Mom and dad — they’re two of the most important people in your life. You probably see at least one of them every day and over your lifetime, they influence you more than anyone else you meet.
Moms and dads need to care for their kids from the minute they’re born. It’s a parent’s job to love and help kids — and most parents will do this as possible as they can, even when the “kids” grow up and have children of their own. That means you have many years ahead to share with your mom and dad. Here are some ways you can stay close, get along, and build a strong relationship (关系):
Spend time together. Don’t play a computer game or watch TV by yourself. Ask your mom and dad to play with you, go outside together, play a game, or read a book out loud. Try to spend more time together.
Share your feelings and ask for help. Many kids say they’d like their parents to help them when they’re unhappy. Tell them if you’re sad or have a problem. They’ll be happy to help you.
Be kind and caring. Little things might mean a lot to your mom or dad. You can brighten a parent’s day with a hug, a card, or a joke. It’s also lovely when a kid cleans up his or her room without being asked. It’s important to show that you care for each other. Kids and parents show their love by respecting (尊重) each other, and being caring, polite and thoughtful.
Do your best at whatever you do. You don’t have to be perfect, but when you do your best, you make your parents proud. It makes them happy to see how you're turning into such a great kid. Why? Because it lets them know you’re doing a good job.
1. Your parents are two of the most important people in your life because they ______.| A．seldom see you | B．have duty to care for you |
| C．need your help | D．influence you more than anyone else |
| A．Watch TV by themselves. | B．Play a game alone. |
| C．Tell their parents and ask for help. | D．Say nothing to their parents. |
| A．使…紧张 | B．使…悲伤 | C．使…愉快 | D．使…忙碌 |
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【推荐1】Collecting rainwater is important. It can help you save both money and the environment while preventing possible damage.
Plants can grow better. It’s a known fact that plants are not huge fans of tap water. Tap water is treated with numerous chemicals unfriendly to plants. But with rainwater, you’ll never have to worry about these chemicals. After all, rainwater is a natural source of water. It generally won’t harm plants.
It can protect your property (房产) from rain damage. Too much rain may damage your home.
The system can help direct rainwater away from your home to where you want to collect it, which also prevents water from flooding in your neighborhood.
You’ll help clean natural waterways. Rainwater helps the ground stay clean. But when it runs along rooftops, streets, etc., it collects many pollutants.
| A．It’s helpful in reducing your water bills. |
| B．Your city offers cheaper drinking water. |
| C．Instead, it can promote certain plants’ growth. |
| D．It’s hard to collect enough water during dry seasons. |
| E．The resulting dirty water flows into the natural waterways. |
| F．Nowadays, many towns encourage people to collect rainwater. |
| G．For example, in rainy seasons, rainstorms may destroy your yard. |
【推荐2】Trust is important to successful interpersonal relationships.
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•Tell the truth as much as you can.
•Try to be open.
| A．Do what you say. |
| B．Building trust requires your confidence. |
| C．In most cases, honesty is the best policy. |
| D．But it is important to tell what really happened. |
| E．It's a good idea to show you aren't hiding information. |
| F．You can build trust in your relationships if you make an effort. |
| G．You needn't give up your most personal feelings just to build trust. |
【推荐3】Are you looking for green ways to wrap (包) gifts in this holiday season? Here are some ideas, based on Internet research, talks with friends, and ideas of my own.
Old Maps and Newspapers
I have some old National Geographic magazines and each one comes with some maps.
Jars, Tins, Pouches (小袋子), and Dust Bags
Children's Artworks
If you have young kids, then you probably have an art zone. Put some of their paintings to work by turning them into wrapping paper.
Boxes
A lot of online shopping happens these days. There's a good chance you have many boxes somewhere in the house, awaiting recycling pickup.
