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Section A
Maddie and her mother, Stephanie, thought the screams for help were just Boy Scouts (童子军) messing around. But then they saw the scene: the boy scouts surrounding a hiker who (21) _________(take) a scary six-meter drop in an area near the Hoover Dam, a fall that left his right arm with a bone (22) _________(stick) out. The mother and the daughter (23) _________ (suppose) to be having a fun-filled weekend to celebrate Maddie’s 17th birthday. But the trip turned into an emergency life-saving adventure. Maddie and her mother were nearly a kilometer into their 18-kilometer river trip in Black Canyon when they pulled onto some sand. The boy scouts, (24) _________ had called 911, had tied a loose bandage around the hiker’s broken arm to stop the bleeding.
Maddie knew another bandage was needed and thought of her lifeguard training. She asked (25) _________ anyone had a pen or a stick, and someone picked up a branch. She turned the bandage, careful not to hit the bone (26) _________ it stopped most of the bleeding.
The girl grew up doing junior guards and had recently taken a first-aid class as part of her training (27) ________ (become) a lifeguard with California State Parks at Crystal Cove. “I’m happy these trainings are so useful” she said. “(28) ________them, this guy probably would have died. This is something I will never forget. I’ve been considering my college and future career choices and now really feels like that the emergency medical field is (29) ________ I would enjoy.”
It’s not the first time Maddie has quickly jumped into action when (30) _________ (need). In 2015 when she was just 15 during the Surf City Marathon, she was near a man who dropped at mile 26. She pulled him out of the road and treated him for shock until paramedics (医务人员) arrived.

Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. statuses B. relevantly C. reserves D. highlighting E. population
F. estimated G. downgraded H. driving I. critically J. enforced K. reverse

Good news for giant panda lovers: the cute and cuddly creature has just been brought back from the edge of extinction.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) __31__the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable” as the union released its updated Red List on Sept. 4 at Hawaii with their __32__ growing by 17 percent in the decade leading up to 2014.
Chinese conservation efforts, including forest protection and reforestation, are considered to be the __33__ force behind the animal’s re-prosperity. The number of panda __34__ in China has also jumped to 67, from 13 in 1992. Nearly two-thirds of all wild pandas live there. Restoring the panda’s habitat has given them back their space with food available to them.
Apart from giant pandas, the Tibetan Antelope has also moved from “endangered” to “near threatened”. According to a statement from IUCN, the animal’s numbers have shrunk severely – dropping from around 1 million to a(n) __35__ 65,000–72,500 in the 1980s and early 1990s – due to commercial poaching (偷猎). Rigorous protection has since been __36__ to protect the beasts and the population is now likely to be between 100,000 and 150,000.
Despite the improved __37__, wild animals like the giant panda and the Tibetan Antelope still face great challenges. The IUCN warned, for example, that ongoing threats from climate change could eliminate more than 35 percent of the panda’s bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, which would __38__ the species recent gains.
Good progress has been made but there is still work to do. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is devoted to __39__ species from around the world and their statuses in relation to their risk of extinction. The list currently has eight categories, including extinct, extinct in the wild, __40__ endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, least concern and data deficient. These categories are based on criteria relating to population trends, size and structure, and geographic range.

III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

How to help your kids find a purpose? You don’t have to start with the really big questions. “Quick, what’s the meaning of life?” Many of us may not be able to answer that, but that doesn’t __41__ our kids don’t have questions or need answers.
“The sense that your personal life is __42__ to you is a basis of psychological well-being,” says Michael F. Steger, director of the laboratory for Meaning and Quality of Life at Colorado State University. Not only that, it is tightly tied to being happier, more positive, more __43__, more caring, more helpful, more resilient (坚韧)，and more satisfied in your life, relationships, and work.
But helping your kids find meaning doesn’t mean parents have to __44__ all life’s ancient mysteries, Steger says. The __45__ is to understand the difference between the meaning of life and the meaning in life.
“We do not have to start with the biggest and most troubling questions about our lives,” Steger says. “We can start with trying to __46__ how, today, right now, we are going to do one thing that makes the story of our lives more positive, or makes a positive difference to someone else.”
With kids in __47__ school, Steger says, “At the most basic level, our best hopes for our children are that they feel their lives matter and that they __48__.” To start conversations along those lines, says Steger, “You can ask questions about what they think their best __49__ or strengths are, whether they have good relationships with other people, whether they care about others. You can ask them about times when they have made a difference, made someone feel better, felt __50__ for doing something, or helped someone out. All of these kinds of questions can start a conversation about your kid’s __51__ way of being in and contributing to the world.”
In middle school, says Steger, “Kids are being exposed to ideas, behaviors, assumptions, and priorities that might be __52__ different from the ones they have always assumed were true.” So for kids this age, parents can start conversations focusing on how your children’s sense of who they are, how they related to others and what life is has been __53__.
By high school, according to Steger, “We hope our children see how much their lives matter, see that they are at the beginning of an exciting and strengthening life story, and have some slight ideas about __54__.” But the question of what you want to do with your life is too big for a single conversation, says Steger. Instead, he encourages parents to have __55__, smaller conversations with their kids about how they view themselves and their lives, and what kind of impact they would like to make.
41. A. intend B. mean C. remain D. hope
42. A. significant B. decisive C. meaningful D. useful
43. A. confident B. cautious C. intelligent D. special
44. A. discover B. present C. memorize D. solve
45. A. trick B. occupation C. address D. promise
46. A. look for B. pick up C. deal with D. figure out
47. A. junior B. advanced C. elementary D. senior
48. A. make a difference B. spare no effort C. take the initiative D. make a living
49. A. specialties B. qualities C. features D. performances
50. A. appreciated B. prepared C. understood D. well-known
51. A. apparent B. smart C. unique D. appropriate
52. A. generally B. eventually C. impossibly D. completely
53. A. improving B. strengthening C. appearing D. changing
54. A. truth B. purpose C. positivity D. contribution
55. A. permanent B. long-lasting C. frequent D. occasional

Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.

(A)
Researchers have developed a method to activate electronic implants in the body and eliminate bacterial infections using a wireless signal. When triggered by remote technology, the device delivers heat to infected tissue. And it could lead to technologies that enable drugs and treatment to be delivered to patients at the press of a button.
The technology was developed by researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts and the University of Illinois. Mice were given electronic implants that, when a signal was sent, heated up to treat tissue that was infected with staphylococcus, which can cause life-threatening infections of the blood. Tissues collected from the mice 24 hours after treatment showed no sign of the infection, while the device dissolved in 15 days, proving it can not only treat infections but also be disposed of easily.
The research, which also eliminated E. coli bacteria, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Each device, made of silk and magnesium (镁元素), harmlessly dissolved in the animals after the tests. The heating device in the implants has a resistor and power-receiving coil made of magnesium, and the magnesium is wrapped in ‘packet’ of silk, keeping it safe and controlling its dissolution time. The ability of the device to dissolve is important, as it means such implants would not need to be removed. Implantable medical devices normally use non-degradable materials that have limited operational lifetimes and must eventually be removed or replaced. But these new wireless therapy devices can handle the surgical process, and can then dissolve in minutes or weeks, depending on the time needed.
“This is an important demonstration step forward for the development of on-demand medical devices that can be turned on remotely to perform a therapeutic function in a patient and then safely disappear after their use, requiring no retrieval,” said senior author Fiorenzo Omenetto, professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts School of Engineering. “These wireless strategies could help manage post-surgical infection, for example, or pave the way for eventual Wi-Fi drug delivery.”

56. What is special function about the new discovery?
A. It can favourably be used while-treatment stage of a disease.
B. The device has offered drugs at the press of a button.
C. Implantable devices often use materials that have limited operational lifetimes.
D. The implant can be controlled to treat infection and will dissolve later in the body.
57. Staphylococcus is most probably ______________.
A. a virus which can cost a person his life
B. a therapy which can make a person’s life longer
C. a device which can cure a person’s disease
D. a process which can lead to the infection of a virus
58. We can infer from the passage that ______________.
A. Wi-Fi promises a new way of treatment
B. research brings about new discoveries
C. technology offers new opportunities
D. medicine requires persistent efforts

(B)
Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are shared among buyers. The price system of the United States is a very complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad (无数) of services, including labor, professional transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationship of all those prices makes up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.
If one were to ask a group of arbitrarily individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words, that price is the money value of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction (交易). This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount but the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, and the credit terms and discounts that supply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that make up of the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.
59. According to the passage, the price system is related primarily to ______________.
A. labor and education B. transportation and insurance
C. utilities and repairs D. products and services
60. All the following are the factors in the complete understanding of price except ____________.
A. instructions that come with a product B. the quantity of a product
C. the quality of a product D. guarantees that cover a product
61. In the last line of the passage, the word “they” refers to ______________.
A. return privileges B. guarantees on the product or service
C. buyer and seller D. delivery and credit terms
62. The paragraph following this passage will most likely discuss ______________.
A. unusual ways to evaluate prices of products
B. types of payment plans for product and service
C. theories about how products affect different levels of society
D. how certain elements of price “package” influence its market value

（C）
There will eventually come a day when the New York Times ceases to publish stories on newsprint. Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate. “Sometime in the future,” the paper’s publisher said back in 2010.
　　Nostalgia (怀旧) for ink on paper, there are plenty of reasons to abandon print. The infrastructure (基础设施) required to make a physical newspaper – printing presses, delivery trucks – isn’t just expensive; it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial restrictions. Readers are migrating away from print anyway. And though print ad sales still overshadow their online and mobile counterparts, revenue (收入) from print is still declining.
　　Cost may be high and circulation lower, but rushing to eliminate its print edition would be a mistake, says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti.
　　Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, b