1 . Pet Hotels
Where to Board Your Pet During the Holiday? Here are a few comfortable pet hotels for you. Search for Pet Hotels in our app to find these listings on a map that have spaces available for the upcoming holidays. Remember to show your vaccination records in case pets are rejected.
B&M Pet HotelPrice per day: A cat, 15 dollars. Dog boarding rooms, from 28 to 68 dollars.
Booking: Contact Golden Chen via call or WeChat (GoldenChen68)
Animals allowed: Also welcomes rabbits, turtles, guinea pigs and more.
Services: Dog training, and four daily walks for dogs.
Someone’s PetPrice per day: A dog, from 23 to 60 dollars according to size. It is 18 dollars per cat, with an additional charge of 10 dollars for each additional cat.
Booking: Call 15000386785/18917471594.
Animals allowed: Both cats and dogs are welcome.
Services: washing, grooming and pet beauty.
Pet Bamboo MansionPrice per day: A cat, 20 dollars. For dogs, 56 dollars.
Booking: Call 13524761908 or contact Buddy Dog via WeChat.
Animals-allowed: Accommodate both cats and dogs.
Services: For dogs, there are three walks per day, and swimming facilities.
Offer a 20-40% discount for reserving them, in advance.
Cozy pet TownPrice per day: A cat, 14 dollars. A dog, ranging from 20 to 34 dollars depending on size.
Booking: Add the owner on WeChat (CozyPetTown)
Animals allowed: Only cats and dogs
Services: Swimming, training, grooming.
1. Which hotel offers the lowest price for three cats per day?A.B&M Pet Hotel. | B.Someone’s Pet. |
C.Pet Bamboo Mansion. | D.Cozy Pet Town. |
A.It requires contact via call and WeChat. |
B.It has various rooms for dogs based on size. |
C.It offers dog walking and swimming facilities. |
D.It provides a preferential price for early booking. |
A.Call the owner directly. | B.Visit the hotel in person. |
C.Contact the owner via WeChat. | D.Book through the Pet Hotels app. |
1. 一次难忘的家务劳动经历;
2. 你的收获和感受。
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A Memorable Housework Experience
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In second grade, while other kids played outside, I stayed behind at my desk and created books from construction paper. Using the limited vocabulary of an eight-year-old, I wrote stories and dreamed of one day becoming an author. My second-grade teacher urged my parents to nurture (培养) this desire, but they didn’t take my dream seriously.
Through adulthood, the desire to write remained. The dream never died but there were more certain ways to generate income, so I was controled in different directions. None of the jobs I held afforded me the opportunity to write, and raising two daughters gave me little free time to pursue becoming an author. However, I held onto the dream that had flickered (闪烁) in me as a child.
At the age of fifty-eight, I continued to manage the office of my husband’s construction company, but I was looking for something that would fill the void (空虚感) of our now empty nest. Writing stories and sharing them on social media filled some of that void, and the stories got quite a few likes, but it never crossed my mind as I approached my senior years that writing could be a career for me.
One day, I met a friend from high school who was also my friend on social media. We hadn’t seen each other in several years, so I walked over to greet her. Anticipating that her first words would consist of how long it had been since we’d seen each other, I was shocked at what she spoke out. “You want to write. You need to write.”
She had been reading the stories I shared on social media and had always commented with encouraging words. But no one had ever spoken these words to me. I had never even spoken these words out loud to myself. Those simple words she uttered lit a flame that had only been a flicker for a long time. Deep inside, I knew I still wanted to be an author. I wanted to follow my friend’s advice. I wanted to write. I needed to write.
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I went home that day and set out to write a story.
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In conclusion, this is what I would like to say —when in trouble, reach out for help, talk to family and friends, your doctor or a counsellor. Take time to take care of yourself, you are worth the
A.struggling | B.searching | C.begging | D.waiting |
A.cause | B.result | C.price | D.condition |
A.anxious | B.practical | C.temporary | D.urgent |
A.pressure | B.emphasis | C.effect | D.limit |
A.found | B.displayed | C.occupied | D.enjoyed |
A.concern | B.surprise | C.puzzle | D.guilt |
A.suggested | B.recognized | C.claimed | D.guaranteed |
A.complaint | B.debate | C.preparation | D.resistance |
A.went | B.worked | C.behaved | D.reacted |
A.slid | B.threw | C.rolled | D.sank |
A.ignored | B.ensured | C.robbed | D.disturbed |
A.left out | B.pointed out | C.reached out | D.passed out |
A.approaches | B.disciplines | C.assumptions | D.patterns |
A.permanently | B.potentially | C.smoothly | D.thoroughly |
A.passion | B.freedom | C.strength | D.effort |
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Later, GongGong, the god of water, and Zhu Rong, the god of fire, had a great fight,
6 . Strategically adding weak points along microscopic chains called polymers (高分子聚合物) actually makes them harder to tear, researchers report in the June 23 Science. Polymers are used in car tires, and therefore the findings could help reduce plastic pollution as tires wear down over time.
