In the small town of Greendale, the annual Harvest Festival was a time - honored tradition that brought the community together. The town square was filled with stalls featuring homemade goods, crafts, and an array of local produce. Brightly colored leaves adorned the trees and lamp posts, and the smell of pumpkin pie and apple cider filled the air. Children ran about playing hide-and-seek and laughing, while their parents sat together, sharing stories and enjoying the festive atmosphere.
One of the main attractions at the festival was the pie-baking contest, which always drew a large crowd. This year, the competition was fierce, with more participants than ever. Among the contestants was Mrs Ellen Baker, a retired schoolteacher and a famous baker in Greendale. Her apple pies were famous for their flaky crust and perfectly spiced filling. As she placed her entry on the judges’ table, she noticed the nervous faces of the other contestants, especially young Tommy, a first-timer who had entered his grandmother’s cherry pie recipe.
Tommy had spent weeks practicing, determined to honor his grandmother’s legacy (遗产). The pie looked beautiful, but as he watched the judges sampling different entries, his confidence began to decrease. Mrs Baker, noticing his anxiety, gave him a reassuring smile. She remembered her first competition, the nerves, and the excitement. And she knew just how much courage it took to put one’s baking skills on display.
The judges made their rounds, tasting, noting, and occasionally nodding in approval. The crowd waited eagerly, whispering predictions and cheering for their favorite bakers. As the announcement time drew near, Tommy’s hands trembled slightly — this moment could be a turning point for him.
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Tommy watched as the judges discussed among themselves, occasionally glancing at his pie.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________“Only a couple hours to go,” I told myself. We’d made it to northern Indiana after driving all afternoon and evening, heading home from a family vacation in Wisconsin. We’d gotten a late start packing up, none of us wanting to leave our lakeside hotel before we had to. Now we were paying the price. It would be past midnight when we got home.
My wife Jeannie, who was always thoughtful and positive, drove for some time to allow me to take a break from driving. Now I took the turn. However, I wasn’t so alert (警觉的).
I turned on the radio, softly, so as not to disturb my wife, who was sleeping beside me. I was on a two-lane state highway. It was slower than the interstate, but less stressful. I generally didn’t mind driving late at night, though I really could have used a cup of coffee. I had a look at my three sleeping children, ages 14, 10, and 3, in the back seat. “Keep alert!” I said to myself.
The voice of my 3-year-old son, Jon, broke the silence. “I have to go to the bathroom, Dad.” I couldn’t stop in the middle of the highway in the dark. But right up ahead was a building. A diner. Maybe a chance to get that coffee. I pulled into the parking lot. The restaurant was closed.
I looked around and saw the tall grass surrounding the lot. That would have to do for Jon. I led Jon there. As he took care of business, I tried to drive away a mosquito that flew out of the grass. Then another. And another. I urged Jon to hurry. We ran back to the car and closed the doors. Jeannie, our oldest daughter Amy, and Jennifer who still wore her hat were wide awake.
I felt a mosquito touch down on my neck. I said, “I sure picked the wrong place to stop.” Jeannie patted me on the arm and attempted to catch the mosquito.
I switched on the light in the car. The children were screaming, “They’re everywhere!”
“You do the driving,” Jeannie quickly said to me with a smile. “Let us take care of the mosquitoes.”
The children readily agreed.
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I started the car and my family started to fight against the mosquitoes.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3 . At a time when Americans consume more than half of their daily calories from ultra-processed (超加工的) foods, there is increasing evidence showing that eating too much of these foods can make us sick. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal finds people who consume high amounts of these foods have an increased risk of anxiety, depression, and certain cancers. The data come from more than 9 million people who participated in dozens of studies.
Ultra- processed foods are ubiquitous in our food supply. Among the most common are highly refined breads, fast food, sugary drinks, cookies, and other packaged snacks. They are often high in salt, sugar, fat and calories and low in fiber and micro- nutrients such as vitamins.
Although no evidence proves that consumption of ultra-processed foods can directly cause anxiety, cancer or other health conditions, a growing body of evidence shows that ultra-processed foods contribute to the development of these conditions.
A study published last year found people in the habit of consuming high levels of ultra-processed foods were about three times more likely to develop cancer, compared to those who consumed the least. When it comes to mood and mental health conditions, a French study showed that adults who maintained an unhealthy diet had more depressive symptoms. “We saw a roughly 20 to 50% increased risk of depressive symptoms in people who had diets that were high in ultra-processed foods,” says Wolfgang Marx, a researcher.
