1. Why does the speaker deliver the speech?
A.To attract more students to join the English club. |
B.To inform freshmen to choose their favorite club. |
C.To introduce freshmen to all the clubs in the school. |
A.Those who are fascinated by physical activities. |
B.Those who want to improve their oral English. |
C.Those who long to make friends with foreigners. |
A.English Corner discussions. |
B.Singing competitions. |
C.English performances. |
A.Registering online. |
B.Contacting Alice Lee. |
C.Writing application letters. |
2 . The British poet Matthew Byrne moved to Beijing in 2013 and felt that the capital city's poetry scene was lacking.His obsession(痴迷)for starting poetry events led to the foundation of the Spittoon Collective in May 2015.“At that time,the literary activity in Beijing was The Bookworm based in Sanlitun,”Byrne says.
While some of Beijing's literary institutions would go on to close in the fall of 2019,Spittoon would continue to grow as a community for poets and writers,as well as musicians and others in the creative scene.
Byrne describes the Spittoon Collective as a platform for people to share ideas,from literary works to different forms of art,with projects developing from the creative energy within the community.
Spittoon originally started as a poetry night at the Mado Bar in Dongcheng District 's Baochao Hutong. Byrne says,“In Beijing,you have these wonderful hutongs,ancient structures where you can walk down and visit cool bars,so I thought it would be good to have a poetry event as it seemed like poetry belonged naturally to this area.”
He adds,“The objective now is to discover Chinese voices and broadcast them to the rest of the world.We create a kind of theme park-like atmosphere where every Thursday is occupied by a different literary style or art form.”
The readings would mainly be in English,but with an international community,a new section called“Poetry-in-Translation”was started,which featured works in Chinese,French,Arabic,Russian,Spanish and other languages.
Joining organized activities like Spittoon can be a major help for those caught up in a boring life.And it's especially important for the people who have moved to China as they need to build new relationships while living in a different country.
1. What can we know about the Spittoon Collective?A.It was closed in 2019. |
B.It was set up in 2013 in Beijing. |
C.It's popular with literature lovers. |
D.It's a community just for foreigners. |
A.To attract students' love of poetry. |
B.To expand China's literature globally. |
C.To make Beijing's hutongs famous. |
D.To combine poetry with the hutong. |
A.Beneficial. | B.Negative. | C.Challenging. | D.Controversial. |
A.Unclear. | B.Intolerant. | C.Doubtful. | D.Favorable. |
3 . You may not have heard of Ashoka, but for the past 27 years, this association, founded by Bill Drayton, has fought poverty (贫穷)and sickness, promoted education and encouraged small businesses. To support these worthy causes, Ashoka provides money for the world’s most promising "changemakers" seeking to solve urgent problems and would like to create a world in which every citizen is a changemaker.
Drayton believes that anyone can become an agent for change. The important thing is to simply give yourself permission. If you see a problem that you care about, you can help solve it. The young in particular are willing to accept this concept because at heart every child wants to grow into a happy, healthy, contributing adult. In fact, it is many young people’s ambition to set up programmes or businesses that improve social conditions. An excellent example is an Ashoka project started in 1995 in Dhaka, which handled the rubbish problem facing the city, helped local farmers and provided an income for poor people there .
When Masqsood and Iftekhar began to study the problem of all the uncollected rubbish that lay in Dhaka’s streets, attracting rats and disease, they discovered that 80% of it was natural waste. So they educated the poor people in the city to compost (把……制成堆肥)this waste. They knew that they would have a market for the end product because local farmers were struggling with chemical fertilisers (化肥) which were expensive and had reduced the natural minerals in the soil over the years. At first, they were refused, but once they were able to persuade them that there was money to be made , the project took off. In 2009 sales were $14,000.
Drayton is optimistic that in ten years Ashoka will be making really serious, practical progress in bringing about social change by changing the way we look at economic development.
1. Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?A.Rubbish Problem | B.Businessmen |
C.Social Conditions | D.Changemakers |
A.the poor people in Dhaka | B.Masqsood and Iftekhar |
C.Drayton and his team | D.the local farmers |
A.changing | B.forgiving | C.cautious | D.positive |
A.considers Drayton’s concept | B.gets permission from Ashoka |
C.tries to improve social conditions | D.is a young, happy and healthy adult |
4 . The China International Search and Rescue Team(CISAR) was formed in 2001 and is now made up of several hundred rescue workers and about 20 police dogs. The team brings help and hope to those whose lives are changed by a storm, flood, earthquake, or any other natural disasters.
After long and careful training, the team went on its first international rescue tasks in 2003. That year, the Chinese team helped save lives after earthquakes in Algeria and Iran. It was the first time that a Chinese team had worked outside China whose members won high praise for bravery and skill.
