1．位于吉林省延吉市，占地面积约为50万平方米;
2．以恐龙为主题的乐园，于2022年7月对外开放;
3．涵盖四大场馆、五十多个极限游乐项目，每天都有各种风格的主题演出。
4．游客可以参与多项活动，有多种设施可以满足不同年龄段人群的需要;
注意：1．词数100 左右;
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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Preserving more habitats for China’s giant pandas is providing a giant payoff.
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3 . For years, people have wondered whether there’s life on other planets. Scientists may now be closer than ever to answering that question.
Using powerful telescopes, a team of astronomers in South America discovered a new planet, called Proxima b. It circles a star named Proxima Centauri, in the same way Earth circles the sun. Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our solar system.
Scientists believe the new planet has a rocky surface and is similar in size to Earth. More importantly, they’ve determined that the distance between Proxima b and its “sun” gives the planet a similar temperature to Earth’s. This means it could have liquid water. The presence of water on a planet makes it possible for life to exist there. Scientists refer to planets like Proxima b as “Goldilocks planets” because they are not too hot or too cold, but just right to possibly support life.
Astronomers have found other Goldilocks planets in the past, but none are as close to Earth as Proxima b. Still, the new planet is 4.2 light years from Earth—that is about 25 trillion miles away.
Despite the long distance, astronomers hope to get a much better look at our new-found neighbor one day. But they’ll need to wait until more advanced telescopes are developed. They may also send a robotic spacecraft to investigate the planet.
1. Earth is to the sun what ______.| A．the solar system is to Proxima b |
| B．Proxima Centauri is to Proxima b |
| C．Proxima b is to the solar system |
| D．Proxima b is to Proxima Centauri |
| A．listing figures | B．following the space order |
| C．making the comparisons | D．giving examples |
| A．the presence of water | B．their temperature |
| C．the life on them | D．their size |
| A．astronomers have a long way to go to explore the new planet |
| B．exploring the new planet is just around the corner |
| C．the long distance will prevent astronomers from exploring the new planet |
| D．astronomers have got the whole picture of the new planet |
4 . The Dead Sea might be the most famous saline body in the world, but it’s by no means the only one. Here, we uncover some other salt lakes around the world.
Dead Sea
The most famous of the lot, the Dead Sea—also known as the Salt Sea—is a natural place to start. It’s technically not a sea at all, but a land salt lake. Its waters are mainly drawn from the Jordan River, and the high salinity (盐度) means no life can survive here, so don’t expect any colorful fish. However, much amusement results from the sea’s buoyancy (浮力): Bring some reading material to the waters and lie back—nature will do the rest.
Lake Assal
Surrounded by black volcano rocks, Lake Assal takes the title of being the lowest point in Africa. Vast salt fields mark its edges; the lake has long been at the centre of the area’s salt trade, on which the region’s African locals still rely. Though the area might not be suitable to live in, the waters are rich in minerals and related to health benefits.
Great Salt Lake
The biggest salt lake in the western hemisphere, and the one that gave Salt Lake City its name, the Great Salt Lake finds its home in northern Utah. What makes the lake well-known is not only the lake’s blue and green waters and white-sand beaches, but also Great Salt Lake State Park and Antelope Island State Park, both offering super hiking and biking trails, and great long views.
Don Juan Pond
Don Juan Pond might not win any prizes for its beauty—at four inches deep, it’s little more than a pond, but it is worth visiting. Its salinity content of almost 40 percent makes it one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth, meaning it doesn’t freeze even when Antarctic temperatures drop to -50℃. And with suggestions that water in a similar form could exist on Mars, there’s more than one reason for scientists to study this fascinating dry, cold environment.
1. What can visitors probably do in Lake Assal?| A．Read books. | B．Have a hike. |
| C．Enjoy small fishes. | D．Take a bath in the lake. |
| A．Its great parks. | B．Its scientific value. |
| C．Its highest salinity. | D．Its specific location. |
| A．Dead Sea. | B．Lake Assal. |
| C．Don Juan Pond. | D．Great Salt Lake. |
5 . Chinese astronauts have successfully grown rice seedlings(幼苗)aboard the Tiangong space station and this experiment may offer key insights into how astronauts can grow food to support long—term space missions, experts said on Monday. This experiment is the first to produce the complete life cycle of the plant, which begins with a seed and ends with a mature plant producing new seeds.
