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Applications for the 2018／19 academic year are now open. What’s it all about? The British Council in China is offering up to five ‘Generation UK—China’ scholarships for outstanding UK students who wish to study at mainland Chinese universities in“September 2018 or February 2019 for one semester or one year. Academic scholarships can be used at any mainland Chinese institution approved by the Ministry of Education to accept foreign students.You can decide where you want to be based and which subjects(at a non-degree level) you wish to study.The majority of students choose to study in Beijing. Do I need to speak Mandarin(普通话)? There are no language requirements for this programme. However，please check the course requirements of the Chinese institution you wish to study in.All language courses are suitable for complete beginners in Mandarin.However，there is the opportunity to be placed in classes for intermediate and advanced learners.In this case，you can expect an informal language test upon arrival to make sure you get put in the right class. If this is your first experience with the Mandarin language，we strongly recommend that you learn a few of the basics before you go. Why should I go? With 1.4 billion speakers worldwide，Chinese truly is a global language.Graduates who speak more than one language are highly sought—after，and with China’s increasing role in the world market，Mandarin is becoming a favourite among employers. Chinese universities attract many international students for their high-quality teaching and offer various scholarships.This is an opportunity to experience life in a completely different culture，gain new skills and improve your career prospects. 【1】What is the programme about? A. The UK students must study in China for one year. B. It offers scholarships for all outstanding UK students. C. Students can use scholarships at any Chinese institution. D. It gives scholarships for UK students to study in China. 【2】What is Chinese language requirement for the programme? A. Students must learn Mandarin from the basic level. B. It is necessary for students to have advanced level. C. Students had better gain some primary knowledge of Chinese. D. All the institutions have the same language requirements. 【3】What is the purpose of the programme? A. To attract students to study in China. B. To advertise the British Council in China. C. To introduce different universities in China. D. To stress the importance of the Chinese language. |
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From the loss of wildlife to rising sea levels, we’re all well aware of the problems that climate change could cause. But while it may seem like such issues won’t affect most of us directly, it looks like future generations could grow up without something that many of us now take for granted: chocolate. According to an essay published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, changes to the climate in the regions that produce cacao – the plant from which chocolate is produced – may mean that it will soon become extinct. Most of the world’s cacao grows in countries close to the equator(赤道), with over half of it growing in the African nations of Ghana and Ivory Coast. It’s predicted that by 2050, climate change will have accelerated the rate at which temperatures in these countries rise, making it extremely difficult for cacao to grow there. The problem doesn’t lie in increased heat, however, but in lower humidity (湿度), as it’s believed that rainfall will stay at the same level if the temperature rises. “In other words, as higher temperatures squeeze more water out of soil and plants, it’s unlikely that rainfall will increase enough to offset the moisture(水分) loss,” Michon Scott, the essay’s author, wrote. To help fight this problem, researchers from Berkeley University in the US are working on changing the DNA of cacao plants to allow them to survive in dryer conditions by using geneediting technology, according to US News. In the meantime, US company Mars, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of chocolate products, announced in January that it would spend $1 billion (6.33 billion yuan) to help reduce the effects of climate change. “This is a world issue, and it requires everyone to work together,” Mars spokesperson Barry Parkin told Business Insider. The message here is that if we all do our part, we may be able to prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change. Or if we’re unlucky, chocolate will become a thing of the past. 【1】What could make it hard for cacao to grow around the equator in the future? A.the higher temperatures there B.the higher humidity there C.the increase in rainfall there D.the moisture loss in the soil there 【2】What did Barry Parkin suggest? A.No man is an island. B.Every little bit counts. C.United we stand; divided we fall. D.Wish for the best; prepare for the worst. 【3】What can we learn from the passage? A.UC Berkeley is trying to find a substitute for cacao. B.Cacao can only be found in most African countries. C.Climate changes can be controlled if we are lucky. D.Mars will financially support the fight against climate changes. 【4】What is the passage mainly about? A.The origin of chocolate. B.The future of chocolate. C.The history of chocolate. D.The ingredients of chocolate. |
