Connie Monroe clicks a button, turns her wris...

Connie Monroe clicks a button, turns her wrist and watches as her neighborhood floods. The reed-covered shorelines are first to go. Then, the baseball fields at Fleming Park. By the time seawater reaches the senior center, it has covered streets, flooding more than a dozen complexes that she can see.

Monroe moves her head up and down, side to side, taking in the simulated (模拟的) view. This is what could happen to Turner Station, a historic African American community, as sea levels rise.

“Everything’s underwater. The school is underwater. Our house is underwater,” Monroe says. A frown (皱眉) forms below the virtual reality headset. “Is the water really supposed to get that high?”

Climate change presents many challenges to coastal communities, but one of the most worrisome problems is: how do you show people — and convince them — of a possible future?

“It’s one thing to hear or read the news that sea levels could rise as high as 7 feet in Maryland by the end of the century under worst-case situations, but it’s another to imagine what that will look like in your own backyard,” says Jackie Specht, the coastal science program manager. “And if it’s hard to imagine, it’s hard to face and prioritize.”

Communicating the realness and immediacy of the climate threat is important to climate researchers and those aiming to prevent its causes. But it’s also paramount to communities faced with coming changes that are already unavoidable.

Climate projects need public support and input. That’s why Monroe and other residents at this recent community meeting are being directed to sit in metal chairs, put on virtual reality headsets and watch their homes flood.

Virtual reality is an immersive (沉浸式的) experience that can trick the human brain into thinking it’s real. But tricking people is not the goal of the sea level rise simulation being used at Turner Station, says Juliano Calil, one of the program’s developers.

The goal, he says, “is to help folks visualize the impacts of climate change and the solutions, and also discuss the trade-off between them.”

1.What would you see in Turner Station as sea levels rise?

A.Shorelines covered by reeds. B.Baseball fields used as parks.

C.Streets blocked with bricks. D.Buildings drowned in water.

2.What does Jackie Specht suggest in Paragraph 5?

A.People are relatively safer in their backyards.

B.People don’t feel on the scene through the news.

C.The severity of disaster is beyond imagination.

D.The sea level is bound to rise 7 feet in Maryland.

3.Why is the virtual reality experience provided in the community meeting?

A.To prove climate threat. B.To seek public backing.

C.To help scientific research. D.To introduce VR technology.

4.Which of the following best explains the underlined words “the trade-off” in the last paragraph?

A.The balance. B.The conflict.

C.The business. D.The similarity.

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Connie Monroe clicks a button, flicks her wrist and watches as her neighborhood floods. The shorelines are first to go. Then, the baseball fields at Fleming Park. By the time seawater reaches the senior center, it has flooded streets and over a dozen brick homes. Monroe moves her head up and down, side to side, taking in the simulated (仿真的) view. This is what could happen to Turner Station, a historic African American community southeast of Baltimore, as sea levels rise.

Climate change presents many challenges to coastal communities and to those trying to prepare for its impacts, but one of the most basic is also one of the most vexing: How do you show people and convince them of a possible future?

Communicating the realness and immediacy of the climate threat is hugely important to climate researchers and those aiming to lessen its causes. But it's also the most important to communities faced with coming changes that are already unavoidable. These projects need public support and input. That's why Monroe and other residents (居民) are being directed to sit in metal chairs, put on virtual reality headsets and watch their homes flood.

Turner Station, a community which gets flooded easily, is trying to prepare. It has partnered with the Port of Baltimore, a few nonprofits and a local landscape architecture firm to adopt a range of tools and ways to communicate climate change to the public, because every person is different and every place is different.

The virtual reality program is only the most recent, and perhaps the most effective step. Virtual reality is an immersive experience that can trick the human brain into thinking it's real. But tricking people is not the goal of the sea level rise simulation being used at Turner Station, says Juiano Calil, one of the program's developers. ''The goal, '' he says, ''is to start a conversation and help folks visualize the impacts of climate change and the solutions, and also discuss the trade-offs between them. ''

1.Who is Monroe?

