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Machines are once again doing the car-washing in Britain一切尽在泡沫之中Blame (or credit) Brexit and covid在英国，洗车机又开始流行起来了What warm weather is to ice-cream vans and popcorn is to dentists, Saharan dust storms are to car washes. A big dust cloud like the one that reached Britain on March 16th boosts revenues by about a quarter, according to Kevin Pay of Wilcomatic, which runs about 800 automatic car washes in Britain. “You love to see it,” he says, as a dusty red Ford Ka joins the queue in Hove in East Sussex, on the south coast.温暖的天气之于冰淇淋车以及爆米花之于牙医就好比撒哈拉沙漠的沙尘暴之于洗车店。

据威尔科马蒂公司（该公司在英国经营着大约800家自动洗车店）的凯文·佩称，像3月16日到达英国的那种巨大的尘埃云使洗车店的收入增加了约四分之一。

当一辆尘土飞扬的红色福特汽车加入到南海岸东苏塞克斯郡霍夫区一家洗车店的排队行列时，他说：“我很乐意看到这种情形。

”Until recently Britain’s drivers usually took their dirty motors to car parks and disused petrol stations, where eastern European immigrants had at them with sponges. In 2018 a parliamentary committee was informed that Britain had 10,000-20,000 hand car washes, compared with 2,000 automatic “rollover” machines and about 4,000 do-it-yourself jet washes.直到最近，英国的司机们还经常把脏兮兮的汽车开到停车场和废弃的加油站，东欧移民在那里用海绵为他们擦洗汽车。

2023年中考英语热点时文阅读19 碳中和碳达峰

2023年中考英语新热点时文阅读-碳中和碳达峰01（2022·山西临汾·三模）请阅读下面的非连续性文本，按要求完成所给任务，并将答案写在答题卡相应的位置上。

Forests are home to many plants and animals. They also matter to humans in different ways. In China, Tree Planting Day arrives on March 12. It was set up to remind people about the importance of forests.________They enrich the soil. They take in CO2 and give out O2.They provide food They are home to 80 percent of thefor millions of people.world’s animals, plants and insects.Chart ⅠChina’s forest coverage（覆盖率）Chart ⅠChina planted 3.6 million hectares of forest in 2021, according to the National Afforestation Committee （国际造林委员会）. That’s more than double the area of Beijing. The committee called on all adults to plant three to five trees a year. During the past 40 years, volunteers planted nearly 79 billion trees across China. China has become the country with the largest increase in forest resources（资源）and the largest area of planted forests.People are also encouraged to take part in greening projects. Alipay’s Ant Forest is one way to help. Users get “green energy” points through daily actions, and the project will plant real trees for them. More than 600 million Chinese have used this app to live greener lifestyles and help protect the environment. Ant Forest has planted more than 360 million trees in China since 2016.Besides big projects, China also focuses on（专注于）small actions in cities. The committee said China now has more than 20,000 “pocket parks”—mini parks in cities. It has also built more than 80,000 kilometers of green pathways（道路）across the country.Chart ⅠIn the future, China will take more actions to help our environment so that we can reach the goal of achieving carbon neutrality（碳中和）before 2060 successfully.1．Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.______________________________________________________________________________________ 2．Please add a subtitle（小标题）in ________ in Chart Ⅰ.（No more than six words.）3．How many percent of China’s forest coverage were increased from 2003 to 2021?______________________________________________________________________________________ 4．How can we get “green energy” points from Ant Forest?（Two examples are OK.）______________________________________________________________________________________ 5．What small actions has China taken to go green?______________________________________________________________________________________ 6．What can you do for our country’s greening projects?______________________________________________________________________________________02（2022·重庆·中考真题）The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was a great success. China has kept the promise to hold a green Olympics. Many green actions made it possible, like providing environmentally friendly smart beds, using new energy(能源) cars, supporting sporting places with 100% clean energy and reusing rain and snow water.Take making ice as an example. China didn’t use R507, a common material to make ice, because it isn’t friendly enough to the environment. Through 18 months’ hard work, China independently developed the CO₂ direct cooling technology.A net of tubes runs under the ice. High-pressure liquid(液态) CO₂ goes through them to create heat(热) exchange. The CO₂ evaporates(蒸发) under the ice surface. The evaporation takes in heat and turns water on the surface into ice. And the CO₂ goes into another circle. This technology helps to make ice better and faster. And above all, it is much greener because there’s no new CO₂ produced. Among all the 15 ice sporting places in the Winter Olympics, 7 used the CO₂ direct cooling technology to make ice. As a result, much less pollution was caused.Beijing did so much more to save energy. Beijing built the new sporting places with green materials. As for the old ones, Beijing used new glass walls to take the place of traditional walls to let more natural light in. 70% of the waste heat was also reused to keep warm and dry. And a large number of new energy cars were used at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is the first to truly achieve carbon neutrality(碳中和), and it has set new standards in green technologies. Some newspapers say China has set an example for the world in environmental protection and green development.7．How long did it take China to develop the CO₂ direct cooling technology?A．18 months.B．100 weeks.C．15 days.D．7 years.8．The writer writes Para. 3 to show ________.A．why the CO₂ goes into another circleB．how the new ice-making technology helpedC．how sporting places used the new technologyD．why the liquid CO₂ runs through the net of tubes9．According to the passage, we can infer(推断) that ________.A．all the buildings will be built with glass walls in the near futureB．the CO₂ direct cooling technology may be widely used in the worldC．the high-pressure liquid CO₂ will totally take the place of R507 soonD．no new standards in green technologies may be set after the Olympics10．Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A．A New Green Ice-making TechnologyB．Green Technologies Used in SportsC．A Shared Future of Green DevelopmentD．The Green Beijing Winter Olympics03（2022·内蒙古包头·中考真题）More than 1,000 schools across the UK have signed up（报名）to a project with the aim of helping schools become carbon neutral（碳平衡的）by 2030. Carbon neutral means cutting down carbon emissions（碳排放）to zero or balancing them out in other ways. Carbon emissions are gases such as carbon dioxide（CO2）that come out into the atmosphere, where they make climate change worse. This has also caused the temperature rise.Emissions are caused by all sorts of human activities, such as burning fossil fuels（coal, oil and gas）to make energy, cutting down forests and some types of farming. Becoming carbon neutral includes cutting the amount of carbon emissions a school produces and balancing those that are left by taking some carbonout of the atmosphere.The project also shows how small changes can make a big difference. These might include thinking carefully about energy use, cutting waste, growing food closer to where it's eaten and walking or cycling to school if it is possible. Ways of balancing out the carbon emissions that a school still makes include planting trees and plants that take in CO2 as they grow.Ysgol Bro Dinefwr Secondary School in Wales has promised to run entirely on renewable（可再生的）energy（such as wind and solar power）within the next three years. At Down High School in Northern Ireland, the students are looking after their own bees. So when flowers and crops produce food, that helps. Other schools have projects to cut food waste by weighing it after each meal to know how much is not being eaten. Some put the waste into a system that can turn this waste into useful things. They will be put on the garden to help plants grow.Climate change is seen as a major global challenge. We can see it all around us. So join together, find out ways your school can put efforts to, and talk to a teacher about signing up.11．Which statement would the author most probably agree with?A．Human activities influence the environment.B．The fight against climate change will not succeed.C．More UK schools should be introduced to the world.D．We could deal with the climate change without changing our behavior.12．How could the schools reduce carbon emissions?A．By moving to the countryside.B．By cutting waste and planting trees.C．By providing more spaces for students.D．By burning coal instead of gas to make energy. 13．Why does the author give examples of the schools in paragraph 4?A．To praise these schools.B．To show the difficulties in the project.C．To call for more schools to take action.D．To explain the efforts made by the government. 14．What is the best title for the text?A．How to Help Plants Grow B．Schools Sign Up to Help the PlanetC．Carbon Emissions in the UK Schools D．Our Planet, a Wonderful Living Place04（2022·山东·临沂市河东区教育科学研究与发展中心一模）Climate change is a big problem humansare facing. How can we deal with it? Reducing carbon emissions (碳排放) is important. But what if we could capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and use it to do other things?Recently, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that his company is working on a new program. It’s going to take CO2 out of the air and turn it into rocket fuel.It will not only be good for Earth, but “will also be important for Mars,” Musk said. The air on Mars is made up of 95 percent CO2. If we could turn CO2 into fuel, we could travel the long journey from Mars back to Earth in the future.The idea may sound strange but it’s not totally crazy. There are already some technologies that might help with this. According to Di-Jia Liu, a chemist at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US, the carbon atoms (原子) in CO2 and the hydrogen (氢) atoms in water can be combined to make methane (甲烷) or ethanol (乙醇). They could be used as fuel. If we do this on Mars, energy from the sun might be used as a catalyst (催化剂).The idea will also make space travel more eco-friendly. “If the CO2-based fuel could be used in a rocket launch, we could prevent 715 tons of CO2 from being put into the air,” said Stafford Sheehan from Air Company, a US company that focuses on CO2 collecting technologies.根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

