Beekeeper Pablo Alvarez sits near his hives (蜂箱) and points up into a cloudless, blue Chilean sky. This season, Alvarez says, there is much less bee traffic than usual. Spring rains once led to fields of flowers in Casablanca, a town on the Chilean Pacific coast. Now, there is just dry earth. He says he lost half of his hives by early spring. “At the end of winter, bees need flowers to grow and make honey,” he told Reuters reporters. No flowers means no food, he added.
His story is common among beekeepers across much of central Chile. A severe, years-long lack of rain is making life difficult for honey bees. Concern over how the changing environment has affected bees has reached the highest levels of government in Chile. The country has already provided large amounts of money for farmers suffering from the drought. In August, it said it would include the “costs” of climate change in future agency budgets.
"We all know the importance that bees have in agricultural production," Agriculture Minister Antonio Walker recently told reporters. Honey bees pollinate (授粉) many of Chile’s major export crops, including blueberries, apples and cherries.
Already, agriculture officials have ordered a state of emergency in more than 100 farm communities throughout central Chile. Though dry periods are normal from time to time, officials say climate change has made the current dry period longer and more severe. Rainfall in September in Santiago was down nearly 80 percent compared to the historical average.
Alvarez has begun taking care of an organic bee yard filled with native, drought-resistant plants. Yet even as he describes those efforts, the horn of a water truck sounds. His well has run dry. Now he must pay for water, too.
1.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A.100 farm communities are now in an urgent situation in Chile
B.the government has provided beekeepers with agency budgets
C.beekeepers can use the water for free if their wells have run dry
D.the decreasing number of bees will affect the agricultural production
2.Which best describes the writer’s tone in the passage?
A.Disapproving. B.Enthusiastic.
C.Concerned. D.Doubtful.
3.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Years-long Drought Threatens Honey Bees in Chile
B.Climate Change Makes the Dry Period More Severe
C.The Decrease in Number of Beekeepers Has Drawn Attention
D.The Drought Calls for the Government to Take Immediate Action
COURTESY PAUL BOZYMOWSKI-Three New York City police officers paid for a woman’s groceries rather than arresting her.
As temperatures approached 90 degrees in New York City last July 4th, three police officers ducked into a Whole Foods Market to get something cold to drink. What they walked into was a heated human drama.
Once inside, the cops, Lt. Louis Sojo and Officers Esanidy Cuevas and Michael Rivera, were approached by a store security guard who asked for help with a suspected shoplifter. The woman in question didn’t have the look of a career criminal. She was obviously scared, and her cheeks were wet with tears.
The cops peeked inside her bag. “All we saw was containers of food.” Cuevas told CBS New York.
"I’m hungry," she explained quietly.
Caught red-handed, the woman no doubt expected to be sentenced to jail for the crime of being hungry while poor. But the cops had other ideas. “We’ll pay for her food,” Sojo told the surprised security guard.
There’d been no discussion among the three men. It went unsaid. Instead, they picked up the woman’s bag and accompanied her to a cash register, where each took out $10 to pay the tab. She would not be arrested today.
All the woman could do was weep in gratitude. Covering her face with a kerchief and drying her eyes, she repeated, “Thank you, thank you.”
She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of mercy. “It was a very beautiful, genuine moment,” says Paul Bozymowski, who was at the store. He was so taken by what he’d witnessed that he posted a photo on Twitter for all to see.
But attention was never what the officers sought. They were driven by a far more common emotion. As Sojo told CNN, “When you look at someone’s face and see that they need you and they’re actually hungry, it’s pretty difficult as a human being to walk away from something like this.”
1.What can be learnt about the woman from the passage?
A.She had stolen in the shop several times before.
B.She was caught on the spot by three police officers.
C.She was found innocent and would not be arrested.
D.She was forced to commit the crime due to the dilemma of life.
2.Paul Bozymowski posted a photo on Twitter to .
A.appeal for sympathy for the people in need B.express his gratitude to the police officers
C.show more people the cops’ act of kindness D.record the unforgettable moment in his life
3.What drove the three police officers to pay for the woman?
A.Their great devotion to work B.A deep sense of being human
C.The attraction of the public attention D.Their different attitude towards shoplifting
假定你是李华，你校将组织在校师生本周六去游乐场（amusement park）游玩。请写封邮件邀请外教Bryan同去，内容包括：
1.出发时间、地点；
2.游玩的项目（划船、骑车、喂鱼等）；
3.表达期待。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Bryan,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假设你是红星中学李津，你的美国笔友John发来邮件，他对天津流行的一种共享单车"mobike"很感兴趣，并希望你能简单介绍．请你根据以下提示，给John写一封回信。 要点包括：
1．使用方便（APP査看车辆，扫二维码开锁）
2．容易找到 便于存车
3．其它优点（该部分内容自拟至少两点）
注意：短文字数不少于100词
参考词汇： 智能手机 smart phone 扫二维码 scan the QR Code
Dear John,
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Yours sincerely
Li Jin
结合语境写出划线词（组）在语境中的确切含义。
Group 1
1.The games are an international event that aims to lift the spirits of wounded soldiers. ________
2.Chinese people should make every effort to preserve their old traditions. ________
3.Police arrested an 18-year-old man in the departure lounge of Dover port. ________
4.Under British law it is an offence to carry a knife without good reasons. ________
5.In third party markets, China and Japan should shift from competition to win-win. ________
6.The poll found that 61.5 percent of the respondents said peaceful reunification would bring a better future for the island. ________
7.The cut on his leg bled a lot when he was hurt yesterday. ________
What kind of house will you buy in the future? Would you like to live in a house where your plants can call your phone to tell you that they need to be watered? Or a house that helps you cut your energy bill by turning off the lights when you leave a room? It may sound like science fiction, but it already exists! Come and visit the Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois. It will show how you can live a green lifestyle by making use of advanced technology throughout the home that makes your life easier and simpler.
The Smart Home uses green technology to record the energy it uses, including electricity, water and gas. The house’s energy dashboard (仪表盘) lets you know your energy use through your television and computer. The house greets you with the new information when you walk in the door. It is able to record when you enter and leave rooms, and can switch the lights, television and music off .
The Smart Home is made entirely of recyclable and renewable materials. The furniture is made from used light bulbs, plastic bottles and other renewable materials, but you can’t tell from just looking at them. The kitchen countertops (工作台面) are made of recycled glass.
The entire house is designed to control the use of energy. The roof of the Smart Home has a sustainable vegetable garden, which does little harm to nature. Even the personal computer is green: it uses less power than a 60-watt light bulb. The house can raise and lower the window shades by itself.
1.What is the text mainly about? (no more than 8 words)
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2.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
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3.What is the Smart Home made of? (no more than 10 words)
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4.What does the unlined word “sustainable” mean in the last paragraph? (no more than 3 words)
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5.What do you think of the Smart Home? Explain your reason. (no more than 25 words.)
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