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Passage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage. Next time you are struggling to fall asleep, try counting penguins instead of sheep. Doing so could help us see how the birds are being affected by threats like climate change. Tom Hart at the University of Oxford and his colleagues are constantly capturing photographs of penguins through a network of about 140 remote cameras planted across Antarctica（南极洲）. There are far more images than the researchers can process on their own， so Hart and his team set up a project called Penguin Watch. Through the project's website, you can join more than 1 million citizen scientists who have participated so far and help the team by flicking through photographs online and clicking wherever you spot a penguin. You will be asked to mark adult penguins, chicks and eggs in the images ,by clicking on the center of each one. I found it surprisingly addictive. You can also keep an eye out for other seabirds that might appear and mark these for researchers to identify later. In addition to providing clues about how these animals are behaving and interacting with their changing environment, your work will also help the team to train artificial intelligence, which is increasingly allowing the group to process picture assessing automatically. " We now process about half of it," says Hart. The team still relies heavily on volunteers, though , especially to help spot unusual things, such as new species, he says. Hart and his colleagues also regularly visit Antarctica and other penguin breeding sites in the southern hemisphere to take images with flying drones（无人机）and to collect penguin faeces（粪便），which they then analyse in the laboratory to gain further insights. Early results from the project are revealing some of the challenges that various penguin populations are facing as their environment changes. Nest flooding, for example, may reduce survival of eggs and chicks. In a recent study, Hart and his team found that heavy snow events overlapped with declines in numbers of gentoo penguin chicks. Melting ice in Antarctica also poses a threat. " On the Antarctic peninsula, Adélie penguins and chinstrap penguins are doing very badly," says Hart. Populations of ice-loving penguins like Adélies and chinstraps are likely to continue to decline, he says, whereas gentoo penguins, which tend to prefer an environment with less sea ice and more exposed rock, may fare better. Penguin Watch and other research efforts should help to give a clearer picture of how individual colonies are responding to climate change, as well as to other pressures. Hart's team regularly visits penguin breeding sites to ______。

Passage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage. Next time you are struggling to fall asleep, try counting penguins instead of sheep. Doing so could help us see how the birds are being affected by threats like climate change. Tom Hart at the University of Oxford and his colleagues are constantly capturing photographs of penguins through a network of about 140 remote cameras planted across Antarctica（南极洲）. There are far more images than the researchers can process on their own， so Hart and his team set up a project called Penguin Watch. Through the project's website, you can join more than 1 million citizen scientists who have participated so far and help the team by flicking through photographs online and clicking wherever you spot a penguin. You will be asked to mark adult penguins, chicks and eggs in the images ,by clicking on the center of each one. I found it surprisingly addictive. You can also keep an eye out for other seabirds that might appear and mark these for researchers to identify later. In addition to providing clues about how these animals are behaving and interacting with their changing environment, your work will also help the team to train artificial intelligence, which is increasingly allowing the group to process picture assessing automatically. " We now process about half of it," says Hart. The team still relies heavily on volunteers, though , especially to help spot unusual things, such as new species, he says. Hart and his colleagues also regularly visit Antarctica and other penguin breeding sites in the southern hemisphere to take images with flying drones（无人机）and to collect penguin faeces（粪便），which they then analyse in the laboratory to gain further insights. Early results from the project are revealing some of the challenges that various penguin populations are facing as their environment changes. Nest flooding, for example, may reduce survival of eggs and chicks. In a recent study, Hart and his team found that heavy snow events overlapped with declines in numbers of gentoo penguin chicks. Melting ice in Antarctica also poses a threat. " On the Antarctic peninsula, Adélie penguins and chinstrap penguins are doing very badly," says Hart. Populations of ice-loving penguins like Adélies and chinstraps are likely to continue to decline, he says, whereas gentoo penguins, which tend to prefer an environment with less sea ice and more exposed rock, may fare better. Penguin Watch and other research efforts should help to give a clearer picture of how individual colonies are responding to climate change, as well as to other pressures. Which of the following may cause a reduction in the number of gentoo chicks?

Passage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage. We often hear about work life balance-having a good balance between work and personal time. While this may sound like a smart idea, it can also imply we should dedicate at least half of our time to work and sacrifice time for our "personal life". To me, that seems off balance. Because, the truth is, it's nearly impossible to split your time equally between the two. And, you may end up stressing out if you're not able to meet that expectation of balance. Why not think of having work life harmony instead? With this mindset, you can actually integrate work into your life in a way that feels more complete. This way, you don't need to view work and having personal time as separate. The difference between work life balance and work life harmony is pretty simple. With the former, there's an implication that you have to sacrifice your "life" for work But, this is the worst way to go about things! How can you truly beat peace in life if you dread eight hours of your day? Work life harmony, on the other hand, allows your work to be a part of your life. This means you can choose to be happy both at home and at work. Just take Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon for example. He uses a non-traditional approach to work by making time for breakfast every morning with his family, doesn't set his alarm before going to bed, schedules surprisingly few meetings, and still puts aside a few minutes every day to wash his own dishes. He believes that all his staff should stop trying to achieve a "balance" in their work and personal lives. Now, when we think of striking a balance, we usually associate it with time, don't we? How much time are we spending at work versus how much time are we spending in our personal lives? This is the so-called balance that many struggle with. With work life harmony, we learn to rethink time management. Managing your time is important in achieving that work life harmony. But, perhaps of greater importance, is loving what you do in life. One of the most effective ways to achieve a work life harmony is to really enjoy , or find a purpose, in what you do for a living. What does the author think of work life balance?

Passage 4 Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. With three minutes left in a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics , LeBron James hits a 3-pointer,causingthe announcer to note "the score is 89-85,a 4-point differential. "Cars have differentials, but do basketball scores have differentials? Why not instead use the simple word "difference?" What attracts this announcer to the word "differential?" The same thing, I suppose, that attracts television news reporters and newspaper journalists to the word "replicate, "when copy will do nicely. The same people are also likely to reach for "recalibrate, "when what they have in mind is usually nothing more than "reconsider. "Why are people, especially many who make their livings through the use of language, attracted by these and so many other hollow words? Those who use these imprecise words must feel a happy sense of possessing a rich vocabulary . Lacing their own speech and writing with these new words makes them feel not only well-informed but educated. The words also happen to be examples of what H. W . Fowler , author of "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage，＂called＂novelty-hunting（猎奇），＂or ＂the casting about for words of which one can feel not that they give one's meaning more intelligently or exactly than those the man in the street would have used in expressing the same thing, but that they are not the ones that would have occurred to him. " Fowler thought the use of such words a "useful outward sign of inner dullness. "His advice was to avoid such people, but, he added, "unluckily they hunt in packs. "Words have their vogues（流行性）. Fowler again：＂Every now ＆then a word emerges from obscurity（含糊），or even from nothingness or a merely potential ＆ not actual existence， into sudden popularity. . . Ready acceptance of vogue words seems to some people the sign of an alert mind; to others it stands for the herd instinct &lack of individuality. "The close observation of language, pressing words for exact meanings, has always been important, but has become even more so since the rise in significance of the news media in politics. In the corruption of language, the media, to do a bit of novelty-hunting, make for an everyday superspreader event. Language changes and change is the first rule of language . But there's good and bad change, and to allow language to wander off into obscure realms is to sacrifice accuracy of communication and give up hope of discovering the truth about politics or indeed about human affairs generally. What phenomenon does the author call attention to in the first two paragraphs?