Fortunately, the number of cyclists running traffic lights is ______.
A. on the decrease B. on the rise
C. on the run D. on the move
The right thing would be to ______ direct pressure to the wound.
A. attach B. apply
C. devote D. contribute
Some of us are ______ to smells, others find colors easier to remember.
A. familiar B. similar
C. sensitive D. distant
Most parents send care packages and gifts to their children when they’re away at university. Terri Cox, from Leonardtown, Maryland, isn’t one of those ______.
A few weeks ago, Terri sent her son, 18-year-old Connor, who’s now away at Westminster College in Pennsylvania, a(n) ______. When Connor first ______ the package, he thought it was a ______ gift filled with necessities(必需品).
“I was ______, because it’s like Christmas when you get mail from ______ when you’re in college,” he said.
______ as Connor opened the package, what was actually inside couldn’t have been further from what he had ______.
It wasn’t a ______, a care package, or even college supplies. It was something he’d ______ while at home for the Christmas break --- his ______.
The box was filled with trash(垃圾) --- everything he was too ______ to take out when his mother had ______ him to over Christmas.
In fact, Connor ______ to do all of his housework at home. So Mom Terri got the idea to post his rubbish to him to ______ him. Connor didn’t ______ why his mom did this to him until he gave her a call. “She isn’t usually ______, and I didn’t see this as a big punishment. It was more of a(n) ______ reminder(提醒) that I have duties. And we have a good laugh on the phone,” he added.
Connor later said that the rubbish he’d received in the box was only a part of what he was actually meant to ______.
Where was the rest? They were hidden in his bedroom drawers.
Considering what happens to rubbish if left for a long time, let’s hope Terri ______ the rest of it fast.
1.A. children B. parents C. students D. friends
2.A. postcard B. book C. package D. email
3.A. discovered B. opened C. prepared D. got
4.A. normal B. small C. cheap D. different
5.A. excited B. careful C. angry D. disappointed
6.A. class B. neighbors C. family D. shops
7.A. So B. But C. Unless D. And
8.A. refused B. decided C. imagined D. avoided
9.A. prize B. gift C. box D. joke
10.A. looked into B. put down C. searched for D. left behind
11.A. paper B. rubbish C. money D. food
12.A. lazy B. afraid C. shy D. stupid
13.A. invited B. promised C. allowed D. asked
14.A. planned B. failed C. happened D. preferred
15.A. warn B. rescue C. surprise D. stop
16.A. remember B. understand C. believe D. realize
17.A. creative B. humorous C. strict D. kind
18.A. fun B. important C. final D. uncomfortable
19.A. wait for B. pay for C. take out D. point out
20.A. finds B. recycles C. sends D. hides
I work as a meteorologist(气象学家) in Tampa, Florida. It’s my job to follow hurricanes(飓风) and provide information about them to scientists.
I was working for the National Meteorological Office in Bracknell, near London, in the autumn of 1995, and I saw a documentary called Stormchasers with family. 1. Two months later I came across an ad for a meteorologist to work in Florida. I was interviewed over the phone, moved to the US, and started to work here in Tampa in May 1996.
2. I have been all over the world hunting hurricanes. It’s exciting to end up in different cities and different countries day after day. If you are a meteorologist, you have to love flying. I also love working with top scientists. 3. For me, it’s like a classroom in the sky.
People often ask me what an average day is like. In fact, there’s no such thing as an average day in my job! 4. We often take off at a moment’s notice to hunt storms.
Next, I would like to join a space program and be the first meteorologist in space. 5. There aren’t any hurricanes!
If you also want to be a meteorologist, study math and science and get a degree in meteorology. I have taken the hurricane hunter path, but you could do research.
A. I have learned so much from them.
B. What I like most about my job is the travel.
C. It’s a wonderful job and the pay is pretty good.
D. It all depends on the weather, and you can’t control that.
E. However, I haven’t come up with an experiment to do in space yet.
F. Because of the job, I’m away from my family who all live in the UK.
G. It was about hurricane hunters and I thought, “Wow, that’s an interesting job!”
Guam is a beautiful, small island in the Pacific Ocean. You’ll find happy songbirds, clear blue water, and leafy forest there. But the small island has a big problem: snakes. There are about 2 million brown tree snakes living in Guam.
The snakes likely arrived in the 1940s. They probably slipped(滑行) unseen onto ships and planes heading to Guam. Once there, the snakes laid eggs. Snake families grew. The snakes have no natural enemies to eat them on Guam. Soon, the island was covered with these snakes.
The brown tree snake has had a devastating effect. The snakes eat birds. There used to be 12 kinds of birds on the island. But these snakes have killed off nine kinds of the birds. The snakes can grow to be 10 feet long. They often bite humans. They climb onto power lines and make the electricity go out. This causes millions of dollars in damage.
Scientists have tried many different ways to control the number of snakes. They have used snake traps and snake-sniffing dogs. Nothing seemed to work. Nothing, that is, until they found a surprising secret weapon: killer mice.
Scientists found out that there is one easy way to kill brown tree snakes. They could give them a medicine called Tylenol. People take Tylenol for headaches and other pains. Even a little bit of Tylenol can kill a brown tree snake.
But how would scientists get the tree snakes to eat Tylenol? They came up with a plan. First, the experts put the medicine into dead mice. Then they attached each mouse to a mini paper parachute(降落伞). Planes dropped the mice over Guam. The parachutes got caught in the trees. The mice became dinner for the snakes that live there.
Has it worked? So far, research shows that there are fewer snakes because of the mice. The worry is that it may be too late to clear the snakes, but Mr. Vice from Guam’s Department of Agriculture says this should not stop the islanders from trying. “Our long-term goal is to kill the snake off completely,” he says.
1.What can we learn about the brown tree snakes?
A. They were shipped to Guam on purpose.
B. They were not native to Guam.
C. They were at risk in the 1940s.
D. They grew very slowly.
2.What does the underlined word “devastating” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Magical.
B. Interesting.
C. Short-term.
D. Damaging.
3.What was a more workable way to kill the brown tree snakes?
A. Using snake traps.
B. Putting Tylenol in the trees.
C. Bringing in their enemies.
D. Letting them eat Tylenol carried by mice.
4.What does Mr. Vice think of solving this snake problem?
A. He is proud of it.
B. He is hopeful of it.
C. He is doubtful about it.
D. He is unconcerned about it.
