A UK college has started teaching students the Danish concept of hygge — said to make homes nicer and people happier. But what exactly is it?
Sitting by the fire on a cold night, while petting a dog — probably surrounded by candles. That’ s certainly “hygge”. Eating home-made cakes. Watching TV under a warm quilt. Tea served in a china set. Family get-togethers at Christmas. They’re all hygge too.
The Danish word, pronounced “hoo-ga”, is usually translated into English as “cosiness(舒适)”. But it’s much more than that — it is an entire attitude to life that makes Denmark one of the world’s happiest countries.
Morley College, in central London, is teaching students how to achieve hygge as part of its Danish language course. “We have long, cold winters in Denmark,” says lecturer Susanne Nilsson. “That influences things. Hygge doesn’t have to be a winter-only thing, but it isn’t that fine for much of the year.”
With up to 17 hours of darkness per day in winter, and average temperatures staying around 0℃, people spend more time indoors as a result, says Nilsson, meaning there’s greater focus on home entertaining.
The idea is to feel as at-home as possible, forgetting life’s worries. “Hygge works best when there’s not too large an empty space around the person or people,” Nilsson adds.
The recent growth in Scandinavian-themed restaurants, cafes and bars in the UK is helping to export hygge, Nilsson says. Most customers won’t have heard of the term, but they might get a sense of it.
Similarly, in the US, the wallpaper and fabric firm Hygge & West aims to channel the concept through its cheery designs, as does a Los Angeles bakery, called Hygge, which sells traditional Danish cakes and treats.
Hygge is a deep-rooted tradition in Danes’ life. Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World ’ s Happiest Country, says, “Hygge is so important for those who live Danishly that the other day, I saw a camper car parked by the roadside with lit candles in the windows.”
1.Which can be used to explain the concept of hygge?
A.It means success. B.It is a way to relax.
C.It requires a large room. D.It is a candle-involved moment.
2.What makes the Danish have more home life according to the text?
A.The country’s climate. B.The country’s culture.
C.The country’s economy. D.The country’s education.
3.What do we learn about hygge in the UK and the US?
A.It is ignored by the two countries’ people. B.It is quite different from that in Denmark.
C.It is a new trend in the two countries. D.It is related to several traditions.
4.What is the main purpose of the text?
A.To explain the history of hygge. B.To discuss a UK college course.
C.To encourage people to live Danishly. D.To introduce a traditional Danish lifestyle.
高二英语阅读选择中等难度题
Starting college is a difficult transition for many students. Here are some ways to make the transition a little bit easier.
Get involved. By joining a team, you not only get to meet older students who can help you get through the transition, you also make friends quickly and have things to do. One of the huge differences from high school to college is the amount of free time you have.1.
Have an open mind. Especially if you are going to a bigger school, it’s important to have an open mind. 2. Yet when you get to college, there are people from all over that have different views on things and act in a different way.
Stay focused. 3. . It is so easy to get caught up in your social life and forget about the academics. Remain focused on your schoolwork and figure out what you want to study, but be sure to have time for social activities as well.
4. Take care of your body. Being away from home and no longer having parents looking after you doesn’t mean you have to throw away all the things you learned about staying healthy. Eat healthily and play sports as you did in high school to stay in shape.
Again, the transition from high school to college can be extremely challenging.5. By following some of these tips, hopefully your transition will be a little smoother and you will get the most out of your freshman year in college!
A.Enjoy the sports.
B.Work to stay healthy.
C.When you are healthy, you feel better.
D.It may not come as easy to you as it does for some students.
E.How you decide to use it determines how well you do in school.
F.You may be used to the people from your town and your high school.
G.The main thing to remember when starting college is what you are actually there for.
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The LEGO story started in a Danish woodworking shop. At the time, Ole Kirk Christiansen was just a(n)__________ carpenter working in a local shop. But he always had big dreams. As a young man, Christiansen turned his love of playing with wood into a ___________ and, in 1916, he opened his own shop.
At first, his shop produced furniture like ladders, stools and ironing boards. But in 1924, his sons __________set a pile of wood chips in the shop on fire, __________ the entire building and the family’s home.
Despite a total _________, Christiansen saw the fire as an excuse to simply ______ a larger workshop.Tragedy (悲剧) continued to ______, however. In 1929, the American economic depression broke out, and his wife died in 1932. Affected by _________ and financial disaster, Christiansen unemployed many of his workers and __________ to make ends meet. _________ did he know that those tragedies would be of importance for his business to __________.
Since times were so _______, Christiansen made the hard decision to use his wood to create _________goods that might actually sell. The decision didn’t pay off at first. But his love of toys pushed the company ahead,even when it was __________ the toughest times.
