Living and dealing with kids can be a difficult job, but living and dealing with parents can be even more difficult. If I have learned anything in my 16 ears, it is that 1 is very important, 2 when you disagree. With any relationship, you need to let other people know how you"re 3 . When you"re mad at your parents, or anyone else, not talking to them doesn"t 4 anything. Communication 5 the concerns (所关注的事) of another. It means that you can"t 6 come home from school, go up to your room and ignore (不理睬) everyone. 7 you just say "Hi", and see how their day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing. When 8 with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing 9 parents. If you are 10 to make them see something as you see it, tell that you"ll listen to what they have to say, but ask them 11 to listen to you. Shouting or walking away only makes the situation 12 . This is an 13 : one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by 14 , but she didn"t feel she could jus 15 to go home. That would be rude. 16 , the had been nice enough to make her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were 17 at first, but when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren"t as mad and let the incident go. Communication was the key factor here. If Sophie"s parents had not been willing to 18 , Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble. Communication isn"t a(n) 19 way deal, it goes both ways. Just remember, if you get into a 20 like Sophie"s, tell the other person how you feel-listening is a key factor in communication. |
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阅读理解。 | One of the more common and destructive mental tendencies I"ve seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have. We want this or that. If we don"t get what we want, we keep thinking about all that we don"t have and we remain dissatisfied. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking in our new circumstances. So, despite getting what we want, we still remain unhappy. Happiness can"t be found when we are yearning (向往,渴望) for new desires. Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have. Rather than wishing you were able to take a vacation to Hawaii, think of how much fun you have had close to home. The list of possibilities is endless! Each time you notice yourself falling into the "I wish life were different" trap, back off and start over. Take a breath and remember all that you have to be grateful. When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want anyway. If you focus on the good qualities of your spouse (配偶), she"ll be more loving. If you are grateful for your job rather than complaining about it, you"ll do a better job, be more productive, and probably end up getting a raise anyway. If you focus on ways to enjoy yourself around home rather than waiting to enjoy yourself in Hawaii, you"ll end up having more fun. If you ever do get to Hawaii, you"ll be in the habit of enjoying yourself. And, if by some chance you don"t, you have a great life anyway. Make a note of yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want. If you do, your life will start appearing much better than before. For perhaps the first time in your life, you"ll know what it means to feel satisfied. | 1. Why did the author say that focusing on what we want is destructive? | A. If we don"t get what we want, we remain dissatisfied. B. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking. C. If we desire what we want, we would be unhappy. D. All of the above | 2. How do you understand the underlined expression "I wish life were different" in the second paragraph? | A. Focusing on what you want. B. Focusing on what you have. C. Focusing on ways to enjoy yourself around home. D. Focusing on being able to take a vacation. | 3. The passage implies that ______. | A. getting what we want, we would be happy B. if we focus on what we have, we would have a better life C. it is more fun than you have had close to home D. focusing on what you want, you end up getting more of what you have anyway | 4. Which is NOT mentioned in the passage? | A. If we focus on what we want, we may remain dissatisfied and unhappy. B. Changing our thinking from what we want to what we have would make you happy. C. Focus on the good qualities of your wife, she"ll be more loving. D. It is more fun to around home than taking a vacation to Hawaii. | 阅读理解。 根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 | Facebook (a social networking service) makes it far too easy to make new friends-Unfortunately, reality is not like that. 1 The difference here is that we don"t get to choose our families; friends, on the other hand, are picked, selected and developed through our life. It is quite funny how your best friends know exactly what your are thinking without even telling them. 2 This friend"s sixth sense is something that takes time to develop through many long-lasting experiences that your go through. I was once asked: which one would be the worst thing, to lose all your loved ones or to lose all your friends? 