Founder is turning ownership of the company after nearly 50 years into two entities (实体) that will help fight the climate crisis.
Patagonia is a private company based in Ventura, California, which sells outdoor clothing and equipment, and was founded in 1973. Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard, who has previously expressed his unwillingness at gathering wealth, is giving away his company. The outdoor clothing company will now be in the hands of a trust and a nonprofit organization. All future profits will be donated to help fight climate change, the company announced Wednesday.
“It’s been a half-century since we began our experiment in responsible business,” Chouinard said. “As the business leader In ever wanted to be, I am doing my part” He added, “Instead of taking value from nature and turning it into wealth, we are using the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the resources. We’re making Earth our only shareholder. I am dead serious about saving this planet.”
Chouinard and his family will be turning over their entire ownership share into two newly created entities. Those entities will ensure that the company’s values will continue to be upheld—and that Patagonia’s profits are used to combat climate change.
“If we have any hope of a thriving planet 50 years from now, it demands that all of us should do all we can with the resources we have. We want to both protect the purpose of the business and immediately and continuously release more funding to fight the environmental crisis. We believe this new structure delivers on both and we hope it will inspire a new way of doing business that puts people and the planet first.” Chouinard said in a statement Wednesday.
This nonprofit organization will make sure that the company’s annual profits, about $100 million per year, will be used to protect nature and biodiversity, support thriving communities and fight the environmental crisis.
1. What is the goal for donating Patagonia?| A．To maximize shareholder value. |
| B．To turn the structure of the company. |
| C．To use its profits for protection of nature. |
| D．To become a leader in the business world. |
| A．Limiting. | B．Interesting. | C．Promising. | D．Rewarding. |
| A．Kill two birds with one stone. | B．Helping others is a virtue. |
| C．Rose presented, smell remained. | D．Actions speak louder than words. |
| A．His pursuit of success. | B．His social responsibility. |
| C．His rich life experiences. | D．His great business talent. |
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【推荐1】I created Buddy Project when I was a 15-year-old girl. At the time, my best friend had been diagnosed with a mental health condition, and that was the first time I was made aware of what mental illness was. I wanted to learn more and create a good support system for her. Back then, I was also on Twitter because I had trouble making friends in school. I found a lot of people I related to online, and I found a community of friends based on my interests. I combined those two experiences and wanted to make a way for people to find a safe and loving community online. I wanted people to have a peer (同龄人) support system available to them and to feel accepted.
When I started Buddy Project, I was in the ninth grade and only had free time after school. I intended it to be something I did part-time. I didn’t really think that many people would be interested in it. On the first day, however, 3,000 people signed up. I realized then that that was not something I was just going to do as scheduled.
Mental illness affects tens of millions of people in the United States each year, yet only half receive treatment, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Mental health care is not always accessible or affordable, and that needs to be talked about. Even if the stigma (羞耻) surrounding mental illness decreased, the cost of treatment would still be a problem. Without help, there are some people who won’t be able to receive the proper care.
Buddy Project started out by just raising awareness of mental health on social media. Then we became a non-profit, and since 2015 we’ve been trying to fundraise to help pay for others’ mental health treatments too. We’ve mainly focused on raising money for people in our hometown of southeastern Pennsylvania, but we want to expand and offer help throughout the United States.
1. Paragraph 1 mainly tells us about how the author________.| A．sought ways to drive away loneliness. |
| B．eventually found friendship online. |
| C．came up with the idea for Buddy Project. |
| D．helped her best friend with mental illness. |
| A．That her studies were badly influenced. |
| B．That so many people participated in her project. |
| C．That she could carry out the project part-time. |
| D．That she had enough free time for her project. |
| A．To explain the influence of mental health care. |
| B．To show her positive attitude toward mental illness. |
| C．To show the necessity of helping those with mental illness. |
| D．To encourage lower costs of treatment for mental illness. |
| A．Offer different types of mental health care. |
| B．Find more ways to prevent mental illness happening. |
| C．Raise awareness of mental health on social media. |
| D．Help more people receive mental illness treatments. |
【推荐2】In April 2015, UK journalist Rebecca Atkinson, along with other parents of children with disabilities started the campaign(活动) Toy Likeme to solve the lack of various toys for children with disabilities. They created a Facebook page where everyone was able to post ideas and pictures about what toys for children with disabilities should look like.
Even though the campaign attracted a lot of attention, these parents couldn't rest until their ideas actually became real. Luckily, only 2 weeks after the campaign started, the people who started the campaign got in touch with a company in the UK that designs toys through 3D printing, and the company agreed to create a new series of dolls. That's when the first toys with disabilities were produced.
