1 . Spirit Day ideas are themes that bring a fun twist to a normal workday. The purpose of these ideas is to foster a positive work environment. Also, Spirit Days encourage creativity and boost morale among employees. Here is a list of ideas to liven up your office.

Superhero Day

On Superhero Day, teams can dress up as their favorite superheroes or create their own unique characters. You could make this exercise more office themed by asking workers to make a superhero based on their workplace talents. Host a costume contest where colleagues can vote for their favorite outfits.

Beach Day

To set this day up, choose a suitable beach location. Participants can bring their own blankets, towels, and beach chairs. Outdoor activities offer a break from the office, such as beach volleyball and building sandcastles. Beach Days are also a great time to enjoy a delicious meal together! You can bring barbecue classics to enjoy, such as hot dogs, burgers, and potato salad.

Sports Team Day

On Sports Team Day, participants wear their favorite sports team colors or jerseys. Employees can also dress up as specific athletes. Consider hosting this theme during a big game that most folks in the office want to watch. Teams can also compete in field day exercises! Workers can go head-to-head in soccer, football, or even lawn games.

Animal Day

On Animal Day, participants can dress up like their favorite animals or wear animal-print accessories. Pet-friendly offices can even welcome employees’ pets into the office for the day! Folks could put on a pet parade and let furry friends meet each other. You can also host activities such as trivia or pet photo contests.

1. Why is the idea of Spirit Day put forward?

A．To enhance the working conditions.	B．To establish an active workplace.
C．To lessen the pressure of employees.	D．To strengthen the team competence.

2. What do Sports Team Day and Beach Day have in common?

A．Employees can go outdoors to relax.	B．Employees can bring their belongings.
C．Employees can have a delicious meal together.	D．Employees can watch a big game in the office.

3. On which day can employees compete for the best dressed?

A．Superhero Day.

B．Beach Day.

C．Sports Team Day.

D．Animal Day.

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When I was seven years old, my family moved from Mexico to America. In Mexico, I was a cheerful girl who loved making people laugh with my jokes and inventing fun games to play with my friends. However, when I arrived in America, I found it hard to fit in, and I became quieter.

We lived in a small house with a modest yard where we grew vegetables—my responsibility. While I took pride in watching them grow, there were times when I dreamed of having a beautiful garden like my schoolmate Luella’s, with its delicate tulips (郁金香). Although Luella lived in the same neighborhood as me, we barely knew each other.

It was after a tornado that Luella and I finally became close friends.

The tornado struck on a Sunday afternoon.The gentle breeze transformed into a strong wind, and thick gray clouds filled the sky. Gradually, the tornado took shape, starting as a thin rope and growing into a large black funnel (漏斗). My entire family gathered in the bathroom, seeking shelter from the storm. Terrified, I sat close to my mom, knees in my chest. After the storm had passed, our worries and fears were replaced by relief that we were unharmed and that our house had remained undamaged.

As I stepped outside, I witnessed the extent of the damage the tornado had caused to our neighborhood. Across the street, a tall tree had fallen, crushing Luella’s garden in front of her yellow house. We hurried over to check on it. Fortunately, her family seemed to be away at the time, and no one was injured. However, her once-beautiful garden was in ruins, with the fallen tree destroying the tulips and debris (碎片) spread everywhere. I could only imagine how heartbroken they must feel seeing this.

Then my mom’s usual words rang in my ear, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” and my family started to think about how we could help.

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Just at that moment, Luella’s family returned in their car.

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Even after the debris was cleared, I could still sense Luella’s sorrow for her lost garden.

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5 . As a high school student, you’re likely used to learning through reading textbooks.     1     This lies at the heart of “experiential appreciation,” a philosophy that encourages you to engage directly with the world around you. It’s about learning from real-life experiences, and discovering a more profound and engaging way to learn.

To practice experiential appreciation, you can start by getting involved in hands-on activities related to your subjects. They will provide a firsthand understanding of the concepts you’re studying, making learning active and meaningful. So, try joining a sports team, picking up a paintbrush, or taking part in a local charity event.     2    

As you dive deeper, immerse (沉浸) yourself fully in the surroundings and activities. When you’re in nature, don’t just look around.     3     Touching the leaves, feeling the wind and listening to the birds can enrich your learning and make each moment more memorable.

    4     After trying something new, ask yourself what you learned and how it made you feel. Write in a journal or discuss it with friends. This self-discovery turns experiences into life lessons and offers a deeper understanding of the world.

Experiential appreciation transforms learning from a task to be completed into a journey to be treasured.     5     So, explore the world around you, let every experience shape you, and discover the endless possibilities that await. This is the core of true learning, where every moment is a step towards a richer, more enlightened life.

