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Mount Emei, World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site in China, (locate) in southwest China's Sichuan Province, is an area of striking scenic beauty, famous for (it) high mountain and thick vegetation. It is also a place of spiritual and cultural significance, in there are important architecture and (collection) of cultural artworks, including sculpture, beautiful painting and writing, and other traditional artistic works. Besides, Emei Mountain is known one of the holy mountains of China.

The Leshan Giant Buddha, lying at the eastern foot of Mount Emei,  (carve) out of a hillside with special skills in the 8th century. The human element has been integrated into it.  (face) the confluence (汇流处) of Minjiang, Dadu River and Qingyi River, the71-meter-tall Giant Buddha of Leshan is one of the most important cultural treasures of China.

Mount Emei with its natural and cultural values well interconnected is attracting  large number of tourists in the world. Aiming  (enjoy) the beauty of nature and culture, they are brave to climb it through thick and thin. When some of them reach the top of the mountain, they are so happy that they feel all the effort is  (high) worthwhile.

An extreme sport like BMX (Bicycle Motocross) may not be the first thing that comes to mind to help overcome a mental health condition. However, that is 1  what enabled Nikita Ducarroz to fight her fears.

As a child, Ducarroz spent every 2  moment on the soccer field. But at 13, the talented athlete began to suffer from 3  anxiety attacks that made it hard for her to leave home. When her mother told her she had to continue playing a sport, Ducarroz found BMX as a way to 4  that rule. Little did she know that BMX would soon 5  every aspect of her life, and become the reason she would push through her fears one step at a time.

The tale began when a BMX video on YouTube inspired her to try the extreme sport. She saved up for a bike. Then she began practicing 6  in her driveway. Soon, her excellent skills brought her enough 7  to ride at the local skate park. With that confidence, Ducarroz was 8  to ride in the competition in 2016, and she has not looked back since.

"The bike made me get out of the house, go to the skate park, and 9 get on a plane," said Ducarroz. "It 10 me to overcome all my fears."

The 26-year-old is now one of the world's best female BMX freestylers. Ducarroz now has her 11 set on the 2024 Paris Olympics. She says, "My goal in Paris is another medal. I can get that done with the training."

Though she still suffers occasional 12  attacks, Ducarroz now knows how to manage them. To help others with mental health conditions, Ducarroz has started an Instagram page called MindTricks. It is where people discuss their fears 13 .

"MindTricks started because of my own 14 that I was making on Instagram about mental health," she explained. "And I thought, ‘Why don't we create a place where others can do the same, a central spot where everyone can read about these stories and also feel 15 to share their own stories?'"

Secret codes (密码) keep messages private. Banks, companies, and government agencies use secret codes in doing business, especially when information is sent by computer.

People have used secret codes for thousands of years.  Code breaking never lags (落后) far behind code making. The science of creating and reading coded messages is called cryptography. There are three main types of cryptography.

For example, the first letters of "My elephant eats too many eels" spell out the hidden message "Meet me."

You might represent each letter with a number, for example. Let's number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26. If we substitute a number for each letter, the message "Meet me" would read "135520135."

A code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences. To read the message of a real code, you must have a code book. For example, "bridge" might stand for "meet" and "out" might stand for "me." The message "Bridge out" would actually mean "Meet me." However, it is also hard to keep a code book secret for long. So codes must be changed frequently.

A. It is very hard to break a code without the code book.

B. In any language, some letters are used more than others.

C. Only people who know the keyword can read the message.

D. As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

E. You can hide a message by having the first letters of each word spell it out.

F. With a code book, you might write down words that would stand for other words.

G. Another way to hide a message is to use symbols to stand for specific letters of the alphabet.

Coral reefs (珊瑚礁) are among the most productive ecosystems in the world. They're also in serious danger—climate change and other threats are killing them off. But researchers have come up with an invention they think could help the reefs: 3D-printed corals.

At the heart of reef ecosystems lies a symbiosis (共生关系) between corals and algae (藻类). Corals use light and they're photosynthesizing (光合作用). The algae inside corals' tissues (组织) make use of the light to generate energy, and that energy is then transferred to the coral animal host. That animal host, in return, transfers certain by-products to the algae, so they have a symbiosis going on.

This bond between algae and corals is what makes reefs so incredibly productive. Because of this symbiosis, corals have evolved complex skeletal (骨骼的) and tissue structures for collecting sunlight which usually fades rapidly. Through the skeleton, light is pumped and guided into deeper, otherwise shaded areas.

Scientists copied some tricks that corals use. They imaged corals to analyze their skeletal and tissue makeup and then used a 3D bioprinter to build a complicated structure that mimics real corals. The printed corals were made of biomaterials like cellulose (纤维素) and had algae planted in them.

The researchers replicated (复制) coral structure so well that the algae grew very quickly—up to 100 times more densely than they normally grow in the lab. The 3D-printed creation could be used as a medium to grow algae to produce bioenergy and also as a tool for studying the coral-algae symbiosis.

