Inside a library in a seaside town is a room changed into a cafe. There might be a homeless man _______ coffee for a sad mother, an elderly woman _______ a young man advice and strangers sharing stories. This community open space _______ to solve the central problems that commonly lead to homelessness: _______ and a lack of purpose.
It’s the _______ of Maff Potts. While working with charities for the homeless, he felt _______ because they weren’t reducing homelessness. All the shelters only helped people once they’d already lost everything, _______ trying to solve the problems that led to their homelessness in the first place. A main _______, he discovered, is that many people who ended up at the shelters were alone. Their relationships had broken down, they didn’t have a(n) _______ system, or they had no one to show them __________.
Potts understands how altruism (利他主义) can help. Over the years during his work on homelessness, when he met people in their __________ moments, Potts began asking them to do him a favour. One man __________ he’d been a painter, so Potts started __________ how the reception area could use redecorating and asked the man for his __________.The man ended up offering to __________ it himself. The task gave him a __________, a reason to keep living.
“The thing that led to a lasting transformation was when they __________ somebody else,” Potts said. “That was __________ time.”
So Potts started thinking there must be a way to __________ the lives of people who are __________ not by making them feel like they’re always receiving help, but by giving them a space to help others — and in the end, help themselves.
1.A.drinking B.making C.growing D.hiding
2.A.saving B.paying C.awarding D.offering
3.A.seeks B.deserves C.happens D.pretends
4.A.Sickness B.Tiredness C.Loneliness D.Weakness
5.A.idea B.excuse C.hobby D.feeling
6.A.shocked B.interested C.disappointed D.frightened
7.A.regardless of B.instead of C.as for D.along with
8.A.mistake B.result C.technique D.cause
9.A.support B.power C.health D.alarm
10.A.freedom B.wisdom C.kindness D.patience
11.A.latest B.funniest C.fittest D.darkest
12.A.preferred B.mentioned C.recommended D.demanded
13.A.insisting on B.hearing of C.depending on D.talking about
14.A.advice B.duty C.research D.attention
15.A.repair B.repaint C.reinvent D.replace
16.A.break B.lesson C.purpose D.promise
17.A.challenged B.invited C.helped D.recognised
18.A.familiar B.strange C.terrible D.magic
19.A.copy B.improve C.reflect D.record
20.A.struggling B.changing C.relaxing D.escaping
For thousands of years, salting was a common way to preserve food. Corned beef (咸牛肉）, bacon, green beans, and hundreds of other foods were preserved with salt.1. Then, in the 1800s, a Frenchman named Louis Pasteur discovered the secret: bacteria.
What does salt have to do with bacteria? Two things: First, bacteria need moisture (水分）to grow and multiply. Salt pulls moisture out of food, so the bacteria die. 2. If you cover food with salt or very salty liquid, bacteria outside the food die before they get in, and bacteria already in the food are poisoned by the salt that goes inside.
3. For meat or fish,you pour on a layer of salt, then rub it in well, leaving a salt crust (盾）all over the outside. Hams are often made this way. Another way is to put food into very salty water, called brine (卤水）.4. The salt will draw the moisture out of the food, creating a kind of brine that the food sits in.
Today, in most parts of the world, salting, is no longer necessary. 5. But even though we no longer rely on salt to keep our food fresh, we haven’t lost our taste for salt. We don’t want to give up our bacon, corned beef or salted beans.
A.So how do you preserve food with salt?
B.Next, it can make food too salty to eat.
C.Second, salt is poisonous to many bacteria.
D.But for a long time, no one knew why salt worked.
E.You can alternate layers of food and salt in a big jar.
F.People buy food in cans, keep it in the refrigerator, or freeze it.
G.They use salt to preserve meat, fish, vegetables, and even fruit.
Imagine you are floating in space on a huge NASA spacecraft. A satellite is on a collision course with your spaceship. You have just been told by your commanders on Earth to evacuate. You and your teammates have to make rapid decisions for your escape and survival.
