【推荐1】Whether you went in for a hug only lo be met with a handshake, or simply had a fall in front of a crowded room, you’re probably wondering what to do next. Avoid the awkwardness or confront it? According to research, you’ll want to do a bit of both.

In one study, Joshua W. Clegg, an associate professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, found that the first thing you should do is acknowledge the situation. He wrote, “Direct responses were associated with a re-established sense of social harmony. He noted this is often best done through humor—saying something as simple as “Awkward” can put you at ease. Reminding others of your mistakes will only draw the moment out, and can make things more un-comfortable.

Facing the situation head-on also helps you realize how much of a non-event most awkward moments are. Withdrawing, on the other hand, “can actually make that anxiety and that sense of awkwardness worse because you’re not getting to find out that you can recover,” Bethany Teachman, a professor in the University of Virginian’s Department of Psychology, said.

Now that you’ve faced the situation—maybe even laughed it off—let it go. Still feeling uneasy? Remember that embarrassment is normal. u It is the price we pay for being messy, imperfect ,normal humans, Susan David, PhD, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, said. “A key part of moving on from embarrassment is to practice self-compassion and self-forgiveness. When you recognize that you are only human and imperfect, just like all other humans are imperfect, it gives us permission to let go of the past embarrassment with the knowledge that we did our best.”

1. What is Joshua W. Clegg’s suggestion about the situation?

A．To run away from it.	B．To speak out your feeling directly.
C．To cover your face to protect yourself.	D．To remember the people laughing at you.

2. What does the underlined word ^Withdrawing” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Getting back.	B．Moving away.
C．Coming from.	D．Stopping from.

3. Which of the following is wiser and better when people face “awkwardness”?

A．To try to recover soon.	B．To pretend to be all right.
C．To act skillfully and bravely.	D．To avoid what other people say.

4. In which section of a magazine can we read the text?

A．Advice.	B．Health.
C．Education.	D．Entertainment.

【推荐2】It was a Sunday night. I circled the neighborhood a few times, looking for a place to park my car. Finally, I found one to the south of my house. It was behind a late-model Jeep. I tried to back into the space, but I failed to see the angles clearly. I heard it before I felt it, the sound of plastic on plastic, like a sheet of sandpaper along the surface of a painted piece of wood. I got out of my car to check the damage. My car was unharmed. However, there were two distinct lines on the Jeep.

Then I noticed a woman, walking her dog, who was now photographing me with her phone. “Hope you’re no planning to drive away,” she said quietly. Until then, I was annoyed with myself for having been careless, but now I was mad with her for taking my picture. How dare she, I thought. She had no respect for my privacy. And how dare she assume I would do the wrong thing? But soon I calmed down because I knew she wasn’t entirely incorrect. I’d made no decision to drive away without leaving ante (预付款) but I’d be lying if I said the idea hadn’t flashed across my mind. It was dark, and aside from her no one was watching. It happens all the time-the hit-and-run in the parking lot.

We all have those desires to behave selfishly, to go against the social contract; it is not the thought but what we do with it that counts. It is the commitment (承诺) to take responsibility, to care for one another, and to think about the greater good that makes this world a better place to stay. The choice to own up was left to me. I left a note with my name and phone number under the wiper blade (雨刮器) of the Jeep.

1. What happened to the author on that Sunday night?

A．He hit a parked car accidentally.	B．He got hurt in a car accident
C．He knocked down someone.	D．He failed to find a parking space.

2. Why did the author feel angry with the woman?

A．She blocked his view on purpose.

B．She spoke to him in a very rude way.

C．She refused to take responsibility for her fault.

D．She photographed him without permission.

3. What can be the best title for the text?

A．A Tragedy Happens in the Parking Lot

B．The Greater Good Makes the World Better

C．A Note Left Makes a Difference

D．Photographing without Permission Disrespects Privacy

4. What does the author intend to tell us through his story?

A．Everyone makes mistakes.	B．Apologizing sincerely matters.
C．Avoid conflicts with others.	D．Always do the right thing.

【推荐3】Last year，I went to Beijing Qizhi Special Education School for community service(社区服务)．Before we took the bus，my friend asked me a question：“Why are you here？”I did not know how to answer the question.

The school was not far from my school，but it looked like it was in a different world.A group of children were waiting for us.A boy walked toward me.He held my hands and pulled me to the ground.I kissed the earth and tasted nature.

