近日，这张小女孩在父母卖熟食的案板（the deli counter）下认真上网课的照片引发热议，校刊因此特辟专栏请同学们发表感想。请对照你当时在家上课的情况谈谈你的感受，你的投稿必须包括：
1.描述图片中小女孩上课的场景；
2.比较你上网课的环境和状态；
3.简单谈谈你的感受。
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以下片段选自某位名人给美国高中生毕业生的网上毕业演讲。请结合你生活中的例子，谈谈你对这段话的理解。
“If we’re going to get through these difficult times; if we’re going to create a world where everybody has the opportunity to find a job, and afford college; if we’re going to save the environment and defeat future pandemics, then we’re going to have to do it together. So be alive to one another’s struggles. Stand up for one another’s rights. Leave behind all the old ways of thinking that divide us﹣sexism, racial prejudice, status, greed﹣and set the world on a different path. ”
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3 . People generally see themselves through achievements. In doing that, they end up caring more about their image than the reality of who they actually are. Rather than their performance at work, they end up defining themselves by external markers that they hope will earn them respect.
The problem with this is that it encourages both themselves and other people to judge their worth based on some relatively unimportant measure. For example, one day, their educational diploma may overshadow what they actually learned. Therefore, a better way to know a person, I think, is to ask a different set of questions: What motivates them? What makes them ache? What do they long for?
It’s in this spirit that I want to publicly share my values. They are the compass(罗盘) that guides my life. The kindest and most sincere thing I can do is to see, recognize, and understand another person before I make judgments. From there, I can learn to treat others appropriately, depending on the context, learning from my mistakes with time and experience. It's just a reminder that life is hard for all of us, while at the same time accepting that it's important we are all also held accountable for our actions.
I have learned that we are all deeply self-interested. I hope to be self-aware enough to check out of the power and status games. That means I'm not competing with anyone for a shiny object; I'd rather compete with myself. It's about becoming so uniquely different that it would be an insult for me to measure myself against someone else. I believe if I do the work to be internally free from the pull of the power and status games, then I can add value to others based on my unique knowledge and experience.
If this resonates with(与……共鸣) you, I invite you to join me on this journey in understanding and relating to this complex world. It's a wonderful mystery, and I think together we can better define it—not just personally, but also collectively.
1. According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?| A．People generally judge others' worth by what they have achieved. |
| B．The external markers are better ways to know a person. |
| C．The author is someone who is keen on power games. |
| D．Learning from mistakes is the first step of treating others kindly. |
| A．be relatively similar to | B．cause something to be stronger than |
| C．make something less important | D．block off light from something |
| A．People should be self-aware enough and compete with themselves. |
| B．Life is hard, so we shouldn't criticize others when they are not responsible. |
| C．Everyone is unique, so showing off uniqueness is an insult to others. |
| D．One should see and understand another person using a real compass. |
| A．To promote harmonious living. |
| B．To ask people not to judge others. |
| C．To call on readers to learn his values. |
| D．To share his values of understanding the world. |
Good to hear from you again. Your e-mail came in just as I was chatting with another friend, Jeff. I wish I had better advice.
You know, after I left the Shenandoah Valley, my next job was in Rocky Mount. The two other sportswriters on staff, Travis and Jeff, were in their mid-20s too. Honestly, we’d come to Rocky Mount to leave Rocky Mount. We complained about our shop and envied the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer. What resources they had! Writers who covered only one team didn’t have to lay out pages. Talk about living the dream. If we could just get to one of those places! Then we could go somewhere else!
Travis, Jeff, and I bonded over our desire to part ways. We ate dinner together and went out to cover our games and came back to help send the final pages to the printer. On the best nights, we’d grab the news editors and play Wiffle ball, laughing and joking until almost sunrise.
We all left there within a year, as intended. Jeff became one of the most well-known NASCAR writers in the country, with almost 200,000 Twitter followers. Now he’s got his own media company that’s doing quite well. In 2017, Jeff and I went to a Charlotte Knights game, and Jeff said something about Rocky Mount that I won’t forget. “I didn’t appreciate it then, but honestly, when I look back, it’s probably the best time I’ve ever had in my career.”
Maybe success isn’t measured in achievements, or “being happy with who you are”. Goals and personal peace are selfish markers, and I don’t mean to imply selfishness is a bad thing, not at all. Selfishness is the axis of humankind, from cavemen to astronauts to saints on earth. Individual accomplishments bring worldwide accomplishments. But all of the accomplishments may not leave you feeling successful, right?
