A ten-year-old boy from Howell, Michigan America is being hailed (赞扬…为) a hero due to his persistence (坚持) that led to saving the life of an elderly neighbor. The chain of events unfolded late in the evening on Sunday, January 26th, 2014 when Danny Dipietro was being driven home from hockey practice by his dad.
That’s when the young boy noticed an open garage and a figure that he believed was a dog outside an apartment near his house. Given the extremely cold weather, the young boy got a feeling that something was not right. But instead of dismissing (不予理会) it like most kids at his age would have, he insisted that his mother, Dawn, go to examine what was going on. Dawn tried to convince (使相信) Danny that no one would leave a dog out in such cold weather, but he refused to take no for an answer.
Dawn finally gave in and decided to take a walk to the area with the family dog and see if there was any truth to Danny’s premonition (预感). Sure enough, as she got closer to the apartment she noticed a garage that was wide open and a bent figure, waving madly. Upon getting there, she realized that it was not a dog that the young boy had seen, but Kathleen St. Onge, one of her neighbors. The 80-year-old had slipped on some ice in her garage and had been lying there for two hours, unable to get up.
Dawn rushed home to get her husband for help and called 911. The two then returned with some blankets to cover Ms. St. Onge, while they waited for the ambulance to arrive. Though still in hospital, the elderly woman is recovering well and grateful to Danny for his premonition.Why didn’t Dawn want to have a look at first?
| A．Because it was too cold outside. |
| B．Because she thought Danny lied. |
| C．Because she didn’t think people would leave a dog out on such a cold day. |
| D．Because she was busy with her work. |
When Danny Dipietro’s mother found the elderly woman, the elderly woman _______.
| A．had lain in the garage for two hours |
| B．was trapped in her garage with her dog |
| C．was looking for her dog around the garage |
| D．was lying on the ice outside the garage dead |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Danny likes playing hockey with his father. |
| B．Ms. St. Onge is grateful for Danny’s premonition. |
| C．Danny loves animals especially dogs very much. |
| D．Ms. St. Onge is an old woman who lives alone. |
BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Commander-in-chief of China's manned space program Chang Wanquan announced Thursday night that the launch of Tiangong-1 space lab module is successful.
China's first space lab module Tiangong-1 blasted off at 9:16 p.m. Beijing Time (1316 GMT) Thursday from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest desert area.
The unmanned module, carried by Long March-2FT1 rocket, will test space docking with a spacecraft later this year, paving the way for China to become the third country in the world to operate a permanent space station around 2020.
The Tiangong-1 will orbit the Earth for about one month to await Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft. Once the two vehicles successfully rendezvous（对接）, they will conduct the first space docking at a height of 340 kilometers above Earth surface.
After two docking tests, Tiangong-1 will await Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 in the next two years, according to a plan of China's manned space program.
The 8.5-tonne Tiangong-1, with a length of 10.4 meters and maximum diameter of 3.35 meters, provides a room of 15 cubic meters for two to three astronauts to live and work.
Zhang Shancong, deputy chief designer of the Tiangong-1, told Xinhua that the module carries special cameras which will take hyperspectral（高光谱的） images of China's vast farmlands to detect heavy metal pollution and pesticide residue as well as plant disease.
Moreover, scientists on the ground will also conduct experiments on photonic crystal（光子晶体）, a new material expected to revolutionize information technology, in the low-gravity environment inside the Tiangong-1 as these experiments would be extremely difficult to conduct on Earth's surface.
"China is clearly becoming a global power and its investments in areas like technology and space exploration reflect this," said Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
"It is a natural result of the growth in political and economic power and is to be expected," said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program, "China will turn its future space station into an international platform for space research and application. A space station could provide a low-gravity environment for research on geography, astronomy and bio-technology, which will bring unimaginably greater achievements than those conducted on Earth's surface. " "The Chinese nation has pursued peace since ancient times," Zhou also said, "China's ultimate intention with the space program is to explore space resources and make use of them for mankind's well-being." From the passage we learn that________.
| A．China has become the third country in the world to operate a permanent space station. |
| B．Tiangong-1 will orbit the Earth for two years to await Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 unmanned spacecraft after a docking test. |
| C．The experiments inside the Tiangong-1 would be extremely difficult to conduct on the Earth. |
| D．A space station could provide a high-gravity environment for research on geography, astronomy and bio-technology |
Which word of the following has the same meaning with underlined word “paving” in paragraph 2?
| A．smoothing | B．rebuilding |
| C．removing | D．blocking |
Tiangong-1 will do the following things in the future Except that it will______.
| A．test space docking with a spacecraft later this year. |
| B．detect pollution and pesticide residue and disease. |
| C．provides a room for astronauts to live and work. |
| D．operate a permanent space station. |
According to what Zhou said, we can infer that________.
| A．The successful launch of Tiangong-1 contributes to the development of China’s politics and economy. |
| B．China will explore and share space resources peacefully with other countries. |
| C．A Chinese space station will bring unimaginably greater achievements than ever. |
| D．China's ultimate intention with the space program is helpful to its powerful future. |
57-year-old Mo Yan has become the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“I grew up in an environment immersed with folk culture, which inevitably comes in to my novels when I pick up a pen to write. This has definitely affected, even decided, my works’ artistic style,” Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown of Gaomi, Shandong Province, shortly after he won the award. Gaomi county is where most of Mo’s stories happen. It’s a place that has inspired him throughout his 31-year writing career.
