What can we know about Lisa and Eric?
A. They don’t want to have children for the time being.
B. They will start a family as soon as they get married.
C. They had a baby two years ago.
What is the woman going to do?
A. Ask for help. B. Leave the window open. C. Shut the window.
当今，随着人们生活水平的提高，青少年的肥胖现象越来越严重，很让人担心。请你根 据以下情况写一篇文章，给某英文报社投稿。要点如下：
原因
1.长时间看电视玩电子产品；
2.缺少运动；
3.饮食结构不合理，喜欢吃甜食等垃圾食品；
4.学习负担重。
建议
1.多参加体育锻炼；
2.远离电子产品；
3..多吃健康食品，远离垃圾食品。
要求：
1 词数 150 左右；
2 文章包含提示的所有信息，避免逐字翻译；
3 可以适当发挥，提出自己的观点。 参考词汇：青少年肥胖 teen obesity
（写作要求）
1. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
2. 不必写标题。
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At a meeting of the State Council, China’s Cabinet, on Tuesday, Premier Li Keqiang said it is important to keep the social insurance premium（保险费） policy stable（稳定）, which to a large
extent has eased people’s worries at a time when a new regulation on premium collection has aroused public concern.
The general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council recently issued a reform plan for tax collection, which includes pension, medical, unemployment, occupational injury and maternity insurance will be uniformly collected by the taxation authorities from Jan 1, 2019.
In fact, the taxation authorities have been collecting social insurance premiums for more than one decade. Social insurance premiums in 19 provinces and regions are collected by the local taxation authorities.
In particular, companies have expressed concern over the uniform collection of social insurance premium by taxation authorities mainly for three reasons.
First, the new regulation indicates the reform of the collecting system as a result of institutional reform of the State Council. The companies are worried especially because they believe compulsory collection of social insurance premium will increase their expenditure on social insurance.
Second, since the taxation authorities are fully in charge of social insurance premium collection, the companies fear that the establishment of a new collection system will prevent enterprises escaping paying the social insurance premium.
Third, the media have reported that lately the local authorities in provinces such as Jiangsu, Heilongjiang and Hubei have been ordering enterprises to pay the arrears （ 欠 款 ） in social
insurance premium they should have paid in the past years.
These factors have increased the companies’ concern over the new premium-collection regulation. Some people assume the reform will increase the companies’ cost, and some companies have even begun to lay off employees fearing that “winter is coming”.
Thanks to the current premium-collection system, the companies have managed to not pay a huge amount of social insurance premium. Take urban workers’ basic pension insurance for example. It is estimated that the companies have paid only about two-thirds of the total amount of social insurance premium. Calculating on the basis of the data for 2017, this year the actual social insurance premium collection is 3.34 trillion yuan ($487.71 billion), while the total amount should be 5.08 trillion yuan. The due amount is more than one-third of the total that should have been paid.
Some background information about the social insurance It is of 1.to keep the social insurance premium policy stable.
The State Council issued a reform plan for tax collection, 2.
premium policy | all kinds of insurance. |
The 3.for the concern expressed by some enterprises | First, the companies are 4.that compulsory collection of social insurance premium will increase their expenditure on social insurance. |
Second, the companies fear that the establishment of a new collection system will5.enterprises escaping paying the social insurance premium. | |
Third, the local authorities think it a6.for companies to pay the arrears in social insurance premium they should have paid in the past years. | |
The7.on some companies and people | Some companies have even begun to lay off employees fearing that “winter is coming” . |
Some people think the reform will8. the companies’ cost. | |
The9.of current premium-collection system |
The companies have paid only about two-thirds of the total 10.of social insurance premium. |
The trade fight between the United States and China increased Monday as the two economic superpowers hit each other with their biggest round of tariffs ( 关 税 ) yet. The Trump administration added new 10% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods just after midnight ET (noon in Beijing), coveringing thousands of products, including food seasonings, baseball gloves, network routers and industrial machinery parts. China fired back immediately with new taxes of 5% to 10% on $60 billion of US goods such as meat, chemicals, clothes and auto parts. The moves lead to the growing conflict between the world’s top two economies.
“We are squarely in the midst of the ‘it’ll get worse before it gets better’ phase,” Aninda Mitra, senior analyst at BNY Mellon Investment Management, said in a note after the latest tariffs were announced last week.President Donald Trump’s waves of new tariffs on China now apply to over $250 billion of Chinese goods, roughly half the amount the country sells to the United States. The latest round affects thousands of products bought by US consumers, including hundreds of millions of dollars of furniture and electronics imports (电子进口). The US tariffs added earlier in the year mostly hit industrial goods.
