I suppose that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. And especially if it’s given from the heart. When people are talking, there’s no need to do anything but receive them. Listen to what they’re saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don’t value ourselves or our love enough to know this. It has taken me a long time to believe in the power of simple saying “I’m so sorry,” when someone is in pain.

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted to tell her that they once had something just like that happening to them. Her pain became a story about them. Eventually, she stopped talking to most people. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care.

I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the handkerchiefs, until I realized that passing a person a handkerchief may be just another way to shut him down, to take them out of their experience of sadness. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.

This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. It certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too shy to speak or did not know the answer. But now I know that a loving silence often has far more power to heal than the kindest words.

1.What does the author value most in the communication with each other?

A．Deep understanding                     B．Saying “I’m Sorry”.

C．Attention from heart.                    D．Doing nothing.

2.The woman patient stopped telling her story to most people because ______.

A．She didn’t get enough respect from others

B．she was discouraged by being often interrupted

C．people often told her their own opinions

D．people couldn’t understand her sad situation

3. If you hand a handkerchief to someone crying, you may ______.

A．hurt his feelings                        B．make him embarrassed

C．encourage him to continue to cry           D．stop him from letting out his sorrow

4. It can be inferred from the passage that while communicating, ______.

A．listening is a perfect way to respond to others

B．people keep silent because they don’t know the answer

C．keeping silent means being too shy to speak

D．it is easy to form the habit of listening silently

From the beginning of human history, wild animals provided food, clothing and sometimes medicine. We may not depend so much on wild animals now. But we hear about them every day. Americans use the names of animals in many ways. Automobile manufacturers (制造商) and gasoline companies especially like to use big cats to sell their products. They like lions, tigers and wildcats. When Americans say wildcat, they usually mean a lynx, an ocelot or a bobcat. All these cats attack quickly and fiercely. So wildcats represent something fast and fierce.

An early American use of the word wildcat was quite different. It was used to describe members of Congress who declared war on Britain in 1812. A magazine of that year said the wildcat congressmen went home. It said they were unable to face the responsibility of having involved their country in an unnecessary war.

Wildcat also has been used as a name for money. At that time, some states permitted banks to make their own money. One bank in the state of Michigan offered paper money with a picture of a wildcat on it. Some banks, however, did not have enough gold to support all the paper money they offered. So the money had little or no value. It was called a wildcat bill or a wildcat bank note.

The banks which offered this money were called wildcat banks. A newspaper of the time said those were the days of wildcat money. It said a man might be rich in the morning and poor by night.

Wildcat then was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it. Dishonest developers would buy such property. Then they would sell it and leave town with the money. The buyers were left with worthless holes in the ground. Today, wildcat oil wells are in areas that are not known to have oil.

1.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Wildcats and their stories.                 B．Wildcats and their characters.

C．Varieties of animal species.                D．Relationship between animals and humans.

2.From the passage we can know that ______.

A．wildcats represent the state of Michigan.

B．the use of wildcats was not always the same

C．wildcats are the best friend of human beings

D．honest developers never buy wildcat oil wells

3.The underlined words “a lynx, an ocelot or a bobcat”in Paragraph 1 may refer to ______.

A．gasoline companies                      B．automobile manufacturers

C．names of wildcats                       D．brands of automobile

4.It can be inferred that during the days of wildcat money ______.

A．people couldn’t buy anything with the money

B．people didn’t know how to save money

C．the rich invested too much on oil wells

D．people complained and suffered a lot

Notice

Dear Degree-doing International Students,

According to the University’s regulations governing the Curriculums (课程) of General Education, the curriculum-choosing procedures (程序) are as follows:

Who

All degree-doing international students are required to choose the curriculums related to Chinese Language and Culture. Refer to Item 3 for different arrangements for undergraduate students (本科生) ,master and doctor students.

What curriculum to choose

You are required to choose two curriculums related to Chinese Language and Culture that suit your own level and program. The curriculum consists of Elementary Chinese, Intermediate （中级的）Chinese, and Chinese Culture (Taught in Chinese and English ). Please refer to Attachment 1 for details.

How many credits

You are required to complete 6 credits for each curriculum within a term.

When and How

A. Undergraduate students: you are required to complete the curriculum selection process (The system will be reopened next week) by 5:00 p.m. on June 22, 2013. About how to choose the courses, you can refer to Attachment 2 (It is in Chinese; turn to your Chinese friends or teachers for help if you cannot follow the procedures of the attachment) for the instructions.

B. Master and Doctor Students: you won’t have to complete the curriculum selection until early September; please wait for further notice on the arrangement.

Your cooperation will be highly appreciated.

Attachment 1: Chinese Language & Culture for International Students

Attachment 2: Handbook for Curriculum Selection

School of International Education

Chongqing University

June 13, 2013

1.This notice is mainly about _______.

A．course selection                        B．how to study elective courses

C．regulations of learning Chinese             D．Learning arrangements for elective courses

2.The courses which can be chosen don’t include _______.

A．Chinese Culture                        B．Advanced Chinese

C．Elementary Chinese                     D．Intermediate Chinese

3.According to the arrangement, who must finish choosing curriculums in June?

