They aren’t great artists like Leonardo da Vinci or Vincent van Gogh, but their paintings are just as popular on Chinese social media, with millions of Chinese people willing to pay for them.
The 36 works were painted by ordinary Chinese people who live with autism (自闭症) or cerebral palsy (脑瘫), aged from their early teens to late thirties. They all studied art at World of Art Brut Culture (WABC), which is a Shanghai-based non-profit organization (非盈利组织) for art education. The project was started by WABC and supported by the Tencent Charitable Foundation. Users could buy a digital copy of each painting by donating (捐赠) 1 yuan or more. By Aug 29, donations totaled more than 15 million yuan, with about 5.8 million people participating (参与).
“The paintings by these autistic kids and adults are beautiful: the style is similar to that of the Dutch artist Van Gogh. I’m really impressed by their talent,” Feng Li, a customer service officer in Shanghai, told the South China Morning Post.
However, the popular campaign also led to certain questions.
Li Laoxi, an experienced special education teacher in Hangzhou, said that based on his experience, people with autism could only draw a few lines or fill in colors under the guidance of their trainers. “Maybe there are some geniuses out there, but I’ve never met them”. Others questioned where the money would go, as the donations went to WABC instead of the painters. In response to these concerns, Miao Shiming, founder of WABC, said the money would be used to employ art teachers, buy supplies, and rent facilities. Meanwhile, Tencent said that all donation information would be open to the public.
1. What is the text mainly about?A.An online painting exhibition. | B.A non-profit organization. |
C.A public donation. | D.An online survey about paintings. |
A.It helps them cure autism. | B.It provides art education for them. |
C.It gives them money | D.It offers schooling to them. |
A.Because he thought autistic people could not draw. |
B.Because he doubted about the painting abilities of autistic people. |
C.Because he didn’t trust the organization, WABC. |
D.Because he believed the paintings were painted only by geniuses. |
A.Disappointed. | B.Appreciated. |
C.Worried. | D.Objective. |
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【推荐1】The Professional Benefits of Volunteering
If you’re thinking about changing careers, it’s often necessary to find a way to develop new skills. This is not always possible in your current position so doing volunteer work can be a fantastic way of breaking into a new industry or profession.
Even if you’re not planning to change careers, there are numerous personal benefits of volunteering. Including volunteer work on your resume not only demonstrates you have the required skills, but it shows that you are passionate, have a positive attitude, are motivated by things other than money, and that you’re willing to help others. These are attractive attributes for any employer.
Meeting others through volunteer work is the most common way for people to expand their network and such connections are invaluable for professionals. In addition to this, the social, psychological, and health benefits of volunteering should not be underestimated.
* Gaining Professional Experience
Volunteering gives you the chance to gain work experience in your field. If you have just graduated or are applying for entry-level jobs, you can find yourself in a chicken-and-egg situation when it’s hard to get your first job in your desired field.
* Trying Out a New Career
It can be difficult to know which career you want to pursue without actually trying it. Taking a full-time, paid position is a big commitment and skipping between jobs and careers too regularly will make it seem to employers that you lack direction. Doing volunteer work is a fantastic way of trying something to see if it’s what you want to do.
* Training Opportunities
Though more affordable part-time courses which are emerging, the cost of education is generally getting more expensive.
* Improving Job Prospects
Volunteer work improves your job prospects for two main reasons.
A.Firstly, in a competitive job market, professional networking is essential and volunteering is a fantastic way of expanding yours. |
B.Aside from personal gains, the benefits of volunteering for the community are immense. |
C.Just because volunteer work is unpaid does not mean that it is any less valuable. |
D.However, volunteer work is easier to find. |
E.Firstly, one thing we cannot deny is that volunteering is something painstaking and harsh. |
F.With this in mind, receiving free training can be as valuable, if not more so, than receiving a wage. |
【推荐2】It is irrefutable: Parents, who talk to, read and engage with their very young children as often as possible, help them build literacy (读写能力) skills at an early age.
