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The person I respect
There are many respectable people around us
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Jenny was the only child in her home. She had a quarrel with her mother that afternoon and she ran out of the house angrily. She couldn’t help crying sadly when she thought of he scolding from her mother. Having wandered aimlessly in the street for hours, she felt a little hungry and wished for something to eat, but it was not even possible for her, since she had nothing with her. She stood beside a stand for a while, watching the middle-aged seller busy doing his business. However, with no money in hand, she sighed and had to leave.
The seller behind the stand noticed the young girl and asked, “Hey, girl, you want to have the noodles?”
“Oh, yes... but I don’t have money on me...” she replied.
“That’s nothing. I’ll treat you today,” said the man,
“Come in.”
The seller brought her a bowl of noodles, whose smell was so attractive. Jenny thanked the man and started to gobblle (狼吞虎咽) up the delicious food...then cried silently.
“What is it?” asked the man kindly.
“Nothing, actually I was moved by your kindness!” said Jenny as she wiped her tears, “Even a stranger on the street will give me a bowl of noodles, while my mother drove me out of the house. She showed no care for me. She is so mean and cruel!”
Hearing the words, the seller smiled “Girl, do you really think so? I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you thanked me a lot. But it is your mother who has raised you since you were a baby. Can you number the times that she has cooked for you? Have you expressed your thanks to her?”
Jenny sat there, speechless and numb with shock; she remembered her mother’s familiar face and weathered hands. “Why did I not think of that? A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel grateful, but I have never thanked my mum for what she has done for me.”
On the way home, Jenny made up her mind to make an apology to her mother for her rudeness as soon as she arrived home.
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Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath.
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Her mother came back home, which called her mind back.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3 . “Have you checked the oil in the car?” my father used to say to me, his version of “Hello, hope you are well.” Sometimes our phone calls would begin with an inquiry about the oil and end with one about the oil.
Fathers have a lot of love to give, but it’s often supplied through the medium of practical advice. In my experience: it’s mostly about my motor vehicle. My student car — an old green Toyota bought for $500 — was the vehicle for which my father carved his paternal (父亲的) affections. I bet it’s always been so.
Why can’t fathers just say “I love you” or “It’s great to see you”? The point is: You just have to translate from the language that is Fatherlish. Listen closely enough and the phrase “love you” can be heard in the slightly lengthier “I could come around Saturday and replace the seal around the base of your toilet because I assume that thing is getting really smelly.” The affectionate phrase “You made my life better from the moment you were born” may be rarely heard, but there is the more common “I’ll hold the ladder while you get the leaves off the roof.”
When I was 17, I went on my first road trip in that Toyota. My father stood on the corner. “Highways are dangerous,” he said, “so don’t try overtaking anything faster than a horse and carriage. And take a break every two hours. And every time you stop for gas, you really should check the oil.” At that time we thought his speech was pretty funny and would repeat “horse-and-carriage” every time I sped up to overtake some other speeding vehicles.
Dad’s long gone now. But after all these years, I realize that had I owned a copy of the Fatherlish-to-English dictionary, I’d have understood that the speech my friend and I so laughed at was simply dad’s attempt at affection.