2023年12月英语四级考试真题及答案第1套

2023年12月四级真题（第1套）注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Part ⅡListening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A．, B．, C． andD．, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

1. A． The woman is fussy about the cleanness of the apartment.B． He has not cleaned the apartment since his mother's visit.C． He does not remember when his mother canoe over.D． His mother often helps him to clean the apartment.2. A． The bus stop is only two minutes' walk.B． The nmning made him short of breath.C． They might as well take the next bus.D． The woman is late by a couple of minutes.3. A． She is suffering a pain in her neck.B． She is likely to replace Miss Smith.C． She has to do extra work for a few days. D． She is quite sick of working overtime.4. A． Change her job.B． Buy a dishwasher.C． Open a flower shop.D． Start her own business.5. A． He forgot where he had left the package. B． He slipped on his way to the post office. C． He wanted to deliver the package himself. D． He failed to do what he promised to do.6. A． The speakers do not agree with each other. B． The woman does not like horror films.C． The man pays for the tickets as a rule.D． The speakers happened" to meet in the cinema.7. A． The woman is just as unlucky as the man. B． The woman is more sensitive than the man. C． The speakers share a common view on love.D． The speakers are unhappy with their marriage.8. A． Preparations for a forum.B． Participants in the forum.C． Organizers of a forum.D． Expectations of the forum.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A． France.B． Scandinavia.C． Russia.D． East Europe.10. A． More women will be promoted in the workplace.B． More women will overcome their inadequacies.C． More women will receive higher education.D． More women will work outside the family.11. A． Try hard to protect women's rights.B． Educate men to respect women more.C． Help women acquire more professional skills.D． Spend more time changing women's attitudes.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A． In a restaurant.B． In a hotel lobby.C． At the man's office.D． At the woman's place.13. A． He is the chief designer of the latest bike model.B． He has completed an overseas market survey.C． He is the Managing Director of Jayal Motors.D． He has just come back from a trip to Africa.14. A． To select the right model.B． To get a good import agent.C． To convince the board members.D． To cut down production costs.15. A． His flexibility.B． His vision.C． His intelligence.D． His determination.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hoar 3 short passages. At tho end of each passage, you will hoar some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose tho best answer from tho four choices marked A．, B．, C．andD．. Then mark tho correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through tho centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读专题14气候变化与珊瑚礁

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (14)Climate change and coral reefs气候变化与珊瑚礁主题语境：人与自然主题语境内容：自然生态【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。

