Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. We go fishing, sit in the garden, have a picnic, live in the suburbs or go to the seaside. The most popular leisure activity in Britain is going for a walk. When joggers jog, they don't run the streets. Every one of them tend to go to the park or the river.
But despite this, our children are growing up naturedeprived(剥夺). I spent my boyhood climbing trees. These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and strange new ideas about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.
The truth is to be found elsewhere. A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(多动症). Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.
ADHD is one of the great problems of modern childhood. One study after another indicates that contact with nature gives huge benefits to ADHD children. However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places.
The life of old people is measurably better when they have access to nature. The increasing concern for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years. And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality. Even problems with crime and aggressive behaviour are reduced when there is contact with the natural world.
We need the wild world. It is essential to our wellbeing, our health and our happiness.
1.According to the author, people enjoy ________ to seek nature.
A．jogging on the street
B．sitting in the garden
C．shopping in the supermarket
D．running in the gym
2.From the second paragraph, we can see that ________.
A．adults deprive the children of their rights to approach nature
B．climbing trees will certainly do good to the children
C．children probably spend less time in nature nowadays
D．children tend to be happier as a result of their material satisfaction
3.In what way do people benefit from their contact with nature?
A．Children with ADHD can be cured.
B．A garden nearby improves the quality of old people's life.
C．Problems with crime and violent behaviour will easily be solved.
D．Children's performance at school is greatly improved.
4.What is the main idea of this passage?
A．Access to nature improves our life.
B．Nature treats children for ADHD.
C．Getting close to nature reduces crime.
D．Man can't live without natural areas.
Security—for the information on your smart phone, as well as for the phone itself—is a hot topic these days.The truth is that you're packing a lot of sensitive information on your phone, and you should keep it safe.
When it comes to physical security, iPhone users would do well to download Find My iPhone, a free app from Apple that allows you to visit a website and see your (lost, stolen or misplaced) phone on the map.You can then sound an alarm, send a message that will pop up on its screen, lock the phone or erase all your data.
Android does not have an exact equivalent(等价物), but there are plenty of alternatives. A free app called Lookout offers the findmyphone feature.The paid version allows you to wipe the data from your phone remotely.
Then there is your coffee shop's WiFi network.Anyone with minimal technical expert skill can snoop on(窥视) people using shared wireless networks, harvesting passwords and other personal data. Lookout will caution you when you've logged on to an insecure network, but cannot protect you once you're there.
In order to protect yourself on such networks, you can use a virtual private network, or VPN. This turns all your activity into nonsense to anyone trying to read along with you from across Starbucks. It also keeps websites from tracking you and, if you're travelling, allows you to get access to sites that may be blocked in other countries.
If you have an iPhone, the simplest VPN app is probably Hotspot Shield, whose distinguishing feature is said to be that it automatically kicks in each time you start browsing (浏览), as opposed to other VPN apps that require you to start them up manually(手动地)．This matters, because even if you decide you want a VPN app, you want to spend approximately zero time thinking about it. For the most part, that was true of Hotspot Shield, though occasionally it took a while to connect or temporarily lost connection without warning. I found myself having to turn the app on and off sometimes, which involved setting my phone constantly.
If even reading about the settings on your phone drive you crazy, then it is probably best to stay away from a VPN app. But if you're the type who can't resist checking your bank balance from your corner bar, the hassle(麻烦) may be preferable to the risk.
1.Which of the following can warn you against the insecure network?
A. Android. B. VPN.
C. Lookout. D. Find My iPhone.
2.By using VPN, users can ________．
A. find their lost phones on the Internet
B. remove all the data from the phone remotely
C. check the bank balance now and then
D. save their browsing from being tracked
3.The underlined word “that” in Para.6 refers to the fact that ________.
A. a VPN app kicks in automatically
B. the users start VPN apps manually
C. the app takes a while to connect
D. users spend no time thinking about it
Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving away makes life much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money.
This is how I experimented with giving away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper. One discovery I made about giving away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in an unexpected form.
One Sunday morning, the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard(无意中听到) our conversation. “Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home？” I said yes. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints.”
1.From the passage, we understand that ________.
A. the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties
B. the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers
C. the author received the same education as most people during his childhood
D. the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting
2.The author would make the suggestion to the storekeeper ________.
A. in writing
B. in person
C. in the window display
D. about the neighborhood
3.When the author needed a post office box, ________.
A. he had put his name on a waiting list
B. he wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation
C. many people had applied for post office boxes before him
D. he asked the postmaster to make one for him
书面表达
报纸和网站是当今两大主要媒体。请根据下列内容，以“Newspapers and Websites”为题，用英语写一篇短文，简要介绍这两种媒体的优缺点。
报 纸 网 站
1. 传统媒体，天天更新，信息可靠 1. 新兴媒体，信息更新速度快
2. 携带方便，随时随地可以阅读 2. 依赖于电脑及互联网
3. 仅有文字和图片 3. 包含文字、图片、音频和视频
注意：1. 短文必须包括上述所有内容，可以适当发挥;
2. 词数：100左右
3. 参考词汇：更新update;音频audio;视频video
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短文改错
假定英语课上,老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下小作文为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（^），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
3. 必须按答题要求做题，否则不给分。
Under the help of the Internet, shopping is not a difficult work. Just clicking your mouse to choose the article you like, and the shopping is finished. You needn't step out the room. It seems easy and quick. And there's always a trap online. If you are careless, it will bring you trouble. You may find the color of the article is different from that you want, or the size is either too small nor too big. If you want to be different, you'd better not to buy clothes online. Once you put up the clothes you bought online and go out, you will find many people in the street wearing the same clothes like you.
语法填空 在下面短文的空白处填上适当的词或用所给词的适当形式填空
There once was a forest filled with happy animals. One day a raccoon (浣熊) found some socks left behind by picnickers, and 1. (decide) to wear them. They fitted so well, and felt so 2. (comfort), that he kept them on. He spent his days 3. (walk) through the forest in his new socks.
Other animals became envious(嫉妒) of the raccoon’s new look and followed his trend. First it was squirrels in 4. (shirt), then rabbits 5. hats on, and finally birds wearing underpants!
Doctor Bear, the forest physician, disapproved and tried to warn the clothes-wearers. But no one listened. Instead, they urged him to follow the 6. (late) trend too.
Soon, the problems started. The squirrel caught his shirt on a branch and crashed to the ground. The rabbit tried entering his hole while wearing his hat and got stuck. Even the raccoon, thanks to his 7. (bright) coloured socks, slipped into the river and almost died.
When the 8. (injure) animals came to see Doctor Bear, he told them, “Your clothes are killing you. You don’t need 9. .”
Those 10. listened to the doctor’s advice finally understood they didn’t need clothes. They’d only started wearing clothes to make others envy them.
