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Ireland: Beauty and a Long History of Separation Ireland is home to ancient kings and chiefs, giants and fairies. For years it has existed as two Irelands, and Brexit could worsen that division. Discover the lively cities of Dublin and Belfast, and taste pints, drink a whiskey or eat fresh oysters(牡蛎). Journey Highlights Meet storytellers and experts for insight into the true story of Ireland's history. Get the full taste of Ireland, experiencing seaweed, oysters and whiskey. Swiss Family Adventure: An Active Journey Through the Alps. The Swiss Alps are the perfect family playground, providing a fun and relaxing summer place for all ages. Towering peaks, rushing waterfalls and peaceful meadows bursting with wildflowers provide the calm backdrop for a variety of active programs. This eight-day program is suited to anyone with a sense of adventure, and especially for families with children ages 7 to 14. Journey Highlights Explore the heart-beating First Cliff Walk in Grindelwald. Cruise Lake Thun to the town of Spiez. Explore the castle here, where children can become “Knights in Training". Climate Change in New Orleans: A meeting and observation The effect of climate change and extreme weather is all too noticeable in the disastrous changes that are happening along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Spend four days in New Orleans exposed to the issues around global climate change and its effects on human health, and natural ecosystems. Journey Highlights Take a special tour of the levee system on the Mississippi River surrounding New Orleans to see its importance in protecting the area. Learn how climate change affects New Orleans and the Gulf region from scientists. Active Argentina and Patagonia Argentina is the active adventurers’ dream destination. From cathedral-like peaks to icy glaciers, this active, multisport route invites you to explore the Lake District, hike in view of the Fitz Roy Massif, sail to glaciers and ride horses. Journey Highlights Go kayaking on Lago Gutierrez and hike to surprising lakes in Nahuel Huapi National Park. Cruise by boating to the face of the Perito Moreno Glacier. Visit a working ranch for a closer look at farmer life. 【1】Which activity will make you feel thrilled? A.Visiting a working ranch in Argentina. B.Walking on the bank of the Mississippi River. C.Listening to the true story D.Exploring First Cliff Walk in Grindelwald 【2】Who is suitable for the journey to New Orleans? A.Historians. B.Adventurers C.Sailors D.Environmentalists 【3】Where should visitors go if they want to explore the Lake District? A.In Swiss. B.In Argentina. C.In Ireland. D.In New Orleans. |
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One of the costs of being a lover of old trees is the all-too-frequent loss of a beautiful soul you've grown fond of.Last summer was harder than most for old trees and their human supporters.The spring's nonstop rains flooded soils and caused root systems of many large,old trees to rot in part.Then,when the summer came,trees could not tap deep sources of water that would normally have maintained(维持）them.Many valuable old trees died. When I volunteered on the Mount Rainier Tree Commission,I heard from many people concerned about their trees.We had little to offer them.That's because public and private urban tree resources and programs were aimed almost entirely at planting trees and not at all maintaining trees.No state or province program that I could find provided any financial resources for maintaining tree health. Small and under resourced cities such as ours were on their own. This is backward.Scientists are learning that large,old trees are the most valuable,especially in cities.They put on wood fastest and take the most carbon out of the air. They harbor the most wildlife.They can lower summer temperatures by 20 degrees or more.In a recent study,researchers found that Boston would get more benefit from keeping the trees it has alive than from planting new trees.There's reason to think this finding would apply in other cities,too. Now,our public and private tree programs often ignore old trees until it is too late.As long as we abandon our old trees,planting more is merely to keep pace with growing losses. We want trees to help protect us,but we leave them unprotected.Consider this in the human world:Nobody would send a baby into the world and expect it to just make it. Children need caring for and it's why we have schools and child health-insurance programs.We could get so much more out of our trees if we just put a little more into them. 【1】What does the underlined part in paragraph1 suggest? A.Strong determination to plant trees. B.Real regret at growing old trees. C.Great concern about tree problems. D.Deep love for valuable old trees. 【2】Why was the author almost powerless to help people worried about their trees? A.The urban tree programs were faced with financial problems. B.The author's knowledge of maintaining tree health was limited. C.The focus of the tree resources and programs was on tree planting. D.The organization the author volunteered on was short of tree experts. 【3】The author argues in paragraph 3 by. A.comparing different cases B.presenting research findings C.referring to scientists' sayings D.carrying out some experiments 【4】Why does the author give the example of nursing babies in the end? A.To stress the importance of tree insurance programs. B.To show the close connection between trees and babies. C.To advocate protecting trees as humans care for babies. D.To persuade human beings to pay more attention to babies. |
