It seems that the Englishman just cannot live without sports of some kinds. A famous French humorist once said that this is because the English insist on behaving like children all their lives. Wherever you go in this country, you will see both children and grown-ups knocking a ball about with a stick or something, as if in Britain men always remains boys and women girls! Still, it can never be bad to get exercise, can it?
Taking all amateur﹙业余的﹚ and professional﹙职业的﹚sports in Britain into consideration, there can be no doubt that football is at the top of the list. It is called soccer in the US. The game started in Britain and was played in the Middle Ages or even earlier, though as an organized game, or association football, it dates only from the beginning of the 19th century.
The next is rugby, which is called football in the US. It is a kind of football played by two teams of fifteen players rather than eleven. In rugby, an oval-shaped﹙椭圆形的﹚ball is used which can be held by hand as well as kicked. It is a pretty rough game.
In summer, cricket is the most popular sport. In fact, it has sometimes been called the English national game. Most foreigners find the game rather slow or even boring, but it enjoys great popularity among the British.
Tennis rates high on the list, too. It was introduced into England from France in the 15th century, but it was from England that it spread to almost every country in the world.
Table tennis, or ping-pong, surely is not played as much as it is in China and Japan. Basketball and volleyball were introduced into Britain during the late 19th century from America and are gaining popularity. Horse-back riding, swimming, rowing and golf all attract a lot of people.
1.What’s the main purpose of Paragraph 1? ﹙no more than 11 words﹚
2.What are the differences between football and rugby from the passage? ﹙no more than 10 words﹚
3.According to the passage, which games were never played in Britain until the late 19th century? ﹙no more than 3 words﹚
4.What is the best title for this passage in your opinion? ﹙no more than 4 words﹚
It's every student's dream to do well in the national college entrance examination and enter a good university. In the eyes of students and parents, a good university should have a high ranking, and the employment rate of its graduates should be high. But be careful! The employment rate they tell you might not always be true.
Recently, people created a Chinese phrase "bei jiuye", which has become popular on the Internet almost overnight across China. The word "bei" has a grammatical use in Chinese: it has a function similar to the passive voice in English. But now people often use it to express their doubts about something. Here, the phrase "bei jiuye" has the literal meaning of "to be hired", but people understand that it really means "to be hired without one's knowledge" or "be hired for jobs that may not exist at all".
The story of "bei jiuye" goes like this. Zhao Dongdong, a graduate of a university in Shanxi province, was surprised to find that he got a job from a company he never applied to, which he wasn't even sure was a real place. On his last day of graduation ceremonies, he was surprised to come across the employment contract.
"God! At that time, I had not landed a job yet, but they gave me an employment contract! I wondered who on earth signed the contract with the company." When Zhao made a phone call to the company to check it out, no one answered.
He was not the only one in his college who was "hired" for a job that did not exist. One of his classmates signed a contract with a company called Xi'an Beilin Industrial Corporation, which could not be found on the Internet either. In the end, it turned out that the college had faked the contract to make it seem like the employment rate for new graduates was higher than that. By doing this, the college could build up a "good" reputation that could help it attract new students.
"Bei jiuye" is just one of many hot "bei" words on the Internet. See some of them in "Bonus". The use of "bei" is a satirical (讽刺的) way for the public to express its helplessness and criticize abuses of power, some people say. People also use "bei" words to bring attention to social problems, hoping they will be noticed by authorities.
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Standards of students’ and parents’ 1.__________ |
Having a high ranking |
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3._______ of the phrase “ Bei jiuye” |
To be hired 4._________ |
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To be hired with no knowledge or for 5.__________ jobs |
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6._________ of the appearance of the phrase “ Bei jiuye” |
Seemingly 7. __________ rate for new graduates |
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9.__________ to the hot phrase “Bei jiuye”on the Internet |
A way of expressing helpless and 10.__________ A way of fixing attention to social problems and being noticed by authorities |
Fear can be a wonderful feeling in our lives, protecting us from dangerous situations and keeping us safe. But fear can also limit our lives significantly. While it may not be conscious, fear may make us think we are unacceptable or that what we have to offer isn’t valuable. Fear may make us feel that we are not safe being ourselves.
To avoid feeling fear, we may limit our lives greatly, living in tiny boxes. Living this way gives us the illusion(假象) of safety but leaves us with an unfulfilling life of no passion. If we shine a light on many of our fears, we see they have a very limited view of what is “safe” and how to “protect” us. Many of our fears are concerned only with protecting us from humiliation(羞辱) and failure. While these fears are doing their jobs incredibly well, they are doing so with faulty and outdated programming. Many fears we have as adults are trying to protect us as they protected us when we were children. Indeed, many of our current, automatic reactions to fear were actually formed when we were children.
Even so, it’s important not to judge ourselves for feeling these types of fears. If we judge ourselves, we will bury our fears or disguise them. By denying our fears, however, we also deny our energy, creativity and passion.
So what do we do with fear? We recognize the fear for what it is--- a feeling we’ve experienced many times in the past and a feeling we will experience many times in the future. We become very familiar with our own particular brand of fears and how we allow them to control our lives. It is especially beneficial for each of us to become aware of the particular behavior patterns we’ve adopted when we feel fear, so we can look at our reactions with a sense of humor and compassion. Then, if we wish, we can choose a different response, which can be a scary yet very exciting experience.