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For the past five years, October 11 has marked the International Day of the Girl. The United Nations established the day to bring attention to the needs and difficulties that girls face around the world. It also calls for empowerment and improved rights of the world’s 1.1 billion girls. One in four girls gets married as a child. Every 10 minutes, somewhere in the world, a girl is violently killed. The groups also note that more than 130 million girls are not able to attend school. This week, the organization ONE published a list of the 10 hardest countries for girls to get an education. Nine of the countries were in Africa, south of the Saharan desert. Number one was South Sudan, where 73 percent of girls do not go to school. In Niger, number three on the list, only 17 percent of girls between the ages of 15 to 24 can read. Afghanistan is next. It has the greatest gender difference in education. Just 71 girls go to primary school for every 100 boys. Gayle Smith is president of the ONE campaign. She described the more than 130 million girls out of school as “potential engineers, teachers and politicians whose leadership the world is missing out on.” The ONE Campaign also reported this week that the number of girls not getting an education rose from 130.3 million to 130.9 million in the past year. People marked the Day of the Girl on social media. On YouTube, a special Day of the Girl music video set to a Beyonce song trended, too. The song is “Freedom.” The UN’s Global Goals project made the video. It shows girls from all over the world dancing and singing the words to “Freedom”. In just one day, it has more than 1.5 million views. 【1】How many girls can receive education in South Sudan? A.10%. B.17%. C.27%. D.73%. 【2】What do you know about the girl’s education based on the ONE campaign? A.It is getting worse. B.It remains the same. C.It is improving a little. D.It is turning much better. 【3】How does the author sound when telling this event? A.Delighted. B.Heavy-hearted. C.Inspired. D.Excited. 【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A.Rights of the World Girls Are Improving. B.Girls in Conflict Areas Face a Threat of Life. C.Song “Freedom” Celebrates the Girl Holiday. D.October 11 Marks International Day of the Girl. |
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Rats that eat high levels of a natural sugar known as fructose(果糖) seem to age faster than other rats-and the same could be true for people who eat too much sweet junk food, Israeli researchers said Monday. Fructose, found naturally in honey and fruit, is used widely in foods ranging from soft drinks to yogurt. But while its sweet taste is popular, the sugar could cause wrinkles, the researchers said. Dr. Moshe Werman and Boaz Levi of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology fed large amounts of fructose to laboratory rats. Writing in the Journal of Nutrition, they said the fructose-fed rats showed changes in the collagen(胶原蛋白) of their skin and bones. Collagen basically holds the body together. The loss of collagen is what causes loose skin and deep wrinkles in older people. The process affected, Werman’s team said, is known as cross-linking(交叉相连) . “Too much cross-linking makes the skin stiff, and these are the conditions that encourage wrinkled skin,” Werman said in a statement. He said the same could be true of people, although this has not been shown. “Americans are eating more and more processed foods such as baked goods, canned fruits, jams and dairy products that contain fructose,” Werman said. Other studies have shown that taking in high fructose may cause diabetes(糖尿病). The rats Werman worked with were fed much more than the average adult person might eat in a day, which is standard in such experiments. The rats were fed 12.5 grams of fructose per kg of weight every day for a year. 【1】In the experiments, if a rat was 0.25 kg , it may have been fed about grams of fructose every day for a year. A.3 B.4 C.5 D.6 【2】Why do older people have deep wrinkles according to the passage? A.They don’t drink enough water every day. B.Collagen in their body is lost. C.They don’t take enough exercise every day. D.Their daily foods do not contain enough fructose. 【3】What can we learn from the passage? A.The fructose-fed rats only showed changes in the collagen of their skin. B.Too much cross-linking makes the skin soft. C.The amount of sugar the rats in Werman’s lab ate was larger than an ordinary adult might eat in a day. D.It hasn’t been shown that taking in high fructose may cause diabetes. 【4】The best title for the passage should be “ ” . A.Sugar-it could reduce collagen B.Collagen-it could age you C.Collagen-it could cause wrinkles D.Sugar-it could age you |
