If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls and dark colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys. Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys. In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.

Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls. Sue Palmer, writer of Toxic Childhood, is very worried that most girls over the age of three are crazy about the color. According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons. Firstly, most companies offer too many products in pink. Also, many parents think their little daughter looks cute in pink. Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can affect (影響) the choices and the decisions they will make in the future.

Some parents are worried too. For example, Vanessa Holburn, thirty-two, who has two girls under the age of four. Their bedrooms are a sea of pink and Vanessa is not happy. “Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I'm worried that pink will not help them with that,” she says.

But not everyone thinks there's something wrong with pink, Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn't worried at all, “People forget that things change all the time,” he says. “My girls used to love pink when they were little but as they get older, they change.” Turner explains that his twelve-year-old daughter never wears pink clothes anymore. “This love of pink is just a fashion and all fashions change,” he adds. “It’s only since the 1940s that people have started dressing girls in pink-before that it was a color for boys.”

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1.How many reasons are there for most girls are crazy about pink?

A.Two B.Three C.Four

2.Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

A.①②/③④ B.①/②/③/④ C.①/②③/④

3.The underlined word "that" in Paragraph 3 means ________.

A.being soft and gentle

B.being strong and powerful

C.being gentle but powerful

4.According to Grayson Turner, ________.

A.parents needn't worry about pink toys

B.all little kids love the color pink

C.pink has always been a color for girls

5.The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A.explain why girls are crazy about the color pink

B.make parents less worried about the color pink

C.show people's different opinions about the color pink.

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Do we need to wear masks during outdoor 1.(activity)? People do not need to wear masks when at home or outdoors as 2. as there are no crowds and the space is well-ventilated (通風(fēng)良好的). People are 3. (advise) to wear surgical masks when in crowded places such 4.offices, shopping malls, workshops and restaurants. People in high-risk areas should 5. (wear) surgical masks all 6. time. Those 7.have cold symptoms(癥狀) such as 8. (cough) or sneezing, or have 9.(recover) from the novel coronavirus are suggested to wear masks. People working 40% special places such as hospitals, airports, prisons 10. nursing homes need to wear surgical masks or respirators of grade KN95/N95 or above.

—Why do English people talk so often about the weather when they start a conversation?

—Well, it’s probably because the weather is a safe topic.

A.perfectly B.patiently C.possibly

—Good news! Seven more subway lines will be open this year in our city.

—Great! It will make our lives more convenient.

A.easier B.faster C.richer

—The Chinese government is taking steps to control the epidemic(疫情).

—China is doing a good job.

A.stages B.stairs C.measures

—Did you see the famous star finally?

—Well, after three hours, she appeared at the gate at last.

A.took up B.showed up C.gave up

—I’m terribly sorry that I made fun of you this afternoon.

—Never mind, but please don’t do that again.

A.told jokes to B.played tricks on C.had fun with

—Tom, playing computer games is harmful to your eyes.

—I see. Thank you. I will do more sports instead.

A.bad for B.good at C.easy to

—In Japan, the outbreak of COVID-19 caused panic buying of toilet paper.

—Many people stored it up for future use.

A.produced B.kept C.provided