阅读下面的短文，并用英语回答问题。注意:不能引用文中原句；答案不超过10个单词。
In my teens, I went far from home to study at TWU in America. Due to limited financial resources from my parents, I worked part-time on campus to pay for my bills. I did cleaning every Friday for an American family. If I was lucky enough, I could occasionally babysit a child for extra money. In addition, like most poor people, I had to be careful with every penny I spent, from food and clothing to rent and transportation. Because of a tight grocery budget, I couldn't afford to buy fish, beef or certain other nutritious food. Due to an imbalanced diet, I would easily feel weak and lacking in energy.
As soon as Dai Mom realized that I was having financial hardship, she lovingly invited me to her home for dinner every Friday and weekend. What's more, whenever it was time to return home, she would always prepare me with some homemade desserts to take home. Her actions greatly changed my life. In particular, there was one event that I would always remember.
One early evening, while I was walking out of the library, I felt my blood sugar running low. I started to feel dizzy, and my hands began to shake a little. Searching my pocket, I found that I only had a few dollars left. I was dying for a free and tasty dinner. Without a second thought, I quickly headed for Dai Mom's home, rather than go back to my apartment.
As I got to the door, Dai Mom immediately noticed my extreme tiredness. She seated me at the dinner table, and before long, a plate of food was set in front of me on the table. “My boy, have dinner. Don't make yourself work so hard.” she said to me with a nice smile.
Staring at the meat, vegetables and fish on my plate, I suddenly felt so carefully taken care of that tears started welling up in my eyes, rolling down on my face, and dripping to the food on the plate. I gobbled up all the food with indescribably bitter-sweet feelings.
1.Why did the author have financial hardship?
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2.How did he deal with his financial hardship?
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3.What did Dai Mom usually do to help the author?
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4.Why did he feel uncomfortable one early evening?
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5.Please use your own words to explain your understanding of “bitter-sweet feelings”.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
If you enjoy kayaking (皮划艇运动), you can paddle for free in Denmanrk, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and Norway, but you also have to be willing to pick up trash.
Organized by Greenkayak, free trips in the group's two-person kayaks are offered in return 1.collecting waste from water surface. 2.project began in Demark in April, 2017. With the help of a thousand kayak 3.(voluntary), three tons of trash were collected from Copenhagen harbor that year. You can easily book a kayak for the time 4.works for you. Life jackets and equipment — like a paddle, a waste picker, a bucket for the trash —5. (provide): just bring yourself. You can have two hours of free kayak time.
Greenkayak believes that kayaks are highly effective at collecting waste because they can get close to areas that are otherwise hard 6.(reach).
“In Denmark, people love to hang out on canals, but 7.(fortunate) they see waste 8. (float) by.” one of Greenkayak's co-founders speaks of the program's origin. “You can't take your shirt off and jump in. 9. you can get in a Greenkayak and make a difference.”
If you want to take advantage of the free kayak, 10.(tourist) a city from its river and do your part to control water pollution.
根据汉语或首字母提示完成下列句子，注意使用单词的正确形式，每空只填一个单词。
1.How Sang Lan ___(适应)to her new life touched us a lot.
2.One of the UN's functions is to work together to solve international___ (政治的)conflicts and promote respect for human rights.
3.As is known to all, it is ___ (非法的)to hunt wildlife.
4.It feels like ___ (分配)adequate time for each is just not practical.
5.In Thailand and other parts of South-East Asia, the normal greeting is to bow____(轻微)with the hands pressed together.
6.Don't worry! You may have my g___that I'll finish the job on time.
7.I arrived in the flood-stricken area to find everything was in c___.
8.The majority of students, a___for 78 percent, are in favor of this idea.
9.The qualities that boys and girls consider important in a friend seem to be the same, r___of basis of these friendships.
10.I am pleased to have this chance today to talk to you about the United Nations, or the UN, as is more often r___to.
“Smile!” I shouted, flashing a bright yellow poster at a crowd of people in Seattle.
We were 3,000 miles away from home on a Random Acts of Kindness road trip. Our _______was to try out our new “Smile!” signs and see how much kindness and joy we could _______
We weren't sure how people would _______ our signs. It's so easy to walk past a busy crowd, lost in your own world, _______ to make eye contact with strangers and feeling _______ while surrounded by hundreds of people. I _______ raised up a sign and shouted, “Hi there!” to a young couple. They looked over, _______, then read my sign and broke into smiles. They even nudged (轻推) a person beside them, gesturing to our sign so their friend could _______, too.
This might _______, I thought.
Before long, our signs were ________ . Tourists wanted photos with us. Strangers stopped to ask us about our ________ and we told them the story of our Acts of Kindness road trip. The famous fish vendors (小贩) changed their ________ from “FISH! FRESH FISH”' to “HEY! SMILE, EVERYONE.”
Sometimes I'd see a(n) ________ face and feel nervous to show my sign, but I tried not to judge. I'd ________be rewarded with a big grin (咧嘴笑),as suddenly a frowning elderly woman turned into my ________ old grandmother.
Some people ________ if they could have a “Smile!” sign to take with them. One bus driver put a sign in his window; a bicyclist that ________ one of our signs emailed us several years later to say he still uses it whenever he races.
