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Tips on Building Self-Confidence
Self-confidence is a key skill for every goal you want to accomplish Self-confidence means that you know who you are and what you' re good at and that you can handle stress and generally perform under pressure.If you feel like you don't have enough self-confidence, you probably don' t, so you should always try to increase your confidence by following a few day-to-day tips.
1.Exercise.
Exercise regularly, between three and five times a week.This boosts your self-confidence in a variety of ways. 1 __ Second, the endorphins(内啡呔) you release while exercising make you feel better about yourself.Finally, setting exercise goals and achieving those goals improves your self-confidence by showing yourself exactly what your body is capable of doing.
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You can boost your self-confidence by achieving more.So whenever you have a project, presentation or any other event that will showcase your skills, put a lot of effort into preparing for it.Rather than telling yourself how good you are, show yourself through your actions.
3.Self Focus.
3 If someone says something unkind to you, choose not to let it affect you.This gives you power over yourself rather than giving it to other people, and it boosts your self-confidence.It may be difficult at first, but once you realize that other peoples’ words and opinions are meaningless, you start to feel more self-confident.4
4.Fake It.Act confident.
This can be tricky, especially if you have very low self-confidence. 5 It doesn’t have to be a lone conversation.Once you realize that the stranger is likely to forget about you within 10 minutes, your self-confidence starts to develop.
| A.Preparation. |
| B.Don't be afraid of failures. |
| C.Try talking to one stranger every |
| D.Focus on yourself rather than other people. |
F.Again, this is a matter of showing rather than telling.
G.Self-confidence is an important key to success in any walk of life,
New rules and behavior standards for middle school students came out in March. Middle school is going to use a new way to decide who the top students are. 【小题1】They will also be kids who don’t dye their hair, smoke or drink. The following are some of the new rules.
Tell the truth. Have you ever copied someone else’s work on an exam? 【小题2】 That’s not something an honest student should do.
Do more at school. Good students love animal and care for other people. April is Bird-Loving Month in China. Is your school doing anything to celebrate it? You should join! 【小题3】
Be open to new ideas. Have you ever thought that people could live on the moon? Perhaps you’ll discover Earth II someday. Don’t look down on new ideas. 【小题4】You should welcome them.
Protect yourself. Has someone ever taken money from one of your classmates? Don't let it happen to you. If you have to go home late, you should let your parents know.
Use the Internet carefully. The Internet can be very useful for your studies. But some things on the Internet aren’t for kids, so try to look at web pages that are good for you. 【小题5】
| A.In that way, you can learn more about animals and how to protect them. |
| B.Students must only work and play alone. |
| C.The best students won’t only have high marks. |
| D.You can use the web for fun or homework. |
E. Everyone’s ideas are important.
G. Don’t do it again!
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A group of happy, high-performing individuals is not a team. Even if each of the people is highly motivated and wants to do great work, you will still need to spend time actively developing a sense of unity and cooperation to create a truly team-oriented(团队精神的)environment. 【小题1】
Building a team takes time. 【小题2】 We will review the building blocks of a team environment, so you can work on this aspect of your role over time.
Successful teams have some common attributes(品质) you can encourage and develop as you work with the members of your group.【小题3】Making them clear to every member of your group is a great first step toward developing a team-oriented culture.
All effective teams operate on the basis of trust. 【小题4】Each member on your team needs to see consistent(一致的)behavior patterns from you and their colleagues over time to be able to believe a certain person will act in a certain way.
【小题5】 While having these discussions can be great for your team’s creativity, you want to ensure they remain within respectful communication. Challenging another team member’s view can help refine an idea and make it more perfect. You should encourage everyone to contribute to the discussion.
| A.Building a great team needs a lot of skills. |
| B.A healthy team will have debates, and sometimes even heated discussions. |
| C.Your aim is to encourage your team members to work together. |
| D.You can’t expect to achieve success quickly. |
F. Therefore, working with others is not the same as being mutually(相互地) supportive and dependent on one another.
G. Trust is based on pattern recognition.
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Most people buy a lot of gifts just before Christmas. But some people think we buy too much. They have started a special day called Buy Nothing Day. 【小题1】 .
