“Reading Corner”, which entered Happy Communi...

“Reading Corner”, which entered Happy Community Center this spring, has made it________ for the people there to experience the pleasure of reading than before.

A.easy B.easier C.easily D.more easily

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“Reading Pavilion”, which entered Luhe Library this spring, has made it ____ for the citizens to experience the pleasure of reading than before.

A. easy　　 B. easier　　 C. easily　　 D. more easily

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Being happy is an ability, which means we need to learn how to do it. This, perhaps, explains why around one in four undergraduate students at Yale University in the US have signed up (报名) for its Psychology and the Good Life course this semester. The course actually set a record of being the most popular in Yale’s 316-year history.

Laurie Santos, the psychology professor who will be running the course, believes that the high school lives which her students must have had are the reason that the course is so popular. It’s likely that students who get into top universities like Yale had a difficult time in high school. In order to stand out, they had to surround themselves with endless tests, competitions, and so-called “hobbies”, which made them very unhappy. "A lot of us are anxious (焦虑的), stressed, numb (麻木的)," Alannah Maynez, a 19-year-old undergraduate student at Yale, told The New York Times,“and I won’t miss such a chance.”

Yale isn’t the first university to offer such courses. Back in 2006, Harvard introduced its Positive Psychology class, and about 900 students signed up for it. There are now many universities in the US that have started courses on positive psychology, including the University of Pennsylvania and Claremont Graduate University.

It may sound sad when Harvard student Nancy Cheng called Positive Psychology a “self-help class”. But it’s a good thing that students accept that they have a problem, instead of having to pretend that everything is fine in front of everyone.

It’s true that being happy is an ability, and it’s OK that you may not have it yet. However, it’s never too early—or too late—to start learning.

1.Many students at Yale University have signed for the Psychology and the Good Life course because ______ __.

A.students who get into top universities had a difficult time in high school

B.it is the most popular course in Yale’s 316-year history

C.Laurie Santos, the psychology professor will be running the course

2.What does Alannah Maynez think of the psychology course?

A.Popular. B.Meaningless. C.Useful.

3.How many universities that have positive psychology courses are mentioned in the passage?

A.Four B.One. C.Two.

4.What does the underlined word “pretend” mean?

A.掩盖 B.假装 C.承认

5.From the passage, we can know that________.

A.it’s never too early or too late to start learning how to be happy

B.Yale is the first university to offer psychology courses

C.Nancy Cheng thought the course helped her a lot to be happy

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Music is heard in every corner of the world：in every community and in every culture. W1.? Music is part of human nature and it is needed for many reasons in our lives.

Music plays an important role in helping us 2..We hear it when we are shopping, in hotels, airports, and restaurants. There is music that you can dance to, sing to, or you may just prefer to listen to it for entertainment. In the movies, music is as important as the acting. Although most people don't pay a3.to it, a good movie has music that helps create the mood for the story.

However there are times when music does more harm than good,for example,when you listen to music that is too 14..You might think this is OK now,but that's only because you're still young.Listening to loud music is not good for ears and it can even make you d5.. If music is a necessary part of your world, keep the volume（音量）down.

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Divided into two groups, the students were busy in a kitchen at the High Point Community Center in Seattle, US. Instructor Asia Faircloth taught one group how to cook vermicelli (意式细面) bowls with chicken. The other group joined Jacob Alhadeff to practice new skills with knives.

The center’s four-week cooking course was centered on cooking and food justice. To teach more people about the importance of having nutritious food, the city had students from low-income families through social media. Each student received 100 dollars (700 yuan) at the end of the course.

“Low-income people are more likely to feel the effects of food injustice,” Alhadeff said. “So providing cooking instruction and putting money back in the pockets of our community members seemed like a no-brainer (容易做的决定).”

Alhadeff and Faircloth started the course not only to teach kids how to cook, but also to encourage them to think more deeply about food. They were shown how to connect personal choices with the economic cost of obesity, climate change and global food supplies.

Tahir Adams and Najah Goodrich, two juniors at Seattle Lutheran High School, joined the classes. They talked about how farmers have a hard time putting food on their own kitchen tables while growing fresh products for the rest of the country. They were proud of the new skills and recipes they learned.

“We started with more personal things, then looked at the bigger, global view ... like, how climate change is related to food,” Adams said. “It can be really bad when droughts turn places into actual deserts and droughts cause civil unrest.”

