Valentine’s Day, a day traditionally reserved for expressing romantic love, is observed practically all around the world. However, not many people are familiar with Sweetest Day. Actually it is a holiday, especially designed to express love and care for those who were routinely neglected（忽視）by society.

Sweetest Day was the idea of Herbert Birch Kingston, who worked for a company in Cleveland, Ohio. He felt that there were plenty of children, especially orphans and poor kids, who didn’t necessarily get the attention they deserved. Thus in 1922, he launched the first Sweetest Day to give out boxes of candy to mainly poor children.

Since the day picked was the third Saturday in October, this became the traditional time to celebrate Sweetest Day. The tradition was so enjoyed that people often looked beyond kindness to treating their own friends or family to treats on Sweetest Day.

In the US, Sweetest Day is celebrated primarily in the Northeastern region of the US, still on the third Saturday of October. Yet news of the tradition, which began nearly 100 years ago, has spread to other parts of the country, especially as people who lived in those areas moved elsewhere. People may distribute candy or small gifts to those in patient homes, hospitals, foster homes, or mental institutions, and they may also treat friends and family to little gifts from the heart.

In keeping with the original tradition, celebrating Sweetest Day should really be most focused on people who ordinarily don’t have the good fortune of attention from friends or family, either due to difficult family circumstances or to poverty. This can be a great tradition to start if your community doesn’t routinely celebrate the day, and there are many candy manufacturers that are willing to help donate or reduce costs on gifts intended for people in unfortunate circumstances.

1.The original purpose of Sweetest Day is to ________.

A. provide an occasion to know orphans

B. make those poor children happy

C. make your friends and family happy

D. distribute candy to those lovely children

2.What do people barely do on Sweetest Day?

A. Buy flowers for your sweetheart.

B. Visit patients who have to be in hospital.

C. Give friends gifts to make them happy.

D. Care for children who lost their parents.

3.We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. it is vital to contact the candy manufacturers

B. it is necessary to call on friends or families

C. it is important to help those in need

D. it is common to serve your community

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“Just ate chicken feet for lunch. ” These were the words I wrote on my blog yesterday. By the next day there were hundreds of comments from my friends. They ranged from “OH MY GOD! That is so disgusting! ” to “What were they like?” to “Why can’t you eat sandwiches like everyone else?”

To Chinese people, chicken feet are a normal snack. To my friends in Britain, the thought of eating a chicken’s foot is——well, weird (古怪的). As weird, in fact, as eating a bullfrog, scorpion(蝎子), snake, or turtle.

But if there are two things I love more than anything else in life, they are: trying new things and food.

I arrived in Beijing five months ago. Since then, I’ve searched for the “weirdest” foods so I can try them, then treat my friends to some “virtual（虛擬的）eating” on my blog.

One weekend, I went to Wangfujing, Beijing’s “snack street”. The trip gave me tons of blog material.

“I chose a stick with three live, wriggling(扭動(dòng)的) scorpions on it,” I wrote. “And it was pretty good. The scorpion was warm and crispy. The legs did have a tendency to get stuck between one’s teeth, however. What’s more, I am sure scorpion number two stung me with its tail in revenge(報(bào)復(fù)).”

Next came snake: “A bit like a cross between fish and chicken, with a slightly rubbery texture and meaty taste.”

Some people were actually angry when I ate turtle soup——especially when I posted pictures showing the poor little guy’s head staring sadly up at us from the bowl. “I am never speaking to you again,” wrote one (former) friend.

Still, I will continue my culinary quest.

Next on my list is starfish, though I feel I should have some vegetables too——algae, maybe.

So what am I eating, tonight, you may ask. Pizza. Well, a girl’s gotta have a break sometimes.

1.What does the writer like most in life?

A. Trying new things and food.

B. Traveling.

C. Walking.

D. Shopping.

2.Where did the writer get her blog material?

