We say that technology is a double-edged sword -while it brings convenience, it also brings new problems. The sword of “social media” even has a gender preference in its damage: It cuts deeper into girls than boys.
Earlier studies have shown that spending too much time on social media is bad for teenagers’ mental health. Constantly watching their friends show off “perfect” lives can hurt their own self-esteem (自尊). That’s not to mention the problems caused by online shaming and bullying (霸凌).
Jean Twenge, a professor at San Diego State University in the US, recently discovered an alarming trend: Since 2010, the number of teenage girls who suffer from major depression – showing signs like self-harm and suicide (自杀) - has increased much faster than that of boys. In an article she wrote at The Conversation, Twenge said social media, again, was to blame.
For starters, girls use social media more than boys. Boys tend to spend their screen time on games, where they talk to their teammates through headphones. This counts as real human contact. Girls, however, simply type and browse through posts, which is a much more isolated (孤立的) experience. “They’re not having a real-time conversation with someone,” Mary Fristad, psychologist at The Ohio State University, told NPR.
And when it comes to online shaming, girls are also more vulnerable than boys. “Girls face more pressure about their appearance, which could be exacerbated (加重) by social media,” wrote Twenge.
Shannon McLaughlin, for example, is an 18-year-old from Blackburn College in the US. She shared with the Guardian how social media made her feel depressed. “I was constantly confronted (面对) by women with skinny bodies who were praised for the way they looked. This was only made worse by the diet fixes and skinny culture,” she said. But McLaughlin found a solution. She started volunteering with the National Citizen Service, where she made face-to-face contact with people. “It’s so easy to forget the importance of real connections when we have hundreds of people that we’re trying to impress at our fingertips,” she told the Guardian. And she hopes that others “look up from their phones and focus more on the world around them”.
1. What did Twenge find in her recent study?| A．Overuse of social media harms teenagers’ mental health. |
| B．Social media does more harm to girls than boys. |
| C．Girls suffered more from bullying than boys. |
| D．Online shaming and bullying are to blame for teenagers’ depression. |
| A．Girls have less real-time interaction with people. |
| B．Playing games allows boys to have more fun than girls. |
| C．Girls suffer more pressure on social media. |
| D．Girls usually desire more contact with others. |
| A．adjusting oneself well | B．fighting back bravely |
| C．being unconcerned about something | D．being likely to be at risk of something |
| A．Ignore social media and stop following a diet. |
| B．Connect more with the real world. |
| C．Constantly take part in volunteer work. |
| D．Make better use of phones for socializing. |
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【推荐1】NBC News published an opinion piece declaring that parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about school curricula for their children. The column, “Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory and don’t get how teaching works”, written by author Christina Wyman was instantly roasted on social media.
“Parents and politicians across the country are getting their fingers into the curricula that public schools use to teach students. Some states are passing laws to keep critical race theory out of schools, and school libraries are coming under attack for containing books about gender. There are even parents who are trying to keep students away from learning about mental health and as though helping children build emotional strength is a bad thing,” Wyman wrote to kick off the piece.
“While the political climate and national involvement in school districts give the phenomenon a broader platform and have more serious impact, this behavior is nothing new. Parents have always tried to interfere (干涉) with curricula, as I observed when teaching middle school in the mid-2000s,” she continued. Wyman then compared parents wanting to have a say in what their children learn to people breaking into an operating room during surgery on their children. “These interventions are nothing more than theater, and school boards and administrators should be protecting their teachers and students from them rather than bowing to them,” she wrote.
Wyman, who spent some time discussing her own schooling and Ph. D. in curriculum, painted parents as under-qualified to cut in unless they have achieved the same level of education that is required of most teachers. Wyman wrote, “An educator’s primary goal is to teach students to think. Parents who attempt to influence curricula with their personal opinions block that goal.”
1. How did Wyman begin the piece?| A．By presenting some unreasonable phenomena. |
| B．By calling for parents’ concern about children. |
| C．By stressing students’ mental health problems. |
| D．By introducing various public school curricula. |
| A．Curricula. | B．Parents. |
| C．Interventions. | D．Administrators. |
| A．To attract readers’ attention to NBC. | B．To reflect parents’ love for children. |
| C．To call for more concern for curricula. | D．To persuade parents out of interfering. |
| A．Stubborn. | B．Qualified. | C．Optimistic. | D．Unprofessional. |
【推荐2】At the foot of the Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, a homestay (民宿) is attracting travelers from far and wide, which has won architectural medal at the 2021 German iF Design Awards.
