Tips For a Great Fall Garden
A fall garden can be a great place, which allows us to revel (陶醉) in the beauty and abundance of the season. Many gardeners seem to focus on summer so much that the garden can fade during the fall and not live up to its full potential.
Whether for production or for decoration, it is always a good idea to look first at native plants. Plants that are native to your area should always make up a high proportion of the plants you grow. Selecting plenty of native plants that bloom in the fall helps you to boost biodiversity and they look lovely and right at home.
Use and value fall leaves.When trees drop their colorful leaves, creating a great fall garden means making the most of those leaves as a resource to keep your garden looking good. To make the most of fall leaves, you can use them to protect the soil and overwintering plants, to enrich the soil and fill planters or containers.
Making a great fall garden is mostly about the plants you choose and the way you choose to garden. But gardens should not be entirely about hard work.
| A．Choose native plants for a diverse fall garden. |
| B．Make designs for forest gardening on a small scale. |
| C．To help these gardeners, here are some tips for a great fall garden. |
| D．Native plants for your area can become shopping lists for a fall garden. |
| E．You can take steps to ensure you can fully enjoy the space in cooler seasons. |
| F．You can even take on some arts and crafts projects to enjoy their colors and shapes. |
| G．In cooler gardens, it is possible to grow year-round if you create an underco ver growing area. |
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【推荐1】Food is part of who we are. We all need it, survive because of it and derive happiness from it. So if food matters so much, why do we let so much of it go rotten in our fridges, or get thrown out in our stores? Sadly, we love food, but we don’t take care of it.
• Reduce your food waste.
Buy only the food you need, store food wisely, donate excess and turn leftover food into the next day’s meals. When we waste food, all the resources used for growing, processing, transporting and marketing that food are wasted too.
• Support your local food producers.
Chefs get awards, stars and recognition for their creations. But what about our farmers?
• Adopt a healthier, more sustainable diet.
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By treating each meal with pride, we respect the farmers who produced it, and the resources that went into it. Respect can be passed on. Talk to the people around and to the next generation about making informed, healthy and sustainable food choices.
Respecting food means appreciating the back-story of food. When we know the full picture, it is easier to see what our food really stands for and how precious it really is.
| A．Have a conversation. |
| B．Learn where food comes from. |
| C．Our bodies consume calories and nutrients. |
| D．For many people on the planet, food is giving. |
| E．Food is so much more than what is on our plates. |
| F．One third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted. |
| G．Without them, we wouldn’t have the fresh food we need on a daily basis. |
【推荐2】Several methods to say goodbye to procrastination (拖延症)
Deal with your fear
Fear is one of the factors that contributes to procrastination.
Make a list
Start by creating a to-do list with things that you would like to accomplish.
Break projects down into more manageable parts
Get rid of distractions (使人分心的事物)
Once you have completed a task, it is important to reward yourself for your efforts. Give yourself the opportunity to be buried in something that you find fun and enjoyable, whether it is attending a sporting event, playing a video game, watching your favorite TV show, or looking at pictures on a social sharing site.
| A．Relax yourself. |
| B．Reward yourself. |
| C．Making a list is of great use to say goodbye to your procrastination. |
| D．If necessary, put a date next to each thing if there is a deadline that you need to meet. |
| E．This can involve a fear of failure, a fear of making mistakes, or even a fear of success. |
| F．When you are faced with a big project, you might feel upset, forced, or even hopeless when you look at the large amount of work involved. |
| G．It’s hard to get any real work done when you keep turning your attention to what’s on television or you keep checking your friends’ Facebook status updates. |
【推荐3】With the Christmas Day, the New Year, as well as the Spring Festival plus the Valentine’s Day on the way, the gift-giving season has been in full swing. When receiving a gift contrary to your expectation, some will feel annoyed and it may lead to quarrelling.
Don’t expect a specific gift
First of all, before you’ve even opened the present, you need to get yourself in the right mind tendency. If you’ve got a specific gift in mind (say, a new pair of running shoes — please Santa!), you’re only setting yourself up for disappointment.
Have an open mind about it
Once you’ve opened the present and seen whatever it may be, give yourself a moment. Don’t react until you’ve had a proper look at the thing.
Right after you say “thank you!” and before you say anything else, you need to find something positive to comment about the gift. It could be something as small as the fact that you like the color of it. It could be that you think it’s practical. If you begin with the word of praise, the whole thing will be much easier.
Skillfully ask about the gift receipt
If you’ve decided that you’re likely not going to use the thing at all, ask about the gift receipt skillfully. Now you should give a seemingly convincing reason for wanting it. For example, if it’s a clothing item, you could say that it’s in case it doesn’t quite fit.
