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Should you share goals or keep them private? You'll find conflicting answers ifyou turn to Google. Some say sharing goals cannot live up to one's expectations because you'll feel rewarded before actually doing anything to achieve them. The Arabs have for centuries voiced a similar message in the proverb "the more you surround your candle, the more it remains lit". More recently, the idea became widespread in 2010 with a TED talk titled "Keep your goals to yourself".

"However, in most cases,you get more benefit from sharing your goal than if you don't--as long as you share it with someone whose opinion you value," Howard Klein told Ohio State News. Klein and his colleagues conducted several studies on goal-sharing. In one, the results showed that working adults frequently do share goals and are more likely to be committed to achievingthose goals when they're shared with people who are perceived to be of higher status.

A second study involved 171 undergraduate students who were asked to play a game. After the first round, the students were asked to play the game again. butthis time they had to set a goal. The researchers separated the students into three groups. For one group. thestudents had to share their goals with a lab assistant who was dressed in a suit and introduced himself as a doctoral-level student in the business school who was an expert on the topic. For another group, the lab assistant was a casually dressed man who identified himself as a student at a local community college. A third group wasn't asked to share their goals with anyone.

The results showed that people who shared their goals with the high-status person not only showed higher commitment to achieving the goal, but also performed better in the game. Meanwhile, the two other groups showed similar commitment and performance. Klein said, "You want to be dedicated and unwilling to give up on your goal, which is more likely when you share that goal with someone you look up to and whose opinion you value and which might incentivizeyou to achieve your goals."

Herb Chasancould have eased into retirement after spending 18 years teaching math to high school students. But the octogenarian(八旬老人) couldn't rest. It wasn't until eight years ago that he stepped into one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. He noticed a group of children wandering nearby with nothing to do.He couldn't shake the image from his mind, and it became thedriving force for Hoops and Homework, an after-school program that has provided activities and tutoring for youth up to age 14.

Since 2012, Hoops and Homework has helped more than 300 children who otherwise would have gone home to empty houses or roamed the streets until their parents got off work. Thanks to Mr. Chasananddedicated staff and volunteers, the children instead have spent industrious afternoons making crafts, playing basketball, learning violin and yoga, gardening, and basking in the attention of a small army of tutors."Our goal is to help these kids break the cycle of poverty and jail to have a good job, to be a success,"says Mr. Chasan.

Within a few months, he secured $81,000 in town funding to startthe program. It takes $170,000 annually to run the center. Hoops and Homework has encouraged people from different parts of the community to volunteer during the after-school sessions because they can tell the children "someday you may be doing that job, we love to have role models come in."

The program goes beyond helping children.Most of the staff members are bilingual, which enables them to serve the largely Spanish-speakingcommunity."My English is not good," says KeilaCupid, a parent who lives close to the center. But the mother of 11-year-old Cupid is clear in expressing her gratitude for Hoops and Homework: "It'sa safe space for my daughter when I am away to my English class."

Whether you want to absorb yourself in luxury (奢华) or make memories that will last a lifetime, consider South Carolina for your next beach vacation!

Folly Beach

Sometimes called one of America last true beach towns, Folly Island is charming, with clothing shops and seafood restaurants of every kind along Center Street. There's something for everyone, whether you're a surfer, cyclist, boater, you love fishing, or you're interested in the island's rich sea-wildlife, complex history, Folly Beach is a great place for culture too.

Hilton Head

Famous for its luxury accommodations, low country-beaches, and 30 world-class golf courses, and 300 tennis courts, Hilton Head was the first eco-planned destination in the United States. While Hilton Head is famous for its expensive offerings, there's plenty of exploring for families and nature lovers.

Edisto Beach

Edisto Beach is a great placefor nature lovers. A vacation at Edisto beach includes adventure in the great outdoors. Hike, fish, and explore the beach. Edisto Beach provides affordable beach fun, like oceanfront and forest campsites.

Bull Island

Bull Island is known for its bird-life, with more than 293 species recorded there. Kids love spotting an American Bald Eagle. Naturalist-guided tours are great for all ages if observing black foxes is on your bucket list.

请根据海报内容及以下要点写一份倡议书。

⒈环保是我们中学生义不容辞的责任；

⒉我们应该养成这些环保习惯；

⒊让我们人人都为地球母亲尽一份绵薄之力吧！

注意：1.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；2.词数：不少于100词。

Dear friends,

……

Thank you!

