In just a decade, the company has been ______...

In just a decade, the company has been ________ from a family business to a large operation．

A．transformed         B．transmitted          C．transferred          D．transported

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In just a decade, the company has been ________ from a family business to a large operation.

A. transformed              B. transmitted             C. transferred                 D. transported

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Doha, the capital of Qatar，is a city of contrasts(对照). In a few decades it has been transformed from a small port to an international city. Today, its skyline is shaped by rising skyscrapers, but Old Doha---though fast disappearing---can still be found.

Time seems to stand still in the old quarter of the city. On the dusty streets, Indian and Pakistani men sit cross-legged outside tea shops and restaurants. At one end of the road, men queue by the doorways of crowded supermarkets to buy necessities: boxes of teabags, milk, sugar, bread and soap. The shops are dark and poorly stocked. However, only five miles away, on the other side of the city, Doha shows a completely different image. It shines brilliantly with skyscrapers, five-star hotels and noble apartment buildings. The area looks like any other modem district in the world.

Qatar, a tiny gulf(海湾)nation, is a country of vast local and international ambitions. At home, it has owned several international universities. Abroad, it tries to speak louder on gulf affairs. These ambitions are urged by the country’s unbelievably rich reserves of fossil fuels．In December 2012, Daba was the site of Copl8 UN Climate Change Conference and in 2022，Qatar will host the World Cup.

Mohammed Salim, 55, runs a hair salon in the old part of the city where he works as a hair

dresser．When he came to Doha 22 years ago from Pakistan，he recalls，Doha was a quiet town with few modern buildings．“At that time，Doha seemed rather small．There were no big roads or malls at all.” He has noticed a drop in customers to his salon in recent years．“People now tend to go to more fashionable hair salons in shopping malls．Some day this old area will be gone, and my business will probably be gone, too．I'll be sad. I love here, but things are changing．We can’t ignore it.”

1.What makes Doha become a city of contrasts according to the passage?

A．The city’s old and modern districts．

B．The modern city and the tiny country．

C．The city’s past and present conditions．

D．The fashionable city and its poor citizens．

2.What do we know about the shops in the old quarter of Doha?

A．They don't have many goods or customers．

B．They provide a great variety of luxury goods．

C．They are bright big shops crowded with people．

D．They look poor and offer fewer choices of goods．

3.Qatar tries to speak louder on gulf affairs because______________.

A　 it has international cities such as Doha

B．it is going to host the World Cup in 2022

C．it has made progress in building universities

D．it is known for its large reserves of natural gas

4.The author takes the hair salon as an example to show that___________.

A．people in Doha are fashionable

B．the economy in Doha becomes bad

C．changes are happening to Old Doha

D．Doha used to be an undeveloped town

5.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Old Doha is characterized by rising skyscrapers．

B．Doha seemed small in the past as is recalled by Salim．

C．Doha will host Copl8 UN Climate Change Conference in 2022．

D. The western side of Doha looks more modern than the eastern side.

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The decline in sea ice seen in the Arctic in recent decades has been linked by scientists to the spread of a deadly virus in marine (海洋的) mammals. Researchers found that Phocine distemper virus (PDV) had spread from animals in the North Atlantic to populations in the North Pacific.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the ice has been retreating by around 12% per decade between 1979 and 2018. These sea ice changes in September (2018) are likely unprecedented (前所未有的) for at least 1, 000 years. “Between 1979 and 2018, the real proportion (比例) of multi-year ice that is at least five years old has declined by approximately 90%,” the IPCC said in their report on the oceans and the cryosphere (冰冻圈) published in September.

Against this changing background, researchers have investigated the likely spread of the PDV infection, which caused a large number of deaths among harbour seals in the North Atlantic in 2002. Melting sea ice is now connecting marine mammals, like these Steller sea lions, which were formerly separated by ice . “As animals move and come in contact with other species, they carry opportunities to introduce and catch new infectious disease, with potentially destructive effects.” said author Dr Tracey Goldstein, from the University of California, Davis.

