【题目】Organizing Your Time

You can set a budget(预算) for your time just as you can set a budget for your money. Since you’re trying to reduce worry rather than increase it,go into this process with a focus on maximizing(使…最大化)your personal time,rather than cramming(塞满) as much as you can into each day.

Set a sleep schedule(时间表).1Give yourself a one-hour target(目标) window for bedtime in the evening,and set a strict time to get up in the morning.Be sure that the space between your bedtime and the start of your day gives you roughly an hour more than the amount of sleep you actually need.2

●Take care of tasks at the same time every day. Plan time for daily health care, commuting(乘公交下上班), work, shopping, eating, and chores(家务). Add in time for anything else youdo most days, such as homework, exercise, or an active hobby.3All the time left over is your free time, to use for relaxation or whatever else you want.

4For example,you might plan to go, dropping on your way home from work, to save the extra trip.

For many people, an irregular work schedule make this kind of budgeting difficult.5

A. However, you can still plan to work around your schedule in the same order every day.

B. Stick to it,even on weekends.

C. Try to combine trips outside the home to maximize(最大化)your free time.

D. Different days call for different approaches.

E. Therefore, you won’t lay down and start worrying about whether or not you’ll fall asleep on time.

F. Sit comfortably and focus on your breathing until the rest of your thoughts become quiet.

G. Put them in a specific order that works for you.

【题目】I work in a nursing home and my job is to take care of the elderly.

This year, a very sweet old lady that I cared for,Alice, had gone through a difficult time .She got dementia and so she had been in the hospital twice .In November I was finally able to get her back to her“home”.

Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas day and that they were going to have the whole family together like the old days. When she finally realized that that happy moment was not going to happen,she was very sad.Knowing that her daughter was coming after Christmas was not enough to make her feel happy,I hated the idea of her being alone on the holiday!

On Christmas Eve,I gave her a surprise by asking if she could like to go to a candlelight service at church that night

Instead of taking her to my church,I took her to her old neighborhood church where all her friends were. We got there early and I got her a seat where her friends could see her as they came in.Then soon some of her friends came to the church and they rushed over to greet her and sit with her.

The candlelight service was beautiful and Alice got a lot of love from her old and new friends there.

The truth of the story is that I am the one who got the best gift: the smile on Alice’s face

【1】The underlined word“dementia”in Paragraph 2 probably is_______

A.a house B.a letter C.an illness D.a plan

【2】 Where did Alice spend her Christmas Eve according to the story?

A. In her old house

B. In her old neighborhood church.

C.In the nursing home.

D. In the hospital.

【3】 What was the best gift that the author got on Christmas Eve?

A.The candlelight service.

B.Praise from Alice’s friends.

C.Alice’s happiness

D.Thanks from Alice’ s daughter.

【4】What is the best title for this passage?

A.A special candlelight Christmas Eve

B.The dream of all old lonely lady

C.My special job

D. The true love

【题目】Every year in late spring at Wild Friends, the wildlife health center, workers receive baby animals, including songbirds and rabbits. This is the busiest time when workers care for and raise all the little ones before sending them back into the wild.

There are many reasons for these little animals’ coming to the center. First of all, street cats or dogs catch, injure or take away little birds from their nests. Sometimes people catch baby animals and keep them at home, giving them food that they are not used to. It would make them sick. Most people don’t realize that it’s against law to get live animals out of their nests.

As for songbirds, people often find them on the ground in their yards, thinking they have no other choice but to leave them on the ground to die. This is because many people wrongly believe that once a bird is touched by a person, its mother will not accept this child bird. But that’s not true.

If a little bird falls out of the nest, you should check whether it is injured. If not, you should put the bird back in the nest. If the bird is injured, call your local wildlife center quickly.

As for the progress of protecting wild animals, people at Wild Friends devote all their energy to this work. Over the last weeks, they have been able to send many of the birds and rabbits that came here earlier this spring back to nature.

【1Which is the busiest season for workers at Wild Friends?

A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Autumn. D. Winter.

【2The underlined word “nests” in Paragraph 2 probably means “______”.

A. the food that birds eat

B. the skills that birds learn

C. the places where birds live

D. the steps that cares for the birds

【3Which of the following will probably injure young birds?

