I got aboard and sat down in my seat. It was going to be a long flight. Around me were some __ "Where are you headed?" I asked.
"Lakes Air Base. We'll be there for special training, and then to the front."
After about an hour, an announcement was made that box lunches were _____for five dollars. The journey would be several hours, and I decided to buy one.
As I ___ for my wallet, I heard a soldier ask his buddy if he would buy lunch. "No, that seems a lot of money for just a box lunch." I looked around at the other soldiers. ___ were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and ___ the flight attendant a fifty-dollar bill. "Take box lunches to all those soldiers," I said. She seized my arms tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she ____ me, "My son is a soldier in the front... it's almost like you are doing it for him."
Picking up ten boxes, she headed to the soldiers.
After eating, on my way to the restroom I was _____by a man. "I saw what you did and I want to be __ of it." With this, he handed me twenty-five dollars.
Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming, looking at the seat numbers _____he walked. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his _____, and said, "I want to_____your hand." I stood and took his hand. With a loud voice he said, "I was a soldier. _____, someone bought me a lunch. It was such an act of ____ that I never forgot." I was a little bit ____ when applause rang out from all of the passengers. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals.
Later, when I walked to the front of the plane to stretch my legs, a man _____another twenty-five dollars in my hand.
When we ____ I gathered my belongings and started to leave. A man stopped me, put something in my pocket, and walked away __ a word. Another twenty-five dollars!
Seeing the soldiers _____at the terminal, I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. As I walked __ to my car, I prayed for their safe __ .
1.A.strangers B.soldiers C.attendants D.passengers
2.A.available B.reasonable C.convenient D.special
3.A.prepared B.sent C.reached D.paid
4.A.None B.Some C.Many D.All
5.A.lent B.showed C.handed D.charged
6.A.advised B.greeted C.inspired D.thanked
7.A.praised B.stopped C.attracted D.discovered
8.A.one B.kind C.part D.much
9.A.as B.though C.till D.unless
10.A.tongue B.arm C.head D.hand
11.A.feel B.seize C.shake D.check
12.A.Once B.Later C.Recently D.Frequently
13.A.performance B.kindness C.bravery D.wisdom
14.A.embarrassed B.relieved C.overjoyed D.satisfied
15.A.threw B.found C.took D.left
16.A.separated B.landed C.paused D.chatted
17.A.in B.for C.through D.without
18.A.training B.shouting C.gathering D.marching
19.A.casually B.anxiously C.disappointedly D.lightheartedly
20.A.arrival B.return C.flight D.escape
How To Fight Back-To-School Anxiety
August is the time to prepare for a new school year. 1.These simple tips can help you or someone you love deal with the year ahead.
2. Like any new activity, a new school year is always easier when you’re prepared for it. Get your class schedule in advance so you know exactly what to expect that first day. Make sure you’re prepared with all the supplies you’ll need. If you’ll be attending a new school, get familiar with the campus in advance of the first week.
Talk about it. Change is never easy, and can often be scary. If you have feelings of fear or anxiety about the upcoming school year, it’s important to express them. 3.If you’re unsure who to talk to, there are many free resources available for you.
Do what you love. 4.Whether you’re a bookworm or social butterfly, it’s easy to feel depressed or anxious when you’re trying to be something you’re not. Find activities, clubs or organizations that truly interest you. Chances are, when you do, you’ll find a sense of belonging that’s completely genuine.
Get help. It’s not abnormal for any teen to feel stressed about an upcoming school year. But if your feelings of anxiety or depression are affecting your ability to eat, sleep or function on a daily basis, it’s time to seek professional help.5.
A. Get ready.
B. Stick to a tight schedule.
C. When you’re a teen, fitting in is important.
D. It is common for people to feel stressed after holiday.
E. For teens, the “back-to-school” period can be especially troubling.
F. A parent or adviser can help you find an expert to help you get through the upcoming year.
G. Speaking with a parent, friend or adviser can be a perfect way to start finding solution together.
Finding fish is going to get harder as climate change continues to heat the world's oceans. A new study finds that warming seas over the past 80 years have reduced the sustainable catch of 124 species of fish and shellfish. Sustainable catch refers to the amount that can be harvested without doing long-term damage to the health of populations of some species.
