Artists might have sunk into a state where th...

Artists might have sunk into a state where they forgot themselves, didn’t need to think and lost track of time, and inspirations would “just flow out”. Such a state of total involvement and effortless concentration is called “flow”. 1.. It is accompanied by physical changes such as deepened breathing and slow heart beats.

The benefits of being in the flow state stretch beyond the experience itself. Flow is associated with subjective happiness, satisfaction with life and inner peace. At work, it’s linked to productivity, motivation and responsibility. 2.. In fact, we all can experience flow whenever we are fully devoted to our work or hobbies or relationships, in mountains and cities alike. If you don’t experience flow every day, here are ways to trigger (触发) it.

Create best conditions

Avoid noisy environments and opportunities for interruptions. 3., so you’ll need to experiment to find what works best for you.

4.

You need to engage in activities that are meaningful, that you find challenging and for which you have the skills required to come out as winners. The level of difficulty should also be just right — not so easy that you find yourself bored, but not so hard that you get stressed.

Stay highly aware of yourself

Practice staying highly aware of your breath, your presence, your thoughts and your actions, and you will live fully each second of the present and be completely yourself. Gradually the world around melts away and what you are doing becomes worth doing for its own sake. 5..

A.Decide on a proper activity

B.Flow is more than a state of mind

C.Fortunately, flow is not unique to artists

D.Flow is a happy accident when it happens

E.Then you will be already in the flow state before you know it

F.The most desirable environment varies from person to person

G.Take whatever calm you can get, be yourself and the observer of yourself

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Edmonton's Downtown Park is transformed into one huge stage for five days where artists are able to share their talents, and where people are able to celebrate and enjoy themselves. Since its 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 Jakob Dylan, it’s easy to see how that was going to happen. There is no parking area during the festival, so using the Park & 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 Edmonton Folk Music Festival begins on Wednesday, Aug.4 with Van Morrison playing 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. collect old stories of folk music

C. exhibitive good voices of great talents in folk music

D. remind people of the real sense of folk music

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

A. It costs people a little to fill up their cups from water stations.

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

C. Riedel has volunteered for the festival for at least 5years.

D. People have to pay $2 for a plate of food.

3.We can learn from the passenger that 　　　　 .

A. the Edmonton Folk Music Festival is well organized

B. people can get tickets easily for the festival

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 the best title for the passage?

A. Folk Music of Blues

B. Edmonton’s Downtown Park

C. Festival for Family Gathering

D. One Festival for All

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—Where _____ Mary have put the empty bottles?

— She _____ them away. They must be somewhere.

A．can; can’t have thrown                  B．must; needn’t

C．must; must have thrown                  D．can; mustn’t have thrown

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Lichens (地衣) are difficult to see. They don’t move. They often mix into the living place. You might not even recognize one if you are looking right at it.

Lichens live on rocks, branches, houses, and even metal street signs. You can find these colorful organisms (微生物) almost everywhere — from deserts to rainforests, and from Antarctica to Africa. They’ve traveled in outer space, and some scientists think there might even be lichens on Mars.

What you probably don’t realize is that a lichen is more than a single thing. It includes two different types of living organisms: a fungus (菌类) and an alga (藻类). Neither of these organisms is a plant, so the lichen isn’t a plant either.

Through photosynthesis (光合作用), the alga gets the sun’s energy to make food for the fungus, which is the place for the alga to live in. However, the alga cannot leave the fungus.

Around the world, scientists have found tens of thousands of types of lichens. Many may not even have been discovered yet. As scientists continue to find new kinds of lichens, they are also working to understand how they are connected to one another. By putting together a lichen family tree, they hope to understand why so many different types of lichens have grown in so many places around the world.

Many researchers are trying to understand basic facts about the organisms and their connections. Researchers are also using lichens to examine the health of the environment.

1.What do we know about lichens according to the passage?

A. They will die if they leave Earth.

B. There are more lichens than plants on Earth.

C. They look similar to the environment around them.

D. They are too small to be easily seen by people.

2.What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?

A. The way lichens live.

B. The natural environment of lichens.

C. The way lichens work as organisms.

D. The family tree of lichens.

3.Which of the following statements is NOT the scientists’ purposes of studying lichens?

A. To understand basic facts about them.

B. To creat a lichen family tree.

C. To understand how lichens are related to each other.

D. To understand why lichens can live in different places.

4.We can know from the passage that __________.

