My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel ____1.___(encourage) by his compliments。
One day, when we learned the new word “eccentric” __2.___ class, we ___3.____(ask) to make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy ___4.___ clothes never fit him。” ____5.____(Hear) this, the whole class burst out ____6.___(laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. After class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped out of school ___7.____ he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must____8.____(hurt) him deeply。
Not until then did I realize words could be powerful in___9.___positive and negative ways. We should avoid __10.____(hurt) others if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak。
It often appears that we have more to gain by speaking than by listening. One big advantage of speaking is that it gives you a chance to _____ others' thoughts and actions. Whatever your goal is — to have a boss hire you, to ____others to vote for the person of your choice or to describe the ____ you want your hair cut ...the key to success seems to be the ____ to speak well.
Another ____ advantage of speaking is the chance it provides to ____ the admiration, respect, or linking of others. Tell jokes, and everyone will think you're really a ____ man. Tell them all you know，and they'll be ____ by your wisdom. But keep quiet, and it seems as if you are a ____ person.
Finally，talking gives you the ___ to release(释放) energy in a way that listening can't. When you're ____, the chance to talk about your problems can often help you feel better. In the same way, you can often ___ your anger by letting it out orally. It is also helpful to ___your excitement with others by talking about it, ____ keeping it inside often leaves you feeling as if you might burst.
____ it is true that talking does have many advantages，it's important to ____ that listening can do good to listeners, too. As you'll soon read, being a good listener is one good way to __ others with their problems; and what better way is there to have others ____ you? As for controlling others, it may be true that it's hard to be persuasive while you're listening, but your ___ to hear others out will often make them open to your ideas ____. Listening is often reciprocal(互惠的). “You get what you give.”
1.A. guess B. control C. disturb D. tease
2.A.insist B．advise C．persuade D. suggest
3.A.idea B．plan C．means D. way
4.A.habit B．energy C．power D.ability
5.A.obvious B．easy C．new D．special
6.A. catch B．gain C．remain D．declare
7.A.successful B．simple C．wise D．stupid
8.A.affected B．moved C．instructed D．impressed
9.A.fruitless B．homeless C．worthless D．senseless
10.A.pleasure B．course C．opportunity D．duty
11.A.in trouble B．in danger C．in debt D．in silence
12.A.reduce B．extend C．deepen D．widen
13.A.control B．share C．enjoy D．remove
14.A.or B．so C．for D．though
15.A.s B. When C. Since D. While
16.A.suppose B．aware C．realize D．imagine
17.A.fail B．cure C．hurt D．help
18.A.appreciate B．listen to C．envy D．support
19.A.kindness B．favour C．willingness D．concern
20.A.by turns B．in return C．in turn D．in order
Good student－teacher relationships result from the choices that are made even before school, and how those choices are carried out on a daily basis. Here are a few tips to make this process easier for both parties.
_1.__
For the teacher, this means that they need to look at each student from the perspective(角度) of what that student could learn, rather than what that student learned last week or last year. For the student, this means that they need to enter the classroom every day with the willingness to trust the teacher to help them understand. __2.__ Every school day there are new opportunities to learn new information or to understand subjects that might have been difficult in the past.
__3.__
This is not to say that you have to “buy” the affections(关爱) of the student or the teacher，but you can give the gift of a smile，the gift of attention in class，or the gift of eye contact. Giving this type of gift always helps to build strong relationships.
Demand the best.
__4.__ We can trust friends to keep us responsible and when developing good student－teacher relationships，the same principle of trust applies. Setting high expectations always pushes us to be our best，and when both the student and the teacher are pushing the other for more depth, more wisdom, more insight, etc，then both the student and the teacher will give more.
To develop a good student－teacher relationship，both the student and the teacher must be willing to decide to do these things daily. Each day，they must be willing to try again and work on the relationship. _5.__
A．Buy gifts for teachers.
B．Give gifts to one another.
C．Focus on the positive.
D．We can always learn a lot from our teachers.
E．Future learning is never limited by past experiences.
F. Good relationships are always founded on honesty and high expectations.
G．The most important thing is to trust the relationship to benefit each of the members.
Throughout the world, clothing has many uses. It is used to provide protection from cold. It is also worn to prevent others from seeing specific parts of one’s body. However, the parts of the body that must be covered vary widely throughout the world. Some clothing is worn to provide supernatural protection. Wearing a lucky shirt to take an exam is calling for supernatural assistance.
People in all cultures use clothing and other forms of bodily decoration to communicate status(身份), intentions and other messages. In North America, we dress differently for business and various leisure activities. North American women usually are much more knowledgeable of little difference in messages communicated by clothes than men. At times, this leads to silly mistakes of understanding of female intentions on the part of men. Of course, clothing styles also are intended to communicate messages to members of the same gender（性别）.
Long before we are near enough to talk to someone, their appearance tells their gender, age, economic class, and often even intentions. We begin to recognize the important cultural clues at an early age. The vocabulary of dress that we learn includes not only items of clothing but also hairstyles, jewelry, and other body decoration. In most cultures, however, the same style of dress communicates different messages depending on the age, gender, and physical appearance of the individual wearing it.
