Mr. Lee, may I ask you a question?
—______.
A. It’s a pleasure B. Go ahead
C. With pleasure D. So do you.
二班的同学进行了一场有关英语学习的讨论。讨论的题目是：学习英语要不要从儿童时期开始？请你根据下表中的提示写一篇短文，介绍讨论的情况。
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1. 应从儿童时期开始学习英语 2. 儿童时期记忆力好，可以记住很多单词 3. 能为以后的英语学习打下坚实的基础 |
1. 不应从儿童时期开始学习英语 2. 儿童时期既要学汉语拼音又要学英语，易混淆 3. 会影响汉语学习和今后的英语学习 |
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注意：1. 文章的起始句已给出；
2. 词数：80 — 100（不包括已给的起始句）；
3. 参考词汇：基础— foundation 汉语拼音— Chinese Pinyin
说明：1. 内容要点可用不同方式表达。
2. 对紧扣主题的适当发挥不予扣分。
The students of Class 3 had a discussion about whether it is necessary to start learning English from childhood. _________________________________________________________________________________
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1. 我细细地看了这篇文章，了解到那是为农村妇女写的。
I ___________________the text and realized that it was __________________ women in the countryside.
2. 我发现林巧稚把毕生都奉献给了病人，而自己却选择了独身。
I discovered that Lin Qiaozhi __________ her patients and had chosen not to have a family ___________.
3. 多亏了他的研究，联合国在消除世界饥饿的战斗中又多了些方法。
______________his research, the UN has more tools in the battle ______________.
4. 他们主要是想保持土壤肥沃且免受病害。
They ______________ keeping their soil ___________________.
5. 在人们感到沮丧的时候，他可以使他们开怀大笑，于是他们就对自己的生活感到比较满足。
He made people laugh at a time when they ______________, so they could feel _____________their lives.
6. 不是所有文化背景下的人都以同样方式寒暄，接触陌生人时，距离太近或太远都会使他们不舒服。
Not all cultures ______________________the same way, _____________________ in the same way with
touching or distance between people.
1. The a___________ temperature in Hangzhou last month was 22℃.
2. The little boy was very c____________ about what was in the box and couldn’t wait to open it.
3. An i___________ is a large building for an organization which provides people with help, work, medical treatment or protection, such as a school or hospital.
4. It’s necessary for scientists to o__________ natural phenomena before they can draw a conclusion.
5. The plane was delayed but the passengers didn’t get any e_____________.
6. “Keep quiet!” she w__________ to me when she entered the meeting-room.
7. The postman’s job is to d_____________ parcels and letters.
8. One of the most famous c__________ of Shakespeare is The Merchant of Venice.
9. Would you mind if I r__________ the weight of a parcel by taking something out?
10. It was a good concert but I enjoyed the last song p___________.
The 2012 London Olympics had enough problems to worry about. But one more has just been added --- a communications blackout caused by solar storms.
After a period of calm within the Sun, scientists have detected the signs of a fresh cycle of sunspots that could peak in 2012, just in time for the arrival of the Olympic torch in London.
Now scientists believe that this peak could result in vast solar explosions that could throw billions of tons of charged matter towards the Earth, causing strong solar storms that could jam the telecommunications (通信) satellites and interact links sending five Olympic broadcast from London.
“The Sun’s activity has a strong influence on the Earth. The Olympics could be in the middle of the next solar maximum which could affect the functions of communications satellites,” said Professor Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
At the peak of the cycle, violent outbursts called coronal mass ejections (日冕物质抛射) occur in the Sun’s atmosphere, throwing out great quantities of electrically-charged (带电) matter. “A coronal mass ejection can carry a billion tons of solar material into space at over a million kilometers per hour. Such events can expose astronauts to a deadly amount, can disable satellites, cause power failures on Earth and disturb communications,” Professor Harrison added. The risk is greatest during a solar maximum when there is the greatest number of sunspots.
Next week in America, NASA is scheduled to launch a satellite for monitoring solar activity called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which will take images of the Sun that are 10 times clearer than the most advanced televisions available.
The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory helped to make the high-tech cameras that will capture images of the solar flares (太阳耀斑) and explosions as they occur.
Professor Richard Holdaway, the lab’s director, said that the SDO should be able to provide early warning of a solar flare or explosion big enough to affect satellite communications on Earth “If we have advance warning, we’ll be able to reduce the damage. What you don’t want is things switching off for a week with no idea of what’s caused the problem,” he said.
1.
The phrase underlined part in paragraph one most probably refers to _______ during the 2012 Olympics.
A. the state of the Olympic torch being put out
B. the failure of broadcasting systems
C. the transportation breakdown in London
D. the destruction of weather satellites
2.
What can be inferred about the solar activity described in the passage?
A. The most deadly matter from the corona falls onto Earth.
B. The solar storm peak occurs in the middle of each cycle.
C. It takes several seconds for the charged matter to reach Earth.
D. The number of sunspots decreases after coronal mass ejections.
3.
Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Solar Storms: An Invisible Killer
B. Solar Storms: Earth Environment in Danger
C. Solar Storms: Threatening the Human Race
D. Solar Storms: Human Activities to Be Troubled
WASHINGTON — Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, according to researchers.
Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found on Thursday.
Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others --- even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.
“We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn,” said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.
They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.
“Regardless of how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not,” Dunn said in a statement.
Dunn’s team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing bonus of between $3,000 and $8,000.
“Employees who devoted more of their bonus to pro-social spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.
“Finally, participants who were randomly (随机地) required to spend money on others experienced greater happiness than those required to spend money on themselves,” they said.
They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it. Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.
“These findings suggest that very minor adjustment in spending allocations (分配) --- as little as $5 --- may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day,” Dunn said.
This could also explain why people are no happier even though US society is richer.
“Indeed, although real incomes have increased dramatically in recent decades, happiness levels have remained largely flat within developed countries across time,” they wrote.
1.
Dune’s experiment on 630 Americans was to ________.
A. help people make careful plans for their money B. encourage people to be generous to others
C. see how to spend money is important to happiness D. test whether $5 is enough to buy happiness
2.
What can we conclude according to the experiment?
A. Happiness largely depends on the size of your bonus money.
B. Happiness, as a matter of fact, has nothing to do with money.
C. The more money you give away, the happier person you will be.
D. Spending money for the good of society will make you happier.
3.
How many different ways are used by the researchers to test their theory?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
4.
The last sentence of the passage means _______.
A. happiness does not necessary increase as money grows
B. people in richer countries actually have more problems
C. fast economic growth has a bad effect on people’s life
D. great increase of income contributes to keeping happiness level stable
