【推荐1】Did you feel like the negative remark was more influential than the compliments that you received earlier? If the answer to the question is “Yes”, then you are not alone.     1    

When negative remarks come about, you remind yourself that it is only someone’s opinion and everyone is entitled (使享有权利) to express their opinions. They have the right to say anything they want to say.    2    . You can choose to do whatever you feel necessary with that person’s opinion. When I was a kid, I heard a saying — “A barking dog won’t stop a moving carriage.” That is to say if a carriage is moving and a dog is running after it while barking, the carriage won’t stop because of that dog’s barking.

As to campus bullying, I suggest an exercise to kids who are being bullied at school.     3     Take a deep breath, in through your nose. Exhale out of your mouth, and pretend there is a drinking straw (吸管) in your mouth so that you exhale air in a straight line. This short exercise will be calming, and allow you to stay cool.

    4    . I personally do not know anyone who is calm. What I’m suggesting is that you learn to productively deal with other people’s negatively, and take control of your emotions and thoughts. In an article in Psychology Today, Dr Raj Raghunathan says, “The difference between ordinary people and extraordinary people is simple. Extraordinary people choose to listen to their positivity and ignore other people’s negativity.”    5    . So you should learn how to deal with negative remarks and not let them control your emotions and thoughts.

A．Meantime, you choose to be affected by the negative remakes.

B．They see things differently.

C．There are many people feelings like this, but you all need to learn how to handle negative remarks.

D．As for as I’m concerned, some else’s opinion is not necessarily a reflection of your reality.

E．Now I’m not asking you to become calm.

F．Therefore, you must stay calm.

G．Please do the exercise next time someone is pushing your buttons or getting under your skin, and you’re about to lose your temper.

【推荐2】Effective Time Management Tips from Students

College years are something that many people remember mostly, like parties, meeting life-long friends and romantic adventures. Between those fun things, students have to find time for their actual studying. Many of them do it so skillfully that their professors wouldn’t even guess that they partied all night.     1     Here are some effective time management tips that can be used outside of college.

Use technologies

Many modern students can support the fact that technologies make studying easier and faster     2     You can save time on solving different problems as there are now many apps for that. Using technologies for work is also a must if you want to improve your productivity.

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As you know, students have a strict class schedule. It helps them organize their days and be ready for each class. Having a schedule for work and life is also a good thing. If your day is planned by hours, it is easier to get every task done fast and effectively.

Learn something new all the time

    4     They know that the more knowledge they possess, the easier it can be for them to get out of different situations. You need to be hungry for knowledge. Many people who graduate from college think that they’ve learned all the secrets of the universe and have nothing more to study. However, you still need to give some work to your brain.     5    

A．Have a schedule

B．Learn a lot of things

C．Smart students complete their tasks faster.

D．Thus, you will do your work slower and waste a lot of time.

E．Read books and learn new skills, which will make you smarter and more productive.

F．You needn’t always waste time to go to a library when you can find everything online.

G．How do they manage to complete plenty of homework and still find the time to have fun?

【推荐3】

In agreement with the Agenda of the First Global Employment of Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic, the applicants from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas who have passed the first qualification review will take a written examination. Below lists the relevant information: 1. Date & Time April 15th, 2017 (Saturday), 9:00 – 12:30. The applicants are required to enter the examination room before 8:30 am. 2. Location No. 23 Baiduizijia, Haidian district, Beijing (Capital Normal University Dongyi Zone) Exam Site No.6; Exam Room: C206 3. Notice (1) All applicants who have passed the first qualification review please log on Personal application center of the recruitment page (http://recruit.beijing2022.cn) to download and print the admission ticket from April 7th -15th 2017. (2) All candidates shall bring the admission tickets and valid IDs (Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents, Mainland travel permit for Taiwan residents, Foreign passport and etc.) (3) Please prepare one’s own writing materials including 2B pencil, eraser and black/blue pen. (4) The candidates will not be allowed to enter the examination room if late for 30mins, and will be also prohibited to leave within 60mins since the entering into the room or 15mins earlier than the deadline. Kind reminder: Due to the heavy traffic near the exam location, parking space will be so limited that all candidates should take public transport. 4. Transport Route (1) Subway: No.9 subway to Baiduizi station exit A, 50 meters to North. (2) Bus: No. 61 / 92 bus to Shouti South Road South Gate station, and 3 minutes’ walk to the destination. Kind reminder: Capital Normal University Dongyi Zone is not located in the main campus of Capital Normal University, please plan your route properly. Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games April 7, 2017

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Applicants who arrive after 8:30 can not enter the examination room.

