On December 6, Kelsey Zwick boarded Flight 588 from Orlando to Philly with Lucy, one of her 11-month-old twin daughters. Lucy was born 11 weeks prematurely (早产) and 1 from severe lung disease as a result of a complication (并发症) of 2. The brave baby girl was on oxygen 3until recently. Today, Lucy needs oxygen at night and while flying, one small good deed reminded Zwick how "4" she and her husband, Yuri, truly are.
"To the 5 in 2D, I don't know you, but I imagine you saw us somewhere. I pushed a stroller(婴儿车), had a diaper (尿布) bag on my arm and also 6 an oxygen machine for my daughter," Zwick wrote on her Facebook post. " We 7 the plane, sat down in our window seat and made 8 with those around us about having to sit by my yelling-but-happy baby. The flight attendant came over and told me a gentleman was waiting to 9 seats," she wrote. "You were giving up your comfortable first-class seat to us. Not able to 10 tears, I cried my way up the passage while my daughter Lucy 11! She felt it in her bones too. . . real, pure, goodness. I smiled and thanked you 12we switched but didn't get to 13 you properly," the mom continued.
"So… thank you. Not just for the seat itself but for 14. For seeing us and realizing that maybe things are not always 15. For the decision you made to show a random act of 16 to us. I can't wait to tell Lucy 17. In the meantime… we will pay it 18. "
Zwick's story touched the hearts of many, giving rise to 19comments on the post that has since been 20over 164,000 times.
At just 18 years old, Canberra student Lochie Ferrier has already conducted research in a frontier field -aerospace(宇航工业) engineering. Aerospace engineering is the primary 1 of engineering concerned with the science and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.
In 2014, he was one of 80 high school students worldwide who 2 a six-week science and engineering program at MIT. During the program, he was 3 by the institute's scientists, and developed a method to identify inactive satellites. This method, called OASIS, is designed 4 a way to help manage space debris (碎片), which 5 operating satellites. "One solution to this problem is a 6 robot that can gather pieces of space debris and store them in orbit," he says. "These pieces could be 7 to new satellites later thus 8 the costs and launch weights of new satellites." However, 9 satellite identification technology would be needed for this solution, and that's what Lochie is working on. "I hope this method would be put into 10in the near future, saying the next 10 years," he says.
Lochie has made the 11 of the Young Innovators category(类别) of the Australian Innovation(创新) Challenge Awards with his OASIS. This category is open to students aged 21 years or 12 and carries a $ 5,000 prize. If he won, he would use the money to help fund 13 research into OASIS. "My plan for using the money would be to try to use materials which could stand up to the 14 environment of space," he says.
He is also considering how to 15the technology to organizations such as NASA and satellite manufacturers.
Lochie's16 in aerospace engineering was aroused by the big dish antenna(碟形天线) at NASA's tracking station near Canberra, which he visited in his early teens. He said his software design and development teacher at Canberra Grammar School 17 him, too. "He taught me valuable project management and skills which I applied to OASIS."
Lochie has been 18 Canberra Grammar School and will soon sit exams for admission to universities. He 19 his time among schoolwork, his personal 20 projects such as OASIS and the development of apps, rock climbing, and playing classical violin. The teenager is well on his way to realizing his sky-high ambition.
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修改：在错词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
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Years ago, all my parents were involved in a serious car accident. Uncle Bob takes on the role as a father to me. I lived with them during that period. He allowed me to stay with him though his home was not really bigger. He showed his care and love for me with paying attention to my health, education and which I needed at that time. I really appreciated a time he spent with me. We were used to go on trips together. We would just spend days with either playing our guitars or read our favorite car magazines. I always felt gratefully towards him. He was like a father figure who would always give me encouragement.
Many children are interested in dinosaurs (恐龙). If you have a child who loves dinosaurs, then here is some good news for you. There is an exhibition of dinosaurs at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Albert A. You can plan a family road trip there. Give your child a surprise and you'll enjoy your time there as a family.
