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语法填空 19岁少女创最年轻单人环球飞行女性纪录
Nineteen-year-old Zara Rutherford set the world record Thursday as the youngest woman 1 (fly)alone around the world.Rutherford took the Guinness World record 2 had been held by 30-year-old American flyer Shaesta Waiz since 2017.
The British-Belgian pilot started her trip around the world on August 18.It 3 (cover )51,000 kilometers over 52 countries and five continents.
On Thursday, Rutherford landed her small airplane back in western Belgium.Rutherford started in Belgium and headed west over Britain, Iceland, and Greenland, Canada, the United States, and Latin America.The flight 4 (suppose )to take three months. 5 bad weather and visa delays kept her grounded and extended the trip by about two months. 6 (fortunate), she returned to Belgium safely.
Rutherford said she has been traveling in small planes with herpilot parents since she was six.She started flying 7 (her )at 14, and gained her pilot's license in 2020.Rutherford dreams of being 8 astronaut.She hopes her trip will get more women interested 9 science, technology, and aviation.
On her website, Rutherford wrote, "Girls are often encouraged to be beautiful, kind, 10 (help) and sweet. With my flight, I want to show young women that they can be bold, ambitious and make their dreams come true."
阅读理解 二氧化碳杀菌技术让食物保鲜
A food-tech startup in New York has developed technology to preserve food without refrigeration for months beyond when it would normally spoil(变质)without the use of man-made preservatives.
In the US,households throw out around 30 million tons of spoiled food each year-nearly twice as much as the produce wasted on farms.In some other parts of the world,the situation is worse:Because of lack of electricity,food often can't.be refrigerated and it rots before it can be sold to consumers.
Farther Farms'CO2pasteurization(杀菌)technology is a simple fix that can lengthen packaged foods' shelf life in room temperature past 90 days.The first offering,French fries,would normally need to be frozen to survive trips between production facilities and supermarkets.Farther Farms puts them into special packaging and fills it with high-pressure CO2(which can be reused in the system),preventing damage from oxidation(氧化)and bacteria.
Growing up in India in a farming family,co-founder Vipul Saran developed Farther Farms as a student at Cornell University.His familiarity with the costs and difficulties of managing to move agricultural products from farms into towns and cities before they spoiled informed his development of the technology.
“The whole goal is,basically,how we can look into new food processing technologies that can create value-added food products processed from these perishable food products,which avoids the dependency as much as possible on refrigeration and freezing,”Saran says.
Rather than packaging apples or potatoes in a plastic bag,the Farther Farms technology is perfect for value-added food products,because they necessitate packaging and they earn farmers more money. Rather than needing to transport them via refrigerated box cars or shipping containers,methods that expensive,Farther Farms would allow them to avoid the frozen supply chain and ship them at any temperature,therefore allowing farmers to reach more markets.
1.What is paragraph 2 mainly about
A.The importance of refrigeration. B.The high food expenses in the US.
C.The huge cost of food preservation. D.The problems with food spoilage.
2.What gave Vipul Saran the inspiration for the new tech
A.His life experiences. B.His poor education.
C.His deep love for food. D.His familiarity with city life.
3.What does the word"perishable"underlined in paragraph 5 probably mean
A.Difficult to freeze. B.Impossible to digest.
C.Easy to go bad. D.Conenient to transport.
4.Why does the Farther Farms technology benefit farmers
A.It can shorten travel distances. B.It can lower packaging cost.
C.It can freeze food automatically. D.It can free them from packaging.
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女性写作激动人心的篇章
With the theme "Through women's eyes-reading between the lines", the 1 (six) EU-China International Literary Festival was launched on Saturday.
"We dedicate this year's literary festival to the diversity and 2 (create)of women writers across the EU and China", Nicolas Chapuis, EU ambassador to China, said at the festival's online opening ceremony.
During the three-week online literary festival, 3 runs through Dec 19,50 novelists, writers and poets from China and European Union will discuss their works, creative ideas and the world that 4 (inspire)them in lectures, dialogue or readings that audiences can access through articles, videos and podcasts.
"The true value of women's writing was long ignored, but has 5 (gradual) gained recognition over the last century," Chapuis said. " 6 (put) the spotlight on female writers this year is vital. We aspired to give audiences a chance 7 (discover) the extraordinary value of women's writing and cultural production,"
Portuguese writer Lidia Jorge, one of the guest 8 (speaker) for the launch ceremony, said that "our life is created through writing. We must write our own lives . In a long time in the past, women couldn't write, so 9 (they) life was created through men's eyes. But now things have changed".
Another guest speaker, Chinese writer Xu Xiaobin, the author of Crystal Wedding and Feathered Serpent, said that woman writers should open their secret paths of mind to connect 10 the outside world, to draw nutrition from philosophy, natural sciences, art and life itself.
阅读理解 地球大气层中的氧气含量大幅提高的原因
One of the greatest mysteries in science is just how Earth went from a planet with minimal oxygen to the breathable air we have now.Scientists long figured that cyanobacteria(蓝细菌)were involved,but couldn't tell what started the great oxygen producing cycle.
A new study published in Monday's Nature Geoscience may provide the key.It theorizes that Earth's gradually lengthened day from six hours to the current 24 hours kick-starts cyanobacteria into producing lots of oxygen,making most of life as we know it possible.Here are the takeaways of the study.
About 24 billion years ago,there was so little oxygen in Earth's atmosphere that it could barely be measured,so no animal or plant could live.Instead lots of bacteria breathed in CO2 and in the case of cyanobacteria,produced oxygen in the earliest form of photosynthesis(光合作用).
At first it wasn't much,But in about 400 million years,as Earth's rotation(旋转)gradually slowed down and the day was lengthened from six hours to the present 24 hours,the cyanobacteria breathed more and more oxygen into Earth's atmosphere until it reached one-tenth the amount of oxygen we have now.The increased oxygen allowed plants to join in the oxygen-making party.
The authors of the study put their theory to test with the bacteria found on a 24-meter-deep seabed in Lake Huron.They exposed the smelly bacteria,which are very similar to the cyanobacteria livingaround 2.4 billion years ago,to varying amounts of light.and found that the more continuous light the bacteria got,the more oxygen they produced.
“What makes the idea so convincing is that it doesn't require any big biological changes in bacteria or the world's oceans,"said Tim Lyons,a professor at the University of California,Riverside who wasn't part of the research team.“This may be a simple but plausible explanation for Earth's oxygen increase.
1.What started the oxygen producing cycle according to the new study?
A.Earth's faster rotation. B.The lengthened daytime.
C.The bacteria in Lake Huron. D.The appearance of plants on Earth.
2.What is the main purpose of the experiment?
A.To protect the cyanobacteria.
B.To study the similarities of the bacteria.
C.To provide evidence for the theory.
D.To improve the oxygen level on seabed.
3.What does the underlined word“plausible”in the last paragraph mean?
A.Reasonable. B.Sincere. C.Complex. D.Unacceptable.
4.Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A.The Rotation of Earth Is Slowing Down
B.Cyanobacteria's Role Has to Be Re examined
C.A Breakthrough Is Achieved in Ocean Protection
D.Earth's Slowing Rotation Increased Oxygen Production
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语法:1. to fly 2. that 3.covered 4.was supposed 5.But/Yet 6.Fortunately 7.herself 8.an 9.in 10.helpful
阅读:1--4DACB
语法:1.sixth 2. creativity 3.which 4.inspires 5.gradually 6.Putting
7. to discover 8. speakers 9.their 10.with
阅读:1--4 BCAD