directions：read the following text. choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark a, b, c or d on the answer sheet. (10 points)

even if families are less likely to sit down to?eat together than was once the case, millions of britons will none the less?have partaken this weekend of one of the nation’s great traditions: the sunday?roast.??1.?on?a cold?winter’s day, few culinary pleasures can??2.?match?it. yet as we report now, the food police?are determined that this??3.?enjoyment?should be rendered yet another guilty pleasure??4.?guaranteed?to damage our health.?

the food standards authority (fsa) has?5.?issued?a public warning?about the risks of a compound called acrylamide that forms in some foods cooked??6.?at? high temperatures. this means that people should??7.?avoid?crisping their roast potatoes,?spurn?thin-crust pizzas and only???8.?partially?toast their bread. but where is the evidence to support such alarmist advice???9.?while?studies have shown?that acrylamide can cause neurological damage in mice, there is no??10.?conclusive?evidence that it causes cancer in humans.

?scientists say the compound is??11.?“likely?to be?carcinogenic” but have no hard scientific proof.??12. on the basis of?the precautionary?principle, it could be argued that it is??13.?advisable?to follow the fsa advice.??14.??after all, it was rumored?that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a?15.?connection.?

doubtless a piece of boiled beef can always be??16.?served?up on sunday?alongside some steamed vegetables, without the yorkshire pudding and no wine.?but would life be worth living???17.?to be fair, the fsa says it is not telling people to cut out?roast foods??18.?entirely,?but to reduce their lifetime intake. however, their??19. campaign?risks coming across as pushy and overprotective. constant health scares just??20.?end up?with no one?listening.

宝宝们，以上答案为标准答案，我现已在文中标出，这篇文章选自2021年1月23日的the telegraph.?如需要看原文：

请戳：https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/01/23/hands-roast-potatoes/

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section?ii??reading comprehension?

part?a??

directions：read the following four texts. answer the questions below each text by choosing a, b, c or d. mark your answers on the answer sheet. (40 points)

text 1

21. increase the economic strength of britain’s towns.

22. a self-deceiving attempt.

23. commits to its long-term growth.

24. a supporting example.

25. favorable

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此答案是标准答案。如需要看原文：请戳：

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree

/2021/dec/30/the-guardian-view-on-yvette-coopers-town-of-culture-proposal-a-fine-idea?

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text 2

26. its content acquisition costs nothing.

27. thrived mainly on university libraries.

28. encouraged.

29. allow publishers some room to make money.

30. the few feed on the many.

?此答案是标准答案。如需要看原文：请戳：

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/04/the-guardian-view-on-academic-publishing-disastrous-capitalism?

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text 3

31. help little to reduce gender bias.

32. it may go against the constitution.

33. the needlessness of government interventions.

34. the entry of unqualified candidates into the board.

35. feasibility should be a prime concern in policy-making.

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2021/08/05/corporate-gender-quotas-reinforce-privilege/wa4qjkbkb2auxudf59h0eo/story.html?

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text 4

36. impose a?levy on tech multinationals.

37. may trigger countermeasures against france.

38. the current international tax system needs upgrading

39. is faced with uncertain prospects.

40. france leads the charge on digital tax

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此答案是标准答案。如需要看原文：请戳：

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/opinion/france-internet-tax.html?

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part b???

directions：read the following text and answer the questions by choosing the most suitable subheading from the list a-g for each numbered paragraphs (41-45). there are two extra subheadings which you do not need to use. mark your answers on the answer sheet. (10 points)

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41. eye contact can be a friendly social signal

42. biological factors behind eye contact are being investigated

43. eye contact can also be aggressive.

44. eye fixations are brief

45. personality can affect how a person reacts?to eye contact

此答案是标准答案。如需要看原文：请戳：

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neuro-behavioral-betterment/201609/how-eye-contact-brings-you-together-or-pulls-you-apart?

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part c ?

directions：translate the underlined sentences into chinese. write your translation on the answer sheet. (15 points)

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following the explosion of creativity in?florence during the 14th century known as?the renaissance, the modern world saw a?departure from what it had once known. it?turned from god and the authority of the?roman catholic church and instead favoured a?more humanistic approach to being. renaissance?ideas had spread throughout europe well into the?17th century, with the arts and sciences flourishing?extraordinarily among those with a more logical?disposition.??46)?with the church’s teachings and ways?of thinking being eclipsed by the renaissance, the?gap between the medieval and modern periods?had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored?intellectual territories.

during the renaissance, the great minds of?nicolaus copernicus, johannes kepler and galileo?galilei demonstrated the power of scientific study?and discovery.??47)?before each of their revelations,?many thinkers at the time had sustained more?ancient ways of thinking, including the geocentric view that the earth was?at the centre of our universe.?copernicus theorised?in 1543 that in actual fact, all of the planets that?we knew of revolved not around the earth, but the?sun, a system that was later upheld by?galileo at his own expense. offering up such a?theory during a time of high tension between?scientific and religious minds was branded as?heresy, and any such heretics that continued?to spread these lies were to be punished by?imprisonment or even death. galileo was?excommunicated by the church and imprisoned?for life for his astronomical observations and his?support of the heliocentric principle.

48.)?despite attempts by the church to suppress?this new generation of logicians and rationalists,?more explanations for how the universe functioned?were being made, and at a rate that the people could no longer ignore.?it?was with these great revelations that a new kind of?philosophy founded in reason was born.

the church’s long-standing dogma was losing?the great battle for truth to rationalists and?scientists. this very fact embodied the new ways of?thinking that swept through europe during most of?the 17th century.?49.?as many took?on?the?duty?of trying?to integrate reasoning and scientific philosophies?into the world, the renaissance was over and it?was time for a new era?– the age of reason.

the 17th and 18th centuries were times of?radical change and curiosity.?scientific method,?reductionism and the questioning of church ideals?was to be encouraged, as were ideas of liberty,?tolerance and progress.??50.?such actions to seek?knowledge and to understand what information we?already knew were captured by the latin phrase?‘sapere aude’ or ‘dare to know’,?after immanuel?kant used it in his essay an answer to the question:?what is enlightenment?. it was the purpose and?responsibility of great minds to go forth and seek?out the truth, which they believed to be founded?in knowledge.

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(46)?文艺复兴使教会的教义和思维方法相形见绌，中世纪和现代时期之间的间隔随之弥合，拓荒了没有探究的、簇新的常识领域。

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?(47)?这些思维家在每次提示底细之前，都采用过更老旧的思维方法，包括地心说，即地球处于咱们世界的中心。

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?(48)?尽管束会企图打压新一代的逻辑学家和理性主义者，但更多关于世界作业方法的阐释正以我们无法无视的速度呈现。?

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(49)?当许多人承担起将推理和科学哲学融入世界的责任之时，文艺复兴年代现已结束，现已进入了新年代——理性年代。

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?(50) 这些寻求常识和了解咱们已知信息的行为在拉丁短语“ sapere aude”（勇于求知）中得到极好的归纳。

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section??iii?? ?writing?

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