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1. "低头族"产生的原因;

2. "低头族"带来的影响;

3. 提出合理的建议。

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1. 写作词数应为 80 左右;

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

参考词汇:低头族: phubber(People who can't help checking their phones all day are known as phubbers. Phubbing tends to involve not only the young people, but also the elderly. )

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Get off the train and the first thing you meet in Zhongwei, Ningxia, is a warm wind that smells of sand. In other words, the desert is impossible (ignore) for visitors here.

The Shapotou area, famous place, lies between the Tengger Desert and the Yellow River. It has big sand hills, winding (蜿蜒的) rivers, high mountains and green fields. These different (view)come together and show the strong beauty of the north and the soft charm of the south.

In recent years, Zhongwei (try) to build a special travel name by doing new things in the desert. For example, the Desert Legends show brings local tales to life through dynamic song and dance, and the Diamond Hotel (surprise) many visitors with its amazing architecture.

makes these projects good is that they turn a short desert visit into a several-day trip. Travelers can watch bright stars night and join hands-on folk classes in the day.

Now many people choose to sleep in tents on the sand, (turn) this once-quiet place into a busy spot full of life and hope. When the early sun colors the dunes (沙丘) pink and light purple, the smell of (new) made camel-milk tea moves through the tents, and the wish for another (forgettable) day rises with the sun.

Tuan Pham was feeling pretty good about himself as he approached the 12-mile mark of the Long Beach Half Marathon in Southern California. The run was the 47-year-old's seventh such event, and he couldn't wait to1 at the finish line with his teenage son, who had raced ahead. Pham took another step or two, and that was the2 thing he remembered.

He couldn't recall staggering or falling face-first to the ground, where he lay3 as runners skirted him. He had no pulse, nor was he4. Three blocked arteries (动脉) had caused his collapse. He was clinically dead. If he didn't get help soon, he'd be5 dead.

The6 of surviving a cardiac arrest (心脏骤停) outside of a hospital is less than 12%. Pham's only chance of7 was if someone, say, a cardiologist, happened to pass by.

Well ... Just as Pham hit the ground, Ryan Chiu, a cardiac8 from Memorial Care Long Beach Medical Center, was leaving a restaurant a few feet away. Dr. Chiu immediately9 what was happening. He ran to Pham's side and began chest compressions. He10 the help of a bystander, who took over on compressions (胸部按压) while Dr. Chiu called his11 and told them to prepare an operating room and gather a surgical team.

Minutes later, a(n)12 arrived. Medics scooped up Pham and13 him away to the hospital, with Dr. Chiu following in his own car.

The surgery that Dr. Chiu performed was a success, and Pham is alive and well — well enough to14 to the route of the Long Beach Half Marathon and pick up where he left off.

"I can't believe the one guy, the first guy, to see me fall, to15 and give me help, was a cardiac surgeon," Pham told the Post. "What are the odds?"

For a long time, it has been viewed as an unpleasant, even wrong feeling. In ancient times, if someone showed the signs of boredom, they were wrong of "acedia," a feeling of being apart that was seen as rude to the world and its creator. The growth of factories and time-saving devices only strengthened our wish to use time well. Many parents try to keep their children from getting bored, either to stop complaints or because they think boredom wastes a chance to get ahead.

None of these attitudes toward boredom strike me as healthy or beneficial. We need to move past our fear of boredom and start to see it as an unavoidable, necessary, and even advantageous experience. It is a very unpleasant (and short) state that often pushes us to try new ideas. When we take away children's boredom by giving them instant and shallow activities, we greatly lower their chances of learning new and challenging things well.

Instead, we should trust that children will find ways to amuse themselves — and maybe even learn to accept boredom as a gift, a chance to think, to create, to discover. As we learn to sit with boredom, we may find that it is not our enemy but our helper, something we need for a life of meaning and invention.

A. Boredom, at its best, brings creativity.

B. As a culture, we have a bad relationship with boredom.

C. Today, we continue to view boredom with strong dislike.

D. Schools should add more creative classes to prevent boredom.

E. We should not fill every minute of our kids' days with activities.

F. If we were, we were instantly given a task, so we learned to avoid it.

G. Modern technology has made boredom a rare experience for children.

Economists tend to think this is a great development. Cities, they argue, benefit from ‘agglomeration', the consequence of so many people living close by. For one thing, government and businesses can run more efficiently: size helps everything from public transport to the hiring of staff. For another, finding the next big idea is easier when like-minded people gather together.

