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阅读选择【广东省茂名市五校联盟2021-2022学年上学期高三第一次联考】
Special Museums In Christchurch, New Zealand
1. Yaldhurst Museum
Yaldhurst Museum is a place for car lovers in Christchurch city, which displays classic cars over a span of a century. The small museum has a collection of the widest range of car models from horse model to buggy cars. Established by a car enthusiast and collector, Alfred Thornhill Cooper, Yaldhurst Museum is now open for 50 years.
Open Time: Wednesday—Sunday 10 a. m. -5 p. m. with the last entry of 4 p. m.
Entrance fee: $10 for students, $20 for adults.
2. Rutherford's Den
Rutherford's Den is a historic space for the country's most famous scientist—Ernest Rutherford, also known as the father of Nuclear Science. Opened in Christchurch Arts Center in 2016, it is a small interactive museum with collections of Rutherford's works. The TV, the radio and even telephones are just some of the inventions of Rutherford, and his peers—all are displayed here.
Open time: 10 a. m. -5 p. m., every day except for Christmas Day.
Entrance Fee: $10 for adults，$5 for students and children.
3. The Toy Collector
The Toy Collector is a new player in the museums in Christchurch. Born recently in 2016, the Toy Collector is for all toy lovers displaying a huge collection of toys from all ages. You can witness all the toys you had ever wanted as a child from lego superhero miniatures to a movie-themed toy. You can trip down your memory in just an hour.
Open Time: Every day from 10 a. m. -4 p. m.
Entrance Fee: $10 for an adult, $5 for children.
4. The Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities
Come and explore the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, where you can see more than three thousand years of human history through an amazing collection of artifacts from Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern cultures. Born in 2017, this small one-roomed museum is a new home for old objects. The collection is well laid out with the necessary descriptions of the objects.
Open Time: Wed - Sun from 11 a. m. -3 p. m.
Entrance Fee: Free lo enter.
1．When can visitors enter Yaldhurst Museum?
A．After4 p. m., Saturday. B．At 10 a. m., Thursday.
C．Before 5 p. m., Sunday. D．At 9 a. m., Tuesday.
2．Which museum would you like to visit if you are interested in human history?
A．Yaldhurst Museum. B．Rutherford's Den.
C．The Toy Collector. D．The Teece Museum.
3．What do the four museums have in common?
A．They are all small in size. B．They are all heritage space.
C．They are all new museums. D．They are all free for students.
“Tell her,” I whispered to my daughter as she pressed her body against mine. She folded my free arm around her little shoulders while I finished loading the groceries onto the conveyer belt.
I smiled at the young cashier who had a butterfly knot tied to her black ponytail(马尾辫). My daughter was right when she'd whispered to me, “Her hair is so pretty.”
“Tell her,” I repeated with a gentle push. My girl only dug her pink cheeks deeper into my side as she nervously twisted the edge of my sleeve in her small fist.
The cashier looked down at my daughter, her expression showing a little concern. “My daughter thinks your hair is beautiful.” I explained.
The cashier's face lit up. “You do?” This led my little one out of her hiding place. She looked up and nodded.
“Thank you so much! You made my day,” the cashier said with a smile brilliant enough to compete with her highlights. My daughter returned it with a shining smile of her own.
As I walked out of the store, holding my daughter's hand, I stole a glance back at the young woman. Her energy was clearly brighter now than it had: been when we first entered her line.
After loading my groceries in the trunk, I climbed into the driver's seat. It was then that my daughter made a declaration, “Mom, I think I'm going to start telling everyone when I like their hair.” “You should, honey.” And she did. She still does.
It's a rare occasion if we make a trip out in public without her telling someone that she loves their hair, or nails, or shirt, or shoes. To be honest, I think she even does so more than me. And it's one of my favorite things about this girl. She learned, at a very young age, that by simply telling people when you see beauty in them, you can draw out the beauty of human connection.
4．Why was the author's daughter nervous in the store?
A．She was frightened of the cashier. B．She was too shy to express herself.
C．She was unable to pay the groceries. D．She was unhappy to greet a stranger.
5．What made the cashier more energetic in her work?
A．The praise from a little girl. B．The support of the customers.
C．The competition environment. D．The understanding of a mother.
6．What does the author think of her daughter now?
A．Kind and independent. B．Lively and cheerful.
C．Careful and generous. D．Smart and proud.
7．What is the best title of the text?
A．The Beauty Of Good Manners B．The Power In Raising Others Up
C．A Girl's New Way Out Of Trouble D．A Mother's Love For Her Daughter
A single toy catches a child's attention for a limited period of time, but a box of items that allows a child to build their own toys will catch their imagination for years to come. This brilliant idea already exists in real product form, and it's called Toyi.
Toyi is described as an eco-friendly creative building kit, and it recently won the well-known IF Design Award. It came from Istanbul, Turkish, where a young female designer named Elif Atmaca first came up with the idea for it when she wanted to help the kids living in disadvantaged areas. These children do not have access to the variety of interesting toys that wealthier children do.
Toyi Atmaca's design allows children to transform what are around them into clever toys. It consists of sticks, junction parts, flexible connectors, toy body parts like feet, eyes, hands, and wheels that can be used to turn old water bottles, cups, boxes, towels, etc. into cute, clever, and unique playthings. This toy kit upcycles(升级利用) materials that would otherwise go to waste, turning a recycling bin into a treasure container.
“Our initial target was to deliver Toyi kits to only disadvantaged children in Turkish,” Atmaca told the media. But during a research conducted with around 300 children, .she realized that the restriction on being creative went beyond any boundary. “I saw that everything was planned and shaped by grown-ups, blocking the kids' imagination in a significant way,” said Atmaca.
Atmaca concluded that each kid needed space where he or she could freely create. She explained the entire process should be left to kids’ creativity, reminding teachers and all grown-ups that child-led play was an excellent way for children to develop lifelong skills.
Toyi's creators are now considering distributing the kits to as many children as possible around the world through different international NGOs. Atmaca notes that for each Toyi kit sold out, they will also donate one kit to a disadvantaged child through different partnerships around the world.
8．Why did Atmaca design Toyi at first?
A．To win the famous IF Design Award.
B．To help poor kids make their own toys.
C．To protect the environment in Istanbul.
D．To recycle all the waste in the dustbin.
9．Which is probably the product made with the toy kit of Toyi?
A．A new picture of a young boy. B．A computer with high technology.
C．A treasure container from a dustbin: D．A six-armed “robot” from a water bottle.
10．How do the toy kits help improve the children's ability?
A．It provides the kids various types of toys.
B．It offers space for the kids’ creative minds.
C．It changes the poor kids' living conditions.
D．It teaches the kids to share joys with others.
11．What is the new target for Atmaca and her partners?
A．Donating toy kits to more poor children.
B．Selling toy kits to every kid in the world.
C．Designing new toy kits for kids and adults.
D．Doing further research on the kids' demands.
The relationship between humans and the Amazon Rainforest has not always been a harmonious one. However, recent research suggests that the native peoples of the Putumayo region helped to protect the rainforest, leaving it unchanged for 5,000 years. Perhaps humans’ coexisting with nature is possible after all.
The study, published in PNAS, looked at soil samples in the Putumayo region of the Amazon in Peru to find how humans influenced the land. The researchers found that the trees still growing in the region today have been growing there for the last 5,000 years — evidence that the area has not been home to cities and farmland in that time. Traces of charcoal (木炭) found in the, soil, however, indicate that people did live there; they just did so in a way that had minimum influence on their environment.
To come to these conclusions, the team dug a 0.6-0.9 meter deep column into the ground, taking samples of soil from different heights along the column. Back in the lab, samples were carbon- dated to determine their age and then sorted under a microscope to look for microscopic mineral particles, known as phytoliths (植硅体). Phytoliths are essential evidence of plants — they remained in the soil thousands of years after the plant died. So researchers can use them to tell which plants have grown in an area in the past.
Over 5,000 years’ worth of samples, no species loss was detected. These findings suggest that contrary to common belief, the Amazon is not untouched by humans, but rather has been protected by them for thousands of years. The management of the rainforest by native peoples appears to have been vital in preserving its biodiversity and will continue to be important in the fight to prevent it from a collapse.
As Nigel Pitman, a co-author on the paper, said: “Since this particular forest is still being protected by native peoples, I hope this study reminds us all how important it is to support their work.”
12．How did native peoples deal with the rainforest in the region of Putumayo?
A．They always destroyed the rainforest.
B．They had a side effect on the rainforest.
C．They never lived in the area of the forest.
D．They had been in harmony with the forest.
13．What did the researchers try to find in the Amazon forest in Peru?
A．The diversity of the plants in the rainforest.
B．The evidence of human influence on the forest.
C．The nutrition of the soil samples in the rainforest.
D．The survival age of growing trees in the rainforest.
14．What does the underlined word “collapse” mean in Paragraph 4?
A．Sudden decrease. B．Bad management.
C．Poor preservation. D．Over development.
15．What can be inferred from Nigel Pitman's words?
A．Native peoples should protect the rainforest.
B．We should help protect the Amazon Rainforest.
C．More science research should be done on rainforest.
D．We should make good use of the Amazon Rainforest.
阅读选择【河北省保定市2021-2022学年高三上学期摸底】
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C．On the Internet. D．In a textbook.
In my first year of teaching in Houston, I was asked to act as a batman at a birthday party.
One night,the headmaster handed me a costume and said, "Tomorrow you're going to be batman." I knew a batman with a moustache at the party was a huge red flag. I knew it was specially bad for my image,but I didn't want to change my physical appearance because that would mean I was funnier, so I chose not to shave.
The party was at a huge public park, and I had to park my car far enough away so that the children couldn't see me. Then I walked to it secretly, but unluckily,the children saw me coming from about 300 meters away.
I started to regret not to shave. When I got close enough for them to see my face clearly the entire party broke into laughter. I wanted to turn around and run back in embarrassment, but then the laughter changed into cheering and applause. I ran into the party and saw the "birthday"boy with his dad.The dad laughed,"I told you,son.A batman has a moustache."Then he showed me the huge birthday cake with a batman drawn on it,and the batman had a moustache. I just stared at it in disbelief. But it was a thick black line drawn underneath his nose, just like my moustache.
All the children said,"A batman doesn't have a moustache."Instead of admitting the cake was messed up, the parents tried to save face, saying,"No,a batman always has a moustache. He just shaves it for his movies."Naturally,the children were doubtful, but my moustache became the detail that confirmed what the parents had said. Those children of the perfect age still believed in wonders and superheroes and they were pleased to find something kept hidden from others.
That year,I struggled a lot with my identity.Was I a teacher or a clown（小丑）? But that day, I may not have been the hero they ordered,and crtainly I wasn't the hero they expected, but I was the hero they needed.
4．What does the underlined phrase"a huge red flag"in paragraph 2 mean?
A．A big loss. B．A red sunrise.
C．A great honor. D．A disadvantageous thing.
5．Why did the author have his car parked far away?
A．To buy a huge birthday cake.
B．To take a walk before the party.
C．To avoid being noticed by the children.
D．To keep away from the thick black line.
6．How did the author feel when the whole party burst out laughing?
A．Awkward. B．Relieved.
C．Happy. D．Puzzled.
7．What can be the best title for the text?
A．A Funny Father
B．A Famous Clown
C．A Superhero with a Secret
D．A Perfect Age for Wonders
"I’ll be there in a few minutes. I'm playing a game with a friend,a guy named Scuzbll,"my 15-year-old son shouted from his room."Oh,what is Scuzzball's real name?"I asked."I have no idea,"he said."Where is he from?"I continued. He responded,"I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn't even matter because Scuzball just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot."
"Your friend is replaced by artificial intelligence?""It doesn't matter, Dad. It happens all the time! The game continues."My son doesn't mind playing with a person or a robot,which is typical of gamers these days. I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our children.
Aristotle,a great thinker and educator,has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily abandoned because such bonds are fragile. Deep friendship,by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices for each other.
Presence in friendship requires"being with"and"doing for". Perhaps the most defining feature of deep friendship is "doing for",as my friend has my back in trouble or brings me soup when I'm sick. Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices.But it is unclear why online"friends"would bother to do the hard work of friendship. When I asked my students whether they had people in their lives who would bring them soup when they were sick,they laughed at my Stone Age question and said they'd just order soup online.
Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example case of friendship,like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods,etc. In this way,digital lie produces false friendships.
8．How does the author lead in the topic of the text?
A．By quoting mottos.
B．By presenting a conversation.
C．By introducing a game.
D．By showing robots' storage data.
9．What does the author mainly explain in paragraph 3?
A．Selfish friendship. B．Selfless sacrifices in life.
C．The formation of shallow friendship. D．The meaning of deep friendship.
10．What does the author want to tell his students in paragraph 4?
