Ashok Gadgil has spent the past three decades helping people in need—and he has no plans to stop .On May 2, Gadgil won the$100.000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. Each year,the honor is given to an inventor who has improved the lives of people in developing countries. Gadgil‘s inventions have helped more than 100 million people around the world.
Gadgil is a professor and physicist at the University of California. When he’s not teaching,he works to find solutions to global problems such as energy efficiency and water safety. “I chose to focus on problems where my knowledge of science could help,”he said
In the 1980s he came up with a program to make energy-efficient light bulbs more affordable for people in developing countries. Then in the 1990s,Gadgil designed his first life—saving invention,UV Waterworks .The device kills deadly disease —carrying germs(病菌)from drinking water. It costs just one cent to clean five liters of water .Gadgil was inspired to find an inexpensive solution to the clean water crisis after more than 10,000 people in his home country of India died from an outbreak of Bengal cholera,in 1993 The disease is spread through contaminated food and drinking water .So far,the invention has provided safe drinking water to more than five million people in poor areas.
As a professor,Gadgil encourages his students to stay positive about finding solutions to hard problems.“Be optimistic when you try a hard problem.”he says. “It’s when you solve a large problem that you can have a big impact on the world”
1.Gadgil was given Lemelson-MIT Award for___________.
A. his teaching experience B. his new physical research
C. his vast knowledge D. his helpful inventions
2.What call we learn about UV Waterworks?
A. It's Gadgil’s first invention B. It’s used to clean water.
C. it was designed for his home country D. It saved 10,000 people in total
3.The underlined word “contamninated”in Paragraph 3 means__________.
A. wasted B. consumed C. polluted D. canned
4.According to the last paragraph,Gadgil encourages his students__________.
A. to learn lessons from failures
B. to find problems in peaceful life
C. to make inventions to help poor people
D. to be confident when facing difficulties
5.Which of the following can best describe Gadgil?
A. Caring and optimistic. B. Independent and positive.
C. Powerful and strict. D. Responsible and sensitive.
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Ashok Gadgil has spent the past three decades helping people in need—and he has no plans to stop .On May 2, Gadgil won the$100.000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. Each year,the honor is given to an inventor who has improved the lives of people in developing countries. Gadgil‘s inventions have helped more than 100 million people around the world.
Gadgil is a professor and physicist at the University of California. When he’s not teaching,he works to find solutions to global problems such as energy efficiency and water safety. “I chose to focus on problems where my knowledge of science could help,”he said
In the 1980s he came up with a program to make energy-efficient light bulbs more affordable for people in developing countries. Then in the 1990s,Gadgil designed his first life—saving invention,UV Waterworks .The device kills deadly disease —carrying germs(病菌)from drinking water. It costs just one cent to clean five liters of water .Gadgil was inspired to find an inexpensive solution to the clean water crisis after more than 10,000 people in his home country of India died from an outbreak of Bengal cholera,in 1993 The disease is spread through contaminated food and drinking water .So far,the invention has provided safe drinking water to more than five million people in poor areas.
As a professor,Gadgil encourages his students to stay positive about finding solutions to hard problems.“Be optimistic when you try a hard problem.”he says. “It’s when you solve a large problem that you can have a big impact on the world”
1.Gadgil was given Lemelson-MIT Award for___________.
A. his teaching experience B. his new physical research
C. his vast knowledge D. his helpful inventions
2.What call we learn about UV Waterworks?
A. It's Gadgil’s first invention B. It’s used to clean water.
C. it was designed for his home country D. It saved 10,000 people in total
3.The underlined word “contamninated”in Paragraph 3 means__________.
A. wasted B. consumed C. polluted D. canned
4.According to the last paragraph,Gadgil encourages his students__________.
A. to learn lessons from failures
B. to find problems in peaceful life
C. to make inventions to help poor people
D. to be confident when facing difficulties
5.Which of the following can best describe Gadgil?
A. Caring and optimistic. B. Independent and positive.
C. Powerful and strict. D. Responsible and sensitive.
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I’ve spent two decades observing what makes people lucky and trying to help people increase their luck. I teach entrepreneurship (社会学). We know many new enterprises fail, and innovators (创业者)need luck.
