Hogewey, a small village at the edge of Amsterdam, has everything—restaurants, shops, a movie theater, and even a hairdresser. In
Hogewey is quite similar to a movie set. Doctors and nurses don't walk around in white uniform. Instead, they play the roles of the shopkeepers, restaurant managers and even supermarket cashiers in Hogewey. The nurses are neighbors
Since its beginning, Hogewey
2 . By 8 p. m., most of the homes in the West African country of Sierra Leone get darkness for the night. Almost three quarters of the population there have no access to
Jeremiah Thoronka’s family
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| A．education | B．electricity | C．firewood | D．highway |
| A．relied on | B．gave away | C．sold | D．delivered |
| A．fine | B．lovely | C．dangerous | D．small |
| A．felt | B．imagined | C．believed | D．admitted |
| A．schools | B．families | C．countries | D．worlds |
| A．Already | B．Only | C．Ever | D．Even |
| A．reflect | B．progress | C．struggle | D．wander |
| A．if | B．unless | C．until | D．because |
| A．lighted | B．destroyed | C．warmed | D．built |
| A．witnessed | B．risked | C．suggested | D．stood |
| A．actually | B．simply | C．specially | D．generally |
| A．came up with | B．put up with | C．got away with | D．got along with |
| A．food | B．heat | C．water | D．energy |
| A．visited | B．supported | C．founded | D．left |
| A．funds | B．repairs | C．powers | D．controls |
3 . Wellness tourism refers to trips that are organized on the principle of wellness.
On a wellness trip you usually visit locations where food and activities support your best health. This is the very foundation on which a wellness trip is built.
When you take a wellness trip, you get a chance to taste many healthy cuisine styles.
However, you can't expect wellness tourism to be a perfectly enjoyable experience.
Your general attitude toward life has to be positive. This should also go hand in hand with being open-minded and tolerant.
| A．There will be difficulties and disappointments. |
| B．You can make choices according to your personal taste. |
| C．These trips are wellness experiences that expand your cultural views. |
| D．Your expectations can never be too high for such a perfect experience. |
| E．You need to develop goals that you can reach in a given amount of time. |
| F．Wellness tourism also combines the best physical options: nature and activity. |
| G．You'll understand the importance of health over flavor when selecting your meals. |
4 . A new research shows that blood from young adult mice that get lots of exercise benefits the brains of same-aged, inactive mice. A single protein in the blood of exercising mice seems largely responsible for the benefit.
For the study in Nature, researchers compared blood from exercising and inactive mice of the same age. They showed that transfusions（输入）of blood from running mice reduced neuroinflammation（神经炎症）in the inactive mice and improved their cognitive performance.
Mice love to run. Give a caged mouse access to a running wheel and it will run up 4 to 6 miles a night. If you lock the wheel, the mouse won't log nearly as much exercise, although it's still free to walk about in its cage.
The investigators put either functional or locked running wheels into the cages of 3-month-old lab mice. A month of steady running was enough to greatly increase the quantity of neurons and other cells in the brains of marathoner mice when compared with those of inactive mice.
Next, the researchers collected blood from marathoner and inactive mice. Then, every three days, they injected other inactive mice with plasma（血浆）from either marathoner or couch-potato mice. Each injection equaled 7% to 8% of the recipient mouse s total blood amount.
On two different lab tests of memory, inactive mice injected with marathoner plasma outperformed their equally inactive peers who received couch-potato plasma.
In addition, the researchers discovered a protein in the blood that appears to play an important role in the anti-neuroinflammatory exercise effect. Remove a single protein, clusterin（丛生蛋白）, from marathoner mice's plasma and there will be no anti-inflammatory effect on inactive mice's brains. No other protein the scientists similarly tested had the same effect. There was significantly more clusterin in the marathoners' blood than in the couch potatoes' blood.
Researchers are expecting that a drug that can play clusterin's role might help slow the course of neuroinflammation-associated diseases.
