1 . Plenty, an agricultural technology company in San Francisco, is reinventing farms and farming. Nater Storye, the company’s chief science officer says the future of the farms will be vertical (垂直的) and indoors, so food can be grown anywhere in the world all year round, and farms will employ robots and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the quality of growth for fruits and vegetables. Plenty does all those things but uses 95% less water and 99% less land.
As AI is on the rise, farmers on flat farms have been using new tools to make farming better or easier. In recent years, they have been using drones (无人机) and robots to improve efficiency. However, flat farms still use a lot of water and land, while a Plenty’s vertical farm can produce the same quantity of fruits and vegetables as a 720-acre flat farm, but on only 2 acres.
Plenty’s climate-controlled indoor farm has rows of plants growing vertically. There are LED lights shining on them, robots moving them around, and AI managing all the variables of water, temperature, and light. The conditions are so good that the production per acre is 400 times higher than that of an outdoor farm.
Another advantage of vertical farming is that the fruits and vegetables are grown at a warehouse nearby instead of 1,000 miles away or more from a city. That means many transportation miles are saved, which can reduce millions of tons of greenhouse gases every year and the price of fruits and vegetables will also go down. Imported (进口的) fruits and vegetables are more expensive, so poor people in society are at an extreme nutritional disadvantage. Vertical farms could cope with this problem.
Also, Plenty’s farms grow organic food without using herbicides (除草剂) or pesticides. They recycle all the water used, even catching the water in the air. The best farm in San Francisco is using 100% renewable energy.
Moreover, all the packaging is 100% recyclable, made of recycled plastic and specially designed to keep the food fresh longer to reduce food waste. Ideally, the company will branch out, opening farms across the country and beyond.
1. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?A.Robots and AI used on vertical farms can quicken the growth of plants. |
B.Fruits and vegetables grown on vertical farms are more tasty. |
C.Both land and water can be saved on vertical farms. |
D.Plenty is the first company to grow crops on vertical farms. |
A.Register. | B.Improve. | C.Present. | D.Solve. |
A.They will have more farms. | B.They will only be run by robots and AI. |
C.They will bring about terrible problems. | D.They will completely take the place of flat farms. |
A.To question the possibility of vertical farming |
B.To show the technologies of vertical farming. |
C.To discuss the potential problems of vertical farming |
D.To introduce and explain the benefits of vertical farming. |
On Xiaohongshu, a lifestyle-focused social media platform in China, a search for “new Chinese style” could produce over 4 million results,
Whether it is fashion, home furniture, architecture, coffee
3 . 阅读下面短文, 根据所给情节进行续写, 使之构成一个完整的故事。
A Christmas Visit
As 17-year-old Torriell Norwood drove through St. Petersburg, Florida, last February with her friends to pay a visit to the great park, she shared her dream of becoming a doctor. She had recently taken some first aid courses. The other girls shared stories of their experiences and adventures. But the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls in the car quickly gave way to screams, As they passed a road junction(交叉路口), a car crashed into the side of their vehicle, sending their black car sailing into the yard of a nearby home. It only stopped when it crashed into a tree. All of the girls were in panic.
As smoke rose from the car, a bystander(旁观者)shouted, “It’s about to blow up . Get out. ”The impact had bent the driver’s door, meaning it wouldn’t open. The bystander seized the door handle of the car, using all his strength to pull it open, but failed. Shaken, but otherwise OK. Norwood crawled out through the window. She had a cut on the right side of her face. Her lovely face became very pale. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to free themselves, she ran for her life.
But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Azarria Simmons, was not with them. Norwood ran back to the car and found Simmons lying in the back seat. “She isn’t moving,” Norwood shouted, with her heart beating hard. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, avoiding the broken glass as best she could. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground. She checked per pulse. Nothing. She put her head against Simmons’s chest. No sign of life. That’s when she started CPR(心肺复苏术)
注意:
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
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If the accident had happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do.
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After a while, the CPR worked and Simmons regained her consciousness.
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4 . About 5,000 children die each day because of preventable diseases such as cholera (霍乱) and dysentery (痢疾), which spread when people use unclean water for drinking or cooking. A lack of water for personal health leads to the spread of totally preventable diseases like trachoma (沙眼), which has blinded some six million people.
Water troubles also trap many lowincome families in a cycle of poverty and poor education and the poorest suffer most from lack of access to water. People who spend much of their time on ill health, caring for sick children, or collecting water at a distance averaging 3.75 miles a day don’t have educational and economic chances to better their lives.
Agriculture is called the lion’s share of clean water worldwide, using some 70 percent, and industrial use needs another 22 percent. Water areas have no political borders and nations don’t always work together to share common resources, so water can be a frequent source of international problems as well.