Overfishing has made that decline worse, researchers say. Overfishing refers to catching so many fish that the size of the population falls. In some parts of the world, such as the heavily fished Sea of Japan, the decrease is as high as 35 percent. That's a loss of more than one in every three fish.
Researchers examined changes in 235 populations of fish and shellfish between 1930 and 2010. Those fish populations spread far apart across 38 ocean regions. Temperature changes vary from one ocean site to another. But on average over that time, Earth's sea-surface temperatures have risen by about half a degree Celsius.
On average, that warming has caused the sustainable catch to drop by 4.1 percent, the study found. About 8 percent of the fish and shellfish populations the team studied saw losses as a result of the ocean warming. However, about 4 percent of some populations increased. That's because certain species have thrived in warmer waters. One example is a kind of black sea fish. It lives along the northeastern U.S. coast. As warming continues, these fish will reproduce faster until they reach their limit.
About 3.2 billion people worldwide rely on seafood as a source of food. That means it's urgent for commercial fishing fleets and regulators to consider how climate change is affecting the health of all of those fish in the sea.
1.What does the new study discover？
A.Overfishing is to blame for fish health.
B.Warming seas cause fewer fish and shellfish.
C.Seafood matters to people's health worldwide.
D.The living regions of fish and shellfish are different.
2.What does the underlined word "thrived" in paragraph 4 probably mean？
A.Survived narrowly. B.Disappeared soon.
C.Decreased sharply. D.Developed quickly.
3.What do we know about species of fish and shellfish？
A.About 8 percent of them suffered from a great loss.
B.About 35 percent of them survived in the Sea of Japan.
C.About 3.2 billion species have been saved up to now.
D.About 80 species have died out because of warming seas
4.What is the author’s attitude towards the new discovery?
A.Satisfied B.Not interested
C.Worried D.Terrified
Youth is a stressful time from friends to school to families, and stressful situations become common. The body can respond (反应) with faster breathing, a fast beating heart, tense (绷紧的) muscles and drop of sweat. And teens who breathe polluted air appear to respond most strongly to stress, a new study shows.
Jonas Miller, a psychologist working at Stanford University ,studied whether or how air pollution might affect the body’s response to stress. Miller's team invited 144 teens to participate in a stressful test. Most of the kids lived in or near San Francisco,which has the worst air quality.
Before the test, the researchers used sensors(感测器) to record heart rates and sweat levels for five minutes as the kids rested. Then as the test began, a researcher read aloud the beginning of a story and the kids had five minutes to make up an exciting ending to the story. They would have to memorize their ending and present it aloud to a judge. After finishing this task, the kids were asked to do math problems, which obviously was a harder task. If he or she made a mistake, the judge let the student start over. The whole time, sensors recorded heart rates and sweat levels.
Miller found all the students had similar heart rates and sweat levels at rest. But as the test got difficult, differences began to appear. Kids from places with more air pollution responded more strongly to stress and their heartbeats became irregular. They sweated more than teens who lived in cleaner places.
"The teens' bodies were preparing to deal with possible challenges in the environment and such bodily responses to stress were linked to negative feelings", Miller concludes. Over time, he says, "these responses can contribute to both physical and mental health problems."
This study has proved the negative heath effects of air pollution among teenagers. Therefore, teenagers should try to avoid their exposure (暴露) to air pollution They should consider limiting their time outside during rush hour, especially on days when air pollution is particularly strong.
1.What happened to teens in stressful situations?
A.Their bodies react strongly.
B.Their muscles cause pain.
C.They become seriously sick.
D.They have trouble in breathing.
2.What can we learn about the test?