The point is, maybe success is a smaller calculation, something more like what Jeff hinted at. Maybe success is having the wherewithal (所需的物资) to be grateful at the precise moment you have something to be grateful for.
Thank you for writing, old friend.
Mike
1. When Mike went to the Rocky Mount, ________.| A．he appreciated life there |
| B．he lived the dream there |
| C．he intended to land a better job elsewhere |
| D．he got a job with all resources he longed for there |
| A．A printer. | B．A reporter. |
| C．A player. | D．An editor. |
| A．Mike believes selfishness is part of human nature. |
| B．We feel happy when we are calculating small numbers. |
| C．Mike disagrees with Jeff’s comment on their life in Rocky Mount. |
| D．Individual accomplishments are unrelated to worldwide accomplishments. |
| A．what happiness is | B．what success is |
| C．how to achieve more | D．how to land a better job |
4月，《复仇者联盟》（ The avengers）迎来终章，《权利的游戏》（Game of Thrones）、《生活大爆炸》（The Big Bang Theory）等热播美剧也都进入了最终季。满怀着期待与不舍，我们终将见证初代复联英雄的谢幕战、画上冰与火之歌的休止符、告别“谢耳朵”引发的种种笑料与欢乐……俗话说，天下无不散之筵席，再美好的事物终究会有结束的一天，很多人放不下，很多人却将旧的结束看作新的开始。你是如何看待离别的呢？面对离别，你会怎么做？
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| A. overnight B. flash C. share D. enormous E. endured F. rise G. lengthy H. places I. pursue J. reflected K. plentiful |
Robert Frost had aimed to be a poet since he was a teenager. But the American literary icon would not publish his first book of poetry until he was 39, and his best works would not follow until he was well into middle and old age. “Young people are good at discovering. They have a
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Sometimes you don’t discover your passion in life until you’ve done some other things first. Sometimes you don’t get the opportunity to make the most of your experiences until relatively late in life. Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, didn’t start building his business empire until he was 53 years old. Until that point, the former Red Cross ambulance driver was a traveling salesman, peddling milk shake machines and paper cups. “I was a(n)
Sometimes, instead of opportunities, life
Therefore, unlike the youthful genius, whose rocket-fast
7 . Last July, Angela Peters, 36, rolled her wheelchair into a nail salon located at the Walmart shopping center in Burton, Michigan, with the idea of painting her nails. But Peters, who has cerebral palsy（脑瘫）, was turned away. The salon (which is not owned by Walmart), she says, told her that they were afraid it would be too difficult to properly do the job given that her hands shook. What was meant to be a day of beauty bliss for Peters was now a disappointment.
Watching the interaction from a few feet away was a Walmart cashier about to go on her break. Ebony Harris, 40, recognized Peters as a Walmart regular. Now what she recognized in Peters was a kindred spirit. “She’s just like you, me, my daughter, anybody,” Harris told ABC News, “She wants to look pretty. So why can’t she?”
Harris approached Peters. “Do you want me to do your nails?” she asked. A smile spread across Peters’ face. “Yeah!” Having found a table for two, Harris gently took Peter’s hand into hers and carefully began painting her nails.
“I was a little nervous and was shaking because I didn’t want to mess her nails up,” Harris admitted. “I told her she’s a blessing to anybody, not just me. She makes me look at life and appreciate it much more than I have.”
Watching it all with amazement and admiration was Subway employee Tasia Smith. What struck her most was the ease and gentleness displayed by Harris as she painted Peters’ nails, all the while chatting as if they were old friends. Smith was so taken by the scene that she wrote about it on Facebook. “They were so patient with her,” she wrote. “Thanks to the Walmart worker for making this beautiful girl’s day!”
Peters, who runs a poetry website, harbors no bitterness toward the nail salon that turned her away. “When people do us wrong, we must forgive,” Peters wrote on Facebook. “I just want to educate people that those with different challenges, like being in a wheelchair, can have our own business and get our nails done like anyone else.”
