If you are a TV addict, you can't have missed the popular sitcom(情景喜剧) Home With Kids. The lead characters, 17-year-old Xiao Xue and 14-year-old Liu Xing can remind us of our own behavior or our classmates. We love the two teenagers, but are they good students? And what makes a good student?

“Being a student is a kind of occupation, so a good student should have good grades. Based on their school reports, clever and diligent, Xiao Xue is a much better student than her brother, Liu Xing,” says Wu Hao, 16, Chifeng in Inner Mongolia. “The boy should work harder at studying since our duty as students is to study well.”

It is generally accepted that getting good scores is crucial for a student. So to some, being a good student means ranking high in your class or even your school. However, Wu also admits that a student's personality is more important in being a role model student.

“Honesty and kindness make you admirable. But Xiao Xue can be selfish, dishonest and arrogant, which make others feel uncomfortable to be around her. So she has a lot yet to improve on,” Wu said.

Many teenagers do not think it is fair to judge students by their grades. Take Liu Xing for example. He is bright, good at computers and does everything else well like any other 14-year-old student except studying.

“He is smart, humorous and always has fancy ideas which makes him popular. I guess he could be an excellent student if he attended school in the United States, where high grades are not so important and creativity is hailed,” says Jia Xiaoxu, 17, Hefei, Anhui.

From the US hit movie High School Musical, Jia discovers her role model.

“Gabriella in the movie is an ideal student. She is ranked top but is not seen as a bookworm. She is sweet and sociable. Most importantly, Gabriella is always 'hungry' to try new things and actively participates in different kinds of activities,” she said.

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A.A discussion about what makes a good student.

B.Two lovely middle school students.

C.How to get high rank in study.

D.Study and personality.

2.Which statement is NOT true according to Wu Hao?

A.A student's personality is more important for a role model student.

B.A good grade is the most important for a good student.

C.Xiao Xue still has some shortcomings which need to be improved.

D.Xiao Xue is much better in study than her brother Liu Xing.

3.Which of the following is NOT the advantage of Liu Xing according to the passage?

A.He is smart and humorous.

B.He does everything well except study.

C.He gets on well with Xiao Xue.

D.He is good at computer and creative.

4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.To be good students, we should be eager to learn and take part in different activities.

B.To be good students, we should work hard.

C.To be good students, we should not be addicted to books.

D.To be good students, we should only concern about social issues.

    I remember the day when I first learned to ride a bike. It was a frightening, yet fun experience. My granddad was the one who taught me and he helped me when I got hurt. The first time I got on a bike, I had no idea what I was doing, and just about everything went wrong. My granddad told me to just put my feet on the pedals and start pedaling (骑自行车). He also told me he would hold onto the back of the bike the whole time, yet he didn’t.

As soon as I started trying to balance myself, he let go. I happened to look back just then. I was scared, to death that I was going to fall and hurt myself. When I was scared, my mind went blank from pedaling, and I just wanted off. I forgot how to use the brakes (车闸) and fell right off the bike. My granddad kept encouraging me to get up and try again, and after about 15 minutes, 1 finally stopped crying, got up and tried again.

As soon as I started pedaling again, my pants got caught in the chain, and I fell flat on my face and hit my nose. Since that happened t my granddad decided to call it a day and try again the next morning. The next morning I woke up bright and early, and was very eager to try to ride my bike. My nose felt better, so I wasn’t that afraid of falling anymore.

Though I knew there were a lot of difficulties on the way to mastering the skills in riding a bike, I believed I could do well with my granddad’s help. After all, riding a bike was what I wanted to do eagerly.

1.How was the author when he was on the bike first?

A.He didn’t know where he would be going.

B.He thought balancing himself was easy.

C.He was nervous and didn’t know what to do next.

D.He put his feet on the pedals and started pedaling.

2.What does the underlined part in the passage mean?

A.Remember what happened this day.

B.Make the author feel happy.

C.Stop practicing bicycling.

D.Go on to ride a bike.

3.What is the author’s attitude towards his granddad?

A.Supportive. B.Grateful.

C.Indifferent. D.Negative.

4.Which of the following could be the title for the passage?

A.The Experience of My First Riding a Bike

B.The Difficulty I Met with My Granddad

C.The First Time I Got My Own Bike

D.The Great Moment When I Stayed with My Granddad

Sydney Tower

Address: 100 Market St, Sydney

Phone: 02 9333 9222

Fax: 02 9333 9203

Open time: 9:00 am. to 10:30 pm. (Saturdays to 11:30 pm.)

