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Do you have sleeping problems？Then these tips may help you fall asleep fast.

Set aside the thought 1. you have to fall asleep. The more you think 2. it, the more you can't sleep.

The foods you eat also play 3. important part. Avoid eating or drinking foods or things like chocolates, coffee, tea and energy drinks. If you have to, then have them in the morning and never in the afternoon, 4. (especial) before going to bed. Don't eat too much at night ft full stomach will make you more difficult 5. (fall) asleep because your body is working～time to digest the food you ate.

Make a 6. (fix) time when to go to bed. For example, by 9 o'clock in the evening you should already be in bed. Do this even if you're not sleepy yet. Once 7. (follow) this routine, you will gradually See that you feel 8. (sleep) when it's 9 o'clock.

Make your room comfortable for sleeping. You should also take note that the sleeping environment also affects you sleep. It must be in the room 9. it's not noisy. Dtherwise, you-will find 10. difficult to fall asleep again after waking up.

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THIS WEEK’S TOURS of CATTY SHACK

Thursday, January 8, 2015—Daytime Tours

Hours: 1:00~4:00 PM, last admittance at 3:15 PM

Admission: Adults: $10

Children (3~11): $5

2 & Under: Free

Purchase Tickets:

Tickets may be pre-purchased up to 24 hours prior to the event by using the button below. Tickets may also be purchased at the ranch—cash, credit Visa, Mastercard & Discover are accepted forms of payment at the ranch. Tickets cannot be exchanged or money refunded. No reservations required.

Enjoy a leisurely, guided tour of our sanctuary and see all the residents (Siberian tigers, lions, cougars, black leopards, a bobcat, a coatimundi and foxes)! Tours last approximately 45 minutes.

Saturday, January 10, 2015—Night Feeding Tours

Hours: Gates open at 6:00 PM. Tours from 6:00 PM -7:00 PM. Last admittance at 7:15 PM. Feeding begins at 7:30 PM.

Admission: Adults: $15

Children (3~11): $10

2 & Under: Free

Purchase Tickets:

Tickets may be pre-purchased up to 24 hours prior to the event by using the button below. Tickets may also be purchased at the ranch — cash, credit Visa, Mastercard & Discover are accepted forms of payment at the ranch. Tickets cannot be exchanged or money refunded. No reservations required.

Enjoy a guided tour of all the residents (Siberian tigers, lions, cougars, black leopards, a bobcat, a coatimundi and foxes) at our sanctuary! Tours begin at 6:00 PM and leave approximately every 15 minutes. Tours last about 45 minutes and include a viewing of all our residents, as time allows, along with facts about the animals. To see the feeding, we suggest everyone arrive at the ranch by 7:15 PM to allow for adequate time for check-in and walking to the feeding point. At 7:30 PM, you will get to watch over 450 pounds of meat distributed throughout the sanctuary! Get ready to see their “wild” side — there’s sure to be plenty of roaring!

To learn about more upcoming tours, you can click on the calendar event listing for full details.

1. A couple with his son aged 6 who will attend Daytime Tours on January 8 will pay ______.

A. $10 B. $15 C. $ 20 D. $25

2. From the text, we can know all EXCEPT ______.

A. admission cost B. event description

C. special comments D. visiting hours

3. Which of the following about Night Feeding Tours on January 10, 2015 is WRONG?

A. Tickets are non-refundable.

B. Visitors can feed the animals in person.

C. Guide is available during the tours.

D. Visitors can’t be allowed in after 7:15 PM.

4. Where can you find the text?

A. On the website. B. In the textbook.

C. In the magazine. D. On the poster board.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项多余选项。

A major source of teen stress is school exams, and test anxiety is not uncommon. When you recognize your teen is under stress, how can parents help your teen stay calm before an exam?

Be involved. Parents need to be involved in their teen’s work. 1. What they look for is your presence ― to talk, to cry, or simply to sit with them quietly. Communicate openly with your teen. Encourage your teen to express her worries and fears, but don’t let them focus on those fears.

Provide a calm setting. Help your teen set up a quiet place to study and protect his privacy. Give them a nutritious diet. It is important for your teen to eat a healthy, balanced diet during exam times to focus and do her best. 2. If this happens, encourage your teen to eat light meals or sandwiches. A healthy diet, rather than junk food, is best for reducing stress.

