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Connect to your career
FOR high school leavers starting out in the working world, it is very important to learn particular skills and practice how to behave in an interview or how to find an internship (实习). In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far between.
Research shows that if high schools provide career-related courses, students are likely to get higher earnings (收入) in later years. The students are more likely to stay in school, graduate and go on to higher education.
In Germany, students as young as 13 and 14 are expected to do internships. German companies work with schools to make sure that young people get the education they need for future employment.
But in America, education reform programs focus on how well students do in exams instead of bringing them into contact with the working world. Harvard Education School professor Robert Schwartz has criticized education reformers for trying to place all graduates directly on the four-year college track (轨迹). Schwartz argued that this approach leaves the country’s most vulnerable (易受影响的) kids with no jobs and no skills.
Schwartz believed that the best career programs encourage kids to go for higher education while also teaching them valuable (珍贵的) practical skills at high school. James Madison High School in New York, for example, encourages students to choose classes on career-based courses. The school then helps them gain on-the-job experience in those fields while they’re still at high school.
However, even for teens __________ schools encourage them to connect with work, the job market is daunting (令人畏惧的). In the US, unemployment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row.
“The risk is that if , they become part of this lost generation of teens _______never had a chance to get a foothold (立足之地) to take that fi rst step on that career ladder,” said Michael Saltsman, a researcher at the Employment Policies Institute in the US.
1. The author believes that American high school leavers ______.
A. don’t have enough internship opportunities
B. need more career advice from their schools
C. perform better in exams than German students
D. should be given more career choices
2. Which of the following statements might Robert Schwartz agree with?
A. If you go to university, you will definitely earn more money in later life.
B. Students should get contact with the working world as early as possible.
C. Students should learn particular skills in college.
D. US education reform should focus on the most vulnerable kids.
3. We can infer from the article that ______.
A. unemployment rates for US teenagers keep rising at the moment
B. students from high schools with career-based courses never have any problems finding a job
C. US companies are now working with schools to prepare young people for future employment
D. high school leavers with no practical skills are quite unlikely to find a job
4. What is the main point of the article?
A. The lack of career-based courses for high school students in the US.
B. How can high school leavers survive in the daunting US job market?
C. Arguments about recent US education reform.
D. Advice for American high school leavers.
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The common touch is the ability to get on with ordinary people. Some politicians have it, while others don’t. US Vice President Joe Biden has got it.
Last month, Biden won hearts and minds when he had lunch at a popular Beijing eatery (餐馆). He ordered five local dishes including noodles with soybean paste (炸酱面), steamed stuffed buns
(包子) and mashed cucumber (拍黄瓜).
The bill was 79 yuan. Biden, 68, paid with a 100 yuan note, insisting the restaurant keep the change as a tip. After lunch he had his photo taken with every restaurant employee. Biden’s visit to the restaurant has been described as “noodle diplomacy (外交)”, an attempt (尝试) to bring him closer to ordinary Chinese people.
Biden’s boss, President Barack Obama, is already known as a man of the people.
In June he was photographed having lunch at a diner in Ohio. The menu Hotdogs. The message was: your president is a normal guy who eats the same food as you.
But not every politician’s attempt to appear ordinary works. Take British Prime Minister David Cameron for example. Cameron likes to present himself as an ordinary guy. He rides a mountain bike (at least he did before he became Prime Minister). He says he enjoys rock music. But when he told a youth “Call me Dave”, he was laughed at for his clumsy (笨拙的) attempt.
Cameron is the son of a stockbroker (股票经纪人). He went to Eton, a top private school in the UK. It costs 31,000 pounds (322,614 yuan) a year, ________ is much more than the average British wage .
So why do politicians attempt the common touch when it is so obviously false? It is because no matter how powerful they are, every four years they have to stand before the people and ask the people to choose them. It’s known as re-election. And in order to win votes from the common people, you have to at least appear to have the common touch.
1. Which of the following best sums up the main idea of the article?
A. Tips for politicians who want to be popular with common people.
B. Many politicians try to present themselves as men of the people.
C. What makes American politicians different from British ones.
D. Politicians have to learn to be good actors.
2. President Barack Obama is mentioned in order to ______.
A. show that he has unique ways of getting close to the common people
B. give another example of a politician with the common touch
C. prove that he is even more skillful at connecting with people than Biden
D. prove that hotdogs are one of the favorite foods of ordinary American people
3. Which of the following statements about Cameron is TRUE?
A. He doesn’t understand the lives of ordinary people.
B. He actually doesn’t like riding a mountain bike.
C. He succeeded in becoming more popular among young people.
D. His educational background means he cannot be called an “ordinary” person.
4. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that politicians ______.
