Here is a way to kill mice without spending a lot of money. It is a simple but effective kind of mouse trap. The method is first used by some farmers in the west African country of Mali. An agricultural expert in Mali reported about the Mali mouse trap in a magazine. The expert reported that his gardener caught 150 mice in just one night. The gardener used four traps. The trap is easy to make. First, remove the top from a 20 liter metal or plastic container(容器). Put it in a hole in the ground. The top edge of the container should be the level with the surface of the ground. Fill the container with water to within eight centimeters of the top. Add tiny pieces of grain wastes. They should float on the water. Also put some wastes on the ground near the trap. During the night, mice will come out to eat the grain wastes. They will fall into the container and drown. Replace the food in the trap every night.
1. According to the passage,_____ used the mouse trap first.
A.an agricultural expert in the west Africa |
B.farmers in the United States |
C.all American gardener |
D.farmers in Mali |
A.A simple and effective method used by farmers to kill mice |
B.How to kill mice |
C.Methods used by farmers to kill mice |
D.Farmers have problems with mice |
A.A special grain storage building |
B.Chemical poisons |
C.A mouse trap |
D.A hole in the ground |
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【推荐1】Airport security is there to protect you, but it may also give you a cold -or worse .
To all the places and surfaces we’ve been warned are covered with germs-the subway seat, airplane cabins, the ATM-add the airport security trays(托盘). The plastic security trays -used at airport checkpoints around the globe and touched by millions of passengers as they drop shoes, smartphones, baggage and other items into them to clear X-ray scanners-have been found to have a variety of germs in them, including the ones responsible for the common cold, according to researchers in Europe.
Scientists from the University of Nottingham in England examined frequently touched surfaces at Helsinki Airport in Finland during and after peak hours in the winter of 2016 and found rhinovirus, the source of the common cold in them. They found it on half the baggage trays, more than on any of the other surfaces they tested. It wasn't found on toilet surfaces at the airport. The findings could help improve public health strategies in the fight against the spread of infectious diseases worldwide.
The European Union has funded a research project, called PANDHUB, on preventing the spread of“high--threat ” pathogens(病原体) on public transportation, and the study by the University of Nottingham is part of that project .
"The presence of germs in the environment of an airport has not been examined previously, said Niina Ikonen, who was involved in the study.
Finavia, the company that operates Helsinki Airport, said in an email,“At Finavia airports, the hygiene(卫生) standards are applied in accordance with health officials' requirements-all surfaces are cleaned daily and all security checkpoint trays, etc., are washed regularly."
Washing your hands properly and coughing into a tissue or sleeve, especially in public places, can help minimize the risk of catching infectious diseases, said Jonathan Van-Tam, a professor at the University of Nottingham. "These simple measures can help prevent the spread of germs and are most important in crowded areas like airports that have a high volume of people traveling to and from many different parts of the world." he added.
1. What should air passengers do according to Van-Tam?A.Avoid touching other people . | B.Spend less time at the airport . |
C.Bring as little luggage as possible . | D.Try to reduce the effect of their coughs . |
A.It focuses on"high-threat" pathogens . |
B.It is the first to test for microbes on surfaces at airports. |
C.It has found a new way to cure infectious diseases . |
D.It has led to a research project called PANDHUB. |
A.They explained why hygiene was important . |
B.They felt quite doubtful about the findings. |
C.They had recognized their mistakes . |
D.They had done what was required. |
A.Airport security trays had a lot of germs in them. |
B.Wet surfaces offered good places for germs to live. |
C.Viruses spread quicker during and after peak hours. |
D.Airline passengers were more likely to catch a cold on planes. |
“Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe
Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in “Women’ s Liberation(解放)”.
“I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says, “and I don’t think many women do. But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones and open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there ... or engineers or scientists?”
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.60% women in West Germany wish that they were born men. |
B.Most women in Western European countries wish that their babies were all boys. |
C.60% Western European women wish that they were born men. |
D.60% Western European women who wish that they were born men are from West Germany. |
A.There’re more men than women in the world |
B.There’re more men scientists or engineers than women scientists or engineers in the world |
C.Women have not been given the same chance as men |
D.Women cannot live without men |
A.be well paid | B.live a better life than men |
C.be really liberated | D.get better jobs than men |
A.has got a very good job |
B.isn’t looked down upon by anyone |
C.does the work that a man can’t do |
D.believes in “Women’s Liberation” |
A.Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company |
B.she is one of the scientists who did the study. |
C.She believes in “Women’ s Liberation.” |
D.She doesn’t want to be a man. |
The population of monarchs passing the winter in Mexico appears to have fallen. Now, the good news for Illinois’ state insects: The Field Museum in Chicago is trying to figure out what makes a successful monarch garden in the city, and it’s proper to start preparing for this summer.
