Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, it has been held in more than 40 different cities. That gives Olympic fans quite a few possible travel destinations to choose!
Beijing, China
Olympic fans should consider visiting the Beijing Olympic Park to check out the special buildings of the so-called “Bird’s Nest” and “Water Cube”—the national stadium and aquatics center built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Popular historic places in Beijing include the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and Tian’anmen Square.
Innsbruck, Austria
Located in the heart of the Alps, Innsbruck is known as a great winter destination—which explains why it has hosted not one but two Winter Olympics. Known for its mountainous views, Innsbruck is the perfect stop for outdoor adventurers.
Mexico City, Mexico
This wonderful travel destination offers a wide number of popular museums, historic buildings, and public parks. People will love shopping for fresh meat and produce at the markets, taking a cooking class, and generally eating their way through Mexico City, which is especially known for its culinary (烹饪的) experiences that include both globally well-known restaurants and locally favored street carts.
Melbourne, Australia
Nearly half a century before Sydney hosted the 2000 Summer Olympics, Melbourne became the first Australian host city in 1956. Head to the “cultural capital of Australia”, located in Victoria on the southeastern coast, for an energetic cafe culture and art scene, Melbourne offers something for every type of traveler and everyone can enjoy an evening at one of the city’s many rooftop bars or a day of wine tasting.
1.Where will you go if you are fond of adventure?
A.Beijing, China. B.Mexico City, Mexico.
C.Innsbruck, Austria. D.Melbourne, Australia.
2.What can visitors do in Mexico City?
A.Enjoy wonderful culinary classes. B.Buy beautiful clothes and shoes.
C.Admire beautiful mountainous views. D.Visit special stadiums for the Olympics.
3.What can we know about Melbourne?
A.It is famous for all kinds of wine. B.It has many world-famous hotels.
C.It hosted the Summer Olympics twice. D.It can satisfy different travelers’ needs.
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The new garbage sorting regulation has taken effect in Shanghai starting July 1. Many citizens are still confused about the classification of the four different types of trash. Thankfully, authorities have released an official guideline to clarify the new rules.
The guideline, published by the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau, provides a rather clear definition on the four kinds of waste: recyclable waste, hazardous (有害的) waste, household food waste and residual (剩余的) waste.
Hazardous waste, as the name suggests, includes assorted poisonous materials like used batteries, light bulbs, out-of-date medicines, paint and pesticides.
Household food waste, which is translated to “wet trash” in Chinese，refers to food leftovers, rotten food, pet food, fruit peels, remains of TCM herbs (中药) and flowers.
Paper, plastic, glass, metal and textiles (纺织品) are counted as recyclable waste.
The definition of residual waste is a little confusing. Anything that is not listed above belongs in this category.
As specific as the new guideline is, residents still have a hard time sorting trash correctly and are finding it challenging to memorize them all. For instance, both plastic bottles and bubble tea or coffee cups are plastic materials. However, the former falls to the category of recyclable waste and the latter belongs to residual waste. To save the hassle, some netizens have come up with their own ways to sort trash.
“We should do this from a pig’s angle,” commented one netizen. “Those edible (可食用的) for pigs are household food waste. Those even pigs don’t want to eat are residual waste. If a pig consumes something and dies of it, then something must be hazardous waste. Those which can be sold and the money we gain can be used to purchase pigs are recyclable waste.” The new regulation has gone into effect on July 1. Those who do not sort their trash properly will be fined RMB200.
1.What do the old thrown-away sweaters belong to?
A.Residual waste. B.Hazardous waste.
C.Recyclable waste. D.Household food waste.
2.What does “wet trash” have in common?
A.They are completely wet. B.They all come from plants.
C.They can give off bad smell. D.They can break up easily.
3.What is the tone of the netizen?
A.Humorous. B.Serious.
C.Delightful. D.Uncertain.
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A.Shanghai bans four sorts of garbage.
B.Shanghai launches garbage sorting enforcement.
C.Citizens in Shanghai still question garbage sorting.
D.Citizens in Shanghai welcome the garbage sorting policy.
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Detroit Hives is a non-profit organization that buys vacant lots in the city to transform into bee farms. Timothy Paul and Nicole Lindsey started the non-profit last year, focused on improving the Motor City’s “left behind” communities and educating people on bees.
Timothy got interested in honey and honeybees because of a cough he couldn’t shake. He was sick for months, until a store owner in nearby Ferndale recommended he try some local honey. Soon Timothy’s cough was gone. And he and Nicole found that abandoned urban sites often became illegal dumping grounds, contributing to an overgrowth of allergens (过敏原) — not to mention the mess. The couple began to think about how to settle that issue by producing local honey on vacant sites, and Detroit Hives was born.
