One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装)

On September 11th, 1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying,“ I promised you a gift, and here it is.” what an honor! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I sang to it. I told it stories. I told it over and over how much I loved it!

One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it . Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days. I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as“ hopeless”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded ominous.

Christmas was coming.“ Don’t expect any presents this year,” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. “If your baby brother lives, that’ll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes filled with teas. I’d never seen him cry before.

The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He’s all right?” He hung up and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard home!”

“Thank God!” I heard Mum cry.

From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!

1. What happened to the author on September 11th ,1958 ?

A. He became four years old.

B. He got a Christmas gift.

C. He got a baby brother.

D. He received a doll.

2.What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Fearful B. Boring

C. Difficult D. Impossible.

3.Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?

A. Excitement. B. Sadness.

C. Happiness. D. Disappointment.

4.What is the passage mainly about ?

A. A sad Christmas day.

B. Life with a lovely baby.

C. Memories of a happy family.

D. A special Christmas gift.

People with an impulsive personality refer to those who tend to do things without considering the possible dangers or problems first. According to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia, such people may be more likely to have food addiction. The study found that people exhibiting impulsive behavior weren’t necessarily overweight, but impulsiveness was related to a direct relationship with food, and therefore, less healthy weight.

Food addiction has been compared to addictive drug use. Studies have linked the dopamine (多巴胺) release that occurs after tasting delicious food to the dopamine release that happens when people consume other addictive substances.

Impulsive behavior involves several personality traits (特点). Two of these traits, known as negative urgency and lack of perseverance, were particularly associated with food addiction and high BMI (身体质量指数) during the study.

Negative urgency is characterized by the tendency to behave impulsively when experiencing negative emotions. Some people might drink alcohol or take drugs. For others, it could mean eating to feel better. Lack of perseverance is when a person has a hard time finishing hard or boring tasks. People with a lack of perseverance might have difficulty attempting to change addictive eating behavior, which could also cause obesity.

“Impulsiveness might be one reason why some people eat in an addictive way despite motivation to lose weight,” said Dr. Ashley Gearhardt, a clinical psychologist. He was involved in developing the Yale Food Addiction Scale in aid of those people. “We are theorizing that if food addiction is really a thing, then our measure, the Yale Food Addiction Scale, should be related to helping control impulsive action,” said Gearhardt.

Clinical psychologist Dr. James MacKillop, whose lab was conducting the study, believes that therapies used to treat addictive drug behavior could help people who suffer from addictive eating habits.

“Most of the programs for weight loss at this point focus on the most obvious things, which are clearly diet and exercise,” MacKillop said. “It seems that managing strong desires to eat would naturally fit in with the skills a person would need to eat healthily.”

1.According to Paragraph 1, the result of food addiction is ________.

A. less healthy weight B. motivation to lose weight

C. negative emotions D. taking alcohol or drugs

2.How does the author introduce the two personality traits in Paragraph 4?

A. By making comparisons and conclusions.

B. By explaining causes and effects.

C. By presenting questions and answers.

D. By giving definitions and examples.

3.What can be inferred about the Yale Food Addiction Scale from the text?

A. It has been successfully carried out among overweight people.

B. It might help some impulsive people with food addiction to lose weight.

C. It will prove whether food addiction is a problem to impulsive people.

D. It is theoretically a proper treatment for addictive food and drug behavior.

4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Dopamine release caused by food addiction

B. Food addiction compared to drug use

C. Impulsive personality linked to food addition

D. Food addiction contributing to obesity

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I live in a big city with a lot of homeless people. Luckily there’re small ways of helping them and you needn’t have a lot of ________ . One way to help is to buy their monthly magazine. ________ doing this one day,I got to ________ a young homeless man. He was often ________ the magazine at the train station.

He was a poor farmer from another country. After a while,I discovered that his________ was close to mine. It ________ that we were born in the same month.

I met him last year________ after his birthday,and after congratulating(祝贺) him,without ________ ,I asked if he had had a good day. He ________ and said that he hadn’t really celebrated. I felt so ________ .

I just couldn’t bear the thought of(不敢想) this nice,young man being ________on his 25th birthday with no presents,no cake,nothing!So I went home and looked in my yarn(纱线) basket. ________ for me,I had enough yarn ________. I set to work and knitted(编织) a ________ for the young man. The yarn had become a little dirty ________I didn’t knit very often. Then I washed the yarn so the scarf would be ________ when he got it.

