In the past few months, a Chinese student【1】(catch) the attention of internet users in the UK with his informative posts【2】(concern) the current pandemic.

Wu Peng, originally from Chengdu, Sichuan province, has been【3】(voluntary) summarizing the latest COVID-19 data to help local residents and internet users better understand the spread of the virus. To make daily updates, Wu has been using official information【4】(release) by the British Department of Health and Social Care.

He has created plenty of daily【5】 (chart) to keep his Twitter followers up to date. Last week, he went to the streets and gave out masks free【6】charge. His hard work and sense of responsibility encouraged 【7】local news agency to interview him for a story. When【8】(ask) about his intention, Wu explained, “I hope everyone can understand the growth trend【9】(clearly) than before.” Wu told The Yorkshire Post, “【10】a pandemic can be defeated depends on how people react.”

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You can relax if remembering everything is not your strong suit. Recent research makes the case that being forgetful can be a strength—in fact, selective memory can even be a sign of stronger intelligence.

Traditional research on memory has focused on the advantages of remembering everything. But looking through years of recent memory data, researchers Paul Frankland and Blake Richards of the University of Toronto found that the neurobiology（神經(jīng)生物學(xué)） of forgetting can be just as important to our decisionmaking as what our minds choose to remember.

“The goal of memory is not the transmission of information through time. Rather, the goal of memory is to help improve decisionmaking. As such, transience(轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝) is as important as persistence in memory systems，” their study in Neuron states.

Making intelligent decisions does not mean you need to have all the information at hand, it just means you need to hold onto the most valuable information. And that means clearing up space in your memory palace for the most uptodate information on situations. Our brains do this by generating new neurons(神經(jīng)元) in our hippocampus(海馬體), which have the power to overwrite existing memories that are influencing our decisionmaking.

“If you're trying to deal with the situation and your brain is constantly bringing up multiple conflicting memories, that makes it harder for you to make a wise decision，” Richards told Science Daily.

If you want to increase the number of new neurons in your brain's learning region, try exercising. Moderate aerobic exercise like jogging, power walking, and swimming have been found to increase the number of neurons making important connections in our brains.

When we forget the names of certain clients and details about old jobs, our brain is making a choice that these details do not matter. Although too much forgetfulness can be a cause for concern, the occasional lost detail can be a sign of a perfectly healthy memory system. The researchers found that our brains facilitate decisionmaking by stopping us from focusing too much on minor past details. Instead, the brain promotes generalization, helping us remember the most important gist of a conversation.

“One of the things that distinguishes an environment where you're going to want to remember stuff versus an environment where you want to forget stuff is this question of how consistent the environment is and how likely things are to come back into your life，” Richards said.

If you're an analyst who meets with a client weekly, your brain will recognize that this is a client whose name and story you need to remember. If this is someone you may never meet again, your brain will weigh that information accordingly.

These findings show us that total recall can be overrated. Our brains are working smarter when they aim to remember the right stories, not every story.

Title：Being Forgetful Might Actually Mean You're 【1】

Mary sat on a chair and told her story, “Well, my husband died of cancer and three months later my only son died in a car accident. I had nothing left. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I never smiled at anyone. I thought life meant nothing to me. I even thought of ending my own life. Then one evening a cat followed me home from work. I felt sorry for that cat. It was cold outside, so I decided to let it in. I gave it some milk, and it soon had it. Then it rubbed against my leg. and for the first time, I smiled. I even felt kind of happy. Then I stopped to think, if helping a cat could make me smile, maybe doing something for other people could make me happy as well. Every day I tried to do something nice for someone, even though I didn't know them. Now I can sleep and eat better than before. I've found what really makes me happy.”

After the rich lady heard the story, she cried. She had everything that money could buy, but she lost the thing that money couldn't buy.

【1】What did the rich lady think of her life?

A.Wonderful.B.Interesting.

C.Exciting.D.Boring.

【2】Which of the following is TRUE about Mary?

A.She often fell ill.B.She was rich and happy.

C.She had an unlucky past.D.She never went to see a doctor.

【3】What made Mary become happy and have hope for life?

A.Feeding animals.B.Helping others.

C.Talking to the rich lady.D.Working in the hospital.

Scientists have been seeking a way to lengthen the period of clinical death so that the organism can remain alive before biological death occurs. The best method developed so far involves cooling of the organism, combined with narcotic (麻醉的) sleep. By slowing down the body’s metabolism (新陳代謝), cooling delays the processes leading to biological death.

To illustrate how this works, scientists performed an experiment on a six-year-old female monkey called Keta. The scientist put Keta to sleep with a narcotic. Then they surrounded her body with ice-bags and began checking her body temperature. When it had dropped to 28 degrees the scientists began draining blood from an artery (動脈). The monkey’s blood pressure decreased and an hour later both the heart and breathing stopped: clinical death set in. For twenty minutes Keta remained in this state. Her temperature dropped to 22 degrees. At this point the scientists pumped blood into an artery in the direction of the heart and started artificial breathing. After two minutes Keta’s heart became active once more. After fifteen minutes, spontaneous (自發(fā)的) breathing began, and after four hours Keta opened her eyes and lifted her head. After six hours, when the scientists tried to give her a penicillin injection, Keta seized the syringe (注射器) and ran with it around the room. It showed that Keta had nothing different from any other healthy animal.

