Any visitor to the Chinese Culture Week at the University of Tehran would be amazed by the tea, food, Chinese knots (中国结) and traditional paper-cutting artworks
“Chinese knots
Chinese Culture Week,
More importantly, given Iran’s good ties with China, mastering Chinese offers relatively competitive employment prospects on the Iranian job market
“Each of the students here is
Brit works full time as a fourth-grade teacher at Kula Elementary School. It was there that she met Seth Snyder, a student who had flown under the radar with previous teachers. Every year, Brit is given a nine-month window in which to connect with a group of new students. And with each batch of new students, she hopes to have a positive impact on their lives. But Seth was a tough cookie to crack. For the first few months of the school year, she struggled to connect with her student, who was shy but nevertheless a pleasure to have in the classroom.
One day, Brit showed her students a clip of skateboarders going all out at Tony Hawk’s ramp in California. Brit glanced over and watched Seth’s face light up; she found their connection. She went one step further to connect with Seth by inviting him to join her at the skate park after school one day. Instead of excitement, Seth shut down. He politely declined his teacher’s offer and withdrew once more. In spite of that, Brit wouldn’t give up so easily. She asked again a few weeks later, the day Seth and his fellow students were cut loose for spring break.
“What are you going to do?” she asked. “Are you going to skate?”
“No,” he mumbled, almost embarrassed. “I don’t have a skateboard.”
Brit’s heart sank into her stomach. Kula Elementary comprises mostly underprivileged (缺少机遇的) students who come from low-income families. Teachers like Brit have to tread (行事) carefully when it comes to even the smallest conversations or assignments, because a question as innocent as “What are your plans for spring break?” can be hurtful, sometimes embarrassing, for students who have so little.
Brit said to the reporter, “If your parents are working three jobs to be able to pay rent, of course they’re not going to have time to take you to skate park or, you know, take you surfing, or let alone buy you that $400 surfboard or $ 200 skateboard.”
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Brit shared the story with her best friend, Zach, a professional skateboarder.
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What began as two people coming together to do a good deed for one young boy quickly blossomed (发展) into a grassroots effort.
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During the Christmas season, Care Bears dressed in Santa Claus hats and other decorations, an
Before these stuffed animals reached their destination, they
Min Hua, manager of Ankang Heng’an Toy Ltd., said the production of a Care Bear involves nearly 20 workers covering eight
4 . Any schoolchild knows that a whale breathes through its blowhole. Fewer know that a blowhole is a nostril (鼻孔) slightly changed by evolution into a form more useful for a mammal that spends its life at sea. And only a dedicated expert would know that while toothed whales, such as sperm whales, have one hole, baleen (鲸须) whales, such as humpback and Rice whales, have two.
Even among the baleen whales, the placing of those nostrils differs. In some species they are close together. In others, they are much further apart. In a paper published in Biology Letters Conor Ryan, a marine biologist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, suggests why that might be. Having two nostrils, he argues, helps whales smell in stereo (立体空间).
Many types of baleen whales eat tiny animals known as zooplankton (浮游动物), which they catch by filtering (过滤) them from seawater using the sheets of fibrous baleen that have replaced teeth in their mouths. But to eat something you first have to find it. Toothed whales do not hunt by scent. In fact, the olfactory bulb—the part of the brain that processes smell—is absent in such creatures. But baleen whales still have olfactory bulbs, which suggests smell remains important. And scent can indeed give zooplankton away. Zooplankton like to eat other tiny creatures called phytoplankton (浮游植物). When these are under attack, they release a special gas called dimethyl sulphide, which in turn attracts baleen whales.
Most animals have stereoscopic senses. Having two eyes, for instance, allows an animal to compare the images from each in order to perceive depth. Having two ears lets them locate the direction from which a sound is coming. Dr Ryan theorized that paired blowholes might bring baleen whales the same sorts of benefits.
The farther apart the sensory organs are, the more information can be extracted by the animal that bears them. The researchers used drones to photograph the nostrils of 143 whales belonging to 14 different species. Sure enough, baleen whales that often eat zooplankton, such as the North Atlantic right whale, have nostrils that are farther apart than do those, such as humpback whales, that eat zooplankton occasionally. Besides allowing them to breathe, it seems that some whales use their blowholes to determine in which direction dinner lies.
1. What do we know about whales’ nostrils according to the first two paragraphs?| A．They are adapted ones. | B．They are developed merely for smell. |
| C．They are not easy to detect. | D．They are fixed universally in numbers. |
| A．The teeth that baleen whales have. |
| B．The smell that phytoplankton send. |
| C．The sound waves that zooplankton create. |
| D．The chemical signals that zooplankton give off. |
| A．By quoting a theory. | B．By using examples. |
| C．By making contrast. | D．By making inferences. |
| A．The sense of smell. | B．The possibility to attract food. |
| C．The ability to locate food. | D．The ability to communicate. |
1. How many hours of sleep does a child need at least?
| A．7. | B．9. | C．10. |
| A．People who nap (小睡) once a week. |
| B．People who take a nap once a month. |
| C．People who never nap. |
| A．Taking naps more often. |
| B．Examining your heart regularly. |
| C．Having a good lifestyle. |
1. How did the woman know TikTok?
| A．From a neighbour. | B．On the television. | C．In the magazine. |
| A．Videos about making up. | B．Videos about training pets. | C．Videos about making meals. |
| A．Three. | B．Six. | C．Eight. |
1. What could the man most probably be?
| A．A police officer. | B．A taxi driver. | C．A bank employee. |
| A．Walking on the street. |
| B．Standing outside the bank. |
| C．Crossing the road. |
| A．A truck hit a car. | B．A car crashed into a truck. | C．A man rushed into the street. |
| A．Sign the paper. | B．Read the statement. | C．Tell him her address. |
1. Why does the woman’s mother live with her?
| A．To give her some help. |
| B．To look after her first daughter. |
| C．To buy a bigger house for her. |
| A．Much better. | B．Even worse. | C．As good as before. |
| A．The medical problem. | B．The aging problem. | C．The housing problem |
The Chinese zodiac (生肖) is a 12-year cycle, with each year
Over time, the celebration of the Year of the Dragon has gradually become a tradition. People will carry out various folk
Overall, the Year of the Dragon is seen
1. What is the ship captain going to do?
| A．Speed the ship. | B．Change the direction. | C．Stop the ship. |
| A．Sunny and nice. |
| B．Windy and rainy. |
| C．Stormy and cold. |
| A．Run for safety. | B．Stay in their rooms. | C．Call 911. |