The owners of the homestay are a couple in their late 30s who decided to return to their hometown three years ago. Li Xiumei used to be in charge of a division at a company in Hangzhou, and her husband was a sales director. It was an ordinary situation where Li’s husband was on business trips a lot and Li still worked on weekends. City life sometimes is not easy.
In 2018, they quit jobs and went back to Dongtianmu village, which lies in a forest of bamboo. The first time they drove into the village was one late afternoon. The cooking smoke was rising from the foot of the mountain, which gave them a very different feeling from the city.
The homestay was built beside her husband’s old countryside house. The old house is preserved (保留), while a brand-new building was built on its side and the whole site is made up of four courtyards. It has been updated to have a hall, a tea room, a kitchen, a dining room. Japanese cherry trees are planted in the east courtyard. A swimming pool is placed in the west courtyard, with a bar located on one side.
Li and her husband love gardening and music, and their new home gives them enough space to continue their interests and relax in the heart of nature. Li wants to share the quiet country life, so she makes her new home a homestay. In 2019, the homestay became an online hit after guests shared their experiences on social media. “The longer I stay here, the more I feel it was the right choice to come back, and this is more meaningful than making money,” Li says.
1. How did Li feel about city life?| A．Satisfied. | B．Noisy. | C．Attractive. | D．Tired |
| A．The forest of bamboo. | B．The smoke of cooking. |
| C．The fresh air in the village. | D．The feeling of loneliness. |
| A．It is ancient and broken. | B．It can hold many guests. |
| C．It must have been carefully designed. | D．It has been rebuilt by the couple. |
| A．Continuing their music dream. | B．Living in the countryside. |
| C．Staying at the old house. | D．Developing a city. |
【推荐3】Procrastination (拖延症) gets people into trouble--leaving tasks until the very last moment is a Pandora’ s box of anxiety, uncertainty, and panic, but it’s still a popular way of planning our time. The healthier opposite would be to get tasks done as soon as possible, right? Wrong. It’s called precrastination (提前症) and it can be just as unhealthy.
Precrastination is not an uncommon phenomenon, driven by the desire to check things off one’s to-do list, in order not to keep in mind those tasks which fill up headspace and become a source of stress. While this tendency might seem positive, it often leads to similar negative results as procrastination. In a 2014 study, college students were asked to carry a bucket (桶) to a finish line in the easiest way possible. They had two choices-- carry the bucket placed halfway down the path, or carry the bucket that was close to the finish line. To the researchers’ surprise, most of the participants chose the bucket closest to them and carried it for a longer time, other than the one closest to the finish line to save themselves some effort.
Those college students chose to get started on a task earlier, even if it meant spending more energy in the longer term. And that’s the main problem with precrastination--it enables people to pay attention to urgent, easy-to-do tasks and get them out of the way quickly. But in doing so, people often leave important, more time-and-energy-consuming tasks for later, which they actually should have been saving their efforts for. Another shortcoming to precrastinating is the frenzy (疯狂) that accompanies the satisfaction of getting tasks done early. This hurried frenzy can replace careful planning and thought, ending in the rushed completion of a task often with mistakes.
Compared to procrastinators’ low efficiency, hyper-diligence (过度勤奋) is commonly seen in precrastinators. However, the only practice that can actually help people better organize their tasks and lives is careful, strategic planning. Meanwhile, they should get better at saying no, and above all, keep in mind that quality is better than quantity.
1. What do we know about precrastination according to the text?| A．It’s as unhealthy as procrastination. |
| B．It makes people try to think logically. |
| C．It’s a popular way people use to plan their time. |
| D．It encourages people to do several tasks at the same time. |
| A．They were difficult to satisfy. |
| B．They failed to understand the lecture. |
| C．They avoided carrying the heavier buckets. |
| D．They chose to work hard rather than work cleverly. |
| A．Their carelessness. |
| B．Their low interest. |
| C．Their overconfidence. |
| D．Their unnecessary competition. |
| A．Working at their own rate. |
| B．Valuing quality over quantity. |
| C．Trying to live a productive life. |
| D．Weighing gains and losses wisely. |
【推荐1】A simple gesture can be formed into a child’s memory so quickly that it will cause the child to give a false answer to a question accompanied by that gesture. A new finding suggests that parents, social workers, psychologists and lawyers should be careful with their hands as well as their words.
