day.

22. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The author got a Chinese dress from Susan to wear at Halloween. B. Susan was always curious about what her neighbors were doing. C. The author had never had an apple pie before she came to America.

D. Susan helped the author to fall in love with all kinds of American festivals. 23. The passage mainly tells us that ____.

A. good neighbors can be quite helpful in our life

B. all new comers to America can receive help from their neighbors C. festivals are good chances for neighbors to care for each other D. neighbors are more important than relatives

B

Most people will answer a ringing phone. Usually you don’t know who is phoning or how urgent their business is, so a ringing phone is difficult to ignore. In one experiment, a researcher wrote down the numbers of several public phones in stations and airports. Then he called the numbers. Someone nearly always answered. When he asked why, people usually said, “Because it rang.”

A few years ago in New Jersey, a man with a gun killed 13 people. Armed police surrounded his house but he refused to come out. A reporter found out the phone number of the house and called. The man put down his rifle and answered the phone. “What do you want?” he said, “I’m really busy right now.”

Imagine you’re at work and the phone is ringing in someone else’s office. Do you answer it or not? In one survey on telephone use, 51% of participants told researchers that they did. We can’t ignore the phone and for that reason, it forces its way into our lives. It interrupts what we are doing and on top of that, the caller is often someone we don’t really want to talk to. However, in the survey, 58% said they never took the phone off the hook, and 67% didn’t mind if someone called during a television program. For 44% it wasn’t a problem if someone rang during a meal, while only 28% were annoyed or upset. If someone phoned in the middle of the night, 40% told researchers that they got nervous or frightened,

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while around 30% got angry.

Of course, when someone is really annoying, you can choose to hang up on them. This is in fact one of the rudest things you can do on the phone, but 79% said they were prepared to do it in some cases. Only 6% told researchers they never hung up on people. 24. The gunman answered the phone because ____. A. he decided to give in to the police ringing phone

C. he was annoyed at the ringing phone media

25. What is implied by the sentence “79% said they were prepared to do it in some cases”

(in the last paragraph)?

A. They were annoyed by the rude callers.

B. They were prepared to become those rude callers. C. They were likely to hang up on annoying callers. D. They never hung up on others because it was rude. 26. The purpose of the survey is to find out ____. A. how the phone interrupts people’s work B. what role the phone plays in people’s lives C. why people mind a ringing phone sometimes D. when the phone communication is more welcome

C

Halfway through your walk to school, a wild Pikachu appears. Just a few throws of a Pokéball, and it could be yours. Will you stop to catch it? Nintendo is betting you will. Not just that, they’re betting that you’ve waited most of your life to see a Pokémon in the real world.

Pokémon Go — the iOS and Android app from Nintendo, The Pokémon Co., and developer Niantic Labs — promises to let anyone with a smart phone “find” and train the different creatures of Pokémon all around them. For these companies, Pokémon Go offers the biggest opportunity to bring augmented (增强的) reality (AR) into the mainstream as well as a chance

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B. it was difficult to ignore a

D. he intended to be friendly with the

to prove not only that AR technology is ready for people, but that people are ready for AR. Unlike VR (virtual reality虚拟现实), which copies an environment, real or imagined, to allow for users’ interaction (互动), the purpose of AR is to add people’s interactions with their world, usually by offering information that can be seen. “It’s a new kind of experience, about mixing the gameplay with other things you’re doing,” says John Hanke, CEO and founder of Niantic Labs.

Niantic has some expertise in this field. The company — which began as a startup inside Google and has since gone independent — is behind the popular AR mobile app Ingress. In that game, the screen shows points of energy springing up around a map of the user’s surroundings. The energy appears at important real-world locations, like museums or monuments, and users have to explore the world to visit, and then battle over those spots. Like Ingress, Pokémon Go will create interactions based on users’ locations.

If it sounds like a fantasy version of Google Maps, that’s because it is: Hanke joined in developing Google Maps, Google Earth and Street View, and he wanted to apply those technologies in new ways. Mobile games, he says, seemed a perfect fit to encourage people to go outside and discover what he calls the “secret history” of their neighborhoods. “You think you know them but you don’t,” Hanke says, “or maybe you walked by this place and never looked twice at it — whether it’s a piece of artwork or a landmark you don’t know the story behind.”

27. Pokémon Go was created by the following companies, except .

A. Nintendo

B. Google

C. The Pokémon Co.

D. Niantic Labs

28. According to Para. 2, which of the following is TRUE? A. People are ready for the AR technology.

B. AR technology is one of the mainstream technologies. C. AR technology is more enjoyable than VR technology.

D. AR technology can improve people’s interaction with the real world. 29. What does the underlined word “them” refer to in Para. 4? A. Companies. Neighborhoods.

30. In the last paragraph, Hanke holds a ____ attitude towards mobile games.

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B. Technologies. C. Mobile games. D.

A. cautious B. negative critical

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C. positive D.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Every kid wishes to be an adult. Do you remember playing house as a child — pretending to be a grown-up like your parents? Did you imagine you were a doctor, a soldier or a teacher? At that time, anything seemed more exciting than being young. ___31___ They become “kidults” (kid+adult), who participate in youth culture and activities traditionally intended for children.

Some kidults collect toys they once played with. ___32___ It is not unusual to see a 20-something woman with a big, Snoopy-shaped cushion (坐垫) on her sofa or a Hello Kitty mobile phone accessory (挂件).

___33___ For example, Bloomsbury even published the Harry Potter novels with an adult cover. That way, no one else on the subway will know that an adult is actually reading a children’s book!

“Kidults can be like vitamins to society. Adults who value their childhood and hold on to pure, child-like emotion may be needed in such a rough and dry society,” said Lee Sojung, professor of Foreign Studies at Hankuk University. ___34___ It could give children and their parents books, movies, and cartoon shows to enjoy together. He may be right.

Tim Greenhalgh, a professor in London explained that some kidults just refuse to grow up. ___35___ Kidults would like to forget their age and openly show their fear of society and adulthood. “So, they can escape from increasingly complex and stressful lives that are hard to deal with,” Greenhalgh said.

A. Other kidults still enjoy children’s stories and fairy tales. B. Kidults often run into the problem of finding a job at their level. C. They do so because life in a busy and stressful city frightens them. D. Hello Kitty, Garfield, and Snoopy have many adult fans around the world. 8