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阅读表达 (共5小题,每小题2分,满分10分)
阅读下面的短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的词数要求)。
When the musical sound rings out, you immediately reach for your pocket ready to  have a chat. But although you probably use it all the time, have you ever stopped to think about the manners related to talking on the phone?
If you haven’t, here are some tips to guide you.
Always give the person you are calling plenty of time to get to the phone before you hang up. If the person who answers is not the one you want, give your name and ask if you may speak to the person you want.
Think about the time you call people. Try not to call too early in the morning or too late at night. Also try not to call at mealtimes.
If you go by plane to visit your relatives at Christmas, remember to follow airline instructions. Cellphones must be turned off as soon as the plane doors are closed and remain so until the doors open again on arrival.
When face-to-face with someone, do not talk on the phone. It is rude to be on the phone when a waiter is trying to take your order in a restaurant, or when you are returning the shoes you have just been trying on in a shop. Finish any face-to-face business before taking a call. Continuing to use the phone while nodding to the person in front of you is quite impolite.
When in a restaurant with your friends, keep phone conversations short. Make a call only if it is important. Practise speaking in a low voice. If no one looks your way, you’ve got it.
If you go to a theatre, a concert or a cinema, consider the other people around you. Check that your phone is “off” before you enter. If you are expecting a very important call, put your phone on “vibrate” (振动) and run for the exit as soon as you feel it. If you forget both “off’’ and “vibrate” and_________________, don’t answer it, turn it off straight away.