Ticket: $60 ( for an adult)

$30 ( for a child)

Website: www.sydneytower.com.au

How to get there: train to Town Hall Station and a short walk along Market Street

How to book tickets: by phone/ fax or through the web

Attraction: Sydney's best views are just the beginning! Sydney Tower takes you to the highest point above Sydney for exciting 360°views of our beautiful city.

1.Sydney Tower is      in Sydney, Australia.

A.the busiest street B.the highest point

C.the most beautiful park D.the biggest station

2.If you want to book a ticket to Sydney Tower, you can't      .

A.email Sydney tower@ hotmail.com B.fax 02 9333 9203

C.search www.sydneytower.com.au D.dial 02 9333 9222

3.Frank wants to go to Sydney Tower with his two children, so he will pay       .

A.$60 B.$90

C.$150 D.$120

为了帮助学生更多了解新型冠状病毒肺炎（NCP),学校邀请了复旦大学附属华山医院(Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University)的张文宏教授在线作讲座。假如你是校学生会主席李华，请根据所给提示，代表学生会用英语写一则通知，要点包括：

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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

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Last week, we were attracted by the announcement, say all the school clubs would gather on the sports field during the lunch break on Monday afternoon and that we could join in the club we like. Everybody was excited about it. After lunch,we run onto the sports field. I was amazed with the number and variety of the club: the Cartoon Club, the Guitar Club, the Basketball Club and so on. It was not easy make a choice. But I decided to become a member of the Guitar Club, so I love music. I signed up and so did some other students which shared my interest. I believe music and new friends will make your life more interestingly.

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。

Dogs were first raised at home at least 150 centuries ago. Since then, the dog 1.(be) humans’ best friend. Now, they have another job—to help doctors to diagnose（诊断）cancer.

After a long-standing research of smell, a Finnish professor has said that certain 2.(type) of cancer are able to be discovered by their smell, 3.(make) it possible to train cancer-sniffing dogs to help diagnose the disease.

A professor, JoukoVepsalainen from the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, has focused on nitrogen compounds（氮化合物）. The compounds increase 4. (great) when cancer cells grow in an uncontrollable way, allowing them 5.(find) out, the Finnish newspaper Karjalainen reported. That’s where the dog, man’s best friend, may step in with their sharp sense of smell.

According 6. the news agency, researchers in Finland have tried to train dogs to do the job, but 7. will take a dog months, even years, to tell the 8.(different) between sick and healthy people. “Anyone 9.knows how difficult early cancer detection(察觉) is understands what 10.good opportunity this is,” associate professor Anna Hielm-Bjorkman of the University of Helsinki told the Finnish media.

    Life is full of beautiful moments. All you have to do is _______your eyes and your heart to see them. I saw _______ just the other day. The local _______ had just let out, and I found myself behind a school bus as I was driving home.

The bus _______by a house sitting on top of a hill. A little girl, no more than 7 years old,_______the bus and started running quickly to the _______. The smile on her face was quite sweet. I _______up the hill to see where she was going. I saw her dad waiting for her. As she got _______, her dad smiled and knelt down to _______ her. He wrapped his powerful ________ around her and gave her a huge hug, the moment she got to him.

My eyes ________ a bit as I watched this scene. I ________all the times my own children had run into my arms with ________ faces and loving hearts.Every single hug from them was a treasure of  ________. Suddenly my trip down the memory lane was ________when I heard the car behind me honk its horn (鸣喇叭). I saw the school bus quickly pulling away, and started to ________ it again. However, this time I did so with a fuller heart than ever before.I took that ________ moment and stored it safely in my soul, where I knew it would remain forever.

One day, we all will leave this school of learning and love, and ________get to go home again. ________ enjoy your day here at school then. Love and learn. But know that one day you will be going home to where the ________never ends.

1.A.clean B.protect C.open D.shut

2.A.it B.other C.one D.another

3.A.school B.hospital C.restaurant D.market

4.A.returned B.turned C.approached D.stopped

5.A.pointed at B.got off C.went through D.broke into

6.A.bus B.man C.end D.house

7.A.looked B.took C.climbed D.showed

8.A.warmer B.older C.closer D.thinner

9.A.blame B.greet C.touch D.save

10.A.head B.foot C.legs D.arms

11.A.watered B.closed C.rested D.cheered

12.A.remembered B.appreciated C.missed D.preferred

13.A.gentle B.pretty C.nervous D.smiling

14.A.wealth B.joy C.value D.learning

15.A.destroyed B.cancelled C.stopped D.repeated

16.A.fix B.follow C.call D.catch

17.A.quiet B.beautiful C.lost D.embarrassing

18.A.suddenly B.equally C.slowly D.finally

19.A.So B.But C.Though D.If

20.A.expectation B.imagination C.love D.hope

    There is an English saying：“1.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body.  2.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.  3.  If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program.4.

5. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A. Laughter is the best medicine.

B. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both  stress and pain.

C. Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still can not put  this theory into clinic practice.

D. Laughter can prolong one's life.

E. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their  patients' condition by encouraging them to laugh.

F. They have found that laughter really can improve people's health.

G. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing；it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.

    It was 3:21 a.m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the cracking (爆烈声) of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin Long Island.

With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke-filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, fell down onto the lawn.

The nine-year-old boy raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother’s room. He found it impossible to wake her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim of the smoke, was unconscious, and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy stayed calm and, as a fireman said later, "acted with all the self-control of a trained adult."

On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on with the task of saving his mother.

First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.

He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor?

Grasping firmly a ball of string (线) from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed upstairs to his mother’s room. Tying one end of the string to her hand, he ran back, laying out the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.

Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan, "The string will lead you to mother." Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.

1.Why did Glenn run downstairs first?

A.He wanted to find out what was happening.

B.He was worried about his mother’s safety.

C.He wanted to save his sister and brother.

D.He went to see if his father had come back from work.

2.Who called the fire brigade and ambulance service?

A.Glenn. B.Glenn’s father.

C.Glenn’s sister. D.Glenn’s neighbor.

3.Which of the following can replace “unconscious” in Paragraph 3?

A.unfortunate B.confuse

C.terrified D.senseless

4.Glenn saved his family because ______.

A.his father had taught him to do so on the phone

B.he had learned something about first aid

C.he had dealt with the emergency calmly and wisely

D.he had followed his mother’s instructions

    Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption (消费) on the interest of celebrity related to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential (潜力), moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.

Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon (现象), but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale (规模) rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.

However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer attraction. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to look like an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the attention dies down, consumer interest might decrease, loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels.

Today, celebrities face even more serious embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame (名声) has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s (自我的) potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion-like celebrity-has always been temporary.

1.Fashion magazines today ____________.

A.totally refuse to put models on the cover

B.rarely put models on the cover

C.need not worry about celebrities’ market potential

D.judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly

2.A change in the consumer market can be found today that _____________.

A.price rather than brand name is more concerned

B.producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements

C.producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements

D.quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned

3.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly__________.

A.shorten the artistic career of a celebrity in show business

B.damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public

C.decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products

D.influence the price of a celebrity’s products

4.The passage is mainly about ___________.

A.celebrity and personal style B.celebrity and market potential

C.celebrity and fashion design D.celebrity and clothing industry

    One of the best things you can do for your health is to drop a few pounds. Or maybe more than a few pounds.

Being overweight increases your danger of heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and the list seems almost endless. You'd better find several simple things you can do on a daily basis — such as making rules of eating more vegetables and less fat and getting more physical activities.

After breakfast, make water your primary drink. At breakfast, go ahead and drink orange juice. But throughout the rest of the day, focus on water instead of juice or soda. The average American consumes (消耗) an extra 245 calories a day from soft drinks. That's nearly 90,000 calories a year — or 25 pounds! An research shows that neither the calories nor sugary drinks give you a sense of fullness the way that food does.

People take only 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. Adding 2,000 steps will help you keep your present weight and stop gaining weight. Adding more than that will help you lose weight.

Eat five or six small meals or snacks a day instead of three large meals. A 1999 South African study found that when men ate parts of their morning meal at intervals over five hours, they consumed almost 20 percent fewer calories at lunch than when they ate a single breakfast.

1.Where is the passage probably taken from?

A.A travelling diary. B.A story book.

C.A science magazine. D.An English dictionary.

2.Which of the following should be avoided if you want to lose weight?

A.Eating more vegetables.

B.Getting more exercise.

C.Having less sugary drinks.

D.Having three large meals.

3.What is the best title of the passage?

A.Healthy Eating Habits B.Tips on Losing Weight

C.Daily Diet and Calories D.Exercise Stops Diseases

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Lots of diseases are related to being overweight.

