This might sound like a usual day for you. You look at your phone in the morning and read news stories from around the world. Your parents take you to McDonald’s to have dinner, which kids of your age _______also have for dinner in other countries. Then, your family starts to plan your trip abroad for the summer holiday.

So do you feel like you are a global citizen (世界公民)? More people are _______ themselves global citizens. Researchers from the BBC World Service asked more than 20,000 people from 18 _______about this as part of a report.

But _______is “global citizenship”? For some, it means the easy communication. To others, it might be a________of responsibility (责任) about problems like weather change. And for many, it is about being able to  ______elsewhere, according to the BBC.

The BBC also found that people in rising economies (新兴经济体) feel like they are becoming_______global. “They feel their voices are more likely (可能的) to be _______than they were 20 years ago,” said the report’s author Lionel Bellier. However, people in developed countries are more likely to see the________sides of globalization, such as job loss.

But generally speaking, the world is ______more and more interconnected.

1.A.must B.should C.might D.need

2.A.calling B.caring C.working D.imagining

3.A.families B.schools C.companies D.countries

4.A.why B.what C.how D.where

5.A.sound B.sense C.knowledge D.voice

6.A.fit B.leave C.move D.visit

7.A.more B.less C.nearly D.hardly

8.A.refused B.forgot C.remembered D.heard

9.A.good B.dangerous C.bad D.bright

10.A.feeling B.leading C.becoming D.changing

This winter holiday was a different one for Chinese people. No Spring Festival gatherings, no family reunion meals, no hanging out with friends. Instead, we had masks on our faces, traffic controls, closed shops, delayed (延迟) school or work days, temperature checks in public places. During this time, most people have shown their understanding, taking medical advice and following the new rules. Everyone is making efforts, small or big, to help fight the epidemic (疫情).Here are the stories of three teenagers and their families during the epidemic.

Li Mingyu, 15, Lanzhou

* . His father is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. The hospital he works in has received several corona-virus pneumonia patients. Although Li’s father doesn’t have to treat the patients, there are still risks of infection (感染). To help cheer up his coworkers, Li’s father made a few packages containing traditional Chinese medicine and handed them out.

Zhao Junyan, 15, Shanghai

Zhao is a Grade 8 student from Shanghai. On Feb 3, he transported 15,000 masks from Indonesia back to China. During the winter holiday, Zhao went to visit his uncle in Jakarta. When he saw the news about the outbreak and the shortage of masks in China, he and his uncle bought as many masks as they could.“When a country is in trouble, everyone is responsible (有责任的) to help,”Zhao said to the media. “What I have done is what an ordinary Chinese person can possibly do.”

Tong Zexi, 15, Harbin

Tong hasn’t left his house for more than 20 days. Sometimes he really wanted to run outside and breathe freely without a mask. “But I need to protect myself and cause no trouble. In this key time, if one gets sick, many others could be affected,” he said. With this in mind, he has stayed at home and worked on his homework. He also tries to do some exercise indoors, believing that staying fit will help prevent the disease.

1.How does the writer support the idea that this winter holiday is different?

A.By sharing three stories. B.By comparing different families.

C.By giving examples of teenagers. D.By listing different activities.

2.Which sentence is suitable for___*___?

A.Here is a story by Li’s father.

B.Li’s father should be a good person.

C.Li worries about his father a lot these days.

D.Li thinks his father made great contributions to the society.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Tong Zexi has to stay at home to work on his homework to avoid causing trouble.

B.People used to get together for family unions and hang out with masks in Spring Festivals.

C.Indonesia is good at producing masks so Zhao Junyan bought many masks there.

D.Zhao Junyan thinks everyone should do something for their country in trouble.

I live in Mentone, a quiet, simple, peaceful place, where the rich never come. I met Theophile Magnan, a retired, rich, old man from Lyons yesterday, in the Hotel des Anglais. Theophile looked sad and dreamy, and didn’t talk with anybody else, which brought me back to the past.

A long time ago, Francois Millet, Claude, Carl and I were young artists—very young artists—in fact.

Yes, Francois Millet, the great French artist, was my friend.

Millet wasn’t any greater than we were at that time. He wasn’t known, even in his own village.

We were all poor though we had stocks(存货) and stocks of as good pictures as anybody in Europe painted. Once a person ever offered four francs (法郎) for Millet’s “Angelus”, which he meant to sell for eight.

It was a fact in human history that a great artist would never be accepted until after he was starved and dead. His pictures climbed to high prices after his death.

Then we made a decision that one of us must die, to save the others and himself.

Millet was chosen, chosen to die.

During the next three months Millet painted with all his power, enlarged his stock all he could, not pictures, no! sketches, studies, parts of studies, fragments of studies, of course, with his cipher(暗号) on them.

They were the things to be sold.

Carl went to Paris to start the work of building up Millet’s name. Claude and I went to sell Millet’s small pictures and to build up his name as well.

We made Millet a master. I always said to my customer, “I am a fool to sell a picture of Francois Millet’s at all, for he is not going to live three months, and when he dies, his pictures can’t be had for love or money.”

Claude and I took care to spread that little fact as far as we could.

Carl made friends with the reporters, and got Millet’s condition reported to England and all over the Europe, and America, and everywhere.

The sad end came at last, Millet died, not really. He became Theophile Magnan.

The pictures went up. There’s a man in Paris today who owns seventy Millet pictures. He paid us two million francs for them. Do you still remember the “Angelus”? Carl sold it for twenty-two hundred francs.

We are no longer artists and Millet dead.

1.Why did the four friends decide to choose one of them to die?

A.They wanted to be rich. B.They wanted to be famous.

C.They wanted to save money. D.They wanted to be respected.

2.Which of these is a fact based on the passage?

A.The story was written in memory of Millet.

B.Millet was still alive but had a new name.

C.Millet lived a wealthy life at first.

D.Millet failed to make a famous artist.

3.What made the four friends’ plan succeed?

A.That they didn’t want to be artists any longer.

B.That Millet’s pictures were sold at very high prices.

C.That people had pity on these poor artists.

D.People’s wish to own valuable art works at low prices.

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