Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America’s modern hero and history’s most famous space traveler. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil’s life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend — Jay Barbree.
This New Ocean
It was all part of man’s greatest adventure — landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars，and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and be-yond.
Starman
Starman, Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony’s biography of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was originally published in 1998 and rereleased in 2011 to capitalize on the 50th anniversay of the first manned flight into space. The book covers Gagarin’s childhood, his cosmonaut training, his historic flight as the first human being to leave the earth’s atmosphere, and his mysterious death.
Night Sky Almanac 2021: A Stargazer’s Guide
What belter gift for an amateur astronomer than an answer to all of their queries, pocket - sized companion? Connect with the universe that surrounds us with his stylish companion to the night sky. All evenly are clearly presented month-by-month with easy-to-understand explanations and charts, including stars, planets, comets, and so on.
1. What is Jay Barbree?| A．A spaceman in history. | B．A character in Starman. |
| C．A novelist on space adventure. | D．A friend of Neil Armstrong. |
| A．Science fiction. | B．Play. |
| C．Autobiography. | D．Biography. |
| A．They are intended for teenagers. | B．They are set in moon landing. |
| C．They are about space and astronomy. | D．They show concern over star wars, |
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【推荐1】Pick Up Something You Can’t Put Down
| How to Help Yourself to Be Who You Want to Be —A Simple Guide for Those Who Are Ready to Take Charge of and Redirect Their Lives. By Pam Grewall This self-improvement book offers a simple handbook to help readers recognize their strengths and weaknesses and to understand how to take control of their own destiny. www. iuniverse. com Publication Date: 10/13/2020 Page Count: 172 Hardback │ Paperback │ E-book │ Audio $23.99 │ $13.99 │ $3.99 │ $9.99 |
| Johnny Catching Fire By Aaron Allen God gave Johnny the strength of Samson. Now he must decide whether lo use his power for good or to get even with those who bullied him. www. xlibris. com Publication Date: 10/29/2020 Page Count:56 Hardback │ Paperback │ E-book $22.99 │ $16.99 │ $3.99 |
| Quotes from the Quiver By Dante P. Galiber, MD, FACC Inspired by time, space and human interaction, this collection offers a series of original and thought-provoking ideas and quotations（引言）designed to uplift and enlighten the readers. www. authorhouse. com Publication Date: 11/17/2019 Page Count: 80 Hardback│Paperback│E-book $43.99 │ $22.99 │ $3.99 |
| Ting Ting, the Girl Who Saved. China By Ryan O’Connor The book provides insight into China’s biggest holiday. It gives a sense of its culture and shows that girls are just as strong and brave as boys are. www. xlibris. com Publication Date: 1/28/2021 Page Count: 48 Hardback│Paperback│E-book $22.99│ $16.99 │ $3.99 |
| A．It has an audio version. | B．It was published in 2020. |
| C．It is designed for children. | D．It is a novel about self-improvement. |
| A．They are both about school life. |
| B．They both have 48 pages in total. |
| C．They are both about Chinese culture. |
| D．They are available on the same website. |
| A．Johnny Catching Fire |
| B．Quotes from the Quiver |
| C．Ting Ting, the Girl Who Saved China |
| D．How to Help Yourself to Be Who You Want to Be |
【推荐2】Many Americans have been leaving their cars at home and riding to work on bicycles. Andy Clark is the leader of the League of American Bicyclists. His group supports bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation.
Clark says this is good news for the environment. He says riding a bicycle to work does not burn fossil fuel or creates dangerous pollutions. Experts say the effects are the most important on short trips. The Department of Transportation says fifty percent of Americans drive eight kilometers or fewer to work. Shorter car trips set out more pollution into the air for each kilometer drive. This is because the car engine will set out the harmful air when it warms up before it can work well.
James, a members of Congress (国会), is a strong supporter of bicycle use. He says cities, counties, state governments and state highway transportation agencies are planning the roadways of the future. They are creating roads and paths for bicycles in cities and between communities.