With my students, I spend much time encouraging them to get out of their comfort zone and take some risks. I do this myself all the time. About a dozen years ago, during a flight, I decided to take a little risk. I started a conversation with the man sitting next to me. I introduced myself, and I learned that he was a publisher. I learned all about the future of the publishing industry and we exchanged contact (联系) information. So about three quarters through the night, I decided to take another risk. I showed him a book plan I was doing in my class. Although he was very polite, he said it wasn’t right for us.
A couple of months later, I told him I was doing a project on transforming the book, the future of publishing and invited him to come to my class. So he gladly came to my class. We had a great experience. A few months later, I wrote to him again, sending a bunch of video clips (剪辑) from another project my students had made. He was so stricken by one of them that he thought there was a book in it. I was a little bit hurt, but it was all right. So I invited him and his colleagues to have lunch together. Later, one of his editors asked me if I had considered writing a book. And I pulled out the exact same plan I had showed his boss a year earlier. Within two years, my book had sold over a million copies.
1.We can infer from the author’s experience on the plane that .
A.the publisher was stricken by his book
B.that was his first experience by plane
C.the first risk during the night didn’t work out
D.the experience made him transform his book
2.Why did the author send the students’ video clips?
A.To have their book published. B.To help to increase his luck.
C.To assess their writing skills. D.To help them see their strength.
3.Which can be the best title for the passage?
A.Take the Lead B.Everything is Possible
C.Win in Danger D.Luck and Risk
4.What does the author think resulted in his luck?
A.Publishing books. B.A series of small risks.
C.Being turned down frequently. D.Meeting with the stranger on the plane.
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The first study to examine generational differences in perfectionism over the past three decades reports that young people's desire to be flawless has sharply increased over the past thirty years. Today's college-age students are much more likely to have perfectionism than prior generations, according to the new report.
This study was recently published in the journal Psychological Bulletin. For this study, lead author Thomas Curran and co-author Andrew Hill, analyzed data from 41,641 college students in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. They also used the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale to measure generational changes in perfectionism from the late 1980s to 2016. During their analysis, Curran and Hill investigated three types of perfectionism:
l. Self-oriented perfectionism: having an irrational desire to be perfect on oneself.
2. Other-oriented perfectionism: Placing unrealistic standards of perfection on others.
3. Socially-perfectionism: Feeling excessive expectations of perfection from others.
The statistics are alarming: Between 1989 and 2016, self-oriented perfectionism scores increased by 10 percent, other-oriented perfectionism increased by 16 percent, and socially-perfectionism increased largely by 33 percent.
The rise in perfectionism among college students is driven by a variety of factors, according to Curran. The raw data suggests that the growing use of social media could be fueling the pressure young adults feel to perfect themselves in comparison to others. That said, Curran emphasizes that more research is needed to confirm the relation between an increase in social media usage and increased perfectionism.
Curran also assumes that college students' drive to perfect their grade point average represents a rise in meritocracy (精英教育) among the new generation.
“Today's young people are competing with each other in order to meet societal pressures to succeed and they feel that perfectionism is necessary in order to feel safe, socially connected and of worth.” Curran said.
Andrew Hill sees these findings as a strong call for colleges and policymakers to increase their efforts to control unnecessary competition among young people in order to preserve their mental health. Unfortunately, this may be easier said than done.
1.What does the underlined word “flawless” in the first paragraph probably mean?
A.without effort B.without competition
C.without weakness D.without strength
2.What can you infer from the passage?
A.All college students of this generation have serious perfectionism.
B.Self-oriented perfectionism increased the most according to the latest study.
C.The increase in perfectionism is completely driven by some obvious factors.
D.It is uncertain whether increased social media usage causes more perfectionism.
3.What's the writer's attitude toward the effect of the study on the change of the situation?
A.Concerned. B.Negative.
C.Positive. D.Critical.
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Over the past 20 years, Zhang Bi has donated her blood more than 130 times to help people in need.
Zhang, 44, an employee of a company in Yichang, Hubei province, first donated blood in 1998 while studying at Wuhan University of Technology. “It was in the summer when I was with my classmates, and medical workers were promoting the idea of voluntary blood donations, ” she recalled. To mark her upcoming graduation with a degree in international trade and commerce, she decided to donate 200 milliliters of blood. “In fact, I was jittery at first, ”she said. “But with the nurse explaining things and providing guidance, I gained basic knowledge and finally calmly finished the blood donation.”
