Remembering names is an important social skill. Here are some ways to master it.
Recite and repeat in conversation.
When you hear a person’s name，repeat it. Immediately say it to yourself several times without moving your lips. You could also repeat the name in a way that does not sound forced or artificial.
Ask the other person to recite and repeat.
You can let other people help you remember their names. After you’ve been introduced to someone，ask that person to spell the name mad pronounce it correctly for you. Most people will be pleased by the effort you’re making to learn their names.
Admit you don’t know.
Admitting that you can’t remember someone’s name can actually make people relaxed. Most of them will feel sympathy if you say. “I’m working to remember names better. Yours is right on the tip of my tongue. What is it again?”
Use associations.
Link each person yon meet with one thin
g you find interesting or unusual. For example，you could make a mental note:“Vicki Cheng -- tall, black hair.” To reinforce your associations, write them on a small card as soon as possible.
Limit the number of new names you learn at one time.
When meeting a group of people, concentrate on remembering just two or three names. Free yourself from remembering every one. Few of the people in mass introductions expect you to remember their names. Another way is to limit yourself to learning just first names. Last names can come later.
Go early.
Consider going early to conferences, parties and classes. Sometimes just a few people show up on time. That's fewer names for you to remember. And as more people arrive, you can hear them being introduced to others—an automatic review for you.
1. How will most people feel when you try hard to remember their names?| A．They will be moved. | B．They will be annoyed. |
| C．They will be delighted. | D．They will be discouraged. |
| A．all their names | B．a couple of names first |
| C．just their last names | D．as many names as possible |
| A．Tips on an important social skill. |
| B．Importance of attending parties. |
| C．How to make use of associations. |
| D．How to recite and repeat names. |
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【推荐1】I’m Jane from America. I can not sleep well and I always wake up several times during the night. I know for a fact that there are many other people who have trouble going to sleep, too. So, I’ve collected some advice I’ve received over the past few months.
Have regular sleep habits.
Go to bed at the same time every night. Try not to break this habit on weekends when you may be made to stay up late.
Turn off your computer.
A clean environment helps people to be happy and relaxed. Make sure that you have turned off all lights that might come into your room, and that the temperature is comfortable.
Exercise often.
Exercising will help you to fall asleep more easily, so walk out for 45 minutes every day and you will sleep better at night. But don’t do it just before you go to bed— you won’t be able to sleep!
Eat properly.
Eat only a little for supper.
| A．Turn off the lights. |
| B．Have a nice bedroom. |
| C．Get up early every morning. |
| D．Wake up at the same time every day. |
| E．They have helped me sleep faster and better. |
| F．A full stomach may make it much harder for you to sleep. |
| G．Don’t play on the computer for half an hour before you decide to sleep. |
【推荐2】No one likes being disorganized. Acquiring organizational skill is a worthwhile goal. Then how can you become an organized person?
Keep a to-do list
Notebooks are good tools for managing your time. Organized people do not keep things in head.
Never put things off
Procrastination(拖延) is typical of those who are irresponsible and careless. Organized people do everything on time.
Organized people will always know what is most important and act accordingly .So do not waste your time trying to do 100 things ,Spend your time and energy on something that is really worth it . Smaller things can wait .The things that are necessary should always be done .
| A．Focus on something that counts . |
| B．They do not want to put things off . |
| C．Divide the things into different parts. |
| D．Developing organizational skills can take time . |
| E．In a word ,organizational skills can better many aspects of your life . |
| F．The following things organized people always do will help you a lot . |
| G．Instead , they keep a list of things to do and then check them off once they get done . |
【推荐3】Maximize marketing and communication strategies with the largest generation
Gen Zers, members of the generation of people born between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s, have over 140 billion dollars of spending power, along with an ability to influence others and spread information quickly. Making changes to your company’s marketing and communication strategy is essential to atract the attention of Gen Zers and create a bond of trust with them and your brand. Below are five key strategies that can help you reach and retain Gen Zers.
1. Sell an experience
2. Engagement and community
Gen Zers crave a company that engages with customers and tailors their responses, so they know it’s not just a standard one-size-fits-all reply. A study shows that 76% of Gen Zers want brands to respond to feedback.
