Taking this volunteer trip to the Wildlife Sanctuary project was something I had wanted to do several years. 【1】 (fortunate), between work and a busy schedule, it was always something that I “might” do “eventually" rather than actually doing. Then I decided it had to happen. I made preparations, booked my trip, 【2】 slightly hesitantly headed off to the airport.

Literally after one day of volunteering, I was already regretting only 【3】 (have) two weeks to stay. Every day was amazing and full of incredible 【4】 (experience). The days 【5】 (fly) by because we were so busy working on the farm, hanging out and making new friends, and learning about the wildlife 【6】 a hands-on manner. As 【7】 (excite) as the actual project was, the people I met were similarly incredible. Leaving can make people sad, but still, I can’t recommend the trip enough to anyone 【8】is considering it.

Having arrived home, I already miss my days that were filled with things 【9】 (relate) to South Africa. I find 【10】 (I)constantly looking back at photos and in the back of my mind planning a return visit as soon as possible.

I. TEACHER COSTS

II. PROJECT COSTS

【1】How many teachers will visit Dalian?

A.2.B.3.C.4.D.5.

【2】How much is the school budget for this visit?

A.5868.B.6085.C.11,628.D.11,953.

【3】How much will the school actually ask for this visit?

A.4401.B.4320.C.8721.D.11,628.

Family members, friends and fans are mourning the death of the basketball great Kobe Bryant. Looking back to his whole life, Bryant was widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of his generation. Even after his retirement, Kobe Bryant is still a winner. The former Los Angeles Lakers star won an Oscar in the animated short category for "Dear Basketball,” a poem he wrote after ending his 20-year career on the court in 2016.

He’ll add it to an already jammed trophy collection that includes five NBA championships with the Lakers, two Olympic gold medals, NBA Finals most valuable player awards, a league MVP award and four All-Star game MVP awards.

Since hanging up his basketball shoes, Bryant has thrown himself into business (a new Nike shoe) and various forms of storytelling.

“As basketball players, we're told to shut up and dribble（運(yùn)球）,” Bryant once said on stage. “I’m glad we did a little bit more than that.”

He thanked his wife, Vanessa, and his three daughters, naming each of them. He spoke a few words of Italian — a language he learned as a child growing up in Italy — and closed by telling them, “You arc my inspiration.'

He was just getting started. And now he's gone.

The tributes（悼念）will continue, though eventually fade away. The legacy will be forever.

【1】What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A.The cause of the crash is still unknown.

B.The foggy conditions are to blame for the helicopter crash.

C.Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles.

D.Kobe Bryant was among eight people including one of his daughters killed in the crash.

【2】What assists Kobe Bryant to win the Oscar according to the passage?

A.his famous reputation in basketball

B.his presence in the animation movie

C.his poem written after his former career

D.his excellent performance in the animated short category

【3】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “trophy”?

A.GiftB.Award

C.Harvest.D.Possession.

【4】Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A.A personal diary.B.A biography.

C.A newspaper.D.A textbook.

Understanding history is vital to understanding ourselves as a people and as a nation. History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past. It is an essential part of who we are today and who we will become. Thornton Middle School History Fair Competition makes understanding history exciting engaging, and fun!

This Year's Theme

All participants must address how communication or transportation technology has promoted the quality of life for Americans throughout history. To many people, technology means computers, hand-held devices, or vehicles that travel to distant planets. However, technology is also the application of scientific knowledge to solve a problem, touching lives in countless ways.

Individuals or groups may enter one of the following categories:

Performance

Documentary（紀(jì)實(shí)作品）

Essay Writing

Category Requirements

Performance: A dramatic presentation of the topic no more than 10 minutes long. If special clothes are used, they should truly represent a given period.

Documentary: A visual presentation （such as a video, slide show, or computer project） no more than 10 minutes long. A desktop computer, screen, projector, and loudspeakers will be available. Students must provide their presentations on CDs before Friday, March 23.

Essay Writing: An academic paper of 2,000 to 2,500 words. No illustrations （圖解）are allowed, please do not include covers. A list of references must be included.

Important Dates

January 5 Submit a topic proposal to your history teacher. The teacher may require a second proposal if the first is off-topic or unclear.

February 19 A committee of teachers will evaluate materials and give opinions. Students then have an opportunity to improve their products.

March 9 Submit a final draft of your essay.

