Gin is an alcoholic (含酒精的) drink. It gets its taste mainly from fruits and flowers. Indlovu Gin comes from South Africa. It is made using elephant dung (粪).
Les and Paula Ansley make Indlovu. Indlovu means “elephant” in the Zulu language. They came up with the idea a couple of years ago. They went on safari (游猎) to see African animals. On safari, they learned that elephants eat many fruits and flowers. But they digest less than 33% of their food. The rest comes out in their dung. “Because of that, elephant dung has a great mix of plants and flowers,” Les said.
Weeks after their trip, Paula, a gin lover, had a strange idea in the middle of the night. “Why don’t we let others do the hard work of collecting?” she said to her husband. “And we will make gin from it.”
The couple tried to get some dung from the park where they went on safari. It was sent in the mail. Now they collect the dung themselves, using their hands. The dung is dried and washed. Next, the Ansleys use a process to kill germs (细菌). It is then dried again and soaked (浸泡) in gin.
“The gin tastes good,” the Ansleys said. They mark the bottles with the date and place where the dung was collected. They said the taste changes with the place and season.
At first, people didn’t want to taste the gin. But now the drink is popular with tourists who want to bring home a strange gift. The gin is sold at hunting camps, airports and online.
1. What does the underlined phrase “the idea” refer to?| A．Making Indlovu gin with elephant dung. |
| B．Going on safari to see African animals. |
| C．Learning about the African elephants. |
| D．Letting the elephants do hard work. |
| A．Paragraph 2. | B．Paragraph 3. | C．Paragraph 4. | D．Paragraph 5. |
| A．People can know more information about the gin. |
| B．People can try different tastes of the gin. |
| C．They can sell the gin at a high price. |
| D．They can make gin more popular. |
| A．To show the lives of the elephants. |
| B．To introduce a couple’s great work. |
| C．To encourage more people to drink Indlovu. |
| D．To describe the Ansley’s best travel experience. |
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【推荐1】There are millions of people throughout the world who are either born blind or have become blind over the course of their lifetime. It is unfair to take away the visual (视觉的) beauty of the world from these people. Doctor Humayun has created the world’s first bionic (仿生学的) eye that could change the life of every blind person in the world.
Doctor Mark Humayun is a well-respected professor at the Doheny Eye Institute California. He has been working for years on creating a bionic eye that would allow blind people to see images just like a normal person does. The bionic eye is actually an eye that has been built in a small video camera.
The test results show that the bionic eye has given blind patients the amazing ability to see the scientists doing the tests. But the images are still blurry and we need much work before the eye actually becomes a regular implant (植入物) into blind people. Humayun believes that he can go into production with the bionic eye over the next three to five years.
A closer look at the bionic eye is amazing. The patient wears a special set of eyeglasses. All the signals are passed to the implanted eye. It’s done by wireless technology. Humayun has created an invention that could change the lives of millions of blind people. Imagine a world in which someone would no longer have to the fear about being blind. This could be considered as a technological achievement.
1. Doctor Mark Humayun is well-respected because ________.| A．he has been working on a small video camera | B．he is a professor of a famous university |
| C．he invented a video camera for the blind | D．he devoted himself to making the blind see again |
| A．清晰的 | B．模糊的 | C．具体的 | D．抽象的 |
| A．can help the blind to see the scientists doing the tests | B．has been a total success during the use |
| C．can be implanted into the blind people’s eyes | D．looks much like the normal people’s eye |
| A．more than eight years | B．more than five years |
| C．three to five years | D．less than three years |
| A．the life of blind people has changed | B．Mark Humayun becomes famous |
| C．there will be no blind people in the future | D．a technological study for the blind |
【推荐2】Flying Heroes Are Coming!
You are hiking (远足) in a forest, and you are injured. What do you do now? You can use your cellphone to call for help. ▲ Luckily, in the near future, a real hero will quickly fly in to save you.
Great North Air Ambulance Service is a British charity (慈善机构). It provides helicopter rescues (直升机救援). Recently, the charity has been testing its jet suits (喷气式飞行服) in the Lake District National Park. These suits can help rescuers to find hard-to-reach patients faster.
The jet suit has two mini engines on each arm and a large engine on the pilot’s back. All movements (动作) are controlled by the pilot. The suit can provide 144 kilograms of thrust (推力). This allows the pilot to travel at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour. And the person can fly for up to ten minutes.
During one test, it took 25 to 35 minutes for a helicopter to reach a “patient” in the park. A rescuer in the jet suit, however, was able to fly in to help the “patient” in only 90 seconds. While flying, the pilots have to carry heavy medical equipment (设备). The pilots must be trained to find their balance in flight. The team is now busy training and preparing their flying heroes!
