You’re enjoying a quiet evening at home when suddenly your neighbor's dog starts barking（吠叫）and doesn’t stop. Sure, dogs need to bark every now and then, but if the barking is getting in the way of your daily life, you need to do something.

Before you take action, make records of when the dog is disturbing. Record the dates and times when the barking appears to find out the features of the barking. Check them carefully and get your facts straight. You might notice the barking only happens when the owners are at work, or during thunderstorms.

After two to three weeks, visit your neighbors with the facts, your neighbors might not even realize the barking is a problem, for the worst noise may happen when they are gone.

Explain the times when the barking gets bad, then suggest a way to solve the problem. Ask if the dog can stay inside during storm, or suggest a dog training class. Be open to compromise（妥协）because the owners might have other ideas about how to deal with the noise.

Befriending the dog could help. Have your neighbors introduce you to their dog. If they become more comfortable in your presence, they're less likely to bark when they see you or when they are in the backyard. You might even be able to use commands such as “quiet” once the dog trusts you.

Avoid gossiping（流言輩语）with other neighbors about the dog. “That’s when things escalate.” After all, most people will want to solve the problem.

1.What can you do first when your neighbor’s dogs barking influences your life?

A.Bring the dog to a training class.

B.Drive it out of your neighborhood.

C.Record the dates and times of the barking.

D.Show your complaint to your neighborhood.

2.Why are your neighbors less likely to realize the barking problem?

A.They may like dogs barking.

B.They all think their dogs are friendly.

C.They have been used to the barking of the dogs.

D.They may be out when the worst barking happens.

3.What does the underlined word "escalate" in the last paragraph probably mean?

A.Become better. B.Become worse.

C.Remain unchanged. D.Become more personal.

4.What can be inferred from the text?

A.Love me, love my dog. B.Barking dogs seldom bite.

C.Good communication is a must. D.Treat violence with violence.

Blue Note Jazz Festival 2018

Jul 1-Jul 30, 2018

Location ： Several locations tn New York

The Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York City is the city’s most popular jazz festival and focuses on bringing big-name artists to small crowds and up-and-coming acts to the public. The event takes over 15 places across the city and includes Questlove, Michael Bolton and Aretha Franklin.

Grant Park Music Festival 2018

Jun 14-Aug 19, 2018

Locations: Jay Pritzker Pavilion, South Shore Cultural Center, & Harris Theater for Music and Dance | 201 East Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois

Listening to classical music is said to improve your intelligence. Whether that’s true or not, the Grant Park Music Festival will provide you with free, classical music, and you’d be smart to attend. The music at these concerts will leave you begging for more. It’s free to attend, so come and enjoy some great music with your family and friends.

Lake Park Friends Wonderful Wednesdays 2018

Jun 21-Jul 26, 2018

Location: Lake Park | Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Energy is way too contained (被压抑) in an indoor music place. Let that energy go where it wants through a series of outdoor concerts with Lake Park Friends Wonderful Wednesdays. Wednesday is no longer the most boring day of the week. This time, there’s something fun to do. A list of live music acts has made the middle of the week something to look forward to.

YouthCUE Festival of Youth Choirs (合唱队) 2018

Augl0-Aug 22, 2018

Locations: Washington National Cathedral | 3101 Wisconsin AVE NW Washington, DC

YouthCUE Festival of Youth Choirs in Washington gives students the rare opportunity to perform in the Washington National Cathedral, a famous historic place. The festival is a showcase of student choirs (唱诗班) from all over the local professional orchestra.

1.What can people enjoy at the Blue Note Jazz Festival?

A.Performances by famous singers.

B.Lively performances by public.

C.Performances by artists from 15 countries.

D.High quality performances with free admission.

2.Those who are interested in classical music would probably go to ________.

A.Blue Note Jazz Festival

B.Grant Park Music Festival

C.Lake Park Friends Wonderful Wednesdays

D.YouthCUE Festival of Youth Choirs

3.If you like choirs, which city should you go to?

A.New York. B.Chicago.

C.Milwaukee. D.Washington DC.

假定你是李华，国外著名学习网 Student Tube邀请你发帖分享你平时的学习方式。要点如下：

1. 多读多写；2. 合理安排时间；3. 其他方式（自拟）。

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear friends,

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

根据句意及首字母或汉语提示，写出各句中所缺单词的正确形式。

1.F________ letting go of such a good chance like that, young man!

