Giving Back

Fair Way

The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize, The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong on one of the score cards. A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state prize winner; Wobum High had won. "None one have known, said Wobum's instructor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn’t a difficult decision: "The prize wasn’t ours to take:?

Coin Stars

"College students are lazy. but they also wan t to help," says University of Pennsyivania graduate. Dan Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. Her "Change for Change" effort has collected$40,000 for charities, which were decided upon by students .

Never Forgotten

A school in Massachusetts received a $ 9. 5 million. check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took officials several days of digging to discover his connection. to the school, Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. When his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of AT&T and lived off the earnings until he died , at age 89

1.What did Greg Rota probably do in the end?

A. Returned the prize to the organizer,

B. Apologized to Wobum High School.

C. Took photos of the state prize.

D. Had a meeting with Doran

2.Greg Rota's decision shows that he was .

A. polite B. honest

C. careful D. friendly

3.The underlined word "Change" in the second paragraph means

A. Idea B. Decision C. Cups D. Coins

4.Jacques LeBermuth gave the money to the school because

A. the school asked for it

B. he had no need for that much money

C. the school had helped him in the past

D. he wanted to be remembered by the students

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Learn to Think

“I will think of it.” It is easy to say this. 1.________________ We can not see our thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel them; and yet what mighty power they have!

Sir Isac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer’s evening, when he saw an apple fell from a tree. 2.______________ Later, he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars were kept in their places.

3.____________ He began to think; he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid. From that time he went on thinking and thinking. When he became a man, he improved the steam engine so much that it could, with the greatest ease, go the work of many horses.

4._______________

A man named Galileo was once standing in the cathedral of Pisa, when he saw a light swaying to and fro. This set him thinking, and it led to the invention of the pendulum.

Boys, when you have a difficult lesson to learn, don’t feel discouraged, and help yourselves before asking someone to help you. 5._______________

A. But do you know what great things have come from thinking?

B. Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.

C. A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside, watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down.

D. And do you know how to think?

E. When you see a steamboat, a steam mill, remember that it would never have been built of it had not been for the hard thinking of someone.

F. He began to think, trying to find out why the apple fell.

G. He was a famous physicist and good at thinking.

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Disability aids are vital to those who suffer problems with executing work with two hands.These are people who have been disabled due to some major sickness or some other problems.In order to help them carry on their work in the normal way, disability aids are manufactured.This helps them make their life a lot easier than what it would have been without these aids.The kind of disability aids that an individual might require depends on the person only.It is the problem that a person faces that decides the aids that he/she will use for carrying out their respective jobs.The following is the list of a few disability aids that come of significant use.

The first and foremost aid is the stocking aid, aiding the individuals suffering from the problem of bending down to reach the foot and wear their own socks.These stocking aids have a gutter(槽) that is made up of plastic material.These gutters are shaped in a certain way along with the attachment of cotton tapes in it.The sock is then put over the gutter.The foot is placed inside the gutter.The cotton tapes help in pulling the socks up the leg and subsequently the sock.In this manner, the sock is worn by a person who has problems wearing it by bending one’s back and reaching the foot.

There are openers that help the people who have problems with their hands or wrists to open bottles of ketchup, jam and other such bottles and jars that necessitates the use of hands and fingers.

The third type of disability aids that comes to our minds are lifts.Now what are lifts? Lifts are certain machines that help in lifting people from specific areas, such as a bathtub or a set of stairs.These lifts are of varied types and come for numerous applications.It is for the individual to decide the type that he/she requires to use.

For people, who have problems in balancing their upper bodies in a stable manner, there is something known as grab rails.These grab rails are installed for those who have mobility problems in their upper bodies.These rails come in varieties of shapes, sizes and angles.These grab rails are available to home users as well, in their different variations.One can purchase and fix one to their homes according to one’s specificities.These grab rails require the act of screwing and drilling in order to fix them to their appropriate place.The prices of these rails also vary according to the variation of their shapes and sizes.

