1. 减少塑料污染的重要性;
2. “减塑捡塑”的倡议。
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2. 短文的题目已为你写好，可适当增加细节，使行文流畅。
Beat Plastic Pollution
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Japan said on Tuesday that it had decided to
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“The Japanese government ignores concerns and strong opposition both at home and abroad. Such an
Greenpeace(绿色和平组织)criticized Japan’s plan and said there are other solutions that should
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Last weekend has witnessed my active participation in the community service with my classmates, the theme of it was “Caring for the Elderly”. As scheduled, we arrived at the nursing home on the morning, where we helped mop the floor, dust the furniture and clean all the window there. After that, we made dumplings for the elderly, chat together happily.
Exhausted although I was, it was rewarding and meaning to see the smiles on their faces. Not only did I bring joy to them, but also I found confidence in keeping themselves company. It is the voluntary labor which enables me to understand what Chinese traditional virtues are. To be frank, I have benefited it greatly.
4 . “Can’t stop loving you ...” My 3-year-old son was singing. But I was not in the
My manager’s decision planted a seed of
When I left my university post for the biotech company,
A friend suggested that I reach senior managers about
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I soon discovered a new
| A．ability | B．recommendation | C．sense | D．mood |
| A．responsibilities | B．priorities | C．experiences | D．rewards |
| A．amazed | B．reached | C．hit | D．push |
| A．plan | B．change | C．result | D．proposal |
| A．self-pity | B．self-discipline | C．self-confidence | D．self-doubt |
| A．unsuccessful | B．efficient | C．honest | D．outgoing |
| A．fallen behind | B．taken off | C．come to an end | D．started out |
| A．shocked | B．puzzled | C．driven | D．controlled |
| A．end | B．quit | C．ruin | D．advance |
| A．delighted | B．reliable | C．eager | D．vain |
| A．complaints | B．advantages | C．assignments | D．opportunities |
| A．property | B．procedure | C．expectation | D．determination |
| A．randomly | B．patiently | C．carelessly | D．casually |
| A．welcome | B．willing | C．depressed | D．naughty |
| A．something | B．everything | C．nothing | D．anything |
| A．promotion | B．fame | C．solution | D．recognition |
| A．unusual | B．good | C．true | D．unknown |
| A．career | B．passion | C．partner | D．facility |
| A．forced | B．easy | C．merciful | D．focused |
| A．safety rule | B．bottom line | C．comfort zone | D．blind spot |
5 . Cultivated meat, also known as lab-grown meat, has been cleared for sale in the US.Actually，Lab-grown meat is made by feeding a mix of nutrients to animal cells in steel tanks in labs. The idea is to create an alternative to agriculturally raised meat. And unlike other meat substitutes which are made from plant proteins and other ingredients, lab-grown meat is real meat.
Upside Foods and Good Meat, two companies that make “cultivated chicken”, said that they have gotten approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to start producing their cell-based proteins. Good Meat said that production is starting immediately. Cultivated meat is grown in a giant vat (缸), much like what you’d find at a beer factory.
Last week both companies revealed that the USDA approved labels for their products. In March, Good Meat received a“no questions”letter from the FDA, confirming the product’s safety for sale in the US. Upside Foods also received one in November. Both the USDA and the FDA are overseeing the growing cultivated meat market. CEO of Good Meat, Josh Tetrick, described the approval as a major milestone for the company, the industry, and the food system. Upside founder Uma Valeti called the approval “a giant step forward towards a more sustainable future”.
Good Meat, which has been selling its products in Singapore, advertises its product as “meat without slaughter (屠宰)”, a more humane approach to eating meat. Supporters hope that cultivated meat will help fight climate change by reducing the need for traditional animal agriculture, which emits greenhouse gases. The company previously announced a partnership with chef José Andrés to introduce the product to a Washington DC restaurant, although the launch time remains uncertain. As production increases, Good Meat may explore cooperation with other restaurants or supermarkets.
Upside is planning to introduce its product at Bar Crenn, a San Francisco restaurant, but did not share a launch date yet. Selling at Bar Crenn should help Upside learn more about how chefs and diners feel about the product. Eventually, the company plans to work with other restaurants and make its products available in supermarkets. For now, it is holding a contest to allow curious customers to be among the first to try the product.
