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Zea Tongeman, a 14-year-old student, who is crazy about the Internet, applied technology to create an application that encourages people to recycle while having fun.

Zea was really inspired when she attended “Little Miss Geek Day”, an event that is aimed at making technology more accessible and appealing to young women and inspiring them to consider technology careers. Soon after, she entered “Apps for Good”, a competition that encourages students to create positive changes through technology. Teaming up with her friend, Jordan Stirbu, she laid the foundations for “Jazzy Recycling”.

The “Jazzy Recycling” application is designed to encourage young people to recycle more, which wins the favor of the youth and turns waste disposal (处理) into a game and helps you find places to recycle. Then you scan what you need to recycle, share it, and get rewards such as shopping vouchers (代金券) and games to be unlocked for what you have recycled.

Making use of the teen enthusiasm for sharing every little aspect of their daily life on social media like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, recycling efforts can be shared too as a fun game among friends, which makes more people take part in recycling activities.

Zea explains why she is addicted to the Internet and how technology has changed her, “used to think technology was just fixing computers and using smartphones; I have become very tired from just using what is available. I have discovered another side to it — I can make technology of my own.”

In fact, Zea Tongeman has taken the idea of recycling seriously and hopes all her fellow beings would give it a serious thought. This teen girl from the United Kingdom has made use of computer programming to create her own app that would encourage people to go recycling for a better world.

【小题1】What is “Little Miss Geek Day” intended to do?
A.To introduce some young women.
B.To inspire people to go recycling
C.To encourage students to create more careers.
D.To get girls interested and involved in technology.
【小题2】How does “Jazzy Recycling” appeal to the young?
A.It combines recycling with fun.B.It offers money to those who recycle.
C.It raises their awareness of waste disposal.D.It provides varieties of convenient services.
【小题3】Which of the following best describes Zea Tongeman?
A.modestB.creativeC.generousD.considerate.
【小题4】What can we learn from Tongeman’s story?
A.Teenagers have a talent for creating apps.
B.Technology plays a significant role in education.
C.Competitions inspire teenagers to achieve success.
D.Youngsters can make a difference in their own ways.
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This Tiny Box Will Help You Relax In Terrible Summer Heat!

Traditional Air Conditioners (AC) are outdated. They cost a lot to install and even more to run. They are huge, noisy, and dangerous to clean. You can’t move them around the house with you or take them outside! Thousands of people are now using a much cheaper alternative to cool themselves in the heat and clean their personal air. With over million units sold worldwide, this device is becoming one of the most successful gadgets of 2019. EVERYONE wants this awesome looking box for summer!

What Are We Talking About?

Meet the new AirFreez, an innovative alternative to AC that cools you just the same! It’s a perfect solution for those very hot days and nights! The AirFreez was designed by two Swiss engineers who were fed up suffering the hot summers. They realized that AC units are super inefficient and cost a lot of money to use. The engineers also discovered that none of the traditional AC units were made to travel with.

So, they designed this light-weight, portable Air Cooling box. It uses a very small amount of electricity and all without sacrificing any of the main benefits of a top AC model! It’s tiny, easy to use and it can cool you in seconds!

What Is So Special About This Little Box?

The main benefits of AirFreez are its portability and price.

It is no larger than a lunchbox. Besides, it can be powered by a pocket solar panel or battery pack and you probably have the world’s most portable AC unit.

And There Is One More Thing. The price is just amazing. Most AC units cost at least $300 AND you have to pay for installation PLUS cover the expensive electricity bills each month.

AirFreez costs less than $100 (Actually $53 for each if you buy more than one here). No messy installation, no expensive electricity bills. For a Cooling unit of this quality, this must be the single best price-quality AC unit there is!

How Can You Get An AirFreez?

Now that you are aware of this amazing new invention, here is how to get one-order it from the Official Website for BEST PRICE.

【小题1】Which of the following words can best describe AirFreez?
A.Smart but heavy.B.Costly but multi-functional.
C.Foldable and lasting.D.Handy and energy-saving.
【小题2】What can we learn about AirFreez?
A.It costs less than $53.
B.It requires no complex installation.
C.It doesn’t consume electricity.
D.It is a little larger than a lunch box.
【小题3】What is the purpose of this passage?
A.To advertise Airfreez
B.To explain the functions of AirFreez.
C.To introduce the inventors of AirFreez.
D.To compare AirFreez with traditional AC.

As temperatures soar, electric bills often go through the roof. That’s because people tend to turn on their air conditioners during the long, hot summer months.

