Dear Mr. Jones,
I expect you may be slightly surprised to receive a letter from someone living as near as your next-door neighbor; but I have to raise a_______that it will be easier for me to discuss in writing.
You may have ______ that I have a line of apple trees running alongside the fence that _____our two gardens. You may also have taken pleasure in the frequent sight of your two children sitting on your lawn directly by the fence. And you may ______have noticed that my apple trees, so to speak, _____ the fence and seem to look down at your children with interest.
It is only natural that your children should sometimes seem to ______that interest. And it is not only natural, but, I acknowledge, quite legal, for them ______ to show that interest by picking all the apples that ______ on your side of the fence.
But to be plain with you, Mr. Jones, I am tired of seeing your children, day after day, tear the ____ off the side of every one of my apple trees, and leave my trees looking as though a______had been fought on one side of them. I am, if anything, even more tired of ______ these fine autumn mornings, to find even the apples on ______ side of the fence much less in ______. I know this is the work of your children, ______ last night I was woken at midnight by the noise they were making climbing one of my trees, and (as they may have told you) chased them home.
While I am on the subject, I am at least ______ to you for keeping your bonfires on the far side of your garden this year. Last year neither I nor your children had any apples, because the smoke from your bonfires ______ all the flowers before the apples had time to form. I very much hope that ______ ----for the first time since I came to this village----I shall have my apples, and your children will have theirs and that the sight of the line of apple trees will be a ______ to us both.
____, I shall not express my displeasure in writing to you, but shall have to refer the matter to those capable of taking stronger ____ .
Yours sincerely,
J. Smith
1.A. course B. subject C. idea D. theme
2.A. knew B. learned C. noticed D. acknowledged
3.A. divides B. unfolds C. separates D. surrounds
4.A. also B. Yet C. even D. ever
5.A. get over B. go over C. take over D. bend over
6.A. receive B. return C. rebuild D. reserve
7.A. occasionally B. immediately C. directly D. frequently
8.A. hang around B. hang on C. hang up D. hang over
9.A. leaves B. branches C. trunk D. roots
10.A. rubbish B. campaign C. battle D. trouble
11.A. staying up B. waking up C. warming up D. standing up
12.A. your B. both C. my D. each
13.A. color B. shape C. size D. number
14.A. when B. after C. since D. until
15.A. pleased B. grateful C. disappointed D. appealing
16.A. destroyed B. burned C. fired D. warmed
17.A. this year B. last year C. next time D. next year
18.A. defence B. success C. pride D. barrier
19.A. Otherwise B. Moreover C. Therefore D. Fortunately
20.A. work B. function C. reply D. action
Eight Things That Lead to Success
“What leads to success?”This may be a question asked by those who want to make something of their life. For seven years, Richard. John made 500 interviews. Here he wants to tell you what really leads to success.
And the first thing is passion.
Freeman Thomas says,“I'm driven by my passion.”TED-sters do it for love; they don't do it for money. Carol Coletta says, “I would pay someone to do what I do.” 1.
Work
Rupert Murdoch said to me, “It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun.”Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes!2.I figure, they're not workaholics. They're workafrolics（醉心工作者）.
Good!
Alex Garden says,“To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it”
There's no magic; it's practice, practice, practice.
And it's focus.
Norman Jewison said to me, “I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing.”
And push!
David Gallo says, “Push yourself. Physically. mentally, you've got to push, push, push. You gotta push through shyness and self-doubt.”Goldie Hawn says, “I always had self-doubts. I wasn’t good enough; I wasn't smart enough. I didn't think
I'd make it." 3. (Laughter) Frank Gehry said to me,“My mother pushed me.”
Serve!
Sherwin Nuland says,“It was a privilege to serve as a doctor.”4. And the first thing I say to them is：“OK, well you can’t serve yourself; you gotta serve others something of value. Because that’s the way people really get rich.”
Ideas!
TE D-ster Bill Gates says, “I had an idea: founding the first microcomputer software company.”I'd say it was a pretty good idea. And there's no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas- it's just doing some very simple things. And I give lots
of evidence.
5.
