We have all experienced how easy it is for a smile to light up our day, improve our emotions and make it easier for us to recover from illnesses. But do you also know that smiling improves your chances of success in many aspects of your life?
Studies have shown that people are more likely to think that a smiling person is more confident than others. Smiling will inspire your boss to trust you on-a particular project. Standing in front of a group of people, a confident smile on your face indicates knowledge, competence. trustworthiness, and ability to carry out tasks efficiently. It also opens up the way to higher job earning opportunities.
If you meet a person for the first time and walk into the restaurant, the person is seated by the table, looking sad on the face. What would be your first thought? Either the person regrets the meeting or the person is troubled by other issues. The chances are more likely you wouldn't want to see the person anymore. Smiling makes a great first impression on anyone. Studies have shown that people are more likely to remember a person who has a friendly and sweet smile. This is because no one wants to have to deal with a person who is always worried. It is also a great way to ensure that you get callbacks from job interviews and other potential meetups.
When you smile, neurotransmitters, materials that are anti-stress, are released from your brain. They spread throughout the body,causing a happy feeling to take over the negative emotions Being positive gives you enough enthusiasm to go ahead and make more use of your day and be productive. In recent researches, it has been found that people who were unhappy with their work-life were less productive than others who loved their jobs.An individual who is not happy at what they do is unwilling to put in the efforts needed to go beyond the average. While the other who is positive is more likely to carry on more tasks and is more productive, gains more experience,and gets promoted more easily.
But when you are in an environment that is sad or pessimistic, it isn't easy to remain happy and optimistic. If you are caught up in a situation where something had gone wrong, and you are having a heavy heart, try looking for reasons to be happy,smile, and watch your day begin to change positively.
Do not forget that when you smile, you are not only making your day better but someone else's too. A smile is what it takes to make all the difference.
1. The author raises a question in Paragraph 1 mainly to________.| A．present an idea | B．settle an argument | C．lead in the experiments | D．attract the readers’ attention |
| A．is helpful in gaining knowledge | B．has both positive and negative effects |
| C．has effects on many aspects of your life | D．is a great way to make your more capable |
| A．tell readers the way to succeed | B．explain how to make a difference |
| C．show information about new studies | D．persuade readers to smile more often |
| A．why we should smile | B．how our attitude affects us |
| C．how to get on well with others | D．why we benefit from our optimism |
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[1] Fingerboards, known as “Tech Decks”, are miniature replicas (微型复制品) of a skateboard. Fingerboarding is in short, when somebody “rides” a fingerboard with fingers.
[2] Typically riding with their middle and index fingers, people perform tricks replicated from skateboarding. 10 cm long and 25 to 34 mm wide, the deck has grip tape on top and trucks with wheels fixed to the bottom of it, allowing it to roll. In a way, fingerboarding is making it possible to mimic the same tricks you did when skateboarding but at your desk this time.
[3] The first fingerboards were little “DIY” boards created by skaters as toys in the 1980s, when they were made of wood, tubes and other materials. Later on, the miniature boards were seen more as keychain attachments (挂饰). However, it wasn’t long before the fingerboarding scene picked up in popularity and became a bigger part of the skateboarding industry in the 1990s.
[4] The “barely rideable” keychain attachments were improved by the producer “Tech Deck”, which started producing a more rideable version of the fingerboard in the 1990s. Soon they began to print actual skateboard patterns onto the fingerboard decks, which made them even more appealing to skateboarders. In the late 1990s, fancy fingerboards with “actual professional skateboard patterns” started to enter more and more toy shops, and before we knew it fingerboards were seen everywhere.
[5] The development did not stop there. In the past decades, the fingerboard scene has become more and more advanced, especially when it comes to the quality of the boards and the skills of the riders. Now, fingerboarding has spread out to various social media platforms, where “riders” continuously outdo themselves with more advanced tricks.
[6] Fingerboarding eventually evolved from a “hobby toy”, to a lifestyle for some – competing in Championships and various events around the world.
1. What’s the similarity between fingerboarding and skateboarding?| A．The development. | B．The rules. |
| C．The performing tricks. | D．The playing areas. |
| A．It’s DIY. | B．It’s rideable. | C．It’s decorative. | D．It’s professional. |
| A．It’s been an Olympic event. | B．It’s updated due to social media. |
| C．It’s outdone skateboarding. | D．It’s a way to challenge oneself. |
| A．What Is Fingerboarding? | B．A Hobby Toy or A Lifestyle |
| C．Why Is Fingerboarding? | D．Little Board, Big Industry |
【推荐2】Planet Earth would be a scary place for humans if dinosaurs still ruled the world.
Though there are still some traces of life from the Jurassic Period, the Age of Dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.
This mass extinction is believed to be the result of an asteriod (小行星) hitting Earth. A new report by the journal Biological Reviews called “The Extinction of Dinosaurs” concludes that this impact was, indeed, the cause of the dinosaurs’ demise. But the space blast (爆炸) wasn't the only reason these creatures aren’t still around today.
