1 . In the west of the city Seville in Spain, a sea of giant mirrors is reflecting the sun’s energy to provide “concentrated solar power (CSP)” while brightening the path to a new wave of green energy projects.
The 624 carefully positioned mirrors reflect the sun’s heat towards a 50-meter-tall central tower where it is concentrated and used to boil water into steam. The superheated steam is then used to turn a turbine (汽轮机) that can produce up to 11 megawatts of electricity—enough power for 6,000 homes—according to Solucar, the Spanish company that has built the power plant.
The Spanish tower, known as PS10, is the first stage of an ambitious development. By 2025 it is hoped that additional towers will create “a solar farm” with an output of 500 megawatts, which would be enough power for 180,000 homes, almost the entire population of nearby Seville.
CSP produces no greenhouse gases and the only pollution is visual. There is also the possibility that production can keep going around the clock-even when the sun has gone down. Solucar is currently testing technology at a plant near Granada that will pump 50 percent of the electricity generated in the day into the Spanish national grid (国家输电网), and use the other 50 percent to melt salt, which will then act as a kind of battery, storing the sun’s power. When dusk falls, the heat stored in the molten salt can be used to generate power through the night.
The Sahara, the world’s largest desert, has always been seen as a problem. But with large-scale CSP projects, suddenly all that empty space, with its year round clear skies and hot sun, has a value that could transform local economies. It could potentially turn Africa into an exporter of energy to power-hungry Europe.
1. What is the Spanish tower PS10 used to do according to the text?A.Store boiled water. | B.Generate electricity. |
C.Reflect the sun’s energy. | D.Brighten the path nearby. |
A.towers like PS10 are set up |
B.greenhouses are built to make profits |
C.crops are grown with new technology |
D.farmers mainly use solar energy at home |
A.molten salt works better than water when producing electricity |
B.melting salt can reduce environmental pollution |
C.some sun power can be saved for the night use |
D.salt is easy to melt in the sun |
A.Critical. | B.Doubtful. | C.Subjective. | D.Optimistic. |
2 . Greg Dailey closed his picture frame store due to the coronavirus pandemic (冠状病毒大流行), and his second job of delivering newspapers became his primary source of income.
Dailey’s grocery trips began when one of his elderly customers asked him for a favor. “Mrs. Ross called me on Wednesday before my store shutting down and asked if I could throw the newspaper closer to her house,” he tells Yahoo Life. “A couple of days later, I was standing in a grocery, and I called her and asked if she needed anything from a grocery. She was astonished. Moments later, she called me back and asked if I wouldn’t mind grabbing something from Mrs. Miller across the street.”
Soon, Dailey’s 800 customers found a note he wrote tucked in with their newspaper, offering his help. “And the next day I just decided, ‘You know, what? If there are two people that live within a hundred feet of each other having issues getting the essential things they need, I’m going to put out a note.’”
The words spread not only to his community but to surrounding ones. Since then, Dailey, with the help of his family, developed a system to keep track of the orders. To date, Dailey has made more than 600 trips to the grocery for his neighbors and delivered everything to their homes for free. “These last three months has changed my life… I get emotional because some of them have become really special to me,” he says.
Dailey reopened his frame store on June 15, and he promised to continue to help seniors not only with groceries but with anything else they need. He knows those he helps will remain a part of his life going forward.
“It’s moments like this, we need to step back and take a look in ourselves and realize that we can do more… and it’s something I live by,” Dailey says. “If you have the opportunity to do something nice for someone, just do it.”
1. What favor did Mrs. Ross ask Dailey to do?A.Go across the street. | B.Give things to Mrs. Miller. |
C.Do grocery shopping for her. | D.Deliver the newspapers nearer to her house. |
A.To help nearby neighbors. | B.To offer help to his customers. |
C.To give his customers essential things. | D.To ask his customers to buy more newspapers. |
A.Dailey’s offering of help. | B.Dailey’s frame store. |
C.Dailey’s reflection. | D.Dailey’s emotion. |
A.Helpful. | B.Friendly. | C.Practical. | D.Responsible. |
3 . BOLTON SCHOOL SIXTH RORM GIRLS
2021-2022 HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION LECTURES
Historical Association branch meetings have been a regular feature in the Girl’s Division for the past six years. Each year, a series of seven lectures are delivered by a range of academics from different universities and research institutes. Attendees meet in the comfortable surroundings of the Sutcliffe Suite and enjoy a chat over tea and biscuits before and after the highly interesting and exciting lectures. Over the past years, attendees have enjoyed lectures on the American Civil War and Simon de Montfort. The branch welcomes pupils from a number of surrounding schools in particular at the Great Debate competition.
