What is Math Anxiety?

Math anxiety or fear of math is actually quite common. Math anxiety is quite    1   to stage-fright. Why does someone suffer   2   ? Fear of something going wrong in front of a crowd? Fear of   3   the lines? Fear of being judged   4   ? Fear of going completely blank? Math anxiety conjures（使现出） up fear of some type. The fear that one won't be able to do the   5   or the fear that it's too hard or the fear of failure which often stems(起因于) from having a lack of   6   . For the most part, math anxiety is the   7   about doing the math right, our minds draw a   8   and we think we'll fail and of course the more frustrated and anxious our minds become, the   9   the chance for drawing blanks. Added pressure of having time limits on math tests and exams also cause the levels of anxiety grow for many students.

Where Does Math Anxiety Come From?

Usually math anxiety stems from    10  experiences in mathematics. Typically math phobias have had math presented in such a fashion that it led to limited understanding. Unfortunately, math anxiety is often  11    poor teaching and poor experiences in math which typically leads to math   12   . Many of the students I've encountered with math anxiety have demonstrated an over reliance on procedures in math as opposed to actually understanding the math. When one tries to memorize procedures, rules and routines without much   13   , the math is quickly forgotten and   14   soon sets in. Think about your experiences with one concept --- the division of fractions（小部分）. You probably learned about reciprocals（倒数） and inverses. In other words, 'It's not yours to reason why, just invert（反转） and multiply'（乘）. Well, you memorized the rule and it   15   . Why does it work? Do you really understand why it works? Did anyone every use pizzas or math manipulative（巧妙处理的） to show you why it works? If   16   , you simply memorized the procedure and that was that. Think of math as memorizing all the procedures --   17   if you forget a few? Therefore, with this type of strategy, a good   18   will help, but, what if you don’t have a good memory. Understanding the math is critical. Once students   19   they can do the math, the whole notion of math anxiety can be overcome. Teachers and parents have an important   20   to ensure students understand the math being presented to them.

(    ) 1. A. different           B. similar             C. far                          D. familiar

(    ) 2. A. speech              B. performance     C. threatens                  D. stage-fright

(    ) 3. A. understanding   B. memorizing      C. forgetting               D. reading

(    ) 4. A. poorly              B. crazily              C. well                        D. publicly

(    ) 5. A. Chinese            B. math               C. English                   D. physics

(    ) 6. A. wish               B. conscience            C. determination           D. confidence

(    ) 7. A. fear                 B. joy                   C. pleasure                   D. doubt

(    ) 8. A .failure              B. choice              C. blank                             D. death

(    ) 9. A. further             B. greater             C. less                         D. smaller

(    ) 10. A. unpleasant      B. unfair                   C. pleasant                   D. successful

(    ) 11. A. because           B. thanks to          C. resulting in              D. due to

(    ) 12. A. fear               B. anxiety             C. failure                     D. misunderstanding

(    ) 13. A. forgetting           B. use                   C. understanding          D. knowledge

(    ) 14. A. panic              B. excitement      C. disappointment        D. encouragement

(    ) 15. A. opens             B. works               C. starts                      D. runs

(    ) 16. A. so                  B. possible            C. not                          D. any

(    ) 17. A. Where            B. Why               C. When                          D. What

(    ) 18. A. memory        B. method             C. brain                      D. body

(    ) 19. A. fill                 B. realize              C. confirm                   D. recognize

(    ) 20. A. task               B. aim                  C. appointment             D. role

Elderly people who drink several cups of green tea a day are less likely to suffer from depression, probably due to a "feel good" chemical found in this type of tea, Japanese researchers said.

Several studies have    1  drinking green tea to lessening psychological problems and Kaijun Niu, of Tohoku University Graduate School, and colleagues found people    2   70 and older who drank four or more cups of green tea daily were 44 percent   3     likely to experience depression.

Green tea is widely   4    in many Asian countries,  5    China and Japan.

Niu's team   6     1,058 relatively healthy elderly men and women. About 34 percent of the men and 39 percent of the women had symptoms of    7  , according to the study that was   8      in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

A total of 488 participants said they    9    four or more cups of green tea a day, 284 said they downed two to three cups    10   and the rest reported having one or fewer cups daily.