Dinosaurs need food to survive. Meat-eating monsters like the Tyrannosaurus Rex (霸王龙) were at the top of the food chain, and fed off plant eaters like the horned Triceratops (三角恐龙). These herbivores (食草动物) were decreasing in population after the asteroid hit Earth, which left the meat-eating species less food to survive on. “In any ecosystem where you remove links to key species, that community has problems,” Richard Butler, one of the review’s authors, told National Ceographic.
While the herbivore population was going down, Earth’s temperatures were rising when volcanoes erupted. Hot vapors and gases began wiping out some of the dinosaur population and weakening the survivors.
These changes made the asteroid’s impact especially powerful. It caused more volcanoes to erupt, heated up Earth’s atmosphere, and led to a sharp drop in the level of oxygen in the oceans.
With the dinosaurs gone, mammals (哺乳动物) began to evolve into bigger and more diverse species. Many animals we see today, like birds, sharks, and even some cats and dogs, appeared after the asteroid hit Earth. But none rule Earth quite like the dinosaurs did.
1. Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “demise” in Paragraph 2?| A．Death. | B．Evolvement. |
| C．Presence. | D．Decrease. |
| A．A shortage of clean water. |
| B．A break in the food chain. |
| C．A small variety of animals. |
| D．The constant warming climate. |
| A．Oceans became too hot for animals. |
| B．There was less oxygen in the oceans. |
| C．Earth’s climate became violent. |
| D．The majority of the plants gradually died out. |
| A．the evolvement of mammals on Earth |
| B．the gradual process of climate change |
| C．the importance of the balance of ecosystem |
| D．the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs |
【推荐3】Scientists have reported that the sea ice in Antarctica is at a record low level. Antarctica is a great, icy land, surrounded by the huge Southern Ocean. The ice in Antarctica doesn't just cover the land. There’s also a large area of sea ice on the ocean’s surface.
Every year, the sea ice at the South Pole goes through a cycle. In the summer, the huge sea ice melts to its smallest point. Over the colder winter months, the sea ice grows and grows until it covers a wide area. Usually, the sea ice covers the greatest area around September 23, as winter ends at the South Pole.
Scientists have been measuring the area of the sea ice in Antarctica since 1979. For most of this time, Antarctica has seemed to be almost unaffected by the changing weather conditions experienced in other parts of the globe. That began to change around 2016. Now, for several years, the area of Antartica’s sea ice has been shrinking.
This year, the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) reported that Antartica’s sea ice covered its greatest area on September 10 — almost two weeks earlier than normal. And the sea ice was at a new record low-not just by a little bit, but by a lot.
The last time Antartica’s low sea ice set a record at the end of winter was in 1986. And this year, there’s about 398,000 square miles less sea ice than in 1986.
Scientists are still trying to understand what is driving the change in Antarctica. One likely direct cause for the change is the rising temperatures of the world’s oceans. Ted Scambos, a research scientist at the University of Colorado, says Antarctica’s ice levels have always changed some, but the sharp loss this year is “pointing towards warmer ocean conditions around the continent.”
The new low record has worried the scientists. Scientists are working hard to better understand Antarctica. They don’t know yet if this is just a short-term problem, or part of a long-term shift towards less sea ice in Antarctica.
1. Which phrase may replace the underlined word “shrinking” in Paragraph 3?| A．on the increase | B．under attack | C．under observation | D．on the decrease |
| A．He wants to warn us of the severe condition of Antarctic sea ice. |
| B．He wants to inform us of a specific example of Antarctic sea ice. |
| C．He wants to convince us of the real data of Antarctic sea ice. |
| D．He wants to tell us the importance of protecting Antarctic sea ice. |
| A．illegal fishing | B．warmer sea water |
| C．the changing climate | D．tourists’ activities |
| A．amazed | B．disappointed | C．concerned | D．pleased |
【推荐1】Friendships can be difficult—because often people aren’t as honest and open as they should be. Sometimes, people end up getting hurt.
Most problems with friendships come up because people are just too selfish to care about the things that their friends need. They care about their own needs much more, which makes it hard for friendships to work. However, being selfish is part of human nature.A person is put together in order to take care of himself and his own needs, not necessarily those needs of other people.Even though being selfish is something that all humans are born with, it is something that everyone should guard against.
The best thing to remember when you are a friend to anyone is that you need to treat your friend the same way as you’d like to be treated.This is wonderful advice for a friendship, because it is really the only way to make sure that you are giving your friend everything you would want to be given in a friendship.Whenever you have a question about how you should treat a friend, it is easy to find an answer simply by asking yourself what you would like your friend to do for you, if he or she is in your shoes.
Even if you’re always thinking about how you’d like to be treated, and your friends are too, there are issues that come up from time to time in each friendship, and it is important to understand how to deal with these issues so that you can build stronger and healthier friendships.Issues like friends getting boyfriends or girlfriends and not spending enough time with their friends, or even friends finding new friends and leaving old friends behind are issues that will probably come up with one or more of your friendships.It is important to know how to deal with these issues so that you can keep your friends and make new ones.No one wants to have a broken friendship.