There are around 150 million children with disabilities, and even though the toy industry is worth over S2.9 billion, it has completely failed to create toys that are fitter for them. Until recently, that is. Thanks to this campaign that has taken the Internet by storm, many toy companies have answered this calling and have made toys specifically for children with disabilities.
Soon enough, the Toylikeme campaign on Facebook and Twitter finally reached the big companies like Lego, and now there is an entire series of toys with disabilities that have been sold worldwide.
Even after all the success this campaign has had, Toy Likeme gets on with its task. The organization has followers in over 45 countries and has received to continuously influence the global toy industry and hopefully make kids with disabilities all around the world feel accepted and appreciated.
1. What can we learn about Toylikeme?| A．It makes disabled kids have more confidence |
| B．It gives away toys to children with disabilities |
| C．It makes disabled kids have various toys to play with |
| D．It gives families with disabled kids encouragement |
| A．There’s a growing need for helping disabled kids |
| B．Many toy companies are responding to the calling |
| C．There's a growing need for more toy companies |
| D．Children are fond of playing with various toys |
| A．It will continue its journey. |
| B．It has gained support of parents. |
| C．It has been popular with disabled kids. |
| D．It will care for other needs of disabled kids. |
【推荐3】Walking and running are great ways to improve your health. Special walking or running events are held every year in the United States, providing perfect chances to volunteer some time, set exercise goals and make new friends.
Breath Deep 5K Walk for LUNGevity
April 23, 2016 in Columbia, Maryland
In memory of Dr. Clement B. Knight, the walking event raises money for the LUNGevity Foundation to fund lung cancer research. Dr. Knight, who died on August 9, 2012, at the age of 62, was recognized in the Guide to Top Physicians for many years. Lung cancer is the top cancer killer in the United States, killing approximately 160,000 people every year.
Bright Beginnings 5K Race
April 30, 2016 in Washington
Bright Beginnings 5K Race raises funds that help provide education, health, and family services free of charge for homeless babies, preschoolers, and their families in Washington. The annual race is organized by volunteers from the Junior League of Washington. Participants will receive T-shirts, running bags, food and water.
Red Shoe 5K Run & Walk
May 1, 2016 in Herndon, Virginia
Ronald McDonald House Charities® aims to raise money to improve the physical and behavioral health of children. The family-friendly Red Shoe 5K Run & Walk organized by Ronald McDonald House Charities® is for racers, leisure (休闲) walkers and runners. Kids can get community service hours. The race starts at 9:00 a.m.
Race for Hope
May 3, 2016 in Washington
This is a 5-kilometer walk/run with the goal of raising $1.5 million to fund brain tumor (肿瘤) research and families affected by the disease. Money raised by the event will benefit two non-profit organizations, the Brain Tumor Society and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. The race includes Kids’ Fun Run and the Wall of Hope, in honor of brain tumor survivors.
1. Why is Dr. Knight mentioned in the text?| A．He was the founder of the LUNGevity Foundation. |
| B．He contributed a lot to the research on lung cancer. |
| C．He organized Breath Deep 5K Walk for LUNGevity. |
| D．He helped raise money for the LUNGevity Foundation. |
| A．Breath Deep 5K Walk for LUNGevity. |
| B．Bright Beginnings 5K Race. |
| C．Red Shoe 5K Run & Walk. |
| D．Race for Hope. |
| A．Ronald McDonald House Charities® members. |
| B．Those who want to improve their health quickly. |
| C．Competitive and non-competitive runners and walkers. |
| D．Children with physical and behavioral health problems. |
| A．They are for charity. | B．They are competitive. |
| C．They are held in summer. | D．They are intended for kids. |
【推荐1】Turtles have an unfortunate habit of eating plastic objects floating in the sea. These then cannot be digested, and may ultimately kill them. It is widely assumed that this fondness for plastics is a matter of mistaken identity. Floating plastic bags, for instance, look similar to jellyfish (水母), which many types of turtles love to eat. Yet lots of plastic objects that end up inside turtles have no similarity to jellyfish. Joseph Pfaller of the University of Florida therefore suspects that the smell of marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) which grow oil floating plastic objects fools turtles into feeding.
Researchers at the University of California noticed that certain chemicals, which are released into the air by floating plastics, are those which many seabirds sniff (嗅) to track down food. These chemicals mark good places to limit because they indicate plenty of the algae (海藻) and bacteria. The researchers also found that birds which pursue their food in this way are five or six times more likely to eat plastic than those which do not.
