阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。 [1] The word addiction usually makes you
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seeing some new kinds of addictions. Some people are compulsive (难以自制的) shoppers. Others find it
impossible to pull themselves away from their work. Still others spend countless hours watching TV or
playing computer games.
[2] Over the years, shopping has become a very common activity. Many people enjoy going to malls or
stores more and more every day, but it"s more than a common hobby for some of them. They have turned
into shopaholics. They are people who simply enjoy shopping and walking around spending money without
being able to stop doing it. They are hooked on shopping and usually buy things that they don"t need. Even
though they don"t have enough money, they buy everything they want.
[3] The question is: why do they have this addiction? There isn"t a specific answer. Some people go
shopping when they are sad, worried, upset or lonely and they want to feel better. They use this activity as
a way to forget their problems. Shopaholics say that they feel more important and better after they buy
something. They also tend to have this addiction when they feel guilty.
[4] Shopaholism seems to be a harmless addiction, but it car. _____. Some of them can be psychological.
If this is the case, people addicted to shopping should go to a support group to help them break this habit.
However, the process, like for most addictions, is long, and they suffer a lot. It can also cause financial
problems. They just think about satisfying their feelings, so they spend money they don"t have to. They get
deep in debt, and they can even go bankrupt and get sent to prison.
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2. What"s the main idea of Paragraph 3? (Please answer within 8 words.)
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3. Fill in the blank in paragraph 4 with proper words. (Please answer within 6 words.)
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4. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?
Accordingly, these shopaholics should turn to a certain organization for help so that they can stop
compulsive shopping.
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese.
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答案
2. The reason why some people/shopaholics have shopping addiction. The possible reasons for
shopaholism/shopping addiction.
3. cause/bring about/result in many problems
4. If this is the case, people addicted to shopping should go to a support group to help them break
this habit.
5. 他们购物成瘾，而且通常买的都是用不着的东西。（他们购物上癍，常买些不需要的东西。）
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work and goes shopping with her. "Most people don"t seem to mind Allen," says Brigitte, who thinks he is
wonderful. "He is my fourth child," she says. She may think of him and treat him that way, buying his food,
paying his health bills and his taxes, but in fact Allen is a dog.
Brigitle and Allen live in Sweden, a country where everyone is expected to lead an orderly life according
to rules laid down by the government, which also provides a high level of care for its people. This level of
care costs money.
People in Sweden pay taxes on everything, so they aren"t surprised to find that owning a dog means more
taxes. Some people are paying as much as 500 Sweden kronor (克朗) in taxes a year for the right to keep
their dogs, money that is spent by the government on dog hospitals and sometimes medical treatment for a
dog that falls ill. However, most such treatment is expensive, so owners often decide to pay health and even
life insurance (保险) for their dogs.
In Sweden dog owners must pay for any damage their dogs do. A Swedish kennel (宠物园) club official
explains what this means: if your dog runs out on the road and gets hit by a passing car, you, as the owner,
have to pay for any damage done to the car, even if your dog has been killed in the accident.
B. he is her child
C. he follows her everywhere
D. he often falls ill
B. pay for damage done by dogs
C. provide medical care for dogs
D. buy insurance for dog owners
B. keeping dogs means asking for trouble
C. many car accidents are caused by dogs
D. people should pay a lot for their dogs
B. The owner of the dog.
C. The insurance company.
D. The government.
B. Allen.
C. Anderson.
D. Secretary
Time management is important in our daily life. There never seems to be enough hours in the day to
accomplish all you need to do. Here are some tips that might be of some help to you.
1. Set up a plan. Go for a week at a time,and decide the most important ones. Include things you want
to accomplish. Focus mostly on the things that are important to you.
2. Control your stress. No matter what kind of pressure mounts on you.try to keep cool. Stressing out
can lead to an early break-down,which is definitely counter-productive when you have a list of things to do.
It"s easier to take a 10-minute break and cool off than to work all week with stress.
3. Shut your door. When working under a schedule, perform your important tasks with your door shut
to get them done. This will ensure a better quality time to get what needs to be done done.
