It was 1994, and a new mother took her sick baby to the doctor. After being tested, the child was diagnosed (诊断) with CF (包囊纤维化), a serious disease. The girl would be lucky to survive into her twenties. The woman and her husband did not know what to do.
She turned to two friends — football star Boomer Esiason and his wife Cheryl, who knew a lot about CF since they had a son with it. They’d been trying to raise money for the CF Foundation (基金会), and they were heading their own foundation then. The woman called the Esiasons right away and they shared with her everything they knew about the illness.
She was changed, and put her whole heart into understanding CF. She learned how to use the treatments that would best give her daughter hope. She learned about other challenges about CF. Though 30,000 Americans suffer from the illness, the number was too small to motivate(激励) drug companies to do research. The CF market could not get enough investment (投资) for the government to make up the millions needed to develop new drugs.
So she gave up her job and jumped into the CF business full time. She now takes part in events organized by the CF Foundation, and gives speeches wherever she can. The money she raises goes to the CF Foundation, letting it employ scientists to study the disease. Her name is Angela Kinney. Thanks to the many people just like her, the average lifespan (寿命) of a child born with CF has jumped to 36.5 years.
1. From the passage we can learn that Cheryl was ________.| A．a doctor studying CF | B．a member of the CF Foundation |
| C．a person with CF | D．a football star |
| A．They told her what they knew about CF. | B．They offered her a job. |
| C．They offered her money. | D．They taught her how to comfort the child. |
| A．The government was unwilling to invest in it. |
| B．There were no researchers studying it. |
| C．Drug companies found it hard to do research. |
| D．The number of CF patients was too small. |
| A．Clever and changeable. | B．Responsible and honest. |
| C．Brave and warm-hearted. | D．Helpful and open-minded. |
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【推荐1】Flu(流感) can be very dangerous although in most people the illness may last only a week or two. Getting a flu vaccine(疫苗) every year is the best way to prevent getting the flu.
Recognize flu symptoms(症状). Before you can effectively treat the flu, make sure that’s what you actually have.
Get some rest. Sometimes it’s possible to keep working or going to school with a cold, but when you have the flu, it’s important to rest.
Take vitamin C. Vitamin C is essential for health. Studies suggest that a proper amount of vitamin C can help remove cold and flu symptoms. Take 1000mg per hour for the first six hours as soon as symptoms appear. Then take 1000mg three times daily. Do not continue to take too much vitamin C after you feel better.
Though it rarely happens, too much of it may get you poisoned.
| A．Know when to seek emergency medical treatment. |
| B．But if you get the flu, it pays to learn how to treat it. |
| C．Take a few days off to give your body time to recover. |
| D．Orange juice is another good source of natural vitamin C. |
| E．Flu symptoms are similar to cold symptoms, but more severe. |
| F．You can remove the discomfort of fever by using a cool cloth. |
【推荐2】Thousands of persons in Peru are suffering from the disease cholera. Medical experts say it is the first time in their century that cholera has reached the western part of the world. The United States Centers for disease control says the kind of cholera has been spreading throughout the world since 1961. It was discovered that year in Indonesia. Since the first case in Peru, more than sixteen thousand people have been affected and about one hundred have died.
Cholera is caused by polluted food and water. People become infected (传染) when they eat the polluted food or drink the polluted water. If untreated immediately, they may die within hours. Most victims however, can be saved. Treatment includes drugs and replacement of body fluids (液体) directly into the blood.
Medical researchers have developed a vaccine (菌苗) medicines to protect against cholera. But the vaccine is only about 50% effective. And it protects against cholera for only about six months. Medical experts say the best way to fight cholera is to prevent it. They also say people should not eat uncooked food or food that has not been cooked long enough. People who live in areas where cholera has been found should wash their hands before eating and cooking. They should drink only water that has been boiled or made pure with chemicals.