3. Persuade your teenager to get some sleep and /or do something active when she needs a real break from studying. Making time for relaxation, fun, and exercise are all important in reducing stress. Help your teen balance her time so that she will feel comfortable taking time out from studying to spend time with friends or rest.

Help them get organized. 4. Together, you and your teen can work out a time-table in which she can study for what she knows will be on the test.

Show a positive attitude. 5. Your panic, anxiety and blame contribute to your teen’s pressure. Make your teen feel accepted and valued for her efforts. Most importantly, reassure your teen that things will be all right, no matter what the results are.

A. A parent’s attitude will dictate their teen’s emotions.

B. Exam stress can make some teens lose their appetite.

C. They will only make the situation worse.

D. Encourage your teen to relax.

E. The best thing is simply to listen.

F. Help your teen think about what she has to study and plan accordingly.

G. Your teen may also make negative comments about themselves.

Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can’t you be bothered to do?

A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so idle that they’d catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.

Just over 2，000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain’s largest health charity. The results were startling.

About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.

More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.

This led the report to conclude that it’s no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese before they start school. Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said, “People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too. If we don’t start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the simple tasks.”

And Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most indolent city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.

The results pose serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity?related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.

1.What do lazy British people probably choose to do?

A. Go to stores. B. Catch the lift.

C. Cook from scratch. D. Climb flights of stairs.

2.How many people surveyed don’t play with children because of tiredness?

A. About 419. B. About 333.

C. About 654. D. About 1280.

3.What is the potential result of more and more people, including children, getting obese?

A. People will not get enough exercise.

B. People will not have enough money.

C. People will not be able to do the easy job.

D. People will not cure themselves of heart disease.

4.What is the author’s attitude towards the finding of the study?

A. Indifferent. B. Doubtful.

C. Negative. D. Supportive.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

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History is one long story, or 1. (real), a lot of stories of competing narratives (叙述),

about the people who shaped the world we live in.

Family history can give people a sense of history that is much 2. personal than hearing about far‑off events about 3. (stranger). Telling your family history is a great way for the younger members of your family 4. (learn) some history and really understand and connect with it.

For example, it’s much more meaningful to discover 5. the Great Depression meant that your grandparents didn’t taste butter until 6. were in their teens than to hear an abstract fact that the Great Depression meant rationing (定量配给). You feel much more 7. (connect) to a story about your uncle’s experience of living in France than a book about it.

8. (tell) stories of people that you knew or ancestors 9. stories you know is a powerful way to help young people feel a connection to those who came before them, family and otherwise, linking the stories of the past 10. their own experience of the present and imaginings of the future.

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It offers courses in bioengineering, Japanese, legal studies and public health. Since they are recordings of actual lectures, they lack lecture notes and extra materials. However, each course has audio recordings of lectures via iTunes or video recordings of lectures via YouTube. Learn more at https://ucberkeley.com

1.Learners who choose Skillfeed need to ________.

A. equip themselves with the ability to use the computer

B. pay some fee if they want to continue after a month

C. have some knowledge of the design of website

D. learn to upload their own high-quality video

2.We can learn from the passage that Academic Earth ________.

A. charges learners nothing for any course

B. has many lectures given by 8,500 lecturers

C. provides college courses mainly to young men

D. offers college courses at the learners’ convenience

3.If you want to improve your skill of Japanese language, you can visit ________.

A. https://skillfeed.com

B. https://ucberkeley.com

C. https://udemy.com

D. https://iTunesU.com

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

For a lot of parents, sending their kids off to college is a bittersweet experience. I think a lot of teenagers head to college without any idea about how money works. Don’t let that happen to your college kid. Help them understand these issues before they step into that first class.

·Budget, budget, budget. 1. So start by making sure you understand budgeting and have begun to use it as part of your financial plan.

·Independence means responsibility. Living away from home means you have to take care of yourself. 2. Food doesn’t just drop out of the sky, and gas doesn’t magically appear in their car. Independence means responsibility.

· 3. Even if your kid is going to a small community college, they’ll still probably have a few thousand dollars of tuition to pay. If you break it down, one class can cost $1,000 at the very minimum! And that doesn’t even include books.

