What do we really mean by being open? Being open is a kind of invitation to others to come in, to speak and to share. It is important in letting others get to know how we think and feel. In this way we will be understood and accepted by others. If we aren’t open with others, we won’t fully believe in ourselves or others.

Here are a few ways for you to be more open. First, make your outside behavior the same with your inside feelings and thoughts. Second, share how you really feel about something instead of just opinions. Third, try to change your questions into statements(陳述句) and talk in the first person so that people will understand you more easily. For example, you might say, “I feel happy that you’re here,” instead of, “Are you glad that you’re here?” Finally, try not to say, “I don’t know.” This usually means I don’t want to think about it anymore.

Remember also that it is not suitable to be open with everyone in every situation. You may want to be more open with close friends, but not with people you don’t know well, because you are not sure how someone else will use what they know about you. Besides, some people may not be used to too much openness. If we say everything we feel or think to them, they will feel very uncomfortable at times.

In all, being open is a good way for us to get on well with other people, but we’d better keep the balance between being open and not being too open.

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According to US science writer Sam Kean, people tend to turn to the right and show the left side of their faces.

That might be because the left side of our faces looks better than our right side. This may have something to do with our brain. The right side of the brain, which controls the left side of the body, deals more with emotions. So the left half of faces are often more expressive(富有表現(xiàn)力的), The Atlantic reported.

During studies, it is found that more than 60 percent of famous paintings since the 14th century showed people’s left side of the face.

But when it comes to self-portraits, artists have traditionally drawn themselves from the right.

Yet this doesn’t mean the left side phenomenon(現(xiàn)象) is wrong. As Professor Marco Bertamini from Liverpool University explained, self-portraits are usually painted through a mirror. For example, if an artist shows his left side to a mirror, and draws what he can see, the final picture on the paper would show the head facing to the right.

The front-facing camera on smart phones works the same way as a mirror. When people take selfies(自拍照) using a front-facing camera, most of them take a photo with their head facing to the right.

“Our results show that a preference(偏愛) for self-portraits showing one’s left side, even if this appears as a right face in the mirror-reversed(反轉的)display,”Bertamini told The Guardian.

Next time, when you take a photo, remember to show your better side to the camera.

【1】Why do people like to show the left side of their faces for photos?

A. It’s much easier for us to make a pose.??? B. It makes people look more natural on photos.

C. The left side of our faces looks better.??? D. The left side of our faces look friendlier.

【2】From Paragraph 3, we learn that __________.

A. the right side of the brain controls the right side of our faces

B. the right side of the brain deals with our emotions

C. the right side of our faces looks more expressive

D. our brain decides whether we look good or not

【3】Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Artists usually draw themselves from the left.

B. There is also the left side phenomenon in self-portraits.

C. The front-facing camera on smart phones doesn’t take good photos.

D. Bertamini tells people how to take better selfies.

【4】What does the article mainly talk about?

A. Where to take good photos.??? B. How the left side of the brain works.

C. How to draw yourself better.??? D. Why we show off the left side of our faces in photos.

Almost everyone has dropped some food on the floor and still wanted to eat it. If someone saw you drop it, he or she might have shouted, “5-second rule!”This so-called rule says food is OK to eat if you pick it up in five seconds or less. But is that true?

Professor Anthony Hilton from Ashton University, UK, tested the rule with his students. They found that food dropped for five seconds is less likely to contain bacteria(細菌) than if it sits there for longer.

For the study, Hilton and his students tested a lot of food—bread, pasta, cookies and candy—to see how much bacteria they had when they made contact with the floor. They allowed the food to lie on various types of flooring-carpet, laminate(復合地板), and tile (瓷磚) for three seconds to 30 seconds.

Not surprisingly, the longer the food was on the floor, the more bacteria it had. And the type of floor where the dropped food landed had an effect. Bacteria are least likely to transfer from carpet, while they’re most likely to transfer from laminate or tiled surfaces after more than five seconds.

The study also found that the wetter the food, the more likely it was to pick up bacteria. Although most people are happy to follow the 5-second rule, eating food dropped on the floor still carried an infection(感染) risk. “It very much depends on which bacteria are on the floor at the time,” Hilton told Forbes.

【1】What is the “5-second rule” about?

A. People often shout at someone when they drop food on the floor.

B. Food is safe when you pick up off the floor in less than five seconds.

C. It’s better to eat dropped food when it’s been on the floor for over five seconds.

D. Food will go bad when dropped on the floor in five second or less.

【2】Hilton’s test wanted to find out ________.

A. if the “5-second rule” is true??? B. the students’ favourite food

C. which food is easily dropped??? D. if different types of floor have different bacteria

【3】According to the test, we learn the following EXCEPT ________.

A. the dropped food had more bacteria if it sat on the floor for longer

B. the dropped food on carpet had the least bacteria

C. bacteria was impossible to transfer from laminate or tied surfaces

D. the wetter food was more likely to pick up bacteria

【4】According to the article, the infection risk of the dropped food does NOT depend on _______.

A. how long the food sits on the floor??? B. what the dropped food was

C. what the bacteria are??? D. what the weather is like that day

提示詞語:? water the trees and flowers, collect the waste, happy, proud

提示問題：● What do you think of protecting the environment?

