How to Become a Lifelong Learner

Learning doesn't stop just because school does. Making a commitment to yourself to learn something new every day, you will not only enjoy what you discover, but you will be able to apply your knowledge and become a teacher to future generations. Here are some steps to become a life­long learner.

Learn how you learn.1.Note what learning techniques are most efficient for you and use them as much as is practical, such as viewing online tutorials on websites like YouTube if you're more of a visual learner.

2.Try many different things so that you don't box yourself into believing you're only good at a few things. It's probable that you're good at many things, but you won't know until you've tried.

Look at learning as an exploration and opportunity, not a chore (琐事)．Don't just force yourself to learn things because they are important or necessary.3. Follow your heart, as well as your sense of duty. Do you remember the 8th grade history that you hated so much, with all those names and dates that seemed to mean nothing? The point was to bring you to learn details now, which will knit chunks of information together later.4.

Read, read, read.5. Reading is a gateway into other worlds and into the minds of your fellow human beings. And reading will help you to learn the discoveries and mistakes of others who have gone before you; reading is, in effect, a shortcut so that you don't have to learn things the hard way.

A.Learn where your talents and interests lie.

B.It was a chore then, but it makes sense, now.

C.Recognize the educational value in whatever you read.

D.Determine your own preferred learning style or styles.

E.Their ways of learning might help you to improve your own.

F.Make friends with your local library and new and used book sellers.

G.Instead, learn things that you need to learn alongside things you love to learn.

    Clothing rental is a hot new industry and retailers (零售商) are demanding to get on board in hopes of attracting green shopper.

But is renting fashion actually more environmentally-friendly than buying it, and if so, how much more? Journalist and author Elizabeth Cline investigated (调查) this question and concluded that it's not as sustainable as it seems.

Take shipping, for example, which has to go two ways if an item is rented — receiving and returning. Cline writes that consumer transportation has the second largest carbon footprint of our collective fashion habit after manufacturing.

She writes, ''An item ordered online and then returned can send out 20 kilograms of carbon each way, and increases up to 50 kilograms for rush shipping. By comparison, the carbon impact of a pair of jeans purchased from a physical store and washed and worn at home is 33.4 kilograms, according to a 2015 study by Levi's.''

Then there's the burden of washing, which has to happen for every item when it's returned, regardless of whether or not it was worn. For most rental services, this usually means dry cleaning, a high impact and polluting process. All the rental services that Cline looked into have replaced perchloroethylene (氯乙烯), a carcinogenic (致癌的) air pollutant, still used by 70 percent of US dry cleaners, with alternatives, although these aren't great either.

Lastly, Cline fears that rental services will increase our appetite for fast fashion, simply because it's so easily accessible. There's something called ''share washing'' that makes people waste more precisely because a product or service is shared and thus is regarded as more eco-friendly. Uber is one example of this, advertised as ''a way to share rides and limit ear ownership.'' and yet ''it has been proven to discourage walking,bicycling, and public transportation use.''

Renting clothes is still preferable to buying them cheap and throwing them in the dustbin after a few wears, but we shouldn't let the availability of these services make us too satisfied. There's an even better step — that's wearing what is already in the closet.

1.What is Elizabeth Cline's attitude toward clothing rental?

A.Approving. B.Unfavorable.

C.Objective. D.Enthusiastic.

2.The Uber example in Paragraph 6 indicates that      .

A.rental services are on the rise

B.clothing rental will be as successful as Uber

C.renting clothes might waste more than expected

D.renting clothes might make people lose interest in fast fashion

3.The author suggests that we should      .

A.give up renting any clothing

B.purchase inexpensive clothes

C.rent clothes rather than buy them

D.make full use of clothes we've possessed

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A.Clothing rental is a new fashion.

B.Clothing rental is retailers' preference.

C.Renting clothes is not that eco-friendly.

D.Renting-clothes business is in a dilemma.

    The driver, Zhang Sal, wandered outside an apartment building in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of the Coronavirus(冠状病毒) outbreak. He had been ordered not to take food to customers’ doors in order to minimize the risk of infection. But the woman on the phone was pleading, he recalled. The food was for her mother, who couldn't go down to meet him.

