After entering high school, you may find there are many clubs at your school. You may think you’re too busy to join one. But as a former high school student, I can tell you joining a school club can greatly profit you.
Your old friends may have left you after entering high school. And it means you need to meet new people. Joining a club allows you to talk with others and find those who have similar interests as you. Based on my experience, I have met some of my best friends from club activities, which opened up many new doors for me.
Another really nice thing about joining a club is that it looks really good on college applications. Trying new things is something that looks really good on any application. Outgoing is considered a very good quality which shows that you are determined and ready to put yourself out there and best of all try new things. Furthermore, it can help you develop skills that can serve you during future college interviews.
Besides, joining a club can make students use their free time wisely. Most teens go to schools, then go back home and spend the rest of the day in front of a screen. Teens are also very likely to fall into the wrong crowd, which could lead to some bad results. Clubs are good places to spend time with good people to fall back on.
The most important reason why you should join a club is the long-term benefits ( 益 处 ) it brings.The classroom isn’t the only learning environment in a school. The skills you learn in clubs are necessary ones that can be used in everyday life, which I think is the final goal of joining a club. Things such as meeting and speaking to new people, making the most of time, and being organized are those you will meet every single day of your life, but you can learn all of them in clubs.
So if you haven’t joined a school club yet, you know what you should do now.
1. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “profit”in paragraph 1?| A．Cheer up. | B．Go against. | C．Make use of. | D．Be good for. |
| A．The number of clubs you have joined. | B．The strong relationships you have built. |
| C．The bright personality you have developed. | D．The similar interests you share with other students. |
| A．Why Should You Join a Club? | B．What Club Should You Join? |
| C．How Can You Join a Club You Like? | D．Should You Join a Second Club? |
| A．Health. | B．School life. | C．Culture. | D．Social work. |
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【推荐1】Parker Stewart, a 16-yearold student from Sayre School in America, decided last year that he wanted to study the environment by himself to have a broad influence on the community.
In order to reduce the carbon footprint, Stewart planned to produce enough solar energy to power the school’s science labs. Now his plan is set to happen. To fix 30 solar panels (太阳能电池板) is scheduled for late November.
As he began his research on solar energy, he discovered a useful mobile app. By entering an address, he could find out how much sunlight the location receives each day. Based on how much sunlight it receives, he found that his school building was the best location. At the suggestion of his science teacher, Debbie Wheeler, he first performed an energy calculation (计算) of the science lab to see how much energy a typical lab uses per day. Then, he started his research, contacting a local company of solar panels, Synergy Home, to do the job.He lacked money for starting the project, so he convinced Sayre’s head to support him after explaining the benefits of solar power for the school and community.
Since Sayre provided the initial seed money for infrastructure (基础设施) and the purchase of one panel, the project has grown to include a total of 30 panels. They are expected to produce enough energy to run all the science labs on campus.
“It feels like a dream to think that an idea I had from my AP Environmental Science class would have this kind of influence,” said Stewart, expressing his gratitude for Wheeler’s help. Wheeler said the success of the project was due to Stewart’s efforts and willingness to follow through with the project from start to finish.“I’ve had other students talking about environmental initiatives on campus, but Stewart had the perseverance and courage to make it happen,” she said.
Stewart said that he would eventually like to study Environmental Engineering at Stanford University in California.
1. What did Stewart do with the help of the mobile app?| A．He began his research on solar energy. |
| B．He found a perfect site for his project. |
| C．He did an energy calculation of the science lab. |
| D．He identified the specific address of his school. |
| A．Sayre School. |
| B．His community. |
| C．His science teacher. |
| D．Synergy Home. |
| A．The mobile app he discovered. |
| B．The air pollution in his community. |
| C．An idea from his environmental class. |
| D．A suggestion from his science teacher. |
| A．His willpower. | B．His bravery. |
| C．His wisdom. | D．His independence. |
【推荐2】Starting high school means changes in your life. Most teenagers look forward to the first day of high school，but still feel a little bit nervous.
