Teens love to socialize, and these websites give them a chance to do that while playing games, exploring virtual(虚拟的) worlds and taking quizzes(测试). Of course, teens also need to be safe online and report any cyber bullies(网络欺凌)
Instagram allows teens to upload photos of their daily life and share them friends. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that must be true because Instagram has around 300 million users who are active each month. The platform is all about photos with short captions( 说明文字). When it comes to Instagram's users, 53 percent of them are aged 18-29, but most may be even younger and simply list their age as 18 in order to use the platform.
Habbo Hotel
Habbo Hotel is a place for teens to chat. Each teen receives a personal room to decorate with virtual objects. They can also dress their avatar(网络头像) in virtual clothes or create games to play with friends. The room might have music, be set up like a classroom, or have other features so different avatars can visit one another. Each room teens can interact in has an adult moderator (tt H m) to make sure it stays safe.
Fanlala
Fanlala is a social network that gives teens who love celebrities, music and TV shows a place to interact. Through it, a user can get the latest news and gossip on their favorite shows, as well as take quizzes to test their knowledge. Teens can set up their own profile(t*)on Fanlala and interact with other users.
Teen Chat
Teen Chat is a place for teens to interact with one another through forums(论坛)according to their interests. For example, there are chat rooms for those who love anime(4082)and for those who’ve just started college. There are also chat rooms for things like music, games, and sports. The platform offers a"Friend Finder"tool that will help teens search for people who live locally to them.
1.What makes Instagram different from other sites listed in the text?
A.It's a great place for people to share photos
B.The majority of its users are in their 20s
C.It has the largest number of users
D.Only those above 18 normally use it.
2.Which site allows its users to create their own character and design a virtual room for it?
A.Instagram B.Habbo Hotel.
C.Fanlala. D.Teen Chat.
3.What can you gain from Fanlala'?
A.Game skills. B.Sports knowledge.
C.Anime videos. D.entertainment news.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A.Tips on online chatting B.Sites for socializing
C.Free chat rooms for everyone. D.How to fight cyber bullying
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Arthur Phillip High School, located in Parramatta, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, will be NSW’s first public high-rise high school. When it opens, the school will be different from anything else we’ve got across the system.
Students will eat lunch in courtyards overlooking city rooftops, before continuing their lessons in sound-proofed music rooms, science labs or atriums ( 中 庭 ) with eight metre-high ceilings. The specialty rooms, such as science labs, will be on the top floors. There will be large lifts, but students will be encouraged to use the stairs. There will be a gym, a play ground and play space on each floor.
The building will be run more like an office block than a traditional school, with a plant room used for the operation of the sprinklers（洒水装置）, air conditioning and elevator systems. In addition, people will be seen cleaning the windows while students are studying.
“We’re going to have to get kids used to that,” said Sylvia Corish, an executive director of school performance for the NSW Department of Education. “That’s going to be a unique experience.”
“This is a very different concept,” said the chief executive of School Infrastructure NSW, Anthony Manning. “While it has been challenging at times, the end product is going to be really amazing and impressive.”
“I am very surprised and happy to see how creative this learning space will be for students in the Parramatta region for years to come,” Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said.
The Herald visited the new high school, as construction of the ambitious project enters its final phase and students at the original school across the road prepare to begin testing its state-of-the-art facilities. In the next few months, students and teachers will visit the school to help ensure a smooth transition （过渡）. “It will be a matter of testing how people can move around the building,” Mr Manning said.
1.How’s the school in appearance?
A.It looks like an office building. B.It is like a traditional school.
C.It’s surrounded by green plants. D.It consists of different buildings.
2.How did Sarah Mitchel feel about the new school?
A.Amazed and impressed. B.Surprised and doubtful.
C.Delighted and astonished. D.Happy and satisfied.
3.Which might be a challenge?
A.Moving the original school from across the road.
B.Getting the students accustomed to the new situation.
C.Providing the students with more space for studying.
D.Encouraging the students to use the stairs instead of the lift.
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A.NSW’s First Public High-rise High School
B.A New School that Overlook City Roofs
C.The Construction and System of a New School
D.A Unique Experience for High School Students
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A global group of scientists have reduced the time it takes to find and introduce disease-resistance genes from wild plants into domestic crops such as rice, wheat and potato, a research revealed on Tuesday.
Scientists from the John Innes Center in Britain, along with colleagues from Australia and the United States, have created a database known as AgRenSeq, where researchers can easily search for resistance genes already discovered in wild relatives of modern crops.