1. Which of the following sentences can be put in the ▲ ?| A．Don’t hike alone in the forest next time. |
| B．It’s also necessary for you to prepare some medicine. |
| C．Cellphone is the most useful tool when you are in danger. |
| D．But it may take a long time for someone to find and help you. |
| A．The suit. | B．The pilot. | C．A large engine. | D．144 kilograms of thrust. |
| A．动力 | B．平衡 | C．目标 | D．方向 |
| A．helicopter rescue is so expensive that no one can afford it |
| B．the suits can help rescuers to find hard-to-reach patients faster |
| C．a rescuer in the jet suit could fly in to help the “patient” in less than 2 minutes |
| D．the pilots don’t have to carry the medical equipment when flying because it is too heavy |
【推荐3】Travel in the Future
These days, if you want to travel from New York to Beijing, the flight takes about 16 hours. You also have to wait at the airport, and sometimes you have to transfer（换乘）onto a different airplane. If you add all of that extra time, the trip takes at least 20 hours. But in the future, the trip from New York to Beijing might only take two hours.
Right now, a company is developing something called ET3, which stands for “evacuated tube（真空管）transport technology（技术）”. Here’s how it works. A tube goes all the way from New York to Beijing. The tube is only a few meters wide. Capsules（舱）move through the tube. Six people can sit in one capsule. The capsules use electricity instead of oil. For international travel, the capsules can travel at about 6, 500 kilometers per hour. That’s much faster than airplanes—most modern airplanes usually only fly at about 800 kilometers per hour.
So how is this possible? How can these capsules travel so fast? The answer is that there is no air inside the tube. When airplanes fly, they have to move through air. The air slows the airplanes down. Because there isn’t any air in the ET3 tubes, the capsules are able to move at a very high speed. Also, the capsules are quite light. Each only weighs 183 kilograms.
There are other advantages to ET3. Because it uses electricity, it’s quite clean. Also, it’s a lot quieter than airplanes and cars. Finally, ET3 tubes and capsules don’t require very much building materials.
Of course, ET3 doesn’t come into use yet. The technology is still being developed. Developers still have to solve a lot of problems. The biggest problem is that right now ET3 would be far too expensive. In order to make ET3 cheaper, we will need much better technology.
It’s exciting to think of how ET3 will change the travel in the future. Who knows? Maybe someday you’ll be able to have lunch in New York and dinner in Beijing.
1. According to the passage, an ET3 looks more like a _________.| A．ship | B．bus | C．plane | D．subway train |
| A．it is powered by electricity and oil |
| B．it is much lighter than an airplane |
| C．it moves through a tube without air |
| D．it is made up of fewer capsules |
| A．modern technology will be used in airplanes |
| B．ET3 will take the place of any other way of transportation |
| C．more money will be spent on the technology of ET3 |
| D．ET3 will change the travel in the future greatly |
Multiple Intelligences
In our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made bigger influence than others. Different intelligences or learning styles might be the reason. A person’s learning style or “intelligence” is the method through which they get information most easily. The theory of multiple intelligences(多元智能理论) was put forward in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner in his book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and it suggests that people are not born with all of the intelligences they will ever have, and traditional ideas about intelligence, measured (测量) by IQ tests, are very limited (有限的). He listed some different intelligences to describe different abilities. These intelligences include linguistic (语言的), logical-mathematical (逻辑数学的), visual-spatial (视觉空间的), bodily-kinesthetic (艺体的), musical and so on.
Dr. Howard Gardner notes that the linguistic and logical-mathematical are the most typed valued in school and society. American schools and culture focus attention on these two intelligences so people who are good at expressing or logical thinking are treated differently: they are likely to get more respect and are offered better rewards and chances. However, Dr. Gardner says that we should place equal (平等的) attention on people who have the other intelligences: artists, musicians, naturalists, designers, dancers, and athletes. Unluckily, many children don’t receive much attention and encouragement for these abilities in school. Many of these kids, in fact, end up being considered as not good enough ones because they are taught in a heavily linguistic or logical-mathematical classroom and not in a style favored to their type of intelligence.
Education can be much more interesting and help more students to learn better if teachers are encouraged to present lessons in all kinds of ways using music, group work, art activities, role-play, multimedia, field trips, and so on. The good news is that in America, hundreds of schools are now using the theory of multiple intelligences to redesign the way they educate children. By reaching more intelligences, all students will perform better and get more important information. Understanding a student’s learning style can also help later in life and lead them into a more satisfying career (职业) direction.
