Caring for plants is a fantastic skill for kids to have. There are so many benefits of gardening for kids, yet the importance of gardening in early childhood is often undervalued. Here are some reasons why to teach your kids to garden.
Gardening makes kids stronger.
Gardening is good for kids’ well-being. Studies find that kids who garden have reduced large amounts of anxiety, stress and tend to be in a better mood.
Gardening is beneficial for picky eaters.
Gardening strengthens connection. Through gardening activities, kids grow closer to their parents and make many new friends.
| A．Gardening helps build teamwork skills. |
| B．Gardening activates kids’ sensory skills. |
| C．It is the perfect activity for growing bodies. |
| D．Learning to garden can be very tiring for children. |
| E．Spending time outdoors in nature can bring a sense of well-being. |
| F．Kids are more likely to eat the vegetables and fruit they’ve helped grow. |
| G．They also develop a connection to the earth and a need to care for our planet. |
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【推荐1】Begus is a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley. He got the chance, last summer, to observe sperm whales in their wild Caribbean habitat. With him were marine biologists and roboticists. There were also cryptographers and experts in other fields. All have been working together to listen to sperm whales and figure out what they might be saying. They call this Project CETI. Project CETI’s team is not the only group turning to AI for help deciphering animal talk. Researchers have trained AI models to sort through the sounds of prairie dogs, dolphins, naked mole rats and many other creatures.
Long before AI came into the picture, scientists and others have worked toward understanding animal communication. Some learned that vervet monkeys have different calls when warning of leopards, eagles or pythons. Others discovered that elephants communicate in rumbles too low for human ears to hear. Bats chatter in squeaks too high for our hearing. Still other groups have explored how bees communicate through dance.
“It took us a long time to measure all these things,” says researcher Karen Bakker. AI, she notes, has the potential to greatly speed up this type of research. Perhaps one day we’ll be able to use AI to build a futuristic CHAT box that translates animal sounds into human language, or vice versa.
“AI could eventually get us to the point where we understand animals,” says Bakker. What’s interesting to her is what we can learn from how bats and other creatures talk among each other. We should listen to animals in order to better protect them, she argues. For example, a system set up to record whales or elephants can also track their locations. This can help us avoid whales with our boats or protect elephants from illegal hunters.
1. What is Project CETI aimed at?| A．Applying AI to animal research. |
| B．Improving the living conditions of sperm whales. |
| C．Preventing animals from being hunted. |
| D．Decoding animal talk. |
| A．By listing figures. | B．By citing examples. |
| C．By making comparisons. | D．By analyzing causes. |
| A．Positive. | B．Uncaring. |
| C．Ambiguous. | D．Disapproving. |
| A．AI: A Potential Threat to Human Future |
| B．AI: The Cutting Edge Modern Science |
| C．AI: A Tool to Understand and Conserve Animals |
| D．AI: A Field of Fierce Major-country Competition |
【推荐2】One night, Pilar was in a deep sleep when she was woken by her cat Inti. Inti was meowing wildly outside Pilar's bedroom and throwing himself against the closed bedroom door.When Pilar opened her eyes, she saw that her bedroom was filled with smoke. As she escaped her house with Inti in her arms, she saw that a fire was burning in her kitchen. Pilar could easily have lost her life,but Inti would not let that happen. Even though Inti could have escaped the house through a cat door, he wouldn't leave Pilar.
As amazing as this story is, it is not as uncommon as you may think. Take the example of Charlotte Lee and her horse,Thunder. One summer night, the whole family was asleep with the windows open. It was normally very quiet where they lived. Suddenly, there was a loud noise. Charlotte woke up from her sweet dream, and the noise continued. Then she heard a horse running fast towards the house. The next thing she saw was Thunder standing outside her window, neighing and shaking his head. She knew something was wrong. Charlotte quickly got everyone out of the house before the earthquake hit. Thunder has saved her life.
