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2 . Here is the story of American aviation (航空) pioneer Amelia Earhart.
Once upon a time, on July 24th 1897, a little girl was born in Ashes Kansas. As a child, Amelia was adventurous, climbing trees, collecting bugs, hunting rats with their rifle and exploring the neighborhood. Many historians have described Earhart as a “tomboy” growing up because of this.
Throughout her teen years, she moved around the middle west with her family. There after seeing the wounded soldiers returning from World War I, she decided to work as a nurse’s aid and got to know many of the wounded pilots and grew to admire them.
On December 20th, 1920, an important moment happened in Earhart’s life. She attended an air show with her dad in Long Beach. And she took a ten-minute plane ride that forever changed her life. She recalled, “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.” Amelia’s new mission (使命) was to learn how to fly and she worked hard to achieve this new dream. She worked several odd jobs to save up for the very expensive flying lessons. Amelia had flown her plane to 14,000 feet, the world altitude record for female pilots. On may 15th, 1923, Earhart became only the 16th woman to be issued (颁发) with such a pilot’s licence.
In the mid-1920s, Earhart was not able to make a living as only a pilot, so she became a teacher and later a social worker. One afternoon in April 1928, a phone call came for Earhart at work. “How would you like to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic?” Captain Hulton Archive asked her on the other line. “Yes,” Amelia immediately replied. She became the first female to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, but only as a passenger, as Wilmer Stultz and Lewis Gordon acted as pilots. When the three returned to the United States, they were greeted with a parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.
In August 1928, Amelia became the first woman to fly alone across the North American continent and back. In 1929, she entered Will Rogers Power Puff Derby and placed third. Earhart also became involved with the Ninety-Nines, an organization of female pilots, and then became their first president in 1930.
1. How would we understand the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4?| A．She found the pilots were admirable. |
| B．She decided to be a nurse to help the wounded pilots. |
| C．She would continue to take airplane rides with her Dad. |
| D．She wanted to be a pilot when flying an airplane for the fist time. |
| A．She grew up in a rich family and graduated with honors. |
| B．She flew solo across the North American continent and back in 1928. |
| C．She refused to fly the Atlantic Ocean with others at first in 1928. |
| D．She became the first female president of the USA in 1930. |
| A．By listing figures. | B．In place order. |
| C．By comparing examples. | D．In time order. |
| A．Never too old to learn. | B．Well begun is half done. |
| C．Two hands are better than one. | D．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
3 . Godfrey Hounsfield’s early life did not suggest that he would accomplish much at all. He was not a particularly good student in the teachers’ eyes—he neither observed the school disciplines nor worked hard enough at school lessons. His teachers described him as “thick”.
He joined the army during the Second World War, but he wasn’t much of a soldier. However, he was a wizard with electrical machinery—he would use the newly invented radar to help pilots better find their way home on dark, cloudy nights.
After the war, Hounsfield followed his commander’s advice and got a degree in engineering He practiced his trade at EMI, a company with a focus on electronics and electrical engineering.
Hounsfield’s natural talent for engineering made him lead the team building the most advanced mainframe computer available in Britain. But by the 1960’s, EMI wanted out of the competitive computer market and the brilliant engineer wasn’t sure what to do in the future in the company. Therefore, the company gave Hounsfield a long holiday.
During the holiday, Hounsfield met a physician who complained about the poor quality of X-ray of the brain, which looked like fog. This got Hounsfield to make a move into the new field.
Hounsfield returned to EMI and talked about the idea with his boss. Then he used a new way to appoach the problem of imaging what was inside the skull. By working backward and using the fastest computers, he could work on the mystery of each brain layer. But there was a problem: EMI wasn’t involved in the medical market then. The company allowed Hounsfield to work on his product, but provided no funding.
Luckily his boss, Bill Ingham, saw the value of Hounsfield’s proposal and struggled to ask EMI to keep the project run. Finally, Hounsfield built a safe and effictive human scanner.
Hounsfield’s innovation transformed medicine. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979 and was knighted by the queen in 1981. He continued his invention career until his final days in 2004, when he died at 84.
