1 . If you look Chinese and speak Mandarin, you can call for a ride in Vancouver via WeChat, a Chinese app. The drivers normally call back to________the order, says Daniel Merkin, who lives in the Canadian city. “Sometimes they’ll ________ on me when they realize I don’t speak Mandarin,” he says. But he keeps ________, because popular ride-hailing (网约车) services, like Uber(优步) , are not available. The Chinese service is not legal, but it is ________. Mr. Merkin hopes that his ________ will soon expand.

In July the province of British Columbia, which licenses drivers, said it would allow the big ride-hailing services ________. But British Columbia has made their entry ________ by requiring drivers to hold commercial licenses. The government has reason to be ________. In many cities where ride-hailing has __________, traffic jam has worsened and use of public transport has ________.

However, Andrew Curran, head of policy at TransLink, the city’s public-transport system, believes ride-hailing could ________ use of public transport by ferrying people from their houses to a bus or train stop. It could also improve transport for people with ________. Currently, Trans-Link hires taxis to give door-to-door rides to some disabled people. He says the commercial-license rule will   slow down the services’ growth and ________ taxi-drivers, ride-hailing’s fiercest ________.

But the commercial-license requirement could have the ________ effect. Analysts think it will ________ most drivers and reduce the number of drivers ________ to pick up passengers in distant suburbs. ________, they will gather in the center. Some of Uber’s future competitors say they are not ________. A driver, who offers rides in his Mercedes SUV to people who hire him via Wechat, thinks his customers will stay ________. He predicts ride-hailing will just slow their journeys down.

1.

A．cancel

B．confirm

C．place

D．accept

2.

A．put in

B．turn up

C．hang up

D．pick out

3.

A．trying

B．shouting

C．complaining

D．driving

4.

A．forbidden

B．tolerated

C．advocated

D．recommended

5.

A．wishes

B．ideas

C．suggestions

D．options

6.

A．out

B．away

C．up

D．in

7.

A．unusual

B．difficult

C．easy

D．particular

8.

A．eager

B．anxious

C．cautious

D．negative

9.

A．taken off

B．put up

C．broken down

D．laid off

10.

A．risen

B．doubled

C．dropped

D．stopped

11.

A．lessen

B．increase

C．lower

D．decrease

12.

A．disabilities

B．luggage

C．children

D．friends

13.

A．protect

B．ignore

C．investigate

D．inquire

14.

A．coworkers

B．partners

C．competitors

D．supporters

15.

A．similar

B．opposite

C．positive

D．different

16.

A．discourage

B．encourage

C．benefit

D．comfort

17.

A．acceptable

B．accessible

C．affordable

D．available

18.

A．Furthermore

B．Instead

C．Though

D．Otherwise

19.

A．excited

B．jealous

C．amazed

D．worried

20.

A．reliable

B．responsible

C．loyal

D．delightful

2 . CAFE Maker Space Policy

Service and Location

The Maker Space is located in the lower level of the Powers Memorial Library towards the north side of the building. The purpose of the area is to provide open access to information and various new technologies to enhance professional, personal and educational goals for all ages. It is a place to gain hands-on experience, knowledge and skills and to make stuff!

Opening Hours

Currently the Maker Space is open every Wednesday afternoon from 4:00—7:00 p. m. These hours may vary during the summertime.

Equipment Available

·A Flash forge Creater Pro Dual Extrusion 3 D Printer

·Two ASUS Laptops

·Inventables Tool Kit

·LECO Mindstorms

·Wood Finishing Kit

·Obstacle Avoiding Robot

Conditions of Use

·Everyone with a valid CAFE library card is welcome to use and visit the Maker Space at no charge. To use the Maker Space, all must read and sign the Maker Space policy, stating that they will obey the rules and regulations of this policy.

·All equipment in the Maker Space are on a first come, first served basis; however, reservation may be made of specific equipment in advance. Use is limited for two hours per day per person, unless advanced approval is arranged with the Library Director. Reservations can be made in person at the library or by calling the Main Circulation Desk(262) 495-4605.

