Growing up, I was always around my grandma Meredith. She was the one who originally inspired my love for cooking and my dream of becoming a chef. Yet, one day I received a text that would turn my whole life around: “Grandma is seriously ill”, the text read. “We need your help in assisting with her care.”
Without a second of hesitation, I agreed to travel back home. Thankfully, my boss at the restaurant let me take unpaid leave for the next several months so I could come home to help out with grandma. After driving across several states, I finally got back to our family home in West Virginia. Yet, what I saw was really hard for me to bear. The Meredith I saw then was not the lively, joyful Meredith I had seen while I was growing up.
“Tony!” she called to me from her bed, “It’s so good to see you!”
“Grandma,” I sighed, “I’m not Tony. That’s dad, your son. I’m Hank.”
This was the start of a months-long journey of helping out around the house—cooking, cleaning, and, most of all, keeping grandma in good health and good spirits.
Every day, I cooked delicious food to keep everyone’s spirits high. But, secretly, I hoped that cooking some dishes that we had made together in my. Childhood would somehow help get grandma’s memory of me back, if just for a moment.
Stews (炖菜), chops (排骨), roasts— I served all of these to grandma and my parents around the clock. When I wasn’t taking grandma out for a walk in her wheel chair or changing her bed sheets, I was cooking. I had cooked for celebrities while at the restaurant in New York City, but never had I poured my heart out into my meals than I did then for grandma. However, it didn’t work at all.
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Then I decided to make something simple.
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After taking a few bites, grandma finally called out my name-my actual name.
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| A．communication | B．support | C．transport | D．identification |
| A．mission | B．rule | C．belief | D．habit |
| A．ordinary | B．personal | C．priceless | D．essential |
| A．discover | B．cast | C．reduce | D．shift |
| A．selling out | B．giving out | C．renting out | D．trying out |
| A．simply | B．finally | C．exactly | D．completely |
| A．ask for | B．hand out | C．pick up | D．put away |
| A．recognized | B．appreciated | C．greeted | D．noticed |
| A．purpose | B．interest | C．trouble | D．faith |
| A．cooks | B．works | C．teaches | D．drills |
| A．item | B．act | C．comfort | D．treat |
| A．took | B．recommended | C．accompanied | D．invited |
| A．opened | B．visited | C．explored | D．saved |
| A．attitude | B．courage | C．honesty | D．generosity |
| A．breaking | B．pouring | C．pulling | D．giving |
4 . It’s the end of another long day at the office after a poor night’s sleep. As usual, you’re exhausted, yet you want to stop at the gym on the way home to get the exercise you need to stay healthy.
To be healthy, the body needs to move through four stages of sleep several times each night. During the first and second stages, the body starts to decrease its rhythms.
Use common sense, experts said. If you’re not sleeping well, don’t go for that intense workout.
| A．Walk or do yoga instead. |
| B．How does sleep affect our brain? |
| C．Should you work out when suffering from sleep loss? |
| D．Poor sleep can affect your motivation to exercise too. |
| E．It may be unwise to play a sport when you’re very tired. |
| F．Enough workout can guarantee your good health and happiness. |
| G．Doing so prepares us for the third stage where the body is restoring itself. |
5 . A new wearable device that wraps around your finger like a plaster can harvest sweat while you sleep and use it to generate electricity, according to the developers from University of California, San Die go.
Most power producing wearable device require wearers to perform intense exercise or depend on external sources such as sunlight or large changes in temperature. But the new strip uses a passive system to generate electricity from sweat in your fingertips, even if you are sleeping or sitting completely still. This is because the finger tips are the sweatiest part of the body. So, thanks to a smart sponge material, this can be collected and processed by conductors.
The energy harvester produced small amounts of electricity when the wearer presses down or starts to sweat, or from light finger tapping. It does this by converting activities like typing, texting, or playing the piano into extra charge.
Finger tips have one of the highest concentrations of sweat grands in the body, with coach finger producing between 100 and 1,000 times more sweat than most other areas, according to the researchers.
Co-first author doctoral student Mr. Bin said: “The reason why we feel sweatier on other parts of the body is that those spots are not well ventilated (通风的). By contrast, the finger tips are always exposed to air, so the sweat evaporated as it comes out. So rather than letting it evaporate, we use our device to collect this sweat, and it can generate a significant amount of energy.”
