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Turning Deserts to Oases
Miracles are occurring in northwest China where stretches of deserts are turning green with thriving trees and luxurious grass. Decades of efforts have resulted 1. victory in the battle against desertification and China has not only achieved the UN sustainable development goal of zero net land degradation by 2030 well ahead of schedule, but also reversed（逆转）the trend of desertification and sandification.
The eco warriors have come up with a series of 2. （success） practices to end desertification, like the farmers’ group in Minqin, 3. county in Gansu Province, northwest China. Their success in fighting the approach of the desert offers important experience for desertification prevention and treatment. It is also the Chinese 4. （wise） for global ecological management.
China has the largest desert area in the world, with the largest number of people 5. （expose） to deserts and sandstorms. It is home to eight major deserts and four major sandy lands, which cover one 6. （five） of its territory. The western and northwestern parts are 7.（serious） affected by desertification.
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949，the goverment 8. （give） priority to the prevention and control of deserts, 9. is listed as one of the strategic missions of the nation.
Major ecological projects have been carried out to green the country. The Great Green Wall also known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program, is the biggest tree-planting project in the world, 10. （create） a green barrier to keep the encroaching desert in the north at bay.
Do you remember the last time you spoke to your mother and expressed how much you love her? If you do, when? I am ______ if it was only me but we that tend to have the habit of avoiding ______ how important our parents are to us.
I am not ______ to expressing how much I love my parents. It is not because I am ______ about tilling it, but because I don’t feel like saying it.
But that ______ the moment I learned that my mother had been ______ with stage 3 breast cancer in November 2016. We followed all her ______ advice. For two years, she continued to fight against the big C, going through the ______ of chemotherapy（化疗）and all.
People around did everything they could to help her—______ and mentally. Her co-church goers, uplifting her spiritually whenever she felt like ______, became more than a family to us. All through her journey, I’ve ______ how these people became a part of her. I couldn’t be too______ for their generosity.
However, after nearly two years of ______, that day finally arrived on March 25, 2018.
It wasn’t easy to ______. It wasn’t easy not to ______ what she had done for me and my siblings. I know it isn’t too late to ______ all the things a mother had done to their children. However, only when they aren’t around us can you notice it ______.
This is one of the things we tend to ______—to appreciate whatever our parents do to us. I know it isn’t late for those whose ______ are still around them. Let them know how much you appreciate all their ______. All they have done in your life is just to make sure you are in good condition.
1.A.unsure B.certain C.aware D.skeptical
2.A.pretending B.admitting C.expressing D.approving
3.A.devoted B.delighted C.ashamed D.accustomed
4.A.awkward B.shy C.annoyed D.indifferent
5.A.changed B.stopped C.continued D.disappeared
6.A.diagnosed B.sentenced C.faced D.concerned
7.A.friends’ B.physicians’ C.neighbors’ D.family’s
8.A.danger B.sorrow C.process D.trial
9.A.officially B.practically C.occasionally D.financially
10.A.holding on B.picking up C.taking off D.giving up
11.A.suspected B.experienced C.witnessed D.wondered
12.A.careful B.regretful C.grateful D.thoughtful
13.A.appreciating B.battling C.observing D.challenging
14.A.understand B.admit C.forget D.accept
15.A.notice B.hear C.say D.know
16.A.admire B.appreciate C.enjoy D.value
17.A.more B.often C.seldom D.less
18.A.forgive B.treasure C.remember D.forget
19.A.children B.parents C.colleagues D.siblings
20.A.preference B.expense C.efforts D.achievements
Many people take entry-level jobs in a company for experience and to get their foot in the door. 1. For those who want to get a promotion in the company, the following may be helpful.
Get a Mentor.
A mentor can help you learn how to approach a career, learn the company, and find position openings. 2. They can help to get through the challenges to show that you are a valued employee. Mentors may make a great reference if a person is going for a promotion.
Cautiously Self Promote.
No one likes people who do nothing but boast of their accomplishments and greatness. A person can offer to type up meeting notes and related information and send it out to others in the company. When sending the email there should be the email signature with name and title. 3.
4.
If a person makes a mistake, he should own up to it. This will show that the employee is trustworthy. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes but how a person handles it affects their position in the company. If they handle it correctly, it will show they can take responsibility.
Solve Problems.
Whether you work in a small office, or a big one, space problem solving is essential. Doing so at work can show you’re ready for bigger roles. You also need to consider how complicated projects are handled and look for solutions to make the process easier.
5. If a person shows that they are responsible, can complete the workload, and can work as a team player, they can move up in the company and advance their career.
A.Take Responsibility.
B.Ask for Additional Responsibilities.
C.The more your name is known, the better.
D.They can give tips to do the work efficiently.
E.To get better positions, people need to show they are willing to work.
F.These are ways by which a person can move up ahead in a company.
G.The jobs may be below their level but they offer steady paycheck and advancement.
When fisheries biologist James Drymon noticed feathers in the vomit of a tiger shark, he first assumed they belonged to some unfortunate seabird: a gull, perhaps, or a pelican. But when he and his team genetically sequenced the feathers, the results surprised them: the feathers came from a land-based songbird called a brown thrasher. So what was it doing in a tiger shark’s stomach in the Gulf of Mexico?
