1 . Pollution is a disaster for the soil. When chemicals go into the ground, they slowly reduce the fertility of the soil and make it unsuitable for farming. They may also change the structure of the soil , which gets more easily destroyed by water and air.
For ordinary consumers, the influence of soil pollution can be felt most strongly in the supermarket. Exposure( 暴 露 ) to soil pollution can pollute foods grown in the field, harming people’s health.
One example of this is the “ poisonous rice event” that surfaced in 2013. Some rice from Hunan province was found to contain higher levels of cadmium(镉), a kind of metal likely to cause cancer, because Hunan has some of the worst soil pollution in China, according to CBC News. All the samples collected from this area were heavily polluted by cadmium. Sometimes, the cadmium level is 20 times higher than the national standard.
According to scientists, high levels of cadmium have been linked to organ( 器官) failure,weakening of bones and cancer. “ Cadmium is likely to store up in the kidney and liver,” Chen Nengchang, a scholar at the Guangdong Institute of Eco-environment and Soil Sciences, told The New York Times. “ When the amount reaches a certain point, it will cause a serious health risk for the organs.”
Unfortunately, fixing the problem was not as simple as destroying a few piles of rice. Since the outer covering of rice are often used to feed farm animals, the meat we eat and the milk we drink may both be at risk.
Luckily both the government and Chinese consumers have becomes more and more aware of this kind of pollutions, and aim to fight the situation with combined effort. There are many things we, as individual, can do to help. Eating organic foods are one of them.
Organic food is not only better for our health but also for our environment, especially the soil. To grow organic food, farmers stop using all artificial chemicals------including fertilizers, and pesticides. This production method does not cause any risk of soil pollution, unlike traditional farming, which uses tons of artificial chemicals. By consuming organic foods, we support healthier soil.
1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the influence of soil pollution?A.The production of the crops will decrease greatly. |
B.The soil will be poor in quality and improper for farming. |
C.The foods grown in the polluted field harm people’s health. |
D.The soil will become more easily destroyed by water and air. |
A.It caused cancer or death. |
B.Some contained more vitamins. |
C.It was reported as an advertisement. |
D.Some had higher levels of cadmium. |
A.the polluted soil | B.the failing organ | C.the poisonous rice | D.the sick farm animals. |
A.The government has realized the importance of it. |
B.It is good for both our health and the environment. |
C.Its production method is easier than the traditional one. |
D.Farmers used fewer fertilizers and pesticides when growing it. |
2 . Chinese emojis(表情符号) In Everyday Use Abroad
This is not the first time the Chinese emoji takes the world stage. Earlier this year, one emoji from the Chinese basketball celebrity Yao Ming has been
And you may be surprised to find that many locals do not know Yao Ming but are
What's more, due to the huge
Many Chinese fans are excited about this and now choose to greet them with their own funny pictures, a behavior arousing the
As a newly emerging online language, emojis have risen to become an
As Chinese emojis have slowly entered the world stage, how to properly use "the fifth innovation in China", a humorous name for emojis,
A.spread | B.explored | C.experienced | D.examined |
A.fortunately | B.adequately | C.frequently | D.properly |
A.patient | B.familiar | C.popular | D.strict |
A.By contrast | B.In conclusion | C.What’s more | D.For example |
A.problem | B.variety | C.influence | D.profit |
A.opened | B.bought | C.shared | D.linked |
A.awareness | B.complaint | C.responsibility | D.attention |
A.subtle | B.mixed | C.usual | D.essential |
A.create | B.express | C.accept | D.test |
A.without | B.except | C.by | D.in |
Anvitha Vijay is the Apple’s youngest app developer. When you were 9 years old, what were you busy
She showed interest in apps and coding after her younger sister
Vijay works in the WWDC room like other people by walking up to developers at WWDC and handing out her business card, which has her name and a motto: “I want to make a difference in people’s lives through technology”. Back home, she used her mom’s iPhone ( under her mom’s name) because you have to wait
Asked to name her favorite app beside the ones she developed, she cites the White Tiles 4 app, which was developed in China in 2014. What does she want to be when she grows up? “ I want to be an innovator,
A.that | B.which | C.where | D.when |
A.take | B.taking | C.have taken | D.having taken |
A.makes | B.making | C.made | D.having made |
A.had costed | B.costed | C.is costed | D.cost |
A.are not kept; will have to | B.are not kept; have |
C.do not keep; will have to | D.do not keep; have to |
A 14-year-old Girl Built an App to Help Alzheimer’s patients (老年痴呆症患者)
For many teenagers, their lives typically might circle around schoolwork and spending time with friends. Not so for Emma Yang. Though the Hong Kong-born girl is only 14, she
The Timeless app, which Yang spent two years
The inspiration to develop an app that would help Alzheimer’s patients connect with their loved ones came to Yang at the age of 12, when her grandmother started forgetting things like
“I wanted to create something to help people like my grandmother stay
At present Yang works with an international team that includes a designer in California and a developer in Cologne, Germany. The chief technology officer of Kairos, the AI company
Yang urged other young, ambitious people to believe in
A. resembles B. immediately C. peculiar D. cushion E. disciplines F. press G. refer H. shifts I . interacting J. dramatically K. classic |
Traffic science is one of those
There are two kinds of traffic flow. In uncongested stable flows, cars can move at or near the speed limit, and the "unstable regime," what laypeople (外行) call a stop-and-go traffic. What scientists have figured out over the past decade or so is when and why traffic
“We see in our models that traffic becomes unstable when the number of cars (passing a specific spot) per lane per hour reaches between 2,000 and 2,500. At that nominal capacity level, traffic is very likely to become unstable,” says Hani Mahmassani, a traffic scientist at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Consider a
The next car back has to slow down even more, again to give itself a