Will 1. matter if you don’t take your breakfast? Some time ago a test 2. (give) in the United States. The test included people of different 3. (age) from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfast, and sometimes they got 4. breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see 5. well their bodies worked when they had eaten 6. certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect 7. if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be 8. (especial) true if a person works 9. his brain. For example, if a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with 10. (much) attention in class.
You've been away from us for one year; you told us a lie which I came to know not long ago.
On this special day for teachers across the country, I can ________keep myself from telling your white lie(善意的谎言) to those who would lend me an ear.
Do you still remember the happy _____about six years ago? We fixed our eyes upon you at your _____.You, a beautiful young lady, ____ __ us that you would live in our village.
Soon after, we began to find you were part of your students and their simple honest parents. The villagers found their children ____ __more time on their books ___ ___ after doing their homework and housework. Yet they still ____ __ that one day you might leave. You _ __a smile all the time, which reduced to some degree their___ __ of your leaving. You went all out in the ____ __ of your students, helping them not only in their studies but also in their tuition(学费).You often emphasized to us the ____ __ of one's life, so that must have been what you were ____ in those five years!
One cold morning when class began, you entered the room ____ __ you had been crying ____ __. In your class, we ____ __ but looked away from your eyes. You ____ __for some time as if you were ____to find the right word…you said you would go away and would never be back to teach because your boyfriend wanted you more…
On the following morning, we ___ __ you the very best and the villagers gave you their ____ __The train took you away and your broken ____ __.The other day I happened to hear my parents chatting that you had lung cancer and left the world soon after you waved goodbye.
1.A. foreverB. seldomC. soonD. hardly
2.A. sceneB. conditionC. signD. sight
3.A. reportB. explanationC. arrivalD. speech
4.A. promisedB. answeredC. permittedD. agreed
5.A. sharedB. spentC. paidD. devoted
6.A. evenB. everC. soonD. still
7.A. consideredB. fearedC. supposedD. doubted
8.A. gainedB. presentedC. woreD. pretended
9.A. difficultyB. questionC. troubleD. fear
10.A. teachingB. middleC. fieldD. course
11.A. wayB. wealthC. valueD. cost
12.A. afterB. withC. forD. against
13.A. as long asB. now thatC. as ifD. even though
14.A. happilyB. bitterlyC. angrilyD. anxiously
15.A. listenedB. talkedC. discussed[D. studied
16.A. explainedB. stoppedC. talkedD. spoke
17.A. worryingB. thinkingC. cryingD. trying
18.A. hopedB. expectedC. broughtD. wished
19.A. thanksB. satisfactionsC. expressionsD. rewards
20.A. classB. heartC. classD. memory
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。（E=AB, F=AC, G=AD）
1. Half a minute? A few seconds?
Google engineers have discovered that even 400 milliseconds—as short as the blink of an eye—is too long for most Internet users.
A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. People hardly notice such a small time difference, but it does cause them to stop searching, reported The New York Times.
Nowadays, millions of smart-phones and computers are constantly gathering and sending out information. 2. you can get digital "traffic jams". Meanwhile, users are expecting faster and faster service.
Google found that if one website is 250 milliseconds slower than another website, then people will visit it less often. 3. Google said people do expect different things from different websites because they realize not all loading times are the same. For example, a person will be more patient waiting for a video clip to load than for a search result.
Even so, four out of five online users will click away if a video takes too long to load. This makes it difficult for video websites to choose between the quality of pictures and fast loading times.
Pursuing a higher speed has always been part of the history of the Internet.
In the 1990s,when the World Wide Web first started to become popular, 4. people called it the "World Wide Wait". But engineers managed to fight the problem with new inventions. They laid a lot of fiber optic cables for high-speed transmissions; they improved software so it would work more smoothly; they placed computer servers all around the world to be nearer to users; all this increased speed.
Nowadays we can enjoy much faster Internet ._ 5. But they will need to keep fighting to keep up with the developing demands of internet users.
A. Internet is becoming faster and faster.
B. With so many people downloading maps, sports videos, news and restaurant recommendations,
C. We can not expect a faster speed about the internet.
D. Major search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing usually find search results in less than a second.
