Humans by nature are social beings. We need to be around other people to feel happy, secure and safe. Hanging out with friends helps, but that isn’t quite enough. We need to be active in our local community.

Everyone benefits from a strong community. Being active within our society helps individuals feel less lonely, have a more vital and interesting life, stay healthy and feel happier. Being active within our society brings us inspiration, helps us succeed in business and helps us find our way in life.

Communities thrive﹙興旺﹚ when people are better connected. Local economies expand, businesses succeed, education grows, support systems become more efficient, and so on.

There may be some obstacles on the way to being active in the local community. People may become disconnected from their community. It is a modern day reality that people turn to their computers for connection with others. This can be a great thing, but it can also go too far and we can become separated from our local, physical world society. Computers are usually at their best when used as a tool to accomplish tasks and not as a portal (傳送門) into an online existence that controls our life. Online communities have become very real and they help millions feel more connected, but they must not take the place of our physical life community.[來(lái)

It is also common for people to find jobs online and to migrate to different locations around the world. This uproots﹙使人遷移他處居住﹚ us and takes us away from the local society we grew up in, forces us to make new friends and establish ourselves in a new community.

Becoming active in our community does require effort, but it’s well worth it. Understanding the importance of community and becoming more active within yours will greatly increase your quality of life.

My first student Marie was a 44-year- old single mother of three children. In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest twice a week because she didn’t know which bus to take. When I told her I would get her a bus schedule. She told me it would not help because she could not read it. She said she also had once she got to the supermarket because she couldn’t always the things that she really needed. she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list. Also, she could only items by sight.

We worked hard together, learning how to build Marie’s , which encouraged her to in her studies. She began to make rapid and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket. After this trip, she told me how self-confident she felt. the end of the program, she began her youngest son with his reading. She sat with him before he went to and read bedtime stories. When his eyes became with excitement as she read, was written all over her face. As she described this experience, I was proud of myself as . I found that helping Marie to build _ self-confidence was very rewarding.

I learned a great deal about and helping others and I may have learned more from the than Marie did.

【1】A.forgetB. discoveredC. pickedD. supplied

【2】A.importanceB. intelligenceC. possibilityD. responsibility

【3】A.restaurantB. schoolC. supermarketD. Station

【4】A.difficultyB.troubleC.wealthD.surprise

【5】A.affordB. learnC. explainD. remember

【6】A.AsB.sinceC.ThereforeD.However

【7】A.recognizeB. tasteC. touchD. sell

【8】A.determinationB. confidenceC. conclusionD. consideration

【9】A.stopB. forgetC. failD. continue

【10】A.benefitB.confidenceC.progressD.question

【11】A.hopefulB. meaningfulC. carefulD. successful

【12】A.AtB .InC. ForD. With

【13】A.helpingB. expressingC. studyingD. learning

【14】A.stationB.parkC.homeD.bed

【15】A.newB. wideC. farD. sad

【16】A.likeB.prideC.excitementD.warm

【17】A.wellB.terribleC. goodD. bad

【18】A.myB. herC. yourD. his

【19】A.learningB. teachingC. readingD. communicating

【20】A.experienceB. trainingC. planD. lesson

If cars had wings，they could fly and that just might happen，beginning in 2011.The company Terrafugia，based in Woburn，Massachusetts，says it plans to deliver its carplane，the Transition，to customers by the end of 2011.

“It's the next ‘wow’ vehicle，” said Terrafugia vice president Richard Gersh.“Anybody can buy a Ferrari，but as we say，F(xiàn)erraris don't fly.”

The carplane has wings that unfold for flying－a process the company says takes one minute－and fold back up for driving. A runway is still required to take off and land.

The Transition is being marketed more as a plane that drives than a car that flies，although it is both. The company has been working with FAA to meet aircraft regulations，and with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to meet vehicle safety regulations.

