Make friends with your inner voice
Most people have an inner voice.
Your inner voice is always with you, giving a commentary inside your head. You might notice it when you make a mistake, when you try something new, or when you solve a problem.
Your inner voice, also known as your self-talk, has an impact on you because you already pay attention to it.
| A．Your inner voice has different tones. |
| B．It’s the internal chatter that goes on inside your head. |
| C．So what you say to yourself, and what you hear, sinks in. |
| D．You’re telling yourself how you’ll benefit from tidying your room. |
| E．It can be helpful to talk to that voice with kindness and understanding. |
| F．When you make a mistake, tell yourself it’s OK and you’ll learn for next time. |
| G．Noticing your inner voice and talking encouragingly to yourself make you more confident. |
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【推荐1】Growing up, Deka Ismail says she let labels define what she could be. “I was a black girl, from a refugee (难民) family,” Deka said. “It was as if I was only allowed to explore in this predetermined box.”
After a high school chemistry class inspired her to think about a career in science and gave her confidence in the field, Deka learned to live outside labels and began making big plans for her future. Now she is about to begin her freshman year at the University of California, planning to become a professor.
Born and raised in San Diego's City Heights neighbourhood, Deka is the daughter of a Somali refugee couple. While some might say Deka's success happened in spite of her background, she would say differently, that her experiences shaped her and inspired her to be the driven, young scientist that she is today.
When Deka was eight years old, her mother got a job by studying hard back in school in order to support the whole family. That made Deka realize that education could make a difference to one's life. She spent a lot of time in the library reading books, and didn't do many of the things her peers did, like partying or having romantic relationships.
“I always felt like I had to be the perfect girl for my family,” Deka said. “You have to not even do your best but two times better than everyone else. I felt like the whole world was waiting for me to mess up.”
Deka's efforts paid off. The summer before her senior year of high school, she was accepted to the American Chemical Society Project SEED Programme. “She brought both enthusiasm and focus,” Botham, a researcher at this research institute, recalled. “She arrived every day ready to work, ready to learn and ready to tackle new challenges regardless of whether or not she had done anything similar.”
When asked what advice she would give to others like her, Deka warned them not to underestimate themselves. “Don't tell yourself that scholarship is too big or this programme is too competitive or I'll never get into this school, ” she said. “I was not sure whether I could make it until I started seeing the acceptance letters rolling in.”
1. From the passage, we can learn that__ .| A．Deka was adopted by a refugee family |
| B．Deka spent a lot of time going to parties |
| C．Deka's experiences drove her to work hard |
| D．Deka became a professor after graduation |
| A．after her chemistry class | B．from her mother's experience |
| C．by reading books in the library | D．through working at the institute |
| A．patient | B．generous |
| C．adaptable | D．confident |
| A．Hard work leads to success. | B．Practice makes perfect. |
| C．Well begun is half done. | D．Life is not all roses. |
There are two important teachers in this world. One is the nature. It was considered to be the best teacher in the old days, because man learned a lot from nature like lighting the fire and growing rice. It also provides man with many necessary things for life, such as water, food and so on.
Hu, 31, is a pioneer in nature education. He set up an organization five years ago. It offers nature-based programs to children under 12 years old, including many outdoor activities, such as planting trees and watching birds.
“Nature is friendly to us if we protect her. And don’t forget that we all are part of nature,” He said. The purpose of nature education is to teach people how to understand, respect (尊重) and get on well with nature.
Here comes the other important teacher — a book. The experiences people learned from nature were written down in the form of a book. This was a step forward because man could record their experiences and thoughts.
Books play an important role in our lives. Su Mingjuan, a girl from a poor family in a small village, has finished college and become a good bank clerk. She volunteers to encourage people to read more. She said, “Without reading books, I can’t have such a wonderful life.” Besides Su, millions of people learn from books and have better lives. Some people ever said, “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket (口袋).”
