The area is a place with a long and varied history. One community member says that it’s important for people to understand the many levels of history in the neighborhood. He feels that
One of the most interesting parts of the district is its people. Over the years, immigrants have come to the area from Ireland, Germany, and Italy. But the most recent immigrants are mainly from Latin America. It’s easy to see the style that these recent additions give to the neighborhood. You can see it in the art on the walls, taste it in the food, and hear it in the music!
Juan Pedro Gaffney, the director of the Spanish Choir(唱诗班)of San Francisco, says that the people there share the pain and the happiness of their friends and family members and that music has always been a basic part of cultural identity in the district. He feels that the music of the district is colorful and lively.
But it isn’t just its music that’s colorful and lively. Its art is full of life as well.
The local art community stays close to the area’s culture and tradition. A local arts organization often leads people on walks through the district. They visit streets like Balmy Alley, which is famous for its murals (壁画). Even though the meanings behind the murals are always changing, they are still very powerful. One artist explains that they are fighting for fairness in the community and to help the environment through murals. Apparently, they’re something the community likes.
Many of these artists feel that the district is a successful neighborhood where new immigrants are welcome. “People see that they’re not so different from each other,” says one artist. “There are a lot of things that bind(捆绑)the immigrants through culture and tradition.”
1. The underlined phrase “this knowledge” in Paragraph 2 refers to ____________.
A.having memories of the Spanish missionaries |
B.knowing the history of the Mission Dolores Basilica |
C.realizing what it means to be a real San Franciscan |
D.understanding the many levels of history in the neighborhood |
A.literature and sports |
B.music and murals |
C.buildings and clothes |
D.customs and festivals |
A.immigrants from different cultures live in harmony |
B.Latin American music and foods are the most attractive |
C.the Spanish Choir stands out in the competition of different cultures |
D.new immigrants have to give up their own culture to be welcome |
A.The Mission Dolores Basilica |
B.A Special Type of Neighborhood |
C.Music of the Mission District |
D.The Spanish Choir of San Francisco |
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【推荐1】Festivals in 2023
Roskilde Festival
With some of the biggest names in music, the Roskilde Festival in Denmark is preparing to bring fans an experience of a lifetime. Besides rock, electronic, and pop music, fans will also be treated to comedy, poetry, a carnival, and much more at this week-long festival. You can even rent a bike to get around the festival quickly.
Boomtown Fair
Boomtown is considered to be one of the wildest independent festivals in the world. Set up in 2009, in Winchester, United Kingdom, the fair takes place every summer in the city, offering entertainment for visitors of all ages. Additionally, it specially conducts arts and crafts workshops for kids. Tracing its origin (起源) to its “underground” roots, Boomtown offers every type of music, from folk and jazz to disco and punk.
Impact Festival
The festival stays true to its name and truly affect you through the experience you have while you attend the festival. You will spend your day meeting beautiful people, listening to some fantastic live music, seeing an combination (结合) of fashionable costumes and clothing, freeing your mind and spirit refreshed and dancing the night away with a bunch of other people. You will be staying in Lodz, the third largest city in Poland, a beautiful city.
Wilderness Festival
The combination of some kinds of attractive music, amazing food, and a lovely atmosphere come together to give you the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, UK. Other than live music performances, the Oxfordshire Wilderness Festival also offers an environment for camping and enjoying the quiet backdrop of countryside.
1. Where should people go if they want their children to attend workshops?A.Lodz. | B.Oxfordshire. | C.Roskilde. | D.Winchester. |
A.Impact Festival. | B.Boomtown Fair. | C.Roskilde Festival. | D.Wilderness Festival. |
A.Appreciate comedy and poetry. | B.Watch fashion shows. |
C.Taste free foods. | D.Learn some crafts. |
【推荐2】I have been worrying for weeks now about what to give my mother for Mother's Day. For most people, this is a modest problem, solved by the purchase of a bathrobe or a box of candy. For me, however, Mother's Day represents an annual challenge to do the impossible---find a gift that will make neither Mama nor me feel terrible.
Expensive gifts—which Mama defines as costing over $1. 98—are out, because they make Mama feel terrible. (“This is awful," she says, examining an apron(围裙)). "I feel just terrible. You shouldn't have spent the money on me) Inexpensive presents---under $1. 98---please Mama, but they make me fell terrible. There is always the danger that a gift given to Mama will bounce swiftly back to the giver. If I give her a plant, she cuts off the top for me to take home. If I give her something edible (可使用的),she wants me to stay for lunch and eat it.
Papa, a sensible man, long ago stopped trying to shop for Mama. Instead, on Mother's Day, her birthday, and other appropriate occasions, he writes a short epic poem in which he tells of their meeting, courtship, and marriage. After nearly 30 years of poems, Papa sometimes worries that the edge of his poetic inspiration has dulled, but Mama doesn’t complain. She comes into the room while he is struggling over a gift poem and says, "It doesn’t have to rhyme(押韵)as long as it's from the heart. "
This year, finally, I think I, too, have found a painless gift for Mama. I am going to give her a magazine article, unrhymed but from the heart, in which I wish her “Happy Mother’s Day" and tell her there's nothing Papa or I could ever buy, find, or make her that would be half good enough anyway.
