With the help of curriculum reform, students enjoy a variety of after-school activities, ______ up to half are aimed at strengthening their physical strength and building up their confidence.

A.to which B.of which

C.from which D.in which

请阅读下列文字，并按照要求写一篇120词左右的文章。

Imagine that you’re going for a walk in a forest when you come upon a guy furiously sawing down a tree.

“What are you doing?” you ask.

“I am sawing down a tree,” comes the curt reply.

“How long have you been at it?”

“Four hours so far, but I’m making progress,” he says, sweat dripping form his chin.

“You saw looks very dull,” you say. “Why don’t you take a break and sharpen it?”

“I can’t, you idiot. I’m too busy sawing.”

From Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

（写作内容）

（1） 这个材料强调了七个好习惯中的哪一个习惯，包含哪些方面

（2） 培养这个好习惯有什么意义；

（3） 结合生活的实例，谈谈如何培养这个好习惯。

注意：书写规范工整，优美流畅；不要涉及具体人名和班级。

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Texting while walking is something that most of us are guilty of. We can’t help 1.(reply) to that message we just received. However, while 2. is fun to keep up with the latest news, we may actually be putting ourselves in danger. “I 3. (spot) a person in front of me walking very slowly and weaving, and I thought, ‘Is this person drunk?’ But it turned out that the person was just texting.” said Matthew Timmis. 4. (inspire) by this, Timmis and his team set out to seek the effects of phone use on 5. (passer-by). A group of 21 volunteers were asked to walk around a certain street. The participants traveled the course a total of 12 times each, either writing 6.reading a message, making a call, or with no phone at all. It took the volunteers 118 percent 7. (long) to complete the course when using a phone. They also focused 8. the path 51 percent more when they weren’t using a phone. Although there were no accidents, Timmis believes we should still be aware of 9. is going on around us. “You are not going to be able to respond to danger efficiently, 10. increases the risk of injury.” He added.

Open Hearts to life

We often close ourselves off when unfortunate events happen in our live. We try to reduce the hurt and pain by pretending it doesn't exist, 1.We need to learn to open our hearts to the potentials of life and let the world soften us.

Whenever we start to let our fears and seriousness get the best of us, we should take a step back and re-evaluate our behavior. The items listed below are the ways you can open your heart more fully and completely.

Breathe into pain

Whenever a painful situation arises in your life, try to embrace it instead of running away.2. When we run away from sadness, it will get stronger and more real. By making use of our breath, we soften our experiences and allow more newness and greater experiences to blossom.

3.

I know we’ve all felt decisions or actions that we had to take simply due to our "gut" impulses: when asked, we can’t explain the reasons behind doing so--just a deep knowing that it had to get done. To start this process, take few deep breaths and then ask, “Heart, what decision should I make here? What action feels the most right?”

See what comes up, then engage and evaluate the outcome.

Spend time alone.

For most of our lives we’re surrounded by people: our friends, colleagues, peers, family members, and loved ones, and strangers. How often do we really spend time alone? When you spend time in solitude, you're free from the influences of other people, and can truly open yourself and explore whatever you’d like. See where your thoughts take you.4.

It might be painful or even scary at first, but by opening yourself up to these new feelings, you’ll add a whole new layer of depth, experience, and understanding into your life.

Get outside of yourself

This may seem a little contradictory to the last tip, but in reality, they actually work hand-in-hand. After you’ve explored the depths of yourself, you come away with a new understanding. Now, it's time to share that -not through telling others, but through being with others.

When you’re in a group of people, try to give them your full energy and attention so you can understand them just as you did yourself.5.Lose yourself in the beauty of others; see what they can teach you about yourself.

A.Embrace the uncomfortable.

B.Ask your heart what it wants

C.In the end, though, we can't hide from ourselves

D.We should take a step back and re-evaluate our behavior

E.When the sadness strikes, take a deep breath and lean into it.

F.The golden ticket here is to not let yourself become distracted; just see what it's like to be alone.

G.Appreciate their uniqueness, as if they are an extension of you.

