The CCU(Charity Cycling UK) recently called on to raise awareness(觉察,意识) of dooring after discovering that many people don't know what it is. Dooring is when a driver or passenger opens the door into another road user(typically cyclist) without looking for other road users.
The CCU chief officer Paul told Glou Live: ''Some people seem to see car dooring as a bit of a joke, but it's not and can have serious results. We want to see great awareness made about the dangers of opening your car door carelessly, and people to be encouraged to look before they open. '' Among the 3,000 injuries, 2,009 were cyclists, resulting in five deaths but this might not be the whole of the danger. Not all car dooring incidents will be attended by police, so the CCU has written to call for a public awareness campaign urging(敦促) all car users, not just drivers, to look before opening vehicle doors.
One of the ways the CCU suggests is the ''Dutch reach'', where people leaving a vehicle reach over and use the non-door side hand to open the door. In the Netherlands they are known for practicing a method, known sometimes as the ''Dutch reach'', which we think could be successfully encouraged in the UK. If you're really concerned about opening a door into the path of a cyclist coming behind you, consider using what’s known as the ''Dutch reach'' to open the door. That will naturally turn you in your seat and give you a much better view of what's coming up alongside in the car.
1.Why does the writer mention the figures in Paragraph 2?
A.To cause public concern. B.To report the terrible accidents.
C.To stress the importance of traffic safety. D.To show the danger of car dooring.
2.While doing the ''Dutch reach'', you should _____.
A.use the left hand to open the car door B.open the car door politely
C.use the inside hand to open the door D.sit in your seat
3.What can be learned from the passage?
A.Drivers are to blame for dooring incidents.
B.Many people ignore the car dooring.
C.Dooring incidents are all attended by police.
D.The ''Dutch reach'' is well received in England.
''Do not tell anyone''. We often hear these words when someone tells us a secret. But keeping a secret is hard. We're often tempted(引诱) to ''spill the beans'', even if we regret it later.
According to the professor, Asim Shah, keeping a secret may well ''become a burden''. This is because people often have an ''eager and anxious urge(冲动) to share it with someone''. An earlier study, led by Anita, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress. People entrusted(托付) with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.
Secrets are so often getting out, why do people share them at all? Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. ''Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone. '' according to Shah.
He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out. But this doesn't mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people. A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.
Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you'd better put yourself in their position. Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn't give the information away. Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone's secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn't so secret anymore.
1.What does the underlined phrase ''spill the bean'' in Para 1 mean? ________.
A.tell the truth B.let out a secret
C.eat our words D.talk nothing
2.What can we learn from the passage?
A.A person entrusted with a secret will suffer from psychological problems only.
B.Sharing secrets helps establish friendship or get over the sense of guilt.
C.Quiet people are more likely to keep the secrets to themselves.
D.Putting yourself in others' shoes helps realize the difficulty of keeping secrets.
3.What may be the best title for the passage?
A.Still tongues make wise heads. B.Walls have ears.
C.Every wall has a crack. D.A word spoken is past recalling.
Many actors in the world who are not confident enough to refuse an offer from Steven Spielberg. Maybe that was why Juliette gave him a choice. She said she'd be happy to be in Jurassic Park as long as she could play a dinosaur. Of course he turned her down and it was probably a good thing. It's difficult to imagine Juliette tearing people apart with her teeth. However, her decision doesn't seem to have done her career any harm. She has gone on to make a string of hits, including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient (for which she won an Oscar) and Chocolat.
It is not so easy to be successful in the United States for other foreign stars. Aaron is a good example. While some of his films have been popular in the US, they have usually been French films that travelled. One possible exception was Green Card, directed by Peter Weir, where he plays a French immigrant(移民) who goes through a fake wedding in order to stay and work in the United States. This is a predictable but sweet romantic comedy which typecasts(使模式化) its lead actors in terms of national stereotypes(陈规陋习). While some reviewers were kind, others shredded both the film and Aaron's performance.
1.It can be inferred from the passage that Juliette _______.
A.was not sure whether she could play a dinosaur well
B.wanted to be in Jurassic Park very much
C.didn’t want to be in Jurassic Park
D.really wanted to play a dinosaur
2.What does the underlined phrase mean in Para 1 ________.
A.lose job B.be defeated
C.be successful D.change job
3.According to the passage, Aaron's popular films _________.
A.have only been seen in Europe
B.have been made in America
C.have been made in America, but well received in France
D.have been made in France, but seen in other countries, too
4.The underlined sentence in Para 2 means others thought Aaron's performance and film were____.
A.creative B.interesting
C.impressive D.terrible
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How to Think Outside the Box with Creativity Exercises
Encouraging creative thinking inspires students to ask questions, try new things and apply ideas to practical situations. Use individual and group based activities to open the door to innovation and build individual confidence. Incorporate creativity activities into everyday subject matter like English, science and art. The result will be increased interest in learning and the opportunity for each student to believe in her power to be creative in a variety of situations. Three creativity exercises are suggested as follows.
Use a mind-mapping exercise to help students overcome mind blocks to creativity.
Joyce Wycoff, author of the book “Mindmapping,” explains that a mind map encourages creativity by stimulating the brain to think in different patterns. Put a concept in the center of a large piece of paper and have your students surround the paper, each holding a marker. Ask them to brainstorm ideas and write them as offshoots (分支) to the concept. Have them add images and draw connections between ideas. You can use this to help them create a project, study for tests or organize a research paper.
Play a game of charades to empower students to use their minds and bodies to help their team win the game.
