1 . Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn't mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or another, you'll have to stand up and say—problems, I don't want you in my life.
But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems.
Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help.
Write your problems.
Don't lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don't lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family…you should still have faith.
Your problems aren't the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there are another one million people whose problems are huger than yours.
Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out.
| A．Of course, we've been fighting troubles ever since we were born. |
| B．When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, life-threatening problem, how do we try and solve it？ |
| C．Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don't want a real person to talk with. |
| D．But the truth is that when you talk about it, you're setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you. |
| E．We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack. |
| F．Tell yourself：when they can deal with them, why can't I？ |
| G．With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose. |
要点:
1.限制玩游戏的时间，把注意力逐渐转移到其他事情上
2.规定起床和睡觉的时间，形成良好的作息习惯
3.每天锻炼半小时，增强体质
注意:
1.词数100-120，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear John，
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Best wishes!
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
3 . In a classic episode (片段）of The Simpsons, Homer's class reunion ends in shame when one of Homer’s guilty secrets is exposed: he never graduated from high school. To get his diploma, he must pass a science test. As he sits down to retake the exam, he holds one of his trademark dialogues with his brain. “All right，brain. You don’t like me and I don’t like you. But let’s just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.”
Many a true word is spoken as a joke. Homer Simpson’s Everyman character really is an Everyman. For most people, engaging in the kind of effortful thinking that is required to pass a science test feels too much like hard work. It is so much easier to quit and let the brain’s autopilot take over.
And no wonder. Evolution has blessed the human brain with all kinds of mental shortcuts that make life manageable. If we had to think about every action or weigh up every decision, we would break down. As a result, certain ideas and modes of thinking come naturally to us, such as effortless thinking.
But at huge cost. Our mental shortcuts work fine at the level of individuals and small-scale societies, but in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world, they are a danger to society. Effortless thinking is at the root of many of the modern world’s most serious problems: terrorism，hatred, inequality and religious extremism. All are caused by people disengaging their critical thinking and going with their gut (非理性的）feeling.
Everybody is capable of gut feeling, but also of the critical thinking. Both thinking styles are needed to make the world go round. Unfortunately, the latter requires training that is unavailable or unappealing to many people.
One of the bright spots in 2017 was the start of a movement called the March For Science. Those who believe in the power of science need to keep on marching, or give more power to people who don’t much like their own brains — or other people’s.
1. What does the author want to convey through Homer's story?| A．Feeling is very important. |
| B．Drinking beer is harmful to one’s brain. |
| C．High school seniors should work hard. |
| D．Most people hate effortful thinking like Homer. |
| A．Our mental shortcuts function well. |
| B．Effortless thinking is expensive for people. |
| C．Effortless thinking is dangerous to society. |
| D．People prefer effortless thinking to critical thinking. |
| A．It makes the world go round. |
| B．It needs necessary training. |
| C．It works fine at the level of personal affairs. |
| D．It leads to the March For Science in 2017. |
| A．We Need to March Towards Science |
| B．Thinking Contributes to Social Problems |
| C．Effortless Thinking Is Out of Date |
| D．Critical Thinking Is Urgently Needed |
4 . Terrible working conditions have a long tradition. Early industry was marked by its dirty, dangerous factories. In the early 20th century workers were forced into dull, repetitive tasks by the needs of the production line. However, in a service-based economy, it makes sense that focusing on worker morale might be a much more fruitful approach.
Proving this is more difficult. But that is the aim of a new study targeting workers at British Telecom. Three academics---Clement of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, of Oxford and George Ward of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology---surveyed 1,800 sales workers at 11 British call centres. All each employee had to do was click on a simple emoji each week to indicate their level of happiness. Those workers were charged with selling customers broadband, telephone and television deals. In total the authors collected adequate responses from 1,161 people over a six-month period.
The results were striking. Workers made 13% more sales in weeks when they were happy than when they were unhappy. This was not because they were working longer hours; in happy weeks, they made more calls per hour and were more efficient at turning those calls into sales. The tricky part, however, is determining the direction of causation(因果关系).Workers may be happier when they are selling more because they expect a bigger bonus.
The academics tried a clever way to get round this causation problem by examining a very British issue---the weather. Workers turned out to be less happy on days when the weather in their local area was bad and this unhappiness converted into lower sales. Since they were making national calls, not local ones, it is unlikely that customer unhappiness with the weather was driving the sales numbers. So it was worker mood driving sales, not the other way round.
Even if this reasoning proves to be correct, businesses may not find it of comfort. The academics point out that "what we are not able to do is making an official decision as to whether investing in improving employee happiness makes good business sense". It is possible that the costs of such investment might outweigh any gains in productivity.
More research is clearly needed. But there is evidence that happier workers are good news for shareholders(持股人), as well as productivity. Analysts found the firms where workers gave the best reviews easily outperformed those where employees gave a thumbs down.