A. have common interests with ordinary people
B. who lack the common touch will not be re-elected
C. count on ordinary people’s votes for re-election
D. sincerely hope to be close to ordinary people
Smile –you’re on camera
LONDON is one of the most watched cities on the planet. Like Denver and Colorado in the United States, London has closed circuit television (CCTV, 闭路电视监控) cameras all over the city. These cameras recorded many of the riots (骚乱) that broke out in early August.
After the riots, the police could look through 30 pictures per second from the CCTV system. They singled out people who they believed had started the riots. The pictures were then put on the Internet, television and in the newspaper. Many rioters were caught in this way.
Researchers at Kingston University have recently developed a smart CCTV system. One person holding a gun can be followed by a series of cameras. These cameras “learn” to recognize unusual public behavior. For example, when a riot or crime (犯罪行为) happens, people often move quickly and in crowds. If somebody pulls out a gun, people will run in different directions. All of
these movements can be picked up by a computer connected to the camera, according to Professor James Orwell of Kingston University.
The computer software collects all the videos from before and after the crime. This means police can build a full history of one person’s movements.
“If a window was smashed (砸碎) and shop looted (抢劫) in a town center street, the technology would trace back to see who smashed the window and then follow his steps to see when and where he entered the town center, ” Orwell told the BBC. “The technology would also trace (追踪) where the man had gone after he left the shop. ”
Some people are afraid that the system might be used by the government to follow political protesters (抗议者) or even ordinary people in day-to-day life. They think it is a serious violation (侵犯) of privacy (隐私).
But the developers of this technology and the police promise that it will only focus on law breakers. A key part of the system is that the computer deletes video data automatically (自动的). This means it works more efficiently, and images of innocent (无辜的) people are removed.
阅读短文并根据article内容回答问题,注意答案不要超过题目要求的词数。
1. What does the underlined expression “single out” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? (No more than 3 words)
2. Name at least three features of the smart CCTV system developed by researchers at Kingston University. (No more than 30 words)
3. Translate the following sentence into Chinese:
If a window was smashed and shop looted in a town center street, the technology would trace back to see who smashed the window and then follow his steps to see when and where he entered the town center.
4. What are people concerned about regarding the smart CCTV system? (No more than 10 words)
5. Do you think it would be a good idea to place CCTV cameras in classrooms? Why? (No more than 25 words)
Life after terror
A DECADE after terror struck America, we are starting to move forward.
It has been 10 years.
In those awful (可怕的) days right after 9/11, I asked my colleague, Dave Barry, if he thought he would ever write jokes again. He was then the humor columnist (专栏作家) for the Miami Herald.
“For the last week,” he told me, “I haven’t even tried to write anything funny, and fo r a while I thought maybe I never would, or should.”
He had it; we all had it – that feeling of being stuck, unable to find your way back to the life you had lived before. I wrote 10 columns in a row about _______I had seen, the planes crashing, the lives lost. Finally, I had to force myself to write a column about something _______ was not terror (恐怖). That lasted one column. Then I went right back to what was now normal. Terror was normal.
That was a decade ago. Today’s terrors become tomorrow’s memories. News becomes history.
And I find myself remembering _________I used to kill ants when I was a child. The thing that struck me was that they always came back. Even if you destroy their world a hundred times, they build it a hundred and one times.
There is something of that in people. It may be one of the best things about us. We always fight the cruel things in life, bury our dead, rebuild, and find a way to move forward. We did it when fire burned down Chicago, after the earthquake in San Francisco, and after the floods in
New Orleans.
And we did it on September 11.
It is true that we have changed in ways that are not all good. We are at war on three fronts. We are running a strange prison on Cuba. The government may not let you fly and will not tell you why.
Osama bin Laden is dead. Experts tell us the terror group he led is weakened. However, terrorism remains alive in American political thought, _________is becoming more extreme.
There is reason to be worried about these changes. But I am still grateful that we moved away from the 9/11 nightmare (噩梦) at all.
