More than half of the birds in Washington are at risk of extinction because of climate change. That's according to a new national report from the Audubon Society, which gives detailed analysis of climate effects on about 600 species of North American birds.
It's based on more than 140 million observations of birds across the US, Mexico and Canada. Audubon scientists looked at the likely effects of sea-level rise, urbanization, drought, extreme spring heat, increased fires, heavy rain and other factors.
But it doesn't just spell out a doomsday scenario (世界末日).Instead, it offers a range of effects and warming, depending on how much carbon humans add to the atmosphere.
"It is truly an existential threat (威胁), not only to birds but to people,” said Doug Santoni, board chair of Audubon Washington, who looked into the report as soon as it came out.
Santoni says he was struck to see the vulnerability (脆弱)of a common “ backyard bird" , the dark-eyed junco. It's one that many first-time birders become familiar with as they learn how to identify species based on their markings and other traits. Currently in Washington, you can count on juncos to show up at your feeder, year round. Extreme spring heat, increased fires and heavy rain are the kinds of changes that will force birds like these north, or kill them off if they fail to adapt.
Trina Bayard, director of bird conservation at Audubon’s Washington chapter, says, "It's certainly a very serious warning report," but adds that there’s still hope. “If we can stabilize current temperatures and decrease our emissions (排放), we can really reduce the effects to these birds …that's very motivating. ”
1. What can we know about the new report?| A．It analyses the species of birds in detail. |
| B．It's issued by watching 600 bird species. |
| C．It shows the end of North American birds. |
| D．It reports the threat some birds are facing. |
| A．Climate change is a threat only to birds. |
| B．It's too late to take action to save the birds. |
| C．The current situation of the birds is worrying. |
| D．It's common that birds are affected by climate change. |
| A．Lowering present temperatures. |
| B．Reducing our daily emissions. |
| C．Making them adapt to climate change. |
| D．Encouraging people to protect them. |
| A．Climate change threatens many Washington bird species. |
| B．A new report about 600 species of North American birds. |
| C．Different attitudes towards the situation of bird species. |
| D．Climate change makes different kinds of species at risk. |
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【推荐1】More than a score of Australian rare mammals have been killed by wild cats. These predators, which arrived with European settlers, still threaten native wildlife — and are too plentiful on the mainland to eliminate, as has been achieved on some small islands which were previously filled with them. But Alexandra Ross of the University of New South Wales thinks she has come up with a different way to deal with the problem. As she writes in a paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology, she is giving feline (猫科的) — awareness lessons to wild animals involved in re-introduction programs, in order to try to make them cat-conscious.
Many Australian mammals, though not actually extinct, are restricted to fragments of cat-free habitat. This will, however, put the forced migrants back in the sights of the cats that caused the problem in the first place. Training the migrants while they are in captivity, using stuffed models and the sorts of sounds made by cats, has proved expensive and ineffective. Ms Ross therefore wondered whether putting them in large natural enclosures with a scattering of predators might serve as a form of training camp to prepare them for introduction into their new, cat-ridden homes.
She tested this idea on a type of bandicoot (袋狸) that superficially resembles a rabbit. She and her colleagues raised two hundred bandicoots in a huge enclosure that also contained five wild cats. As a control, she raised a nearly identical population in a similar enclosure without the cats. She left the animals to get on with life for two years, which, given that bandicoots breed four times a year and live for around eight years, was a considerable period for them. After some predation (扑食) and probably some learning, she abstracted 21 bandicoots from each enclosure, attached radio transmitters to them and released them into a third enclosure that had ten hungry cats in it. She then monitored what happened next. The outcome was that the training worked. Over the subsequent 40 days, ten of the untrained animals were eaten by cats, but only four of the trained ones. One particular behavioral difference she noticed was that bandicoots brought up in a predator-free environment were much more likely to sleep alone than were those brought up around cats. And when cats are around, sleeping alone is dangerous. How well bandicoots that have undergone this extreme training will survive in the wild remains to be seen. But Ms Ross has at least provided reason for hope.
