We have all heard how time is more valuable than money, but is it __ to have too much?
I __ back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also __ a team sport. By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, so I had to do it __.
When I got into college, things __. I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time. Because of all this __ time, there was no sense of __ to do my school work immediately. I was performing this action of waiting until it later became __. Once that happened, I just kept __ my studying further and further back in my day. Then I got to the point where I was __ really late at night to get my work done.
One day I __ a former classmate of mine who was __ a lot of money running a sideline (副业). Since his regular job was _. I asked him why he just didn’t do his sideline full-time. He said without the job, he would __ have too much time and would just do what I did back in __. He said that if he __ the job, he would lose his __ to work and succeed.
So, try __ up your time with other work. This is why there is a __ that if you want something done, ask a __ person to do it.
1.A. true B. fair C. possible D. strange
2.A. admit B. remember C. understand D. expect
3.A. played B. loved C. watched D. coached
4.A. at last B. of course C. right away D. as usual
5.A. happened B. repeated C. mattered D. changed
6.A. extra B. difficult C. valuable D. limited
7.A. duty B. achievement C. direction D. urgency
8.A. burden B. habit C. relief D. risk
9.A. taking B. pushing C. setting D. calling
10.A. leaving out B. depending on C. staying up D. consisting of
11.A. treated B. met C. helped D. hired
12.A. making B. wasting C. demanding D. raising
13.A. safe B. rewarding C. important D. boring
14.A. hardly B. luckily C. simply D. hopefully
15.A. college B. town C. childhood D. business
16.A. found B. quit C. accepted D. kept
17.A. heart B. chance C. way D. drive
18.A. filling B. giving C. saving D. trading
19.A. message B. story C. fact D. saying
20.A. reliable B. careful C. busy D. kind
How can we keep safe personal information on our computers or cellphones? 1.
View emails with a careful eye
It’s best to view all emails with care. Hackers (黑客) can make emails look like real company emails. 2. It’s best to search for the original source of the information, and try to find the direct link from the site instead of using the link provided in the email.
Use two-factor authentication (双重认证)
Two-factor authentication adds a second level of safety to an account. 3. It’s a safety option that requires a password as well as an additional piece of information only the user would know.
Update apps and operating systems
4. While these updates may appear to only change the way your phone’s software looks, they often come with safety improvements. There may be a bug (软件漏洞). Those bugs are discovered by cell providers or smartphone makers, so it’s a good idea to upgrade them.
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It’s no surprise that changing your password has always been a basic form of protection. But what we pick as passwords and how we manage them are important. First, passwords should never include your personal information. So stay away from names and birthdates. Ideally, passwords are a combination of lowercase (小写) and uppercase (大写) letters and random characters. It could be a strong, long password that doesn’t have any personal information, making it harder to remember.
A. Manage passwords safety
B. Here are some steps to make it.
C. It can trick readers into clicking on dangerous links.
D. Often users are unwilling to update their mobile devices.
E. Combine your personal information with random figures.
F. Here are some ways to create your online personal passwords.
G. Do it if there’s an option for your email, banking site or social media site.
Photos of eight-year-old Wang Fuman, nicknamed by “Snowflake Boy” in Yun Nan, shared by his principal on Tuesday, showed the boy had a red face from the low temperatures and apparently did not wear enough clothes to keep warm. He also suffered from frostbite. He stood alone with his white hair and eyebrows while other classmates behind were clearly amused and laughing. The picture drew widespread attention around the whole world. Many netizens (网民) were sympathetic to the boy’s difficulties, with many Mircoblog users giving comments under the report.
Just after the report, a donation of 100,000 yuan was sent to his Primary School. Constantly, help still pours in for the Chinese boy. But the local authorities call on others to pay attention to other similar rural areas and give them timely aid. In China, there are still so many children just like Fuman living by himself with parents migrating to cities to make a living.
Boy’s hair is completely FROZEN after he walked an hour to school on a harsh winter morning in rural (and there was no heating when he got there). The third-grade pupil in Yunnan, China, walks 2.8 miles to school every day. He braved minus nine degree weather yesterday morning to sit an exam. His hair and eyebrows had turned into icicles when he aimed at the school. ---Abstracted from Daily Post |
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I have tears in my eyes reading this... Poor little soul doesn’t even have a hat or gloves, and I can’t imagine how cold he must have felt. But he did it! Wish the little boy all good things in life. Hope he become a brilliant adult and success in life and happiness. ---Mng. PL, Mauritius, 19 hours ago |
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This kid is amazing. If I were him, I probably would have frozen to death. And this is why China will rule the world soon! He’ll fight a war tomorrow for his motherland! Take note you poor snowflake students of the UK. If this happened in the UK, they would arrive to find the school closed. Our kids are too soft!!! ---Honest John, Birmingham, 18 hours ago |
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He walked an hour in that weather and still got 99% in the math exam. Wow! With such an attitude and perseverance, I hope that he succeeds in life and gets all the good things that he deserves. Now he is not a snowflake. ---Lucial Cathey, Liverpool, 15 hours ago |
1.What can we learn about Fuman from the text?
A. The boy didn’t do well in the examination.
B. The boy lives in rural area with his parents.
C. The boy’s school has some simple heating appliance.
D. The boy managed to take exams despite of bad weather.
2.Why does Honest John call the UK students poor snowflake?
A. British like to name teenagers as snowflake.
B. The students in UK are fond of being called snowflake.
C. The students in UK are too weak to endure extreme weather.
D. UK always has heavy snow storms in winter as Yun Nan.
3.Which best describes the netizens’ attitude toward Wang Fuman?