It felt as if we might never go forward from that moment. But we did
1. Which phrase can be used to describe Dave Barry’s feelings just after 9/11?
A. heartbroken and hopeless
B. frightened but hopeful
C. unable to care or focus
D. sad but confident
2. From Paragraph 5, we can conclude that ______.
A. the author was so shaken that he stopped writing completely
B. there was no terrorism in America before 9/11
C. for some time Americans found it difficult to think about anything other than terror
D. no one ever feels safe anymore
3. With the example of ants, the author aims to show that ______.
A. he misses his happy childhood
B. people can rebuild and recover, just like ants
C. he is sorry that he killed the ants
D. rebuilding is more important than sadness
4. According to the last part of the article, the author’s main point is that ______.
A. terrorism has influenced the government too much
B. people should look on the bright side
C. terrorism will continue to exist
D. no changes are ever completely good 阅读下列各小题，根据句子情境或者题目给出的提示，例如括号内的汉语提示以及（或者）括号内的英语单词完成句子。
1. But don’t you think you _____________________ (本应当努力尝试) in the first place?
2. German companies joined hands with schools to prepare students for future employment so students as young as 13 and 14 ________________ (就要) do internships. (expect)
3. Biden, 68, paid with a 100-yuan note, _____________ (坚持要求) the restaurant _______________(keep) the change as a tip.
4. ______________________ (不管他们多么有权势), every four years they have to stand before the people and ask the people to choose them.
5. The Mid-Autumn Festival _______________________ (一直以来都是一个……的场合) when people remember friends and family who are far from home. (occasion)
6. Some schools not only say which colors their students should wear, ________________ (也不允许) clothing with labels or logos. (allow)
7. The court ____________________ him innocent (认定其无罪) and he was set free. (find)
8. She moved quietly to avoid ___________________ (把鸟儿们吓跑). (scare)
单词拼写
1.Those climbers s_________________ against the strong wind and f______________ reached
the top of the mountain.
2.Congratulations! It seemed that our boss was s________________ with what you did today.
3.I have always r_______________ giving up my piano lessons.
4.From his confused look, we could see that he hadn’t expected that we could raise such
c________________ questions to him.
5.If you stop half-way through, the situation may be w____________ off than when you started.
6.Two middle-aged passengers fell into the sea while watching the tide. U______________,
neither of them could swim.
7.Take the pills as d_____________ by your doctor.
8.The little tramp was a social f___________ but was loved for his optimism and determination
to o_____________ all difficulties.
时文阅读含解析 2 New York Tim—A gunman killed eight people at a mall in Omaha this afternoon and then killed himself, setting off panic among holiday shoppers, the police said. “The person who we believe to be the shooter has died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds,” Sgt. Teresa Negron of the Omaha Police Department said at televised news. “We have been able to clear the mall,” she said. “We don’t believe we have any other shooters.” The police said that at least five other people had been injured in the shootings. She did not give the shooter’s identity. “We are still conducting the investigation,”Sergeant Negron said, adding that the city’s mayor, who was out of town, was on his way back to Omaha. She said the police received a 911 call from someone inside the Westroads Mall on the west side of Omaha, and shots could be heard in the background. The first police officers arrived at the mall six minutes after the first call, she said, but by then the shootings were over. It is reported that the gunman left a suicide note that was found at his home by relatives. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity (匿名) said the note indicated that the gunman wanted to “go out style”. The shootings broke the usually banal routine of holiday shopping. The gunman was said by some witnesses to have fired about 20 shots into a crowd. Some customers and workers ran screaming from the mall, while others dived into dressing rooms to hide from the shooter. Some customers and workers ran screaming from the mall, while others dived into dressing rooms to hide from the shooter. Shoppers and store workers were trapped inside the mall, which has roughly 135 stores. Others streamed out of mall exits with their hands raised. President Bush was in Omaha this morning to deliver a speech, but he had left the city by the time the shootings took place. 1. Where did the shooting first come out? A. On a newspaper. B. In the Internet. C. In TV news. D. In a police poster. 2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Nobody knows why the shooter did so and nothing was found at his home. B. The city’s mayor happened not to be in the city when the shooting took place. C. Police arrived at the mall before the shootings were over and rescued customers. D. The official who showed what the note mean have no request of his own identity. 3. We can infer from the passage that _______. A. there is only one shooter in this event B. the shooting created fears among the customers C. an important holiday is coming soon D. president Bush came here for the shooting 4. Which of the following can be the best title of the news? A. Gunman Kills Eight People, and Himself at a Mall in Omaha B. Shoppers in Great Panic before the Holiday C. Bush Happened to Escape a Shot D. Shooter Found Dead in a Mall on the West of Omaha 本文报道了在一个购物中心发生的枪击事件以及事件的来龙去脉。 1. C 推理判断题。虽然这是一篇报纸上的报道，但是最早报道这个时间的应该是电视，因
英语阅读理解(时文广告)题20套(带答案) 一、高中英语阅读理解时文广告类 1．阅读理解 Things to Do With Smithsonian Associates in November Tuesday, November 5 Discovery Theater Presents Spirit of South Africa: Experience the energy, customs and cultures of South Africa as reflected in three distinctive regional(地方的) dances with instructor and performer Lesole Maine. 10: 30 am and 12 pm $3——$9 Monday, November 11 America's Long-Distance Passenger Trains: As America marks the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike that completed the transcontinental railroad and linked the nation, professional Scott Hercik and a group of experts explore train travel's romantic past,its present state and uncertain future. 10 am $90—$140 Saturday, November 23 Mysterious Guardians of the Ocean: F rom Jaws to “Shark Week”, people have been used to seeing sharks as terrifying cold-blooded predators(食肉动物). Conservationist William McKeever presents another view of them: evolutionary miracles are in the greatest danger of their 450-million-year history. 6: 45 pm $25——$35 Tuesday, November26 Smithsonian Inspired Floral (花卉): Learn the fundamentals of floral design while creating designs based on famous art in the Smithsonian's collection during a three-session course. Each session focuses on a different work, providing inspiration for the flowers, greens and vases participants use to create beautiful arrangements. No experience is necessary. 6: 30 pm $115—$165 （1）Which event should be the most appealing to people interested in dancing? A.Smithsonian Inspired Floral . B.Mysterious Guardians of the Ocean. C.Discovery Theater presents Spirit of South Africa. D.America's Long-Distance Passenger Trains. （2）When will you have a chance to learn something about American transportation? A.On November 11 B.On November 5. C.On November 23. D.On November 26. （3）What can you do if you're free only at weekends? A.Explore a train travel. B.Watch a show about South Africa. C.Attend a course about floral design. D.Enjoy a talk on sharks. 【答案】（1）C
时文阅读精选 一、爱的姿势 澜涛 （1）救援人员发现她的时候，她已经死了，是被跨塌下来的房子压死的。透过废墟的间隙，救援人员看到她双膝跪地，整个上身向前匍匐着，双手扶地支撑着身体，有些像古人行跪拜礼，只是身体被压得变形了，看上去有些怪异。救援人员从废墟的空隙间伸进手去，确认她已经死亡，又冲着废墟喊了几声，用撬棍在砖头上敲了几下，她都没有任何反应，废墟里也没有任何回应。还有太多的被困者等待救援，救援人员立刻向新的目标搜寻，当救援人员在下一处废墟前探寻是否有生还者时，救援队长隐约听到从她那里传来婴孩的啼哭声。救援人员立刻纷纷跑回她的尸体前，救援队长再次将手伸进她的尸体底下，仔细地摸索着，摸了几下，救援队长高声喊道“”有人，有个孩子，还活着！” （2）经过一番努力，救援人员小心地把挡着她的废墟清理开，在她的尸体下发现了一个包裹在红色带黄花的小被子里的、三四个月大的婴儿。因为有她身体的庇护，婴儿毫发未伤。 （3）随行的医生过来解开被子准备给婴儿做些检查，发现有一部手机塞在被子里。医生下意识地看了一下手机屏幕，发现屏幕上是一条已经写好的短信：“亲爱的宝贝，如果你能活着，一定要记住我爱你。” （4）瞿万容是一位幼儿园老师。地震发生时，她正和其他4名老师在校，照看着80多个孩子午睡。她悄声和另外几名老师说，等孩子们午睡醒来后，她要教孩子们做一个她新学的游戏，她说的时候，脸上满是明媚和喜悦。 （5）然而，地震突然而至，欲将所有的美丽撕碎。 （6）5名老师，80个孩子。将孩子们都疏散到安全地带成了老师们不可能完成的任务。但老师们齐声喊了一句“救孩子”后，就转身冲向酣睡着的孩子，她也毫不迟疑地冲向一个孩子。接下来，她都做了什么，无人得知。 （7）地震过去之后，只有30名孩子和两名老师生还。当救援人员在废墟中发现她时，她扑在地上，后背上压着一块垮塌的水泥板，怀里紧抱着一个小孩。小孩生还了，她却已经没有了呼吸。 ——选自《读者》2008年12期 1、“爱的姿势”在文中指什么？在“爱的姿势”下产生了什么奇迹？（用原文回答） 2、文章第4、5、6三段在记叙顺序上属于，作用是什么？ 3、“她悄声和另外几名老师说，等孩子们午睡醒来后，她要教孩子们做一个她新学的游戏，她说的时候，脸上满是明媚和喜悦。”一句中，请你发挥想象，揣测瞿万容老师“脸上满是明媚和喜悦”时的心理活动。 4联系语境，体会加点词的表达作用。 经过一番努力 ．．．把挡着她的废墟清理开 ．．，救援人员小心地 5、请你为瞿万荣老师写一段墓志铭。
