Paying it forward is a concept that involves doing something good for someone in response to a good deed done on your behalf or a gift you received. When you pay it forward, however，you don't repay the person who did something nice for you. Instead, you do something nice for someone else.
Recently, an inspiring note found inside a random book has inspired thousands of people to pay it forward.
Ashley Jost was shopping at Target when a book caught hex eye. The 27-year-old bought the book Girl Stop Apologizing and began reading it when she got home. After a few minutes her dog started barking so she put the book aside. When she got back, she noticed something on the ground. "A five-dollar note fell out, " Jost said.
She looked through the book, and in one of the last pages, there was a note that read, “To the person who buys this book: I am having a tough day. I thought maybe I could brighten someone else’s with this little surprise. Go and buy a coffee, a hamburger or a face mask. Practice some self care today. Remember that you are loved, you are amazing, and you are strong -Lisa”
Jost decided to post a photo of the note and the money on Twitter and it went like a virus. People are promising their own random acts of kindness.
“In that moment，I didn’t necessarily need the pick-me-up，but I feel obligated(有义务的)to share it， and I’m hearing back from people who did,” Jost said. “The ripple effect is pretty unbelievable.
After seeing her Twitter post, Lisa mailed Jost a card. "She said it made her cry in a good way,” Jost said. But Lisa still didn’t give away who she was. She left no return address. Lisa wrote it had been a difficult time in her life and she just wanted "to create something positive-she never really expected this to happen the way it has.”
1.What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A.The origin of"paying it forward". B.The effects of"paying it forward
C.The benefits of"paying it forward" D.The definition of"paying it forward".
2.Why did Lisa put a five-dollar note in a book?
A.To go through the hardest time in her life.
B.To cheer up the person who buys the book
C.To repay the person who did something nice
D.To set off a round of paying it forward
3.What does the underlined word "ripple" in Paragraph 6 mean?
A.Edge B.Chain
C.Mass D.Side
4.Lisa posted a card to Jost to ___________.
A.make friends with Jost B.tell Jost about her story
C.express appreciation to Jost D.let Jost know what made her cry
Epic Fails: The Wright Brothers Nose-diving into History
By Erik Slader and Ben Thompson. Ages 6 to 12.
The first book in the Epic Fails series deals with one of the most ambitious goals humans have pursued to fly. Authors Slader and Thompson focus on life-or-death scenes, such as when the Wright brothers crashed their sailplane over and over on the sandy coast of North Carolina: it took them two more years to get it right.
Epic Fails: The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff
By Erik Slader and Ben Thompson. Ages 6 to 12.
Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong’s famous words as he first set foot on the moon, "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. "He made it look easy, but America’s Journey to the moon was anything but simple. Our first attempt was a failure. Still we didn't give up. We tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better.
Fantastic failures:True Stories of People Who Changed the World by Falling Down First
By Luke Reynolds.Ages 6 to 12
Teacher Luke Reynolds opens each chapter with a quick, impossibly perfect version of one person's life and then says how that person actually had to face huge challenges to accomplish goals. In this book, Reynolds writes about various common men, women and children.
Cyrus Field’s Big Dream: The Daring Effert to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
By Mary Morton Cowan. Ages 6 to 12
In 1853, it took at least a week to relay a message between the United States and Europe because people had to be transported on ships over the Atlantic Ocean. Cyrus Field tried to reduce that transmission ((传送) time to just minutes by laying a long undersea cable. In this book, Cowan describes many failures. Field suffered before he achieved this major breakthrough.
1.What do we know about Fantastic Failures?
A.It was written by a famous actor. B.It tells stories of ordinary people.
C.It is about science fiction stories. D.It is about some celebrities’ success.
2.Cyrus Field made a major breakthrough in the area of .
A.communication B.entertainment
C.transportation D.sailing
3.What lesson can we learn from the four books?
A.All roads lead to Rome. B.An early bird catches worms.
C.Failure is the mother of success. D.Actions speak louder than words.
