LONDON—The stabbing of three people at Manchester railway station on Monday night was being treated as terror related, British police said Tuesday.
The British police launched a “terrorist investigation”
A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of
The three victims were taken to a nearby hospital in a serious but not life-
A woman in her 50s suffered injuries to her face and stomach,
A British Transport Police (BTP) sergeant in his 30s was treated after he was stabbed in the shoulder, but has since been released.
The knifeman
Terrified passengers described hearing a “blood curdling scream” down the platform and were forced to run down the tram tracks after seeing a man wielding a 12-inch kitchen knife.
Two knives were recovered at the scene and a property
British counter-terror cops are investigating after the incident took place at Victoria Station,
The stabbing scene is close to the Manchester Arena,
New Year’s Eve fireworks display in Manchester’s Albert Square went ahead with security
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1. Which of the following statements is RIGHT?| A．He who parks his car at DIA more than four days enjoys the discount. |
| B．The coupon one has redeemed at RNA could be used by another person. |
| C．Any traveler is entitled to the 30 % off the parking charge. |
| D．A person who’s not redeemed the coupon can’t enjoy the discount. |
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| C．Scanning the QR with the QR code reader | D．Combining A and C |
| A．Five | B．Two | C．Four | D．Three |
3 . Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick I in the thirteenth century, it may be hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick I. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.
Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than in grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern “toy bear”. And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyse, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.
But speech has to be induced(激发), and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling(咿呀声), grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s nonverbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.
1. Frederick I did the experiment to _____.| A．find out nursing is essential to a child’s language development |
| B．to confirm that good mothering ensures the survival of a child |
| C．to find out what a child would speak if raised in a no-human speech context |
| D．to confirm that many children would not grow up without learning to speak |
| A．he will certainly be stupid in adult years |
| B．he will not necessarily be less intelligent |
| C．his language development will be limited to babbling |
| D．he will be insensitive to verbal signals |
| A．Efficient nursing contributes to a child’s speech ability. |
| B．A child may never learn to speak if the sensitive periods are neglected. |
| C．Like a child, a monkeys’ brain can connect the sight and feel of an object. |
| D．A child can choose words and phrases that interest him and make new sentences |
| A．when it comes to language, a child’s brain is highly selective |
| B．nonverbal signals affect a child’s language development as much as verbal ones |
| C．A child has his language ability developed randomly and irregardless of age as well |
| D．A mother’s brain is programmed to instruct language efficiently |
4 . Water scientists have issued one of the strictest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to
Adopting a vegetarian diet is one option to increase the amount of water
Competition for water between food production and other uses will
Overeating, undernourishment and waste are all on the rise and increased food production may face future constraints from water
We will need a new recipe to
A separate report said the best way for countries to protect millions of farmers from food
Farmers across the developing world are increasingly relying on and benefiting from small-scale, locally-relevant water
| A．escape | B．fight | C．avoid | D．reduce |
| A．tamed | B．available | C．programmed | D．provided |
| A．vegetarian | B．complicated | C．healthy | D．solid |
| A．trade | B．exchange | C．connection | D．business |
| A．balance | B．harden | C．initiate | D．intensify |
| A．productive | B．additional | C．centennial | D．dieting |
| A．stressed | B．eased | C．settled | D．developed |
| A．worried | B．without | C．behind | D．concerned |
| A．resources | B．scarcity | C．supplies | D．demand |
| A．provide | B．raise | C．feed | D．satisfy |
| A．problem | B．insecurity | C．safety | D．production |
| A．large | B．efficient | C．small | D．beneficial |
| A．develop | B．research | C．abandon | D．experiment |
| A．energy | B．solutions | C．channels | D．origin |
| A．national | B．local | C．household | D．annual |
| A. particularly B. impact C. ensuring D. cost E. threat F. additional G. connectivity H. response I. address J. function K. forced |
The United States is committed to empowering women all over the world. In too many places around the world today women face barriers to equality, resources, and opportunities, said USAID’s Senior official Michelle Bekkering. It could be a barrier to credit, to the
“Gender-based violence harms women, girls, their families, communities and countries,” added Bekkering.
Gender-based violence, is a universal barrier to global security, women’s empowerment, and economic growth. It is estimated right now that gender-based violence has
USAID is trying to eliminate it through prevention and response. On prevention, we first need to learn what’s causing the problem,
As part of a
Improving girls’ education is a step in the right direction, said Ms. Bekkering. For every
U.S. Congress appropriates (拨款) a combined 150 million dollars to the State Department and to USAID for the global effort to
Women and girls should be safe from the
6 . The Nobel prize for economics is awarded for work on the climate and economic growth
From The Economist; Oct 8th 2018
WHY do economies grow, and why might growth outdo the natural world’s capacity to sustain it? For years, economists have failed to find the answers to such questions. But the profession’s progress towards cracking them is in large part because of this year’s winners of the Nobel prize for economic sciences, Paul Romer and William Nordhaus.
