Jeremy grew up being active in sports. But he never thought about healthy eating until he found himself gaining weight several years after college. Last week, Jeremy hit a turning point when he found that he was too out of shape to play in a company football team. He decided to change his eating habits.
The first step Jeremy took toward healthy eating was to stop going to fast-food restaurants. Jeremy used to eat fast food as often as 4 times a week. To his surprise, he found that giving up fast food wasn’t that difficult. Now, he says, “I don’t even like it anymore.” When Jeremy does go out to eat, he tries to pick menu items that he knows are healthier. He orders salads and lower-fat sandwiches instead of hamburgers, and he drinks water instead of soda pop. “I try to order things that are already prepared the way I would like them to be prepared.”
Planning meals has been a key to Jeremy’s success. It helps him avoid getting too hungry and eating fast food. Each week he plans what he will eat for each meal, and he shops for groceries (食品杂货) with his plan in mind. “It’s a lot easier to make healthy choices when you’re just planning ahead for it.” Rather than cutting out certain foods, Jeremy sometimes includes his favourite foods in his eating plan. “That way I don’t feel like I’m letting myself down by not sticking to my plan.”
Jeremy’s friends and family noticed when he started eating healthier. They have helped him to make a habit of his healthy eating changes. “It made me feel pretty good, especially when people started making comments about the changes I was making,” he says. “You just get the positive energy.”
1.What made Jeremy decide to change his eating habits?
A.Higher food prices. B.Weight gain in college .
C.Dislike of unhealthy foods. D.Failing to join a football team.
2.What did Jeremy think of giving up fast food?
A.It was too easy for him. B.It made him uncomfortable.
C.It was not as difficult as he thought. D.It meant stopping going out to eat.
3.What played the most important role in Jeremy’s healthy eating?
A.Eating less at mealtimes. B.Making plans ahead of time.
C.Following his friends’ advice. D.Cutting out all unhealthy foods.
4.How does Jeremy feel about people’s comments?
A.Surprised. B.Encouraged C.Worried. D.Interested.
5.In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?
A.Health. B.Science. C.Education. D.Entertainment.
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,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
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.
