How to Stay Out of Trouble
Sometimes it may seem like you're always getting into trouble with your teachers or your parents. 1. The best thing to do is to stop trouble before it starts. It's always possible to turn over a new leaf.
1. 2. Joining a sports team is a great way to stay out of trouble. Whether you're playing soccer or baseball, team sports are a great way to find something to do rather than get into trouble.
2. Join a club. If sports aren't your thing, you can always join a club. You can join an art club, chess club, French club, cooking club and so on. 3. Therefore, you won't have time to annoy your teachers or parents.
3. Go volunteering. 4. If you're too young to do it on your own, go with a parent to a volunteering event. You can help people learn to read, clean up a local park, or work in a soup kitchen. Find something that is meaningful to you and commit to it at least once a week.
4. Read as much as you can. Reading can help you improve your vocabulary and comprehension skills. 5. Getting truly interested in stories can help you forget the hours passing by. Reading for just 20 minutes before bedtime every night can help you develop an addicting lifelong habit.
A. Join a sports team.
B. Play soccer or baseball.
C. Then you can have a good time with your friends.
D. Volunteering is another great way to stay out of trouble.
E. These clubs can help you focus on something you care about.
F. What's more, if you're reading, then you're not getting into trouble.
G. And no matter what you do, you just can't seem to get things right.
People living in the country enjoy several advantages that people living in the city cannot enjoy.
They are in close contact (接触) with nature. They make friends with trees and stones. They breathe fresh air. They fight with strong winds. They listen to the song of birds. This contact with nature is good for health. There are many diseases that are common in the city, but are not to be found in the country, For example, near---sightedness is almost unknown to country people. Because of the absence of cars, one can walk more freely in the country than in the city. There are no rules of the road nor traffic signs to obey. People living in the country can easily get fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and fresh milk, and they get them at lower prices than in the city. Country life is economical (节俭的) in other ways, too. There are practically no temptations to waste money.
Country people are mostly honest. They say what they mean, and make and keep promises with sincerity (诚意). They do not put on air (摆架子). They do not pretend to have those ridiculous (荒谬的) manners which are necessary in what we call polite society.
1.What is probably more expensive in the country than in the city?
A. Vegetables.
B. Beer.
C. Milk.
D. Fruit.
2.What is NOT true of country life?
A. The traffic accident rate is very high in the country.
B. Living in the country saves one a lot of money.
C. Country people enjoy better health than the city people.
D. Country people are honest.
3.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. People living in the country enjoy no advantages.
B. People living in the city are in close contact with nature.
C. People living in the country suffer from more diseases than those living in the city.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Disadvantages of Living in the Country.
B. The Expenses of Living in the Country.
C. Country Life.
D. Healthy Country People.
Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions（伙伴） than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.
The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn’t just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.
Fellow Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The company’s “Oshbot” robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product’s location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.
The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. “We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said Breazeal.
1.How are social robots different from household robots?
A. They can control their emotions.
B. They are more like humans.
C. They do the normal housework.
D. They respond to users more slowly.
2.What can Oshbot work as?
A. A language teacher.
B. A tour guide.
C. A shop assistant.
D. A private nurse.
3.We can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will ______.
A. train employees B. be our workmates
C. improve technologies D. take the place of workers
4.What does the passage mainly present?
A. A new design idea of household robots.
B. Marketing strategies for social robots.
C. Information on household robots.
D. An introduction to social robots.
My friend, Peg, and I were seeking evidence that there were people who were treating our soil, our waters, our air with the love and respect they deserved. And we found it.
One day we saw a busload of school children on an outing. The bus had stopped at a hamburger stand where we were having a rest, and half-a-hundred children poured out. Busloads of children, of course, were not new, and I hardly gave them more than a glance until I realized what they were doing. Chatting and laughing, the children were picking up as much waste as they could carry from around the stand and its parking area. They took the waste to their bus, where several bags had been brought out for the waste.
Within five minutes, before our astonished eyes, that parking lot had been picked clean. Impressed, I walked over to their teacher. "I'm interested," I began. "In fact, I'm surprised at how those kids worked this place over. Is this some kind of environment protection class?"
"You'd never guess it," he said, "but we're a history class. "
"A history class?"
"That's right. We're on our way from Boston to visit Fort(城堡) Ticonderoga. Before the trip, one of the things we tried to find out was how the Ticonderoga countryside looked back in old days," he said. "In fact, we made a little table display of the scene, using toy buildings and toy trees. When one kid jokingly suggested we ought to put a few bottles and cans around to make it look real, the others blamed him. But the boy argued that he bet Ticonderoga would look like that today. Besides, if they thought it was so funny, were they prepared to clean it up if he was right? The class decided, however, that the entire fort might be too big a task to do. But they agreed to clean up any roadside area where they stopped on their way to the fort. And so that's what they did!"
1.How did the author feel when he understood what the kids were doing?
A. Amazed.
B. Bored.
C. Disappointed.
D. Unconcerned.
2.Why were the students going to Fort Ticonderoga?
A. To learn history.
B. To go outing for fun.
C. To clean the roads to the fort.
D. To protect the environment there.
3.The underlined word "display" in the last paragraph refers to__________.
A. plan
B. show
C. cloth
D. game
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1.Which is the biggest island of China?
A. Taiwan Island.
B. Hainan Island.
C. Diaoyu Island.
D. Huangyan Island.
2.If you go on a trip in Taiwan, where can you see the beautiful sunrise?
A. On Sun and Moon Lake.
B. On Ali Mountain.
C. On Peng Lake.
D. In Gao Xiong.
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A. have more people to join the tour
B. tell you something about Taiwan
C. ask people not to trouble them on Sunday
D. describe how beautiful Taiwan is
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1.Customers with a strong emotional investment in your company or brand will feel _________(背叛) if you ever let them down.
2.They feel ________(内疚) about not being able to see their son often because they are busy with their work.
3.It's no use a__________ about the question with him, for he won't change his opinion.
4.It is __________(荒谬的) to believe that number 13 is unlucky.
5.If we pass the entrance examination and are fortunately a_________ to a university, we shall not stop making effort.
6.The practice of law requires __________(了解) with court procedures.
7.I apologize for the delay in __________(回复) to your message and greatly appreciate your patience.
8.Chinese leaders are __________(坚定的) to continuing Deng Xiaoping's path of opening up policy and economic reform.
9.The two organizations work together to raise public awareness of the vast scale of hunger ____________(全世界).
10.We do not need to __________(羡慕，忌妒) any other person, for our existence is actually unique!
