The band Coldplay has released (发行) a new album called “Everyday Life”. But the group has announced it won’t go on tour until it can figure out how to tour without making the climate worse.
Normally when bands have a new album, they go on tour to promote (推销) the album. They may fly from country to country and drive across countries in buses, performing in concert after concert.
Touring is an important way singers and musicians earn money. But tours are very hard on the environment. Flying is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases. During their last tour, the band flew to five different continents and played 122 shows. They traveled with 109 supporting workers, 32 trucks, and 9 bus drivers. Think about the pollution from Coldplay’s flights as well as the trucks, buses and huge amounts of electricity required to power the shows!
It’s hard to keep track of the pollution a band creates while touring, but most of the environmental cost comes from the fans. During their last tour, Coldplay entertained 5.4 million fans, all of whom had to travel to the concerts and bought “merchandise” like T-shirts, CDs and posters. Some bought food and drinks at the concerts, creating tons of plastic waste.
Instead of touring to promote the new album, Coldplay recorded two videos of the band playing their new songs live in Jordan and has put the videos of their performances up for free viewing on YouTube.
Coldplay, one of whose dreams is to have a show with no single-use plastic and have it largely sun-powered, says it won’t tour again until its members work out how to make their tours help instead of hurt. The decision will cost the band a lot of money in the short run, but it could pay off big for the planet.
1.Why is Coldplay’s last tour mentioned twice by the author?
A.To stress the necessity of the tour.
B.To describe Coldplay’s great popularity.
C.To introduce Coldplay’s basic information.
D.To show huge environmental costs of the tour.
2.How did Coldplay promote the new album?
A.By making a tour in Jordan.
B.By distributing free CDs to fans.
C.By posting their performances online.
D.By performing their new songs live on TV.
3.Which of the following best describes Coldplay’s decision to quit tours?
A.Thoughtless. B.Meaningful.
C.Temporary. D.Doubtful.
Book Your Field Trip to Pacific Science Center
A field trip to Pacific Science Center is a time-honored tradition for students of all ages across Washington State. Our hands-on exhibits, shows, and creative programs inspire students’ curiosity for science in a day of exploration meant to strengthen your curriculum and fuel lifelong enthusiasm for science, math, engineering and technology.
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Starting September 3, 2019 PacSci will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays except for holidays and weeks during Seattle Public School breaks. We will no longer be booking field trips on those days, as well.
Pricing
Field Trip Package |
| Price Per Student |
Exhibits Only |
| $9 |
Package 1 | Exhibits plus choice of one experiences | $11 |
Package 2 | Exhibits plus choice of two experiences | $13 |
Package 3 | Exhibits plus choice of three experiences | $15 |
One free adult general admission is covered for every 10 paid students. Free adult admission doesn’t include IMAX documentary. These adults will be charged a $4 IMAX documentary admission. Additional adults outside of the ratio (比例) will be charged the student admission rate. Pacific Science Center Memberships cannot be applied to field trips. Payment is due one week before you visit.
Available Experiences
■ Planetarium Shows
■ IMAX Documentaries
■ Science on a Sphere Shows
■ Laser Shows
1.What can we know about Pacific Science Center?
A.It is famous for its typical architecture.
B.It offers students chances for free classes.
C.It’s where students can learn about science.
D.It is only accessible to students in Washington.
2.If 2 teachers and 10 students watch exhibits and IMAX Documentaries, how much will they at least pay?
A.$118. B.$125.
C.$127. D.$134.
3.When can we reserve a field trip by phone?
A.On weekends.
B.Any Monday or Tuesday.
C.Two workdays ahead of the visit time.
D.At least 14 days before the actual visit.
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你们班上周组织了一次“讲述英雄故事”的主题班会。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，写一篇英文周记，记述整个过程。
注意： 词数不少于60。
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的英国笔友Jim在邮件中说打算寒假来中国旅游。请你给他回复邮件邀请他来北京过春节，内容包括：
1.春节的意义；
2.春节期间的典型活动；
3.在京期间的建议。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
Why are some people successful and others aren’t? What’s the secret of success? 1.
