At the end of August this year I moved from London, UK, to a small town in Quebec, Canada, called Matane to work as an English language assistant. Patience is a word that has appeared in many forms over the past two months.
I don’t see myself as being the most patient person in the world but there was something that struck me on my first week of work. I had just finished a session with two students and just as they were leaving the classroom, one of the students turned back and said, “Thank you for your patience.” That was an early reminder of the importance of being patient as a teacher. It also made me reflect on the language teachers that I have had over the years, ones that demonstrated a high level of patience and understanding that has shaped my language learning path. Moreover, it helped me to realize the importance of demonstrating patience in the classroom as it can be the difference between building someone’s confidence in a language or breaking down their confidence entirely.
Living my life constantly in French is not easy but the people of Quebec are very patient. They repeat things several times and they are more than happy to wait while I find the correct words to express myself and find the correct word order. It’s a learning process but with the patience of others, the process is slightly less nervous. At the end of the day, making mistakes shows you are trying and I think that is greatly appreciated by Quebecers.
When I first arrived in Matane I kept getting headaches from having to concentrate all the time due to the language and even overhearing other people’s conversations was hard work! I had to keep reminding myself that it would take time, and two months later the headaches are a distant memory and my ears have become more tuned to their accent. The key is to be patient with yourself.
1.According to Paragraph 2, what does the writer think is important as a teacher?
A. Understanding. B. Patience.
C. Confidence. D. Help.
2.In a small town called Matane, which language do the local people speak?
A. English. B. Spanish.
C. French. D. Italian.
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The writer went to Matane to learn the importance of patience.
B. Doctors in Quebec are good at treating headaches.
C. Practice makes perfect for learning a foreign language.
D. The writer first noticed the importance of patience on hearing a student’s appreciation.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Patience Brings a Surprise
B. Attractions of Quebec
C. My Work Experience in Quebec
D. Learn a Foreign Language with Patience
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1.The receptionist to be employed will work ________.
A. 20 hours a week B. 37 hours a week
C. 38.5 hours a week D. 34.5 hours a week
2.________ is needed in a school in Ealing, West London.
A. A full-time science teacher
B. A teacher with the ability to get along with people
C. A teacher with excellent knowledge about Health &Social Care
D. A technician who can provide a technical support service
3.The text is likely to appear _________.
A. on the Internet B. in a novel
C. in a magazine D. in a newspaper
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Many people spend more than four hours per day on WeChat, and it is redefining the word “friend”. Does friending someone on social media make him or her your friend in real life?
Those with whom you attended a course together, went to a party and intended to cooperate but failed take up most of your WeChat “friends”. In chat records, the only message may be a system notification (通知)，“Somebody has accepted your friend request” or “ You have accepted somebody’s friend request”.
Sometimes when seeing some photos shared on “Moments”，you even need several minutes to think about who this person is and when you became “friends”.
Also, you may be disturbed by mass messages sent from your unacquainted “friends”, including requests for voting for their children or friends. You would have thought about removing this type of “friends” and sort out your connections. But actually you did not do that as you were taught that social networking is valuable to one’s success. Then, with fantasies, you keep amplifying (增加）your “friends” in social media and click “like” on some pictures that you are not really interested.
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1.用约30个单词概括上述利用微信交友的现象；
2.用约120个单词谈谈你如何看待微信交友，然后用2-3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。
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3.不必写标题。
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Life can be overwhelming (令人不知所措的).We want to do as much as we can, see the world, learn new things — and it can all get a bit too much. Sometimes we reach a point when we feel that we can no longer be interested in everything. We have to shut some of life out, and we don’t like that. We are living under the false assumption that to know anything worthwhile takes years of study, so we might as well forget it.
But sometimes inside us rebels. We still want to learn new things and make new things. They don’t have to be big things. Coping with too big a challenge can be daunting (令人怯步的）.The secret is to be a “micromaster” by perfecting lots and lots of small things — for a big payoff.
A micromastery is a self-contained unit of doing, complete in itself, but connected to a greater field. You can perfect that single thing and move on to bigger things. A micromastery is the way we learn as kids. You never absorb all the fundamentals straight away 一 you learn one cool thing, then another. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has written about “flow” 一 a state in which time seems to be suspended because our involvement in what we’re doing is so great. A micromastery，because it is repeatable without being repetitious, has all the elements that allow us to enter a flow state, which produces great contentment.
