【推荐1】The health and welfare of every person in America will be affected by global warming, especially children, the elderly and the poor, according to a new White House science report.

The report said every region (地区) of the country will suffer worse health from heat waves and drought. All but a handful of states would have worse air quality and flooding. It predicts an increase in diseases spread by tainted (腐烂的) food, bad water and bugs (臭虫).

The report concludes that climate change causes real risk to human health and human system that supports the way of life in the United States.

Man-made global warming is caused by greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels. At current emission (放射) levels, global temperatures are likely to rise by about 2 degrees by midcentury and about 7.5 degrees by the end of the century.

The most vulnerable (脆弱的) Americans — the poor, elderly, sick, very young and immigrants — will suffer more. That’s at least 10 percent of the country’s population, probably more. It will be tougher for these people to get enough health care for climate-related illnesses, to cool down in heat waves, to escape extreme events such as Hurricane Katrina, and even to get enough food.

While every region of America is vulnerable to global warming’s health and welfare effects, more people are moving to coastal regions, which are most vulnerable to climate change because of drought and hurricanes.

1. According to the report, we learn all of the following will risk human’s health EXCEPT ______.

A．increase in the number of bugs

B．reduction in carbon dioxide emissions

C．global warming and climate change

D．heat waves and drought

2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．All of states would suffer flooding.

B．About half of all states would have clear air.

C．Flooding would occur in almost all the states.

D．Air quality in few states is not high.

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Global temperatures are increasing year by year because of carbon dioxide.

B．Global warming is caused by human beings.

C．It is wise for the Americans to move into coastal regions.

D．At least one tenth of Americans are more likely to suffer climate-related illnesses.

4. he writer wrote this passage to ______.

A．explain how the phenomenon of global warming forms

B．provide evidence that global warming and climate change risk human’s health

C．warn every American of the danger of global warming to their health

D．protect the vulnerable Americans from suffering from diseases

【推荐2】Climate change, not human hunting, may have destroyed the thylacine （袋狼），according to a new study based on DNA from thylacine bones.

The meat-eating marsupials （有袋动物）died out on mainland Australia a few thousand years ago, but survived in Tasmania, an island of southeast Australia separated from the mainland, until the 1930s. Until now, scientists have believed the cause of this mainland extinction （灭绝）was increased activity from native Australians and dingoes （Australian wild dogs）.

Scientists behind the University of Adelaide study, which was published in the Journal of Biogeography on Thursday, collected 51 new thylacine DNA samples from fossil （化石）bones and museum skins. The paper concluded that climate change starting about 4,000 years ago was likely the main cause of the mainland extinction.

The ancient DNA showed that the mainland extinction of thylacines was rapid, and not the result of loss of genetic diversity （基因多样性）.There was also evidence of a population crash （大跌）in thylacines in Tasmania at the same period of time, reducing their numbers and genetic diversity.

Professor Jeremy Austin said Tasmania would have been protected from mainland Australia's warmer, drier climate due to its higher rainfall. He argued that climate change was "the only thing that could have caused, or at least started, an extinction on the mainland and caused a population crash in Tasmania.”

"They both occurred at about the same time, and the other two things that have been talked about in the past that may have driven thylacines to extinction on the mainland were dingoes and humans. So the only explanation that's left is climate change. And because that population crash happened at the same time that the species （物种）went extinct on the mainland, our argument is there's a common theme there and the only common theme is that there is this change in climate."

1. What did scientists believe in the past according to the passage?

A．Marsupials were all meat-eating animals.

B．Dingoes should be removed from Australia.

C．Thylacines had no enemies on mainland Australia.

D．Human activities may cause the extinction of thylacines.

2. What's the difference between mainland Australia and Tasmania.

A．Tasmania has more dingoes.

B．Tasmania has more rainy days.

C．Tasmania has a higher temperature.

D．Tasmania has more native activities.

