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1. Super food guy勇敢的牙买加少年在美国小城里掀起食物革命。
IN 2010 when Kevon Johnson was 13 years old, he left Jamaica (牙买加) to live with his mother and sisters in Hartford, Connecticut. He quickly found life in the US was new and challenging, 1. e________ when it came to food.
“I didn’t like the way the chicken tasted. It tasted spoiled,” Johnson, now 18, recalled. “And the fruit 2.t_______ like it was picked too early.”
In his family’s old home in Jamaica, there were goats and chickens everywhere. As 3.____ fresh fruit, “I’d just climb up a tree and pick it 4.m_______,” he said.
But in Hartford, Johnson found that fresh food was harder to get. Stores sell a lot of processed foods (加工食品). And his family liked the cheap fast food 5._____ can be found everywhere.
With concerns for his family’s 6.h______, larger questions about obesity (肥胖) and how to get fresh food, Johnson joined Grow Hartford. This is a youth program that has been harvesting vegetables on urban (城市的) farms and promoting (提倡) healthy food.
Johnson quickly became a top youth leader for Grow Hartford. All while in high school, he worked as an urban farmer and 7.______(教育) people about the lack of full-service supermarkets in poor cities. He has done workshops (讲座) for groups including the Boys and Girls Club and Hartford Parent University.
He also wants schools to have tastier and different types of school lunches, such as a weekly meal with Puerto Rican or Western Indian cuisine (饮食). Students would enjoy the different tastes and eat 8._____ junk food, he said.
Johnson’s suggestions have been 9._____ (接受)by the Hartford school system. He was also 10._______ as the youth winner of the 2015 Hartford Community Food Security Award because of his outstanding work.
2. AS more adults turn to meditation (冥想) for peace, more children are taking up this practice too. 1.______ Here are some simple meditation exercises kids can try. Look at clouds
On nice days, go outside, lie down on the grass and look up at the sky. The clouds move through the sky. But the sky stays clear, open and free. This is also how our thoughts work. 2.______ Allow your thoughts to come and go. Then you know your mind is clear and free just like the sky. Mindful jar
Fill a jar (罐) with water. The jar of water stands for our minds. Then add red and blue sand to it. Red stands for our thoughts, and blue represents our feelings and emotions (情绪). Now shake it up. 3.______ We need to wait and watch the sand settle (沉淀), as our thoughts, feelings and emotions settle just like the sand. Mindful listening
Sit comfortably and hold a bell or anything that makes a simple sound in your hands. 4._________ Pay attention to the sound from the very first moment you hear it all way to the end. When you can’t hear the sound anymore, open your eyes or raise your hand. Positive affirmations(正面肯定)
This is an exercise for older kids who are between the ages of 9 and 13. 5._________ And say positive affirmations such as “I am strong.” “I’m confident.”
Meditation is when people practice training their minds. They self-regulate (自我调节) and clear their heads. People find relaxation and peace through it.
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A. B. C. D. E. F. Press your thumbs on each finger (on the same hand) one by one. Just feel and hear its sound as you ring it. The water will get cloudy. Thoughts float (漂浮) in and out of our minds just like clouds. People practice training their minds every day. It helps people deal with stress and find a more peaceful outlook (看法) on life.
3. ALMOST any reader could find the charm in the little library on the Schuster family’s front yard. The library is in Minnesota, US. Set on a 4-foot (1.22-meter) post, it holds 45 books. Anyone can borrow the books for free, as 1._____ as they return them or exchange it with another one.
Mrs. Schuster, or Molly, received the little library 2._____ a Mother’s Day gift two years ago from her husband, Josh. Their kids Riley, 8, and Rowan, 5, decorated it with some neighborhood pals. “I fell in 3. l______ with it,” said Molly.
The Schuster family is not alone. With the mission to promote the love of 4._______(阅读), the nonprofit organization (非营利性机构) the Little Free Library started a new library movement. Now over 25,000 little libraries can be 5. f _____ in more than 70 countries. The Schuster family is one of them.