To become certified beekeepers, Timothy and Nicole took two courses. They bought their first vacant lot for $340, with the aid of the Detroit Land Bank Authority community partnership program. From there, they built three hives and vegetable garden plots. Thousands of bees now buzz (嗡嗡) on the lot. “The neighbors say they wish we were there decades of years ago. That area had always been a place where people dumped garbage, so when we came here, we gave that area a sense of purpose. The neighbors keep an eye on the area to make sure that people don’t dump any more,” Lindsey said.
Currently, Detroit Hives has partnered with local Detroit Soup and a homeless shelter to provide local, raw honey and they also sell their sweet product. In addition, Detroit Hives spreads awareness about bees through public tours of the farm. The couple also speak at schools in the area. They aim to expand beyond their first farm this year.
1.What does the author intend to tell us in Paragraph 2?
A.The method of curing cough.
B.The inspiration for Detroit Hives.
C.The terrible environment in Detroit.
D.The medical value of local honey.
2.What can we learn about the couples’ work?
A.It enriched the variety of vegetables.
B.It disturbed the neighbors’ normal life.
C.It improved the environment in the area.
D.It enabled neighbors to live in harmony.
3.Why does Detroit Hives offer public tours?
A.To appeal to more customers.
B.To help expand their first farm.
C.To promote their honey product.
D.To help people learn more about bees.
4.Which of the following best describes the husband and wife?
A.Optimistic. B.Faithful.
C.Creative. D.Demanding.
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As they reach school age, about 90 percent of children will have experienced a condition in which fluid (液体) fills the middle ear, muffling (使模糊) sound and sometimes causing infection. The fluid usually clears on its own, but if not, it can lead to a painful ear infection called acute otitis (中耳炎) media. In some cases the fluid can persist for more than a year, causing hearing loss during this period, and slowing down their development of language and social skills.
Diagnosis usually requires a visit to a specialist—but researchers have now developed an app that detects this fluid just as accurately, with only a smartphone and a paper funnel (漏斗).
Doctors typically detect the problem by peering into the ear for a visual assessment. Yet, this method has only a 50 percent accuracy rate. “Right now, if you bring your child to a pediatrician, or to any urgent care family doctor, the way they look at whether or not there’s fluid in the middle ear is by looking at the eardrum,” says Sharat Raju, a surgeon in the department of head and neck surgery at the University of Washington.
For a cheaper and more accessible alternative, researchers at the University of Washington turned to smartphones. First the user follows a template to cut and tape a piece of paper into a funnel, which can be placed between a smartphone and the patient’s ear. Next the app plays a chirping sound through the phone’s speaker; the sound waves bounce off the eardrum and hit the phone’s microphone, where they register and are analyzed by the app. An eardrum with fluid behind it will vibrate (振动) differently than if the middle ear is full of air, as it normally is.
To develop the app, the researchers first played chirps for patients with and without fluid in their ears. They recorded the echoes (回音), which indicate the eardrum’s mobility. Then they used a machine learning model to classify the returning sound waves, determining which audio characteristics indicated a normal ear and which suggested the presence of fluid. Once they tested the app on 98 children, ranging from 18 months to 17 years old, at Seattle Children’s Hospital. It correctly detected fluid in 85 percent of cases, and correctly identified fluid-free ears in 82 percent.
The researchers are currently trying to get FDA approval for the app, and have founded a company to commercialize it. They hope to make it available by the end of the year, to help parents track children’s ear health at home.
1.What do we know about the fluid from the first paragraph?
A.It is mostly part of children’s growth. B.It is unavoidable for any child.
C.It is a permanent physical condition. D.It is beyond any medical means.
2.What does the underlined word “pediatrician” refer to in Paragraph 3?
A.A hospital. B.A specialist.
C.A relative. D.An app.
3.What is the fourth paragraph mainly about?
A.The application of the app. B.The causes of the kid’s ear problem.
C.The purpose of developing the app. D.The experiment of the smartphone.
4.What do the researchers expect of the app?
A.It will upgrade the medical technology. B.It will hit the market in the near future.
C.It will help children do better academically. D.It will save doctors medical operations.
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What does it mean to be intelligent?
It seems that everyone goes to college now, whether or not they find themselves interested in studying something long term. Even though I know there are different ways to be intelligent, I struggle due to society’s influence, which maintains that intelligence is quantifiable (可量化的) and that academic intelligence is one and the only.
Where do IQ tests come into play when one considers intelligence? Do they fall closest to priority when considering this unquantifiable concept? Intelligence simply cannot be reduced to an IQ test, which are not effective. While designed to measure “intelligence,” all they measure are biological developments that can change as one grows. 1.
There are many factors that can indicate an intelligent being, such as academic intelligence, emotional intelligence, and worldly intelligence. For instance, if a student realizes that they haven’t studied appropriately for an exam, he or she would have the ability to acknowledge that, and then make revisions to his or her study habits accordingly. 2. Emotional intelligence is the intelligence that fosters self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-improvement.
3. We cannot function without forming relationships and communication. This proves that being aware of oneself and reflecting in order to further better communication skills is an evidence to intelligence. Where would you be if you were a terrible communicator, unaware, and unwilling to improve, but academically thriving?