Gestures can be as informative as speech, but hand gestures are so common that we rarely notice we’re using them.
“While memories of both adults and children are easy to react to suggestions, those of children are known to be particularly influenced.” said lead researcher Sara Broaders of Northwestern University, “Kids are used to looking to adults to tell events for them and can be misled even if not intentionally.”
Previous research, for example, has shown that detail-loaded questions often cause false answers; when asked, say “Did you drink juice at the picnic?”, the child is likely to say “yes” even if no juice had been available. It is not that the child is consciously lying, but rather the detail is quickly formed into his or her memory.
To avoid this problem, social workers have long been advised to ask children only open-ended questions, such as “What did you have at the picnic?”. But an open-ended question paired with a gesture, briefly meaning a juice box, is treated like a detailed question. That is, children become likely to answer falsely.
And it isn’t just a few kids: 77% of children gave at least one piece of false information when a detail was suggested by an ordinary gesture. Gestures may also become more popular when talking with non-fluent language users, such as little kids. Broaders said, “As hand movements can impart meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases, it certainly seems reasonable that adults would gesture more with children.”
In general, Broaders advises parents and other adults to try to be aware of your hands when questioning a child about an event. Otherwise, you might be getting answers that don’t reflect what actually happened.
1. What do we know about gestures according to the text?| A．They are rarely used by people. |
| B．They have not any function at all. |
| C．They have a certain effect on children. |
| D．They are often used by social workers. |
| A．Children are easy to tell lies. |
| B．Their memories are affected easily. |
| C．These gestures are very attractive. |
| D．These gestures are used frequently. |
| A．Pass on. | B．Tell apart. | C．Appeal to. | D．Break down. |
| A．Gestures—a Useful Way of Education |
| B．Gestures Can Mislead Children |
| C．Gestures Mean Adults’ Directions |
| D．Gestures Affect Children Too Much |
【推荐2】A wife’s level of education positively influences both her own and her husband’s chances of having a long life, according to a new Swedish study.
In the study, researchers from the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm found that a woman’s level of education had a stronger connection to the likelihood of her husband dying over education. What’s more, they discovered that a husband’s social class, based on his occupation, had a greater influence on his wife’s longevity(长寿) than her own class.
“Women traditionally take more responsibility for the home than men do, and, as a result, women’s levels of education might be more important for determining lifestyles－for example, in terms of food choices－than those of men,” say Srs. Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander of the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm.
The results show that a husband’s level of education does not influence his longevity, but that men with partners who had quit studying after school were 25 per cent more likely to die early than men living with women holding university degrees. In turn, those married to women with university degrees were 13 percent more likely to die early than those whose wives had post-graduate qualifications.
According to the researchers, a woman with a good education may not marry a man who drinks and smokes too much or who drives carelessly, and men with such habits may not prefer highly educated woman. Drs. Erikson and Torssander also suggest that better-educated women may be more aware of what healthy eating and good health care consist of.
The findings suggest that education has a huge impact on how long and how well people live. It also reflects social factors, since educated individuals usually have better jobs, which allow them to afford healthier diets and lifestyles, as well as better health care.
1. In this passage the author intends to ________.| A．present the results of a study |
| B．encourage women to get higher education |
| C．analyze the relationship between education and life |
| D．discuss why women usually live longer than men |
| A．teach her children well |
| B．earn more money than her husband |
| C．marry a man without many bad habits |
| D．choose a husband with a higher degree than hers |
| A．women make more sacrifices to their families than men do |
| B．most women have higher degrees than their husbands |
| C．most men marry women with higher degrees |
| D．women have a leading role in the home life of most families |
| A．a man with a lot of education lives longer than one with little |
| B．educated wives tend to choose healthy lifestyles for their families |
| C．highly-educated women don’t marry uneducated men |
| D．a man’s longevity depends on not only his wife’s level of education but also his own |
【推荐3】Tim Berners-Lee. If you don’t know his name, you’ve surely used his famous invention—the World Wide Web, a system we use to search for information on the Internet.