“I really didn’t see this coming,” Lu Jiande, director of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told 21st Century. “I know Mo Yan pretty well and one thing a lot of people don’t know is how good he is with words.” “His calligraphy (文笔) is surprisingly beautiful. In his writing, he can make words live and breathe,” Lu said.
Mo created a cast of colorful characters and said that if there was a prototype（原型）, it would be the abandoned “black boy” who first appeared in the 1985 novel Red Transparent Radish, which bears imprints of the author’s childhood.
Mo dropped out of school during the Cultural Revolution when he was 12 and began to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. At 20, he joined the People's Liberation Army and during this time he began to study literature and write. His first short story was published in a literary journal in 1981. His breakthrough came a few years later with the novel Red Transparent Radish. Many got to know of Mo through director Zhang Yimou’s film, Red Sorghum. It was adapted from his 1986 novel of the same name, bringing to life a visual landscape of red sorghum fields and a fiery setting sun.
Mo left the army in 1997 and gradually developed a writing style all of his own. History, family sagas, blood and violence are frequent elements in his most famous works, such as Big Breasts and Wide Hips or Sandalwood Penalty. On August 20, 2011, Mo’s full-length novel The Frog won the eighth Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Some critics point out that Mo’s works have a tendency toward vulgarity（粗俗、庸俗. In an interview with South China Morning Post, Professor Xiao Ying of Tsinghua University said the award was “outside of my expectations, as Mo Yan’s works are still short on the idealism of pursuing humanity, which marks previous Nobel literature prize winners”.By saying, “I really didn’t see this coming”, Lu Jiande probably means that______.
| A．He can’t believe Mo has an ability to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| B．He can’t expect Mo could win the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| C．He can’t understand why Mo could win the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| D．He is doubtful about Mo’s great honor. |
Which of Mo Yan’s works reflects his own life experience?
| A．Red Transparent Radish | B．Red Sorghum |
| C．Big Breasts and Wide Hips | D．Sandalwood Penalty |
According to the passage, which of the following is not right?
| A．Mo’s living environment immersed with folk culture affected his works’ artistic style. |
| B．The Cultural Revolution is the main reason for Mo’s leaving school when he was young. |
| C．Mo enjoyed great popularity after his first short story was published in a literary journal. |
| D．It’s through director Zhang Yimou’s film that the public got to know Mo. |
What’s Professor Xiao Ying’s attitude toward Mo’s works?
| A．Supportive | B．Negative |
| C．Doubtful | D．Uninterested |
A new University of Graz study concludes that vegetarians(素食者) are more often ill and have a lower quality of living than meat-eaters. According to the German press release, vegetarians “have cancer and heart attacks more often”. The release also says that they show more psychological disorders than meat eaters. Consequently, the report writes, they are a greater burden on the health care system.
According to the press release the scientists evaluated data from the Austrian Health Interview Survey (AT-HIS), which is also part of an important and valuable EU survey (European Health Interview Survey).
The scientists examined a total of 1320 persons who were divided up into 4 groups . All groups were comparable with respect to gender, age, and socio-economic status. The study also accounted for smoking and physical activity. Also the BMI was within the normal range for all four groups. The only thing that really was different among the four groups was the diet. The four groups were: vegetarians, meat-eaters with lots of fruit and veggies, little meat-eaters and big meat-eaters.
The press release states that the results contradict the common cliché that meat-free diets are healthier. Vegetarians have twice as many allergies as big meat-eaters, and they showed 166% higher cancer rates . Moreover, the scientists found that vegans had a 150% higher rate of heart attacks. In total the scientists looked at 18 different chronic illnesses. Compared to the big meat-eaters, vegetarians were hit harder in 14 of the 18 illnesses.
In the analysis, the University of Graz found that vegetarians were also twice as likely to suffer for anxiety or depressions than big meat-eaters. That result was confirmed by the University of Hildesheim, which found that vegetarians suffered significantly more from depressions, anxiety, psychosomatic complaints and eating disorders. The University of Graz scientists also found that vegetarians are impacted more by ilnessses and visit the doctor more frequently.
