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Who is a scientist and what is his job? A chemist doing experiments? A geologist out studying rocks? When most people think about science, they imagine characters making discoveries or finding cures （治疗方法）for new diseases. However, these leave out an extremely important part of the scientific process: communicating—sharing the results of that work.

Imagine if someone discovered something important about a disease. Other scientists need to understand the work well enough to use these new developments to make even more discoveries in the future. The public, too, needs to understand how these discoveries might influence their lives. But none of this will be possible if the work is not shared. Being a scientist goes far beyond the moment of discovery.

Without clear communication, scientists would not be able to use the work that has already been done. So how do scientists tell others about the work that they have done? How do they make sure that everything that they share is as clear and correct as possible?

Researchers publish their work in scientific journals（期刊）.These journals can be read by other researchers around the world. It is very important for these journals, and for the scientists who read them, to make sure that the research included is as correct as possible. In order to do that, articles given to scientific journals before publication first go through a process called peer review. Other scientists who do research in areas related to the work in an article are asked to read through it. Scientists also provide feedback to the writers. They bring up new questions the writer may not have considered, recognize limitations to the results being described, and also make sure that no mistakes were made during the process.

Frontiers for Young Minds is a scientific journal written for—and reviewed by young people. All of the articles in it are based on works already published in a peer reviewed scientific journal. However, while scientists are good at making sure that articles are understandable for other scientists, there are no better experts to make sure that something can be understood by young people than the young people themselves. By working together with an experts young reviewers read the article to see if any part of the article is hard to understands make it clear why the experiment was done in the way it was done and check whether the figures （数据）clearly explain the point of the article.

Basically, these young reviewers learn to think like scientists. It is never too early to start! Ask questions, learn new things, and don't forget the importance of communicating your findings.

【1】What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A.What is required to be a good scientist.

B.Who should understand a scientist’s job.

C.Why sharing the results of scientific work is important.

D.How scientists make sure their work is clear and correct.

【2】From the passage we can know that________.

A.scientists are good at working together with others

B.young people usually enjoy reading scientific journals

C.in peer review, other scientists bring up questions to readers

D.young reviewers help make articles in Frontiers for Young Minds more readable

【3】What is the writer's main purpose in writing this passage?

A.To introduce how scientists do their jobs.

B.To offer practical advice on how to ask scientific questions.

C.To explain the effects of peer review on scientific journals.

D.To encourage young people to think and communicate like scientists.

— Sure. I will send you the shop's address later.

A.where will you buy itB.where you will buy it

C.where did you buy itD.where you bought it

A.celebratesB.is celebratedC.will celebrateD.will be celebrated

— Sorry. We________basketball in the gym at that time.

A.playB.will playC.were playingD.have played

A.will workB.worksC.workedD.was working

要求：

1）词数：80-100词左右（开头已给出，不计入总词数）；

2）不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。

Ladies and gentlemen,

I’m very honored to stand here to say something about environmental protection.

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The problems are commonly seen on most of the Chinese students. I comforted my student with one sentence: Don’t you know you were much stronger than you thought?

Why did I say so? Because everyone has strength.What is strength? It is not always about physical strength. Rather, it is about will, training and the ability to get things done. I know some students who are clever, but they get very little done in their studies. And I know others find work extremely challenging, but are able to move mountains through hard work. They have inner strength. More interesting is that those hard-workers often don’t even notice the stress. When they are asked “How do you make it?”, the answers usually comes back: “I just work harder than the others.”

Some losers often have self-imposed(自己强加的) boundaries(边界) — I can’t do that(Why?); that is too much for me(How do you know?); I can’t put in that much effort(What would happen if you did?). All these are limits(局限).

Then, how can they get stronger? By pushing themselves until the boundaries disappear. By pushing themselves until they get better.

【1】What can we know from the student’s words？

A.He was looking for something.

B.He was worried and unhappy.

C.His parents didn’t love him.

【2】Most Chinese students have problems with the following aspects（方面）EXCEPT _______.

A.schoolworkB.social relationshipC.teachers’ suggestions

【3】Why do some clever students achieve little？

A.Because they are not willing to spend time working hard.

B.Because the work is too challenging.

C.Because they know how much the stress is.

【4】If your friend complains(抱怨) “I’m not smart enough to solve that,” what the writer may say to him?

A.Let it go.

B.Believe in yourself.

C.Are you really sure about that if you haven’t tried hard?

【5】What can we infer(推断) from the passage?

A.Hard-workers don’t have any stress.

B.People can find their inner strength through hard work.

C.By pushing themselves, people can get whatever they want.

If you visit Brazil, you’ll find it is common to see broken glass bottles on the walls around the house which is used to prevent burglars(盗贼) jumping in. But that will never be seen in Canada. 【2】 If you want to ask for help, just go and knock the door!

Children often go to school hand in hand. Girls often go shopping hand in hand. It means they are good friends. What if men hang out hand in hand? That men hold hands in public as a show of friendship is normal in Afghanistan but super weird(奇怪的) in the west. 【3】

Now Valentine’s day is popular all over the world. In America, couples and lovers will prepare gifts for each other. The gifts can be anything — cards, cars, ties, flowers, diamond necklaces, ... However, men in Japan don’t give any gifts on Valentine’s day. 【4】 The gift is always chocolate, and they get it for all the men in their lives, including workmates. Then there is a day on the 14th of March when the men do something in return. The gifts are only from men to women this time, and they are chocolates or jewelries(珠宝) or nice clothes. The money spent is directly related to how much chocolate received.

A.People don’t even have walls around their houses.

B.Only women give gifts, and they only give them to men.

C.Here are some strange things in foreigners’ eyes.

D.The only thing Japanese men should do is to wait for gifts .

E.It also seems quite strange in China.

B: Can’t be worse.

A: Sorry to hear that. 【1】?

B: I feel tired and sleepy. I didn’t go to bed until 11:30 last night.

A: Why did you stay up late? You are expected to go to bed early.

B: Because the final exam is coming soon, and I’m not ready yet.

A: 【2】?

B: It will be taken in a week. I still have trouble with my studies. 【3】?

A: Sure. You’d better pay attention to the class and make good use of the time after class.

B: Math is the biggest part that gets in the way of my study. 【4】?

A: By asking for teachers’ help. They are always helpful.

B: 【5】. Thanks for your advice. I will go out of my way to do well.

A: Good luck!