The Meg
age 14+
PG-2018 113 minutes
Parents need to know that The Meg is an action movie about a big prehistoric shark and a team of heroes led by Jason Statham trying to stop it. Violence is surely the biggest matter here: Many characters die, and there’s some blood. Shark fans are likely to be interested, but be warned: It’s slow and lacks real fears.
Hope Springs Eternal
age 10+
PG 2018 88 minutes
Parents need to know that Hope Springs Eternal is a dramedy (情景喜剧) about a teenager named Hope who’s been living with terminal(晚期的) cancer for years and then discovers she’s recovering. But she pretends to still be sick to keep the identity and special consideration she’s become used to. Hope surely accepts the results of her dishonesty and learns how lucky she is to be able to plan for a future she never thought she’d have.
Dog Days
age 12+
PG 2018 112 minutes
Parents need to know that Dog Days is a comedy(喜剧)about people in L. A .whose lives are improved by dogs. Some of the storylines are sweet, such as a new family being formed through adoption (收养) and the development of an intergenerational friendship. And while the film is full of smiles, there may be some sad sobs(啜泣), too, since a dog dies.
1.What does Jason Statham do in The Meg?
A.He leads some heroes to stop a prehistoric shark.
B.He does some research on a big prehistoric shark.
C.He shoots an action movie and meets a large shark.
D.He leads a team of heroes to protect a prehistoric shark.
2.How does Hope try to keep her identity as a patient?
A.She tells others that she is recovering. B.She cheats others that she is still sick.
C.She plans a brighter future for herself. D.She tries to cure herself of the cancer.
3.Why do the people in the film Dog Days cry?
A.A new family is formed. B.They face a life of adoption.
C.They don’t like their new friends. D.One of their lovely dogs loses its life.
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你们学校上周组织了一场“校园运动周”活动。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，写一篇英文周记，记述整个过程。
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的英国好友Jim得知北京开展垃圾分类活动，发来邮件询问相关信息，请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：1、垃圾分类的相关信息（分类标准、社区宣传……）；2、你对垃圾分类的看法。
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Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
The way individuals collectively remember, forget, and recall event, people, places, etc, has been an important topic of research on collective memory. 1. He developed the concept of collective memory, arguing that individual memories are only understood within the context of a group through time and space. In all cases, most research on memory studies relies on long procedures 2. They include theoretical concepts, the study of historical sources, oral histories, case studies, interviews, and surveys. For example, one group of researchers carried out several interviews to investigate younger and older American adults for three wars, namely, the Civil War, World War Ⅱ, and the Iraq War. 3. Both younger and older adults recalled the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; however, they differed in how they rated the bombings.
More recently, memory study scholars tend to stress the significance of the media in shaping collective memories: “Culture and individuals’ memory are constantly produced through the technologies of memory.” Under this perspective, research often involves content analysis of news and the use of surveys or interviews for analyzing the public memory. 4.
However, developments in digital technologies in recent years have significantly influenced how we keep track of events both as individuals and as a collective. “The Internet doesn’t forget.” The Internet has had strong impacts on memory and the processes of remembering and forgetting. 5. Analyzing different Web documents, researchers have shown that more recent past events are remembered more vividly in the present.
A.Research on collective memory is often based on various aspects.
B.There are a few simple things a person can do to help improve their memory.
C.Maurice Halbwachs is recognized as the father of collective memory research.
D.Although all Americans recalled similar events,the interpretation changed over the generations.
E.Also,scholars have studied the role of journalists as collective memory agents by analyzing their stories.
F.Recently developed information technologies have affected how we create,store and recall information.
G.Meanwhile,it has transformed collective memory into an observable phenomenon that can be tracked and measured online.
The first patient who died on my watch was an older man with a faulty heart. We tried to slow it down with treatment, but it suddenly stopped beating completely. Later, whenever I would have a case like that one, I found myself second-guessing my clinical management. However, it turns out that thinking twice may actually cause more harm than good.
In a working paper, Emory University researchers found that when doctors delivering a baby have a bad result, they are more likely to switch to a different delivery method with the next patient, often unnecessarily and sometimes with worse results.
Because doctors make so many decisions that have serious consequences, the fallout from second-guessing appears especially large for us. A 2006 study found that if a patient had a bleed after being prescribed (开药) warfarin, the physician was about 20% less likely to prescribe later patients the blood thinner that prevents strokes (中风). However, if a patient was not on warfarin and had a stroke physicians were still no more likely to prescribe warfarin to their other patients.
