阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world's 1.(long) cross-sea bridge, enters the history of human engineering and connection as a point of pride upon 2.（it) opening to traffic at 9 am on Oct.24, 2018.
One day after the opening was announced at a ceremony 3.(hold) in Zhuhai , the bridge's ports in three different administrative regions started serving travelers around-the-clock , opening 24 hours a day, seven days a week.4.(ensure) faster boundary crossings for passengers, the Macao and Zhuhai ports jointly use a one-off immigration clearance model,5.allows travelers to queue up only once to finish both exit and entry procedures of the two cities in about 306.(second).
Apart7. private cars, taxis and goods vehicles, two types of public transportation -shuttle bus（班车）and cross-boundary coach --can also run on the HZMB. 8.frequency of shuttle buses is about 5-10minutes during peak hours. Booking tickets for the shuttle bus online in advance 9.（be）available since 9 am on Tuesday. With the bridge now in service, the traveling time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong International Airport will10.( shorten) from four hours to 45 minutes, and the time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong’s Container Terminals will be cut from 3. 5 hours to 75 minutes.
单词拼写
1.He opened his sister’s letter out of _________(好奇心).
2.Yesterday Michael a_________ for being late, but his boss didn’t forgive him.
3.I would have made progress if I had taken her advice into c_________.
4.When he came to life, he found himself _______(包围) by his family.
5.They hope that they can find an ________(解释) for the attacks.
6.Scientists have many __________(理论；学说) about how the universe came into being..
7._________(配备) with modern facilities, the library is very popular.
8.His reasons sound _________(令人信服的), but I just can’t believe him.
9.I got into an __________(争论) with his friend.
10.He _________(后悔) to tell him that he had been dismissed.
11.A friend in need is a friend i_______.
12.They s______(寻找) for a place to shelter from the rain, but in vain.
13.She decided to adopt a different ________(方法；途径) to the problem.
14.About 400 earthquakes happen ________(在全世界) every year.
15.I will inform you of the party time in a______.
After graduation, Susan was asked to become the executive director of the Floating Hospital. She _____ at first, as it was a very big job and she didn't know if she could _____ it. But finally, she _____. While her job was rewarding, she soon got tired of it. When she sat at her desk one day, an idea _____ to her that she wanted to go down to the New School for Social Research. _____ she was learning to trust her intuition(直觉), she decided to have a go.
Without any forethought, she titled the _____ 'Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway'. Susan was _____ as she faced the first session of the twelve-week course. The two hours went well, but she then was _____ with a new fear, for she didn't know what to teach the next week. But every week she found she had more to say. And her _____ level grew. She realized she had learned so much over the years about _____ fear. And her students were drinking it up. At the end of the course, they were _____ at how shifting their thinking really changed their lives.
Susan _____ decided to write a book based on the course she had taught. She faced many roadblocks. And after four agents and fifteen _____ from various publishers, she _____ put the proposal in a drawer.
After three years of writing, she was going through the drawer that _____ her much-rejected book proposal. Picking it up, she had a（n）_____ sense that she held something in her hands that many people _____ to read. So, she set out with much _____ to find a publisher who believed in her book the _____ way she did. This time, she succeeded. She succeeded _____ her wildest dreams.
She was so happy she followed her heart and never gave up overcoming fears that stood in her way.
1.A.admitted B.wondered C.recognized D.hesitated
2.A.handle B.help C.hatch D.have
3.A.explained B.paused C.agreed D.ignored
4.A.applied B.occurred C.led D.objected
5.A.Since B.While C.If D.Though
6.A.book B.talk C.course D.speech
7.A.energetic B.nervous C.depressed D.delicate
8.A.armed B.provided C.challenged D.pleased
9.A.confidence B.balance C.happiness D.success
10.A.handing over B.taking over C.looking over D.getting over
11.A.relieved B.puzzled C.astonished D.amused
12.A.gradually B.eventually C.originally D.temporarily
13.A.rejections B.applications C.indications D.restrictions
14.A.hopefully B.swiftly C.unwillingly D.unconsciously
15.A.emptied B.held C.removed D.supported
16.A.vague B.slight C.basic D.acute
17.A.happened B.afforded C.needed D.offered
18.A.realization B.determination C.satisfaction D.imagination
19.A.right B.ideal C.obvious D.same
20.A.beyond B.within C.behind D.through
What Is Emotional Eating?
Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of satisfying hunger.1.Have you ever finished a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downed cookie after cookie while preparing for a big test? But when done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.
Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings.
2.One of the biggest myths about emotional eating is that it’s caused by negative feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they’re stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert on Valentine’s Day or the celebration of a holiday feast. Sometimes emotional eating is tied to major life events, like a death or a divorce. 3.
Emotional eating patterns can be learned: A child who is given candy after a big achievement may grow up using candy as a reward for a job well done. 4.It’s not easy to “unlearn” patterns of emotional eating. But it is possible. And it starts with an awareness of what’s going on.
We’re all emotional eaters to a degree. But for some people emotional eating can be a real problem, causing serious weight gain or other problems. The trouble with emotional eating is that once the pleasure of eating is gone, the feelings that cause it remain. 5.That’s why it helps to know the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.
