1 . 假设你是校报英文版面“Heart-to-heart”栏目编辑李华。近日你收到一封署名"Lost”的高三同学来信,倾诉了自己焦虑、孤独、失眠等困扰,并寻求帮助。请你为其写一封回信刊登在该栏目,内容包括:
1.表达理解与共情;
2.提出切实建议与鼓励。
要求必须使用句型:1.强调句;2.定语从句;3.only倒装句。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.勿出现真实姓名、学校等信息;
3.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Lost,
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2 . Self-esteem is the ruling view you have of yourself. This includes your beliefs about your inner qualities and how you think others see you.
People with healthy self-esteem don't need to boast about themselves to others. People with low self-esteem may tell you how much everyone loves them, what a great job they do at work, and how amazing they are at pretty everything under the sun even though they really wonder if it's true. People may see them as obnoxious or “full of themselves”.
If you're starting to think you may have low self-esteem, you can work on the way you talk to yourself. When you turn off negative self-talk, you can open the floor to positive reinforcements and access the courage to show different sides of yourself. It isn't going to feel good at first, though. Keep going until it becomes less and less and maybe even a few awkward laughs in the mirror may help.
However, in serious cases of low or even non-existent self-esteem, you may want to call in a professional or a specialist. Good mental health is important, and professionals doing psychotherapy do not pass judgement or give corrections.
A.Self-esteem is not always rooted in reality, though. |
B.You have the power to shape a new self-perception. |
C.This encourages you to speak openly without worry. |
D.The real test of character is whether they can learn from their mistakes. |
E.Self-esteem refers to a person's overall sense of his or her value or worth. |
F.People with a healthy level of self-esteem present themselves with a casual confidence. |
G.With some practice and persistence, you will win this internal struggle to see your self-worth. |
The Girl Who Never Talked
I never really felt like I fit in. I was a freshman in high school and my only close friend was Bella, whom I had known since kindergarten. Bella is and will always be one of my best friends and we often play together. However, she had other close friends too, but I didn't. I was on the volleyball team, and on the court I knew exactly who I was and where I was supposed to be. I loved all of my teammates, but when we were sitting in the stands before and after games I would just sit there quietly, totally unsure of myself.
At school, no one spoke to me and I didn't know how to get along with them. It seems like the only time anyone talked to me was just to jokingly say, "You are so quiet!... do you ever talk?" I wanted to talk, but I just couldn't find the words. I never felt like I knew what to say in a big group of people. All of these made me upset.
One Saturday after our game, Bella was supposed to come over and spend the night at my house. We always had a lot of fun together. I wished that I could talk to the other girls the way I talked to her. But before we left the gym that day, some of the other volleyball girls invited her to go to the movies with them. Since Bella had already made plans with me, they asked if I would like to go to the movies with them too. I agreed and was happy to have a chance to join them.
One of the moms drove us, and we all piled into the back seat of her Suburban-Rhiannon, Destinee, Christine, Bella, and me. I was kind of nervous at first, but once it was just us five, I came out of my shell (壳). For the first time in my life, I really felt like I was a part of the conversation, instead of just sitting there listening. It turned out that I had a lot to say.
注意:
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
All the way there, an all the way back, we talked and laughed.
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I smiled, knowing I finally had friends and my school life would be much happier.
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Wide awake, I sat up in bed before dawn. I'd had another dream about Jennifer, my middle child. She's 38 now. Usually in my dreams she's still a little shy girl.
Jennifer had been five years old and her older sister seven, when the twins were born. Everything changed. The boys demanded much of my time and energy, so I hardly had any left for their older sisters. Sweet, quiet Jennifer, sandwiched between the others, required almost nothing from me. Eventually Jennifer had her own children and lived about an hour and a half away. But it seemed as though she were worlds away.
I often dreamed about her. In this one she was a grown woman and mixed in with a crowd. I waved hard, “Jennifer! I'm over here!” But she didn't notice me.
I longed to hear my daughter's voice and called, “Hey, I had a dream about you.” Then Jennifer surprised me. “I dreamed about you too. But it was terrible. I won't even tell you.”
“But I am eager to hear.”
Her words came out without thinking, “We were walking through a vegetable garden. A farmer shouted that I'd stepped on one of his tomatoes and asked for 43 cents. I didn't have any money and turned to you. You said no. I begged. I woke up in tears.”
The pain in her voice almost cut my breath off. “There were so many things I should have done for you. I overlooked you. You seemed so competent and independent. I forgot you were just a child.”
There was silence on her end of the line. The communication seemed broken again. I called an old friend and told her about Jennifer's dream and our awkward attempt to connect. “Your relationship probably broke down over a lot of little things,” she said.
