1 . When was the last time something important slipped your mind? Maybe it was the answer to a test question, the name of an acquaintance or where you left your keys.
A psychologist (心理学家) named Herman Ebbinghaus made an important discovery about memory and forgetting. He found that people tend to forget information in a regular pattern. They forget the most information shortly after learning it.
Applying these strategies will help improve your memory so that you can access everything you learn whenever you need it.
| A．Practice makes perfect. |
| B．Strike while the iron is hot. |
| C．Fortunately, memory can be improved. |
| D．Over time, you can review them less and less frequently. |
| E．The rate at which they forget then slows down over time. |
| F．One great way to do this is to test yourself on the material. |
| G．But these methods of remembering are not always effective. |
2 . BODYPUMP
BODYPUMP, a total body workout that will burn calories, shape your entire body, increase core strength and improve bone health. BODYPUMP is available as either a 55, 45or 30-minute workout.
World leading instructors will coach you through the scientifically-backed moves and techniques pumping out encouragement, motivation and great music — helping you achieve much more than on your own!
BODYCOMBAT
Step into a BODYCOMBAT workout and you’ll punch and kick your way to fitness, burning up to 570 calories along the way. This high-energy martial-arts inspired workout is totally non-contact and there are no complex moves to master. A LES MILLS instructor will challenge you to up the strength and motivate you to make the most of every round. You’ll release stress, have fun and feel like a champ. BODYCOMBAT is available as either a 55,45 or 30-minute workout.
BODYCOMBAT will train your whole body and get you fit, fast and strong. It works your legs, strengthens your arms, back and shoulders and provides core training. You destroy calories. develop coordination and speed, and feel empowered.
BODYJAM
Originating in Auckland, New Zealand, BODYJAM is a combination of music and dance. BODYJAM is available as either a 55, 45 or 30-minute workout. If you want to dance, there is nothing like it. All styles of electronic dance music. It’s the soul of BODYJAM. This is legal.
Whether you’ve got two left feet or fancy yourself as Beyonce’s back up dancer, we’ve got your back. Our superb LES MILLS instructors will lead you to have fun. BODYJAMdoesn’t discriminate, and dance is free, so what’s stop ping you?
BODYATTACK
BODYATTACK is a high-energy fitness class with moves that suit total beginners to total addicts. We combine athletic movements like running and jumping with strength exercises such as push-ups and squats (深蹲). BODYATTACK is available as either a 55, 45 or 30-minute workout.
A LES MILLS instructor will pump out energizing tunes and lead you through the workout — challenging your limits in a good way, burning up to 555 calories and leaving you with a sense of achievement.
1. If you are interested in dance, which workout suits you best?| A．BODYPUMP. | B．BODYCOMBAT. |
| C．BODYJAM. | D．BODYATTACK. |
| A．They all need equipment. |
| B．They are just suitable for athletes. |
| C．They are all conducted by instructors. |
| D．They all require special safety measures. |
| A．A notice. | B．A brochure. |
| C．An essay. | D．A textbook. |
3 . It’s good to share, right? Growing up as kids, we are told to share our toys and not be selfish. We also live in an age where discussing our feelings is encouraged. But when does it all become too much? With new crazes trending all the time, such as dance challenges and wearing a pillow as a dress, the question is: when can sharing become oversharing on social media?
What is oversharing? The term has become connected with social media, but it isn’t exclusive (独有的) to this platform. Imagine you head to a party and you meet someone. Within five minutes they have revealed details about their life. While some of us may try to escape these people, according to specialist Carolyn Cole, this form of oversharing could come from a strong desire to connect with someone. But how does oversharing translate into social media?
Dr Christopher Hand, a lecturer in cyberpsychology, says the more details people expose (使显露), the less sympathy (同情) we express when things go wrong. This could be due to a belief that we will get more negative experiences if we share them more. It seems that sadfishing, the idea of searching for sympathy by oversharing, is generally viewed as negative rather than the cry for help it could actually be.
However, Dr Hand’s research also seems to suggest that the more we post on a platform, the more socially attractive we become—if our posts are positive. Even back in2015, Gwendolyn Seidman PhD, said that we should avoid complaining and being negative online. We should also avoid showing off or bragging (吹嘘). It makes sense-if your life is going that well, would you really have time to share a photo with text?
So, how can you know if you are oversharing? Well, why not ask your friends in real life? They would probably be more than happy to tell you if your posts about your breakfast or your complaints about your lack of money really are too much.
