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 There is an old proverb with a lot of wisdom. It 1      , " The tongue has the power of life and death,and whoever 2        it will eat its fruit."

  It is true. What we say has the ability to 3        emotions and thoughts in others. A kind word helps people,and negative words 4        people―sometimes for a very long time.

  Most of the time we 5        this concept in relation to how we treat others and that is good. 6       here I want to talk about this concept in relation to ourselves. How does what we say affect us? 7       . There is a simple principle here. Only say things that will create in you 8        emotions,thoughts,feelings,and finally,actions. Let me give you a good 9       . We should not allow the words " I can't" in our 10       . Why? Because we can!The very minimum is "I'll try".

  Have you ever been about to 11        the soccer ball towards the goal and said to yourself, "I am going to fail this one"? What happens? You fail it. This 12       happens to me. So what do I do? I pause for a(n) 13      ,reset myself,and tell myself I am going to kick it straight down. What happens? About half the time I kick it 14       ,and the other half,I fail it. But at the very least I increase my 15        of performing better. Bad thoughts almost guarantee failure,16       good thoughts increase success.

  Some of us aren't even 17        that we talk negatively to ourselves. Take some time today to think about what you say to yourself. If you 18        yourself saying negative things,it is time to change!Find some simple phrases that will help you 19        the day with more success. Whatever your situation or work is,I am sure there are 20        things you can say that will build you up and put you on the road to success！

(   ) 1. A. says   B. speaks   C. talks   D. tells

(   ) 2. A. possesses   B. loves   C. shows   D. sells

(   ) 3. A. develop   B. build   C. create   D. raise

(   ) 4. A. damage   B. destroy   C. wound   D. hurt

(   ) 5. A. think about   B. think over   C. think out   D. think of

(   ) 6. A. So   B. And   C. But   D. Or

(   ) 7. A. Immediately   B. Greatly   C. Quickly   D. Slowly

(   ) 8. A. positive   B. negative   C. excellent   D. wonderful

(   ) 9. A. case   B. example   C. situation   D. condition

(   ) 10. A. thoughts   B. ideas   C. minds   D. feelings

(   ) 11. A. play   B. beat   C. hit   D. kick

(   ) 12. A. actually   B. properly   C. especially   D. hardly

(   ) 13. A. hour   B. minute   C. day   D. month

(   ) 14. A. carefully   B. firmly   C. straightly   D. eagerly

(   ) 15. A. opinions   B. changes   C. practices   D. chances

(   ) 16. A. as   B. while   C. because   D. but

(   ) 17. A. aware   B. sure   C. certain   D. clear

(   ) 18. A. recognize   B. see   C. find   D. have

(   ) 19. A. get on   B. get through   C. get off   D. get in

(   ) 20. A. specific   B. sensitive   C. serious   D. difficult

1. A say强调说话的内容(从后面引号可知) ， speak,talk强调说话的动作，tell告诉某人某事。

2. B喜欢它的人会自食其果；love表示爱用tongue的人。

3. C我们说的话能引起(create) 别人的情感和思想，下文也有提示。，

4. D (消极的话) 从情感上伤害(hurt) 别人。

5. D此处think of意为"以为，认为"；think about 意为"思考"；think over意为"仔细考虑"；think out意为"想出"。

6. C前后为转折关系，一般情况是和别人有关，而"我"这里谈的是和我们自己有关。

7. B根据上下文，我们说的话对自己影响巨大。

8. A作者提倡只说引起积极情感和思想的事。

9. B作者在这里举了一个例子(example) 。

10. C我们不应该让"我不能"这样的话(出现) 在头脑中。

11. D根据生活常识，应该是踢足球，下文也有提示。

12. A这实际上也发生在我身上。

13. B for a minute=for a while意为"一会儿"。

14. C大约一半的几率我径直地射门了，上文有提示。

15. D至少增加了表现好一点的机会。

16. B前后为对比关系，故用while。

17. A我们一些人甚至还没有意识到(be aware) 我们对自己说消极的话。

18. C如果你发现自己正在说消极的事情。

19. B更成功地度过(get through) 那一天。

20. A有一些具体的(specific) 话你可以说，以帮助你建立信心通往成功之路。

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A study by the center found that more than90 percent of women who offramp want to onramp back into the work force eventually. But making the transition back to work is rarely easy,and it is even harder in this economic climate of layoffs and hiring freezes.

