1、Journey along the coastal highway around the Bay with French Island and Churchill Island in the distanceCross the bridge at San Remo to enter Phillip Island-natural home for Little Penguins and many animalsTake your place in special viewing stands to watch the daily evening performance of the wild L
2、ittle penguinsUltimate Penguins (+U) Join a group of up to 15. This guided tour goes to an attractive, quiet beach to see Little Penguins. You can see penguins at night by wearing a special pair of glasses.Adult $ 60.00 Child $ 30.00Viewing Platform Penguin Plus (+V)More personalized wildlife viewin
3、g limited to 130 people providing closer viewing of the penguin arrival than the main viewing stands.Adult $ 25.00 Child $ 12.50Penguin Skybox (+S)Join a group of only 5 in the comfort of a special, higher-up viewing tower. Gain an excellent overview of Summerland Beach.Adult 16 yrs + $ 50.001.What
4、kind of people is the text mainly written for?A.Scientists.B.Students.C.Tourists.D.Artists.2.What can we learn from the text about Little Penguins?A.They have been on Phillip Island for years.B.They keep a Guinness record for their size.C.They are trained to practice diving for visitors.D.They live
5、in large groups to protect themselves.3.How much would a couple with one child pay for a closer viewing tour?A.$ 37.50.B.$ 62.50.C.$ 150.00.D.$ 180.00.2、As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, hal
6、f of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations- UNESCO and National Geogra
7、phic among them have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center, Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is followingin that tradition. His recently published book, A Gr
8、ammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working and raising a family in a village in Nepal.Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and ora
9、l traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials- including photographs, films, tap recordings, and f
10、ield notes- which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.Now, through the two organizations that he has founded-the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project-Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around t
11、he world, available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet. Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.1.Many
12、scholars are making efforts to .A.rescue the disappearing languagesB.promote global languagesC.search for language communitiesD.set up language research organizations.2.What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A.Having full records of the languages.B.Writing books on language teaching.C.Te
13、lling stories about language users.D.Living with the native speakers.3.What is Turins book based on?A.The cultural studies in India.B.The documents available at Yale.C.His language research in Bhutan.D.His personal experience in Nepal.4.Which of the following best describes Turins work?A.Write,sell
14、and donate.B.Record,repair and reward.C.Collect,protect and reconnect.D.Design,experiment and report.3、Youth football team members rescued more than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave in Thailand are now being well looked after at a hospital in the northern city of Chiang Rai. In
15、 addition to treating the boys for potential body fluid loss, inadequate nutrition and lack of oxygen, their doctors also plan to closely monitor them for symptoms of diseases that may have been infected by animals living in the cave.“The next step is to make sure those kids and their families are s
16、afe, because living in a cave provides a different environment, which might contain animals that could transmitdisease,” said the local hospital. The boys and their family members have been told to watch for symptoms such as headache, nausea(反胃), muscle pain or difficulty breathing, the reports adde
17、d.Yet based on the location where the boys were trappedmore than four kilometers from the cave complexs main entrance, past some fully submerged passagesand the fact they have been swimming out wearing full scuba face masks, it seems unlikely that they were living with bats in the cave or breathed i
18、n bat-associated bacteria during their rescue, several infectious disease experts said. “Its hard to imagine bats got that deep into the cave because of all those narrow passageways, but it is possible,” says Ian Lipkin, an animal expert and professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columb
19、ia University. “Its unlikely that there would be many animals in there,” notes Jonathan Epstein, a doctor at EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that studies diseases and how to prevent them.Bats typically like to rest in areas they can easily enter and exit, not in places that fully flood,
20、 he adds.Bats in Thailand have been linked with a wide range of viruses that are similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)Lipkin says. But it seems more likely the boys would have been exposed to infection-causing bacteria when they swam through the dirty water with cuts and scrapes. “If y
21、ou are trying to prioritize issues with respect to health care for these kids, number one would be psychological damage and second will be bacterial infections from the cuts and scrapes they may have encountered.” Lipkin says.1.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the potential sy
22、mptom of the rescued team members?A.Lacking body waterB.Unbalanced nutritionC.Pain in the head and musclesD.Adequate oxygen2.The underlined word “submerged” in paragraph 3 means _.A.under the waterB.wild and dangerousC.with animalsD.bat-associated3.Which is true about the caves and the trapped peopl
23、e?A.Jonathan Epstein thought it possible for the team members to be attacked by bats in the fully-flooded cave.B.Lipkin argued bats were not able to get deep into the narrow cave where the kids were trapped.C.Lipkin said the victims might be infected when their body were exposed to bacterial water d
24、uring the rescue.D.Lipkin believed the most important issue for the cave-trapped teenagers was infectious bacteria examination.4.What is the text type of the passage?A.An academic essay about bats.B.A newspaper article.C.A medical magazine.D.A Thai website about sports.4、 Ever walked to the shops on
25、ly to find, once there, youve completely forgotten what you went for? Or struggled to remember the name of an old friend? For years weve accepted that a forgetful brain is as much a part of aging as wrinkles and gray hair. But now a new book suggests that weve got it all wrong. According to The Secr
26、et Life of the Grown-up Brain, by science writer Barbara Strauch, when it comes to the important things, our brains actually get better with age. In fact, she argues that some studies have found that our brain hits its peak between our 40s and 60s much later than previously thought. Furthermore, rat
27、her than losing many brain cells as we age, we keep them, and even produce new ones well into middle age. For years its been assumed that brain, much like the body, declines with age. But the longest, largest study into what happens to people as they age suggests otherwise. This continuing research
28、has followed 6,000 people since 1956, testing them every seven years. It has found that on average, participants performed better on cognitive (认知的) tests in their 40s and 50s than they had done in their 20s. Specifically, older people did better on tests of vocabulary, verbal memory (how many words
29、 you can remember) and problem solving. Where they performed less well was number ability and perceptual speed how fast you can push a button when ordered. However, with more complex tasks such as problem-solving and language, we are at our best at middle age and beyond. In short, researchers are no
30、w coming up with scientific proof that we do get wiser with age. Neuroscientists are also finding that we are happier with aging. A recent US study found older people were much better at controlling and balancing their emotions. It is thought that when were younger we need to focus more on the negative aspects of life in order to learn about the possible dangers in the world, but as we get older weve learned our lessons and are aware that we have less time left in life: therefore, it becomes more important for us to be happy.
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