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COOKING WITH ESSENCE ON MAIN
1.What can people learn from Essence on Main?
A. Art B. Music
C. English D. Cooking
2.The most lessons are in ________.
A. March B. April C. May D. June
3. We can learn to make summer desserts on _______.
A. April 22 B. May 18
C. May 25 D. June 14
4. What day is May 7?
A. Monday B. Wednesday
C. Thursday D. Friday.
5.Mrs Black comes back from work at 5 every day, the time of Spring Class is suitable for her, isn’t it ?
A. Yes, it isn’t. B. No, it isn’t.
C. Yes, it is . D.No, it is.
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What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible?
Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas.
Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect
Find your answers from facts — not start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed what he was taught: that water on Earth came from icy comets(彗星) or planets which hit into Earth.
However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acts like a sponge(海绵). This suggests that Earth's water may have come from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activity.
“I had a pretty hard time making others believe it,” he said. “But thinking about the fact that you may the first person to see something for the first time doesn’t happen very often. When it does, it’s amazing.”
Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way
Years of planning went into a recent achievement in space travel. The European Space Agency’s “Philae”, a robot landing craft, met up with Comet 67P, which is 480 million kilometers away. The trip from Earth by “Philae” had taken ten years!
The scientists had no idea what the surface of the comet would be like. If the landing failed, it would be impossible to get information from the spacecraft. Twenty years of work would have been wasted.
When “Philae” tried to land, it bounced(弹起) away from the comet’s icy surface twice. Luckily, however, “Philae” landed successfully and began sending information back to Earth.
1.Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t finish college because_________.
A. they preferred to learn by themselves
B. they needed standard ways of teaching
C. their teachers didn’t like their new ideas
D. their teachers weren’t able to teach them
2.In Lesson 2, the writer mainly wants to tell us that _________.
A. we should get answers from facts
B. we can believe what we are taught
C. it’s hard to make others believe something
D. an expectation can help get an answer in research
3.The example “Philae” in Lesson 3 shows that _________.
A. Comet 67P is not far away from Earth
B. it took “Philae” 20 years to reach Comet 67P
C. “Philae” landed on Comet 67P with a little luck
D. scientists know nothing about the surface of Comet 67P
4.The best title for this passage is ______.
A. Ways of discovering B. Lessons for success
C. Ways of being special D. Lessons for experiments
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— What can you learn _______ these films?
—The history of England.
A. to B. with C. from D. by
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---Have you got any on what to do with the old clothes?
---Maybe we can send them to the poor people.
A.introduction B.suggestions C.instructions D.signs
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Many people have great difficulty in saying goodbye. But from goodbye moments, we can always learn something.
Once, I overheard (无意中听到) a father and daughter in their goodbye moment. The father said, “I love you, I wish you enough.” The daughter answered, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your lover is all that I need. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.”
They kissed and she left …
The father walked over towards me. I could see he wanted and needed a cry. He came over to me and asked, “Did you ever say a forever goodbye to someone?” Before I could answer, he went on, “ I am old and she lives much too far away. I know her next trip back would be for my funeral (葬礼).”
“When you were saying goodbye I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough.’ May I ask what that means?”
He began to smile , “It’s a wish that has come down from my great-great-grandparents. And my parents used to say it to me.”
He stopped for a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it. He smiled even more.
“When we said‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting the other person to have a life full of enough good things.”
Then, turning towards me, he shared (分享) the following “wish” from his heart.
I wish you enough sun to keep you bright .
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep you alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish enough hellos to get you through the final goodbye.
My friends, I wish you enough.
1.Many people would find it difficult ___________.
A. to say goodbye B. to overhear others
C. to share their wishes D. to live too far away
2. How did the father get the “wish”?
A. The writer wrote it for him.
B. His parents passed it down to him.
C. The teacher taught him at school.
D. His daughter told him about it.
3.From the passage, we may learn _______.
A. the daughter didn’t understand his father
B. the old man didn’t want to see his daughter
C. the writer knew the old man very well
D. the father and daughter loved each other so much
4.The best title of the passage may be “________.”
A. Father and Daughter B. A Difficult Moment
C. Wish You Enough D. A Trip Back Home
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Information Sheet
1.Learning to speak a new language allows you to communicate with people from a ________________.
2.Knowing some knowledge about the society can help you communicate with people ________________.
3.It will be more fun to ________________ when you study a new language.
4.Culture can tell you ________________ the language.
5.Culture can help you understand why the language is ________________ it is.
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Lei Feng Day is on March 5. More than fifty years ago, Chairman Mao called on people to “learn from Lei Feng”. Is the spirit of Lei Feng out of the date(过时) now? Some people show us that it 1. (not be) outdated yet? Here is a true story about the spirit.
