1 . For weeks, I carried out a campaign for traveling alone to New York. My father was
With my grandparents'
The December evening finally came, and I was too
“DROP IT!” came a
Who was he? And how did he get my name? I have no way to
| A．relaxed | B．shocked | C．amused | D．disappointed |
| A．humorous | B．considerate | C．wrong | D．sensitive |
| A．trip | B．difference | C．deal | D．record |
| A．company | B．apology | C．arrangement | D．permission |
| A．adjustment | B．assessment | C．commitment | D．persuasion |
| A．turned up | B．took off | C．gave in | D．broke down |
| A．accept | B．change | C．analyze | D．defend |
| A．pessimistic | B．ashamed | C．lonely | D．excited |
| A．stopped | B．struggled | C．hesitated | D．happened |
| A．approached | B．applauded | C．argued | D．returned |
| A．focus | B．apply | C．serve | D．react |
| A．gently | B．rapidly | C．constantly | D．quietly |
| A．commanding | B．familiar | C．funny | D．disturbing |
| A．open | B．explode | C．fall | D．disappear |
| A．train | B．bike | C．bus | D．plane |
| A．astonished | B．pleased | C．discouraged | D．frightened |
| A．admit | B．remember | C．mind | D．mean |
| A．anywhere | B．somewhere | C．nowhere | D．everywhere |
| A．finish | B．describe | C．obtain | D．know |
| A．grateful | B．regretful | C．doubtful | D．hopeful |
2 . International Women's Day is March 8. The first celebration was held in 1911, and the event was recognized by the United Nations starting in 1975.
It's a great time to think about the origin of the word "woman". Some people think the word “woman" is a compound(混合)of the words“womb”and“man". Not so. Rather,it's a compound of "wife" and "man", a combination that can be traced back to Old English. You see, when Old English was first being spoken in the 5th century AD, there were two distinct words for men and women: "wer" meant "adult male",and "wif” meant “adult female". There was a third word,“man", which simply meant "person"or "human being”. These words could be combined:“wer" plus“man"(in the form of "waepman")meant "adult male person" and“wif” plus"man”("wilman") meant “adult female person”.
Those middle forms,“wimnan"and "wommon"with the two M's in the middle, remind me of Noah Webster's efforts to simplify English spelling by suggesting changing the spelling "woman” to“wimmen" to have the spelling better match the pronunciation. He put that in his 1806 Compendious Dictionary o f the English Language, but it didn't become popular.
And the Old English word for "adult male" evolved into a simplified form. The compound word "weapman" melted into the simple word we use today: "man".
Maybe the lesson to take from all this is that the role of women in society has always been complex. Whatever the case, the word "woman" today was originally a compound of the Old English words for"woman” and “human being”.
1. Where can you find the first source of the word "woman"?| A．In paragraph 1. | B．In paragraph 2. | C．In paragraph 3. | D．In paragraph 4. |
| A．To link the spelling to the pronunciation. |
| B．To keep up with the times more closely. |
| C．To satisfy the readers’ requests |
| D．To make it easy to pronounce. |
| A．By the 1600s. | B．In the 5th century AD, |
| C．In 1809. | D．By the Middle English period |
| A．To tell us the origin of Women's Day. |
| B．To tell us the history of the word "woman". |
| C．To stress the roles women are playing |
| D．To teach us the development of a language |
3 . People kept coming into St. Stephen’s asking for help with car repairs. Oh, this is obviously an urgent
So I
One day we were
“My
He glared at me. “I’m not going to let you
Tried again. And again. On the fourth try, I
Today I
Some people want to follow in our
| A．discovery | B．promise | C．lesson | D．need |
| A．affordable | B．free | C．essential | D．capital |
| A．imagined | B．examined | C．found | D．absented |
| A．dream | B．fashion | C．strategy | D．reality |
| A．something | B．anything | C．nothing | D．everything |
| A．Hopefully | B．Naturally | C．Luckily | D．Surprisingly |
| A．copy | B．check | C．detect | D．grade |
| A．forced | B．employed | C．assigned | D．permitted |
| A．whispered | B．stated | C．argued | D．yelled |
| A．shaking | B．tied | C．cut | D．waving |
| A．open | B．straight | C．flat | D．steady |
| A．day | B．class | C．term | D．year |
| A．tool | B．brain | C．idea | D．car |
| A．ask | B．relax | C．search | D．quit |
| A．teacher | B．helper | C．graduate | D．failure |
| A．made it | B．got it | C．turned around | D．fell down |
| A．spot | B．launch | C．donate | D．sponsor |
| A．debts | B．hopes | C．bills | D．efforts |
| A．saved | B．left | C．owed | D．repaid |
| A．opinions | B．footsteps | C．details | D．interests |
4 . A 29-year-old woman Chelsea Haley of Marietta, Georgia, who adopted (收养) a former student and his brother, is now celebrating being completely debt-free. She has paid off a total of $ 48,683.41 — the amount she owed in credit cards and student loans with interest. “It doesn’t feel real yet,” Haley, mom of Jerome, 17, and Jace, 6, told the press.
