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A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression(情绪低落) as young adults.

The researchers used a national long-term survey of adolescent(青少年的)health to survey the relationship between media use and depression. They based their findings on more than 4,000 adolescents who were not depressed when the survey began in the year 2000.

As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games and listened to the radio. Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day. More than two hours of that was spent watching TV.

Seven years later, in 2007, more than seven percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was twenty-one.

The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, video games or radio, etc. But the study did find that every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression. Young men were more likely than young women to develop depression given the same amount of media use.

The study didn’t explore if watching TV causes depression. But one possibility is that it was taking time away from activities that could help prevent depression.

Last December, the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active, to read, to attend religious services and to vote.

1.We can learn from the survey that of all the media use ______.

A. computer games are teenagers’ favorite

B. most teenagers prefer to listen to the radio

C. teenagers enjoy watching TV very much

D. newspaper is not included in the survey

2.According to the passage, what kind of activity may help prevent depression?

A. Playing computer games. B. Taking part in sports.

C. Listening to the radio. D. Watching movies.

3.We can conclude that a teenager should ____________.

A. play more video games instead of watching TV

B. be active in taking part in outdoor activities

C. be more active in reading and studying

D. attend religious services and care for politics

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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。

We are all called upon to make a speech at some point in life, but most of us don’t do a very good job. 1.

So, you have to give a speech and you are terrified. You get nervous, you forget what you want to say, you stumble over words, you talk too long, and you bore your audience. Later you think, “Thank Goodness, it’s over. I’m just not good at public speaking. I hope I never have to do that again.”

Cheer up! 2. Here are some simple steps to take the pain out of speech making. Ask yourself the purpose of your speech. What is the occasion? Why are you speaking? Then, gather as many facts as you can on your subject. Spend plenty of your time doing your research. Then spend plenty of your time organizing your material so that your speech is clear and easy to follow. Use as many examples as possible, and use pictures, charts, and graphs if they help you make your points more clearly. 3. Don’t talk over their heads, and don’t talk down to them. Treat your audience with respect. They will appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Just remember: Be prepared. Know your subject, your audience, and the occasion. Be brief. 4. And be yourself. Let your personality come through so that you make person-to-person contact with your audience.

If you follow these simple steps, you will see that you don’t have to be afraid of public speaking. In fact, you may find the experience so enjoyable that you volunteer to make more speeches! You’re not convinced yet? 5.

A. It doesn’t have to be that bad.

B. Take several deep breaths before your speech.

C. This article gives some advice on how to give a good speech.

D. Say what you have to say and then stop.

E. Don’t say what you aren’t familiar with.

F. Never forget your audience.

G. Give it a try and see what happens.

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。

We looked through the Styles archive(档案文件) of 2015, sorting through the many tips and tricks throughout our stories. Our subjects are about what you wear, what you consume and how you love. 1.

1. Wear comfortable underwear.

“I only wear granny panties(内裤),” said Julia Baylis, 22. Mayan Toledano, 27, added: “What’s sexy for us is being natural and comfortable.” 2.

2. Stare into the eyes of someone you love (or want to love) for exactly four minutes.

Not two. Not three. Four. “ 3. ” said Mandy Len Catron, the author of a Modern Love column on the exercise. “Four really takes effect.”

3. Be nice to babies.

Even if they're screaming on a plane. Nyfesha Miller became a social media star after taking care of her seatmate's crying infant on a flight earlier this year.

4. 4.

It may be true that you can't really cure depression, so you can only get better at living with it. But raising a kitten(小猫)seemed to help one depressed man.

5. Make sure you are the boss of your electronic devices.

Rather than the other way around. 5. That’s the most important for us to keep the laws.

6. Enjoy the phrase 'I'm too old for this.'

“There is also something profoundly liberating about aging: an attitude, one that comes hard won,” wrote Dominique Browning. “Only when you hit 60 can you begin to say: ‘I’m too old for this.’ This line is about to become my personal motto.”