A panel of advisors is currently evaluating all the latest diet and nutrition studies as part of a process to update the country’s Dietary Guidelines. It is possible that they could recommend limits on ultra-processed foods. On the regulatory side, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving ahead to finalize a new definition of the term “healthy”. The FDA says a “healthy” claim on food labels could help consumers identify healthier choices with a quick look and may encourage food companies to improve their products.
1. What does the underlined word “ubiquitous” in paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．Nutritious. | B．Widespread. | C．Cheap. | D．Profitable. |
| A．They are linked to some health problems. | B．They become more popular among adults. |
| C．They directly lead to depressive symptoms. | D．They should be consumed in a proper way. |
| A．Food companies’ future plans. | B．New guidelines for food sales. |
| C．Limits on ultra- processed foods. | D．Responses to ultra- processed foods. |
| A．In a health magazine. | B．In a biology textbook. |
| C．In a medical guideline. | D．In a food advertisement. |
4 . While many of us have only become familiar with AI over the past year or so, artist Refik Anadol has been using the technology for years to create immersive installations (沉浸式装置). Now, his studio is releasing its most ambitious project yet: the Large Nature Model, the world’s first open- source generative AI model focusing on nature.
Under development for DATALAND, Refik Anadol Studio’s future museum and Web3 platform devoted to data visualization and AI art, the Large Nature Model is trained on billions of open-source nature images. Interestingly, the model isn’t just for visuals; it can also produce sound and scent elements.
“Blending art, technology, and nature, our model aims to raise awareness about environmental issues and inspire innovative solutions by finding connections among isolated archives (隔离档案),” shared Anadol. “By engaging people on multiple sensory levels, the outputs of the model make the abstract concept of environmental conservation easily acceptable, encouraging a collective responsibility to act.”
Anadol presented the model at the NVIDIAGTC AI Conference, where he transformed a 65-foot by 131-foot wall into a live AI data sculpture. Fed with 2.5 million sourced nature images, the wall exploded with visuals that show the model’s endless creative possibilities, amazing people present at the conference.
The conference is not the only place where the Large Nature Model is on display. At London’s Serpentine Gallery, Anadol’s Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive shows his years-long experimentation with data on coral reefs and rainforests. On view until April 7, the display deepened visitors’ love of nature.
“Anadol’s artworks made me fully understand the unseen yet incredible role of data in our world,” shared art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist in an interview.“I felt enveloped by the data, the richness of information and the beauty found within nature.”
“This project is not about coping or replacing nature; it’s about appreciating, loving and respecting nature. We’re not replacing nature; we’re preserving it,” said Anadol.
1. What can the Large Nature Model do according to the text?| A．Train a number of famous artists. | B．Offer multi- sensory art experiences. |
| C．Track global immersive installations. | D．Identify outdated nature images quickly. |
| A．Making art products available to the public. | B．Inspiring more artists to get close to nature. |
| C．Contributing to environmental conservation. | D．Boosting the development of local museums. |
| A．To prove the studio’s model is incredible. | B．To tell the inspiration for Anadol’s dream. |
| C．To show environmental issues are serious. | D．To highlight the barrier to using the model. |
| A．The power of data. | B．The key role of a gallery. |
| C．The cooperation of humans. | D．The trend of replacing nature. |
Mary was a high school girl with a strong sense of style. Her fashionable clothes and trendy hairstyles often set her apart from her classmates. Despite occasional misunderstandings, she remained true to herself.
One day, Mary arrived at school with a new hairstyle again. Her classmates surrounded her, asking why she had changed her hair to an ordinary haircut. Mary said that she decided to give up following fashion and devoted herself to studying. Their teacher, Mr Green, happened to hear this and smiled.
Once Lucy had a conflict with Mary because she criticized Mary’s strange hairstyle. However, this time, she praised Mary’s ordinary hairstyle and suggested they wear the same style as a sign of solidarity （团结） and friendship. But thinking of their last disagreement, Mary refused.
Later, Mary’s mother learned of her daughter’s trouble with Lucy. Recognizing the potential for a positive outcome, Mary’s mother reached out to Lucy’s mother with a heartfelt apology and a kind gesture. Mary’s mother offered to treat both girls to a day of relaxation and self- care, allowing them to choose the same hairstyle that made them feel confident and happy.
The experience brought the two families closer, and Mary’s mother taught her daughter the importance of empathy (同理心) and kindness. Together, they selected a book to give it to Lucy as a peace offering and a symbol of their shared sweetness in life.
