1. How should the woman take the medicine in the first three days?
| A．One red pill each morning. |
| B．Two red pills after lunch. |
| C．Three yellow pills in the evening. |
| A．Take the disease seriously. |
| B．Keep regular hours. |
| C．Ask for a sick leave. |
1. What was Tom doing during the earthquake?
| A．Crying. | B．Escaping. | C．Sleeping. |
| A．He was ill. | B．He was helpless. | C．He was frightened. |
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Live streaming (直播) has gone popular in China. Many have turned
Chinese authorities have introduced a set of updated regulations (管理) on live streaming industry
The document also calls for cooperation to carry
1. Who is probably the speaker?
| A．A tour guide. | B．A journalist. | C．A radio host. |
| A．Grow vegetables. | B．Eat chocolate cakes. | C．Make pizzas. |
| A．£25. | B．£65. | C．£90. |
| A．Go to the school in person. |
| B．Call for further information. |
| C．Remember the e-mail address. |
Every day after their classes, the children at Tom’s school rushed to the school playground to spend some time there before their parents picked them up. Eventually, everyone would be gone, except Tom. Every day, Tom waited until the playground was empty, after which he cleaned it by picking up trash, throwing it in trash cans, and sweeping the whole play area.
One day, Tom’s science teacher, Mrs. Peterson, happened to see the whole thing. She was confused as to why Tom was doing that as the school already had a cleaner who cleaned the playground in the evenings.
She decided to find out what was going on. “Hello, Tom, what are you doing here on your own at this hour?” she greeted him with a big smile on her face.
“Hello, Mrs. Peterson,” Tom replied. “I’m cleaning the playground because it’s dirty. The other kids litter everywhere, but they never clean it.” “Oh, how awful!” Mrs. Peterson exclaimed (喊道).“I’ll make sure they don’t do that again, Tom,” she added gently. “You are not supposed to clean up after them. It’s late, so you should go home.”
“I can’t go home until I finish cleaning, Mrs. Peterson,” Tom said. “Your parents raised you very well,” she said, praising him.
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“But I have a better idea of how we can help the cleaner!” Mrs. Peterson added.
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Soon, with the headmaster’s support, the clean-up event was organized.
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The British love their gardens. British men and women spend hours and hours every week trying to make their garden look as
So
One of the most unusual objects to be found in a garden is the shed. This is a sacred place,
So what do the British do in their gardens? Most time is devoted
8 . You can see it with the naked eye and pick it up with a pair of tweezers (镊子) — not bad for a bacterium. Scientists say they have discovered the world’s largest variety in the mangroves (红树林) of Guadeloupe, putting its small peers to shame.
Bacteria are the planet’s oldest life forms, essential to most living organisms. But at up to 2cmin length, the “Thiomargarita magnifica” is around 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria and has a more complex structure, according to a study published in the journal Science.
The discovery “shakes up a lot of knowledge” in microbiology, co-author of the study Olivier Gros said. In his laboratory, Professor Gros was amazed at a test tube holding white strands (细丝). Originally, he thought it was “anything but a bacterium” because normal bacteria are only between 1-5 micrometers long. The largest-known bacterium until now had a maximum length of around 750 micrometers. This species averages 10,000 micrometers (around 1cm), with some growing up to twice that length. Techniques revealed it was a bacterial organism, but there was no guarantee it was a single cell. Associate Professor Silvina Gonzalez-Rizzo found it belonged to the Thiomargarita family. Next a researcher in Paris suggested they were indeed dealing with just one cell — but a first attempt at peer review a few years later was abandoned.
“We were told, ‘This is interesting, but we lack the information to believe you’,” Professor Gros said, adding that they needed stronger images to provide proof.
Then with financial backing and access to some of the best tools in the field, Dr Jean-Marie Volland and his colleagues began building up a picture of the bacterium. It was clearly enormous by bacterial standards. Scaled up (增大) to human proportions, it would be like meeting someone as tall as Mount Qomolangma”, Dr Volland said. Specialist 3D microscope images finally made it possible to prove that the entire strand was indeed a single cell.
They also helped Dr Volland make a “completely unexpected” discovery. Normally, a bacterium’s DNA floats freely in the cell. But in this giant species, it is pressed firmly in small structures, which are “normally a feature of human, animal and plant cells, complex organisms... but not bacteria,” Dr Volland said.
