Many companies are expanding their mental—health benefits(福利), but getting employees to take advantage of them can be challenging. Puget Sound Energy is—on a mission to change that.
Last year, 98% of its employees watched a 20—minute mental—health training video, and managers were offered a two—hour live mental—health training. The sessions included tips on how to recognize and respond to mental—health issues in themselves and others, information on what mental—health resources the company offers, and personal stories from PSE workers who had experienced mental illness.
PSE is one of many companies expanding mental—health benefits and talking about mental health in the workplace in new ways. Workers are suffering from it, and companies recognize poor mental health among employees which is linked to lost productivity and higher medical expenses. Most companies already offer some free mental—health counseling(咨询) through an employee assistance plan, or EAP, to provide a certain number of counseling sessions annually for free.
The problem is that EAPs are often not made full use of. While research indicates that 20% of the adult population experiences a mental illness each year, less than 8% of employees take advantage of their company’s EAP, says Darren Brooks.
In some cases, workers don’t know their employer has an EAP because it isn’t well—promoted. In other cases, workers fear there could be repercussions if their employer finds out their depression or another mental illness. Still others face long waits to book an appointment with EAP due to a national shortage of counselors.
With that in mind, some companies are improving access to mental—health services. It requires training managers to recognize signs of mental—health illness and to speak about specific challenges that people experience in their daily lives. Another part of the challenge is convincing people that it is OK to use them. To make employees more comfortable asking for help, some companies are encouraging managers and workers to share their own mental—health stories.
1. What was probably the aim of the sessions of PSE company?| A．To get its employees devoted to their work. |
| B．To ensure the mental health of its employees. |
| C．To promote the sales of the company’s energy. |
| D．To train its employees for medical knowledge. |
| A．It is not fully used by employees. |
| B．Some employees can’t afford it for lack of money. |
| C．Employees taking it are fired because of their illness. |
| D．Few counselors are willing to promote it to employees. |
| A．Benefits. | B．Arrangements. | C．Impacts. | D．Tendencies. |
| A．Improving Mental Health Boosts Productivity |
| B．Many People Simply Don’t Want Mental Exam |
| C．There Is a Need to Destigmatize Mental Health |
| D．Mental—health Benefits Are Faced with Challenges |
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【推荐1】Alongside air and water, food is a necessity for human beings to survive and thrive. But it’s a lot more than that. As Mariette Dichristina of Scientific American wrote: “The most intimate (亲密的) relationship we will ever have is not with any fellow human being. Instead, it is between our bodies and our food.”
Nowadays, for most people in the world’s wealthiest countries, food is a hobby, an enthusiasm, and even something fashionable.
Turn on the TV in the US, UK or France, and you’ll find at least one channel feeding this popular obsession.
And most of us know at least one person who thinks of themselves as a “foodie”. It’s almost impossible nowadays to check our social media apps without at least two or three photos of delicious meals appearing on our screen.
But behind the fancy recipes and social media bragging (夸耀), many of us forget how much we take food for granted. This is why World Food Day is held each year.
Take Kenya for example. This east African nation has been suffering terrible droughts. The result is that people are beginning to starve. Children in particular are suffering, with some of them even dying.
This may seem shocking to know, especially as many cultures outside of Africa think of food in a completely different way. But even in the UK, families on low incomes are forced to use food banks—European organizations that hand out donated food to those who can’t afford to pay for it themselves.
So what can we do on World Food Day? One good way to spend it would be to feel humble and appreciate what we have. After all, food is essential for survival, but not everyone is as lucky as we are when it comes to dinner time.
1. According to Mariette Dichristina, what has the closest relationship with us?| A．Air. | B．Water. |
| C．Food. | D．Human beings. |
| A．Delicious food. | B．A person fond of food. |
| C．A social media app. | D．A photo of delicious meals. |
| A．Poor people in the UK. | B．Poor people in Africa. |
| C．Starving children in Kenya. | D．People in the drought-stricken. |
| A．Treat Food as a Hobby | B．Time to Appreciate Food |
| C．Food Shortage in Some Countries | D．How to Spend World Food Day |
【推荐2】Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects (前景) they thought they had.
Considering that I teach students who are trained to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.
“Surgery (外科手术)”, one replied. I was pretty shocked by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows, you can get at least 5cm taller!”
