1 . Teenagers are especially likely to suffer loneliness. Here are some suggestions for speeding a recovery from loneliness.
Reach out to others, but start small. A smile and a friendly greeting for the student behind you in line at the cafeteria won’t make you best friends.
Find a safe place to make connections. If going to the school dance makes you feel like you just don’t belong, try joining a specialinterest group. Maybe it’s the drama club or the marching band.
Find other ways of making connections. Lonely people hunger for acceptance and friendship. Sometimes feeling accepted and liked comes more easily when you do something for others.
You get what you expect, so expect the best. If you expect others to be friendly, you will behave in similar ways.
| A．But it will make you both feel pretty good. |
| B．So consider becoming a volunteer. |
| C．Some teens aren’t so adaptable, however. |
| D．Encourage people to be friendlier to you. |
| E．Choose the right people. |
| F．For most young people, loneliness is only temporary. |
| G．Look for a group that allows you to join in gradually and cheerfully. |
Recently I graduated from high school, and as a gift I received a huge hunch of flowers, 40 to be exact! I had so many that I didn't know what to do with them. The next weekend my niece and nephew, Sue and Mike, aged 6 and 7, came and suddenly I had an idea. I might let them give out these flowers to people they met on the street, and in this way they could learn how to be friendly to others. So I told them about my plan and explained that these flowers would make people feel happy and smile. They loved the idea and were eager to have a try. So at once we took every single flower and tied a smile card to it. We then went to the street with the flowers.
The first flower went to a policeman. As soon as she saw the policeman, my niece ran up to him and handed him a flower. His smile was so big, but hers was even bigger!
In no time, we neared the end of our flowers. It was lunch time and we went to Subway for lunch. There the kids gave a flower to the waitress, who was really excited to receive the flower. As we were eating our lunch, the waitress came up to the kids with two big chocolate cookies! She said the chocolate cookies were for them and that she really liked the flower! As they ate the cookies, my niece and nephew looked at me with the biggest smiles I had ever seen.
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With just one flower left, I said it should be given to the person who needed it most.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________It turned out to be a great day for us.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3 . Every year, billions of kilograms of fresh produce are wasted in the United States. Meanwhile, millions of poor Americans go hungry, without access to healthy and affordable meals.
Evan Lutz is enthusiastic about correcting that social injustice. And he combines that goal with enthusiasm for business. Lutz is CEO and founder of Hungry Harvest, a business which collects and sells “ugly” produce. These are fruits and vegetables that most food companies would throw away. More than six billion pounds are wasted each year due to surface imperfections.
“So I’ll give you an example.” Lutz says, “If you go to a grocery store you will see all the produce lineup shiny, perfect, of the same size and color. But on a farm, everything doesn’t grow the same way. So all that stuff that doesn’t grow the same way often gets thrown out. And what we do is take all that normally gets thrown out because of its odd size or shape, box it up and deliver it to our customers once a week.”
For Evan Lutz, giving back to others came form his upbringing. “When I was growing up, my parents taught me the values of giving back, and giving is a lot more powerful than receiving. We sell produce with a purpose and that doesn’t just mean we reduce food from going to waste. We hire people that were formerly in prison or were formerly injured or sick living in homeless shelters. They really wanted to get back on their feet for a second chance in life.”
Evan Lutz is really happy to be realizing great mission that he thinks can really revolutionize the food industry in America.
1. The social injustice in Paragraph 2 refers to the fact that _________.| A．vegetables and fruits that don’t taste good are thrown away |
| B．grocery stores only sell produce of the same size |
| C．poor Americans can not afford healthy food |
| D．much produce gets wasted while many Americans starve |
| A．Deliver food for free. | B．Collect “ugly” produce and sell it. |
| C．Raise money for the poor. | D．Buy “ugly” produce and process it. |
| A．To provide them with a job. | B．To reduce labor costs. |
| C．To increase productivity. | D．To earn a better reputation. |
| A．Creating More Jobs for the Less Fortunate. |
| B．Putting Healthy Food on Dinner Table. |
| C．Giving Unused Produce a Purpose. |
| D．Making Profits from Shiny Produce. |
4 . “Have a nice day!” may be a pleasant gesture or a meaningless expression. When my friend Maxie says “Have a nice day” with a smile, I know she sincerely cares about what happens to me. I feel loved and secure since another person cares about me and wishes me well.
