Optional evening workshops will be held at small restaurants or other meeting places near the conference hotel. Meals and other costs are not included but are also optional. Locations will be announced at the conference site. Workshops are very loosely organized and most represent discussions that have been held at Society for Economic Botany (SEB) meetings over a series of years.
Workshop 1: Student Network
Date: Wednesday evening, Feb. 5th
Chairs: Hugo de Boer and Arika Virapongse
Sponsor: Society for Economic Botany
Description: Student members of the SEB hold a networking mixer each year in order to meet each other and to become familiar with a variety of educational programs and faculty advisors(大学指导老师). Faculty members who are part of training programs are encouraged to join the mixer to meet and talk with students.
Workshop 2: Botanical Film Making
Date : Wednesday evening, Feb. 5th
Chair : David Strauch
Sponsor : University of Hawaii
Description : Digital film making is a particularly useful tool of linking cultural information to recognizable plants. This workshop is aimed towards increasing the quality of material recorded by giving participants greater control over the medium. We will cover technical aspects (e.g. camera settings, audio), technical aspects (framing, lighting, focus), and some ways of presenting the material. Experienced filmmakers are encouraged to attend, and participants are welcome to bring their own camera equipment.
Workshop 3: Collections for Botany
— Collections Development and Management
Date: Friday evening, Feb. 7th
Chair: Jan Salick
Sponsor: Society for Economic Botany
Description: SEB is a network of researchers who have been developing standards for the development of collections of artifacts, plant samples and related materials. Participants discuss successes, problems, and funding sources for solving management issues.
1.One of the purposes of a networking mixer held each year is to ________.
A. provide students with greater control over the media
B. help the students to be familiar with educational programs
C. help the students to deal with most of the environment issues
D. link cultural information to recognizable plants
2.Which of the following is true according to the poster?
A. Evening workshops will be held at small restaurants with meals included.
B. Faculty advisers can join the mixer without training experience.
C. Workshops have nothing to do with the discussions held at SEB meetings.
D. Participants have more than one option on Feb. 5th than another night.
3.You are a college student, interested in plants and good at taking TV pictures. Which of the Evening Workshops is most suitable for you?
A. Collections for Botany. B. Botanical Film Making.
C. Student Network. D. Society for Economic Botany.
Many people in high school cannot wait to go to college and leave their hometown behind. Questions arise, though, when it comes to all of the decisions involved in choosing a college.
One of the first considerations may be finance. State and public colleges are often the least expensive. Often, though, the better colleges are private and more expensive. It is sad when gifted students cannot attend a college of their choice just for financial reasons.
Another major factor is location. Whether the college is in a small town or large city can have a major impact on its activities. A water lover probably will be more comfortable spending four years near an ocean or a lake. Those who cannot tolerate heat will probably be more comfortable at a northern college. Distance from home may also come into consideration. If family is a top priority, that person should stay close to home; on the other hand, if independence is desired, a campus farther from home would be more appropriate.
School size also plays a major role in the decision process. If you want to get to know your teachers, a small college is suitable. For those of you who consider yourself a “ people person” and want a wide range of activities, a large college is more fitting. Your area of interest is another factor to consider in the decision-making process if you want to get the most from your education. The whole point of college is to learn what is of interest to you.
Crucially(至关重要地), one must take into consideration the colleges by which you can realistically be accepted. An Ivy League school for an average student would probably not be a good match. Similarly, an average school for an above-average student would not work well. The college should provide enough of a challenge for the student to work hard. Although there may not be the perfect college out there, there probably will be one that is close. Those who cannot find a suitable college are probably not looking hard enough.
1.When it comes to going to college the author thinks ________.
A. financial situation is the first to consider
B. students are unwilling to leave their home
C. students will become homesick
D. students are eager to attend their ideal university
2.What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. Students can be independent at college.
B. A long distance will make students upset.
C. The location of the college is a main factor.
D. The climate must be taken into consideration.
3.What does the underlined part people person in the passage mean?
A. A person of great capacity. B. A very particular person.
C. A very sociable person. D. A person of great importance.
4.Which is the most important factor when choosing a college?
A. The location of a college.
B. The examination result.
C. School size.
D. The coming challenges.
Amy Pankratz spent a few nights in the hospital with her daughter, Isabella, who caught a bad flu. “Lying in bed beside Isabella, I could hear the cries of children in pain, ”says Amy. “It completely broke my heart. ”
When Isabella was getting well and could leave her room, she wore her prized possession—a “superhero cape(短斗篷)”Amy had sewn to encourage her—and walked into the hallway. The pink cape was an instant hit with the other young patients, who were doing exercise around the nursing station. Then, all the kids were taking turns wearing the cape, giggling, ”Amy says. “These were some of the same children I had heard crying the night before, and here they were playing and having fun—kids just being kids! ”
From that moment on, Amy began making Comfort Capes for little ones battling with serious illnesses. “I felt God presenting an opportunity, ”she says. “I hoped Comfort Capes can help these kids feel brave, to lift some of the fear away. ”
Since then, Amy has made and donated more than 5, 000 capes in the United States. Amy usually pays for materials herself, although she accepts donations.
The capes she makes for kids in treatment are different from those her own children have. Before Amy starts to sew she learns what image or character the little boy or girl connects with. “ I choose the pattern, color and theme specially for each child,” explains Amy.