What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
You are lucky enough to make a call without disturbing others.
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Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(Please answer within 10 words.)
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What can you learn from this passage? (Please answer within 30 words.)
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Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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Sally Ride was born on May 26th, 1951, in California. She started to play tennis at the age of 10 and became a good tennis player. But later, she thought she was not good enough to become a successful tennis player and then gave it up.
At the age of 22, she got a doctor’s degree. She was looking for a job when she read about NASA’s call for astronauts. More than 8,000 people wanted to join in the space program, but only Sally and other thirty-four other people were accepted.
After joining NASA in 1977, Sally Ride accepted training. She enjoyed flight training so much that flying became her favorite hobby. In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on the shuttle Challenger ( STS-7)(挑战者号航天飞机). Her next flight was an eight- day task in 1984 on Challenger ( STS41-G ).
Sally Ride retired from NASA in 1987, then started an Internet-based NASA project. Sally Ride has received many awards, including the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the Woman’s Research and Education Institute’s American Woman Award.
When was Sally Ride born? ( no more than 7 words )
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How many people were accepted in the space program? ( no more than 4 words )
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What happened to Sally Ride in 1983? ( no more than 13 words )
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What did Sally Ride do after she retired from NASA ? ( no more than 7 words )
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Two weeks ago, I had a quarrel with my husband .After he had driven off in anger; I realized that I wasn’t going to feel any better just sitting there. Feeling abandoned and guilty, I put on my gym shoes to get some fresh air.
Our driveway has a slope(斜坡) that is easier just to jog down if you are lazy, taking advantage of gravity. Instead of stopping at the end of the slope, I decided to see if I could just jog to the end of the street. I had tried a few months ago and failed miserably. Since that first attempt I had been jogging regularly and was significantly fitter, but still very lazy. However this time around I managed to reach the stop sign with ease and I figured I would go a little further.
After about one kilometer, however, I noticed that my upper body was tense. To make the movement easier I had to relax my body, and tried to take deep breaths of fresh air.
I kept giving myself the excuse to stop. No one would be disappointed. No one would even know. But I didn’t stop. I wanted to keep going harder, better, faster, stronger. To my great surprise, I ran 4.9 km in 31 minutes. When I got back, I had tears in my eyes. I did something I thought I could never do.
It was the first long run of my life. Since then, I have improved my stride(步幅) and time. After every run I feel fitter, happier and motivated to keep progressing. I love the runner’s high. I normally jog because I want to look good. I want to run because it makes me feel good.
Why did the author feel guilty?(NO more than 9 words)   (2 marks)
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What did the author fail to do miserably a few months ago?(NO more than 11 words) (2 marks)
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What excuses did the author keep giving herself to stop?(NO more than 9 words) (3 marks)
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How is running different from jogging to the author?(NO more than 14words) (3 marks)
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[1] Safety in the highway is not totally out of hand. Here are four ways you can protect yourselves when you travel.
[2] You are safer in a large car. People in small cars are injured more often and more severely than people traveling in large cars. Factories of small cars are strengthening their products’ safety, which helps. But the mix of large cars and small cars on the road is the main reason for the safety problem.
[3] Being thrown into glass and metal parts of a car--or being thrown from the car--can really damage you. That’s why safety belts should be worn. The safety belt’s main purpose is to pull you back. If your car has a sudden crash with another vehicle or object or if it rolls over, a belt can reduce the chance of fatal injury by 45% and the chance of serious injury by 50%.
[4] _______________________. More than half of all new cars sold have air bags. Air bags provide protection in frontal crashes--the type of crash that kills the most drivers, though they are also wearing safety belts. Most people demand air bags in the cars they buy. But the protection provided by air bags is limited in side or rear crashes; effective as they are, they can’t take the place of safety belts.
[5] Drunk driving crashes are less likely to happen if you don’t drink. Drunk driving is the most serious problem. Many people have realized that mixing drinking and driving can lead to death and injury, prison time and other results. There are measures to strengthen penalties (处罚) for drinking and driving.
What is the main idea of the passage? (no more than 10 words)
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Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one? Air bags can not do much protection in side or rear crashes; although they are effective, you can’t replace safety belts with air bags.
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Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with a proper sentence. (no more than 5 words)
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What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 4 refer to? (no more than 2 words)
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Which of the suggestions do you think is the best for you? And why? (no more than 30 words)
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Kids and Ponds
Years ago there was a group of kids who would hang around at some local ponds in the woods near their houses in Warwick, Rhode Island. In summer they caught frogs and fish. When winter arrived they couldn’t wait to go skating. Time passed, and the ponds became thespace for the kids to enjoy themselves in that neighborhood.
One day a thirteen-year-old boy from group of kids read in the local newspaper that a developer wanted to fill in the ponds and build over a hundred small houses called condominiums. So the boy went door to door and gathered more than two hundred signatures (签名)to stop the development A group of citizens met and decided to support him.
At the meeting of the town planning board (委员会),the boy was quite nervous at first and spoke very softly. But when he saw the faces of his friends and neighbors in the crowd and thought about what was happening to their favorite ponds,his voice grew louder. He told the town officials that they should speak for the citizens. He also insisted that they should leave enough space for children. A few days later,the developer stopped his plan.
Nine years later, when that teen was a senior in college, he was informed that the developer was back with his proposal to build condominiums. Now twenty-two years old, he was studying wetlands ecology. He again appeared before the town planning board.time as an expert witness, he used environmental protection laws to explain restrictions on development in and around wetlands and the knowledge of wetlands ecology to help improve the development. Finally some condominiums were built, but less than half the number the developer wanted. The ponds where those kids used to hang around were protected by a strip of natural land,and are still there today.
What did the kids like to do at the local ponds in winter? (within 5 words)
How did the boy win the citizens’ support? (within 8 words)
How did the boy feel at the meeting at first? (within 1 word))
What did the boy tell the town officials? (within 12 words)
What helped the boy to protect the ponds successfully nine years later? (within 9 words)

