1 . Going on vacation is something that everyone needs. Then what can you do while you’re on vacation?
You can also enjoy the architecture in the city. If you go to a place where there is plenty of European-style architecture, you will have a chance to learn a lot! Don’t rush from one place to another.
You may keep busy every moment when you’re on vacation. There is something to be said for taking a break, though. You took time off, so you could take it easy after all, didn’t you?
| A．Find out your favorite food. |
| B．They can get a little boring after a while. |
| C．When you’re in a new place, enjoy the sounds. |
| D．Instead, give yourself time to take in all of the sights. |
| E．Better yet, plan to pay a visit when the jazz festival is taking place. |
| F．If you want to have fun while you’re away from home, enjoying the local foods is a good idea. |
| G．So don’t forget to plan for rest and relaxation when you’re away from your home and your daily life. |
2 . Here are some pet-friendly universities in the UK and US.
University of Illinois
Students are allowed up to two pets in each apartment, as well as a fish tank of no more than 50 gallons.
To keep a pet, you will need to get approval from the Family & Graduate housing department at the University of Illinois. You will have to provide proof that your pet is up to date with its vaccinations(疫苗), and pay a monthly US$30 pet fee, which is non-refundable(不可退款的).
Your pet can’t be left for extended periods of time, and if there’s evidence that you’ve left it alone due to vacation or illness, the university may remove it.
Harvard University
With as many as 12 pet-friendly apartments, Harvard is a very pet-friendly university. It allows students to have fish in a tank of no more than 50 gallons, except for Harvard’s Cronkhite Graduate Center.
In Harvard’s pet-friendly apartments, you’re allowed: one cat or one dog, which can’t be over 40 pounds when fully grown. At most, two pet birds.
University of British Columbia Students can take advantage of the university’s B. A. R. K program, which uses the calming power of therapy dogs to help them.
B. A. R. K started at the University of British Columbia, after an assistant professor called Dr. John-Tyler Binfet noticed that he couldn’t walk across campus without students running over to play with his dog, Frances. The students told him they were homesick and missed their pets, which encouraged Binfet to establish B. A. R. K as a way of fighting their loneliness.
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is famous for its resident pets, who happily wander around college grounds. Many Oxford colleges have their own tortoise and take part in the annual Corpus Christi tortoise race.
Although you are not allowed to keep your own pet as a student, several Oxford colleges hold dog petting and walking therapy sessions.
1. What is one of the rules for keeping pets at the University of Illinois?| A．Pet keepers should pay a monthly US$ 30 pet fee which will be returned. |
| B．Pets can’t be left alone in the apartments due to vacation or illness. |
| C．Students have to keep fish in a fish tank of no more than 20 gallons. |
| D．The cat or dog can’t be over 40 pounds when fully grown. |
| A．To help students to fight against homesickness. |
| B．To do research on dogs and train them to be pets. |
| C．To help more professors to do exercise on campus. |
| D．To give assistance to the pet dogs by offering them foods. |
| A．Harvard University. |
| B．University of Oxford. |
| C．University of Illinois. |
| D．University of British Columbia. |
3 . Many people want to know more about ways to be kinder, more caring neighbors.
Get to know your neighbors
Make small kind gestures a daily practice
Another way to take care of your neighborhood, and to show your neighbors that you care, is by making small acts of kindness a daily practice.
Remind yourself that being connected feels good
It can feel so easy to just go home, close your door and turn on the TV without having to make small talk. However, connecting with others is worth the effort. Reaching out to new people can actually make you happy in the long run. And if you take the first step, your small acts of kindness can encourage others to pay that kindness forward.
Encouraging your kids to get out there and engage with(与……接触) your neighbors is important, but it isn’t always easy to balance this with conversations on safety and the socalled stranger danger. One way to fight against this stranger danger outlook is by reachingout of your comfort zone and engaging with different people in your neighborhood alongside your kids.
| A．Meet and engage with different people |
| B．That action will make even more people feel good |
| C．While many of these tips below are for young people |
| D．If you look for persons with the same interests and passion |
| E．Neighbors are of great benefit to all the people in the community |
| F．Getting to know your neighbors is the first step to becoming a kind neighbor |
| G．This can be cleaning up litter or even cleaning up after the pets on your block |
4 . The State of California is depending on its forests to help cut down planet-warming CO2. But that climate-change strategy may be risky, as new research from the University of California, Irvine(UCI)reports that trees in California’s mountains and open spaces are dying from wildfires and other pressures — and fewer new trees are filling the blank.
