A motivational strategy that parents can employ with their kids, is to frame tasks and responsibilities in the context of what the end benefit is for them. I call this strategy WIIFM
(“What’s in it for me?”).
When a teen can combine an understanding of WIIFM with a sense of passion about achieving a goal, barriers will start to fall away. At our teen summer camps, we arrange an event near the end of the 10-day session that helps campers identify an important life goal and mentally break through their biggest barrier to achieving the goal.
We pass around 12-by-12-inch pine boards. We tell campers that this activity is not about breaking a piece of wood. It’s about how you can get what you want in your life. It’s about breaking barriers to grab on to your goals.
They have the power to break through any barrier. It has nothing to do with body size or physical condition. The skinniest, smallest teens will break through the board almost as easily as the big ones.
We talk to the campers about the reasons they might have had for not reaching their goals in the past. Maybe they got lazy and decided it wasn’t worth the effort. Maybe they failed and let their fear of failure hold them back. But this exercise is about putting the past where it belongs. Today is about making new choices.
By this point in the program, we ask them to think of the goal they’ve set for themselves and write their goals on the boards. Then they write the possible obstacles which may hold them back on the opposite sides. An inch of pine now stands between them and their dreams.
The facilitators and their teammates gather around. The support is strong. One by one, they break through the barriers and grab their goals! All around us teens are laughing, crying, hugging, and holding up the broken pieces of their boards. The confidence shown on their faces is beautiful.
While arranging such an activity in one’s home is almost unrealistic for parents, the value of helping a teen break through a personal barrier simply by being there as moral support can not be overestimated. More help for parents in the form of videos and articles is available at our website, in our blogs and in a monthly e-newsletter

  1. 1.

    The 12-by-12-inch pine boards are used as ______.

    1. A.
      materials to test one’s muscles
    2. B.
      signs of goals in one’s life
    3. C.
      assessments to show one’s progress
    4. D.
      symbols of barriers in one’s life
  2. 2.

    We can learn from the passage that through the event the campers ______.

    1. A.
      become hard-working
    2. B.
      get moral support
    3. C.
      gain confidence
    4. D.
      set right goals
  3. 3.

    Which is the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      The Power of WIIFM
    2. B.
      What’s in It for Me
    3. C.
      The Importance of Goals
    4. D.
      Motivational Strategies
  4. 4.

    The passage is intended for ______.

    1. A.
      teens
    2. B.
      parents
    3. C.
      campers
    4. D.
      Tutors

My parents always raised me to have strong values and hold firm to my confidence in life, and this was never more proved than when a situation arose when it would be easy for most people to ignore it.
A gentleman at my father’s work smelled awful and neglected his behavior, and as the months went by, he showed signs of confusion. After being told to pick up papers at another building, he would be found sitting at his desk staring at his shoes; after being reminded (to which he would completely believe he hadn’t been told the first time), he would be found once again sitting at his desk in the same position. This happened to worsening degrees over a few months and his coworkers either ignored it or were ignorant to this due to a lack of social association with the man.
My father began to mentally record all of this and finally sat down with him one day when he was found two hours after work was out, sitting in his car, looking like he didn’t know where to go. Apparently the gentleman was in the beginning/middle stages of Alzheimer’s and there was someone who used his forgetfulness as a reason to ask him for money every few days. My father took this man to a hospital (for the first time in years) to be properly treated, and then got a caretaker to watch over his condition. He then went to the man’s house and helped him sort out all of his financial matters and get his retirement set up; they went to the bank and had a government worker ensure that his bills would be paid for and his children would no longer get to treat him like a personal ATM.
That my father took his much personal time to help another man that so many had forgotten or would choose to neglect, or even make fun of, truly shows his character

  1. 1.

    The author presents this passage by ______

    1. A.
      telling an instructive story
    2. B.
      describing his father
    3. C.
      reasoning with some facts
    4. D.
      giving causes and effects
  2. 2.

    What can we infer from the passage?