1. What do Upside Foods and Good Meat have in common?| A．Both have partnerships with international chefs. |
| B．Both are involved in producing lab-grown meat. |
| C．Both declared a launch date of their cultivated meat. |
| D．Both received FDA approval for worldwide distribution. |
| A．Higher safety for eating. |
| B．Lower costs for restaurants. |
| C．Improvements in traditional animal agriculture. |
| D．Positive impacts on climate change. |
| A．Diners have access to free products from Upside. |
| B．Curious customers will become the main force of buying. |
| C．Upside will evaluate the responses of chefs and diners to its product. |
| D．Upside will conduct a survey among diners about their paying ability. |
| A．The benefits of cultivated meat. |
| B．The research on cultivated meat. |
| C．The history and processing of cultivated meat. |
| D．The approval and prospect of cultivated meat. |
6 . When the designer and typographer (排印工) Marcin Wichary chanced upon a tiny museum just outside Barcelona five years ago, the experience tipped his interest in the history of technology into an obsession with a very particular part of it: the keyboard.
“I have never seen so many typewriters under one roof. Not even close,” he shared on the Internet at the time. “At this point, I literally have tears in my eyes. I’m not kidding. This feels like a miracle.”
He’d had a discovery while wandering through the exhibit: Each key on a keyboard has its own stories. And these stories are not just about computing technology, but also about the people who designed, used, or otherwise interacted with the keyboards.
Take the backspace key for example, he explains, “I like that the concept of backspace was originally just that — a space going backward. We are used to it erasing now, but for a hundred years, erasing was its own incredibly complex effort. You needed to master a Comet eraser, or Wite-Out, or strange correction tapes, and possibly all of the above… or give up and start from scratch whenever you made a small mistake in typing.”
The deeper he researched, the more obsessive he became. Amazed that no comprehensive books existed on the history of keyboards, he decided to create his own. When not working at his day job as the design leader for the design software company Figma, he began producing Shift Happens, a two-volume, 1,216-page hardcover book — and raised over $750,000 for the project on Kickstarter in March of 2023. Wichary was only a bit surprised by the support and the keyboard’s wide appeal. As he points out. “It’s such a crucial device that occupies a lot of our waking life.”
1. Which is the closest understanding of the underlined phrase tipped his interest________.| A．made him lose his interest | B．weakened his interest |
| C．publicized his interest | D．changed his interest |
| A．The wisdom of human. | B．The stories behind them. |
| C．The secret of the keyboards. | D．The history of technology. |
| A．It is the outcome of long-term improvement. |
| B．It can be used to move back one space. |
| C．It is a rather simple but powerful key. |
| D．It permits people to make mistakes when typing. |
| A．To make money. | B．To record history. |
| C．To fill a gap. | D．To become a celebrity. |
7 . Consider the possibility that all human technology started with a mistake — or at least a lack of hand-eye coordination. In a new study published on Friday in Science Advances, Lydia Luncz and Tomos Proffitt, both at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, argue that mistakenly created flakes (薄片) may have been our ancient ancestors’ or other now-extinct early human relatives “first step toward creating the sharp-edged tools that they used to butcher animals and cut edible plants.
To do their research, Luncz and Proffitt traveled to an abandoned oil palm plantation near Thailand’s Phang Nga Bay and collected more than 1, 100 pieces of nut-cracking stones used by a troop of long-tailed macaques (猕猴). Macaques crack open oil palm nuts by placing them on a flat stone and striking their shell with another stone. These monkeys often miss the nut and accidentally break the stones, producing sharp flakes. Luncz and Proffitt analyzed these stones, which revealed a surprising fact: The flakes that the macaques unintentionally produced looked a lot like the oldest stone tools that were intentionally made by hominins (古人类).
Macaques don’t use the sharp flakes they create for anything, Luncz adds, noting that the monkeys have sharp teeth and don’t need cutting tools. The similar ancient stone tools collected from some of the earliest known sites, however, show evidence of being used for cutting tasks. For example, in Oldowan, a site dating between 3.3 million and 1.5 million years ago, researchers analyzed use-wear patterns on the tools and found that some of the flakes showed damage along their edges, indicating that they had been used for cutting. Cut marks on some fossils revealed that hominins had used stone tools for butchering the animals, making it clear that the sharp stone tools were anything but unintentional by-products of other pounding activities.
