More than 50,000,000 people live in the rainforests of the world and most of them do not hurt the forest they live in. They eat the fruits that grow on the forest trees, but they do not cut them down. They kill some animals to eat, but they do not destroy them.
When we cut down the rainforests, we destroy these forest people, too. In 1900, there were 1,000,000 forest people in the Amazon forest. In 1980, there were only 200,000.
The Yanomami people live along the rivers of the rainforest in the north of Brazil. They have lived in the rainforest for about 10,000 years and they use more than 2,000 different plants for food and for medicine. But in 1988, someone found gold in their forest, and suddenly 45,000 people came to the forest and began looking for gold. They cut down the forest to make roads. They made more than a hundred airports. The Yanomami lost land and food. Many died because new diseases came to the forest with the strangers.
The Yanomami people tried to save their forest, because it was their home. But the people who wanted gold were stronger.
Many forest people try to save their forests. Chico Mendes was famous in Brazil because he wanted to keep the forest for his people. In December 1988, people who wanted to cut down the forest killed Chico Mendes.
As time goes by, the problem still exists. We must do something to keep the rainforests now!
1. How many people live in the rainforests of the world?2. How long have the Yanomami people lived in the rainforest in the north of Brazil?
3. Why did many Yanomami people die?
4. Chico Mendes wanted to keep the forest for his people, didn’t he?
5. What should we do to save the rainforests?
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Xu Xiujuan was born in Zhalong, Heilongjiang Province in 1964. Her father’s job was to look after red-crowned cranes. Xiujuan started helping her father when she was young. She soon showed a great love for these white birds. She became good at raising them.
When Xiujuan was 21, she got a job at a nature reserve in Jiangsu Province. She enjoyed taking care of the baby cranes. If a bird became sick, she took good care of it and stayed with it every day until it was strong enough to fly again.
In September 1987, one of the birds went missing. The workers in the nature reserve looked everywhere, but no one could find it. Xiujuan was very worried. She looked for it day and night for two days. On the second night, while she was looking for the missing bird, she fell into a river and died. She was only 23.
Later, the song “The story of the red-crowned crane” was written in memory of Xiujuan. Though Xiujuan died young, people always remember her when they hear the song or see a red-crowned crane.
1. What was Xiujuan’s father’s job?2. Where did Xu work?
3. What would Xu do when the bird became sick?
4. How long did Xu look for the missing bird?
5. What is the purpose of writing the song “The story of the red-crowned crane”?
Canada Geese are large blue and white birds. When autumn arrives, they have to fly south where the weather is warmer. The winters are so cold in Canada that the birds die if they stay there.
Last spring, Bill Lishman found sixteen young Canada Geese on his farm. They had lost their parents. Bill thought, “These young birds won’t know what to do in the autumn.”
Bill had a small plane and he decided to teach the birds to follow him. All through the summer, he went on short trips in his plane and the young geese flew after him.
When the cold weather arrived in autumn, Bill flew to Virginia in the United States, 600 miles south from his home in Canada. The geese followed him all the way. Bill left the geese in Virginia and he returmed home.
This spring, Bill was waiting for the birds to come back. They didn’t arrive, so Bill flew to Virginia to get them. He looked for them for two weeks but he couldn’t find them.
When he arrived back home, Bill found the geese waiting for him. They had found their way home without him!
1. What’s the weather like in winters in Canada?2. What do Canada Geese look like?
3. How many birds did Bill find on his farm last spring?
4. How did Bill teach the birds to fly?
5. When did Bill send the birds to Virginia?
【推荐3】It’s 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Panda keepers are preparing milk for baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:30 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they nun over to them with excitement and some of the young pandas even walk into their friends and fall over.
Lin Wei, one of the panda keepers, says, “they’re so cute and lovely. I take care of them like they’re my own babies. I wash, feed and play with them every day. They’re very special to me.” In fact, many people around the world love these black and white animals. Pandas have become so popular that they are now a symbol of China.