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英语时文阅读 第一篇 A ban on setting off firecrackers XINHUA 话题：“过年要不要燃放烟花爆竹”这个讨论从年前争论到年后，从减少环卫工人负担到降低空气污染，反对者的声音高涨。但也有人认为，作为传统节日活动，应该燃放烟花爆竹。你怎么看 Wang Xingyue, 14, from Shanghai: I don’t think we should set off firecrackers (爆竹) during holidays. It is really noisy. Some people fire them during midnight. People around cannot sleep well. Besides, it brings air pollution (污染) and lots of rubbish. Most people do not clean the rubbish after they set off firecrackers. So I think there is no need to set them off anymore during holidays. Liu Ran, 14, from Shandong: Setting off firecrackers is a tradition during Chinese festivals. They set them off to celebrate or wish a happy new year. The ceremony (仪式) is very important in Chinese people’s lives. And it also reminds (提醒) us of one of the four great inventions (发明) of China, gunpowder (火药). We cannot give it up. It is good to have this ceremony during holidays. Do you agree with me
Passage 1 临沂第十九中学李宗英 本文是新闻题材，考察学生如何处理新闻题材的能力包括从导语中得到文章的主旨大意，明确信息来源，和细节推理等，增强学生的英语文化意识。 Spain's soccer fans celebrated in downtown Madrid after their team won the 2010 World Cup final soccer match against the Netherlands July 11, 2010. Spain won the World Cup for the first time when they beat Netherlands 1-0 thanks to a strike by midfielder Andres Iniesta four minutes from the end of extra time at Soccer City on Sunday. A thunderous roar erupted across the Spanish capital and fans danced in the streets chanting "Viva Espana!" as the country's first ever World Cup achievement sparked a nationwide festival. The centre of Madrid was a sea of the red and gold national colors as Spain celebrated its 1-0 extra-time win over Holland Sunday. The thunderous sounds of cheering, klaxons, firecrackers and cars horns rang out as the World Cup's underachievers won the match in their first appearance in the final thanks to a late goal from Andres Iniesta. "The dream has come true," said the El Pais daily on its website.Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said he was "happy and emotional."This has been an epic match, I suffered like it never before," he told Cadena Ser radio. "We are very proud and very happy, I thought it would go to penalties(惩罚), but Iniesta saved us," said Raul, 18. "We deserved it after winning the European championship in 2008." Said Adolfo, 25, "It's an extraordinary feeling, of happiness and nerves." Others crammed into bars or gathered at home for the match, which left the country paralysed(瘫痪) for two and a half hours Sunday evening. Most were either wrapped in the Spanish flag, wore the red team shirts or red wigs, or had their faces painted red and gold. "Spain, Spain, Spain!" screamed the daily El Mundo in a headline on its website. "This World Cup has crowned one of the best teams of all time." 1.The passage mainly tells us ________. A.what made the spanish people excited. B.where the 2010 world cup was held. C.how the Spain soccer fans celebrated their victory. Dwhen the 2010 world cup was over. 2.Which one of the following statements is true? A.Spain ever won the World Cup before. B.the goal was kicked by a striker. C.the score was 0:0 before extra time. D.Spain was the Eropean championship in 2009. 3.Wh at was Spain’s dream? A. beating Netherlands B.winning the Eropean championship C.taking the title of World Cup. D.dancing in downtown Madrid 4.Where can we find the passage? A. newspaper B.fashion magazine C. pop music D. science fiction 5.why did Raul said it would go to penalties? A.because Spain team was not the best in the world. B.because he was too young to pass a judgement on the team. C.because he didn’t attend the world cup.