Mr. Zhang relented. He would drop off the order and sprint away, As he placed the bag on the floor, Mr. Zhang said, the door opened. Startled, he rushed away. Without thinking, he said, he jabbed the elevator button with his finger, touching a surface he feared could transmit the virus.

That was how Mr. Zhang, 32, found himself speeding back to his delivery station with one finger held high in the air, careful not to touch the rest of his hand-a quarantine in miniature. (小型隔离现场)

For many in China, delivery drivers like Mr. Zhang are the only connection to the outside world. Once a common but invisible presence on the streets of nearly every Chinese city, the drivers are now being praised as heroes.

Throughout China, at least 760 million people-almost a tenth of the world’s population-face some form of household lockdown. The rules are particularly strict in Wuhan, where government efforts to contain the virus have blocked most of the 11 million residents in their homes.

Each household can send someone out for necessities just once every three days. Many residents do not go outside at all, for fear of infection of the more than 2, 100 deaths and nearly 75,000 infections linked to the new virus, the majority have been in Wuhan.

But people still have to eat, which is why Mr. Zhang and many delivery drivers find themselves on the street each day As Wuhan and the rest of China stay at home, they have become the country’s vital arteries, keeping fresh meat, vegetables and other supplies flowing to those who need them.

It is grueling and dangerous work. Mr. Zhang, who works for Hema, a supermarket chain owned by the tech giant Alibaba, crisscrosses the city armed only with the face masks and hand sanitizer that his company supplies each morning.

The epidemic (疫情) has brought some unexpected bright spots. Before, Mr. Zhang said, he sometimes ran red lights during rush hour in order to meet his delivery goals for the day. Now, the streets are empty. He has no problem getting around.

People are nicer, too. Some customers hardly opened the door or avoided eye contact. After the outbreak erupted, everyone said thank you.

1.Why did Zhang Sai wander outside an apartment building in Wuhan? Because______________.

A.He was unwilling to take food to customers ‘doors.

B.He was afraid of being infected by the Coronavirus outbreak.

C.The woman on the phone forbade him to to take food to her door.

D.He was forbidden to take food to customers’ doors.

2.Which of the following can describe the work of delivery drivers after the outbreak of the epidemic?

A.Risky and important. B.Necessary and light-hearted.

C.Easy and creative. D.Valuable and hard-working.

3.What does the underlined part “bright spots” mean in the ninth paragraph?

A.Marks on something. B.Bright places.

C.Difficult situations. D.Good things in a bad situation.

4.Why did people become nicer and say thank you to delivery drivers after the outbreak erupted?

A.Because people need them to deliver necessities.

B.Because people have realized the value of their job.

C.Because of the outbreak of the epidemic.

D.Because of the danger of infection.

    When international aid is given, steps must be taken to ensure that the aid reaches the people for whom it is intended. The way to achieve this may not be simple. It is very difficult for a nation to give help directly to people in another nation. The United Nations Organization (UNO) could undertake to direct the distribution of aid. Here however rises the problem of costs. Also tied with this is time. Perhaps the UNO could set up a body of devoted men and women in every country who can speedily distribute aid to victims of floods and earthquakes.

More than the help that one nation can give to another during a disaster, it would be more effective to give other forms of help during normal times. A common proverb says, "Give me a fish and I eat for a day, teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” If we follow this wise saying, it would be right to teach people from less developed nations to take care of themselves. For example, a country could share its technology with another. This could be in simple areas like agriculture or in more complex areas like medical and health care or even in building satellites. Even a small country is able to help less developed nations. Sometimes what is taken for granted, like the setting up of a water purification plant or the administration of a school, could be useful for countries which are looking about to solve common problems. It does not cost much to share such simple things. Exchange students could be attached for a number of months or years and learn the required craft while on the site. They can then take their knowledge back to their homelands and if necessary come back from time to time to clear doubts or to update themselves. Such aid will be truly helpful and there is no chance of it being temporary or of it falling into the wrong hands.

Many countries run extensive courses in all sorts of skills. It will not cost much to include deserving foreigners in these courses. Besides giving effective help to the countries concerned there is also the build-up of friendships to consider. Giving direct help by giving materials may be effective in the short run and must continue to be given in the event of emergencies. However, in the long run what is really effective would be the sharing of knowledge.

