1 . It’s hard to talk to dads sometimes. The roles we often expect our fathers to play—protector, provider—can make them seem impenetrable(不可理解的). That’s how it was with my dad. He came to Canada at the age of ten and settled in an immigrant community. He was never much of a talker. He rarely drank, so we didn’t get to see him loosen up after a few beers. He didn’t tell stories about himself at the dinner table or when we went for walks in the park. He was a private person and seemed to want to stay that way.
Bringing up the many questions I had about life before I was born-his early hopes and dreams, loves and heartbreaks—let alone sharing my own feelings, felt like too much for us to handle. I didn’t want to threaten the integrity(完整)of his hard shell. I had gotten used to it, and it made me feel secure.
But when my relationship and career took a hit a year ago at the same time, things had to change. I was facing serious questions about my own nature, and I wanted to know that he had faced them, too. I needed to know how he had found his way, because I felt like I had lost mine.
In a severe moment of desperation, it occurred to me that sending an email might be the key. An email can be crafted(精心制作)slowly and carefully. I could speak at a comfortable distance and give him room to adjust. He’d be up in his office—a comfortable place filled with bookshelves, dusty CD-ROMs and piles of old newspapers. I’d be at my desk in an apartment 20 minutes away.
So I wrote to him. I told him about my regrets and fears, and I asked him to answer, if he felt like it, and to share something about himself, something that would give me much-needed perspective on my life, especially on relationship and career.
Para 1: Two weeks later, his response showed up in my email box.
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Para 2: I closed the email and started to cry.
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SEL stands for “Social-Emotional Learning”, the label
Students today are coming to school with more fears, more anxiety, and
There have been many theories about
Authors like Dr. Jean Twenge subscribe to the idea that technology is
Dr. Twenge’s
3 . Quite often, no matter how good you are, your success is dependent on how other people such as your boss, peers, clients and customers perceive your communication and responses. So when you come to people who make the key difference between helping you or holding you back, how can you influence and persuade them to give what you want?
Psychological researches repeatedly show that people generally make up their minds on whether to help or hinder you based on whether they like you or not. It is human nature. What can you do about it? You need to make a good impression on others to ensure they like you and give you what you want. Research again shows that people give opportunities to the people they like best. In fact, most people actually make up their minds about other people in the first five minutes or less of meeting someone. These are called first impressions or “moments of truth” .
Once they make up their minds, they tend to be very reluctant to change their opinions. You hardly have room for error when making that first impression on a new acquaintance. Therefore, whether you are applying for a job, going for an interview, attending a meeting with your boss or peers, or serving a customer, you need to prepare yourself mentally and rehearse how you will manage the first few minutes of your interaction. This includes doing your homework to gather information and researching all possible issues so you will know how to address them should the other party raise them unexpectedly.
It is amazing how poorly some people can come across at the beginning. The worst thing is that they do not even seem to realize it. Having good qualifications and an excellent work performance does not excuse candidates from trying to make a good first impression.
1. What is the passage mainly about?| A．Persuading people to like you. | B．People making the key difference. |
| C．Winning strategies for a job interview. | D．Making a good first impression. |
| A．They make quick decisions. |
| B．They change their opinions frequently. |
| C．They prefer people who are experienced. |
| D．They pay much attention to good qualifications. |
| A．Show your friendliness and confidence. |
| B．Ask the interviewers for homework to do. |
| C．Know as much as possible about the situation. |
| D．Do something unexpected to impress interviewers. |
| A．Examples of how good first impressions help people succeed. |
| B．Some practical advice to help make a good first impression. |
| C．Questions that might be asked by the interviewers. |
| D．How to win over people who don't like you at first. |
4 . Even light activity such as housework might help to keep the brain young, researchers say, adding to a growing body of evidence that, when it comes to exercise, every little helps.
Writing in the journal Jama Network Open, the international team of researchers report how they came to their findings by studying at least three days of activity-tracker data from 2,354 middle-aged adults from the US, together with the participants' brain scans.
From the latter, the researchers worked out individuals' brain volume, a measure linked to ageing: about 0.2% of the volume of the brain is lost every year after the age of 60. Loss or shrinkage (萎缩) of brain tissue is linked to dementia (痴呆), Spartano noted.