    On the school playground in Los Tomes, José, a lone child, plays a ball­and­cup game. The eight­year­old is the school's only pupil. His teacher, Nilda, herself a former pupil, says that enrolment(注册入学) has dropped from 65 when she started teaching 43 years ago. Drought has driven families away, she says, “Only the old remain.”

Los Tomes is an agricultural cooperative, one of 178 in Chile's Coquimbo region. Nineteen communities try to grow wheat and raise sheep and goats on 2,800 hectares. A decade­long drought has made that harder. Hilltop springs where the animals once drank have dried up. As the number of herds(畜群) decrease, farmers' children moved away to take jobs in cities or at copper mines.

①  Hope for Los Tomes comes in the form of three 60­square­metre nets stretched between poles on a ridge(山脊) above the community. These nets capture(捕捉)droplets(水珠) from the fog that rolls in from the sea 4 kilometers away. They flow down to two troughs(槽), from which animals drink. The nets can harvest 650 litres of water a day.

②  Chile has been investigating fog capture since the 1950s. The fog can be harvested with the help of a coastal mountain range and strong winds. Earlier attempts to turn the mist into usable water failed. In 1990 fog nets at a fishing village captured 8,000 litres a day. Villagers argued about how to share responsibility for maintaining the nets.

Climate change, which is expected to decrease rainfall in the region, has inspired a new search for sources of water. The project at Los Tomes is part of an attempt to capture fog. “The question is not whether the fog collectors work but who's going to provide and maintain them,” says Daniela.

At a community north of Los Tomes, three 150­square­metre fog catchers feed a plantation of young olive trees. When the trees mature, they will produce 750 litres of organic olive oil a year. The water source will be a big selling point. A privately owned brewery(啤酒厂)in Pena Blanca was quick to spot fog water's marketing appeal.

③  The development fund paid 5.6 million pesos each piece to put up the structures in Los Tomes；when the nets wear out, the villagers will have to replace them at a cost of 100,000 pesos each. Coquimbo has more than 40,000 hectares of land with the right conditions for putting up fog­catchers. If it were fully employed, the region could harvest 1,400 litres a second, enough to supply all its drinking water.

④  That might attract back educated young people from the cities. A chance to develop tourism near the Fray Jorge national park, a rainforest which has survived thanks to its own natural fog­collection mechanism, brought Salvador to his birthplace. “Roots, the land and the desire to start this brought me back, says Salvador.

1.The boy in the first paragraph is used as an example to show  .

A.the seriousness of drought B.the poverty of the area

C.the trend of the move D.the lack of teachers

2.The ideal place for nets should be .

A.in the rough sea B.on a coastal ridge

C.over the sea D.at the foot of the ridge

3.The concern of the fishing village's people is   .

A.whether the fog­catcher works

B.whether the fog­catcher can provide enough water

C.how to make the fog­catcher run well continuously

D.how to make use of the water

4.The sentence “It makes a profit, but most fog­harvesting projects require investment in their early stages.” should be put in   .

A.① B.② C.③ D.④

5.According to the passage, which of the following statement is right？

A.Water collected from fog can be sold as beer on the market.

B.Daniela suggests that olive trees should be planted in the plantation.

C.The products made with fog water will probably appeal to the consumers.

D.Part of temperate rainforest's survival is due to the use of man­made fog nets.

6.Salvador returning to his birthplace mainly wants to   .

A.protect the remaining forest B.build more fog­catchers

C.sell handicrafts on the road stands D.develop local tourism

    How sharks navigate the vast and seemingly featureless ocean has long been a mystery. Now there's evidence they may follow their noses. Sharks rely on their sense of smell to help chart a path through the ever-shifting waters of the deep seas, according to a new study. Scientists have supposed that the animals navigate by monitoring smell clues or the Earth's magnetic field, but no one knew for sure.

