Whether they’re project documents, trade journals, blogs, business books or ebooks, most of us read regularly as part of our jobs, and to develop our skills and knowledge.

But do you ever read what should be a useful document, yet fail to gain any helpful information from it? Or, re-read something several times to get a full understanding of the content? If so, look at the following strategies (策略) that will help you read more effectively.

●Think About What You Want to Know

Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you’re reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after you’ve read it? Once you know your purpose, you can examine the resource (资源) to see whether it’s going to help you.

Ask yourself whether the resource meets your needs, and try to work out if it will give you the right amount of knowledge. If you think that the resource isn’t consummate, don’t waste time reading it.

●Know How Deeply to Study the Material

Where you only need the shallowest knowledge of a subject, you can skim material. Here you read only chapter headings, introductions, and summaries.

If you need a moderate (中等的) level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. This is when you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You can then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts.

Only when you need full knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text in detail (细节). Here it’s best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject. This gives you an understanding of its structure, into which you can then fit the detail gained from a full reading of the material.

1.Why should we know our purpose before reading?

2.What does the underlined word “consummate” in the 5^th paragraph mean?

3. According to the depth to study the material, how many reading strategies are mentioned?

4.The best title for this passage should be ______.

It’s really true what people say about English politeness: it’s everywhere. When squeezing (挤过去) past someone in a narrow passage, people say “sorry”. When getting off a bus, English passengers say “thank you” rather than the driver. In Germany, people would never dream of doing these things. After all, squeezing past others is sometimes unavoidable, and the bus driver is only doing his job. I used to think the same way, without questioning it, until I started traveling to the British Isles, and here are some more polite ways of interacting (交往) with people in UK.

People thank each other everywhere in England, all the time. When people buy something in a shop, customer and shop assistant in most cases thank each other twice or more. In Germany, it would be exceptional to hear more than one thank you in such a conversation. British students thank their lecturers when leaving the room. English employers thank their employees for doing their jobs, as opposite to Germans, who would normally think that paying their workers money is already enough.

Another thing I observed during my stay was that English people rarely criticize (批评) others. Even when I was working and mistakes were pointed out to me, my employers emphasized several times but none of their explanations were intended as criticism. It has been my impression that by avoiding criticism, English people are making an effort to make others feel comfortable. This also is showed in other ways. British men still open doors for women, and British men are more likely to treat women to a meal than German men. However, I do need to point out here that this applies to English men a bit more than it would to Scottish men! Yes, the latter are a bit tightfisted.

1.What is the author’s attitude towards English politeness?

2.What can be inferred from the passage?

3.We can learn from the last paragraph that Scottish men ______.

4.The author develops the text through the method of ______.

You’re standing in the dairy section at the grocery store, searching for your favorite brand. Suddenly, you catch a smell of chocolate cookies. You forget about dairy and head for the bakery (烘烤食品) section. Guess what? You just walked into an odor (气味) trap (陷阱)! The odor was cooked up by scientists in a lab.

For years, scientists have been studying the special powers of smell. They found that more than our other senses, smell changes our mood and helps us remember things.

So companies have begun spending thousands of dollars to scent (使充满香味) entire stores. Artificial (人造的) scents are being used to lead customers by the nose. These smells help to get people inside and put them in the mood to buy. They even make customers remember the store later, so they’ll come back for more. Also, many companies have smartly made use of product smells. A company added lemon fragrance to its dish cleaner. They wanted people to think the soap contained “natural” cleaners. It worked!

New uses for smells are being created every day. One bank, for example, gives customers coupons (优惠券) advertising car loans (贷款). To get people to take out a loan, bank officials hope to coat these coupons with the fresh leather smell of a new car. In Australia, telephone offices are putting sweat odor on unpaid bills. Since some people sweat when they’re scared, this smell might remind them of when they were frightened. And they’ll pay the bills right away!