I could not understand what he was doing at first，then I was very angry.Thought I was very angry，I controlled my anger.

A teacher stopped this awkward(尴尬的) silence when she shouted at the boy.“What are you doing right here，right now？”she said.“You will never see your mom again if you keep doing this.Now，say sorry！”“Sorry，”he cried fearfully and nervously.I said nothing，but I realized something about this child.After lunch I asked the teacher for information about the child’s parents.

She said that the child was very different from other students because of an illness.His family could not afford to treat him.He needed the kindness of his family，but they had abandoned him.So he depended on the support from the teachers and community service workers like us.

I suddenly realized I could answer the question my friend asked me at the beginning of the day.

Community service workers help others and make everyone feel better.There are so many people in the world that need help.Playing with lonely children may not make a big difference.But it can light a corner in the children’s hearts，making them know they are loved by people.

1. How did the writer reach Beijing Qizhi Special Education School?

A．By train.	B．By car.
C．By bus.	D．By taxi.

2. Why did the writer get angry?

A．Because a boy held the writer’s hands.

B．Because the writer did not like to taste nature.

C．Because a boy pushed the writer to the ground.

D．Because a boy was impolite to the writer.

3. The boy acted differently from others because________．

A．he was sick

B．his parents didn’t like him

C．he was nervous and fearful

D．he always lived with teachers

4. The underlined word “abandoned” most probably means“________”．

A．hurt	B．left
C．sold	D．forgotten

5. From the passage we can learn that the writer________．

A．helped so many people in the world

B．played with the lonely boy after lunch

C．learned the meaning of community service

D．wasn’t good at answering the questions about community service

【推荐1】Every Wednesday, I go to Cantata Adult Life Services, a local retirement community in Brookfield, Illinois, US, with my classmates to do community service.
After my very first visit to Cantata, my life changed forever. That may sound a bit dramatic, but volunteering with the elderly has changed my views on life.
Our visits last about an hour, and we bring 25-30 students every time. We play board games and cards with the residents while we’re there.
You can watch all the movies and TV shows you want about “life back then”, but nothing compares to talking to the people who were actually there. Just hearing their stories has touched me in a way I never thought possible.
Whether it was talking to 98-year-old “Hurricane Hilda” about her glory days as a roller skater or chatting with Lou about the times she danced with a famous actor, I was completely attracted by every single memory the residents wanted to share with me.
Even the residents who don’t have amazing memories make the experience satisfying . I remember visiting Mrs Robinson. She couldn’t recall much about her past, but she told me she’d never forget how kind I was just to listen to her “rambling (漫谈)”. It made me realize that it’s the little things that make life worth living. That’s something I won’t forget anytime soon.
If there’s one thing I’ve realized in my three years of visiting Cantata, it’s that presence – just being there – means more than anything to many of the residents. And despite how busy our lives are, there’s always time to make someone’s day.
For me, it feels great to be a source of happiness, a smile on a bad day or a listening ear for old memories. And at the end of the day, that’s all that matters.
It’s easy to feel like you don’t have anything in common with the elderly – especially when you’re a teenager. But that’s not true at all.
I hate to be overly clichéd (陈词滥调的) here, but age really is just a number. As young adults, it’s important for us to realize this sooner rather than later. We can learn a lot from the elderly, and they can often benefit from teenagers too.
1. What do the volunteers do according to the passage?

A．They share everything with the residents.

B．They play board games and cards with the residents.

C．They watch the residents play games.

D．They buy gifts for the residents.

2. According to the writer, what is the most important thing that volunteers can do for the elderly?

A．Playing with them.	B．Benefiting from them.
C．Helping them.	D．Being there with them.

3. What does the writer want to tell us by writing this passage ?

A．Young adults and the elderly can benefit from each other.

B．Age is just a number.

C．It is important to help the elderly.

D．We don’t have anything in common with the elderly.

【推荐2】On the morning of July 14, 1960, Jane Goodall arrived on the east shore of Lake Tanganyika and the Gombe National Park. Then, around 5 pm, somebody reported that they had seen a chimpanzee (黑猩猩). Straight away, Jane set off into the forest to find her chimpanzees.

