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One August afternoon, I sat in my kitchen staring at a glass vase that hadn’t seen daylight since my wedding.

My husband and I had just sold our house and we were busy ___21___ the beloved home our family had spent 23 years filling up. We had decided on key items for the ___22___ we were moving to in town, donated what we could, and rented a place to ___23___ our supposedly important objects. That left a house still ___24___ with things that, while not particularly ___25___, didn’t belong in a landfill (垃圾填埋场).

I took a picture of the vase and posted it online, for $10. A couple of messages came in, one wanting additional ___26___, another asking for a price cut. As our ___27___ day drew near, I settled on a new price ($0) and reposted it. The ___28___: “I hate this vase. Maybe you won’t.” In an instant, a woman raced into my house and left happily with the vase.

___29___, I posted more. My daily posts and the ___30___ I received became a precious ray of light in the chaos of my house. Each exchange provided a chance to ___31___ the landfill and to please another person I might not otherwise have ___32___.

I sit in my apartment today, loving each of the ___33___ that share our small space. I take ___34___ in knowing that, somewhere nearby, someone is ___35___ something that couldn’t come with us.

21. A. painting over B. looking around C. emptying out D. pulling down

22. A. hotel B. office C. cottage D. apartment

23. A. store B. display C. sell D. repair

24. A. covered B. decorated C. stuffed D. equipped

25. A. conventional B. valuable C. complicated D. tolerable

26. A. fees B. photos C. receipts D. models

27. A. move B. pay C. market D. work

28 A. warning B. request C. description D. reply

29. A. Confused B. Interested C. Disappointed D. Encouraged

30. A. visits B. reports C. advice D. money

31. A. remove B. spare C. find D. check

32. A. investigated B. recognized C. encountered D. recommended

33. A. giveaways B. posts C. contributions D. belongings

34. A. joy B. part C. care D. time

35. A. anticipating B. appreciating C. delivering D. withdrawing

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An Unsung Hero

Need a break between classes or just a quick pick-me-up in the morning? The College Cafe has just that, and more. _____16_____

Catherine Murphy, a cafe worker in a green shirt and black hat, makes sure that each customer gets exactly what they order. She goes back and forth between machines to make the drinks. _____17_____ As the customer grabs the drink from her hand, she smiles and says, “Hello, how is your day?” Even when the line is getting longer, she doesn’t let it get in the way of her genuine conversations.

Murphy gets up at a quarter to five and drives thirty minutes every day to get to work on time. _____18_____ “I do so because I like to make coffee for the students. I know they need it in the morning,” Murphy said. Being a mother and wife has helped her become the woman she is. She believes she is here to serve.

One thing Murphy may not know is that her smile is contagious (有感染力) and can be the difference in a student having a much better day than they were having before seeing her. Joanna Wright, a senior political science major, loves coffee and goes to the cafe at least six days a week. _____19_____ “Catherine always has a huge smile on her face, which always puts me in a cheerful mood,” Wright said.

“I enjoy working in the cafe,” Murphy said. _____20_____ She has every intention of staying and continuing doing what she loves.

A. The cafe closes at 9 pm every day.

B. She has two children aged eight and four.

C. Sometimes she arrives early to serve the students early.

D. After finishing an order, she calls out the name on the cup.

E. Not only does this cafe serve up drinks, it also serves up smiles.

F. Going to the cafe starts her day off good and gets her ready for class.

G. She has served here for 17 years and can’t imagine working anywhere else.

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Microplastics have become a common source of pollution across the Earth — they have settled in the deep sea and on the Himalayas, stuck inside volcanic rocks, filled the stomachs of seabirds and even fallen in fresh Antarctic snow. They are even appearing inside humans.

Now, new research suggests that a simple, cheap measure may significantly reduce the level of microplastics in water from your tap (水龙头): boiling and filtering (过滤) it. In a study published Wednesday in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, researchers from China found that boiling tap water for just five minutes — then filtering it after it cools — could remove at least 80 percent of its microplastics.

Crucially, this process relies on the water containing enough calcium carbonate (碳酸钙) to trap the plastics. In the study, boiling hard water containing 300 milligrams of calcium carbonate led to an almost 90 percent drop in plastics. But in samples with less than 60 milligrams of calcium carbonate, boiling reduced the level of plastics by just 25 percent. Additionally, the research didn’t include all types of plastics. The team focused only on three common types — polystyrene, polyethylene and polypropylene — and they didn’t study other chemicals previously found in water such as vinyl chloride.

Still, the findings show a potential path forward for reducing microplastic exposure — a task that’s becoming increasingly difficult. Even bottled water, scientists found earlier this year, contains 10 to 1,000 times more microplastics than originally thought.

Scientists are still trying to determine how harmful microplastics are — but what they do know has raised concerns. The new study suggests boiling tap water could be a tool to limit intake. “The way they demonstrated how microplastics were trapped through the boiling process was nice,” Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay, an environmental engineer of the University of Glasgow in Scotland who was not involved in the research, tells New Scientist. “We should be looking into upgrading drinking water treatment plants so they remove microplastics.”

12. How does the author present the issue in the first paragraph?

A. By quoting an expert. B. By defining a concept.

C. By giving examples. D. By providing statistics.

13. What determines the effectiveness of trapping microplastics in water?

A The hardness of water. B. The length of cooling time.

C. The frequency of filtering. D. The type of plastic in water.

14. What does the author try to illustrate by mentioning bottled water in paragraph 4?

A. The importance of plastic recycling. B. The severity of the microplastic problem.

C. The danger in overusing pure water. D. The difficulty in treating polluted water.

15. What is Gauchotte-Lindsay’s suggestion about?

A. Choice of new research methods. B. Possible direction for further study.

C. Need to involve more researchers. D. Potential application of the findings.

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While safety improvements might have been made to our streets in recent years, transport studies also show declines in pedestrian (行人) mobility, especially among young children. Many parents say there’s too much traffic on the roads for their children to walk safely to school, so they pack them into the car instead.