B．The admission tickets and valid IDs are required for the examination.

C．The Exam Site lies in the main campus of Capital Normal University.

D．There is nothing to worry about for applicants who drive to the location.

2. The purpose of this passage is to ______.

A．employ organizers for the Committee

B．promote Beijing Organizing Committee

C．give candidates information about the written exam

D．encourage more applicants to take the written exam

【推荐1】Utah Lake is, in a word, disgusting. The State of Utah has worked with many partners and spent millions of dollars in an attempt to restore Utah Lake. It has indeed produced some active effects.   However, due to the wastewater getting into it，this body of water is rich in   nutrient and home to water bloom.   Overfishing and the introduction of invasive species have only made the problem worse. In the summer of 2016，500 people in Utah complained about their headaches, skin rashes and discomfort after swimming in the lake.

The Utah Lake Restoration Project is headed by Parker.   He imagines a beautiful lake dotted with man-made islands where a community could be built.   Parker frequently goes to Capitol Hill to push for the proposal of the comprehensive lake restoration. Parker follows his rules "big ideas are worth approaching"，as the project calls for lake digging, the creation of islands，the removal of invasive species to restore the habitats of native plants，fish and so on.

Speaking of the Utah Lake Restoration Project，Ben Holcomb said, "It is not quite in line with reality.” He added，"Despite impressive computer models and the current project report， the Utah Lake Restoration Project lacks the actual field research to show that this project will have a positive effect on the lake's ecosystem.”

When asked how the public would help beautify Utah Lake, the lake's official workers suggested picking up garbage. However, it has a greatly limited effect on the overall health of the lake. Parker's plan may seem like the state's best chance to restore Utah Lake, but in reality the Utah Lake Restoration Project lacks the facts necessary for this sort of proposal. The State of Utah should propose some suggestions for the revision of the plan and offer the Utah Lake Restoration Project the access necessary to conduct research which could be compared with their theoretical findings. Only then can the State of Utah make an educated decision on behalf of people and resources.

1. What can we learn from paragraph l？

A．The State of Utah has tried to restore Utah Lake.

B．It is not difficult to save Utah Lake for the State.

C．People living around Utah Lake are healthy and happy.

D．People don't swim in Utah Lake because of its pollution.

2. What's the purpose of the Utah Lake Restoration Project

A．To build a community near Utah Lake.

B．To make the water of Utah Lake rich in nutrient.

C．To make Utah Lake popular with foreign tourists.

D．To build a safe home for native creatures in Utah Lake.

3. What's Ben Holcomb's attitude towards the Utah Lake Restoration Project?

A．Doubtful.	B．Optimistic.
C．Unconcerned.	D．Approving.

4. What does the author intend to tell us in the last paragraph

A．Picking up garbage is the key to saving the whole lake.

B．There's no proper way to save the health of Utah Lake.

C．Parker's plan needs some field research and adjustment.

D．Local people should take responsibility for saving Utah Lake.

【推荐2】What is a port city?

The port city provides a rich understanding of the movement of people and goods around the world. We understand a port as a centre of island-sea exchange and a major force for cultural mixing.

Ports and harbours

Harbor is a physical concept, a shelter for ships; Port is an economic concept, a centre of land-sea exchange which demands goods for export and import. Some ports were developed from poor harbours which were improved with breakwaters(防水堤) and dredging(清淤). Madras and Colombo are examples of harbours expensively improved by enlarging, dredging and building breakwaters.

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Port cities become industrial, financial and service centres and political capitals because of their water connections and the urban concentration which draws to it railways, highways and air routes. Water transport means cheap access, the chief basis of all port cities. Many of the world’s biggest cities, for example, London, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo and San Francisco began as ports-that is, with land-sea exchange as their major function. Although their port functions are no longer dominant now, they remain different kinds of places from non-port cities and their port functions account for that difference.

International city and trade

Port functions, more than anything else, can make a city more international. A port is open to the world. In it races, cultures, as well as goods from a variety of places, mix and enrich each other and the life of the city. But much domestic port trade has not been recorded. What evidence we have suggests that domestic trade was greater at all periods than foreign trade. Shanghai, for example, did most of its trade with other Chinese ports and inland cities, Calcutta traded mainly with other parts of India and so on.

Position of port city centre

Cities which began as ports keep the chief commercial and administrative centre of the city close to the waterfront. The centre of New York is in lower Manhattan between two river mouths, the city of London is on the Thames, Shanghai along the Bund. This is also true of Boston, Bombay, Madras, Bangkok and Singapore, where the commercial, financial, and administrative centres are still grouped around their harbours even though each city has expanded into a big one. Even a casual visitor cannot mistake them as anything but port cities.