  Considering some of the obstacles faced by onrampers,a threeday program called "Greater Returns：Restarting Your Career”was held at Columbia University. The goal of the three days was to have them walk away with a big shot of confidence.

According to one school of thought,women looking to make a comeback might even have an advantage in the current economy,especially if they are looking for parttime or consultant positions that do not offer benefits. And a majority of onrampers are women with extensive working experiences that could give them a slight advantage over lessexperienced competition.

  "You absolutely cannot be defensive about why you offramped," Ms. Hoffman says, "defensive" would have put her into a hard situation if the Greater Returns program had not taught her how to describe the years she spent at home. "I now feel confident talking to an employer and saying , ' Yes,I have been out of the work force,but here is where I can make significant contributions.'”

(   ) 5. What is the best title for the passage?

   A. Off-Ramp：It Is Common.

   B. On-Ramp：It Is Easy.

   C. Off-Ramp to On-Ramp：It Can Be a Hard journey.

   D. Off-Ramp or On-Ramp：It Depends on Confidence.

(   ) 6. According to the passage,Greater Returns         .

   A. is intended to relieve the pressure of the jobless women

   B. has all the jobless women restart their career

   C. is to last all the year around for the jobless women

   D. will build up the confidence of those in search of jobs

(   ) 7. The main reason for the women's offramping is that         .

   A. they have to suffer the sexual discrimination

   B. they reach a crossroad of career

   C. they have to parent their children

   D. they have great work pressure

(   ) 8. Which job is easier to get for a woman offramper?

   A. Regular workers. B. Casual workers.

   C. Company managers. D. Bank clerks.

(   ) 9. From what Ms. Hoffman says in the last paragraph,we can conclude         .

   A. she didn't get advice from the Greater Returns program

   B. she was defensive about her offramping

   C. she didn't get the job because she lied about her experience

   D. she is onramp partly due to her straightforward manner

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  In 1820,the island was bought from the Spanish for $2,000,quite a big sum in those days,and the purchaser was John Simonton,an Alabama businessman―a smart businessman,it might be added,whose name and descendants live on here and remain a powerful influence in the area.

  Pirates were eventually driven out and the island's mixed population of English Bahamians,Southerners and transplanted northerners rose to 2 ,700,many of them happily engaged in the business of wrecking ships,then salvaging (打捞) the cargoes.

  So profitable was that enterprising career,in fact,that one wrecker,a Bahamian named William Curry,is said to have worked his way to a million dollars,making him Florida's first millionaire and wealthy enough to buy a $100,000 Tiffany table service.

  In the 1850s,however,a lighthouse was built,putting a bit of a damper on the wrecking business,and the town's industry began to change. A terrible fire destroyed the town in 1859. About the same time,cigar makers,fleeing war in Cuba,arrived in Key West,where they established a flourish industry. Key West's port was a hot spot,too,and by the 1880s,the city was said to be the wealthiest in the nation.

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(   ) 1. The wrecker,a Bahamian named William Curry made a lot of money by         .

   A. finding the wrecking ships

   B. offering Tiffany table service

   C. joining the two businesses together

   D. developing the tourism

(   ) 2. What is the passage mainly about?

   A. History of the island.

   B. Geography of the island.

   C. Some powerful people.

   D. The discovery of the island.

(   ) 3. The underlined phrase "putting ... a damper on" in the passage probably means

   A. making something slightly wet

   B. making something brighter

   C. making something less strong

   D. making something quite different

(   ) 4. What is the small island nowadays famous for?