Each Monday, Molly and Riley stock (备货) their library with donated books and 6._______(杂志). Molly has met many people from around town through the library. And as a member of Little Free Library, she has also connected with 7.o_____ little librarians across the country and internationally. “The community,” Molly said, “has been the best part of this library for me.”
Their library even has its own Facebook page, 8.____ has more than 200 followers. Through Facebook groups, people 9._____(分享) ideas, exchange books and form friendships. “The attraction is simple”, says Rowan. “People like to read 10.m_____ books.” The library increased the whole family’s excitement for reading, Molly adds. “Now my husband, my kids and I, we’re always reading new books.”
4. D.Film makes big splash幽默喜剧《美人鱼》传递环保意识。
HE has once again proven that he is the “king of comedy”. Stephen Chow, the Hong Kong actor-turned-director, has returned with his latest fantasy comedy The Mermaid. The movie had a record-breaking first week, earning1.79 billion yuan at the box office after it came out on Feb 8. Most mermaid films tell a story of love between humans and mermaids, and this one is no exception. The Mermaid centers on the billionaire playboy Liu Xuan and the mermaid Shanshan. Liu’s real estate (房地产) project needs to use a lot of sonar (声呐)technology, so it is a danger to sea creatures. Beautiful mermaid Shanshan is sent to stop Liu, but as fate would have it, they fall for each other.
Some said that the story was just “an old-fashioned, Cinderella-style love story”, according to the most-liked review on Chinese social networking site Douban. But many fans of Chow quickly defended (辩护) The Mermaid as a success that has both interesting visual effects and his usual humor.
In recent years, Chinese comedy movies have used online buzzwords to get the attention of young audiences. Chow, however, has stuck to his mo lei tau (nonsensical comedy style), which first made him popular as an actor in the 1990s. And Chow has since used it for his directorial
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works, too.
In The Mermaid, a number of memorable scenes are full of big laughs. In the beginning, a group of visitors in a so-called museum of animals are confused by the strange fake exhibits (展品), including a middle-aged man with a beer belly (啤酒肚) and a mustache who is dressed up as a mermaid. In another scene, Shanshan tries to kill Liu with different weapons (武器) from the sea, hurting no one but herself.
Just as The New Yorker magazine noted, “Chow’s genius (天赋) lies in his ability to balance ten thousand jokes with simple, effective storylines.”
Jokes aside, what makes The Mermaid stand out from the rest of this Lunar New Year’s films is that it also carries a message of social awareness. Apart from the laughter, with Shanshan’s moving monologue (独白), Stephen Chow asks us to consider this: “When there is no longer a single drop of clean water, or a breath of unpolluted air, what is the point of having all the money in the world?”
“Through this film Chow urges us to reflect upon how our selfish (自私的), material comforts and desires(欲望) have led to the destruction of our environment as well as the habitats (栖息地) and lives of the many precious creatures we share our world with,” Tencent Entertainment commented.
1. Which of the following about The Mermaid is TRUE?
A. It has several memorable scenes that have made audiences cry.
B. It had already earned 1.79 million yuan at the box office a day after its release. C. It is not a love story between humans and mermaids like other mermaid films.
D. It urges the audience to rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. 2. What has made The Mermaid a great success according to the article? a. interesting visual effects b. Chow’s usual humor c. online buzzwords d. social awareness A. a, b, c B. a, b, d C. a, c, d D. b, c, d 3. We can conclude from the article that ______.
A. the film’s Cinderella-style love story has won most fans’ hearts B. many fans are getting bored with Chow’s usual mo lei tau style
C. the film has been successful both commercially and with its social message D. one of Chow’s abilities is the effective use of complicated storylines
5. IN recent years, we’ve seen one tragedy after another involving left-behind children. On June 9 last year, four children, 1._______ parents are migrant workers (外出务工人员), killed themselves. The children had been living by 2.______ in their hometown in Bijie, Guizhou province, for a long time, and they were only between the ages of 5 and 13.
