湖北省沙市高级中学2020-2021年高一下学期英语6月月考

If you are a college student looking for part-time job to make extra money, there are plenty of perfect choices for you.

Graphic Design

You can become a graphic designer to make money online if you have basic graphic skills. You can do lots of different tasks like creating business cards, or designing websites for business and individuals.

Pay rates can vary anywhere from $50 to $150 per hour, depending on your skills and experience.

Online Tutoring

Online tutoring is one of the best part-time jobs for students. You can tutor students of all ages in any subject you have knowledge in.

Pay rates for tutoring jobs online vary. You can earn anywhere from $10 to $50 per hour based on your skills, experience and the subject you teach.

Remote Data Entry

Remote data entry (录入) jobs are simple to do. These jobs don't require any degree or special skills to get started. The main skills you need to have are accuracy and fast typing.

Pay rates from online data entry jobs can vary. You can earn around $10-$16 per hour. Fast typing is necessary for earning more per hour.

Video Editing

If you can create attractive videos, you may as well edit videos. Video editors with experience are in high demand as websites like YouTube need high quality videos to gain more views. If you have some experience in video editing then you can make good money as a video editor.

You can earn anywhere from $25 to $50 per hour, depending on your skills.

You can do these jobs at any time convenient for you, meaning they can be managed along with your study.

It was our last class before summer break. I was finishing up the first year of an MFA program in poetry. I was tired and puzzled. “Was I good enough to be in the program?" When a professor asked about our summer plans, I panicked. I didn't want to appear idle. “Gardening," I responded immediately. Actually I knew nothing about plants! My professor nodded, saying, “What a good idea, Mari! Emily Dickinson loved gardening." Emily Dickinson has lived in the countryside, studying plants as a child. I was in my late twenties, living in the city without gardening experience.

A few days later, I bought a jalapeno seedling (青辣椒秧苗). At least I could say I'd tried gardening. I watered and changed the dirt for my little plant. I even talked to it. And over the summer, it grew bigger and bigger. I was proud. Maybe I didn't have a black thumb after all.

I started the second year of my MFA, and then it was almost December and my jalapeno was suffering. It was brown in some places; many of its leaves had fallen off. Would my little guy make it? I pray, “Please be okay." As if its survival were closely linked to mine.

I worked hard in school. Spring came. My jalapeno plant came back to life. It grew bigger, with new leaves. And then it flowered. I handed in my graduate paper — a book of poems — in May. “Your poems are strong," my professor said.

A huge weight lifted. I'd done it! At that time, I found the flowers on my jalapeno plant were gone. I watched closer. Where a flower had been, a tiny green fruit pushed through. I smiled. I had succeeded in my MFA program, and my jalapeno plant had grown right beside me, and I successfully did things I hadn't thought possible.

Any foreigner who has tried to learn Chinese can tell how hard it is to master the tones required to speak and understand. And anyone who has tried to learn to play the violin or other instruments can report similar challenges.

Now researchers have found that people with musical training have an easier time learning Chinese. Writing in the online edition of Nature Neuroscience, researchers from Northwestern University say that both skills draw on the same parts of the brain that help people discover changes in pitch(音调).

One of the study's authors, Nina Kraus, said the findings suggested that studying music “actually tunes our sensory system". This means that schools that want children to do well in languages should hesitate before cutting music programs, Dr. Kraus said. She said music training might also help children with language problems.

Mandarin speakers have been shown to have a more complex encoding(编码) of pitch patterns in their brains than English speakers do. This is because in Mandarin and other Asian languages, pitch plays a central role. A single­syllable word can have several meanings depending on how it is intoned.

For this study, the researchers looked at 20 non­Chinese speaking volunteers, half with no musical background and half who have studied an instrument for at least six years.

As they were shown a movie, the volunteers also heard an audio tape of the Mandarin word “mi" in three of its meanings: squint, bewilder and rice. The researchers recorded activities in their brain stems to see how well they were processing the sounds. Those with a music background showed much more brain activities in response to the Chinese sounds.

The lead author of the study, Patrick C.M.Wong, said it might work both ways. It appears that native speakers of tonal languages may do better at learning instruments.

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-month-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common. After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world, and the baby is, well, just playing…right? Perhaps, but some developmental psychologists have argued that this “play" is more like a scientific investigation than one might think.

Take a closer look at the baby playing at the table. Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge, it falls in the ground — and, in the process, it brings out important evidence about how physical objects interact; bowls of rice do not float, but require support to remain stable. It is likely that babies are not born knowing the basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it. Instead, babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experiments and then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact. Though their ranges and tools differ, the baby's investigation and the scientist's experiment appear to share the same aim (to learn about the natural world), overall approach (gathering direct evidence from the world), and logic (are my observations what I expected?).

Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means. For example, it may only be through repeated experiments, evidence gathering, and finally overturning a theory,  that a baby will come to accept the idea that other people can have different views and desires from what he or she has. For example, unlike the child, Mommy actually doesn't like Dove chocolate.

Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation throws light on how children learn, but it also offers an inspiring look at science and scientists. Why do young children and scientists seem to be so much alike? Psychologists have suggested that science as an effort — the desire to explore, explain, and understand our world — is simply something that comes from our babyhood. Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children. The same cognitive systems that make young children feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists. As some psychologists put it, “It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children."

