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Animals in Odd Places Tree Goats These goats will do a lot for their favorite snacks-including climbing to the top of a 9-m-tall tree! Every summer the argan trees in southwest Morocco produce bitter-tasting fruit that the local goats can’t resist. And these peckish goats are doing us humans a favour — when they spit (for sometimes poo!) out the indigestible nut inside the argan fruit, the nuts can be collected to make an oil that’s used in hair products and food! City Whales They’re not visiting the Empire State Building — they’re on the lookout for food! Humpback whales are swimming back in the waters off the coast of New York City in the USA. Why? Years of cleanup efforts in the Hudson River — a tidal estuary where fresh and salt water meet — have brought back algae, zooplankton and fish. And the humpbacks, which are the ultimate foodie tourists, weren’t far behind! So far this year there have been an incredible 377 sightings. Forest Penguins Fiordland crested penguins prefer the warm waters and misty rainforest of southwest New Zealand to the icy Antarctic! With smaller bodies than many cold-weather penguins (such as emperors), the flightless birds live in balmy 21℃. And their eggs stay toasty in this warmer habitat, too, tucked away in caves, bushes and tree stumps where males sit on the nests. Ocean Sloths Pygmy three-toed sloths might be slow climbers, but when they get into the water, they’re powerful paddlers! These special sloths, which only live in the mangroves of a tiny island off the coast of Panama in Central America, plop into the sea when they want to move to a new tree. Their tummies are often filled with gas due to their leafy diet, so they stay afloat easily-and they can move three times faster in the water than they can on the ground. But since we’re talking about sloths, that’s really saying much! 1.What’s the function of Tree Goats’ poo? A.It can improve human’s skin. B.It can be used as an oil. C.It can be beneficial to our hair and food. D.It can be used as shampoo. 2.What’s the purpose of Humpback whales’ returning? A.To visit the Empire State Building. B.To look for food. C.To clean up the Hudson River. D.To search for fresh and salt water. 3.Which animals can move much faster in the water than on land? A.Tree Goats B.City Whales C.Forest Penguins D.Ocean Sloths
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The driver, Zhang Sai, hovered outside an apartment building in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak. He had been ordered not to take food to customers’ doors in order to minimize the risk of infection. But the woman on the phone was pleading, he recalled. The food was for her mother, who couldn’t go down to meet him. Mr. Zhang relented. He would drop off the order and sprint away. As he placed the bag on the floor, Mr. Zhang said, the door opened. Startled, he rushed away. Without thinking, he jabbed the elevator button with his finger, touching a surface that could transmit the virus. That was how Mr. Zhang, 32, found himself speeding back to his delivery station with one finger held aloft, careful not to touch the rest of his hand. For many in China, delivery drivers like Mr. Zhang are the only connection to the outside world. Once a common but invisible presence on the streets of nearly every Chinese city, the drivers are now being honored as heroes. What exhausting and dangerous work! Mr. Zhang, who works for Hema, a supermarket chain owned by the tech giant Alibaba, crisscrosses (穿梭) the city armed only with the face masks and hand sanitizer that his company supplies each morning. The epidemic has brought some unexpected bright spots. Before, Mr. Zhang said, he sometimes ran red lights during rush hour in order to meet his delivery goals for the day. Now, the streets are empty. He has no problem getting around. People are nicer, too. Some customers barely opened the door or avoided eye contact. After the outbreak erupted, everyone said thank you. 1.Why Zhang Sai couldn’t send food to customers’ doors? A.To keep away from the deadly disease. B.To reduce the chance of being transmitted. C.To avoid communicating with others. D.To give himself a day off. 2.What does the underlined word “relented” in paragraph 1 refer to? A.promised B.denied C.admitted D.refused 3.What advantages did the epidemic bring accidently? A.Economic prosperity and long culture. B.Busy business and peaceful people. C.Splendid surroundings and energetic persons. D.Empty streets and friendly people. 4.What can be the best title for the text? A.The biography of Zhang Sai’s. B.How did Zhang Sai send food? C.The driver Zhang Sai during the epidemic. D.How was Zhang Sai infected?