Equipment Safety Use

·In order to use specific equipment/technology or to participate in any project using this equipment, the user must complete the Equipment Use and Safety Certification Class.

·Any use of materials without certification can result in suspension or permanent ban from the Maker Space.

Fees for Equipment

3 D Printer: The current cost for use of the 3 D printer is $0.5 per 30 minutes run time.

1. Who is the Maker Space open to?

A．Staff of CAFE high school.

B．People over the age of 20.

C．Citizens with the library card.

D．College students in the city.

2. In which section can you find information about punishments for rule breaking?

A．Service and Location.	B．Equipment Available.
C．Conditions of Use.	D．Equipment Safety Use.

3. If you have used the 3 D printer for 100 minutes, how much do you need to pay?

A．$2.	B．$1.5.
C．$1.	D．$0.5.

3 . 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。

Do teachers have the right to discipline (惩戒)students?

The Ministry of Education issued a notice on Nov22,     1    (ask) for public opinions on a draft regulation that gives teacher the right to discipline students. According to the regulation, primary and middle school teachers    2     (allow) to criticize and give a proper     3     (punish) to students who disobey school discipline, social order, laws and rules, as well as those who cause chaos or disrupt the lesson, Should teachers be allowed to discipline students? Readers share their     4       (opinion).

Sunnylin 01: Teachers should be cautious in disciplining students. They can punish a student without violence but hurt the child     5     (mental) for the rest of his life. My daughter’s teacher makes students who forget to bring homework stand for     6    hour at their seats where they are forbidden to sit. I do believe the aim is to humiliate（羞辱）the student and it is not acceptable.

Markwu: Disciplining is a challenging task which teachers have to do and , if not     7     (do), more of the same bad actions will be committed that disrupt the objectives of teaching and learning, and character building for the later part of life and in society,     8     the teacher and educator has the responsibility to carry on.

Lindasun: It is parents’ responsibility to discipline the students, not teachers, because the teachers are not paid to discipline children, but to guide their learning.     9     necessary, teachers should manage the situation in a way that is    10    (effect), but does not replace the parents.

4 . Financial regulations in Britain have imposed a rather unusual rule on the bosses of big banks. Starting next year, any guaranteed bonus of top executives could be delayed 10 years if their banks are under investigation for wrongdoing. The main purpose of this “clawback” rule is to hold bankers responsible for harmful risk-taking and to restore public trust in financial institution. Yet officials also hope for a much larger benefit: more long-term decision-making not only by banks but also by all corporations, to build a stronger economy for future generations.

“Short-termism” or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England’s top economist, Andrew Haldane. He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like “Children who pick the strawberries out of their pudding to eat them at once” rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades. Transient(短期的) investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can hold back a firm’s efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty. This has been called “quarterly capitalism”.

In addition, new digital technologies have allowed more rapid trading of equities( 股 票 ), quicker use of information, and thus shortens attention spans in financial markets. “There seems to be an advantage of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing,” said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in speech this week.

In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public companies to delay performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year, slightly helping reduce “short-termism.” In its latest survey of CEO pay, The Wall Street Journal finds that “a substantial part” of executive pay is now tied to performance.

Much more could be done to encourage “long-termism,” such as changes in the tax code and quicker disclosure(披露) of stock acquisitions. In France, shareholders who hold onto a company investment for at least two years can sometimes earn more voting rights in a company.

Within companies, the right compensation design can provide motivation for executives to think beyond their own time at the company and on behalf of all shareholders. Britain’s new rule is a reminder to bankers that society has an interest in their performance, not just for the short term but for the long term.

1. According to Paragraph 1, one reason for imposing the new rule is the _______.

A．enhance banker’s sense of responsibility

B．help corporations achieve larger profits

C．build a new system of financial regulation

D．guarantee the bonuses of top executives

2. It is argued that the influence of transient investment on public companies can be _______.

A．indirect	B．negative
C．favorable	D．temporary

3. The US and France examples in paragraphs 5 and 6 are used to illustrate_______.

A．the obstacles to preventing “short-termism”.

B．the significance of long-term thinking.

