It is unfair that such a nice person like Jane ______ lose her job. She works so hard!
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A．can |
B．may |
C．should |
D．shall |
— Are you pleased with what he has done?
— It couldn’t be ________. He must have put a lot of effort into his work.
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A．any worse |
B．any better |
C．so bad |
D．the best |
St. Louis has replaced Camden, New Jersey ______ the most dangerous US city, according to a study based on FBI crime data which was released Monday.
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A．for |
B．to |
C．as |
D．with |
Translate the following sentences into English, using the word or phrase given in the brackets.
1.他对那所学校的前途忧心仲仲。（concern）
2.她是那些女孩中唯一昨天缺席会议的人。（absent）
3.你多年的努力迟早会得到成功的回报。（reward）
4.随着生活条件的改善，老百姓拥有私人汽车不再是梦想。 (With…)
5.我们已经形成规律，每隔一周召开一次班会交流学习经验。 (…it…)
Hello. It’s one of the first words we learn as babies, yet it’s one of the last words we think to use as adults today. That’s unfortunate, because saying hello is more than just saying hello——it is recognition of another’s worth. How might the world change——how might we change——if we mastered this word? To find out, I spent one month saying hello to every person I met. Here’s what I’ve learned.
It can boost (促进) productivity. In one of the few studies ever done on this subject, Allan All day, an assistant professor of special education at Oklahoma State University, had middle school teachers greet their students individually each morning. This exchange of greetings raised the kids’ productivity. School went from impersonal to personal, and that resulted in more class participation and better grades.
Environments influence friendliness. One study found that people in the city were less likely to shake hands with a stranger than those in the countryside. My experience was similar. Whatever the reason, my urban hellos were answered far less often than my rural ones. Similarly, people in vacation spots were far friendlier than those hurrying work downtown.
It’s a form of universal health insurance. It’s impossible to say hello without smiling. And smiling has been shown to lower blood pressure, relieve stress and boost happiness. Apparently, a smile creates a similar effect in the recipient (接受者).
So maybe we can make the world a better place by____________. After a month of doing it, I feel lighter and I have a better sense of well-being.
1. What does the author say about the adults’ saying hello today?
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?
Teachers and students got friendlier so that the students became more active in learning and scored higher in tests.
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3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words. (within 5 words)
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4.What are the three effects of smiling on health according to the text. (within 8 words)
Smiling can ___________________________________________________________
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A. Importance of Learning from Failure B. Quality Shared by Most Innovators C. Edison’s Innovation D. Edison’s Comment on Failure E. Contributions Made by Innovators F. Successful Innovators |
Even Intelligent People Can Fail
1._________
The unusual things about the innovators (创新者) who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed. Turn on a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cell-phone. The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze (错综复杂) of wrong turns.
2._________
We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating a thin line to white, hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US. He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight (点亮着的) in an airless space for 45 hours. Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan, even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he turned it on, on September 4, 1882.
3.________
“Many of life’s failures,” Edison said, “are because that people did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light. But in only two cases did his experiments work.
4.________
No one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it. Mark Gumz, the head of a camera maker, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure. His popular phrase is：“You only fail when you quit.”
5._________
Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence (坚忍不拔). That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep on with what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland, was so penniless after a series of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the $1.50 to get his shoes from the repair shop. Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T Car.
