Whether studying for exams, working on a project or writing a paper, we’ve all been under great pressure at some point. When it gets a bit strong, we can reach a high level of tiredness — the terrible burnout (过度疲劳) .
However, that feeling of tiredness is not just physical. It can be mental (心理的) as well. According to Psychology (心理学), today, burnout isn’t just caused by working long hours; it is more about being under great pressure for a long time. The result can be feelings of anger, sadness and tiredness. It can even kill our creativity and reduce our productivity.
But what can we do to avoid the bad influence of burnout? Well, there is some ad vice that may help you. Psychologist Albert Bandura thinks that you should believe in your ability to complete a task at hand. The feeling that you are able to succeed means that a difficult task might be less difficult and tiring.
Finding ways to express your creative side may help, too. Not everyone can stay creative in their jobs, so they need to find other ways. They could paint, write or take part in the local theater. All of these may help people get away from the huge pressure in their working life.
Looking after yourself and things around you can also be helpful. The result is that you live in a clean and positive environment. We should have healthy and positive thoughts instead of negative ones. Having a positive mental attitude (态度) towards everything you do means that you may feel more confident in yourself as well.
Burnout is a common condition connected with the pressure of the modern world. It has a huge influence on your work and life in general. We can deal with the burnout step by step, which can do good to not just us, but our bosses and families.
1. Why do people have the terrible burnout?| A．Because they have physical problems that kill their creativity. |
| B．Because they just work for a long time without resting. |
| C．Because they are under great pressure for too long. |
| D．Because they have the feelings of anger, sadness and tiredness. |
| A．Talking about pressure with others. |
| B．Believing in your ability to complete a task. |
| C．Having a positive attitude towards everything. |
| D．Showing your creativity in different ways. |
| A．boring | B．harmful | C．active | D．personal |
| A．Avoiding burnout is good for people around us. |
| B．Everyone is supposed to be positive. |
| C．Most modern people are in poor mental health. |
| D．It isn’t possible to get away from burning out. |
| A．How to keep in good health. | B．How to be successful in life. |
| C．How to avoid burnout. | D．How to deal with pressure. |
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In my childhood, home was a number of calls. It seems that I had more free time than today’s children. I didn’t have to show up in front of my parents right after school, instead I would go to play with my classmates who lived in the neighborhood. We played like mad until dinner was ready and our parents called “Come back! Come home for supper!” Days passed by as I grew up in the company of those calls which are still echoing(回响) in my ears even now.
In a short while, my childhood was gone. When a thin layer of hair(胡须) began to grow around the corners of my mouth, home became a place I tried to run away from.
As I read more and more, my world opened up, larger than before me. The bed I used to sleep in became too small, and words of care from my parents began to sound meaningless. How I wished I could have a space of my own someday! Later I was joined the army and put on the green uniform. During my service days, home was the series of letters I received one after another. My most homesick moments were when I read those letters from my family.
When I got a job, I began to get “hurt”, to rise and fall in a sea of people, and to understand that you can’t share all your pains with other people, even with your best friends. So again, another wave of homesickness came over me. When I was badly hurt, I imagined myself flying home on wings. Pushing open the door, I let tears flow down my face. At that moment I felt that as large as the world was, what I needed was only the familiar smell of home and the unchanged view outside the window of my old house…
……
Although I already have much life experience behind me, I know there is still a long way ahead and my concept of home will go on developing. But already I have come to see that home is where we can find the true meaning of all the busy rush life. What makes the concept different is that sometimes it refers to a person’s home and sometimes to the home of many, many people.
1. What does the underlined word “company” mean in Chinese in Paragraph 2?
| A．公司 | B．陪伴 | C．友情 | D．氛围 |
| A．He misses his life in his childhood. |
| B．He lives a happy life when he studies at school. |
| C．He enjoys himself during his service days in the army. |
| D．He can share his feelings--happiness and sadness-- with his buddies. |
| A．Missing my parents and home |
| B．His home he tries to run away from |
| C．A changing concept of home |
| D．A developing home |
When people hear the word “stress”, they usually think of something bad.
For example, some students are stressed before a big test. The stress might make them feel nervous (紧张的).
| A．The final way that stress benefits (有益于) us is by helping us respond (反应) to danger. |
| B．But it also makes them focused (注意力集中的). |
| C．However, stress can have several benefits for the body and mind. |
| D．Of course, too much stress is bad for our bodies and minds. |
| E．As we know, stress is useless. |
| F．When your body learns to respond to (回应) some stress, it’s able to protect (保护) you better from getting ill. |
Laughter is important for our health. But sometimes we feel bad, or people around us make us feel bad. What should we do?
