I bumped into(撞上)a stranger as he walked by me. "Oh, excuse me," I said. He replied with a smile and said, "Please excuse me too. I wasn't watching out for you. "We apologised and went our own ways.
Later that day, when I was cooking, my daughter was standing too close to me. When I turned to reach for some milk, I nearly knocked(撞倒)her over.
"Move out of the way!" I shouted.
She walked away sadly. But I didn't feel like I had to apologize to her.
While I was in bed that evening, my husband said to me, "While dealing with a stranger, you were polite, but with a daughter you love, you were unkind. Your daughter brought you some flowers that she picked herself this afternoon. You'll find them in the kitchen by the door. Have you seen the tears in her eyes?"
I quietly went and knelt down by my daughter's bed.
"Honey, I am so sorry, "I said. "Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
She said, "I found them by the tree. I picked them because they're pretty like you. I knew you'd like them, especially the blue ones."
I tearfully replied, "Sweetie, I'm really sorry for the way I acted today. I shouldn't have shouted at you",
"It's okay. I love you anyway, "she said as she kissed me on my cheek.
If we can be polite to strangers, why can't we do the same for the ones we love?
1. According to the passage, “excuse me” means________ here ?A.sorry | B.moved | C.happy | D.disappointed |
A.mad | B.angry | C.polite | D.unkind |
A.food | B.flowers | C.milk | D.nothing |
A.the writer shouldn't shout at the daughter |
B.the writer shouldn't apologize to the stranger |
C.he shouldn't act rudely toward his daughter |
D.both he and the writer should apologize to their daughter |
A.We should always apologize first. |
B.We should be polite to people around us. |
C.Shouting is not polite behavior. |
D.We should watch out for strangers. |
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【推荐1】One day Thomas Alva Edison was given a letter by his teacher. His teacher asked him to give it to his mother. Edison thought it was something nice. After he returned home, he proudly gave it to his mother, saying “My teacher let me give this letter to you.”
Not knowing what it was, Edison’s mother opened it, and then her eyes opened wide. With tears in her eyes, she looked at her son and read out the letter aloud, “Your child is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself.”
The fact was that Edison liked asking strange questions in class. His teachers thought he was addled (头脑糊涂的). They could no longer stand him and decided to stop him from going to school. However, Edison’s mother didn’t give up on her son. She taught him at home.
After many years Edison’s mother died and he was already one of the greatest inventors. One day he was looking through the old family things. Suddenly he saw a piece of folded paper in the corner of a drawer. He took it and opened it up. It read, “Your son is addled. We won’t let him come to school any more.”
Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary, “Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child, but, because of his hero mother, he becomes the genius of the century.”
Having faith in those we love is very important. We should have faith in those around us. Even if others have given up on you, you should have faith in yourself.
1. How did Edison’s mother probably feel when reading the letter?A.Relaxed. | B.Sad. |
C.Proud. | D.Calm. |
A.He wasn’t hard to train. | B.He was really a genius. |
C.He was too weak to go to school. | D.He wasn’t a normal child. |
A.She asked him to invent things. | B.She sent him to another school. |
C.She let him get educated at home. | D.She asked him to study by himself. |
A.Teachers should love their students. |
B.Parents know their children the best. |
C.We should have faith in others and ourselves. |
D.Most children can be geniuses if encouraged. |
【推荐2】Kajal moved to the United States in February 2017. Having previously volunteered for two years as an assistant yoga teacher in her home country, Kajal was enthusiastic about volunteering and began looking for volunteer opportunities that match her interests on VolunteerMatch. “I enjoy volunteering and it’s a way to make an impact in my new community,” says Kajal.
Kajal was drawn to a volunteer opportunity with the Meridian International Center to review applications on behalf of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI). Kajal had previous experience, and the position also afforded her the opportunity to work remotely. After connecting with the opportunity on VolunteerMatch and successfully completing the application process, Kajal got to work. Her role involved reviewing applications from potential candidates for a four-week fellowship in the U.S. She was responsible for describing the business ideas presented by these candidates, assessing the social impact of their businesses, and determining the strength of candidates to carry out their plans.