● What did you do in the activity?

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At my school, we held a practical activity last week. _______________________________

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Think about the last time you did something that you found difficult. Was it working out a puzzle or working hard on your math homework?

Can you remember the expression you had on your face?Most people will press their lips together and frown when they are doing something they find difficult. This is normally seen as a sign of effort. Now we’ve found that it can also say more than that.

A recent study at the University of Portsmouth in England suggests that the human expression of effort and frustration(挫折) is our way of asking others for help.

Scientists at the university gave children and chimpanzees(黑猩猩) an impossible puzzle to work out. When the children couldn’t work out the puzzle, their faces expressed determination and effort. The chimpanzees’ did not.

Humans and chimpanzees have many facial expressions that share the same meaning. A human smile is the same as a chimpanzee showing its teeth in happiness.

Scientists believe that over time, humans have evolved(進化) to use this facial expression to ask for help. We have also learned to respond to it by offering help.

According to Dr Albert Mehrabian, a well-known professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), only 7% of human communication happens through words and 55% is through body language. Therefore, understanding expressions is second nature to human beings.

With this in mind, next time you see a person with a frustrated expression, listen to your heart and stop to lend them a hand.

【1】【1】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Frowning??? B. The expression??? C. Something difficult??? D. A sign of effort

【2】【2】According to the recent study, people’s expression of effort or frustration tells others that __________.

A. they need help??? B. they can do things themselves

C. they will give up??? D. they want to be alone.

【3】【3】Which of the following about the study is TRUE?

A. Scientists gave the chimpanzees an easy puzzle.

B. The chimpanzees smiled as they worked out the puzzle.

C. The chimpanzees’ face didn’t show determination or effort.

D. The chimpanzees used other expressions to ask for help.

【4】【4】According to Dr Albert Mehrabian, we learn that ____________.

A. body language is very important in human communication

B. people don’t like to use words to communicate

C. human expressions are not a kind of body language

D. words can’t help much in communication

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, but disappear soon if situations change. Neither side gets h【1】 by this. They may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while - then no m【2】. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to u【3】, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）sometimes deeply into b【4】 families.

Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that a【5】 they treat us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don't show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be g【6】with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as g【7】 to show our best friends around. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine（事務）. They will be likely to expect us to get ourselves from the a【8】 to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find o【9】 treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to r【10】, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home!

【1】【1】His father _______to buy him an e-dictionary as his birthday present, he felt excited.（答應）

【2】【2】Everyone hopes for______________ (成功).

【3】【3】I am very worried that Tom hasn’t________(回復)to my e-mail．

【4】【4】Wearing red can help you make a _____________ (決定).

【5】【5】Some _____________ towns have walls around them. (古老的)

【6】【6】The birthday present he sent me is very_________(value)．

【7】【7】Do you know all the ___________ leaders’ names?(German)

【8】【8】__________ up happily and healthily is hard. (grow)

【9】【9】They were proud of their children’s ____________(achieve).

【10】【10】No university accepted him __________ because he was blind.(simple)

A. if the MH 370 will fall into the Indian Ocean??? B. that there is a fight on the MH370

C. when did the plane accident happen in Malaysia??? D. what caused the plane accident in Malaysia

Lu Jialei, 14, from Hangzhou Foreign Language School, won the CCTV Chinese Character (漢字) Spelling Contest on Oct 18th, 2013. About 160 people competed. The host read a word to the contestant, explained its meaning and gave sample sentences. The contestant was required to write down the word.

Winning the contest was a “surprise” to Lu. “I was not the smartest one,” she said. “But I paid attention to details.” To prepare for the contest, she and her teammates studied the Modern Chinese Dictionary for 10 days. There are more than 56,000 entries (詞條) including characters, words and phrases in it. She also had a secret weapon. She studied how Chinese characters were formed.

“When others paid attention to the plot of a story, she looked at how authors use words and sentences to express themselves,” said Su Yunsheng, Lu’s Chinese teacher. Su is happy to see students like Lu find the beauty of Chinese language.

“Besides using something Chinese and having Chinese traditional festivals, learning to write Chinese characters is also an important part of inheriting (傳承) Chinese culture,” said Su.

【1】Lu Jialei was born in ________.

A. 1997??? ???B. 1999?? ???C. 2001??? ??????????????? D. 2002

【2】 Lu Jialei studied the Modern Chinese Dictionary ________ for the contest.

A. for more than one week????? ????B. as long as one week

C. for more than half a month??? ????D. as long as half a month

【3】The contestant was required to write down the word ________.

A. after the contestant read the word to the host

B. before the host read the word to the contestant

C. after the host explained its meaning and gave sample sentences

D. before the contestant explained its meaning and gave sample sentences

【4】Lu Jialei’s secret weapon was that ________.

A. she paid attention to details

B. she was the smartest contestant

C. she found the beauty of Chinese language

D. she studied how Chinese characters were formed

【5】From the passage we can infer ________ isn’t an important part of inheriting Chinese culture.

A. trying to write Chinese characters

B. using chopsticks when having meals

C. giving and receiving presents at Christmas

D. spending the Spring Festival with families

A. Because the book is interesting.

B. Because he forgets the time.

C. Because the bad weather prevents him from leaving.