A passenger has been fined almost 550 after he was caught without a train ticket—that would have cost just 2.80.

Nicky Haywood,from Nottingham,was found guilty of travelling on an East Midlands train from Nottingham to Newstead without a ticket.

The 27?year?old,who did not appear for his hearing at Nottingham Magistrates Court(地方法庭),is now being made to pay the price—which is almost 200 times the original price—for the 20 minute journey.

According to the Nottingham Post,Magistrates have ordered Haywood to pay a 220 fine,302 in costs,a 22 government surcharge(追加费用) and the 2.80 fare.

Senior conductor,Yvonne Clay was working on the day of the incident,according to the Nottingham Post.

The newspaper reported that she said Haywood had got on the train without a ticket,though he had the chance to buy one from both vending machines and booking offices on the platform.

She said,“He offered a Solo Electron card but we could not take that on the train.I informed him with a notice to pay.He gave his name and address and had 21 days to pay the fare.”

Even though he was given three weeks to pay the 2.80,a payment from Haywood was not received.

1.How much should Nicky Haywood pay according to the court?

A. 2.80. B. 544.

C. 550. D. 546.8.

2.Nicky Haywood can buy a ticket from .

A. convenience shops B. booking offices

C. the conductor D. the court

3.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Nicky Haywood was heading to Nottingham in this incident.

B. The conductor didn’t inform him to pay the ticket.

C. Nicky Haywood offered a card but it couldn’t be used on that train.

D. If Nicky Haywood had been given some days after the incident,he would have paid the ticket.

4.Which of the following can best describe Nicky Haywood?

A. Well?educated. B. Responsible.

C. Dishonest. D. Mean.

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

-Albert Einstein

If you have a kid with special needs in the school system, chances are you’ve come across that saying hanging on a classroom wall. My five-year-old daughter Syona has cerebral palsy (a medical condition affecting someone’s control over their movement ) and it means ,combined with her communication challenges and sight problems , that standard assessments (and by “standard”, I mean the ones used to assess kids with special needs ) aren’t always an accurate measure of her abilities.

By now you have probably heard about Chris Ulmer, the 26-year-old teacher in Jacksonville, Florida ,who starts his special education class by calling up each student individually to give them much admiration and a high-five (a gesture of greeting or congratulation ). I couldn’t help but be reminded of Syona’s teacher and how she supports each kid in a very similar way. Ulmer recently shared a video of his teaching experience. “I have seen their confidence and self-worth increase rapidly,” he said . All I could think was: How lucky these students are to have such inspirational teachers.

Syona’s teacher has an attitude that can best be summarized in one word: awesome. Her teacher doesn’t focus on what can’t be done—she focuses on what can be done. Over the past several months, my husband Dilip and I have seen Syona’s confidence increase tenfold. She uses words she wouldn’t have thought of using before. She recently told me about her classmate’s trip to Ecuador and was very proud when I understood her on the first try.

I actually wonder what the influence would be if we did something similar to what Ulmer does with his students in our home .We’ve recently started our day by reminding each other of the good qualities we all possess. If we are reminded of our strengths on a regular basis, we will become increasingly confident about progress and success.

Ulmer’s reach as a teacher goes far beyond the walls of his classroom. In fact, he teaches all of us to take a moment and truly appreciate the strengths of an important person in our lives.

1.What does the author think of Einstein’s quote?

A. Funny

B. Strange

C. True

D. Confusing

2.What can we learn about Chris Ulmer?

A. He is Syona’s favorite teacher.

B. He praises his students one by one

C. He use videos to teach his students

D. He asks his students to help each other

3.Syona felt very pleased because_____.

A. she has developed a cool attitude

B. her mother knew what she expressed

C. her progress was appreciated by her parents

D. she had been to Ecuador with her classmate

4.What change has taken place in the author’s family?

A. They give each other praise every day

B. They visit Ulmer’s classroom regularly

C. They feel grateful to people in their lives

D. They invite Ulmer’s students to their home

When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer as we get older.

