假设你是光华中学的学生李明，你校英语报正进行题为“大学专业选择，个人兴趣和就业前景孰重孰轻”的讨论。
你对此话题很感兴趣，写一篇文章投稿，内容须包括：
1．明确说明你的观点；
2．举例阐述你的理由。
2 . Age has its privileges (特权) in America, and one of the most important of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age — in some cases as low as 55 — is automatically entitled to a dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life. Eligibility (资格) is determined not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth certificate. Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses — as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.
People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them; yet, millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent (有支付能力的). Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” are synonymous. Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population. To be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many older Americans are poor. But most of them aren’t.
It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus to revenue. But in other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant (刺激物) in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.
Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits, which mostly involve a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another sore point. Supported by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job — thereby reducing employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers.
Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become an economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need them. It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment; and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting against — discrimination by age.
1. We learn from the first paragraph that ______.| A．offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice |
| B．senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a comfortable life |
| C．giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderly |
| D．senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount |
| A．tax | B．expense | C．profits | D．expansion |
| A．Businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in return. |
| B．Old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to society. |
| C．The elderly, being financially underprivileged, need humane help from society. |
| D．Senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the Social Security system. |
| A．Senior citizens should fight hard against age discrimination. |
| B．The elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for granted. |
| C．Priority should be given to the economic needs of senior citizens. |
| D．Senior citizen discounts may well be it type of age discrimination. |
3 . School Spirit Is in the Bag!
Now you can design your own Taft Tiger bags and backpacks.
What’s in your bag?
School books, homework, and gym clothes are just a few of the money items that successful students at Taft Middle School carry around every day. The right bag or backpack can help you get organized. Carry your school gear with style and show your Tiger Pride with one of these sturdy (结实的) SCHOOL SPIRIT TO GO bags.
Which bag do you need?
| Backpack | ● Made with durable materials and zippers ● Comfortable, padded shoulder straps ● Two large compartments for books and notebooks ● Small zippered pouch for pens, pencils, calculators and more | $20 |
| Duffle bag | ● Perfect for holding gym clothes, shoes, and towels ● Large enough to hold up to three basketballs ● Comes with removable shoulder straps and short handles | $15 |
| Tote bag | ● Ideal for light loads ● Use it to carry a sweater and snacks for a field trip ● Take it to the library’ to carry’ books and research materials | $10 |
Satisfaction guaranteed
There is no reason to hesitate! These premium bags are a great bargain and a super way to show school spirit! SCHOOL SPIRITTO GO guarantees 100% quality; however, manufacturing errors can occur. If the bag has a defect, simply return it within 30days of receipt for an exchange of equal value or a full refund. Complete satisfaction is our number one priority!
How to order your bag
All orders must be placed in person and during the week of Sept. 26-30 only.
1. Visit the SCHOOL SPIRITTO GO representatives in the cafeteria to see samples of Taft Tiger bags.
2. Complete the order form. Be sure to include your first-period teacher’s name on the form.
3. Submit your payment with the order from to the representatives.
The bags will be delivered to the school in three weeks. First-period teachers will distribute the bags to students who placed orders.
Do you have questions?
Visit the SCHOOL SPIRITTO GO table during the week of September 26-30. If you would like to see pictures of bags made for other schools, visit www.schoolspirit/togo.com.
Compete the form. Extra forms are also available in the school office.
Order Form
Name: ______ Grade: ______
First-period teacher: ______
E-mail address: ______ Phone number: ______
(E-mail address and phone number will be used only if there is a question about your order.)
Select your bag
Check one box:
□ Backpack $20
□ Duffle bag $15
□ Tote bag $10
Optional:
Personalization $5
□ Name: ______
Total amount due: $ ______ □ Cash □ Check
Design your bag
Check one box in each category (color scheme, text, mascot) below:
Choose a color scheme: Choose text: Choose a school mascot!
□ Solid orange with block trim □ Go Tigers! □ Official Tate Tiger mascot
□ Solid black with orange trim □ Fate Tigers □ Taft Tiger sports mascot
□ Orange /black tiger print with black trim □ Taft Nickle School □ Taft Tiger music mascot
□ Taft Tiger art mascot
□ Taft Tiger drama mascot
1. Compared with Tote bags, Duffle bags ______.| A．are a little cheaper | B．have small bags for tiny items |
| C．can have their shoulder straps taken off | D．are suitable to be carried to the library |
| A．It is held by Tall Middle School. |
| B．It allows students to customize bags in terms of color, text and mascot. |
| C．It allows students to return bags without reasons. |
| D．It includes offering free gym clothes to students. |
| A．Going to a given place to get the bags. |
| B．Giving payments to their first-period teachers. |
| C．Including the representatives’ names on the forms. |
| D．Placing the orders during the last days of September. |
I’ve always enjoyed walking but never in a million years
Back in 2013 I did a guided one-day hike along one of the most beautiful and
Fast forward a few years and I set off from Barcelos with a friend of mine
This was truly a slow travel experience, as we were averaging about 20 kilometers per day. I
I will never forget the sense of achievement and progress tit the end of each walking day, and the relief and pride I felt when we finally made
We met people
线上直播课（live-streamed lessons）的学习越来越普及。学生和家长对此持不同的看法。有人觉得线上直播课让学习更加灵活，拓展学习的空间和时间；然而有人觉得线上直播课存在很多问题，如：缺少师生互动，学生注意力不集中，学习效率低等。请就此话题谈谈你的看法。
6 . When Liam McGee quitted as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up. Rather than announce his leaving in the usual vague excuse, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company.” Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,” McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.