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
毕业在即，你班将举行最后一次班会。请你为本次班会设计方案，方案中必须包含以下内容:
1. 确立班会的主题；
2. 描述你所设计的活动；
3. 谈谈活动设计的理由。
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Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the word or phrase given in the brackets.
1.被撞倒后，似乎过了好几个小时这位司机才苏醒过来。 (knock)
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2.四分之一受访的学生承认过马路时被手机分心。 (survey, distract)
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3.按照先前安排，我开车去接她，并送她到办公室。 (As, drop)
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4.如果没有我以前的老师,我就不会成为一名记者,因为是她激励了我们去为未来努力。(But)
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Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in NO MORE THAN 60 WORDS. Use your own words as far as possible. Write your answer on the answer sheet.
To understand the changing role of women in China, consider the runaway success of a novel titled Du Lala’s Rise. Decades after Mao Zedong declared that women hold up half the sky,” the success of Du Lala and her peers reflects a curious fact about women in China: they appear to be far more ambitious than their counterparts (对应者)in the United States.
Rjpa Rashid, a senior vice president at the Center for Work-Life Policy, says the rapid growth “creates this excitement”， and builds on a cultural and historical legacy (遗产)in which Chinese women are not just encouraged to participate in the workforce, they are expected to.
One result has been a generation of women and girls who believe they belong among China’s power elite ( 精 英 ). In the US, that shift followed decades of battles over equality and women’s rights. In China, there are fewer institutional barriers for women trying to succeed professionally.
That’s true, too, in the executive suite. Grant Thornton International, the tax consultancy, found that roughly eight out of 10 companies in China had women in senior management roles, compared with approximately half in the European Union and two thirds in the US. Similarly, in China, 31 percent of top executives are female, compared with 20 percent in America.
Thirdly, child care is easily accessible in China, enabling them to pursue their careers after giving birth to their children. Fourthly, ambition has become a matter of necessity in fast-paced China, and both the husband and wife have to work in order to keep up with the skyrocketing housing prices.
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Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
In 1974, I graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland, California, an underachieving student with poor SAT scores. I couldn't afford tuition for college anyway.
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For thousands of commuting students like me, Chabot was our Harvard, offering courses in physics, stenography, automechanics, certified public accounting, foreign languages, journalism and so on. Classmates included veterans ( 老 兵 )back from Vietnam, married women returning to school, middle-aged men wanting to improve their employment prospects and paychecks. We could get our general education requirements out of the way at Chabot — credits we could transfer to a university — which made those two years an invaluable head start.
Classes I took at Chabot have rippled (起涟漪)through my professional pond. I produced the HBO mini-series John Adams with an outline format I learned from a pipe-smoking historian, James Coovelis, whose lectures were interesting. Mary Lou Fitzgerald’s “Studies in Shakespeare” taught me how the five-act structures of Richard III, The Tempest, and Othello focused their themes.
In Herb Kennedy’s “Drama in Performance”， I read plays like The Hot L Baltimore and Desire Under the Elms, then saw their productions. I got to see the plays he taught, through student rush tickets at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.2.I got an A. Some hours I stayed in the huge library, where I first read the New York Times, frustrated by its lack of comics.
If Chabot’s library still has its collection of vinyl records (黑胶唱片), you will find my name repeatedly on the takeout slip of Jason Robards’s performance of the monologue of Eugene O’Neill.3.
Chabot College is still in Hayward, though Mr. Coovelis, Ms. Fitzgerald and Mr. Kennedy are no longer there. I drove past the campus a few years ago with one of my kids and summed up my two years there this way: “4.”
A.I listened to it 20 times at least.
B.That place made me what I am today.
C.Community colleges have improved a lot these years.
D.Those plays filled my head with expanded dreams.
E.Of course, I enjoyed the pleasure of eating French fries between classes.
F.So I sent my test results to Chabot, a community college in nearby Hayward, California, which accepted everyone and was free.
