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　　You might say that one reason Barack Obama is the President of the US is because he knows how to give a good speech．In 2004, when Massachusetts Senator(参议员)John Kerry was the Democratic Party's nominee(被提名者)for the presidency, a little-known senator from Illinois gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention．That senator was Obama．It was a remarkable speech－poetic, and inspiring．The people who heard it would remember it for a long time．

　　Since 2004, Obama has written and delivered thousands of speeches．These are usually praised for two reasons：he treats the audiences like intelligent adults, and he is able to express complicated ideas in a easy, natural way．Before becoming president, Obama was a lawyer, a college professor, and a successful writer -- his two memoirs(回忆录)have become best-sellers．The skills he needed to succeed in his previous jobs have also contributed to his success as a speechmaker．

　　Writing team：Obama has a team of people who write his speeches．The writers chat with Obama for hours about what he wants to say．They listen to recordings of past presidential addresses and seek advice from advisers．Obama usually edits and rewrites the drafts several times．

　　Obama's tricks for a lighthearted speech that stays on message：

　　Make fun of the guests．Obama starts his speech by gently teasing his guests．His opening lines grab the audience's attention while giving them an opportunity to relax and laugh at themselves and each other．

　　Make fun of yourself．A good rule for speechmakers：If you're going to make a joke about someone else, be sure to make one about yourself, too．Obama mocks his own poor choices for filling the position of Commerce Secretary, saying, "No President in history has ever named three Commerce Secretaries this quickly．"

(1)

Obama made the poetic and inspiring speech in 2004 as ________．
[　　]
A．	president
B．	a nominee for the presidency
C．	a senator
D．	a secretary

(2)

What's the meaning of the underlined word in paragraph 2?
[　　]
A．	Difficult to understand．
B．	Different from others．
C．	Easy to understand．
D．	Interesting to say．

(3)

According to the passage, we know that before becoming president, ________．
[　　]
A．	Obama was once a lawyer, a doctor and a college professor．
B．	Obama was a successful writer．
C．	Obama's three memoirs have become best-sellers．
D．	Obama's former jobs have nothing to do with his speech．

(4)

According to paragraph 3, we know that ________．
[　　]
A．	Obama writes his speech himself．
B．	the writers chat with Obama only for minutes before writing．
C．	the writers never listen to recordings of past presidential speeches．
D．	Obama is serious with his speech．

(5)

What's the best title of the passage?
[　　]
A．	Secret of Obama's successful speeches．
B．	Obama's successful speeches．
C．	Obama's way of making speeches．
D．	Problems of Obama's speeches．

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Last week, Carol Hill wrote to us about her sleep problem:

I am a 16－year－old high school student and ever since I was 11, I have had difficulty falling asleep. When I go to bed at night, I lie awake for hours. I hate the sound of my alarm clock going off in the morning, almost always falling asleep again after I hear it.

During school, I feel sleepy all the time, and sometimes I have to battle to stay awake.

Although I am generally a straight-A student and my teachers are happy with my work, my inability to sleep is seriously affecting my studies.

By the time I get home from school, I am so worn out that I fall asleep while I’m doing my

homework, which just exacerbates the problem. People are very sympathetic, and always telling me that “counting sheep is a good way to fall asleep.” But it is not helpful at all. If you don’t have this problem, you don’t know how annoying it can be.

And this is what the readers answered:

Hello Carol!

I am 18 years old and I suffered in pretty much the same way as you in High School. I couldn’t concentrate or pay attention because I was always tired. At first, doctors thought I had learning difficulties! Thankfully, I met a specialist in sleep disorders and he gave me a simple herbal remedy（草药）which helped me a great deal. After just 10 days, my sleeping patterns were back to normal and it continued even after I stopped taking the remedy. My advice is to find a doctor who knows about sleep problems. Good luck!

Larry

Hi Carol!

Your symptoms are the same as my daughter’s. When she was 11, she started walking up with a start time and time again during the night. She was always worn out and often had black circles under her eyes. Finally we went to a sleep research laboratory and a doctor discovered that she had a problem with her tonsils which was affecting her breathing and suggested a tonsillectomy（扁桃体切除术）. It worked! Now she falls asleep seconds after putting her head on her pillow. I strongly advise you to look into your problem at a sleep laboratory! Good luck!

Janine

1．What is the most likely place for the passage to be found?

A．In a science magazine B．In a news report on sleep.

C．In a health and fitness book. D．In an advice section in a newspaper.

