阅读理解。 What time is it? Most people are pretty accurate in their answer. And
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What time is it? Most people are pretty accurate in their answer. And if you don"t know for sure, it"s a
very likely that you can find out. There may be a watch on your wrist, there may be a clock on the wall,
desk, or computer screen; or maybe you"re riding in a car that has a clock in the dashboard (仪表板).
Even if you don"t have a timepiece of some sort nearby, your body keeps its own beat. Humans have an
internal clock that regulates (调节) the beating of our heart, the pace of our breathing, the discharge (排出)
of chemicals within our bloodstream, and many other bodily functions.
Time is something from which we can"t escape. Even if we ignore it, it"s still going by, ticking away,
second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour. So the main issue in using your time well is, "Who"s in
charge?" We can allow time to slip by and let it be our enemy. Or we can take control of it and make it our
ally.
By taking control of how you spend your time, you"ll increase your chances of becoming a more
successful student. Perhaps more importantly, the better you are at managing the time you devote to your
studies, the more time you"ll have to spend on your outside interests.
The aim of time management is not to schedule every moment so we become slaves of a timetable that
governs every waking moment of the day. Instead, the aim is to make informed choices as to how we use
our time. Rather than letting the day go by, largely without our awareness, what we are going to discuss
next can make us better able to control time for our own purposes. |
| 1. The underlined word "ally" in Para. 3 more likely means somebody or something that is _____. |
A. your slave and serves you
B. your supporter and helps you
C. under your control and obeys you
D. under your influence and follows you |
| 2. The author intends to tell us that time ______. |
A. could be regulated by a timepiece such as a clock or a watch
B. could be managed by the internal clock of human bodies
C. should be well managed for our own interest
D. should be saved for outside interests |
| 3. In the next part, the author would most probably discuss with you ______. |
A. how to keep up with the times
B. how to make up for lost time
C. how to have a good time
D. how to make good use of time |
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It is often necessary to release a fish, that is, set it free after catching, because it is too small, or you just
don"t want to take it home to eat. In some cases, releasing fish is a good measure that will help keep fish
variety and build their population size. The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) encourages
fishermen who practice catch-and-release fishing to use a few simple skills when doing so. The advice
provided below will help make sure that the fish you release will survive (存活) to bite again another day.
-When catching a fish, play it quickly and keep the fish in the water as much as possible.
-Don"t" use a net in landing the fish and release it quickly to prevent it from dying.
-Hold the fish gently. Do not put your fingers in its eyes. Don"t wipe the scales (鱼鳞) off the fish
because it might cause it to develop a disease and reduce its chance of survival.
-Remove your hook (鱼钩) quickly. If the hook is too deep or hooked in the stomach, cut the line and
leave the hook in. The hook left inside will cause no serious problem to the fish.
-Take good care of the fish by moving it gently in water. Release the fish when it begins to struggle and
is able to swim.
-Do not hold fish in a bucket or some other containers and later decide to release it. If you are going to
release a fish, do so right away. With a little care and by following the suggestions given above, you can
give the released fish a better chance of survival. |
| 1. People sometimes set a fish free after catching it because they ______ |
A. don"t want it to die
B. hope it will grow quickly
C. don"t want to have it as food
D. want to practice their fishing skills |
| 2. Which of the following will probably make a fish ill? |
A. Taking the hook off it.
B. Removing its scales.
C. Touching its eves.
D. Holding it in your hand. |
| 3. A proper way to release a fish is to ______. |
A. move it in water till it can swim
B. take the hook out of its stomach
C. keep it in a bucket for some time
D. let it struggle a little in your hand |
| 4. What is the purpose of the test? |
A. To show how to enjoy fishing.
B. To persuade people to fish less often.
C. To encourage people to set fish free.
D. To give advice on how to release fish. |
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2005. You have a job, a family and you"re about 40 years old welcome to your future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. "Turn red," you say. Your shirt changes from
sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change
its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you"re 40. You look much younger. With amazing
advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You"re not even middle-aged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you bear, "To lose weight,
you shouldn"t eat that," from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic (电子源码) on the cereal box to find
out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. "Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?" A list of
possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.
"Ready for your trip to space?" you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts
went into space-and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your
best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you "The doctor said you need
these for space travel" Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past.
Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids bead for the front door.
It"s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors "My office.
Autopilot," you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway.
You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news down loads and fills the viewer. Looking through
the pages you watch the news as video film rather than read it. |
| 1. What changes the color of your shirt? |
A. The mirror.
B. The shirt itself.
C. The counter.
D. The medicine. |
| 2. How do the shoes know that you shouldn"t eat the breakfast cereal? |
A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl.
B. By listening to the doctor"s advice.
C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.
D. By checking the nutrition details of the food. |
| 3. The strawberries the children eat serve as _____. |
A. breakfast
B. lunch
C. vaccines
D. nutrition |
| 4. How is the text organized? |
A. In order of time.
B. In order of frequency.
C. In order of preference.
D. In order of importance. |
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I fell in love with England because it was quaint (古雅)-all those little houses, looking terri-bly
old-fashioned but nice, like dolls" houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London.
