German doctors have warned that headbanging(随音乐猛烈摇头晃脑)could be bad for you.Headbanging is a dance from heavy metal music.Dancers shake their heads backwards 1. forwards，from side to side，very 2.(quick)．Doctors say the dance could lead to brain injury.They once 3.(treat) a 50yearold heavy metal fan.His headbanging led to brain damage.The man had no history of head injuries but had been headbanging for many years.The doctors say the risk of brain damage from headbanging 4.(be) low, so heavy metal fans 5. not need to stop doing the dance.
The man had bad headaches 6. going to a concert.He had a brain scan at a hospital.Doctors found bleeding inside his brain.He had an 7.(operate) to repair the damage.Doctors drilled a hole in his brain 8.(release) the blood.Two months later，his headaches disappeared.The head doctor said，“We are not against headbanging.The risk of injury is very，very low.If our patient 9.(go) to a classical concert，this would not have happened.”He suggested heavy metal fans should carry on dancing，10.(say)，“Rock‘n’roll will never die.Heavy metal fans should rock on.”
(2016·郑州模拟)For Donna Peters，a dream of living in Cowra comes true.She _____ for more than a decade that this was where she wanted to live，and since then she has been working to _____ it happen.
“I drove through a few times and loved the _____ of the town.When I drove through the town the second or third time，I _____，‘I love this town and I am going to move here.’” she said.
Donna moved here in May _____ everything seemed to fall into place.
“I had been coming down once a month for a while looking for houses，I _____ one and applied for this job at the same time and it all _____．I would have moved here anyway _____ I hadn't got a good job，”she said.
Since moving to town Donna has been able to boat down the Lachlan River，try out a few of the local bushwalking tracks and is _____ learning new things.Donna's friends and family have ________ her a few times since she moved to town，and they love it ______．Some of her visitors have even ______ to move here.
“I have a few friends looking for ______ around town，my son has even told me that he thinks he might like to live here，”she said.
Donna would love to see Cowra ______ itself as a great tourism destination.
“There is so much here and it is a ______ that people just drive through on their way to one of the other towns.I think Cowra has so much ______ and should make the most of that，”she said.
Donna turned down the opportunity to ______ a life coach seminar(研讨会)with work recently because she doesn't need anyone to tell her ______ to work towards her goals.Her ______ finally has been turned into reality and she ______ to stay in Cowra forever.
1.A. knew B. longed C. guessed D. wished
2.A. get B. feel C. want D. make
3.A. streets B. feeling C. sound D. people
4.A. explained B. thought C. approved D. convinced
5.A. unless B. before C. after D. since
6.A. noticed B. observed C. found D. bought
7.A. brought out B. went out C. turned out D. worked out
8.A. but B. if C. so D. though
9.A. even B. ever C. still D. then
10.A. called B. asked C. trusted D. visited
11.A. either B. also C. too D. already
12.A. decided B. managed C. afforded D. pretended
13.A. jobs B. houses C. possibilities D. tracks
14.A. entertain B. sell C. laugh D. recall
15.A. waste B. pride C. shock D. shame
16.A. potential B. power C. time D. value
17.A. hold B. attend C. arrange D. adopt
18.A. where B. when C. why D. how
19.A. promise B. effort C. dream D. tale
20.A. insists B. keeps C. plans D. tries
假设你是红星中学高二（1）班学生李华。请你根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，给21世纪英文报写一封稿件，介绍上周你班同学参观北京市规划展览馆（Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall）的全过程。
注意：同数不少于60；
提示如：沙盘 urban planning model 讲解员 docent
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李平，你的英国笔友Chris即将高中毕业，他在邮件中和你探讨上大学的问题。请你给Chris回复邮件，告诉他你的想法，内容包括：
1. 上大学的重要性；
2. 选择大学考虑的因素。
注意：1. 词数不少于50；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
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Li Hua
A Wonder Plant
Every rainy season, the mountain gorillas (大猩猩) of Central Africa migrate to the foothills and lower parts of the Virunga Mountains to feed on bamboo. For the 650 or so that remain in the wild, it’s a vital food source. 1. Gorillas aren’t the only locals keen on bamboo. For the people near the mountains, it’s a valuable raw material used for building houses and making household items. But in the past 100 years, resources have come under increasing pressure as populations have exploded and large areas of bamboo forest have been cleared to make way for farms.