In new experiments near San Diego, scientists ferried wild leopard sharks about 6 miles(10 kilometers)away from their preferred habitats, fitted them with tracking devices, and stuffed some of the animals' noses with cotton balls. Just 30 minutes after being released facing the wrong way, sharks with full use of their smells made a corrective U-turn and then headed straight back to shore, "says study leader Andrew Nosal, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California. Sharks with stuffed noses, meanwhile, "appeared lost, "wandering aimlessly and

swimming more slowly than those that could smell freely.

To test sharks' sense of direction, Nosal and colleagues captured several dozen leopard sharks, a small species found along the coast from Washington State to northern Mexico.

After blocking some of the animals' noses, the scientists then took the animals on a cruise to deeper waters before slipping them, safe and unharmed, back into the sea. Even the sharks with plugged noses made it partway back to shore before their tracking devices fell off. But those with unplugged noses "took very straight paths" toward home. Nosal supposes the sharks likely sniffed out chemical molecules found in higher and higher doses nearer to land.

Other scientists, however, remain unconvinced. Maybe the animals with plugged noses "were confused by the fact that they had something stuffed in their nose," says Kim Holland, a marine biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. It's also unlikely the animals were following a smell that grew stronger closer to land, adds Jayne Gardiner, a sensory biologist at the New College of Florida. Animals that couldn't smell a thing still turned toward the beach, which "suggests something else is really guiding them," she says.

Study leader Nosal responds that sharks with cotton-stuffed nose willingly eat, suggesting that a congested nose doesn't upset them much. He agrees that sharks use a variety of markers to find their way, "but the point is that smell participates in navigation, "he says. "Our study was only the first step in solving this mystery. "

1.This passage is mainly about ________.

A.why sharks have a good sense of smell B.why sharks are clever animals

C.how scientists do the experiment D.how sharks find their way in the vast ocean

2.Which is true about the experiments done by the scientists according to the passage?

A.Scientists plugged sharks' noses to test whether they navigate through their sense of smell.

B.Scientists chose sharks' preferred habitats in order to track the animals easily.

C.After being taken to deeper waters, sharks with plugged noses couldn't make it to the shore.

D.The sharks in the experiments aren't willing to eat due to the plugged noses.

3.We can infer from the passage that________.

A.there are various markers for sharks to find their way and eyes play an important role in it

B.some scientists hold different opinions from the findings of the new study

C.the new study has completely solved the mystery of sharks' easy navigation in the vast ocean

D.the sharks likely sniffed out chemical molecules found in higher doses nearer to land

4.What's the purpose of writing this passage?

A.To call on people to protect the sharks.

B.To present different theories on the mystery of the sharks.

C.To let people learn more about the sharks.

D.To inform the readers of the findings of a new study on shark.

    A hospital has been forced to ban Pokemon Go players from the site after a monster hub (妖怪枢纽站) was found in the A&E department. Royal Stoke University Hospital discovered that its casualty unit(急诊室) is on the same spot as a Pokemon Go ‘gym’ —— where players can train their newly caught Nintendo creatures.

The University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust agreed last week that patients can play Pokemon Go on wards because walking around is healthy. But the Trust has been forced to post a warning on its website about public access to A&E. It said if Pokemon Go becomes a major annoyance it would ask Nintendo—— which decides on the locations of the virtual gyms according using GPS——to have it removed from the premises(道馆).

Kevin Parker, associate chief nurse, said, “Members of the public who do not need to be at Royal Stoke should not attempt to enter A&E or any other part of the hospital building to play the game. The A&E department is incredibly busy this summer. We want the public to understand that anybody who visits the hospital solely to play the game will provide an unwanted distraction to the important work of the hospital. I’m also aware of various reports in the media of unsafe areas that the game has been played in.”

“Royal Stoke University Hospital is a safe area where gamers can enjoy Pokemon Go.” Michelle Harris, the Trust’s manager, said the game could still be played by those already in hospital. “We recognize that the Pokemon Go game encourages walking and exercise, which is something that the Trust is equally keen to promote,” she said.

There are a number of “walking routes” established throughout the Trust that can be used to combine walking and playing the game. “Walking just 30 minutes, five times a week, can help reduce the risk of preventable illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.”

