The first “forest library” in Shanghai recently opened to the public, giving readers the chance
Known as Read & Joy Forest, the forest library that was
The design of the forest library ensures minimal (极少的) disturbance to the forest, with existing green spaces
Most of the visitors to the forest library were young people and parents with their children, who either immersed (沉浸在) themselves in reading
2 . The Benefits of After-school Activities
Your kid is asking for piano lessons, joining a soccer team or taking ballet classes, but you’re not so sure that your money will be well spent.
Build confidence through creative hobbies
From arts and poem writing to music and crafts, there are lots of creative after-school activities available out there for kids of all ages. Not only do these classes stimulate your little one’s imagination, but they also encourage curiosity.
These days, the fast-paced world we live in causes stress to us all, including children — and providing fun environments and spaces where they can feel safe and creative is an excellent idea to help your child reduce the stress.
Gain physical and psychological strength with sports
Avoiding childhood obesity has become a real issue in a world where kids spend more and more time indoors, glued to screens. But if your child shows any interest in a sport (even if just by watching it on their iPad), grab the opportunity and introduce after-school activities that focus on said physical activity. In these activities, your kids can also learn important lessons like respecting others and teamwork.
A.Reduce stress with after-school activities |
B.Boost children’s enthusiasm and participation in class |
C.When your kids spend 80 percent of their hours at school |
D.Besides, they make your child more confident in the process |
E.If you can’t decide about sending your kids to after-school activities |
F.Choosing activities that don’t put extra pressure on your kids is also essential |
G.Most importantly, your children can develop their mental strength while doing sports |
1.保护野生动植物的重要性;
2.你校的宣传活动;
3.你的建议。
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Plastic pollution at sea is reaching
As plastic breaks down into smaller pieces, it also enters the marine food chain,
While consumers can help reduce plastic pollution by changing their behavior, governments have to step up and accept
5 . I was at a new school in a new state and needed something solid to stand on: a place to feel grounded. I also needed to do laundry, so I walked to a nearby self-service laundry and stuffed a machine with my clothes. As I struggled to close the washer door, the woman working behind the counter told me to give it a good hit with my hand. The washer did its job, yet even after an hour, the dryer seemed to have barely warmed my clothes. I left, having decided to air-dry them on my car in the August heat.
A month later, I learned her name was Sandy, which she told me after I’d helped her stop a washing machine from moving across the floor. I was grading poems at a table when one of the washers broke loose and skipped an inch into the air. I jumped to the machine and held on while she unplugged it. The next week, Sandy told me dryer No. 8 was the fastest.
It went on like this. I’d do laundry once a week, usually Thursday or Friday. Sandy worked Tuesday through Saturday and we’d talk small while I folded clothes. She told me about her son and his grades, as well as the new dog they’d just adopted. She was fascinated that I was studying poetry. She teased (开玩笑) that it was harder making a living as a poet than as a laundry attendant. Even then I knew she was probably right.
I began to recognize others there: workers taking breaks by the door, a mother and her baby, and even some delivery drivers. But Sandy was the center of my community. For nearly three years and almost every week, I’d do laundry and talk with her. We checked on each other, expecting the other to be there. We asked where the other had gone when we missed a week. There was a note of concern for the other’s absence, a note of joy at their return.
I’d found a place to stand on solid ground.
1. Why did the author leave with his wet clothes?A.He liked the August heat better. | B.He had to go back to the meeting. |
C.He wanted to show off his new car. | D.He didn’t think the dryer worked well. |
A.She was warm-hearted. | B.She needed a volunteer. |
C.She wanted to thank him. | D.She was sorry for the mess. |
A.It was harder to fulfill. | B.It was really fascinating. |
C.It was badly-paid work. | D.It needed a lot of effort. |
A.He formed a close friendship with Sandy. |
B.He made a lot of friends in college. |
C.He expected Sandy to do laundry for him. |
D.He often wrote to Sandy after graduation. |
6 . It happens to all of us and can be beyond annoyance, so why do we itch? You know the feeling: There’s that spot on your arm, leg or back that just itches and begs for a deep, satisfying scratch.
As we all know, itchy skin is a sensation that makes us want to scratch—but as soon as you satisfy that need, you set off something called the itch-scratch cycle.
The main reason that you feel itchy is that the skin cells or nerve endings near your skin have become annoyed.
A.Causes of itchy skin. |
B.It is usually caused by dry skin. |
C.It means you are going to end up feeling itchier. |
D.Fortunately, there are ways you can get rid of it. |
E.Being aware of this phenomenon can help interrupt its effect. |
F.But you know giving in to that desire will only result in more problems. |
G.Once you start scratching, your body creates a chemical reaction that makes you itchier. |
7 . Livestream through channels such as Amazon Live and QVC is a popular way to sell goods online. In a session that lasts between 5 and 10 minutes, someone promotes a product. Viewers can then readily buy it by clicking on a link.
Researchers analyzed 99, 451 sales cases on a livestream selling platform and matched them with actual sales cases.
To determine the emotional expression of the salesperson, researchers used two deep learning models: a face detection model and an emotion classification model. The face detection model discovers the presence or absence of a face in a frame of a video stream. The emotion classifier then determines the probability that a face is exhibiting any of the six basic human emotions: happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, fear or disgust.
