阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Lord Nithsdale was put into prison in 1716 because he was against King George I. As a (n) ________, he was sentenced to death. His wife Winifred couldn’t imagine life ________ her husband, so she was ________ to do anything to save him.
She was determined to ________ the King and beg him for her husband’s life, but the King didn’t agree. Winifred refused to ________. In desperation, she came up with a more ________ plan. She visited her husband alongside her maid, her friends Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Morgan. Only two visitors at a time were allowed to enter the room. They took advantage of this ________, going into and out of the room many times to ________ the guards. She also gave the guards money and drink.
________ inside the prison Winifred pulled out some ________ clothes and dressed her husband up as one of the ________－ Mrs. Mills. Mrs. Mills was then brought in, emotional and with her ________ buried in her handkerchief. Lord Nithsdale then was led out by his wife, also holding the handkerchief to his eyes. This was very ________, or the guards would notice that one of the women had a long ________! Fortunately everyone managed to get outside at last.
Winifred then returned to the room and ________ to be in an emotional conversation with her husband. After a suitable period of time had passed for her husband to leave, she left the room and got some ________ for herself by telling the guards that her husband was praying (祈祷) and should not be ________. This was a clever action as it allowed the ________ to go unnoticed for longer.
To complete the clever escape and appear ________, they gave a tearful goodbye. Lord Nithsdale and his wife ________ and managed to leave the country together.
1.A．lessonB．accidentC．punishmentD．experience
2.A．ofB．throughC．besideD．without
3.A．preparedB．afraidC．unableD．unwilling
4.A．attackB．killC．meetD．leave
5.A．carry onB．join inC．give upD．shut up
6.A．popularB．necessaryC．effortlessD．dangerous
7.A．ruleB．habitC．storyD．advice
8.A．findB．trainC．confuseD．defeat
9.A．OnceB．BeforeC．ThoughD．If not
10.A．spareB．dirtyC．foreignD．unusual
11.A．actorsB．guardsC．visitorsD．prisoners
12.A．keyB．faceC．handD．letter
13.A．difficultB．importantC．surprisingD．exciting
14.A．legB．hairC．beardD．dress
15.A．meantB．forgotC．agreedD．pretended
16.A．clothesB．drinkC．timeD．handkerchiefs
17.A．disturbedB．harmedC．wokenD．locked
18.A．escapeB．emotionC．exerciseD．exploration
19.A．cleverB．hard-workingC．confidentD．heartbroken
20.A．failedB．diedC．reunitedD．returned
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。
You want to be happy, who doesn’t? However, whether you procrastinate(拖延), feed negative self-talk, or don’t rest your mind, you lower your potential to create happiness.
Procrastination
You aren’t in deadly danger if you procrastinate, but your system doesn’t always take this information on board. You still react as though you are anxious and produce stress chemicals.
1. Your ability to see the big picture of life is reduced when you procrastinate. Therefore, you don’t see as much joy.
Negative self-talk
2. Taking notice of what goes on in your head and putting positive change in action makes negative self-talk useful. Nevertheless, most people don’t recognize negative self-talk as a pointer; they feed it until it grows out of control.
3.
Your mind contains an incredible amount of information and is more powerful than any computer many times over. However, if you give it too many tasks, you shut out peace of mind.
4. Thought-overload results in physical symptoms, like a racing heart and shortness of breath. Additionally, you might have sleeplessness, digestive problems and other symptoms of stress that reduce your happiness.
If you want to increase the odds of being happy, don’t procrastinate. 5. Similarly, don’t overload your mind, give it a rest and you will soon notice you are happier.
A. Not resting your mind.
B. Using your brain regularly.
C. It is a human weakness to put things off.
D. At the same time, don’t feed negative self-talk.
E. Self-talk can tell you how healthy you are emotionally.
F. Additionally, as your system is nervous physically, your mind also closes off a little.
G. Thinking about many things at once leads to a feeling of anxiety.
While engineers have made out fantastic products for sitting still—Munchery instead of walking to lunch, Uber instead of walking to the bus stop—services to make you move have been less appealing for consumers.
Fitbit’s stock price fell 18% after they announced their latest Apple Watch-like product named Fitbit Force. And new data suggests that, for the first time, death rates for large parts of the American population are rising, with signs pointing to inactivity and weight gain as the reasons. Our digital lifestyles and desk-based workplaces are contributing to serious health problems and could be shortening our lives, wellness firms want us to believe.
