Autumn Peltier is a youth environmentalist who has inspired thousands of students to walk out of class and demand action on climate change.
When Autumn Peltier was just 8 years old, she attended a ceremony at a reservation where she saw a sign warning that the water was poisonous. Growing up on a freshwater island in Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory in Canada, Peltier says she had never experienced poisonous water. The memory of that sign stayed with her.
Two years later, at the age of 10, Peltier is fighting for water conservation and water rights for everybody. She says she was inspired by her great aunt, Josephine Mandamin, a well-known activist who walked the shores of all five Great Lakes to raise awareness for water conservation.
When she was 12 in 2015, Peltier met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, telling him she was unhappy with his policies on debating pipeline projects. Trudeau promised her he would preserve the water. Since 2015, 87 long-term water advisories in Canada have been lifted; 56 water advisories remain.
At middle school, Peltier joined an environmental group at her school and later co-founded the Canadian Youth Water Strike-a Canadian branch of the international movement to conserve water.
Last year, Peltier spoke at the UN about the importance of water conservation and water access, explaining the fundamental role water plays in her culture.
“Many people don’t think water is alive or has a spirit. My people believe this to be true. . . . We believe our water is precious because we are born of water.”
After the speech at the UN, Peltier is joined by a group of teenagers who share similar thoughts. Her friends include Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl who drew the world attention through the talk at World Economic Forum at Davos, Bruno Rodriguez, an Argentinian boy who joined in the UN Climate Summit, and Mari Copeny, an American girl who is dedicated to the cause of saving water. Peltier and her friends believe that together they can make a big difference.
Undoubtedly, Peltier’s many years of hard work has paid off. She has greatly raised people’s awareness of water conservation and taught people to take specific actions to conserve water.
That’s an impressive list of accomplishments for anyone, let alone a middle schooler.
1.How did Peltier feel about the poisonous water when she was 8?
A.Shocked. B.Interested. C.Excited. D.Bored.
2.Who influenced Peltier to start water conservation?
A.UN officials. B.Trudeau. C.Mandamin. D.Thunberg.
3.What does Peltier expect to do in the future?
A.To make more friends. B.To protect more water.
C.To attend more summits. D.To organize more strikes.
4.What can we learn from Autumn Peltier’s story?
A.World leaders can contribute to success.
B.Environment is Canadians’major concern.
C.Fame comes from attending great summits.
D.Achievements result from continuous effort.
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday &Saturday | Sunday |
9:15-9:55 | Academics | Academics | Academics | Academics | Short trips: Beach, Disney, Universal, Water Park, etc. | Clean-up |
9:55-10:10 | Fruit Break | Fruit Break | Fruit Break | Fruit Break | ||
10:10-10:50 | Academics | Academics | Academics | Academics | Brunch | |
10:55-11:30 | Basketball | Water Slide | Yoga | Track | Swim | |
11:35-12:35 | Swim | Swim | Swim | Swim | ||
13:35-14:15 | Music | Science & Nature | Music | Science &Nature | House keeping | |
14:20-14:35 | Ice Cream | Ice Cream | Ice Cream | Ice Cream | ||
14:40-16:00 | Rest Hour | Rest Hour | Rest Hour | Rest Hour | Weights, Gym, Field | |
16:00-16:40 | Academics | Academics | Academics | Academics | ||
19:30-20:30 | Evening Program | Evening Program | Evening Program | Evening Program | Evening Program |
1.What does ELI offer its campers?
A.Overseas trips.
B.A flexible schedule.
C.Safe accommodation.
D.Meals from different countries.
2.What makes ELI different from other camps?
A.It provides programs by age group.
B.It focuses on developing social skills.
C.It creates a new way of learning languages.
D.It combines camping with academic programs.
3.According to ELI Typical Weekly Schedule, campers _______.
A.are free in the evening
B.can enjoy a variety of sports
C.are quite busy with academics
D.are expected to plan their weekends
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。为提高学生的生活技能，你们班上周组织了一次“厨艺秀”。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。
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国好友Jim即将来京，并打算 利用周末时间游览一处北京古代建筑。他发来邮件询问相关信息。请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1.你的推荐；2.说明理由。
注意：1.词数不少于50；2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
One major reason Americans don’t get enough exercise is that they feel they don’t have enough time. It can be difficult to squeeze in the 75 minutes of aerobic (有氧的) exercise per week that federal guidelines recommend.1..
