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Friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurry and looking at their watches£®It isn¡¯t that our friends are all very busy, it is just that When we haven¡¯t got a television£®People think that we are very strange£®¡°But what do you do in the evening?¡±£¬they are always asking£®The answer is very simple£®Both my wife and I have hobbies£®We certainly don¡¯t spend our evenings staring at the walls£®My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages£®This is particularly useful as we often go abroad for our holidays£®I collect stamps and I¡¯m always busy with my collection£®Both of us enjoy listening to the music and playing chess together£®

Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house£®This does not worry us, we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before£®Our friends, however, are lost---no television!---So they don¡¯t know what to do£®On such evenings our house is very full ---they all come to us£®They all have a good time£®Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games£®

1.The couple have not got a television, because £®

A£® they are not rich enough

B£® they are strange people

C£® they enjoy spending evenings in their own ways

D£® they don¡¯t know what to do when there are power cuts

2.Both of the couple are interested in £®

A£® learning languages

B£® traveling

C£® staying home alone

D£® watching people play games

3.At night when there is no electricity, the couple £®

A£® have to stare at the walls

B£® can do nothing but sit in silence

C£® will have many visitors

D£® have to go out for candles

4.The writer tries to tell us that ____£®

A£® the television is useful

B£® electricity is important

C£® life is enjoyable without television

D£® life is impossible without a television

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

I was shocked when the monitor shouted, " !" The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness was over, I quickly my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect¡ªperhaps their admiration£®I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement£®

My students diaries£®However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually 49 by a strong sense of sadness£®The first diary said, "Our literature teacher didn¡¯t teach us anything today£® her next lecture will be better£®" Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a theme£®"Didn¡¯t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical for all the works we¡¯ll study in class," I complained£®" How they say I didn¡¯t teach them anything?"

It was a long term, and it became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as of my students£®I thought a teacher¡¯s job was to raise questions and provide enough background so that students could their own conclusions£®My students thought a teacher¡¯s job was to provide information as directly and clearly as possible£®What a difference!

, I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a 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£® that B£® what C£® those D£® ones

16.A£® difficult B£® interesting C£® ordinary D£® unusual

17.A£® draw B£® look 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

Jean is a bright young lady who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. The problem is that the people in Jean's family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous (ÄäÃû), talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.

Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent her a picture of himself: He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.

When Jean's father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on David's door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was only a ten-year-old boy named Jim!

1.Jean spends a lot of her time on QQ because she is .

A. rich B. young C. lonely D. talkative

2.The following states are true about Jean EXCEPT that according to the passage.

A. she is a university student

B. she was born in a wealthy family

C. she made a friend named Jim younger than her

D. she uses her family name on her QQ

3.We could believe that Jean was when seeing Jim himself instead of David on QQ at the door.

A. delighted B. disappointed

C. regretful D. confused

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We are all called upon to make a speech at some point in life, but most of us don¡¯t do a very good job. 1.

So, you have to give a speech and you are terrified. You get nervous, you forget what you want to say, you stumble over words, you talk too long, and you bore your audience. Later you think, ¡°Thank Goodness, it¡¯s over. I¡¯m just not good at public speaking. I hope I never have to do that again.¡±

Cheer up! 2.Here are some simple steps to take the pain out of speech making. Ask yourself the purpose of your speech. What is the occasion? Why are you speaking? Then, gather as many facts as you can on your subject. Spend plenty of your time doing your research. Then spend plenty of your time organizing your material so that your speech is clear and easy to follow. Use as many examples as possible, and use pictures, charts, and graphs if they help you make your points more clearly. 3. Don¡¯t talk over their heads, and don¡¯t talk down to them. Treat your audience with respect. They will appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Just remember: Be prepared. Know your subject, your audience, and the occasion. Be brief. 4. And be yourself. Let your personality come through so that you make person-to-person contact with your audience. If you follow these simple steps, you will see that you don¡¯t have to be afraid of public speaking. In fact, you may find the experience so enjoyable that you volunteer to make more speeches ! You¡¯re not convinced yet? 5.

A. It doesn¡¯t have to be that bad.

B. Take several deep breaths before your speech.

C. This article gives some advice on how to give good speech.

D. Say what you have to say and then stop.

E. Don¡¯t say what you aren¡¯t familiar with.

F. Never forget your audience.

G. Give it a try and see what happens.

Take That Tiger Mom

In the ongoing battle between Tiger Moms, French Mamas, and everyone else who wants to know what is the best way to raise their kids, a new study adds evidence that the extreme Tiger-style may do more harm than good.

Authoritarian parents are more likely to end up with disrespectful children with violent behaviors, the study found, compared to parents who listen to their kids with the goal of gaining trust.

