The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit...

The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit group that works to improve the environment by building relationships between people and nature. The foundation is based in the state of Maryland. It was created more than 50 years ago. It teaches people ways to protect the environment.

At the end of the year, it designs events to help children celebrate Christmas without increasing the amount of waste they create. Hanna Seligmann works for the foundation. “So let’s figure out what is in our bag of trash.” She shows adults and children how to reduce waste during the holiday gift-giving season. “You can sort it as a cardboard item or you can sort it as a plastic item.” “We encourage using things that are already in your house like newspaper, old magazines, using a gift within a gift.” Urging people to recycle is important in the Washington, D.C., area, because Potomac River, one of the most famous rivers in the country lies there.

“Over time we realized that really just doing trash cleanups was the symptom of the problem, not getting to the root cause. And so it was just a little over a decade ago that we started the initiative (倡议) itself.” says Seligman.

The Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative is an effort by the Alice Ferguson Foundation to support clean agricultural methods. It includes educational programs teaching children about the kinds of pollution that can enter the watershed.

One activity is called the Trash Timeline Game. It teaches children that the things they throw away do not decompose, at the same rate. For example, paper dissolves in about four weeks. An apple core may take two months to rot. A metal can take up to 100 years.

1.The Alice Ferguson Foundation ________.

A. devotes itself to keeping citizens engaged in going green

B. deals with relationship between people

C. teaches people how to form groups

D. concerns itself about children’s holidays

2.At the end of the year, the Alice Ferguson Foundation is busy ________.

A. buying plastic items

B. celebrating Christmas

C. figuring out how much waste was produced

D. educating people to reduce less waste while enjoying Christmas

3.How to get to the root cause of environmental protection, according to Seligman?

A. Environmental education.　　 B. Doing trash cleanups.

C. Saving water.　　 D. Celebrating holidays less.

4.What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?

A. Give off.　　 B. Break down.　　 C. Come out.　　 D. Pack up.

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The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit group that works to improve the environment by building relationships between people and nature. It teaches people ways to protect the environment. At the end of the year, it designs events to help children celebrate Christmas without increasing the amount of waste they create.

Hanna Seligmann works for the foundation. VOA joined Seligmann recently during one of her talks. “So let’s figure out what is in our bag of trash.” She shows adults and children how to reduce waste during the holiday gift-giving season. “You can sort it as a cardboard item of you can sort it as a plastic item,” Seligmann works with volunteers. “We encourage using things that arc already in your house like newspaper, old magazines, using a gift within a gift. You can wrap something in a reusable napkin, wrap something in a scarf, or a shawl(围巾)or even a reusable to tote bag (大手提袋)。”

Lori Arguelles is the executive director for environmental education at the Alice Ferguson Foundation. “Over time we realized that really just doing trash, cleanups was the symptom of the problem, not getting to the root cause. And 50 it was just a little over a decade ago that we started the initiative itself.”

One activity is called the Trash Timeline Game. It teaches children that the things they throw away do not decompose at the same rate. For example paper dissolves in about four weeks. An apple core takes two months. A metal can takes up to 100 years. A plastic bag will not decompose for 450 years Glass takes 1,000 years And, they say, Styrofoam (泡沫聚苯乙烯) never dissolves.

Young people taking part in the program learn that reducing waste is important not just during the holidays, but every day of the year.

1.Why is the Alice Ferguson Foundation created?

A. To help children celebrate Christmas.

B. To reduce the amount of waste.

C. To make the environment better,

D. To bu id relationships between people and mature

2.What suggestion docs Seligmann give on wrapping gifts?

A. It is better to use cardboard items to wrap gifts.

B. It is better to wrap gifts in some things capable of being used again.

C. It is better not to wrap gifts in plastic items.

D. It is better not to wrap gifts at all.

3.What can we infer from Lori Arguelles’s words?

A. Doing trash cleanups means a lot to protecting the environment.

B. We still need to make great efforts on the way to protecting the environment.

C. Over a decade our efforts to protect the environment proved fruitless.

D. Over time we found the root cause of protecting the environment

4.What’s the meaning of “decompose”?