2. All over the world, the ranges of many bamboo species appear to be reducing, endangering the people and animals that depend upon them. A report published by the UN Environment Programme has revealed just how profound our ignorance of global bamboo resources is.
Bamboo is a wonder plant. Its ecological role extends beyond providing food and habitat for animals. Bamboo tends to grow in stands made up of groups of individual plants that grow from root systems. Its extensive root systems are crucial in preventing water loss and soil erosion.3. In India 25% of paper produced is made from bamboo fiber, and in Brazil, 100,000 hectares of bamboo are grown for its production. Because of its flexibility and strength, it has traditionally been used in construction. Bamboo is often the only readily available raw material for people in many developing countries.
4. Ray Townsend, vice president of the British Bamboo Society, says, “Some plants are threatened because they can’t survive in the habitat—they aren’t strong enough or there aren’t enough of them, perhaps. But bamboo can take care of itself-it is strong enough to survive if left alone.5.” When forest goes, it is transformed into something else: there isn’t anywhere for forest plants such as bamboo to grow if you create a cattle grass land.
A. Sadly, this isn’t a single story.
B. It is the physical disturbance that is the threat to bamboo.
C. Until now, bamboo has been viewed as a second-class plant.
D. Without it, their chances of survival would be reduced significantly.
E. Besides, bamboo’s most immediate significance lies in its economic value.
F. More than a billion people rely on bamboo for either their shelter or income.
G. Despite bamboo’s value in economy and ecology, its situation is all the more worrying.
That robots, automation, and software can replace people might seem obvious to anyone who’s worked in automotive manufacturing. But MIT business scholars Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s claim is more troubling and controversial. They believe that rapid technological change has been destroying jobs faster than it is creating them.
They believe that technology increases productivity and makes societies wealthier, but it became clear to them that the same technologies making many jobs safer, easier, and more productive were also reducing the demand for many types of human workers. Technologies like the Web, artificial intelligence, and big data are automating many routine tasks. Countless traditional white-collar jobs, such as many in the post office and in customer service, have disappeared.
As evidence, Brynjolfsson and McAfee point to a chart on which separate lines represent productivity and total employment in the United States. For years after World War II, the two lines closely tracked each other, with increases in jobs corresponding to increases in productivity. Then, beginning in 2000, the lines diverge; productivity continues to rise steadily, but employment suddenly shrinks. By 2011, a significant gap appears between the two lines, showing economic growth with no parallel increase in job creation.
United States Productivity and Employment
But are these new technologies really responsible for a decade of lackluster (无生气) job growth? David Autor, an economist at MIT who has studied the connections between jobs and technology, doubts that technology could account for such a sudden change in total employment. Moreover, he also doubts that productivity has, in fact, risen steadily in the United States in the past decade. If he’s right, it raises the possibility that poor job growth could be simply a result of a depressed economy. The sudden slowdown in job creation “is a big puzzle,” he says, “but there’s not a lot of evidence that it’s linked to computers.” “To be sure, computer technologies are changing the types of jobs available, but that is very different from saying technology is affecting the total number of jobs,” he adds. “Jobs can change a lot without there being huge changes in employment rates.”
Lawrence Katz, a Harvard economist, says that while technological changes can be painful for workers whose skills no longer match the needs of employers, no historical pattern shows these shifts leading to a net decrease in jobs over an extended period. Still, Katz doesn’t dismiss the notion that there is something different about today’s digital technologies. Though he expects the historical pattern to hold, it is “genuinely a question,” he says. “If technology disrupts enough, who knows what will happen?”
1.Which period on the chart strongly supports McAfee’s claim?
A. 1947—1967. B. 1985—1987.
C. 1997—2000. D. 2011—2013.
2.According to David Autor, the change in job growth ________.
A. is not necessarily caused by technology
B. results from a weakening economy
C. has no connection with productivity
D. affects the current types of jobs
3.What is Lawrence Katz’s attitude towards the topic?
A. Optimistic. B. Defensive.
C. Objective. D. Disapproving.
4.The main purpose of the passage is to ________.
A. show the relation between productivity and job creation
B. discuss the effect of technological advances on employment
C. argue against the wide use of artificial intelligence
D. explain the impact of technologies on productivity