Learn all that you can about your first day before the first school day. Take part in some activities that are held at the school for new students to know the school better. If parents are invited to the activities，take yours with you. Carefully look over all the materials（材料）you receive.
Get the things you will need for class. Buy the things suggested on your teachers' supply lists and place your materials for each class separately.
Keep pace with your high school workload（工作量）. If you find you're not doing well in a subject，make use of after-school study groups or ask your teacher to help you with your schoolwork.
| A．Join in school activities. |
| B．There is no useful information. |
| C．All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
| D．Make sure of the location of the school's buildings. |
| E．Consider private lessons to get you through a difficult time. |
| F．Join a club or other organizations to meet people and develop friendship. |
| G．In order to make your high school life easier，you can follow these tips. |
【推荐3】As a person who is graduating from high school very soon, I have some suggestions for those in high school or those who are soon going to be high school students.
Don’t try to please everybody. There is no way you can please everybody or get everybody to agree with you.
Have respect for authorities (权威人士). No matter how much you may dislike them, just remember that teachers care about you and they are only doing their jobs.
Realize high school is not the real world. The real world isn’t a closed environment.
| A．Do not be too quick to judge. |
| B．Just learn to say the word “No” a lot. |
| C．Listen to their advice and consider it carefully. |
| D．Many of these are based on regrets that I have. |
| E．Bad habits are hard to break and remain with you for a long time. |
| F．It is a free society where people accept responsibility for their actions. |
| G．Don’t spend any effort trying to please others who will never like you. |
【推荐1】Back in 1933, a man called George Spicer and his wife were driving along a road near Loch Ness. Suddenly, a weird animal with a long neck crossed in front of the car...or so the Spicers claimed. Ever since then, the Loch Ness monster has been a household name, although myths of a terrifying creature in the Loch date back to the Dark Ages.
Since the Spicers’ experience, scientists have been wondering whether such an animal might really exist in the Loch’s murky depths. Research teams have patiently watched Loch Ness’s surface for weeks at a time, submarines have explored its deep, dark waters, and underwater cameras and sonar have searched for it. Most of this work happened from the 1960s to 1980s, during a ‘golden age’ of Nessie hunting.
Yet no monster has been found. Nevertheless, there have been more than 1,000 reported sightings in total, and every year tourists visit the Loch in the hope of catching a glimpse of a monster. But there is no reason to think that anyone has really seen Nessie. Instead, they have seen seals, birds, swimming deer and unusual waves.
Despite this, the idea that Nessie might be real is still popular. So earlier this year, Professor Neil Gemmell from the University of Otage in New Zealand led a trip to Loch Ness, using a new scientific technique to find Nessie and solve the mystery once and for all. He set out to search for something called ‘environmental DNA’, or eDNA for short.
EDNA has helped us find all kinds of rare, shy and even extinct animals and plants, so Gemmell wondered if eDNA could be collected from samples of water taken from different points of Loch Ness. He put together a research team, raised the money needed to complete the project , and set to work. Right now, we are still waiting for the results from Gemmell’s project. But even if eDNA for Nessie is not discovered, the project is still useful, because it could help provide a complete list of every plant and animal species living in Loch Ness.
1. What’s the meaning of the underlined word?| A．Uneasy. | B．Dark. | C．Dizzy. | D．Untrue. |
| A．Observation over the Loch Ness surface. | B．Submarine exploration. |
| C．Fishing activities. | D．Underwater technical devices. |
| A．The Loch Ness monster has been witnessed many times. |
| B．People who claim to have seen the Loch Ness monster may have been mistaken. |
| C．EDNA was used for the first time in the search for the Loch Ness monster. |
| D．The project of Gemmell will be considered a failure if evidence of Nessie is not found. |
| A．Will We Ever Find Nessie? |
| B．Are the Sightings of Nessie Real? |
| C．Return of the ‘Golden Age’ for Hunting the Sea Monster. |
| D．New Evidence of Nessie Found by New Zealand Scientists. |
【推荐2】When people hear “artificial intelligence (AI)”, many think of big data. There’s a reason for that: some of the most prominent AI breakthroughs in the past decade have relied on enormous data sets. But AI is not only about large data sets, and the research in small data approaches has grown extensively over the past ten years.