Summer holiday is a time for sunbathing, swimming, playing games... and learning? It can, and maybe should be, just because that your kids are off from schools doesn't mean they need to turn their brains off. The following are activities your child can try during this holiday break.

• Get a job. Encourage them to get a paper route, operate a lemonade stand or offer to do yard work for neighbors for a small fee. By doing so, your child can learn valuable lessons, like patience, teamwork and creativity. In many ways these life lessons are invaluable.

• Volunteer for some service. If your child can't operate their own business or find work elsewhere, volunteering is always an option. Volunteering is another way they can learn invaluable lessons such as helping others.

• Read, read, read. Reading is an important ability that is used in nearly all other subjects. It's a good idea to keep your child's reading and comprehension skills sharp during the months. Since so many kids respond to electronic devices, have them read on a Nook or Kindle, if possible.

• If you're like many families, you might be taking a week-long vacation to the beach or taking trips to amusement parks. These activities are a big part of the season. However, if it's educational value you're looking for you might want to take some other travels as well. Zoos, museums, historical sites and nature reserves are just a few places where your child can have fun and learn at the same time.

A. Go on meaningful trips.

B. Travel across various places.

C. Encourage them to bring a book to the beach or pool.

D. They are required to read a specific number of books.

E. You should make sure your child has a productive summer.

F. They could donate their time to hospitals or homeless shelters.

G. They can't be taught in class as effectively as through hands-on experiences.

As a child, I had library phobia (恐惧症). I associated going to the library with doing research for a school project. I regarded reading as work, so going to the library for fun was out of my realm (范围) of 1.

Hard as they tried, my parents could not get me 2reading. They purchased a few of the Hardy Boys books. The books collected 3. The closest I came to 4to read was “The Big Green Book" by Robert Graves. Its lead 5, a boy of about 8, discovered a book of magic spells. I was 6 by it. I read it again and again. Certainly there was no 7 to go to the library.

8, I started reading novels in my 20s. To 9 going to the library, I joined the various 10 clubs. I didn't mind having to buy a book a month 11 I didn't have to go to the library.

My library phobia was 12 23 years ago when my family moved to Long Island. The East Meadow Library became a(n) 13 destination for my family. My children were 14 to books through the children's section with free programs that even I enjoyed. My children made 15, and I made friends with the parents.

Zoologists have long considered saving the giant panda from the edge of extinction as a conservation success story. For  (decade), the panda has been the “poster animal" for all endangered species. It is even on the logo of the World Wildlife Fund. It(remove) from the endangered species list in 2016, although it remains “vulnerable". Many conservationists are now concerned this has come at a cost of other mammals, especially those (share) its habitat.

Researcher Professor Sheng Li, from Peking University praised the efforts to protect the giant panda but said this has come at the expense of some of China's even (large) meat-eating mammals.

 panda conservation areas were established in  1960s, Asian wild dogs have disappeared from 95% of areas  (protect) by humans, leopards from 81%, wolves from 77%, and snow leopards from 38%. Professor Li said his findings “indicate the shortcoming(缺点) panda conservation for protecting these meat-eating species". However, he added, “Failing  (defend) these large meat-eating species does not remove the power of the giant panda as an umbrella that has  (effect) sheltered many other species."

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Dear fellow citizens,

A regulation has been issued recently that all citizens shall wear a helmet while riding an electric bicycle……

The family had just moved to Rhode Island, and the young woman was feeling a little sad on that Sunday in May. After all, it was Mother's Day-and 800 miles separated her from her parents in Ohio.

She had called her mother that morning to wish her a happy Mother's Day, and her mother had mentioned how colorful the yard was now that spring had arrived. As they talked, the younger woman could almost smell the fragrance (香味) of purple lilacs (紫丁香) hanging on the big bush outside her parents' back door. Later, when she mentioned to her husband how she missed those lilacs, he popped up from his chair. “I know where we can find all you want," he said.

So off they went, driving the country roads of northern Rhode Island on the kind of day only mid-may can produce: warm sunshine, unclouded blue skies and vibrant (充满生机的) newness of the green and growing all around.

Before they got halfway up the hill, the fragrance of the lilacs drifted down to them, and the kids started running. Soon, the mother began running, too, until she reached the top. With a smile, the young woman rushed up to the nearest bush and buried her face in the flowers, drinking in the fragrance and the memories it brought back. Carefully, she chose a sprig (小枝) here, another one there. Finally, though, they returned their car for the trip home. While the kids chattered and the man drove, the woman sat smiling, surrounded by her flowers, a faraway look in her eyes.

When they were within three miles for home, she suddenly shouted to her husband, “Stop the car. Stop right here!" The man slammed on the brakes (刹车). Before he could ask her why she wanted to stop, the woman was out of the car and hurrying up a nearby grassy slope (斜坡) with the lilacs still in her arms.

At the top of the hill was a nursing home and, because it was such a beautiful spring day, the patients were outdoors strolling with relatives or sitting on the porch. Among them was an elderly lady, sitting in her wheelchair alone, head bowed, her back to most of the others.

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The young woman went directly to her, holding the flowers tightly.                         

“Mom, who was that lady?" the kids asked as the car pulled away.