A．Strong bonds are formed easily. B．Ordering food online is convenient.
C．Robots will have our back in trouble. D．Virtual friends won't make real sacrifices.
11．What is the text mainly about?
A．Digitalized friendship. B．The benefits of digital life.
C．Face-to-face communication. D．The sacrifices of online friends.
Researchers have been looking into silicon carbide(碳化硅),a promising alternative material for the semiconductor(半导体)industry,for several years now. Size,weight and efficiency are three important factors for power electronic to fit in e-cars. Silion carbide meets all three factors. It is more efficient but leaves a smaller footprint than conventional semiconductors such as silicon.
Even so, silicon carbide isn't to be found in any e-cars on the road today. This semiconductor material is still limited to research labs. To shift it from the lab to the factory, the Si on Carbide Module(模块)project has taken into consideration all the conditions of industrial production. The module's design is a good case: researchers at the Fraunhofer IZM are basing it on the structure of the classic printed circuit board that the industry has long favored. This should speed up its first display.
The module is also benefiting from the latest scientific advances. Instead of wire-bonding the semiconductor to the package, the researchers decided to put it directly in the circuit. The team also brought the potential customer on board for this development effort. In the project’s first year,they drew up a specification(规格)sheet illustrating the requirements for the module and semiconductor. The researchers worked closely with users, catering to their wishes when they determined the product specification.
Automakers, component suppliers and OEMS were directly involved in the effort to map out the power-electronic module's size, layout and electrical circuits. The group sought to make the most of the space available in the vehicle's power train. Lars Bottcher, group leader at the Fraunhofer IZM and head of the SiC sub-project, says,"The major goal is to advance the new semiconductor material silicon carbide to mass production."
12．What do we know about silicon carbide?
A．It is larger than silicon.
B．It is still under research.
C．It has been used in some e-cars.
D．It has been shifted to the factory.
13．Why did researchers bring the potential customer?
A．To draw up a formal agreement.
B．To adjust the module accordingly.
C．To witness their effort and success.
D．To wire-bond the semiconductor to the package
14．What was the main purpose of the group according to the last paragraph?
A．To mass-produce silicon carbide.
B．To change the shape of the module.
C．To increase the volume of the module.
D．To expand the production of powered vehicles.
15．What is the author's attitude towards the research?
A．Optimistic. B．Tolerant.
C．Doubtful. D．Indifferent.
阅读选择【辽宁省名校2022届高三第二次联合考试】
Four Best Hikes in the World
There's nothing like getting out and getting some fresh air on a hike. No matter whether your idea of a hike is a leisure walk or climbing the highest mountain on Earth, we've got you covered. Below are four best hikes in the world.
Torres del Paine W Circuit
Location (位置): Patagonia. Chile
Distance: 37 + miles
Time: 5~6 days
Best time to go: October to January
The W Circuit is one of the most recommended hikes you'll find. Not only will you appreciate the diverse landscapes and striking granite pillars (花岗岩柱子), but you'll probably meet some new friends along the way.
Grand Canyon Rim - to - Rim Hike
Location: Arizona, the United States
Distance: 48 miles
Time: 1~3 days
Best time to go: May to June, September to October
There's no better way to experience one of the greatest wonders in the world. Located in one of the USA's most beautiful parks, the views are absolutely appealing. Just make sure you're prepared for the challenge.
Trek to Petra
Location: Jordan
Distance: 47 miles
Time: 5~ 6 days
Best time to go: October to April
Take the road less traveled through the Kingdom of Jordan and experience one of the seven wonders of the world. Hike through canyons, gorges and ridges, and see tombs and temples along the way all while avoiding crowds of tourists.
Yosemite Grand Traverse
Location: California, the United States
Distance: 60 miles
Time: 6~7 days
Best time to go: July to September
Known for some of the best hiking in the world, Yosemite National Park is famous for its views and huge sequoia (红杉) trees. Praised by National Geographic, the Yosemite Grand Traverse will take you through waterfalls and green mountaintops.
1．Which of the following is the best time for the hike in Patagonia, Chile?
A．April B．May C．August D．December
2．Where should you go for a less crowded hike?
A．Jordan B．Patagonia, Chile
C．Arizona, the United States D．California, the United States
3．What can you do along the Yosemite Grand Traverse?
A．Plant sequoia trees B．Appreciate waterfalls C．Visit local temples D．Climb granite pillars
A nurse has fulfilled (实现) a promise she made to her patient four years ago to one day attend her daughter's graduation from nursing school.
Edina Habibovic, 22, graduated from Chamberlain University's College of Nursing in 2020. Her mother, Sevala Habibovic, 46, died in 2017 after a two year fight with breast cancer.
“I thought the medical field wasn't for me. Then, my mom got sick and I had all the experience going in and out of the hospital, ” Edina told Good Morning America. “When my mom passed away, I thought, ‘I want to do this.’”she said.
Sanja Josipovic, who at the time worked as a home health nurse with Northwestern Medicine in Winfield, Illinois, cared for Sevala inside her home. They often chatted and shared the latest news with each other over six months of care.
“She was most worried about Edina because she was young and hadn't finished school yet, ” Sanja said. “We are like sisters; we care about and trust each other. She was a powerful and strong minded woman. She wasn't scared to die; she was just worried about her kids and husband.”
Edina said her mother lived for being with her family and taking care of people. “When Sanja was working, my mom would still try to make her something to eat, no matter how sick she was, ” Edina added. When Sevala's life was coming to an end, she asked Sanja to take her place at her youngest daughter's nursing school graduation. “That was the only thing she was going to miss. Edina's graduation, ” said Sanja, who is a mother of three herself. She agreed.
Due to COVID - 19, there was no graduation or pinning ceremony. Edina's manager at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital decided to host a pinning ceremony for her and have Sanja present the pin. “Sanja has fulfilled her promise, ” Edina said.
Edina and Sanja are now caring for patients alongside one another as colleagues at Marianjoy.
4．What does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 3 refer to?
A．Leaving the hospital B．Working as a nurse
C．Facing death positively D．Caring for Edina's mother
5．What can be learned about Sanja and Sevala?
A．They enjoyed volunteering B．They were cancer survivors
C．They had unhappy marriages D．They developed a close bond
6．What would be Sevala's regret?
A．The loss of the chance to study medicine B．Her absence from Edina's school graduation
C．Failing to keep the promise made to Sanja D．Never cooking a good meal for her husband
7．How did Sanja fulfill her promise?
A．By taking care of Edina and her family B．By helping Edina enter her dream hospital
C．By attending a special ceremony for Edina D．By managing to become Edina's colleague
When a United Kingdom supermarket chain promised to move its farms to Net Zero by 2030, it made it clear that the effort would require working on many different fronts. From energy consumption and land - use change to methane emissions (甲烷排放), cattle farming comes with environmental challenges. So even if recent studies suggesting it's possible to cut methane emissions 80% do turn out to be accurate, there's still a very long way to go for most cattle farming to get anywhere close to truly net zero.
Organic Valley, when producing milk, might be closer to that goal. It made headlines in 2019 by going 100% renewable (可再生的). Now the company is expanding on that tradition by starting a major loan initiative (贷款计划) to help its farm suppliers adopt renewable energy too.
Created with Clean Energy Credit Union, the $ 1 million loan fund will deliver loans at below - market rates. Specifically, the money will be made available to Organic Valley's 1, 700 farmer members, and can be used for a variety of projects.
“We are focused on a whole systems approach to renewable energy, and I'm excited to launch this energy loan fund. From the farm to the shelf, I see renewable energy playing a bigger role in organic food,” said Bob Kirchoff, Organic Valley CEO.
“Organic Valley is already helping to protect the environment through organic farming practices, and now they re going one step further by supporting the introduction of renewable energy projects for their farmer members,” said Blake Jones, volunteer board chair of Clean Energy Credit Union. “In addition to the environmental benefits, we re eager to help family farmers throughout the world to lower their energy costs.”
The world is not short of examples of farmers innovating in the field of renewable energy. What's encouraging about Organic Valley's announcement is the idea of a national brand putting its marketing and financing weight behind such efforts and, hopefully, creating consumer demand that pushes the rest of the industry in this direction too.
8．What does paragraph 1 indicate about going net zero for cattle farming?
A．It is not easy to achieve B．It is common in the UK
C．It is an impractical goal D．It meets no challenges
9．What is Organic Valley's tradition according to the text?
A．Helping farm suppliers B．Using renewable energy
C．Having a loan initiative D．Making headlines annually
10．What is Organic Valley's initiative mainly intended to do?
A．Reform organic farming practices B．Make use of environmental benefits
C．Help farmers decrease energy costs D．Shrink the group of farmer members
11．What is the author's attitude towards Organic Valley's initiative?
A．Worried B．Doubtful C．Ambiguous D．Positive
Although computer technology is often necessary today, using a pen or pencil activates more areas of your brain than a keyboard does. You can potentially remember more by handwriting, according to a new study.
The potential benefits of handwriting for memory have been debated for some time. The new study set out to answer one question: How does handwriting compare to using a keyboard when it comes to remembering new information?
In all,24 participants took part. Researchers asked each of them to write with a pen and then each was also asked to type on a keyboard. While performing these tasks, each volunteer wore a cap that held electrodes next to their head. It looked somewhat like a hair net fitted with 256 sensors. Those sensors recorded the participants' brainwaves. The electrodes noted which parts of the brain turned on during each task. And they showed that writing turned on memory areas in the brain while typing didn't.
Audrey van der Meer, the new study's leader, says this suggests that when we write by hand, we remember better. “This is because writing involves complex movements that activate more areas of the brain. The increased brain activity gives the brain more ‘hooks’ to hang your memories on,” she explains. Van der Meer also points out that writing by hand is related to visual notetaking. “Rather than typing blindly, the visual notetaker has to think about what is important to write down. Then, key words can be interlinked by boxes, arrows and small drawings,” she adds.
This study does not recommend banning digital devices. In fact, its authors point out, computers and other devices with keyboards have become necessary in modern society. Keyboarding can especially benefit those with certain special needs (such as if they have trouble using their hands) and typing beats writing when it comes to speed, they add.
12．Why were participants asked to wear caps in the study?
A．To record their brainwaves B．To inform them of their tasks
C．To allow them to focus on writing D．To protect their heads like hair nets
13．What does Audrey van der Meer try to explain?
A．Why handwriting is more complex than typing B．Why the brain works when it comes to learning
C．Why handwriting helps remember information D．Why key words are helpful to visual notetaking
14．What is the study's authors' view on typing?
A．It relieves people's hands B．It remains vital and helpful
C．It is not worth recommending D．It is more challenging than writing
15．Which of the following can be a suitable title for the text?
A．How Can You Remember New Information?
B．Handwriting Benefits Health in the Long Run
C．Should Typing Take the Place of Handwriting?
D．Handwriting Is Better for Memory Than Typing
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The secret language of happiness
Talking of happiness, there are many different types, such as a contented glow while enjoying a favourite TV programme, or a burst of joy at seeing an old friend. And learning what these are can help us appreciate our positive feelings all the more. But sometimes we can’t find a suitable English word to describe it. The following can help you speak happy typically.
Take time for meals: SOBREMESA
This Spanish term literally means “on the table’’ describing the tradition of sitting with family or friends at mealtimes. Besides consuming food together, this practice involves connecting with one another, particularly once the meal is over. These are precious opportunities to make memories and spend time with others.
Find a hobby: MERAKI
What do you love to do? Which activities light up your week and enliven your life? Whatever your personal inclinations, these passions are perfectly captured by the Greek word meraki, which translates as “the care and love someone has for what he/ she does”.
The emotion of meraki occurs when you are completely absorbed in a hobby or activity, and feel love for what you are doing.
Be kind: UBUNTU
The term ubuntu is a contraction of the Zulu phrase “umuntu ngumunti ngabantu”, which means “a person is a person through other people”. This concept provides some explanation for the importance of kindness, as ubuntu highlights our interrelatedness as people.
If we can think of our fellow humans in this way, we will automatically treat them with kindness.
Find purpose: ARETE
This Greek word means to fulfill our purpose and potential. We all have our unique interests, values and skills, and we must try to excel in them, as this helps us to improve.
Arete does not necessarily mean attaining excellence. It just means doing your best.
1．Which term is suitable to describe your happy time with friends after dinner?
A．Arete. B．Ubuntu. C．Meraki. D．Sobremesa.
2．What does the Greek word “arete” exactly mean?
A．Fulfilling purpose and potential perfectly.
B．Having our own interests, values and skills.
C．Sparing no efforts to achieve our final goal.
D．Whatever difficulties we should overcome.
3．What do the listed words have in common?
A．They are to help express gladness.
B．They come from the same culture.
C．They help highlight one’s experience.
D．They have exactly the same meaning.
