Did you know that there are gifts that will multiply your happiness when you give them away? Here are five of those gifts. Giving these gifts will allow you to share with others your most unique treasure: your real self. Each gift will return to you many times.
1. Share appreciation
Tell someone how much you appreciate the faith they've shown in you. Thank them sincerely for being part of your life. Tell them how much they are needed.
Feeling appreciated is one of the most important needs that people have. When you share with someone your appreciation and gratitude, they will not forget you. Appreciation will return to you many times.
2. Share time
Balance your time expenditures (耗费)so you can spend time with the people that you love. Support local organizations by sharing your special talents. Volunteer time for projects that benefit others in your community, country, and world.
When we slow down and observe our thoughts closely, we will sometimes uncover gifts and talents we didn't know we had. Sharing time and talents can result in discoveries that bring happiness beyond measure.
3. Share knowledge and ideas
Tell someone about a great book that you read so they can benefit from it too. Teach a new concept or idea that you've learned.
One of the best ways to strengthen new concepts in your mind is to share them with others. The more often you share what you've learned, the stronger that information will become in your memory. Sharing knowledge also provides solutions to problems. The more knowledge we share, the more knowledge we receive in return.
4. Share friendship
Acknowledge someone's strengths. Let them know that you are willing to be there when they need you. Visit someone you haven't seen for a long time. Telephone friends or relatives who live far away. Introduce two friends who don't know each other.
Bringing one individual into another's life can result in tremendous changes for both people, and for you. We succeed with the help of others. People grow by growing together. If you'd like to have many friends, then share friendship with others generously.
5. Share kindness
Perform a random act of kindness for someone: a smile, compliment, or a favor just for fun. These will multiply and spread very rapidly.
There is a powerful quote by Stephen Jay Gould who said, “The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.” Kindness is priceless. The love, kindnesses, and value we have given authentically to others will be our remaining treasures at the end of life.
Think about this statement by Norman MacEwan: “Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
【小题1】 What is the best title of this passage?

A.We want to share.B.Give your presents away.
C.We make a life by giving.D.Don’t be mean to give.
【小题2】 What can we learn from Stephen Jay Gould’s words?
A.We all come from a world which is in a harmonious atmosphere.
B.Everybody’s deep heart is filled with kindness at first, which decides our present life.
C.Kindness is the most important thing in our daily life.
D.We need kindness all the time.
【小题3】 For those who are living a life on the go, what suggestion will the writer probably give to them?
A.Tell the people around you how much you love them.
B.No one is an isolated island. We succeed with the help of others
C.The more knowledge we share, the more knowledge we receive in return.
D.Slow down and enjoy the life, which may bring you a brand new world with happiness.
【小题4】Where can you probably find this passage?
A.MagazinesB.Newspapers C.Guide books D.Scientific reports

It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.

    If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.

    My daughter Carla’s fifth grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a prefect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.

   You can use the same technique when you evaluate your child’s work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.

   Learning is a process of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.

1.The whole passage deals with ________.

A. social education   B. school education C. family education D. pre - school education

2.The article gives us a good suggestion about how to evaluate(评价)your child’s work at home. That is to ________.

A. praise his success                       B. promise him a trip  

C. give him a punishment                    D. promise him a ball game

3.The author advises readers to________.

A. learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching

B. take pride in Carla’s fifth - grade teacher

C. do as what Carla’s teacher did in educating children

D. follow Carla’s example because she never fails in the test

4.Having read the last paragraph, we can conclude that ________.

A. pride goes before a fall                         B. practice makes perfect

C. no pains, no gains                               D. failure is the mother of success

 

With a busy life and job, pressure can make you look tired and aged. Kissi Health-Beauty Center gives classes, makes training plans according to your physical conditions, and sets up an individual file. All these things will help you to get to know your body and the way to keep it fit.

1) BODY-BUILDING

Imported gym equipment will help you build up your body’s muscles, making you look full of energy and strength.

2) GYMNASTIC EXERCISES

A bright and large exercise room with excellent equipment and music will give your body a chance to enjoy movement with rhythm.

3) SPECIAL “LAZY-BONE” FITNESS CENTER

“Lazy-bone” fitness equipment is the first bodyshaping set of seven beds in Houston. Designed according to human anatomic (解剖学的) and kinematic(运动学的)theory, the seven special beds will help you to exercise your waist, abdomen(腹), hips(臀)or legs. In the relaxing hours you may try them to strengthen your muscles and lose weight.

