I was cycling and noticed a person, about a quarter of a kilometer in front of me. I could tell he was cycling a little slower than me and decided to try to
So I
After I passed him, I
Isn't that what happens in life when we
Therefore, just take what life has given you, your height, weight and personality. Stay focused and live a healthy life. There's no
| A．follow | B．catch | C．remind | D．grasp |
| A．before | B．after | C．unless | D．when |
| A．stopped | B．enjoyed | C．started | D．regretted |
| A．way | B．block | C．step | D．time |
| A．apart from | B．above | C．ahead of | D．behind |
| A．protected | B．pushed | C．supported | D．comforted |
| A．thought | B．remembered | C．dreamt | D．hoped |
| A．Fortunately | B．Finally | C．Surprisingly | D．Apparently |
| A．calm | B．lucky | C．astonished | D．good |
| A．racing | B．exercising | C．celebrating | D．cycling |
| A．believed | B．expected | C．realized | D．understood |
| A．escaped | B．missed | C．made | D．lost |
| A．worry about | B．care for | C．depend on | D．focus on |
| A．prove | B．declare | C．explain | D．inform |
| A．tears | B．money | C．energy | D．pain |
| A．paths | B．entrances | C．plans | D．barriers |
| A．task | B．difficulty | C．problem | D．goal |
| A．movement | B．cycle | C．event | D．routine |
| A．never | B．often | C．sometimes | D．always |
| A．mistake | B．competition | C．pressure | D．challenge |
| A. benefit B. closely C. containing D. deprived E. feasted F. fundamental G. introduction H. original I. purchasing J. supply K. typically |
The Pleasures of the Table
APRIL 9, 2020 was the darkest day in the recent recorded history of the restaurant industry. The
Being
Yet restaurants in their current form are a few hundred years old at most. They do not satisfy some primeval (原始的) urge, but rather those of particular sorts of societies. Economic and social forces have created both the
People have long
These were more like takeaways, though, or stands where food might be thrown in with a drink, than eat-in restaurants. The table d’hôte, which appeared in France around Cole’s time, most
What does the history of the restaurant say about its future? In recent weeks, global restaurant reservations have risen back up close to their pre-pandemic levels. The long-term future of the restaurant is less clear. The pandemic has led to many people
I have an entrepreneur friend, Arthur, who always wears a suit. I take the mick that I’ve never seen him in casual clothes and his response is: "The suit is the uniform of business." But in my business, the uniform has often been torn jeans and glitter or computer programmer T-shirts. Either way, work clothing can be flexible, as long as it’s appropriate. At WAH Nails, many of the team say that one of the special benefits is that they don’t have to suppress(抑制) their identity at work. But when we opened in a new location, I thought we needed a uniform to make the nail artists easily identifiable. In the team meeting showing potential branded T-shirts, one of the artists, Holli, said sheepishly: "But when I’m wearing a plain black logo T-shirt, I just don’t feel my ‘Stylebrat’ self." (Stylebrat is her Instagram name.) She was right. We hired women with unique taste, so why was I trying to turn them into a homogenous(同类的) worker army? We got rid of the shirts and everyone was relieved.
On the other hand, without a uniform or loose dress code, I personally struggle to keep the style bar high every day. I love going into offices where I see that the founder has a distinct style that has moved slowly down to the team. In the fashion industry especially, this appropriation of crew style shows harmonious, which is essential for business success. Work clothing can unite you in your goals. It also removes distraction.
I have no hesitation wearing the same(clean) outfit two days in a row. I’d say my look is Busy Working Style Mom, mixing sportswear with suiting. I have 10 black jackets that I pair with one of 20 blue Zara jeans. Sometimes you’re just there to get the job done, not to worry a lot about your appearance.
1．What is the clothing style of the staff at WAH Nails?| A．It is formal. | B．It is fashionable. |
| C．It is characteristic. | D．It is traditional. |
| A．A style loved by all workers in a company. |
| B．The benefits of wearing a uniform in work. |
| C．The importance of the founders’ taste in fashion. |
| D．The importance of a friendly atmosphere in business. |
| A．Women should have their own style. |
| B．Workers can wear jeans instead of dresses. |
| C．People can wear the same clothes for several days. |
| D．People should not care too much about their appearance. |
| A．Artists. | B．Computer programmers. |
| C．Working staff. | D．Women teachers. |
The Occupy Wall Street protest movement has raised serious questions about the role of capitalist institutions, particularly corporations in American society. Well before the first protester set foot in Zucotti Park, a heckler(扰乱分子) urged Mitt Romney to tax corporations rather than people. Romney’s response-- “Corporations are people” stirred a brief but intense controversy. Now thousands of demonstrators have in effect joined the heckler, denouncing(抨击) corporations as “enemies of the people.”
