In today’s fast-paced digital world,teens have less chance to have face-to-face connections and conversations with others.When presented with an unfamiliar social situation,they may feel uncomfortable,and therefore they may choose to avoid socializing.

Our two-day workshop will give them a good foundation of etiquette and manners as well as help prepare your teen for many new social and business situations they will face as young adults.It will provide them with the self-confidence,enthusiasm,and motivation,which are essential as they move into the next period of their lives.

The following topics will be covered in the two-day workshop:

Day One,1:00-4:00 PM:
Proper Introductions Handshakes &Eye Contact
The Art of Small Talk Leadership Qualities
How to Make a Positive First Impression Be the Perfect Guest
Invitations&Thank-You Notes
Day Two,1:00-4:00 PM:
Table Skills&Dining Manners Informal/Formal Place Setting
Interviewing Tips For College&Job Interviews Dressing the Part

Be a Good Listener

Interview Follow Up Calls&Thank-You Notes Grooming(打扮)&Skin Care
Graduation Celebration

*Class size is limited to fourteen students,so early application is encouraged.

Note:Class is a two-day workshop.

Date:Sep.28&29th 2019

Time:1:00 pm-4:00pm       

Price:$285.00/teen

Registration closes at 11:59 pm,Sep.21,2019

If you are interested in joining the two-day workshop,please fill out our Application Form online so we may provide you with the further service.Please take advantage of our special application credit.

*Invite a friend to apply for the workshop and you can receive a$10.00 credit toward your course fee.

1. What’s the major goal of the two-day workshop?

A．To help participants know themselves.

B．To provide face-to-face business meetings.

C．To give lessons on future job interview preparations.

D．To help participants learn some skills about social life.

2. What can participants learn on the first day?

A．Get through college interviews.	B．Make friends with small talks.
C．Behave properly at the table.	D．Listen to others politely.

3. If Mr Green invites one neighbor’s son to the workshop,his son’s class will cost

A．$295.00

B．$285.00

C．$275.00

D．$265.00

There is certainly evidence that actors experience a blending of their real self with their assumed characters. For instance, Benedict Cumberbatch said, “My mum says I'm much more impatient with her when I'm filming Sherlock.”

Mark Seton, a researcher at the University of Sydney, has even coined the term “post-dramatic stress disorder” to describe the lasting effects experienced by actors who lose themselves in a role. “Actors may often prolong habits of the characters they have embodied,” he writes.

A recent finding doesn't involve acting, and it indicates that merely spending some time thinking about another person seemed to rub off on the volunteers’ sense of self led by Meghan Meyer at Princeton University. Across several studies, these researchers asked volunteers to first rate their own personalities, memories or physical attributes, and then to perform the same task from the perspective of another person. For instance, they might score the emotionality of various personal memories, and then rate how a friend or relative would have experienced those same events.

After taking the perspective of another, the volunteers scored themselves once again: the consistent finding was that their self-knowledge was now changed—their self-scores had shifted to become more similar to those they'd given for someone else. For instance, if they had initially said the trait term “confident” was only moderately related to themselves and then rated the term as being strongly related to a friend's personality, when they came to rescore themselves, they now tended to see themselves as more confident. Remarkably, this morphing of the self with another was still apparent even if a 24-hour gap was left between taking someone else's perspective and re-rating oneself.

“By simply thinking about another person, we may adapt our self to take the shape of that person” said Meyer and her colleagues. That our sense of self should have this quality might be a little discouraging, especially for anyone who has struggled to establish a firm sense of identity. Yet there is an optimistic message here, too. The challenge of improving ourselves—or at least seeing ourselves in a more positive light—might be a little easier than we thought. By roleplaying or acting out the kind of person we would like to become, or merely by thinking about and spending time with people who embody the kind of attributes we would like to see in ourselves, we can find that our sense of self changes in desirable ways.

“As each of us chooses who to befriend, who to model, and who to ignore” write Meyer and her colleagues, “we must make these decisions aware of how they shape not only the fabric of our social networks, but even our sense of who we are.”

4. The first two paragraphs mainly ______.

A．state that acting requires skills

B．explain the stress that an actor faces

C．show that a role leaves a mark on the actor

D．stress the importance of devoting oneself to a role

5. What does the underlined phrase “rub off on” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Influence.	B．Strengthen.
C．Confuse.	D．Determine.

6. According to the study, taking the perspective of another person ______.

A．brings changes to one's self-knowledge

B．motivates one to better understand himself

C．helps people deal with their identity problems

D．produces temporary effects on one's character

7. What is the significance of the study?

A．It offers instructions on making friends.

B．It proposes a means to improve ourselves.

C．It gives advice on adjusting one's emotions.

