Trees are everywhere around us. They provide us with many useful things.
Before trees become helpful, they change a lot as they grow. At 1 to 3 years old, young trees learn how to protect themselves. For example, many trees grow thorns (刺) to warn animals not to go near. Most young trees have large deep green leaves so that they can catch enough sunlight and change it into their food and energy. When trees are 4 years old, they begin to grow very rapidly and become strong enough to face challenges later in life. At the age of 15, trees become young adults. They grow more slowly and begin to produce flowers and fruit.
It is not until the tree is 20 to 25 years old that it becomes a real adult. The tree reaches its largest size. Not only does the adult tree give us natural beauty, but it also cleans up dirt and fights flood. If we give the adult tree proper care, it will continue to live healthily for many years.
| Trees grow in many different places, so they have developed special ways to help themselves live. ●In deserts, trees need to hold on to water. The tree saves water in its trunk. ●In the highlands, trees grow very close to protect them from the strong winds. ●In the rainforests, trees grow up to fifty meters tall to get more sunlight. |
Gradually trees begin to grow older and older and even die. At this time they still have their important place in nature. When a tree becomes hollow (空心的) or part of it becomes dead, it provides a home for small animals.
In many ways, the life of a tree is similar to our own life experience. When we are looking at the life of a tree, we learn that each period of life brings its own form of joy and challenge.
Enjoy every minute of our life and take care of the trees!
1. Please fill in the blanks with a proper word or phrase.2. How does a young tree warn animals not to go near it?
3. When does the tree reach its largest size?
4. Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
5. From the words in the box, about people, what can you think of?
6. Do you like the period you are experiencing now? Why?
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【推荐1】WeChat is popular among us, but if someone deletes you or blocks(屏蔽) you on WeChat, does（A）it mean you’ve made him or her angry?
It depends.
Maybe you have just left messages too often without much valuable information. For example, the questions are those like “how are you?” “what are u doing?” “do u love me?” too often. You know, people may feel bored after answering these kinds of questions over and over again.
Another possible reason may be that you have sent something unpleasant to your friend or in your friend circle. I just blocked one of my middle school classmates yesterday because she was trying to sell（B）fake goods in the friend circle, and I hate it quite much.
Some people delete the one’s name from friends list because they no longer want to see it (maybe ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend) and they don’t want the one to see their “Moments(动态)” in their friend circle (maybe they publish very private pictures of life or thoughts they don’t want to share with him or her).
So why you are blocked may depend on his or her mood or preference, and the reasons a person gets blocked are various from person to person. So I advise you to write an e-mail or make a phone call to that person if he or she really means a lot to you to see why he or she is dissatisfied with you, and to find out how you can make up for the case.
1. 从文中找出（A）处划线单词“it”所指代的内容。2. 将划线句子people may feel bored after answering these kinds of questions over and over again.翻译成汉语。
3. 根据短文内容猜测（B）处划线单词“fake”的意思，将字母代号填写在答题卡上。_________
| A．令人喜爱的 | B．完美的 | C．假冒的 |
5. 用英语给文章拟一个适当的题目。不超过10个单词。
【推荐2】Do you know a famous saying, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get.” The surprise is part of the fun. Now blind boxes are quite popular. Merchants (商家) fill the box with random (随机的) toys which usually come from movies, comics and cartoons.
The earliest blind boxes originated in Japan, it was a New Year’s tradition. At that time, they called it “a lucky bag”. Blind boxes were introduced to China in 2014. According to a2019 Tmall (天猫) report, the mini-series of Labubu blind box was sold 55,000 in just 9 seconds during the Singles Day shopping event. Most customers for blind boxes are young people aged 18 to 35.
According to The Paper, blind box toys are popular in part because of their cute appearances. The cute mini-sized cartoon toys are suitable to place almost anywhere.
What’s more, even if blind box toys are not their top choice for decorations (装饰) , the mystery and uncertainty of the process (不确定性) also attracts people. It’s the main reason why people buy blind boxes one after another.
Opening a blind box is a pleasant little surprise for our daily lives, something small but fun to wait for each day, week or month. When people open this simple little box, they may be disappointed, but the uncertainty is part of the fun. People will open more blind boxes and hope for a better outcome. In fact, although the magical mystery boxes are full of fun, we should come to a rational (理智的) decision.
阅读短文，回答下列问题。
1. What was filled in the blind boxes according to the article?
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2. Where were the earliest blind boxes invented?
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3. Are the blind boxes popular in China?
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4. Why do blind boxes become so popular?
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5. How to treat buying blind boxes?