*Tuition: “Lazy-bone” fitness card, 1000 dollars /month (gymnastic classes included).

*Open Time: 10:30 a.m. —10:30 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

*Tel: 59185700

*Address: 16 Johnson Street, Houston

1.The purpose of this passage is to ______.

   A. give advice on health                 B. introduce new ways of body-building

C. ask you to go to the center          D. introduce ways to lose weight

2.If you want some exercise as well as relaxation after a busy day, you’ll go to the center and ______.

A. learn anatomic and kinematic theory            B. lie still on the special beds

    C. join in the gymnastic exercises                   D. buy a special card

70. Tom Everest who keeps a “Lazy-bone” fitness card can go to the center ______ this week.

3.11:30 a.m. Monday                        B. 11:30 p.m. Monday

   C. 10:00 a.m. Tuesday                       D. 10:00 p.m. Tuesday

4.According to the passage, the center wants to show it is _____ .

A. the most convenient                    B. the largest   

     C. the newest                                 D. the most advanced

 

Chinese are very generous (慷慨) when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet(芭蕾舞), or other classes that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

   However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

   Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence (自信). 

   The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.

   Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.

   Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.

   Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse(唤起) his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.  

1.Parents in China, according to this passage, _______.

A. are too strict with their children 

B. are too rich to educate their children

C.have some problems in educating their children correctly

D. are too poor to educate their children

2. The writer of the passage does not seem to be satisfied with ______.

A. the parents’ ideas of educating their children   B. the education system       

C. children’s skills                          D. children’s hobbies  

3.Doing some cooking at home helps children ______.

A. learn how to serve their parents   

B. learn how to become strong and fat

C. benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future

D. make their parents believe that they are clever

4.According to the last paragraph we can conclude that ______.

A. broken radios and television sets are useful

B. one’s curiosity may be useful for his later life

C. an engineer must fix many broken radios

D. a good student should spend much time repairing radios 

 

“Most experiences of absent-mindedness ,forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room , are caused by a simple lack of attention, ” says Schacter. “You’re supposed to remember something, but you haven’t encoded(编码) it deeply.”

 Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impression on recalling it later. Failure to encode properly can create troublesome situations. If you put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and don’t pay attention to what you did because you’re involved in a conversation, you’ll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your cupboard.  “Your memory itself isn’t failing you, ” says Schacter, “Rather, you didn’t give your memory system the information it needed.”  http://wx.jtyjy.com/

 Lack of interest can also lead to absent -mindedness. “A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago, ” says Zelinski, “ may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox.”Women have slightly better memories than men, possibly because they pay more attention to their environment, and memory depends on just that.

  “Visual cues( 视觉提示 )can help prevent absent--mindedness, ”says Schacter, “But be sure the cue is clear and available. ”If you want to remember to take a medicine with lunch, put the pill bottle on the kitchen table—don’t leave it in the medicine box and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.

  Another common experience of absent - mindedness: walking into a room and wondering why you’re there. Most likely, you were thinking about something else. “Everyone does this from time to time, ”says Zelinski. “The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room, and you’ll likely remember.”

1.The writer of the passage thinks that encoding properly is very important because ________.

  A. it enables us to recall something from our memory

  B. it slows down the process of losing our memory

  C. it helps us understand our memory system better

  D. it helps us to get back to where we were

2.One possible reason why women have a little better memories than men is that________.

  A. they rely more on the environment

  B. they have a wider range of interests

  C. they have an unusual power of focusing their attention

  D. they are more interested in what’s happening around them

3.Why can a note in the pocket hardly serve as a reminder? ________.

  A. It will easily get lost

  B. It is out of your sight

  C. It’s not clear enough for you to read

  D. It might get mixed up with other things

4.From the last paragraph we can learn that________.

  A. repetition might help improve our memory

  B. memory depends to a certain extent on the environment

  C. we’d better return to where we were if we forget things

  D. we should think about something else while doing one thing

5.The passage is mainly about ________.

  A. the memory system of persons

  B. a way of encoding and recalling

  C. the causes of absent-mindedness

  D. the impression of the environment on memory

 

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