We often think that our affairs, great or sma...

We often think that our affairs, great or small, must be tended continuously and in detail, or our world will break apart, and we will lose our places in he universe. That is . not true, or if it is true, then our situations were so temporary that they would have collapsed (崩溃} anyway. .

Once a year or sol get away for a day. On the eve of my day of absence, I inform housemates, my family and close friends that I will not be reachable for twenty-four hours; then I disconnect the telephone. I sit for at least an hour in a very hot bathtub; then I lay out my clothes in preparation for my morning escape, and knowing that nothing will disturb me, I sleep well.

On the morning I wake naturally, for I will have set no clock, nor informed my body timepiece when it should alarm. I dress in comfortable shoes and casual clothes and leave my house going no place. If I am living in a city, I wander streets, window-shop, or stare at buildings. I enter and leave public parks, libraries, and theatres. I stay in no place for very long.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously , separates the past from the future. Jobs, family and friends can exist one day without any one of us. Each person deserves the day in which no problems are faced up to, no solutions searched for, We need hours of aimless wandering or sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants.

If we step away for a time, we are not, as many. may think, being irresponsible, but rather we are preparing ourselves to more ably perform our duties. When I return home, Jam always surprised to find some questions I sought to evade had been answered and some entanglements (瓜葛) I had hoped to flee had become separated out in my absence. A day away can help drive away the bitterness, transform hesitation, and renew the spirit.

1.Why does the author lay out his clothes the night before his day away?

A. He will not forget what he should wear.

B. He is able to sleep late in the morning.

C. He can be dressed as stylishly as possible.

D. He gets ready for the journey in the morning.

2.The words casual, wander, and stare in Paragraph 3 suggest a feeling of　　　　 .

A. determination

B. mystery

C. confusion

D. relaxation

3.What does the underlined word"evade" in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. Consider

B. Avoid

C. Decide

D. Raise

4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To persuade readers to take some time for themselves.

B. To entertain readers with a story of an unusual day.

C. To show how to spend a day away from home.

D. To describe what it is like to rediscover a city.

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Is war unavoidable? Can war be prevented?

History tells that there were wars, great or small, in every century, in every decade. Throughout the ages, from the Stone age to the Atomic Age, men have been fighting, first with swords and shields(盾), then with guns and cannons, and now, hydrogen bombs and missiles are used for military purpose. But, in spite of all these, it is still my belief that war can be prevented and peace can be won, but it requires the effort of every one of us.

I am sure that we would not like to experience another world war. If it ever happens, two-thirds of the world and much of the civilization which men have gained through time, patience and effort will be destroyed. Will then the remaining one-third of the world be able to survive on its own?

Our task now is not to blame the past, but to plan for the future.

If there is peace in the world, men can use their rockets to explore the mystery of space, their submarines to explore the depth of the sea, their missiles to deliver mails and their fine equipment to penetrate(穿透) the jungles of Africa, instead of using them military.

Governments can use their money to build more schools, so that more children can be educated to be useful citizens. Scientists can use atomic energy to propel (推动) steamships and planes. They can also design new machines to increase the production of goods and thus improve the way of living of the people.

How can a peaceful world be achieved? It requires, in my opinion, the understanding and friendship between all people from all nations. Let no one suffer discrimination by reason of color, race, religion, or national origin. Let the rich support the poor and the strong help the weak.

We know that neither peace nor such a dream world can come true in a day or a month. It may even take decades or centuries. But let us plan and begin now.

1.The best title for this passage is _________.

2.In the writer’s opinion, __________.

3.We can infer from the passage that __________.

4.What should we do to achieve peace?

5.Which word can best describe the writer’s picture of the future of the world?

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. We must be______that this year might be the worst in recent times for our economic development.

A. sensitive    B. aware    C. serious    D. bound

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Scientists think that growing garden grass could be the secret to solving our energy needs, and we may soon be able to replace our gasoline with “grassoline”.

The team, including experts from Cardiff University in Wales, has shown that hydrogen can be taken from grass in useful amounts with the help of sunlight and a cheap catalyst (催化剂) — something that speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up.

It is the first time that this has been shown and it could lead to a sustainable (可持续的) way of making hydrogen, reported Asian News International. This could be an important kind of renewable energy because it is high in energy and it does not give out harmful gases when it is burned.

Study co-author Michael Bowker said, “This is really a green source of energy. Hydrogen is seen as an important future energy carrier as the world moves from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and our research has shown that even garden grass could be a good way of getting it.”

Cellulose (纤维素), which is a key part of plants and the biopolymer (生物聚合物) found in the largest numbers on the earth, could be a great source of hydrogen.

