Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed that my strategy was wrong. The most common wrong strategy is this: supposing you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.
There are two main schools of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at fixed hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake.
My solution is to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 a.m.), but I go to bed at different times every night.
However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.
1.Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser?
A. Because he / she found that the productivity was higher.
B. Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise.
C. Because he / she wanted to test which school is better.
D. Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time.
2.The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.
A. going to bed after midnight
B. asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits
C. getting up early occasionally
D. pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping
3.According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ___________.
A. People who stays up late until the next morning
B. People who feel sleepy in the morning
C. People who get up early in the morning
D. People whose productivity is the highest in the morning
4.The passage is mainly about ________.
A. main schools of thought on sleep patterns
B. how to have a good sleep
C. wrong strategies for getting up early
D. how to become an early riser
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_____ was obvious ______ the manager was waiting for LiFang to leave.
A. It, that B. This, that C. That, what D. What, that
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It is well known that _________ air and water are harmful to people’s health.
A. pollute B. polluting
C. to pollute D. polluted
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People are being tricked into Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service without realizing they’re paying for it by giving up loads of personal information.
Most Facebook users don’t realize this is happening. Even if they know what the company is up to, they still have no idea what they’re paying for Facebook because people don’t really know what their personal data is worth.
The biggest problem, however, is that the company keeps changing the rules early on you keep everything private. That was the great thing about Facebook. You could create your own little private network. Last year. The company changed its privacy rules so that many things; your city, your photo, your friends’ names were set, by default (默认)to be shared with everyone on the Internet.
According to Facebook’s vice-president Elliot Schrage, the company is simply making changes to improve its service, and if people don’t share information. They have a “less satisfying experience.
Some critics think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money. In original business model, which involved selling ads and putting them. At the side of the pages totally, who wants to look at ads when they’re online connecting with their friends?
The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April. Senator Charles Schumer called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. He also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social networking sites. “I think the senator rightly communicated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them,” Schrage admits.
I suspect that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy, it’s only the beginning，which is why I’m considering cancelling my account. Facebook is a handy site, but I’m upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don’t know. That’s too high a price to pay.
1.What do we learn about Facebook from the first paragraph?
A. It is a website that sends messages to users who want to get married.
B. It earns money by putting on advertisements.
C. It makes money by selling its users’ personal data.
D. It provides loads of information to its users.
2.What does the author say about most Facebook users?
A. They are unwilling to give up their personal information.
B. They don’t know their personal data enriches Facebook.
C. They don’t identify themselves when using the website.
D. They care very little about their personal information.
3. Why does Facebook make changes to its rules according to Elliot Schrage?
A. To provide better service to its users.
B. To obey the Federal guidelines.
C. To improve its users’ connection
D. To expand its business.
4. Why does the author plan to cancel his Facebook account?
A. He is dissatisfied with its present service.
B. He finds many of its users untrustworthy.
C. He doesn’t want his personal data badly used.
D. He is upset by its frequent rule changes.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Melting pot” means a place where people from many different racial groups or cultures form a united society. The idea comes from __________ metals in a container. When they melt, the metals ___________ and become something new and stronger. The _________ has been used to describe the United States as a nation created from people who came here from many different countries.
A Frenchman living in America expressed the idea __________ two hundred years ago. J. Hector de Crevecoeur wrote in his book Letters from an American Farmer, published in 1782, that America had people from many different countries and that they __________ become a new people _________ work would one day change the world.
For many years, Americans ____________ accepted the idea of their country as a melting pot. They welcomed immigrants from many nations. ____________ some of these people ____________ the melting pot idea. They felt they were _____________ to lose their cultures and _____________ in order to be accepted in America. Other people also criticized the idea. They said the aim of the melting pot is to make different cultures disappear into the one____________ the largest group.
New groups of immigrants from Asia and Latin America are changing the United States_________. Some ____________ learning American culture and language. Reports say some Americans fear that the nation is _____________ many groups that have no ___________ purpose. Others say melting pot is no longer changing the nation’s immigrants, _____________ the immigrants are changing America.
Some experts who study immigration say they no longer ____ ___American society to a melting pot, describing it as a salad bowl _____________. A salad is made of many different foods. They ____________ keep their own taste while being part of a successful product.
In this way, cultural groups keep their customs and languages and are still part of American society.
1.A. heatingB. coolingC. puttingD. warming
2.A. divideB. gatherC. uniteD. form
3.A. signB. termC. vocabularyD. plan
4.A. other thanB. rather thanC. less thanD. more than
5.A. wouldB. mustC. mightD. should
6.A. whichB. whoseC. whoD. of which
7.A. narrowlyB. usuallyC. generallyD. universally
8.A. OtherwiseB. BesidesC. ThereforeD. Yet
9.A. criticizedB. praisedC. arguedD. complained
10.A. encouragedB. forcedC. orderedD. prepared
11.A. historyB. featuresC. literatureD. languages
12.A. presentingB. standingC. meaningD. representing
13.A. currentlyB. curiouslyC. perfectlyD. previously
14.A. insistB. approveC. resistD. forbid
15.A. joining upB. separating intoC. mixing upD. dividing by
16.A. achievedB. combinedC. sharedD. classified
17.A. andB. soC. orD. but
18.A. compareB. contactC. contrastD. declare
19.A. tooB. as wellC. insteadD. either
20.A. bothB. eachC. everyD. none
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There’s a case to be made, from things like Google search figures, that Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken – you know, the one about two paths diverging (分开) in a wood – is the most popular in modern history. Yet people still can’t agree what it means. On the surface, it’s a fridge-magnet cliché (陈词滥调) on the importance of taking risks and choosing the road less travelled. But many argue it slyly mocks (暗讽) that American belief in the individual’s power to determine his or her future. After all, the poet admits that both paths look roughly similarly well-travelled. And how could he be sure he took the right one? He’ll never know where the other leads. Looking back at our life histories, we tell ourselves we faced important dilemmas and chose wisely. But maybe only because it’s too awful to admit we’re stumbling (跌跌撞撞地走) mapless among the trees, or that our choices don’t make much difference.