With almost 4,000 applicants in 2017, Meridian International Center considers volunteers like Kajal to be integral (必要的) members of the team. With help from volunteers, 250 candidates have now been selected to take part in the program and will travel to the U.S. this fall.
Kajal says that this volunteer opportunity super-charged her existing skills, while helping her build new ones such as time management, business analysis, decision-making, planning, and presenting.
She is now looking for her next volunteer opportunity and reflects positively on her experience with Meridian International Center, “A new country brings in a lot of new experiences and volunteering helped me to settle into a new environment,” adds Kajal. “By helping others, I felt needed in society. Not only did it improve my self-esteem (自尊), other people benefited too. Volunteering is a great opportunity to improve yourself, others, and the whole society”.
1. Why did Kajal look for a volunteering opportunity in the U.S.?A.She wanted to do something for her new community. |
B.She needed a chance to meet new people. |
C.She wanted to remember her yoga class. |
D.She needed to improve her social skills. |
A.raising the candidates’ self-esteem |
B.building the candidates’ existing skills |
C.helping the candidates do some volunteer work |
D.judging the social impact of candidates’ businesses |
A.Rewarding. | B.Tiring. | C.Relaxing. | D.Challenging. |
【推荐3】It’s possible that Chris Raven is the only person in the UK making baroque flutes (长笛). But far from having a lifetime of making instruments behind him, he started out at 70, after decades working in IT. He turns 80 in a month. Yet, in childhood, he loved woodwork. As he says: “You can plant a seed in a child’s mind. And the seed stays.”
Raven grew up in a musical household, in Chelmsford, Essex. Raven played the flute until he lost interest as a teenager. But he rediscovered his love of the instrument in his 40s when he won lessons at his daughter’s school fundraiser. Twenty years ago, he founded a flute choir.
It was after his mother died that he found his old school reports in his parents’ desk. But when he read his old reports he was taken aback: “The two subjects that I did consistently well at-which nobody seemed to spot at the time-were music and woodwork.” he says. “I made stuff as a child and I was good at it.” Rather than feeling minded to look back and wonder if he might have made different career decisions, Raven’s discovery was more a case of him noticing his gift, he says.
About 10 years ago, Raven signed up for an Irish flute-making workshop, followed by a baroque flute-making workshop. He cleared out the garage of the home, and equipped it with various tools to make flutes. His childhood passion “was revived” in baroque flutes and flute boxes.
“It’s been all-consuming,” he says. He spends at least four days a week “on my own in the workshop”. “Flute making, and box making, is not a living so much as a hobby,” says Raven. “I feel real passion and more creation about a new design.”
1. How long has Raven been a flute maker?A.For his whole life. | B.Since ten years ago. |
C.Since his childhood. | D.For several decades. |
A.They awoke his hidden talent. | B.They led him to a wrong career. |
C.They brought back old memories. | D.They made him feel Mom’s love. |
A.He feels stuck in his career. | B.He works for an Irish workshop. |
C.He gets some helpers in his work. | D.He unites his two passions after 70. |
A.A Popular Flute Maker | B.Raven’s Lifelong Hobbies |
C.A New Start after Retirement | D.Music-Raven’s Childhood Love |
【推荐1】It’s not easy to grow up. Actually, it’s far from easy. Growing up can be a real “pain” for some of us. We are always doing things that someone else makes us do and aren’t allowed to do all the things we like. Sometimes we feel trapped, sometimes we are fearful, and sometimes we just don’t understand why we can’t stay young forever. When we look back on all the hardships in life with a positive attitude, we realize that all of our growing pains actually turn into growing gains!
As a young girl my parents forced my sisters and me to do so many things that I never liked.
They made me learn to play the violin and then the piano. At that time I hated music, just because it was what they wanted me to do. But looking back now, I am so glad that my parents encouraged me to take music lessons. Music has enriched my life in so many ways. I realize that my parents and teachers were always pushing me along, not because they wanted me to suffer but because they wanted me to succeed in life. They’ve always wanted me to have a better life than they did themselves.
