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Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a better student in several ways.  71 Second, your notes are excellent materials to refer to when you are studying for a test. Third, note-taking offers variety to your study time and helps you to hold your interest .

You will want to take notes during classroom discussions and while reading a textbook or doing research for a report. 72 Whenever or however you take notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective process（挑选的过程）. 73．  

The following methods may work best for you.

●Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.  

●Carefully read the text and watch for words that can show main points and supporting facts.

●Write your notes in your own words.  

● 74．   

●Note any questions or ideas you may have about what was said or written.  

As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand(速记). When you do, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them all the time. 75．

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My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought  41 . My complaints, even self-justified shouting, were always landing on  42_   ears.  Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end with their   43  into tears, I felt very frustrated (沮丧的).I realized I needed to   44  my method of “mothering”.

One day when they were at school, I spent some time  45  their rooms. On their desks, in plain   __46  , I left the cards: “Dear Bill (the other card was   47   to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.”   48  arriving back, the children were   __49  excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy ___50  for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and   51  asking them to play a certain violin   52  . Each day, thank--you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas   53 .

Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little   54 : “If you can finish your homework and   __55  your lessons before dinner, I’ d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in   56 of  well done jobs the day  ___57  .

  58  I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its(贴条). The bathroom mirror became the   59  centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be posted.

We all benefited from and   60 the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication.

1.                A．differently      B．gratefully       C．doubtfully D．hopefully

2.                A．side           B．deaf           C．neither   D．either

3.                A．crying          B．breaking        C．bursting  D．bumping

4.                A．adjust          B．adopt          C．access    D．addict

5.                A．clearing        B．tidying          C．emptying D．searching

6.                A．distance        B．words          C．speech   D．sight

7.                A．sent           B．read           C．delivered D．addressed

8.                A．As             B．At             C．In   D．Upon

9.                A．more than      B．rather than      C．no more than  D．other than

10.               A．asking          B．waiting         C．praying    D．expecting

11.               A．politely         B．happily         C．gently D．toughly

12.               A．music          B．song           C．piece     D．tone

13.               A．respectable     B．uninteresting    C．incredible D．fresh

14.               A．challenge       B．question        C．suggestion D．advice

15.               A．go with         B．look up         C．go over   D．look into

16.               A．response       B．answer         C．praise D．honor

17.               A．ahead          B．before         C．over  D．ago

18.               A．Actually        B．Even so         C．Even if    D．Though

19.               A．life            B．main           C．memory   D．reminder

20.               A．learned        B．appreciated     C．shared    D．thanked

1.Ghostwritten work in “CONTEST RULES” might be ________.[来源:]

a. written by someone other than the author

b. science fiction difficult to understand[来源:学,科,网Z,X,X,K]

c. a long essay in a very strange writing style

d. full of citations from other writers

2.To enter the writing contest, one ________.

a. has to pay a fee

b. must submit work by January 1, 2008

c. needs an eye-catching title for his word document

d. can submit any form or style of writing but a poem

3.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

a. The final results will come out on December 31, 2008.

b. All entries must be emailed to contest2008@adminmaven.com.

c. One can not add a note to a 1,500-word essay for the contest.

d. the winning entries will be edited and published.

I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Mikey, gave me a note from his mother. It explained his absence from class the day before.

I had seen Mikey himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my students. If I were to deal with them, I’d be busy 24 hours a day.

The forged excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The writers of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually dull: “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.”

Isn’t it remarkable, I thought, how the students complained and said it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject? But when they produced excuse notes, they were brilliant.

So one day I typed out a dozen excuse notes and gave them to my classes. I said, “They’re supposed to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Mikey?” The students looked at me nervously.

“Now, this will be the first class to study the art of the excuse note --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so lucky to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a subject worthy of study. ”

Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your imaginations. So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam to God’ or ‘An Excuse Note from Eve to God’.” Heads went down. Pens raced across paper. For the first time ever I saw students so careful in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.

The next day everyone had excuse notes. Heated discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked up and down, looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.”

When I stepped into his office, he came to shake my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was great. Those kids were writing on the college level. Thank you. ”

1.What did the author do with the students found dishonest?

A．He reported them to the headmaster.        B．He lectured them hard on honesty.

C．He had them take notes before lunch.        D．He helped improve their writing skills.

2.The author found that compared with the true excuse notes, the produced ones by the students were usually__________.

A．less impressive     B．more imaginative    C．worse written      D．less convincing

3.The author had the students practice writing excuse notes so that the students could learn_________.

A．the importance of being honest            B．how to write excuse notes skillfully

C．the pleasure of creative writing             D．how to be creative in writing

4.The underlined word “forged” in the second paragraph means “______”.

A．former           B．copied            C．false             D．honest

5.What did the headmaster think of the author’s way of teaching?

A．Effective.          B．Difficult           C．Misleading.        D．Reasonable

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