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The giant vending machine（自动售货机）is a new village shop
Villagers have long been used to 1. (face) a drive when they run out of basic supplies. 2., help is now nearer at hand in the form of the country's first automatic push-button shop. Now residents in the Derbyshire village of Clifton can buy groceries around the clock after the huge vending was installed outside a pub in the village this week.
Peter Fox, who is 3. electrical engineer, spent two and a half years working on the project. The machine 4. (equip) with security cameras and alarms, and looks like a mini shop with a brick front, a grey roof and a display window.
Mr. Fox said he hoped his invention, 5. is set to be installed in other villages in the area over the coming months, will mark a return to convenience shopping for rural communities.
He said: "I had this idea a few years ago but I couldn't find a manufacturer who could deliver what I wanted, so I did it by 6.. The result is what amounts to a huge outdoor vending machine. Yet I think the term automatic shop is far 7. (appropriate)."
In recent years, the commercial pressure from supermarket chains 8. (force) village shops across the country to close. In 2010, it was estimated that about 400 village shops closed, 9. (urge) the local government to give financial support to struggling shops or set-up new community stores.
Hundreds of communities have since stepped in and opened up their own volunteer-run shops, but Mr. Fox hopes his new invention will offer a solution 10. those villages without a local shop.
单词拼写
1.A boat is ________ (漂浮) on the quiet lake.
2.In Britain, it is a ________ (传统) to give children chocolate eggs at Easter.
3.Could you _________ (批准) the dates we discussed?
4.What ______ (使印象深刻) us most are your art skills.
5.She used an umbrella to _______ (遮住) herself from the sunshine.
6.She _______ (激励) those who want to cheer the achievements of women.
7.Even running the yellow light will be charged, so you had better _______ (遵守) the traffic rule strictly.
8.Your _______ (支持) is important to our work.
9.The diamond is _______ (围绕) by six smaller jewels.
10.You must go through customs in order to pass across the _______ (边界).
A wealthy old lady decides to travel to Africa, taking her faithful old dog Cuddles along for company. One day, the dog starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that he’s______. Wandering about, he notices a______heading in his direction with the intention of eating him for lunch. The old dog thinks, “Oh, oh! I’m in deep______now!” Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he______settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the______leopard.
Just as the leopard is about to______, the old dog exclaims loudly, “Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I______if there are any more around here?” Hearing this, the young leopard stops his attack in mid-strike, a look of______comes over him and he runs back into the trees. “Whew!”, says the leopard, “That was close! That dog nearly______me!”
Meanwhile, a monkey who had been______the whole scene from a nearby tree decides that he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for______from the leopard. So off he goes … but the old dog sees him______the leopard and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, and explains that the dog is______and strikes a deal with the leopard.
The young leopard is angry about being______and says, “Here, monkey, jump on my back and see what’s going to happen to that______dog!”
The old dog sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, “What am I going to do now?” But instead of______, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers,_____he hasn’t seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to______, the old dog says: “Where’s that darn monkey? I______him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!”
Life is not about holding all the good cards, but in______those that you hold well.
1.A. hungry B. lost C. tired D. bored
2.A. hunter B. traveler C. leopard D. monkey
3.A. trouble B. sorrow C. fear D. regret
4.A. suddenly B. certainly C. excitedly D. immediately
5.A. approaching B. waiting C. passing D. wandering
6.A. move B. leave C. eat D. attack
7.A. doubt B. question C. wonder D. guess
8.A. confusion B. terror C. shock D. anger
9.A. defeated B. murdered C. had D. disturbed
10.A. reporting B. performing C. watching D. judging
11.A. shelter B. protection C. food D. service
12.A. looking for B. heading after C. staring at D. escaping from
13.A. harmless B. dangerous C. stupid D. intelligent
14.A. doubted B. underrated C. hurt D. fooled
15.A. wise B. strong C. pitiful D. bad
16.A. running B. explaining C. standing D. trembling
17.A. realizing B. pretending C. wishing D. expecting
18.A. hear B. observe C. touch D. fight
19.A. dropped B. put C. sent D. saw
20.A. accepting B. keeping C. learning D. playing
Smarter Studying
How did you learn how to ride your bike? Someone probably gave you a few lessons and then you practiced a lot. 1. No one is born knowing how to study. You need to learn a few study skills and then practice them.
Pay attention: Good studying starts in class
When you pay attention in class, you are starting the process of learning and studying, Do you have trouble paying attention in class? Are you sitting next to a loud person? Is it hard to see the board? 2.
Good notes = Easier studying
3. Try your best to use good handwriting so you can read your notes later. It’s also a good idea to keep your notes and papers organized by subject.
4.
Waiting until Thursday night to study for Friday’s test will make a night no fun! It also makes it hard to do your best. We’re all guilty （内疚的）about putting things off sometimes. One of the best ways to make sure that doesn’t happen is to make a schedule of what to do.
