We’ve heard it before---we’ve heard it on the news, from teachers, from parents －children and teenagers today are growing up too fast. There are not too many people that will   13   with that statement. Teenagers are faced with serious problems and decisions at an early   14  . In fact most teenagers’ daily schedules are as   15   as those of an adult’s.

  I have been working since I was thirteen, and always in   16   in which I was working with adults. I have had to learn to think and   17   like an adult to be taken seriously. So, I count myself as one who has grown up too fast. I just graduated from high school, and have recently spent some time reflecting on the   18   eighteen years－thinking about myself, what I have gained, and what   19   I have yet to achieve.

  We are expected to work hard, get excellent   20  , be in a good relationship, and know what we want to do   21  . The list goes on and on. But the   22   is clear: We live in a society today that is   23   our childhood. We no longer have many years to be careless and fancy－free. We are expected to   24   the strict school rules and to excel （擅长）in everything we do.

  I’ve known these things for a long time, and knew that they   25   me. But, I never really admitted it until last night, when I learned a   26   lesson, taught to me by my boss where I work. We had finished a job at a remote site. It was about 11:30 at night, and we had   27   to his house. We were talking about the   28   he had been making to his home. One of the things he said was “I   29   my basketball hoop（圈）. ”Then he threw a basketball to me.

  I hadn’t   30   a basketball in five years.

  We proceeded to shoot hoops for about 40 minutes. Both of us were terribly bad at it, but we spent the whole time   31  like children. Then I realized something: I am still a child. Oh, the law says I’m an adult. But, we are still really and truly children. We all need to have   32   once in a while.

13. A. argue                B. disagree                 C. satisfy                            D. discuss

14. A. age                   B. stage                      C. year                        D. grade

15. A. certain                     B. busy                       C. careful                           D. perfect

16. A. companies        B. places                            C. positions                 D. offices

17. A. study                B. speak                            C. work                       D. act

18. A. last                   B. other                       C. rest                         D. coming

19. A. purposes          B. success                  C. goals                      D. jobs

20. A. textbooks          B. grades                           C. teachers                 D. schools

21. A. in life              B. in time                            C. for ages                  D. for ever

22. A. information              B. message                 C. notice                            D. idea

23. A. ruining                     B. correcting               C. envying                  D. shortening

24. A. respect                    B. accept                           C. learn                       D. follow

25. A. inspired                   B. disappointed           C. affected                  D. frightened

26. A. valuable            B. serious                   C. important                D. useful

27. A. walked                     B. flown back                     C. gone back                     D. driven

28. A. furniture            B. improvements         C. equipment                     D. arrangements

29. A. moved                     B. fixed                        C. sold                        D. broke

30. A. played                     B. caught                           C. kicked                            D. held

31. A. laughing           B. shouting                 C. running                   D. shooting

32. A. a rest                B. a talk                      C. fun                          D. sports

Rod Kalin learned the secret to success while he was young. As a child, he liked playing with a stuffed (填充) rabbit his mother had made. “At that time, I knew he would become a craftsman (工匠) in the future,” Kalin’s mother said.

Kalin’s father was a carpenter and taught him early how to use his hands. In high school, Kalin was so interested in photography that he cut class to take photos 18 hours a day. Eventually Kalin ended up at New York University. One night, his landlord asked him to build a website for his restaurant. “I didn’t know anything about websites, but I built the basic site by looking through books in four weeks,” Kalin recalls.

After working on a craft site that provided “advice and a lot of hand-holding”, Kalin recognized that there was no market for their goods. He wrote a fan letter to Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr, who had sold his highly popular photo-sharing website to Yahoo! Impressed by Kalin’s letter, he took a look at Kalin’s idea and invited him to San Francisco for a month in 2006. He taught Kalin how to build a website, and helped him borrow $615,000 from a bank.

With the help of Stewart, Kalin was able to create etsy. com, an online craft fair that may be the largest market for hand made goods in the world. Last year, 350,000 woodworkers and other craftsmen sold their one-of-a-kind goods on the four-year-old site. It sells everything from hand-knitted T-shirts to wooden electric guitars. In an age of chain stores and malls, it seems there’s still a big market for the unique: custom-made skirts and hand-painted tea sets. Today, Etsy’s staff has increased to 70 employees, and more than three million consumers in 150 countries are buying goods on Etsy every year.

