The Honors Program in Biochemistry Mole...

    Some plants get so hungry that they eat flies, spiders, and even small frogs. What’s more amazing is that these plants occur naturally (in special environments) in every state. In fact, they’re found on every continent except Antarctica.

You’ve probably seen a Venus’ flytrap. It’s often sold in museum gift stores, department stores, and even supermarkets. A small plant, it grows 6 to 8 inches tall in a container. At the end of its stalks (茎) are specially modified leaves that act like traps. Inside each trap is a lining of tiny trigger hairs. When an insect lands on them, the trap suddenly shuts. Over the course of a week or so, the plant feeds on its catch.

The Venus flytrap is just one of more than 500 species of meat-eating plants, says Barry Meyers-Rice, the editor of the International carnivorous (食肉的) Plant Society’ s Newsletter. Note: Despite any science-fiction stories you might have read, no meat-eating plant does any danger to humans.

Dr. Meyers-Rice says a plant is meat-eating, only if it does all four of the following “attract, kill, digest, and absorb” some from of insects, including flies, butterflies, and moths. Meat-eating plants look and act like other green plants -- well, most of the time.

All green plants make sugar through a process called photosynthesis (光合作用). Plants use the sugar to make food. What makes “meat-eating” plants different is their bug-catching leaves. They need insects for one reason: nitrogen. Nitrogen is a nutrient that they can’t obtain any other way. While almost all green plants on our planet get nitrogen from the soil, “meat-eating” plants can’t. They live in places where nutrients are hard or almost impossible to get from the soil because of its acidity. So they’ve come to rely on getting nitrogen from insects and small animals. In fact, nutrient-rich soil is poisonous to “meat-eating” plants. Never fertilize them! But don’t worry, either, if they never seem to catch any insects. They can survive, but they’ll grow very slowly.

1.According to the passage, carnivorous plants ________.

A.only grow in wild field B.are rare to see

C.are as common as flies D.cannot grow on Antarctica

2.Venus flytrap preys on insects with ________.

A.its numerous long an thin stalks B.a container where it grows

C.its insect-catching leaves D.the lining of tiny trigger hairs

3.We can conclude from the third paragraph that ________.

A.carnivorous plants are dangerous

B.carnivorous plants are fictional

C.carnivorous plants occasionally eat book

D.carnivorous plants are harmless to humans

4.In the eyes of the author, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Carnivorous plants cannot grow in acid soil

B.Carnivorous plants can grow in nutrient-poor soil

C.Carnivorous plants will die if they cannot catch any insects

D.Carnivorous plants can get nitrogen from nutrient-rich soil

    Today’s cinema has improved a great deal in presentation. Gone are the golden days when eager crowds were packed on wooden benches in poor buildings, which seemed to be about to _________ in the next minute. Audience were staring, with great interest, at the funny and amusing movements of silent figures on the screen. It was only through the body movements and facial expressions that the character’s feelings could be _________ to the audience. However, film goers all the same turned a blind eye to the _________ cinema surroundings and seemed crazy about almost all the films. Box office hits were a normal thing and stories about movie stars took full _________ of the newspapers. They were _________ with almost all positive wordings compared with today’s pitiful stars who are all the time alert to such news as divorces or affairs.

Nowadays, it is quite easy to find a cinema that exceeds the hotel luxury. Cinemas are spacious, well-lit places where one can kill time in comfort. Small favors offered by modern cinemas such as the well-printed booklets, which are _________ available, the mouth-watering snacks on sale and even the gifts are all sending the implied message to the audience that the film to watch will provide the equivalent _________. Audience, on the other hand, don’t always _________ the story. Before a film is released, the potential spectator is usually exposed to a(n) _________ of advertisements. Film trailers are seen everywhere and crew interviews are televised. And in tempting people to enter cinemas, second to none is __________.People rely much no friends’ advice in choosing films.

Once the audience have settled on the chair, the cinema is learning from the theatre. The projectionists are to given the audience time to prepare themselves for the film. Talk first degrades to whisper then __________ altogether. Spotlights are focused on the curtains which are drawn slowly apart, often in the __________ of music, to reveal title of the film. Every detail has been designed so thoughtfully that the spectator will never actually see the __________ screen, which will remind him all too sharply that what he is about to see is nothing but different shadows flashing on the white. However much the cinema tries to __________ theatre, it fully succeeds. Nothing can __________ the awe (敬畏) and sense of expectation felt by the audience as the curtain is slowly raised.

1.A.disappear B.collapse C.freeze D.rise

2.A.interpreted B.responded C.invented D.applied

3.A.special B.inferior C.standard D.loose

4.A.coverage B.use C.benefit D.responsibility

5.A.exposed B.reviewed C.overheard D.equipped

6.A.temporarily B.carefully C.readily D.traditionally

7.A.luxury B.expense C.convenience D.information

8.A.prove B.buy C.investigate D.convey

9.A.explosion B.promotion C.shift D.spread

10.A.walls of ears B.seeing is believing C.word of mouth D.grave of teeth

11.A.drives out B.wears out C.pays off D.dies away

12.A.company B.introduction C.benefit D.end

13.A.decorated B.distinct C.blank D.mechanical

14.A.imitate B.guide C.exploit D.replace

15.A.refer to B.compare with C.suffer from D.persist in

Directions: After reading the passage, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in the blank with the proper form of the given word; for the others, use one word that best fits each blank.

