12£®I've learned that you have to take the initiative if you want to get anywhere£®If you just let other people decide what is going to happen for you£¬then all your goals and dreams may never be achieved£®
Everyone always says that studying abroad in college can change your life£®I made the decision to experience it for myself during my junior year£®I chose to study in the Dominican Republic£®As it got closer to the deadline£¬an advisor told me I had received a scholarship from an alumni £¨Ð£ÓÑ£© family foundation £¨»ù½ð£©£®
During my first semester in the country I fell in love£®I was becoming bilingual £¨Ë«ÓïµÄ£© but also learning so much about a new culture£®I had begun working with a local grassroots £¨²Ý¸ù£© organization£¬taking part in a project supporting an underdeveloped community just outside the city£®My main role was to become aware of the issues facing populations such as these and support community education£®I was in no way ready to leave this new life£®I felt as if I needed more time to get what I wanted£®
As the next semester began£¬I realized again that I needed to take a chance£®I got involved with a local boarding school for girls living in poverty£®I first approached the head of the school to volunteer to teach music classes£¬asking for money from my college church£®I could have never predicted the results of this small action£®Another volunteer and I were able to put together a benefit £¨ÒåÑÝ£© to show off what the students had learned£®We invited community members£¬friends and other students from local universities to support the girls£®We also sold art that the students themselves had created to increase the funding £¨×ÊÖú£© of the arts program£®I felt good when I left£¬knowing that I had laid the foundation for a good cause and bettered the lives of young girls£®
There will always be people that think they know what is best for you£¬but you ultimately know what you want in life£®My time in the Dominican Republic changed my life by giving me the realization of how fortunate I am and the fact that there is always a chance to give back£®You have to go after anything and everything you desire or there may be a missed opportunity£®My trip to Santo Domingo taught me to take advantage of new possibilities£®
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Tribune News Service
56£®The article mainly tells usB£®
A£®how the author helped poor girls in a local boarding school
B£®that studying abroad gave the author life-changing opportunities
C£®that the author chose to study abroad to follow other people's examples
D£®how the author learned about the issues facing people in the Dominican Republic
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C£®The author is grateful for her experience in Santo Domingo£®
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20£®A recent study by Citi Retail Services found that a growing number of people are embracing digital wallets or e-wallets£¬due in large part to their convenience and ease of use£®
E-wallets have been called the future of real-world payment technology£®With major players like Alipay£¬WeChat and Apple Pay becoming popular£¬it seems to be a safe bet that a change in consumer payment technology is coming soon£®
CNN reporter Paul Ripley experienced a day in Beijing without his wallet£®"In China's largest cities£¬you can definitely survive without carrying a pocket full of cash and credit cards-as long as you've got your smartphone£®"He paid for breakfast by scanning a QR code on the window of a hole-in-the-wall restaurant£®All he had to do was to enter a password and the transaction was complete£®
Unlike the situations in the US and other countries£¬"China doesn't have a really money-making credit card system£¬so Chinese people just skipped credit cards and went straight to mobile payments£®"Gu Yu£¬co-founder of the new payment app Mileslife£¬told CNN£®He also pointed out the advantages of mobile payments£®"No coins or bills that can be lost or stolen£¬electronic receipts£¬the ease of keeping track of spending-and of course£¬no wallet taking up space£®"he said£®
However£¬if we want to make e-wallets a mainstream trend£¬a lot of things will have to change over the coming years£®Perhaps one of the most important things that need to be changed is how people regard e-wallets£®Linda Barrabee£¬research director for NPD Connected Intelligence£¬said in a statement£®"In order to promote on-the-go consumer transactions and commerce£¬wireless carriers£¬credit card companies£¬and e-commerce companies need to make sure the process is convenient£¬simple£¬and secure for consumers£®"

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B£®Mobile payments are popular in large cities in China like Beijing£®
C£®Life in Beijing has become the most advanced in the world£®
D£®You can buy anything you want using mobile payments in Beijing£®
34£®Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage£¿A
A£®There will be no more cash or credit card payments in the near future£®
B£®Digital-wallets will save up much space in your bag when you go out£®
C£®How people consider digital wallets will influence the popularity of digital wallet£®
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Users simply log in£¬pick a restaurant£¬pay trough the app and then pick up their food at a set time-usually around closing or after peak meal times£®Orders through the app cost between 2 British pounds £¨2.60£©to3.80Britishpounds£¨about 5£©£®Users aren't able to pick the food items£¬but they get an idea of the type of food that will be available£¬according to Business Green£®
Users also have the option to give meals to people in need by donating 1 British pound or more through the app£®More than l£¬l00 meals have been donated so far£®
To ensure the entire experience is super eco-friendly£®Too Good To Go provides recyclable takeout packaging to participating restaurants£®
Restaurants using the app make extra money by selling food hat would otherwisehave been throw away£®And Too Good To Go itself makes money by taking a fee from participating restaurants on each sale£®
Founded in Denmark last year£®Too Good To Go launched this year in the UK and is expanding to other countries£®The app is available in Brighton£®Birmingham£¬Manchester and Leeds£¬and will be in London later this month£®
"Food waste just seems like one of the dumbest£¨ÓÞ´À£© problems we have in this world£¬"co-founder James Crummie told Business Green£®"The restaurant industry is waiting about 600£¬000 tonnes of food each year£¬and in the UK alone there are one million people on emergency food parcels from food banks£®Why do we have these two massive social issues that are completely connected£¬yet there is not much going on to address them£¿"
Too Good To Go has already helped cut a significant amount of waste£®So far£¬the app has saved 600 meals from landfills in the UK£¬reports Business Green£®

