What an _______day ! After a whole day’s hiking, I am completely ________.
A.exhausted; exhausted
B.exhausting; exhausting
C.exhausting; exhausted
D.exhausted; exhausting
The idea of building Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, ________ world’s longest sea-crossing bridge, could go back to ________ 1980s.
A.the; / B.a; / C.a; the D.the; the
Directions: Write an English composition in no less than 150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
一年一度的双十一购物节（Double 11 Shopping Festival）快到了，你的好朋友告诉你，这几天他（她）每天淘宝，购物车快满了，并说买的越多越划算。你对朋友的行为和说法怎么看，并说说你对于双十一购物的观点以及你购物打算。
你的作文必须包括：1. 对于朋友的行为和说法的评价。
2. 你自己的观点。
3. 你的购物打算。
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Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1.这位妈妈鼓励孩子分担家务，她这么做是很明智的。(It...)
2.20世纪60年代的那场饥荒使他不得不离开家乡到别的城市另谋出路。（force）
3.如您购买的产品有任何质量问题,请与公司售后部门联系。(contact)
4.在中国机长( the Captain)这部影片中,机长和机组人员的临危不惧，沉着冷静，最终把机上所有乘客安全送到机场。(face)
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.
Since the dawn of civilization, crop diversity has always been holding an important position as the foundation of agriculture. Food plants have been domesticated, selected, exchanged, and improved by farmers in traditional ways, within traditional production systems. This process has been hugely accelerated and focused by scientific crop improvement, leading to the steady rise in yields since the 1960s. Half of the increase in food production globally can be attributed to genetic improvement.
But experts say the number of crops has decreased sharply during the past century. One of the world’s largest seed conservation projects has predicted further losses. The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership is warning that up to one hundred thousand plant species could permanently disappear. The rich collection of genes that decide their qualities would disappear with them.
Many experts blame climate change for damaging plant life. Rising temperatures, changing seasonal patterns and increasing frequency of extreme weather events are the invisible hand behind the great reduction. Others say human activities and poorly planned, overly heavy use of land also are responsible. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says modern business farming is responsible for loss of farmers’ traditional crop varieties. Though the use of modern commercial farming methods saved millions of people from starvation, some traditional crops were lost during the process.
More recently, the UN Sustainable Development Goals have called for global efforts to highlight the protection and revival of crop diversity as an important means to ensure that crop diversity is conserved and made available for food and nutritional security to feed the increasing population of our planet. On top of the agenda is to maintain the genetic diversity of seeds and cultivated plants through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels. Equally important, more government funds be channeled into rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in less developed countries.
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Climate change is changing the flavor of French wine
Records going back 700 years show that Burgundy’s wine grapes have been feeling the heat of the past three decades.
The summer of 1540 was burning hot in the vine-covered hills of Burgundy, France—so hot as to be “almost unbearable,” according to one written account from the time. 1. In the Alps, glaciers melted, their snouts retreating up steep-sided valleys. Fires burned from France to Poland. And in the wine country of central France, the grapes withered to raisins (葡萄干) on the vine, so sugary the wine made from them was syrupy and extra-alcoholic.
2. the look of the vines before they bud; the look of the vines as they mature over long seasons; and the fat, sugary, fragrant curve of the grapes when they’re ready to be made into wine. Normally, winemakers harvested grapes at the very end of September or early October. But that year, they had to rush to get overripe grapes off the vine weeks earlier than usual.
Now, a nearly 700-year-long record of harvest shows that early harvest dates like the one from 1540 are now par for the course, thanks to climate change. 3. “We can clearly see the reaction of the grapes to the rise in temperature,” says Thomas Labbé, an historian at the University of Burgundy. “We can predict, using modeling, the harvest will occur around about the 15th of August, in the core of summer.”
4. Already, as temperatures worldwide have warmed, the alcohol content of wines has bumped up from about 12 percent in the 1970s to about 14 percent today, though that number varies from region to region. Part of that, though, is winemaker preference, part of it is because grapes are maturing faster in the heat. The more sugar they accumulate, the more of it is converted to alcohol during the winemaking process.
A. Though the kind of heat hasn’t settled into Burgundy yet, it’s probably coming.
B. Winemakers have kept careful track of the harvest dates for centuries.
C. That will almost certainly affect the way wines taste and feel, and how strong they are.
D. In fact, it was hot all across Europe that year.
E. The subtle feel resulting from more alcoholic wine is not favored.
F. Winemakers know the growth stages intimately.
