A friend asks you to be a volunteer. Your husband asks you to glance over an e-mail he is writing to his boss. You say you’d love to. Really! But..."I don’t have time".
It seems plausible(有道理的). We’re all busy these days, right? But there are reasons not to use these four words, at least with yourself.
Here’s the big one: it is not true. You tell yourself "I don’t have time" to exercise, but we all have 168 hours a week. If someone offered to pay you $100,000 a week to go to the gym for 5 of those 168 hours, you would probably find the time to do it. Since that isn’t going to happen, this is a more exact description: "It’s not a priority(优先考虑的事)."
There are a million things we could be doing with our time; some are priorities and some are not, even if it’s wrong to say so. Try it. "I’m not going to read to you tonight, sweetie, because it’s not a priority. Daddy’s present priority is to check my e-mails."
Using the words "I don’t have time" keeps us from admitting to the fact that how we spend our time is a choice. It puts the responsibility for our lives on someone else: a boss, a client or a family member.
Better to be truthful: "I have another volunteer job on which I am focusing my energy right now. It is the cause that is most important to me." Or, to your husband "I wish you had mentioned this earlier. Right now, my priority is to get our children dressed and out of the door for school. I will be available around lunch time if you would like to talk".
1.What does the word "it" in the third paragraph refer to?
A. Saying "I don’t have time".
B. Saying "We are all busy today".
C. Checking your husband’s e-mail.
D. Telling your friend you won’t be a volunteer.
2.From the third paragraph we can learn that ________.
A. it is enough to exercise for five hours a week
B. we are too busy to exercise these days
C. we can earn $100,000 a week by exercising
D. we don’t often regard exercise as a priority
3.What is the text mainly about?
A. How to be responsible for our lives.
B. How to get time to do exercise.
C. How to say no to others without saying "I don’t have time".
D. How we should spend our time reasonably these days.
Kids may need to apologize if they do something they know was wrong－like telling a lie or breaking a rule on purpose. When they do something their parents tell them not to do, or they don't do something they are supposed to do, they apologize, too.
Grown-ups can apologize，too，to other grown-ups or even to kids. After all，even grown-ups make mistakes sometimes. By apologizing when they're wrong，grown-ups can set a good example and show kids how to do the right thing and apologize when they need to.
Saying I'm sorry when you need to is the right thing to do. It does a lot of good. But by itself，it might not be enough to make everything all better again. Sometimes along with an apology，a person needs to fix the mistake or promise to do better. Sometimes doing a nice thing for the person after you apologize helps show that you really are sorry and want to be friendly again.
Sometimes a heartfelt "I'm" sorry fixes everything right away. Other times，it might take a while for someone to feel friendly after you apologize. You might need to give the other person some time. Even after you say you're sorry，you might still feel bad about what you said or did－but you can feel good about apologizing and about making up your mind to do better.
When someone apologizes to you，you might not feel like being friendly again right away. Once in a while，if a person doesn't change，you might not want to be friends anymore. You might feel glad that the other person apologized and admitted being wrong. But if someone keeps behaving in mean ways or does something that keeps hurting，you might not feel the same way anymore. Just because someone apologizes to you doesn't mean you have to be friendly again. That part is up to you.
1.The writer suggests that grown-ups should set a good example of ________.
A．working hard
B．making an apology
C．doing good deeds
D．making mistakes
2.The underlined pronoun "it" (in Paragraph 3) probably refers to ________.
A．promising to do better
B．a lot of good
C．fixing mistakes
D．saying I'm sorry
3.What would you like your friend to say to you if he/she hurts you?
A．I am really wrong.
B．Excuse me.
C．I beg your pardon?
D．What's wrong with you?
4.The passage mainly deals with a topic about ________.
A．politics
B．history
C．communication
D．science
Japanese high school students either walk or ride bicycles if the distance is not too great. In other cases, students must take public buses and trains. After junior high school, students attend schools based on their high school entrance examination scores. So some students travel a great distance to attend the school.
◆________
The school day begins at 8:30. Then students assemble in their homeroom classes for the day's studies. Each homeroom has an average of 40-45 students. Students stay in their homeroom classrooms for most of the school day. Only for physical education, laboratory classes, or other subjects requiring special facilities(设备) do students move to different parts of the school. Between classes and at lunchtime, classrooms can be noisy, lively places. Some schools may have a cafeteria(自助餐厅), but most do not. In most schools, students bring a box lunch from home, prepared by the mother in the early morning hours.
Japanese students spend 240 days a year at school, 60 days more than American
students. Students in high schools take three years' studying of each of the following subjects: mathematics, social studies, Japanese, science and English. Other subjects include physical education, music, art, and moral studies(思想品德课). All the students in one grade level study the same subjects. Given the number of required subjects, electives(选修科目) are few.
