1 . Months ago someone gave us a dish-washing machine as a gift. We already had a part-time worker who cleaned our bowls and
Alice, our neighbor was
I couldn’t tell you how overjoyed I was to see her daughters’
I
The
A.rooms | B.floors | C.plates | D.boxes |
A.carefully | B.hardly | C.obviously | D.usually |
A.building up | B.giving up | C.running away | D.moving away |
A.rent | B.use | C.quit | D.give |
A.yes | B.sorry | C.hello | D.goodbye |
A.test | B.buy | C.lend | D.pack |
A.cheerful | B.strange | C.confident | D.cold |
A.rice | B.vegetable | C.flower | D.tree |
A.request | B.wealth | C.advice | D.memory |
A.hit | B.drew | C.attracted | D.recommended |
A.game | B.challenge | C.party | D.warning |
A.failed | B.appeared | C.relaxed | D.left |
A.connected | B.trapped | C.rescued | D.separated |
A.common | B.unimportant | C.amazing | D.unlucky |
A.famous | B.thankful | C.aware | D.open |
2 . Empathy begins with awareness of another person’s feelings. Once we have figured out how another person feels, we show empathy by acknowledging the emotion or through a simple sign of affection such as a hug or a tender touch. Though empathy is usually used in reference to sensing someone else’s painful feelings, it can also apply to someone’s positive feelings. In this case, a “high five” would also be a sign of empathy.
It is likely that empathy decreases with age. In other words, I suspect that children are by nature relatively empathetic and they slowly lose their feelings of empathy.
There is the socialization process which may lead to a drop in empathy. This could be happening for several reasons. For instance, I have noticed that I cannot feel empathy for someone if I am preoccupied with my own needs. It makes sense, then, that if they grow up with many unmet emotional needs, these children will slowly become more concerned with their own interests in general, and less able to empathize with the troubles of someone else.
Another factor that could be contributing to a drop in empathy is the general low value which society places on feelings and emotions. Not until recently do people seem to have appreciated the value of our feelings and emotions. I certainly say that this concept was never introduced to me in my formal education. The higher education system, the more emphasis is placed on the intellectual, cognitive brain, which seems to be at the expense of the development of the emotional brain.
Finally, when we are children we are instructed to control our feelings and the expression of emotion. We are told that this is part of what it means to be “mature”. We are led to believe that emotions are irrational, signs of weakness, femininity, etc. All of this would tend to lower our empathy.
1. What does a “high five” mean?A.Acknowledgement of someone’s success. |
B.Consciousness of someone’s failure. |
C.Knowledge of someone’s mixed feelings. |
D.Awareness of someone’s painful feelings. |
A.To illustrate his or her empathy. | B.To stress the education of empathy. |
C.To provide convincing evidence. | D.To clarify the meaning of empathy. |
A.Favorable. | B.Doubtful. | C.Indifferent. | D.Unclear. |
A.How empathy forms. | B.What empathy means. |
C.Why empathy declines. | D.Whether empathy matters. |
As I sat by the window of our schoolhouse that afternoon, my heart began to sink further with each passing car. This was a day I had been looking forward to for weeks. Miss Pace had kept a running countdown on the blackboard, and our class had almost gone crazy by the time the much-anticipated “party Friday” had arrived.
I had happily volunteered my mother when Miss Pace requested cookie volunteers. Mom’s chocolate chips were the best on our block, and I knew they would be a hit with my classmates. But two o'clock passed, and there was no sign of her. Most of the other mothers had already come and gone, dropping off their offerings of dessert. My mother was missing in action.
“Don’t worry, Robbie. She’ll be along soon,” Miss Pace said as I looked sadly at the street. I looked at the wall clock just in time to see its black minute hand shift to half past two.
Around me, the noisy party went on, but I wouldn’t leave my window watch post. Miss Pace did her best to comfort me, but I just stayed there, holding out hope that the familiar family car would appear, carrying my embarrassed mother with a tin of her famous cookies under her arm.
The three o'clock bell soon awoke me from my thoughts and I sadly grabbed my schoolbag and headed home.
On the four-block walk, I plotted my revenge (报复). I would slam the front door upon entering, refuse to return her hug when she rushed over to me, and never speak to her again.
The house was empty when I arrived and I looked for a note on the refrigerator that might explain my mother’s absence, but found none. Heartbroken and angry, I was lying face-down on my bed upstairs when I heard her come through the front door and mount the steps.
When she entered my room and sat beside me on my bed, I didn’t move but instead stared blankly into my pillow, refusing to acknowledge her presence.
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2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
“I’m so sorry, honey,” she said. “I just got busy and forgot.”
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I desperately tried to recall the words she had used to comfort me from times past when I cried.
