1 . Why Do People Volunteer?
For someone who doesn't do it, trying to understand why people volunteer can be difficult.
Whenever there have been wars, there have been those who made the decision to join the battle.
Simple kindness is another factor as to why people volunteer.
An individual who becomes financially successful might feel the need to give some of the fortune back. Helping out is one way to do it. For these people, it's not just another way to earn more money.
| A．For some, it’s all about the future. |
| B．It helps people learn more about themselves. |
| C．It is their way of expressing thanks to others. |
| D．This becomes even more so when the task is dangerous. |
| E．Some feel that volunteering is a way for them to grow emotionally. |
| F．When disaster happens, some people offer their services to help others. |
| G．For these individuals, it's all about fighting for what they believe is right. |
2 . Your guardian angel might have four legs and a rocking tail.
A new study from two researchers at Arizona State University found, like the hero dogs of film and TV, your real-life one likely wants to rescue you when you’re in trouble, reports AFP.
“It’s a popular legend(传说), ” explained researcher Joshua van Bourg. “Simply observing dogs rescuing someone doesn’t tell you much. The difficult challenge is figuring out why they do it.”
To test if and why dogs want to save their humans, Joshua van Bourg and his partner, Clive Wynne, took 60 dogs and their owners and set up artificial rescue scene. For the study, the owner was put in a large box that had a lightweight door that the owner’s dog could move to one side to “save” them. Once in the box, the human would pretend to be in trouble, calling out for help without using their dog’s name. The second part of the test involved researchers placing dog food in a box and watching to see how many of the same 60 dogs moved to open the box to get the reward.
Looking at the two tests, the researchers found that about one-third of the dogs successfully rescued their owners and that around the same number also opened the box with the food. The study suggests that these responses could signal that dogs find rescuing their loved ones to be a rewarding task, much like nosing out and finding food. According to Joshua van Bourg, a dog’s natural heroism becomes even more impressive when you take “a closer look” at the study’s results.
“The key here is that without controlling for each dog’s understanding of how to open the box, the percentage of dogs who rescued their owners is much more lower than the percentage of dogs who wanted to rescue their owners.” Joshua van Bourg said.
“The fact that two-thirds of the dogs didn’t even open the box for food shows that rescuing requires more than just motivation(动机), there’s something else involved, and that’s the ability.” he added.
1. What do the researchers focus on in the studies?| A．The number of dogs smelling dog food. |
| B．The way of dogs opening the light door. |
| C．The reason for dogs rescuing their owners. |
| D．The willingness of dogs to enter the rescue scene. |
| A．Twenty dogs are brave enough to rescue humans. |
| B．Forty dogs help humans and open the boxes for food. |
| C．Owners are saved without calling their dogs name. |
| D．Dogs consider rescuing owners as a rewarding task. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Objective. | C．Negative. | D．Pessimistic. |
| A．Teaching dogs how to rescue humans. |
| B．Reminding people of being kind to dogs. |
| C．Advocating people to raise more dogs as pets. |
| D．Testing dogs what to do while rescuing owners. |
3 . Recently, a company called SkyDrive gave a test of its new flying car, the SD-03. The small car flew at an altitude of around 6 feet around up to four minutes. The SD-03 is powered by batteries and has 8 motors, which lift it straight off the ground. Since flying cars don't use runways, they need to be able to take off and land by going straight up or down. Its breakthrough was that a pilot was on board. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who leads SkyDrive, said, "Of the world's more than 100 flying car projects, only a handful has succeeded with a person on board."
The world's leading companies are investing (投资) heavily to work on more advanced flying cars of their own. That includes airplane makers like Airbus and Boeing, car makers like Toyota, Hyundai, and Porsche, and ride services like Uber. Some governments, including Japan's, are supporting the idea, hoping that in the future, flying cars will be useful for short trips like taxi rides in cities. Flying cars could also save time in emergencies, and help reach some places that can't be reached by road.