The measures are meant to punish China for what the Trump administration says are unfair trade practices, such as intellectual property (知识产权) theft.
Beijing has rejected ( 拒 绝 ) the US assertions ( 断 言 ), accusing the United States of protectionism and bullying. It has fired back with tariffs on American goods worth more than $110 billion.
The Trump administration has made “false accusations” and sought to “add its own interests on China through great pressure,” the Chinese government said in a lengthy white paper published Monday about the two countries’ trade relationship, according to state news agency Xinhua. Unbelievably, The latest round of US tariffs is set to increase at the end of the year from 10% to 25%. China hasn’t yet spelled out how it will respond to that.
Trump has also threatened ( 威胁) tariffs on another $267 billion of Chinese products. That would mean the US measures effectively cover all China's annual goods exports ( 出 口 ) to the United States (the total for 2017 was about $506 billion).
China, which imports a far smaller amount from the United States, is running out of new products to target, but analysts say it still has other options to fire back. They include charging even higher tariffs, adding import quotas, limiting Chinese citizens’ travel to the United States for study and tourism, and reducing taxes for companies affected by the tariffs.
1.We can infer from the first two paragraphs that __________.
A. the Trump administration added new 10% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods
B. China fired back taxes of 10% on US goods in total
C. Chinese goods sold to America amounts to about $500 billion
D. the latest round affects thousands of products bought by US consumers, mostly including industrial goods
2.According to what The Trump administration says, the measures are meant to punish China because of _________.
A. protectionism B. bullying
C. intellectual property theft D. furniture
3.Chinese government will take some measures against America in trade fight EXCEPT _______ .
A. threaten tariffs on another $267 billion of Chinese products
B. charge even higher tariffs
C. limit Chinese citizens’ travel to the United States
D. increase taxes for companies affected by the tariff
4.Where is the passage most likely to be from?
A. A news report. B. A book review.
C. A lesson plan. D. An advertisement.
5.What’s the author’s attitude towards the policy of tariffs ?
A. subjective. B. objective.
C. negative. D. supportive.
Flying insects are polluting new environments by eating microplastics in polluted waters and carrying them through the air, a new study has found.
UK researchers found that microplastics -- pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters in size -- remain in the bodies of mosquitoes and other waterborne insects even after they become flying adults.
The findings mean that pollution from plastics being dumped into our oceans is being carried into the air, and raises concerns that birds and other creatures that eat the insects are also being polluted.
The team from the University of Reading in England and Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, inserted two minuscule pieces of polystyrene, each weighing just over one gram per cubic centimeter, into young mosquitoes and observed the insects throughout their life cycles. They found that the particles did not disappear from the mosquitoes’ systems after the insects moved between life stages and started to fly, and were present inside the fully formed insects. “When the microplastics become the adults, it represents a potential aerial pathway to pollution of new environments,” the authors wrote in the study.
“Thus, any organism that feeds on terrestrial life phases of freshwater insects could be affected by MPs found in aquatic ecosystems ( 水生态系统),” they added, using an abbreviation for microplastics. Freshwater insects such as mosquitoes are eaten by birds, amphibians, insects and fish, according to the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. More than 150 million tons of plastic are floating in the world's oceans, with an additional eight million tons entering every year, according to the World Economic Forum. Plastic can be eaten by fish, birds and marine mammals, and can damage marine ecosystems such as coral reefs.
“This disturbing study raises real concerns about the spread of plastic pollution: it really is present everywhere, not just the marine environment,” said plastic pollution campaigner Emma Priestland from the charity Friends of the Earth.
“Knowing that plastic can be moved from the larval stage to the adult mosquito, which then serves as food to a multitude of larger animals, highlights the urgency with which we need to.”
A study from 2015 estimated that the total amount of floating plastic in the oceans could triple by 2025.
1.According to a new study, what has been found?
A. Pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters only remain in the bodies of mosquitoes.
B. Pieces of plastic will disappear after waterborne insects become flying adults.
C. Pieces of plastic will remain in the bodies of waterborne insects.
D. Pieces of plastic more than 5 millimeters remain in the bodies of waterborne insects.
2.How did the team from the University of Reading and Queen's University do their research?
A. They inserted two minuscule pieces of polystyrene into old mosquitoes.
B. They weighed the young mosquitoes.
C. They observed the insects throughout their life cycles.
D. They observed the insects after they started to fly.
3.What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. Plastic is harmful to the environment.
B. We should reduce our plastic consumption.
C. We should protect insects.
D. We should protect animals.
