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The Club I Want to Join
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 . Feeling refreshed is essential for overall health. Usually, great importance is attached to making your body feel refreshed.
Think positively.
Perform activities that bring you joy.
If you have a stressful job and feel tired after a long day, jumping into an activity you see as a pleasure can help you feel refreshed.
Make sure you laugh.
Laughing is good for you, no matter how you look at it.
Staying in contact with the outside world is important for your mental health as well as a key to feeling refreshed. Talking to other people about their issues rather than your own is a good way to forget your worries and get strength.
| A．Avoid isolating yourself. |
| B．Performan act of service. |
| C．It is a direct way to restore your mind. |
| D．It’s important to feel refreshed throughout your day. |
| E．Do something like reading a book to change your mindset and have fun. |
| F．However, finding ways to keep your mind refreshed is of equal significance. |
| G．It has a positive effect on your heart, activates muscles, and promotes relaxation. |
5 . In 2007, Christine Me Millan interviewed seniors about their most pressing needs, who lived in Bowling Green 2, a private apartment building. It offers great conveniences: affordable apartments and within walking distance of grocery stores, drugstores and banks. However, the 12 citizens McMillan spoke to shared a serious unaddressed problem: loneliness. Most sat in their apartments all day, watching TV and napping and living on tea, toast and cereal because they were unwilling to cook a proper meal for themselves. They were afraid of going into long-term care but couldn’t afford to move to a nursing home (养老院).
“What they said really concerned me,” says McMillan. “Why couldn’t the activities and meals in the common room of a nursing home exist in the shared spaces of a private apartment building?”
McMillan and her team, who named their concept Oasis, encouraged Bowling Green 2’s landlord (房东) to let the group use the common room and to change an unused space into a coffee lounge for members. In 2010, with funding (资金) from the government, they hired fulltime workers to run the program, including group exercise classes and activities like art lessons and Wii bowling. Meanwhile, Oasis partnered with St. Lawrence College, whose culinary (烹饪的) students created healthy meals for a small fee. Within the first year, the program almost doubled in size.
Seventy-seven-year-old Elaine Watier, who moved into the building and joined Oasis in 2017, immediately benefited from the program, learning to play bridge and starting a craft group that makes projects for local charities and hospitals. “It’s given me a sense of worth,” she says. “And I’m never lonely.”
In 2018, Oasis attracted the attention of researchers at Queen’s University. “I saw this as an perfect program to support older adults at home,” explains Catherine Donnelly, director of the school’s Health Services and Policy Research Institute, reporting the program had led to fewer falls, less inactivity, better nutrition and an increased sense of community.
1. What is probably the major concern of the 12 citizens in Bowling Green 2?| A．Cooking tasty meals. | B．Going to a nursing home. |
| C．Settling extreme loneliness. | D．Attending routine activities |
| A．It was warmly received by the senior citizens. |
| B．It provided meals to culinary students for free. |
| C．It received economic support from organizations. |
| D．It hired part-time workers to operate the program. |
| A．To draw more funding. | B．To attract more older adults. |
| C．To achieve a sense of worth. | D．To show the benefits of Oasis. |
| A．Loneliness: The Universal Issue |
| B．McMillan: The Founder of Oasis |
| C．Oasis: The Home of Senior Citizens |
| D．Activities: The Art Lessons for Old People |
8 . Summer Clothing from Ancient China
| Sha Gown A sha gown was unearthed from Han Tomb No. 1 at Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan province, in 1972. It is the earliest, most well-preserved, most graceful and thinnest dress in the world. The plain gown, “thin as a cicada (蝉) wing” and “light as smoke”, weighs 49 grams. Shaw as highly valued and luxurious (奢侈的) for common people. |
| Luo Robe Well-suited for the southern regions of China, luo has larger holes in the fabric compared with sha, making it more lightweight and breathable. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties, luo was mainly used for the upper class, and only officials of fifth rank or higher were permitted to wear clothes made of the material. |
| Ge Clothes Resourceful individuals discovered a method to use plant fibers for clothing production, significantly reducing the cost of summer garments, that is Ge. Known as kudzu or Chinese arrowroot, Ge represents the earliest use of natural fiber as fabric in China. Once the lunar month of June arrived, people would usually change to get clothing. |
| Liang dang A classic style of costume appeared during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Liang dang consists of front and back pieces, later called the vest. It was convenient for people who work outdoors for long periods. |
1. What is the common feature of sha and luo?
| A．Light and expensive. | B．Thick and graceful. |
| C．Affordable and ordinary. | D．Hard and traditional. |
| A．The Han Dynasty. | B．The Tang Dynasty. |
| C．The Song Dynasty. | D．The Southern and Northern Dynasties. |
| A．Entertainment. | B．Culture. | C．Sports. | D．Literature. |
9 . Studies have shown how we understand our strength contributes to the extent to which our muscles might waste with disuse. When researchers at Ohio University examined the strength among a group of adults, who agreed to have their wrists immobilized for a week to cause weakness, they found that only imagining having strong muscles reduced the loss in strength by 50 percent.
Crum, a pioneer in this area, found in his study that having a different attitude can maximize (最大化) the benefits of all the occasional exercise we do each day, such as housework or walking around the shops. It appears that tracking our steps through smart watches and other wearable technologies can make a difference to how we understand our fitness. The study showed people who had previously regarded themselves as inactive, were found that they were actually completing about 7000 steps a day and began to report improved mood, better confidence and even an increase in aerobic fitness measurements, even though they weren’t exercising more than usual.
An even more unexpected fitness trick might come from our gut. It seems that having the right populations of gut bacteria (肠道菌群) makes you more likely to exercise. Last December, Christopher Thais sat the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues found that differences in gut bacterial populations appeared to play a much greater role than genetics (遗传学) when it came to running performance in mice. They identified two particular bacteria as being especially important. When the mice were given these in supplements, it seemed to increase their desire to exercise.
It remains to be seen whether this works effectively in humans. We still have much to learn about whether changing microbial populations can make us fitter, says Shrushti Shah at the University of Calgary in Canada. This could be significant, as many of us struggle to find the motivation to exercise.
1. What does the underlined word “immobilized” in paragraph 1mean?| A．Balanced. | B．Fixed. | C．Straightened. | D．Bent. |
| A．Tracking steps is necessary in daily routine. |
| B．Attitude matters to all the occasional exercise. |
| C．Walking around the shops amounts to 7000 steps. |
| D．Inactive people have trouble in completing exercise. |
| A．To further explain the research method. |
| B．To support evidence for the research result. |
| C．To show potential application of the research finding. |
| D．To present a reasonable doubt about the research process. |
| A．Indifferent. | B．Doubtful. | C．Cautious. | D．Supportive. |
In traditional Chinese culture, sky lanterns represent people’s good wishes, carrying them into the sky and making heaven aware of them.
According to Chinese history, sky lanterns, first used by Zhuge Kongming,
Sky lanterns are made of bamboo and covered with paper,
However, sky lanterns can be
Sky lanterns, each of which
