In 1960, at just 26 years old. Jane Goodall was chosen to go to what is now Tanzania and study the little-known world of chimpanzees. Since then, She has received many awards and honorary degrees and become the model of some young girls.
But before Goodall was a world-renowned conservationist, she was just a kid who liked animals. She was born loving animals so people gave her diverse animal toys. Now, Goodall has received an unusual honor. She is becoming a toy — a Barbie doll with little girly clothes.
Goodall may not have expected to become a Barbie at 88 years old — but it’s not just any doll, it’s made out of recycled plastic. And the Barbie is partnering with the Jane Goodall Foundation and her Roots & Shoots program, which inspires young people to protect others, animals and the environment. The main message is “every day you live, you make an impact on the planet and you get to choose what sort of impact you make.”
Once Goodall had given a talk about protecting the world in Burundi school and a little boy of 7 came up to her and said, “If I pick out a piece of trash every day, it will make a difference, won’t it?” She said, “Yes, it will. And suppose you persuade 10 of your friends to pick up the rubbish every day.” He said, “Oh, that’s it. They could all get 10 of their friends!”
Goodall has been inspiring young people for decades, but now, newer generations will get to know Jane Goodall. “I sincerely hope that the Barbie will help kids to create more interest and fascination (吸引) in the natural world,” she said. “It doesn’t really matter if they have a career in conservation, as long as they live conservation in their daily lives.”
1. What gets young girls interested in Jane Goodall?| A．The Jane Goodall Barbie doll. |
| B．Jane Goodall’s childhood experience. |
| C．Her work with the chimpanzees. |
| D．Her research into environmental pollution. |
| A．Partnering with Jane’s Foundation. |
| B．Supporting young people in trouble. |
| C．Producing toys out of recycled plastic. |
| D．Encouraging kids to protect the planet. |
| A．People should make many friends. |
| B．Every effort can make a difference. |
| C．Everyone has a potential to succeed. |
| D．Rubbish should be dealt with regularly. |
| A．Jane Goodall is strange to new generations. |
| B．Barbie dolls will be popular in the toy market. |
| C．The spirit of Jane Goodall will inspire more people. |
| D．Conservation of nature will be the most popular career. |
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【推荐1】About 12 million tons of plastic wastes are entering the oceans every year. This garbage pollutes the water, kills wildlife and breaks down into small pieces that fish and other creatures eat.
Now a group of Spanish fishermen will receive economic support to catch plastics. It is part of a new project. Carlos Martin is one of the fishermen taking part in the project. He and his partners collect the plastic in the ocean and bring it back to land every week. Martin thinks rivers carry a lot of plastics to the sea. He says his most concern is no more than that the plastics often get caught in the nets, which makes nets not work properly. They take on mud（泥）, causing the nets to break because they weigh so much.
Under the new programs, one million pounds will support ocean cleanup efforts for fishermen like Martin. The money is coming from the European Union and the Catalan government. Sergi Tudela, the General Director of Catalonia Fisheries, is responsible for the cleanup project. He said, "We are hopeful that if we are successful in this project, we can apply it to other areas in the Mediterranean（地中海）."
Government reports show that the amount of plastic wastes washing up along the Spanish coastline has grown by 65 percent in just six years. Fishing equipment makes up a large part of the about 8 to 12 million tons of plastics left in the world's oceans every year.
Martin says the fishing community now understands how big the problem is. He says, "In the past we didn't see it that way. We took the plastic garbage and threw it back into the water. I think that after a few year here we have realized the problem. Nothing is thrown into the water; we collect everything and bring it to shore.
1. What worries Martin most about plastic wastes at the beginning?| A．They pollute the sea environment. |
| B．They affect the quality and taste of fish. |
| C．They prevent the fishing nets from working well. |
| D．They kill wildlife and reduce his fishing amount. |
| A．Getting more money to support the project. |
| B．Getting help from other European countries. |
| C．Spreading the cleanup project to more places. |
| D．Praising the European Union for their helping to the oceans. |
| A．Its members do a lot of work for free. |
| B．It has stopped using plastic fishing equipment. |
| C．It has made positive changes to fight plastic wastes. |
| D．Its members find people sill throw the garbage carelessly. |
| A．New programs are changing fishermen's life |
| B．Money is given to Spanish fishermen to clean up oceans |
| C．Traditional fishing equipment causes a lot of plastic wastes |
| D．Spanish fishermen are encouraging people to clean up oceans |
【推荐2】Antarctica is known for being a vast land of ice and snow, a place too cold for most life. Despite this, the continent is slowly starting to turn warm. According to the Guardian, the Antarctic has registered a new high temperature for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s iciest place.