Just look around your house and you'll be surprised by your own creative ideas.
| A．Your kids will be so proud. |
| B．Use these boxes to hold gifts. |
| C．They are super cheap at stores and highly practical. |
| D．Those would make fantastic wrapping papers for gifts. |
| E．It suggests turning the bags inside out to show their shiny side. |
| F．These tips will help you wrap presents beautifully with less waste. |
| G．There is possibility that you can avoid the wrapping paper completely. |
【推荐1】In spring 1955, Rosalynn Carter was doing what she had been avoiding since she married Jimmy Carter: keeping house and raising children in the same tiny town where they grew up.
But her husband called for help from his family’s farm one day and said that he couldn’t manage the farm on his own. So Rosalynn Carter gathered their sons and returned to the tiny town. Soon she was managing finances and handling customers. “Finally, I got used to our new life and knew more about the business than he did, and he would take my advice about things,” Rosalynn Carter told The Associated Press in 2021.
Their marriage was almost a decade old when she went to the farm, but that was perhaps the true beginning of a partnership that helped Jimmy Carter win the Georgia governor’s office in 1970 and then the White House in 1976. Six years later, they co-founded The Carter Center and committed themselves to charity work for four decades in more than 145 countries, where many children, now adults, were named Jimmy or Rosalynn or Carter. Along that path was a small-town love story that included 77 years of marriage and two decades of family friendship before that. Their shared journey ended on November 19, 2023, with Rosalynn’s death at the age of 96.
“It’s hard to think of one of them without the other,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend who saw the couple often during Rosalynn Carter’s last months. “When Jimmy was president. she even attended all White House meetings and discussed what she heard with him at home. They had nightly phone calls when they traveled separately.”
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished.” Jimmy Carter said in a statement released upon her death. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
1. How did Rosalynn Carter probably feel when she was asked to work on the farm?| A．Interested. | B．Unconcerned. | C．Proud. | D．Unwilling. |
| A．They bought a new farm in a small town. |
| B．They ran for the Georgia governor’s office. |
| C．They started to do charity work in the world. |
| D．They traveled in different countries as tourists. |
| A．Rosalynn Carter was an ambitious woman. |
| B．The couple were very attached to each other. |
| C．Jimmy Carter was not a qualified president. |
| D．They should not share the secret information. |
| A．Young Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter’s Love Stories |
| B．The World’s Responses to Rosalynn Carter’s Death |
| C．The Close Bond Between Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter |
| D．The Lasting Relationship Between the Carters’ Families |
【推荐2】It was the day after Halloween when my grandmother was admitted to the hospital with the worst headache she'd ever had. While posing in our costumes the night before, we knew something was wrong, just not how wrong.
Grandma's house was the central gathering place of my family.Sunday lunches, birthday dinners, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas — all were our traditions, with her as hostess. While my parents were busy running their small business, there were many nights when Grandma fed me and put me to bed in her spare room, until they came to get me. I spent my summers at Grandma's and I went everywhere with her. I couldn't imagine a time when she wouldn't be around me.
Then November 1, 1991 began her monthlong stay in the hospital — she suffered from a rare infection called nocardia asteroides.After being born in the year of the Great Depression, living through World War Ⅱ， raising three kids, and being widowed at the age of 48, Grandma never expected to live into her seventies. The infection in her brain seemed to confirm that she wasn't long for this world. But that's not the end of her story. A team of doctors successfully removed the abscess (脓肿), and Grandma even made it into a local medical journal. Her doctor called her “the brain lady”．
Grandma celebrated her 85th birthday in March this year.In the almost 23 years since her recovery, she's seen two of her four grandchildren get married and welcomed three greatgrandsons.Although they damage something in her house, she loves it when my two boys come over.And while I know they make her day, seeing her love blossom for another generation makes my day too.Happy Grandparents' Day to my amazing grandmother!
1. What is the tradition of the author's family?| A．Running small businesses. |
| B．Spending summers at Grandma's. |
| C．Making Grandma hostess anywhere. |
| D．Gathering at Grandma's at special events. |
| A．At the age of 60. |
| B．When she was about 62. |
| C．Before November 1, 1991. |
| D．After this year's Halloween. |
| A．in honor of Grandma |
| B．to promote Grandparents' Day |
| C．to stress the importance of health |
| D．in celebration of Grandma's recovery |
| A．She has lived with Grandma for many years. |
| B．Her grandfather died in a war. |
| C．She has four cousins. |
| D．She has two sons. |
【推荐3】I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way.
Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair. I kept asking him to sit down,telling him that he would concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didn’t even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting angry, but then it hit me: I started noticing his answers were much quicker and right when he stood up. Could he concentrate better while standing up?
This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I grew up to believe that a quiet child was more likely to succeed. This child would have the ability to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life. Kids that were active and loud would only be losers.
Now people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA, and all they can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to guide them and help them find their way.
I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Clearly, he is concentrating, just in his own way and not mine. We need to accept our kids, and their ways of doing things. There is nothing sweeter than seeing our children being themselves. It makes us happy and that’s just the way I want my kids to live a happy life.
1. The author tried to keep his son seated so that ________| A．he could pay more attention to his study |
| B．he could keep silent in the room |
| C．he could finish his homework on time |
| D．he couldn’t disturb the author |
| A．the importance of parents | B．the love between kids and their parents |
| C．the good grades of some kids | D．the old education concepts |
| A．Encouragement is important. | B．Children shouldn’t be punished. |
| C．Children can’t be taught in the same way. | D．Children should be taught to behave themselves. |
| A．have no freedom | B．have their own style |
| C．learn from their friends | D．be friendly to their parents |
【推荐1】If you’ve ever had trouble finding your keys or remembering what you had for breakfast, you know that short-term memory is far from perfect. For people who’ve had a traumatic brain injury (TBI), though, recalling (回忆) recent events or conversations can be a major struggle.
“We have patients whose family cannot leave them alone at home because they will turn on the stove and forget to turn it off,” says Dr. Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, who directs the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania. So Arrastia and a team of scientists have been testing a possible treatment. It involves delivering a pulse (脉冲) of electricity to the brain at just the right time.
And it worked in a study of eight people with moderate or severe TBIs, the team reports in the journal Brain Stimulation. A precisely timed pulse to a brain area just behind the ear improved recall by about 20 percent and reduced the person’s memory deficit (缺失) by about half.
If the results pan out in a larger study, the approach might improve the lives of many young people who survive a serious TBI, says Diaz-Arrastia, an author of the study and a professor of neurology at Penn. “In many cases, the reason they’re unable to rejoin and fully participate in society is because of their memory problems,” he says. “And they often have this disability that goes on for many, many decades.” But the treatment is not for the timid. It requests patients to have electrodes surgically implanted in their brain. And scientists are still perfecting the system that delivers the electrical pulses.
While experimental, the results offer hope for individuals with memory deficits due to traumatic brain injuries. If the technique continues to show promise, it could transform memory recall and cognitive function improvement for those who need it most.
1. Why did Arrastia’s team do the research?| A．To cut the cost of treating TBI. |
| B．To show interest in electrical pulses. |
| C．To find the treatment of memory deficits. |
| D．To explain problems of short-term memory. |
| A．Change. | B．Occur. | C．Differ. | D．Disappear. |
| A．It is uncertain. | B．It is doubtful. | C．It is unsuccessful. | D．It is hopeful. |
| A．Scientists Work Hard at Brain |
| B．Brain Memory Is a Matter of Concern |
| C．Electrical Pulses Improve Brain Memory |
| D．Researchers Make Progress in Treating Illness |
【推荐2】In 1969, a ship carrying 90 passengers arrived in Antarctic waters. Since then, Antarctic tourism has increased noticeably. Nowadays, over 35,000 visitors a season came to the Antarctic during summer, with the intention of visiting colonies of penguins.
That worries many environmentalists, who fear such quantities of people may be disturbing the penguins. However, a study published in Polar Biology by Maureen Lynch of Stony Brook University brings good news for penguins, tourists and tour-operators alike – for the tourists’ visits are not stressing the birds at all.
The conventional way of deciding whether visits by tourists are stressful to the animals is to recruit a bunch of PhD students to observe those animals and make a number of behavioral observations when tourists are and are not present. This is difficult and expensive, for even PhD students need to be housed and fed. Another choice is to sample the animals’ blood and analyze it for stress hormones. The problem with this is that catching animals to measure their hormone levels is stressful.
