Basketball Statistician Help Wanted
The Athletic Department is looking for students to help assist staff during the Fall 2018, Winter 2018 – 2019 and Spring 2019 semesters（学期）. Students in this position will be keeping live statistics （计分）during basketball games. Students must meet all of the following requirements:
Good computer skills
Available evenings and weekends
Knowing basketball rules and statistics
Students interested in working for the Athletic Department should contact the Athletic Coordinator at their own campuses(校区).
TP/SS Athletic Coordinator, Michael Simone, 240-567-1308
Rockville Athletic Coordinator, Jorge Zuniga, 240-567-7589
Springfield Athletic coordinator, Gary Miller, 240-567-2273
Germantown Athletic Coordinator, Gauri Chavan, 240-567-6915
Basketball Statistician Help Wanted
The Athletic Department is looking for students to help assist staff during the Fall 2018, Winter 2018 – 2019 and Spring 2019 semesters（学期）. Students in this position will be keeping live statistics （计分）during basketball games. Students must meet all of the following requirements:
Good computer skills
Available evenings and weekends
Knowing basketball rules and statistics
Students interested in working for the Athletic Department should contact the Athletic Coordinator at their own campuses(校区).
TP/SS Athletic Coordinator, Michael Simone, 240-567-1308
Rockville Athletic Coordinator, Jorge Zuniga, 240-567-7589
Springfield Athletic coordinator, Gary Miller, 240-567-2273
Germantown Athletic Coordinator, Gauri Chavan, 240-567-6915
1.When will the job start?
A. In May 2018. B. In May 2019.
C. In September 2019. D. In September 2018.
2.Who is more likely to get the job?
A. Ted, computer major, basketball fan, free on evenings and weekends.
B. Judy, IT staff with night classes, children’s basketball team coach.
C. Sam, English major, member of the college football team.
D. Molly, part-time programmer, high school basketball player, new mother.
3.Whom should you contact if you want to apply for the job in Rockville?
A. Michael B. Jorge
C. Gauri D. Gary
书面表达
Editor’s note: China is the top country of origin for international students in the US, with more than 274,000 Chinese students reportedly accounting for 31percent of all international students at US universities. Many Chinese parents save up a lot of money for their children to pursue an overseas education. Is it worth spending big to study abroad. You are welcome to leave your comments.
Arsa (Russia): I went to study abroad when I was 17. First year was a total waste as I met plenty of Russian students in my collage and we spent most of our time shopping and hanging out at cafes. It wasn’'t until two years later that I realized that my English hadn't improved. I changed my mindset entirely and started studying hard. I ended up staying in UK for 10 years, which opened a lot of doors and introduced me to great people, so I’m all for studying abroad.
Truth (US): There is an assumption that American education is the best in the word, so Chinese parents are pushing their kids to American collages. And some are even sending their children overseas at junior or high school level. I often think this is a mistake as the education a Chinese child gets in a foreign country is very different from what they are used to and they often struggle. Some students have trouble understanding their lecturers and their assignments keep coming back with poor scores.
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1. 用约30个单词写出上文概要；
2. 用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：（1）支持或反对“国外留学”；（2）用2至3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。
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1. 可以支持文中任一观点，但必须提供理由或论据；
2. 阐述观点或提供论据时，不能直接引用原文语句；
3. 作文中不能出现其真实姓名和学校名称；
4. 不必写标题。
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1.Since 2010, much new and high technology has been introduced from abroad, _________（result）in great increase in production.
2.Listen! The song which __________（sing) is very popular with Chinese students nowadays.
3.I’m afraid I’ll have to work extra hours for there’re still many problems remaining _________ （solve）.
4.The apples __________（taste）good were soon sold out when they were taken to the market.
5.The team, ______(attempt) to climb the world’s second tallest mountain twice, finally decided to give up.
6.Difficult as the sales decline is _______ ( control ), we’re optimistic about an immediate improvement under the new regulating policy.