March 15 Performance and documentary committee preview

【1】What’s the main purpose of understanding history?

A.To preserve national traditions

B.To prepare for a history competition.

C.To better know the present and future.

D.To further explore historical mysteries.

【2】What is the theme of this year's competition?

A.Technology advances science.

B.Science interacts with technology.

C.Science has made the study of history easy.

D.Technology has improved the life of Americans.

【3】What will the committee of teachers do on February 19?

A.Make comments on the materials.

B.Improve the participant's second proposal.

C.Preview performances and documentaries.

D.Collect a second proposal from the participant.

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Yesterday I showed my friend Kate in Baoding city. First, we went to Zhili Governor Office, where is a very famous tourist spot in China. And then we visited the Ancient Lotus Pond Garden, where we had a great fun. Later, I took him to Baoding Botanic Garden. We both attracted by its beautiful scenery at first see. We nearly spent three hours walk around it. At about 6 pm we went back happy. From Kate’s high spirit I learned that she is very pleased with this visit.

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（^），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在其下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限—詞；

2.只允許修改10處，多者（從11處起）不計(jì)分。

A terrible fire happened in one office building in our city at about nine o'clock last night.

In the beginning, we saw flames with thick black smoke coming out from the five floor, and we also hear the explosion of the gas tank. It was said what the fire started at the first floor, spreading one by one to the floors above, but finally reached the top floor. Some windows and brick wall were burnt down because the heat of the fire. Many people stood outside on the streets watch the fire in horror. Many bravely firemen and fire engines came quickly. Luckily, there was no one person in the office building when the fire was broke out. It took about two hours for the firemen to put out a big fire.

Famine came again and for a while, neither mother or cub had anything to eat. Then one day, She-wolf brought home some meat! It was strange stuff, different from anything the cub had smelled or tasted before. And it was for him! Little could he know that his mother had taken the left fork by the stream, by the lair of the lynx(山貓巢穴), and stolen kitten. As he finished his meal, he heard his mother snarling(咆哮)in strange and terrible way. He shivered with fear.

The lynx was mad with anger at the loss of her child and she had tracked She-wolf to her cave.

In the glare of the afternoon light, the lynx crouched at the cave entrance. A coarse scream left no doubt what she meant to do. The cub and his mother were trapped!

The lynx threw herself inside the cave, and She-wolf leaped upon her.

Snarling and howling, the two mothers fought like crazy, the lynx pulling and tearing with her teeth and claws, She-wolf using her teeth alone.

Seeing his mother in such danger, the cub sank his teeth into the wild cat’s leg. Although he didn’t know it, this is probably what saved their lives. The lynx beat at the cub, tearing his shoulder, but he had slowed her down. After a brief, cruel fight, She-wolf put an end to her once and for all.

They had won, but at a price.

The cub licked his mother’s wounds. He knew she was weak and sick. For a week she never left the cave.

Then at last, her strength returned and she was ready to hunt again. This time, the cub went with her. She-wolf noticed a change in her child. He had complete faith in himself from their victory over the lynx. They had fought a wild cat and lived!

The cub now knew another law of the wild-eat or to be eaten: kill or to be killed.

【1】What can be inferred about the cub from Paragraph 1 and 2?

A.A mother hen once attacked him.

B.He shared the meat with She-wolf.

C.The cub didn’t like the strange meat.

D.He could obtain meat secretly.

【2】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “crouched” in Paragraph 4?

A.Fought.B.Tracked.C.Hid.D.Trapped.

【3】What mostly helped She-wolf and the cub win the fight against the lynx?

A.The lynx fighting with her teeth and claws.

B.The cub biting into the leg of the lynx.

C.The three being wounded seriously.

D.She-wolf using her sharp teeth.

【4】What did the cub get from the victory?

A.Carefulness.B.Strength.C.Friendship.D.Confidence.

Keep your hands clean and stop touching your face

"Wiping down surfaces on a plane won't hurt, as long as it doesn't give you a false sense of security,” Andrew Mehle, associate professor of medical microbiology said, stressing that cleaning your space on a plane should be done in conjunction with washing hands and following other best practices. Good habits are not easily formed. 【2】 Doing so after touching a surface where droplets from when someone sneezed or coughed can lead to the virus being passed on.

