Children like to imagine they are someone else in a game. As a parent you might never guess how it can benefit your child. It helps your child:
Develop Social Skills
As children play pretend games, they explore relationships between family members, friends and coworkers and learn more about how people interact. Playing doctor, they imagine how physicians care for their patients. Imaginative play helps of a game or to lose a pet, they are better able to help those in need. They become more willing to play fair, to share, and to cooperate.
Build Self-confidence
Children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as a builder of skyscrapers or a super hero defending the planet is inspiring to children. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.
Promote Intellectual Growth
Using imagination is the beginning of abstract thought. Children who can see a king’s castle in a mound of sand or a delicious dinner in a mud pie are learning to think symbolically(象征性地). This skill is important in school where a child will have to learn that numbers symbolize groups of objects, letters symbolize sounds, and so on.
Practice Language Skills
Kids who pretend with their friends do a lot of talking. This helps increase their vocabulary, improve sentence structure and develop communication skills.
Get Rid of Fears
Pretending can help children get rid of their fears and worries. When children role-play the big, bad monsters under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn’t seem quite so big or so bad.
1.What can help children develop social skills in a game?
A. Pretending to be a super hero.
B. Preparing a delicious dinner with mud.
C. Helping a doctor to attend patients.
D. Pretending to be a doctor.
2.Why can imagination build children’s self-confidence?
A. It makes them feel as if they were much more powerful than they really are.
B. It helps them protect people and make much greater progress.
C. It helps them gain control over themselves.
D. It makes them more willing to play fair.
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. While playing pretend games, children learn to get along with others.
B. Playing pretend games helps children to do well while they are in school.
C. Playing pretend games only helps children psychologically.
D. Playing pretend games is good for children’s development.
4.The best title for this passage probably is “________”.
A. Benefits of Playing pretend games
B. Tips on How to Improve Your Children’s Imagination
C. Advantages of Playing Outdoors
D. Skills in Playing pretend games
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Although one might not think so as a result of the disadvantages, thousands and thousands of ads have shown advertising is of great importance to the society in which people live, either in the United Kingdom, or in many other parts of the world .Advertising is necessary as a means of communicating with others, of telling them about the goods and services that are offered, and of which most of them would never get to hear at all if it were not for advertising. And advertising does a great deal to a rising standard of living conditions.
In talking about advertisement, one should not think only a commercial on television, or an advertisement in the newspaper or magazines and—in the sense of communication—even the spoken or written words of salesmen. After all, the roots of advertising are to be found in the market place in the ancient times.
For many years it was thought that it was not enough to just produce goods and supply services. It is only more recently that people came to understand the production of goods would be a waste of resources unless those goods can be sold at fair price within a reasonable time period. In the competitive society in which we live, it is very important that we go out and sell what we have to offer, and advertising plays an important part, whether selling at home or in export market. Around 2 percent of the UK national product is spent on advertising. But it must be thought that this advertising tries to sell goods to customers who do not buy them. Of course, advertising does try to catch the eyes of the buyer, but if the product one has bought does not match what the advertisement had described, it is extremely unlikely that the goods will sell well.
1.According to the text, advertising is important to____.
A. every person in the world B. people with a high standard of living
C. some famous companies D. a large number of people in the world
2.What is the earliest advertisement in history?
A. Shop window show and wrapping of the goods.
B. Advertisements on TV
C. face-to-face talks between sellers and buyers
D. Products in many newspapers and magazines
3.The writer tries to tell us that goods will sell well if ____.
A. advertisements are well designed
B. enough money is spent on advertising
C. they are of high quality and well wrapped
D. advertisements mirror the true value
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When I was in the fifth grade and Mr. Gardner asked a question, my hand would often shoot up in enthusiasm. After giving me a few opportunities, he would try to give other students a chance. My hand, though, would remain in the air, and after some time, I’d start waving it around. Then, there was the time I entered drumming classes. But all we were allowed to do in the first class was practice one beat over and over again. I never went back.
I would have done terribly in the Stanford Marshmallow(果浆软糖) Experiment. In this classic study, researchers gave children a choice between one marshmallow right away and two later. The results showed that those who could wait 15 minutes ended up scoring 210 points higher on the SAT, an examination that American high school students take before they go to college.
So clearly, delaying(延迟的) gratification or bearing up under pain have their benefits. It needs patience, which keeps us from being stuck to ideas formed previously, and helps us let go of our strong desire for consequences. We come to accept that we don’t always or immediately know what is best, and learn to recognize that our reality is in constant changes. Patience improves our understanding of deeper truths and helps us expand our views.