These findings highlight interesting behavioral patterns in doctors. In the blood-thinner study, doctors were more affected by the act of doing harm (prescribing a blood thinner that ended up hurting doctors were more affected by the act of doing harm(prescribing a blood thinner that ended up hurting a patient) and less affected by letting harm happen (not prescribing a blood thinner and the patient having a stroke). Yet a stroke is often more permanent and damaging than a bleed.
But this phenomenon is not unique to medicine. ''Overreaction to Fearsome Risks'' holds true for broader society.
For instance, sensational headlines about shark attacks on humans in Florida in 2001 caused a panic and led the state to prohibit shark-feeding expeditions. Yet shark attacks had actually fallen that year and, according to the study, such a change was probably unnecessary given the extremely small risk of such an attack happening.
Humans are likely to be influenced by emotional and often irrational (不理性的) thinking when processing information, bad events and mistakes. As much as we don't want to cause an unfortunate event to happen again, we need to be aware that a worst situation that can be imagined doesn't necessarily mean we did anything wrong. When we overthink, we fail to rely on thinking based on what we know or have experienced. Instead, we may involuntarily overanalyze and come to the wrong conclusion.
I have treated dozens of patients who presented with the same illnesses as my first patient, who died more than a year ago. Instead of second-guessing myself, I trusted my clinical instinct (本能) and stayed the course. Every one of those patients survived. You should trust your instinct in your life, too.
1.The first two paragraphs suggest that________.
A.bad medical outcomes affect doctors
B.delivering babies can be difficult work
C.some doctors are not very experienced
D.doctors sometimes make silly mistakes
2.In the blood-thinner study, doctors________.
A.tend to prescribe less effective medicine
B.are more concerned about the patients' safety
C.become less confident in writing a prescription
D.believe a stroke is more treatable than a bleeding
3.What does the underlined word ''fallout'' in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Result B.Benefit C.Difference D.Absence
4.The author will probably agree that________.
A.we should not doubt our own decisions
B.our experience will pave way for our future
C.humans are emotional and irrational on the whole
D.instincts don't necessarily lead to wrong directions
Although it has been revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling, they are still usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, they have been recorded making ultrasonic (超声的) cries when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of precision agriculture where farmers listen for water-starved crops.
Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made cries at frequencies humans cannot hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their stem it cut.
Microphones placed 10 centimetres from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz, which the team says insects and some mammals would be capable of hearing and responding to from as far as 5 metres away. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water-stressed, the researchers suggest. Plants could even hear that other plants are short of water and react accordingly, they speculate (推断).
On average, drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants made 11. When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco plants 15. Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour, on average.
It is even possible to distinguish between the sounds to know what the stress is. The researchers trained a machine-learning model to recognize between the plants’ sounds and the wind, rain and other noises of the greenhouse, correctly identifying in most cases whether the stress was caused by dryness or a cut, based on the sound’s intensity and frequency. Water-hungry tobacco appears to make louder sounds than cut tobacco, for example.
Enabling farmers to listen for water-stressed plants could “open a new direction in the field of precision agriculture”, the researchers suggest. They add that such an ability will be increasingly important as climate change exposes more areas to drought.
“The suggestion that the sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precision agriculture seems feasible (可行的) if it is not too costly to set up the recording in a field situation,” says Anne Visscher at the royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK.
She warns that the results can’t yet be broadened out to other stresses, such as salt or temperature, because these may not lead to sounds. In addition, there have been no experiments to show whether moths or any other animal can hear and respond to the sounds the plants make, so that idea remains based on guesses for now, she says.
1.The experiment by researchers at Tel Aviv University shows that________.
A.tomato plants cry more often than tobacco when hurt
B.plant sounds can be heard by plants quite far away
C.humans can hear water-hungry plants crying
D.moths like laying eggs on stressed plant
2.What is Anne Visscher’s attitude towards the finding of the experiment?
A.Disappointed B.Cautious. C.Appreciative. D.Optimistic.
3.Taking advantage of the new research finding,farmers can________.
A.harvest crops in time B.reduce greenhouse effects
C.diagnose plant condition faster D.detect and remove insects easily
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Plants get stressed Just Like Us.
B.Sounds of Plants Detected Far Away.
C.Cries of plants break Farmers’Hearts
D.Plants scream in the presence of stress