What lies ahead for our noses? Smell scientists are working on some pretty far-out ideas. Would you believe TV sets that produce smells? Or how about scent diets? Certain food smells will fool your stomach into thinking it’s full. Alarm clocks will scent your bedroom with a strong pleasant smell designed to wake you up. Scientists are even working on ways to keep garbage from smelling. Researchers expect scents to help students make more sense of what they’re learning.

And just think. Someday soon, even your homework may smell nice!

1.How do sales methods affect customers in the stores?

2.Why do telephone offices put sweat odor on unpaid bills?

3.What does the author mean by saying “Someday soon, even your homework may smell nice!”?

4. Why does the author write this passage?

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

M: What have you been doing recently, Cathy?

W: I’ve been chatting online with friends. What about you?

M:   56 

W: Why not?

M: Well, my computer is really old, so most software doesn’t work well with my computer.

W:   57 

M: How long does it take to download mp3 files?

W: Not very long at all.

M:   58 

W: Sure, I download at least one program a day.

M: Do you think you could download some for me?

W:   59 

M: Let me see…. Oh, a show called Friends.

W: No problem. Did you know that there are many Friends’ forums (论坛) online?

M: What’s a forum?

W:   60 

E. Do you ever download any TV programs or movies?

F. Come over to mine and I can show you how to use it.

G. It’s a place where you can chat to other people who have similar interests as you.

 阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答案卡相应的位置上（请注意词数要求）。

For most Americans, a clean glass of water is just a faucet (水龙头) away. But for many of the world’s poorest people, it’s hard to get.

2 On Wednesday, the United Nations (UN) marked World Water Day by trying to cut the number of people without good drinking water — one billion human beings worldwide — in half. In the next ten years, the UN will work with governments around the world to reduce the shortage.

Without clean water nearby, many people use water that is not clean. In India, many people bathe and wash their clothes in rivers that are polluted by human waste.

According to the UN, not having enough clean water and sanitation (卫生设施) causes more than three million deaths a year.

“The links between water and human health are powerful,” said Dr Lee Jong Wook, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). “We cannot live without clean water.”

In fact, the International Federation of the Red Cross said that quick reaction after last year’s Asian tsunami (海啸) had stopped disease. The agency provided clean water to nearly 500,000 people in Indonesia and Sri Lanka after the tsunami.

World Water Day was first celebrated in 1993. Since then, it is celebrated each year on March 22.

1.What is the best title of the passage? (No more than 8 words)

______________________________________________________________________________

2.Why can’t many people in the world get clean water? (No more than 10 words)

______________________________________________________________________________

3.Please translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.

______________________________________________________________________________

4.What is the purpose of the writer to mention the tsunami in the sixth paragraph? (No more than 15 words)

______________________________________________________________________________

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5. In your opinion, what can we do to save water? Please make two suggestions. (No more than 25 words)

______________________________________________________________________________

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请你改正下面短文中的错误。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Editor,

I was a happy girl with a warmly family. My parents loved each other although my family was poor. But everything changed when my father fell in love by a young girl about two year ago. Since then, quarrels happen at home almost on every day, left me and my sister crying in despair. I hate that woman which stole my father. I even hope to live with her before my parents separate and take revenge (报复) on him. But sometimes I think that is not right and I really didn’t want my parents to divorce. What should I do? Could you give me hand?

A desperate girl

假如你是某外国语学校高三学生李华。近来，你发现很多同学课间休息时间坐在教室里学习。请你根据以下提示，用英语写信给校长反映这一问题，并呼吁同学们注意学习效率。

1. 反映问题；

2. 你的看法；

3. 你的建议(至少两点)。

注意：

1. 词数120左右；

2. 文中不得提及人名、校名及地名；

3. 信的开头已为你写好（不计入总词数）。

Dear Sir,

I am Li Hua, a senior 3 student in your school. I’m writing to tell you about a problem. ___________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

---What do you say to a weekend in New York?

---_________.

If anybody calls, tell them I’m out, and ask them to _______ their name and address.

The old man, ________ abroad for twenty years, is on the way back to his motherland.