Are you happy most of the time? Or do you easily get angry sometimes? Everyone has a different temperament（脾气）. It is usually believed that both genes（基因）and environment may influence people’s temperament in different ways. Scientists have found that the season of the birth also plays a role.
Scientists from Budapest, Hungary, studied 400 university students. In the study, the students needed to finish some questions to know which of four kinds of temperament they most had. From the questions, scientists found that the students always answered something like “my mood（心情）often changes for no reason” and “I love to deal with new projects, even if it is risky” these answers were then connected with their birthdays.
They discovered that people born in summer easily change between sad and happy moods compared to people born in winter. Those who always feel positive are mostly born in spring and summer.
The study also found that those born in fall less probably had a mood of sadness which may easily drive them to cry, while those in winter were not easier to be angry.
Scientists said that this was probably because the seasons had an influence on certain chemicals（化学物质）in the human body. And the chemicals are important to people’s moods even in adult life. “It seems that when you are born may increase or decrease your change of developing certain mood disorders” scientist Xenia Gonda told the Telegraph.
1. What probably can affect people’s temperaments according to Paragraph 1?（不超过10个词）2. What are the characteristics about people who were born in fall?（不超过15个词）
3. Why do scientists think the seasons of the birth influence people’s temperament?（回答问题，不超过31个词）
4. 请将文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。
5. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文题目。
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What makes you happy? Some say that’s time when they spend with their families. Others say it’s time with friends. The problem is that there isn’t just one thing that makes everyone happy. Happiness is something different for each of us and can change in different situations.
However, there are some things that can help improve our mood (心情) when we’re feeling unhappy. Experts believe that exercise can make us happier. It is because exercise gives off chemicals (化学物质) that make us happy in our brain. And the chemicals have something with a feeling of pleasure.
There’s another surprising idea to help make us happier. We may think that eating chocolate is bad for us but it seems good to eat chocolate when we’re feeling sad. According to some researches, eating chocolate can make us feel happy.
It’s also important to remember that we can’t be happy all the time. There are ups and downs in our life. We have to face different kinds of feelings no matter they are good or bad. But we can also be happy for small things. For example, you’re sitting on a beach watching the sunset (日落) on the sea, with friends around you, and you feel happy. Just enjoy your time and keep it in mind!
1. What’s happiness according to the passage? (不超过15个词)2. Why does exercise improve people’s mood? (不超过15个词)
3. Which food may be a good choice to make people feel good? (不超过5个词)
4. How many ways are mentioned to make people happier? (不超过5个词)
5. What else will you do when you feel unhappy? （不超过15个词）
【推荐2】Different students have different ideas about freedom(自由), true friends, love, honesty and so on.
Chen Cheng, 13, a boy from Jiangsu: I think I need a true friend. I had some friends before. However, it seemed that they didn’t regard me as their friends. I told them my secrets but they didn’t share theirs with me. I hope to find a true friend who can share happiness and sadness with me.
Gan Xiaoning, 14, a girl from Heilongjiang: Freedom is what I want most. I am a bird in two cages. In school, I have to follow the school’s rules and listen to teachers. At home, my parents don’t allow me to do what I like, either.
Yuan Siyu,15, Guangxi: I am a boy from a poor family. My father works very hard to support the family. I want to go to a college so that I can find a good job in the future.
Qu Yi,14, a girl from Hebei: I want a complete family. My father died of cancer three years ago. Since then, I have had no chance to be together with my parents any more. I admire my classmates who live with their parents.
1. Who is the oldest student of all?______________________________________________________
2. What does Chen Cheng want to get most?
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3. What does Gan Xiaoning want most?
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4. What does Yuan Siyu want to do in the future?
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5. What happened to Qu Yi’s family three years ago?
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【推荐3】A few years ago I was afraid of my neighbor Mr Reed. Now we're friends.
It all started from a basketball game near his home. Peter passed the ball to me. But I didn't catch it and it went right into Mr Reed's garden.1 was very afraid. Everyone said that he didn't like children. And no one knew Mr Reed well because he rarely came out of his house. And he rarely spoke.
I walked into Mr Reed's garden slowly and quietly. My hands were sweaty（出汗的）.Suddenly I saw a tall man walking toward me, It was Mr Reed.
“Is this your ball?" he asked.
I said yes and agreed never to do it again.
To my surprise, Mr Reed said, "Why don't you kids play here? No one has used this hoop（篮筐）for years. It's better than yours."