3. The reason why Jeremy Austin had strong argument is that            .

A．something similar occurred on mainland Australia and Tasmania

B．Tasmania were protected from mainland Australia's warmer climate

C．humans and dingoes may have driven thylacines to extinction

D．mainland Australia suffered from much higher rainfall in the past

4. What's the best title for the passage?

A．The cause of disappearance of thylacines

B．The ways of protecting meat-eating animals

C．The result of warmer climate in Australia

D．The effect of climate change on wildlife

【推荐3】阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。

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       You might think that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world’s temperature. But rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation (撤离) of an island nation, the citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland.
       During the 20th century, sea level rose 8~12 inches. As a result, Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding of salt water that has polluted the country’s drinking water.
       Paani Laupepa, a Tuvaluan government official, reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years. Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from global warming to greater and more damaging storms.
       Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (排放), which are a main cause of global warming. “By refusing to sign the agreement, the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years.” Laupepa told the BBC.
       Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries.
     Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable (易受影响的) to rising sea levels. Maumoon Gayoon, president of the Maldives, told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an “endangered nation”.
1. What is the text mainly about?

A．Rapid changes in earth’s temperature.

B．Bad effects of global warming.

C．A country moving to a new place.

D．Reasons for lowland flooding.

2. According to scientists, what is the direct cause of more and fiercer storms?

A．Greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations.

B．Higher surface water temperatures of the sea.

C．Continuous global warming.

D．Rising sea levels.

3. Laupepa was not satisfied with the United States because it did not ________.

A．agree to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions

B．believe the problems facing Tuvalu were real

C．allow Tuvaluans to move to the US

D．sign an agreement with Tuvalu

4. The country whose situation is similar to that of Tuvalu is ________.

A．Australia	B．New Zealand
C．the Maldives	D．the United States

【推荐1】In order to reduce the risk of suffering from COVID-19, people are supposed to say no to a handshake, give up high fives, refuse kisses on the cheek and absolutely avoid hugging. So people all over the world are changing their daily habits at work and at home to prevent it from spreading.

In France, handshaking is regarded as daily greeting habits. And kissing on the cheek is often seen even between people who have only just met. Philippe Lichtfus, a lifestyle expert notes that handshaking is a relatively recent development in human history that began in the Middle Ages. Now, he says simply looking into a person’s eyes can serve as a greeting.

The Brazilian health ministry has recommended that citizens should not share the metal straws traditionally used to consume the caffeine-rich drink chimarrão. And a kiss—even if it is not on the mouth—is totally advised against.

One of Spain’s most treasured traditions is also affected by the outbreak—the kissing of sculptures of Virgin Mary in the week leading up to Easter. During the holy week, the faithful believers queue up to kiss the hands or feet of sculptures of Mary and the saints, seeking their protection.

Germany’s interior minister (内政部长) Horst Seehofer rebuffed Chancellor（总理）Angela Merkel’s attempt to shake hands with him, smiling and keeping both his hands to himself. They both laughed and Merkel threw her hand up in the air before taking a seat.

In Iran, a video has gone viral (走红) showing three friends meeting, hands in their pockets, two of whom are wearing masks, tapping their feet against each other as a greeting. A similar video in Lebanon shows singer Ragheb Alama and comedian Michel Abou Sleiman tapping their feet against each other while making kissing noises with their mouths.

The UAE (阿拉伯联合酋长国) is advising citizens to stop the traditional “nose to nose” greeting. The UAE also said that people shouldn’t shake hands anymore or kiss. Greet each other “by waving only”.

1. What can we learn from Philippe Lichtfus?

A．Handshaking has a long history.

B．People can continue to kiss on the cheek.

C．It is recommended that people look into other’s eyes as a greeting.

D．It is unusual for two people who have just met to kiss on the cheeks.

2. What does the underlined word “rebuffed” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Appreciated.

B．Refused.

C．Accepted.

D．Welcomed.

3. What can be inferred from the text?

A．Several traditional greeting habits are advised against in the UAE.

B．People who believe in Virgin Mary must be disappointed to cancel the ceremony.

