－It’s difficult for me to pass the English exams．
－So do I．But we shouldn’t         hope．

Interested in soccer?

Join us now!

King’s School is organizing a soccer camp for children aged 12-15. Join us for 5 days of fun when you learn to play this exciting sport!

When

13-17 January, 2014 (Monday to Friday)?????

3:00 p.m —5:00 p.m

?? Where

City Sports Hall

267 State Street

????????????????????? Cost （费用）

$ 10 each

Our special service:

Players from the National Soccer Team will be your coaches (教练) for the 5 days of camp!

After the camp, you will be able to:

● understand the rules of the game

● carry the ball with your feet

● pass the ball to other players using your feet

● kick(踢) the ball towards the goal(球门)

Please come in comfortable clothes and sports shoes.

For more information, please call us at 01159515092, or e-mail us at kssoccercamp@hotmail.com.uk.

1.The camp is for the children who __________.

A. are 12-15 years old?????????? B. play soccer well

C. come from King’s School?????? D. live near City Sports Hall

2.? When will the camp start?

A. On January 14??? B. On January 16 ?? C.On Monday?? D. On Friday

3. If Jack and his brother want to join the camp, they should pay _______ for it.

A. $10??? B. $20????? C. $40???? D. $50

4. Children at the camp can’t learn to ____________.

A. carry the ball with feet??????

B. kick the ball to the goal????

C. pass the ball using feet??????

D. make the game rules

5.Which of the following seems to be the most attractive(有吸引力的) to children?

A. The camp lasts for 5 days.??????

B. The coaches are national cocker players.?

C. The camp doesn’t cost much.???

D. The camp is organized by King’s School

To err is human. To blame（责备） the other guy is even more human.
Common sense is not all that common.
Why tell the truth when you can come up with a good excuse?
These three popular misquotes（戏谑的引语）are meant to be jokes, and yet they tell us a lot about human nature. To err, or to make mistakes, is indeed a part of being human, but it seems that most people don’t want to accept the responsibility for the problem. Perhaps it is the natural thing to do. The original quote about human nature went like this: “To err is human, to forgive, divine（神圣的）.” This saying mirrors an ideal: People should be forgiving of others’ mistakes. Instead, we tend to do the opposite – find someone else to pass the blame on to. However, taking responsibility for something that went wrong is a mark of great maturity（成熟）.
Common sense is what we call clear thought. Having common sense means having a good general plan that will make things work well, and it also means staying with the plan. Common sense tells you that you take an umbrella out into a rainstorm, but you leave the umbrella home when you hear a weather forecast for sunshine. Common sense does not seem to be common for large companies, because there are so many things going on that one person cannot be in charge of everything. People say that in a large company, “the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.”
And what is wrong with a society that thinks that making up a good excuse is like creating a work of art? One of the common problems with making excuses is that people, especially young people, get the idea that it’s okay not to be totally honest all the time. There is a corollary（直接推论）to that: if a good excuse is “good” even if it isn’t honest, then where is the place of the truth?
【小题1】Which of the following is NOT based on common sense?

He didn’t listen to the teacher carefully in class. ______, he couldn’t pass the exam.

A．Even though       B．As a result         C．Instead           D．In order to