A. Giving them food they don’t like.

B. Letting them play with children.

C. Leaving them on the ground.

D. Bringing them to the center.

【4If a young healthy bird is lying on the ground, you should ______.

A. wait for its mother

B. help it go back home

C. touch it with your hands

D. call workers at Wild Friends

【题目】In a computer age,a broadband Internet connection is very popular now.Whether cable or mobile broadband,today’s connections are many times faster than those in the early days. Videos play smoothly, complex websites load quickly,and files download much faster than ten years ago.And the files are much bigger too.

There’s a hidden problem:You have to live near enough to a major city to get broadband Internet. If you don’t,it's slow dial-up access for you. And for those living really far out,there may be no Internet access at a11.

Technology experts often talk about the “last mile” problem, which refers to the difficulty of bringing Internet access to remote locations.In cities and suburbs(郊区),it's relatively easy to provide access for everyone.It is much more difficult to deliver access to those living far from cities,especially in developing countries.Internet service providers.for their part,have been reluctant to provide access to sparsely(稀疏地)populated areas.The handful of Internet users they would reach wouldn’t cover the expense.

But every year, technological advancements allow of more and more Internet users. Most broadband connections today run over existing cable TV and telephone lines although these technologies aren’t available everywhere.

Some companies have delivered the Internet over standard power lines. Advancements in cheaper more efficient fiber optics cables(光纤电缆)promise to bring extremely fast Internet connections to more users.Still.the“last mile”problem remains hard to deal with.There will always be somewhere that doesn’t have an affordable broadband connection.But someday that might not matter.If the rapid progress in cell phone technology is any indication,it may not be too long before an Internet connection simply follows you wherever you go.

【1】 Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Internet connections have been popular everywhere.

B.Internet service providers are willing to care about rural(农村的)customers.

C. The problem of Internet access hasn’t been completely dealt with

D. Computer can’t become popular in developing countries.

【2】Paragraph 4 mainly tells us that technological advancements_______.

A.make TV and telephone available everywhere

B.bring great change to people’s everyday life

C. bring faster Internet connections to users

D. make it possible for more people to use the Internet

【3】What may eventually settle the“last mile”problem?

A. The broadband connection’s getting faster.

B.The rapid progress in cell phone technology.

C.More and more Internet connections.

D. More and more Internet users

【4】The best title for this passage may be________.

A.Internet Connection Problems

B.Internet Connections Need Improving

C. Progress in Internet Connections

D.Internet Connections Today

【题目】While most teachers enjoy the summer break from work, other teachers try to find part-time work during that time. If you’re one of those teachers who are finding part-time work during the summer, writing for children might be the right job you’re looking for.

During the school year, you’re very familiar with children in your classroom. That means you know what children think about, how they talk and how they act. If you read stories and books for children with your students during the school year, you also know the kinds of story that children are fond of.

As a teacher, you can go to the school library and find out what kinds of books students are most interested in. Also, what kinds of books seem to be in short supply? Use this information to create stories and novels.

If you continue writing for children during the school year, you won’t have enough time to write as much while you’re teaching, but you can probably manage to work on at least one short story for children each month. Even if you don’t finish these pieces during the school year, when school ends for the summer you will have lots of writing projects to finish and hand in to editors (编辑).

Recently, many teachers have turned to writing for children as a part-time job. If you enjoy writing as much as you enjoy teaching, then writing for children might be the second job for you, too.

【1Who is the passage probably written for?

A. Students. B. Teachers.

C. Workers. D. Schools.

【2According to the passage, the school library can help teachers ______.

A. write more stories

B. borrow more books

C. learn about students’ interests

D. improve their teaching skills

【3We can learn from the passage that story-writing teachers ______.

A. should read their stories to the students

B. should borrow books from the school library

C. think writing stories is a difficult part-time job

D. think teaching can provide them with ideas for stories

【4What is the passage mainly about?

A. A way of finding a part-time job.

B. An interesting story of a writer.

C. Writing methods for teachers.

D. The reasons for becoming story-writing teachers.

【5Which kind of teachers can be story-writing teachers?

A. Teachers who prefer writing to teaching.

B. Teachers who like either writing or teaching.

C. Teachers who often have talks with students.

D. Teachers who love both teaching and writing.

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