1. What can be learned from the first paragraph?| A．The feline-awareness lessons have proved ineffective. |
| B．There are too many wild cats to be killed in Australia. |
| C．Different ways have been tried to hunt and kill wildlife. |
| D．Native wildlife has been threatened by a growing population of wild cats. |
| A．Australian mammals restricted to certain areas |
| B．The wild cats tracking down the mammals |
| C．Wild animals involved in the program |
| D．The predators captured by the animal trainers |
| A．They were both closely monitored. | B．They had 200 bandicoots in total. |
| C．They had similar natural environment. | D．They both had wild cats in them. |
| A．Untrained bandicoots failed to identify cats. |
| B．Training bandicoots prepared them to fight cats. |
| C．Sleeping alone in the wild was dangerous. |
| D．Bandicoots could be trained to avoid predators. |
【推荐2】Are you curious about mysterious creatures? We are going to tell you about some here.
Okapi
If giraffes and zebras could produce a next generation, their babies would look like an okapi. This strange-looking creature has striped legs like a zebra and the face of a giraffe. Its neck is much shorter than a giraffe, but like its cousin, it has an extremely long tongue, which can be up to 12 inches long. The okapi can use its tongue to wash its own eyelids and ears. Before 1901, Okapis were known only to the people living in the Congo rainforest.
Loch Ness Monster
The locals near Loch Ness in northwestern Scotland refer to the mysterious creature as "Nessie". Nessie is said to be a large animal with a long neck that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. Similar creatures have been reported in other lakes around the world. But whether it is real remains unknown.
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
By the mid-1990s, the ivory- billed woodpecker was widely believed to have died out due to deforestation(砍伐森林) and hunting. It was rediscovered in 2004, when a bird lover reported seeing one alive in the woods of Arkansas, America. Researchers later got a video of the bird.
King Cheetah
Starting in 1926, people in Zimbabwe began to see a cheetah with unusual markings. This cheetah has large spots like a leopard(美洲豹) and black stripes down its back. People called the creature "king cheetah". It is a leopard-cheetah hybrid (混合).
1. Which of the following is TRUE about the okapi?| A．It is produced by a giraffe and a zebra. |
| B．It was not widely known until the twentieth century. |
| C．Its neck is much shorter than that of a zebra. |
| D．It was first found in 1901. |
| A．People still don’t know why the king cheetah has strange markings. |
| B．The giraffe has a short tongue. |
| C．Nessie is a kind of dinosaur. |
| D．The decrease in forests has had a great effect on the ivory-billed woodpecker. |
| A．In a nature magazine. | B．In a travel guide. |
| C．In a book of fairy tales. | D．In an advertisement. |
【推荐3】Nowadays, bamboo growth cycles and the dietary needs of lemurs (狐猴) are out of sync. Findings show rainfalls are changing annually. “Over the past two years, there has been a three-month delay in the rainy season and new tender shoots that lemurs consume for nutrition are appearing in January and February - 14 days after the first rain” says Patricia Chapple Wright, a primatologist, anthropologist, and conservationist at Stony Brook University. “Lemurs eat a food source that is very adaptive,” Patricia Wright told PBS NewsHour. “It’s able to stand climate change, but the lemurs, unfortunately, can’t adapt quickly to this changed cycle.”
Since baby lemurs are born in November, the delayed rainy season is dangerously affecting the survival of them for lack of nutrition available for both the mothers and offspring. “This is why, for extreme feeding specialists like the greater bamboo lemur, climate change can be an unknowing killer,” J Wright says. “Making the lemurs rely on bamboo stems (茎) for just a bit longer may be enough to tip the balance from existence to extinction.” The lemurs’ highly specialized teeth are also similar to the pandas5 teeth. Both are the mammals able to chew up stems. But this diet can’t last for more than a season or two because the stems can wear away their teeth.
The researchers believe that climate change is affecting the lemurs. The fossil record shows that the lemurs once lived throughout the island. Today, the mammals are cornered on the eastern side, where the dry season at present is the shortest. And if people continue the deforestation practice in the area, the lemurs will have nowhere to go.
The situation is serious, so Wright and her colleagues plan to create bamboo corridors within the rainforests, which will provide available bamboo to eat. They want to work with local villagers to plant more bamboo and manage automatic watering systems when dry seasons last long. They also want to build the local economy by allowing people to harvest a part of bamboo while the rest remains with the lemurs, so people will be interested. Wright’s conservation plans include moving lemurs back to other places on the island as well.
1. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?| A．Go with each other. | B．Occur at different times. |
| C．Lead to a heated discussion. | D．Call for effective protection. |
| A．They may run out of bamboo. | B．They can’t adapt to the hot season. |
| C．They dislike the less delicious stems. | D．They can’t chew the stems for a long period. |
| A．The climate change. | B．Their teeth protection. |
| C．The decreasing forest. | D．Their special dietary habits. |
| A．Shortening the dry season. | B．Forbidding the cutting of bamboo. |
| C．Increasing people’s motivation. | D．Finding other islands for lemurs to live on. |
【推荐1】An artist has carved a giant SOS message into an Indonesian palm oil plantation（棕榈油种植园）to draw attention to the damage done by forest destruction and stress the impact on people and wildlife.
Emest Zacharevic created the Save Our Souls（SOS）project as part of a campaign on the impact palm oil plantations have on local communities and endangered species such as the orangutan（褐猿）. The SOS carving，which he completed last month，runs for about half a kilometer inside a plantation in North Sumatra，and can be seen from the air.
Environmentalists say land-clearing for agricultural plantations in Indonesia，the world's biggest palm oil producer，is responsible for forest destruction-forest cover has dropped by nearly a quarter since 1990.
Zacharevic's SOS project comes during growing pressure on companies to adopt sustainable（可持续的）practices. PepsiCo and British firm Lush have committed to ending the use of palm oil，which is found in products from soap to cereal.
Indonesia has been a focus of global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions（排放）caused by the forest destruction to make way for plantations.
These forests are often in remote areas long occupied by native peoples, who might not have documents proving ownership or be able to contest land acquisitions in the resource-rich Southeast Asia. The forests are home to about 14,600 orangutans remaining in the wild in Sumatra.
"We are all contributing to the destructive effect of unsustainable palm oil, whether it is by consuming products or supporting policies that affect the trade," Jacharevic said. "This project is an effort to appeal to the consciousness of a wider audience."
1. What do you know about the orangutan according to the text?| A．They are well protected. | B．They are becoming extinct. |
| C．They live in local communities. | D．They are saved by the SOS project. |
| A．enormous | B．classic |
| C．holy | D．primitive |
| A．selling trees | B．building houses |
| C．hunting orangutans | D．setting up plantations |
| A．To forbid the use of palm oil. | B．To obtain support for plantations. |
| C．To arouse environmental awareness. | D．To help native peoples acquire more land. |
【推荐2】According to a new USDA(the U.S.Department of Agriculture)report,U.S.forests could worsen global warming because they are being destroyed by natural disasters and are losing their ability to absorb planet-warming gases as they get older.The report predicts that the ability of forests to absorb carbon will start declining after 2025 and that forests could release up to 100 million metric tons of carbon a year as their emissions from decaying(腐烂)trees go above their carbon absorption.Forests could become a“substantial carbon source”by 2070,the USDA report says.
The loss of carbon absorption is driven in part by natural disasters such as wildfires, tornadoes and hurricanes,which are increasing in frequency and strength as global temperatures rise.The disasters destroy forestland,destroying its ecosystem and decreasing its ability to absorb carbon,according to Lynn Riley,a senior manager of climate science at the American Forest Foundation.Aging forests also contribute.The report found that older,mature trees absorb less carbon than younger trees of the same species,and U.S.forests are rapidly aging.
This trend is likely to continue,as forests come under increasing threat from climate change and exploitation(开采).The typical tropical forest may become a carbon source by the 2060s,according to Simon Lewis,professor in the school of geography at Leeds University. “Humans have been lucky so far,as tropical forests are cleaning up lots of our pollution,but they can’t keep doing that indefinitely,”he said.“We need to cut down fossil fuel emissions before the global carbon cycle starts working against us.”
U.S.forests currently absorb 11 percent of U.S.carbon emissions,or 150 million metric tons of carbon a year,equal to the combined emissions from 40 coal power plants,according to there port.The loss of forests as natural carbon absorbers will require the U.S.to cut emissions more rapidly to reach net zero.“As we work to decarbonize(碳减排),forests are one of the greatest tools.If we were to lose that tool,it means we will contribute that much more in emissions,”Riley said.
