A.is | B.are | C.was | D.were |
—I think so. He ________ for it for months.
A.is preparing | B.was preparing | C.has been preparing | D.had been preparing |
—That’s ______ I don’t agree. You should have a more active life.
A.where | B.how | C.when | D.what |
—That’s right. ________.
A.Many hands make light work | B.Something is better than nothing |
C.The more the merrier | D.The sooner begun, the sooner done |
5 . The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in my community. As a result, all students must
Supporters claim that there are many
In my view, service learning is a great way to
A.spend | B.gain | C.complete | D.save |
A.and | B.or | C.but | D.for |
A.Subjects | B.Ideas | C.Procedures | D.Examples |
A.With | B.Before | C.During | D.After |
A.diary | B.report | C.note | D.notice |
A.courses | B.benefits | C.challenges | D.features |
A.beyond | B.about | C.over | D.in |
A.careful | B.proud | C.tired | D.aware |
A.possess | B.apply | C.include | D.develop |
A.Gradually | B.Finally | C.Luckily | D.Hopefully |
A.through | B.across | C.of | D.on |
A.So | B.Thus | C.Since | D.While |
A.deal with | B.look into | C.point out | D.take down |
A.argue | B.doubt | C.overlook | D.admit |
A.much | B.full | C.less | D.more |
A.cost | B.pay | C.care | D.praise |
A.contribute | B.appeal | C.attend | D.belong |
A.Therefore | B.Otherwise | C.Besides | D.However |
A.courage | B.desire | C.emotion | D.spirit |
A.decision | B.purpose | C.solution | D.result |
A.speak | B.speaking | C.spoken | D.to speak |
A.having exceeded | B.to exceed |
C.exceeded | D.exceeding |
8 . I was in the middle of the Amazon (亚马逊) with my wife, who was there as a medical researcher. We flew on a small plane to a faraway village. We did not speak the local language, did not know the customs, and more often than not, did not entirely recognize the food. We could not have felt more foreign.
We were raised on books and computers, highways and cell phones, but now we were living in a village without running water or electricity It was easy for us to go to sleep at the end of the day feeling a little misunderstood.
Then one perfect Amazonian evening, with monkeys calling from beyond the village green, we played soccer. I am not good at soccer, but that evening it was wonderful. Everyone knew the rules. We all spoke the same language of passes and shots. We understood one another perfectly. As darkness came over the field and the match ended, the goal keeper, Juan, walked over to me and said in a matter-of-fact way, “In your home, do you have a moon too?” I was surprised.
After I explained to Juan that yes, we did have a moon and yes, it was very similar to his, I felt a sort of awe (敬畏) at the possibilities that existed in his world. In Juan’s world, each village could have its own moon. In Juan’s world, the unknown and undiscovered was vast and marvelous. Anything was possible.
In our society, we know that Earth has only one moon. We have looked at our planet from every angle and found all of the wildest things left to find. I can, from my computer at home, pull up satellite images of Juan’s village. There are no more continents and no more moons to search for, little left to discover. At least it seems that way.
Yet, as I thought about Juan’s question, I was not sure how much more we could really rule out. I am, in part, an ant biologist, so my thoughts turned to what we know about insect life and I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown. How much, though? How ignorant (无知的) are we? The question of what we know and do not know constantly bothered me.
I began collecting newspaper articles about new species, new monkey, new spider…, and on and on they appear. My drawer quickly filled. I began a second drawer for more general discoveries: new cave system discovered with dozens of nameless species, four hundred species of bacteria found in the human stomach. The second drawer began to fill and as it did I wondered whether there were bigger discoveries out there, not just species, but life that depends on things thought to be useless, life even without DNA. I started a third drawer for these big discoveries. It fills more slowly, but all the same, it fills.
In looking into the stories of biological discovery, I also began to find something else, a collection of scientists, usually brilliant occasionally half-mad, who made the discoveries. Those scientists very often see the same things that other scientists see, but they pay more attention to them, and they focus on them to the point of exhaustion (穷尽), and at the risk of the ridicule of their peers. In looking for the stories of discovery, I found the stories of these people and how their lives changed our view of the world.
We are repeatedly willing to imagine we have found most of what is left to discover. We used to think that insects were the smallest organisms (生物), and that nothing lived deeper than six hundred meters. Yet, when something new turns up, more often than not, we do not even know its name.
