It helps to choose the colors you plan to live with in your home with awareness of how different colors affect your emotional and physical states. Every color has a unique meaning, and this can significantly affect how you feel in a room.
A room that is painted red will energize, inspire activity and movement, help passion, and be powerful and stimulating. A red room can also be exhausting and overpowering, and stressful for those who are anxious.
Orange rooms encourage happy, joyful, social gatherings. While an orange dining room or family room can stimulate the appetite, it is a great choice for such gathering places. Orange enhances parties, communication, positive feelings, and general good cheer.
Yellow rooms inspire intellectual clarity, organization, clear -headed thinking, and happy energy. Yellow is considered a color for the logical left side of the brain. Yellow is also very bright and somewhat energizing.
Blue rooms are often chosen for bedrooms and meditation（冥想）rooms because its cool energy is very calming, restful, peaceful, and spiritual. Blue helps inspire a quiet meditative quality, and color therapy with blue has been found to reduce blood pressure. Blue is also useful to make one to sleep.
Green rooms are very restful but combine with an energizing quality. Green is the color of outdoors, calm and active at the same time. Green brings balance and harmony to a room, and can be used as a calming place for people who are troubled or in need of refreshment.
1.What impression can green rooms give to you?
A. Passionate and powerful.
B. Refreshing and harmonious.
C. Cool and calming.
D. Inspiring and bright.
2.If you are going to hold a family gathering, which color of the room can best enhance your atmosphere?
A. Red. B. Orange. C. Blue. D. Green.
3.Which of the following statements about color is NOT true?
A. Yellow rooms inspire logical and clear thinking.
B. Blue creates a quiet meditative quality.
C. Different colors affect you emotionally and physically.
D. Red rooms are acceptable when you are in a bad mood.
4.What color should his room be painted if a person likes meditation?
A.Blue. B. Orange. C. Green. D. Red.
Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart，was born in Kingfish，Oklahoma on March 29，1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his father's store while attending school. This was his first retailing（零售业）experience and he really enjoyed it. After graduation, he began his own career as a retail merchant.
He soon opened his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart specialized in name brands at low prices and Sam Walton～surprised at the success. Soon a chain of Wal -Mart stores sprang up across coral America. His management style was popular with employees and he founded some of the basic concepts of management that are still in use today.
After taking the company public in 1970, Walton introduced his "profit sharing plan"．The profit sharing plan was a plan for Wal-Mart employees to improve their income dependent on the profits of the store. Sam Walton believed that "individuals don't win, teams do". Employees at Wal-Mart stores were offered stock options（认股权）and store discounts. These benefits are commonplace today, but Walton was among the first to achieve them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy customers and more sales. He also believed that by giving employees a part of the company and making their success dependent on the company’s success, they would care about the company growing complaints that the "superstore" was stopping smaller and traditional stores from developing. By 1991,Wa1-Mart was the largest US retailer with 1,700 stores. Walton remained active in managing the company, as president and CEO until 1988 and chairman until his death. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom shortly before his death.
1.Sam Walton first made a hit in retailing when he＿．
A. worked in his father's store
B. created Walton's management style
C. specialized in name brands at low prices
D. opened his stores across rural America
2.Walton’s management style emphasized＿very much.
A. individual efforts B. team spirit
C. employees' loyalty D. fair distribution
3.What is the purpose of Walton’s carrying out "profit sharing plan”？
A. To encourage the employees to work hard and make joint efforts.
B. To make sure all the employees had their own shares.
C. To select excellent employees for his stores.
D. To make more profit for himself.
4.Which of the statements is TRUE?
A. In his old age, Walton gave all the management to his men
B. Walton wasn't one of the merchants who first achieved stock options.
C. The smaller and traditional stores were well affected by Walton's stores.
D. With Walton's management style, employees treated the stores as their own.
"Get out of the plane!” Justin shouted. Teddy and he dropped to the ground...
When Kathy and Victor reached the edge of the meadow, flames of the fire were shooting more than five meters into the air.
