Say the phrase “female environmental pioneers,” and among the names you will hear are Rachel Carson, who wrote pesticides; chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall; and 17-year-old climate-change activist Greta Thunberg. To mark Women’s History Month, Kidspost is sharing the story of an environmental pioneer who is not that famous but equally remarkable.
At age 3, Sylvia Earle found her lifelong passion while playing on a beach. A wave suddenly came up and knocked her over.
“My mother ... saw the big smile on my face and let me run back in,” Earle told a TV interviewer years later. “And I’ve been running back in ever since.”
Earle is now 84 years old and has spent a lifetime exploring the world’s oceans and working to protect them from pollution, overfishing and other threats.
She is a pioneer in using scuba gear. Scuba gear lets divers take breath underwater. She holds the world record for the deepest untethered walk on the ocean floor at 1,250 feet. This means she was not tied to anything when she was walking underwater. During this exploration, she planted a U.S. flag.
In 1998, Time magazine gave Earle its first Heroes for the Planet award. She was the first female chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is the U.S. ocean and atmosphere group. She was also elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Earle has spent her life teaching people about the ocean. She notes how much it affects the weather, and what we eat and drink. She has something to say to those who don’t understand why the ocean matters. “They should know that with every breath they take, every drop of water they drink, the ocean is touching them,” Earle says. “You should treat the ocean as if your life depends on it— because it does.”
1.What does Earle’s lifelong passion refer to?
A.Teaching people how to dive. B.Writing articles for magazines.
C.Exploring and protecting oceans. D.Providing equipment for divers.
2.What do we know about Earle from the text?
A.Earle is a world record holder.
B.Earle’s mother is in support of her work.
C.Earle is a remarkable British ocean explorer.
D.Earle is the only female chief scientist at NOAA.
3.Which of the following words can best describe Earle?
A.brave and conservative. B.devoted and courageous.
C.determined and rigid. D.ambitious and modest.
4.Which of the following statement will Earle agree with according to the text?
A.People should stop overfishing and eating seafood.
B.The ocean plays a significant role in human’s life.
C.The weather has a far-reaching effect on the ocean.
D.The exploration of the ocean can be done without limit.
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Say the phrase “female environmental pioneers,” and among the names you will hear are Rachel Carson, who wrote pesticides; chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall; and 17-year-old climate-change activist Greta Thunberg. To mark Women’s History Month, Kidspost is sharing the story of an environmental pioneer who is not that famous but equally remarkable.
At age 3, Sylvia Earle found her lifelong passion while playing on a beach. A wave suddenly came up and knocked her over.
“My mother ... saw the big smile on my face and let me run back in,” Earle told a TV interviewer years later. “And I’ve been running back in ever since.”
Earle is now 84 years old and has spent a lifetime exploring the world’s oceans and working to protect them from pollution, overfishing and other threats.
She is a pioneer in using scuba gear. Scuba gear lets divers take breath underwater. She holds the world record for the deepest untethered walk on the ocean floor at 1,250 feet. This means she was not tied to anything when she was walking underwater. During this exploration, she planted a U.S. flag.
In 1998, Time magazine gave Earle its first Heroes for the Planet award. She was the first female chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is the U.S. ocean and atmosphere group. She was also elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Earle has spent her life teaching people about the ocean. She notes how much it affects the weather, and what we eat and drink. She has something to say to those who don’t understand why the ocean matters. “They should know that with every breath they take, every drop of water they drink, the ocean is touching them,” Earle says. “You should treat the ocean as if your life depends on it— because it does.”
1.What does Earle’s lifelong passion refer to?
A.Teaching people how to dive. B.Writing articles for magazines.
C.Exploring and protecting oceans. D.Providing equipment for divers.
2.What do we know about Earle from the text?
A.Earle is a world record holder.
B.Earle’s mother is in support of her work.
C.Earle is a remarkable British ocean explorer.
D.Earle is the only female chief scientist at NOAA.
3.Which of the following words can best describe Earle?
A.brave and conservative. B.devoted and courageous.
C.determined and rigid. D.ambitious and modest.
4.Which of the following statement will Earle agree with according to the text?
A.People should stop overfishing and eating seafood.
B.The ocean plays a significant role in human’s life.
C.The weather has a far-reaching effect on the ocean.
D.The exploration of the ocean can be done without limit.