考研备考英语时文阅读:Burnished Up goes gold, down goes the dollar Most economists hate gold. Not, you understand, that they would turn up their noses at a bar or two. But they find the reverence in which many hold the metal almost irrational. That it was used as money for millennia is irrelevant: it isn't any more. Modern money takes the form of paper or, more often, electronic data. To economists, gold is now just another commodity. So why is its price soaring? Over the past week, this has topped $450 a troy ounce, up by 9% since the beginning of the year and 77% since April 2001. Ah, comes the reply, gold transactions are denominated in dollars, and the rise in the price simply reflects the dollar's fall in terms of other currencies, especially the euro, against which it hit a new low this week. Expressed in euros, the gold price has moved much less. However, there is no iron link, as it were, between the value of the dollar and the value of gold. A rising price of gold, like that of anything else, can reflect an increase in demand as well as a depreciation of its unit of account. This is where gold bulls come in. The fall in the dollar is important, but mainly because as a store of value the dollar stinks. With a few longish rallies, the greenback has been on a downward trend since it came off the gold standard in 1971. Now it is suffering one of its sharper declines. At the margin, extra demand has come from those who think dollars--indeed any money backed by nothing more than promises to keep inflation low--a decidedly risky investment, mainly because America, with the world's reserve currency, has been able to create and borrow so many of them. The least painful way of repaying those dollars is to make them worth less. The striking exception to this extra demand comes from central banks, which would like to sell some of the gold they already have. As a legacy of the days when their currencies were backed by the metal, central banks still hold one-fifth of the world's gold. Last month the Bank of France said it would sell 500 tonnes in coming years. But big sales by central banks can cause the price to plunge--as when the Bank of England sold 395 tonnes between 1999 and 2002. The result was an agreement between central banks to co-ordinate and limit future sales. If the price of gold marches higher, this agreement will presumably be ripped up, although a dollar crisis might make central banks think twice about switching into paper money. Will the overhang of central-bank gold drag the price down again? Not necessarily. As James Grant, gold bug and publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a newsletter, points out, in recent years the huge glut of government debt has not stopped a sharp rise in its price. 注(1)：本文选自Economist;12/4/2004, p76-76, 1/3p; 注(2)：本文习题命题模仿2000年真题text 4第3题(1)，2001年真题text 4第2题(2)，text 1第2题(3)，2002年真题text 2第2题(4)和text 5第3题(5); 1.In economists’eyes, gold is something__________. [A] they look down upon that can be exchanged in the market