    1. A.
      The gentleman was ignored by his co-workers
    2. B.
      The gentleman was so serious that no one liked him
    3. C.
      The gentleman was good at communication with his co-workers
    4. D.
      The gentleman was in great need of help because of his illness
  3. 3.

    In the eyes of the author, his father is ______

    1. A.
      hopeful
    2. B.
      strict
    3. C.
      stubborn
    4. D.
      helpful
  4. 4.

    Which proverb is suitable for the story?

    1. A.
      A friend in need is a friend indeed
    2. B.
      A friend to all is a friend to none
    3. C.
      Friendship cannot stand always on one side
    4. D.
      False friends are worse than open enemies

Exchanging music over the Internet is fun and easy. Better yet, it's free, which means you don't have to pay for any more expensive music CDs. Several online file-sharing services make it easy for music lovers to exchange their favorite tunes with one another.
However, this illegal sharing of music — a form of music piracy(盗版)— is doing harm to the music industry. Industry experts estimate (估计) that US$4.3 billion in worldwide sales was lost to music piracy last year. These lost profits could force record companies to stop producing the music of many popular artists. That would hurt both musicians and music fans alike.
Music producers are puzzled about how to fight music piracy. Their efforts to fight piracy using the law have had only limited success. The music industry did win a legal victory against Napster, a famous music website. The courts ordered Napster to stop giving away copyrighted music from their site. But a number of other music-sharing networks have sprung up in its place.
These new networks are made up of thousands, or even millions, of individuals. Unlike Napster, there's no one company controlling the distribution(发行)of music over each network. So it's nearly impossible to stop the illegal activities.
Now people in the music industry have decided that " if you can't beat them, join them." They've begun to offer legal alternatives to online music piracy. Major music producers have given companies like Apple Computer permission(许可) to sell their music online. Apple's iTune Music Store allows computer users to legally download any song for 99 cents.
Will these new measures save the music industry from piracy? That depends on whether music fans are willing to pay 99 cents fro a song that they can download illegally for free. Unfortunately, many people believe music should be free. The music industry, however, hopes to persuade these music fans to change their tune

  1. 1.

    This text is written to _____

    1. A.
      discuss music piracy on the Internet
    2. B.
      introduce the popularity of online music
    3. C.
      persuade music fans to give up downloading music
    4. D.
      protect copyrighted music from being downloaded illegally
  2. 2.

    Which of the following statements is NOT true?

    1. A.
      Some online file-sharing services are responsible for music piracy
    2. B.
      Napster, a famous music website, broke down because of its piracy
    3. C.
      There have been no perfect measures to put an end to piracy
    4. D.
      Legal sharing of music is available at Apple's iTune Music Store
  3. 3.

    Which of the following statements would the author agree with?

    1. A.
      The only effective way to fight music piracy is to stop it by law
    2. B.
      Music lovers will be persuaded to pay for online music in time
    3. C.
      It is certain that no one will be willing to pay for online music
    4. D.
      There is a long way for music industry to go in fighting piracy
  4. 4.

    The underlined word "illegal" in Paragraph 2 probably means _____

    1. A.
      being protected by the law
    2. B.
      popular
    3. C.
      being against the law
    4. D.
      surprising

The baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert (警觉). Twenty centimeters from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by another, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards change from one to the other, her gaze(凝视) starts to lose its focus - until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns; she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two is different from three, just 24 hours after coming into the world?
Or do newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three spots shown before two, shows the same return of interest when the number of spots changes. Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects(a comb, a key, an orange and so on), changing the number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves. Could it be the pattern that two things make, as opposed to three? No again. Babies paid more attention to squares moving randomly on a screen when their number changed from two to three, or three to two. The effect even crosses between senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they heard just two; likewise(同样地) when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots

  1. 1.

    The experiment described in Paragraph 1 is related to the baby’s ______

    1. A.
      sense of hearing
    2. B.
      sense of sight
    3. C.
      sense of touch
    4. D.
      sense of smell
  2. 2.