4. Focus on one thing at a time. Forget trying to multi-task! You will lose concentration, and it will take
you longer to accomplish what you set out to do.
5. Just say "no". If you are constantly interrupted, and you really don"t have the time to help out, just say
"no". You"re only one person, and you can"t save the world by yourself!
6. Stop wasting time on the phone. While talking on the phone, keep your conversations short, and to the
point and you"ll waste much less time.
7. Be realistic. You can only do what you can do. Don"t set out to accomplish the impossible. Do your
best, but keep realistic expectations of yourself.
8. Relax. The most important thing is to remember to take time to relax, and regroup. You need a break
every now and then to keep working efficiently. Even if it"s a 10-minute walk, get away from your list and
get refreshed.
As families today get busier and busier, it"s important to your own mental health to keep things on track.
Don"t delay; get your life in order now.
never having seen any record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as
horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus
ignorant (不知情的). I do not remember having ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom
come nearer to it than planting-time, harvesting, springtime, or autumntime. A lack of information concerning
my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages,
but I could not tell. Why the same right ought to be taken away from me! I was not allowed to ask my master
about it. He considered all such questions on the part of a slave improper and impolite. The nearest estimate
(估计) I can live makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from
hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old. My mother was named
Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark.
My father was a white man. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the
correctness of this opinion, I know nothing and I have no means to know. My mother and I were separated
when I was but an infant-before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland
from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the child
has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it,and hired out on some farm a considerable distance
off, and the child is placed under the care of an older woman, too old for field labor.
B. the writer didn"t know whether his master was his father
C. the writer was about twenty-seven years old in 1835
D. the writer"s mother left him as soon as he was born
B. my age
C. a record
D. Maryland
B. was light-skinned
C. had several children
D. was sent to work elsewhere
B. by an old woman slave
C. with his master"s support
D. together with other children
B. Unhappy.
C. Astonished.
D. Ashamed.
still true that a dog is 2 animal in the world, but the reason why people 3 a dog has changed. Once a upon
a time, a man met a dog and wanted it to help him in the fight 4 other animals and he found the dog 5 him
and did what he told him 6 . Later people used dogs for hunting 7 other animals, and the dogs did not 8
what they got until their masters agreed. So dogs were used for 9 sheep and guarding chickens. But now the
people in the towns and cities 10 dogs to fight other animals for them. Why do they keep dogs? Of course, they
keep them to 11 thieves, but the most important reason is 12 people feel 13 in the city. For a child, a dog is
his 14 friend when he has no friends to 15 . For a young wife, a dog is her 16 when she does not have her
own. For old people, a dog is also a child when their 17 children have grown up and 18 . Now people do not
have to use a dog, but they keep it 19 a friend, just like a member of the 20 .
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| Having one of those days or weeks when everything seems to annoy you? Even if you do nothing about it, your bad mood will probably go away after some time. But with a little effort, you can forget it much faster, often within a day or two. ●Walk it off Exercise is the most popular way to remove bad mood. A person who"s in a bad mood has low energy and high tension. Taking a fast ten-minute walk, or taking some quick exercise can do wonders towards changing that bad mood. ●Tune it out Listening to your favorite music for a while can also make ten- sions go away quickly, because music starts associations with past positive experiences we"ve had. ●Give yourself a pep talk Stop and listen to what"s on your mind. Bad moods are often started by too many negative thoughts. Write them all down on paper, including the pessimistic messages you"ve been giving yourself and then give optimistic answers. ●Avoid things that won"t improve your mood TV may not help much you need to increase your energy level and stimulate your mind. And before you reach for that piece of cake and coffee, think about how _____ are linked. Sugar and caffeine contribute to depressed moods while carbohydrates, such as potatoes and pasta (意大利面食), produce a calming effect in people who have a desire for them. | |||
| 1. What"s the general idea of this passage? (Please answer within 10 words.) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Please design a pessimistic situation and then find an optimistic solution,following the third suggestion. (Please answer within 20 words.) Situation: _____________________________________________________________________________ Solution: _____________________________________________________________________________ 4. Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words. (Please answer within 10 words.) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What do most people do to beat the bad mood according to the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.) ______________________________________________________________________________________ |