Your colleague’s sharp comment keeps replaying in your mind. Two of your students are trapped in a “he said/she said” battle. When you reflect on your emotional reactions, you sometimes get caught up in cycles of negative feelings, which can make you feel even worse. If so, the answer may lie in a skill called “self-distancing”，the ability to take a step back and view yourself more objectively. According to a research, when people adopt self-distancing while discussing a difficult event, they make better sense of their reactions, experience less emotional suffering, and display fewer signs of stress.
But what might self-distancing look like in action? Consider a typical “he said/she said” student conflict where they are each focusing on their own feelings. One is thinking，“I can’t believe he did that to me.” And another insists, “She really hurt my feelings.” However, if you ask them to take the self-distancing, they might step outside of themselves and ask broader questions: “Why was he so hurt in this situation?” or “How did her anger affect him?”
Although this approach may sound too simple to be effective, studies indicate that a change in point of view can have a powerful effect on the way people think, feel, and behave. Here are several different techniques you can try.
First，consider how a thoughtful friend might respond after quietly observing their situation. Besides, avoid using the pronoun “I”. Focus on using third-person pronouns, he, she, they, and they were able to see the stressful event as challenging rather than threatening. Finally, ask yourself, “How would I feel about this one week from now or ten years from now?” This form of mental time travel may be effective because our attention is directed away from our immediate, concrete circumstances.
1.What is self-distancing?
A.Getting stuck in negative emotions. B.A stressful situation.
C.A study on relieving emotional stress. D.Reflecting on yourself objectively.
2.Paragraph 2 is developed by____.
A.example B.definition
C.classification D.process
3.Which of the following statement uses the techniques of self-distancing?
A.I’m angry with him.
B.How I wish I could go back to the past!
C.How did these two people get to this point?
D.He grabbed my notes, and then, and then...
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Why Self-distancing Matters
B.The Application of Self-distancing
C.Breaking the Cycle of Negative Reflection
D.Ways to Reflect on Emotional Reactions
Feeling achy and feverish? Your misery has plenty of company. By the end of December, the tally (计数器) of flu-like illnesses in the state exceeded the peaks in the two previous seasons, when the biggest number of cases occurred in February and March. This time, the flu virus seems to be hitting even harder.
Flu is unique among human diseases. It circulates constantly in cool and dry areas. Because it spreads from person to person and can be picked up easily, nearly everyone is exposed. While it’s unclear whether the annual flu epidemic (流行病) will worsen this year, or just arrived earlier, fears have been increased by the severity of flu in Australia during its most recent season and the fact that the vaccine may protect against the predominant (盛行的) kind of the flu only 30 percent of the time.
Despite the worries, doctors and public health officials say there is no evidence that people are getting sicker than usual. Flu cases in Massachusetts started rising around Thanksgiving and increased steadily, with an especially steep climb in the last week of the year. “This is a bad flu season but not a horrible one,” said Dr. Andrew G. Villanueva, a lung specialist and chief quality officer at the Lahey Hospital & Medieal Centre in Burlington.
The flu season, while clearly in full swing, doesn’t “feel different” from previous years, Villanueva said. “We’re not seeing a lot of people being hospitalized because of flu,” he said. “Most people with the flu recover on their own without medical care.”
1.What’s the function of the first paragraph?
A.A lead-in. B.A comment. C.A summary. D.A background.
2.What can be learned about the flu this year according to the text?
A.The outbreak of the flu is terrible.
B.The flu has arrived earlier than before.
C.The vaccine against the nu is highly effective.
D.Everyone feels horrible at the mention of the flu.
3.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.Crowded B.Changeable C.Permanent D.Active
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A.To explain what flu is.
B.To rid people of flu panic.
C.To warn readers of how serious the flu is.
D.To inform readers how to prevent the flu.
Flower Show—The Great Garden Festival
This year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show promises to be the best “Great Garden Festival”. Discover beautiful garden displays, practical gardening advice, great shopping, quality food and entertainment, each with its own distinctive theme and flavour. Hands-on help is all around, with experts to quiz and top nursery plantspeople sharing their skills on the show.
TICKET PRICES
As a member, you’ll enjoy priority show tickets, discounts and as well as days out at more than 150 gardens.
Time (Thursday 10 - Sunday 13 July) | Members’ Rates (In Advance) |
10am-7:30pm | ￡23.5 |
3pm-7:30pm | ￡15 |
Time (Thursday 10 - Sunday 13 July) | Public Rates (In Advance) |
10am-7:30pm | ￡30 |
3pm-7:30pm | ￡19 |
Time (Thursday 10 - Sunday 13 July) | On the Day Rates |
10am-7:30pm | ￡34 |
3pm-7:30pm | ￡21 |
Up to 2 children 16 and under go FREE with an accompanying adult.
HOW TO FIND US
By Rail
Hampton Court station is approximately 30 minutes from London Waterloo. Save money on your entry ticket when you travel with South West Trains.
By Launches
Arrive by boat with Launches to the flower show entrance. Shuttle trip from Hampton Court station just ￡2.50. The members departing from piers (码头) in Kingston save ￡2 on adult fare — please show membership card.
BY Road
Take the District Line to Richmond underground station, then the R68 bus Hampton Court.
Parking
We recommend parking at the showground which costs￡10 per day and is available at the Stud Gate car park on the A308 Hampton Court Road, and the Hampton Court ear park opposite Hampton Court Palace. Frequent courtesy buses will rin all day between this facility and Hampton Court station.
1.We can know from Paragraph 1 that ________.
A.the Flower Show is sure to be the best festival.
B.the visitors can taste delicious food with local flavour.
C.the Flower Show provides professional consulting service.
D.the visitors can leam how to garden and well their own plants.
2.How much is the public rate (in advance) for 11am on Thursday 10 July?
A.￡34. B.￡23.5. C.￡30. D.￡15.
3.Which means of transportation provides priority for the members?
A.By rail. B.By launches. C.By road. D.By car.
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友John想要加入他所在学校的中文俱乐部，但是他的中文不好，所以他不知道自己是否应该提出申请。请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1.建议他申请；
2.给出理由；
3.表达期望。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，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 summer, a Romanian family moves into our neighborhood and a friend introduced me to them. They were a young couple with an 8-year-old daughter. Both parents worked and the girl were going to be on her own a lot of. She truly wanted to improve poor English. Therefore, I offered to look after her but teach her English during a summer holiday. To my delighted, she got on well with my daughter. What was surprised was that they became best friend. To be honest, I am really grateful for that I made up my mind to do for the girl during that summer.
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。
Food waste is one of the greatest1.(challenge) of our time, and fruit and vegetables are2.(especial) problematic, as about 52% of them go bad before reaching consumers. But one Malaysian company has come up3.a simple solution(解决方案)to this problem-a tiny sticker that keeps fruit from going bad for up to weeks.
You’ve probably seen stickers on fruit before, but not like the ones4.(create)by the Malaysian company. Those common stickers are used only to provide consumers with information about the growers and how the fruit was grown, but Stixfresh has5.completely different purpose. It6.(contain) something special and all-natural that slows down the ripening(成熟)process, keeping the fruit fresh and juicy for much7.(long).
Stixfresh founder Zhafri Zainudin says that he thought of the idea for the stickers after visiting a friend8.ran a fruit store. The man was worried about losing money every day because of bad fruit, but he knew that there was no way to stop nature from taking9.(it) course. The Malaysian businessman worked with many universities10.(develop) and test his sticker.
At first, Stixfresh stickers were only used to lengthen the shelf-life of mangoes, but the company later worked on other fruit, like dragon fruit, star fruit, apples and pears.
