Unit 1 A new start 知识点题库

    I began smoking at 13, with a friend in the evenings when we were out. I never thought of the damage it brought me. But I had a bad cough after a cold, and my teeth weren't as white as my sister's, who never smoked. I no longer played any sports. Since all my friends smoked, I never felt different.

    I met and married my husband Paul when we were 22，both smoking like chimneys (烟囱). I had two children by the time I was 26, and life went on as normal. We smoked around our children, never thinking it would be doing them any harm. They both begged us to stop when they learned about the hazards of smoking. We just rolled our eyes at each other.

    My parents quit smoking, and my aunts quit smoking, but they were older. I had lots of time to quit in my life. Paul's mother died of a heart attack at only 55, after suffering two diseases caused by smoking. And still we smoked.

    At the age of 36, I had a child with a breathing problem. We moved outside to smoke, as she had such trouble breathing, and we didn't want to add to that!

    Then my father died a few years later of cancer throughout his body. Still I smoked, even as he asked me on his deathbed to try to stop. I did mean to, but I thought that I had too many worries to deal with. How would I face them without a smoke? Little did I know then that the smoking was only adding to my inability (无能) to deal with trouble, clouding my whole world in smoke.

    Then Paul had an extremely serious problem in his heart because of a condition caused by smoking. Finally, I decided to quit smoking. I knew I'd suffer greatly too if I kept smoking. Paul decided to join me, of course. He had no choice if he didn't want to die.

    Luckily, we made it. Now I have enough energy, a joy in living, and more confidence than ever before.

When you are about to go to a boarding school in England, there are many different questions that may come to mind. But once you look at them with some perspective, you will certainly feel easy. Here is a normal boarding day.

Early Morning：

Usually boarders get up around 7:00 am and have around an hour to take a shower and put on their uniform before breakfast.

Lessons：

Classes start at 9:00 am and every lesson lasts for 50 minutes. After two lessons, at 10：40 am, you'll have a short break. The next period of classes will include two more lessons.

Lunch：

Lunch is usually held around 12:30 pm at the dining hall, where you'll join your friends to enjoy a hot dish. After an hour of lunch, you'll have three or four more lessons to attend.

Dinner：

At 5:00 pm you will have finished your school lessons for the day. Most boarding schools in the UK offer their full boarders different kinds of hot meals to choose from.

Activities/ Sports：

All boarding schools in the UK provide many different kinds of activities for their boarders, such as football, swimming, golf or art.

Prep：

An important part of boarding school life is the supervised homework session known as "prep". Although prep might sound stressful, it's a great way for you to keep up with your studies.

Free time：

Once you have done all your classes and activities, it's time to relax.

Bedtime：

In most boarding schools, the lights go out around 10：30 pm.

Being nervous just before you go to a boarding school is completely normal and understandable. Hopefully, being aware of the usual routine you'll be following can help you. Once you are there, you will also see how exciting life in a boarding school in England can be.

"Farm to table" is the name of a movement that encourages people to eat locally grown food. The farm ­to­table idea has become more popular in recent years. But there is also a movement that brings "table to farm". Its purpose is to connect people to the land and to honor local farmers by creating a sort of restaurant without walls.

Its founder, Jim Denevan, got the idea for this kind of "culinary adventure (美食探险)", as he called it, ten years ago. He recently prepared tables for more than a hundred people at Briars Farm in Virginia. He and his eight ­member team arrived the night before. Chefs (厨师) from a local restaurant prepared the dinner.

Jim Denevan's brother is a farmer and he himself is a chef. He thought that the idea of a meal served right on the farm made sense, though not everyone agreed.

"But I wanted to make the idea work, so I decided to cross the country," said Denevan. "I went all the way across the United States and set the table on farms, ranches (大牧场) and beaches, and all the places where food came from."

"This kind of event connects us with a lot of enthusiastic people, people that we can form relationships with," said Matt Szechenyi, who operates Briars Farm.

The tour of the farm ends at the dinner table. The meats in the meal come from Matt Szechenyi's farm. The vegetables come from nearby farms. Guests and local farmers sit together.

