How to be more creative every day

Creativity isn’t something you either have or don’t have. In fact, it is something like playing the saxophone.【1】So read on to know how.

Be more curious.

It’s important to seek out new viewpoints every day. 【2】To involve this in your daily life, make sure to keep an open mind when you’re presented with an idea, and be curious as to what else is around the comer.

Give yourself space.

Letting every piece of information into your brain drags you from being creative. Try to apply a level of space into your everyday life. 【3】It helps to lead your thinking patterns away from potential distractions (潜在分心的事物), leaving much room to have creative ideas.

Try something new.

Frequent thinking patterns, in effect, cause you to be more likely to think the same things or make the same decisions over and over unless you get out of your comfort zone. 【4】Though not always easy, it does open up a whole new world of thinking!

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Social media has created an environment where we’re constantly shown whether we’ve succeeded in the form of likes or comments, which leads us to doubt ourselves. However, creativity is a journey, and you’re learning every step of the way. Honestly, you’ll learn much more from that than a straight win anyway. So be confident and tell yourself you have already done well enough.

A. Learn from failure.

B. Remind yourself you’re good enough.

C. The 8 p. m. — 8 a. m. phone ban is a great way to begin.

D. Getting physical really helps to sort out your brain space.

E. But it’s not easy to feel or be automatically creative either.

F. Thus you can think and approach things from another angle.

G. Using your skills in a different area is a great way to think outside the box.

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1.分析瞌睡及自习课睡觉的原因；

2.阐述睡眠不足的危害；

3.你的建议。

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1.词数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头已为你写好。

Recently I have found many of my classmates feel sleepy and tired during class.

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【1】Where are the speakers?

A. In a classroom. B. In a gym. C. In an office.

【2】What can we learn from the conversation?

A. Everything is perfect for the woman.

B. Peter is the woman’s friend.

C. Peter is in Maths 204.

【3】What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Friends. B. Boss and employee. C. Teacher and student.

【1】How long did the man stay in the US?

A. About two weeks. B. About three weeks. C. About six weeks.

【2】Where is the Sears Tower exactly?

A. In Chicago. B. In New York. C. In Mexico City.

【3】What places does the man advise the woman to visit?

A. The museums. B. The Mayan ruins. C. The theaters.

【1】What’s wrong with the woman’s watch?

A. It goes ten minutes fast every day.

B. It goes ten minutes slow every day.

C. It goes one minute slow every hour.

【2】How does the man deal with his watch?

A. Put it back ten minutes every day.

B. Buy a new watch.

C. Have it mended.

【3】What will the woman probably do with her watch?

A. Follow the man’s way.

B. Put up with it.

C. Throw it away.

Our confidence plays an important role in ability to achieve success and happiness. It affects our mental thought patterns, the way we speak and act, and the decisions we make in all areas of our lives. Confident people take more action, perform better, and are more likely to achieve their goals.【1】Lucky for us, confidence can be built and strengthened until it becomes natural, just as any other habit. It simply takes a little time, some effort, and a bit of attention.

Fail more often. The more challenges you take on, the more failures you’ll have, but learning that you can recover, get up and push forward builds confidence.

【2】Keep a list of successes, big and small. It’ll help you to see your abilities in a more positive and realistic light.

Start a conversation. When you find yourself in a social situation, don’t always turn to those people you’re comfortable with.【3】Eventually getting to know new people will become easier.

Don’t compare. Stop measuring yourself against others.【4】Making comparisons is a damaging and an inaccurate measure of success anyway.

Confidence helps you to be more secure in your abilities and more positive in your attitude. It also encourages you to be more assertive(坚定自信的) to take on more challenges, and to improve your skills.【5】The end result is a better outlook, more success, and a higher quality of life in all areas.

A. List your super abilities

B. It may only do harm to them

C. Track your accomplishments

D. The result you get isn’t always real

E. Talk to someone you don’t know very well

F. As an added benefit, you’ll attract like-minded people

G. What’s more, confident people can take more joy from their accomplishments

【1】How many students are there in the woman’s school?

