Increase your creativityEvery month I face th...

Increase your creativity

Every month I face the same problem — how to write educational, informative and, hopefully, interesting articles. 1.. At other times my mind goes blank (空白的), and I experience a creative block.

At times we all face creative challenges in life, from designing websites to decorating our apartments, but there are ways to work through creative slumps (低潮).

★Daydream

For years, others may have told you to stop daydreaming. 2.. Daydreaming sometimes helps you take a more creative approach to your problem.

★Be happy

Some studies suggest that a positive mood (心情) encourages creativity because it increases activity in the parts of the brain related to decision-making and feelings.

★3.

Face-to-face conversations with friends can lead to creative thinking.

★Take risks

Don’t let fear hold you back. You won’t succeed at everything you try. But with each new effort, you will build self-confidence and develop new skills for the future.

★Limit your amusement

Everyone enjoys entertainment. 4.. Literature and audiobooks are better forms of amusement because they force you to use your imagination.

★Look for inspiration

Activities such as listening to music, going to museums and travelling all provide sources of inspiration.

★Go offline and go outside

Remember how much fun you had as a child running, playing and pretending? Your imagination simply ran away with you. 5., and can help you get back some of that creative energy from your childhood.

A.Get social

B.Make friends

C.Nature settings fire the imagination

D.In fact, letting your mind run briefly can actually be helpful

E.Reading relaxes the mind and encourages you to use your imagination

F.Sometimes I can just sit down at my computer and the words just flow

G.But watching TV, for instance, requires little thought and can actually decrease creativity

高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

With mobile phones, these problems increase. Many times you 1. (talk) with a friend, only for your friend to interrupt the conversation to answer a call. 2.some reason, a typical mobile phone call is nearly always give greater 3. (important) than a face-to-face conversation. Yet, once again, most mobile phone calls are about rather small matters. When 4. (ask) later what the call was about, your friend always answers, “Oh, nothing really”. If the call was really about ‘nothing’, then why was it so important as to interrupt your conversation and waste your precious time.

Using the mobile phone for text messages is the 5. (bad). In one study, girls average 80 text messages 6.day, and boys average 30. What do people talk about in text messages? While these messages always seem important at the time, most people cannot really remember 7. the next day.

Phones and text message focus on building relationships with many people. However, these relationships are often quite 8. (stability). Many teenagers say that 9. they have a lot of friends, they really have no best friend. Meanwhile, real relationships are often sacrificed, 10. whatever personal peace one has is destroyed whenever the mobile phone rings.

高二英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Climate change will increase US wildfires,and the smoky air will cause terrible problems in areas far beyond those burned,reports an environmental group Thursday.

Two-thirds of Americans,or nearly 212 million,lived in states suffering from wildfire smoke three years ago,according to the report by the Natural Resources Defense Council(NRDC).These areas,which had smoke for at least a week,were nearly 50 times greater than those burned directly by fire.

“It affects a much wide area of the United States than people have realized.” says author Kim Knowlton,a Columbia University health professor,adding the smoke can move up to hundreds of miles.She says the smoke contains air pollution and can cause several kinds of diseases.

Texas was hit hardest in 2011,when smoke stayed for at least a week in areas that are home to 25 million people,according to NRDC’s report.Illinois,which recorded no wildfires within its borders, came second with nearly 12 million people affected by smoke that moved in from elsewhere.The other eight states with the most people in touch with smoky air were,in descending　 order: Florida,Missouri,Georgia,Louisiana,Michigan,Alabama,Oklahoma and Iowa.

Nearly two dozen states had no wildfires within their borders in 2011,but eight of them still had at least one week of smoky air: Illinois,Missouri，Iowa,Kansas,Nebraska,Indiana,Wisconsin and Ohio.

Only 18 states and the District of Columbia had no people in touch with at least a week of smoke that year,although five of them—Alaska,California,Hawaii,Nevada and Utah—had a large area burned by wildfires.

The problem will only get worse.Knowlton says.Scientific research shows climate is causing higher temperatures and health problems.

1.We can learn from the first two paragraphs that_______.

A.climate change killed many Americans

B.there are fewer states burned by wildfires

C.every state had wildfire smoke for at least a week

D.most Americans suffered from wildfire smoke 3 year ago

2.Which of the following states had wildfires within its borders in 2011?

A.Iowa. B.Kansas.

C.Ohio. D.California.

3.The underlined word “descending” in the fourth paragraph probably means _______.

A.going down B.coming true

C.looking practical D.turning back

4.What is the text mainly about?

A.Climate change causes more wildfires.

B.Wildfire smoke becomes a serious health problem.

C.More wildfires cause climate changes.

D.Air pollution becomes a terrible problem.

高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

China has seen _______dramatic decline in rural poverty, but the problem is on _______increase in Africa and South Asia.

A. a; \　　 B. \ ；the　　 C. the ;an　　　　　　　　 D. a; the

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Ben lived in the same house as I did, on the same floor, his door facing mine; we often saw each other, and I knew how he lived when he was at home. And at home it was the same story: dressing-gown, nightcap, closed windows, locked doors, and –‘Oh, I hope nothing bad will happen!’ Vegetarian food is not good for him, yet he could not eat meat, so he ate freshwater fish with butter—not a vegetarian dish, yet one could not say that it was meat. He did not keep a female servant for fear people might think evil of him, but had as cook an old man of sixty, called Alan, who had once been an officer’s servant and could cook after a fashion. This Alan was usually standing at the door with his arms folded; with a deep sigh, he would mutter always the same thing: “there are plenty of them about nowadays!”