）Human beings have been altering habitats—sometimes deliberately andsometimes accidentall y—at least since the end of the last Ice Age. Now, though, that change is happening on a grand scale. Global warming is a growing factor. Fortunately, the human wisdom that is destroying nature can also be brought to bear on trying to save it.Some interventions to save ecosystems are hard to imagine andsucceed. Consider a project to reintroducesomething similar to a mammoth(猛犸象)to Siberiaby gene-editing Asian elephants. Their feeding habits could restore the grassland habitat that was around before mammoths died out, increasing the sunlight reflected into space and helping keep carbon compounds(碳化合物)trapped in the soil. But other projects have a bigger chance of making an impact quickly. As we report, one example involves coral reefs.These are the rainforests of the ocean. They exist on vast scales: half a trillion corals line the Pacific from Indonesia to French Polynesia, roughly the same as the number of trees that fill the Amazon. They are equally important harbor of biodiversity. Rainforests cover18% of the land’s s urface and offer a home to more than half its vertebrate(脊椎动物的)species. Reefs occupy0.1% of the oceans and host a quarter of marine(海洋的)species.And corals are useful to people, too. Without the protection which reefs afford from crashing waves, low-lying islands such as the Maldives would have flooded long ago, and a billion people would lose food or income. One team of economists has estimated that coral’s global ecosystem services are worth up to $10trn a year. reefs are, however, under threat from rising sea temperatures. Heat causes the algae（海藻） with which corals co-exist, and on which they depend for food and colour, to generate toxins（毒素）that lead to those algae’s expulsion（排出）. This is known as “bleaching（白化）”, and can cause a coral’s death.As temperatures continue to rise, research groups around the world are coming up with plansof action. Their ideas include identifying naturally heat-resistant（耐热的）corals and moving themaround the world; crossbreeding（杂交）such corals to create strains that are yet-more heat-resistant; employing genetic editing to add heat resistance artificially; transplantingheat-resistant symbiotic（共生的）algae; and even repairing with the bacteria and other micro-organismswith which corals co-exist—to see if that will help.The assisted evolution of corals does not meet with universal enthusiasm. Without carbon reduction and decline in coral-killing pollution, even resistant corals will not survive the century. Some doubt whetherhumans will get its act together in time to make much difference. Few of these techniques are ready for action in the wild. Some, such as gene editing, are so controversial that it is doubtful they will be approved any time soon. scale is also an issue.But there are grounds for optimism. Carbon targets are being set and ocean pollution is being dealt with. Countries that share responsibilities for reefs are starting to act together. Scientific methods can also be found. Natural currents can be used to facilitate mass breeding. Sites of the greatest ecological and economical importance can be identified to maximise benefits.This mix of natural activity and human intervention could serve as a blueprint （蓝图）for other ecosystems. Those who think that all habitats should be kept original may not approve. But when entire ecosystems are facing destruction, the cost of doing nothing is too great to bear. For coral reefs, at least, if any are to survive at all, it will be those that humans have re-engineered to handle the future.【课标词汇精讲】1.alter （通常指轻微地）改动，修改；改变，（使）变化We've had to alter some of our plans.我们不得不对一些计划作出改动。

热点时文19 实现碳达峰碳中和减少气候变暖-备战2023年中考英语热点时文书面表达(解析版)

热点时文19 实现碳达峰碳中和减少气候变暖备战2023年中考英语热点时文书面表达专项训练【热点材料】双碳，即碳达峰与碳中和的简称。

中国力争2030年前实现碳达峰，2060年前实现碳中和。

2022年8月，科技部、国家发展改革委、工业和信息化部等9部门印发《科技支撑碳达峰碳中和实施方案（2022—2030年）》（以下简称《实施方案》），统筹提出支撑2030年前实现碳达峰目标的科技创新行动和保障举措，并为2060年前实现碳中和目标做好技术研发储备。

“双碳”战略倡导绿色、环保、低碳的生活方式。

加快降低碳排放步伐，有利于引导绿色技术创新，提高产业和经济的全球竞争力。

中国持续推进产业结构和能源结构调整，大力发展可再生能源，在沙漠、戈壁、荒漠地区加快规划建设大型风电光伏基地项目，努力兼顾经济发展和绿色转型同步进行。

2022年9月2日，在中国国际服务贸易交易会（简称“服贸会”）上，“首届中国生态环保产业服务双碳战略院士论坛”召开。

与会院士围绕废弃物资源化助推碳达峰碳中和、我国水和大气污染防治科技发展成果及双碳背景下的发展展望、“双碳”目标下生态环境监测科技发展机遇与挑战，以及生态环保产业的机遇与挑战等主题做专题报告。

【典型范文】现在全世界都在倡导“低碳生活”（low-carbon life），即：降低二氧化碳的排放，采取低能量、低消耗的生活，低碳生活对我们大家都有好处，碳中和是我们努力的目标，低碳生活是我们应该追求的绿色生活方式，请以“How to Live a Low-carbon Life”为题写一篇英语文章，谈谈低碳生活的重要性以及你所倡导的低碳生活方式等。

要求：1.语言流畅、书写规范、卷面整洁，词数不少于60个；2.文中不得使用真实姓名、校名，否则以零分计；3.请将短文写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。

____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________【范文】How to Live a Low-carbon LifeIt is important to live a low-carbon life for people around the world. As the emission of carbon dioxide is reduced and a low-consumption lifestyle is adopted, we can not only protect the environment, but also benefit a lot and get healthy. Therefore, people are willing to live a low-carbon life.First, we should walk or take public transportation to work or to school to reduce the air pollution. Second, we should use cloth bags instead of plastic bags when we shopping. Third, we should plant more trees and recycle waste paper.In a word, it is important for us to live a low-carbon life. If everyone does something for the environment, I believe the earth will become a better home.【详解】1. 题干解读：该题是话题作文，要求以“How to Live a Low-carbon Life”为题，谈低碳生活的重要性以及你所倡导的低碳生活方式等，写作内容须紧扣题目，适当添加内容。

高考英语外刊时文精读专题05气候变化零碳排放

高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (5)Climate change气候变化Heat island热岛主题语境：人与自然主题语境内容：人与环境【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇,认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇,需熟记。