Far more important than questions about what corporations are is the question of what attitude we should have toward them. Should we, as corporate public relations statements often suggest, think of them as friends (if we buy and are satisfied with their products) or as family (if we work for them)? Does it make sense to be loyal to a corporation as either a customer or as an employee？More generally, even granted that corporations are not fully persons in the way that individuals are, do they have some important moral standing in our society？
My answer to all these questions is no, because corporations have no core dedication to fundamental human values. Such corporations exist as instruments of profit for their shareholders. In fact, left to themselves, they can be serious threats to human values that conflict with the goal of corporate profit. Corporations are a particular threat to truth, a value essential in a democracy, which places a premium on the informed decisions of individual citizens. The corporate threat is most apparent in advertising, which explicitly aims at convincing us to prefer a product regardless of its actual merit. Their defining goal is to generate profit. There are cases when telling the truth is the best means to advance corporate profits. In 1982, when seven people in Chicago died from poisoned Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson appealed to its credo, which makes concern for its customers primary corporate goal，and told the entire truth about what had happened. This honesty turned a potential public-relations disaster into a triumph. But Johnson & Johnson’s impressive corporate credo ends by saying, “Our final responsibility is to our stockholders and must make solid profit. The credo is unclear about what happens when there is a conflict between responsible action and long-term profit.
None of this means that corporations are evil or that socialism should replace the free-enterprise system. As Michel Foucault said of all power structures, it’s not that corporations are bad but that they are dangerous. The self-serving corporate speech that fills our media and halls of government is particularly dangerous for our democracy. At least for this reason, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are right to distrust corporations.
1．Mitt Romney most probably believes that ___________.| A．individuals should pay more taxes than corporations |
| B．corporations should not be forced to pay more taxes |
| C．people should care more about corporations’ development |
| D．corporations should enjoy all the legal rights as people do |
| A．should be set as moral examples of the society |
| B．take employees’ faithfulness as part of their goals |
| C．contribute little to the most essential human values |
| D．are actually means by which people share profits |
| A．corporations always make profits at the expense of people’s health |
| B．customers should always keep an eye on the quality of any product |
| C．corporations take economic profit as their priority essentially |
| D．corporation profit is always in contradiction with customer interests |
| A．Corporations, People and Truth |
| B．Corporations Are Different from People |
| C．Corporations Are Untrustworthy |
| D．The Occupy Wall Street Protest |
In a recent series of experiments at the University of California, researchers studied toddlers’ thinking about winners and losers, bullies (欺凌) and victims.
In the first experiment, toddlers (学步儿童) watched a scene in which two puppets (木偶) had conflicting goals: One was crossing a stage from right to left, and the other from left to right. The puppets met in the middle and stopped. Eventually one puppet bowed down and moved aside, letting the other one pass by. Then researchers asked the toddlers which puppet they liked. The result: 20 out of 23 toddlers picked the higher-status puppet — the one that did not bow or move aside. It seems that individuals can gain status for being dominant (占优势的) and toddlers like winners better than losers.
But then researchers had another question: Do toddlers like winners no matter how they win? So, researchers did another experiment very similar to the one described above. But this time, the conflict ended because one puppet knocked the other down and out of the way. Now when the toddlers were asked who they liked, the results were different: Only 4 out of 23 children liked the winner.
These data suggest that children already love a winner by the age of 21-31 months. This does not necessarily mean that the preference is inborn: 21 months is enough time to learn a lot of things. But if a preference for winners is something we learn, we appear to learn it quite early.
Even more interesting, the preference for winners is not absolute. Children in our study did not like a winner who knocked a competitor down. This suggests that already by the age of 21-31 months, children’s liking for winners is balanced with other social concerns, including perhaps a general preference for nice or helpful people over aggressive ones.
In a time when the news is full of stories of public figures who celebrate winning at all costs, these results give us much confidence. Humans understand dominance, but we also expect strong individuals to guide, protect and help others. This feels like good news.
1．One of the purposes of the experiments is to ________.| A．teach toddlers how to gain higher status |
| B．offer toddlers a chance to watch a scene |
| C．observe the process of toddlers’ solving a conflict |
| D．find out toddlers’ attitude toward winners and losers |
| A．obeying rules |
| B．gaining status |
| C．giving in to the other |
| D．showing good manners |
| A．They are excellent learners. |
| B．They are always changeable. |
| C．They show mercy to the loser. |
| D．They value kindness over winning. |
| A．Disappointing. | B．Encouraging. |
| C．Unexpected. | D．Controversial. |
The Impossible Burger is entirely free of meat. But it looks, smells, feels and—most importantly—tastes so much like real hamburger beef. In fact, plant-based burger alternatives have set off a strong resistance from the beef industry. The Center for Consumer Freedom, a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of the fast food and meat industries has launched an “informational” campaign targeting plant-based meats. The campaign has included TV and online ads, as well as print ads in newspapers. The ads seem to imply that not only is an artificial burger too processed, but that it might be even less healthy than the average beef burger.
While it’s true that a plant-based meat alternative is processed and it’s true that eating one is not as healthy as a pile of raw vegetables, it’s best to take the ads with a generous pinch of salt.
For instance, the additives and preservatives in plant-based meat highlighted in one ad sure sound scary. Who wants something called titanium dioxide (二氧化钛) in their meal? But the truth is that additives such as those listed in the ads are regularly used in all sorts of packaged foods. And if methylcellulose, a food thickener, sounds unpleasant, it’s really nothing compared with salmonella (沙门菌) poisoning you can get from regular meat.