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4 . What makes a home? Love and sympathy and confidence. It is a place where kindly
But for me, sometimes I can't feel the love from my father and can't feel the warmth of the home.
“BANG” the door caused a protest. “Never
A young father who held a child in his arm walked
But now I don't know
I wandered the streets,
I thought to myself, “Is Father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?” After a long hesitation, I opened the door and instantly tears ran down my cheeks. I suddenly realized that the iron door that I had
A.greetings | B.suggestions | C.affections | D.education |
A.activities | B.amusements | C.games | D.difficulties |
A.put | B.bound | C.caught | D.led |
A.richest | B.funniest | C.farthest | D.cheeriest |
A.Regrets | B.Injuries | C.Dangers | D.Quarrels |
A.put heart in | B.set foot in | C.bury head in | D.keep hand in |
A.towards | B.past | C.beyond | D.over |
A.adulthood | B.adolescence | C.childhood | D.youth |
A.what | B.how | C.why | D.whether |
A.old | B.stubborn | C.angry | D.emotional |
A.house | B.door | C.wall | D.block |
A.with | B.across | C.without | D.from |
A.unhappy | B.melt | C.confused | D.frozen |
A.on | B.off | C.out | D.in |
A.created | B.built | C.opened | D.imagined |
5 . I had been saying goodbye to my mom for ten years. That was how
My mother showed me how to fight her foe with knowledge, humor and
In those ten years watching my mother die, I learned that we cannot
We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
1.A.soon | B.long | C.often | D.many |
A.survived | B.suffered | C.sustained | D.strengthened |
A.in | B.out | C.on | D.up |
A.decrease | B.demand | C.despair | D.desire |
A.comfortable | B.suitable | C.bearable | D.adjustable |
A.stopped | B.suggested | C.sought | D.searched |
A.unacceptable | B.unintentional | C.ultimate | D.unselfish |
A.experiencing | B.explaining | C.exploring | D.expecting |
A.drugs | B.exercises | C.strength | D.faith |
A.Instead | B.So | C.However | D.Moreover |
A.sorry | B.sorrow | C.scene | D.sob |
A.leave | B.abandon | C.forget | D.remember |
A.progress | B.memories | C.fortunes | D.influence |
A.initially | B.similarly | C.totally | D.gradually |
A.optimistic | B.cruel | C.positive | D.bad |
When Sam first got to his boarding school with his parents, he was very happy. He thought he would be able to go home every weekend. When he was told he would not, he started crying because the thought of not seeing his parents was driving him crazy.
He was given uniforms and all other things that he would need for the term. He started crying when it was time for his parents to leave. He was then taken to the dorm, where he saw other children happy. He tried as much as he could to fit in but could not because his mind was at home. He started feeling homesick wanted to go homes as soon as possible.
He got sick soon because he could not eat the school food. He could not concentrate in the classroom. All he could think was being at home with his family. He had no mobile phone or other means to get in touch with his parents. He was angry and felt lonely. He thought his parents hated him and that was why they left him in a boarding school.
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1. 以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2. 以约120个词讲述一次你(或你的朋友)想家的经历,内容包括:
⑴ 时间、地点和起因;
⑵ 想家给学习和生活带来的影响;
⑶ 你(或你朋友)是如何应对的。
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1.作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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1.你最感激的人是谁;
2.为什么感激他/她;
3.如何感恩。
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2.首句已为你写好。
Hello, boys and girls,
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Thank you for your listening.
8 . A number of people have asked me whether happiness measures are really accurate and reliable--and it’s a reasonable question. So let’s take a look behind the curtain(帷幕). But not just for intellectual curiosity; as we will see, understanding and measurement of happiness can itself make you better at improving your own well-being--and avoid some critical errors.
Think of the tests to find a vaccine(疫苗)for COVID-19. They take a long time because the drug companies with trial vaccines are conducting experiments that send people to a treatment group(they get the vaccine) and a control group (they get a placebo(无效对照剂), and then waiting to see if the drug is effective and safe by comparing the two groups after enough time has passed. In the research on happiness, this usually isn’t possible. Happiness researchers instead rely on self-reported happiness surveys, where large groups of people report their levels of life satisfaction.
All of the surveys are self-assessments(自我评估), which might cause your doubt. Perhaps people assess their happiness based on their present mood--or maybe they lie when asked about their happiness. To test this, scholars have compared survey data with other sorts of tests--and they’ve found them consistent. For example, self-assessments correlate highly with happiness is usually very close to how others understand your happiness. Further, well-constructed surveys tend to be unchangeable over time and might correlate strongly with other measures of well-being. And in a rare instance of honesty on the Internet, scholars have even proved the accuracy of certain virtual happiness surveys.