The breakthrough was conducted in the Wentian space laboratory, which was launched into orbit on July 24, 2022. Three astronauts were conducting the experiment smoothly and testing the plants according to the plan.
“The rice seedlings are growing very well,” said Zheng Huiqiong, a researcher of the task, adding that the experiment also contained seedlings of a small flowering plant often used by scientists to study mutations(变异). “The astronauts will keep monitoring the plants, and if it is successful, they will collect the newly produced seeds and bring them back to Earth for further studies,” she noted
The flowering stage is crucial for plant reproductive development. “We want to investigate how microgravity can affect the plant flowering time and whether it is possible to use the microgravity environment to control the related process,” she said.
Since the 1980s, China has been taking seeds of rice and other crops to space to help them mutate and produce higher yields once they were planted on Earth. But growing rice in orbit is a different challenge due to the tough conditions of space such as microgravity and lack of air.
Rice has been a main food for astronauts since the early days of space exploration. Freeze—dried chicken and rice was the menu for the Apollo 11 mission, which carried the first humans to land on the moon in July 1969.
“But if we want to land on and explore Mars, bringing food from Earth is not enough to provide for the astronauts’ long journey and mission in space. We have to find a food source for long term space explorations,” Zheng added.
1. What’s the significance of Chinese recent space rice experiment?| A．It enables human beings to move to another planet. |
| B．It helps people get a better idea of the human life cycle. |
| C．It inspires more other countries to do space explorations |
| D．It makes it possible to carry out long—term space missions |
| A．The mutation. | B．The experiment. | C．The exploration. | D．The space mission. |
| A．To promote genetic changes and increase crop harvest. |
| B．To figure out how to create an earth—like environment. |
| C．To study the impact of microgravity on crop growth. |
| D．To develop new crop species with strong ability to adapt. |
| A．A medical report. | B．A fashion magazine. |
| C．A science newspaper. | D．A history book. |
With high yield and superior quality, Chinese hybrid rice varieties have been introduced around the world,
In the past 40 years, Chinese scientists
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Climate Change Requires The World’s Attention
There is little doubt that Earth
Climate scientists often mention a key climate process
There is strong and comprehensive evidence that the rise in temperature has led to an increase in extreme weather and
Governments need to consider making policies and taking appropriate actions and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We as individuals can also reduce our “carbon footprint”. It is our
8 . Scientists have discovered that chimps(黑猩猩)talk to each other by drumming on trees with their hands and feet. It is a way of sending long-distance messages. Each male chimp has its own way of drum beats, to which they add spoken noises to show who is where and what they are doing. The chimps only seem to use their own beats when they are travelling. It may explain why chimps don’t say goodbye to each other because they can keep in touch with each other when they’re away.
We believe chimps like communicating with each other very much. So do the chimps in the zoo. They are happy to communicate with visitors every day. However, during the lockdown(封闭)time, the chimps are upset because of no visitors coming.
A new study has found that some chimps were quieter and lazier than usual during the lockdown months. The study took place in Knowsley Safari Park(野生动物园)in England. It compared the chimps’ behavior during periods of lockdown in 2020 and 2021—when the zoo was closed and they were not being observed by humans—with how they acted after zoo visitors returned.
When the zoo was closed, some chimps spent more time alone and moved about less. When the sites reopened and visitors returned, they spent less time resting and ate more and explored more. In Knowsley, they were eager to get close to visitors’ cars more often.
The researchers say that they can’t tell for sure whether the lockdown was good or bad for the chimps they had studied. When visitors returned, chimps spent less time alone, which could be seen as positive. However, their less resting could also be seen as negative, because it could mean that human visitors interrupted their rest time, which may harm chimps’ health.
