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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—perhaps 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

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Homework and stress are rarely reduced inside the classroom.Meanwhile,outside the classroom,the pressure is on to find scholarships for college.

According to Braintrack,a higher education database with worldwide reach,more than 3 billion US dollars (18 billion yuan) in private scholarships are awarded to college students annually.Average awards range from $2,000 to $3,000.

The scholarship application process is similar to the college application process: forms to be completed,test scores and transcripts to be sent,essays to be written and often interviews to be prepared for.

A few great places to start looking for scholarships are: www.fastweb.com,www.finaid.org and www.collegexpress.com.Check out the annual scholarship guidebooks Scholarships,Grants & Prizes by Peterson’s and the Ultimate Scholarship Book: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships,Grants and Prizes by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe.

Be selective.Thoroughly research the qualifications required by each of the scholarships.Don’t waste your time applying for those that are need based if you can’t produce the appropriate documents.

Research past recipients (接受者).Check out the websites of the organizations sponsoring the scholarships.Many post the biographies of past recipients.You don’t need to have cured cancer,but if you don’t think your résumé (履历) measures up to the past winners’,you might be better served by moving onto the next scholarship on your list.Prepare for the interview.

You’ll want to dazzle them with your personality,but above all you’ll want to be prepared.Find someone you trust to conduct a similar interview with you – someone who will be honest with you and provide valuable suggestions.

Let your personality shine through in your essays.The essays are the best way for students to share who they are,where they’ve come from,what they’ve overcome and so on.Tell your story in an interesting and persuasive way.And if you do have an interview,send a thank you note afterward.

By Lee Bierer

1.What is the author’s main purpose in writing the article?

A.To explain where to find scholarships for US colleges.

B.To inform readers of the scholarship application process.

C.To introduce some typical scholarships offered by US colleges.

D.To give tips on applying for US college scholarships.

2.If you want to learn about past recipients of a scholarship,you can use ______.

A.www.collegexpress.com

B.the annual scholarship guidebooks published by Peterson’s

C.the websites of the organizations sponsoring the scholarships

D.The Ultimate Scholarship Book: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships,Grants and Prizes

3.The underlined word “dazzle” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to ___.

A.influence B.impress C.guide D.present

4.To increase your chance of winning a scholarship,you are advised to ____.

A.apply for as many scholarships as you can

B.tell an interesting story in your essay

C.do a similar interview to help you prepare for the real one

D.have a talk with past recipients and try to talk like they do

Today we’ll talk about reading.When we read a text,our eyes move across a page in short,quick movements.We recognize words usually when our eyes still fixate(停留,凝视).Each time they fixate,we see a group of words.This is known as the recognition span or the visual span(视幅).The length of time for which the eyes stop varies from person to person.It also varies within any parson according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text.In addition,it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.

Unfortunately,in the past,many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the page.As a result of this misleading emphasis(强调)on the purely visual aspects of reading,many exercises have been designed to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation.For example,in some exercises,words are flashed on to a screen for a tenth of a second.One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point,taking in the words on either side.Such word patterns are often formed in the shape of pyramids(金字塔),so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive(连续的)fixation.All these exercises are very clever,but it' s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words.Consequently,for these reasons,many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training,especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated(孤立的)words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.

1.The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following factors except _______.

A. 1ighting and tiredness

B. the length of a group of words

C. one’s purpose in reading

D. one’s familiarity with the text

2.The author may believe that reading ______________.

A. requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation

B. requires a reader to see words more quickly

C. demands a deeply-participating mind

D. demands more eyes than mind

3.What does the author mean by the underlined sentence in the second paragraph?

A. The ability to see words is not needed for an efficient reading.

B. The reading exercises mentioned are useless for reading.

C. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help improve reading.

D. The reading exercises mentioned have done a great job so far.

4.Which of the following is NOT true? _______________.

A. The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time

B. Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training

C. The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading

D. The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text

5.The tune of the author in writing this text is _________________.

A. critical B. neutral

C. supportive D. optimistic

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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