McGee says leaving without a position waiting for him gave him time to reflect on what kinds of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his ambition. And McGee isn’t alone. In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. When boards scrutinize(审查)succession plans(后续计划) in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on. Economic depression also has senior managers careful of letting vague announcements cloud their reputations.
The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. For years executives and headhunters have followed the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are not the sitting ones，but the ones who must be hunted elsewhere.
Those who jumped without a job haven’t always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana when the business became part of PepsiCo (PEP) a decade ago, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It was a year before she became head of a tiny internet-based commodities exchange. Robert Willemstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.
Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. “The traditional rule was it’s safer to stay where you are, but that’s been fundamentally inverted,” says one headhunter. “The people who’ve been hurt the worst are those who’ve stayed too long.”
1. When McGee announced his departure, his manner can best be described as being______.| A．modest. | B．frank. | C．self-centered. | D．impulsive. |
| A．their expectation of better financial status |
| B．their need to reflect on their private life |
| C．their strained relations with the boards |
| D．their pursuit of new career goals |
| A．top performers used to cling to their posts |
| B．loyalty of top performers is getting outdated |
| C．top performers care more about reputations |
| D．it’s safer to stick to the traditional rules |
| A．CEOs; Where to Go? |
| B．CEOs: All the Way Up? |
| C．Top Managers Jump without a Net |
| D．The Only Way Out for Top Performers |
The trick that makes you overspend
When you buy a cup of coffee, you might have noticed that of the three size choices — small, medium and large — the medium-sized serving often costs almost as much as the large.
The decoy effect shows us just
However,
Just don’t be a victim of decoy effect yourself. whether you are buying headphones or deciding on a retirement plan, ask
8 . Why stress and anxiety aren’t always bad
People generally think of stress and anxiety as negative concepts, but while both stress and anxiety can reach unhealthy levels, psychologists have long known that both are unavoidable - and that they often play a helpful, not harmful role in our daily lives, according to a presentation at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association.
“Many Americans now feel stressed about being stressed and anxious about being anxious,” said Lisa Damour, PhD, a private-practice psychologist who presented at the meeting.
Stress usually occurs when people operate at the edge of their abilities - when they push themselves or are forced by circumstances to stretch beyond their familiar limits, according to Damour.
“It’s important for psychologists to share our knowledge about stress with broad audiences that stress is a given in daily life, that working at the edge of our abilities often builds those capacities and that moderate levels of stress can actually have an inoculating (预防的) function, which leads to higher than average resilience (适应力) when we are faced with new difficulties,” she said.
Viewing anxiety as sometimes helpful and protective allows people to make good use of it. For example, Damour said she often tells the teenagers she works with in her practice to pay attention if they start to feel anxious at a party because their nerves may be alerting them to a problem.
“In other words, stress causes harm when it exceeds any level that a person can reasonably absorb or use to build psychological strength,” she said.
| A．Anxiety, too, gets some unnecessarily criticism, according to Damour |
| B．Unfortunately, by the time someone reaches out to a professional for help, stress and anxiety have already built to unhealthy levels |
| C．That doesn’t mean that stress and anxiety can’t be harmful, said Damour |
| D．Anyone feeling overwhelmed by stress should, if possible, take measures to reduce his or her stress |
| E．It’s also important to understand that stress can result from both bad and good events |
| F．Likewise, anxiety becomes unhealthy when its alarm makes no sense |
9 . This website is designed to explore how the experience, diagnosis and treatment of illness has changed over time, and to show some of the many ways illness has been understood by humans. It is our hope that you will leave the site with a broader appreciation of the relationship of medicine to culture, and an understanding that our own medical practices look different when seen in a historical context.
In exploring this site, we ask you to think of this fundamental idea: that illness, the feeling and experience of being sick, is itself a historical object. Illness and medicine are not static(静止的) phenomena. Different people in different time periods can experience, understand and treat similar groups of symptoms very differently. Cycles of fevers and chills may be identified as being a particular disease, part of a general pattern of seasonal health or an internal struggle of opposing yet complementary forces. These are more than just descriptions; they influence the actual experience of having illness, and strongly influence the treatment. A body that is out of balance feels pain in manner that is subjectively different from a body fighting a battle against an external attacker. We believe that illness changes over time. Thus, to fully understand illness, we need not just biological explanation, but also historical explanation. We need both medicine and the history of illness.
