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The Mayan civilization was from a group of people 1. lived in Central America. The Maya people used a(n) 2. (write) language before Columbus came to the Americas in 1492 AD. They were good 3. art, building, and math. They knew about stars and planets, which helped them make calendars.
The Mayan civilization was the most important between the years of 250 AD and 900 AD. 4. (gradual), the Mayan civilization spread all the way from Central Mexico to Honduras, Guatemala, and northern El Salvador.
The Maya people traded with other people in the Americas. They made changes to their buildings to make them much 5. (good). The style in which they made 6. ( they) buildings was often similar to styles of buildings in countries that the Maya people traded with.
The Mayan civilization started getting smaller after 900 AD. The Spanish arrived in 7. 15th century and took over Central America, even in the Mayan areas. However, the Maya people still live there today. They even keep the old Mayan traditions and 8. (believe).There are many Mayan languages still spoken today, 9. (include) one called the Achi language. A play called Rabinal Achi 10. (consider) very important to the world.
We are often warned by our teacher not to waste precious time, because time _______ will never return. I think it quite _______. What does time look like? Nobody knows for we can’t see it or _______ it and no amount of money can ________it. Time is abstract, so we have to _______ about it.
Time passes very quickly. Some students say they don’t have _______ time to review all their lessons. It is because they don’t know how to make _______ of their time. They waste it in going to theatres, cinemas and parks, and doing _______ things. Why do we study every day? Why do we________? Why do most people would rather ________ buses instead of walking? The ________ is very simple. We wish to save time because time is ________.
Today we are living in the 21st century. We look upon time as ________. When a person dies, his life ________. Since life is short, we must ________ our time and energy to our study so that we may be able to ________ the people well in the future. Laziness is the ________ of time, for it does not only bring us failure but also ________ us other harm. If it is necessary for us to do our work today, let us do it today and not ________ it until tomorrow.
Remember that time is much more ________ than money.
1.A. lost B. found C. expected D. made
2.A. false B. true C. abstract D. valuable
3.A. get B. have C. see D. touch
4.A. find B. buy C. sense D. realize
5.A. worry B. discuss C. advise D. think
6.A. enough B. little C. valuable D. useful
7.A. up B. light C. use D. fun
8.A. other B. another C. some D. any
9.A. drink B. eat C. think D. work
10.A. borrow B. get C. make D. take
11.A. question B. answer C. problem D. method
12.A. valueless B. precious C. endless D. fast
13.A. money B. life C. gold D. water
14.A. comes to B. begins C. ends D. lives
15.A. waste B. devote C. put D. value
16.A. ask B. remember C. save D. serve
17.A. friend B. maker C. mother D. thief
18.A. brings B. does C. takes D. sends
19.A. leave B. forget C. remain D. stay
20.A. useful B. cheap C. heavy D. valuable
Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning, and put the blame on the alarm clock. In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resetting your body clock.1.Here’s how to make one.
● 2.In order to make a change, you need to decide why it’s important. Do you want to get up in time to have breakfast with your family, get in some exercise, or just be better prepared for your day? Once you are clear about your reasons, tell your family or roommates about the change you want to make.
● Rethink mornings. Now that you know why you want to wake up, consider re-arranging your morning activities. If you want time to have breakfast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags. 3. That’s a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.
● Keep your sleep/ wake schedule on weekends. If you’re tired out by Friday night, sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful. But compensating (补偿) on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found. 4.
● Keep a record and evaluate it weekly. Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel. After you’ve tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record. 5. If not, take another look at other methods you could try.
A.Get a sleep specialist.
B.Find the night motivation.
C.A better plan for sleep can help.
D.And consider setting a second alarm.
E.If the steps you take are working, keep it up.
F.Stick to your set bedtime and wake-up time, no matter the day.
G.Reconsider the 15 minutes you spend in line at the café to get coffee.
Teenagers who talk on the cell phone a lot, and hold their phones up to their right ears, score worse on one type of memory test. That’s the finding of a new study. That memory impairment might be one side effect of the radiation (放射线) that phones use to keep us connected while we’re on the go.
Nearly 700 Swiss teens took part in a test of figural memory. This type helps us remember abstract (抽象的) symbols and shapes, explains Milena Foerster. The teens took memory tests twice, one year apart. Each time, they had one minute to remember 13 pairs of abstract shapes. Then they were shown one item from each pair and asked to match it with one of the five choices. The study volunteers also took a test of verbal memory. That’s the ability to remember words. The two memory tests are part of an intelligence test. The researchers also surveyed the teens on how they use cell phones. And they got call records from phone companies. The researchers used those records to figure out how long the teens were using their phones. This allowed the researchers to work out how big a radiation exposure (接触) each person could have got while talking.