However, controlling a flying car is so complex that most people won't be able to do it. Even SkyDrive's test flight was kept stable by an automatic (自动的) computer system, and a backup team stood ready to control the car from the ground. Besides, safety is a major problem. What happens when a motor fails? That's a reason why the SD-03 has eight motors-as backups. All realities have led many companies to take a wait-and-see approach to developing flying cars. But people who believe in flying cars point out that cars and airplanes faced lots of challenges at first, too and that with time, many of the big problems were settled eventually.
Mr. Fukuzawa wants SkyDrive to be able to fly two passengers on trips of up to 3 miles by 2023. By 2050, he hopes people will be able to fly anywhere inside Tokyo in just 10 minutes. ''I think flying cars will become normal in the near future, " he says.
1. What made the SD-03's test flight by SkyDrive special?| A．It was the first manned flying car. | B．It landed without using a runway. |
| C．It flew much longer than expected. | D．It was powered by batteries. |
| A．Uniting to design it together. | B．Developing it independently. |
| C．Promoting it all over the world. | D．Persuading governments to invest it. |
| A．The designs. | B．Future development. |
| C．Different comments. | D．The challenges. |
| A．He doesn't think the flying cars will be promoted. |
| B．The flying cars will be able to fly two passengers by 2023. |
| C．He is optimistic about the use of the flying cars in the future. |
| D．He isn't certain about the future of the flying cars. |
4 . It was challenging for me to organize a big fundraiser for a non-profit organization Hope. Having been involved in voluntary work for many years and running several small fundraisers, I came up with an idea to create an event that would bring my friends and family together and would educate everyone about the meaning of what I had been doing.
I wanted to hold the event at a local venue (举办地点) so I fell back on a friend, Jill, whose husband Sal owns an amazing Italian restaurant. When I asked if they'd be willing to host my fundraising event, they replied with a flat yes.
To raise additional funds, Jill and I went to local businesses asking for donations. I was amazed at how generous my community was and we got great donations.
After months of planning, I was so happy to see a full room the day of the event. While everyone was enjoying Sal's delicious food, I gave a small speech about Hope. Many of my friends and family hadn't known of the hardships that children born with a cleft (唇裂) must bear or of the life-changing impact a Hope-supported surgery (外科手术) can have on their lives. By the end of the speech, I saw that people were really moved and did all they could to raise as much money as possible. The event eventually raised an incredible $14, 600.
The event taught me that it's not difficult to throw a successful fundraising event; it just takes a lot of work! However, my family, friends, and community were there to support me every step of the way. It's amazing that one small idea could turn into something with an incredible impact. How beautiful!
1. Why did the author hold the activity?| A．To raise fund for education. | B．To have a big family reunion. |
| C．To get donations for charity. | D．To make the organization popular. |
| A．Referred to. | B．Turned to. | C．Looked for. | D．Pointed to. |
| A．The children with a disability would live happily. |
| B．The author's friends were very wealthy. |
| C．The event took the author many days. |
| D．The event made a hit beyond expectation. |
| A．Charity needs support of the whole society. |
| B．Hope has changed children's lives. |
| C．Fundraising events are easy to organize. |
| D．People have the duty to contribute to the charity. |
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When I was an little boy, I was always looking forward the dinner on the eve of the Spring Festival. It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat， and also for the opportunity to had our whole family together. I was used to run around the house, listening to the adult chatting about their passing year. I’d follow my mother to the kitchen, watching she making dumplings. She’d put coins or candies in some dumplings. In the evening, all of us would sit around the table, enjoying the food happy together. The homemade dishes tasted most delicious than anything cooking by a tip cook.