Northrup, president and co-founder of the connected exercise device TAO-Wellness, was in Las Vegas to promote TAO’s small device that encourages exercises. He lifts the device, about the size of an apple, and says workplaces should start encouraging on-site exercise.
Nick Mokey, the managing editor of Digital Trends, agrees. “I hate to break it to you, a room full of people sitting down, but sitting is killing you,” he says to the audience. They shift in their seats.
In the health section of the Sands Exposition Hall, people are selling devices made by LifeSpan Fitness. They say they’re the largest seller of treadmill（跑步机） desks in the US. At the center of their exhibition area is a Bike Desk, which looks like three gym bikes attached to a table. That’s for people who just want to sit and enjoy conversation.
Treadmill desk-related shame is their biggest obstacle, they say when LifeSpan installs two in opposite ends of the same building, neither tends to get used. If the company installs two next to each other, people will use them. “You don’t want to be so noticeable, especially at work,” company spokesman James Lowe says. What’s more, what if we get sweaty using a treadmill in the office?
1.According to new data, the rising death rates in America are caused by_____.
A. lack of exercise B. serious pollution
C. high work pressure D. poor indoor environment
2.What can we learn about the device TAO-Wellness?
A. It is a kind of treadmill desk.
B. It is comparatively small in size
C. It is created by LifeSpan Fitness.
D. It is designed for outdoor exercise.
3.Which of the following may cause more sitting?
A.TAO-Wellness. B. Fitbit Force. C. Bike Desk. D. Munchery
4.What is the biggest problem with the treadmill desk?
A. It takes up too much space.
B. It is not comfortable to use
C. It may cause awkwardness
D. It will make employees tired
In one study, college students who had important and reality-based conversations were more content than their peers who changed mere amusing remarks. But don’t deny small talks just yet.
Psychologists have long said that connecting with others is important to well-being, but just how much conversation we require is under investigation. In one study, researchers overheard(偷听) undergraduates for four days, and then cataloged each overheard conversation as either “small talks” (“What do you have done? Popcorn? Yummy!”) or “substantive”(实质性的交流)(“So did they get divorced soon after?”). They found that the second type correlated（相关） with happiness —the happiest students had roughly twice as many substantive talks as the unhappiest ones. Small talks, meanwhile, made up only 10 percent of their conversation, versus almost 30 percent of their conversation among the least content students.
But don’t deny small talks just yet. Scientists believe that small talks could promote bonding. Researchers found that a small talk maintains closeness with loved ones after studying ring-tailed lemurs’(环尾弧猴) call-and-response conversations, similar to human small talks. Still, joking with strangers could brighten your morning. In a series of experiments, those bus-takers told to chat with others are reported a more pleasant journey than those told to “enjoy your solitude” or to do whatever they normally would. Small talks can also help us feel connected to our surroundings. People who smiled at, made eye contact with, and briefly spoke with their Starbucks baristas (咖啡师) reported a greater sense of belonging than those who rushed through the transaction.
Of course, some of us are better than others at turning small talks into something bigger. All the differences come to what researchers call “a curious mindset”.
So go ahead to talk and inquire. Small talks needn’t be idle. And being curious about others’ business isn’t all bad.
1. According to the second paragraph, we can know that .
A. we can deny small talks because substantive talks are more important.
B. People who make more small talks are much happier than those making substantive talks.
C. the well-being is built largely due to the percentage of our substantive talks.
D. the least content students have twice the amount of small talks than those content students.
2.The benefits of small talks are the following EXCEPT .
A. It can make the bonding between people much closer
B. It can shorten the distance between strangers and make the journey pleasant
C. It makes us feel connected with the surroundings
D. You can get more free cups of coffee from Starbucks baristas
3.What’s the author’s attitude to small talks?
A. Negative. B. Supportive. C. Neutral. D. Critical.
4. The text mainly tells us that .
A. small talks are important in communication
B. substantive talks make people happier than small talks
C. small talks and substantive talks are equally important in life
D. substantive talks are important in communication
Most penguins died after a huge iceberg grounded near their habitat in Antarctica，forcing them to make a long way to find food, scientists say in a newly published study. The B09B iceberg, measuring about 100 square kilometers, grounded in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in December 2010, the researchers from Australia and New Zealand wrote in the “Antarctic Science” journal.