1. What is the main finding of the report?| A．Forests are suffering from decaying trees. |
| B．Forests could contribute to global warming. |
| C．Forests are being destroyed by natural disasters. |
| D．Forests have become substantial carbon absorbers. |
| A．The key role of forests in the ecosystem. |
| B．The consequences of frequent natural disasters. |
| C．The impact of rising global temperatures on forests. |
| D．The reasons for forests’ declining ability to absorb carbon. |
| A．Reducing fossil fuel emissions. |
| B．Cleaning up decaying trees in time. |
| C．Planting trees on a large scale. |
| D．Limiting the exploitation of forests. |
| A．To offer suggestions on forest management. |
| B．To stress the significance of forest protection. |
| C．To present the efforts made to reach net zero. |
| D．To show the carbon emissions from coal power plants. |
【推荐3】A start-up company backed by tech giants IBM and Microsoft plans to build thousands of artificial reefs across the globe to fight climate change by restoring coral reef (珊瑚礁) ecosystems.
The Reef Company plans to have its first reefs in the water by December 2022, and is encouraging more companies to fund reefs to offset (抵消) their carbon footprint. “We’ve calculated we need to build 2,500 reefs, each measuring 4 square kilometers, over the next 10 years to absorb the extra carbon we have on the planet at the moment,” says Jeroen van de Waal, founder of The Reef Company.
Coral reefs are home to 25% of all marine life. They provide a source of income for millions of people through fishing and tourism and protect coastal communities by reducing the power of waves before they reach the shore. Yet they’re under threat from global warming and 90% of all coral reefs could be lost by 2050 if nothing is done to protect them.
As well as improving biodiversity and storing carbon, The Reef Company, which is based in Portugal, hopes to give a boost to local economies and collect real-time data for researchers.
The artificial reefs are constructed from eco-friendly concrete made from recycled industrial waste and will feature consoles (控制台) filled with sensors that can measure how salty, warm and acid the ocean is. “The reefs will provide a continuously expanding set of connected sensors to gather and analyze data, generating insights in real time,” says Andrés Ortolá, managing director of Microsoft Portugal.
To act as a sink for carbon dioxide, the artificial reefs will need to support plants such as seagrass and mangroves alongside coral. While coral reefs use carbon to grow, the process also lowers the pH in the water, which results in the release of CO2. Benjamin Horton at the Earth Observatory of Singapore says artificial reefs will need to be well maintained to prove successful. “If the ecosystems are damaged, their carbon sink capacity will be affected, and the carbon stored will be released.”
1. What does the author mainly try to do in paragraph 3?| A．Warn more companies of the extinction of coral reefs. |
| B．Emphasize the economic benefits of artificial coral reefs. |
| C．Show coral reefs play a role in fighting global warming. |
| D．Tell why the efforts of The Reef Company are important. |
| A．To help natural coral reefs recover. | B．To monitor new industrial resources. |
| C．To keep track of ocean animals’ health. | D．To collect real-time data of the ocean. |
| A．He shows no interest in the plan. | B．He is worried about the project. |
| C．He finds artificial reefs useless. | D．He is hopeful about ecosystems. |
| A．An attempt to fight climate change. | B．A company devoted to studying reefs. |
| C．A creative way to build artificial reefs. | D．An international cooperation in science. |
【推荐1】Just last month，AI-generated art arrived on the auction (拍卖) stage of Christie’s, proving that artificial intelligence can not only be creative but also produce world-class works of art — another significant AI milestone blurring the line between human and machine.
Naturally, the news sparked off debates about whether the work produced by Paris-based art collective Obvious could really be called art at all. Popular opinion among creatives is that art is a process by which human beings express some ideas or emotions, filter them through personal experience and set them against a broader cultural context. The story raised additional questions about ownership. In this circumstance，who can really be named as the author? The algorithm (算法) itself or the team behind it?
At GumGum, an AI company that focuses on computer vision, we wanted to explore the intersection of AI and art by devising a Turing Test of our own in association with Rutgers University’s Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab and Cloudpainter, an artificially intelligent painting robot. We were keen to see whether AI can，in fact, replicate (复制) the intent and imagination of traditional artists, and we wanted to explore the potential impact of AI on the creative sector.
