Known as a “living fossil”, the Chinese sturgeon(中华鲟)is a very precious species. It is believed to have lived alongside the dinosaurs more than 140 million years ago. Although dinosaurs are long since gone, the Chinese sturgeon still exists. However, the species has been listed as ‘‘Critically Endangered’’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species．
On May 14,Shanghai legislators(立法机构)passed a new law protecting the Chinese sturgeon, emphasizing “regional cooperation”, according to China Daily. “This is the first local legislation in the country to protect one endangered fish,” said Ding Wei, director of the legislative affairs committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress.
Taken effect on June 6, the regulation urges cooperation in law enforcement(实施), scientific research and rescue of the species between Shanghai and other provinces and regions in the Yangtze River basin, according to People’s Daily．
The need for collaborative efforts is due to the living habitat of the Chinese sturgeon. As an anadromous(溯河产卵的)species, it mainly lives in the Yangtze River and depends on the Vangtze estuary(河口)for migration.
The protection of the Chinese sturgeon is urgent. China began the artificial breeding and release of the fish in 1984. However, very few of the fanned fish have survived in the wild, the number of which is less than 1000, according to a report by the Shanghai Observer.
Whether this species can be preserved depends on the natural population. “If the natural population is not well protected, the Chinese sturgeon is in danger of extinction.” Li Furong, vice chairperson of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee of Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress, said in the report.
Since Jan 1 of this year, a 10-year fishing ban on key areas of the Yangtze River basin has been issued, covering 332 nature reserves, which includes Shanghai’s Chinese sturgeon nature reserve．
1. What is the new law passed on May 14 in Shanghai about?| A．Forbidding fishing in the area. |
| B．Protecting the Chinese sturgeon. |
| C．Increasing the reproduction of the Chinese sturgeon. |
| D．Listing the Chinese sturgeon as an endangered species. |
| A．It mainly lives in the waters of Shanghai. |
| B．Artificial breeding technology costs too much. |
| C．Farmed fish multiplies quickly. |
| D．Saving the species depends on protecting their natural population. |
| A．immediate | B．joint | C．urgent | D．further |
| A．The Chinese Sturgeon: Living Fossil |
| B．Artificial Breeding: Future of the Chinese Sturgeon |
| C．A New Law for a Fish |
| D．Call for Conservation of the Chinese Sturgeon |
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【推荐1】It was a village in India. The people were poor. However, they were not unhappy. After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries.
Then one day, some visitors from the city arrived. They told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to eat frog’s legs. However, they did not have enough frogs of their own, and so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.
This seemed like money for nothing. There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them. Agreement was reached, and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money. For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future. But the dream didn’t last long.
The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around lately.
The villagers decided that they couldn’t just wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak. They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticide and medicines. Soon there was no money left.
Then the people realized what was happening. It was the frog. They hadn’t been useless. They had been doing an important job—eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.
Now, the people are still poor. But in the evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and frogs. These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning.
1. From Paragraph 1 we can learn that the villagers .| A．were poor but somewhat content | B．worked very hard for centuries |
| C．dreamed of having a better life | D．lived a different life from their forefathers |
| A．The frogs made too much noise. | B．They needed money to buy medicines. |
| C．They wanted to please the visitors. | D．The frogs were easy money. |
| A．The harmony between man and nature is important. |
| B．Health is more important than money. |
| C．Happiness comes from peaceful life in the country. |
| D．Good old days will never be forgotten. |
【推荐2】On a day in Arkansas, some fishermen saw a bear cub（幼兽）in a tree. As hours went by, its mother didn’t return. So they called wildlife biologist（生物学家） Eastridge.
The bear cub was sick and hungry, weighing only 5 pounds and with his eyes not completely open. Eastridge called Lisa Stewart, who works at Appalachian Bear Rescue in Tennessee. Stewart always makes room for a new cub.
She named the bear Miracle because she thought it was a miracle that he had survived! As soon as she could, she stopped having contact with the cub so he would not become too used to humans. When the cub arrived, Stewart cleaned his eyes and put him in a house alone. Since Miracle was already 5 months old. Stewart gave him bowls of food and another bowl of a special formula(配方奶粉)， similar to a bear mother’s milk. Sometimes, Miracle would reach his head out of his house and take some formula or food. But he wasn’t eating too much.
Miracle was too weak to be with other bears. So Stewart gave him a toy bear named Buddy. He took it into his house and covered it with straw(稻草). He fed Buddy, too. Stewart often found the toy covered in formula and berries and its ears full of apple chunks. Now that Miracle had Buddy, he came out of his house more often and wanted to eat.
