One woman named Nancy Lublin noticed that teenagers in the United States needed more mental health services. She also saw that teenagers seemed more comfortable communicating through texting. These two realizations pushed Lublin to create Crisis Text Line, an organization that focuses on crisis intervention through text messaging.
“Texting turns out to be incredibly effective for counseling in a crisis,” Lublin told Glamour magazine. “It cuts right to the chase. You don’t get hyperventilating(呼吸急促) and crying. You just get facts.” When someone texts Crisis Text Line, the counselors, who are trained volunteers, use listening, collaborative problem-solving, and referrals to best help the texter overcome their crisis. “The Crisis Text Line has blown the roof off a lot of long-held assumptions about teens,” said Anthony Pisani, a member of Crisis Text Line’s clinical advisory board. He continued: “The number of kids reaching out is unprecedented. And I think the data could be revolutionary in terms of understanding adolescents in crisis and what it takes to help them.”
In fact, the data has already helped to uncover new trends. For example, the organization found that 30 percent of texts are about depression and suicide. They also found that two-thirds of crises occur at night between 8 pm and 4 am. Although the counselors don’t exactly know what causes these trends, they hope the data, which is made publicly available on CrisisTrends.org, can be used by researchers to better understand what might trigger them. They also hope that making this data public will better reduce the shame surrounding mental health support. Since starting in August 2013, Crisis Text Line has had over 5.5 million conversations with people seeking immediate mental health help. That number is only expected to grow as more people become comfortable enough to reach out for help when they are experiencing a mental health crisis.
“People are texting us from the office, from the lunch table,” Lublin said. “They’re texting us right when something is happening. So we’re getting them at the moment we can be most impactful — and we’re telling them they’re not alone.” Lublin commented, “I’ve got to admit that it feels pretty good to save lives.”
1. What’s the main purpose of Crisis Text Line?| A．To collect data about teenage health issues. | B．To offer teenagers mental health support. |
| C．To train teens to provide texting services. | D．To smooth parent-teen communication. |
| A．Involves a lot of work. | B．Lends someone a hand. |
| C．Communicates feelings. | D．Goes directly to the point. |
| A．To explore causes and solutions. | B．To promote the organization. |
| C．To call attention to mental health. | D．To know what adolescents care about |
| A．It gives her a sense of achievement. | B．It helps her overcome her mental problems. |
| C．Its services should be more effective. | D．The number of its users is likely to drop. |
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【推荐1】Most of us lead a busy life.
Firstly, take time to notice and appreciate the beauty in your own surroundings (环境).
Secondly, taking time to experience some simple pleasures also can bring joy to your heart and reduce your stress. Take me for example.
Thirdly, don’t take your family and friends for granted. Rich, rewarding relationships add greatly to the enjoyment of life. When you think of someone, why not call, email or write then?
| A．Discover the beauty in nature. |
| B．So please treasure relationship. |
| C．You don’t need to travel far to find beauty. |
| D．Driven by the “urgent”, we forget to enjoy life. |
| E．In my spare time, I enjoy collecting stamps and reading novels. |
| F．A short email or phone call can make a world of difference to someone. |
| G．I delight in simple things like my favorite tea drink, a bubble bath or family photos. |
【推荐2】Today, we are talking about money. I can share a bit about my history with money and my new view when it comes to using green paper.
I made a web page with links to posts about our financial (财政的) journey where you can look for more details of where we've been and how we got where we are now. It was a big part of my story in the past and was a huge part of our downsizing（精简） journey. We got out of debt and stayed out of debt.
So I feel eager（渴望的）to share the benefits of being on this side. It takes more planning and more careful thought whenever a dollar is spent now than it did when I had a wallet full of credit cards. I now like to think all of my dollars doing the job. So many of us work for money and don't consider that money should work for us, too. Make your dollars do the job of helping you live the life you want.
Each time money is spent or saved, it should be going toward something that you purposefully want for your life. Last week I was out and I spent $ 20 on food in 3 days. It made me angry because afterward I thought about eating is not at all what I want for my life.
On the other hand, there are times I spend $ 20 while out with my family and it doesn't bother（使烦恼）me one bit. An afternoon out with my kids during which we stop for ice cream, and do something fun together has a completely different feel.
In the end, I want the dollars I spend to have purpose like I can enjoy life while still planning and saving for the future.