According to the researchers, the    11    effect of drinking more    12    tea on alleviating symptoms of depression did not    13   after they factored in social and economic status, gender, diet, history of medical problems and       14 of antidepressants.

There was no   15    between consumption of black or oolong tea, or coffee, and   16     symptoms of depression.

A green tea component, the amino acid thiamine（硫胺素）, which is   17    to have a tranquilizing（镇静的）  18   on the brain, may  19  the "potentially beneficial effect" shown in the current study, Niu noted,   20   that more study is needed.

(    ) 1. A. linked                  B. taken        C. considered               D. regarded

(    ) 2. A. aging                      B. aged          C. years               D. age

(    ) 3. A. more               B. little          C. less                  D. much

(    ) 4. A. sold                 B. planted      C. spread               D. consumed

(    ) 5. A. including          B. concluding C. containing               D. considering

(    ) 6. A. looked for               B. checked     C. investigated      D. asked

(    ) 7. A. optimism          B. happiness   C. bitterness          D. depression

(    ) 8. A. published        B. come out   C. appeared           D. showed

(    ) 9. A. ate                   B. drank               C. swallowed               D. chewed

(    ) 10. A. weekly           B. daily          C. monthly           D. yearly

(    ) 11. A. apparent        B. light          C. huge               D. gentle

(    ) 12. A. black                     B. oolong      C. coffee              D. green

(    ) 13. A. fade                      B. disappear   C. run                  D. decease

(    ) 14. A. influence               B. effect               C. use                   D. result

(    ) 15. A. association      B. use            C. comparison       D. difference

(    ) 16. A. lower             B. increase     C. strengthen        D. cause

(    ) 17. A. assumed          B. thought     C. imaged              D. hoped

(    ) 18. A. effect             B. affect               C. effort                      D. outcome

(    ) 19. A. report             B. confirm     C. complete          D. explain

(    ) 20. A. adding            B. addressing        C. speaking           D. saying

PEOPLE

NOBLE SMUGGLER

     This Thursday, Irena Sendler will be honoured for her work as a smuggler（偷运者）. During World WarⅡ, the Polish social worker smuggled nearly2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto（聚居区）. She gave them new identities, found them safe places with good-hearted Christians, and kept the children’s real names buried in jars in her neighbours’ gardens.（The play, Life in a Jar, based on her story, is being performed.）At 93, Sendler lives in a Warsaw nursing home and is too weak to travel to Washington D.C., to receive the 2003 Jan Karski Award for Valorand Compassion from the American Center of Polish Culture. One of the children she saved will accept the award for her.

You risked your life to save the children.

I was taught by my father that when someone is drowning, you don’t ask if they can swim，you just jump in and help. During the war, everyone was drowning, but mostly the Jewish children.

How did you persuade parents to give up their children？

I had to answer honestly that I didn’t even know if we would get past the guards.

What was the most frightening moment？

When I saw a priest（牧师）in charge of an orphan age for Jewish children in the ghetto walk with them out to be killed. The children were in then best Sunday suits. The priest was killed with them.

How did you get the children to be have as you smuggled them out？

I told the older children to act as if they were sick and sometimes gave the younger ones a sleeping pill. They were told to remember their new names. I also told the children to tell guards they had only been visiting a servant in the ghetto and were going back to their real homes outside.

Did you tell your own two children what you did？

I never told them. Only when my daughter went to Israel did she learn all about me. I thought it was only normal to do so. And it was a very painful subject. It was always on my mind that I couldn’t do more.

——Samantha Levine

1. We can learn from the passage that Irena Sendler____.

A. will go to Washington to accept the award with her daughter

B. was caught a few times while she was rescuing the Jewish children

C. told those parents that their children’s lives would be guaranteed

D. saved thousands of Jewish children at the risk of her ownlife

2. The expression “everyone was drowning” can best be replaced by“______”.

A. everyone was involved in the war

B. all the people were drowned

C. people were facing danger and death

D. Jewish children were being killed

3. Which of the following could NOT be expected when Sendler was smuggling the Jewish children？

A. Some children were told to pretend to be sick in front of the guards.

B. Some children pretended to be returning home after visiting servants in the ghetto.

C. The children were asked to remember and use new names instead of real ones.

D. The children pretended to be brothers and sisters from one big family.

4. Sendler didn’t tell her own children what she did in the war because ______.

A. she thought it was the most frightening experience

B. the topic was too painful and heart-breaking to mention

C. it was already recorded and made known to the public

D. she planned to bury the secret in her heart until her death

Supermarkets are trying out new computers that make shopping carts more intelligent (具备智能的). They will help shoppers find cups or toilet soap, and keep a record of the bill.

