What sounds or impressions are you making on the people around you? Think about
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What sounds or impressions are you making on the people around you? Think about it. Your words, phrases, even your message may soon be forgotten but believe me, good or 1 , your melody music.
An odd choice of phrase? Not really. The dictionary 2 melody? as a succession of sounds, and what is life other than the combining and blending of a succession of movements and sounds.
Just as a musical composition affects the moods and emotions of people who hear it, so too does the way you live your 3 .
Think of your life as a 4 sheet of manuscript paper. Only the rhythm is there ------it is 5 to you to create the harmony. Naturally you will want your composition to be a 6 , a chart buster" even a Symphony - something to be remembered with pleasure.
So where to 7 ? YOU MUST BEGIN WITH YOURSELF. Have the right 8 , enjoy life, - and most importantly, be optimistic about the future.
Be really 9 in other people. Make a conscience effort to bring peace and happiness into other people"s lives.
10 situations that generate excessive ambition, envy, anger
and pride. They are all 11 of peace and will play ruin with your harmony.
12 has been said that if these emotions or feelings were forgotten, the world would live in permanent peace. Well, to banish（消除） them from the world is probably aiming a bit high but it shouldn"t be too 13 to rid them from your own life.
Develop features such as smart, social, and sensitivity. These attributes are invaluable in enhancing not only your own life but the lives of those around you.
Everything you do has an 14 on those around you. The way you move, whether you 15 or frown. You are capable of making someone"s day bright or miserable.
Take time to 16 other people. If there are too many discords & not enough harmony in their lives, 17 them to have a brighter outlook.
Throughout the world most people are striving for 18 .
From the family unit 19 around the dinner table to world leaders at the conference table, the name of the game is the pursuit of peace.
So, let us all play our part in composing the rhythm of life by consciously choosing peace and harmony in our daily lives to 20 a harmonious Universe.
