How do you stay true to yourself when you’re surrounded by friends and/or family that have an opinion on everything you do? It's not easy! However, there are great possibilities that you can lead the life you really want. However, there are great possibilities that you can lead the life you really want.
Here are 4 tips which can help you live a dynamic life.
Stay true to yourself by listening to the only opinions that really matter—your own and those from people who believe in and encourage you. Deep down you know yourself better than anybody else.
Don’t fear people
The reason most people don’t take risks, or live on the edge is the fear of what others might think of them. If you want to live the life you truly deserve, you must give up the need to be liked by everybody.
Value yourself and your choices
When you do, others will too. Own the choices you make in your life. When you believe in yourself, others will believe in you too. Show confidence in your choices, and what you stand for whether others agree or not.
Focus on appreciation
No matter what the circumstances are, there is always something to be grateful for. All successful people ask, What am I grateful for/How can I improve my situation and use these tough times to inspire others. These steps, if applied, will help you transform your peace of mind, lifestyle, and productivity.
| A．Focus on your own talents and strengths. |
| B．Never let others' opinions guide your choices. |
| C．Treat every person like they are important. |
| D．When you doubt yourself, others will doubt you. |
E. Stay fearless in everything you will have to do.
F. Be thankful to life and be helpful to others, and you’ll lead a successful life.
G. Here are 4 tips which can help you live a dynamic life.
______
A young shoemaker left his village to make an adventure. Along the way, he found some ants, who were very sad because a bear had destroyed their house. The shoemaker helped them rebuild it, and the ants offered to return the favor someday.
The shoemaker followed his way and found some bees with the same problem as the ants. And they were very anxious. The bees promised to help him in the future.
Tired and hungry, the shoemaker went on his adventure. He learned that the king's daughter was in the castle of a witch. The young man decided to rescue her. But the witch locked him up in a stinking(恶臭的)dunged on with a sack of sand mixed with poppy(罂粟) seeds and told him that if he wasn't able to separate the two, she would cut off his head at dawn.
But his friends-the ants came, separated the seeds from sand easily and helped him pass the test. The witch was astonished very much. Then she took him to a room where there were thirteen maidens with their faces covered:
The young man became discouraged but he saw a bee flew in and landed on the sweetest one-the true princess. When the shoemaker uncovered her face, the witch was changed into a crow.
| A．The shoemaker's adventure. |
| B．Helping others is helping you. |
| C．The young man also helped them. |
| D．The shoemaker went home happily. |
E. The young man thought about his death.
F. The shoemaker had to discover which one was the princess.
G.The young people fell in love and lived surrounded by animals and poppies.
第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息，请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先请阅读下面六件产品的简介。
A. Bio Pac Dish Soap
Bio Pac Dish Soap, with aloe and tea tree oil, has a fresh smell. It contributes a lot to green cleaning, for it is made of natural ingredients. What’s more, the company gives 10 percent of its profits to wilderness protection.
B. Dish Soap—Mint Sage, 16 oz
An all-natural dishwashing soap that has long-lasting bubbles cleans without the harsh ingredients in it that can irritate sensitive skin. This unique dish soap contains natural borax and the fragrance of flowers that work together to make things clean.
C. Method Dish Soap
Method Dish Soap works safely when used to wash dishes. It is concentrated, so a little goes a long way. You just need to lift and squeeze it to get a small amount of the soap from the bottle. The soap comes in various fruit fragrances, such as orange and green apple.
D. Life Tree Dish Soap
A few drops of Life Tree Dish Soap will do a nice job on dishes. It comes in a smaller bottle than other dish soaps. Life Tree does not use animal ingredients. So if you’re looking for a really environmentally friendly dish soap, look at Life Tree.
E. Seventh Generation Dish Soap
Seventh Generation Dish Soap cleans as well as any other soap. Also, it’s very environmentally friendly. The product is gentle on hands. For those who are sensitive to certain fragrances, like flowers and fruit, Seventh Generation is a great choice.
F. Citrus Fresh Dish Soap
Pleasantly fresh and cheap, the wonderful formula of the soap delivers extraordinary cleaning power to handle even the most difficult jobs. But with extras of aloe, calendula and other natural skin softeners, it actually helps prevent skin dryness.
以下顾客打算选购一款dish soap。根据他们的个人情况，请选出符合他们需要的产品。Anna runs a hotel somewhere in the countryside. She’s planning to buy an eco-friendly dish soap with the natural fragrance of aloe. If the producer cares about nature protection, she will put more trust in this brand.