【1】For a person who suffers from the clinical death, _________.

A.he can’t avoid final death

B.he is still very much alive

C.his most important organs are damaged

D.he still has the possibility of getting back to life

【2】Scientists try to make the time of clinical death longer in order to ________.

A.cool the organism

B.slow down the body’s metabolism

C.delay the coming of biological death

D.bring important cells and tissues back to active life

【3】How did the scientists put Keta into clinical death?

A.By surrounding her body with ice-bags and draining her blood.

B.By lowing her blood pressure and stopping her heart from beating.

C.By putting her to sleep, lowering her temperature and draining her blood.

D.By draining her blood, lowering her blood pressure and stopping her breathing.

【4】Which of the following indicates that Keta is a healthy animal after the experiment?

A.Her heart beat again.

B.She seized the syringe and ran away with it.

C.She regained her normal breath.

D.She opened her eyes and lifted her head.

A.Sooner or laterB.For example

C.To be honestD.Believe it or not

【1】He is a bit fat, so he is very s__________ about his weight.

【2】I made the a__________ of him at my friend’s wedding party.

【3】His poems are a__________ in his feelings towards life.

【4】It is __________ (殘忍的) of him to beat his boy like that.

【5】John isn’t an __________（擅長運(yùn)動的）boy; he is better at reading than doing sports.

【6】The driver is under a__________ for drunken driving and will have to stay in prison for 10 days.

【7】The government should take some effective m__________ to deal with the transportation problem in the city as soon as possible.

【8】She has had a number of different jobs, r__________ from salesgirl to chef (廚師長).

【9】Of all the __________ (顧問), only John could give us some meaningful opinions.

【10】Many small ___________ (沖突) between tribes finally turned into a big war between Libya and the NATO.

A. not finished B. had not been finished

C. not finishing D. not having finished

Chazelle wrote the screenplay in 2010 but did not find a studio willing to finance the production without changes to his design. Following the success of his 2014 film Whiplash, the project was picked up by Summit Entertainment. La La Land was first showed at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and was released in the United States on December 9, 2016. It has gained over $432 million worldwide on a production budget of $30 million. La La Land took more than 6 million in its first weekend in UK cinemas, nearly 5 million more than any other film.

La La Land received great acclaim from critics and was regarded as one of the best films of 2016. Critics thought highly of Chazelle’s screenplay and direction, Gosling and Stone’s performances, and Justin Hurwitz’s score (配樂). It won in every category it was nominated (提名) for at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, with a record-breaking seven wins, and received 11 nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five. It received 14 nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, tying the record for most nominations with Titanic (1997) and All About Eve (1950), and won the awards for Best Comedy, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.

【1】Who plays the role of a musician in La La Land?

A.Damien Chazelle.B.Emma Stone.

C.Ryan Gosling.D.Justin Hurwitz.

【2】The underlined word in Paragraph 3 most probably means “_______”.

A.criticismB.praise

C.refusalD.doubt

【3】According to the passage, Titanic (1997) was nominated for _______ Academy Awards.

A.14B.11

C.7D.5

【4】Which of the following is TRUE about the film La La Land?

A.Its title stands for the city of Los Angeles and a dreamland.

B.So far it has gained a profit of at least $432 million worldwide.

C.It was changed greatly from Chazelle’s original screenplay design.

D.It was first released at the Venice Film Festival on December 9, 2016.

A. worth to do B. worth doing

C. worthy being done D. is worth to be done

In the closing ceremony of the 2018 0lympic Winter Games. China put on "See You in Beijing in 2022", directed by Zhang Yimou. The show centered on the talents of a team of 24 roller-skating 【1】(perform) from Beijing Sport University. Two of them【2】(dress) as "Panda Captains" led the performance. The performance reviewed China's ancient times.【3】(show) the country's rich cultural heritage (遺產(chǎn))and singing about the present. as well as the future that 【4】(lie) ahead.

In addition to traditional symbols including the Great Wall and lucky animals【5】the Chinese dragon and the Chinese phoenix, the performance also showed China's recent engineering and【6】(technology) achievements. Towards the end of the performance, the Olympic rings 【7】(rise) on the stage, as well as images of a global village, children's smiling faces, olive branches and plum blossoms(梅花),【8】stood for China's promise to promote global peace and building a better future for mankind. Finally, the skaters travelled a path on ice 【9】(draw) the “Winter Dream" sign of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. The performance 【10】(successful) sent Chinese people's goodwill and invitations to the world for Beijing 2022.