D．It presents a way to deal with stress disorder.

For some years，my mother worked for a charity as President and Secretary.Selling raffle tickets(兑奖券) was her main means of bringing in the charity’s much­needed funds.We girls would accompany her，selling tickets with great success.My father made and donated beautiful wooden toys，jewellery boxes and other lovely items as prizes.

Now my sister was always coming up with “good ideas”，most of which didn’t work out to plan.But that didn’t deter her.She had many just waiting to be tested.When she was eight and I was just five，we had a wonderful idea for a business adventure.We decided we would sell raffle tickets for charity，and that charity was us!

So one afternoon，we told our mother we were going to play in the park with our cousins as we did most days after school.But instead，we walked around the streets armed with a raffle book，a pen and a large cloth bag to carry the money.

We’d accompanied our mother many times when she sold tickets，so people were familiar with us when we appeared at their doors.Despite the blank looks they received when asking about the prizes on offer，they were very generous.Although there were no actual prizes，our mother’s previous track record enabled us to sell nearly the whole book of raffle tickets.

Like a little pair of lottery(彩票) winners，we walked home and proudly showed off our takings.But our enjoyment of this sudden wealth was short­lived，and our plans for spending it quickly failed.Our angry mother took us back to every ticket buyer，making us apologise and give the money back.Thankfully，our sweet neighbours didn’t make a big deal of our “clever” misbehavior and thus my mother’s

fundraising career could continue safely.We were taught a good lesson by our mother that day.Also I remember my sister’s entrepreneurial(企业家的) spirit dried up a bit after that.
8. What did the author’s father do?

A．He got prizes ready.	B．He sold hand­made items.
C．He was in charge of a charity.	D．He helped design raffle tickets.

9. What does the underlined word “deter” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Embarrass.	B．Shock.
C．Discourage.	D．Mislead.

10. What can be learned about the author and her sister while selling raffle tickets?

A．They ran into their mother.

B．They met some generous strangers.

C．They got lost while walking around the streets.

D．They took advantage of people’s trust in their mother.

11. What lesson did the author and her sister learn?

A．Honesty is the best policy.	B．What’s done can’t be undone.
C．Misfortune never comes alone.	D．Good advice is beyond all price.

It is irrefutable: Parents, who talk to, read and engage with their very young children as often as possible, help them build literacy (读写能力) skills at an early age.

Also certain: Parents of very young children usually have to do a lot of laundry. And low-income families tend to bring their kids with them to public laundromats (洗衣房).

Those truths appear once a week at select neighborhood laundromats in Chicago. That’s when librarians lay down colorful mats and oversized board books beside the industrial washing machines.

Inside one of about 14 laundromats in the city’s low-income neighborhoods, the librarians gather all available children for Laundromats Story Time (LST), a Chicago Public Library (CPL) program.

With the noise of the washers and dryers, anywhere between a handful to more than a dozen children hear stories, sing songs and play games designed to help their brains develop. The event also aims to instruct parents on how to repeat the experience for their kids, working to raise poor literacy rates in underserved communities.

"We read books, we sing songs, we do plays," says Becca Ruidl, the CPL’s STEAM Team early learning manager, who runs the LST program. "We kind of keep it going so parents can walk in adn join in at any time. But a big part of what we do is model literacy skills for parents so they can do it at home with their kids."

While a laundromat seems an unlikely place to engage with children, "we really wanted to meet people in the community where they’re. "Ruidl says.

And it clearly meets a need: Library officials say the program is in increasing demand, while Ruidl says families have adjusted their household’s laundry day to suit the librarians’ laundromat visits. At the same time, LST’s co-sponsors—including a laundry industry trade group and Libraries Without Borders, an organization fighting poverty through literacy—have worked with the CPL to draft an instruction handbook to help expand the concept to other U.S. cities.

12. What does the word “irrefutable” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Undoubtful.	B．Controversial.
C．Impossible.	D．Fruitful.

13. Why are public laundromats chosen for LST?

A．Parents of poor families do a lot of laundry.

B．They offer a perfect atmosphere for learning.

C．Poor parents often go there with their kids.

D．Reading to kids promotes their literacy skills.

14. What can we infer about LST from the last paragraph?

A．It is demanding.	B．Its focus has been adjusted.
C．It will fight poverty.	D．Its concept will be spread.

15. What is the best title for the text?

A．Literacy at the Laundromat	B．Models of Parenting
C．Laundromats for Kids	D．Magic in Story Time

I am a very nostalgic(怀旧的) person. When I go on trips I keep everything from bus tickets to leaflets and I always take hundreds of photographs to look at when I get home. I love thinking of exciting adventures I have had.     16     One of the most interesting ways to remember things is to read old letters, either ones you have sent to yourself or those you have received from someone else.

