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。
Small talk changes 1. (slight) when you're with strangers as opposed to people at a business function or party. Chatting with strangers gives you practice for those times in life 2.you’ll need to make a really great3.(impress). If you’re used to4.(talk) with people on a routine basis, you won’t make mistakes when you’re nervous. Here are some icebreakers.
One skill to open up small talk is to praise the accessories(配饰) someone5.(wear). Avoid making6.comment about someone's clothing as if you are hitting on him or her. Making a sincere comment about an accessory is much more7.(accept).
You can also ask someone if they can suggest a good restaurant for lunch or dinner. Say something like, “I’m taking my friend to lunch for her birthday tomorrow. Do you know a good place? ”8.“We need to find a fun but reasonably 9. (price) place to take my mom out for her birthday. Do you have a suggestion?”
They might recommend a restaurant and then add, “We go there all the time!” or “We just took my aunt there last week and she loved it.” You can ask them more questions 10. (base) on what they say, and this will help you continue the conversation.
Stella, a 25-year-old American woman, was known as a brave survivor. Despite suffering from four cancers, she_______fought against the diseases and_______money for herself and others. Last October Stella and supporters_______an organization called Change for a Cure, which called out people to donate their_______change so she could donate the money to the University of Alberta for_______research. She opened Facebook and Twitter accounts for the _______ as well, whose motto is “Together we can change the world one penny at a time.”
Earlier this week Daisy_______she never had cancer. She had_______her head and eyebrows to fake the signs of chemotherapy (化疗), and had spent much of the money given to her on personal _______. She was arrested and has been ________with four counts of cheat. ________ a few of her friends and supporters have cast her as a victim, most have written on blogs about their ________of being cheated. Many patients had ________Daisy because they, too, were dealing with cancer and had________their personal stories with a person who had lied to them from the start.
In 2018 Cindy, a divorced mother, told her friends and family she had suffered from stomach cancer. Like Stella, she updated everyone on her________through blogs, and many people shared her grief and________money for her treatments. Earlier this year________discovered it was all a trick.
Cindy had ________to be sick for over three years; she was charged with theft, and is________waiting for sentencing.
People lie about having cancer and other ________diseases for various reasons. But most just love the attention and sympathy, the constant stream of well-wishes and gifts.
1.A.always B.bravely C.constantly D.often
2.A.rose B.spent C.earned D.raised
3.A.managed B.began C.started D.produced
4.A.full B.enough C.spare D.more
5.A.theory B.cancer C.illness D.technology
6.A.organization B.patients C.volunteers D.relatives
7.A.explained B.realized C.knew D.admitted
8.A.comforted B.touched C.shaved D.scratched
9.A.materials B.accounts C.problems D.expenses
10.A.charged B.accused C.sentenced D.punished
11.A.When B.However C.Therefore D.While
12.A.attitudes B.feelings C.enthusiasms D.pains
13.A.supported B.opposed C.disliked D.agreed
14.A.accompanied B.talked C.shared D.communicated
15.A.articles B.treatments C.cases D.misfortune
16.A.donated B.contributed C.devoted D.searched
17.A.friends B.police C.family D.patients
18.A.considered B.suffered C.convinced D.pretended
19.A.currently B.immediately C.temporarily D.permanently
20.A.cautious B.ordinary C.serious D.common
Healthy eating habits have positive effects on everyone. However, students can especially benefit from meeting the particular nutritional demands of the school day. To be good academically, children must be physically able to attend class and focus on the tasks at hand. Math, language study, reading and creative thinking also require physical support from food energy and nutrients. 1.
Attendance:2.Getting enough nutrition keeps you from taking sick days and missing out on daily lessons. Eating a healthy breakfast makes you more likely to achieve your daily nutritional goals. This keeps your body strong and less likely to fall ill.
Focus: School is a social network that requires cooperation from students, teachers and staff. 3.Hunger makes you hard to focus and easy to get angry. In contrast, eating a healthy breakfast keeps you focused and cheerful. A 2019 study proved these findings.
Thinking: Food energy and nutrients serve neurological(神经的) as well as physical body functions. The same 2019 report concluded that eating breakfast regularly affects the brain's blood sugar requirements and nutritional support. 4.Let alone, these skills are vital to learning and achieving high grades.
Test scores: Balanced nutrition plays a part in testing well. 5.Healthy eating also contributes to better performance on vocabulary tests. You can improve your test scores by eating right every day.
A.You can focus on the test papers.
B.This improves the memory, problem solving and concentration skills.
C.Students who eat breakfast work faster with fewer math and number errors.
D.You can't keep up with homework and tests if you aren't in school every day.
E.While the education individuals receive influence intelligence, so does their food.
F.And your behavior in this environment depends partly on getting to school well fed.
G.A healthy diet can improve your performance in school’s social, physical and mental aspects.
What’s in the scream? It is thought that the sound of a scream has an acoustic(听觉的) signature - an acoustic DNA that tells the listener’s ear that they are hearing a scream, even if it is not. “The scream may initially run to scare the attacking predator(捕食者). The study of screaming has the potential to help us understand the evolution of emotional communication,” says Jay Schwartz of Emory university.
Jay Schwartz and his colleagues asked 181 volunteers to listen to 75 sounds that included laughter, crying, moans, groans, and yells from acted origins, like television or movies, and more natural sources, such as a YouTube video of a child opening a present and screaming in delight. The listeners indicated whether or not each sound was something they considered a scream. “We did not provide any type of definition for a scream because we were trying to get at what is it in people’s minds that distinguishes a scream,” says Schwartz, who presented his work at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America on 14 May.
