Most people give little thought to the Pens they write with, especially since the printer. In modern homes
and offices mean that very 1 things are handwritten. All too often, people buy a pen based only on 2 ,
and wonder why they are not satisfied 3 . They begin to use it. However, buying a pen that you"ll enjoy is
not 4 if you keep the following in mind.
First of all, a pen should fit comfortably in your hand and be 5 to use. The thickness of the pen is the
most important characteristic (特征) 6 comfort. Having a small hand and thick fingers, you may be
comfortable with a thin pen. If you have a 7 hand and thicker fingers, you may 8 a fatter pen. The length
of 8 pen call 9 influence comfort. A pen that is too 10 can easily feel top-heavy and unstable.
Then, the writing point of the pen should 11 the ink to flow evenly (均匀地) while the pen remains in
touch with the paper. 12 will make it possible for you to create a 13 line of writing. The point should also
be sensitive enough to 14 ink from running when the pen is lifted. A point that does not block the 15 may
leave drops of ink, 16 you pick the pen up and put it down again.
17 , the pen should make a thick, dark line. Fine-line pens may 18 bad handwriting, but fine, delicate
lines do not command 19 next to printed text, as, 20 , a signature on a printed letter. A broad line, on other
hand, gives an impression of confidence and authority (权威). |
( )1. A. many
( )2. A.1ooks
( )3. A. once
( )4. A. convenient
( )5. A. heavy
( )6. A. taking
( )7. A. stronger
( )8. A. prefer
( )9. A. hardly
( )10. A. thick
( )11. A. change
( )12. A. They
( )13. A. thin
( )14. A. prevent
( )15. A. way
( )16. A. so
( )17. A. Meanwhile
( )18. A. show up
( )19. A. attention
( )20. A. at most | B. few
B. reason
B. if
B. easy
B. easy
B. finding
B. weaker
B. recommend
B. allow
B. 1ight
B. allow
B. One
B. rough
B. free
B. Sight
B. as
B. Generally
B. differ from
B. support
B. For example | C. pleasant
C. value
C. because
C. hard
C. hard
C. determining
C. Smaller
C. prepare
C. never
C. 1ong
C. reduce
C. This
C. black
C. protect
C. flow
C. and
C. Afterwards
C. Break down
C. respect
C. in brief | D. important
D. advantages
D. though
D. difficult
D. safe
D. seeking
D. 1arger
D. demand
D. Still
D. soft
D. press
D. Some
D. Smooth
D. Remove
D. Stream
D. Yet
D. Finally
D. compensate for
D. Admission
D. on purpose |
答案
| 1-5: BAADB 6-10: CDABC 11-15: BCDAC 16-20: BDDAB |
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| 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。 | When difficult people express themselves orally, they generally want at least two things: they"ve been
heard and they"ve been understand. As a good communicator should be a good listener, five steps are
advocated toward good listening.
The first step is cooperating (合作). How does a difficult person know that you"re listening and
understanding? In fact, it"s through the way you look and should while he is talking. You may help him to
fully express his thoughts and feelings. You do this by nodding your head in agreement, making certain
sounds of understanding.
When the person begins to repeat what"s been said, it"s signal of step two: turning back. It means that
you repeat back some words he is using, sending a clear signal that you"re listening carefully and that you
think what he is saying is important.
Having heard what he has to say, the next step is clarifying. At this point, you start to gather information
about what is being communicated. Ask some open-ended questions, which will allow you to figure out
what intention he is hoping to satisfy.
The fourth step is to summarize (概括) what you"ve heard. This allows you to make sure that both you
and the difficult person are on the same page. When you do this, two things happen. First, if you"ve shown
that you"re making an effort to understand completely. This increases the possibility of gaining cooperation
from him.
Having listened carefully, you"ve now arrived at the point of confirming with the person that he feels
that his thoughts have been fully voiced. Ask if he feels understood.
When enough sincere listening, questioning, and remembering are brought together, understanding is
usually achieved and a difficult person becomes less difficult and more cooperative. | | Topic | (1)______ to understand | | Reason | Difficult people hope they have been heard and (2)______ when they
express themselves. | (3)______
on listening | ◆(4)______ in agreement and make some sounds of understanding
while a difficult person is speaking.
◆Repeat some (5)______ that you have heard.
◆Collect information about the person"s expressions and find
his (6)______.
◆Give a (7)______ of what the person has said.
◆Confirm that the person gains (8)______ from speaking his
thoughts. | | Result | A difficult person will be (9)______ to cooperate with if
understanding is achieved. | | Comment | You may unlock the doors to difficult people"s (10)______ after you
listen and understand | | 阅读理解。 | For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner.
Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the
line between what I control and what you do?
Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither
is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents" point of view, the only cause of their fight
is their adolescents" complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except
oppositely. Both feel trapped.