6 . I recently posted a story about my coworker whose bright coloured Post It Notes (便利贴) had been taken by someone from her desk. She had bought them with her own
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| A．money | B．hand | C．gold | D．daughter |
| A．sad | B．happy | C．excited | D．surprised |
| A．hear | B．heat | C．find | D．work |
| A．brought | B．sold | C．borrowed | D．taken |
| A．similar | B．small | C．big | D．just |
| A．take in | B．believe in | C．bring in | D．result in |
| A．papers | B．items | C．foods | D．paintings |
| A．managers | B．customers | C．bosses | D．staff |
| A．turned | B．liked | C．returned | D．hated |
| A．smiling | B．missing | C．flying | D．falling |
| A．note | B．salesman | C．driver | D．person |
| A．give back | B．look back | C．pay back | D．go back |
| A．forget | B．keep | C．make | D．try |
| A．friends | B．progress | C．mistakes | D．coffee |
| A．excited | B．cool | C．crazy | D．right |
| A．escaped | B．stopped | C．realized | D．supported |
| A．good | B．bad | C．strict | D．honest |
| A．movement | B．laziness | C．darkness | D．forgiveness |
| A．wine | B．courage | C．family | D．love |
| A．difference | B．world | C．notice | D．room |
7 . Ways to Improve Participation (参与) in Your Virtual Classroom (虚拟课堂)
During remote learning this spring, students in Shai Klima’s high school class led their own discussions over Google Meet.
While students conversed（谈话） on video, Klima listened and drew lines on a sheet of paper tracking the flow of the conversation, resulting in a spider web. At the end of the discussion, Klima shared the drawing over video.
“It has been successful as a means to get kids to credit their peers with helping them come up with new ideas, which helps build a friendly relationship,” said kilma.
Kindergarten teacher Ruth Calkins, meanwhile, used Zoom chat when holding live lessons with her kindergarten students. She said they enjoyed typing “T” or “F” for true and false questions while answering math problems in the chat box.
| A．This strategy is terribly useful and significant. |
| B．Then he asked students to reflect on the experience. |
| C．Using chat to check for understanding is one useful strategy. |
| D．Before the live class, students answered questions independently. |
| E．Some even attempted to write sentences in response to the questions. |
| F．They decided as a group to use only one emoji at a time, for example. |
| G．They didn’t like to pay more attention to these questions. |
8 . As its name suggests, the common swift is a common bird that lives all across Europe and much of Asia, but their flight time is anything but common. It currently holds the record for the most time spent in the air per year, with data showing that some species can spend up to 10 months out of 12 without landing even once. They drink and eat in the air, feeding on any insects that they can catch in flight. They can mate in the air as well, and they can also sleep in the air by gliding on warm air currents known as “thermals”.
A team of researchers at Lund University developed a new type of micro-data logger to track the birds’ movements, and fitted them to 19 common swifts that were later caught again. Without going into too much detail about the results of the study, the findings showed that common swifts spent over 99% of their time during the 10-month non-breeding period in the air.
“A few swifts in our study never landed during this period,” study author Anders Hedenström told Seeker, adding that he believed the birds somehow sleep while flying. The study didn’t analyze how common swifts can do that, but it’s supposed that it is through a mechanism similar to that of frigate birds and Alpine swifts, which also can stay in the air for months.
Common swifts are born to fly. Their bodies have adapted to the almost non-stop flight-their wings are long and narrow, their legs are short and light, and they have an almost perfect aerodynamic shape. They also change their feathers very slowly over a period of six months, so as not to affect their flight.
Swifts generally have a higher survivability rate compared to most birds, and their love of flight is believed to directly influence that. Being in the air for long periods of time means they don’t have to worry about meeting predators except those catching then by accident. Data shows that common swifts can reach ages of 20 years or more, and fly over three million kilometers. That’s seven round trips to the moon.
