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1、AThe Cool 2022 Travel DestinationsNational Geographics new list of the most amazing places to visit in 2022, Best of World 2022 is an inviting mixture of global destinations that will inspire your appetite for travel in the New Year.NatureOur global editors picked the planets 25 most exciting destin

2、ations for 2022! There is really something to appeal to everyone.The best places to enjoy nature include Northern Minnesota, which offers skies filled with thousands of shining stars as it has little or no light pollution.AdventureOne of the inspiring adventure ideas is an invitation to cycle a new

3、bike trail. The route of the Paris to the sea La Seine Vlo trail passes the house and famous water lilies （水仙） of Impressionist painter Claude Monet in Giverny.Culture and HistoryThis brand new 2022 list also celebrates several destinations recommended by UNESCO in honor of how UNESCO has been helpi

4、ng protect cultural and national treasures for 50 years.This selection of cultural centers takes in Procida, an island city located 40 minutes southwest of Naples by boat. This city, famous for its colorful buildings, plans to use its year to bring people a sense of community. Its year-long festival

5、 aims to encourage responsible travel throughout the year, and to avoid a crowd of visitors during the summer as happened in the past.FamilyThe best places for families include astonishing settings in the US and further away. One of these is Granada in Spain.At this palace, kids of all ages and thei

6、r parents can appreciate the unique patterns and designs that promise “A colorful classroom for age-appropriate exploration of math concepts such as shapes, proportion （比例）,and measurement”.1. Why does National Geographic offer the ?B. To invite people to find amazing places.A. To attract people to

7、enjoy delicious food.C. To explore the most exciting destinations.D. To increase peoples interest in traveling.2. What is the. disadvantage of visiting the cultural centers in the past?A. Its, inconveniently located.B. There were too many people.C. Travelers were not responsible.D. Its colorful buil

8、dings faded away.B What kind of destination best suits children who are interested in maths?B. Adventure.A. Nature.C. Culture and History.D. Family.BWhen the disease first hit, nursing homes across the United States tried to proteet the neighbors. They shuttheir doors and banned visitors, leaving se

9、niors separated from the outside world.16-year-old Hita Gupta thought that life wouldnt return to normal for a long time. To support lonely seniors and remind them of how much theyre loved, she began delivering care packages to nursing homes in her town of Paoli, Pennsylvania.“When I received a call

10、 from the nursing home, I knew I needed to remind them that they arent alone, and I did everything I could to make sure they knew that, Hita said.The teenagers efforts are a part of her non-profit organization Brighten A Day, which she organized in 2018to spread joy to seniors, children in the hospi

11、tal, and frontline workers.With the help of her 10-year-old brother, Divit Gupta, she has sent out almost 100,000 handwritten cards and packages - complete with puzzles, coloring books, and colored pencils - to nursing homes in countries including Ireland, Australia, and Canada.“The response has bee

12、n so incredible, Hita said. “A lot of the seniors cry when they open the packages and read our notes. Its changing peoples lives at a time when they need it the most.Many of the notes are written by Brighten A Day volunteers, who also make videos where they tell jokes, play music, read poetry, or si

13、ng. The pair and their volunteers call the seniors to make sure they have someone to talk to.“No one could imagine someone so young coming up with these ideas and delivering them to us across the country, but Hita found a way. Seniors do not feel forgotten or alone. Instead, we see their expressions

14、 of joy and gratitude knowing that someone out there is caring for them, a volunteer said.“What we do is to give hope and reminders that there were people out there that truly cared about them and their wellbeing, Hita said. Brighten A Day really does brighten a day.4. How did the seniors in nursing

15、 homes feel when visitors were not allowed in?A. Quiet. B. Delighted. C. Comfortable. D. Lonely.5. What is the main aim of Hitas Brighten A Day project?A. To raise more money for nursing homes.B. To deliver love to seniors at nursing homes.C. To teach seniors to communicate effectively.D. To promote

