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British chemist David Evans has become an overnight celebrity on Chinese social media. His chemistry experiments have attracted over 2 million followers in just a few months. Evans is a chemistry professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. The 60-year-old always wears a white lab coat, a pair of safety goggles (护目镜), and smiles often. Some web users say he looks just like the “grandpa of KFC”.
Evans has posted videos of various experiments. His most popular experiments have attracted millions of hits on video-sharing apps. Excited children’s cheers and shouts can be heard in his videos. “I hope my experiments can arouse people’s interest in science,” he says.
Evans has been interested in China since childhood. In the early 1970s, before the reform and opening-up, he viewed it as a “country full of mysteries”. He first visited the Chinese mainland in 1987 to attend a chemistry conference in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He quit his job in the United Kingdom and moved to Beijing in 1996. Many of his friends thought he was crazy. But Evans says they just saw China’s challenges but not its potential.
Since 2011, Evans has turned to the Internet to popularize science. He learned short-video apps are also popular in small cities and rural areas. And he realized this enables him to reach more students, who lack opportunities to perform fun experiments. But even a one-minute video requires a considerable amount of work. Still, he thinks it’s worth it to fulfill his responsibility to popularize science.
His experiments always fill schools’ lecture halls with laughter. Some viewers call him “a Harry Potter-like magician”, but he disagrees. “A magician never tells the secrets behind his tricks, but a scientist always gives an explanation.” He sees himself as a teacher. He performs experiments to spread knowledge, inspire thinking, remove misunderstandings and show that science can create change. Evans says he looks forward to more “chemical reactions” with China.
1.Who is David Evans according to the passage?
A. A manager of KFC. B. A film celebrity.
C. A chemistry teacher. D. A British magician.
2.What can we learn from the third paragraph?
A. Evans considered UK to be a country full of mysteries.
B. Evans first visited Chinese mainland in the 1970s.
C. Evans was in no mood to move to Beijing.
D. Evans attended a chemistry conference in China in 1987.
3.Why did Evans begin to post videos of experiments on the Internet?
A. To popularize science.
B. To rise to fame.
C. To apply short-video apps.
D. To make a fortune.
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Evans knows exactly how a magic works.
B. Evans will continue to post videos of experiments in China.
C. Evans’ students like to interrupt his experiments with laughter.
D. Evans’ friends admired his decision to move to China.
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David Beckham has ________ it takes to become a professional football player.
A．who B．what C．which D．that
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A British father, digital product manager Nick Herbert, has invented an app, ReplyASAP, because his 13-year-old son wasn't responding to his calls or texts.
The app takes over a smartphone screen, locking the phone from further use and sounds an alarm that only stops when the receiver replies by text. It sounds like an invasion of privacy(侵犯隐私) and the latest attempt by distrustful parents to track and control their children. But this is fair enough-it serves these youngsters right for not replying.
Mobile phones are usually bought by parents primarily for safety reasons, but teenagers have" other important things". Sometimes, it's perhaps an entirely reasonable lack of interest in anything that" boring adults" have to say.
However, mobiles have also long been employed by teens in the ongoing war against parental control in their otherwise vivid social lives. Thus, texts and calls are ignored, with the teen pretending to have missed them or just simply ignoring them. At which point parents must stroke their chins and consider apps such as “ReplyASAP”。
It should be pointed out that Herbert's son wasn't doing anything wrong-he was merely distracted by video games. Most teenagers wouldn't be doing anything wrong, but that's not the point. While there are wider concerns about things such as ReplyASAP being used by adults to control and abuse partners, makers can't really be held responsible for their apps being misused. And where kids are concerned, it's all about parental access and information. Parents not only have a right, they also need to know that their children are sate. It's this need, not the right, that I believe morally outweighs the child's privacy. Anyone who doesn't agree with me perhaps needs to experience the horror of not being able to locate their child in the small hours, long after they were supposed to be home.
1.Nick Herbert invented the new phone app because.
A.his son refused to talk to him B.he couldn't reach his son by phone
C.his son was addicted to video games D.he wanted to monitor his son's phone use
2.Teens sometimes ignore calls and texts from parents because they
A.have little interest in their parents' social life
B.find parents' concern over their safety ridicul.us
C.believe they are not doing anything wr.ng
D.are busy taking care of other things
3.ReplyASAP could be put to wrong use by
A.controlling adults B.its maker
C.naughty teens D.child abusers
4.Why does the author support apps such as ReplyASAP?
A.Because parents have the right to access their kids 'phone.
B.Because parents need to know if their kids are safe.
