On his way home, he had his pocket .
A. stolen B. picked
C. robbed D. stealing
the course very difficult, she decided to move to a lower level.
A. Find B. Finding
C. To find D. Found
Shakespeare’s play Hamlet into at least ten different films over the past years.
A. had been made B. was made
C. has been made D. would be made
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Before she was crowned (加冕) Miss Amazing National in Chicago, US, Vanessa Cleary had never thought of herself as a beauty pageant (选美) competitor.
Yet the way in which Vanessa told the story of her birth mother’s struggle to help her with her disabilities and the positive impact her adoption had on her life helped her win over the judges last month. After the pageant, in which she took top honors in the junior teen division, the 15- year-old girl said she’s looking forward to telling her friends about her experience so they can join in as well. “I want everyone to have the experience I had,” Vanessa said. “It was really fun and I really enjoyed it.”
Miss Amazing is a pageant for girls with learning disabilities. In the ten years since it began, 1700 girls with disabilities have benefited from it. The pageant is designed to help the girls who participate to build sisterhoods, develop life skills, and increase visibility for those in the disabled community.
The main event of the pageant is the stage performance, in which participants get to showcase a talent of their choice. When Vanessa’s mother first heard about Miss Amazing, she thought the pageant would be a great opportunity for Vanessa to showcase her skill for public speaking. Vanessa wants to be a teacher to teach other students who have disabilities like her.
Vanessa’s vision and hearing is impaired, and she has a disability that makes reading difficult for her. Despite this, she is very active and loves public speaking. For Vanessa, it wasn’t about winning the pageant. It was about the opportunity for her to participate and feel supported.
1.Who is Vanessa Cleary? (within 15 words)
2.What’s the aim of the pageant? (within 20 words).
3.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “impaired”? (within 5 words)
4.What is Vanessa’s talent show in the pageant? (within 5 words)
5.What do you think is the most important for Vanessa to win this year’s Miss Amazing pageant?(within 15 words)
The health of millions could be at risk because supplies of medicinal plants are being used up. These plants are used to make traditional medicine, including drugs to fight cancer. “The loss of medicinal plants is a quiet disaster,” says Sara Oldfield, secretary general of the NGO Botanic Gardens Conservation International.
Most people worldwide rely on herbal (药草制的) medicines which are got mostly from wild plants. But some 15,000 of the 50,000 medicinal species are under threat of dying out, according to report from the international conservation group Plantlife. Shortages have been reported in China, India, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda.
Over-harvesting does the most harm, though pollution and competition from invasive species (入侵物种) and habitat destruction all contribute. “Businessmen generally harvest medicinal plants, not caring about sustainability (可持续性),” the Plantlife report says, “damage is serious partly because they have no idea about it, but it is mainly because such collection is unorganized.” Medicinal trees at risk include the Himalayan yew (紫衫) and the African cherry, which are used to treat some cancers.
The solution, says the report’s author, Alan Hamilton, is to encourage local people to protect these plants. Ten projects studied by Plantlife in India, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Uganda and Kenya showed this method can succeed. In Uganda, the project has kept a sustainable supply of low-cost cancer treatments, and in China a public-run medicinal plant project has been created for the first time.”
“Improving health, earning an income and keeping cultural traditions are important in encouraging people to protect medicinal plants,” says Hamilton, “You have to pay attention to what people are interested in.”
Ghillean Prance, the former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, agrees that medicinal plants are in need of protection. “Not nearly enough is being done,” he told New Scientist. “We are destroying the very plants that are of most use to us.”
1.From the first two paragraphs, we can learn that ________.
A. millions of people are threatened with-cancer
B. most countries see a shortage of herbal medicines
C. about two thirds of medicinal species will disappear
D. a number of medicinal species are in danger of extinction
2.The major factor that causes the decreasing of supplies of medicinal plants is ________.
A. pollution B. habitat destruction
C. over-harvesting D. invasive species
3.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.
A. over-harvesting B. sustainability
C. other species’ invasion D. pollution
4.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Protecting medicinal plants has a long way to go.
B. Ghillean Prance is optimistic about medicinal plants’ future.
C. Local people don’t know how to protect medicinal plants.
D. China has made great progress in protecting medicinal plants.
5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Low-cost Cancer Treatment
B. The Importance of Sustainability
C. Medicinal Plants on Verge of Extinction
D. Sustainable Development of the Environment