C．the approaches to promoting “long-termism”

D．the popularity of short-term thinking.

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

A．Failure of Quarterly Capitalism

B．Patience as a Corporate Virtue

C．Decisiveness Required of Top Executives

D．Frustration of Risk-taking Bankers

5 . Seattle on Sunday became the first major US city to ban drinking straws(吸管), an environmentally friendly move that leaders hope will spark a nationwide conversation about small, everyday changes that people can make to protect the planet.

A decade ago, the city adopted a law requiring that all one-time-use food-service items be compostable(可分解的) or recyclable. But straws were exempted from that law because there were not many good alternatives. So the straws stayed, along with the environmental problems they cause.

Most plastic straws aren’t heavy enough to make it through industrial recycling sorters, and can ruin an otherwise good load of recycling. Or they end up getting blown out of trash cans and car windows and eventually wind up in the oceans, where they can hurt wildlife.

Strawless Ocean estimates that 71 percent of seabirds and 30 percent of turtles have some kind of plastic in their stomachs. The organization says plastic can increase the death rate of marine life by 50 percent.

Now customers at grocery stores, restaurants, food trucks, even institutional cafeterias have to find another way to get liquid into their mouths. Compostable paper straws are allowed under the ban. People who have a medical need to use a straw are not included. 

Failure to obey may result in a US$250 fine, although city leaders said that the purpose of the law is more about raising awareness. In September, 150 businesses participated in Strawless in Seattle, an attempt to reduce the use of plastic straws. In that month alone, Strawless Ocean estimates, 2.3 million plastic straws were removed from the city.

“When you get your iced drink, you’re going to get a straw. When you get your wine, you’re probably going to get a straw,” said Dune Ives, executive director of the Lonely Whale Foundation, which led the campaign. “Imagine a world where we could stop consuming 500 million straws a day, just in America!” the campaign says. “Imagine a world that is less dependent on plastic. That’s change we can start today!”

1. What does the underlined word “exempted” mean in the second paragraph？

A．To make something out of the list.	B．To make something better than before.
C．To include something in a special list.	D．To forgive someone who makes mistakes.

2. What the problem may the drinking straws cause according to the passage?

A．They may make the trash cans dirty.	B．They may destroy American recycling system.
C．They may cause much ocean wildlife in danger.	D．They may cause many companies get fined.

3. What is the attitude of the public towards the ban?

A．Many people are in favor of it.	B．Many people pay no attention to it.
C．Some people are strongly against it.	D．Only the government workers agree with it.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Seattle becomes first major US city to ban straws.

B．Seattle successfully bans people from using straws.

C．Seattle has been working hard to protect the environment.

D．Imagine a world that is less dependent on plastic.

6 . Requirements for foreigners to be employed in China

In accordance with relevant Chinese laws and regulations, any foreigners seeking employment in China must meet the following conditions:

(1) be 18 years of age or older and in good health;

(2) have the professional skills and job experience required for the intended employment;

(3) have no criminal record;

(4) propose to work for a clearly-defined employer;

(5) have a valid passport or other international travel document in lieu of a passport.

Procedures for foreigners working in China

(1) Foreigners who want to work in China should first get in touch with a valid Chinese employer who has an employment license for foreigners issued by a labor administrative bureau.

(2) Foreigners with permission to work in China should apply for employment visas at the Chinese embassies.

(3) Employers of foreigners should get work permits for their foreign employees within 15 days after their entry into China by providing related documents.

(4) Foreign employees who have received their work permit should, within 30 days after their entry, apply for a residence permit from their local public security bureau. The term of validity of the residence certificate may be determined in accordance with that of the Work Permit. If a foreigner's residence is canceled for violating Chinese laws or the contract is terminated, his or her employment permit will be canceled.

1. The foreigner ________ cannot be employed in China.

A．with a valid passport	B．with criminal record
C．in good health	D．with experiences and skills

2. Where should foreigners apply for employment visas?

A．In the local public bureau	B．In a labor administrative bureau
C．In the security bureau	D．At the Chinese embassies

3. A foreigner’s employment permit will be canceled for ________.

A．violating Chinese laws	B．lack of money
C．staying in China for over five years	D．being short of experience

7 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

New E-Commerce Law Takes Effect

China’s new e-commerce law, which was passed last August, took effect on January 1. The law comes amid the rapid development of China into the world’s largest e-commerce market.