Dream Big, Work Hard, Help Others. Those words describe NFL player JJ Watt’s approach to life and his recipe for success on and off the field.
Although JJ, who plays for the Houston Texans, is perhaps the best defensive player in the National Football League (NFL), he just focuses on being the best human being he can be. His story is one of perseverance (毅力), heart, family and caring.
Recently, JJ has also focused his efforts on helping victims of Hurricane. He has been a national leader in raising funds and bringing people together to help. But first, where did JJ get his start in life and how did he become the person he is today?
Growing up in a small town in Wisconsin, he was told that he was “too small and not big enough” to ever play professional football. “There’s no way”, they said. Instead of letting the remarks of others diminish him, he used them to inspire himself.
He grew up learning to work while everyone else rested. JJ would get up at 4:30 in the morning to work out each day. He kept believing in himself, kept fighting and never gave up. He also got great support from his parents, family and friends, which made him stronger and more confident.
JJ’s story is not just one of achieving excellence in football, but in making a difference in the lives of others. Of all the inspiring stories, one was about JJ supporting a young man who was told he would not only be a football player. Instead, he, like JJ Watt, would be devoted to helping more people in need. Another awesome story shows a remarkable friendship that JJ has formed with 3 children who suffered a great tragedy. More recently, JJ became a national leader in helping his city of Houston raise money to help victims of Hurricane.
Such is JJ Watt, a simple man with a noble mind.
4．What do we know about JJ Watt from the first two paragraphs?
A．He has his own recipe in his field.
B．He carries the most moving stories.
C．He manages to be his personal best.
D．He is definitely the best defensive player.
5．What does the underlined word “diminish” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A．Abuse. B．Discourage. C．Praise. D．Boycott.
6．Which of the following best describes JJ Watt as a player on the field?
A．Ambitious and caring.
B．Friendly and demanding.
C．Generous and humorous.
D．Hard working and determined.
7．What does JJ Watt’s story imply?
A．To light the way for others, one must shine.
B．Nothing is difficult lo the man who will try.
C．Perseverance is the recipe for personal success.
D．Success means helping others make a difference.
As the world’s recent water shortage has reminded us all, water is the most valuable resource on our planet. We need it to drink, clean our bodies, grow our crops, and even build cars. Luckily, there’s a new technology that might allow us to produce water from moisture (湿度) in the air.
You might be aware that our planet’s atmosphere holds plenty of water moisture. It’s this moisture that causes rain, wet, and clouds. Using Atmospheric Water Generation, or AWG, scientists have figured out how to actually take that moisture out of the air and turn it into water that is clean enough to drink. Although different forms of AWG exist, the simplest is similar to an air conditioner. By cooling the air, these machines are able to make the moisture in the air condense (密度) to form droplets on a collecting surface.
Like all developing technology, AWG is a work in progress. Improvements are still being made so that AWG can be cheaper and more efficient. But for now, the best way we have to avoid another water shortage is to make sure we avoid wasting it.
From easy everyday things lo larger lifestyle changes, there are plenty of ways each of us can help conserve water. One of the easiest options for saving water is to take shorter showers. Another way to save water is to use a rain tank. Finally, a surprisingly way you can save water is consuming less meat. In fact, producing only one kilogram of pork uses close to 6,000 liters of water!
It goes without saying that water is essential to our everyday lives. Whether it’s with new technology or by making simple changes in our daily life, everyone should make sure we always have enough water. That way, water shortages like the most recent one can be avoided.
8．What is Atmospheric Water Generation?
A．It is an invention that can put water droplets back into Earth’s atmosphere.
B．It is a company that has invented a new technology to clean the air we breathe.
C．It is a technology to remove moisture from the air and turn it into clean water.
D．It is a machine that can make the moisture in the water droplets go into the air.
9．Which of the following best describes the project of AWG?
A．Mature. B．Improvable. C．Convenient. D．Contradictory.
10．Which of the following fails to help conserve water at home?
A．Being bathed in short showers.
B．Purchasing much bottled water.
C．Eating less meat and vegetables.
D．Using facilities with new technology.
11．What is probably the best title of this passage?
A．Using a Kind of New Technology AWG to Solve Water Shortage
B．Saving Water from Easy Daily Things to Larger Lifestyle Changes
C．Shouldering the Responsibility to Deal with World Water Shortage
D．Conserving Water through New Technology and Lifestyle Changes
Have you ever felt as if the entire world was watching while you made a mistake? Well here’s some good news: it’s likely that no one even notice.
The spotlight effect is a trick of the mind that makes us believe that people notice us more often than they really do. We experience the spotlight effect not only when we make mistakes but also when we perform well, such as making a mistake in a game, giving a terrible answer in class, scoring a big goal or doing a good deed. In these moments, it feels like everyone is watching.
The spotlight effect exists because we all get used to seeing things through our own eyes. Every person is the main character in his or her story, and the events of our lives seem to have great importance. We are so busy examining ourselves that we actually observe very little about everyone around us.
The spotlight effect is a very common part of the human experience. However, in some cases, it can lead to extreme social anxiety and nervousness around other people.
Everyone suffers some degree of social anxiety. We all care about what others think, and we all want to be liked. It’s normal to wonder about what effect we have on other people.
However, this can be a problem when the anxiety is too much to handle. If someone is so nervous that they can’t make good decisions then it’s time to take action and improve the situation.
Learning about the spotlight effect is important because it can help us reduce our anxiety. The next time you feel like everyone is staring at you, remind yourself that it’s just your mind playing tricks on you. Another good exercise is to make an effort to notice the people around you, rather than focusing on yourself. If you fill your mind with thoughts of your friends and family, it will help you be less self-conscious.
12．What is the spotlight effect?
A．It feels like all eyes are on us. B．We enjoy more focus from others.
C．It’s probably (hat no one notices us. D．It is a trick lo make us perform well.
13．How do we usually feel when the spotlight effect occurs?
A．Proud. B．Anxious. C．Relaxed. D．Depressed.
14．Which of the following is true about the spotlight effect?
A．It makes people feel more confident in scoring a big goal.
B．It may be an unusual human experience about social anxiety.
C．It happens only when we make some mistakes in great events.
D．It exists when we care too much about what others think of us.
15．Why should we learn about the spotlight effect?
A．To release our mental burden. B．To help us take more exercise.
C．To make us more self-conscious. D．To help us pay more attention in class.
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Wonderful Destinations You Can Explore in the World
While travel is still just a dream for many, we know that some of you are now eager to pencil in your next adventure. We are now taking bookings for our 2021 and 2022 tours, offering the following destinations.
The Dolomite Mountains in Italy
8 days; September 6, 2021
Go on a gentle outdoor tour through the impressive Dolomite Mountains where scientists investigate several scientific phenomena including geology, ecology, deep time and astronomy.
The gateway to the solar system in Iceland
8 days; November 20, 2021
Visit the sites where scientists test space mission in the world. You will visit remote lava fields, glaciers and Mars rover (巡视器) test sites to explore how technology can help us research other worlds, as well as adapt to our own climate challenges.
The Fjords of Norway
7 days; January 18, 2022
Explore the Fjords of Norway as you start the winter voyage to watch the wonderful northern lights and underwater life of the Arctic. Learn about the science behind the northern lights, watch whales from the sea, try your hand at dog sledding or simply relax around a campfire under the stars.
The volcanic fields in Italy
8 days; September 3, 2021
Experience the beauty and power of two of the world’s most impressive active volcanoes on Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli. Explore the Aeolian Islands of Lipari and Vulcano while enjoying scenic landscapes and Italian warmth.
Whether you are ready to book or just want to carry on dreaming for now, we expect you to enjoy looking through some of the new tours we have created. For more information on all our new tours for 2021 and 2022, visit www. new scientist. com/tours.
1．What do the first two destinations have in common?
A．They are main lava fields.
B．They focus on science.
C．They open on the same day.
D．They are space mission bases.
2．What can visitors do in the Fjords of Norway?
A．Feed whales from the sea.
B．See the wonders of the Arctic.
C．Enter the gateway to the solar system.
D．Explore sea life in the company of scientists.
3．Where can visitors explore active volcanoes?
A．In Mars rover test sites.
B．In the Fjords of Norway.
C．On Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli.
D．On the Dolomite Mountains and Aeolian Islands.
Have you ever thrown a camel? Camels are large and heavy animals, so it would be hard to throw. But in the French-speaking Democratic Republic of the Congo, “to throw a camel” is a way of saying “to make a spelling mistake”.
In the past, a phrase like that was not accepted by the French government as an official French term. But recently, the French Ministry of Culture worked on a new kind of dictionary that accepts the idea that many people outside of France speak the language. The language has changed over time and is different in places like Ivory Coast in West Africa or Quebec in Cana-da, compared to how it is in Paris
A new online dictionary, called the French speakers’ dictionary, includes new French words from around the world. It was released on March 18—just in time for International French Speaker’s Day on March 20.
Supporters say the new Internet dictionary is more democratic than earlier French dictionaries that only showed the way highly educated French people spoke. The new dictionary includes unofficial words like “pourriel”, which means an unwanted email if you are in Canada. It is a word based on “courriel”, which just means an email.
French President Emmanuel Macron proposed the idea of the dictionary in 2018. It now contains about 600.000 terms, Roselyne Bachelot is the French Culture Minister. She said the dictionary is not just for France's 67 million citizens, but for the 300 million French speakers worldwide.
The aim, supporters say, is to recognize the way language changes. Words and expressions included in the dictionary come from over 50 countries—even from the United States Some people in the southern U. S. state of Louisiana speak French.
People can see the dictionary on a website or with an app. Users can also send in new words they think should be included. Official dictionaries produced by the French Academy in Paris were first published hundreds of years ago and are regularly updated.
4．What do we mean if we say a man “throws a camel” in French?
A．He talks big. B．He is very strong.
C．He makes a joke. D．He misspells a word.
5．What is the purpose of the publication date of the new online dictionary?
A．To celebrate an event. B．To honor foreign users.
C．To draw more attention. D．To meet an urgent need.
6．Where does the word “pourriel” come from?
A．French. B．An email. C．A holiday. D．Canada.
7．What can people do with the new dictionary?
A．Update it regularly. B．Recommend new words to it.
C．Change the meaning of its words. D．Regard it as an official dictionary.
A new report links eating eggs to an increased risk of heart disease. The results follow several earlier studies that found eating eggs was generally healthy. The new report combines data from six other earlier studies. It shows a 6 percent increased risk of heart disease when the average number of eggs a person eats each day increased by half an egg.
In the United States, eggs are generally one of the top sources of cholesterol (胆固醇) in a person’s diet. Individuals with higher levels of cholesterol in their diets are at increased risk for the development of heart disease later in life. The team examined data gathered from six studies that involved a total of 29,615 people. Earlier researchers had followed these people for an average of 17.5 years. At the start, the participants answered questions about the foods they ate. But they were not asked about their diets at any time after that.
Over time, there were 5,400 heart-related incidents among the group. This included 2,088 deadly and non-deadly heart disease events and 1,302 deadly and non-deadly stroke events. It also included 1,897 deadly and non-deadly heart failure events and 113 other deaths from cardiovascular (心血管的) disease.
After examining the data, Allen’s team found a link between egg consumption as reported at the start of the study and people’s risk of developing heart disease. As their egg consumption rose, so did their risk.
Eggs contain a lot of cholesterol—about 200 milligrams. That is the highest daily amount recommended under current guidelines. Less than one egg a day on average is acceptable from a nutritional standpoint. The study is observational, meaning it can only show there is a link between egg consumption and heart disease. But it cannot prove eggs are the cause of the disease. It may just be that people eating a lot of eggs are also consuming a lot of bacon.
8．What were the participants asked about at the start of the study?
A．Their birthplaces. B．Their diets.
C．Their physical conditions. D．Their ages.
9．What are the statistics in paragraph 3 about?
A．The number of deaths from heart disease.
B．The number of treatments for heart disease.
C．The number of different causes of heart disease.
D．The number of heart disease cases among the participants.
10．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．Eggs are good for everyone.
B．Eggs are the cause of heart disease.
C．Eating eggs with limits is beneficial.
D．Eating eggs has nothing to do with heart disease.
11．What is the best title for the text?
A．Eggs Have Great Nutritional Value
B．Eggs Will Disappear from People’s Diet
C．It Is Much Better to Increase Egg Consumption
D．Diet Containing Eggs May Be Linked to Heart Disease
Thermoelectric generators (热力发电机) turn waste heat into electricity without producing greenhouse gas emissions, like a free lunch. But the high cost of these devices has prevented their widespread use. Now, researchers have found a way to make cheap thermoelectrics that work just as well. The work could pave the way for greener car engines, and other energy-generating devices.
“This looks like a very smart way to realize high performance,” says Li-Dong Zhao, a materials scientist. He notes there are still a few more steps before these materials can become high-performing. However, he says, “This will be used in the not too far future.”
