阅读理解。 There are only two reasons people cannot achieve their goals: The goal
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people don"t break them into small enough pieces. So all we need to do is to try our best...
Have you ever watched a quitter in a boxing match-a man who just gives up and walks away? The
whole crowd boos. They throw drink bottles and bits of hot dog into the ring. They don"t throw things
because he lost. They throw things because he quit. In our hearts we all believe that we should do our
best.
Eric Moussambani swam for Equatorial Guinea (赤道几内亚) at the 2000 Olympics. This was the
first time Eric had swum a 100-metre race. He swam with his head out of the water and he barely kicked
his legs. In the first lap he was really struggling (挣扎). In the second he was nearly drowning (沉没).
But Eric was fighting with everything he had.
At the turn, the large audience began to shout and with every stroke (划水) the noise got louder and
louder. Twenty meters from the finish, Eric was hardly moving but the crowd was crazy. When he finally
hit the wall, the cheering and stamping all but lifted the roof off the stadium. His time of 1 minute 52
seconds was about a minute slower than all the other competitors. Who cared? Eric Moussambani had
done his best.
When you make an honest effort, people support you. You feel happier when you do your best. Think
about what it feels like walking to school on those days when you have done all of your homework and
done it as well as you can. Don"t you feel just a bit more interested about school? Why? Because you are
always happier when you make a 100 percent effort, whether it"s for an essay or a basketball game.
Your teachers will tell you"Work hard!" and your parents will probably tell you "Work hard." But you
don"t work hard to please your parents and teachers. The big reason you do it is for you. If you get good
marks, that"s a prize. If other people notice, wonderful! But the main reason is how you feel about yourself.
Even when you do your best, it is not certain that you will succeed. You may do your best, and still
be criticized. You may do your best, and still have people laugh at you. But when you do your best, the
reward is that feeling that says, "I did everything I could."
B. the match ends earlier than expected
C. the match is not wonderful
D. the quitter fails to show sportsmanship
B. they wanted to cheer him on
C. he was the last one in the competition
D. he had not mastered basic swimming skills
B. The audience was very angry when Eric lost the 100 meter race.
C. If you have done your school work, you will surely get high marks.
D. When you make an effort in a basketball game, you"ll feel happier.
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more pleasant.
And yes, it"s good to get along with your teacher because, in general, it"s smart to learn how to relate to
the different kinds of people you"ll meet throughout your life.
But really, there"s one super-important reason why you should get along with your teacher. When you do,
"learning bursts right open," says Evelyn Vuko, a longtime teacher who writes an education column called
"Teacher Says" for the Washington Post newspaper.
In fact, kids who get along with their teachers not only learn more, but they"re more comfortable asking
questions and getting extra help. This makes it easier to understand new material and do your best on tests.
When you have this kind of relationship with a teacher, he or she can be someone to turn to with problems,
such as problems with learning or school matters, such as bullying (欺凌弱小者).
As a kid in a primary or middle school, you"re at a wonderful period in your life. You"re like a sponge
(海绵), able to soak up lots of new and exciting information. On top of that, you"re able to think about all
this information in new ways. Your teacher knows that, and in most cases, is very excited to be the person
who"s giving you all that material and helping you put it together. Remember, teachers are people, too, and
they feel great if you"re open to what they"re teaching you. That"s why they wanted to be teachers in the
first place---to teach!
Some kids may be able to learn in any situation, whether they like the teacher or not. But most kids are
sensitive (敏感的) to the way they get along with the teacher, and if things aren"t going well, they won"t
learn as well and won"t enjoy being in class.
B. How to make the time in the classroom more pleasant.
C. How important to have a good relationship with teachers.
D. How to get a long well with teachers.
B. take hold of
C. look for
D. think about
B. If you find it comfortable to ask questions, you can build a good relationship with teachers.
C. If you are getting on well with your teachers, you have more problems than others.
D. If you do your best on tests, you can build a good relationship with teachers.
B. Having a bad relationship with teachers does some harm to your studies.
C. Teachers are excited even if you wouldn"t like to accept their teaching.
D. Teachers sometimes have the same feelings as students do.
One night, I wondered what it would be like if I only asked questions. I decided that no matter what
anyone said to me the next day, I would reply only with 1 .
I loved to read about scientists and their discoveries, and I knew that scientists always started their
research with a question. I hoped that I could become a scientist. Maybe by asking questions, I could train
my mind to be 2 .
I survived the morning easily. "Is there any egg?" I answered when my mother asked what I wanted for
breakfast. "Is this seat taken?" I asked when my friend Mike asked where he was going to 3 on the bus.
In the classroom, Mr. Black spoke slowly and clearly while I listened carefully. The problem had been
part of my homework the night before. I wrote the answer on the board, "Could the answer be 361?"
Mr. Black smiled and nodded. I thought, "How did I 4 to get through that?" I almost laughed because
asking questions really was starting to become a 5 .
I thought I had made it safely through the whole day, 6 what I had come to consider my experiment
blew up at the dinner table when my dad asked me about my day. "What do I always do?" I replied.
My parents looked at each other. My father 7 again. "Well, I hope you went to school," he said.
"Uhhh … why would you think otherwise?" I asked. My parents exchanged another 8 and were
becoming annoyed.
"Do you think questions are a good way to train your mind to be active?" I asked.
"It 9 the question," said my father. "Some questions are asked for 10 information. Those are good
mind-training questions. Sometimes, people use questions to get the other person to say something.
Sometimes people ask questions to get someone to agree with them. Those questions don"t really achieve
anything."