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The term "quiet stress” is gathering pace among experts, who say it's an often overlooked form of the more widely known version, which is characterised by visible outbursts: losing tempers, swearing, shouting, and anger.
"We quietly hold our stress within: we don't speak up about how we feel. And very importantly, we become inactive. We stay in unhappy relationships and unfulfilling jobs. We feel overwhelmed（被压倒的）, yet ignore important administration tasks. Quiet stress creates a form of emotional paralysis （麻痹）that keeps us ' stuck' in unhappy situations, says Jillian Lavender, who runs the London Meditation Centre.
Cary Cooper, a professor of psychology and health at the University of Manchester, likens the effects of quiet stress to shrapnel（榴弹）:“You can learn to quieten your stress responses, but eventually the stress will emerge: as well as a suppressed immune system, you may withdraw socially, isolate yourself and begin to engage in unhealthy habits like comfort eating or drinking too much. Despite getting a bad rap over the years, expressing anger or frustration is far healthier than smiling sweetly while feeling quietly stressed."
A recent study from Stanford University in the US backs this theory up. The researchers found that seeing stress as a helpful part of dealing with life's challenges, rather than as something to be avoided, was associated with better health, emotional well being and productivity at work.
“Stress isn't always harmful,” said Kelly McGonigal, a business school lecturer at Stanford who worked on the study. "Once you appreciate that going through stress makes you better at it, it can be easier to face each new challenge.”
1.Which behavior belongs to “quiet stress” ？
A.Reacting slowly. B.Speaking up.
C.Smiling sweetly. D.Scolding others.
2.What is the best way to relieve from quiet stress according to Cary Cooper?
A.Developing a good habit. B.Eating much junk food.
C.Finishing tasks on time. D.Making your feelings known.
3.According to Paragraph 4 stress is.
A.something beneficial sometimes B.something harmful to health
C.something to be kept D.something affecting work
4.Which of the following statements can describe stress according to the text?
A.Silence is gold. B.Life is not easy.
C.One coin has two sides. D.Stress is everywhere.
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Recently, the phrase "hair loss" has been trending among young people in China. A recent report on overall health showed that hair loss ranked fifth among top health concerns, following bad skin conditions, depression and anxiety, poor sleep, and digestive tract(消化道)discomfort and illness.
But hair loss isn't just a concern for Chinese youth. It is an inconvenient reality for many people in China and the world over. According to a survey, 250 million Chinese people are troubled by hair loss, most of them between 20 and 40 years old. In the United States, about one in five people is suffering from hair loss.
There isn't really any single reason for hair loss. Humans naturally lose about 50 to 100 hairs each day, which usually regrow later. However, genetic and environmental factors can mean, for some people, these lost hairs won't regrow. In addition, certain factors can further worsen hair loss, including too much stress from work school, too little sleep, and a bad diet.
Is there anything you can do to protect your remaining hair? There are many products out there ready to help you keep a full head of hair. Shampoos, lotions, surgery, even laser-helmets say they can help. Hair loss treatments represent a $3. 6 billion industry in the United States alone. While many of these products make bold promises about their capabilities to restore your hair, the reality is that fixing your hair loss will ultimately depend on finding the specific causes.
If it is due to stress, lack of sleep, or poor nutrition, then a lifestyle change might not only stop hair loss, but also restart the growth of hair. For most young people who want to protect their receding(后移的)hairlines, it starts with their personal health. All they need to do is change unhealthy living habits and pay more attention to their psychological well-being.
1.What can we learn about "hair loss" from the passage?
A.It is common among most people in China.
B.It is the top health concern for Chinese youth.
C.Only Chinese youth are suffering from hair loss.
D.It bothers people of different ages and countries
2.What stops the regrowth of the lost hairs for some people?
A.Genetic and environmental factors.
B.Stress from work and school.
C.Too little sleep.
D.A bad diet.
3.What's the author's attitude towards many hair loss treatments?
A.Critical. B.Objective.
C.Optimistic. D.Supportive.
4.What's the author's suggestion to young people with hair loss?
A.To use hair-growth products.
B.To change unhealthy lifestyle.
C.To have a health check in hospital
D.To pay attention to physical well-being
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Brush turkeys are heading back into urban Sydney areas, according to an environmental expert, and there is not much people can do about it.
The Australian brush turkey has “big feet”. They damage people’s beloved backyards by raking up dirt to make large nests which can sometimes hold up to 56 eggs in one mound(土堆). This is because one male brush turkey can breed(交配繁殖) with up to six females who can lay up to 12 eggs.