21. It can be learned from the passage that Rob Kalin ______.

A. opened a restaurant after graduation

B. was good at building websites at university

C. admired Stewart Butterfield very much

D. offered good advice to craftsmen

22. Which of the following can be used to describe Rob Kalin?

A. Helpful and creative.                                   B. Curious and stubborn.

C. Smart and humorous.                                 D. Strict and brave.

23. What can we learn about Etsy from the passage?

A. It offered craftsmen advice at first and then began to sell crafts.

B. It sells custom-made clothes and other handmade things.

C. It has employed 350,000 craftsmen.

D. It was set up by Stewart Butterfield.

24. The underlined part “custom-made shirts” in the last paragraph means _______.

   A. shirts that are sold in large quantities on a website

   B. shirts that are of high quality and sold at a high prize

   C. shirts that are made according to someone’s special requests

   D. shirts that are designed to meet the need of a certain kind of craftsman

How to test best

It’s back to school, which means it’s back to tests. Which might also mean it’s back to being majorly stressed out.      ____36   . Here are some simple ways to prepare thoroughly for tests.

Schedule study time. 

Trying to do all studying the night before a test makes it impossible to master all the material.   37   Instead, prepare for a test by scheduling study time each day for several days before.

Use your time wisely.

    38    Also, make sure you have all the supplies you need to study so you don’t lose focus.

While studying, be sure to make regular short breaks. Get a snack, take a bathroom break or play a quick computer game when it feels as if your brain is about to explode.

    39   

Studying with a parent or friends can help you understand the material better and to learn from one another. Have every person or pair take a part of the material, and come up with questions to quiz the group.

    Keep the group small. Have everyone take turns as the group leader, who will assign the material, and make sure that conversation stays on what is being studied.

Don’t forget last-minute prep. 

Have your sharpened pencils and other things in your bag ready the night before the test. It’s important to get a good night’s sleep and then eating a healthy breakfast the next morning.    40    .

    Also, studying all the way up until test time can only create more anxiety. Stop studying an hour beforehand.

A. Form a study group.

B. Stay cool before the test.

C. It doesn’t have to be this way.

D. This will help you store important information.

E. This way, both your mind and body are fully prepared.

F. Before studying, clear your desk so you can concentrate.

G. It will also make you tired and stressed on the day of the test.

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing (昏倒) from hunger-induced (因饥饿所致的) heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway (T台).

Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy (争论) for decades, and two researchers say a model’s body mass (体重) should be a workspace health and safety issue. In an editorial released Monday in the American Journal of Public Health, Katherine Record and Bryn Austin made their case for government regulation of the fashion industry.

The average international runway model has a body mass index (BMI) under 16-low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization’s standard. And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

“Especially girls and teens,” says Record. “Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines.” That’s especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia(厌食症) results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

It’s commonly known that certain diseases are linked with occupations like lung disease in coal miners. Professional fashion models are particularly vulnerable (脆弱的) to eating disorders (失调) resulting from occupational demands to maintain extreme thinness.

Record’s suggestion is to prohibit agents from hiring models with a BMI below 18.

In April, France passed a law setting lower limits for a model’s weight. Agents and fashion houses who hire models with BMI under 18 could pay $ 82, 000 in fines and spend up to 6 months in jail. Regulating the fashion industry in the United States won’t be easy, Record says. But with the new rules in France, U.S. support could make a difference. “A designer can’t survive without participating in Paris Fashion Week”, she says, adding, “Our argument is that the same would be true of New York Fashion Week.”

32. What do Record and Austin say about fashion models’ body mass?

A. It has caused needless controversy.

B. It affects models’ health and safety.

C. It is but a matter of personal taste.

D. It is focus of the modeling business.

33. What are Record and Austin advocating in the Monday editorial?

A. Prohibition of models eating non-food stuff.

B. A change in the public’s view of female beauty.

C. Elimination (淘汰) of forced weight loss by models.

D. Government legislation (立法) about models’ weight.

34. Why are Record and Austin worried about the low body mass index of models?

A. It contributes to many mental illnesses.

B. It defines the future of the fashion industry.

C. It has great influence on numerous girls and women.

D. It keeps many otherwise qualified women off the runaway.

35. What do we learn about France’s fashion industry?

A. It has difficulty hiring models.

B. It has now a new law to follow.

C. It allows girls under 18 on the runway.

D. It has overtaken that of the United States.

Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness?    36    The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

※ Make a plan for attaining goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.

※ Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way.    37    

      ※ When something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity. Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.

      ※    38    These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.

      ※    39    Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance , you will be subconsciously (下意识地) putting yourself in a better mood .

      ※ Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.

       ※ Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness.    40  

A．What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy.

B．On the contrary, if you are around people who are happy, their emotional state will be infectious.

C． Eating nutritious foods can have a positive effect on your body．

D．These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves.

E．Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.

F．There are some tips in life that lead to happiness.

G．It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Every year, the National Science-Technology Award Ceremony is hold in the Great Hall of the People. In that time, the top leaders of our country award medals to scientists who achieve those goals. It’s clear that the government attaches great important to science and technology. There’s no doubt whether science and technology play a vital part in a country’s development. Without faster development in science and technology, it is impossible for China to catch up with the developing countries. Those receive the awards deserve them because, through years of hard work, that they have made outstanding contributions to our country. China needs more scientists and inventors as them. As a senior school student, I’ll try our best to learn all my subjects well so as to serve the society so well as our country.

 ________ they are most interested in is ________ they can produce more and better cars.

A. That; how              B. What; how              C. What; what            D. That; that

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误, 每句最多有两处错误,每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。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.没处错误及修改均仅限一词。2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第十一处起)不计分。

  One day, did not feeling well, Mr, Smith went to the hospital to have him examined.When he was given the test paper, he greatly shocked.“Am I dying?” He immediately feels very sick. Filled with sadness, he went back home, taking a lot of pills and even wrote his will.“Maybe a doctor made a mistake”, Mr. Smith thought and went to the hospital to have other examination.To his great joy, the doctor really made a mistake but he didn’t have cancer in all! Again, the whole world seemed beautiful.Mr.Smith went out for his most favourite sport happily .

 The corn powder with two other things _______ water to make all kinds of food.

A. are mixed with          B. is mixed with            C. are mixed by            D. is mixed by

本学期，你校校报发出通知需要一名英语编辑。要求会英语懂电脑。假如你是李华，一名高二学生，对此很感兴趣，请给校报负责人写一封申请书。内容必须包括：

1. 介绍你的性格爱好及能力；

2. 说明你对此职位感兴趣的原因；

3. 表达你希望获准的愿望。

注意：1. 词数100左右；  

      2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

      3. 词语提示：职位 position

Dear Sir or Madam,

I have learned that you need an English editor for the school paper. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                         Yours,

                                                         Li Hua

I don’t like the way (方式) ____ you speak to me.

— How could she have let something so important ________ her mind?

— She's fully applied to work recently and gets burnt out.

A. occupy  B. cross  C. slide  D. slip

The Summer Program

Highlights：

※ More outdoor Chinese study: All trips and activities focus on developing language skills in Chinese, as well as building up self-confidence and teamwork ability. Campers would get a clear awareness of the program theme— “Observe-Think-Act”.

※ Breakfast is upgraded to western buffet style and offered by the host four-star hotel.

※ One-to-one Chinese tutoring: One hour per day, we have college students majoring in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language work as tutors.

Schedule:

Note：

1. Age ranges: 8 to 16 years old.

2. Please note that the price in the US dollar is subject to change with currency exchange rate fluctuations (波动).

3. Please download FAQs or Application Forms to see what price includes and excludes.

4. Students could take day camp programs only, ¥ 17, 000 from 9: 00 am to 16: 30 pm; please contact us for details.

Discounts:

• ¥ 1,000 off per student for early bird applications on or before April 1st;

• ¥ 500 off per student for returning students;

• ¥1,000 off per student for a group of 3 or above.

Contact information: Ms Summer

E-mail: summer @ richblcu.com

Tel: (+86) 010 8220-6789

21. Who is the advertisement aimed at?

A. Chinese college students.                                              B. Chinese middle school students

C. Foreign students to learn Chinese.                                D. Adult foreign tutors.

22. What can campers gain from the summer program?

A. Enjoying traditional Chinese foods.

B. One-to-one Chinese tutoring all day long.

C. More chances of indoor activities.

D. Improving their Chinese language skills.

23. How much will a camper pay if he/she sends an application on March 8 for a 2-week study?

A. ¥ 13,000.                       B. ¥ 14,000.                       C. ¥ 19,000.                       D. ¥ 20,000.

My friend Julia brought out all her dresses and told me to take ______ suited me best．（　　）

A．whichever    B．whatever      C．whenever     D．whoever

When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall, they will be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost (教务长) of Yale, who will become Oxford’s vice-chancellor –– a position equal to university president in America.