1. The underlined word “Cholera” in the first paragraph means ________.| A．a certain place in Peru |
| B．a kind of illness which may make people die |
| C．a certain place in Indonesia |
| D．a certain medicine to deal with diseases |
| A．Peru and Indonesia |
| B．the different peoples in the world |
| C．the different areas in the world |
| D．polluted water and polluted food |
| A．By medicines and blood improvement. |
| B．By eating unpolluted food. |
| C．By drinking unpolluted water. |
| D．By taking them to a separated place. |
| A．seeing doctors as soon as possible |
| B．fighting against it |
| C．paying attention to the eating and drinking |
| D．taking vaccine immediately |
【推荐3】Motion sickness is an uncomfortable feeling. The sickness it causes can strike people on an airplane, playing video games, or, commonly, when riding in a car. In a future where people may find themselves running around streets in self-driving vehicles, the problems could get worse.
We typically sense our physical position and movement in the world by relying on our eyes, the feeling we get in our body, and our inner ear. Motion sickness may develop when there’s disagreement between what your eyes see and what your inner ear senses. If you’re looking at your phone in a moving vehicle, your eyes see a stationary screen but your inner ear feels that you're moving. The result of that dissonance can cause sickness. The common-sense solution is to just stop looking at your phone, but some of the appeal of self-driving cars is that you could use the time to be productive or entertained by what’s on a screen.
Researchers of a car-making company and a video game company have been studying ways to address these issues. And their solution uses an interesting medium: sound. The research had two goals: to explore if sound could help relieve motion sickness, and to help people trust self-driving cars more. They experimented with two different categories of sound: tips that tell passengers what’s about to happen, and noises that alert passengers when the device has noticed something, like a pedestrian.
The most convincing experiment took place on a closed airport runway in Sweden, near Gothenburg, in August of last year. On that track, brave participants had to ride in the backseat of a car driven by a human and read from a tablet while the car navigated the course. With just 20 people, the study was small, but according to researchers, the presence of sound tips made people report that they felt less ill. Participants said the sounds helped prepare them physically, or adjust their bodies for what was about to happen.
1. When does motion sickness usually happen?| A．Sleeping during travels. | B．Closing eyes on vehicles. |
| C．Riding in moving vehicles. | D．Driving vehicles speedily. |
| A．Enjoyment. | B．Carelessness. | C．Disagreement. | D．Happiness. |
| A．Uncertain. | B．Optimistic. | C．Concerned. | D．Dissatisfied. |
| A．The effects of motion sickness. | B．Self-driving vehicles. |
| C．A convincing experiment. | D．The cause and handling of motion sickness. |
【推荐1】A trip to the Natural History Museum is the perfect family day out in London. There is so much to explore!
Site: Cromwell Road, London SW7 51313
Opening hours: Open daily 10:00-17:50; Last entry 17:30; Closed 24-26 December
Upcoming events
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
10 October 2019-31 January 2020
Event type: Exhibition
Ticket price: ￡8.25-￡13.90
Explore the world's best nature photography, with great lighting effects.
Orbit: A Journey Around Earth in Real Time
21 October 2019-5 January 2020
Event type: Film
Ticket price: Free, no ticket needed
Appreciate the beauty of our home planet from space in this film by Sean Doran with music by Phaelch.
Natural History Museum Ice Rink(溜冰场)
19 October 2019-12 January 2020
Event type: Visitor
Ticket price: Adults from ￡12.65, children from ￡8.80, families from ￡39.60
Get your skates on this winter in front of the Waterhouse building, with fairy lights on and frost-covered trees standing around.
Museum of the Moon
17 May 2019-5 January 2020
Event type: Exhibition
Ticket price: Free, no booking needed
Museum of the Moon is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram. Since 2016, this six-meter model has been circling the globe, lighting up spaces from Bilbao to Beijing.
Safety notice
Bags and other personal items will be inspected when you enter the Museum. Please do not bring anything sharp including knives and scissors to the Museum.
Smoke free
Smoking (including the use of electronic cigarettes) is not allowed in the Museum.
