1 . New parents often spend a long time debating what to call their newborn. Should they name them after a relative, a famous person, or just pick a name at random?
Names usually stay with us for a lifetime, unless we decide to change them. They become part of our identity. Quite often we hear stories of celebrities giving their children unusual names, while other people give their children names which have special meanings, for example,
So, what if you don’t like your given name? A study led by psychologist Jean Twenge found that a person who hates the nickname given to them is more likely to have greater psychological adjustment issues — possibly due to low self-esteem. This is because our title becomes a symbol of our self.
And what if your name is no longer popular? While names like Ethel and Gladys were once in fashion, they now sound a bit out of date, which can be embarrassing.
However, if you choose an unusual name, it’s not all bad news. According to a study conducted by Professor David Zhu, people with uncommon names can develop a sense of uniqueness.
So, when choosing your successor’s name, there are a fair few things to consider — but going for something too common or too old-fashioned may not be a great choice.
A.the name Sarah comes from a Hebrew word meaning “princess”. |
B.They can often become more creative and open-minded. |
C.A person who likes his name will be more self-confident. |
D.For many of us it can be quite the tiring task, |
E.And when it comes to unpopular names which aren’t fashionable, they may even affect our lives. |
F.If we hate our name, our confidence may be affected. |
G.Unpopular names also has many advantages. |
2 . What’s your baby doing right now? I hope he or she is not rolling on the floor. Such behaviour might seem natural and age-appropriate but this laid-back environment could come back to haunt you at a later date.
Eventually you may be forced to reflect upon those wasted opportunities. In allowing your baby to unproductively behave just like, well, a baby, you may be failing to foster his or her personal growth. Are you denying your child the chance to achieve his or her full potential as a well-rounded baby?
You see, some parents are hot-housing their infants as we speak. While your baby’s programme revolves around the traditional routines of sleeping, eating and playing, other people’s offspring are on the fast-track to certain giftedness. And Baby Einstein DVDs, which were all the rage when I was a new mother, are really the least of your problems.
Ever eager to exploit our perceived inadequacies, smart marketers have found something else for parents to feel guilty about. There’s a manufactured fear that we’re squandering those valuable moments when a baby’s brain is said to be like a sponge, ready and willing to soak up new information at an alarming rate.
I’ve never seen the point of deliberately setting up your little one to be more advanced than his or her peers. I like the idea of babies just being babies and children just being children. Anyway, if they can read at the age of three then what will they learn in their first year of school?
One thing’s for sure: for some people parenting has taken on the proportions of a competitive sport. Some children wrestle with after-school activities every day of the week. Others are enrolled in extra tuition — sometimes simply to reach an acceptable standard and other times in order to be top of the class. There are tennis camps, swim academies and dancing schools. Some households even speak English downstairs and French upstairs. What? That’s not how you run your home? Oh dear. I see bilingualism passing your child by, for sure.
1. What does the author imply in paragraph 2?A.The author likes raising baby at home. |
B.Many parents don’t realize their babies’ potentials. |
C.We don’t have enough time or money to raise babies. |
D.Many parents foster their children’s personal growth by any chance. |
A.They were good enough for mothers. |
B.They were effective in teaching babies. |
C.They were cheaper than other products. |
D.They were popular with many mothers. |
A.It’s a good way to build up potentials. |
B.It’s not helpful to baby’s development. |
C.It’s vital to develop baby’s brain. |
D.It’s not so cheap to be invested by all parents. |
A.Give children more sports. |
B.Develop children more. |
C.Let babies grow as they are. |
D.Develop children’s bilingualism. |
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,使行文连贯。
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It’s odd — we’re always talking about the healthy work-life balance and know that working long hours can lead to stress, anxiety, and
People believe long hours on the job to be proof of their work ethic (职业道德). And no matter how much we’d like
A study
Clearly, doing overtime
5 . Sometime in the early 1960s, a significant thing happened in Sydney, Australia. The city discovered its harbor. Then, one after another, Sydney discovered lots of things that were just sort of there — broad parks, superb beaches, and a culturally diverse population. But it is the harbor that makes the city.