Last year, Portland, the Pacific Northwest city in the state of Oregon, had the highest percentage of bicycle users in the United States. Portland has been doing progressive city planning for many years to create special paths for bike riders.
1. What happened in America now according to the news?| A．Many Americans lost jobs now. |
| B．Many Americans prefer short trips. |
| C．There are more and more bicyclists now in America. |
| D．The pollution is getting worse and worse in America. |
| A．One of the cities in the USA. | B．One of the counties in the USA. |
| C．One of the states in the USA. | D．A country in the northwest of the USA. |
| A．polluted | B．dangerous | C．clean | D．foolish |
| A．Many Americans like bike-riding for fun. |
| B．Short car trips can reduce pollution. |
| C．American government suggests people riding bicycles. |
| D．Many Americans ride bicycles to support environment protection. |
【推荐3】If you’ve ever needed an excuse to bury yourself in a really good book, now is the time, 2021 is filled with page-turners, must-reads and novels with beautiful sentences. That’s why we’ve rounded up our favorite stories of the new year. If it’s out now, get your copy; if not, get ready to pre-order.
Outlawed
Price: $26. 00, $18. 18 (30%off)
Welcome to the new feminist (女权主义) world. Anna North’s western novel follows Ada, a 17-year-old who has to run away from her town after she’s unable to get pregnant (怀孕) a year into marriage. It features everything you have ever wanted in a read: strange cowgirls, a group of feminist outlaws and more.
The Push
Price: $26. 00, $16. 16 (38%off)
Nothing like a psychological thriller to kick off a new year that is hopefully not as psychologically disturbing as last year. In Aslhley Audrain’s fiction, a new mother begins to doubt not all is right with her baby.
The Wife Upstairs
Price: $27. 99, $19. 09 (32%off)
This modern adaptation of Jane Eyre trades in Gothic mystery for southern secrecy. In Rachel Hawkins’ latest page turner, expect the romance you love in the original tale with all the modern features.
Aftershocks
Price: $26. 00, $16. 86 (35% off)
This one is actually not a fiction book, but we couldn’t not include—it’s that good. Nadia Owusu’s powerful memoir (回忆录) tells her childhood and perhaps an even more meaningful journey, the one to self-discovery.
1. Which of the following books is the cheapest after the discount?| A．Aftershocks. | B．Outlawed. |
| C．The Push. | D．The Wife Upstairs. |
| A．Nadia Owusu. | B．Rachel Hawkins. |
| C．Anna North. | D．Ashley Audrain. |
| A．It is adapted from Jane Eyre. |
| B．It is a thriller about a mother and her baby. |
| C．It is a western novel about a feminist. |
| D．It tells a writer’s self-discovery journey. |
【推荐1】In the African bush in southern Kenya, Lucy King watched an elephant rest under a big tree, seemingly bothered by an overhead beehive. It was 2007, and King had just published a behavioral study confirming a belief, widely held by local communities for thousands of years, that elephants are frightened by bees.
King, a zoologist at the nonprofit organization Save the Elephants (STE), asked her research assistant to throw a stone at the hive. “And then suddenly, the bees just erupted,” King says, “the elephants just fled.” That moment led King to a novel design for using live beehives as “fences” to protect farm crops from hungry elephants.
An elephant can eat a farm’s entire harvest in one day, seriously threatening a family’s income and food security. To protect their livelihoods, some farmers have taken to shooting elephants. In an attempt to find a nonlethal solution, nearly 10,000 bee fences like those in King’s initial design are now built into sites in 20 African and Asian countries, she estimates. STE team members focus on providing bee-fence kits to farmers in areas of serious human-elephant conflicts.
In a 2017 field study, King documented that bee fences installed at 10 farms near a national park in Kenya deterred elephants 80 percent of the time. Meanwhile, bee fences have provided some farmers with new income. As part of the STE program, they are taught beekeeping and provided with protective gear such as suits, smokers, rubber boots and gloves.
