People doubt ______ the rising house prices will be under control.
A. that B. whether
C. what D. which
Traveling abroad _____________ to rich tourists and wealthy business people decades ago.
A. is limited B. has been limited
C. was limited D. had been limited
As a primary school student in New York City, Robert Lee would stare in ________ at his classmates throwing away half-eaten sandwiches after lunch, because his parents had ______ him and his elder brother not to ________ food. They said it was bad karma(作孽).
While studying at New York University, Robert remembered this________ and joined Two Birds One Stone, a food-rescue club on campus that________, five days a week, uneaten pasta, vegetables, and other leftovers from the school ________to nearby homeless shelters.
When Robert and fellow club member Louisa Chen entered a college contest, they _________ a slightly ________ idea for a food-rescue nonprofit group: Their program wouldn’t have a _________minimum, would ________seven days a week, and its staff would ________volunteers.
Their idea________the competition. With the＄1,000 prize, they________Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) in July, 2013. In just the first few weeks, Robert’s team delivered a donation of enough spaghetti and meatballs to_______ 20 people in line at a New Yorker City homeless shelter that had ________food.
Robert, who had taken a job as an analyst at J.P.Morgan, devoted his spare time to creating a network of New Yorker City restaurants that were________to donate food, and he enlisted(征募) volunteers to make food deliveries to homeless shelters. After RLC received national press_________, homeless shelters and soup kitchens in many places reached out to Robert for_______. Two years after being founded, RLC had already distributed more than 250,000 pounds of food.
Only a year into his finance job, Robert gave up his six-figure salary to_______RLC．“I compared work at J.P.Morgan with that at RLC, and the difference was great,” he says.
“One shelter told us that our donations allow them to provide entire dinners for more than 300 people, three nights a week,” Robert says. “Things like that make me feel________that I quit my job.”
1.A. safety B. relief C. honesty D. disbelief
2.A. taught B. allowed C. advised D. forbidden
3.A. prepare B. waste C. purchase D. consider
4.A. intention B. lesson C. rule D. conversation
5.A. cooked B. collected C. delivered D. consumed
6.A. library B. playground C. canteen D. laboratory
7.A. withdrew B. ignored C. avoided D. proposed
8.A. different B. modern C. outdated D. practical
9.A. donation B. wage C. speed D. height
10.A. grow B. produce C. change D. operate
11.A. compete with B. stand for C. consist of D. suffer from
12.A. brought B. won C. held D. contained
13.A. left B. joined C. founded D. defeated
14.A. inspire B. feed C. raise D. cure
15.A. dealt with B. protected C. stored D. run out of
16.A. brave B. nervous C. patient D. willing
17.A. invitation B. award C. attention D. offer
18.A. acceptance B. instructions C. partnership D. materials
19.A. take on B. focus on C. depend on D. turn on
20.A. glad B. regretful C. confident D. unlucky
We’ve all experienced peer pressure (同伴压力) . It happens to everybody. However, people have different reactions. Confident people refuse to do things they don’t want to do, but shy and anxious people often give in. It may be because they want to be liked. It may be because they worry that their friends will make fun of them, or perhaps they’re just curious about trying something new. 1.
It’s hard being the only one who says no and the question is: how do you do it? 2.
If you think that missing maths, or smoking, or going somewhere you know your parents wouldn’t like is a bad idea then the answer is simple: don’t do it. It’s your decision, nobody else’s. You don’t need to be aggressive. You don’t need to shout and scream, but you must be confident and you must be firm. You need to say, “No thanks. I don’t want to do that.”
Being on your own against everybody else is very hard, so it can really help to have at least one other peer, or friend, who will say no too. 3.You want friends who will support you when you’re in trouble. You don’t want people who will always agree with the majority. Remember, the most popular people aren’t always the most trustworthy.
4. You can learn a lot from people of your own age. They can teach you great football skills or the best way to do your maths homework. They can recommend music and advise you on fashion. And don’t forget you can tell them things too, and that always feels great. So, find friends who have similar interests. And remember, friendship isn’t about feeling depressed and guilty. 5.
