The Stranger Who Changed My Life

  It was a sunny morning in the spring of 1966. I was driving a taxi, looking for a customer. While passing New York Hospital, I found a man running down the hospital steps, waving at me.

  I stopped. The man reached the taxi and jumped in. "The Airport，please," he said. As always, I wondered about my passenger. Was this man a talker? After a few moments, he started saying, "How do you like driving a taxi?"

  "It's OK," I said. "I make a living and meet interesting people sometimes." "What do you do?" I asked.

  "I am a doctor at New York Hospital." Many times during long rides, I'd developed a good relationship with my passengers and received very good advice from them. This time I decided to ask for his help.

   "Could I ask a favor of you?" He didn't answer. "I have a son, 15, a good kid. He wants a job this summer. Is it possible that you get one for him?"

  He still wasn't talking, and I was starting to feel foolish. Finally, he said, "Well, my students have a summer research project. Maybe he could join in. Have him send me his school record."

  He left his address and paid me. It was the last time I ever saw him. Robbie sent off his grades the next morning. And gradually this incident was forgotten. Two weeks later, when I arrived home from work, Robbie handed me a letter. He was informed to call Dr. Plum for an interview.

  Robbie got the job. The following summer, Robbie worked at the hospital again, but this time, he was given more responsibility. Then, he worked at the hospital for a third summer and gradually developed a love of medical profession.

  Near graduating from college, Robbie applied to and was admitted to New York Medical College. After getting his medical degree, Robbie, the son of a taxi driver, became a doctor at Columbia Medical Center. 

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Talk to Your Kids about Their Eating Habits Carefully

  Weight is never an easy subject. It can be risky for parents to raise the issue of eating habits and weight with their kids.

  "No kid ever lost weight because his mother told him he was fat," a friend told me when I was worried about my son's weight.

  It turns out she was right, according to a new study. The study was directed by Dr. Berge at University of Minnesota. She found that kids whose parents discussed eating in a healthy way were less likely to have eating problems. But 64% of the kids whose parents focused on their weight turned to unhealthy eating behaviors. Some kids went on extreme diets, and others even ate no food. So eating disorders were caused. Things were worse when fathers joined in the discussions with their daughters and focused on weight. "Fathers should never comment on their daughters' weight," says Berge. Instead, she suggests, fathers should focus on their daughters' interests. That can help them feel loved and confident enough to work on their weight issues.

  How should parents talk to kids about eating behaviors? According to Berge, they should avoid focusing on how much their kids weigh. They should talk to them about being healthy. Don't compare them with others. Ideally, both parents should share the responsibility. If that's not possible, choose the parent whose words cause the least amount of stress and who demonstrates healthy eating. 

A.worry about her son's weight

B.take the risk of gaining weight

C.change her own eating habits

D.talk to her son about his weight

A.learned to eat healthily

B.took part in the study

C.focused on their weight

D.believed the scientists

A.felt helpless

B.became angry

C.began to eat no food

D.refused to take any advice

A.amused

B.encouraged

C.surprised

D.challenged

A.focus on being healthy

B.use short and simple words

C.respect their kids' views

D.compare their kids with others

Plagiarism（剽窃）

①You just found some good stuff on the Web for your science report. You copy a paragraph and paste it into your report. Then you continue your research. But you just made a big mistake. You committed plagiarism. Plagiarism is when you use someone else's words or ideas and pretend that they are yours. It's not allowed in school, college, or beyond.

②The word "plagiarism" comes from Latin. It means stealing a person's ideas. But it's not always easy to tell what is plagiarism and what is not. Sometimes, it's accidental. You really intended to do your own work, yet ended up with some sentences that sound just like something you’ve read.

③Though plagiarism can be accidental, it's sometimes done on purpose. That's just being lazy. By copying whole paragraphs from different places, you don't have to spend the time thinking about the subject, gathering your own thoughts about it, and then putting them into original words. Cut, paste, and you're done.

④Most schools are pretty strict about plagiarism. If you're caught, your graduation will be delayed or worse. At the very least, you're probably going to fail the assignment. When you're older and in college, some schools will kick out students who plagiarize. When you're kicked out of one college, it can be hard to get into another.

⑤To be on the safe side, always make it clear where the information comes from. You need to write references. That's a list of the sources you used for a project or report. To do that, you'll need to know the author, the title, and the date it was published. If you write something really great, maybe some day someone will quote you in a report. 

A.Purposeful plagiarism

B.The cost of plagiarism

C.The definition of plagiarism

D.Accidental plagiarism

E.Detecting plagiarism

F.Avoiding plagiarism

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C.quote you in their reports

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Fruit

  Imagine a world without fruit. We wouldn’t be very healthy. We get a lot of important vitamins from eating fruit.

  We think of fruit primarily as something to eat._____（26）Fruit is part of a flowering plant and it carries the seeds. The purpose of fruit is to protect a plant's seeds and help them get spread about. Wind and water spread seeds. So do animals when they eat fruit and drop the seeds. _____（27） 

  There are two main types of fruit: fleshy and dry. Fleshy fruits are soft and juicy. Pears, bananas and apples are all fleshy fruits. _____（28）Grains like wheat and rice, or nuts like chestnuts（板栗）, are dry fruits.

  But wait: You've eaten oranges and grapes without seeds. How can they be fruits? It's because people have changed the way they grow fruit. They can now grow seedless fruit. Seedless fruit comes from special plants that are made by combining two varieties of a fruit to form a new variety. These special plants grow and produce seeds. _____（29）These plants cannot reproduce themselves. They can make fruit, but the fruit has no seeds.

  Fruits are a source of substances that keep us alive and healthy. So people make use of fruits for many foods. We make juices from them. We make jams and sweets. _____（30）Beer comes from grains and wine comes from grapes, and some particular wines are made from apples, peaches, or other fruits. 

A.Dry fruits are thin and hard.

B.We even make alcohol from fruit.

C.But fruit has a purpose quite apart from our needs.

D.So these plants produce fleshy fruits.

E.Then the seeds grow into new plants.

F.But the plants grown from these seeds are seedless.

A.Dry fruits are thin and hard.

B.We even make alcohol from fruit.

C.But fruit has a purpose quite apart from our needs.

D.So these plants produce fleshy fruits.

E.Then the seeds grow into new plants.

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D.So these plants produce fleshy fruits.

E.Then the seeds grow into new plants.

F.But the plants grown from these seeds are seedless.

Mental Activities Help Save Memory

  Doing mental activities is helpful. Reading books and writing at any age may save memory, a new _____（31）finds.

  The study was conducted by some American neurologists（神经病学家）. It _____（32）294 people.

  They were given _____（33）on memory and thinking. They had the tests once a year for six years. They were also asked to talk about their mental activities during childhood, in their youth, during middle age and at their _____（34）age.

  Some of those people did mental activities both _____（35） and late in life They had a slower_____（36）of decline in memory than the others. The others _____（37） did such activities. Their rate of decline in memory was 48% _____.

  "Mental activities like reading and writing are great. They _____（39）bring benefits. We shouldn't _____（40）their effects on our children, ourselves and our parents," said Robert Wilson, lead author of the study.

A．early B．tests C．seldom D．taught

E．faster F．produce G．study H．current

I．involved J．neglect K．rate L．really