1 . You will have an opportunity to meet your new neighbors after you move into the neighborhood. And getting to know your neighbors will help you feel like you're at home and settle into your new space.
Careful observation.
What if you have nothing in common? No problem. There's absolutely nothing wrong with just walking up to the from door, and introducing yourself or inviting them to a small get-together. Let them know you just moved in and where you moved from. If that still feels uncomfortable, then ask about garbage pick-up or recycling centers in the neighborhood. Remember that you live on the same street, in the same neighborhood.
Host a get-together. Though it might be the last thing you warn to do while you're still unpacking, hosting a casual get-together is a great way to meet your neighbors all at the same time.
A.Meet neighbors outdoors. |
B.Spend more time walking. |
C.Check out your neighborhood. |
D.If the weather is nice, host it outside. |
E.That's enough to start any conversation. |
F.If they're interested, they'll say so or even invite you in. |
G.The following suggestions do necessarily make it easier to do. |
2 . Some people, regardless of what they lack—money, looks, or social connections—always show with energy and confidence. Even the most doubting individuals find themselves attracted with these lovely personalities. These people are the ones you turn to for help, advice, and companionship. You just can’t get enough of them, and they leave you asking yourself, “What do they have that I don’t? What makes them so attractive?”
The difference? Their sense of self-worth comes from within. Attractive people aren’t constantly searching for value, because they’re confident enough to find it in themselves. There are certain habits they pursue every day to keep this healthy view. Since being attractive isn’t the result of dumb luck, it’s time to study the habits of attractive people so that you can use them to your benefit.
Get ready to say “hello” to a new, more attractive you. Attractive people treat everyone with respect. Whether interacting with their biggest shoppers or a server taking their drink order, attractive people are unfailingly polite and respectful. They treat every one with respect because they believe they’re no belief than anyone else.
They follow the golden rule. One person loves public recognition, while another hates being the center of attention. The golden rule is to treat others as they want to be treated. Attractive people are great at reading other people, and they adjust their behaviors and styles to make others fell comfortable.
Bringing it all together, attractive people have simply perfected certain appealing qualities and habits that anyone can adopt as their own. They think about other people more than they think about themselves, and they make other people feel liked, respected, understood and seen. Just remember: the more you focus on others, the more attractive you’ll be.
1. Why are the people with lovely personalities different from you?A.Because they show confidence and energy. |
B.Because they maintain their healthy view. |
C.Because they get along well with doubting individuals. |
D.Bemuse they don’t lack money, looks, or social connections. |
A.Bad luck. | B.Study habit. |
C.Valuable belief. | D.Good fortune. |
A.He will comfort his leader and the waitress during the dinner lime. |
B.He will treat his leader properly and help the waitress when necessary. |
C.He will make the leader focused when the leader prefers to stay alone. |
D.He will just care about his leader rather than the waitress when ordering. |
A.The Intelligent People | B.The Golden Rule |
C.The Attractive Personalities | D.The Different Qualities |
3 . Mrs. Smith is elegant and fair-skinned, with an oval face and beautiful long hair. Her eyes are not only big but
Whenever I made eye contact
She is really a
Mrs. Smith is really a close friend. When I had trouble learning French, she would try everything within her
A.bright | B.wet | C.curious | D.sharp |
A.flower | B.rain | C.sky | D.air |
A.originated | B.returned | C.differed | D.faded |
A.Puzzling | B.Relaxing | C.Shocking | D.Embarrassing |
A.its | B.her | C.their | D.my |
A.over | B.upon | C.toward | D.with |
A.shadow | B.excitement | C.worry | D.pride |
A.gathered | B.deepened | C.rose | D.bent |
A.strong | B.weak | C.simple | D.complex |
A.determined | B.stubborn | C.generous | D.considerate |
A.moved | B.trembled | C.ached | D.straightened |
A.guides | B.educators | C.competitors | D.judges |
A.showed up | B.broke up | C.came up | D.lit up |
A.normally | B.naturally | C.necessarily | D.nervously |
A.surface | B.container | C.mixture | D.bottom |
A.hands | B.mouth | C.nose | D.ears |
A.addicted to | B.amazed at | C.annoyed at | D.absorbed in |
A.took advantage of | B.stood out from | C.put up with | D.looked up to |
A.distance | B.sight | C.means | D.society |
A.Whenever | B.Until | C.Unless | D.Though |
4 . As 17-year-old Norwood drove through St. Petersburg, Florida, last February, the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to sharp cries. A car behind heavily hit them, sending their black car into a tree five meters away. As smoke rose from the other car, a bystander (旁观者) shouted, “It’s about to blow up! Get out!”