On Feb 9, Brazilian researchers at Seymour Island reported a temperature of 20.75℃ on the icy continent of Antarctica. It was almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8℃, taken on Signy Island (西格尼岛) in January 1982.
This record-breaking reading was taken at a monitoring station in the northern part of Antarctica. According to Brazilian soil scientist Carlos Schaefer, the temperature was documented during a 20-year-long research project. The focus of this project is to study the effect that climate change has on the permafrost (永久冻土) within the region. Permafrost is soil that stays frozen for at least two years. Although this is a first record high for Antarctica, Schaefer stressed that “We can’t use this to anticipate climatic changes in the future. It’s simply a signal that something different is happening in that area.”
But in fact, the last high temperature reading was in the 19℃ range. These higher temperatures can cause ice and glaciers in Antarctic regions to melt. The Antarctic peninsula (半岛)--the long finger of land that stretches towards Argentina--is most dramatically affected. Scientists saw glaciers that have retreated by more than 100 meters in Discovery Bay where the snow melted in little more than a week, leaving dark exposed rock. This melted ice leads to a rise in sea levels that can threaten the safety of coastal areas. It’s believed to be behind an alarming decline of more than 50 percent in chinstrap penguin (帽带企鹅) colonies, which are dependent on sea ice.
Like American writer Ernest Hemingway once said, “The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” We should do everything we can to help save our planet. Otherwise, it may become too hot for us to fix.
1. What did Brazilian researchers report on Feb 9?| A．Seymour Island is the warmest region in the Antarctic. |
| B．Antarctica hit a record high temperature of 20.75℃. |
| C．The average temperature of Antarctica ranges from 19.8℃ to 20.75℃. |
| D．Antarctica’s new record temperature is a full degree higher than the previous decade. |
| A．To predict possible climatic change in the future. |
| B．To monitor Antarctica’s contributions to world climate change. |
| C．To explain why the permafrost may cause glaciers to melt. |
| D．To examine how the permafrost is influenced by climate change. |
| A．moved backward. | B．increased in size. |
| C．covered a certain area. | D．stretched in an opposite direction. |
| A．The Earth will be hotter and hotter. |
| B．The high temperature can cause ice in Antarctica melt. |
| C．People should spare no effort to protect the earth and the environment. |
| D．A rise in sea levels can threaten the safety of coastal areas. |
【推荐3】TEDEd Hi Katherine!
This December, the TED-Ed team will host a series of 4 calls for students to learn about climate change, as part of our larger TED Countdown Initiative (方案)
Details about call series:
Each week during the month of December, we’ll meet at the same time on Zoom (an online meeting APP). Students should join in the calls on their own. We’d like students to be able to attend at least 3 of the 4 calls.
Register your students’ interest:
As we plan the time when we will meet with students, we’d love to see how many students are interested in this opportunity. Please share this interest with your students so they can register their interest. In this form we’ll ask them for their parent’s email address for permission.
Share this interest form with your students:
https∶//airtable. com/shr4U7DICbrdHuaGM
More about TED Countdown:
On January 25, we’re hosting the Countdown Summit in Scotland— the firstTED conference focusing on climate solutions. In April, TED hosted an online meeting and announced our plan to help the planet. And as always，education plays an important role in this mission (使命). That’s why we have chosen talks for students to do together virtually for a deeper understanding of this global issue and solutions.
We hope your students join us!
Please note that this event is only for studenst aged 3-19, in high school and below!
1. How many call should students attend at least in December?| A．3 | B．4. | C．7 | D．12 |
| A．Work out plans for the team. | B．Attend online calls with their parents. |
| C．Register their inerest in an onlin form. | D．Send an email to parents to ask for permisson. |
| A．Education mission. | B．Virtual reality. |
| C．Global climate solutions. | D．Events organizing. |
【推荐1】When the semester ended, I returned home. In a few weeks BYU would post grades; then I’d know if I could return in the fall.