Since turtles are known to break the surface and sniff the air when finding the way to their feeding areas, Dr. Pfaller indicated that they are following these same chemicals, and are likewise fooled into thinking that floating plastic objects are edible.
To test that idea, he and his colleagues set up an experiment. They arranged for 15 turtles, each around five month old, to be exposed, in random order, to four smells: the vapor from deionised water (去离子水); the smell of turtle-feeding meals; the smell of a clean plastic bottle; and the smell of a bottle that had been kept in the ocean for five weeks to allow algae and bacteria to grow on it. Two of the smells — the smell of meals and that of five-week-old bottles proved far more attractive to the animals than the others.
On the face of it, the turtles were responding to the smell of old bottles as if it were the smell of food. Actually, in an unpolluted ocean, anything which had this smell would indeed be edible — or, at least, harmless. However, unfortunately, five-week-old plastic bottles and their like are not.
1. Paragraph 1 mainly tells us that turtles ________.| A．mistake plastic objects for jellyfish |
| B．are fooled into eating plastics by a smell |
| C．are dying out as a result of plastic pollution |
| D．break down plastics without much difficulty |
| A．Seabirds eat plastics for the taste. |
| B．The algae and bacteria grow well on plastics. |
| C．Seabirds prefer being fed with jellyfish like turtles. |
| D．Some seabirds pursue food in a similar way to turtles. |
| A．Fit to eat. | B．Pleasant to smell. | C．Far to reach. | D．Easy to digest. |
| A．To explain why the ocean is polluted. |
| B．To show his agreement on the research findings. |
| C．To arouse the awareness of protecting the ocean. |
| D．To call on people to feed the turtles with proper food. |
【推荐2】With roaring ships, hammering oil drill, industrial fishing and coastal construction, humans have strongly influenced the underwater soundscape (声音景观) over the past couple of hundred years — in some cases posting a threat to whales, dolphins and other ocean creatures. Until recently, underwater sound pollution had not attracted the same attention. Now, a new paper published in the journal Science lays out the impacts, demonstrating that noise pollution can be just as harmful to the ocean environment as other kinds of pollution.
Even the cracking of glaciers and any drop of rain falling on the water’s surface can be heard deep under the sea. Sea life uses sound to study their habitat, and to keep in communication with each other. They also use sound by listening to know something about their environment.
“It’s a long-lasting problem that certainly weakens the animals all the way from individuals to populations,” says lead author Carlos M. Duarte, distinguished professor at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), “We are hoping that this report will not only reveal elements of how humans impact the ocean through sound pollution, but that it will also bring the topic to the attention of policymakers who will be able to act based upon the very real solutions.”
Marine (海洋) ecologist Kirsten Thompson of the United Kingdom’s University of Exeter, who was not involved in the study, said the report could not have come at a better time. “It summarizes the fact that we are in this new phase of human-caused noise in our oceans that is having a dramatic impact on different species.” What matters most, she notes, is the fact that the paper “doesn’t just point at the problem, it shows how to solve it.”
Unlike plastic pollution or fertilizer runoff, noise pollution will not take years to fix. The moment we switch our noise off the impact disappears, Duarte says, pointing to marine life surveys conducted around April 5, 2020. Having the world use more renewable energy would lessen the need to drill for oil and gas. The international team of researchers also called for a global regulatory framework for measuring and managing ocean noise.
1. Which of the following threatens ocean creatures?| A．Travel industry. | B．Human activities. |
| C．Construction companies. | D．Sailing off the coast. |
| A．Ocean animals can’t fall asleep. | B．It causes the cracking of glaciers. |
| C．It’s a signal to the lower sea level. | D．It disrupts the behavior of sea life. |
| A．She is one of the paper’s co-authors. |
| B．The report does not come at the right time. |
| C．The solutions are already available. |
| D．The report has raised great attention from seamen. |
| A．Technical advances and regulation. |
| B．A policy to measure the depth of ocean. |
| C．A global ban on drilling for oil and gas. |
| D．Noise standards for cars and trucks. |
【推荐3】When wind blows through a bigleaf maple (大叶枫), paper-thin, wing-like seeds called samaras gently spin towards the ground. The fruit’s tissue allows the wind to guide it further away from the tree. Inspired by the seeds, researchers designed a tiny, winged microchip, no larger than a grain of sand, that is powerful enough to monitor environmental pollution and airborne disease.
