1 . A great skill to have is the ability to solve problems effectively, specifically interpersonal and behavioral problems. In order to achieve this, you need to follow a few key requirements.
First, you should understand “why” the problem exists.
Once you have clearly identified the problem, you need to understand what you have control over and what don’t.
Don’t jump to conclusions. Once you have all of your information, analyze it carefully and look at it from various viewpoints. Be as objective as possible and don’t be quick to judge.
| A．Now determine your options for solutions. |
| B．Remain judgment-free as much as possible. |
| C．Ask yourself questions about what options you have. |
| D．That means figuring out the actual root cause of the problem. |
| E．Read on to find how to become a more effective problem solver. |
| F．The strategies in problem-solving are good lifelong skills to have. |
| G．Your efforts must be within the areas where you are in the driver’s seat. |
2 . Writer Andrew Leland started losing his sight 20 years ago, when he was in high school, as a result of a progressive eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa (色素性视网膜炎). His first experience of loss of sight happened temporarily at night, in which he was confused that everyone else seemed to see in the dark so much better than he did. Over the years, his disease has progressed gradually. He’s now legally blind, although he still has a narrow field of vision, which allows him to see about 6% of what a fully sighted person sees.
Leland analogized his vision to the view you might get by looking through a toilet paper tube or a keyhole. He said, “Imagine having that toilet paper tube tied to your head and trying to walk down the street; there’s a whole bunch of things you don’t see but that you really ought to, like dogs.”
In his new book, The Country of the Blind, Leland writes about losing his vision and preparing for blindness, how his condition impacts his identity, how the world sees him and his marriage, and something valuable he has learned.
He said he was not going to try to tell people that having vision was not an unbelievably useful thing for a human being for many reasons. When talking about the experience of being alive and being conscious, he referred to James Joyce — Joyce believed that he was only losing one world among many, and that vision was only a tiny part of experiences when he was going blind.
He thought if you looked at the things that blind people were capable of imagining, like John Milton writing Paradise Lost as a blind person, there was this unbelievable richness in humans’ consciousness that vision had nothing to do with. Other realms (领域) such as the mental and emotional realms were all so rich that they could also help unfold things on earth before you.
1. What do we know about Leland?| A．He went totally blind in high school. |
| B．He experienced night blindness at first. |
| C．He was born with a narrow field of vision. |
| D．He was aware of his condition throughout. |
| A．Connected. | B．Reduced. | C．Compared. | D．Exposed. |
| A．To help explain an opinion. |
| B．To stress the value of good vision. |
| C．To state his considerable influence. |
| D．To show the inconvenience of blindness. |
| A．Practice is the best teacher. |
| B．The blind have more vivid imagination. |
| C．Things are not set in concrete. |
| D．Vision is not the only window in the world. |
3 . Draper was the owner of a secondhand bookstore. One day, when he was sorting through a pile of old books, an envelope
Tears were welling up in Draper’s eyes. These were a
He supposed if the book ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he would
He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the
Meanwhile, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n)
Bethany was only 4 when her mother
She remembered unpacking and looking for the letter, and then
Draper
| A．came | B．escaped | C．fell | D．heard |
| A．destroying | B．reading | C．writing | D．forgetting |
| A．cool | B．determined | C．dying | D．smart |
| A．introduce | B．find | C．comfort | D．phone |
| A．appreciate | B．prefer | C．recognize | D．imagine |
| A．unhappy | B．wet | C．broken | D．lost |
| A．editor | B．mother | C．assistant | D．daughter |
| A．magazine | B．ticket | C．article | D．homework |
| A．terms | B．tenses | C．languages | D．words |
| A．dreaming | B．sleeping | C．playing | D．joking |
| A．died out | B．got back | C．calmed down | D．passed away |
| A．donated | B．burned | C．robbed | D．dirtied |
| A．suddenly | B．madly | C．regularly | D．secretly |
| A．composed | B．kept | C．published | D．delivered |
| A．honesty | B．expectation | C．intelligence | D．kindness |
4 . It was 1:20 a. m. I had just gone to bed, a bit
I was awakened by the
Shaking in darkness, I
I took
In the end, I think the experience made me
| A．relieved | B．drunk | C．excited | D．satisfied |
| A．stones | B．sandbags | C．wood | D．boxes |
| A．in doubt | B．in return | C．in turn | D．in case |
| A．thundering | B．snowing | C．pouring | D．blowing |
| A．roar | B．taste | C．rhythm | D．smell |
| A．appearing | B．spreading | C．freezing | D．rising |
| A．grabbed | B．adjusted | C．dropped | D．studied |
| A．realize | B．guess | C．see | D．check |
| A．extremely | B．violently | C．narrowly | D．certainly |
| A．get out | B．check out | C．calm down | D．help out |
| A．brave | B．immediate | C．determined | D．calculated |
| A．fear | B．annoyance | C．stress | D．responsibility |
| A．active | B．proud | C．grateful | D．amazed |
| A．ask | B．ensure | C．hear | D．follow |
| A．loved | B．forgave | C．survived | D．graduated |
5 . Although computer technology is often necessary today, using a pen or pencil activates more areas of your brain than a keyboard does You can potentially remember more by handwriting. according to a new study.