The Students' Union

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（︿），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Today I took part in the Beijing Foreign Language Festival with my friend Li Ming. We arrive there by bike in the morning. First we attended to a lecture introduced good methodsof learning English. The audienceall listened but took notes carefully. Then we went to the English Corner, there lots of people were talking with foreigners in small group. Li Ming and I joined them with greatly interest. That was amazing to find myselftalking with the native speaker and we got on quite well. Time passed quickly. Before leaving, we bought some books and dictionaries. The festival gave you a good chance to practice my English.

"Traveling to China seems like traveling to another world. Its many famous scenic attractions impressed me (great),"an American said. The following is he wrote on his website.

My friends and I had a family visit in Xi'an,old city with a long history in China. The hosts were retired or stayed at home without a job, and they were friendly to (visit) from different countries coming their homes.

We (taste) the true home-cooked dishes in the home of the family that we visited. For in-homing dinner, the host would prepare a list of menus in advance (提前). Our tour guide asked (we) for advice about the food, so the host would try to cook what we wanted (eat) at his home. We just enjoyed the locally cooked dishes. It was quite a different and exciting experience.

Many foreigners enjoy (learn) how to make Chinese dumplings. We were also (offer) a general cooking class in the local family. The host taught us to make dumplings step by step with lots of patience. And we didn't need to pay any money this. Travel China Guide offers this kind of service free of charge.

The family visit in Xi'an was a good chance for us to get to know Chinese people's daily life.

My job is to provide at-home services for the elderly and those who are disabled. My client (客户) was an 86-year-old woman who had been 1 cancer for the past four years. The last few months of her life took all her 2 but none of her joy in life.

Each day I appeared at her 3 , she would ask, "Have you heard any good 4 lately?" I'm not good at remembering jokes and 5 had a funny story to tell her, besides it always seemed that the only joke that would come to my mind sound 6 to her.

Then, I got the bright idea to copy Grace's Kid Stories that I 7 on my bookshelf at home. Every day I would have one more 8 thing to tell my wonderful friend. She would 9 quietly to herself, and my heart was10 .

Today, her daughter told me she had 11 on Sunday. One of the things the daughter told me was that one of her mother's last 12 was "Have you heard any good jokes lately?"

The daughter told her mother that she couldn't 13 anything funny. Her mother replied that I always 14 with a joke and that she had 15 wailing for me to arrive with each new "joke".

We 16 for a few minutes together, then I got on with my 17 , but I couldn't seem to down to work. Finally, I 18 the daughter and asked, "Would you like to hear today's joke?"

I am grateful (感激的) to the stories for 19 me to make an old woman's last days a little more 20 . Goodbye, my old friend, I hope you continue to get a joke every day in heaven!

Books have a beginning, a middle and an end. To properly read a book, you should pay attention to its importance. For non-fiction books, it is important to read text in its entirety but think about only the major points the author is trying to express.

Choose a well-lit and quiet place to read your book.You are more likely to concentrate on the words on the page if you are not affected by noises or other things.

Decide how much time you want to devote to the reading. You may want to adjust this time allotment according to how long and difficult the reading material is.

If you own your book, use note-taking symbols in the paragraphs. For example, if you find something that is important, put a star or a few words next to it. If you are unsure of something and it needs more research, put a question mark next to it.

Write answers to questions at the end of your reading and give definitions of important terms. For every 100 pages of text you should have atleast three to five pages of written notes.If you are using a computer to take notes, don't copy and paste text from your reading.

A. Write in your book.

B. Make a detailed plan.

C. Use your own words to answer your questions.

D. As such they should be read from start to finish.

E.Turn off your cell phone and television so that your attention won't be disturbed.

F.Therefore, stop every now and then to think about the structure and main content.

G.For example, spend 4 hours on detailed reading of a 250-page book and 1 hour on note-taking.

Like all big cities, Paris has a traffic problem: lots of cars, lots of traffic jams and lots of pollution from exhaust fumes (废气). So the city began a project to improve the situation.

Under the Velibproject (‘Velib' comes from veloliberty, or ‘bicycle freedom') people can take a bicycle, use it for as long as they want, and then leave it at the same or another bicycle station. The first half-hour on the bike is free, but if you don't return it after 30 minutes, you have to pay. But it's only €1 a day or €29 a year! The bicycles are heavy (25 kg), and they are all gray and have baskets. There are about 20,000 of them in the city, and around 1,450 bicycle stations. So there are a lot more Velibstations than the 298 subway stations!