1. Which port city is changed from a harbour by improving the facilities?

A．Singapore.

B．Bangkok.

C．New York.

D．Madras.

2. Which would be the best heading for Paragraph 2?

A．Good ports, huge profit centres.

B．Once a port city, always a port city.

C．Water transport, basis of port cities.

D．Port functions, a feature of big cities.

3. What can we learn about port cities?

A．They have water connections.

B．They don’t trade with inland cities.

C．They are easily mistaken for harbours.

D．They moved their chief centres away from waterfront.

【推荐3】Sweet potato plants don't have spines or poisons to defend themselves. But some have evolved a clever way to let hungry herbivores (食草动物) know they aren't an all-you-can-eat buffet, a new study finds. When one leaf injured, it produces a chemical that warms the rest of the plant and its neighbors to make themselves inedible (不宜食用的)to bugs. Sweet potato breeders could potentially engineer plants to produce the chemical as an all-natural pest defense.

Plant ecologists led by Axel Mithofer of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, started to look into sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) defenses after they noticed something interesting about two varieties of the plant grown in Taiwan: The yellow-skinned, yellow-fleshed Tainong 57 is generally herbivore-resistant, but its darker orange cousin, Tainong 66, is plagued (造成麻烦) by insect pests.

To find out why, the team offered up Tainong 57 and 66 plants to hungry African cotton leafworm caterpillars (毛虫).Both plants released at least 40 airborne compounds as the caterpillars snacked on their leaves. But Tainong 57 produced a lot more of a chemical called DMNT, which has a very distinct smell, the team details this month in Scientific Reports. (“The smell is not nice,” Mithofer says. “You wouldn't want it as a perfume.”)

DMNT isn't a new compound; researchers have isolated (分离出) the smelly chemical from other plants such as corn and cabbage, and it is known to induce defense responses in some species.

To determine whether this was happening in sweet potatoes, scientists set up two experiments. First, they put two plants next to each other and wounded one so it produced DMNT. Then, they exposed healthy Tainong 57 plants to DMNT they had synthesized (合成).In both cases, the DMNT caused the exposed plants to produce more of a protein called sporamin in their leaves. (Tainong 66 did not have the same reaction.) When the caterpillar’s snack on sporamin, “they immediately stop eating because they don't feel well,” Mithofer says.

Sporamin is the main protein in sweet potato tubers (块茎),and is indigestible raw, which is why sweet potatoes must be cooked for humans to enjoy them. “If the caterpillars could cook it, they could eat it,” Mithofer says. Theoretically, he says, sweet potato breeders could use genetic engineering to make different varieties of sweet potato produce as much DMNT as Tainong 57, and display the same defense responses.

Still, the research isn't ready for prime time, cautions plant ecologist Martin Heil. DMNT might work in the lab, but in the field, airborne chemicals can be “blown away in seconds,” says Heil, who studies plant-insect interactions at the National Polytechnic Institute in Irapuato, Mexico.

Mithofer himself has no plans now to create genetically engineered sweet potato plants, because they would not be a viable (能活下去的) crop in Europe, where genetically modified crops are outlawed. So for now, Tainong 66 will have to put up with being a caterpillar salad bar.

1. What is the purpose of the experiment carried out by Axel's team?

A．To find out why DMNT has a very distinct smell.

B．To determine which sweet potato suits caterpillars better.

C．To find out why Tainong 57 resists bugs while Tainong 66 doesn't.

D．To determine what compounds are released when bugs eat sweet potatoes.

2. Which is an example of the underlined words “defense response^” in Paragraph 4?

A．Researcher isolated the smelly chemical from plants.

B．Corn produces a chemical to avoid being eaten by bugs.

C．Two plants are put next to each other for an experiment.

D．Caterpillars have stomach trouble when they snack on sporamin.

3. The tone of the this passage can be described as .

A．humorous

B．serious

C．causal

D．subjective

4. What's the author's attitude towards GM Tainong 66?

A．Supportive.

B．Objective.

C．Opposed.

D．Skeptical.

【推荐1】The world’s deepest underground lab designed to detect dark matter in Langzhong, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province will receive new equipment, which is one of the most important science and technology infrastructure（基础设施）projects of the country.

