Have you ever tried to draw a straight line, only to find it turns out all wrong? Or show 1 at a party
but the song you"d practised so many times suddenly 2 more difficult?
I"ve had both these 3 .As a Senior Student, I have to 4 many exams. Each time, I enter one,
thinking "I 5 fail this time.", I get a low mark.
But don"t be surprised-- it"s not 6 we don"t try, or do enough preparation, 7 take it seriously. On the
contrary, it is because we put ourselves under too much 28 . It is thinking:" I must..." that makes us taste
the terrible flavor of 9 .
We often 10 to our friends:"Don"t be too hard 11 yourself!" But when we 12 our own goals, we
may not listen to our own advice.
In doing so, we are making our path to success increasingly difficult.
So why not 13 this crazy pursuit to get the best? Just face the problem 14 before you with a calm
mind ,enjoy the hard work and you will succeed.
In my opinion, 15 a calm state of mind is a skill for life. For people who want to succeed, 16 this is
a very important lesson.
So 17 time when you"re trying to draw a straight line or 18 a performance, tell yourself:"If I can just
do it better than last time, it"s a 19 ."
Keep a calm state of mind, and you will be happy 20 you succeed or fail. |
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( )2. A. looks
( )3. A. experiences
( )4. A. finish
( )5. A. can"t
( )6. A. why
( )7. A. and
( )8. A. care
( )9. A. exams
( )10. A. say
( )11. A. off
( )12. A. share
( )13. A. throw away
( )14. A. waiting
( )15. A. keeping
( )16. A. trying
( )17. A. last
( )18. A. put on
( )19. A. success
( )20. A. if | B. off
B. appears
B. chances
B. win
B. may
B. since
B. or
B. power
B. difficulty
B. speak
B. on
B. achieve
B. get away
B. sitting
B. staying
B. realizing
B. what
B. play on
B. task
B. either | C. out
C. listens
C. time
C. take
C. shouldn"t
C. when
C. but
C. pressure
C. marks
C. tell
C. to
C. build
C. take away
C. lying
C. remaining
C. using
C. next
C. give on
C. lesson
C. neither | D. in
D. becomes
D. difficulties
D. join
D. haven"t
D. because
D. nor
D. attention
D. failure
D. talk
D. for
D. set
D. let away
D. laying
D. making
D. training
D. high
D. show on
D. hit
D. whether |
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试题【完形填空 Have you ever tried to draw a straight line, only to find it turns out 】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 阅读理解 | Do you enjoy reading? Here readers of your age from all over the United States recommend (推荐)
great books for you to read:
My favorite book is Don"t Die, My Love by Lurlene McDaniel. I love all her books, but this was the
first one I read and I have to say, it is by far my favorite. It doesn"t end like other books, and I cried while reading.
I think Nancy Drew is great! Nancy is a detective (侦探) who has many fantastic ideas! I love it
because it"s a book from when my grandma was my age, and I can share the fun with her!
I highly recommend Skinny Bones by Barbara Park. It is funny so please add it on your book list.
You don"t want to miss out funny stories!
I would suggest ______ by Judy Blume. It is based on real things that happened to Judy Blume. It is
about a girl, Alice, who meets some girls at a new state. They become friends, make a club and meet
once a week. They stop after two weeks because they all like a boy in their class and put him as number
one. I think every girl should read this because it is about our growing up.
I read a book called Neela: Victory Song and it was so good I read it twice! It takes place in India
in 1936 and this 12-year-old girl named Neela tries to save her father! It has lots of history in it! I also
learned a lot about different cultures! The author"s name is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
1. According to the reader, Skinny Bones can be described as a ________ story.
A. sad
B. history
C. funny
D. detective
2. From which book can we learn different cultures?
A. Skinny Bones.
B. Nancy Drew.
C. Don"t Die, My Love.
D. Neela: Victory Song.
3. The best name of the 4th book is ________.
A. My Secret
B. Growing Trouble
C. Three Friends
D. Alice Learns a Lesson
4. Which is TRUE about Nancy Drew?
A. It doesn"t have a common ending like other books.
B. It"s based on real things that happened to the author.
C. It"s about a12-year-old girl who tries to save her father.
D. Both the reader and the reader"s grandma love this book. | | 阅读理解 | Character (品质), courage and confidence are words you might use to describe your heroes. These
words can describe you! Take action as follows and you"ll be a hero, too!