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What makes you cry? Being moved by a sad movie, waving a loved one off, or getting emotional after splitting up with your partner can all cause tears to roll down our faces. We all have the power to cry, but is that a good thing? When you think about it, shedding(流) tears from your eyes is a strange thing to do. But it seems to be an automatic(无意识的) reaction when we get sad, upset or even when we're very happy. What causes this reaction differs from person to person. However, the feeling is the same ——your cheeks puff up(鼓起), your eyes tighten and before you know it, tears are streaming down your face. Some of us may sniffle a little while others might cry like a baby —— and some people suggest that it's women who cry more than men. A study in the UK in 2017 found that women admitted that they cry 72 times a year. This was, on average, more than men. Writing for the BBC, Adam Rutherford says “According to pretty much every study done, women do cry more than men, and this result has been consistent since we've been looking.” But does this mean men don't get as upset or emotional as women, or are they just more embarrassed about showing their true feelings? The debate continues. One place where we experience emotional and tearful outbursts is in the workplace. This can be somewhere where emotions run high —— someone might be stressed, their workload might be too much, and, as therapist, Joanna Cross said, “crying is often a build-up of frustration and undealt-with situations and it's a bit of a final straw moment.” She describes how someone might start weeping when they're just asked to make a cup of tea because, “actually that's often a backlog(积压) of situations.” But crying in the office or elsewhere can be beneficial: it can actually make you feel better. Maybe it dissolves or clears the negative or sad feelings you've had. Crying your eyes out shows others how you feel, so perhaps it's a crying shame that more of us, particularly men, don't cry more often. 【1】What can we infer from the second paragraph? A.Babies cry most without good reasons. B.People cry for the same reasons. C.Being happy can cause you to cry a lot. D.It is natural for people to cry actually. 【2】What has remained argument among researchers? A.What causes men to cry less. B.Why someone cries like a baby. C.Who is easy to get emotional. D.How embarrassing crying is. 【3】What does the underlined phrase “a final straw moment” mean? A.When one can't tolerate the stress. B.When one finally finishes his work. C.When one does work at a final moment. D.When one gets bored at work. 【4】What does the writer think of our not crying? A.It is a sign of our strong character. B.It is a symbol of our emotion. C.It is a kind of pity. D.It is a way of us hiding our feelings. |
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Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation. We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.” But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate. For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattan’s upper classes—into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D.’s. Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it’s about being a man, it’s about manliness.” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes. Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them. 【1】The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to __________. A.realize our dreams B.give support to our life C.awake our emotions D.smooth away difficulties 【2】Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men? A.Because they spent much time reading it. B.Because they had similar life experiences. C.Because they came from a public school. D.Because they had read the novel before. 【3】The girl left the selective high school possibly because__________. A.she was a literary-minded girl B.her parents were immigrants C.her father was then in prison D.she couldn’t fit in with her class 【4】The author writes the passage mainly to__________. A.advocate teaching literature to touch the heart B.introduce classic works of literature C.argue for equality among high school students D.defend the current testing system |
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Improving as a runner is about more than just running all of the time.【1】In that case, you can make large improvements as a runner in a relatively short time, no matter what your sport, race, or running habits. 【2】It is common for runners to push themselves about the same amount each time, running similarly challenging runs and gradually increasing difficulty. Outstanding runners, however, alternate(交替)an easy, resting run with a very challenging one. It is during these difficult runs，when you really push yourself, that your body snakes the most significant gains.【3】Rather, it is helping rebuild and relax the muscles needed for your big runs. Keep a relaxed but strong upper body to conserve energy efficiently. You want to keep your chin(下巴)up and your shoulders back, with loose, relaxed arm and hand muscles. Your elbows are bent at 90 degrees but swing freely. If anything, the only muscles you want to focus on keeping strong and tight are the ones in your core(核心).【4】 Use your light run to work up a light sweat. A higher body temperature ensures your muscles are loose and flexible, and your body is pumping blood effectively throughout. For everything other than easy runs, use the first five to ten minutes to build a light sweat and get your body ready for exercise.【5】Slowly pick up speed for short 10 second runs, then return to normal warm-up pace. This helps prepare your muscles for speed. A.Don't feel like an easy day is "cheating". B.Alternate easy and hard runs to build strength rapidly. C.Even five minutes of walking is a good way to get started. D."Warming up" truly means you want to warm up your body. E.You are to pay a little attention to details and a smart training plan. F.That's because this will naturally help you efficiently channel energy. G.Remember to relax your face and neck muscles instead of tensing them |
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Machines or learning The classic model of education—a burst at the start and top-ups through company training—is _________. One reason is the need for new, and constantly updated, skills. Manufacturing _________ calls for brain work rather than metal-bashing. The _________ of the American workforce employed in routine office jobs declined from 25.5% to 21% between 1996 and 2015. The single, stable career has gone the way of the Rolodex. Pushing people into ever-higher levels of _________ education at the start of their lives is not the way to cope. Just 16% of Americans think that a four-year college degree ___________ students very well for a good job. Although a vocational education promises that vital first hire, those with _________ training tend to withdraw from the labour force earlier than those with general education—perhaps because they are less _________. At the same time on-the-job training is _________. In America and Britain it has fallen by roughly half in the past two decades. Self-employment is spreading, leaving more people to take responsibility for their own skills. Taking time out later in life to _________ a formal qualification is an option, but it costs money and most colleges are geared towards youngsters. The market is __________ to enable workers to learn and earn in new ways. Providers from General Assembly to Pluralsight are building businesses on the __________ of boosting and rebooting careers. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have veered away from lectures on Plato or black holes in favor of courses that make their students more employable. At Udacity and Coursera self-improvers pay for cheap, short programs that bestow “microcredentials” and “nanodegrees” in, say, self-driving cars or the Android operating system. By offering degrees online, universities are __________ it easier for professionals to burnish their skills. A single master’s programme from Georgia Tech could expand the annual output of computer-science master’s degrees in America by close to 10%. Such efforts demonstrate how to interleave careers and learning. But left to its own devices, this nascent market will mainly serve those who already have __________. It is easier to learn later in life if you enjoyed the classroom first time around: about 80% of the learners on Coursera already have degrees. Online learning requires some IT literacy, yet one in four adults in the OECD has no or limited __________ of computers. Skills atrophy unless they are used, but many low-end jobs give workers little __________ to practice them. 【1】A.referring to B.applying for C.coming across D.breaking down 【2】A.strangely B.obviously C.increasingly D.subsequently 【3】A.share B.shift C.show D.shelf 【4】A.objective B.formal C.entire D.final 【5】A.decorate B.develop C.prepare D.provide 【6】A.detailed B.complicated C.specialized D.transformed 【7】A.adaptable B.accessible C.available D.acceptable 【8】A.ending B.escaping C.decreasing D.shrinking 【9】A.persuade B.refuse C.pursue D.search 【10】A.developing B.analyzing C.innovating D.producing 【11】A.promise B.story C.advice D.context 【12】A.costing B.warning C.counting D.making 【13】A.ranges B.advantages C.connections D.distinctions 【14】A.rand B.possession C.exposure D.experience 【15】A.trend B.chance C.possibility D.sign |
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或所给单词的正确形式。 In the 1880s, the first automobile (汽车) was developed, and about two decades later, the Wright brothers in North Carolina invented the first successful airplane. Today, the world is closer to 【1】 (combine) those two concepts because a Japanese tech company said it completed a manned test flight of a “flying car.” The company, SkyDrive, said in a news release Friday that it had completed a flight test using “the world’s first manned tested machine’’, an electrical vertical (垂直的) takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, and 【2】the flight time was four minutes. The aircraft had one seat and 【3】(operate) with eight motors and two propellers (螺旋桨) on each corner. It lifted about 10 feet 【4】 the air and was operated by a pilot, the company said. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, SkyDrive’s chief executive, said that five years ago there 【5】 (be) various prototypes of flying cars, usually with fixed wings. SkyDrive’s product, he said, was one of the most compact (体积小) in size and was 【6】 (light), compared with other designs. 【7】 (safe) is one of two challenges preventing the technology from becoming 【8】 (wide) used, said Derya Aksaray, 【9】 assistant professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at the University of Minnesota. Safe autonomous technology for eVTOL aircrafts is still being developed, Aksaray said. The other challenge is design: The vehicles should be powerful enough 【10】(carry) any necessary weight, yet quiet enough to fly at undetermined low altitudes, she said. |
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你校近期举行了一次登山活动。假定你是学校英语报记者，请你写一篇短文，报道此次活动。 内容包括： 1. 时间与地点：9月5日，大青山 2. 活动的过程 3. 你对这次活动的评论 注意： 1. 词数80左右（文章标题已给出，但不计入总词数） 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯 A Journey to Daqing Mountain ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。 No Time With a broad smile on her lips, 15-year old Sirin rushed to her mom to show off her new painting. But mom raised her eyebrows with eyes wide open, and spoke in an impatient tone, “No time, baby. Right now I am busy with an important talk. Just wait for some time,OK?” Holding her oil painting, she frowned (皱眉), and then searched for her dad. “Dad, see what I have done,” Sirin announced aloud in a thrilling voice. Her dad turned around while adjusting his tie, grinned at her, and showed his thumbs up! Immediately, blowing her two cheeks, Sirin replied angrily, “Dad, you haven’t seen it yet.” He smiled at her saying, “No time, baby. I will see it later.” He just patted her back lovingly, kissed her forehead, and rushed for his office. She was not a kid to be pleased with simple gesture or smile. She stood there for a few seconds,and then stormed off to her own bedroom. Hot air was blowing from her nostrils (鼻孔); her face turned into apple red. She threw the painting on the table, slammed (把……砰地关上) the door and threw herself on her bed. “Why is everybody so busy?” She recalled thousands of incidents that hurt her in pre-school, middle school and even in high school too! She assumed at least her own family members would give some values to her thoughts, but they were no exception. Unconsciously, her eyes were filled with tears. The knocking sound on the door put a sudden brake to her thought. Her mom was calling her for dinner. Sirin deliberately came late to join them. She kept silent and didn’t look at anyone, scratching the table mat with her nail. Her mom was puzzled at the unusual behavior. Suddenly, the morning incident clicked in her mind. Softly, she asked, “Honey, did I do anything wrong?” Para 1: At this very moment, Sirin could no longer resist her anger.__________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Para 2: When back from school the next day, Sirin was surprised to see her beautifully-decorated paining on the wall______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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