A. Here are some tips for improving your existence in the coming year.

B. It’s only allowed to wear granny panties for the young.

C. Help a depressed man.

D. In other words, it’s our first choice to feel natural and at ease.

E. Get a pet.

F. Try making a few rules for when you do (and don't) use your phone.

G. Two minutes is just enough to be terrified.

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Every dream has something to do with our feelings, longings, wishes, needs, fears, and memories. But something on the “outside” may affect what we ______. If a person is hungry or tired or cold, his dream may include a feeling of this kind. If the _____on your body has slipped off your bed, you may dream that you are ______ or resting on the ice and snow. The material for the dream you will ______ tonight is probably to come from the experiences you have today.

______ the subject of your dream usually comes from something that has an effect on you ______ you are sleeping (feeling of cold, a noise, a discomfort, etc.) and it may also use your past experiences and the wishes and interests you have now. This is why very young ______ are likely to dream of fairies(仙女), older children of school examinations, ______ people of food, homesick soldiers of their families and prisoners of freedom.

To show you how that is ______ while you are asleep and how your wishes or needs can all be joined together in a dream, ______ is the story of an experiment. A man was asleep and the back of his ______ was rubbed ______ a piece of cotton. He would dream that he _____ in a hospital and his girlfriend was visiting him, _____ on the bed and feeling gently his hand!

There are some scientists who have made a special ______ of why we dream, what we dream and what those dreams _____. Their explanation of dreams, though a bit reasonable, is not accepted by everyone, but it _____ an interesting approach to the problem. They believe that dreams are _____ expressions of wishes that didn’t ______. In other words, a dream is a way of having your wishes ______ out.

1.A. long B. dream C. think D. wish

2.A. blanket B. book C. shoe D. trousers

3.A. working B. running C. sleeping D. studying

4.A. meet B. have C. see D. think

5.A. But B. For C. So D. Because

6.A. before B. while C. after D. during

7.A. children B. fathers C. drivers D. gentlemen

8.A. happy B. sad C. hungry D. old

9.A. taking B. carrying C. dreaming D. happening

10.A. that B. here C. it D. this

11.A. leg B. head C. body D. hand

12.A. in B. with C. of D. off

13.A. left B. lived C. was D. gave

14.A. waiting B. smiling C. sitting D. speaking

15.A. study B. watch C. sleep D. way

16.A. stand B. do C. form D. mean

17.A. makes B. finds C. offers D. demands

18.A. any B. almost C. hardly D. mostly

19.A. get B. come true C. arrive D. believe in

20.A. carried B. taken C. kept D. called

When I was 4, my parents decided they could no longer live together. That same year, my mom moved to Los Angeles (L.A.) and a therapist (治疗师) was hired to decide where I would live. Playing with a dollhouse in her office, I showed her the mother’s room on one side and the father’s room on the other. When she asked me about the little boy’s room, I told her the little boy didn’t know where to sleep.

The therapist finally decided I would stay with my dad during the school years and visit my mom on long holidays and for summers. I began flying between two cities and leading two different lives. I remember my last school day in Grade Six. My friends made plans to go to the beach together, but I couldn’t join them because I had to fly to L.A. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see my mom and stepdad; I just didn’t want to leave my friends. It wasn’t easy to put up a wall, and pretend I didn’t hate saying goodbye to them. In the morning, my dad drove me to school with my packed bags, and after school, my friends went together, and I went to the airport.

What has come of this in the end is that I’m always missing somebody. When I’m in northern California, I miss my mom and stepdad, while in L.A. I miss going out with my friends, my dad, and my little brother and sister. But after so many flights, I’ve learned that it’s also fun traveling between two cities and experiencing different lives. Other children may not have the opportunity to experience so much.

1.The dollhouse game showed that the boy _______ .

A. didn’t want his parents to stay together

B. was very independent

C. had no feeling of belonging

D. didn’t like his parents

2.Why didn’t the author like traveling between two cities at first?