To do this，we enlisted a broad collection of diverse artists from traditional pain-on-canvas artists to 3-D rendering and modeling artists alongside Pindar Van Arman — a classically trained artist who has been coding art robots for 15 years. Van Arman was tasked with using his Cloudpainter machine to create pieces of art based on the same data set as the more traditional artists. This data set was a collection of art by 20th century American Abstract Expressionists. Then, we asked them to document the process, showing us their preferred tools and telling us how they came to their final work.
Amazingly, while at face value the AI artwork was indistinguishable from that of the more traditional artists, the test revealed that the creative spark and ultimate agency behind creating a work of art is still very much human. Even though the Cloudpainter machine has evolved over time to become a highly intelligent system capable of making creative decisions of its own, the final piece of work could only be described as a collaboration (合作) between human and machine. Van Arman served as more of an “art director for the painting”.
As AI becomes an unstoppable force, it raises some difficult questions about the future role of humans in an increasingly automated world. Instead of worrying about AI’s threat to human creative supremacy, the future will be about accepting new technologies and the possibilities it brings for speeding up the process. It’s better to think of AI as your next creative assistant; beautiful pieces of work can be produced in collaboration with it.
1. According to popular opinion, the AI-generated work_______.| A．should have been based on personal experience |
| B．was set against a broader cultural context |
| C．couldn’t be considered art at all |
| D．expresses no idea or emotion |
| A．AI artworks could be easily identified |
| B．AI artworks could show human emotions. |
| C．AI had trouble making sensible decisions. |
| D．AI couldn’t complete a work independently. |
| A．Beautiful pieces cannot be works of AI. |
| B．AI could be an advanced tool for artists. |
| C．AI could challenge the supremacy of humans. |
| D．New technologies can pose a danger to humans. |
| A．Can AI Create True Art? | B．Can AI Threaten Humans? |
| C．Will Human Art Disappear? | D．Are AI Artworks Distinguishable? |
【推荐2】Last October, MIT Prof. Sinan Aral warned his Twitter followers that he had discovered a video of himself that he hadn’t recorded promoting an investment fund’s stock-trading algorithm(算法). In reality, it wasn’t Prof. Aral in the video, but an artificial-intelligence creation in his likeness, or what is known as a highly persuasive “deepfake”.
It is striking that scammers(欺诈者)targeted Prof. Aral considering he is a leading expert on the study of misinformation online. It also suggests that deepfake technology is now at a point where anyone can become a victim of such a scam, thanks to a number of free deepfake apps that are just a Google search away.
The term deepfake has come to mean the use of AI to create artificial media (images, audio, video) in which someone appears to be doing or saying what in reality they haven’t done or said. The technology isn’t always misused. But positive use cases are likely to be overshadowed in coming years by the technology’s potential role in financial fraud (欺诈), identity theft and worse.
The technology is moving so fast that lawmakers will likely always lag behind. That is why I believe we are going to have to rely on technology to protect us from a problem it helped create.
One such solution is to detect deepfakes via machine-learning methods. For instance, while deepfakes appear highly realistic, the technology isn’t yet capable of generating natural eye blinking. While these detectors can be successful in the short term, people looking to get around such systems will likely just respond with better technology, creating a continuing and expensive cat-and-mouse game. A better approach with a longer time horizon is media authentication systems to confirm the origins of images and videos. While legislation(法律) eventually may offer protection against deepfakes, I believe the market could be quicker- provided we, as consumers and citizens, care.
1. What do we know about deepfake technology?| A．It is under legal protection. |
| B．It is a threat to almost everyone. |
| C．It is designed for leading experts. |
| D．It is priced too high for average users. |
| A．Every cloud has a silver lining. |
| B．Necessity is the mother of invention. |
| C．A double-edged sword cuts both ways. |
| D．A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. |
| A．Deepfakes. |
| B．Detectors. |
| C．Confirmation systems. |
| D．Machine-learning methods. |
| A．Introducing tough laws. |
| B．Providing customer care. |
| C．Encouraging market competition. |
| D．Relying on technological advancements. |
【推荐3】Here at The Literacy Site, we’re big believers in playtime. So is one school in Texas, following the tradition of many schools in Finland (芬兰). And now research is on board too.