After taking into account factors including sex, smoking status and age, the team found that every extra hour of light physical activity per day was linked to 0.22% greater brain volume, equal to just over a year's less brain ageing. What's more, those who took at least 10,000 steps a day had a 0.35% greater brain volume than those who took, on average, fewer than 5,000 steps a day—equivalent to 1.75 years' less brain ageing.
However, the study has limitations. It used mainly white participants, and cannot prove cause and effect. The authors add that not all time spent sedentary is necessarily "bad" for the brain—particularly if people are engaged in a task that takes a lot of thinking.
Dr James Pickett, head of research at Alzheimer's Society, said, "Don't worry if you're not hill-running, but find something you enjoy and do it regularly, because we know that what's good for the heart is good for the head."
1. What can be inferred from the statistics in Paragraphs 3&4?| A．Loss of brain tissue is linked to disease. |
| B．Light physical activity raises the brain volume. |
| C．Taking 10000 steps per day is best for our brain. |
| D．Light physical activity slows down the brain ageing. |
| A．Sitting. | B．Walking. | C．Sleeping. | D．Working. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Supportive. | C．Objective. | D．Indifferent. |
| A．Regular exercise makes you happy. |
| B．The more exercise, the better. |
| C．Doing what you like regularly is beneficial. |
| D．Light physical activities are the best. |
A painter living by painting portraits was leading a poor life.
One day, a woman came by. She liked the paintings very much and asked the painter to draw a portrait for her. They agreed on 2,000 dollars.
Before painting the portrait, the woman asked the painter to draw more jewels. The painter curiously asked why, but the woman refused to explain. After a week, the portrait was done and the woman came to take the painting. At this moment, she hit on an evil idea of bullying the unknown young artist. She thought, “The portrait is me. If I don’t buy the painting, nobody will buy it. Why should I pay so much money?” So the woman said to the young painter, “I will only pay 200 dollars for it.”
The young man was surprised, for he had never come across such an experience. He argued with her, expecting this woman to keep to the agreement.
“I can only pay 200 dollars to buy the painting,” the woman thought she would win for sure.
The young painter knew the woman broke her promise on purpose, so he felt annoyed. He said in a firm voice, “No, I would prefer to keep this painting rather than be humiliated by you. Today you break your word and some day you must pay 20 times for it.”
“What a joke! 20 times will be 40,000! I won’t be stupid to pay 40,000 dollars to buy the painting!”
“Well, we’d better wait and see,” the young artist shouted to the woman who left angrily. After the stimulation of such an incident, the painter moved out of this sad place, studied under acknowledged teachers and worked hard day and night. More than a dozen years later, he finally started a new way and became popular in the circle of art. However, the woman had forgotten the artist’s painting and words the next day.
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One day, that famous painter decided to hold an art exhibition.
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The woman went there hurriedly, apologised a million times and promised that she would buy her portrait as soon as possible.
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China has once again showed its ability to change the world with its “four great new
China’s new-generation high-speed train, the Fuxing Hao, is now one of the
Bike sharing, for example, is not new itself. But China has made
And back in China, when riding a shared bike, you can stop
As for Alipay, it was designed to serve the online shopping at first,
7 . In the sport world, athletes usually compete to achieve a new personal best. For one Nebraska teen Brandon Schutt, his personal best turned out not to be about marking the fastest time but
Before the race, Schutt knew if his time was good enough, he had the
Meanwhile,another runner, Blake Cerveny, aiming to
His
Before medical workers
In today's
| A．exhibiting | B．opening | C．winning | D．breaking |
| A．target | B．strength | C．potential | D．future |
| A．Therefore | B．However | C．Consequently | D．Moreover |
| A．make it | B．drop in | C．give up | D．go on |
| A．applied | B．slowed | C．contributed | D．accustomed |
| A．keep | B．enjoy | C．break | D．get |
| A．energy | B．support | C．pain | D．expectation |
| A．kicked | B．failed | C．moved | D．shook |
| A．brain | B．memory | C．body | D．will |
| A．shot | B．dropped | C．jumped | D．rose |
| A．efforts | B．risks | C．steps | D．measures |
| A．held back | B．bent down | C．gave out | D．backed away |
| A．cured | B．remembered | C．recognized | D．reached |
| A．complain | B．quit | C．leave | D．run |
| A．chance | B．escape | C．attempt | D．rescue |
| A．silent | B．calm | C．still | D．balance |
| A．final | B．enough | C．light | D．easy |
| A．competitive | B．fantasy | C．physical | D．material |
| A．challenging | B．astonishing | C．inspiring | D．puzzling |
| A．friendship | B．sportsmanship | C．leadership | D．ownership |
8 . Staying active and fit could help to reduce some of the bad health effects usually from bad sleep, according to a large study of 380, 055 middle-aged people who took part in the UK Biobank research project.