There is, however, a third way, which is to look for stress hormones in animals’ droppings (排泄物). Dr. Lynch knew from previous work by her partner that some stress hormones show up in penguin wastes, and that hormone concentrations in droppings went up shortly after animals were approached by human beings, and then returned to normal later. With that in mind, she decided to compare droppings from penguin colonies visited by lots of tourists with those less visited.
As the researchers expected, all collected samples contained related stress hormones. Contrary to their expectations, however, there were no significant differences between samples from different sites, regardless of the number of visitors those sites played host to. It seems, then, either that penguins do not worry about human visitors in the first place, or that they quickly get used to them. What is more, Dr. Lynch’s method provides an easy way to monitor the situation. If a growing number of tourists put the birds under stress, it will be possible to advise tour operators to consider their business at less-visited colonies.
1. What do we know about Antarctic tourism?| A．It enjoyed popularity in 1969. | B．It attracts visitors in all the year round. |
| C．It allows people to see penguins. | D．It had disturbed the penguins. |
| A．the difficulty in recruiting PhD students | B．high costs required in the Antarctic |
| C．comparison of penguins’ behaviors | D．the huge trouble of catching animals |
| A．It contained certain stress hormones. | B．It had high level of stress hormones. |
| C．Its hormone level was unstable. | D．Its hormones were at normal levels. |
| A．Penguins are afraid of visitors. | B．Penguins are used to visitors. |
| C．Penguins are hardly stressed by tourists. | D．Penguins are always under great stress. |
【推荐3】The weather is getting hotter and you’ll be getting thirstier playing basketball or riding home from school. A cold drink may be just the thing. But be careful what you pour down your throat. Something that looks cool may not be good for your health.
There are plenty of so-called energy drinks on the market. Most of them have an attractive color and cool name. Their nutrition lists also contains various things from vitamins to ginseng. Sounds great!
But after a careful check you may find that most energy drinks contain high levels of caffeine. These drinks are typically aimed at young people, students, busy people and sports players.
Makers sometimes say their drinks make you better at sports and can keep you awake. But be careful not to drink too much Caffeine raises your heartbeat. Because of this, the International Olympic Committee has limited their use. The amount of caffeine in most energy drinks is at least as high as in a strong cup of coffee or strong tea.
There are potential health dangers linked to energy drinks. Just one can of energy drink can make you nervous, have difficulty sleeping and can even cause heart attacks.
Teenagers should be discouraged from taking drinks with a lot of caffeine in them, an expert from the Australia Nutrition Foundation said.
1. The teenagers like drinking energy drinks because of the following EXCEPT that ________.| A．they have an attractive color and cool name | B．they contain high levels of caffeine |
| C．they can keep them awake and better at sports | D．they are said to have various nutrition |
| A．dropped | B．stopped | C．helped | D．asked |
| A．advertisements play an important part in getting people to buy the goods |
| B．the amount of caffeine in most energy drinks is lower than that in a strong cup of coffee |
| C．Australian teenagers drink more energy drinks than those in the other countries |
| D．The energy drinks are typically aimed at young people |
| A．What’s the Use of Energy Drinks? | B．Who can Drink Energy Drinks? |
| C．What is That in Energy Drinks? | D．Why can’t We Buy Energy Drinks? |
【推荐1】Body language is the “silence language” of every culture. It is important to know the body language of every country, or we may be misunderstood.
In the United States, people greet each other with a handshake in a formal introduction. The handshake must be firm. If the handshake is weak, it is a sign of weakness or unfriendliness. Friends may place a hand on the other’s arm or shoulder. Some people, usually women, greet a friend with a hug.
Space is important to Americans. When two people talk to each other, they usually stand about two or a half feet away and at an angle, so they are not facing each other directly. Americans get uncomfortable when a person stands too close. They will move back to have their space. If Americans touch another person by accident, they say “Pardon me” or “Excuse me”.
