If you’re in the market for a new food or water dish for your cat, you might want to check out Free the Ocean’s Bamboo Cat Bowls. These are made from bamboo fibers and rice husks(稻壳).
The presence of bamboo—used as a renewable filler in the dish’s composition—is part of what makes it greener. Bamboo, which is technically a grass, grows faster than trees. Not surprisingly, it produces more oxygen and absorbs more carbon dioxide than trees.
Rice husk is a byproduct of rice production that poses a challenge to farmers, due to its resistance to decomposition (分解), digestion, and low nutritional value as animal feed. Its use as a filler provides a purpose for an otherwise useless material and, along with the bamboo, reduces the need for plastic fillers.
While plastic is still needed to make the cat bowl, the rationale behind their increased eco-friendliness is that less actual plastic is required when more natural fillers are used. The total amount of plastic required to make each product is reduced, because the bamboo fibres make up a significant percentage of the overall composite(合成) material.
Plastic cat dishes harbor bacteria even if pet owners clean them regularly, which can put your cat’s health at risk. However, the bamboo cat bowl is BPA-free and will not release harmful chemicals into your pet’s water the way that conventional plastic can. Bamboo is naturally antibacterial. And, of course, you can throw it in the top rack of the dishwasher for easy cleaning.
One customer said, “I prefer these cat food bowls and so do my cats. The cats like the low lip that makes it easy to eat out of and I like the fact that they’re made of bamboo and that purchasing them makes a difference for plastic pollution! Easy to wash in the dishwasher.”
1. What is the purpose of the text?A.To recommend a new product. |
B.To introduce the benefits of bamboos. |
C.To raise people’s environmental awareness. |
D.To call on people to make good use of bamboos. |
A.Cost. | B.Reason. | C.Doubt. | D.Function. |
A.It is cheap to buy. | B.It is light to carry. |
C.It is safe to use. | D.It is easy to make. |
A.By listing numbers. | B.By giving examples. |
C.By asking questions. | D.By making comparisons. |
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【推荐1】Smart wristband(智能手环), a new welcoming product, is changing our lifestyle.
Here are the reasons why people choose a wristband.
Besides, the smart wristband looks fascinating.
Thirdly, at present many people have realized the importance of health. Some people play sports every day to keep healthy.
However, some parents are still against using it.
Each coin has two sides. Use it or not, it’s up to you.
A .It’s very popular among teenagers because it’s cool enough.
B. In their opinion, wearing wristbands for a long time may cause cancer.(癌症)
C. More and more people prefer to choose a smart wristband in their daily life.
D. Smart wristband is good.
E. First of all. it can tell the time like a normal watch..
F. it's helpful to know how far they have run or how many steps they have got with a wristband.
【推荐2】Robotic scientists say that one-year-old human babies have better movement skills than robots do. Let's take a look at some tasks that are easy for you but tough for robots.
Pick things up
Picking things up is not easy. If we drop our pencil on the floor, our brains work hard. First, we must find the pencil and look at its distance. Then we move our hands to it. A robot cannot always move its "hand" to the right place. Calculating the distance is not easy. Then, when we touch the pencil, it might roll a little bit. Robots cannot easily understand this either. So, if you drop a pencil on the floor, a robot will probably roll it around the room.
Get around spaces
If someone drops you in a building you've never been to, you might feel a bit lost. But you can look around, find a door and get out quickly. You will not get stuck in a corner. But a robot will look everywhere for a door, even on ceilings and floors. This is because it's hard for them to understand spaces.
Understand the world made by people
"Common sense" is what we don't need to think or talk about. Because of common sense, we pick up a coffee cup by its handle. We feel whether it has coffee inside, and whether it is hot.
But robots may turn the cup upside down or hold the hot part of the cup, damaging itself. Scientists have tried teaching robots common-sense rules. But even huge databases don't help much. There are just too many rules—and too many exceptions. Maybe they just need more time to learn.
