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I read a story about a girl last week. The girl carried a pot of milk in her head to the market. Walked along the street, she began calculating what she would buy before she sold the milk. She said to her, "I'll buy a new dress, and when I go to the ball, all the young man will dance with me." When she spoke, she shakes her head happily. The pot immediately fell onto the ground, and milk was spilled(洒出) The girl went to back without anything. She felt very sadly. Her mother comforted her and said, “My child, don't count your chickens before they are hatching.”
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People came to the area that's now New Mexico more than 12,000 years ago. Experts think they migrated from1.is now Russia across a land bridge2.(call) the Bering Strait during the last Ice Age. Thousands of years3. (late), native American tribes including the Apache, Zuni, Navajo and Pueblos lived on the land.
In 1540, a Spanish4.(explore), Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, came to the area in search of cities made of gold 5.were rumored (谣传) to exist in the America. He didn't discover treasure, but over the next century the Spanish colonized the land. Then in 1821, Mexico declared its independence6.Spain, and the area became part of Mexico. But after the United States won the Mexican- American War in 1848, New Mexico became an American territory. In 1912, it7.(declare) the 47th state.
When the Spanish set out to explore the region, they hoped to find land as8.(value)as what they had found earlier in Mexico. So they9.(name) the area Nueva Mexico.(“Nueva” means “new” in Spanish.) As for the word" Mexico”, some experts think it's a version of a name that the Aztecs (a cultural group from Mexico) had for one of their gods.
The state has beautiful scenery from10. ( mountain) to forests and deserts. This earns it the nickname the Land of Enchantment.
I always come across random acts of kindness in my life. Many years ago, I was _______Costa Rica when I found myself in an _______situation: my credit cards and bank cards went out of _________ abroad, and I only had $5 to my ________.
I had no way to get money. I didn’t know anybody in this country. I only knew basic Spanish, and besides the cash the only ________I had was a return ticket to my country in almost two ________. Back then, there was no such thing as mobile phones, and________email was very limited. To find help, I decided to go to the countryside . With the only coins I had, I _________the bus terminal(终点站）and found a village, which ________almost the exact amount. About 4 hours later, I arrived at Santa Rosa Abajo at midnight.
I knocked door to door,________in my very poor Spanish that I was a foreigner travelling in Costa Rica with no money but I ________to stay here for over ten days. I begged them for a __________－such as cooking , cleaning and looking after their kids, anything like that. Everybody _________, “oh my, but so poor are we that we have no _______ food or space. Maybe you can try the next ________.” And they’d point me to another house.
________, I arrived at a Chinese restaurant. The owner of the restaurant was very _________. She gave me food and called the Red Cross to come to ________me. With the help of the Red Cross , I spent my_________days in Costa Rica.
This is one of the best trips I’ve ever had, because I realized that when you’re in a position to be able to _________, it actually makes you feel happy.
1.A.circling B.entering C.visiting D.considering
2.A.absurd B.impossible C.ordinary D.awkward
3.A.date B.use C.range D.control
4.A.name B.delight C.wonder D.advantage
5.A.necessity B.memory C.impression D.possession
6.A.months B.weeks C.days D.hours
7.A.again B.thus C.yet D.even
8.A.looked for B.stayed at C.headed to D.thought of
9.A.cost B.saved C.earned D.created
10.A.reminding B.explaining C.apologizing D.informing
11.A.needed B.agreed C.failed D.hesitated
12.A.conversation B.meal C.room D.job
13.A.accepted B.nodded C.replied D.withdrew
14.A.prepared B.wasted C.extra D.cheap
15.A.family B.chance C.time D.restaurant
16.A.Normally B.Naturally C.Finally D.Directly
17.A.generous B.sensible C.wealthy D.outstanding
18.A.comfort B.rescue C.interview D.encourage
19.A.frightening B.training C.exciting D.remaining
20.A.help B.receive C.succeed D.travel
Most college students have their money from their parents, but college is the time for them to begin true responsibility. With the right information at hand and some practice, you can definitely get major financial assistance for college tuition(学费).1.The following is the ways you should know about.
Play a sport2. I know it is obvious to the football player that sports will increase the possibility, but did you know you can get scholarships for less-known sports? Have a try on golf, sailboat and marathon! A senior year spent learning and perfecting a new sport can lead to a full ride in college.