The study was co-authored by a global expert Professor HarbansBariana from the University of Sydney, who said that this technology will support the discovery and characterization of new sources of disease resistance in plants. Once researchers have identified resistance genes using AgRenSeq, they can clone them and introduce them to domestic crops to protect against diseases and pests,
“We have found a way to scan the genome(基因组)of a wild relative of a crop plant and pick out the resistance genes we need and we can do it in record time,” Dr. Brande Wulff, a project leader from the John Innes Centre, said.
“This used to be a process that took l0 Or 15 years and was like searching for a needle in a haystack(干草堆),” Wulff said. “We have perfected the method so that we can clone these genes in a matter of months and for just thousands of dollars instead of millions.”
The team are highly optimistic about their work, predicting it to be utilized in protecting many crops with wild relatives including soybeans, pea, cotton, potato, wheat, rice, banana and cocoa. “Using speed cloning and speed breeding we could deliver resistance genes into the best varieties within a couple of years, like a phoenix(凤凰) rising from the ashes,” Wulff added.
1.How have the researchers developed the resistance genes?
A.By reducing the research time.
B.By introducing them to wild plants.
C.By cloning them from domestic crops.
D.By getting resistance genes from wild plants.
2.What will be the use of the study in the future?
A.It will protect crops from being damaged by pests.
B.It will create a database for researchers to search.
C.It will protect domestic crops for 10 to 15 years.
D.It will contribute to reducing the wild plants.
3.Which of the following best explains “utilized” underlined in Paragraph 6?
A.Produced. B.Made.
C.Used. D.Studied.
4.What can we infer from what Brande Wulff said?
A.The resistance genes cost millions of dollars.
B.The resistance genes were found in a haystack.
C.It took the researchers ten years to find the resistance genes.
D.Disease-resistance genes will be put into practice soon.
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Probably one of the most popular topics in science-fiction of all times has been the idea of time traveling. We know and love such films as H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, H. P. Lovecraft ’s The Shadow Out of Time as well as a great number of films and TV shows: Back to the Future, The Butterfly Effect. These, as well as many others, are dedicated mostly to one question: how can an individual affect or even change their entire life in the present by making even slight corrections, in their own past?
When I was a child, I often dreamed about a special pocket device that would allow me to “save” certain moments of my life. In that case, if I failed to do something, I could always “load” my life. I imagined all the things I could do if I had such power : jumping from very tall buildings without a parachute ( and “loading” at the last second) and taking up other risky occupations.
Sometimes, I would like to jump into a time machine, go back to a couple of years ago, and make many corrections. I would warn myself about the consequences of my most reckless (不顾后果的) decisions. I would talk to that long-haired teen holding his first cigarette and tell him, “Don't do that — years will pass until you finally manage to quit it. ” There are so many warnings I would give to myself that sometimes I think: was it really I who did this and that?
Having a time machine is an amazingly attractive idea. It seems that having one would make life so much easier! Perhaps, it is true. But what I think more often now is that living without it teaches us responsibility. I try to live each day at the maximum in order to regret nothing. This is actually what our parents always try to do when we are children. But you know what? I am glad that no time machine has been invented.
1.What's the writer's main purpose of writing Paragraph 1?
A.To introduce some famous movies.
B.To raise a question about time travel.
C.To show those movies are very popular.
D.To show the scenes in movies might become true.
2.What does the writer try to convey in this article?
A.Unpractical dreams can never be realized.
B.What happened in the past can't be changed.
C.The idea of the time machine is really a creative invention.
D.Being responsible for the present is better than regretting.
3.What's the writer's attitude toward the invention of the time machine?
A.Objective. B.Supportive.
C.Negative. D.Indifferent.
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Vitamin D is necessary for bone-building, immune function, blood sugar control, positive mood and more. 1. The lower your vitamin D level is, the higher your risk of death from ally cause will be. However, it’s not a great idea to just take a supplement (补品) off the drugstore shelf and start taking it.
Since many of us have an inadequate amount vitamin D, also known as the “sunshine vitamin”, doctors will often give us high levels of D supplements, with doses ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 IU (International Units) per day, up to 50,000 IU per week and sometimes even more. 2. Very big doses ( 剂量) of vitamin D can cause a build-up of calcium ( 钙) in the blood, which leads to poor appetite, weakness, weight loss or other diseases. Here’s the bigger issue: 3. A build-up of stored vitamin D cart cause avoidable problems, leading to problems such as kidney stones.
4. The National Institutes of Health set the Recommended Dietary Allowance for vitamin D at 600 IU daily for babies, children, and adults up to 70 years old. Adults aged 71 and older need 800 IU, since the ability to absorb vitamin D drops with age. Because the fat cells take vitamin D up, making it less available for use by tile body, 5.