The journey of patience is rooted in knowing that our present reality will finally give way to changes. But changes won’t always happen when we think they should, and patience with ourselves comes from accepting that there are things we can control and things we can’t. And though we must make great efforts to keep pushing the boundaries of our awareness and to improve our ability to rest in comfort in the present moment, how fast we develop isn’t up to us.
That same fifth grader who couldn’t wait to speak out answers now sees the value of meeting questions with a heart of patience.
1.Why did the author wave his hand around in class?
A. He wanted to entertain himself.
B. He tried to show his impatience.
C. He was making fun of his fellow students.
D. He wanted to give his fellow students a chance.
2.What’s the purpose of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment?
A. To test children’s concentration levels.
B. To test whether children have sweet teeth.
C. To test patience and its potential advantages.
D. To test the bond between patience and desire.
3.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “gratification” in Para. 3?
A. Progress. B. Patience.
C. Assistance. D. Satisfaction.
4.What is the main reason for people to have patience according to the text?
A. Constant changes. B. Present reality.
C. An absence of self-control. D. A strong desire for consequences.
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In 1941, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov stated the Three Laws of Robotics. These laws come from the world of science fiction, but the real world is catching up. A law firm gave Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University $10 million to explore artificial intelligence. Peter Kalis, chairman of the law firm, K&L Gates, said the development of technology had led to questions that were never taken seriously before. What will happen when you make robots that are smart, independent thinkers and then try to limit their freedom?
Researcher Kalis said, “One expert said we’ll be at a point when we give an instruction to our robot to go to work in the morning and it turns around and says, ‘I’d rather go to the beach.’” He said that one day we would want laws to keep our free-thinking robots from running wild.
With the law firm’s gift, the university will be able to explore problems now appearing within automated industries. “Take driverless cars for example,” Kalis said. “If there’s an accident concerned with a driverless car, what policies do we have in place? What kind of insurance policies do they have?” In fact, people can take a ride in a driverless car in Pittsburgh where an American online transportation network company uses the city as a testing ground for the company’s driverless cars.
The problems go beyond self-driving cars and robots. Think about the next generation of smartphones, those chips fixed in televisions, computers, fridges, etc., and the ever-expanding collection of personal data being stored in the “cloud”. So can Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics be used in reality? Is it necessary to have a moral guideline that everyone can understand? Whatever it is, doing no harm should be the very first one.
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Robot should have more freedom.
B. Technology is running ahead of laws.
C. The Three Laws of Robotics are practical.
D. Peter wants to explore artificial intelligence.
2.What makes humans worry about robots?
A. Robots may be out of control.
B. Robots can do something illegal.
C. Robots can become angry easily.
D. Robots may have many requests.
3.What is the third paragraph intended to tell us?
A. It’s hard for robots to obey rules.
B. A law on robotics is really a must.
C. Driverless cars can cause accidents.
D. Driverless cars are being tested out now.
4.What should the basic law on robotics be according to the text?
A. Robots should be cautiously used in life.
B. Robots should obey Asimov’s Three Laws.
C. Robots should be easy for people to operate.
D. Robots should help with people’s life and work.
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Life is short. It may feel as if it takes forever sometimes, but the reality is that you live, and a short time later, you die. It happens so quickly that many people don't even realize they had a life until it's already over.
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If you don't believe in yourself, nobody will. Success starts in your mind, and if all you're doing is putting yourself down and predicting failure, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy(预言).2.，instead of not believing yourself. Not only will you be happier and more successful, you'll also spread it to everyone around you.
2. Stop Being Lazy
Lazy people are annoying—it's like pulling teeth and getting them to do anything. If I can't do something as simple as going to the movies with you without wasting an hour convincing you to get your lazy butt (臀部) out of bed, I'd rather go alone. People have enough trouble motivating themselves.3..
3. Stop Wasting Time
I’ve said it before. And I'll say it again. 4., Don't waste your time on unproductive things. If you want to explore the World's dark corners, that's great. I still associate with people who have not-so-kosher(没有固定工作的) careers, but I don’t hang out with those people at the expense of my own short- and long-term goals.
4. Stop Being Wasteful
You don’t finish your meals, and throw away food instead. You leave the faucet running when you brush your teeth,
5.. You drive to places you could easily walk to, burning gasoline (a non-renewable resource). You are wasteful, and it needs to stop.