A. lichens can be used to better understand the environment

B. lichens don’t have any differences in colors or sizes

C. lichens don’t use photosynthesis like a green plant

D. scientists have discovered every kind of lichen

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The writer ___ his writing so that he forgot to have his lunch.

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You might think people all over the United States have Wi-Fi----wireless Internet service---and mobile phones. But there is no such service in Green Bank, West Virginia, a tiny town four hours from the U.S. capital, Washington D.C. Fewer than 150 people live in Green Bank, which has two churches, an elementary school and a public library. It is also home to the largest radio telescope in the world.

There is a ban on Wi-Fi in Green Bank, along with anything else that can create electromagnetic(电磁的)waves. Officials say the waves could disturb the signals the telescope receives.

For many American, a visit to Green Bank is a little like returning to the 1950s. To get there, you must read road signs---because there is no GPS service in the town. People can connect with the Internet through telephones, but wireless service is not allowed.

The observatory(天文台)is one of the largest employers in the area. The federal National Science Foundation(NSF)spends about ﹩8.2 million a year to operate the observatory, telescope and educational center.

Jonah Bauserman is a technician. If he supposes there is a signal that is not allowed in the zone, he drives to the house where the signal is coming from and checks it. But once a week, when the device is cleaned, some banned devices are allowed near it.

People in the town respect the work of the scientists. And they say they are happy to live without Wi-Fi and mobile phones. “You know, instead of sitting here on our phones and other devices we’re out fishing and hunting and going to each other’s houses.” Everyone knows each other and communication is almost always face-to-face.

1.What will you see when you pay a visit to Green Bank?

A. GPS service　　 B. Radio-controlled toys

C. Cell phone towers　　 D. Guide posts

2.What is Jonah Bauserman’s duty in his work?

A. Cleaning the telescope once a week.　　 B. Following signals from cell phones.

C. Protecting the telescope from being affected.　　 D. Listening for signals from outer space.

3.What is the attitude of the local people towards the telescope?

A. disapproving　　 B. favorable　　 C. controversial　　 D. indifferent

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

A. A Better Life Without Wireless Devices

B. The Largest Radio Telescope in the World

C. An American Town Without Wi-Fi and Mobile Phones

D. Good Relationships Between People in an American Town

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Thousands of people began pouring into Pennsylvania from other states. They wanted to buy lottery(彩票) tickets. The tickets cost only $0.9each. But that small spending could bring them a reward of $90 million. That was the second largest lottery jackpot(积累奖金) in history。

More than 87 million tickets were bought for the Pennsylvania lottery drawing . Those who bought tickets had to choose seven numbers from 1 to 80 The chance of winning was one in 9.6 million. But that little chance certainly did not affect tickets sales. In the last few days before the drawing , tickets were selling at the unbelievable rate of 500 per second .

Experts say many people buy lottery tickets because they just want to have a piece of the action .Others say the lottery is a stock market for poor people . It allows them to dream about wealth they will  probably never have .

But many people believe lotteries are no better than legalized(合法化) gambling . Some critics note that most people who play are poor and may not be able to afford the tickets .There are also many addicts who take the game seriously, They may pour their life savings into lottery tickets .Some clubs have been formed to help them kick the habit.

Politicians like lotteries because they provide money that would otherwise have to come from new taxes. The profits from lotteries are usually used to pay for education or programs for senior citizens. But critics say this arrangement just allows states to legalize vice(恶习) under the name of social progress . No matter whether you regard state lotteries right or not , you can not refuse to accept their extreme popularity with many Americans .

1.The main idea of the passage is that________________.

A．lotteries are of great benefit to everyone who buys them.

B．play a lottery is just like investing in the stock market

C．a lot of people buy lottry tickets ,but lotteries cause disagreement

D．lotteries are just legalized vice

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

A．Politicians like lotteries because they do not have to pay extra tax.

B．The popularity of lotteries in America actually is social progress .

C．Some critics do not like lotteries because many poor people waste their money on them .

D．People love the lottery because it is a stock market.

3.In just one hour in the last few days , the Pennsylvania lottery sold tickets totaling about ______________.

A．$1.62million       B．$90 million        C．$9.6million        D．$87million

4.People who are addicted to playing lotteries should __________.