Thus, while single-number surveys are great for researchers like me, in order to understand and manage your own happiness you need more different self-tests, of which there are many. Professor Martin Seligman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has created a number of reliable self-tests on emotions,gratitude, optimism, relationships. These self-tests can be extremely useful at a personal level--but they can also be harmful when relied on too much. I have used them to have a huge impact on my life, but I have also seen the worsen problems with unhappiness in others. The key is to remember that happiness self-tests are a source of information to understand ourselves better, work on positive changes (personally, I have made many, and my well-being is much higher as a result), and manage our unique personalities.
The most dangerous use of happiness self-tests is social comparison. Researchers have long found that social comparison is a killer of joy, but you hardly need a study to tell that-just spend a few hours browsing Instagram and see how bad you feel about yourself.
1. How does the author explain the uniqueness of happiness surveys?A.By introducing a concept. |
B.By making a comparison. |
C.By using an expert’s words. |
D.By referring to previous studies. |
A.People tend to tell lies on the Internet. |
B.People know clearly about themselves. |
C.People’s moods matter to their happiness. |
D.People vary greatly in views on happiness. |
A.Their practical applications. |
B.Their appeal to the public. |
C.Their major disadvantages. |
D.Their impacts on our daily life. |
A.How we can effectively measure happiness. |
B.What we can get from measuring happiness. |
C.How we can improve our well-being with self-tests. |
D.Whether the measurement of happiness is really helpful. |
9 . My relationship with my pen pal (笔友) is one of the most valuable friendships I have ever had, even though I have never met her in
It all started in 2013. I was on my way to USC to meet with Kerstin Zilm, a German radio personality who wanted to interview me about being a
At first, Renate and I emailed each other twice a
Her support kept coming, in
“You really have the heart of a fighter,” she would say in her email, “But fortunately you also got soul,
Whenever I needed encouragement, she always
My friendship with Renate has become so important to me that I can no longer
A.place | B.total | C.person | D.truth |
A.struggling | B.fresh | C.lead | D.top |
A.turned | B.laid | C.carried | D.reached |
A.locates | B.travels | C.resides | D.gives |
A.day | B.week | C.month | D.year |
A.further | B.continue | C.drop | D.deal with |
A.without | B.beyond | C.under | D.by |
A.physical | B.moral | C.academic | D.heroic |
A.collective | B.commercial | C.fancy | D.various |
A.piece | B.symbol | C.tradition | D.creation |
A.as well | B.instead | C.at least | D.ever since |
A.intelligence | B.preference | C.comprehension | D.liberty |
A.demanded | B.delivered | C.engaged | D.pursued |
A.reasonably | B.normally | C.directly | D.frequently |
A.clarify | B.recognize | C.uncover | D.envision |
10 . Every time I reach for a book at Rydal Mount, I feel I should ask William Wordsworth’s permission. It’s 9 pm on a Friday night in March, and I’m about to spend a night in the former home of the poet—the first journalist to do so. I’ve said goodnight to the young curator (馆长) Leo Finighan. And now it’s just me and one of the most influential writers, alone together in his library.
On and off from 1813 to 1850, he was here, receiving visitors and editing his work. I can’t help feeling his spirit is still around.
“This is still, in part, a family house and we’re probably not as precious about it as we should be,” Chris Andrew had told me. He is Wordsworth’s great-great-great-great-grandson and the main promoter of a plan to open Rydal Mount to overnight guests for the first time. “But we prefer it this way.” he added. “It preserves the closeness to the poet. We can offer a more personal connection as a result.”
As I take a copy of his complete works back to my chair, they all seem to be gathering round. Here comes the poet. He’s back from the garden, where he would pace the path, composing lines. Upstairs, Dorothy, his sister, is unwell. It’s an extraordinary feeling, as though at any moment I’m going to hear someone’s voice. By 9:30 pm, I’m in bed. I have a sound sleep in the best bedroom in the house. It’s the one that Wordsworth and his wife Mary used.
Before I have to go the next morning, there’s still time for a poem, and I choose The Tables Turned from Lyrical Ballads. It begins with ”Up! Up! My Friend, and quit your books” and I can’t help smiling at the volumes in front of me. It feels like he’s talking directly to me. Not surprising, really, given the fact I’m sitting in his bedroom.
1. Why does the author head for Rydal Mount?A.To visit his friend Finighan. |
B.To show admiration for Wordsworth. |
C.To report an annual event as a journalist. |
D.To attend a conference for influential writers. |
A.doubtful. | B.indifferent |
C.favourable. | D.disapproving. |
A.His family | B.His works |
C.Guests | D.Sounds |
A.He feels surprised at Wordsworth’s humour. |
B.He feels as if Wordsworth were on the scene. |
C.He feels as if Wordsworth were enthusiastic about talking. |
D.He feels Wordsworth might have been too choosy about words. |