There have been several warnings about the game since its UK release. Last week a group of teenagers in Wiltshire were left stranded almost 100ft underground after they got carried away searching for Pokemon Go characters. The four boys, aged 16 and 17, ended up getting lost and had to wait to get a phone signal before they could call for help. Eventually, they contacted Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue team, who took them to safety. Damien Bence, of the fire and rescue team, said: “Pokemon Go is obviously leading people into dangerous situations.”

1.It seems that Pokemon Go is a game______.

A.encouraging players to walk and exercise instead of staying indoors

B.helping cure such diseases as obesity, diabetes and heart disease

C.designed to help patients in hospital recover sooner

D.warning teenagers of the places easy to get lost or attacked

2.The A&E department is incredibly busy because________.

A.more patients’ arrival increases the workload of the A&E department

B.doctors’ playing the game makes the A&E department less efficient

C.players’ injury increases the workload of the A&E department

D.players’ arrival disturbs the work of the A&E department

3.The passage is mainly about________.

A.the popularity of Pokemon Go since its UK release

B.the applications of Pokemon Go in hospitals since its UK release

C.the negative effects of Pokemon Go since its UK release

D.the establishment of Pokemon Go virtual gyms since its UK release

1.Your measure reading might be inaccurate, if ________.

a. you have just finished your meal

b. you have just cycled home from work

c. your child is using the cell phone in the next room

d. your wife has just finished measuring her blood pressure

e. you have just been scolded by your boss because of the delayed work

A. a b c B. a b e C. b c e D. c d e

2.Which of the following monitors is under warranty?

A. The monitor that was bought six years ago.

B. The monitor that goes wrong due to false use.

C. The monitor whose purchase proof is missing.

D. The monitor whose system broke down when first used.

    For many years my parents subscribed to “Reader’s Digest”. Usually I enjoyed reading each issue(期) as much as they did. The _______ in the magazine I liked most was “The Best Advice I Ever Had.”

Even today, one of those best advice stories sticks with me and _______ a great lesson. Writing about his _______. Harry Fosdick—longtime beloved minister of Riverside Church in New York City— _______ a morning when his father was leaving the house. He _______ to Harry’s mother and said “Tell Harry he can cut the grass today, _______ he feels like it.” Then after a few steps the father turned back and _______ a meaningful suggestion: “Tell Harry he had better feel like it.” The reason why I treasure Fosdick’s father’s instruction is that many of us know what we have to do in our _______ tasks —we are told what to do, while the major _______ is that in many cases we delay action until we feel like it.

So think of the ________ that Harry’s father tells him that he “had better feel like it” when we must do the ________ things. Already, I am confident you could add a dozen similar ________ tasks and responsibilities to this list—possibly two dozen. If you ________ until you feel like doing them, tasks will become more difficult. Getting back to young Harry’s task, I can ________ that a small boy pushing the mower(割草机) with great effort back and forth, around flowers and bushes on this ________ day, wiping the sweat from his face until he got the job ________. Let’s be aware that this was one of those long ago mowers, ________ a motor, appropriately called “push mowers.” So the task is ________. Harry got the demanding job finished, because he knew that he “had better feel like it.”

________ you are to finish your task or do your work, you’ll have to feel like it. After you ________ feel like it you’ll surprisingly find it isn’t difficult to finish.

1.A.article B.comment C.picture D.advertisement

2.A.shows B.includes C.implies D.remains

3.A.boyhood B.job C.life D.joke

4.A.spent B.considered C.remembered D.learned

5.A.returned B.moved C.wrote D.turned

6.A.because B.if C.though D.since

7.A.mentioned B.understood C.added D.explained

8.A.given B.daily C.next D.favorite

9.A.fact B.condition C.concern D.problem

10.A.result B.way C.advice D.reason

11.A.unpleasant B.awesome C.aggressive D.supreme

12.A.strange B.annoying C.particular D.easy

13.A.wait B.change C.stick D.resist

14.A.believe B.expect C.imagine D.suppose

15.A.freezing B.hot C.comfortable D.starry

16.A.started B.done C.paid D.offered

17.A.without B.through C.with D.for

18.A.funny B.different C.interesting D.rough

19.A.After B.But C.When D.Unless

20.A.mainly B.really C.naturally D.hardly

—I couldn’t tell Jack from his twin brother.