A．join a club                             B．kick the habit

C．win the Pennsylvania                     D．save every cent

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Thousands of people began pouring into Pennsylvania from other states．They wanted to buy lottery tickets．The tickets cost only ﹩0．9 each．But that small spending could bring them a reward of ﹩90 million．That was the second largest lottery jackpot（积累奖金）in history．

More than 87 million tickets were bought for the Pennsylvania lottery drawing．Those who bought tickets had to choose seven numbers from 1 to 80．The chance of winning was one in 9．6 million．But that little chance certainly didn’t affect ticket sales．In the last few days before the drawing, tickets were selling at the unbelievable rate of 500 per second．

Experts say many people buy lottery tickets because they just want to have a piece of the action．Others say the lottery is a stock market for poor people．It allows them to dream about wealth they’ll probably never have．

But many people believe lotteries are no better than legalized（合法化的） gambling．Some critics note that most people who play are poor and may not be able to afford the tickets．There are also many addicts who take the game seriously．They may pour their life savings into lottery tickets．Some clubs have been formed to help them kick the habit．

Politicians like lotteries because they provide money that would otherwise have to come from new taxes．The profits from lotteries are usually used to pay for education or programs for senior citizens．But critics say this arrangement just allows states to legalize vice（恶习）, under the name of social progress．No matter whether you regard state lotteries right or not, you cannot refuse to accept their extreme popularity with many Americans．

1.The main idea of the passage is that________．

A．lotteries are of great benefit to everyone who buys them

B．playing a lottery is just like investing in the stock market

C．a lot of people buy lottery tickets, but lotteries cause disagreement

D．lotteries are just legalized vice

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

A．Politicians like lotteries because they don’t have to pay extra tax．

B．The popularity of lotteries in America actually is social progress．

C．Some critics don’t like lotteries because many poor people waste their money on them．

D．People love the lottery because it is a stock market．

3.In just one hour in the last few days, the Pennsylvania lottery sold tickets totaling________．

A．$1.62million    B．﹩90million     C．﹩9.6million  D．﹩87million

4.People who are addicted to playing lotteries should________．

A．join a club                                                        B．kick the habitw.

C．win the Pennsylvania                                      D．save every cent

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He added that state and local governments might have to ____ spending as a result of declining tax revenue.

A. cut back B. cut off

C. cut out D. cut in

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Computers might not be clever enough to trick adults into thinking they are intelligent yet, but a new study, led by Javier' Movellan at the University of Califomia San Diego, shows that a giggling (咯咯笑的) robot is clever enough to get toddlers (初学走路者) to treat it as a peer (同龄人).

The researchers stationed a 2-foot-tall robot Called QRIO in a classroom of a dozen toddlers aged between 18 months and two years. QRIO stayed in the middle of the room using its sensors (传感器) to avoid bumping (碰撞) into the kids. It was programmed to giggle when the kids touched its head, to occasionally sit down, and to lie down when its batteries died.

"We expected that after a few hours, the magic was going to disappear," Movellan says.  "That's what was found with earlier robots." But, in fact, the kids remained interested in the robot over several weeks, eventually communicating with QRIO in much the same way they did with other toddlers.

The researchers measured the relationship between the children and the robot in several ways. Firstly, as with other toddlers,  they touched QRIO mostly on the arms and hands, rather than on the face or legs. For this age group, "the amount of touching is a good predictor of how you are doing as a social being," Movellan says.

The children helped the robot up when it fell, and when QRIO's batteries ran out and it lay down, a toddler would come up and cover it with a blanket and say "night, night". However, when QRIO was programmed to spend all its time dancing, the kids quickly lost interest. When the robot went back to its old self, the kids treated it like a peer again.

"The study shows that current technology is very close to being able to produce robots able to develop a special relationship with toddlers," says Movellan. But, he adds, it is not clear yet whether robots can interest older children or adults in the same way.

1.What does the underlined word  "stationed" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. Hid.     B. Observed. C. Placed.   D. Named.

2.At the beginning of the experiment, researchers ________.

A. feared that the robot would harm the toddlers

B. programmed the robot to move freely about the classroom

C. expected the robot to communicate with the toddlers

D. thought the toddlers' interest in the robot wouldn't  last long

3.Kids aged between 18 months and two years behave

as social beings by.

A. giggling  B: touching  C. toddling  D. dancing

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Giggling robot becomes one of the kids

B. Giggling robot used as a classroom assistant

C. Giggling robot makes kids more active in class

D. Giggling robot attracts more attention from kids

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