What’s in name? Well, apparently, our general...

What’s in name? Well, apparently, our general happiness. Psychologists say that what we are called has a direct connection with our happiness.

Those called Judy and Joshua are the happiest, while Lynn or Ben is likely to be the unhappiest, according to research. Psychologist Dr David Holmes found that this can cause the association(联想) that others make with the name. Hearing the name Judy may make them think of actress Judi Dench or TV presenter Judy Finnigan, and people who are considered good-natured and happy. On the other hand, people think Paulines are unhappy because of the character Pauline Fowler from the TV programme East Enders. The research claims that this association influences the person with the name and so their personality is shaped to fit in. Dr David Holmes said, “This also has some relation with the original meaning of the name, for example, the original meaning of Judy is ‘praised’.”

Certain names also work well in certain aspects of life. In the workplace Richard and Judy are the happiest, while those called Ruth and Carly are the happiest in relationships. At the other end of the scale the unhappiest workers are Stuart and Liz, with the unhappiest in relationships being Frank and Harriet.

Dr Holmes said, “The relation we have with certain names, particularly important namesakes (同名者), also shapes how we see ourselves and so may have an effect on our confidence. Names are like product brands in having a powerful effect on attitudes and should therefore be chosen with care.”

“Other names are connected with being brave, outgoing or serious. Therefore, many celebrities change their names to ones which reflect these characteristic. This, in turn, influences parents when they choose names for their babies,” said Dr Holmes, “while names connected with ordinary people are rarely chosen for their babies.”

1.What’s the main idea of this passage?

A. How to choose a good name for babies.

B. The relation between names and happiness.

C. How to have a name connected with celebrities.

D. The relation between names and success.

2.According to the passage, which of the following names are better?

A. Joshua and Ben.                                         B. Pauline and Frank.

C. Richard and Stuart.                                              D. Ruth and Joshua.

3.The author may continue the passage with _________.

A. names and product brands

B. famous people’s names

C. names and personality

D. parents’ choices of baby names

4.Which of the following is connected with names according to the passage?

A. Personality and self-confidence.            B. Self-confidence and position.

C. Position and characteristic.               D. Personality and appearance.

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The plant, ______ to Indonesia, grows well in hot, humid climates.

A.apparent B.native C.primitive D.diverse

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What do photography and foster（收养的）care have in common? Apparently a lot. Jennifer Loomis, an experienced local photographer, and her husband were a childless couple, so they were considering ______ a kid. As part of their ______ , they went online and visited sites containing________of children up for adoption.________, the photos didn't really express the children. To Loomis' artful eye, they ______ to let people know who the children truly were. Loomis then contacted Northwest Adoption Exchange and________a free photo shoot（专业摄影） to help_______children show better pictures of them to adoptive parents. The_______readily agreed.

One child who ______ the photo shoot was Deon, a lonely child who had bounced around the foster system. With Loomis' great ______ , a new and more handsome Deon was photographed. And this had a(n) ____ effect! Soon prospective parents Joanna Church and Sean Vaillancourt saw Deon's new photo on the website and were attracted by the boy with bright, happy eyes (They had previously seen his old photo, but got no ______ impression of him). Contact was made, he was________their home.

Now Church and Vaillancourt have become Deon's parents. The ______ was a godsend（天赐之物）to Deon. He had been in mid out of various foster homes since the age of 5, and was losing ______. At age 18, children no longer qualify for foster care and must begin to ______ themselves. This is a bitter reality for a child at age 16, ______ one who has never really found ______ from a home.

Deon is now paired with a loving family simply _____ Jennifer Loomis took a better photo of him. She has completely changed Deon's ______ and that of his adoptive parents.

"When you give someone a chance," Deon said, "you are basically saving a life.”

