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On a rainy afternoon, maybe one of the following books will keep you company leisurely, allowing you to spend your time alone as well as stepping into a different world. Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets, by Patricio Pron In April 1945, Italy, a writer disappeared at a conference and was found dead at another place. Thirty years later, a young man interviewed survivors from the conference, trying to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. This novel, by a well-known Argentine writer, explores art, crime and politics. When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi At thirty-six, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed (诊断) with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient. This autobiography finds hope and beauty in the face of death as Kalanithi attempts to answer the question “What makes a life worth living?”. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Set in a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch who puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson, a black man accused of committing a crime. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story by Bess Kalb Bess Kalb saved every voicemail from her grandmother Bobby Bell who died at ninety. In this book, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as loving as it ever was in life and brings us several generations of brave women. They include Bobby’s mother, who traveled alone from Belarus to America to survive, and Bess’s mother, who always fought against convention. 【1】What type of book is the first novel? A.Sci-fi. B.Biography. C.Detective books. D.History books. 【2】Which book explores life and death? A.To Kill a Mockingbird B.When Breath Becomes Air C.Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets D.Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story 【3】Who is the main character in the last novel? A.Bobby Bell. B.Bess Kalb. C.Bess’s mother. D.Bobby’s mother. |
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I moved to the United States as a teenager. The adjustment to a new place was difficult. But there was major stress in my life at that time: I was the only member of my family who spoke English, meaning I had to step up when we dealt with a shop assistant, a waiter and so on. However, there was another universal language I loved to learn as a child: art. Although I connected myself with drawing and painting while in school, I mostly dismissed art as a path to a career. Since my dad always said "Think about the future", I did not think he would support the study of art once I went to college. But, to my surprise, it was my parents who suggested just that and urged me to apply to technical and liberal arts schools. I was admitted into industrial design. It's basically to design products and services. I could be doing something more technical or something more related to problem-solving. It was no easy task to do the course including metalworking, woodworking and model making. In one class I just drew cubes for an entire month, which led me to a question："Wow! Do I really want to do this? "But I finally survived the course. Now I am a design strategist for Marshall Moya Design, a famous architecture and interior design company. I have experience in exhibit design, product design and website design, apart from which I enjoy developing public art in my free time. Throughout my career，I've picked up different things along the way. The best way to learn in my opinion is through working, therefore, get as many projects as you can. Industrial design kind of makes you an all-round person. 【1】What was the author's biggest problem when first moving to America? A.The adaption to a new environment. B.Difficulty in learning a new language. C.Fathers disapproval of her studying art. D.The burden of being a communicator. 【2】What made the author choose to study art? A.Her deep love for art. B.The suggestion of her family. C.Her potential in design. D.The need of a good job. 【3】Why was the author's experience of drawing cubes mentioned? A.To emphasize her effort at study. B.To express the regret at her choice. C.To prove the course was difficult. D.To show the basic content of the course. 【4】How did the author feel when she mentioned her career? A.Surprised. B.Stressed. C.Eager. D.Proud. |
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Apple revealed new ways to discover and organize apps, confirmed a significant change and announced a new feature that will let users unlock their cars with their smartphones. The updates, announced at Apple (AAPL)’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, highlight the company’s continued effort to involve itself into seemingly every corner of our lives, from our cars and living rooms to our personal health, while also facing the potential for app tiredness more than a decade after the App Store launched. The company kicked off the event by focusing on iOS 14, the upcoming operating system for the iPhone. As part of its presentation, Apple unveiled a new feature called App Library, which automatically organizes the apps on your homescreen so you don’t have to scroll (滚屏) through several pages. Apple also developed a more perfect way to discover and access new apps. The feature, called App Clips, offers a small part of an app for use at the moment it’s needed, whether it’s for ordering a scooter on demand or food from a restaurant. These apps are small in size and connect with Apple Pay. Users can then decide to download the full version of the app from the App Store. At the same time, Apple attempted to demonstrate the still undeveloped potential of the iPhone, which remains its chief moneymaker. Having already turned the iPhone into a digital credit card, Apple now has plans to make it a digital car key. A new feature, called Carkey, will initially be available with the new 2021 BMW 5 series. 