How to Pick a Good Book
It’s not news that we spend more time texting and surfing online than ever. But a recent study shows that more teenagers are reading good old-fashioned and ink-on-paper books. Reading is a good way to widen your knowledge and learn about yourself. You probably know how to find the best application programs for your phone. 1.
1.Start with your interests
Reading on your own isn’t like reading for school. 2.It could be ancient martial arts, computers, or fashion design. If you can name the subject, you can find books about it.
2. Find your “type”
3. Books of fiction, like novels or short-story collections, can transport you to another world or help you to imagine something beyond your own experience. Not all fiction is the same. Try some different types of fiction and see which one you prefer. Non-fiction books give you the “who”, “what”, “when” and “why” of something. They tell stories using facts, but that doesn’t mean they are dull.
3.Read the “blurb(简介)”
The reviews and quotes on the back and inside covers of many books are known as “blurbs”. These comments not only give you an idea of what the book is about, but also help you to pick out future books. If you find a book you really like, take a minute to read the blurb and see which authors praised the book.4.
4. 5.
Your local library can provide you with a lot of great books. Explain your interests and mention any writer you like, and the librarian can point you towards books that you will like. Then you can enjoy what you’re reading in a quiet place.
A. Often, they will have similar styles, and you might find you like books by those authors, too.
B. You can pick something that suits your interests.
C. Read in a quiet place.
D. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
E. Ask an expert.
F. It is necessary to work out what the book is mainly about before reading.
G. But do you know how to pick a book that you will really like?
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As health care costs continue to rise, a growing number of companies are working out programs designed to keep their employees healthy.
Thomas Chapple is the senior vice president. “It’s really important to us because medical costs are going up like crazy, he says. This company spends more than 200 million a year on medical costs for its employees around the country. The best thing we have seen as a way to control the medical cost is individual fitness.”
We have a fitness center, “Shawn Flaherty, director of public relations for Freddie Mac.,” says, “We have a health benefits plan that encourages people to work out three times a week, get cholesterol (胆固醇) checks, as well as ‘not to smoke.’ If they do that, it will cost them less for the health benefits.”
Rachelle Clark works for Freddie Mac. “I feel great. You know the benefit is rewarding. I like to look good and feel healthy. I am just fortunate that I work for the company that provides some type of facility for the employees.”
While on-site fitness centers are popular, some companies pay membership fees at local gyms for employees. The companies also offer classes such as boxing, yoga and dancing. Employees see those health programs as a valuable benefit.
Tom Brook exercises five days a week. As a newspaper reporter he has a tight schedule, although Tom says it’s not that difficult for him to make time for a workout. “It is great. It is right here where we work,” says Tom, “So everybody gets a chance to use it whenever they want to. I have lost weight and never been in better shape.”
The programs may not be a magic cure for rising health costs, but they seem to have a positive impact on both employers and employees.
1.What’s the best way to cut the medical cost according to Shawn Flaherty?
A. To reduce the number of employees around the country.
B. To encourage the employees to work out to keep fit.
C. To set up fitness centers of their own.
D. To pay membership fees at local gyms for the employees.
2.Why does the writer cite (引用) what Rachelle Clark and Tom Brook say?
A. To explain how to use the fitness centers.
B. To show how effective physical exercise is.
C. To show the employees welcome the health programs.
D. To persuade more employers to set up health centers.
3.Which of the following best expresses the meaning of the underlined part?
A. The programs may not solve the health costs problem completely.
B. The programs may keep the health costs rising.
C. The programs may not cost a large amount of money.
D. The programs may cure all kinds of patients like magic.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. How difficult it is to reduce health care costs
B. Why and how companies encourage their employees to keep fit.
C. . What causes the health care costs to rise year by year.
D. How people keep healthy by doing exercise in their working places.
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Recently a new US study has shown that couples who expect their children to help care for them in old age should hope they have daughters because they are likely to be twice as attentive overall.
The research by Angelina Grigoryeva, a sociologist at Princeton University, found that, while women provide as much care for their elderly parents as they can manage, men do as little as they can get away with and often leave it to female family members.
Using data from the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study, a study which has been tracking a cross-section of over-50s for the last decade, she calculated that women provide an average of 12.3 hours a month of care for elderly parents while men offer only 5.6 hours.
“Whereas the amount of elderly parent care daughters provide is associated with limitations they face, such as employment or childcare, sons’ caregiving is connected only with the presence or absence of other helpers, such as sisters or a parent's spouse （配偶）,” she explained.
“Sons reduce their relative caregiving efforts when they have a sister, while daughters increase theirs when they have a brother.”
“This suggests that sons pass on parent caregiving responsibilities to their sisters.”
In the UK, the 2011 census （人口普查）showed that there are now around 6.5 million people with caring responsibilities — a figure which has risen by a tenth in a decade.
But many are doing so at the risk of their own health. The census showed that those who provide 50 hours or more of care a week while trying to hold down a full-time job are three times more likely to be struggling with ill health than their working counterparts （相对应的人）who are not careers.
1.What does the underlined phrase “is associated with” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.is faced with B.is related to
C.is filled with D.is fond of
2.According to the study we know that .