But have economists overstated the benefits of big cities? That is what a new study by Matthew Turner and David Weil, both of Brown University, suggests. Their analysis applies existing figures of the impact of agglomeration on economic efficiency and the rate of invention to a model of the American economy. This allows the researchers to answer a question: how different would America look if, from 1900 to 2010, no city area had grown to a population of more than 1 million people?

According to their work, the answer is ‘not all that much'. Growth would have been slower, but only a bit: the researchers think that America's total production would have been 8% lower in 2010 than it was in reality. Cities do make residents more efficient, but the size of the city does not matter too much.

City supporters may not fully agree with the researchers' findings, which depend on some guesses. Edward Glaeser of Harvard notes that Turner and Weil believe creating new ideas gets harder over time, as the simplest solutions are used up. This means big cities benefit less than expected from gathering talented people. It's unclear if this trend will keep happening in the future. AI supporters would surely argue that creating new ideas will probably speed up in the next few years.

"Our brain receives information from our senses — sight, touch, smell, sound and taste — so this helps us understand our environment," said Manahil Riaz, a mental health expert in Texas. "To be overstimulated means that our senses have received a lot of information, and now we are feeling stressed as we're receiving this information."

"When you're overstimulated, your prefrontal cortex (前额叶皮质) goes offline," said Emma Shandy Anway, an expert in California. "This part of your brain helps you think clearly when making decisions," she noted. "When we're stressed out, the prefrontal cortex goes from careful and clear-thinking to quick-acting," Anway said. "In these conditions, your brain's not thinking about maintaining relationships or effectively solving problems," Riaz noted. "Instead, it's frightened."

It's normal to feel stressed at times. We're all human, and being a human is hard. "Anytime our nervous system is out of balance, we have to find that way to teach our body that we're not in danger," Anway said. She recommends deep breathing through the nose, "When my breath slows down, my nervous system starts to slow down, and that will, in turn, slow my thoughts down."

It's also important to notice what you give your attention to when you're feeling overstimulated. Practicing mindfulness skills in the moment — like, say, naming three things around you that are green — is a way to calm down when stressed. Besides, tiny routines like a phone-free morning can stop too much pressure before it starts.

"I was actually traveling here when I was 19," Lennox-Hvenekilde told Newsweek. "I had just turned 19 and was traveling with a friend. We realized that there were a lot of people living in these areas of the world who were maybe not rich in an economic sense, but they just seemed extremely free and to have an extremely high quality of life."

Inspired by this way of living, Lennox-Hvenekilde spent years working full-time jobs in Denmark, determined to save enough money to turn his dream into reality. After months of searching, he found the perfect piece of land and bought it with help from local connections.

The land has a natural stream, providing fresh drinking water year-round. It also feeds his crops during dry seasons, a necessity for his fruit farm. He is currently living in a nearby village while he works on constructing a small house on his land. Beyond farming and creating a self-sufficient home, Lennox-Hvenekilde also hopes to be able to give back to parts of the land and attempt rebuilding habitats for the native monkey species.

As he builds his new life in the Colombian jungle, Lennox-Hvenekilde remains optimistic about the future. "I have so many plans and dreams and ideas — it's kind of hard to just put it into words right now, especially since it's all so new for me. But, right now, the plan is simple: plant a bunch of fruit trees, build the house, and take it one step at a time."

On average, surveyed students use 2.1 AI tools for their courses. ChatGPT remains the most common tool used, mentioned by 66% of respondents, followed by Grammarly and Microsoft Copilot (each 25%). Here are most common use cases:

Despite their wide use of AI tools, students were not confident about their AI knowledge, the survey found. Fifty-eight percent of students reported feeling that they do not have enough AI knowledge and skills, and 48% felt poorly prepared for   AI-related work. Notably, 80% of surveyed students said their university's adoption of AI tools does not fully meet their needs.

Students' top AI needs included:

● Universities should provide training for both teachers and students on the effective use of AI tools (said by 73% of teachers and 72% of students);

●Universities should offer more courses on AI knowledge (72%);

●Universities should include students in choosing which AI tools to use (71%);

●Universities should increase the use of AI in teaching and learning (59%).

"With AI being used more widely, universities must now treat it as a basic part of education, not just a tool," said Alessandro Di Lullo, head of the Digital Education Group and an AI expert at The University of Hong Kong. At the same time, he said, "universities need to consider how to effectively improve AI skills to equip both students and academics with the skills to succeed in an AI-driven world."

