A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a ￡100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, "Who would like to have this ￡100 bill?" The students began to put up their hands at once.
Then he said, "I am going to give this bill to one of you, but first, let me do this." He then made this bill into a ball. Then he said, "Who wants it?" Hands went into the air.
"Well," he said, "What if I do this?" and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, "Who still wants it?" Hands went back into the air.
"My friends," he said, "You've learned a valuable lesson today. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it didn't go down in value. It was still worth ￡100.”
“Many times in our lives, we're dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those who love you. Your value doesn't come from what you drop or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.”
You are special and valuable. Don't ever forget it!
1.Even though the money was dirty, it _______.
A. went up in value B. was worth much
C. didn't reduce in value D. was still ours
2.The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means_______.
A. the students put up their hands again.
B. the students put down their hands.
C. the students agreed to what the teacher said
D. the students put their hands in front of them
3.Why did the famous teacher use a ￡100 at his lesson?
A. Because he wanted to give a lecture about money.
B. Because he was used to dropping a bill on the floor and stepping on it.
C. Because he was going to give the bill to one of the students.
D. Because he wanted to make the students know what the value was.
4.What lesson can you learn from the passage?
A.￡100 bill is worth the same no matter what you do with it .
B. All people love money most.
C. Your value doesn't change no matter what happens to you.
D. The value of money changes when it is made dirty.
书面表达
进入湖州中学以来，学生第一次接触了社团。作为校报记者，你对学生进行了问卷调查，调查结果显示，社团深受学生欢迎。请以Students Like Associations 为题，写一篇120词左右的英语报道。调查结果如下：
1. 简介：
社团种类：音乐、美术、文学、漫画、摄影等十几个
活动时间：每周五下午4：00-5：00
活动方式：同一个社团的学生集中在一起活动
2. 收获： 有利于发展自己的特长; 学到很多课外知识; ……
3. 建议： 增加社团的种类；有老师的指导；……
注：可适当增加细节
参考词汇：社团association 文学literature 漫画manga 特长speciality
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用所给单词或词组翻译句子。
1.正是那场地震几乎毁了唐山。 (it is… that…)
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2.像往常一样，我坚持要求他和我们一起组织这次会议。(insist)
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3.王坤迫不及待地要告诉我们他的湄公河之旅的细节。（can hardly wait to do）
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4.世界似乎到了末日。 然而，并非所有的希望都破灭了。（as if）
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5.救援人员组成小分队将受困的人员挖出来并将死者掩埋。（who 引导的定语从句 ）
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单词拼写
1.If one holds a p_______ attitude to failure, he will overcome difficulties to win victory.
2.The old man s______ from heart disease ten years ago.
3.The man was born in Germany and his n________ language is German.
4.An interpreter (口译员) must be f__________ in at least two languages.
5.Water pipes are likely to b______ when the temperature is below 0 degree.
6.Laughter is one of the best e___________ of happiness and pleasure.
7.My father is a r__________ person, for he always keeps his word.
8.Unfortunately, few firefighters trapped in the fire were r___________
9.Now there are so many natural d__________, such as droughts, earthquakes, thunderstorms and some new ones.
10.As an old saying goes, “It is not wise to j_________ a book by its cover.”
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项多余选项。
Money Matters
Parents should help their children understand money. 1. So you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.
1. The basic function of money
Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It is important to show your child how money is traded for the things he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier(收银员). 2. When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more ways of using money.
2. Money lessons
Approach money lessons with openness and honesty. 3. If you must say no to a child’s request to spend money, explain, “You have to make a choice between this and that toy.”
3. 4.
Begin at the grocery store. Pick out two similar brands of a product –a name-brand butter and a generic(无商标产品), for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. 5. If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, you may explain how more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.
A. Wise decision
B. The value of money
C. Permit the child to choose between them.
D. Tell your child why he can –or cannot –have certain things.
E. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest.
F. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.
G. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.
Recently I had a conversation in Beijing with an adult Chinese friend who was complaining how difficult it was to study English. No surprises there. It is a difficult language to master, just like Chinese. I made a few suggestions based on my experience. One involved a very valuable fact which I learned from my high school Latin and Greek teacher, Dr. Smith．He is a gifted linguist （语言学家），and has an amazing ability to remember things, like poetry, essays, speeches, etc．His advice to us students is that for memorization purposes, there is forty minutes each day in which our memory is more acceptable than it is during the other 23 hours and 20 minutes.
This 40-minute "super memory" period is divided into two parts: the 20 minutes before we sleep, and the 20 minutes after we first awake. The theory supporting this is pretty simple. First, the last information we input into our brain before bed has a better chance of taking root than information gained during the noisy daytime; and second, our mind is free of disturbance(干扰) when we first awake in the morning一so more receptive to inputs, like a blank slate（石板）．
I took the advice to heart and it served me well in my school years. In my university days, our Chinese teacher would assign us 200 new vocabulary words each day, on which we would be quizzed（测试）the following day. Without the "magic" 40-minute technique, there's no way I would have passed those daily quizzes.
As far as language study goes, it's not only useful for memorizing vocabulary. It's also a very useful window of time to listen to the language we're studying even with background noise, and even if it's at a level we find difficult to understand. It might be audio（声音的）language study, aids, or just radio, TV or whatever.
Beyond our years of formal(正式的) education, memory skills are hugely important in any career. How many times have we heard a speaker read their speech from a prepared text, or read the word-by-word content of a PowerPoint presentation as they present each slide（投影片）? These are annoying, boring, and less effective ways of communicating. They are almost guaranteed(保证) to lose the audience's close attention and interest, let alone persuade or inspire anyone to do anything. And yet lots of people still make this mistake.
If we use the 40-minute technique, we may not succeed in memorizing our presentation content on a 100% word-by-word basis, but we'll be familiar enough so that we can spend much more time making eye contact with our audience. We will get them in the process, while looking at our text instead of staring at it. This will also free up our hands and arms to convey some extra messages through gesture．
As you see, the technique really works, but like many things, it takes practice to perfect it. Therefore, we'd better find ways to use the language outside of the classroom, as regularly and frequently as possible. One basic rule of language learning is, "Use it, or lose it·”
Seize the forty-minute learning window and we'll bring in a rich harvest of language learning.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1？
A. Dr. Smith is born with the great ability to memorize things．
B. It is surprising that English is as difficult to master as Chinese.
C. The author's high school Latin and Greek teacher has a positive influence on him.
D. The author made a few suggestions on learning English based on his teacher's experience.
2.The author's teacher suggested the 40-minute“super memory” period partly because_______.
A. it is less noisy in the forty minutes than in the daytime
B. we are always more peaceful when we awake in the morning
C. our brain is more active in the forty minutes than the other time
D. the last information gained before bed is more likely to remain
3.We can learn from the passage that the 40-minute technique ．
A. ensures that we understand the difficult language
B. helps a speaker in reading his speech from a prepared text
C. helps the author pass those daily quizzes in his university days
D. makes a speaker remember the presentation content completely
4.Which of the following is the best title for this passage？
A. The Best Way to Learn English
B. The Importance of Memory Skills
C. The “Magic” 40-Minute Technique
D. My Advice on Learning English
