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Attention residents(居民)！
Spring is here and the office of Loveland Housing is happy to announce the dates for the 2019 Spring Cleanup!
The cleanup in Loveland will take place on Saturday May 11th, beginning at 9:00 a. m. We will also do pick-up for Dove Valley, Windsor Meadows, and Century III on the same day. The cleanup at Lone Tree in Estes Park will be done on Sunday May 12th, 2019. If you have something that you would like to be picked up, please call the Spring Cleanup line at 970-635-5958. Please leave your name, complete address, phone number, and a list of the objects that you wish to be picked up. If you do not call or provide all of this information, your objects will not be picked up. You can leave a message up until Friday May 10th, 2019.
If you are in a town house, please leave all household(家用) objects outside in front of your unit on the sidewalk. If you are in a flat, leave all household objects in front of the building in the grass areas. All objects must be outside by 9:00 a. m on the morning of pick-up.
Non-acceptable objects include: televisions, air conditioners, washing machines, fridges, or other electrical products; dangerous materials such as motor oil, paint, auto batteries, cleaning products, chemicals; other everyday household rubbish. If you have any of these objects and you do not know what to do with them, turn to the local resource disposal(处置) office for help.
The City of Loveland has provided a truck for the cleanup and the Loveland Housing staff members have volunteered their time so that we can offer this service for free! So get your objects ready and call to take advantage while you still can! Thanks!
1.Where will a pick-up be done on Sunday May 12th?
A. In Windsor Meadows. B. At Dove Valley.
C. At Lone Tree. D. In Loveland.
2.What will probably be collected during the 2019 Spring Cleanup？
A. Food waste. B. Furniture. C. Televisions. D. paint
3.The notice is announced mainly to .
A. get the residents prepared for the cleanup
B. show the residents a list of non-acceptable objects
C. tell the residents the pick-up service is free
D. have the residents know the date of the 2019 Spring Cleanup
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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is a lovely song for children, but it has two misunderstandings (误解). First, stars aren’t little. Some may be Earth-sized, but most are bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system (太阳系). Second, they don’t twinkle; they shine. And the brightness and color of the light from each star provide information about its temperature, size and even its age. viewing the stars from Earth is a bit like looking at them through a water filter (过滤器) because the air is thick compared to the emptiness of space. What is more, air is always moving, so starlight appears to be moving, too. The air also makes stars appear dimmer (暗淡的) than they would be if we could see them from space.
If you stop and look at the sky carefully on a dark and moonless night, it’s easy to find color differences among stars. The color of a star is a signal of its surface temperature. The hottest stars are blue, and the next hottest are white. Yellow stars like the sun are next, while red stars are the coolest of the visible (可见的) stars. Many red stars are so dim that people can’t see them at all, and some stars hardly send out any light at all. One reason that stars different in brightness is that hotter stars produce more energy than cooler ones, but another important reason is that some are much bigger than others.
Some stars appear brighter to humans simply because they’re closer. Astronomers rank (排列) the brightness of stars which are seen from Earth by giving them a name known as magnitude (光度) ---the smaller the magnitude, the brighter the object. They have also designed a number that ranks stars according to how bright they are when compared to each other. With a magnitude of minus 26.7, the sun is the brightest object in the sky.
1.From the song quite familiar to children, the writer wants to prove that .
A. most stars are smaller than Jupiter
B. Jupiter is bigger and brighter than Earth
C. stars are very large and always shine brightly
D. starlight’s brightness and color are the signs of its temperature
2.Magnitude is designed to see .
A. how far a star is from Earth
B. how bright a star is compared to other stars
C. how far a star is from other stars
D. how bright a star is seen from Earth
3.Which is the best title of this passage?
A. What do stars look like?
B. Which song do children like best?
C. How to view the stars from Earth?
D. Why are many stars so dim at night?
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It was one o’clock in the morning when I at last succeeded in creating life.
As I looked at the lifeless human being, I saw one eye slowly open. Then he began to breathe and move his arms. At first, I thought he would be a fine-looking man. He had yellow skin, black hair and very white teeth. Unluckily, his eyes were watery, and his lips were thin and colorless. I soon realized that there was nothing beautiful about him. I ran out of the room, disgusted (恶心) by the creature I had created. I tried to sleep, but for hours I could not. Then, when I did get to sleep, I had bad dreams. When I
awoke the next morning, I did not want to return to my laboratory and the monster I had created.I went for a long walk until I came to an inn. There, to my pleasure and surprise, I found my friend, Henry Clerval. “Tell me about my family,” I asked him. “And Elizabeth, How is she?”
“They are all well, Frankenstein,” he said. “But you do not look well, my friend. Your eyes look as if you have not slept for many weeks.”
I knew this was true. “I have been so busy,” I explained, “that I have been working without rest.” Henry walked back with me to my department. I did not want him to, but I could not stop him. I was afraid that the creature i had left there might be alive and walking about. When we reached my apartment, I asked Henry to wait outside for a few minutes. I did not explain why. I slowly opened the door and entered the room. To my surprise, it was empty. The creature had gone. I was so overcome by the feeling that I fainted. I was ill for many months.
During my illness, Henry was my only nurse. He heard me talking in my sleep about a monster. At first, he thought i was just having a bad dream, but then he realized that something very bad happened in my life. At last, I began to get better.
1.What is this passage probably taken from?
A. A news report. B. A science fiction. C. A travel guide. D. a history book.
2.What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. The birth of the creature. B. The personalities of the creature.
C. The happy feeling of creating life. D. The spirit of the creature.
3.What does the underlined word “fainted” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. broke down B. cheered C. lost senses D. went wrong
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Would it surprise you to learn that, like animals, trees communicate with each other and pass on their wealth to the next generation?
UBC Professor Simard explains how trees are much more complex than most of us ever imagined. Although Charles Darwin thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest, Simard shows just how wrong he was. In fact, the opposite is true: trees survive through their co-operation and support, passing around necessary nutrition "depending on who needs it".
Nitrogen (氮) and carbon are shared through miles of underground fungi networks, making sure that all trees in the forest ecological system give and receive just the right amount to keep them all healthy. This hidden system works in a very similar way to the networks of neurons in our brains, and when one tree is destroyed, it affects all.
Simard talks about "mother trees", usually the largest and oldest plants on which all other trees depend. She explains how dying trees pass on the wealth to the next generation, transporting important minerals to young trees so they may continue to grow. When humans cut down "mother trees" with no awareness of these highly complex "tree societies" or the networks on which they feed, we are reducing the chances of survival for the entire forest.
"We didn't take any notice of it" Simard says sadly. "Dying trees move nutrition into the young trees before dying, but we never give them chance." If we could put across the message to the forestry industry, we could make a huge difference towards our environmental protection efforts for the future.
1.The underlined sentence "the opposite is true" in Paragraph 2 probably means that trees .
A. compete for survival B. protect their own wealth
C. depend on each other D. provide support for dying trees
2."Mother trees" are extremely important because they .
A. look the largest in size in the forest B. pass on nutrition to young trees
C. seem more likely to be cut down by humans D. know more about the complex "tree societies"
3.The underlined word "it" in the last paragraph refers to .
A. how "tree societies" work B. how trees grow old
C. how forestry industry develops D. how young trees survive
4.We can learn from the passage that _______.
A. trees aren’t as complex as we think
B. Charles Darwin had the same opinion as Simard
C. if “Mother trees” are cut down, they won’t make difference to young trees.
D. trees can share resources with other ones by the underground fungi networks.
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