7.I remembered _____________（lock） the door before l left the office , but forgot to turn off
the lights .
8.---- What will the professor talk about in the next lecture?
---- In the _____________ (follow) lecture, the professor will tell us something about GM food.
9._____________(wear) out after climbing the mountains, they had to take a good rest.
10.They all appreciated _____________ (give) the opportunity to go abroad for further study.
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1.He is a bit fat, so he is very s__________ about his weight.
2.I made the a__________ of him at my friend’s wedding party.
3.His poems are a__________ in his feelings towards life.
4.It is __________ (残忍的) of him to beat his boy like that.
5.John isn’t an __________（擅长运动的）boy; he is better at reading than doing sports.
6.The driver is under a__________ for drunken driving and will have to stay in prison for 10 days.
7.The government should take some effective m__________ to deal with the transportation problem in the city as soon as possible.
8.She has had a number of different jobs, r__________ from salesgirl to chef (厨师长).
9.Of all the __________ (顾问), only John could give us some meaningful opinions.
10.Many small ___________ (冲突) between tribes finally turned into a big war between Libya and the NATO.
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注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
You can relax if remembering everything is not your strong suit. Recent research makes the case that being forgetful can be a strength—in fact, selective memory can even be a sign of stronger intelligence.
Traditional research on memory has focused on the advantages of remembering everything. But looking through years of recent memory data, researchers Paul Frankland and Blake Richards of the University of Toronto found that the neurobiology（神经生物学） of forgetting can be just as important to our decisionmaking as what our minds choose to remember.
“The goal of memory is not the transmission of information through time. Rather, the goal of memory is to help improve decisionmaking. As such, transience(转瞬即逝) is as important as persistence in memory systems，” their study in Neuron states.
Making intelligent decisions does not mean you need to have all the information at hand, it just means you need to hold onto the most valuable information. And that means clearing up space in your memory palace for the most uptodate information on situations. Our brains do this by generating new neurons(神经元) in our hippocampus(海马体), which have the power to overwrite existing memories that are influencing our decisionmaking.
“If you're trying to deal with the situation and your brain is constantly bringing up multiple conflicting memories, that makes it harder for you to make a wise decision，” Richards told Science Daily.
If you want to increase the number of new neurons in your brain's learning region, try exercising. Moderate aerobic exercise like jogging, power walking, and swimming have been found to increase the number of neurons making important connections in our brains.
When we forget the names of certain clients and details about old jobs, our brain is making a choice that these details do not matter. Although too much forgetfulness can be a cause for concern, the occasional lost detail can be a sign of a perfectly healthy memory system. The researchers found that our brains facilitate decisionmaking by stopping us from focusing too much on minor past details. Instead, the brain promotes generalization, helping us remember the most important gist of a conversation.
“One of the things that distinguishes an environment where you're going to want to remember stuff versus an environment where you want to forget stuff is this question of how consistent the environment is and how likely things are to come back into your life，” Richards said.
If you're an analyst who meets with a client weekly, your brain will recognize that this is a client whose name and story you need to remember. If this is someone you may never meet again, your brain will weigh that information accordingly.
These findings show us that total recall can be overrated. Our brains are working smarter when they aim to remember the right stories, not every story.
Title：Being Forgetful Might Actually Mean You're 1.
Introduction | Recent research proves that being forgetful can be a strength, for forgetting and selective memory are of 2.importance in our decisionmaking. | |
The goal of memory | People take advantage of memory to make good decisions rather than 3. information. | |
4. of being forgetful | It helps us forget outdated information. | ●Making wise decisions involves the existing memories making 5.for the latest information. ●Meanwhile, too much contradictory information in memory can do harm to our decisionmaking. ●Exercising helps increase neurons, contributing to our 6. decisionmaking. |
It helps us see the big 7.．
| ●After 8.the information it gets, the brain chooses to focus on the key points, occasionally forgetting unimportant past details. ●Whether to remember or forget particular stuff is 9.by the degree of the consistency of the environment and the 10. of things reappearing later in life. | |
Conclusion | Our brains are working smarter when aiming to remember the right stories, not every story. |
No one has a temper naturally so good, that it does not need attention and cultivation, and no one has a temper so bad, but that, by proper culture, it may become pleasant. One of the best disciplined tempers ever seen, was that of a gentleman who was naturally quick, irritable, rash, and violent; but, by taking care of the sick, and especially of mentally deranged(疯狂的) people, he so completely mastered himself that he was never known to be thrown off his guard.