A. From her friends.

B. From Wangfujing, Beijing’s “snack street”.

C. From Shopping.

D. From the Internet.

3.What is the writer’s friends’ attitude toward her trying “weird” foods?

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B. They are happy.

C. They are surprised and even angry.

D. They are sorry.

4.Which of the following “weirdest” foods is the one writer hasn’t tried?

A. Chicken’s feet.B. Bullfrog.

C. Scorpion.D. Chicken’s head.

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假如你是李華，最近收到了你的美國(guó)朋友Jenny的來(lái)信。她在信中說(shuō)，由于剛進(jìn)入高中，還不能適應(yīng)新的環(huán)境，不知道如何去結(jié)交新朋友，因而情緒低落。請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下內(nèi)容給她回信。

1 向Jenny表示問候和慰問。

2 針對(duì)她的問題提出以下建議：

①放學(xué)后邀請(qǐng)同學(xué)一起參加活動(dòng)；

②你的同學(xué)遇到麻煩時(shí)，你去幫助他們；

③你遇到困難時(shí)向同學(xué)求助。

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右。

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Dear Jenny,

I am really sorry to hear that you feel bad after entering the high school. _______________________________________________________________________________

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Best wishes!

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As I got a little older I began to understand what my dad really meant. So, I read some books on fish. And I even joined the local fishing club and started attending the monthly meetings. I learned that a fish is a cold-blooded animal and therefore is very sensitive to water temperature. That is why fish prefer shallow water to deep water because the former is warmer. Besides, water is usually warmer in direct sunlight than in the shade. Yet, fish don’t have any eyelids(眼皮) and the sun hurts their eyes... The more I understood fish, the more I became effective at finding and catching them.

When I grew up and entered the business world, I remember hearing my first boss say, “We all need to think like sales people.” But it didn’t completely make sense. My dad never once said, “If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman.” What he said was, “You need to think like a fish.” Years later, with great efforts to promote long-term services to people much older and richer than me, I gradually learned what we all need is to think more like customers. It is not an easy job. I will show you how in the following chapters.

1.Why was the author upset in fishing trips when he was nine?

A. He could not catch a fish.

B. His father was not patient with him.

C. His father did not teach him fishing.

D. He could not influence a fish as his father did.

2.What did the author’s father really mean?

A. To read about fish.

B. To learn fishing by oneself.

C. To understand what fish think.

D. To study fishing in many ways.

3.According to the author, fish are most likely to be found _________.

A. in deep water on sunny days

B. in deep water on cloudy days

C. in shallow water under sunlight

D. in shallow water under waterside trees

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Psychology researchers have studied how people make decisions and concluded there are two basic styles. “Maximizers” like to take their time and weigh a wide range of options—sometimes every possible one—before choosing. “Satisficers” would rather be fast than thorough.

16. __________ So even if they see what would seem to meet their requirements, they can’t make a decision until after they’ve examined every option to make sure that they’re making the best possible choice. Researchers followed 548 job-seeking college seniors at 11 schools from October through their graduation in June. They found that the maximizers landed better jobs. 17. _________

“The maximizer is kicking himself because he can’t examine every option and at some point had to just pick something,” they say. “Maximizers make good decisions and end up feeling bad about them. 18. _________

Satisficers also have high standards, but they are happier than maximizers. Maximizers tend to be more depressed and to report a lower satisfaction with life, their research found.

Faced with so many choices in our lives, we need to learn how not to waste time and energy on our decision-making.

19. ________ For instance, if you’re picking a restaurant for a lunch meeting, first deciding on a certain part of town or type of cuisine can narrow your options.

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A. The other is to make decisions more accurately at the beginning.

B. Satisficers make good decisions and end up feeling good.

C. First of all, decrease your range of options.

D. Comparing is often a must when you make a decision.

E. Maximizers are people who want the best.

F. Just accept that no decision is ever completely perfect.

G. Their starting salaries were 20 percent higher but they felt worse about their jobs.

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