Foods of the Future
We asked young scientists to write an advertisement that answers this question: How will food options, food availability, and individuals’ food choices change in the future? A selection of their suggested marketing campaigns is below. Read previous NextGen Voices survey results at http://science.sciencemag.org/collection/nextgen-voices. — Jennifer Sills
Personalized Meal Plans
Send us your DNA, and we will predict your food preferences! Receive your personalized food basket, with a day-by-day diet program. We will send you full meals and personalized smoothies (水果奶昔) based on your genetic taste tendency.
Ada Gabriela Blidner
Twitter:@adagbb
Fresh Fruit
If you miss sweet temperate fruits, welcome to our Moon Farm. Our fruit trees are planted in hybrid-soil and artificial air that reproduce Earth’s environment from 5000 years ago. Pick fruits with your family or ship to your doorstep with MoonEx. Freshness guaranteed.
Yongsheng Ji
Email: jiyongshengkey@hotmail.com
Meat
Our steaks are sourced from natural grasslands, where cattle now fill the ecological roles. With FoodFootprint feeding system, we enhance natural grazing (放牧) to improve animal growth effectively while minimizing methane production and water consumption. At only $219.00/kg (including carbon taxes and ecological taxes), our steaks are affordable for the whole family.
Falko Buschke
Email: falko. buschke@gmail. com
1.Which of the following needs you to provide the information of your genes?
A.Meat. B.Fresh Fruit.
C.NextGen Voices. D.Personalized Meal Plans.
2.Who should you contact if you want to have fun with your family?
A.Jennifer Sills. B.Yongsheng Ji.
C.Falko Buschke. D.Ada Gabriela Blidner.
3.Which of the following best describes the steaks in Meat?
A.Fresh. B.Green.
C.Expensive. D.Personalized.
假定你是李华,你的笔友Peter所在的林肯中学将举办中国文化周活动,他来信向你寻求活动相关建议。请你给他回信,内容要点包括:
1. 活动内容及形式;
2. 说明推荐理由;
注意:1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 可能用到的词汇:剪纸 paper-cutting 书法 calligraphy
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处语言错误,每句中 最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线()划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改 10 处,多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。
It’s been two years when I joined the campus radio station. During this time, I had done several interviews. Every time I finish to writing an article, I am proud of myself for able to introduce my schoolmates to the things I’ve seen. It was difficult at times, but when I saw my stories publish in our school newspaper, you knew that it was something worth doing. My parents, teachers and schoolmates congratulated me on that I did. I felt happily when I shared a new story with them. The greatest thing about being the reporter is exchanging idea with others.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Tokyo 2020 Games will be made from recycled mobile phones donated by the public.
Olympic host cities have 1. (tradition) obtained the metal from mining firms. But Japan, 2. lacks its own mineral resources, is keen on taking the theme of a sustainable future a step 3. (far).
“A project which allows the people of Japan 4. (participate) in creating the medals is really good, and helps raise the environmental awareness of our citizens,” said Tokyo 2020 sports 5. (direct) Koji Murofushi. “6. the resources of our earth are limited, we need to recycle more and avoid waste. This program is setting an example.”
Collection boxes have been placed in local offices and telecom stores and they will remain there until the metal required 7. (collect).
Members of the organizing committee put forward the idea to government officials and companies earlier this year and won their support.
As a result, the medals hanging around Olympic winners’ necks will carry even more meaning 8. usual. People’s personal memories, once 9. (store) in their smart phones and other handheld devices, will take the round shape of an Olympic medal, one of the most precious 10. (prize) in sport.
One of Asia's best-known tourist attractions is taking a major stand (表明立场)for animals.
Due to the ____ from animal activist groups, Apsara, the management authority for the Angkor Archaeological Park in Cambodia announced in June 2019 it would_________elephant rides in early 2020. Nov% the process has already ______ .
The Khmer Times reports that on November 15, two of the 14 elephants __ at the park, site of the ___ Angkor Wat temple, have been ____ to the nearby Bos Thom community ____. Long Kosal, an Apsara press representative, told the Khmer Times that the remaining dozen ___ would be relocated to the same forest by "early next year.” "The elephant is a big animal, but it is also ____ and can be hurt easily. We don't want to see the animals being used for tourism ____ anymore," Kosal said. want them to live in their natural surroundings."
In 2016, an elephant named Sambo died at Angkor; drawing worldwide _________. Her death was __ a combination of heat stroke and ____ from ferrying so many human beings around. Two years later, the World Wildlife Fund __ an in-depth report on the present situation of the Asian elephant, noting that the species' ____ had declined by 50% in just three generations.
According to Angkor Enterprise, which manages park admissions, the UNESCO-listed site is ____ a decline in tourist numbers. Its ______ report says many tourists refuse to _____ tickets to the temple complex from January to September a 13.7% decline over the same period in 2018. While there's no predicting whether the ban on Angkor elephant rides will _____ visitor numbers, it comes at a time when more and more ____ and tourism organizations around the world have moved to eliminate (清除)animal-related attractions.
1.A.steps B.pressure C.example D.trend
2.A.continue B.improve C.ban D.reform
3.A.stopped B.undertaken C.established D.begun
4.A.currently B.permanently C.steadily D.compulsorily
5.A.famous B.shabby C.typical D.remote
6.A.lent B.contributed C.sent D.submitted
7.A.clinic B.forest C.circus D.zoo
8.A.participants B.pets C.workers D.animals
9.A.gentle B.dangerous C.strong D.interesting
10.A.facility B.accommodation C.activities D.routine
11.A.attention B.donation C.respect D.sympathy
12.A.come from B.accused of C.led to D.blamed on
13.A.consumption B.exhaustion C.annoyance D.absorption
14.A.leaked B.investigated C.published D.claimed
15.A.popularity B.existence C.presentation D.population
16.A.solving B.facing C.emphasizing D.revealing
17.A.longest B.widest C.latest D.biggest
18.A.give B.buy C.enter D.paid
19.A.switch B.compensate C.corrupt D.impact
20.A.volunteers B.employees C.travelers D.enthusiasts
Up in the air—a history of ballooning
The first kind of air transportation was the balloon. People traveled by balloon one hundred years before there were planes or jet aircraft. Those early days of ballooning were exciting, but they were also risky. 1. However, the danger did not stop the balloonists.
The first real balloon flight was in France in 1783. Two French brothers made a balloon. 2.Hot air is lighter than cold air, so it goes up. The hot air balloon went up 1,000 feet in the sky.
3.They built a fire under the balloon to make the air hot. This made the balloon stay up in the air for a few hours. But their balloon was tied to the ground. So it could not go anywhere.
Soon balloonists tried longer flights. In 1785, an American and a Frenchman flew over the English Channel. They left England on a cold, clear January day. Halfway across, their balloon began to drop toward the water. They threw out some equipment and food to make the balloon lighter. The balloon continued to fall, so they threw out almost everything in the basket -even some of their clothes. 4.
During the nineteenth century, ballooning became a popular sport and balloons were also used by scientists to study the air and by armies in war time. After the airplane was invented, however, interest in balloons decreased dramatically. But some people today still like to go up in balloons. 5.What’s more, they have a wonderful view of the world below.
A.They filled a very large paper bag with hot air.
B.High up in the balloon basket, they find quiet.
C.Sometimes the balloons fell suddenly and sometimes they burned.
D.Back then, few people understood how they were able to fly so far.
E.Finally, after about three hours, they landed in France, cold but safe.
F.Balloon races and displays remain popular all over the world to this very day.
G.Later that same year, two other Frenchmen ascended in a basket under a balloon.