My sister and I grew up in a little village in England.Our father was a struggling ___36___, but I always knew he was ___37___.He never criticized us, but used ___38___ to bring out our best.He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish.If you don’t give them water, they die.”I ___39___ as a child I said something ___40___  about somebody, and father said,“___41___ time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.”He explained that if I looked for the best ___42___ people, I would get the best ___43___.From then on I’ve always tried to ___44___ the principle in my life and later in running my company.

Dad’s also always been very ___45___.At 15, I started a magazine.It was ___46___ a great deal of time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a ___47__: stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.

I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision, ___48___ any good father would.When  he realized I had  made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad ___49__ me to go into law.And I’ve ___50___ regretted it.I wanted to be a biologist, ___51__ I didn’t pursue my ___52__.You know what you want.Go fulfill it.”

As ___53__ turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national ___54__ for young people in the U.K.My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad ___55__ me.

A.biologist         B.manager       C.layer         D.gardener

A.strict            B.honest          C.special       D.learned

A.praise            B.courage        C.power       D.warmth

A.think            B.imagine         C.remember    D.guess

A.unnecessary       B.unkind        C.unimportant   D.unusual

A.Another           B.Some         C.Any         D.Other

A.on              B.in            C.at           D.about

A.in case         B.by turns             C.by chance    D.in return

A.revise            B.set          C.review       D.follow

A.understanding     B.experienced   C.serious        D.demanding

A.taking up       B.making up    C.picking up     D.keeping up

A.suggestion        B.decision       C.notice         D.choice

A.and             B.as             C.even if        D.as if

A.helped           B.allowed         C.persuaded      D.suggested

A.always           B.never         C.seldom         D.almost

A.rather            B.but           C.for            D.therefore

A.promise          B.task            C.belief         D.dream

A.this             B.he              C.it             D.that

A.newspaper        B.magazine        C.program       D.project

A.controlled       B.comforted      C.reminded       D.raised

根据文章内容,从下面A.B.C.D.E.F六个选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项, 选

项中有一项是多余选项.

A.Think while you are reading

B.Select a proper material

C.Five suggestions for achieving better results

D.Read loudly

E.Read on

F.Use a dictionary at a right time

    Effective reading should adopt a correct way, and then you can get more by paying less.Here are some hints for reading effectively.

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Don’t choose a rather difficult book or a too easy one for yourself to read.A book full of new words will make you feel discouraged quickly.To understand those new words, you have to turn to the dictionary quite often.It seems that you are not reading the book but the dictionary.It has no fun at all! On the contrary, a too easy one will only waste your time and cannot do any help.The two extremes may at last make you give up reading.So it’s better for you to find a proper book with no more than five new words on each page.

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If you come across a new word, do not look it up in a dictionary as quickly as possible.Leave it alone and guess the meaning of it based on the content of the text.        This ability is quite necessary in reading.If you know your guess is right later, you will be highly excited at your “success”, and your interest in reading is well stimulated.If a word really hinders you from understanding the whole passage, turn to the dictionary by then.I am sure you can remember this word very well, as it has left you such a deep impression for its “troublesome image.”

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To comprehend what you are reading, you should think while you are reading, then from your own ideas on some special issues.Try to scribble some lines-a very short journal, to express your ideas.Your writing does not need to be quite formal but expressive.This practice can make you communicate with the original English authors.Day by day, your way of thinking in English will turn into a native way, which is quite important for English writing.

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Language has its own beauty, no matter Chinese or English.Don’t merely take English as a “test”.Take it as an “entertainment” instead and you will enjoy it through learning.

Maybe you should find some beautiful literary works such as a prose or a poem to read, if you like.Try top read them as loudly and impassionedly as you can.During this process, not only you can enjoy yourself by the great emotions of the writers, but also your pronunciation and your manner of speaking English will be improved.

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The last but not the least, keep on reading.If you cannot keep it as a habit, you will suffer from paying without gaining.

For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

My friend had mentioned that her father had a lot of children’s toys that he was looking to give away. She knew I had a three-year-old daughter so she thought of me first. I told her I would 36   it if I could get some nice things for my daughter, which I wouldn’t otherwise have been able

to  37  .

When I met her father, he began to explain that he was 38   once too and that he would hate to  39   things that could be very 40  . At first, he thought of taking everything to the Salvation Army but then he  41  to see if anyone he knew could use them first.

  When he was  42  me around, I saw a bed, a slide(滑板),a kitchen set and many other things that made me surprised. As my eyes were wide and beginning to tear up a bit, he told me not to feel guilty. He said I was  43  him by getting rid of them.

  As I was looking around, I did feel guilty, but I tried to remain more grateful than guilty because he told me to. Every time I tried to  44  him for giving my daughter all these  45  things, he would thank me right back and was grateful that these toys would be put to good use.

  So, sometimes when we are helped by others, the others that helped us are helped as a side –effect. In the  46  of charity , it makes sense to feel grateful, but guilt is just as normal, I know we could have lived without a slide, which is why I do feel guilty, but I am grateful all the same because my daughter  47  enjoys all these nice things!

A. wear                     B. repair                C. appreciate       D. check

A. believe           B. afford            C. see                    D. spare

A. handsome       B. young            C. poor                 D. healthy

A. throw away     B. hand out            C. add up                  D. pick out

A. suitable          B. expensive          C. useful            D. dangerous

A. continued              B. forgot            C. had                   D. decided

A. driving           B. showing            C. turning              D. sending

A. helping           B. saving            C. troubling           D. guiding

A. praise             B. move                C. call                   D. thank

A. wonderful       B. cheap                C. strange              D. foreign

A. habit                     B. end                   C. eyes                  D. corners

A. sadly              B. hardly            C. secretly             D. really

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