Americans like to look the other person in the eye when they are talking. If you don’t do so, it means you are bored, hiding something, or are not interested. But when you stare at someone, it is not polite.
Learning a culture’s body language is sometimes confusing. If you don’t know what to do, the safest thing to do is to smile.
1. Suppose you are meeting a customer from United States, how will you greet him?| A．Greet him with a hug | B．Stare at him |
| C．Place a hand on his arm | D．Shake his hand firmly |
| A．face you directly | B．move back |
| C．Say “Pardon me” | D．stare at you |
| A．Americans stand side by side when talking with friends. |
| B．Americans show their respect by shaking hands weakly. |
| C．Americans say “Excuse me” to each other when talking. |
| D．Americans like to look the other person in the eye when talking. |
| A．listen carefully with no expression | B．hide your opinions |
| C．smile | D．stare at others |
【推荐2】The National Gallery
Description:The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of Trafalgar Square in London. It houses a diverse collection of more than 2,300 examples of European art ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The older collections of the gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modern works in the East Wing are most easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance.
Layout:The modern Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building houses 13th-to15th-century paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli and Memling.
The main West Wing houses 16th-century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titan and Veronese.
The North Wing houses 17th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude and Vermeer.
The East Wing houses 18th-to early 20th-century paintings, and artists include Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Renoir and Van Gogh.
Opening Hours:The Gallery is open every day from 10 am to 6 pm (Fridays 10 am to 9 pm) and is free, but charges apply to some special exhibitions.
Getting There:Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square (3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute walk), and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk).
1. In which century’s collection can you see religious paintings?| A．The 20th | B．The 17th |
| C．The 18th | D．The 13th |
| A．In the East Wing. | B．In the main West Wing. |
| C．In the Sainsbury Wing. | D．In the North Wing. |
| A．Charing Cross. | B．Leicester Square. |
| C．Embankment. | D．Piccadilly Circus. |
【推荐3】Honey can be used to measure air pollution, according to a new study from researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research (PCIGR).
The research, which was recently published in Nature Sustainability, drew on a survey of urban beehives (蜂房) around Vancouver that contained small levels of lead, according to The New York Times. Using beehives to measure pollutants could be a cost-effective way to monitor what is in the air.
“The good news is that the chemical composition of honey in Vancouver reflects its environment and is extremely clean,” the study’s lead author Kate E. Smith told the school’s website. “We also found that the concentration of elements increased the closer you got to downtown Vancouver, and that the lead largely came from man-made sources.”
The Vancouver area honey showed levels that were below the global average for things like lead, and the University of British Columbia website said someone would “have to consume more than 600 grams, or two cups, of honey every day to exceed tolerable levels.”
Hives for Humanity, a nonprofit in Vancouver, started the study when it asked a professor at the University of British Columbia to look at honey for pollutants. Through the honey samples alone, Smith said the researchers could find higher concentrations of lead in areas with heavy traffic or industrial activity. Researchers also noted that the lead wasn’t traceable to any local sources, which led them to think that large ships entering Vancouver from Asia could be the source of the pollutants.
“One of the exciting parts of this study is that it bridges science with community interests,” Smith told the school’s website. “Honey sampling can easily be performed by citizen scientists in other urban centers, even if they lack other environmental monitoring skills.”
1. Using beehives to measure pollutants could _______.| A．be an efficient method to see what is in the air |
| B．keep the environment from being polluted |
| C．monitor what happened to the air |
| D．cost a large amount of money |
| A．Downtown Vancouver is pretty clean. |
| B．The lead comes from man-made product. |
| C．The environment of Vancouver is not bad. |
| D．Human is responsible for the concentration of lead. |
| A．The problem of lead is easy to settle. |
| B．Ships from Asia are related to the pollutants. |
| C．Honey can be used to reveal lead and other pollutants. |
| D．Heavy traffic and industrial activity produce more lead. |
| A．The Importance of Honey |
| B．Environmental Monitoring Skills |
| C．Honey--Measure Lead and Pollution |
| D．How to Look at Honey for Pollutants |