When she is not sewing, Amy is raising awareness of childhood cancers and looking into ways to get Comfort Capes to more kids who need them, “ If a cape can help a child, even only for a moment, forget his illness, its worth the time spent sewing, she says.
1.What made Amy feel sad when she was staying with her daughter in the hospital?
A. Her daughters serious illness.
B. The cries of children in pain.
C. The tiredness from sewing the cape.
D. The illness of children in her daughters room.
2.What purpose did Amy have when she began making Comfort Capes for sick children?
A. To make them feel warm.
B. To find friends for her daughter.
C. To make them happy and fearless.
D. To raise the awareness of childrens illness.
3.According to the passage, we can get that the authors attitude toward Amys behaviour is ________.
A. indifferent B. neutral
C. negative D. supportive
4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Turning Sick Kids into Superheroes
B. How to Treat the Sick Children
C. A Strong Mom Who Helps Others
D. Amy: a Considerate Woman
高三学生学习任务繁重。体育课已成为难得的放松时间, 可目前你们体育课内容单一，有时甚至被其他学科占用。请你用英语写一篇短文，给校报投稿, 词数120左右。内容应包括：
1. 目前体育课的现状
2. 你对此现象的看法
3. 提出一些合理的建议
Dear editor,
As the college entrance examination is drawing near,
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Yours Sincerely，
Self-motivation is a great way for doing things better in life. Exercising not only helps you to stay fit, but also freshens up your body from within. Despite being aware of the benefits of exercise, people fail to put it in their lives, because their motivation is very limited.
An optimistic attitude will not only help you to try continuously, but also make sure you fight all possible difficulties easily. On the other hand, a pessimistic attitude will show you only the bad in what you want to do, stopping your will to try at the very beginning.
To be determined about something takes a lot of courage. It’s very easy to give up and everyone can do it. To continuously keep at it, putting in the same efforts all the time, takes courage. Be determined to lose weight. Tell yourself you have to do it.
If your role model has been in your mind, then you are very likely to follow him or her. So why not follow the path by which they have got an envious figure?
Always feel good about where you work out. This way you will be regular with your workout schedule, gradually noticing the positive effects it has on you. This makes sure that you think your surroundings positively in your mind and that your probability of visiting it increases.
Every time you lose a decided number of pounds, congratulate yourself, relax your muscles or shop for relaxation.
If you have a fast-paced lifestyle, you won’t even realize when time flies by. By exercising regularly, you’re adding more years to your life. A long life is the best motivation, isn’t it?
Apart from all these things, you must set a goal and encourage all your energy towards achieving it. Last but not least, it’s very important that you enjoy what you are doing, whether it’s working out at the gym, or practicing yoga at home.
Title: How to motivate yourself to 1._______ | |
introduction | People can’t insist on exercising in their lives because they don’t have 2._______ motivation. |
Tips
| ●When you have an optimistic attitude, you can try continuously and have no difficulty 3.____ all possible difficulties. ●To lose weight, you should put in the same efforts all the time and 4._____ at it with courage. ●Choose a person who has got a perfect figure as your 5._____ and follow their path to exercise. ●Feeling good about where you work out has some 6._____ effects on you. ●Once you have 7._____ a certain number of pounds, you’d better congratulate yourself. ●For a long term, exercising regularly 8.______ that you’re adding more years to your life. ●9. ____ a goal is helpful for encouraging all your energy towards achieving it. |
conclusion | Since exercise has so many 10.____, you’d better enjoy what you are doing, whether it’s working out at the gym, or practicing yoga at home. |
Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts(蝗虫) that are traveling across the continent eating everything in their path.
And now in the battle to stop this disaster, a radio station in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners 50 kilograms of locusts. “We think this idea will get more people to take part in the war on the locusts.” said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-Fm, a radio station in one of Senegal’s worst affected area.
This is West Africa’s biggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing huge damage to crops. As they move they produce young and increase their number and will soon threaten Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.
Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suffering from food shortage and war could cast many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fight the pest.
Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6,000 hectares per day with pesticide(杀虫剂), but we need to treat 20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster,” said Mohamed Adballahi Ould Babah, director of locust control in Mauritania.
Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the disaster, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned.
1.By using “dark cloud” to describe locusts in the first paragraph, the author mainly meant to______.
A. show the size, speed and damage of the mass of locusts
B. suggest the high speed that locusts travel at
C. warn that locusts would sweep the continent severely
D. hint that they look like dark monster
2.The story is mainly about______.
A. West Africa’s united effort in fighting a disaster
B. the difficulty in controlling locusts
C. the great damage locusts caused to West Africa
D. a struggle to fight against a disaster brought by locusts in West Africa
3.According to the text we learn that the locust disaster______.
A. can be even more serious in Asia
B. is then out of control
C. has affected greatly most areas
D. cannot be stopped unless twice as much pesticide is provided for the affected areas
4.Which of the following is WRONG？
A. Sud-Fm offered a reward for fighting locusts so that more people would join in the effort.
B. Senegal is to southwest of Sudan.
C. The locusts can cause such damage mainly because it has no natural enemy in West Africa.
D. 12 countries affected by locusts have untied but still lack pesticide.