【3】

A study from Emory University found that during flu season, the safest place to sit on a plane is by a window. Researchers studied passengers and crew members on 10 three-to-five-hour flights and observed that people sitting in window seats had less contact with potentially sick people.

Disinfect hard surfaces

When you get to your seat and your hands are clean, use disinfecting wipes to clean the hard surfaces at your seat like the head and arm rest, the seatbelt buckle（帶扣）, the remote, screen, seat back pocket and the tray table. If the seat is hard and nonporous （無(wú)孔的）or leather, you can wipe that down too. 【4】In addition, pay attention to your disinfecting wipes, which would typically say on the packaging how long asurface needs to stay wet in order for them to work.【5】 In order for the wipes to work, you need to follow those time requirements.

A.Choose a window seat.

B.A window seat is the best option.

C.The airplane and airplane seat is a public space.

D.Good habits arc essential in this particular time.

E.That time can range from 30 seconds to a few minutes.

F.Most people tend to touch their faces more often than they realize.

G.However, using wipes on cushions could lead to a wet scat and spreading of germs.

“Mommy ,don't go,”my three-year-old son screamed as I walked to the door. My fifteen-year-old leaned against the kitchen counter with his arms folded across his chest ,not screaming,but glaring at me as I pulled his little brother off my leg.

“Are you mad at me too?”

“You spend all your time taking care of other people's kids,but what about us?”Dylan left angrily.

I was shocked and a little hurt. How could my own child not understand that the work I was doing was saving live? Then the answer hit me. He didn't know bemuse he had never seen what Healing the Children actually did. Dylan had heard the sores of sick children, but had never once looked into the eyes of a child and understood the hard truth-that without our help, the child would likely die.

“Get dressed. You are going with me.”I said.

I spend the drive explaining the case of Hector to my son, who pretended to ignore me the entire time.“He's seven, only weighs thirty pounds and is very sick. He has a heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, which could kill him. It is a miracle(奇跡) that he is still alive. ”

I went on to explain that it took a team of volunteer medical staff to get Hector to the hospital from his remote village and care for him while he was there. Still, Dylan seemed unimpressed.

We stopped at a convenience store for water and snacks. Dylan had one large and one small Slurpee (思樂(lè)冰飲料). He said the small one was for Hector. I doubted whether the little guy would be able to drink it, but remained silent. This was the first interest Dylan had shown in being there. I wasn't about to ruin it.

I stopped at the nurse's station to check on Hector's progress while Dylan went to his room. Our patient was recovering physically，but the nurse was concerned that Hector was struggling emotionally. She said “Kids usually bounce back fast, but he hardly speaks and never smiles.”

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The program uses a model that pairs volunteers with seniors, based on availability and language. Those volunteers are trained by ACT's team via video conferencing and then given a list of older adults. The volunteer calls the individuals and takes their order, working with grocer offerings of a Provigo store in the area. When the call is over, the order gets sent to Provigo, which gathers and delivers the order to the senior. It won't take the place of the work of the food bank; seniors are paying for their groceries.

There is also an important social element to the call, which doubles as a friendly check -in. The volunteer chats a bit with the senior, who may be very lonely and anxious. One volunteer says it has also been a rewarding experience and gives her the opportunity to help others while staying at home, which they are all being encouraged to do.

The program is a response to a number of factors, including the fact that many older adults are on a fixed income and may not have the internet access needed to order groceries online. It is targeting seniors who aren't able to access New Hope's usual meals on wheels service.

So far the project is a success, with a growing number of volunteers and seniors. As for what's next, Concordia is optimistic but acknowledges that the team will need to be nimble to accommodate the changing realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are at a critical time and we need to do everything we can, together, to help out.

【1】What do the volunteers do to help the seniors?

A.Help them pay the bill.B.Send their order to the store.

C.Write a shopping list for them.D.Deliver their groceries lo the door.

【2】What can we infer about the programme from paragraph 3?

A.It benefits both sides.B.It helps the store survive.

C.It goes beyond expectation.D.It encourages people to purchase online.

【3】Who might be the potential client of the program?

A.Daisy aged 45 with a heavy debt.B.David who enjoys meals on wheels service.

C.Alexander aged 75 with a retirement pension.D.Elspeth who knows noting about online shopping.

【4】What does the underlined word “nimble” probably mean?

A.Flexible.B.Beneficial.

C.Accessible.D.Qualified.