I am awfully sorry about the severe earthquake, which 1. (strike) your hometown. I felt 2. (extreme) upset when the news came that the earthquake had led lo extensive and severe damage in your country, causing loss of lives and leaving many people 3. (home).
4. (face) such a horribly 5. (nature) disaster, the people there remain 6. calm and strong-willed that we all admire your courage and strength. Here in China people are very 7. (concern) about the present situation in your country and we are all determined to make every bit of our effort to help. 8. the saying goes, unity is strength. I am sure that9. strong determination and the support from every corner of the world, you and your country can go through the difficulty and a better hometown 10. (rebuild) soon.
Mondays are generally pretty busy for me. On one of these __ Mondays, I got ready to go to work thinking about all the things I have to __ on that day and walk down to get to my car scolding myself for being late to work, but __ the car was nowhere to be found. I __ right across my apartment the previous night but it wasn't there that morning.
This was at 8:00 am in the morning. I made___ to all the towing places, police stations all the time thinking that it was towed by __ . By around 10.00am, I couldn't find it anywhere and the cops decided that it was __ stolen. Alter filing a report with them, I finally get to work thinking how my day was completely __ .
Later in the day I went to pick up a rental car at Entetprise __ to realize that my license was missing too along with my car. I told the enterprise guy the whole __ and he was so sorry for me that he __ to take me to the nearest DMV(车管局) and get a duplicate (副本__, I was totally dumbstruck.! I didn't know why this complete stranger would want to __ some time off his day to help me. He actually took me to DMV, got a duplicate and then __ me a car. I was __ the whole day because of the sequence of events that happened to me but somehow this simple act of kindness from a complete stranger made it all __ it. It cheered me up and made me forget all the misfortunes of the day, I was so __ by this kind act that the next day I made sure someone else got a similar __ . I took some smiley shaped chocolates and __ them on some of my colleague's desks.
There is still a lot of goodness out there in the world. We just need to take the time to __ it.
1.A. typical B. ordinary C. strange D. pleasant.
2.A. make B. explain C. accomplish D. arrange
3.A. excitedly B. surprisingly C. interestingly D. hurriedly
4.A. stayed B. looked C. walked D. parked
5.A. calls B. trips C. surveys D. contributions
6.A. cops B. doctors C. thieves D. officials
7.A. normally B. eventually C. actually D. finally
8.A. made up B. took up C. put up D. messed up
9.A. still B. even C. quite D. only
10.A. message B. secret C. story D. process
11.A. declined B. offered C. hesitated D. approved
12.A. license B. card C. paper D. ticket
13.A. spend B. leave C. take D. get
14.A. lent B. presented C. purchased D. rented
15.A. delighted B. annoyed C. disappointed D. amused
16.A. worth B. worthy C. personal D. special
17.A. moved B. changed C. turned D. appealed
18.A. honour B. respect C. alarm D. surprise
19.A. forgot B. threw C. left D. exposed
20.A. make B. achieve C. live D. realize
Smartphone stress: Are you a victim of ‘always on’ culture?
You are on holiday but secretly check your work emails the moment you wake up. You get anxious if there’s no Wi-Fi in the hotel or mobile phone signal up the mountain. 1. And you secretly worry things will go wrong at work if you're not there. There are the typical signs of “always on” stress induced by smart phone addiction.
Work-life balance
Pittsburgh-based developer Kevin Holesh was so worried about how much he was ignoring his family and friends and he developed an app-Moment-to monitor his usage. The app enables users to see how much time they're spending on the device and set up warnings if self-controlled usage limits are offended. 2.“Some time on your phone, some time off it, enjoying your loving family and friends around you.” And some employers are acknowledging that getting the work-life balance right isn't so easy. We need help.
“Always stressed”
3.You are not giving your body time to recover, so you're always stressed. And the more tired and stressed we get, the more mistakes we make. 4. The fact that we can stay connected to the workplace wherever we are in the world is feeding deep-rooted insecurities.
Slowdown in decision
We know consume media for more hours than we sleep. 5. It actually makes it more difficult to make decisions and many are becoming less productive because they're overwhelmed by it all and feel they can never escape the office.
A. Moment’s goal is to promote balance in your life.
B. You get excited if you receive a text message or an e-mail from a friend.
C. This is leading to a sort of slowdown in decision and it is creating more stress in the workplace.
D. The negative impacts of this ‘always on’ culture are that your mind is never resting.
E. Physical and mental health can suffer.
F. Mobile phone companies argue that mobile connectivity is beneficial.
G. You are nervous if your phone is getting low on power.
Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to get rid of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus (校园) of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problem — how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the campus’s six buildings comfortable.
Some parts of most modem buildings — theaters and offices as well as classrooms, are more sufficiently heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned (使用空调的) even in winter. The technique of saving heat and redistributing (再分配) it is called “heat recovery”. A few modern buildings recover heat, but the University’s system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it in others.
