My mother is a teacher. ________ is very kind and friendly.
A.She B.Her C.He D.His
题目②
疫情无情人有情。面对疫情，全国人民齐心协力，互相帮助，共渡难关。在过去的四个月里，发生了许多让人感动的事情，体现了人与人之间的温情。
某英文报社以“感动”为话题展开征文活动，请你用英文写篇短文给报社投稿，谈谈疫情期间最让你感动的一件事，以及为什么感动。
提示词语：teacher, trouble, help, responsible
提示问题： ●What happened that moved you most?
●Why were you moved?
A lot of things have happened in the past four months.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
题目①
三年时光，转瞬即逝。你的初中生活即将结束，众多交换生也将结束留学生涯回国。
假如你是李华，你校交换生 Peter 打算下个月回国。你与全班同学打算于周日给 Peter 举办欢送会，请用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉 Peter 欢送会的时间地点，欢送会的内容以及你的感受。
提示词语： goodbye party, classroom, video, photo, sad
提示问题： ● When and where are you going to hold the party?
●What are you going to do at the party?
●How do you feel about Peter leaving?
Dear Peter,
I heard you are going back home next month. I am writing to tell you that we are going to hold a goodbye party for you._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I hope you have a good time back home and looking forward to seeing you again.
Yours,
Li Hua
TED Talks: An Idea Worth Spreading
Have you heard of TED? TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. TED is a set of meetings, held in different cities around the world every year. With different speakers – also from different parts of the world – all the speeches are uploaded (上传) to their website, for everyone to see.
TED meetings invite speakers to give speeches on different kinds of topics. The different speakers are usually successful in their fields and talk about new ideas and recent developments that are important to their work. The speakers are often also well-known, with people such as Bill Gates and Jane Goodall, having given talks. There are many talks on environmentalism.
For example, and on international development, aid work, and how to help poor people. There are a number of talks about education and topics that are important in the news.
While the talks cover many kinds of topics, all speakers have a strict time limit – each speech must last less than 18 minutes.
As with all organisations (组织), however, TED has had its downs as well as ups. The organization has been criticised for turning great scientists into stars. Perhaps a bigger and more important criticism of the organization is that only special people can attend the meetings. Those who attend the meetings must be special enough to get tickets because TED events costing $6000 or more.
However, ted.org, the organisation’s website, is where the many interesting talks become reachable to everybody who has an Internet connection. Every weekday, a new video is uploaded from a TED event, allowing people from around the world to listen to the talks for free. At only 18 minutes, even if the video is not that interesting, you know you are not going to waste too much time.
Most TED talks are in English but there are talks in other languages, too. Besides, most of the English-language talks also have the choice of subtitles (字幕) in different languages and, as a result, the website is great for practising English and learning new vocabulary, especially in a topic that you find interesting and enjoyable. With so many choices of subject, the videos are often much more exciting.
1.What does TED stand for?
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2.Can everyone see the speeches on the website?
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3.How long is every TED speech?
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4.According to Paragraph 4, what is TED criticised for?
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5.How often is a new video uploaded?
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Inside Animal Minds
Irene Pepperberg, a graduate of Harvard University, was interested in learning if animals could think. The best way to do this, she reasoned, was to talk to them. So she bought an African grey parrot she named Alex and taught him to reproduce the sounds of the English language. “I thought if he learned to communicate, I could ask him questions about how he sees the world.” She explains.
When Pepperberg began her research with Alex, very few scientists agreed that animals were able to think. How could a scientist prove that animals might, in fact, have intelligence (智力)? “That’s why I started my studies with Alex.” Pepperberg says.
Alex the parrot was a surprisingly good talker. He learned how to use his voice to imitate (模仿) almost 100 English words, including those for foods, colors, shapes and numbers. Although imitation was once considered a simple skill, in recent years, scientists have reported that it’s a very difficult ability. It requires the imitator to form an image of the other person’s body and actions in their mind and then put his own body parts into same place. It is a behavior that shows self-awareness (自我意识). Because Alex had mastered many English words, Pepperberg could ask him questions about a bird’s basic understanding of the world. Alex could count, describe shapes and colors; he even had a basic understanding of the idea of zero.
