| A．cost | B．spent | C．paid for | D．took |
People who like traveling believe that traveling can help them expand their view. If they can make themselves travel with an open mind and try new things around them, they can see the world from a new view. Traveling helps us learn about different people and different places. People travel for different reasons. But one of the reasons is that a lot of tourists are interested in traditional culture (传统文化).
Tourism (旅游业) can be very good for traditional cultures. This is because when people travel to another country, they often want to learn more about that country’s traditions such as music, food and history. So the local (当地的) people in that country will wear traditional clothing and sell traditional food. They will also have shows for tourists. These shows can be dances, concerts, plays or something else.
Tourism also helps people respect each other. If you understand another culture well, you will probably respect that culture much more. You will probably want to protect (保护) that culture as well.
However, tourism isn’t always good for traditional culture. A lot of people say that tourism makes “not real traditional culture” happen. This means that the local people wear traditional clothing and do traditional dances only for tourists so that they can make money. But that isn’t their real lifestyle. Their real lifestyles are like the tourists’ lifestyles.
Another problem is that tourists may make trouble for the local people. For example, sometimes tourists come to watch local people praying (祷告) in temples (庙宇), tourists take photos and make noises. This often makes the local people angry.
Sometimes tourists may also do something bad to local places of interest. If five hundred people went into an old temple every day, they might do harm to that temple.
Anyway, more and more tourists want to learn about traditional cultures. Most local people want more tourism because tourists bring money and help local business. Tourists have to respect local culture and local places. Local governments try to protect places and lifestyles. If everyone tries his best, then tourism will be great for traditional cultures.
1．The word “expand” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”.| A．enjoy | B．show | C．forget | D．widen |
| A．take photos and make noises in temples |
| B．help the local people to make money |
| C．try to respect and protect local culture |
| D．make laws to protect places of interest |
| A．Tourists should respect and protect traditional culture. |
| B．Tourism helps local people improve traditional culture. |
| C．The importance of learning more about traditional culture. |
| D．Good and bad points of tourism for traditional culture. |
Memory professor Jemima Gryaznov answers some of the mast common questions about memory.
Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happened last week? We remember things that have strong connections (联系) in our mind, especially emotional (情绪的) connections. Childhood memories are often very emotional. This is because when we experience things for the first time we often have strong feelings of fear or excitement. Also, interesting or funny stories from our childhood are often told again and again. As a result, we remember them much better, as retelling events helps fix experiences in our memories. So when remembering something new, try to connect it to our emotions. Also we can try to retell what we have learnt to a few others.
Do some people really have a photographic memory?
A person with a photographic memory could remember every detail of a picture, a book or an event many years later, but no one has proved that there are people who really have photographic memories. Yet, there are some people who do have amazing memories. For example, Daniel Tammet can remember the first 22,514 digits of pi (π) and Stephen Wiltshire can draw a detailed picture of a city from memory after flying over it in an airplane. They are both good at remembering things for a limited time. As most of us do not have amazing memories like them, an effective technique (技巧) to remember things is to group similar ideas or information together so that they can be easily connected to things that are already known.
Why do I forget the new words that I learnt yesterday?
Don’t worry. This is natural for many people. In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus published a book called Memory and presented a famous forgetting curve. According to him, the quick loss of memory happens during the very early period after learning. This means timely review during this period, with a few revisits to what is learnt, can help us to remember the information better. Therefore, one of the golden rules to increase how much we remember is to review the material periodically, especially during the first day after learning.
1．Why might people lose memories about what happened last week?| A．Because they have negative emotions. |
| B．Because they have experienced too much. |
| C．Because there might be few emotional connections. |
| D．Because they retell the experiences without feelings. |
| A．Stephen Wiltshire can draw a detailed picture of a plane. |
| B．Many people have a photographic memory after practicing. |
| C．The quick loss of memory happens at the beginning of learning. |
| D．Recalling what you’ve learnt at certain times may avoid forgetting. |
| A．To compare people’s different memory abilities. |
| B．To share some basic knowledge of our memory. |
| C．To tell the development of memory in different ages. |
| D．To show us how the experts remember things easily. |
Studies have shown that humans have the ability to understand the gestures (手势) of apes. That is a little surprising, because most people haven’t spent much time with apes.
Humans use words to talk to each other. But we also point, nod, and use our hands to show what we mean. Apes have their own gestures to show what they mean. Chimpanzees and bonobos are two kinds of apes. They are closest to humans. They use about 80 different gestures to show what they mean.
Scientists have learned the meanings of these gestures by studying Chimpanzees and bonobos for years. They share over 90% of the same gestures. Scientists have studied how apes use gestures. But for the longest time, no one studied if humans could understand the gestures of apes.
