1.活动的目的(弘扬中国传统文化，增强同学们尊老、爱老的意识）；
2.活动的时间、地点；
3.活动安排。
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2 . With so much emphasis behind sharing personal information online for the sake of presenting our best digital selves, we seldom consider the various cyber threats that exist.
At the forefront of cyber attacks, which include everything from e-mail frauds (欺骗) to web and password attacks, it’s important to consider if investing in cyber insurance is appropriate for you.
While it is true that there are a number of online threats that affect everyday users, businesses tend to be the bigger targets. A common cyber attack against them usually comes in the form of ransomware (勒索软件) attacks and makes companies panic as they run the risk of losing their sensitive information while sending e-mails to their clients.
Small businesses are particularly attackable since they often don’t have a budget towards the prevention of cyber security threats, according to DataStream, a company that advises businesses to prevent attacks before they can occur.
“Threat actors often look for the low hanging fruit,” DataStream warns. “To them, no business is too small. All businesses hold sensitive data from customers and employees, including credit card information, e-mail addresses, and even competitive information or trade secrets.”
David Seidman has spent over 13 years as a cyber security expert. He has advised companies like Google and Microsoft in assessing and preventing cyber attacks. Seidman recognizes the faults in company-wide security that guards against hackers who often used advanced methods to trick vulnerable businesses.
“It takes a good team to set up the right alarms that catch a real attack but don’t trigger (触发) too often when no attack happens,” Seidman writes. “Catching this level of attacker can be done, but it’s not cheap. Attackers tend to be commercially motivated, looking to steal credit cards, passwords and other profitable data.”
1. Which type of cyber attack usually happens to businesses?| A．E-mail scam. | B．Web attack. | C．Password attack. | D．Ransomware attack. |
| A．Their unawareness of cyber attacks. |
| B．Their need for new clients and funding. |
| C．Their lack of budget for cyber prevention. |
| D．Their possession of much customer information. |
| A．To get money. | B．To have fun. | C．To destroy businesses. | D．To break the law. |
| A．Technologies behind cyber attacks | B．Faults in companies’ cyber security |
| C．Effective prevention of cyber attacks | D．Businesses in the face of cyber threats |
As a freshman in college, Chelsea Fagan got her first credit card. Without really
To prevent credit ruin from happening again, Fagan started a personal blog
Now Fagan runs The Financial Diet with Graphic Designer Lauren Ver Hage. Their team
I still remember the day when we decorated the house, I was ten and it was two weeks before Christmas. I was looking forward to my presents. Since I’m the youngest in the family, all of the family members would give me a gift one way or another. Sometimes it was a cookie or a hug but it was always there. I was the only center of attention and it was feeling good.
My uncles usually would ask me what I wanted before Christmas and that year I knew what I wanted. It was the spaceship I saw in the ads. I was dreaming of opening a big gift box, and it was there. But that year it came in a way that I wasn’t expecting.
It was two weeks before Christmas. Just two weeks. She couldn’t wait. My dear mother told my father that it was time, and then we went to the hospital. After an hour, they told me that I had a sister now. But I didn’t want a sister. I wanted a spaceship. The next few days went so fast. No one was caring about me. Everyone was talking about her and I knew that my life is never going to be the same ever again. I wasn’t ready to grow up, to be a big brother. But it just happened in an instant.
On the day before Christmas, everyone was in our home, talking only about my newborn sister. My family was becoming hers. Even my uncles didn’t ask me anything about the gift. She stole everything I’d ever had, my life and my presents. Thinking about this, I cried to sleep. I had a nightmare (噩梦) and woke up at the middle of the night. Shadows were all around me, and I was defenseless and so weak. I ran into my parents’ bedroom but couldn’t wake up my poor parents who were just too worn out. I was standing near their bed, trying not to cry when I saw her. She was awake and looking at me with her big eyes in her small bed.
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Suddenly a long shadow came into the bedroom and she started crying.
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5 . If you always sit indoors for too long, putting on weight may become a trouble. Tired of all that fat? If so, these sports can help you burn the most calories.