Many of Alex’s skills are normally only for humans and primates (灵长类). But parrots, live a long time in mixed societies. And like primates, these birds must watch the changing relationships within the group. This may explain Alex’s ability to learn a human language. Parrots learn to pronounce and use our words so they can become a part of our group.
Many researchers say that creativity and language in animals, like other forms of intelligence, have developed. “People were surprised to discover that some primates make tools,” says Alex Kacelnik, an animal researcher at Oxford University. “But people also thought, ‘Well, they share our ancestry (祖先) — of course they are smart.’ Now we are finding these kinds of behaviors in some birds. But we don’t have a recently shared ancestry with birds. It means,” Kacelnik continues, “intelligence is not something only for primates or humans.”
1.Which of Alex’s skills showed self-awareness?
A.Describing colors.
B.Doing simple maths.
C.Copying human sounds.
D.Understanding the idea of zero.
2.What do parrots and primates have in common?
A.They both watch the relationships within the group.
B.They both lived a long time in the same society.
C.Neither of them can reproduce English words.
D.Neither of them likes to be part of a group.
3.Kacelnik probably agrees that ______.
A.some birds are more intelligent than humans
B.birds share a common ancestry with humans
C.only humans and primates are able to think
D.some animals are surprisingly intelligent
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A.Research that shows intelligence is not limited to humans.
B.Ways of teaching animals to become more intelligent.
C.How human and animal intelligence are different.
D.How animals can communicate with humans.
In the 1966 science-fiction (科幻) film Fantastic Voyage, a team of scientists and doctors are put into the body of an ill man to fix his body.
Such an idea, while fun, sounds surprising to many. But what if it were possible to treat an illness like cancer (癌症) by putting tiny pieces of something into the body to not only find the cancer, but also destroy it without harming anything else? Although it may seem like science fiction, tools like this are now being developed and may, in fact, become common in the near future – thanks to research now being done in the field of nanotechnology (纳米科技).
The main thing to know about nanotechnology is that it’s small – really small. Using this technology, it will be possible to discover cancer at a certain level where there are perhaps only a thousand bad cells (细胞). Compare this to what happens today: Doctors can discover cancer only after the dangerous cells have increased into the millions. One of the advantages of discovering and treating cancer at an early period is that the cells are less likely to become resistant to medicine treatment. In later period, cancer cells often change and get used to certain medicine so quickly that many medicines become ineffective.
Once a certain type of cancer is discovered, nanotechnology will also completely improve the way it is treated. Right now, most cancer treatments kill not only cancerous cells but the healthy ones as well, causing a number of side effects in people, such as hair loss and bad pain. Nanotechnology will allow doctors to destroy cancerous cells without harming healthy cells.
Unluckily, even though nanotechnology has great possibility for medical achievement, there are serious concerns that it could have bad environmental and health effects. Many scientists believe that governments should give more money for safety-related studies – to make sure that these tiny pieces of something do not get into our food and water and cause serious problems.
Meanwhile, research into the uses of nanotechnology continues and it’s developing quickly. Even ten years ago, many of these uses “would have seemed pretty unrealistic,” says Chemist Vicki Colvin. Perhaps that old movie, Fantastic Voyage, isn’t hard to believe after all.
1.According to the passage, nanotechnology ______.
A.may cause a number of side effects such as hair loss
B.may help discover and treat cancer before it is too late
C.can be used to kill both cancerous cells and healthy ones
D.can discover cancer and treat it completely in later period
2.The words “resistant to” in Paragraph 3 probably means “______”.
A.undestroyed by B.useless for C.unsatisfied with D.harmless to
3.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.The Advantages of Nanotechnology.
B.The Near Future of Science Fiction.
C.A Tool for Creating Medicine?
D.A Treatment for Cancer?
