People often drop into a gloomy life and are unable to extricate ( 使 … 摆 脱)themselves．
There once was a poor and discouraged salesman, complaining every day that there was no ______ for him to display his ability and the fate was often pulling his legs.
On Christmas Eve, every family ____ their houses with lanterns. But he was ______ sitting on a bench in a park and recalling the past. It was on the _____ day last year when he was also alone drinking his Christmas day away, without new clothes, new shoes, _______ a new car and a new house.
“Damn! I have to spend this Christmas day with these ____ shoes again. ” he signed and began to take off the old shoes. ______ , he found a young man in a ____ passing by him with is hands painfully pushing the wheel forward. It _____ to him that he was so lucky to have shoes to wear while that man did not even have the ______. Afterwards, the sales man did everything with a ______ mood and cherished every opportunity to improve himself. He worked hard and tried his best to make progress every day. Several years later, he eventually changed his life ____ and became a millionaire
If you look all around, you will ________ there are so many people who were born disabled in the society but they are ______ in life and never complain about the unfair destiny. They are also not to beg others’ alms( 施 舍 ). ________ , they constantly strive to make themselves stronger and more _________ to serve the society. By contrast, we should feel _________. We are born healthy, but we are ____ life; we complain about our colleagues and _______ with our jobs.
Maybe all of us would feel afraid when we realize we have fallen into such ____ state of life, but worse is you even do not realize you have fallen into such a dangerous situation.
1.A.suggestion B.station C.message D.platform
2.A.painted B.cleaned C.decorated D.filled
3.A.alone B.afraid C.alike D.alive
4.A.difficult B.same C.sweet D.different
5.A.let alone B.leave for C.pick out D.meet with
6.A.small B.new C.large D.old
7.A.Curiously B.Suddenly C.Obviously D.Hopefully
8.A.taxi B.wheelchair C.car D.truck
9.A.occurred B.devoted C.replied D.worked
10.A.money B.goal C.chance D.skill
11.A.direct B.modern C.smooth D.calm
12.A.extremely B.totally C.narrowly D.generally
13.A.find B.decide C.show D.think
14.A.similar B.confident C.unique D.helpful
15.A.Therefore B.Besides C.Meanwhile D.Instead
16.A.fierce B.excellent C.comfortable D.attractive
17.A.anxious B.ashamed C.weak D.patient
18.A.tired of B.proud of C.full of D.fond of
19.A.angry B.busy C.dissatisfied D.connected
20.A.discouraging B.admiring C.interesting D.exciting
Healthy eating is not just what you eat, but how you eat. Here are some tips for you:
Eat with others whenever possible. Eating with other people has numerous benefits, especially for children. 1. Eating in front of the TV or computer often leads to mindless overeating.
Take time to chew your food and enjoy mealtimes. 2. We tend to rush through our meals, forgetting to enjoy the flavor and feel the taste of what is in our mouths.
Listen to your body. Ask yourself if you are really hungry, or have a glass of water to see if you are thirsty instead of hungry. 3. It actually takes a few minutes for your brain to tell your body that it has had enough food, so eat slowly.
4. A healthy breakfast can jumpstart your metabolism( 新陈代谢), and eating small, healthy meals throughout the day(rather than the standard three large meals)keeps your energy up and your metabolism going.
Avoid eating at night. 5. And then don’t eat for 12-14 hours until breakfast the next morning. Studies suggest that eating only when you’re most active and giving your digestive(消化的)system a long break each day may help to keep fit.
A. Drink plenty of water.
B. Try to have dinner earlier. C. Be careful when eating out.
D. Eat your food slowly, tasting every bite.
E. During a meal, stop eating before you feel full.
F. It allows you to follow others’ healthy eating habits.
G. Eat breakfast, and eat smaller meals throughout the day.
As is often the case, parents are very shocked to discover their children have lied to them for the first time. But new research has suggested many parents may not even notice many of the lies their children tell them.
Psychologists have discovered that most parents are over-confident in their children’s honesty and this may impair their ability to discover a lie.
The findings may help to explain why some parents seem to be willing to let their children get away with almost anything even in the face of the evidence. They say parents suffer from a “truth bias(偏见)” with their own youngsters, but when faced with lies from other people’s children, they have less difficulty telling if a statement is true or not.
Dr Angela Evans, a psychologist at Brock University in Canada, said, “The close relationship that parents share with their own children may lead to parents failing to detect their children’s lies. Parents’ truth bias may result in parents being less suspicious of their children, allowing them to successfully cheat them.”
Most children are thought to start lying as early as two years old but start telling more believable lies at around the age of four years old. Learning how to lie is considered as a key part of cognitive(认知的) and social development in children. But many parents are shocked when their children start lying to them. In their study, Dr Evans and her colleagues filmed 108 children aged between 8 and 16 as they performed a test after being asked not to look at the answers. They were then asked afterwards if they had looked, with 50 truthfully denying looking, 49 lying about looking and 9 admitting to looking.
Videos of those denying looking were then shown to 152 parents of children aged 8 to 16, 80 of whom had children who had taken part in the test. The researchers found that the parents were less able to spot lies told by their own children than by other people’s children.
1.What does the underlined word “impair” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Show. B.Develop. C.Recognize. D.Damage.
2.When lying to their parents, children can’t be easily found because ________.
A.their parents aren’t prepared for the lies
B.their parents can’t notice any of their lies
C.they are very good at hiding their lies
D.they know how to lie to their parents
3.What does Dr Evans want to find about children’s lying?
A.What makes parents lose trust in their children.
B.What causes children to tell lies to their parents.
C.What makes parents fail to see their children’s lies.