Related to this idea is a second. This is the concept that illness, and the medical responses to illness, are related to cultural worldviews. How we see the world structures how we experience and shape the world we live in. What makes particular responses seem reasonable emerges from specific cultural values. The judgements about what medical practices are effective and sensible are value judgements made in the context of broader cultural beliefs about how the world works, our place in that world, and what is morally good and bad. Our aim is to help you understand why blood-letting for instance, now considered unacceptable, was a sensible healing activity in the early 19th century.
Finally, it is easy to read the history of medicine as one of constant progression leading from barbaric (野蛮的) roots to a scientific approaches embodied in current medical practice. We believe that this understanding is problematic. First, a lack of knowledge that we have today did not mean that medicine in other time periods and cultures was wrong. Based on cultural values and contemporary knowledge, other cultures developed advanced treatments that were effective and sensible for their people, although they may be considered barbaric nowadays. Similarly in a century or two, our own medical practices may seem backward and nonsensical, it is not the case that former practices have led simplistically to our own superior knowledge.
1. According to the first paragraph, the website is intended to show that ________.| A．many illnesses were wrongly diagnosed in the past |
| B．we have unrealistic expectations of medical practice |
| C．medicine should be examined in connection with culture |
| D．changes in living conditions have led to the development of new illnesses |
| A．we need more accurate biological explanations of illnesses |
| B．illnesses are influenced by climate and environment |
| C．our bodies are constantly under attack from illnesses |
| D．how an illness is interpreted affects how it is experienced |
| A．In certain cultures, the factual basis of illnesses is not recognized |
| B．Medical practices have improved over time. |
| C．Illness can influence our perception of the world. |
| D．We judge past medical practices by inappropriate principles. |
| A．There are considerable differences between cultures. |
| B．Illnesses are better understood today than in the past. |
| C．Current medical practices will be seen differently in the future. |
| D．Little research is being carried out into the treatment of some diseases. |
10 . 2019 Spring Evaluation Schedule for Learn To Skate
MT. KENT ICE CENTER* 900 MOON AVENUE* LEVARD CITY, RI 02916
(103)561-4363 www.mtkent.org
WHO: Skaters of all ages and abilities
Any Preschool & Kindergarten-aged child who has never taken lessons at the Mt. Kent Ice Center needs to make an appointment to be evaluated. Anyone first grade or above does not need an evaluation.
The online registration feature does not apply to the registration for evaluation.
EVALUATIONS: Evaluations help to determine both readiness and class placement. Upon completion of the evaluation, it is recommended that you register for classes with a coach in the ice center office.
A variety of days and times for the evaluations are also listed online and at the Ice Center. Evaluation registration may be done in person or by phone at 103-561-4363.
| EVALUATION DATES AND TIME | |||
| DAY | EVALUATION DATES | TIME | EVALUATION FEE |
| Saturday | March 9, 2019 | 12:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
| Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
| Monday | March 11, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
| Wednesday | March 13, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. or 1: 00p.m. | $5.00 |
| Thursday | March 14, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. or l: 00 p.m. | $5.00 |
Additional days and times may be added — to be determined by Management
REFUND POLICY: Refund requests must be made a minimum of 7 days before the scheduled appointment. See www.mtkent.org for details.
EVALUATION REGISTRATION:
In person — Stop by the Mt. Kent Recreation Center, ground floor, Monday through Saturday 9: 00-11: 00 a.m., Sunday 1: 00 — 4: 00 p.m.
By phone — Call the Ice Center at (103)561-4363 to schedule your skating evaluation appointment
QUESTIONS: Please call the Mt. Kent Ice Center staff at (103)561-4363
KentALERT — A FREE notification (通知) service (phone, text, e-mail). In the event of an emergency and to provide you with updates about cancellations and recreation department programs and events. Please visit www.mtkent.org, browse Services at the top of the page. Under Information Technology Office, click KentALERT. All recreation participants should sign up, and at minimum select the “Cancellation category.”
1. The passage is primarily intended to ________.| A．recommend an ice center | B．advertise a skating programme |
| C．introduce an evaluation schedule | D．tell readers about a notification service |
| A．at 1:00 p.m. on Monday | B．at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday |
| C．at 4:00 p.m. on Friday | D．at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday |
| A．Any kindergarten-aged child must make an appointment to be evaluated. |
| B．You can go to www.mtkent.org to complete the registration for evaluation. |
| C．You will be informed of any cancellations after signing up for Kent ALERT. |
| D．Refunds should be claimed within seven days after the registration. |
