Don’t brag(炫耀), but be proud of what you have done. These two pieces of advice
Social media like Facebook bring us
To post or not to post? Maybe we should all be asking
2 . How coming to China has changed my life and career
Hello, everyone. My name is Jonathan Lopez, and I am a dual(双重的) citizen from Colombia and Canada.
When I was 18 years old, I had the opportunity to leave Columbia for the first time to go to see my father in Canada. I studied in a university in Canada, during which I had a chance to go study abroad in universities in Netherlands and Australia, travelling to many countries.
When it came to China, I had so many ideas about what China was supposed to be about. The surprise is that it was nothing like I imagined in a more positive way than expected. When I come here,
It's been only three years in China and it's just the beginning. There is so much more that I can continue to learn in this place, and it's just an open invitation for people that are thinking to study abroad, work abroad or do things anywhere in the world, to also consider China. Hence, this is a place to be, and this is a place where you can learn and grow a lot.
| A．So I decided to stay |
| B．And then I was ready to come to China |
| C．Today I want to share why coming to China changed my life |
| D．And this is something that really can change your life as well |
| E．mobile payment was one of the things that struck me the most |
| F．By the time I graduated from university I had already traveled to 61 countries |
| G．I realize all the potential that this place has and all the things that I could learn about China |
3 . Public security authorities nationwide have found 2,609 missing and abducted children since January, one of whom had been missing for 61 years, said an official with the Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday.
They have also resolved 147 cases of child abduction and trafficking and arrested 372 suspects, said Tong Bishan, deputy head of the ministry’s Criminal Investigation Bureau.
On June 1, the ministry released the addresses and telephone numbers of more than 3,000 free blood testing sites part of the Tuanyuan operation, which was launched in January to find the missing children. Tuanyuan means “reunion” in English.
Nearly 10,000 people volunteered to have their blood tested at the sites, and so far 306 families have been reunited, Tong said.
After searching for over 24 years, 51-year-old Guo Gangtang was recently reunited with his missing son, Guo Xinzhen, thanks to the help of the police. His now 26-year-old son was abducted in 1997 at the age of two and in 2015, Guo’s story was made into the movie Lost and Love starring Hong Kong actor, Andy Lau.
In June, public security experts used the latest testing and matching methods to successfully trace the son to Henan province. After the DNA was retested, the police finally confirmed his identity. Later, two suspects involved in the case were captured.
1. Why does the author mention the story of Guo Xinzhen’s reunion ?| A．To indicate that Guo Gangtang should be responsible for his son’s abduction. |
| B．To tell the readers that the movie Lost and Love helped Guo Gangtang find his son. |
| C．To show that the latest blood testing and matching methods are useful ways to search for abducted children. |
| D．To emphasize that the police confirmed two suspects’ identity by testing their DNA. |
| A．Abducted Children | B．Father Searching for Son |
| C．Government Action | D．Missing Children Found |
| A．a newspaper | B．a textbook | C．a leaflet | D．a poster |
4 . Many kids help out around the house with chores such as emptying the dishwasher, putting laundry away, and taking out the trash. In exchange, some kids get allowances or other rewards such as extra computer time.
But some people do not think that kids should get rewards for doing chores. Susie Walton, a parenting educator and family coach, believes that by rewarding kids, parents are sending a message that work isn’t worth doing unless you get something in return. “Running any kind of household is a team effort,” Susie said. “A home is a living space for everyone in the family. It’s important for kids to see that we all have responsibilities in the house, and that families decide together how they want their home to look, and how they are going to keep it looking like everyone wants it to look.”
Other people believe that getting a cash allowance or other rewards motivates kids to do chores, and it also teaches them real world lessons about how we need to work to earn money. There are also new applications that give kids points and digital gifts that can be redeemed (兑取) either online or in the real world. With the Chore Monster app, kids earn digital points by completing chores that they can turn in for real-life rewards such as extra Xbox time or a trip to the mall. “Our goal is to encourage kids to earn rewards.” says Chris Bergman, founder of Chore Monster. “Kids need positive reinforcement to help motivate them.”