In a new analysis of 14 studies, researchers tracked deaths among more than 232,000 people from the U.S., Denmark, the U.K. and China over at least five years, and compared the findings with people’s self-reports about how much they ran. People who said they ran any amount were less likely to die than those who didn’t run at all.2. This was true even for those who didn’t log a great deal of time. The analysis divided people into groups, with 50 minutes or less per week representing the group that ran the least―but still ran. ‘‘Regardless of how much you run, you can expect such benefits,” says Zeljko Pedisic, one of the authors of the new analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The analysis is the latest to illustrate the benefits of running on the human body. It’s what we evolved (进化) to do. 3. But as leisure-time exercise, running keeps us healthy. “One of the best ways to avoid having to see a doctor,” Zeljko says, “is to stay physically active.”
4. Running is good at guarding against cancer partly because it uses up blood sugar, starving the cancer cells that rely on it for fuel. And it protects you in other ways not necessarily measured in the latest research: by decreasing inflammation (炎症), for example, which is at the root of many diseases, and stimulating the production of a protein that improves brain health.
5. Neither were how often people ran and the pace they kept. As long as you’re running, more isn’t always better, especially given that the risk of injury increases with repetition.
A.People may no longer hunt wild animals for their next meal.
B.The physical demands of running affect our body in a beneficial way.
C.Some people run to prevent disease, and others run because it makes them feel better.
D.Runners were 27% less likely to die for any reason, compared with nonrunners.
E.But researchers point out, to infer something like that, they need the whole population measured.
F.But new research suggests people may be able to get life-lengthening benefits by running for far less time.
G.The good news is that running more than 50 minutes per week wasn’t linked to additional protections against dying.
Scientists often complain that people are not rational (理性的) in their opposition to technologies such as nuclear power and genetically modified (GM) crops. From a statistical perspective, these are very safe, and so peopled fear can be explained only by emotion, strengthened by ignorance. Electricity from nuclear power has led to far fewer direct deaths than has coalfired power, yet many people are afraid of it, and hardly anyone is afraid of coal plants. Similar arguments can be made about GM crops, which studies have shown are generally safe for most people to eat.
Scientific illiteracy (无知) may be part of the problem. Most of us are afraid of things we don’t understand, and studies have shown that scientists tend to be more accepting of potentially risky technologies than laypeople. This suggests that when people know a lot about such technologies, they are usually reassured.
But there’s more to the issue than meets the eye. It is true that many of us fear the unknown, but it is also true that we don’t care enough about routine risks. Part of the explanation is complacency: we tend not to fear the familiar, and thus familiarity can lead us to underestimate risk. The investigation into the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill (原油泄漏) in 2010 showed that complacency—among executives, among engineers and among government officials-was a major cause of that disaster. So the fact that experts are unworried about a threat is not necessarily reassuring.
Scientists also make a mistake when they assume that public concerns are wholly or even mostly about safety. Some people object to GM crops because these crops facilitate the increased use of chemicals. Others have a problem with the social impacts that switching to GM organisms can have on traditional farming communities or with the political implications of leaving a large share of the food supply in the hands of a few corporations.
Geoengineering (地球工程学) to lessen the impacts of climate change is another example. Laypeople as well as scientists are more concerned about oversight (监管) than safety. Who will decide whether this is a good way to deal with climate change? If we undertake the project of setting the global temperature by controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth’s surface, who will be included in that “we” and by what process will the “right” global temperature be chosen?
Can we say which group’s view is closer to an accurate assessment?
1.The underlined word “complacency” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.
A.overconfidence B.prediction
C.underestimation D.carelessness
2.The example of geoengineering is used to argue that ________.
A.safety is not the whole concern of the public
B.geoengineering is highly recognized by scientists
C.the public are unnecessarily troubled by climate change
D.lessening the impacts of climate change is a great challenge
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Scientific illiteracy is a major cause of disasters.
B.The safety of technologies can be accurately assessed.
C.Scientists misjudge people’s opposition to technologies.
D.People are unworried about risks with proper oversight.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Ignorance or Safety
B.Who Is Rational About Risk
C.Why Can’t People Trust Technology
D.Should Scientists Have a Say in Risk
