Dr. Sylvia Earle wants you to stop eating fish. It’s not because fish are endangered, though wild fish stocks in many oceans are very low. It’s not because they’re bad for you, though fish in many areas are exposed to poisonous substances in the water. It’s because they’re smart.
“Fish are sensitive, and they have personalities,” says the marine (海洋) biologist. For Earle, eating a fish would be like eating a dog or a cat. “Personally, I would never eat anyone I know.”
There’s a lot more about fish: they talk to each other, they like to be touched, and they engage in behavior that can seem very human. They can remember things and learn from experience. Earle and a growing number of animal rights activists see these as strong arguments against eating fish altogether.
The activists also point out that fish feel pain and fish suffer horribly on their way from the sea to the supermarket. “While it may seem obvious that fish are able to feel pain, like every other animal, some people think of fish as swimming vegetables,” says Dr. Lynne Sneddon. “Really, ifs kind of a moral question. Is the enjoyment you get from fishing or eating fish more important than the pain of the fish?”
Fishermen and fish lovers are doubtful. “I’ve never seen a smart fish,” says Marie Swaringen as she finishes off a plate of fish at a Seattle seafood restaurant. “If they were very smart, they wouldn’t get caught.”
“For years, everyone’s been telling us to eat fish because it’s so good for us,” says another diner. “Now I’ve got to feel guilty while I’m eating my fish? What are they going to think of next? Don’t eat salad because cucumbers have feelings?”
1. What does Dr. Sylvia think of fish?| A．Clever. | B．Endangered. |
| C．Poisonous. | D．Low. |
| A．Dr. Sylvia. | B．Marie Swaringen. |
| C．Dr. Lynne Sneddon. | D．Earle. |
| A．Is Fish Feeling Painful? | B．Dr. Sylvia Earle and Fish |
| C．A Fish’s Adventure | D．Eat Fish or Not? |
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【推荐1】Jack was born without eyes. He was very lucky as he grew up having other kittens (young cats) to socialize (交往) with, and was used to people from the moment he was born. However, when it came time to find the kittens homes, no one knew where Jack would end up.
That’s when I got an e-mail from my friend. All she asked was “Do you still want one of the kittens? There’s one here with no eyes and no one would like to take him”. Without thinking I told her that I did want the kitten.
When we first brought him home, Jack stayed mostly in my room. After about a day he had no issues running around and climbing on everything. At times he gets lost in the house, he’ll stop. But we just call his name and talk to him and it isn’t long before he finds his way back to us.
A few weeks after getting Jack, we got a new cat named Bear. Jack and Bear have become best friends. It doesn’t matter that he can’t see. He always knows when Bear is around. He’ll run across the yard straight to Bear and wrap his front legs around his neck in a big hug. They run after each other around and wrestle (摔跤). They’ll lie down in the grass together when tired.
Jack is truly an inspiration. I’ve owned lots of kittens in my life, but Jack is the happiest and most playful. He doesn’t feel sorry for himself. He doesn’t need pity. I think Jean, owner of Gumbo, another eyeless cat, said it best when she told me that cats don’t have disabilities; they have adaptability.
1. Why did Jack come to the author’s home?| A．The author cared for an eyeless cat. |
| B．The author didn’t mind whether he was blind. |
| C．No other young cats kept him company. |
| D．The author’s friend begged the author to take him home. |
| A．Trouble. | B．Fun. |
| C．Luck. | D．Business. |
| A．Jack often wrestles with Bear indoors. |
| B．Jack likes to play with a new eyeless cat. |
| C．Jack quickly adapts to the new environment. |
| D．Jack is good at talking and playing with people. |
| A．A cat has nine lives. |
| B．All is well that ends well. |
| C．God helps those who help themselves. |
| D．A good beginning makes a good ending. |
【推荐2】In a fascinating discovery, western lowland gorillas (大猩猩) at Zoo Atlanta have been caught summoning their keepers using a strange cough-sneeze mixture, which researchers have called a “snough”. Only two other species have displayed this ability to create new vocalizations to attract our attention: zoo-housed chimpanzees and orangutans. Now, we can add gorillas to that list.
As many of us know, Koko put a spotlight on gorilla intelligence in the 1980s and 1990s with her incredible ability to communicate with humans using sign language. She was trained and worked hard at it, but now it seems gorillas have taken it upon themselves to establish unique communication with us in their own way.