What do you think? Should kids be rewarded for doing chores? Or should kids help out around their homes without getting anything in return?
Write a 200-word response. Send it to tfkasks4you@timeforkids. com. Your response may be published in a future issue of Time For Kids. Please include your grade and contact information of your parent or teacher if you want your response to be published. The deadline for responding is 18 February.
1. How does the author start the passage?| A．By stating his own experiences. | B．By presenting some facts. |
| C．By comparing different views. | D．By listing some evidence. |
| A．Kids should be rewarded for doing chores. |
| B．Parents decide what kids can do for the family. |
| C．Kids have the responsibility to share housework. |
| D．Kids can get extra computer time for doing chores. |
| A．Chris Bergman’s opinion on raising kids. |
| B．Main reasons why kids need encouragement |
| C．How to motivate kids to try new applications. |
| D．The advantage of rewarding kids for doing chores. |
| A．To invite readers to express their opinions. | B．To present the author’s viewpoint about parenting. |
| C．To call on readers to reflect on their behavior. | D．To inform readers of two different opinions. |
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1. You have to pay at least a year if you study at the University of Waikato.| A．$5,250 | B．$8,000 | C．$9,000 | D．$11,000 |
| A．Go to a hospital nearby. | B．Buy some medicine in a drug store. |
| C．See a doctor at the school medical centre. | D．Try to get help from your classmates. |
| A．introduce the University of Waikato to readers |
| B．instruct readers to choose a right university |
| C．persuade readers to choose the University of Waikato |
| D．show how proud the author is of the university |
1. What’s the discussion about?
| A．Children’s independence. |
| B．Teachers’ medical treatment. |
| C．Parents’ accompanying(陪伴) their children at school. |
| A．About 30%. | B．About 50%. | C．About 70%. |
| A．Set up goals. | B．Do the housework. | C．Finish their homework. |
| A．Neither. | B．The first one. | C．The second one. |
7 . When making choices, people assume that they pick what they like. However, research suggests that we like something strictly because we have chosen it. In other words, we dislike things we don’t choose. And this phenomenon has existed since we were babies.
In an experiment, US researchers brought several 10 to 20-month-old babies into a lab and gave them two same bright and colorful soft blocks to play with. They set each block far apart, so the babies had to crawl to one or the other—a random choice. After the baby chose one of the toys, the researchers took it away and came back with a new option. The babies could then pick either the toy they didn’t play with before, or a brand-new toy.
It turned out that the babies reliably chose to play with the new toy rather than the one they had not chosen.
In follow-up experiments, when researchers instead helped choose which toy the baby would play with, the phenomenon disappeared. “As if they were saying, ‘Hmm, I didn’t choose that object last time, because I guess I didn’t like it very much” said Lisa Feigenson, co-author of the study.
This is a very important phenomenon in life, Feigenson noted. Adults will less like the thing they didn’t choose, even if they had no real preference in the first place. It looks like babies do just the same.
It shows that the act of making choices changes how we feel about our options. The random choices might become our preferences. “They are really not choosing based on whether they are novel or what they prefer,” said Alex Silver, co-author of the study.
This new finding explains why adults build unconscious preference when they make choices between the same things. Justifying(证明有道理) choice is somehow fundamental to the human experience. “I chose this, so I must like it. I didn’t choose this other thing, so it cannot be so good. Adults make these inferences unconsciously,” Feigenson said.
Such tendency makes sense to us as we live in a consumer culture and must make so many choices every day, between everything from toothpaste brands to styles of jeans.
Next, researchers will look at whether too many choices could be a problem for babies as they certainly are for adults.