Along the way, Pittsburgh has learned a great deal about some of its producers. The harder a student studies, the more heat his body gives off. Male students send out more heat than female students, and the larger a student is, the more heat he produces. We may conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard working overweight mate genius.
1.The heat in the heating system of the Johnstown campus is supplied ________.
A. by human bodies
B. by both human bodies and other heat-giving objects
C. by both human bodies and commonly used fuel
D. by human bodies, commonly used fuel and other heat-giving objects
2.According to the passage, the technique of heat recovery is used ________.
A. to find the producers of heat
B. to provide heat for the hot water system
C. to make the campus more beautiful
D. to collect heat and reuse it
3.The underlined phrase “the hottest prospect” in this passage refers to ________.
A. the person who suffers most from heat
B. the person who needs more heat than others
C. the person who gives off most heat
D. the person who makes better use of heat
4.Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?
A. A New Heat Recovery System in Pitt
B. Modern Building’s Heat System
C. Body Heat and Its Producers
D. Ways of Heating Building
The number of Japanese students in the Chinese mainland is more than those studying in the US, according to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a Taiwan news outlet reported on Monday.
Japan saw the peak of studying abroad in 2010 when 124,000 sought academic careers overseas. About 61,000 Japanese studied in the US in 2010, about half the total studying abroad. But since then, the number has decreased. In 2015, the number was down to only just over 20,000, about 20 percent of Japanese students being educated overseas.
The number of Japanese going to the Chinese mainland to study has been rising since 2009 and now surpasses the US.
An official spokesman said, "Choices are various for studying abroad nowadays, not just limited to the US. Many Japanese universities have an increasing number of exchange pro-grams with Chinese universities and Japanese companies now tend to prefer people with academic experience in Asia rather than the.US or Europe as previously. Tuition fees (学费）are another reason. Annual fees in US universities are almost twice those charged by Chinese
universities.”
Some Japanese experts say the decline indicates young Japanese are satisfied with the domestic situation rather than preparing for challenges outside.
1.How many Japanese students studied abroad in 2015?
A. About 61,000. B. About 100,000.
C. About 124,000. D. About 200,000.
2.What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about?
A. The tuition fees about studying in the US.
B. The choices for Japanese students to study abroad.
C. The reason why Japanese students go to study in China.
D. The problems that Japanese students have when studying in China.
3.The underlined word “domestic” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to “ ”.
A. native B. previous
C. complex D. simple
I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, Ramanda, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done while Ramanda appeared to be having a good time in the other room. No problem, I figured. But then it got a little too quiet and I yelled out. “What are you doing. Raxiianda?” No response. I repeated my question and heard her say, “Oh ... nothing.” Nothing? What does “nothing” mean?
I got up from my desk and ran out into the living room, and then I saw her take off down the hall. I chased her up the stairs and watched her as her little behind made a hard left into the bedroom. I was gaining on her! She took off for the bathroom. Bad move. I had her cornered. I told her to turn around. She refused. I pulled out my big, mean authoritative(命令式的)Daddy voiced Young lady, I said turn around!”
Slowly, she turned toward me. In her hand was what was left of my wife's new lipstick. And every square inch of her face was covered with bright red (except her lips of course)!
As she looked up at me with fearful eyes, lips trembling. I heard every voice that had been shouted to me as a child. “How could you...You should know better than that...How many times have you been told …What a bad thing to do...” It was just a matter of my picking out which old message I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been. But before I could let loose, I looked down at the sweatshirt my wife had put on her only an hour before. In big letters it said, “I'M A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL!” I looked back up into her tearful eyes and, instead of seeing a bad girl who didn’t listen, I saw a child of God …a perfect little angel full of worth, value and a wonderful spontaneity(自发行为) that I had come dangerously close to shaming out of her.
“Sweetheart, you look beautiful! let's take a picture so Mommy can see how special you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t miss the opportunity to reaffirm（再肯定）what a perfect little angel he had given me.
1.When the author found the house was abnormally quiet, ________.
A. he went on with his work
B. he went to check on his daughter
C. he called his daughter to come over
D. he knew his daughter must be behaving well
2.What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. How the father made his daughter admit her fault.
B. The naughty girl trying to get the father's attention.
C. The run and chase between the father and daughter
D. A funny game the father and daughter played with each other.
3.When he saw his daughter's face, the author ________.
A. thought she was so beautiful and lovely a girl
B. no longer saw her as an angel
C. flew into an uncomfortable disappointment
D. remembered the words he was scolded with
4.What does the underlined sentence ''I had her cornered'' mean?
A. She had been in the comer of the room.
B. She had screamed out of fear.
C. I had forced her into a position from which she couldn't escape.
D. She had escaped from one comer to another.
