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Museum of Modern Art Its galleries are full of heavyweights,such as Van Gogh,Matisse,Picasso,Warhol.Since its founding in 1929,the museum has a collection of around 200,000 artworks.Here,families can take advantage of special tours and art talks designed for kids or drop by the Family Art Lab to create artworks of their own. Audio(音频)guides are free,available on a device from the museum in several languages. Guggenheim Museum Designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1959,the structure was thought very little of at first,but soon people welcomed it warmly.The museum has since opened other notable branches in Bilbao,Venice and,in the future,Abu Dhabi. Pick up the free audio-guide or download the Guggenheim app for more information. American Museum of Natural History Founded in 1869,it contains more than 34 million objects as well as the Rose Center for Earth&Space.From October through May,the museum is home to the Butterfly Conservatory where there are 500-plus butterflies from all over the world that will fly about and land on your arm. Audio-guides are free. Metropolitan Museum of Art The vast collection of antique artworks contained within this museum founded in 1870 is one of the world’s largest and most important,with more than two million objects from around the globe. The 1st-floor ancient Egyptian collection is above comparison,so do not miss the Temple of Dendur built around 10 BC and moved straight from the banks of the Nile in 1978. Self-guided audio tours(adult/child$7/5)are available in 10 languages.Avoid weekends for there’re so many visitors. 【1】Which museum plans to run a branch? A.Guggenheim Museum. B.Museum of Modern Art. C.Metropolitan Museum of Art. D.American Museum of Natural History. 【2】What is special about Metropolitan Museum of Art? A.It was moved from Egypt in 1978. B.It is the world’s largest museum. C.It has a temple as its collection. D.It is free to visitors on weekends. 【3】What do the museums above have in common? A.They give children a discount. B.They offer audio tour guides. C.They are at least 80 years old. D.They’re connected with nature. |
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The COVID-19 has led to a great demand for bikes and biking.Bike stores are struggling hard to keep up with the demand.In the United States,bike sales have seen their biggest jump since the 1970s.Sales of adult bikes in April of 2020 were three times as high as last year.The situation is similar in Asia and Europe.Around 90%of the bikes sold in the US are made in China.But because of the COVID-19,even the normal supply of bicycles wasn’t being created.That demand began to go up in mid-March,as people began looking for ways of getting around that didn’t involve crowded public transportation.Because biking happens in the open air,and the chance of catching the disease while riding is very low. Biking has also grown more popular because it’s one of the few forms of exercise allowed in many lockdowns.With gyms and fitness centers shut down,biking fills a need for many active people.Families appreciate biking,too.With schools closed,and kids unable to hang out with their friends,biking is a welcome activity.Bikes are also practical.Many cities are seeing this as an opportunity to make their streets safer and greener.Cities around the world are adding miles and miles of bike lanes(车道)to their streets to encourage biking,New York says it will close off up to 160 kilometers of roads so they can be used by bikers and walkers.Paris has set up over 650 kilometers of new bike lanes.The United Kingdom plans to double its number of bike lanes.In Milan,Italy,35 kilometers of roads have been metamorphosed. Though many of these bike lane additions are temporary,and some people assume these additions seem to destroy the overall beauty of cities,if changes in biking habits become permanent because of additions,they could seriously cut down car traffic and help make cities a lot greener. 【1】What can we conclude about the present bike situation? A.It is more expensive. B.It is safer than a car. C.It is in short supply. D.It is all made in China. 【2】What does the underlined word“metamorphosed”in paragraph 2 mean? A.Repaired. B.Transformed. C.Protected. D.Designed. 【3】What’s the author’s attitude toward the bike lane additions? A.Disapproving. B.Cautious. C.Skeptical. D.Positive. 【4】What’s the best title for the text? A.Increasing Interest in Biking B.Ride Bikes,Clean the Earth C.More Bikes,Fewer Traffic Jams D.A Great Demand for Bike Exercise |
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April 25 is World Penguin Day, which is reported to have been started by researchers in Antarctica to celebrate the time of year that Adélie penguins begin moving north for the winter. Though it was started for Adélie penguins, it has been used for all of the world’s 17 different species of penguins. Meanwhile, penguins are also celebrated on January 20,which is known as Penguin Awareness Day. Most penguins spend about half their time on land and the rest in the sea. They depend on fish and other kinds of small sea life for food. However, climate change has had serious effects on penguins. Around two-thirds of penguin species are dropping in numbers and struggling to adjust. Warming seas, changing ice patterns, loss of food, and pollution are just a few of the problems faced by penguins. But there’s also happier penguin news. Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo announced the hatching of four penguin babies. Visitors to the zoo’s webcams(网络摄像机) were able to watch live as the baby birds came out, who are especially good news because they are northern rockhopper penguins-a species in danger of dying out. People who want to see the baby birds grow can watch them over the zoo’s webcamn. Dawn Nicoll, who’s in charge of penguins at the zoo, says there are 14 eggs in all, so it’s possible that more penguin babies will hatch soon. With the zoo struggling to live on, it hopes the webcams will also encourage people to contribute to it. Another piece of good news about penguins is that two male gentoo penguins, called Sphen and Magic, paired up and began to make a nest. The workers gave the pair an extra egg from another penguin couple(Gentoo penguins may lay more than one egg, but they only raise one baby.)Sphen and Magic turned out to be great parents. They raised a baby girl, who’s known as “Sphengic”. 【1】Why was World Penguin Day set up initially? A.To take the place of Penguin Awareness Day. B.To mark the day penguins move northward. C.To appeal to people to protect wild penguins. D.To call for more attention to penguin babies. 【2】What can we infer about Edinburgh Zoo? A.Its finances are not in good shape. B.It attracts more and more visitors. C.Its environment is unfit for penguins. D.It advocates hatching more eggs once. 【3】What do the last two paragraphs mainly talk about? A.Entertainment programs for zoos. B.Introduction to the rare penguins. C.Studies on penguins’ living habits. D.Efforts to increase penguin numbers. 【4】Where is this text most likely from? A.A poster. B.A novel. C.A guidebook. D.A magazine. |
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While harmful, single-use plastics like bags, and other packaging make life easier, they’re hard to give up without an alternative, but that’s where Lucy Hughes’ creative idea comes in. The 24-year-old is a University of Sussex graduate whose school project in product design led to a brilliant invention. Lucy Hughes initially intended to figure out how to either reduce fish waste produced by the fishing industry or to turn it into something useful. What she came up with not only does both,but offers up a great alternative to single-use plastics. While Lucy was studying various waste streams at a fish processing plant in England, the fish skins and scales she touched felt surprisingly flexible and strong, which gave her a new idea. She began playing around in her kitchen with different combinations of fish waste and red algae(海藻). After more than 100 experiments, she knew she struck gold. She created MarinaTex, a stronger bio-plastic material that takes just four to six weeks to break down. It’s even fit to be eaten! And according to Lucy, just one Atlantic cod-a type of fish-can produce 1,400 MarinaTex bags. In 2019,Lucy was named the James Dyson Award UK winner for her invention, which she hopes to eventually produce in much larger quantity. She’ll be using her prize money for further MarinaTex research and development. Globally,320 million tones of plastic gets produced each year-a figure that’s set to double by 2034, according to Surfers Against Sewage. Yet 90.5% of all plastic has never been recycled. That means that a lot of plastic gets burnt-creating greenhouse gases that then may warm the planet, causing climate change-or sent to landfill, and eventually, some plastic reaches the oceans, harming sea creatures that often consume the materials by accident, and even end up back in the human food chain too. Now MarinaTex could be used to settle the problems. 【1】What is Lucy’s original purpose of the school project in product design? A.To invent a new kind of plastic. B.To produce new food for fish. C.To deal with fish waste better. D.To break down used plastics. 【2】How did Lucy create MarinaTex? A.By accident completely. B.By her hard research work. C.Under the plant’s guidance. D.With her prize money’s help. 【3】Which of the following can best describe MarinaTex? A.It’s environmental-friendly. B.It’s convenient to produce. C.It’s been used in large quantity. D.It can be used to feed fish. 【4】What do we know about the present global plastic use? A.It’s helping to reduce climate changes. B.More people have realized it’s harmful. C.It is under control in parts of the world. D.People tend to rely more and more on it. |
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Marley Dias was named after singer Bob Marley. One of her parents is Jamaican and the other Cape Verdean. 【1】 “I wasn’t seeing girls like me--black girls who are smart,” she said. When Marley was 11, she complained to her mother that all the books she had to read at school were about white boys and dogs. 【2】 Marley determined to start a book drive--1000BlackGirlBooks, bringing more attention to literature presenting black female main characters. The campaign also called public attention to the lack of diversity in children’s literature. 【3】 Marley decided to donate the books to a school in Jamaica, where her mom is from. She was asked to speak on several big talk shows. “People were surprised because I’m 11. But they were also proud of me,” she explains. 【4】 In her book Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You, published at the age of 13, Marley shows kids how they can collect their strengths to make positive changes in their communities, while getting support from parents, teachers, and friends to turn dreams into reality. Focusing on the importance of literacy (识字) and diversity, Marley suggests books to read, and gives examples of strategies for becoming a lifelong reader. Marley thinks that writing and reading gives her creative freedom. 【5】 “When I create a story, I can make it however funny, sad, or happy I want it to be,” she said. A.Her campaign turned herself into an author. B.She loves just being able to do whatever she wants. C.She took an amazing action after talking to her mother. D.She said there wasn’t really any freedom for her to get books. E.She has collected more than 7,000 books of many different styles. F.Drawing from her experience,she hoped to write a book about her childhood. G.She noticed something important was missing from the books she was reading. |
