“Privacy is translated as“yin si in Chinese.Traditionally.in the Chinese mind.“yin si is associated with that which is closed or unfair.If someone is said to have“yin si .meddlerswill be attracted 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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“Privacy”is translated as“yin si”in Chinese.Traditionally，in the Chinese mind，“yin si”is associated with that which is closed or unfair.If someone is said to have“yin si”，meddlers(好事者)will be attracted to pry(打探)into his or her affairs.So people always state that they don't have“yin si”．

On the contrary，Americans often declare intention to protect their privacy.Their understanding of privacy is that others have no right to pry into things which belong to themselves alone and have nothing to do with others.One who is too curious and who spreads rumors is said to violate the right to privacy.

In the evening，Sonia and I went to a bar for dinner.In China，when people mention bars，something bad usually comes to mind.But here，the bar was a quiet and tastefully laid?out place.People spoke quite softly，afraid of interrupting their neighbors，and sat face to face as they drank，sometimes three or five persons sitting together.

This sort of atmosphere was totally different from my preconception(传统观念)，so I wanted to take a picture.Sonia stopped me，“Don't you see these people are pouring out their hearts？Maybe they are colleagues，friends，secret lovers.They came here looking for a peaceful place free from interruption by others.They wouldn't want to leave any trace of their having come here.So taking their pictures would be a serious violation of their right to privacy.”

Is there privacy between husband and wife？One of Sonia's friends married a talented Chinese man，but recently she became so angry that she wanted a divorce(离婚)．The reason was that her husband had opened one of her letters and looked through her purse.The husband didn't realize that this is not tolerated in the U．S.. He thought that being a couple was like being one person；why couldn't he see the letter or the contents of the purse？Truly，everyone，even those living as a couple，needs room—not only in three?dimensional(三维)space，but in the heart.

1.What is the main idea of the text?

A. The understanding of“privacy”is different in China and America.

B. There is privacy between husband and wife in America.

C. Everyone has the right to privacy.

D. Everyone in every country needs room for himself.

2.One of Sonia's friends wanted a divorce because____.

A. she thought her husband was not clever enough

B. her husband didn't respect her right to privacy

C. her husband always looked through her purse

D. her husband always opened her letters

3.Which of the following statements is NOT the American's understanding of privacy?

A. Privacy is connected with something that is unfair and bad.

B. Other people have no right to pry into his or her affairs.

C. There is privacy even between couples.

D. The right to privacy shouldn't be violated by others.

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	A．	in view of		B．	in response to
	C．	in parallel with		D．	in return for

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Positive thinkers admit when they feel frustrated or depressed,they don't ignore it.But they don't blame themselves either.1.They counter（反击）them with more positive ones.

So how do you stay positive,maintain motivated and sustain healthy behaviors?Here are some tips:

Look for a good role model.There is always someone who seems to be doing just what you want to be doing. Maybe they've scheduled exercise into their workday and switched from coffee to green tea.2.Ask them how they keep healthy and follow their footsteps.

3.Take a minute to give yourself an ego boost（自我吹捧）.Repeat some motivational words out loud to yourself.Negative talk such as "I can't do it." "I'm fat." is dangerous for your well-being and healthy goals.Try to avoid the negative self—talk before it harms you.Remind yourself that you deserve happiness and can make positive changes.

Get support.Tell your friends and family about your healthy habits.It helps to have an encouraging network.

Reward yourself.4.Take a nice bath,get a massage,and enjoy a new DVD or CD.

Have a plan.Making a plan to exercise or eat healthy lunches with a friend can mean the difference of sticking with your goals or falling off rack.If you've planned for an activity,you'll like stick with it.You may even find that writing down your goals and steps to achieve them can help you stay on track.Take it day by day or week by week.5.

A.Try some positive self-talk and avoid negative talk.

B.Stay with your parents and relatives and you can avoid frustration or depression.

C.Treat yourself to something for your healthy efforts.

D.They try to understand the negative thoughts and feelings,instead.

E.Learn from a successful friend,family member or colleague.

F.The process of writing down your personal action plan is a good way to watch your progress or failures.

G..Believe in yourself and do as others do.

This morning, my neighbor called me and asked me 1. (anxious), “Are your dogs missing?”

