The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found. Keeping the mind occupied(被占据) with tasks—no matter how meaningless—keeps off negative emotions, the study found.
However, the bad news is that humans are seemingly born to be lazy in order to save energy, according to Professor Christoper Hsee, a behavioral scientist at Chicago University.
In a study, 98 students were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first, they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one. They were given a choice of either handing in the first survey nearby or a more distant location they had to walk to. Whichever option they chose, they received a chocolate bar. It turned out that about two-thirds(68students) chose the lazy option. Those who had taken the walk reported feeling happier than those who had stayed put.
Professor Hsee concluded that keeping busy helped keep people happy. He said the findings, reported in the journal Psychological Science, had policy implications.( 暗示)
“Governments may increase the happiness of idle(闲散的) citizens by having them build bridges that are actually useless,” he proposed.( 提议)
At the individual level, he advised, “Get up and do something. Anything. Even if there really is no point to what you are doing, you will feel better for it.” He added,, “Incidentally, thinking deeply or engaging in self-reflection counts as keeping busy, too.”
“You do not need to be running around. You just need to be engaged, either physically or mentally.”
1.Keeping busy can make people happy because_____________.
A. it can help people get rid of laziness
B. it can make people sleep better
C. it can help get rid of negative emotions
D. it can give people a sense of achievement
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The finding may contribute to politics.
B. The officials have taken Pro.Hsee’s advice.
C. In the study half students handed in the first survey nearby.
D. Governments can increase citizens’ happiness by building bridges.
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Everybody is born to be lazy.
B. Only by keeping working all the time can you gain happiness.
C. Pro. Hsee’s finding was published in Psychological Science.
D. Keeping busy can add to the possibility of being happy.
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
A. To explain what happiness is
B. To advise people not to sit around
C. To advise people to do what they like to
D. To show people how to take life correctly
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
1.What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?
A. Go shopping B. Find a house
C. Join his family D. Take a vacation
2.The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_________.
A. a friend of his family B. a Sydney policeman
C. a letter in his papers D. a stranger in Sydney
3.What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Showed B. Sent out
C. Delivered D. Gave back
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. From India to Australia. B. Living in a New Country
C. Turning Trash to Treasure. D. In Search of New Friends.
假如你是某国际学校学生会主席李华，你校将举办英语书法比赛，请根据所给提示用英语以短文形式写一份书面通知。
1. 报名截止日期：9月13日；
2. 比赛时间：9月15日上午8:00；
3. 地点：四号教学楼501室；
4. 比赛内容：抄写一篇文章，文章届时发放（纸张及笔由学校统一提供）。
注意：1. 词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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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。每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。
Every time my mother and I started to have a conversation, it turns into an argument. We talk about something so simple as dinner plans. Sudden, my mother will push the conversation into the topic of her best friend's son, that graduated from Tsinghua University last year. He is now earning 100,000 yuan a year as the engineer. In fact, I don't want to do any job related science like him. I don't know what to explain my plan to my mother. I'm the type of person who love to help out in the community. I even want to make a career of it because of I love it so much. I'd rather following my dreams and create my own future.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Pedestrianism, an early form of racewalking, was a(n) 1. (extreme) popular sport in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, 2. (attract) huge crowds of spectators (观众). Individuals would either aim to walk a certain distance within a(n) 3. (limit) period of time or compete against other pedestrians.
Perhaps the most famous 4. (walk) was Captain Robert Barclay Allardice, whose extraordinary (非凡的) achievements earned 5. (he) the title of the “Celebrated Pedestrian”. The Scotsman's most memorable performance 6. (take) place in 1809, when he walked 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours for a bet of 1,000 guineas (an old British unit of money). Many considered 7. unlikely that he would complete the challenge, 8. required him to walk a mile an hour, for forty-two days and nights. He proved them wrong, though the task was so physically demanding that by the end of the walk he had lost nearly fifteen kilos 9. weight.
Since the 20th century, interest in walking as a sport has dropped. Racewalking is still an Olympic sport, but fails 10. (catch) the public attention as it did.
The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall was the part of the Great Wall I liked to visit. ____, one day in May 2000, I chose something wilder, more ____: Simatai. This section of the Great Wall has far fewer visitors than most other sections of the wall.
At the entrance to Simatai was a group of vendors (小贩) trying to ____ postcards. One tiny old lady seemed to ____ me wherever I went, and I was becoming increasingly ____. “How many times does it take for ‘No!' to sink in?” I thought. I finally ended up running away just to ___ this tiny woman.
Once I caught sight of the Great Wall, ____ overtook me, and the tiny old lady with the postcards ____ from my thoughts. I raced up the Great Wall ____. Then, halfway up, I stopped and suddenly realised I was rushing along a ____ “path” no wider than a meter. There were ____ “walls” — only steep drops on either side. I remembered then that ____ had fallen to their deaths in this section. I was so fearful that I ____ there completely stock-still.
Suddenly, I felt a small hand on my back and a ____ voice telling me, in Chinese, not to be ___, that she would slowly lead me to the top. Half an hour later, we ____ a section that had a few remnants (剩余的小部分) of the wall. I was able to turn around to see who had given such ____ to me in my hour of greatest ____. It was the tiny old lady I'd told a dozen times — eventually shouting at her — that I didn't want any ____. I felt really ____ of myself. I gave her a big hug, and then later bought every one of her postcards.
1.A. Instead B. However C. Therefore D. Besides
2.A. pleasant B. important C. popular D. challenging
3.A. sell B. count C. write D. collect
4.A. support B. follow C. need D. protect
5.A. puzzled B. upset C. lonely D. active
6.A. meet B. help C. escape D. greet
7.A. doubt B. surprise C. nervousness D. excitement
8.A. learned B. benefited C. disappeared D. suffered
9.A. recently B. impatiently C. secretly D. immediately
10.A. familiar B. dangerous C. correct D. crowded
11.A. no B. some C. enough D. many
12.A. shoppers B. owners C. vendors D. tourists
13.A. hid B. sat C. lay D. stood
14.A. silly B. female C. sleepy D. childish
15.A. afraid B. sorry C. lazy D. shy
16.A. left B. crossed C. avoided D. reached
17.A. friendship B. experience C. kindness D. imagination
18.A. pain B. fear C. anger D. regret
19.A. guides B. routes C. postcards D. foods
20.A. proud B. certain C. careful D. ashamed
