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Martin Strel swims with a knife 1. (fasten) to his right leg—in case he meets sharks and other 2. (dead) sea life in the world’s wildest waters. 3. 61-year-old marathon swimmer has announced the 4. (tough) challenge of his life: a 10,000-mile-around-the-world journey on water 5. (draw) public attention to the increasing water 6. (pollute). He aims to circle the globe in about 450 days, passing through oceans, rivers,7. (canal) and other bodies of water in more than 100 countries. He will swim about 5 to 12 hours each day, depending on the weather. A boat will go 8. him and offer emergency support and space for small breaks.
Since 2000, Strel 9. (swim) the entire length of five rivers in China, America, etc. Strel will not be alone in the water. He says he welcomes 10. is interested in joining him for parts of the route.
Don’t Be Afraid to Make a Fool of Yourself and Reach out to Strangers
Growing up, I was glued to my mother’s hip, ready to follow her wherever the world took us. I used to sleep at her __________ on the floor of her law school lecture halls while hundreds of __________ poured over scores of legal terms and historical court __________. When my mother and I would travel to different countries together, she always talked to __________ . She would tell our life story and I was often __________ . I figured that people thought she shared too much and it was _________.
I now recognize the importance of the ____________ my mother made. After she died, I received hundreds of phone calls from people all over the world. They __________ to offer their condolences (吊唁), but __________ to share how much my mother had meant to them.__________ she offered legal advice or simply shared a story, they _______their heart to me about how she _________ their lives.
When she first decided to buy an apartment and settled down in Paris, she ___________ the writers of her favourite blogs and instantly began to form their own French __________ . They spent hours eating carefully selected cheeses and sipping (啜饮) coffee while __________ favorite Parisian restaurants. These are the people I now call my ______ aunts and uncles.
What I judged as my mom making a __________ of herself was her way of sharing her __________ and charm. This taught me to ___________ into fear and not to let self-criticism govern anything I do. Now, I speak up. I talk to strangers. I _____ myself and because of it, I receive.
1.A. tops B. arms C. elbows D. feet
2.A. teachers B. students C. audience D. views
3.A. accidents B. events C. cases D. stories
4.A. foreigners B. strangers C. neighbors D. learners
5.A. embarrassed B. excited C. disappointed D. surprised
6.A. fortunate B. inappropriate C. proper D. reasonable
7.A. connection B. inventions C. decision D. possessions
8.A. wrote B. planned C. called D. attempted
9.A. purposely B. usually C. mainly D. accordingly
10.A. Whenever B. Wherever C. However D. Whether
11.A. turned out B. poured out C. figured out D. found out
12.A. made B. saved C. earned D. changed
13.A. contacted B. became C. named D. investigated
14.A. community B. class C. restaurant D. organization
15.A. entering B. searching C. exploring D. discussing
16.A. American B. English C. French D. British
17.A. show B. fool C. goal D. dream
18.A. weakness B. shortcomings C. strength D. disadvantages
19.A. back off B. live up C. get down D. step forward
20.A. extend B. understand C. trust D. share
When you got sick, did your parents and doctors make you drink a “terrible soup”?1., but it can really make you feel better in several days. The “soup” is actually a kind of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
In recent years, TCM has become more popular around the world.2.. China has 10 TCM centers abroad, such as in France and the United States. Doctors give TCM treatment to local people there. They also teach TCM knowledge to local people. Now, there are over 100,000 TCM clinics, with about 300,000 TCM workers around the world.
TCM came from China thousands of years ago. It is based on the Chinese philosophy (哲学) of yin and yang.
Humans should follow the natural rules to stay healthy. Old Greece and Egypt created western medicine.3.. Western doctors check people’s height, weight, blood pressure and body temperature.
4.. “Bringing together western medicine and TCM can use collective knowledge, rather than create competition between them. It can develop the great effects of both of them,” said Bernhard Schwartlander, a World Health Organization representative in China.
On Dec 6, a government document reported that 86 countries and regions are now developing TCM together with China. In 2015, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize.5. . Today, with more and people paying attention to TCM, it will definitely have a bright future.
A. Let’s see some facts and figures
B. It might be a bad drinking experience
C. It is difficult to compare which one is better
D. Then the idea took shape in Europe in the 19th century
E. There are many women of great achievements in history
F. Many people believe western medicine is more effective than TCM
G. It’s because she made an important drug using traditional Chinese medicine
Every country may have to consider what, if anything, to do about “global warming”. We should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true.
Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 “Climategate” email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is an irony that we can’t.” But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedback involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplifies the small effect of CO2. The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant and it is a key component of the biosphere ( 生物圈)’s life cycle. Plants get better growth with more of it and part of the increase of agricultural yields in the past century certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.
Although the number of the scientists who are publicly opposed to the claim is growing, many young scientists secretly say that while they also have serious doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up for fear of not being promoted or worse.
Why is there so much passion about global warming? There are several reasons, but a good place to start is the old question “Cui bono?”, or the modern update, “Follow the money”. Alarmism (危言耸听) over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research, and thus those people who benefit from this fiercely defended their dogma (信条) and the privileges it brought them.