1. This passage mainly deals with .| A．the problems with friendships | B．the advantages of friendships |
| C．the importance of friendships | D．the meaning of friendships |
| A．one is honest | B．one is alone |
| C．one is selfish | D．one is too busy |
| A．not to think of your own needs any more |
| B．to give your friends whatever you have |
| C．not to hurt your friends’ feelings |
| D．to treat your friends as fairly as possible |
| A．To build stronger and healthier friendships. |
| B．To lead a comfortable life. |
| C．To be treated the way you want. |
| D．To get a boyfriend or girlfriend more quickly. |
【推荐2】One of Britain’s few typical contributions to world culture may come to an end, according to a survey that suggests holiday postcards are being emailed and texted into extinction (消亡). More than half of the 1,000 holiday-makers interviewed said they had decided to send fewer cards, turning instead to their electronic competitors.
A quarter of the respondents (受访者) dismissed postcards as old-fashioned and slow to arrive. A further 14% admitted that thinking of something to fill the space was too challenging, compared with a call home. Although officially invented by a Hungarian, Emanuel Herrmann, in 1869, the idea of illustrated cards was taken up with most enthusiasm in Victorian Britain, joining Gothic architecture and landscape gardening as fields in which the country excelled.
“If the British postcard did become extinct, we would lose for ever something of great importance to the nation,” said Chris Mottershead of Thomson Holidays, which charged with the survey. He was backed by Marie Angelou of Sussex University, who has studied the importance of sending and receiving postcards. “Postcards are nothing like phone calls, instant texting and direct photo shots via the mobile,” she said. “All these are useful, practical devices, but postcards offer something else, something additional that is not mundane (世俗的) and simply functional, but imaginative and personal. They can produce the real atmosphere of your holiday in a way that nothing else can do. They’re also for more than a moment — with some people adding them to collections built up over years and years.”
Postcard-collecting, is third only to coins and stamps in Britain’s related tradition of collecting things. The country’s uniquely postcard-related achievements include the invention in 1902 of the“divided back”. With the address taking up half of the writing area, brief postcard scribbles (潦草的书写) became the forerunner to today’s text messages.
1. What does the survey suggest?| A．Postcards are being emailed to people. | B．Fewer people care about holidays. |
| C．Postcards are now less preferred. | D．Paper cards are people’s favorite. |
| A．Gained popularity. | B．Took place. | C．Came back. | D．Went into service. |
| A．Postcards are not as effective as phone calls. | B．Postcards send information much more quickly. |
| C．Postcards should give way to text messages. | D．Postcards carry more than what they show. |
| A．Last Post for Britain’s Card Habit? | B．Time for A Change? |
| C．Britain: Dreamland for Postcards? | D．Fall of A Great Power? |
【推荐3】About three decades ago, China was known as the “Bicycle Kingdom”．But the twowheeled transport's popularity began to fade, with many bikes soon replaced by their fuelpowered competitors.
But recent months have seen a renaissance of the bike across China, with an increasing number of people choosing cycling instead of driving to schools, to workplaces or to do sightseeing.The introduction of bikesharing schemes, first developed by new companies like Ofo and Mobike, has brought the trend to a new level.According to data from iResearch Consulting Group, the first week of this year saw 5.85 million active users of Mobike while Ofo had 1.4 million active users.
People can unlock the shared bikes by simply using their smartphones.The bikes are equipped with GPS and can be left anywhere in public places for the next user.They're popular among many Chinese people as they provide an effective answer to the “last mile” problem, which refers to a person's final journey.“In places where the subway doesn't reach and where it's difficult to change from one kind of transport to another, it's so easy to get where you want to go with Mobike，” Hu Hong, 29, said.She rides a bike to work.
However, the schemes have also led to problems such as illegal parking, vandalism (故意破坏) and theft.“Bikesharing is a greener method of transportation and provides a userfriendly experience，” said Liu Xiaoming, ViceMinister of Transport.“But it's a combination of online and offline business.Operators are usually strong in online services, but lack offline business experience.”
In fact, these problems are also shared by bikesharing schemes abroad.Set up in 2007, Vélib is a largescale public bike sharing system in Paris.By October, 2009, a large number of Vélib's initial bikes had to be replaced due to vandalism or theft.Bikes were found hanging from lampposts (街灯柱) or thrown into the Seine River.
1. What can we learn about Ofo and Mobike from the text?| A．Their bikes are aimed at people who can't afford a car. |
| B．They are pioneers in the field of bike sharing in China. |
| C．There are 7.25 million people using their bikes this year. |
| D．No other bikesharing system in the world can match theirs. |
| A．They can be shared by a lot of different people. |
| B．They allow people to use various forms of transport. |
| C．They are a useful addition to other means of transport. |
| D．They are accessible as long as people have smartphones. |
| A．They are actually universal phenomena. |
| B．They are brought by bikesharing users. |
| C．They are mainly caused by the operators. |
| D．They are the results of illegal companies. |
| A．What problems does bike sharing face in China? |
| B．Bike sharing: a new battle begins in China |
| C．Why is bike sharing popular in China? |
| D．Bike sharing is booming in China. |