1. How does the author introduce the topic in paragraph 1?| A．By providing data. | B．By raising a question. |
| C．By giving an example. | D．By analyzing cause and effect. |
| A．To illustrate what oversharing is. |
| B．To attract readers’ attention and interest. |
| C．To explain the reason of oversharing. |
| D．To connect oversharing with social media. |
| A．They would have no time to enjoy their real life. |
| B．People are likely to doubt their intention for help. |
| C．People show no sympathy when they are in trouble. |
| D．They will definitely become more socially attractive. |
| A．Showing off your expensive lifestyle. |
| B．Complaining frequently about your work. |
| C．Sharing photos of your breakfast every day. |
| D．Recording a video of how you save money. |
4 . Several years ago, not long after we welcomed a puppy into the family, my shoulder became stiff (僵硬) and sore. It quickly changed into “frozen. shoulder”—a condition that commonly strikes women in their 40s and can be triggered (触发) by repetitive pressure. I assumed it was from the dogs constantly pulling on their leads like an out-of-control yo-yo (溜溜球).
My husband of nearly two decades was, of course, sympathetic about the burning pain that shot down my arm whenever I reached for something slightly out of range. But then, a few months later, a strange thing happened: my husband developed a frozen shoulder in his left arm, too. It wasn’t from the dogs—I did most of the walking.
I would have chalked it up to coincidence, but when I started experiencing: tendonitis (肌腱炎) in my right arm last year—likely a result of too many hours spent on my laptop—my husband began complaining about pain in his arm at the same time, and he rarely sits at a desk all day long. What were the chances?
A quick Google search turned up a story about how long-term couples have a tendency to become very similar in health over time. “People have been aware of this phenomenon for the last half century—that we’re connected—but now we have some methods to begin to model these dynamics (相互作用) in new ways,” says Shannon Mejia, an assistant professor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
To explain how my husband and I both became stricken with a frozen shoulder within months of each other, Professor Mejia suspects that the same behaviour over the years might have led to similarities in posture and fragility, which could have resulted in the same shoulder injury. Called “postural synchrony (同步性)” in psychology circles, ours is a more extreme case of two people whose feet fall into step while walking or who lean into one another like mirror images to show interest on a date.
1. Why does the author mention the couple’s similar symptoms in the beginning?| A．To introduce the topic. | B．To play a practical joke. |
| C．To satisfy the readers. | D．To illustrate her point. |
| A．Prevent. | B．Ignore. | C．Blame. | D．Tackle. |
| A．Naughty pets. | B．Deep devotion. | C．Strong beliefs. | D．Identical lifestyle. |
| A．Serious Issues Between Couples | B．Approaching Science. |
| C．Great Couples Feel Alike | D．A Mystery To Be Addressed |
5 . Refresh your bedroom
Whether you would like to change the theme of your bedroom or just want to give it an updated look, you don’t need a big budget to make it happen.
Clear out the mess
Before you start freshening up your space, take a look around to see what you have that you could give away to someone who could use it. Ask an adult for two bags or boxes, one for items you want to donate and one for anything that can go directly in the trash.
Think about light
One simple room update that has a big impact is turning up your lighting. One idea is to hang inexpensive LED string lights on a wall.
Another inexpensive change that can have big results is paint. Ask an adult if they’re willing to help you paint an accent wall in your room. An accent wall is a good chance to take a risk with color since it’s only one wall. You can choose to paint the wall behind your headboard or even a closet door. If you don’t want to paint, you could check out wallpaper whose colors matches your room.
Add personal touches
| A．Consider color. |
| B．Green your space. |
| C．Or you could try a lamp on a nightstand or desk. |
| D．Personalize your room with photos of family and friends. |
| E．With a few smart strategies, you can give your room a whole new feel. |
| F．Add new colors and patterns to liven up the look and feel of your space. |
| G．Once your room is neat, you can see what kinds of changes you might want to make. |
6 . Ever wanted to make a difference and train to become a coach? With the Ollie School, you could be changing lives before you know it.
Despite the very best efforts of our education system, it is struggling to cope with fully supporting the emotional wellbeing of our children within the curriculum. Have you ever felt that you would love to help, but were powerless to act? Well, here’s your opportunity to do something positive.
The Ollie School plans to build an army of coaches who can make the world a better place, one child at a time. Ollie Coaching is an approach that leads all our youngsters to a place where they can live well in the complex modern living.
The Ollie method is all about empowering children to seek solutions and take control of their emotions, rather than be controlled by them. It also focuses on personalization and identifying which means will work with each individual child — no one-size-fits-all approach here.
Licence to help
The Ollie School graduates are awarded a qualification (资格证书) in NLP and a licence to work as an Ollie coach. If helping children and their families deal with stress and difficulties interests you, contact Ollie School for further information.
Get in touch
To train to become an Ollie coach, visit ollieandhissuperpowers.com, or email info@ollieandhissuperpowers.com. The Ollie School is waiting to hear from you!
