Having your nose in a book might seem a little anti-social at times—but reading could actually make you a kinder, more considerate person, a study has found. Readers were more likely to act in a socially acceptable manner, while those who preferred watching television came across as less friendly and less understanding of others’ views, researchers said.
123 participants in the study were quizzed on their preferences for books, TV and plays at Kingston University, London. They were then tested on how much they considered people’s feelings and whether they acted to help others. Researchers told the British Psychological Society conference in Brighton yesterday that fiction fans showed more positive social behavior.
Readers of drama and romance novels were also empathetic, while lovers of experimental books showed the ability to see things from different directions. Comedy fans scored the highest for relating to others. The study suggested reading allows people to see different points of view enabling them to understand others better.
The researchers added, “Exposure to fiction relates to a range of empathetic abilities. Engaging with fictional prose and comedy in particular could be key to improving people’s empathetic abilities.”
However, the authors warned the study did not prove cause-and-effect. So it could be that reading causes positive behavior, or it could be that thoughtful, well-mannered people are more likely to prefer reading. So it is a good idea to pick up a book to begin your travel with the author. Each author will show how they would react to certain situations through their characters. Everyone can view the same situation differently, and from 1,001 different angles. The more you read, the much better you can understand other peoples’ opinions.
1.Why did the writer mention the result of watching television?
A.The writer is a anti-social reporter. B.The writer shows benefits of reading.
C.The writer is a considerate person. D.The writer becomes socially acceptable.
2.What were the participants tested on?
A.The skills of communicating. B.The time of reading books.
C.The places of getting new books. D.The ways of expressing feelings.
3.Who can observe differently?
A.Readers of drama. B.Writers of romance novels.
C.Readers of comedy. D.Readers of experiments.
Inside a brightly-lit classroom, around 20 schoolchildren are singing the Chinese national anthem. That song is followed by another tune in Chinese—one typically sung during the Lunar New Year. But this scene is not taking place in a Chinese school but at Lakewood Premier school, thousands of kilometers away in Nairobi（内罗比）. Here, schoolchildren are learning Mandarin, a language spoken by nearly 1 billion people almost 8,000 kilometers away from their home. More will join their ranks in 2020 when Mandarin will be officially taught in all Kenyan schools alongside French, Arabic and German, which are already on the curriculum.
Sandra Wanjiru, 13, is one of hundreds of African schoolchildren who are increasingly skilled in the Chinese language. Lakewood Premier School, where Wanjiru studies, has begun the program a year early to give its pupils a head start. “I chose to learn Chinese first not only because it’s interesting to learn a foreign language but also because I would want to travel and do business in China,” said Wanjiru.
Julius Jwan, CEO of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), told Chinese state—owned Chinese news agency Xinhua: “The place of China in the world economy has also grown to be so strong that Kenya stands to benefit if its citizens can understand Mandarin.” China has become increasingly powerful across Africa over the past two decades. Through President Xi Jinping’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative, China has loaned money to African countries to build highways, dams, stadiums and airports.
Henry Adramunguni, a specialist at Uganda’s National Curriculum（课程）Development Centre, said Mandarin was included in the curriculum because it is one of the United Nations’ languages of work.” We want to give the opportunity for our young Ugandans to have access to jobs, education and business beyond our borders. That’s why we’ve given them this opportunity to learn Chinese,” he said.
1.What made Sandra Wanjiru learn Chinese language at last?
A.The school asked him to learn. B.He found it was interesting.
C.He believed it was very useful. D.The language was very easy.
2.How did China help African countries?
A.China built many schools for Africa. B.China lent money to begin building.
C.China shared the curriculum. D.China let Africans go to China.
3.What did Henry Adramunguni think of students’ learning Mandarin?
A.It was necessary. B.It was useless.
C.It was not beneficial. D.It was not profitable.
An author who surveyed 600 millionaires has claimed that she found the secrets of getting rich. Sarah Stanley Fallaw, the author of The Next Millionaire Next Door: Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth, got her findings after she surveyed American millionaires in 2015 and 2016. The book is a follow-up to her father’s research in the 1998 bestseller The Millionaire Next Door, which Thomas J. Stanley wrote with William D. Danko.
Stanley Fallaw argues that resilience（抗逆力）in the face of refusal and strict goal setting are important to building wealth. “To build wealth, to build one’s own business, to ignore critics and media and neighbors, you must have the ambition to keep pursuing your goals past refusal and pain,” wrote Stanley Fallaw in the new book, according to Business Insider. She added, “Millionaires and other economically successful Americans who decide to climb the corporate ladder（企业晋升制度）, or struggle to create a financial independence lifestyle early do so by pushing on without stop.”
Stanley Fallaw stresses the importance of setting goals and sticking to them, especially for budgeting. She says that living modestly even as your income grows will allow you to devote a greater percentage of your income towards savings and building wealth. “Most millionaires we interviewed stressed the great freedom that comes from spending below their means,” Stanley Fallaw writes.
The author says that the temptation（诱惑）to keep up with the spending habits of the people around can be highly harmful to building wealth. Particularly in the age of social media, when lavish（浪费的）vacations and new purchases are broadcast for the world to see, the perseverance（坚持）to live thriftily（节俭地）is important, Stanley Fallaw argues.
1.What was Sarah Stanley Fallaw’s book based on?
A.Her own life experiences.
B.Surveys on the American millionaires.
C.Her father’s book The Millionaire Next Door.
D.Her father’s partner William D. Danko’s advice.
2.Which is NOT the important quality for building wealth according to Stanley Fallaw?
A.Listening to others’ critics. B.Persevering through failure.
C.Sticking to your goals. D.Living a thrift life.
3.What is harmful for people to build wealth?
A.To live thriftily.
B.To follow others’ spending habits.
C.To avoid the temptation of new purchases.
D.To keep away from lavish vacations.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A.What People Should Read B.Why We Need Strict Goals
C.How Millionaires Get Rich D.When People Will Become Millionaires
假定你是星光中学高一（1）班的班长李华，得知下学期英国学生Jim将作为交换生到你班学习。请你代表全班同学给他写一封邮件，要点如下：
1. 表示欢迎；
2. 介绍你们学校的情况；
3. 希望在此学习期间能够加深了解，增进友谊。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（╲）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last year, I went to Australia for a short-term study like an international student. One of my classmates suggested we shared our favorite recipes for foods from our own countries during New Year’s party. We all agreed to this wonderful idea and cooked my unique dishes for the party. Hariyati from Indonesia shared a kind of cookie what was shaped like elephant ears. Susan from South Africa prepared some sweet dumplings packed in several banana leaf. Chiemi from Japan cooked special rice balls mixing with fish. And I was served Daoxiao noodles, my hometown—Shanxi’s local food. These variously foods were all delicious. Therefore, my favorite was still Chinese food.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Internet is the 1. (big) source of information in the world, 2. consists of millions of pages of data.
It dates back to 1969 when a US defense 3. (organize) developed a way for all their computers to talk to each other through their telephone. They 4. (create) a network called DAEPANET, which, however, 5. (use) only by the US army. Then in 1984, the NSF started the NSFNET network, which was known 6. the Inter-Network. Later, an English scientist put forward 7. idea of the World Wide Web while he was working in Swizerland in 1989. He made 8. possible for everyone to use the Internet. The first “web browser” 9. (design) by him allowed computer users 10. (access) documents from other computers. From that moment on, the Internet grew. Within five years, the number of Internet users rose from 600,000 to 40 million.
