Moving can be a stressful experience, having to pack all your belongings, but it can get even worse if your homeowner decides to keep your deposit(押金).

Here are some experts’ top tips on how to best clean your house to get your deposit back.

What Should You Clean to Get Your Deposit Back?

●Kitchen

You should completely clean all kitchen equipment, including the oven, refrigerator, microwave, and dishwasher, as well as kettle.

●Living Room

Remove dust from all surfaces and furniture, including armchairs and sofas. Shelves, cabinets, tables, and chairs also need to be wiped down.

●Bathroom

Housekeepers say that, when it comes to cleaning, the most important areas to focus on are the kitchen and bathrooms.

Remove any stains(污渍), including in the sink, bath, and toilet, and make sure drains and plug holes are free of hair and water can flow easily.

●Bedrooms

You should start by emptying all wardrobes and drawers, making sure they’re clear of debris, and then wipe them down.

●Staircases(楼梯)

Staircases shouldn’t be neglected. It is most likely the first place your homeowner will see when checking out the place, so you want to give a good impression!

How Careful Should You Be When Cleaning?

It is generally suggested that you start cleaning the house after moving out, as it will be easier to clean without your belongings around.

However, you should give yourself at least a week to clean, because deep cleaning a house is more difficult than doing the daily housework.

1. How many places need a deep cleaning according to the tips?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six.

2. Which seems to be the first area for the homeowner to look over?

A．The staircases.

B．The bedrooms.

C．The bathroom.

D．The kitchen.

3. Whom is the passage intended for?

A．Housekeepers.

B．Housewives,

C．House renters.

D．House designers.

The word mukbang is from the Korean words “muk-ja” (let’s eat) and “bang- song” (广播). Hosts eat amounts of food in front of a camera while interacting with their audience. The show appeared first in South Korea, where the videos became popular via live stream(直播)channels.

The show comes from South Korea but other countries follow in significantly different ways. Take America as an example, Koreans plan their streams around dinnertime hours so viewers can feel like they are sharing a meal with a friend. And yet Americans tend (倾向于) to be more conversational in their videos which are pre-recorded. Korean mukbangers tend to eat traditional Korean dishes while American mukbangers eat a wider variety of foods.

Why are millions of people so drawn to watching perfect strangers eat in the first place? It’s a combination of sensory, psychological, social, emotional, environmental even neurological factors, says Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist at Brown University Alpert Medical School. She specially explains how food attracts our senses and develops our behavior when it comes to what we like to eat. A big part of that neurological factor is the ASMR (autonomous sensory-motor response), described as a brain feeling which can help people relaxed from the familiar sounds of eating in the mukbang videos.

Earning the popularity and money, more and more mukbangers appear. However, the show has not come without its unfavorable comments. As our habits change, we spend more and more social engagement on social media. It’s only a matter of time before mukbang affects our behavior around food. Viewers could probably develop unhealthy eating habits from watching. Despite the negative comments, mukbang continues to do well on the Internet and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon.

4. What do we know about Mukbang?

A．It is an eating live show.	B．It is a TV channel
C．It is an eating competition.	D．It is a video website.

5. What do Americans like to do about their streams?

A．Play them without a stop.	B．Show various dishes in them.
C．Record them after dinnertime.	D．Chat more with friends in them.

6. Which statement does Rachel Herz probably agree with?

A．Strangers like to eat what is on show.

B．The viewers’ bad behaviors can get adjusted.

C．Weak-minded people are most likely to overeat.

D．The eating sounds can easily cause viewers’ interest.

7. What might be talked about following the passage?

A．The changes of our habits.	B．The comments of viewers.
C．The management of the show.	D．The development of the Internet.

Elements To Impress Your Boss and Advance Your Career

What do leaders look at to judge employees(员工) outside of the work product?

I developed this series because I often get questioned on how to create and have a successful career. There are little things that many people don’t think about.     16    

●What time you get to work

    17    . Even though your start time is 8 am, it does not mean you should walk in and log in at that time. This means you can stand out if you come in at 7:45 am, so you have time to get settled and begin working at 8 am.

    18    

This is for those who have to physically go into an office. If you are up out of your seat and hit the elevator at or before the end of your workday, then we have a problem. Part of success means putting in a full day and sometimes a little extra time when needed.

●What you say and how you say it

Ever heard of putting your foot in your mouth? A time or two may be forgivable.     19    , that’s not acceptable. Communicating negatively about your job on what the company is not only how you are observed by your boss, but also impact those you work with.

●How and if you take part in meetings

    20    , with nothing to offer, you could be seen as a weak link. Many organizations work in teams and co-operations. Your input is as valuable as anyone else’s.