Dutch authors Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet are bothered by facts like these. In their new book Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives, they call for a rethink of our streets and the role they play in our lives.

Life on city streets started to change decades ago. Whole neighbourhoods were destroyed to make way for new road networks and kids had to play elsewhere. Some communities fought back. Most famously, a Canadian journalist who had moved her family to Manhattan in the early 1950s led a campaign to stop the destruction of her local park. Describing her alarm at its proposed replacement with an expressway, Jane Jacobs called on her mayor (市长) to champion “New York as a decent place to live, and not just rush through.” Similar campaigns occurred in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s as well.

Although these campaigns were widespread, the reality is that the majority of the western cities were completely redesigned around the needs of the motor car. The number of cars on roads has been increasing rapidly. In Australia we now have over twenty million cars for just over twenty-six million people, among the highest rate of car ownership in the world.

We invest a lot in roads that help us rush through, but we fail to account for the true costs. Do we really recognise what it costs us as a society when children can’t move safely around our communities? The authors of Movement have it right: it’s time to think differently about that street outside your front door.

8. What phenomenon does the author point out in paragraph 1?

A. Cars often get stuck on the road. B. Traffic accidents occur frequently.

C. People walk less and drive more. D. Pedestrians fail to follow the rules.

9. What were the Canadian journalist and other campaigners trying to do?

A. Keep their cities livable. B. Promote cultural diversity.

C. Help the needy families. D. Make expressways accessible.

10. What can be inferred about the campaigns in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s?

A. They boosted the sales of cars. B. They turned out largely ineffective.

C. They won government support. D. They advocated building new parks.

11. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Why the Rush? B. What’s Next?

C. Where to Stay? D. Who to Blame?

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In my ninth-grade writing class last year, I met a cowboy who saved his town, a strict father who demanded his son earn straight A’s, and a modern-day Juliet who died of heartbreak after her parents rejected the love of her young life. More than once, I found myself wondering just how my students, who’d created these people, knew their subjects so well.

But things were different for their first essay, which was about the question: “Why is writing important?” Most of the essays filled less than one page, and few contained a sentence that could be interpreted as a thesis (论点) statement. I was shocked. Then I realized that the problem was the question itself. They could have written pages on the necessity of computers, but writing, in and of itself, simply didn’t strike them as important. This would have to change.

As a new unit started, I asked everyone to write a persuasive piece on a health-related topic of their choice. This time they found the exercise much more interesting. For the next two assignments, a personal-narrative unit followed by a creative-writing workshop, I only required that the piece meet the specifications of its genre (体裁) and that it contain a thesis. The results were staggering. The students took on diverse topics and turned in stories, 10 to 20 pages each, with characters that broadened my view and touched my heart.

I walked into class believing that writing is important as a means of communication. However, my students demonstrated something more important to me. When the final bell rang in June, I walked away with a yearbook full of messages about writing’s most powerful significance — the ability to connect people, to put us in another’s skin, to teach us what it means to be human.

4 Who are the people mentioned at the beginning of paragraph 1?

A. Ninth graders. B. Students’ parents.

C. Modern writers. D. Fictional characters.

5. Why did the students perform poorly in writing their first essay?

A. They were not given enough time. B. They had a very limited vocabulary.

C. They misunderstood the question. D. They had little interest in the topic.

6. What does the underlined word “staggering” in paragraph 3 mean?

A. Mixed. B. Amazing. C. Similar. D. Disturbing.

7. What does the author’s experience show?

A. Teaching is learning. B. Still waters run deep.

C. Knowledge is power. D. Practice makes perfect.

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The greening of planes, trains and automobiles

Moving goods and people around the world is responsible for a large part of global CO2 emissions (排放). As the world races to decarbonize everything, it faces particular problems with transportation — which accounts for about a quarter of our energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Here’s the breakdown of the emissions in 2018 for different modes of transport.

 

The fuels for transport need to be not just green, cheap and powerful, but also lightweight and safe enough to be carried around. Each mode of transport has its specific fuel needs. Much is still to be settled, but here are some of the solutions to get us going green.

PLANES — Synthetic hydrocarbons

The hardest sector to decarbonize is aviation. One long-term option for sustainable fuel for planes is to make hydrocarbons from recycled air.

CARS — Batteries

Batteries are energy-efficient and electric cars can plug into existing systems and services. New solid-state batteries will take a car farther on a single charge.

 

TRAINS — Electricity

Some trains are already electrified through rails or wires; others can be made electric in pretty simple ways.

TRUCKS  Hydrogen

fuel cells

Hydrogen fuel cells are a lighter choice than batteries for trucks, but making green hydrogen is expensive.

SHIPS Liquid ammonia

Liquid ammonia is easy to keep and transport, but it is hard to ignite (点燃) and requires an engine redesign.

This energy transition (变革) is global, and the amount of renewable energy the world will need is “a little bit mind-blowing,” says mechanical engineer Keith Wipke at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It’s estimated that the global demand for electricity could more than double by 2050. Fortunately, analyses suggest that renewables are up to the task. “We need to speed up the development of green energy, and it will all get used,” says Wipke.

1. What percentage of global transport emissions did road vehicles account for in 2018?

A. 11.6%. B. 45.1%. C. 74.5%. D. 86.1%.

2. Which mode of transport can go green comparatively easily?

A. Planes. B. Trucks. C. Trains. D. Ships.

3. What does Wipke suggest regarding energy transition?

A. Limiting fuel consumption. B. Putting more effort into renewables.

C. Improving energy efficiency. D. Making electricity more affordable.

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