Travel can be fun, but when you have to move in a disability, getting from point A to point B can become frustrating. Airlines know this and do their part to make air travel as comfortable as they can for every passenger.
Here are some tips and information on what major airlines do for travelers who need extra support when flying.
United
When flying with United, call the airline’s disability desk (1-800-228-2744) 48 hours in advance of travel if you’ll be traveling with an auxiliary (辅助的) device so they can ensure your device can be used in-flight. Any special needs you have should be mentioned when you make your reservation so the airline staff can do their best to help you. This includes the need for assistance getting to your gate, boarding, getting to your seat, deplaning or connecting.
Delta
Depending on the type and age of the aircraft, accessible features of Delta’s aircraft include movable armrests of seats, wheelchair space, on-board wheelchairs and, on larger airplanes, wheelchair-accessible washrooms. Depending on the aircraft, they also provide seats with a movable aisle armrest for passengers needing to transfer from a boarding wheelchair to their own seat more easily.
US Airways
When traveling with US Airways, if you have a mobility disability and need special seating, call 800428-4322 at least 24 hours in advance to ensure your needs are met. Besides seats with movable armrests, the airline also provides seats with more legroom for passengers with an immobilized leg. The airline can also provide an on-board wheelchair but let them know 48 hours in advance if you need one.
Southwest
If you’re flying with Southwest and you need a wheelchair at the airport, or need other special assistance, if s best to inform the airline in advance, or as soon as you arrive at the airport so your requests can be fulfilled as quickly as possible. On each aircraft, a small wheelchair that can fit down the aircraft aisle is available at every gate and can be used if you need help getting into your seat.
1.Who is this passage intended for?
A. Travelers who have difficulty in moving. B. Those who has a disability.
C. Travelers who become sick on the plane. D. Travelers who are poor In health.
2.Which airline could be the best choice for someone with ft leg that can t bend?
A. United B. US Airways
C. Delta D. Southwest.
3.You are most likely to find this passage ________.
A. on the piano B. at the airport
C. on the internet D. in the textbook
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One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are.
When we see something we don't like, we wish it could be different. We cry out for something better. That may be human nature, or perhaps it’s something ingrained(根深蒂固的) in our culture. The root of the unhappiness isn't necessarily that we want things to be different. However, it's that we decided we didn't like it in the first place. We've judged it as bad, rather than saying, “It's not bad or good, and it just is it. ”
In one of my books, I said “You should expect people to mess up and expect things to go differently than you planned”. Some readers said it’s too sorrowful to expect things to go wrong. However, it's only negative if you see it as negative and judge it as bad. Instead, you could accept it as the way the world works and try to understand why that is.
This can be applied to whatever you do: how other people act at work, how politics works and how depressing the news media can be. Accept these things as they are, and try to understand why they're that way. It will save you a lot of sadness, because you'll no longer say, “Oh. I wish bad things didn't happen!”
Does it mean you can never change things? Not at all. But change things not because you can't accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of changing, learning and growing.
Can we make this world a better place? You can say that you’ll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world. That's the correct path you choose to take, because you enjoy that path. Therefore, when you find yourself judging and wishing for difference, try a different approach：accept, and understand. It might lead to some interesting results.
1.The author believes that we feel unhappy maybe because ___________.
A. it is our natural emotion in the life
B. culture asks us to be different from others
C. everyone has their own opinions on things
D. we dislike something in the beginning
2.What does the underlined word "it" In Paragraph 4 refers to?
A. Acting well at work and in politics.
B. Feeling depressed for the news media.
C. Accepting and understanding what has happened.
D. Saying something negative when bad things come.
3.What are you advised according to the last paragraph?
A. Help others and make a difference
B. Enjoy what you have to do in the work
C. Judge yourself and make a wish for you
D. Try a new way when making the world better
4.What is the main theme of the passage?
A. Accepting can make our life happier and better.
B. Expecting things to be different gives us hope.
C. Traditional culture becomes root of unhappiness.
D. Judging good or bad is important for our world.
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When you finish your day at school, you probably rush to your dormitory or home as quickly as possible. But for some people, their day begins in the middle of the night.
Welcome to the interesting world of “the Master”, the owner of a small restaurant located in a busy district that only opens from midnight to 7 am.
Earlier this month, Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka-fai announced that he had directed and starred as the Master in a remake of Japanese director Joji Matsuoka’s famous comedy Midnight Diner. The new movie is expected to come out in Chinese mainland cinemas later this year.
While serving regular soup every night, the Master is also willing to make customized (定制的) dishes if his customers ask. Besides its delicious food, what makes this eatery special is that it’s a place of sanctuary and togetherness.
Midnight is often when worries, loneliness, and sadness occur, and midnight diner provides the simple comforts of food and drink, and more importantly, a warm place where people can keep each other company, talk, and share their stories. The customers，stories cover everything, from problems at work to parenthood, romance, friendship, and the regrets of a wasted life. Listening to their stories, customers offer encouragement and advice to one another. But the Master only provides the life lesson- a good day must follow a bad one-when necessary.