16、 the development of the nursing industry.6. What can we learm about the Brighten A Day project?A. It offers its volunteers the special packages.B. It encourages seniors to use fewer smart devices.C. It is supported by volunteers across the country.D. It was started during the disease first hitting t

17、his area.7. Which of the following words can best describe Hita Gupta?A. Caring. B. Curious. C. Faithful. D. Professional.CWhat makes you happy? You may want to answer that spending time with your family, taking a vacation or driving a new sports car makes you happy but the key to happiness may be a

18、ltruism（利他行为）.Helping others may actually increase your happiness.According to Time Magazine, the greatest thinkers in the world have suggested that true happiness is found in helping others and now there is scientific research from a team of psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia to p

19、rove it.The researchers led by Liudmila Titova and Kennon Sheldon looked at whether pursuing happiness for others will actually make people happier. They found that it does.Two experiments were conducted by the team, according to Psychology Today. In the first experiment there searchers asked partic

20、ipants to recall a time that they tried to make themselves or another person happy. They were asked to write about the event and rate how happy it made them feel.In the second experiment, they were asked to remember a time they tried to make someone else happy and also write about how it made them f

21、eel. This experiment elicited a higher rate of happiness than the first.The results of these studies extend findings from previous research by showing that people gain more personal happiness from attempts to make other people happy- an approach that might seem unbelievable for a lot of people at fi

22、rst, researchers wrote in the study.But how does the research translate into real life? According to Time Magazine, find your passion. Give it to people or causes that move you and share your values. Whatever you do, the key is to finding an approach that works for you and let it come naturally. Rem

23、ember that improving happiness is a benefit of helping others and not the goal.8. What makes people happy according to the first paragraph?A. Driving a new sports car. B. Travelling during a vacation.C. Offering generosity to others. D. Spending time with their family.9. How did the researchers prov

24、e their findings?A. By using examples. B. By making experiments.C. By clarifying a concept. D. By demonstrating facts.10. What does the underlined word elicit mean in paragraph 5?A. Produce. B. Improve. C. Display. D. Discover.11. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?A. Pursuing H

25、appiness for Others Counts B. Sharing Your Values Will Make SenseC. Improving Happiness Benefits You Much D. Helping Others Can Improve HappinessDA. green sea turtle（海龟）struggled to move in the cold water off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.7hi water was normally warm, but an extreme cold f

26、ront from the Arctic swept the area, dropping the airf emiperature below freezing. The cold-blooded sea turtle became almost frozen: Its body stopped moving, and it couldnt get a breath of air. Without help, these sea turtles would have died underwater.A conservation group on South Padre Island was

27、ready to help. On the first day of the storm, staff and volunteers from Sea Turtle, Inc., headed out on boats to rescue the sea turtles. They loaded them onto trucks and transported them to the organizations rescue center.The group usually rescued only about a hundred turtles on days when the weathe

28、r briefly got cold. But this February storm was different: By the second day, volunteers had already pulled more than 600 frozen sea turtles from the water.Over the next five days, new sea turtles arrived during the daytime. At night, the volunteers wore headbands with flashlights to provide medical

29、 care in the dark building. They tried to keep the sea turtles clean while they were out of the water.Eight days after the storm began, the water was finally warm enough to release the sea turtles. About 30miles offshore, the boat stopped, and the workers put over 2,300 sea turtles back into the oce

30、an.If the workers and volunteers hadnt rescued these sea turtles, none of them would have survived. “We were up all night, every night, and the release was exhausting, too, a volunteer said. But it was worth it to watch those sea turtles go down the slides back where they belong.12. Why did the gree

31、n sea turtles struggle to move in the water?A. They were about to sleep in winter. B. The water around was usually warm.C. They became trapped by fishing nets. D. A freezing cold front suddenly occurred.13. What does paragraph 4 mainly tell us?A. What kind of care the sea turtles received.B. Why the volunteers went to the dark center.C. How the volunteers looked after the turtles.D. Whether it was necessary to keep turtles clean.14. Wh