When tires rub against the road, they drop microplastics of rubber and plastic polymers, which pollute waterways and air. Every year, tires release an estimated 6 million metric tons of these microplastics into environment. Stronger polymers that break apart less easily could limit the amount of particles shed annually.
To make such tough materials, Stephen Craig, a chemist at Duke University, and colleagues added molecules called cross-linkers to the polymers. These cross-linkers connected these polymer chains to their many neighbors, and they were specifically designed to break apart easily. At the microscopic scale, the polymers act like a tangle (乱团) of spaghetti with the cross-linkers holding them all together and helping them keep their shape, says Craig’s collaborator Shu Wang, a chemist at MIT. When the team stretched the polymer spaghetti, the individual cross-linkers broke easily, as expected. But the larger tangle material required more force to break than they expected.
The secret to the increased toughness lies in the path the tear has to take, Craig says. The tear goes through the easy-to-break cross-linkers rather than through the tougher polymer chains. Each broken connection follows the path of least resistance but avoiding the long polymer chains means breaking many cross-linkers, which requires more stretching force overall.
This isn’t the first time researchers have used weak connectors to make polymers stronger. But unlike in similar materials, the increased toughness doesn’t come at the expense of other beneficial properties like stiffness (风度). Craig says he hopes the findings will help extend the lifetimes of car tires and plastics, potentially limiting annual microplastic pollution.
1. What benefit does the new material bring?A.It meets the road standard. | B.It weakens plastic polymers. |
C.It releases less microplastics. | D.It reduces the cost of car tires. |
A.It follows the pattern of spaghetti. | B.It is designed to fall apart easily. |
C.The polymers help keep its shape. | D.The larger tangle is harder to break. |
A.The weakness of the cross-linker. | B.The strength of the polymer chains. |
C.The number of the cross-linkers used. | D.The path the tear takes through the material. |
A.It initially uses weak connectors. | B.It sacrifices stiffness for toughness. |
C.It lengthens the lifespan of car tires. | D.It removes annual microplastic pollution. |
7 . Bill Bryson’s phenomenally popular books are a great success of amateur enthusiasm over scholarly expertise. In the highly reviewed Shakespeare (2007), he raced us through the playwright’s life and works in 222 pages; A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) was his 624-page analysis of “everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation” — and it remains the best-selling science book of the 21st century so far. Can he make it again with A Really Short Journey Through the Body, which promises us a “head to toe” tour in 138 pages?
In his books for adult readers, Bryson’s success has lain in an ability to turn vast, complex subjects into an easy and pleasant narrative, filled with tiny facts and odd stories. His latest book, which follows his adult title The Body (2020), is aimed at children as young as eight, for whom this proven writing style works well.
“No doubt about it, the human body is a truly remarkable thing,” Bryson writes, and it’s the remarkable facts that interest him the most. Did you know that you bl ink 14,000 times a day? Or that it takes seven billion billion billion atoms to make you? And that if you formed all your DNA into a single line, it would reach 10 billion miles across the solar system?
Fresh doctors might find some of the entries frustratingly brief. The tongue, for example, receives only a paragraph, while, a chapter, entitled ‘Poo and Farts’, is relatively detailed: “In your life, you’ll probably po o the weight of 5 cars but you’ll have eaten the weight of 60. So that’s not a terrible result.”
Biology books can be heavy weather, but Bryson’s skill, as ever, is to turn the story of the human body into a thoroughly digestible read.
1. What do Bryson’s latest book and The Body (2020) have in common?A.They are easy to read. | B.They are both about physics. |
C.They are intended for adults. | D.They are both best-selling books. |
A.To analyze the structure of the book. | B.To illustrate the attraction of the book. |
C.To show the scientific value of the book. | D.To display the main contents of the book. |
A.Packed with facts. | B.Weather-related. |
C.Hard to understand. | D.Popular and readable. |
A.An introduction to a book. | B.An essay on biology. |
C.A news report on science. | D.A biography of a writer. |
8 . Waking up at the crack of dawn and going for a run might feel awful when you start trying to make it a habit. Weaving a significant new activity such as this into your regular routine obviously takes determination and time.
One popular idea suggests that it takes 21 days to solidify a habit. People tend to feel extra motivated to start a new habit or kick an old one.
Everyone has a unique habit-building timeline.