Despite feeing different kinds of disappointment, people need to find their own satisfaction in their seemingly messy lives. The small pleasure can be a good hot-pot meal,” Japanese culture website JapanPewered.com noted. It s easy to lose sight of what gives life meaning as we go about the daily routine of work and home life.”
After all, no one is flawless (无暇的) and no one’s life is perfect, but imperfections are the space where possibilities live. As Kelly Mcneils, author of Your Messy Brilliance, wrote, “The good, the bad, and the ugly, they are our greatest wealth because they include every single part of ourselves and leave nothing out-and when we fully accept all parts of ourselves, we discover our true power.”
1.From the passage we know that the Master ________.
A. is an actor in Midnight Diner,
B. is so popular as to be remade by Joji Matsuoka
C. provides good service for his customers
D. offers a special restaurant all day.
2.What does the underlined word “sanctuary” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. shelter B. separation
C. eating D. complaint
3.Why is the midnight diner important and special?
A. Because bad emotions often occur at midnight
B. Because it offers meals at midnight
C. Because customers are comforted and helped here.
D. Because the customers love the Master’s life lessons.
4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Nobody is perfect.
B. Accepting our imperfections help us learn about ourselves.
C. We shouldn’t attach great importance to our imperfections.
D. Potentials can only be found in our imperfections.
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For years, there has been a prejudice against science among clinical psychologists (临床心理学家). In a two-year analysis to be published in November in Perspectives on Psychological Science, psychologists charge that many clinical psychologists fail to “provide the treatments which are given the strongest evidence of effectiveness” and “give more weight to their personal experiences than to science.” As a result, patients have no guarantee that their “treatment will be informed by science.” Walter Mischel of Columbia University is even cruder in his judgment. “The disconnect between what clinical psychologists do and what science has discovered is an extreme embarrassment,” he told me, and “there is a widening gap between clinical practice and science.”
The “widening” reflects the great progress that psychological research has made in identifying the most effective treatments. Thanks to strict clinical trials, we now know that teaching patients to think about their thoughts in new, healthier ways and to act on those new ways of thinking are effective against depression, panic disorder and other problems, with multiple trials showing that these treatments—the tools of psychology—bring more lasting benefits than drugs.
You wouldn’t know this if you sought help from a typical clinical psychologist. Although many treatments are effective, relatively few psychologists learn or practice them.
Why in the world not? For one thing, says Baker from the University of Wisconsin, clinical psychologists are “Very doubtful about the role of science” and “lack solid science training”. Also, one third of patients get better no matter what treatment (if any) they have, “and psychologists remember these successes, believing, wrongly, that they are the result of the treatment.”
When faced with evidence that treatments they offer are not supported by science, clinical psychologists argue that they know better than some study that works. A 2008 study of 591 psychologists in private practice found that they rely more on their own and colleagues’ experience than on science when deciding how to treat a patient. If they keep on this path as insurance companies (保险公司) demand evidence-based medicine, warns Mischel, psychology will “discredit itself.”
1.Many clinical psychologists fail to provide the roost effective treatments because ________.
A. they are unfamiliar with their patients
B. they believe in science and evidence
C. they rely on their personal experiences
D. they depend on their colleagues’ help
2.The widening gap between clinical practice and science is due to _______.
A. the cruel judgment by Walter Mischel
B. the great progress that has been made in psychological research
C. the fact that most patients get better after being treated
D. the fact that patients prefer to take drugs rather than have other treatments
3.How do clinical psychologists respond when charged that their treatments are not supported by science?
A. They feel embarrassed. B. They doubt their treatments.
C. They are disappointed. D. They try to defend themselves.
4.According to the passage, what is Mischel’s attitude towards psychology?
A. positive. B. neutral.
C. indifferent. D. negative.
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A new study suggests that the timing of a wound affects the speed at which it heals (治愈). Wounds suffered during the day heal around 60 percent faster than those at night.
The study showed how the bodies’ circadian rhythm (昼夜节奏) controlled the healing of wounds. 1. It tells our bodies when to wake up, eat and sleep in a circle---a series of activities that repeat themselves day after day. 2..
In the study, researchers found that skin cells moved faster to repair wounds suffered during the day Their findings were published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
The researchers examined cells, mice, and burn injury databases. 3..
Night-time bums—bums suffered between 8 o’clock at night and 8 o’clock the next morning----were 95 percent healed after an average of 28 days.
But after on average of 17 days, daytime bums----burns suffered between 8 o’clock in the morning and 8 at night----were 95 percent healed. 4..
Wounds are very costly to treat. 5.. In Britain’s National Health Services, for example, such services cost around $6.56 billion per year. Experts say the high cost result, in part, from a lack of drugs that speed up the closure of wounds.
