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Most of the women I know, including myself, are starved for time. I sometimes try to do the chores all without asking (or paying) for assistance. I grew up in a household where my parents took care of all the chores including the housekeeping, lawn maintenance (草坪养护), etc. Looking back, I’m sure they had to make sacrifices to do things for my sister and me. But I think we all can agree on time savers as a positive, welcome contribution. I made a decision about 5 years ago that I would hire a lawn maintenance service, so that Ted didn’t have to spend his time while home on the weekends taking care of our yard. I didn’t think twice about it and still feel it is money well spent. His travel schedule is very busy and by paying for this service, I get to spend more quality time with my significant other! When it came to doing something similar for myself, I struggled. I kept telling myself that others are able to keep up with much more than my demands & schedule. I cast the idea back and forth of hiring a housekeeper for over three years, before I decided to take the step. True to my nature I researched my options online, asked some coworkers and friends for recommendations and made a decision to take a meeting with a nationally known chain. I met with one of their sale representative in my house and decided to move forward. She said that she wasn’t there to push the cleaning services. Instead, she was there to tell me how much time I’d save by purchasing her service. I decided to keep a spring cleaning and then once a month after that. Ultimately I only ended up keeping up this particular service for about 4 months due to some quality concerns, but I would definitely do it again and am in the market for a new housekeeping service. I loved having some time for me and no longer feel guilty for paying. 1.Why does the author mention his parents in paragraph 1? A.She wishes her parents to help her do the chores. B.She thinks the traditional cleaning concept should be changed. C.She decides to learn from her parents to do the chores by herself. D.She wants to reward her parents for their sacrifice for her. 2.What can we learn from paragraph 2 and 3? A.The author had to take care of the yard before she paid for the service. B.The author’s husband was not willing to do the housework. C.The author paid for the service for herself without hesitation. D.The author loves her husband very much. 3.What touched the author and made her decide to buy the service for herself? A.Her coworkers and friends persuaded her. B.The quality of the service is perfect. C.The service can save her a lot of time. D.The price of the service is lower than any others. 4.What does the author mainly intend to tell us? A.Women should take more responsibility for the household. B.We should choose the cleaning services carefully. C.To save time, it is worth paying for the cleaning services. D.It’s important to keep the house clean and tidy.
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Landfills are where most of the world’s plastics end up and a fair amount of it ends up in the world’s oceans. But a new British recycling firm wants it to end up here. There is a great demand right now for recycled material. There’s a great deal of interest in getting recycling into the plastics industry specially, and so we are really going to further the ability to get plastic into the circular economy. The firm called Recycling Technologies is breaking down plastic, then turning it into fuel oils or raw material to make new plastics. Basically, currently all we do is we make a hydrocarbon soup and then we take the materials out at different temperatures, so the higher temperatures, the waxes separate out, then we cool it a bit more, and the heavy oils then we call it, a bit more the light oils, and then the rest comes out. It’s naphtha, the gases that don’t condense (凝结) out. We actually use the fuel for the process. Their process is creating a heavy fuel oil that works for marine vessels (海洋船舶). We call it a clean material, because it has very little sulfur in it, in fact almost none, which certainly also fits with the new regulations for marine fill, where they’re asking for much lower sulfur around the world. So it’s a very valuable product. Right now, the firm is recycling about 7,000 tons of plastic a year, but says it can quickly increase. We are designing to a four-day installation (装置). We will basically come in six ice-free containers which will stand on end, fixed together, and we plug in play mode and the aim is to be up and running within four days. So this is definitely not a refinery (提炼厂) concept. This is much more a piece of stand-alone industrial equipment. The company has set the ambitious goal of selling 1300 of their recycling units around the world during the next decade, and expect they will be able to recycle 9 million tons of plastic each year. 1.From the last sentence of paragraph1 we know that the British recycling firm ______. A.wants the plastic waste to be kept in landfill B.wants the plastic waste to be poured in the ocean C.thinks the plastic waste should be recycled D.thinks the plastic waste should not be used any more 2.What can we infer from the third paragraph? A.Plastic can break down by itself. B.Temperature plays an important role in breaking down plastic. C.Plastic will be broken down into three matters. D.Light oil is thought to be clean because it contains little sulfur. 3.Which statement can best describe the four-day recycling installation? A.It is quite new and difficult to accept. B.It’s complex and skeptical. C.It’s helpful and promising. D.It’s dangerous and unpredictable.
