Unit 6 At one with nature 知识点题库

    Luckily, I got four turkeys this holiday. I 1 only one of them. I 2 my neighbor was going through a hard time, so I decided to give one to them as a 3.

    That still 4 me with two extra (额外的) turkeys. I 5 to cook one of them, make sandwiches and6 them to an area of town where many people seem to be in need of food and a little 7.

    While I was waiting for the bus to get there, I saw two people that I thought might 8sandwiches. The moment they came near, I 9 them each a sandwich, along with a smile card, and told them to have a good day. I received 10 in return.

    On the bus, a young mother got on with her little girl. I offered her a sandwich, and she 11 accepted. Then I started giving them to other 12, along with smile cards, and they also 13 with smiles. By this point, I was 14 happiness and couldn't help smiling. I felt 15because of that.

    When we got to the bus terminal (终点), I had given away five sandwiches. The act of 16, the care shared and the 17 smiles just made my heart filled with so much 18. I think what I have done is good for everyone,19 I will do this again soon.

    Giving not only makes you feel wonderful but it also 20happiness to others.

    Angus, Doris, Gabriel and Kamil are some of the 21 names that have been chosen to be given to storms in the UK in the 2016/17 season.

    The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, decided to give storms boys' and girls' names in 2015 in the same way as they did in America.

    The Met Office hopes that naming big storms will mean people are more aware (意识到) of them and how dangerous they can be. Derrick Ryall, from the Met Office, said, "We have seen how naming storms elsewhere in the world raises people's awareness of storms before they break."

    In the past, the same UK storm could be given different names by different organisations. "We noticed that many organisations during the last couple of winters, when we have had bad storms, started giving names to them. Think back to the St Jude's Day storm in 2013, and the so­called Hurricane Bawbag in Scotland in 2011. But it led to confusion (混乱)," a Met Office spokeswoman said.

    According to the Met Office, there is a name for each letter of the whole alphabet (字母表), except for Q, U, X, Y and Z. That is the same as the naming tradition used in America. And not all storms will be big enough to get names — only those expected to cause great damage.

    If there are more than 21 storms in a year, the Met Office will start again with another name beginning with "A". However, according to Met Office spokeswoman Lindsay Mears, "It's unlikely we would get through the whole alphabet in one season. We had 14 storms in the very bad winter of 2013/14, and if the naming system had been in operation then we wouldn't have used the whole alphabet."

    Earthquakes strike suddenly at any time of the day or night, but there's no way to tell when. If an earthquake happens, it may cause many deaths, injuries and damage. So you need a good preparation ahead of time. Decide how and where your family will get together if separated. Choose an out­of­state friend or relative that the family members can call after the quake to report where they are and how they are. Know the safe places in each room: under the strong tables, desks, or against inside walls. Keep enough food, water and other things, including a flashlight, a radio, medicines and clothing.

    During the earthquake, you should keep a clear head and never be too nervous to know what to do. Protect your head and neck with your arms. If possible, take a book, a pillow or any other things to protect yourself from falling glass and ruins. If you are indoors, you must immediately lie under any strong furniture. If outdoors, move to an open area away from trees, buildings, walls or powerpoles. If you are in a narrow valley, move to the centre of it and look up for falling stones. If you are in a car, move to the side of the road and stop the car. Do not stop near buildings, power lines or on or under bridges. Stay in your car until the shaking stops.

    Do not move a badly injured person unless he is in great danger after the earthquake. Do not use the telephone immediately unless there is a serious injury or fire. Turn on your radio for instructions and news reports. Be prepared for aftershocks. If you want to leave your home, post a message inside your home telling your family members where you can be found.

Some people dream about becoming engineers. Luckily the new IMAX film Dream Big shows how engineering can improve people's lives. It teaches viewers how engineers use high­tech to help the world. The film hits IMAX theaters nationwide on February 17 to celebrate Engineers Week.

The film, taking place in locations like China, Dubai and Africa, tells the stories of engineers who try to come up with creative ideas to save energy and help people.

Dream Big was directed by Greg MacGillivray who has 38 films under his belt, including some of the most successful films ever shown in IMAX theaters.

