A group of professional people asked a group of 4-to-8 year-olds this question. “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what they think:
“When my grandmother got arthritis (关节炎), she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails (脚趾甲) anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis. That's love.” Rebecca－age 8
“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” Chrissy – age 6
“Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip (一小口) before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.” Danny – age 7
“Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every day.” Noelle – age 7
“My mummy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.” Clare－age 6
“Love is when Mummy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is more handsome than David Beckham.” Chris – age 7
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four-year-old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap (膝上), and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.”
1. The children’s answers are mainly based on ________.| A．their own stories |
| B．their family stories |
| C．how they viewed people around them |
| D．what happened around them |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．her father’s love for her. | B．her grandparents’ love for her |
| C．her friends’ love for her | D．her mother’s love for her |
| A．cheered his neighbour up in a unique way |
| B．gave love a special definition |
| C．comforted his neighbour in the most caring way |
| D．had a good understanding of his neighbour’s sadness |
| A．To report a survey. | B．To explain the meaning of love. |
| C．To report a contest. | D．To show children’s loveliness. |
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【推荐1】After Joe and his six-year-old son, Joey, arrived at a wildlife shelter in Florida’s Everglade, Joe went to the service centre, leaving his son alone by the water. Seconds later, Joe heard a scream.
Joey had slipped on snake-grass at the edge of the water and fallen in face-first. Turning around, Joe saw Joey’s right arm in the jaws of a big alligator(短吻鳄).
Time seemed to stop as Joe ran towards his son and into the water, which was almost a metre deep. As Joey screamed, Joe wrapped his left arm across the boy’s chest and began pulling him back towards the bank. With his right hand, Joe struck the alligator’s head as hard as he could.
A young man nearby ran over, screaming at Joe to pull Joey out of the water. But Joe feared what would happen to Joey’s arm if he pulled too hard. So he guided Joey up the bank, dragging the alligator along with him.
While Joe dealt blows to the beast’s head, the other man kicked its belly. After three or four kicks, the alligator released Joey and fled. Joe picked up his son and found that he’d suffered only a few cuts. Joe thanked the stranger and sped home.
A week after the accident, the child went with his class on a field trip to another wildlife shelter. His teacher, who watched him closely at the alligator exhibit, told Joe his son acted like any other little boy.
“Because of my dad, I feel less and less afraid of alligators,” says Joey. “He’s like my bodyguard.”
1. Who helped Joe with his son’s escape from the danger?| A．Nobody. | B．Joey’s teacher. |
| C．Joey’s class. | D．A stranger. |
| A．Nervous and excited. | B．Frightened but calm. |
| C．Shocked and hopeless. | D．Guilty but hesitant. |
| A．His teacher watched the class all the time. |
| B．The alligators were not aggressive at all. |
| C．He was under the protection of his father. |
| D．His father set a good example to him. |
Munyaradzi Gwatidzo
-From AstroMobil
As an orphan growing up in one of Zimbabwe's poorest areas,Gwatidzo was very interested in electronics.With a big family to care for,Gwatidzo taught himself to repair phones.Gwatidzo in 2011 to build his own brand.Astro Mobile.Astro now provides employment to over 2,000 people with various job opportunities.
Cherae Robinson
-From Tastemakers Africa
Tastemakers Africa is a mobile app aiming to revolutionize the African travel and leisure space.Through the app, travelers and curious locals can book personal experiences.Its founder,Cherae Robinson,has always been passionate about Africa and through her personal adventures got an opportunity.
Neku Atawodi
-From Malaik
How does one go from a sports scientist to a founder launching a crowdfunding platform only four months? “I am passionate about Africa and impressed by the teaming spirit of the African youth,”she said,"A group of angel investors backing a business can really lead it to success!"
Richard Bbaale
-From BanaPads
BanaPads is not yet available to the market in Africa but its original story alone is pretty inspiring.Watching his older sister miss school for a week every month because their guardians could not afford clean towels,sowed a seed for a business Richard Bbaale would later start.
1. Whose app is under the process of research and development?| A．Bbaale. | B．Atawodi. |
| C．Robinso. | D．Gwatidzo. |
| A．his interest in phones | B．his responsibility for family |
| C．his intention to set up a brand | D．his eagerness to provide more jobs |
| A．Helping locals earn more. | B．Helping visitors save money. |
| C．Making it easier to book tickets. | D．Making travel more comfortable. |
【推荐3】It was a cold and wet night, I had just left a local club to travel home when I lost control of my car. I crashed into a car, then hit a tree. The force was so great that is knocked the parked car several meters forwards. I was knocked out cold. Worse still, I had no idea that a fire had started under the engine of my car. It then set the tree on fire.
Driving behind me was a young man, who I later found out was called Jared. He saw the accident occur and stopped to help me out of the burning car. He put his own life in danger when he got into the back seat to try to undo my seat belt. This wasn’t easy because I’d hit the car on my driver’s side and my seat belt was squeezed into the console (操纵台).
With my seat belt undone, Jared then hit open the driver’s window to drag me out as I had still not regained consciousness (意识). He bravely did this while my car and the tree were burning. Woken by the crash, the homeowners came out to investigate. Jared told them to ring emergency services. I was rushed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a serious condition. I eventually woke up a day later.
I owe my life to Jared and I consider him a friend due to the special bound. Jared says that although the events of that night initially shocked him, he never once hesitated to help. In addition, he doesn’t believe that he did anything special.