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Artificial intelligence (AI人工智能) technology may soon be a useful tool for doctors. It may help them better understand and treat diseases like breast cancer in ways that were never before possible. Rishi Rawat teaches AI at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Clinical Science Center in Los Angeles. He is part of a team of scientists who are researching how AI and machine learning can more easily recognize cancerous growths in the breast. Rawat provides information about cancer cells to a computer. He says this data helps the machine learn. “You can put the data into them and they will learn the patterns and the pattern recognition that’s important to making decisions.” David Agus is another USC researcher. He believes that “machines are not going to take the place of doctors.” “Computers will not treat patients, but they will help make certain decisions and look for things that the human brain can’t recognize these patterns by itself.” Once a cancerous growth is removed, doctors still have to treat the patient to reduce the risk of cancer returning. The form of treatment depends on the kind of cancer. Currently, researchers take a thin piece of tissue (组织), put it on a small piece of glass and add color to better see the cells. That process could take days or even longer. Scientists say artificial intelligence can do something better than just count cells. Through machine learning, it can recognize complex patterns, or structures, and learn how the cells are organized. The hope is that machines will soon be able to make a quick identification of cancer that is free of human mistakes. The University of Southern California researchers are now only studying breast cancer. But doctors predict artificial intelligence will one day make a difference in all forms of cancer. 1.What can we infer from the passage? A.Computers will replace doctors one day. B.AI technology help doctors treat diseases mainly through counting cells. C.Cancer once cured will not come back again. D.Breast cancer patients will benefit a lot from the AI technology application. 2.Where can you most probably see the article? A.Medical instructions. B.Textbook. C.Newspaper. D.Science fiction. 3.What does the passage mainly talk about? A.Artificial intelligence to make doctors better. B.Great benefits from artificial intelligence. C.New discoveries about cancer. D.The process to recognize cancer cells.
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There are many reasons why people can’t get a good night’s sleep and as with any other health conditions, things are not likely to improve until you find a way to break the cycle. 1.. Worry and stress We have all been kept awake by many factors that cause worry and stress in our lives. Money problems, relationship issues and work stresses can have you sitting up all night. 2.. Keep a pen and paper next to your bed and before you go to sleep, write down your thought and worries, create a to-do list for the following day or set down solutions and ideas that relate to work. Diet and eating patterns What and when you eat can have a major impact on your ability to sleep. 3.. These foods take a long while to digest and the after effects of indigestion and heartburn are not going to set you up well for a good quality sleep. Alcohol and caffeine Tea, coffee and energy drinks contain caffeine that helps to stimulate the nervous system and make you more alert, which is great if you need a pick-me-up. Dosing up on caffeine during the day can affect your ability to sleep later on in the evening. Alcohol is a double-edged sword when it comes to sleep. 4.. 5. “Your bedroom should be dark once the lights are switched off because melatonin, a sleep-regulating hormone, is very light-sensitive. Maintaining the right temperature can also help with sleep as a room that is too hot may prevent your core temperature from going down, which is essential for switching on the sleep mechanism within the body. A. Bedroom light B. Bedroom environment C. The following are some ways to improve the situation D. A useful habit is to download your thoughts at the end of the day E. These are some of the main factors that need to be addressed F. Eating too late or taking in a rich or spicy meal can keep you awake G. While a little may help to result in sleep, even in small amounts it can cause broken sleep patterns
