【推荐3】Millions of people are searching for jobs everyday and the number keeps adding up by the minute. The smart people, and there isn’t a lot, turn to the online community for answers and jobs.    1    The Internet has gone through a major revolution over the past few years if you didn’t know , and it isn’t the same as it was back in 2005!    2    Still don’t get it ? I mean it lets companies get their customers opinions and give them cash. In other words, online surveys.
This is becoming a very popular job because it is really easy to do even if you do not have any education or experience in any work sector or online business. You simply give your opinion and you get paid    3    You start making money the second you join, you only need to have a PC with Internet connection and the most important tool, your brain!
Why are companies paying me for my opinion?    4    Companies think that it is smarter to know whether or not the consumer which is you, likes their new product before they mass produce it and ship it all over the world Let’s say for example.    5    If they do, Microsoft will mass produce it and make profits but if they hadn’t asked and no one liked it, they would have lost a lot of money!

A．The answer is simple!

B．Easy as taking candy from a baby.

C．It lets companies and customers interact.

D．The first thing you must do is to figure out what it is you want to do.

E．Microsoft is making   a new product and they ask the consumers if they like it.

F．The rest keep searching, knowing very well they are not going to get hired any time soon.

G．You can still get a good job without a college degree because a college degree does not make you successful.

【推荐1】The aging affects the human body in many ways. One of them is muscle loss (肌肉松弛) as we age. Scientists may not know exactly when muscles loss starts.     1    . Here are the right ways to do it.

Equipment (设备) strength training

Equipment strength training is the best way to slowdown the process (过程) of muscle loss. Many gyms and health clubs have such muscle-building equipments as weights or running machines.     2    . Therefore, if you are new to such kind of training, experts suggest you work with a trainer or physical fitness specialist to avoid injury.

Also listen to your body. If an exercise causes pain, stop immediately. After the pain goes away you can try the exercise again, but with a lower weight or speed.

No equipment strength training

You do not have to use special exercise equipment or go to a gym to do strength training. You can just use your own body weight. Such excises include push-ups, side jumps, jumping jacks or deep knee bends.     3    .

Exercises that use body weight are usually safer for beginners. They can also be easier on the body, and you can do them anywhere.

Warm up

    4    . Cold muscles injure more easily than warm muscles. Walking for 5 to 10 minutes is enough to warm up your muscles.

    5    

Give your muscles time to recover. Experts say it is better to rest one full day between exercising each specific muscle group.

A．Have a break

B．The aging process can be stopped in many ways

C．They are great exercises to slow down muscle loss

D．Working with these equipments can be dangerous

E．Experts suggest warming up before strength training

F．You can slowly increase the weight as you get stronger

G．But what they do know is that it can be greatly slowed down

【推荐3】Doing less sitting and more moving is tied to living longer, according to a new study.

Replacing 30 minutes per day of sedentary (久坐不动的) time with 30 minutes of physical activity at a light intensity (强度) was associated with a 17％ lower risk of early death in a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology on Monday.

The study also found that replacing 30 minutes of sedentary time with 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous (剧烈的)exercise was associated with a 35％ lower risk of early death. “If you replace 30 minutes of sitting time with 30 minutes of light-intensity physical activity-so something just like a casual walk down the hall-that still can lower your risk,”said Keith Diaz, a professor at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.“Obviously, it doesn’t lower your risk as much as exercise, or as much as moderate to vigorous physical activity, but it still can lower risk, and to us, that was somewhat of a new finding,” Keith Diaz said.“Any movement for any length of time is going to give you health benefit, and this is really changing what we know about physical activity.”

The study included national data on 7,999 people aged 45 and older who wore activity monitors to track their sedentary time between 2009 and 2013. The researchers used that data to analyze the benefits that could be caused if sedentary time in the data was replaced with physical activity.

The researchers found that replacing sitting time with exercise and movement was associated with a benefit, but replacing long periods of sitting with shorter periods of sitting was not. “In our previous work, we found that if you take a break every 30 minutes, it will lower your risk from sitting,” Diaz said, and the new study also show that in the data.“We went deeper into the data to try to understand why people who took a movement every 30 minutes had a lower risk of death. It’s because they just had more opportunity to move,” he said.