·Choose a major wisely. 4. This isn’t a must before they step on campus, but simply plant a seed that gets them started thinking about what they want to do with their life. You don’t want them graduating with a degree that leaves them unfulfilled or unable to find a job.

·Friends matter. 5. Who you hang out with definitely influences how you spend money and the decisions you make. Without being overbearing, remind them how important it is to have positive friends who build them up instead of bringing them down.

Remember, as a parent, just be there for support and to strengthen these principles throughout their college experience.

A. College isn’t cheap.

B. Cherish your opportunity.

C. Help your teenager find his or her passion.

D. However, not all friends can be really depended on.

E. New friends mean new opportunities and social situations.

F. Do your best to prepare your son or daughter for what that means.

G. If you aren’t using a budget, it’ll be difficult to convince your kid to use one.

假如你是高三学生李华，毕业后想去康奈尔大学（Cornell University）深造。请结合以下要点给康奈尔大学的负责人写一封电子邮件，希望获得奖学金。

1. 自我介绍，包括英语水平、独立生活的能力以及与人沟通的能力；

2. 希望获得奖学金；

3. 希望得到答复。

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m Li Hua. ____________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

La Gomera is the only place in the world that has a whistle language. We do not know how and why it began because we do not know the complete history of the island. But we can certainly imagine the reasons for the beginning of the whistle language. There are many deep valleys on the island. A person on one side of a valley can not easily shout to a person on the other side. But he can whistle and be heard. Some of the best whistlers can be heard from four miles away and the record is seven miles.

The people who live on the island usually have good teeth, and this helps them to whistle well. They must also have good ears so that they can hear other whistlers.

We can understand why the whistle language continues. It is very useful on the island, and quite easy to learn. When somebody is hurt or ill, the whistle language takes the place of telephone. If the sick person is quite far away from the town, people pass the message from one to another. A boy guarding cattle on a hillside whistles to a man fishing from his boat. The last one is able to describe the trouble fully and exactly to the doctor in town. People help one another in the same way when a car breaks down or a cow is lost.

The whistle language is hundreds of years old, and probably it will continue to live on for hundreds of years more. Radio and TV often kill the special ways of speaking in different parts of a country. But on La Gomera you are nobody if you cannot whistle. Perhaps soon after TV arrives on the island, people there will be whistling the news and other facts and opinions.

1. If a person on La Gomera is ill, ______.

A. the whistle language will help pass the message to the doctor

B. people will take him to town by carriage

C. his family will take him to the hospital

D. others will phone the doctor in town

2. La Gomera is special because ______.

A. we don’t know its complete history

B. people have to shout if they want to communicate

C. people there have good teeth and ears

D. people there use the whistle language to communicate with each other

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The whistle language has been used for hundreds of years on the island, but will not be used any longer.

B. The whistle language can only be found on La Gomera.

C. It is not easy for a person to live on La Gomera if he cannot whistle.

D. The record shows that one best whistler can be heard by others from seven miles away.

4. Which of the following will be the best title of this passage?

A. The Secret Language

B. Do You Know the Whistle Language?

C. The Life of Islanders

D. La Gomera－a Mystery

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

After graduation from college, I started to sell. Soon I discovered that the worried expression I 1. (wear) since childhood meant sure failure. I knew it wasn't going to be easy to change that expression on my face left by so many years of 2. （hard）. It called for a complete change in my view on life. Here is the method I tried.

Each morning during a fifteen?minute bath, I determined to cultivate a big, happy smile. I found out, however, that it couldn't be a 3. (force) smile developed just for the purpose of putting dollars in my pocket. It had to be 4. honest?to?goodness smile from down deep inside, an outward expression of happiness from within!

Let's see 5. starting off with a good fifteen?minute training of the smile muscles helped me during the day. 6. entering an office I would think of many things I had to be thankful for, work up a big smile and then enter. Seldom did it fail 7. (get) the same smile 8. return from the person I met. I also found that it pleased people when I passed them on the street to give them a cheerful smile.

Give every living soul you meet the best smile you have ever smiled in your life, 9. see how much better you feel and look. It's one of the best ways I know to stop worrying, and start living. When I began doing this, I found 10. more welcome everywhere.