假设你是晨光中学学生会主席李津，为了提升同学们的环保意识，你校准备于下周六开展“垃圾分类助推活动”，你将代表学校在学校的动员大会上发言，呼吁同学们积极参加活动，并介绍活动的具体安排，内容包括：
1.活动的原因及意义
2.活动当天的具体安排
3.报名方式
注意：
1.词数不少于 100；
2.可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
提示词：垃圾分类 garbage sorting
Good morning, everyone! It’s my honor to be here to share my opinions on garbage sorting.
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Thank you!
Bert Kate, my grandfather, celebrated his 90th birthday in November 2016. Bert loved sports and was an enthusiastic Yankees (an American professional baseball team based in the New York City) fan, so it was no wonder that over the years, he was an avid (热切的) listener to WFAN radio and, in particular, the afternoon show hosted by Mike Francesa.
Bert had health issues in his later years that limited his mobility, and when he lost his vision three years ago, his attachment to his radio and Francesa became more pronounced. He just loved listening to Mike talk about sports and his Yankees each afternoon. Those hours brought him so much pleasure.
Of course, Mike will be leaving Dec.15,2017 after 30 years at the station. Mike lives in the same community where I work on Long Island, and I have gotten to know him over the past 20 years. So when my grandfather was approaching his special birthday the year before last year, I asked Mike for a favor: to call Bert and wish him a happy birthday.
Mike agreed without hesitation. Two days before the special day, Mike stopped at my workplace. I called Bert at his nursing home and put Mike on the phone. It was a complete surprise to Bert. Mike spent more than 10 minutes wishing Bert a happy birthday and, of course, talking about the Yankees.
When my family celebrated Bert’s birthday two days later, he couldn’t stop talking about the phone call. Over his lifetime, he said it was one of the nicest things anyone had ever done for him.
Unfortunately, Ben’s health declined last year and he passed away July 13,2017. But even in his final months in the hospital and nursing home,he always had a radio set to WFAN to listen each afternoon to Mike Francesa.And he also had the memory of that special phone call for his 90th birthday.
1.Why did Bert listen to WFAN radio for many years? ( no more than 10 words)
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2.What does the underlined word mean in Paragraph2? (1 word)
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3.What happened two days before Bert’s birthday? ( no more than 10 words)
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4.What is the best title for the text? (no more than 5 words)
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5.What do you think of the author? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
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An introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a powerful searchlight. But a tradition of publishing seems to require that the candle should be there, and I am proud to be the one to hold it. About ten years ago I picked up from the pile of new books on my desk a copy of Sons and Lovers, and I started to race through it with the immoral speed of the professional reviewer. But after a page or two I found myself reading, really reading. It is a masterpiece in which every sentence counts, a book packed with significant thought and beautiful, attractive phrases, the work of a remarkable genius whose gifts are more richly various than those of any other young English novelist.He is Lawrence.
To appreciate the rich variety of Mr Lawrence, we must read his later novels and his volumes of poetry. But Sons and Lovers reveals the range of his typical power. Here are combined and blended(混合的) sort of “realism” and almost lyric(抒情的) description and rhythm. The speech of the people is that of daily life and the things that happen to them are normal adventures and accidents; they fall in love, marry, work, fail, succeed, and die. But of their deeper emotions and of the relations of these little human beings to the earth and to the stars, Mr Lawrence makes something near to poetry and prose(散文) without violating its proper “other harmony”.
Take the marvellous paragraph on next to the last page of Sons and Lovers(Mr Lawrence depends so little on plot in the ordinary sense of the word that it is perfectly fair to read the end of his book first):
Where was he? One tiny upright speck of flesh, less than an ear of wheat lost in the field. He could not bear it. On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a spark, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun, stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in the darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted(气馁). So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.
Such glorious writing lifts the book far above a novel which is merely a story. I beg the reader to attend to every line of it and not to miss a single one of the many sentences that await and surprise you. Some are enthusiastic and impressive, like the paragraph above; others are keen, “realistic” observations of things and people. In one of his books Mr Lawrence makes a character say, or think, that life is “mixed”. That indicates his philosophy and his method. He blends the accurately literal and trivial(琐碎的) with the extremely poetic.
To find a similar blending of tiny daily detail and wide imaginative vision, we must go back to two older novelists, Hardy and Meredith. I do not mean that Mr Lawrence derives(源于) directly from them or, indeed, that he is clearly the disciple(弟子) of any master. I do feel simply that he is of the elder stature(名望) of Hardy and Meredith. When I first tried to express this comparison, this connection, I was opposed by a fellow­critic, who pointed out that Meredith and Hardy are entirely unlike each other and that therefore Mr Lawrence cannot resemble both. To be sure, nothing is more hateful than forced comparisons, nothing more boring than to discover similarities between one work of art and another. An artist's mastery lies in his difference from other masters. But to refer a young man of genius to an older one, at the same time pronouncing his independence and originality, is a fair, if not very superior, method of praising him.