Running
“Running is one of the best calorie burners out there,” qualified personal trainer Daniel Saltos says. An average person can burn anywhere from 500 to 1000 calories in one hour of running. “Speed, pace, and tolerance are all factors that can impact this range. But running uses every muscle group in the body, allowing you to burn more calories.”
Swimming
“Swimming is a workout that produces the lowest impact on body while it still can burn 500 to 600 calories in just 30 minutes,” Saltos says. Swimming also improves heart health and increases strength—all great reasons for playing in the water.
Boxing
Not only is boxing a great way to release energy, but it also helps improve balance, builds up tolerance and strengthens the upper body and core. “Boxing helps you get a good calorie burn, too, with the average person burning up 400 to 800 calories in an hour session,” Saltos says.
Rowing
The pushing and pulling motion of rowing machines targets multiple muscle groups including the arms, core, and back, helping you to burn more calories. “An hour of rowing will burn 400 to 600 calories on average,” Saltos says.
1. Which sport can burn the most calories per hour?| A．Boxing. | B．Running. |
| C．Swimming. | D．Rowing. |
| A．It enhances balance. | B．It improves tolerance. |
| C．It produces low impact. | D．It builds muscle groups. |
| A．Great athletes. | B．Fitness experts. |
| C．Sports reporters. | D．Overweight persons. |
6 . Many people believe that working to the maximum is the secret to success, but research has found that moderation(适度) also gets results on the job.
In a study led by Ellen Langer of Harvard University, researchers asked people to translate sentences into a new made-up language. Subjects who practiced the language moderately beforehand made fewer errors than those who practiced extensively or not at all. High levels of knowledge can make people too attached to traditional ways of viewing problems across fields the arts, sciences, and politics. High conscientiousness is related to lower job performance, especially in simple jobs where it doesn’t pay to be a perfectionist.
How long we stay on the clock and how we spend that time are under careful examination in many workplaces. The young banker who eats lunch at his desk is probably seen as a go-getter, while his colleagues who chat over a relaxed conference-room meal get dirty looks from the corner office. “People from cultures that value relationships more than ours does are shocked by the thought of eating alone in front of a computer”, says Art Markman, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas, Austin. Social interaction has been shown to lift mood(情绪) and get people thinking in new directions and in ways that could help improve any post-lunch effort.
Markman also promotes off-task time. “Part of being a good thinker is experiencing things that are seemingly unrelated to what you are working on at the moment but give you fresh ideas about your work,” he says. “Also, there is a lot of research showing that a positive mood leads to higher levels of productivity and creativity. So, when people do things to increase their life satisfaction, they also make themselves more effective at work.”
1. What does Ellen Langer’s study show?| A．It is worthwhile to be a perfectionist | B．Translation makes people knowledgeable. |
| C．Simpler jobs require greater caution. | D．Moderate effort produces the best result. |
| A．is good at handling pressure | B．works hard to become successful |
| C．a has a natural talent for his job. | D．gets on well with his co-workers |
| A．A good thinker is able to inspire other people. |
| B．Experience unrelated to your job is useless. |
| C．A cheerful mood helps make a creative mind. |
| D．Focusing on what you do raises productivity. |
| A．Middle-of-the-road work habits. | B．Balance between work and family. |
| C．Long-standing cultural traditions. | D．Harmony in the work environment. |
7 . How to Show emotion
If anyone has ever told you to “open up more” or “show some emotion” you may wonder what they really meant. It’s easy for us to get caught up in our own little worlds and hide what we’re feeling from other people.
Name your emotions as they come to you. Giving your feeling a name makes it easier to understand. Once you’re comfortable with a feeling. Give the emotion a name. Are you anxious about something? If you don’t feel anything particularly moving, are you bored or content? This process will make you more self-aware.
Maintain a journal for your feelings. One way to help you to open up emotionally to others is to keep a daily journal.
