A.      Write clearly.

B.      Review your notes.

C.      Compare your notes.

D.     Organize your notes.

E.      Write down questions.

F.      Come to class prepared

                             How to improve your note taking

61. ________________

   There is nothing that will help you take better notes than coming to class prepared. Before coming to class make sure that you have read all assigned reading and that you have reviewed your notes from the previous class. Coming to class prepared will help you take much better notes. You’ll be able to take more detailed notes on items you don’t fully understand.

62. ________________

   It doesn’t matter how many notes you can take if you can’t make sense of your notes after the lecture is over. Taking clear notes will ensure that you understand the subject matter being discussed, help to remember what is being taught in your mind and will provide you the means to g back after class and review the subject matter being taught..

63. ________________

  When class is over, compare your notes to those taken by other students. Sometimes other students will pick up on things discussed by the teacher that you missed or didn’t find important. Comparing notes will help ensure that your notes are complete and correct. Also, you’ll find good ways to take notes from others.

64. ________________

  Often after class, you will find out that you can’t remember what the teacher was saying. Review your notes as soon as you can. Reviewing your notes directly following a lecture will make sure that you understand your notes and the lecture. Also, it will help you remember the information you learned.

65. ________________

    Quite often you’re going to find that it can be difficult to understand everything the teacher is talking about. Make sure to write down any questions you have or concepts you didn’t understand so that you can go back after class and ask the teacher specific questions or use reference resources to better understand difficult concepts.

All the wisdom of the ages and all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one--family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something. They are connected with each other and with other cities. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and the future and have their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families or ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it but also you find out about yourself, too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "you ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax yourself with it, you will almost certainly have a good time  and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won't have suffered during the process.
72. In the writer's opinion, in fact reading is a process of ________.
A. listening to the author                                   B. accepting the author's ideas
C. communicating with the author and yourself             D. judging the author's work
73. The writer thinks that the most unfortunate people are those _______.
A. who don't have any books                                  B. who can't enjoy reading books
C. who don’t like books                                     D. who read too many books
74. To find pleasure in reading, you should read the books _______.
A. written by famous writers                                             B. written in humor style
C. which you like to read                                     D. which are recommended by your friends
75. The author's purpose in writing the passage is to _______.
A. show the importance of reading                               B. tell us how to make reading more effective
C. tell us how to read                              D. show the pleasure of reading
72-75 CBCD

               71   You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily so, however.

Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here's how:

     Plan your time carefully. When planning your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying.   72   A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you realize what is happening to your time.

     Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television. When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.

     Make good use of your time in class.   73   Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

     Study regularly.  When you get home from school, go over your notes, review the important points that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material    74    If you do these things regularly,  the material will become more meaningful, and you'll remember it longer.

     Develop a good attitude towards tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject.  They help you remember your new knowledge.  The world won't end if you don't pass a test, so don't be over worried.

  75   You will probably discover many others after you have tried these.

A. There are other methods that might help you with your studying.

B. Don't forget to set aside enough time for entertainment.

C. Take advantage of class time to listen to what the teacher says.

D. No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard.

E. Maybe you are an average student.

F. Make full use of class time to take notes of what the teacher says in class.

G. This will help you understand the next class.

 _51_ You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how: 

 Plan your time carefully. When planning your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying._52_ A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you realize what is happening to your time. 

 Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television. When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject. 

 Make good use of your time in class.  53  Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says. 

 Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes, review the important points that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material.  54 If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you’ll remember it longer.

    Develop a good attitude towards tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be over worried. 

 _55_ You will probably discover them after you have tried these.

A. There are other methods that might help you with your studying.

B. Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment. 

C. Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teacher says.

D. No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard.

E. Maybe you are an average student. 

F. Make full use of class time to take notes of what the teacher says in class.

G. This will help you understand the next class.

August has always been difficult for me. It is the time when I realize that the books my English teacher assigned to me are not going to read themselves and that I have a difficult month in front of me.

You might think that I don’t want to spend my summer reading, but that’s not the problem: I love reading. On the first day of my summer holidays this year, I went to the library and got “A Gathering of Old Men” by African-American writer Ernest Gaines. I enjoyed it very much. I read all the magazines that my parents subscribe to and spend about 30 minutes every day with the morning paper. So why do I hate summer reading for school? Because the books on summer reading lists are often slow-going and just uninviting. Teachers and librarians don’t understand that summer reading can be entertaining as well as educational. They choose books that a friend of my mother’s calls “spinach books”: good for you, but not much fun to take in. Every summer, I read them, hate them and get bitter about the experience.

This bitterness started three years ago when I was about to begin high school. As preparation, my English teacher told me to read “The Age of Innocence” by American author Edith Wharton. I’m sure there are many people who enjoyed “The Age of Innocence”—some might even say it’s their favorite book.

But I don’t think any of these people read it as a 14-year-old boy on his summer vacation.

“The Age of Innocence” is the story of a forbidden romance in New York 100 years ago. At 14, my only experience with romance was my love for baseball. I couldn’t imagine being in love, much less being in love in 1900. “The Age of Innocence” was totally different to my life.

Most of my required summer reading has been like that—books written in a style that plays up the adjectives and plays down the verbs. I guess teachers don’t think exciting plots make for “good literature”. To me, though, a good writer describes events and characters in a way that makes the reader want to know what happens next.

If I were making up a summer reading list, it would include “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” by George V. Higgins, “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe, and “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer. These are all books that have literary value but, just as important, can also entertain kids on vacation. If the teachers could stand a little fun in the books they assign, my Augusts would be a lot more enjoyable.

1.The author thinks he will have a difficult August because _______.

A. he doesn’t like reading in summer vacation

B. he is to read the books boring and not right for kids

C. he hates the English teacher assigning homework

D. he hates August

2.What can make students interested in August reading ought to be ______.

A. romantic                                 B. out of date

C. entertaining and educational         D. pure

3.The author listed such books as “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” because he thinks ______.

A. they can change his opinion

B. he can learn a lot more from them

C. they are of literary value, and enjoyable

D. he has to do as teachers tell him to

4.In the opinion of the author of this passage, a good writer should be _______.

A. one who describes events and characters in different ways

B. one who is full of imagination

C. one who is learned

D. one who uses a way of describing that makes the reader wish to know what to happen next

5.Which of the following could be the best title of this passage?

A. Why Can’t Teachers Set Us Fun Books?

B. I Don’t Like Reading on the Vacation

C. Teachers, Don’t Set Us Any Reading Assignments

D. Teachers, Set Us Free