1. What happened in the experiment?| A．The mice were kept inactive. |
| B．A protein was fed to the mice. |
| C．Exercising mice got neuroinflammation. |
| D．Inactive mice got blood from exercising mice. |
| A．They are naturally inactive. |
| B．They enjoy playing with potatoes. |
| C．Exercising does good to their brains. |
| D．Blood transfusions are harmful to them. |
| A．Blood. | B．Plasma. | C．Clusterin. | D．Brain. |
| A．Blood test. | B．Drug development. |
| C．Disease prevention. | D．Animal behavior study. |
5 . Fire has always been part of California’s landscape. But long before the disastrous forest fires of recent years, native American tribes（部落）held controlled burns each year. Those burns cleared out underbrush and encouraged new plant growth. Now, government officials have realized tackling the fire problem will mean bringing back “good fire”, much like California’s tribes once did.
When western settlers removed tribes from their land and banned tribal ceremonies, cultural burning disappeared. Instead, authorities focused on quickly putting out wildfires.
But what the authorities did only made California’s wildfire risk worse. Without regular burns, the landscape grew thick with plants that dry out every summer. These dry plants are kindling（引火物）for the fires that have recently destroyed California communities. Climate change and warming temperatures make those landscapes even easier to catch fire.
So, tribal leaders and government officials are forming new partnerships. There are hundreds of thousands of acres that need careful burning to reduce the risk of extreme wildfires. Tribes are eager to gain access to those ancestral lands to restore traditional burning. Before 1800, the tribes used low-grade fires to shape the landscape, encouraging certain plants to grow both for tribal use and to attract game.
The arrival of western settlers dramatically changed the ways of fire management. “They came with their concepts of being afraid of fire,” a tribal leader says. “They didn’t understand fire in the sense of a tool. And they didn’t understand its role to help generate the land. So they brought suppression（压制）”.
Tribal leaders have been reaching out to ecologists, researchers and fire agencies about the importance of their knowledge. In Northern California, the Karuk and Yurok tribes have partnered with the Forest Service to manage land for traditional values and wildfire management.
1. What have government officials realized about the native tribes?| A．The tribes’ old practice is useful. |
| B．The tribes are causing more forest fires. |
| C．It’s impossible to prevent the tribes burning forests. |
| D．It’s necessary to remove the tribes from where they live. |
| A．Fire suppression. | B．Reshaping land. |
| C．Cultural burning. | D．Removing kindling. |
| A．They think it threatening. | B．They consider it as natural. |
| C．They think it can be beneficial. | D．They consider it harmful to the land. |
| A．Western Settlers Brought Wrong Ideas of Fire Control |
| B．Wildfires Are Becoming Increasingly Serious in California |
| C．Native American Tribes Restore Their Traditional Ceremonies |
| D．California Looks to What Tribes Have Known to Manage Wildfires |
6 . Musician Nfamara Badjie came to the United States in 2005 from his native country, Gambia to perform and give drumming（击鼓）workshops. He didn’t prospect for staying. He was a famous musician back home, who’d grown up rice farming and drumming in a hamlet as his ancestors had done. However, Dawn Hoyte changed his plans.
A dancer, Hoyte, attended one of Badjie’s workshops. By 2013 they’d become a couple, married, and were looking for a bigger home in the Hudson Valley of New York where they could house their combined families. They found a house that seemed large enough. It was sited on what’s called a wetland. Badjie wanted a place to grow rice as he’d done back home. Hoyte, who was born in Queens, N. Y., doubted it.
It was a challenge but Badjie made it. Calling their farm the Ever Growing Family Farm, Badjie and Hoyte consulted Styger, an agronomist of Cornell University, and they received lots of help from their family and friends. The farm has become the first commercial rice farm in New York. With a few acres and a bit more than a dozen paddies, a good year yields 1,000 pounds. To harvest it takes many hands and it is a great occasion.
Volunteers come to help with harvesting every year. It’s a youngish crowd, some barefoot, others in knee high rubber boots. All hold sharp scythes. They also have drummers, celebrating and encouraging the volunteer harvesters. Badjie joins them, wearing an outfit printed with red, green and yellow maps of Africa and meandering gray elephants.
