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Deciding to get her money's worth out of the wedding dress on which she spent over $1,000, an Australian woman has been wearing her wedding dress, a year after her wedding. 43-year-old Tammy Hall adopted a new lifestyle-anti-consumerism （反消费主义） lifestyle in 2016, after a trip to India opened her eyes to how much we as a society consumed. She decided not to buy any new clothes or footwear for a whole year after she returned home to Adelaide, in Southern Australia, and she made it. But last year, as her wedding day approached, she faced a dilemma. She wanted to look good on the most important day of her life, but how could she spend a small fortune on the wedding dress she would only wear on that day? "In the end I decided to get a wedding dress, and I could get my money's worth," Hall tells PA Real Life. The first time I wore it after the wedding was to vote in the Australian election in early 2019," the 43-year-old adds. "Since then, it's been to all sorts of places. Wearing it on a crowded train was especially funny, but I've worn it to do housework, to football games and to the gym." Hall says that she has gotten some strange looks from people, but no annoying comments. Anyway, she doesn't really care, because she knows she has to hit the goal she has set and wearing the dress multiple times is the most reasonable way she could think of to make the most of her wedding dress. Hall now plans to wear her wedding dress on a trip to Iceland that she and her partner will take next summer. 【1】Why did Tammy Hall adopt a new lifestyle? A.To adapt herself to Indian life. B.To cut down her consumption. C.To save money for her next trip. D.To get prepared for her wedding. 【2】What did Tammy Hall do to get her money's worth out of her wedding dress? A.She brought fun to people with it. B.She tried to wear it to earn money. C.She wore it repeatedly in daily life. D.She got it exchanged again and again. 【3】What can we infer about Tammy Hall? A.She is determined to turn her ideas into practice, B.She values her wedding dress less than her trips C.She has been struggling to make the ends meet. D.She has influenced people's lifestyle widely. |
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Once a circle missed a wedge (楔子). The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. Finally it found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away. In some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish(滋润) his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had. There is wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and does not feel like a failure for doing so. There is wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy(悲剧) and survive — he or she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person. Life is more like a baseball season, when even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved wholeness that others can only long for. 【1】Which may be an example of being whole? A. A person has everything. B. A person accepts his or her limitations. C. A person loves someone and is loved. D. A person feels blue for dropping unrealistic goals. 【2】How is a baseball season similar to life? A. Easy come, easy go. B. Failure is the mother of success. C. Energy and persistence conquer all things. D. Some battles you win and some battles you lose. 【3】How does the author clarify his idea? A. Mainly by comparing. B. Mainly by reasoning. C. Mainly by informing. D. Mainly by arguing. 【4】What can be the best title for the passage? A. Pursue perfection in life B. Be whole in life C. Life without mistakes is whole D. No pains, no gains |
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The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies have found positive effects. A study conducted in Youngstown，Ohio，for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. In another，employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants. The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse，even unusual functions. These include plants that have sensors printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect harmful chemicals in groundwater. ＂We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day,＂explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow(发光)in experiments using some common vegetables. Strano’s team found that they could create a faint light for three-and-a-half hours. The light，about one-thousandth of the amount needed to read by，is just a start. The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps. In the future，the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant’s lifetime. The engineers are also trying to develop an on and off＂switch＂where the glow would fade when exposed to daylight. Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source(电源)-such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway-a lot of energy is lost during transmission(传输).Glowing plants could reduce this distance and therefore help save energy. 【1】What is the first paragraph mainly about? A.A new study of different plants. B.A big fall in crime rates. C.Employees from various workplaces. D.Benefits from green plants. 【2】What is the function of the sensors printed on plant leaves by MIT engineer? A.To detect plants’ lack of water B.To change compositions of plants C.To make the life of plants longer. D.To test chemicals in plants. 【3】What can we expect of the glowing plants in the future? A.They will speed up energy production. B.They may transmit electricity to the home. C.They might help reduce energy consumption. D.They could take the place of power plants. 【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A.Can we grow more glowing plants? B.How do we live with glowing plants? C.Could glowing plants replace lamps? D.How are glowing plants made pollution-free? |
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Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum (钟摆) and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar. As someone who understood the distinction observed, 'When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours. ' Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age. They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass. For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach. Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere we've never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when we’ll arrive, we experience the trip as lasing a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine. When days become as identical as beads (小珠子)on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day-- to stop time, so to speak. Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days of our youth seems to be full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn't have to be. 【1】What is the underlined sentence in paragraph 1 used to show? A.Psychological time is quite puzzling. B.Time should not be measured by a pendulum. C.Physical time is different from psychological time D.Physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time 【2】Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older? A.Our sense of time changes. B.We spend less time at the beach C.More time is structured and scheduled D.Time is structured with too many appointments. 【3】What does 'Novelty' in paragraph 3 probably mean? A.excitement B.unfamiliarity C.imagination D.amusement 【4】What is the purpose of the passage? A.To give various explanations about time B.To describe how we experience time physically C.To show the differences of two kinds of time D.To explain why time flies and how to slow it down |
