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We are often asked to make a speech in life. Most of us are afraid of it and don"t do a good job. Here are
some simple steps to make your speech a successful one. First of all,find out everything about your subject
and at the same time find out as much as you can about your audience. Who are they? What do they know
about your subject? Put yourself in their shoes as you prepare your speech. Then try to arrange your material
so that your speech is clear and easy to follow. Use as many examples as possible. Never forget your audience.
Don"t talk over their heads or talk down to them. When you are giving your speech,speak slowly and clearly
and look at your audience. Pause for a few seconds from time to time to give your audience chance to think
over what you"ve said. Just remember: be prepared,know your subject and your audience,say what you have
to say and be yourself so that your ideas will bring you and your audience together.
B. listeners
C. viewers
D. trainers
B. follow the audience step by step
C. face the audience in a natural way
D. look up and down from time to time
B. How to Remember the Audience
C. How to Prepare the Material for a Speech
D. How to Pick Out the Topic for a Speech
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aren"t real stars. They"re satellites, a machine that has been sent into space and goes around the Earth, moon,
etc. And the biggest of all is the International Space Station (ISS).
The ISS is the biggest satellite because scientists want to live on it. They think that the best way to learn
more about space is to live there. The space shuttle Discovery has taken off from the Kennedy Space Center
in Cape Canaveral, Florida several times and carried a few groups of astronauts to the International Space
Station.
When the space station is finished, it will be like a city in space. People will stay and study there with many
of the things they have at home. Laboratories, living rooms and power stations are being built. The ISS is the
most expensive space program ever. Millions and millions of dollars are being spent on it every year.
Scientists hope that the ISS will be a stepping stone for future space exploration. "The ISS will help us
better understand the human body, explore (know more about) space and study the earth. It can help us make
life on the earth better," said Kathryn Clark, an ISS scientist.
Sixteen countries are in the program: The US, Russia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and 11 European countries.
China is not an ISS country, but it has helped with some of the experiments. In 2003, China sent some rice
up to the ISS to find out what space would do to it.
Twenty Chinese students talked directly to an astronaut (spaceman) in the International Space Station (ISS)
on radio in Nanjing, capital of east China"s Jiangsu Province on Sunday, 2007. The 20 students, aged 10 to 19
from Shanghai, Guangzhou and Nanjing, began talking to Clayton C. Anderson, a 48-year-old American
astronaut at 18:50 p.m. at Nanjing No. 3 Middle School when the ISS was passing over Nanjing.
After it"s finished, more than 90 percnt of the world"s population will be able to see the space station. So
keep looking up, and maybe you"ll see it get bigger and brighter.
B. some students from Nanjing have been to the ISS
C. China is one of the members in the ISS group
D. the ISS is still in the space but has stopped working
B. machines that go around the earth, the moon and some stars
C. buildings where electricity is produced to supply a large area
D. some countries which help send the ISS up into space
—Because they _______.
B. could talk with some Chinese school students
C. hoped to travel to Mars and Venus some day
D. wanted to live in space and do better research
enough to pass exams. Others didn"t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time
drinking in the Students" Union than working in the library.
Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred
questions. In my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night
before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. "It"s very simple. There
are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I"ll take a coin into the examination
room. I haven"t studied a chemistry book for months, so I"ll just toss the coin. That way, I"m sure I"ll get half
the questions right."
The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked
down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. "Oh, good," he said, "Have you got the result
of the test?" The professor looked at him and smiled, "Ah, it"s you, Baines. Just a minute." Then he reached
into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
"I"m terribly sorry, Baines," he said, "You failed!"
B. there were too many questions for students to prepare for
C. good exam results needs hard study
D. tossing a coin can not always decide the result
B. didn"t work hard enough for their studies
C. had too much other work for the Students" Union
D. were quite good at passing exams
B. he knew the answers already
C. the other students would be behind him
D. he had his way to finish the exam
B. took the other students an hour to finish
C. had more than one hundred questions
D. needed to be done by tossing a coin
B. he wanted to make friends with him
C. his way for the exam would never work
D. the exam result depended on the coin
helped them make the best choice while buying.
Harry borrowed his father"s magazine when he needed a new computer. "I"ll read it and choose the
best one." He said.
The magazine described these computers.
| The DGT PC450 | The BNK 975XF: AT $3, 200 | The CGP 8PT |
 This computer comes with lots of good software. However it does not have much memory and is rather slow. At $2,850 it"s not very good value for money. |  This is the most expensive computer we tested. However it is also far the most reliable (可靠的). It is very fast and has lots of memory. It is worth the extra money if you can afford it. |  At only $1, 900. It has lots of money and is quite fast. However it broke down twice while we were testing it and we cannot recommend (建议) it for reliability. |
| 阅读短文，并按要求完成下列句子。 | ||
| We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals move from one place to another place at a certain time. They move for different reasons: most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded. When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration is probably the migration of fish, which is called "salmon"(鲑鱼).This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mouse. They leave their mountain homes when they become too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea. Recently, scientists have studied the migration of a kind of lobster (龙虾). Every year,when the season of the bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walk across the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go. So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place to another place,but at other times we don"t. Maybe living things just like to travel. | ||
| 1. The reason for most of the animals to move is ____________. 2. Find the word in the passage which means "the movement from one place to another of a large group of animals" and write it down here: ____________. 3. The underlined word "There" in the second paragraph refers to (指的是) ____________. 4. The salmon comes back to its birthplace in order to ____________. 5. The lobsters begin to move to another place when ____________. | ||
| 阅读理解。 | ||
| Do you know why different animals or insects have their special colors? Colors are used mainly to protect themselves. Why can"t some birds easily catch locusts (蝗虫)? It is because locusts change their colors together with the change of the colors of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But as autumn comes, locusts change to the same brown color as crops have. Some other insects with different colors from plants are easily found and eaten by others. So they have to hide themselves for lives in the day and appear only at night. If you study the animal life, you"ll find the main use of coloring is to protect themselves. Bears, lions and other animals can"t be easily seen by hunters. This is because they have the colors much like the trees. Have you ever noticed an even more strange thing? A kind of fish in the sea can send out black liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over, its enemies can"t find it. And it quickly swims away. So it has lived up to now though it is not strong at all. | ||
| 1. From the article we learn that locusts __________. | ||
| A. are dangerous to their enemies B. are easily found by birds C. change their colors to protect themselves D. are small animals | ||
| 2. How can insects with different colors from plants keep out of danger? | ||
| A. They have to move quietly. B. They hide themselves in the day and appear at night. C. They have the colors much like their enemies. D. They run away quickly. | ||
| 3. Bears and lions can keep safe because __________. | ||
| A. they live in forests B. they like brown and grey colors C. they move quietly D. they have the colors similar to the trees | ||
| 4. What does the word "liquid" mean in the last paragraph? | ||
| A. 气体 B. 固体 C. 液体 D. 水蒸气 | ||
| 5. Which is the best title for this passage? | ||
| A. The Main Use of Colors for Animals and Insects B. Colors of Different Animals and Insects C. The Change of Colors for Animals and Insects D. The Change of Different Animals and Plants |