The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge
Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!
The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge! The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity and how it inspires them to explore their world.
Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue, Cambridge 02139 by Friday, February 8th.
Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will be exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in the celebration and brunch will be served.
Between March 10th and March 15th, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration.The program guidelines and other related information are available at: http://cambridgesciencefestival.org.
1.Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?
A. School students. B. Cambridge locals.
C. CSF winners. D. MIT artists.
2.When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?
A. On February 8th . B. On March 10th.
C. On March 15th. D. O n April 21st.
3.What type of writing is this text?
A. An exhibition guide. B. An art show review.
C. An announcement. D. An official report.
（2016年甘肃省河西五市高三二次联考） 成语（Chinese idioms）是中国文化的重要组成部分，它能用简单的词语表达出丰富并且深刻的意义。假定你是李华，你的外国笔友James对中国成语很感兴趣，向你咨询有关中国成语的信息，请你写一封回信，包括如下内容：
1.简单介绍成语;
2.学习成语的益处;
3.分享自己学习成语的感受和体会。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear James,
I am glad that you are interested in Chinese idioms.___________________________________
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I sincerely hope you can learn them well.
Yours
Li Hua
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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每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：在错的词下面画一横线，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。
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, his company has been valued at more than $ 221 billion of which Ma owned 6%, is put in the top position among China’s wealthiest. But he stays outside the list of the world’s 10 rich people.
Fought against a hard life, young Ma still managed to learn English well enough to gain a degree and became a teacher. Afterwards he started a translation agency in which took him to the US, where he introduced to the Internet. His fate was bound to change before he was accidentally appointed to take an American visitor Jerry Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, in a tour of the Great Wall. The meeting obvious proved to be a turning point for all of them, promoting the birth of Alibaba and later cooperation with Jerry Yang.
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。
The truth1. trees are vital to our life is not a secret. They provide us with food, wood and most 2. (importance), oxygen. Now there is one more thing we can add to this list—blocking out harmful bacteria from water.
The discovery 3. (make) by a team consisting of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school students who were seeking a 4. (nature) water filter（过滤器）—one that would help communities in developing countries that do not have access to modern water filter systems.
The 5. (research), led by Professor Rohit Karnik, decided to turn to trees for help because they could allow liquid to flow through, while 6.(block) out air bubbles.
They began by cutting 1.5-inch-wide sections of tree bark from the branches of a white pine tree. The people related then tested the wood’s filtering ability by pouring water containing red dye particles of different sizes through.7. their amazement, they found that it was effective in trapping all the articles.8.(encourage), the team conducted 9.experiment, this time with water 10. contained bacteria. Sure enough, the sapwood held back 99% of the bacteria, allowing only 1% to flow through.
（内蒙古赤峰市高三2016届三模）“I have rights. I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market.I have the right to speak up.”
That was Malala Yousafzai. She was _______about girls' rights to an education, something _______by the Taliban militant group.
About a year after that interview, 15-year old Malala was shot _______the head by a Taliban gunman. She ________, and continued her work to help young women get an education. On Friday, at age 17, Malala became the youngest person ever awarded a Nobel Peace prize. She _______it with Kailash Satyarthi of India. The 60-year-old activist has led peaceful demonstrations _______child slavery and forced labor.
The _______that the award is shared is significant. Malala is a Pakistani Muslim, Satyarthi is an Indian Hindu.Their nations are_______. Malala says the award gives a message to people of love between Pakistan and India and between different ______.
Malala came to the press conference _______from school. She spoke mostly without note, she talked for about 15 minutes, and she described how she'd been in the _______lesson at 10:15 in the morning, and she knew it was a(an)________day, she knew the Nobel Peace awards were going to be announced, and at 10:15 she had said to______, that she didn't expect that she was going to get the award.
Then a teacher came to the chemistry class________she was, and she was________to one side told that she had won the award, but she decided__________ that that she would stay and finish her lesson.
She had a physics lesson before coming and________the speech. And she talked about how she felt honored to have received this award.
“I'm feeling honored that I'm being______as a Nobel laureate(获奖者), and I have been honored with this-this______award to the Nobel Peace Prize. And I'm proud that I'm the______Pakistani and the first young woman or the first young person who's getting this award. It's a great honor for me.”
1.A. taking up B. holding up C. summing up D. speaking up
2.A. supported B. approved C. objected D. opposed
3.A. in B. at C. on D. to
4.A. died B. struggled C. escaped D. survived
5.A. speaks B. shares C. gets D. accepts
6.A. for B. towards C. against D. through
7.A. news B. information C. idea D. fact
8.A. friends B. rivals C. relatives D. neighbors
9.A. religions B. cultures C. countries D. areas
10.A. slowly B. hurriedly C. quickly D. direct
11.A. math B. chemistry C. physics D. geography
12.A. important B. necessary C. wonderful D. useful
13.A. her B. them C. herself D. themselves
14.A. who B. which C. where D. what
15.A. taken B. fetched C. brought D. carried
16.A. beyond B. beneath C. beside D. despite
17.A. giving B. offering C. leading D. talking
18.A. advised B. realized C. chosen D. asked
19.A. splendid B. precious C. concise D. enormous
20.A. best B. first C. greatest D. smartest
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Get a Thorough Understanding of Oneself
In all one's life time it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. 1.
When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate yourself. It seems that everything you seek for is within your reach.2.It’s likely that you think it wise for yourself to stay away from the outer world. Actually, to get a thorough understanding of oneself, you may as well keep the following tips in mind.
Gain a correct view of oneself.
You may look forward hopefully to the future but be sure not to expect too much, for dreams can never be fully realized. You may be courageous to meet challenges but it should be clear to you where to direct your efforts.3.
Self-appreciate.
Whether you compare yourself to a towering tree or a blade of grass, a high mountain or a small stone, you represent a state of nature.4.If you earnestly admire yourself you’ll have a real sense of self-appreciation.
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In time of anger, do yourself a favor by releasing it in a quiet place so that you won't be hurt by its flames; in time of sadness, do yourself a favor by sharing it with your friends so as to change a bad mood into a cheerful one; in time of tiredness, do yourself a favor by getting a good sleep.
Get a full control of one’s life.
Then one will find one’s life full of color and favor.
A. It has its own value.
B. Do oneself a favor when it’s needed.
C. Do yourself a favor when you resist the attack of illness.
D. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of.
E. Especially if it is well within your reach, you are just too blind to see it.
F. When you are going downhill you tend to underestimate yourself for your own incompetence.
G. So long as you have a perfect knowledge of yourself, there won’t be difficulties you can’t overcome.