C.Because kids tend to stay out in the small hours.
D.Because kids are supposed to obey orders.
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LAS VEGAS (AFP) — Children may not like it but a British technology firm has invented an electronic babysitter -- a wristwatch-like device that lets parents know where their children are at all times.
The GPS Child Locator, or num8, attaches securely to a child’s wrist and contains a Global Positioning System (GPS), said Matthew Salmon, a spokesman for the manufacturer, lok8u.
"It uses GPS and GSM (Global System for Mobiles) technology with an accuracy of 10 feet (three meters)," he said. "It tracks your child."
"It only starts working when the device is connected to the child’s wrist," Salmon said, and is "very difficult to get off."
"Even if the child managed to get it off it would send an emergency text message through to your mobile phone," he said. "It would give you a Google Maps image with their exact location, the street name and the zip code."
When a child is wearing the device, a parent sends the text message "wru" and the child’s current location is sent back to a mobile phone or computer.
Parents can also log on to the company website to discover their child’s present location.
"You can also set up a perimeter, an invisible fence, and if they wander out of this invisible fence which you put on the Internet it will warn you," Salmon said. "It will text you immediately."
Salmon said the device is waterproof and shockproof and lasts for three days with a full charge.
It will be available in both Britain and the United States this year and retails for 200 dollars with a 10 dollar a month subscription fee.
He said the company had received thousands of inquiries about the device since launching it this week. "Fifty percent are positive, 50 percent are negative, that it’s a bit Big Brotherish," he said. "But it’s really just about letting you have freedom of mind."
1.Only when ________does the device begin to work.
A．it uses GPS and GSM technology B．it is put within about 3 meters
C．it’s joined to parents’ computer D．it is fastened to the child’s wrist
2.If a child is wearing the “wristwatch”, parents can track them by ________.
A．sending the text message “wru” B．replying to the text message
C．getting a Google Maps picture D．phoning the local police station
3.What Can we conclude from the text?
A．It won’t be easily found if a child loses t11e device
B．The device won’t work while a child is swimming
C．Parents can easily track children due to the device
D．The new product needs to be fully charged daily
4.The purpose of the text is to ________.
A．explain how to use the new device
B．attract more buyers to the new product
C．discuss advantages of a new invention
D．introduce a new electronic equipment
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British bee keeper and musician Bioni Samp has found an unbelievable way to combine his two greatest passions. He records the frequencies of his bees and uses them to create original electronic musical compositions.
Bioni -- not his real name--- produces abstract music that is rhythmic and suitable for dancing to, but the Londoner has a higher goal than making people dance to it on the dance floor. He uses his unusual music to disseminate information and raise awareness about colony collapse disorder(CCD). Billions of bees are killed by CCD every year, and that’ s not counting the ones that die as a result of climate change and pesticide(杀虫剂) poisoning.
He feels that by using bees as a musical instrument he can get through to people more easily than by preaching (说教) to them about the bad situation of bees and the dangers their extinction brings to humans. "If I go around shouting about deforestation(采伐森林)， people quickly tire of that；it doesn't really connect with people, " Samp said. "So I worked around the idea of presenting something that has an underlying (潜在的) ecological message. It turned out that the message was successfully communicated in a way which interested people who love electronic music and computing.”
Originally from West Yorkshire, Bioni Samp has been enthusiastic about keeping bees since early childhood, but some years ago he discovered that bees were useful not just for producing honey, but also making electronic music.
Samp’s bee-generated music has been featured environmentally-conscious festivals and art galleries throughout Europe, and even in Canada. Bioni Samp was featured in the 360o BBC mini-documentary, “The Resistance of Honey", which the Raindance Film Festival nominated for Best VR Sound Design Experience.
Some film festivals rejected the documentary for some reason. Instead of focusing on the negative, however, Samp is carrying on with his work. He is almost done with a new album.
1.What are the two greatest passions of Bieni Samp?(no more than 5 words)
_______________
2.What's the meaning of the underlined word in Para. 2? (1 word)
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3.What are threatening the survival of bees according to the passage?(no more than 10 words)
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4.How is the way that Bioni Samp used to communicate an ecological message?(no more than 5 words )
_______________
5.What do you think of Bioni Samp? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
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The report has found that more and more Chinese have an American or British temporary visa for holiday spending in recent years.