3. Getting to the point
Gen Zers have eight seconds of an attention span, combined with a hectic and busy schedule. Due to how Gen Zers grew up with technology and screens, they typically bounce between five screens at any time. This means that you have less time to grab their attention and convince them to look into your business and product.
4. Speaking through your brand
Creating a brand or company that hits all of the essential key points can be complex. Your brand has to speak for itself in its actions and intentions. Gen Z is a generation known for caring for the world, meaning that they are acutely aware of problems that societies face today. Gen Zers want companies to be environmentally and socially responsible.
| A．On top of this, your content has to be engaging and exciting. |
| B．They view this as a key to determining how authentic and honest a brand is. |
| C．They want brands to be an extension of their personalities, values and expectations. |
| D．With a want to make a difference, Gen Zers and their money talk volumes about how much they value a good brand they can trust. |
| E．Hard sells are a big NO to Gen Zers. |
| F．They do not hesitate to protest against supporting companies when unethical business practices and false advertising is spotted. |
【推荐1】Street lights can change the amount and quality of sleep that pigeons and magpies get at night, affecting their energy in the morning.
“One of the most common and well-documented things light pollution seems to do is cause animals, particularly birds, to change the timing of their behavior,” said Anne Aulsebrook, a researcher with the University of Melbourne.
Aulsebrook said she chose pigeons because so much is already known about their sleep compared to other birds’, and plenty of them are in captivity (圈养) to study. They set up experiments exposing the birds to darkness one night, switching on the lights the next and turning them off the following night. “We expected to see them sleep more on the first night, less when the lights are on and then recover some of the sleep they lost the next night,” she said.
Using sensors that recorded brain and muscle activity, the team found that the pigeons slept about 10 hours with the lights off. With the lights on, their sleep dropped to about six hours. Quality of sleep was also affected. The pigeons didn’t seem to recover from the loss of rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep the night before, slept less intensely the following night and woke up more often. Comparing amber (琥珀色) light to white light, the team found the tone made no difference in sleep patterns.
Then, the researchers wanted to see if they would see the same patterns in another species, so they looked at magpies. Magpies’ sleep was also affected by both white and amber light; they found, but the birds slept twice as much in amber light. Magpies also seemed to recover all of their non-REM sleep, but not their REM sleep—the opposite of the findings from the pigeon experiment.
Such species-specific results can make managing for light pollution difficult, Aulsebrook said, but the results did have one thing in common: amber light was never more harmful. “If we had to choose, I’d still go with warmer, amber colors,” she said. “The other simpler solution is to turn the lights off.”
1. What did Aulsebrook’s team want to learn through their experiments?| A．The cause of birds’ non-REM sleep. |
| B．The change of pigeons’ sleep patterns. |
| C．The design of energy-efficient street lights. |
| D．The effects of light pollution on birds’ behavior. |
| A．It’s a kind of deep sleep. | B．It’ s a kind of poor-quality sleep. |
| C．It causes birds to lose their energy. | D．Il happens only to birds in captivity |
| A．They stayed awake with the lights on. |
| B．They recovered all of their REM sleep. |
| C．They slept much longer in amber light. |
| D．They were not affected by the lights at all. |
| A．Street lights drive the birds crazy. |
| B．Birds differ greatly in their sleep patterns. |
| C．Secrets are discovered about pigeons’ sleep habits. |
| D．Light pollution can change birds’ sleep patterns. |
【推荐2】Fabien Cousteau, an ocean explorer, has announced plans to build a large research station under the ocean. The goal of the project is to become an “underwater version of the International Space Station (ISS)”.
Mr. Cousteau is the grandson of Jacques Cousteau, an ocean scientist who brought the wonders of the sea to the attention of people around the world. Fabien Cousteau has gone the same way, exploring the sea as a scientist and working to protect the oceans.
Though the ocean is all around us, studying it is a challenge. Divers are limited in how far down they can go and how long they can stay below. Returning to the surface can be dangerous. After a deep dive, divers must wait for hours before they dive again.