A.A coastal community citizen. B.A climate researcher.

C.An architect. D.AVR program developer.

2.What does the underlined word ''vexing'' mean in paragraph 2?

A.Bothersome. B.Dramatic.

C.Original. D.Convincing.

3.Why is VR technology employed here?

A.It can cut down the risks of climate change.

B.It can show severe results of climate change.

C.It can introduce technology to the residents.

D.It can predict the climate change accurately.

4.What is the purpose of the program?

A.To trick more people to believe.

B.To win the residents’cooperation.

C.To advocate the application of VR.

D.To inform the residents of the solutions.

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For photographers lacking training, experience and even the ability to click a shutter button, they produce remarkable pictures．Under the sea, deep in the woods and high in the sky, furry, feathery and leathery-skinned creatures are opening up vistas（远景）by taking cameras where no human can go．

This is the world of animal-borne imagine celebrated last month at a conference sponsored(supported) by the National Geographic Society for the 20th anniversary of its Crittercam, the device that started it all．

Since its debut（首次公开露面）in 1987 on the back of a turtle, the Crittercam and similar devices developed by others have grown smaller and more powerful．

“It’s more than just a camera now,” said Greg Marshall, the marine biologist and now filmmaker who invented the Crittercam．“We are now including more instruments to gather more data while at the same time reducing everything in size．”

The idea of attaching video cameras to animals came to Mr．Marshall in 1986 on a dive off Belize when a shark apporached him．When the animal quickly turned away, he noticed a shark with a sucker fish on its belly．He came up with the idea that putting a camera in place of the sucker fish would allow people to witness the shark’s behavior without disturbing it．

Crittercams have been attached to sharks, sea lions and other marine animals, and, more recently, to land animals．

Birds are a new addition, Mr．Marshall said．Dr．Christian Rutz of Oxford recently reported on tiny cameras called feathercams that monitor the crows in the South Pacific．It has discovered that crows are smarter than anyone knew they not only use twigs（嫩枝）and grass stems as tools to root out food, but they also save their favorite tools to use again．

Tracey L．Rogers, director of the Australian Marine Mammal Research Center in Sydney, said crittercam was a powerful tool in her work with leopard seals（豹斑海豹）in Antarctica．“In studying animals,” Dr．Rogers said at the meeting, “you want to see how our animal models align（与……一致）with reality．With a camera, you actually see what they do．You don’t have to guess．”

1.What’s the text mainly about?

A．The advantages of crittercam．

B．The development of Crittercams in the past 20 years．

C．How crittercam was invented．

D．How crittercam works．

2. What inspired Marshall to invent crittercam?

A．The sight of sucker fish clinging to a shark on a dive．

B．The thought of how to photograph animals better．

C．Noticing a shark eating a sucker fish on a dive．

D．Seeing a shark with a camera on its belly on a dive．

3. According to Dr．Rogers, crittercam ____．

A．can clear up all your doubts about animals

B．is the most powerful tool in studying animals

C．enabled her to observe the crows in the South Pacific closely

D．helped a lot with her research on leopard seals in Antarctica

4. All of the following are improvements of crittercams EXCEPT that ____．

A．the size is becoming smaller

B．more instruments are involved to gather more data

C．they allow researchers to see where and how animals live

D．they are able to be applied to smaller animals such as birds

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______ there was no bandage available, she tore off her sleeve and tied it around his wrist a little above the bleeding point ______ him from losing too much blood.

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Mother told Jim to watch the milk until it boiled and then _________ off the gas.

A. turn      B. turning      C. turned       D. having turned

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Mother told Jim to watch the milk until it boiled and then _________ off the gas.

A. turn    B. turning       C. turned        D. having turned

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Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!

