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Directions: In this section of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each of the paragraphs is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence which summarizes the main idea of the paragraph. Spell out the missing letters of the word on your Answer Sheet.Paragraph OneThe 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar year is an important day for the Chinese people. The day is called Duan Wu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, celebrated everywhere in China. This festival dates back to about 2,000 years ago with a number of legends explaining its origin. The best-known story centers on a great patriotic poet named Qu Yuan. 1. A brief d_______ of Dragon Boat Festival.Paragraph TwoWhile we are abroad, we can: Buy local foods and products, not imported ones. Pay a fair price for goods and services and not bargain for the cheapest price. Ask before taking photographs of people. They are not just part of the landscape! Let’s enjoy our vacation and make sure others do, too. 2. A______ on what tourists can do while travelling abroad.Paragraph ThreeUniversities and colleges have stepped up efforts to promote innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the education process, according to the 2018 national undergraduate education quality report. More than 300, 000 students had been enrolled in innovation and entrepreneurship training programs. Students in 452 higher education institutions could also earn credits by participating in academic competitions and entrepreneurship and innovation projects. 3. Innovation and entrepreneurship are e_________ universities.Paragraph FourThe mental health and wellbeing of students at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom during the novel coronavirus pandemic is to be monitored as part of a study by psychologists. Researchers are also reaching out to Warwick’s international student population to learn more about how COVID-19 is affecting them. 4. R_______ on students’ mental health during COVID-19.Paragraph FiveWe love junk food because manufacturers design it to activate brain’s reward system. They create perfect combination of salt, sugar, spices which excite our taste buds. Thus activates our brain’s reward system making us feel good. When we eat regular food, because it does not activate the reward system, it feels less appealing. 5. The r______ why we love junk food.Paragraph SixBending and staring down at our phones for several hours increases the stress on our neck and spine, leading to neck and back pain. Experts refer to this condition as text neck and it can eventually lead to serious consequences. Also at night when we stare at our smartphones, the light emitted from their screens makes our brain think that it is still daytime. 6. Excessive use of smartphones may bring health p______.Paragraph SevenGlobal temperatures are rising and glaciers are melting worldwide. The melting creates feebly dammed glacial lakes that can violently burst. The resulting floods can devastate downstream communities. Many people live in the shadows of a glacier, especially in the Himalayas, the Andes and in the Swiss Alps. According to a recent study, glacial floods have killed over 12, 000 people worldwide. 7. One natural h______ related to the melting of glaciers.Paragraph EightThe elderly who have positive views of aging live about seven and a half years longer than those who have negative views of aging. They are less likely to have dementia as well as some of the markers of Alzheimer’s disease. They’re more likely to take care of themselves better. 8. People’s views play a r_____ in longevity.Paragraph NineWe usually rub our eyes due to lack of sleep or to remove dust, imitants, etc. Now, sometimes rubbing our eyes for brief periods can be good because it activates the release of tears which lubricate our eyes. Rubbing even stimulates the vagus nerve which in turn slows down our heartbeat, helping relieve stress. 9. The a_______ of rubbing our eyes.Paragraph TenThe rapid rise in the number of specialty cafes shows that consumers aren’t just drinking more coffee-they are becoming more sophisticated as well. A&A Coffee in 2017 could only sell about 10 cups of coffee a day. Today, the cafe sells some 100 cups during weekdays and 150 cups on weekends, and this can be attributed to the rising coffee culture in China. 10. An i______ fee consumption because of the rising coffee culture.