In its study, the team looked at the possibility of getting hydrogen from cellulose using sunlight and a simple catalyst.

This is called photocatalysis (光催化作用) and in it, the sunlight starts the catalyst, which then makes cellulose and water into hydrogen. The researchers studied the effectiveness of three metal-based catalysts, of which nickel (镍) especially interested the researchers, as it is a much more common metal than gold and palladium (钯) and it saves more money.

According to Bowker, producing hydrogen from cellulose using photocatalysis has not been studied in detail. The team’s research shows that large amounts of hydrogen can be produced using this method with the help of a bit of sunlight and a cheap catalyst.

The study shows that it is effective to use real grass taken from a garden. “This is important as it avoids the need to separate and clean up cellulose, which can be both difficult and costly,” said Bowker.

1.What are needed to get hydrogen from grass?

A.A catalyst and palladium. B.Water and cellulose.

C.Sunlight and a biopolymer. D.Sunlight and a catalyst.

2.Why is the new way of making hydrogen considered significant?

A.It is cheap, green and sustainable.

B.It is the best to produce the renewable energy.

C.It is more productive and efficient than other methods.

D.It can replace the way to make fossil fuels completely.

3.Why does nickel interest the researchers in making hydrogen from cellulose?

A.It can produce the largest amount of hydrogen.

B.It can avoid separating and cleaning up cellulose.

C.It is more common than other metals and costs less.

D.It works quicker than other metals during photocatalysis.

4.What does the author intend to tell us mainly in this passage?

A.Catalysts that could be taken from grass.

B.A new way of making hydrogen from cellulose.

C.The potential of hydrogen as a renewable energy.

D.The connection between hydrogen and photocatalysis.

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Making Our Team Work Best

Learning in school, we often work in small groups．But why? Is it necessary to work with others? What if you feel comfortable doing a job by yourself ? In reality, however, after leaving school, you will find out that almost all work in many fields is done in teams．

56．____

Actually, a team is a group of individual people brought together in order to complete a task which cannot be efficiently finished by any member of the group alone．The group may be temporary or it may stay together for a long period．

57．____

A type of team that we are familiar with are sports teams, which are made up of a certain numbers of players．They work together to win a match．In fact, different numbers have different skills in a team．A team can only work well when all their members cooperate．The atmosphere in a team affects the performance of the team, so the social relations within the team are important．

58．____

Teams require leaders, and people who create ideas, who develop ideas, and people whose role is to comment and help improve plans．People who identify problems and suggest solutions are needed in a team, too．Every team member works in their most efficient way to make the whole team work best．

59．____

Regulations and rules help teams work well．But be careful．Working in a team, we have to take into account how each individual member can work best．Some may work best on task alone; others work best in groups．How the group task is divided depends on the personalities and abilities of the individual in the group．

60．___

In a dynamic （充满活力的） team, people with quite different personalities work well together．Actually, their differences are the strength of the team．To make the best of working with our classmates, or to make our team work best, it is important to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each individual of the group．

To know someone's personality type and ability is to know a great deal about that individual person, or to understand that person．To understand means that we can build strong relationship between members of a team, and make the best use of each others' talents．

A．Knowing about Team Members

B．Functions of Rules and Regulations

C．Team Members and Their Roles

D．How a Team Works

E．A Sports Team

F．The Definition （定义） of a Team

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You must have a favorite line or pet phrase you repeat often in your conversations. Studies say that pet phrases can reflect our changing society and reveal information about a person’s personality. Here are some of the most popular pet phrases among young people.

脑残---nuts

I love the word and use it whenever I think a person is stupid, or a behavior is crazy. I learned the term from one of my classmates. Once, we saw two high school girls wearing miniskirts on a very cold winter day and my classmate called the two girls “nuts”. I don’t think the word reflects my personality. I use it because it sounds cool.

Diao Yujie, 22, computer science major at Nanjing University.

汗---stunning

I use this word very often. Once, my classmates and I were discussing how amusing QQ is. One guy suddenly burst out, “I have MSN too”. This comment had no relation with the topic we were discussing. I used this word and everybody laughed. I think it is a fantastic word that can change awkwardness to amusement.

Mu Li, 20, journalism major at Beijing Normal University.

晕死---I’m giddy!

I use this word a lot---more often than my classmates. It has became a symbol of me, as my friends sometimes refer to me as the guy who often says the word. I am a person who wants to be different and this word gives me that feeling.

Chen Zhou, 21, Nanjing University.

雷---stunning

I only use this word with my friends. My parents don’t understand it. The word, which is only used among people of my age, is intimate. I think it stands for being young and energetic. And I want to be young forever, so I like the word.

