It’s difficult to these old books, for some of them belong to none of the classification.
A. look out B. sort out
C. put out D. give out
She is very about this topic, so we’d better not discuss it in front of her.
A. confident B. crazy
C. sensitive D. humorous
The boss wanted an assistant with knowledge of French and working experience.
A. the; the B. the; /
C. a; a D. a; /
Happiness is not the absence of problems. 1. Here are a few reminders to help motivate you when you need it most:
1. Pain is part of growing.
When times are tough, remind yourself that no pain comes without a purpose.2. Every great success requires some type of worthy struggle to get there. Good things take time. Everything is going to come together; maybe not immediately, but eventually.
2.3.
Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you get hurt, you heal. After darkness there is always light. So if things are good right now, enjoy it. It won’t last forever. If things are bad, don’t worry because it won’t last forever either.
3. Worrying and complaining changes nothing.
4. It’s always better to attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. It’s not over if you’ve lost; it’s over when you do nothing but complain about it. If you believe in something, keep trying. Don’t let the shadows of the past darken the doorstep of your future.
4. Your scars are symbols of your strength.
Never be ashamed of the scars life has left you with. A scar means the hurt is over and the wound is closed. It means you overcame the pain, learned a lesson, grew stronger, and moved forward. 5.
A. Everything in life is temporary (暂时的).
B. But it is the ability to deal with them.
C. Rarely do people do things because of you.
D. A scar is the sign of a success to be proud of.
E. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.
F. Move on from what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you.
G. Change because it makes you a better person and leads you to a brighter future.
During the first decade of the 21st century, a popular and new word has come into our vocabulary. That word is Facebook. This is the most popular social networking website on the Internet. There are about 350 million active users on this website. The main idea of Facebook is that you can keep in touch with all your friends around the world who has Facebook. In the 350 million users on Facebook, 67% of them are between the ages of 13-25. More than 35 million users update their status every day. 2.5 billion Photos are added each month.
The highest age groups who use Facebook are teenagers. Most of them keep the website running whenever they are using the computer and general teens nowadays are always on the computer, if they aren’t in school or when they aren’t asleep. I feel that teens should focus on their schoolwork or be socializing with their friends in person or exercising. Facebook is just changing the new generation of youngsters completely because the teenage life is one of the most important stages of life and wasting it on Facebook is not encouraging this in any way. It is also a complete distraction (分心) to their mind, for they would turn to Facebook just to check if there was anything updated among their friends.
Remember back in the good old days, when teens would do their homework handwritten, play sports and hang out with friends. Today, most teens would only speak to their friends on Facebook, while we can see them battling obesity as they stare at their friend’s message on their wall. In summary, teens don’t have a life because they are on Facebook 24/7, except for those who don t use Facebook or occasionally do.
Facebook is also where people can see the conflicts among their friends, virtual arguments, relationship status and updates, who is in whose ‘top friends, and so on. You can join groups, post pictures and videos, play games, and invite friends to parties. Mainly, all this would just disturb people into living life to its fullest.
1.The figures in Paragraph 1 are mentioned .
A. to show Facebook’s increasing popularity
B. to present the influence of the Internet
C. to attract more teens to use Facebook
D. to prove our life pace is getting higher
2.Facebook influences teens mostly in that .
A. it shortens teens, sleeping time
B. it encourages teens to change their life
C. it wastes teens, time and distracts their mind
D. it holds teens back from communicating with others
3.The author would probably approve the following teens’ behaviors EXCEPT .
A. doing their homework handwritten
B. hanging out with friends more
C. battling obesity by playing sports
D. speaking to friends on Facebook frequently
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Facebook Wastes Teens’ Life
B. How to Live Your Life to the Fullest
C. Technology Destroys a New Generation
D. Modem Communications Brings about Problems
He wrote that the “human mind is capable of excitement without the application of unpleasant and violent stimulants (刺激物)”. And it appears that simply reading these words by William Wordsworth proves his point.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool found the writing of Shakespeare and Wordsworth and the like had a beneficial effect on the mind, making it active and excited by catching the reader’s attention and leading to moments of self-reflection.
Using scanners, they monitored the brain activity of volunteers as they read pieces of classical English literature both in their original form and in a modem translation. And according to the Sunday Telegraph, the experiment showed the more challenging writing and poetry set off far more electrical activity in the brain than the simple readings.
The research also found poetry, in particular, increased activity in the right brain, an area concerned with “autobiographical memory”, which helped the readers to reflect on their own experiences in light of what they had read. The academics said this meant the classics were more useful than self-help books.
The brain responses of 30 volunteers were monitored in the first part of the research as they read Shakespeare in its original and modern form. In one example, volunteers read a line from King Lear, “A father and a gracious aged man: him have you madded”, before reading the simpler, “A father and a gracious aged man: him you have enraged”. Shakespeare’s use of the adjective “mad” as a verb caused a higher level of brain activity than the straightforward version.
The next part of the research is looking at the extent to which poetry can affect psychology and provide benefit. Volunteers’ brains were scanned while reading four lines by Wordsworth, and four “translated” lines were also provided. The result showed that the first version caused a greater degree of brain activity.
“Poetry is not just a matter of style. It is a matter of deep versions of experience that add the emotional and biographical to the cognitive (认知的),” said Professor Davis, leader of the researchers.
1.The words by William Wordsworth in Paragraph 1 are used to .
A. prove the poet’s point B. introduce the topic
C. serve as an example D. stress the importance of reading
2.What is the beneficial effect of reading classics on the mind?
A. It excites the reader’s mind. B. It reflects the reader’s experience.
C. It catches the reader’s attention. D. It monitors the reader’s brain activity.
3.What method is mainly used in the experiment?
A. Comparing responses. B. Analyzing data.
C. Observing activities. D. Testing ability.
4.According to Professor Davis, poetry can affect the mind mainly because of .
A. its style B. its meaning
C. its depth D. its writer