The signs are more than a(n) ________to smile — they're an excuse to connect with ________and to remember we're not alone. This world is full of ________ people we just don't know yet.
1.A.invention B.goal C.challenge D.role
2.A.keep B.spread C.exchange D.transform
3.A.look into B.reach for C.care about D.react to
4.A.refusing B.pretending C.wanting D.forgetting
5.A.afraid B.excited C.alone D.disappointed
6.A.nervously B.sadly C.excitedly D.confidently
7.A.delighted B.anxious C.energetic D.confused
8.A.stare B.understand C.smile D.leave
9.A.work B.happen C.matter D.serve
10.A.open B.primitive C.popular D.different
11.A.photos B.trips C.gestures D.signs
12.A.signboard B.announcement C.claim D.conversation
13.A.friendly B.cheerful C.angry D.ugly
14.A.gradually B.usually C.unfortunately D.hardly
15.A.serious B.humorous C.wise D.sweet
16.A.asked B.doubted C.bothered D.knew
17.A.followed B.took C.noticed D.recognized
18.A.reason B.promise C.invitation D.attempt
19.A.neighbors B.colleagues C.friends D.strangers
20.A.nice B.intelligent C.polite D.honest
In the most basic sense, self-regulation (自我调节) involves controlling one's behaviour and thoughts in pursuit (追求) of long-term goals. Generally, people who are good at self-regulating tend to see the good in others and view challenges as opportunities. They exactly know what they want to achieve, act in accordance with their views, and devote their best effort. 1.
2. A bad-tempered child who hits others won't be popular at school. An adult with poor self-regulation skills may lack self-confidence. He may have difficulty handling stress, and often, this might be expressed in terms of anger and anxiety.
How do problems with self-regulation develop? It could start early when a baby isn't treated with enough care. 3. Later, an adult may struggle with self-regulation, either because this ability wasn't developed during childhood, or because of a lack of skills in managing difficult feelings. When left unchecked, over time this could lead to risky behaviour such as taking drugs.
4. One of the most frequently used methods is to change your thought patterns, which means that you think about a situation in a positive way, rather than one that's likely to increase negative emotions. 5. Rather than thinking that this reflects something about yourself such as “My friend hates me”, you might instead think, “My friend must be really busy.”
A. Try to cheer yourself up after disappointment.
B. Do the usual series of things at a particular time.
C. A child who doesn't feel safe may have trouble self-regulating.
D. A lack of self-regulation will cause problems in life.
E. Anyhow, self-regulation is so important that we should learn to use this skill.
F. For example, imagine a friend who doesn't return your calls or texts for several days.
G. Also they can calm themselves when feeling upset and cheer themselves when feeling down.
The Internet has completely changed the workplace over the past three decades. Artificial Intelligence is now all set to do the same, and businesses that don't take advantage of the technology risk being left behind.
Global tech giants (巨头) like Amazon have been leading the change, and businesses of all sizes are now using the technology for employing and managing their staff.
Among them is L'Oreal. With about a million applicants for roughly 15,000 new positions each year, the company is using AI to hire.
“We really wanted to save time and focus more on quality, diversity and candidate experience. And AI solutions were the best way to go faster on these challenges, said Eva Azoulay, global vice-president of L'Oreal's Human Resources Department.
The company uses Mya, a chatbot, to save employers' time during the first stage of the process. It handles routine questions from candidates, and checks details such as availability and visa requirements. Should candidates make it to the next round, they’ll run into Seedlink, an AI software that scores applicants based on their answers to open-ended interview questions. These scores don't replace human judgment, said Azoulay, but they do pick out candidates who might not seem like obvious choices.
Early results have been promising. For one internship program, where 12,000 people apply for about 80 spots, employers claim they saved 200 hours of time while hiring the most diverse group to date.
Other businesses have gone beyond employment and are using AI to help manage employees. Some UK firms have started using Isaak, a system designed by the London-based company StatusToday, to track how many hours staff spend online and the number of emails they receive. London real estate agent JBrown has been using this system since March. CEO James Brown said it helps the firm understand employees' habits and prevent them from overworking. “It enables us to solve bottleneck problems and relieve overburdened employees,” he said.
Despite these examples of good practice, there is still a long way for AI to reach its full potential (潜力), and the technology comes with risks. Another AI danger could be its impact on jobs through automation (自动化). McKinsey predicts AI could add $13 trillion to the global economy by 2030, with early adopters doubling their cash flow over that period. But the demand for repetitive (重复的) or digitally-unskilled jobs could drop by around 10%, the consulting firm said in a 2018 report.
1.What can we learn about AI technology from Paragraph 1?
A.It causes a great problem in workplace.
B.It will replace the Internet in the future.
C.It requires businesses to invest much money.
D.It will become a necessary part of business.
2.L'Oreal uses AI in its hiring process to________.
A.pick out the most suitable candidates directly
B.come up with more questions unlimitedly
C.improve the company's hiring efficiency
D.save money by replacing human judgment
3.Firms with the system Isaak can_______.
A.prevent their employees from surfing the Internet
B.force their employees to form good working habits
C.monitor the contents of all their employees' emails
D.help their employees avoid being overstressed at work
4.The passage is mainly developed by _______.
A.setting examples
B.making comparisons
C.examining differences
D.following the time order
