Christopher Thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast.Diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病), Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness and even death.And if that weren't bad enough, he had no health insurance.

       After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he'd better find a way to fight back.He left Canton, Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar, and created diabeticrockstar.com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones—a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources.

    Jason Swencki’s son, Kody, was diagnosed with diabetes at six.Father and son visit the online children's forums(论坛) together most evenings."Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over," says Swencki, one of the site's volunteers."They know what he's going through, so he doesn't feel alone."

       Kody is anything but alone, Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, with 24 million diagnosed cases.And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages.

These days, Thomas's main focus is his charity(慈善机构), Fight It, which provides medicines and supplies to people—225 to date—who can't afford a diabetic's huge expenses.Fight-it.org has raised about $23,000—in products and in cash.In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean.

Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause, while still doing his full-time job waiting tables."Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure," says Bentley Gubar, one of Rockstar's original members."But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now."

1.Which of the following is true of Christopher Thomas?

       A.He needs to go to the doctor every day.

       B.He studies the leading cause of diabetes

       C.has a positive attitude to this disease.

       D.He encourages diabetics by writing articles.

2.Diabeitcrockstar.com was created for _________.

       A.diabetics to communicate                B.volunteers to find jobs

       C.children to amuse themselves              D.rock stars to share resources.

3.According to the text, Kody ______.

       A.feel lonely because of his illness         B.benefits from diabeticrockstar.com

       C.helps create the online kid’s forums      D.writes children’s stories online

4.What can we learn about Fight It?

       A.It helps the diabetics in financial difficulties.

       B.It organizes parties for volunteer once a year.

       C.It offers less expensive medicine to diabetics.

       D.It owns a well-known medical website.

5.The last paragraph suggests that Thomas ______.

       A.works full-time in a diabetes charity     B.employs 22 people for his website

       C.helps diabetics in his own way          D.tries to find a cure for diabetes

People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions--and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

       Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

       "We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said."Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."

       According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed.As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

       The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of.expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral.They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

       It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did."The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said."Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

       In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion.From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion.Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

1.The discovery shows that Westerners ______

       A.pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

       B.consider facial expressions universally reliable

       C.observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

       D.have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

2.What were the people asked to do in the study?

       A.To make a face at each other.           B.To get their faces impressive.

       C.To classify some face pictures.         D.To observe the researchers' faces.

3.What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?

       A.The participants in the study.            B.The researchers of the study.

       C.The errors made during the study.                                   D.The data collected from the study.

4.In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to __

       A.do translation more successfully      B.study the mouth more frequently

       C.examine the eyes more attentively     D.read facial expressions more correctly

5.What can be the best title for the passage?

       A.The Eye as the Window to the Soul

       B.Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

       C.Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills

       D.How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

阅读下列图书馆的各个区域的相关信息,然后为每个人物选择相应的区域。

       A.Bing Wing Carrels

       Study desks with a lockable storage compartment are located on the third floor of the Bing Wing of Green Library.Graduate students and Visiting Scholars are given priority for carrel assignments.Undergraduate students, if assigned, may use a carrel for one quarter at a time.

       B.The Velma Denning Room

       The Velma Denning Room provides a focused environment for the data and software services offered by Social Science Data and Software SSDS).

       SSDS provides access to an extensive collection of datasets from consortia, foreign governments, international organizations and U.S.agencies and offices on CD-ROM and diskette.Users can view, download, or transfer numeric data on CD-ROM and diskette from computer workstations.

       C.Bender Room

       The Albert M.Bender Room, with its wonderful views of the Quad and the hills beyond the campus, offers comfortable seating and a quiet atmosphere for study, leisure reading, and reflection.The Bender Room contains a collection of good books of current and classic interest in fiction and non-fiction.This collection has been made possible by a generous gift from the Stanford University Bookstore.

       D.Lane Reading Room

       The Lane Reading Room, houses the Humanities and Area Studies Resource Center.From the beginning, the room has served as a reading room, first for general purposes, and later for the study of rare books and manuscripts(手稿).Traditional study and reading space is now complemented by Internet access (available from all seating in the room) and computer workstations.The Lane Reading Room houses the Humanities Digital Information Service (formerly the Academic Text Service), which provides access to SUL/AIR's electronic library of humanities texts as well as to electronic indexes, publications, and the Internet.

E.  Dissertation(专题论文) Rooms

       Dissertation Rooms are available to currently registered doctoral students.Priority is given to those students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who use the Green Library collections.Because the rooms are in high demand, all rooms are double-assigned and are available only to students who are both currently registered and advanced to candidacy.

F.Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room

       The Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room is designed to facilitate a range of social science learning and research activities.A social science reference collection of over 15,000 volumes as well as classic texts, new and notable publications, and current issues of core journals in the social sciences are available.The Jonsson Reading Room is also home to the Social Sciences Resource Center computer cluster.

人物信息:

1.Lisa intends to go into studies on Humanities and Area Studies, and she is considering which specific question should be focused on.Rather than getting easy access to electronic texts, she would like to take a quick look at the new publications in the printed form first.

2.Ali is on a visit to the university.He has been invited to stay on campus for 2 weeks.At the library, he may need a place that can be locked up to keep his belongings.

3.Jack has finished his project on humanities.For several months he was seated in front of the computer screen writing his dissertation.Today he wants a change.A comfortable place with interesting novels, short stories, or even fairytales is most favorable.

4.Ann, with a Master’s degree in Social Sciences, is one of the currently registered doctoral students.Her supervisor has asked her to search for some information in the SUL/AIR's electronic library.This is an urgent task.

5.Nick is doing a research on the Middle East.He badly needs a wide range of datasets from the area.He also plans to store the data on CD-ROM so that he can use them later.

信息匹配:为这几个人选择他们今天要去的区域。

1.Lisa                         A.                          Bing Wing Carrels

2.Ali                           B.                          The Velma Denning Room

3.Jack                      C.                          Bender Room

4.Ann                         D.                          Lane Reading Room

5.Nick                     E.                          Dissertation Rooms

Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文

       Most people remember their teachers as some kind of despotic(专制的) person although it isn’t always the truth.Most of them are quite nice and are always there to give us a hand when we need one, Not so long ago, you might think the teacher was “The Teacher” and was almighty(万能的) and the students were there to learn and nothing else.Now there is some kind of interactivity between the students and the teacher.To my mind, teachers are here to teach us their knowledge and to listen to what we have to say.Indeed, students aren’t afraid to tell them what they think any more.However, this doesn’t mean that they don’t control their troops.It is just because times and methods have changed.Our teachers are now closer to their students and have created some kind of soft climate that allows us to be in class without a feeling of obligation or what so ever.Nevertheless, we can but notice that the “power” is still in the teachers` hands.If something goes wrong it is up to him or her to react properly and to carry out punishment if it is necessary.

       写作内容:

       1.以约30个次概括短文的内容要点;

       2.以约120个词发表自己的看法,包括如下要点:

       1)如何和老师和谐相处;

       2)与老师和谐相处的好处;

       3)用事例说明老师对你的成长有何影响。

       写作要求:

       1.可以使用事例或其他论述方法来支持你的观点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

       2.题目自拟

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