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Colleges and universities in America consider a great deal of things about a student who want to be admitted. They says the most important thing is the student's high school record. Admission officers look only at the grades that the student has had earned. They also look at the level of difficulty of the classes. A student's interests and activities may also play a part of getting accepted. But in most cases another consideration is how good the student does in college entrance exams. This week in us Foreign Student Series, we will discuss two of these test: the SAT or the ACT. Most American schools accept either one.
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Beijing, the capital city of China is 1. (situate) to the north of He Bei Province and is visited by millions of2. (tour) every year. 3. , in recent years, the 4. of visitors to Beijing has dropped especially in spring because 5. ( sandstorm) continue to strike the city as a result of 6. (desert), a process which occurs when there is less rain and people cut down trees and dig up grass.
To 7. the environment, the government has started a mass campaign to help__8.___the problems caused by sandstorms. Billions of trees 9. (plant) and the government decides 10. ( continue) the project for the next five years.
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It was freezing outside my car. I did not want to ________ when we passed by a small shop. Suddenly I ________ a tiny figure, bent and covered with some bits of cloth, shivering（发抖） with the ________ from the north winds that were ________ so hard that night.
It was an old man of 75, seated in the________ of this street, waiting for anyone who would think of ________ him a single coin or a cup of hot tea. I was about to open my biscuit packet , ________ my mind and soul went out to this ________ person.
I ________ my husband to go over and hand it to this old man. He looked into my husband's ________and smiled, I could see that smile from the ________ window and he said, "Thank you." I felt so 52 and hoped that he could live through the cold night.
I was ________to visit again and find out how he was the next day, as I have to pass this way every day. I did so, the next evening, and he ________ the car and came up to my ________and smiled at me. My________went out once more and this time I offered him a bag of food. He reached out for the________and I gave him my hand , he held it and ________and said, " Thanks for this help." I looked at him and told my husband, "Doesn't he remind you of my Daddy who was once a beggar years ago ? "
At a ________look, I saw my Daddy in this old man, waiting for anyone to show him some mercy or love .Maybe one day, it could ________to one of us, so please do not pass by a poor person without offering at least a word of love and a kind smile or an act of kindness.
1.A. get away B. get in C. get out D. get over
2.A. noticed B. remembered C. forgot D. thought
3.A. strength B. cold C. warmth D. result
4.A. moving B. coming C. going D. blowing
5.A. corner B. middle C. side D. front
6.A. borrowing B. giving C. showing D. taking
7.A. or B. therefore C. but D. otherwise
8.A. interesting B. tall C. brave D. poor
9.A. begged B. asked C. persuaded D. forced
10.A. bag B. wallet C. face D. hand
11.A. room B. house C. truck D. car
12.A. happy B. disappointed C. sad D. angry
13.A. willing B. sure C. unable D. glad
14.A. sold B. bought C. repaired D. remembered
15.A. window B. seat C. door D. table
16.A. body B. heart C. dog D. husband
17.A. shop B. street C. bag D. basket
18.A. shouted B. replied C. smiled D. repeated
19.A. farther B. closer C. faster D. shorter
20.A. mean B. happen C. react D. belong
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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. Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person.
B. That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said.
C. “One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says.
D. Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic.
E. Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel.
F. Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.
G. Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships.
George Gershwin was born in New York City in 1898. His parents were Russian Jews who had immigrated to the United States. George and his two brothers and sister had a close, happy family life. George liked playing games on the streets of New York. He liked exploring the city. He did not like school or studying.
While exploring the city, George heard jazz and blues music in and out of public drinking places. However, he did not become seriously interested in music until he heard another boy playing the violin in a concert at his school. George began to take piano lessons. His teacher was a fine classical musician. He immediately recognized George's unusual ability. The teacher wrote about him to a friend: "I have a student who will make his mark in music, if anybody will. The boy is a genius, without doubt. "
George studied classical piano. But his strongest interest continued to be jazz and popular music. At the age of fifteen, he left school and went to work in the music business. At that time, the New York City street where most music publishers had their offices was called "Tin Pan Alley." The piano players played the songs all day long to interested singers and other performers. George Gershwin was one of the youngest piano players in Tin Pan Alley. Soon, he was considered one of the finest there. He was already writing his own songs. He succeeded in getting one published when he was only eighteen years old.
George Gershwin was now a real composer. The rest of his life was an unbroken record of success. He wrote song after song. His ideas were so endless that he was not even troubled when he once lost some music he had been writing. "There is plenty more where that came from," he said.
George Gershwin had his first big hit in 1919, when he was twenty-one years old. It was a song called "Swanee." A popular entertainer, Al Jolson, sang the song. "Swanee" was made into one of the first musical recordings. George Gershwin was suddenly famous.
1.When did George Gershwin take music as an interest?
A. When he was exploring the city.
B. When he played games on the streets.
C. When he heard a boy playing piano.
D. When he heard the violin at a school concert.
2.We know from the passage that______.
A. George Gershwin was born in Russia.
B. George Gershwin’s parents had 5 children.
C. His teacher believed in his musical gift.
D. Classical piano was his favorite music.
3.What made George Gershwin become famous in his twenties?
A. He played the piano in Tin Pan Alley
B. He wrote a song named "Swanee."
C. He sang the song "Swanee."with Al Jolson
D. He lost some music he was writing.
4.What was George Gershwin’s reaction when some music he was writing got lost?
A. He became rather angry.
B. He went to his teacher for help.
C. He stopped composing music.
D. He remained calm and confident.
Decision-making under Stress
A new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.
The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.
“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”
For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images(影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadn’t gone through the stress.
This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress –at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.
The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.
Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.
This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.
1.We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to ______.
A. keep rewards better in their memory
B. recall consequences more effortlessly
C. make risky decisions more frequently
D. learn a subject more effectively
2.According to the research, stress affects people most probably in their ______.
A. ways of making choices B. preference for pleasure
C. tolerance of punishments D. responses to suggestions
3.The research has proved that in a stressful situation, ______.
A. women find it easier to fall into certain habits
B. men have a greater tendency to slow down
C. women focus more on outcomes
D. men are more likely to take risks