Joe Kraus says, “Persistence is the number one reason for our success.”You got to persist through failure. You got to persist through CRAP! Which of course means “Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.” (Laughter)
A. So why don’t I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids?
B. And the interesting thing is: If you do it for love, the money comes anyway.
C. Now a lot of kids tell they want to be millionaires.
D.LED-sters do have fun working. And they work hard.
E. Persist!
F. Investing their money in pursuing a future lifestyle rather than in an academic conquest.
G. Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that’s why they invented mothers.
Education is not a bystanders sport. Numerous researchers have shown that when students participate in classroom discussion they hold more positive attitudes toward school, and that positive attitudes promote learning. It is no coincidence that girls are more passive in the classroom discussion and score lower than boys on SATs.
We found that at all grade levels in all communities and in all subject areas boys controlled classroom communication. They participated in more interactions than girls did, and their participation became greater as the year went on.
Our research contradicted the traditional assumption that girls control classroom communication in reading while boys in math. We found that whether the subject was language arts and English or math and science, boys got more than their fair share of teacher attention. That teachers talk more to male students is simply because boys are more aggressive in grabbing their attention by calling out answers to the teachers’ questions first. While girls sit patiently with their hands raised or keep silent. Psychologist Lisa Serbin and K.Daniel O’Leary, then at the state university of New York at stony brook studied classroom interaction at preschool level and found that teachers gave boys more attention, praised them more often and were at least twice as likely to have extended conversations with them.
Years of experience have shown that the best way to learn something is to do it yourself. It is also important to give students specific and direct feedback about the quality of their work and answers. Teachers behave differently depending on whether boys or girls are active to provide answers during discussions. During classroom discussion, teachers in our study reacted to boys answers with powerful, precise and effective responses, while they often gave girls mild and unclear reactions because of their silence. Too often, girls remain in the dark about the quality of their answers. Active students receiving precise feedback are more likely to achieve academically. And they are more likely to be boys.
This kind of communication game is played at work, as well as at school. As reported in numerous studies, it goes like this.
※Men speak more often and frequently interrupt women.
※ Listeners recall more from male speakers than from female speakers, even when both use a similar speaking style and cover the same content.
※Women participate less actively in conversation. They do more smiling and gazing, and they are more often the passive by standers in professional and social conversations among peers.
※Women often their own statements into unsure comments. This is accomplished by using qualifiers and by adding tag question. These uncertain patterns weaken impact and signal a lack of power and influence.
Only when girls are active and treated equally in the classroom will they be more likely to achieve equality in the workplace.
1.What does the authors mean when they say“Education is not a bystanders sport.”?
A. Both boys and girls should do more sports.
B. The girl students should be the audience to watch the boy students’ discussions.
C. The boy students should not be too active in the classroom discussions.
D. Both boy and girl students should take an active part in the classroom discussions.
2.Which of the following is Not true?
A. Girls’ scores are lower than boys on SATs.
B. Girls control classroom discussion in reading while boys in maths.
C. Boys control classroom discussion in both reading and maths.
D. Boys are more confident in calling out answers to catching the teachers’ attention.
3.The factors that contribute to the students’ effective learning are the following except__________
A. The students can take an active part in the classroom discussion.
B. The students do it themselves.
C. Teachers can give students specific and direct feedback the quality of their work and answers.
D. Students transform their own statements into uncertain comments.
Throughout history, artist, inventors, writers and scientists have solved problems in their dreams. Now, let’s have a look together at some of them.
1.Paul McCartney Found Yesterday in a dream
Paul McCartney is one of the most famous singers/songwriters of all time. According to the Guinness Book of Records, his Beatles song Yesterday(1965) has the most cover（翻唱） versions of any song ever written and, according to record label BMI，was performed over seven million times in the 20th century.
The tune for Yesterday came to Paul McCartney in a dream.
“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, ’That’s great, I wonder what that is?’ There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of my bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor---- and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the _melody a lot, but because I’d dreamed it, I couldn’t believe I’d written it. I thought, ‘No, I’ve never written anything like this before.’ But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing! ”
2. Mary Shelley’s Frankentein Inspired by a Dream
In the summer of 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover, the poet Percy Shelley (whom she married later that year),visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byron’s other guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron challenged his guests to each write one themselves.
