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Coupons-good way to boost consumption
In an effort to boost consumption and counter some the of the negative impacts of the novel coronavirus outbreak on the economy,authorities in more than 30 cities have distributed consumption coupons(优惠券)among local residents.Given that a better part of China’s economy is now mainly driven by domestic consumption,issuing consumption coupons should be seen as an ingenious way to help stabilize the economy.
The outbreak has sharply reduced consumption in the tourism,retail,catering,”cultural and entertainment industries in the first three months of this year,increasing the risk of unemployment.As for the impact of the outbreak for the entire year,it depends on whether consumption in the coming months would make up for the decline of consumption in the first quarter,in particular,the Spring Festival period.
The expected increase in consumption, especially in the durable goods sector, after the outbreak is effectively contained could partly balance out previous losses. But still it would be impossible to see a consumption spree(消费热潮)similar to that during Spring Festival.
Rising exports could possibly make up for the decline in domestic consumption.But net exports are not likely to rise this year because many countries have shut down their airports and seaports,and locked down cities to prevent the spread of the virus.
As such,the authorities have to boost consumption using whatever means.And as consumption is influenced by three factors-people’s income,confidence,and price of goods and services-the authorities should first reduce the epidemic’s negative impact on people’s income,by ensuring they have enough money spend.Second,they should boost people’s confidence so they dare to spend more.And third,the authorities should stabilize prices to encourage people to increase consumption.
Consumption coupons are a good way to achieve all the three goals. Issuing consumption coupons is similar to increasing people’s income and promoting consumption, because the coupons can be used to buy goods and services.
Many local authorities have even issued electronic consumption coupons through third-party payment. Such coupons are highly efficient,convenient,and easy to track.And since they also ensure equality and fairness,they are a good example of the important role digitalization plays in China’s social and economic governance.
The consumption coupons the local authorities have issued until now are mainly to boost the catering industry,obviously because the outbreak has dealt the industry a big blow.But the authorities should consider broadening the scope of the coupons in the future to further increase consumption by,say,issuing coupons that can be used in more sectors,including those for buying home appliances.
Moreover,the authorities could also combine e-coupons with targeted printout coupons for impoverished groups,extend the validity period for the coupons.But in general,the consumption coupons will play an active role in boosting domestic consumption this year.
Coupons-good way to boost consumption | |
Purpose | Consumption coupons have been distributed to boost economy and counter the negative impact of Covid-19. |
1.of issuing consumption coupons | ● Largely2.on domestic consumption,China’ economy calls for a new way to stay stable. ● The expected increase in consumption is not likely to3.for economic slowdown. ● Exports can’t be counted on as a stimulus to economy,since even airports and seaports of many countries are4. |
5. of consumption coupons | ● Issuing consumption coupons can be6.with increasing people’s income. ● Featuring7.efficiency and great convenience,electronic coupons can coupons ensure equality and fairness,thus boosting economy. |
Suggestions | ● Authorities are expected to8.the use of coupons to more sectors, including those for buying home appliances. ● The9.of e-coupons and targeted printout coupons as well as the extension of validity period is recommended. |
Conclusion | The consumption coupons may10.the big blow the outbreak has on economy and actively promote domestic consumption. |
It turned out there were a lot of things I had yet to learn about life,or at least life on the Princeton campus in the early 1980s.After I spent several energizing weeks as a summer student,surrounded by a few dozen other kids who seemed both accessible and familiar to me,the fall semester officially began, opening the floodgates to the student population at large.I moved my belongings into a new dorm room,a one-room triple in Pyne Hall,and then watched through my third-floor window as several thousand mostly white students poured onto campus,carting stereos and duvet sets and lots of clothes.Some kids arrived in limos(豪华轿车)One girl brought two limos to accommodate all her stuff.
Princeton was extremely white and very male.There was no avoiding the facts . Men on campus outnumbered women almost two to one Black students made up less than 9 percent of my freshman class.It during the orientation program we’d begun to feel some ownership of the space,we were now glaring anomaly(异类)－poppy seeds in a bowl of rice.While Whitney Young had been somewhat diverse,I’d never been part of a predominantly white community before.I’d never stood out in a crowd or a classroom because of the color of my skin.It was jarring and uncomfortable,at least at first,like being dropped into a strange new terrarium,a habitat that hadn’t been built for me.