“Have a nice day. Next!” This version of the expression is spoken by a salesgirl at the supermarket who is rushing me and my groceries out the door. The words come out in the same tone (腔调) with a fixed procedure. They are spoken at me, not to me. Obviously, the concern for my day and everyone else’s is the management’s attempt to increase business.
The expression in one of those behaviors that help people get along with each other. Sometimes it indicates the end of a meeting. As soon as you hear it, you know the meeting is at an end. Sometimes the expression saves us when we don’t know what to say. “Oh, you just had a tooth out? I’m terribly sorry, but have a nice day.”
The expression can be pleasant. If a stranger says “Have a nice day!” to you, you may find it heart-warming because someone you don’t know has tried to be nice to you.
Although the use of the expression is an insincere, meaningless social custom at times, there is nothing wrong with the sentence except that it is a little uninteresting. The salesgirl, the waitress, the teacher, and all the countless others who speak it without thinking may not really care about my day. But in a strange and comfortable way, it’s nice to know they care enough to pretend they care when they really don’t care all that much. While the expression may not often be sincere, it is always spoken. The point is that people say it all the time when they like.
1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．The salesgirl is impolite. |
| B．The salesgirl is angry. |
| C．The salesgirl cares about the author. |
| D．The salesgirl says the words as a routine. |
| A．try to be polite to you | B．express thanks to you |
| C．give his blessing to you | D．share his happiness with you |
| A．Have a Nice Day—a Polite Ending of a Conversation |
| B．Have a Nice Day—a Pleasant Gesture |
| C．Have a Nice Day—a Heart-warming Greeting |
| D．Have a Nice Day—a Social Custom |
5 . On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to enjoy walking in the streets of New York, a city she'd
Yet her time in New York has coincided with endless ugliness, As she
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| A．hung out | B．moved to | C．passed by | D．left behind |
| A．pleased | B．ashamed | C．depressed | D．relieved |
| A．walked | B．rushed | C．travelled | D．toured |
| A．urgent | B．strange | C．mysterious | D．nice |
| A．station | B．school | C．theatre | D．store |
| A．struggled | B．leaned | C．lay | D．sat |
| A．note | B．report | C．announcement | D．poster |
| A．remembered | B．foresaw | C．ignored | D．glimpsed |
| A．again | B．also | C．never | D．seldom |
| A．tracks | B．road | C．train | D．platform |
| A．stood | B．settled | C．fallen | D．escaped |
| A．whom | B．whether | C．when | D．where |
| A．nervous | B．embarrassed | C．dangerous | D．disappointed |
| A．object to | B．succeed in | C．put off | D．give up |
| A．unconscious | B．dying | C．active | D．discouraged |
| A．them | B．us | C．others | D．anyone |
| A．jammed | B．recognized | C．affected | D．rescued |
| A．stopped | B．started | C．arrived | D．raced |
| A．careless | B．serious | C．slight | D．unforgettable |
| A．people | B．passengers | C．friends | D．students |
6 . My doorbell rings at 11 a.m. On the step, I find an elderly Chinese lady. She is small and slight. She holds a paper carrier bag in her hands.
I know this lady. It is by no means her first visit. Her daughter, Nicole, bought the house next door last October. Nicole, who is currently in Shanghai, has apparently told her mother that I am having heart surgery shortly, and the result is that her mother has decided I need to be supplied with meals.
I know what is inside the paper carrier bag — a stainless-steel container with a meal of rice, vegetables and either chicken, meat or shrimp. This has become an almost-daily occurrence.