1.The underlined word “superfluous” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ________.
A.meaningful
B.fundamental
C.unnecessary
D.fashionable
2.What is typical of Lawrence's works?
A.They reveal his genius power.
B.They contain lots of great lyric poetry.
C.They focus on relations between humans.
D.They present some real living situations.
3.What does the author want to illustrate by including one paragraph from Sons and Lovers?
A.The language in Lawrence's books is elegant.
B.It is wise to read Lawrence's books from the end.
C.Lawrence is not capable of telling good stories.
D.The plot of the novel has little to do with daily life.
4.Who were Hardy and Meredith?
A.They taught Lawrence literature when he was young.
B.They were the realistic novelists of Lawrence's time.
C.They were novelists who resemble each other in writing.
D.They were novelists combining details with imagination.
5.According to the author, what does an artist's mastery mean?
A.He must be happy to be compared.
B.He must have personal diversity.
C.He must have the critical spirits.
D.He must be a man of genius.
6.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A.To introduce Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers.
B.To show his experiences of reading classics.
C.To analyze Lawrence's writing characteristics.
D.To compare the styles of different novelists.
People have grown taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm. A global study looked at the average height of 18-year-olds in 200 countries between 1914 and 2014.
The results reveal that while Swedes were the tallest people in the world in 1914, Dutch men have risen from 12th place to the top with an average height of 182.5cm. Latvian women, meanwhile, rose from 28th place in 1914 to become the tallest in the world a century later, with an average height of 169.8cm.
James Bentham, a co-author of the research from Imperial College, London, says the global trend is likely to be due primarily to improvements in nutrition and healthcare. “An individual's genetics has a big influence on their height, but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role,” he added.
A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio Riboli of Imperial College. “Being taller is associated with longer life expectancy,” he said. “This is largely due to a lower risk of dying of cardiovascular disease among taller people.”
But while height has increased around the world, the trend in many countries of north and sub-Saharan Africa causes concern, says Riboli. While height increased in Uganda and Niger during the early 20th century, the trend has turned backwards in recent years, with height decreasing among 18-year-olds.
“One reason for these decreases in height is the economic situation in the 1980s,” said Alexander Moradi of the University of Sussex. The nutritional and health crises that followed the policy of structural adjustment, he says, led to many children and teenagers failing to reach their full potential in terms of height.
Bentham believes the global trend of increasing height has important implications. “How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in,” he said. “If we give children the best possible start in life now, they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.”
1.What does the global study tell us about people's height in the last hundred years?
A.There is a remarkable difference across continents.
B.There has been a marked increase in most countries.
C.The increase in people's height has been quickening.
D.The increase in women's height is bigger than in men's.
2.What does James Bentham say about genetics in the increase of people's height?
A.It counts less than generally thought.
B.It outweighs nutrition and healthcare.
C.It impacts more on an individual than on a population.
D.It plays a more significant role in females than in males.
3.What does Elio Riboli say about taller people?
A.They tend to live longer. B.They enjoy an easier life.
C.They generally risk fewer fatal diseases. D.They have greater expectations in life.
4.What do we learn about 18-year-olds in Uganda and Niger?
A.They grow up slower than their peers in other countries.
B.They are actually shorter than their earlier generations.
C.They find it hard to bring their potential into full play.
D.They have experienced many changes of government.
5.What does James Bentham suggest we do?
A.Watch closely the global trend in children's development.
B.Make sure that our children grow up to their full height.
C.Try every means to protect our environment.
D.Ensure our children grow up in a more ideal environment.
All through the long summer vacations, I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviously the other boys on the block play baseball. I was never asked to take part even when one team had a member missing — not out of special cruelty, but because they took it for granted I would be no good at it.
I would never forget the wonderful evening when something changed. The baseball ended about eight or eight thirty when it grew dark. Then it was the custom of the boys to sit at a little stoop (门廊), mostly talking about the games played during the day and of the game to be played tomorrow. Then long silences would fall and the boys would wander off one by one. It was just after one of those long silences that my life as an outsider changed. I can no longer remember which boy it was that summer evening who broke the silence with a question; but whoever he was, I nod to him gratefully now. “What’s in those books you’re always reading?” he asked casually. “Stories,” I answered “What kind?” asked somebody else without much interest.