    Babies are sensitive to the change in ______

    1. A.
      the size of cards
    2. B.
      the colour of pictures
    3. C.
      the shape of patterns
    4. D.
      the number of objects
  3. 3.

    Why did the researchers test the babies with drumbeats?

    1. A.
      To reduce the difficulty of the experiment
    2. B.
      To see how babies recognize sounds
    3. C.
      To carry their experiment further
    4. D.
      To keep the babies’ interest
  4. 4.

    Where does this text probably come from?

    1. A.
      Science fiction
    2. B.
      Children’s literature
    3. C.
      An advertisement
    4. D.
      A science report

Researchers at San Diego Zoo have been studying what has been described as the “secret language” of elephants. They have been monitoring（监测） communications between animals that cannot be heard by human ears.
The elephant’s call will be familiar to most people, but the animals also give out growls (低吼). Their growls, however, are only partly audible (听得见的); two-thirds of the call is at frequencies that are too low to be picked up by our hearing. To learn more about the inaudible part of the growl, the team attached (附在……上面) a microphone sensitive to these low frequencies and a GPS tracking system to eight of the zoo’s female elephants. The researchers could then relate the noises the animals were making to what they were doing. Matt Anderson, who led the project, told BBC News, “We’re excited to learn how they interact and contact with one another.”
The team has already learned that pregnant females use this low frequency communication to announce to the rest of their long gestation (妊娠期) of over two years, in the last 12 days we see the low part of the growl, which we can’t hear. This we believe is to announce to the rest of the herd that the baby is upcoming,” said Dr Anderson.
The researchers believe that this also warns the elephants to look out for coming danger. “You may think that a baby calf of about 300 pounds would not be as open to predation (捕食) as other species,” he says. “But packs of hyenas (袋狼) are a big threat in the wild.”
Female elephants are only in season for around four days every four years and these calls can be heard by males more than two miles away

  1. 1.

    Why some elephants’ call is called “secret language”?

    1. A.
      Because it can’t be heard by human ears
    2. B.
      Because it can only be heard by female elephants
    3. C.
      Because people don’t know its meanings
    4. D.
      Because people haven’t studied it completely
  2. 2.

    By using a sensitive microphone and a GPS tracking system, the researchers wanted to find out             .

    1. A.
      where the elephants usually go
    2. B.
      what the elephants’ growls really mean
    3. C.
      how mother elephants raise baby calves
    4. D.
      how elephants protect their babies
  3. 3.

    A pregnant elephant uses inaudible growls to           

    1. A.
      show the location where she is staying
    2. B.
      ask for help when she losses her way
    3. C.
      scare away the enemy
    4. D.
      let others know she will have a baby
  4. 4.

    What is the passage mainly about?

    1. A.
      The elephants can speak like people
    2. B.
      The wild elephants’ ways to fight against enemies
    3. C.
      The “secret language” between elephants
    4. D.
      The special life of female elephants

This is a true story of how my car got stuck in water and how a stranger helped me during the worst rain storm.
Last Sunday, the sky was grey when I woke up. The weather report said rain was coming, but I couldn’t stay home just because of rain.
Around 8:00 am I had a doctor’s appointment. It wasn’t raining then. At 9:00 I left the doctor’s office to drive to work, and it was raining hard. I just had to go about 5-6 miles down one main road to get to a nearby school, where I could stay until the rain ended. Unfortunately, the road in front of the school was flooded, and my car stopped in the middle.
“Who is going to save me?” I wondered. I shut off the engine and turned on my flashers (车灯). I called 911. They were not helpful. I called my husband, even though he couldn’t come and help me. I was also very close to a police station. But I never saw even one police car. I decided to get out of the car, since it was still pouring.
My best decision of the day had been to wear rain boots. I took my umbrella and quickly got out and ran across the street to a shelter.
Before long, a tow truck(拖车) happened to pass by the street. The driver kindly offered to help me. At that moment, I really needed car pulled out quickly, so I trusted the stranger. He pulled my car and drove me home. After he had dropped my car off, he also helped me check the engine. He said the engine was most likely flooded, but fortunately there was no water inside the car.
Although many years have passed, I still remember that stormy day and the warm-hearted stranger clearly

  1. 1.

