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Maria,
Your problem is a common one among middle school students. Maybe the following advices can help you. First in all, believe in yourself. The important thing I must do is to smile at your classmates. One smile speaks loud about your wish to make friends than any word. Your smile will show that you are friendly about them. Next, try talking with a classmate who share the same interest with you or who is shy as you. You can discuss your studies with a classmate, but you can also talk about your hobbies. When someone is in the trouble, you should be ready to help him or her. In this way, you can make as much friends as possible.
Yours,
Lily
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As a matter of 1. , the Amber Room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. 2. , the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the Amber Room 3. , decided to give it to Peter the Great. Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room 4. (move) and told her artists to add more details to it. Sadly, although the Amber Room was 5. (consider) one of the wonders of the world, it is now 6. (miss).
In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St. Petersburg. This was a time 7. the two countries were 8. war. The Nazis secretly stole the room. 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. 9. is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for a German city. After that, 10. happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.
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1.We should pay more attention to the q_________ as well as the quantity.
2.I refuse to lie about it; it’s against my p_________.
3.It is well-known that all men are ________(平等的)
4.It is not _________ (合法的) for boys of that young age to drink alcohol.
5.If you are better __________(教育)，you will get a highly-paid job.
6.Some interesting customs have __________ (幸存) from ancient times.
7.Please r________ your shoes before entering the room when you are in Japan.
8.She will wait for you at the e__________ to the zoo tomorrow.
9.No one can e_________ punishment if he/she breaks the school rules.
10.As far as I know, the course is __________(设计) for beginners.
下面文章中有5处需要添加小标题，请从以下选项中选出符合各段意思的小标题，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑,选项中一项为多余选项。
A. Relieve Pressure by Firmly Saying "No"
B. Separate Your Actions
C. Escape Now and Then
D. Stop Expecting Everything to Be Perfect
E. Slow Down Your Life
F. Allow Yourself to Be Weak
How to Simplify Your Life
Less is more. This is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, relax instead of stressing, slow down instead of speeding up. Apply these principles in your everyday life in a conscious way. You will then find yourself well along on your journey to simplification.
1.________
When you concentrate on one task, you find you have energy that you didn't even know you had. Just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to carry two heavy pigs over 100 yards. If you keep grabbing one and then the other, it will take forever, because one of them will keep slipping out from under your arm and running off. But if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your strength and make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back and get the other one, and with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, then you can be sure of success.
2.________
The pressure at work is on the increase in all occupations. In the modern nuclear family, the expectations that formerly would have been shared among all the relatives are now concentrated on the individual partner.
If you have the feeling that 24 hours per day are not enough for all the things you need to do, then it's not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. A simple fact that overloaded people often tend to forget. The solution is equally simple: refuse to accept so many work assignments in your private life or your working life.
3.________
"I can handle stress" is regarded as a positive statement in the world of work. People who can handle stress are given more and more to cope with — until one day they break.
Pay careful attention to the signs that tell you that you are under more stress than you can cope with. These signals came from various areas of life. You become ill, or your work efficiency decreases.
If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and decrease your tolerance of stress. Say quite openly, "I can't manage that."
4.________
"If only I were slimmer, more beautiful, richer, more clever, then I would be happier." This is a dream that makes a lot of people ill, depressed, and unhappy. Life has its flaws, defects, comets, and edges. Only those who accept this reality can lead a really full life.
Of course there are activities in which errors are dangerous; driving a car, crossing the road. But life doesn't consist entirely of these things. In among them there is a lot of room for small and large mistakes.
5.________
Successful people all have their own places where they can withdraw in order to work. Find out which places improve your creativity. For me it's the train. When I know that I'm going to be traveling for four hours without phone calls and people knocking on my door, I find my mind is free and I can read or write complex articles. There can be problems working on the train, of course: if the person sitting opposite you keeps talking away, or if train trips make you tired (some people fall asleep after a few miles).
