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HG Wells Short Story Competition 2020
The competition is open to anyone. Your story can be set anywhere, feature any characters, and be written in any style. This year's theme is "Vision". There are no entry fees for those aged 21 and under. Over 21s must pay an entry fee of￡10 or￡5 for those with student ID.
There are two prizes:
￡1,000 for writers aged 21 and under
￡500 for writers aged over 21
NursinglnFocus Photo Contest 2020
This year we're celebrating the Year of the Nurse. The aim of the NursingInFocus Photo Contest is to put the spotlight on the work of nurses around the world. The competition is open to anyone 18 years old or older. The competition is free to enter.
Prizes:
Overall Winner: $ 1,000
Category Winners: $ 200
People's Choice: $ 500
2020 Posterheroes Contest
Posterheroes Contest is an international poster competition on social and environmental themes. This year's theme is HUMANS AT WORK. The competition is free to enter.
The winner will receive a cash prize of
2，500Rijksstudio Design Award 2020
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam invites everyone to create their own masterpiece inspired by the Rijksmuseum's collection. Alf art forms are possible, such as photos, videos, animations, products, fashion, collages or poems. The competition is free to enter.
The winner of the Rijksstudio Design Award will receive
7，500.1.What is special about HG Wells Short Story Competition 2020?
A.It's not open to everyone.
B.It limits stories to one style.
C.It accepts stories of all themes.
D.It's not free for all participants.
2.How much can the winner of 2020 Posterheroes Contest get as a prize?
A.$ 1,000. B.$ 2,000.
C.
2,500. D.7,500.3.Which competition may accept a poem?
A.2020 Posterheroes Contest.
B.Rijksstudio Design Award 2020.
C.NursingInFocus Photo Contest 2020.
D.HG Wells Short Story Competition 2020.
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Considered to be not only an outstanding businesswoman, but also a leader that all of us can learn from, Shazi Visram is a daughter of immigrants who took life-changing risks in order to create a better world for their children. For as long as she can remember, she has wanted to be a part of something bigger than herself. Ms. Visram has always sought to create abundance and pay it forward-the question was: how? Her journey took her to Columbia Business School, where she had an "Aha! Moment" while listening with a sympathetic ear to a friend's concern about the difficulty of finding the time to make her own baby food, and the lack of healthy options in traditional baby food. In that moment, Happy Family was born.
Ms. Visram made it her mission to create a progressive business that could positively affect the health of our children while giving back to those in need and also supporting sustainable(可持续的) agriculture. Under Ms.' Visram's guidance, Happy Family has continued to grow, announcing a partnership with Groupe Danone, a global company whose mission is to bring health through food to people everywhere. The partnership will raise the bar for children's nutrition in the US, combining their shared devotion to social responsibility.
Ms. Visram's accomplishments have earned her the respect and admiration of her peers and colleagues. Happy Family was recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the country by Inc. Magazine.
In addition to her MBA from Columbia Business School, Ms. Visram holds a BA in history from Columbia College. In addition, she works with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship as an instructor to young and ambitious entrepreneurs (企业家) from low-income communities.
1.What can be inferred about Shazi Visram?
A.She traveled a lot when she was young.
B.She has been ambitious since an early age.
C.She was born into a wealthy immigrant family.
D.She took risks to create a better life for her family.
2.What gave Shazi Visram the inspiration for Happy Family?
A.The concern of a friend.
B.Her journey to a big company.
C.Her concern about poor children.
D.The lack of traditional baby food.
3.What's Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A.The nutrition levels of children.
B.Shazi Visram's contributions to society.
C.The importance of sustainable agriculture.
D.Happy Family's partnership with Groupe Danone.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.A woman who is recognized for running a business
B.A woman who holds two degrees and instructs others
C.A woman who raises the bar for children's nutrition
D.A woman who creates abundance and pays it forward
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An exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is around the theme of food plant disease, using early 20th-century glass models of rotting fruit.
Known as Harvard's "Glass Flowers", the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants consists of over 4，300 sculptures of plants and plant parts fashioned entirely in glass by the German father-and-son artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka between 1887 and 1936. Harvard originally used the models as teaching tools, showing plants' three-dimensional structure and color.