I filled my journals with promises that I would stay out of the junkyard. I needed money so I went to get my old job back, at Stokes. I turned up at the busiest hour in the afternoon when I knew they’d be understaffed, and sure enough, the manager was bagging groceries when I found him. I asked if he’d like me to do that, and he looked at me for all of three seconds, and then lifted his apron over his head and handed it to me.
Dad was waiting for me when I came through the back door. He saw the apron and said, “You’re working for me this summer.”
“I’m working at Stokes,” I said.
His voice was raised. “This is your family. You belong here.”
There was no one on his crew since my brothers had gone. He had to do everything all by himself. Dad’s face was haggard, his eyes bloodshot. But that determination was etched (流露出) into his face. It was in his voice, in the harshness of it. He had to win this standoff (对峙).
But I couldn’t do the job, because to do it would be to slide backward. I had moved home, to my old room, to my old life. If I went back to working for Dad, to waking up every morning and pulling on steel toed boots and trudging (跋涉) out to the junkyard, it would be as if the last four months had never happened, as if I had never left.
When I’d told Dad that I planned to go back to college, he’d said a woman’s place was in the home that I should be learning about herbs — “God’s pharmacy (药房)” he’d call it — so I could take over for Mother.
My memories of the university faded quickly. The scratch of pencils on paper, the clack of a projector moving to the next slide, the peal of the bells signaling the end of the class — all were drowned out by the clatter of iron and the role of diesel engines after a month in the junkyard. BYU seemed like a dream, something I had created by magic. Now I was awake.
1. Why did the author turn up at the busiest hour at Stokes?| A．Because she was expelled from college and planned to work at Stokes. |
| B．Because she could save money by buying stuff at a discount in the afternoon. |
| C．Because she would have a better chance to get the job. |
| D．Because her dad asked her to get an apron for him from Stokes in the afternoon. |
| A．tired | B．excited | C．indifferent | D．concerned |
| A．Supportive. | B．Opposed. | C．Hesitant. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．The author didn’t want to work for her dad mainly because it was too tiring at the junkyard. |
| B．The author’s dad was poorly educated but he acknowledged the importance of education for girls. |
| C．The author missed her university and wanted to embrace her new life. |
| D．The author’s dad was disappointed because she didn’t choose medicine as her major. |
【推荐2】A NASA climate research scientist, Cynthia Rosenzweig, who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate, was awarded the World Food Prize on Thursday.
“We basically cannot solve climate change unless we address the issues of the greenhouse gas emissions from the food system, and we cannot provide food security for all unless we work really hard to develop adaptable agricultural systems,” she told The Associated Press in an interview.
Rosenzweig, who describes herself as a climate impact scientist, grew up in Scarsdale, New York, a suburban area that she said led her to seek out life in the country. Later, she moved to Italy, and developed a passion for agriculture. After returning to the United States, she focused her education on agronomy (农学).
She worked as a graduate student at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the early 1980s, when global climate models were beginning to show the effects of human-generated carbon dioxide on the global climate. As the only team member studying agronomy, she researched the impact on food production and has been working since then to answer those questions.
Rosenzweig’s work led to the Environmental Protection Agency’s first prediction of the effects of climate change on the nation’s agricultural regions in the agency’s assessment of the potential effects of climate change on the United States in 1988. She was the first to bring climate change to the attention of the American Society of Agronomy and she organized the first sessions on the issue in the 1980s. The research organization she founded, AgMIP, develops adaptation packages, which could include the use of more drought-tolerant seeds and improved water management practices.
Even the largest agribusiness corporations have shown a willingness to listen. Some models her colleagues have developed show how businesses could be effected by climate change and how they have a role to play in reducing the impact on climate.