The population of brush turkeys in Australia was severely reduced along the east coast in the 1960s after coming close to extinction during the Depression as they were easy to hunt for food. As a result, they become a protected species in the 1970s which made it illegal to shoot them.
“In the 1980s, they took over Brisbane, and Sydney is about 10 years behind what happened up here,” Professor Darryl Jones, deputy director of the Environmental Futures Research Institute at Griffith University, said. “Once they get into the city they work out there’s a lot of food and they have a fair bit of protection.”
While brush turkeys have cultural significance in Queensland, they can be annoying for many in Sydney. Former Central Coast resident(居民) Paul told 702 ABC Sydney that he had “an ongoing battle for years” with brush turkeys that built nests in his garden.
“We had plague proportions(瘟疫之灾) when we lived on the Central Coast. I was trying to grow food and vegetables but I had to give up,” he said. “They just completely dug them up. I was fighting a losing battle.”
But Sydney resident Joy thinks differently. “Brush turkeys are part of nature,” she said. “I’ve been able to successfully have a flower garden and a vegetable garden and have brush turkeys wander through the yard. The way I’ve done it is just to put sticks in the ground around the plants. I haven’t had any problems at all and people need to think of ways to overcome these problems rather than kill animals.”
1.What’s one characteristic of brush turkeys?
A.They are afraid of humans. B.They often build mounds to hide eggs.
C.They usually live in coastal areas. D.A female lays a dozen eggs each time.
2.Why were brush turkeys nearly dying out during the Depression?
A.They were over-hunted for their meat. B.They couldn’t find enough food.
C.They were hated and hunted by people. D.Their natural habitats were destroyed.
3.What troubled Paul was that_____.
A.a plague broke out on the Central Coast.
B.he was sometimes attacked by brush turkeys.
C.his garden was messed up by brush turkeys.
D.he had no place to grow food and vegetables.
4.What is Joy’s opinion of brush turkeys?
A.They do much harm to gardeners.
B.Their number should be controlled.
C.Sydney is suitable for them to survive.
D.People should live in harmony with them.
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Mathew White, an environmental psychologist, is on a mission to give Mother Nature the respect he thinks she deserves when it comes to human health. For decades, scientists and health-care professionals have recognized that exposure to green spaces, such as public parks or forests, is linked with lower risks of all sorts of illnesses common in the world. Experimental work has demonstrated various physiological responses that occur when people spend time in natural environments: blood pressure drops, heart rate decreases, immune function improves, and the nervous system directs the body to rest and digest.
As humans increasingly populate urbanized areas, they are spending less and less time in natural environments. But before doctors can start advising their patients to head to the nearest park, there is an important outstanding question, says White: How much time in nature do you need to generate these apparent benefits? Most of the research that has linked health outcomes with exposure to the natural world didn’t use frequency or duration of park visits, but rather the amount of green space within a certain distance of a person’s home, White says. But “it’s not so much where you live; it’s whether you use it or not.”
So he collected data to estimate what dose（剂量） of nature was needed to show benefits to a person’s health. White’s group found the answer he was after: Spending at least two hours in nature per week was strongly correlated with self-reports of being in good health or having high wellbeing. “I was very surprised, to be honest,” says White, who had been expecting a much longer time. “We had no idea that such a clear threshold of time per week would emerge from the data.”
He was further surprised to learn that it didn’t seem to matter how many trips to a park people took, so long as they got in their two hours per week. It could be a long visit one day, a couple of hour-long trips, three visits of 40 minutes, or four half-hour excursions. He and his colleagues speculate that, if nature’s apparent health benefits are a result of being able to de-stress, then whatever pattern of green space exposure fits one’s schedule is probably the best way to achieve that goal.
Health-care recommendations for people to spend time in nature are probably years away, but the movement has begun. Several organizations around the world are working to promote awareness of nature’s contribution to health. Some researchers have used the term “a dose of nature” to evaluate the amount of exposure needed to gain benefits. “That was kind of the deliberate medicalization of the language around nature and health,” says White.
1.White’s research focused on_______.
A.required amount of green space
B.benefits from the exposure to nature
C.necessary time length of nature visits
D.physical responses to outdoor activities
2.What does the underlined phrase “threshold of time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Maximum time. B.Minimum time.