The device is equipped with electrical conductors or electrode (电极) made from a carbon foam, which absorbs any finger sweat. Enzyme (酶) on the electrode then cause a chemical sweat molecule to generate electricity.
The device only stores up a little bit power at the moment, and would take about three weeks of constant wear to power a smart phone, but the researchers hope to increase capacity in future.
1. How is the new device different from other wearables?| A．It is cost-effective. | B．It is harmless to skin. |
| C．It required no exercise. | D．It produced electricity. |
| A．Changes into a gas. | B．Freezes in the air. |
| C．Drops to the ground. | D．B c comes bigger in amount. |
| A．It is extremely small in size. | B．It is very difficult to operate. |
| C．It has a very limited power capacity. | D．It relies much on temperature changes. |
| A．Sweats Fingertips | B．Power from Fingertips |
| C．An Electrical Conductor | D．A Rechargeable Device |
6 . “Bike buses”—adult-led group bike rides to school — are taking over neighborhoods. Many families are abandoning cars and starting a sweatier morning ride with friends, biking in organized groups led by grown-up volunteers. The effort is a call to fight against climate change, encourage exercise and reduce school drop-off traffic. And both parents and kids say it just makes the children happier.
Minneapolis dad devil Olson organized a bike bus for his local school zone. Olson says cycling create connectivity between all walks of life.
Six years ago, Olson partnered with Minneapolis Public Schools to run a 2- mile bike bus that dropped off students at two elementary schools. So far, Olson has led 11 semi-annual bike buses that have grown from about 60 participants to nearly 150. “We meet at 8 am. To play soccer and football, and eat do nuts,” said Olson. “Then we review safety measures and start our ride. It’s nothing but laughing, shouting and pure joy.”
The group makes about eight stops along the way to pick up children, many of whom are accompanied by parents. “We want kids to celebrate going to school,” explained Olson, adding that the kids who participate enjoy opportunities to communicate with students in different graded.
In San Francisco, lake Bornheimer co-runs SF Bike Bus, which organized city-wide school routes, with the goal of inspiring people around the country to start bike buses. “Our first 3- mile ride included more than 100 kids, families, and adults in one trip to school,” said Bornheimer. The bike bus experience has reassured parents who were otherwise nervous about their children biking around traffic. “Our hope is to create a bike bus for every school in San Francisco,” he said.
1. Which aspect of bike buses is covered in the first paragraph?| A．Their origin. | B．Their purpose. |
| C．Their appearance. | D．Their development. |
| A．It contributes a lot to their bravery. | B．It believes them of their learning stress. |
| C．It increased their communication chances. | D．It improved their academic performances. |
| A．Organize more bike buses. | B．Remove parents ‘ worries. |
| C．Convince parents to join them. | D．Design the best school routed. |
| A．A great source of happiness. | B．A safe means of transportation. |
| C．Arising trend of living in the US. | D．A unique way of getting kids to class. |
7 . Most of us take the task of buying a cup of coffee for granted, as it seems simple enough. However, we have no idea just how stressful tasks like this can be for people who suffer from disabilities. That’s why it’s so heart-warming to see a story like this in which a barista (咖啡师) does something small to make life a little easier for someone who is deaf.
Ibby Piracha lost his hearing when he was only two years old, and he now goes to his local cafe in Leesburg, Virginia to order a cup of coffee at least three times a week. Though all the baristas who work there have his order memorized, Ibby always write his order on his phone and shows it to the barista.
One day, however, one of the baristas did something that changed everything! After Ibby ordered his coffee, he was amazed when barista Krystal pane handed him a note in response. “I’ve been learning sign language just so you can have the same experience as everyone else,” the note read. Krystal then asked Ibby in sign language what he would like to order.
Ibby was touched that she would learn sign language just to help him feel welcome. “I was just so moved that she actually wanted to learn sign language. It is really a totally different language and it was something that she wanted to do because of me. Because I was a deaf customer. I was very, very impressed,” Ibby said.
Krystal had spent hours watching teaching videos so that she could learn enough sign language to give Ibby the best customer service that she could! “My job is to make sure people have the experience they expect and that’s what I gave him,” Krystal says.