【1】How many new features are mentioned in the text? A.Two. B.Three. C.Four. D.Five. 【2】Which word can replace the underlined “unveiled” in Paragraph 3? A.Produced. B.Developed. C.Issued. D.Downloaded. 【3】Which can you probably choose if the phone is out of memory? A.App Library. B.App Clips. C.Carkey. D.Apple Watch. 【4】What can we know according to the text? A.Users can start their cars with Carkey. B.Apples has already used iOS 14 for the iPhone. C.Users still need to scroll the screen with an App Library. D.Apple makes profit mainly from its undeveloped potential of the iPhone. |
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Cigarettes aren’t just harmful when they’re being smoked. Even when cigarette ends go out and are cold, new research has found they continue to give off harmful chemicals in the air. In the first 24 hours alone, scientists say a used cigarette end will produce 14 percent of the nicotine (尼古丁) that an actively burning cigarette would produce. While most of these chemicals are released within a day of being put out, an analysis for the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the level of nicotine fell by just 50% five days later. “I was absolutely surprised,” since environmental engineer Dustin Poppendieck from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). “The numbers are significant and could have important impacts when cigarette ends are dealt with indoors or in cars. While much attention has been paid to the health influence of first-hand, second-hand and now third-hand smoking, it is not the case when it comes to the actual cigarette end of the matter.” To measure emissions (排放) from this forgotten thing, Poppendieck and his team placed 2,100 cigarettes that were recently put out inside a special room. Once the ends were sealed away, the team measured eight chemicals commonly produced by cigarettes, four of which the FDA have their eye on for being harmful or potentially so. After setting the room’s temperature, the researchers tested how emissions changed under certain conditions. When the air temperature of the room was higher, for instance, they noticed the ends produced these chemicals at higher rates. This finding might discourage those who want to leave ashtrays (烟灰缸) out for days at a time, especially in the heat. 【1】What do the researchers say about cigarette ends? A.They contain little nicotine. B.They produce no nicotine five days later. C.They give off nicotine for days. D.They create as much nicotine as burning cigarettes. 【2】What do Poppendieck’s words suggest? A.First-hand smoking does most harm. B.The findings are within his expectation. C.Cigarettes should be dealt with indoors. D.Health influence of cigarette ends is ignored. 【3】Which word best describes the author’s attitude to not cleaning ashtrays for days? A.Unclear. B.Disapproving. C.Unconcerned. D.Puzzled. 【4】What can be the best title for the text? A.Used Cigarette Ends Release Harmful Chemicals B.Cigarettes Are More Harmful While Being Smoked C.Research Found Reasons For Cigarette Ends’ Harm D.Cigarette Ends Produce More Chemicals in the Heat |
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Is Your Focus Completely Wrong? Imagine that you’re rock climbing and you really want to reach the top. And you know you can get to the top. However, you’re having a hard time getting there because all you can do is look at the ground below you. 【1】 You are so focused that, in fact, you don’t have time to look up and move upward. 【2】 However, recently I have been reflecting on how in so many areas of my life, I easily think about the vision and rarely think about what failure looks like. I move toward that vision with ease. But sometimes I’m so obsessed with looking down that I just try not to get worse, rather than really finding strategies to improve. 【3】 So in the coming year I’m going to quit looking down, stop fearing sliding back and focus completely on moving forward. Maybe you’re so focused on not going broke that you’re not putting energy into creating wealth. Maybe you so badly don’t want to be alone that you’re not creating a life of love you deserve. Maybe you can’t stand the thought of being unemployed, so you never take the risk to fully love your work. 【4】 Take a moment to think about where you’re stuck in the middle because you don’t want to “go down”. Take those times and reframe the way you think of those things in your life. 【5】 A.I get stuck there. B.I don’t rock climb. C.Live for love, abundance, joy and wellness. D.I don’t have the time or energy to get better. E.You don’t want your feet to slip off the rocks. F.These can look like a lot of various things for all of us. G.All of your energy is focused on everything beneath you. |