The touch-screen devices (触摸屏装置) are on show at the Food Marketing Institute's exhibition here this week. "These devices are able to create value and get you around the store quicker," said Michael Alexandor, manager of Springboard Retail Networks Inc., which makes a smart cart computer called the Concierge.

Canadian stores will test the Concierge in July. A similar device, IBM's "shopping buddy," has recently been test-marketed at Stop & Shop stores in Massachusetts.

Neither device tells you how many fat grams or calories are in your cart, but they will flash you with items on sale. The idea is to make it easier for people to buy, not to have second thoughts that maybe you should put something back on the shelf.

"The whole model is driven by advertisers' need to get in front of shoppers," said Alexandor. "They're not watching 30-second TV ads anymore."

People can use a home computer to make their shopping lists. Once at the store, a shopper can use a preferred customer card to start a system (系统) that will organize the trip around the store. If you're looking for toothpicks, you type in the word or pick it from a list, and a map will appear on the screen showing where you are and where you can find them.

The devices also keep a record of what you buy. When you're finished, the device figures out your bill. Then you go to the checker or place your card into a self-checkout stand and pay.

The new computerized shopping assistants don't come cheap. The Buddy devices will cost the average store about $160,000, and the Concierge will cost stores about $500 for each device.

53. The underlined word “they” (Paragraph 1) refers to_________.

       A．supermarkets    B．shop assistants        C．shopping carts    D．shop managers

54. Which of the following is the correct order of shopping with the computerized shopping carts?

a. Start the system.                     b. Make a shopping list.

c. Find the things you want.              D. Go to a self-checkout stand.

       A．abdc  B．bacd        C．acbd            D．bcad

55. We can learn from the last paragraph that_________.

A．intelligent shopping carts cost a large sum of money

B．the Concierge is cheaper than the Buddy devices

C．shop assistants with computer knowledge are well paid   

D．average stores prefer the Concierge to the Buddy devices

56. What might be the most suitable title for the text?

       A．New age for supermarkets

B．Concierge and Shopping Buddy

C．New computers make shopping carts smarter

D．Touch-screen devices make shopping enjoyable

There are thousands of products of all colors and shapes in a supermarket, making you believe that they are worth a try. How? Packaging （包装）is the silent but persuading salesman.

There on the shelves, each bottle, can, box, and jar has been carefully designed and measured to speak to the inner self of the consumer（消费者）, so that is buying not only a product but also his belief in life. Scientists have studied consumer behavior recently and found that the look of the package has a great effect on the “quality” of the product and on how well it sells, because “Consumers generally cannot tell between a product and its package. Many products are packages and many packages are products,” as Louis Cheskin, the first social scientist studying consumers’ feeling for packaging, noticed.

Colors are one of the best tools in packaging. Studies of eye movement have shown that colors draw human attention quickly. Take V8 for example. For many years, the bright red color of tomatoes and carrots on the thin bottle makes you feel that it is very good for your body. And the word “green” today can keep food prices going up.

Shapes are another attraction. Circles often suggest happiness and peacefulness, because these shapes are pleasing to both the eye and the heart. That’s why the round yellow M signs of McDonald’s are inviting to both young and old.

This new consumer response（反应）to the colors and shapes of packages reminds producers and sellers that people buy to satisfy both body and soul.

60．According to the passage, ______ seems to be able to persuade a consumer to buy the product.

       A．the pleasing color of the package    B．the special taste of the product

       C．the strange shape of the package     D．the belief in the product

61．If a package or a product is round in shape, it can ________.

       A．bring excitement to the consumers  B．attract the consumers’ attention

       C．catch the eye movement of the consumers   D．produce a happy and peaceful feeling

62． “And the word ‘green’ today can keep food prices going up.” This sentence suggests that consumers today are ________.

       A．starting to notice the importance of new food

       B．enjoying the beauty of nature more than before

       C．beginning to like green vegetables

       D．paying more attention to their healthy

63．It can be inferred from the passage that V8 is a kind of ________.

