A: Honesty is sincerity and loyalty, and cleverness is wit (机智) and acumen (敏锐).
B: Honesty and intelligence can be both for one person.
C: Honesty is another kind of cleverness. Cleverness may not necessarily true cleverness.
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Leadership doesn’t have a secret formula: All true leaders go about things in their own way. It’s the
Over his extraordinary career, Steve Jobs learned that even when you’re successful, it is vital that you don’t solely lead your company from a distance. Nobody can be successful
A great leader also needs to know his or her mind. You have to walk the walk as well as talk the talk – and that’s something Jobs showed in everything he did. Nobody
[A] Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk and should really carry warning labels?
[B] It’s not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers’ markets in the US as there were 20 years ago. Nor is it for lack of available information. There are plenty of recipes how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smart phone or television. If anything, the information is overwhelming.
[C] And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks. So we’re eating out or taking in, and we don’t sit down or we do, but we hurry.
[D] Shouldn’t preparing and consuming food be a source of comfort, pride health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource(外包) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful?
[E] When I talk about cooking, I’m not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects. I’m talking about simple, easy, everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
[F] Perhaps a return to real cooking needn’t be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy and 30% “love it”; 14%admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% won’t go near the stove at all. But this doesn’t necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn’t surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
[G] Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal. Most people couldn’t afford to do otherwise
[H] Although frozen dinners were invented in the’40s, their popularity didn’t boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been what’s for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts(催化剂) but the big food companies-which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking-made the home cook an endangered species.
[I] I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly. Isn’t this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn’t this the generation who say they’re concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn’t match their beliefs.
[J] There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the standard American diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the government’s standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
[K] To help quantify(量化) the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset(抵消) by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.
[L] Cooking real food is the best defense-not to mention that any meal you’re likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.
[M] To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh Produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local, organic ingredients; all you need is real food. I’m not saying local food isn’t better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores.
[N] The other sections you should get to know are the frozen foods and the canned goods. Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are still tomatoes. Just make sure you’re getting real food without tons of added salt sugar. Ask yourself, would grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It’s pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable food like objects.
[O] You don’t have to hit the grocery store daily, nor do you need an abundan of skill. Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is the one of confidence. And the only remedy for that is practice. There’s nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills. Someday you won’t even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving.
[P] Time, I realize, is the biggest obstacle to cooking for most people. You must adjust your priorities to find time to cook. For instance, you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch your favorite shows while you’re standing at the sink. No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you’re watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead.
1. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.2. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
3. Young do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
4. Cooking skills can be improved with practice.
5. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
6. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
7. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
8. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
9. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
10. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food.
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Other key findings showed a large gap between views of North American CEOs and those from other
5 . For children, English is a relatively strange language. If children are directly allowed to learn English without any prelude(前奏), they will be difficult to understand and have no interest in learning. Books are one of the main ways for children to understand if children can develop a good habit of reading, they can further expand their knowledge. In addition, in the process of reading English stories, children can learn many words and grammar knowledge that are not in textbooks, and their English level can also be improved. Now there are three stories to share with parents, so that children can see whether it is helpful for their English learning.
Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself, so they set a rule that everyone would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, “Who has ever seen a snake with feet? ”The story of “Draw a snake and add feet to it” tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king: “I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring(弓弦). ”When the king expressed doubt, Geng Lei pointed his bow at a wild goose flying in the sky, twanged the bowstring and the goose fell to the ground. Geng Lei said, “This goose been hurt in the past. Hearing the twang of the bowstring it assumed that it was doomed. So it simply gave up trying to live. ”This idiom means that if one has been frightened in the past one’s will may become paralysed(瘫痪的) in a similar situation.
Five dynasties(五代) painting tiger famous through the company since the childhood like painting, especially like painting a tiger, but not having seen the tiger really, always painted sick cats, the tiger, so he decided to enter the mountains, visit the tiger, really experienced untold hardships with the help of Orion’s uncle, finally met the tiger really, through a lot of sketch copy, the painting techniques by leaps and bounds, tiger’s tiger lifelike, a few can be spurious. Since then, and spent most of his time visited many famous mountains and great rivers, see more birds beast, finally become a generation of masters.
1. What is the purpose of this article?| A．Tell three stories. | B．Guide parents to help children learn English. |
| C．Advertise storybooks. | D．Improve children’s English. |
| A．Because of his superb skills. | B．Because he knew that the goose was hurt. |
| C．The goose was specially trained. | D．Because that wild goose has a special breed. |
| A．The three stories are all from ancient Chinese classical fables. |
| B．The author of these three stories is the same person. |
| C．At the end of the three stories, there are some principles of being a man. |
| D．The protagonists(主人公) of these three stories have their own excellence. |
| A．It is wrong to do too much or not enough. |
| B．Don’t waste too much time on meaningless things. |
| C．Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. |
| D．Only after personal experience can we really understand anything. |
6 . A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes(奇才) and music prodigies(神童), what it’s like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I’ve done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:
• attend a sleepover
• have a play date
• be in a school play
• complain about not being in a school play
• watch TV or play computer games
• choose their own extracurricular activities
• get any grade less than an A
• not be the No.1 student in every subject except gym and drama
• play any instrument other than the piano or violin
• not play the piano or violin.
I’m using the term “Chinese mother” loosely. I know some Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents who qualify too. Conversely, I know some mothers of Chinese heritage, almost always born in the West, who are not Chinese mothers, by choice or otherwise. I’m also using the term “Western parents” loosely. Western parents come in all varieties. All the same, even when Western parents think they’re being strict, they usually don’t come close to being Chinese mothers. For example, my Western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice their instruments 30 minutes every day. An hour at most. For a Chinese mother, the first hour is the easy part. It’s hours two and three that get tough.
Despite our squeamishness(神经过敏) about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences between Chinese and Westerners when it comes to parenting. In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that “stressing academic success is not good for children” or that “parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun. ” By contrast, roughly 0% of the Chinese mothers felt the same way. Instead, the vast majority of the Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be “the best” students, that “academic achievement reflects successful parenting,” and that if children did not excel at school then there was “a problem” and parents “were not doing their job. ” Other studies indicate that compared to Western parents, Chinese parents spend approximately 10 times as long every day drilling academic activities with their children. By contrast, Western kids are more likely to participate in sports teams.
1. Why can Sophia and Louisa become geniuses?| A．Because they listen to their mother’s arrangement. |
| B．Because they are gifted in mathematics and music. |
| C．Because Chinese parents can always cultivate successful children. |
| D．Because they are restricted to do something. |
| A．Cultural differences between China and the West. |
| B．Westerners tend to be more strict with their children. |
| C．Time for children to learn music. |
| D．The difference between Chinese mothers and Western mothers. |
| A．Participate in extracurricular activities with classmates. |
| B．Study hard and ignore everything else. |
| C．Practice your familiar musical instruments. |
| D．Strike a proper balance between work and rest. |
| A．Western mothers feel very different from Chinese mothers. |
| B．Western mothers have prejudice against Chinese mothers. |
| C．Western children develop more comprehensively than Chinese children. |
| D．Chinese mothers put too much pressure on their children to study. |