1. What is the purpose of the experiments?| A．To test whether people choose what they like. |
| B．To see why babies prefer new toys to old ones. |
| C．To explain how babies and adults make choices differently. |
| D．To study if too many choices could create problems for people. |
| A．Babies prefer bright and colorful toys. |
| B．Babies’ preference largely affects their choices. |
| C．Babies prefer adults to help them make choices. |
| D．Babies’ previous random choices affect their preference. |
| A．It entirely changes our styles to choose. |
| B．It helps us make wise decisions in a consumer culture. |
| C．It promotes the relationship between adults and babies. |
| D．It helps us understand our unconscious preference for choices. |
| A．Babies like what they choose | B．Random choices matter |
| C．Too many choices puzzle the adults | D．Preference affects the choice |
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3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Nowadays, more and more parents are sending their children to study abroad.
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9 . The 11-year-old girl who fought off an attempted kidnapping this week was considered as “Brave Teenager” for her quick thinking that helped police identify the suspect.
That’s exactly what happened. Alyssa was
The girl was
Alyssa told investigators that the same man had
Asked how she felt after her
| A．searching for | B．looking for | C．waiting for | D．working for |
| A．curiously | B．excitedly | C．eagerly | D．cruelly |
| A．failed | B．fell | C．formed | D．filled |
| A．attempt | B．struggle | C．effort | D．escape |
| A．firm | B．cautious | C．specific | D．devoted |
| A．when | B．where | C．how | D．while |
| A．playing against | B．dealing with | C．playing with | D．pressing against |
| A．Therefore | B．Since | C．However | D．Instead |
| A．evidence | B．idea | C．image | D．decision |
| A．sentenced | B．punished | C．prisoned | D．seized |
| A．confirmed | B．approached | C．questioned | D．stared |
| A．uncomfortable | B．dissatisfying | C．unusual | D．annoyed |
| A．accident | B．event | C．incident | D．affair |
| A．limited | B．close | C．narrow | D．tight |
| A．argument | B．emergency | C．impact | D．opportunity |
10 . Are you right-handed or left-handed? Have you ever wondered why?
With 10% of all humans being left-handed, lefties have been looked down upon as being unlucky. In the past, left-handers were thought to be strange, and left-handedness was thought to be caused by how anxious a pregnant (怀孕的) woman was during her pregnancy. However, we might now be closer to discovering the genetic reasons behind handedness.
We know that the human body is made up of cells, each of which contains a nucleus (细胞核). Inside the nucleus are thread-like structures called chromosomes (染色体) which can be stretched out to what is known as DNA. Sections of this DNA are referred to as genes — one section of DNA would show clearly your hair color and others, the shape of your nose!
The University of Oxford research team examined the genomes (基因组) of 400,000 volunteers in the UK Biobank, of whom 38,332 were left-handed. The team discovered four genetic regions, three of which had proteins (蛋白质) that play a key role in the formation of the physical structure of the cells.
By studying the brain scans of 9000 volunteers, researchers noticed that in people who were left-handed, the left and right halves of their brain that dealt with language worked in a much more intentionally matched manner. This led them to conclude that the genetic differences they had observed in left-handed people were responsible for differences in the white matter that connects language regions of the brain.
The team also found that the regions of left-handers’ brains that set them apart from right-handers gave them a slightly higher chance of getting some mental diseases, but a slightly lower chance of getting Parkinson’s disease. This study is the first to find a link between handedness, genes, and the language areas of the brains.
1. Why does the writer use two questions at the beginning?| A．To show the importance of genes. |
| B．To invite the readers to answer them. |
| C．To draw the readers’ attention to the topic. |
| D．To test the readers’ knowledge about being left-handed. |
| A．It is caused by the anxious pregnant woman. |
| B．It has something to do with genes. |
| C．It means greater creativity. |
| D．It is regarded as being strange. |
| A．By asking volunteers questions. |
| B．By testing volunteers’ intelligence. |
| C．By examining genomes and studying brain scans. |
| D．By comparing the acts of people with different hands. |
| A．Right-handers are better than left-handers. |
| B．Left-handers have a smaller chance of getting Parkinson’s disease. |
| C．Handedness is decided by the white matter of the brain. |
| D．There is a connection between handedness and genes. |
