Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. There were events around the world in memory of those who died in the conflict. We have picked out three of them in European countries. Let's take a look.
Belgium
In a park, the famous Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen had an exhibition called Coming World, Remember Me. The work consisted of 600,000 individual(个别的) clay sculptures, one for each person killed during the World War. In the center of the exhibition was a big egg made of clay, symbolizing a new world.
UK
In a small town called Aldridge, almost 100 houses in one street were covered with 24,000 poppies and statues of soldiers. They stood for the men from the area who had been killed in the war. The flowers were chosen because of a poem written by the Canadian doctor John McCrea in 1915. They made people think of fields of blood.
France
The British artist Guy Denning arrived in La Feuille, a small town in the northwest of France, to stick life-size drawings of soldiers who never came back home. Armed with glue and a brush, Denning stuck his drawings carefully on walls. Before long 112 men, mainly young adults, were brought back to mind, if not to life.
1.What do we know about Coming World, Remember Me?
A.It's the name of an exhibition. B.It's a film about World War I.
C.It's a work standing for peace. D.It's a sculpture made of clay.
2.Why were poppies chosen to symbolize the dead soldiers?
A.The British people preferred them. B.They showed the cruelty of war.
C.A Canadian doctor suggested them. D.The fields were filled with them.
3.How was the end of World War I marked in France?
A.A memorial to the dead soldiers was built.
B.112 wounded soldiers in the war were helped.
C.Drawings of some dead soldiers were put up.
D.Young adults were encouraged to join the army.
假定你是李华，每年6月是世界环保月，请你代表学校学生会，以“从我做起,爱护环 境”为主题,向全校同学写一封倡议书。
内容包括：
1.提出倡议的宗旨；2.倡议的具体内容。
注意：1.词数100左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇:世界环保月 World Environment Month
Dear students.
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The Students' Union
Jun. 22th. 2020
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删减：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，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。
It was a Sunday afternoon. My parents and I were watching TV excited when suddenly I spotted the pigeon on the balcony. It was a white pigeon with a ring around one of its foot. It rested there quietly, refuse to fly away. Realizing it must have been lost its way back home, I managed call the Pigeon Association up for help. In the same time, my parents brought the pigeon inside and gave it some bird food, what helped refresh it. Before long, the owner got the message but came to take the pigeon back. He thanked us a lot. My parents and I both felt happy for what we had done.
Since I was young. I've noticed _______ in people's hairstyles, clothes, facial expressions and behaviors. I like noticing the world around me and I _______ the power of paying attention.
I grew up on our family farm. My grandpa always had an eye on the sky, _______the clouds and their various colors. He knew when the soybeans got the _______ of brown paper bags it was time to _______. Farming is about noticing and paying attention.
My mother and grandmother _______ everything from curtains to clothes. My mother made quite a few of my _______ and her pattern work was so _______. My aunt Becky knit socks and sweaters. The patterns looked like a foreign language to me, but they were road maps my mother followed _______ If she noticed a __________ stitch(一针), she would follow seriously __________ The women in my family practiced __________crafts, requiring precision and an eye for __________ attention to color combinations and a love of a __________ world.
Noticing was all around me. It was the clothes on my body, the __________ in the fields, and the clouds in the sky.
I'm teaching how to write and seeing details is my job. Nothing is too small to __________Paying attention is my occupation. Through paying attention to my __________carefully, I can get to know more about them than before. So if I notice that their eyes look __________ instead of bright. I will know why. The world is __________ one detail after another, and by opening my eyes to each of them, I can see the world much more __________much more broadly.
1.A.decorations B.inventions C.figures D.changes
2.A.believe in B.think of C.talk about D.look into
3.A.introducing B.complaining C.interpreting D.painting
4.A.shape B.color C.weight D.size
5.A.grow B.water C.weed D.harvest
6.A.sewed B.bought C.ploughed D.designed
7.A.bags B.beds C.clothes D.books
8.A.adequate B.precise C.complicated D.fragile
9.A.badly B.carelessly C.rudely D.seriously
10.A.dropped B.broken C.sharpened D.shortened
11.A.yet B.too C.again D.though
12.A.troublesome B.conventional C.demanding D.simple
13.A.detail B.sky C.perfection D.money
14.A.patterned B.wandering C.rough D.noisy
15.A.farmers B.workers C.fruits D.crops
16.A.hear B.ignore C.concern D.share
17.A.parents B.colleagues C.neighbors D.students
18.A.big B.dull C.open D.clever
19.A.made up for B.got hold of C.composed of D.knocked out of
20.A.clearly B.bravely C.hopefully D.easily
Why Walking Makes You a Better Worker?