Scientists say there are now fewer than 2, 000 pandas living in the forests. Another 300 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries. Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then human started to cut down these forests. As the forests get smaller and other human activities cause more problems, pandas cannot find enough to eat and they are having fewer babies.
An education program in Chengdu teaches children about pandas and other endangered wild animals. They send people to schools to tell children about the importance of saving these animals.
And the Chinese government is trying hard to save the pandas. Scientists are doing research to better understand the habits of pandas. We all hope that in the future there will be a lot more pandas.
1. The symbol of China is:2. The number of the pandas now:
3. Places where pandas live now:
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4. List two reasons that lead the pandas in danger:
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5. List two ways that people try to save pandas:
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【推荐1】The Puy du Fou theme park in western France welcomed six very special cleaners—Boubou, Bamboo, Bill, Black, Bricole and Baco. They are six rooks（秃鼻乌鸦）! As part of the daily show, the theme park had already trained the rooks to pick up roses and bring them to a “princess” in a castle.
Workers at the park have taught the rooks to pick up small pieces of rubbish. The rooks move the rubbish into a small box. After helping to clean the park, they get bird food for their hard work.
“The park is very clean,” Nicolas de Villiers, the head of the park, told AFP. “The purpose of the rooks is to educate the people to open their minds, to think.”
As a regular visitor to the park, Simon, ever said after watching it, “OK, the birds are able to do something that we can do better than them. It shows that we humans cannot throw the rubbish everywhere.”
Josh Klein taught rooks to collect money and drop it in a “vending machine”（投币式自动售货机）. The machine only works if a piece of paper of the correct size is put inside it. After six months of training, he found that rooks could remember the correct size of paper and put it in the machine to get food.
1. What can the rooks get after helping to clean the park?（不超过5个词）2. Who is Simon?（不超过5个词）
3. What did Josh Klein teach rooks to do?（不超过15个词）
What would you like for lunch? Maybe, a battery? Although it sounds unusual, this has already been realized by scientists as they develop electronic things you can eat.
Robofood, led by Dario Floreano from a Swiss Institute, has created a new drone (无人机) with scientists from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Half of the parts inside can be eaten! The program aims to make robots that can be eaten and foods that act like robots by mixing food science and robots in a new way.
The drone’s wings are made from rice cakes glued together with oil and chocolate. It can find missing people or animals in emergencies and send food or medicine. Parts of the drone can be eaten because they meet food safety standards for emergencies set by the United Nations.
However, the main challenge is finding stronger edible (可食用的) materials for the drone’s wings to prepare for bad weather and high temperatures—of course, the chocolate may melt (融化) easily.
Robofood also developed an edible sensor to help monitor stomach sickness. It’s eaten by the patient to check the conditions inside. It’s different from other sensors because it’s easy for your body to digest (消化), so it won’t leave any remains inside the body.
The invention of Robofood also helps with environmental protection. There are batteries that you can fully eat. They are made from natural things like vitamin B2 and elements (元素) found in fruits. This helps the environment because you won’t have to throw them away like other batteries.
1. The program aims to make robots that can2. The drone can find missing people or animals in emergencies and send
3. What are the drone’s wings made from?
4. Why does the invention of Robofood also help with environmental protection?
5. Do you think the development of edible electronics is a good thing? Why or why not?
【推荐3】Since the outbreak (爆发) of the pandemic(疫情), it has made its way around the world.
It has a strong influence on our daily life. People have found a way to protect themselves by wearing face masks (口罩). We must wear masks anywhere in public. But the masks are one-time items. This means that we need to discard them after one or two uses. The world has seen wasted masks strewn (散布在) all over the streets and filling up garbage bins (垃圾箱).