Every moment of our lives we are either living or dying, so live life to its fullest! We are all going to experience growing pains, but they are just small pains in life. They might seem so huge at the time but we must be strong. Think about how we would feel if we had no fear and live life like that.
The future is ours! A little hard work and sweat never hurt anyone! If we realize that these pains are just small bumps(凸块) on our road to success, we will realize that our growing pains are actually growing gains!
1. According to Paragraph 1, we learn that when we are young ________.A.life is full of joy. | B.we can’t do whatever we like. |
C.we know we can stay young forever. | D.life is easier. |
A.take music lessons. | B.turn gains into pains. |
C.look back on hardships. | D.live a successful life by suffering a lot. |
A.Growing pains are necessary for us to grow up. |
B.We all have to experience growing pains. |
C.A little hard work and sweat are harmful to us. |
D.Life without fear is a better choice for us. |
【推荐2】When I was about 5 years old, I experienced my very first random act of kindness. I was sitting at the roadside one evening, crying alone for some reason when suddenly, a boy came up to me and gave me a plastic rose, I remember the moment when I took the rose from his hand; I was smiling from ear to ear, whispering “I want to be like him” to myself as I watched him walking away.
From then on, I made it as my life mission to do random acts of kindness whenever I can. I was very determined to make other people smile. That was the only reason why I joined my school’s Red Crescent Society and became a volunteer. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks in the same way as I did. Whenever I do something nice to others, people around me will start to judge my actions. Often I will just keep quiet and ignore what they say, but every once in a while, they do drive me up the wall.
These people like to complain about how humans nowadays are lacking of humanities and compassion. However, when they actually see somebody doing a good deed in front of them, they start to question and criticize that person’s honesty. Perhaps it is the increasing crime rate and the never-ending rat race that caused them to be so suspicious to nice strangers. In other words, people nowadays have lost sight of the real meaning of kindness and just let it go unnoticed. That is why I think random acts of kindness are really important. These selfless acts are not only capable of bringing joy to the receivers but also to the givers. Because of this, I want to help spread the idea of these random acts to the whole world. I want to show the people how the little things they give could make a big difference in someone else’s life.
1. What was the influence of the boy’s rose on the author?A.It made the author feel ashamed. | B.The author decided to follow suit. |
C.The author said a lot to the boy. | D.It gave the author strength and hope. |
A.To be a volunteer. | B.To live a happy life. |
C.To make others smile. | D.To have a good time. |
A.Make me very angry. | B.Bring difficulty to me. |
C.Force me to climb the wall. | D.Force me to the dead corner. |
【推荐3】When I was in the third grade, we had a hunt at school. We gathered up chalk,pencils,stones, and so on, rapidly filling our checklists. It was a very close race. I was out of breath when I reachedthe clover (三叶草)patch in search of the last, most hard-to-find item: afour-leaf clover.
I was pretty sure that I was going to win. 1 have always been able to find four-leaf clovers. I just see them.
I spent my childhood collecting and pressing four-leaf clovers into books at my mother's house. I started with big cloth- and leather-bound books. When I ran out of romantically bound volumes, I began to put my treasures into anything I could find: fiction paperbacks, cookbooks. The same is true in my house today. Shake a book, and a papery treasure just might fall into your hand.
A few years ago, in Nova Scotia, my husband and I pulled off the road for a picnic. The ground was thick with clover. Some shoots had four, five, even six leaves. I lined them up on the picnic table to admire as my husband, never yet having found one four-leaf clover, looked on with awe. To me, it was simple. The differences in their shapes popped out, breaking the pretty pattern of the conventional clovers with their three perfect leaves.
Two summers back, while waiting for an airport shuttle in Munich, I found a tiny four-leaf clover in a traffic circle and put it into my passport. On the way home, my husband and I were upgraded to business class. Friends attributed our good luck to the clover. I think, it's more likely that we were upgraded because a kind customer service officer took pity on us.
