China has countless attractions. The Great Wall is 【1】 (probable) one that is most familiar 【2】 the Western tourists. The Great Wall is like a giant stone dragon, 【3】 (wind) across the country from the ocean on the east to the desert on the west. It is the longest wall that 【4】 (build) ever, 1500 miles in 【5】 (long). Along the wall are watch towers, 【6】 soldiers were on the watch for threats. The wall was initially constructed 【7】 (prevent) invasion of neighboring states, and the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty. From the top of the Great Wall, people can enjoy 【8】 impressive view of continuous mountains, green trees and blooming wild flowers. If we were to build such a wall now, we would use modern machines. 【9】, the ancient Chinese had to build the wall by hand. The reason why the Great Wall attracts tourists from all over the world every year is 【10】 it represents the highest wisdom of ancient china. Just as the saying goes, “He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man.”

The girl, known as Niu Niu, was physically abused (虐待) by her mother in several videos. The videos have annoyed Chinese media and Internet users alike. Many netizens and scholars call for local authorities to carry out further investigations into possible child abuse.

In response to the public outcry (强烈抗议), Niu Niu’s mother issued an apology via Sina Weibo on Thursday, condemning accusations of abuse. She noted that she was merely guiding her daughter for better shots and the girl is well looked after.

Despite her apology, many E-shops which used Niu Niu’s images for brand promotion have canceled their cooperation with the mother, while over 110 well-known child garment shops on Taobao have signed up for a campaign to provide better protection for child models.

“It is necessary to adopt comprehensive laws and regulations to further protect the kids, preventing their parents and companies from exploiting them,” Fang Zhiqing, a lawyer and child protection expert, said.

Niu Niu is not alone. In Zhili, a small town in Zhejiang province, thousands of children from across China are taken here by their parents to seize the chance of fame. With a population of 450,000, Zhili has over 13,000 manufacturers of child clothing. In 2017.the town earned over 7 billion yuan by selling clothing for children online, thus providing opportunities for child models.

“China’s current advertisement law isn’t workable with respect to the industry of child modeling, as it lacks clear regulatory measures and clear legal punishment.” Fang added, “It is important to issue new laws which regulate child modeling.”

【1】What caused the public outcry?

A.A girl being physically abused by her mother.

B.Problems in Chinese advertising industry.

C.Several cases of child abuse in recent China.

D.Videos showing how child models work.

【2】What happened after the public outcry?

A.Local authorities have thoroughly looked into Niu Niu’s case.

B.Niu Niu’s mother admitted abusing her daughter.

C.Shops stopped their cooperation with the mother.

D.The online sales of child clothing are increasing.

【3】Which opinion may Fang Zhiqing agree with?

A.China’s current advertisement law isn’t workable.

B.There are too many child models in China.

C.New economic laws should be issued in China.

D.China should regulate child modeling.

When the necropsy (尸检) was performed, Blatchley told NPR, he was not prepared for the amount of plastic they found in the whale’s stomach. “It was full of plastic- nothing but nonstop plastic,” he said. “It was filled to the point that its stomach was as hard as a baseball.” “That means that this animal has been suffering not for days or weeks but for months or even a year or more.” Blatchley added.

Blatchley is the founder and owner of the D’ Bone Collector Museum, a natural history museum in Davao. In the coming days, the museum will display all the items found in the whale’s system.

Blatchley and his team work with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and other organizations to assist in rescue and recovery of marine animals.

“Within the last 10 years, we have recovered 61 whales and dolphins just within the Davao Gulf,” he said. “Of them, 57 have died due to man --whether they took plastic or fishing nets or other waste, or gotten caught in pollution-- and four were pregnant.”

Blatchley said he hoped that the latest incident would launch the issue of plastic pollution in the Philippines and across the globe. “If we keep going this way, it will be more uncommon to see an animal die of natural causes than it is to see an animal die of plastic.” he said.

【1】What can be inferred from the second paragraph?

A.The whale was starved to death.

B.Blatchley didn’t make preparations for the necropsy.

C.The dead whale must have swallowed a baseball.

D.Blatchley was shocked at what he found.

【2】What does Blatchley think of plastic pollution in the Philippines?

A.Uncommon.B.Inspiring.

C.Worrying.D.Puzzling.

【3】What is the best title for the text?

A.Natural Death or Merciless murder.

B.Stand Up for Protecting Whales.

C.Plastic Threatening Our Existence.

D.A Whale Found Dead of Plastic.