Directions: In the following passage, there are six groups of underlined sentences. Read the passage carefully and translate these sentences into Chinese. Write the Chinese version on your Answer Sheet.Jim Trelease has devoted the past 16 years to promoting what he considers the best-kept secret in education today. 1. “Most people don’t believe me when they first hear it,” he says. “They dismiss it for three reasons: One, it’s simple. Two. it’s free. Three, the child enjoys it. So how good can it be.”His audience tonight, mostly young parents and teachers gathered in the St. Helena, Calif., elementary-school auditorium, giggles nervously. “I know what you’re thinking,” Trelease says. “There are only24 hours in a day. It’s true. But who ever told you that parenting was going to be a time-saving activity?” 2. Trelease continues to persuade them that no matter how busy they are, the foremost nurturing they can give a child, next to hugging him, is reading aloud to him. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, Trelease went to work as a newspaper reporter in nearby Springfield. Then in 1967 a fourth-grade teacher invited him to talk to her class about his career. He had so much fun that he was soon making 40 unpaid local school visits a year.On his way out the door of one classroom, he spotted a novel he had just read to his daughter. “Who’s reading this?” he asked. Three girls sheepishly raised their hands. “Don’t you just love it?” he said. And for the next45 minutes he and the kids talked about books.“From then on I always saved time to ask the class what they had read lately,” Trelease says. 3. “And with time I began to see that the kids were reading less and less, except where the teachers read aloud to them. I wondered whether there was a connection between how much you read to children and how much they want to read themselves,”In professional reading journals Trelease found a wealth of research to support his hunch. 4. Talking to neighbours, relatives and colleagues, he realized that to most people reading aloud was something you did when your child wouldn’t go to sleep. Perhaps that was because these parents were rarely read to as children.“It is the child’s listening vocabulary that feeds his reading vocabulary,” Trelease says. To illustrate, he reads the opening paragraph of Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile. “Two crocodiles lay with their heads just above the water. One was enormous. The other was not so big.” Now let’s suppose a child does not know the word “enormous”. Which is going to be more effective: hearing it in the context of a story, or seeing it isolated from meaning on a flashcard? 5. Remember, if a child has never heard the word, he’ll never say it. And if he’s never heard it or said it, it’s going to be difficult when the time comes to read it.Trelease advocates reading aloud to children as soon as possible. “When did you start talking to your child? On the day she was born. If a child is old enough to talk to, the child is old enough to read to.” Case histories bear him out.Upon the birth of their daughter, Marcia and Mark Thomas received a copy of Trelease’s best-seller, The Read-Aloud Handbook. 6. They had a special reason for wanting to promote Jennifer’s intellectual development: she was bon with Down syndrome, “We figured it couldn’t hurt,” says Marcia “so we put her on a diet of ten books a day.” When Jennifer required surgery as an infant, her parents left books on tape for the nurses to play. By age five Jennifer was reading on her own.

By the year 2005, the number of teens, ages 14 to 17, will swell by 17 per cent, with an even larger increase among people of color——20 per cent among African-Americans and 30 per cent among Latinos. Given the difficult conditions in which many of these youngsters grow up-with inferior schools and violence-torn neighborhoods-many more teenagers will be at risk in the years ahead.Tragically, the number of violent teens has grown in recent years, even as the population of teenagers has contracted. But the teen population has bottomed out and is now on the upswing. If current rates of offending remain unchanged, the number of teens who commit murder and other serious violent crimes shall increase, if only because of the demographic tumaround in the population at risk. However, given the worsening conditions in which children are being raised, given the breakdown of all our institutions as well as of our cultural norms, given our wholesale disinvestment in youth, our Nation faces the grim prospect of a future wave of juvenile violence that may make the coming years look like “the good old days.”The hopeful news is that there is still time to stem the tide-to prevent the next wave of youth crime. But we must act now-by reinvesting in schools, recreation, job training, support for families, and mentoring. We must act now while this baby-boomerang generation is still young and impressionable, and will be impressed with what a teacher, a preacher, or some other authority figure has to say. If we wait until these children reach their teenage years and the next crime wave is upon us, it may be too late to do much about it.The challenge for the future, therefore, is how best to deal with youth violence. Unfortunately, we are obsessed with quick and easy solutions that will not work, such as the wholesale transfer of juveniles to the jurisdiction of the adult court, parental responsibility laws, midnight curfews, the V-chip, boot camps, three strikes, even caning and capital punishment, at the expense of long-term and difficult solutions that will work, such as providing young children with strong, positive role models, quality schools, and recreation programs.One of the most compelling easy solutions is the “three strikes you’re out” movement for repeat offenders that has swept across America, from Washington State, where it began, to Washington, D.C., where our congressmen and congresswomen are eager to show their constituents that they can strike out the side on crime.1.increase（Para. 1）2.not as good as something else（Para. 1）3.reduced in size （Para. 2）4.the act of committing a crime （Para. 2）5.any change from one thing to its opposite （Para. 2）6.accepted standards or ways of behaving （Para. 2）7.complete（Para. 2）8.stop something from spreading or developing （Para. 3）9.an activity people do for pleasure（Para. 3）10.easily influenced （Para. 3）11.an official number （Para. 3）12.too worried about something （Para. 4）13.the power to make legal decisions （Para. 4）14.of a high standard （Para. 4）15.moved quickly and powerfully （Para. 5）