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A£®To help users find proper restaurants£®
B£®To reduce food waste in UK£®
C£®To help people in need of food£®
D£®To make orders of food much cheaper£®
30£®Which of the following statements are TRUE according to the passage£¿A
A£®The app has made some progress in saving food£®
B£®The app has been used throughout UK by now£®
C£®You can make money if you are a customer£®
D£®The restaurants provide recyclable takeout packaging£®
31£®From what James Crummie said we know thatC£®
A£®It's stupid for the restaurant industry to waste so much food
B£®Food bank should provide more food to people in need
C£®People don't pay much attention to food problems
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32£®What's the main idea of the passage£¿D
A£®How to use the app£®                       B£®Who benefit from the app£®
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17£®High blood pressure is defined as 140mmHg over 90mmHg£¬and for years£¬doctors have used that measure as the threshold for prescribing anti-hypertensive drugs£®But based on new recommendations£¬adults who are 60or older can wait until their readings reach 150over 90or above to begin medication£®After reviewing available evidence on the effects of blood pressure treatments£¬the Institute of Medicine's Eighth Joint National Committee £¨JNC 8£©concluded that aggressive treatment can lead to lightheadedness£¬falls and fainting in elderly populations-so they advised loosening the guidelines for starting medication£®
But days after the guidelines were published£¬heart experts raised concerns about how the advice would affect patients£» inadequately controlled blood pressure is a risk factor for heart attack and stroke£®
Members of the JNC8who voted against the recommendations published an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine outlining their reasons for opposing the change£®"We£¬the panel minority£¬believed that evidence was insufficient to increase the target goal from its current level because increasing the goal may cause harm by increasing the risk for CVD£¨ÐÄѪ¹Ü¼²²¡£©and partially undoing the remarkable progress in reducing cardiovascular mortality in Americans older than 60£¬"they wrote£®
Dr£®Suzanne Steinbaum said she has not changed the way she treats her patients over 60£®She says£¬"As a preventive cardiologist£¨ÐÄÔಡѧ¼Ò£©£¬these new guidelines have made me crazy£®What we have learned is that blood pressure treatment even for a patient above 80has been shown to be critical£®It goes against everything we know as cardiologists£®"
Defending the panel's decision£¬Dr£®Paul A£®James£¬co-chairman of the guidelines committee£¬said in an email to TIME£¬"I can assure you that the panel discussed the opinions of the minority members on three different occasions and the majority were not persuaded that the expert skills of a few members should override the scientific evidence£®"
James said that as with any medications£¬doctors will use the blood pressure recommendations as guidelines£¬and prescribe drugs based on their evaluation of each patient£®"Medications prescribed by physicians all have the potential to be dangerous£¬"he wrote£®"Educating doctors about the scientific evidence will help doctors make better decisions with patients£®Physicians who practice on the basis of scientific evidence usually subscribe to simple rule-if the medicine cannot be shown to help the patient£¬then the medicine should not be prescribed£®"
The editorial isn't likely to change them any time soon£®But the concerns should urge doctors to monitor their patients more closely and tailor medications and their doses more carefully£®

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After a year that was politically unstable£¬it's not hard to understand the fact that people's political views are one of the main drives of our expanding vocabulary£®One example is"otherize"£®It is a verb for"other"that means to alienate £¨Ê¹ÊèÔ¶£© people who are different from ourselves-whether that be different skin color£¬religious belief or sexuality£®"We had all the words around Brexit £¨ÍÑÅ·£© in the last update and we are now starting to see all the words around Trump coming into the dictionary£¬"Angus Stevenson£¬Oxford Dictionaries'head of content development£¬told The Guardian£®
Lifestyle is also changing our language£®For example£¬"fitspiration"-a compound of"fit"and"inspiration"-refers to a person or thing that encourages one to exercise and stay fit and healthy£®The phrase"climate refugee"-someone who is forced to leave their home due to climate change-reflects people's concern for the environment£®
But still£¬not all newly-invented words get the chance to make their way into a mainstream dictionary£®If you want to create your own hit words£¬Stevenson's suggestion is that you should not only make sure that they are expressive and meaningful£¬but also have an attractive sound so that people will enjoy saying them out loud£®

21£®What's the meaning of"fitspiration"£¿B
A£®The people who have healthy spirit£®
B£®Someone or something that helps people keep fit£®
C£®A lifestyle with fit and positive spirit£®
D£®The people who often do exercises to keep fit£®
22£®Which word reflects our care about the surroundings£¿A
A£®climate refugee  
B£®otherize  
C£®clicktivism  
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