How much time is left before the movie begins?
A. 7 minutes. B. 15 minutes. C. 30 minutes.
What did the woman do last Saturday?
A. She saw a play. B. She acted in a play. C. She went to the tea house.
假设你是天津晨光中学学生会主席李津，你校拟在暑假举办中国文化夏令营。你的美国 笔友 Ben 对此很感兴趣。请根据以下提示，写一封邮件介绍此次活动。
(1)举办夏令营的时间(为期 7 天)
(2)夏令营的活动安排(学说中文；参观博物馆；拓展训练等)
(3)参加夏令营的方式(电子邮件 zgwhxly@163.com) 注意:
(1)词数不少于 110；
(2)开头和结尾已给出，并不计入总词数
(3)请适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯。 参考词汇:拓展训练 Outward Development
Dear Ben,
It is great to know that you are interested in Chinese Culture Summer Camp.
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Yours
Li Jin
For much of my childhood, my mother filled in the evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted ( 编织 ) hats for babies, and at other times, she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. Therefore, I wasn't surprised when one evening my mother announced she had undertaken a new project.
“I am going to telephone seniors,” said my mother. “Every night? But you don't even know these people.” “It doesn't matter,” she said. “What's important is that I listen.” I was sixteen years old and couldn't understand why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to strangers. She had friends and my two older sisters to call if she felt lonely. “They will talk your ear off. Some people didn't even stop to catch breath.” I said.
My attitude didn't decrease my mother's enthusiasm for the project. That evening, she settled on the sofa and dialed. For a while, I listened as she asked the woman on the other line about her day and what she had eaten for dinner. When she finished the call, I said, “Why do you care whether she had cookies or rice pudding for dessert?” My mother grasped one of my hands and gave it a slight squeeze. “I'm the only person she talked to today.”
It took me more than thirty years to fully understand the significance of that statement. Now, as my mother is nearing eighty, I find myself thinking about those nightly calls she used to make. I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I'm the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just listen as she recounts a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole foods from the refrigerator. I realize that my mother's calls were lifelines that ensured housebound seniors remained connected to the world. Without her, their world would have been empty.
1.Why wasn’t the writer surprised about her mother's decision to undertake a new project? (no more than 9 words)
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2.What's the mother's purpose of calling the seniors and listening? (no more than 8 words)
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3.What does the underlined sentence “They will talk your ear off.” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? (no more than 10 words)
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4.What was the author’s attitude towards her mother’s new project thirty years later according to the last paragraph ? (no more than 9 words)
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5.What do you think of the author’s mother? And why? (no more than 20 words)
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Sometimes we may find that every week there are a lot of new stories about how climate change is affecting the planet, or new plans to battle its effects like the one announced by President Barack Obama the other day. But the concept itself isn't new at all --- in fact, scientists have been exploring questions about climate change for almost 200 year.
The idea of “greenhouse gases” goes back to 1824, when Joseph Fourier wondered what was regulating the earth's temperature. Fourier concluded that the atmosphere must be responsible for containing the heat absorbed from the sun and described it as a box with a glass lid: As light shines through the glass, the inside gets warmer as the lid traps the heat. As Fourier's ideas spread, it came to be called “the greenhouse effect”.
Scientists continued to study the greenhouse effect. Until a Swedish chemist named Svante Arrhenius came along, scientists understood how global warming actually works. After years of work, Arrhenius determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere did in fact have a direct effect on global temperatures.
Arrhenius found that CO2, and other gases trap radiation, which warms the atmosphere. Arrhenius was the first to suspect that burning coal could contribute to the greenhouse effect. But Arrhenius welcomed the warming effect on the planet. At a lecture later that year, Arrhenius noted that creatures of a warmer earth “might live under a milder sky and in less barren surroundings”.
While Arrhenius' findings won him the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry, scientists kept debating whether the greenhouse effect was increasing until 1950, when researchers finally began to find strong data supporting it. By the end of the 1950s, American scientists had been sounding the alarm on the long-term consequences of climate change. Climate change research has come a long way since Fourier first described the greenhouse effect – still, maybe Arrhenius should have been more careful of what he wished for.
1.What can we know from Paragraph 1?
A. Climate change has caused terrible disasters.
B. The topic of climate change has been talked a lot.
C. Scientists should work harder to research climate change.
D. The whole world should cooperate to protect the environment.
2.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The atmosphere.
B. The idea.
C. The earth.
D. The earth's temperature.
3.What's the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A. Serious consequences of climate change.
B. The history of studying the greenhouse effect.
C. Significant research findings about climate change.
D. Scientists' doubts about the cause of global warming.
4.What did Arr henius think of the greenhouse effect?
A. It was beneficial for creatures on the earth.
B. It was totally responsible for climate change
C. It brought more troubles than benefits to human beings.
D. It worked as a punishment for human harmful activities.
5.What's the author's attitude towards Arr henius' expectation?
A. Cautious. B. Defensive. C. Positive. D. Negative.
Nowadays, we live in a strict and judgmental world where people are quick to point out the faults of others yet seem to ignore their own ones. Some misguided souls believe they have a moral duty to help you be a better person telling you what a failure you really are.
If you're the one placing criticism upon others, please stop. Make a conscious decision, rather than focus on the negative aspect of a person's performance or attitudes, and you can offer helpful suggestions. If I'm painting a living room and making a mess in doing so, I'd have my husband say to me, “This is a tough job. Can I offer a suggestion that might make it easier for you?” rather than have him point out what a careless painter I am.
If you're on the receiving end of criticism, the “OK” response is a perfect solution. When someone comments negatively on a task you're doing, the natural response is to defend and attack.
However, this approach is rarely effective as it puts both parties on the defensive. It diffuses (扩散) a potentially explosive situation. It's important to keep calm and listen without feeling, to be an objective observer. There is much that one can learn from a negative review. You can ask yourself: Could I have done better, and been more thoughtful? Did I give 100% of myself to the task at hand? Is there any truth in what the other person says? If so, how can I improve?
In any event, one should remember the saying, “Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.” One can learn to be “OK” with criticism and not allow it to negatively impact his or her relationship with the other party. Let it go and that will be “OK”.
1.According to the author, today's people .
A. ignore the mistakes of others
B. focus on how to handle mistakes
C. like to point out the mistakes of others
D. have a moral duty to point out others' faults
2.In Paragraph 2, the author uses the example to show .
A. pointing out a fault needs a skill
B. It's hard to avoid making mistakes
C. we ought to accept others' criticism
D. praise is more important than criticism
3.What is the proper response to criticism in the author's opinion?
A. Paying no attention to it.
B. Learning something from it.
C. Making excuses for your mistakes.
D. Defending and attacking sometimes.
4.Why should you ask yourself some questions mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. To comfort yourself.
B. To find out your potentials.
C. To make yourself become better.
D. To persuade yourself to admit your mistakes.
5.Which would be the best title for this passage?
A. Is criticism really necessary?
B. What can you learn from criticism?
C. What's the best way to voice criticism?
D. How to criticize and reply to criticism?