1.A. photographing　　 B. interviewing　　 C. adopting　　 D. sponsoring

2.A. study　　 B. treatment　　 C. search　　 D. design

3.A. images　　 B. plans　　 C. stories　　 D. ideas

4.A. However　　 B. Therefore　　 C. Besides　　 D. Otherwise

5.A. managed　　 B. failed　　 C. decided　　 D. tried

6.A. required　　 B. accepted　　 C. offered　　 D. allowed

7.A. curious　　 B. lonely　　 C. Happy　　 D. willing

8.A. team　　 B. couple　　 C. government　　 D. organization

9.A. attended　　 B. helped　　 C. refused　　 D. learned

10.A. concerns　　 B. skills　　 C. abilities　　 D. courage

11.A. permanent　　 B. immediate　　 C. positive　　 D. adverse

12.A. unique　　 B. first　　 C. clear　　 D. new

13.A. taken for　　 B. called at　　 C. brought into　　 D. carried away

14.A. match　　 B. performance　　 C. practice　　 D. struggle

15.A. hope　　 B. opportunity　　 C. energy　　 D. interest

16.A. teach　　 B. support　　 C. control　　 D. trust

17.A. usually　　 B. particularly　　 C. specially　　 D. definitely

18.A. freedom　　 B. happiness　　 C. answers　　 D. chances

19.A. though　　 B. unless　　 C. but　　 D. because

20.A. attitude　　 B. manner　　 C. behavior　　 D. life

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Are people less or more happy when they get older? A study in 2018 found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age 50. In fact, it found that by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18.

Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of 22 and 25. 1.

Happiness was the highest among the youngest adults and those in their early 70's. But the people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their 70’s and 80’s. The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. 2.The researchers also considered possible influences like, having young children being unemployed or being single. Bu, they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.

3. One theory is that, as people get older, they become more than thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

4.In another study, people in their 80’s reported the fewest problems with the quality of their sleep. The original goal was to confirm the popular belief that aging is connected with increased sleep problems. 5.But except for that, people reported that they felt their sleep quality improved as they got older.

A.So why will happiness increase with age?

B.Researchers surveyed more than 150, 000 American adults.

C.At that time, the people were between the ages of 18 and 85.

D.Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their 50's.

E.Happiness is not the only thing that apparently improves with age.

F.The survey did find an increase during middle age, especially in women.

G. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

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What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher？I think the following would be generally accepted.

Firstly，the teacher's personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plain­looking，or even ugly，because many such people have great personal charm. 1..

Secondly，it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a capacity for sympathy，a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of children. 2.—not of what is wrong，but of the weaknesses and immaturity of children，which cause them to make mistakes.

Thirdly，I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations，and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. 3.. That is part of the technique of teaching，which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act—to enliven(使生动)a lesson，correct a fault，or award praise.

A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. 4.，for we are none of us born like that.

Finally，I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. 5.；there is always something more to learn about. There are three principal objects of study：the subjects which the teacher is teaching；the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching；most importantly，the children，young people，or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught.

A．This，I may say，is largely a matter of self­discipline and self­training

B．Closely related to this is the capacity to be tolerant

C. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect

D．Children，especially young children，live in a world that is rather larger than life

E．There is no contradiction (自相矛盾)in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor

F．But it does rule out such types as the over­excitable，sad，cold，and frustrated

G．There are two fundamental principles of British education today

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What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher? I think the following would be generally accepted.

Firstly, the teacher’s personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plain­looking, or even ugly, because many such people have great personal charm. 1..

Secondly, it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a capacity for sympathy, a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of children. 2.—not of what is wrong, but of the weaknesses and immaturity of children, which cause them to make mistakes.

Thirdly, I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations, and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. 3.. That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act—to enliven(使生动) a lesson, correct a fault, or award praise.

A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. 4., for we are none of us born like that.

Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. 5.；there is always something more to learn about. There are three principal objects of study: the subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching; most importantly, the children, young people, or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught.

A. This, I may say, is largely a matter of self­discipline and self­training

B. Closely related to this is the capacity to be tolerant

C. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect

D. Children, especially young children, live in a world that is rather larger than life

E. There is no contradiction (自相矛盾) in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor

F. But it does rule out such types as the over­excitable, sad, cold, and frustrated

G. There are two fundamental principles of British education today

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----What’s the common ______ of dealing with youth crime in your area?

----Generally, education comes first.

A. process       B. practice         C. procedure       D. performance

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What are the speakers talking about in general?

A. Their best memories of a relaxing holiday.

B. Their travelling plans for the summer holiday.

C. Their favorite ways of travelling around the world.

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The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.

A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. If wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them---and to create them faster than any man’s money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.

I doubt the holy man’s idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing --- in changing the world and mankind into pure states.

To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.

It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.

The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are  playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.

The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.

1.Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author?

A. The Indian holy man                B. The great Irish poet Yeats

C. Advertisers                      D. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market

2.What does “happiness-market” mean in the second paragraph?

A. It means a place in which people can buy things happily

B. It means a market which lacks happy customers

C. It means a pure state for the world and mankind

D. It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.

3.According to the passage, which of the following is Right?

A. The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner.

B. The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.

C. There is no fun without playing by the rules

D. Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same.

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General Eisenhower once told his soldiers that what ________ not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog.

A.is counted B.counts is C.is counted is D.to count is

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