1 . We all have stress sometimes. Stress comes from good or bad things that happen to us. For some people, it happens before having to speak in public, while for others, it might be because of a first date. What causes stress for you may not be stressful for someone else.
When you are stressed, you feel as though you are in danger, which speeds up your heart, makes you breathe faster, and gives you a burst (迸发) of energy.
Sometimes stress is useful. It can encourage you to get things done quickly. For example, it helps you finish an important job on time. But if stress happens too often or lasts too long, it can cause diseases and bad feelings. That’s why you need to deal with it immediately when you feel the bad results of stress. The sooner, the better.
The first step to deal with your stress is to try to find out the cause of the stress. It is usually caused by too much work, money worries, or a bad relationship. If you know the cause of your stress, pull yourself out from it or change the situation. Even if you are only able to get away for a few seconds or minutes, the break is important for it can lead to the final disappearance of stress. If you can’t find out the cause of your stress, you need to discuss your situation with your family, friends, or someone who can help. Talking with others can help you find ways to relax and calm down. Listening to music and taking exercise are also of great help.
1. Which of the following is NOT true according to the first three paragraphs?| A．People feel stressed for different reasons. |
| B．Not all stress is bad for our health. |
| C．Stress makes the heart beat faster. |
| D．Stress always makes us feel bad. |
| A．we’d better finish our important job ahead of time |
| B．the earlier we know the bad results of stress, the better |
| C．we should manage our stress as quickly as possible |
| D．it’s necessary for us to turn to a doctor for help |
| A．Understand the bad results of stress. |
| B．Look for ways to pull you out of stress. |
| C．Find out what is making you stressed. |
| D．Have a break for a short time. |
| A．the cause of stress |
| B．the ways to control stress |
| C．the role of music and exercise in reducing stress |
| D．the importance of discussing your stress with others |
| A．What happens when you are under stress? |
| B．What can you do about stress? |
| C．What are the causes of stress? |
| D．How do you work out your stress level? |
2. 对他成功原因的认识；
3. 再次表达祝贺并表示祝愿。
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3 . As a teenager, I am often asked what I am going to be in the future. A lawyer? A doctor? Or a scientist? No, my ideal career is to be a teacher. One of the
“Look! Do you know what it is? A-ha, it’s the
Generally speaking, most of the teachers are strict
One day I happened to meet him in the hospital. Seeing the cut on his arm, I realized he was donating his
Every time I see my globe (地球仪), it would
Thank you, Mr Chen, thank you for making learning not a job but a joy.
Thank you for helping me to discover what I do best and to do it even
Thank you for understanding all of us and giving us the time and care each of us needs.
1.| A．replies | B．reasons | C．rewards | D．results |
| A．moon | B．earth | C．star | D．sun |
| A．advised | B．announced | C．added | D．answered |
| A．distance | B．weight | C．size | D．height |
| A．very | B．too | C．really | D．so |
| A．at present | B．at once | C．at times | D．at first |
| A．with | B．to | C．in | D．for |
| A．away | B．together | C．angry | D．along |
| A．thinking | B．caring | C．considering | D．supposing |
| A．money | B．blood | C．clothes | D．time |
| A．taught | B．given | C．taken | D．had |
| A．remembers | B．represents | C．warns | D．reminds |
| A．just | B．never | C．ever | D．yet |
| A．able | B．about | C．allowed | D．available |
| A．well | B．good | C．better | D．best |
4 . “I think kawaii, or cute feelings, can remind us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi Nittono, director of the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory at Osaka University.
“Viewing cute images of baby animals gives us a desire to act tenderly and responsibly to protect them,” he explains. “This idea holds that weak and defenseless but cute things set off caregiving behavior in the beholder.” Cute things make us feel protective, and when we’re protective, we might be naturally more focused.
Engineers, advertisers, and developers have taken advantage of this phenomenon, using kawaii to control user experience and consumer behavior. Researchers call it cute engineering. It’s a way to harness positive feelings and emotions to motivate (激励) and shape the user’s behavior in a positive way.
