My elder sister felt sick because _________ ate too much ice cream yesterday.
A.he B.she C.you D.we
Tom, hurry up, _________ you can't catch the school bus.
A.so B.but C.and D.or
命运不是机遇，而是选择。命运不靠等待，而凭争取。
某英文网站正在开展以“我的选择”为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华，请用英文写一 篇短文投稿，谈谈你曾经做出的一个选择，以及这个选择对你的影响。
提示词语：face, interest, weigh, decide to, master of my life
提示问题：• What choice did you make?
• What influence did the choice have on you?
My Choice
Life is all about choices._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
假如你是李华，你们学校将组织一次“书法作品展(Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition) , 活动中不仅有学生作品展，还有书法讲座和书法体验活动等。你打算邀请你们班交换生Peter参加，请用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉他活动的时间、地点和内容，以及邀请他参加的原因。
提示词语：on show (展出)，lecture, experience, ink and brush, culture
提示问题：• When and where will the exhibition be held?
•What activities will you have?
•Why do you invite Peter to attend it?
Dear Peter,
How is it going?
There’ll be a Chinese calligraphy exhibition in our school.
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If there is anything more that I can help with, please let me know.
Yours,
Li Hua
Eating Together, Separately
Separate dining is common in the western culture, while in China's dining culture, whether dining at home or eating out, a grouped dining system is used in most situations.
However, the coronavirus pandemic has challenged the deep-rooted Chinese dining tradition of sharing dishes together, which inspires the government, restaurants and citizens to rethink about eating customs.
Standards on individual (供一人用的)dining, serving chopsticks (公筷)and two pairs of chopsticks came out on March 18. Here are the main points.
Individual diners' food should he served to customers in separate tableware.
Each shared dish should be served with a separate pair of serving chopsticks.
Each diner should have two pairs of differently colored chopsticks. One is to get food from shared dishes to place into individual howls, and the other is for eating from individual bowls.
The above new standards aim to protect the public health in a scientific and practical way. Over 200 companies have followed the guidelines. In order to encourage customers to follow the standards, some restaurants offer parking coupons (优惠券)to those who use serving chopsticks.
According to a survey about separate dining by think tank Thinker, nearly 89% of 100,000 interviewees believe it's more hygienic (卫生的)because it reduces the risk of infection via saliva (唾液传染）.
For Chinese, it is not easy to change their dining behavior, because they think the grouped dining system is a tradition. When they share the food, they are building up a close relationship among diners. Besides, it is difficult to divide Chinese dishes into separate parts.
Eating separately is a break from tradition, but it is helpful to prevent diseases and improve health. People can still sit at the same table, sharing the same food and the same culture in a new way. It also encourages advanced cooking skills, which means a chance of creating something new in Chinese food.
1.When did the standards on individual dining come out?
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2.What is the aim of the new standards?
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3.How do some restaurants encourage customers to use serving chopsticks?
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4.Why is it not easy to change Chinese dining behavior?
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5.According to the passage, what do you think of eating separately?
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Some apps highlight (凸显)when a person is online—and then share the information with the followers. Researchers at the University of Washington say that people could have more control over whether to show their online status (状态)in this case.
To find out whether people realize the apps are sharing this information and whether these indicators (标识)change how people behave online, the research team carried out a study among users of different apps.
The team asked participants if the apps they used showed their online status to their network. Almost 90% of the participants correctly named at least one of the apps they used that had online status indicators. But for at least one app they used, 62. 5% answered “not sure” and 35. 5% answered "no.” (Actually the app did.) The researchers also asked participants whether they noticed when others were online, whether they thought others noticed when they were online, and whether they had changed their own behavior because they did or didn't want to appear online.
The answers show that many people misunderstand online status indicators but still carefully shape their behavior to control how they are displayed to others. More than half of the participants reported that they had suspected ('怀疑有)that someone had noticed their status. Meanwhile, over half reported that they had logged on to an app just to check someone else5s status. And 43% of the participants mentioned changing their settings or behavior because they were trying to avoid one specific person.
“We see this repeated way of people changing their behavior to meet the demands of technology一as opposed to technology adapting to us and meeting our needs,” said Lucy Simko, a UW doctoral student in the Allen School That means people are choosing to go online not because they want to do something there but because it's important that their status indicator is projecting the right thing at the right time.
“Now, many people are working from home and socializing only online to fight the coronavirus pandemic (新冠疫情)，and some employees use their online status to indicate that they are working and available for meetings," the team says. So there's an opportunity to think about how future development of this technology could change how people use online status indicators.
Your comfort zone is a place, activity, situation or psychological state in which you feel free from anxiety and things are within your ability or control. But stepping out of it also has positive results.
When you break free and try new things, you'll be more productive and get more unexpected changes. That's because by living outside your comfort zone when you choose to, you can experience uncertainty in a controlled, manageable environment, which can prepare you for future life changes that force you out of it. Besides, as you step out of your comfort zone, productive discomfort becomes more normal to you, and you'll be willing to push further before your performance falls off.
Here are some ways to break out of your comfort zone without going too far:
Do everyday things differently. Ride your bike instead of taking the bus to school. Try a different diet. Use a new operating system. Don't be upset if things don't work out the way you planned.
Break the activity down into small steps. If you're frightened or overwhelmed (难以承受的)by the challenge you\e picked for yourself, don't do it at once. You can make it a multi-step process that will let you slowly climb that mountain.
Trust yourself and make snap decisions. Perhaps you are more comfortable weighing all of the possible choices several times, but sometimes making a snap call is in order, just to get things moving. Doing so can help you kickstart your personal projects and teach you to trust your judgment.
Yet, with all its possible benefits, you can't live outside of your comfort zone all the time. You need to come back from time to time to review your experiences. Take time to reflect on your experiences so you can apply the benefits you've got to your day-to-day activities.
Your comfort zone is neither a good or bad thing. It's a natural state that most people trend towards (倾向于). Leaving it means increased risk and anxiety, which can have positive and negative results, but don't demonize (妖魔化)your comfort zone as something holding you hack. We all need that headspace where we're least anxious and stressed so we can process the benefits we get when we leave it.
1.The word "snap” in Paragraph 6 probably means "______________" .
A.quick B.clear C.balanced D.thoughtful
2.Which might be the best example of breaking out of your comfort zone without going too far?
A.You went shopping when you were bored or upset.
B.You decided to watch a movie before the final exam.
C.You tried on all the shirts in a store to find the one you wanted.
D.You walked to school today although you prefer riding your bike.
3.The writer probably agrees that ______________.
A.experiencing uncertainty in a controlled way has negative effects
B.making a change to our routine helps to increase our productivity
C.reducing stress and risk is what we need to bring out the best in us
D.breaking activities down into small steps leads to greater achievements
4.What is the writer's main purpose in writing this passage?
A.To explain the reasons to step out of the comfort zone.
B.To advise people to treat the comfort zone in a proper way.
C.To introduce some ways of improving day-to-day performance.
D.To stress the importance of dealing with uncomfortable moments.
