题目内容
11.Is true friendship dying away?Just as our daily life is becoming more technologically connected,we are losing other more meaningful relationship.
To anyone paying attention these days,it's clear that social media-whether Twitter,Facebook,or Iinkedln-are changing the way we conduct relationship.Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messaging; people even prefer these electronic exchanges to,for instance,simply talking on a phone.Among these smaller trends,growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship.Where is all this leading modern-day society?Perhaps to a dark place,a lonelier society where electronic craze slowly replaces the joys of human contact.
Typically,the pressures of urban life are blamed.Witness crowded bars and restaurants after work:We have plenty of acquaintances,though perhaps few individuals we can turn to and share close relationships.American sociologists have tracked related trends on a broader scale,well beyond the urban jungle.According to work published in the American Sociological Review,the average American has only two close friends,and a quarter don't have any.
While social networking sites and the like have grown dramatically,the crucial element is the quality of the connections they establish.A connection may only be a click away,but establishing a good friendship takes more.It seems common sense to conclude that"friending"online brings about shallow relationships as the term"friending"itself implies.
No single person is at fault,of course.The pressures on friendship today are broad.They arise from the demands of work,or a general busyness that means we have less quality time for others.How many individuals would say that friendship is the most important thing in their lives,only to move thousands of miles across the continent to take up a better-paid job?
Of course,we learn how to make friends or not in our childhood.Recent studies on childhood and how the contemporary life of the child affects friendships are illuminating (启示).A central conclusion often reached relates to a lack of what is called"unstructured time".Structured time results from the way an average day is arranged for our kids-time for school,time for homework,time for music practice,even time for play.Yet too often today,no period is left unstructured.After all,who these days lets his child just wander off down the street?We simply"hang out",with no tasks,no deadlines and no pressures.It is in those moments that children and adults alike can get to know others for who they are in themselves.
Aristotle had an attractive expression to capture the thought:close friends,he observed,"share salt together."It's not just that they sit together,passing the salt across the meal table.It's that they sit with one another across the course of their lives,sharing its moments,bitter and sweet."The desire for friendship comes quickly; friendship does not."Aristotle also remarked.
If there is a secret to close friendship,that's it.Put down the device; engage the person.
Title:Is true friendship dying away?
分析 真正的友谊正在消失了吗?现代社会的发展使人和人之间的友谊正在消失并给出了建议.
解答 71.lost/disappearing 72.replaced 73.concept 74.share/establish/develop 75.shallow 76.busy/occupied 77.how 78.unstructured 79.Conclusion 80.key/answer/secret
71.lost/disappearing 考查动词.根据第一句Just as our daily life is becoming more technologically connected,we are losing other more meaningful relationship,随着现代化科技发展,友谊正在消失.
72.replaced 考查动词.根据第一段的介绍,面对面的交流正在被取代.
73.concept考查名词.Among these smaller trends,growing research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship得出现代社会友谊的概念发生变化.
74.share/establish/develop 考查动词.随着城市生活压力的增大,没有人可以分享友谊.
75.shallow 考查形容词.shallow形容词浅的,肤浅的.
76.busy/occupied 考查形容词.we have less quality time for others可知,每天我们都很忙.
77.how 考查副词.Recent studies on childhood and how the contemporary life of the child affects friendships are illuminating 得出最近的对孩子的研究以及当代社会对孩子的影响使如何启示我们现代人.
78.unstructured 考查形容词.Structured time results from the way an average day is arranged for our kids-time for school,time for homework,time for music practice,even time for play这句话推出孩子和大人都可以维持好的友谊通过不设定框的时间.
79.Conclusion 考查名词.总结性的名词,根据全文conclusion总结.
80.key/answer/secret考查名词.最后一句 engage the person,a secret to close friendship.可知,结交好朋友的关键是与朋友建立亲密关系.
点评 对于抽取重要信息题,一定 要注意首字母的大小写问题.作为题目的单词的首字母都要大写;其他句子的第一个单词首字母要大写.
●Remembering the golden rule
Without a doubt,the greatest human relations principle is to treat other people like you want to be treated.When you show respect for your friends and gratitude for their friendship,you'll be blessed in untold ways.
You can't know what has gone on in the rude person's life that day,but you can assume that his or her day hasn't gone well.Maybe a loved one lost his job,her boss reprimanded her unjustly,he's coming down with the flu,or she just found out that her teenager is taking drugs.
