Conner 【1】 (wait) for the doors to open at his school in Wichita, Kansas, on August 14, when he suddenly started to cry. His autism（自閉癥）sometimes makes him uncontrollable in his emotions. He wished his personal aide Judy were there to help, then he 【2】 (not make) such a scene at the school gate, crying.

Children 【3】 (diagnose) with autism can look and act very differently. Some can talk, while others cannot. Many are uncomfortable with noise. Some have trouble 【4】(look) at other people in the eye. Children with autism have different abilities, such as artistic abilities. Some children with autism as well as a talent for music even have the chance【5】 (invite) to play in a band.

While Conner was crying his classmate Christian happened to glance at him. Christian 【6】 (may overlook) him like most kids would have, but he didn’t. Instead, Christian just reached over and grabbed Conner by the hand, 【7】 (make) Conner’s day better. The boys 【8】 (be) in classes together before this year, but they didn’t know each other well. Now they are inseparable.

A mom happened to snap a photo of the spontaneous act of kindness, and then posted the photo online. The attention has gone viral in the social media and many people 【9】 (touch) by this act of kindness.

“You can choose to see someone who’s having a really bad day and say something horrible to them and make their day even worse,” said the mom who snapped the photo. “Or you can choose the opposite and say something nice, hand a tissue to someone who 【10】 (cry) and make his day better.”

choice necessary heavy intention association

lying appreciation solve direction adjust

Golden Rules of Good Design

What makes good design? Over the years, designers and artists have been trying to capture the essentials of good design. They have found that some sayings can help people understand the ideas of good design. There are four as follows.

Less is more. This saying is 【1】 with the German-born architect Mies van der Rohe. In his Modernist view, beauty 【2】 in simplicity and elegance, and the aim of the designer is to create 【3】 to problems through the most efficient means. Design should avoid 【4】 decorations.

More is not a bore. The American-born architect Robert Venturi concluded that if simplicity is done badly, the result is soulless design. Post-Modernist designers began to experiment with decoration and color again. Product design was【5】 influenced by this view and can be seen in kitchen appliances such as ovens and kettles.

Fitness for purpose. Successful product design takes into consideration a product’s function, purpose, shape, form, color, and so on. The most important result for the user is that the product does what it is 【6】 for. For example, think of an adjustable desk lamp. It needs to be constructed from materials that will stand the heat of the lamp and regular 【7】 by the user. It also needs to be stable. Most importantly, it needs to 【8】 light where it is needed.

Form follows emotion. This phrase is associated with the German designer Hartmut Esslinger. He believes design must take into consideration the sensory side of our nature -- sight, smell, touch and taste. These are as important as rational（理性的）. When 【9】 everyday products such as toothpaste, we 【10】 a cool-looking device that allows us to easily squeeze the toothpaste onto our brush.

One Sunday, Nick went skiing at Sugar-loaf Mountain in Maine. In the early afternoon, when he was planning to go home, a fierce snowstorm swept into the area. Unable to see far, he a 【1】 turned off the path. Before he knew it, Nick was lost, all alone! He didn’t have food, water, a phone, or other supplies. He was getting colder by the minute.

Nick had no idea where he was. He thought about all the survival s【2】 he had watched on TV. It was time to put what he had learned to use. He decided to stop skiing. There was a better chance of someone finding him if he stayed put（留下原地）. The first thing he did was to find s【3】 from the freezing wind and snow. If he didn’t, his body temperature would get very low, w【4】 could quickly kill him.

Using his skis, Nick built a snow cave. He got in. Then he piled branches on top of himself to stay as warm as he c【5】. By that evening, Nick was really hungry and he ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn’t l【6】 too much water.

The next day, Nick went out to look for help, but he couldn’t find a【7】 to give him a hand. He knew that if he went too far, he might not be able to find his way back to the cave. He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because w【8】 shelter, he could die that night. On Tuesday, Nick went out to find help. He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him. After two days of being lost in the snow, Nick was saved.

Nick might not have s【9】 this snowstorm had it not been for TV. He had often watched Bear Grylls’ survival show “Man vs. Wild”. That’s w【10】 he learned the tips that saved his life. In each episode of “Man vs. Wild”, Grylls is abandoned in a wild area and has to find his way out.

In Save Money: Good Food, she visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste, while preparing recipes for under ￡5 per family a day. And the Good Morning Britain presenter says she’s been able to put a lot of what she’s learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, Finn, 13, and Jack, 11.