—Me too, and there is no obvious________between them.

A.contribution B.distinction C.promotion D.expression

Drivers must strictly_______the speed limit when driving on the freeways to keep away from any possible accidents.

A.grasp B.represent C.observe D.reduce

When confronted with the audience’s suspicions, the spokesman found himself _______ for words.

A.lose B.lost C.to lose D.having lost

     to the gift was a note on which he expressed his gratitude for our reception during his stay here.

A.Being attached B.Attaching

C.Attached D.having attached

It's an inspirational story, and the well-researched facts really bring the story and characters_______.

A.alive B.living C.lively D.live

—Many parents do almost everything for their children, but the children still fail them.

—That's _______ these parents are mistaken.

A.how B.where C.what D.why

The whole city seemed to spring to life almost overnight around 1050, a phenomenon now ____ as a miracle.

A.having referred to B.to be referring to

C.referred to D.referring to

As far as she could _______, there was nothing ______ low huts.

A.turn out; besides B.make out; besides

C.turn out; but D.make out; but

Bruno was secretly pleased when he knew that it could be weeks before they went back because he had_______ himself to the idea of spending one more month there.

A.contributed B.stuck C.devoted D.resigned

Martin had said that his father was a chef, which Bruno knew to be true because he sometimes ________  Martin from school, wearing a white smock and a tartan apron.

A.picked B.caught C.collected D.brought

“What are you doing?” Bruno asked in _______, although he wasn't happy to come home and find someone going through his possessions.

A.as a polite tone as he could muster B.as polite a tone as he could muster

C.as polite as a tone he could muster D.a tone polite as he could muster

Your soul is a very private area of your life. Naturally, there are many different ways to feed it.Which of the following ideas might not contribute to feeding your soul positively.

A.Getting  back nature. B.Keeping a journal.

C.Reading inspiring books D.Staying up all night

Have you ever seen a flock of geese heading south for the winter flying along in a V  formations? Learning to synergize is like learning to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You"ll be amazed at how much faster and farther you' ll go! Therefore, synergy is not _________.

A.celebrating differences B.working independently

C.open-mindedness D.finding new better ways

"If you find yourself wanting to bury your feelings deep inside you, don't do it. Instead express them in a responsible way." This advice encourages us to_______.

A.stand in others ' shoes B.seek to be understood

C.practice mirroring D.listen with our ears and heart

To understand someone you must listen to them. Surprise! The problem is that most of us don't know how to listen. It's so typical of us to use one of the five poor listening styles. The response of the man sitting on the sofa is an example _________.

A.self-centered listening B.spacing out

C.pretend listening D.selective listening

假定你是李华。上周你在某国外网站购买了一支录音笔(recording pen),收货后你发现它有很多质量问题。请根据下列提示给客服经理Miss Green发一封电子邮件。

内容包括:

1.来信目的;

2.产品(录音笔)问题;

3.你期待的解决办法。

注意:

1.词数100左右;

2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;

3.开头和结束语已为你写好,不计人总词数。

Dear Miss Green,

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I' m looking forward to your early reply.

Best wishes !

Yours,

Li Hua

假定英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号( Ʌ),并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

How are things going? I'm glad you are interested in our cultural heritage protection.

Great progress has made in the past few years. Every year a lot of efforts are made and much money are spent researching and protecting it. People are more aware of the important of protecting the cultural heritage.

However, we are faced over greater challenges in protecting our cultural relics nowadays. We have to make a way for many new buildings. Even worse, a largely number of historic spots have already been destroyed, what worries us a lot.

Considered the factors above, I think more steps should be taken to protecting our cultural heritage. I hope the whole society should actively participate in protecting our cultural heritage.