After two months, Stewart introduced Miracle to other bears so they could learn from one another. She avoided any direct contact with Miracle and the other bears. Stewart wanted to make sure they stayed afraid of humans so they could go back into the wild again. She always hid behind a fence(栅栏) and threw food over the top secretly. The bears hunted for this food as they would soon do in the wild.
Five months later, Rick Eastridge returned to pick up a healthy 90-pound Miracle and another bear from Arkansas named Rocky. Eastridge loaded the bears into boxes on his truck and transported them back to the wild. As soon as the bear boxes were opened, the two cubs ran for the woods─where they belonged.
1. What did Stewart do shortly after the cub arrived?| A．She helped him eat food. |
| B．She contacted with him. |
| C．She settled him down. |
| D．She named him Miracle. |
| A．remind him not to waste his food |
| B．kill his lonely time in his house. |
| C．develop his skills of making friends |
| D．rid Miracle of its fear of humans |
| A．Because he could learn how to find food in the wild. |
| B．Because he was too weak to be frightened by humans. |
| C．Because a good relationship could be developed. |
| D．Because she didn’t want to disturb his peaceful life. |
【推荐3】Coral reefs, found only in warm, shallow waters, are made up of groups of tiny animals called coral. When coral die, they leave behind hard skeletons(骨架) that build up and form reefs. As new coral grow on top, the reefs grow bigger.
Coral reefs take centuries to grow.
Other threats, such as careless diving, come from humans.
Another threat to reefs is harder to control. It is the rising water temperatures. Water that is too warm causes coral to get “bleached”or lose their color. Then they die. Some scientists think that global warming may be causing ocean waters to warm up quickly.
| A．Be conscious when buying sea fish. |
| B．Destructive fishing is another example. |
| C．They teach fishermen about the harm it causes. |
| D．They come in many colors and different shapes. |
| E．However, they can be destroyed much more quickly. |
| F．If this continues, reefs around the world will disappear. |
| G．Climate change is one of the major threats to coral reefs’ survival. |
I argued，pointing to a very large belly(肚子) of mine，“I am married．I am having a baby．Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?”He answered coldly．“It’s the law，madam.”
Henry encouraged me to calm down，just go ahead and get the license and be done with it．“No，”I said．I refused to have him sign for me．So I left without a Maryland license．
I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle office and renewed my NC license by mail--using my name Susan Brown．And thus it was for the next twelve years．Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license．By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland，and I had to take the Maryland driver’s exam．Since then I just go in and renew every four years--sign the name Susan Brown，have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive．
1. Susan got her first driver’s license_______．
| A．before she got married to Henry |
| B．when she was twenty years old |
| C．after she finished high school |
| D．when she just moved to Maryland |
| A．she was forbidden to drive by Maryland law |
| B．she lacked driving experience in Maryland |
| C．she was to give birth to a baby soon |
| D．she insisted on signing for herself |
| A．American males should serve in the army |
| B．different states may have different laws |
| C．people have to renew their licenses in their home states |
| D．women should adopt their husbands’ family names after marriage |
【推荐2】Michael Jackson had Bubbles, a chimpanzee(黑猩猩). Justin Bieber had Og Mally, a capuchin(卷尾猴), until it was seized by German customs officials and put in a zoo. Rihanna has been photographed bottle-feeding a baby monkey on holiday. The stars would find few fans in the British government, which on December 12, 2020 placed new restrictions on keeping primates(灵长目动物)as pets. Somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 marmoserts, lemurs, tamarins and other little species of primates are kept in private ownership in Britain, the government says, often bored to misery.
One of the benefits of cutting loose from the European continent is that Britain can fully express its passion for animals. Politicians are only too happy to work for it, for pet-friendly policies are cheap and popular. In the previous election, the Tory Party promised to help reunite missing pets with their owners by making it compulsory to put chips into the bodies of cats and dogs, and to deal with animal smuggling(走私). The Labour Party promised to ban the live-boiling of lobsters in restaurants.
Yet, Britain’s animal welfare laws are already among the most comprehensive in the world, according to the Animal Protection Index.
Wild animals in traveling circuses were banned by law last year, but a decreasing public appetite for parades of elephants and tigers balanced on chairs had already put an end to the business. By the time the ban came into force, only two licensed animal circuses were left in Britain. Members of Parliament are moved by the sad loss of pets because of motor accidents. James Daly has proposed Gizmo’s Law, named after a cat, the victim of a hit-and-run accident, which was burned without its owner’s knowledge. The law requires that dead animals be brought back from the roadside to scan them for microchips, so that they can be reunited with their brokenhearted owners rather than being burned without their names being known. A draft bill in 2018 proposed criminalizing drivers who failed to stop after striking a cat. Hit-and-runs on dogs, pigs, goats and humans are already illegal.