“The forests are not keeping up with these large fires,” said study co-author James Randerson, the Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Professor of Earth system science at UCI. Acrossthe whole state, tree cover area has dropped 6.7% since 1985. “These are big changes in lessthan forty years,” he said. It’s the first time that researchers have been able to measure tree population fall in California, and find out the reasons(wildfires and woodcutting).
For the study, the UCI-led team used satellite data from the USGS and NASA’s Landsat mission to study plant changes between 1985 and 2021. They found that one of the most obvious falls in tree cover was in southern California, where 14% of the tree population in local mountain had disappeared, maybe everlastingly.
“The ability. of forests to recover(恢复)from fire appears to be dwindling in the south,” said Jonathan Wang, a researcher in Randerson’s research group, who led the study coming out in AGU Advances. “At the same time, the state’s coverage of bushes and grasses is rising, which could mean more everlasting ecosystem shifts(生态系统转化).”
“The speed and scale of fall in tree cover is different across the state. Tree cover in the Sierra Nevada, for example, stayed relatively unchanged until around 2010, then began dropping suddenly. Fortunately, in the north, there’s plenty of recovery after fire,” said Wang, perhaps because of the area’s higher rainfall and cooler temperatures. “This threat(威胁) to California’s climate solutions isn’t going away anytime soon,” Wang said. “We might be entering a new age of bigger fire and vulnerable(易受损的) forests.”
1. What mainly helped California cut down CO2?| A．Rich forests. | B．Less vehicles. |
| C．Energy saving. | D．Fine weather. |
| A．Poor soil. |
| B．Continual floods. |
| C．High demand for farmland and food. |
| D．Large wildfires and people’s cutting trees. |
| A．Suitable. | B．Falling. | C．Obvious. | D．Boring. |
| A．California’s trees will die out in the future |
| B．California’s environment will face a big challenge |
| C．The reasonfor California wildfires has been found out |
| D．Wildfires seriously threaten California’s tree cover |
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1. Although I wore a pair of sunglasses, but he recognized me at last.
2. The play was very interested,but I did not enjoy it.
3. Because heavy rain,the sports meeting was put off.
4. It was the third time in a month that you have been late for school.
5. Geograpy plays a important part in making dialects.
6. While walk the dog, we met one of his friends.
7. She insisted that she organized the trip properly.
8. The number of students are increasing rapidly.
9. He failed in the exam.That was why he didn’t study hard.
10. It was my sister which had the idea to cycle along the Meikong River.
8 . Claw machines (娃娃机) are very common in shopping centers or movie theaters. You might get your favorite toy after paying some coins. It seems to be a low-cost and the game rules are easy to understand for most people. So many children, young people and even some old people like to play on the claw machines, again and again.
However, simple rules and easy-to-use machines do not mean everyone can easily win a prize. You may watch your toy being caught but suddenly dropping at the last second. There are some reasons why people like claw machines, even though they may face many difficulties.
The purpose of playing on claw machines is to deal with stress for quite a few Buddhist (佛系的) players. While grabbing the stuffed (毛绒的) animal, they pay so much attention to this game that they forget their troubles from daily life. No matter what the result is, they enjoy the process.
Some people say they enjoy the sense of achievement when they catch a prize from a claw machine. They take pride in managing to do what most people cannot. People around the machine also express their congratulations and admiration for winners.
Stuffed animals or goodies from a claw machine, which have far more meaning than what you can buy in a nearby store, can be a good gift for the ones you love. It is a great way to show effort and thoughtfulness since winning a prize from a claw machine requires time and money, as well as skills.
Playing at the claw machine is a fun memory for many. Do you enjoy playing claw machines? Have you ever actually won something out of one?
1. The first paragraph doesn't tell us_________.| A．where we can find claw machines |
| B．why people like to play on claw machines |
| C．how people can play on claw machines well |
| D．what people may get after playing on claw machines |
| A．Not everyone can play by the rules. |
| B．Everyone enjoys playing on the claw machines. |
| C．Not everyone can catch a toy from a claw machine easily. |
| D．Nobody has an interest in playing on claw machines. |
| A．angry | B．relaxed | C．uncomfortable | D．nervous |