1.What do we know about the cooking course?

A.It focused only on cooking. B.It was held in Seattle, US.

C.Its students were from wealthy families. D.Each student got 100 dollars at the beginning of the course.

2.In Paragraph 3, Alhadeff________.

A.explains the standards for choosing students B.complains that community members are stupid

C.proves that it’s a good idea to give students free money D.explains why the course provides cooking instruction

3.In the course, students were ________.

A.taught how to reduce obesity B.taught to focus on problems about food safety

C.taught to make their own choices D.encouraged to think more deeply about food

4.What can we conclude from what Adams and Goodrich said?

A.They learned nothing from the course. B.They learned recipes from farmers.

C.The course widened their views on food. D.The course taught them how to solve droughts.

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It’s a good way to 　　　　 the pictures of the murderer at each community center. It may help the police catch the murderer.

A. give up　　 B. look up　　 C. put up

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The local community center is open_____________ Monday to Saturday.

A. in　　 B. from　　 C. for　　 D. on

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Easter School Festival Corner Guide

Festival Corner is one of the reading rooms in our school. It is between the canteen and the teaching building. There are a lot of books about festivals around the world in the reading room. You can find much information about Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Chinese Spring Festival. This will provide you with some information about our Festival Corner. You can use this guide to help your children use our library.

Service Hours:

3:00 pm—5:30 pm on school days；8:30 am—11:00 am on weekends. On school days, your children may borrow or return books during opening hours only when his classroom teacher allows him to. At the weekend, the corner is open to both you and your children. But food, such as fruit or desserts, cannot be taken into the reading room.

Borrowing:

Each student can borrow one or two books at a time. More books can be borrowed only for class reading activities and school research. Don’t try to steal any books from the corner, or you will be punished. If you don’t need the books, please put them in order. Don’t spread the books around on different shelves. Don’t give out the books to others.

Returning:

Books borrowed from the reading room can be kept for 15 days. The books must be returned before the due date, or the kid cannot borrow other books.

Damaged or Lost Books:

When a book is returned in a damaged condition, the kid will have to pay three pounds for the damage. Full price must be paid if a book is lost. We encourage students to carry books in plastic bags to protect them from rainy days. Please call us at 2262-1323 for more information.

1.Students can borrow more than two books at a time ______.

A. for taking exams　　 B. to do school research

C. for after-school activities　　 D. to read together with their parents

2.______must be paid when a student loses the book he borrows.

A. Three pounds　　 B. Half the price of the book

C. Full price of the book　　 D. Twice the price of the book

3.The students are advised to ______to prevent rain.

A. carry the books in plastic bags　　 B. cover the books with raincoats

C. put the books into their pockets　　 D. keep the books in their classroom

4.This guide is for ______.

A. teachers from Easter School　　 B. workers in Easter School Festival Corner

C. visitors to Easter School Festival Corner　　 D. parents of the Easter School students

5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The corner is open for two and a half hours every day.

B. Students’ parents can go to the corner on weekends.

C. Students can go to the corner during opening hours as they like.

D. Students can keep the books that they borrow for fifteen days.

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Last year our class had a Reading Corner. So far，we ____________ more than 200 books.

A. were reading B. have read

C. will read D. read

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Welcome to our idiom (习语) corner!

To feel very happy and excited (especially when sth. Good has happened)

e.g.Jenny is walking on air because her friend invited her to the school dance.She can’t wait to go.

an unknown person who enters a race and gets a good grade

e.g.Did you hear about the dark horse in the running race yesterday?It was his first race and he finished in the top ten.

to act quickly,without thinking

e.g.I hate working with Mary.She’s quick on the trigger and always ready to get mad.

to encourage sb. to do sth.(especially sth.They shouldn’t do)

e.g.When your classmate eggs you on to copy his test paper,you should say “no” to him.

1. Picture _____ can be chosen to express “to do something without thinking”.

2.We can’t believe Robert won this match. He’s really _______.

A. a walking man　　　　 B. a trigger

C. a dark horse　　 　　 D. an egg

3. The Chinese meaning to the idiom “to walk on air” is probably “________”.

A. 一无所有　　 　　　　　 B.欢天喜地

C.愁眉苦脸　 　　　　　　 　 D.不假思索

4.The writer didn’t use _______ to help the readers understand the idioms above.

A. explanations (解释)　 　　 　　　　 B. pictures

C. examples　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. results

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