1. If you travel to London in late January 2020, which event can you go to?| A．Museum of the Moon. | B．Natural History Museum Ice Rink. |
| C．Wildlife Photographer of the Year. | D．Orbit: A Journey Around Earth in Real Time. |
| A．Going skating in the Ice Rink. | B．Circling the globe. |
| C．Exploring the best nature photography. | D．Watching a film about the earth. |
| A．A diary. | B．A novel. |
| C．A travel guide. | D．A menu. |
【推荐2】Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers. But, according to a new study, we should be placing a higher value on motherhood all year.
Mothers have long known that their home workload was just as heavy as paid work. Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as $ 172,000 a year.
The study looked at the range of jobs mothers do, as well as the hours they are working, to determine the figure. This would make their yearly income $ 30,000 more than the Prime Minister earns.
By analysing the numbers, it found the average mother works 119 hours a week, 40 of which would usually be paid at a standard rate and 79 hours as overtime. After questioning 1,000 mothers with children under 18, it found that, on most days, mums started their routine work at 7am and finished at around 11pm.
To calculate just how much mothers would earn from that labour, it suggested some of the roles that mums could take on, including housekeeper, part-time lawyer, personal trainer and entertainer. Being a part-time lawyer, at £ 48.98 an hour, would prove to be the most profitable of the “mum jobs”, with psychologist (心理学家) a close second.
It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.
Over a third of .mums felt they needed more training and around half said they missed going out with friends.
The study shows mothers matter all year long and not just on Mother’s Day. The emotional, physical and mental energy mothers devote to their, children can be never-ending, but children are also sources of great joy and happiness. Investing (投入) in time for parenting and raising relationships is money well spent.
1. How much would a mother earn a year if working as the Prime Minister?| A．£ 30,000. | B．£ 142,000. |
| C．£ 172,000. | D．£ 202,000. |
| A．emotional demand | B．low pay for work |
| C．heavy workload | D．lack of training |
| A．Mothers’ importance shows in family all year long. |
| B．The sacrifices mothers make are huge but worthwhile. |
| C．Mothers’ devotion to children can hardly be calculated. |
| D．Investing time in parenting would bring a financial return. |
| A．Mothers，working hours should be largely reduced. |
| B．Mothers should balance their time for work and rest. |
| C．Mothers’ labour is of a higher value than it is realised. |
| D．Mothers should be freed from housework for social life. |
【推荐3】As she was waiting for her flight at a Chengdu airport, Cai Xiao noticed several tiny dead yellow birds lying on the ground outside an enormous window at the two-story terminal building. Deeply saddened by her discovery, Cai took photos of the dead animals and emailed them to a nationwide scientific survey of bird-window collisions（撞击）that aims to gather data to provide evidence of the existence of this issue in China.
Li Binbin, an assistant professor of Environmental Sciences at Duke Kunshan University in Jiangsu province, led the survey, working with several Chinese bird-watching societies starting from March this year. She said that, so far, they have found bird collisions recorded in most parts of the country, and of the 26 species involved, two-thirds were migratory birds（候鸟）.
In order to pursue the transparency（透明度）of space, mankind has put up countless glass buildings, creating a disaster for birds, which have trouble seeing glass. They see reflections in glass as open space and fly into it at full speed. Sometimes birds appear to recover from their injuries and fly away, but they may later suffer internal injuries that leads to death.
In the United States, up to 1 billion birds die each year from hitting windows. Although there is a lack of data, scientists estimate that the number is similar in China, given that the country's east coast is on a major migratory route for birds.
Li launched the survey after witnessing a dozen bird collisions on campus. In 2018, the scholar and her students delivered a report to the university, recommending that it replace windows where most of the collisions happened. The school authorities worried that such an effort would damage the aesthetics（美观）of the buildings. After several discussions, they finally decided to use stickers to decorate windows and reduce glass reflections, Li recalled. This simple effort resulted in collisions at the site being reduced to almost zero.
In the design plan for the future campus project, Li saw that several of her suggestions were adopted: lowering the use of large windows；adding window designs with strips or other patterns to reduce reflections.