1. According to the passage, worker morale means ____________.| A．enthusiasm and cheerfulness | B．companions and colleagues |
| C．competence and productivity | D．income and welfare |
| A．To analyze the possible factors that affect work efficiency and achievement. |
| B．To test the level of satisfaction of the workers in British sales industry. |
| C．To examine the relationship between happiness and productivity of workers. |
| D．To prove that people's attitude toward life affects their work performance. |
| A．sales decline could have been driven by bad weather |
| B．workers suffer mood swings due to weather change |
| C．customer unhappiness may result in poor sales numbers |
| D．sales performance is influenced by workers' mood |
| A．companies should try every means to enhance employee happiness |
| B．employees need to have the chance to rate the companies they work for |
| C．the workers' happiness is closely related to a company's productivity |
| D．working conditions may have a great impact on work performance |
5 . TV. The Internet. The mall. Everywhere we look, we see
What are the
Psychologists suggest there are several reasons for a shopping addiction. For some people, it is a way of
When shopping habits get out of control, people need
| A．advertisements | B．commerce | C．stores | D．signs |
| A．consumer | B．explorer | C．leader | D．producer |
| A．employ | B．hold | C．afford | D．use |
| A．dream | B．desire | C．plan | D．wish |
| A．unbelievable | B．protective | C．ridiculous | D．addictive |
| A．cooperation | B．question | C．conflict | D．separation |
| A．hobbies | B．symptoms | C．interests | D．functions |
| A．cloths | B．dresses | C．shoes | D．clothing |
| A．packed with | B．equipped with | C．furnished with | D．covered with |
| A．aware of | B．full of | C．fond of | D．afraid of |
| A．assist | B．resist | C．remember | D．oppose |
| A．strengthen | B．correct | C．remove | D．hide |
| A．giving away | B．stopping | C．relieving | D．possessing |
| A．defend | B．manage | C．fight | D．analyze |
| A．self-confidence | B．self-control | C．self-awareness | D．self-worth |
| A．concern | B．reason | C．complement | D．replacement |
| A．finally | B．temporarily | C．hardly | D．fortunately |
| A．additional | B．professional | C．central | D．fundamental |
| A．Groups | B．Schools | C．Hospitals | D．Companies |
| A．participate in | B．result from | C．lead to | D．get over |
1. 争做爱粮，节粮的倡导者。
2. 爱粮节粮的具体措施。
注意：1. 参考词汇：厉行节俭，反对浪费 practice strict economy and combat waste
2. 字数：100词左右。
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7 . There are few things in life are annoying: you are in the middle of a conversation with a friend, and suddenly she bursts out laughing, making you think you've made a brilliant joke. But then she says, ''Sorry, I wasn't laughing at you. I just saw something really fun on a micro blog. '' The Guardian described the scene of a friend's face buried in a as ''a distinctly 2lst-century problem''. A new word has be to describe this—phubbing. It is the act of looking at your mobile phone instead of paying attention to others during a social interaction(互动). Like pointing at one's nose, phubbing is widely considered rude behavior. People everywhere are beginning to lose patience with the phenomenon.
A Stop Phubbing campaign group has been started in Australia and at least five others have sprung up in its wake as anger about the lack of manners grows. The campaign's creator, Alex Haigh, 23, from Melbourne, said, ''A group of friends and I were chatting when someone raised how annoying being ignored by people on mobiles was. '' He has created a website where companies can download posters to discourage phubbing.
Phubbing is just one symptom(征兆)of our increasing dependence on mobile phones and the Internet which is replacing normal social interaction. A survey found that one out of three Britons would answer the phone in a restaurant and 19% said they would while being served in a shop. The survey comes after a supermarket assistant in south London refused to serve a woman until she stopped using her phone.
Time magazine once pointed out, ''Phubbing has a much greater potential harm to real-life connections by making people around us feel like we care more about posts than their presence. ''
In the UK, Glamour magazine even imagined how novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) would have written about people with bad mobile phone manners; ''It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man or woman in possession of a good mobile phone must be in want of manners. ''
1. Phubbing has come about because__________.| A．distrust has already been everywhere among people |
| B．the friendship between people is becoming fragile |
| C．people are getting dependent on attraction online |
| D．there has been a lack of means of communication |
| A．It was first started in America and then it spread to Melbourne. |
| B．Companies can update posters against phubbing on the website. |
| C．Alex Haigh, 23, was the first one to find phubbing annoying. |
| D．Up till now, at least six groups have claimed to support it. |
| A．the woman buried her face in the mobile phone screen for e very long time |
| B．the woman ignored respect and manners by focusing only on her phone. |
| C．the assistant lost his patience with the woman who was using her phone |
| D．it is rare for customers to answer the phone while being served in shops |
| A．one with a mobile phone should mind his/her manners |
| B．Jane Austen must have worked for Glamour magazine |
| C．phubbing is going to be forbidden immediately in the UK |
| D．people with good manners must have good mobile phones |
8 . If you could change your child's DNA in the future to protect them against diseases, would you? It could be possible because of technology known as CRISPR- Cas, or just CRISPR.
CRISPR involves a piece of RNA, a chemical messenger, designed to work on one part of DNA； it also uses an enzyme (If) that can take unwanted genes out and put new ones in, according to The Economist. There are other ways of editing DNA, but CRISPR will do it very simply, quickly, and exactly.