The new undersea laboratory is designed to solve many of those problems. Named “Proteus” the lab is a 370-square-meter structure that can be a home for up to 12 people at a time. By actually living under the sea, scientists will be able to dive and work for much longer without worrying about the dangers of coming to the surface.
Mr. Cousteau says that the research base won’t just be used to study and help protect the sea, but also to research new ways of creating energy and perhaps even searching for new medicines.
The power for the station is expected to come from solar energy and the movement of the ocean. Proteus is also expected to have the first underwater greenhouse in the world, so that the lab will be able to grow some of its own food.
Proteus was designed by Yves Behar, a well-known designer. Mr. Cousteau and Mr. Behar are working together to raise money to build Proteus. They say it’ll cost about $135 million. Plans call for Proteus to be built on the sea floor 18 meters below the ocean’s surface off the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea. Mr. Cousteau hopes to have the lab completed and ready to use by 2025.
1. What is the possible reason why Fabien Cousteau becomes an ocean explorer?| A．The strong support of his family. | B．The influence of his grandfather. |
| C．The trouble in exploring the ocean. | D．The dream of building the ISS in water. |
| A．To make studying the ocean easy. | B．To get more of the ocean mapped. |
| C．To become known for his research. | D．To draw attention to ocean exploration. |
| A．Exploring the island of Curacao. | B．Living in the sea forever. |
| C．Creating solar energy. | D．Planting vegetables. |
| A．It has been put to use. | B．It’s expensive to build. |
| C．It’s in the testing stage. | D．It’s built in the Pacific Ocean. |
| A．A world-known ocean explorer. | B．A newly-built undersea laboratory |
| C．An advanced way to explore the ocean | D．A plan for an undersea research station. |
【推荐3】A Great Friendship
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friendship perhaps incomparable in intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration and endurance. It lasted 50 years. It included pleasure and utility but over and above them, there were shared purpose, a common end and an enduring goodness on both sides. Four and a half months before he died, when he was ailing, debt-ridden, and worried about his impoverished family, Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison’s reply remind us that friends are friends until death. They also remind us that sometimes a friendship has a bearing on things larger than the friendship itself, for has there ever been a friendship of greater public consequence than this one?
“The friendship which has subsisted between us now half a century, the harmony of our political principles and pursuits have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period. If ever the earth has beheld a system of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never known reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted. To myself you have been a pillar of support throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be assured that I should leave with you my last affections.”
A week later Madison replied.
“You cannot look back to the long period of our private friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. If they are a source of pleasure to you, what aren’t they not to be to me? We cannot be deprived of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with which we discharge the trust committed to us and I indulge a confidence that sufficient evidence will find in its way to another generation to ensure, after we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld whilst we are here.”
1. Which of the following didn’t contribute to the 50-year great friendship between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?| A．Intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration. | B．Joint efforts in political pursuits. |
| C．A big fortune made by both of them. | D．Shared purpose and a common end. |
| A．symbolizes | B．alters | C．impacts | D．represents |
| A．James Madison’s willingness to lend money to help Jefferson and his family out of debt. |
| B．The pleasant agreement on the two friends’ political principles and pursuits. |
| C．A single and stable system of administration that the two friends were committed to. |
| D．James Madison’s promise to support Jefferson’s devotion to his cause. |
| A．Their friendship would be remembered for ever. |
| B．Their loss and deprivation would be made up for. |
| C．Their doubts would be backed by sufficient evidence. |
| D．Their devotion would be viewed in a fair way. |
【推荐1】Sleeping in on Saturday after a few weeks of too little shuteye may feel refreshing, but it can give a false sense of security.
New research shows long-term sleep loss cannot be cured that easily.
Scientists researched the effects of short-and long-term sleep loss and found that those who suffer long-term sleep loss may function normally soon after waking up, but experience steadily slower reaction times as the day goes by, even if they had tried to catch up the previous night.
The research has important safety significances in an increasingly busy society, not just for shift-workers but for the roughly one in six Americans who regularly get six hours or less of sleep a night.
