【推荐1】SAN FRANCISCO－DJI，a Chinese manufacturer of consumer and commercial drones，made headlines in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond last week by helping to locate a missing teen. The police department in Fremont，California，on Tuesday, issued a public notice detailing how a drone had helped officers locate a missing teen.

A police dispatcher(调度员)received a call around 8:30 pm on Feb 5 from the California Highway Patrol，which requested assistance in locating a missing student from the California School for the Deaf.

Several officers responded on foot to the scene，conjunction of railroad track and road. Police also deployed a drone to expedite (加快)the search. The drone，later identified as a DJ I Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual model，is equipped with a thermal imaging camera system that enables searching in the dark.

Shortly after the drone took off，the pilot reported a heat spot；it was the missing teenager，who was hiding in bushes. The pilot then guided officers through the communication system to approach the youth，who was cold and hungry. He was then rushed to paramedics(护理人员)nearby.

Lieutenant Matt Snelson，in charge of the department’s unmanned aerial-vehicle program，said the search for and rescue of "a young man who needed help，and to get him to the resources he needed" was a big success for "our UAV(无人机)team and our community". The technology allowed officers to expedite the search，which normally could have taken several hours and more resources，he said，adding，"We have been training and expanding our program to be prepared for this exact scenario.”

Fremont，home to Tesla and several high-tech unicorn startups，is an early adopter of drones. The city administrator approved the purchase of the drones，along with the necessary training，about three years ago.

"We feel so grateful that our technology has been used to help a young man’s life.”Adam Lisberg，corporate communication director of DJI North America，told China Daily. According to available statistics，the Fremont teen was the 211th on a global public safety list of drone-assist rescues，said Lisberg. Shao Yang，a newly elected Fremont City Council member，shared the story of the DJI drone-assisted police search on social media.“A successful integration of high-tech and protection of lives，”he concluded.

1. What position does Shao Yang hold according to the news report?

A．A police dispatcher.

B．A Fremont City Council member.

C．Corporate communication director of DJI North America

D．Lieutenant in charge of the department’s unmanned aerial-vehicle program.

2. Why is the drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera system?

A．It can make the drone fly at a very high speed.

B．1t call enable the drone see someone or something more clearly.

C．It can enable the drone to find someone or something quite far.

D．It can make the drone find someone or something in the dark.

3. What does the underlined word“scenario” in Para.5 mean?

A．A situation that could possibly happen.

B．A place that someone or something is going to.

C．A person，event，or thing that makes something happen

D．The mystery of someone's disappearance.

4. Which can serve as the best title for the news report?

A．China-made drone Helps locate missing teen

B．Missing teen is rushed to paramedics nearby

C．Call requests assistance in locating a missing student

D．Police deploy drone to expedite search for missing teen

【推荐3】A Swiss company that developed technology to capture (捕获) carbon dioxide from the air says it has started the world’s largest plant to do so in Iceland.

The company is called Climeworks AG. It said the plant began operations on Wednesday. The system captures carbon dioxide, CO₂, directly from the air and then deposits (沉淀) the gas underground.

Climeworks says the plant is designed to capture up to 3,600 metric tons of CO₂ per year. That is the same amount of CO₂ produced by about 790 automobiles during a year, Reuters news agency reported.

The International Energy Agency, IEA, estimates (估计) that this year, CO₂ emissions (排放量) worldwide will rise 1.5 billion metric tons to a total of 33 billion metric tons.

Direct air capture is one of the few technologies that can remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. Many scientists see the process as critical to limiting harmful pollutant emissions. Such emissions, which can trap heat in the atmosphere and create higher temperature, are caused mainly by human activities. Many scientists blame this warming for increased heatwaves, wildfires, floods and rising sea levels across the world.

The new plant is called Orca, based on the Icelandic word for energy, Orka. It uses eight large containers that look like those used in the shipping industry. A series of high-tech filters (过滤器) and blowers (鼓风机) attached to the containers capture CO₂. The captured carbon is then mixed with water and pumped deep underground, where it slowly turns into rock.

Direct air capture is still a new and costly technology. But developers hope to bring down the price by increasing operations as more companies and individuals seek the technology. Currently, there are 15 direct air capture plants operating worldwide. The IEA estimates the plants capture more than 9,000 metric tons of CO₂ per year.

The American oil company Occidental is currently developing the largest direct-air-capture center. It aims to pull 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air around some of its Texas oilfields.

1. What’s the main intention of the passage?

A．To introduce a Swiss company called Clineworks AG.

B．To show the links between Clineworks AG and Carbfix.

C．To tell us the largest factory capturing CO2 in the world is on.

D．To list the damages caused by the increasing amount of CO2.

2. What will the developers of the factory do next?

A．Cut down emissions caused by human activities.

B．Build up a new plant to capture CO2 in the US.

C．Cut down the price by increasing operations.

D．Help scientists limit the pollutant emissions.

3. Where is the passage probably from?

A．A diary.	B．A collection of science fictions.
C．A travel guide.	D．A newspaper.

4. What is Paragraph 6 mainly about?

A．How the name of the plant comes from.

B．How the plant processes(处理) the CO2.

C．How the plant was first built.

D．How the plant gets its power.

