The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks, which was blown away by a wolf. His brother, by contrast, built a wolf-proof house from bricks. The fairy tale could have been written by an agent for the construction industry, strongly favoring brick, concrete and steel. However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.
No other building material has environmental credentials (认证信息) as exciting and overlooked as wood. The energy required to produce a laminated wooden beam (层压木梁) is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing, wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. And for refitting older buildings to be more energy efficient, wood is a good insulator (绝缘体). A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminium (铝) equivalent.
But such bigger stories are still uncommon. Governments can help push the industry to use more wood, particularly in the public sector — the construction industry’s biggest client. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be altered to take account of the emissions that are presented in materials.
Construction codes could be regulated to make building with wood easier. Here the direction of travel is wrong. Britain, for instance, is banning the use of timber on the outside of tall buildings after 72 people died in a tower fire in London in 2017. That is a nonsense. Grenfell Tower was covered in aluminium and plastic, not wood. Modern cross-laminated timber (交叉层叠木板) panels perform better in fire tests than steel ones do.
Carpentry alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world’s buildings into line. But using wood can do much more than is appreciated. The second little pig was not wrong, just before his time.
1. The purpose of the writer telling the story in the first paragraph is to _______.| A．attract the readers’ attention | B．make the argument more convincing |
| C．criticize the author of the tale | D．lead in the topic of the text |
| A．wood is a good insulator |
| B．such skyscrapers with wood are uncommon currently |
| C．the unique advantages of wood material being friendly environmental |
| D．how wood reduces the emission of carbon dioxide |
| A．To encourage the construction industry’s biggest client to use more wood. |
| B．To transform Zero-carbon building regulations. |
| C．To arouse the public’s awareness of protecting the woods. |
| D．To regulate the Construction codes. |
| A．the second pig in the tale was unlucky |
| B．the outside of tall buildings Grenfell Tower could have been constructed in wood |
| C．we haven’t appreciated the characteristics of using wood at all |
| D．wood-building specialists will achieve greater profits |
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【推荐1】Illegally traded endangered species that escape, forming secondary populations, offer hope to their long-term survival, a study suggests. "This first came to my attention when I read a news story about the seizure of an illegal shipment of 23 yellow crested cockatoos (小葵花凤头鹦鹉),” said Luke Gibson, a college teacher. He learned that the species was critically endangered, which surprised him.
This encouraged Dr. Gibson and his colleague to investigate (调查) how a critically endangered species had become self-sustaining outside of its natural range. They discovered 49 cases of a globally threatened species becoming established as a separate population, which they hadn’t thought of, including the yellow-crested cockatoo in their city.
“This is a species which is primarily threatened by wildlife trade,” he told BBC News. “Poachers (偷猎者) go out into the forest in its native range in eastern Indonesia and capture the bird and then ship them off, usually up to our city where there is a strong demand for pet birds. This is what has fueled the decline of this species in its native range. But it’s really interesting because that same cause also had another effect: some of the people who were keeping this species here accidentally or intentionally released them.” As a result of enough of the birds set free, it allowed a new self-sustaining population to be established in this city.
The government in of Dr. Gibson’s city has made it illegal to capture the species, even though it is a non-native species. Because the city is affluent and relatively well educated, the cases of people breaking the law are extremely rare, explained Dr Gibson, unlike in its native range in Indonesia, where capturing birds form a major source of income.
However, there can be downsides (缺点) to the newly established population of endangered species, such as a limited genetic pool, and suffering from novel diseases. It did also present a possible “very interesting” opportunity for conservationists, Dr. Gibson suggested. This would involve “harvesting” some of the newly established secondary population, which may provide a way to help slow global biodiversity loss.