The researchers also suggested that habit formation depends on the effort that a person puts into practicing an activity and on the presence of environmental cues that would remind them to carry out the behavior.
A.The type of activity is also a factor. |
B.The strategies of activity impact the way. |
C.People want to form a habit of exercising regularly. |
D.But how much time is really needed to make that habit stick? |
E.It might sound easily reachable to make a resolution on New Year’s Day. |
F.By comparison, it took half a year for people to develop an exercise habit. |
G.However long it is for any individual, repetition is the key to making it work. |
9 . Ever feel disconnected during a stressful event? That could be your brain protecting you. During traumatic (痛苦的) situations, people might experience an unexpected wave of emotional indifference or feel like they’ve separated from reality and are having an out-of-body experience. These symptoms of disconnect describe dissociation, a defense mechanism that separates threatening feelings and ideas from the rest of someone’s mind. But why do our minds sometimes dissociate when we’re experiencing stressful events?
Typically, the sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for our “fight or flight” response, activates when a person is in upcoming physical danger. Mammals, including humans, evolved to have this response, as it pushes them to survive by fighting or escaping from danger. Dissociation is another way the nervous system is ready to respond to trauma when fight or flight appears to be too dangerous or impossible.
Dissociation can protect someone in the moment so that they are mentally separated from a situation causing physical pain, emotional pain or both. Oftentimes, victims of abuse report dissociation during the event or having foggy memories of an event after the fact due to dissociation.
Nevertheless, problems can arise if people continue to dissociate even once they’re separated from the intense trauma, as opposed to relying on other coping mechanisms, for example, help from a professional. Many people who continue to dissociate often struggle with daily stress, like meeting work deadlines or speaking with peers. Many feel disconnected in their relationships and may find themselves unconcentrated during what used to be usual interactions or tasks.
But the goal of addressing long-term dissociation isn’t to do away with it. After all, it can be a useful strategy to help survive a dangerous situation. But memories of the traumatic event are often disruptive and painful, so having some distance from that could mean a better quality of life after the trauma.
1. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?A.It defines what dissociation is. |
B.It emphasizes the value of dissociation. |
C.It lists different symptoms of disconnect. |
D.It explains why we experience stressful events. |
A.By erasing their memories. |
B.By getting rid of their emotional pain. |
C.By protecting victims from physical pain. |
D.By distancing the victims mentally from the reality. |
A.Failing to focus on tasks. |
B.Meeting work deadlines. |
C.Having a better quality of life. |
D.Relying on other coping mechanisms. |
A.Traumatic events are avoidable. |
B.Dissociation needs to be handled properly. |
C.People’s well-being is based on the distance. |
D.There’re enough coping strategies for traumas. |
10 . Watford and her family have lived in Curtis Bay, Baltimore for generations. Her community has faced environmental injustice. Heavy industries continued to move in her community. As a result, her neighbors have had to live with serious respiratory (呼吸的) problems.
When she knew a plan to build the nation’s largest trash-burning incinerator (焚化炉) less than a mile away from her high school, she realized she had to take action. The incinerator was being sold wrongly as clean, renewable energy equipment but actually it would be a source of brain-damaging chemicals and would release 200 million tons of greenhouse gases per year, both worse than coal burning. Watford felt she had a responsibility to warn her community to work together to shut this plant down.
She co-founded Free Your Voice (FYV), a 10-person student organization devoted to community rights and social justice. Together, they decided to start a campaign to take down Energy Answers, the incinerator’s developer. They went door-to-door talking to neighbors and organizing protests.
When it was discovered that Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) was going to be a customer of Energy Answers, the organization fought with the board and presented their case, urging BCPS to withdraw from the project. BCPS was convinced to cancel their contract, which in turn inspired 22 other customers to do the same. Without any financial gain, Energy Answers had no market to move forward with its plan.
Watford continues to work with Curtis Bay residents toward fair development. They have a vision for the future which includes building a zero-waste movement, a solar farm, and green jobs. She wants the entire human family to join the fight for environmental justice because survival as a species depends on our ability to take action.
1. What caused respiratory problems in Watford’s community?A.Poor medical care. | B.Terrible environmental conditions. |
C.Constant bacterial infection. | D.Unbalanced distribution of resources. |
A.Unfavourable. | B.Doubtful. | C.Unclear. | D.Indifferent. |
A.BCPS lost financial support. | B.Energy Answers stopped its plan. |
C.The investors found new market. | D.Many customers revised their contracts. |
A.A teenage hero against urban pollution |
B.A teenage hero fighting for an advanced city |
C.A battle for Baltimore’s sky by a teenage hero |
D.The social justice challenge for a teenage hero |