Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

第1题

Exercise may not be fun, but it isn't that hard. You don't need more than 20 minutes a day, and that's something pretty much everyone can spare. We often neglect our physical health because we're full of bad excuses. If that sounds like you, make this weekend the one where you start getting in shape.

Don't bother with equipment you don't need. With the amount of equipment you'll find in a gym, it's easy to believe you need a lot of stuff to exercise. Sure, that fancy equipment works fine, but people got in shape without it for a long time before it was an option. There's no reason you can't do this, too, so don't assume you need to spend a lot of money. You don't need to spend any, really, unless you plan to run and need a decent pair of shoes.

Put together a plan you can follow. Nobody sticks with an exercise routine they hate. You have to at least be able to tolerate a fair amount of the workout you plan for yourself and find a way to stay motivated to do the rest. If you like the traditional route—that is, exercising for around 30-45 minutes a few days a week—we put together a workout routine that you can follow easily.

Don't start a great routine and then sit all day long. Getting exercise is important, but it doesn't mean much if you're sitting down all day. Fortunately that can be easily-remedied by just getting up once in a while, doing some desk exercises, and/or switching to a standing desk. The important thing is that you're not a lumpy human being for most hours of your life. When you're active for only a very small portion of a given day, exercise isn't going to help you all that much.

1.According to the passage, why couldn’t many people keep themselves in good condition?

A. They are short of money.

B. They are very tired after a day’s work.

C. They always find many different excuses.

D. They are very busy all the time.

2.Which of the following is a better workout plan, according to the passage?

A. The one people have to tolerate all the workout.

B. The one people keep motivated to go on.

C. The one people have to keep exercising for around 30-45 minutes every day.

D. The one people hate to follow.

3.What is advised to do to help you stay healthy according to the passage?

A. Keep standing up and sitting down while working.

B. Switch desks while working.

C. Get up occasionally while working.

D. Be active while working.

4.Which of the following statements is true according to passage?

A. You need to set aside a very small portion of a day for exercise.

B. You need to spend a lot of money doing exercise.

C. you need some stuff to exercise.

D. You need to make a plan you can follow.

5.What can not be implied from the passage?

A. There are people who always find reasons to do what seems impossible.

B. People should await his chance instead of creating it.

C. Numerous people always find excuses to give up something possible.

D. People should stop making excuses and starting out before it is too late.

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第2题

Losing a job or not being able to find one almost always brings unwelcome changes. If you'

ve lost a job, the first feeling is often one of shock. On top of the loss of income, many people find the whole routine of their life is shattered, their contact with other people reduced, their ambitions halted and their identity as a worker removed.

There may be good feelings too -- it's nice to be able to lie in bed in the morning, to spend more time with children, or to have more time to think -- a better job may be just around the comer. But, unless a better job does turn up, chances are the days start getting longer and the time becomes harder to fill. Many people pass through periods of difficulty in sleeping and eating. They feel irritable and depressed, often isolated and lonely.

Despite all these problems, unemployment can be a chance for a fresh start. You can discover that it provides an opportunity to sort out or rethink what you want from life and how best you can get it. You can use the time to plan how to find a new job, learn a new skill, develop your hobbies, see if you can run your own business, do some voluntary work in your community or meet new people. It's up to you.

Unemployment almost always brings changes that are ______.

A．unpleasant

B．unsuitable

C．untenable

D．unworthy

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第3题

Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are grea

t conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of the year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.

(31)

A．number

B．length

C．depth

D．width

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第4题

Should struggling students be banned from clubs and sports？Getting a bad grade in Rockingh

Should struggling students be banned from clubs and sports？

Getting a bad grade in Rockingham, Vt. could get you kicked off the team! School officials there are considering new guidelines that would prevent students with bad grades from participating in extracurricular activities, such as sports and clubs. The proposal would affect students in eighth grade and below.

School board member Mike says the policy would motivate students to work harder in school. He drafted a letter to coaches, parents, and after-school program leaders to encourage them to allow only kids who are meeting certain academic standards into their program.

Not everyone gives such policy an A+. Some people argue that no student should be excluded from after-school activities. They say taking part in extracurricular activities can help kids do better in class by improving their participation and concentration skills. They say a 2009 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that time spent in extracurricular physical activities does not take away from students' ability to do well in the classroom . In fact, it may even help boost girls' academic performance.

Students themselves have different opinions.

SCHOOL COMES FIRST

Why not require good grades to participate in those activities？

Kids need to understand that grades are important. School comes first, period. Getting good

grades help you with life, help you go to college, get a job, and so on. Banning underachieving students from extracurricular activities not only gives them motivation to get their grades up, but allows more time to study or get help from a tutor.

DON' T BAN STUDENTS

Every student should be able to participate in extracurricular activities, no matter what his or her grades are. Extracurricular activities can help kids concentrate more on doing homework. They can help kids develop mentally and physically.

A school policy that tells kids with bad grades that they can't be in sports or the school play is like judging a book by its cover. Every student is unique. A kid may have a learning disability, an attention issue, or a difficult time studying in his or her home environment. His or her teachers should find why the student is struggling. Together they should find out a solution that will keep the student in the activity.

Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word "excluded"？

A．protected

B．approved

C．blamed

D．banned

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第5题

Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful？ This might be called

laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you're "hot". That's true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as:" Get up, John! You' 11 be late for work again \" The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.

You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won't change your cycle, but you' 11 get up steam(振作) and work better at your low point.

Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably______.

A．he is" hot"

B．he refuses to follow his own energy cycle

C．he is not sure when his energy is low

D．he is very energetic in the afternoon or evening

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第6题

阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容进行判断，正确写“T”错误写“F”。Feedback from your custo

阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容进行判断，正确写“T”错误写“F”。

Feedback from your customers is very important. The more information you have from them, the more competitive you will be in your field. The following techniques will help you know what the customers think of your business.