◆After-school Activities
Club activities take place after school every day. Students can join only one club, and they rarely change clubs from year to year, so the clubs are relatively stable. Clubs are made up of sports clubs (baseball, soccer, judo, kendo, etc.) and culture clubs (English, broadcasting, science, etc.). New students usually are encouraged to select a club shortly after the school year begins in April. Clubs meet for two hours after school each day and many clubs continue to meet during school vacations.
1.Most Japanese high school students often have their lunch ________.
A. in restaurants
B. in school cafeterias
C. at home
D. in homeroom classrooms
2.Students in the USA go to school ________ days a year.
A. 180B. 200C. 240D. 300
3.The underlined word "rarely" in the fourth paragraph means "________".
A. alwaysB. neverC. seldomD. often
4.The best subtitle for the second and third paragraphs may be "________".
A. At schoolB. In classC. SubjectsD. Homerooms
One evening last fall, while Marcos Ugarte did his homework and his father, Eduardo, a teacher, prepared lesson plans, they heard shouting outside. Eduardo, 47, and Marcos, 15, stepped onto the balcony(阳台) of their two-story home. Immediately, Marcos’ s eye was caught by a flame from one of their neighbors’ houses.
"Dad, the house is on fire!" Marcos cried. Dressed only in shorts, the barefoot teen
dashed towards the Mas’ home with his dad. Grandmother Yim Ma, mother Suzanne Ma, and son Nathan Ma were gathered on the front grassland shouting for help. When the Ugartes got there, they saw through the open front door that father Alex Ma was falling down the stairs, coughing, his face black with dirt.
"Is anyone else in the house?" Eduardo asked.
"My son!" Alex managed to say, pointing to the second floor.
Eduardo started up the stairs, but thick, black smoke, swirling ash, and extreme heat forced him to his knees. He inched upstairs and down the hall where Alex said he would find Cody, eight, who had locked himself in a bedroom. "I’d never seen smoke like that," says Eduardo. "My glasses immediately turned black from the ash."
As the fire spread across the hall, Eduardo banged on the bedroom door and tried to turn the handle. But Cody didn’t respond, and Eduardo made his way back downstairs. At the same time, Marcos saw Yim and Suzanne pulling an aluminum(铝) ladder out of the garage. "Cody was standing at the window, screaming for help," says Marcos.
"I knew I had to do something." He grabbed the ladder, positioned it near the window, and climbed towards the boy. When Marcos reached the window, he pushed the screen into the room and persuaded Cody out. "It’s OK," Marcos told him. "I’ve got you." Holding Cody with one arm, Marcos moved down the ladder. Halfway down, he handed the boy to a neighbor.
The day after the fire, Alex visited Marcos. "Thank you for saving my son," Alex said. "You are his hero forever."
1.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. How a family got saved from a fire.
B. How a fire happened.
C. How a teen became a hero.
D. How a barefoot teen saved his neighbor.
2.The Ugartes went onto their balcony to ________.
A. have a rest
B. enjoy the cool
C. see where the fire was
D. see what was the matter
3.When the Ugartes got to the fire scene, ________.
A. the Mas were all out to safety
B. father Alex Ma was saving his son
C. Cody was trapped on the second floor
D. Cody was sleeping in bed
4.Why did Marcos say something to Cody?
A. To calm him.B. To educate him.
C. To amuse him.D. To upset him.
假如你是学生叶子，你的网友Peter听说美国第一夫人米歇尔(Michelle Obama)访问了你的学校，他想了解当时的情况。请按照以下要点给Peter回一封邮件。
1. 具体情况：1）发表演讲并与学生互动；2）与40名学生上了一堂英语课；
3）参与了一节太极课。
2. 发表自己的感想。
注意：1．词数100左右； 2．可以适当增减细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头语已为你写好； 4. 参考词汇：太极------ Tai Chi
Dear Peter,
In the last letter, you’d like to know something about Mrs. Obama’s visit in our school. _____________________________________________________________________
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Yours sincerely,
Ye Zi
短文改错
文中共有十处错误,每句中最多有两处,错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（ ＼）划掉。
修改： 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改十处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
May I have your attention, please?
In Saturday, July 27th, there will be a few visits to different places. Everyone is welcomed. All the visitors will be dividing into four groups. Each group of visitors can visit to one of the places—a factory, a farm, a school and a hospital. Please sign your name(签名) at the Service Desk before 9:00am. and say which places you wish to visit. We’ll set up after breakfast at 8am. and we would return in the afternoon. We’ll have lunch at place we visit at about 12:30pm.
We wish you a pleasantly journey. That’s all.
Thank you.
