The mass media is a big part of our culture,yet it can also be a helper,adviser and teacher to our young-|||-generation.The mass media affects the lives of our young by acting as a (an) 21 for a number of-|||-institutions and social contacts.In this way, it 22 a variety of functions in human life.-|||-The time spent in front of the television screen is usually at the 23 of leisure: there is less time for-|||-games, amusement and rest. 24 by what is happening on the screen,children not only imitate what they-|||-see but directly 25 themselves with different characters.Americans have been concerned about the-|||- 26 of violence in the media and its 27 harm to children and adolescents for at least forty years.-|||-During this period,new media 28 such as video games,cable television,music videos,and the Internet.As-|||-they continue to gain popularity, these media, 29 television, 30 public concern and research attention.-|||-Another large societal concern on our young generation 31 by the media,is body image. 32 forces-|||-can influence body image positively or negatively. 33 one,societal and cultural norms and mass media-|||-marketing 34 our concepts of beauty.In the mass media,the images of 35 beauty fill magazines and-|||-newspapers, 36 from our televisions and entertain us 37 the movies.Even in advertising,the mass-|||-media 38 on accepted cultural values of thinness and fitness for commercial gain.Young adults are presented-|||-with a 39 defined standard of attractiveness,a(n) 40 that carries unrealistic physical expectations.-|||-21.A.representative B.substitute C.preference D.alternative-|||-22.A.fulfills B.suffices C.accomplishes D. provides-|||-23.A.height B.expense C. mercy D.risk-|||-24.A.Attracted B.Absorbed C.Addicted D.Aroused-|||-25.A.unify B.equate C. identify D.recognize-|||-26.A.prevalence B.recurrence C.abundance D.incidence-|||-27.A.hidden B.disposed C.Potential D.implicit-|||-28.A.immerged B.merged C.submerged D.emerged-|||-29.A.much as B.apart form C.along with D.but for-|||-30.A.propel B.prosper C.promote D.prompt-|||-31.A.contributed B.inspired C.imposed D.delivered-|||-32.A.Exposed B.Explicit C. Exterior D.External-|||-33.A.At B.For C.As D.In-|||-34.A.effect B.shock C.mark D.impact-|||-35.A.standardized B.categorized C.generalized D.regularized-|||-36.A.brim B.beam C.bottom D.boom-|||-37.A.on B.at C.over D.with-|||-38.A.take B.resort C.play D.profit-|||-39.A.subjectively B.narrowly C.carefully D.barely-|||-40.A.ideal B.stereotype C.criterion D.image

By many measures the world has never been in better health. Since 2000, the number of children who die before they are five has fallen by almost half, to 5.6 million. Life expectancy has reached 71, a gain of five years. More children than ever are vaccinated. Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS are in retreat (撤退). Yet the gap between this progress and the still greater potential that medicine offers has perhaps never been wider. At least half, the world is without access to what the World Health Organization regards to be essential. Safe, basic surgery is out of reach for 5 billion people. Those who can get to see a doctor often pay a very high price. However, the goal of universal basic health care is sensible affordable and practical, even in poor countries. Without it, the potential of modern medicine will not be realized. Universal basic health care is sensible in the way that universal basic education is sensible -because it yields benefits to society as well as to individuals. In some regions the very idea leads to a dangerous elevation (升高) of the blood pressure. There is no hiding that public health-insurance schemes require the rich to subsidise the poor, the young to subsidise the old and the healthy to subsidise the sick. And universal schemes must have a way of forcing people to pay, through taxes or by commanding that they buy insurance. But good health is something everyone can reasonably be assumed to want in order to realize their full individual potential. Universal care is a way of providing it that is pro-growth. The costs of inaccessible and expensive treatment are enormous. The sick struggle to get an education or to be productive at work. Land cannot be developed if it is full of disease carrying parasites. According to several studies, confidence about health makes people more likely to set up their own businesses. Universal basic health care is also affordable. A country need not wait to be rich before it can have comprehensive treatment. Health care is a labour-intensive industry, and community health workers, paid relatively little compared with doctors and nurses, can make a big difference in poor countries. There is also already a lot of spending on health in poor countries, but it is often inefficient. In India and Nigeria, for example, more than 60% of health spending is through out-of pocket (垫付的) payments. More services could be provided if that money were pooled. And universal health care is practical. It is a way to prevent free-riders from passing on the costs of not being covered to others, for example by making emergency rooms crowded. It does not have to mean big government. Private insurers and providers can still play an important role. Indeed such an approach is just what the low-cost revolution needs. Take, for instance, the design of health-insurance schemes. Many countries start by making a small group of people qualified for a large number of benefits, in the expectation that other groups will be added later. This is not only unfair and inefficient, but also results in creating voters opposed to extending insurance to others. The better option is to cover as many people as possible, even if the services available are lacking. Small amounts of spending can go a long way. Research led by Dean Jamison, a health economist, has identified over 200 effective interventions, including immunisations and neglected procedures such as basic surgery. In total, these would cost poor countries about an extra ＄1 per week per person and cut the number of premature deaths there by more than a quarter. Around half that funding would go to primary health centers, not city hospitals, which today receive more than their fair share of the money. Indeed, so long as half the world goes without essential treatment, the fruits of centuries of medical science will be wasted. Universal basic health care can help realize its promise.1. People expected the progress in health care would _______.A: benefit the rich and the young moreB: improve community health workers' working conditionsC: lead to the accessibility of basic health careD: make governments invest more in health care2. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 implies that _______.A: it is more important to develop organic farmingB: it is better to develop the potential of individualsC: keeping fit is of great importance for peopleD: technology can compensate for the disadvantages of land3. The examples of India and Nigeria tell us that in such countries _______.A: improving the efficiency of spending on health care is urgentB: getting basic health care is convenientC: the majority of doctors and nurses are paid littleD: people are dissatisfied with governments' investment in health care4. What can we learn from Paragraph 4?A: Rich countries can make universal basic health care more accessible.B: Health-insurance projects should cover as many people as possible.C: More private companies should participate in the practice of medical care.D: Governments should give more free-riders basic health care.5. What does the research led by Dean Jamison suggest?A: Hospitals in poor countries should be reformed.B: Advances in medical science depend on rich countries.C: The governments of poor countries should be given more help.D: The low spending on primary health centers is significant.