1. Which of the following helps reduce the risk of dying early by 17%?

A．A 30 minutes’ light physical activity.

B．A moderate exercise for 30 minutes.

C．A vigorous workout for 35 minutes.

D．A break every 30 minute-long sitting at work.

2. What’s Diaz’s opinion about movement?

A．The longer the movement is,the better the result is.

B．A casual walk down the hall can benefit you most.

C．30 minutes of moderate exercise is the best choice.

D．Movements for any length of time are beneficial.

3. Why did the researchers do further research on the national data?

A．To find out the necessity to take a break every 30 minutes.

B．To prove the benefit of doing a little bit of physical exercise.

C．To know why physical activity every 30 minutes is beneficial.

D．To understand the proper length of time for physical exercise.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Being Away from Sitting Too Long

B．Living Longer by Less Sitting and More Moving

C．The Relationship between Early Death and Exercising

D．The Significance of Different Levels of Moving

【推荐1】Spending time online is normal behavior for teenagers. But too much Internet use by teens or too little might be related to depression, a new study finds.

The findings, reported in the journal of Pediatrics, do not mean that the Internet is to blame. For example, teens in the study who spent no time online were also at increasing risk of depression symptoms (症状). However, the researchers say that both heavy internet use, and non-use, could serve as signals that a teenager is having a hard time.

For the study, Dr. Pierre-Andre Michaud and colleagues at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, surveyed 7, 200 individuals aged 16 to 19 about their internet use. Those who were online more than two hours per day were considered “heavy” internet users, while those online anywhere from several times per week to two hours per day were considered “regular” users. The teenagers also answered a number of health-related questions, including some standard questions about “depressive tendencies” that measure how often a person feels sad or hopeless.

Compared with regular Internet users, the study found, kids who were heavy users or non-users were more likely to be depressed or very depressed. Among boy teens, heavy users and non-users were both around one-third more likely to have a high depression score, compared to “regular” users. Among girls, heavy Internet users had an 86 percent greater chance of depression, while non-users had a 46 percent greater likelihood compared to regular users. That was with factors like family income and any chronic health problems taken into consideration.

However, the average depression scores among non-users, regular users and heavy users alike were all toward the lower end—between 1 and 2 on a scale (等级) of 1 to 4, with 1 being “not depressed at all.”

The researchers concluded (推测) that it may come from the fact that teenagers usually go online to chat with their friends and that they may not be more likely to be depressed.

1. What does the new study show?

A．It’s normal for teenagers to spend time online.

B．Too little time online causes teen’s depression.

C．Too much time online results in teen’s depression.

D．The teens might be depressed because of too much or too little Internet use.

2. What does the underlined sentence mean?

A．Little use of the Internet means no depression.

B．The Internet is a main cause of teens’ depression.

C．The Internet is not responsible for teens’ depression.

D．The symptom of depression is spending too much time online.

3. Which statement is right according to the third paragraph?

A．The researchers surveyed the teens from 16 to 20.

B．The teens surveyed only answered health-related questions.

C．The teens only answered how many hours were spent online.

D．Heavy Internet users refer to those online for over two hours every day.

4. What can we learn about boy and girl Internet users from paragraph 4?

A．Boy and girl non-users have the same possibility to be depressed.

B．The boy heavy users are less likely to suffer depression than girls.

C．Among the non-users, girls are less likely to be depressed than boys.

D．Boy heavy users are more likely to be depressed than girl heavy users.

5. Why were the average depression scores toward the lower end?

A．Because the individuals surveyed lied.

B．Because teenagers were likely to cheer up.

C．Because teenagers online can often connect with their friends.

D．Because the survey didn’t take necessary factors into consideration.

【推荐3】Many of us were told from an early age that, “you learn from your mistakes”. But is this actually true?

The short answer is “yes” — failure can be a teachable moment. But learning from our mistakes is, in reality, very hard because we don’t like to fail. It doesn’t feel good, so we react to failure in impulsive and emotional ways, like giving up on a task prematurely, telling ourselves we don’t care whether we succeed, or finding fault with the task itself. This is self-protective, according to Hallgeir, a professor of psychology at the Norwegian School of Economics. “Most of us want to think of ourselves as competent”, he says, so when we fail “it poses a serious threat to our self-image”.