Called the microflier, the microchip has no motor to push it forward in the air but instead was designed to catch the wind. To perfect the microchip’s flying capability and shape, scientists took inspiration from the forms of various airborne seeds. The research team improved various designs until the microfliers flew slowly and more steadily than nature’s samara seeds. The slower falling rate allows the microchip to keep flying for longer, which gives it more time to collect data and monitor air pollutants and airborne diseases.
To perfect the microflier’s flight, researchers took inspiration from children’s pop-up books to create the three-dimensional wings. Usually, electronic microchips are flat, two-dimensional objects, but something flat won’t take flight. To make the 3-D shape, John A. Rogers and his team built a stretched rubber base that the microchip rests on. The wings pop into flight mode when the rubber base is relaxed.
The chip gathers data with sensors across its surface that can sense and monitor pH levels, test for heavy metals or chemicals, and track air pollution. An antenna (天线) on the microflier then sends all the collected data to a computer or phone. Rogers and his team are planning to test out the electronic chips soon by dropping thousands of the chips in a field. The microfliers will change color depending on the number of heavy metals present in the field where they land. A drone will then fly over the area and take photos of the microflier’s colors, allowing researchers to map out the pollutants.
Rogers and his team also designed the microchips to break down over time to prevent environmental pollution.
1. What is the winged microchip designed to do?| A．Guide seeds from the tree. | B．Prevent airborne diseases. |
| C．Keep track of air qualities. | D．Catch the wind to fly away. |
| A．Where researchers draw inspiration. | B．How the microflier has improved. |
| C．What the microchip does for humans. | D．Why the microflier flies more stably. |
| A．Drop chips in the field. | B．Monitor the soil color. |
| C．Map out air pollutants. | D．Handle soil pollution. |
| A．Winged microchips for monitoring environment |
| B．Microflier: A flying device of spreading seeds |
| C．Drone: A photographer of microflier’s colors |
| D．Electronic chips for finding airborne diseases |
【推荐1】Six “sacrificial pits (祭祀坑)”, dating back 3,200 to 4,000 yeas, were newly discovered in Sanxingdui Ruins site in Guanghan. Over 500 artifacts, including gold masks, bronze wares, ivories, jades and textiles were unearthed from the site. Sanxingdui site is located in Sanxingdui Town, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, on the south bank of Qianjiang River (Yangtze River), a tributary of Tuojiang River in the north of Chengdu Plain. The site covers an area of about 12 square kilometers, and the core area is the ancient city of Sanxingdui, with an area of about 3.6 square kilometers. It is the largest and highest-grade central site found in Sichuan Basin during the Xia and Shang period.
Sanxingdui site, first found in 1929, is generally considered as one of the most important archaeological sites along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. However, the work of excavation on the site only began in 1986,when two pits-widely believed for sacrificial ceremonies-were accidentally discovered.
Investigation in the area around No.1 and 2 pits was relaunched in October 2019, and No.3 pit was found in December 2019, according to Lei Yu, a researcher of Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute who heads the ongoing excavation. Thirty four research universities and research institutes have cooperated in this project. He said the new discoveries will help to better understand many unexplained findings in 1986.
More excavation followed in March 2020, and five more pits were found last year. And detailed research began in October. Excavation capsules with hi-tech equipment were set up in the pits in order to prevent the site from further damage.
According to the National Cultural Heritage Administration, studies of Sanxingdui site will become a crucial project in an ongoing program Archaeology China, which tries to explain the origins of Chinese civilization and how diverse cultures communicate and come together.
1. What does the underlined word “excavation” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．Check. | B．Dig. | C．Exploitation. | D．Extension. |
| A．By dividing the task of excavation into several parts. |
| B．By cooperating with research universities and institutes. |
| C．By conducting more experiments around the site |
| D．By using excavation capsule armed with hi-tech equipment. |
| A．The size of the core zone is about 1/3 of Sanxingdui site. |
| B．The discovery of Sanxingdui site only began in 2019 |
| C．There are 6 sacrificial pits discovered in Sanxingdui site in all. |
| D．All sacrificial sites were discovered in the meantime. |
| A．Sanxingdui Discoveries Reveal Ancient China |
| B．Sanxingdui Site Needed Protecting |
| C．Sacrificial Pits Were Unearthed in Sanxingdui Site |
| D．Hi-tech Helped to Explore Sanxingdui Site |
【推荐2】Health care leaders in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, have joined forces to encourage community members to get the COVID -19 vaccine (疫苗). It’s all part of a campaign called “Trust Your dock. Get the Shot!” The participating doctors say this message is more important than ever as COVID-19 case numbers, hospitalizations, intensive care unit admissions and deaths rise, fall and rise again in Hattiesburg and across the state.