On Sunday, Mary and her mother visited Lucy’s house, where they exchanged gifts. Mary’s sincerity touched Lucy, and they finally forgave each other. During the conversation, the two girls discovered that they shared a common passion for painting. As they painted together, they found themselves sharing stories and laughter.
“Mary, your use of colors is amazing!” Lucy screamed, admiring Mary’s work.
“Thanks, Lucy,” Mary replied, smiling. “I love the details of your work. We make a great team!”
Finally, they agreed to meet up after school to work on an art project, aiming to bring together students who had an interest in art and exchange ideas together.
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Mary and Lucy’s art project soon became a school- wide initiative.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I will never forget the experience in my life when I was young. As I was eighteen, I was doing my first part-time job in a little corner shop. The owner was a sweet old man who always saw the good in people. We were all informed that if a homeless guy that hung out nearby came in, no matter how little money he had, we should always give him two sandwiches and a drink. If it was hot, we were supposed to give him two big bottles of water. The homeless man was a sweet man who barely spoke.
One night, as my coworker had called in sick, I was in the shop alone for four hours before closing it. The homeless man came in with his little gentle smile, and I was excited because I knew I had his favorite sandwiches in the case. I handed them over to him along with his drink, and he gave me a $ 10 bill-much more than the small change he usually had.
I said, “Oh, got more cash today? Do you want a hot pie to go with your dinner? I’ve got a couple left!” He smiled and nodded excitedly, pointing to the chicken pie in the warmer (加热器) and happily hopping from foot to foot. I asked him if he wanted anything else.
He said, “No. Save things for the days when I don’t have any money and he still feeds me. He is a good man.” I said the owner sure was and wished him to enjoy his dinner. He waved goodbye to me. I went back to do some cleaning and fill the fridges. Then I heard the bell go off for the door, I went to the front to serve other customers. About an hour later, there were no customers. Suddenly, a strong wind came and the roof of the shop shook. It began to fall before I could escape. I was hit by something and then was unconscious. That was the last thing l remember before coming to. I was loaded into an ambulance.
When I revived (苏醒) in hospital, my doctor asked, “Hey, there she is! Do you know what happened?” I stammered (结结巴巴地说) and answered his questions before asking my own.
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“Who rescued me after the accident happened?” I asked.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Wilson’s dog, Jack, was an energetic, six-year-old collie that would meet him every day at the trolley (电车) station when Wilson returned from work. This was a routine that had begun when Jack was a pup (小狗). The dog knew the route to and from the station like the back of his paw-and following that route was the highlight of his day. So when Wilson changed jobs and had to move to California, he thought it best to leave Jack at his home in Philadelphia with a relative. He explained all this to the dog upon leaving and told him that they both would have to adjust to new homes.
But Jack didn’t want a new home. He would not stay with the family he’d been left with. He returned to Wilson’s old house, even though it was boarded up, and there he passed his lonely days beside an abandoned chair in the porch (门廊). But every evening, tail wagging, he trotted (小跑) off to the trolley station. For as long as Jack had been in the world, Wilson had always taken the same trolley home from work, and Jack had been there to greet him. But evening after evening, there was no sign of the dog’s master, Confused and sad, he would return alone to the deserted house.
The dog’s depression grew. He refused the food left for him, and as the days passed, he became thinner and thinner and his ribs (骨) could be seen even through his thick blond coat. But every evening, ever hopeful, he’d go to the station to meet the trolley. And every evening, he’d return to the porch more depressed than before. No one knows why Jack’s new family didn’t contact Wilson.
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Jack’s worsening condition did not go unnoticed.
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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________My sixth-grade students were seated in a large circle on the floor of our classroom. Each student held a different tool in his or her hand, such as a hammer, a flashlight, and even an awl. The lesson had gone perfectly. The students discussed how words are like tools—they have the ability to build or to destroy, and they discovered how the right tool used at the right time for the right job can cause great results. The sixth graders freely shared personal stories of how they had experienced someone’s words used as a tool, , to wound or to heal. I watched and listened with a sense of satisfaction—they got it!
A few days later, one of my students, Laura, had an unexpected and uncharacteristic outburst of destructive behaviors in class. She refused to work with her group. I was aware from reading Laura’s file that she had struggled with disobedient (叛逆的) behavior in previous years, but we had developed a good relationship and she was always a respectful, thoughtful, and positive contributor to our class. Her behavior caught me off guard. I asked her to excuse herself and told her I would visit with her in our next door team center in just a minute, She refused to leave and sat silently glaring at me from the back of the room. I rather firmly told her she needed to excuse herself—this was NOT optional. She knew I meant it. She marched from the back of the room to our classroom door, shooting me an angry look, and slammed the door as she left for the team meeting room.