中考语文记叙文阅读专题训练解题技巧(超强)及练习题(含答案) 一、中考语文记叙文阅读专题训练 1．阅读下面的文段，回答问题。 二十岁的父亲 蔡怡 ①“爸爸，您几岁啦？”我问。听到我喊他一声爸爸，他面有难色地望了我一眼，好像对我这叫了他五十多年的称呼无法接受。但一向温文、有修养的他犹豫了好一会儿，用疏远又客气的态度回答：“二十岁吧！”【甲】 ②他说的时候，脸上露出慈祥的笑容。不，我应该说他脸上露出天真无邪的笑容。那是三岁小娃娃那样的纯净的笑。 ③“您是做爸爸的哟，怎么才二十岁？”我一面提醒他，一面拿镜子给他，要他看清楚镜中的老人。 ④“瞧，您一头闪着银光的白发，不是二十岁吧？”我给他第二个提示，再次试探他的记忆。 ⑤趁着父亲专心地望着镜子，我也在一旁细细地打量他。他穿件浅绿色短袖衬衫，洗得泛白了。本来我想帮他换上丈夫出差回来为他刚买的新衣，他却一直拒绝，直说没钱也不能穿别人的衣服。 ⑥他总担心没钱，不知这是老年人的通病，还是失智老人独有的忧愁。向他出示写着他大名的存折，并大声念出折子里的存款数额，是我每天的功课，但都无济于事。每隔十分钟，他就要出门找教书的工作赚钱。他一面说，还一面摸上衣口袋，于是我赶紧在他的口袋里放上几百块钱，然而这并不能真正解决问题。 ⑦父亲的焦躁让我心疼，不停地解说也很累人。雇用的外籍看护担心我不在家的时候，中文不流利的她无法应付父亲，更担心父亲因急着找工作而趁人不备溜出大门。他曾经很神奇地打开四道不同的锁，搭电梯下到一楼，所幸被已经打过招呼的警卫拦了下来。 ⑧后来我为解决父亲的“工作狂”心态想出一条妙计。我用他的口吻在一个纸板上大大地写着：“我，蔡某某，已经教了四十多年的书，现在领退休金在家养老，还有儿女奉养，生活无忧无虑，不需要再去工作赚钱了。” ⑨没事时，我就请他翻来覆去地大声朗读这些话。每读一遍，他紧绷的神经就会松弛一些，脸上浮现出笑容。但读完立刻忘记，所幸，他会自动重读一遍纸板上的好消息，每天读成千上万遍也不厌倦。 ⑩不知道是这种暗示有效，还是他的记忆更加退化，他觉得自己已不再是要工作养家的中年人，而是在我家做客的外人。他常扯着我的衣袖，一再地点头赔笑：“谢谢你的招待，请送我回家吧！”【乙】 ?我疲于应付父亲每日抛出的不同的球，也知道某些解释无效，只能忍住眼泪，期许用紧紧接抱所传达的爱与关怀，把他留在我经营的陌生“民宿”里。 ?此时，父亲在镜中端详自己后，很自信地对我说：“头发虽然白了，但我就是二十岁！”【丙】 ?“您是我的爸爸，不能比我年轻呀！”我撒着娇，不死心地拉着他的手，像是紧紧拉住他随时间流逝而逐渐远去的灵魂，想要唤回他深处的记忆，唤回原来深爱我的父亲。
英语高考时文阅读材料（三） 编者：如今的英语高考、模拟考的阅读材料（完形填空、阅读理解、任务型阅读）大都选自中国、欧美等主流媒体的最新时鲜文章，与最新人文科技、政治文化接轨。作为一名考生，在接触阅读世界最新潮流的同时也应该积累素材，并培养相关英语文章的阅读能力。 下面摘取了最新的来自中国日报网（CHINA DAILY）的两篇文章，并做了必要的批注，且于文章末尾增添了几个小习题，可自行按照所附的参考答案检测阅读效果。 Passage 1 周杰伦超话影响力破亿这就是实力！ Jay Chou Fans Claim Rare Social Media Victory Over Gen Z 中国日报网2019-07-22 13:32 7月21日23时左右，“周杰伦超话影响力破亿”的话题登顶微博热搜。经过粉丝们连日鏖战，被迫营业的周董夕阳红粉丝团将周杰伦顶到了超话排行榜第一的位置，他们用实力证明，数据真的就只是数据而已。
Pop king Jay Chou attends Migu Music Awards Ceremony in Shanghai on Dec 15, 2017. [Photo/IC] An epic generational clash（战争）waged on Chinese social media has come to a close, with the mostly older fans of 40-year-old singer Jay Chou declaring digital victory over the largely Gen Z followers of young vocalist Cai Xukun. wage[we?d?]：v.进行，发动（运动、战争等）；开展 Early Sunday morning, a screenshot posted to Chou’s official Weibo fan account showed the musician topping the platform’s list of “super topics”. Cai, the 21-year-old Chinese mainland entertainer who formerly occupied the No. 1 spot, now trails in second place, with a lower tally of the “influencer power” that the site uses to determine the rankings. “Beijing Time 00:30 on July 21, a record!” reads the text included alongside the screenshot in Sunday’s post, referring to the exact time that Chou landed his highest-ever position in the rankings.（排名）“How strong is this No. 1?! We’ve achieved it.”