A.The judge of the test was strict with the kids.
B.The kids enjoyed making up endings of stories.
C.Those breathing polluted air doesn't have more stress in life.
D.The kids gradually felt more stress in the process.
3.From the study we can infer that tens should ____.
A.solve their mental heath problems
B.spend less time outside in heavy traffic
C.learn to deal with stressful situations
D.enjoy more outside activities in good weather
4.Where is the passage probably from?
A.A report on pollution. B.A geography book.
C.A psychologist's diary. D.A science magazine.
Bicycles are very popular around the world nowadays. People ride their bicycles for exercise and enjoyment. In some places, people use bicycles to get to work. In other places, bicycle riding is a very popular exercise to people who live in cities. But who invented the first bicycle?
In 1791, a Frenchman named Comte de Sivrac invented and owned the first bicycle. Mrs. Sivrac rode the bicycle in Paris. The handles and the seat were wooden. This bicycle was very difficult to move. A rider even had to pick up the front wheel to change direction. What's worse, the bicycle had no brakes for stopping or pedals for the feet! Riding a bicycle took great risk.
In 1817, a German named Baron von Drais de Sauerbrun made the first bicycle better. The seat became more comfortable. The wheel could now change direction. His ride in the forest took only one hour instead of three hours on foot, which surprised people at that time.
Sauerbrun brought this kind of bicycle from Germany to France. Then Denis Johnson, an Englishman, made a bicycle for women. It had space for their dresses to hang down. But these bicycles still had no brakes or pedals, and riders often got hurt. These bicycles and the people who rode them were not very popular.
It took another forty-five years for the bicycle to become popular. More than 100 years later, bicycle riding is more popular than ever. In fact, in India and China, there are still many more bicycles than cars.
1.According to the passage, people ride bicycles in order to ____ .
A.find good jobs B.take exercise
C.be liked by others D.live in cities
2.The first bicycle was ____.
A.difficult to move B.popular with women
C.comfortable to ride D.easy to change direction
3.The bicycle first became popular around ____.
A.1817 B.1836
C.1852 D.1862
4.What's the passage mainly about?
A.The reasons for riding a bike. B.The inventor of the bicycle.
C.The history of the bicycle. D.A very popular exercise.
Four apps to keep your life on track
From simple task scheduling to detailed task management, all these apps offer everything you need for efficient task recording.
Focuster
With Focuster, you just need to add all your tasks and the tool will arrange them immediately in order of importance. After adding all the tasks, just press the Now button and the tool will show the tasks you should be focusing on for the day.
TeuxDeux
This useful app lets you schedule and organize all your tasks for the whole week. Just add the tasks below the day column and you’re done. Want to move a task from one column to another? No worries. Its drag - and - drop interface (界面) lets you rearrange the task and add it to a different day ’ s column. Additionally, TeuxDeux lets you add repeating tasks for a day.
TickTick
TickTick allows you to add tasks, subtasks, custom reminders as well as deadlines for a day, a week, or a month. In order to provide you with more ease in task scheduling, TickTick offers a nice calendar view, where you can add or edit tasks on a weekly or daily basis. It also has experimental features, which you can turn on if you want to try out beta capabilities (测试功能).
Wunderlist
The app lets you create tasks, subtasks and allows you to share with your family, friends and colleagues. The whole app is designed in the most user — friendly way and offers you the ability to add deadlines, additional information and reminders.
1.To share your tasks with others，you’d prefer to choose ________.
A.Focuster. B.TeuxDeux
C.TickTick. D.Wunderlist.
2.What’s the similarity between TeuxDeux and TickTick?
A.They offer a beautiful calendar view.
B.They have great experimental features.
C.They can help organize tasks for a week.
D.They have a very user — friendly interface.
3.What benefit can you get from the four apps?
A.Completing your work more easily.
B.Obtaining everything you need faster.
C.Getting access to the Internet more quickly.
D.Organizing your activities more effectively.