The authors warn that this trend could continue as they believe climate driven changes in the Arctic ocean will increase. The opportunities for the spread of PDV will likely grow, with uncertain health outcomes for many species.

1.What does the word “populations” in paragraph 1 refer to?

A.The marine mammals. B.The people.

C.The virus. D.The land animals.

2.What are the statistics in paragraph 2 about?

A.The loss of sea ice. B.The formation of sea ice.

C.The effect of sea ice. D.The proportion of sea ice.

3.What does paragraph 3 try to tell us?

A.How marine mammals adapt to their habitats.

B.How a large number of seals died in the Arctic.

C.How melting ice is linked to the spread of virus.

D.How marine mammals live with the melting ice.

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

A.Entertainment. B.Health.

C.Education. D.Nature.

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Life expectancy in the United States has been in decline for the first time in decades, and public health officials have identified a series of potential causes, including inaccessible health care, rising drug addiction and rates of mental health disorders, and socio-economic factors. Now, a study led by the Yale School of Medicine has attempted to find out the relative impact of two factors most often linked to life expectancy – race and education – by looking at data about 5,114 black and white participants in four U.S. cities.

The lives and deaths among this group of people – who took part in the study approximately 30 years ago when they were in their early 20s – show that the level of education, and not race, is the best predictor of who will live the longest.

Among the 5,114 people followed in the study, 395 had died. These deaths were occurring in working-age people, often with children, before the age of 60. The rates of death among participants in this group did clearly show racial differences, with approximately 9% of blacks dying at an early age compared to 6% of whites. There were also differences in causes of death by race. For instance, black men were significantly more likely to die of murder and white men from AIDS. The most common causes of death across all groups over time were cardiovascular disease and cancer.

But there were also obvious differences in rates of death by education level. Approximately 13% of participants with a high school degree or less education died compared with only approximately 5% of college graduates.

Strikingly, when looking at race and education at the same time, the researchers found that differences related to race almost disappeared: 13.5% of black subjects and 13.2% of white subjects with a high school degree or less died during the course of the study. By contrast, 5.9% of black subjects and 4.3% of whites with college degrees had died.

Therefore, improving overall quality of education is something tangible that can help reverse (扭转)this troubling trend in reduction of life expectancy among middle-aged adults.

1.What can we learn about the participants in the study?

A.The whites are more aggressive.

B.The whites got higher education.

C.More blacks than whites died young.

D.More whites than blacks died of cancer.

2.Compared with education, the influence of race on death rates is 　　　　　 .

A.significant B.unnoticeable

C.growing D.long-lasting

3.What does the underlined word “tangible” probably mean?

A.Realistic. B.Creative.

C.Challenging. D.Temporary.

4.What can be inferred from the research findings？

A.People can get smart through learning.

B.One should not discriminate other races.

C.People don’t enjoy equal rights for education.

D.One can live longer by getting more education.

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The company has recently taken on fifty new workers some of_______ have just graduated from university.

A. which                B. them                C. those            D. whom

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Relieving poverty has been one of our government’s top concerns for the past decades. Poverty(贫困) in remote areas in China is virtually a great obstacle for the Chinese to get common progress; thus, it is urgent for us to help the people there to shake off poverty the sooner the better. For this aim, the government has already sent technicians and experts to poverty-stricken areas to help boost local agricultural production and teach the locals new techniques. The Ministry of Labor has also trained many rural laborers through different programs. But all these are not enough. Several other ways have been proposed as follows.

First of all, the government should encourage a small part of the people in the remote areas to get wealthy ahead of others by equipping them with relevant funds and agricultural technology. These “better-offs” can not only set a good example but give confidence to the poorer in their efforts to get rid of poverty. When all the people get rich, the general level of living standard can be greatly improved. With their living standard improved, they can attach greater importance to environmental protection and are willing to input considerable amount of money to educate their children. Only in this way is a sustainable development guaranteed.