Whatever the cause of the rudeness,you don't have to accentuate(突出) the problem.A kind word or a gentle,understanding smile may help the person more than returned rudeness would.
●Considering foes as friends
A friend looks after your own good.On the other hand,a foe is someone who isn't interested in your well-being.
Yet some students view their teachers as enemies.However,a student's success in school partly depends on the teacher's effectiveness in the classroom.Instead of being an enemy,a teacher who corrects you and helps you to achieve can be the best friend you ever had.
This kind of thinking,along with a little attitude adjustment,helps you to convert foes to friends,and both of you are better off.
●Making friends by being an optimist
Do you enjoy being around a pessimist,someone who is generally described as being able to brighten up a room just by leaving it?The answer is obvious.Most people prefer to be around people who believe that tomorrow is going to be better than today,rather than people who believe that today is even worse than yesterday.
●Capturing the pleasing personality
How do you develop a pleasing personality?Here are some steps you can take:
Smile when you see someone.You don't have to give a wide grin-just a pleasant,friendly smile.
Speak in a pleasant,upbeat tone of voice.Talk to people as if they are good friends,even if they don't really fall into that category yet.
Take a course in public speaking.The ability to express yourself attracts favorable attention from many sources.
Develop a sense of humor.Pick up a couple of joke books.This makes you a little more outgoing and friendly.
●Don't criticize unjustly
Instead of being eager to dish out criticism all the time,take the humane and sensible approach.Look for the good in others.Encourage them.Build them up.
Most people seldom think through each situation completely and consider the other person's point of view.If you take the time and effort to do this,you'll end up befriending more people.
Title:Five ways to cultivate friendship
Passage outline | Supporting details |
Introduction to friendship | Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch.Sometimes friends share each other's (72)waysand sorrow. |
(71)joy(s)/happinessof cultivating friendship | ●Remembering the gold rule Treat others like you want to be treated.Don't have to accentuate the problem even though they are (73)rudeto you,because sometimes a gentle understanding (74)smileis better than a rude behavior. |
●Considering foes as friends (75)Lookon foes as friends makes you and your friends better off. | |
●Making friends by being an optimist Most people have the (76)preferencefor being around the ones who are optimistic. | |
●Capturing the pleasing personality ﹡Give a (77)pleasant and friendly smile. ﹡Speak in a pleasant,upbeat tone of voice. ﹡Take a course about speaking (78)publicly. ﹡Develop a sense of humor. | |
●Don't criticize unjustly ﹡(79)Avoidcriticizing others ﹡Look for the good in others. | |
Conclusion | Make an effort to do this and you'll (80)makemore friends in the end. |
After the pilot reached the cruising altitude(巡航高度),there was a strange noise.It (38)A as if someone gnawed(咬)on the plastic.The pilot looked around,and to his(39)A,the pilot saw a rat out of his reach (40)Don the main wire between the jet's control and its engine.If the rat were to cut through that line,the jet would lose(41)A,and crash immediately.
The pilot wanted to descend (下降),but he had flown so (42)Bthat there was not enough time to land.So he decided to (43)C maybe the rat couldn't survive at a higher altitude.The pilot quickly (44)Cas high as he could.Soon the gnawing sound (45)DWhen the pilot landed safely,he found the rat (46)D.
How does this apply to our lives?
The pilot was(47)Ctrained.His equipment was the best that technology could provide.But his safety was (48)D by a small rat.
Like the pilot,we live in a world of high (49)ARobots make our clothes,microwave ovens cook our food,and telephones carry our voices.And (50)Bour lives are also affected by many things people faced centuries ago.(51)A,jealousy,and dishonesty continue to exist.
And something else has (52)Bmost people say they want to get rid of a bad habit,but really would like to keep this habit.You see,we know certain things are(53)A,yet we still stay with them.
Improve our spiritual altitudes.Just (54)Bthe hungry rat could not survive at high altitudes,some problems cannot survive at such spiritual (55)C.
Take care to avoid being lured into moral trouble.Build a wall of protection around your life.