There is no misery so constant, so upsetting, and so intolerable to others, as that of having a character which is your master. There are corners at every turn in life, against which we may run, and at which we may break out in impatience, if we choose.
Look at Roger Sherman, who rose from a humble occupation to a seat in the first Congress of the United States, and whose judgment was received with great respect by that body of distinguished men. He made himself master of his temper and cultivated it as a great business in life. There are one or two instances which show this part of his character in a light that is beautiful.
One day, after having received his highest honors, he was sitting and reading in his sitting room. A student, in a room close by, held a lookingglass in such a position as to pour the reflected rays of the sun directly in Mr Sherman's face. He moved his chair, and the thing was repeated. A third time the chair was moved, but the lookingglass still reflected the sun in his eyes. He laid aside his book, went to the window, and many witnesses of the rude behavior expected to see the ungentlemanly student severely punished. He raised the window gently, and then—shut the window blind!
I can not help providing another instance of the power he had acquired over himself. He was naturally possessed of strong passions, but over these he at length obtained an extraordinary control. He became habitually calm and selfpossessed. Mr Sherman was one of those men who are not ashamed to maintain the forms of religion in their families. One morning he called them all together as usual to lead them in prayer to God. The “old family Bible” was brought out and laid on the table.
Mr Sherman took his seat and placed beside him one of his children, a child of his old age. The rest of the family were seated around the room, several of whom were now grownups. Besides these, some of the tutors of the college were boarders in the family and were present at the time. His aged mother occupied a corner of the room, opposite the place where the distinguished Judge sat.
At length, he opened the Bible and began to read. The child who was seated beside him made some little disturbance, upon which Mr Sherman paused and told it to be still. Again he continued but again he had to pause to scold the little offender, whose playful character would scarcely permit it to be still. At this time he gently tapped its ear. The blow, if blow it might be called, caught the attention of his aged mother, who now with some effort rose from the seat and tottered across the room. At length, she reached the chair of Mr Sherman, and in a moment, most unexpectedly to him, she gave him a blow on the ear with all the force she could gather. “There，” said she, “you strike your child, and I will strike mine.”
For a moment, the blood was seen mounting to the face of Mr Sherman. But it was only for a moment and all was calm and mild as usual. He paused; he raised his glasses; he cast his eye upon his mother; again it fell upon the book from which he had been reading. Not a word escaped him; but again he calmly pursued the service, and soon sought in prayer an ability to set an example before his household which should be worthy of their imitation. Such a victory was worth more than the proudest one ever achieved on the field of battle.
1.The following sentence should be put at the beginning of Paragraph ________．The difference in the happiness which is received by the man who governs his temper and that by the man who does not is dramatic（戏剧性的，巨大的）.
A. Two B. Three
C. Four D. Five
2.How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By analyzing reasons. B. By giving examples.
C. By listing arguments. D. By comparing facts.
3.What was Roger Sherman's attitude towards his aged mother?
A. Grateful. B. Skeptical.
C. Tolerant. D. Sympathetic.
4.What can we learn about Roger Sherman?
A. He came from a distinguished family background.
B. He was not good at displaying his true inner feelings.
C. He severely punished a student who didn't behave himself.
D. He was a man conscious of the consequences of his behavior.
5.What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A. Mr Sherman's face was covered with blood.
B. Mr Sherman was seeking strength in prayer.
C. Mr Sherman was then on the point of exploding.
D. Mr Sherman was ashamed of his mother's rude behavior.