Do voluntary work. Most nonprofits have good scholarships for their volunteers Try volunteers. Try volunteering in your community or a community chapter of a major organization.3.It can be best to work for an organization that you are familiar with or have a childhood history with.
4.Try building a personal connection with someone at a scholarship society. Building a relationship through visits, phone calls, and gifts can make you stand out of the crowd. Remember, these people chose the winners from hundreds of applications a day and a personal touch can really make a difference!
Apply early. It can never be too early to apply for a scholarship. Applying early is another way to stand out of the crowd. You can definitely score a better scholarship earlier with much less competition.5.Applying early can lead to more applications overall, and someone who applies to 100 scholarships against 10 has a much better chance of being awarded!
A. Bear in mind
B. Keep in touch.
C. It can also be a numbers game.
D. Living in a poor community may help you a lot.
E. Some of the highest scholarships are given to college athletes.
F.A high level of community service will give you a leg up in college.
G. Experience has proven that scholarships will be given to those who deserve it.
On average ,Americans spend about 10 hours a day in front of a computer or other electronic devices and less than 30 minutes a day outdoors. That is a claim made by David Strayer, a professor of psychology at the University of Utah. In his 2017 TED Talk , Strayer explained that all this time spent with technology is making our brains tired.
Using an electronic device to answer emails, listen to the news and look at Facebook puts a lot of pressure on the front of the brain, which, Strayer explains , is important for critical (有判断力的)thinking , problem-solving and decision-making.
So, it is important to give the brain a rest. And being in naure , Strayer claims , helps get a tired brain away from too much technology. More than 15,000 campers from around the world attended an international camping festival in September. That is when friends and family take time off and escape to nature for several days. They take walks, climb, explore , swim, sleep, eat and play. Camping may be just what a tired brain needs.
Take Carl for example .He lives in West Virginia and enjoys camping . He says that staying outdoors makes him feel at ease. It also prepares him for the work he must do. Kate Somers is another example who also lives in West Virginia. She says she enjoys camping with her husband and two children . She calls it a “regenerative” experience.
At the University of Utah , David Strayer has studied both short-term and long-term exposure to nature. He found that spending short amounts of time in nature without technology does calm the brain and helps it to remember better. However ,he found , it is the long-term contact with nature that does the most good. He and his research team found that spending three days in nature without any technology is enough time for the brain to fully relax and reset itself.
1.What is David Strayer’s opinion ?
A.Americans dislike outdoor activities
B.Electronic equipment should be quitted
C.New technologies are a double-edged sword
D.Electronic equipment brings great convenience
2.Why does Strayer insist we go outdoors?
A.To try another lifestyle B.To refresh our brain
C.To make better decisions. D.To play with our family and friends
3.What does the underlined word “regenerative” mean?
A.Reborn B.Memorable C.Remarkable D.Tiring
4.Which is the proper title for the passage?
A.Electronic Equipment Harms the Brain
B.Good Rest Develops Good Memory
C.Tips on Using New Technologies
D.Being in Nature Is Good for the Brain
A study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important . These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(万亿)connections in the brain of a three-year-old child.
Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern"A-B-B". Another order was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern “A-B-C”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the" A-B-B"pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.
Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar. "Position is key to language," she says. "If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference: 'John caught the bear.' is very different from 'The bear caught John.'”
Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books, the Internet, or smartphones－no matter how educational－doesn’t appear to be enough for children’s brain development. They carried out a study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group who’d watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to-face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies －regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio－learned nothing.
1.What makes connections in a baby’s brain?
A. Having a higher IQ. B. Experiencing new information.
C. The baby’s early age. D. The connection with other babies.
2.What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?
A. Babies can identify different sound patterns.
B. Word order is relevant to meaning.
C. Babies can well understand different words.
D. A certain brain region processes language.
3.What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?
A. Words have different sounds.
B. Different orders have different meanings.
C. Different languages have different grammar.
D. Grammar is important in learning languages.
4.What is the main conclusion from the study led by Patricia Kuhl?
A. Babies shouldn’t watch a lot of television.
B. Foreign languages help babies’ brain develop.
C. Listening to different languages develops babies’ brain.
D. Social communication improves babies’ brain development.