At that point, I was shocked. I am short. I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of pain just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!
It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality. No one is born perfect, however, magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm (标准). Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that you must go for it, no matter what the cost. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.
1. We can know from the passage that the author works as_____________.| A．a teacher | B．a model | C．a doctor | D．a reporter |
| A．marry a better man/woman |
| B．become a model |
| C．get an advantage over others in job-hunting |
| D．attract more admirers |
| A．Excited. | B．Surprised. | C．Happy. | D．Angry |
| A．everyone should go for perfection, whatever the cost |
| B．it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs |
| C．media should be criticised for misleading young people to do surgery |
| D．it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career |
| A．He dislikes being called a short man |
| B．He tries to increase his height through surgery. |
| C．He always wears shoes with thick soles to hide the fact |
| D．He just accepts it as it is. |
【推荐3】“Look how stupid he is!" a 7-year-old said to her dad Daniel Funke, pointing to a picture of a famous person on the Internet. The photo showed the man writing his name with his pen turned upside down.
Of course, the photo was not the original one. It had been changed to look like him using the pen the wrong way. Funke quickly pointed out the mistake, and his daughter got an on-the-spot education in fake news. By then, however, many people had already shared it on social media.
“The pitfalls of sharing misinformation and fake news can be very serious," says Laeeq Khan, who heads the Social Media Analytics Lab at Ohio University in Athens. Sharing something that’s not true can cost people their lives, he says. Last year, people in India used a messaging app, WhatsApp, to spread fake stories about a kidnapping ring. The lies caused violent attacks in which people died.
Fake news stories hurt people in other ways, too. For example, fake reports lead some parents to refuse vaccines (疫苗) for their children. Yet without vaccines, children can get serious diseases or even die.
“About seven in 10 Americans were telling us that fake news has a big influence on the confidence in our government,” says Jeffrey Gottfried. He’s a journalism and media-research expert at Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. Researchers there did a survey in the United States about the influence of made-up news. About half the people in the survey said they had shared misinformation online. Most of them said they didn’t realize it at the time.
Besides causing serious results, sharing a fake story makes it harder for people to tell what's real. And when people find out a story is not real, they may not trust other information from a person who spread it. Therefore, it's important to do fact-checking before sharing news stories.
1. What is the purpose of the first two paragraphs?| A．To bring up the topic of the text. | B．To tell an interesting news story. |
| C．To provide the main idea of the text. | D．To list people's popular online behavior. |
| A．Mistakes. | B．Problems. | C．Advantages. | D．Possibilities. |
| A．About 30% of online news wasn't real. |
| B．Made-up news spread faster than expected. |
| C．Made-up news had a bad influence on children. |
| D．Many Americans shared fake news without knowing it. |
| A．Positive | B．Unclear | C．Worried | D．Supporting |
【推荐1】Could the secret to a good night’s sleep be a pencil and paper? Researchers at Baylor University published a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology that claims writing a to-do list helps people get to sleep faster.
“There are two schools of thought about this,” The lead researcher, Scullin said. “One is that writing about the future would lead to increased worry about unfinished tasks and delay sleep, while writing about completed activities would not trigger worry. The alternative hypothesis(假设) is that writing a to-do list will offload those thoughts and reduce worry. ”
To test the hypotheses, researchers invited 57 men and women between ages 18 and 30 to spend one weeknight in a controlled sleep lab and they were divided into two groups, the experimental group and the control group. Five minutes before bedtime, each participant was instructed to complete a short writing exercise. The first group wrote about anything they needed to remember to do in the upcoming days, while the other wrote about tasks they had completed during the previous days. When the exercise was done, participants went to bed.
Researchers measured each participant’s brain activity overnight using a technique called polysomnography (睡眠多项生理检查), which records eye movement, muscle activity and other biological changes.
The researchers found that the participants who wrote to-do lists fell asleep an average of 9 minutes faster than those who wrote about already-accomplished tasks. While 9 minutes may not seem like a lot of extra shut-eye, it’s comparable to the improvement seen in clinical trials for some sleep medications, Scullin told Time magazine.