Haley was teaching in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2015, on a two-year commitment to Teach for America, which is an organization that finds recent college graduates to work in low-income schools. Her son, Jerome, was in her 4th-grade class at the time.
When Haley saw Jerome having difficulty in progressing academically, she started spending time with him — going to his football games, buying him school supplies and more. Soon, Haley adopted Jerome together with his brother. “Being their mom is the greatest blessing of my life,” Haley said.
Haley went to all the expense of adopting the two boys. She also borrowed money to afford taking care of them, which increased the difficulty for her to pay their student loans. Determined to rid herself of debt, Haley took on part-time jobs. On top of being a teacher, she was teaching an individual student or a small group in her spare time a couple of days a week. On Fridays, she was paid extra to stay late at the school and work as the building manager. Haley also delivered (送) groceries. She sold her home and moved back to live with her parents on Nov. 6. Her goal is to save money for a new house and prepare Jerome for college. Both boys are doing well in school.
“It allows me to focus on the boys’ future,’’ Haley said. “Earning and saving money for them, and not spending money saved in the past.”
Her advice for making a determined effort to free us of debt is never to ignore your spending and stick to a plan.
1. How did Chelsea Haley feel when she had just paid off the debt?| A．Unforgettable. | B．Unbelievable. |
| C．Unpredictable. | D．Unacceptable. |
| A．As soon as Jerome first became her student at school. |
| B．Immediately she came to the school Jerome studied in. |
| C．When she found Jerome had difficulty studying further. |
| D．After she had decided to adopt Jerome and his brother. |
| A．Why Haley returned to live with her parents. |
| B．Why Haley kept herself busy making a living. |
| C．What part-time jobs Haley did to earn money. |
| D．How Haley managed to pay off her debt finally. |
| A．Making a practical plan. | B．Relying on your savings. |
| C．Getting help from parents. | D．Borrowing friends’ money. |
5 . Tomatoes were first planted in 700 AD by Aztecs and Incas. Explorers returning from Mexico introduced the tomato into Europe, where it was first mentioned in 1556. The French called it “the apple of love”，the Germans “the apple of paradise(乐园）”.
Tomatoes are rich in vitamins A and C and fiber，and are cholesterol(胆固醇）free. An average size tomato (148 grams or so) has only 35 calories. Furthermore, new medical research suggests that the consumption of lycopene(番茄红素) ，the stuff that makes tomatoes red，may prevent cancer. Besides, the fruit now appears to have two more health giving benefits. Protection against sunburn and helping keep the skin looking youthful are the latest pluses, a study has found.
Professor Mark Birch-Machin said tomatoes could provide a cheap and easy way of improving health. Researchers at Manchester and Newcastle universities recommend two tomato-based meals a day for health. Possible menus include a glass of tomato juice with breakfast and a salad later or tomato soup for lunch and pasta(意大利面）with a tomato sauce for dinner.
To test the fruit’s ability to protect the skin，ten volunteers were asked to eat five tablespoons of tomato paste mixed with olive oil every day for three months. Another ten had a daily dose of olive oil - minus the tomato paste. The tests showed the tomato-eaters were a third better protected against sunburn at the end of the study than at the start, the British Society for Investigative Dermatology’s annual conference heard.
The researchers stressed, however, that their findings were not an excuse to throw away the sun cream. Professor Lesley Rhodes, a Manchester University dermatologist, said: “People should not think tomatoes in any way can replace sun creams but they may be a good additive.”
