Most people assume that the human brain is set on "automatic"—that means it learns all by itself.But this isn't always true.We need to train ourselves to be better learners—to actively take part in the learning process and to reflect on what we have learnt.These kinds of learning behaviours are called "active learning".I suggest doing four things to take an active role in your learning.Listen to the outer voice There are two kinds of voices：the inner voice and the outer voice.Your inner voice expresses your personal opinions，while the outer voice tells you about opinions from what you hear or read.Although your inner voice can be useful，it can also get in the way of learning.If you keep paying too much attention to it，you risk missing important information.Instead，active learners are open-minded and focus on what the speaker/ write is saying，not on what their brain is saying in the background.In this way，they are in a better position to make decisions.Ask questions Asking questions is the easiest way to promote active learning.When you get information from someone，from books or the Internet，ask two，three，even five question about the topic.The answers will lead you to further learning，and the very act of working out questions will help you to achieve a higher level of understanding about the topic.In short：Do not stop being curious.Get to the truth Active learners do not accept everything they learn.They attempt to find the truth at the heart of each idea.Even when an idea sounds entirely unlikely，there may be an aspect of it that is based on truth.So if someone says that dinosaurs still exist today，think about why they believe this.Where does the idea come from？Do they have enough data to support their views？If you try to find out the source of an idea，no matter how crazy it seems，you will increase your chance of learning something.Focus on the message Many people miss out on learning opportunities because they let their feelings get in the way.They refuse to learn or ignore what is said because of who the speaker/ writer is.It is true that we cannot help disliking some people —this is human nature，after all.But do not forget you can still learn from them.Active learners do not judge people based on firs impressions or personal feelings.Instead，they separate the message from the message.This goes the other way as well---do not just assume that some people are always right because of who they are or just because they are your friends.（1）Which of the following is TRUE about inner voice and outer voice？ ____ A.Your inner voice is useless，and always gets in the way of learning.B.Your inner voice is what you think.C.The outer voice usually is what your brain is saying.D.The outer voice expresses your personal opinions.（2）According to Paragraph 3 what do you know about asking questions？ ____ A.sking questions will lead you to further learning.B.Asking questions won't make you more motivated to learn.C.Asking questions facilitates active learning.D.Asking questions will stop you from being curious..（3）According to Paragraph 4，an active learner ____ .A.won't find out the source of an ideaB.is-willing to accept everything they learnC.believes that dinosaurs still exist todayD.always tries to find the truth at the core of every opinion（4）What do we learn about from Paragraph 5？ ____ A.We should try our best to like people we don't like.B.We often ignore what the author says.C.Active learners judge people based on personal feelings.D.The person we like may not always be right.（5）What is the author's purpose in writing this passage？ ____ A.To offer some tips on how to learn actively.B.To advise us to listen to the outer voice.C.To help us get to the truth.D.To share his learning experience.

When the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping established Shenzhen as the first of the country's special economic zones in 1978,the "city" was nothing more than a(n) 1_____ of small,relatively poor fishing villages 2_____ in the shadow of the much-wealthier Hang Kong 30 kilometers to its south.In the forty years since,the young city has experienced a(n) 3_____ level of economic growth and modernization,transforming itself 4_____ agricultural outpost with fewer than 30,000 5_____ into a global megalopolis with more than 13 million population.Shenzhen stands as a(n) 6_____ to China's remarkable change in fortune,and a witness to the 7_____ of achievements of Deng Xiaoping's 8_____ economic policies . The young city has further served as a model for the 9_____ and modernization of cities throughout China.The economic prosperity of the region has attracted millions 10_____ millions of 11_____ workers who find jobs in construction or manufacturing and 12_____ of people with a high level of education who work in some of China's biggest 13_____ companies.The Pearn River Delta of the Guangdong Province which 14_____ the cities of Shenzhen,Macau and Guangzhou,was the first 15_____ World throughout the 80s and 90s,16_____ producing labor-intensive goods such as textiles and plastics,before 17_____ to the more profitable production of 18_____ electronic goods.Now the Pearl River Delta has come to be known 19_____ as the Greater Bay Area,and is now 20_____ for the manufacturing of 90% of the world's electronic goods . 1. A . mouthful B . handful C . few D . sum2 . A . laying B . bathing C . resting D . locating 3 . A . unprecedented B . sustainable C . unexpected D . steady 4 . A . with B . by C . as D . from 5 . A . inhabitants B . citizens C . neighbourhoods D . communities 6 . A . triumph B . lesson C . monument D . momentum 7 . A . clusters B . multitude C . avalanche D . collection 8 . A . transient B . transparent C . transitional D.transformative 9 . A . urbanization B . innovation C . revolution D . evolution 10 . A . beyond B . after C . over D . upon 11 . A . efficient B . migrant C . educated D . skilled 12 . A . majority B . quantity C . plenty D . most 13 . A . tech B . commercial C . financial D . economical 14 . A . composes B . institutes C . forms D . comprises 15 . A . patch B . abyss C . region D . member 16 . A . eventually B . initially C . fundamentally D . ultimately 17 . A . transitioning B . transplanting C . transporting D . transmitting 18 . A . client B . customer C . consumption D . consumer 19 . A . noticeably B . conspicuously C . collectively D . distinctively 20.A.chargingB.responsibleC.notableD.representative