Electronic devices can seem like 1. “third party” in some relationships because some partners spend more time on them than with each other.

When Amanda Gao, a 26-year-old white-collar worker in Beijing, went to a hotpot restaurant with her boyfriend on Friday night several weeks ago, she expected that they would have a good time together. To her disappointment, however, it did not turn our that way later. As soon as they 2. (lead) to their seats and she began to order dishes, he buried himself in his mobile phone.

“It seemed that his phone was making its way 3. us. A date that 4. have belonged to us turned into one where my boyfriend dated a third party and I felt left out.” Gao said, Some people, like her, have found that electronics have been sabotaging (破坏) their romantic relationships.

A study, 5. (publish) in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture in April 2017, questioned nearly 200 college aged adults who were in committed relationships to report on their and their partner’s smartphone dependency. The results showed people who were more dependent 6. their phones were less sure about their relationships, and people who considered their partners excessively (过度地) dependent on their devices were 7. (satisfied) in their relationship.

Lin Yuan, a relationship advisor in Beijing, noted that 8. more and more electronics come out and spice up people’s lives, they are at the same time becoming a third party in relationships, especially for young people.

Lin said she knew of some people who suggest that electronics should be kept out of bedrooms, 9. she considered challenging and hard to be put into practice for most couples. She recommended that 10. people are feeling neglected in their relationship, they need to respectfully let their partners know their feeling. “Communication is always the best and the most efficient way,” she said.

请阅读下面材料，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Recently a piece of news about a child pouring ink and his parents’ education method has aroused a heated discussion among netizens. A 7-year-old naughty boy poured some ink out of a window on the 7th floor, not only dirtying the clothes on the neighbors’ balconies downstairs, but also staining the windows, walls and floors. Hearing about the situation, the parents made apologies from door to door with their son. Meanwhile, they brought home the neighbors’ stained clothes to wash and compensated for their losses. In addition, the parents paid for professionals to clean the polluted walls, in front of which their son was kept standing in the sun and watching them being cleaned.

The news resonated (共鸣) with netizens in that many families have such children, who often  make mistakes. High praise has been given to the couple for the method of educating their son. Instead of beating or scolding him, the couple took their responsibility as parents and punished their son to make him aware of the consequences of improper behavior.

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1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；

2. 你如何看待该父母处理此事的方式，并给出理由;

3. 请针对孩子犯错，给出合理的应对建议（不少于两点）；

4. 结合自身实际，谈谈你会如何回报亲情。

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1. 写作过程中不得直接引用原文语句；

2. 文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3. 不必写标题。

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内容完整，语言规范，语篇办连贯，词数适当。

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Millions of people illegally download movies, music and video games every day, and online piracy is a serious and expensive problem. Recent figures show that 90% of files transferred over file-sharing networks are copyrighted. And it's costing the US economy up to $250 billion a year. At the heart of the matter there's a moral question to consider. Is it fair that someone downloads for free in seconds something that took a team of people months of hard work to create?

What are governments doing about online piracy? Some countries have passed tough new laws. The Spanish government has shut down domestic file-sharing websites and blocked access to overseas-based sites. Also, governments are going after high-profile pirates. Kim Dotcom, the owner of Megaupload.com, was arrested in New Zealand, who has been accused of piracy because many people were using his website to swap copyrighted files.

Are laws and arrests really the best way? Many people aren't so sure. The problem is that films are released at different times around the world. Kim Dotcom says that a teenager in Germany, for example, has to wait six months to see a movie that has already come out in the U.S. So, instead of waiting, they download it illegally. Kim says, ''If everybody had access to content at the same time, you wouldn't have a piracy problem. ''

American company Netflix lets users stream films to their TV. But many complain that Netflix's selection of movies is too small and that there aren't enough new releases. One reason is that studios release films on DVD and then, after a few months, make them available for streaming. But what actually happens is one person buys the DVD, they upload it to a file-sharing site and everyone else downloads it for free.

American law student Srikant believes that if movie studios and record companies want to beat the pirates, they need to make it just as simple and quick to get content legally. ''I think people would pay for content if it's reasonably priced and it's available when they want it. '' he adds.

This is already happening with music. Spotify is a program that lets you stream music to your computer for just €5 per month. And since it was launched in Sweden in 2009, online music piracy in Sweden has dropped by 25%. The key to its success lies in that Spotify has a large range of music; songs are instantly available and the service is reasonably priced.

Easy access isn't the only possible solution. Economist Glenn MacDonald thinks he has the answer. He says record companies should give albums away for free and then make money from tours and merchandising. That's not such a ridiculous idea. The heavy metal group Manowar has made a fortune from their tours, which are full of fans who discovered the band by illegally downloading the music.

Online piracy is a complex and controversial issue. And one thing is for sure: it's not going away anytime soon .

Online piracy----The issue of illegal file sharing