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Summer Events on U. S. Islands Hundreds of U. S. islands host summertime festivities and many invite travelers to join in the fun. Here are 3 of our favorite island events across the country. Detroit Kite Festival (July 14) Belle Isle, Michigan Kite flying is an ancient skill that's been used by cultures around the world for wind testing, fishing, military communications ---and windy day fun. On Belle Isle, Detroit, the latter is celebrated in high style with this event that draws thousands of attendees including the Wind Jammers, a professional kite-flying team based in the city. Kites can be borrowed, bought, built, with staff from the Detroit Institute of Arts on hand teach the basics of kite construction. Ukulele(四弦琴) Festival(July 21) Oahu, Hawaii This festival, now in its 50th year, sings the praises of the ukulele, Originating in part from the braguinha, a small guitar brought to Hawaii in the 19th century by Portuguese immigrant (移民 ) who worked in the sugarcane fields, the ukulele quickly became a beloved element of the hula culture. The event features internationally known musicians as well as a famous children's orchestra(管弦乐队). Head to the Queen Kapiolani Park, which lies at the base of Diamond Head and is also home to the Honolulu Zoo. Mermaid(美人鱼) Festival(July5-7) Key West, Florida Haven’t heard of Mermay? Come to this Florida event to see 35 mermaids rise to the surface. With goals of celebrating mermaids and advocating for ocean conservation, the festival kicks off the first of seven events with Meet the Mermaids, at Havana. Cabana and goes on to include Swim With the Mermaids sessions (tails available for rent), an adults-only Ocean Blue party, and a MerTots Splash Hour. Ticket sales will support the nonprofit organization Reef Relief. 【1】What can tourists do at Detroit Kite Festival ? A.Join the Wind Jammers. B.Fly a kite for wind testing. C.Fly their own handmade kites. D.Teach the basics of kite construction. 【2】Where does Ukulele Festival take place? A.In Portugal. B.In the Honolulu Zoo. C.In the sugarcane fields. D.In the Queen Kapiolani Park. 【3】How is Mermaid Festival different from the other two festivals? A.It takes place in July. B.It is a traditional festival C.It helps to protect the environment. D.It allows tourists to enjoy performances. |
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Jake Meyers, a graduate student in Northwestern University, has won the Best Sharable Video award in Planet Forward's national Storyfest 2020 competition. The project teaches, celebrates and rewards environmental storytelling by students from across the county. As a master’s student, Meyers works at the intersection of climate adaptation and food security. During the summer of 2019, Meyers worked with the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, to investigate climate adaptation solutions to food insecurity in the rapidly urbanizing nation. Meyers´ video, "Can urban farming feed the future?", shares the story of Francis Wachira, a leading advocate for urban facing in Nairobi. Millions of people are moving from rural to urban areas as large-scale farming, coupled with climate change, forces small-scale farmers to abandon their livelihoods and pursue economic opportunity in urban areas, "Meyers said. As food security concerns grow for the people of Nairobi, farmers like Francis are transforming urban lots into highly productive green spaces to raise livestock ( 牲 畜 ), grow vegetables and fight climate change. " Francis has an incredible urban farming system in Nairobi that features over 600 head of livestock and 150 species of plants, "Meyers said. " I wanted to highlight Francis and his innovative approach to urban farming through storytelling with the goal of inspiring change." "I have become so inspired by many incredible people like Francis Wachira. So many around the world are re-imagining solutions to poverty and climate change, yet their stories remain untold. I hope to continue using storytelling as a means of highlighting different perspectives that can create impact and advocate for transformational change, "Meyers said. 【1】Where did Meyers make his video? A.In different countries. B.In an urban area in Kenya. C.In rural areas in Kenya. D.In Northwestern University. 【2】Which of the following can replace the underlined part "abandon their livelihoods"? A.work harder B.give up farming C.leave their farmland D.expand their farm 【3】What can be inferred about Meyers video? A.It introduces the benefits of rural farming. B.It introduces the benefits of urban farming. C.It's mainly about the difficulties with urban farming. D.It's mainly about the potential risks in rural farming. 【4】What sort of person does Meyers describe Francis as? A.A person who introduces changes and new ideas. B.A person who shows great interest in farming. C.A person who is intelligent and hard-working. D.A person who realizes the danger of climate change. |
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Every two weeks, the time period after which many people collect a paycheck, a language dies. So concerning is the potential for language loss that the National Science Foundation this year launched the Documenting Endangered Languages program to advance knowledge related to endangered human languages. The launch of the program is even more urgent given the fact that about half of all current languages being used in the world have been classified at varying degrees of endangerment. At the University of Arizona, which is an important site for language preservation, a number of researchers are involved in activities meant to document endangered and lost languages. Others are working to help preserve languages classified as "moribund", meaning that no children are learning their native languages as their first languages in their own homes. A number of UA programs—some of them decades old—are dedicated to language preservation. Most recently, Christian Ruvalcaba, a graduate student, launched "The Language Capital Project "and is creating maps for corresponding website to help non-national language speakers to find and connect with one another. "Languages allow people to create an identity for themselves and as community members", said Elizabeth Kickham, a visiting professor in the UA Department of Linguistics. "Language is so closely tied to culture: it not only reflects cultural practices, it is also influenced by them. Language and culture influence each other, so it’s difficult to separate them. You can, but you lose something when you do." "One of the advantages of studying at the University of Arizona is the wealth of linguistic diversity to be found among the student population,” said Kickham, who involved her students in language preservation training this semester. "Exposure to diverse populations, including languages, enables a richer understanding of the human experience," Kickham said. " Languages are beautiful. When people hear someone speaking a language they needn’t feel that the person doesn’t know how to speak English but rather that person has a wealth of resources." 