Engaging children in a NASA mission (任务) is a lesson that 23 pre-service teachers (职前教师)were taught to carry out at a recent Pre-Service Teacher Institute (PSTI) summer workshop (讲习班)at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
At this two-week workshop, these college students were given hands-on activities designed to increase their skills in teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) . They were shown how to include NASA missions and research into their lesson plans. They met with NASA engineers and were given tours of NASA facilities (设施)by the latter to help them develop and teach a problem-based lesson to children.
“NASA is pleased to support college students who want to teach STEM to young children,” said Lewis Braxton, director of the research center. “It was exciting to see PSII students fully engaged in developing new skills in STEM to meet the challenges of a space-related teaching task,” said Steve Price, the principal investigator of PSTI at California State University, Fresno.
“PSTI has provided me with the necessary tools and techniques to fully develop my skills as a teacher. I’ll use what I’ve learned to help my students succeed in their studies,” said Elijah Carnillo, one of the pre-service teachers.
1.What does the underlined word “evacuate” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A.Withdraw.
B.Wait.
C.Follow.
D.Resist.
2.What is the purpose of the PSTI workshop?
A.To invite students to engage in NASA missions.
B.To encourage graduates to work at NASA.
C.To introduce the latest space technology.
D.To help with space-related STEM teaching.
3.What did NASA engineers do for the PSTI students?
A.They graded their homework.
B.They adjusted their work schedules.
C.They built them a spacecraft model.
D.They showed them some space equipment.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.PSTI: Getting You Ready for Your Class
B.STEM: The Key to a Successful Career
C.Space: The Final Homework Frontier
D.NASA: The Home of Astronauts
Picture this: You’re playing soccer with friends. As you kick the ball, you realize the bottom of your foot feels cold and wet. You turn your sneaker up to look at the sole (鞋底). A big crack(裂缝) is letting water from the ground in. When you get home, you throw your ruined sneakers away.
Now imagine another ending to the story. You don’t throw the sneakers away. Instead, you push the two sides of the cracked sole together so they’re touching. You leave the sneaker in a warm spot. A few hours later, the crack disappears.
Thanks to Qiming Wang, a professor at the University of Southern California, a self-healing (自我修复的) sneaker sole could soon become reality. Wang and his team have invented 3D printable rubber that could fix itself. When it’s exposed to heat, it causes a chemical reaction that bonds its atoms back together. The material could be used to3D print not only sneaker soles, but also toys, bike tires, even satellites.
To 3D print a self-healing object, the first step is to make a model of it on the computer. The model is “divided” into 100 smaller pictures. This first picture is projected onto a thin laver (层) of the rubber, which starts as a liquid. The rubber takes on the shape of the picture, and the light from the projection turns it from liquid to solid. The next picture is projected on another layer of liquid rubber on top of the first one. The final, complete shape is built up layer by layer like this.
Many footwear companies want to buy this technology. First, though, Wang and his team have to try to make the material in different levels of hardness. Wang thinks it will take two or three years for their material to show up in shoes we buy in stores.
One exciting thing about the special rubber is the amount of waste it can reduce, Plus, it can self-heal “more than 10 times”. When it can’t heal anymore, it can be recycled.
1.How does the author introduce the topic?
A.By asking questions for readers to think about.
B.By presenting a possible situation in our life.
C.By telling an interesting story about himself.
D.By comparing different research findings.
2.What is the key to the self-healing process?
A.Proper temperature.
B.Strong light.
C.Enough water.
D.Fresh air.
3.What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A.The process of 3D printing a self-healing object.
B.The steps to make the self-healing rubber.
C.The material of self-healing objects.
D.The advantages of 3D printing.
4.What do we know about the special rubber?
A.It has a high price.
B.It is environment-friendly.
C.It has a very short usage period.
D.It is being tried by footwear companies.
As a children's author and former English teacher, Abi Elphinstone has spent almost all of her life surrounded by the written word. Now an ambassador for the charity Coram Beanstalk, Ms Elphinstone plays a key role in championing the importance of literacy (读写能力）and the role played by its volunteers.