Debbie Rhea, a researcher from Texas Christian University, designed the program now in place at Eagle Mountain Elementary, in which children have four 15-minute recess (课间休息) periods throughout the school day. She heard about the success of the Finnish school system and decided to take a trip there to study it. When she returned, she began working with schools here in the U.S. to do something similar.
At Eagle Mountain Elementary, students now get three times as much recess as they used to have; outdoor time has been swelled from 20 minutes to an hour each day. The program also focuses on helping kids develop character instead of just test-taking skills.
Since carrying out the program, teachers are noticing that their students are more attentive and less restless. They make more eye contact, have better test scores, and seem to be healthier and happier overall. They even need to sharpen their pencils less because they spend less time chewing (不停地啃) on them. Schools in three other states are starting a similar program after seeing this one perform so well.
In other areas of the country, however, schools have been cutting back on playtime to squeeze in (使挤入) longer lecture periods to prepare kids for standardized tests.
Cutting recess is, no doubt, a decision made with good purposes. But is the traditional lecture-and-test method really effective? Does reducing recess time make more learning happen? The results of recent research say no. A 2014 study showed that the benefits of high-quality recess programs include a drop in bullying and conflicts (冲突), and an increase in the amount of safety and happiness students feel. Children have even been shown to learn better immediately following a break like recess, according to research done by Robert Murray, an expert at Ohio State University.
“If you want a child to be attentive and stay on task, and also if you want them to understand the information you’re giving them, you’ve got to give them regular (经常的) breaks, he said.
1. What does the underlined word “swelled” in paragraph 3 mean?| A．Stressed. | B．Measured. | C．Increased. | D．Exchanged. |
| A．The goals of the program. | B．The benefits of the program. |
| C．Teachers’ advice on the program. | D．Other schools’ reactions to the program. |
| A．To explore why some schools like to cut recess. |
| B．To show how kids make use of their recess time. |
| C．To explain why cutting recess should be stopped. |
| D．To describe how hard it is to ensure kids’ recess time |
【推荐1】Sports fans around the world are struggling to reconcile with the sudden loss of American basketball icon Kobe Bryant. The 41-year-old died on January 26, 2020, when his private helicopter crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California — about 30 miles away from Los Angele. The crash also killed eight other passengers including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna. The extremely heavy fog condition is believed to have been a major factor.
Bryant, who spent his entire 20-year-basketball career as a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, was born in Philadelphia. The basketball star, who decided to turn professional after graduating from high school, was selected by the Charlotte Hornets with the 13th overall pick, and then traded to the Lakers. At just 18 years old, he was the youngest player to be drafted in NBA history. The trade proved to be lucky for the Lakers. By his third year, Bryant had moved from being a reserve to the starting line-up. He had also firmly established himself as a star. In 2000, Bryant led the Lakers to their first NBA championship since 1988. The dream team continued to dominate the league for the next two years.
In addition to helping the Lakers win two additional NBA titles in 2009 and 2010, Bryant was also a member of the basketball team responsible for bringing home the Olympic Gold medals in 2008 and 2012. By the time he retired in 2016, the 18-time NBA All-Star had played a total of 1,560 games and scored an astounding 33,043 points — a record surpassed by only three players Kareem Abdul-Jabar (38,387), Karl Malone (36,928), and James (33,655) — in the NBA’s 73-year History.
Though there are many ways to honor Bryant, the best way to pay tribute to one of the greatest sports heroes of all time may be to follow his philosophy on life: “Life is too short to be discouraged. You have to keep moving. Put one foot in front of the other, smile, and just keep on rolling.”— Kobe Bryant, 2008.
1. According to the passage, what probably caused the accident?| A．Bad weather. | B．Mechanical failure. |
| C．The operational error. | D．High mountains. |
| A．Kobe Bryant turned professional player in high school. |
| B．Kobe Bryant was selected by the Charlotte Hornets at 16. |
| C．The Lakers won their first NBA championship in 2000. |
| D．Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship in 2002. |
| A．Kobe Bryant took part in the 2016 Olympic Games. |
| B．Kobe Bryant was the first NBA All-Star in history. |
| C．He helped the Lakers win five NBA championships. |
| D．Kobe Bryant was the first shooting guard in NBA history. |
| A．Lebron James. | B．Karl Malone. |
| C．Kareem Abdul-Jabar. | D．Kobe Bryant. |
【推荐2】Amazon has changed the way we shop—you can get anything on the site, right? Actually, the retail (零售) giant has to draw the line on some products. Here are the items you’ll have to find elsewhere.