As with anything,though,you learn to adapt.Some of the adjustment was easy-a relief almost.For one thing,nobody seemed much concerned about crime.Students left their rooms unlocked,their bikes casually kickstanded outside buildings,their gold earrings unattended on the sink in the dorm bathrooms.Their trust in the world seemed infinite,their forward progress in it entirely assured.For me,it was something to get used to. I’d spent years quietly guarding my possessions on the bus ride to and from Whitney Young.Walking home to Euclid Avenue in the evenings,I carried my house key placed between two fingers and pointed outward,in case I needed it to defend myself.
At Princeton,it seemed the only thing I needed to be careful about was my studies.Everything otherwise was designed to accommodate our well-being as students.The dining halls served five different kinds of breakfast.There were enormous spreading oak trees to sit under and open lawns where we could throw Frisbees to relieve our stress.The main library was like an old-world cathedral,with high ceilings and glossy hardwood tables where we could lay out our textbooks and study in silence.We were protected,cocooned,catered to.A lot of kids,I was coming to realize,had never in their lifetimes known anything different.
Attached to all of this was a new vocabulary, one needed to master.What was a precept?What was a reading period?Nobody had explained to me the meaning of”extra-long”bedsheets on the school packing list. which meant that I bought myself too-short bedsheets and would thus spend my freshman year sleeping with my feet resting on the exposed plastic of the dorm mattress.There was an especially distinct learning curve when it came to understanding sports.I’d been raised on the bedrock of football,basketball,and baseball,but it turned out that East Coast prep schoolers did more.Lacrosse was a hing.Field hockey was a thing.Squash,even,was a thing.For a kid from the South Side,it could be a little dizzying.”You row crew?”What does that even mean?
1.What do we know about Princeton students in the early 1980s?
A.The university took pride in a great diversity of students.
B.The number of the boy students was about twice that of the girls.
C.White students lived a simple life on campus.
D.Black students accounted for less than 9 percent of the total students at Princeton.
2.In Para 3,the author thinks”Some of the adjustment was easy-a relief almost”,because
A.no white student was worried about crime on campus
B.it was easy for her to adapt to the new environment
C.she didn’t have to be alert to possible dangers any longer
D.everybody relieved her of her inferiority
3.What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A.Princeton was a wonderful place where students’ needs were greatly satisfied.
B.Princeton students have opportunities to take part in various activities.
C.Students at Princeton worked hard and were under considerable pressure.
D.A lot of students at Princeton were accustomed to this kind of life except the author.
4.What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph?
A.The author knew nothing about the sports mentioned in this paragraph
B.The author had difficulty understanding the words used by white students.
C.The author needed to enlarge her vocabulary in order to get a better grade.
D.The author had a lot to learn about the new university life.
5.How did the author feel when starting the fall semester at Princeton?
A.Defensive and cautious. B.Unbearable and rebellious.
C.Isolated and shy. D.Awkward and confused.
6.What type of writing is this text?
A.A fiction. B.A news report. C.An autobiography. D.A critical essay.
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It is obvious that it has nothing to do with success. For Sir Henry Steward was certainly successful. It is twenty years ago since he came down to our village from London, and bought a couple of old cottages, which he had knocked into one. He used his house as a weekend refuge. He was a lawyer. And the village followed his brilliant career with something almost amounting to paternal pride.
I remember some ten years ago when he was made a King’s Counsel, Amos and I, seeing him get off the London train, went to congratulate him. We grinned with pleasure; he merely looked as miserable as though he’d received a penal sentence. It was the same when he was knighted; he never smiled a bit.And not one of his achievements brought even a ghost of a smile to his tired eyes.
I asked him one day,soon after he’d retired to work with his garden,what it was like to achieve all one’s ambitions. He looked down at his roses and went on watering them. Then he said, “The only value in achieving one’s ambition is that you then realize that they are not worth achieving.’Quickly he moved the conversation on to a more practical level,and within a moment we were back to a safe discussion on the weather. That was two years ago.
I recall this incident, for yesterday, I was passing his house, and had drawn up my cart just outside his garden wall to let a bus pass me. As I sat there filling my pipe.I suddenly heard a shout of joy come from the other side of the wall.
I peered over.There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a tribal war dance of sheer unashamed ecstasy. Even when he observed my bewildered face staring over the wall he did not seem put out or embarrassed,but shouted for me to climb over.
“Come and see,Jack,Look! I have done it at last!I have done it at last!”
There he was,holding a small box of earth in his hand.I observed three tiny shoots out of it.
“And there were only three!’ he said,his eye laughing to heaven.
“Three what?’ I asked.
Peach stones, he replied. ‘I’ve always wanted to make peach stones grow,ever since I was a child,when I used to take them home after a party,or as a man after a banquet. And I used to plant them. But now at last I have done it, and what’s more, I had only three stones, and there you are, one, two, three shoots,’ he counted.
