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The first serious prospect of a cure for Aids（）a treatment which delays its effects has emerged.

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Unfortunately, life is not a bed of roses. We are going through life facing sad experiences. Moreover, we are grieving various kinds of loss: a friendship, a romantic relationship or a house. Hard times may hold you down at what usually seems like the most inopportune time, but you should remember that they won’t last forever.When our time of mourning is over, we press forward, stronger with a greater understanding and respect for life. Furthermore, these losses make us mature and eventually move us toward future opportunities for growth and happiness. I want to share these ten old truths I’ve learned along the way.1. ___Fear is both useful and harmful. This normal human reaction is used to protect us by signaling danger and preparing us to deal with it. Unfortunately, people create inner barriers with a help of exaggerating fears. My favorite actor Will Smith once said, “Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.” I do completely agree that fears are just the product of our luxuriant imagination.2. _If you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment. Many of us are weighed down by the past or anxious about the future. You may feel guilt over your past, but you are poisoning the present with the things and circumstances you cannot change. Value the present moment and remember how fortunate you are to be alive. Enjoy the beauty of the world around and keep the eyes open to see the possibilities before you. Happiness is not a point of future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.3. _Sometimes it is easy to feel bad because you are going through tough times. You can be easily caught up by life problems that you forget to pause and appreciate the things you have. Only strong people prefer to smile and value their life instead of crying and complaining about something.4. _No matter how isolated you might feel and how serious the situation is, you should always remember that you are not alone. Try to keep in mind that almost everyone respects and wants to help you if you are trying to make a good change in your life, especially your dearest and nearest people. You may have a circle of friends who provide constant good humor, help and companionship. If you have no friends or relatives, try to participate in several online communities, full of people who are always willing to share advice and encouragement.5. ___Today many people find it difficult to trust their own opinion and seek balance by gaining objectivity from external sources. This way you devalue your opinion and show that you are incapable of managing your own life. When you are struggling to achieve something important you should believe in yourself and be sure that your decision is the best. You live in your skin, think your own thoughts, have your own values and make your own choices.

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The destruction of the twin towers（）shock and anger throughout the world.

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Applicants should note that all positions are（）to Australian citizenship requirements.

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The finance minister has not been so（） since he raised taxes to an unbearable level.　　

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Sport is heading for an indissoluble marriage with television and the passive spectator will enjoy a private paradise. All of this will be in the future of sport. The spectator (the television audience) will be the priority and professional clubs will have to readjust their structures to adapt to the new reality: sport as a business.The new technologies will mean that spectators will no longer have to wait for broadcasts by the conventional channels. They will be the ones who decide what to see. And they will have to pay for it. In the United States the system of the future has already started: pay-as-you-view. Everything will be offered by television and the spectator will only have to choose. The review Sports Illustrated recently published a full profile of the life of the supporter at home in the middle of the next century. It explained that the consumers would be able to select their view of the match on a gigantic, flat screen occupying the whole of one wall, with images of a clarity which cannot be foreseen at present; they could watch from the trainer’s stands just behind the batter in a game of baseball or from the helmet of the star player in an American football game. And at their disposal will be the sane option s the producer of the recorded programmer has to select replays, to choose which camera to me and to decide on the sound whether to hear the public, the players, the trainer and soon.Many sports executives, largely too old and too conservative to feel at home with the new technologies will believe that sport must control the expansion of television coverage in order to survive and ensure that spectators attend matches. They do not even accept the evidence which contradicts their view while there is more basketball than ever on television, for example, it is also certain that basketball is more popular than ever.It is also the argument of these sports executives that television harming the modest teams. This is true, but the future of those team is also modest. They have reached their ceiling . It is the law of the market. The great events continually attract larger audience.The world I being constructed on new technologies so that people can make the utmost use of their time and , in their home have access to the greatest possible range of recreational activities. Sport will have to adapt itself to the new world.The most visionary executives go further. That philosophy is: rather than see television take over sport why not have sports taken over television?1.What does the writer mean by use of the phrase “an indissoluble marriage” in the first paragraph?　2.What does “they” in line 2 paragraph 2 stand for?　3.How do many sports executives feel with the new technologies?　4.What is going to be discussed in the following paragraphs?5.What might be the appropriate title of this passage?

