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Over two years, the documentary crew traveled to South Africa, Ghana, Central African Republic and Gabon in search of the four unique species of pangolin, which has never been achieved before. Filmmakers Bruce Young and Johan Vermeulen say that they went into the shoot knowing relatively little about pangolins, but grew to respect and appreciate the animals. Getting close to the creatures over two years was a crash course in these secretive creatures. Johan Vermeulen said, "One thing however that might seem unimportant is that they are actually quitefussy eaters. You would think they would eat any type of ant, but they all prefer a specific type ant."

Pangolins are hunted illegally across Africa for their scales, which are used for traditional medicine, and their meat. In April 2019, Singaporean Customs officials conducted two separate seizures of 24 tons of pangolin scales, which equals to the death of 69,000 pangolins.

Though the documentary focuses less on the trafficking of pangolins, and more on the animals in their natural habitat, the aim of the documentary is to inspire viewers around the world to call for action to end trafficking and protecting these unique creatures.

Filmed on location in South Africa, Ghana, Central African Republic, and Gabon, this powerful documentary is the story of two men on a mission to get all four species of African pangolin on camera for the very first time.

Young people are particularly prone to (易于) risky listening habits. Around half of those between the ages of 12 and 35, or 1.1 billion people, are at risk due to "prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including music they listen to through personal audio devices." the UN health agency said.

Currently, about five percent of the global population, or some 375 million people, including 34 million children, suffer from disabling hearing loss, WHO considers a volume above 85 decibels (分贝) for eight hours or 100 decibels for 15 minutes as unsafe. WHO is calling for parental as well as automatic volume controls on audio devices to prevent dangerous use.

While some smartphones and other audio devices already offer some of these features, the UN would like to see a uniform standard used to help protect against disabling hearing loss. "Think of it like driving on a highway, but without a speedometer in your car or a speed limit," Shelly Chadha of the WHO told reporters in Geneva. "What we've proposed is that your smartphones come fitted with a speedometer, with a measurement system which tells you how much sound you're getting and tells you if you are going over the limit."

The workers and employees are anxious, seemingly because they might find themselves out of a job or they would say that they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. In fact, they live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.

Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness(顺从)and independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one's fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.

Am I suggesting that we should return to the pre-industrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century "free enterprise" capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities are the aims of social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.

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1. 事情的经过；

2. 你的感受。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

The job of a scientist is to find out the truth in the field of science. It is a challenging profession. Scientists usually have to do thousands of experiments in order to prove something. Although they are often disappointed (失望的) if they fail,但是他们中的大多数人并不放弃。

My neighbour is a scientist. He studies radiation (辐射).他总是在实验室里工作，trying to figure out all the mysteries that make him puzzled. When I met him the other day, he had just come back from work, looking excited. He told me he had made a breakthrough. Then I noticed that he was wearing shoes that did not match. He must have been working too hard to notice!

Amy and her best friend Jenny have been (closely) for 8 years. But last weekend, Jenny (break) Amy's trust. They had planned (meet) at the cinema that afternoon. But in the morning, Jenny sent message saying she had a cold. However, today a classmate told Amy that she had seen Jenny chat another girl in a cafe on Saturday afternoon. Amy was so angry that she avoided (talk) with Jenny during the day. She was at a loss to do next.

Many classmates gave her their (opinion). Cindy suggested that Amy find an opportunity to have a talk with Jenny listen to what she has to say. She was sure that they could solve the problem (successful).

One day, my mother came back home from work. She2 that I had made a mess in the house. My books and clothes were everywhere. She was angry and said to me3, "From now on, you must do some housework every day!" Hearing my mother's4, I felt unhappy. But I still did as she said.

Doing housework was more difficult than I had expected. I began to understand that life was not5 for my parents. They had to do a lot of housework after they came back home6 work. So I decided to do more housework. I tidied my room and7 my clothes. I helped my8 cook meals in the evening. My parents praised9 for my changes.

Now I realize that doing housework can not only10 my parents' burden (负担) but also help me to learn many basic life skills.

How to Concentrate on Studies

How to get your mind to concentrate on studies when there are all possible distractions (分心的事)? This is the biggest question that students face when it's exam time. Well, here are some tips that can help you with concentration.

It is always best to have a plan before studying. However, be realistic with your timetable and do not expect too much out of yourself.

If you study the same subject for 5 hours, you maybe get bored. So it is advised that you keep on changing your subjects so that you do not get bored. However, make sure you study at least 2 hours at each subject at a stretch (连续地).

Set up a study area

It is better to have a study room where you can concentrate properly without any distractions. If that is not possible, you can set up a study table in a separate corner in your home. Make sure you study at this place so that you can help your mind focus.

Your mind will be at its sharpest only if you let it rest for enough time. Sleep for at least 6～8 hours depending upon your individual requirements. And reward yourself some free time after studies.

A. Take interest

B. Get enough rest

C. Introduce variety

D. Plan your timetable

Castles played an important role after the fall of the Roman Empire. When a king gave land to nobles, the nobles promised in return to serve the king and provide him with soldiers. Nobles built castles on the lands given to them. But some nobles simply claimed land as their own and built a castle on it.That was asking for trouble. There were many power struggles between nobles and kings, and among the nobles themselves.