A. Think positively
B. wasting is a shame
C. Stop Being Selfish
D. Stop Doubting Yourself
E. pouring precious clean water down
F. Time is the most valuable resource we have
G. don't make your friends and family waste their energy motivating you as well
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For five years, Claire Lomas hasn't been able to walk or feel her legs. But that hasn't _____her. She was _______a professional horse rider. But in 2007, she was thrown off her horse. The _____paralyzed her from the chest down. She spent all her time in a ______, at least until January, 2012. That’s when she started _______again, thanks to a ₤ 75, 000 bionic suit known as the Re walk.
“It's_____after five years of sitting down to be back on my ______,” she said, “and it's fully weight-bearing and I can walk in it as well. "The Re Walk and two canes would______her when she wanted to walk. But it's not ______. Each day, when she started, she could _____only 30 steps. Every_____ was a challenge, and because she couldn't ______ where she was standing, she _____feared falling over. She had bigger_____, though. Lomas decided to set out to walk the entire length of the London Marathon.
She started, alongside 35,000______, 16 days ago, but today, May 8th, 2012, in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, she______—to the screams of thousands of fans who came out to support her.
"It's a moment I’m going to ______ for the rest of my life,” she told the BBC. “The support here has been so amazing—I didn't ______it here like this. I couldn’t believe it when I______this morning in the taxi to start, and I thought it was just a ______day in London. Someone told me they’re all there for me.’’
1.A. frightened B. stopped C. wounded D. bothered
2.A. also B. just C. once D. still
3.A. pressure B. fault C. disease D. accident
4.A. wheelchair B. room C. bed D. field
5.A. speaking B. walking C. competing D. working
6.A. amazing B. satisfying C. touching D. puzzling
7.A. hands B. feet C. car D. side
8.A. follow B. improve C. save D. support
9.A. late B. fair C. lucky D. easy
10.A. gather B. practice C. take D. dance
11.A. moment B. decision C. purpose D. method
12.A. find B. feel C. hear D. understand
13.A. probably B. already C. always D. sometimes
14.A. questions B. fortunes C. changes D. goals
15.A. journalists B. passengers C. runners D. friends
16.A. insisted B. agreed C. arrived D. finished
17.A. remember B. take C. save D. seize
18.A. enjoy B. expect C. avoid D. achieve
19.A. turned up B. passed by C. worked out D. broke in
20.A. lovely B. regular C. busy D. quiet
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When I was a ten-year-old girl, I was once asked to deliver a speech titled “ A Real Test in My Life” before the whole class ! Just imagine how1.(terrible) shy I was the moment I thought of that with so many eyes fixed upon me. I had only one2. (choose) , though. First I was to draft the speech and that was just a piece of cake for me, because I was a good writer – something to pride myself on. But the hard part 3.(lie) in my oral presentation; to read from 4. paper was not allowed ; I had to give the speech 5. my memory and in front of such a big audience !
A real trial began when I stood on the platform with my legs6.(tremble) and my mind blank. How much time had passed by , I didn’t know . My listeners were still waiting patiently and without any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found 7. back, giving out my speech with difficulty. Finally I finished. After it seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience applauding. I made8.! From then on, my fear of talking before an audience disappeared . Actually with my confidence building9., I now turn out to be a great speaker . Looking back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way to success is our fear. Overcome it,10.we will be able to achieve our goals .
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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。错误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。
Last Monday, our English teacher told us put our writing books on the desks so that he could check them. Honest speaking, I didn’t obey. However, I put my Chinese writing book on my desk. I really wondered how would happen. As the teacher found it out my trick, I pretended to be very surprising. “Oh, I’m sorry I took a wrong book for mistake because it has a same cover as my English writing book. I left my English writing book at home.” On hear this, the teacher said, “OK!”I narrowly escaped his punishment. Now I know I am wrong.
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你们班学生就是否应该开发人工智能机器人展开了讨论。请你根据下列提示, 用英语写一篇短文, 阐明你的观点。
词数: 100 左右。
提示: 1.你赞同开发机器人。
2.机器人的应用可以使人类免除大量繁重的劳动。
3.人类将拥有更多闲暇（leisure）时间。
4.机器人的应用不会使人懒惰，只会激起人们对人工智能研究的兴趣。
5.机器人不能独立思考，需按人类的指令工作，因而不存在机器人“统治世界”的问题。
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