Secondly, we must call upon people in all walks of life throughout the country, especially those wealthy citizens in coastal areas to help those struggling below poverty line in poor remote regions out. We must realize that only after all Chinese people live a comfortable life can we be peacefully enjoying material prosperity in life. Helps can come in various forms----donating money to the poor family and books to school drop-outs, college graduates volunteering to work in the most needed regions, bringing knowledge to them, etc.

The last but not the least, the government should raise the rate of tax on the rich. This can shorten the gap between the poor and the rich as well as benefit the country’s revenues(财政收入) whose better part is in turn allocated to the poor remote areas.

Admittedly, it is never easy to cast off the shadow of poverty in the remote areas completely in the short run. But every one of us should go all out to help those in poverty, we are confident that our country will be more powerful and prosperous in the process of relieving poverty.

1.What does the underlined “shake off” in paragraph 1 mean?

A. get rid of　　 B. set off　　 C. die off　　 D. put off

2.How many ways are introduced to relieve the poverty according to the text?

A. three　　 B. four　　 C. five　　 D. six

3.What is the best title for the text?

A. Blocks to the Progress and Development of China

B. Approaches to Raising the Rate of Tax on the Rich

C. Reasons to Relieve Poverty in Remote Areas in China

D. Suggestions to Relieve Poverty in Remote Areas in China

4.How does the author organize the text?

A. by comparison　　 B. by listing　　 C. by definition　　 D. by contrast

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It’s just been three months after the first bike-sharing company arrived in Singapore, but reports of abuse and vandalism（故意破坏）of shared bikes in the city keep appearing on social media.

The majority of these shared bikes are stationless, which means they don’t need to be stopped at a designated（指定的）spot. They lock themselves after your ride is over, and you’re meant to just leave the bike at the side of a road.

But users have been chaining up bicycles outside their apartments, preventing others from using them. Some people bring them up to their apartment floors, so they can’t be found easily by other users. Some people have removed the bikes’ number plates or codes, and some even have painted over the bikes to claim the bikes for themselves. Most of the abused bikes belong to either Singapore-based oBike, or ofo, a bike-sharing giant based in China.

ofo has encouraged Singaporean users to report issues. oBike said that the number of bicycles that were damaged made up less than one percent of its fleet. The company said in February that it planned to bring in “tens of thousands” of bikes by mid-2017. The company has yet to ban anyone from its service, but said that it would take appropriate action – including making reports to the police.

oBike also introduced a shortcoming system, similar to that of its competitor, China-based Mobike. Users start with 100 points, which get taken away for errant（出格的）behaviour such as forgetting to lock the bike, or parking at non-designated areas. Users are banned from using oBike when their scores reach zero. oBike has an eight-man operation team that can remove bicycles parked casually.

When approached for comment, Mobike said, “In China, just as in Singapore, there are always a tiny minority of people who abuse the bikes, so we designed our system to prevent this type of abuse.”

1.Who is the owner of most of the abused bikes?

A. Chinese government.

B. Local government.

C. A bike-sharing giant based in China.

D. The users of the bikes.

2.What is the attitude of the oBike toward the abuse of bikes?

A. Tolerant.　　 B. Indifferent.

C. Supportive.　　 D. Disapproving.

3.What is the meaning of the underlined word “that” in the fifth paragraph?

A. System.

B. Bike.

C. Company.

D. Report.

4.What can we learn from the passage about shared bikes?

A. They will be introduced soon.

B. The abuse of the bikes is on the increase.

C. They are very expensive.

D. They are well preserved by users.

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Good news for giant panda lovers: The cute and cuddly creature has just been brought back from the brink of extinction.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable” as the union released its updated Red List on Sept 4 at Hawaii.

The downgrade came after IUCN data suggested that there were 1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China in 2014 — their population has grown by 17 percent in the decade leading up to 2014.

Chinese conservation efforts, including forest protection and reforestation, are considered to be the driving force behind the animal’s resurgence.

