Have you ever been in a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away? You probably felt sorry and decided to pay attention and never have daydreaming again. Most of us have been told from earliest school days that daydreaming is a waste of time. I don’t think so.
L. Giambra, a psychologist, says, “Daydreaming isn’t a waste of time. On the contrary , daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldn’t do all the thinking that it has to do during a normal day. You can’t possibly do all your thinking with a conscious（神志清醒的）mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states（状态）of mind have silent conversations .”
Early psychologists paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even thought they were harmful(有害的). At one time people thought that some psychological illness caused daydreaming. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinges, a professor, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinges says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures. Daydreams really are a window on the things that we are afraid and the things we long for (渴望) in life.”
Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams. Sleep dreams may be hard to understand. It’s easier to get a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine (分析)your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you know the difficult situations in your life and found out a possible way of dealing with them.
Daydreams cannot be predicted: they move off in unexpected directions which may be creative and full of useful ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source(来源) of creative energy. The passage is mainly about _______ .
| A．winter sleeps | B．sleep dreams |
| C．daydreaming | D．predictions |
The underlined phrase “On the contrary” means _________ in Chinese .
| A．总之 | B．相反 |
| C．毕竟 | D．因此 |
Psychologists now believe that ________.
| A．daydreams cause some psychological illness |
| B．daydreams are usually difficult to understand |
| C．daydreams may be creative and full of useful ideas |
| D．daydreams are usually very simple and can be predicted |
The writer quoted (引用) L. Giambra and Eric Klinges to ________.
| A．list out two opposite ideas |
| B．point out the wrong ideas of early experts |
| C．support his own ideas |
| D．report the latest research on daydreaming |
Are you a gourmand(美食主义者)? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world? Then do you watch the popular program?“A Bite of China(舌尖上的中国)” is a documentary on Chinese delicious food which has been broadcast by Chinese central television. Is there any holiday that isn't celebrated with a special festival food? Here are several traditional Chinese foods:
Eggs hold a special meaning in many cultures, and China is no exception(例外). The Chinese believe eggs mean producing something new. After a baby is born, parents may hold a "red egg and ginger party," where they pass out eggs to announce the birth. In some areas of China the number of eggs represents the sex of the child, for example, an even number(1,3,5,---) for a girl, and an odd number(2,4,6---) if a boy has been born.
Noodles are a symbol of long life in Chinese culture. They are as much a part of a Chinese birthday celebration as a birthday cake with lit candles is in many countries. Since noodles represent long life, it is considered very unlucky to cut it off.
Although westerners sometimes may be very sorry to see fish lying on a plate, in China a whole fish is a symbol of richness. In fact, at a party it is traditional to serve the whole fish last, pointed toward the valued guest. Fish also has a special meaning because the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for richness or plenty, and it is believed that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.
A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat Festival is Zongzi. This tasty dish is made of rice dumplings with meat, peanut or other delicious food in bamboo leaves. The tradition of Zongzi is meant to remind us of a great man, Qu Yuan.
The 50-minute program tries to bring something new by presenting more cultural elements(元素),such as eating habits and the quality of eating.How many kinds of traditional food are mentioned in the passage?
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
Which of the following is RIGHT according to the passage?
| A．It is impolite to serve a whole fish last at a party in China. |
| B．There are many kinds of Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. |
| C．The program lasts less than one hour and only introduces traditional Chinese food. |
| D．We can cut birthday noodles off in China if we think they are too long |
What does the writer mean in the last paragraph?
| A．The writer thinks everyone can have a good eating habit after watching the program. |
| B．The writer thinks the program has more meanings inside than the story itself. |
| C．The writer thinks the program is too long. |
| D．The writer thinks the program has brought many kinds of delicious food to us. |
It was the first day of class. Two of her new ESL (English as a Second Language) classmates wanted to know where Tara was from. They were both from Korea. Because Tara looked Korean, one of the women asked Tara, in English, if she was from Korea. Tara replied, "No, I'm not." Then the women took turns asking Tara if she was from Japan, or Thailand, or China. To each question, Tara answered them a simple no. Laughing, one woman said to the other, "She's not from anywhere!" The two went to their desks, talking to each other in Korean.
The next day, the teacher divided the students into groups of four. The students in each group asked introductory(介绍的)questions of each other. A student in Tara's group asked her, "Where are you from?" Tara answered that she was from Korea. The two women who had questioned Tara the day before were sitting only a few feet away. Both of them heard Tara's answer.
"Aha!" they both exclaimed, "You ARE from Korea!" Tara smiled and said yes. Then she apologized(道歉)to both of them for lying the day before. She told them that she had not wanted to get into a Korean conversation with them. It had been her experience that many ESL students continued to speak their mother language in ESL class, and Tara had not come to ESL class to practice her Korean. In her opinion， ESL students should try to speak English only.
"I agree." said Rose.
"You're 100 percent right." agreed Jenny, "Rose and I must stop speaking Korean to each other. Right，Rose?" Rose nodded，and then said something in Korean. All three women laughed.
The next half a year, Tara became friendly with both women, although she never spoke a word of Korean to them during class or break.The underlined word "exclaimed" in Paragraph 3 means "".
| A．announced with excitement | B．shouted in surprise |
| C．screamed with joy | D．cried in fear |
From the passage, we can infer(推断)that.
| A．Tara said she was from Korea because she knew the student in her group was also from Korea |
| B．Tara said she was from Korea because she wanted to make friends with the student in her group |
| C．Tara said she wasn't from Korea because she didn't want Rose and Jenny to speak Korean with her the following days |
| D．Tara said she wasn't from Korea because she didn't like Rose and Jenny and wasn't willing to speak Korean with them |
Which is the best title of this passage?
| A．Don't Tell Lies | B．An ESL Class |
| C．Let's Speak English | D．Three Korean Women |
Every object has weight. But the center of its weight is not always in the middle of the object. If the top of an object is heavier than its bottom, it will fall over easily. We say that its center of gravity(重力) is high. But if the bottom is heavier, it won’t fall easily. Then we say that its center of gravity is low.
