Many people often lose their friends and they don’t know how to keep a long friendship. So how can you keep a long friendship？The following passage explains very well about this matter.
The first thing you need to do is become a good listener. In this way，you show your friends that you are interested in their lives. You want to know more about them and you want to help them solve their problems. They will cherish the friendship more if they know you care about them.
The next thing is that you should respect other people’s privacy. People usually don’t like others to know about their private life，so you should show respect toward their privacy. Sometimes，they need some suggestions from others，but this does not mean that others can know about their entire life. So respect for privacy is a must for keeping a long friendship.
The third important thing is that you need to be able to forgive. You must remember that nobody is perfect in this world. It is important to forgive others and not to blame them for the mistakes they have already made. You are not perfect either. Thus you need to apologize to others for the mistakes you may have made.
Pay attention to the three things above，and you will be able to have long friendships.
1. This passage is written to tell us ________.| A．why a long friendship is important |
| B．what we can do for our friends |
| C．how to make friends with others |
| D．how to keep a long friendship |
| A．To know more about our friends. |
| B．To share our happiness and sadness. |
| C．To be good at listening to our friends. |
| D．To help our friends solve their problems. |
| A．we should never share our private lives with others |
| B．some people never care about their privacy |
| C．it is important to respect other people’s privacy |
| D．some people like sharing their privacy |
| A．everyone makes mistakes |
| B．some people are perfect |
| C．people often make stupid mistakes |
| D．we shouldn’t apologize for every mistake |
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【推荐1】Mrs. Smith is an unusual teacher. Once she told each student to bring along a few potatoes in plastic bag. On each potato the students had to write a name of a person that they hated. And the next day, every child brought some potatoes. Some had two potatoes; some three; some up to five.
Mrs. Smith then told the children to carry the bags everywhere they went, even to the toilet, for two weeks. As day after day passed, the children started to complain about the awful smell of the rotten (腐烂的) potatoes.
Those children who brought five potatoes began to feel the weight trouble of the bags. After two weeks the children were happy to hear that the game was finally ended. Mrs.Smith asked, “How did you feel while carrying the potatoes for two weeks?” The children started complaining about the trouble loudly.
Then Mrs. Smith told them why she asked them to play the game. She said, “This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred (仇恨) for somebody inside your heart. The terrible smell of the hatred will pollute your heart and you will carry something unnecessary with you all the time. If you cannot stand the smell of the rotten potatoes for just two weeks, can you imagine how heavy it would be to have the hatred in your heart for your life time? So throw away any hatred from your heart, and you’ll be really happy.”
1. Whose names were the students asked to write on the potatoes?| A．A student they admire. | B．A teacher they like. |
| C．Persons they dislike. | D．Persons they like. |
| A．satisfied | B．unhappy | C．unfortunate | D．embarrassed |
| A．The ugly potatoes. | B．The teacher. | C．The weight trouble. | D．The classmates. |
| A．We should forget the persons we hate. | B．We should stand the persons we hate. |
| C．We should keep the hatred in heart. | D．We should throw away the hatred. |
【推荐2】There are a number of reasons that can be given as to why children should be taught swimming at a young age. If your children know the basic swimming skills, you can be at peace when your children are near the water. If you are in the process of teaching your children how to swim, then here are some points that you should keep in mind.
♦Help your children pick bathing suits. If your children want to wear a bathing suit and get wet then it is certain that your children will be able to handle the water.
♦If the pool has steps, then it is great. Start from these to help your children gain some confidence. You should make sure that there is one place in the pool where your children can be left safely.
♦The best way to teach your children to swim is to make them join swimming classes. In this way, you will be at peace because there is a professional trainer around your children who can teach them all the tricks of swimming. You can join in the parent-children lessons to make your children feel comfortable. If your children are a bit older, then get permission and sit by the pool to watch them learn.When you get your children admitted to swimming classes, make sure that the lessons go according to the swimming goals that you have set for your children.
Swimming is a fun activity and makes it easy for your children to understand coordinating (协调 ) the movements of their arms and legs will take some time. But, with regular practice and training this can be overcome. So, start with the basics and be around your children when they are learning how to swim. Once they know how to swim, then you can be at peace when they play around the water.