B.Those who have a single breakfast eat less at lunch time.

C.Taking 4,000 to 5,000 steps a day can help you lose weight.

D.An average American consumes 25 pounds of soft drinks a year.

Movies to Enjoy

“Eating Animals”

The 2018 documentary “Eating Animals”, based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer published in 2009, tells us that factory farming is bad, and that most Americans don’t realize just how bad. Still, this isn’t a feel-guilty film. There’s plenty of hope as director Christopher Quinn shows farmers who are still using practices that do not, for example, force chickens to live their short lives in a dark building while covered in their own poop（大便）. Will the film cause you to go vegan（素食者）？Eh, burgers are really tasty. But it will make you think about what it is that you’re putting in your mouth and maybe inspire you to head for the farmers’ market to see what a chicken that lived a happy life tastes like.

Landmark E Street Cinema? 555 11th St. NW, Washington, D. C. opens on Oct. 15 (Mon.)? $10—$12. 50

Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema? 7235 Woodmont Ave. Bethesda, Md. opens on Oct. 15 (Mon.) $9.50—$ 12. 50

“The Last Tightrope Dancer in Annenia"

Sometimes it’s enjoyable to see what everyone else has been seeing. It helps with dinner party conversation. Sometimes, though, it’s fun to see something really different. “The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia” is a 2009 documentary about the only two surviving performers of Armenian tightrope dancing, 76 and 77 at the time of the film, and their desperate efforts to pass on the traditional art form to the only student of tightrope dancing left in the land, a 16-year-old orphan (MJL) boy.

Library of Congress, Mary Pickford Theater, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington D. C.； Oct. 15 (Mon.), 8 p. m., free.

Family Movie Series

The Old Greenbelt Theatre is here to help quiet the endless “I’m bored” at the weekend. Every Sunday at 1 p. m., you can take the kids to see a family-friendly film for free, including “Despicable Me 3” and "Paddington 2”. Just have fun!

The Old Greenbelt Theatre, 129 Centerway, Greenbelt, Md.；Sundays through Dec. 30, 1p.m., free.

1.Which statement about “Eating Animals” is TRUE?

A.It’s directed by Jonathan Safran Foer.

B.It’s a feel-guilty story about the bad factory farming.

C.It may cause many more Americans to go vegan.

D.It can help raise people’s awareness about food.

2.Someone who wants to enjoy a film for free on October 15 could choose ______.

A.Eating Animals B.The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia

C.Despicable Me 3 D.Paddington 2

3.If a woman wants to spend a happy weekend with her children, she should go to ______.

A.Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema B.Library of Congress, Mary Pickford Theater

C.555 11th St. NW, Washington, D.C. D. 129 Centerway, Greenbelt, Md.

请阅读下面有关中国题材纪录片(documentary)的对话，并按照要求用英语写一篇150个词左右的文章。

Su Hua: Hi, Li Jiang! Did you see the BBC documentary on CCTV 9 last week?

Li Jiang: You mean Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet? Yes, I did. Fantastic!

Su Hua: Just think an English actor recites Chinese poems.

Li Jiang: I don’t really understand every line he recites, but I believe he truly loves the poems himself.

Su Hua: Right. It is reported that the film is well received outside China.

Li Jiang: Yeah, It’s my first time to hear Chinese stories told by an English speaker.

Su Hua: In fact, documentaries about our country are plentiful both at home and abroad. These films can help foreign friends better understand this land-Chinese literature, geography history, food...

Li Jiang: I couldn’t agree more.

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1.用约30个词概括上述对话的主要内容；

2.谈谈中国题材纪录片受到外国朋友欢迎的原因(至少两点)。

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1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3.不必写标题。

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内容完整语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

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Humor

If you see humor as an optional form of entertainment, you’re missing some of its biggest benefits: Humor makes average-looking people look cute and uninteresting people seem entertaining. Studies show that a good sense of humor even makes you seem smarter.

Best of all, humor raises your energy, and that can have an effect on everything you do at school, at work, or in your personal life. The increase of energy will even make you more willing to exercise, and that will raise your overall energy even more.

Humor also transports your mind away from your daily troubles. Humor lets you better understand life and sometimes helps you laugh at even the worst of your problems.

In my experience, most people think they have a sense of humor, and to some degree that’s true. But not all senses of humor are created equal. So I thought it would be useful to include some humor tips for everyday life.