A. It may be because they were all born to be stubborn.
B. Depression and guilt will surely give you peer pressure.
C. Whatever the reason, some people end up doing things the really don’t want to.
D. Of course, peer pressure isn’t completely bad.
E. Choose your friends carefully.
F. Firstly, you must decide what you believe in.
G. It’s about sharing experiences and having fun.
The idea of turning recycled plastic bottles into clothing is not new. During the last five years, a large number of clothing companies, businesses and environmental organizations have started turning plastics into fabric to deal with plastic pollution.But there’s a problem with this method. Research now shows that microfibers could be the biggest source of plastic in the sea.
Dr. Mark Browne in Santa Barbara, California, has been studying plastic pollution and microfibers for 10 years now. He explains that every time synthetic (合成的)clothes go into a washing machine, a large number of plastic fibers fall off. Most washing machines can’t collect these microfibers. So every time the water gets out of a washing machine, microfibers are entering the sewers and finally end up in the sea.
In 2011, Browne wrote a paper stating that a single piece of synthetic clothing can produce more than 1, 900 fibers per wash. Browne collected samples from seawater and freshwater sites around the world, and used a special way to examine each sample.He discovered that every single water sample contained microfibers.
This is bad news for a number of reasons. Plastic can cause harm to sea life when eaten. Studies have also shown that plastic can absorb other pollutants.
Based on this evidence, it may seem surprising that companies and organizations have chosen to turn plastic waste into clothing as an environmental“solution.”Even though the science has been around for a while, Browne explains that he's had a difficult time getting companies to listen. When he asked well-known clothing companies to support Benign by Design—his research project that seeks to get clothes that have a bad effect on humans and the environment out of the market, Browne didn’t get a satisfying answer. Only one women’s clothing company, Eileen Fisher, offered Browne funding.
1.What has happened during the past five years?
A. Fabric has become much stronger.
B. Plastic pollution has been less serious.
C. Many plastic bottles have been reused.
D. Microfibers have been greatly improved.
2.What does Browne think of washing synthetic clothes?
A. It is adding microfibers to the clothes.
B. It is worsening environmental problems.
C. It is making synthetic clothes last longer.
D. It is doing great damage to washing machines.
3.What can be inferred about Browne’s Benignby Design research project?
A. It has achieved great success. B. It hasn’t got anything done.
C. It is known to very few people. D. It is facing some difficulties.
4.What’s the best title for the text?
A. It’s important to learn to recycle
B. It’s never easy to solve pollution problems
C. Recycled plastic clothing: solution or pollution?
D. Are human beings moving forward or backward?
English is full of colorful phrases to describe shyness. Someone shy might be called shrinking violet or a wallflower, while for especially nervous types we have the curious expression: they wouldn’t say boo to a goose.
None of these are traditionally seen as positive descriptions, even if you like geese. In a culture of go-getting, high achievers, shy people don’t come first. Or that’s what the self-help industry would have you believe. Bookshops are filled with vital tomes(巨著) that promise to help beat social fears and find success in life, love and business. That is why one book, Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness, bucks the trend. It became a sudden success across English-language media recently for its new take-on shyness.
Author Joe Moran says that despite struggling with shyness and longing for loneliness all his life, being shy can also be "a gift". Freed from the constant urge to participate and compete in social situations, people are liberated to look at the world in new ways, and gain fresh insights.
Indeed, many of the world’s great thinkers and artists are introverts(内向的人). Scientists Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein preferred their own company; actress Keira Knightley often finds herself tongue-tied at parties; and Harry Potter author JK Rowling claims she used to be too nervous to even borrow a pen.
Moran told BBC Future: "I think shyness probably does turn you into an amateur anthropologist(人类学家), really-you are more likely to be an observer."
So, while extroverts make all the noise, they don’t necessarily have the best ideas.
If you’re shy, you’ve probably known this for a long time. You just don’t shout about it.
1.When someone is being called a wallflower, he is being ________.
A. praised for his grace B. admired for his character
C. laughed at for his shyness D. told off for his nervousness
2.The underlined phrase “bucks the trend” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.
A. going against the trend and succeeds
B. changing the public idea completely
C. becoming unpopular and unaccepted
D. becoming the major concern of people
3.The author mentioned many famous shy people in order to ________.
A. point out the harm shyness brings
B. disconnect shyness and success
C. shows the reasons for shyness
D. prove shyness contributes to science
4.What is the author’s attitude towards shyness?
A. Opposed. B. Indifferent.
C. Supportive. D. Critical.
