A.is | B.are | C.was | D.were |
—I think so. He ________ for it for months.
A.is preparing | B.was preparing | C.has been preparing | D.had been preparing |
—That’s ______ I don’t agree. You should have a more active life.
A.where | B.how | C.when | D.what |
—That’s right. ________.
A.Many hands make light work | B.Something is better than nothing |
C.The more the merrier | D.The sooner begun, the sooner done |
5 . The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in my community. As a result, all students must
Supporters claim that there are many
In my view, service learning is a great way to
A.spend | B.gain | C.complete | D.save |
A.and | B.or | C.but | D.for |
A.Subjects | B.Ideas | C.Procedures | D.Examples |
A.With | B.Before | C.During | D.After |
A.diary | B.report | C.note | D.notice |
A.courses | B.benefits | C.challenges | D.features |
A.beyond | B.about | C.over | D.in |
A.careful | B.proud | C.tired | D.aware |
A.possess | B.apply | C.include | D.develop |
A.Gradually | B.Finally | C.Luckily | D.Hopefully |
A.through | B.across | C.of | D.on |
A.So | B.Thus | C.Since | D.While |
A.deal with | B.look into | C.point out | D.take down |
A.argue | B.doubt | C.overlook | D.admit |
A.much | B.full | C.less | D.more |
A.cost | B.pay | C.care | D.praise |
A.contribute | B.appeal | C.attend | D.belong |
A.Therefore | B.Otherwise | C.Besides | D.However |
A.courage | B.desire | C.emotion | D.spirit |
A.decision | B.purpose | C.solution | D.result |
A.speak | B.speaking | C.spoken | D.to speak |
A.having exceeded | B.to exceed |
C.exceeded | D.exceeding |
Su Hua: Hi, Li Jiang! Did you see the BBC documentary on CCTV 9 last week? Li Jiang: You mean Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet? Yes, I did. Fantastic! Su Hua: Just think an English actor recites Chinese poems. Li Jiang: I don’t really understand every line he recites, but I believe he truly loves the poems himself. Su Hua: Right. It is reported that the film is well received outside China. Li Jiang: Yeah, It’s my first time to hear Chinese stories told by an English speaker. Su Hua: In fact, documentaries about our country are plentiful both at home and abroad. These films can help foreign friends better understand this land-Chinese literature, geography history, food... Li Jiang: I couldn’t agree more. |
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Humor
If you see humor as an optional form of entertainment, you’re missing some of its biggest benefits: Humor makes average-looking people look cute and uninteresting people seem entertaining. Studies show that a good sense of humor even makes you seem smarter.
Best of all, humor raises your energy, and that can have an effect on everything you do at school, at work, or in your personal life. The increase of energy will even make you more willing to exercise, and that will raise your overall energy even more.
Humor also transports your mind away from your daily troubles. Humor lets you better understand life and sometimes helps you laugh at even the worst of your problems.
In my experience, most people think they have a sense of humor, and to some degree that’s true. But not all senses of humor are created equal. So I thought it would be useful to include some humor tips for everyday life.
You don’t have to be the joke teller in the group in order to show your sense of humor. You can be the one who directs the conversation to fun topics that are ripe for others to add humor. Every party needs a straight person. You’ll appear fun and funny by association.
When it comes to in-person humor, effort counts a lot. When people see you trying to be funny, it frees them to try it themselves. So even if your own efforts at humor fall short, you might be freeing the long kept humor in others. People need permission to be funny in social settings because there’s always a risk that comes with humor. For in-person humor, quality isn’t as important as you might think. Your attitude and effort count a lot.
Some people--and I was one of them--believe that humorous complaints about the little problems of life make humor, and sometimes that is the case. The problem comes when you start doing too much complaint-based humor. One funny observation about problem in your life can be funny, but five is just complaining, no matter how smart you think you are. Funny complaints can wear people out.
Self-deprecating(自嘲式) humor is usually the safest type, but here again you don’t want to overshoot the target. One self-deprecating comment is a generous and even confident form of humor. You have to be at least a bit self-assured to laugh at yourself in front of others. But if you do it too often, you can transform in the eyes of others from a confident joker to a Chihuahua dog.