People disagree about whether the luck lies in the finding or in the possession of a clover. Some believe that the luck is lost if the four-leaf clover is even shown to somebody else, while others think the luck doubles if it is given away. I believe that positivity is increased by sharing. I feel lucky to find the clovers so often, but I don't think they influence my life any more than it does to share anything a little special—that momentary closeness between you and a friend or a stranger, as you all lean in to wonder at a rare find.
1. Why can the author notice four-leaf clovers so easily?A.She always has good luck. |
B.She has a special gift for plants. |
C.She practiced a lot in her childhood. |
D.She can tell the pattern differences. |
A.She often gives them away. |
B.She leaves them everywhere. |
C.She treats them with special love. |
D.She admires them with her husband. |
A.Closeness brought by clovers really counts. |
B.Clovers will influence one's good luck a lot. |
C.C Good luck means finding or owning a clover. |
D.Good luck may double if you give clovers away. |
A.Hunting clovers | B.Sharing clovers |
C.Not for luck | D.Just for luck |
【推荐1】If you're travelling with kids in London, many London hotels have special services and features to help the family holiday, offering services for kids as well as games, bike hire and free ice cream!
Athenaeum
The five-star Athenaeum is a fantastic family hotel, particularly with the addition of its kids' services. Even before you arrive, they'll be in touch to make sure your kids have their favorite DVDs, treats and anything else to keep them happy. And they can arrange your perfect family activities, from bike hire to theatre tickets.
Chessington Safari Hotel
At Chessington Safari Hotel, kids will love staying in an African adventure-themed room, having breakfast overlooking the animals of the Wanyama Reserve, watching family-friendly movies and getting into the theme park before it opens.
Marlin Apartments
Marlin Apartments operate more than 700 serviced apartments in London. Apartments are all within five minutes walk of the Tube (good for tired little legs!) with flat screen TVs, fully equipped kitchen and free Wi-Fi. One or two bedroom family apartments have extra room for fold out beds in the living area too.
Novotel
Novotel's family rooms are designed to accommodate two adults and two children. Accommodation and breakfast are free for under-16s (up to two staying in their parents' room). You can also enjoy a late check-out at 5p.m. on a Sunday, and while you lie in, the kids can entertain themselves with the Cartoon Network.
The Ritz
Kids at The Ritz are treated just as well as their parents, if not better! Children can enjoy computer games and DVDs, free ice cream and their own bathrobes and slippers. Under-16s can stay for free in their parents' bedroom, depending on the room type.
1. Before you check in Athenaeum, .A.you should ask about the kids' services |
B.you can buy bikes and order theatre tickets |
C.you will be asked about what your kids like |
D.you must arrange your family activities |
A.Athenaeum | B.Chessington Safari Hotel |
C.Novotel | D.The Ritz |
A.you can enjoy the best service in London |
B.you can enjoy free ice cream |
C.you can have an extra room for free |
D.you can surf the Internet free of charge |
【推荐2】In an economy where data is changing how companies create value — and compete — experts predict that using artificial intelligence (Al) at a larger scale will add as much as $I5.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. As Al is changing how companies work, many believe that who does this work will change, too — and that organizations will begin to replace human employees with intelligent machines. This is already happening: intelligent systems are displacing humans in manufacturing, service delivery, recruitment, and the financial industry, consequently moving human workers towards lower-paid jobs or making them unemployed. This trend has led some to conclude that in 2040 our workforce may be totally unrecognizable.
Are humans and machine really in competition with each other though? The history of work—particularly since the Industrial Revolution—is the history of people transferring their labor to machines. While that began with rote, repetitive physical tasks like weaving, machines have evolved to the point where they can now do what we might think of as complex cognitive work, such as math equations, recognizing language and speech, and writing. Machines thus seem ready to reproduce the work of our minds, and not just our bodies. In the 21st century, Al is evolving to be superior to humans in many tasks, which makes that we seem ready to transfer our intelligence to technology. With this latest trend, it seems like there's nothing that can't soon be automated, meaning that no job is safe from being offloaded to machines.