As we get older our default setting (默认设置）becomes “off” not “on”. We stop getting interested in new things because we haven’t got enough time or energy. This is an excuse but who can blame us when we hear we need 10,000 hours to “master” something. Micromastery slices through all the excuses. You start with something so small and easy that it doesn’t impact on your life except positively.
We envy the person who has a perfect French accent, who can roll kayak, or compose a poem that isn’t laughable， who can lay a brick wall that doesn’t fall down. These are regarded as hard things to learn which mean a greater mastery of the filed concerned. But with micromastery you can start with the test piece and then — and only then — do you go back upstream to learn anything more about the new world.
Seeing the world in terms of micromasteries makes anything seem possible. Fancy bookbinding? Yoga? Tap dancing or tank driving? All have their micromasteries. It’s very liberating — you no longer have to feel trapped in your day job. You will start, in a small way, to get your life back from the idea that the world seems to push on us that we should do just one thing all our lives.
An annoying situation | • We are too 1. to accomplish everything we are interested in and sometimes we have to make a trade-off. ♦We take it for granted that anything worthwhile doesn’t have an 2. payoff, so we might as well forget it. |
A practical approach | ♦ Instead of accomplishing big things, the secret is to be a micromaster by starting 3. |
Facts about a micromastery | ♦It is connected to a greater field. We can 4.upon small successes to achieve greatness. ♦It enables us to have a good command of important things in a 5. way. ♦It can help enter a flow state when we are 6. in what we are doing. |
♦For the adults who lack time and energy to try new things， it can have a 7.impact on their lives. ♦Instead of envying the achievers, we can 8. the unknown world by | |
| starting with the test piece. |
Conclusion | ♦A micromastery can help us to liberate our minds and 9. our boundaries. ♦For a satisfied life, be a 10.of small things. |
Tens of thousands of young in Britain who are struggling with their mental health are seeking help online for problems such as anxiety, self-harm, and depression.
Soaring numbers of under-18s are turning to apps, online counselling and “mood diaries” to help them manage and recover from conditions that have left them feeling low, isolated and, in some cases, suicidal.
A generation of young people are attracted by being able to receive fast, personal care and advice using their phone rather than having to wait up to 18 months to be treated by an NHS mental heath professional.
The shift comes as ministers prepare themselves for publication on Thursday of the first new figures for 13 years showing how common mental health problems are in the young mainly as a result of the emergence of social media and its use in fuelling feelings of inadequacy.
The number of under-18s using Kooth, a free online counselling(咨询的）service, has shot up from 20,000 in 2015 to 65,000 last year, and is forecast to rise further to 100,000 this year.
One hundred NHS clinical commissioning groups across England, more than half the total, have now commissioned the service. It helps young people suffering from anxiety, low mood, poor self-worth or confidence, self-harm and loneliness.
“Young people like the fact they can talk to a counsellor either instantly, or within 10 minutes, for up to an hour in the evenings. They love that immediacy”，said Aaron Sefi, the research and evaluation director at XenZone, the company behind Kooth.
“They also love the anonymity involved, because they can sign up without giving their personal details. Plus, they’re in control, because they are choosing to contact us rather than being told to do so.”
In addition, 123,138 people in the UK download. Calm Harm, an NHS-approved app that helps people self-harm less often or not at all, between April 2017 and this month.
“Users tell us that Calm Harm helps with suicidal thoughts and intent,” said Dr. Nihara Krause, the consultant clinical psychologist who developed the app. “Currently 92% of our users, who are mainly female and often aged 15-21, say the urge reduced.”
Calm Harm is among 18 apps that NHS England has endorsed(支持）to help cope with mental ill-health. They also include Bluelce, which helps young people manage their emotions using a mood diary and automatic routing(自动转接) to emergency help numbers if their urges to self-harm continue.
Experts welcomed the trend but warned that online help must complement, not replace, face-to-face appointments with therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists.
“Most young people spend much of their time online, and it can feel easier for them to communicate through messaging and online services than face-to-face,” said Tom Madders, campaigns director at Young Minds, which helps people under 26.
“Evidence-based mental health apps and online support services can be really beneficial in helping young people to look after their own mental health, develop strategies for coping with difficult emotions, and get accessible information and advice when they need it.”
Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s national mental health director, said: “Technology is constantly evolving and young people are usually at the forefront, so it’s no surprise increasing numbers are turning to services like these which can certainly play a part, particularly when backed up by face-to-face support.”
The NHS’s forthcoming long-term plan, due next month, will “harness(利用）all of the benefits these advancements can bring”，she added.
Meanwhile, 37% of the young people referred to NHS child and adolescent mental health services (Camhs) in England last year were refused help, the children’s commissioner has revealed.
