We need vacations. They recharge us, allowing usto be more efficient all the other times.

Task A 阅读下面的文章，完成第1-5题。 Technology companies usually focus their employee benefits around making people stay in the office longer, ping-pong tables, game rooms, on-site training rooms, some even offer laundry services. We, ABC Company, don’t do any of these. Instead, we focus on benefits that get people out of the office as much as possible. We designed our benefits system to reflect that. Here are some of the benefits we offer to get people away from the computer ●Vacations: For the last three years in a row, we’ve worked with a professional travel agent to prepare different travel packages that employees could pick from as a holiday gift. Everything is paid for and included. Specific, pre-arranged trips — whether for a family to go to Disneyland or a couple to tour Spain — have helped make sure people actually take their vacations. 4-day Summer Weeks: From May through October, everyone who’s been with the company for more than a year gets to work just four days in a week. This started out as “Friday’s off”, but roles like customer support and operations need to cover all hours. To come up with the best ideas, you need a fresh mind. These travel and time-off benefits help everyone stay sharp. 1.The usual focus of employee benefits offered by technology companies is to .

A、keep employees to stay longer in the office

B、encourage employees to work overtime

C、help employees to participate in exercise

D、ensure employees to work energetically

完形填空Ahhh, summer. Time to relax. You cannot have complete rest if you ___1___it too seriously. But taking vacations seriously is exactly___2___we Americans seem to do. In the same way our kids' free time is now packed with activities, we adults have turned vacations into "active leisure." Anytime you try very hard to relax, that's active leisure. Our vacations___3___with an agenda, a purpose. We're visiting family, attending weddings, going camping, and making sure we ride that roller coaster-no matter how long the line is. We Americans are so active in our leisure___4___we commonly complain we need a vacation from our vacations. We leave home___5___; we come back exhausted. That's why many of us have decided not to go. Americans are___6___a few vacation days (14 days, on average) compared with other developed countries, but ironically, we don't even use them. The average American will leave four vacation days on the table this year, which adds up to a total 574 million days of___7___vacation. Our relationship to relaxation seems contradictory. We spend more money than anyone else in the world on leisure-fully one-___8___of our income-and yet at the same time we are No. 1 in the world at not taking vacations. One of the top reasons given for not taking a vacation is that it's too much extra work. We have to get___9___of our work in order to leave, and then we have to catch up on our work upon our return. The longer the vacation we take, the bigger the stumbling blocks appear. So only 14% of Americans will take a vacation two weeks or longer this summer. Bottom linE、it's simply become too stressful to relax. We Americans take our time off so seriously that you can now get a Ph.D. in leisure studies at Penn State and 17 other famous universities. That's right-a doctorate, not just a bachelor's. It's such an up-and-coming field in academe that there is an actual shortage of___10___educators. We don't have enough people to teach leisure. I am tempted to make a joke about this, but I don't want to get the wrath of the leisure scientists. They'll beat me up with chairs.

1)

A、take

B、make

C、bake

D、cake

2)

A、this

B、that

C、what

D、which

3)

A、go

B、arrive

C、leave

D、come

4)

A、these

B、that

C、those

D、this

5)

A、tired

B、tire

C、tiring

D、tires

6)

A、give

B、giving

C、gave

D、given

7)

A、take

B、taken

C、untaken

D、took

8)

A、three

B、third

C、thirds

D、thirty

9)

A、ahead

B、out

C、rid

D、clear

10)

A、qualify

B、qualification

C、qualifies

D、qualified

so most economists and retailers would probably advise you to invest in some tangible thing rather than a trip to an amusement park to keep the family happy. But a psychologist says: Not so fast!

The memories of experiences such as vocations last longer and can contribute more to happiness than can material possessions, says happiness researcher Leaf Van Boven of the University of Colorado at Boulder. He suggests that experiences are more open to positive reinterpretation years after the fact--your mental editing will help you forget how long you stood in line and remember more vividly your child's joy on the merry-go-round.

"The nice thing about memory is that we sort of forget about all those inconveniences," Van Boven explains. "We put this very favorable spin on experiences, and that's harder to do for material possessions, because they are what they are." And if the high-def TV goes on the fritz, so you can't watch your home movies anyway, it's great to have memories to rely on.

Memory-malting experiences have even more value than material possessions in their contribution to social relationships, Van Bovan argues. Experiences have "social value, and we know that social relationships are a huge component of well-being and life satisfaction."

Experiences also help individuals achieve personal goals in ways that material goods usually cannot, such as challenging oneself to overcome fear by rock climbing, learning a new skill such as dancing, or cleansing one's soul by volunteering for a summer.

Material things are less likely to have this effect on people's lives, or even to be viewed this way, says Van Boven. He adds that people who pursue experiences rather than possessions are often more admired by others: "When you are known as being experiential, you become a more likeable person than when you are known as a materialistic person."

But it may be easier just to buy toys to make as happy, rather than planning a memorable and rewarding vacation, and the trend in the United States is toward fewer and shorter vacations.

"I think part of the reason is that it's very easy to believe that we are going to take a lot of vacations in the future, but for right now, we need to work hard to earn the money so that we can go take these vacations. We know this doesn't always happen," Van Boven concludes.

What is the psychologist's point of view？

A．Material possession can not keep family happy.

B．Memories of experience contribute more to happiness.

C．Material possessions are more valuable.

D．We're inclined to remember those unhappy experiences.

ations.

A．in the way

B．by the way

C．under way

D．out of the way

we need to （）the environment so it doesn't promote weight gain

Different Tastes for Vacation

People like different kinds of vacations. Some go outside. Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city. They go shopping all day and go dancing all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahan or the Louver.

Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They don&39;t want to be "tourists". They want to have an adventure, to learn something and maybe help people too. How can they do this？ Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships, but they&39;re a lot of fun. One organization, Earth Watch, sends small groups of volunteers to different parts of the world. Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment. Others work with animals. Others learn about people of the past.

Would you like an adventure in the Far North？ A team of volunteers is leaving from Mormons,Russia. The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska. He&39;s worried about chemicals from factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the environment. If you like exercise and cold weather, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need ski sixteen kilometers every day.

Do you enjoy ocean animals？ You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There, you can teach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow orders such as "Bring me the large ball." They also understand opposites. How much more can they understand？ It will be exciting to learn about these inteIligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows orcas. We call them "Killer Whale", but they&39;re really dolphins--the largest kind of dolphin. This &39;beautiful animal travels together in family groups. They move through the ocean with their mothers,grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earth Watch is studying how this happens.

Are you interested in h/story？ Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in Pompeii. Today teams of volunteers are learning more about people from the past.

Do you want a very different vacation？ Do you want to travel far, work hard and learn a lot？

Then an Earth Watch vacation is for you.

The Tai Mahan may be __________. 查看材料

A.a shopping center

B.a hotel

C.a dancing hall

D.a place of interest

We ______ his luggage; his brother carded it himself．

A．needn't have carried B．didn't need carrying

C．needed to have carried D．didn't need to CalTy