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Look at the first picture. This empty box must fall over, because its center of gravity (C) is not above the line of its bottom (AB).
Now look at the second picture. There are some heavy things in the bottom of this box. It will not fall, because its center of gravity is above its bottom.
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B． |
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The main idea of the passage is _________.
| A．that everything has weight |
| B．a low center of gravity |
| C．a high center of gravity |
| D．why things fall over |
My 13-year-old daughter Lisa remembers birthdays, makes people cards when they are sick, and sends encouraging notes written in colored pens in her neat, artistic hand.
One day I got a call from her principal, “I called to tell you that in 20 years of teaching I have seen nothing like what Lisa did today”, he said
I held my breath again as I thought, my Lisa? My sweet daughter? She must be the wrong kid. What could she have done?
My silence made him go on. “I’ve never seen a student do anything so nice for anyone who needed it more.”
“What did she do?” I asked. He explained to me about the cupcakes (杯形蛋糕).
When Lisa came home from school that afternoon, I told her the principal from her school had phoned me.
“Yeah”, she answered, “I got called out of math class to go to his office. Everyone thought I was in trouble, but he just wanted to know what was going on at lunch.”
Lisa and Ashley had sat with Jordan, a boy who is in special classes. They talked about birthdays, and Lisa asked Jordan when his birthday was. He told her it was coming up but that he lives in a group home and they don’t celebrate birthdays there.
“I remembered his birthday was today, so I made the cupcakes yesterday,” Lisa explained. “Ashley bought a two-liter bottle of soda and some birthday cups, plates, and napkins (餐巾纸) left over from her little brother’s party, and we got some other kids together at lunch today to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Jordan.”
“The principal wanted to know why they were having a birthday party for Jordan at school. When they told him, he just shook his head, took off his glasses, and rubbed his eyes,” Lisa told me. “Finally, he said he was going to tell my parents that I wasn’t in trouble, he was proud of what I did, and I could go back to math class.”
How different my daughter was from me. Better, in fact! I wouldn’t have ever known how to help out disadvantaged kids like that. But my wise daughter knew how-- all it took was cupcakes and adventurous (富有冒险精神的), independent (独立的), kind spirit.What kind of person is Lisa according to the article?
| A．She loves making friends with boys. |
| B．She is fun-loving and humorous. |
| C．She is warm-hearted and caring. |
| D．She often asks for trouble. |
What can we know from the school principal’s phone call?
| A．Birthday parties are usually not allowed at the school. |
| B．The principal was angry with Lisa and her friends. |
| C．Jordan was in the same class as Lisa. |
| D．The students thought Lisa was a lot of trouble. |
How did Lisa and Ashley celebrate Jordan’s birthday?
| A．They bought him a beautiful birthday cake. |
| B．They brought him food and drinks from home. |
| C．They invited Jordan’s parents to the birthday lunch. |
| D．They had the principal sing “Happy Birthday” to Jordan. |
The writer wrote this article to ______________.
| A．call upon schools to care more about disadvantaged kids |
| B．encourage kids to help others in whatever way they can |
| C．show how proud she felt of her daughter’s kindness. |
| D．show that helping others is rewarding in itself. |
For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to answer what things have an effect on people’s emotions (情感). How you feel is controlled by many things. Your emotions can be affected by your personality, by the actions of others and by events around you. Perhaps you don’t know your emotions can be influenced by the weather as well.
People often say they feel good when the sun is shining and sad when it is cloudy. In fact, sunlight makes us feel good. When sunlight hits our skins, our bodies produce a vitamin. Vitamins are natural chemicals (化学物质) which we all need to stay healthy. Sunlight helps our bodies produce vitamin D. Vitamin D helps our bodies make a special chemical. This special chemical affects our brains (大脑) and makes us feel happy. For example, there are long, dark winters of little sunlight in Sweden and Norway, so many people in these countries often feel sad. Without much sunlight, their bodies produce less vitamin D. Without enough vitamin D, their bodies make less of this special chemical which makes them feel good. To help the people in these countries feel better, special “sunrooms” with artificial (人造的) lights have been built. People can go there and get “sunlight” for an hour or two!
The weather can also affect people’s emotions in other ways. Hot weather can make people angry because people feel uncomfortable when they are hot. In the same way, rain can make people angry because being wet can be unpleasant. As you can see, the weather can have an effect on the chemicals which control our brains. Through these ways, the weather can influence our emotions. Sadly, while the weather can change us, we can hardly change the weather.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor (因素) that can affect one’s emotions?
| A．Weather. | B．Actions of others. |
| C．Personality. | D．Age. |
Which of the following is true about vitamin D according to the passage?
| A．It is a kind of artificial chemical. |
| B．It makes us worried by affecting our brains. |
| C．It is needed by us all to keep fit. |
| D．It is in the sunlight. |
What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
| A．We feel good when we are in the bright cool weather. |
| B．We will be happy when we are caught in the rain. |
| C．All people in Norway and Sweden feel sad in winter. |
| D．The more vitamin D you have, the happier you’ll be. |