题目内容
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文．
Most people think it's fine to be “busy as a beaver(海狸)．” But actually, although beavers may work hard, often they don't get much done．
Beavers are good at building dams and most beaver dams are wonders of engineering．The best ones are strongly built of trees, stones, and mud．They are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top．
Beavers think nothing of building a dam more than two hundred feet long．One dam, in Montana, was more than two thousand feet long．The largest one ever seen was in New Hampshire．It stretched four thousand feet．It made a lake large enough to hold forty beaver homes．
So beavers do build good dams．But they don't always build them in the right places．They just don't plan．They will build a dam across the widest part of the stream．They don't try to find a place where the stream is narrow．So a lot of their hard work is wasted．
Beavers should learn that it's not enough to be busy．You have to know what you're doing, too．For example, there was one Oregon beaver that really was a worker．It decided to fix a hole in a man-made dam．After five days of work it gave up．The hole it was trying to fill was the space that boats go through．
[写作内容]
1．以约30词概括上文的主要内容．
2．以约120词就“制定规划与达成目标”这一主题进行议论，内容包括：
(1)海狸修水坝的故事给你的启示是什么?
(2)请结合你的生活经历阐述“制定规划与达成目标”之间的关系．
[写作要求]
1．作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事．也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子．
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称．
[评分标准]概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯．
阅读下面的短文，然后从A-F选项中，为每一小段选择合适的标题, 并把答案写在答案卷上。
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A. The most common problem is a “wandering” mind B. Selective listening is also a mental barrier C. Listening isn’t an easy skill to master D. Attitude can also influence good listening E. Noise and background music makes listening more difficult F. Listening is also related to the level of the listener’s knowledge |
1._____________
Listening is not as easy as someone thought. Even good listeners may recall only fifty percent of what they hear. Retention, the ability to remember and recall information, decreases about twenty to twenty-five percent after a few days. So no matter how well you listen in class, you’re always going to have to refresh your memory before a test! Unfortunately, many people have poor listening habits, and little listening training. To improve your listening skills, it’s important to understand what causes poor listening.
2.___________
If you find it difficult to concentrate solely on what a speaker is saying, there’s a good reason. The mind processes information much faster than a speaker can speak. The brain can process over 500 words per minute, while the average speaker talks at a rate of 124 to 250 words per minute. That means the mind can hear what’s being said and can think about something else at the same time.
3.____________
If you have a negative idea about the speaker or the topic, you’ll find it difficult to listen attentively. Hostile or captive audiences often have more difficultly listening than do favorable or voluntary ones.
4.____________
If a speaker speaks “above the heads” of an audience, people find it difficult to concentrate. Speakers who use unfamiliar words or who use incomplete explanations make it more difficult to listen. Speakers who “speak down” to audiences, failing to acknowledge what the audience already knows, also create mental blocks.
5.___________
When people listen selectively, they simply block out what they don’t want to hear. For instance, many people have habits that are dangerous to their health, like smoking. However, they often choose to block out what a speaker says about health risks. They may listen to a speech and think that the speaker’s message applies to other people, not them. In other words, they hear what they want to hear and ignore what they don’t want to hear.