1. According to the passage, how do fathers usually show their love?| A．By inquiring their kids’ cars. |
| B．By doing rather than saying. |
| C．By offering helpful advice. |
| D．By accompanying their kids. |
| A．To show the father’s influence on kids. |
| B．To show a dad’s loving concern for kids. |
| C．To prove the usefulness of a dad’s advice. |
| D．To compare different versions of fathers. |
| A．Funny. | B．Pleasing. | C．Annoying. | D．Caring. |
| A．Love in Fatherlish |
| B．Remembering Very Moments |
| C．Father’s Advice |
| D．My First Road Trip In Toyota |
4 . “I hate New Orleans! I wanna go home!” I
I was born and
Only three months after my parents made the
I spent my first few months in New Orleans,
As soon as I stopped giving all my
Because of my resilience(适应力) in creating a new home for myself and the
| A．turned | B．replied | C．announced | D．pointed |
| A．Therefore | B．Instead | C．However | D．Besides |
| A．trained | B．fed | C．promoted | D．raised |
| A．develop | B．change | C．exist | D．continue |
| A．command | B．suggestion | C．excuse | D．decision |
| A．disliked | B．missed | C．preferred | D．imagined |
| A．surprised | B．frightened | C．delighted | D．relieved |
| A．performance | B．region | C．experience | D．presentation |
| A．partly | B．badly | C．slightly | D．hardly |
| A．realized | B．remembered | C．observed | D．complained |
| A．favored | B．ignored | C．began | D．chose |
| A．attention | B．patience | C．trust | D．confidence |
| A．generation | B．community | C．race | D．school |
| A．better | B．accept | C．judge | D．teach |
| A．belief | B．freedom | C．love | D．interest |
5 . Kyra Peralte thought keeping a diary during the pandemic (流行病) might help her sort out her feelings. In April 2020, the mother of two in Montclair, New Jersey, now 46, started writing about the challenges of work, marriage and motherhood during a global crisis. She invited women from near and far to fill the notebook with their own pandemic tales.She named the project The Traveling Diary.
Peralte created a website for people to add their names to the queue. Each person gets to keep the diary for three days and fill as many pages as she wishes. Then she is responsible for mailing it to the next person, whose address Peralte provides. So far, more than 2, 000 women from 30 countries have joined in.
The diary reached Colleen Martin in Florham Park, New Jersey, in November 2020. “I had just recently lost my brother. By the time I actually got it and wrote in it, it was much more of a relief,” she says. Adding to the diary, she says, helped her look for meaning and “the growth and development that occurs in terrible times.”
Martin shipped off the diary to the next person, and Dior Sarr, 35, received it at her home in Toronto just before the new year. “I wrote about my ambitions(抱负), my goals and how I wanted to step into the new year, ” she says, “It felt meaningful to pass on something so personal. It felt like these were women that I had known even though I didn’t know them at all.”
Like many of the women who wrote in her diary, Peralte feels a strong bond with the people who filled its pages, none of whom she would have otherwise known. Her idea, Peralte says, has had a great effect on her and, she hopes, the other women who were part of it.
1. Why did Peralte start the project “The Traveling Diary”?| A．To become famous online. |
| B．To offer women an emotion outlet. |
| C．To meet more people on the Internet. |
| D．To popularize medical knowledge of pandemic. |
| A．Achieving her goals. |
| B．Receiving timely help. |
| C．Promoting personal growth. |
| D．Improving her writing skills. |
| A．Connection. | B．Competition. |
| C．Impression. | D．Need. |
| A．The Power of Unity |
| B．Warmth in a Global Crisis |
| C．The Sisterhood of the Traveling Diary |
| D．Friendship on the Internet |
Dear Sally,
I recently became engaged, I love my fiancé a lot but we are getting into a lot of arguments
It’s not a question whether we can afford it although I
——Nervous
Dear Nervous,
Planning weddings
Why don’t the two of you talk about
——Sally
7 . We have long imagined a world where we interact with computers and robots as if they were normal human beings. Science movies show computers and robots that think and feel just like humans. While these scenes exist only in the movies for now, we may be getting close to making technology emotionally intelligent.
The first step toward this is understanding what emotions are, Scientists are often unable to describe emotions in exact terms, even though we generally understand what people mean when they say they’re sad or happy.
Back in the 1950s, few scientists studied emotion. But American scientist Paul Ekman saw a lot of potential in this field. He began analyzing facial expressions, and gathered a list of over 5,000 muscle movements. These muscle movements combine to form our different expressions. His discovery of micro-expression—facial expressions that last only less than a second—allows us to read the emotions that people try to hide.
There are many possible uses of emotion-sensing technology. Dr. Chieko Asakawa, a researcher at IBM, has been blind since the age of 14. She has been developing a smartphone app that might be able to help people with disabilities. It recognizes people’s faces and facial expressions as they approach.
Another use of emotion-sensing technology can be shown through human-shaped robots like Pepper. It can comfort someone when it senses the person is sad, or tell a joke when the person is feeling playful. In Japan, Pepper is already serving customers in stores.
