1 . 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1. Which family holiday does the man recommend?A.The one on the 18th. | B.The one on the 19th. | C.The one on the 20th. |
A.France. | B.Spain. | C.Greece. |
A.It is a five-star hotel. | B.It has its own beach. | C.It has a swimming pool. |
When my parents were in trouble at Christmas, our neighbors taught me the true value of kindness. I grew up on the 50-acre farm in the small country community in Missouri, as the sixth of seven children. My parents were hard working farmers and paid regular visits to the farm growing crops. During meals they often talked about how everything on the table except the sugar and flour came from the land. Although we were not rich, they were eager to help others and would make donations to the needy every year.
Besides running the farm, Dad was also a carpenter. However, unfortunately, in the fall of 1970 as he was working on the house, the ladder broke. He fell off the ladder and his back was fractured (使断裂) in two places. He suffered from great pain. Misery and worry took over our family as well. He stayed in hospital for three weeks with his head and feet down, permitting his back to be straight again.
On Thanksgiving day, dad was still in hospital. We always butchered pigs the day after the holiday, and that year my uncle showed up with a couple of cousins to help my three elder brothers prepare our year’s supply of pork.
After Dad returned home, he was not in a good situation and unable to work. I was too young to realize our family had no money coming in and could hardly make ends meet as Christmas approached.
One night we heard a car coming up the long driveway. Growing up in the faraway farm, we kids were curious about who was visiting. As it turned out, Peggy, one of our neighbors, was at the door, holding an envelope filled with money. She told my dad she had collected money in the community and was there to deliver it.
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Dad rejected the money when Peggy handed it to him.
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4 . Living downstream from a waste-treatment plant can leave fish tired, a new study finds, led by Graham Scott, a biologist in Canada. “Wastewater treatment plants are pretty good at taking out the waste and treating it before it gets into our waterways,” he said. “But not everything can be taken out,” he added.
For example, some plants beside the stream were not designed to remove remains of drugs. So when some medicines are left over after people use them, they can be released into the environment. These include the drugs used to treat depression and high blood pressure.
Life-sustaining chemical reactions in an animal’s body (including ours) allow it to grow, move and reproduce. These reactions, taken together, are known as the creature’s metabolism (新陈代谢). Some studies have shown that even just one drug can change the metabolism of fish, making their metabolism slow down. Then that will impair their bodies.
That creates a problem for the animals — using the extra energy to rid their bodies of the pollutants which can damage their cells and tissues. “That’s energy they burn just to stay alive,” explained Scott. That is also the energy no longer available to avoid predators (天敌), to find food and to mate.
And they report that fish exposed to a mix of chemicals can use up some of their energy just to deal with those pollutants. Therefore, they will have less energy to eat and avoid being eaten, says Paul Craig, a biologist in Ontario.
“It is up to us to help reduce the types of pollutants in. wastewater,” Craig says. “That includes not throwing leftover medicines down the toilet.” he recommends.