Communication between my benefactor (恩人)and me is somewhat handicapped by the fact that she doesn’t speak English and all I can say in Mandarin is “hello”. Once, she brought an iPad and pointed to the screen, which displayed a message from Nicole telling me that her mother wanted to know if the food was all right.
“Your mother just can’t be bringing me meals like this all the time” I protested. “I can hardly reciprocate by cooking something from my native land, like roast beef or Yorkshire pudding for her” I said.
“Oh，no,” Nicole said. “Don’t worry about that. She has to cook for the family anyway, and she wants to do it for you. You can call her Wing, which is her surname.”
The tenant in my basement suite is a university student who speaks Mandarin quite well, so with her help, I have found out that Wing is 68—13 years younger than I am — and that she lived through the Cultural Revolution. For my part, I was raised in wartime Britain.
So here we are, two grandmothers a world away from where we were raised, neither of us able to speak the other’s language. But the doorbell keeps ringing and there is the familiar paper earner bag, handed smilingly to me by Wing.
Right now I am working on some more Mandarin words—it’s the least I can do after such a display of kindness.
“Thank you” is, of course，the first one, which somehow seems inadequate.
1. The author and Wing got to know each other .| A．as next door neighbors |
| B．when exchanging meals |
| C．by sharing similar experiences |
| D．after using an iPad to communicate |
| A．do as well | B．offer generously |
| C．give in return | D．accept with pleasure |
| A．great satisfaction | B．real kindness |
| C．heartfelt thanks | D．sincere friendship |
7 . You might think male models lead glamorous lives, filled with endless travel and invitations to socialize with the rich and beautiful. Almost everyone has formed an unrealistic picture of their lives, believing that they spend one afternoon beside the Mediterranean Sea sipping coffee and getting suntanned and the next moment they are on board flying to Rome. However, according to a 2016 documentary made by the pop culture news site Fusion, the financial reality of male models is not very pretty.
The main subject of the documentary, titled Unglamorous, is a male model named Cameron Keesling who went to New York to start his career, hoping to make a fortune in the world of models. Keesling is not a supermodel but he has certainly made his name known in the industry. He was “working in the industry for about a year before landing the cover of Italian Vogue” in 2014. But “Keesling and his companions were paid nothing for the school”, Fusion reporter Nikita Redkar wrote.
Keesling also appeared at Paris Fashion Week and won lots of praise, while his compensation wouldn’t even cover the cost of traveling to and from Paris.
According to the documentary the most common way models get paid is by receiving free clothes, rather than money. In order to make ends meet, consequently, many of them have to take another job simply to make a living. Many of these models are in debt. Once they find an agency to represent them, a living income is provided by the agency to accommodate their rent, food, clothing and other expenses. Models are expected to pay off these costs once they find work, but many of the industry’s jobs don’t pay at all. Believe it or not, there is a pay gap between male models and female counterparts. Based on a survey conducted by Fortune.com, female models can make millions more than males, especially if you compare the top ten earners of each gender.
1. In common people’s eyes, male models are living __________.| A．a busy and simple life | B．a tiring and dull life |
| C．an easy and comfortable life | D．a hard and embarrassing life |
| A．To introduce his real life |
| B．To explain why he went to New York |
| C．To illustrate the hardship of male models’ lives |
| D．To encourage models to make a fortune in New York |
| A．Partners | B．Peers |
| C．Opponents | D．Competitors |
| A．Supportive | B．Doubtful |
| C．Critical | D．Objective |
8 . If you are a motivated person, it is easy to put your personal goals ahead of those of the people around you. It is natural and not necessarily a bad thing. However, it is crucial t learn to be a team player. Acting as a part of a team builds character, teacher empathy （共鸣）, and eventually achieves goals.
Group Effort Is More Effective than Individual Effort. You can run a small business pretty independently, but if you ever plan on being employed or running a business that employs others, you’ll have to learn how to work with other people.