Emotional intelligence is what surpasses (超越) those who are hard-headed. Those who maintain academic intelligence may still be a bit dull and unaware of themselves. 4.Even as a college student, there are certain skills such as teamwork and communication that require awareness and an open mind in order to further their growth.
5. Academia is not only pictured and taught unfairly, or even close to what intelligence is if you were to quantify it. If you want to strive for mental growth, and maintain self-awareness through self-reflection, you can apply that to any intelligence category.
A. All of life is communicatory.
B. Specifically, this is emotional intelligence.
C. Intelligence is determined by many factors.
D. Stubbornness is a barrier towards communication.
E. In fact, there are many with low IQ scores that are intelligent.
F. Some connections exist between intelligence and communication.
G. So there is academic intelligence, emotional intelligence, and worldly intelligence.
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Linda worked as a waitress at the Route 130 diner in Dover, New Hampshire. One Thursday morning around 5:30 am, she was _______ two firefighters, Young and Hulling. Quite _______, she heard that they had been up all _______ putting out a fierce warehouse fire, which took twelve hours to get under control.
_______, Linda decided to honor these two heroes by picking up their _______ and writing them a heartfelt message of gratitude. It _______, “Your breakfast is on me today. Thank you for all that you do... Fueled by fire and driven by _______, what an example you are! Get some rest.”
This simple act of kindness meant so much to the _______ firefighters. The firefighters _______ and thanked her before leaving the __________
To return the young lady’s kindness, upon his arrival home, Hulling posted a Facebook update __________ his friends to go eat at the diner, which was quickly __________ over 3,000 times.
However, it was not until afterwards that they realized Linda was __________ the one that could use the __________. When they found out that Linda was trying to __________ money for her paralyzed father to get a wheelchair-accessible van, Young posted with a __________ to a GoFundMe page for Linda’s dad, and the support __________.
The total donations reached $60,000 and went beyond Linda’s wildest dreams. She had never __________ that her small gesture would be paid in such a __________ way. “I’m truly blessed that those two walked through the doors today and __________ for the opportunity to be a part of something so positive and uplifting.’’ Linda said on Facebook.
1.A.calling B.praising C.serving D.anticipating
2.A.in private B.in public C.by design D.by coincidence
3.A.day B.night C.morning D.afternoon
4.A.Touched B.Shocked C.Excited D.Embarrassed
5.A.uniform B.money C.check D.breakfast
6.A.replied B.wrote C.indicated D.read
7.A.concern B.courage C.confidence D.curiosity
8.A.worried B.ambitious C.modest D.exhausted
9.A.showed up B.sat up C.teared up D.stayed up
10.A.apartment B.station C.restaurant D.warehouse
11.A.urging B.forcing C.helping D.reminding
12.A.collected B.examined C.removed D.shared
13.A.really B.normally C.suddenly D.hardly
14.A.fire B.help C.diner D.message
15.A.count B.donate C.change D.raise
16.A.note B.picture C.link D.click
17.A.poured in B.spread out C.declined D.doubled
18.A.promised B.expected C.doubted D.accepted
19.A.rapid B.generous C.proper D.conventional
20.A.grateful B.eager C.ready D.greedy
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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。
The Tibetan antelope, also known as the Chiru, is unique to the Tibetan Plateau of China, 1. is the highest plateau in the world. The Tibetan antelopes are thin animals with four powerful legs and short tails, their bodies 2. (cover) with abundant white and light-gray hair.
The Tibetan antelopes feed mostly on grass. In winter, they dig into the snow 3. (seek) food. They are good runners and can run for several hours in cold weather conditions, so they can sometimes escape from 4. (wolf), their main predators (捕食者), easily.
The Tibetan antelopes 5. (list) in the “Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora” as endangered species with a population estimated to be 6. (little) than 35,000 and still on 7. decline.
8. (thank), effective measures have been taken by China and India to prohibit the Tibetan antelopes 9. being hunted. China has set up four nature reserves and thirty-two passages beneath the railways for the antelopes to immigrate. And both countries check the illegal trade strictly. People didn’t believe these would work at first, but now local people think they 10. (be) of great significance.
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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。
One morning that I was in primary school, I tried cooking for first time. As my parents weren’t in, I have to cook something to eat. I took an egg from the refrigerator, putting some oil in the pan and cracked an egg into it. After a few second, I tried to turn the egg over in case it would get burnt. Unexpectedly, it caught fire. Not known what to do, I screamed but rushed out of the kitchen. After a while, I realized I should put out the fire, so I returned back, only to find something but a black burnt egg. I’ve learned that I can’t be too carefully while cooking.
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假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Elvin听说你寒假打算参加社区服务活动，他想跟你一起参加。请你写一封电子邮件向他介绍本次活动的具体安排，内容包括：
1. 表示欢迎；2. 活动安排；3. 你的希望。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 开头语和结束语已为你写好。
Dear Elvin,
How is it going?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
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