1. The passage mainly talks about2. According to Paragraph 1, nature teaches us some skills like
3. Hu works on nature education to help people
4. How did people record their experiences and thoughts in Paragraph 4? (10个词以内)
5. What can you learn from Su Mingjuan’s story? (20个词以内)
The advantage of technological devices is connectedness: email lets us respond on the go, and we are in touch with more people during more hours of the day than at any other time in history. But is it possible we’re more lonely than ever, too? That’s what MIT professor Sherry Turkle observes in her new book, Alone Together, a fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology. Turkle details the ways technology has redefined our comprehension of closeness and loneliness—and warns us of the danger of accepting such virtual(虚拟的) relationships in place of lasting emotional connections.
For Turkle, the biggest worry is the effect all these shallow connections have on our development. Is technology offering us the lives we want to live? “We’re texting people at a distance,” says Turkle, “We’re using lifeless objects to convince ourselves that even when we’re alone, we feel together. And then when we’re with each other, we put ourselves in situations where we are alone—constantly on our mobile devices. It’s what I call a perfect storm of confusion about what’s important in our human connections.”
What can’t be denied is that technology, whatever its faults, makes life a whole lot easier. It allows us to communicate with more people in less time and makes conversation simple. But it can also be seductive(具有诱惑性的), providing more stimulation than our natural lives. There are usually some unhealthy videos online which remove teenagers’ attention from their schoolwork. Besides, some online activities make people addicted, which occupied their daily life and affected their ability to form real-world relationships. “Technology can be more immediately satisfying than the labor of building an intimate relationship,” said one highschool student, “Every time I text, I start to have some happy feelings.”
But are any of those feelings equal to the kind we feel when engaged in real, face-to-face communication? Online, you can neglect others’ feelings. In a text message, you can avoid eye contact. A number of studies have found that this generation of teens is less sympathetic than ever. That doesn’t spell disaster, says Turkle, but……
1. From the first paragraph we can infer that_________.
| A．email checking helps people wake up early |
| B．technological device production has been simplified |
| C．using technological devices costs teens much time |
| D．people communicate mainly by text-messaging now |
| A．ways to draw a fascinating portrait |
| B．the advantages of technology |
| C．the dangers of accepting emotional connections |
| D．how technology influences human relationships |
| A．starting to accept emotional connections in place of virtual connections |
| B．being affected by the shallow connections through the mobile devices |
| C．dropping the use of technological devices for connection with each other |
| D．convincing themselves by using fewer lifeless objects in connections |
| A．Others’ feelings can be ignored in online communication. |
| B．No stimulation is provided in natural life connections. |
| C．People always send text messages to avoid eye contact. |
| D．It may be a disaster that teens are less sympathetic than ever. |
| A．To instruct people how to do with emails. |
| B．To lead us to consider what’s important in human connections. |
| C．To promote a wider use of technological devices. |
| D．To stress the importance of technology. |
【推荐1】The negative (负面的) health effects of sleep shortages during the week can’t be changed by marathon weekend sleep sessions, according to a new study.
Researchers have long known that routine sleep deprivation (缺乏) can cause weight gain and increase other health risks, including diabetes. But there are still some people who hope that shutting off the alarm on Saturday and Sunday will repay the weekly sleep debt and remove any ill effects.
The research, published in Current Biology, ruins those hopes. Despite complete freedom to sleep in and nap during a weekend recovery period, participants in a sleep laboratory who were limited to five hours of sleep on weekdays gained nearly three pounds over two weeks and experienced metabolic disruption (代谢紊乱) that would increase their risk for diabetes over the long term. While weekend recovery sleep had some benefits after a single week of inadequate sleep, those gains were wiped out when people returned right to their same sleep schedule the next Monday.
“If there are benefits of catch-up sleep, they’re gone when you go back to your routine. It’s very short-lived,” said Kenneth Wright, who led the research. “These health effects are long-term. It’s kind of like smoking once was — people would smoke and wouldn’t see an immediate effect on their health, but people will say now that smoking is not a healthy lifestyle choice. I think sleep is in the early stage of where smoking used to be.”