The law aims to regulate the market and create a sound     1     environment. It covers the requirement for registration and licensing of e-commerce operators, taxation, electronic payment, etc. It also     2     other important aspects of e-commerce, including false advertising, consumer protection, data protection, intellectual property and cybersecurity.

The new law will apply to three types of operators. These include e-commerce     3     operators like Taobao, third-party merchants who sell goods and services on e-commerce platforms, and online vendors (供应商) who do business via other network     4    , such as social media sites. It means that merchants who sell goods through non-traditional e-commerce platforms, such as WeChat, will fall under the new law. These sellers will now need to finish their business registration and pay     5     taxes.

The law will make all e-commerce platform operators     6     responsible with the merchants for selling any fake or knock-off goods on their websites. Before the law took effect, individual merchants were solely responsible when caught selling liable (负有偿付责任的) goods.

The implementation of the law may bring     7     on online retail (零售) companies and merchants selling goods through social media sites. Many private shopping agents (known as daigou) are considering whether to continue the service under the new policy since it will increase the management cost and lead to a rise in the product price.

But the new law does not aim to     8     small to medium sized online retailer. Instead, it helps lay the legal foundation for the growth of the e-commerce business industry,     9     order in the market and further promotes its growth.

Besides, the law will help clean up China’s reputation as a     10     source of fake or knock-off goods. In the long term, consumers will benefit from it.

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

Nation bans consumption of wild animals

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus(冠状病毒),which is thought to have emerged at a seafood market in Wuhan,Hubei province,    1    wildlife was sold illegally,has urged China's top legislature(立法机构) to make     2     swift decision to thoroughly ban the eating of wildlife across the country.

The decision     3    (make) by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on Monday has indicated that all wild animals on the protection list of the existing Wild Animal Protection Law     4    (ban) from consumption.

The decision,     5    (consist)of eight articles,focuses on the problem of some people eating wild animals.     6    (it)aim is to completely ban eating wild animals,stop the illegal wildlife trade and promote environmental protection and public health     7    (aware).

Also,under some special circumstances and with the regulations of relevant laws,wild animals can be used     8    non-edible(非食用的)purposes,such as for     9    (science)research,for drugs and display.     10    ,strict application and approval procedures are required,according to the decision.

9 . What happens when the right to know comes up against the right not to know? The ease of genetic testing has brought this question to light. Two _______ legal cases－one in Britain, the other in Germany － stand to alter the way medicine is practised.

Both cases involve Huntington’s disease (HD). whose _______ include loss of co-ordination (协调), mood changes and cognitive (认知的) decline. It develops between the ages of 30 and 50, and is eventually fatal. Every child of an _______ parent has a 50% chance of inheriting it.

In the British case, _______ for trial at the High Court in London in November, a woman known as ABC-to protect the _______ of her daughter, who is a minor-is charging a London hospital, St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, for not _______ her father’s diagnosis of HD with her. ABC was pregnant at the time of his diagnosis, in 2009. She argues that had she been aware of it, she would have stopped the pregnancy. As it was, she found out only after giving birth to her daughter. She later tested _______ for HD.

The German case is in some ways the mirror image of the British one. Unlike in Britain, in Germany the right not to know genetic information is protected in law. _______ , in 2011 a doctor informed a woman that her divorced husband - the doctor's patient - had tested positive for HD. This meant their two children were _______   the disease. She accused the doctor, who had acted with his patient's permission. Both children being minors at the time, they could not legally be tested for the disease, which, as the woman’s lawyers pointed out, is currently     ________. They argued that she was therefore helpless to act on the information, and ________ suffered a reactive depression that prevented her from working.

Both cases test a legal grey area. If the right to know is ________ recognized in Britain later this year, that may remove some uncertainties, but it will also create new ones. To what lengths should doctors go to track down and inform family members, ________?

