Brooke Martin’s golden retriever(金毛猎犬) Kayla hated being left alone or separated. She would howl, pace, and chew on things. Brooke learned that other people had the same problem with their pets. She wondered: ―What if you could talk to your dog if you were gone?
Working with her father in their garage, the 16-year-old came up with several ideas. Finally, she invented a device that allowed pet owners to video chat with their pets! She calls the device iCPooch. ―The dog doesn’t have to answer the call,explains Brooke. ―It comes up immediately on the screen on their end. It’s a two
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y audio and video—you can see and hear each other.With a click of a button you can even send the dog a treat!
Her invention has earned her a spot competing against nine other finalists in a young scientist competition for middle-school students. These finalists, selected based on their short video presentations, are working with mentors over the summer before heading to the final competition in St. Paul, Minn.
After Martin’s video put her among the 10 finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, she was paired with Delony Langer-Anderson, a product development scientist in 3M’s consumer health care division. ―I just lead her down the product development path,Langer-Anderson told Live Science. This path includes guidance on how to test the potential product, which combines a video chat device that answers immediately on the dog’s end with a dog treat device the owner can remotely activate.
One thing I have thought about a lot is, what happens if while the device is on the floor, what if your dog knocks it over, or scratches the screen? Martin said. She and Langer-Anderson discussed this, and Martin is now testing materials at a local dog shelter by taping them to the dog house floors to see how well they withstand sharp teeth and claws.
The finalists create models they can test, with the guidance from a mentor. Their projects include a fuel cell that transforms cut grass into electricity and an app that rewards drivers for not texting or calling. Langer-Anderson tries to help the students work through the scientific method, testing their hypothesis, in a determined way, ―so the kids don’t get buried in data.she said.
1.Which of the following would be the best title of the text?
A.“iCPooch” wins in a young scientist competition.
B. A 16-year-old girl invents a device for dog hunger.
C. A man-made device lets people chat with their pets.
D. A kid-invented device calm dogs’ separation anxiety.
2.“iCPooch”calms pet dogs by ________.
A. allowing video chat
B. making dogs sleep
C. answering the call
D. giving them food
3.What is the probable meaning of the underlined word “mentor”
A. competitor B. assistant C. instructor D. companion
4.What do the inventions of the finalists have in common?
A. They are all new inventions dealing with pets.
B. They are possible solutions to everyday problems.
C. They cope with the problems related to computers.
D. They are all accomplished through individual work.
Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education runs over 1000 courses per year, offered on a part-time basis. Programmes include Oxford awards and degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level, online short courses, weekly classes, day and weekend events, continuing professional development and summer schools.
Oxford awards & degrees
Over 50 undergraduate and postgraduate Oxford qualifications: certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas, Master’s and Doctoral degrees, offered part-time, in the arts, social sciences, diplomatic studies, human rights law, health care and biomedical sciences, which involve overseas students. Course duration ranges from one year to several years part-time. The Department also runs a Graduate School to provide the support and guidance needed by those following part-time graduate programmes.
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/qualifications
Online & distance learning
Choose from over 90 courses across a range of disciplines. Most are short courses of 5-10 weeks, accredited (officially approved). A few longer courses result in Oxford qualifications.
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Weekly classes
Approximately 500 part-
time accredited classes, open to all, and held in Oxford, Reading and other locations. Topics are studied in depth over a period of 10 or 20 weeks.
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Day & weekend events
Courses of 1 or 2 days, usually held at weekends and taught by lecturers and speakers who are noted authorities in their field of research. Many courses are offered in combination with national organizations. Over 150 offered per year.
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Professional development courses
200 courses per year, ranging from day schools to short refresher courses to full degree programmes. Subjects include health sciences, public policy, diplomatic studies, nanotechnology, electronics, historic conservation, environmental sciences, public administration, higher education leadership and more.
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1.What type of writing is this text?
A. A course guide.
B. A book review.
C. An advertisement
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D. An official report.
2.Which programme will you choose if you want to learn from the famous top experts in your field?
A. Summer schools
B. Online&distance learning.
C. Day&weekend events.
D. Professional development courses.
3.Which website is useful to foreign students?
A. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd
B. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/qualifications
C. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/dayweekend
D. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/summerschools
2015年4月5日上午10点到11点，全国亿万学生阳光体育活动在各地大中小学校同时进行， 1100万学生积极参与了这项活动。
教育部倡导学生：
1） 每天锻炼一小时 2） 健康工作五十年 3） 幸福生活一辈子
请你根据以上提示，用英语准备一份发言稿，向同学们讲述一下阳光体育活动的有关情况，并就高三学生（students of Senior Three）是否需要每天花一小时锻炼，谈谈你的看法及理由。
注意：发言稿应包括以上所有信息，要有适当发挥。
词数：120左右。
发言稿的开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：阳光体育活动——a national student sports program;
教育部——the Ministry of Education
Good afternoon, everyone,
The national student sports program was waged by the Ministry of Education and aimed at improving students’ health.
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So every one of you, join the program now!
Thank you!
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： 在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧）,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。
Dear Jeremy and Alice,
Although we’ve been delighted to have you as neighbors, we’re hoping to settle something that bothers to us. In a word, your dog—Cleo.
We’ve called several time about Cleo’s early morning barking. It is difficult to understanding why she barks every minute she’s outside. The early morning barking have been disturbing us as we are often up all night with the baby. Beside, Cleo tends to bark a average of six hours a day. This morning she starts barking even before 5 o’clock. That is too much for us. considering how closely the houses are.
We appreciate our apologies and goodwill, but we hope which you can figure out a good way of settling the matter.
根据括号提示或首字母提示，填上单词正确形式。
1.The rise in carbon dioxide is causing a s (constant, unchanging) rise in temperature.
2.Things can go wrong when people work under s (pressure).
3.Friendship is p (of great value) and we should value it..
4.Lily’s e (never stopping) patience in helping me with my maths really made me moved.
5.He a (努力) to make a lot of money and painted lots of masterpieces in the style of VanGogh.
6.His doctor suspected that Simon had been e to a new virus.
7.The UK c （组成） of four countries.
8.What would you do if you find yourself alone on a d (荒原) island.
9.A footballer was a （指责）of taking money for deliberately not scoring goals。
10.You can get burned by a v （多样） of things .
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式（每空1词）。
What is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no 1.thing as standard English. Many people believe the English2.on TV and the radio is standard English. This is because in the early days of radio, people 3.(report) the news were expected to speak excellent English.4. ,on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people speak.
When people use words and expressions different 5.the "standard language ",it is called a dialect. American English 6.(have) many dialects, the midwestern , southern, African American, Spanish dialects. Even in some parts of the USA, two people from neighbouring towns speak a little7.(different).
Geography also plays a part in making dialects. Some people8.live in the mountains of the USA speak with an older part English dialect. When Americans moved from one place to another, they9.(take) their dialects with them. So people from the mountains in the southeastern USA speak almost the same dialects 10.people in the northwestern USA. The USA is a large country in which many different dialects are spoken. Although many Americans move a lot, they still recognize and understand each other's dialects.