A phone user’s exposure to the radiation can differ widely. Some teens talk on their phones more than others. People also hold their phones differently. If the phone is close to the ear, more radiation may enter the body, Foerster notes. Even the type of network signal that a phone uses can matter. Much of Switzerland was using an older “second-generation” type of cell phone networks, the study reports. Many phone carriers (通讯公司) have moved away from such networks. And more companies plan to update their networks within the next few years.
The teens’ scores in the figural memory tests were roughly the same from one year to the next. But those who normally held their phones near the right ears, and who were also exposed to higher levels of radiation, scored a little bit worse after a year. No group of teens showed big changes on the verbal memory test. Why might one type of memory be linked to cell phone use, but not another? Foerster thinks it could have to do with where different memory centers sit in the brain. The site that deals with the ability to remember shapes is near the right ear.
1.According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is TRUE?
A.The teens took two types of memory tests four times in total.
B.The teens needed to report the average time spent on their phones.
C.Researchers paid little attention to the teens’ habits of using phones.
D.The teens’ ability of remembering words is shown in figural memory test.
2.What can we infer from Paragraph 3?
A.How people hold their phones has no effect on their bodies.
B.Phone users can make more money with new networks.
C.The cell phone network type has little to do the cell phone use.
D.Radiation levels are affected by the cell phone network types.
3.According to the study, teens who use their phones to their right ears a lot do worse in ________.
A.matching numbers B.reading signals
C.remembering shapes D.learning words
4.What might be the best title for the text?
A.Cell phone use and safety warnings
B.Facts about cell phone use at school
C.Dangerous levels of cell phone use among teens
D.Teen’s cell phone use linked to memory problems
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while—then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily, but truly can’t manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes,
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for pure business matters. So accept their hospitality at home !
1.Where are we expected to call our American friends if we go there by plane?
A.On the bus. B.At the airport.
C.Near their home. D.At our own hotel.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
B.Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
C.Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.
D.Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.
3.Which is the typical way of American hospitality?
A.Treating friends at home. B.Sharing everything they have.
C.Taking days off to be with friends. D.Meeting friends at the airport at midnight.
4.In which part of a newspaper can this article be found?
A.Culture. B.News.
C.Story. D.Travel.
Albert Einstein, the genius behind the theory of relativity, which provided a new framework for all of physics and proposed new concepts of space and time, has recently been making headlines again. However, this time it is not for a new scientific breakthrough, but because of two handwritten notes the scientist gave a bellboy 95 years ago.
The story goes something like this. In October 1922, Einstein was invited to Tokyo to deliver lectures. As the scientist was making his way from Europe to Japan, he received a telegram informing him that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Though pleased at the news, he decided to continue with his Japanese trip instead of heading to Stockholm to accept the honor.
When in Tokyo, he penned two notes in German. One of them, written on a piece of plain paper, said, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Why did Einstein write the notes? Some believe they were to express Einstein’s delight at the reception he received from the people of Japan who crowded to attend the laureate’s (获奖者)lectures. Others think they were specially written for a bellboy who came to deliver a message, either because the scientist did not have loose change to tip him, or because the messenger refused to accept tips. Regardless of the reason, Einstein purportedly told the bellboy, “Maybe if you are lucky, those notes will become much more valuable than just a regular tip.” He was right!
Earlier this year, the bellboy’s nephew decided to part with the letters and handed them to Winner’s Auctions and Exhibitions. The “theory of happiness” brought the owner an astonishing $1.56 million from a European buyer. The second note, which opened at $1,000, and expected to fetch a maximum of $6,000, sold for $240,000!
1.What made Einstein become people’s focus again?
A.The theory of relativity. B.His new concepts of space.
C.The notes written by himself. D.His notes about his theory.
2.Where did Einstein write the words?
A.Bern. B.Stockholm.
C.Germany. D.Japan.
3.How were Einstein’s lectures?
A.They had a great effect. B.They attracted a lot of people.
C.They successfully inspired people. D.They were hard to understand.
4.How might the owner of the notes feel about the deal?
A.Disappointed. B.Curious.
C.Unfair. D.Unexpected.
