请根据提示将下列句子翻译成英语。
1.我太紧张了，以致于他自我介绍时，我都没注意到。（too…to…）
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2.我想把精力集中在乐队上，毕业后从事音乐方面的工作。（focus on）
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3.多亏了科技进步，我们的交友和交流方式已经有了显著的改变。（thanks to）
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4.我们才是这个世界的访客。（强调主语）
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5.这项运动可以追溯到两千多年前的古代中国。（go back）
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Olympic medals for the Tokyo 2020 Games will be made from recycled mobile phones. The Japanese public will 1. (ask) to give away old phones to gather 2,000 kilograms of gold, silver and bronze for the 5,000 medals.
Olympic host cities have 2. (traditional) got the metal (金属) from mining companies. But Japan, 3. is short of its own mineral resources, is eager to take the theme of a sustainable (可持续) future a step further. “A project that allows the people of Japan to take part in 4. (create) the medals is really good,” said Tokyo 2020 sports director Koji Murofushi. “There’s a limit on the resources of our earth, so reusing these things will make us 5. (think) about the environment.”
Members of Japan’s Olympic organizing committee put forward 6. idea to government officials and companies earlier and 7. (win) supports from both sides. Collection boxes are placed in local offices and telecoms stores and they will remain there 8. the metal required has been collected.
As a result, the metals hanging around Olympic winners’ necks will carry more meanings. All these 9. (memory), once stored in smartphones and other handheld devices, would take the round shape of an Olympic medal, one of the most 10. (value) prizes in sport.
Thousands of people online are involved in efforts to help an 8-year-old, cancer-stricken (患癌症) boy from the United States to realize his dream. Dorian Murray of Westerly, Rhode Island, has been receiving ________ from around the world in recent days.
Dorian has been ________ cancer since he was 4. ________ the disease had been brought under control after a series of ________ treatments, a medical checkup early this month found that cancer cells (细胞) had ________ to the boy’s brain. The family decided to _________treatment.
Dorian then told his father that before going to heaven, he wanted to be ________ in China because it had the Great Wall, which he called” a bridge for people to walk on”. The ________ between the boy and his father was posted on Facebook, where it was ________ and commented upon by thousands of Internet users, including many from China.
Some responded with ________ taken at the Great Wall in Beijing, in which they held signs with words of ________, reading “D-Strong” and “You are very famous in China.” Some left messages below the post, saying “I hope you will ________ soon.” Or “We are delighted to make your dream come true.”
Dorian’s mother wrote that she was ________ and deeply moved by the responses to Dorian’s ________. “Dorian has brought so much inspiration to people around the world! I couldn’t be more ________ my son.” she said.
1.A.responses B.letters C.gifts D.invitations
2.A.avoiding B.attacking C.treating D.fighting
3.A.When B.Although C.Once D.Since
4.A.painful B.disappointing C.perfect D.simple
5.A.climbed B.rose C.spread D.rushed
6.A.receive B.change C.stop D.check
7.A.excellent B.successful C.brave D.famous
8.A.conversation B.relationship C.quarrel D.difference
9.A.questioned B.shared C.copied D.enjoyed
10.A.books B.notes C.photos D.newspapers
11.A.happiness B.kindness C.encouragement D.agreement
12.A.finish B.leave C.return D.recover
13.A.amazed B.upset C.confused D.speechless
14.A.performance B.disease C.imagination D.request
15.A.satisfied with B.proud of C.interested in D.confident about
The important things to consider when planning a multi-generational holiday trip
Take the whole family to a beach or a mountain, forming holiday memories that will last a lifetime. Whether those memories are pleasant or not will depend on a lot of things, but the one you can control most is how well you plan the trip. Multi-generational travel is different from planning for just yourself or your family. 1.
Perhaps your family is happy to have one person take control. But you may have newer family members who consider vacation planning a more collective experience. If that’s the case, you need to make sure they feel like they had some input in the process, or you won’t get much participation. 2.
Holiday resorts are likely a better choice than a big house or hotels, both because they offer separate condos (公寓式旅馆) where people can operate on their own schedules and because they offer activities, meals, and other entertainment (消遣) you won’t have to plan. Condos also often come with kitchens, if you do feel like having dinner at home a couple of times. 3. You might not want to share a hotel room with your brother and his wife, for example. But sharing a two-bedroom condo--which is usually about the same price — just feels like being roommates.
So finding a resort with activities that fit as many people’s interests as possible is key. 4. Your cousins may prefer doing food tours. Your father-in-law may just want a big pool. Regardless of what your family enjoys, think about everyone’s interest—or at least what you know of them—and find a place that has as many as possible.