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Most people who travel from China to the US find that, despite having studied English for years, they have to “re-learn” it upon arriving.
Words that we learned in English classes are not pronounced the same way here. To truly be part of the “melting pot”, fluency in English is not enough. You need an accent to stand out.
When I first came to the US for graduate school, I was a nervous foreigner. I felt so out of place that I wanted to hide everything about me that was “different”. To talk like an American became one of my goals.
During my first term as a teaching assistant (TA), my students complained they could not understand me. I learned later from a study that this complaint was common among US students with an international TA.It is called the “Oh, no!” syndrome (情绪、举动): “Oh,no! Not another international TA, and not that accent again!’’
So I imitated(模仿)the way native speakers talk and, over time, I made such good progress that American friends started to praise my English as having “almost no accent’’. I took this as a sign of my success. Ever since, people have often mistaken me for someone from many places: the Midwest, the West Coast, China, Japan, South Korea. Most frequently, people think I am from California.
Suddenly, conformity ( 一致) was no longer a praise: If I talk like an American , am I still Chinese? If I lose my Chinese accent, do I also lose my cultural identity? Am I denying my past by being absorbed into a new culture?
Now I realize that a person’s accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is amark of one’s experience and exposure to different cultures.
As a fourth-year student in the US,I am no longer a nervous foreigner. My nervousness has been replaced by a desire to hold on to my cultural origins. Now I consciously add some Chinese“accent” when I speak.I do not wish to speak “perfect” English because I am proud of who I am.
Why does the author think people have to “re-learn” English upon arriving? ( No more than 10 words).
How did the author feel when others praised her English? (No more than 5 words)
Why did the author decide to speak with a bit of a Chinese “accent”? (No more than 10 words)
Please explain the underlined part in English in another way. (No more than 8 words)
What is the article mainly about? (No more than 8 words)