Researchers Kirsty Graham and Catherine Hobaiter at the University of St. Andrews decided to test this idea. They wanted to see if humans with no training or experience could understand the gestures of apes.
The researchers made a game for people to play online. The game was simple. People watched short videos of apes making a gesture. Then they had to choose the correct meaning of the gesture out of four possible (可能的) answers. For the videos, the researchers chose ten of the most common gestures used by apes. Thousands of people played the game.
The researchers were surprised to find that for some of the gestures, people were able to choose the correct meaning about 80% of the time. One example of this was the gesture of touching the mouth. People correctly guessed it meant “give me that food”.
The scientists believe humans may have a natural (天生的) ability to understand the gestures of apes. But it’s not clear why. Humans and other apes all developed from an earlier kind of ape. One possibility is that the body language of these gestures has been passed down to all apes from the common ape ancestor. Another possibility is that the gestures are natural because humans and apes share similar (相似的) body shape and need to communicate similar ideas.
1．Chimpanzees and bonobos ________.| A．are able to guess human gestures |
| B．share about 80 gestures with humans |
| C．can understand most of each other’s gestures |
| A．How the researchers did the study. |
| B．Why the researchers started the study. |
| C．What the researchers found in the study. |
| A．Humans and apes use gestures in a surprisingly similar way. |
| B．People can understand the gestures of apes without training. |
| C．More than 80% of people are able to learn ape gestures. |
| A．It is important for humans to understand ape gestures. |
| B．Comparing apes and humans will help with future studies. |
| C．Humans can guess ape gestures possibly because of a shared ancestor. |
You have lots of things you'd like to do. But sometimes it's hard to get to the finish line-just like your goal. How can you break your bad habits and develop good ones?
● I can't get away from screens.
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Start with "showing up. " Then take one small step or do one tiny task, followed by another and another. For example, how do I practice the piano? First sit at it. Then play one note at a time.
Starting with a super-simple step often helps. Why? It's easy, quick, and gets you in action.
● I have no time.
Take a look at the choices you make about how you spend time. Do those choices show what's important to you? Can you spare 10 minutes a day to work on a goal? Let's suppose you want to be singer.
| A．Then keep taking steps. |
| B．I can't start such a huge goal. |
| C．And how can you try to reach your goals? |
| D．To change a habit, try changing where you spend your time. |
| E．Is it more important to practice singing than play video games? |
Look! A girl is cycling quickly, then jumping off her bike, and running towards the front door.
Grace is the main character in the book Grace and the Double Life. She is a schoolgirl.
After many weeks, Grace and her teammates luckily get a chance to audition (试镜) for the TV show. How exciting! But here comes the bad news; the piano exam is held on the same day as the audition.
Grace and the Double Life is really a great book. The story of Grace and her friends may remind us of little things that sometimes happen in our daily lives.
| A．But she keeps it a secret from her parents. |
| B．When she is trying to find the key, the door opens. |
| C．It also gets us thinking about what we would do if we faced some of the same situations as Grace. |
| D．She will have a piano exam in a couple of weeks, but she is late for her piano lesson again. |
| E．At the same time, she doesn’t know her mother has discovered (发现) her secret by accident (偶然). |
On May 15, 2023, a 16-year-old girl from Changsha, Hunan Province made new history. Xu Zhuoyuan became the youngest Chinese girl to succeed in reaching the top of Mount Qomolangma. What makes it more meaningful is that the year 2023 marks the 70th anniversary (周年) of the first human being achieving the impossible dream.
Mountain climbing is one of the world’ s most dangerous sports, and one of the most popular places for this is Mount Qomolangma. It is about 8,848.86 meters 4①________ and so it is very dangerous to climb. 4②________ clouds, heavy storms and freezing weather conditions make the climbing more difficult. However, these difficulties didn’t scare Xu away. She wanted to challenge herself. She has been training hard to make her dream come true.
On April 15, she left Changsha for Nepal (尼泊尔). On April 28, she arrived at the base camp and made preparations for the huge task. At 10 p.m. Beijing time on May 14, Xu began her journey from Camp 4. The climbing was very hard, and it took her 10 hours to reach the top.
The girl’s love for climbing comes from her father Xu Jianglei. Xu Jianglei is the first man from Hunan to get to the top of Mount Qomolangma. Although she is quite young, Xu has already 4③________ five mountains over 5,000 meters in China. When she was 12 years old, she said on Hunan TV, “I will climb Qomolangma.” Four years later, she kept her promise. 5 Her spirit shows us that we should challenge ourselves in the face of difficulties. It also shows that we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.
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