1. What can the Ollie school do?| A．build an army to help the world keep peace |
| B．lead teenagers to live a complex modern life |
| C．teach children to take control of their emotions |
| D．train a person to help emotionally troubled children |
| A．By writing a letter. | B．By making a call. |
| C．By visiting its website. | D．By going to its office. |
| A．To advertise a school. | B．To introduce a teaching method. |
| C．To offer parents advice. | D．To criticize the education system. |
7 . Made from sustainably cut down trees, and sat in the middle of a beautiful nature reserve, with views of splendid mountain s and glassy lakes, this brand-new hotel in Scotland is already a firm favorite among guests. Although unfortunately for humans, this grand establishment entertains the six-legged kind.
Measuring more than 7,000 cubic feet, a Scottish conservation group, Highland Titles,used cut-down Sitka spruce (西加云杉), bamboo canes, bricks, wood chips, forest bark, clay pipes, and strawberry netting to build a hotel for insects. The hotel sits in the group’s nature reserve in Duror, in the West of Scotland. Overlooking Loch Linnhe, it’s a desirable spot that most human guests would pay hundreds of dollars for the opportunity to stay there.
“This record-breaking project is about the environmental message,” says Douglas Wilson, CEO of Highland Titles. “We bought this land in 2006 when it was a poorly performing commercial forestry plantation of non-native Sitka Spruce. “Like much of the Highlands, it was unsuitably planted in the late 1980s with no thought or consideration given to biodiversity. Using these same trees for something that puts nature first symbolizes that the world has changed, and we hope our efforts will inspire others.”
The decline of insects in Scotland parallels what’s happening across the world — a trend of what scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. The UK is seeing the most significant of those declines out of every country in the world. A report released in 2019 showed the extent (程度) of the damage that humans have caused to the planet: wiping out 60% of mammals (哺乳动物), birds, fish, and reptiles (爬行动物) since 1970. The report also highlighted (强调) the “terrible state” of insect biodiversity in the world. Almost half of the species are rapidly declining and a third are being threatened with extinction.
Insects are the heart of global food web s and ecosystems. They’re essential in recycling nutrients, pollinating(授粉) plants, and as food for countless vertebrate(有脊椎的) species.In Scotland’s Duror, there are high hopes that the region’s new hotel will not help promote insect visitors, but inspire other reserves and environmental organizations to build their own.
1. Which of the following are likely to become guests of the hotel mentioned in the text?| A．Ants whose nests are destroyed. |
| B．Hikers attracted to the beautiful views. |
| C．Bears that need to find a shelter. |
| D．Guests willing to pay hundreds of dollars. |
| A．To use the trees properly. | B．To attract visitors to this land. |
| C．To make the land commercial. | D．To protect the diversity of insects. |
| A．be related to | B．be in contrast to |
| C．be in line with | D．be fed up with |
| A．They play a key role in global food webs. |
| B．They inspire people to build their own hotels. |
| C．They are an essential medium (媒介) to pollinate plants. |
| D．They can absorb nutrients from the environment. |
8 . All authorities on the style of English essays agree that good writing is brief. Careful writers say what they mean in as few words as possible.
A classic statement of this principle appears in the famous little book of William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White, The Elements of Style: “Vigorous (有力的) writing is brief. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”
It follows that any words which perform no useful function in the sentence — that is, which add nothing to the meaning — should be edited out.
Almost every text that has been translated into English from Chinese,(or that has been written directly in English by a native speaker of Chinese) contains unnecessary words. Draft translations are commonly full of them, and even polished final versions are rarely free of them.
Read anything that has been published in English for foreign readers — a magazine article, a news story, an advertisement — and you are likely to find unnecessary words. Read even the shortest of English texts — the label on a food product, a billboard on the street,’: company name on the front of a building — and, if you are on the alert to recognize the chances are that you will find words that could and should have been left out. Unnecessary words are the typical quality of Chinglish.
Unnecessary words can be any part of speech — nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverb prepositions, articles (冠词), and so on. In the following chapters we shall consider the important types, starting with unnecessary nouns and verbs, which often go hand in hand.
1. What does the book The Elements of Style advocate?| A．A sentence should be as short as possible. | B．Unnecessary words shouldn’t be in a sentence. |
| C．A drawing should have vivid colors. | D．A machine should function perfectly. |
| A．Unnecessary words is a common issue. |
| B．Only Chinglish contains unnecessary words. |
| C．Readers should be careful about unnecessary words. |
| D．Polished sentences could avoid unnecessary words. |
| A．Tolerant. | B．Critical. | C．Indifferent. | D．Uncertain. |
| A．... to accelerate the speed of economic reform. |
| B．... there have been good harvests in agriculture. |
| C．We should adopt a series of measures to ensure that. |
| D．... living standards in urban and rural areas continued to rise. |
9 . Alice Howland leads a busy life. She’s a famous professor of psychology at Harvard University and also in great demand as a speaker at seminars and conferences.
