I just wonder ____ that makes him so excited.
A. why it does B. what he does C. how it is D. what it is
Some people fear that ________ air pollution may bring about changes in _______ weather around the world.
A. /; the B. the; / C. an; the D. the; a
假定你是李华，得知你的好友王平现在高三学习非常紧张；父母期望高, 作业繁重，测试多，高考压力大等，他非常烦恼。请给他写一封信，给出你的建议，帮助他摆脱烦恼。开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
字数要求：100词左右。
Dear Wang Ping,
I've learned that you are having much trouble in your life and study.
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Looking forward to your reply!
Yours,
Li Hua
Dear Editor,
I’m the only daughter of my parents. So they worried about everything I do. For example,
when I ride my bike, my parents won’t let me to ride by myself. They are afraid I might
fall off my bike and hurt myself. They are taking great trouble to support a bike, with
my mother even carried a first-aid box. I’m not free to ride and I often say angry, “Why not
let me ride alone?”Now, most family have one child. Parents want to do everything
for his children. This does no good on them. Too many love from parents may prevent
children from independent. In my opinion, parents should let their children do that they
should do alone.
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Empathy
Last year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years. __1.__ Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.
Jennifer Freed, a co-director of a teen program, has another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. __2.__
There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature. __3.__ Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.
Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers. __4.__ “Academics are important. But if you don’t have emotional (情感的) intelligence, you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life,” she says.
What’s the best way to up your EQ (情商）? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. __5.__
To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.
A. Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships.
B. Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person.
C. That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said.
D. “One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says.
E. Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic.
F. Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel.
G. Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading(在...上面走) water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start — here’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商）who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding.
1.The author decided to write a novel ______ .
A. to finish the writing course B. to realize her own dream
C. to satisfy readers’ wish D. to earn more money
2.How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
A. Disturbed. B. Ashamed. C. Confident. D. Uncertain.
3.What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
A. It pays off to stick to one’s goal.
B. Hard work can lead to success.
C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.
D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.