This vision of the future of work has taken the shape of a zero-sum game, in which there can only be one winner.
We believe, however, that this view of the role Al will play in the workplace is wrong. The question of whether Al will replace human workers assumes that Al and humans have the same qualities and abilities — but, in reality, they don't. Al — based machines are fast, more accurate, and consistently rational, but they aren't intuitive, emotional, or culturally sensitive. And, it's exactly these abilities that humans possess and which make us effective.
1. How does Al influence human life according to Paragraph 1?A.It increases huge economic costs. | B.It dominates company's future. |
C.It makes workforce totally unnecessary. | D.It changes traditional working ways. |
A.Doing repetitive work. | B.Doing physical tasks. |
C.Doing translation work. | D.Doing reproducing tasks. |
A.Al-based machine and humans. | B.Minds and bodies. |
C.Future and past. | D.Imagination and Reality. |
A.Al plays a vital role in the workplace. | B.Human has its own advantages over Al. |
C.Al and humans have the same qualities. | D.Al is sure to replace humans one day. |
"Women tend to be social in their behavior.They often share with others.But men lend to be competitive.They are trying to improve their social status," said Professor Ryan.
Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions (互动) such as falling in love or giving birth.
But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy.
Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship.
Professor Ryan's recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37.Half of the participants(参与者)received oxytocin.The other half received placebo (安慰剂).
After a week, the two groups switched with participants.They went through the same procedure with the other material.
Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions.Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions.The questions were about telling friendship from competition.And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.
The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men's ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.
Professor Ryan thus concluded: "Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people's abilities to better distinguish different social interactions.And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors (因素) that are mainly hormonal."
1. What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?
A.Placebo. | B.Oxytocin. |
C.The gesture. | D.The social status. |
A.Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way. |
B.Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love. |
C.Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others' success. |
D.Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences. |
A.To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions. |
B.To know the differences between friendship and competition. |
C.To know people's different abilities to answer questions. |
D.To test people's understanding of body language. |
A.explaining people's behaviors |
B.describing his own experiences |
C.distinguishing sexual differences |
D.discussing research experiments |
【推荐1】The World Happiness Report, a United Nations agency report, measures (估量) how happy people are, and why. Norway is the happiest place on Earth—beating neighbour Denmark from the number one position.
Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Finland round out the top five, while the Central African Republic came last. Western Europe and North America took up most of the places at the top of table, with the US and UK at 14th and 19th.
The World Happiness Report mainly depends on asking a simple question of more than 1,000 people every year in more than150 countries. “Imagine a ladder (梯子), with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top,” the question asks, “The top of the ladder is the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder is the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?”
The average result is the country’s score—from Norway’s 7.54 to the Central African Republic’s 2.69. But the report also tries to explain why one country is happier than another. It looks at reasons including economic strength (经济实力) social support, freedom of choice, and generosity.
This year’s report also has a text titled “restoring (恢复) American happiness”, which examines why happiness levels in the United States are falling, despite continually-increasing economic improvement. “The United States can and should raise happiness by solving America’s social problems- rising inequality and distrust-rather than focusing mainly on economic growth,” the authors said.
Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which published the report, said President Donald Trump’s policies were likely to make things worse.
1. Which of the following is the correct order of the countries in terms of happiness levels?A.Denmark, the UK, the US, the Central African Republic |
B.Denmark, the US, the UK, the Central African Republic |
C.the US, Denmark, the UK, the Central African Republic |
D.Denmark, the US, the Central African Republic, the UK |
A.By asking a question. | B.By having a conversation. |
C.By doing scientific research. | D.By carrying out an online survey. |
A.Its people live an unhappy life. |
B.Its economy is going downhill. |
C.Its social problems are hard to solve. |
D.It has a lower happiness level than before. |
A.To explain the reason for being happy. |
B.To introduce the World Happiness Report. |
C.To talk about America’s social problem. |
D.To discuss the policies by Donald Trump. |
【推荐2】If you were on the street in Mexico today you might think you were in an operating room, surrounded by doctors. You could see many concerned people with masks (口罩) trying their best to stop the swine flu (猪流感). And the masks aren’t only being used in Mexico. A friend of mine traveling from New York City to Florida was given a mask and a pair of gloves just after he reached the airport. And another friend went to get a haircut only to be faced with a hairdresser wearing a mask!