After graduation, she began to donate blood once or twice a year. In May 2001, an incident touched Zhang and deepened her understanding of voluntary blood donation. Her brother, a traffic policeman, was attacked and got hurt in a lung after dealing with an illegally operated motorcycle. He suffered blood loss and needed massive blood, but for lack of supplies in the blood bank, all the police officers in the city volunteered to donate blood. “Finally, with the help of the volunteers, my brother was saved, ”she said.
From then on, she began to donate blood every six months, the maximum allowed, according to the Blood Donation Law. In 2006, Zhang's father had a heart surgery and needed blood. Zhang had donated so much blood that she had earned enough “credits” for receiving the blood her father needed from the blood center.
Yi Xiaomei, an official at the Yichang Blood Center, said there are more than 400 regular blood donors in the city. “They have made great contributions to blood donation in the city, ” Yi said. “Zhang Bi, as a typical example, tries her best to guarantee the quality and quantity of blood.” Zhang said donating blood is not only good for the recipient Abut improves her own mental and physical well-being. “I hope I can continue as long as my physical condition can meet the donor requirements, ”she said.
1.What does the underlined word “jittery” mean in paragraph 2?
A.Excited. B.Curious.
C.Nervous. D.Embarrassed.
2.What played an important part in saving Zhang Bi’s brother?
A.The blood in the blood bank.
B.The help of the police officers.
C.Zhang Bi’s donation of blood.
D.The contribution of an official at the Blood Center.
3.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A.Blood Center has no limit in donating blood.
B.Yichang has the best and most blood donors in China.
C.Blood donors make a little money from blood donation.
D.Donating blood benefits both the recipient and the donor.
4.What's the best title for the text?
A.A Blood Donor Proves Love not in Vain.
B.Our Society Needs Women's Contribution.
C.An Accident Changed a Traffic Policeman.
D.Blood Donors Promoted Voluntary Blood Donation.
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China ________ rapid economic development and political stability over the past three decades, but with them ________ some social problems.
A.has seen; has come | B.had seen; are coming |
C.saw; will come | D.has seen; have come |
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Over the past decade, cheating—an act of academic dishonesty—has become more and more common.
The latest statistics shows more than two thirds of high school students admitted cheating on an exam last year, and—even more surprising—often the best students cheat to get to the top of their class—and they don’t think it is wrong. It’s not a big deal. Everybody is doing it.
It is a big deal! Cheating is basically wrong and must be punished.
If students easily get away with it, they might be encouraged to do it again. They won’t realize that this—in the broadest sense—is an attack on our society, which is based on values like honesty and fairness. The present spreading of cheating indicates a loss of those values and cannot be tolerated. An appropriate punishment for cheating incidents would make students aware of their misbehavior.
If no one were punished for cheating, who would ever study for an exam? Tons of papers would be lifted from websites, writing crib sheets would be more important than reviewing the subjects, and highly sophisticated cheating arts would be invented. Knowledge would only exist on the Internet and on cleverly created cheat sheets, but not in the minds of the students—a rather bad precondition to enrich our society wisely and intelligently.
Students have to learn that they have to learn. Only doing what’s right will bring them a feeling of pride and accomplishment and create self-confidence—the building blocks for a successful and satisfying life and a society that keeps its values.
1.What is more surprising is that ________.
A.cheating is very common in schools
B.over 2/3 of the students cheat last year
C.even the best students cheat on exams
D.teachers are not aware of the problems
2.How do they make the students realize their misbehavior?
A.By letting them getting away with it.
B.By telling them what is right.
C.By catching them on the spot.
D.By giving them some punishment.
3.How can students create self-confidence?
A.By knowing they have to learn.
B.By doing what is right.
C.By learning the right things.
D.By being punished when cheating.
4.What does the underlined word “lifted” mean?
A.taken B.removed C.copied D.written
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Relieving poverty has been one of our government’s top concerns for the past decades. Poverty(贫困) in remote areas in China is virtually a great obstacle for the Chinese to get common progress; thus, it is urgent for us to help the people there to shake off poverty the sooner the better. For this aim, the government has already sent technicians and experts to poverty-stricken areas to help boost local agricultural production and teach the locals new techniques. The Ministry of Labor has also trained many rural laborers through different programs. But all these are not enough. Several other ways have been proposed as follows.
