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Honey to treat a wound. Eat cherries（樱桃）if someone has a pain in his knee. Your grandmother is probably satisfied with her old-time treatments and now science is catching up with them. Researchers have produced hundreds of studies in the past five years about these grandmothers’ old-time home treatments. They are often natural, different from the medicine from the hospitals. Here are some old-time treatments which have been prove（证明）to be useful by the scientists.
Burns Try Aloe
“Aloe is a useful treatment for burns,” says a doctor. One study showed it was very useful or second-degree burns, If you have an aloe plant, simply cut pen a leaf and use the liquid （汁液） directly to the burnt area. For serious burns , you should still see a doctor.
Eye Pains Try Cucumber
If you use your eyes for a long time, lie on your back place one piece of cucumber over each closes eye. Cucumber helps reduce the pain. Replace the pieces with a cooler pair every two or three minutes, for up to 15 minutes total.
Wounds Try Honey
Since ancient Egyptian times, people have used honey to treat the wounds. For best results, scientists advised manuka honey, from New Zealand, Brush some honey directly to a wound every 12 to 24 hours an cover it with a piece of clean cloth.
1.If Lingling burnt her finger when cooking, she would need ________ according to the passage.
A.an aloe leaf B.fresh cherries C.cucumber pieces D.manuka hones
2.The writer wrote this passage to ________.
A.show her pride in those grandmothers' treatments
B.introduce some methods of old-time home treatments
C.show old-time home treatments are better than medicine
D.advise scientists to make research into ancient treatment
3.The passage is probably in the part of ________ in a newspaper.
A.new B.life C.sports D.education
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A call came into Jimmy Gilleece’s bar this past March. A newly married woman who had spent the afternoon at the dive（潜水） beach bar in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina couldn't find her wallet. She didn't care about her ID, credit cards, or $150--- but her wedding ring was inside it。
Gilleece, 42, the boss of the bar, didn’t like the idea that there was a thief at his place. So he set out to find the wallet. He spent hours looking for the footage （录像） from 16 different cameras, watching the woman’s every step in the bar. Finally, a young man caught his eyes. He picked up something from the place where the woman stood and put it in his pocket.
Gilleece posted the picture on the bar’s Facebook and asked if anybody knew who the guy was. Within hours, 17-year-old Rivers Prather came and said he had taken the wallet and told Gilleece he'd done it because he hadn’t eaten for two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was not real, so he took the money, and threw the wallet into the ocean. Then he bought a sandwich.
Prather wasn’t getting along with his family and lived in the woods for weeks. Gilleece saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a thief, Gilleece wanted to help him somehow. He found two local divers to search the waters where Prather the wallet. After waiting for hours worriedly but luckily, a diver came out from the water with the wallet in his hand, and inside was the ring.
“Most people would give the footage to police, but the boss chose to help me,” Prather told CBS News. “I say thank you to him every day. ”
1.What's the relationship between Gilleece and Prather?
A.Friends B.Relatives C.Strangers D.Teammates
2.What is the right order of the following?
a. A local diver helped find the wallet b. The bar boss tried to find out the truth
c. A newly married woman lost her wallet. d. The young man came and told the truth.
A.c-b-a-d B.c-b-d-a C.b-c-d-a D.b-e-a-d
3.The bar boss didn’t give the footage to police because ________.
A.the wedding ring was not real B.the young man often came to his bar
C.the woman didn't care about her wallet D.he wanted to give the young man a chance
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Love me, love my dog. B.Practice makes perfect.
C.All is well that ends well D.Actions speak louder than words
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On June 2, 1886, a German captain threw a message in a bottle into the water while his ship crossed the Indian Ocean. Around 132 years later in January, the bottle was found on the Australian coast, making it the oldest-known message in a bottle in the world.
The bottle was thrown into the water to know about ocean waves（海浪）。 Between 1864 and 1933, German sailors threw thousands of bottles into the sea. About 663 of those messages were found later.
But throwing messages in bottles into the ocean is not just for scientists. People send out such messages for many reasons. Some people write information about themselves in the hopes of finding a pen pal. Others write down secrets, hoping that the waves will wash them away. And still other people just write down some jokes, songs or anything else they think might be fun re are even online messages in bottles. People can send the messages through WeChat or QQ.
The reasons and ways might be different, but the goal is always the same: to reach out and try to connect with someone. This kind of shared feeling might be why this tradition has remained popular for so long. In 1988. the British band The Police wrote a song called Message in A Bottle that describes this feeling .
As the song’ s lyrics say, we are “ a hundred billion castaways（被抛弃者） looking for a home. ”. When will you feel relieved（释然的）? “ A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore. Seems I’m not alone at being alone. ”
1.In 1886. the German captain used the bottle with a message ________.
A.to do scientific research B.to send messages to Australians
C.to get help from ships in the ocean D.to keep in touch with scientist
2.The third paragraph mainly tells us the ________ of throwing messages in bottles.
A.reasons B.feelings C.history D.importance
3.The underlined words “this feeling” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________ .
A.the wish of keeping a secret B.the pleasure of playing jokes
C.the pleasure of listening to the song D.the wish of connecting with someone
4.The best title for this passage can be ________.
A.A Gift from Ocean B.Messages Online
C.A Bottle of Secrets D.Messages in Bottles
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Smartphone apps certainly make our lives easier. However, sometimes they can also cause problems。
Recently, the Ministry of Education（教育部） announced that teachers should not use WeChat or QQ to give homework or ask parents to grade kids’ homework.
Many teachers in China depend heavily on apps to give homework, The kids have to do their homework, staring at a phone screen. For example, Liu Yanming, a sixth-grade student in Shanghai, usually has to use his mother’s mobile phone to do his homework, Liu Yong. his father, is afraid that the apps could distract kids by encouraging them to watch something unrelated （无关的） to homework. “He is just 12 years old, and I do not want to buy him a cellphone,” Liu told China Daily. “I also worry that my son’s eyesight will be hurt because of staring at the phone for too long.
However, Bai Yueping, president of Shanghai Tangzhen Middle School, defended （辩护） using apps for homework. Parents can understand their kid’s learning situation and supervise （监督） them to finish the homework, Bai told China Daily.
Zhang Siqi is a student from Renmin University of China. ________ “The use of WeChat or QQ to give homework is convenient,” Zhang told China Daily. “We're living in an Internet era（时代）. It’s unwise to refuse to take advantage of technology. ”
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the National Institute of Education Sciences, believed that it is impossible to stop the use of electronic devices（设备） in the Internet era. However, students should use them when it’s necessary, such as when they do listening exercises. “ We don’t want to stop online education models, but they must be used carefully. Modern technologies are good. but they should not steal the show（喧宾夺主）,” he told China Daily.
1.What did the Ministry of Education announce recently?
A.Students shouldn’t use smartphones at school
B.Teachers shouldn’t give children too much homework
C.Students shouldn’t use smartphones to do their homework
D.Teachers shouldn’t use smartphone apps to give homework
2.What do the underlined words “distract kids” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.make kids feel bored B.improve kids’ interest
C.get kids more excited D.take kids' attention away
3.Which of the following is the best for “________” in Paragraph 5？
A.He agrees with Liu Yong B.He agrees with Bai Yueping
C.He thinks it’s unwise to use the apps. D.He thinks it’s useless to use the apps
4.Which of the following would Chu Zhaohui probably agree with?
A.We should use electronic devices as much as possible
B.We should use electronic devices only for listening exercises
C.It’s better to use electronic devices more carefully
D.It’s better to stop using electronic devices in teaching
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