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1、China's inbound (入境的) tourism market saw strong recovery and growth during the just-concluded May Day holiday.

China has been opening its doors wider to international travelers. In 2024, the country expanded its one-sided visa-free policy to include 38 countries, allowing visits of up to 30 days. In late April, China lowered the tax refund threshold from 500 yuan to 200 yuan and raised the cash refund limit from 10,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan. There is no limit on refunds processed by bank transfer.

While top-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai remained popular, destinations including Chengdu, Chongqing, and Zhuhai made the list of top inbound choices. Hotel bookings by foreign tourists in Zhuhai rose 70% year-on-year, while Qingdao and Wuhan saw increases of 60% and 50%, respectively.

China's picturesque landscapes and rich culinary culture have frequently been featured in South Korean TV dramas and variety shows, sparking travel interest. The May Day holiday also coincides with a public holiday in South Korea, encouraging young travelers to visit China. January trips to China rose 77% year-on-year, said Hana Tour.

More foreign visitors are seeking immersive cultural experiences in rural areas. In Zhangjiajie, bookings from the US, Italy, and Spain surged (激增). They actively participate in farming activities, attend ethnic concerts, and book culinary experiences — including market visits, cooking sessions, and food tastings.

A. Visa-free privacy boosts foreign visits.

B. The surge prompted airlines to add China flights.

C. Foreign visitors are exploring beyond major cities.

D. Favorable tax refund policies have also boosted inbound travel.

E. Data shows that inbound travel bookings surged 130% from a year earlier.

F. Many now prefer cities combining modern facilities with traditional charm.

G. Foreign tourists have also shown increasing interest in in-depth tours and diverse experiences.

2、I'm in a meeting when my phone starts to flash with notifications. While the meeting is important, I'm distracted and want to pick up the phone to find out more. Is it a new job announcement from a friend? Something terrible has happened? Every second I'm not sending a message, I'm being a bad friend. I become anxious, and I'm praying the meeting ends sooner.

It is the emotional rollercoaster ride of being a modern group chat member, and I'm not alone in these feelings. Research conducted by Three found 50% of British adults struggle to keep up with the speed of these virtual conversations and feel pressured. But why exactly does this occur?

"When I'm busy and see a ton of messages coming through, I get stressed that I'm missing something big," says Jasmine, 31. "Not participating in a group chat can also be overwhelming because then you've got loads to catch up on and it's turned from reading just one or two messages to a short story."

Besides being overwhelming, there's a lack of real connection, too. "Group chats can make us feel like we're surrounded by people, yet still somehow on the outside," says psychotherapist Abby Rawlinson. "If everyone is chatting and you're not part of the flow — or your message gets no replies — it can awaken the quiet ache of invisibility."

For Madhura, 31, this has felt particularly exasperating at times. "I find messaging in group chats can make you feel like you're not quite on the same page. Group chats can turn friendly jokes into hurtful messages. A group chat may be used to gossip about a friend who's not there. Leaving a group chat can also feel like you're creating an opportunity for those who are left to gossip about you," Madhura says.

"Texting is such a ‘thin' form of communication. In person, you have tone of voice, facial expressions, and eye contact — all the rich human signals that help us interpret meaning. On a screen, you just get the words themselves," Rawlinson explains. "So don't fall into a pit of self-criticism when a message goes without a reply. Group chats can't truly measure your friendships. They're just a tool to stay connected."

3、One day in 1996, someone ate a McDonald's McChicken burger in Amsterdam. Perhaps a quick bite after work? A family outing? These details are lost to time, but others are hard to erase completely. The meal left a permanent mark on the local environment when a Eurasian coot (白冠鸡) found the discarded McChicken wrapper and decided to use it to line its nest, where it remained.

"It really shows that it's not just us humans who are writing history, but also these birds are taking notes and documenting our throwaway society," said the nest biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra, who has been researching the influence of the Anthropocene era on birds' nests in Amsterdam's canals. When investigating nests in the canals, he found a variety of old packaging discarded from the early 1990s up to last year.

The Eurasian coot only started migrating to Amsterdam in the late 1980s, and Hiemstra's findings of packaging from 1994 could show the entire lifespan and heritage of the species in the area.

While a bird's nest is usually made from twigs (细枝) and moss, the abundance of plastics has been helpful for birds in the city where natural items are in short supply. Hiemstra said there would likely be a return of natural nests if people focused on re-greening cities and bringing natural water vegetation back, but in the meantime, the birds were successfully working with what they had.