2．What is Carol Hill’s problem?

A．She can’t sleep all night or stay awake during the day.

B．She sleeps badly and falls asleep in class every day.

C．She can’t stay awake in class or when she’s studying.

D．She can’t fall asleep easily at night and tries to stay awake in class.

3．The underlined word “exacerbates” in the third paragraph means “ ”.

A．prevents B．reduces C．worsens D．removes

4．What advice do the readers give Carol?

A．She should count sheep. B．She should see a sleep specialist.

C．She should have her tonsils out. D．She should take some sleeping pills.

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　　“First we make our habits, then our habits make us．”——Charles C．Noble

　　It’s such a simple concept, yet it’s something we don’t always do．It’s not extremely difficult to do, and yet I think it’s something that would make a world of difference in anyone's life．Break your goals into habits, and focus on putting those habits into autopilot．My belief is that having one goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals．

　　I try to turn my goals into habits, and in doing so, I put my goals on autopilot．Turning a goal into a habit means really focusing on it, seriously, for at least a month, to the exclusion of all else．The more you can focus on it, the more it'll be put on autopilot．Let's look at my marathon goal as an example．I was just starting out in running, and I had the brilliant idea to run a marathon within a year．But in order to achieve that goal, I broke it down into two habits：

　　1．I had to make running a daily habit．

　　2．I had to report to people in order to have accountability(责任)——I did this through family, friends and coworkers, through a blog, and through a column in my local newspaper every two weeks．With this accountability, there's no way I would stop running．

　　The accountability habit took a couple months, mainly because I didn't focus on it too much while I was building the running habit．But it stuck, and for that first year of running, I would report to people I knew and blog about my running every day and I would write a column every two weeks for my local paper．

　　Once those two habits were firmly fixed, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot．I still had to do the work, of course, but it didn't require constant focus．And eventually, I ran the marathon．I was able to achieve this because, all year long, I had the daily running habit and daily accountability habit．I put my marathon goal into autopilot, and that made it much easier——instead of struggling with it daily for an entire year, I focused on it for one month and was able to accomplish it while focusing on new habits and goals．

(1)

According to the passage, we can see the key to forming a habit is ________．
[　　]
A．	to break the goals into habits
B．	to report to other people about your plan
C．	to set a reasonable goal first
D．	to focus on the habit as much as possible

(2)

The author told people about his running in order to ________．
[　　]
A．	get more support
B．	ask for their opinions
C．	carry out his plan better
D．	earn more admiration

(3)

What do we know about the author?
[　　]
A．	He was a local athlete．
B．	He often gave people advice．
C．	He had no blogs before．
D．	He wrote for a local newspaper．

(4)

The passage is mainly about ________．
[　　]
A．	goals and habits
B．	how to turn your goals into habits
C．	habits and achievements
D．	how to make running a good habit

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下面为五封《Crazy English》杂志的读者来信片段。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中，为每封来信选取最佳的回信。选项有一项是多余项。

1.I am a reader of CR. Recently I found students translate some articles of CR. I appreciate your offering an opportunity to us beginners to practise using English. So I want to ask how they can obtain these articles and translate them for you, and what qualities you require. Thank you.

2.I love your Crazy English Reader magazine! It provides valuable data for work in our English teaching. My wife and I are teaching Conversational English so I’ve been giving you a bit of a plug at our middle school. I told the students to “get a copy”. It’s good stuff! Fantastic!

3.I’m one of Yao’s fans from Guangzhou. I have read some articles about Yao Ming in No. 7 Crazy English Reader. I want to know his correspondence address and the official website. Could you please tell me? Thank you very much indeed.

4.First of all, I must say thank you very much to all the CR Reader editors who gave us a really good English magazine. Secondly, I want to give you a piece of advice. In each passage, you gave us some new words with their Chinese translation. However, as far as my knowledge, I think you should give us not only the Chinese meaning but also the English meaning so as to know the words more accurately.

5.I’m an editor of the English Monthly of our school. I have a question, that is, how to say the position of the paper e.g. , 编辑; 责任编辑and so on. I hope you can help me to tell me the word in English. The more the better. Thank you so much! I love the book very much. Now I do this work. I need to study more information about this work. If you have time, please email me. Thank you.

A. Thank you for your suggestion. We may try that in some future issues of CR. I think the best way to improve your reading vocabulary is to be able to guess the meaning of the word from the other words around it. Also, if you have an English dictionary, it is good to look up the words and them mark them down in a notebook and review them later on. Then if you really want to learn how to use the words, try using them in conversation or in writing. Hope this helps.