In this article, I"ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then
suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples
include the color of the teen"s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child"s
failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends.
Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason
why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn"t matter what the topic is-politics, the laws of
physics, or the proper way to break an egg-the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the
other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority-someone who actually knows something-and
therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know
more than the other, they"ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress. | | 1. Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict? | | [ ] | A. Both can continue for generations.
B. Both are about where to draw the line.
C. Neither has any clear winner.
D. Neither can be put to an end. | | 2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean? | | [ ] | A. The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.
B. The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.
C. The teens accuse their parents of misleading them.
D. The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents. | | 3. Parents and teens want to be right because they want to _____. | | [ ] | A. give orders to the other
B. know more than the other
C. gain respect from the other
D. get the other to behave properly | | 4. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows? | | [ ] | A. Causes for the parent-teen conflicts.
B. Examples of the parent-teen war.
C. Solutions for the parent-teen problems.
D. Future of the parent-teen relationship. | | Cloze. | Parents are busy people. If they are working, they are usually not at home 1______ their children return
from school. Sometimes it is necessary for a parent to write 2______ after-school note for their children.
They sometimes put the note on the kitchen table, the refrigerator, 3______ another place where their children
are sure to find it. A note is often a 4______ way to "talk" with a child than using the telephone. For one thing,
parents have time to think about 5______ they want to say before they write. For 6______ another, the note
lists all the information in one place. It is easy to read again and again. People often forget all the details that
7______ hear in a telephone call. Finally, cell phones can be turned 8______ or telephone calls not answered.
For these reasons, after-school notes are very popular with parents. | Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. | An apprenticeship is a form of on-the-job training that combines workplace experience and classroom
learning. It can last anywhere from one to six years, but four years is typical for most. An apprentice spends
the majority of the time in a workplace environment learning the practical skills of a career from a journeyman-
someone who has done the job for many years. The rest of the apprentice"s time is spent in a classroom
environment learning the theoretical skills the career requires. Being an apprentice is a full-time undertaking.
One of the advantages of apprenticeship is that it does not cost apprentices anything. The companies that
hire them pay for school. What"s more, it offers apprentices an "earn while you learn" opportunity. They usually
start out at half the pay of a journeyman, and the pay increases gradually as they move further along in the job
and studies. Near the end of the apprenticeship, their wages are usually 90 percent of what a journeyman would
receive. Apprenticeship also pays off for employers. It can offer employers a pool of well-trained workers to
draw from.
Despite the advantages, apprentices are usually required to work during the day and attend classes at night,
which leaves little time for anything else. Sometimes, they might be laid off (下岗) if business for the employers
is slow.
Once they have completed the apprenticeship and become journeymen, they receive a nationally recognized
and portable certification and their pay also increases again. Some journeymen continue employment with the
companies they apprenticed with; others go onto different companies or become self-employed contractors. | 
1______2______3______4______5______
6______7______8______9______10______ | | 阅读理解。 | I hated dinner parties. But I decided to give them another shot because I"m in London. And my friend
Mallery invited me. And because dinner parties in London are very different from those back in New York.
There, "I’m having a dinner party" means: "I"m booking a table for 12 at a restaurant you can"t afford and
we"ll be sharing the checque evenly, no matter what you eat. " Worse, in Manhattan there is always someone
who leaves before the bill arrives. They"ll throw down cash, half of what they owe, and then people like me,
who don’t drink, end up paying even more. But if I try to use the same trick, the hostess will shout:"Where
are you going?" And it"s not like I can say I have somewhere to go: everyone know I have nowhere to go.
But in London, dinner parties are in people"s homes. Not only that, the guests are an interesting mix. The
last time I went to one, the guests were from France, India. Denmark and Nigeria; it was like a gathering at
the United Nations in New York. The mix is less striking. It"s like a gathering at Bloomingdale"s, a well-known
department store.
For New Yorkers, talking about other parts of the world means Brooklyn and Queens in New York. But
at Mallery"s, when I said that I had been to Myanmar recently, people knew where it was. In New York people
would think it was a usual new club. | | 1. What does the word"shot" in Paragraph j probably mean? | | [ ] | A. Choice.
B. Try
C. Style.
D. Goal | | 2. What does the writer dislike most about dinner parties in New York? | | [ ] | A There is a strange mix of people.
B. The restaurants are expensive.
C. The bill is not fairly shared.
D. People have to pay cash. | | 3. What does the author think of the parties in London? | | [ ] | A. A bit ummul
B. Full of tricks.
C. Less cosdy.
D. More interesting. | | 4. What is the author"s opinion of some New Yorkers from her experience? | | [ ] | A. Easy-going.
B. Self-centered.
C. Generous.
D. Conservative. | 最新试题
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