Drymon, a researcher at Mississippi State University’s Coastal Research and Extension Center, and his colleagues sorted songbird from a tiger shark’s stomach through the stomach contents of 105 juvenile tiger sharks between 2010 and 2018. Nearly 40 percent had recently feasted on birds that come from dry land. In all, the scientists counted 11 terrestrial bird species showing up on the sharks’ menu. The results were published online in May in Ecology. Researchers have known since the 1960 s that sharks sometimes eat songbirds. “But what was interesting to us was the prevalence of the behavior,” Drymon says, “This is something that happens every year in a high number of sharks.”
Every fall and spring, songbirds undertake dramatic migrations across the Gulf of Mexico. If bad weather comes along, they can be forced to land on the water—which is effectively a death sentence. “The estimate for the number of migrants that die because of storm-related events is in the billions,” Drymon says. He suspects that sharks have long taken advantage of this twice-yearly nutritional bounty raining down from the skies, but scientists have only recently had the genetic tools to confirm this by identifying partially digested feathers.
“The results stressed how interconnected marine and terrestrial ecosystems can be,” says University of Miami marine ecologist Neil Hammerschlag, who was not involved in the study, “It shows how opportunistic these sharks are.”
1.How did James Drymon and his colleagues identify the feathers?
A.By making comparison. B.By checking their DNA.
C.By observing them closely. D.By analyzing previous data.
2.What do we know about tiger sharks?
A.They dislike terrible weather. B.Most of them feed on land birds.
C.They actively catch songbirds for food. D.They are good at making use of opportunities.
3.According to the passage, what do songbirds fear most when they migrate?
A.Sharks in the sea. B.Other larger birds.
C.The stormy weather. D.The long distance.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A.Tiger sharks’ eating habit. B.Researchers’ identification of feathers.
C.Land birds’ suffering a lot when migrating. D.Land birds’ being on the menu of tiger sharks.
What do you do when you need to look something up? Go to the library? Open an encyclopaedia? Click onto the internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia. But how reliable is it?
There’s no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts a massive 78 million visitors every month, and the site is available in more than 270 different languages. It’s one of the most comprehensive resources available, and it’s got much more information than an ordinary encyclopaedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands of people around the world. Anyone with an internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you don’t need any formal training.
Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1,500 administrators who check for false information. But with more than 16 million articles to keep an eye on, it isn’t easy. So, while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, it’s also open to “destroyers”.
Some of the damage is easy to notice. One prankster(搞恶作剧者) drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gates’ photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Plato’s biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of ‘Barney the Purple Dinosaur’ and to have been deeply influenced by his dog, Cutie.”
But other things are harder to spot. The most common form of vandalism involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Incredibly, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers, with The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the pranks. For example, it was reported that TV theme tune composer Ronnie Hazlehurst had written the S Club 7 hit “Reach”. Of course, not true.
So, if you’re going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double-check it first.
1.According to Paragraph 2, what is right about Wikipedia?
A.It is the most useful look-up tool.
B.Only professionals can edit its contents.
C.New information is added to it every day.
D.You can find information in any language on it.
2.Why does the author mention Bill Gate’s photo in Paragraph 4?
A.To prove Wikipedia is unreliable.
B.To tell us what Bill Gate looks like.
C.To accuse someone of misbehavior.
D.To give an example of people’s pranks.
3.What does the underlined word “vandalism” probably mean in Paragraph 5?
A.Damage. B.Recovery.
C.Repair. D.Protection.
4.What is the author’s attitude toward the information from Wikipedia?
A.Favorable. B.Cautious.
C.Ambiguous. D.Disapproving.
I took a job as a receptionist for a vet almost five decades ago. As a keen animal lover, I accepted the position on the condition that I wouldn’t have to assist with any wounded animals. I couldn’t bear to see any creature in pain.
At the end of my first week, we were closing the office for the day when a young man ran up to us holding a severely injured Doberman puppy in his arms and begging us to save his life. The four- month-old pup had been hit by a car.
The doctor and I ran back into the operating room. The only place the skin was still attached to this poor little animal’s body was around one shoulder. The vet worked tirelessly for what seemed like hours, stitching him back together again. That was the easy part. The puppy had broken multiple bones, including his spine(脊椎). If he survived the next few days, we were quite sure he would never walk again.
That day forever changed my life. The vet mentored me, and I became his assistant in all things medical. One of my first jobs was to give that Doberman puppy daily physical therapy. I remember moving his tiny legs to try to keep his muscles from withering.
Weeks went by until one day, I felt this little fighter push back ever so slightly. And he continued to push back till he could finally use his legs.
Fas-forward about a year, I walked into the clinic’s crowded waiting room and called the name of the next client. Suddenly, a huge Doberman who had been standing quietly with his owner on the opposite side of the room broke loose and rushed toward me. I found myself pinned against the wall with this magnificent dog standing on his hind legs, his front paws on my shoulders, washing my face with abundant and joyful kisses!
I am still amazed at the display of love and gratitude the dog had for me that day all those years ago. I went on to be a vet tech for 14 years, and since retirement, I’ve volunteered at a no-kill animal shelter.
1.Why was the author unwilling to assist the vet with injured animals at first?
A.She didn’t like animals at all. B.She couldn’t stand working with the vet.
C.She had no experience of tending animals. D.She would feel sad seeing animals injured.
2.After the operation, the author thought the puppy___________.
A.would not survive B.would lose the ability to walk
C.would recover soon D.would suffer great pain
3.Which of the following best describes the author?
A.Humorous. B.Caring.
C.Ambitious. D.Demanding.
4.What’s the best title for the text?
A.A dog’s gratitude. B.An experience in clinic.
C.I, an animal lover. D.An incredible miracle.