A ceremony was held on Saturday in a tunnel at Jinping Mountain. Researchers said the world’s deepest and China’s first dark matter lab sits 2400 meters below Jinping Mountain, the equivalent（相等的东西）to the height of five Oriental Pearl Radio and TV towers. An online video produced by Sichuan Daily revealed that the Jinping Underground Laboratory is over 300 square meters. The extreme depth allows for a thick layer of rock to shield（保护）the lab and facilities from cosmic rays, Sichuan Radio and Television (SRT) reported.

Jing Mingkun, a researcher at the lab, told SRT the facility would hardly be affected by radiation since the mountain can protect it from high-energy cosmic ray. The facility to detect and study dark matter is located at the center of the lab and protected with shielding systems. Once the rays are shielded, researchers are able to study dark matter, which would be similar to hearing the voice of a radio announcer when other noise is blocked out, Jing explained. Due to the extreme difficulty, dark matter has yet to be detected, Jing explained.

Chen Yang, a professor at the school of astronomy and space sciences at Nanjing University, told the Global Times that detecting matter from outer space in the lab has a huge advantage as the earth’s surface can absorb and filter noise. “A Japanese Nobel laureate detected a kind of matter from the supernova in 1987 in an old underground mine,” Chen said. He explained that if the facility can detect dark matter, it would be a significant achievement. “Detecting dark matter is very difficult. Current detectors can only catch rays sent by dark matter,” Chen said.

After completing the project, the lab will offer an environment with near-zero cosmic rays, so it could become a global center for physical research and attract international science experts, the SRT report said.

1. What is the world’s deepest underground lab built for?

A．Setting up new equipment.	B．Conducting infrastructure projects.
C．Developing new technology.	D．Discovering dark matter.

2. Why is the Jinping Underground Laboratory set up deep underground?

A．To store secret information.

B．To have a quiet working environment.

C．To protect the lab and facilities from cosmic rays.

D．To match with Oriental Pearl Radio and TV tower.

3. What’s the author’s purpose of mentioning Chen Yang in Paragraph 4?

A．To present the method of detecting dark matter underground.

B．To show the importance of detecting dark matter underground.

C．To prove the difficulty of detecting dark matter underground.

D．To list the achievements of detecting dark matter underground.

4. Which of the following can best describe the author’s attitude towards the project?

A．Indifferent.	B．Negative.
C．Skeptical.	D．Supportive.

【推荐3】It seems we can’t get off the planet fast enough. Two thirds of NASA’s money is spent on manned space exploration, and that number will grow with the USA’s decision to send a man to Mars in 2037. We’ve seen all there is to see on Earth, right? Wrong. The final place is here, under the surface of the sea.

Heading down into the ocean, human limits are quickly reached. At 200 metres, the water is as black as a moonless night. Most nuclear submarines (核潜艇) would implode (内爆) before they reach 1 km down. At 3 km — still less than the average depth of the ocean — there’s a good chance that you’ll discover a new species. The deepest­diving whales go no further. At the very bottom, about 11 km down, lies the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Eighteen humans have walked on the Moon, but only three have seen the Deep with their own eyes.

Yet things live down there. Big things. A very loud sound was once heard and scientists suggested that it was produced by an animal bigger than a blue whale, the largest creature known on the planet.

In the late 1990s, a deep­water submarine was dropped in the Southern Ocean, and passing 4,000 metres, it discovered something huge passing under it. Surprised? Don’t be. The ocean covers 70% of the planet’s surface and we’ve studied less than 5% of it. We know more about the dark side of the Moon than about the bottom of the sea.

One reason that we explore space is to find evidence of other life forms. The search for life outside of Earth is important, but robots can look under the dry rocks of Mars better than humans. They’re absolutely important for doing ocean research too, but they can’t look under the sea. The cost of exploration is rising, but the results would benefit all our lives. Understanding the oceans will help us find new sources of food, drugs and energy.

Perhaps now it's time to begin a new period of sea exploration. Manned exploration of space is science fiction (科幻小说). The adventure of the deep sea is science fact.

1. What do the examples in Paragraph 2 suggest?

A．Sea exploration is no easy task.

B．Nuclear submarines need to be improved.

C．The ocean is far deeper than people expected.

D．The condition under the sea is similar to that on the Moon.

2. What do we know about the Challenger Deep?

A．Blue whales live there.

B．No one has ever been there.

C．People are terrified by the sight of it.

D．It is the deepest known location on Earth.

3. What does the author think of the discovery in the Southern Ocean?

A．It’s surprising.	B．It’s no wonder.
C．It’s worrying.	D．It’s no success.

4. What does the author want to tell us?

A．Space exploration is of little value.

B．We spend too much money on space travel.

C．Humans’ success lies in how much they explore the sea.

D．The ocean is the place where we should make our efforts.