I met Mrs. Neidl in the ninth grade on a stage-design team for a play and she was one of the directors. I loved her the first time I saw her. She had an ________ voice and direct way of speaking, but she was encouraging and ________.
Mrs. Neidl would ask me for my _________. She wanted to know how I thought we should _________ with things. At first I had no ________ how to answer because I _______nothing about stage design! But I slowly began to respond to her ________.
Mrs. Neidl’s ________ that year was , “Try it. We will get better and better ________!” At first, I was so afraid of failing, but Mrs. Neidl believed that I could do well. With the encouragement of Mrs. Neidl I became more _________ and went all out.
The shy, quiet freshman achieved success that year. I was ________ in program as “Student Art Assistant” because of time and _______ I’d put in. It was in that year that I _________I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing stage design.
Being on that stage-design team with Mrs. Neidl ________ me completely. Not only was I stronger and more able than I had thought, but I also ________ a strong interest and a world I hadn’t known existed. She taught me not to ________ what people think I should do. She taught me to take chances and not to be ________. Mrs. Neidl was my comforter when I was _______. Her ________ in me has inspired me to do things that I never imagined _______.
1.A. unhappy B. unpleasant C. unsure D. unfair
2.A. inspiring B. friendly C. careful D. clever
3.A. reason B. dream C. opinion D. future
4.A. share B. chat C. discuss D. deal
5.A. idea B. time C. patience D. chance
6.A. thought B. told C. cared D. knew
7.A. explanations B. comments C. Questions D. Discussions
8.A. message B. motto C. saying D. suggestion
9.A. again B. more C. instead D. later
10.A. discouraged B. careless C. hard-working D. confident
11.A. recognized B. introduced C. blamed D. allowed
12.A. spirit B. money C. effort D. design
13.A. doubted B. realized C. hoped D. promised
14.A. scared B. shocked C. changed D. attracted
15.A. discovered B. developed C. took D. formed
16.A. accept B. care C. judge D. wonder
17.A. bored B. afraid C. sad D. lazy
18.A. amazed B. excited C. pleased D. upset
19.A. trust B. patience C. curiosity D. interest
20.A. real B. enjoyable C. possible D. wonderful
Reading is an important part of learning English. One of the best tips on how to improve your reading skills is to think about how you read in your own language. Start by thinking about how you read different documents. How do you read newspaper? 1. How do you read train schedules?
Reading in English is like reading in your native language. This means that it is not always necessary to read and understand each and every word in English. Remember that reading skills in your native language and English are basically the same.
Here is a quick overview of the four types of reading skills used in every language:
Skimming
Skimming is used to quickly gather the most important information. 2. Use skimming to quickly get up to speed on a current business situation. It is not essential（必要的） to understand each word when skimming. You can skim the newspaper, magazines, or travel brochures.
Scanning
Scanning is used to find a particular piece of information. 3. Use scanning on train or airplane schedules, meeting plans, and the “What’s on TV” section of your newspaper etc. in order to find the specific details you require. If your see words or phrases that you don’t understand, don’t worry when scanning.
Extensive reading
Extensive reading is used to obtain(获得) a general understanding of a subject and includes reading longer texts for pleasure, as well as business books. Use extensive reading skills to improve your general knowledge of business procedures. 4.
Intensive reading
Intensive reading is used on shorter texts in order to extract(提取) specific information. 5. Use intensive reading skills to grasp the details of a specific details of a specific situation, like reading a bookkeeping report, an insurance claim or a contract(合约). In this case, it is important that you understand each word, number or fact.
A. Run your eyes over the text looking for the specific piece of information you need.
B. If you do not understand a word, you may look it up in the dictionary.
C. Run your eyes over the text, noting important information.
D. Do not worry if you do not understand each word.
E. It includes very close accurate reading for detail.
F. Do you read every word in your own language?
G. How do you read novels?
Maybe it has been the influence of the current scene: the hype(大肆宣传) among urban biking. Apparently, urban biking requires entirely different bikes than suburban biking does and therefore a Bike Design Project started where five design studio across five cities had to come up with a perfect urban bike. The winning bike will be manufactured (制造) for a limited run of 100 bikes and will be in stores next year. Industry, a Portland-based studio, came up with a very interesting bike: one that uses Bluetooth and handlebars that tell you when to stop or turn.