As the story begins, Alice has traveled to Stanford University to give a talk. She begins sharing information that she has shared a thousand times before; she needs no notes. Then suddenly, a word escapes from her. The pause seems to last forever while she struggles to find the word. Finally, she clumsily uses the word “stuff” and continues, thinking the slip is due to the jet lag as she finishes her talk.
Back home, Alice decides to go for a run. She follows a familiar route, but out of the blue (出乎意外) it isn’t familiar. She knows she is in Harvard Square but has no idea which way is home. She begins to panic. Then as suddenly as her sense of direction left her, it’s back again. She rapidly walks the distance to her house.
Alice continues to experience other small mistakes now and then. But it isn’t until they become more and more frequent that she has a series of tests confirming that she has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (阿尔兹海默症).
As Alice’s condition worsens, she loses the ability to enjoy books and movies because she can no longer follow the plots. She doesn’t know how to spend her days. The once famous expert in linguistics (语言学), who was used to a busy schedule, suddenly has nothing really to do. She depends on her husband, John, and their three grown children, but she loses touch with everyone else.
Although life was disappearing for Alice, it was moving on for her family. Anna, one of her daughters, has twins. Alice’s husband, a successful scientist in his own field, decides to accept a position in New York City and move there leaving Alice with their children. Not long before he leaves, John takes Alice to their beach house for one last vacation. While there, Alice has a clear moment and tells John that she remembers him and that she was smart once. John assures her that she is the smartest person he has ever known, and Alice replies that she misses herself. With John gone, a nurse comes to take care of Alice, who no longer recognizes her own children. Her daughters help care for her every day.
1. What does Alice think causes her mistake when giving a talk at Stanford University?| A．The long plane trip. | B．Her clumsiness. |
| C．Her forgetting the notes. | D．The busy schedule. |
| A．Embarrassed. | B．Frightened. |
| C．Thrilled. | D．Annoyed. |
| A．She can’t enjoy books and movies. |
| B．She gets lost while jogging. |
| C．Her husband decides to go to New York. |
| D．She keeps forgetting familiar things. |
| A．She can’t remember herself. |
| B．She blames her husband. |
| C．She is quite lonely every day. |
| D．She feels sorry for herself. |
10 . I ask every student I interview for admission to my institution, Pitzer College, the same question, “What do you look forward to the most in college?” I was amazed and delighted recently when a student sat across from me at a Starbucks in New York City and replied, “I look forward to the possibility of failure.” Of course, this is not how most students respond to the question when sitting before the person who can make decisions about their academic futures, but this young man took a risk.
“You see, my parents have never let me fail,“ he said. “When I want to take a chance at something, they remind me it’s not a safe route to take. Taking a more demanding (要求高的) course or trying an activity I may not succeed in, they tell me, will ruin my chances at college admission. Even the sacrifice of staying up late to do something unrelated to school, they see as a risk to my academic work and college success.”
These days, finding imperfections in a college application is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Students try their best to hide factors they regard as negative and only tell us things they believe we will find impressive. This is supported by a secondary school culture where teachers are under pressure to give students nothing less than an A, and are told not to report disciplinary infractions (违纪) to colleges. Education agents in other countries are known to falsify student transcripts (成绩单), assuming that outstanding grades are the ticket to admission.
I’ve spent enough time in high schools to know teenagers will never be perfect. They do silly things, mess up, fall down, and lack confidence. The ability to bounce (回弹) back is an essential life skill students have to learn on their own. The lessons of failure can’t be taught in a classroom; they are experienced and reflected upon.
Failure is about growth, learning, overcoming, and moving on. Let’s allow young people to fail. Not only will they learn something, it might even get them into college.
1. What can you infer about students in the author’s interviews?| A．They usually try all out to display their strengths. |
| B．They usually express a desire to experience failure. |
| C．They usually take a risk so as to get admitted into college. |
| D．They usually complain about their parents’ control over them. |
| A．Students should make their college applications perfect. |
| B．Secondary school teachers don’t like to give students A. |
| C．Secondary schools tend to help cover students’ imperfections. |
| D．Outstanding scores will certainly ensure you a place in a college. |
| A．The ability to learn outside class. |
| B．The ability to deal with failure. |
| C．The ability to be always confident. |
| D．The ability to learn on their own. |
| A．Failure is the mother of success. |
| B．Teenagers are far from being perfect. |
| C．If you want to get into college, learn to fail. |
| D．If you want to impress interviewers, take a risk. |
