阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A beautiful girl was shopping with her mother in Blue-sky Market. It was 31 hard outside. Many people all stood there under the awning (遮雨蓬). They waited, some patiently, others impatiently because of the bad weather.

       The girl’s32 was so sweet. “Mom, let’s run through the rain,” she said suddenly.

       “What?” Mom asked.

       “Let’s run through the rain!”

       “No, Honey. We’ll 33 until it slows down a bit,” Mom replied.

       The child waited about another 34 and repeated, “Mom, let’s run through the rain.”

       “We’ll get 35 if we do,” Mom said.

       “No, we won’t, Mom. That’s not what you said this 36,” the young girl said as she tugged (拽) at her mom’s arm.

       “This morning? 37did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?”

       “Don’t you 38? When you were talking to Daddy 39 his cancer, you said, ‘If God can get us through this, he can get us through 40!’”

       The people became 41. Nothing could be 42 but the rain. Mom thought for a moment about what she would say.

       “Honey, you are 43. Let’s run through the rain.”

        44 they ran off. People all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they 45 past the cars and through the puddles (水坑). They 46 their shopping bags over their heads. They got wet through, but they were 47by a few who laughed like children all the 48 to their cars.

       People can 49 your money and health, but no one can ever take away your memories. So, don’t 50 to make time to make memories every day.

A. blowing           B. snowing         C. raining        D. shining

A. sound              B. voice             C. noise           D. language

A. leave               B. go                 C. run             D. wait

A. hour                B. minute          C. month         D. day

A. wet                 B. hurt               C. lost             D. bad

A. morning           B. afternoon        C. evening        D. night

A. When              B. What            C. Why             D. How

A. say                B. stop               C. ask             D. remember

A. with               B. for                C. about           D. of

A. something      B. anything        C. other           D. another

A. surprised         B. sad               C. silent          D. nervous

A. seen               B. smelled         C. heard          D. known

A. right               B. clever           C. great           D. brave

A. Because            B. While           C. Then           D. But

A. walked            B. rushed         C. jumped         D. stepped

A. held                B. brought        C. threw          D. pushed

A. watched            B. helped           C. saved          D. followed

A. time                B. way              C. direction      D. money

A. take away         B. take up          C. take off       D. take back

A. try                   B. hope             C. forget         D. decide


Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."
"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.
Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.
The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more." The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?"
"Burnt yesterday evening."
【小题1】Mr. Brown told his son that _____.

A.he would be away from home for four days
B.he would be back in seven days
C.he would be back in a month
D.he liked a cup of tea
【小题2】Mr. Brown wrote the words down on ________.
A.the wallB.the doorC.a piece of paper D.his son's pocket
【小题3】A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.
A.the second dayB.the third day C.the fourth day D.the fifth day
【小题4】The man was very surprised because _________.
A.he thought the child's father was dead
B.the child didn't ask him to sit down
C.the child gave him a cup of tea
D.he couldn't find that piece of paper
【小题5】What was burnt?
A.The piece of paperB.Mr. SmithC.The visitorD.The boy

School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, he can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to learn some facts or a formula by heart. It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula(公式) in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a maths problem. Great scientist, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn’t get everything from school. But they were all so successful and invented so many things for men. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.

1.According to the passage, a good teacher should be one who is to_________.

A.help his students to gain a good memory.

B.train his students’ ability to learn

C.teach his students everything he knows

D.have his students studying long hours

2. If a student want to learn better, the most important thing for him to do is_______.

A.to learn all the useful facts and formula by heart

B.to do everything as his teacher have said in class

C.to absorb (吸收) as much knowledge from his teacher as possible

D.to think more while he is studying

3.The main reason for the success of the great scientists is that________.

A.the teachers who had taught them were all experienced.

B.they used to work and study without a moment’s rest.

C.they had received more schooling than other people

D.they know how to study and worked hard

4.What’s the good advice the writer gives us?