You don’t have to be the joke teller in the group in order to show your sense of humor. You can be the one who directs the conversation to fun topics that are ripe for others to add humor. Every party needs a straight person. You’ll appear fun and funny by association.

When it comes to in-person humor, effort counts a lot. When people see you trying to be funny, it frees them to try it themselves. So even if your own efforts at humor fall short, you might be freeing the long kept humor in others. People need permission to be funny in social settings because there’s always a risk that comes with humor. For in-person humor, quality isn’t as important as you might think. Your attitude and effort count a lot.

Some people--and I was one of them--believe that humorous complaints about the little problems of life make humor, and sometimes that is the case. The problem comes when you start doing too much complaint-based humor. One funny observation about problem in your life can be funny, but five is just complaining, no matter how smart you think you are. Funny complaints can wear people out.

Self-deprecating(自嘲式) humor is usually the safest type, but here again you don’t want to overshoot the target. One self-deprecating comment is a generous and even confident form of humor. You have to be at least a bit self-assured to laugh at yourself in front of others. But if you do it too often, you can transform in the eyes of others from a confident joker to a Chihuahua dog.

    I was in the middle of the Amazon (亚马逊) with my wife, who was there as a medical researcher. We flew on a small plane to a faraway village. We did not speak the local language, did not know the customs, and more often than not, did not entirely recognize the food. We could not have felt more foreign.

We were raised on books and computers, highways and cell phones, but now we were living in a village without running water or electricity It was easy for us to go to sleep at the end of the day feeling a little misunderstood.

Then one perfect Amazonian evening, with monkeys calling from beyond the village green, we played soccer. I am not good at soccer, but that evening it was wonderful. Everyone knew the rules. We all spoke the same language of passes and shots. We understood one another perfectly. As darkness came over the field and the match ended, the goal keeper, Juan, walked over to me and said in a matter-of-fact way, “In your home, do you have a moon too?” I was surprised.

After I explained to Juan that yes, we did have a moon and yes, it was very similar to his, I felt a sort of awe (敬畏) at the possibilities that existed in his world. In Juan’s world, each village could have its own moon. In Juan’s world. the unknown and undiscovered was vast and marvelous. Anything was possible.

In our society, we know that Earth has only one moon. We have looked at our planet from every angle and found all of the wildest things left to find. I can, from my computer at home, pull up satellite images of Juan’s village. There are no more continents and no more moons to search for, little left to discover. At least it seems that way.

Yet, as I thought about Juan’s question, I was not sure how much more we could really rule out. I am, in part, an ant biologist, so my thoughts turned to what we know about insect life and I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown. How much, though? How ignorant  (无知的) are we? The question of what we know and do not know constantly bothered me.

I began collecting newspaper articles about new species, new monkey, new spider…, and on and on they appear. My drawer quickly filled. I began a second drawer for more general discoveries: new cave system discovered with dozens of nameless species, four hundred species of bacteria found in the human stomach. The second drawer began to fill and as it did I wondered whether there were bigger discoveries out there, not just species, but life that depends on things thought to be useless, life even without DNA. I started a third drawer for these big discoveries. It fills more slowly, but all the same, it fills.

In looking into the stories of biological discovery, I also began to find something else, a collection of scientists, usually brilliant occasionally half-mad, who made the discoveries. Those scientists very often see the same things that other scientists see, but they pay more attention to them, and they focus on them to the point of exhaustion (穷尽), and at the risk of the ridicule of their peers. In looking for the stories of discovery, I found the stories of these people and how their lives changed our view of the world.

We are repeatedly willing to imagine we have found most of what is left to discover. We used to think that insects were the smallest organisms (生物), and that nothing lived deeper than six hundred meters. Yet, when something new turns up, more often than not, we do not even know its name.

1.How did the author feel on his arrival in the Amazon?

A.Out of place. B.Full of joy. C.Sleepy. D.Regretful.

2.What made that Amazonian evening wonderful?

A.He learned more about the local language.

B.They had a nice conversation with each other.

C.They understood each other while playing.

D.He won the soccer game with the goal keeper.

3.Why was the author surprised at Juan’s question about the moon?

A.The question was too straightforward.

B.Juan knew so little about the world.

C.The author didn’t know how to answer.

D.The author didn’t think Juan was sincere.

4.What was the author’s initial purpose of collecting newspaper articles?

A.To sort out what we have known.

B.To deepen his research into Amazonians.