Terrified but not hurt, she got out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to free themselves, she ran for her life. But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran back and found Simmons stuck in the back seat. “She wasn’t moving,” Norwood told Inside Edition. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, trying to avoid the broken glass.
She dragged Simmons to safety and placed her on the ground. “I put my head against her chest. No sign of life. That’s when I started CPR (心肺复苏术).” Norwood, who longed to have a career in medicine, had passed the national CPR test just the day before.
Looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had only a little time to practice what she’d learned. She started pumping Simmons’s chest and breathing into her friend’s mouth. No response. She tried again and again. Slowly, Simmons began coughing and opening her mouth for air. The CPR worked! Soon, doctors arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital. And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t shocked,” Simmons told CNN. “She will always help any way she can.”
1. What is the best title for the text?A.Breath of Life | B.A career in medicine |
C.A Car Accident | D.Practice what one learns |
A.Their car broke down. |
B.They sat by a smoking flat. |
C.Their lives were in danger. |
D.They blocked the traffic. |
A.She fell out of the car and struck her head. |
B.She became unaware of the surroundings. |
C.She was unable to move in the front seat. |
D.She got seriously hurt but wide awake. |
A.Unskilled but practical. | B.Typical but useless. |
C.Strange but successful. | D.Repeated but effective. |
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1. What color of jacket does the old woman wear?
A.Green. | B.Blue. | C.Red. |
A.To buy a gift. | B.To go to work. | C.To get some food. |
A.A hat. | B.A T—shirt. | C.A pair of jeans. |
A.Family members. | B.Co—workers. | C.Strangers. |
7 . The sea could be the food bowl of the future. In Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, seaweed, which is rich in fibre and omega 3, is grown and harvested.
Pia Winberg is a marine scientist who runs Australia's first food-grade fanned seaweed company. Her crop is grown alongside mussels (贻贝)and is used as an additive in pasta (意大利面)and other products.
Seaweed is also raised in large tanks, where it absorbs carbon dioxide waste from a wheat processing factory. The business is small, but could help to reduce the ecological footprint of traditional farming.
“We used ten percent of seaweed instead of wheat in breads and pastas, we've eliminated a million hectares of land, we've eliminated all of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with that, and we've also reduced the pressures on very precious fresh water.” said Pia Winberg.
Spiny sea urchins (多刺海胆虫)are another blue economy resource. They can destroy marine habitats, but a recent competition for environmental start-ups in Australia, saw them not as a pest but a delicacy (美味).
Martina Doblin, CEO of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, said, “By 2050 we will have some ten billion people on the planet, and about half the food they eat will come from the ocean. So, we really do need to pay attention to the way that we manage the blue economy-generating wealth from the ocean but in a sustainable (可持续的)way.”
Farming at sea has its challenges. Infrastructure (基础设施)has to be sound, as do supply chains and biosecurity. But get these things right, and the ocean might just be the next great economic frontier.
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?A.To lead to the main topic. |
B.To describe a new kind of seaweed. |
C.Tell how important the food safety is. |
D.To explain the meaning of blue economy. |
A.Ocean exploration has made little progress so far. |
B.More and more people will die of hunger in the future. |
C.More work is needed for a better use of the natural resources. |
D.Sea farming will be a good way to solve the coming world food problem. |
A.Skeptical. | B.Objective. | C.Tolerant. | D.Negative. |
A.How to Protect the Marine Animals |
B.Measures to Develop Blue Economy |
C.Farming the Sea for the Future of Food |
D.Traditional Farming is Gradually Disappearing |
8 . Growing Pains
The term "adulting started as a sort of joke 一一 whenever a millennial(千禧一代)would do something age-appropriate, this was an act of "adulting." Now, though, millennials obviously require training in being an adult.
Rachel Flehinger has co-founded an Adulting School, which includes online courses on simple sewing, conflict resolution and cooking. The cause for such classes is that many millennials "haven’t left childhood homes" 一一 in America 34 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 still lived with their parents as of 2015, up from 26 percent a decade before.
There's a good deal of truth to this. If you're living at home, with Mom and Dad doing their best to spoil((溺爱)you, you're less likely to know how to do laundry, cook or balance a checkbook. Dependency breeds enervation.