E. How long are you willing to wait for a webpage to open before you start to lose your patience?
F. This is why technology companies are now competing to be the fastest.
G. it was very crowded and slow;
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Minimalism(简约主义)is a term that describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is reduced to its most basic features．As for me, minimalism functions well not in art or design, but in my daily life．
When I was packing for university, I found it extremely difficult to let go of some of the things I owned．I knew I couldn’t take everything with me, but I kept asking myself “how could I possibly throw this away?”, “what if I need it one day?”, and “what about all of the memories?” Now that I’ve moved, and left that stuff behind, I don’t even miss it. Whether or not I got rid of it, it barely makes a bit of difference to me now．I’ve learned that over time people forget, or their need for a particular object eventually disappears. Either they store it away or they get rid of it．
You might think nostalgically（怀旧的）about the toys you cared about when you were a child, but what is making you smile now is not the thing itself but the memory of it. I’ve heard it a hundred times, “you don’t need things to make you happy.” It takes something life-changing like moving across the country to realize how true this is．
Speaking of which, for a lot of people, minimalism is about able to move．It’s about being able to go almost anywhere at any time because you don’t have many possessions to carry. When you keep things you don’t need, they become a burden that ties you to a place. Moving to university was a good time to let go of a lot of stuff．And when I visit for the holidays, I’ll probably get rid of even more, to lighten the burden．
Of course there are exceptions. There are some things that are irreplaceable, very rare or expensive or we simply love and cherish for some reason or another, since we are humans．But after we keep those, how much is left that we don’t really need?
Hence, minimalism．And why does minimalism bring happiness? That’s because what really makes me happy is freedom．And the key to freedom is minimalism because minimalism reduces our attachment to things．
Attachment to too many objects creates a great mess and can severely hold back our freedom to do whatever we want, while minimalism helps us start new projects, move, travel, learn new things, work, expand, be debt-free, be healthy – really living life to our full potential．
I left the nest to fly onwards and upwards. I can’t do it with old things weighing me down. And that is why I have adopted minimalism with open arms．
1.In paragraph l, the writer gives the definition of minimalism to ________．
A．introduce a topic B．present his own idea
C．describe a scene D．offer an argument
2.Many people don’t want to let go of some of their belongings because ________．
A．they haven’t had any life-changing experiences
B．they hope to live life to their full potential by storing things away
C．they fear their memories will be gone with the thrown-away stuff
D．they may have to change their lifestyle because of the loss of them
3.Which of the following is NOT the reason why the writer favors “minimalism” in life?
A．It takes the burden off her while she is moving．
B．It reduces her attachment to her personal things．
C．It enables her to gain the freedom that she desires．
D．It helps her to realize how true life is．
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A．Minimalism brings happiness．
B．Minimalism is applied in many fields．
C．Minimalism makes people think nostalgically．
D．Minimalism is about able to move．
A US student has just spent 30 days on an “insect diet ” – eating insects three times a day. Camren Brantley-Rios says traditional meats such as pork and beef are unable to continue and he wanted to try out what many consider the diet of the future.
Many people would find the idea of eating insects distasteful, even if it were not disgusting. Not so long ago, Brantley-Rios was among them. But for the last month he has been eating insects for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
“I’m mainly sticking to three kinds,” he says. Occasionally he has included different insects. Preparing these he “actually cried”, though he insists they were surprisingly good.
Insects consume fewer resources than animals, like pigs and cows, to produce the same amount of protein(蛋白质), Brantley-Rios says – and more than two billion people worldwide include insects in their regular diet, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
“There’s not really a need to eat insects in America because we have it so nice,” Brantley-Rios says. “We have finer meats and we’re lucky to have that luxury(奢侈), so there’s not much of a pressure to eat insects right now. But what a lot of people are trying to do is make it a little bit more marketable.”
He has ordered insects from farms that usually supply zoos, which need them “to feed certain animals”. He has always made sure the insects have been fed on an organic diet, he says, and only bought species he knows are safe to eat.
He knows that one person eating insects won’t make much difference. To have a real environmental effect, millions would have to follow his example.
1.Why has the US student tried out an “insect diet”?
A. To seek for future vegetables.
B. To advocate traditional meats.
C. To make up for the lack of meat.
D. To explore new forms of protein.
2.What can we learn about Brantley-Rios from Paragraph 2?
A. He is tired of meats like pork and beef.
B. He advised people to eat insects though disgusted.
C. He had nothing to eat but insects last month.
D. He didn’t like the idea of eating insects.
3.What does the underlined part “actually cried” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. was scared B. was pitiful
C. was sorry D. was puzzled
4.How does Brantley-Rios guarantee the safety of his insect diet?
A. He tests each species before eating it.
B. He orders insects for certain zoo animals.
C. He feeds his insects on an organic diet.
D. He has insects raised on his own farm.
