You may actually()more problems when using public transport, simply because you have less control over events.
A.face
B.see
C.encounter(遇到)
A.face
B.see
C.encounter(遇到)
Take the【C4】______example of a hairdryer.
If you are buying a hairdryer, you might【C5】______that you are making the【C6】______buy if you choose one【C7】______look you like and which is also the cheapest【C8】______price. But when you get it home you may find that it【C9】______twice as long as a more expensive【C10】______to dry your hair. The cost of the electricity plus the cost of your time could well【C11】______your hairdryer the most expensive one of all.
So what principles should you【C12】______when you go out shopping?
If you【C13】______your home, your ear or any valuable【C14】______in excellent condition, you'll be saving money in the long【C15】______
Before you buy a new【C16】______, talk to someone who owns one. If you can, use it or borrow it to check if it suits your particular【C17】______
Before you buy an expensive【C18】______, or a service, do cheek the price and【C19】______is on offer. If possible, choose【C20】______three items or three estimates.
【C1】
A.form
B.fashion
C.way
D.method
You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears but with your whole body. Few people can listen to music that is more or less familiar without moving their body or more specifically, some part of their body. Often when one listens to a symphonic concert on the radio, he is tempted to direct the orchestra even though he knows them is a competent conductor on the job.
Strange as this behavior. may be, there is a very good mason for it. One cannot derive all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance. The listener "feels" himself into the music with more or less noticeable motions of his body.
The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same way, but this participation is less obvious because it is less noticeable.
Some psychologists maintain that thinking is ______.
A.not a mental process
B.more of a physical process than a mental action
C.a process that involves our entire bodies
D.a process that involves the muscles as well as the brain
Take the【C4】______example of a hairdryer. If you are buying a hairdryer, you might【C5】______that you are making the【C6】______buy if you choose one【C7】______look you like and which is also the cheapest【C8】______price. But when you get it home you may find that it【C9】______twice as long as a more expensive【C10】______to dry your hair. The cost of the electricity plus the cost of your time could well【C11】______your hairdryer the most expensive one of all.
So what principles should you【C12】______when you go out shopping?
If you【C13】______your home, your car or any valuable【C14】______in excellent condition, you'll be saving money in the long【C15】______.
Before you buy a new【C16】______, talk to someone who owns one. If you can, use it or borrow it to check if it suits your particular【C17】______.
Before you buy an expensive【C18】______, or a service, do check the price and【C19】______is on offer. If possible, choose【C20】______three items or three estimates.
【C1】
A.form
B.fashion
C.way
D.method
What gets in the way of accurate listening? When we're worried about what we're hearing or might hear next or what we might have to do about what we hear, we may very well receive a【C9】______ message.【C10】______ that we will have to "fix it" or "control it" causes us to listen with "filters". We may want to express our own point of view. We may also want to avoid being【C11】______ or being drawn into a conflict, so we【C12】______ . what we hear, because we're already thinking about what we'll say next. It then becomes impossible to hear the speaker's true meaning. Clearly in our workplaces, families and friendship, if we【C13】______ what we think we heard instead of what was actually said, the【C14】______ of the message we received will result in responses that aren't【C15】______ . On the other side, if others don't hear us accurately, we won't feel valued.
If you want to connect with others and take appropriate actions, you must learn to listen with curiosity, empathy and a deep appreciation for the feelings, reality and creativity of another. You need to ask for【C16】______ and not【C17】______ conclusions. You need to pay close attention and "mirror" back what you hear rather than listening【C18】______ while thinking of other things or listening through filters,【C19】______ or expectations that limit or distort the message's【C20】______ meaning. We build trust when others know we understand and value them.
【C1】
A.result in
B.lead to
C.stem from
D.bring about
Questions are based on the following passage.Knowing that you are paid less than your pee
Questions are based on the following passage.
Knowing that you are paid less than your peers has two effects on happiness.One is negative: athinner pay packet hurts self-esteem (自尊).The other is called the "tunnel" effect: the income gap isseen as improving your own chances of similar riches.
A paper co-authored by Felix FitzRoy of the University of St.Andrews separates the two effectsusing data from household surveys in Germany.Previous work showed that the income of others canhave a small, or even positive, overall effect on employees" satisfaction in individual finns in Denmarkor in very dynamic economies, such as Eastern Europe.But Mr.FitzRoy"s tean~ proposed that olderworkers, who largely know their lifetime incomes already, will enjoy a much smaller tunnel effect.Thenegative effect on reported levels of happiness of being paid less than your peers is not visible for peopleaged under 45.In western Germany, seeing peers" incomes rising actually makes young people happier.It is only those people over 45, when careers have "reached a stable position", whose happiness is harmed by the success of others.
The prospect of more than 20 years of hard work might make retirement seem more attractive.Those with jobs are no happier after they retire, however, perhaps because their lives already agree with social expectations.Unemployment is known to damage happiness because not working falls shortof social expectations.Pensions or increased leisure time cannot make up for the loss of social acceptance.Unemployed people are dissatisfied with their life not only because they have lowerincomes, but also because they may get low and negative recognition from others.
Indeed, retiring early from work can have side-effects.Another paper, co-authored by AndreasKuhn of the University of Zurich, investigates the effect of a change in Austrian employment-insurancerules that allow blue-collar workers earlier retirement in some regions than others.Men retiring a yearearly lower their chance of surviving to age 67 by 13%.Almost a third of this higher death rate seemed
to be concentrated among those who were forced into early retirement by job loss.The death wascaused by smoking and alcohol consumption.If you"re in a job, even when you are paid less, hang on in there.