The Adelie penguin population at the bay’s Cape Denison was measured to be about 160,000 in February 2011 but by December 2013 it had decreased to about 10,000, they said. The iceberg’s grounding meant the penguins had to walk more than 60 kilometers to find food, preventing their breeding attempts, said the researchers from the University of New South Wales’ ( UNSW) Climate Change Research Centre and New Zealand’s West Penguin Trust.
“The Cape Denison population could disappear completely within 20 years unless B09B relocates or the fast ice within the bay breaks out,”they wrote in the research published in. Fast ice is sea ice which forms and stays along the coast. During their survey in December 2013 , the researchers said “hundreds of abandoned eggs were noted, and the freeze-dried dead bodies of previous season’s little penguins lay everywhere on the ground.”
“It’s strangely silent,”UNSW’s Chris Turney , who led the 2013 exploration , told the“Sydney Morning Herald Friday”.“The ones that we saw at Cape Denison were terribly low-spirited , almost unaware of your existence . The ones that are surviving are clearly struggling. They can hardly survive themselves , let alone give birth to the next generation. We saw lots of dead birds on the ground.”
In contrast, penguins living on the eastern edge of the bay just 8 kilometers from the fast ice edge were full of vigour, the scientists said. The researchers said the study had important influence on the wider East Antarctic if the current situation of increasing sea ice continued. Sea ice around Antarctica is increasing, in contrast to the Arctic where global warming is causing ice to melt and icebergs to decrease. Scientists believe the growth in Antarctic sea ice is likely to be driven by changes in wind and local conditions before long.
1. What’s the main reason why the Adelie penguin population decreased?
A. Many Adelie penguins died from the cold weather in Antanctic.
B. They didn’t have enough time to give birth to and raise babies.
C. The iceberg’s grounding killed a number of Adelie penguins.
D. Adelie penguins lost their habitats so they couldn’t breed.
2.Which statement is correct according to the passage ?
A. The life of penguins in Cape Denison was very hard.
B. Penguins in Cape Denison were afraid of humans .
C. The sea ice in Antarctica is decreasing faster than before.
D. Human activities caused much damage to Cape Denison.
3. What does the underlined word “vigour”in the last paragraph mean ?
A. Trouble. B. Food. C. Energy. D. Joy.
4. What’s the main idea of the passage ?
A. Global warming caused penguins’ death.
B. Iceberg harmed penguins’ life.
C. Penguins need more habitats.
D. Antarctic extreme weather caused penguins’ death.
Two years ago I fell off the steps of a bus while climbing down and twisted my ankle. What followed was the usual way that is common in the US. A few hours later I was treated and discharged. What was uncommon was that I received extra care while going to ER(emergency room) and while I was in the hospital.
People were kind to me, men and women alike. They wheeled me into a private room instead of making me wait in the crowded waiting room. Someone came and asked me if the temperature is OK. When I said I was cold, he brought me a blanket and some magazines, in case I got bored. The nurses stopped by, making pleasant chats with me. People always came to ask me if I was in too much pain and if I needed anything…
There were other people who were brought in while I was waiting. Patients groaning in pain were given the care they needed and then ignored. My injury was not the priority, so while I was not pushed to the front of the line, my several hours’ stay in the hospital was made as pleasant as possible. Why would people do that? They gave others care, while I got kindness.
Like any other good looking, healthy, independent person, man or woman, it looks as if the world is nicer to rich people, and the world is nicer to attractive people. I’m not in the dating world. It’s not about free drinks and gifts. It’s about people being nice.
I’m grateful for any positive behavior because I know this is temporary. Eventually I will join the groups of the elderly, the weak and the seemingly unattractive. One thing I refuse to do is to make excuses for being attractive. I know it’s temporary. I know it’s the luck of the draw and I know that I’m just one of the many. Does it matter to my husband, my mother and my kids what I look like? No. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
1. What caused the author into deep thought?
A. She was given less care in the hospital.
B. Patients were only given physical care in the hospital.
C. She didn’t get treatment immediately in the hospital.
D. Other patients in the hospital didn’t get the same kindness as her.
2.What can we know about the author?
A. She is an attractive lady.
B. She shows great pity to old patients.
C. She doesn’t like free drinks or gifts.
D. She was treated unequally in the hospital.
3.Which of the following does the author agree with?
A. The hospital should treat attractive patients in preference to others.
B. The positive behavior that being attractive brings can last long.
C. Old patients should get much more care from the hospital.
D. Being attractive means nothing to the people truly important to you.
