阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for learning lie with the student.1. a long reading assignment is given, instructors expect students to be familiar with 2. (inform) in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or take an examination. The ideal student is considered to be one who is motivated to learn for the sake of learning, not the one interested only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned 3. brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is 4.(responsibility) for learning the material assigned. When research is assigned, the professor 5.(expect) the student to take it actively and to complete it with minimum guidance. It is the student's responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the library. Professors do not have the time to explain 6. a university library works; they expect students, 7.(special) graduate students, to be able to exhaust the reference origins in the library. Professors will help students who need it, but prefer that their students should not be too dependent on them. In the United States, professors have many other duties 8. teaching, such as administrative or research work. Therefore, the time 9. a professor can spend with a student outside of class is limited. If a student has problems with classroom work, the student should either approach a professor during office hours or make an10.(appoint).
It was Mother’s Day. I was so busy with my work that I couldn’t _______back home. When I passed by a_______shop, an _______ came to my mind, “I’ll send Mum some roses.”
While I was _______ my flowers, a young man went inside. “How many roses can I get_______ only five dollars, Madam?” he asked. The assistant was trying to tell him roses were as_______ as forty dollars a dozen. Maybe he would be happy with carnations (康乃馨). “No, I _______ have red roses,” he said, “my mum was_______ill last year and I didn’t spend much time with her. Now I want to get something special, roses, as rose is her_______.”
After hearing it, I said I would pay ________ of the money for the young man. ________ by both of us, the assistant said, “Well, lovely young men, thirty dollars a dozen, only for you.” Taking the roses, the young man almost jumped into the ________ and ran out of the shop. It was________ worth twenty-five dollars I paid to see the exciting ________. Then I paid for my dozen of roses and told the assistant to________ them to my mother.
As I walked out, I felt ________. Suddenly I saw the young man crossing the street and going into a park. But soon I ________ it was not a park________ a cemetery(墓地). Crying, the young man carefully ________ the roses, “Mum, why didn’t I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help me find my mum and tell her I love her.”
Seeing this, I turned and quickly walked to the________.I would take the flowers home myself.
1.A.come B.go C.return D.turn
2.A.flower B.clothing C.rose D.jewellery
3.A.fact B.idea C.word D.picture
4.A.selling B.getting C.picking D.showing
5.A.in B.on C.at D.for
6.A.much B.expensive C.cheap D.high
7.A.have to B.might C.should D.can
8.A.a bit B.hardly C.nearly D.badly
9.A.flower B.dream C.favorite D.gift
10.A.the rest B.some C.all D.much
11.A.Surprised B.Moved C.Excited D.Pleased
12.A.roses B.street C.assistant D.air
13.A.only B.not C.well D.very
14.A.incident B.time C.scenery D.moment
15.A.send B.offer C.present D.give
16.A.nice B.amazed C.shameful D.relaxed
17.A.understood B.learned C.realized D.was told
18.A.and B.or C.but D.nor
19.A.grew B.lay C.buried D.laid
20.A.man B.shop C.street D.cemetery
Easy Ways to Improve Your Mood
1.Taking an extra moment for yourself will make your day brighter and give you a healthier outlook on life. Here are some simple ways you can bring a little happiness into your life right now:
Go for a walk.
Grab your dog, best friend, or your significant other and head out on a brisk(轻快的) walk. Just a little bit of exercise can improve your mood and give you a fresh perspective on problems that have been bothering you. Think walks are boring? 2.Take a trip to the mall, or even walk to get some frozen yogurt. Make it a fun trip and you’ll surely make it part of your routine.
3.
After all, laughter is the best medicine. Pick up something that makes you laugh like a funny picture, book, magazine, or a DVD of your favorite comedy. 4. Giving yourself time to laugh increases feel-good endorphins(胺多酚).
5.
Take a photo of yourself doing something you enjoy, like roller skating, skiing, swimming, playing an instrument, or being with friends and family. Place the picture on your desk to remind yourself that you lead an amazing life and have lots to be happy about.
