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Instagram is a fast£¬beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family£®Take a picture or video£¬choose a filter to transform its look and feel£®and then post to Instagram¡ªit's that easy£®You can even share to Facebook£®Twitter and more£®It¡¯s a new way to see the world£®So many photos of food are contained on Instagram¡ªnow a pop-up diner in London is taking advantage of this new trend by letting people settle the bill for their meals simply by uploading photos of their dishes to social networks£®

I always thought people¡¯s taking pictures of their food was kind of silly, but at this new pop-up restaurant in the UK£¬I¡¯d probably do it too£®¡°The Picture House¡±is the world¡¯s first pay-by-photo restaurant¡ªyou order£¬ click a photo of the food£¬share on Instagram and eat for free!

The restaurant belongs to frozen food giant(¾ÞÈË)Birds Eye£¬who came up with the idea to cash in on people¡¯s addiction with photographing food and sharing the pictures online. They conducted a survey and found out that more than half of the British population regularly took pictures of their meals£®So they realized it was a better way to advertise their new dining range£®

The pop-up diner was open in Soho£¬London for three days in May£¬and is now moving to other major UK cities£®They serve two-course meals that customers don¡¯t have to pay for, if they photo and lnstagram it£®

The restaurant is a part of Birds Eye¡¯s¡°Food for Life¡±campaign£¬a new marketing project that aims at changing the way people look at frozen food£®¡°Taking photos of food enables people to show off and to share their mealtime moments¡ªfrom the everyday to the special£¬¡±said marketing director Margaret Jobling£®

The reaction to The Picture House has been great so far And the pay-by-picture concept has proven to be an effective way£®Alternative payment methods are actually gaining popularity among a lot of businesses£®Last year in a cafe in Germany customers pay by how much time they spend there£¬not by what they eat£®

1.Instagram probably is______£®

A£®a restaurant free of chmge

B£®a campaign of¡°Food for Life¡¯¡¯

C£®a program used to share photos

D£®a new marketing project

2.What¡¯s the author¡¯s attitude to this new trend?

A£®Confused B£®Unconcerned

C£®Opposed D£®Interested

3.¡°The Picture House¡±encourages sharing photos of its food to_____£®

A£®raise the price of frozen food

B£®attract more customers

C£®create a new social media trend

D£®reward the regular customers

4.Which of the following can serve as the best title for the passage?

A£®Pay by Picture B£®The Pop-up Diner

C£®No Need to Pay D£®Food for Life

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Du Kun£¬a Chinese boy is called¡°the youngest writer in the world£®¡±He has written three books till now£®Du Kun was born in Jiangsu in 1994£®When he was 7 months old£®his parents started working in over 30 different cities£¬such as xi¡¯an and Shenzhen£®This kind of life gave him things to think and write about£®When he was 9 months old£¬he could speak and at the age of one£¬he could say five to six hundred words£®At three£¬he could look up words in the dictionary£®At four£¬his father taught him how to learn by himself£®His parents like reading very much£®So does he£®At the age of 5£¬he began writing fairy tales£®At the age of 6£®he wrote a novel about his life in different cities with his parents£®His fairy tales are all from his life£®One day£¬he found many mice in the house£®They not only ate their food but also hurt his mother¡¯s hand£®So he thought£¬¡°If we give mice the stomach of cows£¬they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people£®¡±This was his first fairy tales Change Stomach for Mice£®Now he studies well in a middle school£®

He has written his third book£®The novel called Eyes of Children£®He says£¬¡°I am not different from other children£¬I just wrote several books£®¡±

1.Thanks to his________£¬Du Kun could write his books£®

A. mother B. father

C. school life D. life in different cities

2.Du Kun began to use a dictionary£¬________£®

A. when he wrote fairy tales

B. before his father taught him how to learn something

C. after he went to school

D. after his mother taught him how to learn something

3.The underlined sentence shows us that Du Kun________£®

A. is different from other children

B. doesn¡¯t tell the truth

C. is the same as other children

D. likes his books

4.Which is the best title?