The Field Museum project involves citizens reporting on spaces that researchers can’t walk into every day, like backyards. Participants sent in weekly reports, including the makeup of their garden, and development of eggs and caterpillars. The more successful gardens had more milkweed(乳汁草)and blooming plants,multiple milkweed species, and tended to be larger plots. But Klinger, an expert at the Field Museum,said one participant with a single plant watched eggs transform all the way to chrysalises(蛹). So,she said,“You just need one plant.”
In 2020,during the second season of the study, the number of caterpillars dropped even though the number of participants in the study more than doubled.
Chicago saw a hot, dry summer——its warmest on record, and Klinger said that may have affected the health of the milkweed plants. The reports out of Mexico noted this season’s eastern population drop followed an increase in forest loss, which was 4 times what it was a year ago, primarily from illegal tree cutting, as well as trees hit by wind and drought. But they also said spring and summer weather conditions were tough for milkweed blossoms and egg development in the southern US, which is largely responsible for limiting reproduction.
“But now is the optimum time to start planning to plant some milkweed. The best thing to do is what you can do. One milkweed plant in a pot on your balcony(阳台)is doing something,” Klinger said.
1. What’s the intention of the Field Museum project?2. What’s the main idea of paragraph 2?
3. Why was there an increase in the forest loss?
4. What is the author’s attitude towards the Field Museum project?
【推荐1】British shoppers buy 2.15 million tonnes of clothing and shoes annually, yet UK citizens have an estimated £30 billion worth of unused clothing gathering dust at the back of the wardrobe(衣柜). But new technology could see the end of that, with the garments themselves giving owners a gentle reminder of their existence.
“Smart clothes” could help us clear out our drawers by sending messages or tweeting us if they haven't been worn for a good while. If these alerts are ignored, the garments will get in touch with a clothing charity and ask to be reused, with an organization automatically sending out donation information. They could also be programmed to put themselves up for auction(拍卖) on eBay.
Academics at Birmingham City University are developing the “connected wardrobe” to encourage more suitable clothes consumption. The concept sees garments tagged(给……加标签) using washable contactless technology, known as radio-frequency identification.
Mark Brill, senior lecturer at Birmingham City, said: “Think of the surprise when an owner suddenly receives bids for items they didn't know were in their wardrobe”.
“The connected wardrobe is a practical, pleasant concept to encourage people to think about their clothing consumption. Finally, I hope it will encourage more appropriate fashion consumption,” He added, “Perhaps we can even move away from the idea of ‘ownership’ of clothing. When we’ve worn them enough, the items will pass themselves on to their next keeper to wear.”
It follows in the footsteps of the “Internet of Things” — a concept that sees ordinary household items connecting to the internet in order to share information. From adjusting your alarm clock to monitoring the temperature of your home, the Internet is changing the way we live.
Now, the “Internet of Clothes” will see that neglected garments will tweet and text the owners “asking” to be worn depending on the weather and frequency of wear. Clothes will keep track of other information such as who owned it previously, as well as how much it originally cost, who made it and how much the worker was paid for it.
1. What does the author say about “smart clothes”?A.They have gained in popularity. | B.They may be donated on eBay. |
C.They may be recycled if long forgotten. | D.They give warnings if worn out. |
A.It changes people’s shopping habits. |
B.It helps people buy cheaper clothes. |
C.It improves people’s consumer confidence. |
D.It contributes to right consumption attitudes. |
A.Clothes are sold online at a low price. |
B.Internet is a platform to share items. |
C.Clothes can be a source of information. |
D.Weather affects the connected wardrobe. |
A.Approving. | B.Skeptical. | C.Critical. | D.Uninterested. |
【推荐2】“Do you have Wi-Fi?” It’s my most-asked question when visiting new cities. Nowadays, having access to Wi-Fi is essential if you plan on making the most of any trip abroad. But far too often I spend $ 5 for a tiny cup of coffee just to use a café’s Wi-Fi and charging port. Replacing this costly exchange with their interpretation of a city center, the designer of Kuube, a Hungarian startup, has created a smart bench equipped with all the necessities that a modern-day traveler might need to comfortably move through any city.
Kuube’s smart bench comes in three sizes. All come with USB ports, wireless chargers, and a Wi-Fi hotspot function-free for everyone. All three smart benches charge up thanks to solar panels, which makes them easily movable.