We all know that a healthy life means getting both plenty of exercise and enough good-quality sleep, but reality often gets in the way. The new research shows that doing enough exercise could make up for some of the unhealthy impacts of bad sleep.
While the health benefits of exercise and sleep are nothing new, it’s the relationship between them that is interesting in this particular study－it could even give doctors another way to suggest for patients dealing with sleep problems.
“We found those who had both the poorest sleep quality and who exercised the least were most at risk of death from heart disease and cancer,” says the expert, Bo-Huei Huang, from the University of Sydney in Australia. “The finding suggests an interplay(相互影响) between the two behaviors.”
The weekly amount of exercise recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 150 minutes of moderately intensive(密集的) activity, or more than 75 minutes of extremely intensive physical activity. Those with the highest risk of dying from cancer or heart disease during the study period were those with the worst quality sleep and who didn’t meet the WHO recommended guidelines for exercise. That risk went down for people with poor quality sleep but who did meet the exercise guidelines.
The research has been published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?| A．To give examples. |
| B．To lead to the topic |
| C．To attract readers’ attention. |
| D．To compare two things. |
| A．factors | B．effects | C．quality | D．reality |
| A．150 minutes daily | B．More than 75 minutes weekly |
| C．150 minutes weekly | D．More than 75 minutes daily |
| A．A medical journal | B．An entertainment magazine |
| C．A sports textbook | D．A travel brochure |
9 . A sailor (船员) in one of Christopher Columbus’s three ships is eagerly (渴望地) looking for land. In the sailor’s eagerness to
Greatly excited, the rest of the ship’s sailors run to the side quickly. They, too,
As the ship moves forward, the sailor’s mistake is made
When Columbus
| A．discuss | B．cover | C．describe | D．find |
| A．trip | B．mistake | C．promise | D．decision |
| A．Cloud | B．Sea | C．Land | D．Sand |
| A．pick | B．run | C．look | D．shout |
| A．happy | B．proud | C．calm | D．patient |
| A．enjoyed | B．built | C．seen | D．used |
| A．known | B．understood | C．attractive | D．popular |
| A．long | B．wrong | C．bad | D．hard |
| A．choice | B．joke | C．study | D．fight |
| A．book | B．oil | C．room | D．fire |
| A．strange | B．clear | C．friendly | D．funny |
| A．ships | B．planes | C．islands | D．farms |
| A．swam | B．sailed | C．fell | D．disappeared |
| A．common | B．dangerous | C．difficult | D．comfortable |
| A．but | B．and | C．as | D．so |
| A．radio | B．bed | C．fridge | D．kitchen |
| A．cooked | B．frozen | C．eaten | D．provided |
| A．hitting | B．stopping | C．burning | D．moving |
| A．dirt | B．water | C．food | D．clothes |
| A．written | B．believed | C．remembered | D．heard |
10 . Sacrificing Sleep to Get Top Grades Doesn't Work
Sacrificing sleep and skipping meals to study in looking for academic excellence actually doesn't work, a new Harvard study has revealed recently.
Children who study hard are also likely to look after themselves, and cultivate healthy emotional regulation skills, rather than behaving in ways that are bad for their health.
Dr Christina Hinton, a research member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said, "
| A．Children struggling for excellence tend to make extra sacrifices |
| B．Children making sleep sacrifices can lead to excellence |
| C．The findings showed that children who work hard are also likely to develop health |
| D．Highachieving students have more potential than those lowachieving students |
| E．Having a growth attitude appears to have more impacts on the others around them |
| F．A survey found very young children smoke cigarettes and use energy drinks to prepare for their exams |
| G．Getting top grades does not require pushing yourself at all costs |