A. 700. B. 500. C. 200.

【2】What is the woman’s problem?

A. There are only a small number of students.

B. She can’t find a foreign teacher for her school.

C. She doesn’t know how to put an ad for teachers.

【3】Who will probably help the woman solve the problem?

A. The editor of China Daily.

B. The man’s uncle.

C. The man’s friend.

Life for snowshoe hares is pretty stressful 一 almost everything in the forest wants to eat them.

Alex Kumar, a graduate student at the University of Montana, lists the animals that are hungry for hares. “Lynx, foxes, coyotes, […. even] red squirrels.”

Kumar and field technician Tucker Seitz spend months searching these woods for hares, often listening for signals from hares they've already put radio collars on.

They catch other hares with wire traps about the size of a breadbox, with some apple as bait (诱饵). Most of the hares they track live less than a year — a hazard (风险）of being what Kumar calls “the cheeseburger of the ecosystem”.

But snowshoe hares have a special skill: camouflage. They're brown during the summer, but turn white for the snowy winter months.

“There’s times when you’re tracking them and you know they’re really, really dose, and you just can’t find them,” he says.

Hares switch color in the spring and fall in response to light, when the days get longer or shorter. But if the snow comes late, you get a white hare on brown ground.

“And they really think that they’re camouflaged,” Kumar says. “They act like we can’t see them.”

Kumar calls this “mismatching,” and it's becoming more of a concern with climate change.

“If the hares are consistently molting (脱毛) at the same time, year after year, and the snowfall comes later and melts earlier, there’s going to be more and more times when hares are mismatched,” he says.

Scott Mills of North Carolina State University leads the research. He says they're finding that mismatched hares die at higher rates. That’s a concern for the threatened Canada lynx, which mainly eats these hares.

“It’s a very clear connection to a single climate change stressor,” Mills says.

Hares might be able to adapt over time. Some snowshoe hares in Washington State don't turn white at all. Mills is trying to figure out whether hares and other wildlife can adapt as fast as the climate is changing.

“But how fast is too fast?” he asks.

【1】The word “camouflage”（Paragraph 6) is closest in meaning to .

A. escaping B. hiding

C. fighting D. scaring

【2】According to the passage, snowshoe hares can now be easily discovered by their enemies because they .

A. change their fur color to white too late

B. haven’t adapted to climate change

C. can no longer adapt to the change of light in spring and fall

D. find it more and more difficult to molt at the same time each year

【3】Which best describes Mills' tone in the passage?

A. Approving. B. Enthusiastic.

C. Concerned. D. Doubtful.

内容要点：

1. 学英语的重要性：和外国人交流，为祖国服务。

2. 英语学习提出建议：读英语新闻，认真听课、记笔记、完成作业，和同学用英语交流等。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可适当加入细节，以使行文连贯；

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【1】我忍不住想他是不是想让彼得取代我做他最好的朋友。

I cannot ______ if he wants Peter to be his best friend instead of me.

【2】其他国家已经开始尝试克隆人类，但这并不意味着我们应当效仿他们的做法。

Other countries have already begun trying to clone human beings, but this does not mean that we should ______ Their footsteps.

【3】关于友谊的意义，关于好友的品质是什么，并不是每个人的观点是一致的。

Not everyone can ______ on the meaning of friendship and what ____a good friend.

【4】国家或国际层面可做的事情，比如说国与国之间分享信息，以及利用卫星来找出可能受到沙漠化影响的区域。

There are things that can be done at a national or international, ______ such as information between countries and using satellites to ______ out areas likely to be affected by desertification.

【5】既然没人明确知道转基因食物是否安全，很多国家一直以来都在许可生产转基因食物这件事上犹豫不决，因为它们对待这一新科技宁可谨慎一点。

Since no one really knows whether GM food is safe, many countries have ______ to give ______ for the production of GM foods, as they would rather be cautious with this new technology.