1. The pool with steps can make your children .| A．excited and clam | B．confident and relaxed | C．nervous and uneasy | D．strange and unusual |
| A．train themselves with their skilled parents |
| B．learn from morning till night without break |
| C．join swimming classes with professional trainers |
| D．get a chance to sit by the pool to watch trainers swim |
| A．Breath will take some time. |
| B．Coordinating the movements of their arms will take some time. |
| C．Coordinating the movements of their legs will take some time. |
| D．Coordinating the movements of their arms and legs will take some time. |
| A．Teaching Your Children to Swim |
| B．Gaining Experience of Swimming |
| C．Learning to Swim with Your Children |
| D．Swimming Can Make People Healthy |
【推荐3】How to Be a Good Tourist
We travel not only for work but also for fun and learning. Restaurants, galleries, temples and architecture...These places are like homes for people who live and work there. How would you want visitors to behave in your own home?
Do your homework.
Help preserve the sites. Most of the sites you visit may be visited by millions of people a year, so care needs to be taken to allow others to enjoy them as well. Some of these monuments are so old and fragile that they are sensitive to the touch of hands or bags and shows.
And here’s the big one — good manners are nearly universal.
| A．Experience the place. |
| B．Always have a cloth bag with you. |
| C．Read about the places you want to visit. |
| D．Try to buy something from the local stores. |
| E．A good tourist is polite, positive and eco-sensitive. |
| F．We’ve cleaned up after ourselves and taken only good memories. |
| G．I think we would like them to make it a little better because of their visit. |
【推荐1】In the United States a voluntary organization called Musician Corps is making a difference in people's lives. Five years ago，Kiff Gallagher，the founder of the organization，realized that music and public services could be used together to help Americans in need. Recognizing that music has a positive effect on Alzheimer's disease and autism（自闭症），he had the idea of creating Musician Corps.
Musician Corps looks for musicians and trains them as teachers. Then the musicians provide these services in city schools，children's hospitals，and assisted-living homes for older adults. They also help organize community concerts. Anyone can play music at these community activities.
Kiff Gallagher says what makes Musician Corps different from other charity organizations is that everybody can take part. It provides a place for people to get involved. He remembers a Musician Corps event at a hospital. Afterwards，he says，the patients are less depressed.
David Meletiche, one of 200 musicians in Musician Corps, teaches an after-school guitar class in a high-crime neighborhood. He is excited that the group gives him not only a job in a difficult economy but also the chance to use the team-building skills he gained in college.
There are 12 high school students in his class. Selena Makwan, one of them who are learning to play the guitar, says the program keeps her busy.“It definitely keeps me off the streets, because without this program I probably would be wandering around right now and I would not know what to do. And it also gives me an opportunity to learn something I've never done before.”
Musician Corps has established programs in California and North Carolina. Kiff Gallagher hopes Musician Corps will continue to expand across America.
1. Kiff Gallagher founded Musician Corps to ___________.| A．teach people music |
| B．help those in need |
| C．know better about sick people |
| D．offer jobs in a difficult economy |
| A．It is open to anyone. |
| B．Its members are all musicians. |
| C．It can make people less depressed. |
| D．It teaches music in high-crime neighborhoods. |
| A．loves his job as a guitar teacher |
| B．has to make a living as a guitar teacher |
| C．changed his job during economic depression |
| D．used the team-building skills when he was in college |
| A．wants to be a guitarist in the future |
| B．likes to wander around the streets |
| C．benefits a lot from Musician Corps |
| D．wants to be a member of Musician Corps |
【推荐2】What I should keep in mind:
Everybody doesn’t have to love me. I don’t necessarily like everybody I know, so why should everybody else like me? I enjoy being liked and being loved, but if someone doesn’t like me, I will still be okay and still feel like I am an okay person.
I don’t have to control things. I will survive if things are different than what I want them to be. I can accept things the way they are, accept people the way they are, and accept myself the way I am. There is no reason to get upset if I can’t change things to fit my idea of how they ought to be. There is no reason why I have to like everything.
