People often go to cafes to relax themselves and keep themselves from falling asleep, but Mr. Healing, a popular cafe chain in South Korea actually does the opposite. Customers can come in, order a drink, lie down a comfortable massage（按摩）chair, and take a nap.
Many Koreans suffer from a lack of sleep as a result of overworking, so any opportunity to relax and even take a nap is greatly appreciated. Mr. Healing is the perfect place to go when you’re on a short work or school break and you need to catch up on sleep. The cafe offers massage periods in various modes, depending on how much time you have and how you choose to spend it.
The 20-minute session is priced at $ 3.5, the 30-minute massage costs $ 7, and the 50-minute session is $ 9, all of which also include a drink. Once you make your choice, you are taken to the “healing center”. You are asked to take off your shoes as well as any jewelry that might damage the chairs, after which you can choose a massage mode, from “stretch” or “sleep”. You can start with stretch for a few minutes, and then switch to sleep if you want to take a short nap. After it comes to an end, you are taken back to the cafe area to enjoy a coffee or one of the many other refreshing drinks on the menu.
Mr. Healing cafes are so popular in Korea that customers are advised to make reservations in advance to be sure that a massage chair is available. “I have to sit on a chair and stare at a computer monitor all day due to my job, the healing room was truly effective to relieve tiredness and stress from weekdays,” said Park Hye-sun, a 24-year-old officer.
Some have described Mr. Healing and other similar cafes in South Korea as simple fashions, but others see them as a sustainable business model, because they offer a service that Koreans really need.
1.Why do customers come to Mr. Healing?
A. To have themselves checked. B. To rest for a while.
C. To drink specialty coffee D. To sleep before work.
2.What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?
A. The price of the service. B. The choices for customers.
C. The process of the service. D. The tips for customers.
3.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. The massage. B. The coffee.
C. A sound sleep. D. Your choice.
4.What is Park’s attitude towards Mr. Healing?
A. Negative. B. Neutral.
C. Critical. D. Positive.
What do you do for fun in your spare time? Do you like reading? Do you often go to a book store? There is a store that is so different from others.
The World’s Smallest Bookstore, whose official name is just these three words, sits quietly about 100 miles northeast of Toronto.
The bookstore is about 10 feet by 10 feet, so it is easy to imagine how tiny it really is. The bookstore is open 24 hours a day. Inside the bookstore are various books, especially literary books and classic authors’ works. So if you are looking for something less popular, you may get a bit disappointed there.
Another special feature of this bookstore is that each book only costs three dollars. All the expenses are paid on the honor system, which means buyers should make a note of what they’ve bought and leave their money by themselves. So the tools of the trade in this bookstore are quite simple: pens, papers, light bulbs and a label-maker.
In order to catch passers-by’s attention, the billboards (广告牌) of the bookstore are several times bigger than the store itself. With these large eye-catchers, many people are willing to stop by and have a visit.
1.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. A strange way of selling books.
B. The popular bookstores in the world.
C. The world’s smallest bookstore.
D. The popular books nowadays.
2.Which of the following books might you most probably get in the store?
A. Books on less popular science.
B. Books on economic control.
C. The year book of a university.
D. Literary books.
3.How could you buy a book from the store?
A. Choose the book(s) and leave the money there.
B. Pay on the net and then get the book(s) in the store.
C. The salesman will help you find the book.
D. The salesman will get the money for the book.
I used to be an introverted（内向的） kid who would just got away from others for a whole day. For me, my books were my ______ world. Even during breaks, I used to just sit in a corner of the ______ and see others play games. It was not as if I wasn’t interested in ______ others or making new friends, but I always felt lacking in energy when ______ my peers. I always had an opinion that my advances towards new ______ would be limited. And I just didn’t want to ______ a rejection.
Once during my English class, my teacher shared a(n)______ with us. It was about King Bruce and a spider. It revolved around a lost battle and talked about how King Bruce, despite losing the battle, ______ in the end. He was ______ by a little spider. The little ______ of the spider and the way it was taking rejections impressed me a lot. I was so surprised that I myself started ______ the movements of spiders at home. Once, a spider took around an hour to reach the top of a wall and I ______ knocked it down. To my ______, within seconds it started making its ______ up again.
For me, this incident was a game changer. I ______ that rejections are ______ a failure. The world may mistreat me, ______ I can stand up and start working again. There would be time when people would like and ______ me. At present, I ______ mixing with people, learning new things and making new friends. I think, there are just no such ______ as rejections or failures as everything can change at any moment.
1.A. new B. next C. real D. only
2.A. street B. station C. playground D. office
3.A. visiting B. joining C. yielding D. watching
4.A. related to B. turned to C. divided into D. compared with
5.A. friendships B. teachers C. programs D. courses
6.A. cause B. suffer C. avoid D. fear
7.A. story B. experience C. song D. task
8.A. refused B. won C. left D. failed
9.A. confused B. persuaded C. hurt D. inspired
10.A. advantages B. changes C. movements D. improvements
11.A. showing B. observing C. adjusting D. guiding
12.A. cruelly B. angrily C. bravely D. luckily
13.A. delight B. surprise C. amusement D. disappointment
14.A. mistake B. progress C. web D. way
15.A. realized B. researched C. matured D. embraced
16.A. often B. ultimately C. never D. ever
17.A. or B. so C. though D. but
18.A. train B. meet C. appreciate D. remember
19.A. enjoy B. suggest C. risk D. imagine
20.A. values B. approaches C. things D. solutions
假设你是新华中学的学生李华，不久前在学校举办的英语竞赛中获得一等奖。校报请你写一篇稿件刊登在英文版面上，介绍你课外学习英语的经验。请根据以下提示用英语写一篇短文：
1.参加英语角的益处；
2.坚持写英语日记的作用；
3.英文阅读网站（EnjoyReading）对你的帮助。
注意：1. 词数：100-120；
2. 可适当增加细节， 以使行文连贯。
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dear Dad,
On this date of your 50th birthday, Mom gave me the letter you wrote me when I was born 18 years ago. In your letter, you 1.(wish) me to be strong-minded and successful. You were looking forward to 2.(see) me fight for my future bravely and do well for 3. and others.
After reading this letter, I feel quite 4.(shock) at your5.(expect) on me. I also feel shamed 6.not having performed well to meet your demand. I still remember when I was in primary school, I failed to apply myself to studying. I was addicted to computer games. As a consequence, I soon became the last one in my class. You didn’t abuse me at all. 7.the contrary, you taught me that studying was the most important object at the moment and encouraged me to study hard. Only 8.I read your letter did I realize that I behaved so badly at that time and you were so sad to see I didn’t do well for myself.
I can’t help expressing my gratitude and sending my best wishes to you. Wish you9.(health) and happy. I promise that I will spare no effort to satisfy your demand of being10.brave and successful person.
单词拼写
1.________（好奇）kills cats.
2.There are 40________(申请者) for the job.
3.He left home,________(决定) never to come back again.
4.They are ________(强迫) to leave their houses
5.Who would you rather have d________(设计) the magazine?
6.He is an e___________(有活力的) boy.
7.Our class c__________(由……组成) of 60 students is a big class.
8.The crowd________(惊慌) at the sound of the gunfire just now.
9.He was o_________(显然) annoyed for being late.
10.I found him _______(隐藏) in the room.
