The idea of donating mosquito nets to million...

The idea of donating mosquito nets to millions of Africans came to Katherine Commale’s mind when she was only five years old. She________a documentary about Africa, which________that on average, every 30 seconds one child died of malaria（疟疾）there, which can be caused by mosquito bites. This made her________, but it also________her to do something to save their lives________. Katherine started________money for mosquito nets so that Africans don't have to________malaria. She sent nets to Africa through an organization called Nothing But Nets. By making hand-decorated________with her family and giving them to those who donated money. Katherine inspired people to _____her. Her________was posted on the website of Nothing But Nets. People were touched by her ______, which went beyond age and race,________were pouring in from around the world.

However. Katherine still seemed________. She and her friends wrote letters to the________who were on the list of The World's Billionaires,________they could contribute money. After receiving the letter, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation________that it would donate three million dollars to Nothing But Nets.________to have more people know Katherine's________, the foundation invested（投资）in filming a public welfare documentary.

Thanks to Katherine, the frequency of children's death________from malaria in Africa has been decreased to one person every 120 seconds. Katherine's kindness influenced the world even though she was only a little girl. She showed that no one is too________to change the world into a better place.

1.A.showed B.watched C.made D.broadcast

2.A.mentioned B.counted C.inferred D.witnessed

3.A.nervous B.guilty C.skeptical D.astonished

4.A.forced B.commanded C.motivated D.assisted

5.A.However B.Therefore C.Meanwhile D.Instead

6.A.providing B.earning C.raising D.accepting

7.A.recover from B.talk about C.suffer from D.know about

8.A.certificates B.invitations C.recommendations D.instructions

9.A.join B.consult C.challenge D.defeat

10.A.advice B.story C.article D.address

11.A.politeness B.innocence C.bravery D.sympathy

12.A.Donations B.Letters C.Reporters D.Listeners

13.A.unsettled B.unmoved C.unhealthy D.unsatisfied

14.A.aged B.learned C.famous D.rich

15.A.warning B.hoping C.informing D.confirming

16.A.insisted B.realized C.Stressed D.declared

17.A.Additionally B.Luckily C.Actually D.Obviously

18.A.diseases B.troubles C.families D.deeds

19.A.resulting B.changing C.growing D.escaping

20.A.forgetful B.clumsy C.young D.poor

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Russ Gremel, now 98 years old, decided it was time to donate $2 million to the Illinois Audubon Society, a charity to purchase nearly 400 acres of land for wildlife protection. Gremel was able to make this amazing donation because he purchased $1,000 worth of Walgreens stock seven decades ago whose value has grown recently.

“A single man with no kids, Gremel has lived in the same Chicago house for 95 years, and has always lived simply”, neighbor Patrick Falso told TODAY. Falso said he heard Gremel say many times the “money wasn’t mine to begin with” and that he always intended to give it away.

The Gremel Wildlife shelter was founded on June 4. Illinois Audubon Society president Jim Herkert said Gremel’s donation was extremely generous. “It’s allowing us to protect a really valuable and important possession and realize one of Gremel’s wishes that we could find a place where people could come out and experience nature the way he did as a kid,” Herkert told TODAY.

After doing all this, this past weekend, Gremel adopted an old Chihuahua（吉娃娃犬）. Winnie the dog was picked up as a homeless dog several months ago. She suffered from a kind of cancer, which was treated—and all she needed was a loving home, which Colleen Collins, the founder of Perfect Pooches Adoption Agency, was determined to find.

Gremel had lost his own beloved Chihuahua earlier this year. When he reached out to Collins about Winnie, she felt this could be a good match. That feeling grew when she brought Winnie to his house for a meet and greet, and Winnie was introduced not only to Gremel but also some of his friends and neighbors. One had brought over a lot of fresh strawberries; all said they’d be there to help out in any way needed.

1.Patrick Falso is mentioned in the text mainly to explain _________.

A. how Gremel earned the money B. what kind of person Gremel is

C. why Gremel made the donation D. where Gremel has been living

2.What can we learn about Russ Gremel from the text?

A. He raised many pet dogs in his life.

B. He bought Walgreens stock at age 28.

C. He adopted a young Chihuahua recently.

D. He volunteered in wildlife shelters regularly.

3.What can we infer about Gremel’s neighbors from the text?

A. They live in harmony with animals. B. They are impressed with dog Winnie.

C. They lead a healthy and wealthy life. D. They are caring and kind to each other.

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The sight of a mosquito can mean trouble to people in many parts of the world. The bite of the mosquito can be deadly. The insects carry serious diseases like malaria (疟疾). It is estimated that almost 630,000 people died from malaria and malaria­related causes in 2012, and most of these cases were in African countries.

