Teen Art Show 

Do you want to see your artwork displayed alongside other teens' artwork? Don't miss your opportunity! Showcase your paintings, sculptures, photographs and other artworks at the Environmental Educational Center. The show will provide an opportunity for artists to network, provide feedback and become a resource for others.

Location: Environmental Educational Center

Activity fee: $25

Night Fishing 

Escape the night and join us as we fish at Desert Breeze Park. No experience needed. We will provide the fishing poles, transportation, the bait, help you catch a fish and best of all, teens 14 years and under do not require a license to fish.

Location: Desert Breeze Park 

Activity fee: $22

Overnight Snow Trip 

Join the City of Chandler in an exciting new trip! We will travel up to Camp Tontozona and  enjoy great food and a campfire in the early evening. Snow play will be the highlight as we explore the snow-filled meadows(草地) of Woods Canyon Lake and sled down small hills in the  area. You will be responsible for your own ski/snowboard equipment.

 Location: Camp Tontozona

Activity fee: $30

Paintballing  

Come out and play paintball with all your friends! Join the City of Chandler as we go to Tempe Indoor Paintball. This is a great way to join in the fun of playing paintball for a low, low cost. All equipment is included. Please wear old clothes because clothes can get dirty easily! 

Location: Tempe Paintball

Activity fee: $28

1 What can people do in Desert Breeze Park?

A. Meet with famous artists

B. Play with snow

C. Play paintball

D Go fishing

2 What is special about Paintballing?

A. It costs the least

B. It might make your clothes dirty

C. People can play with friends

D. People will enjoy a campfire

3 In which activity sould people take their own ski equipment?

A. Overnight Snow Trip

B. Teen Art Show

C. Paintballing

D. Night Fishing

As anyone who freelances(做自由职业)knows, there are lots of advantages of working at home alone. But there are drawbacks too, like the potential loneliness. No wonder co-working spaces are becoming so popular: they permit self-employed individuals to feel like they are part of all office environment, while making them get some work done too. But renting a co-working space does cost money.  

Now a Swedish project is aiming to change that by turning people’s under-used homes into temporary co-working spaces, available to freelancers for free. Hoffice was started by freelancers Christofer Gradin Franzen and Johline Zandra about a year ago in Stockholm when they invited a few people into their home office to work together. It was a great success, and the project has since spread to a number of cities in Europe, North and South America, Australia, India and Japan. Anyone can sign up and offer their home space as a free co-working space, or go find a Hoffice near them.

 On a Hoffice day, everyone arrives and starts work at a certain hour. After 45 minutes, everyone gets up to take a break, stretch, do qigong or yoga for 10 to 15 minutes. Afterwards, people can gather around again, and re-state their intentions and goals for the rest of the work day, as a way to motivate I each other. Meals can be eaten together at a certain hour, potluck-style(家常饭)or by bringing your own lunch.

This process creates an encouraging and supportive work environment. As some freelancers describe, “By working at Hoffice, we give ourselves and each other the gift to spend our days in a social working environment, where we are extremely productive without ignoring our other human needs. We also make sure to give us and each other what we need to feel calm, happy, inspired and creative during the working day.”

So Hoffice is not just about sharing space; it's also about a free exchange of ideas．And perhaps the best thing is that Hoffices are free to use．

6. Hoffice was started to________ 

A. change people’s attitude to work      

B. provide a co-working space for free

C. improve people’s working conditions 

D. encourage people to be more social

7. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A. How people respond to Hoffice

B. What Hoffice means to people 

C. What people share at Hoffice

D. How a Hoffice day works.

27. Some freelancers’ descriptions of Hoffice suggest that they________

A. work longer than before 

B. can’t be separated from each other

C. benefit a lot from the working style      

D. expect more people to join them 

28. What do we know about Hoffice according to the text?

A. It has been popular in many countries for many years

B. It has created many new job opportunities

C. It focus on ont only environment but also human needs

D. It is suitable for people from all walks of life

To many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey（猎物）, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a man cast away on an island of solid rock, totally out of touch and destined to starve to death.  

So important is the web to an orb-web spider's survival that  the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier（憔悴的）,  it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands（线）. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.     

The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and reuses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactively, labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day' web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down．     

Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider's highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate（无脊推动物）. If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finishes building a normal web. One spider will finish building the incomplete web of another.  