B. The best way for you to learn the different positions in a newspaper or magazine is to get a copy of an all English magazine or newspaper and then copy down the different positions. There are also titles such as Managing Editor, reporter, Copy Editor, Photo Editor and Layout Editor. I hope this helps. If you have some more specific questions, you can send them to me and I’ll try to answer.

C. The best way to reach Yao directly is through his home team, the Shanghai Sharks. You can write to him at 2570 Xietu Road, Shanghai. For more information on Yao, you can look at the sports section in sina. Com. I hope this helps. Another idea is that you can try to write to Yao while he is living and playing in Houston. You can try to reach Yao in the US at: Yao Ming Compaq Center 10 Houston, TX 77046.

D. Thank you for being such a cheerful reader of CR. Yes, you’re right we made a mistake in the writing of that Chinese word. Each issue we try to read very carefully each article and its translation to make sure there are no mistakes, but unfortunately a few mistakes always get by. But you encourage us to keep improving, so thank you.

F.Thank you for helping us to promote CR. We’re glad it’s helpful to your students. We always try to include articles that reflect real life. It’s our hope that CR will not only improve students’ English but also open up a different worldview.

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下面为五封《Crazy English》杂志的读者来信片段。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中，为每封来信选取最佳的回信。选项有一项是多余项。
【小题1】I am a reader of CR. Recently I found students translate some articles of CR. I appreciate your offering an opportunity to us beginners to practise using English. So I want to ask how they can obtain these articles and translate them for you, and what qualities you require. Thank you.
【小题2】I love your Crazy English Reader magazine! It provides valuable data for work in our English teaching. My wife and I are teaching Conversational English so I’ve been giving you a bit of a plug at our middle school. I told the students to “get a copy”. It’s good stuff! Fantastic!
【小题3】I’m one of Yao’s fans from Guangzhou. I have read some articles about Yao Ming in No. 7 Crazy English Reader. I want to know his correspondence address and the official website. Could you please tell me? Thank you very much indeed.
【小题4】First of all, I must say thank you very much to all the CR Reader editors who gave us a really good English magazine. Secondly, I want to give you a piece of advice. In each passage, you gave us some new words with their Chinese translation. However, as far as my knowledge, I think you should give us not only the Chinese meaning but also the English meaning so as to know the words more accurately.
【小题5】I’m an editor of the English Monthly of our school. I have a question, that is, how to say the position of the paper e.g. , 编辑; 责任编辑and so on. I hope you can help me to tell me the word in English. The more the better. Thank you so much! I love the book very much. Now I do this work. I need to study more information about this work. If you have time, please email me. Thank you.

A．Thank you for your suggestion. We may try that in some future issues of CR. I think the best way to improve your reading vocabulary is to be able to guess the meaning of the word from the other words around it. Also, if you have an English dictionary, it is good to look up the words and them mark them down in a notebook and review them later on. Then if you really want to learn how to use the words, try using them in conversation or in writing. Hope this helps.

B．The best way for you to learn the different positions in a newspaper or magazine is to get a copy of an all English magazine or newspaper and then copy down the different positions. There are also titles such as Managing Editor, reporter, Copy Editor, Photo Editor and Layout Editor. I hope this helps. If you have some more specific questions, you can send them to me and I’ll try to answer.

C．The best way to reach Yao directly is through his home team, the Shanghai Sharks. You can write to him at 2570 Xietu Road, Shanghai. For more information on Yao, you can look at the sports section in sina. Com. I hope this helps. Another idea is that you can try to write to Yao while he is living and playing in Houston. You can try to reach Yao in the US at: Yao Ming Compaq Center 10 Houston, TX 77046.

D．Thank you for being such a cheerful reader of CR. Yes, you’re right we made a mistake in the writing of that Chinese word. Each issue we try to read very carefully each article and its translation to make sure there are no mistakes, but unfortunately a few mistakes always get by. But you encourage us to keep improving, so thank you.

E. Yes, we do have several students who help us translate some of the articles in our magazine. We contact these translators directly after interviewing their translation work. Afterwards we assign the articles to them for translation. If you are interested in being one of our translators you can send us some information about yourself and a sample of your translation work.
F.Thank you for helping us to promote CR. We’re glad it’s helpful to your students. We always try to include articles that reflect real life. It’s our hope that CR will not only improve students’ English but also open up a different worldview.

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