1. What happened to the author in the crash?| A．He was knocked out of his car. |
| B．He was knocked unconscious. |
| C．He felt cold because of bleeding. |
| D．He climbed on the tree to escape fire. |
| A．To unfasten the author’s seat belt. |
| B．To get the author out of the car. |
| C．To help the author drive the car safely. |
| D．To put out the burning fire in the car. |
| A．A narrow escape from death | B．A courageous crash rescue |
| C．Jared, my best friend | D．A frightening car fire |
【推荐1】If you are always staying at home alone or busy with your work in the office. You are not likely to make friends. In order to make new friends, you are advised to go out and do something that will create opportunities for you to meet other people. Developing an interest, going to the concert, taking part in social events or doing sports in the gym is a good choice. You will find it much easier to make friends if you have the same hobbies or interests with others.
Be more confident about yourself. Everyone has advantages. It is important to build up confidence and show people your talents. In daily life, sometimes you are expected to talk about things you are good at. In fact, what people prefer to learn about most is your interests and hobbies.
Think of proper topics which will make a conversation go on smoothly. The latest news get to know something about fashion or listen to pop music. The more topics and opinions you share with others, the more friends you may take.
Be a good listener. Give people chances to talk about themselves or express their feelings. Don’t just keep focusing on yourself. Ask some questions to show that you are interested and expect your partners answers. If so, people will feel they are important in the conversation and will be willing to become your friends.
Make eye contact with others while talking to them. If not, people may think you are impolite to them or not interested in them. As a result, they may not show interest or respect to you either.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?| A．Why we make friends. | B．Several ways to make friends. |
| C．Who needs friends. | D．How to keep friendship lasting. |
| A．techniques | B．news | C．music | D．interests |
| A．A good listener can make people feel they are important. |
| B．A good listener, let’s people talk about themselves. |
| C．A good listener shows an interest in asking questions. |
| D．A good listener doesn’t control the conversation. |
【推荐2】If you're ever reading a book or watching a movie and get the clear feeling that you've come across the story before—or even better, can predict exactly what's going to happen next—there could be a good reason for that.
Researchers from the Computational Story Laboratory at the University of Vermont studied the complete text of some 1,737 fiction works available on Project Gutenberg, an online collection of more than 50,000 digital books in the public area. They discovered that English literature consist of just six kinds of emotional arcs(情感弧线) that make up nearly all of the most wellknown stories. By analyzing the sentiment(情感)of language used in these texts, the researchers were able to show the emotional ups and downs for the stories as a whole. They discovered that negative words like “poverty”， “dead”， and “punishment” dragged the emotion down, while positive terms like “love”， “peace”， and “friend” brought it up.
According to the researchers, those six core emotional arcs are：
“Rags to riches” (An ongoing emotional rise)
“Tragedy, or riches to rags” (An ongoing emotional fall)
“Man in a hole” (A fall followed by a rise)
“Icarus” (A rise followed by a fall)
“Cinderella” (Risefallrise)
“Oedipus” (Fallrisefall)
Interestingly, based on download statistics from Project Gutenberg, the researchers say the most popular stories are ones that use more complex emotional arcs, with the Cinderella and Oedipus arcs registering the most downloads. Also popular are works that combine these core arcs together in new ways within one story, such as two “Man in a hole” arcs stuck together, or the “Cinderella” are coupled with a tragic ending.
1. Readers often feel familiar when reading a new story because stories have similar ____________.| A．beginnings | B．endings |
| C．characters | D．emotional arcs |
| A．By conducting surveys among readers. |
| B．By reading books borrowed from libraries. |
| C．By analyzing works from an online collection. |
| D．By interviewing authors of the wellknown stories. |
| A．Hope, fortune and riches. | B．Disease, murder and war. |
| C．Smile, health and beauty. | D．Cold, earthquake and spring. |
| A．Works with an ongoing emotional rise. |
| B．Works with an ongoing emotional fall. |
| C．Works with a rise followed by a fall. |
| D．Works with more than one rise and fall. |
Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high-class Benz（奔驰）with a fare of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then walk off without paying your fare. The driver would not show the least sign of anxiety.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also serve outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so they naturally go to the free dining rooms to have their meals. The most they would do to show their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends to dine free of charge.
The Finnish workers are paid by the hour. They are very much on their own as soon as they have agreed with the boss on the rate（价钱）. From then on they just say how many hours they have worked and they will be paid accordingly（相应地）.
With so many loopholes（漏洞）in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “petty advantages”. But the strange thing is, all the taxi passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. And workers always give an honest account of the exact hours they put in. As the Finns always act on good faith in everything they do, living in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”.
In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to be on guard against others?
1. While taking a taxi in Finland, _________.
| A．a passenger can never be turned down by the taxi driver wherever he wants to go |
| B．a passenger pays two US dollars for a taxi ride |
| C．a passenger can go anywhere without having to pay the driver |
| D．a passenger needs to provide good faith demonstration before they leave without paying |
| A．provide meals for only those who live in the hotels |
| B．provide meals for any diners |
| C．provide free wine and charge for food |
| D．are mostly poorly managed |
| A．The workers in Finland are paid by the hour. |
| B．The bosses in Finland are too busy to check the working hours of their employees. |
| C．The workers are always honest with their working hours. |
| D．The workers and their bosses will make an agreement in advance about the pay. |
| A．Finnish people are not smart enough in daily life |
| B．Finland has been a good place for cheats |
| C．the Finnish society is of very high moral level |
| D．all the Finns are rich |