A. stood for B. applied for
C. accounted for D. searched for
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AN upper class British lady once declared: “Anyone seen on a bus after the age of 30 has been a failure in life.”I guess she meant that if you’re middle aged and don’t have a car then you are a loser. How arrogant (傲慢) and ignorant！
Unfortunately, there are still people who think that way: that somehow public transport is only for the poor. And the rest have a right to their cars. Some wealthy folk in the West look down on buses and boast (吹嘘) about how many years it has been since they last traveled by one.
How sad is that? Our roads are packed with cars and the air is full of the pollution they emit (排放). But still, many car users are unwillingly to get on a bus or a bike or a train to take themselves to work.
It’s convenient to drive, they’ll say. Buses are so unreliable, they’ll claim. And trains are expensive ---- at least in the UK.
It’s an attitude which may have to change. It doesn’t make sense to drive a car in a city where there’s a public transport system. Also, these rush hour commuters (往返上班者) usually travel alone.
As a result, transport authorities in the UK are looking at solutions to city center congestion (拥堵).
One is to increase the number of parking spaces at out-of-town railway stations. More motorists (乘汽车的人) can then leave their cars and travel into the city by train.
Light rail or tramways are another environmentally friendly solution. Many cities across Europe have installed light rail or tramway systems.
The subway in London is used by everyone, rich and poor. It’s the quickest way of getting around the city, whatever your bank balance.
And then there are the cycle hire schemes you find in many modern cities. In London and Paris, you can hire a bike by the hour to get you where you need to go.
While commuters in Beijing abandon their bicycles for cars, cycling to work grows in popularity in the West.
Many cyclists are willing to pay more than 10,000 yuan for their bicycles. Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is often pictured cycling to work. David Cameron, the British prime minister, cycled to the House of Commons before he became leader. These days he takes the prime ministerial limousine (豪华轿车).
1.. According to the article, some British people, like the upper class woman, think that ________.
A. buses are inconvenient B. bus services are unnecessary
C. having a car is a sign of success D. only the upper class should have cars
2. Which of the following measures is taken by transport authorities in the UK to solve city center congestion?
A. The development of cycle hire schemes.
B. Increasing the number of parking spaces in the city center.
C. Installing light rail or tramway systems in out-of-town areas.
D. Banning commuters from traveling alone during rush hour.
3.The author mentions the example of Boris Johnson in the last paragraph to ________.
A. express his respect for the mayor of London
B. point to the growing popularity of cycling to work in the West
C. criticize Beijing commuters for abandoning their bicycles for cars
D. show that cars are still the most common means of transportation for famous people in Britain
4. Which of the following might the writer agree with?
A. The British prime minister should give up his limousine.
B. Beijing commuters should learn from British commuters.
C. British solutions to public transport problems are inadequate.
D. Many car owners need to change their attitudes if the traffic problem is to
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Well, Mrs Evans, I’ve done my best to look after David. I’ve tidied his room up every day, got him a meal together whenever he needed one and made sure he’s always had a clean shirt to put on. It’s not been easy, with two of my own to worry about, as well. David had the best of attention, I must say. But now because I asked him to give up bringing that American friend to his home he has got quite and unfriendly. He comes in at all hours and his behaviour—well, it’s quite hard to put up with—and it’s all because of this friend. I’m sure he’s a bad influence. You see, David is a visitor and doesn’t fully understand our ways.
He used to study most evenings. He’s got through quite a bit of work. He did up his room quite nicely, with bookshelves and large posters. He’d ask Mr Smith and me up for a drink and cheer us up with songs from his country. He’s very good at the guitar, you know.
I don’t want to appear as if I’m running after him, but it’s about time we made it up. I’m sure he’s upset because I blame him for that. It might be a good idea to take him out for a meal, perhaps even with his friend. I don’t know whether it will do any good but we can try. I’m glad I’ve had this little chat with you, Mrs Evans, and I’ll let you know how I get on.
1.David is ________.
A．Mrs Smith’s pet B．Mrs Smith’s son
C．a visiting student D．a singer
2.Mrs. Smith wants to make up(化解) the quarrel by _______.
A. cooking a meal B. inviting David and his friend out
C. running after David D. giving them drinks
3.David’s present attitude to Mrs Smith is ________.
A．very attentive B．unfriendly C．cheerful D．excited
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Thanks to the power of the Internet, many people have become superstars overnight. Their _______ is felt online in catchphrases(名言), photos and videos that _______ around the Internet. hey have gotten famous _______ the unique luck of becoming an Internet celebrity.
This global phenomenon has certainly caught on in the US, and American high school students are no _______. Alex is one of their_______.
Alex? A few months ago, he was a high school student living a _______life. He lived in Texas in the US. He woke up at 7 am for school. He had 144 followers on Twitter. But now everybody on social media knows him. How?