Mr. Romer’s attention has ranged widely over the course of his career.
Mr. Romer searched for answers by investigating the “non-rivalrous” nature of new knowledge: the fact that ideas can be exploited endlessly. The firms or people who come up with new ideas can only capture a small share of the benefits arising from them; before long, competitors copy the clever idea and decrease gradually the innovators’ profits. In Mr. Romer’s models of growth, the market generates new ideas. But the pace at which they are generated, and the way in which they are translated into growth, depend on other factors.
Mr. Nordhaus’s work tackles the interplay of several different complex systems. Awareness of the dangers of environmental damage, and of the threat from climate change, has grown over the past half-century. Understanding the economic costs such damage imposes is essential to answering the question of how much society should be willing to pay to prevent environmental destruction. Mr. Nordhaus has applied himself to this daunting problem. His most significant work models the economic harms from carbon emissions. To do so, he combined mathematical descriptions of how emissions affect atmospheric carbon concentrations with those of how atmospheric carbon affects global temperature.
| A．The two economists have been cooperating closely for many years. |
| B．At first glance, the two scholars might not seem a natural pairing. |
| C．He also studied how changes in temperature interact with economic activity. |
| D．They include state support for research and development or intellectual-property protections. |
| E．Mr. Romer has been conducting researches in various economic fields. |
| F．Nevertheless, his focus has never departed far from the nature of economic growth. |
7 . Parents use TV as an electronic babysitter
Television has become such a major part of life that many American parents use it as a babysitter, and that has child psychologists concerned. A new study shows that almost one-third of families have TVs in children’s’ bedrooms, and the number of television programs intended for infants is growing. VOA’s Melinda Smith has more on the recommendation of how much TV should be allowed, and at what age.
⑴ Katie Weaver has her hands full. Four children in her kitchen, two of them are hers, all of them are under the age of six and thirsty at the same time.
⑵ It’s enough to get on the nerves of any adult. Like many of the 1,000 parents surveyed in a Kaiser Family Foundation study, Katie admits she sometimes uses TV as a pacifier when her children are overly-excited ... and it usually works.
⑶ “I don’t use it as a babysitter because they don’t watch enough or long enough for that, but if they are very hyped up ... sometimes I’ll use TV to calm them down,” she said.
⑷ While there has been some concern that watching too much television contributes to obesity in children, the long-term effects of parking a very young child in front of the ‘tube’ are not clear.
⑸ Child psychologist Stanley Greenspan is worried that some parents are taking the easy way out.
⑹ “A lot of them are two-parent working families, so we’re talking about having very little time with the children, and if that time is used in front of a screen, rather than interactively it’s compromising the way these children are learning to pay attention, the way they’re learning to problem-solve and most importantly, the way they’re learning to think and use language,” he said. Katie Weaver’s two children, five-year-old Andrew and three-year-old Daisy, watch an average of an hour a day, five days a week. It is the same for friend Jack and brother Carter who are visiting.
⑺ In the survey, parents of children much younger up to a year-old report viewing averages of an hour per day. For kids one to two years, it’s close to an hour and a half.
⑻ Greenspan believes babies and children under the age of two should not be watching at all and he’s worried that some parents are concealing the real truth.
⑼ “If anything, it’s an underestimation, because people would be aware that for kids under one, it’s not the greatest thing in the world, so they would tend to, if a kid’s watching two hours, they might say an hour so I think what we’re getting is a minimal estimate,” he said.
⑽ Television programming for very young children has been increasing. Yet one researcher involved in the Kaiser study says there is still no evidence that children up to the age of two learn anything of value from television. Katie Weaver says her kids have too much physical energy to sit and watch television for very long. In warmer weather, they’re more often outside.
1. Based on the first three paragraphs, which of the following could be the closest to “overly-excitedly” in meaning?| A．thirsty | B．hyped up | C．calm | D．concerned |
| A．It trains children to be focused, solve problems and strengthens their language ability. |
| B．It saves a lot of time and effort on the part of the working parents. |
| C．It is an easy child raising way for working parents to adopt and use. |
| D．It does more harm than good in terms of children’s all-round development. |
| A．It is certain that too much explosion to TV will result in obesity. |
| B．There has been more and more TV programs for very young children. |
| C．Probably children aged two or under can learn nothing from watching TV. |
| D．Some parents tend to report less time their children spend on TV. |
| A．very critical | B．indifferent | C．affirmative | D．neutral |
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said Thursday it had taken down 559 pages and 251 accounts for violating its rules against spam and fake news in the
The world’s top social media network said many actors were using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names and
“They post clickbait posts on these Pages to drive people to websites that are entirely separate from Facebook and seem legitimate, but are actually ad farms,” Facebook said.