Some parapsychologists （心理学家） say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them．To study whether such a "sixth sense" really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, performed several experiments．

In the first one．Baker sat behind unsuspecting people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes．The subjects were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer．Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods．Later, when he questioned the suspects, almost all of them said they had no' idea that someone was staring at them．

For the second experiment．Baker told subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two-way minor in a lab setting．The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t．Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at than if they had just guessed．

Baker’s experiment concludes again that people do not have the ability to sense when they are being stared at．If you doubt the outcome of his two experiments, I suggest you repeat the experiments and see for yourselves．

1.The first experiment made by Baker shows that ____．

A．people can’t realize it when they are watched secretly

B．one can't sense other people’s watching when they are talking

C．people have no idea about the sixth sense of human beings

D．the sixth sense doesn’t work during the first 5 or 15 minutes

2.The second experiment differs from the first one in that ____．

A．the subjects were not directly stared at from time to time

B．the subjects had to write something down in a lab sitting

C．the subjects were good at guessing when they were stared at

D．the subjects were informed of the purpose of the experiment

3.What is the author's attitude towards the result of the experiment? ____．

A．Support          B．Doubt            C．Sympathy         D．Surprise

4.We can infer from the passage that ____．

A．it’s most probable that humans have six senses

B．the so-called sixth sense doesn’t exist in human beings

C．the experiments done by Baker hardly explain anything

D．people should make conclusions by themselves

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Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!

Parapsychologists(灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist(心理学家) at the University of Kentucky, performed two experiments.

In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects（受试者）were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.

For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two-way mirror in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were started at than if they had just guessed.

Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at. If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”

1.The purpose of the two experiments is to _______.

A. explain when people can have a sixth sense

B. show how people act while being watched in the lab

C. study whether humans can sense when they are stared at

D. prove why humans have a sixth sense

2.In the first experiment, the subjects _______.

A. were not told that they would be stared at            B. lost their sense when they were stared at

C. were not sure when they would be stared at     D. were uncomfortable when they were stared at

3.The underlined word “outcome” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.

A. value    B. result   C. performance        D. connection

4.What can be learned from the passage?

A. People are born with a sixth sense.

B. The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea.

C. The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.

D. People have a sixth sense in public places.

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Local 10 Third EARTH Day Art Contest

Open only to Florida schools within the Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward County viewing area.

Local 10 is inviting South Florida art teachers and students, from grades K-12, to participate in its third annual EARTH Day Art Contest.

In the last two years, the popular, environmentally-centered contest has recognized two schools, Air Base K-8 in Homestead and Lawton Chiles Middle School in Hialeah, for their winning entries and awarded a total of $9,000 to the schools’ art programs.

As part of a class project, art students are encouraged to create a work of art with an environmental theme. The entry must be novel and unique. To enter the class project into the contest, the art teacher representing their students and schools must go to www. loca110. com, click on the contest link to enter and submit a photo of the class’s innovative EARTH Day work of art. The art teacher must fill out an entry form, giving school name, teacher name and class, address, email address and phone number. Only paintings and sculptures are eligible. Special consideration will be given to works of art featuring materials taken from nature.

Local 10 will determine the ten finalists. The final winner will be chosen from among the finalists by viewer votes on the Internet. Photos and entry forms may be submitted online from February 3,2020，until 11:59 p.m. March 9,2020. The voting period is from March 23,2020，through April 13,2020. Only timely submitted entries will be eligible to win. The winning school will be announced on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22 and will receive $4,500 in art supplies for their school’s art department.

For more information, click here. The Local 10 EARTH Day Art Contest is proudly sponsored by Publix, where every day is Earth Day.

1.According to the rule, the entry must be　　　　 .

A.attractive B.original C.classic D.portable

2.What is the art teacher expected to do?

A.To complete an entry form. B.To create a work of art.

C.To submit his / her photo. D.To offer kids art supplies.

3.How will the final winner be determined?

A.By Local 10. B.By art teachers.

C.By the sponsor. D.By online voting.

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.---_____ I watch TV, I'll turn it down and never make any noise.

--- Good. ______ you are doing should never disturb others. _______ how important you are,never forget about how others feel.

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