Going on a trip into ______ space must be quite ______ exciting experience.
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2012伦敦残奥会the 2012 London Paralympic Games已进入筹备工作，伦敦奥组委现向世界各地招募志愿者，招募具体情况见海报。
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VOLUNTEER POST We are looking for applications for the following posts: *translator or interpreter *social volunteer *stadium volunteer *transportation volunteer the 2012 Olympic Committee |
假如你是李华，17岁，现是银川一中高三年级的一名学生，请根据上面海报中自己感兴趣的一个志愿者工作给伦敦残奥委写回信，应征其中的一项志愿者工作。回信要求包括如下内容：
1、个人信息：名字（Li Hua），年龄，身份；
2、你的性格特点；
3、你的兴趣、爱好、特长；
4、你的相关经历。
注意：信的开头、结尾已经给出(不计入词数)
Dearthe 2012 London Paralympic Committee,
I am writing to apply for a position at your Volunteer Post. _______________________________________________________________________________
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I am looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
I like eating fruit and vegetables what are of great benefit to our healthy. Not only do they prevent us from falling into ill, but they help us lose weight. I used to hate vegetables, but follow the doctor’s advice, I gradually kicked the bad habit. Just as an old saying going, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. However, there are still many children dislike fruit and vegetables. On contrary, influenced by this or that kind of advertisement, many were crazy about junk food. Consequently, they become weaker and weaker instead of getting strong. In my opinion, we must take action to change them.
Empathy
Last year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years. __71__ Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.
Jennifer Freed, a co-director of a teen program, has another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. __72__
There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature. __73__ Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.
Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers. __74__ “Academics are important. But if you don’t have emotional intelligence, you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life,” she says.
What’s the best way to up your EQ (情商）? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. __75__
To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.
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A．Everyone is different, and levels of empathy differ from person to person. |
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B．Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human—and having empathy is decisive to those relationships. |
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C．Humans learn by example—and most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic. |
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D．“One doesn’t develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says. |
E. Empathy is a matter of learning how to understand someone else—both what they think and how they feel.
F. Good social skills—including empathy—are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life.
G. That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said.
A new study suggests that the roundtheclock availability that cell phones have brought to people's lives may take a toll on family life. The study，which followed more than 1,300 adults over 2 years, found that those who consistently used a mobile phone throughout the study period were more likely to report negative “spillover” between work and home life—and，in turn，less satisfaction with their family life.
Spillover essentially(本质上)means that the line between work and home begins to become unclear. Work life may invade home life when a parent is taking jobrelated calls at home，for instance—or family issues may start to take up work time. For example，a child may call mum at work，telling her “microwave exploded”，explained Noelle Chesley，an assistant professor of sociology at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee and the author of the study. The problem with cell phones seems to be that they are allowing for even more spillover between work and home.
This may be especially true for working women，the study found. Among men，consistent use of mobile phones seemed to allow more work issues to creep (潜入)into family time. But for women，the spillover tended to go in both directions. Being “connected” meant that work cut into home time，and family issues came into work life.
Cell phones seem to be opening more lines for stressful exchanges among family members. But there may be ways to control the spillover，according to Chesley. Employers, she said，could look at their policies on contacting employees after hours to make sure their expectations are “reasonable”．For their part，employees could decide that cell phones go off during family time, Chesley said.
1.What does the underlined phrase “take a toll on” probably mean in Paragraph 1?
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B．Founding. |
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D．Damaging. |
2.According to Chesley，what is the best solution to the problem caused by cell phones?
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A．Separate work hours from family time. |
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B．Refuse to use cell phones. |
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C．Ignore coming calls during family time. |
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D．Encourage women to stay at home. |
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
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A．cell phones affect men as much as women |
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B．cell phones seem to be convenient to families |
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C．cell phones make the line between work and home unclear |
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D．we can do nothing to solve the problem |
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
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A．How to control the negative spillover caused by cell phones. |
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B．How work life invades home life. |
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C．Consistent use of cell phones makes people feel less satisfied with their work. |
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D．Cell phones cause negative “spillover” between work life and home life. |
Inside the pleasingly fragrant cafe, So All May Eat(SAME) in downtown Denver ,the spirit ofgenerosityis instantly noticeable :donation box stands in place of a cash register. Customers here pay only what they can afford, no questions asked.A risky business plan, perhaps, but SAME Café has done one unchangeable thing in the Mile High City for six years: Open only at midday, the restaurant allows poor local customers who cannot pay to work as volunteers instead. They can act as waiters and waitresses, and dishwashers, or look after the buildings and equipment for the cafe.
It’s based on trust, and it’s working all right”, says co-owner Brad Birky, who started the café in 2006. Previously volunteering at soup kitchens, the Birkys were dissatisfied with the often unhealthy meals they served there. “We wanted to offer quality food in a restaurant where everyone felt comfortable, regardless of their circumstances,” Birky says. SAME’s special lunch menu changes
daily and most food materials are natural and grown by local farmers. The café now averages 65 to 70 customers (and eight volunteers) a day. And the spirit of generosity behind the project appears to be spreading. In early 2007,one volunteer who had cleared snow for his meals during t he long
winter said goodbye to the Birkys, He said he was going to New Orleans to help with the hurricane clearing up,” says Birky.
1.What can we learn about the soup kitchens the Birkys previously worked for?
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A．They refused to have volunteers. |
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B．They offered low quality food. |
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C．They provided customers with a good environment. |
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D．They closed down because of poor management. |
2.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
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A．The customers who cannot pay can work as volunteers instead. |
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B．More volunteers will go to new Orleans for the hurricane cleanup. |
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C．Many new cafes will be opened to offer free lunches in the town. |
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D．The lunch menu has remained the same since the café was started. |
3.The author’s attitude towards running such a café is_______
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A．unfavorable |
B．doubtful |
C．cautious |
D．approving |