1. How did the author feel on his arrival in the Amazon?A.Out of place. | B.Full of joy. | C.Sleepy. | D.Regretful. |
A.He learned more about the local language. |
B.They had a nice conversation with each other. |
C.They understood each other while playing. |
D.He won the soccer game with the goal keeper. |
A.The question was too straightforward. |
B.Juan knew so little about the world. |
C.The author didn’t know how to answer. |
D.The author didn’t think Juan was sincere. |
A.To sort out what we have known. |
B.To deepen his research into Amazonians. |
C.To improve his reputation as a biologist. |
D.To learn more about local cultures. |
A.They shifted their viewpoints frequently. |
B.They followed other scientists closely. |
C.They often criticized their fellow scientists. |
D.They conducted in-depth and close studies. |
A.The Possible and the Impossible . |
B.The Known and the Unknown . |
C.The Civilized and the Uncivilized . |
D.The Ignorant and the Intelligent. |
9 . For those who can stomach it, working out before breakfast may be more beneficial for health than eating first, according to a study of meal timing and physical activity.
Athletes and scientists have long known that meal timing affects performance. However, far less has been known about how meal timing and exercise might affect general health.
To find out, British scientists conducted a study. They first found 10 overweight and inactive but otherwise healthy young men, whose lifestyles are, for better and worse, representative of those of most of us. They tested the men’s fitness and resting metabolic (新陈代谢的) rates and took samples (样品) of their blood and fat tissue.
Then, on two separate morning visits to the scientists’ lab, each man walked for an hour at an average speed that, in theory, should allow his body to rely mainly on fat for fuel. Before one of these workouts, the men skipped breakfast, meaning that they exercised on a completely empty stomach after a long overnight fast (禁食). On the other occasion, they ate a rich morning meal about two hours before they started walking.
Just before and an hour after each workout, the scientists took additional samples of the men’s blood and fat tissue.
Then they compared the samples. There were considerable differences. Most obviously, the men displayed lower blood sugar levels at the start of their workouts when they had skipped breakfast than when they had eaten. As a result, they burned more fat during walks on an empty stomach than when they had eaten first. On the other hand, they burned slightly more calories (卡路里), on average, during the workout after breakfast than after fasting.
But it was the effects deep within the fat cells that may have been the most significant, the researchers found. Multiple genes behaved differently, depending on whether someone had eaten or not before walking. Many of these genes produce proteins (蛋白质) that can improve blood sugar regulation and insulin (胰岛素) levels throughout the body and so are associated with improved metabolic health. These genes were much more active when the men had fasted before exercise than when they had breakfasted.
The implication of these results is that to gain the greatest health benefits from exercise, it may be wise to skip eating first.
1. The underlined expression “stomach it” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “______”.A.digest the meal easily | B.manage without breakfast |
C.decide wisely what to eat | D.eat whatever is offered |
A.Their lifestyles were typical of ordinary people. |
B.Their lack of exercise led to overweight. |
C.They could walk at an average speed. |
D.They had slow metabolic rates. |
A.They successfully lost weight. | B.They consumed a bit more calories. |
C.They burned more fat on average. | D.They displayed higher insulin levels. |
A.A workout after breakfast improves gene performances. |
B.Too much workout often slows metabolic rates. |
C.Lifestyle is not as important as morning exercise. |
D.Physical exercise before breakfast is better for health. |
Some important dates in China’s fighting Covid-19 before May 7,2020 | |
Jan 20, 2020~ Feb 20,2020 | Jan 23: Wuhan declared temporary outbound (向外的) traffic restrictions. Jan 24: National medical teams began to be sent to Hubei and wuhan. Jan 27: The Central Steering (指导) Group arrived in Wuhan. Feb 18: The daily number of newly cured and discharged (出院) patients exceeded that of the newly confirmed cases. |
Feb 21, 2020~ Mar 17,2020 | Feb 21: Most provinces and equivalent administrative units started to lower their public health emergency response level. Feb 24: The WHO-China Joint Mission on Covid-19 held a press conference in Beijing. Mar 11-17: The epidemic (流行病) peak had passed in China as a whole. |
Mar 18,2020 ~Apr 28,2020 | Apr1: Chinese customs began NAT (核酸检测) on inbound arrivals at all points of entry. Apr 8: Wuhan lifted outbound traffic restrictions. Apr 26: The last Covid-19 patient in Wuhan was discharged from hospital. |
Apr 29, 2020~ May 7,2020 | Apr 30: The public health emergency response was lowered to Level 2 in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. May 7: The State Council released Guidelines on Conducting Covid-19 Prevention and Control on an Ongoing Basis. |
1. What happened between January 20 and February 20?
A.The Central Steering Group arrived in Wuhan. |
B.The WHO-China Joint Mission on Covid-19 held a press conference. |
C.The last Covid-19 patient in Wuhan was discharged from hospital. |
D.Beijing lowered its emergency response level. |
A.January 23. | B.March 11. | C.April 8. | D.May 7. |