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With the Reading Day coming,I'd like to recommend a couple of books to you.
A License to Heal by Steven Bentley
It describes the real world of emergency medicine from the viewpoint of a practicing emergency physician, Bentley.In the world of emergency medicine,there's lots of pain,blood and sadness in our daily life,but there's also hope,excitement and a surprising amount of humor—for both the patients and the staff.The narrative（叙述）writing is effective,for Bentley appears as the doctor everyone needs in a medical emergency.
Battering Rocks over the Barn by Lawn Griffiths
An Iowa farm boy's Odyssey.The rhythm of rural life during the 1950s and 1960s comes alive through the eyes of a boy who grew up to become a newspaper journalist and farm editor.Follow his journey in this book.
Imperfect Family by Leyland A.king
This is a novel describing an ordinary family's union,strength,ambition and determination that contribute to the great possibility for one generation to climb the shabby ladder from the low class to the American middle class.
Walking the Stones of Time by Oswald Brown
This is a tale of two lovers separated by social status in primitive Scotland.It unfolds as a young man makes it his task to free a beautiful young girl from slavery.What follows is an adventurous story of disloyalty（不忠实）overcome by courage.
Honeyball by Pete Liebengood.
Rachel's father hands her a minor league baseball team.She hired an all female staff and created a highly successful marketing campaign called honeyball.The book Honeyball offers an entertaining perspective（视角）of the league baseball where a group of women pull together in a campaign to find success at the box office while their leader finally finds the love of Rachel's life.
1.What can we know about A License to Heal?
A. It tells readers stories about patients.
B. It's about a humor story of a physician.
C. It impresses readers with a heart-broken story.
D. It's convincing because of its narrative writing style.
2.Which book is about country life?
A. Honeyball.
B. Battering Rocks over the Barn.
C. Walking the Stones of Time.
D. Imperfect Family.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. The writer of A License to Heal is a humorous doctor.
B. Imperfect Family describes an amazing women baseball Learn.
C. There're love stories in Walking the Stones of Time and Honeyball.
D. Battering Rocks over the Barn describes the city life of a journalist.
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Singapore's schools have become global role models with high results in international tests.But now they want to move,beyond this—towards something that encourages creativity and what they term "holistic（全面的）education".
Minister of Education,Heng Swee Keat,says this is "less about content knowledge",but "more about how to process information".He describes this challenge of innovating（创新）as being about to "tell truth from untruth,connect seemingly different things,and create knowledge even as the situation changes".
This approach aims to prepare today's students for the demands of the next 20 years.It means that schools are under more pressure,and will be given more freedom,to come up with creative ways to teach students.So instead of the traditional impressions of high-pressure Asian schools,with rows of heads buried in books,they are trying different approaches to learning.
To put this into practice,on a sunny April morning,80 students from one of Singapore's top schools were traveling outdoors.The nine to ten-year-old from Rosyth School were on a "learning journey" in a park,with science topics and values such as caring for the environment.
"We are conducting a biopsy（活组织检查）to find out why a bee,a fish,a bird or a plant died strangely,"said one student."Is it because of human actions?"
They photographed "evidence" on smart phones and digital cameras,getting facts on plants and animal species. "They can really learn through hands-on experience and putting things into action,"said moral education teacher, Joslyn Huang.
1.What are Singapore's schools famous for according to the passage?
A. Test results. B. Strict management.
C. Teaching methods. D. Learning environment.
2.What does Singapore's "holistic education" lay emphasis on?
A. Students' moral behavior. B. Students' creative ability.
C. Students' content knowledge. D. Students' hands-on experience.
3.Why did the 80 students from Rosyth School conduct a biopsy?
A. To improve the environment.
B. To protect animals and plants.
C. To study the relationship between human actions and some animals' death.
D. To find out the relationship between human behaviors and climate changes.
4.How did the author tell us about a different way of learning in Singapore's schools?
A. By giving examples. B. By making comparisons.
C. By listing figures. D. By analyzing cause and effect.
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A new study has found the amount of antibiotics（抗生素）given to farm animals is expected to increase by two-thirds over the next 15 years.Researchers are linking the growing dependence on the drugs to the increasing need for meat,milk and eggs.However,the drugs could quicken the development of antibiotic-resistant infections（感染）.Such infections are already a major public,health concern in the United States.