Confidence
Confidence (自信) is a feeling.
Our confidence can be hurt. For example, a classmate’s idea might have a big influence (影响) on us.
Feeling low
We all have the time when we are not all that happy. It’s usual for people at your age.
If you have those problems, talk to your parents and doctors.
| A．It makes you feel like you can do something. |
| B．We care about what others say, and that’s OK. |
| C．Why are there so many people who have depression? |
| D．But if you feel bad all the time, there may be a problem. |
| E．Lots of changes are happening to your body and in your life. |
| F．If the person is criticizing you to help you, follow their advice. |
【推荐1】Children’s Games in Ancient China
Unlike the children nowadays, the children during ancient times didn’t have smart phones, iPads or computers to entertain themselves.
Kicking stone balls
During the Qing Dynasty, kicking a stone ball around was a popular sport in the northern part of China, and it was often played in winter to keep warm. Stones were carved into small balls and kicked along with feet.
Flying kites
Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite.
Playing hide-and-seek
Hide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. Even nowadays, many children like playing it. There are two ways to play. One way is covering a child’s eyes while other kids run around to tease him.
The closest thing to watching a film or television for entertainment during ancient times was going to see a shadow play(皮影戏). Folk artists manipulate puppets behind the screen, narrating stories and accompanied by music.
Setting off fireworks
Fireworks have a history of more than 2, 000 years. It is said that there was a beast named Nian in ancient China.
| A．Watching shadow plays. |
| B．Each of them has special features(特征). |
| C．Shadow plays were the popular entertaining form in ancient times. |
| D．To scare of the beast, people burnt bamboo joints to make them explode(爆炸). |
| E．The other way is that one child must try to find those who have hidden. |
| F．Instead, they came up with interesting games to play in their childhood. |
【推荐2】Once upon a time carrots were purple, there were no pineapples in Asia or lemons in America, and many people thought potatoes were poisonous. Many types of fruit and vegetable grew only in one place. So how did they spread all over the world?
Changing colors
Five thousand years ago, carrots only grew in Afghanistan and most were purple. Only a few were orange as they are today! Farmers in the Netherlands were looking for a fruit or vegetable to represent their king, William of Orange, and orange carrots were just what they were looking for. So they became the ancestors of all modern carrots.
At home in the mountains
Many plants only grow in certain places on Earth, often deep in the jungle. The home of potatoes is in the mountains of the Andes in South America. Bananas come from Papua New Guinea and lemons grow wild in China.
World travel
But once people realized that many of these plants were good to eat, they took them far from the places where they grew. Fruit, in particular, attracted thirsty travelers. Arab businessmen transported different fruits and vegetables around the world, such as oranges, which they took from Asia to distant countries such as Spain. The Spanish returned from South America with many new types of food, including chocolate, chili and corn.
And today…
Today, we are so used to our different types of food that we don’t think about where they came from. But for each pineapple, potato or carrot we eat, there is a long history!
1. What does the writer think about fruits and vegetables long ago?| A．Could not be eaten. | B．All in purple colour. |
| C．Could be found everywhere. | D．Grew in a particular place. |
| A．The Netherlanders. | B．Afghanistani. | C．American. | D．Chinese. |
| A．An earlier thing from which something modern developed. |
| B．A person in your family who lived a long time ago. |
| C．The delicious carrots which grew in the long past. |
| D．King William of Orange in old Netherlands. |
| A．The wind. | B．The wars. | C．Men’s traveling. | D．Animal Migration. |
| A．To tell people to save food, including vegetables and fruits. |
| B．To explain how different types of food spread all over. |
| C．To remember the farmers who planted vegetables and fruits. |
| D．To sell special vegetables and fruits from all over the world. |
【推荐3】Honesty is a good thing. But does Mother Nature agree? Animals can’t talk, but can they lie in other ways?
Animal experts may not call it lying, but they do agree that many animals, from birds to chimpanzees (黑猩猩), behave dishonestly to fool other animals. Why? Dishonesty often helps them survive.
Many kinds of birds are very successful at fooling other animals. For example, a bird called the plover sometimes pretends (假装) to be hurt in order to protect its young. When a predator (猎食动物) gets close to its nest, the plover leads the predator away from the nest. How? It pretends to have a broken wing. The predator follows the “hurt” adult, leaving the baby birds safe in the nest.
Another kind of bird, the scrub jay, hides its food so it always has something to eat. Scrub jays are also thieves. They watch where others hide their food and steal it. But clever scrub jays seem to know that a thief is watching them. So they go back later, dig the food, and hide it again somewhere else.
