Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties（地方特色菜）in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handed frying and baking while
mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key.“Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”
But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job.
1.We can learn from the text that Lieberman’s family __________.
A. love cooking at home B. have relatives in Europe
C. often hold parties D. own a restaurant
2.The Food Network got to know Lieberman __________.
A. at one of his parties
B. from his teachers
C. on a television program
D. through his taped show
3.What does the underlined word “charisma” in the text refer to?
A. A way to show one’s achievement.
B. A natural ability to attract others.
C. Lieberman’s after-class interest.
D. Lieberman’s fine cooking skill.
4.Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?
A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.
B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
C. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.
D. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
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Women are friendly. But men are more competitive. Why? Researchers have found it’s all down to the hormone oxytocin (荷尔蒙催生素). Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.
“ Women tend to be social in their behavior. They often share with others. But men tend to be competitive. They are trying to improve their social status,” said Professor Ryan.
Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions (互动) such as falling in love or giving birth.
But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy.
Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship.
Professor Ryan’s recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37. Half of the participants received oxytocin. The other half received placebo (安慰剂).
After a week, the two groups switched with participants. They went through the same procedure with the other material.
Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions. Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions. The questions were about telling friendship from competition. And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.
The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men’s ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.
Professor Ryan thus concluded: “ Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people’s abilities to better distinguish different social interactions. And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors that are mainly hormonal.”
1.What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?
A. Oxytocin. B. Placebo.
C. The gesture. D. The social status.
2.What can we learn from Professor Ryan’s previous experiment?
A. Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way.
B. Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love.
C. Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences.
D. Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others’success.
3.Why did Professor Ryan conduct the recent experiment?
A. To know the differences between friendship and competition.
B. To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions.
C. To know the differences between friendship and competition.
D. To know people’s different abilities to answer questions.
4.The author develops the text by __________.
A. explaining people's behaviors
B. describing his own experiences
C. discussing research experiments
D. distinguishing sexual differences
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If doctors want to test you for something, they’ll usually take a blood or urine sample (尿样). But wouldn’t it be much more convenient if they just asked you to breathe through a special instrument?
In fact, your breath can say a lot about you. In traditional Chinese medicine, doctors draw a conclusion about the health state of a patient based on the smell of his or her breath; trained dogs and rats can identify the smells of the breaths of people suffering from certain cancers; traffic police also monitor drivers’ alcohol consumption by testing their breaths.
Just like blood and urine, your breath contains lots of “ metabolites ” --- the waste chemicals that the body produces, which vary from person to person. They are like personal health fingerprints, which is why scientists sometimes call them “ breath prints”, according to Science Daily.
Compared to blood or urine testing, breath testing takes only seconds instead of hours, and it requires neither a needle nor a container to hold the body fluids (体液). This means the test can be taken frequently to better detect early signs of diseases and monitor the progress of a medical treatment.
On the other hand, as an identifier, you might think that breaths are not as reliable as fingerprints since they might change based on what you eat. However, researchers in Zurich, Switzerland mapped 11 healthy volunteers’ chemical patterns by having them breathe through a special instrument, and they found that each pattern was unique and the patterns didn’t change much throughout the day, reported BBC.
“Our goal is to develop breath analysis to the point where it becomes competitive with the established analysis of blood and urine,” said Malcolm Kohler, professor at the University Hospital Zurich.
1.According to the text we know that __________.
A. breath varies from person to person based on food
B. your breath may give you away if you are not careful
C. doctors can test one’s breath to find about his illness
D. dogs can identify people with certain cancers
2.In comparison with blood or urine testing, breath testing is __________.
A. comfortable and convincing
B. traditional and reliable
C. accurate and competitive
D. quick and convenient
3.What is the author’s attitude toward breath testing?
A. Doubtful. B. Approving.
C. Unconcerned. D. Worried.
4.What can we infer from the text?
