DHAKA - A heat wave sweeping India, Bangladesh and Nepal has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks, officials said on June 3, 2005.
A third of the people died in northern Bangladesh, mostly women and children from dehydration(脱水), heat stroke and diarrhoea(腹泻).
"We are getting reports of several deaths due to heat wave and related diseases almost every day," an official said, as temperatures touched 43℃.
The weather office in Dhaka said the hot weather will last for another week until the monsoon(季风) rains which are normally due by the middle of June.
Severe heat conditions in the southern Indian have killed at least 55 people, officials in the two states said.
While temperatures have fallen from a high of 45℃ in Andhra Pradesh to around 40℃, giving a respite（休息） to people, they are still on the rise in Orissa with Talcher town registering 48.5℃, a weather official said.
At least five people have died in Nepal from extreme heat, the government said.
1. We can infer that the heatwave can cause ______.
| A．heat stoke | B．dehydration | C．diarrhoea | D．all above |
| A．remain the same | B．go on to rise sharply |
| C．begin to drop obviously | D．rise a little |
| A．Dhaka | B．Talcher | C．Andhra Pradesh | D．Nepal |
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【推荐1】Life on the ISS
Waking up
Mission control wakes the crew up by turning on the lights at 6 a.m. The day starts the same as it would on Earth. While you wet your brush with water that will stick to its bristles (刷毛), the toothbrush and the tube of toothpaste can be left to float in the air, which is rarely seen on earth. After breakfast, the crew calls down to mission control for a planning conference to run through the day’s schedule.
Maintenance
Then it is time for household chores. Most days, the ISS requires routine maintenance and safety checks. One day it might be moving some supplies; another day could involve repairing an essential piece of equipment.
A visit to the gym
One of the main aims of the ISS is to discover how weightlessness affects the human body. Astronauts lose muscle strength in space and are more likely to break their bones once they return to Earth. To slow this process down, each crew member is required to exercise for at least two hours a day.
Mealtimes
Food comes in several forms. Dehydrated (脱水的) meals come in small bags, and spices are also available, just like on the table back home. But salt and pepper have been transformed into liquids.
Experiments
Each astronaut spends part of their day on experiments in the labs on the ISS, so that scientists back on Earth can better understand how the conditions in space affect things. Mice, ants, fish and worms have all been sent to the station to see how zero-gravity affects their bodies and behavior.
Free time
Once the crew has finished their scheduled tasks for the day, they are free to spend any remaining time they have left from their evening. Perhaps the most popular pastime is to simply watch the Earth spinning silently below the station.
1. According to the article, ISS astronauts’ daily routine is different from ours on Earth in terms of the way they _____.| A．work out | B．having their meals |
| C．brush their teeth | D．do household chores |
| A．do experiments on animals | B．have pepper with their food |
| C．decide their own work schedules | D．carry out routine maintenance alone |
| A．The ISS acts as a scientific research lab in outer space. |
| B．Mission control is of little importance to the success of a space mission. |
| C．In the long term, zero-gravity has no negative effect on the human body. |
| D．Astronauts rarely watch the Earth from the ISS for fear of getting homesick. |
The robot courier can travel up to 4 miles per hour for about 10 miles. It uses a GPS signal and nine cameras to navigate(确定方向). Instead of a person arriving at their door, customers could find themselves receiving a notification(通知) on their phone that says a robot is on its way and a code to unlock the automated courier. “Put the code in, the robot opens up, and there’s your food,” said David Buttress, chief manager of Just Eat.
The robot, which has so far been tested in Greenwich, Milton Keynes and Glastonbury, costs ￡1 to transport within 3 miles, compared with the ￡3 to ￡6 it costs for a human courier. To date 30 robots have driven nearly 5,000 miles without getting into an accident or finding themselves picked on by passers-by. They have driven in more than 40 cities around the world, including London and Tallinn, Estonia.
An initial worry was how the public would react to robots. But Martinson said the public has been calm when passing the delivery machine on the streets. “The most surprising reaction has been the lack of reaction,” said Martinson.
Another significant fear was that people would disrupt(扰乱) the robots, or try to steal them and their contents. To prevent this, the robot is fitted with nine cameras, two way audio, and movement sensors that send a warning if it is lifted off the ground. And it opens only with a pass code provided to the customer via a notification. “It’s much easier to shoplift than it is to steal a robot,” said Martinson.