Sitting just 19 kilometers west of Grande Prairie, the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum was opened in 2015 and has collections that include fossils（化石）of sea animals, art works from different dinosaurs, a large family theater, as well as an outdoor discovery fossil walk, a large outdoor playground and the onsite Dine-O-Saur restaurant. Experience the dinosaurs' world like never before as you watch dinosaurs coming alive in movies. Learn about how these animals lived and breathed.
You can check out Dinosaurs Unearthed and all of the other exciting exhibitions at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum on the following days/ time periods:
September 1st—May 31st:
Tuesday—Sunday 10: 00 a. m. — 6: 00 p. m.
Closed on Mondays
June 1st—August 31st:
Saturday—Monday 10: 00 a. m. — 6: 00 p. m.
Tuesday—Friday 10: 00 a. m. — 8: 00 p. m.
Admission (门票):
Adults: $ 14 each
Seniors (65+): $ 11 each
Students (with ID) and children (5—17): $7 each
Children under 5: free
Family (2 adults and up to 4 children): $40
If you want to see a National Geographic film or a full-length film during your visit, it is an extra $2— $4.
For more information, please visit the museum's website at www.dinomuseum.ca.
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删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Decades ago, I was a child. Hoped I could have an opportunity to attend college, my parents were pushed me to study hard. I experienced pressure at the first time. I did that my parents expected me to do because I didn't want to let them off. I was born in a rich family, and I really knew life was not easy. All the things my parents did were for their hope that I would lead better life in the future.
Finally thanks to their push and the pressures, I had a chance to go to college and am able to meet my parents' expectations. I made them.
Drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day may help old people keep brains healthy, a U.S. study said Wednesday.
The study, published online in the American Academy of Neurology journal Neurology, involved 60 people with an average age of 73 who did not have dementia(痴呆)。
The participants drank two cups of hot cocoa per day for 30 days and did not consume any other chocolate during the study. They were also given tests of memory and thinking skills as well as ultrasounds(超音波) tests to measure the amount of blood flow to the brain.
“We’re learning more about blood flow in the brain and its effect on thinking skills,” study author Farzaneh Sorond said in a statement. “As different areas of the brain need more energy to complete their tasks, they also need greater blood flow. This relationship may play an important role in diseases such as Alzheimer’s.”
The researchers found that 18 of the 60 participants who had impaired blood flow at the start of the study saw an 8.3-percent improvement by the end of the study. There was no improvement for those who started out with regular blood flow.
The people with impaired blood flow also improved their time on a test of working memory, with scores dropping from 167 seconds at the beginning of the study to 116 seconds in the end, the researchers said. There was no change in time for people with regular blood flow.
A total of 24 of the participants also had magnetic resonance imaging(磁共振成像) scans of the brain to look for tiny areas of brain damage. The scans found that people with impaired blood flow were also more likely to have these areas of brain damage.
“More work is needed to prove a link between cocoa, blood flow problems and cognitive （认知） decline,” said Paul Rosenberg, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. “But this is an important first step that could guide future studies.”
12. It can be learned from the passage that________.
A. the study involved 73 people without dementia
B. there was slight improvement for those participants
C. Alzheimer’s may be connected with blood flow
D. blood flow has little effect on thinking skills
13. What does the underlined word in the 5th paragraph mean?
A. Damaged---not as good as before B. Improved---stronger than before
C. Quicker---to some degree D. Normal---as good as before
14. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. It is uncertain that cocoa, blood flow problems and cognitive decline are connected.
B. The better condition a person is in, the longer it will take to test the time of working memory.
C. Cocoa will be in great demand in the future
D. Drinking cocoa will be able to cure Alzheimer’s.
15. What could be the title of the passage?
A. Hot chocolate---a cure for dementia B. Hot chocolate and blood flow
C. A scientific discovery in medicine D. Hot chocolate may help keep brain healthy
A. apparently B. surprisingly C. spirituality D. tried E. poetry F. statement G. physical H. released I. lasting j. recorded K. instruments
When US musician Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of this year ‘s Nobel Prize for literature last month , many people took to social media to suggest that Leonard Cohen was the only other living songwriter who deserved the honor.