Paris is not the first city to have a project like this. But not everybody thinks it's a great idea. One Parisian said, "These bicycles are only for short journeys. If people want to travel across the city, they won't use a bicycle - they'll still use their cars."

A city spokesman said, "The bicycle project won't solve all our traffic problems, of course. But it might help reduce air pollution. Traffic, together with factory fumes, is a big problem. There aren't any simple answers to traffic problems and pollution in cities. But unless we do something now, there will be more traffic jams and temperatures will continue to rise, so the problems in our environment will get worse. The bikes might help people to lead a healthier life, too."

Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a bench in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, "Excuse me. I want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning." " Sir, " said the poor man, " I am a failure. I have no money, no family, nohome. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I'll sleep in that hotel." The rich man said, "Tonight your dream will come true. I'll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month."

A few days after, the rich man went into the poor man's room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man asked why, he said, "You see, when I'm sleeping on my bench, I dreamed I am there, in the big hotel. It's a wonderful dream. But when I was there I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn't get any sleep at all."

China is a land of bicycles. At least it was back in 1992 when I travelled the country. Back then everyone seemed to be riding a bicycle. Millions of them, all black. Cars were rare(罕见). Yet, since my arrival in Beijing last year, I've found there are millions of cars. However, people still use their bicycles to get around. For many, it'sthe easiest and cheapest way to travel today. Bicycles also come in different colors—sliver, green, red, blue, yellow, whatever you want.

It's fun watching people biking. They rush quickly through crossroads, move skillfully through traffic, and ride evenon sidewalks. Bicycles allow people the freedom to move about that cars can't provide.

Eager to be a part of this Chinese culture, I bought a bicycle. Since the weather was great that day, I couldn't wait to jump up on my bicycle and started for home.

My first ride home was orderly(守秩序的). To be safe, I stayed with a pack of bikers while cars on the streets appeared suddenly now and then. I didn't want to get hit. So I took the ride carefully.

Crossing the streets was the biggest problem. It was like crossing highway back in the United States. The streets here were wide, so crossing took time, skill and a little bit of luck.

I finally made it home. The feeling on the bicycle was amazing. The air hitting my face and going through my hair was wonderful. I was sitting on top of the world as I passed by places and people. Biking made me feel alive.

Three Things to Do Before You Are 18

Are you bored with your daily life? Here are some things you should try before you are 18.

★Learn to swim

Seriously, this is so important that it can save your life. If you can't swim well, you won't be able to do water sports like waterskiing, surfing and diving. Even taking a boat trip will be dangerous for you. Make sure you do it.

★Try at least one kind of team sports

Being a good team player is an important skill in life. You can't just think of yourself, but have to work well with other people. Other advantages of team sports like basketball, football and baseball are that they keep you fit and healthy, and they are also great fun. Teams usually have a good social life too—you'll go to lots of parties and make many friends.

★Collect something

One of the best hobbies for under-18s is collecting things. You could collect kinds of stamps, or you could collect things that make you remember what you have done, like cinema tickets for films you have seen or letters from friends. The best way to collect is to have a special album to put your collection in and to write what each thing means to you. That way you won't forget.

Dad handed me the bucket and the net with a long, wooden handle. He gave Paulie two dead fish wrapped in newspaper. They were tied up with string like a present. I held my nose, but Paulie held those fish like they were his best baseball cards. 

"Since we all want crabs for supper, catch a whole bunch. But just in case you don't, we have leftover broccoli (花椰菜)." Dad said with a wink.

The salty air from Chesapeake Bay filled our noses. This was the best place in the world to catch blue crabs. They like grassy, shadowy water, so Paulie and I headed for our old wooden dock. It was hot, and I sat down and swung my legs over the edge, into the cool water. Paulie struggled to tie the string to one of the slippery fish. Then he slid the extra fish into the bucket and set it in the dark water under the dock for later. 

"Here." Paulie handed me the baited string. "Dangle (提着) this down in the water to call the crabs."

Crabs love smelly, old fish, so our first crab didn't take long to come. Its big claw clamped (紧夹住) the bait, and I raised the string real slow so Paulie could net it. But my legs swishing (发出刷刷声) in the water startled that crab, and it let go and floated back to the bottom like a leaf off a tree. Paulie brought up the net and stood there with the handle on the dock.

"Kathy, I can't believe you're going to be in third grade and can't sit still for one minute," he said.