1. The underlined words “green paper” in Paragraph 1 refer to“________”.| A．money | B．work | C．newspaper | D．book |
| A．by reading posts about their financial journey |
| B．by going on a financial journey |
| C．by making a web page |
| D．by writing to him |
| A．more credit cards should be used in our daily life |
| B．we should work hard to make more money |
| C．money should help us live better |
| D．saving money is very easy |
| A．Because the money is spent on food. |
| B．Because the money is spent in doing something fun. |
| C．Because eating is what he wants for his life. |
| D．Because the money goes toward something that he wants for his life. |
【推荐3】Why You Should Schedule Some “Me Time” Every Day
Most people in our culture feel the need to be going all the time. If we are not working and putting our energy into something, we believe we are wasting time. We feel taking time for ourselves is a waste. And to some extent, it’s true—pushing yourself nonstop may bring some measure of success.
So, the biggest reason to take a little time out for yourself is to avoid these negative consequences of not doing so.
Taking a little time for yourself refreshes and re-energizes you. It allows you to think more clearly and make better decisions.
| A．Taking “me” time benefits those around you as well. |
| B．Actually it is not that difficult to find a little “me” time. |
| C．Taking “me” time also builds your self-worth over time. |
| D．It might seem easy to schedule a little “me” time, but often it isn’t. |
| E．Realize that there are limits to what you can do, and build your life around that. |
| F．But more than that, “me” time can make you a better person both inside and out. |
| G．However, going for long periods without time for yourself may cost you in the end. |
Spence’s hair was now grey all over. He had not shrunk much in girth（围长）, though. He stopped watering and looked at the visitor at the gate. Hercule Poirot stood there without moving.
“God bless my soul,” said Spence. “It must be. It can’t be but it is. Yes, it must be Hercule Poirot!”
“Aha,” said Poirot, “you remember me. I’m grateful.”
Spence abandoned the watering can and came down to the gate.
“What brings you down here?”
“What has brought me to many places in my time,” said Poirot, “and what once a good many years ago brought you to see me. Murder, Spence.”
“I’m done with murder since I retired,” said Spence, “except in the case of weeds. Killing weeds is never easy as you think, something’s always wrong. How did you know where to find me?” he asked as he opened the gate and Poirot passed through.
“You sent me a Christmas card. It had your new address on it.”
“Ah yes, so I did. I’m old-fashioned, you know, I like to send round cards at Christmas time to a few old friends. I’m an old man now.”
“We both are.”
“Not much grey in your hair,” said Spence.
“I take care of my hair with a bottle,” said Poirot. “There is no need to appear in public with grey hair unless you wish to do so. By the way, why have you come to live in Woodleigh Common?”
“As a matter of fact, I came here to join forces with a sister of mine. She lost her husband, her children are married and living abroad. So I moved in here. Pensions（退休金）don’t go far nowadays, but we do comfortably living together.”
1. From their dialogue, we can learn about _______.
| A．their common friends | B．Spence’s sister’s characters |
| C．their relationship | D．Poirot’s recent life |
| A．Spence used to deal with murder. |
| B．Poirot didn’t care about his appearance. |
| C．Spence moved to join his sister for lack of money. |
| D．Poirot came specially to reunite with his old friend. |
| A．meet Spence’s family | B．discuss about a murder |
| C．visit Spence’s new home | D．water the garden together |
【推荐2】I learnt an important lesson from one of my patients. When I first met Linda, she was only six years old, beautiful and energetic. She had an accident when she fell into the fire on a camping trip, leaving30%of her skin surface damaged.
Linda would require several weeks in the hospital and three additional surgeries. Between each operation, nurses daily took her for disinfection (消毒).
Overnight, the dressings (敷料) would stick to the wound and have to be pulled away. Each step was more painful for Linda than the previous one. For an adult, the agonizing (折磨人的) pain and daily fear prove overwhelming. For a child, it has an impact forever. Linda’s life would never be the same.
I took care of Linda for the next several years, treating her scars and freeing areas of tightness in her face and neck. Over that time, her scars faded and her appearance improved significantly. Eventually, her family moved away and I lost track of her.
Years later, at a national meeting, I ran into a plastic surgeon I knew who told me he had met a former patient of mine. It was Linda. She was doing extremely well and she was his colleague and not his patient. Linda had become a nurse and worked with him in a burn unit.
She was the nurse the patients most often asked to clean their wounds and change their dressings. Her compassion (同情心) and her courage in returning to a burn unit inspired their confidence and reduced their fears. Linda turned her pain into compassion. She devoted every day of her life towards helping others overcome their pain.