A.We can learn better without teachers

B.We should do more asking and thinking while studying

C.We should pay enough attention to classroom

D.Book knowledge is little use

 

Knowing how to communicate well needs very personal attention between you and another human being. Is there a better way to learn how to communicate effectively? Yes, there is. Please follow the 3 basic steps below.

1. Relax and Breathe.

    Whether it's a business meeting or the first date, the first thing you must do in order to communicate is to relax. When you relax you are in control. You control your reactions and your reactions do not control you. Breathing is central to relaxation. Take a few deep breaths and your body will begin to be more at ease. This will help you apply what you already know about how to communicate well.

2. Think and you will be prepared.

    Have you ever heard the old saying, "think before you speak"? Well, it is true. By thinking ahead about how the conversation might flow, you will be better prepared, more at ease and more confident.

3. Follow the flow of the conversation.

   If you are uncomfortable, being silent will only make it worse and make the other person uncomfortable as well. So when all else fails, follow through with small talk until a common topic appears.

   A good way to keep a conversation going is to ask the other person questions. People love to talk about themselves and if you do this they will think very highly of you. Learning good communication skills is not something out of reach. If you make an effort, you will succeed.

1.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A. Preparation and Conversation     B. How to Communicate with Anyone You Meet

C. Personal attention and Communication  D. How to Keep Your Conversation Going

2.If you want to talk with others successfully, the most important thing you should do is       .

A. to follow the flow of the conversation. 

B. to take as many deep breaths as possible

C. to make a good preparation for the conversation

D. to keep calm and relax yourself fully

3.Why does relaxation play an important part in your good communication?

A. Because it can help you put your communication skills that you know into use.

B. Because it will help you organize good sentences for your communication.

C. Because it can help you keep excited and react quickly in the communication.

D. Because no one likes to communicate with a nervous person.

4. If you feel uncomfortable, you’d better        .

A. keep silence in order to give the chance of speaking to others

B. talk small things until you find a topic you both like

C. speak freely so as to run across the topic you like

D. ask questions which you are interested in

5. What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence?

A. Good communication skills can be learned if you try.

B. You will be good at communication if you try.

C. Not all people can learn good communication skills.

D. Communication skills can be improved easily.

 

As I was thinking about language learning the other day, the image of baking bread came into my mind. I compared some of the exercises and drills that we put ourselves through in order to learn a language to the various ingredients (原料) that go into baking a loaf of fresh bread.

Real language learning takes place in human relationships. No one sits down and eats a cup of flour, even if he is hungry and in a hurry. You don' t become bilingual (双语的) by learning lists of vocabulary. You don' t become a speaker of a language by memorizing grammatical rules. You become bilingual by entering a community that uses that other language as its basic means of communication.

I am not suggesting that we can make bread without ingredients. Flour is necessary, as are yeast (酵母), salt, water and other ingredients. Vocabulary is part of any language and will have to be learned. Grammatical rules exist in every language and cannot be ignored. But merely combining the appropriate ingredients in the recommended proportions does not result in bread. At best, you only end up with a ball of dough (面团).

In order to get bread, you have to apply heat to the dough. And in language learning, that heat comes from the community. Anyone who has learned a second language has experienced that heat. It creeps up your neck when you ask the babysitter, “Have you already been eaten?” when you meant to say, ‘‘Have you already eaten?” When you try to say something quite innocent and the whole room bursts into laughter, you are experiencing the heat that turns raw dough into good bread.

Remember the old saying, “If you can’ t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". This is where language learning often breaks down because we find the heat uncomfortable and we stop the baking process. In other words, we can' t stand the heat, so we get out of the kitchen.

However, the language learner who stays in the kitchen—in the heat—until the combined

ingredients are thoroughly transformed will enjoy the richness of a quality loaf of bread. He is glad that he did not "get out of the kitchen” at the important moment when the oven seemed too hot.

Now the baker enjoys good bread, seated at the table with family members and guests. However, he does not focus on "bread" but rather on enjoying the whole feast: fine salads, pastas, fresh vegetables, rich desserts and so on. And the language learner has arrived when he no longer needs to focus on language. Language merely becomes one element in the "feast" of membership in his chosen community.

 

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