2.At first he didn’t realize that he had been r________ by his old friend, who he hadn’t seen for 20 years.

3.The sign says “Children without the company of an adult are not to be a ________.”

4.Large q________ of information and timely help have been offered since the organization was built.

5.With five minutes to go before the plane was s________ take off, Jack was only halfway to the airport.

6.Tom’s ________ (坚定的) look showed that he just never listened to me.

7.The Blacks were so friendly that I ________ (感激) their help when we moved.

8.From the car mirror I saw a police car drawing near and ________ (示意) to me to stop.

9.His purpose was not so much to attack his ________ (竞争者) but defend his own position.

10.Neighbors think he’s an ________ (有教养的), well-read man. So many people like him.

    Italians are some of the fastest speakers on the planet, chatting at up to nine syllables (音节) per second. Many Germans, on the other hand, are slow ones, delivering five to six syllables during the same period. Yet in any given minute, Italians and Germans express about the same cover of information.

Scientists started with written texts from 17 languages. They calculated (计算) the information density (密度) of each language in bits. They found that Japanese, which has only 643 syllables, had an information density of about 5 bits per syllable, while English, with its 6949 syllables, had a density of just over 7 bits per syllable. Vietnamese, with its hard system of six tones, topped the charts at 8 bits per syllable.

Next, the researchers spent 3 years recording 10 speakers—five men and five women—from 14 of their 17 languages. Each read aloud 15 identical texts that had been translated into their mother tongue. After noting how long the speakers took to get through their readings, the researchers calculated an average (平均) speech rate per language, measured in syllables/second.

Some languages were clearly faster than others: no surprise there. But when the researchers took their final step to find out how much information moved per second, they were shocked by the agreement of their results. No matter how fast or slow, how simple or hard, each language moved toward an average rate of 39. 15 bits per second.

Language science has explained things so long like grammatical difficulty, so this information passing-on rate has been ignored. But the “why” is another question entirely. Some scientists doubt that the answer has everything to do with the weakness from our biology. Research in neuroscience (神经科学) supports that idea, with one recent paper suggesting an upper number to hearing processing of 9 syllables per second in U.S. English. It really seems that the bottleneck is in putting the ideas together.

1.What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A.To explain the reason for the research.

B.To introduce the idea of the whole text.

C.To discuss different syllables of languages.

D.To stress the importance of how fast we speak.

2.Which has the highest information density per syllable according to the study?

A.English. B.Germans.

C.Japanese. D.Vietnamese.

3.What is the research mentioned in Paragraph 3 intended to show?

A.How fast we can speak.

B.How difficult the texts are.

C.How much information spreads per second.

D.How we can translate them into our mother language.

4.What does “the weakness from our biology” mean in the last paragraph?

A.The difficulty of language grammar.

B.The syllables of language we process.

C.The time of collecting our thoughts.

D.The density of language information.

5.What is the best title for the text?

A.How Can We Express Our Ideas Swiftly?

B.Why Are Languages Spoken Fast or Slow?

C.An Average Information Density: 6 Bits a Syllable

D.A Universal Passing-on Rate: 39. 15 Bits Per Second

    Over the past half-century, North America has lost more than a quarter of its entire bird population, or around 3 billion birds.

“We saw this great net loss across the entire bird community,” says Ken Rosenberg, a scientist in Ithaca, N.Y. “But we also knew that other bird populations were increasing. And what we didn’t know is whether there was a net change.”

Common birds with decreasing populations include dark-eyed juncos and red-winged blackbirds, says Rosenberg. Grassland birds have suffered a 53% decrease, and more than a third of the shorebird population has been lost. Bird populations that have increased include raptors (猛禽), like the bald eagle, and waterfowl.

“The numbers of ducks and geese are larger than they’ve ever been, and that’s not an accident,” says Rosenberg. It’s because hunters who mainly want to see healthy waterfowl populations for sportful hunting have raised their voices.

“People are doing a wonderful effort to try and understand our bird populations with a lot of uncertainty, but the actual systems that we have in place to try and answer really tough questions like this are really far short of what we need,” Ted Simons in North Carolina State University says.

“In all, the conclusions weren’t necessarily surprising,” says Kristen Ruegg, a biologist at Colorado State University. There have been hints (暗示) that the loss was this large from all kinds of sources over the past few years. But in most cases, these were species-specific records of local extinctions or models of projected losses, resulting from things like climate change. This really sort of wakes people up to the idea that this is happening.