生活指南：简单一小步丰富每一天 I love to have simple ways to improve my life. Everyday is a chance for improving our life, and it's up to us to best use it. What I want is to have good, balanced progress everyday. 我喜欢用简单的方法提升自己的生活质量。对我们来说每天都是一个新的机遇，关键在于我们如何最有效地利用它。我所希望的便是每天都可以有良好平稳的提升。 To ensure balance, my favorite way is using the four facets of prosperity: material, spiritual, physical, and social. By achieving material prosperity, spiritual prosperity, physical prosperity, and social prosperity, I believe I can have complete and balanced prosperity in my life. 我最倾向于通过物质生活、精神境界、身体素质、社交活动四个方面的互补来保持生活的平衡。如果可以达到物质富足、精神愉悦、身体健康以及社交活跃，那么你一定会拥有和谐美妙而丰富多彩的生活。 You may add other facets of prosperity if they work for you, but in my opinion these four facets are easy to remember and already cover practically everything. 当然啦，你还可以添加一些你认为对你有用的东西。不过，我认为以上的四个方面很容易记住，它们基本已经包涵了所有。 To put this concept into practice, what I do is ensuring that I do something to improve each facet everyday. Here is how I do it: 为了实践这个观念，我每天都会努力来完善这四个方面。下面是我的个人做法： 1. Decide on something to do daily in each facet 1. 每天都要做一些关于这几个方面的事情。 To keep things simple, choose only one or two tasks to do daily in each facet. More than that, it could be difficult to keep up with them. Of course, you may want to do more than just one or two tasks to improve
考研时文阅读（2） Altruism（利他主义）, according to the text books, has two forms. One is known technically as kin selection, and familiarly as nepotism. This spreads an individual's genes collaterally, rather than directly, but is otherwise similar to his helping his own offspring. The second form is reciprocal altruism, or “you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours”. It relies on trust, and a good memory for favours given and received, but is otherwise not much different from simultaneous collaboration (such as a wolf pack hunting) in that the benefit exceeds the cost for all parties involved. Humans, however, show a third sort of altruism—one that has no obvious pay-off. This is altruism towards strangers, for example, charity. That may enhance reputation. But how does an enhanced reputation weigh in the Darwinian balance? To investigate this question, the researchers made an interesting link. At first sight, helping charities looks to be at the opposite end of the selfishness spectrum from conspicuous consumption. Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources. That is characteristic of the consequences of sexual selection. An individual shows he (or she) has resources to burn—whether those are biochemical reserves, time or, in the human instance, money—by using them to make costly signals. That demonstrates underlying fitness of the sort favoured by evolution. Viewed this way, both conspicuous consumption and what the researchers call “blatant benevolence” are costly signals. A nd since they are behaviours rather than structures, and thus controlled by the brain, they may be part of the mating mind. Researchers divided a bunch of volunteers into two groups. Those in one were put into what the researchers hoped would be a “romantic mindset” by being shown pictures of attractive members of the opposite sex. They were each asked to write a description of a perfect date with one of these people. The unlucky members of the other group were shown pictures of buildings and told to write about the weather. The participants were then asked two things. The first was to imagine they had $5,000 in the bank. They could spend part or all of it on various luxury items such as a new car, a dinner party at a restaurant or a holiday in Europe. They were also asked what fraction of a hypothetical 60 hours of leisure time during the course of a month they would devote to volunteer work. The results were just what the researchers hoped for. In the romantically primed group, the men went wild with the Monopoly money. Conversely, the women volunteered their lives away. Those women continued, however, to be skinflints, and the men remained callously indifferent to those less fortunate than themselves. Meanwhile, in the other group there was little inclination either to profligate spending or to good works. Based on this result, it looks as though the sexes do, indeed, have different strategies for showing off. Moreover, they do not waste their resources by behaving like that all the time. Only when it counts sexually are men profligate and women helpful. （选自Economist, 08/02/2007） 参考译文根据教科书，利他主义有两种表现形式：一种就是所谓的血缘选择，即家庭亲戚关系。这种利他主义是通过一个人的基因间接传播的，而不是直接的，但是另一方面也就像一个人会无私地帮助自己的孩子一样。第二种形式是互惠的利他主义，或者说“你帮我搓背我也帮你搓背”。这种利他主义的基础在于信任，并对自己得到和付出过的帮助保持较好的记忆，但是除此以外，这种利他主义和物种天然的合作关系（比如狼群共同寻找猎物）没有什么大的区别，因为对于所有的参与者来说，他们合作的所得远远超过其付出。但是人类却表现出了第三种利他主义—一种不会有什么赢利的利他主义。这是一种对陌生人的利他主义，