Ibby posted a photo of Krystal’s note online, and it quickly went viral, getting hundreds of likes and comments that praised Krystal for her kind action.
1. What can we learn about Ibby Piracha from paragraph 2?| A．He was born deaf. | B．He lives a hard life. |
| C．He loves to order take-out food. | D．He visits the cafe regularly. |
| A．To serve Ibby better. | B．To attract more customers. |
| C．To give Ibby a big surprise. | D．To make herself more popular. |
| A．Kind and considerate. | B．Honest and responsible. |
| C．Sociable and humorous. | D．Ambitious and sensitive. |
| A．Two heads are better than one. | B．A small act makes a difference. |
| C．One good turn deserves another. | D．Actions speak louder than words. |
8 . Known as “the roof of the world” the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has long been an ideal and mysterious (神秘的) destination for visitors who are passionate about exploring remote lands. Here we recommend some of the best tourist destinations in Tibet which might suit your travel taste.
Banging Lake National Forest Park
Banging Lake National Forest Park is an ideal place for bird watching in Tibet in spring. Due to the good ecological environment, the island boasts a good variety of bird species. Every spring, warm winds from the Bay of Bengal blow into the Ngari Plateau, and birds that fly from the plateau to the South Asian continent the previous winter would return here to lay eggs and breed.
Ranwu Lake
Ranwu Lake is well-known for its quietness and its purity of blueness. Scenery along the lake side varies a good deal with grass, forest, autumn leaves, white water fowl and colorful pebbled clearly reflected in the mirror-like water. When spring comes, a reflection of green trees dances on the lake and people feel like they are walking into a romantic dream land.
Nanyi Valley
Nanyigou scenic spot is an important birthplace of the mysterious Tibetan medicine culture. The ecological conditions here are so good that the place is rich in various animals, herbs and other numerous plant species. Surrounded by mountains and covered in clouds, Nanyi Valley is an ideal spring destination for visitors, where you can find peach and azalea blossoms everywhere.
Peach blossom valley, Nyingchi
The peach blossoms in Nyingchi have been famed as “the most beautiful peach flowers in the world”. The annual Nyingchi peach blossom festival has become a signature tourism event on the plateau. Peach blossoms can be seen everywhere—around houses, across farmlands and along streams.
1. Why is banging Lake National Forest Park an ideal place for birds?| A．It is an untouched place. | B．It is warm all year round. |
| C．It offers good ecological conditions. | D．It fries them from rain and wind. |
| A．Its dancing trees. | B．Its rare species. |
| C．Its mysterious medicine. | D．Its natural scenery. |
| A．Sail along streams. | B．Collect herbs. |
| C．Watch various animals. | D．Appreciate peach blossoms. |
December 1952 in Wisconsin was bitterly cold. A curious 7-year-old, I was in hesitation when my father arrived home from work with something hidden in his jacket. “Guess what I have,” he said. He slowly unwrapped the jacket to take out a frozen owl (猫头鹰). He’d found the frozen bird on his car when he left work and guessed that it had flown into the windshield (挡风玻璃).
Dad thought it might be alive and wanted to let it warm up. My mother agreed to let the bird stay overnight, so Dad and I took it to the basement( 地下室) and carefully laid it near our coal stove. I was the first one into the kitchen the next morning for a bowl of cereal (麦片). I found the owl resting on the sugar bowl as if waiting for its breakfast. I hurried to tell my parents that the owl was alive and sitting at the kitchen table. Mom didn’t like that it was in the kitchen and wanted it out of the house.
Dad instructed me to open the back door while he forced the owl toward me. I heard the flapping of wings, but before I could direct its flight outside, the owl turned around away from the cold air coming in the door and flew past me, down the stairs into the shelter of the warm basement. Resting in the space near the top of the basement, the owl was safely beyond our reach. We tried driving it out with a broom, but it calmly flew to the far side of the basement. Soon Dad and I were laughing too hard to continue, and we realized there was no way we could drive the owl out if it wanted to stay. Mom agreed to have it in the house until Dad could catch it when it became weak from hunger. But that never happened.
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The door didn’t shut properly, which allowed mice into the basement.
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As spring arrived, we knew it was time for the owl to leave.
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