阅读下列材料,在空白处填人1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式。

Jenny, 1.occupation was a nurse ,was driving her six -year-old son, Tony, to his piano lesson. They were late, and Jenny was beginning to think she should have given it up. There was always so much to do, and Jenny recently helped with an2.( operate). She . was tired. The storm and ice roads added to her tension,

“Mom!”Tony cried.”Look!” Just ahead a car had lost control on the patch of ice. As Jenny tapped the brakes, the other car3.(wild) rolled over, and crashed sideways into a telephone pole.

Jenny pulled over, stopped and threw open her door. Thank goodness. She knew her job well一she might be able to help those unfortunate passengers. Then she paused. W hat about Tony? She couldn't take him with her. Little boys shouldn't see4.(scene) like that. But was it safe to leave him alone? For a brief moment Jenny considered5.(go) on her way.

She asked Tony to stay in the car and ran, slipping and sliding, toward the crash site. It was worse6.she'd feared. Two girls of high school age were in the car.7.(injure) badly, one of the girls was killed. The driver,however, was still breathing. Jenny quickly8.(apply) pressure to the wound in the teenager 's head while her practiced eyes checked the other injuries. She had a broken leg,maybe two,along9.probable internal bleeding. But if help came soon, the girl would survive.

A trucker had pulled up and was calling for help on his cell phone. Soon an ambulance and rescue workers came.”Good job,” one said while examining the wounds.” You probably saved her life!”Later the families of the victims came to meet Jenny, expressing their10.(grateful) for the help she had offered.

    When I was a little girl in school, I wanted someday to become a doctor. It was an unbelievable dream for any child in my_______.

My mother was a housemaid for a retired couple, the Raos, in Bangalore. Fortunately, they were always_______about us. As I began to read, they bought me books. When my mother felt I should_______an English-medium school, just like other kids, the Raos_______to pay the school fees. They_______gave me breakfast before I left for school. I had to work hard to_______my privileged, well-off classmates.

Life at home was always_______,since my father spent much of his earnings on drink and cigarettes. Yet my mother bravely_______for me and my younger brother. One day our already miserable world was suddenly turned_______,Father was found lying dead by the road. Later, the landlord asked us to leave our room,adding to our__________.He even shut off our water and__________connections to force us out __________my mother’ s begging for more__________

The Raos, who once taught at Banalore's Atma Darshan Yogashram, came to our__________ again. They recommended the officials there to__________my mother as a cook__________accommodations on campus would be__________ to us. “You should keep studying hard.__________ will change everything,” Mr. Rao advised me.

In the many years that followed, thanks to the Raos' help and encouragement, I was able to __________my studies, and in another year, I'll receive my doctorate in biomedicine, after which I'll work in a hospital and__________ my dream.

1.A.street B.campus C.compositions D.situations

2.A.serious B.enthusiastic C.concerned D.cautious

3.A.attend B.found C.praise D.accept

4.A.remembered B.offered C.refused D.learnt

5.A.just B.still C.never D.even

6.A.catch up with B.make up for C.break away from D.look down upon

7.A.boring B.comfortable C.tough D.relaxing

8.A.prepared B.struggled C.competed D.compensated

9.A.away B.inside out C.off D.upside down

10.A.sorrow B.sympathy C.horror D.doubt

11.A.traffic B.electricity C.family D.food

12.A.on behalf of B.by means of C.for fear of D.in spite of

13.A.approval B.space C.time D.forgiveness

14.A.mind B.ability C.anxiety D.aid

15.A.employ B.recognize C.admire D.memorize

16.A.now that B.ever since C.so that D.even if

17.A.precious B.accessible C.appealing D.significant

18.A.Faith B.Teamwork C.Intelligence D.Education

19.A.continue B.supply C.review D.summarize

20.A.follow B.define C.realize D.share

    Creativity is a learnable ability. But in my experience, we can create the conditions to develop it.1.

* Obey your curiosity.