    How was the weather when the author got up?

    1. A.
      Rainy
    2. B.
      Cloudy
    3. C.
      Windy
    4. D.
      Sunny
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is the correct order about the things that the author did?
    ① Drove to work.                      ② Drove to the doctor’s office.
    ③ Ran to a shelter.                      ④ Called 911 for help

    1. A.
      ②①④③
    2. B.
      ②③①④
    3. C.
      ①②④③
    4. D.
      ①③②④
  3. 3.

    What did the author do after her car had got stuck in the water?

    1. A.
      She turned off her flashers
    2. B.
      She tried to restart the engine
    3. C.
      She went to the police station nearby
    4. D.
      She got out of her car
  4. 4.

    How did the stranger help the author?

    1. A.
      He lent his car to her
    2. B.
      He pulled her car out of the water
    3. C.
      He drove her to school
    4. D.
      He helped her fix her engine

Mo Yan, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, said he is not sure about whether he is happy after winning the prize.
In an interview with China Central Television broadcast on Sunday night, Mo said “I don't know,” when a reporter asked if he was happy.“Happiness means a healthy body and a total absence of mental burdens, but now I’m under high pressure and bothered by worries. Can I say that I'm happy?” he said. “But if I say I'm not happy, people will consider that I'm striking a pose. How could you be unhappy after winning the Nobel Prize?”
Mo, born into a farmer’s family in East China’s Shandong province, As a 12-year-old during the Cultural Revolution he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976 he joined the People’s Liberation Army and during this time began to study literature and write. His first short story was published in a literary journal in 1981.
“In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth. This is apparent in his novel Hong gaoliang jiazu (1987, in English Red Sorghum 1993),” said the academy in a statement of Mo’s biography. Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987, directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou.
Mo won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is worth $1.2 million, on Oct 11 for his “hallucinatory realism” which merges “folk tales, history and the contemporary”. Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French and Japanese and many other languages.
He is the first Chinese citizen to win the prize.The award sparked strong interest about contemporary Chinese literature among the public, and his books have been flying off the shelves in many bookstores across the country

  1. 1.

    The followings are TRUE except_____________

    1. A.
      He has won about 8 million yuan
    2. B.
      His works are all about farmers
    3. C.
      He has a big influence on Chinese contemporary literature
    4. D.
      Reporters have interviewed him about his winning
  2. 2.

    From the passage we can know__________

    1. A.
      He won the prize because of his story Red Sorghum
    2. B.
      He wanted to become a writer when he was very young
    3. C.
      Mo Yan’s works have been translated into Russian
    4. D.
      Mo Yan was born in a farmer family
  3. 3.

    What is Paragraph Three mainly about ?

    1. A.
      His different work
    2. B.
      His early life
    3. C.
      He switched over to literature
    4. D.
      His family and hometown
  4. 4.

    What can we infer from the passage?

    1. A.
      Mo Yan is very happy to win the Nobel Prize
    2. B.
      More and more readers are buying Mo’s books to read in China
    3. C.
      Winning the Nobel Prize is not easy
    4. D.
      Mo Yan won the prize with the help of Zhang Yimou

An alcohol breath test (ABT) is often used by the police to find out whether a person is drunk while driving. In the United States, the legal blood alcohol limit is 0.08% for people aged 21 years or older, while people under 21 are not allowed to drive a car with any level of alcohol in their body. A “positive” test result, a result over the legal limit, allows the police to arrest the driver. However, many people who tested positive on the test have claimed that they only drank a “non-alcoholic” energy drink. Can one of these energy drinks really cause someone to test positive on an ABT? Researchers in Missouri set up an experiment to find out.
First, the amount of alcohol in 27 different popular energy drinks was measured. All but one had an alcohol level greater than 0.005%. In nine of the 27 drinks, the alcohol level was at least 0.096%.The scientists then investigated the possibility that these small levels of alcohol could be discovered by an ABT. They asked test subjects to drink a full can or bottle of an energy drink and then gave each subject an ABT one minute and 15 minutes after the drink was finished.
For 11 of the 27energy drinks, the ABT did find the presence of alcohol if the test was given within one minute after the drink was taken. However, alcohol could not be discovered for any of the drinks if the test was given 15 minutes after the drink was consumed. This shows that when the test is taken plays an important role in the test result. The sooner the test is conducted after the consumption of these drinks, the more likely a positive alcohol reading will be obtained

  1. 1.

