When we see a person in trouble our immediate reaction is to lend a hand. But what if we se an animal in trouble, does the same rule apply?
This question was raised after a group of penguins were saved from an icy gully (峡谷) in Antarctica. It was filmed for the BBC wildlife series Dynasties. After seeing that a group of penguins had fallen into a gully and been trapped with their young the film crew were so concerned about their safety that they built a slope (斜坡) so that a few of the penguins could save themselves.
The case has taken the international media by storm. Viewers watching this film let out a sigh of relief. "I'm so glad. I understand not taking action directly involved, but a helping hand isn't bothering, right?" viewer Kathryn Shaw said on her Facebook.
However, others think human interference (干涉) is unnatural. "You can't have sunshine throughout your life. To have done anything else would only make matters worse," said the show's creator David Attenborough, according to The Times.
In this case, however, Mike Gunton, the executive producer of the series, said that this was a one-off situation. "There were no animals going to suffer by interfering. You weren't touching the animals and it was just felt by doing this. They had the chance not to have to keep slipping down the slope," he told the BBC.
Such cases are familiar to Paul Nicklen, wildlife photographer for National Geographic. He told Metro, "If it's ever a predator (捕食者) situation，no matter how gut-wrenching，you stay out of the way. Even when you're watching a male polar bear eat a baby bear."
"There's no rule book in those situations. You can only respond to the facts that are right there in front of you," Will Lawson, the show's director, told Daily Mail.
1. What has caused to a heated media discussion?| A．People's various comments on penguins. |
| B．The ways of helping the trapped penguins . |
| C．Some penguins' sufferings in a gully. |
| D．Ways of filming the series Dynasties. |
| A．Anxious. | B．Sad. |
| C．Annoyed. | D．Thrilled. |
| A．Shooting an eagle catching a snake. |
| B．Preventing a polar bear eating a baby bear. |
| C．Watching a lion attacking a deer. |
| D．Distracting a crocodile biting an antelope. |
| A．The Necessity of Lending a Hand to Animals in Trouble. |
| B．Suggestions on How to Save Animals in Trouble. |
| C．Effects of Human Interference on Animals in Trouble. |
| D．Opinions on Whether to Help Animals in Trouble. |
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【推荐1】Thai wildlife officials have laid out a plan to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict （冲突）.
The monkeys that hang around Lopburi are a major tourist draw. But after years of conflicts with residents and visitors, and several failed attempts to bring peace with population controls, local people and businesses have had enough.
The monkeys often try to take food from humans, sometimes leaving people with injuries. In March a woman got her knee hurt after a monkey pulled her off her feel, and another man was knocked off a motorcycle by a hungry monkey.
The authorities hope to catch some 2,500 monkeys and place them in massive wildlife preserves, said Athapol Charoenshunsa, the director-general of the Department of National parks, Wildlife and plant Conservation. They’ll work with wildlife experts to find a way for a limited number of monkeys to stay freely in the city, he added.
“I don’t want humans to have to hurt monkeys, and I don’t want monkeys to have to hurt humans,” he told reporters during a news conference in Bangkok. “I expect the first period of the operation to start within weeks, and I believe the wildlife preserve will be able to contain （容纳） thousands of them and will solve the problem very quickly.”
Athapol said they are also working in other areas of Thailand that are facing problems with monkeys. He said 52 of the country’s 77 provinces often report monkey problems.
The monkeys are said to be a symbol of the province, about 140 kilometers north of Bangkok, where the ancient Three Pagodas temple celebrates a yearly “Monkey Buffet” festival. However, some have complained about the city’s monkey troubles on tourists and residents feeding the animals, which they say drew monkeys into the city, helped with their numbers, and got them used to getting food from humans.
