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Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably   1__  they go to learn languages, geography, history, science and all the other subjects. That is quite    2  ,but why do they learn these things?

We send our children to school to    3   them for their future work and life. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life, but is that the  __4  reason they go to school?

There is    5  in education than just learning facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn, so when we    6   school we can go on learning. If a man really knows how to learn, he will    7   be successful, because whenever he has to do something new he will quickly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand, is ___8   unable to do it or does it badly, so the    9   of school is not just to teach languages, geography, science, etc, but to teach pupils the    10   to learn.

借鉴别人的学习秘诀， 是学习的捷径之一。请把下面的学习秘诀和例子对上号。

Secrets of top students

Example One: “If I don’t understand what my teacher is explaining in the science,                        

I ask him to say it again,” says Anna Lee. “also asking more helped a lot.”   

1.____________

Example Two: “When a teacher asks us to do a lot of homework，”says Dave Roman “ I             

will draw up a timetable and plan to do it little by little, so it isn’t so tiring.

2. ___________

Example Three: One student put a vocabulary list on the wall of the bathroom. He

learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time

to remember biology terms while practicing running.                     

3.____________

Example Four: In high school, Mike played football, painted and was in the band.

“I was so busy that I couldn’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything in order.” He says.                                                 4.___________

Example Five: Christi is an excellent student at the university. If her math teacher

asks her to do five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher asks her to read

five pages, she reads ten. “Part of learning is practicing,” she says, “and the

more you practice, the more you learn.”                              

 5.____________

根据提示和要求，写一篇短文。将短文写在答题卡情景作文空白处。

永州市原称零陵地区，“画图曾识零陵郡，今日方知画不如”，美丽永州，六城同创。请向游人介绍我们美丽的家乡永州。

内容：1.历史美：零陵古郡，历史悠久；

2.环境美：空气清新，宜居城市；

3.人民美：人民友善，相处融洽；

4.景点美：景点众多，值得一游。

要求：1.卷面整洁，行文流畅；  2.不必逐字逐句翻译，可适当发挥;   3.词数：70~90个。

参考词汇：with a long history; a good place to live; be worth(值得)doing sth. 迴龙塔（Huilong Tower） 柳子庙（Liuzi Temple） 愚溪桥（Yuxi Bridge） 朝阳岩（Chaoyang Cave）

Here is an examination notice. Mrs. Dickson gave it to her students last week. Read it and answer the questions.

To the students of Class 3

◆Examinations start on June 22 and end on June 23.

◆The time for each of the subjects is:

English   June 22     9:30 A.M.－ 10:30 A.M.

Math     June 22     11:00 A.M.－ 12:00 A.M.

History   June 22     2:30 P.M.－ 3:30 P.M.

PE       June 23     8:00 A.M. － 10:00 A.M.

Music    June 23     1:00 P.M. － 3:00 P.M.

◆For the PE test, go to the playground. For the music test, go to the Piano Room. All else are     written(书面) tests. They will be held in classroom 3.

◆No student can get into the examination room more than 15 minutes after the exam starts.

◆No food or drink during ANY test.

◆No dictionaries during the English exam.

◆Wear sports shoes and clothes for the PE exam.

If you have questions, go to the Teachers’ Office before the tests.

1.How many written tests will the students get ready for?

    A. Two           B. Three              C. Four              D. Five

2.Who could not take the English exam?

A. Nancy. She wore her sports shoes on June 22.

B. Richard. He did not have breakfast before the exam.

C. Wendy. She forgot to take an English dictionary with her.

D. Tony. He went to school at 9:50 on the morning of June 22.

3.Where were the students of Class 3 at 8:30 A.M., June 23?

         A. In the playground.                               B. In their classroom.

  C. In the Piano Room.                           D. At the Teachers’ Office.

4.On the morning of June 23, What should Helen, a student of Class 3 get ready for?

         A. Food and drinks. Because there is no food or drinks during any test.

         B. Dictionary. Because she isn’t good at English.

         C. Sports shoes and clothes. Because there will be a PE exam.

         D. Nothing. Because all the exams are ended.

5.Tom still has some questions about the exams, he can       .

         A. ask his teacher at any time

         B. find his teacher in the playground

         C. ask his teacher on June 22 or June 23

         D. go to the teachers’ office on June 21 and ask about them

Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the language of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.

There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present-day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago.

    Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. In time, some even die out completely. About 1,000 years ago, English was a little known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.

If a language has a number of speakers, or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of people. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China can’t understand speakers from other parts.

1.The first paragraph mainly tells us that_______.

A. most people in the world speak Chinese

B. there are thousands of languages in today’s world

C. man has much knowledge about languages

D. some people know several languages

2.Most European and Indian languages_______.

A. will soon die out completely

B. were once a relative of English

C. are no longer spoken

D. come from the same family of language.

3.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

  A. Chinese is the language with the most speakers.

  B. English was a well-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.

  C. A language has many speakers, but there may be no differences in the way it is spoken in different areas.

  D. Speakers of Chinese from some parts of China can understand speakers from other parts.

4.It is considered a most difficult thing for one to learn to speak Chinese because_______.

A. there are great differences between the dialects of Chinese

B. Chinese and many foreign languages are not of the same family

C. Chinese is a very old language

D. there are great differences between the old Chinese and the present-day Chinese

5.The underlined word “dialect” in the last paragraph means_______.

A. a special language spoken by Chinese

B. the sign used by Chinese people in a special area

C. the difference between the old and today’s Chinese

D. the form of a language used in one part of the country