Next time you reach for a snack, wait and think about which type of hunger is driving it.
A. Believe it or not, we’ve all been there.
B. If a crying boy gets some cookies, he may link cookies with comfort.
C. One study found that people who eat food like pizza become happy afterwards.
D. And you often may feel worse about eating the amount or type of food you like.
E. Understanding what drives emotional eating can help people take steps to change it.
F. Boys seem to prefer hot, homemade comfort meals, while girls go for chocolate and ice cream.
G. More often, though, it’s the countless little daily stresses that cause someone to seek comfort in food.
Tiny microbes (微生物) are at the heart of a new agricultural technique to manage harmful greenhouse gas. Scientists have discovered how microbes can be used to turn carbon dioxide into soil-enriching limestone (石灰石), with the help of a type of tree that grows in tropical areas, such as West Africa.
Researchers have found that when the Iroko tree is grown in dry, acidic soil and treated with a combination of natural fungi (霉菌) and other bacteria, not only does the tree grow well, it also produces the mineral limestone in the soil around its root.
The Iroko tree makes a mineral by combining Ca from the earth with CO2 from the atmosphere. The bacteria then create the conditions under which this mineral turns into limestone. The discovery offers a new way to lock carbon into the soil, keeping it out of the atmosphere. In addition to storing carbon in the trees' leaves and in the form of limestone, the mineral in the soil makes it more suitable for agriculture.
The discovery could lead to reforestation projects in tropical countries, and help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the developing world. It has already been used in West Africa and is being tested in Bolivia, Haiti and India.
The findings were made in a three-year project involving researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Granada, Lausanne and Delft University of Technology. The project examined several microbiological methods of locking CO2 as limestone, and the Iroko-bacteria way showed best results. Work was funded by the European Commission under the Future&Emerging Technologies(FET)scheme.
Dr Bryne Ngwenya of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, who led the research, said："By taking advantage of this natural limestone-producing process, we have a low-tech, safe, readily employed and easily operating way to lock carbon out of the atmosphere, while improving farming conditions in tropical countries."
1.The passage is mainly introducing ______ .
A.some useful natural fungi and bacteria
B.the soil-enriching limestone created by scientists
C.a newly-found tree in West Africa
D.a new way to deal with greenhouse gas
2.Which of the following is True about tiny microbes?
A.Tiny microbes get along well with the Iroko tree in special soil.
B.CO2 can be broken down by natural fungi and bacteria.
C.The more greenhouse gas is, the more active tiny microbes become.
D.Most tiny microbes like living in dry, acidic soil.
3.What does the underlined word "it" in paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A.Carbon dioxide. B.Soil.
C.Carbon. D.Limestone.
4.According to the passage, what can we infer?
A.The action of the tiny microbes can increase the oxygen in the earth.
B.Researchers tend to use natural power to solve their problem.
C.Researchers have done the experiment on trees in Africa for three years.
D.West Africa is one of the most polluted areas all over the world.
"Did you hear what happened to Adam last Friday?" Lindsey whispers to Tori.
With her eyes shining, Tori brags, "You bet I did, Sean told me two days ago."
Who are Lindsey and Tori talking about? It just happened to be yours truly, Adam Freedman, I can tell you that what they are saying is （a） not nice and （b） not even true. Still, Lindsey and Tori aren't very different from most students here at Linton High School, including me. Many of our conversations are gossip （闲话）.I have noticed three effects of gossip: it can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.
An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about. Usually, gossip spreads information about a topic—breakups, trouble at home, even dropping out—that a person would rather keep secret. The more embarrassing or shameful the secret is, the juicier the gossip it makes. Probably the worst type of gossip is the absolute lie. People often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.
If we know that gossip can be harmful, then why do so many of us do it? The answer lies in another effect of gossip: the satisfaction it gives us. Sharing the latest rumor （传言）can make a person feel important because he or she knows something that others don't. Similarly, hearing the latest rumor can make a person feel like part of the "in group". In other words, gossip is satisfying because it gives people a sense of belonging or even superiority （优越感）.
Gossip also can have a third effect: it strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act. Professor David Wilson explains that gossip is important in policing behaviors in a group. Translated into high school terms, this means that if everybody you hang around with is laughing at what John wore or what Jane said, then you can bet that wearing or saying something similar will get you the same kind of negative attention. The do's and don'ts conveyed through gossip will never show up in any student handbook.
The effects of gossip vary depending on the situation. The next time you feel the urge to spread the latest news, think about why you want to gossip and what effects your "juicy story" might have.
1.The author uses a conversation at the beginning of the passage to _________.
A.introduce a topic B.present an argument
C.describe the characters D.clarify his writing purpose
2.An important negative effect of gossip is that it ___________.
A.breaks up relationships B.embarrasses the listener
C.spreads information around D.causes unpleasant experiences
3.Professor David Wilson thinks that gossip can ____________.
A.provide students with written rules
B.help people watch their own behaviors
C.force school to improve student handbooks
D.attract the police's attention to group behaviors
4.What advice does the author give in the passage?
A.Never become a gossiper B.Stay away from gossipers
C.Don't let gossip turn into lies D.Think twice before you gossip
