1 . Recently, I pulled a jacket from my wardrobe, paired it with my red trousers and earrings, and hit the town for a book signing event. That night, I found myself unexpectedly satisfied. I got more praise over this jacket than I had got in years. But what made me feel way better was to respond, “Thank you. I bought it at a second-hand shop.”
Not only did I spend minimal amount on a clearly unbelievable find, but I also joined the ranks of consumers turning to circular fashion”-a growing trend in refreshing our wardrobe and producing new clothes in more planet-friendly ways.
As for the clothing industry; it produces close to 10% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions (碳排放) and is a massive consumer of the world's water supplies. To create a single pair of jeans, for example, requires nearly 2,000 gallons of water. And each year, around 8 billion barrels of oil are used to produce artificial materials.
Consumers also contribute to the problem. They buy cheap new clothes, wear them a few times, and then throw them out. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that Americans threw away 16 million tons of clothing in 2018, with only 15 percent recycled--the rest ended up in landfills or being exported abroad.
Something’s got to give. Scientists are working to develop less harmful carbon-negative fabrics, while some leading brands are shifting from linear take-make-waste economies to circular ones in which fewer clothes are made, waste and pollution are vastly reduced, and the used clothing is given new life.
But there’s also a role for the individual in addressing the problem. “Following the circular fashion, you’ll build an affordable cupboard that's better for the planet,” says Gama, co-founder of a company that helps brands scare their recycling and resale programs.
According to ThredUP, the world’s largest fashion resale platform, the U.S. second-hand market is expected to more than double by 2026. “Our resale report data found that over half of the consumers are more opposed to waste, both financially and environmentally, says ThredUP president Anthony Marino.
1. What amazed the author at the book signing event?A.People thought highly of her books. |
B.People got attracted by “circular fashion” |
C.She got others’ recognition for her dressing |
D.She had the chance to buy second-hand goods. |
A.The high costs of artificial materials. |
B.The seriousness of environmental pollution. |
C.The necessity of producing artificial materials. |
D.The high environmental costs of the clothing industry. |
A.Improving the quality of their clothes. |
B.Researching recyclable clothing materials. |
C.Promoting a sustainable clothing industry. |
D.Making their clothes affordable to consumers. |
A.Uncertain. | B.Confident. | C.Objective. | D.Curious. |
2 . In a popular TikTok video, Emily McDonald, a neuroscience consultant, discusses three things she does each day to protect her brain -staying off her phone in the morning, thinking positively, and avoiding junk food. The advice McDonald gives in her video isn't bad.
Catch some z's
Practicing good sleep hygiene (卫生), as well as getting six to eight hours of sleep each night, is one of the best things you can do for your brain health. Sleep helps the brain form memories, reinforce new concepts and ideas, and remove the buildup of bad proteins in the brain.
Get your heart pumping
Regular exercise makes for powerful heart muscles. And a strong heart helps pump enough blood to the brain to maintain its performance. The official recommendation is to have 150 minutes' moderate exercise a week which is not limited to certain types of physical activities.
Try new things.
Exposing yourself to new people, places, and challenges can keep your mind sharp, and improve brain plasticity. But trying new things doesn't necessarily mean you need to spend money traveling or take up a new hobby.
Many studies have shown highly processed foods, like packaged goods, can increase the risk of health problems, like diabetes and high blood pressure. These diseases can generally harm the entire body, including your brain. To keep your brain healthy, limit processed foods and get sufficient nutrition from a wide variety of plants and animals.
A.Remain socially involved. |
B.Stick to a healthy, well-rounded diet. |
C.Walking your dog a couple miles a day counts as well. |
D.It also boosts the brain's ability to adapt to new situations. |
E.It can be as simple as trying a crossword you haven't done before. |
F.But there's more to the health of the brain and the science behind it. |
G.Besides, this doesn't mean getting into routines is necessarily harmful. |
Located at the foot of Wushan Mountain in the southern scenic area of Hangzhou, Qinghefang Historic & Culture Feature Street sits just several hundred meters away from West Lake. It ranks as
Huqingyutang Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum,
In 1874, a local resident named Hu Xueyan started his pharmacy (药房) here. He invited famous doctors from around Zhejiang
Medicine Museum
Handheld folding fans available at Wangxingji Fan, a shop on Qinghefang Street,
4 . Imagine that you’re approaching a coffee shop. Suddenly, your eyes are drawn toward an interaction between two
If you answered yes, you’re probably
What they found, in short is yes.