Thermoelectrics are semiconductor devices placed on a hot surface. That gives them a hot side and a cool side. If a device allows the hot side to warm up the cool side, the electricity stops flowing. A device’s success at preventing this, as well as its ability to conduct electrons, feeds into a score known as the figure of merit (优值系数), or ZT.
Researchers have produced thermoelectric materials with increasing ZTs. The record came in 2014 when Mercouri Kanatzidis came up with a tin selenide (硒化物) with a ZT of 3.1. Yet the material was too fragile to work with. “For practical applications, it’s a non-starter,” Kanatzidis says.
Getting through that door will still take some time. The tin selenide the team makes is mixed with Na, creating a “p-type” material that conducts positive charges. To make working devices, researchers also need an “n-type” version to conduct negative charges.
Zhao’s team is now working on making an n-type version. Once successful, researchers should have a clear path to making a new generation of super-efficient thermoelectric generators. Those could be installed everywhere from automobile exhaust pipes to water heaters and industrial smelters to scavenge some of the 65% of fossil fuel energy that winds up as waste heat.
12．What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A．The wide use of thermoelectric generators.
B．The inventors of current thermoelectric generators.
C．The reason why researchers make cheap thermoelectrics.
D．The greener ear engines that contribute to environmental protection.
13．How does Li-Dong Zhao feel about cheap thermoelectric generators?
A．Indifferent. B．Worried.
C．Critical. D．Positive.
14．What do you know about the research in 2014 from paragraph 4 and 5?
A．It was far from a success for practical applications.
B．A tin selenide with a ZT of 3.1 can be easy to work with.
C．Researchers made an “n-type” version to make working devices.
D．A “p-type” material made from the tin selenide conducts negative charges.
15．What does the underlined word “scavenge” in the last paragraph mean?
A．Produce. B．Recycle.
C．Spot. D．Increase.
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Child Friendly To
A program Child Friendly To is working to transform Toronto into a place where all children can learn, play and grow in the healthiest way. We are building a culture that applies a child-friendly view to city planning and decision-making by increasing the role and voice of children in city management and increasing the rights of children across Toronto. We believe that:
★Children are important residents with unique ideas and experiences that have the power to change how we make plans and decisions.
★Children are experts in child-friendliness. Listening to children's ideas creates opportunity and improves equality. Building a city that is friendly to children requires an understanding of what living in the city is like -or a child.
★Engaging with children is our responsibility and duty. Local government has a responsibility to listen to children, as with all residents, when making plans and decisions.
November 20th is National Child Day in Canada. The day celebrates the importance of children as active participants in their own lives and communities, who can and should have opportunities for meaningful contributions to decision-making.
To celebrate National Child Day 2020, an event was held at City Hall with local students and city leaders. Children in grades four and five in Toronto were invited to share their ideas about creating a child-friendly city. We asked them:
★What would a child-friendly Toronto look, feel and sound like?
★B you had one wish to make Toronto more child-friendly, what would it be?
Children from nine schools across Toronto submitted hundreds of responses, from written texts, to drawings, photographs and maps. They described the people, places and things that need to be involved and considered to create a child-friendly city.
1．What is the purpose of Child Friendly To?
A．To find ways to improve children's health.
B．To help children make their own decisions.
C．To change Toronto into a child-friendly city.
D．To tell children how to be more friendly.
2．Why should we listen to children's ideas?
A．They know more about the program.
B．They have more friends than adults do.
C．They always have better plans and decisions.
D．They know better what a child-friendly city is like.
3．Who took part in the celebration of National Child Day 2020?
A．Experts and leaders of the program.
B．City planners and decision makers.
C．Teacher and student representatives.
D．Local students and leaders of the city.
On Sunday, April 23, almost 50, 000 athletes took to the streets to compete in the 37th London Marathon. While few were able to get even close to Daniel Wanjiru's 2:05:48 winning time, none were as slow as Tom Harrison, who crawled to the finish line, six days later, on Apri730.
However, the Metropolitan Police officer, who was dressed in a gorilla (大猩猩) suit, had a good reason for his slowness. He had completed the 26.2 miles on all fours to raise funds to help gorilla conservation efforts in Africa. The 41-year-old who spent an average 8—10 hours on his hands and knees, covered about 4.5miles each day before crashing at his friend's house for the night. To prevent his knees from blistering (起泡), he swapped between hands and knees into loping (大步跑) along on hands and feet and took breaks every 100 to 200 meters. But the arduous crawl was well worth it.
Harrison, who crossed the finish line at 11:45 am, has raised over£37, 000 ($47, 800 USD), far more than his original goal of £1, 790 ( $2, 300 USD), for the Gorilla Organization, whose efforts are mainly spent in Rwanda, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The much-needed funds will help train the communities near gorilla habitats to become more sel-sufficient and decrease their reliance on selling wildlife meat for a living. The money will also help pay for ranger services to monitor excess hunting of the Great Apes. More importantly, Harrison hopes his six-day crawl will highlight the bad situation of the gorillas, whose numbers are decreasing at alarming rates, and encourage more people to help protect them.
While thrilled at the outcome, Harrison, also known as Mr. Gorilla, is not done yet. He intends to continue his fundraising efforts at the annual RideLondon cycling festival.
4．Why did Tom Harrison crawl to the finish line?
A．To improve his physical and mental health.
B．To collect money for the Gorilla Organization.
C．To advertise policies for Metropolitan Police.
D．To win the title of the slowest Marathon runner.
5．What does the underlined word “arduous” mean in paragraph 2?
A．Difficult. B．Funny.
C．Harmful. D．Attractive.
6．What is the Gorilla Organization intended for?
A．Helping protect habitats for endangered gorillas.
B．Conserving gorillas in some African countries.
C．Supervising and punishing illegal hunting for gorillas.
D．Making people aware of the bad situation of gorillas.
7．Which of the following can best describe Tom Harrison?
A．Strong. B．Diligent.
C．Caring. D．Smart.
Human beings are not alone in having invented vaccination, while honeybees got there first and they can run what look like vaccination programmes, which has been confirmed by Gyan Harwood of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Queen bees vaccinate their eggs before they are laid. But the question is how the queen receives her antigen supply, for she lives purely on royal jelly, a substance secreted by nurse bees when they are in the life stage of feeding the young. Dr Harwood wondered if the nurses combined the royal jelly they produced with pieces from pathogens they had consumed while eating something brought in from outside.
To test this idea, they collected about 150 nurse bees and divided them among six queenless mini hives equipped with the young to look after. They fed the nurses on sugar-water, and for three of the hives they added Paenibacillus larvae, a bacterium causing a disease, to sugar-water.
Dr Harwood and Dr Salmela labeled the bacteria with a certain dye, to make them easy to track. And, sure enough, microscope confirmed that Paenibacillus larvae were getting into royal jelly secreted by those bees which had been fed with the sugar-water. Moreover, examination of this royal jelly revealed higher levels of defensive substance, compared with royal jelly from bees that had not been mixed with Paenibacillus larvae. This substance is thought to help bee immune systems fight against bacterial infections.
All told, these findings suggest that nurse bees are indeed, via their royal jelly, passing antigens on to the queen, then into eggs. They also mean, because the young receive royal jelly for the first few days after they hatch, the nurses are giving the young the second antigens. Each young bee is therefore being vaccinated twice.
8．What puzzled Dr Harwood from paragraph 2?
A．What the royal jelly consists of.
B．Where nurse bees receive pathogens.
C．How the antigen come into the queen bees' bodies.
D．Whether honeybees run vaccination earlier than man.
9．How did Dr Harwood develop his experiment?
A．By dividing bees into different roles.
B．By keeping track of the special bacterium.
C．By changing the components of royal jelly.
D．By observing nurse bees' different behaviors.
10．What can we infer according to the results of the experiment?
A．Nurse bees are the key to vaccination for bee group.
B．The nurse bees pass the antigen only to the queen.
C．Bacteria-used royal jelly has fewer defense substances.
D．Two vaccinations are given to young bees by caregivers directly.
11．Where is the text probably taken from?
A．A pet guide. B．A social website.
C．An official document. D．A medical magazine.
Cars could soon be communicating with each other using 5G to make drivers aware of upcoming hazards (危险), scientists claim. The extremely fast mobile internet would allow for rapid information transmission and could make drivers aware of black ice, pot holes or other dangers up ahead.
Several car manufacturers are already integrating 5G into their vehicles, including as a tool to help serve in the generation of sel-driving vehicles.
Experts at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) believe the high-speed connection will also improve the reliability and capability of automated vehicles to the point where they will be safer than the manual cars being driven today. They predict the number of road traffic accidents, which according to the World Health Organization account for more than 1.3 million deaths and up to 50million people injured worldwide every year, will drop drastically (彻底地) as a result.
Dr Dimitrios Liarokapis, a member of the research group, said, “To have a better idea of what the future will look like, think of having such cars that not only use sensors to scan what's around them, they can also talk to each other and exchange safety-related information about their surroundings over an area that covers several square miles. With the help of 5G, a vehicle-generated early warning system that reminds drivers is possible within the next few years. Cars that are close enough to the danger area will transmit warning messages to other cars around them using short-range communication technologies, but also to cars further away using 5G, fast and reliably.”
A few manufacturers are already working on connected cars. Of them, Ford revealed its intention to fit 80 percent of its 2020 vehicles with technology that warns drivers about upcoming road accidents, bad weather and traffic jams.
12．What is the benefit of 5G mentioned in the text?
A．It can improve the safety of automated vehicles.
B．It can help drivers communicate with each other.
C．It can effectively wipe out road traffic accidents.
D．It can help make more profits for the manufacturers.
13．What can we know about the vehicle-generated warning system?
A．It can get information several miles ahead.
B．It will frequently send messages to drivers.
C．It has been proved extremely helpful for driving.
D．It is under research and development at present.
14．What will be probably continued with the text?
A．Some safety rules when using 5G.
B．Some car manufacturers.
C．The sales information of cars with 5G.
D．The advantages when using 5G.
15．Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A．5G on the Way to Making “Dialogue” Between Cars
B．5G Leaves Drivers Free When They Are Driving
C．5G Has Been Popular with Drivers Around the World
D．5G Is to Bring Great Convenience to Our Daily Life
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The classic road trip is more popular than ever. Here are several places to hit the open road.
Colo-road Trips
The Colorado Tourism Office has made it easy for road-trippers to explore the state's 24 Scenic Historic Byways. A new microsite includes an interactive map that enables travelers to explore options by region, interest or season. Travelers seeking inspiration can also access insider tips and side-trip suggestions within more than 150 Colo-road Trip itineraries (行程). The flexible itineraries offer suggestions for historic attractions, active adventures and highlight cultural opportunities.
The Bear-tooth Highway
Visitors who travel this extraordinary path experience the visual landscape of Montana, Wyoming and Yellowstone Park, home to the Absaroka and Bear-tooth mountains. The windy,cliff-hugging 68-mile stretch introduces road explorers to one of the most diverse ecosystems accessible by auto. Amazingly beautiful, this All-American Road displays wide highlands, painted with patches (一片片) of ice blue lakes, forested valleys, waterfalls and wildlife.
Seward Highway, Alaska
The road that connects Anchorage to Seward is a 127-mile treasure, including natural beauty, wildlife and stories of adventure and endurance. Take a day or several to explore the region that has earned three-fold recognition as a Forest Service Scenic Byway, an Alaskan Scenic Byway and an All-American Road. The drive begins at the base of the Chugach Mountains, hugs the scenic shores of Turn-again Arm and winds through mining towns, national forests and fishing villages as you imagine how explorers, fur traders and gold prospectors might have fared back in the day. Expect waterfalls, glaciers (冰川), eagles, moose (驼鹿) and some good bear stories.
The Lighthouse Trail, Maine
Travel the 375 miles between Kittery and Calais, Maine, visit lighthouses along the way, and learn about the dangers that seagoing boats and their crew endured along the rocky Northeastern coast. Hear tales of shipwrecks (海滩) and of the difficult and lonely life led by those who kept the lights burning brightly. If possible, visit the Maine Lighthouse Museum, where artifacts and hands-on exhibits for children provide an attractive break.
1．What is special about each place mentioned above?
A．Tourists of Colo-road Trips are provided with adaptable plans of trip.
B．Visitors to the Bear-tooth Highway can enjoy the auto display.
C．Drivers along Seward Highway can appreciate the treasure underground.
D．The Lighthouse Trail offers travelers seagoing boats to row on the sea.
2．Which trip may favor kids according to the passage?
A．Colo-road Trips.
B．The Bear-tooth Highway.
C．Seward Highway, Alaska.
D．The Lighthouse Trail, Maine.
3．The best title for the passage is________.