1.What is the relationship between Ben and Alan?

A. Teacher and student.　　　　　　 B. Friends.

C. Family.　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 D. Employer and employee

2.Why didn’t Ben keep a female servant?

A. Because he was afraid of other people’s opinion about him.

B. Because he couldn’t afford one.

C. Because Alan used to work for an officer.

D. Because he could not eat meat.

3.What does the underlined word “mutter” probably mean?

A. To cook after a fashion.　 B. To speak very quietly.

C. To fold one’s arms.　　　　 D. To sigh deeply.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Consumers everywhere are faced with the same dilemma: given limited resources, what sorts of purchases are most likely to produce lasting happiness and satisfaction? Recent research has confirmed that experiential purchases tend to produce greater hedonic (享乐的）gains than material purchases.

The reason why experiences improve with time may be because it is possible to think about experiences in a more abstract manner than possessions. For example, if you think back to a fantastic summer from your youth, you might easily remember an abstract sense of warm sunshine and youthful exuberant (生气勃勃), but you're less likely to remember exactly what you did day-by-day.

Material possessions are harder to think about in an abstract sense. The car you bought is still a car, that great new jacket you picked up cheap is still just a jacket. It’s more likely the experience of that summer has taken on a symbolic meaning that can live longer in your memory than a possession.

Purchasing may have a negative impact on happiness because consumers often buy “joyless” material possessions, resulting in comfort but not pleasure. In general, people adapt to experiences more slowly than to material purchase. This can be seen in both negative and positive purchases: hedonic adaptation would result in a positive experience causing more happiness but a negative experience causing less happiness than the comparable material purchase with the same initial happiness level.

Experience, however, seems to be more resistant to these sorts of unfavourable comparisons. It is because of the unique nature of experience. It’s more difficult to make an unfavourable comparison when there is nothing directly comparable. After all, each of our youthful summers is different.

It’s well established that social comparisons can have a huge effect on how we view what might seem like positive events. One striking example is the finding that people prefer to earn $50,000 a year while everyone else earns $25,000,　 instead of earning $100,000 themselves and having other people earn $200,000.

A similar effect is seen for possessions. When there are so many flat-screen HD TVs to choose from, it's easy to make unfavourable comparisons between our choice and the others available.

1.An abstract sense in the passage refers to awareness of something __________.

A. you cannot think about

B. you can’ t remember well

C. you cannot understand

D. you cannot see or touch

2.If you make an experiential purchase before a material purchase, you may go to__________.

A. a theatre before going to a store

B. an exhibition before going to a park

C. a mall before going to a grocer's

D. a market before going to a restaurant

3.The example of earnings is given to actually indicate__________.

A. how ridiculous people are B. how people feel content

C. how nearsighted people are D. how people hold prejudice

4. It is implied in the passage that, after their material purchases, people might__________.

A. enjoy their ownership of what they have bought

B. pick every fault in the products they have got

C. regret making a wrong decision to buy the items

D. leave what they’ve purchased untouched at home

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

CHICAGO(Reuters)－Smoking not only can wrinkle (皱纹) the face and turn it yellow—it can do the same to the whole body, researchers reported on Monday.

The study, published in the Archives of Dermatology, shows that smoking affects the skin all over the body－even skin protected from the sun.

“We examined non-facial skin that was protected from the sun, and found that the total number of packs of cigarette smoked per day and the total years a person has smoked were linked with the amount of skin damage a person experienced, ”Dr. Yolanda, who led the study, said in a statement.

“In participants older than 65 years, smokers had significantly more wrinkling than nonsmokers. Similar findings were seen in participants aged 45 to 65 years. ” Yolanda’s team added in their report.

The researchers tested 82 people, smokers and nonsmokers, taking pictures of the inner right arms. They ranged, in age from 22 to 91 and half were smokers. Independent judges decided how wrinkled each person’s skin was.

When skin is exposed to sunlight, especially the face, it becomes coarse(粗糙的), wrinkled and discolored with a pale yellow color, Yolanda's team wrote.

Several previous studies have found that cigarette smoking led to premature(过早的)skin aging as measured by facial wrinkles, the study said, but little has been done to measure the aging of skin not exposed to light.

The previous research has found that cigarette smoke, among other things, causes blood vessels(血管)beneath the skin to constrict(紧缩), reducing blood supply to the skin.

Smoking can also damage the connective tissue(组织)that supports both die skin and the internal organs (器官).

1.The best title for this passage would be ______________.

A. The danger of smoking　　 B. Smoking causes skin aging

C. Quit smoking for health　　 D. A survey of smokers

2.It can be inferred from the study _____________.

A. smoking won’t affect skin protected from the sun

B. smoking will do damage to skin rather than other organs

C. smokers over 65 usually won’t worry about their skin

D. the age of smokers is not connected with the result of the test

3.When your skin is exposed to sunlight long, it becomes all of the following but _________.

A. flexible　　 B. coarse

C. rough　　 D. discolored

4.The main purpose of the passage is to ____________.

A. inform people about the study of skin.

B. advise people how to protect skin

C. warn people not to smoke again

D. introduce a new way of avoid skin aging

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

David suddenly realized that the waiter was the same man _____ face he had seen in a painting many years ago．

A．which       B．that   C．of whom   D．whose

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

It disappoints the specialists that Canada is faced with the similar problem as the Internet meant to bring people closer 　　　　 to set them apart.

A. beginning　　 B. begun

C. begins　　 D. had begun

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

________ at my classmates' faces, I read the same excitement in their eyes.

A. Looking       B. Look      C. To look        D. Looked

高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析