Sometimes cute engineering is subtle (微妙的), but it’s often quite obvious. Engineers use kawaii in the field of robotics, for instance—the cuter the robot, the more humans will want to engage with it. There’s also the iMac, which over the years, Apple designed to be subtly adorable (可爱的). It persuaded traditionally non-computer users to buy into the world of computing so that they could sell more units.
There’s also “cute filtering (萌物滤镜)”, a component of cute engineering that allows consumers to personalize their kawaii experience, just like the way iMac users could choose the color of their units. In this way, users can create their own kawaii experience. Using a “cute filter”, users can freely choose the cuteness parameters (参数) such as color, size, motion, smell, and taste to adjust their desired cute output.
1. Why would people like to protect cute baby animals according to Hiroshi Nittono?| A．People have no choice but to do it. |
| B．People are taught to protect animals. |
| C．Cute things motivate people to protect them. |
| D．Cute baby animals are too weak to protect themselves. |
| A．Focus on. | B．Figure out. | C．Throw light on. | D．Make use of. |
| A．The iMac could shape people’s preference. |
| B．Computer producers could make more money. |
| C．Engineers could design computers to their taste. |
| D．Consumers would like to have more kawaii experience. |
| A．The Power of Kawaii. | B．Protect Cute Animals. |
| C．A New Discovery. | D．Control Cute Feelings. |
5 . Why do people seek out information about an ex's new relationships, read negative Internet comments and do other things that will obviously be painful? Because humans are born with the need to resolve uncertainty, according to a recent study in Psychological Science. The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will seek to avoid their curiosity even when it is clear the answer will hurt.
In a series of four experiments, the students were tested on their willingness to expose themselves to disgusting stimuli（刺激物）in an effort to satisfy curiosity. For one trial, each participant was shown a pile of pens, half of which would deliver an electric shock when clicked. Twenty-seven students were informed of the exact pens; another 27 were told only that some were electrified. When left alone in the room, the students who did not know which ones would shock them clicked more pens and brought more shocks than the students who knew what would happen. The following experiments copied this effect with other stimuli, such as the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and photographs of disgusting insects.
The drive to discover is deeply-rooted in humans, just like the basic drive for food, says Christopher Hsee of the University of Chicago, a co-author of the paper. Curiosity is often considered a good instinct（本能）—it can lead to new scientific advances, for instance—but sometimes such inquiry can backfire. “The insight that curiosity can drive you to do self-destructive things is a profound one,” says George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and phychology at Carnegie Mellon University who has pioneered the scientific study of curiosity.
Morbid（病态的）curiosity is possible to resist however. In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to predict how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to choose to see such an image. These results suggest that imagining the outcome of following through on one's curiosity ahead of time can help determine whether it is worth the risk. “Thinking about long term consequences is key to reducing the possible negative effects of curiosity,” Hsee says. In other words, don't red online comments.
1. Why do people read negative internet comments according to the passage?| A．To broaden the horizon. | B．To ease their pain. |
| C．To preserve their reputation. | D．To satisfy their curiosity. |
| A．Giving examples. | B．Describing facts. |
| C．Making comparisons. | D．Explaining causes. |
| A．Add fuel to the fire. | B．Cause a sudden explosion. |
| C．Produce an opposite effect. | D．Provide approval and support. |
| A．By predicting potential outcomes. |
| B．By participating in more experiments. |
| C．By reading negative online comments. |
| D．By considering the positive consequences. |
6 . We tend to receive a lot of free advice in our daily lives. When our oldest daughter was living at home before she got married, she had so much advice for us that she became our life coach. Because our life coach was engaged and about to marry, she was reading book after book on marriage and relationships. She had not yet been in a marriage, but she was nearly an expert on the subject.
Our life coach is now married and extremely busy coaching a family of her own. She doesn’t have much time for coaching us, but one of her daughters recently took over that responsibility.
The child is concerned that her grandpa sleeps late many days. She is too young to have read any books on flexible schedules being one of the great parts of retirement and believes my husband and I need to keep the same schedule. I explain that her grandpa and I have different circadian rhythms (生物周期节律), which are patterns of sleep and wakefulness in relationship to light and darkness. He has always been a night owl, and I have always been an early morning person.
