What is the secret of writing a good letter? Here are two main ones. Don"t try to be fancy. Don"t try to
impress your reader. You will be successful if you follow these seven Cs.
Clear. Use short, direct sentences. 1 Talk as if the reader were right there with you. Above all, don"t use an introduction.
Correct. 2 Don"t guess, even for spelling. Refer to your dictionary. If you need to, check a reference book too. Use them as much as you need to.
Complete. Don"t scatter your points. 3 This is good organization too.
Courteous. Be friendly rather than overly casual. Present your information nicely even if you are
complaining about something. In all letters, treat others as you want them to treat you.
Concise. Make each point as clearly and briefly as you can.
Conversational. This is really the secret of good writing, 4 Such a letter has a natural, friendly tone.
Let your personality come through naturally.
Considerate. 5 Write about what you believe the reader needs or wants to know. Try to be helpful.
This will build good feeling toward you.
The seven Cs are about writing letters. But how about school papers? Use the seven Cs. Write as if
you are talking to your teacher or professor. You"ll be surprised. You"ll almost instantly become a good
writer. And you might even enjoy writing from now on.
B. Think of the readers"point of view as you write.
C. Make them easy to understand.
D. Include long sentences in your letter.
E. Make sure what you say is correct.
F. Writing should not be taken too seriously.
G. Finish one point completely before going on to the next.
Joy in the Journey
If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you
set out to do is not the important thing. Let me 1 .
Two brothers decided to 2 a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to 3 .
"What are you doing?" asked one of the visitors.
"We plan to dig a hole all the way through the 4 !" one of the brothers volunteered 5 .
The older boys began to 6 , telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth
was 7 . After a long silence, one of the 8 picked up a jar full of spiders, 9 and many other kinds
of insects. He 10 the lid and showed the wonderful 11 to the scoffing (嘲笑的) visitors. Then he
said quietly and confidently, "Even if we don"t dig all the way through the earth, look at what we have
found 12 the way!"
Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is 13 a goal is for - to cause
us to move in the direction we have chosen, 14 , to set us digging!
But not every goal will be fully 15 . Not every job will end 16 . Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be 17 . But when you fall short of your aim, perhaps you can say, "Yes, 18 look at what I"ve found along the way! Look at the wonderful things 19 my life
because I tried to do something!" It is in the digging that life is lived. And I believe it is the joy in the
journey, in the end, that truly 20 .
( )2. A. find
( )3. A. rest
( )4. A. house
( )5. A. calmly
( )6. A. laugh
( )7. A. important
( )8. A. passers-by
( )9. A. worms
( )10. A. moved
( )11. A. contents
( )12. A. in
( )13. A. what
( )14. A. other than
( )15. A. made
( )16. A. hopelessly
( )17. A. come true
( )18. A. and
( )19. A. breaking into
( )20. A. matters
B. fill
B. work
B. earth
B. patiently
B. think
B. difficult
B. watchers
B. rabbits
B. removed
B. scenes
B. along
B. how
B. in other words
B. prepared
B. pleasantly
B. realized
B. or
B. turning to
B. happens
C. dig
C. laugh
C. wall
C. excitedly
C. stare
C. impossible
C. visitors
C. wolves
C. broke
C. pictures
C. to
C. where
C. rather than
C. produced
C. surprisingly
C. made
C. but
C. coming into
C. appears
D. search
D. watch
D. road
D. impatiently
D. smile
D. interesting
D. diggers
D. flies
D. pushed
D. jars
D. out
D. which
D. instead
D. achieved
D. successfully
D. predicted
D. so
D. holding to
D. proves
alcohol limit when he crashed his Infiniti SUV into a car stopped at a red light in Beijing May 9. A blood
test showed Gao had 243.04 milligrams of alcohol for 100 milliliters of blood, well over the 80 milligram
limit within a 100 milliliters of blood.
On Tuesday afternoon the man known to million for his harsh (严厉的) comments to participants on
China"s Got Talent had to face the judge himself at Beijing Dongcheng District People"s Court under
China"s newly amended(修改的) Road Traffic Safety Law.