( ) 1. A. wrong B. false C. bad D. harmful
( ) 2. A. defines B. thinks C. regards D. acts
( ) 3. B. schoolB. home C. life D. college
( ) 4. A. blank B. used C. full D. deserted
( ) 5. A. ready B. decided C. possible D. up
( ) 6. A. failure B. success C. model D. mess
( ) 7. A. do B. writeC. makeD. begin
( ) 8. A. attitude B. type C. mood D. opinion
( ) 9. A. enthusiastic B. mild C. interested D. cautious
( ) 10. A. Choose B. Discover C. Avoid D. Design
( ) 11. A. enemies B. friends C. conditionsD. helps
( ) 12. A. Which B. It C. WhatD. These
( ) 13. A. easy B. willing C. difficult D. terrifying
( ) 14. A. effort B. markC. damage D. effect
( ) 15. A. smile B. cry C. shoutD. talk
( ) 16. A. attack B. listen to C. change D. interview
( ) 17. A. encourage B. defeat C. train D. stop
( ) 18. A. war B. peace C. fightD. talk
( ) 19. A. arranged B. reached C. seated D. loaded
( ) 20. A. create B. invent C. seek D. protect |
答案
| 1-20 CACAD BDACC ABCDA BABCA |
解析
本文说明的是快乐交际，幸福生活。完成本文要结合生活实际。
1. C无论好坏，前面是good，后面自然是Bad，坏，而不是wrong:错,harmful：有害。
2. A 字典对这个词的定义是动听的声音，define：定义，think:认为，regard：认为，act：扮演。
3. C live one’s life 是固定结构，意思是：过……的生活。
4. A 稿纸自然是空白的，也就是blank, used：旧的，full:满的，deserted:抛弃的，这些不合适。
5. D你生活的曲调就取决于你的行为。取决于，就是be up to sb.，准备好（ready）,决定（decide）,可能（possible），不合适宜
6. B 实际上你想让自己表现得很好。表现的好，就是成功的人士，故success，而不是失败（failure），模特（model）,和一团糟（mess）.
7. D 既然出现了问题，要解决问题，从哪开始（begin: 开始）呢？，do:行动，做，write：写， make：制作，明显不行。
8. A 后面无论是享受，还是乐观，都是对生活的态度：attitude，类型：type，情绪:mood，观点:opinion,都不合适。
9. C 有交往就得对别人感兴趣（interested），而不是热烈的：enthusiastic,太强烈了，mild: 温和的，太柔了，cautious：小心的，就更不合适了。
10. C 后面的骄傲，嫉妒等等都是负面情绪，当然得避免（avoid）了,而不是choose：选择，discover：发现，design：设计。
11. A 上述的那些不良情绪都是你和人相处的大敌（enemy），而不是朋友（friends），条件（condition），更不是帮助（help）。
12. B据说如果人类消除了这些情绪，世界就会永远和平。It be said that +主语从句：据说，别的无法构成这样的句型。
13. C避免这些情绪应该不会太难（difficult），而不是easy ：容易，willing：自愿，terrifying：令人害怕。
14. D你做的每件事都会在周围人有影响（have an effect on）,而不是effort：努力，mark：记号，damage：损害。
15. A是喜笑颜开（smile）还是怒气冲冲？都会影响到别人是开心还是难过，cry：哭喊，shout：大叫，talk：谈话，显得不行。
16. B 花些时间去倾听（listen to ），而不是攻击（attack），改变（change），采访（interview）。
17. A如果他们的生活中有太多的矛盾和别扭，鼓励（encourage）他们用乐观的态度去面对，根本不是打败（defeat），培训（train），停止（stop）。
18. B 全世界大多数人都在为和平（peace）而奋斗，而不是为了战争（war），争斗（fight），谈判（talk）。
19. C 无论是一家人围坐（seated）在饭桌前，还是国家级***围坐着会议桌前，他们的目的是一样的——追求和平，总不能被安排（arranged），被达到（reached），被装上（loaded）吧。
20. A所以，让我们每个人拿和平，和谐为基调来开创（create）我们的生活乐章吧！像发明（invent），寻找（seek），保护（protect）等等明显不行。 |
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Romance does not have to fizzle out（失败） in long-term relationships and progress into a companionship/friendship-type love, a new study has found. Romantic love can last a lifetime and lead to happier, healthier 1 .
"Many believe that 2 love is the same as passionate（多情的）love," said lead researcher Bianca P. Acevedo, PhD, then at Stony Brook University (currently at University of California, Santa Barbara). "It isn"t. Romantic love has the intensity, engagement and sexual chemistry that passionate love has, minus the obsessive component（过度成分）. Passionate or obsessive love includes 3 of uncertainty and anxiety. This kind of love 4 drive the shorter relationships but not the longer ones."
These findings 5 in the March issue of Review of General Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.
Acevedo and co-researcher Arthur Aron, PhD, reviewed 25 studies with 6,070 individuals in short- and long-term relationships to 6 whether romantic love is associated with more satisfaction. To determine this, they 7 the relationships in each of the studies as romantic, passionate (romantic with obsession) or friendship-like love and categorized them as long- or short-term.
The researchers looked at 17 short-term relationship studies, which included 18- to 23-year-old college students who were 8 , dating or married, with the average relationship lasting less than four years. They also 9 at 10 long-term relationship studies including middle-aged couples who were typically married 10 years or more. Two of the 10 ncluded both long- and short-term relationships in which it was possible to distinguish the two samples.
The review found that those who reported greater romantic love were more 11 in both the short- and long-term relationships. Companion-like love was only moderately 12 with satisfaction in both short- and long-term relationships. And those who reported greater passionate love in their relationships were more satisfied in the short term 13 to the long term.
Couples who reported more satisfaction in their relationships also 14 being happier and having higher self-esteem.
Feeling that a partner is "there for you" 15 or a good relationship, Acevedo said, and facilitates（促进） feelings of romantic love. On the other hand, "feelings of insecurity are generally associated with 16 satisfaction, and in some 17 may spark conflict in the relationship. This can manifest（表白） into obsessive love," she said.
