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November isn’t the only time when people come together to raise money for good causes. Here are three other major charity events from around the world. Race for Life, UK What started off as a race of 680 women in a London park in 1994 to raise money for a cancer charity has now turned into a massive nationwide event, with thousands of women up and down the UK taking part every year. Known for dressing head to toe in pink, participants raise money for breast cancer research by being sponsored to take part in marathons, which are organized all year round. Since it began, more than 8 million women have taken part, raising over ￡547 million for Cancer Research UK. 40-Hour Famine(饥饿)，Australia Normally taking place in mid-August, this program encourages young Australians to give something up for 40 hours in order to raise awareness of less fortunate youths around the world. Participants raise money which is donated to good causes worldwide, by giving something up for the weekend, including the use of technology(TVs, computers, smartphones and so on), or even food. Since it began in 1975, World Vision Australia, the event’s organizer, has raised over ＄200 million. AIDS /Life Cycle, US Each year, thousands of people ride the 545-mile route from San Francisco to Los Angeles in order to raise money and awareness for HIV (AIDS-related causes). Cyclists make the trip over seven days, stopping each night at designated camps to shower, eat and relax. The mainly male riders are known for their colorful riding sportswear, with some dressing as nuns(修女), cowboys or even in bikinis. The event has raised around ＄100 million since it began in 2001. 【1】Which activity aims to help less fortunate youths? A.Race for Life, UK B.AIDS /Life Cycle, US C.40-Hour Famine, Australia D.Worldwide Marathons 【2】What do the cyclists mainly do in the AIDS /Life Cycle trip? A.Advertise for a brand sports suit. B.Cycle in the daytime and rest at night. C.Talk with local cowboys in camps. D.Research into the causes of AIDS. 【3】What do the three events have in common? A.All the participants give something away to the poor. B.They have all drawn people’s attention to cancer and AIDS. C.All the participants donate what they have to charity. D.They are all held to raise money for people in need. |
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83-year-old Antonio Vicente has spent the last four decades of his life fighting against the trend. As Brazilian landowners cut down rain forests to make room for profitable plantations(种植园) and cattle grounds , he struggled to bring the jungles of his childhood back to life. “When I was a child, the peasants cut down the trees to make grasslands and charcoal, and the water dried up and did not come back,” he told the reporters. “I thought:‘Water is valuable, no one makes water and the population will not stop growing. What is going to happen? We are going to run out of water.’” With only some donkeys and a small team of hired workers, Antonio Vicente set about bringing back the forest to his land. What started out as a weekend hobby soon became a permanent way of life , and Antonio recalls often spending whole days and nights in his young jungle, surrounded by rats and foxes, and eating banana sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Over the last 40 years, he has planted an estimated 50,000 trees on his 31-hectare land, which now make up a small but unique area of rain forest, and a haven for wildlife. As the forest grew, the water returned, and Antonio says that there are now over 20 water sources on his land that were no longer there when he bought it. Then the animals started making a home there. Today, the forest is alive with the sounds of birds and insects living there, and more species are settling in every year. “There are toucans(巨嘴鸟)，all kinds of birds, squirrels, lizards, and even the boars are returning,” 83-year-old Vicente says. “If you ask me who my family are, I would say all this right here, each one of these that I planted from a seed.” 【1】What do we know about Antonio Vicente? A.He is a Brazilian landowner. B.He worked on his land alone. C.He brought some jungles back to life. D.He had no family except some animals. 【2】What do we learn about the Brazilian peasants? A.They wasted much water on farming. B.They focused on short-term profits. C.They cared much about the environment. D.They relied heavily on rain forests for a living. 【3】What does the underlined word “haven” in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A.Trap. B.Disaster. C.Shelter. D.Balance. 【4】In the last paragraph, Antonio mainly expresses his______ . A.thanks for his family B.affection for his forest C.deep love for rare birds D.pride as a successful farmer |
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It’s surprising how much simple movement of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights. So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We’re all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive(认知的) performance or is it just a feeling? Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people’s powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn thought to have close attention to detail. What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who weren’t. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test (one way of measuring attention). The researchers call the effect “enclothed cognition,” suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many different ways. This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef’s hat make the restaurant food taste better? From now on I will only be editing articles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown(学位服). 【1】Which of the following statements is True? A.Crossing one’s arms makes one more powerful. B.Body moment can influence the way we think. C.People wearing white coats always do things better. D.The author likes wearing white coats while editing articles. 【2】Adam and Galinsky’s experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers’ . A.insights B.movements C.attention D.appearance 【3】How does the author sound in the last paragraph? A.Academic. B.Humorous. C.Formal. D.Hopeful, 【4】What is the main idea of the text? A.Body movement plays a big role in the way people think. B.How people dress has an influence on their feelings. C.What people wear can affect their cognitive performance. D.People doing different jobs should wear different clothes. |
