•While people don’t always like the old saying “the early bird gets the worm”, getting up early is actually the secret to the success of many people.
•Improve your cognitive (认知的) function. People who get up early in the morning can concentrate better, are more attentive, and stay energetic throughout the day. Since people’s brains are more active in the morning, focusing on important tasks earlier will allow you to make better decisions than people who work later. Morning people have better problem- solving skills.
•Help you sleep better. Waking up early makes going to bed early easier and helps you get consistent sleep and wake times.
•Give you more time to eat breakfast.
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| A．Give yourself more time to get relaxed. |
| B．Get you to do exercise early in the morning. |
| C．And thus this can lead to a better quality of sleep. |
| D．Setting your alarm clock early will give you extra time. |
| E．Nothing starts a day better than eating a healthy breakfast. |
| F．That’s because they can do more while the world is still sleeping. |
| G．So they can get better grades in school and obtain higher paying jobs. |
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【推荐1】Not every day is going to be great. Not every day is going to be your wedding day, graduation, or birthday. We have our routines; we go to school and meet a lot of the same people. Usually long periods of time in our lives are devoted to doing a specific set of things. The stress of life can disconnect us from our surroundings and make it easier to lose touch with our need and emotions.
Essentially, casual magic is practicing the habit of seeing the beauty in small moments of mundane (单调的) life.
Now this is not to say that life shouldn’t be negative and that we should just ignore all the bad things that happen in life.
Hence, I urge you to try it.
| A．However, casual magic is the road to happiness. |
| B．To prevent this, apply the concept of casual magic. |
| C．An adequate example to practice casual magic is nature. |
| D．Casual magic instead allows us to listen to and examine any negative feeling. |
| E．Put aside your screen, be present and give yourself a chance to find that special moment. |
| F．We should learn from negative things and move on to appreciating moments of casual magic. |
| G．It is centered around curiosity and focuses the energy on observing and reflecting on the little things. |
【推荐2】When the German psychologist Kurt Lewin moved to the U.S., he found his new home a little puzzling, especially when it came to friendships. “Compared with Germans, Americans seem to make quicker progress toward friendly relations early in the acquaintance process and with many more persons,” he wrote. “Yet this development often stops at a certain point and the quickly acquired friends will, after years of close relations, say goodbye as easily as after a few weeks of acquaintance.”
Lewin thought that this idea of friends as fast fashion might be encouraged by the United States’s high level of residential mobility (居住流动性).
Gillath and Keefer did studies where people took questionnaires about their willingness to things and their history of moving from place to place. They found that people who’d moved around a lot were more willing to get rid of objects, and being willing to get rid of things was connected with being willing to cut social ties.
Moving is a big life change, and not only with regard to place. The social circles they have easy access to are also likely to change. This isn’t to suggest that people view their friends as objects. “Moving also requires making choices about which relationships are worth keeping and which are not, which ties could be replaced and which ties should be kept,” Gillath and Keefer write.
Perhaps this tendency to keep friendships from getting too deep comes not only from an easy-come, easy-go attitude due to mobility, but also the knowledge of how hard it is to leave people. As John Reisman puts it, “Within a changing society, people could, by keeping their friendships at an associative level, protect themselves from the sadness and self-blame that can be brought about when they have to cut close relationships.”
1. What puzzled Kurt after he came to America?| A．Americans were friendly to Germans. |
| B．Americans easily won emotional friends. |
| C．Americans were likely to end friendships easily. |
| D．Americans considered it fashion to make friends. |
| A．Throw away | B．Put away | C．Take over | D．Break down |
| A．keep one’s former social circles |
| B．judge one’s friendship with others |
| C．choose the objects from old friends |
| D．test one’s long-distance relationships |
| A．To be ashamed of living in a changing society. |
| B．To feel less guilty of moving away all the time. |
| C．To keep themselves from being hurt by friends. |
| D．To reduce the pain of ending deep friendships. |
【推荐3】Creating a system that works and following it every day is an excellent way of becoming your best self. Read on for tips on how to establish a daily routine.
Make a list of your daily tasks
The first step is to look into what you need to do every day. Do not worry about organizing the list at this point.
Develop a schedule
Assess your energy levels. What time of the day do you perform tasks best?
Remain flexible
Your routine and expectations might not fit in nearly as perfect as you expected, and that is okay. The point is to make use of your productive time for the challenging tasks and your less productive time for the less challenging activities.
