Oindrila Basu from India, 25, is a key member of a global forestry organization. Back in her youth, she had to be taught the importance of nature. She used to destroy nests of the bulbul bird just for fun. Once, her mother caught her and forced her to find the eggs and replace the nest. With a heavy heart, the girl realized she had done something terrible.
This is just one way that Basu’s parents shaped her understanding and appreciation of nature. Living in the countryside, she spent her youth studying ants before a rain, watching sunbirds drink bottlebrush nectar, counting fireflies and watching seedlings grow. Then her parents decided to move to a nearby city with better educational opportunities and she stopped having firsthand experiences with nature.
As she struggled to choose a college major, her mother suggested a career in forestry. That’s when her journey began and she fell in love with forestry. Away from the crowded concrete cities, in the lap of the Himalayas, she got her bachelor’s degree in forestry from Kumaun University, India. When she went on to study for a master’s in forestry from the Forest Research Institute, India, she finally got introduced to a like-minded group of people, devoted to the same cause-the International Forestry Students’ Association（IFSA）.
IFSA is a global organization connecting students to exchange knowledge and participate in forestry activities. The youth joining IFSA are encouraged to undertake its mission-to enrich forest education and spread a love of nature through events and intercultural exchanges.
After six months of exciting international conferences and workshops, Basu, found her home-a family that loved forests as much as she did. She felt rejuvenated（重生的）; her passion had a direction. Now she wanted to do more.
Now with the IFSA, Basu recalled her experience of joining, “On purpose or by chance we chose forestry, or rather, forestry chose us”.
1.What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?
A.Basu fell in love with nature when she first saw bird nests.
B.Basu didn’t go to school when she lived in the countryside.
C.Basu’s parents didn’t like her to spend much time in nature.
D.Basu’s love for nature grew as she learned more about it.
2.What is the text mainly about?
A.The development of an Indian family. B.The road to forestry of an Indian girl.
C.The importance of protecting forest. D.The influence of IFSA on everyone.
3.In IFSA the youth can_____.
A.communicate with nature lovers B.escape city life
C.take a master’s degree course D.organize forestry activities
4.Which word can best describe the work of IFSA?
A.Challenging. B.Moving.
C.Inspiring. D.Promising.
On Oct. 2, carpentry students from Harvard H. Ellis Technical High School（ET）in the United States were putting the finishing touches on a handicapped ramp（残疾人坡道）at Northeast Placement Services. It was a thing of beauty, leading from a deck outside one building to the entryway of the new Community Education Center.
Students started the project a year ago, in April. ET has a rotating（循环的）schedule-two weeks of academic work followed by two weeks of shop work（车间工作）. For this ramp, some students were required to cut wood on a table saw. Others needed to cut a piece of deck railing to fill a gap. Department Head Jim Gallow moved among them, answering questions.
Their academic schedule made it difficult to finish the job very quickly. During the summer, work stopped altogether.
Senior Gabe Martel didn’t know he wanted to be a carpenter when he first arrived at ET. He soon found that the hands-on activity suited him.
“I knew I wanted a trade,” he said. “From day one, I thought carpentry was amazing.”
“There were a few tough people,” said Tristan Madden. “You have to learn to work with people.”
At the end of a job, there are just a few items to finish. Everyone else gets assigned clean-up duties.
Timothy Carpentier knew he wanted to be a carpenter since the sixth grade. He’d spent time working on projects with his father.
“I’d go to Home Depot when they taught things,” he said. “It was fun. Now, this is preparing me for the workforce”
“It’s rewarding to see what the students produce,” Gallow said.
The next project will be at the Brooklyn Fairgrounds, where students will rebuild a portion of the main stage. They’ll work through the winter months, unless it’s brutally cold.
“Like I tell them, you have to eat in the winter, too,” he said.
1.what do we know about ET’s project at Northeast Placement Services?
A.It took no more than one year to complete.
B.It is inside a building for disabled people.
C.Students designed it on their own.
D.Students had to put theory into practice.
2.What did Martel get from this project?
A.It helped him choose a career for the future.
B.It taught him to get along with people.
C.It prepared him for his dream job.
D.It taught him how to make a plan.
3.What was Gallows attitude toward the students’ product?
A.Doubtful. B.Satisfied.
C.Unconcerned. D.Disappointed
4.What does the underlined word “brutally” in the second to the last paragraph?
A.Warmly. B.Generally.
C.Extremely. D.Slightly.
With so many new songs coming out every month, it can be difficult to find the good ones. Luckily, Time magazine announced its Top 10 songs of 2019. Here we have picked out four for you. Perhaps it’s time to tune in.
