Neighbours play an important role in our lives. Their lifestyles, friends, and social habits can have a strong influence on our lives. It is a good idea to get to know the people next door or across the street to develop a community (社区) of support and safety. You never know when a neighbour will find a stranger walking around your house, or you may want to leave an extra key at their house in case someone in your family gets locked out.
How do you get along with your neighbours? Here are some tips for building a better relationship with your neighbours.
Point ①…Proper greetings can make your neighbours remember your name and pave (铺) the way for more meaningful future meetings. Don’t stay too long, though, or you’ll wear out your welcome!
Point②…If your neighbour is building a pool, offer a few hours of help. Besides, you never know when the favor might be returned.
Point③…If you hear that someone who live close to you has had an accident, take over a hot meal or some fruit. Your action will add a special touch during a difficult time.
Point④…Invite your neighbours over for a cup of coffee in December or an Easter egg hunt in spring. A backyard barbecue (烧烤) can be a great way to share food and fun.
Your neighbours may annoy you at times, but they are like family in many ways. Appreciate their strengths and overlook their weaknesses, and everyone will get along just fine.What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?
| A．The possibility of a good community. |
| B．How to get to know your neighbours. |
| C．How to influence your neighbours. |
| D．The importance of neighbours. |
According to the passage, which of the following may NOT be something nice to do?
| A．Offering to help your neighbours if they need help. |
| B．Having a very long conversation with a new neighbour. |
| C．Inviting your neighbours over for a backyard barbecue. |
| D．Preparing a hot meal for a neighbour who is going through a difficult time. |
Match the following titles with each point.
a. Invite your neighbours over. b. Lend a helping hand.
c. Go over and introduce yourself. d. Offer support.
| A．①-c②-b③-d④-a | B．①-c②-b③-a④-d |
| C．①-b②-c③-d④-a | D．①-b②-c③-a④-d |
We infer(推断出) that the writer wrote this passage to .
| A．explain why it is good to get along well with others |
| B．give us some tips on how to support our neighbours |
| C．tell us how to get along with our neighours |
| D．advise us to be nice to our neighbours |
The booking notes of the play “the Age of Innocence”:
Price: ＄10
BOOKING : There are four easy ways to book seats for performance:
★in person
The Box Office is open Monday to Saturday, 10 a. m. -8 p. m.
★by telephone
Ring 01324976 to reserve your tickets or to pay by credit card（Visa, MasterCard and Amex accepted）
★by post
Simply complete the booking form and return it to Global Theatre Box Office.
★on line
Complete the on-line booking form at www. Satanfied theatre.com
DISCOUNTS:
Saver: ＄2 off any seat booked any time in advance for performances from Monday to Thursday. Savers are available for children up to 16 years old, and full-time students.
Supersaver: half-price seats are available for people with disabilities and one companion. It is advisable to book in advance. There is a maximum of eight wheelchair spaces available and one wheelchair space will be held until an hour before the show.
Standby: best available seats are on sale for ＄6 from one hour before the performance for people eligible（suitable）for Saver and Supersaver discounts and thirty minutes before for all other customers.
Group Bookings: there is a ten per cent discount for parties of twelve or more.
School: school parties of ten or more can book ＄6 standby tickets in advance and will get every tenth ticket free.
Please note: we are unable to exchange tickets or refund money unless a performance is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. If you want to book a ticket, you CANNOT _____
| A．go to the Box Office on Sundays. |
| B．ring the booking number and pay for the tickets by credit card. |
| C．use the Internet. |
| D．complete a booking form and post it to the Box Office. |
According to the notes, who can get ＄2 off?
| A．The people who book the tickets on Fridays. | B．An 18-year-old teenager. |
| C．A 55-year-old woman. | D．A 20-year-old full-time college student. |
If you make a group booking for a group of 14 adults, how much should you pay?
| A．＄120 | B．＄126 | C．＄140 | D．＄150 |
When you close your eyes and try to think of the shape of your own body, what you imagine (or rather, what you feel) is quite different from what you see when you open your eyes and look in the mirror. The image you feel is much vaguer（模糊的） than the one you see. And if you lie still, it is quite hard to imagine yourself as having any particular size or shape.
When you move, when you feel the weight of your arms and legs and the natural resistance of the objects around you, the “felt” image of yourself starts to become clearer. It is almost as if it were created by your own actions and the feelings they cause.
The image you create for yourself has rather strange proportions（部分）; certain parts feel much larger than they look. If you get a hole in one of your teeth, it feels enormous; you are often surprised by how small it looks when you inspect it in the mirror.
Although the “felt” image may not have the shape you see in the mirror, it is much more important. It is the image through which you recognize your physical existence in the world. In spite of its strange proportions, it is all one piece, and since it has a consistent right and left and a top and bottom, it allows you to locate new feelings when they occur. It allows you to find your nose in the dark and point to a pain.