It was the first study to look at how parenting styles affect the way teens view their parents and, in turn, how they behave.

The study considered three general styles of parenting. Authoritative parents are demanding and controlling while also being warm and sensitive to their children¡¯s needs.

Authoritarian parents, on the contrary, are demanding and controlling without the appearance of caring, attachment and receptiveness. They take a ¡°my way or the highway¡± approach to their kids.

Permissive parents, the third group, have warm and receptive qualities, but they set few boundaries and carry out few rules.

Using data on early 600 kids from an ongoing study of middle school and high school students in New Hampshire, researchers from the University of New Hampshire were able to find ¡°my way or the highway¡± parenting with more violent behaviors like robbery, drug-taking, and attacking someone else with the intention of hurting or killing.

Firm but loving parenting, on the other hand, led to fewer lawbreakers. Permissive parenting, surprisingly, didn¡¯t seem to make much of a difference either.

To explain the link between parenting style and behavior in kids, the researchers suggested that what matters most is how reasonable kids think their parents¡¯ power is. This sense comes when kids trust that their parents are making the best decisions for them and believe that they need to do what their parents say even if they don¡¯t always like how their parents are treating them.

When kids respect the power of their parents, the researchers reported in the journal of Adolescence, their behavior is better. Previous research has also linked firm but caring parenting with kids who have more self-control and independence.

¡°When children consider their parents to be the reliable figure, they trust the parents and feel that they have a duty to do what their parents tell them to do,¡± said lead researcher Pick Trinkner. ¡°This is very important as the parent doesn¡¯t have to rely on a system of rewards and punishments to control behavior and the child is more likely to follow the rules when the parent is not physically present.¡±

1.Tiger Moms and French Mamas are mentioned in the passage to _______.

A. give an example of authoritarian parenting

B. show the advantage of parenting

C. compare two types of parenting

D. introduce the topic

2.According to the research, what kind of parenting style is likely to cause children¡¯s criminal behaviors?

A. Caring parenting. B. Permissive parenting.

C. Authoritarian parenting. D. Authoritative parenting.

3.Which of the following probably belongs to the action of the permissive parents?

A. Allowing the kids to stay up late at weekends as the kids like.

B. Beating the kids if the kids don¡¯t follow their instructions.

C. Listening to the kids¡¯ request and giving their demands.

D. Setting some rules and checking the kids¡¯ behaviors.

4.According to the passage, children are more likely to obey the rules when _______.

A. their parents listen to them totally

B. they believe in and accept their parents

C. their parents are sensitive to their needs

D. their parents demand and control their behaviors

One mile long runway can take people across the oceans, to reach every corner of the world.

That¡¯s the magic power of airplanes as well as airports. Similar as most airports are, some do have their unique features.

Lukla Airport

Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of in the town of Lukla, eastern Nepal. A program titled Most Extreme Airports, rated the airport as the most dangerous airport in the world. The airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp. High wind, cloud cover, and changing visibility often mean flights can be delayed or the airport closed. The airport¡¯s runway is accessible only to helicopters and small, fixed-wing, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. The runway is only 527m with an elevation of 2,845m.

Princess Juliana International Airport

Princess Juliana International Airport is in the country of Saint Maarten. The airport is perhaps best known for very low-altitude flyover landing approaches due to one end of its runway being extremely close to the shore and Maho Beach. The thrilling approaches and ease of access for shooting spectacular images make the airport one of the world¡¯s favorite places among plane spotters.

Gibraltar Airport

Gibraltar Airport serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, a tiny peninsula with an area of only 6.8 square kilometers. The lack of flat space there means the peninsula¡¯s only runway is bisected by its busiest road, the Winston Churchill Avenue that heads towards the land border with Spain. It is really scary that there is a four lane highway passing through the middle of the runway!

Kai Tak Airport

Kai Tak Airport was officially known as Hong Kong International Airport from 1954 to 6 July 1998, when it was closed and replaced by the new one at Chek Lap Kok, 30 kms to the west. With numerous skyscrapers and mountains located to the north and its only runway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, landing at the airport were dramatic to experience and technically demanding for pilots. The low altitude manoeuvre required to line up with the runway was so spectacular that some passengers claimed to have glimpsed the television through apartment windows along the final approach.

1.Which of the following pictures can be a scene of Princess Juliana International Airport

2.All of the following can be inferred from this passage Except ________.

A. The transportation of Winston Churchill Avenue might be affected by planes.

B. Lukla airport is the most dangerous airport because of extremely harsh weather

C. An inexperienced pilot might have difficulty landing on Kai Tak Airport

D. People on Maho Beach may have a good chance to view the plane flying overhead

3.Which of these airports is out of business now?

A. Lukla Airport

B. Princess Juliana International Airport

C. Gibraltar Airport

D. Kai Tak Airport

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