The charity has teamed up with the i (a British newspaper) to increase the number of its helpers, which it sends into schools to give children aged 3 to 13 who have fallen behind with their reading or are at risk of doing so support with their reading.
“I think there is an absolute need to reach kids who don't have access to books,” she said. “Just reading for 10 minutes a day improves a child’s achievement at school. Books show children the world is big and varied and full of wonder.”
And Ms Elphinstone knows first-hand how tricky reading is from her own experience. “In class when the teacher said 'could you read aloud', the words would jump all over the page and I’d stumble （结巴）and lose so much confidence,” she said. “That was difficult. Until way after leaving school, I just assumed I needed to put in a lot more work than other people to finish an essay or process information.”
Nowadays she thinks one of the biggest challenges is the competition books face from screens, which are being used by children for everything from videos and games to social media.
“There's so much demand on their time and it’s such an easy, quick-fix demand,” she said. “It's immediate satisfaction. Screens are loud and books whisper with quieter magic, but I think the effects are transformative and they are longer lasting than a Screen.”
This is where she thinks Coram Beanstalk can help, both with reading and also making children Feel valued.
1.Why did Coram Beanstalk work with the i ?
A.To advertise its ambassador.
B.To find more book donators.
C.To attract more people to volunteer.
D.To help increase the newspaper's subscription.
2.What is the goal of Coram Beanstalk?
A.To teach children English.
B.To encourage reading in children.
C.To inspire children to write books.
D.To improve children's social skills.
3.Which of the following Ms Elphinstone's school experience?
A.She had limited access to books.
B.She could hardly finish reading a book.
C.She was afraid of reading loudly in public.
D.She seldom handed in her class essay on time.
4.What's Ms Elphinstone's opinion on screens?
A.They affect children in a quict way.
B.They have a short-term effect on children.
C.They offer children easy access to books.
D.They bring children transformative change.
Nanny (保姆)Positions
Applicant Requirements:
·Be at least 21 years of age.
·Have a minimum of 3 years of private in-home childcare experience.
·Provide phone and e-mail information for 2 recent childcare employment references.
·Provide current US work authorization.
·Be able to make a minimum one-year commitment.
Battery Park
Here is the schedule: Monday 2:30 pm—6:30 pm, Tuesday 4:30 pm—6:30pm, Wednesday 3:30 pm—6:30pm, Friday 7:30 am—6:30 pm. Children include 2 girls and a boy. Responsibilities include children’s care, playful engagement (参与)and organization of their spaces and belongings, children’s laundry and evening baths.
Brooklyn
The schedule is Tuesday to Friday from 11 am—7 pm. One 6-month-old boy. Responsibilities are all related to the baby and his care. You'll monitor and promote his continued strong development, provide clothing care and healthy meal options. Please like cats; they have an animal friend.
Forest Hills
The schedule is Monday to Friday from 2:15 pm—7:15 pm. A boy aged 9 and a girl aged 5. Responsibilities include school pick-ups, homework help, children’s meal preparation and keeping the common areas tidy. There are no pets, no travel and there is a weekly housekeeper for deep cleaning.
The Upper East Side (UES)
The schedule is Monday to Thursday from 2:30 pm—8 pm and Fridays from around noon—7:30 pm. Children include a 3-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. Responsibilities are all child-related and a willingness to work alongside the full-time nanny to help with meal preparation. Must swim and drive.
For more information, please call 1-212-333-6411.
1.What is required of all applicants?
A.Living in the US for three years.
B.Working as a nanny for at least one year.
C.Working for no less than 30 hours per week.
D.Offering former employers’ phone numbers.
2.When is the working time for the Battery Park position?
A.Monday morning.
B.Tuesday morning.
C.Wednesday morning.
D.Friday morning.
3.What is a responsibility for the UES position?
A.Taking care of a cat.
B.Helping prepare meals.
C.Cleaning the house thoroughly.
D.Picking up children after school.