   A. The skills in repairing ships.

   B. The wrecking business.

   C. Transportation industry.

   D. Beautiful Scenery.

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It has been hot in London lately. The wind blows dust and leaves around. People go to work feeling tired,thinking it would be nice to have a bit of rain. Dull work in offices is even duller than usual in weather like this.

  On 17 June,I reached the last part of my paperchase at the Chinese Consulate (领事馆) . After I pushed my pile of documents through the hole in the glass screen. He glanced through the documents,checking them. Without much interest,he asked me a few routine questions. Then he went on scanning the documents and making notes. I saw him write the name, "Alexander"，in Chinese. He looked up,suddenly a very bright individual,no longer just a bored senior official.

  "Are you the author?" he asked.

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He turned to his colleagues,firing off a statement in Chinese. They all paused in their work and turned to me,smiling kindly. Then the official spoke quietly but very clearly.

  "We are very sorry to hear it,very sorry indeed. But you must cheer up. Mr. Alexander is very popular in China. I learned English from New Concept English. My colleagues learned English from New Concept English. Now my daughter is learning from New Concept English as well. So for us he has not died."

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(   ) 1. The purpose that the writer described the weather in Paragraph 2 is         .

    A. to show she doesn't like the weather in London

   B. to suggest that she was tired and felt heavy in her heart during that process

   C. to introduce the view of the Thames

   D. to indicate that her health became poorer and poorer

(   ) 2. What does the underlined sentence "Et haec meminisse iuvabit" mean?

   A. Life is very beautiful,so we should enjoy it.

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   C. Even the things are full of sorrow,we still should remember them with pleasure.

   D. Forgetting the sad things is a kind of pleasure.

(   ) 3. The official suddenly changed his attitude because         .

   A. he recognized the old lady

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   C. he was very thankful to the writer of New Concept English

   D. he was very sorry to hear the sad news

(   ) 4. From the passage we can infer that         .

   A. Many Chinese officials at the Chinese Consulate learned New Concept English

   B. The weather in London is so changeable that Ms Alexander dislikes the city

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  Farm incomes have changed over the years too. For example,in nineteen thirtythree,people living and working on farms had much less money to spend than other Americans. At that time,farm families had about onethird the income of nonfarmers after all necessary expenses had been paid. By the late nineteen seventies,however,that difference had almost disappeared.

  In two thousand four,farmers had their best year ever. The United States Department of Agriculture says the average farm family earned about eightyone thousand dollars. That is more than the average American family,which earned about sixty thousand dollars.

  Yet these numbers do not completely explain the situation for all farmers. Those who have small farms often take other jobs to earn extra income. And farm earnings for large farms grew faster than for small ones.

  The Department of Labor measures the pay of industrial workers differently. It measures the average hourly and weekly pay for industrial workers. This is because factory workers are generally paid by the hour unlike farmers who earn income from their farm businesses.

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the average hourly pay for all private industrial workers is about sixteen dollars. The   B. L. S. says average weekly pay for all industrial workers is about five hundred fifty dollars. But that is an average. Workers can earn as much as twice the average or as little as half of it depending on the industry in which they work.

  Industrial workers are about twentythree percent of the labor force. But that number has been decreasing. Most Americans have jobs that provide services. Professional,technical and other services employ about seventysix percent of the labor force.

(   ) 1. What is the topic discussed in the passage?

    A. Agriculture developments in America.

   B. Pay for farmers compared with that of industrial workers.

   C. The living conditions for farmers and workers in America.

   D. How to measure the income of the American farmers.

(   ) 2. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

   A. There is no difference between farmers' pay and that of workers.

   B. Farmers used to have less incomes than workers.

   C. Farmers' incomes have changed a lot.

   D. Farmers and workers are equal in society.

(   ) 3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

   A. Farmers in America can live better than the workers in cities.

   B. The farmers are less in America because they can earn more outside.

   C. Farmers sometimes can earn more than the average income in US.

   D. It is hard to know the incomes of the farmers.

(   ) 4. We can infer from the passage that         .