The company is aiming to sell the Transition to private pilots as a more convenient and cheaper way to fly. They say it saves you the trouble from trying to find another mode of transportation to get to and from airports：You drive the car to the airport and then you're good to go. When you land，you fold up the wings and hit the road. There are no expensive parking fees because you don't have to store it at an airport－you park it in the garage at home.

The carplane is designed to fly primarily under 10,000 feet. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,430 pounds，including fuel and passengers. Terrafugia says the Transition reduces the potential for an accident by allowin pilots to drive under the bad weather instead of flying into marginal(臨界的) conditions.

The Transition's price tag：$194,000.But there may be additional charges for options like a radio，a transponder or a GPS. Another option is a fullplane parachute.

“If you get into a very awful situation，it is the necessary safety option，” Gersh said.

So far，the company has more than 70 orders with deposits. “We're working very closely with them，but there are still some remaining steps，” Brown said.

【1】We can learn from the first two paragraphs that ________.

A．carplanes will be popular in 2011

B．people might drive a carplane in 2011

C．both the Transition and Ferrari can take off and land

D．Richard Gersh is the vice president of Massachusetts

【2】It takes the carplane one minute to ________.

A．fold and unfold its wings

B．unfold wings for flying

C．land in the airport

D．meet flying safety regulations

【3】According to the passage，which of the following is NOT true?

A．The carplane needs a runway to take off and land.

B．To meet aircraft regulations，the company has been working with FAA.

C．The carplane may fly as high as normal planes.

D．People can park the carplane in the garage at their home.

【4】The underlined word “it” in the last but one paragraph refers to ________.

A．the radio

B．the transponder

C．the GPS

D．the fullplane parachute

【5】What's the best title for the passage?

A．Cars with wings may be just around the corner

B．Which to choose：a Ferrari or a carplane?

C．A more convenient and cheaper way to fly

D．Cars with wings can fly as fast as planes

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Being an excellent student with all-round development, Li Hua has been honored as Star of the Campus.

【1】He ________________ us for our timely help.

【2】She ________________ finish law school.

【3】Can you ________________ the top shelf?

【4】She laughed and began to ________ me ________ a less crowded table.

【5】Terrorists bombed the police station ____________ for the arrests.

【1】What is she ________________？

【2】We ________________ having arrived at the station on time.

【3】How many ________________ cigarettes do you have?

【4】She has ________________ to marry Tom.

【5】We have ________________ the Chinese history.

【6】The teacher was ________________ happy with his students.

Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says they are wrong.

“Everyone knows the planet is in bad shape，”thundered a magazine article last year. Species(物種) are being driven to die out at record rates，and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface，dead.

But there's a growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong：things are actually getting better. A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the world's environment. Rivers，seas，rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner. The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg，professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark，is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups，and the “bad news” culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse.

Now the attacks are increasingly coming from leftwing environmentalists such as Lomborg，a former member of Greenpeace. The accusation is that，although the environment is improving，green groups－with profits of hundreds of millions of pounds a year－are using scare tactics(謀略) to gain donations. Lomborg's book doesn't deny global warmingprobably the biggest environmental threat－but destroys almost every other environmental claim with many official statistics.

The Worldwatch Institute claims that “deforestation has been accelerating over the last 30 years”．But Lomborg says that is simply rubbish. Since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about 20 per cent of its forest cover，but in recent decades the forestarea's depleting has come to a stop. According to UN figures，the area of forests has remained almost steady，at about 30 per cent of total land area，since the 1940s.Forests in countries such as the US，the UK and Canada have actually been expanding over the past 40 years. Despite all the warnings the Amazon rainforest has only shrunk(縮小) by about 15 per cent.

Nor are all our species dying out. Some campaigners claim that 50 per cent of all species will have died out within 50 years. But other studies show only 0.08 per cent of species are dying out each year. Conservation efforts have been successful. Whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list.

Environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of the success of their campaigns. Stephen Tindale，director of Greenpeace UK，said，“There are important examples，such as acid rain and ozone，where things aren't as bad as predicted，and that's because behavior has changed.”