First comes KuubeECO, the smallest of the three smart benches. It’s a three-seater that comes equipped with two USB ports and one wireless charger. It has unlimited Internet access thanks to its Wi-Fi hotspot. The bench with one display screen continuously monitors its environment, such as changes in UV levels or air pressure — displaying them on its monitor for those interested. Then comes KuubeNANO, the middle child that can seat up to four people and comes with all the same offerings as KuubeECO. And finally comes the largest option, KuubePLUS. This smart bench offers more of a group, or family seating style and can accommodate up to eight people. It offers four charging options and two display screens.
The three smart benches all have an aluminum chassis (铝制底座) that’s recyclable and are made from natural ash wood for the seating sections. Kuube is clearly a sustainability-focused startup that’s combining design and technology to make cities and parks friendlier to everyone.
1. What does the author think of buying coffee to access Wi-Fi?A.Expensive. | B.Enjoyable. |
C.Time-consuming. | D.Out of date. |
A.They are designed specifically for travelers. | B.They offer limited Internet access for now. |
C.They charge little for charging phones. | D.They are eco-friendly and mobile. |
A.Two USB ports. | B.Two display screens. |
C.Seats for eight people. | D.Four wireless chargers. |
A.A guidebook. | B.A magazine. |
C.An advertisement. | D.A novel. |
【推荐3】A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
"It's extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components," said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team started piecing together the components. " The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own," he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. " The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it's connected to," said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic fly is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers' fields or on the battlefield. " Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,"he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. "You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead," he said. " So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us in our daily life."
1. What was the challenge the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly?A.The wings of the fly were too small. | B.The components couldn't dependent on each other. |
C.They had no ready-made components. | D.They could not piece the components together. |
A.consists of a flight device and a control system | B.can just fly in limited areas at the present time |
C.can collect information from many sources | D.has been put into wide application |
A.The robotic fly is designed to study insects. |
B.Animals are not allowed in biological experiments. |
C.There used to be few ways to study how insects fly. |
D.The design of the robotic fly will inspire more technologies. |
A.Father of Robotic Fly | B.Inspiration from Engineering Science |
C.Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect | D.Harvard Breaks Through in Insect Study |
【推荐1】About 5,300 years ago, people from the grasslands of modern-day Russia and Ukraine expanded rapidly across Eurasia. Within a few centuries these “Yamnaya” left a lasting genetic mark on populations from central Europe to the Caspian Sea. Today, archaeologists call them “eastern cowboys” for their livestock herding (畜牧) and highly mobile lifestyle.
But one part of the classic cowboy picture was missing: horseback riding. Although cattle bones and solid carriages have been found in Yamnaya sites, horse bones are hard to find, and most archaeologists assumed people did not start to ride horses until at least 1,000 years later.
In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers say they’ve found the earliest evidence of horseback riding not in the bones of ancient horses, but in their Yamnaya riders. “Everyone has focused on horse remains to get an idea of early horse riding,” says co-author and University of Helsinki archaeologist Volker Heyd. “Our approach was to look at humans.”
The researchers looked at more than 150 bones unearthed in Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria — the western frontier of Yamnaya expansion. The Yamnaya were well-fed, healthy, and tall; the chemical composition of their bones showed protein rich diets consistent with herding cattle and sheep. But the bones showed signs of distinctive wear and tear. They also showed thick spots on the leg bone consistent with lots of time spent on the horse back. Healed injuries matched the kinds of damage a kicking horse might cause, or what sports medicine doctors today see in riders thrown from their horses.
“In terms of trying to identify people riding horses, I think they’ve done the best job possible bioarchaeologically,” says bioarchaeologist Jane Buikstra. “That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, or convincing, ultimately.”
More samples — including horse bones with signs of riding, such as bit marks or back bone damage from the weight of a rider — would help make the case, says CU bioarchaeologist Lauren Hosek. What the group has found “is really interesting”, she says. “But there’s a lot more work to be done when the risks of drawing the final conclusion are as high as the earliest horse riding.”
1. Why are the archaeologists looking for the horse bones?A.To prove the Yamnaya’s rapid expansion. |
B.To confirm the Yamnaya’s herding variety. |
C.To further understand the lifestyle of Yamnaya. |
D.To trace the origin of the classic cowboy picture. |
A.It includes field trips. | B.It focuses on human bones. |
C.It is based on horse remains. | D.It compares the compositions of bones. |
A.Their bones bore the evidence of horse riding. |
B.Many Yamnaya people died from horse kicks. |
C.Their lifestyle of herding led to severe injuries. |
D.They mainly lived in Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. |
A.Objective. | B.Favorable. |
C.Disapproving. | D.Unclear. |
【推荐2】From early times, man has been interested in art. People have often worked together to collect and save the world's art treasures.