1. What can we say about Houndfield’s early school life?| A．He worked really hard. | B．He didn’t manage to graduate. |
| C．He was popular with his teachers. | D．He didn’t behave himself. |
| A．Stayed away from. | B．Became tired of. | C．Came up with. | D．Was gifted in. |
| A．To relieve Hounsfield’s anxiety over stressful work. |
| B．To make Hounsfield think about his future career. |
| C．To allow Hounsfield to reflect on his mistakes. |
| D．To remind Hounsfield to learn from others. |
| A．Having no one on his side. | B．Experiencing too many failures. |
| C．Being short of financial support. | D．Being misunderstood by his boss. |
| A．To remember a great inventor. | B．To reveal the decline of a company. |
| C．To introduce the application of X-rays. | D．To show the improvements brought by technology. |
A famous vlogger called Zhang Chenliang with professional knowledge of animals, insects and plants lights up netizens’ dreams of
Deep in a rainforest in Hainan province, Zhang Chenliang picked up a daddy-long-legs (盲蛛) and presented it to the camera, explaining its features and living
The 35-year-old is
After watching one of his videos, one young woman was encouraged
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When I think of a “mad genius”, no one deserves the title more than Nikola Tesla. Born in Austria in 1856, this scientist is not just an engineer, but an inventor and
To begin with, Tesla possessed an
As an inventor, his experiments at that time
Following his recent four sold-out concerts in Shanghai, Jay Chou has taken on a new role as the curator (馆长) of an art exhibition titled “Art Encounters with Jay”,
Apart from the artworks, there is an interactive area
Jay Chou expressed his goal to make art accessible and
7 . When Malaika Vaz was a kid, living in Goa, India, she was constantly surrounded by nature. Among her childhood experiences, she recalls journeys to the Arctic and Antarctic, climbing mountains, diving, and windsurfing,
At some point in her late teens, Vaz realized adventure didn’t really mean anything if there wasn’t an intention to protect the natural spaces we were exploring in. Motivated by her passion for filmmaking, she began to seek a way that would both satisfy her appetite for adventure and allow her to advocate the protection of the species and ecosystems she interacted with.
Today Vaz wears many hats in the filmmaking world, as a documentary director, producer, and presenter. After falling in love with manta rays (蝠鲼), she discovered they were being hunted illegally and started to dress herself as a seafood trader to get as close as possible to the issue. She traced sellers to figure out why the threatened species were being killed. She shared the shocking details in Peng Yu Sai, her Green Oscar-nominated film on the matter.
The subjects that grab her attention, Vaz admits, run the gamut. When she was asked to define her focus, she replied that she preferred variety. She always argues that the issues she looks into are more interrelated than they may initially appear. “I think that it’s exciting to dive into the different aspects of environmental stories,” she says.
Her work doesn’t stop at recording important stories; she also ensures the message is heard. From Vaz’s viewpoint, real improvement in planetary protection lies in the hands of each of us rather than just those of several environmentalists. “If you’re an engineer and you care about the natural world, you can change the kind of construction materials you use. If you’re a teacher 1oving nature, you can bring that into the 1earning for your class.” she says.
As a filmmaker, Vaz believes it’s important to figure out ways that attract the audience who can push for the protection of the natural world.
1. Why did Vaz decide to make her own film?| A．To live an adventurous life. |
| B．To motivate children to get close to nature. |
| C．To share her childhood experiences. |
| D．To combine nature exploration with nature conservation. |
| A．The illegal trade in manta rays. |
| B．The threatened species in India |
| C．The role of manta rays in the local ecosystem. |
| D．Vaz’s secret life experience as a seafood trader. |
| A．Are quite popular. | B．Cover a wide range. |
| C．Remain a secret. | D．Are hard to deal with. |
| A．Human beings are closely linked to nature. |
| B．Everybody can make a difference to the environment. |
| C．Important stories are effective in changing people’s behavior. |
| D．Environmentalists play a critical role in solving environmental issues. |
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10 . As is known, Albert Einstein was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He was also a really great person.
Einstein learned from making mistakes
Many children wrote letters to ask him for help with their homework. One day, he wrote a letter to a young girl to tell her not to worry about her Maths homework because he thought Maths was difficult too.
Einstein considered time to be importantHe never wore socks because he thought putting on socks was waste of time as people already wore shoes. He also thought remembering things found in books was not worth it.
In one exam, a student asked him why all the questions were the same as last year’s. Einstein replied the questions were the same, but the answers were different.
When Einstein was a child, his teachers used to say he was not clever. However, Einstein kept working hard and surprised the world with his achievements.
| A．Einstein was also very modest. |
| B．What a humorous person he is! |
| C．Einstein was also strict with his students. |
| D．Give students a chance to correct their mistakes. |
| E．That’s why he never remembered his own phone number. |
| F．If we ever feel like giving up when we have problems, we should think of him. |
| G．When Einstein started to work in America, someone asked him what he needed. |