As a young woman, Jane Goodall had no scientific knowledge but this didn’t stop her from following her childhood dream of studying chimpanzees in Africa. After many months of difficult work she found: chimpanzees eat meat, they use tools to get food and they also make tools. Every evening, Jane wrote her findings in a diary and she began to publish articles in journals. After a while, scientists started reading her studies and Jane was offered a place at a university. After more years of research she became Doctor Jane Goodall in 1966. There was a film Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees (1963) and then the first of many books called My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees (1969).

During the 1970s, Gombe became a dangerous place to work, where often there was fighting between soldiers. Many foreigners fled the region but Jane stayed. A different problem developed in Gombe in the 1980s. The human population in the region was increasing. As a result of this there were only about a hundred chimpanzees living in Gombe. Jane realised that something had to be done, so she set about helping the local community to grow more trees for them in the region.

After 1989, Jane started giving lectures, fighting against the cruelty to chimpanzees used in medical research laboratories. She was also busy setting up sanctuaries for chimps which had been caught or were orphans (孤儿) because of the trade in chimpanzee meat. Nowadays, she has very little spare time left but she still spends part of every year in the forest in Gombe, watching her chimpanzees.

1. In which order did Jane do the following things?
a. received her doctor’s degree
b. made discoveries about chimpanzees
c. wrote her first book about chimpanzees
d. gave lectures about chimpanzee protection

A．bacd.	B．adbc.
C．acdb.	D．abdc.

2. What was the problem that happened to chimpanzees in Gombe in the 1980s?

A．Diseases made their population drop sharply.

B．Many foreigners took them away from Gombe.

C．Their homes were almost destroyed by humans.

D．Fighting among soldiers broke out in their homes.

3. Which of the following best explains “sanctuaries” underlined in the last paragraph?

A．Modern hospitals.	B．Safe houses.
C．Wildlife markets.	D．Research labs.

4. Why does the author use “her chimpanzees” in Paragraph 1 and 4?

A．To tell us Jane is their protection hero.	B．To prove Jane’s research needs them.
C．To explain Jane has raised them.	D．To show Jane loves them deeply.

【推荐3】Jane Goodall was born in Bournemouth, England, on April 3, 1934. As a child, she had a natural love for the outdoors and animals. When Jane was about eight she read the Tarzan and Dr. Dolittle series and, in love with Africa, dreamed of traveling to work with the animals.

Finally, at age 23, she left for Nairobi, Kenya. There, Jane met famed Dr. Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, who offered her a job at the local natural history museum. She worked there for a time before Leakey decided to send her to the Gombe Stream Game Reserve in Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees. He felt her strong interest in animals and nature, and her knowledge as well as high energy made her a great candidate to study the chimpanzees.

In December 1958, Jane returned home to England and Leakey began to make arrangements for the expedition (考察), securing the appropriate permissions from the government and raising funds. In May 1960, Jane learned that Leakey had gained funding from the Wilkie Brothers Foundation.

Jane arrived by boat at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika with her mother. The early weeks at Gombe were challenging. Jane developed a fever that delayed the start of her work. Finally, an older chimpanzee named David Greybeard, began to allow Jane to watch him. As a high ranking male of the chimpanzee community, his acceptance meant other group members also allowed Jane to observe. It was David Greybeard whom Jane first witnessed using tools. Excited, she telegraphed Dr. Leakey about her observation. He wrote back, “Now we must redefine ‘tool,’ and ‘man,’ or accept chimpanzees as humans.”

Jane continued to work in the field and, with Leakey’s help, began her doctoral program without an undergraduate degree in 1962. At Cambridge University, she found herself at odds with senior scientists over the methods she used — how she had named the chimpanzees rather than using the more common numbering system, and for suggesting that the chimps have emotions and personalities. She further upset those in power at the university when she wrote her first book, My Friends, the Wild Chimpanzees, aimed at the general public rather than an academic audience. The book was wildly popular, and her academic peers were outraged. Dr. Jane Goodall earned her Ph.D. on February 9, 1966, and continued to work at Gombe for the next twenty years.

1. It can be inferred from the passage that ______ .

A．Jane was the first to discover chimpanzees use tools

B．a journey to Kenya rooted Jane’s deep love for animals

C．Dr. Leakey easily raised funds from the Wilkie Brothers Foundation

D．Jane’s work at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve went along smoothly

2. What is the academic peers’ attitude towards Jane’s first book?

A．Extremely puzzled.	B．Genuinely pleased.
C．Really angry.	D．Truly sensitive.