This discovery may change people"s 18 of what they want in long-term relationships. According to the authors, companionship love, which is what many couples see as the natural 19 of a successful relationship, may be an unnecessary compromise(妥协). "Couples should strive for love with all the trimmings（修剪）," Acevedo said. "And couples who"ve been together a long time and wish to get back their romantic edge should know it is an attainable（可达到的） goal that, like most good things in life, 20 energy and devotion."
( ) 1. A. scholarships B. friendships C. relationships D. companionships
( ) 2. A. obsessive B. romantic C. passionate D. companion
( ) 3. A. feelings B. factors C. consequences D. barriers
( ) 4. A. contributes B. helps C. prevents D. speeds
( ) 5. A. occur B. take C. write D. appear
( ) 6. A. find out B. work out C. take out D. bring out
( ) 7. A. separated B. classified C. divided D. cut
( ) 8. A. alone B. lonely C. single D. unique
( ) 9. A. glanced B. glared C. stared D. looked
( ) 10. A. findings B. examinations C. experiments D. studies
( ) 11. A. unpleased B. disappointed C. satisfied D. desperate
( ) 12. A. referred B. associated C. contended D. conflicted
( ) 13. A. compared B. comparing C. added D. led
( ) 14. A. reported B. said C. believed D. hoped
( ) 15. A. takes B. makes C. means D. depends
( ) 16. A. higher B. lower C. no D. much
( ) 17. A. environments B. states C. air D. cases
( ) 18. A. views B. expectations C. remarks D. statements
( ) 19. A. progression B. change C. results D. choice
( ) 20. A. produces B. satisfies C. requires D. consumes |
Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet…You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paused: “But you’ll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”
It was a rare — indeed unique — occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout’s Wonderful Bag, a leather case.
Grout’s aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout’s day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn’t do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated （充气的） tyre.
So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse （椭圆）. Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.
Will the young Fitzsimons’s folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there’s plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane — minus wheels, of course — as hand baggage.
Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress.
小题1:We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike .| A．was portable | | B．had a folding wheel | | C．could be put in a pocket | | D．looked like a magic carpet |
小题2:We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable .| A．were difficult to separate | | B．could be split into 6 pieces | | C．were fitted with solid tyres | | D．were hard to carry on a train |
小题3:We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons’s invention .| A．kept the tyre as a whole piece | | B．was made into production soon | | C．left little room for improvement | | D．changed our views on bag design |
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for the text?| A．Three folding bike inventors | | B．The making of a folding bike | | C．Progress in folding bike design | | D．Ways of separating a bike wheel |
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“Old wives tales” are beliefs passed down from one generation to another, For example, most of us remember our patents’ telling us to eat more of certain foods or not to do certain things. Is there any truth in these teachings? Some of them agree with present medical thinking, but others have not passed the test of time
Did your mother ever tell you to eat your carrots because they are good for your eyes? Scientists now report that eating carrots can help prevent a serious eye disease called macular degeneration Eating just one carrot a day can reduce the possibility of getting this disease by 40%. Garlic（蒜）is good for you, too。It can kill the type of virus that causes colds.
Unfortunately, not all of Mom’s advice passed the test of medical studies. For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating. But research suggests that there is no danger in doing so. Do sweets cause tooth problems? Well, yes and no. sticky sweets made with grains tend to cause more problems than sweets made with simple sugars.
Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water, there is still a lot of truth in the old wives’ tales, After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated （积累） from thousands of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water should respect this body of knowledge even as research for clear scientific support to proven it true or false
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE according to the text？ | A．Eating garlic is good for our eyes | | B．Sticky sweets are damaging to our teeth | | C．Swimming after a meal is dangerous。 | | D．Carrots prevent people from catching colds |
小题2:The author develops the third paragraph mainly____。 | A．by cause and effects | B．by order in space | | C．by order in time | D．by examples |
小题3:The phrase “hold water” in the last paragraph most probably means“____ ” | A．to be believable | B．to be valuable | C．to be admirable | D．to be smtable |
小题4:What is the author’s attitude toward “old wives’ tales” in the text? | A．So objective | B．Objective | C．Dissatisfied | D．Curious |
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For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Most people believe they don’t have much imagination. They are 50 .Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we become adults, forget how to 51 it. Creativity isn’t always 52 with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time 53 think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.
