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浙江省衢州市实验学校教育集团（衢州学院附属学校教育集团）2024-2025学年九年级上学期11月期中英语试题
Some people have sensitive (敏感的) feet or skin. Others may have a hard time laughing at their own mistakes. Perhaps you live with someone like this. But can you imagine living with a sensitive plant?
Now, imagine that your hand is a green plant stem(茎) and each of your fingers is a leaf. Use your other hand to touch your leaf fingers. One at a time, close each leaf finger. until you have made a fist. Quickly drop your hand down to your leg. Wait a little while, and then slowly bring your hand back to its original(原来的) position.
It's just this kind of behavior that has made the sensitive plant get its name. Brush your fingers gently across the leaves of the sensitive plant, and the leaves at once fold up(合拢) like tiny green fingers. The stems drop down as if ready to fall off the plant. About ten minutes later, the leaves open again, and the stems rise again! Sensitive plants are easy to grow inside your house. They simply need to get plenty of water and sunlight. But touching the plant too often can cause the plant to lose its leaves. A sensitive plant that loses many of its leaves may become unhealthy.
Imagine the fun you can have: introducing a friend to your plant! Have your friend stand close to the plant to tell it jokes. Touch your plant with a finger, and watch your friend's reaction when the plant seems to drop down slowly to say"no". Be sure to tell your friend the true cause of the plant's behavior later, though. You don't want your friend to become overly sensitive about his jokes!
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Young Heroes for the Planet
Nowadays, people around the world are working to help our planet. Check out how the four young adults made a difference.
Saving Pandas When Jack was 11, he started a group to teach kids about pandas. He also sold toy pandas to raise money to protect pandas in danger. "I hope to encourage more people to care about pandas," Jack says. | Growing Right Kathy, 14, set up an organization to educate people growing right plants in right places. She also wrote a book to help people learn what plants are native(本土的) to their area. |
Creating Energy At the age of 12, Linda invented a machine called SuperE. It collects heat from fields to make electricity(电), Linda says her invention creates electricity in a way that is less harmful to the environment. | Cleaning Up Patrick, 13, joined the Ocean Heroes Camp last year. He started a project and picked up plastic waste around nearby lakes with his friends. The goal of the project was to fight plastic. |
Every year，TIME magazine puts out its list of best inventions. They change how we live，work
Polly's Braille （盲文） Help Many blind children learn braille at school. Their teachers can let them know how they're doing. Now Polly can help them at home. It gives replies through sound to braille learners. Kids can write by using Polly's electronic braille board or keyboard. It can correct mistakes，too. |
Recycled Paint About 10% of paint bought in America each year is wasted. Up Paint is trying to recycle it. It's working with a group called Paint Care. They collect the left paint. Then they resell it. "We're making a good everyday paint，" Dustin Martin says. He's the founder of Up Paint. So far，it has offered 18 colors. |
Bear Hugs Hugimals provide comfort anytime you need a hug. Marina Khidekel founded the company and made them. These animals give kids the feeling of being hugged in real life. "Teachers feel that Hugimals animals help kids with their bad emotions，" Khidekel says. |
Eye﹣catching Sound Creating a kind of technology that's also a work of art isn't easy. But Teno makes it. It's a light that is easy to carry. It's also a speaker. It looks like a broken stone bowl. Pull it apart and light and sound pour out. You can touch it to change brightness or sound. |
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