21st banian april 7th

听力：5-second rule: what’s the truth? ALMOST everyone has _______ some food on the floor and still wanted to _____ it. If someone saw you ______ it, he or she might have shouted, “5-second rule!” This so-called rule says food is OK to eat if you _______ it up in five seconds or less. But is that true?

Professor Anthony Hilton from Ashton University, UK, ________the rule with his students. They found that food dropped for five seconds is______ likely to contain bacteria(细菌) than if it sits there for longer.

For the study, Hilton and his students tested a lot of________ – bread, pasta (意大利面条), cookies and candy –to see how much bacteria they ________ when they made contact with the floor. They allowed the food to lie on various _______ of flooring – carpet, laminate (复合地板), and tile (瓷砖) – for three seconds to 30 seconds.

Not __________, the longer the food was on the floor, the more bacteria it had. And the type of floor where the dropped food landed had an effect. Bacteria are least ________ to transfer from carpet, while they’re most likely to transfer from laminate or tiled surfaces after more than five seconds.

The study also _________ that the wetter the food, the more likely it was to pick up bacteria.

Although most people are happy to _________ the 5-second rule, eating food dropped on the floor still carries an infection (感染) ________. “It very much depends on which bacteria are on the floor at the time,” Hilton told Forbes.

听力：Drinking the coffee of life A GROUP of men, ________successful in their jobs, went to visit their old professor. Soon they began to ________________(抱怨) about the stress (压力) in work and life.

The professor went to the kitchen and________with a pot of coffee and different kinds of cups: crystal (水晶的), glass, plastic; nice-looking ones, plain-looking ones; some expensive, some cheap. He told them to help______________to the coffee.

When all the students were _____________a cup of coffee, the professor said: “I’ve noticed that all the nice-looking expensive cups were ___________and you’ve left behind the plain and cheap ones. _______ it is normal for you to take only the best for yourselves, that is the root (根源) of your_______ and stress.

You know that the cup _______ adds no quality (质量) to the coffee, what you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you still went for the best cups.

Now think about this: ______ is the coffee. The jobs and money are the cups. They are just tools (工具) to ________ life, and the type of cup does not change the _______ of our life. Sometimes, by concentrating (专注) only on the cup, we _________ to enjoy the coffee that life provides us. Life hands us the coffee, not the cups. Please enjoy your _____________!”

The happiest people don’t have the __________ of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously (慷慨地). Care deeply. And speak kindly.

首字母填词：After p________ professional basketball for seven years, American Randolph Morris finally found his time has come – in China.

On March 29, the Beijing Ducks b_______ the Xinjiang Flying Tigers and w________ its second CBA title in three years. Morris, a center (中锋) for the Ducks, was awarded the Final MVP. In the last game, the sharpshooter (神投手) h________ his team to seal the victory with a game-high 30 points and 11 rebounds (篮板球). The 28-year-old is also the first foreign Final MVP in CBA history.

Born in Atlanta, Morris was s________ as a talent in high school. He, Josh Smith and Dwight Howard were high school buddies(伙伴) and all w_________ to the NBA. But while Smith and Howard b________ big stars, Morris was s___________ most of his time on the bench. Some say he was too lazy. Some say his style was not good enough for the NBA.

In 2010 Morris m_______ a big decision to join the CBA, h_______ for a fresh start.“I just told myself I

would work as hard as possible and then good things would happen.”

He did work h_______ than he ever thought possible. Upon a_________ in China, he had started to practice six hours every day. Morris said p________had become second nature (习性) to him. He also plays hard on court (球场). Every Chinese fan k______ that he has broken five teeth since he came to the CBA.

So although Morris still gets a l________pay than Smith and Howard, he now has something they don’t have – two shinning championship titles (冠军称号).

语法填空：My adventure on the hotel on wheels

IN Australia, if I need to _______(travel) long distance I ________(normal) drive or catch a plane. The longest train trip I have ever_________( take) is the 30-minute trip to work.