Some 4,000 years ago, the Liangzhu culture, known for its sophisticated city of canals (call) "China's Venice of the Stone Age," suddenly disappeared. Historians debated whether war, disease, or starvation caused its collapse, but recent research points to climate change a key factor.

Located near the East China Sea, Liangzhu (be) home to an advanced Stone Age civilization for about 1,000 years, supporting an active agricultural system through its canals. Liangzhu City was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

Researchers from the University of Innsbruck had long sought to explainLiangzhu was abandoned, and the discovery of a thin layer of clay on the ruins suggested a possible connection between the ends of the advanced civilization floods of the Yangtze River or floods from the East China Sea. However, no clear conclusions on the cause were possible from the mud layer (it).

A breakthrough came when scientists studied stalagmites (石笋) from two nearby underwater caves. As Dr. Peter Dockrill reported for Science Alert, their team discovered chemical signatures from about 4,300 years ago that showed extremely high rainfall, (probable) caused by the (warm) of ocean waters in the Pacific — an event known as the El Niño (厄尔尼诺).

The study notes that wet conditions lasted for several hundred years following the collapse of Liangzhu, eventually paving the way for the rise of the Xia dynasty in 2070 B.C.E. Its celebrated (found), Yu the Great, introduced more extensive flood-control methods and is known as the "Tamer of the Flood."

Then came a ripple in the universe. My friend asked me for a2 adopting her dog, Twinkles, a small lapdog. I reluctantly3. Twinkles had lived a(n)4 existence and had never even walked on green grass. She wouldn't go out with me initially, but I5 her out the door, knowing it would do her and me good. A special bond and growing trust6. After all, discomfort is often the external7 needed to jump-start growth, and that day was a good beginning!

Happy time flew! Twinkles and I had to move to Medellin, Colombia. I believe it was a good chance to change. "Aggressive Tom" would not be8 tolerated; I had to become "Gentle Tom." Relaxed,9, and calm. Similarly, Twinkles was presented with the10 to become "Twinkles Princess."

Twinkles and I shared remarkable11, from walks in the local parks to exploring the transformative neighborhood of Comuna 13. She was a natural star, and her charm effortlessly12 the locals, fostering conversations that13 cultural gaps. I gradually had a sense of belonging.

After three adventurous years, we returned to America. "Aggressive Tom" and "Timid Twinkles" were14 by "Gentle Tom" and "Twinkles Princess", more patient, empathetic, confident, and brave. We had done things we didn't want to do, weren't supposed to do, and never imagined we could do. Together, we15 the joy of doing incredible things.

In New York, there are a million ways not to cook. It is easy to order in, or to hire someone to cook if you have the resources.    . I like being alone for a while staring at a recipe and trying to visualize it.

And yet my friend who doesn't cook is also right. . Sometimes I wonder if I will regret those hours: cutting ingredients (原料), searching for supplies, and hurrying out for salt...Does cooking enrich family life? Does it give everyone an unconscious feeling of wellbeing? Hard to say.

I have another friend who cooked on a whole other level than most of us. Years later, she realized that she was putting too much of her energy and thought and inspiration into it. She seemed to have turned against it as a mode of expression. .

. I will just stop planning dinners and going to the fish store and the grocery store. I imagine finishing my Helen Garner novel as the sky darkens. But I also want this one hour at the end of the day when I step out of work and measure and preheat and marinate (腌制). When the night really falls and the sound of my family's chatter flows from the living room, I still can't help but reach for the recipe book.

A. But this could never be me.

B. Cooking is sort of a burden and fun.

C. Sometimes I have a "having it all" fantasy.

D. She started a whole new career that took off later.

E. Cooking can be a time-consuming and thankless task.

F. She was determined to take this domestic responsibility.

G. Yet I still find myself cooking for my family even on busy days.

Kimin Eom, a psychological scientist at the University of California, was inspired to investigate the links between culture, environmental concern, and environmental action after noticing that both public discussion and prior academic research on environmental behavior typically focused on people from western countries. This is noteworthy because western societies tend to have cultural values that prioritize individuals' own attitudes and beliefs and encourage expression of them.

"The theory seemed to be that once individuals are led to believe in the urgency of environmental issues and have stronger concerns about sustainability, they will change and act to address the issues," explains Eom. But this relationship might not hold for individuals living in more collectivistic societies, which place more emphasis on social harmony and uniformity than on self-expression.