A. Breath testing is reliable and may have a bright future.
B. Blood or urine testing will be less used in medical treatment.
C. Doctors have found the best way to detect early signs of diseases.
D. Traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more popular.
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Every year, the fascinating tourist destinations below are attracting travelers from home and abroad to St. Louis, which, founded in 1764 by French traders, today is the fifteenth largest urban area in the United States.
★American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog
Dog lovers who visit St. Louis won’t want to miss this 14,000-square-foot museum. Inside are over 500 paintings, prints, watercolors, and a variety of other dog art objects. The Museum is open year round, Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM, and Sunday 1 PM to 5 PM. Admission is $5 for adults,$2.50 for seniors, and $1 for children up to 14.
★Anheuser Busch Brewery
The Anheuser Buxch Brewery tour is not just for beer lovers. The tour includes the historic Brew House. Then the tour continues to the modern Bevo Packaging Plant. The best will be the Budweiser Clydesdale stables. The tours are always free.
★Gateway Arch
Designed by Eero Sarinen and Hannskari Bandel, it took over two years and 900 tons of stainless steel to build. It is the tallest of the country’s National Monuments. The Arch is part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. About one million people per year come to the top of the Arch, where there is an observation platform providing a great view of the city.
★The St. Louis Zoo
First version of the St. Louis Zoo opened in 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair, but now it has grown into one of the chief zoos in the world. The passenger train takes visitors around the Zoo, which contains over 9,000 animals of over 800 species.
The Zoo is open every day but Christmas and New Year, with summer hours of 8 AM to 7 PM, and hours the rest of the year of 9 AM to 5 PM. Admission to the Zoo is free.
1.If you are interested in how to make beer, you can visit __________.
A. Gateway Arch
B. The St. Louis Zoo
C. Anheuser Busch Brewery
D. American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog
2.Which of the following statements about Gateway Arch is TRUE?
A. It was designed by two famous Italian architects.
B. People can see the city clearly on the top of the arch.
C. It took 900 tons of stainless steel and cement to build.
D. It is the largest of the country’s National Monuments.
3.If you plan to visit the St. Louis Zoo, you can go there _____.
A. at 9:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day
B. at 5:30 p.m. in winter
C. at 8:30 a.m. in summer
D. at 5:00 p.m. on Christmas Day
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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。
Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers. 1. However, many a time organizations don’t focus on customer relationship management, and that’s what makes customers angry, which is one of the reasons why companies lose their customers. 2.
First of all, you need to realize the great value of the customers. It’s they who are the boss, and it’s because of them that you get your pay checks. So do take your customers seriously.
3. You need to ask the customers the right kind of questions and think of the possible solutions which you can provide. Understand how they feel according to a particular situation, their body language, tone of voice and words they speak. Never make assumptions （臆断）and think that you know what the customers want.
4. Treat customers as individuals and the best way to do that is using their first name and finding ways of praising them in a sincere way.
In addition, there are some other skills which will help you in serving your customers better. For example, once you finish solving the problem for the customers, before ending the call, always remember to ask if there is anything else you can do for them. End the call with a “thank you”. If the customers are angry, let them express their anger completely. 5. Once they’ve finished speaking, try to calm them down by apologizing.
In a word, always remember that if the customers remain happy, you’ll be in business.
A. Never interrupt or start speaking until they’ve finished.
B. You can bring in as many new customers as you want.
C. So customer service is important and you should know how to improve it.
D. Finding out the needs of the customers is another important customer service tip.
E. Making customers feel they are important is an excellent way to serve them better.
F. It’s the quality of service that determines whether the customer remains with the company.
G. More companies are finding that their customer service should not be limited to Stores.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
John’s parents acquired the washer when he was a small boy. It happened during World War II. His family never ________ a washing machine and, since gasoline was expensive, they could not ________ trips to the laundry several miles away. Keeping clothes ________ became a problem for young John’s household.