1. Ask your customers directly and cater to their wishes. This is the simplest way to find out what people want from your service or product. When hotel customers are asked what they want for their breakfast and then the hotel staff are asked what they think the customer wants, the answers are quite different.

2. Be a customer yourself and find out what your customers experience when they use your service. This is one of the most obvious but underused ways for getting feedback. For example, you can act as one of the customers in a wheelchair, and see how you’re treated.

3. Use a focus group. Focus groups are representatives of customers whose job is to provide you with information on their needs and preferences.

4. Use questionnaires and surveys. This is one of the most well-established feedback techniques. When well-conducted, they usually work well.

5. Encourage your front-line staff to build strong relationships with customers. Your front-line staff are the most resourceful and reliable, as well as the least costly, of your customer feedback sources. Their communication with the customers will become important information for improving customer care.

You may deliver the best service in the world. But if it is not what people want, you’re wasting your time. Implement one, two, three or all of the above techniques, and your service and product will improve overnight.

1. Hotel customers and hotel staff think the same about breakfast.{T、F}

2. A good or bad experience of a customer in a wheelchair in your shop shows whether your service is good or not.{T、F}

3. It’s not necessary to know about the customers’ needs and preferences. {T、F}

4. Questionnaires are useful in getting feedback from customers.{T、F}

5. Front-line staff have nothing to do with improving customer service.{T、F}

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第7题

Why We Need Vacations There's more to a vacation than can be described in travel books. We

certainly need breaks from work. But there is even more to be said for a get-away break, leaving all daily work behind and living a different life for a short time. The benefits of taking a vacation start long before the suitcases are packed. A vacation is something to look forward to. It gives us the sense that whatever is happening at the moment will end soon. Companies sometimes use away-breaks to restore（恢复）motivation and team relationships. If you're able to switch off and leave your daily work behind, when you come back, you often view old situations with fresh eyes and see them in a new way. People don't disappear while no vacation. We're still thinking and feeling the whole time we're away. What really makes the difference is not simply getting away from the daily work; it's being able to do something else instead. We might speak to people we wouldn't normally meet, try sports we'd not do otherwise, and discover interests we never knew we had. Vacations also allow us to focus on the present in a way that's hard to do at home. When you're in a new environment for a short time, your attention tends to be on what's happening right now and in the next few days. Being "in the moment" is in itself one of the keys to getting relaxed, and this happens more naturally on vacation. Every vacation is an adventure full of potential discoveries. Perhaps more than anything else, vacations enable us to raise our eyes from familiar paths so that we can look around and see that there's a world out there. People need to explore more about the meaning of a vacation.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

We begin to feel the benefits of a vacation after we start to pack our suitcases.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

People expect that a vacation ahead will put an end to what is happening now.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

On vacation, we don't try new sports.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

People on vacation often buy gifts for each other.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

Adventures are more important than discoveries for a vacation.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

A vacation may enable us to look at old things in a new way.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

One of the keys to getting relaxed is to focus on the present.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

Companies do not pay their employees when they are on vacation.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

We may find out our hidden interests during vacations.A.True

B.False

C.Not Given

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

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第8题

Parents can no more be friends to their children than teachers can be to their students. F

or the essence of friendship is reciprocity(互惠): giving and getting something like 【C1】______ you give. Parents 【C2】______ to the proper development of their children, and teachers guide the shaping of their students' minds.

It should be 【C3】______ now why real friendship requires more than merely having"【C4】______ in common." It is what people have in common 【C5】______ determines the kind of friendship they will have. Real friendship requires at least a sound moral character out of the richness of which individuals are able to 【C6】______ this precious affection. The more individuals give, the more they realize a genuine kind of 【C7】______, the better friends they are. A good man will not only do for his friend what he would do for 【C8】______ but also, if necessary, do 【C9】______.

These prerequisites are hard to fulfill, true friendship is 【C10】______ to be rare. To acquire a real friend, 【C11】______,is one of the most praiseworthy accomplishments in 【C12】______. Montaigne tells a story of Cyrus, the 【C13】______of Persia. He was asked whether he would change a valuable horse, on 【C14】______ he had just won a race, for a kingdom. Cyrus replied, "No, surely, sir, but I would give him up with all my heart to gain a true friend, could I find out any man【C15】______ of that alliance."

ruler what see something give and get

that selflessness himself more bound

therefore life which worthy clear

【C1】______

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第9题

Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it is painful? This might be c

Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it is painful？ This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. During the hours when you labour through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (自言自语) as: “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!”The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has. You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract (对抗) your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam (鼓起干劲) and work better at your low point. Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get with a leisurely yawl and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the trouble some search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. When ever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

1.If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably _______.

A、he is a lazy person

B、he refuses to follow his own energy cycle

C、he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening

2.Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage_______.

A、Unawareness of energy cycles.

B、Familiar monologues.

C、A change in a family member’s energy cycle.

D、A change in a family member’s energy cycle.

3.If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should _____.

A、change his energy cycle

B、overcome his laziness

C、go to bed earlier

4.You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will ______.

A、help to keep your energy for the day’s work

B、help you to control your temper early in the day

C、enable you to concentrate on your routine work

D、keep your energy cycle under control all day

5.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE_______.

A、Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one’s energy.

B、Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peak at different hours of day.

C、Habit helps a person adapt to his own energy cycle.

D、Children have energy cycles, too.

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第10题

What should you do first when you find out your missing tile（)？

A.to replace it

B.to forget it

C.to think about whether it will bring you happiness or not

D.to obtain it

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