I would love _____ to the party last night but I had to work extra hours to finish a report．（ ）A. to goB. to have goneC. goingD. having gone

语法填空题 (共10题,10.0分)题型说明: Complete each sentence with the proper form of the words in brackets.5. (1.0分) He was so ____(excite) that he could not say a word.

--- Here ____！ Where is Xiao Liu？ ---  There ____.A. comes the bus， is heB. comes the bus， he isC. the bus comes， is heD. the bus comes， he is

Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions or adverbs.1 Everyone in class peered down __________ the picture the teacher presented, trying to find any clues to the teacher's question.2 We discussed our understanding of the saying "Gentlemen should reason things out rather than resort __________ force" in today's Chinese Philosophy class.3 The Theater Club was mentioned in today's school broadcast, so I plan to go __________ and see what it's like.4 Why don't we sign up __________ the yoga lessons offered by the physical education department?5 If you don't make a monthly or weekly budget, you'll soon find yourself running __________ your allowance.6 She burst __________ tears when she saw an "F" on her academic transcript for the last semester in university.7 When you listen to a lecture, you can note __________ your questions and ask the lecturer during the Q&A session.8 Think about what is important in your college life and weed __________ the things that don't really matter.<|im_end|>8 Think about what is important in your college life and weed ___ the things that don't really matter.

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。 Chinese scientists have achieved a record rice yield of almost 23 metric tons per hectare from an 【小题1】 (experiment) field of hybrid rice in Hunan Province. On Tuesday, Yuan Longping, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences【小题2】leads the nation's research in hybrid rice, proudly announced a record production of 1,500kilograms per mu (0.067 hectares).【小题3】(compare) with other high-yield hybrid varieties in the market, the average yield for the third-generation strain is 10 to 20 percent higher, The 90-year-old scientist was rejoicing like a child while making the announcement at a news conference, saying "I am more than excited and【小题4】(extreme) satisfied with the results. The results are of【小题5】 (significant) to not only China, but the entire world. Yuan's achievement is a major contribution to【小题6】global fight against hunger. For China, more rice production means greater food security. The achievement would not have been possible 【小题7】Yuan and his team. Since the 1960s, Yuan, then a fresh university graduate, has devoted himself wholly to research on hybrid rice. In the last 60 years, he【小题8】(teach) generations of students. Yuan said he still has a clear mind and hopes to work【小题9】he turns 100. There are lots of scientists like Yuan in every field,【小题10】China is to enjoy its long- term prosperity.

Task 1 Match the word with its definition These words are chosen from the video. Talk with a partner or consult the dictionary, and match the word with its definition. 1. prominent (著名的) A. a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose 2. expedition (远征) B. to improve the appearance of something 3. willow (柳树) C. a state of disturbance 4. unrest (骚乱) D. important or well known 5. beautify (美化) E. a tree that typically has narrow leaves and grows near water

Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 The Place Where the Poor Once Thrived A)This is the land of opportunity. If that weren't already implied by the landscape-rolling green hills, palm trees, sun-kissed flowers--then it's evident in the many stories of people who grew up poor in these sleepy neighborhoods and rose to enormous success. People like Tri Tran, who fled Vietnam on a boat in 1986. showed up in San Jose with nothing, made it to MIT, and then founded the food-delivery start-up Munchery, which is valued at 300 millionB) Indeed, data suggests that this is one of the best places to grow up poor in America. A child born in the early 1980s into a low-income family in San Jose had a 12.9 percent chance of becoming a high earner as an adult, according to a landmark study released in 2014 by the economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues from Harvard and Berkeley. That number-12.9 percent--may not seem remarkable, but it was: Kids in San Jose whose families fell in the bottom quintile (五分位数) of income nationally had the best shot in the country reaching the top quintile.C) By contrast. just 4.4 percent of poor kids in Charlotte moved up to the top; in Detroit the figure was 5.5 percent. San Jose had social mobility comparable to Denmark's and Canada's and higher than other progressive cities such as Boston and MinneapolisD) The reasons kids in San Jose performed so well might seem obvious. Some of the world's most innovative companies are located here, providing opportunities such as the one seized by a 12-year-old Mountain View resident named Steve Jobs when he called William Hewlett to ask for spare parts and subsequently received a summer job. This is a city of immigrants--38 percent of the city's population today is foreign-born-and immigrants and their children have historically experienced significant upward mobility in America. The city has long had a large foreign-born population (26.5 percent in 1990), leading to broader diversity, which, the Harvard and Berkeley economists say, is a good predictor of mobility.E) Indeed, the streets of San Jose seem, in some ways, to embody the best of America. It's possible to drive in a matter of minutes from sleek (光亮的) office towers near the airport where people pitch ideas to investors, to single-family homes with orange trees in their yards, or to a Vietnamese mall. The libraries here offer programs in 17 languages, and there are areas filled with small businesses owned by Vietnamese immigrants Mexican immigrants. Korean immigrants, and Filipino immigrants to name a few.F) But researchers aren't sure exactly why poor kids in San Jose did so well. The city has a low prevalence of children growing up in single-parent families, and a low level of concentrated poverty, both factors that usually mean a city allows for good inter generational mobility. But San Jose also performs poorly on some of the measures correlated with good mobility. It is one of the most unequal places out of the 741 that the researchers measured, and it has high degrees of racial and economic segregation (隔离). Its schools underperform based on how much money there is in the area, said Ben Scuderi, a predoctoral fellow at the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard, which uses big data to study how to improve economic opportunities for low-income children. "There's a lot going on here which we don't totally understand," he said. "It's interesting, because it kind of defies our expectations."G) The Chetty data shows that neighborhoods and places mattered for children born in the San Jose area of the 1980s. Whether the city still allows for upward mobility of poor kids today, though, is up for debate. Some of the indicators such as income inequality, measured by the Equality of Opportunity Project for the year 2000, have only worsened in the past l6 yearsH) Some San Jose residents say that as inequality has grown in recent years, upward mobility has become much more difficult to achieve. As Silicon Valley has become home to more successful companies. the flood of people to the area has caused housing prices to skyrocket. By most measures, San Jose is no longer a place where low-income. or even middle-income families. can afford to live. Rents in San Jose grew 42.6 percent between 2006 and 2014, which was the largest increase in the country during that time period. The city has a growing homelessness problem, which it tried to address by shutting down "The Jungle," one of the largest homeless encampments (临时居住地) in the nation, in 2014. Inequality is extreme: The Human Development Index- a measure of life expectancy, education and per capita (人均的) income gives East San Jose a score of 4.85 out of 10, while nearby Cupertino, where Apple's headquarters sits, receives a 9.26. San Jose used to have a happy mix of factors- cheap housing, closeness to a rapidly developing industry, tightly-knit immigrant communities-that together opened up the possibility of prosperity for even its poorest residents. But in recent years, housing prices have skyrocketed, the region's rich and poor have segregated, and middle-class jobs have disappeared. Given this, the future for the region's poor doesn't look nearly as bright as it once did.I)Leaders in San Jose are determined to make sure that the city regains its status as a place where even poor kids can access the resources to succeed. With Silicon Valley in its backyard, it certainly has the chance to do so. "I think there is a broad consciousness in the Valley that we can do better than to leave thousands of our neighbors behind through a period of extraordinary success," San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said.J)But in today's America--a land of rising inequality, increasing segregation, and stagnating (不增长的) middle-class wages- can the San Jose region really once again become a place of opportunity?K) The idea that those at the bottom can rise to the top is central to America's ideas about itself. That such mobility has become more difficult in San Jose raises questions about the endurance of that foundational belief. After all, if the one-time land of opportunity can't be fixed, what does that say for the rest of America?1. According to some people living in San Jose, it has become much harder for the poor to get ahead due to the increased inequality.2. In American history, immigrants used to have a good chance to move upward in society.3. If the problems of San Jose can't be solved, one of America's fundamental beliefs about itself can be shaken.4. San Jose was among the best cities in America for poor kids to move up the social ladder.5. Whether poor kids in San Jose today still have the chance to move upward is questionable.6. San Jose's officials are resolved to give poor kids access to the resources necessary for success in life.7. San Jose appears to manifest some of the best features of America.8. As far as social mobility is concerned, San Jose beat many other progressive cities in America.9. Due to some changes like increases in housing prices in San Jose, the prospects for its poor people have dimmed.10. Researchers do not have a clear idea why poor children in San Jose achieved such great success several decades ago.