Sleep tight(充分地)
So the test is tomorrow and you’ve followed your study plan, but suddenly you can’t remember anything! Don’t panic(恐慌). 5. Try to get a good night’s sleep and you’ll be surprised by what comes back to you in the morning
A. Plan ahead
B. Break it up
C. You can learn how to study in the same way.
D. Your brain needs time to digest（消化） all the information you’ve given it.
E. Be sure to ask your teacher for help if you’ve confused about something.
F. Start by writing down facts that your teacher writes on the board during the class.
G. Tell your teacher about any problems that are preventing you from paying attention.
Since English biologist Charles Darwin (1809 –1882) published On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have vastly improved their knowledge of natural history. However, a lot of information is still the subject of speculation, and scientists can still only make educated guesses at certain things.
One subject that they guess about is why some 400 million years ago, animals in the sea developed limbs (肢) that allowed them to move onto and live on land.
Recently, an idea that occurred to the US paleontologist (古生物学家) Alfred Romer a century ago became a hot topic once again.
Sea animals would have been forced into these pools by strong tides. Then, they would have been made either to adapt to their new environment close to land or die. The fittest among them grew to accomplish the transition (过渡) from sea to land. Romer thought that tidal pools might have led to fish gaining limbs.
Romer called these earliest four-footed animals “tetrapods” (四足动物). Science has always thought that this was a credible theory, but only recently has there been strong enough evidence to support it.
Hannah Byrne is an oceanographer (海洋学家) at Uppsala University in Sweden. She announced at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Oregon, US, on Feb 15 that by using computer software, her team had managed to link Romer’s theory to places where fossil deposits (化石沉积) of the earliest tetrapods were found.
According to the magazine Science, in 2014, Steven Balbus, a scientist at the University of Oxford in the UK, calculated that 400 million years ago, when the move from land to sea was achieved, tides were stronger than they are today. This is because the planet was 10 percent closer to the moon than it is now.
The creatures stranded in the pools would have been under the pressure of “survival of the fittest”, explained the UK’s University of Bangor ocean scientist Mattias Green. As he told Science: “After a few days in these pools, you become food or you run out of food … the fish that had large limbs had an advantage because they could flip (空翻) themselves back in the water”.
As is often the case, however, there are others who find the theory less convincing. Cambridge University paleontologist Jennifer Clark, speaking to Nature magazine, seemed unconvinced. “It’s only one of many ideas for the origin of land-dwelling (陆地栖息的) tetrapods, any or all of which may have been a part of the answer,” she said.
1.Who first proposed the theory that fish might have gained limbs because of tidal pools?
A. Charles Darwin. B. Alfred Romer.
C. Hannah Byrne. D. Steven Balbus.
2.Why were tides stronger 400 million years ago than they are today according to Steven Balbus?
A. Earth moved faster than it does today.
B. Earth was closer to the sun than it is today.
C. Earth was closer to the moon than it is today.
D. Earth had larger oceans than it does today.
3.What does the underlined word “stranded” in Paragraph 8 mean?
A. Trapped. B. Settled.
C. Survived. D. Adapted.
4.What is the focus of the article?
A. The proposal of a new scientific theory.
B. The arguments over a scientific theory.
C. Some new evidence to support a previous theory.
D. A new discovery that questions a previous theory.
Not many women have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Until 2004, no African woman ever had. That was when Dr. Wangari Maathai won it — for planting trees. You might ask, what do trees have to do with peace? “Many wars are fought over resources (资源),” Dr. Maathai said as she accepted the prize. “If we conserve resources better, the fighting will stop.”
Dr. Maathai was born in Kenya in 1940. Unlike most African women, she went to school. High school woke up a hunger in her for more knowledge. She went to college in Kansas and earned a master’s degree in science from the University of Pittsburgh. She became the first Kenyan woman ever to earn a Ph.D. Later, Dr. Maathai taught animal science at Kenya’s University of Nairobi.
As an educated woman, Dr. Maathai feels responsible for leading others. Dr. Maathai started her work in 1977 by planting nine trees in her backyard in Kenya. Trees are important in Africa for several reasons. First, they keep soil from eroding (流失) into streams, thus cutting down on pollution and improving the soil. Second, trees provide firewood. So many trees have been cut down in Africa that women must walk far from home to find wood for cooking. New trees can also keep deserts from spreading.
Dr. Maathai’s Green Belt Movement pays local women for every tree they plant that is still alive three months later. In its first 15 years, the Green Belt Movement employed at least 50,000 women and planted more than 10 million trees. Following Dr. Maathai’s example, the Kenyan government increased its own tree-planting efforts. The movement has spread to 30 countries in Africa. When the land and people’s lives have improved, Dr. Maathai says, peace will follow.
1.The underlined word “conserve” in Paragraph 1 probably means “_____”.
A. use B. protect
C. find D. provide
2.Dr. Wangari Maathai is the first African woman to _____.
A. win the Nobel Peace Prize
B. encourage people to plant trees
C. get a master’s degree in science
D. realize the power of knowledge
3.What’s Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. The importance of trees.
B. How trees prevent pollution.
C. How planting trees works in Africa.
D. The history of tree-planting in Africa.
4.The Green Belt Movement _____.
A. aims to provide job opportunities for women
B. attracted the world’s attention to Africa
C. pays for every newly-planted tree
D. covered a large area in Africa
