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The “selfie” is used to describe the self-taken photo, often from a smartphone. Someone takes about 10 selfies each time he does, and he only ends up 1. ( post) one or two of those. He picks the one that he feels make him look the 2. ( good). In that picture, he gains confidence. For that moment, everything bad or terrible that has happened to him 3.( remove), because that smile is what gives him the 4. ( determine) to love himself.
I read 5. poem recently and the young man said, “If I ask you 6. you love, the answers will most likely roll off your tongue. You love to read. You love to write. You love your mom, you daughter, or your friends. How long do you think you can go on and on before you say ‘I love 7.( I )’ ”
That statement hit me like a ton of bricks. I’ve struggled with confidence all my life. I still do. And in 8. way am I saying that taking a selfie is a gateway 9. confidence. 10. , the selfie does deserve some credit for allowing individuals to express themselves.
单词拼写(一空一词)
1.She was even less _______(热情的) about going to see the film.
2.Only because of the color he disliked, the boy r______(抛弃) his new shoes.
3.He c________ his speech with an interesting story.
4.I know he s_________ me of my honesty.
5.She opened the door ________(谨慎) so as not to wake the baby.
6.The football team, c_______ of 22 players and three coaches, was set up about 3 years ago.
7.D______ into three groups, the students began cleaning the classroom.
8.These gates are always open for the _________(方便) of visitors.
9.The _______(辉煌的) image of Lei Feng will forever live in the heart of the people.
10.Her parents gave her so much money that she's got no ________(动机) to get a job.
11.I recognized her the _________(立刻) I saw her.
12.They argued that the plan would damage the island's ________(生态).
13.So a______ was he in his work that he didn't notice that it was raining hard.
14.The beauty of the scenery here is beyond d________, that is, the beauty of the scenery is hard to describe.
15.________(缺乏) in confidence, he didn't accomplish his speech.
We’ve heard it before－we’ve heard it on the news, from teachers, from parents－children and teenagers today are growing up too fast．There are not too many people that will ____ with that statement．Teenagers are faced with serious problems and decisions at an early ____．In fact most teenagers’ daily schedules are as ____ as those of an adult’s．
I have been working since I was thirteen, and always in ____ in which I was working with adults. I have had to learn to think and ____ like an adult to be taken seriously. So, I count myself as one who has grown up too fast. I just graduated from high school, and have recently spent some time reflecting(反思) on the ____ eighteen years-thinking about myself, what I have gained, and what ____ I have yet to achieve.
We are expected to work hard, get excellent ____ , be in a good relationship, and know what we want to do ____．The list goes on and on. But the ____ is clear：We live in a society today that is ____ our childhood．We no longer have many years to be careless and fancy-free. We are expected to ____ the strict school rules and to excel(擅长) in everything we do. I’ve known these things for a long time, and knew that they ____ me. But, I never really admitted it until last night, when I learned a ____ lesson, taught to me by my boss where I work. We had finished a job at a remote site．It was about 11:30 at night, and we had ____ to his house. We were talking about the ____ he had been making to his home．One of the things he said was “I ____ my basketball hoop(篮圈).” Then he threw a basketball to me.
I hadn’t ____ a basketball in five years．
We proceeded to shoot hoops for about 40 minutes. Both of us were terribly bad at it, but we spent the whole time ____ away like children. Then I realized something: I am still a child. Oh, the law says I’m an adult. But, we are still really and truly children. We all need to have ____ once in a while.
1.A. argue B. disagree C. satisfy D. discuss
2.A. age B. stage C. year D. grade
3.A. certain B. busy C. careful D. perfect
4.A. companies B. places C. positions D. offices
5.A. study B. speak C. work D. act
6.A. last B. other C. rest D. coming
7.A. purposes B. success C. goals D. jobs
8.A. textbooks B. grades C. teachers D. schools
9.A. in life B. in time C. for ages D. forever
10.A. information B. message C. notice D. idea
11.A. ruining B. correcting C. envying D. shortening
12.A. respect B. accept C. learn D. follow
13.A. inspired B. disappointed C. affected D. frightened
14.A. valuable B. serious C. important D. useful
15.A. walked B. flown back C. gone back D. driven
16.A. furniture B. improvements C. equipment D. arrangements
17.A. moved B. fixed C. sold D. broke
18.A. played B. caught C. touched D. held
19.A. laughing B. shouting C. running D. shooting
20.A. a rest B. a talk C. fun D. sports
What will you do if you can’t eat everything bought in the canteen? 1. According to a survey, what students waste every year could feed over 10 million people.
2. According to Xinhua News Agency, the food wasted by Chinese people is about 50 million tons of grain every year, which could feed 200 million people.
Food waste, which has become a global issue, serves as a mirror that reflects various cultural and social issues in different countries. In the West, for instance, consumerism, the belief that it’s a good thing to use a lot of goods and services, is often to blame for food waste. 3. Chinese people are well known for being hospitable and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food. On campus, a generation of single children is less aware of the food waste issue. Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly have any concept of how much toil others go through in order to provide them with the food they eat.
4. There are over 925 million hungry people in the world, most of whom live in underdeveloped countries and areas. They don’t have enough food to eat. Many children die for lack of nutrition each year in some African countries. And farmers work very hard to grow the crops. 5. It’s also important that everyone should think about how they can do their bit to reduce food waste.
A. Students’ waste is extremely serious.
B. China, in turn, features its own eating culture.
C. But canteen waste is extremely the tip of the iceberg.
D. Students can never realize the serious food crisis.
E. Compared with them, some live in a different world.
F. So there’s no excuse that we should waste our food.
G. Most of us would simply throw away any leftover food.
One morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream.He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practised sewing machine.
Elias Howes was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.
To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.
1.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.
A. what kind of thread to use
B. how to design a needle which would not break
C. where to put the needle
D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle
2.Thomas Edison is spoken of because _____ .
A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine
B. he got some of his ideas from dreams
C. he was one of Howe's best friends
D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep
3.Dreams are sometimes called“secret messages to ourselves” because ________ .
A. strange images are used to communicate ideas
B. images which have no meaning are used
C. we can never understand the real meaning
D. only specially trained people can understand them
One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like“I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say,“I was wrong, and you were right about that.”
I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons (in many countries, eggs are sold by the dozen and are put in cartons.) Then he related an incident (event, matter) and I began to remember unclearly the incident he was describing.
I was about eight years old at the time. I went into the store with my mother to do some shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the food department where the incident took place.
There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there were lots of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were put three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of the piles of egg cartons. Just then a woman came by pushing her shopping cart and knocked off the cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the eggs back together, so I went to work.
The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees looking at some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the one who just did it. He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, it is plain that the manager did not.
1.Which is the correct order of the following?
a. I forgot all about the incident.
b. I went into the store.
c. A woman knocked off the egg cartons.
d. I stood in front of the egg cartons.
e. The manager reminded me of the incident.
f. The manager didn't believe my explanation.
g. I picked up the unbroken eggs.
A. b; d; g; c; a; f; e B. b; d; c; g; f; e; a
C. b; c; d ;g; e; f; a D. b; d; c; g; f; a; e
2.The word “reprimanded” in the last paragraph most exactly means “_________ ”.
A. frightened B. scolded
C. warned D. comforted
3.The best title for this passage should be________ .
A. A Case of Mistake B. The Manager I Never Forget
C. The Manager and I D. An Incident 15 Years Ago