A．Stories of adventure along road trips
B．American popular road trips
C．Recognition for classic places
D．All-American highway journey
Gardeners may be able to cut down on the amount of weeds (杂草）killer they use by dealing with invaders at specific times of the day, such as dawn, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that the 24-hour rhythms of plants leave them more defenseless to herbicides (除草剂） at different points in their daily 24 hour cycle.
They believe the findings could help farmers by reducing crop loss and improving harvests.And gardeners could benefit from knowing which weeds respond better at certain times of the day. In recent years,pesticides (杀虫剂） and herbicides have been implicated in the decline of important pollinating insects, such as bees.
Dr.Antony Dodd, senior author of the new study, said,“The research suggests that,in future, we might be able to improve the use of some chemicals that are used in agriculture by taking advantage of the biological clock in plants.”
Just like humans, plants have evolved to take advantage of cycles of night and day,with certain biological processes turning on at different times of the day.
Scientists have discovered that many drugs work much better in humans if they are given at specific hours. Aspirin, for example, has doubled the impact on thinning the blood if taken at night as opposed to in the morning. The process is known as 'chronotherapy' and researchers wanted to find out if the same concept could be applied to plants.
Many gardeners already know that plants drink in more water in the morning because their pores（气孔） are open to take advantage of early morning dew and water vapour. At the break of the day,plants are also not busy producing food through photosynthesis(光和作用）。The open pores could also be the reasons that chemicals are more effective at dawn and also at dusk.
The air is also likely to be stiller at dawn and dusk,meaning that pesticides or herbicides are less likely to be blown away to places where they are not wanted.Pesticide labels often warn against spraying on windy days in case they endanger people or animals. Many insects are active early in the morning and around dusk, also making very early morning and early evening effective times for insecticide.
Commenting on the study, Dr. Trevor Dines, Botanical Specialist at the conservation charity Plantlife,said, “This is a fascinating research which will be of great interest to many gardeners like me. This research knocks our previous assumption on its head. The opposite is true.”
4．Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase “implicated in" in the third paragraph?
A．restored to
B．blamed for
C．limited to
D．composed of
5．According to the research,which is one of the reasons for using herbicides in the morning?
A．The process of photosynthesis is most active in the morning.
B．Insects are more defenseless in the morning than any other time of the day.
C．Bigger pores on the plants make herbicides work more effectively.
D．The stronger morning wind blows pesticides away to more places.
6．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．Gardeners were not interested in combining science with gardening.
B．A long time had passed before herbicide was applied in farming.
C．The old assumption about the use of chemicals proved right.
D．Many gardeners used to spray herbicides at the wrong time.
7．What is the main idea of this article?
A．New chemicals have been found to help kill harmful insects.
B．Biological clock of plants could help gardeners use less weed killer.
C．Plants' cycles can be taken advantage of to improve the environment.
D．The research on the effects of pesticides has enabled good harvests.
A biologist from the National Park Service discovered a rare and unusual mammoth (猛犸) skull (颅骨) buried in a 13,000-year-old rock laver on the Santa Rosa Island, the second largest landmass in the Channel Islands, California. The fossil of the extinct giant animal is leaving many paleontologists (古生物学家) scratching their heads. Despite the fact that it’s possibly the best preserved mammoth skull ever found and of high scientific importance, the species of the individual it belonged to can’t seem to be identified yet — it’s too big to be a pygmy (特别矮小的) mammoth and too small to have come from a Columbian mammoth. Some say it’s a new species while others believe the truth lies somewhere in between.
The first mammoths showed up in North America around two million years ago, but it was only during the last two ice ages that the Columbian species, which could grow to be up to 14 feet tall, made its way to the Channel Islands 100 miles west of Los Angeles. Once the ice melted, many populations became trapped on the island and evolved into pygmy mammoths, an endemic species (地方物种) to the Channel Islands which grew only to six feet tall.
Judging from its size, the newly found mammoth skull doesn’t seem to fit any of the two species, Columbian or pygmy. To make things even more confusing, one of its two tusks (象牙) is nearly five feet long and coiled in a manner that resembles those of fully grown mammoths but the left tusk is shorter and sloped, more like a juvenile (青少年).
This has caused some scientists to say the Santa Rosa skull may belong to a transitional species. Whatever’s the case, a following examination of the mammoth’s teeth should out the matter to rest. The analysis will also tell us how old the mammoth was when it died, so we can tell for sure whether it was an adult or juvenile.
More interesting than the mammoth’s lineage (宗系), however, might be its story. The giant mammal lived 13,000 years ago or roughly the same timeline of the “Arlington Man”, a 13,000-year-old human skeleton also found on Santa Rosa. Some 3,000 years later humans were already spread throughout the continent and the Channel Islands’ mammoth went extinct. The present finding might help reveal a link between the two.
The remains also seem to confirm a long-held assumption that there were two mammoth migrations to the Channel Islands. “The discovery of this mammoth skull increases the probability that there were at least two migrations of Columbian mammoths to the island: during the most recent ice age 10,000 to 30,000 years ago, as well as the previous ice age that occurred about 150,000 years ago,” said USGS geologist Dan Muhs.
8．The underlined part in the first paragraph means the paleontologists feel_____.
A．excited
B．confused
C．anxious
D．frustrated
9．Which of the following is not among the reasons why the newly found skull is special?
A．It is possibly the best preserved mammoth skull ever found.
B．Its size fits neither the Columbian mammoth nor the pygmy mammoth.
C．It was found in the National Park on the Santa Rosa Island, California.
D．Its two tusks give out different information of the mammoth’s age.
10．What can be inferred from the last three paragraphs?
A．Biologists don’t think the examination of the mammoth’s teeth can tell us its age when it died.
B．Mammoths and humans lived on the Santa Rosa Island around 3 000 years ago.
C．Exactly 2 mammoth groups migrated to the Channel Islands during different periods of time.
D．There remains no final conclusion as to how many mammoth groups migrated to the Islands.
11．This passage mainly tells us the newly found mammoth skull_____.
A．is among the best preserved, but with a mysterious story
B．has aroused a debate over what species it belongs to
C．is of little scientific importance to mankind
D．is likely to confirm a former assumption
Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier (安抚奶嘴） for babies and toddlers.School-aged children read stories on smartphones. Their parents read on Kindles or skim a long list of email and news feeds. An invisible, game-changing transformation links everyone in this picture:the neuronal circuit(神经元回路）that underlies(成为···的基础）the brain's ability to read is rapidly changing.Our important “deep reading" processes may be under threat as we move further into the new digital-based ways of reading.
We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like' it is with vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further,it will adapt to that environment's requirements. If the environment advantages the reading processes that are fast, multi-task oriented(以···为方向的） and well-suited for large amounts of information,like the current digital-based reading, so will the reading circuit. As a result, less attention and time will be allocated to slower,time-demanding deep reading processes.
Increasing reports from educators and researchers in psychology and the humanities bear this out. English literature scholar and teacher Mark Edmundson describes how many college students actively avoid the classic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries because they no longer have the patience to read longer, denser, more difficult texts. We should be less concerned with students' "cognitive impatience", however than by what may underlie it: the potential inability of large numbers of students to read with a level of critical analysis enough to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts.
Ziming Liu from San Jose State University has conducted a series of studies which indicate that the “new norm" in reading is skimming. Many readers now use an F or Z pattern when reading in which they sample the first line and then word-spot through the rest of the text. When the reading brain skims like this, it doesn't have time to grasp complexity, to understand others' feelings, to be aware of beauty, and to create thoughts of the reader's own.
Karin Littau and Andrew Piper have noted another aspect: physicality. They stress that the sense of touch in print reading adds an important part to information - a kind of“geometry(几何结构）”to words, and a kind of spatial "'thereness" for text. As Piper notes, human beings need a knowledge of where they are in time and space that allows them to return to things and learn from re-examination-what he calls the “technology of recurrence (再现）＂.The importance of recurrence for both young and older readers involves the ability to go back,to check and evaluate one's understanding of a text. The question, then, is what happens to comprehension when our youth skim on a screen whose lack of spatial thereness discourages “looking back".
12．What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．What affects people's neuronal circuits.
B．Why deep reading is important to people.
C．Why people now prefer digital reading.
D．What will happen to our brain when we read.
13．What does the author want to stress about the college students?
A．Their lack of attentiveness.
B．Their lack of reading techniques.
C．Their inability to understand the complexity.
D．Their ignorance of various forms of literature.
14．According to Paragraph 4,the F or Z pattern
A．affects the way people skim
B．encourages people to read more
C．becomes popular among the youth
D．limits people's thinking development
15．What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A．Reading physical books helps us comprehend a text better.
B．Techniques should be suited for different reading materials.
C．A reading space can help us be more attentive.
D．It is important to use all senses to learn.
阅读选择【辽宁省名校联盟2021-2022学年高三10月联合】
Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLFY) is a social service organization that has been changing communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. Founded in 1998 in Austin, Texas, the organization provides services through three main programs.
Truck Ministry
Mobile Loaves & Fishes' food truck volunteers hit the streets 7 nights a week, 365 days a year to serve the homeless, delivering food, clothing, hygiene products and other life items. With the support of more than 19, 000 volunteers and over 5 million meals served, Mobile Loaves & Fishes is the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless and working poor in Austin, Texas.
Community First Village
Community First Village is a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for the disabled and homeless in Central Texas. Since 2005, this transformative residential program has been a part of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and has become the largest community-based model in the country lifting homeless men and women up off the streets into community and home.
Community Works
Mobile Loaves & Fishes developed the Community Works program at Community First Village. It provides job opportunities for the residents who are coming out of homelessness to earn an income. In addition, the program requests Mobile Loaves & Fishes volunteers to serve alongside and build enduring relationships with our friends as they develop new skills.
Opportunities for more volunteers
Thank you for your interest in Mobile Loaves & Fishes! We have a variety of volunteer opportunities. Please read the service requirements carefully before your application to fulfill service hours with MLF.
●Volunteer shifts are made available on a first-come, first-served basis.
●ALL volunteers under the age of 18 MUST be accompanied by an adult.
●All volunteers must wear specific clothing and shoes for that job.
●Volunteers must arrive on time or their shift will be rescheduled upon arrival.
1．What does Truck Ministry do with the homeless?
A．It removes them out of streets. B．It offers them job opportunities.
C．It provides them a permanent house. D．It delivers them more than a sandwich.
2．What do the residents of the Community Works do?
A．They become volunteers of MLF. B．They are offered work to get money.
C．They prepare food for the program. D．They build relationships with friends.
3．What is the purpose of the last part of the text?
A．To encourage donation. B．To introduce the MLF.
C．To provide new services. D．To advertise for more volunteers.
Marty Verel, a 59-year-old kidney transplant patient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Yet like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were complex. “I felt hopeless,” Nancy says.
Then Nancy heard about Marla Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mom of three who was spending up to ten hours a day online trying to secure appointments for vulnerable (易受攻击的) individuals. As a result, Nancy messaged Marla on Facebook: “Can you help?” Twenty-five minutes later, Marla responded by asking for Marty's legal name, date of birth, and other information. Nine minutes after that, Marla reported back—Marty had an appointment.
Marla's vaccine hunting started on February 1, when she learned that her parents—her father has leukemia (白血病) and her mother is a breast cancer survivor with a heart condition, were unable to get appointments themselves. She hated that they had to wait. Clicking around on vaccine registration sites, Marla discovered just how difficult it was to book an appointment. “It was like trying to get a World Series ticket,” she says.
She applied strategies that web insiders are familiar with (keeping multiple browsers open, refreshing sites every 20 seconds, erasing cookies) and added a few of her special skills. “I’m determined. I drink a lot of coffee, and I’m a fast typer,” she says. Soon enough, Marla had secured appointments for her parents. “I felt like a rock star,” she says.
Marla decided that helping others would be her way of giving back. “I feel like I need to will us out of this pandemic (大流行病),” she says. On February 10, she logged on to Facebook to let people know that she was assisting with bookings. By March 2, she’d secured appointments for 400 seniors, a feat that made Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?
4．Why did Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?
A．They had no access to the websites.
B．Too many people applied at the same time.
C．They were not among the first seniors to be vaccinated.
D．The registration sites were too difficult for them.
5．Why Marla started her vaccine hunting in the first place?
A．To help old people. B．To provide guidance to Nancy.
C．To assist her sick parents. D．To give back to society.
6．Which of the following words best describe Marla?
A．Helpful and skillful. B．Reliable and humorous.
C．Confident and generous. D．Ambitious and cooperative.
7．What's the passage mainly about?
A．An effective way to book a vaccination appointment online.
B．An old couple's trouble during the pandemic.
C．An angel helping others online.
D．A woman's special way of giving back during the pandemic.
A self-driving ship named after the Mayflower has been brought back while trying to re-create the cross-Atlantic trip made by the original Mayflower in 1620.