Putting on certain types of clothing can change your behavior and the behavior of others towards you. This can be the case with a doctor’s white lab coat, or an army uniform. Most uniforms are clearly symbolic so that they can rapidly and unmistakably communicate status. For instance, the strange hairstyle and clothing of the English “punks” are essential aspects of their uniforms.
There are many forms of body decoration other than clothes that are used around the world to send messages. These include body and hair paint, and even body deformation. When doctors put braces on teeth, they are actually doing the same thing – deforming or reforming a part of the body to make it more attractive.
1.Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. Clothing and Culture
B. Ways of Sending Message
C. Clothing and Social Behavior
D. Communication through Clothing
2.Some people wear lucky shirts to take an exam because they believe .
A. clothes can hide their fear for the exam
B. clothes have extraordinary power
C. shirts can make them more comfortable
D. shirts provide protection against bad weather
3.In North America, men sometimes misunderstand women’s intention because .
A. men are more careless than women
B. women spend more time on their clothes
C. men and women have different views on clothing styles
D. men care less about the different messages communicated by clothes
4.According to the passage, the behavior of others towards you can be changed by your .
A. age B. dress
C. status D. gender
5. From the passage, it can be inferred that .
A. clothing plays an important role in social activities
B. words of dress are unable to communicate different messages
C. dress is better than language in communicating messages
D. messages communicated by clothes are the same in different cultures
Today, nearly 400 animals are listed as threatened or endangered animals in the United States. Many are at risk of becoming extinct or disappearing permanently. Unless efforts to save these vulnerable(易受攻击的) animals succeed, many of the country's greatest creatures will be lost forever. From the facts listed, guess which animals are endangered. Click on the picture to find out more about each of these animals in trouble.
American Crocodile
●American crocodiles are about 12 feet long. They live on land and in shallow water, swamps and marshes.
●American crocodiles like to float in the water with only their eyes and noses above the water surface.
●American crocodiles eat mostly small animals, which they grab with their strong jaws and sharp teeth.
●American crocodiles lay eggs. They hide their eggs under twigs and leaves, or bury them in the sand.
●Some crocodiles help their young hatch, and then carry them to the water in their mouth.
Habitat
Southern Florida, Mexico, Central and South American, Caribbean islands.
Why It's Endangered
Overhunted for its skin and habitat destruction.
Peninsular Bighorn Sheep
●Bighorn sheep can weigh as much as 280 pounds and stand about 3 feet tall.
●They live in dry, desert mountain ranges, near rocky cliffs.
●Bighorn sheep eat grass, twigs and leaves.
●Male sheep are called rams and can be recognized by their huge, brown horns. The horns curl back over the ears, down，and up past the cheeks.
●They live in herds or groups. The male sheep with the biggest horns are usually in charge. Male horns can weigh as much as 30 pounds.
●Males will use their massive horns to fight. The fights can last as long as 24 hours.
●Females are called ewes. They are smaller than rams and have shorter, smaller horns.
Habitat
Nevada and California to west Texas and south into Mexico.
Why It's Endangered
Loss of habitat, hunting illegally, drought and disease.
1.Where can the article be found according to the passage?
A．Newspaper. B．Website.
C．Student book. D．Magazine.
2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the description about American crocodiles?
A．American crocodiles live on land and in swamps and marshes.
B．American crocodiles hide their eggs under leaves, or bury them in the sand.
C．American crocodiles grab small animals with their strong jaws and sharp teeth.
D．American crocodiles like to float with their eyes and nose below the water surface.
3.Where can we find both American crocodiles and Bighorn sheep according to the passage?
A．Southern Florida. B．California.
C．Mexico. D．West Texas.
4.Rams make use of their massive horns to ________.
A．master the herds B．show their beauty
C．fight with others D．hunt for food
5.What can be the best title?
A．Animals in Danger
B．American Crocodile
C．Peninsular Bighorn Sheep
D．How to Save Animals in Danger
Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activities. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some kind, football, hockey, golf, or tennis, it may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountaineering? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no manmade rules, as there are for such game as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind, which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from manmade rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “game”. We would be mistaken in this assumption. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical capacities.
A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his prime by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less wasted effort, and they certainly experience enjoyment.
1.Mountaineering is a sport which involves all the following things EXCEPT ______.
A．hardship B. comfort
C．physical risk D．cold
2.The main difference between a sport and a game lies in origin of the ________.
A．uniform B．activity
C．skills D． rules
3.Mountaineering is also a team sport because ________.
A．it involves rules as well
B．it involves matches between teams
C．mountaineers depend on each other while climbing
D．it requires mental and physical qualifications
4.Which of the following is TRUE?
A．Mountaineers compete against nature.
B．Mountaineers compete against teams.
C．Mountaineers compete against each other.
D．Mountaineers compete against international standard.
5.What is the best title for the text?
A．Mountain Climbers.
B．Mountaineering.
C．Mountaineering is gaining popularity.
D．Mountaineering is More Dangerous than Other Sports.