C.To improve his reputation as a biologist.

D.To learn more about local cultures.

5.How did those brilliant scientists make great discoveries?

A.They shifted their viewpoints frequently.

B.They followed other scientists closely.

C.They often criticized their fellow scientists.

D.They conducted in-depth and close studies.

6.What could be the most suitable title for the passage?

A.The Possible and the Impossible .

B.The Known and the Unknown .

C.The Civilized and the Uncivilized .

D.The Ignorant and the Intelligent.

    For those who can stomach it, working out before breakfast may be more beneficial for health than eating first, according to a study of meal timing and physical activity.

Athletes and scientists have long known that meal timing affects performance. However, far less has been known about how meal timing and exercise might affect general health.

To find out, British scientists conducted a study. They first found 10 overweight and inactive but otherwise healthy young men, whose lifestyles are, for better and worse, representative of those of most of us. They tested the men’s fitness and resting metabolic (新陈代谢的) rates and took samples (样品) of their blood and fat tissue.

Then, on two separate morning visits to the scientists’ lab, each man walked for an hour at an average speed that, in theory should allow his body to rely mainly on fat for fuel. Before one of these workouts, the men skipped breakfast, meaning that they exercised on a completely empty stomach after a long overnight fast (禁食). On the other occasion, they ate a rich morning meal about two hours before they started walking.

Just before and an hour after each workout, the scientists took additional samples of the men’s blood and fat tissue.

Then they compared the samples. There were considerable differences. Most obviously, the men displayed lower blood sugar levels at the start of their workouts when they had skipped breakfast than when they had eaten. As a result, they burned more fat during walks on an empty stomach than when they had eaten first. On the other hand, they burned slightly more calories (卡路里), on average, during the workout after breakfast than after fasting.

But it was the effects deep within the fat cells that may have been the most significant, the researchers found. Multiple genes behaved differently, depending on whether someone had eaten or not before walking. Many of these genes produce proteins (蛋白质) that can improve blood sugar regulation and insulin (胰岛素) levels throughout the body and so are associated with improved metabolic health. These genes were much more active when the men had fasted before exercise than when they had breakfasted.

The implication of these results is that to gain the greatest health benefits from exercise, it may be wise to skip eating first.

1.The underlined expression “stomach it” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “______”.

A.digest the meal easily B.manage without breakfast

C.decide wisely what to eat D.eat whatever is offered

2.Why were the 10 people chosen for the experiment?

A.Their lifestyles were typical of ordinary people.

B.Their lack of exercise led to overweight.

C.They could walk at an average speed.

D.They had slow metabolic rates.

3.What happened to those who ate breakfast before exercise?

A.They successfully lost weight. B.They consumed a bit more calories.

C.They burned more fat on average. D.They displayed higher insulin levels.

4.What could be learned from the research?

A.A workout after breakfast improves gene performances.

B.Too much workout often slows metabolic rates.

C.Lifestyle is not as important as morning exercise.

D.Physical exercise before breakfast is better for health.

    Sometimes it’s hard to let go. For many British people, that can apply to institutions and objects that represent their country’s past-age-old castles, splendid homes… and red phone boxes.

Beaten first by the march of technology and lately by the terrible weather in junkyards (废品场), the phone boxes representative of an age are now making something of a comeback. Adapted in imaginative ways, many have reappeared on city streets and village greens housing tiny cafes, cellphone repair shops or even defibrillator machines (除颤器).

The original iron boxes with the round roofs first appeared in 1926. They were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of the Battersea Power Station in London. After becoming an important part of many British streets, the phone boxes began disappearing in the 1980s, with the rise of the mobile phone sending most of them away to the junkyards.

About that time, Tony Inglis’ engineering and transport company got the job to remove phone boxes from the streets and sell them out. But Inglis ended up buying hundreds of them himself, with the idea of repairing and selling them. He said that he had heard the calls to preserve the boxes and had seen how some of them were listed as historic buildings.

As Inglis and, later other businessmen, got to work, repurposed phone boxes began reappearing in cities and villages as people found new uses for them. Today, they are once again a familiar sight, playing roles that are often just as important for the community as their original purpose.

In rural areas, where ambulances can take a relatively long time to arrive, the phone boxes have taken on a lifesaving role. Local organizations can adopt them for l pound, and install defibrillators to help in emergencies.

Others also looked at the phone boxes and saw business opportunities. LoveFone, a company that advocates repairing cellphones rather than abandoning them, opened a mini workshop in a London phone box in 2016.