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（）they can get people in the organization to do what must he done, they will not succeed.

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Most of us strive for self-respect—to see ourselves in a positive light, to be _1_ of who we are. Any comments or experiences that undermine those feelings of self-worth can be uncomfortable and it’s only _2_ to want to avoid them. But the thing is, _3_ your self-worth really is being undermined is, to a large degree, subjective. Much of it comes down to your _4_ of what someone said or did.When you take things personally, you’re interpreting these situations as saying something significant and negative about you as a person. Say your boss picks holes in your sales report, and you come away feeling like this means she thinks you’re a _5_ member of staff. Or, two of your friends cancel your _6_ get-together at the pub and you interpret this as meaning they’re bored of you. Psychologists have a _7_ for this way of thinking: personalisation. But the _8_ is that your boss might view you very highly. It’s just you made some _9_ in the report and she wanted to point these out so that you do better next time. _10_, in the case of your friends cancelling, perhaps they both felt unwell that weekend or they just _11_ their minds.In both _12_—and others that we all experience—there’s another _13_ at work that psychologists call mind reading. This is when you assume to know what other people are thinking about you, when you can’t really know without _14_ them directly.One simple way to avoid _15_ personalisation and mind reading is to challenge your negative assumptions of what’s _16_. When you find yourself taking a situation personally, try to think of other interpretations that are less focused on you—especially in the sense of saying anything deep or _17_ about you.When you do this, it might help to try to put yourself in other people’s shoes. The fact your boss took the time to give you _18_ at all means they care enough to want to help you _19_. When it comes to your friends—maybe it’s because your friendship is so _20_ that they felt able to cancel at late notice.

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According to our research, around one in five workers in the UK talk to AI like a friend, looking for guidance on personal and professional problems. Our data shows that engaging with AI like this can leave us feeling heard and less isolated. But, with this newfound connection, many of us share sensitive, sometimes highly confidential information, even though over a third of people don't realise that AI platforms may not be very good at keeping our secrets...secret.For business, the implications are worrying. Consider Microsoft Copilot, for example. It gains Microsoft broad rights to the data inputted or outputted by any user - rights to use this data in any way it sees fit; it can even share it with third parties. This means that any way it sees fit, it can even share it with third parties. This means that any sensitive business information could potentially be exposed to the world. Employers are taking note and taking action. According to our research, 25% have decided to either outright ban AI or regulate its use within their organisations. But even with these policies in place, some employees choose to break the rules. They have their reasons - around 63% of them report that using AI increases their productivity, and some even feel AI offers more help than their human colleagues.The situation presents a delicate balance between leveraging AI for its productivity gains and risking confidential data exposure. Employers need to manage AI tools with the same level of care as any other form of data sharing or storage. There's also a knowledge gap that needs to be addressed -40% of individuals surveyed are unsure about who retains ownership over the content produced by AI. By instilling best practices in AI engagement and creating policies that evolve with the technology, business can positively shift the AI landscape.With AI's potential to simplify our professional lives, do the admin and enhance the work experience. It's up to us to navigate its usage cautiously so it supports us without compromising our privacy. There's no need to back away from progress, as long as we're equipped with the knowledge and tools to make sure AI remains a friend. And this is where the challenge lies. There are so many products out there, being promoted with huge advertising and marketing budgets, that it's easy to fall victim. But by building a culture of digital responsibility within our business, we can create a future where Al can help us without spilling the beans.1. According to Paragraph 1, workers’engagement with AI can ___.2. Microsoft Copilot is cited to show that the use of AI may _.3. Some employees choose to break the rules on AI due to _.4. To positively shift the AIlandscape, businesses should _.5. According to the last paragraph, we may easily fall victim to AI as we___.