Many stone castles were surrounded by a wide ditch called a moat (护城河). Some moats were filled with water, but many were not. The only way into the castle was across a wooden drawbridge over the moat. If enemies attacked, the defenders raised the bridge. Then they lowered a heavy iron-and-wood barrier called a portcullis to block the entrance to the castle.

A well-built castle was a pretty safe place to be. Attackers had a hard time getting in. But they still had some options. They could go over the walls using ladders. They could break through the walls or doors. Or they could dig under the walls and try to get part of the wall to fall down. If none of those things worked, they could just camp outside until the defenders ran out of food.

Attackers sometimes brought large machines called siege engines with them to break through castle doors or walls. This was a heavy wooden beam with a metal cap. In the early 1500s, cannons (大炮) entered wide use in warfare. Cannonballs could dig into the base of stone walls and weaken them. The walls then fell under their own weight. As a result, castles were no longer needed.

On February 14th, 2000, my class went on a field trip to the beach. I had so much fun. When we returned to school, my teacher told me to go to the headmaster's office. When I got into the office, I saw a police officer. Suddenly I knew something was wrong. The police officer told me my mother was badly ill and we went to pick my sister up. After that, we went to the hospital and waited. Time went slowly. Finally, we got to see our mother.

On the next day, the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened. I was taking a rest that day. I knew it had something to do with my mother. I kept thinking that she either died or had gotten better. How I wished that she had gotten better. When my teacher took me outside, my sister ran up to me. She started crying, "She's gone. Teresa, mommy's gone. She's dead." I couldn't believe it. We jumped into the car and drove straight to the hospital. Most of my family were there. The silence was terrible. I knew I had to say goodbye.

Today when I look back, I still miss my mother very much, but I know that I will live. My mother was a strong mother, who had the biggest heart. My mother was an angel walking on the earth. I will always remember her as living. When someone is asked who their hero is, they usually say someone famous, like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears. When someone asks me who my hero is, I tell them, my mother. My mother lives every day. That is what makes her a true hero.

My name was Deborah. I grew up with my parents in a poor neighborhood.

Every summer, without fail, my mother would go with me onto the bus so we could head down to see my dentist, which was my greatest fear as a child. The only comfort was that if I survived the dentist appointment, my mother would take me to buy a treat. Sometimes, it was a new Barbie. Sometimes, it was a new colouring book. But, on this day in 1965, it was a new book called Laurie by Sara Asheron.

I had just started learning how to read, and this book with a young girl on the cover confidently smiling through a window attracted me. As I opened my new book, I read about Laurie, a lovely girl who had a pretty house to play in. How I wished I were Laurie!

Finally, that book disappeared with the Barbie dolls and colouring books, but I never forgot it. It totally changed my life. Because of it, I started to love reading and became a writer. One day I thought to myself, perhaps I should try my hand at writing a children's book. It was then that I thought back to Laurie and tried searching for it, but it was no longer in print. After several attempts, to my surprise, someone in Michigan was selling a used copy. Despite its high price, I ordered it.

Weeks went by before my order finally arrived. It was old and used. As I opened the cover, my stomach flipped (翻腾).

注意：

1．续写词数应为100左右；

2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Suddenly, tears welled up in my eyes.

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1．你的创作；

2．你的感想。

注意：

1．开头已给出；

2．写作词数应为80左右；

3．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Hello, everyone. I'm Li Hua.

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There are few wooden arch (拱形) bridges in China, most found in the seven mountainous counties in southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian. Besides carrying traffic, they also serve as social centers people gather to chat, relax, or make religious offerings.

Short, interlocking woods are used to create long arches without nails (钉子), a design that (effective) spreads the pressure. Originally, the skills to make them were passed down within families, through apprenticeship (学徒制). But since the 1960s, they (replace) by modern materials, leading the builders who made them to turn to other (job). By 2000, those able to build the bridges seemed to have disappeared.

On Dec. 15 last year, Chinese wooden arch bridges were included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, (mark) its significant revival. In 2009, there were only four people with mastery of the key techniques, all over 75, compared with more than 40 now, aged 56 average.

Zhong Xiaobo, director of the Wenzhou Covered Bridge Culture Society, has contributed (he) to protecting wooden arch bridges over two decades. "These structures are not only about transportation but also carriers of culture and (evident) of history," he says. "And it's shared duty for every individual to preserve them and promote their cultural significance."

After a moment's thought, Cindy remembered a Facebook post about a man — Mark in Buchanan, whose house had been burned two days earlier, leaving him and his two sons3.

"If we can4 the family in 57 minutes, we'll give them $570," Kennedy encouraged.

The5 was on. Kennedy started the6. With Kennedy and her cameraman following, Cindy led the way past small towns, across the state line and up to the7, losing precious minutes while they asked for directions. They knocked repeatedly, but no one answered. The timer8 41 minutes and 49 seconds. They were about to9 when a teenage boy opened the door. It was the younger brother of Mark. "My brother is at work," he said.