Chimpanzees, or chimps, can also be sneaky. After a fight, the losing chimp will give its hand to the other. When the winning chimp puts out its hand, too, the chimps are friendly again. But an animal expert once saw a losing chimp take the winner’s hand and start fighting again.
Chimps are sneaky in other ways, too. When chimps find food that they love, such as bananas, it is natural for them to cry out. Then other chimps come running. But some clever chimps learn to cry very softly when they find food. That way, other chimps don’t hear them, and they don’t need to share their food.
As children, many of us learn the saying “You can’t fool Mother Nature.” But maybe you can’t trust her, either.
1. A plover protects its young from a predator by ________.| A．getting closer to its young | B．pretending to be hurt |
| C．leaving its young in another nest | D．driving away the adult predator |
| A．chimps are ready to attack others | B．chimps can also be selfish |
| C．chimps envy the winners of the fight | D．chimps are sometimes dishonest |
| A．Some chimps lower their cry to keep food away from others. |
| B．Some clever scrub jays often steal their food back. |
| C．All the animals survive by fooling other animals. |
| D．The losing chimp won the fight by taking the winner’s hand. |
| A．How do animals learn to lie? | B．Does Mother Nature fool animals? |
| C．Do animals lie? | D．How does honesty help animals survive? |
【推荐1】Fast fashion refers to cheap clothes that are quickly produced by large companies to follow the latest trends (趋势). The goal of fast fashion is to get these new styles into shops as fast as possible, so customers can buy them. Now lots of famous fast fashion brands are popular in China, such as Uniqlo, Zara, UR, H&M and so on.
However, the fashion industry is not environmentally friendly. To keep prices low, fashion companies often use a kind of material called polyester (聚酯纤维), which is a type of plastic made from oil that is not biodegradable (可生物降解的). Also the process of producing clothes uses lots of chemicals, which can pollute the environment. What’s worse, fast fashion clothes aren’t made to last forever because they often go out of style quite quickly. Some people throw their clothes away when they don’t want them anymore.
As a result, lots of people are looking for changes. Some clothing brands are helping customers to recycle their clothes in exchange for vouchers (代金券). Some charities have taken action too. Every year since 2019, the charity Oxfam has held Second Hand September, asking people to buy only second-hand clothes in that month. To protect the environment, the European Union has made some rules to encourage companies to make clothes that last longer.
1. What is the fast fashion’s goal?| A．To keep clothes’ prices low. |
| B．To make some brands famous. |
| C．To protect the environment. |
| D．To get the new styles into shops fast. |
| A．Because the process of producing the clothes causes pollution. |
| B．Because the quality of the clothes is bad. |
| C．Because the price of the clothes is high. |
| D．Because the materials of the clothes are difficult for companies to produce. |
| A．By offering customers vouchers. |
| B．By encouraging companies to produce cheaper clothes. |
| C．By asking people to buy second-hand clothes. |
| D．By making rules to control customers. |
【推荐2】You might be able to find one that fits your needs at the World Robot Conference (WRC) 2022 in Beijing. Held from Aug 18 to 21, more than 500 robots were on show at the WRC. Here are some.
Technology in agriculture
A fruit-picking robot attracted visitors’ attention. With the help of different sensors (传感器) and an AI system, the robot can collect fruit according to its ripeness (成熟度), quality and size. The robot first finds the fruit and then uses sensors to decide whether it is ripe with a robotic arm picking the fruit gently. The fruit is then divided into different kinds, ending up in a basket according to its size. Maybe more robotic technology will be used in agriculture in the future, including robots for daily work like finding out wild plants, killing harmful insects on the farm.
Robots fighting Covid-19
Medical staff doing tests often find their work tiring. A nucleic acid (核酸检测) test robot developed by Tsinghua University. It looks like a selling machine, but the robot can collect samples (样本) from throats and process them, as well as produce and upload the results within 45 minutes. The whole process will not require any workers.
Inventions of the youth
Some students from Beijing also showed their robots there. Although they are young, they brought wonderful inventions and ideas. For example, Wang Zirun, a junior student at the school, designed a 3D parking lot. Since there are usually too few parking spaces in older living areas, Wang’s work aims to fit more cars into parking places. His invention works like a sky wheel with six parking places. When cars need to be nicked up, the machine works slowly, placing the car on the ground.