Improving Others Equals Improving Yourself. If you’re on a team, your personal success helps make you a good team player. This is because most people are at least a little bit competitive, whether they admit it or not. When you do well, you set a standard that others will want to meet. By pushing yourself, you help push the people on your team.
Your Attitude Matters
| A．Of course, this works both ways |
| B．These is a mutual（相互的）effect between personal success and team achievement |
| C．People with team spirit try hard to make their team the best of all |
| D．You should be the kind of person who wants to be a team player |
| E．Those who show respect for others will be respected in turn |
| F．All of these things, in turn, contribute to your personal success |
| G．The most impressive achievements are accomplished by groups of people, not individuals |
Other people may fool you into overestimating (过高估计) their intelligence by putting up a good front. A student who listens attentively and takes notes in class is sure to make a favorable impression on his teachers. But when it comes to exams, he may score near the bottom of the class .
It all boils down to this: you can't judge someone by appearance. The only way to determine a person's intelligence is to get to know him. Then you can see how he reacts to different situations. The more situation you see, the better your judgment is likely to be. So take your time. Don't judge a book by its cover .
1. The passage suggests that ______.
| A．a good writer may not be a good speaker |
| B．a good writer is always a good speaker |
| C．a speechless person always writes well |
| D．a good writer will find himself speechless |
| A．is an intelligence student |
| B．may not be a intelligence student |
| C．will score better in exams |
| D．will not be a good student |
| A．his teachers | B．his deeds in the classroom |
| C．his appearance | D．his reaction to different situations |
| A．not to judge a book by the cover |
| B．not to make the mistake of thinking a young man stupid |
| C．not to overestimate a student's intelligence |
| D．not to judge person’s intelligence by his appearance |
She had a flat tire. Joe crawled under the car and changed the tire. But he got dirty and his hands hurt. She couldn't thank him ____ and asked him how much she ____ him. He told her that if she really wanted to ____ him back, the next time she saw someone in ____ of help, she could give that person the ____ he needed, and Joe added, “And think of me.”
She drove off with gratefulness. A few miles ____ the road the lady saw a small ____. She went in. The waitress who was nearly eight months pregnant, ____ her with a sweet smile. The old lady ____ how someone like her who seemed so poor could be so genuinely happy and how she could ____ her enthusiasm in her work in such inconvenient conditions. Then Joe's words ____ her. After the lady finished her meal, the waitress went to get her ____ from a hundreddollar bill. ____， the lady stepped right out of the door.
When the waitress came back, she noticed a note on the table, ____ “I'm helping you because someone once helped me. If you really want to pay me back, here is ____ you can do—Do not let the chain of love ____ with you.”
The waitress went home that night with the ____ tip and what the lady had written. With the baby ____ next month, she and her husband needed money. She knew how worried her husband was and as he lay sleeping next to her, she whispered, “Everything's going to be all right. I love you, Joe.”1.
| A．surprise | B．hand | C．sympathy | D．glance |
| A．Just in case | B．As you wish | C．For one thing | D．By the way |
| A．enough | B．right | C．straight | D．extra |
| A．charged | B．provided | C．owed | D．offered |
| A．pay | B．bring | C．put | D．hold |
| A．honor | B．favor | C．need | D．possession |
| A．guidance | B．assistance | C．acquaintance | D．consequence |
| A．down | B．off | C．beside | D．beyond |
| A．bank | B．grocery | C．gas station | D．restaurant |
| A．introduced | B．greeted | C．identified | D．spotted |
| A．thought | B．suspected | C．wondered | D．questioned |
| A．taste | B．measure | C．remain | D．maintain |
| A．struck | B．moved | C．obtained | D．reminded |
| A．tip | B．change | C．order | D．service |
| A．Moreover | B．Otherwise | C．However | D．Eventually |
| A．writing | B．showing | C．going | D．saying |
| A．how | B．which | C．what | D．whether |
| A．combine | B．end | C．disagree | D．deal |
| A．honest | B．generous | C．modest | D．graceful |
| A．due | B．ready | C．born | D．likely |