Researchers, writing in the journal Heart, pooled data from 23 studies and found that social isolation or feelings of loneliness were tied to an increased risk for coronary heart disease (冠心病 ) and strokes.The studies included data from 181,006 men and women ages 18 and over. There were 4,628 coronary events and 3,002 strokes in follow-up periods __26___from three to 21 years. Three of the papers__27__loneliness, 18 looked at social isolation and two included both. Social isolation and loneliness were determined with questionnaires; the researchers depended on medical records and death__28__for determining coronary events and strokes.The scientists found that loneliness and social isolation increased the __29__risk of having a heart attack or a death from heart disease by 29 percent, and the risk of stroke by 32 percent. There were no__30__between men and women."People have tended to focus from a policy point of view on__31__ lonely people to make them more__32__," said the lead author, Nicole K. Valtorta, a research fellow at the University of York in England. "Our study__33__that if this is a risk factor, then we should be trying to prevent the risk factor in the first place."The authors__34__that this was a review of observational studies and did not__35__cause and effect.A. acknowledgeB. certificatesC. connectedD. demonstratesE. differencesF. establishG. formatsH、measuredI、narrowJ、permanentK、producesL、rangingM、relativeN、submittingO、targeting

I enjoyed the movie very much. I wish I ______ the book from which it was made.A. have readB. had readC. should have readD. am reading

In __ Chinese culture，the color red always represents happiness and good luck.A. historicB. traditionalC. remoteD. classic

Stepping into Harbin for the first time, he was so excited to see snow that he was _ to the cold.A. differentB. difficultC. indifferentD. absent

People's living standard in this city is far above ________.A. imaginationB. realityC. averageD. expectation

Part ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years now.Given a multi-year decline in illegal immigration, and a similarly sustained pickup in the U.S.job market, the complaints are unlikely to stop without an overhaul of immigration rules for farm workers.   Efforts to create a more straightforward agricultural-workers visa that would enable foreign workers to stay longer in the U.S.and change jobs within the industry have so far failed in Congress.If this doesn’t change, American businesses, communities and consumers will be the losers.   Perhaps half of U.S.farm laborers are undocumented immigrants.As fewer such workers enter the U.S., the characteristics of the agricultural workforce are changing.Today’s farm laborers, while still predominantly born in Mexico, are more likely to be settled, rather than migrating, and more likely to be married than single.They are also aging.At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.Now, more than half are.And crop picking is hard on older bodies.   One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it has been all along: Native U.S.workers won’t be returning to the farm.   In a study published in 2013, economist Michael Clemens analyzed 15 years of data on North Carolina’s farm-labor market and concluded, “There is virtually no supply of native manual farm laborers” in the state.This was true even in the depths of a severe recession.   Mechanization is not the answer either—not yet at least.Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans and wheat have been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive crops, such as strawberries, need labor.Even dairy farms, where robots currently do only a small share of milking, have a long way to go before they are automated.   As a result, farms have grown increasingly reliant on temporary guest workers using the H-2A visa to fill the gaps in the agricultural workforce.Starting around 2012, requests for the visas rose sharply; from 2011 to 2016 the number of visas issued more than doubled.   In the popular imagination, of course, guilt still gets a bad rap.It evokes Freud’s ideas and religious hang-ups.More important, guilt is deeply uncomfortable—it’s the emotional equivalent of wearing a jacket weighted with stones.Who would inflict it upon a child? Yet this understanding is outdated.“There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve,” Vaish says, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren’t binary—feelings that may be advantageous in one context may be harmful in another.Jealousy and anger, for example, may have evolved to alert us to important inequalities.Too much happiness (think mania) can be destructive.   And guilt, by prompting us to think more deeply about our goodness, can encourage humans to atone for errors and fix relationships.Guilt, in other words, can help hold a cooperative species together.It is a kind of social glue.   The H-2A visa has no numerical cap, unlike the H-2B visa for nonagricultural work, which is limited to 66,000 annually.Even so, employers frequently complain that they aren’t allotted all the workers they need.The process is cumbersome, expensive and unreliable.One survey found that bureaucratic delays led H-2A workers to arrive on the job an average of 22 days late.And the shortage is compounded by federal immigration raids, which remove some workers and drive others underground.   Petitioning each year for laborers—and hoping the government provides enough, and that they arrive on time—is no way to run a business.In a 2012 survey by the California Farm Bureau, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and nearly 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.Some western growers have responded by movingoperations to Mexico.Without reliable access to a reliable workforce, more growers will be tempted to move south.   According to a report by the Partnership for a New American Economy, Americans are consuming more fresh produce, which is good.But a rising share of it is grown elsewhere.In 1998-2000, 14.5 percent of the fruit Americans consumed was imported.Little more than a decade later, the share of imported fruit had increased to 25.8 percent.Rural munities that might have benefited didn’t.   In effect, the U.S.can import food or it can import the workers who pick it.The U.S.needs a simpler, streamlined, multi-year visa for agricultural workers, accompanied by measures to guard against exploitation and a viable path to U.S.residency for workers who meet the requirements.Otherwise growers will continue to struggle with shortages and uncertainty, and the country as a whole will lose out.第31题What problem should be addressed according to the first two paragraphs?A. discrimination against foreign workers in the U.S. B. biased laws in favor of some American businesses. C. flaws in US immigration rules for farm workers. D. decline of job opportunities in US agriculture. E. 参考答案: C 您的答案: 未作答

For a long time, people have debated about whether golf is a sport. On one side of the argument, it is argued that golf meets the dictionary definition of a sport, because it is a physical, athletic activity. They add that golf is recognized as a sport by sporting goods companies, athletic groups, fans, and the media. Also, golf's inclusion in the Olympics in 2016 is more proof that it is a sport.All the following evidence is used to prove that golf is a sport EXCEPT ____.- professional training- Olympic Games- dictionary definition- media recognition