A new study of 8,000 young people in the journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that although love can make adults live healthily and happily，it is a bad thing for young people. Puppy love（早恋）may bring stress for young people and can lead to depression. The study shows that girls become more depressed than boys, and younger girls are the worst of all.
The possible reason for the connection between love and higher risk of depression for girls is “loss of self”. According to the study, even though boys would say “lose themselves in a romantic relationship”, this “loss of self” is much more likely to lead to depression when it happens to girls. Young girls who have romantic relationships usually like hiding their feelings and opinions. They won’t tell that to their parents.
Dr Marianm Kaufman, an expert on young people problems, says 15% to 20% young people will have depression during their growing. Trying romance often causes the depression. She advises kids not to jump into romance too early. During growing up, it is important for young people to build strong friendships and a strong sense of self. She also suggests the parents should encourage their kids to keep close to their friends, attend more interesting school activities and spend enough time with family.
Parents should watch for signs of depression—eating or mood changes—and if they see signs from their daughters or sons，they need to give help. The good news is that the connection between romance and depression seems to become weak with age. Love will always make us feel young, but only maturity(成熟) gives us a chance to avoid its bad side effects.
1.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Puppy love may bring young people depression.
B. Parents should forbid their children’s love.
C. Romance is a two-edged sword for adults.
D. Romance is good for young people.
2.Which of the following is more likely to have depression?
A. Young people who have a strong sense of self.
B. Young boys whose parents watch for their behavior.
C. Young girls who always hide their feelings and opinions.
D. Careless parents whose children are deep in love.
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Lacking love can lead young people to grow up more quickly.
B. Early love makes young people keep close to their friends and parents.
C. Parents should help their children to be aware of the signs of depression.
D. The older a woman is, the less likely she seems to lose herself in romance.
4.What’s the author’s attitude towards puppy love?
A. Confused B. Disapproving
C. Disinterested D. Scared
People tend to become more personal and hide less of themselves when using email. Researchers from Open University in Britain have found in a recent study that there are good reasons for this.
The team of researchers asked 83 pairs of students, all strangers to each other, to solve a problem. They had to discuss this question: If only five people in the world could be saved from a world disaster, who should they be? The pairs of students had to talk over the problem either face to face or by computers. Dr. Johnson said, “They told their partners four times as much about themselves when they talked over the Internet as when they talked face to face. When the computers were fitted with cameras so that students could see each other, this limited the personal side of the conversation.”
Generally the information was not extremely personal. It was mainly about things such as where they went to school, or where they used to live. But some students discussed their love stories, and personal childhood experiences.
Dr Johnson believes that emailing encourages people to focus on themselves. And when they do this, they become more open, especially if there are no cameras. “If you cannot see the other person, it becomes easier to talk about yourself. This is because you are not thinking what the other person is thinking of you. So emailing has become the modern way of talking,” said Dr. Johnson. However, this style of talking is not entirely new. “In the 19th century people started to use the ‘telegraph’ to communicate. Now the same kind of thing has happened and people ended up speaking more freely.”
Dr. Johnson thinks that emailers need to know about these effects of emailing, especially when they start work in a company. “ If you don’t know about them, you could find yourself saying more about yourself than you wanted to.”
1.The subject discussed in this passage is _______.
A. how people do research studies
B. how people open up when emailing
C. how to communicate at work
D. how to discuss and solve a problem
2.The reason that some couples talked freely about themselves is that _______.
A. they didn’t talk about very personal things
B. they couldn’t see each other
C. the cameras on the computers were turned on
D. they had to discuss a question
3.In the writer’s opinion, one should ______.