Also certain: Parents of very young children usually have to do a lot of laundry. And low-income families tend to bring their kids with them to public laundromats (洗衣房).
Those truths appear once a week at select neighborhood laundromats in Chicago. That’s when librarians lay down colorful mats and oversized board books beside the industrial washing machines.
Inside one of about 14 laundromats in the city’s low-income neighborhoods, the librarians gather all available children for Laundromats Story Time (LST), a Chicago Public Library (CPL) program.
With the noise of the washers and dryers, anywhere between a handful to more than a dozen children hear stories, sing songs and play games designed to help their brains develop. The event also aims to instruct parents on how to repeat the experience for their kids, working to raise poor literacy rates in underserved communities.
"We read books, we sing songs, we do plays," says Becca Ruidl, the CPL’s STEAM Team early learning manager, who runs the LST program. "We kind of keep it going so parents can walk in adn join in at any time. But a big part of what we do is model literacy skills for parents so they can do it at home with their kids."
While a laundromat seems an unlikely place to engage with children, "we really wanted to meet people in the community where they’re. "Ruidl says.
And it clearly meets a need: Library officials say the program is in increasing demand, while Ruidl says families have adjusted their household’s laundry day to suit the librarians’ laundromat visits. At the same time, LST’s co-sponsors—including a laundry industry trade group and Libraries Without Borders, an organization fighting poverty through literacy—have worked with the CPL to draft an instruction handbook to help expand the concept to other U.S. cities.
1. What does the word “irrefutable” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A.Undoubtful. | B.Controversial. |
C.Impossible. | D.Fruitful. |
A.Parents of poor families do a lot of laundry. |
B.They offer a perfect atmosphere for learning. |
C.Poor parents often go there with their kids. |
D.Reading to kids promotes their literacy skills. |
A.It is demanding. | B.Its focus has been adjusted. |
C.It will fight poverty. | D.Its concept will be spread. |
A.Literacy at the Laundromat | B.Models of Parenting |
C.Laundromats for Kids | D.Magic in Story Time |
【推荐3】He is a 62-year-old superior court judge, but they are former addicts and criminals. All of them, however, are part of one team: the Skid Row Running Club in Los Angeles (L. A.).
Twice a week, before the sun comes up, Judge Craig Mitchell runs the mile from his office at the county courthouse to The Midnight Mission, a social services organization centered in Downtown’s Skid Row — the well-known area where the city’s largest homeless population lives.
At the organization, he meets a group of 30 to 40 people and together they run through East L. A. The group includes runners from all walks of life and all levels of athleticism. Some members are homeless or in recovery, and others are lawyers, social workers or students.
Mitchell developed the program in 2012 after a man he’d once sentenced to prison returned to thank him. “He was paroled (假释) to The Midnight Mission and decided to come back and said ‘Thank you, Judge Mitchell, for treating me like a human being.’ The president of the organization at the time asked me if there was something that I could do to contribute to the organization, and I thought of starting a running club. That was the inception,” Mitchell said.
Every year, Mitchell takes his most devoted Skid Row runners on a free trip to participate in an international marathon. “I come back to the courthouse after any run and check off who is there. And so, I know exactly who has been faithful to the running program and who just comes once in a while,” he said.
Mitchell says he’s seen some participants turn their lives around, attending college, securing full-time employment and possessing calmness. “Running is a way for the participants to build relationships,” he said. “You can be an amazing runner and benefit as much as our fast runners, because at the end of the day you’re going to be surrounded by people who really care about you and want to spend time with you. Everybody is welcome. We believe. We listen. We support.”