First of all, the government should encourage a small part of the people in the remote areas to get wealthy ahead of others by equipping them with relevant funds and agricultural technology. These “better-offs” can not only set a good example but give confidence to the poorer in their efforts to get rid of poverty. When all the people get rich, the general level of living standard can be greatly improved. With their living standard improved, they can attach greater importance to environmental protection and are willing to input considerable amount of money to educate their children. Only in this way is a sustainable development guaranteed.
Secondly, we must call upon people in all walks of life throughout the country, especially those wealthy citizens in coastal areas to help those struggling below poverty line in poor remote regions out. We must realize that only after all Chinese people live a comfortable life can we be peacefully enjoying material prosperity in life. Helps can come in various forms----donating money to the poor family and books to school drop-outs, college graduates volunteering to work in the most needed regions, bringing knowledge to them, etc.
The last but not the least, the government should raise the rate of tax on the rich. This can shorten the gap between the poor and the rich as well as benefit the country’s revenues(财政收入) whose better part is in turn allocated to the poor remote areas.
Admittedly, it is never easy to cast off the shadow of poverty in the remote areas completely in the short run. But every one of us should go all out to help those in poverty, we are confident that our country will be more powerful and prosperous in the process of relieving poverty.
1.What does the underlined “shake off” in paragraph 1 mean?
A. get rid of B. set off C. die off D. put off
2.How many ways are introduced to relieve the poverty according to the text?
A. three B. four C. five D. six
3.What is the best title for the text?
A. Blocks to the Progress and Development of China
B. Approaches to Raising the Rate of Tax on the Rich
C. Reasons to Relieve Poverty in Remote Areas in China
D. Suggestions to Relieve Poverty in Remote Areas in China
4.How does the author organize the text?
A. by comparison B. by listing C. by definition D. by contrast
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The number of people, who have access to their own cars, ______ sharply in the past decade.
A.rose B.is rising C.have risen D.has risen
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In the past decade, the use of social media has grown in a way that no one could have guessed. It has turned some teenagers into celebrities and turned the famous into the infamous, overnight.
A key feature of social media, however, is its volatility. Trends come and go, disappearing almost as quickly as they appeared. So, what were the key social media trends of 2018?
Short video apps such as TikTok and its Chinese equivalent(等同物) Douyin, took the world by storm. The Telegraph reported that TikTok was ranked 8th on Apple's App store in April. And Douyin had more than 300 million domestic monthly active users in June at home, CNBC said.
Why are these short videos—which are rarely longer than a few minutes—so popular? Jiang Yige, Singaporebased analyst at FengHe Fund Management, has a theory. “Short videos are just right to fill in the little gaps in our busy schedules,” he told CNBC.
These videos—apart from being very convenient—are important to teenagers because they allow them to express themselves, according to Teen Vogue.
Liza Koshy, a user of the US app Musical.ly who has over 2 million followers, said, “The sense of community that users of short video apps get is another appealing feature.”
Live streaming(直播) is a feature of our social media life that now seems as natural as sunrise. It's a pretty neat idea: You can watch anyone, anywhere, live. However, China has taken live streaming to a whole new level. In China, more than 100 million viewers monthly watch a live streaming video. Forbes thought that a number of factors had led to the popularity of live streams. Among them is viewers' ability to interact with unknown names.
However, the quick development of social media may be having side effects too. Fake news is one serious problem it causes. Materials shared on these platforms are often not checked for accuracy. The most basic content can be false and can mislead users one way or another. We use social media all the time; that doesn't mean that we understand the influence it is having on us. We should be mindful of both the time we spend on it and its impact on our minds.
1.The underlined word “volatility” in Paragraph 2 possibly means “being________”.
A.changeable B.steady
C.promising D.violent
2.According to Liza Koshy, short videos are very popular because________.
A.they are very convenient
B.they help people kill time
C.they provide a sense of community
D.they allow people to express themselves
3.What do we know about social media?
A.The information from social media is totally reliable.
B.When it comes to social media, people only know short videos.
C.People can't communicate with each other without social media.
D.There is still much room for social media to make improvement.
4.What is the author's attitude to the quick development of social media?
A.Objective. B.Subjective.
C.Favorable. D.Disapproving.
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The number of people, who have access to their own cars,________sharply in the past decade.
A.rose B.is rising C.have risen D.has risen
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