Roberta Salmi, a biological anthropologist at the University of Georgia, and colleagues ran an experiment to confirm the purpose of the “snough”, by placing eight of the zoo’s gorillas in three different situations. In the first, only the keeper was present; in the second only the food was present; in the final one, the keeper was holding the food. The food and keeper were in sight but out of reach. The gorillas involved used the “snough” vocalization most when there was a human present with food, indicating the call is likely an attempt to get the keeper’s attention.
This complex vocal learning — the ability to produce unique calls — is rare in the animal kingdom and confirmed only in some species of birds, bats and elephants. But they all do so by imitating. The analysis showed the gorilla’s “snough” is a unique sound, not an imitation — although they are certainly capable of imitating us in other ways.
“These results demonstrate that gorillas can change their calls to produce a novel sound and furthermore confirm that they can produce their calls and gestures intentionally to change the attention state of their caregiver,” the team concluded in their paper. We’ve clearly long underestimated these clever souls.
1. Which of the following can replace “summoning” underlined in paragraph 1?| A．pleasing | B．calling | C．finding | D．warning |
| A．By ordering the gorillas to make the “snough” vocalization. |
| B．By training the gorillas to attract their keepers’ attention. |
| C．By comparing the gorillas’ reactions in different situations. |
| D．By gathering information about the gorillas from their keepers. |
| A．To illustrate gorillas can imitate humans in other ways. |
| B．To confirm only gorillas have the ability to produce unique calls. |
| C．To prove the animals can produce unique calls through imitation. |
| D．To show gorillas’ ability to invent the new vocalization is uncommon. |
| A．Some animals have the ability to make new sounds. |
| B．Gorillas can create a new sound to draw zookeepers’ attention. |
| C．Some intelligent animals try to attract attention by imitating. |
| D．Gorillas are able to communicate with humans using unique gestures. |
【推荐3】Findings of an international team of researchers from Japan and China suggest that geese might have been the first poultry species to have been domesticated (驯养) by humans—as far back as 7,000 years ago.
Scientists have long held different opinions on the history of the domestication of birds, with a belief that it was chickens that were the first to be domesticated. In 2014, Chinese researchers reported ancient DNA taken from the earliest archaeological chicken bone discovery in China, suggesting chickens were domesticated in northern China as early as 10,000 years ago.
But the researchers behind the latest findings say that the 2014 study lacks firm evidence. In the new study, the team unearthed the archaeological site of Tianluoshan, a 7,000-year-old rice cultivation village in the lower Yangtze River valley in what is today known as East China’s Zhejiang province. They found a total of 232 goose bones at the site. The inhabitants of the village were hunter-gatherers.
The researchers used multiple approaches to study the bones, and found evidence of domestication.
Four bones were from goslings (幼鹅) ranging from eight to 16 weeks old, suggesting they hatched near the site. Geese were domesticated from wild geese. These migratory birds fly to northern Siberia to breed (繁殖) after the spring and then fly south for the winter, according to researchers from the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. They said the goslings were too young to have flown in from elsewhere. At the time, Tianluoshan did not have the conditions to be a natural breeding place for wild geese, so it follows that the goslings were born after domestication.
The researchers also analyzed the chemical makeup of adult goose bones, which contained evidence of the water they drank. Their analysis indicated that the adult geese also seemed to have been locally bred, for they were all roughly the same size. Carbon dating also showed that the bones belonged to geese that lived about 7,000 years ago.
Researchers say ancient DNA analysis is required in further studies to investigate which species were bred to become local geese populations.
1. Where did the researchers find the goose bones?| A．In Tianluoshan. | B．In northern China. |
| C．In northern Siberia. | D．In the upper Yangtze river valley. |
| A．Their parents were wild geese. |
| B．They were probably raised by humans. |
| C．They flew to Tianluoshan for winter. |
| D．They were too young and had to stay. |
| A．The result of the study. | B．The importance of the study. |
| C．The process of domestication. | D．The evidence of domestication. |
| A．To show how geese were domesticated by humans. |
| B．To prove that chickens were not the first to be domesticated. |
| C．To show a new study on the history of the birds’ domestication. |
| D．To introduce how the geese were domesticated from wild geese. |
【推荐1】In some places, people collect honey from wild bees. This is common in many parts of the world, especially South Asia. Honey hunting is a local tradition in southern India but it is not an undemanding job. The bees in southern India can grow up to the size of the smallest adult human finger. And these giant honey bees build their hives(蜂窝)on the sides of mountains!
It takes many years for a honey hunter to learn to collect honey from these hives. From a young age the honey hunter learns everything about bees. He practices climbing hundreds of meters above the ground. Before the honey season, the honey hunter prepares for many days.