1. What can we learn about the Skid Row Running Club?A.It was set up to make a profit. |
B.It consists of all sorts of members. |
C.It’s failed to win popularity in L. A. |
D.It was designed mainly for court judges.![]() |
A.Origin. | B.Standard. |
C.Contribution. | D.Distribution. |
A.To check their health. | B.To compare their speed. |
C.To award devoted runners. | D.To make sure of their presence. |
A.Running can highly educate criminals. |
B.We can gain admiration if we work hard. |
C.We can make a difference when we care. |
D.Running can help build a charity for the poor. |
【推荐1】Nearly one year after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, students across Chicago and the suburbs in the US say when it comes to high school, the thrill is gone. Simple pleasures such as getting together with friends in the hallways and catching up over lunch in the cafeteria are displaced by a dystopian (反乌托邦的) landscape of remote learning and virtual extracurricular.
After 11 months of remote learning, and what many teens describe as the soul-crushing disappointment of canceled after school activities, experts say a growing number of teens are now struggling with anxiety and depression due to heightened levels of stress and social isolation.
Still, the following stories shared by high school students from Chicago and the suburbs provide a glimmer of hope that for some, the pandemic-era heartbreak might develop a generation of resilient (有韧性的) young adults who will be better equipped to deal with life’s twists and turns.
Students who participate in speech, an activity that combines drama and public speaking, have been able to continue this school year, albeit (尽管) over the internet. Instead of delivering emotional monologues (独白) and duets (二重唱) to a live panel of judges, they must summon their best performances while looking into a webcam.
“Dueting is so frustrating when it comes to online,” said Jaylah Hogg, 17, a junior at Thornton Township High School in Harvey. “Wi-Fi at my house is pretty good but my partner’s isn’t. So it’s like I’m trying to time her lines in my head because she’s blanking out when she’s talking. Sometimes the judges do hold that against us.”
But it hasn’t been all bad. After nearly a year of remote learning, Deerfield High School freshman Ben Segall, 15, said he was excited that the school was expected to finally welcome students back into the building for a hybrid program later this month.
The pandemic has also crushed the athletic seasons for sports at many high schools including Senn High School in the Edgewater neighborhood. There, Davion Holmes is staying focused on applying to Wilberforce, Ohio-based Central State University.
And with some of the recent updates to the Illinois High School Association’s COVID-19 guidelines, Holmes said he remained hopeful, albeit realistic, about finally resuming his high school athletic career in the months ahead.
“I didn’t want to have to live through a pandemic, but I worked through it, and that’s something I’ll be able to tell my kids and grandkids someday,” he added.
1. What is a major problem with remote learning?A.The heavy workload. | B.The lack of social interaction. |
C.The large number of students in class. | D.The high levels of stress in class. |
A.The Wi-Fi at her house was dissatisfactory. |
B.It was hard to work as a team online. |
C.The judges failed to do their job well. |
D.She felt nervous in front of the webcam. |
A.It allowed him to focus on applying to universities. |
B.It made little difference to his athletic career. |
C.It is something that has made him stronger. |
D.It’s the last thing he wants to mention in the future. |
A.To describe the pandemic’s influence on teens. |
B.To present different views on the pandemic. |
C.To call for attention to students’ mental health. |
D.To encourage teens to be positive toward school life. |
A.Athletic Career | B.Monologues and Duets |
C.Best Performances | D.Adapting to Change |
【推荐2】Mindfulness practice has exploded in popularity recently. Experimenters of a series of trials revealed mindfulness-based interventions had some benefits for a number of health outcomes. They said, the effects were smaller and less consistent when compared with those of other therapies, and some effects faded soon. Taken together, mindfulness-based interventions are better than nothing but more research is needed to compare them with other therapies.
All mindfulness-based interventions attempt to focus on the present moment. Though “to be present” has psychological benefits, in some circumstances it’s important to be mindless. That is, as you develop skill in new tasks, you can perform them with increasing facility until attention seems to be unnecessary. Everyday examples range from riding a bike to brushing your teeth.
Underlying this state of “automaticity” are mental processes that can be accomplished without paying attention to them. Research revealed paying much attention to what you’re doing can have damaging effects, particularly when you perform tasks that are not intricate at all for you.
