Here are some drop-dead wonderful botanical gardens where you can fill your mind with facts as well as filling your camera roll with beautiful pictures.
Cape Town, South Africa
Rhodes Drive, Newlands, 7735 Cape Town, South Africa.
Kissing the east side of Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch is one of the world's most biodiverse gardens and a leader in conservation science. The sprawling site contains incredible forms of flora and near-endangered plants that have been cultivated since the early 1900s. Explore at ground level or from up above along "the Boomslang" , a treetop walkway.
Don't miss: The beautiful sculpture garden includes a bust of Nelson Mandela and breathtaking Mambo sculptures, carved from opal stone（蛋白石）.
Singapore Botanical Gardens
1 Cluny Rd, 259569 Singapore.
This place is called the Disneyland of Botanical Gardens. Now 160 years old, the tropical garden has it all：a section of the city's primary rainforest, an orchid garden, a ginger garden and an exhibition on ethnobotany, plus some wise old trees. It even has a pair of swans from Amsterdam, a national flower called Vanda Miss Joaquim and its own mist garden.
Don't miss：The National Orchid Garden with more than 1 000 species and 2 000 hybrids on display, plus a series of special tools and equipment to ensure the right humidity（湿度）.
Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
13 Ryoanji Goryonoshitacho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto 616 -8001, Japan.
While Kyoto's bonsai-and bamboo-filled botanical gardens are worth a visit, you should also check out the city's Zen Buddhist temple. Set inside a fifteenth-century temple, this is a place for reflection. For maximum zen（禅/禅宗），walk the grounds and a lake flanked by Japanese blossom and maple trees.
Don't miss: Try the local delicacy, yudofu（boiled tofu）at the temple's traditional restaurant.
1.What is Kirstenbosch garden special for?
A.Wonderful views. B.Garden tools.
C.Stone sculptures. D.Local foods.
2.Where would a person go if he is interested in religion?
A.Rhodes Drive, Newlands, 7735 Cape Town, South Africa.
B.1 Cluny Rd, 259569 Singapore.
C.Royal Botanic Gardens, London, TW9 3AB, UK.
D.13 Ryoanji Goryonoshitacho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto 616 -8001, Japan.
3.Which section of a newspaper does the passage belong to?
A.Agriculture. B.Photography.
C.Traveling. D.Food.
假设你是学生会主席李华,你将代表你校2020届毕业生在学校毕业典礼上发言，请你用英语写一篇发言稿，发言稿内容要点如下：
1.回顾；
2.感谢；
3.祝愿。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 不得使用真实人名、校名等相关信息；
3.可适当增加细节。
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my dear teachers and fellow graduates,
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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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Nowadays, many people like buying second-hand goods. The reason are as follows: First of all, second-hand goods are cheaper than new ones, enabled poor people to buy the things they want. Moreover, the second-hand goods trade makes possible for people to make good use of the goods what may be useless in their hands. Besides, the Internet provides a conveniently platform for second-hand goods. Therefore, there are some problems in the second-hand goods trade. For one thing, the quality of second-hand goods cannot be promise. For another, second-hand goods markets lack of enough management, and there exist many dishonest trade activities. In the word, the second-hand goods trade is a good trading way, but it need further perfection.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
They’re neither medical workers in close contact with the novel corona virus nor government officials who receive the 1. (late) updates of the situation, yet they’re keeping us 2. (inform)of the development of the epidemic(流行病). They are the media, and their eyes are far-seeing.
Zhu Xingxin is one such member: a 3. (photograph) with China Daily. Putting on protective gear (装备) like the doctors, he visited Tongji Hospital in Wuhan on Feb 3rd to report on the lives of medical workers.
The eyes of the media are not just here to see, but 4. (examine). On Feb 9th, for example, a bus in Wuhan carrying severely ill patients 5.(catch) in traffic with no one guiding them and no hospitals claiming them. The incident was witnessed by Global Times journalists and was soon reported online. It was 6.(eventual) solved with all the patients settled properly in hospitals and officials in charge held responsible. But it’s possible 7.without journalists this incident would never have been exposed.