I continued our lesson and when the students were working together in their groups, I gently closed our classroom door behind me, then marched the five steps next door to cur meeting room where Laura was seated. In an unexpected and uncharacteristic gesture of frustration, I slammed the meeting room door behind me. As I stood over her, I began to express how disrespectful her behavior had been to our class. Her behavior angered me and I was sharp in my tone and my words. Without looking at me, she absorbed my anger.
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When I paused for her response, she slowly turned and proudly stated, “You’re using your tool against me!”
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9 . An era in which an Alzheimer’s (阿尔兹海默) diagnosis can begin in a doctor’s office is now arriving. Advances in technologies to detect early signs of disease from a blood sample are helping doctors to identify the memory-robbing disorder more accurately and to screen participants more quickly for trials of potential treatments for the more than five million people in the U.S. afflicted with Alzheimer’s. Estimates predict that, by 2030, there will be 76 million people worldwide who will receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or other dementias.
Last fall, a blood test developed by C2N Diagnostics in St Louis, Mo., became available to most of the U.S. as a routine lab test—regulated under the CMS Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) program. It has also received a CE mark as a diagnostic medical device in the European Union—indicating it has met safety, health and environmental protection standards for the region.
“The development of a blood-based test for Alzheimer’s disease is just phenomenal,” says Michelle Mielke, a neuroscientist and epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic. “The field has been thinking about this for a very long time. It’s really been in the last couple of years that the possibility has come to fruition.”
The C2N test, called PrecivityAD, uses an analytic technique known as mass spectrometry (质谱分析技术) to detect specific types of beta-amyloid (β-淀粉样蛋白), a protein fragment that is a pathological (病态的) hallmark of disease. Beta-amyloid proteins accumulate and form plaques (斑块) visible on brain scans two decades before a patient notices memory problems. As plaques build up in the brain, levels of beta-amyloid decline in the surrounding fluid.
Such changes can be measured in spinal (脊髓的) fluid samples—and now in blood, where beta-amyloid concentrations are significantly lower. PrecivityAD is the first blood test for Alzheimer’s to be cleared for widespread use and one of a new generation of such assays that could enable early detection of the leading neurodegenerative disease—perhaps decades before the onset of the first symptoms.
1. According to the blood test developed by C2N Diagnostics, we can know that ________.| A．it can be applied in a few areas in the United States |
| B．it was carried out under the supervision of under the CMS’s program |
| C．it obtained the CE mark issued by the United States for diagnostic medical equipment |
| D．it has reached the safety, health and environmental protection standards of the world |
| A．Supportive. | B．Opposed. | C．Cautious. | D．Wait-and-see. |
| A．samples | B．experiments | C．changes | D．symptoms |
| A．by 2030, more people around the world will suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia |
| B．as plaques accumulate in the brain, the level of beta-amyloid protein in the surrounding fluid will rise |
| C．Alzheimer’s patients are expected to be diagnosed decades before the initial symptoms appear |
| D．many blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease are under development now |
When I was seven years old, my family moved from Mexico to America. In Mexico, I was a cheerful girl who loved making people laugh with my jokes and inventing fun games to play with my friends. However, when I arrived in America, I found it hard to fit in, and I became quieter.
We lived in a small house with a modest yard where we grew vegetables—my responsibility. While I took pride in watching them grow, there were times when I dreamed of having a beautiful garden like my schoolmate Luella’s, with its delicate tulips (郁金香). Although Luella lived in the same neighborhood as me, we barely knew each other.
It was after a tornado that Luella and I finally became close friends.
The tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon.The gentle breeze transformed into a strong wind, and thick gray clouds filled the sky. Gradually, the tornado took shape, starting as a thin rope and growing into a large black funnel (漏斗). My entire family gathered in the bathroom, seeking shelter from the storm. Terrified, I sat close to my mom, knees in my chest. After the storm had passed, our worries and fears were replaced by relief that we were unharmed and that our house had remained undamaged.
As I stepped outside, I witnessed the extent of the damage the tornado had caused to our neighborhood. Across the street, a tall tree had fallen, crushing Luella’s garden in front of her yellow house. We hurried over to check on it. Fortunately, her family seemed to be away at the time, and no one was injured. However, her once-beautiful garden was in ruins, with the fallen tree destroying the tulips and debris (碎片) spread everywhere. I could only imagine how heartbroken they must feel seeing this.
Then my mom’s usual words rang in my ear, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and my family started to think about how we could help.
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Just at that moment, Luella’s family returned in their car.
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