In a study, scientist Sian Beilock and her colleagues had skilled golfers play golf under different experimental conditions. In one case, the golfers were simply asked to follow the swing of their club and say “stop” as a sign when they finished their swing. In the second condition, they were instructed to listen for a specific sound while ignoring other noises and say the word “tone” when they heard the target sound. The result showed the skilled golfers performed substantially worse when they zeroed in on their swing than when they concentrated on irrelevant sounds and even when they warmed up.
The important message from this research is that focusing too carefully on well-practiced things can cause mistakes. Of course, you should not resign yourself to going through life on automatic pilot. But there are situations where you should let automaticity take over. The next time you ride a bike, don’t overthink it.
1. What is the experimenters’ attitude to mindfulness?A.Enthusiastic. | B.Objective. | C.Doubtful. | D.Confused. |
A.Important. | B.Familiar. | C.Interesting. | D.Complicated. |
A.Words golfers should listen for. |
B.Interventions golfers faced when playing. |
C.Things golfers paid attention to. |
D.Signals golfers gave after finishing swings. |
A.Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better |
B.Mindfulness Is a Double-edged Weapon |
C.Automaticity Plays a Big Role Quietly |
D.Relaxation Matters More than Attention |
【推荐3】We’ve learned bees can understand zero and do basic math. Now a new study shows their tiny insect brains may be able to connect symbols to numbers.
Adrian Dyer, a professor in the RMIT University, said the research showed brains far smaller than humans’ could know numbers. “Humans learn numbers as children, but being able to recognize what numbers really represent needs a certain level of cognitive (认知的) ability,” Dyer says, “Studies have shown primates (灵长类动物) and birds have this ability, but this is the first time we’ve seen this in insects.”
It’s important for humans to do the research. There are 86 billion neurons (神经元) in humans’ brains. Bees only have less than a million. If bees have the ability to learn something difficult to understand like human-made symbolic language, this will open up exciting new paths for future communication between humans and animals.
Studies have shown that a number of animals have been able to learn symbols of numbers, including parrots and monkeys. Monkeys were taught Arabic numbers and could order them correctly. An African grey parrot called Alex was able to learn numbers and could do simple calculation.
Understanding how tiny brains of bees manage information opens paths to technology, which is good for the future design of computing (计算) systems.
1. What does Adrian Dyer say about the research?A.The finding of the research is first seen in insects. |
B.Humans’ brains are the biggest on the earth. |
C.Birds can be as clever as primates. |
D.Bees are cleverer than birds. |
A.Humans may find a new path to communicate with animals. |
B.Bees have more neurons than monkeys. |
C.Insects have the ability to communicate with humans. |
D.Bees can solve basic math problems. |
A.A child. | B.A monkey. |
C.An expert. | D.A parrot. |
A.Bees can communicate with other animals. |
B.Bees can attach symbols to numbers. |
C.Some animals can do math problems. |
D.Bees can make communication with humans. |
【推荐1】Nowadays, to work remotely, all you need are a computer and an Internet connection. According to a new study, employees who can work from anywhere else are generally happier than those who work onsite(现场的)in an office.
Video conferencing company Owl Labs surveyed 1,202 full-time US workers from the ages of 22 to 65, and discovered that 62 percent of the respondents worked remotely at least some of the time and 38 percent worked onsite. Of the remote workers, 49 percent worked remotely full-time.
As it turns out, working remotely—or the idea of it—makes people happy, 83 percent of the survey respondents agree that the ability to work remotely would make them happier, and 71 percent of workers who do get to work remotely said their job makes them happy, compared with 55 percent of office-only workers.
In the study, full-time remote workers said they're happy in their job, 22 percent more than people who never work remotely. The reasons why respondents said they decided to work remotely were better work-life balance(91 percent), increased productivity/better focus(79 percent), less stress(78 percent), and to avoid a commute(通勤)(78 percent).