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  Melinda Gates said the way to "change this epidemic" is to put power in the hands of women. In southern Africa,for example,about sixty percent of adults living with HIV are women.

  Bill Gates said women today often have no choice but to depend on men not to infect them. "A woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life," he said as the conference opened Sunday.

  The world's richest man said "stopping AIDS" is the top priority of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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  George Lemp of the University of California led the study. He says quick tests could be especially important in developing countries with limited transportation.

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(   ) 5. In which of the following sections can you find the passage on the Internet?

   A. Economics report. B. Health report.

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(   ) 6. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

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(   ) 7. The underlined word "epidemic" probably means         .

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(   ) 8. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

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(   ) 9. What can we infer from the passage?

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   B. More and more people are concerned about AIDS.

   C. The first target for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to stop AIDS.

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  That morning,I stepped into the classroom,ready to share my knowledge and experience with seventyfive students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in 1        for seventeen years,I had no 2        about my ability to hold their attention and to 3        on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

  I was shocked when the monitor shouted ," 4      ！" The entire class rose as I entered the room,and I was somewhat 5        about how to get them to sit down again,but once that awkwardness (馗MO was over,I quickly 6        my calmness and began what I thought was a factpacked lecture,sure to gain their respect―perhaps 7       their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.

  My students 8        diaries. However,as I read them,the rosy glow was gradually 9        by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, "Our literature teacher didn't teach us anything today. 10       her next lecture will be better. " Greatly surprised,I read diary after diary,each expressing a11 theme. "Didn't I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical 12        for all the works we'll study in class," I complained. "How 13       they say I didn't teach them anything?"

  It was a long term,and it 14        became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my 15 . I thought a teacher's job was to raise 16        questions and provide enough background so that students could 17        their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher's job was to provide 18        information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference！

  19      ,I also learned a lot,and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a 20      American teacher,knowing how to teach in a different culture.

(   ) 1. A. the UK   B. the US   C. China   D. Australia

(   ) 2. A. worry   B. idea   C. doubt   D. experience

(   ) 3. A. impress   B. put   C. leave   D. fix

(   ) 4. A. Attention   B. Look out   C. At ease   D. Stand up

(   ) 5. A. puzzled   B. sure   C. curious   D. worried

(   ) 6. A. found   B. returned   C. regained   D. followed

(   ) 7. A. more   B. even   C. yet   D. still

(   ) 8. A. passed   B. borrowed   C. read   D. kept

(   ) 9. A. replaced   B. taken   C. caught   D. moved

(   ) 10. A. Naturally 、   B. Perhaps   C. Fortunately   D. Reasonably

(   ) 11. A. different   B. strong   C. similar   D. usual

(   ) 12. A. happenings   B. characters   C. development   D. background

(   ) 13. A. should   B. need   C. will   D. must

(   ) 14. A. immediately   B. certainly   C. simply   D. gradually

(   ) 15. A. teachers   B. family   C. students   D. coworkers

(   ) 16. A. difficult   B. interesting   C. ordinary   D. unusual

(   ) 17. A. draw   B. make   C. search   D. offer

(   ) 18. A. strange   B. standard   C. exact   D. serious

(   ) 19. A. Therefore   B. However   C. Besides   D. Though

(   ) 20. A. normal   B. happy   C. good   D. better

3. Fashion magazines have almost        the practice of putting models on the cover because they don't sell nearly as well as famous faces.

   A. claimed   B. abandoned

   C. appointed   D. conveyed

4. Tom,a junior school student,is often told not to        with bad companions,but he never follows his parents' advice,so that's why he has developed such a bad habit.

   A. reason   B. associate   C. deal   D. agree

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