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The Troodos area of Cyprus is only an hour’s drive from the coast, so why not consider a day trip up into the mountains as a refreshing change from the beach? It will also be a wonderful(46)______ to get away from the traffic and noise of the city and to breathe in some clean, pine-scented air while enjoying stunning views. There are many important churches and monasteries in the mountains, including nine Byzantine painted churches, which are UNESCO World(47)______ listed sites. The best-known monastery is the Monastery of Kykko, home to a very important icon, reputedly painted by Saint Luke. The tomb of Archbishop Makarios ⅠⅡ, the first president of Cyprus, is nearby, looking towards the village of Panayia,(48)______ he was born. The rustic charm of the mountain villages must be experienced and, if you go at the right time of the year, you will be able to buy cherries, plums, apples, grapes and pears, which are all at their(49)______ (fresh) and best in the mountains. Each mountain village has its own special charm; perhaps you will try to fit in a number of these, and save others for your next visit. The village of Agros is famous for its aromatic rosewater, an important(50)______ in the mouth-watering local cuisine. Kakopetria, at the head of the Solea valley, is well known for its excellent restaurants and beautifully(51)______ (renovate) village houses. Lania is known as the village of artists, while Platres is a hillside resort with a friendly atmosphere, and numerous hotels and shops. Nearby are the perennial Caledonian Falls, Phoini, a village 4km west of Platres, is famous for its pottery and trout farm. If you are near the magnificent Cedar valley, you might also catch(52)______ glimpse of the Cyprus moufflon, the wild sheep which is endemic to Cyprus and whose male is characterized by large, sickle-shaped horns. The moufflon is an inhabitant of the(53)______ (mountain) Paphos Forest, which covers 60,000 hectares in the west of the island. It is a protected species and due to its tragic past, when it was hunted almost to(54)______ (extinct), some moufflon now live in protected enclosures. Here visitors can admire them(55)______ disturbing their peace.(含图)
<此处为图片> Getting a cold or catching the flu is a common complaint for people every year. In fact, people usually catch between two and five colds each year. No one enjoys the accompanying symptoms: the sore throat, the running nose, constant sneezing and headaches. Unsurprisingly, cold medication has become a big business. People spend billions of dollars to combat this recurring problem. We see the number and variety of over-the-counter medicines each time we enter a pharmacy. Is a cure for the common cold possible? The answer seems to be both yes and no. First of all, the common cold itself is not a single disease. Any of two hundred different viruses could be responsible for the symptoms of a cold. Developing a vaccine for the common cold would literally mean having to develop hundreds of vaccines. Additionally, some cold viruses have the ability to change their molecular appearance. Thus, even though our body may become immune to a certain cold virus this winter, by next winter our antibodies will probably not recognize it. However, one family of viruses, the rhinoviruses, seems to account for almost 40% of all colds. Therefore, scientists have been focusing their research on this family of viruses in the hopes that treatments targeting rhinoviruses will result in a drastic decrease in the number of colds people get. In the late 1990s, researchers experienced some initial success. Biologists developed a treatment, an anti-viral molecule called BIRR4, which prevented the binding of the virus to cells in the nose. This binding is an essential first step to start a viral infection and, were it preventable, many of the infections would be bypassed. For the next few years, the Pharmaceutical giant Boehringer tried to make this treatment commercially viable. Unfortunately, they found to their dismay that this treatment only worked just prior to getting a cold or in the first stages of infection when most people do not yet realize anything is wrong. As a possible treatment for a cold, it was severely limited and so in 2000, Boehringer dropped the BIRR4 project. Another difficulty in finding a cure for the common cold is that the cold virus does not actually cause our cold symptoms. Indeed, by the time we start to show cold symptoms, the viral infection is almost over. Most infections result in no symptoms at all. The symptoms that we get from a cold are, in reality, produced by our body’s immune response, not by the virus itself. Thus, some scientists are now suggesting targeting the body’s immune responses rather than the virus itself, as we do when we treat allergies. One medical researcher suggests that in order to find a cure for colds we must weaken our immune system’s response. Through a cocktail of certain drugs—interferon, ibuprofen and chlorpheniramine—cold sufferers would be able to decrease the anti-inflammatory part of the immune response and get rid of their symptoms, while still allowing their body to fight off the remaining viral infection. Ibuprofen and chlorpheniramine are both inexpensive and available over the counter. Unfortunately, however, a single dose of interferon is about $200 and is as yet unavailable in large over-the-counter quantities. Though at times it seemed that a cure was already tantalizingly close, this process of infection and our body’s response to it is clearly more complicated than previously guessed. Undoubtedly, the search for a cure for the common cold will continue. What form this eventual cure will take, though, is anyone’s guess. 【缺少答案,请补充】(含图)