When the day of the honey hunt season arrives, the honey hunter goes to the edge of the mountain early in the morning. He climbs down with a rope and lights some dry branches on fire. The smoke makes the bees leave the hive. With the bees flying around the honey hunter, he uses a long sharp stick to gently get pieces of the wax(蜜蜡)filled with honey. He then takes them back to the village in a box made of bamboo.
Usually the hunter takes some honey and leaves some of the hive on the mountainside. He does not take the part of the hive with the baby bees in it since he does not want to destroy the home of the bees. When the honey hunter returns, the village celebrates!
“They have been hunting honey in this way for more than 2,000 years. Honey was and still is an important part of their diet, cooking and medicine,” Simone Gie from the organization Slow Food International, said.
1. The underlined word “undemanding” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “________”.| A．regular | B．boring | C．easy | D．difficult |
| A．has a short history | B．needs careful preparation |
| C．makes some villages rich | D．is often done by a young man |
| A．Bamboo. | B．Branches. | C．A rope. | D．A stick. |
| A．how to protect baby bees | B．the importance of honey |
| C．the new use for honey | D．how honey is hunted |
【推荐2】Huge numbers of migrating (迁徙) birds visit cities all around the world on their extraordinary journeys, which often cover thousands of kilometers. Some appear to be attracted by light. Others seem to enjoy the food on offer. But cities are not always friendly to outsiders. Some migrating birds, for example, are killed by cats while others collide (碰撞) with buildings.
What draws birds to big cities in the first place? It could largely be to do with light, says Barbara Frei at Environment and Climate Change Canada, a department of the Canadian government. No one knows exactly why birds are attracted to artificial light at night but there is enough evidence for this effect. One possibility, Frei says, is that birds which use starlight and other phenomena to navigate (导航) are naturally attracted by points of light.
More than 100 years ago, the Irish ornithologist (鸟类学家) Charles Patten was stationed at a lighthouse off the coast of Ireland where he observed this phenomenon first-hand. According to his reports, groups of migrating birds would fly towards the lighthouse and, unfortunately for them, crash into its windows. But back then, sources of very bright, artificial light were uncommon, whereas today electric light is visible practically everywhere at night.
It is important to ensure that cities are accommodating for wildlife, says Frei. Bird migration routes just happen to bring them close to many cities all around the world, and our bright light draws them in. Frei proposes that urban planning take this into account. The designers of every new park or housing estate could include some plants suitable for birds and other species, for instance. “We should plan it for all different things together——it’s good for people; it’s good for the planet; It’s good for the wildlife.” she asserts. “we need to think of cities as ecosystems. if we think about it, we are the masters of this ecosystem and we can decide how to manage this place.”
1. Which problem may be faced by migrating birds in the city?| A．They could be shot by hunters. |
| B．The food on offer may be poisonous. |
| C．Their lives are threatened by some animals. |
| D．They may run into some means of transportation. |
| A．Artificial light. | B．The lighthouse. |
| C．Starlight. | D．Moonlight. |
| A．Artificial light is harmful to migrating birds. |
| B．More and more birds pour into the city. |
| C．Lighthouses help birds identify their directions. |
| D．Man-made light sources were rich in the past. |
| A．Ecosystems should be better protected. |
| B．People should fit more artificial light. |
| C．The number of artificial light should be increased. |
| D．People should improve the living conditions of wildlife. |
【推荐3】Britain’s seed bank the only one in the world aiming to collect all of the planet’s wild plant species, has reached its goal of banking 10 percent by 2010.
The Millennium Seed Bank Project run by Kew Gardens — one of the oldest botanical gardens — will officially deposit the 24,200th species on Thursday, a pink, wild banana from China.
More than 50 countries are now on board with Kew’s giant task but vast places of the globe, including India and Brazil, still need to join in and donate seeds, director Paul Smith said.
The seed bank is one of the largest and most diverse in the world with more than 1.5 billion seeds. Its goal is to help protect the planet’s bio-diversity during a time of climate change.
The wild banana seed is under threat of extinction (灭绝) in southwest China from agricultural development. It is a vital food source for Asia elephants and important for growing bananas for human consumption.
The seeds are stored at minus 20 degrees centigrade. So they can last for thousands of years, the seeds await the day that scientists hope never comes — when the species no longer exist in the wild.
It is a race against time, Smith said, because in the last decade alone, 20 plants held in the bank have already been wiped out in the wild. He estimates that between a third and a quarter will become extinct this century.
