1 . Maria and her parents moved to the US from Brazil one year before the pandemic (流行病). Better education opportunities lay ahead, and they were excited to get Maria into an American high school to prepare for college.
Each parent got a job, and Maria started studying. She also signed up for a service club because she wanted to meet people, practice her English and be a part of the community. “I love to serve,” Maria says. “I think it is my thank-you for the opportunities I have.”
She worked at the local food bank with other kids of her age, organizing bags for families who were having a hard time making ends meet. But when the pandemic hit, she found herself at the food bank for another reason: to bring home groceries to her parents. “We were all shocked when my mother lost her job. My friends at the food bank got me through it,” Maria said.
Luckily, her father kept his job. And with classes moving online, Maria was able to secure a full-time job and do her class work at night. Three of her courses were college prep classes that demanded a lot of work. During her senior year, Maria worked 40-hour weeks and studied even more. Yet, in her spare time, she packed food bags for others before taking hers home.
Just before graduation, Maria came into the food bank. One of the volunteers started getting a bag ready for her. “I don’t need one today,” Maria said. “My mother got a job. I’m here to help.”
Maria supported her family for eight months. She graduated on time and got scholarship offers from three different colleges. She moved to part-time work and has completed her first semester of college.
1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us?A.When Maria decided to go to the US. | B.How Maria managed to get a job. |
C.Why Maria joined the service club. | D.What Maria did to help her family. |
A.Leaving the food bank. | B.The help from her friends. |
C.Taking courses online. | D.The support from her parents. |
A.Maria’s great efforts paid off. | B.Maria does very well in college. |
C.Maria likes doing part-time jobs. | D.Maria’s family gave her lots of help. |
A.Loyal and reliable. | B.Diligent and dedicated. |
C.Ambitious and creative. | D.Just and knowledgeable. |
Wherever we go, we are surrounded by history. Across the globe, cultural heritage is passed down through the generations. It is in the buildings and structures around us. It is in the arts and artifacts (手工艺品) we treasure. It lives in the languages we speak and the stories we tell. But today, it is under attack as never before. Not only are the damages of time threatening our cultural heritage, but conflicts, climate change, globalization and tourism are all exacting a heavy price. Technology is now the most essential weapon in the battle. Here's how technology is preserving our cultural heritage.
As you can imagine, creating the replicas (复制品) via crowd sourced 2D images is extremely time-consuming. Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms (算法) are being used to do all the required sourcing, allowing millions of images to be stored in a matter of hours. AI will also make restoration and preservation of existing cultural heritage far easier and vastly superior to previous methods.
Virtual reality (VR) technology will play a leading role in preserving our cultural heritage in the coming years. Many of the most important sites and architecture are extremely fragile. Human interaction with these locations is doing a great deal of harm. Wastes accumulate everywhere, causing enormous problems. As more cultural heritage sites and objects are digitally mapped and recorded, VR technology will increasingly become the way that people experience them. We'll all eventually be able to walk through places, look at (and touch!) artifacts and works of art without ever seeing them with our own eyes.
Finally, our cultural heritage will be preserved via technology. Efforts in research, innovation, data sharing and project work will help promote and preserve the cultural heritage of countries all across the world.
1. What does the underlined word “exacting” in paragraph 1 mean?A.Paying. | B.Cutting. | C.Receiving. | D.Demanding. |
A.It generates 2D images. | B.It makes restoration easier. |
C.It makes preservation safer. | D.It creates replicas in seconds. |
A.By recycling huge amounts of waste. | B.By reducing human impact on the site. |
C.By forbidding visitors from touching artifacts. | D.By educating people about the sites' importance. |
A.How Technology Changes Art | B.What Cultural Heritage Means to Us |
C.Preserve the Ancient with the Advanced | D.Prepare for a Revolution in Technology |
3 . The direction of our lives is determined by the choices we make every day.
Choose to break a bad habit
Choose to work smarter
Many people feel like their lives are out of balance and that they don’t have enough time to do everything they want to. First of all, you need to be aware of the time that you might be wasting by doing activities that are not creating results.
Choose to give your work a sense of purpose
Helping and encouraging other people will not only make your life be more meaningful, but it will also make you more money. If you put your heart and your efforts into helping others, then the financial part of life takes care of itself.
