National Napping Day
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| A．particular | B．curious | C．anxious | D．enthusiastic |
| A．hopeless | B．aimless | C．homeless | D．friendless |
| A．apologizing for | B．standing for | C．working for | D．asking for |
| A．helping | B．sparing | C．observing | D．paying |
| A．difficult | B．easy | C．possible | D．abstract |
| A．such many | B．such much | C．so many | D．so much |
| A．out of | B．away from | C．in touch | D．up with |
| A．breakfast | B．trip | C．sun | D．rain |
| A．house | B．corner | C．highway | D．garage |
| A．identified | B．confirmed | C．informed | D．proved |
| A．rolled down | B．put down | C．broken down | D．cut down |
| A．fall over | B．go over | C．turn over | D．come over |
| A．but | B．so | C．or | D．and |
| A．out | B．from | C．down | D．about |
| A．collection | B．fund | C．action | D．account |
| A．awarded | B．rewarded | C．afforded | D．offered |
| A．laugh | B．cry | C．smile | D．sob |
| A．dislike | B．support | C．disapprove | D．agree |
| A．permitted | B．acknowledged | C．abandoned | D．embarrassed |
| A．in return | B．by turns | C．in case | D．by accident |
3 . Most companies will pay employees more if they have a degree.
| A．The same is true for babysitters. |
| B．Not everyone is equal in the job market. |
| C．Of course, other factors affect babysitter pay rates as well. |
| D．For instance, anyone who can play the piano can get higher pay as a babysitter. |
| E．Job-relevant certificates acquired through colleges may also lead to increased incomes on the job. |
| F．Parents will be happy to have an experienced and educated person caring for their children. |
| G．For example, if you know Russian and your employer-family has a child adopted from Russia, they may pay more |
4 . Give yourself a test. Which way is the wind blowing? How many kinds of wildflowers can be seen from your front door? If your awareness is as sharp as it could be, you’ll have no trouble answering these questions.
Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults. A child’s day is filled with fascination, newness and wonder. Curiosity gave us all a natural awareness. But distinctions that were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb(麻木的）to new stimulation(刺激), new ideas. Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.
The first step in awakening senses is to stop predicting what we are going to see and feel before it occurs. This blocks awareness. One chilly night when I was hiking in the Rocky Mountains with some students, I mentioned that we were going to cross a mountain stream. The students began complaining about how cold it would be. We reached the stream, and they unwillingly walked ahead. They were almost knee-deep when they realized it was a hot spring. Later they all admitted they’d felt cold water at first.
Another block to awareness is the obsession(痴迷) many of us have with naming things. I saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides, and said, a "ruby-crowned kinglet" and checked it off. They no longer paid attention to the bird and never learned what it was doing.
The pressures of "time" and "destination" are further blocks to awareness. I encountered many hikers who were headed to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before dark. It seldom occurred to them to wander a bit, to take a moment to see what’s around them. I asked them what they’d seen. "Oh, a few birds," they said. They seemed bent on their destinations.
Nature seems to unfold to people who watch and wait. Next time you take a walk, no matter where it is, take in all the sights, sounds and sensations. Wander in this frame of mind and you will open a new dimension to your life.
1. According to Paragraph 2, compared with adults, children are more ____________.| A．anxious to do wonders |
| B．sensitive to others’ feelings |
| C．likely to develop unpleasant habits |
| D．eager to explore the world around them |
| A．To avoid jumping to conclusions. |
| B．To stop complaining all the time. |
| C．To follow the teacher’s advice. |
| D．To admit mistakes honestly. |
| A．are very patient in their observation |
| B．are really fascinated by nature |
| C．care only about the names of birds |
| D．question the accuracy of the field guides |
| A．The natural beauty isn’t attractive to them. |
| B．They focus on arriving at the camp in time. |
| C．The forest in the dark is dangerous for them. |
| D．They are keen to see rare birds at the destination. |
5 . A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common. After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover （揭露）the very nature of the physical world, and the baby is, well, just playing … right? Perhaps, but some developmental psychologists (心理学家) have argued that this “play” is more like a scientific investigation（调查研究）than one might think.
Take a closer look at the baby playing at the table. Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge, it falls in the ground — and, in the process, it brings out important evidence about how physical objects interact (相互作用); bowls of rice do not float in mid-air, but require support to remain stable. It is likely that babies are not born knowing the basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it. Instead, babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experiments and then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact. Though their ranges and tools differ, the baby’s investigation and the scientist’s experiment appear to share the same aim (to learn about the natural world), overall approach (gathering direct evidence from the world), and logic (are my observations what I expected?).
Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way — that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means. For example, it may only be through repeated experiments, evidence gathering, and finally overturning （使翻转）a theory, that a baby will come to accept the idea that other people can have different views and desires from what he or she has, for example, unlike the child, Mommy actually doesn’t like Dove chocolate.
Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation throws light on how children learn, but it also offers an inspiring look at science and scientists. Why do young children and scientists seem to be so much alike? Psychologists have suggested that science as an effort — the desire to explore, explain, and understand our world — is simply something that comes from our babyhood（婴儿期）.Perhaps evolution (进化) provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children. The same cognitive (认知的) systems that make young children feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists. As some psychologists put it, “It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.”