Last Tuesday, a robotic ship called the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) took off from Plymouth, England. Its mission was to re-create the 1620 crossing of the Atlantic by the Mayflower, which brought the first European settlers to what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
But unlike the original Mayflower, there are no people on the MAS. Everything about the ship is designed to run automatically. The ship is guided by an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Al Captain”.
The MAS is a project run by a group called ProMare along with the computer company, IBM. The ship's electric motor is powered by solar energy. The goal of the project is to test different kinds of technologies for collecting information about the sea. If these can be handled by machines, it could be a big advance in ocean research. Sending humans to collect information at sea can be difficult, lonely, and dangerous.
In addition to cameras and radar to help the ship guide itself, the ship is carrying many different kinds of tools and sensors. It has special listening devices which can detect whales and dolphins. It even has a special “tongue” which can report back on the chemicals in the water.
Last Friday morning, scientists tracking the ship noticed that it was going about half as fast as it should have been going. The AI Captain was working well, but there seemed to be something slowing the motor down. Since the ship had only covered 10% of the way across the Atlantic, the team decided to bring it back to Plymouth so they could fix the problem and send it out again. They sent the MAS instructions to turn back.
When the MAS finally does put out to sea again, it is expected to take about three weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The fastest speed for the MAS is about 10 mph (10 miles per hour). That may seem slow, but it's about 5 times faster than the original Mayflower, which took 66 days to make the journey.
8．The aim of the MAS project is to ________.
A．take more Europeans across the Atlantic
B．experiment with technologies for sea exploration
C．develop new artificial intelligence system
D．test the AI Captain on the sea
9．What happened to the MAS on the sea?
A．The robotic ship's electric motor didn't work well.
B．The scientists failed to guide the ship completely.
C．The AI Captain reduced the speed of the MAS.
D．There was something wrong with the AI Captain.
10．What can we know from the last paragraph?
A．The entire cross-Atlantic journey will be about 2,100 miles.
B．The journey are likely to be difficult and dangerous.
C．The Mayflower Autonomous Ship has set sail again.
D．The original Mayflower travelled at about 2 mph at most.
11．What's the best title for the text?
A．A Robotic Ship Guided by the AI Captain System
B．Self-driving Mayflower Ship Forced to Turn Back
C．The Fastest Robotic Ship Sailing Across the Atlantic
D．Another Mayflower Managing to Re-create the Cross-Atlantic Trip
Have you ever taken a look at a few lovely chickens and desired to touch and kiss them? Apparently, for some people the urge is hard to resist. However, according to an updated warning by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) doing so could spread dangerous—maybe even life-treatening-Salmonella. So, no matter how irresistible those little feathered birds may seem, avoid giving them a kiss.
This isn’t the first time the CDC has warned against physically touching or kissing your poultry. Back in 2018 Halloween, they advised against dressing the birds up for fear of spreading Salmonella. Then again, in May this year, with 474 cases reported, another warning was issued. According to interviews with 271 of those affected, 77 percent had been in contact with poultry before getting sick.
“Backyard poultry, like chickens and ducks, can carry Salmonella bacteria even if they look healthy and clean,” writes the CDC．These bacteria can easily spread to anything in the areas where the poultry live. You can get sick from touching your poultry or anything in their environment and then touching your mouth or food, and swallowing Salmonella bacteria.
Most people who come into contact with the Salmonella bacteria will experience diarrhea (腹泻), fever, and stomach cramp. Children are particularly affected—one in three sick people are below the age of five, which is intelligible given their weaker immune systems and natural love for the birds.
The CDC recommends that parents shouldn't let little children touch chicks, ducks, or other backyard poultry and make sure that if they do, they should wash their hands thoroughly afterward. Likewise, adults are instructed to do the same after touching backyard poultry and their eggs should be cleaned, stored, and cooked correctly to avoid the infection of Salmonella.
This might be easier said than done—for many people, backyard chickens are beloved—but if you really love them, stop physical displays of affection in case you end up with Salmonella bacteria on your face. It turns out to be a bit of harm.
12．Why does CDC repeatedly warn people not to kiss chickens?
A．To protect the poultry. B．To show love to chickens.
C．To get rid of Salmonella. D．To stay safe from potential danger.
13．How is paragraph 2 mainly developed?
A．By giving examples. B．By showing statistics.
C．By making comparison. D．By interviewing victims.
14．What does the underlined word “intelligible” probably mean in paragraph 4?
A．Understandable. B．Irresistible. C．Unavoidable. D．Controversial.
15．What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?
A．Stress the importance of affection. B．Add more background information.
C．Provide some suggestions for the readers. D．Summarize the theme of the passage.
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Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLFY) is a social service organization that has been changing communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. Founded in 1998 in Austin, Texas, the organization provides services through three main programs.
Truck Ministry
Mobile Loaves & Fishes' food truck volunteers hit the streets 7 nights a week, 365 days a year to serve the homeless, delivering food, clothing, hygiene products and other life items. With the support of more than 19, 000 volunteers and over 5 million meals served, Mobile Loaves & Fishes is the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless and working poor in Austin, Texas.
Community First Village
Community First Village is a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for the disabled and homeless in Central Texas. Since 2005, this transformative residential program has been a part of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and has become the largest community-based model in the country lifting homeless men and women up off the streets into community and home.
Community Works
Mobile Loaves & Fishes developed the Community Works program at Community First Village. It provides job opportunities for the residents who are coming out of homelessness to earn an income. In addition, the program requests Mobile Loaves & Fishes volunteers to serve alongside and build enduring relationships with our friends as they develop new skills.
Opportunities for more volunteers
Thank you for your interest in Mobile Loaves & Fishes! We have a variety of volunteer opportunities. Please read the service requirements carefully before your application to fulfill service hours with MLF.
●Volunteer shifts are made available on a first-come, first-served basis.
●ALL volunteers under the age of 18 MUST be accompanied by an adult.
●All volunteers must wear specific clothing and shoes for that job.
●Volunteers must arrive on time or their shift will be rescheduled upon arrival.
1．What does Truck Ministry do with the homeless?
A．It removes them out of streets. B．It offers them job opportunities.
C．It provides them a permanent house. D．It delivers them more than a sandwich.
2．What do the residents of the Community Works do?
A．They become volunteers of MLF. B．They are offered work to get money.
C．They prepare food for the program. D．They build relationships with friends.
3．What is the purpose of the last part of the text?
A．To encourage donation. B．To introduce the MLF.
C．To provide new services. D．To advertise for more volunteers.
Marty Verel, a 59-year-old kidney transplant patient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Yet like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were complex. “I felt hopeless,” Nancy says.
Then Nancy heard about Marla Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mom of three who was spending up to ten hours a day online trying to secure appointments for vulnerable (易受攻击的) individuals. As a result, Nancy messaged Marla on Facebook: “Can you help?” Twenty-five minutes later, Marla responded by asking for Marty's legal name, date of birth, and other information. Nine minutes after that, Marla reported back—Marty had an appointment.
Marla's vaccine hunting started on February 1, when she learned that her parents—her father has leukemia (白血病) and her mother is a breast cancer survivor with a heart condition, were unable to get appointments themselves. She hated that they had to wait. Clicking around on vaccine registration sites, Marla discovered just how difficult it was to book an appointment. “It was like trying to get a World Series ticket,” she says.
She applied strategies that web insiders are familiar with (keeping multiple browsers open, refreshing sites every 20 seconds, erasing cookies) and added a few of her special skills. “I’m determined. I drink a lot of coffee, and I’m a fast typer,” she says. Soon enough, Marla had secured appointments for her parents. “I felt like a rock star,” she says.
Marla decided that helping others would be her way of giving back. “I feel like I need to will us out of this pandemic (大流行病),” she says. On February 10, she logged on to Facebook to let people know that she was assisting with bookings. By March 2, she’d secured appointments for 400 seniors, a feat that made Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?
4．Why did Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?
A．They had no access to the websites.
B．Too many people applied at the same time.
C．They were not among the first seniors to be vaccinated.
D．The registration sites were too difficult for them.
5．Why Marla started her vaccine hunting in the first place?
A．To help old people. B．To provide guidance to Nancy.
C．To assist her sick parents. D．To give back to society.
6．Which of the following words best describe Marla?
A．Helpful and skillful. B．Reliable and humorous.
C．Confident and generous. D．Ambitious and cooperative.
7．What's the passage mainly about?
A．An effective way to book a vaccination appointment online.
B．An old couple's trouble during the pandemic.
C．An angel helping others online.
D．A woman's special way of giving back during the pandemic.
A self-driving ship named after the Mayflower has been brought back while trying to re-create the cross-Atlantic trip made by the original Mayflower in 1620.
Last Tuesday, a robotic ship called the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) took off from Plymouth, England. Its mission was to re-create the 1620 crossing of the Atlantic by the Mayflower, which brought the first European settlers to what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
But unlike the original Mayflower, there are no people on the MAS. Everything about the ship is designed to run automatically. The ship is guided by an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Al Captain”.
The MAS is a project run by a group called ProMare along with the computer company, IBM. The ship's electric motor is powered by solar energy. The goal of the project is to test different kinds of technologies for collecting information about the sea. If these can be handled by machines, it could be a big advance in ocean research. Sending humans to collect information at sea can be difficult, lonely, and dangerous.
In addition to cameras and radar to help the ship guide itself, the ship is carrying many different kinds of tools and sensors. It has special listening devices which can detect whales and dolphins. It even has a special “tongue” which can report back on the chemicals in the water.
Last Friday morning, scientists tracking the ship noticed that it was going about half as fast as it should have been going. The AI Captain was working well, but there seemed to be something slowing the motor down. Since the ship had only covered 10% of the way across the Atlantic, the team decided to bring it back to Plymouth so they could fix the problem and send it out again. They sent the MAS instructions to turn back.
When the MAS finally does put out to sea again, it is expected to take about three weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The fastest speed for the MAS is about 10 mph (10 miles per hour). That may seem slow, but it's about 5 times faster than the original Mayflower, which took 66 days to make the journey.
8．The aim of the MAS project is to ________.
A．take more Europeans across the Atlantic
B．experiment with technologies for sea exploration
C．develop new artificial intelligence system
D．test the AI Captain on the sea
9．What happened to the MAS on the sea?
A．The robotic ship's electric motor didn't work well.
B．The scientists failed to guide the ship completely.
C．The AI Captain reduced the speed of the MAS.
D．There was something wrong with the AI Captain.
10．What can we know from the last paragraph?
A．The entire cross-Atlantic journey will be about 2,100 miles.
B．The journey are likely to be difficult and dangerous.
C．The Mayflower Autonomous Ship has set sail again.
D．The original Mayflower travelled at about 2 mph at most.
11．What's the best title for the text?
A．A Robotic Ship Guided by the AI Captain System
B．Self-driving Mayflower Ship Forced to Turn Back
C．The Fastest Robotic Ship Sailing Across the Atlantic
D．Another Mayflower Managing to Re-create the Cross-Atlantic Trip
Have you ever taken a look at a few lovely chickens and desired to touch and kiss them? Apparently, for some people the urge is hard to resist. However, according to an updated warning by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) doing so could spread dangerous—maybe even life-treatening-Salmonella. So, no matter how irresistible those little feathered birds may seem, avoid giving them a kiss.
This isn’t the first time the CDC has warned against physically touching or kissing your poultry. Back in 2018 Halloween, they advised against dressing the birds up for fear of spreading Salmonella. Then again, in May this year, with 474 cases reported, another warning was issued. According to interviews with 271 of those affected, 77 percent had been in contact with poultry before getting sick.
“Backyard poultry, like chickens and ducks, can carry Salmonella bacteria even if they look healthy and clean,” writes the CDC．These bacteria can easily spread to anything in the areas where the poultry live. You can get sick from touching your poultry or anything in their environment and then touching your mouth or food, and swallowing Salmonella bacteria.
Most people who come into contact with the Salmonella bacteria will experience diarrhea (腹泻), fever, and stomach cramp. Children are particularly affected—one in three sick people are below the age of five, which is intelligible given their weaker immune systems and natural love for the birds.
The CDC recommends that parents shouldn't let little children touch chicks, ducks, or other backyard poultry and make sure that if they do, they should wash their hands thoroughly afterward. Likewise, adults are instructed to do the same after touching backyard poultry and their eggs should be cleaned, stored, and cooked correctly to avoid the infection of Salmonella.
This might be easier said than done—for many people, backyard chickens are beloved—but if you really love them, stop physical displays of affection in case you end up with Salmonella bacteria on your face. It turns out to be a bit of harm.
12．Why does CDC repeatedly warn people not to kiss chickens?
A．To protect the poultry. B．To show love to chickens.
C．To get rid of Salmonella. D．To stay safe from potential danger.
13．How is paragraph 2 mainly developed?
A．By giving examples. B．By showing statistics.