Fortunately, there is research to suggest that there are some strategies to help us overcome the emotional barriers around failure. One of them is to adopt a third-person perspective. Instead of asking “Why did I fail?”, we could ask “Why did Sam fail?”, for example. Multiple studies by psychologist Ethan Kross at the University of Michigan show that adopting a third-person perspective helps to soften our negative emotional reactions, allowing us to look at failure more objectively.

A second strategy involves offering advice to others who may be in the same position as us. This strategy led to better levels of motivation and academic success in the test groups — involving both adults and children — that were asked to give advice based on their own failures. Professors Eskreis-Winkler and Duckworth found that the satisfaction of helping others “forces people to engage with their experience and what they have learned”.

The writer Samuel Beckett once said: “fail again, fail better”. But it now seems that we should be saying: “fail again, fail smarter”. Failure is an unavoidable part of life, but by learning to overcome the emotional barriers around it, we may find the road to success is a little easier to navigate (确定方向).

1. What does the underlined word “impulsive” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Uncontrollable.

B．Optimistic.

C．Impressive.

D．Ambitious.

2. Why don’t we like to fail?

A．Failure can be teachable.

B．Failure threatens our self-image.

C．Failure is an unavoidable part of life.

D．Learning from our failures is very hard.

3. Which of the following will the writer agree with?

A．Failure can be avoided if we learn from it.

B．Giving advice to others can help us fail better.

C．Only those who succeed can give advice to others.

D．A third-person perspective helps us out of the bad feelings of failure.

4. What does the text focus on?

A．Smarter ways to learn from failure.

B．How to fail better when we fail again.

C．Failure can let us succeed more easily.

D．Why we react to failure in emotional ways.

【推荐1】People in several American states may be surprised to see cars on city streets without a driver. Experimental driverless vehicles now are legal in Florida, Nevada and California. They are pointing the way to a future that is not far down the road. The high-tech company Google has a number of self-driving cars, which had covered 480,000 kilometers by August. Volvo is among the companies doing road tests and says it plans to sell driverless cars by 2020.
In September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed an act to allow autonomous vehicles on the roads of his state. “Today we’re looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow's reality-the driverless car. ” The technology for these cars includes cameras, radar and motion sensors. The systems have been improved through competitions sponsored by the U. S. government agency DARPA. Engineer Richard Mason of the Rand Corporation helped design driverless vehicles for DARPA challenge races.
Cars have become much more fuel-efficient, and new electronic features are' making Hondas safer, said Angie Nucci of Honda America.   “A camera on the passenger-side mirror actually engaged on your guiding screen so you can safely change lanes. ” Other safety features include warning systems on the front and the sides of the cars.   These systems help drivers , but don’t replace them. Curator Leslie Kendall of the Petersen Automotive Museum said autonomous cars will make the high ways safer．
“By taking out drivers, you also remove most risks of an accident, ”Kendall said. He said , “Consumers, however, may be unwilling to lose control. It may take them time to come to realize that the technology is indeed reliable, but it will have to prove itself first. ”
Mason said the technology already works and the biggest challenge now is getting down the cost for driverless vehicles from hundreds of thousands of dollars to something more affordable. He said this will happen as the technology is improved.
1. According to the passage, California Governor Jerry Brown ______________.

A．is for the idea of having driverless cars

B．sponsored the DARPA competition to improve the driverless system

C．has already bought a new autonomous car

D．thinks that driving safety is the most important issue in his state

2. What is the role of the systems mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A．They can help cars run much faster.

B．They can take the place of drivers now.

C．They can make cars run without fuel.

D．They can help people drive more safely.

3. In Kendall’s opinion, who probably don’t rely on the driverless cars at first?

A．managers in the high-tech company Google

B．officers from the U. S. government agency DARPA

C．car consumers

D．vehicle designers

4. According to Richard Mason, what is the biggest challenge for driverless cars?

A．They need to have more comfortable seats .

B．They are now too expensive for consumers.

C．They are travelling at a low speed.

