A. down B. across C. make D. pull E. set out F. terrible G. explorer H. strategies I. carried J. ran out of K. determined L. expedition M. achievement N. disappointed O. a pair of |
The race to the South Pole is a famous story. Captain Scott and a Norwegian
On 17 January 1912, Scott’s team reached the Pole and came
In Scott’s Hut, there is still
A. accepted B. difference C. serious D. wounded E. separate F. continued G. nearest H. article I. badly J. entered K. medical |
Charles R. Drew was a medical student at Columbia University in New York. Before he graduated, he wrote an
When the United States
After the war, Dr. Drew was driving from Washington with three other doctors to attend a
A. defensively B. exited C. initiatively D. landscape E. respond F. thought G. towered H. unaffected I. uninhabited J. welcoming K. winding |
Danger in the desert
That day we were deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert. There the
We had come to this desert to conduct DNA studies on giant horsetails that somehow grow well in one of Earth’s driest places. We were searching for plants in the most remote locations, where they would be
We’d been warned that the trip could be dangerous. Because we were traveling so far from fuel sources, we were told to take along a can of gas. Our destination was at the end of a(n)
We had found the amazing plants and their bright green stocks
The King and the Royal Trees
A. handsome B. helplessly C. asleep D. observed E. remove F. freezingly G. damage H. content I. awe J. pick K. provided |
The King had a frightful dream. He dreamt that while riding his horse through the Royal Forest, the south wind called: “Mind the falling tees! Mind the falling trees!”
Though the trees were beautiful and waved gently in the wind, the King was in
The next morning the King ordered his people to cut down all the trees in the kingdom. “We do not want the trees to fall down and hurt our children,” he reasoned. “We will
The people liked the King’s idea, for now they had their
Once all of the trees were cut down, the King felt
Soon after the trees were gone, a dry south wind began to blow. It blew day after day. The vegetable crops began to wither and die. People huddled(蜷缩)
The King was worried. He called for his horse and rode through the fields to inspect the
Lost in clouds of dust and drifting sand, fatigue overcame the King. Nodding
A.encouraged | B. excuse | C. featured | D. favor | E. approaches | F. defended |
G. access | H. serve | I. regional | J. celebrated | K. lengths |
When Coca-Cola was first sold in 1886, nobody thought it could be improved. Nearly a century later, in 1985, New Coke was introduced to replace the original recipe of Coke in order to rebrand the product amidst falling sales——Coke was losing customers to Pepsi, whose sweeter taste was finding
Something similar is happening with A Bite of China, a
In the first episode of Season Two, a teenager in the countryside collects honey high up in a tree. The scene is stunningly filmed, telling a moving story about the dangerous
Innovation is generally
paradise break into creature withered replace show up send for come up with restore explanation balance |
I am the tree who used to live in the king’s gardens. Every spring thousands of moths came out of me. The moths attracted birds,which in turn provides food for bigger animals.Gradually, the gardens were filled with life and colour. The king was very proud of his gardens, in which thousands of
Many years passed before a young man presented himself to the king. Though everyone else
The king wanted to recreate the former beauty of his gardens. However, it would take many years to
A. touches B. stage C. crossed D. outnumbering E. present F. fundraiser G. account H. available I. wandered J. address K. coverage |
The night before the March on Washington, on 28 August 1963, Martin Luther King asked his aides for advice about the next day’s speech. “Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a dream’, his adviser Wyatt Walker told him. “You’ve used it too many times already.”
King had indeed employed the refrain(repeated sentences)several times before. It had featured in an address just a week earlier at a
This speech had to be different. While King was by now a national political figure, relatively few outside the black church and the civil rights movement had heard him give a full
After a wide range of conflicting suggestions from his staff, King left the lobby at the Willard hotel in DC to put the final
A few floors below King’s suite, Walker made himself
King finished the outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand. One of his aides who went to King’s suite that night saw words
A few hours after King went to sleep, the march’s organizer, Bayard Rustin,
A. entry B. impressive C. potential D. conducting E. affordable F. meet G. heart H. expand I. denied J. custom K. entrepreneurial |
Last spring, Karly Bierma, an 18-year-old girl from Canby High School (CHS) in Oregon, US, carried with her a spirit of go-for-it mentality. And it’s that spirit that led her down an unexpected,
Growing up on a 75-acre farm, Bierma knew from an early age that art was going to be part of her life. Along with doing chores, Bierma’s passion for art started to really ignite as a seventh-grader when the plain white walls of Ninety-One School called out to her for color and vibrancy.
As Bierma grew as an artist, she realized that she wanted to share her passion and her creations with a larger audience. But how?
“I started selling my art in the beginning of high school at markets and coffee house shows, but I just didn’t see the
Ah, the stickers. It is here that Bierma was able to watch passion, art and reality
Soon, she was selling her stickers in the hallways of CHS all day long. She also hit up five to 10 stores each weekend across Canby and other locales, just looking for a(n)
In April 2020, a group of gift representatives saw Bierma’s stickers and those middlemen were able to
“That’s when I was forced to realize that this was a business. I had to figure out invoicing, credit cards, all that fun stuff,” she said. “I had become a full-on artist who had to learn to do business. It’s fun to see a design that’s close to my
A. humble B. season C. taste D. legendary E. enterprise F. unexplored G. unattractive H. unfounded I. shelter J. adventures K. comforts |
An Excerpt from The Woods Were Tossing with Jewels
In 1899 when I was five years old and living in Palmetto, Florida, my father decided to take his family through the wilds of the Everglades and have a claim on an offshore island. His purpose was to farm this island but behind this was his wish to give us a
His life was a series of
South Florida was
He started building a covered wagon around the fourth of July and we went into the wilderness with him in the fall. We had made our home in Palmetto for a year or so where my mother’s gentle folks, the Harrisons, had settled following the Civil War. Our comfortable two- story frame house on the Manatee River was set about with live oaks, guavas, and long-leafed pine that branched out from the foot of the tree to
A. experience B. factual C. Open D. confidence E. skills F. winning G. chosen H. comments I. refreshing J. conversation K. offered |
One day in May 2015, James Gitau Mwangi was reading in the library at the American Reference Center. in Nairobi. He did not know that a(n)
The American Reference: Center’s Assistant Director, Nashon Akello, was calling English teachers to come to a webinar (在线研讨会). Mwangi
The webinar was organized by the US Embassy in cooperation with VOA Learning English. Called: “Writing for the Internet”, the course explained how to write
While at the US Embassy, the teachers heard about other programs Department of State. One was the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program.
Mwangi, wrote a story about how students must deal with the terrible traffic in Nairobi. Then, he entered it in the writing contest. He was surprised to hear that his story was
When Mwangi saw the- article online, he noticed that there were
Mwangi was inspired by the course to keep writing in English, although he had started with little
In September 2015, Mwangi wrote his second story for VOA, on the teachers’ strike in Kenya.