Square dancing is a well-known recreational group activity in China. It
Ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, when authorities launched the
2 . An Indonesian librarian is lending books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a novel way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.
Each weekday Raden rides her three-wheeler with books piled up at the back for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other waste that she carries back. She told Reuters she targets to promote reading in the kids as well as make them aware of the environment. As soon as she shows up. little children, many accompanied by their mothers, surround her "Trash Library" and clamour for the books.
They are all carrying trash bags and Raden's three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books fly out. She's happy the kids are going to spend less time on online games as a result.
Kevin, a keen 11-vearold reader, searched for waste lying in the village. "When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it's not healthy. That's why I look for trash to borrow a book," he said.
"Let us build a culture of literacy(识字)from young age to reduce the harm of the online world." Raden said, "We should also take care of our waste in order to fight climate change and to save the earth from trash "
She collects about 100 kg of waste each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for recycling or sold. She has a stock of 6,000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile service to neighbouring areas as well.
Raden said: "The literacy rate for above-15-year-olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent, but a September report by the World Bank warned that the pandemic will leave more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency level." And she wanted to do her part to make things better.
1. What is Raden's purpose of establishing Trash Library?A.To earn money for Trash Library by selling trash. |
B.To develop the children's creativity from young age. |
C.To raise the kids' awareness of environment while reading. |
D.To promote the relationship between children and mothers. |
A.Passion for reading. | B.Concerns about pollution. |
C.Addiction to the Internet. | D.Determination to volunteer. |
A.Indifferent. | B.Worried. | C.Appreciative. | D.Tolerant |
A.A Novel Way to Improve Library | B.The Indonesian System for Reading |
C.Your Trash Benefiting the Environment | D.Your Collected Trash for Our Books |
3 . Here are a couple of tips for parents and teachers to help protect teens from cyberbullying(网络欺凌), a rapidly growing but alarming online issue.
This is a necessary precaution rule for both parents and teachers. The best smartphone monitoring is presented with Pumpic.com a parental control app, which allows you to monitor social media, IM chats, all calls and text messages and even track real-time location of your child, using GPS navigator. As for PC, the best known app is sociallyactive.com, a PC monitoring app.
Engage youth and parents.
You can start cyberbullying awareness by creating a club or community against cyberbullying. Establish a school online safety community where kids can discuss their problems and report online attacks.
Create a positive climate.
Restore self-respect.
It is important to remember that your goal as a parent or teachers is to restore the child’s self-respect. Fast decisions won’t do any good, you need to act thoroughly.
A.Monitor online activity. |
B.Become a community volunteer. |
C.Talk to teachers before addressing the problem. |
D.Unlike parents, schools can do a lot to prevent cyberbullying. |
E.Kids need to know that there is help and they are not alone in this fight. |
F.It allows you to view browser behavior and block inappropriate websites. |
G.Volunteering in an anti-cyberbullying community will help you understand the problem. |
4 . Research carried out last year stressed the growing challenge facing employers in terms of managing and supporting the UK’s aging workforce.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics have suggested that the number of people aged 65 and over still working has reached 1.19 million—up 25,000 from a year ago. There were also now more people aged 50-74 in work than ever before. However, the overall trend was hiding the fact that 12% people are forced to stop working before reaching state pension age because of ill health or disability.
Nearly half a million (436,000) workers who are within five years of state pension age have had to leave work for medical reasons, with an apparent divide between the North (worse) and South (better). Those in the lowest-paid jobs, including cleaners, leisure industry workers and people doing heavy laboring jobs, were twice as likely to stop working before retirement age, because of sickness and disability than managers or professionals.
Within this, the needs of the “sandwich generation”— those juggling work with caring for elderly dependents as well as children — needed to be given greater priority (优先权) by employers, a white paper by insurer and health care provider concluded.
Its research argued that 66% of managers think the average age of retirement in their organization will increase in the next 5 to 10 years. Yet, 36% reported being unaware of anything their organization did to attract, keep and engage older staff. Fewer than a quarter (23%) of employees said they felt supported by their employer with their responsibilities for caring for a loved one.
This was perhaps unsurprising, given that only 28% of managers said their organization had formal policies and practices in place to support these employees, argues health care distribution director Chris Horlick.
1. According to the passage, who is more likely to leave work before retirement age?A.Tom, a physician. | B.Jason, a language teacher. |
C.Henry, a construction worker. | D.Bill, a bank manager. |
A.moving | B.dissatisfying | C.inspiring | D.surprising |
A.Old employees are well attended in the UK. |
B.Aging workforce should be well supported in the UK. |
C.Employers show responsibilities for supporting their employees. |
D.UK employers are facing challenges in supporting aging workforce. |
5 . If you cut in line, you might just be a bad person. The queue is a regulation where the reward (the ice-cream stand/dining room/ticket booth) is earned through patience. Your choice to avoid this time-honored process will be bound to draw the anger of those you pass by, drawing remarks like “Whoa there, Chief,” the passive-aggressive “There’s a line, you know!” and of course, the incredibly common “Hey, Copernicus, why don’t you guide yourself to the back of the line?”
But, in the moment in which you really cannot wait, for example, the entire royal family has prepared a dinner party upon you last minute, then there is a way to cut the line correctly.
There are a few different ways to consider and a few different methods to employ. The regularity of the situation is very important. If you’re waiting to use the photocopier at work, you might be more likely to manage a successful cut than if you were waiting for a lifeboat on the Titanic. Sure, that might be an extreme example. But the importance of the event does matter.
For those requests in normal situations, emphasizing either the urgency of your task or the simplicity of your task proved to be effective: experimenters who said “Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the photocopier?” had a cut rate of 60 percent and experimenters who said “May I use the photocopier because I need to make copies?” saw a success rate of 90 per cent when queuing for the copy machine.
If you have a couple of extra dollars lying around, bribing members of the line also proved to be effective. And most of the time, the person being bribed didn’t end up accepting the money, because even the offer showed that the briber had a sense of desperation.
1. Why does the author use the remarks about Chief and Copernicus in paragraph 1?A.To illustrate the reaction from members in line. | B.To encourage those who want to cut in line. |
C.To praise the behavior of cutting in line. | D.To provide advice which helps cut in line. |
A.Giving the members in line money. | B.Stating the emergency of the event. |
C.Considering the regularity of the situation. | D.Defending the right of cutting in line. |
A.Be Patient When Queuing. | B.Acceptable Ways to Cut in Line. |
C.Time and Tides Waits for No Man. | D.Special Rights under Emergency. |
A.Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person. |
B.That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said. |
C.“One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says. |
D.Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic. |
E.Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel. |
F.Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life. |
G.Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships. |