The "Fruits in Decay" shows a collection of models of diseased, rotting, and withering(枯萎的) fruiting plants. The rotting fruit series was intended specifically to educate the public about the danger of plant disease. These models were created by Rudolf, the younger Blaschka, in the early 20th century Harvard botanist Oakes Ames asked him to create these diseased fruit models. And he thought about these as a way to look at what we now call food security-or insecurity.
Though the models were made nearly a hundred years ago, the theme is as remarkable as ever. Most of the illnesses shown on Rudolf Blaschka's plant models still affect today's crops.
"In certain ways, global agriculture is more likely to be harmed than it has ever been to disease threats(威胁), largely due to the widespread practice of planting one crop over large production areas. Less genetic diversity means that crops have less resistance to disease," says Sheng Yang He, a professor at Michigan State University.
Climate change will make plants more vulnerable to disease because warming temperatures disable an important plant defense system against plant disease. Major crop loss from plant disease is already at a shocking 20 t0 40 percent. Food security threats from disease will almost certainly become more common so there's a lot to be done about convincing people of it.
1.What are shown on the exhibition?
A.Models of diverse crops. B.Models of withering flowers.
C.Models of rotting plant parts. D.Models of diseased fruiting plants.
2.By whom were the exhibits created?
A.Oakes Ames. B.Sheng Yang He.
C.Rudolf Blaschka. D.Leopold Blaschka.
3.Why is the exhibition meaningful?
A.It convinces people of the food security threats.
B.It reminds people of effects of global warming.
C.It helps people understand the history of fruit planting.
D.It provides people with knowledge of global agriculture.
4.What does the underlined word "vulnerable" in the last paragraph mean?
A.Weak and easily hurt. B.Resistant and protected.
C.Defensive and hard to attack. D.Sensitive and completely destroyed.
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When Barzilay had a routine breast X-ray in her early 40s, the image showed a complex group of white spots in her breast tissue. The marks could be normal, or they could be cancerous-even the best doctors often struggle to tell the difference. Over the next two years Barzilay underwent a second X-ray, a MRI and a biopsy and she was finally diagnosed（诊断） with breast cancer in 2014.
Barzilay was treated and made a good recovery. But she remained terrified that the uncertainties of reading an X-ray could delay treatment so she made a career-changing decision.
A computer scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barzilay had never studied health before. Her research used machine-learning techniques for natural language processing. But she had been looking for a new line of research and decided to team up with radiologists (放射科医生) to develop machine-learning algorithms (算法) that use computers' superior visual analysis to spot patterns in X-rays that the human eye might miss.
Over the next four years the team taught a computer program to analyze X-rays from about 32,000 women and told it which women had been diagnosed with cancer within five years of the scan. They then tested the computer's matching abilities in 3,800 more patients. Their resulting algorithm, published last May in Radiology, was significantly more accurate at predicting cancer than practices generally used in clinics. When Barzilay's team ran the program on her own X-ray from 2012-one her doctor had cleared-the algorithm correctly predicted she was at a higher risk of developing breast cancer within five years than 98 percent of patients.
AI applications are entering clinics at a rapid rate, and physicians have met the technology with equal parts excitement about its potential to reduce their workload and fear about losing their jobs to machines. Algorithms also raise questions about how to regulate a machine that is constantly learning and changing and who is to blame if an algorithm gets a diagnosis wrong. Still, many physicians are excited about the promise of AI programs.
1.What advantage do Barzilay's algorithms take of computers to predict cancer?
A.Superior visual analysis.
B.Timely risk warning settings.
C.Natural-language processing techniques.
D.Large storage of radiological knowledge.
2.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A.Cancer. B.Research.
C.The team. D.The program.
3.How do physicians react to AI applications in clinics?
A.They doubt the accuracy of the applications.
B.They have mixed feelings about the applications.
C.They promise to make the best of the applications.
D.They expect to rapidly popularize the applications.
4.It can be inferred from the text that
A.Barzilay suffered from breast cancer for two years in her forties
B.at first Barzilay didn't think X-ray was a reliable way of checking cancer
C.with Barzilay's algorithms her cancer could have been diagnosed earlier
D.Barzilay failed to turn to the best doctors to have her breast checked
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