“It’s really a global partnership of all the global food systems to come together to restrain climate change and maintain the food security for the planet,” she said.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 2?| A．Plants can hardly cause greenhouse gas emissions. |
| B．Issues of food security will result in climate change. |
| C．Improving food systems will help address climate change. |
| D．Some adaptable agricultural systems have been put into use. |
| A．Modest. | B．Devoted. | C．Adaptable. | D．Warm-hearted. |
| A．Rosenzweig’s contributions. | B．Rosenzweig’s challenges. |
| C．Rosenzweig’s expectations. | D．Rosenzweig’s backgrounds. |
| A．The models. | B．The practices. |
| C．The colleagues. | D．The businesses. |
【推荐3】I was eleven years old when I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were in the economic crisis. She said a polite “no”.
That didn’t stop me. I searched the measurements of a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would click notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one — keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without touching a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was serious, she borrowed money and bought me ten lessons.
I still remember the first one. I was struck by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my Grade One after eight lessons. Once I started secondary school, we couldn’t afford lessons again. I passed Grade Three, and then Grade Five, practicing only on my piece of paper.
One evening, when I was about thirteen, my mom said she had a surprise for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more borrowed money. It was the first time I’d played for her. She was in astonishment.
My school didn’t offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. But I had to pass a difficult test. To my amazement, I was offered a place. At the Purcell School, I spent two years working as hard as I could, performed to raise money and saved enough to buy my first piano. When I left the Purcell School, I was awarded the senior piano prize and senior academic music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School in London. I feel proud — it’s been ten years since I drew my paper piano, and I’m at one of the world’s leading music schools.
The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano — what we call mental practice. The paper piano helped arouse my curiosity about how music works and the building blocks that form the pieces, being a reminder of how I held on to what I love — piano.
1. Why did the author’s mom buy him lessons at last?| A．She suddenly made a fortune. | B．She saw his performance on a real piano. |
| C．She realized he meant what he said. | D．She had no doubt about his talent for piano. |
| A．He prepared a surprise for his mom. |
| B．His mom was amazed the first time he played for her. |
| C．He was awarded the senior piano prize at the Purcell School. |
| D．His mom earned enough money to buy an electronic keyboard for him. |
| A．Determined. | B．Honest. | C．Humorous. | D．Generous. |
| A．To introduce the method of mental practice. |
| B．To encourage people to stick to their dreams. |
| C．To describe how costly it is to learn an instrument. |
| D．To share how he convinced his mom to buy a piano. |
【推荐1】The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) announced that Catherine Morris, group leader and director of automotive sales at ATI Industrial Automation and Dr. Howie Choset, robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University and co-founder of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing(ARM) Institute, have won the 2019 Engelberger Robotics Award. They were honored at a special dinner on April 10 during the Automate Show and Conference
Morris, who becomes just the fourth woman to win the award is honored in the category of leadership. She said, “I am very surprised and extremely honored to be this years winner of the award. Besides, I cannot help but feel grateful.” Jeff Burnstein, RIA president says, “I can think of very few people in the history of the robotics industry as committed to the growth of our industry as Catherine. In fact, over the past two decades, she’s found time to hold almost every key position in our trade group, from Membership Committee Chair, to Automate Show Committee Chair, to overall Chair of RIA, being the first and only woman to hold that role to date.”
Dr. Choset has received the award for Education, becoming the third person from CMU to win the award. Choset is best known for building snake-like robots. He and his research team have studied how these robots, with their unique ability to move through difficult environments, can be used for search and rescue, for mapping and inspecting caves, pipes and other limited spaces, and for manufacturing, said Martial Hebert, director of CMUS Robotics Institute.
Dr. Choset is an innovative educator, Hebert added, who is devoted himself to teaching his students. His FDA-approved surgical snake robots have been applied in surgery in the U.S. and Europe since 2015. Besides, considering his roles as a co-founder of the ARM Institute and as a founding editor of the journal Science Robotics, you see that Dr Choset is well deserving of our industry’s highest honor
1. Morris has received the 2019 Engelberger Robotics Award due to her| A．marketing concepts | B．excellent leadership |
| C．teaching skills | D．unique creativity |
| A．She is the first women to win the robotics award. |
| B．She has made more people committed to the robotics industry |
| C．She has the experience of holding different important posts |
| D．She is the only woman to hold Membership Committee Chair |
| A．To praise Choset's cooperation ability |
| B．To show Choset's outstanding contribution |
| C．To advertise an effective product for urban search |
| D．To prove the rapid development of modern technology |
| A．helping doctors operate on patients |
| B．replacing workers in a factory |
| C．helping students do experiments in a lab |
| D．warning workers of something dangerous |
| A．Engelberger Robotics Award and the winners |
| B．Engelberger Robotics Award and their importance |
| C．The RIA announced Engelberger Robotics Award |
| D．Choset and Morris won Engelberger Robotics Award |
【推荐2】Stephen Hawking, the world respected Oxford physicist, who died at the age of 76, once said he felt “lucky” his motor neurone diseasc (MND) did not prevent him from doing his lifelong research on the origins of the universe. “I have been so lucky that my disease has not been a serious block, indeed it has probably given me more time than most people to search for knowledge.” he once said.