【1】Why did the National Science Foundation launch the program? A.To bring back lost languages. B.To develop endangered languages. C.To increase understanding of endangered languages. D.To investigate the number of endangered languages. 【2】What do the maps created by Ruvalcaba inform people about? A.Where there is a website for lost languages B.Where non-national language speakers live. C.Where they can learn the national language. D.Where they can communicate in their native language. 【3】What did Kickham want to point out in what she said? A.The influence of cultural practices. B.The importance of diverse languages. C.A need for language preservation training D.A better understanding of different cultures. 【4】What is the best title for the text ? A.Language Loss Calls for Preservation B.Language Reflects Human Self-identity C.Preserving Non-national Language D.Identifying the Causes of Language Loss |
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Eyes are like a window into our thought processes. Recent studies have found that the eyes not only reflect what is happening in the brain but may also influence how we remember things. Researchers tracked volunteers' eye movements while they said a list of 40 numbers. They found that the direction and size of the participants’ eye movements accurately predicted whether the number they were about to say was bigger or smaller than the previous one and by how much. Each volunteers’ gaze shifted up and to the right just before they said a bigger number, and down and to the left before a smaller one. The bigger the shift from one side to the other, the bigger the difference between the numbers. This suggests that we somehow link abstract number representations in the brain with movement in space. But the study does not tell us which come first : whether thinking of a particular number causes changes in eye position, or whether the eye position influences our mental-activity. Researchers in Sweden published evidence that it's the latter that may be at work : eye movements may actually facilitate memory retrieval. They asked each one of the 24 volunteers to carefully examine a series of objects displayed to them in one corner of a computer screen. The participants were then told to listen to a series of statements about some of the objects they had seen, such as "The car was facing to the left" and asked to indicate as quickly as possible if each was true or false. Some participants were allowed to let their eyes move about freely; others were asked to fix their gaze on a cross at the centre of the screen, or the corner where the object had appeared, for example. The researchers found that those who were allowed to move their eyes freely during recall performed significantly better than those who fixed on the cross. Interestingly, though, participants who were told to fix their gaze in the corner of the screen in which objects had appeared earlier performed better than those told to fix their gaze in another corner. This suggests that the more closely the participants eye movements during information encoding corresponded with those that occurred during retrieval of the information, the better they were at remembering the objects. 【1】If the previous number was 50, which is the most probable number when a participant looked up and right? A.90 B.50 C.40 D.30 【2】What is the third paragraph mainly about? A.The way that eye movements take place. B.The way that memory retrieval takes place. C.The relationship between eye movements and numbers. D.The relationship, between eye movements and mental activity. 【3】What does the underlined word "those" in the last paragraph refer to ? A.The objects. B.The corners. C.The participants. D.The eye movements. 【4】Why did the Swedish researchers conduct the study? A.To find ways to improve a person's memory. B.To test the influence of eye movements on memory. C.To test the effects of different eye movements. D.To see how eye movements help to identify objects. |
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This year I spent time at the city’s dances for the mentally disabled to fulfill my service hours. At first I felt troubled with the idea of working with the mentally disabled because I had never been around them before. 【1】 They arrived in groups with leaders and waited for the doors to open for what seemed the highlight of their week. Once I was there for a few minutes, I didn't feel uncomfortable at all. I actually became interested to hear what they had to say. 【2】 They were getting along well and it was clear how excited they were to see familiar faces every Friday night. I realized that I meant something to them when I skipped a Friday and they asked where I had been. I was missed! 【3】 Toward the end of my experience at the city's dances for the disabled, I knew their stories and faces and felt things that I had never experienced. I realized what I had thought about the mentally disabled was wrong. 【4】 They love life and take it for everything it's worth. 【5】 Now I look back and realize what an effect they had on me. I feel thankful that I was born the way I was. I have learned to respect disabled people for their daily struggles, and meeting them has also made me learn to love every minute of life. They taught me that no one can judge what is "normal". A.They are all people just like us. B.I went with a friend and when I got there, I was astonished. C.What I did for the mentally disabled was truly beneficial to them. D.And by the end of the program, they were able to perform so well. E.Working with the mentally disabled can be a rewarding experience. F.This was the first time I found I truly had a place in a stranger's life. G.As the weeks passed, I found myself interested to see how they made progress. |