“We know that staying awake 24 hours without sleep will affect your performance to do all sorts of things, and this effect equals to drinking too much when driving,” said lead researcher Dr. Daniel Cohen of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. But when those who suffer long-term sleep loss become all-nighters, “the harm is increased ten times,” Cohen said.
The National Institutes of Health says adults need seven hours to nine hours of sleep for good health. Regularly getting too little sleep increases the risk of health problems, including memory impairment(受损) and a weakened immune system.
More immediately, too little sleep affects reaction times; sleepiness is to blame for car crashes and other accidents.
It has critically important complicated and unexpected results for anyone who works “crazy hours” and thinks they are performing fine with a few hours of weeknight sleep, said Harris, director at New York’s Montefiore Medical Center. “Don’t think you can just bank up your sleep on the weekend, because it doesn’t work that way,” he warned.
1. The text mainly advises people _____.| A．to sleep more time | B．to sleep in on Saturday |
| C．to sleep scientifically | D．to sleep little on weekend |
| A．are quicker in thinking |
| B．may feel refreshed soon after waking up |
| C．are surely energetic |
| D．can have a strong sense of security |
| A．Most of the Americans get six hours or less of sleep a night. |
| B．Staying up is worse for those who suffer long-term sleep loss. |
| C．Traffic accidents have little to do with sleepiness. |
| D．One in six Americans are all-nighters. |
| A．pile up | B．pick up | C．add up | D．build up |
【推荐2】As every mobile-phone owner knows, after a year or so the battery starts to fade and the beast needs recharging more frequently. That is troublesome, but a phone’s batteries can be replaced fairly cheaply — or the whole device traded in for the latest model. An electric car, though, is a much bigger investment. And batteries are its priciest component, representing around 30% of an average mid-size vehicle.
To provide buyers with some peace of mind, carmakers guarantee their batteries, typically for eight years or around 200,000km. Producers, planning to go much further than that, though, are racing to launch “million mile” (1.6m kilometers) batteries. Contemporary Amperex Technology, a giant Chinese firm which produces batteries for a number of carmakers, was said to be ready to start producing batteries which would last for 16 years or 2m kilometres. Elon Musk has suggested that Tesla,a Californian maker of electric vehicles, has a million-mile battery in the works. And over in Detroit,General Motors is in the final stages of developing an advanced battery which it says has similar longevity (寿命)。
Regular fast-charging reduces battery life, as do overcharging and deep discharging. Driving in extremely hot or cold weather does not help either. And battery life will diminish even if you just leave the car in the garage. The real point of a million-mile battery is that the technological advances required to make it possible will deal with these things as well.
Battery technology is improving all the time, and by no means are million-mile batteries the limit of engineers’ ambition. The next objective is to replace Li-ions’ liquid electrolytes (电解质) with solid ones. That would allow even longer driving ranges, which could make a two-million-mile battery an achievable objective. If that day comes,the tables would have been turned. From being the first part of a car to fail, its battery will have become the last.
1. The battery problem of mobile phones is mentioned to_____.| A．show electrical devices may have drawbacks |
| B．stress the disturbing battery problem of cars |
| C．call for investment in battery development |
| D．compare the function of battery in devices |
| A．It is eagerly anticipated by car consumers. |
| B．It is aimed to save repair cost for customers. |
| C．It targets the longevity of 8 years and above. |
| D．It has drawn the interest of many enterprises. |
| A．Exploring new materials to construct batteries. |
| B．Guiding users on how to maintain the battery. |
| C．Addressing factors that decrease battery life. |
| D．Researching the principle of battering aging. |
| A．Promising. |
| B．Unpredictable. |
| C．Concerning. |
| D．Unlimited. |
【推荐3】At the age of seven, while his friends were spending their allowance on things like candy and toys, Jose Adolfo Quisocola was busy saving money for basic purchases. To try to get his peers (同龄人) to do the same, the boy from Peru came up with the idea of an eco-bank, the Bartselana Student Bank, which allows kids of all ages to become financially independent while also helping the environment.