One reason why remote workers might be happier is that they were more than twice as likely to earn more than $100,000 per year. And the higher they were on the corporate(公司的)ladder, the more likely survey respondents were to have the privilege of working remotely: The job levels with the greatest percentages of remote workers were founder/CEO-level(55 percent)and vice president(46 percent).
Loyalty is another factor: Remote workers are 13 percent more likely than non-remote workers to stay with their current job for the next five years—making remote work a win-win for employees and employers alike.
Not only are remote employees happier, but they are prepared to work longer hours, according to the report. Remote workers said they work over 40 hours per week, 43 percent more than on-site workers do.
1. What can he learned about the respondents in the survey by Owl Labs?A.49 percent work remotely full-time. |
B.55 percent are not satisfied with their work. |
C.83 percent prefer to work in an office. |
D.About 40 percent are office-only workers. |
A.less loyal | B.more productive |
C.less creative | D.more hardworking |
A.live freely | B.have double income |
C.work remotely | D.work less time |
A.The choice of working sites. | B.The benefits of working remotely. |
C.The tendency of future jobs. | D.The qualities of offsite employees. |
【推荐2】Most of Earth’s freshwater sits underground. Worldwide, about 70 percent of the groundwater drawn to the surface goes for farming. But surface waters — rivers and streams — come from groundwater, too. Drawing too much groundwater over a short time can be harmful. Natural waterways can begin to empty. And that can hurt freshwater ecosystems. Scientists consider this a tipping point when small actions can begin making unusually big differences.
A new study has found that 15 to 21 percent of tapped water (自来水) areas have reached this sort of tipping point. Most of those tapped rivers and streams are in dry areas. Farmers in these areas use groundwater to water their crops. At present drawing rates, the study predicts that 42 to 79 percent of water areas around the world where groundwater is drawn up for use at the surface will reach tipping points by 2050.
A healthy groundwater aquifer (含水层) protects ecosystems against seasonal ups and downs in the use of water. That provides stability for area plants and animals. But if too much groundwater is drawn up from below, surface waters will begin to flow into the aquifer, which can harm what are living in rivers and streams.
De Graaf and the study team set up a computer model. It linked groundwater drawing and water flows within rivers. The model covered fifty years, from 1960 to 2010. Then the researchers used climate forecasts to help the model predict what might happen in future years. Throughout, they kept groundwater drawing rates sustainable. More than half of drawn water areas are likely to cross this ecological tipping point before 2050, the model finds.
“We need to be thinking about this now, not in 10 years,” De Graaf says. “Our study shows us where to target more sustainable efforts.”
1. What does the “tipping point” in paragraph 1 mean?A.End point. | B.Breaking point. |
C.Freezing point. | D.Boiling point. |
A.Warn us that the surface water can pollute the groundwater. |
B.Warn us of watering the crop by groundwater. |
C.Tell us the relation of groundwater and surface water. |
D.Warn us that the overuse of groundwater can destroy the ecosystem. |
A.Keeping the stability of natural water. |
B.Protecting ecosystems from pollution. |
C.Clearing surface waters to be drinkable. |
D.Providing stability for the local economy. |
A.They predicted the result based on the old data. |
B.They happened to work out the result. |
C.They measured all the groundwater and surface water. |
D.They did questionnaire surveys on the water information. |
【推荐3】Gene therapy (基因治疗) is a revolutionary new technique for treating people with health problems. Up until very recently, the most commonly available methods for treating patients were either through drugs or operations. Gene therapy provides a third option for treatment by transforming or replacing cells with new genetic materials and instructions. Scientists can be very precise in the kinds of changes they make in patients.
Gene therapy works by using a delivery system, such as a virus, to enter a patient's body. Once inside the body, the virus combines with a host cell and delivers the new DNA. The proteins then begin to repair the affected cells. New techniques have focused on removing cells from the patients and transforming them outside the body before reintroducing them to the patients.
