1 . When it comes to protecting your mental health, you can take steps to adjust your daily routine to be a bit kinder to yourself. Here’s some of the advice some experts offered.

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Stephanie Roth-Goldberg, a licensed clinical social worker, says this could mean allowing time to relax with your coffee for a few minutes before leaving the house or getting some physical activity before work. See how long you need to accomplish something good for yourself.    2    !

Take breaks during the workday

    3     — it can do wonders for your concentration and overall mood. If you don’t have a lot of opportunities to take breaks, Goldberg recommends going for a short walk or even visiting a friend at their desk to help break up the day.

Designate a screen-free time during the day

Goldberg explains that designating a time during the day when you completely disconnect from screens is “a great mental health tool that people don’t make use of.”    4    It’s commonly recommended to disconnect before bed, though. “Spending time away from screens allows for creativity, connection and feelings that otherwise would not happen,” she says.

Set up a bedtime routine

Getting enough high-quality sleep is essential to our mental and physical health. Katie Leikam, a licensed clinical social worker, recommends setting up a nighttime routine to ensure you get the shut-eye you need.     5    and turn off your lights at the same time every night. “This will help you obtain better sleep, which is one of the best things you can do for your mental health,” says Leikam.

A．Start the day off on a positive note

B．Keep it cool for a good night’s sleep

C．Wash your face, put down your phone

D．It’s healthy to do this at any time of day

E．Dance around while you do your housework

F．Sometimes it’s just three to five minutes of letting your brain do nothing

G．Get away from your computer screen by stepping outside for some fresh air

3 . Bring back the night

Our lives are ruled by time and we use time to tell us what to do. But the digital alarm clock that wakes us in the morning or the wristwatch that tells us we are late for supper are unnatural clocks. Our biology dances to a more ancient beat that probably started to work in our humans’ early life.

The instructions for a biological clock are fixed within our genes, and those of almost all life on Earth. And they also affect our levels of attention, mood, physical strength, blood pressure and much more.     1    

Biological clocks help time our sleep patterns. This marks the passage of approximately 24 hours and controls everything we do. Our clocks are even used to predict the differing demands of the 24-hour day and adapt our behavior in advance of changing conditions.

    2     By contrast, as dawn approaches, our bodies get themselves ready for increased activity when we wake. Few of us appreciate this internal world, however. We are drawn by an apparent freedom to sleep, work, eat, drink or travel when we want.

Body clocks differ between people. If you are alert in the morning and go to bed early, you are a morning “lark”, but if you hate mornings and want to keep going through the night, you are a night “owl”.     3     In our first decade, we tend to wake early, but by the time we are teenagers, bedtimes and getting-up times become later and later.

This habit of getting up later continues until we are about 20 years old.     4     By the age of 55—60 we are getting up as early as we did when we were 10. This could explain why young adults really do have a problem getting up in the morning. They show both delayed sleep and lack of sleep because they are going to bed late but still having to get up early in the morning.

We humans have welcomed the freedom to do what we want, when we want to do it. Our 24/7 society has affected the night, an apparent victory of civilization over nature.     5     Disrupting sleep actually has a negative effect on our brains and that drives many of us to substitute the rhythm normally imposed by internal time with coffee and sugary snacks to give us energy and keep us awake. But we have not achieved freedom. We have just created a 24/7 timetable which we cannot keep to without damaging our health.

A．There are fewer absences and improved results.

B．Even our ability to learn and do well in exams is affected by them.

C．These include, in fact, increased errors, poor memory, reduced mental and physical reaction times and reduced motivation.

D．At this point there is a change towards earlier sleep and waking times.

E．But the reality is that our society is replacing a biological order developed over millions of years with a false impression.

F．These differences are partly laid down within our genes but they also change significantly as we get older.

G．Before we go to bed, our body temperature drops, our blood pressure decreases, and tiredness increases.

4 . “What will you do if a person you don’t know wants to give you a ride?” I asked my children. “What if he says Mom is hurt, and you have to come to the hospital with him?” I knew they pretended to listen to me, because I interrupted their TV time.

Here I also want to ask some parents, “Have you ever told your children how to protect themselves?” If you haven’t, I would like to give you four words to help you teach your children how to protect themselves.