On Oct. 29, the Internet officially turned 50 years old. “This birthday must mark the moment we take on the fight for the Web we want.”
Speaking at the University of California, he pointed out three problems today: Web-criminal behavior, ad-based clickbait websites, and offensive online communication. These problems led Berners-Lee to create the Web Foundation and a contract for the Web. Both aimed to protect Internet users.
In the contract, he mentioned the need for companies to make sure that everyone had access to the Web, and called for a reduction in offensive material and more personal data privacy. The latter is a hot topic right now. Big companies, like Facebook, have misused users’ personal information by sharing it with advertisers.
Despite all of these bad sides, we shouldn’t forget about all the benefits the Internet brings.
In this digital age, the Internet connects the world through social media, and cashless payment has become an instant source of information. It can also make a positive difference through activities that push for positive change, education or aid.
One such campaign is Movember. The movement, held every November, encourages men to grow moustaches for the whole month, post pictures online, and donate. The charity promotes physical health, mental health, and suicide prevention for men.
Not to mention, the Internet is also a source of fun. From funny kitten videos on Weibo to your very own Tik Tok videos, the Internet allows you to share what you create.
As to the Web Foundation, Berners-Lee said, “The Web has become a public square, a library, a doctor’s office, a shop, and a school, and it has given marginalized groups a voice.”
“In the next 30 years, if we give up trying to build a better Web...we will have failed it. We need to come together as a global community.”
1. Why were the Web Foundation and the contract for the Web created?| A．To celebrate the Internet’s 50th birthday. | B．To build a protected network environment. |
| C．To increase Internet speeds around the world. | D．To fight online crime. |
| A．To encourage men to do charity work. | B．To promote a healthy lifestyle. |
| C．To support men’s health issues. | D．To draw public attention to mental health issues. |
| A．Wealthy people. | B．Old people. | C．People in power. | D．Disadvantaged people. |
| A．The future of the World Wide Web. |
| B．The history of the World Wide Web. |
| C．Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the World Wide Web. |
| D．The problems with the World Wide Web. |
【推荐1】Villavicencio, a shabby city of half a million people, considers itself the city of half a gateway to los llanos, Colombia’s eastern plains. Now and for the next few months few people will be passing through it. Mudslides (泥石流) since May have blocked the main highway, the Vaal Llano, which connects the city to Bogota, Colombia’s capital. More rocks and mud threaten workers trying to unblock the road, along which two-thirds of domestically produced goods are transported. Colombia’s government says this could take up to three months.
Residents of Villavicencio and the surrounding plains are beginning to feel the consequences. Potatoes, garlic and eggs have become scarce in grocery stores. Shoppers hunt through produce bins to find the few tomatoes and carrots that have not rotted. More than 90% of hotel reservations in the plain’s region have been cancelled.
Colombia is a road-builder’s nightmare. The Andes (安第斯山脉) separate into three ranges at the southern border. The mountains can climb to 4,000 metres from sea level in less than 100km. Colombia gets more rain than any other country in the world, which makes it harder to keep the road in good condition. Short of cash, the government has given private firms special rights to build roads. Vaal Llano, among the earliest projects built in this way, are likely to cause accidents.
To relieve los llanos’s isolation (隔离), Satena, a state-owned airline, and EasyFly have announced more flights between Bogota and Villavicencio. The government has currently stopped passenger fees on flights between the cities. Goods can get through on two smaller alternative roads and money paid to use the two roads will be halved. But what the plains need most is a road that can cope with Colombia’s dangerous, rain-soaked topography (地形). That goes for much of the rest of the country.
1. We can learn from the text that the highway the Vaal Llano _______.| A．is considered half a gateway to los llanos |
| B．connects los llanos and Colombia’s capital |
| C．has been blocked by Mudslides since May |
| D．won’t be unblocked by workers until May |
| A．Available. | B．Inadequate. | C．Organic. | D．Affordable. |
| A．It’s surrounded by mountains of different height in the south. |
| B．The continuous rain makes the construction of roads difficult. |
| C．The government lacks money to build and repair roads. |
| D．Car accidents are more likely to take place in Colombia. |
| A．Providing more flights between Bogotaand Villavicencio. |
| B．Cancelling passenger fees on flights between the cities. |
| C．Charging less money for using the two alternative roads. |
| D．Constructing a proper road that can survive the situation. |
【推荐2】A polished resume is essential for a successful school or job application. A clear structure and well organized content can be the difference between success and failure.