I"ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it"s an ugly town now.
Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good man-ners.
The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good man-ners-people
shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.
I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You"re forced to live indoors. In Paris
I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub,
and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.
As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public trans-port
after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I"m afraid.
The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and
that"s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles
away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone. |
| 1. The writer doesn"t like London because she _____. |
A. is not used to the life there now
B. has lived there for seventeen years
C. prefers to live in an old-fashioned house
D. has to be polite to everyone she meets there |
| 2. Where do people usually meet their friends in England? |
A. In a cafe.
B. In a restaurant.
C. In a nightclub.
D. In a pub. |
| 3. The underlined part "it" (in Para. 4) refers to _____. |
A. a taxi
B. the money
C. a bomb
D. public transport |
| 4. The writer took her neighbour to France for Christmas because he _____. |
A. felt lonely in England
B. had never been to France
C. was from a typical French family
D. didn"t like the British idea of family |
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Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out
for that particular brand (品牌) of product on the shelf.
Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are
packaged (包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream
packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the
customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in
a dark blue and white package-blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn"t contain as much as it appears
to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the
product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it"s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears
soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: "Any
fool can make soap, but it takes a genius (天才) to sell it." |
| 1. Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text? |
A. The cost of its package.
B. The price of the product.
C. The colour of its package.
D. The brand name of the product. |
| 2. The underlined part "the colours turned the customers off"(in Para. 3 ) means that the colours _____. |
A. attracted the customers strongly
B. had weak effects on the customers
C. tricked the customers into shopping
D. caused the customers to lose interest |
| 3. Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales? |
A. The way to promote goods.
B. The discovery of a genius.
C. The team to produce a good product.
D. The brand name used by successful producers. |
| 4. Which of the following would be the best title for this text? |
A. Choice of Good Products
B. Disadvantages of Products
C. Effect of Packaging on Shopping
D. Brand Names and Shopping Tricks |
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( )1. Mike spent his children mostly in his father"s study, where he read novels by British and American
writers. Next term he will become a senior student. He thinks it"s time that he read more of their works
andlearned to write about them.
( )2. Joseph is good at the language arts, and in his spare time he likes to write short stories. It is his wish
that his stories would be printed in local newspapers. So he is thinking of taking a course to develop his
writingskills, such as wording and paragraph organization.
( )3. A lively and caring girl, Anna takes an active part in social activities. She is trying to write reports
fornewspapers about what she sees and hears. But few of them are accepted because of poor organization
ofinformation. She feels the need to improve her writing and communication skills next term.
( )4. Ian traveled worldwide with his parents when he was very young. Under their influence, he becomes
greatly interested in stories of travel and adventure.He hopes to write his own stories in the future. So next
term, he will choose a course to study the best writing of this type.
( )5. Susan comes from China. As a junior back home, she wrote quite a lot of short stories, some of
which were published in newspapers. Her parents suggest she read some classics by Asian and Western
writers. She thinks it helpful in her writing. So she is going to take a course of this kind next term. |
THOMSON HIGH SCHOOL
A
Creative Writing
—by Mrs.A McClellan
Creative writing is a course in which we
study and apply the methods used in various
forms of fiction writing. Writing is a skill of
art in itself. We are guided by Ezra Pound’
sopinion:“Make it new.” Creative writing does
not only provide us with an opportunity to
express ourselves, but also holds our attentionto
word choice, paragraph development, and other
skills useful in writing. | D
Technical Writing
—by Mr.J.Allen
What is technical writing? It is the course
devotedto improving your communication
skills in, for, and through technology.
Activities for this course will help you develop
communication skills that arenecessary for
writers and speakers working with technology
or in business.
| B
Journalism
—by Dr.E.Brandt
Journalism is a course for seniors, in which
we will cover how to gather, write, and
reportthe news. We will discuss how information
is,or can be, organized.This course also aims
todevelop communication skills required of
journalists.
| E
Non-fiction
—by Dr.M.Timm
The course is a study of non-fiction through
reading many different types of non-fiction.
The course will also be about the possible
changes injournalistic reporting and the sharing
of personalstories of various people on various
topics such as travel and adventure.We will
examine some ofthe best writing in the world
and deal with thetechniques used in this text type. | C
American & British Classics
—by Dr.E.Walter
A classic is a literary work that has stood
thetest of time. Generations of readers have
turned to classics to discover that which is
ever-lasting.Through both the works themselves
and the peoplethey mirror, we may better be
able to see ourselves.In this course, we will read
words in both British and American literature
(文学). We will write reviewsof what we read.
| F
World Literature
—by Mrs.
A.McClellanWorld Literature examines the
common people found in quality literature
worldwide, from Europe to America, from
Asia to Africa, andintroduces a variety of
culture of background or different paints in
history.In these worlds, we find not only what
is unique to each culture, but what is universal.
We are also able to tell what makes for a good
story, no matter fromwhere or whom the story
springs. |
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