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1、Lana went to see a new movie in the morning. But she didn't enjoy it. She's talking to Jenny about what happened. Jenny: You look unhappy. 1 Lana: I watched a movie in the morning. Jenny: 2 Lana: No. The movie was great. It was the audience (观众)..Some people were late for the movie, some took phone calls during the movie, some made noise while eating snacks and some talked loudly. 3 Jenny: That's too bad! People should obey certain rules while watching a movie.
Lana: Yes. The first thing is to keep the theater quiet. We should sit down before the movie begins. 4 We should eat snacks quietly. And we should talk as little as possible.
Jenny: 5 And we should take away our rubbish when we leave.
Lana: I hope everyone should do these things so that we can enjoy the movie better. Jenny: Me too.
A. I was annoyed all the time. B. Who did you go to the movie with? C. Yes, you are right
D. How wonderful the movie was! E. What's wrong with you? F. We should turn off our mobile phones. G. So the movie was boring, wasn't it?
2、Three Apples changed the world. The first one seduced(诱惑)Eve. The second one awakened Newton. 71 Here are some famous words from Steve Jobs to share. On character
I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. 72 On good design
That’s been one of my mottos－focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex；You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there，you can move mountains. On his outlook
73 Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful，that’s what matters to me. On your working life
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life，and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. 74 If you haven’t found it yet，keep looking. Don’t settle. On the importance of death
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. 75 No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you，but some-day not too long from now，you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
A. It’s very character-building.
B. The third one was in the hands of Steve Jobs. C. This is not a one-man show.
D. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. E. And yet death is the destination we all share. F. It’s really hard to design products by focus groups.
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G. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me.
3、It's important to learn how we can protect the environment. Here are 5R rules for us.
Reduce If you want to reduce waste, you should use things more wisely. 1 If everyone uses paper carelessly, soon we would not have any trees left. Other things are also being wasted, and people don't know what to do with the waste in big cities. So it is necessary to reduce the amount of waste we produce.
Reuse You should always think of reusing things before throwing them out. For example, 2 . In a family, you may pass on such clothes to younger brothers or sisters.
Recycle Bottles, cans and paper can easily be recycled. By doing so we save lots of time and money. For example, 3 The metal can be used to make new coke cans.
Recover 4 You have two choices: one is to throw the apples away, the second is to throw the rotten ones and keep the good ones. In this way, you are recovering the eatable parts of food.
Repair If one of the legs of your table is broken, you should repair it. If you want to buy something newer and better, it is better for you to sell the old item, or 5 Learn the rules to protect our environment. Let's try our best to make the earth cleaner and more beautiful.
A. give the clothes you do not use or the ones which are too small to the poor. B.coke cans are sent to a factory, where they are smashed flat and melted. C. A large number of trees are being cut down to make paper. D. There are planted every year .
E. give it to people who can use it after repairing it. F. Don’t throw it away if you can use it .
G. When you buy a box of apples, there may be a few rotten ones.
4、If you think you’ve gained too much weight or are too skinny, you can talk to a doctor. Your doctor will tell you 1 . If it is concerned about your height, weight, or BMI (体重指数), your doctor may ask questions 2 . Your doctor may also ask about your family background to find out if you’ve received something from your parents that might make you taller, shorter, or a late bloomer (someone who develops later than other people of the same age). The doctor can then put all the information together to decide 3 .
If your weight isn’t in a healthy range, you will probably get specific diet and exercise recommendations based on your individual needs. Following a doctor’s or dietitian’s plan designed especially for you will work much better than following fad (时尚) diets. For teens, fad diets or starvation plans can actually slow down growth, and the weight loss usually doesn’t last. What 4 ? Most teens who weigh less than other teens of their age are just fine. They may be going through puberty on a different schedule than kids of the same age, and their bodies may be growing and changing at a different rate. Most underweight teens catch up in weight as they finish puberty during their later teen years so there’s rarely a need to try to gain weight.
In a few cases, teenagers can be underweight because of a health problem that needs treatment. If you feel tired or ill a lot, or 5 , or other problems that have lasted for more than a week or two, be sure to let your parents or your doctor know.
A. whether you might have a weight or growth problem B. if you have symptoms like a cough, stomachache C. about your health, physical activity, and eating habits D. if you’re worried about being too skinny E. if you take care of it
F. whether you’re growing normally G. about your dieting
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5、 71 If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. 72 If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.
If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.
73 You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.
74 But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete(具体的). If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. 75 It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.
A. The market may be something abstract. B. The sellers are always smarter than buyers.
C. When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. D. The market is a concept.
E. One has to make his ends meet when shopping. F. The market is telling you something. G. Your efforts are being directed by the market.
6、New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. 1 And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by foreign language skills.
Deeply involved with this new technology is a kind of modern businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. 2 Overseas assignments (指派) are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive (行政的) ranks. 3 He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company’s plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to manage back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more common.
Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices (装置) with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.
4 But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn’t generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal. The employee posted abroad who speaks the country’s language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight (洞察力) to know when it is better to move more slowly. 5
A. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign customers over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset (有价值的人或物) to the firm. B. We are connected by the Internet. C. More and more people are learning English.
D. It’s now a “global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. E. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being “out of sight and out of mind”. F. English is still the international language of business.
G. In modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.