“We should not let the left-behind children problem 3._______(成为) a family and social pain forever,” said Premier Li Keqiang. And on Feb 14, China’s State Council (国务院) published a guideline (指导方针) on the protection of left-behind children. The guideline requires parents to make sure children younger than 16 don’t live alone 4.w_______ a guardian(监护人). Migrant workers should take their children with them, or one parent should stay home. Otherwise, parents must find a responsible guardian.
According to the All-China Women’s Federation, children being with their parents can greatly 5.______(减少) child psychological (心理的) problems from happening. However, among the 61 million left-behind children in China, at 6.l______ 2.05 million live alone without proper care, said the federation. Before the four Bijie kids died, they had not seen their mother for over one year. And even after they died, the police couldn’t reach their father soon.
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However, migrant worker parents are facing other problems. Their children may not be able to get 7.e_______ and healthcare in their working cities. Thus, the guideline also requires 8.______(当地的) governments to help migrant workers find affordable housing and let their children go to city schools. Besides this, they must set up a file (档案) for each left-behind child and can work with charities (慈善机构) who help take 9.______ of those children.
As the State Council points out, “Allowing millions of children left behind in rural areas to grow 10.s_______ and in good health is the responsibility of families, the government and society as a whole”.
6. ALBERT Einstein is right once again! The physicist thought of the idea about gravitational waves (引力波) 100 years 1._____ with his Theory of Relativity (相对论), but scientists are finally discovering proof of it now. But what are gravitational waves, and 2._____ are they important?
Well, gravitational waves are made by black holes and can change time in space. Black holes aren’t holes 3._____ are a lot of matter packed into a very small area, according to NASA. They are created when a star, much like our sun, explodes(爆炸) and leaves behind this dense(高密度的) material. It doesn’t shine like a star any 4.______, and it becomes black.
The black holes 5._______ made these waves are special. About 1.3 billion years ago, there were two black holes that kept moving closer and closer together. 6.F______, they crashed (碰撞) into each other and formed one big black hole. The energy released by the crash created ripples (涟漪) in space. These ripples are gravitational waves.
7._______(想象) you throw a stone into a pond. It creates ripples that change the pattern of the water. Well, that’s kind of what the impact of two colliding (碰撞的) black holes has in space.
Gravitational waves are hard to detect (探测). A special gravitational wave observatory (天文台) called LIGO 8.d_______ the ripples on Feb 11. Einstein was brilliant to know this 100 years ago before we had the technology.
This is important 9.b______ it can give us a new view of the universe we live in, according to LIGO scientists. Now, we will be 10.______ to detect black holes and things that are much further away from Earth, which means much more space exploration in the future. And who knows, this discovery could even lead to time travel!
7. HAVE you heard about the periodic table (元素周期表) lately? Well, there’s some big news about this special table, but first, remember that the periodic table is 1.u____ to organize all the elements, or things that make up our world.
Elements are all around us. Iron is one of the most 2._____(普通的) elements found within the Earth. You probably know the element oxygen, 3._______ is the element that we breathe in all the time. And elements can combine (结合) to make new things 4. l_____ H2O. This is hydrogen (氢) and oxygen put together, also known as water! Learning about these things helps us better understand the world we live 5.______.
But have you ever noticed something 6.m_______ in the periodic table? There were already 114 elements. But the seventh row of the table was not finished, until now!
In December, scientists from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, 国际纯粹与应用化学联合会) found the four elements that were missing. They are elements 113, 115, 117 and 118.
“To scientists, this is of greater 7.______(价值) than an Olympic gold medal,” Ryoji Noyori, a Nobel honored chemist, told the Guardian.
The new elements are heavy metals and were made in 8.______(实验室). These kinds of
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