【推荐1】Every day can be a fresh, new beginning — this is very important if you had a difficult day before. By starting with a positive attitude, you can face the challenges of the day in a good state of mind.     1    

Exercise. Exercising is one of the best methods to start your day for your mind as well as the body.     2    In addition, it also reduces stress and improves your metabolism (新陈代谢). So go for a walk, go for a bike ride, or go to the gym in the morning.

Organize yourself.     3    Make a to­do list and make an effort to follow it. It will keep you organized and make your day easier. However, make sure that your to­do list is manageable. There are only so many things you can do in a day.

Smile. Starting your day by acting the way you want to feel can help you be more positive.     4    The easiest thing to do is smile. Just smile because you are alive and you can. Watch or listen to something humorous so you can laugh. It makes you feel positive and really good about yourself and the world that surrounds you.

Keep important items in the same place. To make mornings less busy, start a habit — keeping your important items in one easily accessible place.     5    This way, you are never looking for that lost item when you are running behind.

A．Write down the tasks for the day.

B．Try other actions to get yourself to feel happier.

C．Try some of the following tips to start your day right.

D．Put your keys, wallet, purse, and other important items there.

E．Instead of rushing through the morning, go slow and take your time.

F．It increases brain function, which can help you get a jump­start on the day.

G．If you feel annoyed or tired, do something physical to make yourself feel happy.

【推荐3】With more and more people having a longer life in the world, people are eager to know what to do and what not to do.

It is well know that women live longer on average than men — and some researchers claim this is because they are better at visiting their doctor and voicing any concerns about their health, rather than sticking their heads in the sand.

Not smoking, not being overweight and taking sufficient exercise keep your heart and blood vessels healthy for longer — and all that is good for your brain, too.

One popular theory about aging concerns the damage caused to the tissues in our bodies by “free radicals (自由基)”. Our immune system makes these free radicals ineffective using antioxidant (抗氧化剂) nutrients such as vitamins A and C, and the theory is that a diet high in such “antioxidants” will help you hold back the the years. In fact, though there is no doubt among scientists that free radicals harm the body, there is no hard proof that aging is caused simply by a lack of sufficient antioxidants in our bodies or our food.

Another theory growing in popularity holds that we can stay alive longer by eating less, for an experiment concluded mice live longer when fed 30 percent fewer calories. Though the beneficial effect has since been found in other species, including fruit flies, what we really want to know is how this applies to humans. The answer may be found in long-term experiments in the U.S. using rhesus monkeys, which are closely related to us in evolutionary terms. However, though the aging process is slower in those animals, monkeys on the calorie restriction group do not appear to live longer.

1. Which of the following would the author agree with?

A．Go on a diet.

B．Say your worries aloud if you have any.

C．Take in sufficient antioxidants.

D．The more physical exercise, the better.

2. What do we know about free radicals?

A．They have a negative effect on humans.

B．They can produce vitamins A and

C．They account for a lack of antioxidants.

D．They help humans hold back the years.

3. It can be conclude from the last paragraph that ______.

A．fruit flies are closest to humans in genes

B．the author is not a little in favor of eating less

C．calorie restriction doesn’t necessarily work out well

D．the less a rhesus monkey eats, the longer it will live

4. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．Facts about losing weight.

B．Way to keep healthy.

C．How to have a longer life.

D．How to live happily.

【推荐1】Is there a single word that motivates us more than “weekend”? It’s like the promise of a sweet holiday following what seems like long-time exhaustion. It’s the spring in our step that gets bouncier with each passing day — until by Friday, we’re practically bumping our heads against the ceiling.

The trouble is that the weekend is a rip-off. You think you’re getting 48 hours of unconditional downtime, but reality takes a discount. In fact, it takes most of Sunday. That’s when anxiety comes creeping in and another countdown begins: 12 hours until Monday. Sure, the weekend is free time. But the mounting stress of an incoming Monday can ease any joy you might get from a Sunday evening.

That feeling is so common among the Monday-to-Friday crowd that there’s even more than one name for it: the Sunday Scaries, or Sunday Fear Syndrome. Going from a countdown to the weekend to a countdown to Monday can be difficult. Even monster.com — a website that specializes in binding humans to the Monday-to-Friday cycle — admits it’s a problem. In a survey, Monster found that 76% of Americans have “really had” Sunday night blues.

For most people, Sunday is no holiday at all. It may all come down to the same problem: We can’t stop thinking about tomorrow. Even worse, we may develop some downright unhealthy coping strategies for that transition from weekends to Monday. Some might resists — staying up late, milking every minute of a fleeting Sunday in the form of mind-numbing distractions.

But why should Monday cast such a long and fearful shadow on our lives? Maybe it’s because the counter is reset and the weekend, or happiness, seems at furthest point. If, like most of us, you have a tolerable job, but don’t much like the whole idea of working, there are plenty of ways to make Mondays a little less stressful. Most importantly, don’t leave any unsettled Friday business hanging over the weekend. So, clear the decks and tie up loose ends.