No matter what you receive, always remember to see things in others’ shoes.
| A．Don’t be casual about it |
| B．Find something to speak highly of |
| C．Your friendship may come to an end |
| D．Get your gift ready before leaving home |
| E．Therefore, how to handle it appropriately is vital |
| F．If it’s a glass item, say you just want to have it in case it breaks |
| G．Unless you’ve told the gift-giver your favorites, you have to accept it |
【推荐1】Imagine a plate holding two strawberries, similar in appearance. One came out of a supermarket box, meaning it was probably harvested before it is fully grown, immediately placed in a forced-air cooling unit, loaded onto a refrigerated truck and driven hundreds of miles. By the time it reached the plate two weeks may have passed. The other strawberry was picked from a garden minutes before being eaten.
The first one will probably not taste good as expected. The second is likely to be sweet; the flavor will remain in the mouth. Supermarket strawberries are not entirely without advantages: they are convenient and available even in winter. But the two berries differ from each other in the same way that hearing music in a concert hall differs from listening to an MP3. The home-grown fruit is an eatable case for planting a home garden.
Planting cool-weather greens can seem meaningless as well-stocked supermarket shelves are available all week. But the same could be said of cooking: cheap and good restaurants everywhere, so why bother to make your own meals?
That attitude fails to understand the basic appeal of gardening: it mistakes the product for the purpose. It is true that a garden can produce tomatoes and carrots that taste like themselves rather than the plastic they are usually packaged in. Finding some favorite vegetables in the shops can take some time, effort and expense; growing your own vegetables, rare or routine, ensures a reliable supply.
On the other hand, a garden, especially in the early years, can also produce frustration. Creative gardeners may plant the wrong crops for their soil. Little animals may have the habit of taking single bites of cucumbers, beans and tomatoes. And even expert gardeners can lose a season’s harvest to uncooperative weather.
No matter. The real joy of gardening is the time spent doing it. The deepest pleasure — as with cooking, writing, bringing up children or almost anything worthwhile —is in the work itself. A gardener’s memories center not around the food produced, but around long summer afternoons with hands in the dirt of a home garden, surrounded by family. To garden is to patiently and lovingly help life grow, in the ground and above it.
1. What might have caused the strawberries to taste different in paragraph 1?| A．Temperature. | B．Freshness. | C．Appearance. | D．Soil. |
| A．To promote supermarket strawberries. | B．To highlight the value of a home garden. |
| C．To stress the differences between them. | D．To provide suggestions on fruit shopping. |
| A．Regarding planting a garden as worthless. | B．Favoring what is grown in a home garden. |
| C．Enjoying food made by yourself at home. | D．Understanding what a garden is intended for. |
| A．Observe patiently how plants grow all summer. | B．Spend time taking care of a garden with family. |
| C．Make friends with gardeners in the neighborhood. | D．Labor lovingly to clean the dirt out of the garden. |
【推荐2】Teenagers in England do many as the same things as children in America do. They enjoy sending messages on their mobile phones and they also like swimming, listening to the latest music, watching TV and surfing the Internet. How do teenagers in England spend their free time and holidays? Let’s follow Sally, a British teenager, and spend five days with her during her school holiday.
Day One
In the morning, after eating breakfast, Sally did some sports. Dinner was at 6:30 p.m. After that, she finished her English homework. Then she surfed the Internet.
Day Two
Sally and her mother paid a visit to their friends and went swimming together. Later, they went shopping for clothes and books, and had dinner in a restaurant.
Day Three
She went to the supermarket with her mother to buy fish and chips for lunch as well as some pens. After she got back home, she spent the next few hours surfing the Internet and watching TV.
Day Four
She surfed the Internet. Her mother took her out for lunch before she went to work. She then read stories after lunch.
Day Five
She woke up at 2 p.m., and so did her mother. They went to a park. Her mother met some friends there. When they got home, it was already time for dinner. Afterwards, she did her homework until 10 p.m.
1. When did Sally do her homework?| A．In the morning. | B．In the afternoon. | C．At lunch time. | D．In the evening. |
| A．food for lunch and pens | B．some books and pens |
| C．some fish and clothes | D．food and books |
| A．She went swimming. | B．She went out for breakfast. |
| C．She read books. | D．She went shopping. |
| A．Once. | B．Twice. | C．Three times. | D．Four times. |
| A．a park is the best place to meet a friend |
| B．parents shouldn’t leave teenagers alone at home |
| C．teenagers don’t usually do their homework during their school holidays |
| D．surfing the Internet has become an important part of teenagers’ lives |
【推荐3】Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
1. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.| A．the reasons for success |
| B．the meaning of success |
| C．the standards of success |
| D．the importance of success |
| A．being good at something |
| B．setting a practical goal |
| C．putting in more time |
| D．succeeding in life |
| A．work makes one feel pain |
| B．one tends to enjoy his work |
| C．one gives up his work easily |
| D．it takes a lot of time to succeed |
| A．Having a goal is vital to success. |
| B．Being good is different from being great. |
| C．One cannot succeed without time and practice. |
| D．Luck, talent and family help to achieve success. |
【推荐1】Big Basin Redwoods State Park is recovering after a natural disaster—fires heavily dam aged California’s oldest protected natural area. Lightning storms caused more than 650 fires in Northern California. But during a guided visit recently, life was reappearing on blackened red wood trees. Small flowers stood out on the burned land.
