How much do you know about Earth—the planet that we live on? Our knowledge of Earth has been developing since ancient times. However, many puzzles (谜) about Earth remain unsolved. Live Science has published a list of the eight biggest mysteries about Earth. Let’s look at some of them.

Where did water come from?

When it first came into being 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was a dry rock. So where did all of our water come from? Scientists think that it might have arrived in the form of ice by an asteroid (小行星) from outer space that hit our planet. But this idea has not been confirmed (证明) because there is very little related evidence(相关证据) to be studied.

What’s in the core (地核)?

Scientists used to study meteorites (陨石) as small examples of Earth, believing that Earth’s core was made of iron and nickel (镍). However, a later study in the 1950s proved this way to be wrong because it found that Earth would be too light to provide gravity (引力) if its core contained only iron and nickel. Today, scientists continue to bring forward different ideas, but none have been confirmed.

How was the moon born?

Scientists have found that the chemical compositions (成分) of Earth and the Moon are very similar. That suggests that the Moon actually came from Earth. For example, it could be a piece of Earth that separated when Earth hit another planet. It is also possible that when Earth first came into being, it spun (旋转) very fast and threw off enough molten (熔化的) rock to later form the Moon.

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A.How Earth came into being.

B.Where Earth’s water came from?

C.How the moon was formed?

D.Unexplained mysteries about Earth.

2.What do we know about where water may come from?

A.Earth’s water may come from ice that melted 4.5 billion years ago.

B.Earth’s water may come from a small planet that hit Earth.

C.We don’t know where water came from.

D.There is lots of evidence that tells us where water came from.

3.What does the underlined phrase “bring forward” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A.Check B.Raise

C.Improve D.Receive

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Scientists used to believe Earth’s core was made of meteorites.

B.A study in the 1950s proved that Earth’s core is made of iron and nickel.

C.The moon and Earth are made of similar materials.

D.Three possibilities of where the Moon came from are mentioned.

Failure is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and players may fail in competitions. (A) Although failure happens to everyone, different people’s attitudes towards failure are different   .

Some people don’t think that their failure is an important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the (B)       failure later. Some people think they themselves are fools and lose their hearts in everything after they get a failure. Then they (C)        their time and energy on useless things. At last, they may really be fools as they have thought. (D)Other people are quite different from these two kinds of people mentioned above. Instead of being hopeless and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. (E) they, after, will ,hard, in, work, be , the, successful , end. So we should draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.

阅读短文,根据题目要求完成下列任务。

1.将(A)处句子译成汉语。

____________________________________________________

2.在( B )、(C )处的横线上分别填上一个单词

(B)______________(C)_________________

3.将(D)处划线句子译成汉语:

____________________________________________________

4.将(E)处的单词连成句子:

_____________________________________________________

5.请从下面的选项中给短文选个标题,将答案标号填在此横线上:_________

A.Draw a lesson from every failure

B.The attitudes towards failure

C.Failure is everywhere in our life

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing _______. We are living in a world that depends more and more on AI. It’s a group of technologies that _______machines get, understand and use information to do tasks.

AI's ______developments have got a lot of social attention. Some people have welcomed Al ______it makes things possible. For example, AI will have big influence ______areas like medicine and engineering. But this attention has also ______a lot of fear. Especially, many workers are worrying that AI could make them lose ______jobs.

According to a recent study, nearly five percent of jobs will disappear _______AI. In some industries, AI is already doing the work ______people used to do. such as assembling (装配)cars, digging the coal and lifting goods. Self-driving cars and ______by AI will also take away the drivers' jobs in the future.

On ______hand, AI will also create many new jobs for people. More people will be needed to write programmers for AI systems and they will set up and ______them, too. Meanwhile, jobs that require feelings, excellent ______skills with people will not be replaced by AI. These______jobs in fields like teaching, nursing and personal training.

AI is here. It is changing ______people live and work in many ways. That makes AI important to watch, not to fear.

1.A.rapidly B.slowly C.quick

2.A.helps B.help C.helped

3.A.nearly B.recently C.recent

4.A.so B.because C.although

5.A.in B.to C.on

6.A.produced B.predicted C.processed

7.A.their B.themselves C.theirs

8.A.instead of B.thanks to C.because of

9.A.that B.what C.who

10.A.control B.controllen C.controlled

11.A.other B.the other C.another

12.A.work out B.work on C.work for

13.A.conversation B.communication C.connection

14.A.include B.including C.included

15.A.why B.what C.how

Food for Good

In late August, after Hurricane(飓风) Dorian passed, José Andrés led a team of chefs and other volunteers to the disaster area, where they immediately set up kitchens and cooked 30,000 meals a day. Because of their arrival, people affected by the disaster could eat fresh and healthy food, which was unimaginable in the past.

Before 2016, people in the disaster areas were only able to get prepackaged(预先包装的) meals, which usually didn’t taste great and some of the food was even unhealthy. Andrés, who owns several popular restaurants in the United States, thought he could solve the problem. As a chef, he has the experience of creating delicious dishes and running a kitchen. What’s more, he can even design dishes that suit the local tastes. So he set up the World Central Kitchen (WCK), an organization offering freshly made and healthy meals free for people affected by natural disasters.

Last year, WCK, with only 25 staff members, fed millions of survivors(幸存者) of 13 disaster areas around the world. How could they make it? Much of its work was done by volunteers from the disaster areas. The youngest volunteer once was even a 10-year-old girl who could run parts of the kitchen on her own. “She became a general in my army of volunteers,” Andrés said. The girl and 20,000 volunteers served almost four million meals after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico.

“You know good food has great power. A hot meal expresses love, hope and humanity.” Andrés said, “It is so important when people are deeply affected by disasters.”

1.What did José Andrés and his team do after Hurricane Dorian?

A.They built new houses.

B.They taught how to cook.

C.They sent medicine to the sick.

D.They offered freshly made meals.

2.Who worked in the WCK?

A.25 doctors and nurses.

B.Some chefs and volunteers.

C.A ten-year-old girl and her family.

D.Many officers from the government.

3.According to Andrés, the power of good food can ______.

A.improve chefs’ creativity

B.help volunteers save energy

C.bring survivors warmth and hope

D.make chefs’ restaurants more popular

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