My hometown of Jacksonville is finally getting on a health kick. And I have lo say, it is worth the wait! With so many healthy, vegan (素食主义) and even raw places to dine, Jacksonville is certainly becoming a force to be reckoned within the vegetable world.
Choices Cafe
A prime example of a healthy, passionate place we want to share is Choices Cafe, which combines the local Latin flavors with all vegan favorites. In the heat of Jacksonville, a chilly ice cream cone always hits the spot. Choices Cafe will surely make your mouth water with their peanut butter and chocolate mint, so make sure you stop here between meals.
Mac N’Food Truck
The food truck phenomenon ha* hit Florida in a big way. But even bigger is the all-vegan Mac N’Food Truck! This convenient food eaten- on wheels pulls up to all sorts of events and locations in Florida. Starting lunch delivery this month, it’s tracking down the Mac N’Food Truck.
The Frieze
A stylish and beautiful bar, The Frieze’s a perfect place for a romantic dinner. Even tiling they serve is fantastic. You won’t leave disappointed when visiting The Frieze. The Frieze is the creation of two brothers with a mission of providing happiness, attracting all sorts of folks and helping them heal with food.
Sublime
I’ve covered this country’s primary vegan restaurant before. They are always perfecting their menu. Their frito (油炸玉米饼) will have you think quite differently about cauliflower (菜花)，as will their amazing coconut cake, lei alone fresh juices, salads and other delicious treats. Regardless. just go!
1.If you like sandwiches with the local Latin flavor, you can choose .
A. Choices Cafe B. Mac N’Food Truck
C. The Frieze D. Sublime
2.Who are more likely to go to The Frieze?
A. Schoolmates. B. A newly married couple.
C. Colleagues. D. Two negotiating businessmen.
3.W hat do we know about Sublime?
A. Its food is amazing. B. It is noted for its convenience.
C. It wa5 created by two brothers. D. It has a perfect traditional menu for years.
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Do people travel to the other side of the globe until a one-year-old baby? Is it a smart idea? I wonder if I was crazy. I had various adventures—hut this trip would be different. This South American adventure would be a unique life experience of mine. I had given up many activities in order to please a little person, because Anders’ needs had to come first. At 30 years old, it was a difficult change for me, and I was occasionally annoyed when I realized that my son had taken away so many things from me.
Argentina is a long way from my home. It was even longer when I was on the plane and sharing a seal with such an active little boy, but Anders and I made it without angering any other passengers or getting any dirty looks. And we look a rest on a regular schedule.
I wanted to do some hikes in Argentina and drive ten hours to the coast to see penguins. However, when I thought about my travel partner, I gave up these ideas. Instead, we just hung out by lakes, picking up stones and throwing them in the water. I took short hikes, running with Anders in die backpack, knowing that I had two hours before his tolerance gave out and the complaining started.
I discovered that traveling with a baby opens new doors that aren’t there for a solo traveler or couple. Anders helped me to slow down and look at the landscape closely. I got to see Argentina through someone else’s eyes. The traveling wasn’t as fast-paced as it would have been if I had been alone, but the details were amazing. Now I just have to absorb that insight into our life back home.
1.What was the change for the author when she turned 30?
A. That she abandoned many activities to look after her son.
B. That she longed to take adventures without her son.
C. That her son took away everything from her.
D. That her son occasionally annoyed her.
2.What do we know about the author and her baby during the flight?
A. They made a travel schedule.
B. They shared a seat with each other.
C. They enjoyed a very pleasant flight.
D. They couldn’t tolerate other passengers.
3.Why did the author give up her ideas mentioned in the fourth paragraph?
A. Her baby didn’t like them.
B. Her baby’s tolerance gave out.
C. She desired more interesting activities.
D. She wanted to have her baby share the activities.
4.What does the author suggest travelers do in the end?
A. Travel with a baby.
B. Spend more time accompanying children.
C. Enjoy the details in their life.
D. Appreciate the scenery through a baby’s eyes.
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More than 2. 6 million students in the United States were expected to study online through courses and tutoring fall, up from 1.9 million in 2003. according to an online research group.
Burck Smith, chief executive of Smarthinking, credits the rise in demand for online educational to services to several factors. These include an increase in the number of non-traditional students who don’t have a lot of time to campus resources, a more competitive educational landscape in which colleges and schools are trying harder to students with additional services and students greater familiarity with the Internet.
Terry H. Coye, director of tutorial and instructional programs at Gallaudet University, said his school turned to Smarthinking to increase its limited tutoring services for graduate students. With many of Gallaudte’s deaf and hard of hearing students accustomed to learning online, the service was a good fit, Coye said.
