Apple iPhone XS Max — bigger is much better C Amazing dual-lens camera and clever features to create wonderful photos C That amazing 6.5 inch OLED screen is just beautiful C Premium materials and typical Apple design excellence C The best facial recognition in the business C An immensely powerful phone with impressive capabilities for gaming and AR D Out-of-the-box charger doesn’t support quick charging D The top of the range 512GB model is very, very expensive D Can get slippery without a case Specs comparison table
Model | XR | XS | XS Max |
Screen | 6.1” LCD 1792×828 | 5.8” OLED 2436×1125 Dolby Vision | 6.5” OLED 2688 × 1242 Dolby Vision |
Processor | A12 with neural engine | Same | Same |
Storage GB | 64/128/256 | 64/256/512 | Same |
Rear Camera | Single 12MP f/1.8 | Dual 12MP f/1.8/f/2.4 | Same |
Front camera | 7MP f/2.2 with flash | Same | Same |
Face ID | Yes | Same | Same |
Size/Weight | 150.9 ×75.7 × 8.3mm 194g | 143.6 ×70.9× 7.7mm 177g | 157.5 × 77.4× 7.7mm 194g |
Battery mAh | Not stated | Same | Same |
Build | Aluminum frame and glass back Blue, White, Black, Yellow, Coral, Red | Stainless steel frame and glass back Silver, Space Grey, Gold | Same Same |
Water resistance | IP67 1m/30min | IP68 2m/30min | Same |
OS | iOS 12 | Same | Same |
Price | 64GB – $1229 128GB – $1299 256GB – $1479 | 64GB – $1629 256GB – $1879 512GB – $2199 | 64GB – $1799 256GB – $2049 512GB – $2369 |
1.Which one is NOT true about XS Max?
A. Using XS Max, you can play phone games on a bigger screen.
B. The dual-lens camera on XS Max can help you take amazing pictures.
C. XS Max won’t get damaged in 2 meters of water for 30 minutes.
D. You can quickly charge XS Max by using an out-of-the-box charger.
2.How much does an XS with the storage of 256GB cost ?
A. $ 1479. B. $1879.
C. $2049. D. $2369.
3.XS and XS Max are the same in many aspects except ________.
A. Size and Processor
B. Storage GB and Price
C. Screen and Weight
D. Water resistance and Color
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Have you ever paid for knowledge online? According to Bloomberg, a platform, the De Dao app offers written articles and podcasts from famous personalities that the users must pay for, with topics ranging from music to economics. By May 2017, De Dao had 7 million users. As is reported in People’s Daily, Ximalaya FM, another popular online learning platform, had about 450 million users as of January 2018. The platform allows people to pay for and listen to online learning courses.
Many Chinese people used to be unwilling to pay for content online. However, many internet users’ attitudes have changed since they began to see quality content as valuable. In fact, 75% of internet users are happy to pay for quality content, according to a 2017 report by Chinese science news website Guokr and Internet Netease.
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2.请以约120个词谈谈你对“Pay for Online Knowledge”的看法，包括如下要点:
1.分析哪些原因促进了网上知识付费市场的迅速发展(不少于两点)；
2.你愿意为网上知识买单吗？请阐述你的理由(不少于两点)。
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Cycling in Asia: Opening new roads to sustainability
Asia’s rising middle class may be driving the increase in car ownership, leading to traffic congestion and air pollution in the region’s cities, but this status symbol may be slowly giving way to an old love—cycling.
More Asians are jumping on a bicycle for fresh air and to lead a more environmentally-friendly and active lifestyle in recent years as staying sedentary inside a car for hours on end could take a toll on one’s health, and be hard on the wallet because of the high cost of fuel and maintenance.
In a new study of vehicle ownership in 44 countries by Pew Research Center, households around the world own bicycles more than motorcycles and cars. Japan and Thailand rank second and third in terms of bike ownership globally, although these two countries also rank high in car ownership, with 81 per cent and 51 per cent of their populations owning at least one vehicle.
China is also leading the world in the number of bike-sharing schemes, with about 170 bike-sharing systems operating in the country.
Singapore, known for its efficient public transport system but has no established culture of cycling as a transport option, is one of the countries now keen to change that. It is spending $43 million on bike lanes and cycling facilities as part of a national cycling plan.
ADB (Asian Development Bank) is looking at including bicycles as part of a public transport network in some cities in Southeast Asia through bike-sharing schemes. Many cities around the world including Amsterdam and Copenhagen have shown the successful integration of bike-sharing programmes in public transport systems.
In another form of bike-sharing, cycling has also become a solution to help poor students in rural communities access bicycles as a form of sustainable transport. Non-profit group Bike for the Philippines are lending bicycles for free to help poor students in the country who still need to walk three kilometres to school because of lack of access to public transport or who have no ability to pay for its high costs.
United Kingdom-based Bamboo Travel says their clients are increasingly interested in cycling tours when they plan their trips to Asia.
“In the last few years we have seen demand for cycling excursions grow quickly. And we find a lot of our clients now request some time cycling in places that before they used to do sightseeing by car. Clients of all ages have become healthier and more environmentally conscious in recent years and cycling has grown as a result,” Ewen Moore, sales director at Bamboo Travel, tells Eco-Business.
“They’re very attractive—a fun and healthy way to do some sightseeing,” said Moore.
