1 . Being a good team player is an essential skill, especially at work and school. Don’t worry if you struggle with teamwork. You can improve your skills as a team player.
Share credit with your teammates. No one likes a credit hog (贪婪的人), so don’t steal the spotlight. Treat the team’s accomplishments as a group success.
Pick team members who have skills that complement (补充) yours, if you can. If you have a choice on who you’ll work with, look for people who are different from you.
Include input from all team members so everyone is heard. A team can only thrive if everyone feels valued and heard. Not all ideas are winners, but the group must still listen to them and consider if they’re good ideas for this project. Make it a priority to collaborate (协作) as much as possible. If team members start to feel as though their ideas don’t matter, they’ll stop being an active part of the team.
Participate in brainstorming sessions to encourage collaboration. When you can, meet in person so you can have a free exchange of ideas.
| A．Speak up when you have ides about a topic. |
| B．Make sure you do an equal share of the work. |
| C．Don’t expect your teammates to take responsibility of keeping you on track. |
| D．This will hurt your overall output as you’ re losing valuable ideas and expertise. |
| E．Plus, acknowledge the individual contributions made by your teammate. |
| F．If this isn’t possible, schedule a digital conference through service providers like Skype. |
| G．It’s better to have diverse ideas and skills on your team, as you’ll be able to be more creative. |
2 . It may be the holiday season, but the spirit of peace and goodwill has not infected the streets of Los Angeles. More drivers seem to be rolling through stop signs and running red lights than ever before. Everyone seems to be in a terrible hurry.
Why is everyone in such a hurry? Where are they rushing to?
I think perhaps the answer lies in answering this question: What does that round of parties and meetings and mad rushing from place to place allow all of us to avoid confronting? I think the answer is clear---ourselves.
There is an experiment where subjects had to choose between being alone with themselves and their thoughts for approximately 15 minutes and receiving electric shocks. The majority chose the shocks-- reflection of how painful, frightening, threatening, confusing, boring (!), you name it...we find being alone with just ourselves and our thoughts.
Our desire not to be with our innermost thoughts is so great that we create and find distractions. In the car, we can make phone calls or listen to music. We live in a world of endless opportunities for distraction.
I understand the desire. Life is hard. Growing is a painful slow process. To keep moving requires determination and strength--- and giving up seems So much easier (as do those electric shocks!). We may win some battles, but the war is never over. Sometimes we are just too tired to fight and just need that music or that book to relax. I just instinctively turn on the radio when I get in the car, I don’t even give the quiet a moment to sink in.
But it’s time for a reality check; otherwise, we slip into an avoidance mode. It’s challenging. But let’ s take a change. Instead of rushing from house to car to meeting to groceries to...let’s take a moment to stop and think before each activity. What do I want to achieve now? And what is the best way to do that? Maybe I could think of ways to grow.
1. Why does the author mention drivers on the streets of Los Angeles?| A．To describe a strong holiday atmosphere. |
| B．To prevent a unique social phenomenon of America. |
| C．To raise his question on why people are in a terrible hurry. |
| D．To show that it’ S time to improve road safety in America. |
| A．Facing | B．Passing | C．Winning out | D．Keeping off |
| A．They should be more courageous. |
| B．Their attitude to life was unexpected. |
| C．Their behavior was understandable. |
| D．They should refuse to take part in the experiment. |
| A．He has realized the importance of saving time. |
| B．He often reviews the mistakes he has made. |
| C．He will spend more time thinking. |
| D．He thinks life is full of surprises. |
3 . Researchers at the Harvard Medical School have been looking at how sleeping and dreaming affect the way we perform certain tasks. Previous research has already shown that a person who has a nap (小睡) after learning a task will be able to complete the task better when they wake up than a person who doesn’t sleep. Now it has been revealed that if the person dreams about the task while they are asleep then they will be able to perform it even better.
For instance, if a student stays up all night to revise for an exam then he or she won’t do as well as a student who combines their study with sleep. But the student who will do best in the exam is the one who sleeps and dreams providing the dreams are related to what he or she is learning.
The time we are asleep is divided into different periods. These periods are known as REM (rapid eye movement) sleep and NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep. During REM periods our dreams are more vivid and intense and easier to remember when we wake up. Brain activity is also higher.
According to Associate Professor Robert Stickgold, a memory and dream researcher at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, there’s convincing evidence that when we dream, the brain is making connections that help us learn what we have been learning previously.
It’s possible that in the future some courses will include short sleeping periods as part of the learning process. The power nap is now an established practice in the professional world even if it’s frowned upon in some cultures. It’s only a matter of time before a short sleep is common while studying. And if our dreams can be controlled to relate in some way to what we are learning then our learning potential will increase even more.
We know that we can’t live without sleep. But the reasons why we sleep and why we dream while we’re asleep are still a mystery.
1. What has the new research found?| A．Our dreams remain active during sleep. |
| B．Dreams help increase our learning potential. |
| C．We tend to dream after a long period of study. ; |
| D．Sleep is necessary for keeping our brains healthy. |
| A．By using statistics. |
| B．By giving examples. |
| C．By analyzing causes, |
| D．By describing a process. |
| A．Our brains are more active during NREM sleep. |
| B．We are more likely to wake up during REM sleep. |
| C．Dreams during NREM sleep are more likely to disappear from memory, |
| D．Dreams during REM periods influence sleep quality much more heavily, |
| A．The more we sleep, the more we dream. |
| B．Short sleeps should be encouraged in class. |
| C．We dream because our brain is making connections. |
| D．The benefits of the power nap lack scientific evidence. |
1.活动的缘由和意义；
2.活动的内容和形式；
3.你的感想和收获。
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3.语句通顺，意思连贯，可根据提示适当发挥；
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6 . Nursing homes (养老院)offer safe, caring environments to older people who cannot live safely by themselves in their own homes.
People stay in bed all day. Visit nursing home and you won’t see most people lying in bed all day.
People who live in nursing homes don’t have rights. Needing extra care doesn’t mean you lose your right to make your own decisions. People in nursing homes still have rights. They have the control of their health care decisions and can choose what activities held in nursing homes they want to take part in.
It feels like a hospital. A nursing home isn’t a hospital; a good one shouldn’t feel like a hospital either. Some areas of nursing homes may feel more like a hospital if people there need more care.
| A．Very few people like nursing homes. |
| B．People will never leave the nursing home. |
| C．These areas may make people very anxious. |
| D．But other areas are designed to feel like a home. |
| E．People in nursing homes can have their visitors too. |
| F．However, wrong beliefs about nursing homes continually exist. |
| G．Many people in nursing homes actually live active and happy lives. |
1.表示安慰；
2.提出建议；
3.美好祝愿。
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Dear Jack,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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