I used to be the type of person to tell everything to my good friends.But how was I to know that they would tell my______or betray (背叛) me？If someone is my best friend, she won’t do anything to______me, right？Well, this is my personal______and you can see how I lost my best friend.
It all______about two months ago, my two closest friends and I decided to go to the ______ after work.It seemed like a perfect______.So when I got there, I saw the guy I’ve______ for many years！I just never dared to go up to him.My best friend, Nancy, arrived and______looking at him.I asked her，“Why are you always looking at him？”“Nothing.I’m just looking，”she replied.So I______all of that.We had a great time in the park.
The next day, someone told me that they were going out.I couldn’t believe it, ______ I asked her and she said it was______.They had been going out for a month.I got depression, anxiety and started going back to my bad______ like eating disorder.It was tough to hear that she ______ me only to get the boy she liked.I felt worthless, unwanted, and used.I didn’t have any close friends because they all thought I was overreacting (反应过度)．I was truly ______； everyone went to Nancy.All my secrets were out; she told everyone!
There was no other______ but to stay strong.It would make my enemies______to see me in the bottom.So I fixed myself, not for anyone else but for myself, and met______friends.Of course, with all this experience, I have to be careful about who I should______.
Trust is like a stick.______it’s broken, it can’t be fixed.If you were me，would you give Nancy a second ______？
1.A. stories B. secrets C. hobbies D. problems
2.A. hurt B. help C. destroy D. defeat
3.A. information B. expression C. thought D. experience
4.A. came B. happened C. appeared D. returned
5.A. zoo B. theater C. park D. museum
6.A. day B. place C. night D. plan
7.A. liked B. hated C. known D. missed
8.A. kept B. stopped C. tried D. avoided
9.A. heard B. forgot C. ignored D. considered
10.A. but B. so C. because D. though
11.A. impossible B. wrong C. right D. true
12.A. habits B. manners C. behaviors D. methods
13.A. accepted B. thanked C. used D. guided
14.A. alive B. alone C. afraid D. unlucky
15.A. way B. rule C. choice D. idea
16.A. smarter B. better C. faster D. stronger
17.A. former B. old C. online D. new
18.A. love B. trust C. meet D. face
19.A. Once B. Before C. Until D. Unless
20.A. gift B. look C. chance D. apology
Forgiveness
To forgive is a virtue, but no one has ever said it is easy. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of your hate. However, forgiveness is possible, and it can be surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental health. People who forgive show less sadness, anger and stress and more hopefulness, according to a recent research.
1. Try the following steps：
Calm yourself. 2. You can take a couple of breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love.
Don’t wait for an apology. Many times the person who hurt you does not intend to apologize. They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things the same way. 3. Keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean becoming friends again with the person who upset you.
Take the control away from your offender (冒犯者). Rethinking about your hurt gives power to the person who caused you pain. Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you.
4. If you understand your offender, you may realize that he or she was acting out of unawareness, fear, and even love. You may want to write a letter to yourself from your offender’s point of view.
Don’t forget to forgive yourself. 5. But it can rob you of your selfconfidence if you don’t do it.
A．Why should you forgive?
B．How should you start to forgive?
C．Recognize the benefits of forgiveness.
D．Try to see things from your offender’s angle.
E．For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge.
F．To make your anger die away, try a simple stressmanagement technique.
G．If you wait for people to apologize, you could be waiting an awfully long time.
Northern California’s national parks appear pure and clean, almost untouched. But scientists are finding that there is more to this wild area than one can see. Even in the deep forests and on the mountain tops, animals may be poisoned by pesticides (杀虫剂) used in valley farms far below.
Researchers with the United States Geological Survey (美国地质勘探局) are working late into the night. They are searching for and catching frogs in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. The Pacific chorus frog (拟蝗蛙) breeds in the high mountains just as the snow melts. The pools basically fill with meltwater, and as soon as the ponds melt the chorus frogs begin breeding there. Some Pacific chorus frogs in the mountains of California have tested positive for farming pesticides.
