Do you want to improve the way you study? Do you feel nervous before a test? Many students say that a lack of concentration is their biggest problem. It seriously affects their ability to study, so do their test results. If so, use these tips to help you.

Study Techniques

You should always study in the same place. You shouldn’t sit in a position that you use for another purpose. For example, when you sit on a sofa to study, your brain will think it is time to relax. Don’t watch TV while you are studying. Experts warn that your concentration may be reduced by 50 percent if you attempt to study in this way. Always try to have a white wall in front of you, so there is nothing to distract (make less concentrated) you.

Your eyes will become tired if you try to read a text which is on a flat surface. Position your book at an angle of 30 degrees.

Don’t try to complete too much in one study period. Finish one thing before beginning another. If you need a break, get up and walk around for a few minutes.

Test-taking Skills

　　All your hard work will be for nothing if you are too nervous to take your test. Getting plenty of rest is very important. This means do not study all night before your test! It is a better idea to have a long-term study plan. Try to make a timetable for your study which lasts for a few months.

Exercise is a great way to reduce pressure. Doing some form of exercise every day will also improve your concentration. Eat healthy food too.

When you arrive in the examination room, find your seat and sit down. Breathe slowly and deeply. Check the time on the clock during the test, but not too often. Above all, take no notice of everyone else and give the test paper your undivided attention.

36．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to he passage?

A.Check the time during the exam at a certain time.

B.Staying up all night and studying is a tiring but effective way

C.You should study in a different place every day, so you don’t get bored.

D.Your concentration will improve if you study and watch TV at the same time.

37. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.Time-planning Skills

B.Exercise-doing Skills

C.Pressure-reducing Skills

D.Tips both in Study and Test-taking

38. Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A. Don’t check the time during the test.

B. All your hard work will make sense if you study all night before the test.

C. You’ll concentrate more if there are some pictures in front of you.

D. You can break down the learning tasks and finish one at a time.

39. Which of the following is not included in the tips?

A. Reference books.　　　　

B. Healthy food.

C. Proper timetable.　　　

D. Enough rest

“Hey, Jenna, do you think we’ ll still be friends when we’re eighty-two?” I asked my friend.
Losing Jenna would be like losing a very close sister.
“Of course, we’ll still be friends when we’re eighty-two,” Jenna announced loudly
The next year, in Grade Four, we met Jamie. The three of us soon became close friends. We played together almost every day. I thought even time couldn’t pull us apart, but I was sadly mistaken.
The three of us started fighting a lot. Before Christmas, We had a really big fight, and Jamie and Jenna were against me, both saying I was bossy (专横的). I felt helpless and lonely. I thought Christmas would be horrible!
I was surprised when Jenna came to my house and gave me a terrible Christmas card she had made for me. I was so sure that she was still disappointed with me.
“Wow,” I said, breaking the silence as we stood on either side of my front door. “Thanks.”
“Okay…well… I have to go,” she said softly.
“Okay. See you later then…” and I closed the door.
“Who was that at the door?” my mom asked.
“It was Jenna, my classmate.” I said.
The card started off with “Merry Christmas”, but then it said, “I am so glad we’re friends. I am sorry about what I said when we were fighting. A fight won’t stop us from being friends. Besides, we said we were going to be friends even when we’re eighty-two.”
I stopped reading and started laughing. I couldn’t believe I had forgotten what she said that day in the backyard. I couldn’t believe I had been so selfish in trying to make my friends feel sorry for me.
【小题1】The best title for this passage would be______________.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher? A doctor? How about an ice-cream taster?

Yes, there really is a job where you can get paid to taste ice cream. Just ask John Harrison, an “Official Taste Tester” for the past 21 years. Testing helps producers to be sure of a product’s quality. During his career Harrison has been responsible for approving large quantities of the sweet ice cream –as well as for developing over 75 flavors （味道）.

Some people think that it would be easy to do this job; after all, you just have to like ice cream, right? No –-- there’s more to the job than that, says Harrison, who has a degree in chemistry. He points out that a dairy or food-science degree would be very useful to someone wanting a career in this “cool” field.

In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and rates 60 ice-cream samples. He lets the ice cream warm up to about 12 F. Harrisonexplains, “You get more flavor from warmer ice cream, which is why some kids like to stir it, creating ice-cream soup.”

While the ice cream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its appearance. “Tasting begins with the eyes,”he explains. He checks to see if the ice cream is attractive and asks himself, “Does the product have the colour expected from that flavor?”Next it’s time to taste!

Continuing to think up new ideas, try out new flavors, and test samples from so many kinds of ice cream each day keeps Harrison busy but happy – working at once cool job.

1.What is John Harrison’s job?

A．An official.                            B．An ice-cream taster.

C．A chemist.                             D．An ice-cream producer

2.According to John Harrison, to be qualified(有资格的) in the “cool field”, it is helpful to        .

A．keep a diary of work                     B．have a degree in related subjects

C．have new ideas every day                 D．find out new flavors each day

3.What does Harrison do first when testing ice cream?

A．He stirs the ice cream.