For those concerned with the issue, the main question is how to raise awareness of the problem. Li said the first step should be to gather enough data. So far, more than 130 individuals and 33 birding societies have reported bird collisions to her survey.
1. According to Para. 1, what happened at the airport?| A．Some yellow birds were lying on the ground. |
| B．Cai sent the dead birds to a nationwide scientific survey of bird-window collisions. |
| C．Cai found that some birds had been killed by window collisions. |
| D．Cai missed her flight because of the bird collisions. |
| A．The purpose of putting up more glass buildings is to blind birds. |
| B．All the birds were killed instantly. |
| C．The birds would like to fly into glass to see their reflections. |
| D．Glass buildings could easily cause bird collisions. |
| A．Li and her students' report saved a lot of birds. |
| B．The school authorities refused to damage the aesthetics of the buildings. |
| C．Finally, Li and her students used stickers to decorate windows and reduce glass reflections. |
| D．The school authorities replaced windows where most of the collisions happened. |
| A．How to draw people's attention to this issue? |
| B．There are too many glass buildings. |
| C．How to reduce glass reflections? |
| D．How to reduce bird collisions without damaging the aesthetics of the buildings? |
| A．The Trouble with Glass Buildings | B．Ways to Protect Birds |
| C．A Survey of Bird-window Collisions | D．Fly to the Reflection |
【推荐1】The meaning of the word “volunteer” may be a little different in different countries, but it usually means “one who offers his or her services”. There are many different ways in which people can volunteer, such as taking care of sick people, working in homes for homeless children, and picking up garbage from beaches and parks. Volunteers may work within their own countries or in other countries. They are often people with a strong wish to help those who are less fortunate than themselves. Volunteers don’t expect any kind of pay.
At the root of volunteering is the idea that one person may have the ability to offer services that can help other people. Linda, a good friend of mine, however, recently came back from India with a new idea of what being a volunteer means. She worked for two and a half weeks in one of Mother Teresa’s homes in Calcutta. The following is her story.
“I first heard about Mother Teresa in my high school. We watched a video about her work in India and all over the world. I was so moved by her spirit to help others and her endless love for every human being that after I graduated from high school, I also wanted to try her kind of work. Therefore, with two friends, I flew to Caltutta for a few weeks.”
“I was asked to work in a home for sick people. I helped wash clothes and sheets and passed out lunch. I also fed the people who were too weak to feed themselves and tried to cheer them up. I felt it was better to share with them than to think that I have helped them. To be honest, I don’t think I was helping very much. It was then that I realized that I had not really come to help, but to learn about and experience another culture that helped improve my own understanding of life and the world.”
1. According to the text, a volunteer refers to a person who ________.| A．has a strong wish to be successful | B．is willing to help those in need without pay |
| C．can afford to travel to different places | D．has made a big fortune in life |
| A．She liked to work with Mother Teresa. | B．She had already had some experience. |
| C．She was asked by Mother Teresa. | D．She wanted to follow Mother Teresa’s example. |
| A．Improving oneself through helping others. | B．Working in Mother Teresa’s home. |
| C．Doing simple things to help the poor. | D．Going abroad to help the sick. |
| A．How to Be a Volunteer. | B．Voluntary Life in India. |
| C．A Different Meaning of Volunteer. | D．Inspiration from Mother Teresa. |
【推荐2】When Katie Stagliano grew a 40-pound cabbage, she didn’t know that she was beginning to develop a dream as well. When the 10-year-old girl from Summerville, South Carolina realized how much cabbage was in her garden, she decided to donate it to needy families by working with Fields to Families, a nonprofit organization based in South Carolina that gives the hungry access to nutritious fruits and vegetables.
Katie’s cabbage fed nearly 300 people and inspired her to learn more about childhood hunger in the United States. On discovering that more than 12 million kids in the United States go to bed hungry each night, Katie decided to take action.