Building trains every day, Guo Wuchun in his 50s from Zhuzhou, Hunan province, was not satisfied. He wanted more. He wanted to reach for the sky. His dream was to build and fly a helicopter that he made. It finally came true after five years of research and development. Video footage showing Guo’s test flight in his coaxial helicopter（同轴直升机）has gone viral on Sina Weibo. It had been viewed more than 38 million times as of Monday. Many netizens call it an inspiring story that shows everything is possible as long as you dare to follow your dream and never give up.“When I was a boy, I dreamed of building a plane, but most people thought that it was an unobtainable dream for me, a middle school graduate,” Guo says. But his education background didn’t stop him from realizing his dream. Without formal education and training, Guo figured out helicopter design on his own. Working at the Zhuzhou CRRC Timly Forge Co. has brought Guo a step closer and gave him the required craftsmanship. In the factory, he mastered skills such as gas-cutting and welding among others.From the basics of helicopter aerodynamics to coaxial rotor systems, he has devoured the vast resources available in professional books and online. For the English materials that he cannot understand, he has asked friends to translate for him. He has been a frequent visitor to various auto shows to look for motors which may suit his helicopter. In his makeshift studio at his home’s rooftop, he has collected scrap copper vehicle parts and other discarded metal for necessary components for his helicopter, which has been his “treasure”. Piles of used tires and steel pipes have been stored in his studio.His first model was created in 2015, but it could not take off. Eventually, after numerous failed attempts and four models, Guo got himself in the air this month, with some netizens calling him a “Chinese Wright brother”. With its tank full, the flight can last two hours, according to Guo. He didn’t reveal how much he has spent on the project. The CRRC saluted Guo on its Sina Weibo account, commenting that Guo challenged the impossible.Many amateur aircraft enthusiasts, including Guo, face difficulties in getting a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category. This certificate is issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China allowing enthusiasts to legally operate aircraft for non-commercial purposes of recreation and education. According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China News, amateur-built aircraft have been popular in recent years with tens of thousands of people creating their own.1.Guo Wuchun had a dream that one day he would（）.2.Guo got the required skills for building a helicopter from（）.3.Guo finally got himself in the air（）.4.What can we learn from the last paragraph（）.5.Guo’s story tells us that（）.

China’s homegrown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which is currently used for weather and earthquake forecasts, land surveys and mapping as well as for navigation of taxis, buses and trucks, has found a new home in the bike-sharing sector as companies are using the technology for better operations and user experiences.Bike-sharing companies have started using the system in a big way after the final satellite in the BeiDou navigation system was launched last week. Shanghai-based bike-sharing company Hello Global has brought all its sharing bikes under the BeiDou umbrella, while Qingju Bike, owned by ride-hailing major Didi Chuxing, has put into operation shared bikes using the BeiDou services in Shenzhen of Guangdong province, Wuhan of the Hubei province and Beijing. Meituan Bike （formerly Mobike）has established an internet of things platform with millions of shared bikes backed by the BeiDou technology.Li Kaizhu, co-founder and executive-president of Hello Global, said, “The application of the BeiDou system is the first large-scale attempt in the shared travel sector. It will help shared bicycles better integrate into the urban public transportation ecology.”The BeiDou network will help users park vehicles in an orderly manner as the technology will prioritize the parking order of vehicles on municipal roads, he said.Hello Global has launched “designated return spot” mode in Shenzhen, requiring all shared bikes to be parked in designated zones for locking the bikes. Currently, the ratio of “designated return” of bikes surpassed 95 per cent.“The mode has effectively improved vehicle parking, and lowered management costs for government and enterprises. By using BeiDou, we are able to manage bike distribution more precisely,” Li said. In addition, it also helps the company to gauge bike requirements and relocate its resources accordingly, he said.Technicians can use the BeiDou system for real-time management of road vehicle information in the background and effectively control traffic tides, ride hotspots and vehicle accumulation, said an official from Qingju Bike.Wang Peng, assistant professor at the Renmin University of China, who specializes in transportation, said, “The 5G technology-empowered BeiDou system solves the signal problem of shared bikes. Previously, the bikes were equipped with 3G, or even 2G networks, and the signal was poor, making it difficult for users to find a bike or make a payment online. The combination of 5G and BeiDou solves the problem, offering a better user experience.”Yu Zejun, a research fellow at the research institution of China Fortune Land Development Co. Ltd, said that shared bikes are among the four major application fields-A （automobile）, B（bike）, C（cellphone）and D （drone）-of the BeiDou system. The location service offered by BeiDou is a key element in shared travel.1.The use of BeiDou system helps the bike-sharing companies to（）.2.Based on Paragraph 2, which of the following statements is true（）.3.The phrase “integrate into” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to（）.4.By using BeiDou, Hello Global is able to（）.5.What message can we get from the passage（）.

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