Mary has just moved in a fully furnished apartment. But the cupboard in the kitchen is relatively smaller. Thus, she will have no other alternative but to purchase a dish soap in a smaller bottle. Furthermore, she is an environmental activist.
Susan is a full-time housewife who always manages to live within her means. For example, she prefers to choose the dish soap that holds out for very long. Besides, the soap with the fragrance of flowers or fruit is much more to her taste.
Kate serves as a kitchen steward of a fancy restaurant, in charge of cleaning large quantities of oily dishes every day. It is, by all means, an ideal choice for her if it features super cleaning power and meanwhile can keep the hands soft, but not dry.
Jane works as a regional representative of a major company. She is keen on trying something new; she is sensitive to certain flower and fruit fragrant scents. She needs a kind of dish soap with no harm to her skin.
Divorce Doesn't Just Cause Emotional Upset, It Can Cause Stroke(中风)
Children of divorce can suffer life-long responses to stress.
The effects of divorce on parents and their children have long been known.
. Self-blame, thinking they caused the divorce.
.
. Regression of .skills, such as starting to wet themselves after being toilet trained.
. Depression and anger, manifesting as becoming uncooperative, aggressive or disobedient with adults.
. Grief, denial, hoping that their parents will get back together, embarrassment and feeling divided loyalties between the two parents.
Teenagers may become disillusioned(勾想破灭的) with marriage and relationships and refuse to date or say they are not going to get married as adults. If one or both parents are suffering from depression as a result of the loss of their central relationship, they may even attempt to take on caring duties of any younger siblings.
However, all of these effects don't apply to children who are born to a single mother who was never married or co-habiting . They are, however, more likely to suffer from poverty compared with two parent families.
Such as older age, smoking, obesity, alcohol usage, healthcare coverage, social support and whether or not the men had mental health disorders.All those with a past history of parental addictions and domestic violence were excluded from the study as these factors are known to increase the risk of stroke.
| A．Fear of being Left alone and feelings of abandonment. |
| B．Children whose parents are divorcing may suffer from: |
| C．It has been discovered in adulthood men have triple the risk of stroke. |
| D．They found men whose parents had divorced had tripled more risk than women. |
E. The scientists took into consideration other risk factors that could also cause stroke.
F. Medical professionals are now considering parental divorce status as part of their medical history.
G. That is because they don:t suffer the effects of alteration of the family structure or of warring or depressed parents.
How do you stay true to yourself when you’re surrounded by friends and/or family that have an opinion on everything you do? It's not easy! However, there are great possibilities that you can lead the life you really want. However, there are great possibilities that you can lead the life you really want.
Here are 4 tips which can help you live a dynamic life.
Stay true to yourself by listening to the only opinions that really matter—your own and those from people who believe in and encourage you. Deep down you know yourself better than anybody else.
Don’t fear people
The reason most people don’t take risks, or live on the edge is the fear of what others might think of them. If you want to live the life you truly deserve, you must give up the need to be liked by everybody.
Value yourself and your choices
When you do, others will too. Own the choices you make in your life. When you believe in yourself, others will believe in you too. Show confidence in your choices, and what you stand for whether others agree or not.
Focus on appreciation
No matter what the circumstances are, there is always something to be grateful for. All successful people ask, What am I grateful for/How can I improve my situation and use these tough times to inspire others. These steps, if applied, will help you transform your peace of mind, lifestyle, and productivity.
| A．Focus on your own talents and strengths. |
| B．Never let others' opinions guide your choices. |
| C．Treat every person like they are important. |
| D．When you doubt yourself, others will doubt you. |
E. Stay fearless in everything you will have to do.
F. Be thankful to life and be helpful to others, and you’ll lead a successful life.
G. Here are 4 tips which can help you live a dynamic life.
Housework not good exercise, says study
It even said that people who did the most housework were usually the most overweight.
The contribution of domestic physical activity to meeting current recommendations for health. It questions whether activities like do-it-yourself, gardening and housework are good exercise.
but there is a danger that people incorrectly think housework is proper exercise.
A total of 4,563 adults took a survey about their weekly physical activity. Researcher Professor Murphy said any physical activity should increase the amount of calories burnt.
She said housework was “inversely related to leanness”. She said this suggested that either people overestimate how hard housework was an exercise, or they eat too much because they think they have lost lots of calories doing household chores.
| A．However, her study found the opposite. |
| B．People who do housework usually eat more. |
| C．A new study says housework is not the quality exercise many people think it is. |
| D．The research showed that people who included housework as exercise tended to be heavier. |
E. The study is called Does “doing housework keep you healthy” ?
F. They think doing exercise is of great benefit to healthy.
G. It says any activity is better than none.
粤公网安备 44130202000953号