1. What do Scott’s words mean in paragraph 1?A.There are still some pollutants in the treated water. |
B.Wastewater treatment plants don’t work well. |
C.Things in waterways are difficult to deal with. |
D.Canadians tend to throw waste down the toilet. |
A.Form. | B.Harm. | C.Benefit. | D.Examine. |
A.They will stop growing. |
B.They will avoid their mates. |
C.They will have to rid their bodies of the polluted cells. |
D.They will consume extra energy to survive. |
A.To explain how pollutants affect animals. |
B.To show ways of fighting against pollution. |
C.To advise people to stop buying polluted fish. |
D.To urge people to reduce pollutants in wastewater. |
With Tokyo Summer Olympics
While spectators (观众) won’t have to receive the
NEC, the company handling the technology, also tested out their equipment at two airports and is behind a number of other similar projects,
6 . Wheeling her red chair and scissors around, a salon owner gives out-of-luck strangers a gift — one free hairdo at a time. To date, Steller has given about 30 such haircuts to
Steller knows that a haircut can
A branch of her project is the Steller Kindness Projects in which people who
It all began with a belief in
A.old | B.ordinary | C.unlucky | D.talented |
A.rather than | B.more than | C.other than | D.less than |
A.gateway | B.solution | C.choice | D.pleasure |
A.confidence | B.projects | C.relationships | D.business |
A.save | B.lose | C.lead | D.change |
A.thinned | B.grew | C.lengthened | D.shortened |
A.thought of | B.cared about | C.looked after | D.talked about |
A.know | B.get | C.look | D.feel |
A.fix | B.face | C.cause | D.have |
A.permit | B.admit | C.commit | D.submit |
A.In detail | B.In exchange | C.In contrast | D.In addition |
A.inspired | B.required | C.rewarded | D.forced |
A.special | B.tough | C.great | D.simple |
A.keep up | B.show up | C.cheer up | D.look up |
A.hairdo | B.story | C.kindness | D.information |
7 . Make Your Application (申请表) Stand Out
Colleges and universities in the US receive thousands of applications every year from within the US and from countries all around the world.
Realize that “recommended” equals “required”.
The very first thing any applicant to a college should realize is that it is a competitive process.
Don’t hesitate to send in extra material.
While it used to be the case that universities would make it very clear that they would not accept extra materials, that is no longer true in most cases, and in many cases, universities will accept all kinds of materials.
During school breaks, make sure that you are doing something that shows your academic curiosity, your initiative, and your willingness to work hard. Bonus points if your activity produces something that could be easily understood by admission offices, and if, this activity is something you’ve been doing for two or more years.
Be eager and focus on quality communication.
A.One might think of many parts of the application as optional. |
B.You are expected to present yourself thoroughly in the process. |
C.Use your extra time wisely. |
D.Communicating well will generally be to your benefit. |
E.But how can you make yours stand out from the pile? |
F.Make sure the language you use is formal and careful. |
G.Extra materials won’t suddenly make you competitive. |
8 . Some documents have been making the rounds lately — where people who work various positions in different industries share how much they’re paid.
Bravo! It’s about time we blew up that old belief that salaries have to stay secret. This is not just a matter of curiosity. Having information about salaries can help narrow the gender wage gap, which has barely changed for more than a decade. Recently released date from the US Census Bureau shows that, on average, women working full time still are paid only 82 cents for every dollar paid to a man. And the gap is even wider for many women of color: Black women make 62 cents, and Latinas just 54 cents. What’s more, the pay gap even extends into her retirement. Because she earned less and therefore paid less to the social security system, she receives less in social security benefits.
Having greater access to salary information is helping to speed things up. A new research report by the American Association of University Women shows that the wage gap tends to be smaller in job sectors where pay transparency (透明) is a must. For example, among federal government workers, there’s just a 13 percent pay difference between men and women, and in state government, the gap is about 17 percent. But in private, for-profit companies, where salaries are generally kept under wraps, the gender wage gap jumps to 29 percent.
Fortunately, salary information is increasingly available on some websites. Certain companies and many human resources departments are pushing ahead with this practice. Of course, it’s going to take more than salary transparency to equalize earnings between women and men. But sharing salaries can and must be part of the solution. The more information women have about how jobs are valued — and what different people earn — the better they will understand their value in the labor market and be able to push for the pay they deserve.
1. Why are the figures mentioned in paragraph 2?A.To reveal the severity of gender wage gap. |
B.To confirm the previous belief about salaries. |
C.To satisfy readers’ curiosity about others’ salaries. |
D.To appeal to readers to share their salary information. |
A.The inequality between men and women. |
B.The need to keep salary information a secret. |
C.The advantage of working for the government. |
D.The benefit of making salary information public. |
A.Critical. | B.Favourable. |
C.Unclean | D.Negative. |
A.Why It Pays to Share How Much You Make |
B.Where Salary Information Difference Lies |
C.What It Takes to Realize Gender Equality |
D.How Woman’s Value Improves at Work. |
9 . To help astronauts of the future survive the mental challenges that come with living in space for extended periods of time, space travelers’ missions could soon be accompanied by AI-powered, empathetic (同理心的) robotic assistants.