They often used their fake accounts to generate fake likes and shares, which “artificially feeds engagement for
The social media’s announcement is the latest move
Facebook said it chose to disclose its measures to remove the fake accounts to share “some details about the types of behavior
The company noted that it has, since this year, enforced a policy against many Pages, Groups and accounts
Facebook has recently removed hundreds of fake pages
9 . We are a nation of unhealthy sleepers. Ten percent of us are insomniacs, many more wake up constantly throughout the night, and a growing number of us are simply too obsessed with smartphones to put them down and go to bed.
But what’s the worst kind of sleep for your health: the kind where you keep a normal bedtime but are constantly up every few hours, or the kind where you go to bed late and only get a few hours of shut-eye.
Reporting in the journal Sleep, lead author Patrick Finan, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues conducted one of the first studies comparing the two types of sleep—interrupted sleep and abbreviated sleep—in a group of 62 healthy men and women who were good sleepers. The participants spent three days and nights in a sleep lab and answered questions about their mood every evening before dozing off. While they slept, the researchers measured their sleep stages so they could document when and how much of each stage of sleep, from light to deeper slumber, each volunteer got every night. A third were randomly assigned to be woken up several times a night; another third were not allowed to go to sleep until later but weren’t woken up.
When Finan compared the three group’s mood ratings, he found that the interrupted and short sleepers both showed drops in positive mood after the first night. But on the next nights, the interrupted sleepers continued to report declining positive feelings while the short sleepers did not—
When he looked at the brain patterns of the two disrupted sleep groups, he found that those who woke up repeatedly showed less slow wave sleep, or the deep sleep that is normally linked to feeling restored and rested, than those getting the same amount of sleep but in a continuous session. “We saw a drop in slow wave sleep large and sudden,” says Finan. “
| A．After a bad night’s sleep, you are unlikely to be in the best of moods. |
| B．They stayed at about the same level they had reported after the first night. |
| C．The final, control group was allowed to sleep uninterrupted throughout the night. |
| D．Scientists might finally have an answer. |
| E．They feel more and more frustrated emotionally. |
| F．It was associated with a striking drop in positive mood, very different than in the other group. |
10 . The direct ray of the sun touches the equator and strikes northward toward the Tropic of Cancer (北回归线). In the Southern hemisphere winter has begun, and it is summer north of the equator. The sea and air grow warmer; the polar air of winter begins its gradual retreat. The northward shift of the sun also brings the season of tropical cyclones to the northern hemisphere, a season that is ending for the Pacific and India Oceans south of the equator. Along our coasts and those of Asia, it is time to look seaward, to guard against the season’s storms. Over the Pacific, the tropical cyclone season is never quite over, but varies in intensity. Every year, conditions east of the Philippines send a score of violent storms howling toward Asia, but it is worst from June through October. Southwest of Mexico, a few Pacific hurricanes will grow during spring and summer, but most will die at sea or perish over the desert or the lower California coast as violent storms.
Along our Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the hurricane season is from June to November. In an average year, there are fewer than ten tropical cyclones and six of them will develop into hurricanes. These will kill 50 to 100 persons between Texas and Maine and cause property damage of more than $100 million. If the year is worse than average, we will suffer several hundred deaths, and property damage will run to billions of dollars. Tornadoes, floods, and severe storms are in season elsewhere on the continent. Now, to these destructive forces must be added the hazard of the hurricane. From the National Hurricane Center in Miami, a radar fence reaches westward to Texas and northward to New England. It provides a 200-mile look into offshore disturbances. In Maryland, the giant computers of the National Meteorological Center digest the myriad bits of data—atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, surface winds, and winds aloft—received from weather stations and ships monitoring the atmospheric setting each hour, every day. Cloud photographs from spacecraft orbiting the earth are received in Maryland and are studied for the telltale spiral(旋涡) on the warming sea. The crew of United States aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Atlantic watch the sky and wait for the storm that will bear a person’s name. The machinery of early warning vibrates with new urgency as the season of great storms begins.
1. The cyclone season of the Southern hemisphere .| A．is brought by the polar air of winter |
| B．ends when winter comes to the Southern hemisphere |
| C．virtually lasts throughout the year |
| D．begins when the sun rays strike the Tropic of Cancer |
| A．They originate over the Pacific. |
| B．They influence Southeast Asia most violently. |
| C．They mainly grow during spring and summer. |
| D．They usually perish off coast. |
| A．It mainly provides protection against hurricanes to Texas and New England. |
| B．It warns the whole country against tornadoes, severe storms and hurricanes. |
| C．It consists of radars along the coast of the west and the north of U.S. |
| D．It supervises the coastal areas stretching from Texas to New England. |
| A．the factors that cause hurricanes |
| B．the most risky areas that suffer hurricanes |
| C．the early warning system against hurricanes |
| D．the remedies for property damage by hurricanes |