A. Each cycle lasts about 24 hours.
B. The circadian rhythm is like a clock or timer.
C. Specifically, their investigation found the following information.
D. The new study’s findings could help scientists develop better drugs.
E. In other words, night-time injuries took an average of 11 days longer to heal.
F. Worldwide, billions of dollars are spent every year on wound-treatment services.
G. That s what a group of researchers from a university in Canada recently published.
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I come from one of those families where you have to yell at the dinner table to get in a word. Everyone has a strong ____, and talks at the same time, and no one has a ____ leading to heated arguments. We often talk or even debate with each other on different topics.
___ a family like mine has made me more ____ about the world around me, making me tend to question anything anyone tells me. But it has also made me realize that I’m not a good listener. And when I say “listening”, I’m not ____ to the nodding-your-head-and-____-answering-Uh-huh-or-Ooh-I-see variety. I mean the kind of listening where you find yourself deeply ____ the person you’re speaking with, when his story become so ____ that your world becomes less about you and more about him. No, I was never good at that.
I spent summer in South Africa two years ago. I worked ____ for a good non-profit ____ called Noah, which works on behalf of children affected by AIDS. But ____ you asked me what I really did in South Africa, I’d tell you one thing: I listened, and I listened Sometimes I ____, but mostly I listened.
And if I had not spent two months ____, I might have missed the ____ moment when a quiet little girl at one of Noah’s community centers, who lost her parents at the age of three, whispered after a long ____, “I love you.”
___ that summer, I knew a little about how to hear. I could sit down with anyone hear their ____ and nod and respond at the ____ time----but most of the time I was ____ about the next words out of my own mouth. Ever since my summer in South Africa, I have noticed that it’s in those moments when my mouth is closed and my ____ is wide open that I’ve learned the most about other people, and perhaps about myself.
1.A. qualification B. influence C. opinion D. assumption
2.A. time B. problem C. schedule D. request
3.A. Belonging to B. Believing in C. Bringing up D. Struggling for
4.A. anxious B. curious C. nervous D. adventurous
5.A. objecting B. appealing C. turning D. referring
6.A. rudely B. loudly C. politely D. gratefully
7.A. understanding B. judging C. discussing D. catering
8.A. vivid B. magical C. mind-numbing D. time-consuming
9.A. effortlessly B. timelessly C. aimlessly D. tirelessly
10.A. school B. organization C. factory D. church
11.A. unless B. because C. although D. if
12.A. applauded B. spoke C. wept D. complained
13.A. studying B. traveling C. listening D. working
14.A. touching B. frustrating C. astonishing D. fascinating
15.A. delay B. course C. journey D. silence
16.A. Before B. After C. Except D. Since
17.A. needs B. stories C. comments D. cases
18.A. valuable B. free C. right D. same
19.A. talking B. arguing C. learning D. thinking
20.A. sympathy B. spirit C. mind D. family
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式填空。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。
Aids is caused by a 1. (dead) virus called HIV, which attacks the body s immune system and there’s no cure for it When someone has Aids, the person loses the ability to fight other illnesses. The virus 2. (spread) in three ways. It can be passed on through 3. (protect) sex, through blood and from a mother to her child. Contrary to 4. many people think, HIV cannot be transmitted through mosquitoes, a cough or sneeze.
Since the disease 5. (burst) on the scene in the 1980s, it has become a serious problem around the world. According to WHO, more than 15 million children have lost their parents 6. Aids. Ajani, whose father died of Aids two years ago, lost his mother for the same reason.
China has also been affected by Aids. By the end of 2009, there were about 740,000 HTV 7. (carry) in China. Dr David Ho, a Chinese-American Aids expert, has devoted himself to 8. (bring) up-to-date technology to China’s Aids problem. UNAIDS also teaches young people how to prevent Aids, and set up treatment centers 9. mothers with HIV can receive medicine to help keep them from passing HIV on to their children.
Ajani and his sister are 10. (fortune). Because their mother had access to prescription Aids medicines when she was pregnant, they did not get HIV from her. Now their grandfather is caring for them.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改课文片段默写，请你修改你同桌写的以下片段。其中共有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11处起）不计分。
I’ve been playing volleyball before three years ago. It started when teacher set up a volleyball club in our school, hope that more students would take part in the sport and keep fit. The club was very popular that many students signed up for it. To be honesty, at that time I just followed them without thinking too much. We practiced together on every Saturday morning. However, some of the students soon begin to get bored and dropped out of the club. So I found I was quite enjoying it and we carried on. After training for some time, I was selected for the school team. How exciting and proud I was.
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假定你是李华，你的留学生朋友Jack要寒假回美国，打算为他的妈妈准备几件富有中国特色的礼 物，特来向你咨询。请你给他回复一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 建议礼物旗袍（cheongsam）和中国结（Chinese knot）；
2. 说明礼物的意义；
3. 表达祝福。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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