A call came into Jimmy Gilleece’s bar this past March. A newly married woman who had spent the afternoon at the dive(潜水) beach bar in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina couldn't find her wallet. She didn't care about her ID, credit cards, or $150--- but her wedding ring was inside it。

Gilleece, 42, the boss of the bar, didn’t like the idea that there was a thief at his place. So he set out to find the wallet. He spent hours looking for the footage (录像) from 16 different cameras, watching the woman’s every step in the bar. Finally, a young man caught his eyes. He picked up something from the place where the woman stood and put it in his pocket.

Gilleece posted the picture on the bar’s Facebook and asked if anybody knew who the guy was. Within hours, 17-year-old Rivers Prather came and said he had taken the wallet and told Gilleece he'd done it because he hadn’t eaten for two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was not real, so he took the money, and threw the wallet into the ocean. Then he bought a sandwich.

Prather wasn’t getting along with his family and lived in the woods for weeks. Gilleece saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a thief, Gilleece wanted to help him somehow. He found two local divers to search the waters where Prather the wallet. After waiting for hours worriedly but luckily, a diver came out from the water with the wallet in his hand, and inside was the ring.

“Most people would give the footage to police, but the boss chose to help me,” Prather told CBS News. “I say thank you to him every day. ”

1.What's the relationship between Gilleece and Prather?

A.Friends B.Relatives C.Strangers D.Teammates

2.What is the right order of the following?

a. A local diver helped find the wallet b. The bar boss tried to find out the truth

c. A newly married woman lost her wallet. d. The young man came and told the truth.

A.c-b-a-d B.c-b-d-a C.b-c-d-a D.b-e-a-d

3.The bar boss didn’t give the footage to police because ________.

A.the wedding ring was not real B.the young man often came to his bar

C.the woman didn't care about her wallet D.he wanted to give the young man a chance

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Love me, love my dog. B.Practice makes perfect.

C.All is well that ends well D.Actions speak louder than words

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In the Amazon Rainforest, 72, 843 wildfires happened in 2019. The world worries about the forest. But why is the Amazon Rainforest so important?

First, thousands of plants and great animals grow or live in the Amazon Rainforest. We can find them there. The rainforest helps to protect the nature. We think the rainforest is a DNA bank holding the secrets in many different areas of humans’ lives.

Second, the Amazon Rainforest works to make the world not too hot or too cold. It cools down the temperature in the whole world by 1 or 2℃ and helps to keep the humidity(湿度) and rain in several parts of the world, too.

Last but not least, rainforests are often called the “lungs(肺) of the planet”, and the Amazon Rainforest has the largest number of carbon( 碳) (in forms of trees, leaves and roots) of the world. The Amazon Rainforest cleans dirty air through its trees and other plants. These plants take in CO2and send O2into the air while they keep the carbon and it helps them to grow.

If there are no rainforests, the temperature around the world will be higher and higher, and weather may be possible to get even worse in the future.

The importance of Amazon rainforest

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72, 843 wildfires happened in 2019 and the world is 2. about the forest.

Reasons(原因)

First, it is 3. to many plants and great animals. The rainforest is4. to protect the nature.

Second, it can 5.down the temperature in the whole world. It6.helps to keep the humidity and rain.

7., it can help clean the air through its trees and other 8..

Results

The temperature will be higher. The weather may be 9. to get even worse .

Do your parents use their mobile phones too much? If your answer is “Yes”, you must have the same problem as Emil Rustige. Emil is a 7-year-old boy from Germany.

Last week, he did something special. He invited(邀请) more than 100 children to hold an activity. They went to the street, holding their slogan(标语) in their hands. Their slogan was “Play with ME, not with your mobile phones.” They wanted their parents to put down their mobile phones. They wanted their parents to spend more time playing with them. Many children said it was a wonderful idea. They also wanted to take part in the activity.

Why did Emil Rustige hold the activity? He told a reporter about the reason, “In fact, I’m not pleased with my parents. They spend too much time playing with their mobile phones. Then they don’t have enough time to play with me. I need to do something to change them.”

What do you think of Emil’s idea? Will you do the same thing?

1.Do Emil’s parents use their mobile phones too much?

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2.What did Emil do last week?

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3.Why did Emil hold the activity?

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4.Is it necessary for parents to put down their mobile phones? Why or why not?

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