）On March 13th, as commuters（每日往返上班者）streamed out of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus,a gothic revival masterpiece（哥特式复兴建筑——贾特拉帕蒂·希瓦吉终点站）in Mu mbai, India’s commercial capital, they were confronted with temperatures approaching40°C, nearly7°C above normal for the time of year. The city is in the midst of a debilitating heatwave, its 13th in the past five decades, nearly half of which occurred in the past 15 years. Mumbai’s average temperature has increased by over 1°C in that period.Had those commuters crossed the street from the station and entered the city’s grand headquarters that day, they might have found cause for optimism. That afternoon politicians from the authority and the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, had gathered to unveil（揭露）a “climate action plan”. The city aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, two decades earlier than the target set by the national government.Mumbai is extremely vulnerable to climate change.A narrow and densely populated（人口密集的）island, surrounded on three sides by the Arabian Sea, it is attacked by monsoon(季候风) rains for four months a year and routinely subject to flooding, especially during high tide. That is bad enough for thecity’s apartment-dwellers（公寓居民）. But it is even worse for the 42% of the population who live in slums（贫民窟）, which are likely to be washed away or buried by landslides（山体滑坡）.The key of the plan is a proposal to decarbonise（去碳化）Mumbai’s energy. Generating the city’s electricity, which produces nearly two-thirds of the city’s emissions, relies mostly on burning fossil fuels, particularly coal. The city wants to increase the share of renewables （可再生资源）. It is looking, for instanceinto installing solar panels（装太阳能电池板）on rooftops.Another priority is to improve the quality and efficiency of the city’s buildings.Slums, especially, are heat islands. Made of whatever materials are at hand or cheaply available, they are five or six degrees hotter than structures of good quality, making them, as the report putsit, “uninhabitable(不适于居住的)” on hot days. Moreover, the heat, damp and cramped(狭窄的)conditions make slum residents more vulnerable to disease—a less obvious risk of climate change.The plan is, however, short on details of how to achieve its ambition s. Still, in publishing one at all Mumbai has led the way among South Asian metropolises(大都市). Other cities are keen to follow suit, says Shruti Narayan of C40, who helped with the report. Chennai and Bangalore in the south have started work on their plans. Others, including Delhi and Kolkata in India, Dhaka in Bangladesh and Karachi in Pakistan have expressed interest in doing something similar.There is plenty in Mumbai’s240-page document to inspire them. One is the fact that it does not rely on using technologies that do not yet exist, a criticism at many countries’ national proposals. Another is the attention given to adaptation(coping with all the bad things already happening) and not just reducing future emissions.Details may anyway be beside the point. The real value of Mumbai’s plan is as a signalling device(信号装置)that “focuses the attention of policymakers”, states Abhas Jha, a climate specialist at the World Bank. The Paris Agreement, which committed the world to the goal of keeping the rise in temperatures to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, worked in much the same way, leaving countries to hash out details later. Time, though, is getting ever shorter.【课标词汇】1.stream（一群人,东西）涌,涌动；流动He was watching the taxis streaming past.他看着出租车一辆接着一辆地驶过。

绿色屋顶课文参考翻译

课文A芝加哥的屋顶绿化由于城市中宝贵的房屋建筑用地已所剩无几，城市规划者开始将目光转向空中。

寻找绿色空间也不例外。

欧洲的绿色屋顶长期以来为人们提供了环境、审美和经济方面的利益。

这种想法是否也会在美国植根呢？伊利诺伊州芝加哥市市长理查德·戴利看到欧洲花园般的屋顶之后，便开始了绿色屋顶的创意。

在最近的一次电话采访时他说：“我认为，如果把芝加哥所有平坦的屋顶都利用起来，可以开辟数千英亩的土地用于美化环境，还有利于建筑物供暖、降温，以及进入排污系统的雨水控制。

”他继续说：“透过窗户眺望这个城市，你看到的不是钢筋混凝土，而是对环境的美化。

所以我想，这就是我们应该做的事情。

”绿色屋顶通常是由无需经常维护的抗旱植物组成（如景天属植物）。

这些屋顶的厚度均小于4英寸（10厘米），可直接在上面种植或制作成已有植物预先栽种在上面的种植垫。

即使斜屋顶也可以进行绿色屋顶处理。

利用率较高的绿色屋顶系统可以包括多种植物和园林要素，如树木，但只有在平坦的屋顶上才行。

这种绿色屋顶需要更深的种植材料或土壤替代物，它们更重，更昂贵，并且需要更多的维护。

绿化屋顶的最大好处之一是水资源管理。

它们能吸收落在屋顶上的大约50%-60%的雨水，这些雨水一部分通过植物蒸发（或“呼气”）回到大气中而消耗掉了，另一部分水保留在土壤或其他培养媒介中，其余的则在人们的控制下缓慢地流入城市雨水排水系统，这个过程有助于抑制城市供水系统中大量雨水激增的现象，而扩充该系统的费用是很昂贵的。

位于东兰辛市的密歇根州立大学植物和土壤学家布拉德·罗说：“在许多城市，甚至一场雷雨就可能造成（雨水的排水系统）溢流，并与污水混在一起。

谁知道它们会流到哪儿去呢？”绿色屋顶的支持者还列举出其他好处，如节省能源。

绿色屋顶可以降低多少能源成本，这取决于屋顶类型和当地的气候。

比较温暖的气候是节省能源的最佳条件，因为与降低取暖费相比，使用绿色屋顶能够更有效地减少空调费用。

2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读十六

Climate change and the threat to companies气候变化和企业面临的风险Firms urgently need to rethink how they approach climate risk企业迫切需要重新考虑如果应对气候风险了C hief executives who care about climate change—and these days most profess to—often highlight headquarters bedecked with solar panels and other efforts to lower their carbon footprint.那些关心气候变化的首席执行官们（如今大多数的CEO都自称如此）常常强调，他们的公司总部采用了太阳能电池板以及其他措施来减少碳足迹。

Last week Volkswagen, a carmaker, told its 40,000 suppliers to cut emissions or risk losing its custom.上周，汽车制造商大众集团要求其4万家供应商减少碳排放，否则他们将面临失去大众这位客户的风险。

Plenty of investors, meanwhile, say they are worried about being saddled with worthless stakes in coal-fired power plants if carbon taxes eventually bite. Yet the reality is that meaningful global environmental regulations are nowhere on the horizon.与此同时，许多投资者表示，他们担心如果碳排放税最终开始实施，那么他们所持有的燃煤电厂的股票将变得一文不值。

economist经济学人文摘(中英双语)：Pink cabs rev up

Gender politics in Mexico City墨西哥城的性别政治Pink cabs rev up粉紅色出租车浪潮A blow for feminism—or against it?女权运动的前进——抑或倒退？Aug 26th 2010 | MEXICO CITYSINCE electing its first left-wing mayor in 1997, Mexico City has been a self-consciously liberal oasis in a conservative country. The current mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, has legalised abortion on demand, gay marriage and gay adoption in his first four years in office. His latest move, cheered by environmentalists, was a ban on free plastic shopping bags, implemented on August 19th. Eye-catching reforms such as these are enhancing Mr Ebrard’s profile ahead of a likely presidenti al bid in two years’ time.自从1997年第一任左翼市长上任以来，墨西哥城就成了一块自由绿洲，与这个保守之国显得格格不入。