“It’s all about restoring the habitats,” Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List, told the BBC.

The number of panda reserves in China has also jumped to 67, from 13 in 1992. Nearly two-thirds of all wild pandas live in these reserves, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

“Just by restoring the panda’s habitat, that’s given them back their space and made food available to them,” Hilton-Taylor said.

A loss of habitats, on the contrary, was what caused the number of pandas to drop to just over 1,200 in the 1980s, Hilton-Taylor added.

Apart from giant pandas, the Tibetan Antelope has also moved from “endangered” to “near threatened”. According to a statement from IUCN, the animal’s numbers dwindled severely — dropping from around 1 million to an estimated 65,000-72,500 in the 1980s and early 1990s — due to commercial poaching. Rigorous(严格的) protection has since been enforced to protect the beasts and the population is now likely to be between 100,000 and 150,000.

Despite the improved statuses, wild animals like the giant panda and the Tibetan Antelope still face great challenges. The IUCN warned, for example, that ongoing threats from climate change could eliminate more than 35 percent of the panda’s bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, which would reverse the species recent gains.

1.What does the underlined word in pagagraph 1 mean?

A. dangerous and threatened.            B. safe and sound.

C. weak and easily hurt.                D. normal and common.

2.Which of the following can account for pandas’ living improvement?

A. Better climate.                        B. More built reserves.

C. Well restored habitats.                D. Aroused public awareness.

3.The passage is written in order to ________.

A. convince            B. inform            C. argue            D advocate

4.What does the last paragraph imply?

A. The climate will influence the threatened species.

B. We humans still have a long way to go to protect the endangered species.

C. Pandas will go extinct for lack of abundant food.

D. Habitats for giant pandas will decrease sharply.

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In the space of just two years, the app Douyin, created by Beijing-based company ByteDance, has gathered more than half a billion users—around 40%of them outside China—who share short videos of themselves lip-syncing( 假唱), cooking, dancing or just being silly. What sets ByteDance apart is its success in the social media category, which is controlled by Facebook, Twitter and Snap—all Western companies.

ByteDance calls itself an artificial intelligence company. It uses machine learning and algorithms ( 算法) to figure out what people like most and give them more of what they want to see. On Douyin, people can edit and beautify 15-second videos before posting them online. The app has even made a phrase to describe people glued to their customized feeds: “shua Douyin” or “scrolling through Douyin”. Last year, the company released TikTok, the overseas version of Douyin. ByteDance’s growing video empire has made it the world’s fifth biggest app maker. ByteDance says TikTok and Douyin together have more than 500 million monthly active users.

Investors like ByteDance because its hundreds of millions of users attract a lot of advertising money. The video apps are lucrative because they attract a lot of users in their teens and 20s, who are more generous with the money. ByteDance also makes money through income sharing deals. People on TikTok, for example, can buy digital coins to give to other people on the app—like throwing money in a performer’s tip jar. ByteDance takes a cut of those earnings.

ByteDance’s founder and CEO is Zhang Yiming, a 35-year-old former Microsoft employee. People who have worked with Zhang describe him as someone who thinks deeply about technology and spends much of his free time writing code.

Like Facebook and Twitter, ByteDance is also battling fake news and inappropriate content. ByteDance promises to add thousands more employees to review content on Douyin.

1.What makes ByteDance so special?

A.It is the biggest artificial intelligence company on the earth.

B.Its app challenges similar companies’ rule in Western world.

C.It invented the social media app initially in the world.

D.It has controlled Facebook, Twitter and Snap.

2.Why is Douyin so popular?

A.It is a new generation hi-tech product.

B.It has both home and overseas version.

C.It meets the demand of people individually.

D.It is easy and totally free to operate online.

3.How does Byte Dance make a profit?

A.By charging the users.

B.By selling its artificial intelligence.

C.By forcing the users to donate.

D.By charging the advertisement.

4.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “lucrative” in Paragraph 3?

A.expensive B.profitable

C.popular D.creative

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