Hamilton isn’t the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Yet the talent flow isn’t universal. High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: Outward from America.

The chief reason is that American schools don’t tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university’s budget. “We didn’t do any global consideration,” says Patricia Hayes, the board’s chair. The board（董事会） finally picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund-raising. Fund-raising is a particularly American thing, since U.S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.

Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student numbers. The decline in government support has made fund-raising an increasingly necessary ability among administrators, and has made hiring committees hungry for Americans.

In the past few years, well-known schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2011, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen “a major strengthening of Yale’s financial position”.

Of course, fund-raising isn’t the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.

32. What is the current trend in higher education discussed in the text?

   A. Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U.S.

   B. More international students are being admitted to American universities.

   C. University presidents are paying more attention to fund-raising.

   D. A lot of activists are being hired as administrators.

33. What do we learn about European universities from the text?

   A. The tuition they charge has been rising considerably.

   B. They are strengthening their position by globalization.

   C. Their operation is under strict government control.

   D. Most of their money comes from the government.

34. In what way do top-level administrators from abroad contribute to university development?

   A. They can improve the university’s image.

   B. They will bring with them more international personnel.

   C. They will view a lot of things from a new angle.

   D. They can set up new academic subjects.

35. Which of the following would make the best title of the text?

   A. High Education Globalization.       

   B. Global Headhunting in Higher Education.

   C. Global Higher Education Cooperation  .     

D. Universal Higher Education Development.

Much meaning can be conveyed with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.

Do you have such kind of   31  ? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And if he   32   that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.

The   33   is the case in daily life. If you are looked at for longer than   34  , you will look at yourself up and down to see if there is   35   wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel   36   that others stare at you that way. Eyes do speak, right?

Looking too long at someone may seem to be   37   and aggressive. But things are   38   when it comes to staring at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and   39   to turn away his gaze (凝视), his intentions are obvious，that is, he   40   to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is   41   her.

However, the normal eye contact for two people in conversation is that the speaker will only   42   at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the   43   does pay attention to what the former is speaking and that he is   44  .

If a speaker looks at you   45   when speaking, as if he tries to control you, you will feel uneasy. A poor liar (说谎者) usually   46   himself by looking too long at the victim,   47   he believes the false idea that to look straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication. Quite the contrary.

In fact, continuous eye contact often happens between lovers only, who will   48   looking at each other softly for a long time, to show   49   that words cannot express.

Obviously, eye contact could be done according to the   50   between two people and the specific situation.

31. A. impression               B. accident                         C. idea                               D. experience

32. A. realizes                           B. explains                         C. ignores                          D. likes

33. A. difficult                            B. same                             C. opposite                        D. ridiculous

34. A. necessary                B. avoidable                       C. unusual                         D. possible

35. A. nothing                           B. everything                            C. anything                        D. thing

36. A. happy                      B. sad                                C. angry                             D. proud

37. A. typical                      B. rude                               C. acceptable                           D. polite

38. A. terrible                            B. different                         C. available                        D. similar

39. A. demands                  B. stops                             C. decides                         D. refuses

40. A. requires                          B. begs                              C. hopes                                   D. continues

41. A. admiring                   B. disturbing                      C. helping                          D. punishing

42. A. shout                       B. glare                              C. smile                              D. look

43. A. adult                        B. listener                          C. stranger                        D. speaker

44. A. attentive                   B. active                             C. respected                      D. powerful

45. A. aimlessly                  B. curiously                        C. continuously                  D. angrily

46. A. attracts                           B. exposes                         C. cheats                                  D. encourages

47. A. so                                   B. although                        C. since                             D. unless

48. A. remember                B. imagine                          C. avoid                             D. enjoy

49. A. mercy                       B. sorrow                                  C. trust                               D. feelings

50. A. relationship                     B. touch                             C. care                               D. distance

Students who date(约会) in middle school have significantly worse study skills. They are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol and tobacco use as their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

“Romantic relationships are a trademark of adolescence, but very few studies have examined how adolescents differ in the development of these relationships,” said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior.