“It is urgent and it is happening now. An area, the size of England, is cleared of primary vegetation (植被) every year.” Smith said.
Because most of the world’s food and medicines come from nature, protecting wild plant species is quite important, scientists say. There are already many other seed banks safeguarding food crops, which only account for 0.6 percent of plant diversity.
For Kew’s next goal — to collect a quarter of wild varieties by 2020 — the botanists need 10 million pounds a year, or a further 100 million pounds on top of the 40 million they have already been granted.
1. What’s the final purpose of the Britain’s seed bank?| A．To collect enough money for the project. |
| B．To safeguard food crops. |
| C．To help scientists study wild plants. |
| D．To protect wild plants from extinction. |
| A．the climate change in this area | B．the expanding of farming work |
| C．the large number of Asian elephants | D．human’s large consumption |
| A．the seeds in the bank can be used now and then all over the world |
| B．there is only one seed bank in the world at present |
| C．India and Brazil haven’t joined in the Seed Bank Project at present |
| D．the wild plants in places like India and China will never die out |
| A．The extinction of plant species. | B．Kew Gardens’ next goal. |
| C．The Millennium Seed Bank Project. | D．Britain’s seed bank. |
| A．The global partnership of collecting wild plant species. |
| B．The temperature condition of the conservative wild plant species. |
| C．Scientists’ concern on the extinct wild plant species. |
| D．The government’s financial support for the seed bank project. |
【推荐1】The latest sports craze is not even a sport. According to a recent article, “e-sports” are attracting a large number of audience.
In e-sports, players and teams compete in popular video computer games such as Dota 2 and Ovenvatch. Fans fill arenas to watch the action live on huge television screens.
The games have gone way past kids playing against each other while sitting on a sofa at home. The International, a major competition for players of Dota 2, awarded $24 million in prizes, with the winner taking home almost $11 million. A recent e-sports competition attracted more than 80,000 fans to the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, China.
I have to admit that I am not a big fan of computer games. I know that some games can be educational, but I think too many kids spend too much time sitting in front of a screen shooting space aliens. I think it would be better if kids spent more time reading or playing real sports such as basketball, baseball and soccer.
And please don’t tell me that competitive gaming is real sport because it requires hand-eye coordination. According to my American Heritage Dictionary, a sport is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill.” I don’t think anyone works up much of a sweat playing video games.
Too often, regular sports send kids a kind of message. Competition starts early, when lots of kids are not ready for the ups and downs of games. Tryouts and travel teams come next, giving too many kids the message they are “not good” at sports. So lots of kids quit sports and start playing more video games.
Maybe everyone in youth sports, including coaches, parents and kids, should think more about the advantages of real sports.
1. What are “e-sports” according to the text?| A．Sports events on television screens. |
| B．Video computer game competitions. |
| C．The latest sports in the Olympic Games. |
| D．Easy sports games for kids. |
| A．They are not instructive. |
| B．They should be banned in school. |
| C．They need too much time and money. |
| D．They have some negative influence on children. |
| A．Growth. | B．Fitness. |
| C．Effort. | D．Energy. |
| A．To introduce a new kind of sport. |
| B．To introduce a competition held in Beijing. |
| C．To explain the importance of playing sports. |
| D．To call on people to pay more attention to traditional sports. |
【推荐2】"I'll be there in a few minutes. I'm playing a game with a friend, a guy named Scuzbll," my 15-year-old son shouted from his room. "Oh, what is Scuzball's real name?" I asked. "I have no idea," he said. "Where is he from?" I continued. He responded, "I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn't even matter because Scuzball just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot."
"Your friend is replaced by artificial intelligence?" "It doesn't matter, Dad. It happens all the time! The game continues." My son doesn't mind playing with a person or a robot, which is typical of gamers these days. I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our children.
Aristotle, a great thinker and educator, has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily abandoned because such bonds are fragile. Deep friendship, by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices for each other.
Presence in friendship requires "being with" and "doing for". Perhaps the most defining feature of deep friendship is "doing for", as my friend has my back in trouble or brings me soup when I'm sick. Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices. But it is unclear why online "friends" would bother to do the hard work of friendship. When I asked my students whether they had people in their lives who would bring them soup when they were sick, they laughed at my Stone Age question and said they'd just order soup online.
Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example case of friendship, like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods, etc. In this way, digital lie produces false friendships.
