If you are hungry,what do you do?Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that?Just like your stomach,even your mind is hungry.But it never lets you know,because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover,favorite star and many such absurd things.So it silently began to pay careful attention to your needs and never let itself grow.When mind loosens its freedom to grow,creativity gets a full stop.
This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next?”,“Why can't I think?”,“Why am I always given the difficult problems?”Well this is the result of our own karma（宿命）of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.
Hunger of the mind can be actually settled through extensive reading.Now why reading and not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood.Just like that to develop other aspects of our life,we have to take help of reading.You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your "How to?" questions.Once you read a book,you just don't run your eyes through the lines,but even your mind decodes（解码）it and explains it to you.The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed.
Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas.The same seed if used many times,can help you link and relate a lot of things,of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing lout creativity.The more the number of books you read,the more your mind will open up.Also this improves your speaking skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary.Within no time you start speaking English or any language fluently with your friends or other people and you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.
1.What does the author mean by saying that our mind is hungry?
A. We don't read books. B. Our creativity gets a full stop.
C. We don't have a good memory. D. We don't know what to do next.
2.One's mind is hungry because he/she .
A. can't work out things well
B. loosens the freedom to grow
C. is mentally busy with many absurd things
D. begins to pay careful attention to his needs
3.Which of the following is NOT the advantage of reading?
A. Helping you develop your creativity.
B. Helping you enlarge your vocabulary.
C. Helping you improve your speaking skills.
D. Helping you run your eyes through the lines.
4.By reading more,we are sure to .
A. perform better mentally in the future
B. dream the wildest dreams
C. store books in your mind
D. speak English fluently
Idema,a Dutch Sinologist（汉学家）,has served as the director of the Chinese Languages and Cultures Department at Leiden University of the Netherlands and was also director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.He has studied ancient Chinese plays,novels and literature,and has authored or translated a number of influential books published in English and other languages.
The 70-year-old Dutch Sinologist recalled his half-century-long romance with Chinese culture during a recent visit to Beijing.As a child,the vivid descriptions of China in Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S.Buck’s books sparked Idema's interest in the country.He later read classic Chinese literature and spent whole days pouring through works at the National Library of China.
While many other experts on China focused on the country's economic transformation,Idema continued to study traditional Chinese literature."There were scholars studying law,religion and society,but not traditional Chinese literature,which was my personal interest,"Idema explains.
Finding reference books for his research,especially regional publications,used to be a huge challenge,and Idema used to spend a lot of time collecting books and other materials during visits to China.Now it is much more convenient with the Internet.
Idema usually chooses less-known subjects for his research and tries to get firsthand materials.In recent years, he has devoted himself to translating Chinese folk tales and writing about Chinese folk society and folk culture.
"Traditional Chinese culture is a passion.I have been studying it for 50 years and will continue to do so,"says the retired professor.
1.What does the underlined word "sparked" in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Increased. B. Broke.
C. Performed. D. Aroused.
2.Idema concentrated on traditional Chinese literature because .
A. he wanted to show he was different from others
B. he was interested in traditional Chinese literature
C. traditional Chinese literature is easier to study than other fields
D. he could benefitted a lot from the traditional Chinese literature
3.What may be the best title for the text?
A. A Passion for Chinese Culture B. The Life of Idema
C. Idema's Visit to China D. The Personal Hobby
I find it interesting that even the ordinary happenings can have an effect on our experiences.My wife and I moved into our house nine years ago.We spent a lot of time and energy in the yard.There were some rocks there. Whenever we had found flowers,we would plant them,just to bring some color to the area.
Last summer I found a little plant that I could not immediately recognize.I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said that she didn't,either.We decided to let it continue growing until we could find out what it was.
Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the mysterious plant,it appeared to be a sunflower.It was spindly（瘦弱的）and had only one head on it.I decided to baby it along and weed around it.As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds,I noticed something unusual.The sunflower had not started where I saw the stalk（茎）begin.It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under around it to reach the sun.
That's when I realized that if a little sunflower didn't let a big rock stand in its way of developing,we too have the abilities to achieve our desires.Like the sunflower,it knew it had the ability to get over the difficulty and succeed because it had faith.
1.The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 1 refers to .
A. rocks B. flowers
C. happenings D. experiences
2.What unusual things did the author find?
A. There was only one head on the sunflower.
B. The sunflower had pushed away a big rock.
C. The stalk of the sunflower was tall and thin.
D. The sunflower grew under and around a big stone.
3.According to the passage,if one wants to achieve success,he/she first need .
A. others' help B. great abilities
C. self-confidence D. a happy environment
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Grow up to be strong with more sunlight. B. Make the environment support you.
C. Stand tall like the sunflower. D. Be proud of yourself.
Welcome to one of the largest collections of footwear（鞋类）in the world that will make you green with envy. Here at the Footwear Museum you can see exhibits（展品）from all over the world.You can find out about shoes worn by everyone from the Ancient Egyptians to pop stars.
Room 1
The celebrity（名人）footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum.Started in the 1950s, there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! Most visitors find the celebrities' choice of footwear extremely interesting.
Room 2
Most of our visitors are amazed and shocked by the collection of "special purpose" shoes on exhibition here at the Museum of Footwear.For example,there are Chinese shoes made of silk that were worn by women to tie their feet firmly to prevent them from growing too much!
Room 3
As well as shoes and boots,the museum also exhibits shoe-shaped objects.The variety is unbelievable.For example,there is a metal lamp that resembles a pair of shoes,and Greek wine bottles that like legs!
The Footwear Library
People come from all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library.Designers and researchers come here to look up information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear.
1.What can you find in Room 1?
A. Queens' boots. B. Chinese special purpose shoes.
C. Metal lamps. D. Bottles of Greek wine.
2.What can we know about Room 2?
A. It is the most visited place in the museum.
B. It has a richer variety of exhibits than the other two.
C. It mainly exhibits shoes that have some special purposes.
D. It has the oldest exhibits than the other two.
3.Where can you find some data that have something to do with the subject of footwear?
A. In Room 1. B. In Room 2.
C. In Room 3. D. In the Footwear Library.
4.What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To tell people how to follow celebrities.
B. To call on people to do research on shoes.
C. To get more people to pay a visit to the museum.
D. To show people the way to design shoes.
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Nowadays some freshman are applying to delay their schooling for one year. They want to make a best use of the time to find jobs. On the one hand, through practice they will get to know the society worse, which will certainly help them studied with a clear aim. On the other hand, it is easier for us to find jobs after graduation because of the experience. What they do really helped them make up for the disadvantage that they lack of social experience. It is in this way which they are quite sure how to meet the society’s need. As senior students, we should take part some practically activities besides learning in school.