1. How long did the World Robot Conference 2022 last?| A．Three days. | B．Four days. | C．Five days. |
① collect fruit ② park cars ③ do nucleic acid tests
④ kill harmful insects ⑤ find out wild plants
| A．①④⑤ | B．①②③ | C．②③④ |
| A．沉重地 | B．严肃地 | C．小心地 |
A． | B． | C． |
【推荐3】Shyness is a kind of fear (恐惧). People who are shy always worry too much about what people think of them. They are also afraid of speaking in front of people. How can we overcome (战胜) shyness then？
Have a good posture (姿态).
Your posture says a lot about yourself. People with sloped (倾斜的) shoulders don’t think of themselves as important people. So stand up straight, keep your head up, and always make eye contact (接触). By practicing a good posture, you will feel much better.
Walk faster.
You can tell what a person is like by the way he walks. People who walk in a slow way and look at the ground while walking usually have no confidence in themselves, while people who believe in themselves walk faster. That is because they know clearly what important things to do, friends to meet, and places to go, etc. So walk a little faster, hold your head up, and look straight ahead.
Do some exercise.
Exercise can cheer you up. That will put you in a more positive (积极的) state of mind. By doing exercise, you will feel sure of yourself. Think about it. It is better to do some exercise than just watching TV all day.
Do things that make you feel good about yourself.
This can be anything that you really like doing. You can go to the cinema, listen to music, go traveling or help someone out of a problem.
1. According to the passage, what is a good posture ?| A．Standing with sloped shoulders. | B．Keeping your head down |
| C．Standing up silently. | D．Looking at the eyes of others. |
| A．毅力 | B．信心 | C．耐心 | D．恒心 |
| A．Walk more slowly. | B．Listen to music. |
| C．Go traveling somewhere. | D．Help someone out of a problem. |
| A．always stands up straight and make eye contact |
| B．takes an active part in school activities |
| C．is always in a more positive state of mind |
| D．usually has no confidence in herself |
| A．To introduce what shyness is. | B．To show us why shy people are shy. |
| C．To tell us how to overcome shyness. | D．To show us who are the shy people. |
【推荐1】Boys and girls, it’s important for you to have good eating habits (习惯), because they can help you live a healthy life. Read the following ideas and you can learn a lot.
Always eat together with your family.
Have at least (至少) one meal with your family members every day. A family dinner can make you feel warm.
Never watch TV while eating meals.
Don’t watch TV while you are having a meal, because you don’t know what you are eating when you watch TV. And you have no time to chat with others.
Wash your hands before every meal.
All of the bacteria (细菌) on your dirty hands will go into your mouth if you don’t wash hands before meals. And that is bad for your health.
Taste the food even if you don’t like it.
Don’t always eat your favourite food. Eating different kinds of foods can help you get much nutrition (营养).
1. Who is the passage for?| A．Teachers. | B．Parents. | C．Doctors. | D．Students. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．A dinner can make you sad. | B．You can watch TV while eating meals. |
| C．Wash hands before every meal. | D．Always eat your favourite food. |
| A．Fun Story | B．Animal World |
| C．Healthy Life | D．School activities |
【推荐2】All students need to have good study habits. When you have good study habits, you will learn things faster.
Do you usually study in the living room?
Of all the good study habits you can develop, asking questions is the key. Just ask.
When you study, don’t think about other things at the same time. Only think about your homework. If you do so, you will do your homework more quickly, and you will make fewer mistakes.
根据短文内容,将下列方框内的句子还原到原文空白处,使短文内容完整、通顺（每个选项只能用一次）。
| A．Before you begin to study, do not forget to clean your desk. |
| B．Good study habits are very important. |
| C．You also remember them easily. |
| D．No one knows everything, but we can always learn from each other in this way. |
| E．This is not a good place for study because it is usually too noisy. |
Now let me tell you how to do it. First，you should look up the places that you want to visit online. Then you can decide on which way to travel according to the prices online. If you go to other countries, you’d better take the plane. If you visit some places of interest near your hometown, you can take the train or bus there. Of course, you can drive a car. Next, you can get in touch with some travel companies(公司)，and talk something about travel with them. And you can find the best place to stay at the best price. Finally, you can enjoy happy holidays with the help of the travel company.
1. In winter , you can spend _________with your family together.
| A．summer holidays | B．winter holidays |
| C．May Day | D．Middle-autumn festival |
| A．Look up the places where to visit. |
| B．Think over the way to travel |
| C．Know the prices |
| D．Call some travel companies |
| A．by car | B．by train |
| C．by bus | D．by plane. |
| A．play basketball | B．have good food |
| C．have a good time | D．make many friends |
| A．When you want to travel, you can make the plan online. |
| B．If you want to travel, you must have a computer at first. |
| C．If you visit your grandmother, you have to drive you car. |
| D．The passage mainly tells how to travel online. |