1. What is the purpose of the chimps’ way of drum beats?| A．To play music. | B．To scare visitors. |
| C．To attract scientists. | D．To have communication. |
| A．The chimps became less active. | B．The chimps put on more weight. |
| C．The chimps enjoyed their loneliness. | D．The chimps communicated quite often. |
| A．Lazy. | B．Quiet. | C．Excited. | D．Lonely. |
| A．By listing numbers. | B．By comparing facts. |
| C．By giving examples. | D．By interviewing visitors. |
9 . We humans often navigate (导航) using road signs and GPS. But what about elephants? Connie Allen, a behavioural ecologist at the University of Exeter in the U.K., said “the elephants navigate over long distances using their unbelievable memories”, which makes others consider that an elephant will never forget. But it’s also been suggested here and there that maybe olfaction is extremely important for these long-distance movements.
Allen and her colleagues checked that idea by testing African elephants’ ability to identify a very special smell: the smell of pee (尿). You see, an elephant pees a lot — some 12 to 15 gallons a day — and that pee can contain a series of chemical signals.
But first, they needed some pee. So they headed for a spot along Botswana’s Boteti River and waited. They waited for elephants to pee and, within 20 minutes, went and collected these fresh pee samples. Then they set up cameras on seven paths which the elephants usually walked along. After observing the elephants’ natural behaviour on the paths, they noticed that the majority of the elephants checked smells along the paths — especially elephants travelling alone, which is an indication, the researchers said, that smells may serve as signposts along the paths.
Next, they placed those pee samples along the paths. And they found that for at least two days, passing elephants trained their trunks on the samples, especially samples from mature adults, which is another indication that smells might be an effective navigational signal. Their findings appeared in the journal Animal Behaviour.
Based on these results, they hope conservationists might be able to use elephant pee as a decoy (诱饵). If we can trick elephants into thinking other elephants are going this way, maybe we can redirect them away from where they are coming into conflict with humans at the moment.
1. What does the underlined word “olfaction” in paragraph 1 mean?| A．The roadside signpost. | B．The sense of smell. |
| C．The long-term memory. | D．The sense of direction. |
| A．By doing field research. | B．By analyzing causes and effects. |
| C．By making comparisons. | D．By doing laboratory experiments. |
| A．Helping elephants to find other companions. |
| B．Inspiring new research directions in elephants. |
| C．Raising public awareness of elephant protection. |
| D．Making elephants and humans coexist peacefully. |
| A．African Elephants Show Personality-based Movements |
| B．Elephants Are Born With Excellent Ability to Navigate |
| C．African Elephants May Use Pee as a Road Sign |
| D．Elephants Have a Good Memory for Roads |
10 . Meet Incredible Conservation Heroes Saving Wildlife from Extinction
Anne Savage
Dr. Savage founded a conservation program to protect cotton-top tamarins (棉顶狨猴). She pioneered in the development of new technologies to study the animal in the Colombian forest. She also helped conduct a study that found only 7,500 individuals remained. As a result, the International Union for Conservation of Nature changed the classification of cotton-top tamarins from Endangered to Critically Endangered, which brought the species to more people’s notice.
Elena Bykova
Having majored in biology, Bykova has a good knowledge of the saiga antelope (赛加羚羊). As Executive Secretary of the Saiga Conservation Alliance, an international organization, Bykova works to save the antelope. Illegal shooting is the single biggest threat, and Bykova concentrates on raising public awareness of the danger, finding alternative livelihood opportunities for local communities, and protecting saiga habitats.
Jeanne Tarrant
Frogs are astonishingly diverse and beautiful for Dr. Tarrant. Over the years, she has helped put the spotlight on many highly threatened species of frogs that face extinction due to habitat loss, climate change, and hunts by their animal enemies. No wonder she is called the “Frog Lady” of South Africa!
Marilyn Connell
Living only in the Mary River of Queensland, the Mary River turtle (龟) takes in oxygen in two ways. Being hunted by other wildlife is the Mary River turtle’s biggest threat. Connell and her team investigate the threats to the species and take measures to protect the eggs and newborns from being hunted, ensuring the species has a chance to survive.
1. What made cotton-top tamarins get more attention?| A．Dr. Savage’s conservation program. | B．The adjustment to their risk category. |
| C．Research into cotton-top tamarins. | D．The development of new technologies. |
| A．She founds an international organization. |
| B．She chooses biology as her main subject of study. |
| C．She provides ways for locals to make a living. |
| D．She fights against the behavior of illegal shooting. |
| A．Changes to living habits. | B．Threats from other species. |
| C．Loss of their habitat. | D．Difficulty in raising newborns. |