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In almost every photo from our 1986 family vacation to Washington, D.C., I am showing off the souvenir I_______from the gift shop at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo—a cotton sweatshirt with pandas dancing on the_______. I was nine years old, and pandas were cool. Not even midsummer heat could_______ me keeping that sweatshirt on throughout the_______. Over 30 years later I found myself among a pool of photojournalists and video crews_______ into the panda enclosure (围场). A baby panda named Bei Bei was being_______to the world, and I was covering it for National Geographic. I asked zoo administrators if I could_______ periodically to document the first year of the panda’s life. They said yes. Soon I was making_______stops at the zoo to record the baby panda’s daily_______. I watched Bei Bei grow from a baby to a________, energetic youth. He played with the keepers, looking around the corner from one room to the next in his version of hide-and-seek. If I got too close, he’d lunge (猛冲) for my camera, reminding me that he was________a bear. When Bei Bei was a few months old, the zoo held an official opening day for the________to come and see him. That morning I arrived early, making my way past the line that was________ forming at the entrance to the enclosure. I________with a woman there who’d been making frequent trips to the zoo to see pandas since 1982, panda earrings swinging enthusiastically from her ears. “I’ll come every month.” she said. “It’s great to watch the baby panda________.” 【1】A.brought in B.took in C.picked out D.put on 【2】A.front B.ground C.spot D.cover 【3】A.delay B.avoid C.keep D.prevent 【4】A.year B.trip C.country D.world 【5】A.broken B.packed C.forced D.pushed 【6】A.carried B.offered C.added D.presented 【7】A.return B.start C.leave D.pass 【8】A.common B.abrupt C.regular D.temporary 【9】A.matter B.treatment C.cause D.routine 【10】A.curious B.thoughtful C.friendly D.brave 【11】A.merely B.never C.actually D.once 【12】A.children B.public C.journalists D.keepers 【13】A.eventually B.soon C.constantly D.already 【14】A.chatted B.hurried C.worked D.drove 【15】A.playing inside B.making friends C.growing up D.feeling better |
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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。 Our daughter Jessica was born last March when my wife and I were living in New York. About two months before her first birthday, with the pandemic(瘟疫)【1】(begin) to spread, we moved overseas to Amman, Jordan(约旦) , where my wife had taken a new job. Just like other working families, keeping a good balance【2】home life and our careers had been a huge challenge before the pandemic—【3】 (especial) when work meant being away from each other for days, sometimes weeks, at a time in our child's【4】 (develop) when creating routines was so important. But things changed in March of this year, when Jordan went into one of the【5】 (strict) lockdowns in the world in response to the pandemic. Since then, it has been such a joy for me【6】 (be) a constant presence in my daughter’s life, being part of the extraordinary moments of daily life under lockdown, all of【7】 are shaping what will be her first memories. One such routine that my daughter really seems to enjoy 【8】that I hope she will remember, 【9】(take) place every afternoon: flying a kite from the roof of our apartment building. Kite-flying has become a very popular, lockdown pastime among youth in Amman. There are dozens of homemade kites【10】(see) high in the sky every afternoon, a beautiful sight above an otherwise quiet and empty city under lockdown. |
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你们最近就学生如何度周末进行了一个调查(survey),请根据下面内容写一篇英语短文 在学校英语俱乐部交流。 1. 调查结果： 1) 周末进行户外活动的:仅约 20%; 2) 周末待在室内的:约 80%; 2. 根据以上调查结果作一个简短的评论。注意:1.写作词数应为 80 左右; 2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯； 3. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 |
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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。 Greg could always be counted on to have an interesting party every year. This year the party was at Greg's house. The fun part was a scavenger hunt(寻物游戏) he had set up for us. Two days before the party, Greg went around and asked the neighbors if they would help out. They were almost all willing. At the party he divided us into groups of four. We all had the same list of things to collect and an hour's time to do it. The group that found the most things on the list would be the winners. So as soon as the hunt began, my group set out at once, in the hope of winning the game. Our first stop was house number 38. A Mrs. Trollis answered the bell quickly. She was glad to help. She had three of the items needed: a nail, a photograph of a baby, and a shoe box. The next stop was Mr. Gray's house. He was an older man who invited us in. He told us all about a scavenger hunt he went on when he was a boy. We were interested but also worried that we would run out of time listening to his stories. When he realized we didn't have all night, Mr. Gray hurried off to find us a few things we needed. " I hope you will be the winners, "he said. Then we rushed off to another house. A young lady, Ms. Crane, came to the door. She looked busy but she said she could help out. We asked for a baking soda box. Ms. Crane emptied some baking soda into a bottle and handed us the box. We got a few more items in other houses and by this time we were missing only a Chinese newspaper. 注意:1. 续写词数应为 150 左右; 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 We soon found, however, that finding a Chinese newspaper was a great challenge because none of the ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Finally, we got everything on the list. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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