Two psychologists, Karalyn Enz and Jennifer Talarico, throw light on these matters in a new study with a title that nods to Frost: Forks In The Road. They sought to clarify how people think about “turning points” versus “transitions” in life. A turning point, by their definition, is a moment that changes your future – deciding to leave a job or marriage, say – but often isn’t visible from the outside, at least at first. “Transitions” involve big external changes: going to university, marrying, emigrating (迁出). Sometimes the two go together, as when you move to a new place and realize it’s where you belong. (“New Yorkers are born all over the country,” Delia Ephron said, “and then they come to New York and it hits them: oh, that’s who I am.”) But it’s turning points we remember as most significant, Enz and Talarico conclude, whether or not they also involve transitions.
The distinction is useful: it underlines how the most outwardly obvious life changes aren’t always those with the biggest impact. Hence the famous “focusing illusion”, which describes how we exaggerate (夸大) the importance of a single factor on happiness: you switch jobs, or spouses, only to discover you brought the same troublesome old you to the new situation. Before it became a joke, “midlife crisis” referred to a turning point that happens because your circumstances don’t change, when your old life stops feeling meaningful. Turning points can be caused by mundane (世俗的) things – the offhand remark that makes you realize you’re in the wrong life – or by nothing at all.
1.Why do some people think the poem makes fun of the American belief?
A. Because the two roads are more or less similar in the poet’s view.
B. Because Americans believe they can decide their future themselves.
C. Because Americans can find their way easily in a forest just with a map.
D. Because Americans surely know which road to take without consideration.
2.Which of the following can be considered as a transition?
A. Your experience of midlife crisis.
B. Your choice of the road to take.
C. Your decision to travel abroad.
D. Your move into a new flat.
3.What can we infer from this passage?
A. Turning points involving transitions are often remembered as most significant.
B. The biggest impact is often characterized with obvious outside changes.
C. A fundamental change is often affected by more than one single factor.
D. We can rid ourselves of the unpleasant past with the change of a job.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Is our fate in our own hands?
B. Must people make changes in life?
C. Should we choose the road less travelled?
D. Are turning points connected with transitions?
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—Alice has just lost her husband to heart failure.
—Her ______ smile can’t hide her sorrow.
A. arbitrary B. artificial
C. compulsory D. conventional
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阅读理解
Marketing Professionals
A major US corporation in the health and nutritional industry has announced the opening of its direct selling division in Taiwan.
The company offers the most lucrative compensation plan in the industry and has paid over NTD (新台币) 3.5 billion in commissions in just 6 years in the US. We are a group of top earners.
Applicants should meet the requirements：
(1) Taiwan citizen
(2) Have experience in marketing
(3) Aggressive, energetic, and willing to learn
If you believe you have what it takes to develop this business, please dial 2742－6996.
Job B
An international company requires a Service Technician
To service and maintain electronic medical equipment, applicants should have degree in electronics. The selected candidate will have a training program to be conducted by our manufacturer's trained technical personnel.
Interested candidates please apply immediately with a resume(简历) and mail to P．O. Box 594. Or telephone Ms Chang at 2945－0027 for an immediate interview.
Job C
Wanted: Reporters & Editors
Qualifications：
* Strong command of English language
* Chinese speaking and reading ability a must
* A university degree
* Journalism education and/or experience preferred
* Flexible working hours (30 hours per week)
* Good work environment and medical insurance, etc.
Fax resume and work samples, if any, to The China Post at(03) 2595－7952.
Job D
Southeastern Travel Services Tour Guides
Duties: To conduct escorted tours(陪游) for foreign visitors；to assist with travel and transportation arrangements.
Qualifications: Good appearance. High school diploma.
Good knowledge of English. Outgoing personality.
Dial 2703－2172 after 3 p.m.. Ask for Gary.
1.Which of the following is required for marketing professionals?
A. A university degree. B. Good appearance.
C. Good computer knowledge. D. Some marketing experience.
2.Wendy is good at Chinese and doesn't like to work on fixed schedules. Which of the four jobs might be suitable for her?
A. Job A． B. Job B． C. Job C. D. Job D.
3.Charles has a strong interest in technology service. Which phone number should he dial?
A. 2742－6996. B. 2945－0027.
C. 2595－7952. D. 2703－2172.
4.Mary has attractive looks and a good command of English with an outgoing character. Which of the following would she choose?
A. Job A. B. Job B. C. Job C. D. Job D.
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单词拼写
1.My grandfather is over 70, but he is still very e__ and often takes part in many activities.
2.He is full of c________, but his mother tells him not to be curious about other people’s privacy.
3.Water is a basic n_________ of life; that is to say, water is necessary and essential in our life.
4.Christmas actually started as a r_____ festival celebrated by Christians around the world.
5.When we met again, he a___ to me for not having kept his word and asked for my forgiveness.
6.It’s __________ (难以置信) that he finished the task in such a short time.
7.As a saying goes, however big the fool is, there is always a bigger fool to _____ ( 羡慕) him.
8.The major ____ ( 农业) products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, fuels, and raw materials.
9.As soon as you send us your plan, we will send you a reply _____________(立刻 ).
10.Girls’ education is always placed second __ (传统 ) in some parts of rural areas in our country.
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