●How you dress

I know — we are in a world of business casual. But, if you want to be recognized as a professional, I suggest supporting more on the side of business than casual.

A．What time you leave work

B．Whatever you say is also very important

C．But if this happens all the time or very often

D．If you are only ever the receiver of information

E．How long you should stay away from your seat

F．Being timely can raise your professional position in a way

G．And a lot of times these little things can contribute to your advance

A young lady was sitting in her garden under a tree drinking tea. _______, something white fell and _______ in her drink. It was a cocoon(茧) . As the cocoon rumbled (发出隆隆声) in the hot _______, she realized that it was made from a long, strong and soft _______ . She started thinking about how to _______ the new material. Does this story sound a bit _______ ? It does remind me of Isaac Newton, having the _______of the law of gravity while sitting under an apple tree after he was _______ on the head with a piece of falling fruit.

The story of the young woman and her tea is a popular Chinese legend (传说) about _______ . When silk was first invented, silk clothing was ________ by the rich people, and it was a status symbol. But over time its use spread and a wider range of social classes ________ wearing silk clothes.

As the production of silk increased, it began to be put into industrial ________ and became a part of musical instruments, fishing lines, even wrap paper and trade business.

Silk was ________ traded and spread all the way from China to India and through Central Asia to the Middle East. It was the longest trade route across land, and it allowed early ________ between Europe and China. Italy became one of the major producers of silk and it’s   ________ some of the world’s finest silk cloth is made even today.

21.

A．Suddenly

B．Fortunately

C．Obviously

D．Importantly

22.

A．disappeared

B．hid

C．landed

D．hung

23.

A．air

B．tea

C．tree

D．garden

24.

A．creature

B．chemical

C．plant

D．material

25.

A．catch hold of

B．make use of

C．run out of

D．drop out of

26.

A．familiar

B．humorous

C．exciting

D．horrible

27.

A．report

B．record

C．picture

D．idea

28.

A．knocked

B．attacked

C．touched

D．fixed

29.

A．industry

B．trade

C．silk

D．clothing

30.

A．chosen

B．designed

C．admired

D．worn

31.

A．enjoyed

B．began

C．considered

D．admitted

32.

A．use

B．management

C．operation

D．standard

33.

A．conveniently

B．strangely

C．secretly

D．widely

34.

A．debate

B．contact

C．competition

D．pressure

35.

A．why

B．when

C．where

D．how

阅读下面短文， 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

When I was about four years old, I was sitting around playing with some     36     (toy) on the floor and my aunt decided to put some of those giant, old school headphones around my ears so that I could listen to classical music for     37     first time. Regardless, my first experience with classical music       38     (be) magical.

As soon as she put those headphones on, I stopped everything I was doing and stared curiously out into the Universe, because I     39     (attract) by what was going on between my ears.

Thanks     40     my loving aunt, I experienced an early taste in classical music that set up my life path. I believe that her     41    (decide) to put those headphones on was an important point that created my life path today.

I started taking piano lessons,       42     helped me make my first piece of music at around the age of 9. By the time I was in high school and college, I was in a band with my best friends playing and recording music,     43     it had become a huge part of my life and identity.

Music made me feel alive — free to be myself and free     44     (express) every range of emotion. I began realizing that my music wasn’t just for me — it could heal (治愈) and help others in a     45     (meaning)way.

47. 阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。

A Writing Task

The summer vacation was over, so Tim and his classmates came back to school happily.

On the first day of school, Mrs Green, Tim’s English teacher, gave the class a writing task. “Boys and girls, today’s homework is to write something in some way that is related to your summer vacation, ”she said. “Be as creative as you can. But” the teacher added, “make sure you use proper spelling and grammar. ”

That night, Tim sat at his desk and decided to go about this writing homework. He stared at the blank sheet paper for quite a few minutes, thinking what to write about. To tell the truth, this time, he didn’t want to write about his summer vacation as usual. What could he write about, except a dog, a water park, a visit to his grandma with his father, two weeks of camp, and …?Boring … He’d actually been happy to get back to school. But he made up his mind to write what he really wanted. It was not an essay(短文) at all but a short story, a science fiction(科幻小说). It was about a distant planet that didn’t have summer — it was spring all the time. And it didn’t have vacation either. The aliens(外星人) on the planet worked 24 hours a day. They wished they had vacations one day.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1
The next morning he handed in the story, but later that night he lay awake until I am, thinking, “Why did I write such a story?”
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Paragraph 2
But when he got to class the following day, what the teacher said was a great surprise to him.
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