The timer had passed 51 minutes when they10 through the door of the factory where Mark worked and11 asked the woman behind the desk to call him to the office. The timer passed 55 minutes. "Come on, Mark, run!" Cindy talked to herself. Then a(n)12 appeared outside the window, slowly walking to the door. Finally, with only three seconds to13, Kennedy awarded Mark the money.

The 57-Minute Miracles series, launched in 2014, aims to find someone in need and14 a $570 miracle within 57 minutes. This story is one of many that show the series' greatest lesson: the eagerness of ordinary people to bring15 into someone else's life.

Language difficulties. Culture shock. Homesickness (乡愁). But for me, returning home proved the hardest of all.

After the experience of a year abroad, coming home can feel disappointing. Why was I feeling so disconnected? I'd idealized (理想化) home in my mind. And I'd expected everything to remain exactly the same while I was gone. When I got back and the reality fell short of these ideals, I experienced what I'd call a reverse culture shock.

The idea might seem a bit over the top, especially for exchange students who have only spent a year or less away from home. But as you live in a new culture, you quickly adapt to a different way of life; meanwhile, you think life at home is no different. Some friends have been apart from each other while others have become closer together.

When you arrive in an unknown place, it takes effort to adapt to your new environment. Your days are filled with new interests and busy schedule. It seems strange to me that no one at university warns you about this beforehand.

The feeling of disconnection can be hard to shake off. I kept wondering how long it would take to feel normal again. Getting a part-time job would eventually help relieve my own sense of disconnection.

Readjusting at home has been harder than life abroad, but I'm starting to find a new normal.

A. However, everyone changes.

B. I'd lost interest in everything at home.

C. I realized I'd done two things while I was away.

D. Spending more time with family and friends also helped.

E. Most people experience these problems in their daily jobs.

F. These are the things you might worry about before studying abroad.

G. No surprise once the period is over, many exchange students feel at a loss.

Studies have found that people actually value the coffee table they have to construct with time and hard work. Inzlicht, a University of Toronto social psychologist, and his workmates introduced the Effort Paradox (悖论) to make sense of it: Though the law of less work suggests people make the easier choice, sometimes people value experiences and results because they require effort. Inzlicht's aim was not just to name it, but to explain why people find effort so satisfying.

Their study suggests two possibilities: whether the satisfaction comes more from the good results of hard effort or more from hard effort itself. For the first, the good results seem extra sweet because of the sharp contrast between the unpleasantness of working hard and the joy of achievement. The second is self-delusion (自我欺骗): If you do something hard without a good result, you make yourself believe you must really like it because you have worked so hard.

The study also shows that even if the Effort Paradox applies to everyone, it doesn't apply equally. Some people will naturally be drawn to hard effort more than others, while others seemingly can learn to value effort more. However, it doesn't mean that you need to turn life into a never-ending struggle. Neither should you shy away from trouble. As Inzlicht said, making efforts "seems to be the key path, maybe the only path to meeting certain needs. You can't get those without pushing yourself."

As someone who studies moral psychology, I found Delphi's weaknesses satisfying. Human moral judgment is based on reason and emotion, not the sort of thing that a large language model (LLM) can understand. After all, LLMs put together words based on probability, not a deep understanding of what these words mean.

This mismatch between human morals and machines has been a matter of deep concern. In the 1920 Czech play "R.U.R.", robots come into conflict with humans and end up taking over the world. Another classic example is AI being instructed to create as many paper boxes as possible. At first, the machine's goal is the same as the human goal. But then the AI might think that it can make more paper boxes if it kills all humans, so no one can turn off the machine. Similarly, as the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has pointed out, an AI tasked with stopping climate change might think the best way is to decrease the human population.

It would be nice if AI could be guided by human morals. So far, many researchers have been aware that AI could not just be developed on a technical level. They argue only when LLMs are treated as minds and studied psychologically will they get equipped with high morals, which I firmly believe, too.

In 2014, the city began using water that contained dangerous levels of lead (铅), which is harmful to all, especially children. Even small amounts could cause diseases and affect learning abilities. Therefore, Jaden wanted to do something to help the kids in Flint.

Being a comic book fan, Jaden decided to create his own to raise awareness about clean water and donate funds. "Kid Brooklyn," he explained in an interview, "aims to make both kids and adults recognize global dangers."

In the first book of a series, the main character Kid Brooklyn and his friends are given an unusual Sun Stone that helps them develop super powers. They use those powers to keep the planet clean and safe. Jaden works with illustrators to bring the characters and stories to life. Jaden was twelve years old when his first book was published in October 2017. A dollar from every book Jaden sells is donated to Green for All, an organization to bring clean, fresh water to the families in Flint.

Future issues of the comic will promote different environmental causes. Jaden wants to encourage children all over the world to become scientists and engineers who can fix the problems caused by climate change. He also has a message for the kids of the world who don't have the same access to clean water as he has. "Don't get sad. Don't lose any hope. We got you."