3. What does the underlined sentence imply in paragraph 5?

A．Jane’s study of chimpanzees received no support from scientists.

B．Jane’s method inspired more scientists to make further discoveries.

C．Jane’s achievements quickly attracted attention from senior scientists.

D．Senior scientists disagreed with Jane’s method in observing chimpanzees.

4. What message is mainly conveyed in the passage?

A．Passion and hard work can make a difference in scientific research.

B．Cooperation is the key to making significant discoveries.

C．Challenging senior scientists is a must in gaining fame.

D．High energy counts in achieving great success.

【推荐1】If the kids don’t fall, they don’t learn to get up. I still remember the day in high school that my mom forgot to pick me up from school. I’m the oldest of four children, and no doubt she’d had a long day with the other kids and it’d slipped her mind. After waiting at school for an hour, I walked the three miles home, and when I got to my house, I shut our front door with anger, stormed into the kitchen and screamed in my mom’s face that she’d forgotten me.

Later that night, my dad told me I no longer had a ride to school the next day. I figured my mom would still take me, but when the morning came, she refused. It was midterm, and as a straight A student ready to start college applications, being late wasn’t an option (选择). In my mind, missing these tests would have been the end of my academic career. I begged my mom. I told her she was ruining my future and everything I’d worked for. But she just held her ground, and that day, I walked to school. And I missed my tests.

My mom didn’t save me from failure. She let me suffer from it. She let me figure it out. She let me learn. Now, as a mom myself, I’ve realized that I want my kids to experience failure because failure is how we grow, learn and think outside of ourselves. It’s how we self -educate to learn what’s right and respectable, and what’s not. It’s how we become responsible and enthusiastic. Falling down makes us better because we learn how to get up.

1. Why did the author get angry that day?

A．She was tired.	B．She failed in a test.
C．She was late for school.	D．She had to walk home by herself.

2. What does “held her ground” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．insisted on her idea.	B．said yes to me.
C．stayed in the place.	D．gave in to me.

3. How does the author feel about her childhood experience?

A．Meaningful.	B．Terrible.
C．Embarrassing.	D．Colorful.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．My Way of Growing	B．My Love for Mother
C．The Meaning of Failure	D．Failure in My Life

【推荐3】It’s still there, the Vietnamese school where my brother and I used to go. Even with a new coat of paint and the high wire fence, the school I knew ten years ago remains the same.

Every day at 5 p.m., instead of flying kites with our friends, my brother and I had to go to Vietnamese school. Nothing could stop my determined mother to have us learn the language of our culture. She held us by the collar and walked with us from our home to school, leaving our tearful faces before the front of the school.

Although the school mainly taught language, the lessons always began with an exercise in politeness. With the entrance of the teacher, the best student would tap a bell and everyone would get up, and say in Vietnamese, “How are you, teacher?”

The language always made me embarrassed. More often than not, I have tried to separate myself from the loud voice that followed me whenever I went to the American supermarket outside our area. The voice belonged to my grandmother, a small old woman whose Vietnamese was quick, loud, but not beautiful. I did not want to be seen speaking Vietnamese with her and thought of as talking stupid.

When I spoke English, people nodded at me, smiled and encouraged me. My brother was even stricter than I about speaking English. He was especially cruel towards my mother, scolding her for her poor English. Bits of Vietnamese were often mixed in her conversation.

After two years of struggle, I finally divorced my culture. I was permitted to stop Vietnamese school. I thought of myself as American. At last, I thought I was one of you; I wasn’t one of them.

Sadly, I am only an American.

1. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The author’s brother helped mother with her English.

B．The author’s mother taught him English at home.

C．The author didn’t like learning Vietnamese when he was young.

D．The author’s mother put her sons in a language school in Vietnam.

2. Why did the author want to learn English?

A．The author would get recognized when speaking English.

B．The author’s brother is strict about speaking English.

C．It was the wish of the author’s mother.

D．The author’s nationality is American.

3. What might be the author’s feeling now?

A．scared

B．peaceful

C．satisfied

D．regretful

4. What message does the author want to convey(表达) through the passage?

A．It is difficult to adapt to a new environment.

B．It is important to appreciate your own culture.

C．It is important to remember your childhood.

D．It is difficult to learn a foreign language.