A. Three Books by a Child

B. How to Write a Fairy Tales

C. How Clever the Boy is

D. Du Kun the Youngest Writer

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When I was about twelve, I suddenly developed a great passion(ÈÈÇé) for writing poetry(Ê«). I gave up all my other hobbies, such as ________ stamps and spent all my ________ time reading poetry and writing it. This habit of writing poetry on every possible time soon got me ________ trouble at school. If a lesson did not interest me, I ________ take out my notebook and ________ poems in class. Of course I ________ this very cautiously(СÐĵØ), but it was not ________ I got caught. One day while I was ________ writing a poem during a geography lesson, I looked up ________ the teacher standing over me, fuming with anger (= getting very angry) because I was not ________ attention. He tore the poem up, with a________ not to waste time in his lesson. ________ I felt certain that I had written a good poem, ________ that evening I wrote it out again from ________ . Not long after, I read ________ a poetry contest and I decided to send in my poem. Weeks later, long after I had given up ________ , I got a letter informing me I had won first________. Everyone at school was very impressed, ________ the geography teacher, who ________ me more carefully than ever. He ________ that I not write poetry in his class!

1.A. gatheringB. collectingC. keepingD. picking

2.A. spareB. importantC. extraD. other

3.A. withB. toC. intoD. on

4.A. mightB. ought toC. shouldD. would

5.A. start writingB. ought toC. shouldD. would

6.A. wroteB. was writingC. was doingD. did

7.A. long agoB. long beforeC. soon afterD. soon before

8.A. busy atB. busy overC. busyD. busy with

9.A. to findB. finding outC. to look forD. searching

10.A. callingB. devotingC. givingD. paying

11.A. noticeB. lookC. warningD. word

12.A. At the sameB. All the sameC. At the timeD. The same as

13.A. soB. andC. asD. since

14.A. brainB. memoryC. mindD. reciting

15.A. throughB. inC. fromD. about

16.A. successB. courageC. hopeD. wish

17.A. victoryB. positionC. prizeD. gift

18.A. exceptB. besidesC. as well asD. especially

19.A. guardedB. watchedC. observedD. inspected

20.A. suggestedB. requestedC. promisedD. insisted

The health and welfare of every person in America will be affected by global warming, especially children, the elderly and the poor, according to a new White House science report.

The report said every region (µØÇø) of the country will suffer worse health from heat waves and drought. All but a handful of states would have worse air quality and flooding. It predicts an increase in diseases spread by tainted (¸¯ÀõÄ) food, bad water and bugs (³ô³æ).

The report concludes that climate change causes real risk to human health and human system that supports the way of life in the United States.

Man-made global warming is caused by greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels. At current emission (·ÅÉä) levels, global temperatures are likely to rise by about 2 degrees by midcentury and about 7.5 degrees by the end of the century.

The most vulnerable (´àÈõµÄ) Americans ¡ª the poor, elderly, sick, very young and immigrants ¡ª will suffer more. That¡¯s at least 10 percent of the country¡¯s population, probably more. It will be tougher for these people to get enough health care for climate-related illnesses, to cool down in heat waves, to escape extreme events such as Hurricane Katrina, and even to get enough food.

While every region of America is vulnerable to global warming¡¯s health and welfare effects, more people are moving to coastal regions, which are most vulnerable to climate change because of drought and hurricanes.

1.According to the report, we learn all of the following will risk human¡¯s health EXCEPT ______.

A. heat waves and drought

B. increase in the number of bugs

C. reduction in carbon dioxide emissions

D. global warming and climate change

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. All of states would suffer flooding.

B. Air quality in few states is not high.

C. About half of all states would have clear air.

D. Flooding would occur in almost all the states.

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Global warming is caused by human beings.

B. It is wise for the Americans to move into coastal regions.

C. Global temperatures are increasing year by year because of carbon dioxide.

D. At least one tenth of Americans are more likely to suffer climate-related illnesses.

4. The writer wrote this passage to ______.

A. explain how the phenomenon of global warming forms

B. protect the vulnerable Americans from suffering from diseases

C. provide evidence that global warming and climate change risk human¡¯s health

D. warn every American of the danger of global warming to their health

When the swim season began, my 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and I cut a deal. She would go to practice three times a week, and I wouldn¡¯t make her compete in swim meets.

Elizabeth does not like swim meets. She gets horribly nervous because she is afraid that she will do something wrong and let everyone down. She started to talk about quitting swimming, which broke my heart because she loves swimming. So I came up with the deal.

Recently, Elizabeth¡¯s team announced a T-shirt relay, which works like this: One person from each relay team puts on a T-shirt and a pair of socks and swims 50 meters. She takes off the clothes and put them on the next person, who then swims 50 meters. This continues until everyone on the team has completed a lap.

It wasn¡¯t exactly a meet, because it would involve only team members. But Elizabeth thought it was. I told Elizabeth I really wanted her to go. She fought back angrily but finally agreed.