    What is the legal alcohol level for a 20-year-old driver in the US?

    1. A.
      0.000%
    2. B.
      0.005%
    3. C.
      0.080%
    4. D.
      0.096%
  2. 2.

    What is the purpose of the Missouri experiment?

    1. A.
      To warn people of the dangers of drinking energy drinks
    2. B.
      To introduce a new method of calculating blood alcohol levels
    3. C.
      To discover the relation between energy drinks and ABT test results
    4. D.
      To change the current legal alcohol limit for drivers in the United States
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “subjects” in Paragraph 2 refers to_____

    1. A.
      the things that are being discussed
    2. B.
      areas of knowledge studied in school
    3. C.
      the person in an experiment
    4. D.
      the people who belong to a country
  4. 4.

    Which of the following affects the ABT test result most for energy drink consumers?

    1. A.
      The age of the person who takes the test
    2. B.
      The place where the test is given
    3. C.
      The equipment that the test uses
    4. D.
      The time when the test is taken

King’s College Summer School is an annual(每年的) training programme for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King’s College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centres are also organized. This year’s summer school will be from July 25th to August 15th. More information is as follows.

Application   date
·Students in New York should send their application before July   18th, 2010.
·Students of other cities should send their applications before   July 16th, 2010.
·Foreign students should send their applications before July 10th,   2010.		Courses
·English Language
  Spoken English: 22 hours
  Reading and Writing: 10 hours
·American History: 16 hours
·American Culture: 16 hours
Steps
·A letter of self-introduction
·A letter of recommendation
·The letters should be written in English with all the necessary   information.		Cost
·Daily lessons:数学公式100
·Travel:数学公式400
·You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same   city.

Please write to: Thompson, Sanders
1026 King’s Street New York, NY 10016, the USA
E-mail: KC-summer-School@yahoo.com

  1. 1.

    You can most probably read the above in a _____

    1. A.
      newspaper
    2. B.
      travel guide
    3. C.
      telephone book
    4. D.
      textbook
  2. 2.

    If you live in your uncle’s home in New York, you just need to pay the school _____

    1. A.
      $200
    2. B.
      $300
    3. C.
      $500
    4. D.
      $900
  3. 3.

    It’s true that______

    1. A.
      trips to museum and culture centers are part of the program
    2. B.
      only the top students can take part in the program
    3. C.
      King’s College Summer School isn’t in New York
    4. D.
      only the teachers of King’s College give courses
  4. 4.

    We can learn the following from the passage except _____

    1. A.
      the time of this year’s summer school
    2. B.
      the courses of this year’s summer school
    3. C.
      the address of King’s College Summer School
    4. D.
      the telephone number of King’s College Summer School