"I"ve nothing to defend myself only regret," he told the courtroom filled with people. "I always thought
alcohol could bring me freedom, but it never occurred to me that drunk driving will rid others of their
freedom. I"ll be responsible for all the loss it has caused. This incident showed my irresponsibility for life. I"m willing to be a volunteer for my life promoting the non-drunk driving."
A day earlier at an administrative(行政的) punishment hearing, wearing an orange detention suit, he
was banned from driving for five years and fined 1, 000 yuan for having an expired(过期的) license.
On May 10 he was pictured at Beijing"s traffic police headquarters where he turned down requests for
interviews, but wrote on a piece of paper, "sorry, never drive when drunk."
Now he has become the first celebrity(名人) to be punished under the tough new rules that came into
effect on May 1. Guo Shudong, the first driver sentenced since the new law was introduced, was jailed
for four months for being twice over the legal limit on May 9.
Gao, famous for campus song "My Deskmate" in the 1990s, was replaced by music producer and
composer Antonio Chen during the recording of China"s Got Talent on May 10.
100 milliliters of blood is not considered to have broken the newly amended Road Traffic Safety Law.
B. over 80
C. below 243.04
D. below 80
B. he was a responsible person as he answered for what he had done actively
C. he used to rely on drinking for relaxation and relief
D. he didn"t feel regretful for what he had done.
B. His comments often made the participants in China"s Got Talent embarrassed.
C. He became famous in the 1990s for a song about school life.
D. His SUV knocked into the car waiting for the light to change.
B. Pity
C. Doubt
D. Hatred
B. Famous Musician Sentenced for-Drunk Driving
C. China Battles Against Drunk Driving
D. Amended Road Traffic Safety Law Came into Effect
everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage of native English speakers is declining
(降低) while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by increasing numbers
of people. But English will continue to remain widespread and important.
However, British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance(主
导) by the middle of this century to rank,after Chinese, about equally with Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu. "The
number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise,but it isn"t rising nearly as fast as
the numbers of many other languages around the world,simply because the main population group has
been largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken," he
says.
In a recent article in the journal Science, Mr. Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the
top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon. These are Bengali,Tamil,and Malay,
spoken in south and southeast Asia.
David Crystal,the author of The Cambridge Encyclo?edia of the English L徵guage, says about
1. 5 billion of the world"s six billion people speak it as a second tongue compared to the 400 million
native speakers. But another expert on the English language says Mr. Graddol underestimates (低估) the
future of its dominance. "All the evidence suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill
and is getting faster,but nobody quite knows what"s going to happen because no language has been in this position before. " he said.
B. be more important than any other language
C. lose its dominant position
D. die away in the near future
B. the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past
C. English language will soon drop in dominance
D. more and more language users will choose English
B. 3.
C. 4.
D. 5
will be most widely spoken?
B. Arabic.
C. Urdu.
D. German.
B. The Future of English? Who Knows?
C. Opinions from Different Experts
D. The English Language Snowball Rolling Down
[2] This is one question millions of people over the globe ask themselves every now and then. It is not
as if you are not working hard, but you simply may not know that there is a difference between work and
productivity. Your plan is what gives you a clear picture of what you are aiming at, but the method of
achieving may vary from time to time. That you did not meet up with a deadline does not mean you were
not working on it. The problem is whether you will be able to manage time.
[3] Before you start on the next activity, task or project, first ask yourself why you want to do what
you are about to do now. You will by this be able to know if the task should be done, and if the timing is
right.
[4] Doing the right thing at the wrong time makes it absolutely wrong. So it is not just enough to do
what is right, also consider . Your time has value, when you spend it on what is right at that instance. On the other hand, the value of your task is when it is done at the right time.
[5] You will feel sorry about the time spent on what was not profitable to you. Time can not be wasted, because it can not be preserved and replaced. You are always doing something with your time. What
matters is the value of what you are doing at the moment with your time.
[6] The desire to make a difference begins with the ability to take the right decision on what to do. It
will become simple if you learn to manage time effectively.
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4. What should be the first step to get some work done? (within 12 words)
5. What does the underlined word "it" (line 4, paragraph 4) probably refer to? (no more than 3words)
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