C．By making comparison. D．By interviewing victims.
14．What does the underlined word “intelligible” probably mean in paragraph 4?
A．Understandable. B．Irresistible. C．Unavoidable. D．Controversial.
15．What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?
A．Stress the importance of affection. B．Add more background information.
C．Provide some suggestions for the readers. D．Summarize the theme of the passage.
阅读选择【辽宁省名校联盟2021-2022学年高三10月联合】
Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLFY) is a social service organization that has been changing communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. Founded in 1998 in Austin, Texas, the organization provides services through three main programs.
Truck Ministry
Mobile Loaves & Fishes' food truck volunteers hit the streets 7 nights a week, 365 days a year to serve the homeless, delivering food, clothing, hygiene products and other life items. With the support of more than 19, 000 volunteers and over 5 million meals served, Mobile Loaves & Fishes is the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless and working poor in Austin, Texas.
Community First Village
Community First Village is a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for the disabled and homeless in Central Texas. Since 2005, this transformative residential program has been a part of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and has become the largest community-based model in the country lifting homeless men and women up off the streets into community and home.
Community Works
Mobile Loaves & Fishes developed the Community Works program at Community First Village. It provides job opportunities for the residents who are coming out of homelessness to earn an income. In addition, the program requests Mobile Loaves & Fishes volunteers to serve alongside and build enduring relationships with our friends as they develop new skills.
Opportunities for more volunteers
Thank you for your interest in Mobile Loaves & Fishes! We have a variety of volunteer opportunities. Please read the service requirements carefully before your application to fulfill service hours with MLF.
●Volunteer shifts are made available on a first-come, first-served basis.
●ALL volunteers under the age of 18 MUST be accompanied by an adult.
●All volunteers must wear specific clothing and shoes for that job.
●Volunteers must arrive on time or their shift will be rescheduled upon arrival.
1．What does Truck Ministry do with the homeless?
A．It removes them out of streets. B．It offers them job opportunities.
C．It provides them a permanent house. D．It delivers them more than a sandwich.
2．What do the residents of the Community Works do?
A．They become volunteers of MLF. B．They are offered work to get money.
C．They prepare food for the program. D．They build relationships with friends.
3．What is the purpose of the last part of the text?
A．To encourage donation. B．To introduce the MLF.
C．To provide new services. D．To advertise for more volunteers.
Marty Verel, a 59-year-old kidney transplant patient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Yet like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were complex. “I felt hopeless,” Nancy says.
Then Nancy heard about Marla Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mom of three who was spending up to ten hours a day online trying to secure appointments for vulnerable (易受攻击的) individuals. As a result, Nancy messaged Marla on Facebook: “Can you help?” Twenty-five minutes later, Marla responded by asking for Marty's legal name, date of birth, and other information. Nine minutes after that, Marla reported back—Marty had an appointment.
Marla's vaccine hunting started on February 1, when she learned that her parents—her father has leukemia (白血病) and her mother is a breast cancer survivor with a heart condition, were unable to get appointments themselves. She hated that they had to wait. Clicking around on vaccine registration sites, Marla discovered just how difficult it was to book an appointment. “It was like trying to get a World Series ticket,” she says.
She applied strategies that web insiders are familiar with (keeping multiple browsers open, refreshing sites every 20 seconds, erasing cookies) and added a few of her special skills. “I’m determined. I drink a lot of coffee, and I’m a fast typer,” she says. Soon enough, Marla had secured appointments for her parents. “I felt like a rock star,” she says.
Marla decided that helping others would be her way of giving back. “I feel like I need to will us out of this pandemic (大流行病),” she says. On February 10, she logged on to Facebook to let people know that she was assisting with bookings. By March 2, she’d secured appointments for 400 seniors, a feat that made Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?
4．Why did Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?
A．They had no access to the websites.
B．Too many people applied at the same time.
C．They were not among the first seniors to be vaccinated.
D．The registration sites were too difficult for them.
5．Why Marla started her vaccine hunting in the first place?
A．To help old people. B．To provide guidance to Nancy.
C．To assist her sick parents. D．To give back to society.
6．Which of the following words best describe Marla?
A．Helpful and skillful. B．Reliable and humorous.
C．Confident and generous. D．Ambitious and cooperative.
7．What's the passage mainly about?
A．An effective way to book a vaccination appointment online.
B．An old couple's trouble during the pandemic.
C．An angel helping others online.
D．A woman's special way of giving back during the pandemic.
A self-driving ship named after the Mayflower has been brought back while trying to re-create the cross-Atlantic trip made by the original Mayflower in 1620.
Last Tuesday, a robotic ship called the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) took off from Plymouth, England. Its mission was to re-create the 1620 crossing of the Atlantic by the Mayflower, which brought the first European settlers to what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
But unlike the original Mayflower, there are no people on the MAS. Everything about the ship is designed to run automatically. The ship is guided by an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Al Captain”.
The MAS is a project run by a group called ProMare along with the computer company, IBM. The ship's electric motor is powered by solar energy. The goal of the project is to test different kinds of technologies for collecting information about the sea. If these can be handled by machines, it could be a big advance in ocean research. Sending humans to collect information at sea can be difficult, lonely, and dangerous.
In addition to cameras and radar to help the ship guide itself, the ship is carrying many different kinds of tools and sensors. It has special listening devices which can detect whales and dolphins. It even has a special “tongue” which can report back on the chemicals in the water.
Last Friday morning, scientists tracking the ship noticed that it was going about half as fast as it should have been going. The AI Captain was working well, but there seemed to be something slowing the motor down. Since the ship had only covered 10% of the way across the Atlantic, the team decided to bring it back to Plymouth so they could fix the problem and send it out again. They sent the MAS instructions to turn back.
When the MAS finally does put out to sea again, it is expected to take about three weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The fastest speed for the MAS is about 10 mph (10 miles per hour). That may seem slow, but it's about 5 times faster than the original Mayflower, which took 66 days to make the journey.
8．The aim of the MAS project is to ________.
A．take more Europeans across the Atlantic
B．experiment with technologies for sea exploration
C．develop new artificial intelligence system
D．test the AI Captain on the sea
9．What happened to the MAS on the sea?
A．The robotic ship's electric motor didn't work well.
B．The scientists failed to guide the ship completely.
C．The AI Captain reduced the speed of the MAS.
D．There was something wrong with the AI Captain.
10．What can we know from the last paragraph?
A．The entire cross-Atlantic journey will be about 2,100 miles.
B．The journey are likely to be difficult and dangerous.
C．The Mayflower Autonomous Ship has set sail again.
D．The original Mayflower travelled at about 2 mph at most.
11．What's the best title for the text?
A．A Robotic Ship Guided by the AI Captain System
B．Self-driving Mayflower Ship Forced to Turn Back
C．The Fastest Robotic Ship Sailing Across the Atlantic
D．Another Mayflower Managing to Re-create the Cross-Atlantic Trip
Have you ever taken a look at a few lovely chickens and desired to touch and kiss them? Apparently, for some people the urge is hard to resist. However, according to an updated warning by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) doing so could spread dangerous—maybe even life-treatening-Salmonella. So, no matter how irresistible those little feathered birds may seem, avoid giving them a kiss.
This isn’t the first time the CDC has warned against physically touching or kissing your poultry. Back in 2018 Halloween, they advised against dressing the birds up for fear of spreading Salmonella. Then again, in May this year, with 474 cases reported, another warning was issued. According to interviews with 271 of those affected, 77 percent had been in contact with poultry before getting sick.
“Backyard poultry, like chickens and ducks, can carry Salmonella bacteria even if they look healthy and clean,” writes the CDC．These bacteria can easily spread to anything in the areas where the poultry live. You can get sick from touching your poultry or anything in their environment and then touching your mouth or food, and swallowing Salmonella bacteria.
Most people who come into contact with the Salmonella bacteria will experience diarrhea (腹泻), fever, and stomach cramp. Children are particularly affected—one in three sick people are below the age of five, which is intelligible given their weaker immune systems and natural love for the birds.
The CDC recommends that parents shouldn't let little children touch chicks, ducks, or other backyard poultry and make sure that if they do, they should wash their hands thoroughly afterward. Likewise, adults are instructed to do the same after touching backyard poultry and their eggs should be cleaned, stored, and cooked correctly to avoid the infection of Salmonella.
This might be easier said than done—for many people, backyard chickens are beloved—but if you really love them, stop physical displays of affection in case you end up with Salmonella bacteria on your face. It turns out to be a bit of harm.
12．Why does CDC repeatedly warn people not to kiss chickens?
A．To protect the poultry. B．To show love to chickens.
C．To get rid of Salmonella. D．To stay safe from potential danger.
13．How is paragraph 2 mainly developed?
A．By giving examples. B．By showing statistics.
C．By making comparison. D．By interviewing victims.
14．What does the underlined word “intelligible” probably mean in paragraph 4?
A．Understandable. B．Irresistible. C．Unavoidable. D．Controversial.
15．What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?
A．Stress the importance of affection. B．Add more background information.
C．Provide some suggestions for the readers. D．Summarize the theme of the passage.
阅读选择【河北省省级联测2021-2022学年高三上学期第三次联考】
California is home to many private universities that offer first-rate education. Many of these schools have broad campuses and highly ranked, individual academic programs.
Stanford University
Stanford ranks as the fifth-best university in the nation, according to U.S. News &. World Report, as well as fourth-best private university according to Global Language Monitor and eighth according to Forbes. The school is known for its dedication to research in both the sciences and the humanities. Stanford boasts (自夸) an 18.7 billion-dollar donated fund and 5,100 sponsored research projects.
California Institute of Technology
Founded in 1891, Pasadena-based Caltech ranks second on Forbes’s list of top private schools and 10th according to U.S News &. World Report, and it boasts a student-to-faculty rate of 3-to-1. The school’s global facilities (设施) include the International Observatory Network—which maintains locations in the United States, Antarctica and Chile—the Caltech Seismological Laboratory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC) ranks 15th on Global Language Monitor’s list and 23rd on U.S. News &. World Report’s list of top universities. USC has more international students than any other university in the United States. This school is renowned for its high academic standards as well for the athletic achievement of its students: USC graduates have earned 418 Olympic medals.
Pepperdine University
Pepperdine is a Christian University that ranks 61st according to Global Language Monitor and has been named by the Peace Corps of America as “One of the Top Producing Colleges and Universities.” The 830-acre, Malibu-based campus overlooks the Pacific Ocean. The school, however, also maintains permanent facilities in Washington, D．C．, as well as in South America, Europe and Asia.
1．What does Stanford University take much pride in?
A．Its ranking. B．Its popularity.
C．Its donated fun D．D．Its academic achievements.
2．Which school has the most foreign students?
A．Stanford University. B．California Institute of Technology.
C．Pepperdine University. D．University of Southern California.
3．Where is Pepperdine University located?
A．On the Pacific coast. B．In South America.
C．In the eastern US. D．In Washington, D．C．
In an hours-long struggle, as many as 70 killer whales hunted down and killed a blue whale off the southwestern coast of Australia.
At first, it seemed like a normal day of whale watching, said Kristy Brown, a marine biologist. People on the boat happened to spot two groups of killer whales in Bremer Bay Canyon, about 28 miles off the coast. They were "playing and surfing the waves," Brown wrote in a blog post. But soon, people on the boat noticed that the killers were creating nonuniform waves. This was strange. Then there arose a long, high blow that stayed in the air. It was a blue whale.
Even though the blue whale was nearly twice the length of the largest killer whale, which can grow to lengths of about 31 feet, it couldn't shake off its pursuers. “It was completely surrounded by killer whales as it swam," Brown wrote in the blog. Moreover, the killers didn't appear to rush the hunt, but instead were strategic, thoughtful, collaborative, patient and persistent.
Multiple killers were on the animal, pushing roughly against it and swimming fast, beside and under it, while others just follow and rest along and beside the hunt, nearly 200m back. It seemed that “tiring out the blue was their goal," she noted.
Unlike the blue whale, killers have teeth, a weapon they used to chomp（咬）down on this blue whale's jaw. “As the blue whale spun and turned, the killers held on—they wanted its tongue,” Brown said. After hours of this fierce hunt, the blue whale succumbed to its attackers and the killers divided up the blue whale and shared with all involved in the depths below.
4．What made Brown realize the killer whales were unusual?
A．The waves they made. B．The fountain they made.
C．The direction they headed in. D．The number of killer whales.
5．What do we know from the third paragraph?
A．Blue whales are too large to be killed.
B．Killer whales are experienced hunters.
C．Killer whales swim slower than blue whales.
D．A blue whale is twice the weight of a killer whale.
6．What is described in paragraph 4?
A．The steps of the hunting.
B．The cruelty of the hunting.
C．The scene of the hunting.
D．The preparation of the hunting.
