Low-cost Gifts for Mother’s Day
Gift No. 1
Offer to be your mother’s health friend. Promise to be there for all doctor’s visits whether she has a disease or needs a regular medical check-up. Most mothers always say there is no need, but another set if eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctor’s visit. The best part? This one is free.
Gift No. 2
Help your mother organize all of her medical records, which include the test results and medical information. Put them all in one place. Be sure to make a list of all of her medicines and what time she takes them. “Having all this information in one place could end up saving your mother’s life,” Dr. Marie Savard said.
Gift No. 3
Enough sleep is connected with general health conditions. “Buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortable pillows to encourage better sleep,” Savard said. “We know that good sleep is very important to our health.”
Gift No. 4
Some gift companies such as Presents for Purpose allow you to pay it forward this Mother’s Day by picking gifts, 10 percent of whose price you pay goes to a charity (慈善机构). Gift givers can choose from a wide variety of useful but inexpensive things — many of which are “green” — and then choose a meaningful charity from a list. When your mother gets the gift she will be told that she has helped the chosen charity.
1.What are you advised to do for your mother at doctor’s visits?
A. To take notes. B. To be with her.
C. To buy medicines. D. To give her gifts.
2.Where can you find an idea for gifts to improve your mother’s sleep?
A. In Gift No. 1. B. In Gift No. 2.
C. In Gift No. 3. D. In Gift No. 4.
3.Buying gifts from Presents for Purpose allows mothers to ______.
A. enjoy good sleep B. be well-organized
C. get extra support D. give other help
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1.The course is _________(设计) as an introduction to the subject.
2.Her parents died in the accident, but she _________(幸存).
3.He was too tired to _________(搬开) the big stone.
4.The ship ________(下沉) to the bottom of the river.
5.I hear that many people are _________(竞争) for that position.
6.My deskmate Wang Tao is so outstanding that we are sure he will be a________ into Peking University or Qinghua University.
7.The coat was half-price, a real __________(便宜货).
8.He is a responsible writer and he __________(应受) respecting.
9.They gave him several __________(信号), but he just took no notice.
10.I’m afraid that your explanation is not __________(符合逻辑) enough.
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Don Ritchie was a famous Australian man. For nearly 50 years, he successfully stopped 160 people from killing 1. (they) at a cliff (悬崖), with just a kind word and a smile.
Don was a real gentleman, he purposely chose to live right across the street from the cliff, just because he wanted to save lives of 2. (stranger). He would wake up every morning and look out of the window for anyone 3. (stand) too close to the edge of the cliff. If he saw someone and thought they might jump, he would 4. (simple) walk over with a smile and say, “Is there something I could do to help you?” That sounds very simple, 5. it worked – Ritchie tried to have a talk with these people and ended up inviting them back to his house 6. tea or breakfast.
In a situation 7. most people would turn a blind eye, with such simple actions taken by Don, he saved 160 lives. He 8. (give) the Local Hero Award in Australia in 2011. Don passed away at the age of 85 in 2012. His story 9. (touch) the hearts of all Australians and challenged us to rethink 10. it means to be a good neighbor.
Though the sun was shining, it was still cold here in the mountains. I was ______ home along the clear roads. The last ______ had been over a week ago but down the sides of the hills lining the highway, there were still ______ walls of ice. As I started to round a sharp turn, I ______ that a large piece of ice had broken off and fallen onto the road. I ______ turned my car to the other lane(车道) to ______ it.
After I did it, I noticed a small dog was walking in my former lane just beyond where the ice had ______. If I had still been in that lane, I would have surely ______ him. Slowing down, I honked(按喇叭) and the dog was ______. He looked at me for a moment and then ______ the road and got into the safety of the woods.
I pulled over to a ______ place and parked. Then I walked back to the ice and moved it ______ the road so that no one would hit it. As I walked back to my car, I looked up at the ______. The clouds had just parted again to ______ the sun to shine through. I smiled and ______ fate(命运) for putting that ice just where it needed to be to keep me from hitting that little dog.
As I ______ driving home, I started thinking of all the times that the traffic in my life must have been redirected(重新定向). How many times had I been the small dog walking into traffic only to have the “ice” so I wouldn’t be ______? How many times had fate given me another ______ to find my way back to the right path without being ______?
Fate ______ us all so much. So let’s live wisely and thankfully.
1.A. moving B. stepping C. driving D. walking
2.A. flood B. rain C. accident D. snow
3.A. huge B. strange C. colorful D. short
4.A. heard B. noticed C. remembered D. guessed
5.A. quickly B. bravely C. sadly D. frequently
6.A. catch B. see C. remind D. miss
7.A. changed B. disappeared C. fallen D. formed
8.A. pulled B. caught C. beaten D. hit
9.A. interested B. tired C. shocked D. bored
10.A. got on B. ran off C. looked at D. turned around
11.A. safe B. quiet C. warm D. lonely
12.A. onto B. off C. over D. beneath
13.A. building B. tree C. sky D. mountain
14.A. allow B. offer C. send D. advise
15.A. called B. thanked C. learned D. asked
16.A. imagined B. suggested C. practiced D. continued
17.A. got over B. turned over C. run over D. pushed over
18.A. chance B. job C. friend D. challenge
19.A. followed B. hurt C. directed D. pushed
20.A. answers B. remembers C. praises D. loves
Are you afraid of failure? However, only by overcoming fear of failure can we achieve success in life. Here are some tips on how to remove fear and focus on success:
Understand that at times you make mistakes. 1. Before any of us learned how to walk, we crawled(爬行). We got up, fell down and got up again. We continued the process until we could walk quite well.
2. Instead, view it as a stepping stone. Make certain that you learn from failure and then use what you have learned in future situations. Refuse to consider failure a character weakness. Doing so will only prevent you from achieving future success.
Remember that failure has produced many successes. 3. Albert Einstein’s teacher told him to quit school and said, “Einstein, you will never achieve anything!” Beethoven’s music teacher said he was hopeless to become a composer(作曲家). Henry Ford’s first two car companies failed.
Appreciate the benefits of failure. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you try, the better you make.” It’s hardly possible for someone to achieve success for the first time he tries. 4.
Believe in yourself. Rather than give up when things don’t work out, take it as a chance to build perseverance(坚持不懈). Remind yourself how many failures became successful because they wouldn’t give up. 5.
A. Don’t take failure personally.
B. Work hard and try to avoid(避免) failure.
C. Realize that you are human and humans make mistakes.
D. Believe that you’ve got what it takes to work through the difficult times.
E. Making the same mistake again can lead to the failure in your future work.
F. Consider how many people in history had failed before they became successful.
G. In other words, your chances of getting things right on the first try are little.