In the United States, a group of California scientists are working to develop a more effective and less costly substance (物质) to protect people from mosquitoes. The researchers are investigating the sense of smell in mosquitoes. They found the insects use the same receptor for identifying carbon dioxide in human breath as they do for the smell of our skin. Anandasankar Ray, who is leading the investigation, says scientists tested more than a million chemical compounds (化合物) until they found a substance called Ethyl Pyruvate. He says Ethyl Pyruvate makes the mosquitoes' receptors inactive. “When we apply Ethyl Pyruvate to a human arm and offer it to hungry mosquitoes in a cage, very few of the mosquitoes are attracted to the human arm because only a few of them are able to smell it out,” said Ray.

Genevieve Tauxe, a member of the research team, says it was not easy to find the neurons (神经元) of noble cells that recognize both the smell of human breath and skin. “With the device used to examine the mosquito, we are able to insert a very small electrode (电极) into the part of the mosquito's nose, where its smelling neurons are and where the smell is happening,” said Tauxe.

Anandasankar Ray says a product based on Ethyl Pyruvate may cost less to produce than DEFT, the most effective chemical treatment now in use. He says DEFT is too costly for most people who live in areas affected by malaria.

“Perhaps by finding smells that can attack other target receptors, we will be able to improve upon DEFT and finally have the next generation of insect behaviour control products,” said Ray.ytytzygx.

1.The underlined word in the second paragraph probably means ________.

A. a substance that protects people from mosquitoes

B. a sense organ that reacts to changes

C. a device that reacts to light

D. a piece of equipment that sends signals

2.According to the passage, Ethyl Pyruvate can ________.

A. kill the mosquitoes' smelling neurons

B. cause the mosquitoes to lose their senses of smell

C. result in the inactiveness of the mosquitoes' receptors

D. make the mosquitoes uninterested in human breath and skin smell

3.This passage most probably appears in ________.

A. a textbook of medical schools

B. a collection of doctors' essays

C. the column of newspaper ads

D. the health column of a magazine

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Ethyl Pyruvate—an Insect Behaviour Control Product

B. Malaria—a Serious Disease Causing 630,000 Deaths

C. Scientists Find a New Substance to Fight Mosquitoes

D. A New Generation of DEET Has Been Developed to Kill Mosquitoes

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The disease malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes, kills over one million children yearly. ______, according to the United Nations, hunger and malnutrition claim ten million lives each year.

A. However               B. On the contrary         C. On top of this      D. As a result

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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) continues to be in the red. It reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for 2016 alone, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue. Meanwhile, it has the debts of more than $120 billion, mostly for employee health and retirement costs. There are many bankruptcies. Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.

Interest groups ranging from postal unions to postcard makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s final supervisor—Congress (参议院), insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the present legal situation they depend on get protected. This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation (立法) have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by postponing vital modernization.

Now comes word that everyone involved—Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the systems heaviest users—has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system. Legislation is moving through the White House that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures. Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare. The latter step would largely reduce the financial burden of annually pre-funding retiree health care, thus addressing a long-standing complaint by the USPS and its union.

If it clears the White House, this measure will still have to get through the Senate—where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to make the Postal Service stay afloat, not comprehensive reform. There’s no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major mistake considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency’s costs. Also missing is any discussion of getting rid of Saturday letter delivery. That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year. But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the White House. The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS. It is not, however, a sign that they’re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 2lst century.

1.The financial problem with the USPS is caused partly by ________.

A.its rigid management. B.its unbalanced budget.

C.the cost for technical innovation D.the suspension of bank support.

2.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A.protecting every interest group benefits the USPS

B.the USPS will invest more money in retiree health care

C.the White House has already approved the reform

D.the author seems to be discontent with legislators

3.What does the underlined words “stay afloat” mean in Paragraph 4?

A.Boom. B.Survive.

C.Decline. D.Expand.

4.Which of the following is probably the best title for the text?

A.The USPS Starts to Miss Its Good Old Days

B.The USPS Starts to cooperate with Legislators

C.The USPS Needs Comprehensive Aid and Reform

D.The USPS Is Bound to Get out of the Dilemma

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Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.

The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.

Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.

Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.

Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.

Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.

1.Which of the following is not true?

2.The survey shows that      .

3.Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?

4.The underlined word “exceeded” means         .

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The aim of basketball is for players to get a ball into the “basket”: a net ____ from a metal circle.

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—I love the Internet. I’ve come to know many friends on the Net.

—　　　　 . Few of them would become your real friends.

A. That’s for sure

B. It’s not the case

C. I couldn’t agree more

D. I’m pleased to know that

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---I love the Internet. I’ve come to know many friends on the Net.

---_______ .Few of them would become your real friends.

A. That’s for sure.              B. It’s not the case .

C. I couldn’t agree more.        D. I’m pleased to know that.

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—I love the Internet. I’ve come to know many friends on the Net.

—______. Few of them would become your real friends.

A. Good for you　　　 　　 　　 B. That’s for sure

C. It’s not the case　　　 D. I couldn’t agree more

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