8. What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Secrets of Spiders' Adaptability  

B. Secrets of the Spiders' Life      

C. Importance of Webs to Spiders

D. Spiders' Highly Preprogrammed Brain 

9. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?   

A. Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs．   

B. One Web-building spider usually conducts one web    

C. Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry   

D. Web-building spiders have good eyesight.

10. A spider conducts a wider-meshed web when＿   

A. it is 16 days old   

B. it is getting weaker   

C. it has fewer wends     

D. it hunts for food 

11. A spider's ability to finish an incomplete web proves that＿    

A. it reuses its web protein to reproduce new silk    

B. it is able to rebuild a destroyed web

C. the incomplete web is much more important 

D. it has a highly preprogrammed brain     

I would always remember that day. When I was 14，all I wanted was a unique necklace with my name carved. It was the “in” thing and it seemed every girl except me had one. On my 15th birthday, my Mum gave me a beautiful necklace with my initials(姓名首字母) carved into it. I was in heaven.

What made it even more special was that it was about the only thing that wasn’t being “replaced”. We’d been burnt out in fires that swept through our area earlier that year and had lost everything—so most of the “new” stuff(东西) we got was really just to replace what we’d lost. But not my necklace. My necklace was new.

Then, only one month later, I lost it. I took it off before bed and it was missing in the morning. I was sad and searched everywhere for it. But it seemed to have disappeared. Eventually, I gave up and stopped looking for it. And two years later, we sold the house and moved away.

Years passed, and a couple of moves later, I was visiting my parents’ when Mum told me that she had something for me. It wasn’t my birthday, nor was it Easter or Christmas or any other gift­giving occasion. Mum noticed my questioning look. “You’ll recognize this one,” she said, smiling.

Then she handed me a small ring box. I took it from her and opened it to find my beautiful necklace inside.

The family who had bought our house 13 years earlier had recently decided to do some redecorations, which included replacing the carpets. When they pulled the carpet up in my old bedroom，they found the necklace. As it had my initials carved into it, they realized who owned the necklace. They’d had it professionally cleaned up by a jeweler before sending it to my mother. And it still fits me.                   

12 The underlined word “in” in the first paragraph probably means “________”．

A. available

B. fashionable

C. practical    

D. renewable

13 When she got the necklace back, the writer was about ________.

A. 30 years old      

B. 28 years old

C. 15 years old      

D. 14 years old

14 Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The writer lost her necklace in the morning when she took it off.

B. The writer never stopped looking for her necklace.

C. The writer’s ring was cleaned up by the new house owner.

D. The writer’s family moved several times during her growth

15 What would be the best title for the passage?

A. My New Necklace   

B. Lost and Replaced

C. Lost and Found 

D. A Beautiful Necklace

How to Strengthen Your Willpower

Researchers find willpower is like a muscle—it may get tired from over use. So, if it acts like a muscle, can it also be strengthened? The answer is YES.___16___

1. Ten minutes of reflection

Reflection will give you the fater results. ____17___ Researchers show that after just 2—3 days of practicing thinking for 10 minutes, your brain will be able to focus better, you will have more energy, and you aill be less stressed.

2. Work on your posture

Work on your posture for a 2-week period. Every time you catch yourself slouching(懒散), correct it by sitting up straight. This simple practice can vastly improve your perseverance.

3. Use your opposite hand

Select a chunk(块) of the day to use your opposite hand. ___18___ And from personal experience, if you aim for more than an hour, you will unnecessarily tire out your willpower muscle.

4. Correct your speech

Change your natural speech. ___19___ Again, it takes willpower to consciously go against your instincts. It doesn’t matter how you correct your speech, as long as you change natural speech habits.

To get started, select a chunk of the day to practice and choose the words you will change. Personally, I tried not using contractions during work hours and it worked very well.

Above are some effective ways to strengthen your perseverance. Do not try to do all at once. ___20___ You should start small and gradually build up as your muscles get stronger.

A. Training your willpower muscle is like training for a marathon

B. This even includes resisting the urge to say “hello” instead of “hey”

C. You will be more mentally strong.

D. With the right practice willpower can be strengthened

E. It can make your brain focus and resist the urge to wander.

F. Be more conscious of your automic decisions

G. It doesn’t need to be more than an hour in order to get results.