"I guess my experiment didn"t work," I said, and I told my father about my 11 .
"I think it worked 12 !" my father said. "You made a discovery, didn"t you? What matters is that you
have put your idea into practice."
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| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Picky, Picky Scientists have no idea exactly why birds choose certain objects to build their nests. But scientists know that the main reason birds build nests is to keep their babies safe, warm and healthy. Baby birds grow faster and are healthier when they are warm. They also learn to fly and leave the nests sooner than birds without warm homes. What A Yarn (纱) Yarn is big on an oriole"s shopping list during nest building. Scientists are still trying to work out why so many birds choose white yarn over other colors for nest building. Scientists think that the white objects remind birds of cotton fluff (绒毛) they find in the wild. Do It Naturally Even though birds can help us recycle some of our junk by using it to build nests, they also need to use lots of natural things. Long grass, dried sticks, spider"s silk and mud are some of the natural ingredients that are good for nests, too. You can make a collection box of things to leave for birds so they can help themselves. Hang a small plastic box with holes on a tree branch. Fill the box freely with nest building goodies. Hang the box on a tree and watch birds climb on board to pick through the junk to find their treasures. Warning: Don"t let the birds turn into a tasty treat. Keep your bird station away from places where cats hang out. For The Birds! Stop! Don"t throw all that garbage out! Give some to the birds. Look and see how your old junk can help beautify and warm a bird"s new home. | |||
| 1. The baby birds with warm homes are able to _____. | |||
| A. choose right objects B. leave the nests sooner C. build good nests D. learn to fly higher | |||
| 2. What can people make for birds to build nests? | |||
| A. Holes on the tree. B. Food out of the rubbish. C. A warning board. D. A collection box of things. | |||
| 3. What can we learn from the passage? | |||
| A. Birds build nests to store things. B. Birds regard white objects as cotton. C. Birds and humans can help each other. D. Birds and cats fight against each other. | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Millions of young people are writing blogs. Millions of others are reading them. The word "blog" is a short way of saying Web log. Many popular Web sites now offer free, easy ways to create personal Web pages and fill them with writings and pictures. Web sites called "Facebook" and "My Space" are some of the most popular blog sites for young people. Many young adults use their blogs to write about daily activities and events in their lives. They also provide a place for people to write their ideas and opinions and how they think of others" ideas. Blogs offer young people a place to show their writings and feelings. They can also be helpful to connect young people with others. But blogs can become dangerous when they are read on the Internet by millions of people all over the world. Recent studies show that young people often provide their names, age and where they live on the Internet. That may not be safe for them. This personal information puts them at risk of being searched out by dangerous people who want to hurt them. Many students do not know about privacy and are surprised to learn that adults can read their personal daily records easily. Students can also get into trouble when they put information about others on their blogs. As a result, many schools have banned the use of blogging web sites on school computers. Many schools have also begun teaching parents about the web sites. Parents should know what their children are doing online and should read their blogs to make sure they are not giving out private information. One way to keep away from these problems is to use programs so that blogs can be read by "friends only". People can read the website only if they know a secret word chosen by the blogger. | |||
| 1. Blogs may be dangerous because _______. | |||
| A. they get in the way of studies B. they are not allowed for school students C. surfing the Internet is bad for eyes D. personal information can be found in blogs easily | |||
| 2. The underlined word"banned" in Paragraph 5 may mean _______. | |||
| A. allowed B. encouraged C. refused to allow D. tried | |||
| 3. This passage is mainly about _______. | |||
| A. the safety of children"s blogs B. how to search the internet C. students" behavior at school D. communicating with parents at home | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Sorry to say, our brains naturally start slowing down at the young age of 30. It used to be thought that this couldn"t be helped, but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster. "Your brain is a learning machine," says University of California scientist Dr. Michael Merzenich. Given the right tools, we can train our brains to act like they did when we were younger. All that"s required is the practice designed just for the purpose: a few exercises for the mind. Merzenich has developed a computer-based training method to speed up the process (过程) in which the brain deals with information (positscience.com). Since much of the data we receive comes through speech, the Brain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to better speed and accuracy (准确性). Over the course of training, the program starts asking you to distinguish (tell) sounds (between "dog" and "bog", for example) at an increasingly faster speed. It"s a bit like tennis instructor, says Merzenich, hitting balls at you faster and faster to keep you challenged. You may start out slow, but before long you"re pretty quick. The biggest finding in brain research in the last ten years is that the brain at any age is highly plastic. If you ask your brain to learn, it will learn. And it may even speed up while in the process. To keep your brain young and plastic you can do one of a million new activities that challenge and excite you:playing table tennis or bridge, doing crossword puzzles, learning a language...."When it comes to preventing ageing, you really do "use it or lose it"," says Barbara Sahakian, professor at Cambridge University. | |||
| 1. People"s brains _______ according to the new studies. | |||
| A. will not start slowing down until the age of 30 B. will start working slowly after the age of 30 C. can work as well as at a young age through certain exercises D. can not be improved once they start to slow down | |||
| 2.What can we learn from the text? | |||
| A. Using right tools is important for brains" work. B. Brain research deals with information from the Internet. C. Dr. Merzenich is a scientist in computer. D. Many activities can keep our brains young. | |||
| 3. Which of the following agrees with the writer"s idea? | |||
| A. The train methods work better for the old. B. People should use the brain to stop it from ageing. C. The training of the brain should start at an early age. D. It is necessary to take part in as many activities as possible. |