How did MacGillivray get into the movie­making business? "I grew up at the beach. My first movies were about surfing and the ocean. As time went on, I saw the changes in the ocean including polluting and overfishing. So I started making films about conservation of nature." He told TFK. Now, his films cover a variety of topics, from the natural world to human creation.

One of the engineers in Dream Big is Angelica Hernandez. In high school, she was on a team that best MIT, a university, in an underwater robotics competition. Today, the engineering work she does focuses on helping people use less energy and save money and resources. "I work with companies to promote energy efficiency with their commercial customers, so it's really trying to push forward all the measures that customers and high­energy users can apply. "she explains.

"Engineering is such a good job—you make good money, travel around the world, solve amazing problems and help people." She says.

The mission of Dream Big is to show people the good that engineers can do to the world. "That was the impulse of making this movie," MacGillivray explains, "We want to explain engineering in a way that will get the kids very excited about it. " "Whoever and wherever you are, you can become an engineer," he adds, "all you need is the creative spirit."

Scientists have long thought about whether each animal species has a different language, much like different human languages that we cannot understand. Language experts agree on the fact that the way animals communicate through various calls does not fit the definition of human languages.

Animal calls are not considered a language because the calls are limited to signals related to food activities, warning about the presence of enemies and so on. They lack the characteristic of productivity that all human languages share. That is — humans create new expressions every day by combining different words to express meanings. Animal calls are fixed in their meanings, while human language goes further and includes expressions of complex ideas that do not have a limit.

However, animals do communicate. People who study humans believe that people speak with their entire bodies. To express a message, one does not always need words. Have you ever shared a private joke with your friends across the table? All you did was to give them a self-satisfied smile, Animals can communicate in much the same way as humans do. Although animals do not have the ability to speak words, they can use other methods, such as gestures, movements, calls and their sense of smell. In short, most of their communication is not related with speech.

If animals can make noises, why can't they talk? Humans and animals both have the necessary organs that produce sounds, such as lungs, throat, voice box, lips and tongue. But the differences lie in the movement and relative position of these organs that make it possible for us to speak.

When humans developed from apes, a lot of our features were improved to better shape sounds along the way. The mouth started getting smaller and the neck grew longer. All other animals, including our closest animal relatives — chimpanzees, have little similarity, which determines humans' ability to speak.

You've probably heard it a dozen times by now. But here it goes again: Sleep is important. Your mental health and immune (免疫时)system are connected to your sleeping habits. So are your grades, a new study finds. Sleep accounts for nearly one-fourth of the difference among students' grades in a class. So even if you spend hours studying for a test but get too little sleep, you might still do poorly.

Typically, people's sleep schedules are messy and can not be known in advance. Professor Jeffrey Grossman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge wanted to see if sleep links to people's learning performance even when a study was done with people who kept such true-to-life schedules at home. So he turned to Fitbits, which can check how long people sleep and how frequently they wake up. And the researchers looked for 100 students. They focused on these students' sleep patterns in the days and weeks before exams and then compared them to these students' test scores.

"How much time a person sleeps the night. before an exam doesn't affect that person's grade," Grossman says. "A student who sleeps 7 hours every night will do better than a student who sleeps 7.5 hours one night and 6.5 hours another night."

"It's important for people to know that if their Fitbits tell them that they have terrible sleep, that may not actually be so," Michael Scullin, a sleep scientist at Baylor University says. Grossman also raises this point. Fitbit, Inc. makes this advanced tool. But it doesn't share how its tool works. This leaves a question about whether the tool is really correct when checking a student's sleep. Even so, Scullin emphasizes that there are enough data supporting ties between sleep and how well someone performs.

"Students need more sleep and less late evening use of phones and other screens. Even with after-school activities and schoolwork, they need to get enough sleep," Grossman says.

I have worked for a local charity for many years. I volunteered there as one of the youth group leaders. The job sometimes was tiring.  And one of our favorite activities is called "ARK night" — A couple of times a year, on a Sunday night, all kids in the charity went into our community to perform kind acts for others.