36.A.last | B.newest | C.latest | D.fastest |
37.A.went | B.drove | C.took | D.flew |
38.A.sounded | B.looked | C.felt | D.seemed |
39.A.surprise | B.horror | C.sorrow | D.puzzle |
40.A.crawling | B.remaining | C.staying | D.biting |
41.A.control | B.balance | C.direction | D.instruction |
42.A.up | B.far | C.ahead | D.away |
43.A.turn back | B.keep forward | C.ascend | D.quit |
44.A.reached | B.arrived | C.climbed | D.entered |
45.A.stopped | B.paused | C.followed | D.ended |
46.A.silent | B.weak | C.sick | D.dead |
47.A.certainly | B.completely | C.highly | D.regularly |
48.A.interrupted | B.destroyed | C.broken | D.threatened |
49.A.technology | B.development | C.civilization | D.society |
50.A.so | B.yet | C.then | D.still |
51.A.Hate | B.Courage | C.Quarrel | D.Complaint |
52.A.found | B.improved | C.kept | D.unchanged |
53.A.wrong | B.meaningless | C.difficult | D.boring |
54.A.like | B.as | C.while | D.when |
55.A.situations | B.positions | C.heights | D.morals |
成功原因 | 1.勤奋 | |
2.天赋 | ||
3.教育 | ||
4.运气 | ||
你能向他学什么?(不少于两点) |
1.对所给提示,不要简单翻译,可适当增加细节,使行文连贯.
2.词数150左右.开头己给出,不计入总词数.
Recently,a survey on Jeremy Lin has been conducted among netizens on a website. .
●Decline in economy distracted(分散) focus from climate change after the world agreed in Bali,Indonesia,in 2007to work out a new U.N.agreement by December 2009.Rich nations have put billions of dollars into green growth as part of recovery packages but,when unemployment at home is high,find it hard to promise extra money for developing countries.The slowdown in industrial output means a brief fix--greenhouse gas emissions(排放) are likely to fall by as much as 3percent this year.
●Many delegates at U.N.talks have given up hope that the United States,the number two emitter after China,will agree legislation(立法,法律) to limit carbon emissions before Copenhagen.The US is the only industrialized nation outside the Kyoto Protocol(京都协议书) for cutting greenhouse emissions until 2012.Many countries welcomed President Barack Obama's promises of doing more to fight climate change when he took office in January but hoped for swifter action.
●Developing nations accuse the rich of repeatedly failing to keep promises of more aid.Few developed countries live up to a target agreed by the U.N.General Assembly in 1970to give 0.7percent of their gross domestic product in development aid.Other plans,such as the Agenda 21environmental development plan agreed in 1992,have fallen short.
●Most rich nations are promising cuts in greenhouse gas emissions well short of the 25-40percent below 1990levels by 2020,which are needed to avoid the worst of climate change.Overall cuts promised by developed nations total between 11and 15percent.Best offers by countries including Japan,the European Union,Australia and Norway would reach the range.
●More than 90percent of the growth in emissions between now and 2030is set to come from developing nations--with almost 50percent from China alone,U.S.climate envoy Todd Stern said this week."No country holds the fate of the earth more in its hands than China.Not one,"he said.China and India say they are slowing the growth of emissions but raising living standards is more important.So burning more energy is unavoidable--as industrialized nations have done for 200years.
●2008was the 10th warmest year since records began in the mid-19th century.The warmest was 1998,when a strong El Nino event in the eastern Pacific disrupted(使混乱) weather worldwide.That has led some to argue that global warming is slowing even though the U.N.'s WMO(世界气象组织) says a long-term warming trend is unchanged.
●People have been slow in changing lifestyles to use less carbon.Simple choices like taking more public transport,using less heating or air conditioning,even changing light bulbs can help if millions of people act.(508)
Who's to blame if U.N.climate deal falls short?
Possible candidates | Supporting Details |
(71)Economicdownturn | ●Faced with the(72)domestic rising unemployment,rich countries fail to give more aid to developing ones. ●(73)lessindustrial output brings about a temporary relief from the pressure of greenhouse gas emissions. |
United States | ●It's the only industrialized country outside the Kyoto Protocol. ●Immediate(74)action was expected to be taken by President Obama to fight climate change. |
Rich-Poor divide | ●Developed nations are(75)blamed by the poor for repeatedly breaking promises of aid. |
Developed nations | ●There is a huge (76)gapbetween the overall cuts promised by developed nations and those required to avoid climate catastrophe. |
Developing nations | ●The increase in emissions from developing nations (77)accountsfor 90% between now and 2030. ●Developing nations need to give (78)priorityto raising living standards by burning more energy. |
The weather | ●The worldwide disorder caused by El Nino has (79)misledsome people into believing that global warming is slowing. |
The public | ●People should be(80)encouraged/urged to change lifestyles to use less carbon. |
Wow,have a good trip.And by the way how long ______ there?( )
A. | have you stayed | B. | are you staying | C. | had you stayed | D. | did you stayed |