But as we walk on the streets, intelligent devices(设备)could record our facial expressions without our knowledge. This could allow many people to monitor(监视)or view our feelings without our permission. It may leave us with no control over who we share our feelings with. However, if we can deal with these challenges successfully, there could be many benefits for all of us if our devices become a little more human.
1. How did Ekman carry out the study?| A．By doing medical examinations. | B．By analyzing various robots. |
| C．By building new software. | D．By studying facial muscles. |
| A．To present how IBM benefits from technology. | B．To describe the limitation of a new technology. |
| C．To show the value of Ekman’s work. | D．To praise what she has done. |
| A．They may create some problems. | B．They can take the place of humans. |
| C．They are of great benefit to humans. | D．They are useless in solving real problems. |
| A．Understanding other people’s emotions | B．New devices for the disabled |
| C．Robots that think like humans | D．Emotions in technology |
I met Kumkum at a children’s home in Delhi. It is a home where children
Upon meeting, we took an instant liking to each other. Every Saturday I would visit Kumkum and play with her. She would love to sit on my lap. It was one such moment that the child felt like kissing me…and I suddenly remembered that she
I like staying overnight at my Gramma’s house — that is, until Gramma starts telling me how wonderful my cousin Maya is. Then it’s Maya this and Maya that until I don’t ever want to hear another word about her.
That’s why I wasn’t too excited when Gramma called me on the phone to “come on over and bring your pajamas.” When I got there, it was worse than I’d expected. There, in Grandpa’s big leather rocker, sat Maya, all dressed up and formal-looking and wearing fancy shoes as if she’d just been to a party.
“Surprise, Kristen!” Gramma said. “Your cousin Maya and her parents have traveled in from the East Coast on business. Maya gets to stay with us this afternoon.” Gramma chattered away about how excited she’d been for this surprise get-together, and how cousins ought to get to know each other better.
I hung my baseball cap in the closet and set my backpack by the stairway, all the time smiling and nodding as if I’d been waiting forever for this chance to spend an afternoon with Maya. Grandpa’s chair squawked (咯咯叫) as Maya rocked back and forth. It’s the chair I like best in the house, the one I usually sit in. I sat down on the sofa across from her.
Shortly, Gramma went off to the kitchen to “see about some lunch,” she’d said. That left me stuck in the living room with rocking Maya.
She was still small but taller than I’d remembered her from her last visit four years ago. She was good at small talk, though, and was chatting away about how nice it was to see me again. But I could tell that she didn’t really think so. The last time she was here, we’d had hours of fun together building caves out of Gramma’s sofa pillows.
After that, I’d heard about her only through Gramma’s tales. Maya taking piano lessons. Maya learning math. Maya, Maya, Maya. Now Maya was here, looking great with the latest haircut and a fancy dress.
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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Glancing down at my jeans and my old sneakers, I wished I hadn’t come.
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“How do you know all these things about me?” I asked.
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10 . How to Increase Your Levels of Optimism
The way in which you achieve your goals, face challenges, and overcome failures depends largely on your levels of optimism. Not everyone sees life in the same way.
Change your negative thoughts. Your mind takes in negative memories and makes them bigger and more significant than they really are.
Express gratitude. When you face a challenge, it’s advisable to figure out what’s going well. By taking the time to do this, you allow yourself to register the positive aspects that you experience. To help your brain store these positive events, you should take time each week to analyze what you should be grateful for.
Repeat positive affirmations(肯定). One key element for increasing your levels of optimism that you get with previous two steps is positive affirmations. In fact, these messages that you repeat to yourself most regularly are the ones that you believe in and that determine your vision of life.
| A．People tend to hold the same attitude towards life. |
| B．However, you can always train your mind to generate or maintain optimism. |
| C．They must be repeated with strong belief and be a constant in your daily life. |
| D．First you should figure out what matters in your life and focus on positive messages. |
| E．Therefore, every time you have negative thoughts, analyze and view them more objectively. |
| F．The next step is to let your loved ones know that you love them and you’re grateful to them. |
| G．The repetition of phrases similar to these will allow your mind to interpret negative events differently. |