One of the effects of lower pay than your peers‘ is that().
A.it can motivate you to struggle for a similar salary
B.it can inspire you to argue with your manager
C.it may make you feel proud of your peers
D.it may force you to quit your current work
So what principles should you 6 when you go out shopping? If you keep your home, your car or any valuable 7 in excellent condition, you&39;ll be saving money in the long run. Before you buy a new 8 , talk to someone who owns one .If you can, use it or borrow it to check it suits your particular purpose. Before you buy an expensive 9 , or a service, do check the price and what is on offer. If possible, choose 10 three items or three estimates.
[A]possession
[B]save
[C]best
[D]appliance
[E]material
[F]from
[G]simple
[H]with
[I]in
[J]element
[K]model
[L]item
[M]easy
[N]adopt
[O]reasonable
A man who knows a bit about carpentry (木工术) will make his table more quickly than the man who does not. If the instructions are not very clear, or the shape of a piece is puzzling his experience helps him to conclude that it must fit there, or that its function must be that. In the same way, the reader's sense and experience helps him to predict what the writer is likely to ,say next; that he must be going to say this rather than that. A reader who can think along with the writer in this way will find the text.
This skill is so useful that you may wish to make your students aware of it so that they can use it to tackle difficult texts. It does seem to be the case that as we read we make hypotheses (假设) about what the writer intends to say; these are immediately modified by what he actually does say, and are replaced by new hypotheses about what will follow. We have all had the experience of believing we were understanding a text until suddenly brought to a halt by some word or phrase that would not fit into the pattern and forced us to reread and readjust our thoughts. Such occurrences lend support to the notion of reading as a constant making and remaking of hypotheses.
If you are interested in finding out how far this idea accords with (符合) practice, you may like to try out the text and questions. To do so, take a piece of card and use it to mask the text. Move it down the page, revealing only one
t a time. Answer the question before you go on to look at the next section. Check your prediction against what the text actually says, and use the new knowledge to improve your next prediction. You will need to look back to earlier parts of the text if you are to make accurate prediction, for you must keep in mind the general organization of the argument as well as the detail within each sentence. If you have tried this out, you have probably been interested to find how much you can predict, though naturally we should not expect to be right every time -- otherwise there would be no need for us to read.
Conscious use of this technique can be helpful when we are faced with a part of the text that we find difficult: if we can see the overall pattern of the text, and the way the argument is organized, we can make a reasoned guess at the next step. Having an idea of what something might mean can be a great help in interpreting it.
The author uses the examples of carpentry and reading to show______.
A.the importance of making prediction
B.the similarity in using one's senses
C.the necessity of making use of one's knowledge
D.the most effective method in doing anything
Text 2
You' re busy filling out the application form. for a position you really need; let' s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree.
Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form. that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well - known university. Registrars at most well - known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then, if it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors"; another refers to them as "special cases" one well -known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people."
To avoid outright lies, some job -seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that' s when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don' t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University." The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue." As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
26. The main idea of this passage is that ______.
A) employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B) lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C) college degrees can now be purchased easily
D) employers are no longer interested in college degrees
In most of our US and Canadian offices, we'll rent you cars of high quality for seven days for $ 99.
You can drive as far as you like without paying us a penny over the $ 99 as long as you return the car to the city from which you rented it.Insurance(保险) is included, gas is not.
If you rent the car in Florida or in California, the rate is the same, but you can return the car to any city in the state.
If you'd like some suggestions on what to do with the car once you've got it, we have driving and touting guides for almost every part of the country.No matter which rate you choose, the company comes at no extra cost.You don't just rent a car.You rent a company!
26.According to the advertisement, $ 99 is the rate offered for _____.
A.traveling a limited distance
B.renting a car for seven days
C.hiring a driving guide
D.driving within a state
27.Which of the following is included in the car-renting rate?()
A.Gas used
B.Car repairs
C.The hotel charge
D.Insurance fee
28.The car-renting rate remains $ 99if you _____.
A.return the car to where you rent it
B.drive within the same city
C.buy the insurance
D.pay for the gas
29.The last sentence of the passage "You rent a company" means that _____.
A.you have to be responsible for the company
B.you should obey the rules set by the company
C.you can enjoy all-round services of this company
D.you may choose the best car from the company
30.The purpose of the passage is to advertise _____.
A.car-renting services in the US
B.a special rate of car-renting
C.the advantages of car-renting
D.a US car-renting company
They say they want to dress as they please,but all of them wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music,but all of them end up huddled round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in this and that way is that the crowd is doing it.
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and go his or her own way. These days every teenager can 1earn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children.
All this adds up to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records.
You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well,go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-will the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.
The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell _____.
A.readers how to be popular with people around
B.teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves
C.parents how to control and guide their children
D.people how to understand and respect each other
According to the author, many teenagers think they are brave enough to act on their own, but, in fact, most of them _____.A.have much difficulty understanding each other
B.lack confidence
C.dare not cope with problems single-handed
D.are very much afraid of getting lost
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage ?A.There is no popularity that really counts.
B.What many parents are doing is in fact hindering their children from finding their own paths.
C.It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.
D.Most teenagers claim that they want to do what they like to, but they are actually doing the same.
The author thinks of advertisements as _____.A.convincing
B.influential
C.instructive
D.authoritative
During the teenage years, one should learn to _____.A.differ from others in as many ways as possible
B.get into the right season and become popular
C.find one’s real self
D.rebel against parents and the popularity wave
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