Here are six steps to better studying.
Pay attention in class
Do you have trouble paying attention in class? Are you sitting next to a loud person? Tell your teacher or parents about any problem that is preventing you from paying attention.
Take good notes
Write down facts that your teacher mentions or writes on the board. Try to use good handwriting so you can read your notes later. It’s a good idea to keep your notes organized by subject.
Plan ahead for tests and projects
Waiting until Thursday night to study for Friday’s test will make it hard to do your best. One of the best ways to make sure that doesn’t happen is to plan ahead. Write down your test dates. You can then plan how much to do after school each day, and how much time to spend on each topic.
Break it up
Ask for help
You can’t study effectively if you don’t understand the material. Be sure to ask your teacher for help. If you’re at home when the confusion occurs, your morn or dad might be able to help.
Sleep tight
So the test is tomorrow and you’ve followed your study plan—but suddenly you can’t remember anything! Don’t panic. Your brain needs time to digest all the information you’ve given it. Try to get a good night’s sleep and you’ll be surprised by what comes back to you in the morning.
【小题1】We know from the passage that a loud person is       .

One cold night，I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco． There I was walking home around one o’clock in the morning after a    26   practice at the theatre． With the opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines by heart．I was having    27   handling my part-time job at the bank in the daytime and my acting at night at the same time． As I walked I thought seriously about    28    both acting and San Francisco．I had    29  too much of city life．   
As 1 walked down the    30    streets under the tall buildings，I felt very small and cold, so I began    31   both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers．Very few people were still out    32   a few homeless people under blankets．
About a block from my    33  , I heard a sound behind me． I    34 quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun． The street was empty．All I saw was a shining streetlight． Still，the noise had made me    35   , so I started to run faster． Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I    36    what the noise had been．It  had been my wallet    37  to the sidewalk．
Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired any more．I ran out of the door and back to where I'd heard the noise．Although I searched the sidewalk    38   for 15 minutes，my wallet was   39 to be found．
Just as 1 was about to quit the    40  , I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to   41 ．When a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?”I thought I was   42 ．How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde man with an amused look in his eyes, “Is this   43  you’re looking for?” He asked, holding up something like a wallet．
It was already 3 am． by the time I got into bed． I couldn’t get much sleep，but I had got my wallet back． I also had got back some    44  of city life． I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place    45   people were willing to help each other．

Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after     thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head       his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a       person, he had been       to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.

Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a       collector. Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay's, or too often, on the McKays      .

“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our      ,” said Laurence. She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant       bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. “We'd be       there happily reading our newspapers, when       so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd       with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the       of fish!”

And on Saturday evening it was just too      . “It was James's birthday,” explained Laurence, “and I'd made him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn't get to blow them out.”      , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet      . Rarely had Laurence seen McKay move so fast. “I couldn't       him. He was up there in a flash. It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”

Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his       from now on. And what of James McKay?       he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”. “      the most exciting birthday      !” said the cheerful old man. “The best since my adolescence I'd say!”                        

1.A. hitting         B. tapping C. pushing          D. touching

2.A. by      B. via         C. through         D. with

3.A. quiet B. peaceful        C. sensitive        D. stubborn

4.A. Accustomed B. taken C. driven   D. attracted

5.A. fish    B. seed      C. plant     D. newspaper

6.A. himself       B. itself      C. themselves   D. herself

7.A. Bathroom B. kitchen  C. bedroom       D. balcony

8.A. which         B. what      C. that       D. whether

9.A. sitting         B. exercising     C. sleeping         D. eating

10.A. Regularly B. Unconsciously C. precisely    D. suddenly

11.A. swum       B. showered      C. watered         D. drowned

12.A. taste         B. sense    C. feeling  D. smell

13.A. little          B. soon      C. late        D. much

14.A. Beside B. Instead      C. Otherwise     D. Conseque5ntly

15.A. over         B. across   C. through         D. down

16.A. stop B. blame   C. ignore   D. stand

17.A. views        B. attitude          C. ways      D. mind

18.A. While       B. Since     C. Until      D. As

19.A. Sincerely B. Impossibly     C. Definitely      D. Previously

20.A. Before B. ever C. already D. Since

I went hiking to a mountain with my friend last summer. It was a good trip in the beginning and something unexpected happened halfway. One of my friends suddenly felt a terrible pain in his stomach and he couldn’t move any far. Nobody knew how to deal it. One girl tried to call her mum over her mobile phone, but there is no signal in the mountain area. Lucky we had brought a tent with us. We put it up and let him to rest in it. After taken some pills, he drank some water and ate some food. After a while, I felt much better and we walked on. We all enjoyed us on the top of the mountain.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Once upon a time, there was a bird made of stone. She was beautiful and magic. She lived near the entrance to a beautiful      between two mountains. The bird was so      that she had to walk on the ground instead of      in the sky.

Though she couldn’t fly, she      looking up at the trees every day. She      one day being able to fly and see the      forest from up high.      , that dream was gone after a great fire.

When the fire was      put out, all that was left of the trees were stumps（树桩）.      plants and animals that had live there were gone. The stone bird was the only one that didn’t      in the fire. When she saw what had      to the trees, she felt very sad. Looking at the burnt trees, she couldn’t      crying. She cried for hours and days. She cried with such a feeling that her      were wearing away her stone     . Finally all her body was worn away and the bird had      some water.

But when the      came out, the water rose into the sky and became a happy little cloud which could fly over the trees and see everything     .

Since then, the little cloud has traveled all over the world. She enjoyed the      of all the forests and beautiful countryside. She never      what had burnt the trees, so she was very careful to pour her rain down on any tree she saw     . She saved a lot of trees.

1.A. field            B. lake                   C. sea                         D. forest

2.A. proud                  B. surprising         C. heavy           D. pretty

3.A. walking                B. trying                C. singing              D. flying

4.A. needed               B. began                C. enjoyed                D. disliked

5.A. made up              B. dreamed of       C. gave up           D. talked about

6.A. dusty                   B. poor                  C. small                    D. beautiful

7.A. However             B. Also                         C. Therefore               D. So

8.A. sadly           B. possibly                   C. finally                 D. suddenly

9.A. Some          B. All                            C. Few                          D. No

10.A. change              B. live                           C. watch                 D.die

11.A. happened         B. come                  C. moved                 D. climbed

12.A. continue  B. start                    C. keep                         D. stop

13.A. minds                B. feelings                   C. hands            D. tears

14.A. house                B. heart                       C. body                        D. habit

15.A. cared about     B. turned into       C. turned up                D. looked for

16.A. star           B. air                            C. moon                       D. sun

17.A. below                B. above                 C. backward                 D. ahead

18.A. views                 B. areas                       C. colours          D. numbers

19.A. found                B. explained               C. forgot                 D. knew

20.A. falling                B. burning                   C. growing                   D. shaking