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Today，it is not rare that people may lose their jobs，so it is perhaps the time to consider the experience of unemployment. What are the first feelings？ Well，1. （lose）a job，or not being able to find one，almost always causes sadness.
If you've lost a job，the first feeling is often that of2.（disappoint）. The days seem3.（be）getting longer and the time becomes 4.（hard）to fill in. Some people may 5.（have）difficulty in sleeping and eating. They feel depressed，often isolated and lonely. Others may lose confidence in themselves. They are no longer certain about 6.（they）own feelings. Despite all these problems，unemployment may bring good feelings，too. It's nice to be able to lie in bed in the morning，spend more time7. your family and relatives，and have more time to think. It can be a chance for a fresh start. You can use the time to consider8. you really want to get from life and how you can get it. Also you can use the time to plan how to find 9. new job，learn a new skill，or see if you can run your own business and become a success. 10.（possible），a new and better job is already waiting for you.
Can you change the world？Yes you can！
One of my friends wrote me a letter a few weeks ago. His life was full of problems and ____ .
He was low on hope. He ended his letter to me with this ____：“We can't really change this crazy world we live in，can we？”I answered him immediately with these ___ ："Yes，we_____can！”
I can still remember how someone changed my world. She was the music teacher at my elementary school, the______at our church, and a family friend. I was crazy about her and wanted to ____her more than anything. However,I had no______for any instrument and my singing was quite ____though I was enthusiastic. One day she let me try playing her guitar. I did my best but could only play a note or two. When I was done,I _____my head. "I guess I am not very good," I told her. She looked at me with her kind eyes,______, and said:"We are all good at something. You just need to_______what you are good at. Then you can________it with the world. "
Those simple words changed me. They planted a seed in my soul that______to grow to this day. They made me______that I had something to give to others. I had something good inside and that could change this world for the____ . I just had to find it, ____ it out and share it. And that is what I have tried to do all of the years since that______day.
You can change the world and make it better every single day of your life. You can change it, one choice, one person, and one kind______at a time. All you have to do is share your goodness. _____you have to do is make your love great! Live well! Do good!______the world!
1.A. worries B. excitements C. surprises D. interests
2.A. problem B. matter C. answer D. question
3.A. idioms B. words C. decisions D. assessments
4.A. certainly B. suddenly C. merely D. ever
5.A. worker B. doctor C. guitarist D. cleaner
6.A. help B. impress C. instruct D. challenge
7.A. manner B. respect C. luck D. talent
8.A. popular B. awesome C. awful D. sweet
9.A. raised B. lowered C. used D. kept
10.A. smiled B. sighed C. sang D. cried
11.A. set up B. take up C. put forward D. find out
12.A. play B. mix C. share D. provide
13.A. fails B. refuses C. continues D. agrees
14.A. regret B. realize C. deny D. declare
15.A. richer B. worse C. wider D. better
16.A. set B. give C. bring D. put
17.A. important B. insignificant C. extra D. stressful
18.A. teacher B. friend C. invitation D. act
19.A. All B. Much C. Most D. Nothing
20.A. Protect B. Change C. Create D. Save
Four ways to get a feel for a college on your own
There's more to visiting a college than a campus（校园）tour. And there's a critical part for students and parents: testing the school on your own. 1.
1.Go to a dining hall or student union.
The best common place where students relax and hang out is the cafeteria or student center，where you can see what college kids are like in their natural habitat.
“Go to lunch in a cafeteria right at noon，”says Edward Walker，founder of Independent Consultants in Education，“ 2.”
2.Sit in on a class.
A lot of high school students aren't sure what they want to study yet when they are visiting colleges，but familiarizing yourself with the academic atmosphere is important. 3. You can come up with a few academic areas that you think you'd like to study and reach out to those classes.
3.4.
Chat with anyone walking around campus. Don't let mom and dad do it for you. “Your parents can talk to people，too and then you can compare notes，"says Walker. "Talk to various groups of students so you'll get a well-rounded picture. ”
Tour the community.
Whether the school is in the countryside or in a city center，check out the off-campus area nearest the college. 5.
A. Talk to parents.
B. Talk to students.
C. Many schools offer people chances to sit in on a class.
D. Here are four ways to get more familiar with a prospective（预期的）school.
E. That's one of the best places where you can learn about a school's atmosphere.
F. Big communities are still the major places that attract tourists in our society today.
G. If there's time，tour some of the museums or other points of interest and eat at a local restaurant.
At times we all get angry when we are driving. It might be because we are stuck in a traffic jam or stuck behind a very slow driver. t might be because we think another driver has done something very stupid and dangerous. Whatever the reason, it seems that getting angry in a car is something which happens more and more often and there is now a special term for it: "road rage". Some experts even think that road rage is a kind of mental illness! How can we recognize this "illness" of road rage?
There are two kinds of road rage: aggressive driving and aggressive reactions to the way other people are driving. Aggressive driving can take different forms:
●Driving much faster than the speed limit.
●Increasing your speed very quickly.
●Driving very close behind the car in front and sounding the horn or flashing the headlights.
●Changing lanes very suddenly and blocking another car.
●Moving into a parking space where another ear is trying to park.
There are also different reactions to the way other people are driving. These include:
●Making rude signs at people.
