Genuine Friend There are some essential characteristics of a genuine friend and friendship. As mentioned before without trust and respect for each other no true friendship can develop. Real and true friendship involves freedom of choice, 1 , truth, and forgiveness. There is acceptance of the person with all the good and bad that holds within a personality. There is an attitude of living the life positively and therefore forgetting and forgiving minor deviations and 2 . Real friendship looks at the heart, not just the "packaging. " Genuine friendship loves for love’s sake, not just for what it can get in return. This can happen only when the bonding of friendship has 3 from past experiences which where mutually beneficial and helpful in the most troubled times. This helps the relationship to evolve above the superficialities. True friendship is both 4 and exciting. It risks, it overlooks faults, and it loves unconditionally, but it also involves being truthful, even though it may hurt. As mentioned before, testing times come and the strength of a relationship is tested during these hard times. Once you 5 these testing times, the relation evolves into a higher plane where you can openly communicate the truth and even hard truths 6 the feeling of any animosity. Genuine friendship, also called "agape" love, comes from the God. This is something of a life’s bonding and is akin to our bending with life or the higher powers of nature itself. Relationships in real life involve different levels of friendships, and that’s okay. But humans are designed by 7 for lasting rela tionships. The idea is to always evolve and grow in friendship and try to reach the 8 stage of a friendship. True relationship and friendship 9 and overcomes the superficialities of vague empty relationships which are mostly 10 and manipulative in nature. Establishing a connect and order of accountability and responsibility is very important as it’s harder to make amends with an offended friend. A. contradictions B. accountability C. nature D. transcends E. challenging F. overcome G. highest H. purpose I. resulted J. without K. exploitive L. forgive
A North Pole Traveller Ben Saunders Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket-anything with a round ball, I was useless, " he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire. It was a mountain bike he 1 (receive)for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then be began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind 2 (build) up his body, increasing his speed, strength and 3 (endure). At age 18, he ran his first marathon. The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was 4 (hire)as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scored, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits(成就). Intrigued, Saunders 5 (read) all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people 6 (dismiss) his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ’You are 7 (complete)crazy, ’" Saunders says. In 2001, after 8 (become)a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter(遭遇)with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit. Saunders has since become the 9 (young)person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation. This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to 10 (explore) from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
生活中冲突时有发生。假设你班同学苏华和李江打篮球时发生争执,导致关系紧张。请你结合此事,并根据以下提示,用英语写一篇短文,向学校英文报“Happy Teens”专栏投稿。分析发生冲突的原因1.遇事不够冷静2.……谈谈避免冲突的做法(请考生根据自己的经历或感想,提出至少两种做法) 注意:(1)对所有要点逐一陈述,适当发挥,不要简单翻译。 (2)词数120左右。开头已经写好,不计入总词数。 (3)作文中不得提及有关考生个人身份的任何信息,如校名、人名等。 Conflicts with others are common in everyday life.______
More Than 8 Hours Sleep Too Much of a Good Thing 1 Although the dangers of too little sleep are widely known, a new research suggest that people who sleep too much may also suffer the consequences. 2 Investigators at the University of California in San Diego found that people who clock up 9 or 10 hours each weeknight appear to have more trouble falling and staying asleep, as well as a number of other sleep problems, than people who sleep 8 hours a night. People who slept only 7 hours each night also said they had more trouble falling asleep and feeling refreshed after a night’s sleep than 8 hour sleepers, 3 These findings, which DL Daniel Kripke reported in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, demonstrate that people who want to get a good night’s rest may not need to set aside more than 8 hours a night. He added that "it might be a good idea"for people who sleep more than 8 hours each night to consider reducing the amount of time they spend in bed, but cautioned that more research is needed to confirm this. 4 Previous studies have shown the potential dangers of chronic shortages of sleep, for instance, one report demonstrated that people who habitually sleep less than 7 hours each night have a higher risk of dying within a fixed period than people who sleep more. 5 For the current report, Kripke reviewed the responses of 1, 004 adults to sleep questionnaires, in which participants indicated how much they slept during the week and whether they experienced any sleep problems. Sleep problems included waking in the middle of the night, arising early in the morning and being unable to fall back to sleep, and having fatigue interfere with day-to-day functioning. 6 Kripke found that people who slept between 9 and 10 hours each night were more likely to report experiencing each sleep problem than people who slept 8 hours. In an interview, Kripke noted that long sleepers may struggle to get rest at night simply because they spend too much time in bed. As evidence, he added that one way to help insomnia is to spend less time in bed. "It stands to reason that if a person spends too long a time in bed, then they’ll spend a higher percentage of time awake." he said. A. Kripke’s research tool B. Dangers of Habitual shortages of sleep C. Kripke’s research about reducing sleeping time D. A way of overcoming insomnia E. Sleep problems of long and short sleepers F. A new research about too much sleep Paragraph 5______