【1】In his book，The Skeptical Environmentalist，what is Lomborg's main argument?

A．Our planet is in bad shape.

B．The world's environment is improving.

C．The total amount of forests in the world is not declining.

D．Conservation efforts have been successful.

【2】What is Lomborg's main accusation of environmentalists?

A．They scared people into making donations.

B．They overturned our basic assumptions about the world's environment.

C．They changed their behavior toward the environment.

D．They only told people bad news about the environment.

【3】The underlined word “depleting” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to “________”．

A．reducing

B．limiting

C．expanding

D．a(chǎn)ccelerating

【4】According to the passage，which of the following statements is true?

A．The total area of forests in the world has increased significantly.

B．The effects of global warming are not as bad as first expected.

C．It appears that the bald eagle will survive.

D．In the last 50 years the number of whales has increased.

Wang Yiming, who is known as Xiao Bao, has already been making waves across the world with his dance moves.

A favorite of Chinese media, Xiao Bao draws curious crowds whenever he breaks into a dance routine, which his mother says happens almost every time he hears music. "When he was young, we just started playing music to him and he started moving around like this，"his mother said. "When he was just a couple of months old, we would let him listen to music and he would immediately stop crying and calm down，" she told Reuters Television.

Xiao Bao was born prematurely (早產(chǎn)），and doc-tors suggested moving his body to music would do good to him, but his parents were surprised by how quickly and interestedly he took to the rhythm.

Dancing since he was two years old, he has now mastered the moon walk and other Jackson moves, such as Beat It, Billie Jean and Dangerous.

Before long, his passion turned into an obsession (著迷）——the family spends up to 20，000 yuan a month on dance training with a professional and outfits including tailor-made suits, hats and shirts.

Xiao Bao is serious about his dancing career and says he will not mind becoming famous one day. But his parents say that no matter how talented their son is, his schooling will be their first choice.

【1】 What Xiao Bao's mother said suggested that __________.

A. she didn't expect her son to take up music

B. Xiao Bao had a strong love for music

C. she taught him music when Xiao Bao was young

D. she was very sad at the beginning

【2】 How did Xiao Bao's parents feel when they saw his reaction to music?

A. Amazed.

B. Happy.

C. Angry.

D. Anxious.

【3】 We can learn from the passage that __________.

A. his parents taught him the moonwalk

B. he began to perform on stage at two

C. moonwalk moves were first done by Jackson

D. his parents found him hard to please

【4】 The underlined word "outfits" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to __________.

A. clothes

B. shoes

C. bags

D. tools

An online post listing office people's four most hated modern inventions is gaining popularity. Read on to discover what modern professionals dislike.

Number one：The punch(打卡) machine.

32yearold Mr. Zhang works for an IT company. He lists the punch machine as his number one workday enemy after a number of unavoidable incidents made him late to punch in for work. Zhang says most of his colleagues are hardworking people，but they feel like the boss doesn't trust them when he uses a machine to evaluate their performance. Zhang plans to find another job at a company that does not use a punch machine.

Number two：Instant noodles.

More and more people today realize that instant noodles do not make a healthy meal，but lack of time forces many whitecollar workers to eat them instead of a regular dinner.27yearold Mr. Zhu is a salesperson who is so busy at work that he doesn't even have time to wash his socks. He regularly eats fast food takeaways or instant noodles for dinner.

Number three：Mattresses.

Some elder employees tell newcomers that having a mattress at work is just like having a home at the company. To encourage their employees to work overtime，a number of companies have issued their employees with mattresses so that they can take a rest under their desks at any time of a day. People have started refusing the mattress and taking better care of their health after the media reported on a number of people who died /span>due to overwork last year.

And last，but not least，the mobile phone.