1. What does the underlined phrase “have had enough” mean in Paragraph 2?| A．They are fond of those moneys. | B．They hope to feed more monkeys. |
| C．They are troubled by those monkeys. | D．They want to protect those monkeys. |
| A．Cut off the monkey’s food supply. | B．Catch them for use as research subjects. |
| C．Enclose them in a zoo to entertain tourists. | D．Cut down the numbers of them in the town. |
| A．The significance of those monkeys. |
| B．People’s different opinions on those monkeys. |
| C．The environmental problems caused by those monkeys. |
| D．Reasons why monkeys become a symbol of the province. |
| A．Thailand Residents Suffered from Too Many Tourists |
| B．Thailand Decides to Limit Monkeys in Tourist Town |
| C．Monkeys Serve Special Meaning in the Thailand Town |
| D．People in Thailand Try to Improve the Life of Monkeys |
【推荐2】When I was a child, not many of us grew up with pets in Asia. It was unusual to show sympathy towards animals. We learnt respect for our elders and for our government, and we learnt etiquette( 礼仪）too, but rarely was it suggested that we extend any feelings towards animals, or indeed that animals have feelings. And because of this, many children in Asia grow up considering animals exist to serve us, feed us, entertain us and clothe us.
I co-founded ACT Asia in 2006 with an Asian vet, to support the development of caring societies in Asia. While many nonprofits were already addressing human, animal and environmental concerns with direct action, 1 felt the cultural shock between continents was too great to ignore. We had to accept that change would not happen immediately, and that intervening（(干预）would cause defence. First, we have to help societies understand the interdependence of people, animals and our natural habitat. Instead of stepping in to find fault, we stepped back and considered the cause. Millions of people live below the poverty line, and most left-behind children live without their parents, so it was clear that our biggest barrier was ignorance, not cruelty.
With the future in mind, education is at the core of all we do. We should teach children about respect and kindness, and we see that a sense of responsibility is improving. By doing so, they are developing a keen sense of respect, to each other, for all species and our natural environment, but also for themselves. Given the chance to understand the truth about life on earth, many people-but children in particular-will choose compassion（同情）over cruelty.
1. What were the Asian children like when the author was a child?| A．They never kept pets. |
| B．They had no compassion, |
| C．They didn't pay attention to their behavior. |
| D．They took it for granted that animals serve human. |
| A．To find the causes of poverty in Asia. |
| B．To appeal to people not to kill animals. |
| C．To improve Asian's sense of caring societies. |
| D．To help solve the culture shock between countries. |
| A．Direct action of many nonprofits was efficient. |
| B．The change of caring societies would appear soon. |
| C．People,animals and our natural habitat exist together. |
| D．The biggest barrier of us was not ignorance but cruelty . |
| A．It is hopeless. | B．It is satisfying. |
| C．It is annoying. | D．It is uncertain. |
【推荐3】Mohanan, a tractor driver from Ambalavayal, a town in India's Kerala state, has been carrying a stick and an umbrella to work every day, for over a year. It's not that he fears getting attacked by dogs or that he hates rain, but that he needs to defend himself against the crows that always attack him whenever he approaches a bus station where he once picked up two crow hatchlings (刚出壳的雏鸟) from under his tractor and placed them on the side of the road.
The tractor driver recently said that crows nesting in the trees around the bus station always attack him when he drives by. He said he even tried staying away from that place for over a week, but it didn't matter. The crows were waiting for him when he came back. Now he just uses his umbrella and stick for protection, and throws the crows some food to distract them. "I give a share from my lunch to the crows. Once they finish eating it, they will start attacking me again," Mohanan laughingly said, adding that changing his clothes and trying to disguise (伪装) himself didn't work either.
The crows' animosity toward Mohanan had become well known among the local people, and while most find it funny, the tractor driver says the birds can be pretty unkind, so much so in fact that a few months ago they caused severe damage to his new umbrella during an attack.
Interestingly, we featured a similar story just last month. One day, Shiva Kewat, a worker from Madhya Pradesh, claims that he has been attacked by a group of crows for the last three years, ever since he picked up a crow chick on the street.
