In 1989, fresh out of high school, I had the difficult task of choosing a career path before college started in three months. In those days in Pakistan, there were limited options: becoming a doctor or an engineer, or entering the financial world after getting a business degree. I wasn’t interested in engineering, so that I was left with medicine or business. I couldn’t decide.
My uncle, one of the ciders in the family, suggested that I do a work placement to experience it for a month in an international company followed by a month in a hospital. After that, I could make a decision. It seemed like a brilliant idea.
I was accepted for a month’s placement at a foreign bank in Karachi. I got a feel for how the world of finance functioned, made new friends, and generally enjoyed the mostly easy-going work surroundings.
The month passed rapidly, and soon I began working at a leading hospital in Karachi. The experience couldn’t have been more different. The hospital had an intense environment. The days started early (at 7 am, compared to 9 am at the bank), and were filled with endless duties. And the night calls! This was crazy, working all day, through the night, and again the next day.
I began thinking about my two experiences. The bank had offered a more relaxing atmosphere, better working hours and less stress. The hospital was full of excitement and unpredictability, but the studying and training was difficult. It seemed that the business option was going to win out.
Near the end of my month at the hospital, I was driving home after an especially busy night call. In front of me was a public bus, with college students sitting on the top. As the driver weaved through (穿梭) traffic, I could see the boys shaking from side to side.
注意:1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1: Suddenly, a boy fell off the back of the bus.
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Paragraph 2: The next day, when I went to hospital to see the boy, all his family got up, with grateful smiles on their faces.
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为了配合学校开展垃圾分类工作，学生会向全校学生发出了“垃圾分类，从我做起”的倡议。假如你是学生会主席李华，请你用英语写一封倡议书，内容包括:
1.垃圾分类的意义
2.垃圾分类的做法
3.呼吁全体学生参加
注意:1. 词数80左右； 2.开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇:垃圾分类 rubbish classification
Dear fellow students,
Our school has launched a program of rubbish classification.
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Yours,
Li Hua
Qiang Shuping was so busy making cloth shoes1. she didn’t even rest during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The woman from Baipu County, Jiangsu Province, 2. (make) shoes since she was 19 years old, and this year marks her 31st year making cloth shoes.
She spends the entire day in her tiny studio, which 3.(measure) less than 10 square meters altogether, filled with cloth shoes in4.(variety) stages of completion.
Nowadays, many stores make cloth shoes5. (use) machines, but Qiang sticks to the technique of making shoes entirely 6. hand. She says the shoes 7. (produce) by the machine are not of the same quality as handmade ones. The handmade cloth shoes are more durable and comfortable, 8.(soft), and absorb sweat better.
Some people buy cloth shoes out of nostalgia(怀旧), while others trust 9.(they) quality. Making shoes isn’t a profitable job, but Qiang still insists as she wants to preserve the craft and pass it down to the younger generation.
Handmade cloth shoes are also called qiancengdi (shoes with a thousand layers), 10. can date back to the ancient Zhou Dynasty. In 2009, the making technique of qiancengdi was listed as the national intangible cultural heritage.
Experts say boredom is good for kids. It forces them to be creative, ____their imaginations and helps them discover new things. A (n)____in point is 13-year-old Luke Thill from Dubuque, Iowa.
Luke was____of playing video games and riding his bike, so he decided to build a tiny house in his backyard instead. He made money from cutting lawns(草坪)and____exchanged some services, such as gaining the help of an electrical engineer____sweeping his garage. Luke also____spare materials from his grandmother’s house and other____materials from his neighbors for some of the windows and the door.
The 89-square—foot home cost $1,500 to build and ____18 months. Inside there’s a kitchenette, a back sitting room, a table and a mounted(镶嵌的)TV, and an upstairs bedroom can be easily____by stairway.
Although Luke did the____and learned how to do all the work, he had his father’s____throughout the project. Greg Thill was very happy that his son learned to stay on____and deal with grown-ups.____，he had some simple rules when Luke____the house: “You ____the money. You build it. And you own it.’’
Luke is now in love with ____. He has a YouTube channel and hopes to ____other kids to start building.____, he wants to build a bigger tiny house to live in, but for now, he____in his new home a few nights a week, does homework there, and uses it to take a____from his twin brother.