Elise Zipkin, a quantitative ecologist at Michigan State University, says the loss can be a big problem. “Just because a species hasn’t gone extinct (灭绝) or isn’t even necessarily close to extinction, it might still be in trouble,” she says. We need to be thinking about conservation (保护) efforts for that.”

1.Which of the following becomes more than before?

A.Dark-eyed juncos. B.The bald eagle.

C.Grassland birds. D.The shorebirds.

2.Why do duck and goose populations increase?

A.To hunt for fun. B.To provide rich foods.

C.To escape net loss. D.To keep people healthy.

3.What does the underlined word “tough” mean in Paragraph 5?

A.Extra. B.Interesting.

C.Difficult. D.Official.

4.What can we infer from Elise’s words in the last paragraph?

A.Bird loss can be a big problem. B.Climate change causes part of bird loss.

C.Protecting birds is quite necessary. D.What is happening is worth considering.

5.How does the author support the subject of the text?

A.By giving examples. B.By showing ideas.

C.By explaining numbers. D.By providing research results.

    Last Friday, Mike Babbitt was about to leave the Bremerton Yacht Club to go gas up when the engine of the boat caught fire.

“The wind was blowing from the North. It would have blown the boat into the yacht (快艇) club so I just gave it all the power I could to get it away from the yacht club,” he told Komo News. However, that wasn’t the end of Mike’s mission (使命). Still on the boat were his two bulldogs Pearl and Hootie. He placed the dogs on a paddleboard before jumping into the water himself.

He explained to Komo News that he didn’t even have time to grasp a life coat or his oxygen. Mike served in the army for five years in a special police unit in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his time in the army, he suffered a pancreatic (胰腺的) attack that forced him to rely on oxygen treatment for the rest of his life.

Still, he succeeded in doing the unthinkable. “I just slid into the water and started paddling away from the fire and I could still feel the heat from the fire,” Mike told the news reporters. Mike was then rescued by some friends and later transported to a nearby hospital, where his wife Jamie met him. The fire is especially heartbreaking for Mike and his wife as the yacht was their only house. They had early sold their home and saved up in order to live a life on the water.

However, Mike is just happy to have survived. “I think it is the gift of God watching over us,” Mike told Komo News. “You have to put it exactly that were still alive and we’re still together.” A GoFundMe has since been created to help the Babbitts following the fire.

1.Where was Mike going when the yacht caught fire?

A.The club. B.The boat.

C.A police unit. D.A filling station.

2.What did Mike do in the end?

A.Got a life coat. B.Pushed the boat away.

C.Put out the fire. D.Saved Pearl and Hootie.

3.By writing Paragraph 3, the author intends to ________.

A.sum up the paragraphs before it B.continue talking about the incident

C.add some background information D.introduce a new subject for discussion

4.What probably is continued with the passage?

A.Opening up about the terrible fire. B.Raising money to help the Babbitts.

C.Being thankful for what God gives. D.Realizing a dream of living on the water.

5.Which of the following best describes Mike?

A.Brave and kind. B.Confident and calm.

C.Positive and devoted. D.Generous and grateful.

    What: The 2019 World Championships

Why You Should Watch: It’s the best track field competition the world has to offer outside of the Olympic Games.

When: Races and field events begin on September 27 and run through October 6.

Where: On October 3, NBC Sports Network will continuously air the meet from 9:15 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. EST. All day, you can also stream (流播) every event on NBC Sports Gold(Requires: $59.99). Clicking, you can find the full broadcast plan here.

This year it’s the first time a Middle Eastern city has hosted the event. It also might be one of the hottest world championships. To reduce the possibility of heat stroke or tiredness, all of the events start after 4 p. m. Doha time (9 a. m. EST), with some events much later—including the marathon, which kicks off at midnight on September 27.

To help cool athletes and audiences, air conditioning units have been set inside the stadium. Athletes competing in events 1,500 meters and longer will also be asked to take a pill that tracks their temperatures, with the hope that this data can help prepare race organizers, athletes, and coaches for the hot conditions expected at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Temperature aside, there are some fiery races to look forward to this year, minus a few noteworthy names: six-time world champion Mo Farah of Great Britain, and two-time Olympic 800 gold medalist Caster Semenya of South Africa will not be competing.

Races to Watch on Day 7:

● The fastest time in the first round belongs to 10,000-meter champ Sifan Hassan. The race is at 4 p.m. EST.