The months and years went by. I had been Joe’s apprentice for four years.
One evening, Joe and I were sitting in the village inn. A stranger came in, a big, tall man, with heavy eyebrows. The man had large, very clean white hands. To my surprise, I recognized the man. I had seen him at Miss Havisham’s many years before. He had frightened me then. He frightened me a little now.
‘I think there is a blacksmith here----name of Joe Gargery,’ the man said in his loud voice.
‘That’s me!’ Joe answered. He stood up.
‘You have an apprentice, known as Pip,’ the stranger went on. ‘Where is he? ’
‘Here!’ I cried, standing beside Joe.
‘I wish to speak to you both. I wish to speak to you privately, not here,’ the man said. ‘Perhaps I could go home with you.’
We walked back to the workshop in silence. When we were in the sitting room, the man began to speak.
‘My name is Jaggers,’ he said. ‘I am a lawyer in London, where I am well-known. I have some unusual business with young Pip here. I am speaking for someone else, you understand. A client who doesn’t want to be named. Is that clear?’
Joe and I nodded.
‘I have come to take your apprentice to London,’ the lawyer said to Joe. ‘You won’t stop him from coming I hope?’
‘Stop him? Never! ’ Joe cried.
‘Listen, then. I have this message for Pip. He has ---- great expectations!’
Joe and I looked at each other, too surprised to speak.
‘Yes, great expectations’ Mr. Jaggers repeated. ‘Pip will one day be rich, very rich. Pip is to change his way of life at once. He will no longer be a blacksmith. He is to come with me to London. He is to be educated as a gentleman. He will be a man of property.’
And so, at last, my dream had come true. Miss Havisham----because Mr. Jaggers’ client must be Miss Havisham----had plans for me after all. I would be rich and Estella would love me!
Mr. Jaggers was speaking again. ‘There are two conditions,’ he said, looking at me. ‘First, you will always be known as Pip. Secondly,’ Mr. Jaggers continued, ‘the name of your benefactor is to be kept secret. One day, that person will speak to you, face to face. Until then, you must not ask any questions. You must never try to find out this person’s name. Do you understand? Speak out!’
‘Yes, I understand,’ I answered. ‘My benefactor’s name is to remain a secret.’
‘Good,’ Mr. Jaggers said. ‘Now, Pip, you will come into your property when you come of age----when you are twenty-one. Until then, I am your guardian. I have money to pay for your education and to allow you to live as a gentleman. You will have a private teacher. His name is Mr. Matthew Pocket and you will stay at his house.’
I gave a cry of surprise. Some of Miss Havisham’s relations were called Pocket. Mr. Jaggers raised his eyebrows.
‘Do you not want to live with Mr. Pocket? Have you any objection to this arrangement?’ he said severely.
‘No, no, none at all,’ I answered quickly.
‘Good. Then I will arrange everything,’ Mr. Jaggers went on. ‘Mr. Pocket’s son has rooms in London. I suggest you go there. Now when can you come to London?’
I looked at Joe.
‘At once, if Joe has no objection,’ I said.
‘No objection, Pip old chap,’ Joe answered.
‘Then you will come in one week’s time,’ Mr. Jaggers said, standing up. ‘You will need new clothes. Here is some money to pay for them. Twenty guineas.’
He counted the money and put it on the table.
‘Well, Joe Gargery, you are saying nothing,’ Mr. Jaggers said to Joe firmly. ‘I have money to give to you too.’

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “apprentice” in paragraph 1 means ____________

    1. A.
      a very good friend and companion
    2. B.
      someone who has no money but is very skilled at their job
    3. C.
      a young person who is being trained for a particular job
    4. D.
      a person with no education living with another family
  2. 2.

    The author describes Mr. Jaggers as having ‘large, very clean white hands’ in order to ____________

    1. A.
      show how Pip recalls Mr Jaggers
    2. B.
      provide a description of Mr. Jaggers to the readers only
    3. C.
      indicate that Mr. Jaggers remains indoors a lot and doesn’t get much sun
    4. D.
      show Mr Jaggers often washes his hands to rid himself of his own bad deeds as a lawyer
  3. 3.

    At the end of the passage above, Mr. Jaggers says he also has money to give Joe because ____________

    1. A.
      he believes he can also help Joe become a gentleman
    2. B.
      he is repaying money loaned to Joe previously by the benefactor
    3. C.
      the secret benefactor wants Joe to be his personal blacksmith
    4. D.
      Joe will have to hire a new worker
  4. 4.

    Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Joe is happy that Pip will go to London
    2. B.
      Mr. Jaggers does not want other people to know he is a lawyer
    3. C.
      Pip hopes Miss Havisham will help him become a gentleman
    4. D.
      Pip will become very rich when he comes of age
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