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Miriam Schreiber of Hartford, Connecticut, is proof that it’s never too late to make your dreams come true. At 7, the Poland native’s ________ life was gone when World War II began. School was no longer a ________ as she and her family members spent years ________ the enemies-the Nazis. While Miriam came out a survivor, she’s always wished she could have ________ her education. This year, she finally made that dream come true by transforming her ________ into a well-deserved achievement! _____ starting first grade in September 1939, Miriam, with her family, was _________and on the move for months, hiding from enemies in villages and forests, but ________, it didn’t last long. They were ________ and sent to a slave labor camp in Siberia, where for six years Miriam watched her loved ones’ ________ At long last, they were ________ when Miriam was 14. Many years later, she married fellow survivor Saul Schreiber in Germany. ________, they moved to the U.S., where they raised their two sons. She refused to stop ________, while Miriam never got the _________to go back to school! She ________ knew Polish and Yiddish and went on to teach herself English, German, Hebrew, and Swedish. “I ________ myself,” she said. “I read books day and night. I still do.” Inspired by her ________, each student at Hartford’s New England Jewish Academy agreed that she ________ an honorary diploma. So on August 16, 2020, the 88-year-old finally achieved her dream of ________ high school! “When I got the ________, I burst into tears,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe it was mine.” 【1】A.difficult B.similar C.special D.normal 【2】A.possibility B.dream C.consequence D.promise 【3】A.destroying B.resisting C.avoiding D.watching 【4】A.recorded B.continued C.advocated D.reserved 【5】A.mistake B.choice C.failure D.regret 【6】A.Regardless of B.Instead of C.In addition to D.By comparison with 【7】A.scared B.shocked C.thrilled D.ashamed 【8】A.unreasonably B.uncertainly C.unwillingly D.unfortunately 【9】A.trusted B.suspected C.discovered D.lost 【10】A.sufferings B.misunderstandings C.behaviors D.actions 【11】A.hopeless B.ready C.forgotten D.freed 【12】A.Even B.Then C.Thus D.Still 【13】A.escaping B.learning C.waiting D.appealing 【14】A.chance B.idea C.habit D.principle 【15】A.personally B.gratefully C.already D.rather 【16】A.blamed B.educated C.concerned D.requested 【17】A.comment B.major C.story D.task 【18】A.delayed B.received C.deserved D.confirmed 【19】A.graduating from B.working for C.paying for D.benefiting from 【20】A.suggestion B.assessment C.update D.treasure |
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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。 The World Health Organization (WHO) says that 80% of the world’s teens don’t get enough exercise to live healthy lives. The report, which 【1】 (publish) in The Lancet in 2019, was based on research done with students 【2】 (age) 11 to 17 in 146 different countries. Doctors say 60 minutes of exercise is needed 【3】 teens to build up their bone and muscle strength. It’s also hugely 【4】 (importance) for the health of the heart and lungs. More and more research is showing that exercise doesn’t just help the body, but it can help the brain, too, 【5】 (improve) thinking, test scores, and school grades. Trevor Shilton, 【6】 works for the Heart 99 Foundation in Australia, says, “If this were a medicine, we’d all be taking it.” One of the big 【7】 (reason) for the lack of activity in today’s teens is technology, such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and TVs. Many teens find 【8】 very hard to pull themselves away from their devices, whether they are texting, playing games, or watching videos or movies. 【9】 (actual), exercise can be built into a normal day’s activities. For many people, walking or biking to school 【10】 (be) one way to make that happen. Even those who have to drive to school can get more exercise by parking farther away. |
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之问交换修改作文，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。 My primary school days were my most cheerfully days in my whole life. But my first days were hard. I was smallest pupil in my classes and I had short hair. My classmates made fun on me all the time, but called me “small carrot”. But being funny and helpful made them to love me soon. One day, ours teacher Mr. Smith asked us to draw a picture of our family. I drew four carrots. When asking by Mr. Smith why I drew four carrots, I said, “This is my family. They all look like carrots.” Hearing that I said, all pupils are laughing. However, I ended up standing at the back of the classroom. |
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假定你叫李华。你校英语俱乐部将举办有关体育运动的演讲比赛。请你写一篇演讲稿，内容包括： 1.不同学生参加运动的不同理由； 2.你喜欢的运动及想法； 3.你的呼吁。 注意：1.词数100左右； 2.开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。 Dear friends, The students in our school are interested in sports. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ That’s all for my speech, Thanks for listening. |
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