● The men’s heats of the 1, 500 will include Craig Engels, Ben Blankenship, and 2016 Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz. The races start at 3 p.m.

● The finals of the women’s 400 meters includes Americans Adeline Jonathas and Phyllis Francis. The race is at 4:50 p.m.

1.What can you do on October 3?

A.Order all day’s live events. B.Go to the meet by plane.

C.Broadcast every event online. D.Find the plan for World Championships.

2.What is special about the 2019 World Championships?

A.It becomes the hottest one.

B.It is held in a Middle Eastern city.

C.The marathon begins after 9 a. m. EST.

D.The stadium is equipped with air conditioners.

3.Why are 1,500-meter runners required to take medicine?

A.To help athletes cool.

B.To add up players’ temperatures.

C.To explore the reason for the hot conditions.

D.To prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

4.Who is probably absent from the 2019 World Championships?

A.Sifan Hassan. B.Ben Blankenship.

C.Caster Semenya. D.Adeline Jonathas.

5.Where is this text most likely from?

A.A web page. B.A magazine.

C.A guidebook. D.A news report.

    Kim Stemple was a special-education teacher In 2012, she found herself ________ to an IV (静脉注射) in a Boston hospital being ________ for one of several diseases she had been diagnosed with, including lupus (狼疮) The normally lively Stemple was ________ getting upset a lot. And then a friend gave her a ________.

Before she got too sick to ________, Stemple had been a marathon runner. The medal came from a racing ________ who had just finished a half marathon in Las Vegas and hoped the present would ________ a kind of similar pick-me-up (提神剂). It worked like a(n) ________ —and then some.

After Stemple ________ the medal from her hospital IV pole, other patients said they wanted medals too. That got Stemple ________. “A medal is a simple way to give a(n) ________ message,” she told pilotonline. com. And so was born her ________, We Finish Together, which collects medals from ________ —runners, dancers, swimmers, singers, and even spelling bee winners—and donates them to all sorts of people in ________.

Receivers have included hospital patients, people of homeless shelters, and old soldiers. Part of the process is ________ with the donators writing a personalized ________ on the ribbon (缎带). “This gives them a connection to someone,” says Stemple. “If they receive a medal, they will know someone ________.”

Can a simple medal really make a ________? Yes, says Joan Musarra, who develops pulmonary fibrosis (肺纤维). “I opened my package containing my new medal and the notes of positive, warm thoughts. I was ________,” she wrote to Stemple. “At that moment, I was sitting on my sofa breathing through an oxygen tube because my lungs have become so worse. It means so much to me to feel that I am not ________.”

1.A.agreed B.invited C.tied D.preferred

2.A.prepared B.treated C.answered D.waited

3.A.naturally B.gradually C.regularly D.personally

4.A.pill B.suggestion C.way D.medal

5.A.exercise B.pack C.rise D.reward

6.A.judge B.guide C.partner D.inspector

7.A.change for B.serve as C.join in D.attach to

8.A.charm B.flag C.advertisement D.style

9.A.arose B.hung C.brought D.lay

10.A.wondering B.calculating C.thinking D.relieving

11.A.actual B.frequent C.reliable D.positive

12.A.health B.charity C.power D.reality

13.A.strangers B.athletes C.millionaires D.natives

14.A.addition B.cash C.need D.return

15.A.decorated B.replaced C.provided D.concerned

16.A.sign B.bill C.title D.note

17.A.cares B.agrees C.recovers D.deserves

18.A.hit B.difference C.promise D.beginning

19.A.attracted B.settled C.touched D.frightened

20.A.upset B.hopeless C.painful D.alone

—You grow bananas, and we are responsible for the sales of them.

—OK, ________.

A.Wait and see B.That’s a bargain C.Seeing is believing D.Easier said than done

With the development of the country, the people ________ village I taught before have lived a happy life.

A.from which B.whose C.in whose D.who

Mrs. Black found her husband ________ a tall building and ________ very worried.

A.entering; looked B.enter; looked C.entering; looking D.enter; looking

—Hello, may I know how much you ________ for your services?

—Well, the first costs $ 100 while the other two are free.

A.charge B.stand C.hunt D.ask

The manager of the company told us that very little use was ________ the waste in the past.

A.concerned about B.made of C.sorted out D.dealt with

—I wonder how often you will clean up your room by yourself.

—________ other day.