●Shouting at people and threatening them.
●Deliberately driving into another person's car.
●Hitting somebody.
●Using a weapon such as a baseball bat, or even a gun or a knife.
Road rage is certainly not a joke. There have been incidents of road rage which have led to serious injuries and even murder. Experts think that one reason for road rage is that films show a lot of examples of fast and aggressive driving such as car chases where this kind of driving seems to he positive.
Experts also think that the punishments for dangerous driving are not serious enough. Experience shows that driving problems can be controlled，but it takes a long time. In the UK in the last 30 years，the police have been quite successful in reducing the number of people who drink and drive. They are now working to stop people using mobile phones when they are driving. Let's hope they can have the same success with road rage.
1.Which of the following describes aggressive reactions to the way other people are driving？
A. Making polite signs at people.
B. Shouting at people and threatening them.
C. Driving much faster than the speed limit.
D. Moving into a parking space where another car is trying to park.
2.Road rage happens possibly because______.
A. we are in a fast-changing society
B. it won't cause serious injuries or death
C. the drivers themselves have done something stupid
D. the drivers won't get severe punishments for dangerous driving
3.What's the tone of the last paragraph？
A. Sad. B. Cold.
C. Optimistic. D. Exciting.
If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to rely on archaeologists to find ruined buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists then try to reconstruct, sometimes with the help of computer technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and find an ancient document with a written description of these ancient buildings and objects.
We can understand, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the world-renowned Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City, in Northwest China's Gansu Province. There are 500 man-made caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes) and he says: “We discovered frescoes containing scientific and technological content in almost all of the caves which have frescoes.” What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of "scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sciences".
Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings showing ancient weaving machines and then toothbrushes! The paintings also give some evidence of the lifestyle at the time with, for example, pictures of people boiling milk over 1,000 years ago. Experts believe that there is more evidence to be found, but even now the caves are a wonderful natural museum. If the walls and ceilings of the caves were all put together they would form a tapestry 20 kilometers long and 2 meters high!
It won't be possible to travel back in time-that only happens in films-but visiting these caves would be the nearest experience you could get to travelling back in time.
1.Why were Chinese historians excited when they found cave paintings showing ancient science?
A. Because they had rarely seen cave paintings.
B. Because they could make the place a tourist attraction.
C. Because they could learn about ancient science through them.
D. Because they would be given lots of money for the discovery.
2.The Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City______.
A. have 500 man-made caves
B. have been there for at most 1,600 years
C. help us to know little about ancient science
D. have paintings on their ceilings in every cave
3.Experts had discovered cave paintings showing the ancient techniques of ______.
A. pottery making and wine production
B. weaving machines and toothbrushes
C. boiling milk over 1,000 years ago
D. architecture and weaving
4.The article is more likely to be selected from the magazine ______.
A. Modern Countries B. Business World
C. Network World D. Popular Science
It is obvious that all of our childhood memories are not accidental. When you are a child, every scent, every sound, every move, every toy, the first day of school, the first kiss, the first step. . . Everything together makes what is the personality of a man. All these are pieces of one whole entity.
I was about 6 years old. My mom's best friend left to another town and asked my mom to stay at her place with me for two days in order to look after her two sons. One was a little older than I was. and the second boy appeared to be super grown-up, for he was already fourteen. I always enjoyed staying at their place.
I remember the second day we were supposed to have the come-back party for my mom's friend at her place. I woke up. Mom went to work and reminded me to be nice and clean by the time she came back. I stayed with Tony, the older of the boys and suddenly somebody called him and though he was not permitted to leave me alone-he left. He said it would not be long. But it took him forever. I realized that I was alone. I could not come out of the house, so I opened the window. I was so desperate. So lonely. So betrayed. At that moment I pulled the curtain so strongly that I fell on the floor. And there I was standing-one little criminal-desperate to escape and knowing that I would be punished for destroying the curtain that was not even ours.
But then something changed. I stopped weeping. I looked around and realized that I was in a safe place, and that mom would come back and kiss me no matter what I had done.
This was a moment of pure happiness, not the happiness of getting a new toy or a dog, or going to the party of your best friend. It was the moment of clarity for me-the first time in my life when I realized that I was happy to have my mom and that I was safe. My eyes saw the world in different shades that moment. And by the way-I was not punished for the curtain. I fell asleep on my mom's knees.
1.What is the best title for this passage?
A. An Unforgettable Party
B. A Childhood Memory
C. A Happy Day in My Mom's Best Friend's Home
D. The Rules You Should Follow
2.What best describes the author's feelings toward childhood memories?
A. Childhood memories are easy to forget.
B. They make what is the personality of a man.
C. Good memories are always much easier for us to remember.
D. Childhood memories are always strange and incomprehensible.
3.What happened to the author when he was 6 years old?
A. His family moved to another apartment.
B. He always fought with mom's friend's children for toys.
C. He was punished by his mom for destroying her friend's curtain.
D. He was locked inside a house and failed to get out by the window.
4.In the last paragraph, the word " It " refers to______.
A. the moment he received a present from his mom
B. the time he spent in mom's friend's home
C. the moment he realized his mom's love
D. the time he destroyed the curtain