Wright said that the study suggests people should prioritize sleep — cutting out the optional “sleep stealers” such as watching television shows or spending time on electronic equipment. Even when people don’t have a choice about losing sleep due to child-care responsibilities or job schedules, they should think about prioritizing sleep in the same way they would think about a healthy diet or exercise.
1. What had the researchers already known before doing the new research?| A．The actual benefits of weekend recovery sleep. |
| B．Harm to health caused by the lack of routine sleep. |
| C．People’s habit of shutting off the alarm during holidays. |
| D．The relationship between body weight and sleep amount. |
| A．call on smokers to completely abandon smoking |
| B．advise people to go to sleep when they want to smoke |
| C．show people have known the harm brought by smoking |
| D．show people will someday notice the bad effects of sleep deprivation |
| A．Have a low opinion of something. |
| B．Increase the amount of something. |
| C．Cut down something that isn’t necessary any more. |
| D．Treat something as being more important than others. |
| A．Weekend Catch-up Sleep Is a Lie |
| B．Bad Sleep Habits Are Harmful to Health |
| C．A New Study Has an Unexpected Discovery |
| D．Advantages and Disadvantages of Catch-up Sleep |
【推荐2】While we enjoy the convenience the modern technology has brought to us, there has been a growing realization that while we may have innumerable followers and friends on social media, those in the real world are far more limited. Sharing feelings and problems in real conversations and confrontations is increasingly hard. Therefore, we feel lonely. The only way to break away from it is to reconnect with the self and the people who surround us.
Connect with your own self
Learning to say ‘no’ to the people and activities that are beyond your ability. Doing this does not mean you are being unfriendly or irresponsible. It is a necessary reallocation of energies to provide emotional help to oneself and others.
Do the things you love
Invest in yourself by engaging with your interests and passions.
Make time.
| A．Draw boundaries |
| B．Offer help whenever possible |
| C．Do not allow time to become something missing |
| D．This requires us to relook, reconsider and adapt |
| E．Life is always full of opportunities and challenges |
| F．Self-awareness is a key to understanding your needs and desires |
| G．It is significant to work towards being available for people around you |
【推荐3】The other day a friend,a sociable man,told me he had found himself alone in New York for an hour or two between appointments.He went to the Whitney and spent the"empty"time looking at things.He then felt unexpectedly happy.Suddenly alone,he discovered there was a new self to meet.
＂One alone is never lonely."There is great difference between being alone and lonely.Loneliness is most strongly felt with other people,for with others,even with a lover sometimes,we suffer from our differences of tastes,personalities and moods.The fear of hurting or being hurt in a social situation brings us loneliness.Alone,we can afford to be wholly whatever we are,and to feel whatever we feel absolutely. That is a great luxury(奢侈）！
I have been alone for the last twenty years and it becomes increasingly rewarding.When I can wake up and watch the sun rise over the ocean,as I do most days,and I know that I have an entire day ahead, uninterrupted,in which to write a few pages,take a walk with my dog,lie down in the afternoon for a long think,read and listen to music,I am flooded with happiness.
I'm lonely only when I am overtired,when I have worked too long without a break,when from the time being I feel empty and need filling up.And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip,when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot,and am full to brimful(满满的）experience that needs to be sorted out.Then I need to be alone to find where my self is hiding.
It takes a while, but the moment comes when the world falls away,and the self comes out again from the unconscious,bringing back all I have recently experienced to be explored and slowly understood.
1. Why does the writer mention his friend in Paragraph 1?| A．To introduce the topic over being alone. |
| B．To prove that loneliness can bring happiness. |
| C．To describe the state of being lonely and alone. |
| D．To express acceptance of his friend's sociability. |
| A．Loneliness never occurs when others are around. |
| B．Loneliness brings the fear of hurting and being hurt. |
| C．Being alone offers one more private time and space. |
| D．Being alone makes one interested in reading and music. |
| A．take a long lecture trip | B．meet and talk to people |
| C．stay alone to be refreshed | D．be confused with life troubles |