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Urban Wildlife Cities are diverse ecosystems. In addition to visitors from the wild, a large number of species share our urban areas. As our cities spread, we need to think about what it is like for other species to have human neighbors. Cities are built for humans. 【1】For example, most city parks are kept neat and tidy so that humans will find them beautiful. But when we cut grass or plant flowers, we destroy natural habitats. 【2】When a bridge in Austin, Texas was repaired, engineers added small gaps running along the length of its bottom. This made a good home for bats, and soon the bridge was the home of thousands of bats. 【3】 Now, they have come to value their winged neighbors. The bats are a tourist attraction, and they eat lots of bugs every night. There are also structures built with the aim of bringing wildlife into the city. The Beijing Olympic Forest Park is a good example. The park used native plants and created open, natural spaces for wildlife. The result is a zone in Beijing with over 160 species of birds. In many ways, the park is the opposite of a zoo. 【4】 If we learn to share our space, we can become better neighbors to the wildlife around us. 【5】 Our own future will be endangered too. A.They are built to protect birds. B.Our actions sometimes help other species. C.If we do not, more species will become extinct. D.They do not always provide suitable habitats for wildlife. E.Instead of being kept in cages, wildlife can move about freely. F.At first, people were afraid of the bats and tried to get rid of them. G.They would sit on it and their droppings would fall into the water. |
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are "if only". I live my life with the _______ of never having to say those words. The two words _______regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and _______ . And sometimes the words "if only" go with _______disasters. Think about how many times you have heard about something awful happening, _______ by "if only he had called her back to make sure she was okay.” or “if only I had _______ that noise..." or “if only they had made sure the gate to the pool clicked behind them…" My father-in-law is _______in our family for saying, “_______ an extra minute to do it right. ” He must be doing something _______, since he's 91 years old and still making sense. I always ________to live by the "extra minute' rule. Sometimes it only takes seconds to make sure I write the words down ________, or check some information on the Internet, or move an object ________ before it trips someone. And of course when my children were young and ________ to cause all kinds of troubles, I lived and breathed the "extra minute" ________ . I always thought about what I could do to __________an "if only” moment, whether it was something simple like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding （衬垫）onto the ________corners of a glass coffee table. I know there will still be ________ when I have to say "if only” about something, but my life is surely more peaceful because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that ________. And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to ________ a personal connection, I know that Pm doing the right thing. I'm buying myself peace of mind and that's the best kind of ________ for my emotional well-being. 【1】A.result B.luck C.goal D.role 【2】A.convey B.handle C.experience D.raise 【3】A.preparation B.disappointment C.aggression D.amazement 【4】A.harmful B.shameful C.accessible D.terrible 【5】A.accompanied B.accused C.contributed D.motivated 【6】A.heard B.ignored C.examined D.shut 【7】A.respectful B.respectable C.sensitive D.senseless 【8】A.Propose B.Demand C.Charge D.Apply 【9】A.wise B.familiar C.rare D.active 【10】A.promise B.attempt C.afford D.hesitate 【11】A.frequently B.normally C.accurately D.casually 【12】A.across the way B.by the way C.on the way D.in the way 【13】A.probable B.likely C.average D.ordinary 【14】A.signal B.theory C.notice D.principle 【15】A.prevent B.reflect C.admit D.regret 【16】A.narrow B.plain C.sharp D.flexible 【17】A.locations B.cases C.occasions D.events 【18】A.record B.ending C.plot D.memory 【19】A.keep B.remind C.transform D.deliver 【20】A.program B.bargain C.purchase D.insurance |
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阅读下面短文, 在空上处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式 A CCTV journalist's succeeded in arousing a 【1】（heat） discussion among netizens by asking people 【2】 they are happy. The responses to the question were various, even some quite funny ones【3】（include）. Although some people played jokes 【4】 the answers, it didn't take long before they began to figure out the true meanings of happiness. It is certain that people's views on happiness【5】（affect） greatly by their own life experience【6】（fortunate）, too many people refer to being rich as happiness. Some people【7】 intention is to make big money appreciate being given any chance to multiply their income, 【8】（believe） that is where their happiness. Some are eager to inherit their parents' property, especially those who are known as silver﹣spoon kids. Even worse, some would rather break the law 【9】（satisfy） their financial desire or seek their fortune illegally. In my opinion, happiness is not about pursuing wealth merely but about admiring the【10】（beauty） things in life. Therefore live your life to the fullest and be happy. |
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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。作文中共有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(N) ，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。 As my third year of high school life has come, I felt a little stressful, because I want to enter a better college, and my scores worry me. I have made my mind to study harder. Firstly, I need to improving my weak subjects. I decide to go over the important knowledges and ask my classmates for help. My good friend Lily is very patient. With her help, I will make a great progress. Secondly, the exam papers hand out every time, I will scan my mistakes and make sure what to make them right. Finally, I will make fully use of my spare time. I believe the aim will make you stronger. |
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假定你是李明，你的新西兰朋友Steven向你了解中国在抗击新冠肺炎(COVID-19)的成就。请你根据下列要点给他回复一封电子邮件。 1.英明的领导做出的正确决定；2.强有力的政府给病人免费治疗；3.专业敬职的医生和配合的人民。 注意: 1.词数100左右； 2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3.开头和结尾已经给出，但不计入总词数。 参考词汇:Lock down封城；free medication免费医疗；specialized and dedicated专业敬职 Dear Steven, I’m glad to receive your letter asking for how successful China is in struggling against COVID-19. Thank you for your concern. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Best wishes. Yours sincerely, Li Ming |
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