Sadly , on Nov 7 , the deep-voiced Canadian artist died at the age of 82.
Many tributes ( 称赞) were written for Cohen , who had just ____31____ his 14th album , You Want It Darker , on Oct 21. “ Leonard Cohen is as important today as he was in the 1960s ,” Canada ‘s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a ____32____ . “ His ability to describe human emotion made him one of the most influential and _____33____musicians ever.”
Cohen’s most famous song , Hallenlujah , in which he compared ___34_____ love to a need for spiritual connection , has been ____35____ hundreds of times by different musicians since it was first released in 1984.
And Cohen’s song Bird on a Wire (1969) could be considered a perfect epitaph (墓志铭) that he wrote for himself. As the song’s first line goes , “ Like a bird on a wire , like a drunk in midmight choir , I have ___36_____in my way to be free .”
“ Cohen writes words that explain what it means to be human . I ‘ve read___37_____that has as much beauty as Cohen’s work , but in the world of music , Cohen is a rarity ,” US singer Jennifer Warnes told the Ausin American-Statesman newspaper . ‘ He describes things that go on inside a heart and what it feels like to be here.”
Along with his ____38___， Cohen’s dry , deep voice also helped his popularity . In 2006 he spoke with the NPR radio station about how he got his interesting voice ----____39____it was “500 tons of whiskey and a million cigarettes.”
But he never forgot to work on the _____40_____that made up his songs , even though he was most famous for his lyrics and voice.
A. Slow Down Your Life
B. Escape Now and Then
C. Separate Your Actions
D. Allow Yourself to Be Weak
E. Relieve Pressure by Firmly Saying "No"
F. Stop Expecting Everything to Be Perfect
How to Simplify Your Life
Less is more. This is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, relax instead of stressing, slow down instead of speeding up. Apply these principles in your everyday life in a conscious way. You will then find yourself well along on your journey to simplification.
61.__________
When you concentrate on one task, you find you have energy that you didn't even know you had. Just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to carry two heavy pigs over 100 yards. If you keep grabbing one and then the other, it will take forever, because one of them will keep slipping out from under your arm and running off. But if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your strength and make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back and get the other one, and with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, then you can be sure of success.
62._________
The pressure at work is on the increase in all occupations. In the modern nuclear family, the expectations that formerly would have been shared among all the relatives are now concentrated on the individual partner.
If you have the feeling that 24 hours per day are not enough for all the things you need to do, then it's not
because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. A simple fact that overloaded people often tend to forget. The solution is equally simple: refuse to accept so many work assignments in your private life or your working life.
63.____________
"I can handle stress" is regarded as a positive statement in the world of work. People who can handle stress are given more and more to cope with -- until one day they break.
Pay careful attention to the signs that tell you that you are under more stress than you can cope with. These
signals can come from various areas of life. You become ill, or your work efficiency decreases.
If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and decrease your tolerance of stress. Say quite
openly, "I can't manage that. "
64.__________
" If only I were slimmer, more beautiful, richer, more clever, then I would be happier. " This is a dream that makes a lot of people ill, depressed, and unhappy. Life has its flaws, defects, corners, and edges. Only those who accept this reality can lead a really fu]] life.
Of course there are activities in which errors are dangerous: driving a car; crossing the road. But life doesn't consist entirely of these things. In among them there is a lot of room for small and large mistakes.
65._________
Successful people all have their own places where they can withdraw in order to work. Find out which places improve your creativity. For me it's the train. When I know that I'm going to be traveling for four hours without phone calls and people knocking on my door, I find my mind is free and I can read or write complex articles. There can be problems working on the train, of course : if the person sitting opposite you keeps talking away, or if train traps make you tired ( some people fall asleep after a few miles).
