People celebrate many kinds of anniversaries—birthdays, weddings, dates of employment, and so on. Some think that spending a lot on these is a waste of money, while others believe that they are of importance to the young and the society. Before any conclusion is reached, we need to look into this issue closely.
It is well justified to celebrate anniversaries, as every individual in the society enjoys the freedom of spending money on what they like. Parties and activities are organized to celebrate people’s birthdays as they hold specific meanings, which is a good opportunity for friends and relatives to catch up on each other’s life. Also, carrying with them a series of special meanings, weddings are often celebrated in an as impressive and luxurious way as possible. Much of the celebration is an expression of good spirit and cheer, as well as a demonstration of friendship and family bond.
However, luxurious birthday and wedding celebrations have
A. Because they have too much time.
B. Because they think it is the only way for them to express themselves.
C. Because they think it is a good way to get to know each other better.
D. Because they believe that those anniversaries have specific meanings.
| Fire can help people in many ways. But
it can be very dangerous. Fire can heat water, warm houses, give light and cook.
But fire can bum things, too. It can bum trees, houses, animals or people.
Sometimes big fires can burn forests. Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope (绳子) and brought fire down. Today people know how to make a rue with matches (火柴) . Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can bum a piece of paper and then it might bum a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with matches. You should al A. Fire can help people in many ways. B. Fire can be both helpful and dangerous. C. Fire can bum things and people. D. We must be careful with matches. [单项选择]Modem people wear many masks that keep their reality confined and un- known, even to (1) . The possibility of encountering one’s (2) , learning about one’s self, is frightening and (3) . Many people expect to discover the (4) . A hidden fear (5) in the fact that they may also discover the best.
To discover the worst is to face the decision of (6) or not to continue in the same pattern. To learn the best is to face the decision of whether or not to live up (7) it. (8) discovery may involve change and (9) causes anxiety. (10) , this can be a creative anxiety which may be thought of as excitement-the excitement of enhancing one’s (11) for being a winner. Transactional analysis (相互作用 分析) is a(n) (12) you can use to know yourself, to know how you relate to others, and to discover the dramatic (13) your life is taking. The unit of personality A. best B. worst C. better D. worse [填空题]Happy people tend to talk more than unhappy people, but when they do, it tends to be less small talk and more substance. A group of (36) from the University of Arizona and Washington University in St. Louis set out to find whether happy and unhappy people (37) in the types of conversations they tend to have. For their study, volunteers wore an (38) recording device called the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) over four days. The device (39) records pieces of sounds as participants go about their lives. The EAR (40) 30 seconds of sounds every 12.5 minutes (41) a total of more than 20, 000 recordings. Researchers then listened to the recordings and (42) the conversations as small talk discussions. In addition, the volunteers completed (43) and well-being assessments.
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[简答题] Until the nineteen sixties, black people in many parts of the United States did not have the same civil rights as white people. Laws in the American South kept the two races separate. These laws forced black people to attend separate schools, live in separate areas of a city and sit in separate areas on a bus.
On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery, Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus. The law at that time required black people seated in one area of the bus to give up their seats to white people who wanted them. The woman refused to do this and was arrested. This act of peaceful disobedience started protests in Montgomery that led to legal changes in minority rights in the United States. The woman who started it was Rosa Parks. Today, we tell her story.
She was born Rosa Louise McCauley in nineteen-thirteen in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended local schools until she was eleven years old. Then she was sent to schoo
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