【推荐2】Being a good friend isn’t always easy. Nevertheless, taking the time to develop a lasting friendship is worth every ounce of effort.     1     Here are a few things you can do to be a good friend to others.

Make time for each other

    2     The mark of a good friend is someone who makes time for you and makes spending time with you a priority. A good friend will also look for opportunities to maximize the time you have together by seeking fun and unique experiences that strengthen and maintain your bond.

Open up and allow each other to be vulnerable

A good friend is someone genuine, someone with whom you can be yourself and they can be themselves around you. A good friend allows you to be vulnerable with them and vice versa, meaning you can expose your emotions and circumstances with each other and trust one another to listen, be supportive, and have each other’s best interests at heart.     3     If your friend hurt you, don’t be afraid to talk about it.

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It is one of the most important aspects of being a good friend. Your friend will need you for support, especially in hard times. Nobody wants to be friends with someone who actually isn’t interested in them. It’s hard to rely on a person who doesn’t behave in a trustworthy way. We all know well-intentioned people who say, “Okay, I will...” but never follow through. If that’s you, be aware that you’re destroying your friends’ trust. Eventually, they’ll stop believing what you say.

Apologize when you’ve made a mistake.

If you want your friends to trust you, then you can’t act like you’re perfect. If you know you’ve made a mistake, own up to it instead of denying. Though your friends won’t be happy that you made a mistake, they’ll be very pleased that you’re mature enough to admit it instead of just pretending that nothing is wrong, or worse — blaming it on someone else.     5     Let your friends hear the sincerity in your voice.

A．Be dependable.

B．Be a good listener.

C．When you do so, you should mean it.

D．A good friend is willing to stick their neck out on behalf of their friends.

E．It will contribute to direct lines of communication between both of you.

F．Friendships grow through shared experiences and quality time together.

G．Because good friendships provide a sense of belonging and security, knowing you are loved.

【推荐1】As a mind-body coach in professional sports, I work with medical staff and expert consultants every year during baseball spring training to help players prepare their bodies for the season.     1    . That’s why I provide some good tips to keep a healthy body.

Drink enough water

How much water you drink affects all the functions of your body, including your mental performance. A body water loss of just 1% to 2% can damage cognitive (感知的) function.     2    . However, the amount can vary depending on a person’s activity level.

Exercise regularly

The key to exercise’s effectiveness is consistency. With as little as 11 minutes of exercise per day, you can enjoy numerous health benefits, including increasing your life span.     3    . Because of the alternating and reciprocal (互惠的) nature of your way of walking, it offers the opportunity to tune into your body and self-assess by noticing if there are any imbalances.

Breathe better to move better

    4    . In addition to reducing your heart rate, blood pressure and stress response, learning how to breathe better will improve the diaphragm (膈) function and your movement and reduce back pain. Practice taking breathing breaks a few minutes throughout your day.

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Sleep is essential for overall health. Adults need at least seven hours of sleep nightly, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you’re not getting that minimum amount of shut-eye, it’s time to clean up your sleep routine and start prioritizing rest.

A．Get enough sleep

B．Fall asleep as early as possible every night

C．It means you have to follow their exercise routine

D．Breathing plays a vital role in how you feel and move

E．Walking outside is a great way to get in those 11 minutes

F．To promote good health, I suggest drinking at least 1.5 liters of water daily

G．You may not be a professional athlete, but your body affects the quality of your life

【推荐2】U.S. life expectancy is currently 78.6 years——a number determined by factors including genes, gender, lifestyle and luck. But the single best predictor of longevity (寿命) might be geography. Growing evidence suggests people’s ZIP codes might hold the most information about how long they’ll live.

Researchers from the New York University School of Medicine recently used data from NYU Langone Health’s City Health Dashboard to find that 56 of the 500 largest U.S. cities are home to people who can expect to live at least 20 fewer years than those in other neighborhoods, even if they’re just away. In Chicago, the city with the largest differences, life expectancy varied by 30.1 years between neighborhoods; in both Washington D.C. and New York City, it varied by more than 27 years between neighborhoods.

Where you live directly affects your health in a number of ways, from exposure to air pollution to accessibility of healthy food, green space and medical care. It’s also an indicator of socioeconomic (社会经济学的) factors related to health and longevity, including race and income. The NYU researchers also found that the cities with the widest gaps in life expectancy were those most separated by race and ethnicity (种族划分), with minority neighborhoods often facing obstacles, like unaffordable housing costs or poor social services. But these problems didn’t affect majority white neighborhoods to the same degree. Chicago is far more separated than most U.S. cities, and largely black neighborhoods on the South Side have the city’s lowest life expectancies.

Links among race, poverty and health have been strengthened by years of inequality, and removing them won’t be easy. However, the NYU researchers argue understanding the ties between ZIP codes and health can help local lawmakers, public-health officials and community representatives begin to level the playing field for their voters.

1. What does “ZIP codes” refer to?

A．Where people live.

B．How people live their life.

C．Whether are lucky.

D．What genes people have.

2. What did the data used in paragraph 2 show?

A．People in different cites had different life expectancies

B．People in Chicago lived longer than those in New York.

C．People in Washington D. C. had the lowest life expectancies.

D．Life expectancy differed among people in the same district.

3. What contributes to the huge gap in life expectancy in Chicago?

A．Medical care.	B．Air pollution.
C．Ethnicity.	D．Social service.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Influences of ZIP codes on different people

B．Links between ZIP codes and longevity.

C．Ways to improve people’s life expectancy.

D．Importance of removing inequality.

【推荐3】People have tried everything to get more sleep. But unlike almost every other area of life, effort is not rewarded.    1    The more you try, the less you are likely to succeed. Here are some ways to improve your sleep that might just work.