The author of the 1988 bestseller A Brief History of Time was given only a few years to live when he was diagnosed (诊断) with MND as a 22-year-old student in 1964.
MND is the collective name for a group of diseases that affect the nerves (神经) in the brain. The progressive disease kills more than half within two years and about ninety percent within five years of diagnosis. There is no cure for MND and no treatment to halt the progression of the disease at the present time. However, it is possible to live with it for many years.
The disease affects the muscles that produce movements like walking and talking, and damages parts of the nervous system which leads to muscle weakness. MND most commonly happens to people in their 50s and 60s. However, it can affect people of any age, as in Prof Hawking’s case.
Experts believe that Hawking’s rare slow-progressing form of MND and its early onset were likely to be factors in why he was able to live with the disease into his seventies. Leo McCluskey, a medical director, said his excellent care and the variation (变异) of his disease are likely to have prolonged his life. “The common way people die is of breathing failure. And the other thing is swallowing muscles’(吞咽肌) becoming worse. If you don’t have these two things, you could probably not live for a long time — even though you’re getting worse. What’s happened to Hawking is just surprising. He’s certainly an outlier,” he said.
1. What did Hawking think of his disease?| A．It was a challenge to his personal life. |
| B．It made his research more difficult. |
| C．It enabled him to concentrate on his research. |
| D．It led him to do research on the universe. |
| A．It can be cured in some way. | B．It may kill people all of a sudden. |
| C．It usually strikes young people. | D．It has a relatively high death rate. |
| A．Stop. | B．Test. | C．Monitor. | D．Limit. |
| A．his early onset of MND |
| B．good nursing and the variation of his MND |
| C．his rare slow-progressing form of MND |
| D．good condition of his breathing and swallowing muscles |
【推荐3】Albert Einstein, the genius behind the theory of relativity, which provided a new framework for all of physics and proposed new concepts of space and time, has recently been making headlines again. However, this time it is not for a new scientific breakthrough, but because of two handwritten notes the scientist gave a bellboy 99 years ago.
The story goes something like this. In 1922, Einstein was invited to Tokyo to deliver lectures. As the scientist was making his way from Europe to Japan, he received a telegram informing him that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Though pleased at the news, he decided to continue with his Japanese trip instead of heading to Stockholm to accept the honor.
When in Tokyo, he penned two notes in German. One of them, written on a piece of plain paper, said, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Why did Einstein write the notes? Some believe they were to express Einstein’s delight at the reception he received from the people of Japan who crowded to attend the laureate’s (获奖者) lectures. Others think they were specially written for the bellboy who came to deliver a message, either because the scientist did not have loose change to tip him, or because the messenger refused to accept tips. Regardless of the reason, Einstein purportedly told the bellboy, “Maybe if you are lucky, those notes will become much more valuable than just a regular tip.” He was right!
Earlier this year, the bellboy’s nephew decided to part with the notes and handed them to auction houses. One note brought the owner an astonishing $ 1.56 million. The second note, which opened at $ 1,000 and was expected to fetch a maximum of $ 6,000, was sold for $ 240,000!
1. What made Einstein become people’s focus again?| A．The theory of relativity. | B．His new concepts of space. |
| C．The notes written by himself. | D．His notes about his theory. |
| A．In Berne. | B．In Stockholm. | C．In Germany. | D．In Japan. |
| A．They had a great effect. | B．They attracted a lot of people. |
| C．They successfully inspired people. | D．They were hard to understand. |
| A．Disappointed. | B．Curious. | C．Unfair. | D．Unexpected. |