1. What does the author want to introduce by mentioning the three stars in Paragraph 1?| A．A recent pet-friendly policy in Britain. |
| B．British people’s passion for animals. |
| C．A trend towards keeping primates as pets. |
| D．The present situation of primates in Britain. |
| A．They’re two-faced about animal welfare. |
| B．They disapprove of European animal welfare. |
| C．They used to blame each other on animal welfare. |
| D．They devoted to making laws on animal welfare. |
| A．To track the hit-and-run driver. |
| B．To help the animals find their way home. |
| C．To inform their owners of the accidents. |
| D．To find out the exact locations of the accidents. |
| A．Animal welfare: all you need to know |
| B．Could Britain be a leader in animal welfare? |
| C．Could animal welfare plans be smart politics? |
| D．Animal welfare: a favorite issue for politicians. |
【推荐3】Just how much does the Constitution(宪法) protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant (授权令) if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.
California has asked the justices to restore the practice that the police may search through the contents of suspects’ smartphones at the time of their arrest. It is hard, the state says, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies .
The justices would be careless if they followed California's advice. They should start by rejecting California’s weak argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone is similar to say, going through a suspect's wallet. The court has ruled that police don't offend against the Fourth Amendment(修正案) when they go through the wallet of an arrestee without a warrant. In fact, exploring one's smartphone is more like entering his or her home. A smartphone may contain an arrestee's reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence.
Americans should take steps to protect their own digital privacy and should avoid putting important information in smartphones. But keeping sensitive information on these devices is increasingly a requirement of normal life. Citizens still have a right to expect private documents to remain private and protected by the Constitution's prohibition on unreasonable searches.
In many cases, it would not be very difficult for authorities to obtain a warrant to search through phone contents. They could still trump(打出王牌) the Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe and dangerous circumstances, such as the threat of immediate harm, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not deleted or altered while a warrant is on the way. The justices, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more flexibility.
But the justices should not swallow California's argument whole. New technology sometimes demands fresh applications of the Constitution's protections. Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a digital necessity of life in the 20th. At that time, the justices had to explain new rules for the new personal domain(领域) of cars. Similarly, the justices must sort out how the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution applies to digital information now.
1. The author’s attitude toward California’s argument is _____________.| A．skeptical | B．tolerant |
| C．indifferent | D．disapproving |
| A．getting into one's residence | B．handing one's historical records |
| C．scanning one's correspondences | D．going through one's wallet |
| A．principles are hard to be clearly expressed |
| B．citizens' privacy is not effectively protected |
| C．phones are used to store sensitive information |
| D．the court is giving police less room for action |
| A．the Constitution should be implemented flexibly |
| B．Principles of the Constitution should never be changed |
| C．New technology requires reinterpretation of the Constitution |
| D．California's argument violates principles of the Constitution |
【推荐1】A primary school teacher who left a class of 25 pupils in tears after she told them Santa Claus(圣诞老人) did not exist has been fired. When excited youngsters became rowdy as they talked about Santa, the supply teacher said out suddenly, “It’s your parents who leave out presents on Christmas Day. ”
The class of seven-year-olds at Blackshaw Lane Primary School, Royton, Greater Manchester burst into tears and told their parents when they arrived home. Mothers and fathers then complained about the incident and were sent a letter by the school saying the teacher, who only worked at the school for one day last week, has been disciplined.
The school has now said it will not hire her again.
One father said, “My son came home and said that his teacher had told the class that Santa doesn’t exist and it’s their mum and dad that put out presents for them. Obviously, they were all talking about Christmas and being a bit rowdy. She just came straight out with it. ”
“My son was in tears and so was everyone else in the class—especially as it was so close to Christmas. I thought it was wrong. He was crazy about it. He’s only seven years old and it’s part of the magic of Christmas to him. ”
“We told him that she did not believe in Father Christmas because of her religion and he’s fine now. ”
“The father described the incident as ‘shocking’ and believed it was done with malicious intent (恶意地). A lot of parents were angry and complained to the school. The teacher, who was supplied by Rochdale and Oldham Supply Agency, is still listed and will work with other schools,” the agency said.
However, the head teacher in Angela McCormick refused to comment on the incident.
1. Who felt the angriest about the incident?| A．The teacher who was fired. | B．The pupils who were in tears. |
| C．The parents whose children cried. | D．Santa Claus the teacher talked about. |
| A．their teacher’s leaving | B．the letters by the school |
| C．something about Santa Claus | D．the presents left out by the parents |
| A．the teacher was fired and couldn’t continue her career in teaching |
| B．the parents complained about the discipline of the school |
| C．the little pupils felt disappointed after hearing the news told by the teacher |
| D．in reality, Santa Claus exists and gives out presents once a year. |
| A．Surprised. | B．Noisy. | C．Discouraged. | D．Annoyed. |
【推荐2】All the unusual and interesting events from around the world are here in our review.