现任市长马赛罗•艾布拉德在首个四年任期内即承认堕胎、同性婚姻、同性伴侣领养孩子合法化。

艾布拉德最近的举措是禁止免费塑料购物袋的使用，这项禁令于8月19日生效，并得到众环保人士的拥护。

一系列诸如此类吸引眼球的改革提升了艾布拉德的形象，与此同时，总统选举有可能在两年内举行。

经济学人双语阅读：太阳能飞机,莱特附体

【经济学人】双语阅读：太阳能飞机莱特附体?Science and technology科学技术Solar-powered aircraft太阳能飞机The Wright stuff?莱特附体？An enthusiastic inventor hopes to sell sun-powered planes一位希望出售太阳能飞机的痴狂发明家THERE is something of the 19th century about Eric Raymond.埃里克雷蒙和19世纪的人有点像。

Devoted to making commercial solar-powered aircraft, he would have thrived in the Victorian heyday of the private inventor.这位致力于研发商用太阳能飞机的发明家如果身在维多利亚私人发明家辈出的年代会很有一番成就的。

Most fell by the wayside; their ideas outran their ability or their money.当时很多发明者都半途而废；他们的想法不是超出了其能力就是缺乏资金来达成。

But the names of the successes—Morse, Dunlop, Bell, Diesel and even, to stretch the era into the early 20th century, the brothers Wright—have lived on.但是像莫斯，邓禄普，贝尔，迪赛甚至是20世纪的莱特兄弟这些成功者的名字却为后人所铭记。

Whether Mr Raymond will join their ranks remains to be seen.雷蒙先生是否会身在名利还不得而知。

His latest effort, known as Sunseeker Duo, was taken out of its shed in June.其最近的成果称作追日者二人组号，于6月成形。

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读专题04极端天气不再罕见(含答案)

高考英语外刊时文精读专题：2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (4)Floods and fires洪水和火灾Extreme no more极端天气不再罕见主题语境：人与自然主题语境内容：自然灾害与防范【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。

）The Wilsons river broke its banks on the night of February 27th while Lismore, a town of around 30,000 in New South Wales, was sleeping. Its residents snoozed（打盹儿） through early-hours emergency warnings that “risk to life was imminent（迫在眉睫）”. Within hours the town was submerged（淹没的）. Residents scrambled into their attics（阁楼）. Mothers carried children onto rooftops. An army of locals launched tin boats into the floods to save them. Four people died.Eastern Australia has been hammered by what politicians call “once-in-1,000-year” flooding. It has already had a soggy（浸水的）summer because of La Niña, a phenomenon which triggers downpours there. Then on February 23rd, meteorologists warned that an area of low pressure was forming over southern Queensland. It sucked moisture （水分）from the sea, forming an “atmospheric river（大气层河流）” over the east coast. It has dumped quantities of water ever since.Brisbane, Queensland’s capital, received almost 80% of its annual rainfall in less than a week in February, flooding 15,000 homes. As the rain edged i nto northern New South Wales, it ripped up roads and drowned herds of cattle. Storms lashed Sydney on March 8th, causing a dam t o spill over. Some 50,000 people in the state have been forced to evacuate（撤离）.Scientists are wary（小心的）of blaming floods on global warming because everything from rainfall to urban development contributes to them. They disagree, too, about whether climate change is a factor in this kind of never-ending downpour（倾盆大雨）. No matter the cause, extreme weather is now a regular occurrence in Australia. New South Wales was buffeted（重创） by itslast “once-in-100-year”floods, which submerged Western Sydney, just a year ago. In 2019 and 2020 vast lands of the country were torched in bushfires which destroyed more than 3,000 homes and killed 33 people. Unlucky towns such as Lismore have in recent years been hit by both fire and floods.It does not help that the state and federal governments’response has been bungled(失败). When disaster strikes, official aid is often slow to come. In 2019 the federal government set aside almost A$4bn ($2.9bn) for a fund that would help it respond to crises(危险)and lessen future ones. But it has spent hardly any of that money. It has now deployed(部署) the army and is dishing out cash to victims, but locals fume（愤怒地说）that they were left for days without power or fuel as supplies of food and water dwindled（减少）.A university is putting up the homeless. “Isn’t somebody meant to write a plan for this?”wonders Ella Buckland, a resident of Lismore.A debate now rages about how or even whether places like Lismore should rebuild. Analysts think the floods might trigger insurance claims worth more than A$3bn.Some politicians would like the government to pay companies to insure houses that will inevitably be struck by future fires or floods. “If we are going to start thinking every time there’s a natural disaster that we have to give up and leave because it’s too hard, then where are we going to live?” asks Lismore’s mayor, Steve Krieg. That is becoming a question for ever more Australians.【课标词汇】1.emergency紧急情况；不测事件；突发事件How would disabled people escape in an emergency?如果发生紧急情况，伤残人士如何逃离？Is the emergency exit suitable for wheelchairs?安全出口适合轮椅通行吗？2.scramble（急速而艰难地）移动；爬；攀登She scrambled up the steep hillside and over the rocks.她爬上了陡峭的山坡，翻过岩石。

北京市人大附中2021新高考英语外刊素材积累阅读写作提升32

北京市人大附中2021新高考英语外刊素材积累阅读写作提升32 Facebook宣布新建“气候信息中心”，并承诺到2030年实现零碳排放导读据《每日邮报》9月15日报道，Facebook为了应对虚假信息，又放出了大招。

双语阅读Facebook has launched the Climate Science Information Centre a dedicated webpage on the site that collects resources from climate experts. The new feature collects resources from reputable climate experts, including the UK's Met Office and the UN Environment Programme.Facebook启动了一个气候科学信息中心网站，该网站从气候专家那里收集资源。

新功能是从来自英国气象局和联合国环境规划署等知名气候专家那里收集资源。

The feature is like a climate version of the platform's Covid-19 Information Centre, which was introduced earlier in the year to combat coronavirus-related misinformation.It's hoped the feature will educate climate sceptics during a crucial time for climate change awareness.该功能就像这个新冠疫情信息中心平台的气候版，该中心是今年年初推出的，目的是打击与冠状病毒有关的错误信息。