I 2. (fill) with nervousness and immediately made a phone call to my wife, and then I replied with relief, “No. They 3. (stay) at home.” My neighbor is a sweet, kind and generous girl with 4. old-fashioned heart and spirit. She bakes cookies and shares them with neighbors. Today she found two small dogs walking down the street, 5. she brought them home.

I then suggested places where she could report the 6.(miss) dogs. “Most people wouldn’t do anything about them,” I said, “Many cars and people passed 7. them this morning, ignoring them. You did the right thing.”

I went outside to look for someone 8. might be walking down the street, and I expected to hear the distant cry of someone calling the dogs’ names. But no one did this.

If I were lost, I would hope someone would come looking for me. If I were crying alone, I 9. (hope) that someone would stop and wipe away my tears. Why not give a little love to dogs and other 10. (creature)?

1.In many countries, young people still keep up the _________(传统)that women will get married in a long white dress.

2.________(surround)by a lot of fans, the film star left the airport excitedly.

3.Evidence obtained from observation and experiment is often used to ___________(证实)a scientific theory.

4.There is an ongoing debate about the potentially _______(harm)effects that text messaging can have on people’s grammar.

5.___________(凝视，盯着看)at people is considered rude in Britain and young children will be scolded by their parents if they look too long at another person.

Four books that will inspire you to travel the world

There’s truly nothing like travel when it comes to gaining perspective(远景) and exposing yourself to other cultures. To get you in the adventuring mood, we asked Amazon Senior Editor Chris Schlep to help us come up with a list of books that transport readers to another time and place. Below, see his list of four books that will inspire you to travel around the world. For more information, please click Amazon.com.

SEATTLE: Where You d Go, Bernadette

Price: $16.73

Maria Sample’s first novel is not exactly a love story to Seattle, but if you read it, you just might want to come here to see if people are really as self-involved as the characters in her book. What really shines through is the strange storytelling and the laughs. Buy it on Amazon.

ITALY: Beautiful Ruins

Price: $16.29

This book by the popular author Jess Walters is a love story that begins on the Italian Coast in the early 60s and eventually appears on the screen in Hollywood. With the settings of the background from Italy to Edinburgh to Los Angeles, you will find yourself longing to go as well. Buy it on Amazon.

ENGLAND: Wolf Hall

Price: $15.57

You can’t travel to Thomas Cromwell’s England without a time machine，but reading Hilary Mantel’s prize-winning novel is the next best thing. It will make you long to see the ancient buildings and green grass of the English countryside, much of which is still there. Buy it on Amazon.

NANTUCKET: Here’s to Us

Price: $ 17.16

Eli Hildebrand has built a writing career out of writing about her hometown island of Nantucket. Her latest is Here’s to Us, which, perhaps not surprisingly, is a great beach read.

1.Whose book has been made into a film according to the text?

A. Hilary Mantel’s.

B. Jess Walter’s.

C. Maria Semple’s.

D. Elin Hilderbrand’s.

2.What can you buy if you have only $32?

A. Beautiful Ruins and Where You’d Go, Bernadette.

B. Where You’d Go, Bernadette and Wolf Hall.

C. Beautiful Ruins and Wolf Hall.

D. Wolf Hall and Here’s to Us.

3.What do the four books have in common?

A. They have the same price.

B. They have the similar content.

C. They have the similar background.

D. They have the same place of sales.

4.Where does the text probably come from?

A. A website.

B. A magazine.

C. A newspaper.

D. A textbook.

Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant (不相关的).A half century ago in the United States, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the boundaries still exist，but they seem not clear.

The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday；in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer; in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal limits, or whether it should become more “flexible,” is often debated. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the boundaries of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?

These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we rarely recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to attend school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years—but unless we meet the truant officer(学监), we may well think that we should go to school due to social custom and parents’ demand rather than to the law. As adults we are familiar with “extra pay for overtime working,” but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes (构成) “overtime” is a matter of legal definition. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight- saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how we organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law—as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.

1.By saying “Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be”, the writer means that .

A. work time is not clear

B. many people have a day off on Monday

C. the line between work time and rest time is unclear

D. people don’t know when to rest

2.The author raises the questions in Paragraph 2 to introduce the fact that people .

A. enjoy working on weekends B. fail to make full use of their time

C. are unaware of the law of time D. welcome flexible working hours

3.According to the passage, most children tend to believe that they go to school because they .

A. have to obey their parents B. need to acquire knowledge

C. need to prepare for the future D. like studying

4.What is the main idea of the passage?