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Tim Cook is both blind and deaf. And try as they might, staff on a recent flight just couldn’t figure out how to ______ with the man, who was traveling all alone. But then, a 15-year-old girl used ______ language and genuine sympathy to save the day. Teenager Clara Daly was ______ with her mother Jane from Boston to Los Angeles when the flight attendants made a(n) ______ over the speaker. They were ______ for anyone onboard who knew sign language. Clara ______ the call button, as she’d studied a year of American Sign Language in school. She was the only one on the plane ______ of truly communicating with Tim, and her heart went out to him. “Imagine six hours of just not being able to ______ to anyone,” she said. Clara used ______ to talk to Tim. This way, Tim could ______ Clara’s hands and they could communicate. First, Clara helped the flight attendants ______ all of Tim’s needs were met. Then, she ______ the rest of the time just chatting with him. Together, they ______ stories about their families and Clara’s future plans, while Clara learned about Tim’s past as a salesman. A nearby passenger named Lynette Scribner couldn’t ______ taking a photo and sharing it on social media. She mentioned how ______ she was to have witnessed such incredible __________. After writing about Clara’s real-life act of ______ on social media, Lynette’s post ______. In fact, it has since been shared over 730,000 times on US social media platform Facebook. The ______ teen was quick to point out that she just did what any one of us should do when given the ______: help out. “Everyone should be helping each other just because that’s the nature of people,” Clara said. 1.A.reason B.put up C.communicate D.deal 2.A.sign B.rich C.spoken D.plain 3.A.quarrelling B.traveling C.working D.staying 4.A.forecast B.effort C.decision D.announcement 5.A.looking B.waiting C.standing D.sending 6.A.removed B.fixed C.pressed D.stole 7.A.afraid B.capable C.nervous D.free 8.A.admit B.complain C.smile D.talk 9.A.eyes B.tongue C.fingerspelling D.words 10.A.feel B.catch C.shake D.hold 11.A.discover B.ensure C.prove D.recognize 12.A.spent B.wasted C.calculated D.saved 13.A.cared B.made C.wrote D.shared 14.A.allow B.avoid C.help D.finish 15.A.pitiful B.amazed C.unfortunate D.ashamed 16.A.sympathy B.adventure C.courage D.wisdom 17.A.politeness B.bravery C.self-confidence D.kindness 18.A.put up B.came up C.set off D.took off 19.A.childish B.humorous C.modest D.stubborn 20.A.time B.opportunity C.money D.benefit
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 1. (know) as the city of art and romance, Paris will never fail to impress visitors. The beauty of Paris can be found everywhere, 2. visitors marvel (感到惊讶) at its well-protected ancient palaces and landmark buildings, 3. (work) of art and delicious cuisine (菜肴). This is a city worthy of deep 4. (explore). There is no 5. (good) place to understand the concept of the art of living than the cafes of Paris. I’m also fascinated by unique lifestyle of Parisians. 6. so many restaurants and cafes, Paris has attracted many, for example, the great writer Ernest Hemingway. It is so peaceful to see people sitting and talking at the tables outside cafes, cups in their hands. A sense of ceremony can be fully felt at the dinner table. A typical French dinner has several courses. It usually 7. (start) with some chips, juice and snacks. People make small talks 8. (especial) when there is a guest. People can talk for hours, 9. (wait) for the main meal. French cheese is 10. important part of a meal. Only when you love French cheese can you fully enjoy French life.
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假如你是李华，你校模拟联合国社团要组织一次活动。你作为组织人员，请根据以下要点拟一个书面活动通知： 时间：2019年1月25日 地点：学校报告厅 议题：环境保护 形式：选手扮演不同国家外交代表，做好沟通协作，签署协议。 注意：1. 词数80左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇：模拟联合国社团Model United Nations Club 外交代表diplomatic agent _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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某校团委就学生的日常行为对全校1008名学生进行了一次问卷调查，结果如下图所示。假定你是团委成员李华，请根据图表内容向校英语报投稿，描述调查结果，简要分析学生行为习惯，并提出你的观点。
注意：1．语言要连贯、准确，可适当发挥； 2．词数不少于120。 参考词汇：scratch paper 草稿纸 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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