And Sir Henry ran off, calling for his wife to come and see his achievement-his achievement of simplicity.
1.Which of the following statement is correct about Sir Henry Steward?
A.He was regarded as an example of being successful by the villagers.
B.He used to bury himself in his lawyer job,which he was very proud of.
C.He participated in parties or banquets with the intention of finding peach stones.
D.He is more a capable gardener in a small village than a brilliant lawyer in London.
2.According to Sir Henry,the underlined word’ they’ in Paragraph 4 possibly means the following EXCEPT
A.being appointed as a King’s Counsel B.being knighted
C.being a respectable lawyer D.being able to plant peach stones
3.Which of the following best serves as an opening paragraph of this passage?
A.However successful we maybe we can never find enough hours to do everything we want.
B.So seldom do people smile that we do not recognize their faces when they do.
C.It would seem that happiness has something to do with simplicity,and that it is the ability to extract pleasure from the simplest things.
D.Look at a man and you will notice that every day is greeted with only resignation,and endured with polite indifference.
4.What can be a suitable title for this passage?
A.Three peach stones B.Smile like a kid
C.Unashamed excitement D.Never too old to learn
When you are stuck on a problem, sometimes it is best to stop thinking about it consciously. Research has shown that taking a break or a nap can help the brain create pathways to a solution. Now a new study expands on the effect of this so-called incubation by using sound cues to focus the sleeping mind on a targeted problem.
When humans sleep, parts of the brain replay certain memories, strengthening and transforming them. About a decade ago researchers developed a technique, called targeted memory reactivation(TMR), aimed at further reinforcing selected memories: when a sound becomes associated with a memory and is later played during sleep, that memory gets reactivated In a recently published study, scientists tested whether revisiting the memory of a puzzle during sleep might also improve problem-solving.
About 60 participants visited the laboratory before and after a night of sleep. In an evening session, they attempted spatial, verbal and conceptual puzzles, with a distinct music clip repeating in the background for each, until they had worked on six puzzles they could not solve. Overnight they wore special electronic uniforms to detect slow-wave sleep, which may be important for memory consolidation, and a device played the sounds assigned to three of the six unsolved puzzles. The next day, back at the lab, the participants attempted the six puzzles again. The subjects solved 32 percent of the sound-prompted puzzles versus 21 percent of the untargeted puzzles, a boost of more than 50 percent
''The researchers very bravely went for quite complex tasks that involved a lot of complex processing, and remarkably they found these really strong effects in all of their tasks, '' says Penny Lewis, a psychologist Cardiff University, who was not involved in the research. ''These are supercool results. Now we need to go out and try to understand them by firstly copying them and secondly trying to work out the component processes that are actually being influenced.''
Beyond providing new evidence that humans restructure memories while sleeping, the research may have practical implications. ''In a futuristic world, maybe TMR could help us use sleep to work on our problems'', says lead author Kristin Sanders, who was a graduate student at Northwestern University during the study Sleep-monitoring technology is increasingly accessible, and even without gadgets, future solvers can focus on important problems before bed.
Still, sleep is not magic. People need to do their homework and load their heads with the puzzle pieces involved. ''I'm not going to solve cancer with this technique, '' Sanders says, ''because I don't know anything about cancer research. ''
1.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word ''incubation'' in Para 1?
A.The pathway to a solution.
B.The period of taking a break.
C.Being stuck on a problem.
D.Targeted memory reactivation.
2.The following statements about the recently published study are true EXCEPT that_________
A.scientists wanted to prove that sound cues helped solve problems
B.the device played the sounds to all the unsolved puzzles
C.the participants went to the laboratory twice during the experiment
D.the participants tried to solve different types of puzzles
3.What of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Penny intends to adopt two steps to understand the strong effects of the tasks.
B.Penny, who was very pleased about the result, was a lead scientist in the research concerned.
C.Sanders hopes he will solve cancer with TMR although he knows nothing about the disease.
D.Sanders predicts TMR could help solve the problem by exposing solvers to distinct sounds.
Why Go To Yellowstone
With dramatic peaks and unspoiled lakes,Yellowstone National Park it an outdoor enthusiast s paradise. Multicolored pools swirl around hot springs;green forests weave past wide expansive meadows;and volatile geysers launch streams of steaming water toward the sky.While you traverse its 3,000-plus square miles of mountains, canyons,geysers and waterfalls,be prepared to share the trails with permanent residents like buffalo,elk and sometimes even grizzlies
Yellowstone Travel Tips
Best Months to Visit
The best times to visit Yellowstone National Park are from April to May and between September and October.These shoulder months offer mild weather and fewer crowds.July and August are the most popular months to visit:The kids are out of school,and the weather is warm enough to sleep outside.However,this park is no stranger to the cold in winter.There’s nothing quite like seeing plumes of steam rise from beneath a thick blanket of snow and ice.