Though you’ll get a bit of vitamin D from foods—including fatty fish, beef liver, cheese, milk and so on—the amounts are so small that there’s little need to worry that they’ll put you over the daily dose.
A.It can help prevent many diseases.
B.We can actually reduce the risk of death.
C.people who are fat may also need more vitamin
D.any extra intake of vitamin D can get stored in the body.
E.But like all good things, it’s possible to get too much of it.
F.The average daily recommended amounts vary based on your age.
G.Vitamin D should be supplemented carefully despite its importance.
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
“Leave a place better than you found it.” is a simple philosophy that I hold dear. I led 20 volunteers to help clean up the Great Wall in April. Tile Great Wall is one of the 1. (great)structures in the world. Everyone has a responsibility to protect it.
I first went to China to visit the Great Wall in 1986. Since 1990, I 2. (stay)in China with my family, 3. (spend)more than 2,700 days on the Great Wall. I have written several books on the subject, and also fronted documentaries.
I am credited with arousing China’s 4. (nation) consciousness to protect the Great Wall and its environment and I have held several exhibitions. 5. (protect) the Great Wall and assume the role 6. its international ambassador, I got permanent residency（居住权） in China. I live in a village below the Great Wall.
It’s a good thing that people are going out to enjoy 7. (they) and to discover tire great heritage and history, but 8. is also quite dangerous if they don’t understand 9. fragile the environment is. Every person can make a 10. (different). If we can get everybody to protect the environment, the world will be more green, beautiful and healthy.
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假如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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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：在错的词下面划一横线，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。
My uncle set up a small business in our city four years ago. He is known as using iron from old cars to make beautifully art pieces. Last summer vacation, I visit him and he showed to me many of his works. Some are larger pieces looked like animals and humans, and others are smaller pieces you can put at home. He often encourages me to be creative like himself. The art tells people the important of environmental protection. What’s more, it shows that even irons can be brought back to life with little creativity.
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Last week, a thing occurred in the classroom of a 4th-grade at Chino Valley Unified School.
It was Autism（自闭症）Awareness Month and every _______ had been asked to have each student _______ a paper puzzle piece and hang it on their classroom doors. When Ms. Lisa Moe _______ the puzzle pieces, most of her students were familiar with the _______ of autism and they were _______ of the reason for doing so. However, they did not know autism was _______ within their own classroom in their _______ classmate: Jackie.
With _______, Jackie raised his hand and said, " May I please say something?" Moe nodded but never could she have imagined what was to _______
She explained in a blog post:"Jackie has ________ challenges and barriers beyond what any of us will ever be able to fully ________. But today, he stood in the front of the classroom with full ________ and showed us that no challenge or barrier can ________. He brought to life the meaning of ‘Yes, I Can ’!"
Both the teacher and students were hanging on his every word. For a(n)________ time, Moe never thought of getting out her phone to ________ this moment, but finally she ________ it. Without any of the students knowing, she recorded the ________ moments of Jackie’s, along with the ________ of the other students as they raised their hands to ask questions.
Jackie's mother was ________ by the video and told Moe," Watching Jackie so bravely speak about autism is beyond what I can ________ express. Thank you!”
1.A.school B.family C.classroom D.court
2.A.decorate B.still C.wind D.cast
3.A.handed in B.handed out C.handed over D.handed up
4.A.views B.thoughts C.belief D.idea
5.A.capable B.afraid C.guilty D.aware
6.A.shy B.present C.hidden D.clear
7.A.fellow B.new C.humorous D.single
8.A.disappointment B.surprise C.excitement D.anxiety
9.A.tolerate B.spread C.construct D.follow
10.A.created B.doubted C.faced D.launched
11.A.express B.complete C.understand D.explain
12.A.ambition B.confidence C.strength D.power
13.A.hold him back B.give him up C.set him apart D.keep him away
14.A.certain B.long C.instant D.rapid
15.A.remember B.sculpture C.recall D.shoot
16.A.realized B.reminded C.put D.got
17.A.beginning B.unexpected C.unfortunate D.final
18.A.suggestions B.responses C.reactions D.applauds
19.A.scared B.thrilled C.shocked D.ashamed
20.A.properly B.patiently C.carefully D.attentively
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假定你是李华，在英国伦敦大学学习,你校汉语俱乐部欲招收成员。请你写个招聘启事。内容包括：
1.报名条件；
2.活动内容；
3.联系方式（邮箱 Chineselover@yahoo, com） .
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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