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In 2023,Chicago lost one of its most beloved street festivals. The Silver Room Block Party, staged by Hyde Park community leader Eric Williams, announced it would not return in 2024. What began as a small neighborhood gathering blossomed into a massive cultural event welcoming tens of thousands of people each year over nearly two decades before abruptly shutting down.Williams pointed to rising production costs and declining attendee donations as primary reasons the Silver Room Block Party could not continue, highlighting a reality that all street festival organizers face right now. The cost of producing a street festival in Chicago has skyrocketed. Security,entertainment, portable restrooms, insurance and even basics such as fencing and staffing have all become significantly more expensive.At the same time, donations at festival gates have dropped dramatically.Chicago's summer festivals are about more than just entertainment; they are economic engines that directly benefit the neighborhoods they're in and the city of Chicago as whole.Street festivals drive foot traffic to local businesses and foster the kind of cultural vibrancy that makes our city special.We often hear people ask why we solicit donations at our entry points, especially when the city's largest festivals like the Chicago Jazz Festival do not request donations. The fact is, unlike those large, city-produced music festivals, your neighborhood street festivals receive no city funding and rely on a combination of sponsorships, vendor fees and gate donations to cover their costs.Wicker Park Fest has long been one of Chicago's most anticipated summer festivals, drawing upward of 70,000 attendees for a full weekend of live indie music, local art, small business vendors and, most importantly, community connection. In 2024,Wicker Park Fest saw record-breaking attendance. Despite the turnout, gate donations reached their lowest point in our history. This year, we've been forced to scale back the footprint of the fest. We are eliminating a stage, booking fewer performers and making additional cuts to reduce our costs, all while striving to keep the festival as vibrant as ever, as supportive of local artists and businesses, and as true to Wicker Park's unique spirit and reputation as festgoers have come to expect.This summer, as you enjoy your favorite neighborhood street festival, I hope you'll remember that they exist because of community support. A thriving summer festival season doesn't happen by accident; It happens when we all chip in.1. It can be learned from Paragraph 1 that the Silver Room Block Party ___.2. One reality street festival organizers face is that _.3. According to Paragraphs 3 and 4 Chicago's street festivals _.4. It is implied that the organizers of Wicker Park Fest have to _.5.The author holds that the future of street festivals depends on ___.

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In an effort to support restoration programmes, specialists are developing supplies of seeds and seedlings, maintaining gene banks and sequencing the genomes of indigenous trees and other crops. Their work deals with one of the problems that could block major restoration efforts in different parts of the world.“Where’s the planting material going to come from? That’s one big bottleneck,” says genetic-resources specialist Ramni Jamnadass.Asia is arguably the region most neglected by global efforts to increase diversity in restoration and to study native species. Christopher Kettle, Bioversity International’s director for forest genetic resources and restoration in Rome, says that the need for infrastructure—things such as mechanisms for collecting and storing seeds, and nurseries to raise seedlings—might be most desperate here because many trees are “masting” species, which don’t produce seeds every year. People need to be ready. “Otherwise, you miss the boat, you lose all the seed and you’ve got to wait another seven years,” says Kettle.“This is a really, really critical issue for restoration in Southeast Asia, because many of the most important timber species and tree species—the ones that will lock up the most carbon—they’re all masting species.”John Stanturf, a leading forest restoration expert with the US Forest Service, argues that successful forest restoration isn’t just about planting the right trees. “We often focus too much on the technical side of seed supply and seedling quality, but we ignore that restoration only works if we also account for human factors—local communities’ needs, land-use rights, and their willingness to participate,” he says. “Restoration projects that fail to engage stakeholders from the start will struggle to survive long-term, no matter how good the planting material is.”Pedro Brancalion, a restoration ecologist specializing in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, echoes this focus on people-centered restoration. “Many restoration plans are designed based on ecological ideals, but they don’t align with the real needs of local farmers and communities who live on the land,” he notes. “For example, some projects prioritize carbon sequestration trees over species that provide non-timber forest products, which are the main income source for locals. This mismatch makes it hard to get long-term community support.”With so much research left to do, leaders in the field have been doing some soul-searching, and acknowledging that restoration can be motivated by—and designed to meet—different needs. “When you talk about conservation or restoration, the first question has to be restoration by whom, for whom?” says Daniel H. Janzen, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania.1.Rami Jamnadass2.Christopher Kettle3.John Stanturf4.Pedro Brancalion5.Daniel H. Janzen