C．Brazilians are crazy about consuming the caffeine-rich drink chimarrão.

D．Tapping feet against each other has already become a daily greeting in Iran.

4. What does the text mainly tell us?

A．Some old greeting styles are out of date.

B．Some new greeting styles become popular.

C．Different countries have different greeting styles.

D．People change their greeting styles to protect themselves.

【推荐2】Tea is obviously a big deal in Britain, but have you ever wondered how it became a thing?

Tomato sauce is not Italian; the tomato is native to South America and was not introduced to Europe until the 16th century. Tea isn’t British, it wasn’t even all that popular for Britons until the 17th century. But nowitis as British as dull weather and red phone booths.

Tea is of such great importance that it was featured in the Evening Standard written by George Orwell back in 1946. The famous author describes the beverage(饮品) thusly "tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country." But when, exactly, did this practice become in fashion?

The year was 1662, a mere 111 years before insurgents(茶党) from the soon-to-be ruling champions of the Revolutionary War dumped a whole bunch of tea into Boston Harbor. Catherine of Braganza of Portuguese royalty married King Charles II of England, and then went on to make teatime a thing.But the thirst for tea fell at one time—the costs to transport it from the Far East were far more than Britons could afford. However, when Catherine started to make tea consumption a daily practice, it passed on to the other nobles.

Not long after the practice was initially adopted by the upper class,the East India company began to import more tea to meet the demand. With the prices lowered,everybody could afford to have a good taste, and suddenly tea was the drink of the every man.

After centuries of ritual(习惯), it has become entirely rooted in the British identity itself. Turkey may consume the most tea annually, but the British still hold the title of association.

1. The best title for the passage is probably.

A．Why the British drink so much tea

B．Why tea is so popular across the world

C．How tea was introduced into Europe

D．Which kind of tea is the most favored

2. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 2 refers to.

A．tomato

B．tomato sauce

C．tea

D．a thing

3. According to Paragraph 4, Britons' interest in tea once dropped because.

A．it was not drinkable

B．they were not used to it

C．it was not affordable

D．they refused anything foreign

4. What can we know from the passage?

A．George Orwell promoted tea sales across England.

B．King Charles II of England drank tea on a daily basis.

C．The Turkish produce the most tea every year.

D．People may associate tea with Britons a lot.

【推荐3】24 Solar Terms: 4 things you should know about Grain Buds

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Grain Buds (小满), the 8th solar term of a year, begins on May 20 this year, and ends on June 4. In China, the 24 solar terms were created thousands of years ago to guide agricultural production.     1    . Let's see what we can do during the "Grain Buds" period.

A good season for eating fish

During the Grain Buds period, the summer harvest is about to begin. A saying about rain during this time mentions, "A heavy rainfall makes the river full." Because of the great increase in rainfall, rivers are full of water, which gives rise to great tasting fish and shrimp. This is a good time to enjoy them.     2    .

Eating herb of common sow thistle

Grain Buds is a season for eating the herb (草药) of the common sow thistle, which tastes a little bitter and sour, but also sweet. It has the function of cooling the blood and detoxifying the body. It can be made into different types of dishes.     3    . Some people boil the herb with water and then squeeze out the juice, which can be used to make soup.

Tips on health preserving in Grain Buds

    4    . The increase in temperature over this season may also give rise to all sorts of skin diseases. It is also important to exercise to keep healthy during the hot summer days. Walking, jogging and practicing tai chi are popular.

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This time is a good period of the quick growth of flowers. It is also a season when plant diseases and pests are at an all-time high, which makes caring for your garden even more critical. Flower trimming and clipping is important. And a systematic fertilized water system should be carried out.

A．Key period for flower management

B．It is also harvest season for fishermen

C．A lot of water and extra care for wild flowers

D．But the solar term culture is still useful today to guide people's lives

E．It means that the seeds from the grain are becoming full but are not ripe

F．People in Ningxia like to eat it blended with salt, vinegar, peppers or garlic

G．High temperatures and humidity are common during the Grain Buds period