There are also stories of wild animals coming to the rescue of humans. One animal known to be a friend of humans is the dolphin. Once, Todd Endris was surfing with his friends when he was attacked by a 13-foot (4-metre) shark. In the middle of the attack, a group of dolphins came to his rescue by forming a protective ring around Endris until he could get safely to the shore. Without the help of the dolphins, there is little chance that Todd could have escaped.
No one is sure why animals have so often come to our rescue. However, it is clear that humans and animals enjoy a close relationship. It is important that we care for them as much as we can.
1. Why did Inti meow wildly and throw himself against the door?| A．To save his owner’s life. | B．To protect his owner. |
| C．To help himself out. | D．To keep away from the house. |
| A．They were courageous and brilliant. | B．They both used noise to warm their owners. |
| C．They had saved their owners many times. | D．They chose to escape solely. |
| A．Appreciative. | B．Objective. | C．Thankless. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．Humans and animals enjoy a close relationship. |
| B．We should care for them as much as we can. |
| C．Humans and animals are good friends and companions. |
| D．How we treat animals will reflect how animals treat us. |
【推荐3】Imagine a world without insects. It might sound good at first without creepy-crawly bugs and annoying flies in your apartment. However, the results would be harmful.
The number of insects has dropped by more than half in the past decades, according to British biologist Dave Goulson, author of Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse. As insects make up most of the known species on this planet, this data is not good news.
Insects are indeed on the path to dying out, according to the first global scientific review of insect population decrease, which was published in the journal Biological Conservation in January 2019. The researchers say intensive agriculture has been the main cause of the decrease. Pesticides(杀虫剂), in particular, destroy insect habitats. Urbanization and climate change are also significant reasons. “Unless we convert our ways of producing food, insects will go down the path of dying out in a few decades.”
What would happen to Earth without insects? It’s almost impossible to predict, but the soil healthy and much more. Without insects, many animals would have nothing to eat, and the predators(捕食者) of those animals would go hungry ns well. The ecosystem(生态系统)would be thrown off balance.
“If insect species losses cannot be stopped, this will have harmful effects for both the planet’s ecosystems and for the survival of mankind, said Sanchez-Bayo. once of the authors of the review. The first step to stop this process is “to build a society that values the natural world, both for what it does for us and for its own sake”, Sanchez-Bayo suggests. “The obvious place to start is with our children, encouraging environmental awareness from an early age.”
1. What is people’s general impression of insects?| A．Very interesting. | B．Quite unpleasant. |
| C．Extremely helpful. | D．Unexpectedly harmful. |
| A．Drop. | B．Change. | C．Expand. | D．Simplify. |
| A．Insects keep the earth ecosystem. |
| B．Insects ensure the earth’s diversity. |
| C．Insects make the soil dry and healthy. |
| D．Insects help slow down climate change. |
| A．Use nature in a gentle way. |
| B．Produce less food for human beings. |
| C．Educate younger generation to know about it. |
| D．Provide insects with enough habitats and food. |
【推荐1】The English language has many ways to talk about something that is funny.
Humour comes in many forms. The most obvious and traditional way we use humour is in jokes.
Another way people can use humour is through telling a funny story. Perhaps something bad happened to the person but they can laugh about it now. People also invent funny stories in order to make people laugh. The advantage of this is that the characters aren’t real.
Physical comedy usually divides opinions. For some, seeing someone fall down, whether it is planned or not, is one of the funniest things they can see.
| A．Humour is just one of the ways. |
| B．Everyone needs to laugh once in a while. |
| C．Other forms of humour are word play and puns(双关语). |
| D．Therefore, you don’t have to feel bad for laughing at them! |
| E．People of all ages and cultures have a strong sense of humour. |
| F．Most people know how to use some form of humour in their native languages. |
| G．For others, finding physical humour and non-serious accidents funny seems cruel. |
【推荐2】Getting paid to stay in bed all day sounds pretty good, but what if someone pays you $23, 000 to stay in bed for two months? That’s the deal that a medical research team in France is offering to 24 volunteers.