Humor | |
Benefits of humor | ●Humor is form of ●Humor can make one ●Humor has a positive |
● ●Quality counts | |
Traps to | ●One humorous complaint makes funny person. But too many complaints will ●Self-deprecating comments show one’s assurance. But too much deprecation will make a Chihuahua dog. |
10 . I was in the middle of the Amazon (亚马逊) with my wife, who was there as a medical researcher. We flew on a small plane to a faraway village. We did not speak the local language, did not know the customs, and more often than not, did not entirely recognize the food. We could not have felt more foreign.
We were raised on books and computers, highways and cell phones, but now we were living in a village without running water or electricity It was easy for us to go to sleep at the end of the day feeling a little misunderstood.
Then one perfect Amazonian evening, with monkeys calling from beyond the village green, we played soccer. I am not good at soccer, but that evening it was wonderful. Everyone knew the rules. We all spoke the same language of passes and shots. We understood one another perfectly. As darkness came over the field and the match ended, the goal keeper, Juan, walked over to me and said in a matter-of-fact way, “In your home, do you have a moon too?” I was surprised.
After I explained to Juan that yes, we did have a moon and yes, it was very similar to his, I felt a sort of awe (敬畏) at the possibilities that existed in his world. In Juan’s world, each village could have its own moon. In Juan’s world, the unknown and undiscovered was vast and marvelous. Anything was possible.
In our society, we know that Earth has only one moon. We have looked at our planet from every angle and found all of the wildest things left to find. I can, from my computer at home, pull up satellite images of Juan’s village. There are no more continents and no more moons to search for, little left to discover. At least it seems that way.
Yet, as I thought about Juan’s question, I was not sure how much more we could really rule out. I am, in part, an ant biologist, so my thoughts turned to what we know about insect life and I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown. How much, though? How ignorant (无知的) are we? The question of what we know and do not know constantly bothered me.
I began collecting newspaper articles about new species, new monkey, new spider…, and on and on they appear. My drawer quickly filled. I began a second drawer for more general discoveries: new cave system discovered with dozens of nameless species, four hundred species of bacteria found in the human stomach. The second drawer began to fill and as it did I wondered whether there were bigger discoveries out there, not just species, but life that depends on things thought to be useless, life even without DNA. I started a third drawer for these big discoveries. It fills more slowly, but all the same, it fills.
In looking into the stories of biological discovery, I also began to find something else, a collection of scientists, usually brilliant occasionally half-mad, who made the discoveries. Those scientists very often see the same things that other scientists see, but they pay more attention to them, and they focus on them to the point of exhaustion (穷尽), and at the risk of the ridicule of their peers. In looking for the stories of discovery, I found the stories of these people and how their lives changed our view of the world.
We are repeatedly willing to imagine we have found most of what is left to discover. We used to think that insects were the smallest organisms (生物), and that nothing lived deeper than six hundred meters. Yet, when something new turns up, more often than not, we do not even know its name.
1. How did the author feel on his arrival in the Amazon?A.Out of place. | B.Full of joy. | C.Sleepy. | D.Regretful. |
A.He learned more about the local language. |
B.They had a nice conversation with each other. |
C.They understood each other while playing. |
D.He won the soccer game with the goal keeper. |
A.The question was too straightforward. |
B.Juan knew so little about the world. |
C.The author didn’t know how to answer. |
D.The author didn’t think Juan was sincere. |
A.To sort out what we have known. |
B.To deepen his research into Amazonians. |
C.To improve his reputation as a biologist. |
D.To learn more about local cultures. |
A.They shifted their viewpoints frequently. |
B.They followed other scientists closely. |
C.They often criticized their fellow scientists. |
D.They conducted in-depth and close studies. |
A.The Possible and the Impossible . |
B.The Known and the Unknown . |
C.The Civilized and the Uncivilized . |
D.The Ignorant and the Intelligent. |