 One group typically goes downtown and hands out sandwiches, water and bread. Another group makes posters and goes to local police and fire stations to say "Thank you". Our group often visits nursing homes and hospitals.

One time, the group I was leading left post-it notes (便利贴) with positive messages on the cars in a hospital's parking lot. The hope was that someone who was sad after visiting a patient would be cheered up by our notes.  I made the kids write positive messages on the notes. Then we went out to put those notes on cars.

After the kids left their notes on the cars, one girl said, "We didn't see one single person tonight. How will we know our notes made a difference?" I replied, "" But actually I wondered about it, too. Would the notes cheer anyone up? But I had to take those kids back before 9:00 pm.

Later I got the answer. On Monday morning I found a post online by a woman. She described her bad luck over the weekend. "But then," she added, "this morning I found the nicest little note on my car. It made my day." She included a photo of the note. It was one of our notes!

A. Let's stay here and find out.

B. We'll just have to trust that they did.

C. The drivers were surprised by our special notes.

D. But I loved working with those little volunteers.

E. I smiled and couldn't wait to tell the kids the good news.

F. We had spent the first part of the evening preparing notes.

G. The kids are divided into small groups, with each group having a different task.

Yoho National Park is a Canadian national park. (cover) an area of about 507 square miles, it was established in 1886. Yoho National Park (know) as one of the four famous national parks in the Canadian Rockies. Because of its special (locate), Yoho National Park has many mountains, including Mount Stephen, Mount Balfour, Mount Goodsir and so on. The (tall) mountain among them is Mount Stephen. There are also waterfalls in the park. Wapta Falls is the largest waterfall. And Takakkaw Falls is (official) known as the second highest measured waterfall.

Yoho National Park is close three other national parks in the Canadian Rockies. To the north is Jasper National Park, is the largest of the four. Banff National Park borders (接界) Yoho from the east. Kootenay National Park, (name) after one of the two rivers that flow into it, is located to the south.

Although most people like to visit Yoho during the summer, there are quite sizable number of visitors during the spring and autumn. Common summer (activity) include camping, climbing, hiking, fishing, and wildlife viewing.

Deng Yu, a 44-year-old artist from Shenyang. Liaoning province, (create) a painting of the Monkey King using a bamboo brush last month. Instead of a pencil, Deng Yu draws most of his paintings with a "bamboo brush. (inspire) by Chinese writing brushes, he uses bamboo branches as his brushes, which represents his latest attempt to create unpredictability in splatter effects.

"After trying (variety) materials, including paper, plastic and other things, I found the handmade bamboo brush handles the heavy and thick paint(successful). On canvas (画布), its effect is close  the art of Chinese calligraphy," the artist said.

Through Western color and Chinese painting techniques, Deng has been looking for crossing between Eastern and Western art  (style). With the unpredictable painting effects of these tools, he also wants (defend) the art field in the expansion of artificial intelligence.

 His painting technique has gone viral on short video platform Douyin since this month. His breakout video, his process of painting Qi tian Dasheng (Monkey King) is shown, has won more than 408,000. likes, (make) him popular on the platform.

Sam and I had been paired up through a mentoring (辅导) program when he was a first grader. As a former teacher, I missed making an impact on young people, so as soon as I heard of this program for at-risk school kids, I signed up.

At first, if didn't seem as if the two of us were a good match. Sam hardly looked at me; he barely spoke or smiled. I tried everything to engage him. Nothing worked. Week after week. I'd drive 30 minutes to the school. only to sit with a little boy who didn't seem to care whether I was there or not. I was so frustrated.

One day. I noticed Sam wearing an Iron Man shirt. The next week, I brought a board game (棋盘游戏) featuring Iron Man characters. When I opened the box, his eyes lit up. He dove right in and played the game with me. As I was leaving that day, he looked up at me and said, "See you next week."

He and I built our relationship from there. I would spend his Friday lunch period with him. talking, playing games and just being a friend. Little by little, he opened up to me about his home life. His dad wasn't around. His mother supported the family by working nights at a local factory, so Sam's older sibling took care of him most of the time.

Right then and there, I wished to make sure the two of us always kept in touch—even after the program ended. Now it would be our last Friday lunch together. How could I make sure we had a great meal and he would still remember me?

