Sooner or later, most students are to take some form of English examinations. Often the more successful students are better prepared. However, sometimes students who do well have better test taking skills. These abilities really have nothing to do with understanding English better. They are skills that make taking the test easier, and therefore provide better results.
Here are some very important—and often ignored—guidelines to taking a test successfully.
Do not insist on completing each question before going to the next. This is extremely important. Remember one question may only be worth one point! You will become nervous when you fail to find out its answer, making you lose your concentration and leading to worse results. However, answering the questions you are sure you know results in your being more relaxed and feeling more confident.
Go through the test a second time working out the answers to more difficult questions. Sometimes questions asked are answered in later questions asking for different things.
Usually(but not always) a strong first impulse(冲动) means we know the answer and we don’t really have to think about it too much. Going back to think about it usually makes you unsure and often causes a mistake. This is very common, so be very careful!
If you don’t know the answer, write something. If you are answering a 4 possibility multiple choice question you will still have a 25% chance of being correct!
Taking a test is as much for you as is for your teacher, so never cheat. If you cheat, you don’t help yourself in the long run.
1.In the first paragraph, the writer stresses the importance of ______.
A. better preparations for exams.
B. better understanding of English.
C. better skills at taking exams.
D. better results of taking exams.
2.When taking an exam, you are advised ______.
A. to first answer the questions which are easier to you.
B. to depend on your first impulse to answer the questions.
C. to search the test paper for all the answers to the questions.
D. to give up the questions whose answers you don’t know.
3. It is common that many students______.
A. pay much attention to their testing skills.
B. often give up a difficult test halfway.
C. often get higher results by cheating.
D. don’t believe in their first impulse.
4. What would be the best title of the passage?
A. Effective Studying Methods.
B. Effective Test Taking Skills.
C. Getting Better Exam Results.
D. Being Successful Students.
4月12日，星期天上午，你们班同学骑车到学校附近的公园组织了一次环保活动。请根据下表内容，写一篇日记，发表你对此次活动的看法。
1组 | 扫除：清理废纸、烟蒂、塑料袋等废弃物 |
2组 | 宣传：树立标牌，告诉游客要爱护花木 |
3组 | 演讲：向游客宣传“白色污染”的害处以及保护环境的重要性 |
你的看法 | …… |
注意：
1．日记必须包括表内所有的内容，可以适当增加细节，使内容连贯；
2．日记格式及首句已给出，不列入总词数；
3．词数：100词左右。 4．参考词汇：烟蒂cigarette end 标牌 board
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Mr. Turner turned over in bed from time to time in last night, for he was very excited that he could not fall asleep. Yesterday morning, he went to a big gardening company, knowing as Green Fingers, for the interview. Mr. Turner, that liked to help his grandfather grow flowers in the garden, looking forward to the job offered by the company. When he got to the company, he found there were many people waiting there and he had no ideas whether he could get the job. While waited, he helped the workers there to remove the fallen trees and clear the road. Unluckily, he was the only one who finally got the job, so the manager decided to give the job to whoever he believed was helpful.
教材单词检测 （共10小题；每题1分，满分10分）
1.The only ______ to getting Ellen out of danger is to send her to Norway, a country free from the war. (方法)
2.Food supplies in Copenhagen was ______ ______ (下滑)，not to mention tea or bee.
3.Living in ______ with the Jews in Denmark has long been a tradition, so when the war broke out, many managed to help them. (和谐相处)
4. Beijing, the capital city of China, ______ ______ ______ lots of historical relics as well as places of interest. (有幸享有)
5.Due to the lack of food, ______ (starve) has been a common phenomenon in the war.
6.It is indeed ______ of Annemarie's parents to take Ellen to Uncle Henrik's, where Ellen would be shipped away. (考虑周全的)
7. ______ ______ is one of the basic requirements for students. (守时)
8.Kirsti, an ______ girl and aged so young, suffered a lot from the war ------ no cupcakes or real leathered shoes.(天真无邪的)
9.The truth that the Jews would be taken away by the German soldiers finally ______, so Ellen had to be sent away immediately, together with her parents. (出现)
10.The English ______ of the novel, instead of the Chinese, is what you students should be devoted to.
语篇填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Number the Stars", by American author Lois Lowry, is about_1._______ escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. The story centers_2._______ ten-year-old Annemarie, who lives with her family in Copenhagen in 1943. __3.________ with her family, she is involved in an event to help local __4._______ to reach Sweden to avoid __5._______(send) to Concentration Camps. She risks her life to help her best friend, Ellen, by pretending that Ellen is Annemarie's older sister Lise. In this process, Annemarie 6._________ (begin) to realize that the world they live in is a place __7.______ the right thing is often hard, and sometimes dangerous. _8._______ she has to take a deep breath, take her responsibility, and make a decision. The following __9.______ (content) are right there waiting for you to read, to explore and to comprehend. _10.________(hope), you will enjoy and benefit a great deal from the novel.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
According to legend, a young man while roaming the desert came _____a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so ____, he filled his leather canteen（水壶） so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his ____.
After a four-day journey he ____ the water to the old man who took a deep drink and _____his student lavishly(大量地) for the water he offered. The young man returned to his village with a _____heart.
Later, the teacher let another student taste the water. He spat it out, saying it was awful. It _____ had become stale because of the old leather______
The student ______ his teacher: "Master, the water was foul(腐臭的). Why did you pretend to like it?"
The teacher replied, "You only tasted the water. I tasted the _____. The water was simply the container for a (n) _____of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter."
I think we understand this lesson best when young children give _____innocent gifts of love. ____it's a tray or a bracelet, the natural and proper _____ is appreciation and expressed _____thankfulness because we love the ____within the gift.
__ __doesn't always come naturally, _____ most children and many adults _____only the thing given rather than the feeling in it. We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the____and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude. After all, gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart.
1.A. through B. out C. across D. around
2.A. valuable B. rare C. cool D. sweet
3.A. father B. teacher C. neighbor D. leader
4.A. presented B. bought C. showed D. introduced
5.A. paid B. blamed C. thanked D. apologized
6.A. regretted B. firm C. unpleasant D. happy
7.A. obviously B. accordingly C. hardly D. simply
8.A. container B. case C. belt D. package
9.A. stared B. challenged C. informed D. respected
10.A. student B. surprise C. truth D. gift
11.A. act B. matter C. purpose D. hope
12.A. back B. away C. off D. out
13.A. Though B. Neither C. Whether D. No matter
14.A. reward B. return C. response D. treatment
15.A. ever-lasting B. good-willed C. honey-mouthed D. heart-felt
16.A. idea B. dream C. expectation D. memory
17.A. Faith B. Confidence C. Gratitude D. kindness
18.A. however B. therefore C. otherwise D. because
19.A. value B. choose C. receive D. prefer
20.A. beauty B. freedom C. optimism D. generosity