1. What does the underlined word “peers” in paragraph 1 refer to?| A．other bacteria | B．other scientists |
| C．a pair of tweezers | D．mangroves in other places |
| A．It was confirmed by Silvina Gonzalez-Rizzo. |
| B．It represented a breakthrough in the field of microbiology. |
| C．It was made based on his previous knowledge about bacteria. |
| D．It gave inspiration to other scientists’ research on the strands’ structure. |
| A．The process of their research. |
| B．Data on the weight of a single cell. |
| C．Stronger pictures of the bacterium. |
| D．Comparison among various bacteria. |
| A．It has the feature of complex organisms. |
| B．Its DNA floats freely inside it. |
| C．Its length is twice its width. |
| D．It is a single cell. |
9 . Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting plant and animal species and their habitats. As part of the world’s ecosystems, wildlife provides balance and stability to nature’s processes. Wildlife conservation is aimed to ensure the survival of these species and educate people on living sustainably with other species.
The number of people has grown to more than eight billion today, and it continues to rapidly grow. The economic growth endangers the habitats and existence of various types of wildlife around the world, particularly animals and plants that may be displaced for land development, or used for food or other human purposes. This threat is at top of the list and means natural resources are being consumed faster than ever by the billions of people on the planet. The introduction of invasive species from other parts of the world is another threat to wildlife. Other threats include climate change, pollution, fishing and hunting.
International organizations like the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society and the United Nations work to support global animal and habitat conservation on many different fronts. They work with the government to establish and protect public lands, like national parks and wildlife protection areas. They help write legislation(法规), such as the Endangered Species Act(ESA)of 1973 in the United States, to protect various species. They work with law enforcement to charge those with wildlife crimes. They also promote biodiversity to support the growing human population while preserving existing species and habitats.
National Geographic Explorers, like conservation biologists Camille Coudrat and Titus Adhola, are working to slow the extinction of global species and protect global biodiversity and habitats. Environmental filmmakers and photographers, like Thomas P. Peschak, are essential to conservation efforts as well, documenting and bringing attention to endangered wildlife all over the world.
1. Which is a goal of wildlife conservation according to the text?| A．To stop introducing invasive species. | B．To encourage harmonious coexistence. |
| C．To control the number of world people. | D．To increase the use of natural resources. |
| A．Hunting. | B．Human activity. | C．Pollution. | D．Climate change. |
| A．The activities of protection areas. |
| B．The importance of biodiversity promotion. |
| C．The relevant efforts of international organizations. |
| D．The great impact of wildlife crimes on ecosystems. |
| A．The necessity of legislation. |
| B．The wildlife conservation’s achievements. |
| C．The individuals’ contributions to the environment. |
| D．The statistics about the wildlife conservation efforts. |
10 . Three out of five women say that their caring responsibilities are preventing them from applying for jobs or promotion, while only one in five men say the same, according to new research.
The poll of 5,444 people by Ipsos Mori and the charity Business in the Community (BITC) found that nearly half of the workforce are combining paid work and care. Almost three in 10 adults have left or considered leaving a job because of difficulties in balancing work and care. The latter was particularly true of women.
The majority of those with care responsibilities in the UK are parents looking after children under 18, but 36% of carers are responsible for an adult of working age or older. Those from a black, Asian, mixed race or other ethnically diverse background were significantly more likely to say they have caring responsibilities than those from a white background. As many as 50% of carers from an ethnic minority say their caring responsibilities are holding them back, compared to 39% of white carers.
BITC Gender Equality campaign director Charlotte Woodworth said the results showed the disconnect between what workers need from employers and what they experience. “There’s a lot of competing ideas about how we should try to improve the lot of women, how we should try and create a more levelled-up society. This report tells us very clearly how significantly workplace policies and workplace cultures are undermining those efforts,” she said.
The research shows nearly one in 10 carers are “sandwich carers”, meaning they have caring responsibilities for both a child and an adult.
The charity wants the government and employers to offer new fathers more paid time off to look after their children. The research found that even among women who identify as joint carers, 52% say they do “more than my fair share”, in comparison to 10% of men. One in three men admit they do “less than my fair share”, in comparison to 4% of women.
1. How does the author show the gender difference of caring responsibilities?| A．By specific data. | B．By detailed comparison. |
| C．By reliable facts. | D．By several quotations. |
| A．boosting | B．affecting | C．inspiring | D．impairing |
| A．To raise salary for them. | B．To give paid holidays to fathers. |
| C．To offer fathers pay rise. | D．To provide them with more time off. |
| A．More paid time off should be given to men to care. |
| B．Caring responsibilities is dragging men’s work. |
| C．Women suffer more from care responsibilities. |
| D．Balancing work with caring responsibilities is a dilemma. |
