from the simplest things-such as a peach stone (桃核). It is obvious that it has nothing to do with success.
For Sir Henry Stewart, it was certainly successful. I remember some ten years ago when he was made King"s Counsel, Amos and I went to congratulate him.We smiled happily; he merely looked as miserable
as though he"d received a punishment. He took his success as a child does his medicine. And not one of his achievements brought even a sign of a smile to his tired eyes.
I asked him one day what it was like to achieve all one"s ambitions.He looked down at his roses and
went on watering them.Then he said, "The only value in achieving one"s ambitions is that you then realize
that they are not worth achieving."
Yesterday, I was passing his house and he called me,"Come and see, Jan.Look! I have done it at last!" There he was, holding a small box of earth in his hand.I observed three tiny shoots out of it.
"And there were only three!" he said, his eyes laughing to heaven.
"Three what?" I asked.
"Peach stones," he replied. "I"ve always wanted to make peach stones grow, even since I was a child,
when I used to take them home after a party, or as a man after a banquet. And I used to plant them, and
then forgot where I planted them. But now at last I have done it. I had only three stones, and three shoots," he counted.
Then Sir Henry ran off, calling for his wife to come and see his achievement-his achievement of
simplicity.
B. He was made King"s Counsel.
C. He was able to make the peach stones shoot.
D. He didn"t take his success seriously.
B. to prove that Sir Henry didn"t want to be successful
C. to suggest that Sir Henry"s future job would be hard to do
D. to tell us that Sir Henry took his success as a tiny thing in his life
B. that he finds it worth his efforts
C. that he has achieved it
D. that he fails to realize it
B. disapproval
C. admiration
D. tease
infection.A study done by University of Michigan, has shown information that seems to be true for
the general population.Ba
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first year.Boys have more colds than
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infected with cold than boys, and teenage girls get three colds a year to boys" two.The general cold
infections continue to get less into adults.Elderly people who are in good health have as few as one
or two colds every year.One interesting thing is found among people in their twenties, especially
women, who show a rise in cold infection, because people in this age group are most likely to have
young children.
The study has also found that economy plays an important role as well.With more and more
income, the frequency at which colds are reported in the family is getting lower and lower.Families
with the lowest income usually sufferabout a third ally forces people to live in rooms more crowded
than rooms owned by richer people, and the crowding usually leads to more chances for the cold
virus to travel from person to person.Low income may also have an effect on our diet.Many scientists
believe that a poorer diet usually leads into more possibilities of cold infection.
1. Which of the age groups has the highest frequency of cold infection?
A. Small babies.
B. Teenage boys.
C. Adult women.
D. Elderly people.
2. The purpose of writing this passage is to________.
A. give the readers some tips to avoid cold infection
B. show a carefullmade study on cold infection
C. report the major reasons leading to cold infection
D. describ
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3. How does economy play an important role in cold infection?
A. Families with lower income suffer less from cold infection.
B. People who have lower income enjoy living in crowded rooms.
C. Rich families can have better nutrition and never get infected.
D. People with higher income have fewer chances of infection.
4. From the passage we can infer that________.
A. age is the only important factor that connects with colds
B. families with the highest income will more easily get infected
C. people have lower frequency of infection as they grow older
D. a better diet may help people to fight against cold infection
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dance and who I was taking. Although college was talked about, it was the least of my worries.
When I was graduating eighth grade and starting high school, my older brother was graduating
twelfth grade and going onto college. For my graduation, he gave me a card in which he wrote, "Enjoy
your four years. . . They go by fast." I remember not believing him then, but looking back. . . He was
right. Those four years shaped who I was as a person, pushed me to my limit and encouraged me to
become an adult.
However, I was so completely absorbed in my junior and senior years of high school, that when
someone spoke of college I brushed it off.
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closest friends together and knowing what
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I did only AFTER I nailed my halftime dance performance. I knew my parents wanted me to go to
college, so I told them I would go to community college (社区学院) and I didn"t worry about my SAT
(美国大学入学考试) scores.
When my senior year passed and everyone graduated and went off to their own colleges, I started to
wish I had done the same. My friends were living away, meeting new people, and discovering new
places, while I was living at home and driving to and from class every day. It seemed exactly like high
school. I hated it!I thought college was supposed to be different!Why didn"t I take more time to
research colleges and do the same?I ended up loving college and wishing I had four years to enjoy the
campus (大学校园) atmosphere instead of two.
My advice to anyone thinking about attending college is to think about it very seriously and look into
all of your choices well ahead of time. Now I have graduated and I am working fulltime and I would do
anything to go back to my high school days for a second chance!