But do the masks really work? Is covering your nose and mouth the key to stopping the swine flu? To find out the truth, ABC’s reporter Sharyn Alfonsi talked with germ (细菌) expert Dr. Elaine Larsen. It turns out that when you sneeze (打喷嚏) the air coming out of your mouth at a speed of one hundred miles per hour carries germs which can travel anywhere around you and make people around you infected (被感染).
However, whether you become infected actually depends on the weather. As Sharyn reported, when you sneeze, the germs leave your body in small drops of water coming out of your mouth. If the weather is wet, the wet air will make the small drops bigger and heavier and they drop down towards our feet. If this happens, we won’t become infected. But if the air is dry, those small drops can float higher up, making it possible for them to touch someone else’s nose, mouth or their mask.
Larsen says the masks can stop the germs well but after a few hours, they start to get wet, holding a lot of germs they come across and causing you to breathe them in. The masks do work, but the key to stopping the germs is changing your masks often.
1. According to Para.1, in Mexico you can see that ____.A.the patients are treated in the open air |
B.some doctors work in the street |
C.people speak little to each other in the street |
D.many people wear masks in the street |
A.breathing | B.Speaking |
C.touching others | D.sneezing |
A.sick people will be infected | B.germs can spread very far |
C.germs spread very quickly | D.few people will be infected |
A.the mask will be old and worn out | B.you’ll love the feeling of wearing it |
C.germs will be kept away from you | D.it will be easy for you to be infected |
A.Keeping the masks dry. | B.Changing the masks often. |
C.Choosing very thick masks. | D.Wearing big masks. |
【推荐3】A thief returned a mobile phone and thousands of yuan he had stolen from a woman after receiving twenty-one text messages from her, a local newspaper reported.
Pan Aiying, a Chinese teacher at Wutou Middle School in Qihe County, in East China’s Shandong Province, didn’t think her text messages would help to get her belongings back.
A young man riding a motorcycle robbed her of her bag, in which there was her mobile phone, bank cards and 4,900 yuan, as she was riding her bicycle home on Saturday evening.
Pan said at first she considered calling the police, but then decided to try to persuade the young man to return her bag. Pan called her lost phone with her friend’s, but couldn’t get through. So she began sending messages.
“Hey, I’m Pan Aiying, a teacher from Wutou Middle School. You must be going through a difficult time. If so, I will not blame you.” Wrote Pan in the first text message, which got no answer. “Keep the 4,900 yuan if you really need it, but please return the other things to me. You are still young. To make mistakes is human. Correcting your mistake is more important than anything,” Pan wrote in another message.
She gave up hope after sending twenty-one text messages without any answer and planned to call the police the next morning. However, as she left her home on Sunday morning, Pan found her stolen bag lying in the courtyard. Nothing was lost.
“Dear Pan: I am sorry. I made a mistake. Please forgive me. You are so kind even though I stole from you. I’ll correct my ways and be an honest man,” said a letter left with the bag.
1. Where was Pan Aiying robbed?A.In the school. | B.At home. |
C.In the courtyard. | D.In the street. |
A.Because she thought the police wouldn’t help her. |
B.Because it was too late at that time. |
C.Because she wanted to communicate with the thief first. |
D.Because her friend asked her not to. |
A.About two days. | B.About 12 hours. |
C.About one day and a half. | D.About 24 hours. |
A.the young man would not steal any more |
B.Pan didn’t give up hope after sending 21 text messages |
C.the young man would pay a visit to Pan personally |
D.Pan teaches English in a middle school in Shandong Province |