Andrew Reynolds, a cheerful fellow in his early 30s, pilots Sydney ferryboats for a living. I spent the whole morning shuttling back and forth across the harbor. After our third run Andrew shut down the engine, and we went our separate ways — he for a lunch break, I to explore the city.
“I’ll miss these old boats,” he said as we parted.
“How do you mean?” I asked.
“Oh, they’re replacing them with catamarans. Catamarans are faster, but they’re not so elegant, and they’re not fun to pilot. But that’s progress, I guess.”
Everywhere in Sydney these days, change and progress are the watchwords (口号), and traditions are increasingly rare. Shirley Fitzgerald, the city’s official historian, told me that in its rush to modernity in the 1970s, Sydney swept aside much of its past, including many of its finest buildings. “Sydney is confused about itself,” she said. “We can’t seem to make up our minds whether we want a modern city or a traditional one. It’s a conflict that we aren’t getting any better at resolving.”
On the other hand, being young and old at the same time has its attractions. I considered this when I met a thoughtful young businessman named Anthony. “Many people say that we lack culture in this country,” he told me. “What people forget is that the Italians, when they came to Australia, brought 2000 years of their culture, the Greeks some 3000 years, and the Chinese more still. We’ve got a foundation built on ancient cultures but with a drive and dynamism of a young country. It’s a pretty hard combination to beat.”
He is right, but I can’t help wishing they would keep those old ferries.
1. What can we know about Sydney’s harbor?A.It is a culturally respected area. | B.It used to be a striking architecture. |
C.It’s crucial to Sydney’s development. | D.It was a famous tourist attraction in 1960. |
A.Anxious. | B.Negative. | C.Doubtful. | D.Supportive. |
A.Controlling. | B.Discovering. | C.Solving. | D.Distinguishing. |
A.A city being young and old is more attractive. |
B.A city built on ancient cultures is more dynamic. |
C.Modernity is usually achieved at the cost of elegance. |
D.Italians bring Australians more cultures than Chinese. |
6 . Any parent knows how challenging it can be to separate kids from social media, messaging apps, or online games and videos.
Be a good role model. Children have a strong impulse (冲动) to imitate, so it’s important you manage your own smartphone and Internet use. Don’t let your own smartphone use distract from parent-child interactions.
Encourage other interests and social activities. Get your child away from screens by exposing them to other hobbies and activities, such as team sports and after-school clubs.
Talk to your child about underlying issues. Compulsive smartphone use can be the sign of deeper problems.
Get help. Teenagers often rebel against their parents, but if they hear the same information from a different authority figure, they may tend to listen.
A.Is your child having problems fitting in? |
B.Spend time as a family away from screens. |
C.Is your child having trouble working harder? |
D.Try a sports coach, doctor, or respected family friend. |
E.Use apps to monitor and limit your child’s smartphone use. |
F.Turn devices off and leave them in another room overnight to charge. |
G.Youngsters lack the maturity to control their smartphone use on their own. |
7 . Doctors in the U. K. are warning children born in the age of tablets(平板)and touch screens are missing the fine motor skills needed to operate the simpler tools in life: pens and pencils.
After all, it’s easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks.
Certainly penmanship(书法)has been on the decline since the appearance of keyboard. Some Arizona educators are even considering dropping cursive(草书)writing entirely from classes. They think teaching a kid to use soon-to-be ancient tools like pens and pencils is a waste of time and money.
The thing is, there’s more than one point to penmanship. A pencil is what develops hand strength and dexterity(灵巧)that children will need throughout their lives. It’s a lifelong learning tool that helps the world produce its surgeons and pilots.
And the bad cursive writing opens the door for an all-important lesson on the virtues of practice. A keyboard, on the other hand, ticks off each letter with perfect precision from the very start. But it robs a kid not only of the joys of getting something right, but also developing a written identity.
Consider that if society stops teaching children how to push a pen, how long before we won’t be able to read it? Maybe the pen will someday be history. But we all need to know how to read history.
As blogger Starre Vartan puts it, “As an art lover, I visit as many museums as I can, and a major part of many exhibitions, original written documents are included, all of which requires the reader to be able to decipher(破译)handwriting from times past.”