“We love Mexican churros, so I buy them on my phone from my local Mexican takeaway restaurant,” she explains. “I pay ￡5 for a portion, but Matt makes them for 26p a portion, because they are flour, water, sugar and oil. Everybody can buy takeaway food, but sometime we’re not aware how cheaply we can make this food ourselves.”

The eight-part series, Save Money: Good Food, follows in the footsteps of ITV’s Save Money: Good Health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value from the vast range of health products on the market.

With food our biggest weekly household expense, Susanna and Matt spend time with a different family each week. In tonight’s Easter special they come to the aid of a family in need of some delicious inspiration on a budget. The team transforms the family’s long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.

【1】What do we know about Susanna Reid?

A.She enjoys embarrassing her guests.B.She has started a new programme.

C.She dislikes working early in the morning.D.She has had a tight budget for her family.

【2】How does Matt Tebbutt help Susanna?

A.He buys cooking materials for her.B.He prepares food for her kids.

C.He assists her in cooking matters.D.He invites guest families for her.

【3】Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Susanna visits a different family every other week and aims to cook meals for her family under ￡10 a day.

B.Susanna’s family loves Mexican food and they often go to Mexican restaurants.

C.The program aims to teach viewers how to understand the value of health from various products on the market.

D.Susanna’s cooking and her family’s eating styles have been greatly changed with the help of the team.

【4】What does the author intend to do in paragraph 4?

A.Summarize the previous paragraphs.B.Provide some advice for the readers.

C.Add some background information.D.Introduce a new topic for discussion.

【5】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A.Keeping Fit by Eating SmartB.Balancing Our Daily Diet

C.Making Yourself a Perfect ChefD.Cooking Well for Less

In my fridge-less fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthy. The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times each week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus（剩余的）bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.

The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. Many well-tried techniques already existed -- natural cooling, drying, smoking,salting, sugaring, bottling ...

What refrigeration did promote was marketing -- marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a good price.

Consequently, most of the world’s fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house -- while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.

The fridges’ effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant. If you don’t believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and turn off your fridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers, but at least you’ll get rid of that terrible hum.

【1】The statement “In my fridge-less fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily.” suggests that ____.

A.the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties

B.the author was not accustomed to fridges even in his fifties

C.there was no fridge in the author’s home in the 1950s

D.the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s

【2】Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges?

A.Because people would not buy more food than was necessary.

B.Because food was delivered to people two or three times a week.

C.Because food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.

D.Because people had effective ways to preserve their food.

【3】Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author?

A.Inventors.B.Consumers.C.Manufacturers.D.Travelling salesmen.

【4】Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridge’s negative effect on the environment?

A.“Hum away continuously”.B.“Climatically almost unnecessary”.

C.“Artificially - cooled space.”D.“With mild temperatures.”

【5】What is the author’s overall attitude toward fridges?

A.Neutral.B.Critical.C.Objective.D.Compromising.

______ by how Graham lived his life caring about others, Morissette ______ the nonprofit Grahamtastic Connection in his honor. The organization provides free technology - including computers, iPads, and robots - to children ______ cancer and other serious illnesses.

One of the major goals of Morissette’s work is to ______ kids to their classrooms, which really helps them continue their education despite hospitalizations and days missed from school.

The robots “transport” children right into the classroom in real time. They can operate the robots right from their hospital bed or home. If a child is unable to attend school, they can ______ log on to their tablet or laptop and call in to the robot. They can walk up and down the school paths. They can go to lunch with their friends. The real magic happens between classes, when they’re walking down the hallway with their friends, by robots, ______ their weekend and their favorite foods and other things. It’s great technology that really gives children the feeling of control, when their world is maybe ______ control.

“Every time I can help a child in need, I feel ______ Graham is smiling down.” Morissette said, “I believe that Graham’s love lives on in the work that I do. And I’m proud and privileged to be able to do it in his honor.”

【1】A.surgeryB.treatmentC.vacationD.rest

【2】A.focusB.strengthC.resourceD.attention

【3】A.ConfusedB.DepressedC.InspiredD.Worried

【4】A.leftB.visitedC.benefitedD.founded

【5】A.causingB.curingC.battlingD.preventing

【6】A.connectB.forceC.inviteD.throw

【7】A.hardlyB.accidentallyC.simplyD.luckily

【8】A.talking aboutB.putting offC.depending onD.thinking of

【9】A.underB.withinC.away fromD.out of

【10】A.even ifB.as thoughC.in caseD.so that

A.waysB.methodC.meansD.manner

A.productionB.productC.producerD.producing

A.liveB.livelyC.aliveD.living

— I’m sorry, sir, these two tables have just been _______ by telephone, but that one over there is free.

A.reservedB.orderedC.appointedD.taken