3 I believe that I couldn"t live a day if I had lost all my friends. Respect, loyalty (忠诚), and support are few of the qualities that will form a good friendship. There are many others for sure, but it is enough for you to get these. 4 The ability to trust someone and therefore, be trusted, can be only built with a lot of effort and time. I hate that ugly Facebook"s message "Add to your friends?" It is like a friends was something that you could simply add to your "portfolio (文件夹)" without feeling. 5 | A. My answer was certainly the latter. B. This is definitely not the way to make friends. C. This is not something that happens overnight. D. Life without friends is just like soup without salt. E. We need friends to help us when we meet with difficulties. F. Trust is also one of the major features of a good relationship. G. Friends sometimes are just as important to us as our families. | 完形填空。 | Science seems to be getting closer to answering a very old mystery. Homing pigeons can be 1 hundreds of miles from their homes. When they are let to go to 2 again, they find their way home. Because of this special ability to 3 , pigeons have been used 4 messengers for hundreds of years. Today people even breed homing pigeons for 5 at a sport. The birds are shipped to some chosen 6 a few hundred miles away. Then all of them are let to go together. The winner is the bird that gets home 7 . A good race can make it home from 500 miles away 8 a single day. The mystery of the homing pigeons is how they 9 directions and how they find home. The first part seems to be pretty well 10 , and we know of two ways that pigeons tell directions. First, they use the sun. Experiments show that homing pigeons can tell 11 by the sun. What happens when the 12 is darkly overcoat by clouds and no one can 13 where the sun is? Then the pigeons still find their way home. Naturally, people have wondered whether pigeons might have a built-in compass 14 that would tell them about the direction of the 15 magnetic(磁的)field. Many different kinds of experiments were 16 . Here"s what the scientists decided 17 they had made experiments many times. When pigeons can see the sun, they use it as their 18 means of direction-finding. When they can"t see the sun, they use some 19 way to sense direction from the earth"s magnetic field. But how do pigeons know 20 direction is toward home? What do they use that we would call a map? These are other questions to be answered. | ( )1. A. carried ( )2. A. escape ( )3. A. find home ( )4. A. by ( )5. A. performing ( )6. A. place ( )7. A. fast ( )8. A. on ( )9. A. tell ( )10. A. explained ( )11. A. courses ( )12. A. sun ( )13. A. see ( )14. A. anything ( )15. A. earth’s ( )16. A. carried ( )17. A. before ( )18. A. important ( )19. A. quick ( )20. A. what | B. taken B. get B. sense directions B. as B. directing B. port B. quickly B. at B. recognize B. answered B. roads B. heaven B. find B. something B. sun’s B. done B. when B. major B. strange B. where | C. shipped C. fly C. send messages C. for C. showing C. city C. safely C. in C. realize C. shown C. directions C. land C. notice C. someone C. planet’s C. taken C. while C. main C. special C. how | D. brought D. run D. make friends D. to D. racing D. country D. first D. over D. know D. understood D. ways D. sky D. observe D. anyone D. destination’s D. had D. after D. most D. easy D. which | 阅读理解。 | We like to keep our distance from others and there are very specific social rules about how close we can go to others in particular situations. The social distances here are approximate, of course and will vary with people. But they are still a good general rule. Hall identified four zones that are common for Americans: Public Zone: >12 feet. The public zone is generally over 12 feet. That is, when we"re walking around town, we"ll try to keep at least 12 feet between us and other people. Of course there"re many times when we cannot do this. We"ll start to notice other people who are with in this distance. The closer they get, the more we become aware. Social Zone:4-12 feet. Within the social zone, we start to feel a connection with other people. When they"re closer, then we can talk with them without having to shout, but still keep them at a safe distance. This is a comfortable distance for people who are standing in a group but maybe not talking directly with one another. Personal Zone: 1.5-4feet. In the personal zone, the conversation gets more direct, and this is a good distance for two people who are talking seriously about something. Intimate(亲密的)Zone: <1.5 feet. When a person is within arm"s reach or closer, then we can touch them in intimate ways. Romance of all kinds happens in this space. Entering intimate zone of somebody