1. Why does the writer talk about the history of tomatoes in Paragraph 1?| A．To lead in the topic. | B．To raise a concern. |
| C．To introduce a question. | D．To make a statement. |
| A．The components of tomatoes. | B．The benefits of tomatoes. |
| C．The latest findings of tomatoes. | D．The functions of tomatoes on patients. |
| A．Eating more tomatoes. | B．Using more sun cream. |
| C．Staying inside as often as possible. | D．Using sun cream and eating tomatoes. |
| A．By giving an example. | B．By setting up a database. |
| C．By making a comparison. | D．By analyzing possible reasons. |
6 . A first grade teacher from Suffolk, Virginia found a way to teach her students about black history by taking them back in time to meet celebrated black figures. For each day of Black History Month, LaToya McGriff has dressed up like a famous African-American pioneer and taught her students about their significant contributions to the U.S.
On Monday, February 3, she dressed up as Virginian native Mary Jackson and began her creative class. “She was a mathematician who worked as an aeronautical (航空的) engineer whom people referred to as a human computer,” McGriff wrote on Facebook. She shared a photo of herself in 1960s clothing, like Jackson would have worn when she worked for NASA.
Jackson was one of the three “human computers” described in the book and film Hidden Figures, which revealed the African-American female mathematicians whose efforts helped put men on the moon.
Once McGriff started dressing up, she kept going. By February 18, McGriff's Black History Month lessons were starting to gain attention online. She was interviewed by CBS News, and said she works at a majority-black school and “wanted students to see that people who look like them contribute”.
She said that the seeds for this project were planted in her years ago by a teacher who did something similar. “That’s what I remember, having a teacher come dressed as a storybook character. Well, I could dress up as a different figure, an African-American figure from the past or present so they can see themselves represented,” McGriff said.
“My students will want to know who I will be tomorrow. Today, they just said ‘Are you going to be so-and-so?’ Because they want to know and kind of prepare themselves for it so that they can tell me something they know about the person,” she said.
McGriff said bringing history alive kept her students curious and asking questions, and she’s hoping the overall project will give them the confidence to know that, like these historic figures, they can be great, too.
1. What can we learn about LaToya McGriff from the text?| A．Her students are all black. |
| B．She is a primary school teacher. |
| C．Her lessons receive little attention online. |
| D．She posted a 1960s-style photo of Mary Jackson on Facebook. |
| A．The result of McGriff's project. |
| B．McGriff’s reflections on teaching. |
| C．How McGriff came up with this teaching method. |
| D．Why McGriff’s students can see themselves represented. |
| A．They have a lot of energy and determination. |
| B．They have a strong desire to know about something. |
| C．They give serious attention to what is quite challenging. |
| D．They show the ability to invent and develop original ideas. |
| A．To help her students get high grades. |
| B．To introduce African history to her students. |
| C．To stress big figures’ contributions to the US. |
| D．To encourage her students to trust themselves to do better. |
7 . If you’re putting together a team for a project, you might tend to pick people with cheerful, optimistic characters and flexible thinking. But a new management study indicates your team might also benefit from people who have the opposite emotions (情感), according to experts from some universities.
The study, co-authored by Jing Zhou, investigates (研究) the effects of "team affective (情感的) diversity" on team creativity. The paper is among the first research to show how, why and under what condition teams "affective diversity" promotes team creativity
Team members with what researchers call "negative affect" exhibit critical and continuous thinking that allows them to find problems needing solutions, as well as to search out and critically evaluate relevant information. On the other hand, team members with "positive affect" engage in broad and flexible thinking that expands their range of information and helps them see unusual and creative connections, the researchers say.
"At any given point of time, some team members may experience positive affect such as joy and inspiration, while others may experience negative affect such as frustration and worry," Zhou said. "Instead of trying to homogenize (使类同) team members' affect, teams should enthusiastically accept affective diversity.”
When a team experiences a high level of this "affective diversity", what Zhou describes as "dual-tuning (双调谐)" leads to greater creativity.
"Our study suggests that teams may be aided in using their affective diversity via involvements that focus on building the team's memory system, which can be accelerated when team members spend time together, share goals, receive information about member specializations and train on the task together," Zhou said.
1. What is the new management study about?| A．Teams benefit more from negative people. |
| B．People with cheerful characters make good teams |
| C．Teams only benefit from people with flexible thinking |
| D．People with negative feelings might also benefit teams. |
| A．By addressing problems more efficiently | B．By assessing related materials seriously. |
| C．By encouraging broad and complicated thinking. | D．By investigating unusual and creative connections |
| A．By balancing team members' different emotions | B．By inspiring a high level of the affective diversity. |
| C．By praising positive affect like joy and inspiration. | D．By avoiding negative affect like sadness and worry. |
| A．Use Your Team's Emotions to Promote Creativity | B．Win Great Creativity by Searching for Its Reasons |
| C．Create an Excellent Team with Optimistic People | D．Homogenize Team Members' Affect Enthusiastically |
8 . How to Teach A Child to Ride A Bike?