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[1]Compared to people with bad attitudes,people _________are less likely to suffer from colds.It’s possible that being positive helps the body fight illnesses.
[2]In a previous study,people who tended to be cheerful and lively were least likely to develop coughs and other cold symptoms.People who showed positive feelings were also less likely to mention symptoms to their doctors,even when medical tests detected those symptoms.
[3]Those findings were interesting,but they didn’t prove that a person’s attitude affects whether he or she gets sick.Instead,it was still possible that a person’s underlying personality is what matters.
[4]Evidence suggests,for instance,that certain people are naturally more likely to be outgoing and optimistic,with high self-esteem and a sense of control over life.This would mean that who we are,not how we feel,ultimately decides our chances of catching colds.
[5]To figure out which mattered more,personality or emotions,the researchers interviewed 193 healthy adults.The results showed that everyone in the study was equally likely to get infected.Their symptoms,however,differed depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the previous fortnight.
[6]Among those who reported good moods and had been infected with the flu virus,for example, 28 percent developed coughs and stuffy noses.On the other hand,those symptoms struck 41 percent of people who had been less positive.
[7]Scientists argue about whether negative emotions or positive emotions have a stronger effect on how healthy we are.For now,it can’t hurt to look on the bright side more often than not !
What’s the main idea of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words)
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Fill in the blank with proper words in first paragraph.(Please answer within 10 words)
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Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
But,their symptoms were closely related to the emotions they had claimed to have in the last two weeks.
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Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into proper Chinese.
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Suppose one of your friends had got infected with the H1N1 flu,give him/her at least three pieces of advice.(Please answer within 30 words)
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阅读下面的短文,请根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)
[1]Sometimes you are just having a real bad day, and it is easy for you to feel unhappy the whole day.If this is not dealt with properly, it really does harm to your health. Here are a few methods to help you.
[2] Smile. Scientists say there is a direct connection between smiling and being happy. They found that smiling can produce a kind of substance (物质) in the body which helps to reduce the chance of getting ill. And they have discovered that most people who live long ______________.
[3] Exercise. Doing sports and games can help you forget your daily problems and make you happy. At the same time, it will help you stay in shape. You can choose from swimming, hiking or running. They are indeed helpful.
[4] Do something you love. Spend your time doing something that you like, such as cooking, reading, or shopping. If you don’t want to go outside, just watch some amusing programs on TV.
[5] Listen to positive music. Listening to happy music while singing along or dancing will take the anger or sadness right out of you! With the help of pleasant music, you will forget your daily problems and keep yourself in a good mood. You will feel that life is not so hard as you thought before.
[6]Think of others. It is better to forget yourself and look for ways to help others when you’re feeling down. Look around and you will find there is surely someone in the world who is feeling worse than you. Try to help him and makes his day better. In this way, you make yourself happy.
What does the word “it” (Line2, Paragraph1) probably refer to? (no more than 3 words)
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Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 3 words)
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Point out the advantage of taking part in sports. (no more than 15 words)
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What will happen if you help those who are feeling even worse? (no more than 6 words)
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What is the passage mainly about? (no more than 8 words)
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What is Christmas all about? Has it ever crossed your mind? Are we teaching our children the true meaning of Christmas? Do they know that a single gift of kindness can touch an endless number of hearts forever?
We met a little girl seven years ago during one of my daughter’s occasional hospital stays. Her name was Beth and she was my daughter’s roommate for a week. My daughter had an incurable kidney disease. Beth was a very happy girl, despite the fact that she had cancer. I was amazed at her will and determination to never give up, however sick her treatment made her. She was always concerned about my daughter and the other children with cancer.
My daughter’s hospital treatment was completed in a week and we were waiting for her final discharge orders when Beth appeared. She said “I want you to have this. I know you need a new kidney, so keep this angel pin with you till you get better. She will watch over you and make you smile. My friend, John, gave it to me to watch over me. When you get your new kidney and smile, you can give this angel to someone that needs her, too”. My daughter thanked her and the girls exchanged hugs and big smiles. Later that year, Beth passed away.
We kept that angel for six more years. My daughter had gone beyond what medical journals had studied and expected from her disease. Finally, a kidney became available and she received a transplant.
Now she felt it was time to give it to someone who needed to be watched over until he or she could smile again. She gave it to an elderly man trying to recover from a heart problem.
How many families and hearts this angel has touched, no one knows for sure. But all that it took was a single gift of kindness. So in this Christmas season, create a tradition with your children or maybe someone you love. Give them a gift that keeps on giving. It’s a gift from your heart. After all, isn’t that Christmas is all about?
Why did Beth give an angel pin to the author’s daughter? (No more than 8 words )(2 marks)
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How does a single gift of kindness affect people? (No more than 6 words ) (2 marks)
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What did the girl impress the author with? (No more than 8 words )(3 marks)
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How do you understand “the true meaning of Christmas” in the passage? (No more than 8 words ) (3 marks)
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Do you want to work with people or animals or machines or tools? Do you want to work indoors or outdoors, directly serve people in need or serve people behind the scenes? These are the typical questions that a volunteer service agency would ask.
Every year, thousands and thousands of people in the west offer volunteer services. Volunteering greatly strengthens the community partly because it helps the old, the young, the weak, the sick, the disabled and the injured to overcome difficulties.
Volunteers usually help in many different ways. They may give people advice, offer friendship to the young, drive the elderly to church, counsel kids against drugs. Work as an assistant in a school or nursing home, raise funds, plant trees, help out in local libraries and do many other things.
Volunteering can be a few hours a week or a few hours a month, time during the day, evenings or weekends, either part time or full time. Anybody who likes to serve people in need can become a volunteer.
The art of volunteering is a process of both giving and receiving. Volunteering allows volunteers to meet new people and make new friends and mix with people from all walks of life. Volunteering is an excellent way to experiment, practice and try out new techniques and skills. It is much more effective to practice a skill than to read about it or study it in a classroom. Volunteering is a great way to develop good teamwork skills, discover your individual talents and explore career choices. Being a volunteer takes individuals on a wonderful journey and helps them learn many important things beyond their school.
What’s the main idea of the passage?
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What kind of volunteer jobs would you like to take? Why? (3分)
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[1]A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions(交流) between parents and young children. Using an experimental design, researchers found that when a TV was on, both the quantity and the quality of interactions between parents and children dropped. This study challenges the common assumption that background TV doesn’t affect very young children if they aren’t looking at the screen.
[2]More than a third of American babies and kids live in homes where the television is on most of or all the time, even if no one’s watching. The new study finds that the effect is negative. The study, in the issue of the journal Child Development, was done by researchers at the University of Massachusetts.
[3]The researchers studied about 50 1-,2-, and 3-year-olds, each of whom was with one parent, at a university child-study center. For half of the one-hour session, parents and children were in a playroom without TV; for the other half hour, parents chose a program meant for adult audiences.
[4]The researchers observed how often the patents and children talked with each other, how actively involved the parents were in their children’s play, and whether the parents and children responded to each other’s questions and suggestions
[5]When the TV was on, the researchers found, both the quantity and the quality of interaction between parents and children dropped. Specifically, parents spend about 20 percent less time talking to their children, and the quality of the interactions declined, with the parents less active, attentive, and responsive to their youngsters.
[6]“Although previous research has found that background television affects young children’s independent play, this is the first study to demonstrate its impact on the quantity and quality of parent-child interactions,” say the researchers. “Given that high-quality parent-child interaction plays an important role in a child’s development,” they add, “we need to pay greater attention to children’s early exposure to TV.”
What is the main idea of the passage? (no more than 10 words)
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What did researchers find when the TV was on before parents and children according to Paragraph5? (no more than 10 words)
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What did parents respond when the TV was on in the research? (no more than 10 words)
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What is the result of the previous research? (no more than 7 words)
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What is the important element in a child’s development?(no more than 4 words)