I am responsible for my day. I am responsible for how I feel and what I do. Nobody can make me feel anything. If I have a rotten day, I am the one who allowed it to be that way. If I have a great day, I am the one who deserves credit for being positive. It is not the responsibility of other people to change so that I can feel better.
It is important to try. I can. Even though I may be faced with difficult tasks, it is better to try than to avoid them. Avoiding a task does not give me any opportunities for success or joy, but trying does.
I can be flexible.
| A．I can get along well with them. |
| B．Even if I don’t like it, I can live with it. |
| C．I can deal with it when things go wrong. |
| D．I am the one who is in charge of my life. |
| E．Things worth having are worth the effort. |
| F．There is more than one way to do something. |
| G．I cannot make somebody like me just like someone cannot get me to like them. |
【推荐3】After long hours of waiting for my friend at the bus station, I got tired and was going to leave and plan another meeting. As I was still deciding, there came a man selling culture shoes and started showing them to me. I just smiled and said thank you. I didn’t know if it was the smile or what but the young man stepped closer and started talking to me.
“You know I didn’t just end up like this. I had a family but one day life just turned upside down and all was gone,” he said. In short, his wife stole all his money, sold his car and house. It was really a hard time for him and he was psychologically anguished. A lot happened and then he decided to pick up the pieces of his life and try to make ends meet. So he started making culture shoes and selling them to earn a living.
As I stood there listening to his story, I was still surprised how in the world someone can be so open to a total stranger.
You see, a lot of times we meet people and most of them have difficulties in their life. Some of them don’t have a person to listen to them, so I’ve learned to be good to people and always give them time to listen to what they want to say. By doing this, I not only help that person get relieved (宽慰) but also learn something from them and see the other side of life. This will make the world a better place to live for all of us.
1. What do we know about the man who sells shoes?| A．His wife changed his life totally. |
| B．He was disappointed with his life. |
| C．He was sad about his bad business. |
| D．He hoped someone could help him. |
| A．scared | B．confused |
| C．nervous | D．painful |
| A．To discover the other side of life. |
| B．To make the world a better place. |
| C．To learn to listen to others. |
| D．To talk out your problems. |
【推荐1】Brazil is the greatest football nation in the world. There are 170 million Brazilians. How many of them are football fans? 100 million! All of them think they know all about football. This makes life very difficult for the Brazilian team managers. When things go bad for the Brazilian team, the newspapers would demand that the team manager should leave his job. “If we win, they me in heaven,” a manager once said. “If we lose, they put me in hell(地狱).”
You can’t escape football in Brazil. There are football matches on every street and beach. On television, the results of football matches come before the main news programs. There are six television channels(频道) in Rio de Janeiro. On Sundays each channel shows a different football match.
Brazil is not the richest country in the world, but the government spends lots of money on football. It cost more than one billion pounds to prepare for the 1978 World Cup. That’s 10 pounds for every Brazilian man, woman, and child. And many Brazilians don’t earn as much as 10 pounds a week. Is it worth it?
“Brazil must have a great football team,” says one journalist. “If it costs one billion pounds, that’s all right. If the government doesn’t give us a good team, then it will become unpopular. Football is more than a game in Brazil.”
Football is more than a game in Brazil. This is certainly true in its largest city, Sao Paulo. The most popular team is Corinthians. Corinthians’ fans are the most loyal and emotional in Brazil. When Corinthians win, production(产量) in the Sao Paulo car factories increases by fifteen per cent. When they loses, it drops. At one time Corinthians won the national championship for the first time, for four days fans danced and sang in the streets.
Why are people so loyal to one football team? What makes a football fan? One man says, “Without Corinthians my life would be sad. Corinthians bring some joy and excitement into my life. We all need that, don’t we?”
1. In Paragraph 1, what the manager said means_______.| A．he is respected by newspapers | B．he will probably be killed by fans |
| C．he is judged on his team’s results | D．it’s difficult for him to get good scores |
| A．all the Brazilians know all about football |
| B．football has an influence on politics in Brazil |
| C．the Brazilians spend a lot of money on football |
| D．Corinthians’ fans are always supporting their team |
| A．production in the Sao Paulo car factories increased |
| B．Corinthians won a national football championship |
| C．Corinthians won the World Cup |
| D．the newspapers put a team manager in heaven |
| A．it brings joy and excitement to their life | B．they could always count on it |
| C．it can increase the car production | D．they could see hope in it |
【推荐2】A satellite is best understood as an object that has only one force acting on it gravity. Technically speaking, anything that crosses the Karman Line at an altitude of 100km is considered a satellite in space.