In order to allow for more time to adapt to ever changing circumstances with regards to COVID-19, the branch has decided to delay the start of the 2021 - 2022 season until January, 2022. There will be six lectures, running into June for the first time in the branch’s history.
While the branch has often provided comfort on cold winter nights, we do hope that members, new and old, will now join us as in the spring and summer of 2022. We hope to welcome lecturers who will be speaking about the Mayflower, the Jacobites and 17th Century Versailles. In the meantime, please follow@ boltonhistory on Twitter, or “Bolton Historical Association” on Facebook, for updates. Alternatively(或者), please speak to Mr. Owen, Head of History, in school.
1. What can students do during the lectures?A.Hold a debate competition. | B.Have a chat with peers. |
C.Learn from experts. | D.Eat biscuits. |
A.In January, 2021. | B.In January, 2022. |
C.In June, 2021. | D.In June, 2022. |
A.By following up on Twitter. |
B.By updating their Facebook. |
C.By contacting Bolton Historical Association. |
D.By talking to Mr. Owen about school history. |
Doris drew back the curtain in her living room and looked out onto the wet street. She felt happy when the sunlight appeared. If it didn’t stop raining, it would ruin her day. Her mother had promised to drive her to the Fashion Fair if it was sunny. Doris was desperate to go there because she had to replace a Nike jacket.
Earlier that Wednesday afternoon, Eddie, the most popular seventh-grader, had given Doris his jacket and asked her to keep an eye as he would play basketball in a hurry. Doris was glad to be of help.
During her last class, the biology teacher made them cut apart dead frogs. For fear of getting blood on Eddie’s jacket, Doris folded it and placed it on a chair. Then she took the knife and cut the skin quickly. She felt sick when opening the frog’s belly (腹部).
When the bell rang, Doris hurried out because the bus she caught for home left ten minutes after school. She raced to board the bus and found a seat. After a few minutes the driver started the engine and drove away when Doris looked out of the window and saw Eddie. “The jacket!” she screamed. She shot from her seat and ran up to the driver. “You’ve got to stop! I forgot Eddie’s jacket!” “Who’s Eddie? I don’t know Eddie,” the driver said angrily. “Sit down.”
All that evening she was upset and blamed her biology teacher for her problem. If he hadn’t made them dissect (解剖) frogs, she wouldn’t have been so absent-minded. The next day Doris rushed from the bus to the biology room. The jacket was not there!?
“How can I ever tell Eddie?” She closed her eyes. She spent most of her break and lunch period in the restroom, brushing her hair and worrying. On Friday she stayed at home to avoid Eddie. Next Tuesday was her mother’s birthday, so she told her mother she wanted to go shopping to buy her a gift for her birthday. Actually, she wanted to buy a Nike jacket with her life savings at the Fashion Fair.
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Mum drove Doris to the Fashion Fair and left, asking her not to waste money.
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Doris was about to leave when she saw Eddie in his Nike jacket.
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1. 时间:11月的第二周;
2. 活动内容:演唱歌曲、乐器演奏﹑音乐比赛;
3. 报名截止日期:10月31日。
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6 . A boy who was crazy about collecting rubbish is only four years old. He has finally fulfilled his dream of being a cleaner. Riley Mccourt has admired the local rubbish collectors for ages, spending his days picking up waste on his street and wheeling bins to the side of the road to help out his neighbors. He loves cleaning and binning waste. His favourite chore is to empty the rubbish from the chip shop his mum runs. Two weeks ago, however, a disaster struck: Riley accidentally knocked over one of the bins and was accused of causing trouble.
Someone posted in the local Facebook group that Riley had put rubbish in the street, clearly unaware of his love for keeping the streets clean. Thankfully his innocence was quickly proven, and his local council decided to make his dreams come true by allowing him to work alongside the cleaners for a day.