For kids, happiness has a magical quality: Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫不掩饰的).

In the teenage years, the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.

In adulthood the things that bring deep joy-love, marriage, birth-also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated (复杂的).

My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook(忽视) the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.

I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunchbox and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.

Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don’t think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children,had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her most.

We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we’ve got to have. We’re so self-conscious about our “right” to it that it’s making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.

Happiness isn’t about what happens to us-it’s about how we see what happens to us. It’s the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have, but enjoying what we do possess.

1.As people grow older, they  _____   .

A. care less about their happiness

B. feel it harder to experience happiness

C. will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness

D. tend to believe responsibility means happiness

2.What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 5 and 6?

A. She cares little about her own health

B. She enjoys the freedom of traveling

C. She prefers getting pleasure from housework

D. She is easily pleased by things in daily life

3.People who equal happiness with wealth and success_____

A. stress their right to happiness too much

B. consider pressure something blocking their way

C. are at a loss to make correct choices

D. are more likely to be happy

4.What can be concluded from the passage?

A. Happiness lies in wealth B. Each man is the servant of his own fate

C. Happy is he who is content D. Success leads to happiness

Warmer temperatures are the new normal

Hotter weather appears to be here to stay,El Nino or not.That's according to the U.N. weather agency.It warned that the Paris climate accord(协定)last year shouldn't give way to complacency(自满)about global warming.

The World Meteorological Organization issued(公布)its annual climate report following a record-hot 2015.It drew people's attention to records already announced by different countries' weather agencies.The agency pointed out that 2015 was breaking records on the surface.It also broke records hundreds of meters deep in the ocean.

And the first two months of 2016 were even hotter.These months are so unusual that they "have sent shockwaves around the climate science community."That's according to David Carlson of the World Climate Research Program.

Climate scientists blame record high temperatures last year and this year so far on a combination of a super-sized El Nino.It is a natural warming of pans of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide.Another factor is a long-term global warming trend from the burning of fossil fuels(化石燃料).

NASA said last month was 1.35 degrees Celsius (2.43 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than average.Of that,0.8 degrees (1.44 degrees Fahrenheit) comes from the long-term warming.And 0.25 degrees (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) comes from El Nino.The rest is from unexplained results.This was calculated by climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute in Germany and the University of New South Wales.

Even after the El Nino phenomenon becomes less strong in coming months,way above normal temperatures won't exactly go away,Carlson and others said.

"We're on a slope; sometimes the slope goes very steep,sometimes it's a little bit more shallow,but we're going upward,"Carlson said in a news conference."So the normal is going to be increases: It's going to be increased temperature,increased ocean heat content,loss of ice,we know all of these things."

Katharine Hayhoe is a Texas Tech climate scientist who wasn't part of the WMO team.But she agreed:"These records vividly show the destructive power of an El Nino on climate changes."

The WMO predicts warmer weather accompanied by pockets of both drier and wetter conditions,depending on the region,around the world.

WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas told reporters in Geneva that many people believe the climate issue is "solved...since we reached a nice agreement in Paris."But,he said,"We haven't changed our behavior yet."

1.The author wrote Paragraph 1 to_______.

A. introduce something about El Nino

B. explain the causes of hotter weather

C. warn the world of global warming

D. introduce the main topic of the passage

2.Which of the following statements is true?

A. The Paris climate accord last year has made a big difference to global warming.

B. The high temperature only increases on the surface of the earth.

C. The records of high temperature in the first two months of 2016 made climate scientists shocked and worried.

D. the high temperature was mainly caused by El Nino.

3.It can be inferred that ________.

A. the high temperature will result in natural disasters around the world according to WMO

B. The problem of high temperature will be solved with the disappearance of El Nino

C. Scientists have different opinions on the causes of high temperature of the earth

D. Since we reached a nice agreement in Paris,we needn't worry about the increase of temperature

4.How does the passage mainly develop?

A. By making comparisons.

B. By analyzing the results and causes.

C. By providing examples.

D. By following the order of time.

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