.

3. What does the underlined phrase “juggling your life” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Settling for a bit of everything.

B．Choosing to live a simple life.

C．Adopting a busy and stressful lifestyle.

D．Staying away from a materialistic way of life.

4. What does the writer intend to tell us?

A．It is never too late to pursue your dream.

B．Downshifting results in a more satisfactory and simpler life.

C．There is a difference between the American and British cultures.

D．People should adopt downshifting to search for mythical experiences.

7 . Teenage life: better now, or in the past?

Does this situation sound familiar(熟悉的)?

You’re complaining(抱怨) to your parents about something. Maybe your computer isn’t powerful enough to play the latest games.     1    Then you hear...

“When I was your age, there weren’t any computers or video games. And I didn’t get a bike until I was 16. And it was second-hand.     2    ”

So is it really true that life is better for teenagers now? It is certainly true that many teenagers have got more things nowadays.     3    So parents have got more money to spend on each child. And many things are cheaper than they were when our parents were children.

    4    Forty years ago, no one could imagine a world with tiny computers and amazing smartphones. And now these things are necessary—we can’t imagine living without them!

However, technology often means we spend more time at home. And often it’s just us, with our computer or television. Teenagers don’t do enough exercise.     5    And, although young people still get on well with their friends, some people think teenagers today don’t have so many social activities as the teenagers in the past.

What do you think? How is teenage life better these days?

A．And it was too big for me.

B．A typical family is smaller now.

C．You get very unhappy with this.

D．Or your friends’ bikes are better than yours.

E．So they aren’t as healthy as the teenagers in the past.

F．Life was not easy in the past.

G．Technology is probably the greatest change in our life.

8 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a giver word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word: for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Literacy (读写能力) exactly changes the human brain. The process of learning to read changes our brain, but so does what we read, how we read and on what we read. This is especially important nowadays,     1     many people are tied to screens at any given moment.

We are still in the early stages of understanding the impact of digital-based learning    2     the development of children’s reading brains. Transforming new information into solid knowledge in the brain     3     (require) multiple connections to abstract reasoning skills. Each of    4     needs the kind of time and attention often absent in digital reading.

Researchers have found declines in students’ comprehension when they read the same information on screens rather than print. Yet readers thought themselves better on screens because they were “faster”. More than 80% of college educators see a “shallowing” effect by screens on their students’ reading comprehension, according to new research. Similar results     5    (find)in Israeli fifth and sixth graders recently.

The reasons are multiple, but they are not because deep reading is impossible on a screen. It is simply harder, because screens are linked with distraction (分散注意力的事), which in turn leads to less time     6     (give) to abstract thought.

The great challenge now is     7     (learn) how to use both print and digital media to their best advantage for all. As a society we must ensure that there are always books    8     our children’s digital devices. It doesn’t matter    9     the books are new or old, owned or borrowed from the library.     10     matters is that they are there, and that children are encouraged to read them.

9 .

Something odd is happening to the tired millennial (千禧年的) workers of America. After a year spent with their computers at home, they are turning over the carefully arranged chessboards of their lives and determining to take a risk. Some are giving jobs up to launch a new business, while others are stepping off the boring work totally. Their bank accounts (账户), fattened by a year’s stay-at-home saving, have increased their desire for risk.

If this movement has a battle cry, it is “YOLO” — “you only live once”. Stock (股票) traders use it when making irresponsible bets that sometimes pay off anyway. More broadly, it has come to refer to the attitude that has described a certain type of bored office worker in recent months.

“I didn’t feel like I knew how to do my job anyway,” said Ms. Messer, 28. So she announced her quitting. Since then, she has been writing and keeping time for hobbies like painting and skiing. She admitted that not all people could uproot themselves so easily. “I have this renewed creative sense about what my life could look like, and how satisfying it can be” she said.