A. Model behavior.
B. Buy something silly.
C. Ten minutes of relaxation can do wonders.
D. Try walking to a place that seems exciting to you.
E. You could even plan a date night out to a comedy club.
F. Tell someone that you’re guaranteed to brighten their day.
G. Even the most optimistic people can use a mood boost every once in a while.
When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night radio show Loveline. I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases — “good times” — in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry.
You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it. There is a large body of literature concerning this sort of phenomenon, and it regularly happens for everything from body gesture to accents to drink patterns (模式). For example, one study found that young adults were more likely to drink their drink directly after their same-sex drinking partners, than for the two individuals to drink at their own paces.
And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities. Another study found that the same you-drink-then-I-drink pattern held even when watching a movie! In other words, people were more likely to take a drink of their drinks in a theater after watching the actors on the screen enjoy a drink. At least I don’t feel so strange anymore, having picked up on Adam Carolla’s “good times”.
New research published today in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that the same sort of behavioral mimicry is responsible for social eating, at least among university-age women of normal weight. That’s right: the young women were more likely to adjust their eating according to the eating pace of their same-sex dining companion.
As with most experiments, these results raise a whole new set of questions. However, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly explain eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake (eating), it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”.
1.The author takes his own example of using “good times” to_______.
A.show the influence of the hosts’ words B.express his love for radio shows
C.prove the popularity of the show D.introduce the topic of the passage
2.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.
A.behavioral mimicry is beneficial to our health
B.behavioral mimicry decides our eating behavior
C.people have realized the effect of behavioral mimicry on our health
D.It’s impossible to keep a healthy diet without knowing behavioral mimicry
3.What is probably the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
A.To introduce behavioral mimicry and its influence.
B.To appeal to readers not to fall into others’ habits.
C.To advocate healthy food choices among readers.
D.To draw readers’ attention to popular radio shows.
Warm water freezes more quickly than cold water. Sir Francis Bacon said that almost four hundred years ago. But few people believed him until 1970. In that year a Canadian scientist George Kill proved the English professor was right. Dr Kill filled an open oil pail (桶) with cold water. He filled another with warm water. He put both in the same low temperature. The warm water froze first. The lack of covers on the pails is the secret. Some of the warm water changed into vapor. This meant that less of the warm water was left to be frozen. And so the warm water froze faster than the cold water even though it had a greater temperature drop to make.
1.Hundreds of years ago, Sir Francis Bacon found _______.
A.the temperature of warm water drops faster than that of cold water
B.warm water is heavier than cold water
C.warm water has the same temperature as cold water
D.warm water is not as useful as cold water
2.Leave a pail with warm water and another pail with cold water in the same low temperature, you’ll find that _______.
A.cold water freezes first
B.warm water turns into ice before cold water
C.warm water and cold water freeze at the same time
D.much of cold water is changed into air.
3.Why does warm water freeze first in the same freezing weather? _______
A.Because some of the warm water turns to vapor, the amount becomes less than that of cold water.
B.Because warm water is lighter than cold water.
C.Because the temperature of warm water is lower than that of cold water.
D.Because cold water freezes with more difficulty than warm water.
Dear Sir,
I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along their route: the number 49 and number 16. But by the time the number 16 bus reaches Souk Road it is always full, so I can’t get on it. I have to wait for the number 49, because sometimes there are empty seats on it.
The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?
The regulations (规章) say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. Why do the half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?
The regulations say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 of them.
It is clear that our bus companies break the regulations and think little of their passengers. Can nothing be done to make your service better?
Yours,
Tired passenger
1.The writer has to take Bus No. 49 because ______.
A.it is not always full B.it arrives on time
C.it travels faster D.it has fewer seats on it
2.The regulations say that each bus may carry ______ passengers at most.
A.20 B.40
C.129 D.60
3.What kind of letter is this passage?
A.It’s a letter of thanks B.It’s a letter of apology
C.It’s a letter of introduction D.It’s a letter of complaint