1. Why is it difficult for a robot to pick things up?A.It cannot locate where the thing is. | B.Its hands cannot move far enough |
C.It likes to roll things around the room | D.It has difficulty working out the exact distance. |
A.Ask for help. | B.Go to a door and get out. | C.Look for doors aimlessly. | D.Wait for others to help. |
A.To show robots have their own limitations. | B.To describe how robots help improve our lives. |
C.To explain the importance of the database to robots | D.To introduce in what areas robots will be applied. |
【推荐3】Shanya Gill, 12, a seventh-grader at Miller Middle School in San Jose, spent more than a year developing a fire detection (探测) device.
Last summer Shanya was sad after a fire happened in a restaurant in her California neighborhood. So the middle-schooler got straight to work.
“I had never really experienced something like that before,” she said of the early morning fire at Holder’s Country Inn, which was reported, to have started in the kitchen. No one was hurt, but the restaurant was demolished. “It hit close to my heart because it was part of my community.”
Shanya created a tool that uses thermal imaging (热成像) to detect when a heat source (来源) — such as a gas burner — is left unattended for10 minutes. Her goal, she said, was to design an early warning system that is better than a standard smoke detector.
Shanya recently won the top prize at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge in D.C., in part for her fire-detection device. Judges were impressed by her fire detection system, featuring a thermal camera and a Raspberry Pi, a small computer board.
Creating the prototype (原型) was not easy, Shanya said. “I had really big difficulties with my project, and almost all of them were related to code (编码),” she said. “I had two designs, and my first design completely failed.”
While Shanya is pleased with her final prototype, she is now working to improve it. She is in the process of trying to find something more affordable than the Raspberry Pi, which starts at around $35, and she is also working to improve the code. Her plan is to bring the product to market and give out the money to organizations that support people who suffer from fires.
Shanya’s success at a young age has made her excited about her future career in science. She hopes to continue creating products that help people.
“I want to follow what I love and try to create a positive impact,” she said.
1. What does the underlined word “demolished” in paragraph 3 mean?A.Damaged completely. | B.Decorated well. |
C.Sold out. | D.Built up. |
A.To repurpose restaurants. |
B.To win science competitions. |
C.To replace smoke detectors in homes. |
D.To identify unattended heat sources early. |
A.The cost of materials. |
B.Code-related problems. |
C.No community support. |
D.No experience in invention. |
A.Bring it to market. |
B.Use it in her school. |
C.Keep it for personal use. |
D.Use it for further research. |
【推荐1】If your fingers get chilly all year round—even in the peak of summer—you’re not alone. Many people get cold hands during all of the seasons, due to a number of causes, from genetic to chronic illnesses.
Common reasons include being elderly and thin. If your hands are regularly cold or numb, however, it’s a good idea to see a doctor to rule out more serious causes. Cold hands are one of the symptoms of both anemia (贫血症) and hypothyroidism (甲状腺机能减退). Diabetes, which reduces blood circulation, can also trigger it. And if your heart is weak from heart disease, your body may prioritize sending blood to your core over your limbs.
For many others, cold hands are a sign they have a largely harmless condition called Raynaud’s disease. When any of us goes out in the cold, our bodies activate the muscles in our smallest blood vessels to make them even smaller—a survival mechanism to keep blood, and thus warmer temperatures, in our core. For people with Raynaud’s, this reaction is too strong, and instead of just a bit less blood going to their fingers, far too little gets there.
Raynaud’s is more common in women, and it most often develops before the age of 30. In fact, if you develop Raynaud’s when you’re older—usually after 40—it can be a sign of another underlying issue. That could be a smaller problem—a previous incident of frostbite (冻伤) or a sign of a more serious autoimmune condition, like lupus (狼疮).
For the majority of people living with Raynaud’s, medication won’t be necessary. However, a rare, more severe form of Raynaud’s affects less than one in 1,000 people. In these cases, blood can become completely blocked, causing sores on the hands. If they go untreated, it can lead to gangrene (坏疽) and, very rarely, amputation (截肢).
