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“Creativity is the key to a brighter future,” says education and business experts. Here is how schools and parents can encourage this important skill in children.
If Dick Drew had listened to his boss in 1925, we might not have a product that we now think of as of great importance: a new type of tape. Drew worked for the Minnesota Mining Company. At work he developed a kind of material strong enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Finally, using his own time, Drew improved the tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his former company learned from its mistake. Now it encourages people to spend 15 percent of their work time just thinking about and developing new ideas.
Creativity is not something one is just born with, nor is it necessarily a character of high intelligence. The fact that a person is highly intelligent does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of using the resources one has to produce new ideas that are good for something.
Unfortunately, schools have not tried to encourage creativity. With strong attention to test results and the development of reading, writing and mathematical skills, many educators give up creativity for correct answers. The result is that children can give back information but can’t recognize ways to use it in new situations. They may know the rules correctly but they are unable to use them to work out practical problems.
It is important to give children choices. From the earliest age, children should be allowed to make decisions and understand their results. Even if it’s choosing between two food items for lunch, decision-making helps thinking skills. As children grow older, parents should let their children decide how to use their time or spend their money. This is because the most important character of creative people is a very strong desire to find a way out of trouble.
What did the company where Drew once worked learn from its mistake?
A. They should encourage people to work a longer time.
B. People should be discouraged to think freely.
C. People will do better if they spend most of their work time developing new ideas.
D. It is necessary for people to spend some of their work time considering and improving new ideas.
According to the passage, creativity is ________.
A. something that most people are born with
B. something that depends mainly on intelligence
C. a way of using what one has learned to work out new problems
D. something that is not important to the character of a person at all
Why do schools tend to fail to encourage creativity?
A. They give children too many choices.
B. They are not strict enough with children.
C. They care too much about examination marks.
D. They don’t understand the importance of education.
Which of the following skills is the most important in developing creativity?
A. Reading. B. Writing. C. Mathematical skill. D. Decision-making.
If you don’t prepare yourself now, retirement may be some of the most boring and dull years of your life. To have a happy, fulfilling retirement, you need to start preparing right away.
The most obvious thing for people to do when they retire is to take up a hobby. The most important step to take before retiring, though, is to make sure that you actually have started some hobbies. Once you’re retired, unless you ‘ve already started a hobby, you’ll find it very hard to get into something new. Some hobbies aren’t for everyone. Think about what you enjoy doing and start participating on a casual basis now.
Another thing many people participate in is volunteering. Not only does volunteering give you something to do, it also gives you a sense of accomplishment(成就) and can add meaning to your life .Volunteering is also rewarding in other ways, too. There are hundreds of different types of volunteer services and you’ll always be able to meet new and interesting people. Also, don’t think that volunteering is always only about helping someone for free. Many companies pay their volunteers after they’ve had enough experience and prove themselves to be valuable workers.
There are plenty of other potions, as well. Going back to school is a great way to keep yourself feeling young. Taking a vacation around the world with your loved ones is another great way to spend your retirement.
Ultimately, though, the key to a happy retirement is simply keeping yourself busy and doing whatever you love. If there’s nothing you love doing now, then you’ll find that once you have a vast amount of free time, your life will be pretty empty. Now is the time to find out what you want to do when you retire.
Why does the author suggest starting a hobby before retirement?
A. Because we are likely to have difficulty starting a hobby after retirement.
B. Because we are gong to have a vast amount of free time after retirement.
C. Because we will only have a limited choice of hobbies after retirement
D. Because not every one of us has already started some hobbies already.
What can we learn about volunteering from the text?
A. We can make devoted friends through volunteering.
B. It can help companies find hard-working workers.
C. One can even make some money by volunteering.
D. Almost everyone is willing to help in some way.
Which of the following can best explain “a happy retirement”?
A. Travelling around the world every year.
B. Going back to university for further study.
C. Having plenty of free time for one’s hobbies.
D. Living a busy life and doing what one enjoys doing
London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of a new bike hire scheme. It has been designed to encourage more people to cycle in and around central London.
So how does it work？First you have to sign up to the scheme to be sent a key. The key will unlock one of the bikes，which are kept at docking stations in and around central London. You have to pay an access fee for the key and then you pay as you go，for the length of time you use the bike.
Transport for London，which runs the scheme，are hoping to have 6，000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year. The new hire system is hoping to ease congestion (拥挤) in London and is expected to create up to 40，000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre. London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the scheme and said London had been “filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as commonplace on our roads as black cabs and red buses”.
However，there have been a few problems since the scheme was launched last Friday. On the first day some people found they couldn’t dock their bike properly and their usage of the bike had not registered. Transport for London did admit they had been expecting a few “teething problems” and have said they wouldn’t charge for the first day as a “gesture of goodwill”. Some other people have criticized the lack of docking stations and locks for the bikes as well as the price it costs to hire the bicycles.
Despite the comments，the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very positive about things，saying，“My campaign for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a big pedal-powered push forwards.”
1. London Mayor boris Johnston launched the new bike scheme in order to _________.
A. reduce the air pollution of the city
B. encourage the citizens to take exercises
C. deal with the city’s traffic problems
D. increase employment opportunities
2.If you want to hire a bike, in which order will you do？
a. pay for the bike according to the time you use it
b. pay for the key to a bike
c. cycle in and around central London
d. sign up as a member to get a key
A. b-d-c-a B. b-c-a-d C. d-c-b-a D. d-b-c-a
3.All the following are the problems of the scheme EXCEPT ．
A. the high cost to hire a bike B. not registering their usage of the bikes
C. not charging for the first day of the scheme D. docking the bikes properly
4. From the passage we can infer that .
A. the London Mayor is confident in the scheme
B. the scheme will be cancelled because of the problems
C. all the citizens in London support the scheme
D. the cycling revolution is not successful
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Jeanne Calment, a French woman, became a record breaker on 17 October of 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days.
Jeanne Calment lives in a small old people’s home in the south of France; her husband, her only child and her grandson have all died. She is nearly blind and deaf and is always in a wheelchair, but her doctor describes her as being more like a 90-year-old in good health than someone of 120. She still has a lively sense of humor. When asked on her 120th birthday what she expected of the future, she replied: A very short one. She also remarked that she thought the good Lord had forgotten all about her.
So what is the key to a long life? According to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three important factors. Jeanne Calment has followed two of the tips. She has always eaten a healthy diet, and she used to do exercises every day until she broke her leg at the age of 115. However, until recently she drank two glasses of strong red wine a day, and she does smoke (now only a little). Besides, Jeanne Calment might have got very good genes from her parents. Her father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to 86.
A local lawyer bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money every year until her death. It must have seemed a good move at that time, but so far the lawyer has paid her at least three times the value of the house. Every year on her birthday Jeanne Calment sends him a card saying:
Sorry, I’m still alive!
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| A．She is miserable and unhappy. |
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| C．She would like to live much longer. |
| D．She feels she is going to die very soon. |
| A．smoking only a little every day |
| B．her giving up smoking and drinking |
| C．drinking two glasses of strong red wine every day |
| D．the good genes from her parents, a healthy diet and some exercises |
| A．The Japanese man died earlier than Jeanne Calment by one day. |
| B．Jeanne Calment is tired of living so long a life. |
| C．Jeanne Calment’s husband, children and grandchildren have all died. |
| D．One of Jeanne Calment’s legs was once broken. |
| A．deal | B．trick | C．march | D．sport |
| A．Because she had an agreement at 80 with the lawyer which was to her advantage. |
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| C．Because the lawyer has paid her much more money than the value of the house. |
| D．Because the house she rented to the lawyer isn’t worth the money he has already paid. |
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