In the study, half of the participants watched a video titled “Unsung Hero”, which follows a young man as he
A.friends | B.strangers | C.relatives | D.colleagues |
A.owes | B.lends | C.offers | D.returns |
A.zone | B.dilemma | C.experiment | D.scene |
A.consider | B.avoid | C.regret | D.admit |
A.testing | B.experiencing | C.suffering | D.observing |
A.tense | B.awkward | C.warm | D.confident |
A.Rigidly | B.Urgently | C.Similarly | D.Hopefully |
A.whether | B.where | C.how | D.when |
A.turns down | B.goes through | C.settles into | D.complains about |
A.hesitating | B.stopping | C.refusing | D.promising |
A.prepared | B.submitted | C.received | D.withdrew |
A.attachment | B.adaptation | C.donations | D.references |
A.viewers | B.athletes | C.photographers | D.advocates |
A.Touched | B.Confused | C.Valued | D.Inspired |
A.patience | B.thankfulness | C.sympathy | D.kindness |
5 . Stories of Art: 1800~1900
About
This series of online lectures is produced by the National Gallery, London, through which you can learn about the art of different periods with Dr Amy Mechowski. Each lecture lasts 2 hours, starting from 5:30 pm
Week1
In this first session, Amy Mechowski will give a brief introduction to this module (模块). Then we will be joined by Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, who will report on the National Gallery's foundation and its development under Charles Eastlake, the first director of the National Gallery, from1855 to 1865.
Week 2
With the realists, represented by Courbet, Millet, and Manet in France and important contributions to social realism by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (前拉斐尔派) and others in England, direct observation came to the forefront of artistic practice.
Week 3
From their first independent exhibition in 1874, the group of artists known as the impressionists forever changed approaches to painting. Significantly, the works of women artists, who were regarded by their contemporaries as important members of this group, including Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, came into focus.
Week 4
With the last of the independent exhibitions in 1886 came the debut (首次亮相) of artists for whom the English art critic Roger Fry coined the term “Post-Impressionists” 20 years later,
Booking information
Only one ticket can be booked per account. You will be emailed an E-ticket with instructions on how to access the course via your account. If you are new to the National Gallery, please go to our official website and create your own account, through which all lecture information including weekly handouts and recordings will be provided.
Admission
Standard: £75
A special offer: £70.50 (Special offers are for full-time students.)
1. What will Avery-Quash talk about at the first week's lecture?A.A brief introduction to the lecture series. |
B.The life experience of Amy Mechowski. |
C.Eastlake's paintings exhibited at the gallery |
D.Eastlake's contribution to the National Gallery. |
A.Week 1 | B.Week 2. | C.Week3. | D.Week4. |
A.Being a full-time art student. |
B.Having attended Dr Amy's lectures before. |
C.Owning an account of the National Gallery. |
D.Paying an additional fee for lecture recordings. |
1.赞成使用翻译笔的理由;
2.反对使用翻译笔的理由;
3.你的观点。
翻译笔: translator pen
注意:1.词数120词左右;
2.可适当增添细节,使行文连贯。
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As a senior editor in a famous press, I always think of days twenty years before when I was 18, I lived with my grandparents, and my parents earned their living in another city, struggling to support our family. I had taken to delivering newspapers to support myself and my education.
I would be up every morning by 5 am and walk five kilometres from where I lived to the newspaper office. By 6 am, I would collect 50 copies which must have weighed over five kilograms. My delivery range spanned (横跨) three kilometres. After distributing the copies, I would rush home—another three kilometres away—cook my breakfast, and be off to my school.
One Friday morning, I got home after my deliveries, finding Afzal, a boy from the neighbourhood, at my doorstep. Afzal said his mother wanted to see me. When I asked him why, Afzal said, “She will tell you.” Tired after walking around for over 11 kilometres, I was looking forward to breakfast and some rest. I assumed his mother wished to subscribe (定期订购) to the newspaper, so I followed him to his home nearby.
A woman in her 40s opened the door. I later learned she was Afzal’s mother, Mrs Kader. She asked me to sit, pulled up her chair next to mine and gently asked, “Tell me about your routine, right from the time you wake up in the morning.” I wasn’t quite sure why she wanted to know, but I told her about my morning job in a few words. She asked me, “How many miles do you walk every day?” I replied, “A little more than 11 kilometres.” My reply shocked her.
Then she patted my back and went inside, reappearing carrying a large plate full of food for breakfast for me. It was a heart y breakfast, one that brought back memories of happy days spent with my parents. Later, as I was about to leave after thanking them, Mrs Kader asked me to wait and she went inside again.
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1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Then Mrs Kader appeared again, with a new bicycle.
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I bowed to Mrs Kader gratefully and left for school.
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It was a Saturday afternoon. I was having lunch when Dad told me to get ready. I became unhappy. I don’t like Saturdays! Even though it’s a holiday for most children, it is not for me because I need to go to football club.
Many kids love sports, but I am not one of them. I prefer to stay at home and read. I don’t like running, so in a team I am a bad player. The coach is tired of me and my teammates sometimes think I’m useless.
I have no idea how to play football. Usually, after practice my teammates would ask me to stay out of the game and I would just nod.
Last Thursday, the coach told us that we would be competing with another team in a month and many people would come to see the game. Our opponents (对手) were the winner last year and I froze and thought how awkward it would be if the team lost because of me.
So I decided to practice hard for the match and I went to practice every single day.