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Secret codes (密码) keep messages private. Banks, companies, and government agencies use secret codes in doing business, especially when information is sent by computer. People have used secret codes for thousands of years. 【1】Code breaking never lags (落后) far behind code making. The science of creating and reading coded messages is called cryptography. There are three main types of cryptography. 【2】For example, the first letters of ＂My elephant eats too many eels＂ spell out the hidden message ＂Meet me.＂ 【3】You might represent each letter with a number, for example. Let’s number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26. If we substitute a number for each letter, the message ＂Meet me＂ would read ＂13 5 5 20 13 5.＂ A code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences. To read the message of a real code, you must have a code book. 【4】For example, ＂bridge＂ might stand for ＂meet＂ and ＂out＂ might stand for ＂me.＂ The message ＂Bridge out＂ would actually mean ＂Meet me.＂ 【5】However, it is also hard to keep a code book secret for long. So codes must be changed frequently. A. It is very hard to break a code without the code book. B. In any language, some letters are used more than others. C. Only people who know the keyword can read the message. D. As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them. E. You can hide a message by having the first letters of each word spell it out. F. With a code book, you might write down words that would stand for other words. G. Another way to hide a message is to use symbols to stand for specific letters of the alphabet. |
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Davina McNaney on Friday will begin a journey that will bring her home to Wayne County.A breast cancer ____，McNaney，42，will run 466 miles from Michigan to New York in the next few weeks in an ____ to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer research. “I’m just a regular person.”she said.“I just want to do ____ to help others and set a strong ____ for my girls.”The mother ____ two and University of Rochester graduate chose to ____.her own personal ultra-marathon to show others how grateful she was to ____ her illness. McNaney has ____ more than $10，000 for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation，nearly ____ her initial $5，000 goal. During the first week，McNaney plans to run 36 miles each day.Two 13-mile days will follow so she ____ celebrate her eldest daughter’s eighth birthday and ____ her nephew’s high school graduation. On July 3，the ____ day of her journey，McNaney will run 22 miles across Wayne County to Sodus Point，____ her daughters and more than a hundred friends will be ___ . Her husband Steve，35，will serve as her pit crew.It will be his ____ to keep McNaney fed，to track her weight and address any ____ problems that arise. At times，McNaney said she will run with ____ —friends in Michigan，a cousin in Ohio and loads of friends and relatives in the final few miles in New York. Company will be nice，she said，noting that she’s also looking forward to ____ time when she can relax，run and“just let my ____ wander.” “I hope I can encourage people to challenge themselves，to know that they can overcome in the face of trouble，”McNaney said.“I'm stepping out of my comfort _____and putting myself out there to reach my goal.” 【1】A. expert B. survivor C. organizer D. participant 【2】A. effort B. offer C. order D. invitation 【3】A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything 【4】A. figure B. standard C. request D. example 【5】A. of B. with C. for D. from 【6】A. join B. run C. design D. sponsor 【7】A. suffer from B. meet with C. come through D. deal with 【8】A. borrowed B. spent C. raised D. saved 【9】A. doubling B. gaining C. reaching D. 1osing 【10】A. must B. should C. need D. can 【11】A. miss B. plan C. chair D. attend 【12】A. best B. final C. initial D. short 【13】A. when B. which C. where D. as 【14】A. waiting B. shouting C. dancing D. debating 【15】A. fault B. right C. job D. honour 【16】A. traffic B. medical C. poisonous D. hungry 【17】A. athletes B. champions C. folks D. others 【18】A. alone B. lonely C. amazing D. comfortable 【19】A. body B. tension C. dream D. mind 【20】A. room B. zone C. life D. cause |
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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。 Why is setting goals important? Goals can help you do, be, and experience everything you want in life and goals allow you 【1】 (make) your life happen. Successful people imagine how their life should be and set lots of goals. By setting goals you are taking control of your life. It's like 【2】( have) a map to show you where you want to go. Think of it this way. There are two drivers. One has a destination in mind which can 【3】 (find) on a map. She can drive straight there without any wasted time or wrong 【4】(turn). The other driver has no goal or destination 【5】 map. She starts off at the same time from the same place as 【6】 first driver, but she drives 【7】( aim) around, never getting anywhere, just using up gas. Which driver do you want to be? Winners in life set goals and follow through on them. 【8】(success) people just let life happen by accident. Goals aren't difficult to set, and they aren't difficult to reach. It's up 【9】you to find out what your goals really are. You are the one who must decide what to achieve and in 【10】 direction to aim your life. |
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共 有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( )，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改 10 处，多者 (从第 11 处起) 不计分。 Years ago, all my parents were involved in a serious car accidents. Uncle Bob took on the role as a father to him. I lived with him during that period. He allowed me stay with him though his home was not really bigger. He showed his care and love for me by pay attention to my health, education and what I needed at that time. I really appreciated the time he spent with me. We used to go on the trips together. We would just spend days either playing our guitars and reading our favorite car magazines. I always felt gratefully towards him. He was like a father figure who will always give me encouragement. |
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