Nor do I know what drove me to behave as I did, for usually I just sat there in silence, glad enough to be allowed to remain among them; but instead of answering his question, I told them for two hours the story I was reading at the moment. The book was Sister Carrie. They listened bug-eyed and breathless. I must have told it well, but I think there was another and deeper reason that made them so keen an audience. Listening to a tale being told in the dark is one of the most ancient of man’s entertainments, but I was offering them as well, without being aware of doing it, a new and exciting experience.
The next night and many night thereafter, a kind of unspoken ritual (仪式) took place. As it grew dark, I would take my place in the center of the stoop and begin the evening’s tale. Some nights, in order to taste my victory more completely, I cheated. I would stop at the most exciting part of a story by Jack London or Bret Harte, and without warning tell them that that was as far as I had gone in the book and it would have to be continued the following evening. It was not true, of course; but I had to make certain of my new-found power and position. I enjoyed the long summer evenings until school began in the fall.Other words of mine have been listened to by larger and more fashionable audiences, but for that tough and athletic one that sat close on the stoop outside the candy store, I have an unreasoning love that will last forever.
1.Watching the boys playing baseball, the writer must have felt _____.
A.special and different
B.bitter and lonely
C.pleased and excited
D.disturbed and annoyed
2.The writer feels grateful even now to the boy who asked the question because the boy _____.
A.broke the long silence of that summer evening
B.liked the book that he was reading
C.invited him to join in their game
D.offered him an opportunity that changed his life
3.According to Paragraph 3, story-telling was popular among the boys basically because _____.
A.the story was from a children’s book
B.the boys had few entertainments after dark
C.listening to tales was an age-old practice
D.the boys didn’t read books by themselves
4.Sometimes the writer stopped at the most exciting part of a story to _____.
A.experience more joy of achievement
B.play a mean trick on the boys
C.add his own imagination to the story
D.help the boys understand the story better
5.What is the message conveyed in the story?
A.Reading is more important than playing games.
B.Friendship is built upon respect for each other.
C.One can find his position in life in his own way.
D.Adult habits are developed from childhood.
Here are four pieces of news from China Daily.
SHANGHAI — The Huachen Group recently held a meeting in Shanghai to show the use of its newly opened tourism business payment network. The network aims to serve tourists from all over the world, but especially from Europe and the United States where credit cards are popularly used. After opening the www.chinaecnet.com website, netizens can get information about hotels and tourism services on tourism page. Hotels and services can be reserved and payments made through credit cards. The network opened in February in Beijing.
SYDNEY — The Sydney Olympic flame will travel underwater on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef during the torch relay following a successful test. Scuba diver Wendy Craig, a marine biologist, will carry the torch on a three-to-four-minute underwater journey at Agincourt Reef on June 27, creating Olympic history, organizers said yesterday. Burning at 2000 degrees, the torch is expected to remain a light three meters underwater because of the special technology which creates a fierce flame that can not be drowned out by water.
Charles Tegner, managing director of torch creator, said the flame would burn like a flare (照明弹) from oxygen-producing chemicals.
BEIJING — The election of a new leader in Taiwan can not change the fact that Taiwan is a part of Chinese territory. “Taiwan Independence” in whatever form will never be allowed, according to a statesman of China’s central government.
“We should listen to what the new leader in Taiwan says and watch what he does. We will observe where he will lead cross-Straits (海峡两岸) relations. We are willing to exchange views on cross-Straits relations and peaceful reunification with all parties, organizations and personages in Taiwan who favor the one China principle,” says the statesman, which was released by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee.
HAIKOU — Customs officers in Haikou recently stopped a boat loaded with 781 cases of foreign-brand cigarettes being smuggled (走私) into China. The smuggled cigarettes cases, packed into two containers, were disguised to avoid being examined. The boat was registered in the coastal city of Xiamen in East China’s Fujian Province. All eight suspects aboard the boat were kept by the police in Haikou.
1.Why does the network aim to serve tourists especially from Europe and the USA?
A.Because they are from developed countries.
B.Because the payments of hotels and services should be made through credit cards.
C.Because people in these countries travel much more than other countries.
D.Because it is more convenient for them to surf the Internet.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the second piece of news?
A.The whole torch relay will be held three-four metres underwater.
B.The underwater journey of the torch will play an important part in Olympic history.
C.A test has been made before this activity.
D.Some chemicals will help the flame burn by producing oxygen.
3.Which is the best title for the third piece of news?
A.Ready to Fight
B.No Good End
C.Wait and See
D.Peace Comes First
4.Which of the following best explains the underlined word disguised in the last piece of news?
A.made different from normal
B.designed for a good purpose
C.divided
D.pretended
