【正文】 ng the best years of their lives. When you bee a parent yourself, here are some parenting skills you might want to try that have been passed down from countless generations of angry Asians before me. Passive aggression is always wele. Regular scream “I WISH YOU HAD NEVER BEEN BORN” will help keep your own kid’s selfrespect in check. But whatever happens, ensure you earn enough money in your adult life. Then give it to me, so I can go on expensive international tours. If you do this I promise I’ll stop plaining and leave you alone, because we both know that’s what we really want. Love you lots, CutiePie. Daddy 59. The letter is probably written to _____. A. a young adult B. a little baby C. a parent D. a grandparent 60. The letter discusses all the topics EXCEPT _____. A. babyhood B. teenage problems C. parenting D. death 61. According to the letter, the author _____. A. used to take drugs B. regrets getting married C. broke his parents’ heart s D. was born as a testtube baby 62. Why does the author write the letter? A. To ask his child to earn more money. B. To encourage his child to be independent. C. To municate to his child love and hope. D. To stop his child from being a troublemaker. C The fight is on to get rid of air pollution in our cities. While the best solution in the longterm would be to ban fossilfueled cars, that won’t help the millions who are dying in the meantime, and so some hightech solutions are now on the cards. In March 2020, 10 London pigeons became famous. These pigeons took to the sky from Primrose Hill in north London, wearing backpacks monitoring air pollution. Once in the air, the backpacks sent live airquality updates to the smartphones of the Londoners below. The pigeons and their backpacks were just the latest in a series of increasingly desperate attempts to monitor and control air pollution. London’s air pollution problem has been getting worse for years, and it often rises to more than three times the European Union’s legal limit. Another promising approach can be found in Beijing, after China declared a “war against pollution” in 2020. A sevenmetrehigh “Smog Free Tower”, designed by a Dutch scientist, Daan Roosegaarde, opened in Beijing’s 751 D Park in September 2020. It is a huge, outdoor air purifier. Airborne particles（顆粒） are sucked into the tower where they receive a positive charge. The particles are then caught by a negatively charged dustremoval plate and clean air is blown out of the other end. “Changing smog particles does not take much current.” Roosegaarde said. As for what to do with the collected PM waste, he has currently set up a business making jewellery out of the waste. Prince Charles owns a set of “smog free” cufflinks(袖扣 ). If collected on at a big scale, Roosegaarde believes it could even be used as a building material. Mexico City has an alternative solution. Looking to Nature to maximize the surface area of a building, Allison Dring, a Berlinbased architect, managed to catch light and wind from all sides. She is now making a building material by burning agricultural crop byproducts in the absence of oxygen. “It means that you are actually taking carbon(碳 ) out of the sky, transforming it into a material, and then using it to build,” says Dring. The fight against outdoor air pollution is really just starting. Even if none of the ideas take off, at least Prince Charles’ cufflinks, the special building surface and pigeons wearing backpacks will have brought the issue more to the public’s attention. 63. The 10 pigeons in London were used to _____. A. monitor air pollution B. warn Londoners C. update weather forecast D. promote backpacks 64. What can we learn about the Smog Free Tower? A. Its power consumption is high. B. PM waste from it can be reused. C. It is built of agricultural byproducts. D. It can attract light and wind from all sides. 65. What’s the best title for the passage? A. When can humans get rid of smog? B. Why is technology used to fight smog? C. How are the world’s cities fighting smog? D. What makes smog a worldwide problem? 66. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage? A. B. C. D. I: Introduction P: Point Sp: Subpoint (次要點(diǎn) ) C: Conclusion D In June 2020, Huffington Post and Mail Online reported that threeyearold Victoria Wilcher, who had suffered facial scarring, had been kicked out of a KFC because she was frightening customers. Later, KFC announced that no evidence had been found to support the story. This phenomenon is largely a product of the increasing pressure in newsrooms that care more about traffic figures. Brooke Binkowski, an editor, says that, during her career, she has seen a shift towards less editorial oversight in newsrooms. “Clickbait is king, so newsrooms will uncritically print something unreal. Not all newsrooms are like this, but a lot of them are.” Asked what the driving factor was, a journalist said, “You’ve an editor breathing down your neck and you have to meet your targets. And there are some young journalists on the market who are inexperienced and who will not do those checks. So much news that is reported online happens online. There is no need to get out and knock on someone’s door. You just sit at your desk and do it.” Another journalist says, “There is definitely pressure to churn out (粗制濫造 ) stories in order to get clicks, because they equal money. At my former employer in particular, the pressure was on I Sp2 Sp1 P2 C P1 P2 I P2P2 CC P1P1 Sp2 Sp2 Sp1Sp1 P2 I Sp2 Sp1 P3