阅读下面短文,然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Big or small, rejection affects us all. Harry Potter was rejected. So was The Twilight Saga. If authors J. K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer hadn’t kept trying with publisher after publisher, we’d all have missed out on some great adventures.

Rejection doesn’t have to be about the big thing like not getting into your top college, not making the team, or not getting asked to the prom (舞会). Everyday situations can lead to the feeling of rejection, too, like if your joke doesn’t get a laugh, if no one remembers to save you a seat at the lunch table, or if the person you really like talks to everyone but you.

Feeling rejected is the opposite of feeling accepted. But being rejected (and we will all be at times) doesn’t mean someone isn’t liked, valued, or important. It just means that one time, in one situation, with one person, things didn’t work out.

Rejection hurts. But it’s impossible to avoid it altogether. In fact, you don’t want to— people who become too afraid of rejection might hold back from going after something they want. Sure, they avoid rejection, but they’re also 100% guaranteed to miss out on what they want but won’t try for.

【写作内容】

1. 以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。

2. 以约120个词就“How to deal with rejection”这一话题发表你的看法,内容包括:

(1) 讲述一次你被拒绝的经历; (2) 你当时的感受; (3) 你认为应该如何正确面对拒绝。

【写作要求】

作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

【评分标准】

概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,语篇连贯。

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

As we get busy and stressed, we tend to make poor nutritional choices that can actually increase our stress levels and cause other problems. 1. .

Eat Breakfast. You may argue that you’re not hungry yet, that you don’t have time, that lunch will come soon enough, that you need to diet anyway, or that the milk in the coffee you pick up on the way is all the good nutrition you need. 2. You need it.

Choose Green Tea. If you’re a coffee drinker, you may not realize the effects caffeine has on your system. However, you can reduce your stress levels and improve your mental performance throughout the day if you gradually rid yourself of large amounts of caffeine. 3.

Carry a Snack. Having some healthful snacks in your car, office, or purse can help you avoid blood sugar level dips and accompanying mood swings and tiredness. 4. Along these lines, you should always have water handy, as it’s so vital to health and proper physical functioning.

Stock Your Home With Healthy Fare. Even more important than getting the bad stuff out of your house, is getting healthy food in! 5. That way you know you’ll have what you want when you need it, and you won’t have to stress over what to eat each night; you’ll already have thought of it! (This makes eating at home much easier, too!)

A. Certain energy bars all contain good nutrition.

B. Here are some tips for getting good nutrition even under stress.

C. You can easily have a hard-boiled egg on your way out the door.

D. A relatively healthy way to do that is to replace coffee with green tea.

E. But skipping this meal makes it harder to maintain stable blood sugar levels.

F. The best way is to plan a menu of healthy meals at the beginning of each week.

G. After a few weeks, they’ll become a habit and your body will feel the difference.

As each semester begins, my colleague greets his students wearing a jacket and tie.

“You make only one first impression,” he says. So while the rest of the semester he teaches class in his usual, more casual clothes, the first week he presents a different image.

His thought is that students will remember their first meet positively and more readily think highly of him as the semester goes on because that favorable first impression has an influence on them.

The sequence (顺序) that we meet matters in how we judge subsequent (后来的) information. The big influence of first impressions is related to the halo effect, where the perception (看法) of positive qualities in one thing or part gives rise to the perception of similar qualities in related things or in the whole.

Here is an example: You meet a friendly person at a party and later are asked to collect money for a worthy cause. You call that person because you think she will make a contribution. In reality, there is no connection between being pleasant and being generous. Yet the halo effect leads you to think that the two are related.

The halo effect is powerful, but it is questionable whether it matters much in long-term relationships, such as that between teacher and student. While dressing up may make students think the teacher must know his subject matter because he creates a professional first impression, the effect wears thin if the person turns out to be a poor teacher after all.

First impressions matter but they don’t have the final word. Facts speak louder. If you had never seen or heard of Einstein, the first time you saw him your impression would most likely be negative. Now his face is connected with genius (天才), not madness because he is the person who has come to define what genius is.

The problem is that few of us are Einsteins and we often don’t get the chance to change a negative first impression.

1. The author explains the halo effect mainly by _____.

A. following the order of importance

B. making a comparison

C. setting down general rules

D. giving an example

2.In the author’s eyes, the halo effect _____.

A. is surprisingly powerful

B. matters more in the long run

C. makes some teachers irresponsible

D. may affect our judgment of others

3. The author uses the example of Einstein to show the importance of _____.

A. appearance B. impressions

C. truth D. fairness

4.The author seems to advise readers _____.

A. not to follow others’ judgments

B. not to judge a book by its cover

C. to mind their first impressions

D. to pay no attention to the halo effect

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