Pets
Thankfully, you cannot expect to purchase the family pet on Amazon. Pets, livestock, and marine mammals are strictly prohibited from being sold on the site and with good reason— primarily being that none of these should be kept in a warehouse awaiting an order. If you’re prepared to adopt an animal, one option is to search Petco’s listing of adoptable pets in your area. And, of course, rescuing an animal from a local shelter will do a world of good for both your family and its newest member.
Lottery (彩票)tickets
Most of us wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to strike it rich, but you’re still going to have to wait in line if you want to score a lottery ticket. On Amazon’s list of prohibited items are lottery tickets. Rules and regulations about selling lotto tickets vary by state and merchants must apply to become a retailer of lottery tickets. For example, the California Lottery asks that potential sellers have more than 200 customers daily, be able to accommodate official lottery equipment, and be in a retail setting like a grocery or gas station, among others.
Tobacco
You can find a variety of things for a smoking habit, like ashtrays, pipes, and cigarette paper, on Amazon, but don’t expect to find any actual tobacco products. E-cigarettes, regardless of whether or not they contain nicotine, are also a no-no on the site. It would simply be boring for the company to check the age of buyers ordering tobacco products online.
1. Why is there a ban on selling pets on Amazon?| A．Because selling pets on the Internet is illegal in the world. |
| B．Because animals can’t be put in the storehouse to sell. |
| C．Because it’s not safe to buy animals on the Internet. |
| D．Because animals can only be bought from local shelters. |
| A．Accommodate official lottery equipment yourself. |
| B．Apply to become a retailer of lottery tickets yourself. |
| C．Queue at a lottery ticket store to get one on the spot. |
| D．Live a life yourself near a grocery store or gas station. |
| A．E-cigarettes. | B．Marine mammals. |
| C．Lottery equipment. | D．Cigarette paper. |
Big, furnished room in a house. It is 3 min walk from the house to Woodbine subway station. International female student only. NON-SMOKER ONLY. Single occupancy. Available from December 1. Rent is $900 and includes all utilities, high speed wireless internet and Netflix. We are open to short or long term tenants but ask for a minimum of a 6 month stay.
Call or text 416-833-2068. Thank you.
Room B
FEMALES ONLY, INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WELCOME! Looking for 1 female for large room, must be full time students. Share kitchen and bathroom with 1 other female tenant. No smoking, no room sharing. RENT: $900 per month. INTERNET: shared costs, will be around $20-$ 25/month. Available: From December 10th to January 20th.
Please contact me on 4129371232.
Room C
Fully furnished room in 2-bedroom rental apartment, ENTIRE APARTMENT IS SHARED WITH ONE PERSON ONLY. 4 mins walking to the bus stop. Bathroom shared with 1 person. Includes HIGH-SPEED WiFi. No partying/ No smoking pls. Available immediately from November 29th at 980$ per month or 40$ per day.
Please call 416-371-0937 for more details.
Room D
We have one private room available in a 3 bedroom detached house, from Dec lst. Rent includes all utilities and high speed Internet. Looking for an Indian girl (working/student). The room is for one person only, no sharing please. 12 mins walk or 3 mins bus ride to Yonge/Sheppard subway. No pets & No smoking please. Home-stay fee is $1250 and includes shared room(1 roommate),3 meals per day, WiFi, on site laundry, FREE tea 8 coffee.
If you are interested, please call 647-549-1545.
1. Lucy has $1000 and wants to rent a room for the whole December. She can call__________.| A．416-833-2068. | B．412-937-1232. |
| C．416-371-0937. | D．647-549-1545. |
| A．It is pet friendly. |
| B．It takes only 12 minutes to the subway by bus. |
| C．It costs no extra money on meals. |
| D．It is available before December. |
| A．Room sharing is welcome. | B．All of them are close to the bus stop. |
| C．Free Wi-Fi is available. | D．Smoking is not permitted. |
