If you have to attend a party or other social events where a lot of people will be presents do you feel confident that you will make a good impression on others? Or do you feel shy? In any case, you should increase your confidence at social events.
Whenever you are meeting new people at any social event, you should wear proper clothes. Before you attend the events try to find out how other people will be dressing. If everyone else is wearing business clothes, you should, too. If the event is informal(不拘礼节的), you should wear informal clothes so that you can fit in.
If you are going to meet people from a certain business or profession, try looking through a few professional magazines or checking on the Internet ahead of time to get some conversation ideas that are related to their fields of interest. This can prevent you getting tongue-tied at the event.
When you are at the event, don’t worry about whether or not other people you are talking with like you. Instead, try your best to find reasons to like them. When you are making conversation with people, be sure to keep good eye contact, and make your facial expression soft. Nod to show you’re listening. Let your face and body relax so that you can make natural gestures.
After the event is over, take a bit of time to think of your social performance and the conversation you had with people. Tell yourself exactly what you did very well at the event. For example, perhaps you made a big effort to really listen to the people you were talking with, or you may have asked several people some good questions that really got them talking.
By doing so, your conversation confidence will gradually improve.
1. What does the underlined word “profession” mean in the third paragraph?A.Record. | B.History. |
C.Career. | D.Society. |
A.Keeping eye contact with others. |
B.Wearing informal clothes and shoes. |
C.Caring too much about others’ opinions. |
D.Nodding now and then to show your interest. |
A.Keep in touch with the people you met. |
B.Consider the good job in your performance. |
C.Prepare some good questions for next event. |
D.Think about how to improve conversation skills. |
A.How to Take Part in Social Events |
B.How to Be More Confident at Social Events |
C.How to Use Body Languages at Social Events |
D.How to Avoid Making Mistakes at Social Events |
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【推荐1】We usually interpret someone looking us straight in the eye during an interaction as a sign of trustworthiness.
But research is increasingly challenging this standard view.
While folk wisdom tells us eye contact is a sign of honesty and trustworthiness, these findings were not a surprise. Animals have direct eye contact not before engaging in kind behaviors but rather immediately before an attack.
What does this mean for the work place? In a competitive business environment, when taking part in negotiations or a business deal, for example, be aware that people who look you directly in the eye may not be as friendly as you think.
A.This may help you understand eye contact much better. |
B.Eye contact is a sign of challenge and threat from another. |
C.The study led by Jennifer Jordan shows quite the opposite. |
D.All the experiments took place in a competitive environment. |
E.We use eye contact as a marker of intimacy and straightforwardness. |
F.Actually it can be rather upsetting when someone avoids eye contact. |
G.If you want to express honesty and reliability, direct eye contact may indicate the opposite. |
【推荐2】Each year, the National Council of Teachers of English(NCTE)presents several awards to recognize outstanding books written for all age levels. Earlier this month at a book awards luncheon(午宴)held during their 107th Annual Convention,they announced the winner of the 2018 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children.
Dan Santat was named the winner of the 2018 Charlotte Huck Award for his novel AFTER THE FALL, the inspiring epilogue(后记)to the beloved classic nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. The Charlotte Huck Award was established in 2014 to promote and recognize fiction that has the potential to have a positive effect on children’s lives. The award honors Dr. Charlotte Huck, a professor at Ohio State University who devoted her career to promoting the role of children’s books in young people’s academic, social, and emotional development. Each year,the committee selects a winner and recommended titles appropriate for children.
“Charlotte Huck was a supporter for children’s books as teaching tools,” says Erika Dawes, chair of the Charlotte Huck Award committee. “Books like these award winners, books that promote imagination, wonder and sympathy, fill a critical need in our classrooms.”
Jason Chin was named winner of the 2018 Orbis Pictus Award for his book GRAND CANYON, an illuminating(启蒙的)look at one of the planet’s most fascinating features. The Orbis Pictus Award, established in 1989, is the oldest children’s book award for nonfiction.
Honor and Recommended Books in each category were also announced at the awards luncheon, where the 2017 winners(Jason Reynolds and Melissa Sweet)delivered speeches. Dan Santat and Jason Chin are invited to speak at next year’s Annual Convention.