A chocolate wall at railway station in Netherlands
A wall of chocolate at the railway station, Utrecht Centraal, in Utrecht, the Netherlands, has become many food lovers new place to mark. The whole wall is made of chocolate, making it very fun, good-looking, and of course, delicious.
Wine bath resort launched in Japan
The 2019 Beaujolais Nouveau Wine on a Bathing was officially released on Nov. 21 in Hakone, west of Tokyo. A beverage-based bathing experience is the red wine hot spring, with its huge, 3.6-meter-tall wine bottle. People may even be present to witness the wine show, in which staff members spray bathers with a bottle of Hakone wine. Whether seeing the show or not, the red wine bath is perfect for every wine lover.
A Monkey Buffet Festival held in Thailand
The annual Monkey Buffet Festival, a fun one with a difference, was held in Lopburi, Bangkok, on Nov. 24. The Monkey Buffet takes place in the overgrown and ruined Khmer temple of Pra Prang Sam Yot, where the majority of the monkeys live. The monkeys are treated with respect. Endless oceans of fruits you can think of are spread out for the monkeys to feast upon. The festival begins with live performances and dances that draw the monkeys out. Culturally, the feast will bring good luck to the local townspeople.
World’ s strongest puffer jacket (羽绒夹克)
Dutch brand Vollebak has created the world’s strongest puffer jacket, which is 15 times stronger than steel. The exterior (外部) of the indestructible puffer is made from 100 percent Dyneema, the strongest fiber ever made. Dyneema was originally used in body armor (防弹衣) and bullet-proof vehicles. The puffer is made to withstand temperatures up to -40℃, as the colder it gets, the stronger Dyneema becomes. “It will withstand any abuse you put it through during your life time and be in good enough condition to pass down to your grandkids when you are done with it.” explained Vollebak’s co-founder Steve Tidball.
1. Where can a wine lover go for fun?| A．Utrecht. | B．Hakone. |
| C．Lopburi. | D．Tokyo. |
| A．Live performances and dances. | B．Endless ocean of food. |
| C．A chocolate wall for local townspeople. | D．Many kinds of animals besides monkeys. |
| A．It’s cold-resistant. |
| B．It’s designed to be a body armor. |
| C．It uses Dyneema as its main material. |
| D．It may be handed down to the younger generation. |
【推荐3】Until 13, Parker Liautaud was an ordinary kid. That changed after he met polar explorer Robert Swan. They began an email correspondence which turned into a friendship that eventually saw the then 14-year-old invited to join a trip to the Antarctic. He said yes almost instantly. Friends and family, to whom he’d so far shown he had no particular interest in outdoor pursuits, particularly polar ones, were thrown into total confusion, to say the least. He ate lots of chicken, spent a long time in the gym, and proved them wrong.
The following year, Liautaud cooked up a more ambitious plan: to become the youngest-ever person to go to the North Pole. He found a new partner, Doug Stoup, and through a mixture of charm and luck raised the roughly $150,000 needed for the record attempt. Then disaster struck. The early months of the year, when the two set out, were among the warmest on record. The North Pole, which is essentially a GPS location on a constantly-drifting collection of ice sheets, became virtually inaccessible, surrounded by pieces of uncovered ocean.
A trip which had intended to raise awareness of melting ice caps had been obstructed by melting ice caps. “We would get up, battle through these difficult conditions for 150 hours, then wake up the next morning and find that we were further away from the Pole than we’d started the previous morning,” he said. After 14 days’ trying, they admitted defeat.
Liautaud came home and decided to try again the next spring. Conditions were cold but perfect, and he and Soup reached the Pole n no time. While it might not have made him the youngest North-Poler, the success did give Liautaud a platform to continue advocacy against climate change, through his campaigning website. His view is that it’s his generation that must push hardest for cuts in carbon emissions. He has already contributed to research projects carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency and will soon set up two stations to record weather data.
1. How did Liautaud’s family react to his decision to go to the Antarctic?| A．They made fun of it. | B．They were puzzled about it. |
| C．They turned a deaf ear to it. | D．They tried to talk him out of it. |
| A．To push his physical limits. |
| B．To become an experienced North-Poler. |
| C．To support environment protection. |
| D．To finish a research project for his website. |
| A．prevented | B．promoted | C．separated | D．succeeded |
| A．Demanding. | B．Generous. | C．Cooperative. | D．Responsible. |