It turned out he was a brilliant toymaker. Soon, his wonderful models of cars and animals and his adorable pull toys gained a national popularity. His bestseller, a wooden duck __________ mouth opens and closes when pulled,is now still a hot hit. By 1949, his company created a plastic product called the Automatic Binding Brick. And their toys became more and more popular as the years passed.
1.A. ordinary B. different C. old D. skillful
2.A. preference B. standard C. burden D. business
3.A. anxiously B. nervously C. blindly D. accidentally
4.A. protecting B. abandoning C. destroying D. repeating
5.A. sadness B. loss C. pain D. failure
6.A. design B. draw C. invent D. build
7.A. strike B. drop C. move D. stop
8.A. natural B. historical C. personal D. artificial
9.A. forced B. struggled C. allowed D. ordered
10.A. Much B. Few C. Little D. Many
11.A. quit B. recover C. freeze D. advertise
12.A. smooth B. hard C. important D. peaceful
13.A. inconvenient B. unpopular C. priceless D. inexpensive
14.A. going through B. taking over C. turning to D. looking into
15.A. that B. who C. whose D. what
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The cost of college textbooks has risen sharply from 2002 to 2014. As a result, students have to look for other less expensive options(选择) , such as renting books. Now, they find another way, that is, using textbooks on the Internet, uploaded by other students. It is hard to know how popular this practice will be, but many college students around the country are uploading their expensive college textbooks onto the Internet, so that other students can download them for free and avoid the big fees.
A year ago, a student wrote a blog called Children of the Stars about a professor who insisted that students buy the newest edition of a specific sociology（社会学） book for more than $200 and didn’t allow them to purchase an older paperback(平装本) edition of the same book for $5. The student wrote, “The newest edition of the book is so expensive. Fortunately, we found the electronic one online, which is very cheap. This is why we downloaded. ” The blog is followed by a list of websites where people can download books.
Curious about how varied the selection of books was and how easy it was to download them, Vocativ.com decided to do an experiment. The workers of it picked five typical and important courses of freshmen and tried downloading all these textbooks on the websites offered by the student who wrote Children of the Stars. They typed the titles of these textbooks into a computer, and found them immediately. Within minutes, they had four textbooks on their hard drive.
It is illegal to upload or download copyrighted materials without permission, but students still do it due to its advantages. Besides, schools haven’t taken action to stop it.
1.According to the passage, why do many students choose to download textbooks?
A. Because it is lower in cost.
B. Because it is required by their teachers.
C. Because it can help them gain the latest knowledge.
D. Because it can do less harm to the environment.
2.What did Vocativ.com find out from its experiment?
A. Downloading textbooks was easy.
B. Downloading textbooks was illegal.
C. Downloading textbooks was expensive.
D. Downloading textbooks was impossible.
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards downloading textbooks?
A. Uninterested B. Doubtful
C. Objective D. Disappointed
4.The passage is most probably taken from a(n) ________ .
A. health report B. education report
C. art report D. technology report
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir(回忆录)of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.
Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.
Graduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.
Tyler became well-known nationally in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.
Tyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent(独立的)spirit in their work.
Although Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives(目标)that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.
1.Who are most probably interested in Ralph W. Tyler’s memoir?
A. Top managers. B. Language learners.
C. Serious educators. D. Science organizations.
2.The words “hooked on teaching” underlined in paragraph 2 probably mean ______.
A. attracted to teaching B. tired of teaching
C. satisfied with teaching D. unhappy about teaching
3.Tyler is said to have never actually retired because ________.
A. he developed a new method of testing
B. he called for free spirit in research
C. he was still active in giving advice
D. he still led the EightYear Study
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
They are college students and don’t realize ___________ to start and run a company.
A. what takes it B. what they take
C. what it takes D. what takes them
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Last week, Vodafone started a test of the UK’s first full 5G service, available for use by businesses in Salford. It is part of its plan to trial the technology in seven UK cities. But what can we expect from the next generation of mobile technology?
One thing we will see in the preparation for the test is lots of tricks with the new tech. Earlier this year, operators paid almost £1.4 billion for the 5G wavelengths, and to compensate for that cash, they will need to catch the eye of consumers. In September, Vodafone used its bit of the range to display the UK’s first hologram (全息) call. The Manchester City captain Steph Houghton appeared as a hologram in Newbury. It isn’t all holograms, however: 5G will offer faster internet access. with Ofcom (英国通讯管理局) suggesting that video that takes a minute to download on 4G will be available in just a second.