The two types of gene therapy are called somatic and germline. Somatic therapy refers to changing or replacing a body cell. In this case, the treatment is restricted to the patient only. This will not affect the patient's future children because the patient's germ (生殖) cells are unaffected. In germline therapy, the patient germ cells are treated, which may affect the patient's future generation.This is highly controversial (有争议的) because it is not clear exactly how this might affect them and further generations. For this reason, many countries have passed laws that prohibit this kind of treatment.
Despite the promise of gene therapy, there are still many barriers that need to be overcome before it comes into widespread use. One of the issues is that the use of viruses to deliver DNA may actually cause unexpected problems in patients if the virus grows and attacks the body. Another problem is the nature of many diseases is very complex and spread throughout multiple genes. The use of gene therapy to change a single gene in the body would probably not be sufficient as a cure. Finally, the costs of gene therapy are high. Some gene therapy procedures may cost over$1 million to undertake and require specialized doctors and equipment.
1. What does the underlined word ''them'' in paragraph 2 refer to?A.Techniques. | B.Cells. | C.Patients. | D.Proteins. |
A.Gene therapy has been put into practice widely. |
B.The cells of patients are developed in healthy people. |
C.Viruses entering the body can mix with host cells and form new DNA. |
D.Both somatic and germline therapy have side effects on later generations. |
A.The disadvantages of gene therapy. |
B.The promising future of gene therapy. |
C.The high costs of treatment procedures. |
D.The issues related to viruses and complex genes. |
A.Why Gene Therapy Procedures Are Extremely Expensive |
B.Gene Therapy: A Dangerous New After-operation Treatment |
C.Gene Therapy: A Contemporary Progressive Treating Method |
D.Scientists Are Accurate in Performing the Categories of Surgery |
【推荐1】The remains of an ancient ape (猿) found in Bavaria suggest that humans' ancestors began standing upright millions of years earlier than previously thought.
An international team of researchers said the fossilized skeleton (化石骨骼) of a male ape that lived in the warm and damp forests of what is now southern Germany was quite similar to modern human bones. In a paper published by the journal Nature, they concluded that the previously unknown species — named Danuvius guggenmosi — could walk on two legs but also climb like an ape.
''The findings raise fundamental questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans, '' said Madelaine Boehme, who led the research.
The question of when apes could walk on two legs has fascinated scientists since Charles Darwin first argued that they were the ancestors of humans. Previous fossil records of apes with an upright move — found in Crete and Kenya — dated only as far back as 6 million years. These apes are called Toumai.
Boehme, along with researchers from Bulgaria, Canada and the United States, examined more than 15,000 bones recovered from the archaeological remains found. Among the remains they were able to piece together were primate (灵长目动物) fossils belonging to 4 individuals that lived 11.62 million years ago. The most complete, an adult male, likely stood about 1 meter tall, weighed 31 kilograms and looked similar to modern-day bonobos, a species of chimp.
Like humans, Danuvius had an S-shaped backbone to hold its body upright while standing. Unlike humans, though, it had a powerful big toe that would have allowed it to grab branches with its foot easily.
Fred Spoor, a biologist at the Natural History Museum in London, called the fossil finds ''fantastic'', but said they would likely be denied or suspected by others, especially because they could challenge many existing ideas about evolution.
1. Where did the scientists find the fossilized ape skeleton?A.Germany. | B.Canada. |
C.Bulgaria. | D.Kenya. |
A.It was a species of chimp. |
B.It lived in Crete and Kenya. |
C.It could walk with a backbone. |
D.It existed much earlier than Toumai. |
A.It is the most fantastic one. |
B.It is a support to evolution. |
C.It may cause lots of debate. |
D.It denies the previous ideas. |
A.Legend of Humans' Ancestors |
B.The Secrets Uncovered from Fossils |
C.The Oldest Example of Upright Ape Found |
D.Recent Findings against the Theory of Evolution |
【推荐2】A book is made of wood. But it is not a tree. The dead cells have been repurposed to serve another need.
