The Haleakalā Movement, which has affected th...

The Haleakalā Movement, which has affected the Hawaiian people, involved many Hawaiian activists peacefully protesting(抗议) against the construction of the Daniel K. Solar Telescope atop Haleakalā. The top of Haleakalā is a very sacred piece of land to Hawaiians. The problem is the leveling out of Haleakalā to structurally support the base of the telescope. Hawaiians could not watch their sacred land atop their mountain destroyed.

The goal of the protesters was to stop the movement of the trucks hauling(拖拽)telescope parts to the top of Haleakalā. At each event, protesters would march on the crosswalk in front of the base yard entrance holding signs that read “Aloha „Āina” and “Kūʻē,” meaning Love the Land and Resist respectively. When the trucks started their engines, several protesters lay down in the driveway, with their arms linked together with PVC pipes. Twenty of them were arrested.

I, as a youth of this generation, am a part of those Hawaiians who stood against the construction of the telescope and the destruction of our sacred mountain. I experienced first-hand and through social media what happened at each protest. Each of the protests that I attended took place at the Maui Base yard, however, there were others that took place atop Haleakalā. Most of the protesters marching were of Maui roots, but there were other protesters that came from different islands to show their support for the natives‟ stand against the destruction of our sacred mountain.

Following all that I had experienced these days, I left with the understanding that the youth of our generation have a very important role. Our role is to learn from the mistakes of the present and guide the world down the right path allowing it to grow and prosper. We, as the seeds of the present, must grow to protect the history of the human race, but at the same time prevent ourselves from repeating the actions and decisions that may have once destroyed us in the past. We, the youth, are the key to the prosperity of the future.

1.What caused the Haleakalā Movement?

A. That the sacred top of the mountain would be leveled out.

B. That local Hawaiians stopped the trucks from going uphill.

C. That twenty local Hawaiians protesters were arrested by the police.

D. That the rainforests on Mt. Haleakalā were seriously destroyed.

2.From the passage, the writer learned .

A. all Hawaiian young people should participate in the movement

B. it is important to protect the environment in Hawaii rainforest

C. local Hawaiian culture is more important than the advanced technology

D. young people are an important factor for tomorrow‟s prosperity

3.The writer is probably .

A. a teenage student　　 B. a school teacher

C. a government official　　 D. a policeman

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Beijing has struggled with smog for years，which has__________ the sun and affected the health and quality of life of millions.

A．driven away　　　　 B．pushed out　　　 C．broken off　　　　　　 D．blocked off

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It's surprising how much simple movement of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights(领悟).

So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We're all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive(认知) performance or is it just a feeling?

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn thought to have close attention to detail.

What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who weren't. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test(one way of measuing attention). The reserchrs call the effect "enclothed cognition," suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many differnt ways.

This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef's hat make the restaurant food taste better?

From now on I will only be editing artcles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown(学位服).

1.What is the main idea of the text?

A. Body movements change the way people think.

B. How people dress has an influencee on their feelings.

C. What people wear can affect their cognitive performance.

D. People doing different jobs should wear different clothes.

2.Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers'______.

A. insights　　 B. movements

C. attention　　 D. appearance

3.How does the author sound in the last paragraph?

A. Academic.　　 B. Humorous.

C. Formal.　　 D. Hopeful.

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One of the hardest parts of planning a trip to Hawaii is deciding which of the major Hawaiian Islands you should visit. Each has its own personality and offers unique adventures and activities.

Oahu

Oahu has a bit of everything, packed in 597 square miles. You can hike into thick rainforests, and when you need a break, relax on powdery white sand beaches and stay at luxury resorts.

Oahu has become a great destination for families. The urban core （核 心）of Honolulu and Waikiki has historic sites, museums and bustling （熙熙攘攘的）and nightlife scenes. The island lives up to its nickname of the Gathering Place.

Maui

Maui is a great island for honeymooners. The Valley Isle has top-class resorts and golf courses, adjacent （毗邻）to some of the state's best beaches. A large dormant （休眠）volcano in east Maui at sunrise or sunset is a serene experience, as well as driving the Road to Hana, famed for its thundering waterfalls.

Kauai

Kauai is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. The island gets a lot of rain, but that's what makes it so lively, you'll come across flowers and plants you've never seen before. For some of the best views on the island, visit Waimea Canyon, known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, and the Na Pali coast, boasting some of the world's highest sea cliffs.

Big Island

The Big Island is the only Hawaiian island still growing. Witness the power of Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, wind, lightning and volcanoes with a visit to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It's one of the few spots in the world where you can see lava flow. In fact, the Big Island has 10 of the world's sub-climate zones, from the snow-covered mountain of Mauna Kea, green forests of Waipio Valley to stretches of barren desert.

1.Which is young couples' favorite?

A. Oahu. B. Maui.

C. Kauai. D. Big Island.

2.How is Oahu different from the other places?

A. It belongs to Hawaii. B. It offers the best beaches.

C. It has variety of plants. D. You can experience city life on it.

3.What do Maui and Big Island have in common?

A. They are both covered with snow. B. You can have a look at a volcano.

C. Weather is changeable. D. There is plenty of rain.

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The driver’s wrong gearing(挂档) was________ for the backward movement of the car, which accidentally knocked down the old woman.

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1.Which buttons directly control the movement of the Rocket Ball?

A. LAUNCH and FLIPPERS　　 B. STAR and FLIPPERS

C. START/PAUSE and FLIPPERS　　 D. LAUNCH and SELECT

2.The most action-packed variation would be__________.

A. Game One with a blue star　　 B. Game Two with a black star

C. Game One with a yellow star　　 D. Game Two with a red star

3.Rocket Ball could be best described as a game of__________.