1. What was beyond Gibson’s expectations according to the first paragraph?| A．The high rate of wildlife trade. | B．The preciousness of the birds. |
| C．The fact that the birds nearly disappear. | D．The news that the birds were poached. |
| A．They formed a separate population. | B．They were kept as pet birds. |
| C．They were traded illegally. | D．They were killed for research. |
| A．Peace-loving. | B．Rich. |
| C．Free. | D．Environment-friendly. |
| A．To appeal to everyone to stop the wildlife trade. |
| B．To explain the challenge the wild birds are facing. |
| C．To introduce a creative approach to wildlife conservation. |
| D．To raise peopled awareness of protecting endangered species. |
【推荐2】In recent years, lots of American companies have gotten behind a potential climate solution called carbon capture and storage, and the government has backed it with billions of dollars in tax preferences and direct investments. The idea is to trap planet-heating carbon dioxide from the smokestacks of factories and power plants and ship it to sites via thousands of miles of new pipelines. Communities nationwide are pushing back against these pipeline construction and underground sites, arguing they don’t want the pollution running through their land.
Now the U. S. Forest Service is proposing to change a rule to allow storing this carbon dioxide pollution under the country’s national forests and grasslands. “Authorizing carbon capture and storage on National Forest System (NFS) lands would support the Administration’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent below the 2005 levels by 2030,” the proposed rule change says.
Some experts, like June Sekera, a research fellow with Boston University, question the timing of the proposed rule change, given community pushback across the country to pipelines planned on private land. Yet she says the Forest Service proposal to open up national parks for CO2 storage is “an end run around local towns and counties. And it’s a much simpler and way less expensive route.”
In an email, Scott Owen, press officer for the Forest Service, writes that the proposed rule change would allow the Forest Service to consider proposals for carbon capture and storage projects. He writes that any proposals must still pass through a secondary screening, adding, “The Forest Service has been ‘screening’ proposals for use of NFS lands for over 20 years as a means to be increasingly consistent in our processes and also be able to reject those uses that are inconsistent with the management of the public’s land. ” He notes the Forest Service currently does not have any carbon capture project proposals under consideration. The Forest Service has opened public comments on the proposed rule change until Jan. 2, 2024.
1. What does the Forest Service intend to do by changing a rule?| A．Answer the appeals of communities. | B．Provide legal space for carbon storage. |
| C．Enlarge national pipeline storage capacity. | D．Loosen tax burden on American companies. |
| A．An eventful act. | B．A desperate try. |
| C．An alternative way. | D．A breathtaking race. |
| A．It is still up in the air. | B．It is dead in the water. |
| C．It is widely recognized. | D．It is far from satisfactory. |
| A．A fruitful research. | B．A timely rule change. |
| C．An authorized project. | D．A controversial proposal. |
【推荐3】Most of our everyday plastic items end up in landfill, left to rot away for many years. But some of it blows away, spoiling the countryside and causing damage to the natural environment and harming wildlife. The problem is most severe in our oceans. Research has found a deserted island in the South Pacific is littered with the highest density (密度) of plastic waste anywhere in the world.
The study described how remote islands act as a ‘sink’ for the world’s rubbish. They become collecting points for fishing items and everyday things including toothbrushes, cigarette lighters and razors-things that we throw away. Dr Jennifer Lavers from the University of Tasmania says “Almost every island in the world and almost every species in the ocean is now being impacted one way or another by our waste.”
This highlights the potentially deadly effect of our disposable (用后即丢弃) culture. When we throw something away, it doesn’t just disappear, it goes somewhere and because of the nature of plastic, it takes a long time to rot away and stays there causing great damage to the ocean’s ecology (生态). And worse still, plastic is broken down into tiny particles over a long period by the wind and the waves, then sea creatures at the bottom of the food chain swallow them. These creatures are eaten by the fish that we eventually consume.
The solution to this problem would be to use less plastic. Several countries now charge for using plastic carrier bags which reduces the amount used and some products now use natural and recyclable materials.
