1、 We are the crowd sourcing thoughts and suggestions onnew tours,and the winner will receive two free places on their tour when its launched.Starting entries 1st May 2020Deadline 31st August 2020ENTER NOW-Write a brief description of your ideal science holiday,tour,vacation or experience.-No matter h
2、ow big or small,we are looking for brilliant, unique thoughts.It can be a complex multi-location overseas holiday tour,a weekend away deep-diving,or a simple walking tour(and everything in between).-Our current tours are mainly individual-focused but we would love to hear ideas for families and scho
3、ols.-Creations that have environmentally friendly themes and a low carbon impact are also welcome.-Your entry can be as simple as a great title but writing more specifies will improve the possibility of walking off with the prize.-The competition doesnt close by September,2020,so plenty of time to b
4、rainstorm your entry.-We will launch the best idea in late 2020 or at the beginning of 2021. The winner will receive the award once the result is published.If you want to submit more than 3,999 words,include photos/maps with your entry, or submit multiple entries then send it to tours . The competit
5、ion guidelines and other related information are available at .1. When will the winner probably be announced?A. In August,2020. B. In September,2020.C. In January,2021. D. In May,2021.2. What kind of entries might be more likely to win?A. Those producing a low carbon impact.B. Those with a long and
6、unique title.C. Those providing detailed information.D. Those for individual-focused tours.3. What is the purpose of this text?A. To give guidance on a competition.B. To advertise a science holiday.C. To inspire creativity in teenagers.D. To collect the ideas for tours.BAs a rider, Anna Kiesenhofes
7、Olympics victory might be a surprise. The winner of the road race at the Tokyo Olympics left the sport at the end of 2017 when she found herself out of contract (合同). She came into Tokyo without a professional team and left as an Olympic champion.The 30-year old began her cycling career in 2014 afte
8、r running injuries that prevented her from continuing her pursuits of triathlon (铁人三项). She later joined a Catalan team and won the Spanish National Cup in 2016.The then-26 year old signedher first professional contract with Lotto Soudal Ladies for the following season. However, she ended her 2017 c
9、ampaign in April and did not sign a contract for 2018, eventually taking a year off the bike. In 2019, Kiesenhofer came back to the sport as a rider, winning the Austrian national road race. Despite her results, Kiesenhofer sill had no professional contract while going into the Tokyo Olympics.Kiesen
10、hofer was the first rider to attack in the Olympic road race, eventually forming a breakaway along with Carl Oberholzer, Omer Shapira, Vera Looser and Anna Plichta, which went on to reach a gap of 11 minutes. After Looser and Oberholzer were dropped, Kiesnhofer ataced her two remaining breakaway com
11、panions.After Shapira and Plichta were caught by the peloton (主车群), the rest of the riders seemed to believe that they were racing among themselves for Gold, not knowing that Remehofere was still in front. While it might be a misjudgment from the rest of the peloton that allowed Kiesenhofer to keep
12、her lead of more than two minutes, other riders mistakes should not detract from the Austrians efforts.Off the bike the new Olympic Champion has a PhD in mathematics after studying at the Technical University of Vienne as well as at Cambridge University. She currently works at the University of Laus
13、anne.4. Why did Anna give up triathlon?A. She got injured. B. She lost interest in it.C. She had to attend university. D. She never won a medal.5. Which is the right order of the following events?She ended her campaign. She took a year off the bike. She began her cycling career.She won the Austrian
14、national road race. She won the Spanish National Cup.A. . B. .C. . D. .6. What were the riders of the peloton unaware of at the Tokyo Olympics?A. The road race was so difficult. B. Anna was a new rider.C. They had caught up with Anna. D. Anna took the lead of them.7. What is Annas present job?A. A c
15、ycling coach. B. A university teacher.C A professional rider. D. A college student.CI was in the second year of my Ph. D. program when a colleague asked what I would do if I had an extra hour every day. Without much consideration, I said I would use it to help others. The question kept coming to my
16、mind. Like many graduate students, I was overwhelmed (难以承受的) with research, teaching, coursework, and some attempt at a personal life. Still, I asked myself, Do I really need a 25th hour to help other people-or do I need to make better use of the 24 hours I have?I needed something to help me return
17、to my old self. After that conversation with my colleague, I googled (谷歌搜索) “volunteer opportunities near me”. A local organization that drives people to stores or appointments was looking for volunteers. Having grown up in a rural village where everyone knew oneanother and my grandparents were alwa
18、ys close by, I thought serving senior citizens in my new hometown might be just what I needed.A short time later, I started to volunteer for an organization that provides transportation for senior citizens and people with disabilities. To my surprise, adding this activity to my busy life was just wh
19、at I needed to calm the confusion I was feeling as a first-generation international graduate student.I started to volunteer about 3 hours every weekend, the time I otherwise would have wasted oversleeping or scrolling (滚屏) through social media. Sharing stories with my riders was much more rewarding.