Mini-coach also has it in her head that I should get her grandpa on the same schedule I am on. I did not tell her there are some who believe slightly different schedules may be the key to a happy marriage for fear she would report me to her mother our former life coach.
Mini-coach has advised me to set every clock in the house ahead by one minute so Grandpa will think it is later than it is and get up earlier. “Then each week, you should set every clock ahead by another minute,” she says. Mini-coach has not done the math because using that method could take four years to bring his schedule to match mine.
We take our coaching into consideration. We are happy that someone takes an interest in us and even happier that we don’t have to pay for free advice.
1. Why did the author consider her oldest daughter their life coach?| A．She had a wide range of knowledge. |
| B．She was an expert on relationships. |
| C．She dealt with her marriage very. |
| D．She was keen on giving them advice. |
| A．She was asked by her mother to do so. |
| B．She was worried about her grandpa. |
| C．She wanted more attention from hey grandparents. |
| D．She wanted her grandparents to get on well. |
| A．She has a habit of working late |
| B．She enjoys the love from her family. |
| C．She dislikes it when people offer her advice. |
| D．She’ll help her husband adjust his schedule. |
7 . I was sitting at my kitchen table the other day with a pen, notebook, calculator and a pile of bills. I was doing my monthly budget. There were bills for electric water, rent, insurance, the car payment, the phone bill, and the cable bill. Plus money needed to be set aside for food, gas, clothes and hopefully a little left over to save for those unexpected bills that always seemed to show up. When I was done, I shook my head, closed my eyes and thought of a time long ago when I would regularly get treasures.
When I was a boy, we lived across the road from Camp Caesar. It held week long camps all through the summer and my grandma who I lovingly called “Nanny” worked in her big kitchen. I remember slipping there getting a smile, a hug, a kiss and a hot roll from Nanny. Then she would always take deep in her pockets and pull out a treasure, a shiny quarter. She would give it to me and I would run down the hill to either get an ice cold can of coke from the pop machine or I would head to the camp’s swimming pool where I could buy a warm cup of cherry coke for 15 cents and a tiny 10 cent bag of chips from a stand. I took my time because it was always a big decision. It was nice too feeling so rich for a few minutes.
Looking back now I can see that the real treasure was not the quarter at all. It was the love with which Nanny gave it to me. I would have still visited her at work every day if I had never gotten a single quarter. It was her smile, hugs, and kisses that were priceless in my heart then and now.
The old saying is true, “With your work you can make a living, but it is with your love that you make a life.” You can always welcome love into your heart, soul and mind. And you can always share your love with others. It is that one treasure that lasts forever.
1. According to Paragraph 1, what was the author trying to figure out?| A．Where to get treasures. | B．What food and supplies to buy. |
| C．How to sort out these bills at hand. | D．How to balance the money available. |
| A．A kind of bread | B．A kind of act. |
| C．A sound. | D．A greeting. |
| A．Considerate. | B．Generous. |
| C．Affectionate. | D．Enthusiastic. |
| A．To change people’s heart and soul. |
| B．To show what we should value in life. |
| C．To explain work and love can make a life. |
| D．To advise more love and sharing in childhood. |
8 . Smile Every Day
Everyone wants to be happy.
Do you think it is difficult to smile? Let us test. What is your favorite place to visit? When do you feel that you are the happiest person on the earth?
Like every other task in our daily life, we need to schedule time for smile as well. No matter what happens, there should be a smile on your face for most of the time.
Most of us think that we will be happy when we achieve something. Do you remember the last time when you had such an achievement? Did your happiness last forever after that? No. It lasts only for a few days and you start running after the other thing to be happier.
Use your smile to change the situations, but do not let situations change your smile. You know many problems turn their way if they see the person smiling, so keep smiling.
| A．In fact, smile is around you. |
| B．Nature is expecting your smile. |
| C．Nobody will refuse your smile. |
| D．It is the sign that you are living your life happily. |
| E．However, most of us miss our smile most of the time. |
| F．You'll find smiling can really make a difference to your life. |
| G．Close your eyes and think about that beautiful place or moment for a while. |
| A．The bad news saddened him. |
| B．He had a terrible cold. |
| C．He was affected by the weather. |
| D．He was criticized by somebody. |