I met him on my own birthday as I was going shopping. I had ________ to meet him so I had ________ the scarf and a piece of my own birthday ________ around with me. He was very happy with these gifts and so was I.The ________ in his eyes was the best present he could have given me!

1.A.work B.energy C.money D.experience

2.A.In B.On C.Besides D.By

3.A.realize B.ignore C.know D.recognize

4.A.selling B.reading C.covering D.buying

5.A.birthday B.house C.height D.hobby

6.A.said B.found C.guessed D.meant

7.A.long B.shortly C.ever D.even

8.A.stopping B.helping C.praising D.thinking

9.A.looked up B.turned up C.looked down D.got down

10.A.foolish B.excited C.clever D.worried

11.A.calm B.happy C.alone D.hungry

12.A.Suddenly B.Luckily C.Badly D.However

13.A.used B.done C.left D.produced

14.A.scarf B.cap C.sock D.glove

15.A.when B.because C.so D.and

16.A.different B.dry C.wet D.clean

17.A.liked B.hoped C.promised D.agreed

18.A.made B.thrown C.received D.carried

19.A.cake B.present C.song D.party

20.A.light B.pain C.sight D.tear

A primary school in Wuhan has used new desks and chairs to prevent students from getting short sight. The desks and chairs make students have the correct posture, especially when reading and writing. Each desk has an adjustable steel bar. The bar can help students keep their eyes at least 30cm from books.

Zhang Jianming is headmaster of the primary school. She said the new desks and chairs were provided by an eye care centre in the city. The school carried out a survey last September. It showed that about 7 percent of its 1,093 students said they suffered from short sight.

The new desks and chairs have already improved the students’ posture, but both teachers and students might need more time to get used to them.

Yang Lihua is head of the Wuhan Youth Eye Care Center. She said the desks and chairs were introduced to 19 schools on a trial basis. “During our research into short sight, we noticed that the number of students with short sight was increasing. This is because parents are teaching their children to read and write at a very early age without paying enough attention to their posture,” she said.

Feng Junying is a doctor at Beijing Jingshan School. “I think the new desks and chairs in Wuhan will certainly be helpful,” she said. “But bad reading habits at school are not the only reason for short sight. Children are using mobile phones and iPads when they are very young. This can be another reason for short sight at a young age.”

1.According to the passage, the adjustable steel bar can help the students keep their eyes ___________ from books.

A. 20cm B. 25cm C. 29cm D. 32cm

2.The schools in Wuhan introduced the desks with bars to the primary school students in order to _______________.

A. make students grow tall

B. help students have the correct posture

C. help students love reading

D. not allow students to use mobile

3.Feng Junying’s words mean ___________________________________.

A. the number of students with short sight is increasing

B. the students don’t get used to the new desks and chairs

C. bad reading habits are not the only reason of the students’ short sight

D. the new desks and chairs are useless for the students to improve their eye sight

4. From the passage, a good way to protect our eyesight is to___________________________.

A. buy an adjustable steel bar

B. go to the Youth Eye Care Centre often

C. have a correct posture when we are studying

D. read less and use mobile phones and iPads less

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·Get a coach

1. ,so get help. Since there are about a billion companies out there all ready to offer you public speaking training and courses, here are some things to look for when deciding the training that's right for you.

·Focus on positives

Any training you do to become more effective at public speaking should always focus on the positive aspects of what you already do well. Nothing can hurt confidence more than being told that you aren't doing well. 2. , so good public speaking training should develop those instead of telling you what you shouldn't do.

· 3.

If you find a public speaking course that looks as though it's going to give you lots of dos and don'ts, walk away! Your brain is so full of what you're going to be talking about.

4. . As far as we're concerned, there are basically no hard and fast rules about public speaking. Your audience can be your friends.

·You are a special person not a clone

Most importantly, good public speaking training should treat you as a special one, with your own personal habits. 5. . Your training course should help you bring out your

personality, not try to turn you into someone you're not.

A. You aren't like anybody else

B. You already do lots of things well

C. Turn your back on too many rules

D. Check the rules about dos and don'ts

E. Whatever the presentation, public speaking is tough

F .The one thing you don't want is for them to fall asleep

G. So trying to force a whole set of rules into it will just make things worse

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