5. Even if you’re leading the trip planning, leave group-activity planning to the people who want to do it as they’ll have the most drive and motivation (动机) to make it happen. Don’t force anyone into doing activities they aren’t interested in doing. So once you’re there, try your best to have a good time with them.
A.You may be a big diver.
B.Childcare on vacation is a big one.
C.The point of this whole thing is to have fun.
D.Making food for that many people is difficult.
E.And multi-bedroom setups allow for the less cost.
F.You’ve got all sorts of things to consider for a large group of people.
G.So making sure everyone’s planning styles are respected is an important early step.
There’s nothing magical about the number 10,000. In fact, the idea of walking at least 10,000 steps a day for health goes back many years to a marketing campaign started in Japan for the sale of a pedometer (计步器). And, in the years that followed, it was accepted in the US as a goal to build up good health. It’s often the default setting (默认设置) on fitness trackers, but what’s it really based on?
“The original basis of the number was not scientifically determined,” says researcher I-Min Lee of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She was curious to know how many steps you need to take a day to maintain good health and live a long life, so she and her workmates designed a study that included about 17,000 older women. Their average age was 72. The women all agreed to wear devices to track their steps as they went about their day-to-day activities.
It turns out that women who took about 4,000 steps per day got an increase in longevity (长寿), compared with women who took fewer steps. In fact, women who took 4,400 steps per day, on average, were about 40 percent less likely to die during the follow-up period of about four years compared with women who took 2,700 steps. The findings were published Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Another surprise: The benefits of walking maxed out at about 7,500 steps. In other words, women who walked more than 7,500 steps per day saw no additional increase in longevity.
Janz, who released the new national exercise recommendations last November, says the message that comes from this study was encouraging. “I think it’s really good news for women who may not be particularly active.” says Janz. “All they have to do is walk. To me, this study suggests there are more benefits to light activities than we were previously thinking there might be.”
1.How did the idea of walking 10,000 steps a day come into being?
A.It was made up by a group of elderly ladies.
B.It was indeed the result of a scientific research.
C.It actually came from a business advertisement.
D.It was based on a test by both Japan and the US.
2.Which is an ideal choice for women walkers according to the study?
A.2,700 steps. B.4,400 steps.
C.10,000 steps. D.17,000 steps.
3.Which of the following does Janz agree with?
A.Light activities benefit people most.
B.The study is not as satisfying as expected.
C.Women should be more active than before.
D.The result of the study is a little surprising.
4.In which part of a newspaper can you read the passage?
A.Health. B.Culture.
C.History. D.Tourism.
The Colorado River is the lifeblood of the American Southwest. It supplies water to more than 36 million people, has changed the desert into farmland, and allows cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas to develop. But satisfying the region’s need for water has come at a price.
The river once traveled all the way from Colorado’s Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California. Now, dams (水坝) control the river’s water for human use. As a result, the river no longer reaches the ocean. Without water, the delta (三角洲) at the river’s mouth has become dry and poor.
To bring the delta back to life, engineers recently opened the Morelos Dam near the US-Mexico border to free a temporary burst of water. This pulse flow allowed the Colorad River to reach the sea for the first time in 16 years, helping the river’s delta come alive.
The dams built by the US government form a system of man-made lakes. These lakes can store four times the river’s yearly flow. “The lakes are like the river basin’s bank accounts,” says Taylor Hawes. “They provide a place to save up water for not-so-rainy days — like right now”.
In wetter times, on and off since the 1960s, the Colorado managed to complete its journey to the sea. During those rare times, spring floods temporarily brought life back to the delta. Seeing the difference a little water could make gave scientists the idea for this year’s pulse flow.
“Just add water and you get an amazing recovery,” says Eloise Kendy. “The project serves as a model of how to manage rivers sustainably (可持续) for both people and nature. A lot of rivers in the West have problems. We used them to make the deserts bloom and build cities. We didn’t think about the environment. But it’s possible to restore them. If we can do it in the Colorado River Delta, we can do it anywhere.”
1.What can we lean from the first two paragraphs?
A.The Gulf of California is flooding.
B.The Colorado River’s delta is dying
C.The American southwest is becoming poor.
D.The water in the Colorado River is running out.
2.Taylor mentioned the bank accounts to show that ________.
A.lakes have stored much of the river water
B.many banks provided money to build dams
C.the money made from the lakes are kept in banks
D.people can borrow money from banks to buy lake water
3.What does Kendy want to express in the last paragraph?
A.Restoring deserts is sustainable for nature.
B.Many cities are built on deserts in the West.
C.Rivers in the West have been polluted seriously.
D.Environmental protection must go with development.
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A.An effort to protect the Colorado River from drying.
B.An experiment to make the Colorado River flow freely.
C.A plan to bring the Colorado River’s delta back to life.
D.A way to make full use of the water from the Colorado River.
