people have always been curious ______ how li...

people have always been curious ______ how living things on the earth exactly began.

A. in        B. at       C. of      D. about

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people have always been curious ______ how living things on the earth exactly began.

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People have always been ______ about exactly how life on earth began.

A. curious    B. excited      C. anxious      D. careful

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People have always been_______ about exactly how life on earth began.

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What will our future look like? People have always been wondering about this question. Go on reading this text and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.

How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you must know the past. What has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but we humans are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.

What inventions have really made a difference in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have affected most people around the world for everyday living are the telephone, electricity, radio, television, computer, the car and the ability to communicate through the Internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster transports etc. In general, human beings have been working hard in the last 150 years to make the inventions so that they will be able to get control of the time and the world. Since there is still much to do in this area, this will be the focus at least for the next 150 years.

Why do we need to predict the future? Predicting the future is important for two reasons: first we need to start to think about what kind of what kind of future we would like for ourselves and to pass on to the next generation, and then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give the best result in the future.

1.What does the author try to tell us in the second paragraph?

A. Humans will no longer enjoy food in the future.

B. The world will be completely changed tomorrow.

C. The world is quite different from what it was.

D. Our basic needs will not change in the future.

2.Our past inventions have made __________.

A. our daily life more stressful

B. it easy for us to live

C. us work less time

D. our work easily done

3.What will humans do in order to keep the world under control?

A. To focus on making more inventions.

B. To produce more cars for transportation.

C. To spend more time working on the Internet.

D. To work much harder to achieve their goals.

4.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. What result we’ll receive in the future.

B. The decisions we make for our future.

C. The two reasons of predicting the future

D. The importance of predicting the future.

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Winter begins in the north on December 22nd. People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the colder months. Squirrels (松鼠), for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. Well, scientists have been busy gathering information about what the squirrels do with the food they collect.

They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana. The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut (黑胡桃) trees. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.

Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student now at the University of New Mexico. The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels. Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut. So some nuts remain in the ground. Conditions are right for them to develop and grow the following spring. Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. Professor Swihart calls “death traps for seeds”.

Gray squirrels are native to Indiana. But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century.

The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade Indiana. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.

1.The study done by Rob Swihart and Jake Goheen is to ________.

A. find out the living conditions for squirrels

B. learn squirrels’ influence on black walnut trees

C. do something to get rid of squirrels

D. save the forests in the American state of Indiana

2.The difference between gray squirrels and red squirrels mainly lies in ________.

A. the way they gather the walnut

B. the time they have winter sleep

C. the place they have winter sleep

D. the place they store the walnuts

3.When Professor Swihart says “death traps for seeds”, he actually means that ________.

A. red squirrels eat more nuts than gray squirrels

B. gray squirrels and red squirrels will have severe fights

C. nuts above the ground will not develop into plants

D. seeds can be traps for other animals in the forest

4.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. The black walnut is equally attractive to both gray and red squirrels.

B. Gray squirrels do more harm to the forest than red squirrels.

C. Red squirrels and gray squirrels have helped the spread of walnut trees.

D. The cleaning of forest land benefits red squirrels directly.

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Access to electricity has always been limited for people living in Nuevo Saposoa, 1.remote village in Peru. However, things went from bad to 2.(bad)in March 2015 after a flood damaged the power station in the area. The villagers 3.(force)to turn to kerosene(煤油)lamps, which are not only expensive but give off poisonous matter.

Fortunately, the researchers and students at the UTEC in Lima, Peru heard about it and came up with a 4.(create)idea. They designed a lamp that can be powered by plants and soil, both of 5.can be found in the Amazonian rainforests where the village 6.(lie). Called Plantalamparas, the lights draws energy from a plant 7.(grow)in the rainforests and uses it to light up an LED bulb. So far, the bulbs have been a huge success.

　　　　 This is not the first time the students and professors of UTEC 8.(come)up with a clever approach 9.a problem. In 2014, 10.(deal)with Peru’s severe air pollution they created a large advertising board that could be used as an air purifier(净化器)as well.

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I have always been interested in making things. When I was a child, I enjoyed drawing, but I also liked making things out of clay(粘土). I won a prize for one of my paintings when I was fourteen. That may be why I went to art school four years later. But I studied painting at first, not pottery(制陶). I like being a potter because I like to work with my hands and feel the clay. I'm happy working by myself and being near my home. I don't like mass-produced(集体生产)things, because they are made by machines. I think crafts(手工艺) are very important and crafts-people make things cleverly with hands. They make our lives colorful. When I left school, I got some money. I hope to become a full-time crafts-woman. This work-place is small, but I wish to move to a larger one next year.

1.From the passage we are sure that the writer is a _______.

A. student　　 B. teacher　　 C. man　　 D. woman

2.The writer got into art school because of ______.

A. liking to make things

B. enjoying working near her home

C. a prize won when the writer was young

D. a wish to be a potter

3.When entering art school, the writer was about ______.

A. 14　　 B. 16　　 C. 18　　 D. 21

4.The writer is talking about her workplace _____.

A. unhappily　　 B. hopefully　　 C. seriously　　 D. angrily

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A live program on TV is calling on people to ______ money or some other things to the people who have suffered from the flood in Henan Province.

A. donate            B. lend                C. put           D. pay

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Things only people who have worked overseas can understand

If you have ever worked or lived overseas, I’m pretty sure you can understand the following things!

We do not automatically become fluent (流利的) in another language. A lot of people believe that changing your geographic location can improve your language learning skills quickly.1. Language application takes time and has a number of factors that play into a person’s level of fluency.

We feel extremely lonely at times. Yes, living abroad can be wonderful.2. Sometimes, we think that no one back at home understands our true feelings and life challenges, but a lot of other people travel long term and work abroad. Maybe they are not facing the same problems as you, but they know exactly how you feel.

We don’t really like our birthdays. Usually, your special day ends with the last phone call you get from home and then you can look through all your greetings on social media.3.　 You may throw a small party with some of your new friends, but it’s going to be nothing compared with the good­old feasts you used to have with your loved ones back at home.

4. Too often we simply can’t tell you if we will be coming home for holidays this season. Sometimes, our working/living permits require us to stay in the country for at least a year. Adding up the flight costs and additional travel expenses, traveling home becomes quite a challenge for us.

We will change.5. You become more mature, independent and open­minded. Usually, you return home as a better person than the one you left as.

A. The truth is: it isn’t like that.

B. We may not plan to move back home.

C. We don’t know when we’ll come home next.

D. However, it can get extremely lonely on some days too.

E. Living abroad makes us value the little things a lot.

F. Living and working abroad shape your personality a lot.

G. After that, you just act as if it’s another ordinary day in your life yet.

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