Her first task was to work together with her family to expand their own garden so that they could donate more vegetables to needy families. But beyond her own backyard, she wanted to teach other children how to get involved. To grow her idea, she started the planting of a garden at her school, which also donates its fresh produce to local food agencies. Through a generous donation from Fields to Families, Katie’s school is receiving seeds and volunteer help, and Katie will get the chance to work there with a master gardener as her teacher!
Katie also designed her very own “No Hungry Children” T-shirt, which is available for purchase online. A part of the proceeds from her T-shirt sales economically supports Katie’s efforts, as well as the work of Amazing Kids, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the dreams of kids like Katie.
“I think it is important to have something to strive for,” says Katie. “By planting a garden or just some seeds in a pot you can make a difference. My cabbage alone fed 275 people. If more kids did the same, we all could be helping to make a long-time dream of no hungry people possible.”
1. According to the passage, Fields to Families ________ .| A．works to feed hungry people | B．grows fruits and vegetables |
| C．has fields in South Carolina | D．provides job opportunities for poor families |
| A．Hunger is a problem most American children face. |
| B．Katie expanded her friends’ gardens to grow vegetables. |
| C．Katie will learn more about gardening at Fields to Families. |
| D．Amazing Kids helped Katie design the “No Hungry Children” T-shirt. |
| A．experiences | B．profits |
| C．ideas | D．friends |
| A．she can grow more cabbages in her garden |
| B．every child has something important in their lives |
| C．hungry people can have dreams like others |
| D．more children will plant vegetables to help the hungry |
| A．Katie Stagliano, a girl full of dreams. |
| B．Everyone can make a success. |
| C．Ten-year-old Katie Stagliano fights against hunger. |
| D．American hungry children in need of help. |
【推荐3】Jim Glaub and Dylan Parker had just been handed the keys to their new Manhattan apartment on 22nd Street when the outgoing tenant (房客) said something curious: “Just so you know, there’s this thing where letters addressed to Santa come to the apartment.” The previous tenants had received the mail too. It had been coming for years, and no one knows why. “But it’s not that big a deal.”
Glaub and Parker settled into their new home, and for the first two years only a few letters trickled (缓慢增加) in from kids or parents asking “Santa” for gifts: toys, coals, dolls. Then in the months before Christmas 2010, they were deluged. Every day, they’d open their mailbox to find it full of letters to Santa. They responded to as many as they could, writing notes, even buying gifts. But they could only do so much.
Glaub, of course, is not Santa. He runs a Broadway marketing company. But one night, when he and Parker threw a Christmas party, a solution appeared. Guests noticed the hundreds of letters and asked about them.
“I told them the story,” Glaub says. His guests were interested. “A lot of people were like, ‘I’ll take a letter. I’ll fulfill it.” That’s when Glaub and Parker realized they didn’t have to fulfill all these letters themselves. “People want to help.” And so was born Miracle on 22nd Street, a community-based volunteer organization that responds to children’s letters to Santa with season’s greetings and gifts for kids.
To spread the word, they started a website, miracleon 22nd street.com. Working with other nonprofits that help those in need, they invited families from around the country to go online and request gifts and Christmas toys for children.
Glaub no longer think about why the letters come to the apartment. “It’s part of Christmas for me,” he says. “It’s the same for the kids and families. They look forward to it. It wouldn’t be Christmas without it.”
1. Why did Glaub and Parker receive so many letters during Christmas?| A．They wanted to help the kids. |
| B．They were rich enough to afford the gifts. |
| C．The previous tenant instructed them to. |
| D．It’s a long-lasting tradition with unknowing reasons. |
| A．Frightened. | B．Flooded. | C．Disappointed. | D．Praised. |
| A．They held a party to seek help from guests. |
| B．They spread the news by word of mouth. |
| C．They pooled the resources of the community. |
| D．They set a company to buy gifts for the need. |
| A．Christmas Gifts from Santa | B．A Real-life Version of Santa |
| C．Receiving Mysterious Letters | D．The Unnoticed Act of Kindness |