希望这个专题将在气候变化意识的关键时刻对气候怀疑论者起到教育作用。

2023年中考英语热点时文阅读29 绿色环保

2023年中考英语新热点时文阅读-绿色环保01（2022·福建漳州·一模）The Seine is a beautiful river which goes through France. However, the Seine has been seriously polluted. There are even laws that do not let people swim in the water. 11-year-old Raphael wants to clean the river. He wants people to swim in the Seine by 2024. That is when the city will host the Olympic Games.Cleaning the river is a big job. Raphael fishes rubbish out of the river. He has done it nearly every weekend for the past two years. He fishes with his dad. They can catch a ton of rubbish in a single day. They have caught anything from phones to scooters. The biggest thing Raphael found was a motorcycle. It was so heavy that it took a team of people to pull it out.Raphael learned about cleaning rivers from YouTube. In 2019, he found a video. People were fishing metal objects out of rivers. They used ropes tied to magnets(磁铁). That Christmas, Raphael asked his parents for supplies. He wanted some ropes, a hook, and a powerful magnet. The magnet was very strong. It could attract metal objects weighing more than a ton.When he began, fishing for metal was just a lazy weekend activity. But Raphael soon saw just how much rubbish there was at the bottom of the river. He wanted to do more. It became like a full-time job,he said.Last October, Raphael won an award for his efforts. He received the Medal of Paris. Raphael is confident about his progress in the last two years. A section of the Seine is clearer than the rest of the river. That is where he first started fishing for metal.Raphael cannot clean the river alone by 2024, but he won’t give up. He hopes he is one of the first to swim in the water once it is safe.1．Raphael cleans the river in order to _________ .A．swim in the Seine B．win the Medal of ParisC．join in the 2024 Olympics D．learn from You Tube2．Which paragraph shows how hard the job of cleaning the river is?A．Paragraph 1.B．Paragraph2.C．Paragraph 3.D．Paragraph 4.3．How does Raphael probably clean the river?A．B．C．D．4．Which of the following can best describe Raphael?A．Honest and brave.B．Cute and careful.C．Outgoing and funny.D．Confident and responsible.5．What can be inferred (推理) from the text?A．Raphael will stop fishing for metal.B．More people will fish for fun.C．The Seine will become cleaner by 2024.D．Raphael always cleans the river alone02（2022·福建福州·九年级期中）During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, there were 10 flower beds (花坛). One of the high-lights (亮点) of these flower beds was to make good use of garden waste.One of them was in Tian’anmen Square. Its topic was “Wonderful Winter Olympics”. The five Olympic rings and the snowflake shape were at the bottom of the flower bed. To our surprise, all of these were made from garden waste. This could not only save resources but also bring people more beauty. It was generally praised by the public.Green Olympics is one of the four main ideas of Beijing Winter Olympics. It took more than six years to prepare for the Games. In this process, the designers put the idea of green Olympics into every part. They integrated green Olympics with the city and its surroundings (环境). Green Olympics can not only makegood use of waste and protect the environment, but also be good for the future development of the city. There’s no doubt that the Winter Olympics theme flower beds, which showed the “simple, safe and wonderful” requirements for the competition, added points to the unique charm (独特魅力) of the “City of the Two Olympics”.As waste is considered as a resource that is put in a wrong place, the designers made the waste in the right place for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Besides, thrift (节俭) and hard work are the tradition of the Chinese nation. We also should save energy and make good use of waste in our daily life.6．What is special about the flower beds?A．The size.B．The number.C．The space.D．The material.7．What is at the bottom of the flower bed in Tian’anmen Square?①Bing Dwen Dwen ②The snowflake shape ③The Olympic flag④The five Olympic ringsA．①②B．②④C．③④D．①③8．What’s the meaning of the underlined word “integrated”?A．改变B．创造C．注意D．融合9．What tone (语气) does the writer use to write this passage？A．boring B．surprising C．serious D．proud10．What is the correct structure of the passage? (P1=Paragraph 1)A．B．C．D．03（2022·山东青岛·九年级期中）As we all know, too much trash is a big problem for our environment.A woman in Indonesia’s Java island has come up with a great idea—lending books to children in exchange for trash.Raden Roro Hendarti, nearly 50 years old, is a librarian in Muntang village. She started a “trash library”, hoping to make children read more as well as make them realize the importance of environment protection. Each weekday, Raden puts all kinds of books on the back of her three-whoceler (三轮车) and rides to Muntang village. There, chıldren line up to exchange plastic cups, bags and other trash for books from Raden’s mobile library. After finishing the exchange, Raden carries back all the trash.In the library where Raden works, there are thousands of books. Every time she shows up, children runto her “trash library”. They all carry trash bags, and Raden’s three-wheeler quickly fills with trash as the books fly out. Raden collects about 100kg of trash each week. It is then sorted out(分类) and sent for recycling or sale. She is happy that children spend less time on online games because of the books.Raden plans to take the mobile library service to neighboring areas as well. She says,“We all should take care of our trash in order to fight climate (气候) change and save the earth.”11．What does the underlined word “trash” mean?A．plastic B．rubbish C．paper D．information12．Where does Raden work?A．in a shop B．in a bank C．in a library D．in a post office13．Which of the following shows how Raden’s idea works?①She rides to Muntang village.②Children line up to get books for their trash.③She carries back all the trash.④She puts books on her three-wheeler.A．④→③→①→②B．④→①→②→③C．①→③→④→②D．①→②→③→④14．How much trash can Raden collect each weekday?A．About 100 kg.B．About 50 kg.C．About 25 kg.D．About 20 kg.15．What’s Raden going to do next?A．To ask her neighbors for help.B．To give the mobile library to her neighbors.C．To exchange books for trash in more villages.D．To tell children to spend less time on online games.04（2022·北京·101中学模拟预测）Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term goal to get rid of plastic, from its packaging entirely. The prototype (样本) is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner (衬垫). But the goal is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated (碳酸) drinks. The barrier must also ensure no fibers get into the liquid.That may have a risk of changing the taste of the drink—or potentially can’t meet the requirements of health and safety checks. But industry giants (巨头) are backing the plan. Coca-Cola, for example, has set agoal of producing zero waste by 2030. Coca-Colawas ranked the world’s number one plastic polluter by charity group Break Free FromPlastic last year, closely followed by other drink-producers Pepsi and Nestle.The Paper Bottle Company, or Paboco, is the Danish firm behind the development of the paper-based container. Part of the challenge has been to create a structure capable of standing the forces produced by carbonated drinks—such as cola and beer—which are bottled under pressure. On top of that, the paper needs to be mouldable to create different bottle shapes and sizes for different brands and take ink for printing their labels.After more than seven years of lab work, the firm is now ready to host a trial in Hungary this summer of Coca-Cola’s fruit drink Adez. At the beginning, this will involve 2,000 bottles sold by a local retail chain.But it is also working with others. Absolutely, the vodka maker, is due to test 2,000 paper bottles of its own in the UK and Sweden of its pre-mixed, carbonated raspberry drink. And beer company Carlsberg is also building prototypes of a paper beer bottle.Michael Michelsen, the firm’s commercial manager, says the bottles are formed out of a single piece of paper-fiber-based material to give them strength.16．What is the longer-term goal of Coca-Cola company?A．To produce drinks of other tastes.B．To stop using plastic in its packaging.C．To expand business in European countries.D．To use paper bottles with a thin plastic liner.17．What can be inferred from the text?A．Coca-Cola has very strong competitors.B．Carbonated drinks are facing stricter health and safety checks.C．Some industry giants are in favor of plastic-free packaging.D．The paper bottle company is under pressure from environmentalists.18．What does the underlined word “mouldable” in Paragraph 3 mean?A．Being hard to be printed on.B．Being able to be strengthened.C．Being able to be mixed with other materials.D．Being able to be made into different shapes. 19．What is the best title for the text?A．Drink Industry Is Turning to Paper Bottles.B．Coca-Cola Takes the Lead to Go Green.C．Paper Bottles Are in Place for the Market.D．Paper Bottle Companies Spring up Worldwide.05（2022·北京海淀·一模）阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

