1 . Nguyen Thi Thu is one of the few remaining artists practicing and constantly enhancing the traditional Vietnamese art of sculpting realistic-looking flowers out of papaya (番木瓜树) fruits.
Thu became
Over the years, Thu has
Apart from
A.confident | B.interested | C.expert | D.talented |
A.missed | B.held | C.quit | D.took |
A.traditional | B.modern | C.fashionable | D.contemporary |
A.return | B.turn | C.move | D.adjust |
A.appreciate | B.practice | C.change | D.adopt |
A.access | B.reaction | C.solution | D.resistance |
A.described | B.imagined | C.painted | D.tried |
A.grew | B.offered | C.knew | D.bought |
A.occasionally | B.immediately | C.randomly | D.definitely |
A.expected | B.reminded | C.forced | D.taught |
A.abstract | B.expensive | C.complicated | D.fundamental |
A.depending on | B.accounting for | C.focusing on | D.calling for |
A.plant | B.sculpt | C.feed | D.invent |
A.exhibiting | B.judging | C.updating | D.transforming |
A.replacing | B.celebrating | C.recovering | D.preserving |
1.活动内容;
2.活动感受。
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1.词数80左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
A Community-based Social Practice Activity
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3 . In 2018, when Hemesh Chadalavada was 12 years old, his grandmother forgot to turn off the gas after she made herself a cup of tea. This experience caused Hemesh to invent the “Alpha Monitor”, a device designed for dementia (痴呆) patients.
He started creating this device with whatever was at home, with the help of the internet. “The first model I built was a huge box. I learnt how to make a wearable device on the internet by learning which components to use and where I could source them in Hyderabad. I started with a hardware device, after which I learnt coding online and moved to machine learning and data science, to help me perfect my device,” he adds.
The Alpha Monitor has two parts, one, a wearable watch-like device, and the second, an alarm which connects to it. “You attach the device to the patient. In case the patient throws it away or doesn’t like wearing it, you can just put it in a bag and fix it in their pocket or sock or wherever you like. Once you plug in the alarm, you will be warned for every tiny change in movement. As soon as the patient gets up or wanders away, it will warn the family members with a huge alarm sound,” says Hemesh.
The wearable device monitors body temperature, pulse, and detects movement, falls and more. It works using a gyroscope sensor to detect even the slightest movement and health sensors for pulse and temperature. It works without Wi-Fi or bluetooth and has a range of 1-2k m, according to Hemesh. It can also be connected to an app for children staying far away to monitor their parents’ movements.
“The happiest I’ve ever been is seeing how the device actually works for patients with Alzheimer’s. It gives me incredible happiness to see the small impact I’ve managed to create in the lives of these families,” smiles the youngster.
1. What can we learn about Hemesh from the first two paragraphs?A.He received little formal education. | B.He had a strong self-learning ability. |
C.He invented the device to stop gas leaks. | D.He got support from a computer engineer. |
A.By speaking into their phones. | B.By producing a loud noise. |
C.By making an emergency call. | D.By announcing the time automatically. |
A.It can analyze patients’ health data. | B.It can prevent patients from falling down. |
C.It can track patients’ movements remotely. | D.It can make a difference to patients’ recovery. |
A.Caring and creative. | B.Generous and talented. |
C.Determined and honest. | D.Independent and brave. |
4 . People who experienced trauma (精神创伤) as a child or adolescent were found to be 48 percent more likely to have serious and repeated headaches as an adult than those who had not experienced trauma in their early years, according to research published in the journal Neurology. The finding came from the analysis of data from 28 studies, involving 154,739 people.
Overall, nearly one-third of the participants reported having experienced a traumatic event at least once before age 18, and 16 percent had been diagnosed as an adult with a primary headache disorder, which means that their headaches are the main problem, rather than a symptom (症状) of an underlying disease or condition.
The researchers categorized traumatic events as either threat-based (such as physical or emotional abuse, witnessing or being threatened by violence, and serious family conflicts) or deprivation-based (including neglect, financial trouble, parents’ separation, divorce or death, and living in a household with mental illness, alcohol or substance abuse). Physical abuse and exposure to family violence were among the most commonly reported traumas.