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Directions Read.the following passage.Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit.Write your answers on your answer sheet.
When I was 10 years old, my friend Sydney was diagnosed with a brain tumor.Sydney fought against it, but the tumor did not respond to treatment, and could not be surgically removed.The mass wrapped around her brain stem, the area of the brain that controls the vital functions of life such as breathing and blood pressure.Sydney died at the age of 11.
After her death, I felt immense sadness and frustration about pediatric cancer.I decided to turn these negative emotions into positive actions.When I was 11 years old.I founded the Pink Polka Dots Guild(PPD) with two friends.The guild is named after Sydney s favorite color and pattern, which represents both the memory of my friend and the guild's positive approach.My goal has been to raise enough money to find a cure for brain cancer, which is the second most common cancer in children.
Over the years, PPD has held fundraisers from lemonade stands to art expositions to golf tournaments.I have played a leading role in planning and organizing each PPD event.The very first Pink Polka Dots event, a garage sale.raised $ 9.000, and our most recent fundraiser, the fifth annual golf tournament, brought in over $ 73.000.The guild progressed faster than I ever anticipated.In five years, we have become 40 members strong, and raised almost half of a million dollars.
I've been shocked by the public recognition that the guild has earned.PPD received an award from a U.S.Senator, spoke at a TED Conference, was featured in Teen Vogue, and appeared on The Note Berkus Show.Each of these honors has raised awareness and money for our cause.
The initiative that I have taken has truly impacted the world of cancer research.PPD has provided start-up funding for scientific discoveries, such as "Tumor Paint", which illuminates cancerous cells so that surgeons can remove them with unprecedented accuracy.The discovery appeared in Time Magazine., and will be reviewed by the Food & Drug Administration starting in early 2012.1 am extremely proud to have helped fund the research of this life-saving technology.
Pink Polka Dots has inspired me to be an activist.My experience has taught me that with passion and dedication, it is possible to make a difference to the world.The determination that Pink Polka Dots sparked in me has carried over to all aspects of my life, making me a driven academic, a competitive debater and a dedicated volunteer.
1.Why did the author feel sad and frustrated? (No more than 8 words)
                                                                            
2.What was the author s purpose of founding PPD? (No more than 15 words)
                                                                            
3.What achievement has PPD made in helping cancer research? (No more than 13 words)
                                                                            
4.What did the author learn trom his own experience of founding PPD? (No more than 15 words)
                                                                            

