on! In less than 6 months, over 1,000 donors from around her community, and even 10 countries around the world, provided over $80,000 in donations! This was enough to buy more than 600 bikes for Pepperhill students, along with locks!
After a big ceremony to surprise the kids, Ms. Blomquist’s effort is not done. Katie Blomquist is starting a charity called “Going Places”, with a mission to bring joy to deserving children from low income families by providing them with bikes, swim lessons, summer camp chances, and more. This will enrich their growth and fuel their imaginations, supporting the most basic childhood right---a right to joy. And she has started yet another campaign for her chairty to help more schools and kids! 24. What led Ms. Blomquist to start GoFundMe campaign originally? A. Her dream for a bike.
B. A kid’s birthday wish.
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C. Her bad family conditions. InspireMyKids.
25. What is Pepperhill Elementary School like? A. Its education level is well below average. B. It has no access to convenient transportation. C. It’s a community school intended for the poor. D. Its students all come from a poor background. 26. What do the figures in Paragraph 3 indicate? A. The large number of kind donors. B. The great advantage of GoFundMe. C. The immediate success of GoFundMe. D. The huge economic benefits of GoFundMe. 27. Which words can best describe Katie Blomquist? A. Sympathetic and devoted. C. Generous and honest.
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When the natural climate changes due to global warming, it can surely affect seals. The majority of them live in the Antarctic region so as the ice is melting, their natural habitat（栖息地）can be seriously affected. These changes don’t take place
B. Aggressive and independent. D. Responsible and sociable.
overnight. They can be the result of many years of additional temperatures in the area. The seals then have to find ways to adapt.
Seals depend on the cool air currents to bring plenty of food for them. When the temperatures get higher, there is less and less food and the seal population starts to get depleted. Mothers aren’t healthy enough to feed their babies. Many of them end up abandoned as the mothers have to leave to find their own source of food.
The fact that their desire to produce young can be changed by the warmer temperatures is frightening too. It is also believed that the warmer temperatures can allow different diseases and viruses to attack the seals. This is a huge concern as they can rapidly wipe out huge numbers of seals out there.
However, these changes in climate and temperature aren’t all bad for other species of seals. Scientists have found that those living in warmer climates are producing more young due to the changes. Research also shows that the females are moving further to find food and water. When they are out of the reach of the governing males, they are more willing to accept the moves of other males in the group.
This is good news too because it means that there will be more selection in the gene pool（基因库）for future generations. It can help the seals as a species adapt to changes in their natural environment more easily.
The climate change problem for seals is directly linked to humans. When we take action to change what we let out into the environment, we will make positive changes for the seals. However, it is going to take a very long time to reverse（彻底改变）the effects of what has already been done.
28. What does the author regard climate changes for seals as? A. An unavoidable disaster for existence. B. A double-edged sword. C. A mirror of evolution
D. A requirement for more choice in the gene pool.
29. What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 2 most probably mean? A. Explode
B. Disappear
C. Shrink
D. Vary
30. What will happen to the seals in warmer climates?
A. Their number will be on the increase B. The female seals will be in the lead. C. Their genes will change a great deal. D. The females will keep away from the males.
31. Which the following can be the best title for the text? A. The Importance of Protecting Seals. B. Seals’ adaptation to Climate Change. C. How Climate Change Affects Seals. D. Why Are Seals Becoming Less and Less.
D
Contrary to popular belief, people who sleep six to seven hours a night live longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die younger, according to the latest study ever conducted on the subject. The study, which has tracked the sleeping habits of 1.1 million Americans for six years, weakens the advice of many sleep doctors who have long recommended that people get eight or nine hours of sleep every night.
“There’s an old idea that people should sleep eight hours a night, which has no more scientific basis than the gold at the end of the rainbow,” said Daniel Kripke, professor of psychiatry（精神病学）at the University of California at San Diego who led the study published in a recent copy of JAMA Psychiatry.
The study was not designed to answer why sleeping longer may be harmful or whether people could extend their lifespan by sleeping less.
But Kripke said it was possible that people who slept longer tended to suffer from short-term absence of sleeping, a condition where weak breathing puts stress on the heart and brain. He also stressed that the need for sleep was similar to that for food, where getting less than people want may be better for them.
The study quickly caused warnings and criticism（批评）, with some sleep experts saying that the main problem of America’s sleep habits was deprivation（剥夺）, not sleeping too much.
“None of this says sleep kills people,” said Daniel Buysse, a psychiatrist at the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
“You should sleep as much as you need to feel awake, alert and attentive the next day,” Buysse added. “I’m much more concerned about people short-changing themselves on sleep than people sleeping too long.”
“Sleeplessness produces a variety of health consequences that were not measured in the study,” critics said.
32. The traditional idea about sleeping is that ________. A. people who sleep longer die younger
B. people who sleep less than six or seven hours live longer C. people need to sleep less to keep healthy D. people need to sleep eight or nine hours a night
33. Which of the following statements does NOT agree with the study made by the American scientists according to the passage?
A. People can extend their lifespan by sleeping less. B. Sleeping longer may be harmful to people’s health.
C. People should sleep as much as they need to keep awake, alert and attentive. D. It is possible that people who sleep longer tend to suffer from short-term absence of sleeping.
34. “The gold at the end of the rainbow” mentioned in the passage shows that ________. A. sleeping is quite valuable in our lives
B. the traditional idea that people should sleep eight hours a night has no scientific basis at all.
C. sleeping longer is as valuable as the gold at the end of the rainbow. D. the idea of long sleeping hours comes from the gold at he end of the rainbow. 35. What is the best title for this passage? A. A new idea challenges the scientists B. Sleep less, live longer C. Sleep more, die younger
D. A new idea about sleeping causes criticism 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
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