7．What is the probable meaning of the underlined part "succumbed to" in the last paragraph?
A．Got rid of. B．Gave in to.
C．Made up for. D．Made room for.
In most of the inspiring stories, one of the messages that is repeated over and over is not to give up. Giving up is not an option if you truly want to reach your dreams. No matter what challenges you face or how many setbacks you experience or how many times you get knocked down, you mustn't give up. You need to stand strong, raise your head up, and keep pressing forward. Well, in most cases, this is great advice but sometimes, giving up is the smart thing to do. Now before you decide to just give up on your current goals, what should you do?
First of all, you have to figure out exactly why you want to achieve your goal/dream in the first place. Is it really your dream or someone else's? Is it something that you really, truly want or something you think you want because you see a bunch of other people going for the same thing?
We pursue dreams and goals to better ourselves but more importantly, we do it because we believe it will increase our level of happiness and excitement. Imagine spending years to achieve a goal, finally achieving it, and realizing you' re not any happier because it wasn't what you really wanted. So in the situation where you realize the goals/dreams you're after isn't really something you want, giving up is a good choice.
Another thing to keep in mind is that for the most part, we pursue goals for the feelings accomplishing those goals will bring us. Knowing the feelings or experience you're after can open up more options for you. If you know the feelings you' re after, you could change your focus to another goal that will give you the same feelings or experience. Just don't use this as an excuse to give up on something you actually want.
8．What is the function of the first paragraph?
A．To promote inspiring stories. B．To explain the harm of giving up.
C．To introduce the topic of this text. D．To call on people not to give up.
9．When is it better for you to give up your dreams?
A．When you find other easier goals.
B．When they are too difficult to achieve.
C．When others are doing the same thing.
D．When you realize they bring no happiness.
10．What does the author probably advise us to do according to paragraph 4?
A．Pursue what you really want. B．Keep trying until you succeed.
C．Focus on goals not on feelings. D．Change focus if it is possible.
11．What is the best title of this text?
A．Giving Up Is Sometimes a Smart Choice
B．No Matter What Difficulty, Never Give Up
C．Keep On and You Will Achieve Your Goals
D．Giving Up Is the Biggest Enemy of Success
Over half of Canadian youth and young adults who have consumed energy drinks have experienced negative health effects as a result, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.
In a nationwide survey of Canadian youth, over half of those who had ever consumed an energy drink had reported experiencing a negative health event. Currently, Canadian legislation is meant to prohibit energy drinks from being marketed to children and energy drinks are not recommended to be used by people participating in sporting activities.
"Most risk assessments to date have used coffee as a reference for estimating the health effects of energy drinks. However, it is clear that these products cause a greater health risk," said David Hammond, a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Waterloo. "The health effects from energy drinks could be due to the different ingredients than coffee, or the ways in which they consumed, including with alcohol or during physical activity. Regardless, the findings suggest a need to increase monitoring of health effects from these products."
In conducting the study, the researchers surveyed 2,055 young Canadians aged 12 to 24. Of those who had reported consuming energy drinks at some point in their lives, 55.4 percent reported experiencing a negative health event. Of those reporting negative health events, 24.7 percent reported experiencing a fast heartbeat, 24.1 percent reported difficulty sleeping and 18.3 percent reported experiencing headaches.
"The number of health effects observed in our study suggests that more should be done to restrict consumption among children and youth," said Hammond. "At the moment, there are no restrictions on children purchasing energy drinks, and they are marketed at the point-of-sale in grocery stores, as well as advertising that targets children."
12．Who are forbidden to take energy drinks in Canada?
A．Children. B．Athletes.
C．Old people. D．Healthy people.
13．What makes energy drinks have negative effects?
A．The different ingredients in them. B．The coffee contained in them.
C．The quantity consumed at a time. D．The place where they are consumed.
14．What writing skill is used in paragraph 4?
A．Comparing results. B．Listing figures.
C．Giving examples. D．Raising questions.
15．What can we infer from Hammond's words in the last paragraph?
A．It is illegal for children to buy energy drinks.
B．Energy drinks are sold only in grocery stores.
C．Some child actors advertise energy drinks.
D．It's a long way to ban children from energy drinks.
阅读选择【辽宁省沈阳市郊联体2021-2022学年高三上学期期中】
The Hope Festival is a not-for-profit music festival supporting different charities each year. It kicks off the summer music festival season and is a place to have a great time! The Hope Festival is a celebration of love and life and originally started 30 years ago as a wedding party. Today it is an energetic festival in which you can grab some great food, listen to live music and enjoy the joys of camping! The Hope Festival starts officially at 12 noon on Friday but you may arrive any time on Friday. If you like an extra night in a tent, you can arrive on Thursday afternoon and pay £10 per person to the farmer for camping.
The Hope Festival has the following attractions:
Over 70 live acts and 3 music stages including the Main Stage, the Windmill-Inn Bar Stage and the Festival Folly Stage — place to the Hope's Got Talent competition.
The Piano Tent — a great place to enjoy some amazing prepared music!
The Campfire — warm yourself by our campfire.
The Kids Workshops Tent — great fun and games for the kids of the festival where they make their costumes for our Kids Procession at midday on Sunday. The Kids Procession ends with a magic show performed in the Piano Tent on Sunday afternoon.
We also have cafes, juice bars and licensed bars with great real ale.
Note: NO DOGS are allowed on site!
There is a £10 increase in adult ticket prices if you want to buy tickets at the box office. Tickets are refundable up to 30 days before the event, and available to purchase until Wednesday 23rd May at 11 p.m., subject to availability.
1．What can we know about the Hope Festival?
A．It starts at 12 noon on Thursday. B．It focuses on a wedding celebration.
C．It has a history of about three decades. D．A family will be charged ￡10 if camping.
2．Where can kids see a magic show?
A．In a licensed bar. B．In the Piano Tent.
C．In the Kids Workshops Tent. D．On the Main Stage.
3．What should people pay attention to?
A．Pets are not allowed in. B．The admission fee is £10 per person.
C．Kids should take their own costumes. D．The prices of adult tickets paid at the box office are higher.
Several weeks ago, I pulled an old road map out of the glove box and passed it to my children. They had never seen the province of Ontario laid out like that before. They stared at the map, asking about all the towns, parks, and other landmarks we'd visited, and I pointed them out on the map.
Google Maps and GPS are modern wonders that have gotten me out of many confusing places, but paper maps still have a role to play in our lives. Most of us adults learned to read them out of necessity, but it's up to us to pass on that skill to children whose need may not be so obvious, but who still stand to benefit from it.
As Trevor Muir wrote in an article on this topic, "When kids learn how to create and use paper maps, they are doing more than just learning how to get around. They are actually developing fundamental skills that they will use for the rest of their lives. Map skills still belong in today's classroom. "
As a child I had National Geographic maps taped to my bedroom walls. This aroused my curiosity and imagination about those places and thus made me eager to remember my geography and history lessons because they were tied to places I'd "seen". Even now as a mother of four, I've also spared time to travel to many of the countries whose maps I studied as a child.
Additionally, in this fast-changing world, unexpected events can rapidly influence one's usual way of life. When GPS satellites or Internet connections are affected, this old-fashioned skill can get you out of a mess without requiring a smartphone. Last but not least, paper maps arouse "big picture" thinking, showing kids that there's a much bigger world out there and helping to direct them within it.
So, now is a good time to pull out those dusty old maps and lay them on the kitchen table.
4．How did the children react when they were given the paper map?
A．They showed great curiosity.
B．They seemed totally confused.
C．They considered it old-fashioned.
D．They found it less convenient than GPS.
5．What might be the topic of the article written by Trevor Muir?
A．The teaching focus in today's classroom.
B．The situations where paper maps are used.
C．The necessity of digital maps in the modem world.
D．The benefit of developing paper map skills for kids.
6．Which of the following shows the author's opinion?
A．Internet connections are very reliable today.
B．GPS will sooner or later replace paper maps.
C．Paper maps provide kids with a grand vision.
D．Paper maps make people connected with each other.
7．What would be the best tide for the text?
A．Time to Teach Kids to Read Paper Maps.
B．How to Teach Kids about Different Kinds of Maps.
C．Time to Encourage Kids to Step into a Bigger World.
D．How to Teach Kids Fundamental Skills with Paper Maps.
Rising global meat consumption is likely to have a destructive environmental effect, increasing carbon emissions(排放)and reducing biodiversitiy (生物多样性), scientists have warned.
A new analysis suggests that meat consumption is set to climb sharply as the world population increases along with average individual incomes.
“What's happening is a big concern.” said Tim Key from the University of Oxford. “On a broad level you can say it is bad for the environment.”
The review,published in the journal Science, found that high levels of meat consumption also have negative health consequences, leading to an increased risk of cancer and other diseases.
The average amount of meat consumed per person globally has nearly doubled in the past 50 years, which means total meat production has been growing much faster than the rate of population growth, having increased four-or five-fold(五倍)since 1961.
There are recent indications that some countries,including the U.K.,may have reached "peak meat". The U.K's 2017 National Food Survey found meat consumption have fallen by 4.2% and that of meat products by nearly 7% since 2012. However, middle-income countries, particularly China and others in East Asia, are still seeing a rise. A recent review by the UN outlines how meat production-particularly livestock(家畜)-is linked to far higher carbon emissions than vegetables, fruit and grain.
Livestock farming is also a major contribution to biodiversity loss, as forests and wild land are given over to agricultural land to grow animal feed.
Processed meat has been ranked by the WHO alongside alcohol and tobacco as cancer causes. According to research of cancer, if no one ate processed or red meat in Britain, there would be 8,800 fewer cases of cancer a year.
8．What's the environmental effect of eating meat?
A．Raising livestock may destroy grasslands and forests.
B．Eating meat leads to the increase of human population.
C．Meat production adds to the amount of carbon emissions on Earth.
D．Keeping too much livestock destroys the balance of nature.
9．What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．Eating huge amounts of meat.
B．Increasing carbon emissions in the air.
C．Reducing diversity of plants.
D．Risking developing cancer.
10．How does livestock lead to biodiversity loss?
A．People farm forests and wild land to grow food for livestock.
B．Plants and animals die from carbon released by livestock.
C．Many plants and animals have become food for livestock.
D．Farm animals have consumed what humans use for food.
11．How does the WHO value processed meat?
A．It's a necessary part of human diet.
B．It's like cigarettes and alcohol which can cause cancer.
C．It can reduce carbon release.
D．It contributes to the fall of meat consumption.
Singapore uses about two billion liters of water every day-a number it expects could double in the next four decades.
That kind of consumption is adding pressure to the Asian city state to address growing concerns about global water shortage. So it's building new technology to prepare itself for a future where obtaining clean water will be even more difficult. "Singapore truly has become a global water center,"said Shane Snyder,executive director of the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University. “But as it stands, it imports approximately 40% of its water today. And with climate change,that water has become far less dependable.”
Singapore, meanwhile, is home to more than five million people and is covered in fountains,reservoirs and other water features-including the world's tallest indoor waterfall, The Rain Vortex that pumps about 45,000 liters of water per minute. But it has no natural water sources of its own,instead relying heavily on recycled water and imports from its neighbors.
Snyder's research facility is one of several places developing solutions for Singapore's water dependency. The hope is to create projects that could be used across the city. "What we have become used to as reliable water may quickly change-so we have to be prepared,and we have to be thinking about the basic facilities in advance. " Snyder said. " There's a big drive to become water independent-to control our own future -and that is largely dependent on the technologies we're developing. "
Another company,Wateroam, is already taking innovation from Singapore to the rest of the region. Founded in 2014,Wateroam says it has developed a lightweight,portable filtration（过滤）device that has already provided clean drinking water to more than 75,000 people across Southeast Asia. Wateroam CEO David Pong said one of the most innovative aspects of the product is its simplicity. The water filtration device is no bigger than a bicycle pump,yet it can provide clean water to villages of 100 people for up to two years.
"We've been very blessed to have access to clean drinking water," Pong said. It's necessary to bring the privilege to the rest of the region, and advocate that clean water is an essential aspect for life on Earth,according to him.
12．What worsens the water shortage problem in Singapore?
A．More water imports. B．The lack of technology.
C．The increasing population. D．Double water consumption.
13．How can water crisis in Singapore be eased?
A．Searching for natural water sources.
B．Controlling the increase of population.
C．Importing water from more neighbors.
D．Using technologies to provide clean water.
14．What do we know about the filtration device from Paragraph 5?
A．It is easy to carry and use.
B．It is larger than a bicycle pump.
C．It has already been used across Asia.
D．It has already been in use for two years.
15．What is the main idea of the text?
A．Clean water is an essential aspect for life on Earth.
B．Technology can help Singapore out with its water shortage.
C．The increasing water consumption is adding pressure to Singapore.
D．Singapore's filtration device has provided many people with clean water.