Chen Jianjun, 23, senior at Nanjing University.

1.If a man wearing suit and a tie is climbing a mountain, what can we say to him according to the passage?

A. nuts                    B. I’m giddy.           C. 汗---stunning   D. 雷---stunning

2.What’s the meaning of “pet phrase” in the first paragraph?

A. 习惯用语        B. 宠物语言        C. 口头禅        D. 座右铭

3. What’s young people’s attitude to pet phrase?

A. indifferent         B. crazy                  C. reasonable          D. against

4.Pet phrase can ________ according to studies.

A. reflect our changing society

B. reveal information about a person’s personality

C. make young people popular

D. both A and B

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When we talk about positive thinking, we often use terms having to do with our hearts — open heart, pure heart or joyful heart. But new research from Duke University is making a closer connection, finding that a positive attitude may be helpful to people who have angina (心绞痛)，a common heart condition.

Symptoms of this condition include chest pain or pressure because the heart is not receiving sufficient oxygen. Patients who displayed optimistic thought patterns, including having positive expectations about recovery, were 40 percent less likely to be hospitalized or require surgery than those who were not optimistic, according to the study. The researchers collected data from 2,400 patients who had diagnoses of angina.

An interesting additional finding from the patients' questionnaires was that the most optimistic patients were also the least likely to have histories of heart attack, heart failure or heart disease.

The researchers did not declare a causal relationship between positive thinking and better heart disease outcomes, however. There are multiple possible reasons for the results of the study, including the idea that patients who are healthier to begin with are more likely to expect to recover and regain good health.

But the study does represent a new way of looking at the situation. Now, in addition to a body of research that examines the relationship between depression and heart health, there is a new way of inquiry that asks whether positive thinking could be used as a strategy to improve outcomes.

Lead researcher Alexander Fanaroff, a fellow in the department of cardiology (心脏病学) at the Duke University Medical Center, told the Duke Chronicle that his next research question will find ways to improve attitudes among heart patients.

Perhaps his subjects could reflect on the word of the writer Anthony J. D'Angelo: "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."

1.How can people with angina get better according to the study?

A.By expecting more. B.By thinking positively.

C.By getting timely surgery. D.By taking more exercise.

2.What may be Alexander Fanaroff’s next research?

A.To explore how to improve patients’ attitudes.

B.To find out the ways to treat heart patients.

C.To learn the causes of heart diseases.

D.To test if positive attitudes help with health.

3.What can we learn from the text?

A.Optimistic people hardly get heart attack.

B.People's attitudes decide their overall health.

C.How positive thinking benefits heart health is unclear.

D.The reason why patients recover well is that they have no depression.

4.What may be the best title for the text?

A.Keep positive to get rid of illness

B.Angina, a kind of serious condition

C.Depression, a key cause of heart attack

D.Positive thinking makes hearts healthier

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When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.

People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems ­­blurry. Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near-sighted. People who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

Having two good eyes is important for judging distances. Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle. To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object’s relation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distances as people with two eyes.

1.We should take good care of our eyes　　 .

A.only when we can see well

B.only when we cannot see perfectly

C.even if we can see well

D.only when we realize how important our eyes are

2.The underlined word blurry in the second paragraph probably means　　 .

A.obvious B.possible C.clear D.unclear

3.Having two eyes instead of one is particularly useful for　　 .

A.seeing at night

B.seeing objects far away

C.looking over a wide area

D.judging distances

4.People who suffer from astigmatism have　　 .

A.one eye bigger than the other

B.eyes that are not exactly the right shape

C.a difficulty that can be corrected by an operation

D.an eye difficulty that cannot be corrected by glasses

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Our school has been set up in , believe it or not , ______ used to be a temple ten years ago.

A. which              B. where             C. that                       D. what

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When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often. It is only when we can not see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.

People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly.

People who are farsighted face just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts（白内障）. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

When night falls, colors become fainter（不清楚） to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the side of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they can not see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark.

1.We don’t know that our eyes are of great importance until ________.

A. we think about our eyes           B. we cannot see clearly

C. we wear glasses                 D. we have to do much reading

2.According to the passage, a ________ is more likely to be nearsighted.

A. student    B. runner    C. guard    D. worker

3. People who are farsighted ________ .

A. cannot do a lot of close work without glasses

B. can only see things that are very close to their eyes

C. have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm’s length

D. have the same problem as the nearsighted people

4. To see a small thing at night, it is better to look ________ .

A. with wide open eyes             B. with half shut or narrowed eyes

C. straight at it                    D. in a slightly different direction

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