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| Are your table manners much better when you are eating at a friend's home or in a restaurant than they are at your own home? Probably so. 1 you are aware that people judge you by your table manners. You take special pains when you are eating 2 . Have you ever stopped to realize how much less self-conscious you would be on such occasions if 3 table manners had become a habit for you? You can make them a habit by 4 good table manners at home. Good manners at mealtimes help you and those around you to feel 5 . This is true at home as much as it is true in someone else's home or in a restaurant. Good 6 make meals more enjoyable for everyone at the table. By this time you probably know quite well what good table manners are. You 7 that keeping your arms on the table, talking with your 8 full and wolfing down your food are not considered good manners. You know also that if you are mannerly, you say "please" and "Thank you" and ask for things to be passed to you. Have you ever thought of a pleasant attitude as being 9 to good table manners? Not only are pleasant mealtimes enjoyable, but they aid digestion. The dinner table is a 10 for enjoyable conversation. It should never become a battleground. You are definitely growing in social maturity (成熟) when you try to be an agreeable table companion. | ||||
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| "Are you too stupid to do anything right?" These words-said by a woman to a little boy who was obviously her son-were 1 because he had walked away from her. The boy returned, his eyes downcast (沮丧的). Not a 2 moment, perhaps. 3 small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words -though they mean 4 at the time to the people who say them-can have great 5 . I recently heard a story from a man named Malcolm Dalkoff. For the last 24 years he has been a professional 6 . Here is what he told me: As a boy in Rock Island, Dalkoff was terribly 7 . He had few 8 and no self-confidence (自信心). One day, his English teacher, Ruth Brauch, gave the class an assignment(作业). The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Now they were to write their own chapter that would 9 the last chapter of the novel. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it 10 . Today he can not recall(回忆起) anything 26about the chapter he wrote, or what 11 Mrs. Branch gave him. What he does remember is the four words Mrs. Brauch wrote in the margin (空白处) of the paper: "This is 12 writing." Four words. They 13 his life. " 14 I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or 15 I was going to be," he said. "After reading her note, I went home and wrote a short story, something I had always been 16 of doing but never believed I could do."Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories and always brought them to school for Mrs. Brauch to evaluate (评价). She was 17 , tough and honest. "She was just what I 18 ," Dalkoff said. His confidence 19 . Dalkoff believes that none of this would have happened, had that woman not written those four words in the margin of his paper. | |||
| ( )1. A. talked ( )2. A. wonderful ( )3. A. Yet ( )4. A. much ( )5. A. meaning ( )6. A. writer ( )7. A. sorry ( )8. A. books ( )9. A. follow ( )10. A. on ( )11. A. common ( )12. A. signs ( )13. A. poor ( )14. A. changed ( )15. A. Unless ( )16. A. what ( )17. A. tired ( )18. A. strict ( )19. A. feared ( )20. A. grew |
B. thought B. difficult B. Although B. little B. power B. player B. proud B. ideas B. match B. in B. stupid B. remark B. serious B. damaged B. Until B. how B. fond B. kind B. needed B. lifted |
C. spoken C. funny C. For C. more C. force C. poet C. sick C. friends C. decide C. out C. special C. prize C. good C. affected C. When C. where C. proud C. encouraging C. expected C. appeared |
D. expressed D. big D. Therefore D. most D. sense D. singer D. shy D. chances D. improve D. down D. different D. grades D. silly D. improved D. While D. which D. dreaming D. praising D. loved D. returned |
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There are about fifteen hundred languages in the worl d. But 1 a few of them are very 2 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a 3 language. Many millions are 4 to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different 5 . Have you ever 6 ads( 广告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or your 7 back..." "Easy and funny! Our records and tapes 8 you master your English in a month. 9 the first day your 10 will be excellent. Just send ... " Of course, it never 11 quite like this.The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should 12 that we all learned our own language well when we were 13 . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. 14 what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, 15 in it all the time. Just imagine how much 6 that gets! So it is 17 to say that learning English is easy, because a go  od command of English 18 upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and 19 much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will 20 . But they cannot do the student's work for him. | ||||
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