4 . IS YOUR HOME SAFE?

Your home can be a dangerous place, but by making it safer you can prevent accidents. The kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom are where most accidents happen. These can include falls, fires, poisoning, cuts, hot water burns, and electric shocks.

THE KITCHEN

People may slip when the floor is wet, so make sure the floor is kept dry.

Always cut away from your body when you use a knife.

Follow instructions for all electrical appliances.

Unplug all appliances after use.

THE BEDROOM

•Never smoke in bed.

•Keep a lamp near the bed.

•Have a telephone near the bed, especially when you’re feeling ill.

•Don’t run electrical wires under carpets.

THE BATHROOM

•Don’t plug in an electrical appliance or use one while standing in water.

•Don’t use a hairdryer near a bath containing water.

•Keep the bathroom floor dry.

•Make sure that your hot water heater is set at a low temperature.

PREVENTING FIRES

Fires can cause terrible damage to your home and terrible injuries to people. If there is a fire, your first priority is getting everyone out of the house safely, and then calling for help. Never go back into a burning building to save your things.

•Buy clothes, curtains, and toys that do not burn easily.

•Use heaters very carefully, as they can set objects on fire.

•Place them away from furniture.

•When cooking, do not let oil touch the fire or other sources of heat.

•Check electrical wires a number of times each year to make sure they are in good condition.

•Switch off your gas and electricity when you will be away from home for a long time.

•Make sure your home is equipped with fire extinguishers.

CHILDREN AND HOME SAFETY

Homes are not always safe places for young children.Being curious, they may stick their fingers or objects into dangerous places and end up suffering from electric shocks or getting burnt. In addition, they may try to eat or drink anything they can find, whether it is food or not. For these reasons, it is important to make your home safe if you have young children about.

•Keep matches out of the reach of children.

•Store all cleaning materials in a locked cupboard.

•Never leave a small child alone in the bath.

•Put covers over electrical outlets.

•Keep all medicines out of the reach of children.

MAKING YOUR HOME SAFE FOR THE ELDERLY

The elderly present special challenges, as they may have trouble moving about and can be seriously hurt in falls. If you have an elderly person in your home, you may need to take some extra measures to make your home safer.

•Make sure that passages within the home are kept clear.

•Put non-slip bath mats in and next to the bath and shower.

•Put handrails along passage walls and in the bathroom.

1. Which is not included in the common accidents around the house?

A．Smoking.

B．Falls.

C．Electric shocks.

D．Poisoning.

2. We can make our home safer for the elderly by ____.

A．storing all cleaning materials in a locked cupboard.

B．putting handrails along passage walls and in the bathroom.

C．following instructions for all electrical appliances.

D．keeping the bathroom floor dry.

3. According to the passage, which statement is not true?

A．You should make sure that your hot water is set at a low temperature.

B．You shouldn’t run electrical wires under carpets.

C．You should keep all medicines out of the reach of children.

D．You don’t have to have your home equipped with fire extinguisher.

4. Where do you think the text comes?

A．Newspaper.	B．An advertisement.
C．A home-safety manual (使用手册).	D．The Internet.

5 . At 7:01 A.M., my twin daughters, Natasha and Ariel, were scheduled to begin third grade at Chengdu Experimental Primary School.

For my wife, Leslie, and me, getting our daughters into Chengdu Experimental had been a long and mysterious _________. In the spring of 2018, we had travelled from our home in Colorado to Chengdu in order to visit schools. We’d come away with a good _________ of Chengdu Experimental, which is considered to be perhaps the best public primary school in the city. But officials were uncertain about _________ Ariel and Natasha. The school had no recent _________ of educating foreigners, and if the twins were to attend, they would be the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand.

At 4:30 P.M., I waited alone in front of the gate. When Class Six _________ out of the schoolyard, Teacher Zhang walked at the front of a neat line of children, and Ariel and Natasha were at the end. The twins held it together until they reached me.

‘‘I feel so stupid!” Ariel said. She burst into tears, pressing against my side. “We didn’t understand anything!” Her sister was also _________: “I don’t want to go back!” A few parents looked _________ in my direction, and Teacher Zhang hurried over. She was middle-aged, with large, alert eyes and a gentle _________. “I think that it was difficult for them,” she said. I thanked her for her _________, and I said that we would continue to work on Mandarin at home. I waited for Ariel and Natasha to __________ before we walked to the subway station.

In order to become proper Chinese third graders, Natasha and Ariel needed to memorize a total of sixteen hundred __________. They started with ten a day. Leslie organized our system of home study, and every afternoon, when the twins returned from school, she __________ them a new stack of flash cards. For each set of ten, we quizzed them twice: first on __________, then on writing. The flash cards outlined the correct stroke (笔画) order, and the twins wrote the characters over and over in dozens of cheap brown exercise books that lay scattered like autumn leaves around the apartment.

Luckily enough, it was amazing how quickly my twins were becoming members of the school’s system. At the end of the first week, a school rally __________ Chengdu International Poetry Week. I saw that Natasha and Ariel had been __________ in the front row, waving their arms and smiling.

1.

A．experience

B．process

C．promotion

D．exploration

2.

A．introduction

B．decoration

C．observation

D．impression

3.

A．spotting

B．admitting

C．exchanging

D．wondering

4.

A．tradition

B．plan

C．intention

D．goal

5.

A．stepped

B．ran

C．rolled

D．marched

6.

A．sobbing

B．shouting

C．laughing

D．screaming

7.

A．curiously

B．confusingly

C．challengingly

D．understandably

8.

A．attitude

B．aspect

C．method

D．manner

9.

A．advice

B．patience

C．command

D．request

10.

A．calm down

B．hang out

C．push through

D．set down

11.

A．characters

B．images

C．illustrations

D．meanings

12.

A．copied

B．delivered

C．handed

D．sent

13.

A．recognition

B．concentration

C．reading

D．suggestions

14.

A．celebrated

B．created

C．pointed

D．assisted

15.

A．hidden

B．guided

C．replaced

D．positioned

7 . One great way to spend time outdoors is to garden. Here are some benefits you can get from gardening.

    1    

Studies have found evidence that being in nature is linked with less anxiety, less depression and many other positive effects. The nice thing about a garden is that it can be right in your yard.     2    , you’re much more likely to be outside when the work of a garden requires it.

Eat healthfully

A garden can make the freshest and healthiest foods available. And the types of foods can have a great impact on your mental health.     3    .

Practice acceptance

Most suffering comes from trying to control things that you can’t. The more you can accept the limits of your control in your life, the more peace of mind you can find — and gardening is a great way to practice.     4    . You just bring your best efforts to what you can control, and let go of the rest.

Develop a growth mindset (思维模式)

Psychologist Carol Dweck developed the difference between “fixed” and “growth” mindsets, and gardening is a great opportunity to develop the latter.     5    . When something doesn’t work out the way you hoped, you view it as a learning opportunity rather than as a failure.

A．If you like healthy food

B．Spend more time in nature

C．While you spend time sitting in your yard

D．With a growth mindset, we’re constantly learning

E．Acceptance in the garden or elsewhere doesn’t mean giving up

F．Studies shows that diet changes can be helpful for depression

G．There’s the added benefit of knowing you played a role in growing the food