1 . New Scientist Diversity Internship (实习) Program 2022

Founded in 1956, New Scientist is the world’s most popular weekly science and technology magazine. The magazine’s teams in London and around the world cover international news from a scientific standpoint and ask the biggest-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.

We’re offering a learning and development opportunity open to anyone. Successful applicants will begin a 6-month internship in October. The internship will be based in our High Street Kensington office, London.

Internship positions: two news interns and one video intern

● News interns will receive one to cone mentoring (指导) from an experienced journalist and on-the-job training in news and features writing, with your work published both online and in print.

● Our video intern will be based in our video team, You’ll learn how to produce scientific videos from idea to publication. You’ll have the opportunity to come with us on shoots and be trained in camerawork. You’ll also receive training in news writing and subediting (编辑校订).

Entry requirements:

● You will have completed a science, technology, engineering, mathematics or computing degree by the start of the internship.

● You have a demonstrable interest in writing, video editing or journalism.

Other important information:

● Please submit 200 words explaining how you meet these requirements, which internship position you are applying for, and why you are the right person for this internship.

● Please write an article on a recent scientific discovery, between 500 and 800 words (for news intern applications) or create a 2～3-minute video on a scientific topic that interests you (for video intern applications).

Please send your application to Tashan Chong-Kan-t, chongkan@dmgmedia.co.uk before July 12!

1. How will the interns benefit from the positions?

A．They will choose workplaces at will.	B．They will become famous online.
C．They will get professional training.	D．They will lead an independent team.

2. What is a must for the internship?

A．A relevant educational background.	B．Rich experience in video editing.
C．The ability to produce news videos.	D．A wide range of interests and hobbies.

3. What do you have to prepare to apply for the internship positions?

A．A printed work in journalism.	B．A brief personal statement.
C．A recent scientific discovery.	D．A short video about daily life.

2 . 随着知识经济的发展，我们的社会越来越需要“全能型人才”。假设你是李华，学校英文社团请你写一封倡议书，主题为“To Be an All-round Student”。
写作要点：1. 提出倡议的背景；2. 倡议的内容；3. 提出呼吁。
参考词汇：all-round talents全能型人才
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；
3. 请按如下格式作答。

To Be an All-round Student

Dear boys and girls,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The English Club

3 . We have much to look forward to in the future, thanks to advances in technology. I’m sure that AI doctors are________.

A．in the way

B．on the spot

C．in the end

D．on the horizon

4 . Scientists have solved a puzzle about modern humans, after research showed that a famous skull of a human ancestor found in South Africa is a million years older than experts thought. This discovery has changed what we know of human history.

The skull, which scientists have named “Mrs Ples”, is from an ape-like human relative from a species called Australopithecus africanus (南方古猿). It was found near Johannesburg in 1947 and, based on evidence from its surroundings, was thought to be between 2. 1 and 2. 6 million years old. This puzzled scientists, because although Mrs Ples looks like a possible early ancestor of early humans, the first true humans had already evolved by the time she apparently lived. For this reason, scientists had decided that Australopithecus afarensis, a similar species from East Africa that lived about 3.5 million years ago, was our most likely ancestor instead.

To get a more accurate age for Mrs Ples, a team led by Professor Darryl Granger of Purdue University in Indiana, US, used a new method to date the sandy rocks where the skull lay. They measured the amount of certain chemicals in rocks, which form at a steady rate when they are exposed to cosmic rays (宇宙射线) on Earth’s surface. Once rocks are buried, these chemicals stop forming and slowly disappear;the surviving amount reveals how much time has passed since the rock (or bones) were on the surface.

The new study shows that Mrs Ples and other australopithecine bones nearby are between 3.4 and 3.7 million years old. This means they lived at the same time as their East African relatives, so that either group could have given rise to modern humans. However, team member Dr Laurent Bruxelles pointed out that over millions of years, at only 2,500 miles away, these groups had plenty of time to travel and to breed with each other. In other words, the groups could quite easily have met, had children together and both been part of the history of modern humans.

1. What can we learn about Mrs Ples from the first two paragraphs?

A．It is a skull found in East Africa.

B．It is the most possible ancestor of humans.

C．It is a million years older than scientists expected.

D．It is proved to live between 2.1 and 2.6 million years ago.

2. How did scientists get the accurate age of “Mrs Ples”?

A．By studying the effect of cosmic rays.

B．By calculating the forming rate of chemicals.

C．By locating the sandy rocks where the skull lay.

D．By measuring the surviving amount of chemicals.

3. What can we infer from the new study?

A．Modern humans came into being in East Africa.

B．Mrs Ples travelled and had children with East African relatives.

C．The history of modern humans might begin 3.5 million years ago.

D．Ape-like species from Africa could have interacted with each other.

4. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A．Historical Puzzle Unsolved	B．Ancestor Mystery Solved
C．Mrs Ples: The Earliest Human Being	D．Mrs Ples: A Famous Skull

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Earlier this month, a team of doctors in Russia managed to complete an open heart surgery as the hospital caught fire, Now a picture     1     (take)at the operating theater goes viral on social media,     2     (move)the netizens(网民)everywhere,

According to reports, firefighters     3     (battle)the flames from outside the building as more than 120 patients and medical workers were being evacuated(转移). Despite this, the eight doctors did their best to finish the operation at the ground floor     4     (successful). Soon thereafter, the patient was evacuated to the regional hospital,     5     is about 5 kilometers away.