Experts have pointed out that the materials used in masks are difficult to degrade (降解). It will take at least 100 years for them to degrade naturally. Environmentalists become quite worried because a countless number of wasted masks have ended up in the sea! They are polluting the sea! The sea animals suffer (遭受) a lot and so do we humans. If the sea animals eat them by mistake, the rubbish will be hard to digest (消化) and stay in their stomachs forever. The bacteria on the masks may. kill them too. They will not only largely influence the ecological balance (生态平衡) of the sea, but also can spread some more dangerous illnesses. People will also leave these harmful things in their own bodies and may become ill when eating these sea animals.
In general, the harm of wasted masks to the sea is serious, so we must take action to stop it right now. We should leave them in a safe place and find a wise way to recycle them.
1. How do people protect themselves in the pandemic?2. What does the underlined word “discard” mean in Chinese?
3. How long will it take for the wasted masks to degrade naturally?
4. What should we do with these wasted masks?
5. What is the writer’s purpose of writing the passage?
Look at this (A) photo, please. This is Linda’s room. It’s very big and tidy. (B) There is a desk and a chair in her room. The desk is between the bed and the bookcase. (C) 她的橡皮和格尺在书桌上。There are some pencils and a pen in the pencil box. There is a baseball under the bed. It’s her brother’s, not (D) ________ (she). Her brother often plays it with his classmates after school.
1. 写出文中划线部分(A)的同义词：2. 将文中划线部分句子(B)改写同义句为：
A desk and a chair
3. 将文中划线部分句子(C)译成英语：
4. 请用文中划线部分(D)的适当形式填空
5. 从文中找出能说明本文主旨大意的中心句：
What can help us when we fail?
Don’t make yourself stop trying
A baby learns to walk not by walking. but by falling. He doesn’t give up until he learns to walk. You can do something new successfully if you keep trying. Sometimes, you may feel sad because you don’t make much progress.. But if you give up, your progress will come to an end.
Understand the power of optimism(乐观)
Optimism can open you up to more possibilities than usual. To be optimistic(乐观的) means to believe something good will always happen. Kids don’t ask whether they can do something or not because they know they can.
Learn to depend on yourself first, then others
Those who are independent can deal with problems and stress more easily than those who aren’t. And you should be more confident to be independent.
Don’t look back
Adults spend too much of their lives looking back. There’s nothing back there to see. A baby wouldn’t learn to walk if he kept looking behind himself while trying to move forward. Spend just 10 percent more of your time looking forward and you’ll find yourself in a better situation.
Failure(失败) is a part of life since the earliest moment of life. It’s a normal and natural part of life that is neither bad nor good-- it’s just how we learn. So the question isn’t whether you want to fail or not, but how quickly you can accept your failure. Just learn something from it and try again.
Things to do when we fail | |
| Don’t make yourself stop trying | If you keep trying, you can |
| Understand the | If you keep optimistic, you will have more possibilities and you will be followed by something good. |
| Depend more on yourself | Problems and stress can be |
| Look | You just use 10 percent more of your time to look forward for a better situation. |
| Conclusion (总结) | It’s normal and natural to fail in our life. Failure is just our ways of |
【推荐3】A volunteer is someone who performs or offers to perform a service out of his own free will(意愿), often without payment. The year 2001 was the International Year of the Volunteer. 2005 was the UK Year of the Volunteer.
Some volunteer for clinical trials(临床试验) or other medical research.(A)Some may even donate their bodies to scientific research after their death.
An online volunteer is a person who spends time and effort with an organization through an online connection, (B)rather than in person. A great number of people from around the world are online volunteers. Online volunteers can provide help in many fields. The practice of offering online help goes by other names.
There are many opportunities for people to donate their services using the Internet. Online volunteers can do (C)a variety of tasks. Young or old, anyone can spend his spare time online offering some help as an online volunteer. Are you ready to be an online volunteer?
1. What is a volunteer?2. How can an online volunteer work?
3. 将(A)句译成汉语。
4. (B)处rather than可以换成：
5. (C)处a variety of的汉语意思是：