When they analyzed the sound files, they found that the ones listed as screams had acoustic similarities. People were more likely to consider a sound a scream if it was higher in pitch(音高), and had a varied change in pitch, first moving up and then down at the end.
Rapid changes in amplitude - perceived as a rough, gravelly quality - also tended to be classified as screams more than sounds with a smoother tone. This sound was classified as a scream by 64 percent of the listeners. Surprisingly, a recording of a whistle was categorized as a scream by 70 percent of the participants. “It was because the whistle exhibited a lot of the acoustic qualities that we found to be associated with a scream, including high pitch and roughness,” says Schwartz.
1.What was the scream used for in the beginning?
A.Frightening the enemies. B.Sharing the different acoustic DNA.
C.Attracting the volunteers D.Understanding the emotional evolution.
2.What does Jay Schwartz’s research aim to understand?
A.Where people would scream. B.How people judged the scream.
C.Why people would scream. D.What was the best scream.
3.What did the screams have in common?
A.Higher pitch. B.A peaceful mind.
C.Natural origins. D.Different functions.
4.Why was the whistle considered a scream by most listeners?
A.It had the smoother tone. B.It showed some roughness.
C.It made listeners satisfied. D.It did great harm to people.
The Swedish Academy has named Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. It also announced that it was honoring Austrian Peter Handke with the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Academy cancelled the prize last year after many members fled the organization following sexual abuse accusations linked to it.
The Academy said it awarded Tokarczuk for imaginative writing that “represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
The Polish writer’s first published work came in 1989, a book of poetry called Cities in Mirrors. Her first novel, The Journey of the Book-People, was published in 1993. Last year, Tokarczuk became the first Polish writer to win Britain’s Man Booker Prize for International Literature for her novel Flights. Her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, was on the short list of nominees for the 2019 prize as well. That prize went to another writer. Tokarczuk spoke Thursday with readers hours after she won the Nobel. “I can only write.” She said.
The Swedish Academy said it named Peter Handke winner of the 2018 prize for “influential work that with linguistic gift has explored the boundary and the specificity of human experience.” Handke’s first novel was published in 1966. He also writes plays and is a political organizer. The Austrian writer was an opponent(反对者) of NATO’s air attacks against Serbia in the Kosovo war of thelate1990s.He was a supporter of the Serbian government under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic. He has denied that Bosnian Serb troops carried out a campaign killing of 8, 000 locals in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. As a result, some critics are angry that he was given the Nobel Prize.
At home in Paris Thursday, Handke called the decision to give him the literature award “courageous.” He said the recognition gave him “a strange kind of freedom.”
1.Which of Tokarczuk’s works won Britain’s Man Booker Prize?
A.Cities in Mirrors. B.Flights.
C.The Journey of the Book-People D.Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
2.What does the underlined word “nominees” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.A candidate to be selected to an office. B.A candidate seeking a kind of position.
C.A candidate chosen by a political party. D.A candidate being considered for an honor.
3.How does Peter Handke find the Nobel committee?
A.Fearless. B.Awesome. C.Strange. D.Embarrassed.
4.What’s the best title of the text?
A.Peter Handke from Austria Win 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
B.Olga Tokarczuk from Poland Win 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
C.Writers from Austria and Poland Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
D.Writers from Poland and Austria Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It’s reported that the American College Board has made several changes to the SAT test to help more poor students receive higher education. It offers a scoring criterion beyond its own SAT test, which measures only oral and math skills. The new tool is designed to help admissions officers find if applicants have risen above limitations in their social or economic circumstances by expressing a particular characteristic: resourcefulness(足智多谋).
The new criterion, called ECD, has been tried by 50 colleges over the past year and will be carried out by 150 institutions this fall. Relying on public data , it looks at 15 factors(因素) in neighborhoods and schools that might passively influence a candidate’s college readiness. These statistics include crime rates, education levels, joblessness, and the family members that receive food stamps. It applicants come from a highly disadvantaged background yet have proper but perhaps not high SAT scores , a college might then admit them.
Resourcefulness shows an ability to seek support outside one’s self. It requires a clear purpose in learning. The new tool “shines a light on students who have shown remarkable resourcefulness to overcome challenges and achieve more with less,” says David Coleman, the College Board’s president.
The ECD also has the advantage of not taking race into consideration in admissions, a practice being increasingly closed off by the Supreme Court and many states. At the same time, in stressing a key quality for academic success, it may help prevent discrimination in admissions.
The tool is not an absolute measure of resourcefulness. It misses other types of circumstances, such as personal or family problems. Colleges must weigh many factors in admissions. Still, it could lead to a greater focus on character in education beyond the traditional pursuit (追求) of knowledge and career skills. Graduates who have stood out despite their hardships are highly desired by today’s employers.
1.Which people can benefit from the new criterion?
A.Students from poor families. B.Students doing well at maths.
C.Students having much money. D.Students with good spoken skills.
2.What are the new criteria when judging a candidate?
A.The attitudes to schools. B.The remarks from colleges.
C.The difficulties a candidate will face. D.The institutions a candidate will study in.
3.What is the advantage of ECD?
A.It can make applicants successful. B.It can improve the ability of races.
C.It can provide clear learning purposes. D.It can treat applicants equally.
4.Which graduates do employers prefer?
A.Those with excellent qualities.
B.Those having experienced hardships.
C.Those making progress in difficult situations.
D.Those with the traditional pursuit of knowledge.