After the 2014 college entrance examination, Xing Sirui ,a 17-year-old girl from Dongying, waited for the result. On June 24, while she 2. (walk) along the Qingfeng lake, she suddenly heard someone 3. (cry) for help. She stopped hurriedly and looked around for the voice. After seeing a young woman in the lake，she jumped into the water bravely, 4. (keep) her head above the water and tried to pull her back to the bank. It took her about 45 minutes 5. (finish) the job. At last, the woman 6. (save), but Xing Sirui left quietly without 7. (say) anything. She was praised highly for her behavior and was choosen as the Dongying Finest Girl.
In recent years, it is wrongly considered to be old fashion to learn from Lei Feng. Xing Surui risked his life to save a stranger whom she didn’t know at all. She sets an example for us Chinese. In fact, some people around us 8. (do) the same things for the society like her.
In my opinion, even in modern times, we 9. (help) each other to build a harmonious (和谐的)society and then our country 10. (become) better and better.
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Large gatherings such as weddings and meetings can be socially flooded with people. Learning people's names only adds to the stress. A new facial-recognition app could come to the rescue, but experts suggest people should be careful while using it.
The app, called SocialRecall, connects names with faces through smartphone cameras and facial recognition (识别), avoiding the need for formal introductions. "It breaks down these social barriers we all have when meeting somebody," says Barry Sandrew, who created the app and tested it at an event attended by about 1,000 people.
After receiving an invitation to download SocialRecall from an event organizer, the user is asked to take two selfies and sign in through social media. At the event, the app is active within a previously set geographical area. When a user points his or her phone camera at an attendee's face, the app identifies (识别) the person, displays the person's name, and links to his or her social media information. To protect Privacy (隐私), it recognizes only those who have agreed to use. And the app's creators say it automatically removes users' data after an event.
Ann Cavoukian, an expert who runs the Privacy by Design Center of Excellence praises the app's creators for these protective measures. She added, however, that when people choose to share their personal information with the app, they should know that "there may be unexpected results down the road with that information being used in another situation that might come back to bite you."
The start-up project has developed the app for people who suffer from prosopagnosia, or "face blindness," a condition that prevents people from recognizing people they have met. To use this app, a person first receives an image of someone's face, from either the smartphone's camera or a photograph, and then tags it with a name. When the camera spots or recognizes that same face in real life, the previously entered information is displayed. The collected data are stored only on a user's phone, according to the team behind the app.
1.Social Recall is used to .
A.take photos B.identify people
C.organize events D.make friends
2.Paragraph 3 is mainly about .
A.how the app works
B.how the app was created
C.what makes the app popular
D.what people can do with the app
3.SocialRecall helps people with prosopagnosia by .
A.giving names to the photos kept in their smartphones
B.collecting information previously entered in the phone
C.providing the information of a person when they first meet
D.showing the person's information when it spots a stored face
4.What can we learn about SocialRecall from the passage?
A.It may put people's personal information at risk.
B.It has caused many unexpected results.
C.It can stop people recognizing people they have met.
D.It is praised by users for its protective measures.
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The best way to learn about a new culture is to make friends with people from different parts of the world. Last month I got to know a friend from Russia _______ Jesco. He is a _______ engineer who was sent by his company to work in China for two years.
Jesco has two tasks in our factory: one is to teach our workers _______ to use the machine;_______ is to make sure that their machine should run well every day. So he checked every important part of the machine with me every day. We soon became very good friends and we learn _______ from each other.
Our factory has provided Jesco with a small but nice house near my home. Jesco is very _______ with the house. When he is free, he likes to invite us to his house. We teach him to cook Chinese dishes. Then we have a good time together _______ a nice meal and a nice talk, too.
Once while we were talking, he _______ became silent. He looked unhappy. We asked him the reason, and he told us that he wanted to live in China all his life, but didn't know how. I suggested that he could _______ a Chinese girl as his wife. He thought it a good idea, and he soon found one.________, I have had no chance to be his guest at home. But I feel happy for him.
1.A.name B.named C.names D.calls
2.A.25-year-old B.25-years-old C.25 year old D.25 years-old
3.A.what B.when C.how D.why
4.A.others B.other C.another D.the other
5.A.a little B.a few C.a lot of D.a lot
6.A.satisfied B.surprised C.excited D.interested
7.A.enjoy B.enjoying C.enjoys D.to enjoy
8.A.carefully B.simply C.suddenly D.recently
9.A.look through B.look after C.look out D.look for
10.A.From then on B.After all C.In my opinion D.Once in a while
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— What can we learn from Lei Feng?
— We should not only think about , we should think about others as well.
A. yourself B. ourselves C. themselves D. yourselves