So I looked for some inspiration for the perfect gift for him. A gift Sam would enjoy holding on to. On Wednesday, I was watching TV and a fast-food restaurant commercial came on, advertising the toy that came in the kids' meals—a small Iron Man toy.

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Suddenly it hit me: Here was the idea I'd looked for!

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At the school, I sat down with Sam and handed him the bag.

The man who invented the World Wide Web a few decades ago is calling for major changes to make it better for humans. In an open letter published on Tuesday, Berners-Lee said that the web was used by half the world's population.

Berners-Lee said the web had clearly created great opportunities for humans to progress and had made life easier for millions of people. Actually, it also has offered opportunities to groups traditionally not heard a new voice in society. However, he added that the web had also provided new ways for cheats to commit crimes (犯罪).

"Against the background of news stories about how the web is misused, it's understandable that many people feel afraid and unsure if the web is really a force for good," he wrote.

Berners-Lee created a group called the World Wide Web Foundation. He is looking for help from governments, companies and people to become more involved in shaping the web to do more good for humans. His actual plan is called the "Contract (合同) for the Web".

Under this contract, governments are called on to take steps to make sure all people can connect to the Internet and that personal privacy is respected. Businesses are asked to keep the Internet prices low so more people can use the web. In addition, companies should respect privacy and develop technologies that aim to put people first.

The plan also calls on people to create materials for the web and work with others to make sure that is rich, quality information for everyone. Besides, people should seek to "build strong communities that respect personal speech and human equality." "The path to make the Internet better is the responsibility of everyone who uses it," Bermers-Lee added, "Making big changes will not be easy, but will be very well worth it in the end."

For the first time since local extinction in 1996, Nubian giraffes have returned to Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Uganda. Fifteen of this vitally endangered animals were moved over 400 km from Murchison Falls National Park in October 2019.

The 11 female and 4 male giraffes are aged two to four: "We chose younger giraffes because they have a longer reproductive lifespan," says Robert Aruho, a doctor of Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), who let the move.

Northern Uganda is home to Nubian giraffes. They have large, rectangular blotches (矩形斑点) set irregularly against a cream background. The lower legs are noticeably white and not patterned. Pian Upe's grassy land held large numbers of giraffes in the 1960s before conflict in the Karamoja region saw them hunted illegally. "The habitat is perfect, and effective anti-hunting measures are now capable of supporting at least 700 individuals," explains Aruho.

Nubian giraffes are Uganda's only giraffe species and most of them inhabit Murchison Falls. "We can't have all our eggs in one basket," Aruho says, "We have a unique opportunity to act now to prevent them dying out."

Back in 2015, the UWA moved 15 Nubian giraffes from Murchison Falls to Lake Mburo National Park. After that, 9 of the 10 females quickly became pregnant. From a little over 300 Nubian giraffes in the mid 1990s in Uganda there are now about 1,650. A further 25 giraffes will move from Murchison to Pian Upe in October 2020.

"In Uganda we continue to work closely with the UWA to increase numbers and populations of threatened Nubian giraffes. Boosting existing populations is vital for securing their future in the country," Aruho says.

April 24th marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the creation ofis considered as the beginning of the modern environmental movement by the  (major) of people.

Many people continue to stay at home during the recent months. As a result, people are making less pollution, and the air has become  (clean).

Smog stopped  (cover) New Delhi, one of the world's most   (pollute) cities. Nitrogen dioxide pollution in  northeastern of the United States  (drop) by 30 percent up till now. Stars seem more visible at night.

Researchers have been observing sharp drops in traditional air pollutants (污染物), such as nitrogen dioxide, smog and tiny particles. These kinds of pollutants kill up to 7 million people a year worldwide.

"Human activity usually makes it difficult for sea turtles  (leave) their eggs on sandy coastlines. Nesting turtles need to be undisturbed. After they come out of their eggs, baby turtles might have difficulty finding their way to the water because of bright lights. But  the lights mostly off and people staying at home, the sea turtle nesting  (seem) much better at present," Godfrey said.

"There's still a hope left for wildlife," Godfrey said.

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