Set up in 2012, the bank is the world’s first bank for kids. To become a member, a kid has to bring in at least 5 kilograms of solid waste and set a savings goal. Once accepted all bank “partners” are required to deposit at least one additional kilogram of recyclables on a monthly basis and observe other requirements, such as attending financial education and environmental management workshops.
The waste accumulated is sold to local recycling companies, which, thanks to Jose’s efforts, pay a higher-than-market rate for everything brought in by the bank members. The money received is placed in the personal account where they collect until the savings goal is reached. The account holder can then withdraw the money, or choose to leave it and make it continue to grow for a bigger target. “At the beginning, my teachers thought I was crazy or that a child could not undertake this type of project,” Jose recalls. “They did not understand that we are not the future of the country but its present. Luckily, I had the support of the school headmaster and an assistant in my class.”
The boy’s efforts paid off, and by 2013, the bank had over 200 members, who brought in one ton of recyclable waste. Today, the eco-bank, which now has the support of several local institutions, boasts ten educational centers. They are designed to teach over 3,000 students, aged 10 to 18, to become financially independent, use their money wisely, and help the environment.
Not surprisingly, Jose’s efforts have earned him several national and international awards. On November 20. 2018, Jose won Children’s Climate Prize, which comes with a medal and $5.500 in prize money and is given to a child or youth who has accomplished an extraordinary achievement for the climate or environment.
1. Why did Jose set up the bank?| A．To raise money and set up a recycling company. |
| B．To buy necessities and donate them to needy kids. |
| C．To save much money and protect the environment. |
| D．To educate the students and help them win prizes. |
| A．By donating to the eco-bank. |
| B．By sending in an application. |
| C．By turning in one kilogram of waste in a month. |
| D．By presenting a savings goal and a certain amount of waste. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Excited. |
| C．Moved. | D．Unworried. |
| A．How the environment is improved. |
| B．What the project has achieved. |
| C．How tons of waste has been recycled. |
| D．What support the local institutions get. |
【推荐1】On a dark winter day in Russia in 1896, Sergei Prokofiev sat by a piano next to his mother. She was helping him compose (作曲) his first piece of music. Sergei was only five years old.
He had overheard his parents discussing a terrible famine (饥荒) in India. The picture Sergei had of those hungry people in his mind caused him to write a story, in the form of musical notes. Sergei could not read music, so he picked out a tune on the piano keys, and his mother recorded the notes. Sergei titled it “Indian Gallop”.
Sergei’s mother began giving him piano lessons for 20 minutes a day, and his ability grew quickly. She had a great love for music, too, and Sergei often lay awake in bed at night and listened to her play the piano.
Sergei’s parents found a famous music teacher for him. The teacher shouted at Sergei when he didn’t practice reading and playing music. Sergei later wrote, “I wanted to compose great musical plays, and instead I was given all sorts of boring tasks. ” Yet he persisted with his studies and grew up to be a great composer.
In 1936 a children’s theater asked Sergei to write music that would teach children about different instruments. He was happy and wrote the piece in a week, calling it Peter and the Wolf.
Sergei’s Peter and the Wolf was enjoyed by children as well as adults. The first time Sergei played the piece on the piano, the children listening to it loved it so much that they made him play the ending three extra times. He was excited.
Today Sergei Prokofiev is remembered not only for his contributions (贡献) to classical music, but also for his sense of fun.
1. When he was five, Sergei _________.| A．could read music |
| B．experienced a famine |
| C．created his first composition |
| D．wrote a story about his parents |
| A．was a great success |
| B．was one of Sergei’s early works |
| C．was written to teach children about the piano |
| D．was played three extra times when first played |
| A．The greatest 20th-century composer. |
| B．Sergei’s contributions to music. |
| C．Musical plays in Russia. |
| D．Sergei’s musical stories. |
【推荐2】Imagine that you’re the creator and show runner of the newest comedy show on television. Only it isn’t so popular yet, and your live Studio audience isn’t giving you the big laughs the show deserves. Do you film the show all over again, hoping that this time the audience will laugh? Or is there another option for making a joke sound funnier than it was received?
