 | When you cough or sneeze, you"d better turn your head away from others and
cover your mouth with the full part of your hand. And then, you should say, "Excuse
me".
This seems so simple, but it is surprising how many kids have never been told to
do this. Actually, I notice adults all the time who cough and sneeze in public without
placing a hand over the mouth. One important thing I point out to the kids is that after
they sneeze or cough on their hands, they should wash their hands as soon as possible.
If not, they will be passing those germs (细菌) along to everything and everyone they
touch. |  | If you come to a door and someone is following you, hold the door. If the door
opens by pulling, pull it open, stand to the side, and allow the other person to pass
through first, thenyou can walk through. If the door opens by pushing, hold the door
after you pass through.
After a few weeks of seeing kids try to get through doors in the school and
watching them enter restaurants as the door hit other people, I knew I had to discuss
the problem with my students. Teaching them small acts of kindness, such as letting
someone else go through a door first as they hold it open, may seem unimportant, but
it can go a long way toward helping students realize how to be polite and thank others.
Once they"ve been told, they"re halfway there. |  | When we have to go up moving stairs,we will stand to the right. That will give
others who are in a hurry a choice of walking up the left-hand side of the moving stais.
When we are going to entera lift,the underground,or a doorway, we will wait for
others to exit before we enter.
After college when I moved to London, I was surprised at how polite everyone was
in the subways. I was even more touched when I traveled to Japan. In both places,
people made effort to make way for others. On moving stairs, everyone stood to the
right and walked to the left. On lifts, everyone would stand over to the side and allow
others to exit before they would begin to enter. |
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试题【阅读理解。 When you cough or sneeze, you"d better turn your head away from other】；主要考察你对 日常生活类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 选词填空。 | | time have sea and like spend cool | | 完形填空。 | 
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house.
No card came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not 1 at all. After a while I stopped trying to 2 the
sender"s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
However, I never 3 imagining who the giver night be. Some of my happiest 4 were spent day
dreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She"d ask me if there was someone for
whom I had shown special 5 . Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I"d delivered during
the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a 6 I had run into.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely 7 in my
upcoming graduation dance, and I didn"t 8 if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, despite her own
sadness, would not let me 9 any of those things. She wanted her children not only to be lovable but to feel
10 . In truth, my mother wanted her children to see 11 much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect
with perhaps a bit of mystery (神秘) .
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was twenty-two years old. That was the year the gardenia
stopped 12 . | ( )1. A. careful
( )2. A. take out
( )3. A. stopped
( )4. A. moments
( )5. A. practice
( )6. A. visitor
( )7. A. uncomfortable
( )8. A. want
( )9. A. leave
( )10. A. needed
( )11. A. herself
( )12. A. coming | B. helpful
B. work out
B. began
B. festivals
B. housework
B. child
B. uninterested
B. hope
B. miss
B. noticed
B. myself
B. sending | C. exciting
C. find out
C. kept
C. seasons
C. kindness
C. lady
C. unbelievable
C. know
C. have
C. loved
C. ourselves
C. giving | D. interesting
D. put out
D. loved
D. holidays
D. exercise
D. boy
D. unimportant
D. care
D. hear
D. moved
D. themselves
D. growing | | 阅读理解。 | Ever since I was a child, my mouth has caused me trouble. I"m not a bad person; I have a hard time
learning when to keep my mouth closed.
My mom has told me again and again, " Robert, your constant bad words are hurting me. If you continue
to be this rude, you will get into big trouble. "
It"s been a problem at school several times too when teachers have told me something l didn"t want to hear.
I used to feel it was my duty to stand up for myself.
One day in English class I began working on my homework until I heard a classmate talking behind me. It
was Nathaniel, talking to himself as usual.
I said ever so nicely, "Nathaniel, would you be quiet?"
Wathaniel continued talking to himself. I quickly shouted " Nathaniel, shut up ! "
For the next five minutes, we threw hurtful words hack and forth at each other.
"At least I don"t have an ugly lazy eye like you!" I shouted.
I knew this would upset him deep inside. Jt would hurt his feelings and shut him up.
What I said filled him with anger. He tried co reach over my seat and grab me as he shouted, "That"s it!
That"s it ! "
Surprised at his reaction, I sat back in my seat. Never had I seen Nathaniel act like this before.
Later on, we were taken to the principal"s ofrice.
There, Mr. Black, the principal, told us to discuss the matter. It wasn"t until then that I finally found chat
when I hurt someone physically, the wounds eventually heal. But when I hurt them with my words,
sometimes the pain (痛苦) never goes away.
At the end of the discussion, I said sorry to Nathaniel. When I headed back to my room, I spent some
time praying. I began to think about how often what I said hurt others. But I believe that as l keep praying
and asking God to help me, he"ll tell me when to keep my mouth closed. | | 1. What"s the writer"s name? | A. Nathaniel.
B. Robert
C. Black.
D. Creen. | | 2. One day in English class, Nathaniel ________ when the ocher classmates worked on their homework. | A. read the text
B. listened to the others
C. talked to himself
D. kept silent | | 3. What"s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word heal? | A. 愈合
B. 痛苦
C. 和好
D. 伤害 | | 4. In the text the writer tried to tell us that ________. | A. when you hurt someone, the pain never goes away
B. we should try to help each other at school
C. t is one"s duty to stand up for himself
D. words cause more pain than wounds | | 阅读理解。 | | Here are two letters to George and his replies. | Dear George,
I"m fourteen and I"m much shorter for my age. What"s worse, I"m very fat. I want to be 55 kg and to be
taller and then I can go to the school basketball team and enjoy myself. Can you help me?
Bob | Dear Bob,
Don"t worry if you"re shorter than your friends.Teenagers grow at different times. It doesn"t matter how
heavy you are. You are still the same person.Plan your meals with your mum,and she can help you lose
weight. Also,try taking more exercise.
George | | 阅读理解。 | Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out
ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain degree by
genes. However, of all the factors,wealth and age are the top two.
Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each
extra dollar makes less and less difference.
Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness
is complex (复杂的). In the past half-century, the average income (平均收入) has sharply increased in
developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met,
money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
"Dollars buy status (social position), and status makes people feel better," say some experts, which helps
explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept
relatively poorly-paid jobs.
In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires (***) , not just for money,
but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than
those who felt a smaller gap (差距). Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better
than income alone. "the gap measures just blow away the measures of only income." says Michalos.
Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad "Civen all the problems of
aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?" asks Professor Laura Carstensen. In one survey, Carstensen
interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotion questionnaire.
She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people. Some scientists suggest
older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they"re more realistic about their time
running out. Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don"t.
"People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever," she says. "A
goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional
responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20. " | | 1. Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs _________. | A. make them feel much better
B. provide chances to make friends
C. improve their social position
D. satisfy their professional interests | | 2. Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if _________. | A. the gap between reality and desire is bigger
B. they have a stronger desire for friendship
C. the hope for good health is much greater
D. their income is far below their expectation | | 3. We can infer from the passage that older people _________. | A. would like to have more goodbye kisses than young people
B. are used to living a hard life because they are kind to others
C. express their positive opinions just as some young people do
D. find it easier to feel happy because they are more realistic | | 4. According to the passage, the feeling of happiness _________. | A. increases gradually with age
B. is controlled partly by desires
C. has little to do with wealth
D. is decided mostly by genes |
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