Living abroad this year has really made me think about how I keep in contact with my family and friends.     17     It forces me to think about all the amazing things that have happened and by writing them down, reminds me of how lucky I am to be able to experience so many new things.

Not only is writing letters an excellent thing to do, but I always think the best bit is when you receive a letter in reply! There is something so exciting about receiving letters, especially when the address is handwritten.     18     It is so special to have a box full of old letters. In a world where we update our friends constantly over social media, it is easy to forget to reach out to people personally.     19     In ten or twenty years, is social media still going to be around and are we still going to be able to look back at our memories and see what we were doing? Nobody knows.     20    

A．Having something physical to look at makes it easier.

B．The most enjoyable way to keep memories is writing letters.

C．One of the things I enjoy doing most is writing them letters.

D．By writing a letter, you remind people that you are thinking of them.

E．You can see that somebody has put time and effort into contacting you.

F．Reading them years later reminds you of all the exciting things you once did.

G．However, having some letters to read means you will always have those memories.

Several years ago, I went on a trip alone to Mozambique. Our bus broke down by the side of the road. There was certainly nothing in the way of _______ or campsites or any kind of place to sleep. I _______ I’d just have to bed down on the roadside like others. But I was pretty _______ at the idea. Most everyone else was traveling with their families or other _______, and here I was, a very young woman, alone, with pale white skin that just screamed out “I’m a foreigner and do not _______ here.” Besides, I spoke Portuguese reasonably _______ but not any of the local dialects, which _______ my difficulty.

I was trying to work out what to do when I _______ one of the women passengers I’d been chatting with _______ to me. “Come with me,” she said. I was then taken to the nearby village, where she lived. She and her large family __________ me that night. We had chips and matapa, a delicious Mozambican dish. Her kids laughed and circled around and were __________ to have a visit from a real white person. I couldn’t __________ a lot of the conversation, because only the woman spoke Portuguese, but I felt so __________ despite my foreignness.

This kind-hearted woman __________ a stranger for a night, who would have stayed trembling in __________ and hunger by the side of the road.

21.

A．hospitals

B．stores

C．hotels

D．colleges

22.

A．wished

B．figured

C．insisted

D．opposed

23.

A．terrified

B．astonished

C．excited

D．annoyed

24.

A．guides

B．villagers

C．volunteers

D．companions

25.

A．wait

B．sleep

C．belong

D．like

26.

A．frequently

B．poorly

C．fluently

D．carefully

27.

A．added to

B．attended to

C．admitted to

D．applied to

28.

A．felt

B．spotted

C．contacted

D．stopped

29.

A．explaining

B．whispering

C．complaining

D．listening

30.

A．hosted

B．interviewed

C．charged

D．comforted

31.

A．scared

B．fascinated

C．satisfied

D．embarrassed

32.

A．hear

B．remember

C．follow

D．interrupt

33.

A．proud

B．confused

C．amused

D．welcomed

34.

A．put in

B．put down

C．put away

D．put up

35.

A．disbelief

B．regret

C．doubt

D．fear

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Located in Erdos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Kubuqi Desert is the     36     (close) desert to China’s capital Beijing.

It was once known     37     “the sea of death”. However, in the past 30 years, the government, social organizations and local farmers and herdsmen     38     (work) together to control the desertification in Kubuqi desert.

Historically. Kubuqi was a rich city filled with water and grass. But due to climate change and over-exploitation from humans, the farmlands     39     (final) turned to desert over 2.000 years.

Controlling desertification was the only way out for people still living in Kubuqi. With the first highway going through the desert     40     (build) in 1999. People started planting trees in the whole desert. It was common for planted trees to die. But the next year, people just continued to plant more trees. Their hard work inspired the term “ Kubuqi spirit ”,     41     （ encourage）local people to move forward with great efforts.

Over three decades, tree planting technology saw continuous     42     (develop) in Kubuqi. Now workers can plant a tree in just ten     43     （ second）, and their survival rate is over 80 percent.

The 102,000 residents in the desert have enjoyed the benefits of managing desertification. Meng Keda,     44     family has lived deep in the Kubuqi Desert for generations, began a tourism business in 2006. He had     45     income of 300.000 yuan last year.

46. Within a few days she has become seriously ill, _________(suffer) great pain and discomfort.(所给词的适当形式填空)

47. He always prefers _________(ride) a bike rather than ride a crowded bus. (所给词的适当形式填空)

48. As far as I am concerned, it’s beneficial _______ us to do sports.(用适当的词填空)

49. The man came in, with his hands ________ (tie) . (所给词的适当形式填空)

50. This temple has a long history _________(date) back to the early period of the Tang Dynasty. (所给词的适当形式填空)