You must have had this experience. You were waiting in line for the _______ in a store when you realized that your cashier was smoking _______. Well, that's exactly what happened to someone who saw Alex. He was working in a chain store one weekend and a teen girl took his photo and posted it on the Internet. She _______ a caption(文字说明) naming the store, writing, "This is Alex from Target," and teen girls soon began ________ the picture on every social media platform.
Alex, who worked in the Target store all clay, had no idea that he had become a sensation. He only felt ________ when he noticed his checkout line had gotten ________ long. Then his Target manager showed him the online photo.
Alex's life began to ________. He got thousands of followers on Twitter, a social network, within the first 24 hours and his new fans even tried to ________ which Target store he worked at. "I was getting tons of texts," Alex said. "They all said 'This is crazy, you're famous.
________ , Alex also paid the ________ for fame when he received criticism and verbal ________. Many have taken to social media to call Alex names. Twitter is full of ________ criticizing his looks.
Alex has tried to________the criticism. He says he wants to take what he learned from his days of being bullied and help to ________teenagers who are experiencing meanness online.
1.A.profession B.potential C.purpose D.presence
2.A.float B.shake C.interrupt D.perform
3.A.regardless of B.free from C.due to D.apart from
4.A.need B.sense C.exception D.reason
5.A.schoolmates B.representatives C.settlers D.citizens
6.A.normal B.colorful C.healthy D.tough
7.A.board B.notice C.shelf D.checkout
8.A.big B.hot C.free D.light
9.A.added B.copied C.mixed D.moved
10.A.taking B.editing C.sharing D.drawing
11.A.fortunate B.strange C.thrilled D.upset
12.A.slightly B.commonly C.unnecessarily D.unusually
13.A.change B.recover C.improve D.suffer
14.A.remember B.see to C.figure out D.explain
15.A.Instead B.Therefore C.Otherwise D.However
16.A.price B.note C.rent D.tax
17.A.attacks B.promises C.agreements D.reminders
18.A.rules B.marks C.posts D.bills
19.A.set off B.give off C.brush off D.take off
20.A.attract B.guide C.follow D.consult
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David Miles, an Australian inventor has been accused of cheating desperate farmers by charging up to $50,000 Australian dollars for delivering rain on demand without so much as explaining the technology behind his business.
On the official Miles Research website，Miles explains that in the 1990’s he realized that it was possible to influence weather patterns by creating a bridge between ‘the present’ and a ‘near-future event’ in the physical space-time continuum. He found that by applying small amounts of energy intelligently, even a large, messy weather system approaching from the future could be eased.
While somewhat fascinating, Miles’ explanation does little to explain how he is able to bring rainfall to the lands of farmers. He makes references to famous but debatable concepts like “the butterfly effect”. “We were advised against patenting because if basically exposing how it works, there will be a lot of big companies that invest in hunting out patents,” Miles said “I understand the doubts，the only other way is to fully prove up our science and physics. If we did that, we'll lose it, it will be taken up as a national security interest and it’ll then be weaponized.”
Miles' claims raised suspicions for obvious reasons, including a since-deleted section of his company website, which claimed that his technology used “electromagnetic scalar waves”，which scientists say don’t even exist.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned people against doing business with him, but the Australian inventor claims the ACCC is only trying to defame him and his company, as in reality they are success based - if it doesn’t rain, they don’t get paid.
“Consumers signed the agreement that if by the end of June they receive 100mm, they pay $50,000, if they only receive 50mm, they would only pay $25,000. Anything under half，we don’t want to be paid,” Miles said of a handful of Wimmera farmers who agreed to take him up on his offer to deliver rain.
Believe it or not, one of the farmers who paid David Miles for his so-called rain-making capabilities told ABC Radio that he was quite happy with the results.
1.David Miles claims to be capable of ________.
A.influencing the weather system
B.predicting the future events
C.reducing the atmospheric temperature
D.easing the gravitational energy
2.ACCC issued warning against doing business with Miles because________.
A.he charged too much for the services provided
B.there was no solid science to hack up his technology
C.his practice was a threat to national security interest
D.he didn’t officially patent his technology with ACCC
3.According to Miles，how much will be paid if the farmers receive 15mm of rain?
A.$50,000. B.$25,000.
C.$12,500. D.$0.
4.What can be inferred from the passage?
A.Miles needed safer facilities for his business.
B.Miles brought about good crops as expected.
C.Miles wasn’t discouraged by the critics.
D.Miles was arrested by the local police.
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