Giving a gift can mean a lot. It can be a way to deepen (加深) a friendship. Before you get a gift for someone, spend time really thinking about what makes him or her special. Think about their interests, hobbies, needs and happiest moments. For example, friends and families with children might love a special calendar that contains everyone’s birthday and other special dates and events.
For music fans, a CD filled (填充) with their favourite music always makes a special gift.
Spending time with loved ones is also a way to give them a gift. You might take that special person out for a birthday dinner at your favourite restaurant.
Making a gift for someone using your own skills is very special. It is much more meaningful than a store-bought gift and shows how much you care!
Writing your feelings in a greeting card can be a simple way to make a keepsake (纪念品) that will be remembered for years.
【小题1】The writer thinks that we should think about someone’s ____ before we get him or her a gift.
①interests ②hobbies ③needs ④height

A.①②④B.①②③C.②③④D.①③④
【小题2】According to the passage, _____ gifts are the best.
A.specialB.popularC.expensiveD.store-bought
【小题3】For music fans, _____ is a special gift.
A.a calendarB.nice foodC.a music CDD.a greeting card
【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?
A.Never go to a shop to buy a gift.
B.We make a gift by ourselves to show our skills.
C.A greeting card is too simple and cheap to be a gift.
D.Having dinner with a loved one can be a special kind of gift.
【小题5】What is the best title for this passage?
A.How to Give Special Gifts
B.How to Remember Friends’ Birthdays
C.How to make Yourself Special
D.How to Be a Good Gift Receiver

If you get into the forest with your friends, stay with them always. If you don’t, you may get lost. If you really get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them find you by staying in one place.

There is another way to help your friends or other nearby people to find you. Give them a signal (信号) by shouting or whistling (吹口哨) three times. Any signal given three times is a call for help.

Keep up shouting or whistling always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They give you two shouts, two whistles, or two gun-shots (枪声). When someone gives you a signal, it is an answer to a call for help.

If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house---cover up to the holes with branches (树枝) with lots of leaves. Make yourself a soft bed with leaves and grass.

What should you do if you get hungry or need drinking water? You would have to leave your little house to look for a river. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back. The most important thing to do when you are lost is—stay in one place.

1.If you lost in the forest, you should _______.

A. stay where you are and give signals three times

B.walk around the forest and shout so that your friends could hear you

C.try to find your friends as soon as possible

D.try to get out of the forest and shout for help

2.If you want to let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun, you should _______.

A. tell people that you are lost    

B. keep up shouting or whistling

C. shout at the top of your voice   

D. shout or whistle three times

3.When you hear two shouts, or whistles, or gunshots, __________.

A. you should shout more loudly       

B. you can whistle three times

C. it is an answer to your call for help   

D. you should try to run to them

4.When you want to leave your place to get drinking water, you should ________.

A. just go to the river                     

B. find some glasses or bottles before you go

C. make a fire so that you can have some tea  

D. leave marks so that you can find your way back

5.This passage mainly tells you __________.

A. when you hear a signal always three times, it is a call for help

B.What you should do if you get lost in a forest

C.any signal given twice means an answer to a call for help

D.how you can live longer in a forest

 

Good writing starts with good ideas. If you write about things that you care about, you will write better. If you write about things that you don’t care about, you’ll be bored and your paper will not have many good ideas.

Once you have a good idea, the next step is organization. Think through your paper before you start. Write an outline. You need to know what your main points are before you start your first paragraph (段落). Use 2-4 main points, one paragraph each.

In your central paragraphs, be concise (简短的) and specific (具体的). Give examples with details(细节), not just general ideas. If you can say the same thing with fewer words, do it! Don’t use big words.

When you finish writing, look at your outline again. Did you really follow it or did it change as you wrote? Many times you find different ideas as you write. Look at your central paragraphs. What are their main ideas now? Are these ideas in the introduction? I often write the introduction again to fit the paper after I finish writing.

1. What is the 1st step for a good writing?

A. Think through your paper before you start. 

B. Write a good 1st paragraph.

C. Have a good idea.                                               

D. Look for many examples.

2. What is the 2nd step?

A. Have a good idea.                                                B. Write an outline.

C. Write the 1st paragraph.                                    D. Give examples with details.

3. What does the word “outline” mean in the 2nd paragraph?

A. 提纲                    B. 外形                              C. 中心                    D. 总结

4. What should you do in the central paragraph?

A. Don’t use big words.                                          

B. Give examples with details.   

C. Say the same thing with fewer words.            

D. A, B and C.

5.What should you do after finishing writing?

A. Look at your outline again.                               

B. Check the mistakes.

C. Look at your central paragraph again.            

D. Both A and C. 

 

Before you can start speaking and writing in English, your brain must get enough correct English sentences. This is obvious(显而易见的).

There are two ways to get correct English sentences: listening and reading. Both are good, but reading is much easier than listening. With the help of a good dictionary, you will be able to understand English texts much more easily than movies. If you just read one book in English, you will see that your English has become much better. English phrases will just come to you without thinking when you are writing or speaking.

This is true for hundreds of words and grammar structures(结构). If you read in English, you can forget about grammar rules. Throw away your grammar book! You needn’t know the rules for the present perfect tense(现在完成时). Instead, read a few books in English, and soon you will feel that “I have seen Paul yesterday” is wrong. The only difference between you and native speakers is that they have heard and read more English sentences than you have.

1.From the first paragraph, we know that ________.

A.English is difficult to learn

B.if you have seen an English sentence, you can speak English

C.before you use English, you must know some English

D.everyone is a born English speaker

2.What is the best way to get correct English sentences according to the passage?

A.Speaking.

B.Writing.

C.Thinking.

D.Reading and listening.

3.In the writer’s opinion, we can grasp English grammar rules _______.

A.by reading English books

B.by reading grammar books

C.by writing and speaking

D.by learning grammar rules

4.The only difference between you and native speakers is that native speakers _______.

A.have parents as their English teachers

B.are born to know grammar rules and phrases

C.read and hear more English than you

D.have a gift in learning English

5.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A.It is important for us to know English words.

B.Reading is important for us to learn English.

C.English grammar is not so important.

D.The best way to learn English is going to England.

 

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