The uses of CRISPR could mean that cures are developed for everything from Alzheimer's to cancer to HIV. By allowing doctors to put just the right cancer-killing genes into a patient's immune system, the technology could help greatly.
In April scientists in China said they had tried using CRISPR to edit the genomes (基因组)of human embryos. Though the embryos would never turn into humans, this was the first time anyone had ever tried to edit DNA from human beings. With this in mind, the US' National Academy of Sciences plans to discuss questions about CRISPR s ethics(伦理问题).For example? CRISPR doesn't work properly yet. As well as cutting the DNA it is looking for, it often cuts other DNA, too. In addition, we currently seem to have too little understanding of what DNA gives people what qualities.
There are also moral questions around playing God”. Of course, medicine already stops natural things from happening-for example, it saves people from infections. The opportunities to treat diseases make it hard to say we shouldn't keep going.
A harder question is whether it is ever right to edit human germ-line(种系)cells and make changes that are passed on to children. This is banned in 40 countries and restricted in many others. However, CRISPR means that if genes can be edited out, they can also be edited back in. It may be up to us as a society to decide when and where editing the genome is wrong.
Also, according to The Economist, gene editing may mean that parents make choices that are not obviously in the best interests of their children: “Deaf parents may prefer their children to be deaf too； parents might want to make their children more intelligent at all costs.
In the end, more research is still needed to see what we can and can't do with CRISPR. “It's still a huge mystery how we work,” Craig Mello? a UMass Medical School biologist and Nobel Prize winner, told The Boston Globe, "We're just trying to figure out this amazingly complicated thing we call life.
1. What is the passage mainly about?| A．What we can and can't do with CRISPR. |
| B．How CRISPR was developed by scientists. |
| C．The advantages of CRISPR and arguments about its ethics. |
| D．Scientists' experiments of using CRISPR to edit human embryos. |
| A．is very safe because it only cuts the DNA it is looking for |
| B．is banned in most countries and restricted in many others |
| C．could cause parents to make unwise choices for their children |
| D．could help us discover the link between DNA and the qualities it gives people |
| A．all diseases could probably be cured through the uses of CRISPR |
| B．scientists had never edited genomes before CRISPR was invented |
| C．CRISPR is a technology that uses an enzyme to work on RNA and DNA |
| D．CRISPR has proven to be the most effective way to protect children against diseases |
| A．Supportive. | B．Worried. | C．Negative. | D．Objective. |
1、抢红包的利与弊；2、你的观点。
注意：1、词数100左右
2、可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯
参考词汇：抢红包 grabbing red envelopes
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10 . Chinese media and Internet users on Monday decried（谴责）a lack of morals in society after a child was struck twice by two different trucks and left bleeding on the road as more than a dozen bystanders did nothing to help the seriously injured girl.
The incident, captured by a surveillance camera and aired by Southern Television Guangdong (TVS), showed the two-year-old girl was knocked down and run over by a white truck on a narrow market street on the afternoon of Oct. 13, in Foshan City of Guangdong Province.
The driver fled the scene of the accident, leaving the girl to bleed on the sidewalk. Over the next six minutes, more than a dozen people walked by the girl, yet not one individual did anything to help her. The girl was then hit a second time by another van before an elderly trash collector came to her aid and brought the attention of the girl’s mother, according to the video and eyewitnesses.
Doctors said that the girl, who was put on life support after being hospitalized, remains in a deep coma. The girl's parents, who are migrants living in the city, are now with her.
Police said the drivers of both vehicles have been arrested. However, the apathy(冷漠) of the bystanders shown in the video has shocked the public, and people are questioning the morality of society.
High moral standards were once considered as national pride in China where individuals known for selflessly helping others were adored（崇拜） by the public.
But in recent years, the perception（观念）of a decline of morals has become a hot topic as profit and materialism are perceived to be affecting society’s values.
On Sept. 2. an 88-year-old man in central China collapsed, his face striking the pavement. Yet, no one came to his aid, and he ended up choking to death on the blood from his nose.
Some have linked the absence of good Samaritans (模范人物)to a previous case in which a man trying to help an elderly woman who fell was accused of harming her.
A strong chorus of opinion on the Internet says laws should exempt（免除）Samaritans from liability（责任）, yet laws themselves cannot solve society’s morality dilemma.
Cao Lin, a China Youth Daily commentator, said in a signed article published on Monday that the worry of liability should not be an excuse for not helping, and this case exposes the decline of humanity in Chinese society.
1. According to the passage, what would happen if someone helped others selflessly in the past?| A．He/she would be awarded by the government. |
| B．He/she would have to worry about liability. |
| C．He/she would be condemned by the public. |
| D．The public would feel proud of him/ her and thus showed love and respect for him/ her. |
| A．Nobody helped the girl who was struck twice by two different vans. |
| B．The toddler died immediately after she was hit a second time. |
| C．High moral standards were once regarded as national pride in China. |
| D．Journalists from TVS captured the incident by using a camera. |
| A．people’s perceptions | B．profit and materialism |
| C．the apathy of bystanders | D．the morals of society |
| A．A news report. | B．An education column. |
| C．A science fiction. | D．A fashion magazine. |