Physicians can be frustrated and overwhelmed when we don’t have enough time in a day to complete everything we need to do. Linda taught me the importance of slowing down. Among the best gifts we, as physicians, can give our patients, whether in the exam room or at the bedside in the hospital, is to take the time to show the compassion we feel.
1. Which of the following words can best describe Linda according to the story?| A．Outspoken. | B．Well-behaved. | C．Painful. | D．Strong-minded. |
| A．Pulling away the dressings. | B．Going through disinfection. |
| C．Treating the scars. | D．Freeing the areas of tightness. |
| A．Experience. | B．Patience. | C．Compassion. | D．Friendliness |
| A．Linda was thankful for the author’s compassion. |
| B．Linda was mostly trusted by her colleagues. |
| C．Linda’s experience led her to be a nurse. |
| D．Gifts make patients confident in operations. |
【推荐3】In the spring of 1990, I was at a racing event in Columbus, Ohio, and the guy who was hosting said, “Hey, do you want to see my new baby?” I said, “Sure.” We went out and there it was, a little red sports car. I asked if I could sit in it and when I did, I put my left hand on the steering wheel and my right on the shifter. I said to myself, “It just feels right.”
Soon after, I started seeing billboards and print advertisements. Mazda’s motto for the new car was, “It just feels right.” Total coincidence (巧合). At the time, I was under contract (合约) to race with Ford Motor Co., and so I always had Ford cars. I didn’t need a new car, but I bought one anyway—a Miata from its very first model year.
There wasn’t anything like the Miata at the time—a new, small, two-seat convertible sports car. And this one hit every mark. It had cool style, it was affordable, it had durability (耐用), performance, and economy. I was living in South Florida and it was a perfect place to drive with the top down. The car loved to go fast. I certainly got some tickets for speeding. It was the kind of car that made you want to go into garage (车库) so you could say good night to it.
Now, so many years later, I can look back and say that I have never owned any car for more than three years except this one, which I have owned for over three decades. It amazes me that when I first saw it, I’d never heard of the Miata. Now you see them everywhere, and it has its own successful racing series, the MX-5 Cup.
About five years ago, I was going to visit my daughter who lived in San Francisco, and I learned that Tom Matano—who led the design of this car for Mazda—was working in San Francisco. I made an appointment and I met him. To me, it was like meeting Enzo Ferrari if you are a Ferrari nut. He turned out to be the most modest, delightful human being, and it was an honor to get to know him. These days I still drive the Miata to its fullest. Recently I went on a road trip with one of my favorite girlfriends. We were on a straight road that had no speed limit. I was hauling at 120mph. The car was happy as a camper, as they say, and so was its driver.
1. Which of the following best describes the author’s Miata?| A．Attractive and tough. | B．Modern and large. |
| C．Small and traditional. | D．Fashionable and expensive. |
| A．She was the designer of Mazda. | B．She preferred Ford to Mazda. |
| C．She once worked with Tom Matano. | D．She thought highly of Miata. |
| A．To recommend a new car. | B．To explain her routine. |
| C．To express her excitement. | D．To introduce Enzo Ferrari. |
| A．A magazine. | B．A guidebook. | C．An advertisement. | D．A booklet. |
| A．Becoming a fan of Ferrari | B．“Feeling right” in my Miata |
| C．“Feeling proud” in my Ford | D．Dreaming of having a Mazda |
【推荐1】Over 30 years ago, a book titled “The Alchemist” was published. The author of this book was a man named Paulo Coelho, and he was told by the first bookseller to carry his book, that only one person bought a copy after it was published. Though it was bad to hear about the shocking results, Coelho remained confident in his work.
He waited for better results to appear, but they were slow to come. Six months had passed before the next copy was sold. Strangely, the person who bought his first book was the same person who bought the second.
After that first year, the publisher decided that the book was a flop and ended Coelho’s contract. Fortunately, though, Coelho shrugged off that defeat. He made up his mind not to give in, and so he doubled down to pursue his dream with even more efforts by finding another publisher. Now finding this new publisher was no easy task for Coelho, as he was met with rejection after rejection. But, after many repeated rejections, he finally landed that new publisher, and with it, another opportunity to achieve his dream.
From that point forward, Coelho’s dreams started to come true. At first, he only sold three thousand books. But the sales kept trickling in, and as time went by, he would sell ten thousand. and then 100 thousand, Coelho’s luck has yet to run out, as his book sales continue to grow year over year, with now over 150 million and counting copies of “The Alchemist” having been sold. Even more astonishing is the fact that he sold over 320 million books including all of his other works. But it all started with that first book!