A family friend joined the army, and his ________to go with him. John’s family ________ to store their furniture while they were away. To the family’s ________ , the friend suggested they use their Bendix. So this is how they ________ the washer.
Young John helped with the washing, and across the years he ________ a love for the old, green Bendix. But ________ the war ended. When the friends came to take it back, John grew terribly ________ . His mother ________ him and said. “You must remember, that machine ________ belonged to us in the first place. That we ever got to use it at all was a gift. So, instead of being mad at it being taken ________ , let’s use this ________ to be grateful that we had it at all.”
The lesson turned out ________ . Years later, John watched his eight-year-old daughter die a slow and painful death of leukemia (白血病). Though he ________ for months with her death, John could not begin getting over from the ________ until he remembered the old Bendix.
His daughter was a ________ . When he realized the simple fact, everything changed. He could now begin recovering from the death of his daughter. He started to see her as a marvelous gift that he was fortunate enough to ________for a time. He felt ________ . He found strength and recovery. He knew he could get through the valley of loss.
1.A.required B.repaired C.owned D.saw
2.A.afford B.have C.take D.ride
3.A.good B.clean C.warm D.nice
4.A.refused B.agreed C.considered D.prepared
5.A.decided B.offered C.expected D.promised
6.A.regret B.excitement C.sadness D.astonishment
7.A.used B.bought C.borrowed D.got
8.A.produced B.developed C.achieved D.reduced
9.A.finally B.obviously C.peacefully D.immediately
10.A.upset B.hopeless C.confused D.frightened
11.A.encouraged B.comforted C.taught D.explained
12.A.once B.already C.hardly D.never
13.A.down B.away C.out D.up
14.A.chance B.success C.event D.treasure
15.A.important B.reasonable C.invaluable D.necessary
16.A.thought B.missed C.struggled D.forgot
17.A.loss B.illness C.difficulty D.lesson
18.A.washer B.death C.gift D.loser
19.A.earn B.spend C.share D.live
20.A.happy B.grateful C.relaxed D.energetic
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容 （不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Singles’ Day falls on November 11th every year in China, 1.__________ is recognized as a day for people who have no girlfriend or boyfriend. Couples and lovers have Valentine’s Day in 2.__________ (celebrate) of their love, but how about the singles? There must be a day they can celebrate even without a partner. That’s 3._________ people created Singles’ Day.
On Singles’ Day many singles choose to say goodbye to their single lives, 4._________ (attend) blind date parties, and some people even decide to get 5.__________ (marry) with strangers. 6.________ this day has recently become more of a time for shopping, because many shops online will give customers great discount 7._________ (promote) their goods.
More and more people are 8.________ (will) to shop online to get what they want, and I am one of them. I just can’t help buying things9._________ I need them or not. 10._________ (honest) speaking, some of the things that I bought have been put aside forever in my closet.
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短文改错
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：在错的词下划一横线，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（从第十一处起）不计分。
The other day after work, I was walking down the street while I saw a boy riding a nice unicycle, one of those bicycle with only one wheel. Dressing in all pink from head to toe, he was singing a song which was sounded like a kid’s song. I thought he must be total crazy. Just then, a lady dropped 20-dollar bill on the ground, but he didn’t realize it and started to walk away. The guy in pink picked out the money and gave it back to her. After that, he rode on but soon disappeared before the lady could thank him. How a strange and good guy!
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书面表达
假设你即将参加你校主题为“Preparing Myself for College Life”的英语演讲比赛。请根据提示写一则简短的英语演讲稿。构想一下你的大学生活和你打算怎么做来适应大学生活。内容要点应包括：
1. 确定新的学习目标；
2. 学会独立生活；
3. 参加各种活动；
4. 处理好与同学的关系。
注意：1. 短文的内容要连贯、完整；
2. 字数：100 左右(开头己给出的单词不计入单词总数）。
Preparing Myself for College Life
Hello, everyone! My college life is right around the corner and I’m getting ready for it.
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That’s all. Thank you!
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