A. space voyage　　 B. quick response

C. skills & strength　　 D. scientific knowledge

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Many people heard about the “Little Free Library”, which was a movement that let people swap a book for another or take it and bring it back. Now, people are joining in the “Little Free Pantry” idea, which shares a similar value of spreading kindness with mini pantries.

One family who live in Boise, Idaho, have a three-year-old son who wanted to build something for his third birthday, so they decided that they would build a community pantry box that they would share with their neighbors. They felt that they had everything they wanted, so they wanted to give a little something back to the community and help the people in need.

The idea is that the family fill this box up with non-perishable (不易腐的) items, which include tins, toiletries, and other goods. However, it’s meant to be a community give and take, so other people would also contribute to adding to this mini-pantry.

It seems that the idea has taken off in other communities who also want to give a little something back and help those in need. It’s the kind of movement that helps the struggling members of the community, allowing them to live knowing that they can have a can of soup for dinner if they have nothing else. Or that sanitary products are available.

The Millers keep their little pantry going, realizing that it’s emptiest toward the end of the month, so they know that it’s really helping people. They don’t believe that anyone has taken advantage of it and that it’s only helped people.

Various other communities have taken on the mini pantries project in order to spread a little kindness within their community.

1.Why is “Little Free Library” mentioned in the first paragraph?

A.To show the striking difference between it and “Little Free Pantry”.

B.To help readers have a better understanding of “Little Free Pantry”.

C.To encourage people to take “Little Free Library” as an example.

D.To prove that most people are just so kind as to help those in need.

2.Why did the family build the “Little Free Pantry”?

A.To let others know about their son’s birthday.

B.To show that they lived in great abundance,

C.To egress gratitude and offer help to others.

D.To test if people in the community are honest.

3.Whom is Free Pantry most helpful to?

A.Those who can’t go shopping often. B.Those who want to show kindness.

C.Those who want to celebrate birthdays. D.Those who live in great poverty.

4.How is the “Little Free Library” idea going?

A.The community pantry box is always empty.

B.People take advantage of others’ kindness.

C.More items are badly needed to refill the box.

D.It is gaining more and more popularity.

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The American local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small food producers and growers can sell their products.

Foodzie was started by Mr LaFave and two of his friends, who met during college at Virginia Tech, where they would pay frequent visits to farmers markets. Last year, while living in North Carolina, one of them, Emily Olson, now 24, came up with one idea. She was working as a brand manager for a gourmet grocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didn’t work in the business had no way to discover handmade foods outside their local farmers markets. Small farmers had no way of finding or selling to faraway customers, either.

Mr LaFAve and the third co-founder, Nik Bauman, both 25, worked in corporate sales and software development. “With business, food and computer science backgrounds, we figured we had everything we needed.” Mr LaFAve said.

The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public in December and the site has had 43,000 visitors in the past month. So far, 29 sellers have opened shops and 41 are in the process of opening them. The founders recently hired a fourth employee to help Ms Olson recruit(吸收) new food producers at farmers markets and food shows. Mr LaFAve is convinced that the recession(经济衰退) will not reduce people’s interest in buying locally grown and handmade food. “There is misunderstanding that all these foods are more expensive than mass-produced alternatives,” he said. “People are pouring their heart and soul into these products, and they are of the highest quality.”

1.The passage is mainly about_______.

A. how an online farmers’ market works

B. the American local food movement

C. three youths starting an online farmers’ market

D. the reasons why people are interested in local food

2.Why did the founders start the online farmers’ market?

A. Because it met the need of the market.

B. Because the founders were interested in seasonal food.

C. Because some people wanted to buy locally grown food.

D. Because farmers wanted to sell their foods.

3.The underlined word in Paragraph 2 can be used to describe _______.

A. food of high quality     B. terrible food     C. food of low fat     D. fried food

4.About the three founders, we know that ______.

A. they are of the same age

B. they gave up their work to start the website

C. they used to be colleague

D. they majored in farming at college

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In the survey they listed twelve kinds of food _______would affect the work of the brain．

A．which the experts believed                 B．that were believed

C．the experts believed that                          D．the experts believed

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Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you re using affect the moral decisions you make when using it? To test it, researchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random.

One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley(有轨电车) problem”: A runaway trolley is headed towards five people tied up on a-set of train tracks. You can do nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which 33. 5 percent of smartphone users chose, compared to 22.3 percent of PC users.

“What we round in our study is that when people used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma, “Dr Albert Barque-Duran, the lead author of the study, told City, University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often　 present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices compared to PCs.”

As for why the researchers started this study, Dr Barque-Duran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even shopping take place online, it is important to think about how the contexts where we typically face moral decisions and are asked to engage in moral behavior have changed, and the impact this could have on the hundreds of millions of people who use such devices daily. “it’s clear that we need more research on how our devices affect our moral decision making because we’re using screens at an ever increasing rate.

1.Why did the author mention the trolley problem?

A.To introduce a difficult problem to readers.

B.To introduce the aim of carrying out the study.

C.To show an example of the questions in the study

D.To show the difficulty in dealing with dilemmas.

2.How do the smartphone users of the study behave in dealing with emotional dilemmas?

A.Calmly. B.Cruelly.

C.Hesitantly. D.Enthusiastically.

3.Dr Albert believes that compared with PCs, smartphones 　　　　 .

A.help people bear more pressure

B.help people make decisions quick

C.make people feel more mentally distant

D.make people stay happier to solve problems

4.What can we infer from the text?

A.Shopping online has a great effect on making moral decisions.

B.The people using smartphones are more than those using PCs.

C.People who often use smartphones or PCs always meet with dilemmas,

D.It is common for people to be involved in making moral decisions in daily life.

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