After one month, when the game day came, my teammates were unwilling to take me in the team, and I also wished to stay away from the ground as well. But they happened to be short of one player and had no choice but to take me in the team.
Our team was the Big Blues. There was a great cheer on our arrival in the field. I got very nervous. The game started and within two minutes, I got a blue card. By the time I was allowed back, the score was two goals for each team and the next goal would decide the winning team.
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2.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好。
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When the ball came towards me, I froze.
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Our team, The Big Blues, won the match!
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9 . Using needles to deliver drugs has been common for more than a century. The past hundred years have seen all manner of medical advances, from life-saving medicine and X-rays to mRNA vaccines and special cancer treatments. Yet the needle has stayed mostly unchanged. Although now available in a variety of different sizes, it remains a hollow (having a hole or empty space inside), pointy tube.
With luck, that may soon change. As Yichi Ma, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues outline in a review paper, researchers around the world are looking for ways to ease the pain when needles go into the skin. Many have been inspired by nature.
The team got their idea from mosquitoes, which manage to get their blood meals without causing great pain to people. One reason is that the insects use painkilling chemicals when they first puncture (刺穿) the skin. But there is another reason, The point of a mosquito's saw-like proboscis (锯齿状的喙) is softer at its tip. The insect makes the skin of its target tight before biting, and shakes its proboscis as it pushes the proboscis in. All of this helps reduce the force needed to puncture the skin.
One paper, published in 2020 by a group of researchers in America and China, found that a mosquito-inspired needle required 27% less puncturing force than an ordinary one. And less force means less pain Mosquito-inspired needles might also be useful for delicate procedures such as biopsies (the examination of tissue taken from a living body). A paper from the University of Michigan, also published in 2020, found that scientists could improve biopsies of tissue in some body organs. The lower force led to less movement of the organ itself, ensuring that the needles were guided accurately to the area that needed sampling.
For now, such devices remain limited to labs. But there is a big market for better needles. According to WHO, around 16 billion injections were given in 2018. With one person in four saying they suffer from a fear of needles, the savings on stickers and sweets for the brave souls who roll up their sleeves would be considerable.
1. What can we infer about needles from Paragraph 1?A.Their importance has been ignored for long |
B.They fall behind other medical innovations. |
C.Their size remains the same for over a century |
D.They had a poor source of supply for decades. |
A.To lessen discomfort. |
B.To deliver much more drugs. |
C.To make the needles flexible. |
D.To increase the frequency of needle use. |
A.The source of scientists' inspiration |
B.The chemical compounds found in mosquitoes. |
C.The unique structure of a mosquito's proboscis. |
D.The harmful effects of mosquito bites on humans. |
A.To show people's anxiety about injections. |
B.To highlight the limitations of current needle designs, |
C.To draw attention to the dangers of too many injections. |
D.To emphasize the potential demand for improved needles. |
10 . From rolling hills to mountain ranges, views make any road trip memorable, but for blin d passengers this is part of the experience they miss. Motor company Ford tries to change that. It teamed up with GTB Rom a and AedoProject—to develop a technology that will give those unfortunate passengers a way to feel nature’s beauty through their car windows.
The prototype (原型) of the smart car window has a device with an outside-facing camera. With just a press of a button, the system takes a picture of the current view. The colorful picture is then turned into an image with different shades of grey through, LED lights, which vibrates (震动) differently. As the finger passes over different regions of the image, its shaking movements provide feedback through the sense of touch to the person using it. The smart window also comes with a voice assistant that uses AI to identify the scene and help the passengers get information on what they’re seeing.
“As the prototype started taking shape, we realized we were giving birth to a completely new language that would give blind people a new chance to visualize and experience traveling,” Federico Russo.-one director of GTBRoma, said. “When the idea was at its first stage, we looked for suppliers all around the world to make it come to life.” He believes the technology can be employed not just in cars. “It could be introduced into schools and in stituations for blind people as a tool that could be used in multiple ways.”
The technology may show up in a Ford autonomous vehicle. It’s known that the company is testing their technology and future business model and struggling to figure out how an autonomous vehicle gives different passengers the details needed to get from one destination to another. It’s unclear when this technology will be made available. However, the idea of building something for the less advanced is indeed a kind and influential action.
1. How does the smart car window work?A.By sorting shaking movements. | B.By recording the view with a camera. |
C.By translating scenery into vibrations. | D.By presenting different shades of colors. |
A.It will have wide application. | B.It will be used in schools first. |
C.It will be tested around the world. | D.It will understand different languages. |
A.How to explore their future business model. |
B.How the technology is applied to everyday life. |
C.How to produce autonomous cars in large numbers. |
D.How an autonomous vehicle provides route information. |
A.AI-based Window Adds Fun to Road Trips |
B.Ford Develops a System for the Blind to Drive |
C.Smart Window Lets Blin d Passengers Feel Views |
D.Technology Makes Blind People’s Trip Enjoyable |