22. Kids shouldn’t have access to violent films because they might _______ the things they see. A. indicate
23. Self-driving is an area _______ China and the rest of the world are on the same starting line. A. that
24. It’s strange that he _______ have taken the books without the owner’s permission.
25. Developing the Yangtze River Economic Belt is a systematic project which _______ a clear road map and
timetable.
26. Around 13,500 new jobs were created during the period, _______ the expected number of 12,000 held by
market analysts.
27. There is a good social life in the village, and I wish I _______ a second chance to become more involved.
28. —You know what? I’ve got a New Year concert ticket.
—Oh, _______ You’re kidding.
29. _______ you can sleep well, you will lose the ability to focus, plan and stay motivated after one or two nights.
30. I was sent to the village last month to see how the development plan _______ in the past two years.
31. Hopefully in 2025 we will no longer be e-mailing each other, for we _______ more convenient electronic
communication tools by then.
32. Try to understand what’s actually happening instead of acting on the _______ you’ve made. A. assignment
33. China’s soft power grows _______ the increasing appreciation and understanding of China globally.
34. Despite the poor service of the hotel, the manager is _______ to invest in sufficient training for his staff.
35. —What happened? Your boss seems to _______.
—Didn’t you know his secretary leaked the secret report to the press?
Raynor Winn and her husband Moth became homeless due to their wrong investment. Their savingshad been
36 to pay lawyers’ fees. To make matters worse,Moth was diagnosed（诊断）with a 37 disease. There was no 38 , only pain relief.
Failingto find any other way out, they decided to make a 39 journey,as they caught sight of an old
hikers’(徒步旅行者）guide.
Thiswas a long journey of unaccustomed hardship and 40 recovery.When leaving home, Raynor and
Mothhad just ￡320 inthe bank. They planned to keep the 41 lowby living on boiled noodles, with the 42 hamburgershop treat.
Wildcamping is 43 in England. To avoid being caught, the Winnshad to get their tent up 44
andpacked it away early in the morning. The Winns soon discovered that dailyhiking in their 50s is a lot 45 thanthey remember it was in their 20s. Raynor 46 allover and desired a bath. Moth, meanwhile, after an initial 47 , found his symptoms were strangely 48 bytheir daily tiring journey.
49 , the couple found that their bodiesturned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they
thoughthad 50 forever. ＂Our hair was fried and falling out, nails broken, clothes 51 toa thread, but we were alive.＂
Duringthe journey, Raynor began a career as a nature writer. She writes, ＂ 52 had taken every
materialthing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a(n) 53 writtenbook. It had also given me a 54 , either to leave that page 55 orto keep writing the story with hope. I chose hope.＂
A
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
211-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org
Entrances
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Hours
Sunday—Thursday 10:00—17:30
Friday and Saturday 10:00—21:00
Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1, and the first Monday in May.
Admission
$25.00 recommended for adults, $12.00 recommended for students, includes the Main Building and The Cloisters（回廊）on the same day; free for children under 12 with an adult.
All special exhibitions, as well as films, lectures, guided tours, concerts, gallery talks, and
family/children’s programs are free with admission.
Ask about today’s activities at the Great Hall Information Desk.
The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
collection consists of masterworks in sculpture, colored glass, and precious objects from Europe dating from about the 9th to the 15th century.
Hours: Open 7 days a week.
March—October 10:00—17:15
November—February 10:00—16:45
Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, and January 1.
56. How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum?
57. The attraction of the Cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that .
B
In the 1760s, Mathurin Roze opened a series of shops that boasted（享有）a special meat soup called consomme. Although the main attraction was the soup, Roze’s chain shops also set a new standard for dining out, which helped to establish Roze as the inventor of the modern restaurant.
Today, scholars have generated large amounts of instructive research about restaurants. Take
visual hints that influence what we eat: diners served themselves about 20 percent more pasta（意大利面食）when their plates matched their food. When a dark-colored cake was served on a black plate rather than a white one, customers recognized it as sweeter and more tasty.
Lighting matters, too. When Berlin restaurant customers ate in darkness, they couldn’t tell how much they’d had: those given extra-large shares ate more than everyone else, but were none the wiser—they didn’t feel fuller, and they were just as ready for dessert.
Time is money, but that principle means different things for different types of restaurants. Unlike fast-food places, fine dining shops prefer customers to stay longer and spend. One way to encourage customers to stay and order that extra round: put on some Mozart(莫扎特）. When classical, rather than pop, music was playing, diners spent more. Fast music hurried diners out. Particular scents also have an effect: diners who got the scent of lavender（薰衣草）stayed longer and spent more than those who smelled lemon, or no scent.
Meanwhile, things that you might expect to discourage spending—＂bad＂ tables, crowding, high prices — don’t necessarily. Diners at bad tables — next to the kitchen door, say — spent nearly as much as others but soon fled. It can be concluded that restaurant keepers need not ＂be overly concerned about ‘bad’ tables,＂ given that they’re profitable. As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant’s reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices. And doubling a buffet’s price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.
58. The underlined phrase ＂none the wiser＂ in paragraph 3 most probably implies that the customers were .
59. How could a fine dining shop make more profit?
60. What does the last paragraph talk about?
C
If you want to disturb the car industry, you’d better have a few billion dollars: Mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies. But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players. By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems(生态系统), small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys. As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC, 美国青年农会）and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.
For example, take the Quick Cut Greens Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local Slow Money group. It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California. Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn’t touch the price per pound offered by California farms. But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.
The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won’t happen without fundamental changes to the industry. One crucial factor is secure access to land. Competition from investors. developers, and established large farmers makes owning one’s own land unattainable for many new farmers. From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.
Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship — the greatest barrier to building a farm of their own. With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering（多于） farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation’s farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation’s food.
There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can’t clumsily put them together before us. We at the NYFC need broad support as we urge Congress to increase farmland conservation, as we push for immigration reform, and as we seek policies that will ensure the success of a diverse and ambitious next generation of farms from all backgrounds. With a new farm bill to be debated in Congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.
61. The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce .
62. What does the author want to illustrate with the example in paragraph 2?
63. What is the difficulty for those new famers?
64. What should farmers do for a more sustainable and fair farm economy?
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