C.Adequate time. D.Average time.
3.From the last paragraph, we can infer that White______.
A.is confident about his mission
B.is willing to cooperate with others
C.has persuaded others to accept his idea
D.has adopted the term for his research result
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A.Respect for Nature B.Nature as Medicine
C.Present from Nature D.Mission in Nature
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The Beatles, the supreme rock and roll band of the 1960s, were in many ways pioneers for ______ was to come, like holding concerts in sports stadiums.
A. which B. what C. whoever D. that
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Nelson Mandela is，__________ the greatest man of the 20th century，certainly among the most extraordinary leaders．
A．if there B．if any C．if not D．if so
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The accident which left 15 people on board dead if both the angry female passenger and the bus driver had kept calm.
A. should have avoided B. should be avoided
C. could have avoided D. could have been avoided
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Alaska’s state fair, which runs until September 5th, began as a celebration among residents of the Mantanuska Colony, a project under which 200 farm families were moved to Alaska to see whether agriculture could be possible in the coldest state. The state fair lives on, but little more than a decade after the start of the project most of the participants had abandoned their farms. The project was widely seen as a flop.
In this state, glaciers cover 300 times more acres than farms. Only 5% of the food consumed is grown locally, compared with 81% nationwide. The growing season is short and summer temperatures chilly. Tomato plants wither(凋谢). Fruit trees, in most parts of the state, are just a dream.
Enter the high tunnel: a greenhouse consisting of a metal frame with plastic stretched across it. Its few millimeters of plastic separate crops inside from the great outdoors. But this is enough for Alaskan growers to produce tomatoes as well as sweetcorn, peaches and kiwi fruit, and to boost production of crops by a quarter or more.
In a place where no one blinks(眨眼) if you call yourself a fisherman, boat captain or gold miner, an increasing number of Alaskans are thinking of themselves as people who grow food. Since the start of the programme, the number of farms registered(登记)with the state has nearly doubled. Local restaurants have begun shaping their menus around what neighboring farms can grow.
Eight decades ago, the Mantanuska Colony tried to turn farmers into Alaskans. Today, the high tunnels are turning Alaskans into farmers.
1.Which can replace the underlined word “flop” in Paragraph 1?
A. failure B. surprise
C. worry D. problem
2.How did the Matanuska project try to help Alaska’s agriculture?
A. By planting trees.
B. By moving farmers.
C. By building high tunnels.
D. By holding nationwide fairs.
3.What can we infer about Alaska today?
A. Few people are needed for farming.
B. Fishing industries are being ignored.
C. Locally-grown tomatoes are on menus.
D. Most agricultural fields are abandoned.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Alaska’s new residential programme.
B. Alaska as a chilly and barren state.
C. A dream realized in Alaska.
D. Food sources of Alaska.
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We have all heard the old phrase “attitude is everything”, and that phrase is certainly true．Your attitude can have a great impact on your personal motivation, so it is important to keep a positive attitude no matter what challenges you face．
As a matter of fact, keeping your attitude positive in the face of difficulties is the motivation tip that most successful business owners will tell you．The most successful business owners, from Sam Walton to Bill Gates, have all been able to triumph in the face of unpleasant situations．It is those successful business owners who tell you that attitude is everything．But how you deal with that knowledge will determine your level of success．
One of the most important ways to carry out “attitude is everything” is to observe who you associate with and who you surround yourself with．That is because when you surround yourself with negative people, their negative attitudes will infect you．So keeping your associates, colleagues, co-workers and friends as positive as possible is a great way to put the phrase “attitude is everything” into practice．
Whatever you decide to do in life, your attitude will have a great effect on the success you achieve．Success , whether in the world of business or in your personal life, is directly related to your attitude, and the attitude you bring to your work．A positive attitude will help you achieve greater success in your job, no matter what your current level of employment．
1.According to the text, Sam Walton __________．
A．is more successful than Bill Gates
B．has given readers some tips about success
C．has never dealt with unpleasant situations
D．is one of the most successful businessmen
2.One useful way of carrying out “attitude is everything” is__________．
A．not letting others affect your decisions
B．not making friends with people who are unsuccessful
C．keeping the people who surround you positive
D．getting some advice from successful business owners
3.What’s the best title for the text ?
A．Attitude Determines Your Success
B．Motivation Tips From Successful People
C．Ways To Deal With Unpleasant Situations
D．Making Friends With Positive People
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