It is the law’s job to ________ these rights for the modern age. When the law falls behind technology, somebody often pays the price, and currently that somebody is ________ . As these two cases demonstrate, they find themselves in a difficult situation - charged if they do, accused if they don't.

1.

A．remarkable

B．distinct

C．contrasting

D．dominant

2.

A．consequences

B．symptoms

C．indications

D．diagnoses

3.

A．influenced

B．affected

C．inherited

D．annoyed

4.

A．scheduled

B．determined

C．approved

D．implemented

5.

A．possession

B．status

C．health

D．identity

6.

A．revealing

B．sharing

C．reminding

D．concealing

7.

A．convinced

B．suspicious

C．infected

D．positive

8.

A．Nevertheless

B．Thus

C．Additionally

D．Fundamentally

9.

A．in advance of

B．in the course of

C．at the close of

D．at the risk of

10.

A．inevitable

B．inextinguishable

C．incurable

D．intolerable

11.

A．as a result

B．after all

C．above all

D．in return

12.

A．financially

B．academically

C．legally

D．culturally

13.

A．on occasion

B．by comparison

C．in effect

D．for example

14.

A．reserve

B．balance

C．defend

D．draft

15.

A．lawmakers

B．victims

C．patients

D．doctors

10 . Communities across the world are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. The efforts are well intentioned, but banning facial recognition is the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance （监 视）.Generally, modern mass surveillance has three broad components: identification, correlation and discrimination.

Facial recognition is a technology that can be used to identify people without their consent. Once we are identified, the data about who we are and what we are doing can be correlated with other data. This might be movement data, which can be used to "follow” us as we move throughout our day. It can be purchasing data, Internet browsing data, or data about who we talk to via email or text. It might be data about our income, ethnicity, lifestyle, profession and interests. There is an entire industry of data brokers who make a living by selling our data without our consent.

It's not just that they know who we are; it's that they correlate what they know about us to create profiles about who we are and what our interests are. The whole purpose of this process is for companies to treat individuals differently. We are shown different ads on the Internet and receive different offers for credit cards. In the future, we might be treated differently when we walk into a store, just as we currently are when we visit websites.

It doesn't matter which technology is used to identify people. What's important is that we can be consistently identified over time. We might be completely anonymous （匿名的）in a system that uses unique cookies to track us as we browse the Internet, but the same process of correlation and discrimination still occurs.

Regulating this system means addressing all three steps of the process. A ban on facial recognition won't make any difference. The problem is that we are being identified without our knowledge or consent, and society needs rules about when that is permissible.

Similarly, we need rules about how our data can be combined with other data, and then bought and sold without our knowledge or consent. The data broker industry is almost entirely unregulated now. Reasonable laws would prevent the worst of their abuses.

Finally, we need better rules about when and how it is permissible for companies to discriminate. Discrimination based on protected characteristics like race and gender is already illegal, but those rules are ineffectual against the current technologies of surveillance and control. When people can be identified and their data correlated at a speed and scale previously unseen, we need new rules.

Today, facial recognition technologies are receiving the force of the tech backlash （抵制），but focusing on them misses the point. We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification, correlation and discrimination, and decide how much we want to be spied on and what sorts of influence we want them to have over our lives.

1. According to Para. 2, with facial recognition _______.

A．one’s lifestyle changes greatly

B．one's email content is disclosed

C．one's profiles are updated in time

D．one's personal information is released

2. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A．discrimination based on new tech surveillance is illegal

B．different browsing data bring in different advertisements

C．using mobiles anonymously keeps us from being correlated

D．data brokers control the current technologies of surveillance

3. The underlined part “the point^，,in the last paragraph probably refers to _______.

A．people's concern over their safety

B．the nature of the surveillance society

C．proper regulation of mass surveillance

D．the importance of identification technology

4. The author wrote this passage to _______.

A．call for banning facial recognition technologies

B．advocate the urgent need for changes in related laws

C．inform readers of the disadvantages of facial recognition

D．evaluate three broad components in modem mass surveillance