Of course, there are many other ways this technology can be further scaled and improved to create something like artificial corals in the future. So this is just the first step, where they created the animal host, but they are now continuing to further replicate this animal-algal symbiosis and developing model systems. Eventually, it would be nice that this can have direct applications in coral reef restoration.

Franz Kafka wrote that "a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us". I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn't seem to require any explanation.

We'd just finished John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. "Are you crying?" one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. "I am," I told her, "and the funny thing is I've read it many times."

But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I've taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel's terrible logic-the giving way of dreams to fate.

For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school-one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattan's upper classes-into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional "cultural capital" could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.'s.

Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn't always read from the expected point of view.

About The Red Pony, one student said, "it's about being a man, it's about manliness." I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth's soliloquies read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck's writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that "all these people hate each other, and they're all white." His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.

Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.

It was dark as Ibrahim Al Hussein came to. He couldn't move and thick dust filled the air, blocking out all but a few small flames dancing close by. It was hard to breathe. Something wasn't right and he could not feel his foot. As the smoke of the bombing cleared Al Hussein was saved but lost his lower right leg forever.

After several twists and turns, Al Hussein managed to escape from war-torn Syria to Athens, Greece. With no money left on him, he had to sleep on the streets and look for fruit in trees or eat grass from the park. Luckily, he later found work cleaning toilets at a local cafe. He worked every day of the week with no breaks and was proud to be supporting himself. But he was missing something — sport.

Al Hussein used to be a sportsman. As war broke out in Syria in 2011, all sports stadiums were forced to close, but now settled and safe in Athens, he was desperate to return to physical activity. In May, 2015, his prayers were answered. A swimming club gave him permission to train there.

"When I looked at the address I realised it was the Athens Aquatics Centre," says Al Hussein, who, at the age of 16, had watched the 2004 Olympics unfold on a small TV in his cosy Syrian home. "Seeing those Olympics gave me motivation to do sport and although it was a flashback to the past, it was also a look to a better future because I had made it to the pool I'd watched and dreamt of swimming in."

For much of 2015 he swam in the morning and then worked at the cafe until late in the evening. It was tough, but it worked for him and, in early 2016, he secured two medals at the Greek Para Swimming National Championships. People began to take note.

Light rail service closure

From 

7.30 pm Friday 8 to 1 am Monday 11 October, L2 Randwick Line and L3 Kingsford Line light rail services will not run between Circular Quay and Central Chalmers Street, due to maintenance (保养) works. You can use other transport including trains or walking.

Ferry service closure

From Monday 6 September, F9 Watsons Bay Sydney Ferries services will not be stopping at Watsons Bay Wharf which will be receiving maintenance. The wharf (码头) should reopen to Sydney Ferry services from Saturday 18 September. A replacement bus service will run between Watsons Bay and Rose Bay wharves for the closing period.

Bus stop changes

From Monday 30 August, there will be some bus stop changes in order to complete construction work of the Bondi Junction Cycleway. A number of bus stops will be closed to provide convenience for construction work on Oxford Street from Monday 30 August to the end of November.

For more information on the Bondi Junction Cycleway project please visit the construction page on Waverley Council's website.

Minor train timetable changes

On Saturday 12 June, some minor timetable changes are being made to train services. These changes are being introduced as part of a regular review of train services to help improve network reliability.

You can plan your new trip using the Trip Planner to see if your travel is affected by the changes. You can also check transport apps, indicator screens on platforms or listen for announcements at stations.

A Chocolate Cake

Sam is autistic (患孤独症的). Thus, dining out can be tricky. Though he loves to eat, he dislikes the loud noise over restaurant dining. Ever resourceful, he has a solution: overpower all noise with a much louder noise of his own.

This begins with what I like to think of as dueling (决斗) tables: Neighboring parties raised their volume followed by Sam increasing his until some sort of extreme point is reached, making us quite unpopular with family, most friends and other diners.

Faced with a possibility of forever dining alone, I decided to work on dining skills at a trendy new spot early one Tuesday night.

To my delight, we arrived at an empty restaurant. So far, so good. Everything went well until two older women entered. Well-groomed and elegantly dressed in an understated way, they were seated two tables away from us. I felt a bit worried about what might happen.

The women began to chat, paying little notice to us. Sam happily took this as his cue (暗示) to start talking and drown them out. I leaned into Sam and asked for a quiet voice, but unfortunately, Sam had left that voice at home.

I glanced at the neighboring table, knowing we wouldn't go unnoticed much longer. I quickly resorted to Plan B: eat quickly and leave. Sam, who normally ate his favorite chocolate cake quickly, suddenly embraced the concept of leisurely dining and refused to rush-all while chattering away endlessly.

"SHUSH! (嘘)" I said, a little angry. Sam responded by giggling loudly. "Be quiet!" I could sense that the two women were now watching us. Finally, the older of the two women leaned over. Here it comes, I thought.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。