The tiny shops made economic sense, according to Robert Kerr, a founder of LoveFone. He said that one of the boxes generated around $13,500 in revenue a month and cost only about $400 to rent.

Inglis said phone boxes called to mind an age when things were built to last. I “like what they are to people, and I enjoy bringing things back,” he said.

1.The phone boxes are making a comeback ______.

A.to form a beautiful sight of the city

B.to improve telecommunications services

C.to remind people of a historical period

D.to meet the requirement of green economy

2.Why did the phone boxes begin to go out of service in the 1980s?

A.They were not well-designed. B.They provided bad services.

C.They had too short a history. D.They lost to new technologies.

3.The phone boxes are becoming popular mainly because of ______.

A.their new appearance and lower prices B.the push of the local organizations

C.their changed roles and functions D.the big funding of the businessmen

1.What happened between January 20 and February 20?

A.The Central Steering Group arrived in Wuhan.

B.The WHO-China Joint Mission on Covid-19 held a press conference.

C.The last Covid-19 patient in Wuhan was discharged from hospital.

D.Beijing lowered its emergency response level.

2.From which date were private cars allowed to go out of Wuhan?

A.January 23. B.March 11. C.April 8. D.May 7.

    Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success _______ fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the _________ in our lives.

When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no _______ of knowing that his life was to change _________. The class experiment that day was to _________ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling (冒泡) to the surface. _________, the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat _________ held something more volatile (易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container _______, leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.

When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents _________ to find a way to deal with the catastrophe that had ____________ their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as ____________. He learned braille (盲文) quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became a(n)____________ public speaker.

Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from ____________ for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to __________ his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue __________ it could be fixed so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the ____________ Wilson made to preventing the ____________.

Wilson received several international ____________ for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a __________. He proved that it’s not what happens to us that ____________ our lives-it’s what we make of what happens.

1.A.depends B.holds C.keeps D.reflects

2.A.dilemmas B.accidents C.events D.steps

3.A.way B.hope C.plan D.measure

4.A.continually B.gradually C.gracefully D.completely

5.A.direct B.show C.advocate D.declare

6.A.Anyway B.Moreover C.Somehow D.Thus

7.A.mistakenly B.casually C.amazingly D.clumsily

8.A.erupted B.exploded C.emptied D.exposed

9.A.deserved B.attempted C.cared D.agreed

10.A.submitted to B.catered for C.impressed on D.happened to

11.A.fantastic B.extraordinary C.impressive D.catastrophic

12.A.accomplished B.crucial C.specific D.innocent

13.A.deafness B.depression C.blindness D.speechlessness

14.A.decide B.abandon C.control D.accept

15.A.until B.when C.unless D.before

16.A.opposition B.adjustments C.commitment D.limitations

17.A.preventable B.potential C.spreadable D.influential

18.A.scholarships B.rewards C.awards D.bonuses

19.A.fortune B.recipe C.dream D.vision

20.A.distinguishes B.determines C.claims D.limits

—Do you know anything about Zhang Zhongjing?

—______ He has been honored as a master doctor since the Eastern Han Dynasty.

A.How come? B.So what? C.By all means. D.With pleasure.

The speed of 6G will exceed 125 GB/s, ______ a new generation of virtual reality.

A.allowing for B.accounting for C.calling for D.compensating for

The health security systems of many countries are undergoing considerable ______.

A.reservation B.transformation C.distinction D.submission

This actor often has the first two tricks planned before performing, and then goes for ______.

A.whichever B.whenever C.wherever D.whatever

Technological innovations, ____ good marketing, will promote the sales of these products.

A.combined with B.combining with C.having combined with D.to be combined with

Taking on this challenge will bring you _____ someone who shares your interests.

A.in exchange for B.in answer to C.in contact with D.in memory of

The outbreak of Covid-19 has meant an _____ change in our life and work.

A.absurd B.abrupt C.allergic D.authentic

If I hadn’t been faced with so many barriers, I _____where I am.

A.won’t be B.wouldn’t have been C.wouldn’t be D.shouldn’t have been

There will still be lots of challenges if we are to _____ garbage in a short time.

A.clarify B.justify C.satisfy D.classify

Instead of getting down to a new task as I _____, he examined the previous work again.

A.had expected B.have expected C.would expect D.expect

It is not a problem _____ we can win the battle; it’s just a matter of time.

A.whether B.why C.when D.where