Many of Gladwell’s ideas appear in his social psychology bestseller Outliers.2. Gladwell thinks that this is just an excuse for not trying… and if you really want to be good at something, you have to work at it. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good,” Gladwell writes. “It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
Central to the book is the “10,000-hour rule”. It means that if you want to be among the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours. 3. For example, the Beatles played live in Hamburg more than 1,200 times between 1960 and 1964, which is more than 10,000 hours of playing time. And when Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was 13, he was given access to a high school computer (one of the few available in the country), allowing him to practise computer programming for more than (Yes, you guessed it!) 10, 000 hours.
4. Take the example of Christopher Langan, who’s mentioned in the book. He’s got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein’s IQ was estimated to have been between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan was able to take an exam in a foreign language he’d never studied and pass it after just skim-reading a text book for three minutes. However, Langan never graduated from university and worked in labour-intensive jobs his whole life. This proves that intelligence alone will not lead to success—you need hard work, support, finance and opportunities. Gladwell adds, “No one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.”
5. Even after you’ve put in your 10,000 hours of practice, you still need one other key ingredient — luck. So, you could be the most amazing guitarist in the world, but unless you’re lucky enough to play in front of a record company executive who sees a way of exploiting that talent, you aren’t going to be seeing your name in lights.
A.It isn’t just a question of time and support.
B.Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.
C.That’s equal to three hours a day for 10 years.
D.Of course, many people argue that you can create your own “luck”.
E.The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren’t.
F.The interesting thing is that success has nothing to do with intelligence.
G.Someone who’s willing to practise something for 10,000 hours is probably active.
The first science project I ever did was in fifth grade with my partner, Delaney. We looked online together for ideas and came up with an experiment to slide glass balls down a slope covered with different-textured materials. Our project was torn to pieces by our teacher. Our procedure wasn’t thorough. She told us we should consider waiting another year to enter the science fair. I felt so discouraged.
That night, I folded up our poster and started thinking about all of the things I could do differently the next year. I wanted to find a topic I cared about, one that interested me. As a beginner of the piano, I was curious about how the piano I practiced on for five hours every week could make the sounds that it did. I learned about something called “sympathetic resonance,” a phenomenon that allows string to vibrate (振动) together when played. I built my next project around this and ended up getting first place at the science fair the following year.
Today, I am 22 years old, a climate scientist. In the decade since I did my very first science project, I have wondered a lot about what it takes to be a good scientist. To me, what makes a truly good scientist is what makes a good person.
A good scientist has patience — patience for others, patience for herself or himself, and patience when things go wrong. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to work on a NASA asteroid-sample retrieval mission called OSIRIS-Rex. The spacecraft launched in September 2016, headed to the asteroid Bennu. Late last year, finally, it reached its destination. In four years, OSIRIS-Rex will bring a piece of the asteroid back to earth so that scientists can learn more about it. Scientific discoveries do not take place overnight, and many are small and gradual. Missions like the one I worked on often take years to complete. Success almost never comes quickly or easily.
A good scientist is open-minded. It can be easy to ignore people you disagree with or to assume the worst about them. But we should be open to ideas that are not what we expected when we set out. We should take the time to consider other people’s opinions, even when they conflict with our own. There is so much we don’t know, but we do know some things. We live in a world where knowledge and uncertainty can and do coexist. As scientists, we should have both confidence in ourselves and humility as we move through our lives.
Of course, good scientists are driven by curiosity. But curiosity does not have to be limited to science. When we are curious about other people, we can become more considerate. When we are curious about other perspectives, we can become more understanding. After all, it costs nothing to be kind to someone — at school, at the grocery store, with your friends, with your family. A kind gesture can make someone’s day, even save someone’s life. You never know what people are going through unless you take the time to find out. Curiosity is not and never will be something to be ashamed of. Curiosity is our superpower. But it’s also what makes us human. All we have to do is ask.
1.What are the first two paragraphs mainly about?
A.The daily life of a scientist.
B.The procedures of choosing a project.
C.The personal experience of a scientist.
D.The achievements a scientist ever made.
2.What does the underlined word “humility” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A.Being modest. B.Being cautious.
C.Being sceptical. D.Being ambitious.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Curiosity kills the cat.
B.Practice makes perfect.
C.When one door shuts, another opens.
D.Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.
4.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To evaluate the effect of a science project.
B.To analyze the personalities of a scientist.
C.To explain the consequence of an experiment.
D.To compare some approaches to be a scientist.