In an analysis of Camhs care published on Thursday, the children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, says that despite promises by politicians and NHS bosses to improve access, “a vast gap remains between what is provided and what children need”.
While she found improvements in several areas of care, including care for eating disorders, new mothers and under- 18s in the criminal justice system, overall “the current rate of progress is still not good enough for the majority of children who require help but are not receiving it”.
1.Online help can be characterized as .______
A. instant, confidential and controllable
B. attractive, convenient and symbolic
C. effective, accessible and controversial
D. considerate, authentic and impractical
2.Teenagers suffer from mental problems mainly because______ .
A. they lack professional guidance
B. they tend to be more self-centred
C. social media make them feel less confident
D. social media keep them distant from each other
3.Calm Harm helps teenagers to_____.
A. keep a journal of their moods
B. manage their feeling of stress
C. reduce the urge to harm themselves
D. improve their self-identity and confidence
4.Experts believe that online help can______.
A. strengthen bonds between teenagers with mental illnesses
B. play a role in pushing forward the cutting-edge advance
C. replace face-to-face appointments with professionals
D. serve as a complement to face-to-face appointments
5.According to Anne Longfield, NHS child and adolescent mental health services ______.
A. have lived up to their expectations and promises
B. are reluctant to help teenagers with mental illnesses
C. will complete their ambitious forthcoming long-term plan
D. need to struggle to meet the increasing needs of teenagers
6.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. The popularity of online apps in treating teenagers’ mental illnesses.
B. The contrasts between online help services and face-to-face support.
C. The influence of teenagers’ mental illnesses on online help services.
D. The drawbacks with the existing adolescent mental health services.
Statistics often sounds like a dry subject, but sometimes it’s necessary to take a statistics course to get the correct answer to this problem. Take the following case for example: a football scout (球探）hears of a player who has powered his team to a good win-loss record. His coaches think he’s one of the most talented players they’ve seen. But the scout is unimpressed by the one practice game he sees him in; he tells his manager it’s not worth trying to recruit (录用）the player.
Most sports fans would think that was a pretty foolish decision, right? Athletic performance is much too variable to base an important judgment on such a small sample. But consider this problem: an employer gets an application from a junior executive (主管人员）with an excellent college record and strong references from his current employer. The employer interviews the applicant and is unimpressed. The employer tells his colleagues that it’s not worthwhile recruiting him.
Most people regard this as a reasonable sort of decision. But it isn’t. Countless studies show that the unstructured 30-minute interview is virtually worthless as a predictor of long-term performance by any criteria that have been examined.
In both cases, predictions based on references-school reports, prior performance, letters of recommendation-give a 65-75% chance of choosing the better of the two.
Why do we get the athletic problem right and the employment problem wrong? Because in the case of the job, unlike for athletic performance, we haven’t seen hundreds of candidates in interviews of a particular type and seen how well performance in the interview corresponds to ultimate (最终的）performance in the setting we’re concerned about. We haven’t seen that the guy who looks like a fool in the interview turns out to be clever on the job and the guy who does well in the interview turns out to be average. The only way to see that the interview isn’t going to be worth much is to be able to apply the “law of large numbers”，which assists the recognition that an interview represents a very small sample of behavior.
The bottom line: there’s safety in numbers. The more recommendations a person has, the more positive the outcome is likely to be for the employer. Consider the job interview: it’s not only a tiny sample, it’s not even a sample of job behavior but of something else entirely. Psychological theory and data show that we are incapable of treating the interview data as little more than unreliable gossip. It’s just too compelling (强迫性的）that we’ve learned a lot from those 30 minutes.
My recommendation is not to interview at all unless you’re going to develop an interview protocol (体系),with the help of a professional, which is based on careful analysis of what you are looking for in a job candidate. And then ask exactly the same questions of every candidate. It’s harder to develop such a protocol than you might guess. But it can really pay off.
1.The cases in the first two paragraphs are meant to_____.
A. illustrate the influence of fans
B. show the weaknesses of scouts
C. attach importance to interviews
D. introduce the topic of the passage
2.The author believes that ____.
A. the setting in the job interview is too artificial to be convincing
B. a successful candidate usually uses tricks to cover his real characters
C. a small sample is not enough to make a generalized judgement of a candidate
D. the number of candidates hasn’t satisfied the requirements for a job interview
3.What is the best title for the passage?
A. How employees are selected
B. Where statistics are available
C. Why job interviews are pointless
D. When recommendations are needed