1. The author considers finding a Mother’s Day gift a yearly problem because______________.A.it is impossible to find a gift | B.it represents a modest problem |
C.it is hard to make both sides happy | D.it has to be a bathrobe or a box of candy |
A.They are out. | B.They are awful. |
C.They cost too much. | D.They are from the heart. |
A.The author's mom is picky. | B.Giving gifts can be dangerous. |
C.Picking gifts might be terrible. | D.The author's mom will share the gift. |
A.He composes a poem. | B.He writes a love letter. |
C.He struggles over a gift. | D.He stops to shop for her. |
A.A Loving Daughter | B.A Special Mother’s Day Gift |
C.How to Pick a Gift for Moms | D.What to Do on Mother's Day |
French poet Victor Hugo (1802-1885) once said: “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelt out is a spark.”
Today, when we read books, road signs and posters, it’s probably hard to imagine that only half a century ago, about 40 percent of the world’s adults were still illiterate, according to data from UNESCO. This means that two out of every five adults could neither read nor write in the 1960s. In other words, the “sparks”that now light up our world failed to do the same for theirs.
In response to this situation, UNESCO decided to name Sept. 8 as International Literacy Day, starting from 1967. Every year, the day is celebrated to highlight the importance of literacy and the progress that has been made, which itself is huge — in 2016, the global adult literacy rate rose to 86 percent, while the youth literacy rate was as high as 91 percent, according to UNESCO.
This raises a question: If the mission to boost literacy has basically been accomplished, why do we still celebrate this day?
The truth is that the definition of “literacy” keeps changing. For example, the theme for 2007 and 2008 International Literacy Day was “Literacy and health”, which targeted people’s ignorance of diseases like HIV and malaria (疟疾). For 2017, the emphasis was placed on “Literacy in a digital world”, because not knowing anything about the internet in today’s world is just like lacking basic reading abilities in the 1960s — it’s the “new illiteracy”.
The focus for this year’s International Literacy Day will be “Literacy and skills development”. But the skills in question are not job-specific skills, such as those required to be an electrician or carpenter. Instead, the focus will be on “transferable skills”— communication, critical thinking, multitasking, teamwork, and creativity, to name a few. These are the things that allow us to do our job well — any job.
This echoes what Greek philosopher Socrates said almost 2,500 years ago: “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
And with more people become literate, it’s only a matter of time before their small flame turns into a big fire.
1. What did UNESCO do to raise literacy in 1960s? (within 15 words)2. The theme of this year’s International Literacy Day will be “Literacy and skills development”. What do “skills” refer to here? (within 15 words)
3. What does the underlined word “illiterate” in paragraph 2 mean? (within 5 words)
4. What progress has been made in literacy since 1967? (within15 words)
5. What’s the title of the article? (within 10 words)
【推荐1】Speaking from his home in Lahore, the prime minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif said he should not be forced to go out with a “begging bowl” to rich polluting nations after the floods that have destroyed the country and said he would be seeking “climate justice” from the international community.
Sharif warned that Pakistan was facing an unprecedented crisis of health, food security and internal displacement after floods put a third of Pakistan’s regions under water. Some areas were hit by 1.7m of rainfall, the highest on record. Scientists have determined the floods were due to climate breakdown. As Pakistan is responsible for 0.8% of global carbon emissions, Sharif said it was the “responsibility of the developed countries, who caused these emissions, to stand by us.”
Till now, the official death toll from the floods is 1,600, though many estimates on the ground have been higher. More than 9 million people have been displaced and over 2 million homes destroyed, and millions of families have been forced to live in makeshift shelters on roadsides. The extent of the damage has been put at between $30bn (f26bn) and $35bn, but Sharif said it was “a rough estimate, it could be more”, with more than 19,000 miles of roads destroyed along with bridges, railways and power lines, as well as 4m hectares (10m acres) of crops washed away. “Let me be clear, this is about climate justice,” said Sharif. Should I be asked to cast my appeal into a begging bowl? That’s unjust, unfair.
Pakistan’s suffering has captured the attention of the international community. Last month, the US president, Joe Biden, used his speech at the UN general assembly in New York to urge countries to help Pakistan, and the leaders of the UK, France, Saudi Arabia, China and more have given millions in donations and pledged further support. Sharif said while he was grateful for the “very touching words and statements”, but what is more important is practical demonstration of these statements into action”.
Sharif pointed to the unfulfilled promise made by rich nations a decade ago to commit $100bn a year in a climate fund for less developed nations. “They should take notice of the situation, take responsibility before the damage becomes irreparable — not just for Pakistan, but for the world.”