1. Why does Mohanan always cany an umbrella with him?| A．Because he fears to get attacked by dogs. |
| B．Because he doesn't want to get caught in the rain. |
| C．Because he would like to protect himself from the sun. |
| D．Because he wants to defend himself against crows. |
| A．Crows have great memory. |
| B．The tractor driver is an unkind man. |
| C．The crows finally forgive the tractor driver. |
| D．The tractor driver has to give up his job. |
| A．Fear. | B．Unkindness. |
| C．Curiosity. | D．Understanding, |
| A．To warn people to be careful next time they see crows. |
| B．To show Mohanan is not alone in being remembered by crows. |
| C．To remind people to live in harmony with animals. |
| D．To suggest Mohanan draw a lesson from Shiva Kewat's experience. |
【推荐1】Dr. Jewel Tankard, the CEO and founder of the Millionairess Club, is going to attend the Millionairess Conference on Saturday, in Detroit. The conference inspires women to learn the rules of economics, become financially independent, and start their own businesses.
Tankard thinks a millionairess is someone who desires more. It has nothing to do with her present financial state. It has everything to do with her desiring more, wanting more and believing in more. The desire is big, but women are inspired in the end to make a big difference.
Tankard’s parents were the first African Americans to own a business in downtown Detroit. They had housekeepers, cooks, drivers, and all the best money could buy. After Tankard turned 19, however, they lost everything. After their lives greatly changed, Tankard asked her mom what her thoughts were during the process. Like many other women, her mother told her that she felt that some different financial decisions should have been made but she finally left money decisions up to her dad.
Tankard wants women to know they are able to become educated about financial matters and that they have the ability to make sound financial choices. Just because a man is a man, it doesn’t make him a better financial manager. Women should learn to trust their financial instincts and step up concerning money matters.
The Millionairess Conference is held to help ordinary women lead extraordinary lives by arming attendees with the knowledge and tools needed to take control of their finances. It works on providing financial advice to help women achieve generational wealth.
1. Who is a millionairess in Tankard’s opinion?| A．A woman who always makes a contribution. | B．A woman who is always hungry for more. |
| C．A woman who has started a business. | D．A woman who has a lot of money. |
| A．Her mother’s words. | B．Her wealthy childhood. |
| C．The conflict between her parents. | D．The desire of African Americans. |
| A．Men’s decisions aren’t always wise. |
| B．Their social position is relatively high. |
| C．The education they receive requires them to do so. |
| D．They have the ability to make wise financial choices. |
| A．To improve the development of economy. | B．To provide women with a better education. |
| C．To guide women to financial independence. | D．To achieve equality between men and women. |
【推荐2】“Don't delete your browser (浏览器) history,” Lin Kai warns his 11-year-old son, who is supposed to be having lectures delivered by his schoolteachers. Mr. Lin has reason to be anxious.
To contain the spread of Covid-19, the authorities have closed schools and universities. “But study must not stop,” says the education ministry. Under its orders, the country's biggest exercise in remote learning is under way, watched over by parents. Mr. Lin, who lives in the eastern city of Hangzhou, has caught his son being distracted by online games. He wants his son to know that he will inspect the browser for evidence of such naughtiness.
There are other ways to enforce discipline. Liu Weihua, who teaches at Wuhan University of Technology, places more emphasis on how students perform in classroom discussions, which are conducted using video-conferencing platforms such as Ding talk by Alibaba and Ketang by Tencent.
The interruption is felt most keenly by pupils in the final year of secondary school. That is the year leading up to the Gaokao, the university-entrance exam. Many parents feared that online learning is a poor substitute for classroom instruction. Hou Kaixuan, who will sit the Gaokao in the northern city of Zhangjiakou this summer, eagerly waits for the re-opening of his school. “I'm simply more productive in a physical classroom,” he says.
When schools and universities eventually re-open, classrooms may be different, says Yue Qiu, a secondary-school teacher in Beijing. The teacher-student relationship will become “less hierarchical (等级分明的)”, he predicts. That is because China's extended experiment' with online learning is reducing the typical reserve (矜持) between instructor and pupil. Teachers who were previously reluctant to give out their contact details on WeChat, a messaging app, now rely on it to respond to students' questions. At Mr. Yue's school, students may even call their teachers to ask for feedback. If he is right, such a breaking-down of barriers could be one of the few happy by products of Covid-19.