1. We can infer from the text that .A.the previous year winners will be invited to speak at the awards luncheon |
B.GRAND CANYON is a fictional book about the future of our planet |
C.NCTE mainly focuses on outstanding books for children |
D.The Orbis Pictus Award is the oldest book award presented by NCTE |
A.likes reading children’s literature books |
B.devotes her time to writing children’s books |
C.collects some money to start rewards for children’s books |
D.pays special attention to the role of books in children’s growth |
A.He is an outstanding English teacher. |
B.His theme speech is full of knowledge. |
C.His novel can positively influence children. |
D.He wrote classic nursery rhyme for children. |
A.It only awards fictional books for children. |
B.It mainly selects some books appropriate for children. |
C.It was named in honor of Professor Charlotte Huck. |
D.It awards writers for their outstanding books every year. |
【推荐3】We all know how important personal interaction is in family and friends. It is also crucial at work. It is the foundation on which happiness and successful results are built.
A study found a correlation (相关性) of 0.92 between employee happiness and their relationships with colleagues. The correlation between their happiness and relationships to directors was only 0.74.Since you may spend more time with coworkers than with your directors, personal interaction in a group, especially a new one, deserves much attention. Whenever people involve in a new company or organization, they need to get to know each other to be comfortable in working together. This does not mean just memorizing names, and team icebreakers are the way to begin.
To everyone, except the most eager and outgoing few, icebreakers are a necessary evil. They are supposed to make awkwardness disappear, but forced icebreakers often make events even more tense. However, the benefits of icebreakers far outweigh(超过) any negatives. They can take care of introductions in a much more fun way than just simply going around the room and stating what's on your business card. When done right, icebreakers can quickly build a sense of community, set the tone for the upcoming session and share participants’ expectations of the days ahead. It helps participants to get involved, understand each other more and enable better cooperation and networking. Last but not least, it is a practical way to cheer the group up and have everyone focused and ready to go.
The best icebreakers should be tailored for a particular situation: icebreakers for a private company often have a different design from a non-profit organization and finding the right one for your purpose can help them be successful.
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?A.Happiness is affected more by those closer to us. |
B.Directors should care more about workers’ happiness. |
C.Memorizing colleagues’ names is of great importance. |
D.Finding the coworkers you are comfortable with is hard. |
A.Something that is needed though people may not like it |
B.Something that must be involved in the new companies. |
C.Something that creates a strange atmosphere among people. |
D.Something that does great harm to companies in the long run. |
A.Objective. | B.Opposed. |
C.Favorable. | D.Doubtful. |
A.The characteristics of icebreakers. |
B.The general introduction of icebreakers. |
C.The common application of icebreakers. |
D.The methods to choose proper icebreakers. |
【推荐1】They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. With little more than a pencil, a ruler and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday, calculated (计算) the track that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong's history—making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.
Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson's 33 years in NASA and for decades afterwards, almost no one knew her name.
Mrs. Johnson was one of several hundred strictly educated, extremely capable yet largely unrecognized women who, well before the modern feminist (女权) movement, worked as NASA mathematicians. But it was not only her sex that kept her long unsung. For some years at mid-century, the black women were forced to a double segregation (隔离). They were kept separate from the much large group of white women who in turn were segregated from the mathematicians and engineers.
Mrs. Johnson broke barriers at NASA. In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of black women who served as mathematicians for the space agency. Their story was told in the 2016 Hollywood film “Hidden Figures,” which was nominated (提名) for three Oscars, including Best Picture.
In 2017, NASA devoted a building in her honor. That year, The Washington Post described her as “the most celebrated of the computers” — “computers” being the term originally used to describe Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues, much as “typewriters” were used in the 19th century to represent professional typists.
She “helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space,” NASA's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, said in a statement on Monday, “even as she made huge steps that also opened doors for women and people of color in the universal human effort to explore space.”
As Mrs. Johnson herself was fond of saying, her term at Langley — from 1953 until her retirement in 1986 — was “a time when computers wore skirts."
