Back in March, when the COVID-19 virus had just started its deadly influence across the country and people were terrified about a lack of every daily necessity, Jonny Blue focused on one particularly urgent need. Blue, a 33-year-old doctor saw reports of people buying and storing toilet paper. He came up with a simple yet clever solution.
One Saturday morning, Blue took a piece of cardboard, wrote “Share Your Toilet Paper” on it in huge letters, and camped out on the street corner. “It just inspired me to remind people that if you have a lot of something, that probably means there are people who don’t have very much of it because you took it all,” Blue said. “So sharing it is probably a good thing to keep in mind.”
The response was immediate and positive, with motorists honking horns(鸣笛) in support. Drivers stopped to drop off spare rolls of toilet paper, and, just as quickly, Blue handed them out.
“This guy said he just ran out and was going to a bunch of stores and couldn’t find any,” Blue said as cars went by. “Somebody had given me some, so I gave it to him. He was excited. He was like, ‘Do you want me to pay you?’ I said, ‘No, man. Take it.’”
A moment later, a driver in a white pickup truck slowed down just enough to take out a roll to add to Blue’s collections.
“People are loving it,” Blue said. “They’re honking, smiling, laughing. It’s kind of a hard time right now. People want a sense of community.”
1.What were people worried about at the beginning of the COVID-19 virus?
A.Unfriendly neighbors. B.Expensive toilet paper.
C.Lack of medical support. D.Not enough daily necessities.
2.What is the purpose of Blue’s action?
A.To stop buying and storing. B.To encourage toilet paper sharing.
C.To advise people to save toilet paper. D.To help people live a healthy lifestyle.
3.What does the underlined word “them” in paragraph 3 refer to ?
A.Drivers. B.Letters. C.Motorists. D.Rolls of toilet paper.
4.Which of the following best describes Blue?
A.Professional. B.Humorous. C.Warm-hearted. D.Outgoing.
5.What can be a best title for the text?
A.The Toilet Paper Sharing B.Lack of Daily Necessities
C.Influences of COVID-19 D.Useful Advice from a Doctor
假如你是李华，你在英国一所高中学校做交换生，你准备自荐参加该校的汉语演讲俱乐部，内容包括:1. 自我介绍及优势；2. 你想做的事，如传播汉语文化等；注意:1.可适当添加内容；2.词数:100左右。
Dear Sir\Madam,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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。作文中共有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( Λ )，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。
Yesterday was my best friend Li Ming’ s birthday. When school is over, I went to the bookshop. I bought a book calling “Exploring space”, and had it wrapped for him. Since he had wanted to buy this book for many week, I knew that he would be very pleased with my present.
While I got to the party, Li Ming said ‘hello’ to me with big smile. I noticed that there were many presents on the floor, but I was sure that mine would be her favourite. I gave the present to Li Ming but whispered in his ear, ‘You will love it’. He could not wait to unwrap it. Sudden, the smile on his face disappeared. I looked and I saw some big words on the cover of the book said, Caring for Your Baby! I had picked up out the wrong in the shop!
Tired from a full day’s work, Rosa Parks got on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955 and forever became one of the inspirational people who _______ the world. She sat down among several white passengers, along with three _______ African-Americans, in the middle of the bus.
At a later stop, after Parks had _______ her seat, a white passenger _______ the full bus. By the then-current Montgomery laws, the black passengers were _______ obligated to leave their seats and give them over to _______white passengers.
It seemed a _______ situation as the white passenger _______ his way down the aisle(过道). The bus driver, James F. Blake, left the driver’s _______ and moved directly up to the four black passengers. His ________ was to get the black passengers to move to the ________ of the bus-basically, it was standard operating procedure.
While the other three black passengers ________ Blake and moved on, Rosa Parks refused to do this. Blake eventually contacted the ________ police and they arrested her.
This ________ is considered one of the moments in the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. It ________ a year-long bus boycott in the city of Montgomery, ________ by Martin Luther King, Jr. That movement changed civil rights in the United States ________.
Parks lived to the age of 92, dying in 2005. She was ________ a posthumous statue in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. She was also granted the ________ of “lying in honor” at the Capitol Rotunda, only the third ________ citizen to be so honored.