Also, the ad campaign misses the bigger point. Choosing an Impossible or Beyond burger isn’t just about eating healthy. Burgers, whether they are made from processed pea protein or processed meat, will never be as healthy as organic raw vegetables.
What’s appealing is the prospect of enjoying a juicy burger without the bitter aftertaste of guilt.
Let’s face it, there are huge environmental costs to eating cows. Cattle raising is contributing to climate change, and not just because methane (甲烷) from cows and cattle is responsible for about 14.5% of greenhouse gas. More broadly, our global food production system releases more than a third of the world’s greenhouse gases. Yet we can’t seem to control our meat appetite even knowing that large areas of the Amazon forest have been ruined, and continue to be cut down to make room for more cattle to feed the growing demand for beef. Humans also know full well that many animals live short, cruel lives in awful conditions for the purpose of becoming foods for humans to enjoy at dinner.
A plant-based meat that satisfies meat desires and delivers protein but with a smaller climate footprint is a potential environmental game changer and the reason Impossible Foods was one of those receiving the U.N. Global Climate Action Award in 2019. No wonder the meat industry is on guard.
1．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?| A．These ads deserve little consideration. |
| B．We should spread the message of these ads. |
| C．We’d better be cautious when reading these ads. |
| D．These ads tell people a lot about plant-based burgers. |
| A．They are likely to cause poisoning. |
| B．Their use is within the normal range. |
| C．Some have not been used in hamburgers. |
| D．They are used to ensure burgers taste good. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Neutral. |
| C．Disapproving. | D．Doubtful. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
Nowhere To Hide: What Machines Can Tell From Your Face
The human face is a remarkable piece of work.
Set against human skills, such applications might seem enhancive. Some breakthroughs, such as flight or the internet, obviously transform human abilities.
| A．However, facial recognition seems merely to encode them. |
| B．Research show that artificial intelligence can reconstruct the facial structures of people. |
| C．Anyone with a phone can take a picture for facial-recognition programs to use. |
| D．Technology is rapidly catching up with the human ability to read faces. |
| E．Continuous facial recording that paints computerized data onto the real world might change the texture of social interactions. |
| F．The astonishing variety of facial features helps people recognize each other and is crucial to the formation of complex societies. |
It is universally true that all parents in the world love their children. However, as parents’ views of life vary, they show their love in different ways.
The monarch type of parents are intolerant and self-centered. They lay down regulations in the family for their children to observe. Furthermore, they insist that their children should act upon them without question. With a frim belief in their own philosophy of life, they have little respect for others’ opinions, least of all, their children’s. the sentence they say most frequently to their children is, “you should do this.”
Contrary to the monarch-type parents, the servant-type parents revolve around their children all the time. They are soft, good-natured, and easy-going. They never deny their children any wish, and cheerfully run to buy anything their children ask for. They are happy so long as their children are content. With the sincere belief that love means sacrifice, they are ready to give up anything or their children’s sake. With their children at the center of their lives, they always ask, “What else can we do for you?”
The friend-type parents, as the term implies, treat their children as friends. They are generous and wise. Like good friends ,they discuss with their children the latest news, share their children’s interests, and listen attentively to their children’s expression of emotion, whether it is anger, fear, joy or sorrow. They have a close relationship with their children while sticking to their principled stand. They discuss problems with their children rather than provide ready solution. They respect their children as their equals. They often say: “Let’s put out heads together and see what we can do”
There is o doubt that children welcome the third type of parents, for a free, friendly, and sympathetic atmosphere at home is most favorable to the development of youngsters both in body and in mind. All parents should re-examine and change some of their ways of showing their love if they want their children to grow up happily and healthily.
Concerns about the harm caused by “too much” screen time—particularly when it is spent on social media—are widespread. But working out what a “healthy”
Some negative experiences on social media—like
Consider the picture painted by a UNICEF review of existing research into the effects of digital technology on children’s
The UNICEF report highlighted a 2017 study that examined 120,000 UK 15-year-olds. Among those teenagers who were the lightest users, it was found that increasing the time spent using technology was linked to
A broader look at evidence provided by some other high quality studies again suggests the story is not
So how much time should our children spend looking at screens? It is difficult to be
| A．amount | B．comparison | C．experience | D．medium |
| A．accounting for | B．boasting of | C．commenting on | D．worrying about |
| A．general | B．particular | C．private | D．public |
| A．domestic | B．material | C．physical | D．psychological |
| A．complex | B．dramatic | C．harmless | D．predictable |
| A．improved | B．maximum | C．relative | D．small |
| A．As a rule | B．In contrast | C．On the whole | D．Worse still |
| A．convincing | B．definite | C．probable | D．true |
| A．estimating | B．experiencing | C．reducing | D．tracing |
| A．connection | B．power | C．promotion | D．risk |
| A．balanced | B．independent | C．precise | D．subjective |
| A．agree | B．forget | C．object | D．remember |
| A．equally | B．readily | C．reluctantly | D．weakly |
| A．emotion therapy | B．social media | C．TV broadcasting | D．video game |
| A．confident | B．optimistic | C．rough | D．wild |
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