In China, my friends told me that the train is the_________(good) way to get around. So last month I took my friends’ advice and________(spend) 30 hours on a sleeper train from Beijing to Xi’an and back again.

__________(arrive) at Beijing West Railway Station, I couldn’t believe how busy it was. People filled the __________(wait) areas and the queues (队) of people went on forever.

It made me ________(miss)Sydney’s Central Station, where the queues are short and people are few. In my carriage (车厢), I found even more___________( different) between trains in the two countries. Instead _______ the normal seats there were rows of beds along the wall. People pushed carts (手推车) full of food and drink _________the carriages and everyone sat around eating, drinking and talking. It was just like a hotel on wheels (车轮)!

Getting to sleep was the _________(hard) part of the whole trip. The lights kept turning on and off and the train was creaking (嘎吱作响).

Soon enough though, I fell asleep along __________ everyone else as the train sped along the tracks (轨道) to Xi’an.

语法填空：SPRING is a＿＿＿＿＿for kites. It may be the＿＿＿＿＿（right）time to read The Kite Runner by US＿＿＿＿＿＿＿（write）Khaled Hosseini.

The story happens in Afghanistan (阿富汗). Two boys, Amir and his servant (仆从) Hasan, ＿＿＿（be）good friends. During a kite fight, Hasan was _________(attack) (攻击) by a group of bad guys in order to ________(help) Amir get his kite back. Amir saw it but ran __________because he was afraid of them. He felt sorry for__________(him)and couldn’t face Hasan any more. He even framed (诬陷) Hasan for stealing (偷窃) and _________(ask) him to leave. When Amir grew up, he decided to find Hasan for redemption (赎罪). ０４１２1:00 L44

The Kite Runner is Hosseini’s______(one) book and a huge success around the world. Readers will understand a lot more about Afghanistan through the book.

语法填空：EVERYONE has a ________(special ) day. So does our Earth. April 22 is Earth Day. It’s time for _______(our) to make our mother planet ________(health) and clean.

This year, the theme of the day is “Green Cities”. A green city is a healthy and _______(please) place for people to live, according to the United Nations.

In order________(build) a green city, there are three key parts to develop: energy, transportation and buildings.

First, a green city can get its energy from ________(renew) sources (可再生资源) like solar (太阳能的) and wind power. In many European cities, there are public solar charging (充电) stations for mobile devices. The ________(charge) stations are powered ____________(complete) by solar energy. Some may even begin to start _________(offer) free WiFi, turning the charging stations into small social hubs (社

交中心).

Also, a green city needs to have clean ________(public) transportation. Curitiba, Brazil, opened the world’s________( one )bus rapid transit (BRT，快速公交) system in 1974. BRT runs on special lanes (车道). This makes sure that buses are _____ time even in traffic jams. With the _______(help )of BRT, the city has the lowest level of air pollution in Brazil. Today, many other countries have copied BRT, including China and Mexico.

Additionally, buildings _______ can save energy are important for a green city. In Chicago, US, there are many buildings with green ________(屋顶). These roofs are covered _________ plants. The plants take in a great amount of rainwater. Otherwise, it would run down the city streets. Later, the water evaporates (蒸发) to make the air cool and clean. ____________(到目前为止), there are about 360 green roofs in Chicago, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.

MOST students have biology class in classrooms _______ labs in China. But several days ago, I had a biology class outside ________my American school.

My biology teacher, Mr Kwak, divided (分开) us ________ three groups and asked us to play a game about natural selection (自然选择) and how birds find food.

He gave the first group ________(first) spoon (勺子) per person, the second group forks (叉子) and my group knives.

I thought we were going __________(hunt), so knives might work better. ____________(Surprise), he told us to pick up the beans on the grass with our tools.

When the game started, all of us ran to the grass area. We squatted (蹲) down and _______(look) for beans.

It was hard to pick up something that small, __________(especial) from the grass.