Test-drive your new routine
Once everything is all set up, it’s time to practice the routine. Write it on a paper and test-drive it for 30 days. Take note of your feelings.
Be realistic
Having a routine and sticking to it is unbelievable, but you should give yourself time.
| A．Productive habits take time to develop. |
| B．Simply focus on writing down the list. |
| C．And do not shy away from making changes. |
| D．Make a list, and remember that no task is too small |
| E．Most people have high energy levels in the morning. |
| F．Many successful people sleep all day and work at night. |
| G．Your success depends on how seriously you take your routine. |
【推荐1】How to Sleep Better at Night
As we all know, a good sleep helps us relax and it also makes us energetic again. However, some of us have trouble with sleep at night. Lack (缺少) of sleep can cause illnesses. How can we improve our night’s sleep?
● Take exercise during the day
● Don’t use electronic products before bedtime
Before bedtime, some of us have a habit of using electronic products to surf the Internet, listen to music or watch movies. It’s bad for our health to do these activities before bedtime.
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When we sleep with lights on, our brain will think it’s still daytime. It will take us longer time to fall asleep and we will rest less. So it’s wise to sleep with lights off.
● Keep worries away
Some of us have difficulty in falling asleep because of worries. Instead of lying awake, we can write down the things that make us worried and make a list of things to do.
| A．Don’t sleep with lights on |
| B．Don’t make any noise at night |
| C．Here are some tips to improve it |
| D．Taking exercise is good for our sleep |
| E．There is no way to solve all these problems |
| F．In this way we can keep worries away and sleep better |
| G．These activities will keep our brain active and prevent sleep |
【推荐2】Easy Ways to Improve Your Memory
Are you blanking on names? Do you often leave your phone in a cab? The following latest science-based tricks will really turn your mind into sharp thinking ahead of you.
Play brain games.
Get more sleep. Researchers have discovered that losing half your night’s sleep on just one evening can erode (削弱) memory.
Hit the gym.
Quit multitasking. The main reason why you can't remember where your keys are is that you are not paying attention when you put them down. When you put your keys down, stop and say out loud, “I’m leaving my keys wherever I am placing them.” Studies show that it takes 8 seconds to fully commit a piece or information to the memory.
| A．Master a new skill. |
| B．These skills can improve your memory and delay brain aging. |
| C．Playing puzzles or crosswords activates your whole brain, including the memory area. |
| D．So concentrating on the task at hand is important. |
| E．Learn to memorize others' names |
| F．The way to slow the decline in aging adults is to improve the length and quality of sleep. |
| G．A little workout might create big mental benefits. |
【推荐3】Even though one out of three American children live within a mile of their school, almost not half of those students often bike or walk to class, scientists report.
Children who live in the South, in country areas, or who have college-educated parents, are among those least likely to bike or walk to school, notes the report, which is published in July.
Sarah Martin and her workmates at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) studied materials from more than 7,000 children between 9 and 15 years of age.
They found that almost 35 percent of the children lived within one mile of their schools. Children between 11 and 13 years old were more likely to walk or bike than 9-year-olds. Children whose parents had a high school education were more likely to bike or walk than children with college-educated parents.
“The majority of children are missing an opportunity to increase daily physical activity,” Martin said in a prepared statement.
According to the CDC, nearly one in five (18.8 percent) children between 6 and 11 years old are overweight. Increased daily physical activity is one of the methods the CDC gives to help deal with obesity (肥胖)in children.
Martin said that there are all kinds of reasons why children in city areas might be more likely to bike or walk. They said the fact is that schools may be in mixed-use neighborhoods where it is more possible to bike or walk, compared with other places where there may be fewer safe sidewalks.
1. Sarah Martin and her workmates found that .| A．younger children would like to bike or walk to school |
| B．older children are much stronger than the younger children |
| C．kids whose parents received less education walk more |
| D．some children are becoming much lazier than others |
| A．eat too much every day | B．have unhealthy meals |
| C．are too busy to travel | D．take less physical activity |
| A．children should receive a better education |
| B．some children don’t bike or walk because there are fewer safe sidewalks |
| C．it is unnecessary for children to walk to school |
| D．children in country areas have more chance to bike or walk than those in cities |
| A．Education. | B．Culture. | C．Sports. | D．Health. |