1. What does the underlined word “distract” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?| A．Frightened. |
| B．Attracted. |
| C．Admitted. |
| D．Impressed. |
| A．excellent |
| B．productive |
| C．informal |
| D．inefficient |
| A．When schools reopen, teachers and students will probably feel awkward. |
| B．Teachers and students are willing to contact each other on WeChat. |
| C．The relationship between teachers and students may become better. |
| D．Students may ask their teachers for feedback in real classrooms. |
【推荐3】For nearly a century, TIME has named a Person of the Year — the individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months. Few individuals have had more influence than Elon Musk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth too. In 2021, Musk emerged not just as the world’s richest person but also as perhaps the richest example of a massive shift in our society. From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Facebook turned Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, at a time of rising protest over ever deepening inequality, our lives and many of the basic structures are now shaped by the pursuits, products and priorities of the world’s wealthiest people.
Musk’s largest impact so far has been with Tesla. 2021 was the year that electric vehicles finally came into the mainstream and that Tesla became a trillion-dollar company, one of only a handful in the world. It’s a market that Musk almost single-handedly created, seeing long before others the demand for clean transportation that the world’s climate crisis would eventually motivate.
We don’t know how fully Tesla and the ventures Musk has yet to think up will change our lives. At 50, he has plenty of time to write the future, his own and ours. Like it or not, we are now in Musk’s world. For creating solutions to an existential crisis, for representing the possibilities and the risks of the age of tech giants, for driving society’s most daring and disruptive transformations, Elon Musk is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year.
1. Who have had the most influence in 2021 on Earth and off Earth?| A．Elon Musk. | B．Jeff Bezos. | C．Mark Zuckerberg. | D．Steve Jobs. |
| A．Musk emerged as the wealthiest person in the world. |
| B．We are at a time of rising objection over ever deepening inequality. |
| C．Musk’s largest impact of Tesla finally came into the mainstream and changes our lives. |
| D．Our lives are shaped by the pursuits, products and priorities of the richest people in the world. |
| A．Biggest influence of Tesla can be seen in creating the Musk’s world. |
| B．Tesla represented the possibilities and the risks of the age of tech giants. |
| C．Tesla became a billion-dollar company, one of only a handful in the world. |
| D．How Tesla and the ventures Musk has yet to think up will change our lives can be uncertain. |
| A．For making solution to an existential crisis. |
| B．For driving society’s most challenging transformations. |
| C．For seeing long before others the demand for clean transportation. |
| D．For standing for the probabilities and the risks of the age of tech titans. |
【推荐1】In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the late afternoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to shine, and it will be summer at this time of a day.
In England, people can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter they can swim sometimes, and in summer sometimes they should take warm clothes.
When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning, but you should not laugh at them. If you don't take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret later in the day.
1. From the story we know that when _________come, there is a heavy rain.| A．sunshine and snow | B．black clouds |
| C．summer and winter | D．spring and autumn |
| A．warm | B．cool | C．cold | D．rainy |
| A．their friends ask them to do so | B．it often rains in England |
| C．they are going to sell them | D．they are their favourite things |
| A．Bad Seasons | B．Summer or Winter |
| C．The Weather in England | D．Strange English People |
【推荐2】Cloud computing is set to change how people communicate, work and learn. But did you know it may also affect how you are hired for a job in the future?
It was once more common for people to find jobs advertised in the newspaper and then physically send applications to organizations. Now we primarily look online using job sites and apply for those jobs using cloud recruitment services.
However, many new technologies, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), are changing recruitment and the way we communicate with those holding the key to our dream jobs.