1. What can we know about the common swifts?| A．They fly in the air all the year around. |
| B．They are the only birds without landing for months. |
| C．They stay longer in the air than any other bird. |
| D．They can’t fly long without warn air currents. |
| A．To limit their flight range. | B．To catch more swifts. |
| C．To record their activity. | D．To measure their flight height. |
| A．Common swifts’ perfect flying body structure. | B．The reasons for common swifts’ long flight. |
| C．The speed of changing their feathers. | D．The differences of their movements. |
| A．Some swifts can fly far to the moon. | B．Swifts don’t have natural enemies. |
| C．Flight contributes to swifts’ long life. | D．The higher the swifts fly, the safer they are. |
9 . People have long called college the “great equalizer,” meaning it gives students from all backgrounds the same opportunities or similar chances for success. A study announced in February 2017 supports this idea.
The findings may not come as a surprise to some. For example, it showed a degree from an “Ivy League” or another highly selective school helps students from low income families a great deal. Ivy League is a term for eight private universities in the northeastern United States. Many people consider them to be among the best for higher education in the world.
The study found that about 60 percent of the lowest income students at lvy League schools earned as much as students from the highest income families later in life. But the high cost and strong competition to attend one of these schools can be a barrier (障碍) for many students.
What may be more interesting is what less widely known colleges can do. The study identified 10 less selective universities that also helped large numbers of students escape poverty. This proves that any given college can be a tool for success.
However, there are other things to consider. The study notes that Ivy League and other top schools are less likely to admit students from low-income families. On average, a young person from the highest income background is 77 percent more likely to attend one of the highest income background is 77 percent more likely to attend one of these schools than someone from the lowest income background.
Also, while a college education may help almost everyone, higher income students still have an advantage. The students born into the highest income families still earned at least two percent more after college than anyone else. This is because people from wealthier families have more connections that can help their children.
1. What finding attracts the author’s more attention?| A．Non-famous schools also benefit students. |
| B．t is quite competitive to enter famous schools. |
| C．College education has great effects on students. |
| D．Ordinary schools do better than well-known ones. |
| A．They bring too much stress on students. |
| B．They charge too much for education. |
| C．They look down upon poor students. |
| D．They offer more chances to the rich. |
| A．College major courses. | B．Different universities. |
| C．Family background. | D．Records of study. |
| A．You Don’t have to Choose the Most Famous Schools |
| B．Does a College Education Help All People Equally? |
| C．Is College Education a Must For Poor Students? |
| D．Well-Known Universities Help You Succeed |
10 . Top Teen Magazines to Follow
Affinity
Affinity is one of the largest teen-ran online magazines in the world, devoted to helping teens get early experience in journalism, learn writing skills and communicate with others. Since its launch in 2013, over 8.5 million people from over 200 countries have benefited from it. It covers topics relating to politics, mental health, entertainment etc.7 posts/week || affinitymagazine. us
TeenZone
First published in 2000, TeenZone is a magazine for the South African teenager. Teens today have voices that we all need to hear. They need to be taken seriously, lo be given the chance to express their views and concerns, to ask questions and receive advice, and in enjoy themselves in a safe environment. TenZone seeks to provide this platform (平台). It is written by teens, for teens.
3 posts/week || teenzonemagazine. co. za
The Teenager Today
Named The Teenager at the beginning, it was founded in 1963 with the purpose of uniting young people in a bond of true friendship, understanding and love. The Teenager Today is India’s only magazine intended for teens. It aims to be Indian teens’ high-quality resource for information, practical advice, and answers to all kinds of questions. What’s more, it comes to you with lots of fun!
5 posts/week||theteenagertoday.com
Teenage
Established in 1988, Teenage is Singapore’s first and number one youth publication, and the guide for young adults who want to know the latest in entertainment news, along with fashion, beauty, music trends and lifestyle tips.
24 posts/year || teenage. com.sg
1. On which magazine can we learn how to write a news report?| A．Teenage. | B．Affinity. | C．TeenZone. | D．The Teenager Today. |
| A．Give voice to teens. |
| B．Improve teens’ life skills. |
| C．Make teens’ voices heard. |
| D．Help teens gain friendships. |
| A．It was first published in 1988. |
| B．It is interesting for teens to read. |
| C．It was called Teenage at the beginning. |
| D．It is intended for South African teenagers. |