Industry worked together with Ti Cycles to create a bike with 3D printed titanium frame. The bike is called Solid and can connect to a smart phone App: My Bike. This App alarms a user when a light needs replacement and if something gets wrong with one’s brakes. There is also software called Discover My City, which has a series of routes through Portland’s most trendy neighborhoods, with suggestions, about where to eat and shop.
Nevertheless, the idea with cycling is that you need to focus on the road and not on your smart phone. This bike therefore uses integrated (整合的) feedback on handlebars. Those handlebars tell a user when to turn, as they will buzz(嗡嗡叫) when a turn appears. As you are getting closer, they will buzz more frequently. And then there is the possibility to control your light via built-in sensors and change gears(齿轮) by pressing an electronic button.
Although the bicycle looks highly interesting and can be seen as a piece of art for the designing world, we don’t know if we would like our bike to have an automatic buzz when we are approaching a turn. On the other side, it could add some extra safety to traffic in general. Whether you like the bike or not, you have to admit the Portland-based studio brings the concept of urban biking to a whole new level.
1.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ____________.
A. the equipment that a hand-made bike requires
B. the popularity of the winning bike in the urban area
C. the instruction of a newly bike in the future market
D. the difference between urban biking and suburban biking
2.The 3D printed bike is special in the way ____________.
A. it tells you where to go B. it connects the computers
C. it limits the riding speed D. it goes into forest and mountains
3.What is the author’s attitude(态度) to the newly bicycle?
A. Favorable B. Doubtful
C. Pessimistic D. Objective
4.The passage is likely to appear in ____________.
A. a school textbook B. a TV advertisement
C. an exhibition guide D. a newspaper report
The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found. Keeping the mind occupied(被占据) with tasks—no matter how meaningless—keeps off negative emotions, the study found.
However, the bad news is that humans are seemingly born to be lazy in order to save energy, according to Professor Christoper Hsee, a behavioral scientist at Chicago University.
In a study, 98 students were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first, they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one. They were given a choice of either handing in the first survey nearby or a more distant location they had to walk to. Whichever option they chose, they received a chocolate bar. It turned out that about two-thirds(68students) chose the lazy option. Those who had taken the walk reported feeling happier than those who had stayed put.
Professor Hsee concluded that keeping busy helped keep people happy. He said the findings, reported in the journal Psychological Science, had policy implications.( 暗示)
“Governments may increase the happiness of idle(闲散的) citizens by having them build bridges that are actually useless,” he proposed.( 提议)
At the individual level, he advised, “Get up and do something. Anything. Even if there really is no point to what you are doing, you will feel better for it.” He added,, “Incidentally, thinking deeply or engaging in self-reflection counts as keeping busy, too.”
“You do not need to be running around. You just need to be engaged, either physically or mentally.”
1.Keeping busy can make people happy because_____________.
A. it can help people get rid of laziness
B. it can make people sleep better
C. it can help get rid of negative emotions
D. it can give people a sense of achievement
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The finding may contribute to politics.
B. The officials have taken Pro.Hsee’s advice.
C. In the study half students handed in the first survey nearby.
D. Governments can increase citizens’ happiness by building bridges.
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Everybody is born to be lazy.
B. Only by keeping working all the time can you gain happiness.
C. Pro. Hsee’s finding was published in Psychological Science.
D. Keeping busy can add to the possibility of being happy.
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
A. To explain what happiness is
B. To advise people not to sit around
C. To advise people to do what they like to
D. To show people how to take life correctly
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
1.What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?
A. Go shopping B. Find a house
C. Join his family D. Take a vacation
2.The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_________.
A. a friend of his family B. a Sydney policeman
C. a letter in his papers D. a stranger in Sydney
3.What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Showed B. Sent out
C. Delivered D. Gave back
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. From India to Australia. B. Living in a New Country
C. Turning Trash to Treasure. D. In Search of New Friends.
假如你是某国际学校学生会主席李华，你校将举办英语书法比赛，请根据所给提示用英语以短文形式写一份书面通知。
1. 报名截止日期：9月13日；
2. 比赛时间：9月15日上午8:00；
3. 地点：四号教学楼501室；
4. 比赛内容：抄写一篇文章，文章届时发放（纸张及笔由学校统一提供）。
注意：1. 词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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