Sweeten(改善) the sound by adding a laugh track! “Sweetening,” or the addition of sound effects such as laughs, screams, and other audience-produced noises to the audio track of a TV show, has been used since the 1940s to produce the appearance, or rather the sound, of an engaged and entertained response to a show’s comedy. Laugh tracks came into existence as not only a solution, and sometimes replacement, for an unengaged live audience but also as a way to engage an at-home audience into a more-traditional, public, and theaterlike experience. Adding a laugh track to a television show makes the viewers at home feel much less like they’re sitting on a couch staring at the television screen and much more like they’re in a room full of laughing happy people to varying degrees of success.
Though the art of sweetening has risen and fallen in popularity over the past 60 years, credit for its creation and continued use is owed to laugh-track pioneer and sound engineer Charles Douglass. Douglass was the first to develop, in 1953, a machine for producing “canned laughter”, accessible at the push of a button or pull of a lever (操纵杆). Despite being artificial, sensibly edited laugh tracks are found by television studios to bring about a positive audience response, as their use is usually accompanied by higher ratings and increased audience memory. Though some television audiences may disagree with the value of the laugh track, the cheerful and repetitive sound holds a permanent place in the history and future of television comedy.
1. The author uses the first paragraph to .| A．introduce the topic “sweetening” |
| B．seek solutions for the problem |
| C．point out a way of making comedies |
| D．arouse readers’ interest in comedies |
| A．The creation of a show. |
| B．Funnier sound in a show, |
| C．More engaged live audience |
| D．Communication among TV viewers. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Positive. |
| C．Neutral (中立的). | D．Uncertain, |
| A．The reason for using laugh tracks. |
| B．The brief history of laugh tracks. |
| C．The development of TV comedies. |
| D．The way to improve television shows. |
【推荐3】Chinese colleges have come up with an unusual way to help freshmen settle in. They turn their gyms into campsites for moms and dads, some of whom have traveled thousands of miles across the country, to say goodbye.
For the past five years, Tianjin University in northern China has provided free accommodation for parents in what it calls "tents of love". Other schools let parents sleep on mats in school gymnasiums.
"Going to college is a life moment and my parents didn’t want to miss that," said Zhang Jinqi, a freshman at Tianjin University majoring in applied chemistry. His parents traveled with him on the 19-hour train journey from Jiangxi Province in southern China.
Images of school gyms packed with parents have been widely shared on Chinese social media prompting a debate on whether China’s only children are too coddled.
Some have voiced criticism of Tianjin University, saying that they think both the parents and the children should be more independent.
Xiong Bingqi, the deputy director of think-tank 21st Century Education Research Institute，thinks the problem is overstated. "It has always been a problem in China that at the start of every school year, colleges are packed with parents who come along to drop off their children and stay with them," he said. "For some families, it’s their way to celebrate the first-ever family member who’s able to go to college," Xiong added. "There’s nothing wrong with sharing the happiness."
Zhang’s father said the decision to escort their son was a no-brainer. He and his wife are among the many "campers" who sleep in the 550 temporary tents set up in the Tianjin University gym.
"My child has lots of luggage and we also want to go traveling," said his father Zhang Yonghui. "The hotels nearby are fully booked so I have to sleep in the tents."
Their son also shrugged off the criticism although he said he was looking forward to living on his own for the first time. "Being accompanied by my parents doesn’t mean I’m spoiled."
1. Zhang Jinqi thought his parents accompanied him to his university mainly because _____.| A．they wanted to help him with his luggage |
| B．they wanted to go to travel in Tianjin |
| C．they doubted his independence |
| D．they wanted to witness his important life moment |
| A．is a chance for freshmen to travel with their parents |
| B．is not such a serious problem as people think |
| C．is a long-lasting problem to be solved |
| D．is not good for the freshmen to build up their independence |
| A．was in favor of | B．was ashamed of |
| C．thought nothing of | D．was concerned about |
| A．“Tents of love” is widely criticized. |
| B．Chinese only children are too spoiled. |
| C．Chinese college education is faced with a big challenge. |
| D．There are different opinions on “tents of love”. |