1.The second paragraph is developed mainly_____________.

A.by analysis. B.by process.

C.by example. D.by contrast.

2.Which aid is likely to fall into the wrong hands?

A.A medical team. B.Financial support.

C.A water plant. D.An exchange program.

3.What does the author try to express in the underlined sentence?

A.Providing food is vital. B.Leaning to fish is helpful.

C.Looking after others is important. D.Teaching techniques is vital.

4.What can we infer about international aid from the passage?

A.It is facing difficulties

B.It should be given in the form of materials.

C.It has gained support by developed countries

D.It is unnecessary during normal times.

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1.You can most probably read the passage in a

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C.textbook D.newspaper

2.How much money could you save if you want to buy a travel book

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C.1801 Home remedies.

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假设你是李华，你的朋友Kevin给你发邮件说，他想从成都出发到西安旅行，想请你为他介绍一下西成高速铁路(Xi’an- Chengdu high- Speed Railway)的情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括:

1.西成高速铁路始建于2012年，2017年12月开通运营，全长658公里，时速高达250公里/小时；

2.途径绵阳等20多座城市，沿途无数美景、美食，全程大约只需3个半小时；

3.高铁列车设施齐全，安全舒适；但票价略高。

注意:

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.首尾已写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Kevin,

Knowing that you plan to travel from Chengdu to Xi’an,

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hope you have a wonderful trip.

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。文中共有5处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。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(\)划掉；

修改:在错的词下画一横线，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5处，多者(从第6处起)不计分。

Cheer-leading began in all-men colleges in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As time passes, more and more colleges started cheer-leading and more women started doing it. It was not until the 1920s when pompoms began to play an important part in cheer-leading. At about the same time, cheerleaders began to include gymnastics in their routines. Found at most athletic events, and cheer-leading competitions are an important part of school and college life. Nowadays, many American are amused by cheer-leading.

    “Nice to see you again!” “How are you doing today?” “Great to see you, have a nice day!”

I ______ my book and looked around in my seat, watching the driver ______ passengers. I’d never heard a more cheerful bus driver.

At each stop, the bus driver flashed a wide ______ , nodding his head at familiar faces and greeting people onto his lowly bus.

I was just watching the flow of the bus, and the bus driver’s air of pleasant calm, like nothing could go wrong. It ______ me a bit. Most bus drivers I’d met are not so cheery. They’re always swimming up against a long list of complaints, communicating with nameless busy riders, and constantly racing the clock so as not to run late though it’s never so easy to control. This bus driver completely ______ my sense of what it means to drive a bus. It almost brought me back to my pre-school days, when we’d sing, “The wheels on the bus go round and round,” to images of smiling bus drivers greeting their ______ and serving society with each shinning spin of their wheel or honk of their horn.

I completely put my books away, ______ there in awe. A thought ______ my head that I should tell the driver how much I appreciated seeing all the small, bold, courageous moments of his ______ I’d run into in this bus.

____ the bus approached my stop, I walked to the front of the bus.

“Thank you so much for your kindness to passengers. It’s really nice to see you,” I offered.

“Aw, that’s really glad to hear. Thank you so much! It’s nice to know that someone ______.” the bus driver said.

“Well, I really appreciate seeing it. It is ______ and makes my day,” I told him with a smile.

“Thank you!” he ______ with an ever-shining bright smile.

We talked a little more, and any wave of doubt completely ______.

Stepping ______ the bus a little lighter, I remembered a quote: “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

1.A. put away B. put down C. put up D. put out

2.A. assisting B. directing C. serving D. greeting

3.A. smile B. look C. mouth D. face

4.A. excited B. attracted C. confused D. cheered

5.A. changed B. developed C. affected D. deepened

6.A. conductors B. customers C. colleagues D. passengers

7.A. running B. sitting C. standing D. waiting

8.A. occurred B. came C. struck D. appeared

9.A. kindness B. patience C. generosity D. encouragement

10.A. Since B. As C. After D. Until

11.A. noticed B. knew C. understood D. needed

12.A. boring B. inspiring C. frustrating D. exciting

13.A. replied B. said C. told D. shouted

14.A. decreased B. formed C. arose D. faded

15.A. on B. off C. out D. down

    When the winter comes, millions of Americans realize they don’t feel as happy as usual, and may be depressed If you’re one of them, you may be suffering from “seasonal affective disorder” or SAD, whose symptoms include exhaustion, difficulty concentrating, sleep problems, body aches and pains, and a loss of interest in activities you normally enjoy. 1.