How to Save Money in Yellowstone
Bring your own bed.A space in a campground is much cheaper than a room at one of the park’s lodges.plus, many campgrounds come equipped with showers,toilets and even laundry facilities.
Skip the summer. Because the summer witnesses the largest influx of tourists,hotel and campground rates tend to rise.
Do your owe cooking Yellowstone does feature several sit-down restaurants,but they can end up
Putting quite a dent in your savings.Consider bringing your own food.
Safety
When sightseeing in the park.stay a sate distance from animals at all times.Most of the park’s established campsites generally are not at risk for animal attacks,but campers should keep all food and garbage out of reach from bears and creatures.
Getting Around Yellowstone
The best way to get around Yellowstone National Park is by car,as there is no public transportation system. You can a car at any of the nearby airports.However,that doesn’t mean that you should spend your entire vacation behind the wheel . Each of Yellowstone’s eight regions has an area to park, allowing you to leave the car behind and explore by bike or on foot Guided tours and limited airport shuttle services are also available.
1.What can be inferred from the passage?
A.Accommodations in the campsite hotel are highly recommended
B.People camping in Yellowstone are supposed to share the trails with the animals there.
C.In summer.Yellowstone welcome large numbers of tourists because it’s the best season.
D.In winter, the scenery of Yellowstone is quite unique.
2.Travelers enjoy various services and facilities in Yellowstone EXCEPT____
A.guided tours B.parking lots C.car rental D.restaurant food
A parent might place his daughter’s drawing on the fridge out of a love for his child,but for many people,that drawing is actually quite delicate. _______，adult abstract artists were often inspired by children’s drawing.Observers have found similar _______in modern abstract art and kids’ drawing; one example is the “X-ray” drawing, _______a drawing in which the “inside” of a person is made_______.For the museum-goers who tend to_______a piece of modern art and say “My kid could have made that!” it’s worth remembering that often,that’s actually just what the artist had _______.
Whether it is lucky accident or artistic talent, _______that young kids don’t intend to produce a realistic expression helps demonstrate what the drawing experience means to them. For many kids, drawing is exciting not because of the final _______leads to,but because they can live _______in the world of their drawing.
Even simple scribbles(胡写乱画)are meaningful.When scribbling,children are representing through action,not through ________. Alves, a prekindergarten teacher,recalled a student who________her with a drawing featuring a single straight line across the page. Alves assumed the child hadn’t given too much ________to the drawing until he explained that the ________was one of the mattresses(床垫)from The Princess and the Pea.
Ingram,a preschool teacher,said her students often tell different stories about a ________piece of art depending on the day.”We as adults will often say,I’ m going to draw a horse,’and we set out...and get ________when we can’t do it.They seem to take a much more rational approach,where they just draw,and then they ________,’it is a horse.”“
Ultimately, what may be most________about kids’ art isn’t the art itself but what they say during the drawing process.They’re often________stories that offer a much clearer window into their world than does the final product.Studies suggest that kids will create a detailed narrative________drawing, but when telling adults about their work they’ll simply name the items or characters in the image.
What’s most important to remember is that “children’s art has its own logic.”Winner said. ＂Children are not being ________.”
1.A.In tum B.In consequence C.In fact D.In contrast
2.A.themes B.patterns C.tones D.shapes
3.A.or B.and C.than D.but
4.A.concrete B.abstract C.visible D.accessible
5.A.relate to B.point to C.see to D.apply to
6.A.at heart B.in mind C.at hand D.in store
7.A.acknowledging B.denying C.approving D.confining
8.A.decision B.attainment C.product D.goal
9.A.slightly B.completely C.readily D.precisely
10.A.words B.ideas C.pictures D.stories
11.A.presented B.passed C.placed D.pleased
12.A.idea B.thought C.advice D.feeling
13.A.furniture B.character C.page D.line
14.A.given B.common C.favorite D.distinct
15.A.aggressive B.frustrated C.confused D.nervous
16.A.counter B.guess C.realize D.consent
17.A.touching B.promising C.understanding D.revealing
18.A.swapping B.recalling C.telling D.reading
19.A.while B.before C.after D.as
20.A.artistic B.creative C.critical D.crazy