A．It extends learning beyond textbooks.

B．These activities bring learning to life.

C．Mind the impact of your actions on the environment.

D．Instead, activate your senses for a stronger tie with it.

E．Take your experiences further by reflecting on them.

F．Textbooks offer a systematic introduction to essential concepts and principles.

G．Now consider expanding your learning from just reading to actively participating.

6 . In June 1946 an airplane traveled from Rome to Paris. There was nothing unusual about this flight except one thing: for 20 minutes of the plane’s journey, one of its passengers became its pilot. The passenger was Helen Keller, an American author, educator, and activist who since childhood had been both blind and deaf.

Though many women of her generation would rarely travel via airplane, this was not Keller’s first time in the air, Her first flight as a passenger took place in 1919 on the set of Deliverance, a biographical film (where she actually appeared) Though Keller had been known across America by the time she was 16 and internationally by the time she was 24, some of the public still doubted a blind and deaf person could successfully communicate with hearing people or graduate from college. To battle this doubt, Deliverance’s producers wanted, “to show her doing all those things able-bodied people do,” including “scenes where she dresses herself, just to show the public that she can.” And since the airplane, still a new technology at that time, was fashionable, the producers decided they should show Keller flying too.

And that brings us back to 1946: the year Helen Keller piloted a plane herself.

Keller and her companion Thomson, who translated Keller’s speech to others and spoke to Keller by pressing symbols into her hand, were traveling to Europe. When the small plane crossed the Mediterranean, Keller took over the pilot’s controls.

Later she would tell the story to a Scottish reporter “by the same means as she piloted the plane, through hand ‘talk’ between herself and Thomson.” “The plane crew were amazed at her sensitive touch on the controls,” Thomson said. “There was no shaking. She just sat there and flew the plane calmly and steadily.” As pilot, Keller felt “the delicate movement" of the airplane better than ever before.

Before Keller, blindness was a taboo (禁忌) topic for women’s magazines; when she became a public figure, even the Ladies’ Home Journal published her writing. With Keller writing books, lecturing, and flying a plane, public ignorance regarding the deaf-blind could no longer be left unacknowledged.

1. What’s the purpose of the second paragraph?

A．To explain the popularity of a new technology.

B．To introduce the background of her flying experience.

C．To give examples of Keller’s ability to do many unexpected things.

D．To argue that Keller was braver than many women of her generation.

2. Why did Deliverance’s producers shoot Keller flying in 1919?

A．To prove Keller could pilot a plane.

B．To record Keller’s usual life in detail.

C．To record Keller was the first disabled person who flew.

D．To prove Keller could do many things able-bodied people could do.

3. How did Keller pilot a plane?

A．The pilot taught her hand in hand.

B．The copilot, Thomson, helped her.

C．She followed the symbols pressed into her hand.

D．She could speak like able-bodied people with a new technology

4. What can be inferred from the text?

A．Keller was able to behave like an able-bodied person.

B．Keller had an impact on women’s career

C．Keller was mere sensitive than pilots,

D．Public concern about the deaf-blind arouse because of Keller!

7 . Have you ever wondered why thinking too much makes you tired?     1     Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute looked at why mental effort makes us tired. The research team looked at the behavior of 40 participants in their research. Twenty-four of these performed challenging tasks, which included looking at a computer screen and matching different letters that appeared. The other 16 participants did a similar, but easier task. Both teams worked for six hours, and had two ten-minute breaks.     2     And they found that the group who had the more difficult task had higher levels of glutamate (谷氨酸) in their brains. Glutamate is a chemical the brain releases.

    3     It affects people’s sleep, mood and brain activities. Meanwhile, it means the brain tells the body it is tired and that it must rest. And, given a choice between an immediate cash reward and a larger reward that would come months later, people were more likely to choose the smaller, short-term reward than they were at the start of the day.

Study author Antonius Wiehler now hopes to use this system to learn more about how to recover from mental exhaustion.     4     Studies of cognitive fatigue (认知疲倦) could also be key to understanding how workers react to and recover from high-risk mental work such as air-traffic control, in which even a brief loss of focus can cost lives.

The challenging part of this research is that glutamate levels can be experimentally changed.     5     By doing so, it causes the molecule to accumulate during difficult mental work.

A．Too much glutamate upsets the brain’s functions.

B．The researchers scanned the brains of the participants.

C．A new study has found out some answers to this question.

D．That is to say, we could break down the molecular mechanisms (分子机制).

E．Glutamate is a chemical messenger in the brain that plays a role in learning.

F．Healthy levels of glutamate provide energy for brain cells and promote a sleep health.

G．He thinks it would be great to find out more about how glutamate levels are restored.