You never forget how to ride a bike, but most of us forget how hard it was to learn.
Begin with the right equipment. Start with a bicycle that’s the right size. A newbie should be able to sit on the seat with both feet flat on the ground. If the child has been using a bike with training wheels, remove them.
Emphasize the basics. The fundamentals of biking are balance, coasting, pedaling, and steering. To help a child learn these basic skills, remember to show how to do that in the flesh and dare to let him try. No doubt there will be more than a few stops and starts and maybe even a fall or two.
Now practice a lot. After a fair number of dry runs, it’s time to move to the big stage. Find a bike path or a little-travelled street in a residential neighbourhood.
| A．Find a safe spot to learn |
| B．Go to practice with the child |
| C．Encourage him to slow down and go on |
| D．Show him how to share the road with cars |
| E．A good-quality, well-fitting helmet is also a must |
| F．That’s why the experience of teaching children to ride can be frustrating |
| G．But eventually, he will manage to ride a fair stretch without stopping or falling |
9 . Simple Ways to Give Great Praise to Motivate Everyone on Your Team
*Recognize a project hero.
Did someone on your team go the extra mile on a recent project? Is there anyone who was critical to their success?
*Notice your unsung（被埋没的）heroes.
The best way to have high performance at all levels of your team is to, “Create heroes in every role. Don't forget your unsung heroes. Make sure every role performed at a level of excellence is treated as a respected profession.” Maybe they are the lowest paid, or the ones that do the most repetitive work.
*
As your team grows, it becomes harder and harder to keep a close eye on the work of everyone on your team. What you see can be very different from the things they actually do behind the scenes.
It’s easy to catch a problem in someone’s project. Unfortunately, if you only focus on what’s wrong, you can discourage your team.
*Praise any improvement in the work.
When you’re trying to turn around an underperformer, or just coach up someone’s weakness, praise can make all the difference. It takes hard work and focus to improve at something you're struggling with.
Think about when you were a kid trying to learn to ride a bike, throw a ball, or learn to read.
| A．Don't let them go unnoticed. |
| B．Tie their efforts to a great purpose. |
| C．Dig into their work and find something you like. |
| D．You had to fail many times before you succeeded. |
| E．Even the most junior person on your team deserves praise. |
| F．When you’re working with your team, keep your role in mind. |
| G．Actually, what you should do is more than look for what's wrong. |
10 . I didn’t expect parenting a teenager to be this hard. Lately, my son and I disagree at every corner. About schoolwork. His attitude. Screen time. On and on.
On a recent
As he oohed and aahed through mouthfuls of yellow cake and frosted coating, I silently questioned my decision to
But before we’d even
Of course, I stopped the car.
Actually, I hadn’t even considered the homeless in my rush to get home,
Throughout our journey home, we frankly discussed how difficult it must be for people experiencing
When we eventually turned into our garage, that same teenager expressing
Yes, parenting a teen is harder than I
| A．Something | B．Nothing | C．Everything | D．That |
| A．disability | B．worries | C．challenges | D．tricks |
| A．subway | B．bike | C．bus | D．drive |
| A．pickup | B．checkout | C．workout | D．overuse |
| A．packed | B．loaded | C．created | D．delivered |
| A．addict | B．accommodate | C．allow | D．survive |
| A．entered | B．escaped | C．explored | D．exited |
| A．pull over | B．breath in | C．try out | D．run out |
| A．frightened | B．disappointed | C．surprised | D．struck |
| A．as if | B．if only | C．even though | D．in case |
| A．threw | B．showed | C．applied | D．handed |
| A．refused | B．thanked | C．greeted | D．cheated |
| A．joyful | B．worried | C．amazed | D．eager |
| A．cheered | B．added | C．stressed | D．inspired |
| A．disease | B．homelessness | C．independence | D．crash |
| A．rare | B．beneficial | C．responsible | D．shallow |
| A．Immediately | B．Partly | C．Often | D．Simply |
| A．shock | B．desire | C．suffering | D．concern |
| A．attempted | B．expected | C．appeared | D．explored |
| A．tougher | B．sweeter | C．more curious | D．more admirable |