A. Sympathetic B. Uncaring C. Cautious D. Dissatisfied
4.What can we infer from the text?
A. All the British students don’t like to walk in the snow.
B. There are still people living hard in mountainous areas in China.
C. The school in the newspaper will rebuild in the near future.
D. The boy gained much donation from people around the world.
How many men do housework? Recently a European commission (委员会) tried to find out people’s ideas and reactions to the women’s movement. As part of their survey, they asked many men and women the question, “Who does the housework?” The men answered very differently from the women!
The housework they asked people about was: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish (丹麦的) men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework; many of them said they never helped at all!
But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most truthful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives’ answers.
Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience? Write and tell us what you think.
1.The subject of the survey is ________.
A. how many boys do the housework
B. who does the housework at home
C. how many women do the housework
D. who are more diligent, wives or husbands
2.From the passage we can see that ________.
A. there were more husbands who did the housework than wives
B. wives did almost all the housework at home
C. husbands did half of the housework all the time
D. there were more wives who did the housework than husbands
3.More ________ husbands help in the house than ________ husbands.
A. Danish; British B. Italian; British
C. British; Danish D. Italian; Danish
A mystery surrounds my grandmother’s collection of salt cellars (盐瓶). No one in the family seems to know when she started collecting them, or exactly how many she had.
My grandmother died just over two years ago. At 91, she had spent 30 years without her right leg, which was removed due to cancer the year I was born. She was a poet, an artist, a food lover and a salt cellar collector. The funny thing about the salts, as she called them — I never once heard her say salt cellar — was that although everybody knew they were her hobby and everyone was always searching for them at yard sales or in stores, nobody seemed to know what they meant to her and they just wanted to make her happy. Grandma kept her salts in a dark wooden corner display case in the living room. Since her death the case has remained exactly as she left it. Grandpa tries his best to preserve his memories of her just as they are.
Now I am collecting, too. Collecting memories about my grandmother’s hobby, a way she spent her time. And as I hold one of them in my hand, I picture her holding it in her hand on the day she got it. She is smiling. My mother and her two sisters all have small collections, but my mother admits that she was more interested in finding salts to send to Grandma.
Grandma once wrote a poem titled “When April Comes”. The poem contains the line, “When April comes and I am not around, remember me when daffodils are found.” Now, Grandpa is working on a poem with the line, “April came and you were not around”.
But she was, somehow. She was there in the memories left behind by her possessions.
1.It can be inferred from the text that the author’s family_______ .
A. are very proud of their interesting family history
B. value the wonderful poems Grandma wrote
C. are much influenced by Grandma’s interest
D. know much about grandparents’ love
2.In writing the text, the author expressed ________.
A. her love for her grandma B. her desire to collect more salt cellars
C. her sadness at losing her grandma D. her curiosity about her grandma’s possessions
3.The underlined part “her possessions” in the last paragraph refers to ________.
A. Grandma’s experience B. Grandma’s strong will
C. Grandma’s talent D. Grandma’s hobby
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Grandma’s Salt Cellar Collection B. The Mystery of Grandma’s Salt Cellars
C. Grandparents’ Lifelong Devotion D. A Family’s Collection History
Happy birthday
The China National Opera (CNO) will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday.
Different generations of CNO vocalists, like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous Chinese operas like “The White-haired Girl” and “The Hundredth Bride”, as well as, arias of such Western opera classics as “Madame Butterfly”, “La Traviata” and “Rigoletto”.
Time/ date: 7:30 p.m., September 7th, 8th
Location: Tianqiao Theatre
Tel: 6551-4787, 8315-6170
Tickets: 60-500 yuan (U.S. $7.2- 60.2)
Folk music
A concert will be held to feature some recently composed traditional Chinese music works. The concert, given by the Folk Orchestra of the China Opera and Ballet Theatre, will include such pieces as “Memory of Childhood”, “Memorial Ceremony for God” and “Wine Song”.
Time/date: 7:30pm, September 13th
Location: Concert hall at the National Library of China
Tel: 6848 –5462, 6841-9220
Tickets: 30-200 yuan (U.S. $3.6-24.1)
Moon music
A concert of traditional Chinese music will be given on the eve of the Moon Festival which falls on September 21st this year. The concert will feature a number of famous pieces centered on the theme of the moon, such as “Moonlight”, “Spring night on a Moonlit River” and “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River.”
A number of established traditional Chinese music performers like Zhou Yaokun and Fan Weiqing, will play solos as well as collaborate with the folk music orchestra.
Time / date: 7:30 pm, September 21st
Location: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
Tel: 6606-8888, 6606-9999
Ticket: 40-240 yuan (U.S. $4.8-27)
1.“Madame Butterfly” is ________.
A. a Chinese opera B. a piece of music
C. a Western opera D. a song
2.If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music “Memory of Childhood”, you will dial ________.
A. 6551-4787 B. 6606-9999
C. 8315-6170 D. 6848-5462
3.Which statement is right according to the passage?
A. Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei stand for the same generation of CNO vocalists.
B. “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River” is a traditional Chinese music.
C. “Rigoletto” is a famous piece on the theme of the moon.
D. Zhou Yaokun will play solos and Fan Weiqing will collaborate with the folk music orchestra.
4.In which column of a newspaper will the article be published?
A. People. B. Entertainment.
C. Culture. D. Sports.