It was still a long way, especially when a wind was blowing in. Trint reached for his jacket and 21 when he saw the box on the passenger seat. His mother had been 22 him spending Christmas on the road 23 and had given him a box filled with 24 . His mom still 25 him like a kid, though he was a driver now. He reached into the stocking and 26 a toy tractor that looked a lot like his truck. He wondered how many stores his mother had to go before she found such a close match. 27 filled his eyes.
He climbed out of his cab (驾驶室) and ran into the all night café, 28 which many truckers were eating and talking. And a family of three were huddled (挤在一起) in a corner, tired and 29 . Trint 30 the boy. No kid should have to spend Christmas Eve in a truck stop.
Trint missed his family. His mom raised four kids by herself, 31 no matter. how 32 life was, she’d always made sure they had a good Christmas. Then he 33 his box in the truck. He looked at the kid again and knew what he had to do. He forced himself into the 34 outside to open his truck. He took the 35 out of the cab and hurried back to the warmth of the café. He walked to the family. “I think 36 left this for you,” Trint said and handed the red stocking to the boy. “Tell Santa… well, tell him 37 , ” the boy’s father said and shook Trint’s hand long and hard. The mother smiled gratefully. The boy 38 reached out and caught the stocking and dug inside.
Trint felt good. He had a job he loved, clear weather and miles of open road ahead. He wasn’t 39 any more, or lonely. He loved this life and he wouldn’t 40 a thing.
21. A. continued B. moved C. left D. stopped
22. A. worried about B. excited at C. satisfied with D. disappointed at
23. A. backward B. alone C. together D. ahead
24. A. flower B. cake C. present D. chocolate
25. A. blamed B. treated C. thought D. respected
26. A. put back B. turned over C. brought out D. sold out
27. A. Tears B. Water C. Blood D. Sweat
28. A. around B. on C. by D. inside
29. A. excited B. unhappy C. enthusiastic D. pleased
30. A. felt proud of B. got tired of C. felt sorry for D .became interested in
31. A. for B. so C. though D. but
32. A. hard B. unfair C. hopeless D. boring
33. A. threw away B. sent back C. thought of D. put down
34. A. cold B. warmth C. snow D. rain
35. A. toy tractor B. jacket C. bag D. stocking
36. A. God B. Santa Claus C. my mother D. someone kind
37. A. yes B. no C. sorry D. thanks
38. A. sadly B. weakly C. eagerly D. seriously
39. A. surprised B. tired C. relaxed D. confused
40. A. improve B. miss C. throw D. change
改错：(2018·全国卷Ⅰ)At the end of our trip, I told my father that I planned to return every two years, but he agreed.
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In Jane Austen’s times, unmarried girls were always closely guarded, and hardly allowed to be alone with a young man, and during the Victorian period exposure of the body in particular was thought to be most immoral.Victorian ladies wore dresses __28__ down to their feet, long in the sleeve and high at the neck.Since then, ways of dressing as well as times have changed.Girls are no longer closely guarded, and they can do more or less __29__ they like.And yet despite all these astonishing changes, __30__ thing has remained much the same for most people, __31__ that is the shame of becoming a mother before being married.If this does happen, there often comes a quick marriage with __32__ man responsible.If this is possible, the affair may bring considerable shame to the girl’s parents as well as to __33__.
It is now quite normal for a girl, once __34__ the age about fifteen, to go out with a boyfriend, and although her parents will probably insist that she come home at a certain time, beyond this they depend on her to look after herself.Kisses __35__ young men and women are now considered to be perfectly normal.Although times have changed so much, most people still believe that a woman should not become a mother before being married.
---Why didn't you buy any bread while doing shopping yesterday evening?
---Sorry, ______________.
A. I forget B. I forgot C. I had forgotten D. I have forgotten
We'd ______ it if you'd call Ms Auger and tell her that we're on our way up there to see her.
A. express B. dismiss C. admire D. appreciate