高考英语复习外刊及中国日报精选(2024.5.1期)文章改编：语法填空(含答案)

外刊及中国日报精选（2024.5.1期)文章改编：语法填空（答案+译文）第一篇热搜第一！多地高校禁止学生挂床帘，网友吵翻……CHINADAILYThere is a debate 1._______ whether students should be allowed to hang curtains around lofted beds in dormitories. Critics argue that these curtains hinder communication and pose fire safety risks.2.________, supporters see them as essential for maintaining privacy in shared living spaces. Netizens have flooded social media with comments, with the hashtag "many colleges forbid the use of dorm curtains" becoming a 3._______(trend) topic as people have many different opinions on it.“Dorm curtains, when tightly 4._______(surround) the bed, can lead to poor air circulation, creating conditions conducive to the growth of bacteria, dust mites, and other harmful substances. This poses a threat to 5._______(student) respiratory systems and skin health.“Dormitories are not only a place to rest, but also a place for students 6.______(build) friendship.”"The presence of bed curtains inadvertently creates 'invisible walls' within dormitories, hindering communication and interaction among students. Some students have noted that the presence of bed curtains 7._______(reduce) communication between roommates, leading to a 8._______(impersonal)atmosphere in the dormitory. Over time, this sense of isolation may contribute to strained interpersonal relationships and even conflicts within the dormitory."Some people dismiss aforementioned explanation as nonsense, arguing that dorm curtains are simply accessories for blocking out light.Some netizens pointed out that 9._______ matters with dorm curtains is privacy. They believe that privacy reflects 10._______ need for well-being in narrow, shared dorms.第二篇家庭：后悔生孩子的父母【时代周刊】The Parents Who Regret Having ChildrenNo one regrets 1.________(have) a child, or so it’s said. I’ve heard this logic often, usually after I’m asked if I have children, then, when I say I don’t, if I plan to. I tend to evade the question, as I find that the truth—I have no plans to be a parent—is likely to invite swift dissent. I’ll be told I’ll change my mind 2.______ I’m wrong, and that while I’ll regret not having a child, people don’t regret the obverse. Close family, acquaintances, and total strangers have said this for years; I let it slide, knowing that, at the very least, the last part is a fiction.It is, 3.________(surprising), a challenge to get solid data on the number of parents who regret having children. In 1975, the popular advice columnist Ann Landers asked her readers if, 4._______(give) the chance to do it all over again, they’d have children. Seventy percent said they wouldn’t; this result, though, 5.________(come) from a group of self-selecting respondents. “The hurt, angry and disenchanted” are more inclined to write back than contented people, as Landers observed in a follow-up 1976 column. But in 2013,a Gallup poll asked Americans 45 and older how many kids they’d have if they could go back in time. Seven percent of the respondents with children said zero. And in 2023,a study estimated that up to 5% to 14% of parents in so-called 6._________(develop) countries, including the United States, regret their decision to have children.These studies align with 7._______ I've found in my personal life: While most parents don’t regret having kids, some do. Perhaps in part because I’ve written publicly about choosing not to have children, I’ve had people, especially mothers, confide in me about parental regret, and frequently enough I’ve lost count.Most of the time— 8._______ I hear it in passing, quickly, from a stranger at a literary event, or late at night from a beloved friend—this kind of revelation arises from a place of anguish. Some of these parents talk about feeling utterly alone, like villains past all imagining. Several have noted that, afraid of 9._______(judge), they decline to be candid with their own therapists. If10._______(ask) what I think, I reply that, from what I’m hearing, they’re not alone. Not at all. I hope it helps; I’m told, at times, it does. It’s a physic to which I’ve devoted my life: asked why I write, I often respond that books, words have provided vital fellowship during spells of harsh isolation, when I thought that solitude and its attendant, life-torquing evils—shame, guilt, the pain of exile—might kill me.第三篇本篇原文出自：《The Economist 经济学人》The AI doctor will see you...eventuallyArtificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces1.______(mass)barriersBetter Diagnoses. Personalised support for patients. Faster drug discovery. Greater efficiency. Artificial intelligence (AI) is generating excitement and hyperbole everywhere, 2.______ in the field of health care it has the potential to be transformational. In Europe analysts predict that deploying AI could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year.3._______ smart stethoscopes and robot surgeons to the analysis of large data sets or the ability to chat to a medical AI with a human face, opportunities abound.There is already evidence that AI systems can enhance diagnostic accuracy and disease tracking, improve the prediction of patients’ outcomes and suggest better treatments. It can also boost 4._________(efficient) in hospitals and surgeries by taking on tasks such as medical transcription and monitoring patients, and by streamlining administration. It may already be speeding the time it takes for new drugs to reach clinical trials. New tools, including generative AI, could supercharge these abilities. Yet as our Technology Quarterly this week shows, although AI 5._________(use) in health care for many years,integration has been slow and the results have often been mediocre.There are good and bad reasons for this. The good reasons are that health care demands high evidentiary barriers when introducing new tools, to protect patients’ safety. The badreasons involve data,regulation and incentives.6.________(overcome)them could hold lessons for AI in other fields.AI systems learn by processing huge volumes of data, something health-care providers have in abundance. But health data is highly fragmented; strict rules control its ernments recognise that patients want their medical privacy protected. But patients also want better and more personalised care. Each year 7._______(rough)800,000Americans suffer from poor medical decision-making.Improving accuracy and reducing bias in AI tools requires them to be trained on large data sets 8.______reflect patients’ full diversity. Finding secure ways to allow health data to move more freely would help. But it could benefit patients, too: they should be given the right to access their own records in a portable, digital format. Consumer-health firms are already making use of data from wearables, with varying success.portable patients’ records would let people make 9.________(full) use of their data and take more responsibility for their health.Another problem is managing and regulating these innovations. In many countries the governance of AI in health, as in other areas, is struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation. Regulatory authorities may be slow to approve new AI tools or may lack capacity and ernments need to equip regulators to assess new AI tools. They also need to fill regulatory gaps in the surveillance of adverse events, and in the continuous monitoring of algorithms10._______(ensure) they remain accurate, safe, effective and transparent.答案第一篇：on However trending surrounding students' to build reducesmore impersonal what a第二篇：having that unsurprisingly given came developed what whether being judged asked第三篇：massive but From efficiency has been used overcoming roughly that fuller to ensure译文第一篇：关于是否应该允许学生在宿舍的高高的床周围挂窗帘，存在一场争论。