1. The test of Starship robots shows that ___________.
| A．they are easy to operate |
| B．the robot delivery is appreciated in big cities |
| C．the robot delivery is cheaper than human delivery |
| D．they can travel for 10 hours continuously |
| A．People’s indifference to the robots |
| B．Safety of the robot delivery |
| C．Accuracy of the robot delivery |
| D．People’s concern about public traffic |
| A．Great Improvement of Just Eat |
| B．Global Trend of Food Companies |
| C．New Robots to Move on the Road |
| D．Delivery Robots to Replace Takeaway Drivers |
【推荐3】The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China’s leading aircraft maker, created the country’s first fully solar-powered drone (无人机). The large drone, Qimingxing 50, took off at 5:50 pm on September 3rd, 2022, from an airport in Yulin of Shaanxi Province and stayed in the air for 26 minutes before landing on the same runway. AVIC said that all systems of the unmanned plane functioned well on its first flight.
Powered by six electric motors with solar batteries, the drone is designed to conduct long-time operations in near space. Near space is that part of Earth’s atmosphere at altitudes of 20 to 100 kilometers. It is above the top altitudes of commercial airliners but below orbiting satellites.
Qimingxing 50, also called “quasi-satellite”, features high operational efficiency and eco-friendliness and will be tasked with high-altitude reconnaissance (侦察), forestry fire monitoring, atmospheric environmental inspection, aerial mapping, communication signal relay and other operations.
“Thanks to its capability to conduct very long endurance flights in near space, the drone can essentially become a substitute for satellites,” a Chinese aerospace expert said. Satellite services are not always available due to the limited number of satellites and relatively fixed schedules of overhead passes. In time-sensitive missions, near-space drones can offset these disadvantages, the expert said, noting that satellite services could also be damaged in wartime, so near-space drones could replace them in this occasion.
The successful first flight of the Qimingxing-50 lays a solid foundation for the development of key technologies in the country’s new energy field, the composite (复合的) material field, which will enhance China’s ability to perform tasks in near space and over far oceans. AVIC will seize the opportunity to increase investment and speed up the development of large solar-powered unmanned aircraft.
1. What do we know about AVIC?| A．It produced the world’s largest unmanned plane. |
| B．It started the trend of using solar batteries in aircraft. |
| C．It developed China’s first fully solar-powered drone. |
| D．It greatly improved the speed of commercial airliners. |
| A．Its design features. | B．Its diverse functions. |
| C．Its operating procedures. | D．Its environmental benefits |
| A．Detect. | B．Expose. | C．Analyze. | D．Remove. |
| A．Increase investment in the new energy industry. |
| B．Accelerate the development of large solar drones. |
| C．Create a new composite material to manufacture aircraft. |
| D．Make Qimingxing-50 conduct long-time tasks over far seas. |
The researchers from King’s College London (KCL) studied 7,752 pairs of identical and non-identical twins, and found that the link between drawing and later intelligence was influenced by genes.
At the age of 4, children were asked by their parents to complete a ‘Draw-a-Child’ test. Their drawings were rated from 0 to 12, based on the presence and correct number of body-parts, like arms, legs, head, eyes and nose.
The children were also given verbal and non-verbal intelligence tests at ages 4 and 14. According to researchers, the test was devised in the 1920’s to assess children’s intelligence, so it’s not surprising that the test correlated with intelligence at age 4.However, they found that higher scores on the test were also moderately associated with higher scores of intelligence at 14.
The researchers also measured the heritability of figure drawing. Identical twins share all their genes, whereas non-identical twins only share about 50 percent. Overall, at age 4, drawings from identical twin pairs were more similar to one another than drawings from non-identical twin pairs.
Therefore, the researchers concluded that differences in children’s drawings have an important genetic link. They also found that drawing at age 4 and intelligence at age 14 had a strong genetic link.
“Drawing is an ancient behaviour, dating back beyond 15,000 years ago,” Dr. Rosalind Arden, lead author of the paper from KCL, said that: “This capacity to reproduce figures is a uniquely human ability and a sign of cognitive ability, in a similar way to writing, which transformed the human species’ ability to store information, and build a civilisation.”
