Section Ⅱ LESSON 1 LIVING IN A COMMUNITY 维度一：品句填词 1.Losing the match was a （痛苦的） disappointment for the team. 2.The fish （缸） needs to be cleaned regularly. 3.She （打包） a small suitcase for the weekend. 4.It （使担心） me to think of her alone in that big house. 5.My nose was bleeding and I （把……塞住） it with cotton wool. 6.Welfare payments c as soon as an individual starts a job. 7.Employees v to accept the offer of an eight percent pay rise. 维度二：词形转换 1.I have many （please） recollections of the time we spent together. 2.Few people will admit to being racially （prejudice）. 3.My father never showed much （tolerate） towards us children. 4.Our （depart） was delayed because of the bad weather. 5.There’s a （warn） on the cigarette packet that says “Cigarettes cause cancer”. 6.She made a （resolve） to visit her relatives more often. 维度三：固定搭配和句式 根据括号内的汉语提示完成下列句子。 1.He （刚睡着，这时） the phone rang. 2.Having been used to warm climate，Li Ming （不能忍受住在这么冷的地方）. 3. （一群狗） was barking in the street. Ⅰ.阅读理解 Have you ever felt that your life might be jammed on fast forward， accelerating away from you into the distance？ It’s not your imagination： we are surrounded by daily indications that the pace of life is picking up， from how quickly we think the day is passing， to the length of shots in Hollywood movies， to our ever-decreasing patience for standing around in queues. Nowhere is this more common than in the office， where life can feel like an endless procession of emails and meetings.According to research by Jonathan B Spira， CEO of Basex， two thirds of workers felt that they didn’t have enough time to get everything done — and 94% have at some point felt “overwhelmed by information”. When we think about stress at work， we make an association with “distress （痛苦）”， i.e.the kind of stress that causes us suffering.But we often overlook the “eustress” — the kind of positive， pleasant feeling that comes from tackling and mastering a difficult task.There must be something in the idea of eustress — most surveys of job satisfaction in Europe and the US suggest that most people don’t hate their jobs. Even as it has increased the time pressure on us， an accelerated world has also changed the nature of our daily work — potentially making it more creative and rewarding.Yes， automation （自动化） has destroyed jobs （as well as created new ones）.But automation has also taken away many tasks that were dull， routine or dangerous. And as the digital revolution rolls on， helping to speed many tasks up， the jobs that are left， or newly created， are those that i ... ...