20、 What they told me about their lives helped me realize that in every corner of the world, humans are connected with the languageof emotions. And seeing how eager my riders were to spend time out and about inspired me to think about how to spend my time, which used to slip away. My previously overwhe
21、lming schedule began to feel manageable.Im proud of who I have become, and I continue to reflect on how Im using the most valuable thing in life: my time.8. Why did the author ask himself the question in Paragraph 1?A. He wanted to return to normal life.B. He was busy but wanted to help others.C. He
22、 couldnt bear too much school work.D. He couldnt answer his colleagues question.9. How did the author find the volunteer job?A. A colleague recommended it. B. A local organization offered it.C. He got it from his grandparents. D. He got it by surfing on the Internet.10. What made the author feel his
23、 volunteer job was worth doing?A. Communicating with his riders. B. Improving his language learning.C. Meeting his grandparents often. D. Realizing his previous dream.11. How did volunteering influence the author?A. It helped himbecome confident and efficient.B. He found a good way to live a free an
24、d quiet life.C. He realized he had wasted too much time pursuing his Ph. D.D. It inspired him to spare more time to accompany his grandparents.DJon Pedley is making a big change. He is giving up his life as a businessman for a life of helping others. He is trading his beautiful farmhouse in England
25、for life in a mud hut in Uganda, East Africa.Pedley admits that he has notalways led a very positive life. At times he drank too much and got in trouble with the law. “Ive always put the pursuit of money in front of everything else. As long as I was all right, I didnt care who I was hurting, ” says
26、Pedley.But a visit to Uganda in 2007 gave Pedley a new outlook on life. He was amazed at what he saw and how much the people there appreciated the work he was doing. “I worked there for a few days and these people who have nothing were thanking me by giving me bags of potatoes, which are a fortune f
27、or them,” he said.Now Pedley is selling his business, his $1.5 million farmhouse, and his expensive car and moving into a hut made of mud and boards in a small Ugandan village. There he will help run an organization that hopes to improve the quality of life for people in the village of Kigazi. He wi
28、ll help to build schoolrooms for children and tanks to hold clean water for villagers. Today, people in Kigazi must walk two miles to a hospital, so Pedley will help to build doctors offices, too.Pedleys organization will also work with English teenagers who are in trouble. The teens will be sent to
29、 a “camp” in Uganda that Pedley will run. The teens will live in mud huts and help to build water, health, and education facilities for kids in Kigazi, many of whom have lost their parents to poverty or disease. Pedley hopes the teens will see a side of life that might help them turn around their ow
30、n lives and set them on a new and more positive path.12. Which of the following best describes Pedleys life in the past?A. Negative. B. Colorful. C. Independent. D. Selfish.13. What will Pedley do in the small Ugandan village?A. Do business with the local people. B. Help farmers increase potato outp
31、ut.C. Assist villagers with construction work. D. Introduce tools to improve English teaching.14. Why will Pedley work with English teenagers in trouble?A. To encourage them to make friends with locals. B. To inspire them to live a more positive life.C. To train them to become doctors in the future. D. To make them learn about different cultures.15. What is the best title for the text?A. From mi
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