1. According to the passage, which of the following statement about ‘Draw-a-Child’ test is true?
| A．The test was devised in the 1920’s. |
| B．7,752 identical and non-identical twins took part in it. |
| C．The test was set to assess children’s intelligence. |
| D．The children took the test at four. |
| A．changed | B．formed | C．taken | D．designed |
| A．Those who could draw better at 4 tend to be more intelligent at 14. |
| B．Twins who look similar to each other draw better pictures. |
| C．They were chosen to take the drawing test by the researchers. |
| D．They were tested on how smart they were once. |
| A．human society develops because of the ability to draw figures |
| B．drawing helps improve humans’ ability to study |
| C．one’s intelligence is related to his ability to draw pictures |
| D．only human beings are able to draw pictures |
【推荐2】On Friday night you stole away the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hatred(憎恨).
I don't know who you are and I don't want to know-you are dead souls. If the God for whom you kill blindly made us in his image, each bullet in my wife's body would have been a wound in his heart.
Therefore I will not give you the gift of hating you. You have obviously sought it, but responding to it with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that has made you what you are.
You want me to be afraid, to cast a mistrusting eye on my fellow citizens, to sacrifice my freedom for security? You lost.
I saw her this morning, finally after nights and days of waiting. She was just as beautiful as she was when she left on Friday evening, as beautiful as when I fell madly in love with her more than 12 years ago.
Of course I am heart-broken, I will give you that tiny victory, but this will be a short-term grief. I know that she will join us every day and that we will find each other again in the paradise(天堂)of free souls which you will never have access to.
We are only two, my son and I, but we are more powerful than all the world's armies. In any case, I have no more time to waste on you. I need to go back to Melvil, who is waking up from his afternoon nap. He is just 17 months old. He'll eat his snack like every day, and we are going to play like we do every day. In every day of his life, this little boy will insult(侮辱) you with his happiness and freedom, because you don't have his hatred either.
1. The intended readers of the passage are most probably| A．free souls | B．bad guys | C．powerful armies | D．fellow citizens |
| A．Despite his loss, the writer chooses to live a pretty normal life with his son. |
| B．The writer misses his wife so much that he is eager to reunite with her in paradise soon. |
| C．It was on a Friday evening more than 12 years ago that the writer fell in love with his wife. |
| D．The writer believes that the murderers killed his wife for political reasons. |
| A．Anger. | B．Pleasure. | C．Disappointment. | D．Sadness. |
| A．considerate and patient | B．honest and caring |
| C．tolerant and brave | D．stubborn and loyal |
| A．You will not have my hatred | B．You are dead souls |
| C．You lost your belief | D．You stole away my love |
However, my home life is completely different from the scene that greets me each morning at work. As a lawyer at Eastlake Juvenile Court (少年法庭), I always see kids that society has labeled the worst of the worst, the “thief”, the “robber”, the list goes on. But they are still children. As I sit across from them, I have a chance to talk to them about their lives, homes, and dreams. I sit through tears, anger, but mostly hurt. I see their parents, most of whom sit in the hallways day after day wanting to take their kids home. I also see parents that come to the court ready to walk away from their children forever. Each day I see hope destroyed.
I have come to realize that these children are our future, even if we don’t want to admit it. They also want to sleep on a mother’s shoulder at night, they also had dreams
and smiled in their sleep when they were babies. But then something terrible happened, which robbed (剥夺) them of that youth, that hope, and that joy. I hope one day we can find how to put back the destroyed childhoods and ruined lives.
Every day when I go home, I hold my children tightly in my arms and say “I love you” over and over again. And as I am filled with hope, I cannot forget those children I leave behind. I live in two worlds, one of promise, one of tragedy(悲剧). No matter what they are accused (指控) of, what crimes (罪行) they have carried out and what society thinks of them, they are children, they are our children and our future.
1. The author mentions her son in Paragraph 1 mainly to tell readers _____.
| A．her son is lovely |
| B．it’s hard to raise a child |
| C．what leads children to break laws |
| D．children should be taken good care of |
| A．praised | B．chosen | C．designed | D．described |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Hopeful. | C．Angry. | D．Relaxed. |
| A．To accuse those parents who ruin their children’s life. |
| B．To show the difficulty of her work as a lawyer. |
| C．To win support for problem children. |
| D．To show her deep love for her child. |