else can be very threatening. The rules about social distances vary with different groups of people. People who live in towns spend more time close to one another. In a large and crowded city, the distances will be less than in a small town. Different countries also have different rules about social distances. Watch a Japanese person talking at a party with a person from a Western country. The Japanese will step in and the Westerner will step back. Speeded up, it"s like a dance around the room. | 1. Which of the following shows how the text is organized? (①=Paragraph 1…) | ![](http://img.shitiku.com.cn/uploads/allimg/20191220/20191220151530-45930.gif) ![](http://img.shitiku.com.cn/uploads/allimg/20191220/20191220151531-49578.gif) ![](http://img.shitiku.com.cn/uploads/allimg/20191220/20191220151531-48342.gif) ![](http://img.shitiku.com.cn/uploads/allimg/20191220/20191220151531-33612.gif) | 2. In a less crowded place, an American usually keeps a stranger at a distance of _____ . | A. about 1.5 feet B. less than 4 feet C. about 2 feet D. more than 12 feet | 3. If eight people sit in a room and all of them don"t talk directly with one another, they prefer _____. | A. Public Zone B. Social Zone C. Personal Zone D. intimate Zone | 4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph? | A. There"re some rules about social distances B. The Japanese are more polite than Americans C. The rules about social distances can vary D. Cities have fewer rules about social distances | 5. What can we infer from the last paragraph? | A. The Japanese would like to dance with people from Western countries B. The Westerner would like to keep close to people they are talking with at party C. The Japanese would like to keep a distance from people they are talking with at party D. The social distance between people in small towns is longer than that in large and crowded cities. | 阅读理解。 | Do you know how to prepare for and survive a major earthquake? According to Department of Conservation scientists, it is important to have the right answer to that question. How to Be Prepared Electricity, water, gas and telephones may not be working after an earthquake. The police and fire departments are likely to be tied up. You should be prepared to fend for yourself for at least three days, preferably for a week. You"ll need food, water and so on. It"s also a good idea to decide ahead of time how and where your family will reunite if separated during a quake. You might choose an out-of-the-area friend or relative that family members can call to check on you. _____ If you"re indoors, stay there. Get under a desk or table. The kitchen is a particularly dangerous spot. If you"re in an office building, stay away from windows and outside walls and do not use the elevator. If you"re outside, get into the open. Stay clear of buildings, power lines or anything else that could fall on you. If you"re driving, move the car out of traffic and stop. Avoid parking under or on bridges or overpasses. After an Earthquake Check for fire. If you smell gas, shut off the main gas valve (阀). If there"s sign of damage to electrical wiring, shut off the power at the control box. If the phone is working, only use it in case of emergency. Avoid driving if possible to keep the streets clear for emergency vehicles. Be careful that things may fall out of cupboards when the door is opened, and also that chimneys can be weakened and fall with just a touch. Listen to the radio for important information and instructions. Remember that aftershocks, sometimes large enough to cause damage in their own right, generally follow large quakes. If you leave home, leave a message telling your friends and family your location. | 1. The underlined phrase "tend for"" in the second paragraph probably means " ______"" | A. look for B. take care of C. be proud of D. think of | 2. Which of the following would be the best subtitle for the third paragraph? | A. Before an Earthquake B. After Making Preparations C. While Staying at Home D. During an Earthquake | 3. What should you do when an earthquake happens? | A. You should stay away from the kitchen. B. You should drive on a bridge. C. You should turn off the power. D. You should listen to the radio frequently. | 4. According to the passage, why doesn"t the author advise driving after an earthquake? | A. Because it is dangerous to drive as there will be aftershocks B. Because your car will be easily damaged in the streets full of blocks C. Because you should make way for emergency vehicles D. Because you can"t find a place to park your car | 5. What will probably happen after a big earthquake? | A. The local people"s life will return to normal in a week. B. There will be more earthquakes in a short time. C. There won"t be any earthquakes in a short time. D. The local people will stay at home waiting for help. |
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