The researchers are looking for volunteers to help them study the effects of weightlessness (失重状态) on the human body and find ways to stop problems. Lying in bed isn’t exactly the same as being weightless, but the effects are alike.
When astronauts spend a long time in an environment with no gravity，their bodies change in many ways. After several months, their hearts don’t beat as hard. Their muscles become smaller and weaker. Their bones may be broken more easily. There may also be changes in the astronauts’ immune systems (免疫系统) and sleep habits.
The study will take 88 days. During the first two weeks, the volunteers will be tested to make sure of their levels of fitness. Then they will spend 60 days lying in bed with their heads lower than their bodies. They will have to do everything while lying down, including eating, brushing their teeth, and going to the bathroom. The rule is that they must have at least one shoulder touching the bed at all times. The last two weeks of the study will be spent trying to build up the volunteers’ fitness again.
Volunteers must be men between the ages of 20 and 45 who are in perfect health. The researchers completed one study in April. A second study will take place from September to December.
1. What do the astronauts face after they stay in a place with no gravity a long time?| A．Astronauts cannot eat food. |
| B．Astronaut’s hearts work weakly. |
| C．Astronauts’ work in an environment without gravity cannot begin. |
| D．Astronauts’ sleep habits in an environment without gravity remain the same. |
| A．She is a women. | B．He comes from the US. |
| C．He works in NASA. | D．He is fit and 30 years old. |
| A．The study will take 60 days. |
| B．The research is set to know the earth. |
| C．Researchers pay voluteers to stay in bed. |
| D．The voluteers cannot do anything during the experiment. |
| A．A medical magazine. | B．A short novel. |
| C．A grammar book. | D．A travel guidebook. |
【推荐3】The ability to solve complex math problems is one thing that sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Despite this fact, some animals do seem to have at least one basic mathematical ability-they can, in a sense, count.
In the early 1900s, the horse Clever Hans drew worldwide attention in Berlin when his trainer showed that he could count and solve math problems, tapping his feet to indicate a number. However, researchers later discovered that Clever Hans didn’t actually have mathematical skills, but the horse did own impressive observation skills. That is, he was unable to answer questions that his questioners also couldn’t answer because Clever Hans was actually reading minute facial and body language clues to determine the correct responses.
While Clever Hans failed his math quiz a century ago, studies in more recent decades have shown that many species do actually have a “number sense”. In the late 1980s, researchers showed that chimpanzees (黑猩猩) could add up the number of pieces of chocolate in two food bowls (up to five pieces of chocolate in each bowl), compare it with the sum of two other food bowls, and correctly choose the larger of the two sums 90 percent of the time. Some other mammals, including lions, wolves and black bears, have also showed the ability to discriminate (辨别) between quantities — and so have animals from various other animal classes.
Some research suggests that the number sense may be something that certain animals are born with. In 2015, scientists found that baby chicks as young as 3 days old could identify smaller and larger quantities and might even think of numbers on a “number line” running from left to right, similar to humans.
Whatever the case, our number sense is not unique in the animal kingdom. In fact, it may not be something that’s reserved to just animals: Venus flytraps can also “count”.
1. How did Clever Hans give the correct answer to the math problem?| A．By tapping his feet to count. | B．By guessing the answer casually. |
| C．By turning to his trainer for help. | D．By reading the questioner’s response. |
| A．They can tell the difference between quantities. |
| B．They can pass the quiz with observation skills. |
| C．They can choose food bowls of specific shape. |
| D．They can add up all pieces of chocolate in four bowls. |
| A．An insect. | B．A fish. | C．A bird. | D．A plant. |
| A．Can animals count? | B．Can animals use numbers? |
| C．Animals’ mathematical training. | D．Animals’ problem-solving ability. |