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I realized what I should do to mend our relationship.
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The next day, my daughter called me excitedly.
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Are your children getting on your last nerve? Did a coworker's comment rub you the wrong way? There's no need to plug the steam coming out of your ears. In fact, science now gives you full permission to release those emotions; you might actually be happier for it. If that seems counter—intuitive(违反直觉的), hear us out. A new study suggests that people tend to be happier if they can feel and express emotions as they want. That goes for unpleasant emotions like anger and hatred, too.
An international team of researchers recruited 2,300 university students from the United States, Brazil, China, Germany, Ghana, Israel, Poland, and Singapore. They then asked the participants to tell them which emotions they desired and which ones they actually felt, and then compared those responses to how the participants rated their overall happiness or life satisfaction.
The results showed an interesting trend. While participants wanted to experience more pleasant emotions, they reported higher life satisfaction if the emotions they experienced matched those they desired. More surprising still, 11 percent of people wanted to feel less of positive emotions, such as love and empathy, and 10 percent of people wanted to feel more negative emotions, such as hatred and anger.
At first glance, these result might seem confusing. But there's a simple explanation, according to the study's authors. Happiness is "more than simply feeling pleasure and avoiding pain," they write. It is also learning to release negative emotions when you feel them, instead of ignoring them or bottling them up.
"If you feel emotions you want to feel, even if they're unpleasant, then you're better off," lead researcher Dr Maya Tamir from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem told the BBC News website. 71
6 . During the last few years of his life my Dad lived just up the road from me in a tiny home that used to
Several times a week, though, I would take a walk up to his
I know too that when my own time in this world is done, when my own
If there is one thing that I
A.sell to | B.belong to | C.rent to | D.buy from |
A.losing | B.loving | C.accompanying | D.marrying |
A.come over | B.taken care | C.passed by | D.passed away |
A.disappointed | B.free | C.alone | D.relaxed |
A.house | B.search | C.garden | D.surprise |
A.useful | B.interesting | C.available | D.major |
A.found | B.remembered | C.enjoyed | D.admired |
A.reunion | B.connection | C.apology | D.memory |
A.company | B.achievement | C.appreciation | D.help |
A.leave | B.show | C.keep | D.remain |
A.talked | B.liked | C.spent | D.agreed |
A.realize | B.heal | C.stop | D.regret |
A.happy | B.tired | C.wrong | D.young |
A.silently | B.quickly | C.probably | D.reluctantly |
A.prevented | B.kept | C.provided | D.instructed |
A.after | B.since | C.before | D.when |
A.family | B.mission | C.sufferings | D.problem |
A.forgot | B.learned | C.missed | D.taste |
A.always | B.probably | C.usually | D.never |
A.conquers | B.equal | C.decides | D.highlights |
7 . “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water, the French writer Antoine de Rivarol wrote. This love letter to the cleansing beauty of a good cry is a comforting thought at a time when the continuing stress of the COVID-19 has added heaviness to each of our lives.
Scientifically, de Rivarol's poetic image doesn't, if you'll forgive the words used in the poem, hold water. There's limited research on crying, partly because of the difficulty of copying the behavior of real crying in a lab. But even within the previous studies, there's little evidence to suggest that crying provides a physiological cleansing of poisons in people's body.
Psychologists believe the relief of a good cry connects with a different emotional process. “It seems that crying occurs just after the peak of the emotional experience, and crying is associated with this return to homeostasis: the process of maintaining a stable psychological state,” said Lauren Bylsma. He also said holding back tears can have negative physical consequences, including headaches and muscle tension. Such restriction can also limit our experiences of joy, gratitude and other positive emotions if we avoid acknowledging our feelings.
For me crying has been easier said than done during the COVID-19. Psychologists say it's normal to feel stopped up by the stresses of the past year. We should find opportunities to release and process our emotions.
Watching a tear-jerking movie, having an emotional conversation with a close friend, and writing in a journal are healthy ways to elicit a cry. Physical activity like light-footed walking or even dancing can also signal our bodies to release some emotional tightness. We can then open up to the flow of feelings that leave us feeling lighter and refreshed—like a clear sky after a soaking rain.
1. What is the weakness of the studies ever clone on crying?A.They were clone in a laboratory setting. |
B.They cared little about different forms of crying. |
C.They were always concentrated on people's daily life. |
D.They showed little about the positive physical effect of crying. |
A.Curing people of their diseases. | B.Keeping emotionally balanced. |
C.Producing negative mental results. | D.Expanding people's experience of joy. |
A.Produce. | B.Postpone. | C.Control. | D.Repeat. |
A.Learn to hold back their tears wisely. | B.Share their emotion with their colleagues. |
C.Have a good cry when necessary. | D.Try to avoid admitting our feelings. |
8 . Nostalgia (怀旧) has become increasingly common in our current climate of accelerated, unexpected change. More and more Americans are turning back with longing to what feels like simpler, sweeter times. They collect cassette tapes, manual typewriters even decades-old video games.
