Recently my husband had his Achilles tendon（跟腱） cut when feeding a chicken. When sitting in the doctor’s office waiting for surgery stressfully, I decided to treat myself for a minute and start to read about “The Little House on the Prairie”. Suddenly I felt my life seemed like a slack（懈怠） compared to the Ingalls who do all their washing and cooking but they feel so happy. Their every happiness is created from the work with their own hands. Yet I’m walking around feeling sorry for myself because I’m picking up the slack! So I’m thinking “Work it out! Get up and get busy.”
It really is true. I realize that I’m happiest when accomplishing tangible(有形的) productive work—working in the yard and washing my dishes—brings me happiness. This does not surprise Kelly Lambert Ph.D. She has been researching the phenomenon she calls “effort-rewards”. When you do meaningful work with your hands, a kind of neurochemical feedback floods your brain with dopamine and serotonin. These happy brain chemicals are natural antidepressants, and we’ve evolved to release them both to reward ourselves for working with our hands and to motivate ourselves to do it some more. Dr. Lambert says Americans have become more depressed in recent years and at the same time we’ve experienced a decrease in purposeful physical activity. Did we lose something vital to our mental health when we started pushing buttons instead of ploughing the fields?
Dr. Pansinski says she gets that happy look when she prepares a meal at the end of a day. “We are programmed to reward ourselves when we accomplish things with our hands. For so many people, it just feels as though everything’s going so fast—life, kids, hundreds of e-mails a day. There is so little you can really see and hold on to. Working with one’s hands is a way to slow down, to take pleasure in life again.”
1.Before reading “The Little House On the Prairie”, the writer might think the Ingalls were ________.
A. unknown B. hardworking
C. foolish D. unhappy
2.The writer develops the first paragraph in a way of ________.
A. giving an example B. making a comparison
C. analyzing a cause D. asking a question
3.From Kelly Lambert Ph. D, we know that ________.
A. her “effort-rewards” is popular among American people
B. working with our hands makes our brain tired easily
C. a decrease in physical work causes people in low mood.
D. we should work with our hands instead of using machine
4.From what Dr. Pansinski says, we can conclude that ________.
A. time and tide wait for no man
B. we should lower our expectation for life
C. it’s better to leave today’s work to tomorrow
D. we should never hurry our life too much
你校英文报开展“旅游的利弊”专栏，请你根据下列提示，写一箱短文，谈谈你对旅游的看法。
内容提示：
1.放松自己；
2.开阔视野；
3.结交朋友；
4.劳累和费钱。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
When talking about travel, we may immediately think of its advantages.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
I had an amazing experience last Spring Festival. On the second day of the holiday, it was snowing heavily but we had a very importance relative to visit, that lived in a distant mountain village. We have to take risks to drive on our journey. Though the road was bad, but we arrived safe.
The family welcomed us warmly or we said “ Happy new year" to them. We were treated a good dinner. Later in the afternoon, we said goodbye and started back home. Sadly, our car sticking in the snow halfway and wouldn’t move. Just then, the villager walked by, offering to push his car. It was this stranger who helped us out!
Most American businesses are open five days a week. American school children attend school five days a week as well. American families 1. (usual) have a two-day weekend. The weekend is Saturday 2. Sunday.
Over the weekend, people spend their time 3. (do) various things. Many families enjoy weekend together. They may go shopping, go for a drive, or visit friends. They may also send 4. (invite) friends and have a party at home. Weekends are also good chances to take trips, 5. are usually short ones. They will go to the nearby mountains, parks, lakes or other 6. (interest）places to relax them. Some even go camping and picnicking there.
Many families participate 7. sports during the weekend. Running, biking, playing volleyball and swimming are popular in the summer. Skiing and skating are the favorite winter 8. (sport).
Weekends are also a time for American families 9. (work) on something in their yards or on their houses. Many families plant flowers and have vegetable gardens. So weekends 10. (use) to paint or repair their houses. For most Americans, weekends are very busy.
Recently, my family and I attended a neighborhood oyster(牡蛎)roast. While standing at the large tables ___ and eating oysters, I noticed a school aged boy across the table from us. He was being __ oysters and by a man having a great deal of __ and displeasure trying to swallow them down.
At first, I thought the man wanted the boy to __ the oysters and it would stop. But __ we stood there, it continued. And with __ oyster the suffering of this boy becoming more and more __ as he fought back tears and struggled to swallow them. I __ learned that the man felt the boy had been impolite and this was his __ .
I couldn’t watch. I hesitated whether to get involved or __ . Then I had an idea. I grabbed my daughter and our frisbee(飞盘) __ walked our way next to the man and the boy, attracting their attention __. Then we introduced ourselves as not to knowing many __ there, we invited the boy to come and play frisbee with us.
The man allowed it and __ the boy’s situation changed. He became friendly and __. He ran up and down happily to __ the flying dish. We pulled another child into our __ and played frisbee for a good 30 minutes together. I was so relaxed to __ the suffering I was witnessing in that moment. And it made me feel __ that trying to help in that or any situation where you __ suffering is the best thing to do.
1.A. chatting B. playing C. quarrelling D. discussing
2.A. bought B. told C. sent D. handed
3.A. effort B. time C. difficulty D. pleasure
4.A. keep B. try C. hate D. have
5.A. since B. if C. as D. once
6.A. other B. his C. each D. that
7.A. valuable B. obvious C. peaceful D. important
8.A. latter B. still C. therefore D. ever
9.A. warning B. reward C. reaction D. punishment
10.A. calm down B. walk away C. hide away D. watch over
11.A. or B. so C. and D. but
12.A. on purpose B. in return C. as usual D. at present
13.A. people B. friends C. strangers D. neighbours
14.A. exactly B. immediately C. nervously D. carefully
15.A. creative B. anxious C. shy D. talkative
16.A. beat B. touch C. catch D. hold
17.A. family B. group C. dinner D. union
18.A. change B. reduce C. remove D. end
19.A. certain B. doubtful C. easy D. hopeful
20.A. bring B. experience C. ignore D. see
Every time we get behind the wheel of a car, we pt our lives and the lives of others at risk. Self-driving cars are designed to reduce those risks by letting technology control our vehicles.
Accident rates for self-driving cars have been much lower than the rate, for human-driven cars. 1.
As humans, we can make moral choices in avoiding accidents. To avoid hitting a child, for example, human drivers might sharply turn a car away from the child even if others may be injured. 2. Researchers studied this issue. They have developed the Moral Machine website to help explore the choices self-driving cars should make.
3. . You are shown two possible traffic situations and you choose between them. An accident will take place. You choose how many living beings would be hurt or killed.
In one situation there may be a female doctor, a child, two dogs and a homeless person who would be killed. In the other situation, you might have two babies and a cat who would be killed. 4.
The Moral Machine website has many situations and many possible outcomes. When you click on the situation of your choice, it will be highlighted. 5. At the end of the situation, you are shown the results, based on the choices you made. The results show which character you were most likely to save and which character you were most likely to have die.
A. Who should those victims be?
B. Then the next situation appears.
C. You choose who lives and who dies.
D. You can use the Moral Machine to be the judge.
E. But what moral choices can self-driving cars make?
F. The Moral Machine website lets you choose how you would react in a collision.
G. Google’s self-driving car has had only 13 collisions after traveling 1.8 million miles.