When the day for the T-shirt relay arrived, Elizabeth was nervous. She was chosen to swim the anchor leg (×îºóÒ»°ô).By the last leg, Elizabeth¡¯s team had built up a narrow lead. Then it was Elizabeth¡¯s turn to swim.

Approaching the halfway mark, she was still in the lead. Then somebody noticed that one of Elizabeth¡¯s socks had fallen off and was floating in the pool. ¡°She has to get that sock on before the end of the race,¡± a swimming official told Elizabeth¡¯s team, ¡°or you will be disqualified.¡±

Everybody on her team started shouting, ¡°Elizabeth! Get the sock!¡± But she couldn¡¯t hear them. Meanwhile, a girl in lane two was gaining on Elizabeth. Just then, a girl on my daughter¡¯s team jumped in the pool, grabbed the sock, swam after Elizabeth and put the sock on Elizabeth.

With the sock finally on, Elizabeth swam her heart out for the last 15 meters and won! There was much celebration. And, for a few minutes, Elizabeth was the hero.

On the ride home, she relived her moment of glory again and again. She told me that if the T-shirt relay was an Olympic event, her team would win the gold medal, I told her that in my professional opinion, she was absolutely right.

1.What do we know about the T-shirt relay?

A. Elizabeth was eager to attend it.

B. Elizabeth made full preparations for it.

C. Elizabeth thought she was sure to fail the relay.

D. Elizabeth agreed to attend it after a lot of persuasion.

2.What happened to Elizabeth when she was swimming the anchor leg?

A. The girl on the other team swam faster than her.

B. She was disqualified for breaking the rule.

C. She was too nervous to swim.

D. One of her socks fell off.

3.We can infer from the last paragraph that Elizabeth_____.

A. believed she was the best of her team.

B. hoped to take part in the Olympics.

C. overcame her fear of swim meets.

D. was grateful for the girl¡¯s help.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Born to be a swimmer B. Swimming in socks

C. The swim season D. Never give up!

Millions of Americans began 2015 with the same resolution (¾ö¶¨) they started 2014 with, a goal of losing weight. However, setting weight loss as a goal is a mistake.

To reach our goal of losing weight ¡ª the output, we need to control what we eat ¡ªthe input (ÊäÈë). That is, we tend to care about the output but not to control the input. This is a bad way to achieve goals. The alternative is to focus your resolution on the input. Instead of determining to lose weight, try an actionable resolution: ¡°I¡¯ll stop having dessert for lunch,¡± or ¡°I¡¯ll walk every day for 20 minutes.¡± Creating a goal that focuses on a specific (¾ßÌåµÄ) input will likely be more effective than concentrating on the outcome.

Recently a new science behind incentives (¼¤Àø), including in education, has been discussed. For example, researcher Roland Fryer wanted to see what works best in motivating children to do better in school. In some cases, he gave students incentives based on input, like reading certain books, while in others, the incentives were based on output, like results on exams. His main finding was that incentives increased achievement when based on input but had no effect when based on output. Fryer¡¯s conclusion was that the incentives for inputs might be more effective because students do not know how to do better on exam, apart from general rules like ¡°study harder¡±. Reading certain books, on the other hand, is a well-set task over which they have much more control.

As long as you have direct control over your goal, you have a much higher chance of success. For instance, if you want to spend more time with your family, don¡¯t stop with this general wish. Think about an actionable goal that you could stick to, like a family movie night every Wednesday.

In the long run, these new goals could become a habit.

1.The writer thinks that setting weight loss as a goal is a mistake because _________.

A. it is focused too much on the result

B. it is hard to achieve for ordinary people

C. it is dependent on too many things

D. it is based on actionable decisions

2.In Roland Fryer¡¯s research, some students did better than the others because ________.

A. they obeyed the general rules of learning

B. they benefited from reading certain books

C. they attached more importance to exams

D. they were greatly inspired by their instructors

3.According to the writer, which of the following statements is a good goal?

A. ¡°I¡¯ll study harder than before.¡±

B. ¡°I¡¯ll cut down my expense.¡±

C. ¡°I¡¯ll spend more time with my family.¡±

D. ¡°I¡¯ll walk every day for 15 minutes.¡±

4.The writer strongly believes that we should __________.

A. be optimistic about final goals and stick to them

B. focus more on the outcome and form good habits

C. create general goals that can balance the input and output

D. take specific actions that can be turned into good habits

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