Scullin noted that while the sample size was appropriate for an experimental, laboratory-based polysomnography study, a larger future study would be of value. “Measures of personality, anxiety, and depression might moderate the effects of writing on falling asleep, and that could be explored in an investigation with a larger sample, ” he said. “We recruited healthy young adults, and so we don’t know whether our findings would generalize to patients with sleeplessness, though some writing activities have previously been suggested to benefit such patients. ”
1. What does the word “trigger” in Paragraph Two mean?| A．Reduce. | B．Rid. | C．Control. | D．Cause. |
| A．The content of their writing exercises. |
| B．The age and gender of the participants. |
| C．The sleeping hours of the participants. |
| D．The measuring method of brain activity. |
| A．It shows no improvement. |
| B．It makes falling asleep harder. |
| C．It is similar to taking sleep medications. |
| D．It helps to lengthen the sleeping hours. |
| A．To analyze the cause of the experiment. |
| B．To state the limitation of the experiment. |
| C．To show the significance of the experiment. |
| D．To criticize the drawback of the experiment. |
If that's true for you, then accept it. You're going through a particularly difficult or unhappy period of time, and don't like it one bit. Very normal, very human. But remember this: there is always something to be grateful for. It may be only a small comfort right no, but it is a start. Make a list of some of the terrible things that didn't happen. For example:
You're in debt... but you're not homeless.
You lost your job... but you didn't lose your health. You broke your leg... but you didn't break your neck.
Your mother has Alzheimers disease... but your father doesn't.No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't. It does help a lot. Of course, you may not be thankful for everything- but you can always be thankful for something.
1. How many "terrible things that didn't happen" are listed in this passage?
| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
| A．necessary | B．normal | C．great | D．helpful |
| A．To discuss ways to make a list of terrible things |
| B．To explain what is gratitude towards the storms of life. |
| C．To persuade people to be thankful for what didn't happen. |
| D．To show people different ways to consider their tough situations. |
| A．Explanation―Comparison―Topic |
| B．Argument―Opinion―Discussion |
| C．Comparison―Argument―Explanation |
| D．Introduction―Discussion―Conclusion |
【推荐3】Egypt is home to more than 100 pyramids, including the 4,500-year-old iconic (圣像的) Giza Pyramid, which is the last-standing ancient wonder of the world.
Giza is actually made up of three pyramids, Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure. Now, scientists are using High Energy Physics (HEP) to scan the Khufu structure at Giza. The new technology uses cosmic ray muons (宇宙射线介子) to scan deeper into the pyramid than has ever been seen before, and then map its internal structure.
What we see now is only the core structure of the Great Pyramid. Although the pyramid has been studied closely for centuries, there are two mysterious blanks that have kept archacologists (考古学家) puzzled.
One void (空间) is around 98 feet long and 20 feet high and could be one large space or several rooms, according to previous scans of the pyramid, while the other is much smaller, just beyond the north face of the pyramid. Archaeologists are not sure what either void functioned as; the most exciting possibility is that the larger space is the hidden burial chamber of Khufu, who was in power from around 2,551 BC to 2,528 BC.
The voids were discovered in 2017 when a project named Scan Pyramids ran a series of scans that analyzed the cosmic particles that fall to Earth (muons) to detect spaces within the structure. Muons are negatively charged elementary particles that form when cosmic rays collide (碰撞) with the Earth’s atmosphere. They are useful because they behave differently when interacting with stone, or water, versus air.
“We plan to field a telescope system that has upwards of 100 times the sensitivity of the equipment that has recently been used at the Great Pyramid,” a team of scientists wrote in a preprint paper—yet to be reviewed by other scientists.
“Since the detectors that are proposed are very large, they cannot be placed inside the pyramid, therefore our approach is to put them outside and move them along the base. In this way, we can collect muons from all angles in order to build up the required data set,” the team wrote in the paper.
1. What is the function of paragraph 1?| A．To describe an ancient wonder. | B．To present the new technology. |
| C．To highlight the Giza Pyramid. | D．To introduce background information. |
| A．It moves above the base and builds up data. |
| B．It scans the side of the pyramid and collects muons. |
| C．It detects the outside of the pyramid and collects data. |
| D．It looks into the pyramid and records the structure inside. |
| A．Comic rays. | B．Muons. | C．Scans. | D．Elementary particles. |
| A．Putting the detectors outside to collect data. |
| B．Discovering the voids using new technology. |
| C．Holding a telescope system to study the pyramid. |
| D．Uncovering the internal secret of pyramid using HEP. |