In Forrest County, where Hattiesburg is located, just over 38% of the population is fully vaccinated against COVID -19. In Mississippi, not quite 54% of the population is partially vaccinated, ranking it 48th among the 50 states. Only Idaho and Wyoming have lower COVID-19 vaccination races.
A “Trust Your Doc” website highlights educational and inspirational messages and recommendations about COVID -19 vaccination from trusted voice’s in Hattiesburg’s medical community. These health care professionals acknowledge that people may have questions about getting the COVID -19 vaccine and booster and encourage those who do to reach out to a trusted physician in making the decision.
Steven Farrell, M. D., chief medical officer at Forrest General Hospital, is one of the “trusted voiced” featured on the website. His message to the community: “I’ve done a lot of research, and all the science tells us that if you get COVID-19 and you were fully vaccinated, you reduce your chances of getting sick enough to go into the hospitals; you reduce your chances of going into the ICU. Please, get vaccinated for yourself and for those you care about.”
For those “still on the fence” about getting vaccinated, Cherie Papizan, an internal medicine specialist at the hospital, shared this message: “I got vaccinated and millions have taken the step like I have and are doing fine. By getting vaccinated, you are also helping keep our hospitals and health care workers from becoming overwhelmed (压垮) with patients. There is peace of mind that comes with knowing you’ve done your part.”
The “Trust Your dos” website featured a friendly, person-centric design that enhanced the user experience. It links directly to a variety of locations—including many clinics—where people can make an appointment to get their initial COVID-19 shots or booster.
1. What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?| A．The low vaccination rates. | B．People’s disbelief in the vaccine. |
| C．The necessity of the vaccination. | D．The seriousness of COVID-19. |
| A．By using famous sayings. | B．By analyzing cause and effect. |
| C．By sharing opinions. | D．By asking and answering questions. |
| A．Worried. | B．Ambitious. |
| C．Frightened. | D．Inspired. |
| A．Most people get involved in the campaign. |
| B．The hospitals will be overwhelmed with patients. |
| C．Getting vaccinated does no obvious harm to people. |
| D．Those “still on the fence” can have peace of mind. |
【推荐3】A single ticket bought in Massachusetts won $758.7 million in Wednesday’s Powerball draw.
The lucky ticket holder correctly matched the numbers 6,7,16,23 and 26 with the Powerball 4 to win the second biggest lottery prize in US history, and the largest won by a single ticket. Whoever won must have been having a lucky day as the odds of matching all six numbers are one in 292.2 million.
The winner has to pay around 40% taxes on the nearly jackpot, but will still likely walk away with around $300 million, which they will be more than happy with. That’s if they choose the “annuity option(保障养老金选项)” which sees their wins being split up into 30 payments over 29 years. If they go for one lump sum (one time payment), they’re looking at a win of $480.5 million.
The jackpot came nearly two months after the last Powerball win in June 14, when it stood at $40 million. Powerball officials told ABC an estimated 170 million would be sold between Saturday and Wednesday night’s draw. The biggest ever Powerball jackpot win was in January 2016 when three winning tickets split $1.6 billion.
The Massachusetts State Lottery managed to add even more drama after giving the wrong store and location of where the winning ticket was bought, leading to even more mysteries about who has that golden ticket.
After initially claiming the ticket was sold at a shop in Watertown, just outside Boston, they later correctly confirmed that it had in fact been bought at a Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, North of Springfield. A spokesperson for Pride Station said they had been told at around 8 am, with Michael Sweeney, the lottery’s executive director confirming they will receive around $50,000 for selling the winning ticket.
As for the actual winner, their identity remains a mystery and according to the Star Tribune, by midmorning they still hadn’t come forward to claim the prize.
If you bought a ticket in Massachusetts, it might be time to check your ticket.
1. The underlined word “odds” in Paragraph 2 may be closest to ______ in meaning.| A．chances | B．differences | C．ratios | D．scales |
| A．$300 million. | B．$480.5 million. | C．$458.7 million. | D．$780.5 million. |
| A．The winner claimed the prize at a Pride Station &Store in Chicopee on Wednesday. |
| B．The State Lottery declared the wrong spot deliberately where the winning ticket was bought. |
| C．The winner bought the winning ticket with $50,000 two months ago in Watertown. |
| D．The lottery prize of the winning ticket is second only to that in 2016 in US history. |
