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星期一
Students who say they never or hardly ever used dictionaries often speak English well but usually write poorly, because they make many mistakes.
The students who use dictionaries most do not learn especially well either. The ones who look up every new word do not read fast. Therefore they do not have time to read much. Those who use small two-language dictionaries have the worst problems. Their dictionaries often give only one or two words as translations of English. But one English word often has many translations in a foreign language and one foreign word has many translations in English.
The most successful students are those who use large college edition dictionaries with about 100,000 words but do not use them too often. When they are reading, these students first try to get the general idea and understand new words from the context. Then they reread and use the dictionary to look up only key words that they still do not understand. They use di
The students who use dictionaries most do not learn especially well either. The ones who look up every new word do not read fast. Therefore they do not have time to read much. Those who use small two-language dictionaries have the worst problems. Their dictionaries often give only one or two words as translations of English. But one English word often has many translations in a foreign language and one foreign word has many translations in English.
The most successful students are those who use large college edition dictionaries with about 100,000 words but do not use them too often. When they are reading, these students first try to get the general idea and understand new words from the context. Then they reread and use the dictionary to look up only key words that they still do not understand. They use di
ctionaries more for writing. If they are not sure how to spell a word, or divide it into syllables(音节), they always use a dictionary. Also, if they think a noun might have an unusual plural form, they check these in a dictionary.
1．According to the passage, which of the following is wrong?
A. Dictionaries have little effect on learning to speak English.
B. Whatever new words you meet while reading, never use dictionaries.
C. Small two-language dictionaries have serious disadvantages.
D. Reading something for the first time, you’d better not use dictionaries.
2．This passage mainly tells us _______.
A. that students shouldn’t use small two-language dictionaries
B. what were the defects of small two-language dictionaries
C. why students should use large college edition dictionaries
D. what dictionary students should choose and how to use it
1．According to the passage, which of the following is wrong?
A. Dictionaries have little effect on learning to speak English.
B. Whatever new words you meet while reading, never use dictionaries.
C. Small two-language dictionaries have serious disadvantages.
D. Reading something for the first time, you’d better not use dictionaries.
2．This passage mainly tells us _______.
A. that students shouldn’t use small two-language dictionaries
B. what were the defects of small two-language dictionaries
C. why students should use large college edition dictionaries
D. what dictionary students should choose and how to use it
3．Which is not mentioned in this passage?
A. How to make good use of a dictionary.
B. When to use a dictionary.
C. How to improve spoken English.
D. How to practise reading fast.
星期二
A. How to make good use of a dictionary.
B. When to use a dictionary.
C. How to improve spoken English.
D. How to practise reading fast.
星期二
One morning a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. For this busy man, it was a sort of alarm: after years of non-stop hard work, he might wear himself out and die an early death.
Only after a week’s leave—— during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach—— was Rudenstine able to return to work.
In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Amazingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying: “I am so busy.”
We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselv
Only after a week’s leave—— during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach—— was Rudenstine able to return to work.
In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Amazingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying: “I am so busy.”
We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselv
es and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax—— this has become the model of a successful life.
Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing is with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.
How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week—— for followers of some religions—— for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside.
Rest is s spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.
1. According to Paragraph 4, a successful person is one who is believed to _______.
A. be able to work without stress
Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing is with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.
How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week—— for followers of some religions—— for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside.
Rest is s spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.
1. According to Paragraph 4, a successful person is one who is believed to _______.
A. be able to work without stress
B. be more talented than other people
C. be more important than anyone else
D. be busying working without time to rest
2. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. We should balance work with rest.
B. The Sabbath gives us permission to rest.
C. It is silly for anyone to say “I am busy.”
D. We should be available to our family and friends.
C. be more important than anyone else
D. be busying working without time to rest
2. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. We should balance work with rest.
B. The Sabbath gives us permission to rest.
C. It is silly for anyone to say “I am busy.”
D. We should be available to our family and friends.
星期三
Neatness and personal cleaners have been around for ages and have become an important part of everyone’s daily routine. You might think that all modern societies would have the same neatness and personal cleanness practices. After all, everybody will take baths. Most people do recognize the need for cleanness，which is the basis for health. Ne
atness practices include all the little things people do to make themselves look their best，such as combing their hair and putting on make up. However，while most modern people agree that these things are important，people in different cultures take care of themselves in different ways.