A. break down

B. break out

C. store up

D. store away

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22. The Interactional Red Cross is______non-profit organization that cares for the wounded, sick and homeless in wartime, and victims________of natural disasters.

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The Millennial Trains Project is a non-profit organization that enables young people to get involved in creative projects. The organization leads crowdfunded train journeys. 1. The organization has already completed two journeys, through the northern and central United States. Twenty-four people are now getting ready to be a part of the third.

To earn a place on the train, each person has to raise $5,000. 2. At each stop, they get off the train to explore a different town or city. The idea is to visit small businesses, community centers, schools -or wherever their projects take them.

3. He knows that universities are becoming more and more expensive each year, and many people think higher education is no longer affordable. Over the next 10 days he is visiting seven universities. He wants to see what they are doing to meet these challenges.

Catherine Tsavalas is planning to explore how bookstores and libraries improve local communities. 4. She also wants to know if they are using social media to connect with people.

Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods—research suggests these are going to happen more and more. Jenny Gottstein thinks she can address these challenges. At each stop, she is planning to interview local leaders, emergency workers, and computer game designers. 5. She believes people are more likely to remember something important when the information is fun and game-like.

These 24 people are strangers now, but not for long. The next week is going to be a life-changing learning experience for many.

A. She then plans to create a game to help people prepare for disasters.

B. Trevor Eagle wants to make s difference to the education system.

C. Besides money, they also need to have an idea for a project.

D. Community leaders will travel by train across American South.

E. These journeys provide the young with the chance to help different communities.

F. Tyson Foods had supported the project for a 10-day journey across the US.

G. She wants to find out what they are doing to encourage more people to read.

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Detroit Hives is a non-profit organization that buys vacant lots in the city to transform into bee farms. Timothy Paul and Nicole Lindsey started the non-profit last year, focused on improving the Motor City’s “left behind” communities and educating people on bees.

Timothy got interested in honey and honeybees because of a cough he couldn’t shake. He was sick for months, until a store owner in nearby Ferndale recommended he try some local honey. Soon Timothy’s cough was gone. And he and Nicole found that abandoned urban sites often became illegal dumping grounds, contributing to an overgrowth of allergens (过敏原) — not to mention the mess. The couple began to think about how to settle that issue by producing local honey on vacant sites, and Detroit Hives was born.

To become certified beekeepers, Timothy and Nicole took two courses. They bought their first vacant lot for $340, with the aid of the Detroit Land Bank Authority community partnership program. From there, they built three hives and vegetable garden plots. Thousands of bees now buzz (嗡嗡) on the lot. “The neighbors say they wish we were there decades of years ago. That area had always been a place where people dumped garbage, so when we came here, we gave that area a sense of purpose. The neighbors keep an eye on the area to make sure that people don’t dump any more,” Lindsey said.

Currently, Detroit Hives has partnered with local Detroit Soup and a homeless shelter to provide local, raw honey and they also sell their sweet product. In addition, Detroit Hives spreads awareness about bees through public tours of the farm. The couple also speak at schools in the area. They aim to expand beyond their first farm this year.

1.What does the author intend to tell us in Paragraph 2?

A.The method of curing cough.

B.The inspiration for Detroit Hives.

C.The terrible environment in Detroit.

D.The medical value of local honey.

2.What can we learn about the couples’ work?

A.It enriched the variety of vegetables.

B.It disturbed the neighbors’ normal life.

C.It improved the environment in the area.

D.It enabled neighbors to live in harmony.

3.Why does Detroit Hives offer public tours?

A.To appeal to more customers.

B.To help expand their first farm.

C.To promote their honey product.

D.To help people learn more about bees.

4.Which of the following best describes the husband and wife?

A.Optimistic. B.Faithful.

C.Creative. D.Demanding.

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The pop singer is talented and elegant. ____ is no surprise that she has so many fans around the world.

A. It 　　　 B. There 　　 C. That　　　　 D. What

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________ is known to us all is that the old worker, for _______ life was hard in the past, still works hard in his seventies.

A. As; whom                        B. What; whose                  C. It; whose                          D. What; whom

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--- Is that the small town you often refer to?

----Right, just the one _______ you know I used to work for years.