Big meat-eaters were also found to have a “significantly better quality of life in all categories”, the study found. The four categories examined were: physical and psychological health, social relationships and environment-related life quality. What was the difference between the four groups in the experiment?
| A．Gender, age and socio-economic status. |
| B．Smoking and physical activity. |
| C．Diet. |
| D．BMI. |
What does the underlined phrase “the common cliché” refer to?
| A．Vegetarians have twice as amny allergies as big meat-eaters. |
| B．Vegetarians were hit harder in 14 of the 18 illneses. |
| C．Vegans had a higher rate of heart disease. |
| D．Meat-free diets are healthier. |
It can be inferred from the passage that a man who eats more meat tends to _______.
| A．show a higher cancr rate. |
| B．have a higher rate of psychological disorders. |
| C．have a better relationship with others. |
| D．suffer more from anxiety or depression. |
What would be be the best title for the passage?
| A．Are Vegetarians Healthier |
| B．A Better Quality of Life Is Important |
| C．Take Care of the Health Care System |
| D．Are You Impacted More by Illnesses |
Opened in 1977, Ocean Park is one of Hong Kong's perennially（永久地） popular attractions, providing an exciting mix of entertainment, education and conservation facilities. The 80-hectare (200-acre) park is situated on the southern side of Hong Kong Island, with rides, exhibits and facilities on both sides of the mountain. A cable car system links the lowland and headland sections, offering spectacular views on route.
New and fun-filled entertainment facilities are introduced from time to time. Over the past few years, new rides and exhibits such as Pacific Pier (2001); the Mine Train (2000); The Hong Kong Jockey Club Giant Panda Habitat (1999); Discovery of the Ancient World (1997); the Flying Swing (1997) and the Film Fantasia Simulator Ride (1996) have entertained thousands of visitors.
Ocean Park works to promote and support animal conservation in Hong Kong and throughout the Asia region. It has, in co-operation with other conservation organisations, launched various conservation programmes for a number of endangered species, including whales and dolphins. In addition, it has successfully bred rare species of birds, sharks and butterflies.
Visitors can purchase admission tickets from 7-Eleven convenience stores throughout Hong Kong.
Opening Hours: Open daily from 10am to 6pm.
One-day Admission Tickets: Adult $185/Children ( 3 -11 years) $93You may find the above introduction ____.
| A．in a school magazine | B．in a travel booklet |
| C．in a store window | D．on a company notice-board |
Which of the following is true about Ocean Park?
| A．Ocean Park provides a complex of entertainment, education and conservation facilities. |
| B．Ocean Park is situated on the southeast side of Hong Kong Island. |
| C．Ocean Park promotes and supports animal conservation throughout the world. |
| D．Ocean Park has conducted various conservation programmes on its own. |
New and fun-filled entertainment facilities were introduced to Ocean Park before the 21st century except_____.
| A．Pacific Pier | B．Discovery of the Ancient World |
| C．The Flying Swing | D．Film Fantasia Simulator Ride |
If one-day tickets were to be recommended to a mother who travelled with her colleague and her children, aged 3, 6 and 12, what would the cost be?
| A．$ 557 | B．$ 649 | C．$741 | D．$833 |
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in 1821 in England.She was the fourth of nine Blackwell children.Later,two of her brother and six of her sisters died.So did her eight cousions. Elizabeth vowed to become a doctor for babies and women.
When she was eleven,the family moved to America.After her father passed away,16-year-old Elizabeth had to work,so she and her mother opened a small primary school for black children.At the same time,she studied hard to attend medical school.
After several refusals,she was finally accepted by Geneva Medical College,but other students laughed at her and told her to leave. Elizabeth didn’t leave!In fact,she worked so hard that she finally graduated with high honors in 1849.Then she went abroad to learn more about medicine.
Later, Elizabeth opened the first real hospital for women in the world.Then she severed for another forty years as a “champion for women’s rights”.She became the first woman doctor in the United States in 1889.She also opened a medical college for women and organized the National Health Society.Most importantly she fought for women’s rights to attend medical colleges.
Elizabeth died in 1910,but she had opened a world of opportunities for women.In 1949 the Elizabeth Medal was set up.It is given to women who have made great achievements in the practice of medicine.She will always be remembered as a great woman.In which year did Elizabeth Blackwell begin to work?
| A．1837 | B．1832 | C．1849 | D．1910 |
Why did Elizabeth Blackwell vom to become a doctor?
| A．Because there were a lot of babies and women in her family. |
| B．Because the death of her brothers and sisiters made her sad. |
| C．Because she wanted to open a medical school for black children. |
| D．Because her mother asked her to support the family after her father died. |
The Blackwell Medal was set up to____.
| A．show the achievements that women had made |
| B．encourage more women to become doctors |
| C．praise excellent women in the field of medicine. |
| D．fight for women’s rights to attend medical school. |
Which is TURE according to the passage?
| A．Elizabeth vowed to become a doctor for her family. |
| B．She was accepted by Geneva Medical College at first. |
| C．Elizabeth opened the first real hospital for women in the world. |
| D．Elizabeth set up the Elizabeth Medal in 1949. |
What can we infer from the passage?
| A．Women could attened medical school just like men before 1849. |
| B．There were no special hospitals for women in American before 1849. |
| C．Elizabeth’s classmates asked her to leave her school because she was a girl. |
| D．Elizabeth was the first woman to win the the Elizabeth Medal. |
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