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A couple John and Mary had a nice family and two lovely children. John had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and would be gone for several days. It was decided that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They hired a reliable woman to care for the children and made the trip, returning home a little earlier than they had planned. As they drove into their home town happily, they noticed smoke, and they went off their usual route to see what it was. They found a home in flames. Mary said, “Oh well it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.” But John drove closer and exclaimed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be off work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” “It has nothing to do with us.” protested Mary. “You have your good clothes on, let’s not get any closer.” But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror stricken to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics screaming, “The children! Get the children!” sobbed the woman, “down the hall and to the left, they are in the basement.” In spite of Mary’s protests John grabbed the water hose and soaked his clothes, put his wet handkerchief on his head and bolted for the basement full of smoke and scorching hot. He found the door and grabbed two children, holding one under each arm. As he left, he could hear some more whimpering. He delivered the two badly frightened and nearly suffocated children into waiting arms and filled his lungs with fresh air and started back asking how many more children were down there. They told him two more and Mary grabbed his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s suicide! That house will cave in any second!” But he shook her off and went back. It seemed an eternity before he found the two children. As he stumbled up the endless steps, the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely familiar about the little bodies clinging to him, and at last when they came out into the sunlight and fresh air, he found that he had just rescued his own children. The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping. 1.What did the couple find first when they went back? A.Their home caught fire. B.Fred John’s home caught fire. C.The baby-sitter’s leaving. D.The woman’s screaming. 2.Why was Mary against John’s rescue at the beginning? A.Because it’s none of their business. B.Because she was eager to see her children. C.Because it would burn his good clothes. D.Because Fred didn’t work at the plant. 3.Which of the following can best describe John? A.Warm-hearted and brave. B.Clumsy but cautious. C.Generous and humourous. D.Determined but sensitive 4.What can we learn from the text? A.Helping others is a god virtue. B.A good act will be well rewarded. C.Misfortune tastes the sincerity of friends. D.Roses given to others, fragrance left in your hand.
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To address the plastic pollution troubling the world’s seas and waterways, Cornell University chemists have developed a new polymer (聚合物) that can degrade (降解) plastic when exposed to ultraviolet radiation, according to the research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. “We have created a new plastic that has the mechanical properties required by commercial fishing gear. If it eventually gets lost in the water environment, this material can degrade on a realistic time scale,” said lead researcher Bryce Lipinski, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University. “This material could effectively reduce persistent plastic accumulation in the environment.” Commercial fishing contributes to about half of all floating plastic waste that ends up in the oceans. Fishing nets and ropes are primarily made from three kinds of polymers, none of which easily degrade. “While research of degradable plastics has received much attention in recent years,” Lipinski said, “obtaining a material with a mechanical strength comparable to commercial plastic remains a difficult challenge.” Coates and his research team have spent the past 15 years developing the new plastic called isotactic polypropylene oxide, or iPPO. While its original discovery was in 1949, the mechanical strength of this material was unknown before this recent work. The high isotacticity and polymer chain length of their material makes it different from previous plastics and provides its mechanical strength. Lipinski and other scientists want no race of the polymer to be left in the environment. He notes there is precedent (先例) for the biodegradation of small chains of iPPO which could effectively make it disappear and ongoing efforts aim to prove this. 1.What is the feature about the new polymer? A.It can solve the problem of plastic consumption. B.It can degrade plastic waste in the sea water. C.It has been developed to solve plastic pollution. D.It has been developed to lower fishing costs. 2.What can we infer from paragraph 3? A.It requires great effort to invent the new plastic. B.Fishing should be forbidden in the sea. C.Fishing nets and ropes are not the major pollution source. D.Degradable plastics were not paid attention to until recent years. 3.What did the recent study find about iPPO? A.Its original discovery. B.Its mechanical properties. C.Its complex structure. D.Its mechanical strength. 4.What is Lipinski’s attitude towards the future of iPPO? A.Doubtful. B.Promising. C.Unconcerned. D.Disapproval.
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Open your eyes. What do you see? Do you see the crowds of people walking around? Look at their faces. 1. Did you notice the person that was smiling at you? Look again. See the trees waving to you in greetings? 2. What do you hear? Traffic? Discussions on the latest gossip? People on the cellular phones that are trying to compete with the noise? Cursing and swearing? Or the radio/television of your neighbors? But do you hear the songs of praises the birds in the day sings for you, or the lullaby the insects orchestrate for you in the night? Now smell the air. Exhausts? Odors you feel uncomfortable? Smell again. Concentrate this time. 3. Focus your senses to your skin. Feel the heat? The humidity? But did you not also notice the breeze that is gently trying to cool you? Feel the frost of the winter, biting through all your insulation. 4. And the warmth that is already within you that your heart is circulating. There is always comfort around us if you know where to look. There is too much distractions in this society. 5. A.Focus your senses in the correct way and you will find a release. B.Concentrate now on your hearing. C.Concentrate now on nature. D.Curious looks, snobs, anger, expressionless looks, looks of concentration. E.Again feel the warmth that the sun is wrapping around you in a warm embrace. F.You will smell terrible air. G.You will find the fragrance of the perfect blossom.