If you take the top 100 biggest innovations of our time, perhaps around 60% to 65% are really based on small data. Big data is all about finding connections, but small data is all about finding the causation, that is, the reason why.
Sokkelund was bought by an experienced industry professional. The restaurant has a French cafe, in the mid-to high price-segment. At the starting point in 2009 the restaurant had 40 seats and an annual turnover of about USD 1 million. In 2017, 34 seats were added acquiring the neighboring shop and by building a small veranda (阳台). The turnover was about USD 6 million — an impressive level of grow driven by a talented team and innovative business thinking.
In the case of Sokkelund, the process of transforming the company to take advantage of small data was started with a focus on improving the traditional competitive parameters (规范；范围) of a restaurant in a structured step-by-step plan. This required managerial skills and industry experience. In terms of the effects on the business model, these changes not only led to cost reductions, but lowered customer acquisition costs, increased the number of customers retention and added new revenue (收益) channels.
1. What can we know from the first two paragraphs?| A．Research in small data approaches has grown widely. |
| B．People have more research in big data. |
| C．Most of the innovations are based on big data. |
| D．AI breakthroughs have nothing to do with small data. |
| A．The money paid to the government. | B．The money added to someone’s wage. |
| C．The amount of business done in a period. | D．The amount of the goods bought annually. |
| A．It was mainly due to industry experience. | B．Small data has been made good use of. |
| C．Big data was adopted to lower customer acquisition. | D．It benefited from the traditional business model. |
| A．To clarify some misconceptions. | B．To introduce a big data approach. |
| C．To predict the future of AI. | D．To stress the significance of small data. |
【推荐3】The number of birds coming through your neighborhood is changing, and so is the timing of their migrations (迁徙). Birdwatchers noticing these differences are playing a big part in understanding how climate change and severe weather events are affecting bird population.
John Rowden is director of community conservation at the National Audubon Society, which aims to protect birds and their environment. He said, “Birders have to be much more alert (警觉的) to when birds are coming through than they used to be, since birds may be coming through much earlier or much later.”
Rowden said, “Birdwatchers are increasingly seeing birds in their areas that are usually found elsewhere. And they are seeing fewer of the birds that usually travel through. Although we have seen these birds, it doesn’t mean they’ll always be there. They are declining in numbers because we’re throwing so many things at them, so we need to do what we can to help them.”
“At least 314 species of American birds are expected to lose 50 percent or more of their range by the end of the century. Those species are listed by the Audubon Society as climate-threatened or endangered,” Rowden added.
Environmentalists say there are a few easy steps people can take to help struggling bird populations. These include planting native species, which leads to more native insects for the birds to eat. During spring and fall migration seasons, people can help migrating birds by keeping outdoor lights turned off and covering reflective surfaces like large windows. People also should make indoor plants less visible to passing birds.
Geoff LeBaron, director of the Christmas Bird Count at the National Audubon Society, says he has seen the effects of climate change firsthand. “I’ve been a birder since I was a little kid,” he said. “It’s clear that climate change is affecting and will continue to affect birds on a global scale, and it’s a question of whether or not they can adapt to what the climate is throwing at them.”
1. What do the birdwatchers find?| A．Local birds are increasing in their areas. | B．50 percent of American birds have disappeared. |
| C．Climate change affects animal population greatly. | D．The number and timing of migrating birds are changing. |
| A．To deal with climate change. | B．To do research on bird population. |
| C．To watch the migrating birds in time. | D．To help birds migrate successfully. |
| A．Paragraph 5. | B．Paragraph 4. | C．Paragraph 3. | D．Paragraph 2. |
| A．It’s hopeless. | B．It’s normal. | C．It’s worrying. | D．It’s promising. |