The potential benefits of handwriting for memory have been debated for some time. The new study set out to answer one question: How does handwriting compare to using a keyboard when it comes to remembering new information?
In total 24 participants took part. Researchers asked each of them to write with a pen and then each was also asked to type on a keyboard, While performing these tasks, each volunteer wore a cap that held electrodes (电极) next to their head. It looked somewhat like a hair net fitted with 256 sensors, Those sensors recorded the participants’ brainwaves. The electrodes noted which parts of the brain turned on during each task. And they showed that writing turned on memory areas in the brain while typing didn’t.
Audrey van der Meer, the new study’s leader, says this suggests that when we write by hand, we remember better. “This is because writing involves complex movements that activate more areas of the brain. The increased brain activity gives the brain more ‘hooks’ to hang your memories on. ” she explains. Van der Meer also points out that writing by hand is related to visual notetaking. “Rather than typing blindly. the visual notetaker has to think about what is important to write down, Then. key words can be interlinked by boxes, arrows and small drawings,” she adds.
This study does not recommend banning digital devices. In fact, its authors point out. computers and other devices with keyboards have become indispensable in modern society. Keyboarding can especially benefit those with certain special needs (such as if they have trouble using their hands) and typing beats writing when it comes to speed. they add.
1. Why did researchers ask participants to wear caps in the study?| A．To prevent them from being hart. |
| B．To record their brainwaves. |
| C．To find out their hair’s difference. |
| D．To test the new products. |
| A．It detects your memories for further recalling. |
| B．It reminds you to have regular reviews. |
| C．It helps us remember more details. |
| D．It eases your tension of memorizing things. |
| A．Necessary. | B．Amazing. | C．Precious. | D．Relaxing. |
| A．How Can We Grasp New Knowledge? |
| B．Handwriting Helps Us Keep Healthy |
| C．Handwriting Is Better for Memory Than Typing |
| D．Should All the People in the Office Give Up Handwriting? |
1. 健康习惯的重要性；
2. 学生易忽视的方面；
3. 提出倡议。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear fellow students,
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The Students’ Union
7 . People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions — and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.
Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.
“We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,” Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth.”
According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.
The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.
It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,” Jack said. “Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.”
In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.
1. The discovery shows that Westerners ______.| A．consider facial expressions universally reliable |
| B．pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth |
| C．observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways |
| D．have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions |
| A．To make a face at each other. | B．To get their faces impressive. |
| C．To observe the researchers’ faces. | D．To classify some face pictures. |
| A．examine the eyes more attentively |
| B．study the mouth more frequently |
| C．do translation more successfully |
| D．read facial expressions more correctly |
| A．The Eye as the Window to the Soul |
| B．Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills |
| C．Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions |
| D．How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding |
8 . A film, also called a movie, is a work used to communicate ideas, stories, feelings, beauty and much more through the use of moving images. This article therefore introduces some right movies or TV series which will benefit students in one way or the other.
Like Stars on Earth
This is a heart touching Indian movie that tells the story of a boy named Ishaan Awasthi. He is an 8-year-old boy with dyslexia (阅读障碍) and this greatly influences his performance in school. Ishaan has an amazing talent for art and painting, but no one would like to know him and be his friends until a new art teacher, Ram Nikumbh, arrives. He takes special interest in Ishaan and discovers Ishaan’s problem and his artistic talent.
The Social Network
It tells us the story of young Mark Zuckerberg who is an undergraduate at Harvard and also a computer genius (天才). He begins to work on an idea which grows into a globally recognized social network called Facebook. This makes Mark one of the youngest billionaires existing.
Grownish
Filled with real life situations and grown up people, this series takes us back to university-lifestyle. Grownish through four amazing seasons, teaches us how to navigate (驾驭) the university through the eyes of Zoey Johnson. Zoey is a talented fashion designer and stylist who seems to have the world all planned out for her.
King of Boys 2
If you haven’t already seen the first movie in this series, you should take two steps back so you don’t get lost in this political (政治的) forest. This movie is the type that has you sitting at the edge (边缘) of your seat from start to finish. King of Boys 2 takes us to the underworld of a truly dirty game called “politics”.
1. Why is the 8-year-old boy named Ishaan doing poorly in school?| A．He has difficulty reading. | B．His teachers dislike him. |
| C．He fails to make new friends. | D．He takes no interest in studies. |
| A．Ram Nikumbh. | B．Mark Zuckerberg. |
| C．Zoey Johnson. | D．Ishaan Awasthi. |
| A．An art teacher’s story. | B．A computer genius. |
| C．A fashion designer’s growth. | D．A political game. |
1. 健康饮食建议；
2. 表达期望。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 首句已给出可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
As the living standards getting higher, nowadays people pay more attention to their health.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1. Where does the speaker work most of the time?
| A．In libraries. | B．At a college. | C．At home. |
| A．Teach courses at colleges. |
| B．Work part-time in a library. |
| C．Type letters for other people. |
| A．Keep up writing books. |
| B．Travel around the world. |
| C．Start a new job working with lots of people. |