B. He had been admitted for his gift in dance.
C. He was well prepared for the exam.
D. He believed his brother would help him.
B. buried himself in his study all the time
C. enjoyed talking about future college life
D. lived in the school except on holidays
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B. He advised the author to value the years.
C. He encouraged the author to leave his comfort zone.
D. He suggested the author aim at a community college.
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B. lonely
C. angry
D. pleased
When a young man starts to earn his own living,he can no
longer expect others to pay _____ his food,
his clothes, or his room, but he has to work if he wants to live
_____(舒适).If he spends most of his time
p____about in the way that he used to when he
was a child,he will go h____, that is to say,he
has nothing to eat. And if he breaks the laws of
_____ (社会) like he used to break the laws
of his parents,he may go to _____. If, however,
he works hard, k_____ out of trouble and has
good health,he can have the great happiness of seeing
_____ (自己) make steady progress in his job
and of building _____ his own position in society.
Being responsible not only bring about happiness
_____ also confidence.
Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation.
Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website.We have a small number of paid
staff,just twentythree.Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose.Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars.Wikipedia is run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation,which I founded in
2003.
Wikipedia is driven by a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers-all devoted to sharing
knowledge freely.Over almost eight years,these volunteers have contributed more than 11 million
articles in 265 languages.More than 275 million people come to our website every month to access
information,free of charge and free of adver
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But Wikipedia is more than a website.We share a common cause:Imagine a world in which every
single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.That"s our commitment.
Your donation helps us in several ways.Most importantly,you will help us cover the increasing cost of
managing global traffic to one of the most popular websites on the Internet.Funds also help us improve
the software that runs Wikipedia-making it easier to search,eas
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committed to increasing the free knowledge movement worldwide,by taking on new volunteers,and
building strategic partnerships with institutions of culture and learning.
Wikipedia is different.It"s the largest encyclopedia (百科全书) in history,written by volunteers.Like a
national park or a school,we don"t believe advertising should have a place in Wikipedia.We want to keep
it free and strong,but we need the support of thousands of people like you.
Thank you,
Jimmy Wales
1. What do the second and third paragraphs mainly talk about?
A. Why you should donate to Wikipedia.
B. How much the workers are paid.
C. How Wikipedia is run.
D. How many people contribute to Wikipedia.
2. All the following are the reasons for the need of your donation EXCEPT________.
A. to keep Wikipedia free for people all over the world
B. to update the software that runs Wikipedia
C. to raise the salaries of the staff
D. to pay the cost o
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3. What does the underlined word "That" in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Free access to all human knowledge.
B. Human knowledge.
C. Every single person.
D. A common cause.
4. Which of the following is TRUE about Wikipedia?
A. It only has 23 workers at present.
B. It will run a national park or a school.
C. It has got much help from other people.
D. It may put some advertisements to earn money.
5. What"s the author"s purpose of writing this text?
A. To introduce the differences between Wikipedia and other websites.
B. To improve the software that runs Wikipedia.
C. To make Wikipedia more popular.
D. To call on people to donate to Wikipedia.
You"re out to dinner.The food is delicious and the service is fine.You decide to leave a big fat tip.Why?The answer may not be as simple as you think.
Tipping, psychologists have found, is not just about service.Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiter"s choice of words, to
how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bill"s total.Even ho
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"Studies before have shown that mimicry (模仿) brings into positive feelings for the mimicker, "wrote
Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor."These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimicks them."
So Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups.He requested that half serve with a phrase such
as, "Coming up!"Those in the other half were instructed to repeat th
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customers.Rick van Baaren then compared their takehome pay.The results were clear-it pays to mimic
your customer.The copycat (模仿者) waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group.
Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at Washington University in St.Louis, found the
generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill.After research on the 1,000 tips left for waiters, cabdrivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers" bills went up.In fact, tip
percentages appear to plateau (稳定期) when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100.
"That"s also a point of tipping, " Green says."You have to give a little extra to the cabdriver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you.If they weren"t there, you"d
never get any service.So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there."
passage?
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.
B. people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them
C. the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as those who don"t mimick others
D. mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad
percentages?
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B. think part of Mr Green"s explanation is reasonable
C. give his generous tip to waiters very often
D. support the opinions of Mr Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping
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- 5After _______ football, they felt very tired.[ ]A. playi
- 6已知两圆x2+y2="1" 和 (x+1)2+(y-3)2=10相交于A、B两点, 则直线AB的方程是________.
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- 6根据首字母或汉语提示,完成句子. 1. S ____ is the first day of the week.2. T
- 7在正方体ABCD—A1B1C1D1中,直线BD1与平面A1B1CD所成角的正切值是 .
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- 10(-x)10÷(-x)5÷(-x)÷x=______.