When I almost lifted a bean, it dropped back to the ground. When I _________(final) picked up several beans, one of my friends ran into me. I couldn’t keep my balance and _______(fall) over. All my beans dropped to the ground!

Suddenly, Mr Kwak called us _________. I had to leave the game and of course I got a bad result. I couldn’t help__________( think ) that if I was a bird living on Galapagos Island, I may be dead soon.

The fun game made me__________( realize ) that natural selection is really __________ (充满竞争的). Everyone is trying his or her best to survive.

语法填空：

Letters of support SUN Mingyue is a 12-year-old schoolgirl _________(study) at Lanzhou No 19 Middle School in Gansu. Last month, she got a letter from J.K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter!

Sun wrote a letter to Rowling____ October as a task from her Chinese teacher Ma Chao. In order ___________(increase) students’ interest in writing, Mr Ma asked the students to write a letter to anyone they want and to speak____________( freely).

As a big Harry Potter fan, Sun wrote questions in her letter to Rowling. Where does the name Harry Potter come from? How did Rowling get the________( idea )of the magic spells (咒语)? Four months later, she was surprised to get a letter from Rowling, in_________ the writer answered Sun’s questions and encouraged her to study hard. Sun was very _____________(excite). “I never thought I could explore (探索) the Harry Potter world with Rowling!”０４１２1:00 L44

Sun’s classmate Hao Yiliao, however, brought out ______________(question) of the real world in his letter to Wang Sanyun, secretary of the Gansu Provincial CPC Committee (甘肃省委书记).

The 13-year-old lives in the mountains. He said when he was young, the mountains were green _________ trees, but now most of them are bald (光秃的).

“My father said it wou ld cause serious soil erosion (土壤侵蚀),” said Hao. “I wrote to Mr Wang to ask ________ he could help us.”

The reply came a month later. In the letter Mr Wang promised that the government would do something to deal ________ the problem. He also praised (表扬) Hao for being a good citizen (市民).

“It has encouraged me ___________(great),” said Hao. “Now I know I could also do something to help with the environment.”

首字母填词：World’s first man in space A BRAVE heart w_______ to go where no man has gone before. Yuri Gagarin, a former Soviet Union air force p_______ (前苏联空军飞行员), did exactly t______. On April 12, 1961, he became the f_______ person to travel in space. In the spacecraft Vostok 1, he moved a________ Earth for 108 minutes. At the h________ point, Gagarin was about 327 kilometers above Earth. He was the first man to see t___________ Earth was indeed round, mostly water, and magnificent (壮观的). His trip also s______a new era (时代) in space exploration (探索). Gagarin was k_____ in a plane accident in 1968.

首字母填词：

Earth at turning point WE always hear that g______warming is bad. What dangers will it bring us? The United Nations has given us a clear l＿＿＿＿＿.

A group of s＿＿＿＿＿＿＿attended a UN meeting in Japan in late March, and listed the “eight reasons to worry about global warming”.

1. Sea water f＿＿＿＿＿(水灾) will kill people and bring terrible results.

2. Warming, drought (干旱) and h＿＿＿＿＿＿rain are bad for crops. Because of these, some people will go h＿＿＿＿＿.

3. Inland flooding will d＿＿＿＿＿＿＿big cities.

4. Water shortages (缺乏) will make the poor e＿＿＿＿＿＿poorer in rural areas.

5. Extreme w＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿, like storms, can damage some of the things we need every day, like electricity, running water and emergency services.

6. Some fish and other animals could be in t＿＿＿＿＿＿. It will probably hurt fishers.

7. Some land animals won’t do m＿＿＿＿＿better and that’s not good for people who depend on them.

8. Heat waves (热浪), especially in cities, will k＿＿＿＿the elderly and very young.

The list is part of a big UN report o＿＿＿global warming.

Earth is a＿＿＿＿a turning point. If governments t＿＿＿strong action, some of the risks could be cut down. Otherwise, the impacts (影响) will be “irreversible (不可挽回的)”, says the report.