Cycling in Asia: Opening new roads to sustainability
Introduction | Cycling as a new 1. of middle class is coming out. |
Cycling is beneficial to one’s 2. and wallet as well as to our environment. | |
3. of bike ownership or bike-sharing systems | Pew study shows that more bicycles 4. families than automobiles in 44 countries. ●People in Japan and Thailand 5. higher ownerships of cars and bikes. ●The number of bike-sharing schemes in China 6. the world. ●National cycling plan in Singapore is 7. its established culture. |
New ways of cycling | Public Transport Network Amsterdam and Copenhagen are leading the world in 8. bike-sharing programmes to public transport systems. |
Helping Poor Students Lending bicycles for free benefits poor students who could not access or 9.the public transport. | |
Cycling for Tourisim ●Cycling tours are 10. fast in Asia and are replacing car sightseeing in some places. ●Cycling tours are economic, healthy and environment- friendly. |
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1.— Can I ask you a few fairly s____ questions about yourself?
— Sure. I like it when people are direct.
2.— With two sons studying at college, the couple have to work from dawn till d____.
— Life must be really hard for them.
3.— A medical study showed that the more fruits the adults had eaten when they were young, the less likely they were to suffer from certain types of cancer.
— Do you mean a high consumption of fruit was a____ with a lower death rate?
4.— When the Americans objected to the tax rates, what did the British do?
— They did not compromise, but increased control, taking away many of their rights, and s____ soldiers there.
5.— Due to the theory of relativity, time became a more personal concept
— Yes, it is relative to the o____ who measured it.
Whether you survive a cardiac arrest may depend, at least in part, on which emergency medical services (EMS) agency shows up to treat you, a new study suggests.
Researchers found a wide variation in cardiac arrest survival rates depending on which EMS agency provided initial treatment, according to the study published in JAMA Cardiology. The odds of surviving to hospital discharge(出院)could vary by more than 50 percent for two similar patients treated by two randomly selected EMS agencies. “We found large outcome variations between EMS agencies that come after a cardiac arrest even after adjusting for many factors,” said lead author Masashi Okubo, an instructor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
The study did not reveal why some EMS agencies did better than others, however. “We need to determine in future research what are the underlying factors,” Okubo said.
Cardiac arrest “is the abrupt loss of heart function, and if appropriate steps are not taken immediately it most often is fatal,” explained Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiovascular medicine and science at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles. He also is co-director of the UCLA Preventive Cardiology Program. “Each year in the United States, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside the hospital setting.”
Altogether, the researchers studied 43,656 patients treated from 2011 to 2015 by 112 EMS agencies. When they looked at how many patients survived long enough to be discharged from the hospital, variations among agencies were quite large: the worst performing agency had 0 survivors out of 36 patients treated, or 0 percent, as compared with 66 survivors out of 228 patients treated, or nearly 30 percent, for the best-performing agency.
The pattern was similar when it came to recovery of function by the time a patient was discharged from the hospital. The worst performing agency in this category had favorable functional recovery in 0 out of 87 patients, or 0 percent, while the best had favorable functional recovery in 11 out of 54 patients, or 20 percent.
“These findings suggest there may be important differences in the quality of resuscitation efforts among different EMS agencies,” Fonarow said in an email.
Also, he said, “More layperson interventions(非正式人员干预)such as timely CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation 心肺复苏术) and more EMS personnel responding to cardiac arrest patients were related to better outcomes.
“These findings suggest that dissemination of best practices and use of formal quality improvement programs by community-based EMS agencies may help to improve quality and outcomes in cardiac arrest,” he said.
Can anything be done in the meantime?
Yes, said Fonarow, who was not involved in the new research. “When performed promptly and properly, CPR can markedly improve the chance of survival for someone having an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest,” he said. “The best advice that might save lives of loved ones if a cardiac arrest occurs is to learn CPR. Anyone can and everyone should learn CPR.”
1.What does the new study tell us?
A. EMS agencies have adjusted outcome variations.
B. People with cardiac arrest depend on EMS agencies.
C. Initial treatment has been provided for cardiac arrest patients.
D. Cardiac arrest survival is partly determined by certain EMS agencies.
2.The underlined word “odds” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.
A. probabilities B. examples C. difficulties D. differences
3.According to Okubo, what are they planning to do in future research?
A. To determine which EMS agencies are good.
B. To reveal the underlying factors of cardiac arrest.
C. To find out the hidden reasons for better EMS agencies.
D. To identify the relationship between different EMS agencies.
4.What does “the pattern” in Paragraph 6 refer to?
A. The worst performing agency. B. The best performing agency.
C. The large variations among agencies. D. The comparison between survivors and patients.
5.According to the findings, what leads to better outcomes in cardiac arrest?
A. more layperson interventions B. better quality in EMS agencies
C. better practices in CPR D. more EMS members
6.What is Fonarow’s attitude towards CPR?
A. Arbitrary. B. Favorable. C. Contradictory. D. Doubtful.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it. “What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge(树篱).
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all think of me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!” (Which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end!
By LEWIS CARROL
1.What might have caused Alice to run after the rabbit?
A. The pleasure of picking the daisies.
B. The sight of the rabbit with pink eyes.
C. Her thought about the way the rabbit spoke to itself.
D. Her interest in the rabbit with a waistcoat-pocket and a watch.
2.Alice’s adventure mainly happened ______.
A. in a rabbit hole B. around a hedge
C. in her family garden D. on the river bank
3.As Alice fell down the well, she felt rather ______.
A. disappointed B. proud C. afraid D. relaxed
4.From which sentence can we judge this is a fairy tale?
A. The hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid.
B. “I have nothing to do but make a daisy-chain.” said Alice.
C. “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” the Rabbit said to itself.
D. “THE ORANGE MARMLADE is empty,” said Alice disappointedly.