Buy Nothing Day is November 29. It’s 25 days before Christmas. It’s after Thanksgiving and often the first day of Christmas shopping. 【小题2】 .
The idea for Buy Nothing Day started in Vancouver, British Columbia. 【小题3】 . In Califor
nia, parents and children get together to read stories, sing songs, and paint pictures. The children talk about why they don’t need a lot of toys. This year, in Manchester, England, people dressed up in costumes to tell people that we buy too much.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, high school students.wanted to tell other students about Buy Nothing Day. They organized a spaghetti dinner to give people information about Buy Nothing Day. 【小题4】 . They made posters and talked to other students about it. 【小题5】 . The students at high
schools liked the idea of this new tradition. Next year, they want to have another dinner to tell more people about Buy Nothing Day.
| A.They asked restaurants in the neighborhood to donate the food. |
| B.At this time, we see ads in Newspapers and, on TV telling us to “ buy, buy, buy!” |
| C.Buy Nothing Day has successfully persuaded people not buy anything. |
| D.Many people think highly of the idea of Buy Nothing Day. |
F. Now people all over the world celebrate Buy Nothing Day.
G. The dinner was a big success, and many students agreed not to buy anything on November 29.
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A man came home from work late, tired and found his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
“Daddy, may I ask you a question?”“Yeah, sure, what is it?” replied the man. 【小题1】 “If you must know, I make $20 an hour.”“Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down. Then he looked up and said, “Daddy, may I borrow $10?” The father was angry, “If the only reason you asked for that is to borrow some money to buy a silly toy, then you should go to bed.” 【小题2】
After about an hour or so, the man calmed down, and started to think. Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn’t ask for money very often. 【小题3】“Are you asleep, son?” He opened the door and as
ked. “No, Daddy,” replied the boy. “I’ve been thinking, maybe I was
too hard on you just now.” said the man, “Here’s the $10 you asked for.” 【小题4】“Oh, thank you, Daddy!” he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some small change. 【小题5】“Why do you want more money if you have already had some?” the father asked angrily.
“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.” The little boy replied, “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home earlier tomorrow, I would like to have dinner with you.”
| A.Silently the little boy returned the money to his father with tears. |
| B.The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. |
| C.“Daddy, how much do you make an hour?” |
| D.“Daddy, how much do you spend a day?” |
F. The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
G. The little boy sat straight up, smiling.
| A. Using expensive testing equipment B. Staffing a modern hospital C. Testing becoming a great help D. Cost of medical accidents E. Cost of training medical workers F. Measures of reducing medical costs |
Physicians’ fees are only one reason for rising health costs in the United States. Medical research has produced many tests to diagnose, or discover, patients’ illness. Physicians usually feel obliged to order enough tests to rule out all likely causes of a patient’s symptoms. A routine laboratory bill for blood tests can easily be more than $100.
【小题2】 _____________________
Sophisticated new machines have been developed to enable physicians to scan body organs with a clarity never before possible. One technique involves the use of ultrasound – sound waves beyond the frequencies that human beings can hear – to produce images. Others use computers to capture and analyze images produced by X-rays or magnetic fields. These machines are extremely expensive: The price of a single machine can exceed one million dollars.
【小题3】_____________________
New technologies also mean new personnel. Physicians, nurses and orderlies can no longer staff a hospital alone. Hospitals now require a bewildering number of technical specialists to adminis
ter new tests and operate advanced medical equipment.【小题4】_____________________
Physicians and hospitals also must buy malpractice insurance to protect themselves should they be sued for negligence by patients who feel they have been mistreated or have r
【小题5】 _____________________
As a result, hospital costs and physicians’ fees rose steadily through the 1990s. Government agencies became convinced that it was necessary to limit rising medical costs. One approach is to require hospitals to prove that a need exists for new buildings and services. Hospitals also have faced pressure to run their operations more efficiently, and to decrease the duration of hospital stays for patients receiving routine treatment or minor surgery.
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— What do you plan to order, please?
— 【小题1】
— Anything else?
— And a cup of tea.
— Is that all?
— Yes. My doctor told me that I should lose some weight. 【小题2】 That’s not healthy.