“I do hope that by writing about 8. (they) stories, I’m helping things change for 9.better.” said Li Xueqing, a China Daily journalist. Indeed, the media is like a pair of eyes watching out 10.us as they report on the world’s most important news.
Isn’t it amazing how you never have to water your weeds or nurture(培育) them and they still give you an unwanted crop?
I can remember as a young boy my grandfather showed me how to________this annoying weed called Bermuda grass. It was________stuff and it would really________if you didn't get it out by the________.
More recently when my wife and I bought our first home about 8 years ago, what I had to deal with was this certain part of weeds________to the Bermuda grass, which would also spread wildly.
After getting the inside of our home________, it was time to work on the outside. On my hands and knees I________attacked the weeds________a small hand spade getting each one out by the roots.
Just this spring I realized that one particular weed was no longer________but another one was in full________. So again, I got down on my hands and knees and got to work________them from my yard. When I ________the work, my yard was better off.
Sometimes our life can be so similar. We all have weeds in our life. These weeds can be challenges, setbacks, or________beliefs, and the list can be________.
The________when dealing with these weeds of_________is to get to the root of it and remove them one by one out and eventually you will________this round. And when another crop of weeds________, deal with them directly________they spread, because now that you know what to do with them by getting to the root of it, it will give you more courage and________the next time a problem arises up.
1.A.eat up B.dig up C.break up D.put up
2.A.passive B.poisonous C.sensitive D.terrible
3.A.spread B.succeed C.withdraw D.compromise
4.A.leaves B.hands C.spades D.roots
5.A.attractive B.similar C.fundamental D.unknown
6.A.counted B.mended C.appreciated D.settled
7.A.energetically B.unsuccessfully C.curiously D.thankfully
8.A.inside B.with C.off D.on
9.A.useful B.deadly C.different D.common
10.A.force B.admission C.detail D.vain
11.A.collecting B.attending C.ridding D.distinguishing
12.A.wore B.contributed C.finished D.introduced
13.A.familiar B.religious C.past D.negative
14.A.reasonable B.endless C.normal D.certain
15.A.progress B.solution C.disadvantage D.permission
16.A.life B.school C.house D.factory
17.A.interrupt B.memorize C.conquer D.recognize
18.A.shows up B.shows off C.takes up D.takes off
19.A.unless B.even if C.before D.so that
20.A.impression B.depression C.wisdom D.satisfaction
Leonardo da Vinci and Nature
In the modern world, art and science are two very separate activities, but in Leonardo’s time they were closely connected. Science meant mathematics and medical studies.1.Mathematics included practical work like surveying land for making maps as well as measuring the movements of the stars in the sky. An artist might need to measure the different parts of the body. He could also use mathematics to place things in relationship to each other in a drawing or painting so the scene looked correct.2.
Mathematics was also connected to music because musical sounds have a fixed relationship with each other that can be described in numbers.3.More than this, though, Leonardo believed that numbers were a part of all things in the world, including music, and he said that “without them nothing can be done.”
“Nature has kindly given us things everywhere to copy,” wrote Leonardo. In all his activities, Leonardo was trying to discover the rules that control nature. In his search for those rules, he looked very carefully at a lot of examples and details. Actual experience was more important to him than opinion, and he worked from facts to ideas.4. His purpose was to examine the world so he could copy it in beautiful paintings and sculptures. He also wanted to learn from the clever solutions of nature.
5. His quick little sketches, often done while wandering outside, helped him to catch a movement or a shape. More careful drawings would be done at a desk with a pen and ruler. In July 2001, a small drawing by Leonardo was sold for $12 million. It was the most expensive drawing in the world.
A.Leonardo was always drawing.
B.How could these be connected with art?
C.Leonardo was also an influential philosopher.
D.Mathematicians and doctors worked to discover the unknown.
E.Above all, Leonardo wanted to understand how and why things worked.
F.Leonardo himself was a very good musician and liked to play an instrument and sing.
G.You will see a good example of such positioning in the painting of The Last Supper.