And, in an age when people turn increasingly to the same old emoji(表情符号)to express themselves, those lines on paper may be one of the few remaining bastions(堡垒)of identity.
1. Which of the following may belong to hand muscle-building play according to the text?A.Hide-and-seek. | B.High jumping. |
C.Role playing. | D.Cutting and sticking. |
A.It is a traditional art. | B.It is out of date. |
C.It brings people joy. | D.It does harm to kids. |
A.Penmanship is beneficial. | B.Penmanship needs practice. |
C.The keyboard is also important. | D.Every kid needs a written identity. |
A.Learning cursive is necessary. |
B.Written documents are treasures. |
C.Readers need to write much more. |
D.Cursive writing can hide messages. |
8 . It’s cool to be a fool in school, obviously. Research from Florida Atlantic University shows that aggressive, troublesome adolescents often end up becoming quite
Importantly, researchers explain that being popular and having friends aren’t one in the same. Popularity
Being popular is thought a major status symbol for an
The team at FAU performed a study to test their
Aggression,
While researchers don’t think
A.delicate | B.mature | C.tough | D.popular |
A.requires | B.realizes | C.means | D.reminds |
A.consider | B.feel | C.make | D.describe |
A.limit | B.prefer | C.apply | D.compare |
A.adult | B.adolescent | C.audience | D.acquaintance |
A.hard | B.true | C.wise | D.wrong |
A.crazy | B.hardworking | C.cruel | D.outgoing |
A.result | B.plots | C.theory | D.characters |
A.tolerate | B.strengthen | C.contradict | D.design |
A.aggression | B.conservation | C.alternative | D.sensitivity |
A.experiment | B.increase | C.appointment | D.assessment |
A.treatments | B.development | C.arguments | D.punishment |
A.on the contrary | B.in most cases | C.by the way | D.in my opinion |
A.physical | B.mental | C.facial | D.official |
A.set off | B.put about | C.back down | D.stick up |
A.attacks | B.awards | C.helps | D.actions |
A.receives | B.promotes | C.evaluates | D.distinguishes |
A.doubt | B.forget | C.inspect | D.explain |
A.conflict | B.warn | C.peace | D.effort |
A.wonder | B.advertise | C.ignore | D.believe |
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
With the popularity of cellphones and Internet, some of we students spend too much time playing with cellphones, which is bad for our studies. Worse is still, we have little time to communicating with our parents and friends. So do we have time for physical exercises.
How shall we do to improve the situation? All of us should realize the negative effects of modern media. Let’s limit our time by playing with cellphones. Instead we should spend more time playing sports or talking straightly with our parents and friends, which helped us relax and communicate.
10 . According to a research, more than 130 billion pounds of uneaten food go to waste in Laura’s county each year. That is about 30% of the yearly food supply (供应). It is a sad fact, especially when you consider how many families and homeless people are in hunger.
When Laura saw her school dining hall throw away food that was not eaten at all every day, she came up with an idea. She started a project to help her school dining hall to give away uneaten food to homeless shelters (避难所) in her community. In the past three years, the same protect has spread to other schools and some fast food restaurants throughout the city. The project is called Feed & Find, which has already fed thousands of people in her city.
How does it work? Through an app, Feed & Find matches local homeless shelters with school dining halls and restaurants that have uneaten food to provide. When dining halls or restaurants have uneaten food left, they can use the app to share the information about the food. A truck driver working for the project is then sent to pick it up and take it to a shelter.
Pretty cool, right? It’s not surprising that people in other cities have got in touch with Laura, to hoping that she could help develop similar projects for their communities.
Some people, however, dread the safety of the uneaten food. They think such food may not be clean enough. Still, this project is a clever way to help solve the problem of food waste and it helps those in need.
1. The numbers in Paragraph 1 tell us ________.A.some people are poor | B.food waste is serious |
C.the population is large | D.the research is interesting |
A.her school dining hall | B.her family |
C.a fast food restaurant | D.a homeless shelter |
A.find a truck driver | B.visit their communities |
C.give away food to them | D.help develop projects like hers |
A.ways | B.secrets | C.worries | D.decisions |