There are many takers in this world, but our lives will be better as we become givers and serve the world as givers. You want to learn to become unselfish with yourself and learn to give your time, your money, and of course, your love.
A.Spend your time helping others grow and your finances will grow with it |
B.Therefore, learning some good time management techniques |
C.To work with purposes is a good choice |
D.If you don’t know what your bad habits are |
E.The following choices will contribute to personal success |
F.Choose to sow more than you harvest |
G.Choose to form good habits |
4 . Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old’s route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the “three nos” winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she’s never worked overseas.
In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was decimating Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit “Mission 523” was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of “Mission 523”.
“Mission 523” read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malaria drug, more than 240,000 compounds (化合物) around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one matter, sweet wormwood (青蒿), which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.
After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human receiver of the new drug.
In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and enthusiasm. One former colleague. Lianda Li, says Ms. Tu is “unsociable and quite straightforward”, adding that “if she disagrees with something, she will say it.”
Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a “tough and stubborn woman”. Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.
1. What can we know about Tu Youyou according to paragraph 1?A.She has a medical degree. | B.She discovered a cure for malaria alone. |
C.Her road to success is not traditional. | D.She is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. |
A.Encouraging. | B.Killing. | C.Annoying. | D.Benefiting. |
A.Tu first proposed the idea of using sweet wormwood as a cure. |
B.Tu was inspired by medical textbooks published in northern Vietnam. |
C.The compound needs to be heated to the boiling point to be effective. |
D.Over 240,000 compounds were proved ineffective before Tu’s search. |
A.Devoted and determined. | B.Straightforward and mean. |
C.Considerate and tough. | D.Sociable and generous. |
5 . At the table sat my new mentees (学员): six eager undergraduates who signed to work on a project I designed. “Starting today, I get to learn what it s like to be an adviser,” I thought to myself excitedly. But a few minutes later, the students broke the news: They didn’t have any training related to the project. I couldn’t help sighing. How would this ever work?
My inspiration to involve undergraduates in my research came after two years of working as a teaching assistant. Many of my undergraduate students had voiced the same frustrations I once had: They were expected to absorb facts and use them in exams, without any real critical thinking or chance to apply what they had learned. I believe I could fill that gap by creating a project related to my own work and employing undergraduates as the researchers.
My Ph.D. adviser was supportive, knowing it would be a good experience for undergraduates. My department purchased the fish we would study, and a government research lab offered space. Everything was in place—except for the students’ training. I was worried. But backing out was not an option.
I reminded myself how green I had been on my first day in the lab. After 3 hours there, I had to throw everything out and start over the experiment, because I mistook the concentrations of chemicals. But my mentor (导师) said nothing and he let me learn from the scene.
His example inspired me. On the first day in my lab, I walked new mentees through the facilities. However, I noticed that some forgot my instructions. My instinct (本能) was to jump in and save the day. But I resisted the urge to intervene (介入) and watched proudly as the students identified the mistakes and learned from them.
Six months later, in a reflection meeting, the students thanked me for letting them find their own way to grow as scientists.
1. What made the author sigh after meeting her new mentees?A.Their choosing other advisers. | B.Their absence from her training. |
C.Their being late for a few minutes. | D.Their receiving no relevant training. |
A.To help them achieve better performances in exams. |
B.To fill the gap between advisers and mentees. |
C.To offer them a chance to combine theory with practice. |
D.To train them to be her teaching assistants. |
A.Her being in a dilemma. | B.The possible options ahead. |
C.Objects needed by her mentees. | D.Her thanks to the government. |
A.Training students as early as possible. |
B.Walking students through each experiment. |
C.Giving students room to learn through their errors. |
D.Stepping in to help students get out of trouble in time. |
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2. 活动的过程;
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My schedule is tight than ever because I'm in a final year of high school. However, I still manage to do what I can help my parents with the housework. I've gotten into the habit of washing dishes after dinner when I turned ninth. I also do thing like washing and folding clothes. I even begin to cook for my family last month.
I find that doing housework with my parents is extreme fun and rewarding. We can chat with and sometimes even sing together! Doing housework with them also let me learn to take responsibility at home and, in the long term, in society.