Daybyday demand keeps growing, further draining water sources, from great rivers to groundwater. “We’re going deeper into debt on our groundwater use,” Postel said, “and that has great effects on global water safety. The rate of groundwater use has doubled since 1960.”
Some of Earth’s groundwater is fossil water created when Earth’s climate was far different. Today such water is as limited as petrol. “But we’re pumping much of them out faster than ever,” Postel explained. “Man’s growing thirst also causes a major problem about water and our ecosystems. And that also creates a cost to us, to our sons and to our grandsons, not just to nature.”
1. What does the author mainly discuss in the passage?A.Water shortage has been a most serious challenge. |
B.So many children die of polluted water every day. |
C.Diseases should be properly controlled and treated. |
D.Wasting water leads to the unrest of the world. |
A.Because nations don’t always work together to save water. |
B.Because agriculture uses about two thirds of clean water. |
C.Because more people live on the agricultural produce. |
D.Because agriculture is much stronger than industry. |
A.groundwater is rich for us to use | B.there is no need to dig deep for groundwater |
C.we are using our next generation’ water | D.we should use river water instead of groundwater |
A.Water should be distributed equally. | B.Laws should be passed from groundwater. |
C.We shouldn’t use water from rivers. | D.We should protect our ecosystems. |
1. What’s the discussion about?
A.Children’s independence. |
B.Teachers’ medical treatment. |
C.Parents’ accompanying(陪伴) their children at school. |
A.About 30%. | B.About 50%. | C.About 70%. |
A.Set up goals. | B.Do the housework. | C.Finish their homework. |
A.Neither. | B.The first one. | C.The second one. |
A.A piece of news. |
B.Some soldiers. |
C.The natural environment. |
A.None. | B.Two. | C.Four. |
8 . The Chinese are very generous(慷慨)when it comes to educating their children. Not
The problem is that parents are only
Parents can achieve this by teaching
Some old machines such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your children to play with will make him
A.offering | B.spending | C.caring about | D.paying |
A.ordinary | B.best | C.special | D.good |
A.parties | B.sports | C.clubs | D.activities |
A.more expensive | B.more reasonable | C.farther | D.cheaper |
A.small | B.reasonable | C.proper | D.unreasonable |
A.rich | B.old | C.poor | D.young |
A.Therefore | B.Otherwise | C.However | D.Instead |
A.fail | B.try | C.want | D.manage |
A.even if | B.though | C.unless | D.or rather |
A.gain | B.own | C.lose | D.lack |
A.advising | B.educating | C.persuading | D.suggesting |
A.unselfish | B.polite | C.friendly | D.confident |
A.actual | B.practical | C.real | D.true |
A.Asking | B.Promising | C.Teaching | D.Encouraging |
A.space | B.determination | C.effort | D.patience |
A.skill | B.work | C.experience | D.housework |
A.quickly | B.carefully | C.successfully | D.proudly |
A.strange | B.puzzled | C.curious | D.excited |
A.fix | B.watch | C.break | D.make |
A.methods | B.activities | C.movements | D.skills |
9 . Birth order plays a vital role in deciding the characteristics of a child. And when it comes to the middle child, it certainly plays a huge role. The middle children go through some things only they can understand.
Mostly, middle children have to share a room.
Middle children tend to share clothes with their siblings (兄弟姐妹). Their cupboard is full of handmedowns from their older sibling, and they need to wear his clothes.
Siblings' talking is one interesting thing about a middle child. They are not as boring as they appear.
A.Instead, they are very artistic and creative. |
B.But this comes with its own advantage too. |
C.Here are some things a middle child can relate to. |
D.They rarely enjoy the experience of having their own room. |
E.And the dream of having their own room is completely destroyed. |
F.They're the problem solvers between their older and younger siblings. |
G.As a middle kid, they are the bridge between their younger and older siblings. |
10 . Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot “greener” toward the environment. “We didn’t know at that time there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it,” says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA.
But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement .Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement. “The understanding has increased many, many times,” says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor from Wisconsin, who thought up the first. According to US government reports, emissions (排放)from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.3 million tons a year to 5.5 tons .The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9. Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place. A kind of “Green thinking” has become part of practices.
Great improvement has been achieved. In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs; today in 1995 there are about 6,600. Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.
Twenty –five years ago, there were hardly any education programs for environment. Today, it’s hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program. “Until we do that, nothing else will change!” says Bruce Anderson.
1. According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about ___.A.the social movement | B.recycling techniques |
C.environmental problems | D.the importance of Earth Day |
A.The grass –roots level. | B.The business circle. |
C.Government officials. | D.University professors. |
A.They have cut car emissions to the lowest. |
B.They have settled their environmental problems. |
C.They have lowered their CO levels in forty cities. |
D.They have reduced pollution through effective measures. |
A.Education. | B.Planning |
C.Green living | D.CO reduction |