I don’t think I deserve so much________(赞扬)．
I won’t change my mind．In a word，I will s________to what I said yesterday．
Maybe you have seen this in schools: Some students study nearly all the time but they just pass their exams, while some others may spend much ltime on their books but do much better in exams. How could this happen? People used to think that hard work is the only way to success. But now they understand that smart work can make them successful, too.
Hard workers don’t mworking for long hours, while smart workers always think of several different answers to these questions. “Why should I suffer this?” “Isn’t there a better way to do this?” Thanks to these people, we can use computers instead of the abacus now. P
in every field is the direct result of “try to find a better way” by smart workers. There was a large soap factory in Japan. Once it received an unusual letter from someone who c
that there was no soap in the soapbox he bought.
How could empty soapbox go out of the factory? The engineers checked the producing and packing. The producing was fine, but in about one in ten thousand cases, the packing machines let an empty soapbox go. There was no need to spend a lot of money repairing the machine for such a small problem. The engineer soon worked out a s. He put a large X-ray (X射线) machine and two large computers to find out the empty soapbox. A
teaching the workers how to use it, he sat down in his seat, exhausted.
“Sir, we could have solved the problems in a much simpler and cheaper way.” a worker said.
“Really? How?” “We can put a huge fan near the packing machine. The wind coming from the fan will blow away the empty boxes and leave the other o with soap. There would be no need for an X-ray machine, two computers, and operating by workers.”
See, this is smart work. In order to succeed, we should not only learn from the engineers’ hard work, but also think smart like the workers.
动词填空用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在答卷标有题号的横线上。（本题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）--- Why didn’t you go to the cinema with us yesterday afternoon?
--- I ______________ (wait) at the station for my uncle from Beijing.What a pity it is _________________(not translate)the novel into Chinese! Teenagers of your age in China must be interested in it.
The flowers you are looking forward to ________________ (sell) out if you don’t order them in time.
The police _________________(search) the whole city for the missing boy at the moment..
He said they ___________________ (not climb) the highest hill if it rained the next day.
You can’t imagine how much difficulty the company had_______ (offer) the graduates more job chances.
It is said that the price of the meat ________________ (rise) in the past 3 months.
---Mum. When can I use the computer?
---Not until it _________________ (repair) the day after tomorrow.
根据句意和汉语注释，在答卷标有题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。He seldom __________ (回复) to the e-mails his friends send him.
To get away from the polluted earth, humans are thinking about moving________ (在某处) else outside it.
The girl has been ________________ (缺席的)from school for a week.
Good ________________ (发音) will impress others and make yourself confident.
(B) 根据句意，在答卷标有题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。I think this is the ___________ (silly) mistake I have ever made.
They didn’t tell us the news. They wanted to keep the secret to ____________(they).[来
One who is always telling the __________ (true) is worth our trust.
Understanding yourself is very important to _______________ (build) self-confidence.