1.A. changes B. ignores C. improves D. weakens
2.A. method B. explanation C. procedure D. case
3.A. tired B. fond C. confident D. guilty
4.A. thus B. even C. still D. anyhow
5.A. in exchange for B. in praise for C. in support of D. in place of
6.A. updated B. ordered C. removed D. used
7.A. recycled B. cheap C. new D. raw
8.A. spent B. took C. saved D. wasted
9.A. supported B. accessed C. held D. landed
10.A. research B. housework C. experiment D. discovery
11.A. permission B. help C. control D. order
12.A. credit B. business C. budget D. duty
13.A. Therefore B. Besides C. Rather D. However
14.A. finished B. decorated C. started D. painted
15.A. borrow B. donate C. raise D. distribute
16.A. books B. videos C. riding D. building
17.A. inspire B. press C. command D. warn
18.A. Luckily B. Eventually C. Frequently D. Strangely
19.A. brings out B. leaves out C. hangs out D. puts out
20.A. ride B. risk C. chance D. break
They Just Can't Help It
My theory is that the female brain is mainly built for empathy — the ability to understand other people — and that the male brain is mainly built for building systems. 1. For example, women are more likely to read magazines on fashion and parenting, while men will choose magazines that feature computers and sport.
You may think that these preferences are influenced by the way people are taught to behave when they are growing up. However, this is not the case. A new study carried out at Cambridge University shows that newborn girls look longer at a face, and newborn boys look longer at a mobile. 2. It has also been observed that girls are better at noticing signs of changes in other people's feelings. Boys, however, seem to enjoy building toy towers and playing with toys which have clear functions. 3. People whose jobs are in the construction industries are almost male. Math and engineering, which require high levels of systems-thinking, are also male-chosen disciplines. Why do men and women have the difference? Actually women have four times as many brain neurons (神经) that connect the right and left part of their brains. Because of it, women have a better ability to multitask than men. 4. Men tend to focus on a limited number of problems at a time. They will separate themselves from problems and view tasks as independent from one another.
Some people may worry that I am suggesting one gender (性别) is better than the other, but this is not the case. My theory says that males and females differ in the kinds of things that they find easy, but that both genders have their strengths and weaknesses. 5. It is not true. The study simply looks at males and females as two groups, and asks what differences exist, and why they are there.
A. Generally speaking, there are clear differences.
B. Their preference for building systems may change over time.
C. You can see the same kind of pattern in the adult workplace.
D. They will consider many sources of information at the same time.
E. It is important to stress that the female brain may be built more for empathy.
F. That suggests certain differences between male and female brains are biological.
G. Others may think the theory creates a belief of what a particular type of person is like.
Can you be too beautiful? It is hardly a problem that most of us have to bother — as much as we might like to dream that it were the case.
Yet the blessings and curses of beauty have been a long-standing interest in psychology. Do those blessed with shiny faces and an attractive body live in a cloud of appreciation — or does it sometimes pay to be ordinary?
At the most basic level, beauty might be thought to carry a kind of halo (光环) around it; we see that someone has one good quality, and by association, our deep mind may assume that they have other good ones too.
Even in the courts, a pleasing appearance can work its magic. Attractive criminals are likely to get less strict sentences, or to escape punishment entirely; attractive plaintiffs (原告), meanwhile, are more likely to win their case and get bigger financial settlements. “It’s an effect seen everywhere,” says Walker.
But if beauty pays in most circumstances, there are still situations where it can have opposite results. While attractive men may be considered better leaders, for instance, hidden sexist prejudices (偏见) can work against attractive women, making them less likely to be hired for high-level jobs that require power. And as you might expect, good-looking people of both sexes run into envy — one study found that if you are interviewed by someone of the same sex, they may be less likely to employ you if they judge that you are more attractive than they are.
More worryingly, being beautiful or handsome could harm your medical care. We tend to link good looks to health, meaning that illnesses are often taken less seriously when they affect the good-looking. When treating people for pain, for instance, doctors tend to take less care over the more attractive people.
Ultimately, scientists point out that focusing too much on your appearance can itself be harmful if it creates stress and anxiety — even for those already blessed with good looks. “If you are crazy about attractiveness, it may affect your experience and interactions,” she says. It’s an outdated saying, but no amount of beauty can make up for a bad personality. As the writer Dorothy Parker put it so elegantly: “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
1.From paragraph 1, we can learn that _______.
A. some may be bothered by their unattractive appearance
B. most people are not afraid of being too beautiful
C. we might always dream about being bothered by others
D. being too beautiful can be a problem bothering everyone
2.Which is the benefit for beautiful people?
A. All attractive plaintiffs have more chances to get away with punishment.
B. Women with pleasing appearance will always be considered as better leaders.
C. Good-looking people are often regarded as having many good qualities.
D. Beautiful criminals are more likely to persuade the judge and win the case.
3.The writer mentioned the underlined sentence in the last paragraph to _______.
A. persuade us to pay more attention to our looks from now on
B. suggest that beauty can help make a better personality
C. encourage us to focus more on improving our personality
D. ask ugly people to have more confidence in their personality
4.What might be the best title for the passage?
A. Beauty, a blessing? B. Sexist Prejudice.
C. Real beauty. D. Benefits Beauty holds.