1. Why was Peters declined when she wanted to have her nails painted?| A．She insisted on sitting in a wheelchair. |
| B．She was not a regular customer of the salon. |
| C．Her hands shook involuntarily due to disability. |
| D．There was no need for her to have nails painted. |
| A．Peters was in high spirits just like others around her. |
| B．Peters was approached with special attention and care. |
| C．Peters was more tolerant of the denial than normal people. |
| D．Peters was no different from the people around her. |
| A．Peters deserved to be happy and be treated kindly. |
| B．Harris was reminded why she should be grateful. |
| C．Harris felt obliged to offer her a hand on a voluntary basis |
| D．Peters got her nails done despite the previous rejection. |
| A．Beauty is about having a pretty mind, a pretty soul, as well as pretty poetry. |
| B．Forgive others who have wronged us, and we are likely to enjoy our life more. |
| C．Being grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope. |
| D．Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. |
假设你是明启中学高三学生王磊，你经常阅读的英语报刊正在征集读者对于“学生最应该学会什么”的不同意见。你对此话题很感兴趣，写一篇文章表达你的观点，内容包括：
1. 你认为学生最应该学会什么？
2. 结合自身情况谈谈你这么认为的理由。
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9 . What makes us love some things and hate others? We know that sometimes even the tiniest change can result in a huge difference in how we perceive something, so is there any rhyme or reason to our tastes and preferences? Here are three factors which play a role.
1. Conforming to expectation
In London a few years ago, two talented rappers called Silibil N' Brains took to the stage to perform at a music industry show for unsigned bands. They were an instant hit. Their outrageous West Coast - American style, brilliant rap lyrics and couldn't - care - less attitude had the music industry's talent spotters falling over themselves to sign the pair. In a short space of time, Silibil N’ Brains had a deal with a top management company, a contract with a major record label and an advance of $70,000 -- and they hadn’t even made a record. Before long, they were on tour with Eminem and out partying with Madonna. They were living the dream.
But two years ago the same two rappers were laughed off stage by the same talent spotters for singing the same sons. So what was the difference? Amazingly, it was their accent. You see, Silibil N' Brains weren't, in fact, from West Coast U. S. A. at all. They were from Dundee in Scotland. During the first audition they had used their Scottish accents when rapping and it had not gone down well. ''They just laughed at us, '' recalled Brains. ''We were heartbroken. We went back to Scotland with our tail between our legs''. The lesson for them was that to succeed, you have to conform to expectations and at that time everyone expected rappers to be American.
2. The benefit of hindsight
Some people are simply ahead of their time. It's common knowledge that Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime -the other 900 or so were unknown and unloved until after his death. Monet’s paintings. at least in his early career, was considered incomplete and ugly by critics at the time, while Vermeer, the painter of Girl With a Pearl Earring, even had to use his mother-in-law as a guarantor when he borrowed money -- so unable was he to sell any of his work! Now that public taste has caught up with these artists, more or less anything they touched has an astronomical price tag attached to it. Perhaps the reason is that it just takes a while to get used to something - after all, not all beauty is obvious at first sight.
3. A reassuring price tag
In a world where the range of products on offer can be completely bewildering, we often look to price as an indication of quality. We may think we prefer the expensive wine to the cheap one, but we may simply be influenced by the price tag. Even professionals can make the mistake. A researcher from the University of Bordeaux in France took an average bottle of red wine and poured it into two empty bottles, on with an expensive label and the other with a cheap one. Then he invited 57 wine ''experts'' to taste the wine. Forty of them recommended the wine from the expensive bottle, describing it as ''agreeable'', ''complex'', ''balanced'' and ''rounded''. while the same wine from the expensive bottle, describing it as ''agreeable'', ''complex'', ''balanced'' and ''rounded'', while the same wine from the cheap bottle was described as ''weak'' and ''flat'', with only 12 of the experts recommending it. The study made the researcher unpopular with the French wine tasters, but he did prove that price has a significant impact on taste.
1. Which of the following statements about Silibil N’ Brains is true?| A．Talent spotters fell in love with them at first sight. |
| B．They are from the West Coast of America |
| C．Their success was attributed to behaving and sounding like American rappers. |
| D．They were friends with famous stars like Madonna even before they succeeded. |
| A．their first audition proved a failure |
| B．they felt proud of their performance |
| C．they learned a valuable lesson |
| D．being humble might contribute to their future success |
| A．some artists are better known when they are alive than when they are dead |
| B．public taste usually falls behind famous artists |
| C．beauty at first sight lasts much longer |
| D．Monet's paintings are priceless because of their incompleteness |
| A．A price tag always fails to indicate the quality of a product. |
| B．A price tag is less likely to confuse customers than the packaging. |
| C．Low price will make the wine unpopular with tasters |
| D．A price tag will cloud a person’s judgement of something. |
Who is in control of your life? Who is pulling your strings? For the majority of us, it’s other people-society, colleagues, friends, or our family. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”
When people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug-we are addicted to it and seek it out wherever we can. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their drug, we worsen our own existence to get our own constant drug of approval.
But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom-the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. Moreover, people have their own business, and in the end, they’re more interested in themselves than in you. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.
So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way-make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values-not values imposed(强加)from the outside by others, but values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.
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