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?A.Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk. |
B.Katherine Johnson’s contributions |
C.The Apollo 11 mission to the moon. |
D.Breakthroughs in moon exploration. |
A.She helped invent the computer. |
B.She was NASA's human calculator. |
C.She calculated the track with computers. |
D.She was quite capable of using computers. |
A.Change the world for the better. |
B.Use knowledge to wipe out ignorance. |
C.Don’t judge a person by his appearance. |
D.Never be limited by the labels given by others. |
【推荐2】World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5th and was created to inspire people around the globe to take an active part in environmental protection and learn more about ways we can help to guarantee the future of our planet is safe.
The very first World Environment Day took place in 1974, established by the United Nations General Assembly on the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment that took place in 1972.
Each year the United Nations pick a theme and a host city where anyone who is concerned about the environment can talk about environmental topics with others, followed by different kinds of exhibits to promote environmental awareness. Environmentalists, academics and scientists come together to bring new ideas on the table concerning the environment.
The 2018 World Environment Day is hosted by India, and the theme is Beat Plastic Pollution. It urges people to explore and choose supportable alternatives like paper or cloth bags to reduce the production and use of disposable plastic, which makes up 10% of all of the waste. Even though the United Nations pick a specific host city every year, people around the world still celebrate World Environment Day in their hometowns with parades(游行), concerts, cleaning up and tree planting and all kinds of green actions to work towards having a beautiful planet and battling pollution.
World Environment Day is not a public holiday, so you won't be getting the day off work or school, but if you want to celebrate, why not bring it to the attention of your parents, friends, colleagues or classmates? World Environment Day is all about working together to take action for the planet, so try to get everyone you know interested in helping do something. Things as small as making sure people have a way to recycle can make a difference. You could also try beautifying your neighborhood by planting gardens, learn about green foods, raise money for a local wildlife conservation group of simply learn about the effects of different products on the earth.
1. Why is World Environment Day set up?A.To make people know more about nature. | B.To ask people to help to protect the globe. |
C.To warn people of the danger of air pollution. | D.To encourage people to plan the earth's future. |
A.Decide a host city. | B.Hold a theme party. |
C.Discuss environmental ideas. | D.Show some plastic products. |
A.High cost. | B.Poor- quality. | C.Secondhand. | D.Single use. |
A.Every bit of effort counts/ matters Count | B.Doing is better than saying. |
C.Many hands make light work. | D.Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. |
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Signature Taco Day Tour
To avoid tourist traps and dive deeper into Mexican culture, our Signature Taco Tour is for you! Our Foodie Guides will show you the best Mexican cuisine, tell you the best stories, and do their very best to keep you eating until you explode. Not only will you go “behind the scenes” and see the deliciousness made for tourists, you'll also learn about Mexican culture and history, plus extras like.
Las Caletas Beach Hideaway
Spend a relaxing day at Las Caletas Beach. The use of diving gear, canoe, and stand-up paddle boards is all available, as well as a scenic nature walk and admission to Kids' Adventure Park for the young ones. Away from the beach, you can seek out plenty of other fun activities including cooking classes and jungle walks.
Jungle Zipline (索道)Tour
Cheer and scream as you zip across the Rio Cuale and above the jungle along 11 lines that run from treetop to treetop. The ziplines get progressively longer and allow plenty of time to take in the tropical scenery from the air. When you reach the Tom and Jerry lines, prepare to race against a friend as you will be able to fly at speeds up to 60 miles per hour (96 km/h).
Rhythms of the Night-Sunset Cruise (游船)
As a blanket of stars covers the sky, enjoy authentic Mexican cuisine by candlelight. The buffet-style menu offers a wide-variety of items such as freshly grilled steak, tender chicken, grilled fish, pasta salad, and a mixture of fresh fruit and vegetables. And more importantly, watch the lively performance of ancient ceremony and learn historical and religious stories. Book a place in advance and enjoy your night.
1. In which tour can the tourists experience a sense of flying?A.Signature Taco Day Tour. |
B.Las Caletas Beach Hideaway. |
C.Jungle Zipline Tour. |
D.Rhythms of the Night-Sunset Cruise. |
A.Serving large groups. |
B.Enjoying Mexican food. |
C.Visiting the industry area. |
D.Learning rural Mexican culture. |
A.It needs reservation. |
B.It provides Mexican food. |
C.It offers some history classes. |
D.It allows visitors to take part in the play. |