1 . How to Make Friends
Friendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends. Good friendship has many benefits. It offers companionship, improves self-worth and promotes good health. There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town, or changed our jobs or schools. Such changes often leave us without a friend.
1. Associate with others.
The first step to making friends is associating with other people. You can go to public places to meet new people. Besides, you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places.
2. Start a conversation.
Starting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends.
3.
Choosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together. Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.
4. Let it grow.
It is a good thing to stay in touch. However, try not to press your new friend with calls, messages or visits as this would likely wear him or her out and finally you may lose your friend.
5. Enjoy your friendship.
The best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves.
| A．Be cheerful. |
| B．Do things together. |
| C．Do not wait to be spoken to. |
| D．Try not to find fault with your friends. |
| E．Making new friends comes easy for some people. |
| F．For a friendship to develop you need to stay in touch. |
| G．So you will need to give your friend time to react to you. |
2 . We all deal with stress, which may arise from our jobs, family life, a relationship problem, or finances. The following methods can be tried before stress ruins your health.
Reframe (重构) your thoughts
Sometimes, a stressful situation is just a matter of perspective (思考方法).
Keep a journal
Learn to say “no”
You cannot do everything you are asked, so why keep pretending that you can? Be assertive (坚定自信的) and learn to say “no” politely, but firmly.
Listen to some music
If making little changes isn’t enough to cheer you up, try moving to a completely new place, such as a cozy coffee shop. Having a new environment will give you a chance to breathe and recover from your anxiety.
| A．Move to a new house. |
| B．Change your environment. |
| C．When you feel down, pay attention to your thoughts. |
| D．When you feel huge pressure, write about it in your journal. |
| E．Instead of focusing on the negatives, concentrate on the positives. |
| F．Music has shown to have a very strong effect on mood and mental state. |
| G．You’d better clearly admit when you do not have the time to take on extra tasks. |
3 . As Dr. Srini Pillay states in her new book, the brain does its best work when it’s allowed to move between focus and unfocus.
◇Engage in positive constructive daydreaming.
Schedule into every workday some breaks from focusing.
◇Block interruptions before diving into deep work.
Our days are filled with distractions. To help, turn off text messaging and social media notifications.
◇Make friends with your body clock.
Are you sharp and quick in mind in the morning? Or is night person more your style? Either way works as long as you schedule your most important projects during your brain’s periods of peak performance. Try to reserve your best brain time for the big stuff.
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This is fun and can help us think of new solutions to problems. Allowing your mind time to play is a way to work better.
◇Keep away from digital devices.
Taking a digital sabbath — intentionally setting aside time to rest from your screens and all their interruptions — offers an important benefit.
| A．Focus your mind |
| B．When they are shut off |
| C．Try travelling with your mind to someplace enjoyable |
| D．It reminds us there’s a world outside our screens |
| E．Here are several tips to help you find your flow |
| F．Try new hobbies |
| G．Digital devices can greatly improve our working efficiency |
4 . How to Feel Better When You’re Lonely
There are a lot of things that can cause you to feel lonely. Maybe you’ve moved away from your friends and family. Or maybe you just are in a social slump.
Call a friend
The phone is a great way to keep in touch. Maybe you have moved away from some of your friends and are looking for a way to connect.
Preform a random act of kindness
Learn to enjoy your own company
Sometimes being lonely isn’t a bad thing.
Ignore social media
Sometimes social media can make you feel even more lonely. Many people experience ”fear of missing out“. This can be increased when you see pictures of your friends doing something fun. So, you’d better not look through Facebook or Instagram when you are feeling lonely. Instead, you can go out and do something.
| A．Take a walk around |
| B．Whatever the reason is |
| C．If you stay indoors all day long |
| D．Play online games within half an hour |
| E．Don’t be afraid to dial their numbers regularly |
| F．You don’t have to reach out to someone you know |
| G．It can give you a reason to reflect and get to know yourself better |
| A．By reading some bestsellers. | B．By challenging the authorities. |
| C．By making friends with celebrities. | D．By frequenting some local pubs. |
| A．A teacher speaking via a microphone. |
| B．A child telling his nursery life honestly. |
| C．An employee for fear of offending others. |
| D．An actor performing a comedy skillfully. |
| A．True thoughts are likely to attract people. |
| B．Charms always come from strange things. |
| C．Unconfident people can’t be interesting. |
| D．People tend to believe what they hear. |
6 . Are you planning to eat out tonight or are you going to stay in to save the pennies (省钱)? A meal out at a good restaurant or even a pizzeria can cost you a small fortune, so cooking for yourself makes financial sense. But with the rise in food prices, it’s important to be a wise shopper to keep your food bill in check.