1. What does “climate justice” in paragraph one mean according to Sharif?A.He shouldn’t be forced to go out begging. |
B.The global climate change brings about the disaster. |
C.Developing countries should partly be to blame for the crisis. |
D.Developed countries should assume responsibilities for the floods. |
A.By making contrasts. | B.By listing numbers. |
C.By providing examples. | D.By presenting arguments. |
A.Support from the international community is far from enough. |
B.Rich countries have already fulfilled their promise a decade ago. |
C.A UN climate fund for less developed nations is the key solution. |
D.US has given millions in donations and promised further support. |
A.To criticize false statements. | B.To appeal for climate justice. |
C.To accuse rich pollution countries. | D.To call attention to climate breakdown. |
【推荐2】Kabita Lohar lives in Pipriya village, a community located at the banks of the Mahakali River in Nepal. She is usually seen walking along the riverbank, carrying a blue box which contains equipment and chemicals to test the quality of water in the river. As Kabita carefully collects water samples (样本) from the river into her test-tube and observe the color of the water, she says, “Our rivers are getting polluted; we need to raise awareness and encourage the community to save our rivers.”
Kabita is one of the many citizen scientists trained by Oxfam. Around five years ago, Oxfam started working with the communities living in the riverbanks of the Mahakali River through a project called Transboundary Rivers of South Asia (TROSA). The project aims to give the riverside communities more access to and control over water resources. “We use this data to encourage effective measures and raise awareness about water pollution among the community members and local government,” says Kabita.
People used to believe that the water in at the Mahakali River contains something that is good for health, so it was a common practice to drink water directly from the river. But with the data on water pollution provided by citizen scientists like Kabita, they could raise awareness of the importance of not drinking water directly from the river.
Kabita says, “A few months ago, we spoke with our mayor (市长) about introducing measures to prevent the inflow of waste made by families and hotels into the river. Our mayor has stated that he will meet our demands. But we don’t just want promises; we want action, and we will keep following up until the promise becomes a reality.”
1. Why does Kabita walk along the bank?A.To clean the riverbanks. | B.To collect experimental data. |
C.To enjoy nature for relaxation. | D.To collect water from family use. |
A.By showing them the truth. |
B.By finding clean water for them. |
C.By encouraging effective measures. |
D.By stopping pouring waste into the river. |
A.Energetic. | B.Confident. | C.Organized. | D.Determined. |
A.Water pollution is serious in Nepal. |
B.Science is helpful in reducing pollution. |
C.A citizen scientist fights water pollution. |
D.A youth makes a difference to her village. |
【推荐3】We've all experienced it. We invite a friend to dinner, only to learn that she is the dreaded "V-word". Vegan is someone who allows a diet that contains no animal meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, or any other food that comes from animals. They differ from vegetarians, who generally still eat dairy and eggs as part of their diets. Vegans also typically abstain from using any other products that come from animals, such as honey and leather jackets.
Back in 2008, vegans only accounted for around 0.5 percent of the U. S. population, or about one million people. As of polls taken in 2014, vegans now make up roughly 2.5 percent of the population. At least in the United States, women seem to be far bigger fans of veganism, making up around 79 percent of vegans.
People on a vegan diet tend to be leaner. In a cross-sectional study of nearly 40,000 adults, meat eaters had the highest mean body mass index, or BMI. Vegetarians were in the middle, and vegans had the lowest. Based on several studies from Finland, some scientists have suggested that vegan diets may be helpful in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis(类风湿性关节炎). Vegans also appear to have lower rates of hypertension(高血压) than both meat eaters and vegetarians. Vegans also typically have lower cardio metabolic(心脏代谢) risks for conditions like heart disease or strokes.
While there certainly may be some health advantages in going vegan, there seems to be some common deficiencies in the diet. One of these deficiencies is with the vitamin B-12. The ADA states that there are no natural plant foods that contain any significant amount of the vitamin. Vegans can still get it, but they need to take a vitamin or consume fortified foods like soy milk and certain breakfast cereals. Omega-3 fatty acids(欧米珈-3 脂肪酸) are also very difficult to come by on a vegan diet, but this can be overcome through the consumption of algae(海藻) supplements. With vegans requiring supplementation to meet their nutritional needs, it supports the claim that veganism is unnatural, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's unhealthy.
Many health organizations, including the ADA, state that well-planned vegan diets are healthy and nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. It seems like no matter what your dietary preferences are, a healthy lifestyle can be achieved on or off a vegan diet.
1. Which example illustrates he/she is a vegan?A.His/Her diet is made up of large amounts of plant-based carbohydrates. |
B.He/She eats meat on special occasions, usually pork, as well as small amounts of fish on a weekly basis. |
C.He/She believes small amounts of animal products are vital to good health, and they insist on eating them every day. |
D.He/She fries French fries by animal oil. |
A.Finland is the leading country in the world to study veganism. |
B.Vegetarians had the highest mean BMI. |
C.Vegan diets may be helpful in the treatment of cancer. |
D.The number of vegan in the U. S. is on the rise. |
A.various vegetables | B.soy milk and cereals |
C.water | D.sunbath |
A.Objective. | B.Subjective. |
C.Critical. | D.Disapproval. |