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A 23-year-old British woman has invented a product made 1. combining fishing waste and algae(海藻).It could be used to replace plastic bags, 2. people use once and throw away. Lucy Hughes created the material, called MarinaTex. On November 13, Hughes 3. (award) the international winner of the 2019 James Dyson Award for design.
MarinaTex is stronger, 4. (safe) and much more sustainable than the plastic polyethylene(聚 乙烯).But unlike plastic, MarinaTex is also easier 5. (break) down in four to six weeks in normal conditions and does not pollute the soil. Concerned about the growing amounts of plastics in ocean waters, she is investigating ways to reduce the amount of waste from the fishing industry, which produces 6.(approximate) 50 million tons of waste worldwide each year.
7. (examine) fish parts left over from processing helped to give her the idea for a material that was useful and did not harm the environment. After months of testing, Hughes 8.(produce) a strong, flexible sheet that forms at temperatures below 100 degrees Celsius.
Hughes will receive about $41,000 in prize money as the first place 9. (win) of the James Dyson Award. She plans to use the money to further develop the product and ways to mass produce 10.
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Chinese cartoon film Ne Zha has proved to be a big winner in this summer’s box office. This film, 1.(loose) based on the novel Fengshen Yanyi, is about an imaginary figure who fights against unfair fate(命运).
In the novel, Ne Zha is a naughty teenager 2. kills whoever gets in his way. His father, a commander who governs the port of Chen Tang Guan, 3.(force) Ne Zha to kill himself over an error. Ne Zha is reborn as a three-headed, six-armed god 4.(ride) on two magical “wind-and-fire” 5.(wheel) to fight his enemies.
6.(direct) by Yang Yu, the film describes Nezha 7. a lovely little boy who has to overcome prejudice(偏见) and his dark fate 8.(become) a hero. “I wanted to change the telling of the original story.” says Yang. In the movie, born as a demon (恶魔), Ne Zha is unfairly treated by local villagers who believe that he will grow up to be a public threat.
Li Baochuan, 9. expert in animation at Hangzhou Normal University, says Ne Zha shows the 10.(develop) of animation techniques in China and has reduced the gap with the world’s best.
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My dear grandson, your mother tells me that you 1.(start) smoking some time ago and now you are finding it difficult 2.(give) it up. By the way, did you know that this is 3. you become addicted in three different ways?
Firstly, you can become physically addicted to nicotine, 4. is one of the hundreds of harmful chemicals in 5.(cigarette). This means that 6.(accustom) to having nicotine in it, you feel good. But when the drug leaves your body, you get withdrawal symptoms. I remember 7.(feel) bad-tempered and sometimes even more pain.
Secondly, you become addicted 8. habit. As you know, if you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to do it automatically. Lastly, you can become 9.(mental) addicted. I believed I was 10.(happy) and more relaxed after having a cigarette, so I began to think that I could only feel good when I smoked. I was addicted in all three ways, so it was very difficult to quit. But I did finally manage.
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Around the world, malnutrition (营养不良) has become a problem that costs $ 3.5 trillion per year, according to the latest Global Nutrition Report.
Although most countries have fallen short in their efforts1. (deal) with poor
nutrition and food insecurity, the report found, the US appears to be badly off track, 2.has more than a million overweight children. "Malnutrition is more responsible for ill-health 3. any other cause. The health consequences of overweight and obesity lead to four million4. (die) globally," Corinna Hawkes 5. (write) in the report.
According to the study, most countries have at least two issues 6. (relate) to malnutrition. The most serious issues are children who either are overweight7. suffer from undeveloped growth. Those 8. (serious) affected may not be able to get 9. good job as they expect when they grow up. It also prevents them from 10. (contribute) to society as well as they would have in a healthier environment.
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China is a big old country,1. has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of2.(it)culture and part of the culture even influences the world 3.(great), for example, the thought of Confucius(孔子). As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays4.important role in the world, more and more 5.(foreign) learn mandarin(普通话) in Confucius institutions. The Chinese traditional culture can 6. (test) by the time It unites the whole nation 7.no matter what kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the country's future. Today, many young people lose faith 8.traditional culture and they are crazy about the western culture They follow the western fashion, 9.( think) we are the old style. But some day, they10.(realize)it is wrong for them to ignore traditional culture.
Lesson 26:…My sister is only seven, but she always tells me 1. my pictures are good or not…She looked at it 2. for a moment. 'It's all right,' she said, 'but isn't it upside down?'
Lesson 27:…Late in the afternoon, the boys put 3. their tent in the middle of a field…The boys felt tired so they put out the fire and 4. into their tent.
Lesson 28:…Now he has put 5. ugly stone head over the gate. It is one of the 6. faces I have ever seen.
Lesson 29:…Since then, Captain Fawcett 7. passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a 8. of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park.
Lesson 30:…I turned to look at the children, but there weren't any in 9.: they had all run away! The man laughed when he realized 10. had happened.