The Olympics are like a huge stage ________ e...

The Olympics are like a huge stage ________ everyone makes every effort to achieve their dreams.

A．that      B．when

C．which      D．where

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For five days, Edmonton's Downtown Park is transformed into one huge stage where artists are able to share their talents, and where people are able to celebrate and enjoy themselves .Since is beginning in 1980,the Edmonton Folk Music Festival has been commemorating(纪念）the true feeling of what folk music is all about and that's the traditional togetherness(友爱）that is felt when people gather to share stories and feelings through song.

This year will be the sixth year when volunteer Riedel will be offering up her time to the festival. "People coming off a busy spring and summer have a moment of relaxation." Riedel said. "It's really easy to relax, and it's great seeing family and friends have fun together." These families and friends come from all different kinds of musical tastes. People who take pleasure in Blues are there, so are people who love Bluegrass. This festival does its best to develop everyone's musical interests.

With so many years of experience, the festival has become a well-oiled machine, and does whatever it can to make attendees feel as comfortable as possible. There are free water stations throughout the venue(举办地)for people to fill up their travel cups. When people buy food, reusable dishes are given a $2 plate fee, but that is returned when the plate is brought back.

The festival has completely sold out of tickets, and in record time .But with big names such as Van Morrison and Jacob Dylan, it’s easy to see how that was going to happen. The festival has completely sold out of tickets, and in record time, so using the same Park and Ride system or Edmonton Transit is highly recommended .A bike lock-up area is provided and will be available Thursday until Sunday one hour before the gates open until 45 minutes after the gates close.

The Edmond Folk Music Festival begins on Wednesday, Aug 4 with Van Morrison plaything the special donation fund concert, and will finish up on Sunday,Aug 8.

1. The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is held mainly to ___________

A. gather people with different musical tastes.

B. remind people of the real sense of folk music.

C. exhibit the good voices of great talent in folk music.

D. collect old stories of folk music.

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passenger?

A. Riedel has volunteered for the festival for at least developed 5 years.

B. It’s hard for people to appreciate Blues.

C. It costs people a little to fill up their cups from water station.

D. People have to pay a visit to for a plate of food.

3.

We can learn from passage that

A. people can get tickets easily for the festival.

B. the Edmonton Folk Music Festival is well organized .

C. driving one ‘s own car to the festival is highly recommended.

D. bikes are available at the festival from Wednesday to Sunday.

4.

What would be the best title for this passage?

A. Folk Music of Blues.

B. One Festival for All.

C. Festival for Family Gathering.

D. Edmonton’s Downtown Park

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Most people are familiar with big international sports events like the Olympics and the World Cup. But have you ever heard of the Commonwealth Games?

The Commonwealth of Nations is an international organization made up of 53 member states, including Canada, India and Australia.1. Today, they still hold the Commonwealth Games in the hope of keeping their friendship alive.

The Commonwealth Games take place every four years. Like other international sports events, popular sports such as volleyball and hockey are played there. 2. Lawn bowls, a popular game in Commonwealth countries, is similar to culling(冰壶). However, it’s played on a grass field instead of on ice. Netball is another game that is seldom seen outside of Commonwealth nations. 3. It is mainly a women's sport.

Australia held the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Queensland between April 4 and 15, 2018.4.It built new stadiums, a light railway and new Wi Fi networks.

5.It has hosted the games five times. It is also one of just six countries that have attended each of the games since they were first held in 1930.

A. Queensland did a lot to prepare for the games.

B. Nineteen cities in nine countries have hosted the event.

C. Most of these member states used to be British territories(领地).

D. Australia has always been enthusiastic about Commonwealth Games.

E. It's similar to basketball, but each team has seven players instead of five.

F. But there are also other sports that are a bit less known in other countries.

G. Over 5 , 000 athletes compete at the Commonwealth Games in more than 250 events.

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　　　　　 for years of hard training, she would not be standing on the stage, receiving huge cheers and applause.

A. It were not B. It had not been

C. Were it not D. Had it not been.

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Smile! It makes everyone in the room feel better because they, consciously or unconsciously, are smiling with you. Growing evidence shows that an instinct for facial mimicry(模仿) allows us to empathize with and even experience other people’s feelings. If we can’t mirror another person’s face, it limits our ability to read and properly react to their expressions. A review of this emotional mirroring appears on February 11 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In their paper, Paula Niedenthal and Adrienne Wood, social psychologists at the University of Wisconsin, describe how people in social situations copy others’ facial expressions to create emotional responses in themselves. For example, if you’re with a friend who looks sad, you might “try on” that sad face yourself without realizing you’re doing so. In “trying on” your friend’s expression, it helps you to recognize what they’re feeling by associating it with times in the past when you made that expression. Humans get this emotional meaning from facial expressions in a matter of only a few hundred milliseconds.

“You reflect on your emotional feelings and then you generate some sort of recognition judgment, and the most important thing that results in is that you take the appropriate action—you approach the person or you avoid the person,” Niedenthal says. “Your own emotional reaction to the face changes your perception of how you see the face in such a way that provides you with more information about what it means.”

A person’s ability to recognize and “share” others’ emotions can be prevented when they can’t mimic faces. This is a common complaint for people with motor diseases, like facial paralysis(瘫痪) from a stroke, or even due to nerve damage from plastic surgery. Niedenthal notes that the same would not be true for people who suffer from paralysis from birth, because if you’ve never had the ability to mimic facial expressions, you will have developed compensatory ways of interpreting emotions.

People with social disorders associated with mimicry or emotion-recognition damage, like autism(自闭症), can experience similar challenges. “There are some symptoms in autism where lack of facial mimicry may in part be due to limitation of eye contact,” Niedenthal says.

