Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko, known as the world’s largest “floating slum (贫民窟)”, built on a lake in Lagos, Nigeria. Okpoe’s father is a fisherman, and her mother sells smoked fish.
As many as two-thirds of the city’s 21 million residents live in slums. “Most girls are trapped in a terrible cycle of poverty. Many of them are not thinking of education, a plan for the future,” Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin, a computer programmer in Lagos, recalls. But several times a week, girls like Okpoe get a glimpse of another world when they attend GirlsCoding, a free program run by the Pearls Africa Foundation that seeks to educate and excite girls about computer programming. Since 2012, the group has helped more than 400 disadvantaged girls gain the technical skills and confidence they need to transform their lives.
It’s the vision of Ajayi-Akinfolarin, who left a successful career to devote herself to this work. She'd noticed how few women worked in this growing field-a 2013 government survey found that less than 8% of Nigerian women were employed in technology jobs. She wanted to fix the gender gap. “Technology is a space that’s dominated by men. Why should we leave that to guys?” she said. “I believe girls need opportunities.”
Now, dozens of girls aged 10 to 17 get trained in computer programming technology. “I believe you can still find diamonds in these places,” Ajayi-Akinfolarin said. “They need to be shown another life.” One way her program does this is by taking the students to visit tech companies — not only showing them what technology can do, but also helping them visualize themselves joining the industry.
Okpoe, for one, has taken this to heart. She helped create an app called Makoko Fresh that went live this summer, enabling fishermen like her father to sell seafood directly to customers. She even wants to become a software engineer and hopes to study computer science at Harvard. “One thing I want my girls to hold onto is, regardless of where they are coming from, that they can make it,” Ajayi said. “They are coders. They are thinkers. Their future is bright.”
1.What can we learn about GirlsCoding?
A.It encourages girls to land a job in education.
B.It offers Nigerian girls in need part-time jobs.
C.It helps girls working in Lagos to fight poverty.
D.It teaches girls in Makoko computer programming.
2.What did Ajayi-Akinfolarin say about the growing field in Paragraph 3?
A.Men could do far better in technology jobs.
B.Girls should get equal work opportunities.
C.Men normally got paid more than women.
D.Girls tended to devote themselves to work.
3.What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A.Rebuilding the girls’ confidence.
B.Training the girls to find diamonds.
C.Presenting a different life to the girls.
D.Taking the girls to technology companies.
4.What can we infer about Okpoe from the last paragraph?
A.She got fishermen to benefit from her app.
B.She was admitted to Harvard University.
C.She took her father’s suggestion to heart.
D.She made some changes to computer science.
Shanghai University of Sport (SUS) Invites Global Talents
The Physical Fitness teaching team is one of the excellent national-level course teaching teams at SUS. The main courses of this team are Theories and Methods of Healthy Fitness Assessment, Sports Prescription and Sports Health Management. The following positions are available for applicants worldwide.
Leading Expert
Qualifications:
* A Ph.D. degree or an MD degree from an accredited(授权的)institutionis required.
* Applicants have productive research activities, including, but not limited to, publications, conference presentations, and copywriting.
Faculty Member Qualifications :
* A Ph.D. degree or an MD degree from an accredited institution is required.
* Applicants have successful teaching experiences at the undergraduate and graduate level.
* Disciplines: Physical Health Monitoring, Fitness Assessment, Preventive Medicine, Statistics, Child Health, Nutrition and Food Safety, and Data Science.
Postdoc Fellowship Qualifications :
* A Ph. D. degree from an accredited institution is obtained within the last 3 years; fresh graduates are given priority in consideration.
* The first author publications in peer-reviewed journals and a strong publication record are preferred.
* Strong communication and cooperation skills and an interest in working in an inter- disciplinary environment are also required.
Research Assistant Qualifications:
* An MD degree from an accredited institution is obtained within the last 3 years in sports rehabilitation(康复)medicine or closely related fields.
* Strong publications in top international journals (the first author) are preferred.
* Good hands-on skills and good English communication skills are required.
Please email all materials as a PDF file to Dr. Kailimi Li at likailimi@ sus. edu. en with the subject: the title of the position for which you are applying. Application deadline: July 31, 2020 or until filled.
1.Which position favors a recent graduate with a Ph.D. degree?
A.Leading Expert. B.Faculty Member.
C.Postdoc Fellowship. D.Research Assistant.
2.Who is most likely to get the position of Faculty Member?
A.A regular contributor to international journals.
B.A researcher in sports rehabilitation medicine.
C.A writer giving many conference presentations.
D.A professor teaching Nutrition and Food Safety.