My friends and I couldn't believe it. Mr Reed was inviting us to play in his garden! We all learned an important lesson: what many people say isn't always true.
1. From the third paragraph（段落）we know that the writer was very_______ before he met Mr Reed.| A．sorry | B．sad | C．excited | D．worried |
| A．很少 | B．经常 | C．有时 | D．总是 |
| A．He often stayed in his house. |
| B．He didn't often speak to people. |
| C．He didn't like children. |
| D．He had a place to play basketball. |
| A．My good neighbour. | B．A basketball game. |
| C．A strange man. | D．Seeing is believing. |
There are about 250 kinds of turtles. Most turtles live near fresh water. However, land turtles, also known as tortoises, do not swim at all. Sea turtles live nearly their whole lives in salt water.
Tortoises
Tortoises are slow. They have short, thick back legs. Their front legs are very good for digging. Many tortoises can pull their heads, legs, and tails inside their shells. They quickly do so at any sign of danger. Their strong shells can protect them. Unlike most other turtles, tortoises eat only plants. Tortoises hatch from eggs. The mother tortoise digs a hole, lays some eggs, and covers them with earth. When the baby tortoises hatch, they must dig their way out of the hole. The largest tortoises can grow to four feet long. They may weigh up to 600 pounds.
Sea Turtles
Like tortoises, sea turtles lay their eggs on land. The mother turtle comes out of the ocean onto the beach. She digs a hole, lays her eggs, and returns to the sea. When the baby turtles hatch, they head straight for the water. Sea turtles can swim very fast. They use their front legs like wings to “fly” through the water. Although most turtles can pull their heads and legs inside their shells, sea turtles cannot. The green sea turtle eats only plants. Other sea turtles eat both plants and animals. The largest of all sea turtles can weigh over 1,000 pounds.
Get to know different kinds of turtles and compare them.
| Live in salt water and They use their front legs to fly through water. They can’t pull their heads, legs and tails inside the shells. They eat both plants and animals |
| They are slow and don’t swim at all. Their Most of them can pull their heads, legs and tails inside the shells. They eat only plants. They both have shells. They both dig a Their babies hatch from eggs. |
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5. When will tortoises pull their heads and legs inside the shells?
There was a saying: “Gentlemen have peace but disagree, vile characters(小人) agree but have no peace.” This sentence means that cultivated(有教养的) people work in harmony(和谐), but they don’t just blindly agree with what others say; common people agree easily, but they don’t really work together.
Imagine you are having a group discussion in class. You have a different idea from your classmates. Will you speak out or just agree with them to avoid argument? Sometimes people give up their ideas to stay in agreement with others. But is this real harmony? Confucius(孔子) talked about this before. In his opinion, things don’t have to be the same, people can keep their differences in a peaceful atmosphere(氛围). For example, in a chorus(合唱), different voices—high and low—together make harmonious singing, that’s real harmony.
China welcomed the idea of “harmony in diversity(和而不同)” thousands of years ago. Even before Confucius, Yan Ying of the Spring and Autumn Period first talked about the idea. Today, President Xi Jinping calls on people to communicate equally(平等地), learn from each other, and make progress together, so we can give something good to the whole world.
1. Do cultivated people agree blindly?2. Why do some people give up their ideas so easily sometimes?
3. What’s real harmony according to Confucius?
4. When was the idea of “harmony in diversity” created?
5. What should people do to give something good to the whole world?
Wind power is a very clean source of energy. This is how wind power works. Wind makes windmills spin (旋转). When the windmills spin, they make electricity. Then we can use the electricity.
A lot of people think that wind power is new, but that’s not true. For thousands of years, people have used wind to sail boats and move water. We still do those things today, but these days we mostly use wind power to make electricity.
Wind power is a very popular source of energy. Most people think that we should use it more and more. First of all it’s clean. Windmills don’t pollute the environment at all. Second, we can use wind power forever. After all, we will always have wind. Also, wind power is cheap, and it’s getting even cheaper.
A lot of people don’t understand wind power very well. They believe that there are problems with wind power, but many of those problems are not real. For example, some people say that windmills are dangerous for birds. That used to be true, but it isn’t true anymore. Old windmills killed birds because they spun very fast. New windmills spin slowly, and they aren’t dangerous for birds.
However, there are real problems with windmills. One problem is that many people think windmills are very ugly. This is a problem for some people because windmills are often in very pretty areas. Also, wind doesn’t blow all the time, so we can’t use wind power all the time.