— How do you feel?
— I feel fine. In fact, 【小题3】 Furthermore, some of my old clothes would fit me if I lost about 40 pounds.
— How long will that take you?
— Well, 【小题4】 So, maybe six months. Then I can get down to my proper weight.
— Do you plan to eat nothing but salads for six months?
— No, I’ll be able to eat fruit and certain meat. But most important, 【小题5】 And I should not eat anything containing sugar.
| A.I’d like some fruit and chicken, please. |
| B.I’m too heavy. |
| C.I should never eat anything between meals. |
| D.I’ve got a badly-diseased heart. |
F.I’ve just started.
I’ve never felt better.
What is a dream?
For centuries, people have wondered about the strange places that they seem to visit in their sleep. 【小题1】 However, they have been valued as necessary to a person's health and happiness.
Historically people thought dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams scientifically believing that they tell about a person's character. 【小题2】 He believed that dreams allow a person to express fantasies or fears, which would be socially unacceptable in real life.
The second theory to become popular was Carl Jung's compensation theory. Jung, a former student of Freud, said that the purpose of a dream is not to hide something, but rather to communicate it to the dreamer. 【小题3】 Thus, people who think too highly of themselves may dream about falling; those who think too little of themselves dream of being heroes.
Using more recent research, William Domhoff from the University of California found that dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop in humans. , 【小题4】 Until they reach age five, they can not express very well what their dreams are about. Once people become adults, there is little or no change in their dreams. The dreams of men and women differ. For instance,
The characters that appear in the dreams of men are often other men, and often involve physical aggression.
The meaning of dreams continues to be difficult to understand. 【小题5】 If you dream that a loved one is going to die, do not panic. The dream may have meaning, but it does not mean that your loved one is going to die.
| A.Dreams make up for what is lacking in waking life. |
| B.However, people should not take their dreams as reality. |
| C.They have been considered as meaningless nighttime journeys. |
| D.It gives scientists chances to better understand human mind. |
F.They think their mind is trying to tell them something.
G.First, there was Sigmund Freud’s theory.
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【小题1】Bree is a middle-aged lady. She doesn’t like the contemporary styles but prefers clothes of older fashion.
【小题2】 Margaret is an office clerk and doesn’t earn a high salary. She wants to buy some ordinary but up-to-date clothes at an acceptable price.
【小题3】Alice, a young housewife, is now planning a family party. She would like to buy something in preparation for the dinner.
【小题4】Peter is a sales manager in an international company. He is a fan of fashion and favors French designs.
【小题5】Richard is a young engineer working at a hi-tech company. He would like to visit some places specializing in men’s clothes.
| A.Abraham & Strauss, more familiarly known as A & S, is a busy store which carries reasonably — priced ready — to make adults and children wear fashions. It is the centerpiece of the largest mall in Manhattan. |
| B.Barney’s New York is a favorite among the young professional New Yorkers. It specializes in excellent, but expensive designer clothes. A branch for men is located in the glittering World Financial Center. |
| C.Berdorf Goodman is luxurious, very elegant. It carries top-quality contemporary fashions at high prices, specializing in European designers. |
| D.Lord & Taylor is famous for its classic and much more conservative fashions for men and women. The store places an emphasis on US designers. You need a strong pair of legs, comfortable shoes and lots of spare time to wander around. |
F. The king of London department stores, by tradition, is Harrods. The spectacular food hall has splendid displays of fish, cheese, fruit and vegetables; other specialties include fashions for all ages, china and glass, and household items.
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Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to a Chinese student, they always say,“ My spoken English is poor.” 【小题1】I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.
First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary.【小题2】However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if you choose a positive attitude. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.
【小题3】 Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using the right words and spelling them correctly. However, in speaking your aim is fluency. You want to get your message across, to talk to someone in English, as quickly and as well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, but it doesn't matter.【小题4】
The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening. You have one mouth but two ears! All that hearing is necessary for you to start speaking.
Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor.【小题5】
| A.The person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears. |
| B.They may try to avoid making similar mistakes next time. |
| C.Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary. |
| D.If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English |
F. Second, they
G. The second reason lies in the reluctance of using what has just been learned.