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A designer is a person who has ideas, but that is not all. A designer plans how to make those ideas happen.
Designers are many things. Designers are artists. They can create(创造) in their minds pictures of their ideas. Designers are scientists(科学家). They understand how the world works. Designers are inventors(发明家). They make things that are new and different. Different kinds of designers have different kinds of ideas. A fashion designer designs clothes. A software designer designs computer programs. A landscape designer designs parks and gardens. Other designers design furniture or books or cities. There is no limit (限制) to what people can design.
An idea has to come from somewhere. Why does that idea come into someone’s head? Usually it comes from a problem or need.
Long long ago, there were no cars or wagons(马车). To move something heavy, people had to pull it. That was a problem because it was hard and slow work. Then people noticed that round things roll (翻滚). Someone designed a way to put rocks or logs under a heavy object. Rolling it was easier than pulling it. People invented the wheel(车轮).
1. What can fashion designers do?2. Where does a designer’s idea come from?
3. What did people invent by rolling heavy objects instead of pulling?
【推荐1】Trees are one of the oldest “citizens” of our earth. They keep our air clean, reduce noise pollution, improve water quality and provide food and building materials.
Just like us, trees change a lot as they grow. At 1 to 3 years old, young trees learn how to grow up safely. For example, many trees grow thorns(刺) to warn animals not to go near. Most young trees have large, deep green leaves so that they can catch enough sunlight and change it into their food and energy.
When trees are 4 years old, they begin to grow very rapidly and become strong enough to face challenges later in life. At the age of 15, trees become young adults. They grow more slowly and begin to produce flowers and fruit.
It is not until the tree is 20 to 25 years old that it becomes a real adult. The tree reaches its largest size. The adult tree gives us oxygen and natural beauty. It is also a great place for a tree house, or a place for us to read a book, listen to music and so on. If we give the adult tree proper care, it will go on to live healthily for many years.
Gradually trees begin to grow older and older and even die. At this s time, they still have their important place in nature. When a tree becomes hollow or part of it becomes dead, it provides a home for small animals and is a source of food for many other animals.
In many ways, the life of a tree is similar to our own life experience. When we are looking at the life of a tree, we learn that each period of life brings its own form of joy and challenge.
Title: | ||
Age | 1-3 years old | Trees learn to grow up safely. |
| 4 years old | Trees become so strong that they can | |
| Trees produce flowers and fruit. | ||
| 20-25 years old | They can offer us | |
| After 25 years old | They still have their important place in nature. | |
Conclusion | A person should learn | |
What’s the end of the world for a chocolate lover? Somewhere with no chocolates! Experts said the world would run out of chocolate within 40 years. It is because global warming (全球变暖) is bad for cacao (可可) trees.
The trees can only grow within 20 degrees north and south of the equator. Besides, they like rich rain. However, the warming weather can make the air dryer. It also makes the land less fit for growing cacao. It could also make tree illnesses spread faster.
Although warming weather is making trouble for cacao planting, we’ll still have it in the near future. The world is trying to do what it can to save chocolate. Scientists are working to make the cacao plants strong against illnesses by using gene editing (基因编辑) to change the DNA of cacao.
Another way to save chocolate is the Brazilian (巴西的) growing method. It lets cacao grow without changing its genes. This method plants more rainforest trees to provide cacao trees with shade (阴凉). It can cool the cacao down and keep the land soil (土壤) wet.
1. The reason why the world would run out of chocolate:2. Two factors (因素) that are good for cacao trees to grow: ①
3. The bad results of warming weather for cocao trees: ①
4. The way that scientists help to save chocolate (no more than 10 words):
5. The Brazilian growing method to help save chocolate (no more than 10 words):
【推荐3】Trees are useful to man in three important ways.
The first important way is that they provide (提供) man with food, wood and the other products. Trees provide not only man with food, but also many animals with food. Without trees many animals could not live on the earth. It’s not easy for man to live on the earth, either.
The second important way is that trees give us shade (阴凉). On a hot summer day, people are eager (渴望) to have a rest under the tree after they have a long walk. You can imagine how important the shade of a tree is to man and animals.
The third important way is that trees help to prevent droughts and floods (防止干旱和洪水). However, in many parts of the world, man hasn’t realized the third way. They were cutting trees down in large numbers. In the end they find that they have lost the best friends they had.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. How many important ways are trees useful to man?
2. Trees only provide man with food, don’t they?
3. On a hot summer day, what do trees give us?
4. What does the underlined word “they” means？
5. What’s the best title of the passage?