A.American couples are preferring daughters to sons a lot
B.sons are twice likely as daughters to care for parents in old age
C.having a brother makes women do their share less
D.men tend to take less care of their parents than women
3.Which of the following statements is true?
A.The number of people providing care has increased by 6.5 million.
B.More people have left behind their work to look after the elderly.
C.Many people who both work and care others can be threatened by health problems.
D.People shouldn't take much responsibility to care for the old.
4.What's the attitude of the author in the article?
A.Positive. B.Subjective.
C.Objective. D.Negative.
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As a rule, a child who has once been happy with a tale likes to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when .
A.it is repeated without any change B.it is treated as a joke
C.some changes are made to it by a parent D.it is set in the present
2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is .
A.in a realistic setting B.told in a different way
C.repeated too often D.heard for the first time
3.The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it .
A.develops their power of memory B.makes them less fearful
C.makes them believe there is more to be afraid of D.encourages them not to have strange beliefs
4.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that .
A.they are full of history B.they make teachers of history difficult to teach
C.they are not interesting D.they are just made up of unreal stories
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Are you fond of laughing and smiling? Do you like laugh and smile? How much do you laugh and smile during the day? Do you take your life and your illness____ injury so seriously that there is no room for joy to fill you? Want a totally free, simple way to lift your ____ and improve your health with no medicine needed? Then laughing and smiling is ____ to you.
So laugh your way to happiness. ____ it takes to put a smile on your face is what you should be doing. Research shows that laughing can increase the immune system, ____ the body to stay disease free and fight colds and the flu.
If you are facing an illness, having a positive life opinion and a ____ of humor will keep your body open to healing. If you are healthy, laughing will help to make sure you stay that way, and can ____ enjoyment to your work and home life and ____ your daily stress.
Certainly, it can be ____ to keep a positive opinion of life all the time. Simply taking the time to ____ on the positive and treat for the good things ____ in your life can help remarkably, but if you are struggling with ____ emotions that you just can' t seem to ____ , there are tools that can help.
There are so many things out there to smile about and ____ you have to do is find ____ . Practice looking for the bright __ of every situation. Avoid the negative: don't ____ yourself with your own problems ——or ____ others for their “shortcomings”. And don't pay no attention to the joy in everyday things. Create your own “Laugh for Health” ____ anything to add to your collection and to give you fresh materials that ____ to you.
1.A.but B.or C.yet D.still
2.A.burdens B.spirits C.loads D.values
3.A.beneficial B.changeable C.suitable D.harmful
4.A.However B.Whenever C.Whatever D.Whichever
5.A.helping B.making C.letting D.causing
6.A.taste B.sense C.knowledge D.joy
7.A.adjust B.adapt C.apply D.add
8.A.improve B.arise C.cancel D.reduce
9.A.hard B.awful C.energetic D.helpful
10.A.absorb B.put C.focus D.interview
11.A.carefully B.thankfully C.particularly D.differently
12.A.negative B.active C.strong D.positive
13.A.seek B.stress C.accept D.overcome
14.A.all B.that C.how D.why
15.A.it B.that C.this D.one
16.A.side B.plan C.activity D.future
17.A.depend B.abandon C.load D.ban
18.A.praise B.miss C.approve D.blame
19.A.ambition B.summary C.message D.collection
20.A.appeal B.apply C.center D.assume
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Li Hua and Wang Hai are two students of Senior Three. 1. of them work hard but they have various learning methods.
Li Hua listens to her teachers 2. (attentive) and asks her teacher 3. help as soon as possible if she has some problems. Because of this, she spends less time 4. (do) her homework, so it is 5. (certainly) that she can keep energetic in the day. However, Wang Hai has quite a 6. (difference) way of learning 7. (compare) to Li Hua. He likes to sit up late at night doing his homework, so he often feels sleepy in class. As a result, he misses lots of key points, 8. makes it difficult for him 9. (concentrate) on what he is doing.
In my opinion, Li Hua learns more effectively in class and has more free time to enjoy herself. So I prefer 10. (she) learning method.
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下面短文中共有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：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出改正后的词。
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。
My family took an amazed trip to the northwest last summer. At the first ,we flew to Lanzhou but then visited the famous Iron Bridge there.We also tasted Lanzhou beef noodles, which were the most delicious noodles I had never had. Two days late， we went to the Mogao caves on the Silk Road. That impressed me most was the fantastic wall paintings. Finally，we reach our final destination，the Qinghai Lake，surrounded by mountains. The scenery was unbelievable beautiful. We found volunteers collecting rubbishes along the bank and we joined them too. Only then I realize we could make a difference to our environment.
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假设你叫李华，是一家英文杂志社的心理咨询师。某中学生小王给你写信，提到自己偏胖，想节食减肥，征求你的意见。请你给她回一封信，谈谈你对该问题的见解。内容要点如下：
1．健康比漂亮更重要；
2．学生以学习为主，不要过于注重外貌和别人的看法；
3．可通过多锻炼身体保持健康，要改变不良的饮食习惯；
4．健康的心态也很重要。
注意： 1．短文必须包括所有内容要点，可适当发挥；
2．词数：100左右。 3．参考词汇：state of mind 心态
Dear Xiao Wang,
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Yours
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