Now a team of scientists has repurposed living cells—scraped(刮落)from frog embryos—and assembled them into entirely new life forms. These millimeter-wide “xenobots” can move toward a target, perhaps pick up a payload(like a medicine that needs to be carried to a specific place inside a patient)—and heal themselves after being cut.
“These are novel living machines,” says Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont who co-led the new research. “They're neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It's a new class of artifact:a living, programmable organism.” “We can imagine many useful applications of these living robots that other machines can't do,” says co-leader Michael Levin, “like searching out nasty compounds or radioactive contamination(污染物), gathering microplastic in the oceans, traveling in arteries(动脉)to scrape out plaque.”
People have been manipulating(操纵)organisms for human benefit since at least the dawn of agriculture, genetic editing is becoming widespread, and a few artificial organisms have been manually assembled in the past few years—copying the body forms of known animals. But this research, for the first time ever, “designs completely biological machines from the ground up," the team writes in their new study.
Many people worry about the implications of rapid technological change and complex biological manipulations. "That fear is not unreasonable,” Levin says. "When we start to deal with complex systems that we don't understand, we're going to get unintended consequences.” “If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules,” says Levin. Much of science is focused on "controlling the low-level rules. We also need to understand the high-level rules." In other words, “this study is a direct contribution to getting a handle on what people are afraid of, which is unintended consequences,” Levin says.
1. What do we know about the “xenobots” from Paragraph 2?A.They need to be carried to a specific place. |
B.They're capable of self-healing after injury. |
C.They are scraped from some new life forms. |
D.They can remove an object to another place. |
A.recycle microplastic in the oceans |
B.take in nasty compounds |
C.programme other organisms |
D.take away the plaque in arteries |
A.People never created these biological robots in history. |
B.These machines were copied from the very beginning. |
C.The research is completely carried out on the playground. |
D.Organisms have been developed since agriculture. |
A.This study is bound to bring about panic in public. |
B.People boycott employing rapid technological change. |
C.Science is focused on controlling the low-level rules. |
D.Some study is likely to contribute to unexpected results. |
【推荐3】Many college students complain about dormitory (宿舍) life: a sweltering room without air-conditioning in summer and a dormitory gate which is closed at 11 pm. But they may miss their dormitories after graduation, when they have to spend as much as a third of their income renting a shabby room.
The rising prices of daily necessities, including food, water, gas and electricity, are also making graduates save every penny to make ends meet. Faced with the high cost of living, college graduates need to make every penny work when they budget(预算) their income.
When it comes to renting, try to spend no more than one third of your income on it.Better still, only spend a quarter, according to Hao Qian, a career consultant. Hao also reminds graduates to set aside about one fifth of their income for social activities. “People have spent more on their social lives because of changes in forms of entertainment,” said Hao, “For example, new friends may want to meet you at a quiet club instead of at a noisy house.”
In spite of the high cost of living, many college graduates still, try to stay in big cities. They usually work in industries such as finance, public relations and IT, which depend on a booming(繁荣的) city economy and technology.
Hao advises such graduates to reduce their expenditure on shopping as much as possible. “If you are not in jobs such as PR and sales which require you to dress well, you don't need to spend much on clothes and accessories(服装配饰), said Hao, “Spend less than one eighth of your monthly income on shopping.”
1. Which item takes up the most income of the graduates according to Hao Qian?A.Travel | B.Shopping | C.Social activities | D.Renting |
A.By making comparisons | B.By making analysis |
C.By using an example | D.By describing processes |
A.the money spent on social activities is mainly to broaden business cooperation |
B.it's unwise to meet your new friend in your dormitory with loud roommates |
C.more and more graduates choose to work in small towns or medium cities |
D.if you take up a PR job in a firm, you can wear casual clothes |