Niedenthal next wants to explore what part in the brain is functioning to help with facial expression recognition. A better understanding of that part, she says, will give us a better idea of how to treat related disorders.

1.According to the passage, facial mimicry helps ________.

A.experience one’s own feelings clearly B.change others’ emotions quickly

C.respond to others’ expressions properly D.develop friendship with others easily

2.We can know from Paragraph 4 and 5 that ________.

A.people with motor diseases may also suffer from autism

B.people born with facial paralysis may still recognize emotions

C.people with social disorders can’t have eye contact with others

D.people receiving plastic surgery have difficulty in mimicking faces

3.According to Niedenthal, the next step of the study will focus on ________.

A.how we can treat brain disorders

B.what can be done to regain facial mimicry

C.how our brain helps us with emotional mirroring

D.what part of our brain helps recognize facial expression

4.The passage is written to ________.

A.discuss how people react positively to others’ smiles

B.draw people’s attention to those with social disorders

C.introduce a new trend in facial expression recognition

D.explain how emotional mirroring affects people’s empathy

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It is not a secret that these are turbulent times that put everyone on edge all the time and it makes people angry with their families, co-workers, friends and relatives, frustrated (沮丧的)and highly annoyed just for the noise of the neighbors or the music coming from the opposite house. Anger and negative energy have a strong influence on everyone’s life, even when they don’t realize it.

Being in a calm state of mind is simply wonderful. Results of this can be seen when parents no longer shout at their children over any small thing and when one can keep him cool when bad things happen and doesn’t let the situation become worse by his negative influence.

Also results can be seen on a larger scale. In 1993 a very interesting scientific experiment called The US Transcendental Meditation experiment was conducted in Washington. A company called TM got 4,000 calm and relaxed people to simply sit and meditate (冥想) in a central Washington convention center. The results of this experiment showed that during those particular 8 weeks, violent crimes, such as murder, rape, assaults, clearly decreased by as much as 23%.

This is evident proof that meditation can change the state of mind, bring back peace of mind and collective meditation is contagious (蔓延的), just as anything done collectively is contagious. For example, a person has the urge to become aggressive (while in normal circumstances that person is very calm and normal), just because he is sitting at a stadium watching a football game and everyone around is shouting and is aggressive.

Isn’t increasing the quality of life worth spending 20 minutes of time on meditation? Yes, very few people follow through with a meditation method that should be a joy to do. Many start and leave it after only a few sessions.

So if collective meditation has proven that meditation works, that it calms people down and that it brings their levels of stress down, why not employ it in everyday life?

1.The underlined word “turbulent” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “________”.

A．changeless        B．disorderly         C．perfect           D．expected

2.According to Paragraph 3, the scientific experiment ________.

A．was to test whether meditation is useful

B．was conducted throughout America

C．asked the participants to do a lot of sports

D．had no particular requirements on the participants

3.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Violent crimes are closely related to aggressive characters.

B．People are sometimes easily annoyed by small things.

C．Many people fail to carry out a meditation method.

D．Meditation can cure people of many illnesses.

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— Are the two dresses of the same size and price?

— Yes. You may take 　　　　　　 , if you like.

A. everyone B. all　 C. each　　 D. either

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— Are the two dresses of the same size and price?

— Yes. You may take 　　　　　　 , if you like.

A. everyone B. all　 C. each　　 D. either

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（2014年(春)重庆市高三考前冲刺测试卷）10. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, __ makes you unique.

A. which　　　　　　　　　　　 B. that　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. as　　　　　　　　　　　 D. when

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We all make excuses.

But the successful ones are those who can kill the excuses like the miserable maggots they are.

I’m too tired. I don’t have the time. I don’t feel motivated. I’d rather do nothing. I don’t have the money, equipment, space. I can’t because …

We’ve all made the excuses. Here’s how to kill them.

See the positive. Excuses are usually made because we don’t feel like doing something — we’re accentuating the negative. Instead, see the fun in something, the joy in it. And maintain a positive attitude, or you’ll never beat the excuses.

Take responsibility. Excuses are ways to get out of owning up to something. If we don’t have the time, money, equipment, etc., then it’s not our fault, right? Wrong. Take responsibility, and own the solution.

Find a solution. Just about every problem has a solution. Don’t have time? Start with just 5-10 minutes. Make the time. Wake earlier. Do it during lunch. Don’t have the energy? Do it when you have higher levels of energy. You’re smart. Figure out the solution.

See your goal. This is your motivation — your reason for doing it. Sure, you could just lay on the couch, but if you think about why you really want to pursue a goal, you’ll be motivated. Visualize that goal and just get started.

Be accountable. Have a workout partner, a project partner, a team, someone to report to. If you have to meet a coach or partner, you’re more likely to do something.

Watch this. Then go an do it.

1.How many tips mentioned in the text to prevent excuses?

A. Four   B. Three   C.Six  D. Five

2.The second paragraph is developed mainly by _______

A. providing common examples.

B. following the order of time.

C. making comparisons of excuses.

D. analyzing common excuses

3.The definition of the underlined word” visualize” would most probably be ______

A. to view the outline of something by means of an X-ray.

B. to weaken or spoil the quality or efficiency of something.

C. to form a mental image of something incapable of being viewed.

D. to express the formal image of something capable of being seen.

4.Why do you need a partner according to the passage?

A. because you are likely to make a report to someone.

B. because it’ll be more possible for you to do something wih a partner.

C. because you need a coach to help you do something.

D. because you like to do something with a partner or a coach.

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