"And I can't believe you're going to be in sixth grade and haven't caught any crabs yet."

I went back to dangling the fish. 

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1:

"Well, get ready," he urged. "Here comes another one."

Paragraph 2:

The sun began to set.

3. 活动感受。

注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Peter, 

Yours sincerely, 

Li Hua

Like many other students you may have various people, including family members and friends, (give) input on your college decision.

While many of your trusted relatives and peers (同龄人)may have very(value) advice that can help you to make the decision, finally the choice is yours and yours alone. Only you can fully realize which aspects of a college will make you truly happy and(satisfy), so keep that at the front of your mind.

Moreover, fully consider each option. It can be easy(let) a particular school become a front-runner early onyour decision-making process, and it may even become the winning choice — but be sure to carefully evaluate every schoolhas accepted you, since you had particular reasons for applying to each school.

Do keepopen mind. Students can change majors, but remember that there's no re-living a certain semester(学期), and there's no making up for lost time. Don't go to a school(specific)for a high school relationshipto make someone else happy. A(student) college experience is his or her own, and the student must put his or her education first.

That morning, I got the train as always. I was a publishing director and was looking forward to embracing a new day of work, as usual. I would always turn to the crossword (纵横填字游戏), but that day it didn't make sense. I'd been doing it for 30-old years, but trying to read this one was like walking through syrup (糖浆)：1 slow and hard. I thought I must be tired.

I said to my assistant. The 2 colleague contacted my wife, Beth, and she drove me straight to hospital. There, confirmation came that I'd had a stroke in the part of my brain that 3 with communication. I was now in a condition that means it's difficult or4 to receive and produce language. It was the only time I cried.

I was back at home a week later, and my goal was to get better and return to work in a couple of months. The way to 5 my language ability was rough. I'd look at simple pictures and try to describe them as my mind 6 round and round in the darkness, looking for words.

As the months passed, it became self-evident that I wasn't going to be able to go back to my old job. For 25 years, I had 7 myself as a publisher. I was used to a busy day of meetings. I didn't feel ready to say goodbye to my old self. There were times when I felt incredibly 8 .

In the darkest months I devoted myself to9 . I couldn't manage novels or newspapers, 10 I tried reading poetry, and found the shorter lines less overwhelming. My speech came back, and I learned how to read again, though much more slowly. I also learned the 11 to keep up. I allowed myself to slow down, and started to enjoy it.

12 , I get rid of my old skin. I grieved the past, its passing and its absence, and started to come to terms 13 it. Now, 10 years later, I look after my grandson a day a week, and my relationship with my family is deeper than ever. If you'd asked me 15 years ago to 14 the importance of the things in my life I might have said work, but now I'm no longer a high-achieving publisher or someone who reads 10 books a week. I'm a 15 man, and if I read 10 books a year, that's pretty good.

Most smartphones allow you to run location­sharing software that uses the phone's GPS capability to let friends and family know your exact location. There are lots of great uses for this technology. So make sure you're permitted to use an app or service, and pay attention to how you are using it. Here're some important points you may find helpful.

Choose what's best for you. Some location­sharing services are games that let you give a shout­out when you've turned up at a particular spot. Still others continue to share your location until you change the setting. Be sure you know exactly how your service shares your location.

Know who your friends are.This means people can search to see if you're online and add you as a friend. It's important to remember that sharing your location with people you've never met in real life is risky, so you should carefully manage friend requests and share your location only with people you know and trust.

Some services automatically stop sending your location after a period of time, but others will send it forever — until you stop it. Review your contact list periodically and delete anyone to whom you no longer feel comfortable revealing your location.

Update parents. Location­based services are a great way for teens to let parents know where they are without having to call or text. If you're heading home late at night, you can also use a service like Glympseto share your location as you drive, so they'll know if you have car trouble or get stuck in traffic.

A. Check back often.

B. Keep sending your location.

C. However, these services are not for all children.

D. With its help, you can easily share your location with them.

E. Check­ins ease worries so they don't have to follow your every move.

F. Others show where you are all the time or for a period of time you set.

G. Some location services operate like Facebook, where you invite and accept friends.

Last year, 138,000 San Francisco residents used Airbnb, a popular app designed to connect home renters and travelers. It's a striking number for a city with a population of about 850,000, and it was enough for Airbnb to win a major victory in local elections, as San Francisco voters struck down a debatable rule that would have placed time restrictions and other regulations on short-term rental services.