D．They are not favored by car racers

【推荐2】Appealing to rich people's desire to control events is a better tactic to get them to donate to the charity, rather than their community spirit. That's the finding of a psychological study building on previous research which found that the wealthy people value the ability to control the outcome of different events compared to lower-income people.

Donations from high earners were 1.5 times larger when researchers tailored(定制)the words of letters requesting financial support to play on this desire.

Experts from Harvard University wrote to 12,000 alumni of an Ivy League business school—who were earning $ 100,000 (£ 80,000) per year or more—asking them to donate to the school. Two sets of letters were sent out—one saying the “community” needed to take action, while the other called on individual action. The letter were phrased respectively as "Sometimes, one community needs to come forward and support a common goal" or "Sometimes, one person needs to come forward and take individual action”.

Respondents to the second letter gave $ 432 (£ 340) on average compared to the $ 270 (£ 215) average from the first group.

New Scientist Ashley Whillans, who led the research, said, "We think that giving high-income earners a sense of control makes them want to give more.”

1. What is the finding of the psychological study?

A．Community spirit is more important in getting donation.

B．Meeting wealthy people's desire of controlling events can get more donation.

C．Wealthy people do not care about their community spirit at all.

D．Lower-income people are more likely to control the result of events.

2. What does the underlined word them refer to in the third paragraph?

A．experts.	B．letters.
C．events.	D．alumni.

3. According to the passage, which of the following messages can get more donation?

A．Your help can benefit the blind boy.

B．Let's take action for a common goal.

C．It's necessary to help the blind boy.

D．Our community works together to help the blind boy.

4. The author writes the passage in order to__________.

A．assist the poor to lead a meaningful life

B．stress the impact of the rich's controlling desire on donation

C．appeal to more people to focus on the poor's feeling

D．persuade the rich to donate more to the charity

【推荐3】Do you want to find a job that you just need to sit and sleep on a sofa? It is ridiculous, but it happens 26-year -old Anna Cherdantseva, from the city of Ufa, is a full-time sofa tester, spending up to 10 hours every day trying out new sofas for comfort and safety.

Last month, Russian furniture giant MZ5 Group announced that it was taking application for a new position—full time sofa tester. Although all new products are tested in a specialized laboratory, management decided that in order to better meet the needs of consumers it needed some feedback on real-life use of its sofas. In just a few days, MZ5 received over 5,000 job applications from people eager to spend most of their time sitting and lying on sofas.

“We were selecting candidates in several stages,” MZ5 Group spokesperson Anastasia Russkih said, “Initially we checked their resumes, and then we let them tell us why they wanted the job.” Eventually, the furniture company shortlisted just 7 candidates, among whom Anna Cherdantseva, a 26-year-old marketing expert, proved to be the most suitable for the job.

“I felt extreme competition, and it was a real fight for my dream job,” Anna said after getting selected. “I have a lot of ideas for improving the sofas, but I would prefer not to talk about them for now. I believe it will all work out between me and the sofas.”

Despite describing herself as an active person, Cherdantseva says that spending about 10 hours a day sitting on sofas doesn’t sound bad at all. “Of course I will spend a lot of time on new sofas. The more time I spend on them, the better it will be for my work,” she told reporters.

Anna Cherdantseva is currently on a three month probation (试用期)at MZ5, but the company claims that as long as she proves to be up to the task, they plan on offering her a permanent position as a sofa tester. The young woman will receive a monthly salary of 56, 000 rubles ($ 1,000) for the first three months. It’s not so bad about the job.

1. Why did MZ5 Group want a sofa tester?

A．Because its products need to be tested.

B．Because it wants to save money by doing that.

C．Because Anna Cherdantseva applied for the job.

D．Because it wants to satisfy its consumers better.

2. What does the underlined word “feedback” in Paragraph 2 mean ?

A．Response.

B．Consumers.

C．Praise.

D．Products.

3. What does Anna Cherdantseva think of getting the job?

A．It was very easy.

B．It was controversial.

C．It was challenging.

D．It was interesting.

4. What can be inferred from the text?

A．The company found it difficult to find suitable employees.

B．Anna Cherdantseva has the chance to work steadily for MZ5.

C．The company doesn’t give Anna Cherdantseva a good salary now.

D．Anna Cherdantseva got the job because of her similar work experience.