Farms with bee fences and healthy hives have also inspired another type of enterprise. Mavis Nduchwa started a honey-collecting business in Botswana — a country that has a farm-based economy and is also home to the world’s largest elephant population. The company offers beekeeping training to women at farms with bee fences and helps them sell the resulting honey through her business. The benefits go beyond extra income, she says. “We have seen a decline in the number of gender-based violence cases as women are more empowered and have jobs,” says Nduchwa, who employs more than 1,500 female farmers. “It might sound crazy, but a jar of honey saves elephants and feeds more families.”
1. Why did King design bee fences?| A．To obtain live beehives. | B．To test the function of STE. |
| C．To protect crops. | D．To provide jobs for women. |
| A．It trains farmers to watch over crops. | B．It makes bees provide more honey. |
| C．It frightens elephants away. | D．It uses kits to reduce conflict. |
| A．cause and effect | B．example | C．process | D．comparison and contrast |
| A．Skeptical. | B．Tolerant. | C．Worried. | D．Positive. |
【推荐2】It doesn’t matter when and how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought, until they heard about Al Herpin. Al Herpin, it was said, never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.
Al Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure.
Herpin died at the age of 94.
1. The main idea of this passage is that .| A．large numbers of people do not need sleep |
| B．a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleep |
| C．everyone needs some sleep to stay alive |
| D．people can live longer by trying not to sleep |
| A．needed some kind of sleep | B．was too old to need any sleep |
| C．needed no sleep at all | D．often sleep in a chair |
| A．his mother’s injury before he was born |
| B．that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit |
| C．his magnificent physical condition |
| D．that he hadn’t got a bed |
| A．a common one | B．one that could be cured | C．very healthy | D．a rare one |
【推荐3】Like many people, Stimpson, who is nearly 80, has noticed an alarming loss of wildlife in his lifetime. The clouds of swifts(雨燕) of his childhood have disappeared.
A loss of nesting sites is driving the decline of swifts in the UK, whose numbers are believed to have dropped by about 57% in 22 years. These birds—which are now on the UK’s red list—are site-specific, meaning each spring they come back to the same spot after flying thousands of miles from Africa. The problem is that lots of old barns and houses have been upgraded and repaired so that nesting sites have disappeared.
Thirteen years ago, no one was making swift boxes, so Stimpson started. “I’m not a carpenter, I’m a salesman, but I thought I’d certainly give it a go,” he says. When he started, he could make three a day, and now on a really good day he can make 30. “The government and big wildlife organizations don’t end up doing much to stop wildlife loss. We seem to have too many pen-pushers and not enough workers,” he says. “We could do an awful lot more than we’re doing.”
He believes local action groups are much more effective and has been working with a number of them. “The number of swift groups that have started up in the last five to eight years is quite staggering. And they seem to go from strength to strength,” he says.
“Swifts are the one thing where an individual can make a significant difference,” says Dick Newell, from Action for Swifts, who has 66 pairs of nesting swifts in his village of Landbeach in Cambridgeshire, 20 of them nesting on his house.
Newell says developers should put a swift brick in every new building, and he has been working with housebuilding company Taylor Wimpey to make this happen. Exeter city council has started incorporating them into new buildings, as well as the Duchy of Cornwall, and local councils are getting on board. Others are working on bee bricks and hedgehog(刺猬) holes in new developments.
1. What leads to the swifts’ decrease in the UK?| A．A lack of nesting sites. | B．The construction of more buildings. |
| C．Their being removed from the red list. | D．Their deaths during their long journey. |
| A．Satisfied. | B．Negative. | C．Indifferent. | D．Favorable. |
| A．Confusing. | B．Reasonable. | C．Astonishing. | D．Changeable. |
| A．Reduce houses made of bricks. | B．Build fewer buildings in rural areas. |
| C．Include a swift brick in new buildings. | D．Give special attention to bees and hedgehogs. |