The company fiercely opposed the measure Proposition F, with a nearly $10 million advertising campaign. It also contacted its San Franciscan users with messages urging them to vote against Proposition F.

Most people think of Airbnb as a kind of couch-surfing app. The service works for one-night stays on road trips and longer stays in cities, and it often has more competitive pricing than hotels. It's a textbook example of the "sharing economy", but not everyone is a fan.

The app has had unintended consequences in San Francisco. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported last year, a significant amount of renting on Airbnb is not in line with the company's image: middle-class families putting up a spare room to help make ends meet. Some users have taken advantage of the service, using it to turn their multiple properties into vacation rentals or even full-time rentals. Backers of Proposition F argued that this trend takes spaces off the conventional, better-regulated housing market and contributes to rising costs.

"The fact is, widespread abuse of short-term rentals is taking much needed housing off the market and harming our neighborhoods," said ShareBetter SF, a group that supported Proposition F. Hotel unions have protested the company's practices in San Francisco and other cities, saying that it creates an illegal hotel system.

San Francisco is in the middle of a long-term, deeply rooted housing crisis that has seen the cost of living explode. Actually, explode is a generous term. The average monthly rent for an apartment is around $4, 000. Located on a narrow outcropping of land overlooking the bay, San Francisco simply doesn't have enough space to accommodate the massive inflow of young, high-salaried tech employees flocking to Silicon Valley.

As the Los Angeles Times reported, some San Francisco residents supported the measure simply because it seemed like a way to check a big corporation. Opponents of Proposition F countered that the housing crisis runs much deeper, and that passing the rule would have discouraged a popular service while doing little to solve the city's existing problems.

In recent years, China has witnessed the growth of luxury (奢侈品) brands. In this market, Chinese consumers are now the largest spenders. It's clear that a new generation of young, materialistic people is increasingly relying on luxury brands to improve its self-image.

I am a fashionist too, at least in spirit—I love to look at clothes and shoes. But I don't understand why people spend lots of money on designer labels.

When a young woman buys a handbag that costs two months of her salary, that's a scary thing.

What's interesting is that scientists have found that having luxury things doesn't lead to happiness.

Study after study has shown that although we want material things, when we get them we don't suddenly become "happy" people. In fact, a series of studies by Leaf Van Boven at the University of Colorado, US, has shown that individuals who spend money on travel and similar experiences get more pleasure than those who invest it in material things. That's because experiences are more easily combined with a person's identity. If I travel to Yunnan, that adventure affects how I think in the future. My memories become a part of me.

Moreover, as Van Boven has observed, young people who pursue happiness through "things" are liked less by their peers. People prefer those who pursue happiness through experiences.

It's natural to want to express yourself through your appearance. So my advice is: create a look that isn't tied to a designer label. Convey your own message. Take some lessons from the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. He was always in Levis jeans and a black turtleneck. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, routinely appears in hoodies and sneakers. These people, successful people, have style. You don't have to break the bank to send a message about who you are.

Take a trip. Go out into the world. Then come back and confidently create your own signature look.

"Can we eat this one, Dad?" my four-year-old daughter, Alicia, asks. We're on one of our Thursday adventures, searching the nearby woods for eatable mushrooms. She's pointing at a bright-red cap covered with white dots. I pull out my handy mushroom-identification app, which notes that Amanita muscaria, while eatable if prepared properly, is also a known hallucinogen (致幻剂). I have a firm "tell them the truth and be as precise as possible" philosophy and explain what the app says, and that I don't think our Thursday adventures are ready to get quite that adventurous yet.

Watching your kids learn new skills is extraordinarily rewarding, but I've experienced more personal growth than I have at any other point in my life.

Last year, after a winter of practicing skiing on the green tracks for beginners each week, Alicia was french-frying her way down blues and even attempted her first black. That month also witnessed me visiting the mountain more times than in the 15 years combined and I've got myself a partner for life. 

It's not all easy—but sometimes that's the point. Alicia practices the violin every day, and although she enjoys it, even 15 minutes of practice can upset her. The trick, I've found, is to let her watch me try to get better at something, too. I start taking piano lessons at 41 years old with the idea that if she sees me struggling as I practice and then improve, she'll understand that things don't come easy, even for grown-ups. I know there's going to be a time when I'll end up on the sideline cheering her on as she finds her own passions. I'm okay with this, and I'm hoping that by then she'll carry the joy of practice and knowledge through life.