Gary Fellers is a researcher who once worked for the USGS. He and other team members are collecting the frogs to test them for agricultural poisons. No one farms in these forested national parks. However, winds carry chemicals from the Central Valley farming area into the mountains.
Kelly Smalling was the lead writer of the USGS study. “The decline of amphibians (两栖动物) has been documented for decades and decades. Some populations have gone extinct. And why these populations are declining is still a mystery.” Ms. Smalling says pesticides could be harming frogs and other amphibians.
The researchers tested pond water and soil from the bottom of the ponds. They were clean or almost free of pesticides. But tests on the bodies of the frogs showed the presence of 12 agricultural pesticides.
The concentration on the frog becomes greater than the concentration that is present on the water or some other part of the environment. Kelly Smalling says the next step is to find a way to deal with the pollution. “The first thing we need to do is understand how these chemicals that we’re finding harm the frogs. We have to understand the problem before we can fix it.”
1.Animals in Northern California’s national parks ________.
A. are well protected
B. are killed by air pollution
C. are harmed by pesticides
D. will be sent to the farms in the valley
2.According to the text, the Pacific chorus frogs ________.
A. breed when it snows
B. are only found in the ocean
C. are studied by the scientists
D. are free from the farming pesticides
3.What will the researchers do next?
A. Keep the pond clean.
B. Deal with the pollution.
C. Find new homes for the frogs.
D. Search for and catch the frogs.
She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa.
The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre Museum where it is housed.
“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago，”the museum said.Visitors have noticed changes, but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy.Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current (现在的) chemical state.
Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile.“It’s very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then, you look at her and she stops，”said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University.“It’s because direct vision (视觉) is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows.Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.”
However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile.Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis Ⅰ in 1519.
In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre Museum by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat.He said he planned to return it to Italy.The painting was sent back to France two years later.
During World War Ⅱ， French men hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.
Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell.
1.The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means the Mona Lisa________.
A. is losing its value
B. is being damaged after so many years
C. is getting more valuable with years passing
D. will rot away
2.The smile of the Mona Lisa can only be seen ________.
A. by indirect vision B. at a distance
C. by direct vision D. in shadows
3.From the last paragraph, we can infer that ________.
A. many interesting stories have been written about the Mona Lisa
B. people are interested in the stories about the Mona Lisa
C. some mysteries still remain to be solved about the Mona Lisa
D. many more stories will be told about the Mona Lisa
4.Experts haven’t had any repairs on the Mona Lisa because ________.
A. it is now in a poor chemical state
B. they don’t know how to replace the wooden panel
C. they don’t have the materials Da Vinci used
D. they are afraid it will be done further damage
♦Yuanxiao, Chinese Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival ends the New Year’s celebration. It is a fun festival. People carry lanterns and go into the streets at night to watch lion or dragon dances, play games and light firecrackers. Yuanxiao, a sweet dumpling made of rice flour, is the traditional food eaten during the festival. In Chinese, the festival is named after this food, which is said to represent family unity and happiness because it is sticky (粘的), round and sweet.
♦The Dai WaterSplashing Festival
The Dai minority in Yunnan celebrate the WaterSplashing Festival in the middle of April. The festival celebrates the Dai Lunar New Year and lasts for three days. There are dragon races and fireworks displays on the first day and a fair on the second day. At the fair, young lovers throw love pouches to each other. The third day is the actual watersplashing day, people splash water on each other to wash away illnesses and bad luck and bring good luck for the coming year.
♦Losar
Losar is a Tibetan word for New Year.“Lo” means “year” and “sar” means “new”. As the most popular festival among Tibetans, it is celebrated from the first day in the first month to the fifteenth day based on the traditional Tibetan calendar.