1. What does the author really want to tell us in the first parapraph?| A．It is a good idea to end plastic items in a landfill. |
| B．Plastic items blow away easily in the strong wind. |
| C．It is a bad habit to throw away plastics everywhere. |
| D．Plastic pollution in oceans is a most serious issue. |
| A．The islands begin to sink with much rubbish on them. |
| B．The islands have become gathering places for rubbish. |
| C．The islands are ideal places to hide the plastic products. |
| D．The islands are inaccessible due to the white pollution. |
| A．Impact on sea species. | B．Thrown-away rubbish. |
| C．The nature of plastic. | D．The ocean’s ecology. |
| A．Breaking the balance of ocean ecology. | B．Causing many sea creatures to die out. |
| C．Presenting potential risks to our health. | D．Cutting off the food chain of sea creatures. |
【推荐1】Tourism is a leisure activity, whose prework means just the opposite. Acting as a tourist is one of the clear characteristics of being "modern" and the popular concept of tourism is that, it is organized within particular place and occurs for a period of time, which is arranged beforehand. Tourist relationships arise from a movement of people to, and their stay in, various destinations. This necessarily involves some movement, that is the journey, and a period of stay in a new place or places. The journey and the stay are by definition outside the normal places, of residence and work, and are of a short-term and temporary nature, and there is a clear intention to return home within a relatively short period of time.
Modern societies engage in such tourist practices. New socialized forms of transportation and hotel facilities have developed in order to cope with the mass character of the gazes of tourists, as opposed to the individual character of travel. Places are chosen to be visited and be gazed upon because there is an anticipation (期望) especially through daydreaming and fantasy of intense pleasures, either on a different scale or involving different senses from those who have been there. Such anticipation is also constructed and stays through a variety of non-tourist practices, such as films, TV, literature, magazines, records and videos which construct and reinforce this daydreaming.
Tourists tend to visit features of landscape and townscape which separate them off from everyday experience. Such aspects are viewed because they are thought to be in some sense out of the ordinary. The viewing of these tourist sights often involves different forms of social patterning with a much greater sensitivity to visual elements of landscape or townscape than is normally found in everyday life. People hang around these sights in a way that they would not normally do in their home environment and the vision is objectified or captured through photographs, postcards films and so on which enable the memory to be endlessly reproduced and recaptured.
One of the earliest research paper on the subject of tourism is Boorstin's analysis of the "pseudo-event" (1964) where he argues that contemporary Americans cannot experience "reality" directly but are happy with "pseudo-events". Isolated from the host environment and the local people, the mass tourist travels in guided groups and finds pleasure in fake or man-made attractions, and is cheated into enjoying the pseudo-events and disregarding the real world outside. Over time the images generated of different tourist sights lead to a closed self- perpetuating(自我延续的)system of a false belief that provides the tourist with the basis for selecting or deciding potential places to visit. Such visits are made, says Boorstin, within the "environmental bubble" of the familiar American style hotel which keeps the tourist from the strangeness of the host environment.
1. In the 1st paragraph, the author wants to say that before you travel to a new place _______.| A．making a careful travel plan is necessary |
| B．planning travel involves time and thought |
| C．getting travel tips from your friends may save time |
| D．choosing unusual tourist attractions makes a trip memorable |
| A．traveling to an unfamiliar place is a pleasant change from everyday routine |
| B．new environmental scenes in a different place will become more attractive |
| C．tourists should find the native people and share with them ideas and experience |
| D．travelling is to see landmarks and discover unknown ways of life and values |
| A．when travelling, many tourists will miss their homes and friends |
| B．visiting popular tourist attractions is only a waste of time |
| C．the virtue of travel is to interact with a culture different from your own |
| D．American tourists like to visit familiar places when they travel outside |
| A．Tourism, an Outlook on Different Life |
| B．Tourism, a Direct Hug of Nature |
| C．Tourism, a New Relation to Familiar Sights |
| D．Tourism, a False Belief about the World |
【推荐2】Parenting techniques may have long lasting consequences for behavior—even when it comes to dogs.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania studied the early development, parenting and the following performance of 98 puppies who underwent guide dog training. Dogs who received more independence and less support from their mothers were more likely to be successful in becoming a guide dog. The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mom-pup interactions were used to define how highly involved the puppy’s mothers were. Puppies raised with highly involved mothers were more likely to be released—or dropped out from the guide dog program—compared to those with less attentive mothers.
“Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing,” said lead study researcher Emily Bray. Although the study couldn’t definitely point to what was driving this effect, “one possibility is that the dogs that are having overbearing(专横的)mothers are never given the chance to deal with small challenges on their own, and is harmful to their later behavior and outcome in their problem solving. Another possibility is that the puppies for whom the mothers are always around are also the most anxious or stressed,” she explained.
“What I was happy about was that there is a study being done about early life experiences in dogs,” another researcher Dolores Hole said. “If the mom is trying to protect her pups against small challenges, then they will not be suited for the big challenges.”
The study included three breeds(品种):German shepherds, Labrador retrievers and Golden retrievers. The puppies were followed from the first weeks of life for several years. Interestingly, Labrador retrievers tended to wash out from the program, while Golden retrievers tended to succeed.
As for whether the findings can be applied to human babies of so-called “helicopter parents,” Bray was hesitant.
“I think people can draw parallels(相似之处), but I think you also have to be careful because they are different species,” she said.
She added, “The nice thing about dogs is that they are a lot less complicated than humans.”
1. What makes successful guide dogs according to the study?| A．Less attentive owners. | B．More practical training. |
| C．Less supportive mothers. | D．More tense environment. |
| A．The necessity of mom-pup interactions. |
| B．Some characteristics of good guide dogs. |
| C．The significance of high parental involvement. |
| D．Potential causes of some puppies’ poor performance. |
| A．They choose to stay. | B．They fail to be qualified. |
| C．They rise to challenges. | D．They are easy to notice. |
| A．Parenting techniques can apply to guide dogs |
| B．Guide dogs are less complicated than humans |
| C．Researchers help raise public awareness of blind people |
| D．A study is done about early life experiences of human babies |
【推荐3】Communicating with your child's teacher is one way to help him succeed at school. But just how often should you contact the teacher，and what questions should you ask？How can you help your child succeed in school？
Jerry Parks，a social studies teacher is. to share his thoughts. Parks keeps in touch with parents through emails，class websites，and phone calls. " Parents who take an active interest in their children's work and school well-being are one of the biggest contributors to my students' success，"Parks says. Children of involved parents typically have higher self-esteem（自尊）and have fewer behavior problems in school. And students' grades usually improve when their parents become involved.
Parks suggests the top 6 ways parents can help their children succeed in school: first，make sure your child is at school every day possible. Missed work is generally more of a loss than made-up work is a gain；second，set a time and a place for your child to do homework. If he does not have homework，have him use the time to read；third，keep in touch with teachers，but don't do it too much. Most teachers appreciate parents caring enough to keep in touch a few times a term but do not appreciate parents expecting to contact on a regular basis. Besides，it seems appropriate to ask the teacher whether she thinks your child is giving his best effort in class and whether she has noticed any significant changes in your child's behavior or grades. More importantly，teach your child to build a character—it will improve social and academic skills more than anything else. Some things are simply wrong，and the world your child will grow up in will punish crimes，so give your child a head start. Last but not least，make time every day to talk with your child about the day's activities. Let him know you care，and really listen to what he has to say.
1. Who is the passage intended for?| A．Students. | B．Parents. |
| C．Teachers. | D．Children. |
| A．show lower self-esteem |
| B．have more behavior problems |
| C．achieve more success |
| D．have fewer academic problems |
| A．It's better than nothing. |
| B．Sometimes the best gain is to lose. |
| C．No pain, no gain. |
| D．Losses make us more cautious. |
| A．Developing good habits is vital to a child's life. |
| B．Parents are expected to ask teachers any question. |
| C．Developing a character seems a waste of time. |
| D．Communication with your child means killing time. |
【推荐1】Some people say that friendship is the only channel through which human beings can ever experience the value of life. In our daily life, it is likely that you share some common interests with others — they may like the same sport, go to the same school or like the same kind of music as you do. Since you often meet them, they become your acquaintances. Although some people develop many acquaintances, only a few become their good friends in their lifetime because there are differences between acquaintances and friends.