But here's the catch: Living at home doesn't necessarily lead to dependency. As of 1940, more than 30 percent of 25- to 29-year-olds lived at home with parents or grandparents. They were adulting, even while living at home. Parents expected their kids to do chores, to prepare for life. Instead of blaming living at home, then, we have to blame our style of parenting. The truth is that we've simply become lazier as parents.
So what's the real problem?
We're more likely to let our kids crash on our couches(长沙发)than tell them to get a job and pay rent. We don't push our kids to build families of their own, as life expectancy has increased, so has adolescence. Americans aren't expected to start building a life, particularly middle- and upper-class Americans, until they're nearing their 30s. Then the question is how we can encourage young people to "'adult" in non-circumstance-driven fashion.
1. What does the last sentence in the third paragraph "Dependency breeds enervation." mean?A.Parents would like to do housework by themselves |
B.Present kids are too lazy to do housework. |
C.Dependency makes kids unable. |
D.Kids depend on their parents. |
A.Millennials would like to be trained in being an adult. |
B.Parents are too lazy to do chores. |
C.Millennials don't adult because they still live in their childhood homes. |
D.In the 1940s kids were adulting even when they were living at home. |
A."Adulting" is hard, but only because parents are too lazy to teach their kids. |
B.Millennials should leave home early to adult. |
C.Americans aren't expected to start building a life until they're nearing their 30s. |
D.Adulting schools with online courses are popular. |
A.The government should push off the age of adulthood. |
B.Parents should leave kids in charge of society. |
C.Parents should put responsibility on young people. |
D.Pushing kids to adult is painful for parents. |
9 . I believe even the smartest people have to work hard to achieve success. People make themselves into winners by their own
Many years ago, I took the head
I started doing anything I could to help them build a little
Six months after our defeat, we won our first game and our second, and continued to
A.tests | B.luck | C.efforts | D.nature |
A.operating | B.editing | C.consulting | D.coaching |
A.new | B.excellent | C.strong | D.successful |
A.cheer for | B.prepare for | C.help with | D.finish with |
A.realize | B.claim | C.permit | D.demand |
A.decision | B.attitude | C.conclusion | D.intention |
A.pride | B.culture | C.fortune | D.relationship |
A.leaders | B.partners | C.winners | D.learners |
A.risked | B.missed | C.considered | D.practiced |
A.expand | B.improve | C.relax | D.defend |
A.shame | B.burden | C.victory | D.favor |
A.chance | B.joy | C.concern | D.offer |
A.surprise | B.relate | C.interest | D.affect |
A.encouraged | B.observed | C.protected | D.impressed |
A.naturally | B.individually | C.calmly | D.differently |
10 . If you live in a town or city on the edge of a desert or coastline where sand dunes form, you might understand the threat they can have. It’s, sometimes, a piece of cake for them to cover roads, buildings, farms and other man-made developments with their unpredictable movements. Thus, figuring out how they move is important for preventing some natural disasters.
Now scientists have discovered that dunes have been secretly moving in ways we never knew before. There are different explanations on dune interaction, however, Karol Bacik, first author on the new dune study, and his colleagues have found a new one for dune movement. The researchers employed high-speed cameras to observe how dunes separated by distance can act as if they’re connected.
It turns out, currents flowing over sand dunes can carry “information” to other dunes downstream in the form of swirls(旋涡). For instance, as wind or water flows over the top of a dune, it slightly moves. This can generate “swirls” on the back of a downstream dune and push it in a direction opposite the movement of the front dune.
It’s the first time that researchers were able to provide causal explanations for some of these strange, previously unpredictable movements. The team also hopes to get out of the laboratory and into the real world, to see if their models can be applied to dune movements in complex natural systems. They plan to use satellite images over large deserts to track groups of dunes over long periods.
Perhaps they can start to alter the dune marching orders in the near future. Imagine being able to tell a dune field exactly how you want it to move. That’s the idea that this research might one day make possible.
1. We can learn that the purpose of the study is to _________.A.stop the sand dunes from moving around |
B.figure out the track of sand dune movements |
C.prove the interaction of dunes with each other |
D.examine a model of sand dunes in the real world |
A.A study. | B.An interaction. | C.An explanation. | D.A dune. |
A.A sand dune communicates with another only by currents. |
B.Swirls on the back of a dune are the power to move itself. |
C.Some strange dune movements have got causally explained before. |
D.Researchers think it unnecessary to study further on the dune models. |