Every country should support rational ( 合理 的) measures to protect and improve our environment, but it makes no sense at all to back expensive programs that turn away resources from real needs and are based on alarming but shaky claims of “incontrovertible” evidence.
1.What can we infer about the author’s opinion on global warming?
A. Global warming hasn’t happened in the latest 10 years.
B. Global warming has become an urgent problem these years.
C. Global warming has worsened a little bit in the recent years.
D. Global warming has never happened since measures were taken.
2.Which of the following statements about CO2 does the writer probably agree with?
A. CO2 greatly affects the global warming.
B. CO2 makes crops more productive.
C. CO2 involves water vapor and clouds.
D. CO2 is the most important part of the biosphere.
3.Why is there so much passion for global warming?
A. Because t is a good chance for young scientists to be promoted.
B. Because the scientists want to have an insight into the problem.
C. Because the government values the problem and tries to solve it.
D. Because some people can greatly benefit from the research about it.
4.What’s the writer’s attitude toward the programs to protect and improve our environment?
A. To support all the programs as long as they are beneficial.
B. To support cheap programs instead of expensive ones.
C. To support the programs that are necessary and reliable.
D. To support those programs that use less money and resources.
More and more comments sections are being shut down online.
Autumn Phillips had had enough. On Aug. 19, the executive editor of the Quad- City Times in Iowa, and Illinois, US visited her website, qctimes.com, and saw a story about a man who had been shot to death. When she got to the readers’ comments sections at the end, she was shocked by what she saw. Below the story was a growing number of comments—a racist remark about democratic votes, a negative comment about police …So Phillips decided to do something she had been thinking about for a long time: she shut down the comments sections.
Phillips was not alone in making such a move. Last week, NPR announced k too was closing its online comments sections. The decisions don’t mean that the news outlets are no longer interested in what their audiences are thinking. Both stressed their eagerness to hear from readers and listeners on social networks. But both agreed that comments had deviated from their original intention. And so they had.
In early days of digital journalism, comments were seen as a key part of this new media, a wonderful opportunity for strengthening the dialogue between news producers and their audiences. It was a welcome change, given that for long many news organizations were far too separated from their readers. Much more back and forth conversation seemed like healthy and welcome evolution. Sadly, that’s not the way things turned out. Rather than a place for exchanging ideas, comments sections became the home of ugly name-calling, racism and anti-women language. Besides their poisonous quality, comments seem out of place today.
“Since we made the announcement, I’ve received an outpouring of responses from our readers,” she says. “I’ve heard from parents whose children were hurt by our online comments. I’ve heard from people who said they wouldn’t send in letters to the editor because they were attacked so fiercely by comments, and wasn’t worth it.”
1.Why did Autumn Phillips shut down the comments sections?
A. They were put to wrong use.
B. Her website was attacked heavily.
C. They exposed many illegal issues.
D. She was angry about readers’ comments.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 indicate about comments?
A. They were out of date.
B. They had gone against their original intentions.
C. They were full of sensitive information.
D. They couldn’t interest the audience.
3.What was the welcome change in the early digital journalism?
A. Readers, having more access to news.
B. Readers’ making less negative comments.
C. Readers’ freedom to express their thoughts.
D. Readers’ active involvement in the news industry.
4.How do many readers feel about Autumn Phillips, move according to the last paragraph?
A. Cautious. B. Hopeful.
C. Surprised. D. Supportive.
I am astonished at the way God knows when to send a special gift of encouragement at just the right time! It might be in a dream, a lost letter, a memory, or something found that we’d forgotten about.
My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. And summer after summer I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town where they lived. People knew everyone, their children, their pets, their ancestors.
Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting …She would make sandwiches and we’d have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them. She loved knitting sweaters as well as making beautiful quilts for her grandchildren. I remember the small thimble ( 顶 针 ) she would place on her finger while doing her needlework.
A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. She’d never forgotten my birthday!
On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened and made me feel as if she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow；it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam (缝) that I carefully opened, and, to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!
How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing h into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff (抖松), to place on my bedspread (床罩) that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others Id collected over the years. What a precious memory of a very special lady who, somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble into my pillow. I heated the kettle and made some tea, using my best china, as Grandma always did, and then enjoyed my tea and Grandma’s thimble. What a wonderful birthday that was!
1.In the author’s memory, what would her grandmother do?
A. She would make sandwiches and hamburgers for her family.
B. She would wear a thimble for needlework every day.
C. She would make beautiful quilts for money.
D. She would look after the flowers in the garden.
2.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. The modern world’s fast-changing life.
B. The fact that the grandmother had passed away.
C. The author’s missing her grandmother.
D. The love the author got from her grandmother.
3.How did the author feel when she found the thimble?
A. Surprised. B. Regretful.
C. Guilty. D. Lonely.
4.Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
A. Grandma’s Thimble
B. Grandma’s Life Story
C. The Joy of Finding Something Lost
D. The Importance of Putting Things Away