9 . Below is a list of the top and leading Chinese Restaurants in Los Angeles.
Hoy’s Chinese Restaurant
The restaurant is a family-owned and operated business that has been offering tasty servings in every table. Their family is proud to serve everyone always something like that.
Products/Services: Dim Sum, Vegetarian Menu, Specialty, Seafood
Address: 7105 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (323)850-6637
Reviews: “They manage their high-level service and the highest level of the food they serve.”—Francis
Phoenix Chinese Cuisine
For more than five decades, it has served tens of thousands of consumers in Los Angeles. The restaurant will not be tired of inviting you to truly experience authentic and remarkable dining.
Products/Services: Seafood. Coconut, Rice Noodle, Chicken Wings
Address: 301 Ord St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 629-2812
Reviews: “Great place to go eat & the price is fair for the most part. It does get busy at times with all the online food orders.”—Julio
Dragon Chinese Restaurant
The Lees have cooked and served Chinese food for over 40 years, producing delicious Chinese cuisine that wasn’t accessible to the metropolis.
Products/Services: House Specialties, Appetizers, Beef, Seafood, Vegetables
Address: 8597 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: (310) 657-7355
Reviews: “The restaurant is absolutely the tastiest place in the region.”—Tom
Little China Restaurant
It welcomes the customer as if in China, 6 days a week. For customers who do not have any time to go out, you can check out their menu online and order, for pickup and delivery.
Products/Services: Chicken, Pork, Vegetables, Noodle and Rice Dishes, Desserts
Address: 3535 Cahuenga Blvd w # 107, Los Angeles, CA 90068
Phone: (323) 969-8838
Reviews: “Wonderful restaurant, we came here after going to Universal Studios. The prices are super reasonable!”—James
1. If you want to order some seafood for delivery, you can call ________.A.(323) 850-6637 | B.(213) 629-2812 |
C.(310) 657-7355 | D.(323) 969-8838 |
A.The price is fairly low. | B.They are family-run. |
C.They provide vegetarian menu. | D.They are in operation for decades. |
A.Food. | B.Health. | C.Economy. | D.Entertainment. |
10 . In a remote corner of Brazil's Amazon tropical(热带的)rainforest, researchers have spent decades catching and measuring birds. Over 40 years, dozens of Amazonian bird species have declined in mass(质量). Many species have lost nearly 2% of their average body weight each decade, researchers report November 12 in Science Advances. Some species have grown longer wings. The changes could help birds stay cool in a hotter, more changeable climate, the researchers say.
"Climate change isn't something of the future. It has been happening and has effects we haven't thought of," says Ben Winger, an ornithologist(鸟类专家)at the University of Michigan, who wasn't involved in the research but has documented similar shrinkage(缩水)in migratory birds.
To see if non-migratory birds have also been shrinking, Jirinec and colleagues analyzed data collected from 1979 to 2019 in a remote region in the Amazon that spans 43km. The data include over 11,000 individual birds of 77 species as well as climate for the region.
All species declined in mass over this period, the researchers found. Species lost from about 0.1% to nearly 2% of their average body weight each decade. The motmot, for example, shrunk from 133g to about 127g over the study period.
These changes coincided with an overall increase in the average temperature of 1℃ in the wet season and 1.65%℃ in the dry season. Birds' mass decreased the most in a year or two after especially hot and dry seasons, which tracks with the idea that birds are getting smaller to deal with heat stress.
Wing length also grew for 61 species, with a maximum increase of 1% per decade. Jirinec thinks longer wings make for more efficient, and thus cooler, fliers.
"The Amazon rainforest is mysterious, remote and full of biodiversity," Jirined says. "This study suggests that even in places like this, far removed from civilization, you can see signatures of climate change."
1. What changes have happened to Amazonian birds over 40 years?A.They have lost weight. | B.They have grown prettier. |
C.They have become fewer. un | D.They have become larger. |
A.Contrasted with. | B.Compared with. | C.Corresponded to | D.Contributed to. |
A.Climate change | B.Food shortage. | C.Massive hunting | D.Scientific research |
A.Researchers measuring birds in Amazon | B.Climate change shrinking tropical birds |
C.Longer wings improving flying efficiency | D.Human activities damaging Amazon rainforest |