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甘肃兰州2020届九年级下学期英语第二次月考试卷
Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the USA often1many hours as volunteers in hospital, orphanages or2for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their3.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up. Or repair houses, do their shopping and mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an4called Big Brothers. College students and other5take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and6them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, the museums or other7of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as8because they are9enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that some of the10people in the world are those who help to bring happiness. Helping others brings them much pleasure.
High-tech Pollution Protection Technology company Dyson has created headphones, with a purifying visor (面罩) to help people avoid polluted air. Called the Dyson Zone, it combines noise-canceling headphones with a visor that sits just in front of the nose and mouth, providing users with filtered (过滤的) air. The device is designed to fight against air and sound pollution. Watch Your Stress When we feel stressed, our bodies produce something called cortisol (皮质的). Researchers from the University of California, US, recently developed a smart watch. It can monitor cortisol levels in your sweat (汗液) and give real- time information. The watch uses a special thin film. The film collects tiny drops of sweat. It can tell you when you have a high stress level. Remember to take a deep breath. ____ Do you like watching dandelion seeds (蒲公英种子) fly in the wind? This childhood pleasure is giving scientists some new ideas. A team from the University of Washington, US, created small, solar-powered Sensors (传感器). They fly like dandelion seeds and measure things like temperature and light. Their short "hairs" help slow their fall to the ground. |
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