“It feels like we have been so locked into careers for the past few years, and this is our opportunity to switch it up”, said Nate Moseley, 29, a buyer at a major clothing store. Mr Moseley recently decided to leave his $ 130,000-a-year job. He created an Excel file called “Late 20s Crisis(危机)”, which he filled with possible choices for his next move: join in a 2023 political campaign, move to Caribbean and open a tourism business. “The idea of going right back to the pre-COVID set-up sounds so unappealing after this past year,” he noted. “If not, when will I ever do this?”

Not everyone can afford to put carefulness behind them. But for a growing number of people with enough savings and practical skills, the fear and the anxiety of the past year are giving way to a new kind of professional fearlessness. COVID-19 changed their priorities, and they realized they didn’t have to live like this. Adventure is in the air.

1. What strange things are American millennial workers doing?

A．They are tending to work online.	B．They are taking more risks in work.
C．They are more willing to save money.	D．They are developing more hobbies than before.

2. What is the term “YOLO” probably used to do?

A．To describe some boring work.

B．To advise people to treasure time.

C．To persuade people to be careful about decisions.

D．To inspire people to take brave moves.

3. What is Nate Moseley’s “Late 20s Crisis” file mainly about?

A．His new plans for life.	B．His achievements for work.
C．His opinions on political events.	D．His memory of pre-COVID life.

4. What does the text mainly deal with?

A．How does COVID-19 affect Millennials’ career choices?

B．What is the YOLO Economy (经济)?

C．Why do Millennials tend to save rather than spend?

D．Who is responsible for the sudden adventure?

10 . Academic dishonesty is nothing new. As long as there have been homework assignments and tests, there have been cheaters. The way that cheating looks has changed over time, though, particularly now that technology has made it easier than ever. A study by the Josephson Institute of Ethics interviewed 23,000 high school students and asked them a variety of questions about academic ethics. Of the teens surveyed, 51 percent said that they had knowingly cheated at some point on an exam but that they did not feel uneasy about the behaviour. A Common Sense Media survey found that 35 percent of students had cheated via smartphone, though the parents surveyed in that particular study did not believe their kids had ever cheated. In many cases, students did not realize that strategies like looking up answers on a smartphone were actually cheating at all.

In today’s classrooms, students who cheat are rarely caught. There are no formulas written on the insides of hands or students looking across the aisle, or whispering answers to their classmates. Today’s students use smartphones, tablets or even in-class computers to aid their cheating attempts and leave no trace of their crimes. Since cheating through technology is not listed specifically as being against the rules in many school policies, students do not view the actions unethical (不合道德的).

The technology is being adopted so quickly that school districts cannot adequately keep up with cheating policies, or even awareness campaigns that alert students to the problem with using technology to find answers in a certain way. From a young age, students learn that answers exist conveniently at their fingertips through search engines and expert websites.

Schools must develop anti-cheating policies that include technology and these policies must be updated consistently. Teachers must stay on guard when it comes to what their students are doing in classrooms and how technology could be playing a negative role in the learning process. Parents must also talk to their kids about the appropriate ways to find academic answers and alert them to unethical behaviours that may seem innocent in their own eyes.

1. What do we learn from the study by the Josephson Institute of Ethics?

A．Over half of the students interviewed were unaware they were cheating.

B．Cheating was becoming a way of life for a majority of high school teens.

C．Cheating was getting more and more difficult for high school students.

D．More than half of the interviewees felt no sense of guilt over cheating.

2. What did the Common Sense Media survey reveal?

A．Most parents tended to overprotect their children.

B．Parents and kids had conflicting ideas over cheating.

C．Students were in urgent need of ethical education.

D．Many students committed cheating without parents’ awareness.

3. What does the author think schools should do to tackle cheating?

A．Alert parents to their children’s behaviour.	B．Reform their exam methods constantly.
C．Take advantage of the latest technologies.	D．Bring policies against cheating up to date.

4. What does the author suggest teachers do in the classroom?

A．Prevent students from using electronic devices.	B．Develop more effective anti-cheating strategies.
C．Guard against students’ misuse of technology	D．Find more ways to stop students’ unethical acts.