A.In B.Every C.For D.Each

—Who are you going to have ________ this letter for you?

—My secretary.

A.to post B.posted C.post D.posting

How lucky! The boy had a ________ escape when he ran across the road in front of the bus.

A.fine B.short C.close D.narrow

It seems useless for us to ________ any more time to this question. Let’s stop here.

A.spend B.devote C.spare D.turn

He was so angry as to be unable to do what he wanted to, But he couldn’t say ________ that upset him.

A.what was it B.it was why C.why was it D.what it was

It is said that the fire on Sunday night lasted about three hours ________ the firefighters came.

A.before B.until C.when D.after

—Good morning! I’d like to get my watch.

—Well, I ________ the repairing, and it needs several minutes.

A.just finish B.am just finishing

C.have just finished D.was just going to finish

—May I help you, Madam?

—How terrible! The things in my shop ________ frequently these days.

A.have stolen B.are being stolen C.had stolen D.was stolen

—How do you find the story about ________ blind?

—It is so encouraging that I try to read it without ________ second thought.

A.a; a B.a; the C.the; a D.the; the

—Do you think it is a good idea to make friends with your students?

—________, I do. And so do my colleagues.

A.Really B.Clearly C.Actually D.Generally

假如你是李华，刚刚参加完某一英语报社组织的“中学生英语夏令营”活动。请你给该活动的负责人Jane写一封信，要点如下：

1. 你从该活动中学到了什么；

2. 表达你的感激之情；

3. 渴望再次参加。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 信的开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jane,

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，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。每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(∧), 并在其下写出该加的词。

删除: 把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改: 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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。

More than 3 years ago I travelled to Britain and stay there for 10 days, and it’s still one of the most wonderful trip I have ever taken. The moment when I arrived in London, I went to the Sherlock Holmes Museum. The museum is modeled in the fictional house in that Sherlock Holmes and John Watson lived. And it also contains reproductions of any famous crime scenes from the stories. I walked around each room carefully as if we had been at a real crime scene and afraid of destroying valuable clues. As crazy fan of Sherlock, I felt extreme interested. Now I’m looking forward to take my next trip there.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

It’s only been one month since Dean LaBarba 1. (graduate) from medical school–but he wasn’t expecting to have started his life-saving career so soon.

Last month, LaBarba was 2. a 12-hour flight from Zurich to Los Angeles with his wife when a female passenger  3. (sit) close to them said that she didn’t feel well. Before she could get up  4. (use) the restroom, she fell down. LaBarba  5. (immediate) rushed to the woman’s side, only to find that she didn’t have a pulse. With the help of another passenger, he had the woman lie across a row of  6. (seat) so he could begin pushing her chest. After six pushes,  7. started to wake up.

LaBarba, his wife, and the passenger  8. (move) to first class, where the newly-graduated doctor monitored her health.

The passenger expressed her extreme gratitude toward LaBarba,  9. happened to be the only doctor on board 10. 300-person flight that day. He said that the experience confirmed his “calling and desire to help people”.

    When I became a junior, I decided to take Latin at school. I was so __ about taking that class, and I was fully expecting to be able to __ every word I’d ever come across once I learned Latin.

But Latin class was so  __. Each day, the teacher Mr. Keady would ask us to open our __ and recite aloud the various Latin forms of words. This became the __ every day. That was until my hand  __ one afternoon when we were asked yet again to open our books.

When Mr. Keady asked what was wrong, I __why I thought that his class was dull, how I had expected more, and that his method of teaching was __. When I finished speaking, I __ Mr. Keady to angrily send me to the head teacher.

But instead, he sat at his desk quietly, looking defeated and tired. After several moments of __, Mr. Keady spoke. He quietly and firmly said that he would __ carefully about what I’d said. And that was it.

In the following weeks, Latin class didn’t become the exciting learning environment I __ it would, but Mr. Keady did try harder. He brought in some new worksheets and __ to involve us students more in his classes.

Maybe some people would __what I did, but even so many years later, I feel bad about it.

If I saw him now, I’d tell him how I __ what I’d done that day in class, and that I was disrespectful. And at the same time, I’d also tell him that he taught me a wonderful __ that day. Following my __ words, he showed me that being __ doesn’t mean you have to give away your dignity.

Indeed, Mr Keady’s __ proved that no matter how hurt you feel, no one - no one - can __ your dignity.