Steve Jobs claimed that creativity is just connecting things. I agree. 2. The best way to build a rich mental database that. will help you solve problems later is to honor passing curiosity. If something excites your brain, spend a moment on it. Follow paths that have no obvious purpose rather than satisfy a fantasy.

*3.

Early in my career, Will Marre, founding president of Stephen Covey s training company, warned me to subscribe to a handful of business journals he listed, and added, “And every time you read one, be sure to read at least one article that 1s of. no interest to you.”I've been rewarded time and again for doing do. Many things that end up in my mind have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as chores and ended with an insight.4.

* Have uncomfortable conversations.

Another great creative stimulus is to regularly engage in conversations with people from whom you might normally recoil( 畏缩). Three of the more unexpectedly fruitful conversations in my life were with a racist taxi driver in London, a drug dealer seatmate on a plane, and an extremist political advocate in Puerto Rico.5.This discipline helped me find the psychological flexibility I needed in Canada.

A.Do things that don't interest you.

B.When you work hard, you can become creative.

C.Here are some of the ways I've learned to be more predictably creative.

D.Have a strange conversation with someone that will happen in the future.

E.If you want to be more creative, you will need to have more things to connect.

F.As a result of these conversations, I gained valuable perspectives from lives I :will never live.

G.Sometimes, we' call things boring simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.

    LONDON- Every eight minutes, a child in Britain becomes homeless, the worst rate for 12 years, according to figures published in a new report by homelessness charity Shelter. The charity, which campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing, revealed that each day 183 children lose their home and 135, 000 children will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation. The charity 's Generation Homeless report also highlights 5, 683 homeless families with children who are currently living in emergency bed and breakfasts and hostels.

Will, aged 10，lives with his parents and younger brother in a single room in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation in Ilford, East London.”Life in the B&B is horrible,” Will said.”There's no room to do anything, even if I'm reading my book, as I'm still going to get annoyed by someone. I've been told off by someone for running in the small corridor. You can't do much. You can't play much. I don't get to play that often.”The family is still living . in temporary accommodation, despite being told it would only be there for six weeks.

Families are often packed into one room with little space to cook, play or eat their meals and Shelter said people are also forced to share bathrooms with strangers as well as living in . accommodation that is often located kilometers away from schools and jobs.

“Sometimes, my little brother Harry and I fight for the one chair, because we both want to sit at the table, and sometimes he wins and sometimes I win. I find it really hard to do my homework as I get distracted by my little brother and I don't have another room to work in peace,” Will said.

The charity said an additional 4,026 children will be made homeless by Christmas Day if action is not taken to deal with the lack of social homes, expensive private rents and welfare cuts that are driving the country 's housing emergency.

Polly Neate，chief executive of Shelter, said: “ The fact that 183 children become homeless every day is an unacceptable figure and a sharp reminder that political promises about dealing with homelessness must be turned into real action.

“Day in，day out we see the devastating impact the housing emergency is having on children across the country. They are being uprooted from friends; living in cold, cramped B&Bs and going to bed at night scared by the sound of strangers outside.”

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing，Communities and Local Government said: “Every child should have somewhere safe to live, and councils have a duty to provide temporary accommodation to those who need it.'

1.What can we infer from what Will said in Para. 2?

A.He showed his great regret. B.He apologized to someone.

C.He made some complaints. D.He expressed his gratitide.

2.What can we learn from the news report according to the charity?

A.The charity aims at ending homelessness and bad education in Britain.

B.The charity revealed that each week 183 children lose their home in Britain.

C.An additional 5, 863 children will be made homeless by Christmas Day in Britain.

D.135 ,000 children will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation in Britain,

3.Which of the following can replace the underlined word” devastating” in the last but one paragraph?

A.Convincing. B.Shocking. C.Puzzling. D.Thrilling.

4.What can be the best title for the news report?

A.Britain's child homelessness crisis worsens

B.Every British child should have somewhere safe to live

C.British families living in emergency bed and breakfasts and hostels

D.Britain's dealing with homelessness must be turned into real action