To examine what drives environmental action in both cultures, Eom's team conducted a study with participants from the United States (an individualistic culture) and Thailand (a collectivistic culture). They found environmental concern was correlated with environmental behavior — in this case, choosing environmentally friendly products — but only among American participants. On the other hand, believing that a large percentage of people engage in environmentally friendly behaviors was associated with making eco-friendly choices among Thai participants, but not American participants.

The findings reveal that personal concerns are more likely to motivate people to take environmental action if they live in individualistic countries, whereas social criteria are more likely to drive people to engage in environmentally friendly behavior if they live in collectivistic countries.

"Getting citizens actively engaged is critical to addressing urgent social issues, such as climate change," says Eom. "Our research suggests that scientists, policymakers, and activists need to understand how culture shapes the psychological factors of action to develop policies, campaigns, and interventions that address important social issues."

How this robot works bears a striking similarity to that of "tube dancer", those tall thin fabric tubes that have air pumped into them. When air fills the tube to the maximum, it makes it stand upright. However, once the tube reaches an upright position, the internal air pressure gradually decreases, causing the tube to bend downward. This bending then makes the pressure rise again, pushing the bent section upward. This process repeats continuously, forming a cyclic motion that gives the robot its moving force.

This pressure-driven continuous bending along tubes precisely fuels the robot. Linked to a single air source, its multiple tubes initially move chaotically in different directions but soon adjust their motion, eventually moving in a consistent and harmonized way just like "legs", with speed regulated by air pressure.

One particularly notable characteristic of the robot is its remarkable speed. It can cover a distance 30 times its own body length within a single second, which is just like Usain Bolt, the world's fastest runner, achieving his speed by finishing 100m in merely 1.71 seconds. Another outstanding feature is that it adjusts automatically to its conditions. It can easily cross uneven ground and when it accidentally knocks into a wall, it turns. If the robot sinks into water, it will immediately adjust its movement pattern and start swimming.

Without a control core, the new invention is more like a simple machine than an advanced robot needing difficult programming. Nevertheless, it can do many complex tasks independently. It is widely anticipated that the technology could one day be used in applications such as micro-robots that deliver medicine within the body, or machinery designed for use in harsh environments where electronics may fail, such as outer space.

My book, The Girl with the Red Hair, is based on the true story of Hannie Schaft, the most famous of those brave women. To the Dutch, Hannie was an icon of resistance during World War Ⅱ, and around the country there are schools and streets named after her.

At the start of the war, Hannie was a law student at the University of Amsterdam, but her studies were disrupted by the German occupation of the Netherlands. On May 14^th, 1940, a German bombing raid almost destroyed Rotterdam, forcing thousands to flee the burning city. As the Nazis began targeting Jews, Hannie decided to act. Whether it was sheltering Jews or transporting top-secret information in her saddlebags, setting fire to military facilities or shooting Nazi officers, the breathtaking courage she demonstrated was unprecedented. Hannie was prepared to take on any assignment in her quest for justice.

Hannie's story ends tragically. It was Hannie's great misfortune to be arrested only weeks before the end of the war. Though this black-haired girl refused to talk under questioning, her red hair roots gave her identity away. One cold spring morning, Hannie was taken from her cell and marched to a point, where one of the Nazi soldiers took aim. But his first shot only grazed her ear. She said, "Idiot! I shoot better than you." The second bullet took her life.

It has been a humbling experience writing this book about Hannie Schaft. Although my book is a work of fiction, I hope I've done justice to this incredible and inspiring woman. Come and discover more about my new novel, the second in The Dutch Girl series, called The Girl with the Red Hair.

How often do you walk around the campus instead of getting straight onto the shuttle bus? The beauties of our campus deserve to be better explored and can best be explored on foot. Walking is also a greener and healthier alternative to using vehicles. To encourage more students and staff members to walk around the campus, our school has launched a new "Walk for Green" initiative.

Programme

Setting out from the MTR Station, "Walk for Green" recommends various walking routes on campus, one of which covers the YIA Building, LSK Building and LWS Building. Card readers for different walking routes have been installed (安装) to record the number of points completed by "Walk for Green" participants. Participants who collect 60 points within 30 days will be awarded the title "Green Walker".

Participation

To participate, students and staff members would choose a marked route and tap their school cards at the card readers installed at both the start and end points (and also at an intermediate card reader). Name, student/staff ID, department/unit, date, time, and card readers tapped will be recorded.

Walking Journey Points

Important Notes:

1. Walkers must complete one trip (either upwards or downwards) within one hour to score points.

2. A maximum of six points will be awarded each day.

Every time you take a walk on campus, you are helping to preserve our environment and also keeping yourself healthy. Let's start from today!

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