However, a satellite needs to be going fast at least 8km a second to avoid falling back down to the earth immediately. If a satellite is traveling fast enough, it will constantly “fall” toward the ball-shaped earth. It means that the satellite will fall around the earth instead of crashing back on the surface.
Here are several accepted orbits around the earth. One is called low-earth-orbit, which extends from about 160 to 2,000km. This is the orbit where the International Space Station and the Chinese Space Station orbit and where the spaceships usually do their work. In fact, all human missions, except for the Apollo and Chang’e flights to the moon, took place in this orbit. Most satellites also work in this orbit.
Geosynchronous (与地球同步的) orbit is the best spot for communication satellites to use, however. This is an orbit above the earth’s equator (赤道) at an altitude of 35,786km. At this altitude, the rate of "fall" around the earth is about the same as the earth’s rotation (自转), which allows the satellite to stay above the same spot on the earth almost constantly. The satellite thus keeps permanent connections with towers on the ground and allows for reliable communication.
While some satellites are best used around the equator, others are better suited to more polar orbits. Examples of polar-orbiting satellites include weather satellites, resource satellites and military satellites. Polar-orbiting satellites are necessary because they can help scientists compare images from the same season over several years and monitor changes over time.
1. What keeps a satellite from falling to the earth?| A．Its rotation. | B．Its orbit. | C．Its speed. | D．Its height. |
| A．It can be considered a satellite. | B．It is below the Karman Line. |
| C．It is circling the earth at 7km/s. | D．It has escaped the force of gravity. |
| A．Weather satellites. | B．Military satellites. |
| C．Resource satellites. | D．Communication satellites. |
| A．Gathering necessary equator data. | B．Comparing seasonal changes. |
| C．Providing precise weather forecast. | D．Providing better telephone signals |
The self-cleaning door handle is combining with advanced photocatalytic ( 光 催 化 ) and blacklight technology. A light source activates the door’s handle coating, telling it to start cleaning. It can minimize the risk of infection by contact and improve the cleanliness of a space.
How it works
The working principle of the product is that a thin advanced photocatalytic coating can effectively decompose bacteria ( 细 菌 ) on the surface of a substance. A consistent UV light source—inside a transparent glass door handle—is required to activate the door’s handle coating on the outer surface for disinfection, so a generator is used to provide electricity to light up a UV LED lamp by the motion of an opening and closing door. Then, the door handle can clean by itself.
Design process
We made the first version by using stainless steel. However, it caused the door handle to be heavier. Then, we tried aluminum, which made it light and easy to fix. We also improved the generator output which effectively turned energy from door movement into a light source.
How it is different
Our innovative design is simple, effective, and attractive. It has an elegant smooth shape, and its minimalist appearance stands out in today’s world of inventions. Nowadays, people use chemical cleaning materials to clean up public areas but it harms the human body. Our design can be used for a long time and is effective. It can self-clean after each use. In the door lock and door handle market, it is a unique design because there are no similar products.
Future plans
In the future, we will commercialize the product and hope that it can compete on the market with similar products. We are going to connect with public properties, for example, shopping malls, hotels, hospitals and public restrooms, where the risk of spreading infection is higher.
Awards
In addition to winning the James Dyson Award, it has also received the Gold Award, and in 2016, it was featured in the 44th International Geneva Inventions Exhibition.
1. How does the self-cleaning door handle function?| A．It controls the door movement automatically. |
| B．It minimizes the risk of infection by less contact. |
| C．Chemical cleaning materials are used to clean it up. |
| D．The light source tells the door handle coating to clean itself. |
| A．safer and cheaper | B．cleaner and easier |
| C．less heavy and more effective | D．more attractive and expensive |
| A．It has been widely used in public areas. |
| B．It has received recognition for its innovation. |
| C．It is quite competitive among similar products. |
| D．It will replace traditional chemical cleaning materials. |