1. What did the author start the text with?| A．A motto. | B．A game | C．A question. | D．A conversation. |
| A．Selfish friendship. | B．Selfless sacrifices in life |
| C．The meaning of deep friendship. | D．The formation of shallow friendship |
| A．Strong bonds are formed easily | B．Ordering food online is convenient |
| C．Robots will have our back in trouble. | D．Virtual friends won't make real sacrifices. |
| A．Digitalized friendship | B．The benefits of digital life. |
| C．Face-to-face communication | D．The sacrifices of online friends. |
【推荐3】Antiquities are ancient objects and artworks. Many people visit museums to view antiquities. They enjoy seeing these relics of the ancient world as a way of understanding past cultures and sometimes connecting with their own heritage.
Museums get works to show from many different sources. Sometimes they buy them. Other times they receive donations. Today there are strict guidelines forbidding art that has been stolen from other countries. However, antiquities that have been at museums for many years or even centuries may have arrived there by dishonest means. Now, some countries say that museums have a duty to return these antiquities to their original locations.
Should museums return the antiquities? Experts disagree. Malcolm Bell says yes. Bell is a professor of art at the University of Virginia. He says, “Many antiquities and works of art have special cultural value for a particular community or nation. When these works are taken from their original cultural setting, they lose their context and the culture loses a part of its history.”
According to Bell, a country’s request for the return of an antiquity “usually has a strong legal basis.” “It was exported (出口) illegally, probably also dug out illegally, and is now stolen property (财物).” He called the return of antiquities “an expression of justice”.
James Cuno says not always. Cuno is the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, an art museum in Los Angeles. Cuno agrees that museums have a legal duty to return illegally exported antiquities. However, he doesn’t support the return of works which were got legally. “Land held today by a given nation-state in the past likely belonged to a different country...even if one wanted to return those stolen works of art, where would one do so? Which among the many countries, cities, and museums that own parts of a work of art should be the home of the returned work?” Cuno believes that museums should collect art from the world’s various cultures. This should be done “through buying or long-term loan (长期租借) and working together with museums and nations around the world.”
This debate is far from over. As a complex question with no easy answer, the issue requires more study.
1. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?| A．Museums got antiquities through various means. |
| B．Antiquities from other countries are more valuable. |
| C．Antiquities are greatly appreciated by foreign visitors. |
| D．Museums around the world have lost many antiquities. |
| A．illegally-owned antiquities should not be shown |
| B．museums should return illegally-owned antiquities |
| C．antiquities from other countries may lose its cultural value |
| D．museums should collect antiquities from different cultures |
| A．Positive. | B．Negative. |
| C．Objective. | D．Uninterested. |
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【推荐1】The American space agency's Mars explorer, Perseverance, landed successfully on the Red Planet Thursday after a seven-month trip. The six-wheeled explorer, or rover, is on a NASA mission to collect Martian soil and rocks as part of the search for signs of ancient life. It took 11-and - one -half minutes for the confirmation signal to reach Earth. Moments later, controllers received the rover's first pictures of Mars.
Perseverance landed in an area of Mars called Jezero Crater, which contains a large ancient lakebed. NASA considers the area a promising place to find possible signs of microbial life (微生物). Scientists believe if life ever existed on Mars, it would have been present 3 to 4 billion years ago, when water flowed on the planet. However, rough ground around Jezero Crater presented possible landing dangers for the Perseverance spacecraft.
Perseverance is NASA's fifth rover to explore Mars. The first, named Sojourner, was sent in 1997. Then came Spirit and Opportunity, which landed in 2004. The fourth rover, Curiosity, has been exploring the planet since 2012. Those missions all resulted in valuable information about the Red Planet. NASA says Perseverance “aims to take the next step” in searching for signs of ancient microbial life.
It is NASA's largest, heaviest and most technology - loaded vehicle ever sent to Mars. It has 19 cameras, two microphones and a two- meter- long robotic arm. A machine connected to the arm will dig into the ground to gather rock and soil. The rover is equipped with X-ray and imaging systems to study Martian chemistry and to identify possible organic compounds (化合物). Perseverance is also carrying a small experimental flyer called Ingenuity. NASA says the 1. 8 kilogram vehicle will attempt its first flight in the coming months. NASA officials hope it will be the first vehicle to fly on a planet other than Earth.