These days our supermarket shelves are packed with tempting food items, from the daily staples, like bread and milk, to the exotic, like mangoes and kiwifruits (猕猴桃). There’s also the option of buying ready meals — convenient food that comes at a price. However, if you’re feeling hard up (拮据), there are things you can do to make the money you spend on food go further.
According to the BBC Food website, it’s all about changing your habits. It claims that cooking fulfilling and tasty meals on a budget is easy. It suggests a number of “tricks” such as using cheaper cuts of meat, “choose small amounts of meat with less expensive proteins” and “transform small quantities of leftovers into a heavy meal”.
A favorite entertainment of mine to help when money is tight is to stock up on items that are on special offer-such as BOGOF deals(Buy one, get one free).However, this is more of a problem when it comes to perishable (易腐烂的)items like fresh fruit and vegetables. In the UK, about 39% of household food waste is fruit and veg. So it’s a good idea not to stock up on too much of these things. Store them carefully and make the most of them in all your recipes.
Food waste is a big problem generally, so shopping carefully can also reduce the amount we throw away. And in Edinburgh in Scotland, it’s possible to reduce waste and not break the bank by visiting a recycled food shop, which has been set up to prevent extra food from shops ending up in the bins (垃圾桶).
Of course, the biggest thing you can do to help your cash flow is to cut back on take-away coffees and lunches.
Cooking your own meals is usually healthier for you and your finances.
1. According to the author, which of the following ways cost the least money?| A．To have meals at a good restaurant. | B．To cook meals for yourself at home. |
| C．To buy exotic fruit and vegetables. | D．To buy ready meals or convenient food. |
| A．He chooses small amounts of meat with expensive proteins. |
| B．He transforms large quantities of leftovers into a heavy meal. |
| C．He stocks up on items of special offer -such as BOGOF deals. |
| D．He makes all the perishable fruit and vegetables in all his recipes. |
| A．They often visits recycled food shops. |
| B．They store most of their food carefully. |
| C．They buy take-away coffees and lunches. |
| D．They only throw away the perishable food. |
| A．Ways to Cook Tasty Meals at Home | B．Ways to Cut Daily Expenses on Meals |
| C．Ways to Buy Food in the Supermarket | D．Ways to Store Fresh Fruit and Vegetables |
7 . Searching the OED
How to use the quick search
The quick search bar can be found on the OED(Oxford English Dictionary)homepage and at the top of every entry page, and finds main dictionary entries, such as alphabet, break, xylophone. It also finds phrases and compounds listed within main entries, such as to look up or alphabet book, and different forms of spellings such as dictionaries.
Wildcard searches
A wildcard is a symbol which stands for any character. The question mark ? represents the occurrence of any one single character, and the asterisk*represents the occurrence of any number of characters (or no character at all). Wildcards are useful if you do not know how to spell a word, or if you want to lined several terms beginning with the same root.
How to use the advanced search
An advanced search is a full search of the entire dictionary text which is for readers who have logged in or subscribed to the dictionary. Advanced search can be especially useful for very specific searches. You can use the search area functionality to search by each section of an entry. You can also use filters to narrow your search to match certain criteria.
Browsing by categories
Categories allow you to explore the dictionary through groupings of words in, for instance. a subject or from a particular origin. If you want to find all the Caribbean borrowings in English, or find the first word related to friend to enter the dictionary, this is the function for you.
Further explore your search by using the options that appear on the right-hand side of the results page.
1. What will you use if you want to lookup some terms beginning with the same root?| A．The quick search. | B．The advanced search. |
| C．Wildcard searches. | D．Browsing by categories. |
| A．Registering for the dictionary. | B．Matching certain criteria. |
| C．Searching with specific words. | D．Searching with purpose. |
| A．A dictionary. | B．A website. | C．A handbook. | D．A magazine. |
8 . Check out this handy list of tips and tricks to help you better plan your studies.