1.According to the first paragraph, fear sometimes .
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A．protect us when we’ve made mistakes |
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B．makes sure our feelings are not hurt |
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C．brings great change to our everyday life |
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D．makes us lose confidence in ourselves |
2.It can be inferred from the passage that the author .
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A．thinks it difficult to control our fear |
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B．believes fears protect us negatively |
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C．thinks it’s good to criticize ourselves |
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D．values the advantages of feeling fear |
3.According to the author, the ways we react to fear .
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A．vary from person to person |
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B．have been formed since childhood |
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C．develop during our growth |
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D．will not change until we get old |
4.The last paragraph mainly tells us .
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A．what is the essence of fears |
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B．usual reactions we have when feeling fear |
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C．how to deal with fears reasonably |
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D．the importance of humor and compassion |
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
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A．Is fear managing your life? |
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B．Be calm when feeling fear |
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C．What do you fear most? |
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D．Passion, chance and fear |
NEW YORK---One in five U.S. workers regularly attends after-work drinks with coworkers, where the most common mishaps range from badmouthing another worker to drinking too much, according to a study released on Tuesday.
Most workers attend so-called happy hours to bond with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear the latest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel necessary, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder. com, an online job site. As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much and acted unprofessionally. Five percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent confessed to singing karaoke. While 21 percent of those who attended said happy hours were good for networking, 85 percent said attending had not helped them get closer to someone higher up or get a better position. An equal number of men and women said they attended happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least likely to attend. Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and of those nearly a quarter go at least once a month.
The survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder. Com among 6,987 full-time employees between February 11 and March 13. Harris Interactive said the results had a sampling error of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points.
1.Harris Interactive made the survey to find out .
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A．how U.S. workers spend their after-work time |
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B．what U.S. workers do at after-work drinks |
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C．the relationships between U.S. workers |
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D．who are most likely to attend after-work drinks |
2. of workers who attend after-work drinks speak ill of a colleague.
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A．4 percent |
B．8 percent |
C．16 percent |
D．10 percent |
3.According to the passage, most of those surveyed believed attending after-work drinks .
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A．benefited them a lot |
B．could provide information |
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C．only made them relaxed |
D．was of no help to them |
4.We can learn from the text that .
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A．workers over 55 don’t like to attend happy hours at all |
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B．about 75% of workers go more than once a month |
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C．10.5% of male workers attend happy hours with co-workers |
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D．about 700 workers surveyed shared a secret about a co-worker |
5.After the survey, it can be inferred that .
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A．all the workers oppose after-work drinks |
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B．the workers may change their attitudes towards after-work drinks |
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C．all the workers support after-work drinks |
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D．all the workers are suggested going to attend after-work drinks |
Senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. Women may get cards when they are sixty.
Mrs. Matthews lived in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. She always had to pay the full price for her ride.
Then she reached the age of sixty and got her senior citizen’s card, but when she used it for the first time on the bus, it made her feel very old.
The bus driver had often seen her traveling on the bus before, and he noticed that she was feeling unhappy, so after she had paid her money, he winked at her and whispered, “Don’t forget to give your mother’s card back to her when you see her again.”
Mrs. Matthews was very happy when she heard this.
1.Senior citizens in the story refer to .
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A．those who have special cards |
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B．old people with special cards |
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C．people who hold high positions in the government |
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D．those who wanted to travel cheaply |
2.Women over sixty .
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A．don’t have to pay for taking buses |
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B．pay less for their ride if they have a special card |
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C．have to pay the full price for their ride |
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D．have to pay their special card |
3.Mrs. Matthews used to pay the full price for her ride because .
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A．she didn’t know the rule |
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B．she wasn’t old enough |
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C．she didn’t know where to get the card |
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D．she had reached sixty but had not got her senior citizen card |
4.Mrs. Matthews felt unhappy on the bus because .
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A．she still had to pay for the ride |
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B．the card wasn’t hers |
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C．she felt she was now an old woman |
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D．the driver found out she was not honest |
5.The driver whispered to her .
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A．in order to make her feel younger |
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B．because he thought that she shouldn’t have borrowed her mother’s card |
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C．because he wanted her to pay the full amount |
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D．because he knew her mother was still alive |
Nowadays advertisements are everywhere. I think advertisements have both good and bad effects 1. young students.
On one hand, advertisements give us information about things 2. buy. They make 3. easier for us to choose the best product. Also, some advertisements are beautifully designed and pleasant to look at. 4. on the other hand, they can make trouble for us. First, most advertisements look attractive and they persuade us to buy things we don’t need at all. This is especially bad for young people. They are not making money yet. So they have to ask for money 5. their parents. Sometimes they buy lots of junk food 6. the advertisements look delicious. This is not healthy for them. What’s more, some advertisements don’t tell the truth. Many people find 7. cheated after using certain products.
In short, advertisements have pros and cons﹙赞成和反对点﹚. 8. young students, we should learn to deal with.
