4、       You’ve heard the saying: if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there. Thousands of successful people attribute most of their success to goal setting. Knowing this, why don’t the majority of people set goals?

Goal setting starts within you. You have to believe it’s possible to do a thing before you will have a strong desire to write it down on paper and take steps to make it happen.

How do you possibly bring yourself to believe in your own success? After all, so many of you have been at this success thing for a while and it still hasn’t happened to you. Companies that you believed in and worked hard for having failed, your family and friends are waiting for you to “be realistic”, and life just keeps giving you one blow after another. But there is a small fire burning inside of you. You keep at it because all you know is you can’t continue to get up every morning, go to work for someone else and allow them to determine how much you’re worth each week which is far below your true value.

So where do you go from here? Where do you start today? The road to inner belief in your success begins with you telling yourself every day, throughout the day, that you can do what you set out to do, you can have what you set out to get, and you can be that successful person you know that lives inside you. Yes, obstacles will come, doubters will be around, but don’t you be one of them.

Treat yourself like the person you love and care about most. If you had children who had a paper route and they wanted to accomplish a goal but they kept running into obstacles, what would happen? They would soon become discouraged with so many people telling them no. I’m not interested in what you have to offer. What would you say to your child? I’m sure it won’t be the same thing you’ve been saying to yourself. Turn your words around. Speak those same words of encouragement you would speak to your discouraged child, to yourself, If you would never put a loved one down, especially when they are feeling discouraged why would you do that to yourself? You have the power within to stop it right now and turn it around.

Be committed（表示出明确意图的）from this point forward, to speak words of encouragement to yourself. The mind is an amazing thing. You can convince yourself of anything over time. If you repeatedly tell yourself every day, throughout the day, how successful you are, how capable you are, you will not only start to believe it, you will start to live it.

1．What does the author mean by saying “Turn your words around?”

       A．You should speak words of encouragement to your discouraged child.

       B．You shouldn’t put a loved one down.

       C．You should encourage yourself.

       D．You should change the subject of the conversation.

2．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

       A．Thousands of successful people owe most of their success to goal setting.

       B．The majority of people set goals in order to succeed.

       C．We can bring ourselves to believe in our own success.

       D．We should say words of encouragement to ourselves.

3．According to the author, how should you treat yourself?

       A．Treat yourself like an innocent child.

       B．Treat yourself like a hero who can do everything.

       C．Treat yourself like a fool who can’t achieve anything.

       D．Treat yourself like the person you care and love most.

4．In the eyes of the author,            is what you should do to set a goal.

       A．being ambitious to do whatever you like to do.

       B．telling yourself time and again that you can do it

       C．treating yourself like the person you love and care about most

       D．convincing others that you are quite capable

3、LAST week's decision by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to strip Pluto(冥王星) of its planetary status, held since its discovery in 1930, has saddened those with a strong love of it.

"Pluto, once the smallest of the Nine Great Planets” writes American science writer Dava Sobel, in her book "The Planets", " is still loved by people, old and young."

Many people felt sorry about Pluto's demotion(降级).

"I just cannot accept this at this time," says Liu Ming, 29, who co-runs a small logistic(物流)company an Shanghai.

"I was taught that 'the Nine Great Planets' formed our solar system since primary school. And now they suddenly decrease the planets to eight. This will take some time for most of us to absorb it," says Liu.

Ordinary people simply feel nostalgic(怀旧), but for some professionals, especially planetarium (天文馆)curators(博物馆馆长)and educators, the change has become a real headache.

The "eight instead of nine" change will affect thousands of planetariums around the world. Schools will also be greatly affected.

In China, teachers are anxious as outdated textbooks are printed and released to the remotest corner of the country for schoolchildren ready to start a new term soon.

According to the Ministry of Education, new textbooks with modified(修正的) contents will not be available until next year.

Zhao Zhiheng, a member of the Astronomy Association from Tianjin, suggested that primary and middle school teachers be trained in the revised knowledge, and that the media carry more stories to let people know about the change as soon as possible. 

1．Which word similar to “strip” in meaning?

A．reduce             B．decrease           C．cross out         D．leave

2．What is the correct order of the events described in the passage?

a．New textbooks with Pluto stripped of plants in solar system are released

    b．Pluto was discovered

    c．The International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of its planetary status

    d．Outdated textbooks were printed and released to school children .

A．b d a c           B．b c d a           C．b d c a            D．b a c d

3．Which description is Not True ?

A．The fact that Pluto has lost its planetary status made some people sad.

B．That Pluto is decreased from nine to eight affected thousands of planetariums around the world .

C．Textbooks with the “eight instead of nine” change have been released for school children ready to start a new term.

D．The media are advised to be used to let people know about the change as soon as possible.

2、Our school invited a foreign teacher who was working in                     1．_________

a college in our city give a class to the students of Senior                     2． _________

Grade One. The class was very interested. I have learned a                  3．_________

lot of from him. The teacher had a free talk with us in easy                  4．_________

English. He spoke slow so that we could understand him                     5．_________

well. Sometimes he repeated what we don’t understand.                      6．_________

My classmates were all active in the class. To his joy,  I                     7．_________

understood about everything the teacher said. But I was                       8．_________

able to ask question in English. This class encouraged me                    9．_________

very much. I’m sure we keep on practicing , it will be easy                  10．_________

for us to learn spoken English well.

1、请你参加我们有关“英雄”问题的讨论，写一篇100词左右的议论文。短文需要包括以下内容，题目自拟。

       1．英雄具有什么样的品质？

       2．为什么现在英雄（见义勇为的人）越来越少？

       3．如果让你选择，你愿意做英雄还是普通人？

       注意：词数100个左右

33、They gave each competitor a number, but they _____ NO.13 as no one wanted to have it.

A. picked out    B. turned out         C. left out       D. worked out

32、----- Would you like to buy a new MP4?

----- Sure, but I _____ . I don’t have enough money at the moment.

A. don’t afford    B. can’t afford to     C. afford to          D. will afford

31、Dogs, if _____ properly, can assist the police in many ways.

A. training       B. trained            C. being trained    D. to be trained

30、---- Can’t you _____ a bit? I wouldn’t like to miss a single minute of the concert?

---- Don’t worry. We’ll get there in time.

A. sweep up       B. take up            C. speed up       D. make up

29、_____ money, the young man couldn’t afford to buy a new car.

A. Lacks          B. To lack            C. Lacked         D. lacking