Orpinas followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from 6th to 12th grade.

Each year, the group of students completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires about the students’ academic(学术的) efforts. He found that some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students always had the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school.

“At all points in time, teachers considered the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills,” according to the journal article. Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit (学分), being well organized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters.

“Dating a classmate may be as complicated as dating a co-worker,” Orpinas said, “when the couple break up, they have to continue to see each other in class and perhaps see the ex-partner dating someone else. It is reasonable to think this could be linked to depression and could divert (转移) attention from studying.”

“Dating should not be considered a ceremony of growth in middle school,” Orpinas concluded.

28. According to the passage, students who date in middle school may_____

A. have poorer academic performances        

B. be more likely to hurt others

C. enjoy better school lives                        

D. be less likely to use alcohol and tobacco

29. When doing his study, Orpinas ________________.

A. followed a group of students of 6th and 12th grade

B. completed a survey and a report each year

C. found that the students’ study skills have connection with their frequency of dating

D. completed questionnaires about the students’ academic efforts

30. What can possibly happen to the school couples after they break up?

A. They don’t want to see each other any longer.

B. They will think it’s reasonable to get depressed.

C. They will miss their ex-partners sometimes.

D. Their attention to studying will be affected.

31. Orpinas’ attitude towards dating in middle school is_____

A. supportive     B. negative    C. positive     D. unconcerned

 ---The drunk driving which resulted in five deaths could have been avoided.

   ---Exactly. I wonder why nobody ______ him from driving.

   A. has stopped         B. had stopped        C. was stopping       D. stopped

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most popular of modern artists. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing its respect and admiration for the artist and his powerful personality with an exhibition bringing together over 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and more. Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly The Persistence of Memory. There is also L’Enigme sans Fin from 1938, works on paper, objects, and projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television programmes reflecting the artist’s showman qualities.

The visitor will enter the World of Dali through an egg and is met with the beginning, the world of birth. The exhibition follows a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through the brain.

The exhibition shows how Dali draws the viewer between two infinities (无限). “From the infinity small to the infinity large, contraction and expansion coming in and out of focus: amazing Flemish accuracy and the showy Baroque of old painting that he used in his museum-theatre in Figueras,” explains the Pompidou Centre.

The fine selection of the major works was done in close collaboration (合作)with the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, and with contributions from other institutions like the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg.

8. Which of the following best describe Dali according to Paragraph 1?

  A. Optimistic.     B. Productive      C. Generous.     D. Traditional.

9. What is Dali’s The Persistence of Memory considered to be?

   A. One of his masterworks.

   B. A successful screen adaptation.

   C. An artistic creation for the stage.

   D. One of the beat TV programmes.

10. How are the exhibits arranged at the Wo rld of Dali?

   A. By popularity.

   B. By importance.

   C. By size and shape.

   D. By time and subject.

11. What does the word “contributions” in the last paragraph refer to?

   A. Artworks.    B. Projects.      C. Donations.       D. Documents.

Stress is a normal part of life and usually comes from everyday occurrences.

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◆Try physical activity

When you are nervous, angry or upset, try releasing the pressure through exercise or physical activity.__37__

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You should make every effort to eat well and get enough rest. If you easily get angry and can't sleep well enough，or if you're not eating properly，it will be more likely that you will fall into stressful situations. If stress repeatedly keeps you from sleeping，you should consult a doctor.

◆Make time for yourself

Schedule time for both work and entertainment. Don't forget，play can be just as important to your overall well－being as work.__39__Go window­shopping or work on a hobby. Allow yourself at least a half hour each day to do something you enjoy.

◆Make a list of things to do

Stress can result from disorganization and a feeling that “there's so much to do，and not enough time”．Trying to take care of everything at once can be too much for you and as a result，you may not achieve anything.__40__Set out to do the most important task first.

A. If you feel stress is hard to control, seek professional help.

B. Take care of yourself

C. Running, walking, playing tennis, and working in your garden are just some of the activities you might try.

D. You need a break from your daily routine to just relax and have fun.

E. Instead，make a list of everything you have to do, and then do one thing at a time.

F. Here are some ways you can deal with everyday sources of stress.

G. Competing with others, whether in accomplishments, appearance, or possessions, is an avoidable source of stress