B．He examines the colour of the ice cream.

C．He tastes the flavor of the ice cream.

D．He lets the ice cream warm up.

4.Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?

A．Tasting with Eyes                        B．Flavors of Ice Cream

C．John Harrison’s Life                    D．One Cool Job

One of the requirements of every graduation ceremony speaker is that they offer some advice. Well, get ready, here it comes.

Soon you will be leaving the company of those who think they have all the answers –your professors, instructors and counselors-and going out into what we like to call the real world. In time you will meet up with other people who think they have all the answers. These people are called bosses. My advice is: humor them.

A little later you’ll meet additional people who think they have all the answers.

These are called spouses (配偶) . My advice is: humor them, too.

And of all goes well, in a few years you will meet still another group of people who think they have all the answers. These are called children. Humor them.

Life will go on, your children will grow up, go to school and someday they could be taking part in a graduation ceremony just like this one. And who knows, the speakers responsible for handing out good advice might be you. Halfway through your speech, the graduate sitting next to your daughter will lean over and ask, “Who is that woman up there who thinks she has all the answers?”

Well, thanks to the reasonable advice you are hearing today and that I hope you will all pass on, she will be able to say, “That is my mother. Humor her.”

1.According to the text, at a graduation ceremony you’ll most probably hear ________ given by the speaker.

A. wishes                                                                        B. proposals            

C. warnings                                                                       D. instructions

2.Among the people mentioned who think they have all the answers, which of the following are not referred to?

A. teaching staff                                B. company staff members

C. recreational and sports person                 D. family members

3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the expression “have all the answers”?

A. know a great deal about something through man’s life

B. know all the keys to any test before any graduation

C. be clever enough to do anything well in school

D. be experienced in giving advice on any subject

4. What should you do with those who think they know all the answers according to the writer?

A. Argue with them to keep them angry

B. Keep them happy by accepting their wishes

C. Refuse them to make them complain

D. Turn deaf ears to them

5. What is the best title for the passage?

         A. The Requirement Of Speakers                                B. How to Offer Advice

         C. Humour them!                                                            D. To Hell with them!

The iPad, a new e-tablet gadget will take online activities truly mobile. It will allow you to read the news in bed, play multiplayer game on any surface, check a recipe in a busy kitchen or view a large-scale Google map.

It will declare a new age of online media production, taking newspapers and magazines down the new stage. Online versions can now become truly interactive. The editor of Time magazine Richard Stengel said, “The iPad will transform the way journalism works. It will become a new way of storytelling”.

Perhaps most important to the masses, it is a traditional computer but so convenient to use. There are no cords(电线), and it’s totally mobile. You press a button and it comes on in seconds. To add a program, you just download it from the Internet. There is no file directory, so you won’t be confused with file locations.

Since almost everyone uses a computer in the office or at school, the need for the traditional desktop model at home is disappearing. Slate Magazine’s Farhad Manjoo calls the iPad the perfect alternative to the full home computer system.

However, opinions are summarized as a simple statement: If you are a tech-head you will hate it, if you are everyone else you will love it. It’s “laughably absurd” on one blog and a “magical revolution” on another.

This first version of the iPad lacks many basic features. Tech-heads dislike the device not because of what it offers, but because of what it doesn’t offer. It doesn’t have flash or a camera. It can’t access many of the world’s mobile applications, and it has a very restricted APPLE store. Based on purely technological grounds, the iPad is said to lack more than it gives.

But if you are not part of the technologically well-versed, and you love the iPod and iPhone, “this device is for you,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

But no matter how you feel about the iPad, as a tech-head or an everyman, there’s no arguing with its appeal. Love it or hate it, the iPad sold over 600,000 units on its opening weekend, surpassing(超过) the iPhone’s record sales in 2007.

It’s uncertain how long it will take to hit the tech markets here in China, but when it does, expect the iPad fashion to continue. Apple predicts it will sell over 7.1 million units in the first year. Maybe not magical, and definitely not absurd, but if the iPad follows in the footsteps of the iPhone and iPod, you could be reading this newspaper on it in the near future.

1.Which of the following is NOT the reason why people think the iPad a “magical revolution”?

    A. The iPad will make online activities truly mobile.

    B. The iPad will predict a new age of online media production.

    C. The iPad is sure to take the place of the full home computer system.

    D. The iPad can make many world’s mobile applications accessible.

2.Which of the following statements is false according to the passage?

    A. Unlike those traditional computers, the iPad can save you much trouble.

    B. The iPad set up a new record sale when it first came onto the market.

    C. The iPad will probably hold a big share in the tech market in China.

    D. The iPad depends on cords to download a program from the Internet quickly.

3.What technological problem do experts think the iPad has?

    A. The iPad is lacking in what other computers can offer.

    B. People might misunderstand its magical features.

C. Reporters and journalists don’t have to efficiently with the help of the iPad.

    D. Compared with the iPhone and iPod, iPad might confuse the users more easily

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Why do People Love the iPad              B. The Popularity of the iPad

C. Loving and Hating the iPad                   D. A Magical Revolution