Of those who had experienced at least one traumatic event as a youth, 26 percent subsequently were diagnosed with primary headaches, compared with 12 percent of those who had not experienced trauma.
As the number of traumatic events experienced by a child or adolescent increased, so did the odds of their having headaches later in life. For example, those who had experienced four or more traumatic events were more than twice as likely to have a head ache disorder. Also, certain traumas — physical abuse and neglect — were linked to greater risk for headaches than other types of trauma.
The study found an association between trauma as a youth and headache disorder as an adult, rather than direct proof that one led to the other. But the researchers wrote that traumas experienced as a child or adolescent “are important risk factors for primary headache disorders in adulthood,” which one of the researchers described in a statement released by the American Academy of Neurology as “a risk factor that we cannot ignore.”
1. What does the research focus on?A.The different types of trauma experienced by children. |
B.The reasons why headaches are so common among adults. |
C.The influence that childhood experiences have on later life. |
D.The link between childhood trauma and headaches as an adult. |
A.Witnessing violence. | B.Physical abuse. |
C.The loss of a parent. | D.Criticism from teachers. |
A.Complexity. | B.Frequency. | C.Seriousness. | D.Chance. |
A.It causes headaches. | B.It deserves attention. |
C.It can be prevented. | D.It can be life-threatening. |
5 . On one side of the room sits the cutest life-size stuffed animal (填充玩具) you’ve ever seen. On the other side rests a real dog — the same size, shape and even the same name as the stuffed version. You get to sit next to both of these furry friends and pet their fur. Guess which one will make your brain light up?
If you guessed the real dog, you’re right. Stuffed animals, as cute and lovely as they may be, just don’t effectively activate our frontal cortex (额叶皮层), the part of the brain overseeing how we think and feel, according to a new study published in the journal PLOSONE. The study found an even stronger rise in brain activity when the person petted the fur of a real dog versus a stuffed animal.
“We chose to research the frontal cortex because this brain area is involved in several executive (执行) functions, such as attention, working memory, and problem-solving. But it is also involved in social and emotional processes,” said study lead author Rahel Marti, a doctoral student in the division of clinical psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland.
Why is this finding important? It provides additional evidence that live human-animal interaction therapy (疗法) may promote cognitive and emotional activity in the brain. Marti said, “If patients with deficits in motivation, attention, and socioemotional functioning show higher emotional involvement in activities connected to a real dog, then such activities could increase the chance of learning and of achieving treatment aims.”
“This is an interesting, seriously conducted study that provides new insight into associations between human-animal interaction and regional prefrontal brain activity in healthy adults. We found that brain activity increased when the contact with a real dog or a stuffed animal became closer. This confirms previous studies relating closer contact with animals to increased brain activity,” Marti said.
1. How does the author introduce the subject of the text?A.By listing some figures. | B.By giving an example. |
C.By setting a situation. | D.By analyzing a phenomenon. |
A.It is involved in several body parts. |
B.It is the most important part of the brain. |
C.It plays a key part in performing functions. |
D.It provides evidence for live human-animal therapy. |
A.Styles. | B.Faults. | C.Adventures. | D.Sources. |
A.What Petting A Dog Can Do For Your Brain? |
B.Why A Pet Dog Is Important To A Person? |
C.Which Part Of The Brain Is Involved In Emotion? |
D.How Can A Patient Benefit From Petting A Dog? |
6 . Artificial intelligence (AI) is showing promise in earthquake prediction, challenging the long-held belief that it is impossible. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, have developed an AI algorithm (算法) that correctly predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance during a trial in China and provided accurate strength calculations for the predicted earthquakes.
The research team believes their method succeeded because they stuck with a relatively simple machine learning approach. The AI was provided with a set of statistical features based on the team’s knowledge of earthquake physics, and then instructed to train itself using a five-year database of earthquake recordings. Once trained, the AI provided its prediction by listening for signs of incoming earthquakes within the background rumblings (隆隆声) in the Earth.