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There are many understandable reasons why you might find it difficult to ask for help when you need it. Psychologists have been interested in this _1_ for decades, not least because people’s widespread _2_ to ask for help has led to some high-profile failures.Asking for help takes _3_. It involves communicating a need on your part—there’s something you can’t do. _4_, you’re broadcasting your own weakness, which can be _5_. You might have _6_ about losing control of whatever it is you’re asking for help with. _7_ someone starts to help, perhaps they’ll take over, or get credit for your earlier efforts. Yet another _8_ that you might be worried about is being a nuisance or _9_ the person you go to for help.If you struggle with low self-esteem, you might find it especially difficult to _10_ for help because you have the added worry of the other person _11_ your request. You might see such refusals as implying something _12_ about the status of your relationship with them. To _13_ these difficulties, try to remind yourself that everyone needs help sometimes. Nobody knows everything and can do everything all by themselves. And while you might _14_ coming across as incompetent, there’s actually research that shows that advice-seekers are _15_ as more competent, not less.Perhaps most encouraging of all is a paper from 2022 by researchers at Stanford University that involved a mix of contrived help-seeking interactions and asking people to _16_ times they’d sought help in the past. The findings showed that help-seekers generally underestimate how _17_ other people will be to help and how good it’ll make the help-giver feel (for most people, having the chance to help someone is highly _18_).So, bear all this in mind the next time you need to ask for help. _19_, take care over who you ask and when you ask them. And if someone can’t help right now, avoid taking it personally. They might just be too _20_, or they might not feel confident about their ability to help.

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Brierley’s book has the（）of being both informative and readable。

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Advertises often aim their campaigns at young people as they have considerable spending（）.　

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We've bought some（）chairs for the garden so that they are easy to store away

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Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs’s board as an outside director in January 2000; a year later she became president of Brown University. For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism. But by the end of 2009 Ms. Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman’s compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked? By February the next year Ms. Simmons had left the board. The position was just taking up too much time, she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm’s board. Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere, they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive’s proposals. If the sky, and the share price, is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10, 000 firms and more than 64, 000 different directors between 1989 and 2004. Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next. The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age, of 70. They found that after a surprise departure, the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increased by nearly 20%. The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform worse. The effect tended to be larger for larger firms. Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship. Often they “trade up”, leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred. Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives. Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms. Simmons, once again very popular on campus. (382 words)1.According to Paragraph 1, Ms. Simmons was criticized for （）.2.We learn from Paragraph 2 that outside directors are supposed to be （）. 3.According to the researchers from Ohio University after an outside director’s surprise departure, the firm is likely to （）. 4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that outside directors （）. 5.The author’s attitude toward the role of outside directors is（）.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dia Mirza and Adrian Grenier have a message for you: It’s easy to beat plastic. They’re part of a bunch of celebrities staring in a new video for World Environment Day—encouraging you, the consumer, to swap out your single-use plastic staples to combat the plastic crisis. The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics. But the overarching message is directed at individuals.My concern with leaving it up to the individual, however, is our limited sense of what needs to be achieved on their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us. They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have “done our bit” without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions—a kind of “moral licensing” that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, we’re ignoring the balance of power that implies that as “consumers” we must shop sustainably, rather than as “citizens” hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change. Nowhere in World Environment Day 2018’s key messages is there anything about voting for environmentally progressive politicians, for example. Why not?It’s important to acknowledge that the environment isn’t everyone’s priority—or even most people’s. We shouldn’t expect it to be. In her latest book, Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things, Elizabeth R. DeSombre argues that the best way to collectively change the behavior of large numbers of people is for the change to be structural.This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether. India has just announced it will “eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022.” There are also incentive-based ways of making better environmental choices easier, such as ensuring recycling is at least as easy as trash disposal.DeSombre isn’t saying people should stop caring about the environment. It’s just that individual actions are too slow, she says, for that to be only, or even primary, approach to changing widespread behavior.None of this is about writing off the individual. It’s just about putting things into perspective. We don’t have time to wait. We need progressive policies that shape collective action, alongside engaged citizens pushing for change.1.Some celebrities star in a new video to（）.2.The author is concerned that “moral licensing” may （）. 3.By pointing out our identity as “citizens,” the author indicates that （）. 4.DeSombre argues that the best way for a collective change should be （）. 5.The author concludes that individual efforts（）.