Select words that apply to a new topic you wish to introduce to the class. For example, if you want to discuss the history of your state, pick words that illustrate historical events your class will study. Divide the class into teams and ask volunteers to act out the words. Have students guess what the words are, and write the words on the board after students guess them correctly so they can see a complete list at the end of the game. Go back and forth between teams until all words have been used. When the game is over, ask the class to guess what the words have in common.
Invigorate (鼓舞) your students and stimulate creative thinking by facilitating a sentence relay race.
The goal of the race is to see which team can compose a sentence on a given subject. Begin by taping large pieces of paper to the wall and line up student teams about 5 feet from the wall. Give the teams one marker and a subject for the sentence. Tell them the object of the race is to build a sentence, one word at a time. The first student in each team will begin the sentence with a word. He will then run the marker to the next teammate and continue the process until each student has added a word to the sentence. The sentence relay will encourage quick thinking and stimulate creativity. Use the race to introduce a social studies concept or to reinforce the plot of a story for English class.
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Introduction | 1.of encouraging creative thinking and organizing creativity exercises
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Creativity exercises
| Helping Students Map Their Minds | 4.of a mind map and how to use it | It encourages creativity by making the brain think 5.. Put a concept in the middle of the paper to which students add 6.and draw connections between them. |
Using Dramatic Play to Lead Students to be Creative | 7.. |
Volunteers are asked to act out the words illustrating historical events, of which the correctly guessed words are 8.. | |
9.a Relay by Building a Sentence |
The race is 10.at building a sentence, one student, one word at a time until each teammate has made an addition to the sentence.
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For famous photojournalist Sir Don McCullin, the landscape has changed since the days when dozens of printed pages were devoted to his photo stories, leading him to declare, “Photojournalism is dying.” According to Sir Don McCullin, newspapers and magazines are much more interested in the wealthy, the glamorous and celebrities. They don’t want suffering people in their newspapers. Photojournalism hasn’t lost its way but it’s been conveniently pushed aside. Shrinking editorial budgets, increasing competition and mistrust of the Press are just some of the factors impacting photojournalism. But the power of photography endures and technology is allowing photographers more creative freedom than ever before. The world is hungry for visual storytelling, but will photojournalism survive?
We spoke to photojournalists working in this industry about the state of affairs today, and asked their opinions about photojournalism in the digital age.
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
“Assignments have changed, so people don’t need to go somewhere for months to work on one project. When Don McCullin’s pictures were making it into the newspaper, his images would be the news. Now if I take a picture at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, for instance, there are 300 other photographers there. There are so many images that you are never going to really shoot an iconic image. You’re not the only one there — there are your colleagues and there are people with cellphones. I don’t think a single image will ever lose its power. Single images, to me, are so strong — I can look at a single image and never forget it. But there are new ways of storytelling — with cellphones, with interactive online experiences and virtual reality. Therefore, it’s important to see what matches the story.”
Jérôme Sessini
“I think now we are freer than before because of technology. Besides, we don’t care about the newspapers like people did before. We get free from the newspapers, so we are able to tell stories in the way we want to tell them. In my opinion, pictures can express emotions — I believe more in emotions than in rationality. I don’t want to tell people, ‘this is like this’, or ‘like that’. I want them to first feel something from the pictures, and then ask some questions. They will have to find the answers by themselves.”
Magnus Wennman
“When I started, press photography was a pretty old-school profession, but today it’s completely different. It’s not about the technique any more. It’s about telling stories, and you have endless opportunities to tell stories by means of pictures. If you are engaging in storytelling, I would say your future is very bright. Photojournalism is more democratic. As a matter of fact, nowadays we can see people shooting with their cellphones anywhere. Photojournalism is no longer the privilege of those working at newspapers. The new generation of photojournalists should work in a completely different way. As you see everywhere, visual storytelling is getting more and more important. If you’re good at that, you’re going to survive.”
Daniel Etter
“A lot of people have been declaring that photojournalism is dead and, somehow, it’s still around. It’s still alive, and it’s still kicking — maybe not quite as hard as in Don McCullin’s days, but it’s still important. It doesn’t have the impact it once had, and it will never have that impact again. I always believe photography plays a role, but if there are better ways of telling visual stories, I’m fine with that. The biggest problem we are running into now is how to make others believe us. Look at how really basic facts are in question nowadays. To make our work a reliable source of information is our biggest challenge. I haven’t figured out a way to make news more trustworthy — the only thing we can do is do good work. That means doing research and trying to represent events in a fair way.”
1.What does Ilvy want to say with the example of Nelson Mandela’s funeral?
A.Great news like this is always attractive.
B.Taking a satisfying picture is really difficult.
C.Too many people take up photojournalism.
D.Popularity of cellphones threatens photojournalism.
2.What idea do Sessini and Wennman share?
A.Good pictures are worth all the hard work.
B.It’s better to let the picture itself tell stories.
C.Technology is photographers’ greatest enemy.
D.Photojournalism will be the first to be kicked out.
3.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A.Photojournalism enjoys great popularity nowadays.
B.Photojournalism is really a promising career in the future.
C.Everyone can report news stories using photos taken by themselves.
D.Photojournalism has lost its appeal for those working at newspapers.
4.What does Etter say about photojournalism?
A.It is not as influential as in Don McCullin’s days.
B.It almost died in Don McCullin’s days.
C.It may have an even better future.
D.It actually exists in name only.
5.What can we learn about Etter?
A.His talent was once questioned.
B.He is optimistic about his future career.
C.He will resign from his job sooner or later.
D.He is seeking suitable ways to tell visual stories.