A that               B which                C where           D what

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Classified advertising is that advertising which is grouped in certain sections of the paper and is thus distinguished from display advertising. Such groupings as ―Help Wanted, RealEstate(不动产), Lost and Found are made, the rate charged being less than for display advertising. Classified advertisements are a convenience to the reader and a saving to the advertiser.

The reader who is interested in a particular kind of advertisement finds all advertisements of that type grouped for him. The advertisers may, therefore, use a very small advertisement if it was placed among larger advertisements in the paper. It is evident that the reader approaches the classified advertisement in a different frame of mind from that in which he approaches the other advertisements in the paper. He turns to a page of classified advertisements to search for the particular advertisement that will meet his needs.

As his attention is voluntary, the advertiser does not need to rely too much extent ondisplay type to get the reader’s attention. Formerly all classified advertisements were of the same size and did not have display type. With the increase in the number of such advertisements, however, each advertiser within a certain group is competing with others in the same group for the reader’s attention. In many cases, the result has been an increase in the size of the space used and the addition of headlines and pictures. In that way, the classified advertisement has in reality advertisement. This is particularly true of real estate advertising?

1.The following facts are advantages of classified advertising EXCEPT ____.

A.It helps to reduce the advertising cost.

B.It attracts the target readers’ attention easily.

C.It provides more information for the readers.

D.It doesn’t have to rely too much on display type.

2.Which is the example given of types of classified advertisement?

A.Houses for sale. B.People who are asking for help.

C.Job hunting. D.People who are lost.

3.What do readers usually do when they look through classified advertisements?

A.They are in a new frame of mind to buy anything.

B.They look for something they need.

C.They feel lost in so many classified advertisements.

D.They maintain the same emotions as reading display advertisements.

4.According to the text, in which way have the classified advertisements changed nowadays?

A.They are charged for no money.

B.They are divided into more groups.

C.They are less formal than ever.

D.They depend more on display type.

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The University of Birmingham is the first excellent UK Russell Group university to announce that it will accept the "Gaokao" exam for high-flying Chinese students wishing to join its. undergraduate courses in 2019.　 High school students who complete the "National Higher Education Entrance Examination", or Gaokao, with top grades will be able to apply for direct entry onto Birmingham degree programmes without first completing a foundation year which is a routine for the freshman.

Gaokao is usually taken by students in their last year of senior high school and, every year, each province in China sets the grades required to gain admission to its universities. It is usually held across China in early June.　 Students are tested in Chinese, Mathematics, a Foreign Language and social sciences or natural sciences.

University of Birmingham Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir David Eastwood said: "The University of Birmingham has been challenging and developing great minds for more than a century. We welcome people from around the globe to study at Birmingham and Chinese students form an integral part of our education and research community. We are further opening access to Birmingham's wealth of education opportunities for the brightest and most dedicated Chinese students by accepting this strict and important qualification. I look forward to welcoming these high-flying students to the University of Birmingham. "

Gaokao is increasingly accepted by universities in Australia, the USA, Canada and mainland Europe. Birmingham will only be considering high quality students who achieve a minimum 80% Gaokao score and meet additional academic and English language requirements.

Professor J on Frampton, Director of the University of Birmingham's China Institute said:"The University of Birmingham has a long history of educating students from China and one of our most famous graduates is Li Siguang-the founding father of Chinese geology. I am delighted that the University is now accepting the Gaokao. This gives the brightest and best Chinese students an opportunity to move straight into the first year of our undergraduate programmes and experience the benefits of studying at a global Top 100 university, such as Birmingham. "

1.What do Chinese students have to do to enter the University of Birmingham before 2019?

A. Go through a foundation year.

B. Prepare Birmingham degree programmes.

C. Acquire the right to permanent residency.

D. Score over 800% of the university's qualification examination.

2.Who is the announcement intended for?

A. The foreign students in China.

B. All people living in the UK.

C. The students of the UK.

D. Chinese students.

3.Which of the following best explains "integral" underlined in paragraph 3?

A. Complete.

B. Necessary.

C. Indifferent.

D. Unimportant.

4.What does the text mainly talk about?

A. The introduction to the "Gaokao" of China.

B. The history of the University of Birmingham.

C. The high quality students accepted by top universities.

D. The University of Birmingham's admission to Gaokao.

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