1 . Fear, anxiety, panic — those are the words Elaine Peng used to describe the state of her service’s recipients (接受者) who are fighting mental health problems through lectures and support groups on WeChat. President Donald Trump’s transaction (交易) ban on the social networking app has worsened their emotional state.

Since Peng founded the organization in 2013 with the mission of raising mental health awareness within the Chinese community, she has gradually built up her network. Now she has two WeChat groups of more than 500 people, including service recipients and volunteers.

Peng said, “WeChat is the organization’s primary communications tool because it is much friendlier than other US-developed apps. We also respond to emergency situations through WeChat. For instance, we recently rescued a patient from a parking lot, using the app’s real-time location feature, where his condition suddenly worsened and he didn’t know where he was,” she said.

Seeing that her group’s mission and operation will be affected in a significant way, Peng joined a legal challenge filed by the nonprofit US WeChat Users Alliance, seeking to block the ban. The presidential executive order does not define the word “transaction”, and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has not defined which particular transactions would be illegal. Ross may issue the definitions by Sunday, or he may not say anything for a long time, but the situation is already harming people who depend on WeChat. If the judge does not prevent the order from taking effect, then the law goes into effect Sunday, and no one knows exactly what it means.

We Chat has roughly 19 million daily active users in the US, most of them of Chinese descent, according to the complaint filed by the plaintiffs (原告) last month. The lawsuit argues that the order is illegal because it violates (侵犯) users’ free speech rights. It also argues that the ban targeted Chinese Americans, who rely on the app for work, worship and staying in touch with relatives in China.

1. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Entertainment.

B．Science.

C．Education.

D．News brief.

2. What is the purpose of the organization founded by Peng?

A．To arouse mental health awareness.

B．To build up her network.

C．To provide service for recipients.

D．To keep in touch with relatives.

3. What was author’s attitude towards WeChat according to the article?

A．Subjective.

B．Objective.

C．Indifferent.

D．Doubtful.

4. What is the best title of this passage?

A．Wechat ban-users’ expectation

B．Wechat ban-users’ demand

C．Wechat ban-users’ concern

D．Wechat ban-users’ disaster

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。

This week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill banning the use of elephants, tigers and other wild animals in circus, acts,    1    (make) New Jersey the first state in the country to pass such a law. The law    2    (go) into effect since its formal declaration.

    3    (know) as “Nosey’s Law”, the bill is designed to protect animals in traveling circus acts from being abused. Nosey, the law's namesake, is a 36-year-old African elephant who    4    (force) to travel around the country and give rides at events despite being    5    (severe) lame by arthritis(关节炎). The arthritis had likely caused unnecessary suffering and permanent     6    (disable) for Nosey, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed to take action to0 protect Nosey, and Nosey’s owners continued to use her in shows.

“These animals belong in their natural habitats, not in performances    7    their safety is at risk.” Governor Murphy said. The law finally became a reality because    8    the years of hard work and the bill passes the New Jersey legislature (立法机构)with only three opposing    9    (vote), Illinois and New York have already banned the use of elephants in traveling or entertainment acts     10    New Jersey is the first to ban all wild and exotic animals.

3 . As more and more people like to travel,independently, minsu have grown in popularity, with homestays offering tourists the opportunity     1     (experience) local lifestyles.     2    Aug 1, 2017, Beijing introduced a new tourism regulation to improve the operation and management of minsu.

The regulation     3     (state) that the city and district governments should guide the development of minsu and encourage the development in suburban areas. Shopping during trips should     4     (manage)as well with the city and district governments shouldering their responsibilities.

“The new regulation encourages people to operate minsu and serve their guests     5     (proper) , ”said Cui Zhaohai, 29, an owner of a minsu in downtown Beijing. “I achieve a strong sense of accomplishment by changing an old courtyard into a well-decorated minsu and at the same time it allows me to protect the old architecture.”

Chen Xiao, 30, a tourist     6     (stay) in a minsu in Lijiang, Yunnan province thought highly of minsu, “ The     7     (operate) are often friendly and it’s also convenient to find other tourists,     8    want to car pool or travel together to cut cost.”

According to Wang,     9    official from Beijing government’s law department, the city government should release more detailed regulations about minsu in Beijing’s urban and rural area no     10     (late) than Aug 1, 2018.

4 . MONTREAL (Reuters) – Crossing the US-Canada border（边界）to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen ＄10,000 for breaking Washington’s strict new security（安全）rules.
The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile             is where they shop, eat and go to church.
There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the US-which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.
As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs（海关）station in this are is closed on Sundays, so be just drove around the locked gate,             as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later. Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him be had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally（非法）.
Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-miledetour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.
Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since. “I feel like I’m living in a prison,” he said.
1. We learn from the text that Richard Albert is .

A．an American living in Township 15

B．a Canadian living in a Quebec village

C．a Canadian working in a customs station

D．an American working in a Canadian church

2. Albert was fined because he .

A．failed to obey traffic rules	B．broke the American security rules
C．worked in St. Pamphile without a pass	D．damaged the gate of the customs office

3. The underlined word “detour” in paragraph 5 means .

A．a drive through the town	B．a race across the fields
C．a roundabout way of travelling	D．a journey in the mountain area

4. What wd be the best title for the text?

A．A Cross-country Trip	B．A Special Border Pass
C．An Unguarded Border	D．An Expensive Church Visit

5 . I got my first driver’s license in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte，North Carolina．Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman．Henry and I were living in Baltimore，Maryland．Two weeks before my 20th birthday，Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon．When I got to the office and showed to the man behind the counter my North Carolina driver’s license，ready to renew，the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21．“Mr. Henry Smith，your husband，will have to sign for you,” he said．
I argued，pointing to a very large belly(肚子) of mine，“I am married．I am having a baby．Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?”He answered coldly．“It’s the law，madam.”
Henry encouraged me to calm down，just go ahead and get the license and be done with it．“No，”I said．I refused to have him sign for me．So I left without a Maryland license．
I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle office and renewed my NC license by mail--using my name Susan Brown．And thus it was for the next twelve years．Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license．By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland，and I had to take the Maryland driver’s exam．Since then I just go in and renew every four years--sign the name Susan Brown，have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive．
1. Susan got her first driver’s license_______．

A．before she got married to Henry

B．when she was twenty years old

C．after she finished high school

D．when she just moved to Maryland

2. Susan failed to renew her license the first time in Maryland because_____．

A．she was forbidden to drive by Maryland law

B．she lacked driving experience in Maryland

C．she was to give birth to a baby soon

D．she insisted on signing for herself

3. We can infer from the text that in the U.S.___________．

A．American males should serve in the army

B．different states may have different laws

C．people have to renew their licenses in their home states

D．women should adopt their husbands’ family names after marriage