The wider application is to support connected equipment on the “internet of things” -not just the internet-enabled fridge that can reorder your milk for you, but the network that will enable driverless cars and delivery drones (无人机) to communicate with each other.
Prof William Webb has warned that the technology could be a case of the emperor’s new clothes. Much of the speed increase, he claims, could have been achieved by putting more money in the 4G network, rather than a new technology. Other different voices have suggested that a focus on rolling out wider rural broadband access and addressing current network coverage would be more beneficial to the UK as a whole.
Obviously, 5G will also bring a cost to consumers. It requires a handset for both 5G and 4G, and the first 5G-enabled smart phones are expected in the coming year. With the slow pace of network rollout so far, it is likely that consumers will end up upgrading to a new 5G phone well before 5G becomes widely available in the next couple of years.
1.Why does Prof William Webb say “the technology could be a case of the emperor’s new clothes”?
A.He is in favor of the application of the new technology.
B.5G will bring a cost to consumers in their daily life.
C.5G helps people communicate better with each other.
D.He prefers more money to be spent on 4G networks.
2.The underlined word “addressing” in the fourth paragraph has the closest meaning to .
A.making a speech to B.trying to solve
C.managing to decrease D.responding to
3.The last paragraph indicates that .
A.it’ll take several years to make 5G accessible to the public in the UK
B.5G service shows huge development potential and a broad market
C.customers are eager to use 5G smart phones instead of 4G ones
D.it’s probable that 5G network rollout is speeding up in Britain
4.What do we know about the text?
A.Vodafone is successful in spreading the 5G service.
B.Steph Houghton appeared as a hologram by 4G .
C.The application of 5G will make life much easier.
D.5G phones are available in rural areas of the UK.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The college ______ 7 departments, 4 institutes, and Teaching Division of Basic Computer Science and Basic Lab Center.
A. consists of B. makes up of C. is consisted of D. is made of
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
When did the woman’s brother start smoking?
A. During high school. B. At college. C. After college.
高二英语短对话简单题查看答案及解析
Sunaian’s family left India and moved to the UK when she was 13. She had to start a new school...
I remember it really well. My parents drove me to the school and said goodbye to me. I took a deep breath and walked into the school.
I didn’t know what to feel. I was excited and scared and a bit nervous, all at the same time. There were lots of other kids around. They were already in groups of friends, but none of them said hello or anything. It was a strange feeling for me, like I didn’t really belong there. I wanted to be somewhere else, but that wasn’t possible.
The first thing I had to do was register, so I went to a room in the school that had a sign saying “Administration”. Suddenly, I felt like I was some kind of criminal. They started asking me all kinds of questions. Then I went off to my first class.
My first class. Wow, that was horrible. Perhaps it was because my hair or clothes were different, but everyone just looked at me in such a strange way. And just like when I arrived, no one came to talk to me. Incredibly, that’s never happened: no one has even taken the time to get to know me or like me. I have friends because I made the first move to meet people.
Maybe the worst class that day, though, was Science. The teacher wasn’t too bad. She introduced me to the class and showed me where to sit. But the other students? Well, they looked at me like I was a guinea pig or something they were going to use for an experiment. I hated every minute.
Then there was a break and I went to sit somewhere alone, missing my mum and dad. But I thought they’d want me to keep trying, so I tried to be more positive in the next class. Not so good, though. Everyone talked to other students, but I sat by myself. At the end of the day, I couldn’t wait to get out of there.
But, as time passed, things have got better. Now I’m doing fine and I get OK grades. I’ve learned lots of things — but not what the teachers teach. I’ve learned that I’m strong and brave. I’ve learned that I will succeed even if some things aren’t the way I want them to be.
1.From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A.Sunaina was well received upon the arrival at school
B.Sunaina was treated as a criminal in the register department.
C.Nobody wanted to waste time getting to know Sunaina at first.
D.Other students’ hair and clothes were similar to Sunaina in her class.
2.What made Sunaina think Science the worst class that day?
A.The Science teacher’s quality and qualification.
B.The way the other students looked at Sunaina.
C.The way the teacher introduced Sunaina to the class.
D.The other students’ thinking of using Sunaina for an experiment.
3.Which of the following is suitable to describe Sunaina?
A.Weak and scary. B.Tough and courageous.
C.Sensitive and shy. D.Generous and outgoing.
4.What does the story intend to tell us?
A.What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
B.A life without a friend is a life without a sun.
C.Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
D.A good word is warm in winter, but a bad word hurts in June.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Our school has used computers in teaching for ten years. As a result, not only______, but students become more interested in their lessons.
A. has teachers’ energy been saved B. saved was teachers’ energy
C. teachers’ energy has saved D. was saved teachers’ energy
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析