Since then, the CISAR has completed many tasks. The list of people to whom help has been given is long. The team treated more than 3,000 people who were wounded in the 2006 earthquake in Indonesia, helped 2,500 wounded people after the earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, and spent several months giving aid to over 25,000 people suffering from the 2010 floods in Pakistan. On April 26, 2015, a group of 62 people from CISAR went to Nepal after the 8.1 magnitude earthquake that happened there.
Rescue workers are trained to find people, treat wounds, and hand out food, water, and other supplies. They have to be able to do work that is difficult under conditions which can be very dangerous. After a disaster, there is usually no electricity or water, and there may be diseases and other dangers. Rescue workers get to save lives, but they must also bury the dead. That means they have to be strong in both body and mind.
Rescue workers must have big hearts, too. It takes a lot of love and courage to risk one’s own life to save someone else’s. The members of the CISAR have plenty of both and are always ready to go wherever help is needed.
1. What is the function of the numbers in Paragraph 3?A.To advertise for the CISAR. |
B.To add some basic information. |
C.To praise Recue Workers’ contributions. |
D.To stress the dangers Rescue Workers face. |
A.Hopeful. | B.Respectful. |
C.Curious. | D.Supportive. |
A.The duty rescue workers must perform. |
B.The qualities rescue workers must own. |
C.The difficulties rescue workers must go through. |
D.The willingness rescue workers should require. |
A.China to the Rescue | B.How to train CISAR |
C.Welcome to CISAR | D.Rescue on request |
1. When was the British Library founded?
A.In 1937. | B.In1973. | C.Ih1965. |
A.About 14 million. | B.About 4 million. | C.About 40 million. |
A.It holds many concerts every year. |
B.It is the oldest library in the world. |
C.It has a wide collection of stamps. |
A.For returning the books. |
B.For security purpose. |
C.For doing more research. |
6 . Earth Hour is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature. It's a big event usually at the end of March every year. On this evening, people “go dark”.
It's true that turning off lights for just one hour saves only a small amount of power.
But on another level, a large number of people’s acting together sends a powerful message to governments and companies.
The logo(标识) of Earth Hour is “60+” .The number 60 is for the 60 minutes of Earth Hour.
A.But this is only the beginning. |
B.Earth Hour represents every hour of every day. |
C.After all, everyone has to answer for what they have done. |
D.Besides turning off the lights, people get involved in other events. |
E.It pushes them to take urgent measures by making changes to policies. |
F.That is, they switch off all unnecessary lights at the same time for one hour. |
G.The plus invites people to continue their action even after Earth Hour is finished. |
7 . Gregory Talley used to sleep in a park or under a bridge. The 50-year-old has been homeless for more than 10 years.
“It is hard. It’s hard to live homeless. You filled every day trying to find cut where you are going to get something to eat. If I hadn’t found wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter, I wouldn’t know where I would be by now. I might be dead,” Talley said.
The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless people.
Pam Micheli has devoted her life to making the lives of this vulnerable(易受伤的)population better as executive director of the non-profit organization.
“I went to Africa in 1985. And I saw a huge amount of poverty, but I saw so much hope. And I decided that I should try to do something that would bring hope to people,” Michell said.
When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25 years ago, its three shelters had about 80 beds. Now, it has 350 beds and serves about 1,500 homeless people every year. She has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night.
“We do outreach(拓展), we do prevention, we do permanent housing. We do transitional housing. We have an education program with all sorts of different things to move people to end their homelessness,” she said, “Our Out of Poverty program is not just about money. It’s about you could be spiritually poor, you could be relationship poor ... you could be educationally poor. So it is focusing on how you get out of this poverty that has brought you to being homeless. The program tries to teach the shelter residents self-reliance(自立)and work values, and includes courses on planning and personal responsibility.
“I learned I still have opportunities to change it and I can change it,” said shelter resident Lewis Webster. “It is just about going forth in doing necessary work to do it. I mean if you really want better, you would do better and that’s the frame of mind of me now.”
1. Gregory Talley’s story is told at the beginning of the text to .A.tell readers the situation for the poor in the US is getting worse |
B.introduce a non-profit organization that is trying to help the poor in the US |
C.disclose the truth that more and more homeless people are dying from hunger |
D.remind readers that the homeless people in the US have no trouble getting food |
A.providing dothes for them |
B.offering food for them |
C.building new houses for them |
D.offering them shelters for the night |
A.To tell the homeless people the ways to make money. |
B.To help the homeless people find the causes of their poverty. |
C.To encourage the homeless to work and rely on themselves. |
D.To teach the poor how to live a better life in the shelters. |
A.Comfort in the Kennedy Shelter |
B.Ways to Achieve Success |
C.An Opportunity to Fight Homelessness |
D.An Organization to End Homelessness |