Start by calculating the number of free hours you have each day. Then, divide your available free time into blank study blocks. Don’t forget about free blocks of time in between classes, too.
Assign specific tasks to each study block.
Use due date and deadlines to prioritize different tasks at certain times.
Break big assignments into smaller chunks.
Spread chunks out over several days so you don’t stress out. If you need to write an essay that will take you about 4 hours to complete, don’t devote a 4-hour block of time to it on a single day. You’ll just end up overwhelming yourself and the rest of your schedule will get thrown off track, too.
Space out subjects on alternate days.
| A．Get work done during free periods. |
| B．You might want to devote more time to key subjects. |
| C．You can divide your study time into 30-to 50-minute blocks. |
| D．Avoid assigning yourself vague tasks like “Study literature”. |
| E．You don’t need to study the same subject two days in a row. |
| F．You’ll need to assign longer study blocks to some particular subjects. |
| G．Instead, break the work into several 30- to 50-minute chunks over the course of a week or so. |
9 . 
The UK doesn’t have the best reputation regarding food waste. Luckily, it’s easy to learn how to change these unsustainable habits, so that you can easily reduce unnecessary waste and save a pretty penny.
1. Plan your meals
When you don’t have a clear idea of what you want to eat, it’s easy to pick up more than you need, especially when items are on offer. It might seem like a great short-term option, but it can cause you to spend much more money in the long term, resulting in unnecessary food waste.
Planning your meals for the week in advance can be a great way to avoid this issue altogether. Work out what you plan to eat and when, and how much. Whether you’re shopping online or in- person, you can get only what you need — both saving your money and reducing the potential for food waste.
2. Store your products correctly
There are many tips that can help to keep produce fresh. For example, potatoes, carrots and other root vegetables last longest if they are kept in the dark. Fresh fruit and vegetables, like grapes, shouldn’t be kept with ethylene-producing products (including bananas and apples) as they make other fresh produce ripen and rot more quickly.
You can also find many ways to keep food by using water. For example, store half cut vegetables, such as carrots, potatoes, in water in the fridge, to help them last longer than if they were stored dry.
3. ____________________
Almost three quarters of food wasted could still be eaten, meaning that the food is not spoiled, and is fine for consumption.
Many people aren’t aware “best before” dates are suggestions, rather than rules. In contrast, however, the “use by” date refers to the last date a food is fit for consumption, and should be watched carefully for safety. When it comes to consuming food, use your senses: look at and smell the food. If it smells good and looks fine, the produce is more than likely completely fit to be eaten and enjoyed.
1. The passage is intended to _________.| A．instruct the public to preserve food |
| B．offer tips on planning meals in advance |
| C．help people develop some sustainable habits |
| D．change the UK’s reputation as a big food waster |
| A．To avoid food waste, shopping online and in person. |
| B．To make fresh food ripen more quickly, keep them with bananas. |
| C．To avoid waste, don’t throw away any food after the “use by” date. |
| D．To keep potatoes longer, cut them into halves and store them in dark. |
| A．Save your money | B．Enhance your food consumption |
| C．Use your sense | D．Follow your “best before” date |
10 . It now seems like years ago that Silicon Valley’s hoodie(连帽衫) culture made male executives’ wardrobes more casual across most industries. From financial companies to insurance companies, from insurers to automakers, traditional dress codes transformed into “dress appropriately”.
Now executive men in more traditional offices are figuring out how to dress down but still look professional, and those at tech firms are growing up and wondering how to dress up but-still look cool. “
The sneakers
Sneakers have gone totally exclusive, with eye-opening price tags to match.
Of course, great jeans with a blazer and smart loafers, if not sneakers, is a modern classic look. Some handsome main brands include the JBrand Kane fit jeans, the AG Graduate fit, and the Frame L’ Homme, said Jacci J aye of Wall Street Stylist.
The glasses
| A．The loafers |
| B．The jeans |
| C．It should look effortless. |
| D．Many people like the expensive ones. |
| E．If you have to wear glasses, there’s no reason why they can’t add a touch of style. |
| F．Here are some items high-powered men are wearing when dressing for work and weekends. |
| G．Some executives even will throw down more than $ 1,000 for a pair. |