Mary’s story, inspired by a dream, became Frankentein（科学怪人）.
“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think----My eyes shut ,I saw------with my acute mental vision----the pale student of unholy arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the ugly figure of a man stretch out, and then , on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and tremble with an uneasy motion, extremely frightful. The next morning I announced that I had thought of a story. I began that day with the words, ‘It was on a dull night of November’, making only a transcript(文字稿) of the cruel terror of my waking dream.”
1.We can learn from the whole passage that_________
A. Some great stories, poems and songs were created while their writers slept.
B. Paul McCartney likes writing songs in dreams.
C. Frankentein was written by Byron’s guests.
D. Byron was an ugly frightful Frankentein.
2.The underlined word“melody”has the similar meaning of _______.
A. dream B. song
C. tune D. instrument
3.Which is the best title of the whole passage?
A. The Greatest writers B. The most famous song and story
C. Great dreams that come true D. How to dream
A monk lived with his brother, a one-eyed idiot(a very stupid person).One day ,when the monk was scheduled to have an interview with a famous theologian(a scientist who studies religions) who had come from far away to meet him, he needed to take care of some matters and would therefore be absent when the theologian arrived. He told his brother:“Receive this scholar and treat him well！Don’t say a word to him，and everything will be OK.”
The monk left the temple. Upon returning, he went to meet his guest.
“Did my brother receive you properly?”asked the monk.
“You brother is outstanding. He’s a great theologian!”exclaimed the theologian with great enthusiasm.
“What do you mean? My brother---a theologian?”stuttered(结巴地说)the surprised monk.
“We had a passionate conversation,”replied the scholar.“We communicated professionally by means of gestures. I showed him one finger and he replied by showing me two. Logically, I answered with three fingers and then he astonished me by raising a closed fist, ending the debate. With one finger, I implied the unity of Buddha. With two fingers, he expanded my point of view by reminding me that Buddha was inseparable from his theory. Delighted by the reply, with three fingers I expressed: Buddha and his theory in the world. Then he suggested a wonderful response, showing me his fist: Buddha, his theory and the world, all together as one whole. ”
A little later, the monk went to look for his one-eyed brother.
“So how did it go earlier with the theologian?”he asked.
“Very simple,”said the brother.“He made fun of me ;he show me one finger emphasizing that I have but one eye. Not wanting to fall into the conflict, I showed that he was fortunate enough to have two eyes. Critically, he continued, ‘Be that as it may ,between us, we have three eyes.’ That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Showing him a closed fist, I threatened to lay him out right then and there if he didn’t stop his insulting challenges.”
1.According to the passage, the monk’s brother is a person__________.
A. who was a great theologian
B. who was a three-eyed idiot
C. who was a one-eyed theologian
D. who was a fool with only one eye
2.The theologian thought the monk’s brother as a great theologian because ______.
A. the brother was a one-eyed idiot
B. the brother could communicate properly and politely by means of gestures
C. the brother had deep thoughts of Buddhism
D. the theologian himself misunderstood the brother’s gestures
3.What would the monk do after he heard of his brother’s explanation on how it went earlier with the theologian?
A. The monk would be very angry with his brother and beat him.
B. The monk would be very happy and praise him.
C. The monk would apologize to the theologian and his brother.
D. The monk would think what a funny misunderstanding it was.
4.According to what the theologian said, he considered the monk’s brother’s fist to be the meaning of _____________.
A. a threat to him
B. an encouragement to him
C. a unity of the Buddha, theory and the world
D. one eye of himself
书面表达（满分30分）
假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Peter曾表示希望来加国教书。像样我现在需招聘外教，请给他写封信，告知招聘信息。内容主要包括：
1. 教授课程：英语口语、英语写作、今日美国、今日英国等
2. 授课对象：高中生（至少三年英语基础）
3. 工作量：
——每周12学时，任先三门课
——担任学生英语俱乐部或英语校报顾问（advisor）
注意：
a) 词数100左右；
b) 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
c) 开关语已为你写好，请将完整的回信书写在答题卡上。
Dear Peter,
I remember you told me you were interested in teaching in China.
Best,
Li Hua