D.What affects children’s relations with their parents.
4.What can be inferred from Dr Evans’s study in the last two paragraphs?
A.Parents tend to protect their own children.
B.Lying is a part of children’s development.
C.Children aged 8 to 16 are very likely to tell lies.
D.Parents can easily judge lies told by children of others.
People need light for daily activities, but in some places in the world, access to reliable power is a problem, and natural disasters can make the matter worse.
Andrea Sreshta and Anna Stork understand how important light is to people in need. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Andrea and Anna, then graduate students in architecture and design at Columbia University, wanted to do something to help.
So as a school assignment, they designed a lighting product that was lightweight, portable and wireless, something that might help improve the safety and living conditions of Haitians. The result was the LuminAID light. An inflatable( 可充气的 )plastic, waterproof rectangle light that can be recharged with solar power. What was only a school project for them soon became something much more when friends and contacts began sending the lights to those in need.
In their final year of architecture school, Andrea and Anna filed a patent for the lamp, and shortly after graduating, they went to India to conduct field tests on their prototype( 维形). Anna says visiting villages without stable access to electricity was really meaningful to them. “It helped us understand the houses and the conditions that these people were living in. And what was so interesting is one of the villages that we’ve visited. The house was made out of really thick cement( 水泥), so even in the daytime, it was completely dark inside the house. So we saw real need for portable lighting, “Anna says.
In 2011, Andrea and Anna launched their business LuminAID. They say that after hearing from people who use the lights, they now realize how important their product is.
1.How did Andrea and Anna help Haitians?
A.They invented a type of light for Haitians.
B.They donated some money to Haitians.
C.They sent some lights to Haiti.
D.They recharged some lights with solar power.
2.What can we learn about the LuminAID light?
A.It’s originally a school task.
B.It’s sold only to individuals in need.
C.It’s for villagers with stable access to electricity.
D.It helps understand the conditions of the villagers.
3.Why did Andrea and Anna go to India?
A.To find the need for portable lighting.
B.To visit some interesting villages.
C.To apply for patent on the lamp.
D.To test their lighting product in the target market.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A.Give Light, Get Light
B.Little Light, Big Difference
C.Andrea and Anna’s Journey of Learning
D.A New Access to Reliable Power
To me, life without music would not be exciting. I realize that this is not true for everybody. Many people get along quite well without going to the concert, and listening to the record. But music plays an important part in everyone's life, whether he realizes it or not. Try to imagine, for example, what films or TV plays would be like without music. Would the feelings, the moving plot, and the greatest interests, be so exciting or dramatic? I'm not sure about it.
Now, we have been speaking of music in its more common meaning----the kind of music we hear in the concert hall. But if we look at some parts of music more closely, we discover them in our everyday life too----in the rhythm of the sea, the melody of a bird in the woods and so on. So music surely has meaning for everyone, in some way or other. And, of course, it has special meaning for those who have spent all their lives working on playing or writing music.
It is well said, “Through music a child enters into a world of beauty, expresses himself from his heart, feels the joy of doing things alone, learns to take care of others, develops his mind and makes his body strong.”
1.What does the writer say more about in the text?
A.Life full of music. B.The importance of music.
C.Life without music. D.The development of music.
2.From the text, we learn that many people .
A.go to the concert instead of enjoying music
B.get along quite well without music
C.don't realize the importance of music
D.think music would be less exciting than films
3.What does the underlined word “melody” mean in the text?
A.flying B.living
C.looking D.singing
4.From the last paragraph, we learn that music .
A.is very necessary for our everyday life
B.is very important, especially for children
C.can make our life exciting and dramatic
D.can enter another beautiful world
John Michael Thomas, 14, Florida
When John Michael Thomas decided to honor his friend and classmate Elizabeth Buckley, who died from cancer, he remembered how much she loved peacocks(孔雀).
He wanted to build a life-sized peacock fountain in Elizabeth’s favorite park in the city. He thought it could be a place for people to relax and be inspired.
John Michael raised $52,000 to build the fountain.
Barrett England, 13, Utah
The wheels began to turn for Barrett England when he heard about Karma Bike shop, a place where young people can earn free bike by reading and performing community service.
Barrett visited Karma’s owner with his idea: He would collect and repair used bikes and donate them to the shop.
He expected to get about 10 donated bikes. In the end, Barrett received 39.
Zachary Blohm, 15, Wisconsin
The 25-year-old playground at an elementary school near Milwaukee, Wis., was so small that only 70 of its 575 students could play on it at a time.
That’s when Zachary Blohm saved the day. He and some volunteers build a huge playground. To raise money, Zac planned T-shirt and bake sales, sold tickets and more. He held monthly money-raising events for more than a year. Overall, he collected
$130,000--- enough to finish his project.
Jack Zimmerman, 16, New Jersey
For some people, finding a meal is as simple as opening the refrigerator. For more than 366,000 hungry kids in New Jersey, it’s not that easy.
That fact didn’t sit well with Jack Zimmerman, who organized a drive to lessen childhood hunger in his state. His goal: create 40,000 packaged meals that could be donated to those in need.
On game day, Jack and his volunteers started their work. After the final count, the team had packaged 47,124 meals--- well above Jack’s goal.
1.The peacock fountain was built in a park .
A.to encourage people B.for the love of animals
C.to cure a cancer sufferer D.in memory of a teenager
2.What did Barrett do for Karma Bike Shop?
A.He repaired bikes there. B.He donated bikes to it.
C.He helped it win customers. D.He offered a reading service there.
3.Who improved a place for children to play?
A.Jack B.Zachary
C.Barrett D.John