Part 1: Character
Character is something that makes you the person you are-like being honest, friendly, and helpful. See
the chart (表格) below. On the left is our standard of good character. Write down your promise for each
line on the right. Then, get a witness (证人) to sign it. Put it up where you"ll see it every day and do your
best to keep it.
| To build (培养) your character | Your promise | | I will do my best to … | | | be honest and fair. | eg. I"ll tell the truth when mom asks if I have finished my homework. | | be friendly and helpful. | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | be polite and kind. | eg. I"ll show good manners in class. | | be courageous and strong. | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | … | … | | 阅读理解 | I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year - round sun. You may think People ,n such an
attractive, fun - filled place are happier than others. If so you have some mistaken ideas about the
nature of happiness.
Many intelligent people still think fun equals happiness. The truth is that fun and happiness have
little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience
after an act. It is a deep, long-lasting emotion.
Going to an amusement park or a ball game, watching a movie or television are fun activities that
help us relax, temporally forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness,
because their positive effects end when the fun ends.
I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has
nothing to do with fun. They have constant access to exciting parties, fancy cars, expensive homes,
everything that spells "happiness" But in memoir(回忆录) after memoir, they expose Ac unhappiness
hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages and loneliness.
Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying.
If he is honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite
painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they
are not its most distinguishing features.
Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful
happiness. They can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples with babies
are lucky to get a whole night" s sleep. I don"t know any parent who would choose the word fun to
describe raising children.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most
liberating realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities
that can truly increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that
will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it frees us from envy: we now
understand that all those rich and famous people we were so sure are happy because they are always
having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Fun and happiness.
B. Success and satisfaction.
C. Marriage and commitment.
D. Entertainment and responsibility.
2. The author probably agrees that ____.
A. fun creates long - lasting satisfaction
B. long - standing fun may lead to happiness
C. fun is short-lived while happiness is long-lasting
D. fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness
3. What does the author think of marriage?
A. It ends in pain.
B. It means commitment.
C. It affords greater fun.
D. It leads to raising children.
4. If one gets the real meaning of happiness, he ____.
A. will start a business
B. won" t place too much value on money
C. will seek for freedom
D. won"t devote himself to his family | | 阅读理解 | Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our
environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To
some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius
out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment
will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of
person"s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his
environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent  something we are born with. The closer the
blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligence. Thus if we take
two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be
completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as
intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar
intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might
send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the wor k is boring. We would
soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays
a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other,
but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.
1. The writer is in favor of the view that man"s intelligence is given to him_________.
A. at birth
B. through education
C. both at birth and through education
D. neither at birth nor through education
2. If a child is born with low intelligence, he can_________.
A. become a genius
B. still become a genius if he should be given special education
C. not reach his intelligence in his life.
D. reach his intelligence limits in rich surroundings
3. The example of the twins going to a university and to a factory separately shows_________.
A. the importance of their intelligence
B. the role of environment on intelligence
C. the importance of their positions
D. the part that birth plays
4. The best title of the passage can be __________.
A. Surroundings
B. Effect of education
C. Dependence on Environment
D. Intelligence | 短文填词
Last week,we talked about different kinds of short stories.
Many of you said you liked the________(美国的):
writer Earnest Hemingway,who is w________known
for short stories.I hope you all f________my advice
and finished reading his story.We"re going to study it
together in today"s lesson.Now since you________
supposed to have read this story,let"s have some
________(讨论). Please look at the three
q________on the blackboard.First,when and where
does the story________place?Second,what kind
of the person does he show________(自己) to be?
Third,what is the writer"s main purpose of
________(写) the story?I"d like you to work
________pairs and present your answers in ten |
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