On the last day of the year, people clean their houses and prepare for the festival. On the first day of the New Year, Tibetan women usually wake up early at about 5 o’clock, and prepare for a special kind of barley wine for the family which have tsamba (糌粑), brown sugar, and milk dregs (渣). The whole family have to drink the wine in their beds and then continue to sleep, while the housewives sit in front of their windows, waiting for the sunrise. As soon as they see the sun rays in the east, they go to the well for the first bucket of water in the New Year. It is said that water in the well is the freshest and sweetest at this time and the family who get the lucky water earliest will be the most fortunate.
1.People eat yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival because ________.
A. it is the traditional food and has its symbolic meaning
B. it is delicious and easy to be made
C. it is sticky, round and sweet
D. it is made of rice flour
2.What can we know from Paragraph 2 about the word “fair”？
A. Young people splash water on each other at the fair.
B. It is the time when young people have meetings.
C. Young people find their lovers there.
D. Young people sing and dance there to celebrate the festival.
3.How many days does Tibetan Losar last?
A. 2 B. 3
C. 15 D. 25
4.The passage is mainly about________.
A. the culture and custom in China
B. the reason why people celebrate festivals
C. several festivals in China
D. the history of three festivals in China
Back in the old days, there were three wise men in ancient Greece. These three wise men were from three different generations. Socrates was the oldest of the three. He passed his knowledge to his student, Plato, who then passed it on to Aristotle. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all great philosophers (哲学家). Together, their schools of thought have since become the foundation of Western philosophy.
Aristotle was born in 384 BC. His father, Nicomachus, was a doctor to the king of Macedonia. As the son of a doctor, Aristotle was no stranger to science. Growing up, he learned quite a lot about medicine and biology from his father. Later, after Nicomachus passed away, he was sent to study in Plato’s Academy in Athens. Aristotle was about eighteen years old then.
Plato’s Academy was Europe’s first university. It offered courses on various subjects. Shortly after Aristotle began his study there, he devoted himself to learning everything on the curriculum. He soon proved himself an excellent student. Because of his wide range of interests, Aristotle never limited his range of education. As a result, he became the leading expert in many fields. Philosophy was simply one of them. Aristotle was in the Academy for nearly 20 years. He first joined as a student and then stayed on as a teacher. By the time that Plato died around 347 BC, Aristotle had already built up a very good name for himself. However, he did not get the job as the head of the Academy. That post went to Plato’s nephew. Some people believed that Aristotle felt angry at the choice. But there is no proof to that theory. Regardless of what he had truly felt, Aristotle decided to leave Athens. So in 347 BC, he quit the Academy and went to work for Hermeias, ruler of Atarneus, in Asia Minor (today’s Turkey). Aristotle was not alone in this time. He and another Academy member, Xenocrates, who was also a famous philosopher, founded the Assus Academy. They taught there for several years. During his stay in Atarneus, Aristotle was on very good terms with Hermeias. He even married the man’s niece, Pythias. Interestingly, when Aristotle later wrote his famous book, Politics, he said that the ideal ages for marriage was 37 for the husband and 18 for the wife. Given that Aristotle was 37 years old at the time, it is very likely that Pythias was 18.
1.Which of the following is NOT a philosopher?
A. Socrates. B. Xenocrates.
C. Plato. D. Nicomachus.
2.What’s the right order of the following events?
a．Socrates passed his knowledge to his student, Plato.
b．Aristotle was sent to Plato’s Academy.
c．Aristotle wrote his famous book, Politics.
d．Aristotle learned about medicine and biology from his father.
e．Plato died.
A. a, c, b, d, e B. a, d, b, e, c
C. d, a, c, b, e D. b, a, e, c, d
3.According to the passage we can know in Plato’s Academy________.
A. students were provided with only a few subjects at that time
B. Aristotle worked hard but he was still not famous
C. Aristotle didn’t have a very good time for 20 years
D. Aristotle was not only a student but also became a teacher
4.The passage mainly tells us ________.
A. some information about Aristotle
B. three wise men in ancient Greece
C. the foundation of Western philosophy
D. Europe’s first university