Kathy couldn't believe what she was seeing. One glance told her they needed medical
attention immediately. She questioned Victor, "Are you able to find someone nearby for help?"
"There are no farmers, nor villagers nearby," he replied.
“I’m a distance inner, and I’B go for help." Looking at the seriously injured men, Kathy said to Victor, "It may take me several hours to get out." She started out.
When she was 23, Kathy set a women’s record in a Marathon of 42 kilometers. But now she was runnine the race of life. She had nearly 30 kilometers of hard wilderness to cover to get help.
Kathy had been running for two hours. This was far back into the wilderness. The country
path was growing vague(模糊的），She stopped to take a quick compass reading. Yes, she had run
almost for more than 20 kilometers. Her heart fell, her muscle aching. And finally she saw her car in the distance She jumped into the car and sped away. She reached a holiday house and called the police.
During the wait, she walked around, relaxing her legs and drinking water. It took almost two
hours for a police helicopter to reach her at the trail end. They needed her for one more task.
1.Who actually had the airplane accident?
A. Justin and Teddy. B. Kathy and Victor.
C. Justin himself. D. Kathy herself.
2.The underlined part "Now, she was running the race of life" means that Kathy
A. would set up a new record
B. would run a race alone
C. was inning for the lives of others
D. couldn’t rely on Victor this time
3.Kathy stopped to have a look at her compass because___.
A. she wasn’t sure of her own memory
B. she had completely lost her way
C. the country path was getting vague
D. there was only the wilderness
4.What do you think Kathy’s final task would be?
A. Giving the injured food and drinks.
B. Showing the police the crash site.
C. Going back to put out the big fire.
D. Taking the injured to the hospital.
A wise gentleman retired and bought a modest home near junior high school. He the first few weeks of his retirement peace and satisfaction. Then a new school year began.The very next afternoon three young boys, full of youthful, after-school enthusiasm, came down his ，beating happily on every trash can they ．The noise continued day after day, finally the wise old man decided it was time to take some .
The next afternoon, he walked out to the young boys as they banged their way down the street. them, he said, " kids are a lot of fun. I like to see you your happiness like that. I used to do the same thing when I was your age. Will you do me a favor? I'll give you each a dollar if you'll promise to come around every day and do your thing，
The kids were and continued to do their job on the trash cans. After a few days, the old man greeted the kids again, this time he had a sad smile on his face. "I lost a lot of money in the stock market," he told them. " , I'll only be able to pay you 50 cents to beat on the cans." The troublemakers were displeased, but they did accept his offer and continued the afternoon
A few days later, the old man approached them again as they went their way down the street. "Look," he said, "I haven’t received my Social Security check yet, I'm not going to be able to give you more than 25 cents. Will that be okay?"
"A quarter?” the leader exclaimed．"If you think we are going to our time beating these cans around a quarter, you are crazy！No way，mister. We quit！"And the old man enjoyed for the rest of his days.
1.A. the B. a C. an D. /
2.A. spent B. took C. paid D. cost
3.A. for B. with C. in D. at
4.A. house B. street C. way D. school
5.A. made B. found C. knew D. met
6.A. until B. when C. since D. because
7.A. methods B. time C. action D. place
8.A. hear B. meet C. notice D. please
9.A. Inviting B. Calling C. Visiting D . Stopping
10.A. Your B. You C. Yours D. My
11.A. express B. use C. produce D. like
12.A. surprised B. excited C. interested D. satisfied
13.A. but B. just C. thus D. as
14.A.From now on B.Since then C.In the meantime D.In no time
15.A. merely B. obviously C. hardly D. eventually
16.A. shouting B. sound C. voice D. noise
17.A. instead B. also C. now D. so
18.A. use B. find C. waste D. take
19.A. in B. for C. within D. on
20.A. peace B. noise C. happiness D. suffering
一How do you like the book?
一Wonderful, and I as well as most of my classmates＿＿＿quite interested in it.
A. are B. were
C. has been D. am
The experiment can’t have been completed in such a short time,＿＿＿？
A. can it B. was it
C. has it D. is it