A. Because the traveling separated him from his friends.

B. Because he hated saying goodbye to his mom.

C. Because the traveling made it difficult for him to meet his parents.

D. Because he wanted to spend his summers with his dad.

3.We learn from the text that the author _______ .

A. stayed with his mom during the school years

B. finally accepted his traveling lifestyle

C. enjoyed traveling more than others did

D. never enjoyed staying with his family

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

A. Always Miss Somebody

B. Travel on My Own

C. My Divorced Parents

D. My Lonely Life

Japanese high school students either walk or ride bicycles if the distance is not too great. In other cases, students must take public buses and trains. After junior high school, students attend schools based on their high school entrance examination scores. So some students travel a great distance to attend the school.

At School

The school day begins at 8:30. Then students assemble in their homeroom classes for the day's studies. Each homeroom has an average of 40-45 students. Students stay in their homeroom classrooms for most of the school day. Only for physical education, laboratory classes, or other subjects requiring special facilities(设备) do students move to different parts of the school. Between classes and at lunchtime, classrooms can be noisy, lively places. Some schools may have a cafeteria(自助餐厅), but most do not. In most schools, students bring a box lunch from home, prepared by the mother in the early morning hours.

Japanese students spend 240 days a year at school, 60 days more than American students. Students in high schools take three years' each of the following subjects mathematics, social studies, Japanese, science, and English. Other subjects include physical education, music, art, and moral(道德的) studies. All the students in one grade level study the same subjects. Given the number of required subjects, electives(选修科目) are few.

Afterschool Activities

Club activities take place after school every day. Students can join only one club, and they rarely change clubs from year to year, so the clubs are relatively stable. Clubs are made up of sports clubs (baseball, soccer, judo, kendo, etc.) and culture clubs(English, broadcasting, science, etc.). New students usually are encouraged to select a club shortly after the school year begins in April. Clubs meet for two hours after school each day and many clubs continue to meet during school vacations.

1.Most Japanese high school students often have their lunch________.

A. in restaurants B. in school cafeterias

C. at home D. in homeroom classrooms

2.Students in the USA go to school________days a year.

A. 180 B. 200 C. 240 D. 300

3.The underlined word "rarely" in the fourth paragraph means "________".

A. always B. never C. seldom D. often

4.From the passage we know that________.

A. there are less than 40 students in each class in Japanese high schools

B. students must stay in homeroom classrooms for physical education

C. there are few subjects for students to choose except the required ones

D. there will not be any club activities during school vacations

Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I’m a unique creature.

Vain attempts to imitate others no longer will I make. Instead will I place my uniqueness on display in the market place. I will begin now to highlight my differences; hide my similarities.

I am rare, and therefore I am valuable. I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men before me.

But my skills, my mind, my heart, and my body will weaken, rot, and die for fear that I put them to good use. I have unlimited potential. Only a tiny part of my brain do I employ; only a small amount of my muscle do I apply.

So never again will I be satisfied with yesterday's accomplishments nor will I lose myself, anymore, in self-praise for deeds which in reality are too small to even acknowledge. I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will. I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth(从今往后) will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

I will increase my knowledge of mankind, myself, and the goods I sell. I will practice, and improve, and polish the words I speak to multiply my sales, for this is the foundation on which I will build my career. Also will I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think and now I know a great secret of life that all my problems, discouragements, and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise. I am nature’s greatest miracle. And nature knows not defeat. Eventually, she achieves victory and so will I, and with each victory the next struggle becomes less difficult.

1.It can be inferred from the text that the author is most probably a(n) _________.

A. salesman B. soldier C. robot D. athlete

2.Which of the following can best describe the author’s character?

A. Intelligent, calm and content.

B. Ambitious, confident and optimistic.

C. Independent, cold and aggressive.

D. Confident, modest and realistic.

3.According to the text, which of the following is fundamental to the author’s career building?

A. Knowledge of mankind.

B. Prediction of the market.

C. Speaking skills.

D. Sense of victory.

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Great opportunities in disguise

B. The power of being different

C. The great secret of life

D. Nature’s greatest miracle

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