It is said that true friendship begins when someone knows what you are really like, but still likes you anyway. A true friend shows loyalty from the very beginning of the relationship. A friend will go through challenges to help you without expecting anything in return. A “friend” today may probably become a “true friend” tomorrow when they get involved in unexpected circumstances together with you — for example, when you are going through a difficult experience and your friend is there to help you out. However, some acquaintances might leave you when you badly need their help. At this time, you can experience what true friendship is.
In our life, some people seem to go through life with plenty of friends. They may be funny or they may have a bright and pleasant personality. For these people, wherever they go, people seem to like them and welcome their company. But when they go through challenging life experiences, some of their friends are not there to help them. Therefore we can say some of their friends are not real friends and their friendship is just skin-deep.
However, others seem to go through life with no friends at all. They like to be alone, to travel by themselves or to do their own things. It’s a pity that few of these people find success in life because they have no friends. They lack the best gift in life — friendship.
1. According to the passage, which of the following statements about acquaintances is TRUE?| A．They have all of the same interests as you do. |
| B．You seldom meet them in your life. |
| C．They are sure to become your good friends. |
| D．Not all of them can become your friends. |
| A．go to the same school as your friend |
| B．get into trouble |
| C．enjoy the same kind of music as your friend |
| D．see your friend often |
| A．it doesn’t matter whether one has friends or not |
| B．people with bright personality are easy to have friends |
| C．people without friends are always unhappy |
| D．it’s easier to lose a friend than to get one |
| A．Very deep. | B．Not deep at all. |
| C．As precious as skin. | D．Hidden under the skin. |
| A．Interested. | B．Angry. |
| C．Hopeful. | D．Regretful. |
【推荐2】Video games get a bad name. Many are unquestionably violent and they have been accused of corrupting (使堕落) the mind of youth. Yet the good news is that two studies carried out recently show that video games have a bright side as well as a dark one.
One was conducted by Douglas Gentile of Iowa State University. He and his colleagues asked a group of 161 American students to play one of four games for 20 minutes. Some were given “Ty2” or “Crash Twinsanity”, both of which involve fighting and destroying things. Others were assigned “Chibi-Robo!”, which involves helping characters by doing things for them, or “Super Mario Sunshine”, in which players clean up pollution.
Their games over the participants were asked to choose 11 of 30 easy, medium or hard puzzles for a partner to complete, and told that their partner would receive a gift if he could complete ten of them. Those who had been playing pro-social (亲社会的) games were significantly more likely to help their partner by selecting easy puzzles. The opposite was true for those assigned violent games.
The second controlled experiment, by Tobias Greitemeyer of the University of Sussex confirms Dr Gentile's finding. In this piece of research, Dr Greitemeyer asked 46 British student to play one of two classic games. In the pro-social one, “Lemmings”, the aim is to protect rabbits from various dangers. By contrast “Tetris” acted as a neutral control (中性对照). In this game players have fun with building blocks instead of saving furry animals.
Playtime over, the students were asked to complete a story involving a diner speaking to a restaurant manager after waiting for an hour to be served and then having food spilt (溢出) on him by a waitress. Those who had played “Lemmings” suggested endings in which the characters in the stories exhibited significantly more kind thoughts, responses and actions than the ones suggested by the “Tetris” players.
The outcome of both studies is that video games are like any other medium. Entertain the user with aggressive (好斗的) thoughts and you risk making him ready to attack others. Entertain him with the milk of human kindness and the opposite will probably happen.
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 1?| A．Video games are only popular with the youth. |
| B．Video game companies aren't good at choosing names. |
| C．Violence is the characteristic of all video games. |
| D．People generally hold a negative attitude to video games. |
| A．Ty2. | B．Chibi-Robo! |
| C．Tetris. | D．Super Mario Sunshine. |
| A．“Crash Twinsanity” involves protecting things from destroying. |
| B．Players clean up pollution in “Super Mario Sunshine”. |
| C．Players playing pro-social games are likely to stop their partner. |
| D．The second controlled experiment was conducted by Douglas Gentile. |
| A．The waitress was fired. |
| B．The diner refused to pay for the meal. |
| C．The diner asked the manager not to blame the waitress. |
| D．The waitress was asked to pay for the laundry of the dirtied clothes. |
【推荐3】China’s domestically developed, long-acting experimental AIDS drug is undergoing a final review by the China Food and Drug Administration, the last stage in the approval process.