If the felt image is damaged for any reason—if it is cut in half or lost as it often is after certain strokes （中风）which wipe out recognition of one entire side –these tasks become almost impossible. What is more, it becomes hard to make sense of one’s own visual appearance. If one half of the “felt” image is wiped out or injured, the patient stops recognizing the affected part of his body. It is hard for him to find the location of feelings on that side, and, although he feels the doctor’s touch, he locates it as being on the undamaged side.According to the passage the “felt” image the mirror image.
| A．is precisely the same as | B．is as clear as |
| C．often different from | D．is always much smaller than |
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
| A．The felt Image is much more important because it helps you locate new feelings. |
| B．When you are in bed with your eyes closed, it is not easy to imagine your image. |
| C．When you move, the “felt” image of yourself starts to become clearer. |
| D．The “felt” image is not so important as the mirror image. |
If a man loses the ability to recognize his right side, .
| A．he can’t locate the doctor’s touch on his left side |
| B．he can’t locate the doctor’s touch on his right side |
| C．he loses his sense of touch on the left side |
| D．he loses feeling on both sides |
What is this passage mainly about?
| A．Stroke victims’ “felt” images |
| B．Stroke victims’ mirror images. |
| C．The importance of “felt” images |
| D．The importance of mirror images. |
PALO ALTO, California----"Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter---- even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise," US researchers said last week.
A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds(0.9kg) less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.
"The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity," said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician(儿科专家) at Stanford University.
"American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing video games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years," Robinson said.
In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies‘ annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continued their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet or took part in any extra exercise.
"One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around more and burning off calories," Robinson said.
"Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more," Robinson said.The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ________.
| A．children will get fatter if they eat too much |
| B．children will get thinner if they eat less |
| C．children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV |
| D．children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV |
According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV_____.
| A．is more than four hours a day |
| B．is less than four hours a day |
| C．doubled in the last twenty years |
| D．is more than on any other activities |
The time children spend on TV viewing every day is suggested to be about
| A．six hours | B．eight hours | C．three hours | D．one hour |
Why can watching TV increase kids’ weight according to the passage?
A. They usually eat more while watching TV.
B. They burn off fewer calories.
C. They change their diet while watching TV.
D. Both A and B.
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled，pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness．If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness．But in fact，the opposite is true：more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain．
As a result，many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness．They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage， raising children， professional achievement，religious commitment，self improvement．
Ask a bachelor （单身汉）why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying．If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment．For commitment is in fact quite painful．The single life is filled with fun，adventure，excitement．Marriage has such moments，but they are not its most distinguishing features．
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation．I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children．But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild．
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations．It liberates time：now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness．It liberates money：buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless．And it liberates us from envy：we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all．According to the author，a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ．
| A．he finds more fun in dating than in marriage |
| B．he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single |
| C．he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities |
| D．he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement |
Raising children，in the author’s opinion，is ．
| A．a moral duty | B．a thankless job |
| C．a source of inevitable pain | D．a rewarding task |
From the last paragraph，we learn that envy sometimes stems from ．
| A．hatred | B．misunderstanding | C．prejudice | D．ignorance |
To understand what true happiness is one must ．
| A．be able to distinguish happiness from fun |
| B．make every effort to liberate oneself from pain |
| C．put up with pain under all circumstances |
| D．have as much run as possible during one’s lifetime |
What is the author trying to tell us?
| A．It is important to make commitments． |
| B．One must know how to attain happiness． |
| C．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain |
| D．It is pain that leads to happiness． |
People
People is America’s No．1 magazine about fascinating people．It’s a guide to who and what’s hot in the arts，science，business，politics，television，movies，books，music and sports．It is published weekly．
Publisher：The Time Inc．Magazine Company
Cover Price：＄211．47
Our Price：＄117．00
Issues：53 issues／12 months
Lucky
Lucky is the shopping magazine with the best buys，and the fashion tips you’ll need before you hit the stores．What makes Lucky really special is that it gets you the information you need before anyone else has it．
Publisher：Conde Nast Publications Inc．
Cover Price：＄35．40
Our Price：＄15．00
Issues：12 issues／12 months
Parents
The most trusted magazine for parents who want to raise smart，loving and self-confident children．Each issue has age-specific child-development guidance，advice on your child’s health and safety，and the best ways to encourage your child’s learning．
Publisher：Meredith Corporation
Cover Price：＄42．00
Our Price：＄9．97
Issues：12 issues／12 months
Entertainment
This magazine covers movies，television，music，Broadway stage productions，books，and popular culture．Unlike celebrity-focused magazines like People，its main concentration is on entertainment media and reviews．It’s intended for a more general audience．
Publisher：The Time Inc．Magazine Company
Cover Price：＄199．50
Our Price：＄38．95
Issues：57 issues／12 months Which of the following targets common readers?
| A．Lucky． | B．Entertainment． | C．Parents． | D．People． |
According to the passage，what makes Lucky so special?
| A．Its exclusive information related to shopping． |
| B．Its pictures of fashion stores． |
| C．The access it provides to bargains． |
| D．Its competitive price． |
Celebrity-focused magazines are probably ones focusing on ．
| A．political events |
| B．festivals and celebrations |
| C．hot events and famous stars |
| D．television programs |
You’re most likely to find the above information ．
| A．in an educational magazine |
| B．on a magazine club website |
| C．in a guide to magazines |
| D．in a magazine sales report |
costs the subscriber least．
| A．Lucky | B．Parents | C．People | D．Entertainment |
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