       A．vegetable dish  B．healthy juice    C．iced drink D．red vegetable

A good teacher is one who remembers what it was like to be young. As he  1  himself in his student’s place, he is able to understand his  2  and they’re able to understand him.  3  ,he remembers that his students have a real   4  for knowledge. He therefore keeps up with  5  developments in his field so that his   6   are lively and up-to-date.

Secondly, he is   7  what it was like to be bored  8  ,so he will make an effort   9   interesting. He neither mumbles(含糊的说话)his material   10  reads it from old notes.

Instead, he  11  his lectures to follow by turns with discussion and make his   12  more active, spirited with examples.

Most important, a good  13  remembers how sensitive his feelings were   14  he was young. He knows how important his   15  can be and is never unkind or   16  critical. He also remembers that he   17  the instructors who asked the most   18  him. So he tries to be, in   19  ,the teacher he dreamed of   20  when he was young.

1.A.lay                         B.placed                       C.put                           D.made

2.A.pupils                    B.classmates                 C.fellows                      D.friends

3.A.The first                 B.One                          C.Above all                  D.First

4.A.thirst                      B.requirement               C.wish                         D.desire

5.A.the later                 B.the latest                   C.later                          D.the lateliest

6.A.materials                B.classes                       C.pupils                       D.teachers

7.A.sure                       B.known                      C.clear                         D.clever

8.A.at school                B.in school                   C.on duty                            D.in class

9.A.to do                      B.to be                         C.to have                      D.to get

10.A.or                        B.no                                   C.not                           D.nor

11.A.should make          B.could have                 C.would cause               D.might let

12.A.lecture notes         B.classes                       C.lessons                      D.words

13.A.teacher                 B.man                          C.student                      D.headmaster

14.A.so                        B.how                          C.and                           D.when

15.A.friendship             B.kindness                    C.subjects                     D.activities

16.A.necessarily            B.very                          C.unnecessarily             D.greatly

17.A.hoped                   B.respected                   C.longed                      D.wished

18.A.about                   B.to                             C.at                             D.of

19.A.words                   B.short                         C.word                         D.sentence

20.A.taking                  B.doing                        C.having                      D.being

—Shall I lock the lab now before I go home??

   — ______.I’ll check it myself later.?

   A.Go ahead                 B.No problem?

   C.No hurry                     D.Don’t bother?

  London has more than nine million visitors every year.They come and visit some of the most famous places in England:Big Ben,the Tower of London and the River Thames.?You can see some of the most interesting places in the city by getting on one of London’s tour buses.It has an open roof and let you off at any places you want to visit.?

The River Thames is London’s main waterway.It has shaped the capital’s landscape,history and geography. So one of the best ways of making sense of the city is to take a trip along the river. Much of the river bank can now be walked along,particularly the south bank.?

   The clock tower of the  House of Parliament, Big Ben,has become one of the main symbols of London.It rises up nearly 100m to a golden point above the clock and a 13-ton bell.The sound of the bell,which you can hear at the beginning of many television and radio programmes,has become well-known throughout the nation.No visit to London is complete without a look at the Tower of London.It is in the eastern part of the city.After Big Ben,the Tower may be London’s most visited tourist spot.?Sightseeing in London is great,but _____.So,the best way to start the day is to fill yourself up with an English breakfast.For starters,have an egg,bacon,sausages,tomatoes,mushrooms,black pudding and fried bread.Then finish off with toast and jam,and a large pot of tea.You can buy an English breakfast in nearly every hotel,and in many restaurants and cafés.?

An English pub is a good place to stop for lunch and a drink:you can get hot or cold food and try one of England’s beers.Or you can sit outside one of the many roadside pubs and cafés in London,and simply watch the busy world go by.?

1. What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words.)?

2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one??

It is very regretful if you don’t go to the Tower of London when visiting London.?

3. Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper expressions to complete the sentence.

 (Please answer within 10 words.)?

4. Which place of London do you want to visit most?Why?(Please answer within 30 words.)

5. Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.?

The Chinese ___ less sugar and fat than many other countries in the world.

A. eats   B. eat    C. ate    D. have eaten

Her display of bad temper completely _____ the party.

   A. harmed    B. damaged    C. spoilt    D. hurt