We’re busy at work, distracted by technology and often live in urban environments far from wild spaces.
1. The average American, for example, spends about 90% of their life indoors. But what happens if we make time for an hour outside each day?
2. You’ll have to stand up and move, which is beneficial if most of your day involves sitting in front of a screen. Research shows short breaks can improve work enthusiasm, and a quick break in natural light will deliver a shot of vitamin D.
There’s also a lot of work on the mental benefits of being in nature — on the state of being happy and on your brain’s ability to make sense of life. “When people are all out in nature, even in urban nature, people tend to have more positive emotion and energy than when they are indoors. 3.” says Lisa Nisbet, associate professor at Canada’s Trent University.
The idea that nature is good for us has been gaining ground since the 1980s. 4. Afterwards shinrin-yoku, the Japanese concept followed that absorbing the atmosphere in forests can benefit your health. Researchers of shinrin-yoku have since found plenty of physical and mental benefits, while global studies suggest time in nature can, for example, restore our ability to focus, increase creativity, and even help us live longer.
Of course, many of us live in cities with no ready access to forests or wilderness. 5. Various studies have shown that green environments in cities have beneficial effects.
A.There are some obvious benefits to going outside.
B.But it doesn’t have to be a forest.
C.spending time in nature makes us healthier and happier.
D.In other words, people are happier in nature.
E.We also don’t get out much.
F.Green and blue spaces are better than busy city streets.
G.First came the theory that humans have a basic desire to connect with nature.
You've probably heard that brick — and — mortar retail(实体零售)is in trouble. Even industry giants are closing hundreds of stores. Given retail's gradual change to mobile and e-commerce, you may be wondering. What will retail look like in the future? Nobody knows. But here are a few things you can expect to see based on current technology.
Ultrafast delivery is coming. Today, the normal practice is two — day delivery. But if you've been paying attention, you know that's changing. In fact, a surprisingly high 25% of consumers said that they would abandon their orders if one — day delivery wasn't available. Of course, that's just the beginning. Two-hour delivery is coming in the foreseeable future, and Amazon has already been trying 30-minute delivery.
Your kitchen will resupply itself. You won't have to worry about running out of essentials like coffee, pet food or snacks because your containers will sense stock levels and replace those items without you having to lift a finger. No more waking up to find your coffee store is empty or last-minute trips to the grocery store because you forgot to buy pet food.
Know exactly what's in stock and where. Have you ever gone to a store hoping to buy something, only to learn that they were out of stock? A new feature from Google Home allows people to ask Google Assistant to find in-stock products at the closest store. For example: "Google, where can I find the Nintendo Switch console?" An assistant will tell you how many stores have it right then and how close they are. Of course, it isn't currently available for all stores in all locations, but you can already see a future when it has become standard.
Convenience, experience, and options——retail will take on a new look.
1.How does the author develop the passage?
A.By asking and answering.
B.By arguing and debating.
C.By analyzing and commenting.
D.By comparing and concluding.
2.What can we know from Paragraph 2?
A.Consumers can't get their orders in one day now.
B.It is possible to deliver goods within two hours in the future.
C.The delivery will be in two days in the future.
D.Superfast delivery has widely been used now.
3.According to the passage, what will happen in the future?
A.Retail will disappear gradually.
B.Industrial giants will rule the whole retail trade.
C.Shopping will be more convenient and effective.
D.People will ask Google Assistant to purchase goods.
4.What's the best title of the passage?
A.What will retail be like in the future?
B.How will new technology change the world?
C.How will we run the retail trade in the future?
D.What benefits will high-tech bring in the future?