The big park usually has about 1 million visitors a year. But one year ago, many parts of the park burned for 24 hours. More than 100 structures were sabotaged , including the main part of the historic park, shelters, picnic tables and more. Many bridges were gone, too. In some places, roots are still smoking, leaving dangerous underground areas. Repair experts have been trying to identify materials and waste that need to be removed. In many ways, the park does not look much different than it did soon after fires.
Most of the ancient redwoods have survived. Astonishingly, the trees are about 2, 000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth. The next 8 to 10 months will be spent cleaning up the park. It will be up to a year before the public can safely use the paths beyond a small coastal area.
Environmentalists have urged quick action because state officials are currently providing funds for wildfire recovery efforts and new building projects. This change provides a rare chance to get more money for public lands.
Barth is the director of Sempervirens Fund. That group started an effort in 1900 to protect 15. 5 square kilometers of redwood forest that is now in the center of Big Basin. “When Big Basin was set up, it was a sign of hope for the state park’s system, " she said. Barth added, “In this fire and rebirth, you have an opportunity again. ”Redwoods are naturally fire resistant(防火的). In old growth forests, most trees have burn marks dating back to hundreds of years.
1. What does the author feel about the recovery of the park?| A．Doubtful. | B．Anxious. | C．Curious. | D．Hopeful. |
| A．Destroyed. | B．Ignored. | C．Protected. | D．Rebuilt. |
| A．They have a short history. | B．They are amazingly tall. |
| C．Few of them have survived. | D．Most of them have no burn marks. |
| A．It was for funds. | B．It was effortless. |
| C．It was praiseworthy. | D．It was against nature. |
【推荐2】When my friend offered me a spider plant sprout, I decided to try something I'd never done before: commit to becoming a plant person. After doing research and changing my perspective, I can proudly say I am succeeding.
Start with Easy Plants
Research
It might seem like a pain but doing a little research can be the difference between your plant surviving and thriving. Looking up how much sunlight the plant needs, how often to water it,
Too much water can drown the plant. Not watering your plant enough can cause it to dry out and die very quickly. You'd better make a watering schedule to make sure you don't over or under water your plants.
Cater to the Plant
Just after a few weeks, I noticed the plant leaves were losing their green color. I found spider plants don't do well with intense afternoon sunlight. So I completely rearranged all my plants in my living room to cater to their specific sunlight needs.
| A．Do It with Love |
| B．Plants Need Watering Every Day |
| C．Create a Watering Schedule |
| D．what temperature it does best in |
| E．Now my plants are thriving more than ever |
| F．Like taking on any major project, it's best to start simply |
| G．Here are some tips to take on house plants when you do not have a green thumb |
【推荐3】In order to get rid of goldenrod from the city, the government of Wuhan is encouraging residents to report any findings of the plant, which is classified as a harmful alien species.
Goldenrod is one of the most successful and widespread alien plant species. It is often referred to as “the flower of the devil”, as it spreads extremely fast and causes other plants to die.
Besides Hubei province, the plant has also been found expanding in other provinces such as Jiangxi and Zhejiang. Although local authorities have tried to get rid of the plant, it is proving to be a difficult task. Goldenrod represents just one of the alien species that are aggressive towards the country’s native species. Statistics show that by 2020, nearly 800 kinds of alien species had invaded the country, among which 638 species have invaded the country’s agricultural and forestry ecosystems, causing direct economic losses of about 200 billion yuan ($31.36 billion).
At the United Nations Biodiversity Conference held in Kunming, Yunnan province, the invasion of alien species was the subject of discussions, as it was regarded as one of the two most important factors leading to the loss of biodiversity, the other being human-caused ecological damage.
China passed its Biosecurity Law on April 15, 2021, which provides the legal basis for preventing the invasion of alien species and protecting biodiversity in the country. The relevant departments also strictly carry out port inspections and quarantines so as to keep harmful organisms out of the country, and they strengthen early warning and monitoring systems so as to address the invasion as early as possible.
However, while government departments are making every effort to prevent and control the situation, the participation of the people should not be ignored. It is also necessary, as Wuhan is doing, to encourage people to pay attention to invasive species and actively play a role in keeping them at bay. Preventing any invasion by an alien species and protecting biodiversity should not just be the government departments fighting alone, but also a people’s war.
1. What can we learn about goldenrod from the text?| A．It originates in Wuhan. |
| B．It does harm to people’s health. |
| C．It is a great threat to the surrounding plants. |
| D．It causes an economic loss of about $31.36 billion. |
| A．China’s efforts to stop the invasion of alien species. |
| B．Relevant departments’ warning of goldenrod. |
| C．The legal basis to protect biodiversity. |
| D．The importance of port inspections and quarantines. |
| A．Keeping the invasive species out of the country. |
| B．Building some barriers for the species. |
| C．Preventing the flowers from growing fast. |
| D．Keeping the alien species safe at the port. |
| A．Business. | B．Culture. | C．Environment. | D．Opinion. |
