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1、 20192020学年广东广州天河区华南师范大学附属中学the charity every year.B. is subscribed to, He didnt pass the IELTS.5. It is striking, and, that some women have to be forced to leave their jobs once they getmarried, which goes against their will.A. shameless B. shameful 10. If we consider theseC. phenomena; on the whol
2、emakes his teachers worried about14. He is an untiringexcellent jogs.A. advocater; rewardingC. advocator; to rewardB. advocate; rewardingD. advocate; to reward You probably know who Marie Curse was, but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson.Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think
3、was the most important woman of thepast 100 years?Jane Addams(1860-1935)Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank. Addamshelped the poor and worked for peace. She encouraged a sense of community by creatingshelters and promoting education and services for people in
4、need. In I931. Addams be cane thefirst American woman to win the Nobel peace Prize.Rachel Carson(1907-1964)If it werent for Rachel Carson, the environmental movement might not exist today. Herpopular I962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmfuleffects of chemi
5、cals on humans and on the worlds lakes and oceans.Sandra Day OConnor(1930-present)When Sandra Day OConnor finished third in her class at Stanford Law School, in1952, shecould not find work at a law firm because she was a woman. She became an Arizona statesenator(参议员)and, in 1981, the first woman to
6、join the U.S. Supreme Court. OConnor gavethe deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.Rose Parks (1913-2005)On December 1, I955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rasa Parks would not give up her seat ona bus to a white passenger. Her simple act landed Parks in prison. But it
7、 also set off theMontgomery bus boycott. It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rightsmovement.The only tired I was, was tired of giving in, said Parks.C. Sandra Day OConnor.A. They are highly educated.C. They are pioneers.B. They are truly creative.D. They are peace-lovers. The In
8、telligent Transport team at Newcastle University have tuned an electric car into amobile laboratory named Drive LAB in order to understand the challenges faced by olderdrivers and to discover where the key stress points are.Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons far a fall i
9、n health and well-being among older people, leading to them becoming more isolated (隔绝) and inactive.Led by Professor Phil Blythe, the Newcastle team are developing in-vehicle technologiesfor older drivers which they hope could help them to continue driving into later life.These include custom-made
10、navigation (导航) tools, night vision systems and intelligentspeed adaptations. Phil Blythe explains: For many older people, particularly those living aloneor in the country, diving is important for preserving their independence, giving them the freedomto get out and about without having to rely on ot
11、hers.But we all have to accept that as we get older our reactions slow down and this oftenresults in people avoiding any potentially challenging driving conditions and losing confidence intheir driving skills. The result is that people stop driving before they really need to.Dr. Amy Guo, the leading
12、 researcher on the older driver study, explains, The Drive LAB ishelping us to understand what the key points and difficulties are for older drivers and how wemight use technology to address these problems.For example, most of us would expect older drivers always go slower than everyone elsebut surp
13、risingly, we found that in 30 mph zones they struggled to keep at a constant speed andso were more likely to break the speed limit and be at risk of getting fined. Were looking at thebenefits of systems which control their speed as a way of preventing that.We hope that our work will help with techno
14、logical solutions (解决方案) to ensure thatolder drivers stay safer behind the wheel.B. To design new types of cars.D. To teach people traffic rules.B. It helps them save time.D. It cures their mental illnesses.B. Develop driver-assist technologies. C. Driving Service for elders.Babies have an astonishi
15、ng talent that adults entirely lose. By the age of one, they canrecognize the significant noises around them and group them into a language. When we havelost this capacity as adults, it becomes enormously difficult to distinguish between sounds thatare glaringly different to a native speaker. It all
16、 sounds Greek to us. This is because the rangeof possible sounds that humans use to convey meaning may be as high as 2, 000, but fewlanguages use more than 100 and even then the significant noisesthe phonemes (音素) ofa languageeach cover a range of sounds and so vague distinctions which would change t