Different from traditional oral drugs that require daily use, but it’s a heavy burden for patients to take medicine every day for years. As a result, long-acting drugs are the future direction in developing innovative AIDS medicine. For Chinese patients, the number of oral drugs available in the domestic market is very limited, so there is an urgent need for drugs to solve the problem of drug resistance.
Zhao Yan, a treatment specialist at the National Center for AIDS said seven or eight oral drugs for AIDS are currently provided to patients for free. “The injection solution could give an alternative to patients ... if it could be included in the country’s health insurance system,” she said.
“Now very few patients are using drugs from the health insurance system, both because no differentiated drugs are provided and because the procedure is more complex and could harm their privacy,” she said. “New drugs will be broadly used only if the system can embrace more varieties of drugs.”
Albuvirtide went into the research and development stage in 2002 and entered phase three of clinical trials—a step to assure safety and effectiveness before market approval—in 2014. Phase three is the last round of clinical trials for new drug tests in China. If the drug can pass the reviews of the country’s drug watchdog, usually at least two rounds, it can then enter the market. The time needed for the review ranges from months to years.
Clinical trials showed that the new drug performs even better than the oral drugs being used. Most of the oral drugs for AIDS being used in China are generic drugs developed in the 1970s and „80s that are not so efficient. In terms of safety and effectiveness, evidence so far showed that Albuvirtide is better than most second-line drugs—drugs used when first-line standard drugs fail—in developed countries because of lower toxicity (毒性) and fewer side effects.
Worldwide, a number of long-acting AIDS drug are in development. None has been approved for sale. Only Albuvirtide and a few in the United States have entered phase three of clinical trials.
1. Albuvirtide is ________.| A．a China-developed long-acting oral AIDS drug |
| B．undergoing a clinical test on dogs to assure its safety |
| C．more efficient than other AIDS drugs and has fewer side effects |
| D．the only AIDS drug that has entered the last round of clinical trials |
| A．it’s a new drug and they are not resistant to it |
| B．it is one of the most effective first-line drugs |
| C．it has been included in the health insurance system |
| D．they can keep their privacy by being injected once a week |
| A．The research and development of Albuvirtide began in 2002. |
| B．There are usually three phases in the clinical trial for a new drug. |
| C．Albuvirtide is now in the stage of carrying out clinical trials. |
| D．The time needed for review varies from drug to drug. |
| A．Albuvirtide can spare patients from taking oral drugs every day |
| B．the health insurance system has room for further improvement |
| C．most AIDS drugs being used now were developed in last century |
| D．China is leading the whole world in the field of AIDS research |
【推荐1】A few years ago, bubble tea(奶茶) exploded as a popular drink for Internet foodies(吃货) everywhere. Many take this Taiwanese drink as a guilt-free snack similar to juice or a cup of coffee. After all, it has the word “tea” in it, so it has to be healthy…right?
Not quite. Like coffee, bubble tea’s ingredients(成分，配料) might not be so bad on their own, but when they’re loaded with sweetener(甜味剂) and artificial flavor(人工香料), they lose their nutritional(营养的) value fast.
It all starts with those “bubbles” found at the bottom of your drink, which are actually round pieces of tapioca(木薯淀粉). Called “tapioca pearls(珍珠),” they’re actually made from a vegetable that grows in South America. And as it turns out, those little balls are loaded with sugar—and not the nutritious, fiber-rich(富含纤维) kinds found in whole grains(全麦类), either.
Cooking tapioca pearls only makes it worse. They’re typically fried in hot water, along with even more added sugar, for up to three hours. By that point, these balls could have nearly 160 calories per ¼ cup.