Annoica Ingram came with a friend. "The food is wonderful. I appreciate their hard work. I see everything they have to do to take care of the animals and make sure they are well­ cared ­for. Without them, I think, we'll have big problems，" she said.

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When your boss calls and tells you to send $100,000 to a supplier, be on your toes. It could be a fake call. As if fake emails weren't enough, on the rise now is the deep fake audio (虚假音频) that can be cloned to sound almost real and perfect and is easy to create. "It's on the rise, and something to watch out for," says Vijay Balasubramaniyan, the CEO of a company called Pindrop.

Balasubramaniyan stated during a safety meeting how easy it is to use machine to create sentences that a person probably never said from recorded words. "All you need is five minutes of audio, and you can create fake audio," says Balasubramaniyan. Then, he showed a database (数据库) of voices, typed a sentence, and connected it to a famous people's name on the list. A few seconds later, he clicked "play", and it sounded quite real.

More costly are fake phone calls, where cheaters are able to fake the phone number of real contacts and make calls that result in workers sending off lots of money. He mentioned the example of a United Kingdom energy company in 2019 that got attacked by deep fake audio in a call that asked a worker to send $243,000 to a supplier. Reported by the Wall Street Journal, the worker was directed to pay it within an hour.

Balasubramaniyan says if you were to get that kind of call from a "boss" be doubtful and ask to call back right away to prove authenticity (真实性). Besides this, in his opinion, companies need to use more safety measures for keeping up with deep fake artificial intelligence (AI) that produces phone calls and software to check authenticity versus fake calls. "This is a threat that's waiting to happen," he says. "It's a very small number now, but it's very real."

Screen time before bedtime may leave people feeling sleepy in the morning. Cell phones, computers and TVs emit (发出) blue light. And exposure to that bluish light during the two hours before bed can keep us from getting a good night's rest, a new study finds. It cuts down on the length of people's sleep. It also leaves them feeling tired in the morning and can disrupt the body clock. Data shows that this blue light tends to make us more alert at night, making it harder to get all the rest we need.

Green and his team surveyed 19 people — all in their 20s — for a sleep study. All spent two hours on a computer right before bedtime. But they didn't all experience the same light exposure. Looking at screens that gave off intense blue light cut someone's sleep by about 16 minutes, compared to when they had used screens with red light. Those exposed to blue light also woke up more often at night than if they had been exposed to red light.

"The normal blue light emissions from the computer screen also affect how much melatonin (褪黑素) each volunteer makes. It is released into our blood around 9 p. m. When our bodies make less melatonin, we may still feel too alert at bedtime to fall asleep when the body is tired. And body temperature won't drop as expected after we use devices emitting lots of blue light. Using screens before bed damages the body's biological clock," Green says. "More and more kids are using screens nowadays. Sleep is important, especially during the first few years of life when 'neural plasticity' (神经可塑性) is at its greatest. Their brains are still developing the ability to learn and pay attention. That makes the new results worrisome," Green says.

Rahman says that the new work makes a good point about how blue light from screens can be bad for our bodies. However, he points out, the light in this study is extremely bright. It is far brighter than what a normal computer, tablet or TV will emit. Still, Rahman says the results remind us to think about how we should use screens before bed.

I was recently involved in a bad traffic accident. I was knocked unconscious by the impact so I don't1anything about the accident. My first memory is being given oxygen as the doctors and nurses tried to 2 me back to life.

As I lay in the emergency room, I found myself 3 my life and thanking God that I was still 4. The good news is that nobody else was 5.

Since that day, the physical recovery has been 6 but not as tough as the emotional recovery. I've learned a lot about myself and about what really 7 in this world. Things that are really important are not "things". I'm not invincible(无敌的)and I cannot8 everything that happens in my life. I need to be better at 9 the things that come into my way that I didn't plan for. As someone who was always in a10, it taught me to slow down a little. I have learned to live each day honestly and 11.

12 I continue to heal physically and emotionally，I have a different opinion on 13. When tragedy strikes, you can either let it 14 your spirit，or use it as an opportunity to grow. I have chosen to 15 from it.

Which club you want to join .