Structuring your resume
(1) Create a header with your name and contact information. At the top of the page、type your full name, address, phone number and email address. There are also down loadable templates(模板)available online. If none of them appeals to you. however, you can always use your own design,
(2) Use a chronological(时间顺序排列的)resume. In a chronological resume, you list your work and education experiences, starting with your most recent experience.
(3) Include your relevant education, awards or training. Typically, your highest academic qualification is the only one you need to include on your resume. However, you can add lesser achievements if they are relevant to a job's requirements.
If you had a cumulative(累积的)GPA of 3.5 or higher, feel free to include it. Otherwise, it would be best to leave it out. If you’re listing more than one degree, include your GPA on both of them, if possible.
(4) List work experience, including relevant volunteer work and internships. Use specific job titles and short explanations that tell potential employers exactly what you did, what skills you gained and how they could be useful in a new job.
(5) Try a functional resume, if you lack direct work experience. With a functional resume you can highlight your specific skills and resources without having to list previous jobs. A functional resume emphasizes what you can do rather than what you've done.
Making your content shine
(1) Place keywords in your resume strategically. Schools or employers often use software to scan resumes for specific keywords.
(2) Add hobbies and interests, if they relate to the job. A section for hobbies and interests is usually considered optional. However, you should include only hobbies or interests that would benefit an employer. For example, if the job requires good teamwork, you can say that you were captain of your high school basketball team.
(3) Proofread before sending your resume. Don't only rely on the grammar and spelling checkers built into your word processing app. Read through your resume several times to make sure it's error-free.
(4) Save your resume as a PDF file. Most schools and employers prefer to use PDFS for online safety reasons. So don't forget to convert your document before you send it
1. How should you present your job and education experiences on a resume?| A．Begin with your most successful experience. |
| B．Start with your most recent experience. |
| C．Include as many details as possible. |
| D．Only introduce your highest degree. |
| A．If your total GPA was below 3.5. |
| B．If your cumulative GPA was below 4.0. |
| C．If you're listing more than one degree. |
| D．If you are still a student. |
| A．List every job you've done before. |
| B．Talk about how much you know about the job. |
| C．Focus on your abilities and skills related to the job. |
| D．Share what you've learned from your previous work. |
| A．Use a catchy template. |
| B．Send your resume in a DOC file. |
| C．Mention a hobby that you are good at. |
| D．Highlight some keywords in your resume. |
| A．The recipe of resume success. |
| B．How to structure your resume. |
| C．The ways to shine the content of your resume. |
| D．The contact information in the resume. |
【推荐3】Imagine you are a citizen of Athens, enjoying a warm Mediterranean night in the Theater of Herodes Atticus. You are wearing jeans and a T-shirt, listening to a great concert. Now rewind this picture 1,839 years. You are in the same seat, only you are watching classical Greek entertainment.
The city of Athens is a fun mix of the old and the new, the classic and the modern. Often a little shop is located next to the ruins of a temple, which is only a block from a large, air-conditioned hotel. The great city of 2,500 years ago is still visible today.
Ruins are the most obvious sign of ancient Athens, and the most famous of these is theAcropolis(卫城). The Acropolis is a large hill that was the center of life in Athens. On its slopes were temples, monuments, and theaters. From the top, you can see how the urban area of Athens stretches out in every direction.
On the top of the Acropolis is the Parthenon. This was once a huge temple to Athena, the city’s patron. It was first completed in 432 B.C., but has been damaged and destroyed several times. However, visitors can still see the “tricks” used in building the Parthenon. The columns along the outside lean inward, and are slightly fatter in the middle. The temple is also higher in the middle than on the sides. All these effects make the Parthenon look perfectly straight from a distance.
Only a block away from the Acropolis is the neighborhood of Plaka. The area, with its little shops and restaurants, is very popular with both tourists and locals, and is an important part of modern Athenian culture. Many great thinkers, writers, and political leaders lived in ancient Athens. The ruins of their homes and favorite spots are scattered throughout the busy port city. The hill where St. Paul addressed early Christian Athenians is located near the Acropolis. Great thinkers such as Perikles and Demosthenes spoke to the civil assemblies held at the Pnyx Hill. Today the Pnyx is an open-air theater for light and sound shows.