Many people agree that going to a museum is a good way of learning about ancient treasures. However, others may find 【1】 boring to spend hours there. Therefore, how to make museums and their lifeless collections more appealing is a tough question worth 【2】（attach）importance to.

Luckily, National Treasure（国家宝藏）, a TV program which 【3】（begin）to air on Dec, 3, 2017, shed light on ways to inspire interest in museums and their collections.

Aiming to make ancient relics to come 【4】（live）, the program presents treasures through different artistic 【5】.（method）including dramatic performances and storytelling, 【6】 fully interprets the history behind each cultural relic, so that audiences can not only understand how to appreciate the beauty of cultural relics, 【7】 also know the civilization and the spiritual core of Chinese culture. In fact, such programs that promote traditional ancient relics have become popular 【8】 recent years. For example, a 2016 documentary featuring the Forbidden City’s cultural relics and their restorers, urged lots of college students 【9】（apply）to work as volunteers there. It is 【10】（universal）accepted that National Treasure has been successful in encouraging more people to visit museums by touching their hearts.

The coronavirus pandemic has so far swept the world. Social distancing is playing an important role in the battle 【1】 it. Recently, some companies launched an initiative (倡议) to call for people to stay indoors through creative ideas.

Coca-cola, for example, ran 【2】 advertisement in New York's Times Square last month. It 【3】 (show) the letters of its famous brand being placed further away from each other to represent social distancing. Also, 【4】 the billboard displayed was this —“Staying apart is the best way to stay 【5】 (unite).” Similarly, McDonald's moved the two iconic arches of its logo away from each other on 【6】 (it) Brazilian Facebook page.

More 【7】 (interesting), some artists have even re-imagined brands. A director Jure Tovrlijan added a mask to Starbucks' double-tailed mermaid ( 美人鱼). By doing so, he wanted to encourage people to wear masks when 【8】 (go) out in public places.

【9】 these initiatives are only posted online, it's still “a positive move encouraging people to reduce 【10】 (necessary) physical contact with others”, China Daily noted.

【1】任何制造两个中国的图谋必定会失败。

Any move to create “two Chinas” _________ _________ _________ fail.

【2】哈里和梅根的爱情故事被改编成了影视剧《哈里与梅根：皇室爱情故事》。

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s real-life love story has _________ _________ _________ a TV movie Harry & Meghan: The Royal Love Story.

【3】美丽乡村建设使很多农民受益。

Construction of Beautiful Village _________ _________ _________ many farmers.

【4】不能获得期待的实验结果，他们感到十分沮丧。

________ to get the expected result from the experiment, they were extremely _________ _________.

【5】按照即将试行的新规定，学校将推迟学生到校上课时间，上学时间可以因年级的不同而不同。

According to the new guideline _________ _________ _________ _________.

schools will start school later and the start time can differ from grade to grade.

【6】演员们的努力没有白费，他们坚持与付出有了回报，电影《红海行动》取得了巨大的成功。

The actors’ efforts were not ________ ________. Their devotion and determination _________ _________ when the film Operation Red Sea became a huge success.

Any time you have a goal, there is some work that needs to be done to achieve it. Ideally, you would not be satisfied until you’d actually done the work. But when you tell someone your goal and he acknowledges(认可) it, psychologists have found it’s called a “social reality”. The mind is kind of tricked into feeling that it’s already done. And then, because you’ve felt that satisfaction, you’re less motivated to do the actual hard work necessary. This goes against the traditional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right?

In 1982, Peter Gollwitzer, a Professor of Psychology, wrote a whole book about this. And in 2009, he did some new tests that were published. It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests—everyone wrote down their personal goal. Then half of them announced their commitment(许诺) to this goal to the room, and half didn’t. Then everyone was given 45 minutes of work that would directly lead them towards their goal, but they were told that they could stop at any time. Now those who kept their mouths shut worked the entire 45 minutes on average, and when asked afterwards, said they felt they had a long way to go to achieve their goal. But those who had announced it quit after only 33 minutes on average, and when asked afterwards, said that they felt much closer to achieving their goal.

【1】What do the words “social reality” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.Completion of the goal.B.Necessary hard work.

C.People's acknowledgement.D.A sense of satisfaction.

【2】What does Peter Gollwitzer try to tell us?

A.Writing down the goal is very helpful.

B.Achieving personal goal needs more time.

C.Keeping the goal secret makes people work harder.

D.Making the goal public makes people less satisfied.

【3】How did Peter Gollwitzer prove his idea about people’s goal?

A.By giving figures.B.By giving examples.