Founded in 1999, Sniarthinking employs more than 450 part-time instructors from around the world to offer round- clock tutoring. Though people might worry that a student could get too much help from someone outside the class-room, the company said it trains its tutors—who get an average of 15 hours of training—to guide students through prob-lems and not give away the answers.
“Long-term, there is no reason to believe online tutoring is no! going to grow as students go online and take classes,” said J. Mark Jackson, director of a market-research firm. Because it is additional service rather than a key offering, he said, it is unclear how large the market might grow.
1.Which of the following is a cause of the demand for online educational services?
A. Students" improved ability to use the Internet.
B. Colleges need for students9 additional services.
C. Students9 laziness to look for on-campus resources.
D. Colleges9 competition to make a beautiful campus.
2.According to Coye,what makes Smarthinking fit Gallaudet University well?
A. Gallaudet’s lack of teaching facilities.
B. Students’ need for part-time instructors.
C. Gallaudet’s desire for disabled students.
D. Students’ adjustment lo online learning.
3.What worries peoples about online tutoring?
A. Students1 unwillingness to get help in the class.
B. Tutors’ lack of training from the company.
C. Students’ easy access to the right answers.
D. Tutors’ not giving away the answers.
4.How does Mark Jackson feel about future online tutoring?
A. Worried. B. Hopeful.
C. Proud. D. Doubtful.
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Patients trust health professionals as a source of advice on behavior change. However, many health professionals dodge giving advice on that. They find traditional behavior change strategies (方法) time-consuming to explain. Besides, it’s difficult for the patient to achieve. Furthermore, even when patients successfully start the recommended changes，the gains are often short-lived because few of the traditional behavior change strategies have built-in mecha-nisms for maintenance (保持).
Meanwhile, brief advice is usually based on advising patients on what to change and why (for example, reducing fat intake lo reduce the risk of heart attack). Psychologically, such advice can be followed only if conscious motivation is engaged. However, the effects are typically short-Jived because motivation and attention will decline. Brief advice on how to change, engaging automatic processes, may offer a valuable alternative with potential for long-term influence— habit.
Within psychology, we define “habits” as actions that are caused automatically in response to reminders. These reminders have been associated with performances. For example, automatically washing hands after using the toilet. Decades of psychological research consistently show that mere repetition of a simple action in a consistent context leads to the action being activated upon .following exposure to those contextual cues (环境暗示). Once starting of the action goes to outside reminders, dependence on conscious attention or motivational processes is reduced. Therefore habits are likely to remain even after conscious motivation or interest disappears.
1.Which word can best replace the underlined word “dodge” in Paragraph 1?
A. Risk. B. Avoid.
C. Appreciate. D. Admit.
2.What plays the key role in patients’ taking advice?
A. Reasons to change. B. Ways to change.
C. Increasing attention. D. Intended motivation.
3.What may help to keep habits after interest disappears?
A. Outside reminders. B. Mere repetition.
C. Conscious attention. D. Brief advice.
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. Motivation to form habits. B. Conflicts between patients and professionals.
C. Habits to change behavior. D. Advice from professionals to patients.
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An Introduction to Pre-reading
When reading some material, many readers would like to focus on the first line of it and read it through from begin-ning to end. This is not an efficient way of reading. Actually, experienced readers do pre-reading before reading it. Pre-reading is a technique that allows readers to become familiar with the material to be read before beginning to read it thoroughly. 1. It provides readers with a mental outline of the content of the material.
• What is the purpose of pre-reading?
Pre-reading involves getting a quick impression or overview of what you are going to read before beginning to read. It allows you to know about the basic content and organization of the material before you read it.2.
• Why is pre-reading effective?
First, pre-reading helps you to become concentrated on what you will read. Through pre-reading you become interested and involved in the material and get basic information about the content of the article. 3.
Second, pre-reading provides you with a mental outline of the material you are going to read. 4. With this outline already in mind, you are able to read the chapter more easily.
• 5.
You may use the technique of pre-reading before you read any materials, when you read just for an overview of a material, or when you select materials for a specific purpose (e. g. writing a paper, preparing a research report, etc.). Don’t think that pre-reading will waste your time. In fact, you just spend a few minutes on pre-reading, which will help you save a lot of time and make your actual reading fast and easy.