    2    There is nothing you can do between now and bedtime to guarantee that you will sleep tonight. There is, however, plenty you can start doing to improve your chances of sleeping well next month. So instead of worrying about the night ahead, make sleeping well a long-term goal and expect to see progress in a few weeks rather than tomorrow.

Have a late night. Adults need to be awake for at least 16 hours to generate enough sleep-drive to sleep for eight hours at night. Having an early night can mean you won’t be sleepy enough to fall asleep quickly and easily. Don’t pay too much attention to the exact times or he hours of sleep you are getting — the details don’t matter. And don’t take naps (小睡) in the day.    3    

Smile more. Smiling can reduce tension and promote relaxation. As you turn the light out at night, try to think of something funny and smile lo yourself in the dark.    4    Even a fake smile is enough to send a message to the brain to change your mood and retrain the brain to be comfortable with being awake, thus reducing tension and allowing sleep to follow.

Stop reading articles about sleep. None of the researching, monitoring or analyzing actually leads to better sleep. In fact, constantly looking for a solution is undoubtedly making things worse.    5    Make this the last article you read on the subject, then go and find something more interesting to think about.

A．Try to stay awake at night.

B．In fact, it is actively punished.

C．Give up trying to sleep tonight.

D．So give sleep less of your attention.

E．They take the edge off your appetite for sleep.

F．It doesn’t have to be a genuine, heartfelt smile.

G．You have to do things differently to get a different outcome.

【推荐1】When adult humans meet a baby, many can’t help speaking in a higher-pitched (更高音的), sing-song y voice. This shift, known as parentese, is not unique to humans — it has also been observed in animals like monkeys and gorillas. Now, scientists are adding one more species to that list: bottlenose dolphins.

Dolphins are intelligent animals that live and hunt in groups. They communicate in a unique way: every individual produces its own signature sound that acts much like an ID card, usually by its first birthday. But how does each come up with its distinctive whistle? For babies, it might have something to do with listening to Mum. To solve this mystery, researchers examined the sounds mother dolphins, make.

Scientists studied 34 years’ worth of recordings of sounds made by 19 female bottlenose dolphins. When the mother dolphins were near their young, they continued to make their signature sound, but at a higher frequency. They also used a wider range of frequencies than they did when their babies were not nearby.

This discovery suggests that using these modifications mother dolphins assist their young in learning how to produce these calls themselves. Since dolphin babies often spend some years with their mothers before living on their own, it makes sense that this adaptation would help them learn to communicate. At the very least, the higher-pitched whistle likely gets the babies’ attention. “It’s important for a baby to know,’ Oh, Mum’s talking to me now,’” says marine biologist June Mann.

This kind of research could help us understand how language developed in humans. “It is absolutely essential to have basic knowledge about other species and how they communicate,” says Mann. “I would be really interested to see whether dolphins also change their sounds when interacting with babies of others, which is what happens in humans.”

1. What do the underlined words “this mystery ”refer to in paragraph 2?

A．Why dolphins live and play in groups.

B．How dolphins develop their unique sounds.

C．What aspects of intelligence dolphins possess.

D．Whether dolphins can use parentese like humans.

2. How did the researchers carry out their study of dolphins?

A．By analyzing mother dolphins’ sound features.

B．By recording parent-child interaction frequency.

C．By measuring the distance between parent and child.

D．By examining the speech organs of mother dolphins.

3. What is a suggested reason why dolphin mothers use parentese with their young?

A．To help them learn to talk.	B．To teach them hunting skills.
C．To express worry and care.	D．To distract their attention.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To compare the parentese of humans and dolphins.

B．To illustrate the development of dolphin intelligence.

C．To share new findings about dolphin communication.

D．To highlight the value of studying dolphins’ language.

【推荐3】Scientists learned recently that fish was the main source of protein for people in southern Scandinavia many thousands of years ago. They also ate other animals that live in the water. The findings come from Lund University in Sweden. Scientists there tested ancient human bones from more than 80 individuals.

One of the researchers was Adam Boethius. He said by studying the chemicals of the bones, they learned the diet of the people they belonged to.

Basically you are what you eat. And so when you study stable isotopes (同位素), you get a clue to what the humans have been eating.

The study examined the importance of a mix of protein sources in the human diet from around 10,500 to 7,500 years ago. They found that in Scandinavia most of what people ate came from the sea.

Boethius said back then, fish made up 50 to 70 percent of the diet. He said other sea animals like seals and dolphins brought that percentage to almost 100 percent.

This research changed the understanding of how ancient people of the area lived. Earlier studies suggested these people hunted big animals and moved around a lot to follow them. But the chemical examinations did not show proteins linked to deer and elk (麋鹿) and other land animals of the time.

Boethius said scientists now believe these people stayed in one place for most of their lives and ate local food. The discovery, he argued, provides evidence that settlements appeared in Scandinavia much earlier than researchers once believed.

1. The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refers to ______.

A．foods.

B．animals

C．bones

D．diet

2. What can be concluded from the research?

A．In Scandinavia most people lived a happy life.

B．Scandinavians’ diet was particularly rich in protein.

C．Scandinavians’ bones were different from those of others.

D．Ancient Scandinavians ate nearly nothing except sea animals.

3. What did researchers once believe?

A．Ancient people didn’t know how to cook.

B．Ancient Scandinavians lived on land animals.

C．Most ancient Scandinavians preferred local food.

D．Ancient Scandinavians stayed in one place for a long time.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．A new discovery.	B．A science theory.
C．An important history.	D．An ancient lifestyle.