1. What do we know about the weekend in Paragraph 2?

A．It is hard-earned.

B．It doesn’t bring joy as expected.

C．It adds to people’s anxiety and stress.

D．It provides good time to relax.

2. Why does the writer mention monster.com in the text?

A．To clarify a question.	B．To show its popularity.
C．To provides an illustration.	D．To support his idea.

3. What does the writer think of the way most people spend the weekend?

A．Tolerant.

B．Conservative.

C．Unwise.

D．Practical.

4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．Why People Are Stressed Out on Fridays

B．Why Monday Takes a Bite out of Sunday

C．Why a Countdown to the Weekend Is Difficult

D．Why Monday Casts a Fearful Shadow on Our Lives

【推荐2】Tomorrow evening I will be interviewed on stage by a museum official. I will be an interpreter, talking from experience as a disability rights lawyer and activist.
In “special” schools and camps for children with physical and mental disabilities, I grew up knowing we were a category of person that the world did not want. Most of us had a story of some doctor advising our parents to put up away or to let us die. We owed our survival to parents who had irrationally(不理性地) bonded with us. We knew we were lucky and hoped our luck would hold. To increase the chance of surviving, we tended to be charming. We developed　　1　　.
By the time I roll onto the stage the next night, I’ve thought a lot about there and here, then and now. When the first question comes, I tell them about my fascination with the wheelchair, and somehow it sounds funny, and laughter fills the room. We talk from the horror of Nazis killing (Nazis once killed the disabled patients as useless) to a funny confession that I, too, tend to stare at disabled people on the street.
What has come over me? In this room, people with disabilities in thrilling variety make me feel at home. Here people, disabled and not, are gathered by choice.
I haven’t forgotten that 2 million people remain in US disability institutions, that some disabled children still cannot attend mainstream schools, that too many of us live in poverty. But I can’t hold onto anger and sorrow for I feel a shared sense of possibility, a drive for a world that will embrace both the fit and the unfit and hold them so dear that the division dies.
1. What’s the author according to the passage?

A．A disabled lawyer.

B．A reporter.

C．An actor

D．An interviewer

2. The underlined phrase “thick skins” in the second paragraph probably means__.

A．with more clothes

B．making skin dirty

C．caring nothing of ignorance

D．growing more slowly than others

3. The second paragraph is mainly focused on ________.

A．the growth of the disabled people

B．the hatred of the disabled people

C．the love of the disabled people

D．the appreciation of the disabled people

4. It can be sensed but not clearly stated that the author________.

A．likes to be interviewed in a museum

B．can tell funny stories

C．has charming personality

D．is humorous and optimistic

5. What’s the author’s attitude towards the future?

A．Desperate

B．Hopeful

C．Negative

D．Objective

【推荐3】Throughout our daily lives, we have known plenty of people and will know more. But how can we tell if someone is trustworthy? In a paper published recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researcher gave us the answer.

The researchers asked 401 adults from the United States to fill out a questionnaire measuring their guilt-proneness(内疚倾向) in different situations as well as several other qualities, and then play a short online game. In this game, Player 1 is given $1, which they can choose to give to Player2. Any money given to Player 2 is then automatically increased to $2.50. Player 2 can then decide whether to keep all of the money or behave in a trustworthy way by returning a portion of the money to Player 1. The researchers found more guilt-prone people were more likely to share the money with Player1. Actually, in follow-up studies, guilt-proneness predicted trustworthiness better than other personality qualities the researchers measured.

Why might guilt lead to trustworthy behavior? The researchers found people who were guilt-prone also reported feeling an obligation to act in ethical(合乎道德的) and responsible ways while interacting(互动) with their partners in the game. People who are guilt-prone tend to avoid engaging in behavior that might harm or disappoint others. If they do something bad, guilt encourages them to try to make things right again.

Then， how can we use this research to ascertain whether someone is trustworthy? “One way to do this might be observe how they respond to experience regret,” lead author Emma Levine, assistant professor at the University of Chicago Levine, explains. Another way is to ask them to describe a difficult dilemma they faced in the past, suggests co-author Taya Cohen, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. This is particularly effective, Cohen and her colleagues have found, because it allows us to see if they’re concerned about the effects their actions have on others.

1. What may make others feel that we are reliable according to the text?

A．Our good qualities to help them out.

B．Our tendency to experience guilt.

C．Our kind attitude towards them.

D．Our team spirit in the game.

2. What may connect guilt with trustworthy behavior?

A．A sense of responsibility.

B．A feeling of disappointment.

C．The way one interacts with others.

D．The ability to tell right from wrong.

3. What does the underlined word “ascertain” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Ask	B．Express
C．Describe	D．Determine

4. How is the text organized and developed?

A．By providing background.

B．By making a lot of comparisons.

C．By answering the raised questions.

D．By analyzing effects of guilt-proneness.