Tourism is very important to people who live in modern-day Athens. Thousands of people come every year to see these ruins and to tour the many museums that house artifacts from ancient times. This provides many jobs and brings money into Athens, which helps the city pay for improvements. Athenians take pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors, and people from all around the world come to admire them. By looking around the city today, we can imagine what life was like in ancient Athens.
1. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the city of Athens?| A．The culture of the city is a mixture of the old and modern. |
| B．Traces of the ancient city can still be found. |
| C．Ruins and modern hotels co-exist in the city. |
| D．All the temples are not far away from air-conditioned hotels. |
| A．Plaka. | B．Acropolis. | C．Pnyx. | D．Parthenon. |
| A．mischievous acts. | B．confusing constructing skills. |
| C．skillful constructing methods. | D．constructing materials. |
| A．offering job opportunities to Athenians. |
| B．enriching Athenians by providing accommodation for tourists. |
| C．enabling Athenians to improve the infrastructures. |
| D．making Athenians proud of their ancestors. |
| A．Tourism in Athens. |
| B．Athens: Then & Now. |
| C．Historic Interests in Athens. |
| D．The Magic of Ancient Athens. |
【推荐1】ECycling refers to the recycling of electronic items, which are becoming a common problem in American home and throughout the world. The EPA, or Environmental Protection Agency, has actually started a program to help and motivate the recycling of electronics.
To get the program to the regional and neighborhood levels, the EPA directed “Plug-In to eCyeling Partners.” These partnerships support electronic reusing programs in individual communities. They provide local governments, retailers and manufacturers with opportunities to reuse and recycle their items. Those who make and offer electronic devices then promote programs and opportunities for consumers to reuse their second-hand electronic products. One of the EPA’s goals is to enlighten customers about why the recycling of electronics is so important. They likewise wish to make eCycling chances easily accessible to specific consumers and their family electronics. According to the EPA, the eCycling program has actually been quite successful. In 2008, the EPA collected 66.5 million pounds of electronic devices through their Plug-In Partners.
Local governments have actually likewise got on board and passed laws intended to handle used electronic devices. Huge corporations have actually introduced eCycling programs at their local retail stores. One seller offers customers small, medium and big boxes for sale, which the customers then load with used electronics and go back to the store. Typically，customers bring their recyclable electronics to a location. When the electronic items are gathered by the EPA(typically this is done byt he Partners), they are reused or recycled.
Reused items are repaired and refurbished, and passed on to others as a contribution. You can repair or recondition your very own electronic devices too, extending the life of the items and conserving the energy of making new materials. Reusing electronic devices includes making use of the products and pats of the items. These materials and parts are then made use of to produce another item. This is more efficient than making items from new materials.
Some items that are commonly eCycled consist of televisions, computer monitors, printers, notebook computer, keyboards and cable televisions. Less usual items include copying machines, CDplayers, voice mail machines, computer hard drives, mobile telephones, remote controls, radios, batteries, telephones, facsimile machines and computer games. Occasionally, electronic items such as microwaves, fans, vacuums, smoke alarms, and toasters are eCycled.
As the eCycling program continues, you or your organization may want to get involved. Check the EPA’s internet site (www.epa.gov) for regional eCycling programs, or for details on how your company can participate. Their website has links to organizations that are taking part in the eCycling program.
1. The EPA brought about “Plug-In to eCycling Partners” to__________.| A．make and offer electronic devices to consumers |
| B．make customers understand the importance of eCycling |
| C．make the program accessible to local regions and communities |
| D．make it possible for consumers to reuse their used e-products |
| A．repairing electronic device | B．gathering recyclable electronics |
| C．reusing second-hand e-products | D．offering customers different boxes for sale. |
| A．People can sell their reused items on the Internet. |
| B．Individuals can’t take part in eCycling programs. |
| C．Devices of computers are well eCycled. |
| D．Not every electronic item can be eCycled. |
| A．To introduce a new way to save costs. |
| B．To teach customers how to recycle electronics. |
| C．To attract people to join in the eCycling programs. |
| D．To call on local governments to support Plug-In Partners. |
【推荐2】The person who set the course of my life was a school teacher named Marjorie Hurd. When 1 stepped off a ship in New York Harbor in 1949, I was a nine-year-old war refugee, who had lost his mother and was coming to live with the father he did not know. My mother, Eleni Gatzoyiannis, had been imprisoned and shot for sending my sisters and me to freedom.