Take extra Vitamin D.

Researchers at the University of Georgia analyzed more than 100 articles that examined the link between Vitamin D and depression. They found that a lack of Vitamin D appeared to be a major factor in the development of SAD. 2.

3.

Most researchers agree that the people who fall victim to SAD most often are particularly sensitive to the lack of light. Weather permitting, go for a walk. In your home or office, try sitting close to a window that faces south.

Increase exercise.

Although exercising may be about the last thing you want to do and would rather curl up with a book or watch a DVD, studies have shown that upping your exercise routine can counteract SAD. And experts advise exercising at least 20 minutes a day at least three times a week. 4. The benefits are also long lasting. The longer you do it, the more benefit you’ll get.

Eat more fish.

5. Studies have found that people who have low levels of two chemicals found in fish, EPA and DHA, are at increased risk for depression. Either eat more fish—at least three times a week—or take fish oil capsules to combat SAD.

Although dark winter days got you down, don’t worry because nature is always waiting to help. Just enjoy the winter days and benefit from the nature!

A.Take medicine.

B.Get more light.

C.If the weather permits, take a walk.

D.Any type of exercise offers benefits.

E.Fatty fish contain omega-3 fatty acids.

F.To fight SAD, here are some easy, natural ways.

G.So the vitamin D Council recommends at least 2, 000 IU daily.

    China has entered the cinematic space race. The Wandering Earth, the country’s first blockbuster sci-fi, is on track to be one of the most successful films in China’s history.

Set in the distant future, the governments of the Earth, faced with destruction from an unstable sun, have strapped thrusters (助推器) onto the planet, carrying it out into the universe in search of a new home. But as the Earth approaches the Jupiter, something goes wrong in the system puts it on course to crash into the planet. Therefore, countless people have come forward to face the challenge and save the Earth.

The film is seen by some as the dawn of Chinese sci-fi—a field that has long been dominated by Hollywood.

China is already home to a thriving science and speculative fiction literary scene. The Wandering earth is based on the work of Liu Cixin, the author of the Three-Body Problem series and the first Chinese author to win a Hugo Award, “The Wandering earth fills the gap in Chinese sci-fi movies. It means that China’s sci-fi movies have officially set sail,” one fan of the film wrote on Douban.

China’s film market is expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest by 2022, but there is still a long way to go. The main difference between Chinese and US audience is trust. “Building trust between producers investors and the audience is the biggest challenge here. Not so many people have faith in a Chinese sci-fi movie.” said Liu. the author of the novel.

Some noted that unlike many Chinese blockbusters, The Wandering earth dials back on the patriotism. Rescue teams from around the world scramble to get the thrusters back up and running. A Russian soldier sacrifices his life to help a Chinese colleague.

“This is not a patriotic film but a film about humans saving themselves,” one reviewer said.

1.What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?

A.The plot of the film. B.The influence of the film.

C.The peak of the film. D.The background of the film.

2.Which is the closest in meaning to the word dominated in Paragraph 3?

A.controlled B.challenged

C.abandoned D.affected

3.What is the biggest challenge for Chinese sci-fi films right now?

A.Chinese sci-fi films are poorly produced.

B.There is not enough money to put into sci-fi films.

C.Chinese movie-goers lack faith in home-made sci-fi films.

D.Chinese sci-fi films don’t have a good atmosphere for creation.

4.Why does the author mention a Russian soldier’s sacrifice in the film?

A.To add more vivid and moving details to the film.

B.To compare the film with Chinese traditional films.

C.To arouse the readers’ interest in watching the film.

D.To prove the film’s theme is far beyond patriotism.

5.Which can be the most suitable title for the text?

A.The Wandering Earth helps Liu Cixin win a Hugo Award

B.The Wandering Earth challenges Hollywood in sci-fi

C.The Wandering earth calls for sacrifice to save the earth

D.The Wandering earth changes China's film industry