1.A.respected B.changed C.accepted D.broke
2.A.other B.rest C.ugly D.poor
3.A.got down B.occupied with C.came along D.settled into
4.A.drove B.avoided C.found D.boarded
5.A.legally B.finally C.originally D.classically
6.A.crying B.standing C.quarreling D.drinking
7.A.routine B.proper C.ordinary D.reasonable
8.A.took B.fought C.made D.wound
9.A.door B.window C.wheel D.seat
10.A.action B.behavior C.intention D.hope
11.A.back B.outside C.center D.front
12.A.scolded B.obeyed C.beat D.pleased
13.A.clever B.national C.local D.strict
14.A.affair B.accident C.conflict D.incident
15.A.sparked B.sent C.promoted D.heated
16.A.moved B.found C.held D.led
17.A.forever B.deeply C.either D.just
18.A.offered B.rewarded C.presented D.passed
19.A.fame B.honor C.name D.title
20.A.well-known B.private C.special D.amazing
Building trust inside your team
A team without trust isn’t really a team: it’s just a group of individuals, working together, often making disappointing progress. 1. So how can you, as a leader, help your team to build the trust that it needs to develop? In this article, we’ll look at the issue of trust within teams and what you can do to build it.
Lead by example.
If you want to build trust within your team, then lead by example, and show your people that you trust others. This means trusting your team, your colleagues, and your boss. 2. They are taking cues(提示) from your behavior. Take the opportunity to show them what trust in others really looks like.
Know each other personally.
One way to build trust is to encourage your team members to know each other. Think about creating situations that help them to share personal stories, and to bond. 3. Start by sharing some personal information about yourself, and then ask someone else about a hobby, or a musical interest.
4. .
When people work together, there will be honest mistakes and disappointments, and it’s easy to blame someone for these. However, when everyone starts pointing fingers, an unpleasant atmosphere can quickly develop. This lowers trust, and is finally unproductive.
Discuss trust issues.
If you manage a team that has trust issues, it’s important to find out how these problems originate, so that you can come up with a strategy for overcoming them. Consider giving team members a questionnaire to fill out anonymously(匿名的). 5. Once you’ve read the results, get everyone together to talk about these issues.
A.Do not place blame.
B.Try to avoid mistakes and disappointments.
C.Ask them about the reasons for their lack of trust.
D.Do this by asking sensitively about their family or hobbies.
E.Never forget that your team members are always watching you.
F.Instead, encourage everyone to think about the mistake positively.
G.However, when trust is in place, the group can achieve meaningful goals.
The five-year trial, conducted by the researchers at the University of Connecticut, followed nearly 600 students from 12 schools in New Haven.
In schools with improved nutrition policies and programs, students had healthier BMI (body mass index) over time. By the end of the study they reported healthier behaviors than their peers in schools without the nutrition policies and programs. Students in schools with support for improved nutrition policies had an increase in BMI of less than 1%. However, the BMI of students in schools without improved support for these policies and programs increased 3% to 4% .
“These findings can provide guidance for schools and communities. Childhood obesity(肥胖)is a serious health threat, and schools are a vital way to reach children and their families to reduce risks and promote health,” said lead author Jeannette Ickovics.
The study is one of the first school-based policy guidance studies that followed students through middle school. “This is some of the most persuasive evidence we have to date that strongly proved that nutrition education and promoting healthy eating behaviors in the classroom and cafeteria can have a meaningful impact on children’s health,” said Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center and senior study author.
The nutritional guidance in the schools studied included ensuring that all school-based meals met nutritional criteria; providing nutritional directions for students and their families; school-wide campaigns to limit sugary drinks and encourage the use of water; and limiting the use of food or drinks as rewards for academic performance or good behavior.
In the study authors said that more than one in five American teenagers are currently obese, and as many as one in two are overweight or obese. Being overweight or obese early in life affects health across the lifespan(寿命),contributing to a range of chronic(慢性的)diseases that reduce productivity and shorten lifespan.
1.What can we infer from the trial?
A.Family is responsible for students’ diets.
B.Childhood obesity has become more and more serious.
C.Peer pressure influences students’ academic performance .
D.School-based nutritional programs reduce student obesity.
2.What’s the benefit of the findings?
A.Helping cure obesity in different age groups .
B.Offering reference to schools and communities.
C.Overcoming students’ bad habit of wasting food.
D.Adjusting people’s food structures and removing poverty.
3.The fifth paragraph is mainly about the nutritional guidance’s___.
A.specific measures B.potential problems
C.operation procedure D.matters needing attention
4.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the last paragraph?
A.To let us know the current state of American lifespan.
B.To introduce some chronic diseases caused by obesity.
C.To advise parents to pay more attention to their children’s health.
D.To stress the necessity of conducting the nutritional guidance in schools.