Is it a mistake to get too obsessed with the past? Some psychologists warn that too much devotion to the so-called good old days is an escape from reality; it can indicate loneliness or that a person is having a difficult time coping in the present. Psychologist Stephanie Coontz argues that nostalgia distracts us from addressing the problems of modern life and contribute to anxiety, depression , insomnia etc.
But new studies suggest that a modest dose of nostalgia is not only harmless, but actually beneficial. They suggest it helps strengthen our sense of identity and makes us feel more optimistic and inspired. It is also a tool for self — discovery and memories are a psychological immune response that is triggered when you want to take a break from negativity. Interestingly, those happy memories can be particularly beneficial both to kids in their teens and to society's elders. Recalling our childhood reminds us of “the times when we were accepted and loved unconditionally," says Krystine Batcho, a psychologist. "That is such a powerfully comforting phenomenon, knowing that there was a time in life when we didn't have to earn our love." Nostalgia can transform even the most ordinary past into legends which warms the heart and the body. Let's not forget that nostalgia has been a source of inspiration to innumerable American writers. Mark Twain recalled his boyhood, writing, "after all these years, I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then: The white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning."
So go ahead, daydream a little about your best childhood friend, your first car, a long - gone family pct. As Dr. Sedikides says, "Nostalgia is absolutely central to human experience. "But at the same time, keep these words of wisdom from the great inventor Charles Kettering in mind as well: "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. "
1. What did some psychologists in paragraph 2 probably agree?A.Nostalgia will cause some mental problems. |
B.Nostalgia makes us devoted to the good old days. |
C.Nostalgia shows you are trying to get rid of loneliness. |
D.Nostalgia helps us cope with the difficult time we are going through. |
A.It can enable us to know ourselves better. |
B.It can bring us some comfort when we recall. |
C.We are likely to gain attention if we recall the happy childhood. |
D.We can sometimes break away from negativity with happy memories. |
A.The bad influence of too much devotion to nostalgia. |
B.The reasons why we should avoid nostalgia. |
C.The bad memories that always stick around you. |
D.The great changes nostalgia will bring to you. |
A.We all have a soft spot for nostalgia. |
B.Nostalgia is actually good for you. |
C.Don't be carried away by nostalgia. |
D.There are many times when we like to recall. |
9 . It’s normal to get nervous about an important event or life change, and there are steps you can take when anxiety starts to take hold. Try these expert-backed suggestions to help you regain control of your thoughts.
People with anxiety often pay attention to the worst things that could happen. To get rid of these worries, think about how realistic they are.
As you know, it may be appealing to reach for sweet things when you’re stressed.
Following the 3-3-3 rule may fight anxiety. Whenever you feel your brain going 100 miles per hour and out of control, look around you and name three things you see. Then, name three sounds you hear. Finally, move three parts of your body — your ankle, fingers, or arm.
A.But that could do more harm than good. |
B.Then map out your future in a realistic way. |
C.It’s suggested that you stay in your time zone. |
D.You may regard them as a method of reliving anxiety. |
E.Let’s say you're nervous about a big presentation at work. |
F.This trick can help center your mind on the present moment. |
G.If not, make an “appointment” to check in with yourself later. |
10 . When Amanda Moore noticed that the new student from Mexico always sat alone at lunch, she decided to befriend Rafael Anaya. She also noticed that he
Actually, Rafael always
The next day Amanda handed the letter to Rafael and waited for his
Amanda’s mother felt
A.appeared | B.happened | C.struggled | D.managed |
A.prepare | B.join | C.leave | D.pay |
A.saved | B.cost | C.earned | D.proved |
A.wept | B.listened | C.chatted | D.laughed |
A.bad | B.curious | C.glad | D.doubtful |
A.painfully | B.hurriedly | C.carefully | D.correctly |
A.arrival | B.comment | C.appreciation | D.reply |
A.sitting | B.waiting | C.working | D.singing |
A.put up with | B.work on | C.show off | D.look forward to |
A.popularity | B.difference | C.choice | D.plan |
A.competition | B.typing | C.travel | D.communication |
A.easier | B.quicker | C.simpler | D.harder |
A.English | B.psychology | C.math | D.Spanish |
A.widely | B.deeply | C.gently | D.wisely |
A.discussion | B.suffering | C.friendship | D.donation |