Old Town Road
Holding Billboard’s No. 1 spot for 19 weeks, the song Old Town Road by US rapper Lil Nas X was a hit in 2019. It’s a country music. But the song has qualities of many music types, including rap and pop. “Creatively, I think it’s always a good idea when there’s a mixture of many types, with cross-cultural conversations going on,” said US musician Tom Willett.
Don’t Start now
Since releasing her first album in 2017, UK singer Dua Lipa is famous for her honey-smooth voice. But she wants to try more. In her latest song, Don’t Start Now, she adds an infectious disco sensibility. With lively and energetic vocal twists, “it’s a tune that celebrates independence and promises joy in the process,” noted The Times.
Juice
If you feel blue and want to lift up your spirits, Juice may be one of the best choices. Sung by US rapper Lizzo, Juice is full of self-love and confident lyrics. She sings, “If I’m shiny, everybody goanna shine. I was born like this, don’t even gotten try.” Lollie King of Bustle wrote that the song “is sure to give you that much-needed confidence increase when you’re feeling low”.
Happier
Marshmello can toast to being the No. 1 Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Artist as Happier with Bastille. Happier held the No. 1 spot on the weekly Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for the entire year, shattering the record, for the most weeks at No. 1 since the chart’s January 26, 2013 inception （开始）. By the end of the 2019 chart year, Happier became only the third song in Billboard chart history, across all formats, to hit at least 60 weeks at No. 1.
1.Which song can cheer you up easily?
A.Old Town Road. B.Juice.
C.Don’t Start Now. D.Happier.
2.What can we learn about Old Town Road?
A.It held Billboard’s No. 1 spot more than 19 weeks.
B.It describes the beautiful scenery of an old town.
C.It contains different music types.
D.It is sung by US musician Tom Willett.
3.From which is the text probably taken?
A.A textbook on music. B.A research paper.
C.A travel brochure. D.A musical magazine.
阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
Growing up on a small farm, I lived a life that I took for granted. My father worked in the city as a plumber(水暖工).He was not highly educated, but he was smart, looking at problems in an engineer’s way. He was a man made of leather, brass and chewing tobacco who tried to teach my brother and me useful things, including respect. He also had a temper and was strict with us for he would scold us when we made some careless mistakes. Sometimes, my father seemed like a distant enemy to me and I didn’t like him very much.
One day I came home from primary school and his car was already there. Once inside, I was told by my mother that he didn’t feel well. His back hurt. My father never missed work; in fact, when he came home, he went to the barn to work even more. I remember looking at him secretly around the corner as he lay on his bed in the middle of the day.
Later, my mother told me he got multiple myeloma(多发性骨髓瘤),a type of cancer. As the cancer grows, the person will shrink because the disease destroys the body’s energy and the abnormal antibodies cause problems for other cells and tissue. Bones eventually look like Swiss cheese, and when they break, they may never heal. But I didn’t realize that my father’s time was rather limited and just treated him the same way I used to.
For the last year of my fathers life, his entire day consisted df rising from his hospital bed in the living room and walking to his chair to sit and think. He was predictably in that chair when I came home one day during the ninth grade. I do not remember where my mother and brother were, but the two of us were alone.
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He asked me to sit down and what he told me still moves me these decades Later.
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At that moment, I realized that he was doing more than telling.
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假定你是李华，你校成功举办了校园文化秀（the Campus Culture Show)。现在，请你按照以下要点给英国网友Wilson写一封邮件，分享这次活动。
1. 活动时间、地点；
2. 活动内容；
3. 活动感受。
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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。
Roofs and windows of buildings aren’t the only surfaces that can be used to produce solar power. In China, 1. （construct）has begun of the country’s first solar highway, in which solar panels are placed underneath transparent concrete.
The solar highway is a 2 km stretch（一段）of road 2.（lie）on the Jinan City Expressway, and it’s divided into three layers. The see-through concrete protects a set of solar panels of two 3.size）. Beneath the solar panels 4. （be）a layer that separates them from the damp ground.
The road 5.（it）has already been completed, and now it’s only a matter of connecting the grid（输电网）, 6. is expected to be finished by the end of the year alongside the completion of the Jinan Expressway’s south section.
This isn’t the first solar road China has worked on. Earlier this year, the Qilu Transportation Development Group, also handling the Jinan Expressway solar road, 7.（build）a 160-meter- long solar road in 8. city of Jinan. It has the ability of heating up to keep the highway clear 9. snow and ice and is able to 10. （wireless） charge electric vehicles. The new solar highway is expected to one day be equipped with the same features.
