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Glasgow Fireworks

25th July 2012

Location: Glasgow Green

Tickets: This event is free, and no ticket is required

Events：Celebrate Bonfire Night (篝火夜), with Glasgow’s famous and splendid musical fireworks show. The night is not just about fireworks though; there will be pre-show music and fun with Clyde 1’s Romeo and Knoxy, amusements and food and drink booths. Enough to make sure that everyone is entertained!

The timetable:

5:30 pm amusements (ends 9:30pm)

6:30 pm Pre-show music and fun with Clyde 1’s Romeo and Knoxy

7:30 pm Fireworks show begins

Notice:

◆ Entry is free, and it is usually very busy. Make sure you get there early for a good view (unless you’re 7 feet tall).

◆ You should enter Glasgow Green from the west end of the park. There is no other public entry.

◆ If you’re driving, please be concerned about road closing time. All roads to Glasgow Green will be closed to vehicles (车辆) between 5:30 pm and 9:00 pm.

◆ Join our mailing list to stay up to date with all the latest information on www. Glasgow Green. com. Should it be put off or called off, we will keep you informed as soon as possible!

For Your Safety

◆ Do not bring fireworks, sparklers, alcohol or pets to the Glasgow Green Fireworks.

◆ Follow the directions of staff and police.

◆ Dress properly – We live in Glasgow and there is always a good chance we will get rubbish weather!

1.Which of the following isn’t mentioned in the text?

A. Pre-show music. B. Fireworks show.

C. Amusements. D. Movies.

2.If you go to the show by car, you have to get there _______.

A. before 5:30 pm B. after 9:30 pm

C. around 6:30 pm D. between 5:30 pm and 9:00 pm

3.How does the organizer keep you informed of the latest information?

A. By radio. B. By E-mail. C. By phone. D. By post.

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The $ 11 billion self – help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like “I never do anything right” into positive ones like “I can succeed.” But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking?

Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are.

The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein, you're just underlining his faults.

In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled. When the essayists were later praised for their sympathy, they felt even worse about what they had written.

In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students' self-esteem. The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15 seconds, one group of students heard a bell. When it rang, they were supposed to tell themselves, "I am lovable."

Those with low self-esteem didn't feel better after the forced self-affirmation. In fact, their moods turned significantly darker than those of members of the control group, who weren't urged to think positive thoughts.

The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse. Meditation (静思) techniques, in contrast, can teach people to put their shortcomings into a larger, more realistic perspective. Call it the power of negative thinking.

1.What do we learn from the first paragraph about the self-help industry?

A. It is based on the concept of positive thinking.

B. It is a highly profitable industry.

C. It was established by Norman Vincent Peale.

D. It has produced positive results.

2.What is the finding of the Canadian researchers?

A. There can be no simple treatment for psychological problems.

B. Encouraging positive thinking may do more harm than good.

C. Unhappy people cannot think positively.

D. The power of positive thinking is limited.

3.What does the author mean by “you're just underlining his faults” in the third paragraph?

A. You are not taking his mistakes seriously enough.

B. You are pointing out the errors he has made.

C. You are emphasizing the fact that he is not intelligent.

D. You are trying to make him feel better about his faults.

4.It can be inferred from the experiment of Wood, Lee and Perunovic that .

A. it is important for people to continually keep their self - esteem

B. self-affirmation can bring a positive change to one’s mood

C. people with low self-esteem seldom write down their true feelings

D. forcing a person to think positive thoughts may lower their self-esteem

Mrs. Packletide intended to shoot a tiger. Not that the desire to kill had suddenly come to her, or that she felt she would leave India safer with one wild beast less. It was because Loona Bimberton had recently taken a plane to the forest and killed a tiger, and the newspapers showed photographs of Loona Bimberton with a tiger-skin on. In a world supposed to be moved by hunger and by love, Mrs. Packletide’s movements were largely governed by dislike of Loona Bimberton.

Circumstances proved favorable. Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees (印度卢比) for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without risk or effort, and it happened that an old tiger was frequently coming to a neighboring village at night. He was so old that he couldn’t kill animals in the wild and just satisfied his appetite to the smaller household animals. The villagers were eager to earn the thousand rupees; children were posted night and day in the jungle to watch the tiger, and the cheap goats were left about to keep him from going elsewhere. The one great fear was that he should die of old age before the day of Mrs. Packletide’s shoot.

The great night arrived. A platform had been built in a tree, on which sat Mrs. Packletide and her paid companion, Miss Mebbin. A goat with a loud bleat (咩咩叫) was tied down at the correct distance. With an accurate gun, they waited for the coming of the tiger.