1. What's the ultimate purpose of sending Perseverance to Mars?| A．To collect soil and rocks. | B．To do researches into Martian lakebed. |
| C．To test the largest rover. | D．To look for signs of ancient Martian life. |
| A．It's the closest place to the Earth. | B．It's an ideal place for its study. |
| C．It's a place with flowing water. | D．It's a landing area with no dangers. |
| A．It's equipped with cameras and microphones. |
| B．It's the first spacecraft to collect soil and rocks. |
| C．It's loaded with a flying vehicle to be tested out. |
| D．It's to be connected to Curiosity still working there. |
| A．NASA Explorer Successfully Lands on Mars |
| B．NASA Exploration on Mars Comes to an End |
| C．The Development of Space Exploration |
| D．The Mission of a New Spacecraft |
【推荐2】A family on the northeast side of Indiana planned to help feed the hungry so they came up with an idea that they transformed their yard into a scary scene for families to visit when it was Halloween. They thought it was an effort to help hundreds of hungry people across the city.
Heidi Smith and her husband, Randy, had spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars preparing for this. They made it. This year, the Smith family is keeping most of their scary fun a surprise. But one thing is for sure—if you go there, you'll have some scary fun. Just get ready to scream there!
The Smith family has turned their passion for Halloween into a way of giving back. It's free to visit, but they ask people to bring a food donation that goes directly to Gleaners Food Bank. It's because 1 in 7 Hoosiers are going hungry every day. Last year in one night, the Smith family collected enough for 600 meals, more than they had expected. It all went to help the 174,000 hungry people in Marion County. “It was so fun; it made all of the hard work all worth it. We had a lot of people come through many times,” Smith added.
Although their yard may be scary, the Smith family says hunger is much scarier. “We'd love to have twice as many meals as last year for Gleaners. If we hit more than that, we will be very pleased,” said Randy Smith.
The H & R “Haunt the Food Drive” will be open for visitors on Halloween. If you would like to visit, their address is 5338 Mark Lane, Indianapolis, Indiana. Click here to visit their Facebook page.
1. What did the Smith family prepare in their yard this year for Halloween?| A．A Halloween scream contest. | B．Some expensive gifts for visitors. |
| C．Some frightening but funny activities. | D．A donation site called Gleaners Food Bank. |
| A．They sold some goods for Halloween. |
| B．They held a Halloween party to raise money. |
| C．They invited the hungry people to eat there for free. |
| D．They asked people visiting the yard to donate food. |
| A．It was too costly for the family. | B．It failed to attract enough people. |
| C．It won support from rich families. | D．It was hard work but very successful. |
| A．600. | B．1,200. | C．1,500. | D．1,800. |
| A．To introduce Gleaners Food Bank. |
| B．To show how to have Halloween fun. |
| C．To advertise a meaningful Halloween event. |
| D．To encourage readers to plan more Halloween activities. |
【推荐3】In the animal kingdom, weakness can bring about aggression in other animal. This sometimes happens with humans also. But I have found that my weakness brings out the kindness in people. I see it every day when people hold doors for me, pour cream into my coffee, or help me to put on my coat. And I have discovered that it makes them happy.
From my wheelchair experience, I see the best in people, but sometimes I feel sad because those who appear independent miss the kindness I see daily. They don't get to see this soft side of others often; we try every way possible to avoid showing our weakness, which includes a lot of pretending. But only when we stop pretending we're brave or strong do we allow people to show the kindness that's in them.
Last month, when I was driving home on a busy highway, I began to feel unwell and drove more slowly than usual. People behind me began to get impatient and angry, with some speeding up alongside me, horning（按喇叭）or even shouting at me. At the moment I decided to do something I had never done in twenty-four years of driving. I put on the car flashlights and drove on at a really low speed.
No more angry shouts and no more horns!
When I put on my flashlights, I was saying to other drivers, "I have a problem here. I am weak and doing the best I can." And everyone understood. Several times, I saw drivers who wanted to pass. They couldn't get around me because of the stream of passing traffic. But instead of getting impatient and angry, they waited, knowing the driver in front of them was in some way weak.
Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way. But those are few and far between. More often, it would be better if we don't pretend we feel strong when we feel weak or pretend that we are brave when we are scared.
1. The author feels sad sometimes because .| A．he has a soft heart |
| B．he relies much on others |
| C．some people fail to see the kindness in others |
| D．some people pretend to be kind |
| A．They waited with patience. | B．They speeded up to pass. |
| C．They tried their best to help. | D．They put on their flashlights too. |
| A．handle problems by ourselves | B．admit our weakness |
| C．accept help from others | D．show our bravery |
| A．Wheelchair Experience | B．A Driving Experience |
| C．Weakness and Strength | D．Weakness and Kindness |