This work is clearly a milestone in research for AI-driven earthquake prediction. “You don’t see earth-quakes coming,” explains Alexandros Savvaidis, a senior research scientist who leads the Texas Seismological Network Program (TexNet). “It’s a matter of milliseconds, and the only thing you can control is how prepared you are. Even with the 70% accuracy, that’s a huge result and could help minimize economic and human losses and has the potential to remarkably improve earthquake preparation worldwide.”
While it is unknown whether the same approach will work at other locations, the researchers are confident that their AI algorithm could produce more accurate predictions if used in areas with reliable earthquake tracking networks. The next step is to test artificial intelligence in Texas, since UT’s Bureau TexNet has 300 earth-quake stations and over six years worth of continuous records, making it an ideal location for these purposes.
Eventually, the authors hope to combine the system with physics-based models. This strategy could prove especially important where data is poor or lacking. “That may be a long way off, but many advances such as this one, taken together, are what moves science forward,” concludes Scott Tinker, the bureau’s director.
1. How does the AI forecast earthquakes?A.By identifying data from the satellites. |
B.By analyzing background sounds in the Earth. |
C.By modeling data based on earthquake recordings. |
D.By monitoring changes in the Earth’s magnetic field. |
A.The ways to reduce losses in earthquakes. |
B.The importance of preparing for earthquakes. |
C.The significance of developing the AI prediction. |
D.The limitation of AI algorithms in earthquake prediction. |
A.Conducting tests in different locations. |
B.Applying the AI approach to other fields. |
C.Building more earthquake stations in Texas. |
D.Enlarging the database to train the calculation accuracy. |
A.Stable but outdated. | B.Effective but costly. |
C.Potential and economical. | D.Pioneering and promising. |
7 . Athena Kan grew up watching her dad juggle his day job as an insurance actuary (精算师) with nights of studying to become an electrical inspector. As a kid, she couldn’t wrap her head around it, “I just didn’t really get it,” she says, “Like, why would he not just hire someone to do that?”
The answer, she now appreciates, is because outsourcing skilled help is expensive. As immigrants to America-her father arrived from Malaysia, and her mother from China-times were lean, “With that mentality,” Kan reflects, “you think more about survival and less so how you can pay your way through the problem.”
Two years ago, as a senior at Harvard, she began channeling that awareness into the concept of Dreambound which was initially called Ladder. It’s a gateway to gainful employment, which helps workers secure funds for job certification training and then placement in occupations like certified nursing assistant or truck driver. Then she composed the right team to make it happen: Her friend Brandon Wang and his friend Shiroy Aspandiar had both worked with Teach for America and saw a lot of opportunity to build upon that work. The three co-founders launched Dreambound in early 2020, have since raised $4.3 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, and hired a staff of 20. “One of the big advantages of being fun-backed is that we’re able to make the most of all these resources that nonprofits are just not able to,” says Wang.
For Kan, it’s crucial that their employer clients carry most of the up-front educational costs, allowing Dreambound to, as she puts it, “reengineer incentives” that make entry into the workforce more accessible. “There was one customer who told me about how she wanted to be a phlebotomist,” Kan says. “But that class costs $300, and she wasn’t able to afford it, so she had to work seasonal jobs. And then it hit me: This is the same pathway my father took and I wanted to help people get their license.”
1. What can we learn about Athena Kan from the first two paragraphs?A.She enjoyed the life abroad. |
B.She had a poor but colorful childhood. |
C.She now appreciates what her father did. |
D.She wanted her father to take a part-time job. |
A.It provides fund for job seekers. | B.It helps workers get their license. |
C.It helps people seek jobs directly. | D.It supports business starters financially |
A.To compare the customer and his father. |
B.To prove it hard to enter into workforce. |
C.To stress the cost of job training classes. |
D.To show her motivation to help job seekers. |
A.Adaptable and active. | B.Generous and modest. |
C.Reflective and caring. | D.Ambitious and appreciative. |
1. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A.New facilities assisting the disabled. |
B.Traffic safety for people with disabilities. |
C.The difficulties that disabled people face. |
A.People in wheelchairs. |
B.People with hearing loss. |
C.People with vision problems. |
A.He plans to revisit Yellowstone. |
B.He doesn’t think the visit is good. |
C.He agrees with the woman’s opinion. |
A.A club. | B.A song. | C.A video. |