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Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children, prematurely born and frail. Her _______ was doubtful. When she was four years old she had double pneumonia (肺炎) and scarlet fever--a _______ combination that left her with a paralyzed (瘫痪的) and _______ left leg. She had to wear an iron leg _______. Yet she was fortunate in having a mother who _______ her. She told her that all she needed to do was to have _______, persistence and indomitable spirit. So at nine years of age, the little girl _______ the leg brace, and she took the step the doctors told her she would never take _______. In four years, she developed a rhythmic step, which was a medical _______. Then this girl got the ________ idea that she would like to be the greatest woman runner. Now, what could she ________ to be--a runner with a leg like that? At age 13, she entered every race in high school, and in every race she came in last. Everyone ________ her quit! However, there came a day when she won a race. From then on, Wilma Rudolph won every race. Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a ________ named Ed Temple. Temple saw the ________ spirit of the girl and that she had great natural talent. He trained her so ________ that she went to the Olympic Games. There she was ________ against the greatest woman runner named Jutta Heine. And in the 100-meter dash, Wilma Rudolph won. She beat Jutta again in the 200-meters. Finally came the 400-meter ________. It would be Wilma against Jutta once again. The first two runners on Wilma’s team made perfect ________ with the baton. But when the third runner handed the baton to Wilma, she was so excited that she dropped it, and Wilma saw Jutta ________ down the track. It was impossible that anybody could catch this fleet and quick girl. But Wilma did just that! Wilma Rudolph had ________ three Olympic gold medals. 1.A.potential B.death C.survival D.achievement 2.A.artificial B.poisonous C.permanent D.deadly 3.A.tireless B.useless C.worthless D.hopeless 4.A.crutch B.wheelchair C.stick D.brace 5.A.explored B.encouraged C.obtained D.predicted 6.A.fortune B.energy C.faith D.opportunity 7.A.removed B.recovered C.replaced D.refreshed 8.A.bravely B.nervously C.normally D.eagerly 9.A.treatment B.wonder C.operation D.disaster 10.A.significant B.suspicious C.jealous D.incredible 11.A.agree B.dare C.intend D.need 12.A.ordered B.required C.commanded D.begged 13.A.coach B.tutor C.expert D.priest 14.A.indomitable B.available C.considerable D.estimable 15.A.fiercely B.perfectly C.cruelly D.intensely 16.A.competed B.cooperated C.discriminated D.ignored 17.A.match B.contest C.tournament D.relay 18.A.handmade B.hand-offs C.handshake D.handwriting 19.A.taking off B.taking in C.taking on D.taking up 20.A.possessed B.acquired C.won D.caught
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阅读下面材料，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。 There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the 1. (good) picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he 2. (real) liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering 3. (mountain) were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky 4. white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from 5. rain fell and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look 6. (peace) at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush 7. (grow) in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on his nest…perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The King 8. (choose) the second picture, explained the King, “Because peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble 9. hard work. Peace means 10. (be) in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.”
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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处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，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。 There was a small boy who found a bright copper penny where walking down the street one day. He was so exciting that he found money and it didn’t cost him anything. This experience lead him to spend the rest of his days walking with his head down, eyes wide open, looking for treasure. During his lifetime he lucky found much money for the total of $13.96. He got money for nothing. Except for that he missed the breathless beauty of 31,369 sunsets, the colorful beauty of 157 rainbow and the fiery beauty of hundreds of maples. Birds flying, sun shining, and the smiles of a thousand passed people are not a part of her memory. Do you know who is living like this? He always bends his head down and fears of things that never happen, hoping find that copper penny…for nothing.
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假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Mike了解到中医在中国抗击疫情中起了重要作用，对此很感兴趣，请给他回信简要介绍中医。内容包括： 1、历史悠久； 2、中医优势（疗效好、副作用少、价格低）。 注意：1、词数100左右； 2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇：疫情：epidemic 中医；traditional Chinese medicine 副作用：side effect Dear Mike, I’m very glad to learn that you are extremely interested in traditional Chinese medicine. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua
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