1.A.curious B.worried C.excited D.careful

2.A.connect B.describe C.notice D.understand

3.A.complicated B.boring C.difficult D.easy

4.A.eyes B.mouths C.schoolbags D.books

5.A.routine B.business C.game D.project

6.A.spread out B.reached out C.set up D.shot up

7.A.admitted B.explained C.doubted D.wondered

8.A.funny B.regular C.old-fashioned D.unfamiliar

9.A.expected B.reminded C.allowed D.advised

10.A.practice B.silence C.debate D.criticism

11.A.consult B.talk C.think D.learn

12.A.suggested B.promised C.decided D.hoped

13.A.tried B.happened C.managed D.failed

14.A.blame B.applaud C.recall D.ignore

15.A.regretted B.appreciated C.believed D.feared

16.A.experience B.theory C.lesson D.principle

17.A.unkind B.impatient C.curious D.proud

18.A.stopped B.wounded C.celebrated D.judged

19.A.answer B.solution C.decision D.response

20.A.take over B.take to C.take away D.take up

    What do babies, puppies and cartoon characters have in common? 1.

Cute animals and babies attract our attention and make us want to take care of them, which gives them an evolutionary advantage, according to Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz.

2.When we look at babies, we are attracted to certain facial features. These features make us want to take care of them so they can grow up healthily and pass their genes on to the next generation.

Looking at baby animals and cartoon characters also causes these feelings.

Childlike characteristics make babies sweet and lead us to build close ties with them.  3.

There are several features that can cause this feeling.  4.If a baby animal or human wobbles (摇摇摆摆) a bit when walking, that can make them seem even cuter.

Of course, we don’t raise baby animals the same way we raise human babies, and we don’t raise cartoon characters at all. 5.Cute cartoon characters become popular this way, and baby animals are more likely to be cared for properly.

Think about some of the things that you find cute, and you’re likely to see that they have some of the same characteristics as a human baby.

A. The science behind cuteness is still unclear.

B. The answer is that they all look cute.

C. This even works when we see things that remind us of a baby.

D. A large round head, large eyes, and soft skin are just some of these features.

E. However, babies get less cute as they get older.

F. Human babies are a good example.

G. But their cuteness does make us like them and want to take care of them.

    Every year, millions of people make the same New Year’s resolution(决心): to lose weight. But there’s a problem that requires as much resolution to change as weight: the societal prejudice surrounding weight and obesity.

For decades, researchers have documented negative attitudes toward overweight people - a form of prejudice known as “weight bias (偏见).” People with obesity are commonly viewed as lazy, unintelligent, unattractive, and lacking willpower and self-control. Weight – based discrimination is found in educational, employment and health care settings, yet minimal legal protection exists for those who are targeted. In addition to experiencing weight bias from others, people with obesity tend to accept weight-biased beliefs, leading to lower self-worth.

Some people argue that bitter messages about weight are necessary to motivate those with obesity to take responsibility for their health and lose weight. After all, critics say, it’s their own fault that they are “fat,” and, if they really wanted to, they could control their weight. In this view, promoting body acceptance would only weaken behavior change and encourage obesity.

The problem with this argument is that it flies in the face of hundreds of scientific studies showing the negative health effects associated with experiencing and accepting weight-biased beliefs. The psychological effect of being undervalued due to one’s weight may not seem surprising: increased risk for depression, anxiety, and even self-harming thoughts and attempts in youth.

Also worth noting are the effects of weight bias on weight gain and obesity-related health. Studies show that weight bias is stressful, and when people are under stress, they tend to eat more. Further, when people worry about being judged due to their weight, they avoid fitness and health care setting.

In the coming year, whether or not weight loss is a goal, we can all make efforts to get rid of weight bias and be a little kinder to ourselves and others.

1.What do we know about obese people?

A.They are fond of making resolutions.

B.They are lacking in self-control.

C.They care little about others’ opinions.

D.They tend to undervalue themselves.

2.Why do some people support bitter messages about weight?

A.They can encourage obese people to lose weight.

B.They can improve self-worth in obese people.

C.They can promote body acceptance.

D.They can relieve depression.

3.What does the underlined part “flies in the face of” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A.Confirms. B.Copies. C.Splits up. D.Goes against.

4.What can be the best title for the text?

A.A healthy diet: good for your mind and body

B.New Year’s resolution: lose weight bias instead of weight

C.Control your weight by accepting the bitter messages readily

D.Eat your own way regardless of others’ thoughts