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No marriage is a breeze by any stretch of the imagination. When you take two people and make them live under one roof, there are going to be problems. Make one of them a man and the other a woman, and you can multiply those problems by ten!
When trouble appears in a marriage, most people choose to simply walk away from the marriage. Because not many people have the qualities—selflessness, responsibility, commitment, loyalty—that a marriage requires any more. So you should first be congratulated on trying to do something to save your marriage, like I did.
I believe my story is similar to yours. My husband’s interest and attraction in me had gradually gone away. I sensed a divorce coming—but still, when I heard it, I was completely shocked and I was doubtful about it. I immediately went wild with desperation since I didn’t want a divorce. I did my fair share of the wrong things—such as trying to talk him out of it, crying and then begging. Of course, those didn’t work.
But today I am still with my husband and things couldn’t be better! So what made this change?
It was a realization on my part that I wasn’t in the best state of mind to really come up with ways which really save a marriage. When you are desperate, your judgment is not clear and your mind is filled with intense emotions, which replace your rationality (合理性) and force you into doing the wrong things.
To be able to change my fortunes, I changed my mindset (心态) first. And this is what you have to do. You have to quit the begging, cry or apologize mindset, and enter the careful, calm and considerate mindset. This is what saves marriages—not a “quick fix” that will repair everything overnight!
How do most people deal with the problems in a marriage at the beginning?
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List some good qualities that a good couple should have.
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Why did the author go wild with desperation when she sensed a divorce coming?
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What is the author’s secret of saving her marriage?
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阅读下面短文,根据文章内容回答问题,注意词数限制。
Goodwill employee Lakeisha Williams was sorting through some donated books when she noticed an unexpected donation.
“There was an envelope full of cash,” Williams told KXTV.
The envelope had $10,500 in it in $100 bills. Williams joked that she briefly thought about pocketing the cash but knew she had to do the right thing.
“My concern was somebody was out that money, and I would have liked for them to get it back,” she said.
She handed the cash over to a manager about a month ago, and the money had still not been claimed(认领).
Goodwill Industries of San Joaquin Valley President David Miller said that it had not gone unnoticed that Williams “kindly and correctly” returned the money.
“What we did is we take the money and put it into a holding account, and we wait usually a pretty good amount of time to see if somebody comes forward and identifies themselves and says they made a donation and a mistake,” Miller told ABCNews.com today.
Authorities were contacted in case anyone reported money missing, and the money will be held in the bank account for “no less than 120 days,” he said.
“If nothing happens at that point and all indicators are that nobody is claiming the money, at that point in time we put it into our normal donation stream revenue(收入) for our agency,” Miller said. “We have a policy to reward our employees for their honesty.”
The amount of money rewarded to the employee is up to Miller, but he said it would likely be 10 percent in this case. This means Williams could be about $1,000 richer if no one comes forward to claim the missing money in the next three months.
Where did Williams find the envelope full of cash? (No more than 4 words)
                                                                               
How did Williams deal with the cash? (No more than 7 words)
                                                                               
How long will the money be held in the bank account? (No more than 5 words)
                                                                               
Why did the agency decide to reward Williams? (No more than 4 words)
                                                                               
In what situation can Williams get rewarded? (No more than 10 words)
                                                                               

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Americans think that travel is good for you; some even think it can help one of the country’s worst problems-crime.
Crime worries a lot of people. Every year, the number of crimes goes up and up. And many criminals are young. They often come from sad homes, with only one parent or no parents at all.
There are many young criminals in prison. But prison doesn’t change them. Six or seven in ten will go back to crime when they come out of prison.
One man, Bob Burton, thought of a new idea. In the old days, young men had to live a difficult life on the road. They learned to be strong and brave. So Bob Burton started “Vision Quest”.
He takes young criminals on a long, long journey with horses and wagons (马车), 3,000 miles through seven states. They are on the road for more than a year.
The young people on Vision Quest all have bad problems. Most of them have already spent time in prison. This is their last chance.
It’s hard work on the road. The work starts before the sun comes up. The boys and girls have to feed the horses. Some of them have never loved anyone before. But they can love their horse. That love can help them to a new life.
Not all the young people on Vision Quest will leave crime behind them. Three or four in ten will one day be in prison again. Bob Burton is right. Travel can be good for you. Even today, Americans still say, “Go west, young man.”
What’s the main idea of the passage? (No more than 10 words)
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Why do so many young people become criminals? (No more than 10 words)
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What does “Vision Quest” refer to in this passage? (No more than 8 words)
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What’s the most important thing do they young criminals learn? (No more than 3 words)
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What percentage of young people never commit crimes again after Vision Quest? (No more than 6 words)
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