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When you install an app on your smartphone, you’re often asked whether you’d like to share your list of contacts with that app. That might be a convenient way to connect with friends and family, but it also means you’re giving away their personal information to the app developers. And that personal information could end up being used to create so-called “shadow profiles” of your contacts —even if they don’t use that app or social media service. Shadow profiles appeared as a potential problem in 2011 when an Ireland-based advocacy (辩护) group accused Facebook of gathering information on non-users, including names, email addresses and phone numbers. The following year researchers showed that social network companies such as Facebook could use machine learning to pretty accurately predict whether two non-members known by the same member also know one another. And a recent study in the journal Science Advances raises the stakes. In that work, David Garcia, chairman of systems design at the sci-tech university ETH , used a social network member’s personal information to infer relationship status and sexual orientation (倾向) of the members’ contacts who did not have their own user accounts on that social networking site. He was able to do that using data from the Friendster social networking site. He says he chose those two attributes—relationship status and sexual orientation—because they can carry important privacy consequences and were both available in the Friendster data set. Garcia is careful to point out that he didn’t prove that shadow profiles exist, just that they can be created. His work also reminds us how much we wind up giving away online-- about ourselves and about the people in our lives. 【1】According to Paragraph 3, “shadow profiles” meant to collect . A.some users’ information B.some non-users’ information C.some social networking sites D.some social network companies 【2】What does the underlined part “raises the stakes” in Paragraph 4 mean? A.use personal data B.predict accurately C.provide more evidence D.infer personal information 【3】Which of the following is not right? A.Shadow profiles don’t exist. B.Shadow profiles can be created C.Contacts’ information can be predicted D.Our information can be given away online 【4】What is Garcia’s attitude towards his work? A.Positive B.Negative C.Diligent D.Cautious |
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When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you’re at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. 【1】 Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive thing in modern life: the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to control their longing to touch it the moment they open their eyes. 【2】 However, I don’t mean just the monthly bill. Dr. Chris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: 【3】Besides, it has also become an escape from reality. Sounds extreme, but we’ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, 【4】. Jim Williams is an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts. He has done lots of researches on using cell phone. His study shows that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points out in a study that one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. 【5】 “Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends.” he says, A.And most of them don’t have many friends. B.When you get into a lift, you play with it. C.Cell phones are becoming more and more useful. D.The costs are becoming more and more evident. E.avoiding contact with kids all around him F.It has become a barrier to one-on-one personal contact. G.paying attention to the real world |
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A few years ago, I decided to read a novel or a short story collection from every country in the world. But when it_______to reading the world, the biggest _______ for me was that I didn’t know what to read and how to get the books. I had to turn to others for _______.In October, I _______ my blog and posted a short appeal online. I explained who I was, how_______ my reading had been, and I asked anyone who _______ to leave a message suggesting what I might read from other parts of the planet. I had no idea _______ anyone would be interested, but within a few days people started to get in _______. Books often came from surprising _______. People gave me different ideas about what to do, I got a message from a woman called Rafidah in Malaysia. She said she loved my project and that she could go to her __________English—language bookshop and __________ a book I needed and post it to me. I accepted __________, and a few weeks later, a package arrived, __________ not one, but two books —Rafidah’s from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also __________for me. I was__________that a stranger more than 6000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never meet. But Rafidah’s __________proved to be the pattern for that year. I was deeply __________ by these kind-hearted strangers around the world and I know it’s the power of books that has __________us across the world. I hope more people will __________ me. If we all read more __________ ,we would all be richer for that. 【1】A.read B.came C.sold D.put 【2】A.doubt B.advantage C.challenge D.progress 【3】A.praise B.help C.comment D.apology 【4】A.requested B.organized C.decorated D.registered 【5】A.narrow B.obvious C.normal D.steady 【6】A.chose B.learned C.passed D.cared 【7】A.what B.that C.whether D.which 【8】A.touch B.influence C.concern D.effect 【9】A.customs B.packets C.sources D.shops 【10】A.latest B.local C.special D.private 【11】A.change B.consider C.serve D.choose 【12】A.generally B.anxiously C.enthusiastically D.calmly 【13】A.creating B.containing C.including D.supporting 【14】A.found out B.carried out C.looked out D.picked out 【15】A.amazed B.attracted C.confused D.discouraged 【16】A.kindness B.happiness C.politeness D.brightness 【17】A.puzzled B.stuck C.moved D.warned 【18】A.accessed B.connected C.recognized D.remembered 【19】A.show B.offer C.judge D.join 【20】A.widely B.safely C.suddenly D.quickly |
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You will meet many people in school, in college and at work. They’ll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes. To them, life is a【1】 (compete)—they have to do【2】(good)than their peer(同龄人)to be happy. Here’s a secret: life isn’t a match. It’s a journey. If you spend it always 【3】(try) to impress others, you’re wasting your life. Instead, learn to enjoy the journey. Make it a journey of happiness of continual improvement, and filled【4】love. Don’t worry about having a nicer car or house or anything material, or even 【5】 better-paying job. None of them matters, and none of them will make you happier. You’ll acquire these【6】(thing) and then only want more. Instead, learn to be 【7】(satisfy) with having enough and then use the time 【8】would have been wasted to try to earn money to buy those things. Find your passion, and go after it【9】(constant). Don’t work for only paying the bills. Life is too short 【10】(waste) on a job you hate. |
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假定你是李华，是某外同语学校的学生会主席。最近，你校发起了“消除不良行为习惯”的活动。请你代表学生会写一封倡议书。内容包括： 1. 列举学生的不良行为习惯(迟到、乱扔垃圾、缺失礼仪等)； 2. 好习惯的重要性(决定命运，传承美德等)； 3. 发出倡议。 注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考同汇：礼仪etiquette ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ |
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