"For the coots, our litter is not a waste product but something very valuable. Finding these materials that were littered 30 years ago, yet they look as fresh as they were just littered yesterday, really gave me the chills. I really hope we can learn something from the birds to re-evaluate how we think about our materials. These plastics are a wonderful material, yet we use them for single use and throw them away," Hiemstra said.

4、Lorraine Caley, who founded her mushroom-growing company Caley Brothers in 2018, will be showcasing her oyster mushrooms at the exhibition hosted by the Royal Horticultural Society after more and more people expressed an interest in growing fungi.

She and her sister, Jodie Bryan, started growing mushrooms at home as they could not find the more special varieties in their local supermarket. "We physically couldn't get the mushrooms we wanted to eat. We changed our diet because our dad was unwell. We wanted to expand from the button mushroom," says Caley.

"We'd seen this stuff online and started growing it for ourselves. But we had so much demand that people's curiosity forced us to start making our own kits. We also supplied fresh mushrooms to anyone who wanted their own kits to grow them at home. It's been phenomenal. The direction it's taken us in is far beyond anything we ever imagined."

The sisters use coffee grounds as a substrate (培养基) and grow fungi (真菌) from wood. Fungi add interest to a garden and benefit the soil. "You can take your kit and put it in the garden where it will then get you more nutrients for your soil," said Caley. "We've installed an outside mushroom bed, and nine different mushrooms can be grown in seven different mediums. We were trying to encourage people with space outside to go outside, but you can also put a couple of logs on your balcony. Or if you've got a small flat, you can grow in your kitchen as well."

Taking soil health into consideration is also in vogue, and fungi are crucial for this. Under the ground, the fungi create a living network called a mycelium. It improves the soil by breaking down natural waste and moving it into the earth, making it richer. It also attracts worms, which loosen the soil and support its biodiversity.

5、Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits

The Exhibition

When Vincent van Gogh arrived in Arles, France, he befriended his neighbor and postman Joseph Roulin, along with his wife and three children. Van Gogh went on to paint several vibrant and expressive portraits of the Roulin family. This exhibition showcases about twenty of them, demonstrating his distinctively forward-thinking approach to portraiture.

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits also reveals the significance of Van Gogh's close friendship with Joseph Roulin amidst his arrival in a new town and struggles with mental health. The Roulin portraits appear alongside other works — including Japanese prints and Paul Gauguin paintings — that helped shape Van Gogh's work during this period.

Exhibition Times

March 30 – September 7, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA

Museum Hours 10 am – 5 pm

Last entry 30 minutes before Museum closing. There is no re-entry.

Ticket Information

Adults $34.00 || Youths 7 – 17 $17.00 || Youths 0 – 6 Free

Tickets are available for purchase in advance at mfa.org or by phone at 1-800-440-6975. A $6 per-order processing fee applies to all phone orders.

Entry times are 30 minutes; visitors must enter the exhibition within that 30-minute window. Once inside the gallery, visitors may stay as long as they like.

Make sure to add any free youth tickets to your order at the same time as you add adult tickets.

6、听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

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11、What do we know about the woman?

12、Why is Clara visiting her grandfather?

13、What did Sally try at the new coffee shop?

14、How much will the speakers tip the waiter?

15、What will Henry do first?

16、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I was doing homework with my friend Ollie at his home when he randomly started scribbling (乱画) a fish. But not just any fish. This fish was riding a skateboard and blowing a bubble that said "I'd rather be skating!"I laughed and drew a sea star saying "Quit fooling around and get to work!"

Just then, Ollie's grandma Abuela and her friend Mr. Goldberg came into the kitchen. Mr. Goldberg was in charge of the local animal shelter. Abuela poured their tea and inquired about how things were going at the animal shelter. Mr. Goldberg sighed, shaking his head. He explained that not enough people were adopting pets, resulting in too many animals without homes.

Overhearing the conversation, Ollie offered to adopt some excitedly. But Abuela said that one noisy parrot was plenty for this house.

"Blue isn't noisy," defended Ollie. "He's just musical."

"I'd have a whole farm full of animals if I could," I said. "But my parents say two cats and a hamster (仓鼠) are enough."

Mr. Goldberg said he kept trying to attract people to adopt animals, but found it hard to get people's attention these days. Ollie drew a sad whale, and I wrote the words "Please adopt me" in the shape of a whale spout (喷水). Mr. Goldberg took a look at our drawings and made favorable comments on them, saying that these clever talking animals just might grab people's attention. And he asked us if we were willing to design a poster for his animal shelter, a proposal we happily accepted. We decided to draw some ideas on our own and meet up again the next afternoon.

That night, when I was sitting in the living room brainstorming ideas for the poster, my little brother brought in our hamster, Mr. Nibbles, to give him a little run-around time. He made a hamster playground out of couch pillows and Mr. Nibbles began to run around merrily.