I was thirteen years old when I entered Chandler Junior High. Shortly after I arrived, I was told to select a hobby to pursue during“club hours.” The idea of hobbies and clubs made no sense to my immigrant ears, but I decided to follow the prettiest girl in my class. She led me into the presence of Miss Hurd, the school newspaper adviser and English teacher.
A tough woman with salt-and pepper hair and determined eyes, Miss Hurd had no patience with lazy bones. She drilled us in grammar, assigned stories for us to read and discuss, and eventually taught us how to put out a newspaper. Her introduction to the literary wealth of Greece gave me a new perspective on my war-torn homeland, making me proud of my origins. Her efforts inspired me to understand the logic and structure of the English language. Owing to her inspiration, during my next twenty-five years, I became a, journalist by profession.
Miss Hurd retired at the age of 62. By then, she had taught for a total of 41 years. Even after her retirement, she continually made a project of unwilling students in whom she spied a spark of potential. The students were mainly from the most troubled homes, yet she alternately bullied and charmed them with her own special brand of tough love, until the spark caught fire.
Miss Hurd was the one who directed my grief and pain into writing. But for Miss Hurd, I wouldn't have become & reporter. She was the one who sent me into journalism and indirectly caused all the good things that came after.
1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?| A．Hobbies and clubs did not interest the author. |
| B．The author turned a deaf ear to joining clubs. |
| C．Hobbies and clubs were inaccessible to immigrants like the author. |
| D．The author had no idea what hobbies and clubs were all about. |
| A．Stepping on the American soil for the first time. |
| B．Being exposed to Greek literary works. |
| C．Her mother's miserable death. |
| D．Following the prettiest girl in his class. |
| A．Miss Hurd employed a unique way to handle these students. |
| B．Miss Hurd's contribution was recognized across the nation. |
| C．Students from troubled homes preferred Miss Hurd's teaching style. |
| D．The students Miss Hurd taught were all finally fired. |
| A．How the author became a journalist. |
| B．The importance of inspiration in one's life. |
| C．The teacher who shaped the author's life. |
| D．Factors contributing to a successful career. |
【推荐3】The American dream is the faith held by many people in the United States of America that through hard work, courage, creativity and determination, they can achieve a better life for themselves. More specifically, they agree on how to get ahead in America: get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy their own house. But do Americans still believe in that path, and if they do, is it attainable?
The most recent National Journal poll(民意测验，投票) asked participants about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goal, and whether or not they felt the control over their ability to be successful. Obviously, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream and what it takes to achieve it looks quite different from it did in the late 20th century. By the large, people felt that their actions and hard work — not outside forces — were the deciding factors in how their lives turned out. But the participants had definitely mixed feelings about what actions make for a better life in the current economy.
In the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success. Even though they see going to college as a fairly achievable goal, a majority 52 percent think that young people do not need a 4-year college education in order to be successful.
Miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master’s degree and works in public health, was the first in his family to go to college, which has allowed him to achieve a sense of financial stability(稳定) his parents and grandparents never did. While some, like Maeda, emphasized the value of a degree rather than the education itself, others still see college as a way to gain new viewpoints and life experiences. Sixty-year-old Will Fendley, who had a successful career in the military and never earned a college degree, think “personal drive” is far more important than just go to college. To Fendley, a sense of drive and purpose, as well as an effective high-school education, and basic life skills, like balancing a checkbook(支票簿), are the necessary elements for a successful life in America.
1. It was commonly acknowledged that to succeed in America, one had to have ________.| A．a sense of drive and purpose | B．an advanced academic degree |
| C．a firm belief in their dream | D．an ambition to get ahead |
| A．More and more Americans are finding it hard to realize. |
| B．It remains alive among the majority of American people. |
| C．An increasing number of young Americans are abandoning it. |
| D．Americans’ idea of it has changed over the past few decades. |
| A．It helps broaden their minds. | B．It needs to be strengthened. |
| C．It widens cultural diversity. | D．It promotes gender (性别) equality. |