1. What’s the purpose of paragraph 1?A.introduce a topic | B.present an argument |
C.describe the characters | D.clarify his writing purpose |
A.diabetes | B.heart disease | C.aging | D.obesity |
A.It appears when blood vessels in your body overreact to high temperatures. |
B.Males never suffer from it before the age of 30. |
C.In some cases, it can be a sign of some health issues. |
D.For most people, it is a serious health problem. |
A.The reasons why people have cold hands |
B.Ways to treat Raynaud’s disease and prevent cold hands |
C.Medical research on Raynaud’s Disease |
D.Disadvantages of cold hands |
【推荐2】There are few spectacles more unpleasant than a television presenter trying to hang on to a job. When one of the presenters of the BBC program Crimewatch resigned recently, rather than suffer the inevitable indignity of being unfinished and replaced by a younger version, he made the usual hurt noises about his masters' overemphasis on youth. People in the media listened sympathetically before he slid from view to join the ranks of television's has-beens.
The presenter's argument, that the views don't care how old you are so long as you can “do the job,” unfortunately is not backed up by the evidence. When you're on TV, viewers are always thinking about whether you're losing your hair or your figure and, lately, whether you've had cosmetic work done. This is what they're actually doing when you think they're listening to the wise things you say. Viewers actually don't understand much of what the job involves, they just see you sitting there looking the part. Like the ability to pet one's head while rubbing one's stomach, TV presenting is just one of those sills. Some of those who possess this skill can hit the big name, inevitably as they become more attached to the lifestyle this brings, however, the more likely they are to overstate the skill.
In reality, if somebody is paying you a lot of money to do a job, it's often on the tacit (心照不宣的) understanding that you may be fired suddenly-it's part of the deal. Unlike football managers, TV presenters pretend not to understand this. If they've had many years being paid silly sums to read a script from an autocue ( 自动题词机),it's difficult for them to accept that they've been the beneficiary of good fortune rather than anything else; even harder to face the fact that an editor could all too easily send them to the shopping channels.
Something similar eventually awaits all the people who are currently making fortunes that would have been unimaginable to earlier generations of presenters. One day we'll decide that their face no longer fits and they'll be dragged away complaining about the same ageist policy from which they no doubt previously profited. Show business is a brutal (残忍的) business. The one thing it reliably punishes is age, particularly among women. That's why, at the age of fifty, female TV presenters become female radio presenters and why girl bands planning to re-form need to get it done before they're forty, after which it will get too hard for everyone to suspend their collective disbelief.
1. What does the writer imply about the Crimewatch presenter he mentions in the first paragraph?A.He was unwise to resign when he did. |
B.He will soon be forgotten by the viewers. |
C.He may well have had a valid point to make. |
D.He was treated insensitively by his employers. |
A.a public image | B.a level of success |
C.an overstatement | D.a common misunderstanding |
A.To support his view that presenters are overpaid. |
B.To stress how important luck is in certain occupations. |
C.To show how relatively secure TV presents are in their jobs. |
D.To illustrate a general rule that applies to certain types of job. |
A.should look for work in other forms of broadcasting |
B.may have benefited from it themselves at some point |
C.are less well respected than presenters of the past |
D.are being unfair to up-and-coming younger colleagues |
Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups.Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well.Others eat a teaspoon of sugar.Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it.
An American man named Jack O'Leary said he had hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years.He tried 60,000 cures, but none of them worked.At last he prayed to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately.
It took a British plumber eight months to cure his hiccups.People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well.He tried them all, but the hiccups continued.Finally, he drank a "secret" mixture someone had sent him.By that evening his hiccups were gone.
Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows.But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea—hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure.
1. How did Jack O'Leary stop his hiccups?
A.He took a deep breath. | B.He prayed to Saint Jude. |
C.He ate a teaspoon of sugar. | D.He drank a "secret" mixture. |
A.4 hours | B.2 days | C.8 months | D.8 years |
A.Cold water | B.A spoonful of salt |
C.Special pills | D.What you believe in |
A.Saint Jude is an expert in curing the hiccups |
B.the reason why the hiccups start and why the hiccups stop |
C.some people think that a good scare is a cure for a case of hiccups |
D.the British plumber drank a "secret" mixture given by an experienced doctor and then became well |
A.Different ways to stop hiccups. | B.What makes hiccups happen. |
C.How to get hiccups. | D.Jack O'Leary's hiccups. |