C.By making a survey.D.By making comparison tests.

【4】What will probably happen if you tell your friends your goal?

A.You will be more confident.B.You will not gain satisfaction.

C.You are less likely to realize it.D.You’ll be much more motivated.

Apparently more than 2,000 couples have become engaged ( 订 婚 ) at the summit since 1998, when it became possible to climb it in organized tour groups. The bridge, perhaps the most recognized symbol of this beautiful city, opened in 1932. It's still the world's largest steel-arch bridge.

We returned to the fantastic view: the famous Sydney Opera House, ferries and sailboats making their way through the harbor, the city skyline — but I had to force myself to look down. We had climbed 1,423 steps to the top of the bridge and I didn't know whether to be delighted or scared.

Nicole Kidman has done it. So have Bruce Springsteen, Prince Harry and scores of other celebrities. But climbing to the top clearly isn't just for the rich and famous. On the contrary, Australian youngsters do it to celebrate their 12th birthdays. (You have to be at least 12 years old to do the climb.) A 100-year-old woman climbed it and told guides it was on her list of things to do before she died.

You can climb during the day, at twilight, or even after dark with headlamps. People climb in all weathers except when there's lightning in the area. In fact, over two million people have made the three-and-a-half-hour climb to the top of the famous bridge—an adventure that cannot be done anywhere else in the world on a bridge this big. That's probably why this climb has won a lot of tourism awards. Today, the climb is firmly on the "to-do" list for locals as well as tourists.

【1】What can we learn on the bridge is quite rare?

A.Getting engaged on the bridge is quite rare.

B.People climb the bridge on climbers’ age.

C.There are no limitations on climbers’ age.

D.Many famous people have done the climb.

【2】How did the author feel when he climbed to the top of the bridge?

A.Bored and tiredB.Fearful and confused

C.Excited and nervousD.Relived and relaxed

【3】What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A.To introduce the popularity of the bridge.

B.To emphasize the importance of the bridge

C.To explain the functions of the bridge.

D.To describe the fantastic view from the bridge.

【1】认识了这么多新朋友，我感到非常幸运。(不定式)

【2】这个发现很重要，因为它有助于更多地了解亚历山大大帝(Alexander the Great)对世界的影响。(in that)

【3】汤姆仍然对生活满怀希望，如同十年前一样。(as 引导方式状语从句)

【4】庞贝城(Pompeii)旁边有座平静的火山，它最终摧毁了整个城市。(倒装句)

【5】当我从公共汽车上下车时，发现钱包不见了。(宾语补足语)

Hannah was my best friend. “Hannah’s amazing," my mother always said. And sure enough, that summer she signed with a modeling agency. She was already doing runway work.

One day, Hannah and I went to the movies. On the way home, we stopped at the McDonald's drive-through, putting the fries on the seat between us to share. "Let’s ride around a while," I said. It was a clear night, moonlight shone over the desert. Taking a turn too fast, I hit a patch of dirt and fishtailed.

French fries on the floor. An impossible amount of blood on Hannah’s face. They took us in separate ambulances. In the ER, my parents spoke quietly: Best plastic surgeon in the city. End of her modeling career.

We'd been wearing lap belts, but the car didn’t have shoulder harnesses. I’d cracked my cheekbone; Hannah's forehead had split wide open. What would I say to her?

When her mother, Sharon, came into my hospital room, I started to cry, bracing myself for her anger. She sat beside me and took my hand. “I almost ended my best friend when I was your age,” she said, “I totaled her car and mine.”

“I'm so sorry,”I said.

“You’re both alive,”she said, “The rest is window dressing.” I started to protest, and Sharon stopped me. “I forgive you. Hannah will too.”

Sharon’s forgiveness allowed Hannah and me to stay friends throughout life. I think of her gift of forgiveness every time I want to resent someone for a perceived wrong. And whenever I see Hannah, the scars are a symbol of grace for me.

【1】What caused the car accident?

A.Poor visibility.B.Driving too fast.C.Hitting a patch of dirt.D.Not staying focused.

【2】Which word can best describe Hannah’s mother?

A.Supportive.B.Generous.C.Optimistic.D.Helpful.

【3】What result did the accident cause to Hannah and the author?

A.It worsened their friendship.B.It made both of the two disabled.

C.It changed Hannah's working career.D.It ruined the author’s confidence in driving.

【4】Which is the best title for the text?

A.Lucky SurvivalB.Lifelong Friendship

C.My Best Friend HannahD.Learning to Forgive