2021年考研英语复习资料经济学人官方译文工业脱碳

经济学人官方译文| 工业脱碳：钢厂和水泥厂的寿命很长，变革需要立即开始2019年11月27日adminDecarbonising industry工业脱碳Coke fiends焦炭恶魔Steel and cement plants have long lifespans. Change needs to start now 钢厂和水泥厂的寿命很长。

变革需要立即开始On the swedish shore of the Baltic Sea near the Arctic Circle, work has started on a SKr1.4bn ($150m) pilot project aiming to help Sweden become the first country in the world to produce fossil-free steel. Martin Pei, the engineer behind the project, promises that by 2020, passengers flying to the nearby Luleå airport will be able to look down on a 50-metre-high test plant. “We need to hurry up, because ‘Winter is coming’,” quips the Chinese-born engineer. Or should that be global warming?在瑞典波罗的海沿岸靠近北极圈的地方，一个耗资14 亿瑞典克朗（1.5 亿美元）的试点项目已经启动，目的是帮助瑞典成为世界上第一个不用化石燃料炼钢的国家。

该项目的总工程师裴文国承诺，到2020 年，飞往附近吕勒奥机场的乘客将能从空中俯瞰一座50 米高的测试工厂。

王文珂12组翻译译文

翻译课12组翻译译文Group One:Clause1．商业人士认为,更加难以证实的是他们主持着的生产力革命是否真实存在。

2．审计员完全有理由相信，那些有明确目标而且知道如何实习那目标的科学家没有必要分心走神：一边关注点钞机，一边还要关注显微镜。

3．我发现，放弃“忙碌应对生活”的信念而选择“低调生活”这种做法所带来的回报要比经济上的成功和社会地位的提高更大；凯尔西长期经受巨大的压力，因而辞去了《她》杂志主编的职务——这一举动受到公众的广泛关注，她终将发现这一点。

4．这种着眼于顾客的方法就是人们所知的营销观念，这种营销观念其简单之意就是：制造商和经销商并不是试图出售最容易生产或转售的产品，而是首先尽力发现顾客想购买的商品，然后着手生产这些商品以便顾客购买。

5．一名包装学专家解释说，他可以通过把粗糖装进漂亮的罐中，或是使一个装五盎司的瓶子看上去可以装八盎司的东西，就可以使粗糖的价格涨二点五倍，即从一美元涨到二点五美元时，他实际上是在告诉公众，包装可能是一种非常费钱的奢侈品。

6．还有解释说，正是由于我们本能地对人类十分了解，所以没有科学地研究这些直觉的动力：对于一些明显的事，人们为什么要建立一种理论，再进行系统地观察或是作一些预言呢？7．“苹果是落到地面而不是落向树上”这一事实回答了他过去一直在问自己的问题——有关天空中那些更大的果实（月亮和行星）的问题。

8．由于越来越多的证据表明红色行星上曾经含有大量稳定的液态水，由于人们对细菌化石是火星上的一块陨石带到地球上的这种观念争议不休，因此，有关该行星上是否曾经存在生命以及生命是否持续到今天的争论更加激烈。

9．生产商通过改变包装大小以减少罐头所装产品的数量从而提高产品的单价，这样他可以不费吹灰之力将其产品装入盒子、袋子和罐头中，这些盒子、袋子和罐头可以装四盎司、八盎司、一磅以及两磅质量的早餐食品、混合好了的蛋糕等。

10．并且用于培训工人的有限投资也只是片面地用于培训做下一项工作所需的特殊技能，而不是用于培训能够吸收新技术的基本技能。

7月30号背诵及翻译 The secret of succe

7月30号背诵及翻译 The secret of succeThe redwood tree is majestic and tall, but its roots are only in the shallow layer of the soil, not deep. But it can grow to the height of 30 stories, and no one is amazed at it. What is the secret of its success? It turns out that the "giants" of this plant kingdom are all accompanied by each other, forming a forest, and their roots are intertwined, so that they can resist the wind and rain, quickly absorb water and nutrients, and use all the energy rooted down to grow up. Coincidentally, the banyan tree, which stands alone, also has its secret of success. Mr. Ba Jin once wrote an article praising the giant banyan tree-Bird's Paradise. That banyan tree was originally just a sapling planted by the local villagers, but now it thrives, multiplying into a one-square-kilometer "banyan island", which really makes people sigh "the greatness of life"! In order to make the crown of banyan grow bigger and wider, in addition to the broad root of the trunk, it also grows aerial roots on its branches, which other plants do not have, to absorb nutrients in the air. After more than ten years' growth, the hanging aerial root also deeply plunged into the soil, grew thick and strong one by one, and becamea new branch, just like a "pillar" one by one. The horizontal branches were set up and the canopy was expanded layer by layer, so that a single tree became a forest. This is the secret of banyan's "success".There are many different explanations for success, but there is often only one explanation for failure: failure means that a person fails to reach his life goals, no matter what those goals are. On the road of life, the secret of success lies in perseverance and perseverance, and the lesson of failure lies in exhaustion, and grasping easily. Only those who have the courage to fight hard and are not afraid of sacrifice have the possibility of success.。