Fine art treasures from many countries are kept in an art museum called the Louvre (卢浮宫) in Paris, France. The works of art have been collected by the people of France over many centuries. It is the biggest art museum in the world.
The Louvre has not always been a museum. The first building was a fort (堡垒). In 1190, it was the king's castle with high walls and a round tower. It had a moat (护城河) to keep out the enemies.
Over the years, the number of buildings around the fort grew. By 1350, the fort was no longer needed and became a palace home for French kings and queens.During times of peace, new treasures were brought in. During days of war, many treasures were stolen, and the buildings were damaged.
When Francis Ⅰ became King of France in 1515, he brought in many artists from many countries. One of the artists was Leonardo da Vinci from Italy. He worked in Paris. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the best-known painting in the museum today.
In 1793, the Louvre became a public museum, just as it is now. It is a place where art treasures are kept for everyone to enjoy. Every year millions of people from all over the world come to the Louvre to see the master-pieces.
1. How long has the Louvre been a museum?A.For over 800 years. |
B.Since 1350. |
C.Since 1515. |
D.For over 200 years. |
A.by the French people |
B.by Francis |
C.by Leonardo da Vinci |
D.by people of the world |
A.Da Vinci once stayed in France. |
B.Mona Lisa is kept in the louvre. |
C.The Louvre was once a church. |
D.The Louvre is a place of interest to different people from all over the world. |
A.In public museums the works of art will not be stolen. |
B.In public museums the works of art will not be damaged. |
C.In public museums artists can study the works of art. |
D.In public museums everyone has a chance to enjoy the works of art. |
A.A famous painting—Mona Lisa |
B.A famous art museum—Louvre |
C.A famous artist—Da Vinci |
D.The great King—Francis |
【推荐3】Are you fed up with staring at a computer screen for hours straight just to review your classes? It’s a problem that many of us encounter(遭遇).So why not pick your headset and learn via a podcast?
Podcast, or boke, refers to a range of audio programs on different audio platforms. According to China Daily, podcasts have become popular among young Chinese people who would like to enjoy the peace and power of learning through sound.
Established in 2012, China’s largest online audio platform, Ximalaya saw its subscribers pass 600 million by December 2019.Among these users over 46 percent were born between 1990s and 2000s.On average, active users listen to podcasts for nearly three hours per day.
The emergence of domestic(国内的)online radio platforms and the convenience brought about by smart devices are certainly two reasons for the popularity of the format.Its flexible nature also makes it a winner among the young audience.
“Audio is a good medium for content that can break the limit of time and space,” Jiang Feng, vice-president of Ximalaya, told China Daily. He added that podcasts have become an important channel for people to acquire information and knowledge .It also can accompany listeners in many different circumstances including working ,studying, exercising, traveling and just before going to bed.
Apart from providing company, the new media form also gives people a platform to speak out about important issues.
A senior high school student who wanted to be admitted to the Central Academy of Drama failed his national college entrance examination twice. He talked about the pressure he faced on an audio program called Please Listen, launched by Mango TV on Feb 19,2020.The program was designed to relieve audiences’ worries by sharing their own stories.
Podcasts tend to be a discussion, and just like real life conversations, they follow a flexible structure and usually last for at least an hour. More often than not, you can’t summarize two or three important points from those conversations, like you could from articles. They often do not have conclusions, either. It’s a very freeform medium that is very friendly to listeners,” Pan Aijuan,a podcast listener and book editor at a publishing house, told China Daily.
At the same time, the use of podcasts trains people to first listen to others before offering one’s own opinions. It helps build up our patience and listening skills. Cheng Yanliang, a co-founder of the podcast Left and Right, stated that“ audio programs can filter(减缓)those bad-tempered people who would lose patience after reading several paragraphs and start writing awful comments to insult others”.
With such advantages,“ podcasts are entering the mainstream(主流)in China”, noted China Daily.
1. Why does the author mention Ximalaya in the third paragraph?A.To inform the readers of its fast development. |
B.To show the impact it has on users. |
C.To discuss the characteristics of podcasts. |
D.To demonstrate the popularity of podcasts in China. |
A.To help audiences ease their worries. |
B.To amuse audiences in different ways. |
C.To allow audiences to comment on current affairs. |
D.To give audiences a platform to acquire knowledge. |
A.They can accompany listeners in different circumstances. |
B.They provide listeners with a sea of information. |
C.Their content usually follows a flexible structure. |
D.It is quite easy to draw a conclusion from a podcast. |
A.They can make people more cheerful. |
B.They can make people more patient. |
C.They can make people lose their temper more easily. |
D.They can help break the habit of insulting people online. |