A portable book holder is a much sought-after disability aid.It can be used by anybody for that matter, not just the disabled.These portable book holders are light-weight and can be easily moved about.These holders relieve the strains on one’s hands, necks and shoulders that might occur due to the handling of a book.The holders are provided with extended legs that help in placing the reading material at suitable distance.

Thus with the help of these disability aids, the old and disabled people can make their lives much more convenient and comfortable that would otherwise have been a cumbersome and complex one.

Disability Aids

Theme

Disability aids are important to people with disabilities 1.from some major sickness or other problems.

Different 2.of aids

Stocking aids

They can be used to help individuals whose bodies are not 3.enough to reach their feet to put on socks by themselves.

Openers

They can be used to aid the disabled to open the bottles when the use of hands or wrists is a 4.

Lifts

They can be used to lift people from specific areas.They come in 5.of types and are 6.numerously.

Grab rails

They can be used to keep their balance in a stable manner after proper 7.

Book holders

They can be used to help with the 8.of strains on one’s hands necks and shoulders when reading.

9.

10.these disability aids,the life of the old and disabled would become cumbersome and complex

Lights Out at Bedtime

There are plenty of good reasons to power up a personal desktop or laptop computer in the evening — writing e-mails, chatting on social networks or making purchases over the Internet, for instance. But various studies indicate that people who stare at a PC’s bright monitor shortly before going to bed probably sleep less soundly than they would otherwise because the light seriously affects their natural wake-sleep cycle."They haven't proved it though," says Dieter Kunz, the team's director at Charite's Psychiatric Clinic in St. Hedwig's Hospital in Berlin.

Similarly, exposure to just 10 minutes of normal bathroom lighting is enough to free the sleep hormone melatonin, which regulates people's natural wake-sleep cycle and makes them sleepy at nightfall.

Ten years ago, a team of British and American researchers detected a photo-pigment(光敏色素) in the human eye that signals to the body whether it is day or night, summer or winter. The photo-pigment is especially sensitive to blue light.

"The blue light more or less tells the body, It's daytime, be awake,'" Kunz says. Monitors have a mostly cold white light content and scientists suspect the photo-pigment may react similarly to it. So the longer people look into the bright light, the more awake they become - and then sleep poorly.

A lot of people have difficulty "switching off" in the evening. About half of the women in Germany and a quarter of the men sleep poorly.

Environmental factors are only one of the possible causes. Job stress as well as personal and health concerns are also the main reasons for their sleep problems.

In addition, electronic objects' standby lights and indicator lamps can be annoying in the dark and affect sleep."Sound scientific evidence is still lacking on this matter," Kunz notes.

According to Kunz, those who cannot go without their computer in the evening should turn down the blue content if possible and lower the brightness somewhat."But nobody does that because, after all, you want to concentrate while working at the computer and the light helps the brain."

1.The passage is mainly about ____________.

A. natural wake-up cycles

B. the effect of light on sleep

C. personal and health concerns

D. functions of computer monitors

2.The underlined word “which” in Paragraph 2 refers to_____.

A. normal bathroom lighting

B. 10-minute exposure to lighting

C. the release process of a chemical

D. a chemical affecting one’s sleep cycle

3.We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. the blue light has a calming effect.

B. the photo-pigment tells people day or night

C. women in Germany use computers more often than men

D. it has been proved that standby lights affect people’s sleep

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1. If you are an English beginner, you’d better choose________.

A. General English B. High School ESL

C. Night Classes D. Academic English

2.Which course would be helpful for students who want to take the IELTS exam?

A. Course 1. B. Course 2.

C. Course 3. D. Course 4.

3.How much will you pay if you spend two weeks taking the High School ESL course?

A.$ 200. B.$ 300. C.$ 500. D.$ 600.

4.What can we learn from One on One according to the passage?

A. Its lessons are given in the morning.

B. It’s especially designed for English beginners.

C. It’s more expensive than the other courses.

D. Its lessons are designed to only improve writing skills.

5.If you are only free in the morning, you may choose________.

A. Course 1 or Course 5 B. Course 3 or Course 4

C. Course 2 or Course 4 D. Course 1 or Course 3

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