And don’t even get us started on what comes in the extra syrups(糖浆). Thanks to all those processed(加工的) ingredients, the average bubble tea can easily reach 300 to 400 calories per cup!
On top of being an unhealthy habit, bubble tea could even shorten your life. In 2012, a group of German researchers from the University Hospital Aachen reportedly found aspolychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in tapioca ball samples. These cancer-causing chemicals have also been shown to have other bad effects on the immune(免疫), reproductive(生殖), and nervous systems.
You might want to lay off your bubble tea addiction. Thankfully, we have a few choices for low-calorie, healthier drinks, instead.
1. Why is bubble tea considered “guilt-free” by many people?| A．It is popular in Taiwan. |
| B．Its name includes “tea”. |
| C．It is similar to juice and coffee. |
| D．It is liked by Internet foodies. |
| A．They don’t contain any sugar. |
| B．They are made from a kind of fruit. |
| C．They contain all the calories of tea. |
| D．They are usually cooked and fried. |
| A．Bad effects caused by bubble tea. |
| B．Some examples of healthy drinks. |
| C．Energy you get from bubble tea. |
| D．Getting into the habit of drinking tea. |
| A．Bubble tea is very popular |
| B．Tapioca pearls are nutritious |
| C．Bubble tea is pretty bad for you |
| D．Advice on healthy drinks |
【推荐2】The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
——By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tide rises, the tide falls,
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but never more
Returns the traveler to the shore,
And the tides rises, the tide falls.
1. What is the figurative meaning of the title “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” indicate?| A．The change of the ocean | B．the sequence of human history |
| C．the coming and going of travelers | D．the eternity of the natural world |
| A．The tide rises, the tide falls |
| B．The twilight darkens, the curlew calls |
| C．Along the sea-sands damp and brown |
| D．The traveler hastens toward the town |
| A．Draw | B．engrave |
| C．erase | D．impress |
| A．Time hustles; people bustle |
| B．The traveler comes to the town just once |
| C．People will die while time goes on |
| D．If time had feelings, people would stay |
【推荐3】A lecture hall should be like a church-a little too dark,much too cold,and uncomfortably silent.You should feel guilty opening your water bottle,because all 200 people in the room can hear it.
So when I’m trying to pay attention,the last thing you should be doing is carrying on a conversation about your last weekend party or anything else.
During the past school term,I’ve had enough.One of my biggest complaints of large class sizes is the tendency for three to five friends to sit together and loudly whisper each others’ ears off for an hour and 15 minutes straight.My stupid monkey brain can’t help but focus on your conversation about the difference between ash blonde and light blonde colored hair that look exactly the same.
To me,it just feels like a waste.You’re actively wasting money,and missing vital information.We(and the government)pay quite a lot for our education,but you are here to ignore someone significantly more experienced than us,in classes we picked,for hours every week.
I know major requirements can be boring,but this is still an education.It requires two-way effort.Most of students here have at least one goal in common:success.Not every checkpoint on that path is going to be filled with joy.Sit down,shut up,and force yourself to listen to your professor.Society tells us it will eventually pay off.
Or maybe it won’t because you don’t want to.
I actually don’t care if you decide to pay little or no attention to the lecture itself,so long as you’re not being disturbing.
For those willing to try,in 20 years when you finally pay off your debt with your fairly secure white-collar job,you’ll look back and be happy that you went through the lectures.
1. Why is a lecture hall compared to a church by the author?| A．Both places are open to the public. |
| B．Both places are supposed to be quiet. |
| C．Both places can seat over 200 people. |
| D．Both places help rid people of their guilt. |
| A．He likes persuading others. |
| B．He tends to make complaints. |
| C．He values education as a duty. |
| D．He cares much about friendship. |
| A．Annoyed. |
| B．Deserted. |
| C．Thrilled. |
| D．Worried. |
| A．Hard Work Pays Off! |
| B．Focus on the Lectures! |
| C．Wasting Your Time Is a Shame! |
| D．Mind Your In-Class Behavior! |