A. focus on oneself when emailing
B. talk more freely in emails than usual
C. consider how one uses email at work
D. discuss any subject that one wants to
假定你是李华，你校外教露西女士近期准备回英国度假，你班同学准备举行晚会为她送行。请你根据以下提示，用英语写一封e-mail，通知她相关情况。
1. 对她的辛勤教学工作表示感谢。2. 时间和地点。3. 活动内容。
注意：1. 字数100词左右。
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文更连贯。
3. 开头和结尾已给出。（不计入总词数）
Dear Lucy,
We hear that you’ll return to the United Kingdom on a holiday soon.
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，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. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
We have lived in the house for ten years, so the kitchen is the heart of our home. For us, the kitchen is where holds special sounds, smells and memories. We enjoy the sound of my grandmother sings old songs coming from her childhood as she cooks. Every week he prepares a delicious meal for us. We often sit in the kitchen talking while we waited for the food to be ready. It may seem like a special place to someone else, but when I am in low spirit, it warms me like a big blanket in a winter morning. Before the school, we say goodbye to our parents and hug them cheerful when we get home.
Rising Web Literature
Internet literature 1. (appeal) to more and more people in China at present, such as fantasy novel Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Blossoms, whose 2. (adapt) －Eternal Love－was aired earlier this year.
The flourishing online literature has become 3. source of inspiration for a larger number of films, games and animations.
However, the 4. (rapid) growing genre (体裁) is faced with problems such as piracy (盗版行为). Pirated versions often appear soon5. original Web novels are posted online by authors. Moreover, online writers tend to imitate popular works, 6. (result) in productions 7. low quality.
It is suggested that the government should tighten punishment for piracy, introducing relevant policies to encourage originality in online literature works 8. a healthy atmosphere for developing the genre can be created.
In the meanwhile, proper guidance needs 9. (provide) for online writers to create works 10. positive contemporary Chinese values and morals properly presented.
Last March my dad told us that there was a chance he would be deployed （部署，派遣）overseas. My brother and I didn't think anything of it and forgot his _____. Two weeks later, Dad didn't come home on time. We didn't think it was serious _____it wasn't the first time. We waited, and _____at midnight Dad came in. We asked where he'd been. He just _______, “I am leaving tomorrow for Afghanistan（阿富汗）.”
Hearing that, we were in _____, thinking that this could not be happening to us. But when he started _____ his desert uniforms we knew it was for real.
He sat us all down and my brothers and I had a discussion about _____ we were going to do while he was away. And then we _____ and helped him get ready. We _____his uniforms and talked more about what we needed to do. We didn't get to sleep ______ 4 a.m. Therefore, my dad called school to _____ we were not going to be there that day.
We took off for Madison _____he would check in and get ready to leave. When we got there the official told us that he _____ leave until 5 p.m. We had our last _____together and then headed to the airport. We were told it was time to leave. We hugged him and said _____.
“_____is going to happen to me, and I love you,” he said. Then he was _____. We left the airport not saying anything to each other.
My dad is _____gone, and he won't be home for a while. He talks to us ____ on the phone. I hope that my story makes you think about your own family now and what _____to you.
1.A. promise B. words C. birthday D. appointment
2.A. when B. though C. that D. since
3.A. finally B. gradually C. constantly D. actually
4.A. whispered B. wept C. replied D. screamed
5.A. excitement B. shock C. relief D. peace
6.A. packing B. wearing C. searching D. mending
7.A. how B. when C. whether D. what
8.A. woke up B. cheered up C. stayed up D. turned up
9.A. removed B. ironed C. sewed D. chose
10.A. until B. over C. in D. after
11.A. confirm B. announce C. deny D. explain
12.A. when B. that C. where D. why
13.A. couldn’t B. wouldn’t C. needn’t D. mustn’t
14.A. meal B. weekend C. talk D. lesson
15.A. apology B. hello C. thanks D. good-bye
16.A. Anything B. Everything C. Nothing D. Something
17.A. missing B. gone C. lost D. puzzled
18.A. still B. even C. ever D. yet
19.A. seriously B. frequently C. loudly D. occasionally
20.A. belongs B. appeals C. counts D. happens