Many adults find themselves in jobs that do not make the best use of their most highly developed intelligences. For example, the highly bodily-kinesthetic person who is stuck in a linguistic or logical office job would be much happier in a job where they could move around, such as a sports coach. The theory of multiple intelligences gives adults a whole new way to look at their lives, examining inner abilities that they left behind in their childhood (such as a love for art or play); they may now have the chance to develop these through courses, hobbies, or other programs of self-development.
1. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences suggests _________.| A．people have all of the intelligences when they are born |
| B．different people might have different kinds of intelligences |
| C．traditional IQ tests can measure people’s intelligences correctly |
| D．a person with a high IQ score must have all kinds of intelligences |
| A．Students without many intelligences don’t receive much attention. |
| B．Schools use Dr. Gardner’s theory to change students’ intelligences. |
| C．Schools focus attention on the two most typed valued intelligences. |
| D．Students will perform perfect if they are taught in the way they like. |
| A．Adults now have chances to go back to schools to check their inner abilities. |
| B．Dr. Gardner’s theory can help adults develop their inner abilities left behind. |
| C．A bodily-kinesthetic person must be offered jobs where he can move around. |
| D．Dr. Gardner’s theory can help adults become successful in their present jobs. |
| A．To discuss the importance of multiple intelligences. |
| B．To compare different types of multiple intelligences. |
| C．To explain the ways to develop multiple intelligences. |
| D．To encourage the application of multiple intelligences. |
【推荐2】The Tour de France is a very difficult bike race. It takes place in France every summer. It lasts over three weeks and covers about 3, 500 kilometers. Riders race on dangerous roads. Every day, the riders finish a different part of the race, called a “stage”. Every stage can have a different winner. In the end, the racer with the shortest total time in the past stages will get a yellow jersey（shirt）.
But there are no women in the Tour de France, only men. Amaury Sport Organization（ASO）is the group behind the Tour de France. In 2014, ASO began having a shorter race for women called La Course. But La Course is not a long, difficult race with many stages.
To call for a women’s Tour de France, a French cycling club started a special project called “Journee-1” or “J-1”. As part of J-1, from the year of 2015, a group of women began riding the same course（赛程）as the men’s Tour de France, just one day earlier.
Women won’t have to take part in the J-1 project next year. That’s because ASO says that in July of 2022, they will have the Tour de France Femmes—a Tour de France for women. It will be an eight-day race with many stages. And it will start right after the men’s Tour de France.
1. Which is NOT mentioned（提到）about the Tour de France?| A．When it takes place. | B．How many stages it has. |
| C．How long it lasts for. | D．What the final winner will get. |
| A．ASO started it in 2015. | B．It is more difficult than Journee-1. |
| C．It’s a bike race for women. | D．It has the same course as the Tour de France. |
①The lasting time. ②The number of the riders.
③The starting time. ④The group behind them.
| A．①④ | B．①③ | C．③④ | D．①②③ |
| A．The Tour de France Femmes is coming. |
| B．The Tour de France is very difficult. |
| C．Women can take part in the Tour de France now. |
| D．ASO is working hard for the women’s Tour de France. |
| A．PEOPLE | B．TRAVEL | C．CULTURE | D．SPORT |
【推荐3】Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been in the news a lot lately. And according to a recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute, about half of today’s work activities could be automated(自动化的) by 2055. Could “teaching” be on that list?
The teacher in the classroom is a human model. When a human teacher is able to show the advantages of learning, learners are more likely to be inspired to work harder and make progress. Even AI with advance technology can’t do this.
So, the chances are that your job is safe for the near future. But it is going to change, and robots will join us quite soon, as teaching assistants.
Recently, a Georgia Tech professor has used an AI teaching assistant in his classroom, which allows him to more effectively manage over 400 students. His AI teaching assistant helps him answer more routine questions, freeing him to deal with some complex problems which are difficult to solve from students.
AI is also being used in South Korea and Japan to help with language learning. Students can go through any variety of conversational practices, and AI can correct mistakes in usage and pronunciation. In fact, research shows that these programs can help solve problems like shyness and frustration(挫败) that can appear when children practice repetitively with a teacher. After all, a robot will not get tired or annoyed no matter how many mistakes a child makes.
This will be the future of AI in the classroom. Should you start packing up your desk? Absolutely not. The bottom line is that these technologies work best when paired with an active human teacher. But it certainly could make your job easier and more efficient.
1. What is the second paragraph mainly about?| A．The present teaching conditions. |
| B．The advantage of human teachers. |
| C．The purpose of using an AI teaching technology. |
| A．复杂的 | B．普遍的 | C．完整的 |
| A．It is more patient. | B．It is more creative. | C．It is more convenient. |
| A．Students. | B．Teachers. | C．Parents. |
| A．What will teachers be like in the future? |
| B．The benefit of using teaching assistants. |
| C．Could AI take the place of human teachers? |