Making connections This technique involves taking 54 ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the idea/words 55 with candles: light, fire, matches, wax, night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the 56 to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original 57 ; you could buy him tickets to match or take him out for the night.
NO limits! Imagine that normal limitations don’t 58 . You have as much time/space/money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new 59 .If your goal is to learn to ski, 60 , you can now practise skiing every day of your life （because you have the time and the money）. Now 61 this to reality. Maybe you can practise skiing ever day in December, or every Monday in January.
Be someone else! Look at the situation from a 62 point of view. Good businessmen use this technique in trade, and so do writes. Fiction writers often imagine they are the 63 in their books. They ask question: What does this character want? Why can’t she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? If your goal involves other people, put yourself in their 64 . The best fishermen think like fish!
| 小题1: | | A．wrong | B．unbelievable | C．reasonable | D．realistic |
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| 小题2: | | A．put up with | B．catch up with | C．make use of | D．keep track of |
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| 小题3: | | A．equipped | B．compared | C．covered | D．connected |
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| 小题4: | | A．skillfully | B．routinely | C．vividly | D．deeply |
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| 小题5: | | A．familiar | B．unrelated | C．creative | D．imaginary |
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| 小题6: | | A．presented | B．marked | C．lit | D．associated |
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| 小题7: | | A．ideas | B．ambitions | C．achievement | D．technique |
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| 小题8: | | A．experience | B．service | C．present | D．object |
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| 小题9: | | A．work | B．last | C．exist | D．change |
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| 小题10: | | A．possibilities | B．limitations | C．tendency | D．practice |
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| 小题11: | | A．in fact | B．in particular | C．as a whole | D．for example |
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| 小题12: | | A．devote | B．adapt | C．lead | D．keep |
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| 小题13: | | A．private | B．global | C．different | D．practical |
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| 小题14: | | A．features | B．themes | C．creatures | D．characters |
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| 小题15: | | A．positions | B．dreams | C．images | D．directions |
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In 1879, a group of explorers made an incredible find. They discovered paintings of remarkable beauty on the walls of a cave in Spain. Some scientists believed that these paintings were created by early humans from the Stone Age, between ten and thirty thousand years ago. Other scientists and the public did not believe the claim, but over the years, it was proven correct. Our ancestors had incredible artistic talents.
Most of the cave art that has been discovered has been found in Spain and France. A smaller number of such caves are located in Italy, Portugal, Russia, and other countries. Scientists believe that many more caves will be discovered in the coming years, and are concentrating their efforts on Africa and the area between Europe and Asia. These two regions of the world were, populated first by humans.
Cave art was carved or painted on the walls and roofs of caves, usually near the entrance. The entrance area was probably chosen to take advantage of daylight and to allow many people to view the paintings. In some cases, the art appears much deeper in caves and requires artificial light. Evidence suggests that the artists used torches or shallow bowls in which animal fat was burned.
9.What was the response of general public to the discovery of cave art made by Stone Age people?
A. They believed it at first.
B. They did not believe it.
C. They thought it was beautiful.
D. They ignored it.
10.According to the passage, what can we conclude about animal fat?
A. It does not burn.
B. Stone Age artists used it to preserve their paintings.
C. It can be burned to produce light.
D. Stone Age artists mixed it with their food.
11.. Where do scientists expect to find more cave paintings?
A. In Central and South America.
B. In Spain and France.
C. In the places where there are caves with large openings.
D. In the regions of the world first populated by humans.
12.Where would this passage be most likely to appear?
A. In a textbook about early human history.
B. In a textbook about modern art.
C. In a dictionary.
D. In an encyclopedia entry about caves. |
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