We wanted to see the effect of emotions expressed at different times in the sales cases, so we counted probabilities for each emotion for all 62 million frames in our database. We then combined these probabilities with other possible aspects that might drive sales —such as price and product characteristics—to judge the effect of emotions…
We found that, perhaps unsurprisingly, when salespeople convey more negative emotions—such as anger and disgust—the volume of sales went down. But we also found that a similar thing happened when the salespeople display high levels of positive emotions, such as happiness or surprise.
A likely explanation, based on our research, is that smile can be disgusting because it lacks true feelings and can reduce trust in the seller. A seller’s happiness may be taken as a sign that the seller is gaining interests at the customer’s expense.
We also found that the negative effects on sales are the strongest when people express emotions in the middle rather than at the beginning or the end of sale. A potential reason for this finding is that the middle is typically when the salesperson offers more details about the product, and it’s likely that viewers are turned off by emotions at this point.
1. What can we know about the livestream selling goods?A.It challenges the family business. |
B.It only helps big company sell goods. |
C.It is very convenient for the buyers. |
D.It helps the sellers develop fixed expressions. |
A.By referring to a theory. |
B.By concluding different views. |
C.By giving some examples. |
D.By analyzing previous data. |
A.They hate seller’s look. | B.They prefer complex emotions. |
C.They feel cheated. | D.They are so tired. |
A.Livestreamers Sell Products Successfully |
B.Expressions Affect Selling Products Online |
C.Emotions and Faces: What’s the Difference |
D.Smiles Can Increase the Sales in Reality |
8 . A study from the University of California, Davis is the first to document personality in golden-mantled ground squirrels, which are common across the western US and parts of Canada, The study found the squirrels show personality for four main aspects: boldness(大胆), aggressiveness, activity level, and sociability. The findings suggest that understanding how an animal’s personality influences the use of space is important for wildlife conservation.
The fact that ground squirrels have personalities may not seem surprising. But the scientific field of animal personality is relatively young, as is the recognition that there are ecological consequences of animal personalities. For instance, bolder, more aggressive squirrels may find more food or defend a larger area, but their risky behavior may also make them easily hurt by predators(捕食者)or accidents. Lead author Jaclyn Aliperti conducted the study while earning her PhD in ecology at UC Davis.
Scientists have been studying golden-mantled ground squirrels at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado for decades. It was established as a long-term study site more than 30 years ago by Aliperti’s advisor, Dirk Van Vuren. Aliperti drew from this powerful data set for her study, while also starting a series of experiments there over the course of three summers to observe and quantify the squirrels’ personalities. Overall, the study, published in the journal Animal Behaviour, found that bolder squirrels had larger core areas where they concentrated their activities. Bold, active squirrels moved faster. Also, squirrels that were bolder, more aggressive and more active had greater access to habitats, such as rocks. The location of the habitat is important because it can provide a belter point for observing and evading predators. Interestingly, habitat is also associated with sociability.
“Animal personality is a hard science, but if it makes you relate to animals more, maybe people will be more interested in conserving them,” said Alipcrti.
1. What’s the significance of the findings in paragraph 1?A.To better protect wildlife. |
B.To know more about space. |
C.To observe squirrels’ behavior. |
D.To explore squirrels’ personalities. |
A.Hunt for more food. | B.Work against each other. |
C.Show their personalities. | D.Attract less predators. |
A.Keeping. | B.Refusing. |
C.Killing. | D.Avoiding. |
A.Skeptical. | B.Supportive. |
C.Worried. | D.Tolerant. |
9 . When one door closes to Li, another one opens. Born with severe hearing loss, Li has found her way to communicate with the world—through painting. Moreover, painting led Li to meet her husband Hu at the Changsha Vocational and Technical School. Losing his hearing due to medication when he was 1 year old, Hu is also an art-lover.
Before learning to paint in primary school, Li always felt lonely in a silent world. She knew she was different from her peers because she could not hear. But a painting class opened for her a door to creativity and away of expression.
Graduating from college in 2005, Li got a job as a typist at a public institute in Zhuzhou, Hunan. It was a decent job in the eyes of her father, but Li was not happy because she could not communicate with other colleagues and the lonely feeling from childhood came back.
In 2016, Li quit the job and joined her husband’s company, which specializes in 3D wall and ground paintings, to be a wall painter. All the five painters there are hearing-impaired. “I know how difficult it is for hearing impaired people to find a job. So I want to help those who are passionate about painting to pursue their dreams,” said Hu, adding that the company is more like a family.
As all the people are hearing-impaired, communication with clients is the most common challenge that the team faces. Li said, “We communicate through typed words, which is slow and has caused us to lose some clients.” Apart from that, Li is confident about the team’s painting and design skills.
Li hopes that their stories can inspire more people facing similar battles. The painter said, “Life can be challenging to the hearing loss community who are somehow excluded (排除) from conversations, but we are not alone, and we can find our way of expressing ourselves.”
1. What does Li have in common with her husband?A.They are crazy about painting. |
B.They were born with hearing loss. |
C.They set up a company after graduation. |
D.They started learning painting before primary school. |
A.To please his wife. |
B.To realize his painting dream. |
C.To prove they can do everything. |
D.To help the same people as him. |
A.They are professional. |
B.They are all Li’s family. |
C.They are famous artists. |
D.They can’t communicate with others. |
A.Life is not fair for the disabled. |
B.She hopes to be treated as a normal person. |
C.She is hopeful about her career and future life. |
D.Working in her husband’s company makes her depressed. |
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