Supermarkets are trying out new computers that make shopping carts (购物车) more intelligent(具备智能的). They will help shoppers find paper cups or toilet soap, and keep a record of the bill.
The touch-screen devices(触摸屏装置) are on show at the Food Marketing Institute’s exhibition here this week, “These devices are able to create value and get you around the store quicker,” said Michael Alexander, manager of Springboard Retail Networks Inc., which makes a smart cart computer called the Concierge.
Canadian stores will test the Concierge in July. A similar device, IBM’s “Shopping Buddy”, has recently been test-marketed at Stop & Shop stores in Massachusetts.
Neither device tells you how many fat grams or calories are in your cart, but they will flash you with items on sale. The idea is to make it easier for people to buy, not to have second thoughts that maybe you should put something back on the shelf.
“The whole model is driven by advertisers’ need to get in front of shoppers,” said Alexander. “They’re not watching 30-second TV ads anymore.”
People can use a home computer to make their shopping lists. Once at the store, a shopper can use a preferred customer card to start a system(系统) that will organize the trip around the store. If you’re looking for toothpicks, you type in the word or pick it from a list, and a map will appear on the screen showing where you are and where you can find them.
The device also keeps a record of what you buy. When you’re finished, the device figures out your bill. Then you go to the checker or place your card into a self-checkout stand and pay.
The new computerized shopping assistants don’t come cheap. The Buddy devices will cost the average store about $160,000, and the Concierge will cost stores about $500 for each device.
1.Which of the following is the correct order of shopping with computerized shopping carts?
a. Start the system.
b. Make a shopping list.
c. Find the things you want.
d. Go to a self-checkout stand.
A. abdc B. acbd C. bacd D. bcad
2.We can learn from the last paragraph that ______.
A. the Concierge is cheaper than the Buddy devices
B. intelligent shopping carts cost a large sum of money
C. shop assistants with computer knowledge are well paid
D. average stores prefer the Concierge to the Buddy devices
3.What might be the most suitable title for the text?
A. New computers make shopping carts smarter
B. Concierge and Shopping Buddy
C. New age for supermarkets
D. Touch-screen devices make shopping enjoyable
In the course of working my way through school, I took many jobs I would rather forget. But none of these jobs was as terrible as my job in an apple plant(工厂). The work was hard; the pay was poor; and, most of all, the working conditions were terrible.
First of all, the job made huge demands on my strength. For ten hours a night, I took boxes that rolled down a metal track and piled them onto a truck. Each box contained twelve heavy bottles of apple juice. I once figured out that I was lifting an average of twelve tons of apple juice every night.
I would not have minded the difficulty of the work so much if the pay had not been so poor. I was paid the lowest wage of that time—two dollars an hour. Because of the low pay, I felt eager to get as much as possible. I usually worked twelve hours a night but did not take home much more than $ 100 a week.
But even more than the low pay, what made me unhappy were the working conditions. During work I was limited to two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside loading trucks with those heavy boxes in near-zero-degree temperatures. The steel floors of the trucks were like ice, which made my feet feel like stone. And after the production line shut down at night and most people left, I had to spend two hours alone cleaning the floor.
I stayed on the job for five months, all the while hating the difficulty of the work, the poor money, and the conditions under which I worked. By the time I left, I was determined never to go back there again.
1.Why did the writer have to take many jobs at that time?
A．To gain some experience
B．To save for his future
C．To support his family
D．To pay for his schooling
2.The following facts describe the terrible working conditions of the plant EXCEPT ______.
A. loading boxes in the freezing cold
B. having limited time for breaks
C. getting no pay for lunch time
D. working and studying at the same time
3.What is the topic discussed in the text?
A. The writer’s hard work in an apple plant.
B. The writer’s eagerness to earn money.
C. The writer’s experience to earn money.
D. The writer’s unhappy school life.
4.How is the text organized?
A. Topic—Argument—Explanation
B. Opinion—Discussion—Description
C. Introduction—Supporting examples—Conclusion
D. Main idea—Comparison—Supporting examples