Engage in fun activities to share experiences with others. Do things you enjoy with people you love to share positive emotions. Dedicate one night a week to go out and grab dinner with your family.
| A．Push yourself to share every day |
| B．Take a minute to process emotions |
| C．Take a cooking class with your partner |
| D．Open up and get used to sharing how you feel |
| E．It will also help you express what you’re feeling |
| F．Treat it as a special space for you to open up and be honest |
| G．Sometimes, we don’t even realize we’re being guarded or hiding our feelings |
Scientists have found fossilized bones from an extinct penguin that was the size of an adult human. It
The findings of scientists who studied the penguin bones were published last week in a scientific journal. Professor Paul Scofield says the
The monster penguin would have been about twice the weight and 30 cm
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9 . What is the longest word in the English language? It would be truly shocking if you were trying to type the longest word, as it isn’t really a word anyone uses at all. The word is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. According to Merriam-Webster, the 45-letter word is created to mean a disease occurring especially in miners.
But here’s the thing: That is not a term anyone—even doctors—use to describe an actual condition. The word was likely made up by Everett K. Smith in the 1930s, when he was president of the National Puzzler’s League, a group that loved crosswords and, by extension, words themselves. Smith intended to create the longest word by mimicking (模仿) medical terms，even if there wasn’t actually a disease to attach the word to. He just kind of made up the entire thing for fun.
Here are some other examples. Some record-setting English words are the longest in a particular aspect. “Uncopyrightable,” which refers to any work that cannot be copyrighted, is the longest word in English without any repeating letters. Words like this are called “isograms.” Then there’s the longest word made of only vowels (元音) “euouae”，a term that comes from music of the Middle Ages. On the other hand，you have the longest word without any vowels, “tsktsk”. It’s an onomatopoeia (拟声) for the sound you make when someone disappoints you.
Finally, you know there’s got to be a word to describe someone who makes a habit of using long words. Surprisingly, it’s only kind of long itself: “sesquipedalian”.
1. What do we know about the longest English word according to paragraph 1?| A．It is popular in English. | B．It is used only by miners. |
| C．It is convenient to type. | D．It is taken in by a dictionary. |
| A．The meaning of the longest word. | B．The person of making up the word. |
| C．The creation of the longest word. | D．The disease concerning the word. |
| A．They use the maximum vowels. | B．They convey particular emotions. |
| C．They are coined by tradition. | D．They are created for pleasure. |
| A．A magazine. | B．A guidebook. | C．A travel brochure. | D．A news report. |
10 . I am a book conservator. I work for The Gladys Brooks Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory, attending to the physical well-being of collections materials.
Currently I am working on a copy of The byrth of mankynde, otherwise named The womans book, by Eucharius Roesslin, London, 1545. The book arrived in the lab broken in half. It had suffered from several unsuccessful attempts to repair the damage over the years. I carefully documented the original sewing pattern, so that I could resew it in the same way. Next, I dyed(给上色) leather to match the original color, which I will use to recreate the spine (书脊). After it is completed, the book will receive a new, custom cover, and will be ready to be used again.
I come from an art background, having received my bachelor degree in studio art from Bard College. It was really through an interest in materials (specifically paper, leather, etc) that I became involved in bookbinding—fastening books together and putting covers on them. Later I received a diploma, which led me to many wonderful experience in book conservation.
Working in conservation can be very satisfying: the outcome of our work is unusually obvious. Working to preserve materials for future readers can be creatively challenging, and requires flexible thinking. I like that it is a profession that combines working with your hands with an intellectual component. And of course, I am very happy to take a book that is too fragile to be handled and make it usable again.
Many books that come up to the conservation lab are too fragile to be handled by readers; our work makes these materials accessible. This is important not just for readers that come and use our collection in person, but also for preparation for digitization projects and exhibitions. However, some people think that all we do is repair bibles! This work is much more creative than a few binding repairs. Many bookbinders create books and book art in addition to repair work. They are artists who show their work in galleries and museums.
1. What does the author think of his job?| A．Easy. | B．Ordinary. | C．Satisfying. | D．Flexible. |
| A．The way the book sewed. | B．The pattern the book broke. |
| C．The method of repairing spines. | D．The material used for the cover. |
| A．Create art books. | B．Repair broken bibles. |
| C．Digitalize old books. | D．Make books reusable. |
| A．My love of the laboratory. | B．My story about conserving books. |
| C．My job as a book binder. | D．My experience of studying binding. |
