Making lists is relaxing. It dictates the shape of the immediate future; it calms you down (it’s OK, it’s on a list somewhere) and it makes you feel good when you cross something off List-making is standard practice in therapy for depression). It might even help you to get things done too. The more you have to do, the more you need a list and few people with high-powered jobs get by without them. Women always think they’re better at lists than men. Men tend to have tasks which they assemble ’into Action Plans whereas women just have lists of Things To Do.

James Oliver, psychologist, has created his own “time management matrix (模式)”. He writes a list of things to do and then organizes them into categories: things that have to be done straight away, other things that it would be good to do today, things that are important but haven’t got to be done immediately and things that are less urgent but that he doesn’t want to forget. “Using categories to order the world is the way the human mind works,” he says. “After that, you should divide things into levels of importance.” But he also warns, “If people get too absorbed in making lists, it doesn’t work. They have too many categories and lose their ability to decide which is the most important.”

It’s all a question of what works best for you, whether it’s a tidy notebook, a packet of Post-it notes or the back of your hand. Having tried all these, student Kate Rollins relies on a computerized list, which is printed out each morning. “My electronic organizer has changed my life,” she says. “Up to now, I’ve always relied on my good memory, but now that I’m working and studying, I find I’ve got too much to keep in my head.”

So what are you waiting for? No, you’re not too busy to make today the first day of your upgraded time-managed life. In fact, there’s no better time than the present to begin to take increased control of your work and life. So, get out your pencil and pen and make a list.

1.The main purpose of making lists is to      .

2.We can learn from the passage that    .

3.In this passage the author intends to   .

单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

1.Premier Wen Jiabao s__________ on Sunday that the final ends of the nation's economic growth is to

improve people's well-being

2.Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong is designed to a_____________ 80 million passengers a year.

3.It was impossible to r______________ the ink from the tablecloth.

4.That plane crash o_______________ only minutes after take-off.

5.The invitation was based on her research interests and p______________ experience in the field.

6. There wasn't enough e____________ to prove his guilt

7. No.1 middle school is s______________ in the north of Handan city.

8. It’s time that the government took m____________to reduce carbon dioxide emission.

9. He c_________________ bitterly that he had been unfairly treated.

10.APEC is the most i____________ forum(论坛) in the Asian-Pacific region and one of the most dynamic organizations for economic cooperation in the world.

 假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(/\)，在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

Recently I read an article in a magazine．It was about a mother who was worried about his son just because of he always kept his hair long．The mother thought that was not right，and the son felt there was nothing unusually about it．Different generations have different opinions on the same thing．That is what is meaning by“the generation gap”．We can see them in our daily lives．Most of our parents like listening to old songs when young people prefer pop songs．Every time my father finds me listen to rock music，he always shouted，“Shut it off．It’s awful!”How can we deal the generation gap?

There is a saying, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is ___ gift. That is why it’s called ___present.

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

The sports meet, originally____ be held last Friday, was finally delayed because of the bad weather.

A. thanks to     B. due to     C. owing to    D. according to

---I’ve told her many times, and she still forgot about it!

---I understand. It’s true that she___ be very forgetful sometimes.

A. can   B. should    C. ought to    D. must

 ---Bob isn’t feeling very well. He has caught a cold.

---Everybody seems to have____ because of the sudden change of the weather.

  A. one    B. it    C. that    D. another

 Just like a voyage at sea, our life journey, _____days are limited, is full of difficulties.

   A. its    B. whose     C. which    D. that

 She was so proud a person that she would die___ she would admit she was wrong.

A. rather than    B. until   C. after     D. before

____he wants to say is____ great an effort he has made to help her out.

   A. That; how   B. What; what    C. What; how    D. What; that