It’s been predicted that by 2050 about 75 percent of the world’s homes could have air conditioners. If that’s true, the energy required to cool buildings will double. For that reason, researchers continue to look for solutions to keep air-conditioner usage to a minimum. Some innovations are being used already or are in the process of being developed. Certain building materials can feel cooler because of their ability to absorb heat and release it slowly. Other buildings use water cooling systems to cool them. However, these aren’t the only methods. Science has a few more tricks up its sleeve.

Researchers at Purdue University have developed the world’s whitest paint. This paint can keep a building’s exterior surface cooler than the surrounding temperature. On hot days, walls absorb heat and often become 10 to 20 degrees Celsius hotter than the air around them. But walls painted with Purdue’s white paint reflect 98.1 percent of the heat and send it back into space. This creates a cooling effect.

Purdue professor Xiulin Ruan believes that the super-white paint could have a more powerful cooling effect than many home air conditioners. Researchers hope to have the paint on the market in five to 10 years.

Yi Zheng of Northeastern University has created a “cooling paper”. This material reflects the sun’s rays while pulling heat out of a building’s interior, and the paper can be recycled. He and his team discovered that the paper helps bring down a room’s temperature by about 6 degrees Celsius. Zheng hopes that the cooling paper will someday be used on roofs and within building materials.

Now and in the future, perhaps some of these energy-efficient methods will make it easier to beat the heat.

【小题1】Why does the author mention the air conditioners at the beginning of the passage?
A.To describe a fact.B.To support an idea.
C.To provide examples.D.To introduce the topic.
【小题2】What do we know about Purdue’s white paint?
A.It has been on the market.
B.It is the world’s coolest paint.
C.Walls painted with it reflect most of the heat.
D.It can keep the whole building’s surface cooler.
【小题3】What can we infer according to Yi Zheng?
A.The surface of a buildings is better covered with paper.
B.Buildings will be built mostly with cooling paper someday.
C.The cooling paper will be practical and eco-friendly building materials.
D.The cooling paper can bring down a room’s temperature more than air conditioners.
【小题4】Which of the following would be the best title?
A.Purdue’s White Paint: A New Material to Cool Buildings
B.Cool Buildings: Innovative Ways to Keep Buildings Cool
C.Cool Building Materials: Solutions to Fight against Climate Change
D.Future Air Conditioners: New Energy-efficient Methods to Beat the Heat

In order to survive trips to Mars, humans need oxygen. Now, a team of scientists has designed a robot that could extract oxygen from water on the Red Planet.

The robot, which is called “AI chemist”, used a machine learning model to find a compound that could ignite an oxygen-producing chemical reaction on Mars. The compound, known as a catalyst (催化剂), is made entirely from elements found in Martian meteorites (陨石)   — which means, if such a system could work reliably, space travelers would not need to bring oxygen or even the catalyst needed to produce it.

Mars’ atmosphere contains only trace amounts of oxygen. But scientists have detected evidence of liquid water beneath the planet’s southern ice cap. To create the breathable gas, researchers wanted to find a way to break down this water into its hydrogen and oxygen molecules using materials found on Mars.

Their robot analyzed five meteorites that either came from Mars or had a composition similar to that of the Martian surface. Using a laser, it identified significant amounts of iron, nickel, calcium, magnesium, aluminum and manganese in the samples. From these six elements, the robot’s algorithm (算法) determined it could produce more than 3.7 million possible molecules to break down water and form oxygen on Mars. According to the researchers, finding the best one from this extensive list would take roughly 2,000 years of human labor, but for the AI chemist, it took only weeks.

“On Earth, we don’t use these six elements,” Yi Luo, a co-author of the study says. “They are not the best choices for catalysts, but it’s only what you’ve got on Mars.”

With its chosen catalyst, the system could produce oxygen from the Martian materials at around -37℃, demonstrating the chemical reaction could be possible on the cold Martian surface.

Notably, the robot was able to carry out the entire process — analyzing the rock samples, identifying the best possible catalyst and producing it without human intervention.

【小题1】What does the underlined word “ignite” mean in paragraph 2?
A.Delay.B.Limit.C.Change.D.Cause.
【小题2】What is the basis of extracting oxygen on Mars?
A.The oxygen that Mars’ atmosphere contains.
B.The scientists’ previous study on meteorites.
C.The existence of water and catalyst on Mars.
D.The amazing learning ability of “AI chemist”
【小题3】What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about?
A.The finding of six elements.
B.The advantages of the robots.
C.The formation of the meteorites.
D.The process of producing oxygen.
【小题4】What is the writer’s attitude towards “AI chemist”?
A.Doubtful.B.Favorable.C.Unclear.D.Indifferent.

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