Your peers are people your age or close to it who have experiences and interests similar to yours. You and your friends make dozens of decisions every day, and you influence each other’s choices and behavior. This is often ________ --- it’s human nature to listen to and learn from other people in your age group.

Sometimes, though, the stresses in your life can actually come from your peers. They may pressure you into doing something you’re uncomfortable with, such as shoplifting, doing drugs or drinking, or taking dangerous risks when driving a car.

The pressure to conform（随潮流） can be powerful and hard to resist. A person might feel pressure to do something just because others are doing it. Peer pressure can influence a person to do something that is relatively harmless--- or something that has more serious consequences.

People may feel pressure to conform, so they fit in or are accepted, or so they don’t feel awkward or uncomfortable. When people are unsure of what to do in a social situation, they naturally look to others for cues（暗示）about what is and isn’t acceptable.

The people who are most easily influenced will follow someone else’s lead first. Then others may go along, too --- so it can be easy to think, “It must be OK. Everyone else is doing it. They must know what they’re doing.” Before you know it, many people are going along with the crowd --- perhaps on something they might not otherwise do.

Responding to peer pressure is part of human nature --- but some people are more likely to give in, and others are better able to resist and stand their ground.

It’s not always easy to resist negative peer pressure. But when you do, it is easy to feel good about it afterwards. And you may even be a positive influence on your peers who feel the same way --- often it just takes one person to speak out or take a different action to change a situation.

1.Which of the following is a kind of peer pressure?

A.Your teachers give you a lot of homework.

B.Your parents expect high scores from you.

C.Your classmates persuade you to cut class.

D.Your relatives invite you to attend a party.

2.Which is most likely to be filled in the blank in Paragraph 1?

A.negative

B.impossible

C.positive

D.uncertain

3.Most people tend to do what others are doing in order to _________.

A.feel a sense of achievement

B.get a feeling of being accepted

C.set a good example for others

D.stand out in a crowd

4.What can we know according to the author?

A.Giving in to peer pressure is unavoidable.

B.Peer pressure usually leads to serious results.

C.Going along with the crowd usually means making a right choice.

D.Everyone can make a difference by resisting negative peer pressure.

5.This passage is mainly about _______.

A.thoughts on peer pressure

B.different types of peer pressure

C.ways to deal with peer pressure

D.the influence of peer pressure on people

Everyone has dreams and they obey the rules that if you can dream it, you can achieve it! Here are four goals for people to reach a perfect life in their future.

The first goal common to all of us is health and energy. We all want to be healthy and fit, to have high levels of energy and to live free of pains and illnesses. Today, with the incredible advances in medical science, the quality of our health and fitness, and our lifespan, is largely determined by design, not by chance. People with excellent health habits are far healthier, have more energy, and live longer and better than people who have poor health habits. Remember that health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing!

The second goal that we all have in common is to enjoy excellent relationships--- intimate, personal or social--- with the people we like and respect, and who like and respect us in turn. Fully 85% of your happiness will be determined by the quality of your relationships at each stage, and in each area, of your life. How well you get along with people, and how much they like, love and respect you, have more impact on the quality of your life than perhaps any other factor.

The third common goal is to do work that we enjoy, to do it well, and to be well paid for it. You want to be able to get and keep the job you want, to get paid more and elevated faster. You want to earn the very most that is possible for you at each stage of your career, whatever you do.

The fourth goal we all have in common is to achieve financial independence. You want to reach the point in life where you have enough money so that you never have to worry about money again. You want to completely be free of financial worries. You want to be able to order dinner in a restaurant without referring to the price listings to determine what you want to eat.

1.What does this passage chiefly talk about?  (No more than 15 words)

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2.Why does the author put health ahead of other goals?  (No more than 20 words)

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3.Judging from the passage, what directly influences most of your happiness?  (No more than 20 words)

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4.The underlined word “elevated” in Paragraph 4 refers to “_________”.   (No more than 5 words)

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5.How can you gain financial independence? Please give your idea in brief. (No more than 15 words)

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假设你是李华。最近，你校学生会组织开展了“构建低碳校园”活动。请你围绕“节约资源，低碳生活”的主题，根据以下提示，用英语写一封倡议书。

日常出行时怎样减少碳排放；

在餐厅就餐时怎样节约粮食；

在寝室和教室如何节约水、电。

注意：

词数：不少于100词；

倡议书的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数；

可适当增加情节，以使行文连贯。

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Dear fellow students, let’s start right now and spare no effort to do every little thing we can from now on!

- Let's go shopping after school.

-________Call for me at any time.

A. Hold on, please.             B. What for?

C. Sounds good.               D. That depends.

- Of the two bags, which one do you prefer?

-__________bigger one. It's_______ most beautiful one, I think.

A. The; a                     B. The; the

C. A; /                       D. A; the

The athlete's years of hard working________when she finally won the Olympic gold medal.

A. went on                            B. got over

C. ended up                           D. paid off

- Why do you look so worried?

- My MacBook Pro broke down and my paper______unfinished since.

A. was left                            B. has left

C. left                                D. has been left

Last Monday, I was asked to give the new students a test____ their English level.

A. grading                            B. to grade

C. to have graded                      D. having graded

Nowadays more people are advised to arrange for insurance_____they need medical care.

A. in order                           B. in need

C. in case                            D. in hope

Some researchers believe that there is no doubt______a cure for AIDS will be found.

A. whether                          B. that

C. what                             D. which