To understand meditation（冥想）through an experiment, you can take two pictures with a camera. Hold your camera still and take the first picture. Now, shake your camera and take the second picture. The difference in clarity（清晰度）between the two pictures is the difference in clarity of a life with and without meditation.
Meditation means different things to different people. There are many methods to reach the state of meditation. Our intention in this Life School Message is not to compare different practices. What we'd like to do is to give you a glimpse into what benefits can arise as a result of meditation.
One of the most important functions for human survival is the ability to adapt and adjust to our surroundings. The brain and body are dealing with an unbelievable amount of stimuli(刺激) in every single moment of life. Focusing on all of them at once would be impossible. So, the mind tends to shift as many stimuli as possible to the subconscious back burner.
For example, you probably aren't paying attention to the feel of your shirt on your body until you read this sentence. Now that I've mentioned it, I've brought it back into your conscious thoughts, and you do notice it. Somewhere in the next few paragraphs, your mind will place it on the back burner again to be able to focus on understanding this article. Fascinating, isn't it? Our minds do this constantly.
Meditation helps you to increase your awareness and helps you to stay focused on the right things of life. It ensures you do not get distracted and helps you do stay alert. It helps you to understand the past, live the present and create the future.
For the people who have no knowledge or experience of this particular subject, let me share a basic yet one of the most powerful methods that can lead you to meditation.
1.What is the main purpose of taking two pictures?
A. To tell people how to take a good picture.
B. To compare the difference between two photos.
C. To show the effect meditation has on life.
D. To give us a clear definition of meditation.
2.What is the aim of the book Life School Message mentioned in Paragraph 2?
A. To teach you how to adapt to our surroundings.
B. To tell you how to reach the state of meditation.
C. To make you understand the benefits of meditation.
D. To teach you the right way to deal with stimuli.
3.Although you have the shirt in your conscious thoughts, why will you place it on the back burner again later?
A. Because shirt is not important.
B. Because you've brought it back into your conscious thoughts.
C. Because your minds do this constantly.
D. Because you need to move on to understanding this article.
4.The benefits of meditation include the following EXCEPT ________.
A. increasing your awareness
B. helping you keep alert
C. helping you stay focused on the right things
D. helping you solve the problems in life
For over a century, the Nashua River in Massachusetts provided power for factories, which gave jobs to thousands of people. Over the years, these paper, cotton, wood, and woolen factories had poured their waste into its waters.
By the 1960s,the Nashua River was about as polluted as any river could get. Its waters became red or green or blue with dye(染料) from paper factories lying on its banks. The smokes from this dye blackened the paint on the buildings near the river.
Then along came Marion Stoddart with a simple but overwhelming（压倒性的）idea-clean up the Nashua River. This was no one-woman campaign. Stoddart encouraged the paper factories and the business community to form partnerships to reclaim the river. She carried jars of dirty river water to local officials to demonstrate the seriousness of the problem. Stoddart talked with business leaders about economic problems. She talked with environmentalists about the long-term problems of pollution.
Stoddart knew that the State Water Pollution Control Board would have the final say on forcing the clean-up. When she spoke to the board, she insisted that the Nashua River should be made safe for swimming. They thought her goals were unrealistic.
However, the partnerships Stoddart had helped form and the volunteers who were drawn to her cause never gave up. They all realized that cleaning up the river was in everyone's best interests. By 1993, several water treatment plants had been built, and a conservation area called a "green way" had been created along the banks of the river.
Today factories are still operating along the river, but there are also fish in the river. The Nashua River welcomes boaters, naturalists, and even swimmers. None of this would have been possible without a woman of vision and a community working together.
1.What does the underlined word “reclaim” refer to?
A. enlarge B. rescue C. monitor D. explore
2.What's the attitude of the board to Stoddart's goal of improving the river?
A. Supportive. B. Neutral. C. Doubtful. D. Cautious.
3.What kind of person is Marison Stoddart?
A. Intelligent and creative. B. Stubborn and proud.
C. Independent and broad-minded. D. Determined and far-sighted.
4.What message is conveyed through the no one-woman campaign?
A. It’ll be all right on the night. B. Many hands make light work.
C. Prevention is better than cure. D. Failure is the mother of success.
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1.What does the underlined word "approximately" mean?
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2.What are you required to do after you apply to Live Ops?
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假定你是学生会主席李华。你校将举办一场校园文化艺术表演，想邀请你校外籍教师Ann先生前来观看并作评论。请你按照下面的内容用英语给他写一封电子邮件。
主题：Culture, Art and Our Campus
时间：5月31日上午8:30—11:30
地点：体育馆
内容：每班一个节目，歌曲、舞蹈、课本剧、故事、演讲等形式不限
联系人：李华（电话13613856789）
注意：
词数：100左右（开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总数）。
1.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
2.参考词汇：评论comment; 体育馆gym；课本剧textbook drama
Dear Mrs. Ann,
I’m glad to tell you good news that a school culture and art show will be held in our school.
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文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，没处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的单词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（╲）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词的下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.没处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Today is Sunday. The sky is full of sunshine, and so does my life. At about 9:00 am, I go to the bookstore with my friends. There was a lot of new books. I didn’t know what one to buy because these books were waiting outside the booking office. It took to us about two hours to see it. Having seen the film, everyone was deeply moving. Some of my friends even burst out tears. That’s a really wonderful film. It is very worth seeing again. What a happy day! I hope tomorrow I will be even happier!
Sailing home, Henry, 1. American businessman, found himself 2.(carry) out to sea by a strong wind. When he had just about to give himself up, he 3.(spot) by a ship and therefore he landed in London 4. accident. Hungry and along, he walked on the streets of the city when he was unexpectedly called into a mansion(宅邸), 5. two rich brothers, Oliver and Roderick, gave him a letter and told him not to open it 6. two o’clock of the day. 7. (know) it was a million pound bank note,Henry left the mansion and went into a cheap restaurant to stuff his stomach. Everybody was rude to him because he was in 8. (rag) and looked depressed. Then, to the surprise of everybody, he handed the owner a million pound bank note to pay for the meal. Seeing the note, all the people in the restaurant became polite and tried their best 9. (please) Henry. Don’t you think it’s the most 10. (believe) tale in the world?
