Organizing Yourself
Many new students find it hard to do all the study that has to be done；they find themselves putting
off reading assignment, jumping from one subject to another and rarely being quite certain what they are
trying to do during a particular study session.The best way to overcome these difficulties and to start
studying efficiently is to plan your time and organize your work.Let us suppose that you have 15 hours
per week of classes and that you decide to allow yourself a 40hour working week (a reasonable figure,
leaving you 70 waking hours for other activities).
You now have to decide how to divide the remaining 25 hours of private study.Naturally the decisions you make will change from week to week according to what essays have to be written and what reading
has to be done.Many people find it helpful to draw up each week a sevenday timetable showing the
occasions on which they will be working privately and the particular subjects that will be studying on
each occasion.By checking such a plan at times during the week, you can see what you have done and
what you have still to do:the whole plan becomes more manageable.There are a number of places where
you can study college library, public library, home, empty classrooms, on bus or train and each has
several obvious advantages and disadvantages.The college library is least busy in the evening, on
Wednesday afternoon, and all day Friday and Saturday.
When you are deciding where to study, keep the following suggestions in mind:
1. Try to study always in the same place.After a while the familiar surroundings will help you to switch
into the right frame of mind as soon as you sit down.
2. Find somewhere with as few distractions as possible.
3. Make sure that your study place has a good light and is warm (but not hot) and well aired.
1. What"s the main idea of this passage?
A. Plan your time and organize your work.
B. Overcome your difficulties.
C. Be certain what you can do.
D. Find a quiet place for study.
2. A student"s organization of his work will need to change according to________.
A. how many hours he is awake
B. how many subjects are required
C. how many lectures he misses
D. what he has to write and read that week
3. A student is advised to make a weekly plan and to check it from time to time in order to________.
A. see whether he has calculated it properly
B. see what day of the week is
C. see what work still needs doing
D. see how he feels at the whole week
4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a place where you can study?
A. The bus.
B. The train.
C. Home.
D. A public house.
| Title | 1.________ |
| Theme | Effective investigations need highly negotiated teamwork. |
| General rules | ·Keep an open mind to everyone"s 2.________. ·Divide the group task among group members. ·3.________and trust each other. |
| 4.________ | ·Understand and agree to the 5.________task of one"s own. ·Take 6.________for one"s own learning. ·Compare your own observations with those of others. |
| Explore an issue | ·Break the 7.________into several areas. ·Keep records of the sources just in 8.______. ·9.________your information with others via proper files. ·Make all decisions by compromise and agreement. |
| 10.________effectiveness | ·Analyze the strengths and weaknesses. ·Find out the opportunities and challenges. |
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| Go ahead, talk to your dog. As many a dog owner will prove, our furry friends are listening.Now, for the doubters, there is scientific proof that they understand much of what they hear.A border collie called Rico can fetch at least 200 objects by name, researchers in Germany say.The dog also appears to learn words for new objects as easily as a 3yearold child would.Its wordlearning skill is as good as that of a parrot or chimpanzee. In one experiment, the researchers took all 200 items that Rico is supposed to know and divided them randomly into 20 sets of 10 objects each.The dog waited with one of his owners in one room, while an experimenter put a set of 10 objects into another room.Then, the owner told the dog to fetch one of the items. The dog had to go to the other room and bring the object back In four trials, Rico got 37 out of 40 commands right.Because the dog couldn"t see anyone to get visual clues about what to bring back, the scientists concluded that he must understand the meanings of certain words. In another experiment, the scientists took one toy that Rico had never seen before and put it in a room with seven toys whose names he already knew.The dog"s owner then told him to fetch the object, using a word Rico had never heard. In 7 out of 10 trials, Rico picked the right object, suggesting that he figured out the answer by process of elimination.A month later, he remembered half of the new names, which further impressed the researchers. Rico is probably smarter than the average dog, the scientists say.For one thing, he"s a border collie, a breed known for its mental abilities.In addition, the 9yearold dog has been trained to retrieve toys by their names since he was 9 months old. It"s hard to know if all dogs understand at least some of the words we say.Even if they do, they can"t talk back.Still, it wouldn"t hurt to sweettalk your pup every now and then.You might just get a big, wet kiss in return! 1. It is implied that________. A. Rico is probably cleverer than the average dog B. Only a few dogs can talk back to its owner C. if a chimpanzee is trained, it can also recognize the names of objects D. All dogs can understand words 2. How long is it since Rico"s owner began to train him? A. nine months B. 3 years. C. over nine years. D. more than eight years. 3. Rico can do all the following except________. A. understanding the meanings of certain words B. picking the right object by process of elimination C. remembering all of the new names he learned D. retrieving toys by their names | |
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| Willa Cather once said, "When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing; the road is all.That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure.I have never used the computer with the thought that one more task had to be done." Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing.Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from child to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers. "It"s a rather strange thing about the flat country, " she wrote later."It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold.A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall, the country all made to look like a German Christmas card ...But when I come to the open plain, something happens.I"m home.I breathe differently." 1. Willa Cather wrote because she found writing________. A. simple and lively B. opened up a road to success C. neither too hard nor too easy D. interesting and enjoyable 2. What was the place like where Cather grew up? A. It was cold, plain and without a church. B. It was vast, open and flat. C. It was like a German Christmas card. D. It was a colorful world of wild flowers. 3. When she said "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold.", Willa Cather meant that________. A. you either love the place or hate it B. you decide either to stay or to leave C. some find the place warm; others find it cold D. some find the place peaceful; others find it wild 4. What happens when Cather comes to the open plain? A. She breathes differently from others. B. She wants to make the place her home. C. She feels completely comfortable. D. She finds the place similar to her home. | |
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| I find some of the ways in which Chinese parents show love for their children rather surprising. Obviously there are some pretty big differences between our behavior and theirs in this respect. Most Chinese children seem to get whatever they want, from ice creams, sweets and toys to endless attention from the adults around them. Is this a sort of spoiling or love? I wonder. Most westerners would think it is a sort of spoiling rather than love. We think love means educating your children and bringing them up to lead an independent life. That includes learning to accept the fact that he can"t get everything he wants. As an adult, he will not always get the quite expensive car he hunts for; she will not always manage to acquire the beautiful dress she longs for. So we try to teach our children early to cope with the disappointment of not getting what they want. I find too much such kind of love for the children can actually spoil them. To my surprise, it seems that the life of a Chinese child is rather hard. Without doubt, the child is the very center of a whole circle of adults, but on the other hand he or she is also expected to start studying according to adults" wishes. Many children of my son"s age take piano lessons, painting classes and even English lessons. It looks as if Chinese adults think that just playing without learning anything is a waste of time. So in this respect our children appear spoiled, just because they are allowed to play. But without this sort of play how can Western children develop such free and rich imaginations? In fact the connection between this imagination and the creativity is so important in the children" s future life. | |
| 1. In which way do most Chinese children seem to be spoiled? | |
| A. They can be supported by their parents. B. They can play whenever they want. C. They need not behave themselves. D. Their demands can always be satisfied. | |
| 2. In the author"s opinion, the life of a Chinese child is________. | |
| A. rather hard B. rather easy C. independent D. colorful | |
| 3. The author thinks Western children appear spoiled because______. | |
| A. they can manage time by themselves B. they can have the freedom to play C. they can take piano lessons D. they may have expensive toys | |
| 4. The best title of the passage could be________. | |
| A. Chinese children"s early education B. How to develop kids" imagination C. What is the real love for children D. The imagination and creativity |