1. What can we infer about “The Alchemist” in the first paragraph?| A．It is a book containing an unexpected ending. |
| B．It inspired Paulo Coelho’s passion for writing. |
| C．Almost no one noticed it after it was published. |
| D．It is based on Paulo Coelho’s own life experience. |
| A．Lesson. | B．Reward. | C．Chance. | D．Failure. |
| A．Self-centred. | B．Determined. | C．Creative. | D．Tricky. |
| A．Be supportive to others who are in need. | B．Nothing is impossible for a willing heart. |
| C．Books and friends should be few but good. | D．Don’t judge a book on the basis of its cover. |
【推荐2】In box-office terms, Steven Spielberg is the most successful movie director in the world. Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List ... his movies are cinema classics.
Q: What were you afraid of when you were a child?
A: I was my own monster (怪物). My fancy was unbelievable, so I was afraid of everything. A chair could very quickly change into a mouse. I remember looking up at the sky when I was five. One of the clouds up there looked like a beautiful bird, then suddenly it was a tiger. I ran home crying.
Q: What did your parents feel about that?
A: For my parents my imagination was a real problem, so much so that they seriously considered having me examined by a doctor. After all I was always seeing things that didn’t exist (存在) except in my head. My mother and father thought I had something wrong with my mind. I probably did — but it is the gateway to a great career!
Q: What do you consider your greatest career achievement so far?
A: The right to decide my own programs. That was always my only dream, telling my stories without anyone else interfering (干预). It was also why I built my own company.
Q: Which movie did you enjoy making most?
A: That was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, because it was the first time I realized I wanted to be a father. Three years later I had my first son.
Q: Do you make home movies?
A: Yes, I always have a video camera with me. At Christmas it’s traditional for my family to see a movie about the family that lasts one hour. We all watch the film together and everyone gets a DVD of it.
1. What did Spielberg’s parents think about his imagination?| A．They were worried about it. | B．It was quite acceptable. |
| C．They paid no attention to it. | D．It was the gateway to his success. |
| A．Creation. | B．His family. | C．Artistic freedom. | D．His company. |
| A．A news report. | B．A movie review. | C．A lesson plan. | D．An interview. |
【推荐3】Writer Liu fang’s first novel, about the life of a teacher at a rural school in the mountainous province of Guizhou in the 1990s , is greatly similar to her own early years-before she lost her sight and struggled to find a full life in the darkness.
Liu , 44 , was a Chinese language teacher at No 3 Middle School in the Baiyun district of Guiyang until 2006 , when she could no longer see the characters printed in the textbooks .
Diagnosed with incurable eye disease , in 1996 , Liu was told she would gradually lose her eyesight over 10 years.That it took her 20 years to walk into darkness makes her have the ability to tell you the difference between the two worlds .She spent the first 10 years gradually accepting the reality , and the second facing it with smiles.
Fortunately , Liu had many people on her side.Her family and friends helped her overcome the most difficult period of her life. And her own kindness served her well . Liu praised the school’s headmaster , who gave her a new post as a psychological consultant(心理咨询师) for students, and planned for professional training for her new role.
Liu 's office is a comfortable place decorated with hand-drawn student pictures , one where children can thoughtfully talk about their problems . Liu takes her job seriously.She donated 5,000 yuan (＄760) from her income to five poor students.After she became famous , all she wanted to do was help for the “left-behind”children.
Yang Hui , a student who often quarrelled with her parents , said Liu feels like a mother to the student. Yang said She would listen to me patiently , and Liu helped her find the reason she couldn't get along well with her parents .
Liu said , her blindness is an asset . “I guess they trust me because I cannot see them , and they feel I am more concentrated and careful than others while listening to them.”
1. What can we know about Liu fang from the first four paragraphs?| A．She was 44 when she knew she would lose her eyesight. |
| B．She went through the darkness by herself without any support. |
| C．It took her almost ten years to be used to the darkness. |
| D．We can know what her own life is really like from her fist novel. |
| A．Liu fang has become the focus of attention in her school. |
| B．Liu Fang has got through the most difficult time of her life. |
| C．Liu Fang has much experience in getting along with parents. |
| D．Liu Fang has been successful in her job as a psychological consultant |
| A．Advantage | B．Personality |
| C．Ability | D．Creativity |
| A．Liu Fang’s new life as a blind person. | B．Liu Fang’s unbelievable story |
| C．Liu Fang’s social roles. | D．Liu Fang’s hobbies |