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Lydia Denton felt very sad when she learned about the incident, in which many children in the U.S. died because someone left them in hot cars. But no one has come up with a good way to deal with the ______. The little girl, who would enter the seventh grade, decided to find out ____. Two years later，the 12-year-old girl from North Carolina won a $20,000 prize for her ____. The Beat The Heat Car Seat, a car seat device measuring the ______ of a car. The device is able to ______ the parents of the danger when the inside temperature of the car ____ reaches 102 degrees Fahrenheit (38.9 degrees centigrade). Lydia used part of her $20,000 to continue to ______ her device with the hope of getting it to market as soon as possible ______ it can be something that will save lives and something that most people can ______ to get it. With her 14-year-old brother and 10-year-old sister, Lydia also ______ some of her prize money. They also helped bring the ______ in the car seat device. Her brother was really great at coding and her little sister would ______ them with some sweets or cakes. Lydia’s mom, a science teacher, said it was ______ to watch her three kids cooperate to think out a way to the problem that has ______ for years. They have proven that time and time again nothing is ______. She is really proud of them. 【1】A.complain B.problem C.risk D.experience 【2】A.mistake B.response C.solution D.direction 【3】A.education B.suggestion C.instruction D.invention 【4】A.temperature B.condition C.beauty D.quality 【5】A.convince B.persuade C.warn D.inform 【6】A.frequently B.slowly C.always D.almost 【7】A.change B.develop C.describe D.remember 【8】A.so that B.even if C.as if D.now that 【9】A.happen B.choose C.serve D.afford 【10】A.shared B.exchanged C.supplied D.collected 【11】A.variety B.production C.improvement D.advantage 【12】A.cheat B.assist C.treat D.charge 【13】A.relaxing B.interesting C.inspiring D.surprising 【14】A.gone B.existed C.repeated D.changed 【15】A.impossible B.difficult C.perfect D.necessary |
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Selah Schneiter, ten, has become one of the youngest people 【1】(climb) El Captain, in Yosemite National Park, in California. Selah climbed to 【2】 3,000-foot peak with her father, Mike, and family friend Mark. Getting to the top of El Capitan is no easy task. It is 【3】(tall), as is reported, than the tallest building in the world — Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. Though some have died 【4】 an attempt to conquer (征服) Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, many more 【5】(include) Selah’s parents have finished the journey. About 15 years ago, Selah’s father and mother 【6】(meet) on a climbing trip up the mountain. Selah thought reaching the top was a great challenge, but the hardest part was getting down. “You’re carrying everything, and you’re 【7】(deep) tired,” she said. Since the park does not keep those kinds of 【8】(record), it’s unclear if Selah is the youngest climber who makes the trip. Selah lives in a family 【9】 everyone loves to climb. They even have a climbing wall in the garage. “I’m so 【10】(pride) of her, just to see how big her heart was and how strong she was,” her dad told reporters. |
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假定你是李华，你的美国好友Lucy打算来中国学习中医（ traditional Chinese medicine），发邮件向你询问中医的有关情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括： 1. 表示欢迎； 2. 简要介绍中医； 3. 表达祝愿。 注意： 1. 词数80左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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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。续写的词数为150左右。 Many years ago, my father, who was 80 at that time, arrived for his regular two-week visit at my home in Karachi. He lived with my elder brother in Lahore most of the time and for ten years had stuck to his habit of going for an-hour-long morning walk to keep fit. In Lahore, he would walk around a park that is quite close to my brother’s house. Naturally, he was keen to continue his morning walk while with us in Karachi. Our preferred park is a 2 km walk from my house and it has a 1 km walking track. I could not drive him there every day as I have to leave for the office at the same time he wanted to set out. Since there are hardly any footpaths in Karachi, my father said he was delighted to walk on the road as he was certain there wouldn’t be much traffic in the morning. Though I kept him informed that our house was near the park and was made of red bricks in case he got lost, I was still less confident so I suggested it would be safer if he changed his walk time to the evening. That way I could take him to the park after work. However, my father — a determined person — said that he could not change his routine for just a few days and insisted that he would be leaving the house everyday at 7 am and returning by 8 am. He started doing this and stuck firmly to his schedule. So one day when he had not returned by 8:30 am, my wife, Qaisa, phoned me in a panic. Worried, I immediately drove home, taking the same route that my father would have taken for his walk. Not spotting him anywhere, I went to the police station to report my father’s disappearance. The station house officer advised me to wait until midnight before filling the report. Since it was only 10 am, I drove back to the park, in the hope of discovering some trace, but in vain. Totally at a loss for what to do next, I returned home and waited impatiently, walking back and forth in the house. 注意: 1.所续写的短文词数应为150词左右； 2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已经为你写好 Paragraph 1: At 10:35 am the doorbell rang and my father stood outside the door smiling, accompanied by a young man. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: After knowing what had happened, I showed my appreciation of the young man’s kindness. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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