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sharp needles, causing blood to pour steadily out of his leg. Jack was getting a tattoo. His friend Tony
had recently gotten a tattoo, and Jack was so impressed by it that he decided to get one too. Peer
pressure, media influence, and personal expression are some of the common reasons for wearing
tattoos today.
The desire to be accepted by one"s friends or peers can have a great influence on what a person
does. Sometimes, wearing a tattoo can be a sign that you belong to a certain group. Gangs often use
special clothes and tattoos to identify their particular group. Some of these groups wear only brand-name
clothes. Others wear tattoos. When a person"s friends are all doing something, that person is more likely
to do the same thing.
The media is another big influence behind the popularity of tattoos in North America. A wide variety
of media images show tattoos-people appearing in commercials selling expensive cars, famous sport
s heroes with tattoos in magazines, fashion models wearing designer clothes that show their bodies
tattooed with detailed and colorful patterns. These media images link tattoos to ideas of wealth,
success, and status. As a result, many people decide to get a tattoo for its fashion and status value.
Many people decide to wear tattoos in order to express their artistic nature, their beliefs, or their
feelings－in other words, to show their individuality(个性). A musician in a rock band may get a tattoo
of a guitar on the arm. Some environmentalists may tattoo pictures of endangered animals on their
shoulders. A tattoo can be a public sign to show what is important in a person"s life.
As you can see, there are many reasons why young North Americans get tattoos. A tattoo can be
part of a group"s uniform, a sign of fashion, or an expression of individuality. The decision to get a tattoo
is most often a result of the influence of friends or media or the desire to express oneself. For Jack, it
was a mixture of all three.
B. gain a special experience
C. make himself more healthy
D. be different from others
B. social position
C. cultural background
D. public interest
B. tattoo is related to religious belief
C. getting tattoos costs a lot of money
D. most people with tattoos are artists
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试题【阅读理解。 Jack lay, quiet and unmoving, for thirty minutes while a stranger repe】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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1 She described all the things she had to do－one was to make her bed－from the moment she
woke up until she flew out of the door for work. I suggested she experiment by not making her bed
for two weeks. She was shocked, probably thinking I"d been raised by wolves in a forest. 2
Two weeks later she went into my office beaming. She had left her bed unmade for the first time in
42 years－and nothing bad had happened. "And you know what?"she said. "I don"t dry my dishes
anymore, either."
3 One was discovering that she had choices in her life that she had never seen before. The other
was giving herself permission to be less that perfect. This story shows an important principle (原理)
about managing time: No one can do it all. Each of us has to make choices and accept trade-offs. The
problem is, many people choose in ways that put themselves and their health last. They take better care
of their houses and cars than they do of themselves. 4
So what is the solution? There"s an easy way. Decide what you want in your life, and put that first.
On a daily basis, that should include regular meals, enough sleep and time with your family. Exercise,
leisure, friendships and hobbies should also be regular aspects of life. 5 The choice is yours: whatever
makes you feel good about yourself and your life. Take a nap. Take a walk. Take time to play the piano.
Stop bringing your briefcase home from the office. Stop keeping your house as clean as your mother
kept hers. Fill more of your time with want-to-dos instead of have-to-dos.
A. This woman had made two major breakthroughs (突破).
B. Above all, you needn"t do anything for yourself regularly.
C. They put everyone else"s needs ahead of their own.
D. However, she went along with my idea.
E. Most people do not take time to relax themselves.
F. The point is to do something for yourself every day.
G. A patient came to see me about the stress in her life.
the __1__to gather pecans(美洲山核桃)for us to enjoy later.
Picking pecans was not an easy job and my basket was only half full.I wasn"t about to __2__Grandpa
down.Just then something caught my __3__.A large brown squirrel was a few feet away.I watched as he
picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and __4__in a large hole in the trunk.A moment later the squirrel
__5__out and climbed down to the ground to pick up another nut.Once again, he took the pecan back
to his hiding place.
Not so __6__anymore, I thought.I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole.It was __7__
with pecans!Golden pecans were right there for taking.This was my __8__.Handful by handful, I scooped
all of those pecans into my basket.Now it was full!I was so __9__of myself.I couldn"t wait to show Grandpa all the pecans.Therefore, I ran back and shouted, "Look at all the pecans!"He looked into the basket
and said, "Well, well, how did you find so many?"I told him how I"d __10__the squirrel and taken the
pecans from his hiding place.
Grandpa praised me for being smart in observing the squirrel and his habits.Then he did something that
__11__me.He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently around my shoulders.
"That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter __12__of food, "he said."Now that all of his
pecans are gone, don"t you think that little squirrel will __13__ the cold winter?"
"I didn"t think about that, "I said.
"I know, "Grandpa said."But a good man should never take advantage of someone else"s hard work."
Suddenly I felt a bit __14__.The image of the starving squirrel wouldn"t leave my mind.There was only one thing I could do.I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.
I ate no pecans that night, but I had something much more fulfilling-the __15__of knowing I had done
just the right thing.
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