<此处为图片> Active learning occurs when a learner takes some responsibility for the development of the activity, emphasizing that a sense of ownership and personal involvement is the key to successful learning. Unless the work that learners do is seen to be important to them and to have purpose and unless their ideas, contributions and findings are valued, little of benefit is learned. (61)______ It can involve reading, writing, listening, talking or working with tools, equipment and materials, such as paint, wood, chemicals, and so on. In a simple sense, it is learning by doing, by contrast with being told. (62)______ Experiential learning is also learning by doing but with the additional feature of reflection upon both action and the results of action; only where pupils are “engaged actively and purposively in their own learning is the term experiential appropriate”. Both active learning and experiential learning contribute to meaningful learning. (63)______ As a teacher, they enable you to spend more time with groups or individuals, which allows better-quality formative assessment and feedback to take place. Active learning can also enhance your support for learners with special educational needs. Activity methods encourage autonomous learning and problem-solving skills, important to both academic and vocationally based work. There is, of course, an extra demand on you in the planning and preparation of lessons. The advantages of active learning to pupils include greater, personal satisfaction, more interaction with peers, promotion of shared activity and team work, greater opportunities to work with a range of pupils, and opportunities for all members of the class to contribute and respond. It can encourage mutual respect and appreciation of the viewpoint of others. (64)______ The proverb “Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand” was reformulated by a prominent educationalist as “I do and I am even more confused”. The essential step to learning and understanding is reflection through discussion with others, especially the teachers; such discussions involve “thinking” as well as recalling; that is, experiential learning. (65)______ By promoting activities that engage pupils and require them to participate in the task from the outset, teachers encourage an approach to learning that is both skills-based and attitude-based. Active learning methods promote habits of learning that it is hoped are valuable in the workplace, the home and generally enhance pupils’ capability to cope with everyday life. School can be a place where pupils learn to do things well and in certain ways, thereby developing skills that are used throughout life. For example, pupils learn to consult a dictionary or a thesaurus in book form, as part of a word processing program or online in order to find meanings or to check their spelling and grammar. These skills become habits, capable of reinforcement and development. Reinforcement leads to improved performance. However, unless teachers can engage pupils with their need to know, learning is done under sufferance, leading to problems. Such problems may include poor recall of anything learned or rejection of learning tasks, which in turn may lead to behavior problems. (含图)
<此处为图片> We all have expectations of what a “normal” society looks like, but society can take an infinite number of different forms, as these unusual examples demonstrate. For almost fifty years, a group of adults and their children—now about 100 in number—have lived together in Twin Oaks Community on two square kilometers of land in rural Virginia, USA, equally sharing their resources. Apart from bedrooms, all the rooms in their seven residential buildings are communal. Seventeen shared cars are at everyone’s disposal, although they mostly rely on the communal bikes at Twin Oaks for local journeys. Even the clothes on their backs are borrowed from the community’s well-stocked clothing library. There’s no room for freeloaders, however. All adults work forty-two hours per week for the community who are encouraged to choose a variety of tasks to keep boredom at bay, and persistent failure to do so would lead to expulsion. In return for their labour, everyone is provided with housing, food, healthcare and a little personal spending money so that they can splash out on treats. With such an egalitarian distribution of wealth, there have never been any problems with crime, and decisions about the community are made democratically, for the common good. This way of life is not utopia. Complaints range from other people’s taste in loud music to the fact that unpopular jobs like cleaning tend to be neglected, and majority rule means that people with views few residents share can feel powerless and isolated. But despite its problems, there is a long waiting list of potential new residents, and Twin Oaks members have helped to set up several similar communities elsewhere in the USA. They hope that the Twin Oaks society can serve as a model for the wider world, promoting greater social responsibility and pointing the way to a fairer, more cooperative and more sustainable future for all. In the Indian state of Meghalaya, it’s the women who wear the trousers. India is a country of extreme ethnic diversity, and minority rights and traditions are strongly defended by the constitution. This allows Meghalay a to maintain a custom unheard of elsewhere in India: property and family names are matrilineal and so pass, not from father to son, but from mother to daughter. The youngest daughter inherits the family wealth, accepting in return a duty to look after her parents in their old age. (含图)
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