Cardiac surgery center department head Valentin Filatov said: “There was nowhere to go, the man had to be saved. We did everything at the     6     (high)level, as they say.”

Antonina Smolina, one of the medics, shared that “there was no panic” among the hospital crew.

When responders realized that the surgery could not     7     (stop), they made sure that the operating room would have sufficient power supply by providing an electric cable. They also had to keep smoke     8     entering the theater.

Amur Region’s Ministry of Health later released an official     9     (state), saying the operation during a fire was performed smoothly. Meanwhile, the government authorities will award the doctors for     10     they have done.

6 . Laungi Bhuiya, a man from a small village named Kothilwa in India, has a noble dream — to bring water to his village. To ________ this, he did the seemingly (看似) ________ — dig a canal through the land so that water can ________ from the hills to his village.

Thus started Bhuiya’s digging, which went on for almost 30 years. But his ________ brought him scorn (鄙视) from the people in his village. His own wife called him “mad.” She tried everything to ________ him, even to the point of denying him food, but she ________.

“I was always ________ with him for not caring about the children. There was never any money, never enough food,” she said.

Using only ________ tools, Bhuiya spent years digging through Kothilwa’s barren landscape. ________, he was able to create a three-kilometer canal. His ________ earned him the reputation as the “madman”.

Kothilwa is a(n) ________ village home to almost 750 people, most of whom live in mud huts and ________ a couple of wells for drinking water. They don’t have enough water for irrigation (灌溉), therefore making them unable to grow ________ to feed themselves. This is what ________ Bhuiya to build the canal.

Eventually, the ________ learned about the story of this ________ “madman”. A local journalist, Jai Prakash, wrote a report about him and published it in a local Hindi newspaper, which was a breakthrough for Bhuiya. Kothilwa was then ________ by journalists, social workers, and political leaders, all wanting to ________ Bhuiya.

The villagers’ ________ to Bhuiya has changed as well. They even asked the government for a road to be ________ in the village and named after Bhuiya.

1.

A．promote

B．accomplish

C．stop

D．solve

2.

A．impossible

B．perfect

C．necessary

D．important

3.

A．float

B．blow

C．roll

D．flow

4.

A．energy

B．talent

C．enthusiasm

D．interest

5.

A．discourage

B．protect

C．support

D．criticize

6.

A．continued

B．failed

C．returned

D．forgot

7.

A．strict

B．satisfied

C．bored

D．angry

8.

A．simple

B．advanced

C．heavy

D．expensive

9.

A．Suddenly

B．Generally

C．Constantly

D．Finally

10.

A．words

B．dreams

C．efforts

D．beliefs

11.

A．poor

B．famous

C．beautiful

D．abandoned

12.

A．think of

B．depend on

C．give away

D．put aside

13.

A．trees

B．flowers

C．weeds

D．crops

14.

A．advised

B．required

C．motivated

D．allowed

15.

A．school

B．hospital

C．company

D．media

16.

A．determined

B．proud

C．stupid

D．ridiculous

17.

A．searched

B．studied

C．visited

D．remembered

18.

A．hire

B．meet

C．pay

D．recognize

19.

A．devotion

B．donation

C．reply

D．attitude

20.

A．built

B．opened

C．enlarged

D．improved

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What do we know about the area?

A．Lightning strikes mostly in December.

B．The people there worry about getting hit.

C．The area is near the Andes Mountains.

2. What did NASA call the area?

A．The Never-Ending Storm of Catatumbo.

B．The Lightning Capital of the World.

C．The Light of Venezuela.

3. How many people are struck by lightning near the Catatumbo River?

A．One in three per year.

B．One in 12,000 per year.

C．80% of people who live there.

4. What does the man say in the end?

A．He’s scared of storms.

B．He’ll never visit Venezuela.

C．He’d be careful if he lived in the area.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。1.

A．Because he thought smoking would do good to his heart.

B．Because he didn’t believe smoking would be that harmful.

C．Because he thought smoking could help him feel relaxed.

D．Because he believed smoking could make him feel excited.

2.

A．Air pollution.	B．Smoke.
C．Secondhand smoke.	D．Thirdhand smoke.

3.

A．Because the government hasn’t taken any effective measures to stop smoking.

B．Because each year many children’s death is connected with secondhand smoke.

C．Because smoking and secondhand smoke do more harm to children than adults.

D．Because the government has passed the relevant law to prevent from smoking.

4.

A．The smell of tobacco smoke left on things such as clothes, furniture and so on.

B．The tobacco smoke accidentally caused by the third person who smokes nearby.

C．The poisonous chemicals released from things like clothes, furniture and so on.

D．The poisonous chemicals from tobacco smoke left on things like clothes etc.

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．3%.	B．15%.
C．About 18%.	D．Over 30%.

2.

A．British senior managers.	B．Patients in mental hospital.
C．Prime ministers.	D．American presidents.

3.

A．Factors of affecting people’s success.

B．Importance of keeping emotional health.

C．Encouraging children to have ambitions.

D．Relationships between hardship and success.

10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．Because a monthly fee has to be paid.

B．Because it goes wrong on hot, sunny days.

C．Because it’s hard and expensive to be installed.

D．Because it often makes us confused when used.

2.

A．It’s a dream that will come true sooner or later.

B．It’s a new and good way to track your vehicle.

C．It’s a regular device that works with a smartphone.

D．It’s a tracking device that is changing our life greatly.

3.

A．Efficient but expensive.

B．Innovative but time-consuming.

C．Free but hard to install.

D．Small but user-friendly.