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While fossil fuels- coal, oil, gas- still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar. The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.Some growth stems from a commitment by governments and farsighted Business to fund cleaner energy sources. But increasingly the stories about the plummeting prices of renewables, especially wind and solar. The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.In many parts of the world renewable energy is already a principal energy source. In Scotland, for example, wind turbines provide enough electricity to power 95 percent of homes. While the rest of the world takes the lead, notably China and Europe, the United States is also seeing a remarkable shift. In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.President Trump has underlined fossil fuels— especially coal—as the path to economic growth. In a recent speech in Iowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source. But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation — and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power their data centers.The question “what happens when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine?" has provided a quick put-down for skeptics. But a boost in the storage-capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.The advance is driven in part by vehicle manufacturers, who are placing big bets on battery-powered electric vehicles. Although electric cars are still a rarity on roads now, this massive investment could change the picture rapidly in coming years.While there's a long way to go, the trend lines for renewables are spiking. The pace of change in energy sources appears to be speeding up perhaps: just in time to have a meaningful effect in slowing climate change. What Washington does-or doesn't do- to promote alternative energy may mean less and less a time of a global shift in thought.1.The word "plummeting"(Line 3,Para.2) is closest in meaning to（）. 2.According to Paragraph 3, the use of renewable energy in America （）. 3.It can be learned that in Iowa, （）. 4.Which of the following is true about clean energy according to Paragraphs 5&6?5.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that renewable energy（）.

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The opportunity to explore and play and the encouragement to do so can（）the performance of many children.

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Your social life is defined as "the activities you do with other people, for pleasure, when you are not working". It's important to have a social life, but what's right for one person won’t be right for another. Some of us feel energized by spending lots of time with others, （ 1 ） some of us may feel drained, even if it’s doing something we enjoy.This is why finding a （ 2 ） in your social life is key. Spending too much time on your own, not （ 3 ） others, can make you feel lonely and （ 4 ）. Loneliness is known to impact on your mental health and （ 5 ） a low mood. Anyone can feel lonely at any time. This might be especially true if, （ 6 ） you are working from home and you are （ 7 ）on the social conversations that happen in the office. Other life changes also （ 8 ） periods of loneliness too, such as retirement, changing a job or becoming a parent.It’s important to recognize feelings or loneliness. There are ways to （ 9 ） a social life. But it be overwhelming （ 10 ）. You can then find groups and activities related to those where you will be able to meet （ 11 ） people. There are groups aimed at new parents, at those who want to （ 12 ） a new sport for the first time or networking events for those in the same profession to meet up and （ 13 ） ideas.On the other hand, it is （ 14 ）possible to have too much of a social life. If you feel like you’re always doing something and there is never any （ 15 ） in your calendar for downtime, you could suffer social burnout or social （ 16 ）. We all have our own social limit and it's important to recognize when you're feeling like it's all too much. Low mood, low energy, irritability and trouble sleeping could all be （ 17 ） of poor social health. Make sure you （ 18 ） some time in your diary when you're （ 19 ） for socializing and use this time to relax, （ 20 ） and recover.

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