1. What does the underlined part “hamlet” in Paragraph 1 mean?| A．A workshop. | B．A village. | C．An apartment. | D．A school. |
| A．Hoyte advised him to grow rice to make money. |
| B．Members of his large family enjoyed eating rice. |
| C．He wanted to follow a tradition in his home country. |
| D．Cornell University needed his help with a farming program. |
| A．Styger helped the couple with harvesting. |
| B．Hoyte thought the Hudson Valley is suitable to grow rice. |
| C．Badjie’s family started the first commercial rice farm in New York. |
| D．It was difficult for the couple to convince family and friends of their idea. |
| A．Joyous. | B．Challenging. | C．Long-lasting. | D．Back-breaking. |
7 . Baseball Plant
Where it's found: South Africa
This is a ball-shaped juicy plant. Unluckily, it was unsustainably harvested because more people around the globe have decided to grow baseball plants around them. Luckily, some botanical gardens have started to grow this plant. In this way, it will no longer need to be obtained from the wild so that it does not become extinct.
Corpse Flower
Where it's found: Sumatra, Indonesia
The corpse flower is also listed as an endangered plant and there are about 1, 000 plants growing in the wild. This plant sends out a smell of rotting（腐烂）meat during its nightly peak bloom. This allows it to attract pollinators like flies from miles away. It can grow an astonishing eight feet tall and can weigh up to 170 pounds.
African Starfish Flower
Where it's found: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Don't fall in love with its beautiful flowers, because this is yet another plant that's known for its bad smell. It smells like rotting meat and looks like a rotting animal! Unluckily, it is endangered due to destroyed habitats, plant collectors as well as the Zulus, who use the plant as a cure for hysteria（癔病）.
Hydnora Africana
Where it's found: Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Ethiopia
This has an appearance similar to mushroom until the flower opens. At this point, the plant transforms from a leafless brown-gray plant to something that looks more like an animal than a plant. While this is also a smelly plant, it is an edible（可食用的）fruit that is loved by many animals and even humans! It makes for a tasty food when mixed with cream and can also treat conditions like diarrhea（腹泻）.
1. What can be inferred about the baseball plant?| A．It gives out a bad smell. | B．Its flowers have a strange shape. |
| C．It is a kind of food for the locals. | D．It is endangered in its wild habitat. |
| A．South Africa. | B．Botswana. | C．Indonesia. | D．Ethiopia. |
| A．They have great sizes. |
| B．They can be used as drugs. |
| C．They look like rotting animals. |
| D．They change shapes to keep away enemies. |
One day, I went out of my house and found a medium-sized dog sitting in my yard. The dog stood up and wagged(摇)his tail when he spotted me. I checked him for a collar or an ID tag. He had neither. "Where did you come from?" I asked. I lived in a small, rural town. I knew all the dogs in the neighborhood, but I’d never seen this fellow before.
Half-heartedly, I told him to sit. To my surprise, he sat as I said. "Stay," I said, as I made my way into the garage(车库)where we kept the dry dog food for our dog. I really didn’t expect the dog to stay. But when I returned, he was sitting in the exact spot where I had left him. "Wow! You sure are trained," I told him. I set out a bowl of food, and the dog started eating. I left him in the yard and went inside to read through the newspaper’s "Lost and Found" column. Unfortunately, nobody had reported a missing brown-and-white dog.
Later that afternoon, when my brother and I went out of the house the dog jumped to his feet and started wagging his tail. My brother threw a stick across the yard, and the dog raced after it. "Why don’t you play with him while I go to the store?" I suggested.
After I got back from the store, my brother called me out into the yard. "Watch this," he said. "The dog knows tricks." Sure enough, the dog would fetch, sit, stay, roll over, and lie down following the orders. He also loved jumping to catch a tennis ball in midair. I was impressed-and a little suspicious. This was no ordinary dog. Someone had trained him pretty well. So, I had to wonder: why weren’t his owners looking for him?
We gave him a comfortable place to sleep in the garage. The next day, I called the newspaper and ran a "Found" ad describing our new friend.
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Several days later, we got a call from a woman.
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When the woman’s pickup truck pulled into the driveway, the dog raced to greet her.
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