1. According to some developmental psychologists, _____.| A．a baby’s play is nothing more than a game |
| B．scientific research into babies’ games is possible |
| C．the nature of babies’ play has been thoroughly investigated |
| D．a baby’s play is somehow similar to a scientist’s experiment |
| A．scientists and babies seem to observe the world differently |
| B．scientists and babies often interact with each other |
| C．babies are born with the knowledge of object support |
| D．babies seem to collect evidence just as scientists do |
| A．exploring the physical world |
| B．investigating human psychology |
| C．repeating their own experiments |
| D．observing their parents’ behaviors |
| A．Convincing. | B．Confused. |
| C．Confidence. | D．Cautious. |
6 . Last March my dad told us that there was a chance he would be deployed （部署，派遣）overseas. My brother and I didn't think anything of it and forgot his words . Two weeks later, Dad didn't come home on time. We didn't think it was serious since it wasn't the first time. We waited, and finally at midnight Dad came in. We asked where he'd been. He just replied , “I am leaving tomorrow for Afghanistan（阿富汗）.”
Hearing that, we were in shock , thinking that this could not be happening to us. But when he started packing his desert uniforms we knew it was for real.
He sat us all down and my brothers and I had a discussion about what we were going to do while he was away. And then we stayed up and helped him get ready. We ironed his uniforms and talked more about what we needed to do. We didn't get to sleep until 4 a.m. Therefore, my dad called school to say we were not going to be there that day.
We took off for Madison where he would check in and get ready to leave. When we got there the official told us that he wouldn’t leave until 5 p.m. We had our last meal together and then headed to the airport. We were told it was time to leave.
“Nothing is going to happen to me, and I love you,” he said. Then he was gone . We left the airport not saying anything to each other.
My dad is still gone, and he won't be home for a while. He talks to us occasionally on the phone. I hope that my story makes you think about your own family now and what counts to you.
1. How did the author feel when hearing their father would go for Afghanistan?| A．Amazed | B．Frightened |
| C．Angry | D．Satisfied |
| A．To tell he would go to Afghanistan. |
| B．to ask the school to look after his children. |
| C．to explain his children would be absent from school that day. |
| D．to let his children have more sleep |
| A．the author would be scolded by his teacher |
| B．nothing would happen to the author’s father |
| C．this is the first time for the author’s father to go abroad |
| D．the author wants to tell readers to value their family |
1．要保持良好的心态；
2．找出考试失常的原因；
3．寻找有助于释放压力的方式。
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2．词数100左右，开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
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8 . How to Be Grateful
Has your mother or best friend told you that you’re an ungrateful person?
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2. Be grateful for your friendships.
3. Be grateful to your family. Your family is another thing you should be grateful to. Your parents might have even been the people who tell you that you should be more grateful.
4.
| A．Make a gratitude list every Sunday. |
| B．Friendships are very important in our life. |
| C．Be grateful for all of the good deeds done for your benefit. |
| D．Many people are guilty of taking their friends for granted. |
| E．Keep everything that you are grateful for in mind very day. |
| F．So, take the time to tell your family how much they mean to you. |
| G．Do you feel unable to appreciate the beauty, nature, and love that are all around you? |
9 . What makes people successful? Take a look around and talk to your friends and seniors who are very successful, you will see all of them have adopted certain values which have proved important for their success.
It is evident that successful people take initiative(主动性). When they find something needs to be done, they never hesitate to do it.
Successful people do things with great enthusiasm, especially when they believe in what they are doing. They are motivated by their own satisfaction and the joy they get from doing their work.
They do not fear failure. Failures and disappointments in life are unavoidable.
Having good IQ often gets a person what he wants but it’s really the EQ that keeps him there and helps him enjoy a high reputation.
A. Successful people never complain
B. Successful person don’t make excuses.
C. They work hard even when no one is watching.
D. They believe that responsibility is taken, not given.
E. It is failure that teaches us much more than success.
F. It is hard to be successful if you don’t trust the people around you.
G. Successful people are polite to everyone and treat others with respect.
10 . A young woman sits alone in a café sipping tea and reading a book. She pauses briefly to write in a nearby notepad before showing her words to a passing café waiter: "Where are the toilets please?"This is a familiar scene in Tokyo’s so-called "silent cafés", where customers are not allowed to speak, and only communicate by writing in notepads.
The concept rises by a desire to be alone among young Japanese, a situation brought by economic uncertainty, a shift in traditional family support structures and the growing social isolation. The phenomenon is not limited to coffee shops but covers everything from silent discos, where participants dance alone wearing wireless headphones connected to the DJ, to products such as small desk tents designed for conversation-free privacy in the office. One Kyoto company even offers single women the opportunity to have a "one woman wedding"—a full bridal affair, complete with white dress and ceremony, and the only thing missing is the groom. The trend has its own media expression-“botchi-zoku”, referring to individuals who consciously choose to do things completely on their own.
One recent weekday afternoon, Chihiro Higashikokubaru, a 23-year-old nurse, travelled 90 minutes from her home, to Tokyo on her day off in order to enjoy some solo time. Speaking quietly at the entrance of the cafe, Miss Higashikokubaru said: “I heard about this place via Twitter and I like the idea of coming here. I work as a nurse and it's always very busy. There are very few quiet places in Tokyo, and it's a big busy city. I just want to come and sit somewhere quietly on my own. I’m going to drink a cup of tea and maybe do some drawings. I like the idea of a quiet, calm atmosphere.”
The desire to be isolated is not a new concept in Japan, home to an estimated 3.6 million "hikikomori" - a more extreme example of social recluses(隐士) who withdraw completely from society.
1. What is special about the “silent cafes”?| A．It provides various tea and books. |
| B．It has attracted many popular young people. |
| C．It offers service by writing not by speaking |
| D．People are not allowed to communicate. |
| A．Unstable economic situation |
| B．A change in traditional family support pattern |
| C．The rising demand for privacy |
| D．The increasing social isolation |
| A．She doesn’t like to be a nurse. | B．She doesn’t like the life in big cities. |
| C．She travelled to Tokyo on her work days. | D．She enjoys her solo time in a quiet place. |
| A．Lonely Japanese | B．One woman wedding |
| C．Social recluses in Japan | D．Silent cafes |