A．Doctor students                        B．Master students

C．Undergraduate students                  D．International students

4.You can learn the instructions in the course selection from_______.

A．your friends       B．your teachers      C．Attachment One    D．Attachment Two

Once upon a time there was a crook（骗子）who only thought about how to get money. What he hated most was when people were polite to each other, saying things like “please”, “thank you”, and “don’t mention it”.

The crook thought all those kinds of words were a waste, so he spent a lot of time inventing a machine which could steal words. With this machine, he planned to steal “please”, “thank you”, “don’t mention it”, and similar words people used to be polite. After he stole these words, he intended to take them apart and sell the letters to book publishers. After he started up his machine, people would open their mouths, intending to say kind and polite things, but nothing came out. All those words ended up inside the big machine.

The crook was happy with his success, but he didn’t count on (料想到)a couple of very special little girls. Those girls were deaf, and had to communicate with sign language. Because the machine couldn’t steal gestures, these girls continued being kind and polite. Soon they realized what had been happening to everyone else, and they found out about the crook and his plan. The girls followed him and found the machine busy separating all the words into letters. They approached the machine and started being polite to each other.

Try as it might, the machine couldn’t steal those words, and it started to suffer a power overload(超载). Finally, it exploded, sending all the letters it had gathered flying into the sky. These letters started coming down, like rain, and most ended up in the sea. After that, everyone could be polite again.

Seeing all those letters fall into the sea, those little girls had an idea. A little while later they opened a factory, making alphabetic spaghetti soup!

1.What the crook hated most was ______.

A．his machine        B．money            C．language          D．politeness

2.The crook spent a lot of time inventing a machine to ______.

A．publish books                          B．steal words

C．write letters                           D．make alphabetic soup

3.Why did the machine have no effect on the two girls?

A．Because they were kind and polite.

B．Because they were very clever.

C．Because the machine couldn’t steal gestures.

D．Because there was something wrong with the machine.

SELF STUDY TIPS

However difficult you find it to arrange your time, it will pay off in the long run if you set aside a certain part of the day for studying --- and stick to it. ___1.___. But don’t forget to make sure that you have enough time left for recreational activities or simply to be “with” yourself: reading a novel or watching a television programme.

As part of your weekly schedule, it is also advisable to consider exactly what you have to do in that week, and make sure that you handle the most significant tasks first. ___2.__.

On a physical level, make sure you have an area or space for studying. __3.___. If you always study in the same place, preferably a room of your own, you will find it easier to adjust mentally to the activity when you enter that area. You should have everything that you might need at hand.

Make sure that all the physical equipment that you use, such as a desk, a chair is at good height for you. If you use a personal computer, there are plenty of guidelines available from the movement on angles, lighting and the like. __4.___.

If you are working on topic your teacher has set, but finding it hard to concentrate, it may be that you actually need to take your mind right off it for a period of time. ___5.___. After a period away from the test, having not thought about it at all, you may return to it refreshed and full of ideas.

A．It’s wise to leave the easier or less urgent areas of your work until later

B．It’s all too easy to read something and then forget where it came from

C．Consult(咨询) these and avoid the typical student aches and pains

D．“Airing the mind” can work wonders sometimes

E.Make sure of equipment that is available to you

F.It is best to make a weekly schedule

G.Don’t do it just anywhere

第一节单词拼写（共10小题，每题1分，共10分；注意请用课文中所给单词的正确形式填空，写其他形式不得分）

1.It seems a real pity that thousands of people who could have benefited from Traditional Chinese Medicine missed out because of __________(无知).

2.It struck near the end of the First World War and left families _____(哀悼) worldwide.

3.Meanwhile, governments worldwide have also ________（强调）the fact that thorough and systematic medical on bird flu needs to lead to a cure as soon as possible.

4.Scientists have been doing trials on treatments to _______ （禁止）any future outbreaks.

5.Floyd Landis made several ______（站不住脚的） excuses blaming medicine he had been taking for an injury but these were all in vain.

6._________（不幸地）, it is not easy to catch athletes using illegal drugs.

7.Gene-therapy is very controversial and many people ________（反对）further research into it.

8.Looking ahead, scientists believe that global warming could be one of the biggest

_________（环境的）problems facing the 21^st century.

9.Experts ______ （拥护，主张）that each person play their part.

10.After all, there is no _________（替代品） for our earth.

My heart was beating fast when I start to make the speech. I had prepared very good but it was the first time for me to speak to so many student in the public. So I was very nervous when I began to speak. Luckily, the whole room was so quietly that I could easily make myself hear. After a while I became confident than before. Everyone listened carefully. I could see from our eyes that I was doing a good job. As soon as I finished speak, the students applauded. How an unforgettable experience!

下面是对中学生对志愿者工作的看法的调查表，请根据下面所给的信息写一篇英语小短文讨论中学生是否应该参加志愿者活动（voluntary work）。题目自拟，字数100左右。

---I think we should buy a car so that it will be convenient for us to go to work.

---______, but do you think we have so much money ?

A．You are joking                          B．Come off it

C．I don’t believe it                       D．You are dead right

It is reported that a bus went out of _____ control on a highway ____ south of the city last night.

A．/; /              B．/; the             C．the; /             D．the; the