No! If a stranger walks to the children, they should keep their distance from the stranger. If the stranger keeps walking to them in a terrible manner, they should run quickly and shout “No!” as loudly as possible.

Go! If the shout does not change the situation, they should run as quickly as possible to a safe place. It is helpful for children to know some safe places such as schools, restaurants and gas stations.

Yell! It means that the children should shout loudly. They can yell out, “Stranger!”

Call! Once they get to a safe place, they should call their parents, teachers or other persons they trust.

1. The underlined word “pretend” means in Chinese.

A．故意

B．假装

C．喜欢

D．讨厌

2. How many ways of protecting children are mentioned in the passage?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Four.

3. The passage is probably written by ________.

A．a teacher

B．a policeman

C．a mother

D．a doctor

4. Where can you probably read this passage?

A．In a travel guide.	B．In an ad.
C．In a storybook.	D．In a newspaper.

6 . Apps play tricks on you to turn an activity into a habit. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to encourage healthy behaviors such as exercising or playing word games.    1    . Here’s how to recognize when your tech habit might be an unwelcome obsession (着迷), and practical steps for you to take back control.

Do a cost-benefit analysis.    2    That’s why we need to try doubly hard to do self-assessments of how features such as streaks (打卡时间) or leaderboards are helping and hurting us. Think over whether the behavior they inspire in you contributes to or detracts from your welfare.

Build in “cheat days”. They are like days off from a strict diet.    3    It can also help to schedule days off from our habits—whether it’s running, reading the news or scrolling Instagram.

    4    Especially for young people, it can be helpful to plan in advance activities that might be a distraction. If your teen knows he’s allowed one hour on YouTube at 7 p.m., then he can relax without thinking about when he’ll be able to hop on his favorite app.

    5    Tech companies, schools, social institutions and governments all have a responsibility to help reset standards of technology use. For example, schools have experimented with locking up students’ phones so they can’t use them during the school day. And the government in some countries have restricted the time young people are allowed to spend playing video games or using social media apps.

A．Use digital timers.

B．Schedule a limited amount of time for your habit

C．It’s hard to be mindful of why we do what we do.

D．Limiting tech overuse can’t be only your responsibility.

E．But even a good habit can cross the line into unavoidable overuse.

F．Actually, doing your favorite activity without a goal can be relaxing.

G．However, don’t be so motivated by rewards that you ignore signs your body needs a rest.

7 . Freshman year of high school is a big transition (过渡) for any student.

Luckily, you’re not the only person going through this, and plenty of others have made the transition before you too.

One of the ways in which high school is different from middle school or junior high the most is the higher expectations. You’ll find that you’re expected to keep closer track of your own schedule and responsibilities with fewer people checking up on you. At the same time, your classes are likely to become more challenging, and you might be participating in new school activities as well.       

Some students find it hard to keep up with everything at first, which is totally normal. One way to prepare in advance: for these higher expectations is to make sure that you have organized schedules in place before you start high school.

Another important skill for meeting these higher expectations is building a strong support network. No matter how strong a student you are, at some point you will need some help. Keeping healthy relationships with your friends and teachers is a great way to make sure that you have people who are willing to help when you need them.

Try to get to, know at least some of your teachers beyond your classroom communication. Be an active learner during class and stay after class to ask questions. Take advantage of email or class messaging systems. The better your teachers know you, the better prepared they’ll be to help when you need them.

It’s important for you to keep in mind as you start high school that no one is perfect. Transitions are hard for everyone, and starting high school is a big transition. These challenges provide a great chance to reinvent yourself.
1. In the author’s view, the biggest difference between high school and middle school is____.

A．the higher expectations	B．the higher pressure
C．high academic achievement	D．different relationships

2. Which of the following suggestions is NOT mentioned in the text?

A．Careful schedules.	B．Healthy relationships.
C．Using network information.	D．Reinventing yourself

3. What is the best title for the text?

A．How to Meet Your Teachers* High Expectations

B．How to Become an Active Learner in High School

C．What to Prepare to Keep up with Everything in High School

D．How to Get through the Transition of Freshman Year of High School

4. Who is the article intended for?

A．Parents of high school students.	B．Teachers in high school.
C．Students in Senior One.	D．Students in junior school.