AI recruitment technology, such as ENGAGE Talent, is making it easier for recruiters to find potential employees by analyzing networking sites, like LinkedIn, for appropriate candidates. Primarily based on keywords, circumstance changes or current company performance, it can find candidates that haven’t clearly expressed an interest in changing jobs. Helen Poitevin, research director of IT research firm Gartner, stated, “This method of finding a passive candidate is the subject of a lot of investment and innovation today.”
Another innovation designed to help recruiters are AI assistants, similar to Apple’s Siri. CNN reported that graduates in the future might have to be overseen by a virtual assistant before getting a real interview for highly competitive graduate programs.
Companies such as HireVue have already developed software that plays pre-recorded questions to candidates and analyzes their responses for different factors, including grammar, facial expressions and tones. It can then produce a result that defines the candidate’s qualities and recommends whether they should be considered.
US graduate Sarah Ali has been through eight HireVue interviews. She told CNN, “Once I understood the AI interview process, I started thinking about it as a game and how I could optimize（优化）for certain qualities or gestures.”
This interview process is yet to become mainstream outside the US, but with the power of cloud computing, how long will it be before this tech is used worldwide?
1. According to the passage, how did people commonly find a job?| A．By using cloud recruitment services. |
| B．By submitting an online application form. |
| C．By searching for information on the Internet. |
| D．By reading job advertisements in the newspaper. |
| A．ENGAGE Talent is currently the only form of it. |
| B．Helen Poitevin doesn’t think it is an innovative investment. |
| C．It is designed to help recruiters to find appropriate employees. |
| D．It can leave out the candidates greatly interested in changing jobs. |
| A．To show some companies have developed software for AI recruitment. |
| B．To show AI assistants have been widely adopted outside the US. |
| C．To explain how to optimize for certain qualities or gestures. |
| D．To show Sarah knew well about the AI interview process. |
| A．Cloud recruitment was popular years ago. |
| B．Cloud computing is changing job searches. |
| C．AI recruitment technology has been widely used. |
| D．Many companies are finding methods of application. |
【推荐3】Food waste is a growing problem both in America and across the globe. In North America alone about 30-40% of food ends up as rubbish each year. While much ends up as rubbish, over 48 million Americans live in households that do not have enough food! Now, concerned citizens are trying to raise awareness of the issue with some creative ideas.
In New York’s Westchester County, students at 18 schools join in a program called We Future Cycle. Started by Anna and Ashley in 2014, it teaches kids to recycle, compost (堆肥), and most importantly control food waste in an easy and efficient manner.
Lunch areas at those schools are equipped with three clearly marked bins— compost, recycle and share. While the first two are common in schools, the third is rare. This is the bin where kids can put their unwanted drinks, fruits, and even untouched sandwiches. Food there is available for any student that wants them. Whatever remains at the end of the day is given to the local soup kitchen or food bank. Anna says the three bins have helped reduce the number of trash bags produced at the mid-day meal from an average of 22 to just 2!
To ensure kids form similar habits at home, the non-profit has created plans to educate families about the importance of sorting waste into the proper streams of recycling, composting, and food to donate. They also urge parents to have open conversations with their kids about food choices.
Kids are not the only ones that waste food. Adults are equally bad, if not worse! To fight that, Brooklyn-based Josh founded Salvage Super Club in 2014. The randomly organized dinners promise customers a multi-course meal for merely 50 dollars per person. The delicious food is made from perfectly safe ingredients (成分) that are past their prime and, therefore, headed for the compost or trash bin.
1. The underlined word “awareness” in Paragraph 1 probably means__________?| A．understanding | B．hope |
| C．doubt | D．value |
| A．Use dustbins instead of plastic bags for left-over food. |
| B．Put their unwanted food in the bins and learn to share. |
| C．Get the children to educate their parents at home. |
| D．Only get single-course food for 50 dollars when eating out. |
| A．Parents are to blame for the children’s bad habits. |
| B．Parents do not encourage children to save food. |
| C．Parents are as wasteful as children about food. |
| D．Parents have set an example for the children. |
| A．More information about food bank. | B．How to improve food production. |
| C．The importance of saving food. | D．Other creative ways to save food. |