Despite the findings, to reveal the mechanism for the emergence of flake technology, researchers still need to learn how hominins made the leap from accidentally producing sharp flakes to picking them up and using them. Luncz and Proffitt hope to find the missing link in further studies.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 2?| A．The two researchers went to Thailand and collected 1, 100 flakes. |
| B．Long-tailed macaques used the flakes to crack open oil palm nuts. |
| C．Macaques deliberately produced flakes for cutting by breaking stones. |
| D．The flakes produced by macaques were similar to hominins’ stone tools. |
| A．To provide specific proof. | B．To clarify a complex concept. |
| C．To present an interesting fact. | D．To make a detailed comparison. |
| A．Why macaques create flakes. | B．Why hominins used stone tools. |
| C．How macaques cut food with flakes. | D．How hominins began using flakes. |
| A．A mistake: the origin of human technology. |
| B．Flake technology: from macaques to hominins. |
| C．Pounding activities: on human evolutionary course. |
| D．A missing link: long-tailed macaques create flakes. |
8 . Some libraries use unique architecture to encourage visitors to explore the bookshelves and settle down with a new book, or use roving libraries to bring books to hard-to-reach populations. No matter how they achieve it, these novel libraries are keeping the magic of reading alive.
Bishan Library (Singapore)
Built in 2006, this library with skylights and trellises, is meant to invoke a modern glass treehouse. Glass pods of varying colors stick out of the building randomly to create cozy yet airy corners for reading throughout the building. At the same time, a more open-plan children’s room on the basement level invites interaction while preventing noise from filtering upward and disturbing those concentrating in the lofty perches above.
Stuttgart City Library (Stuttgart, Germany)
Opened in 2011, this nine-story public library is characterized by its attractive white color scheme (lit by blue light at night), its bold cubic shape. This cultural center for the city, designed to feel open and full of light, can be entered from any of its four sides, and people can borrow artwork as well as books.
The Camel Library Service (North Eastern Province, Kenya)
To combat low literacy rates in the desert of Kenya, the government created a roaming library composed of nine camels bringing books to villages. The library travels four days a week serving the region’s nomadic people. With more funding, they plan to increase their reach both in distance and the books they carry.
Macquarie University Library (Sydney, Australia)
A wonderful combination of cutting-edge and sustainable ideas, this building was made from recycled materials, features a green roof, and was designed to look like the shape of a eucalyptus tree. It is also state of the art, using robot cranes to bring requested books to the front desk.
1. Which of the following can offer the service of lending artwork?| A．Bishan Library. | B．Stuttgart City Library. |
| C．The Camel Library Service. | D．Macquarie University Library. |
| A．It is intelligent and environmentally-friendly. |
| B．It has a green roof and a eucalyptus tree outside. |
| C．It is like a modern glass treehouse with skylights. |
| D．It opens four days a week serving the local people. |
| A．prevent noise |
| B．recycle old books |
| C．encourage reading |
| D．present beautiful appearances |
9 . Before practising getting to know yourself, it’s important to be open to whatever you find.
Get to know your personality
You can understand your personality by reflection.
When we think about self-knowledge, it’s easy to focus on the psychological (心理的) at the expense of the physical. However, getting to know your body is just as important as getting to know your mind. Learning more about your body helps you to set realistic goals and know your own limits, as well as helping you feel more comfortable.
Identify your strengths and weaknesses
Getting to know yourself is all about developing a real picture of who you are, including the parts you are proud of and the parts that you struggle with from time to time. Think about what you like about yourself, and which parts of yourself get the most positive feedback (反馈).
Question your automatic (自动的) thoughts
Many of us have a tendency to experience automatic thoughts that are negative. If you don’t know yourself very well, you may just accept these negative thoughts. You may then feel bad about yourself. However, when you have higher levels of self-awareness, you can catch these thoughts as they come up and redirect them to more positive thoughts.
| A．Get to know your body |
| B．Have a good knowledge of your mind |
| C．When it comes to identifying your weaknesses |
| D．After all, you might be surprised by who you are |
| E．Making a list helps you make better sense of yourself |
| F．Unless you hope to find out where your weaknesses lie |
| G．In time, the more positive thoughts will become automatic |
1. 推荐该书的理由；
2. 给出欣赏唐诗的建议；
3. 鼓励他努力学好汉语。
注意事项：
1. 词数要求：100 左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇：《唐诗三百首》 Three Hundred Tang Poems
Dear Peter,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