3.What is the common qualification required by all the positions?
A.A degree from an accredited institution.
B.Communication and cooperation skills.
C.The first author publication record.
D.A good command of English.
假定你是李华，你班外教Ms. Cindy任教期满即将回国。作为班长，你将代表班级 在告别会上发言致谢,并赠送带有中国文化特色的礼物。内容包括：
1. 感激之情；
2. 礼物寓意；
3. 美好祝愿。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处.每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧ ），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉°
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分.
Recently, my class has participated an activity organized by our school for Earth Day. We felt this our duty to arouse people’s awareness of protecting our earth. First, we make some handcrafts with some plastic bottles and that waste paper. Then, we held a exhibition in a community and gave them up to visitors. What inspired us more was their love and praise to our handcrafts. At last, at that shared meeting, our monitor gave a speech. But he said that only if each of us took measure to protect our earth could we make a better earth.
A drop in tourism during the coronavirus crisis is making it more difficult for some organizations to protect 1. (threaten) wildlife in Africa. Wildlife 2. (official) fear poaching (偷猎) activity will rise because the collapse of the travel industry leaves less money for guarding animals.
African rhinos have long been 3. threat from poachers who kill them for their horns. The illegal trade is fueled by the belief, in some cultures, 4. the horns have medicinal value which has not been proven by science.
The number of black rhinos in Africa 5. (increase) slowly. But a report in March by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said it still considered the animals “critically endangered”. In part, it credits the comeback of the rhinos to effective law enforcement. 6., the enforcement measures are very
costly. The organization spends about $10,000 each year for every rhino to pay for the protection.
The IUCN expects to lose $3 to $ 4 million this year and the 7. (lose) severely limits the group’s ability 8. (protect) the rhinos. Wildlife activists across Africa are now waiting to see how poachers will react to the current situation, and whether more rare wildlife 9. (kill).
The IUCN said the population of black rhinos grew at a 10. (year) rate of 2.5 percent between 2012 and 2018. Now, there are more than 5,600 animals. That growth was predicted to continue over the next five years, the environmental group said.
It is 5 am and it’s too dark to see the fields of volcanic rock and trees on either side of the highway. But over the lights of my car, I get a taste of the _________ I’m really here for, as a few stars pierce（穿透）the inky _________ sky.
Today our relationship to the universe is largely connected by _________, such as telescopes and NASA assignments. But for thousands of years, humans could _________ look up on a clear night to be _________ at the bright spots that stretched directly over them.
But over time, we’ve _________ ourselves from our sky, building a covering of artificial light between ourselves and the dark depth of space. Our _________ , neon signs (霓虹灯), and other electric lights are increasingly flooding the night sky and _________ the stars. _________, about one third of the world’s population cannot see the Milky Way from where they live. And some can’t even recognize it. The sense of wonder for the night sky ____________, and that means something vital to humanity is lost as well.
That’s why I’ve dragged myself out of bed hours before ____________. Like 99 percent of Americans, I live with ____________ pollution and I’ve never seen a truly night sky. So I’m here to ____________ my first glance.
As I ____________ out of the car, I ____________ raise my face up towards the sky, worrying whether I can make it. There it is, ____________ across the sky as far as I can see. The Milky Way is so vivid that my eyes don’t even have to ____________ the dark to see it.
I expect to feel the ____________ of the sky, perhaps as though I’m falling into a bottomless hole. Instead, the blanket of stars above me is so thick that it is hard to ____________. In black and white, the whole scene feels surreal. As I get back in the car, I pass a ____________ that says “Never Stop Looking Up”.
1.A.view B.issue C.event D.cause
2.A.bright B.black C.blue D.dirty
3.A.emotion B.survey C.imagination D.technology
4.A.completely B.hardly C.simply D.rarely
5.A.depressed B.frightened C.confused D.amazed
6.A.excused B.distanced C.freed D.defended
7.A.shops B.decorations C.streetlights D.buildings
8.A.covering B.beating C.unlocking D.reflecting
9.A.However B.Instead C.Therefore D.Meanwhile
10.A.increases B.disappears C.struggles D.pours
11.A.sunrise B.dark C.sunset D.dusk
12.A.noise B.air C.waste D.light
13.A.turn out B.search for C.apply for D.figure out
14.A.step B.look C.wonder D.think
15.A.formally B.confidently C.nervously D.casually
16.A.putting B.walking C.cutting D.stretching
17.A.adjust to B.turn to C.depend on D.throw away
18.A.length B.width C.depth D.strength
19.A.test B.weigh C.catch D.measure
20.A.note B.sign C.letter D.signal
