With the development of science and technology, new inventions, especially new electronic products, have made people’s lives easy and convenient. But as the saying puts: A coin has two sides.
One day, I was walking in the park with a friend and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation.
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation(疏远) index goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
Pumping petrol at the station? Why say good morning to the attendant when you can swipe(刷)your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact?
Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a teller who might live in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into ATM?
Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery shop. Some supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those check-out people who look at you and ask how you are doing.
I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn't wise…they're a great help to us. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up a call because I didn't really have time to talk. The communications industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging, with people who live near me，no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home.
1.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A. The Advance of Communications Technology
B. The Consequences of Modern Technology
C. The Process of Communications Revolution[
D. The Automation of Modern Communications
2.Paragraphs 5 to 7 are listed as examples, which show that the use of modern communications is___________.
A. encouraging B. disappointing
C. satisfying D. embarrassing
3.The passage implies that _______________.
A. modern technology is bridging the people
B. modern technology is separating the people
C. modern technology is developing too rapidly
D. modern technology is interrupting our lives
4.What does the writer think to do with the modern technology?
A. We may use them no matter what others are doing.
B. We can throw them away and return to the ancient.
C. We can be far away from them forever.
D. We can use them less and communicate with the people around us.
假定你是李华。过去三年一直利用业余时间打工，你想在高考后去一家国际书店(Global Books)兼职。请给书店经理Ms Jenkins写一份英文短信。
要点包括：
1. 有客户服务经验；
2. 有很强的语言、人际交流和组织技能；
3. 希望通过在Global Books的工作掌握更多技能。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已写好。
Dear Ms Jenkins，
I would like to apply for the bookshop assistant position with Global Books.
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I would love the opportunity to discuss my application with you in further detail, and look forward to hearing from you.
Your sincerely,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每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。
Last week, I had a argument with my best friend. All of us went home with anger, After finishing dinner, I began to do my homework. Sudden, my stomach hurt badly. My parents took me the hospital immediately. The doctor said I eat unclean food and I needed to stay in the hospital for two days, that made me feel worse and worried about my lessons. To my surprised, my best friend came to see me. She was so worried about me and helped me about my lessons. We understood it each other better and were back together. Now I have realized
that friendship is very importance to me.
When I was driving after school on Monday on 1. ( I ) way home, I saw a wallet on top of a white car just as the driver turned into the main road. The wallet 2. (fall) from the car and I sounded the horn（喇叭）twice but he didn't hear. So, I picked it up and checked 3. wallet to see if I could get any phone number 4. (call). I found and called two 5.(number) but I was told they were wrong number.
6.(late), I found an ID card and used the address to find his home, which is a 15-minute drive. When 7. (arrive) there, I saw his wife and the first thing she asked was 8. I found a wallet. I started smiling and said yes. The lady was really 9. (happily) and called her husband. After I gave the wallet to him, he saw everything was inside. The couple offered me 20 yuan for gas 10. I refused it.
I allowed myself to receive. These flowers were __ to me by our local florist(花商）. I had placed an order with him for flowers to be delivered to a close ___overseas. For reasons __ to us, the flowers were never delivered and after many __ with the overseas supplier with no __ , we canceled the ___at last.
My florist called to __ and said he wanted to send me some flowers to __ the mistake. Even if I assured him it wasn’t his __ in my order, he __ he wanted to send me flowers. We went back and forth on this and __ I realized this was something that would make him feel __ and that I should just say thank you and let him __ !
I am always saying allowing ourselves to __. It took me a while here to __ what I said!
Having learnt the story, my friend overseas said perhaps the universe felt I needed the __ more. She made me smile.
Immediately after writing this passage, I received a(n) __ from this friend, telling me she had just received my flowers! In fact, our emails __, because I had sent her a copy of my passage at the same time she sent me her email!
When I called my florist, he told me he would not charge me for the flowers because he was sorry for the __ I had with my order!
Looks like the universe wanted __ of us to have flowers!
1.A. gifted B. sold C. donated D. showed
2.A. relative B. friend C. teacher D. colleague
3.A. impossible B. unfair C. unknown D. obvious
4.A. appointments B. agreements C. challenges D. contacts
5.A. expectation B. suggestion C. discussion D. results
6.A. order B. journey C. invitation D. request
7.A. congratulate B. greet C. apologize D. complain
8.A. get rid of B. make up for C. put up with D. take advantage of
9.A. excuse B. fault C. responsibility D. business
10.A. insisted B. predicted C. realized D. pretended
11.A. finally B. naturally C. immediately D. gradually
12.A. worse B. poorer C. busier D. better
13.A. leave B. go C. give D. fail
14.A. present B. share C. receive D. collect
15.A. reply to B. practice C. correct D. take back
16.A. flowers B. friendship C. money D. appreciations
17.A. gift B. warning C. letter D. email
18.A. were lost B. sank C. were refused D. crossed
19.A. satisfaction B. convenience C. trouble D. sorrow
20.A. either B. both C. all D. none
Three Simple Ways to Make Exercise a Habit
A lot of people want to build an exercise habit that sticks. Of course, wanting to make exercise a habit and actually doing it are two different things. Changing your behavior is difficult. Living a new type of lifestyle is hard. This is especially true when you throw in very personal feelings about body image and self-worth. 1. Here are three simple ways to make exercise a habit.
Develop a ritual to make starting easier.
Habits are behaviors that you repeat over and over again, which means they are also behaviors that you start over and over again. 2. In many ways, building new habits is simply an exercise in getting started time after time.
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The best way to make exercise a habit is to start with an exercise that is so easy that you can do it even when you are running low on willpower and motivation. In the words of an expert, start with something that is so easy you can't say no.
Focus on the habit first and the results later.
4. Most people start with some type of goal. This is the wrong approach. It's better to focus on the system rather than the goal. What matters most in the beginning is establishing a new normal and building you will stick to; not the results that you get. In other words, in the first 6 months it is more important to not miss workouts than it is to make progress. 5.
A. Exercise even when you're “too tired”.
B. Start with an exercise that is ridiculously small.
C. The typical approach to diet and exercise is to focus on results first.
D. It is more important not to miss taking exercise than to make progress.
E. In other words, if you don't consistently get started, then you won't have a habit.
F. Both there are some strategies that can make it easier to stick with an exercise habit.
G. Once you become the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts, then you can worry about making progress and improving.