Suddenly, an idea formed in my mind.

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We decided to make both Mr. Nibbles and Blue the stars of the poster.

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17、假定你是李华，你参加了外教Adam的英语戏剧选修课后，发现剧本选择和时间安排存在问题。请你给外教写封邮件，内容包括：

1.说明问题;

2.提出建议。

注意：

1.写作词数应为80个左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Adam,

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Yours Sincerely,

Li Hua

18、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

To understand a painting, we're taught to look for color, composition, and light. But how can a painting (appreciate)by someone who's blind? Through touch, the one thing gallery signs tell you not (do). John Olson, a former (photograph)and his team turn paintings into fully textured 3D models.

The tactile(可触知的)paintings work as a way to show art to blind because we don't see with just Our eyes: We see with our brains. Research in the field of neuroplasticity-the brain's adaptability-shows that the visual cortex(大脑皮层)is made active by touch. Blind people recognize shapes with their (exist) senses, in a way similar to that of (sight )people, says Ella Striem-Amit, a Harvard scientist.

Luc Gandarias, who's now thirteen, went blind suddenly age seven. When he felt a 3D version of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" he (notice)her smile right away. "I can actually feel what you see when you look at it," he said.

For Luc, this means (independent). "The feeling of being able to see it to form my opinion is like breaking down another wall as a blind person."

19、Some people worry that there's too much technology in our lives. And they may have a point, given how countless people now carry the internet around in their pocket and use it as a primary form of communication. It's practically difficult to shun technology in our world. There are computer microchips (微芯片) in our watches, our cars, light switches, even our pets! Where will it end?

Well, if certain people have their way, it'll go even further. We'll have microchips implanted (植入) into our brains that can interact with the computers by thought alone. It may sound like something from the science fiction, but in many ways, things look quite promising. Thanks to the ability to send and receive information remotely via computers, microchips and other related devices have long been put into brains.

For example, electrodes have been implanted in the brains of epilepsy patients to better record and even predict the abnormal neurological activity. Similarly, deep-brain stimulation, through implanted devices that cause activity in key brain regions, is an established treatment for things like Parkinson's disease, and is even being looked into for illnesses like depression.

However, it's another thing to place such devices in healthy individuals. There are the practical concerns, not least of which is what these chips will be made of. The inside of the brain is a mass of highly reactive chemicals and electrical activity. Implants would need to be inert (静止的) enough to not upset the delicate processes by their presence, but also sensitive enough to read and process the activity around them. Current technology has made impressive progress with this, but if it were to be rolled out to millions of people, we'd need to be 100 per cent certain that it's safe.

How many people will actually want to have technology literally put into their brain? A surprising 60 per cent of Americans say they'd be okay with it, but that's when it's purely theoretical. In reality, the possibility of having strangers stick chips in your brain is likely to prove unattractive, especially for a population where millions get mad at fictional microchips in vaccines (疫苗), and even more are frightened of dentists.

Ultimately, the technology of computer-brain interface (接口) implants is still far away from us.

20、Cathy Winston is a sports nutritionist. Among her regulars are athletes. Cathy thrives on the variety, with each new sport providing new challenges and a renewed appreciation of her chosen field of expertise. In her view, dealing with athletes from various sport backgrounds helps her become seasoned, which is a key part of being a successful nutritionist. "You have to understand nutrition and people, and then you can begin to work in this field," she says. "Besides, in tennis you must learn to be reactive, because you don't know how long the match lasts. However, it's 90 minutes in football so you know what you're fueling for."

Regardless of the sport, Cathy's attitude remains the same: Any athlete failing to respect nutrition is one who is failing to fulfill their potential. It's a key part of the training process. It's not just something that you take casually. She advises her athletes to hold nutrition in the same regard as they do their most crucial bit of equipment. "Just as you wouldn't forget to put your shin pads (护腿板) or your boots in your kit bag, don't forget to put in your drinks and your snacks. That informs how well you train, because you can't get out if you haven't put in."

Nutritionists are sometimes unfairly represented as militant (斗志昂扬的) types telling what athletes can and can't eat. But Cathy insists that when to eat is more important than what. "It's about when's the right time to have it in," she says. It's a message that Cathy says can take a while to sink in. "A lot of boxers say, ‘but bananas make you fat, right?', and there's this inherent belief that we mustn't eat those kinds of things. But it's not about what to cut out. It's about making sure that you've got the foundation right for health and performance. It's that one size fits one. It's what works for you. To be an excellent athlete, you really need to be an exceptional eater."