【推荐3】The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has welcomed home two paintings by the Dutch master, more than 14 years after they were ripped (扯) off the museum’s wall in a nighttime theft. Museum director Axel Rueger called their return “one of the most special days in the history of the museum”. The paintings were discovered last year by Italian police while they were searching an Italian criminals’ farmhouse near Naples for evidence of drug dealing. They were in a box and hidden behind a wall in a toilet when they were found.

The paintings were considered among the artworks most searched for in the world. After years in darkness, they can now shine again. They are back on display at the museum before being taken to the conservation studio for repair. Fortunately, they suffered surprisingly little damage as thieves who had climbed up a ladder and broken a window to get into the museum in 2004 ripped them out of their frames.

“It is not only a surprise that the works have been recovered but it’s even more surprising they are in relatively unharmed condition,” Rueger said.

The museum director was on vacation when the call came last year from Italian authorities who believed they had recovered the paintings. He didn’t celebrate right away. He’d had calls like this before.

“I was hopeful but also a little hesitant. Over these years, we had so many occasions when people phoned us, contacted us, claiming that they knew something about the whereabouts (下落) of the works and each time it was false, the trace went cold,” he said. “So… the way has been full of disappointment.” But museum experts sent to Italy to check the authenticity (真实性) of the works quickly turned Ruegers doubts into delight.

Rueger said the paintings are now back at the museum, which is home to dozens of works by Van Gogh. “I’m very confident that everything is safe in the museum from now on,” he said.

1. How were the stolen paintings found?

A．The police found them by accident.	B．The arrested thieves gave information.
C．Some drug dealers offered clues.	D．The police knew the hidden place.

2. What surprised Rueger most about the lost paintings?

A．They were stolen at night.	B．They were found at last.
C．They suffered little damage.	D．The search took 14 years.

3. When Rueger got the call, he ________.

A．didn’t believe it at all	B．felt quite satisfied
C．planned to celebrate	D．doubted the news

4. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 6 probably mean?

A．Rueger gradually lost interest in the search.

B．The number of false calls was greatly reduced.

C．Rueger felt cold because of too many false calls.

D．The chance to find the paintings became small.

【推荐1】A few hours after my first mission, returning to Earth on the space shuttle Endeavour, I completed all of my medical tests after the flight, met with NASA officials, and reunited with my family. Finally, I was alone in my office room in astronaut crew quarters at the Kennedy Space Center. I turned on the TV. The television news started up: Such and such happened, people were shocked, blah blah blah. Sports scores. Silly commercials.

It didn’t take more than a minute before I had to turn it off. It felt like my body was refusing all this input, just as it would refuse an organ donation that had the wrong blood type. All of this noise was just completely foreign to who I was—or, more appropriately, who I had become. A few hours before, I had been orbiting Earth, seeing our planet from space, flying the most amazing machine ever built by human hands, and working with a team that was the absolute success of humans. And now here in my room watching what was being sold as news, and with my newfound perspective, I just could not stomach it. My world view was changed forever in a profound (深刻的) way.

The biggest change by far and the one for which I will always be most grateful is this big-picture perspective. That will stick with me for the rest of my life.

Whenever I feel the pressure of modern life, the stress about work, or worry about the future, I remember my time in the space station. Back to seeing the sun set. Or watching our galaxy rise on the horizon. Or seeing a sea of lightning flash a hundred times a second. Or simply back to floating weightlessly.

When I’m there in my mind and realize how many billions of these beautiful sunsets there have been and will be in the future, the cares of the world just don’t seem that pressing. It goes that, “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” Living daily life down here on the planet is so much better with this attitude!

1. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “stomach” in Para. 2?

A．Accept.

B．Achieve.

C．Afford.

D．Attend.

2. What is the most important change to the writer?

A．He has a broader view of the world.

B．He doesn’t like watching TV anymore.

C．He’ll always be most grateful for everything.

D．He can fly the most amazing machine by hand.

3. What attitude to life does the writer tend to have?

A．A caged bird longs for clouds.

B．Tomorrow is always the best.

C．Live in the present moment.

D．Time works great changes.

【推荐3】I'm a blind teenager girl, but I am ashamed of it if it is known.   I refuse to use a white stick and hate asking for help, and I couldn't bear people to look at me and think I am not like them.   I must be a terrible danger on the roads. Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there are all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something.   "I'm awfully sorry," I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost.   This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn't stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off.   No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound.   Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; it seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus.   Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did.   But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by.   I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one.   Then I gave up.   I decided to walk on to the next stop.
1. The girl is unwilling to use a stick or ask for help because           .

A．she thinks she might be cheated

B．asking for help will cost her money

C．she is normal and independent

D．she can't stand being found different from others

2. According to the passage, after the girl got off the bus that evening, she           .

A．began to run away

B．knocked down a person as usual

C．hit a lamppost by accident

D．made several apologies to an old man

3. What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?

A．All cars have exactly the same sound.

B．No bus would stop to pick up a blind girl.

C．Some lorries may have the same sound as that of the bus.

D．It took long for the girl to recognize the sound of a bus.

4. At last the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping             

A．to find people there

B．to hear more buses there

C．to find the bus by herself there

D．to hear his parents waiting for her