A. When do you apply pre-reading?
B. Does pre-reading waste our study time?
C. The technique involves checking specific parts of an article, a chapter or a book.
D. Thus, you will be able to read faster and follow the author’s thought more easily.
E. You begin to expect the outline of the material and see the relationships of topics.
F. In other words, pre-reading focuses your attention on the content of the reading material.
G. For example, while reading the headings of a chapter, you are forming a mental outline of the chapter.
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The pea incident happened when I was eight. My grandmother, my mother and I were having lunch at a restaurant. I __ a Salisbury steak. When served，it was __ accompanied by a plate of peas.
I have always __ peas. It is a complete __ to me why anyone would voluntarily eat peas.
“Eat your peas,” my grandmother said.
“Mother,” said my mother in her __ voice. “He doesn’t like peas. Leave him alone.”
My grandmother __ at me and said the words that __ ray life, “I’ll pay you five dollars __ you eat those peas. Five dollars! And only one plate of peas stood between __ and the possession of that __ amount of money. I began to __ the awful things down ray throat and finally swallowed the __ one of them. My grand-mother handed me the __. I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can’t stop me,” she __ to my mother. My mother glared at her and also glared at me ___
Several days later, at dinner, my mother offered me some steaming peas and I, of course, __. My mother fixed me with a __eye as she __ more peas onto my plate. “You ate them for money,” she said, “You can eat them for love.”
Oh, despair! Now, too late, I realized that I had been __ in a terrible place from which there was no __. “you ate them for money. You can eat them for love.” Did I eat the peas? You bet I did. I ate them that day and every other time they were served thereafter.
1.A. enjoyed B. ordered C. afforded D. prepared
2.A. unexpectedly B. undoubtedly C. reasonably D. naturally
3.A. preferred B. valued C. hated D. ignored
4.A. joke B. mystery C. tale D. disaster
5.A. trembling B. ringing C. urging D. warning
6.A. aimed B. looked C. laughed D. shouted
7.A. changed B. improved C. controlled D. mixed
8.A. unless B. when C. before D. if
9.A. my grandmother B. my mother C. me D. us
10.A. unimaginable B. believable C. unpredictable D. acceptable
11.A. throw B. place C. force D. bite
12.A. best B. single C. possible D. last
13.A. peas B. steak C. plates D. money
14.A. explained B. announced C. whispered D. screamed
15.A. in excitement B. in relief C. in silence D. in love
16.A. nodded B. declined C. defended D. waved
17.A. mild B. blank C. distant D. cold
18.A. held B. chose C. piled D. dropped
19.A. caught B. left C. beaten D. hidden
20.A. stop B. risk C. escape D. cost
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Steven Jobs was born in California in 1955 and 1. (adopt) by Paul and Clara Jobs. He became interested in computers in high school, going to after-school lectures at the computer company Hewlett-Packard. He enrolled at Reed College in Oregon. 2. he went to a variety of classes, he never graduated. Instead, he moved 3. to California and began working at Atari. He also started working on 4. (he) own computer projects with Steve Wozniak.
Jobs and Wozniak, along with Ronald Wayne, founded Apple in 1976, 5. (name) after Job’s favorite fruit. Apple changed the way people thought about computers; the company made them small, easy to use, and 6. (access) to normal people. The Macintosh computer was started in 1984, but sales slowed in 7. following year, and Jobs was pushed out of his own company.
After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT, Inc. The company decided 8. (develop) both computer hardware and software. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT, and Jobs returned 9. his original company. He cut programs and jobs, but he also helped make Apple goods more beloved than ever. Apple has been on a roll ever since, creating elegant, fast, user-friendly 10. (product) that reflect the vision of Steve Jobs.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
About the Spring Festival, there arises some hot topics and lucky money is included. An online survey has carried out these days.
78% of the people consider lucky money one of the most important traditional custom, representing good wishes from the elderly to the new generation. Besides, lucky money is the more attractive part for kids, who forms the good memory of the childhood.
The rest, however, think bad of it. For one thing, the amount is growing bigger and bigger, make it a heavy load. For other, it has been an excuse to bribe (贿赂)people in the power.
Personally speaking, lucky money is nothing wrong. Only before understanding its meaning can we send our hearty wishes to the young.
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假如你叫李华，你的家人将于6月18日乘坐航班CA520到印尼的巴厘岛度假一周，已经在网上预订了酒店。现在请你给酒店发一封E-mail进行确认，内容如下：
1. 入住天数及抵达时间；
2. 你和父母对各自房间的要求及理由；
3. 请求酒店提供接机服务。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头及结语已为你写好，不计人总词数。
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Li Hua from China. I’m writing to confirm my reservations for two rooms at your hotel.
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Sincerely yours,
Li Hua
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