Not only does space travel present astronauts with a lot of physical stresses, spending months or years in such a physically demanding place with limited space and the same people can also raise lots of mental tests as well. According to MIT Technology Review, scientists are wording to ease some of the mental challenges facing astronauts by creating “an AI assistant that’s able to feel human emotion and respond with empathy.”
While such a technology would prove itself useful by being able to predict the needs of crew members and “intervene (介入) if their mental health is in need of help, ”it has the potential to he life saving when humans choose to explore beyond the earth’s gravitational field and towards deep space.
Though astronauts currently on the International Space Station have an intelligent robot to interact with, it lacks proper emotional intelligence. As a result, a team at the organization’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on a more advanced and complicated emotional support companion that can control a spacecraft’s functioning in addition to tracking crew member’s behaviors.
Right now in the lab, an AI-equipped robot called Henry the Helper can be found wandering around the grounds helping visitors who appear confused or lost based on their facial expressions. Two more emotionally intelligent robots are expected to be introduced later this year, one of which is said to be able to participate in conversations more complex than giving navigation (导航) assistance.
The team’s final goal is to make a companion named Fiona the Future a reality, an emotionally intelligent cross-platform system. Rather than being limited to a physical robotic device, it could be digitally integrated into space stations and habitats on Mars and beyond. Fiona, if all goes according to the JPL’s plans, will help keep astronauts of the future mentally fit as they start their journeys to deep space.
1. Why are the emotional support robots needed?A.To help astronauts get rid of physical stresses. |
B.To protect astronauts from emotional suffering. |
C.To achieve the mission of exploring deep space. |
D.To test the robots’ ability to feel human emotions. |
A.It can save astronauts’ lives. | B.It can interact with astronauts. |
C.It has emotional intelligence. | D.It can predict astronauts’ needs. |
A.It is due to be introduced this year. | B.It is available in the space stations. |
C.It is just a physical robotic device. | D.It is more of an intelligent system. |
A.A medicine magazine. | B.A business magazine. |
C.A science magazine. | D.A travel magazine. |
10 . This summer, you are offered a perfect opportunity to upgrade the resume (简历) for your future, but which summer jobs should you go after? From traditional to out-of-the-box summer job opportunities, you are bound to find a good fit with one of these ideas:
Travel Blogger
Those who have a taste for adventure can share their travel experiences down to the minute on social platforms. Typically, the hourly wage is $24; however, this number varies depending on the blogger’s ability to make extra earnings from advertising.
Lifeguard
Community and neighborhood pools are usually in need of lifeguards in summer, so ask around to, see what is available. Not only will you be keeping people safe, but you will also be enjoying the sun and maintaining your fitness at the same time. The average pay is $12 an hour.
Tutor
For academically-minded ones, tutoring services are available online. This means you are no longer limited by your location. If you have the patience, skills, and ability to teach others, this position offers an average hourly wage of $19.
Freelance (自由职业的) Designer
If you have a good understanding of computers, web design, and/or enjoy coding, then becoming a freelance designer over the summer may be ideal. Rather than working regular 9-5 hours at a company, you have the flexibility of working from home. $26.99 is the average hourly rate for this position.
For more summer job ideas, check out INDEED to see what opportunities are best suited for you! And don’t forget the fun doesn’t stop when summer is over, check out our post about the Best Jobs on Campus.
1. Which of the summer jobs offers a more flexible pay?A.Travel blogger. | B.Lifeguard. |
C.Tutor. | D.Freelance designer. |
A.One can work online. | B.One should be patient. |
C.One can benefit physically. | D.One should be adventurous. |
A.Teachers. | B.Graduates. |
C.Parents. | D.Students. |