“I suppose we are in some danger?” said Miss Mebbin.

She was not actually nervous about the wild beast, but she was unwilling to perform a bit more service than she had been paid for.

“It’s a very old tiger. It couldn’t spring up here even if it wanted to.” said Mrs. Packletide.

Their conversation was cut short by the appearance of the old tiger. He saw the goat, and lay on the earth for a short rest before attacking.

The gun fired very loudly, and the great yellow beast jumped to one side and then rolled over in the stillness of death. In a moment a crowd of excited villagers appeared on the scene, and their shouting carried the glad news to the village.

It was Miss Mebbin who found that the goat was dying from a bullet-wound, while no wound could be found on the tiger. Evidently the wrong animal had been hit, and the tiger had died of heart-failure, caused by the sudden loud noise of the gun. Mrs. Packletide was annoyed at the discovery; but anyway, she owned a dead tiger, and the villagers, anxious for their thousand rupees, gladly accepted the fiction that she had shot the tiger. And Miss Mebbin was a paid companion. Therefore Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and her pictures appeared on the newspapers of England and America. As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at a newspaper for weeks, and was in a depressed emotion for quite some time.

Mrs. Packletide’s tiger-skin was inspected and admired by the neighbors, and Mrs. Packletide went to the Costume Ball in the character of Diana (狩猎女神).

“How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened,” said Miss Mebbin a few days after the ball.

“What do you mean?” asked Mrs. Packletide quickly.

“How you shot the goat and frightened the tiger to death,” said Miss Mebbin, with her unpleasant laugh.

“No one would believe it,” said Mrs. Packletide, her face changing color1 rapidly.

“Loona Bimberton would,” said Miss Mebbin.

Mrs. Packletide’s face settled on greenish white. “You surely wouldn’t give me away?” she asked.

“I’ve seen a weekend cottage near Dorking,” said Miss Mebbin, “six hundred and eighty. Quite a bargain, only I don’t happen to have the money.”

Miss Mebbin possessed the pretty weekend cottage. Mrs. Packletide lost interest in animal-hunting.

“The extra expenses are so heavy,” she said to inquiring friends.

1.Mrs. Packletide planned to shoot a tiger because she ________.

A. would leave India safer B. hated the wild animal

C. admired her good friend D. disliked a certain person

2.The Indian villagers were afraid that the tiger might ________.

A. eat their goats B. kill their kids

C. die of old age D. attack them at night

3.What did Mrs. Packletide want the villagers to arrange for her?

A. A platform in a tree B. A paid companion.

C. An accurate gun. D. A safe shooting.

4.What was the result of Mrs. Packletide’s shooting?

A. The old tiger was shot to death.

B. Neither the tiger nor the goat was shot.

C. The old tiger missed being shot.

D. Both the goat and the tiger were shot.

单词拼写

1.She was being _____________ (测量) for the wedding dress.

2.My pet dog died after eating a poisoned mouse and was ______(埋葬) under a tall tree in my garden.

3.The white bird pigeon is a__________(象征)of peace and freedom.

4.It was the first time that he had _____________ (经历) the sense of beauty.

5.That tall building is seen as a(n)___________(标志性建筑)in this city.

6.She _____________ (签) her name to the book.

7.____________ (遗憾的是), her father can’t come to the wedding.

8.The ___________ (受污染的) river did great harm to the farmers nearby.

9.The dog barked at the stranger __________ (猛烈地)。

10.Men just wear a jacket and tie. ___________ (同样地), women must wear a skirt or dress.

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Recently, I was invited to a writing class at my old high school. I accepted the________ because it’s always fun to see what young writers are up to. A few hours before the class, I got the ________ that I often get before I go into a school — nausea(反胃) and the fear that I’m about to get into _________.

When I________into a school, all the old feelings come back：________teacher is going to get mad at me; the headmaster is going to make me take a note home.

But I’m not alone in having________feelings from school days. Often people talk about bad ________they still have about being unprepared for a(n) __________ test. Others say that being picked on and not being________ for a team are still terrible memories for them. So it’s no ________ that adults sometimes act like they’re still in school.

My _________ memories are about teachers getting mad at me. I was often ashamed of the serious crime of “talking out of turn”， a guy who couldn’t keep his ________ shut.

I realize that the answer is to face the feelings, ________ avoid them. So I volunteer at a school once a week. Each week, I’m a little more ________ when I walk into the office to _________. And I admit that sometimes when the headmaster _________ me with a smile, I think he’s planning to call my mother to say I should dress a little nicer _________ I visit his school. But by the end of my time there, I feel _________.

