As December comes to an end, you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life. But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year, you think about the last year. You excitedly write down all the changes you are going to make, but by the end of January those ideas get lost in your busy life.
Here’s a suggestion: Forget the too big, hard to achieve goals and just think about the small ones. “We often think that we have to do everything in big steps, even though it’s so hard for us to reach it, said Robert Maurer, who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life. “What we try to do is to begin with such a small step that we can’t find any excuse not to do it.”
“Kaizen”, a Japanese word, is used to mean to change behavior and attitudes. During World WarⅡ, American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes. After the war, the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan. It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it “Kaizen”, which means “improvement”.
Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. “Kaizen” could possibly help people succeed in doing everything.
1.Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us ______.
A. we should do everything in big steps
B. how to change one’s life with one small step
C. we should try a lot of sudden changes
D. how to find a small step without any excuse
2.The underlined part “increase productivity” in the passage means “______”.
A. 提高生产率
B. 增加成本
C. 增加出口量
D. 提高待遇
3.The writer of the passage suggests we should ______.
A. make changes at the end of the year
B. do few experiments with “Kaizen”
C. do things with hard to achieve goals
D. take a tiny step to achieve big goals
4.Which of the following is TRUE from the passage?
A. You can achieve your goals if you are not too busy.
B. Robert Maurer studied “kaizen” and found it helpful.
C. You can’t find any excuse not to reach a big goal.
D. “Kaizen” was brought to Japan during World WarⅡ.
In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important thing of the year except graduation or commencement(颁授学位典礼) day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks before the day.
Several days before Homecoming, students start to decorate the schoool. There are signs to wish luck to the team, and many other signs to welcome all the students. Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after they leave school.
During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.
Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over, the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is a great honor to be chosen.
Homecoming is a happy day, but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses, the students still enjoy Homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance, and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.
1.When do students begin to prepare everything for Homecoming?
A. The day before Homecoming
B. Many weeks before the day
C. At the beginning of each term
D. Several days before Homecoming
2. Which of the following is NOT done on Homecoming Day?
A. To see old friends
B. To call on teachers they remember
C. To watch the football game
D. To see their parents in the school
3. Who can probably become Homecoming Queen or King?
A. The student who is liked most by the others
B. The guest who is most popular with the students
C. The student who is most liked by the teachers
D. The player who plays best in the foot ball game Every year it’s the same.
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A recently study found people’s lives are made shorter in North China. It is showed the life expectancy(平均寿命) had been cut down by 5.5 years there. Researchers think that the heavy air pollution in China should be to blame. It’s really the truth. Our government has already done something. However, it doesn’t seem to work so well.
“Air pollution in China is doing harm to people’s health. The harm is much more serious than we can imagine,” said Chen Yuyu of Beijing University, one of researchers of this study.
Dirty air brings serious problems in North China. In January this year, the air pollution was worse than that in other places. That was caused by rising temperature and waste gas from coal heating.
Chinese government should strongly fight against air pollution. They should think of more proper ways to deal with the problem. People should be encouraged to take buses, ride bicycles or walk, instead of driving cars. The factories that pollute heavily should be closed.
“We need to improve our environment, although it might be expensive. Protecting our environment means protecting ourselves,” Li Hongbin, another researcher of the study said.
1.The passage above may come from an advertisement.
2.The study showed the life expectancy had been cut down by 5.5 years in North China.
3.Air pollution is very harmful to people.
4.People shouldn’t be encouraged to take more transportation .
5.People need to make pollution less, although it might cost a lot.
完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
When Chinese people find out that someone comes from London, they often ask, "London is a foggy city, isn't it?" British people who visit China often say that London is not a foggy city at all! But if London is not foggy, do so many people in China think it is? In fact, London used to be a foggy city, it isn't any more.
In London lots of its pollution came factories, but a lot of it came from coal because people used it in their houses to keep warm during the winter. By the 1950s, London's air pollution had become so that the government decided to do something to clean up the air. A new rule was made. It said that was not allowed to burn coal in any British city. Just a few years the air became much cleaner.
Now many Chinese cities meet the same kind of with air pollution that London met forty or fifty years ago. However, this problem is more difficult for Chinese cities to . First, more of the pollution comes from big factories than from coal that people use in their houses. If these factories are suddenly closed, lots of people their jobs. Second, cleaner fuels(燃料) are quite expensive. However, the air in many cities is already slowly becoming cleaner, because the government and ordinary people are trying to make pollution less.
1.A. must B. have to C. should D. will
2.A. what B. when C. which D. why
3.A. and B. but C. so D. or
4.A. from B. in C. out D. on
5.A. well B. good C. badly D. bad
6.A. somebodyB. anybody C. nobody D. everybody
7.A. before B. ago C. later D. after
8.A. problem B. question C. accident D. discussion
9.A. find B. answer C. solve D. save
10.A. lost B. lose C. would lose D. will lose
--- You should the shower when you are washing your hair.
--- OK. I will. We need to save water.
A. put on
B. put off
C. turn off
D. turn on
--- Why not the dancing?
--- That's a good idea. Let's them.
A. join; join
B. join in; join
C. join; join in
D. join in; join in