A surgeon from a Beijing hospital says more and more whitecollar workers are turning up with a strange disease which they call “mobile phone elbow”．The patients' elbows are painful，and sometimes they can't even raise their hands. The doctor says the disease occurs when patients spend more than 4 hours on their mobiles.

【1】Why do some employees want to find a job in a company without punch machines?

A．They often meet with unavoidable incidents on their way to work.

B．They feel less trusted when evaluated with the punch machine.

C．It is unnecessary for them to punch in for work every day.

D．They can work less hard in companies without punch machines.

【2】Whitecollar workers have to eat instant noodles because they ________.

A．can't make a healthy meal

B．can't afford a regular dinner

C．don't have time to wash their socks

D．a(chǎn)re always so busy at work

【3】In the eyes of the boss，the mattresses can ________.

A．make employees work more time

B．make the new comers love the company

C．make employees have a good rest at any time

D．take care of the employees' health

【4】According to the doctor，________.

A．the painful elbow caused by mobile phone can't be cured

B．only whitecollar workers turn up with the painful elbow

C．long time of using mobile phones possibly causes the painful elbow

D．if your elbows are painful，or you can't raise your hands，you catch the disease

【5】What is the best title of this passage?

A．Most hated modern inventions

B．Modern inventions are gaining popularity online

C．Modern inventions bring us inconvenience

D．Modern inventions and overwork

B

When I was 13，my bedroom walls were covered with posters of the Monkees and the Beatles.I wrote fan letters and daydreamed about meeting the objects of my affections.I begged my parents to attend every rock concert and watch every TV show featuring my favorite celebrities(名人)；my friends and I discussed for hours all the things we would say and do when we met our favorite movie stars and pop singers.I drove my mother crazy！But after a few years，my obsession(迷戀) with stars faded as I matured and gained the confidence to socialize with “real” boys.

In the 35 years since I was a teenager，celebrity worship(崇拜) has increased among teens due to the explosion of television celebrity gossip shows，and instant access to celebrity news on the Internet.It's no wonder that many teens are obsessed with stars when news programs often are filled with entertainment stories and the lives of celebrities.

Celebrity worship syndrome(綜合征) is now considered a personality disorder.While it is normal for teenagers to follow the lives of their favorite stars，parents should try to monitor everything their child finds interesting.Parents should take action if they suspect a teen is too obsessed with celebrities and showing little interest in school or withdrawing from the family.When teens talk a lot about celebrities and view them as just means of entertainment，this is considered normal celebrity worship.However，when a teenager is obsessed with a star and often expresses a desire to have a close personal relationship with a celebrity or feels they have a special connection to a star，this may be the time for concern.Recent studies have shown that teens who develop an unhealthy obsession with celebrities often suffer from low selfconfidence and depression.Teens who are overly obsessed with stars often have damaged relationships with their parents.

【1】The first paragraph is intended to tell us ________.

A．it's normal for a teen to have celebrity worship

B．celebrity worship can cause serious problems

C．parents needn't worry about celebrity worship

D．celebrity worship only exists among teens

【2】We learn from the second paragraph that ________.

A．teens today are not so obsessed with celebrities

B．the author is surprised at celebrity worship

C．the media greatly contributes to celebrity worship today

D．celebrities expose their lives too much

【3】Parents should become concerned when their children ________.

A．talk a lot about celebrities with others

B．put up celebrity posters on their bedroom walls

C．a(chǎn)sk to go to their favorite star's concert

D．desire a close personal relationship with their favorite star

【4】The last paragraph implies that ________.

A．parents should not care too much about a child's celebrity worship

B．celebrity worship syndrome can be a serious problem if left overlooked

C．children can normally get out of celebrity worship when they are older

D．children with celebrity worship usually have a high opinion of themselves

【5】What is most likely to be talked about in the paragraph following the passage?

A．The harm of celebrity worship syndrome.

B．More signs of celebrity worship syndrome.

C．What to do with children's celebrity worship syndrome.

D．Who will suffer most from celebrity worship syndrome.