The World Health Organization notes when people stop living in poverty（贫困）,the first thing they want to do is eat better,rather than earn more money.For most people,that means their diet should contain more meat.With the rapid development of Asia,people there are eating nearly four times as much meat,milk and other milk products as they did 50 year ago.
To meet the need,farmers have put many animals into smaller spaces.As the animals are crowded together,the easiest way to deal with some of the problems d crowding is to give them antibiotics.It's clear that antibiotics help animals stay healthy in a crowded environment and grow faster.But bacteria can develop resistance to the drugs gradually.
Nowadays,doctors find antibiotics that once worked against the infections no longer work.The bacteria have learned ways to fight against the drugs.The heavy use of antibiotics in animals is responsible for the growth of antibiotic resistance worldwide.In the United States,at least two million people get drug-resistant infections each year and at least 23,000 die from an infection.
Europe has banned the use of antibiotics to increase animal growth.And the United States is hoping to persuade farmers to stop using antibiotics for that purpose.
1.What accounts for the increasing amount of antibiotics given to farm animals?
A. The desire for new drugs. B. The less effective antibiotics.
C. The outdated farm technology. D. The need for more various foods.
2.What do most people want to do first when they get rid of poverty according to the WHO?
A. Making a lot of money. B. Focusing more on health.
C. Having more meat in their diet. D. Living in a better environment.
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Antibiotics do harm to animals.
B. Antibiotics help animals stay healthy.
C. Antibiotics are used heavily in Europe.
D. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria spread to people.
4.What's the passage mainly about?
A. A new way of raising farm animals.
B. The advantages of using antibiotics.
C. The reason for banning the use of antibiotics.
D. The negative effect of antibiotics in farm animals.
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China's newest space laboratory,TiangongⅡ,will be sent up into the air from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China.It will provide more comfortable digs for astronauts living aboard.
Zhu Zongpeng,chief designer of TiangongⅡsaid designers aimed to create an astronaut-friendly environment in every regard when they refitted the space lab that was developed based on Tiangong Ⅰ.
"A number of particulars were taken into account,including the sound,lighting,inner decorations as well as support equipment.For instance,the carpet in Tiangong I was replaced with floorboards.We fixed a foldable, multifunctional table that can be used for dining and experiments.The light is softer and can be adjusted.Each astronaut has a bed lamp.We also equipped the astronauts with Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth speakers."Zhu added.
The Tiangong Ⅱconsists of two cabins（舱）with separate functions—the experiment cabin is sealed and acts as the astronauts' living quarters,while the resource cabin contains solar panels（太阳电池板）,storage batteries,engines, etc.
The lab has about 15 square meters for astronauts to live and work,including a separate sleep section and waste storage area.The equipment in the spacecraft ensures its inner sound under 50 decibels（分贝）.The temperature within the experiment cabin is kept between 22℃ and 24℃ and the humidity（湿度）between 45 and 55 percent.
In addition,Tiangong Ⅱ has an air detector（空气探测器）,and it can be used to check and deal with more than 20 dangerous gases.Also,designers placed exercise equipment in the space lab to help astronauts keep healthy and its communication systems also allow astronauts to receive and reply to emails and make calls to family and friends.
1.What does the underlined word "digs" in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Rooms. B. Temperature.
C. Headsets. D. Light.
2.Why was the space lab of Tiangong Ⅱ refitted?
A. To help astronauts keep healthy.
B. To create an astronaut-friendly environment.
C. To help astronauts to receive and reply to emails.
D. To deal with over 20 dangerous gases in the lab.
3.What's the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A. A table for dining and experiment was fixed.
B. A few aspects were considered to refit the space lab.
C. Astronauts were equipped with Bluetooth headsets.
D. Bright lamps which could be adjusted were placed.
4.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Astronauts can live and work in different places.
B. Exercise equipment has been placed for astronauts to keep fit.
C. Astronauts will feel more comfortable in the space lab after the improvement.
D. The sound and temperature in the spacecraft will help astronauts sleep well.
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