Wind power is becoming more and more common. Right now, more than 80 countries use wind power. About 2. 5 percent of the world’s power comes from the wind. For some countries, that number is a lot higher. Wind power gives Denmark (丹麦) more than 25 percent of its electricity.
1—2题完成句子；3—5题简略回答问题。1. Wind power can be turned into
2. New windmills are
3. What have people used wind to do for a long time?
4. How many countries use wind power today?
5. Do you think wind power is good? Why or why not?
If you have seen the movie Pirates of the Caribbean（《加勒比海盗》）, you must remember Johnny Depp who played the leading role as the captain（船长）. The Pirates were such successful movies that they climbed to the top of all the most popular movie lists. At the same time, Depp became one of the most popular actors in Hollywood. Depp owns a large number of fans from the young to the old. Right now, Johnny Depp’s time has arrived. He has been named “favorite actor” for seven years in a row. Also, he was chosen as the sexist（最性感的）man alive by People Magazine.
But success never came easily for him. It took a long time to make Depp remembered by the public. He was able to catch people’s eyes with roles in many movies from the family film like Charlie and Chocolate Factory to the serious film like Public Enemies（《头号公敌》）, which was chosen as “best movies” for 2009.
Johnny Depp is a person who never gives up trying a new start. Because of his interesting popularity, Depp was invited to play the screen role as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland directed by Tim Burton. “Depp can always bring the film surprise and we’re expecting his wonderful performances all the time,” he said.
1. Which role made Depp one of the most popular actors in Hollywood?2. Who loves Depp, the young or the old?
3. Is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a serious film?
4. How many movie names are mentioned in the passage?
5. What can you learn from Johnny Depp?
【推荐2】What will the home of the future look like? A team of architects (建筑师) in Hong Kong say that city homes will be tiny, as populations continue to grow and space becomes more expensive.
They have designed “spaceflats” that are just 30 square meters in size. These flats have three small rooms: a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom, as well as a balcony (阳台), but everything is carefully planned to make good use of the limited space.
The living room is the main room of the flat. It can be used as an office, a kitchen even a second bedroom. There is a sofa that can be changed into a bed. The dining table can be changed into a computer desk. And, if not needed, both the sofa-bed and the table can be folded away and stored into a small space in the wall. There is a flat-screen TV, which can also serve as a computer monitor. In one of the room, a small cooker, a microwave oven and a miniature (微型) refrigerator are hidden out of sight.
The other rooms are small but practical. The bathroom contains a toilet and a shower. The double bed in the bedroom can also be a sofa, if necessary. The balcony has enough room for two people to sit and enjoy the view from the block of flats. All the rooms have high ceiling to provide as much storage space as possible, while the flat has large windows to let in plenty of sunlight.
“Spaceflats” are now being tested in a building in Hong Kong. “It’s wonderful,” said one resident (居民) . “The flat is so well designed that you feel that there is plenty of space.”
1. Do the architects think that “Spaceflat” will be important in the future?2. Is the “Spaceflat” big or small?
3. How many rooms does a “Spaceflat” have?
4. Why does the resident like that flat?
5. What do you think of living in a “spaceflat”?
An earthquake is a sudden shaking of the ground. It happens because there is movement in the earth’s crust.
Earthquakes usually come without warning. What should you do if this happens to you? Stay calm as the earth begins to shake and move. An earthquake is dangerous, but there are things you can do to protect yourself.
If you are inside when the earthquake starts, stay calm and get under a table or a bed. You need to have something strong around you to protect you from falling objects.
Do not stand near walls or windows and stay out of the kitchen. The kitchen is dangerous because there are so many glass objects. Also, never get into a lift during an earthquake.
If you are outside, stay calm and get to an open area as fast as you can. Stay away from buildings and trees. If you are in a car, drive to a place without trees or tall buildings. If you are close to the sea, try to get as far away from the water as possible. Earthquakes can cause huge waves (海浪) that can really hurt the people nearby.
When the earthquake is over, there is still plenty of danger. If you see a fire, quickly move outdoors to an open area. If you have a phone, use it only once to call your family or a friend. Too many calls will bring down the phone system. Your chances of survival (幸存) in an earthquake go up if you stay calm. Staying calm is difficult, but it can save your life.
1. What is an earthquake?2. Why are glass objects in the kitchen dangerous when an earthquake happens?
3. According to the passage, what should a driver do when an earthquake happens?
4. What will you do when your living place catches a fire?
5. What is the most important during and after an earthquake?