Riley joined the waste collection crew on Wednesday, chatting with the team, helping with the recycling, and riding in the waste collection vehicles. He even got his own jacket. Riley’s mum, Toni Mccourt, said, “He loves the bins and trucks.” Riley’s favourite day is definitely bin day. He goes round collecting the rubbish up on the street. The cleaners all know him when they spot him. He goes outside as soon as he sees them come round. He helps his neighbors put their bins out for collection.
Riley clearly made a good impression during his first day on the job, as community services manager Jane Carrol said she was very pleased with his enthusiasm for the role. Jane said, “Riley is clearly a keen recycler and when he is older, I’m sure he’d make an excellent member of the team here. It was a pleasure for the team to show him around the vehicles.”
1. What can we learn about Riley from the first paragraph?A.Riley likes making trouble. | B.Riley was wronged by someone. |
C.Riley was knocked over by a bin. | D.Riley looks down upon rubbish collectors. |
A.To work as a real cleaner. | B.To keep the street clean. |
C.To prove his innocence. | D.To work with the local council. |
A.It is meaningless for him to do so. |
B.It is unnecessary to do so on the street. |
C.It is challenging for such a little boy to do so. |
D.It is worthwhile to give Riley very high remarks. |
A.A newspaper. | B.A diary. | C.A biography. | D.A novel. |
7 . The Analysis of Friendship with Robin Dunbar
Friendship is the single most important thing that affects our psychological and our physical health and well-being. It’s also very expensive because, if we want friendships to work for us, we have to invest a lot of time in keeping them. In this online talk, Robin Dunbar will explain how our brains create friendships for us.
About the speaker:
Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford. He spent the first half of his career studying the social behavior of monkeys and antelopes in Africa, and the second half studying humans. He has published 400 science journal articles. Besides, he has contributed to many radio and TV science documentaries, and has written a dozen popular science books.
What’s included in your ticket:
● Live lecture lasting 60 minutes including Q&A with Robin Dunbar On-demand access to a recording of the lecture and Q&A for 12 months Booking information:
● This online event will start at 6 p. m. on Thursday 21, October 2021 and will last for one hour. Access to a recording of the event will be available to ticket purchasers for the 12months following the live event.
● A ticket costs you thirteen dollars. We’ll email you a confirmation immediately after purchase. You’ll receive a separate email with a link to access the event auditorium (礼堂) before the event. Please note that each link is unique and shouldn’t be shared.
● New Scientist Ltd reserves the right to change the event and its line-up, or cancel the event. In the unlikely event of cancellation, all tickets will be fully refunded. New Scientist Ltd won’t be responsible for any additional expenses caused by ticket holders in relation to the event.
1. What will the online talk be mainly about?A.The expenses of friendship. | B.The formation of friendship. |
C.The problems of friendship. | D.The importance of friendship. |
A.He has collected many science documentaries. |
B.He has published twelve popular science books. |
C.He has given many inspirational speeches online. |
D.He has written over 400 papers on social behavior. |
A.A sixty-minute-long live lecture. |
B.Access to the speaker’s writings. |
C.A chance to interview the speaker. |
D.Involvement in recording the lecture. |
8 . After over a decade of faithful service, my old desktop computer finally died. With no computer repair places open, my daughter talked me into
I looked for the old e-mail
What I did learn from all of this is that when it comes to computers and
A.exchanging | B.purchasing | C.recycling | D.sacrificing |
A.parking | B.dropping | C.repairing | D.flying |
A.program | B.website | C.receiver | D.computer |
A.faster | B.cheaper | C.older | D.easier |
A.hired | B.cleaned | C.rejected | D.saved |
A.fancy | B.heavy | C.tidy | D.handy |
A.weighed | B.stuck | C.designed | D.touched |
A.set up | B.put on | C.taken in | D.made out |
A.imagine | B.explore | C.ignore | D.reflect |
A.work | B.travel | C.life | D.nature |
A.yawn | B.rush | C.bow | D.dance |
A.Still | B.Maybe | C.Besides | D.Instead |
A.firmly | B.slowly | C.hopefully | D.normally |
A.ambiguous | B.controversial | C.complicated | D.flexible |
A.faster | B.calmer | C.luckier | D.simpler |
1.活动的缘由和意义;
2.活动的内容和形式;
3.你的感想和收获。
参考词汇:点外卖order take-out food 塑料包装plastic packages
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With the popularity of take-out food in schools, more and more students enjoy the convenience it brings.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Recently, a little dog was playing out in its yard with its owner Henry
The gentle dog
Though often