Now I’m __________ my next volunteer day at school. In fact, I might get there a little earlier so I can spend _________ more time there.

1.A. challenge B. present C. invitation D. offer

2.A. message B. chance C. wish D. feeling

3.A. mood B. trouble C. thought D. panic

4.A. arrive B. walk C. admit D. rush

5.A. another B. many C. the other D. some

6.A. amazing B. fascinating C. exciting D. lasting

7.A. situations B. places C. experiences D. dreams

8.A. important B. easy C. recent D. average

9.A. chosen B. noted C. concerned D. adapted

10.A. doubt B. way C. wonder D. secret

11.A. best B. longest C. worst D. latest

12.A. heart B. eyes C. mouth D. hands

13.A. rather than B. except for C. as to D. instead of

14.A. stressed B. annoyed C. tired D. relaxed

15.A. sign in B. check out C. take off D. get up

16.A. impresses B. greets C. shocks D. refuses

17.A. when B. since C. whether D. unless

18.A. anxious B. strong C. nervous D. strange

19.A. reflecting back to B. looking forward toC. getting away from D. taking over by

20.A. also B. still C. even D. ever

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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，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（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词.

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10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

The students union will organize an activity when we can exchange items we don't need with others. If you are interested it, you can join in between three and six on Saturday afternoon on the Central Road in our school. As it is known to all, many of us have difficulty deal with used things that mean little to us. If you take it there, not only can you get anything you want, but you can also help others. Beside, it will be a good chance to communicate and make new friend. Any used items is welcome, such as used books, shoes, watches and so on. The more, the good.

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Small talk can _________ out to be a pleasant experience. The conversation _________ be brief and casual without turning into a long and boring discussion. Do not let yourself _________ the conversation. Stop worrying about how big of a fool you may appear to be. You may _________ find out later on that you have the “ _________ ” of getting people to open up to you by engaging them in small talk.

1.A. right B. reason C. result D. sign

2.A. take B. use C. mean D. act

3.A. know B. learn C. recognize D. realize

4.A. what B. whether C. why D. how

5.A. giving B. leaving C. making D. forcing

6.A. So B. Instead C. However D. Besides

7.A. unless B. until C. if D. Though

8.A. comfortable B. upset C. nervous D. satisfied

9.A. decision B. plan C. wish D. move

10.A. changing B. rising C. improving D. going

11.A. know B. share C. do D. show

12.A. private B. present C. important D. general

13.A. careful B. surprised C. interested D. encouraged

14.A. ideas B. experiences C. points D. senses

15.A. take B. put C. get D. set

16.A. come B. turn C. find D. figure

17.A. should B. can C. will D. may

18.A. start B. complete C. consider D. control

19.A. still B. even C. ever D. almost

20.A. right B. advantage C. talent D. habit

Guide dogs help blind people who cannot get around by themselves．Although Yorkshire terriers and poodles are good companion dogs，guide dogs are chosen from lager breeds(品种)such as German shepherds，golden retrievers，and Labrador retrievers．The young dogs are raised by families until they are eighteen months old．During this time，they get lots of love and attention，but they are also taught to obey．Then the dogs go to a special school where，for four months，they work with a sighted trainer，an individual who can see．The dog forms a close relationship with this person who teaches it how to follow directions such as right，left，straight ahead，and stop．The young dog also learns to watch out for dangerous traffic and wait until it is safe to cross a busy street.

When the dog is two years old，it starts training with the blind person it will live with. The dog and its new owner make many trips from downtown to where the blind person lives so the dog becomes familiar with the normal atmosphere．During the training，a sighted trainer always remains with them. A blind person who is getting a guide dog for the first time will train for about a month. If the individual has had a dog before，the training takes about three weeks．After the training，the blind person depends on the guide dog for between seven and twelve years．At that point，the working dog become a family pet and the owner needs to train with a younger guide dog．

1.Which breed would NOT be trained as a guide dog?

A．A Yorkshire terrier. B．A golden retriever.

C． A German shepherd. D．A Labrador．

2.What does the guide dog learn to do during the training?

A．Associate directions with food.

B．Play with young children．

C．Stay away from busy streets．

D．Look out for traffic problems．

3.Who gives the dogs training at the special school?

A． A sighted trainer. B．Other blind people.

C．A traffic peliceman． D．The school director．

4.What’s this passage mainly about?

A．The time spent training a guide dog．

B．The importance of having a guide dog．

C．The process of training a guide dog.

D．The way of choosing a guide dog.

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