There used to be an old joke in America that people should take a bath once a week，whether they need or not. In fact，though，Americans generally take a bath or more commonly，a shower every day. But in contrast to some cultures，most Americans get their shower in the morning so that they can start the day fresh. Americans are known for having very sensitive noses. In America，body smell is socially unacceptable. For that reason，Americans consider it a must to use special lotion to prevent the smell. Ladies often add a touch of perfume. Men may spray on aftershave cream or manly smelling perfume.
Some of the cultural varieties in neatness practices result from physical differences between races. Whereas many Asian men have little facial hair，Westerners have a lot. As a result，most American men spend some time each day shaving or tidying their facial
There used to be an old joke in America that people should take a bath once a week，whether they need or not. In fact，though，Americans generally take a bath or more commonly，a shower every day. But in contrast to some cultures，most Americans get their shower in the morning so that they can start the day fresh. Americans are known for having very sensitive noses. In America，body smell is socially unacceptable. For that reason，Americans consider it a must to use special lotion to prevent the smell. Ladies often add a touch of perfume. Men may spray on aftershave cream or manly smelling perfume.
Some of the cultural varieties in neatness practices result from physical differences between races. Whereas many Asian men have little facial hair，Westerners have a lot. As a result，most American men spend some time each day shaving or tidying their facial
hair to keep it nice. American women，on the other hand，generally prefer not to be hairy at all.
Americans put great value on both neatness and personal cleanness. For some people，taking care of themselves has become almost a religion. As the old saying goes，“Cleanness is next to godliness.” Whether or not being clean and neat looking brings one closer to God，it certainly at least brings one closer to others. Americans look down on people who don’t take care of themselves，or who “let themselves go.
1．We can infer from the first paragraph that________.
A．sort out the factseveryone takes baths daily to get a nice look
B．people have the same neatness practices today
C．neatness practices may be affected by cultures
D．neatness means combing hair and doing make up
2．According to the author，physical differences between races can cause differences in________.
Americans put great value on both neatness and personal cleanness. For some people，taking care of themselves has become almost a religion. As the old saying goes，“Cleanness is next to godliness.” Whether or not being clean and neat looking brings one closer to God，it certainly at least brings one closer to others. Americans look down on people who don’t take care of themselves，or who “let themselves go.
1．We can infer from the first paragraph that________.
A．sort out the factseveryone takes baths daily to get a nice look
B．people have the same neatness practices today
C．neatness practices may be affected by cultures
D．neatness means combing hair and doing make up
2．According to the author，physical differences between races can cause differences in________.
A．politics
B．locations
C．religions
D．neatness practices
3．The underlined phrase in the last paragraph means “________”．
A．care much about themselves
B．give loose to themselves
C．stay away from other people
D．stay closer to other people
B．locations
C．religions
D．neatness practices
3．The underlined phrase in the last paragraph means “________”．
A．care much about themselves
B．give loose to themselves
C．stay away from other people
D．stay closer to other people
星期四
Ask Steveland Morris and he'll tell you that blindness is not necessarily disabling. Steveland was born prematurely and totally without sight in 1950. He became Stevie Wonder — composer, singer, and pianist. The winner of ten Grammy awards, Stevie is well
known for his outstanding contributions to the music world.
As a child, Stevie learned not to think about the things he could not do, but to concentrate on the things that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join his sighted brothers in as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the visually disabled are so dependent.
Because sound was so important to him, Stevie began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate (模仿) the sound with his voice. Often relying（depending） on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums, played a toy harmonica, and listened to the radio.
Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir and a lead singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues tunes on the front porches of neighbors' homes.
One of Stevie's sessions was overheard by Ronnie White, a member of a popular singin
As a child, Stevie learned not to think about the things he could not do, but to concentrate on the things that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join his sighted brothers in as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the visually disabled are so dependent.
Because sound was so important to him, Stevie began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate (模仿) the sound with his voice. Often relying（depending） on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums, played a toy harmonica, and listened to the radio.
Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir and a lead singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues tunes on the front porches of neighbors' homes.
One of Stevie's sessions was overheard by Ronnie White, a member of a popular singin
g group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Stevie's talent and took him to audition for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville USA, a large recording company now known as Motown. Stevie recorded his first smash hit "Fingertips" in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Stevie's story is music history.
1. This passage could be entitled_____.
A) The Music World
B) Stevie Wonder
C) Great Musicians
D) Blind People
2. Which of the following is NOT true about Stevie's childhood?
A) Stevie often tells people that a blind person is not necessarily disabled.
B) He learnt to concentrate on things that he could do.
C) He played as often as possible with his brothers, who had normal sight.
D) He tried very hard to train his sense of hearing.
1. This passage could be entitled_____.
A) The Music World
B) Stevie Wonder
C) Great Musicians
D) Blind People
2. Which of the following is NOT true about Stevie's childhood?
A) Stevie often tells people that a blind person is not necessarily disabled.
B) He learnt to concentrate on things that he could do.
C) He played as often as possible with his brothers, who had normal sight.
D) He tried very hard to train his sense of hearing.
3. By saying "Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments", the author means
that _____.
A) Stevie finished his study at a toy instruments school.
B) Stevie began to study in a real instruments school.
C) Stevie gave up all his toy instruments and began to buy many real instruments.
D) Stevie started to play real instruments.
4. The author mentions all the following facts EXCEPT that _____.
A) Stevie's neighbours could often enjoy his playing and singing
B) it was Ronnie White that recognized Stevie's talent and led him to a successful career
C) Berry Cordy helped him to set up his own recording company
D) Stevie's parents played a very important part in training his sense of hearing
5. The "Fingertips" _____.
A) recorded Stevie's musical performance that won him instant fame
B) was a record that turned out to be a great success
C) carried the message that the blind could work miracles with their fingertips
D) All of the above
A) recorded Stevie's musical performance that won him instant fame
B) was a record that turned out to be a great success
C) carried the message that the blind could work miracles with their fingertips
D) All of the above
星期五
With a good shopping position and the right amount of money, any educated person ought to be able to make a living out of a bookshop. It is not a difficult trade to learn and the large chain-stores can never force the small bookseller out of existence as they have done to the corner shop. But the hours of work are very long-I was only doing a part-time job, but my boss put in a seventy-hour week, besides regular journeys out of shopping hours to buy books.
The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his b
The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his b
ooks, and that gives him a dislike for them. There was a time when I really did love books—loved the sight and smell and feel of them—if they were fifty or more years old, that is. Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds. There is a peculiar flavour about the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets, or out-of-date geography books. For occasional reading—in your bath, for example , or late at night when you are too tired to go to bed—there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book.
But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop I stopped buying books. Seen in a mass， five or ten thousand at a time , books were dull and even a little tiresome. Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t borrow, and I never buy rubbish.
1. According to the passage, _______ is one of the necessary conditions to run a bookshop.
A. an educated shop-owner
B. a good position at a street corner
But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop I stopped buying books. Seen in a mass， five or ten thousand at a time , books were dull and even a little tiresome. Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t borrow, and I never buy rubbish.
1. According to the passage, _______ is one of the necessary conditions to run a bookshop.
A. an educated shop-owner
B. a good position at a street corner
C. a regular journey out of the shop
D. the force of large chain-stores
2. The author should not like to be back as a bookseller for life because ________.
A. he hated his job of selling books
B. selling books was only a part-time job
C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike
D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold
3. The author will only buy new books ________.
A. if he feels dull and tired
B. after he gives up his job as a bookseller
C. which are interesting but hard to borrow
D. when he throws away old ones
星期六\日 小幽默
D. the force of large chain-stores
2. The author should not like to be back as a bookseller for life because ________.
A. he hated his job of selling books
B. selling books was only a part-time job
C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike
D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold
3. The author will only buy new books ________.
A. if he feels dull and tired
B. after he gives up his job as a bookseller
C. which are interesting but hard to borrow
D. when he throws away old ones
星期六\日 小幽默
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