根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Q&A
Question: I come from a poor family, and my parents do what they can to pay for my education. What I want to do is let my parents live a happy and comfortable life. Where can I find riches? Do I need to leave school and find a well-paid job?
Answer: You are a considerate child. 1 An African farmer heard tales about other farmers who discovered diamond mines. These tales excited the farmer so much that he could hardly wait to sell his farm and hunt for diamonds himself.
So he sold the farm and spent the rest of his life wandering the African continent, searching unsuccessfully for the gleaming (闪烁的)stones. 2
Meanwhile, back on the farm, the man who had bought his farm happened to be crossing a small stream on the farm one day. 3 He picked it up. It was a sparkling stone — a good size stone — and, admiring it, he later put it on his mantel(壁炉架).
Several weeks later, a visitor looked closely at it, then he nearly became unconscious. He told the farmer it was one of the largest diamonds ever discovered. The farmer said that the stream was full of these brilliant stones, and his farmland was covered with them. 4
If the first farmer had taken time to study and prepare himself — to learn what diamonds looked like in their rough state w and to thoroughly explore the farm he had before looking elsewhere, his wildest dreams would have come true. 5
A.I’d like to give you some advice on how to find the riches. |
B.Now do you have any idea of what you should do to find the riches? |
C.Finally, he threw himself into a river and drowned. |
D.However, something special he was carrying dropped into the stream. |
E. Needless to say, the farm turned out to be the most productive diamond mine.
F. Before I answer your questions, I want to tell you a story.
G. Suddenly he saw something gleaming at the bottom of the stream.
下面文章中有5处需添加小标题。请从以下选项(A、B、C、D、E和F)选出适合各段意思的小标题,并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A. It helps you process your emotions.
B. It helps you think big.
C. It clears your mind for higher-level thinking.
D. It makes you more committed.
E. It gives you a record of the past.
F. You gain a sense of achievement.
How Writing Things Down Can Change Your Life
What do you write down? For most of us, writing consists of emails, task lists, and perhaps the odd work project. However, making time to write down certain things, such as our daily experiences, our goals, and our feelings can change the way we live our lives.
Here are five different ways that writing things down can change your life, and what you can do to get the most out of each._____________________
David Allen, productivity speaker and author of Getting Things Done, recommends doing what he calls a “core dump”. This involves writing down every task, activity, and project you need to address. This could range from picking up milk on the way home, to a multi-person project at work. Writing down every “to-do” item you can think of clears space in your head for more important topics.
You can also use a technique called “morning pages”, which was pioneered by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way. Morning pages involves completing three pages (around 750 words) of stream-of-consciousness writing. Through doing this first thing each morning, you clear your head in preparation for the day’s most important thinking. __________________________
Writing down what’s on your mind is a great way to work through inner conflict or process your feelings around a particular situation. It’s similar to talking a situation through with a friend, and it’s a useful way of strengthening your self-soothing (自我安慰)abilities._________________________________
If you keep a journal and regularly write down your thoughts and feelings, you’ll soon have a record of your experiences that you might otherwise have forgotten. Keeping a journal can also enhance your levels of self-trust. When you can look back and see how successfully you’ve traversed and dealt with important decisions and tricky situations in the past, you’ll feel more confident in your ability to do so in the future._____________________________________
If you write down everything you need to do in a particular day or week, you gain an additional sense of satisfaction, when having completed the task, you can cross the item off our list. Feeling productive enhances your productivity and fosters a sense of achievement and progress.____________________________________
No matter what’s going on in your outside world, when you write things down, you enter a world of possibility, which helps you stay motivated and gives you space to think big and aim high. When you write things down, you have a chance to explore dreams and ambitions that you might not feel safe revealing to anyone else yet. You also have a space to keep track of all your ideas and desires so you can return to them later.
Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his or her life, he or she might write in his or her diary. Now a teenager with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog. In many ways, a diary and a blog are almost the same. So, what makes a blog different from a diary?
____ Usually, a teenager treats his or her diary like a book full of secrets. Both diaries and blogs tell what happened to the writer that day.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry exam. ____ Then, after I finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was worried that my sister might read it!
Because a blog is such a public way of writing, it has both good and bad points. ____ If I am angry with a friend during school and write something bad about her in my diary, she will never know. However, if my sister writes something bad about a friend, that friend may read her blog and get angry. __
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A blog has good points, of course. ____ People choose to write in blogs because they know that their friends will read what they write. If I am feeling sad one day and write in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,” no one will know about it. However, if my sister writes the same words in her blog, her best friends will quickly reply and tell her how much they like her.
If People are careful about what they write, blogs are a very good way to write about everyday life. However, I still prefer my old diary!
A.So we have to be very careful of what we write. |
B.When I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but only in my diary. |
C.The biggest problem with a blog is that anyone can read what you write. |
D.The biggest difference is that a blog is much more public than a diary. |
E. Everyone intends to keep his own secret.
F. Blogs help people stay in contact with their friends and hear what the people around them are doing.
G. When we write a diary we usually write down what we have done or how we think of others.
Healthy habits for living longer
By keeping your daily habits healthy, you can add years to your life. Here are some tips for living longer.
Keep daily habits healthy. Many of us are set in our daily habits. We eat the same meal, wear the same clothes, take the same route to work and work the same old job. But what we sometimes fail to recognize is the huge influence that our daily habits can have on our health. It is very important for us to keep our daily habits healthy.
Take some exercise every day. Daily exercise does improve our health. In fact, studies show that daily exercise can add three years to our life. Opportunity for exercise is everywhere—just be creative. Whenever we can, walk to work. It’s really that simple.
Eat a healthy breakfast. Researchers have found that those who eat an early morning meal are less likely to be too fat and get diseases compared with those who don’t.
All in all, eating breakfast is a great and healthy way to start our day.
Have enough sleep. Failing to get at least seven hours of sleep appears to increase the risk of major illnesses including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many more.
Get chances to communicate. Any social communication can positively affect our physical and mental well-being because we can have more time and chances to communicate with others. All of these can add years to our lives.
A.A lack of quality sleep can shorten our life. |
B.Exercise also helps us keep away from illnesses. |
C.If we live or work in a tall building, just take the stairs. |
D.Breakfast-eaters also report feeling better both mentally and physically. |
E. There’s an old saying that says a good friend is cheaper than treatment.
F. Finding time for structured exercise can be pretty much impossible for many people.
G. By making just a few small changes and sticking to them, we can add a few years to our life.
第二节: 根据短文内容,从下面所给的A~F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。
A. Attach more aid to weak schools.
B. Children should share the same educational rights.
C. Heavy load is supposed to be taken off the students’ shoulders.
D. Bring the industrial management of education to an end.
E. Balanced education may stop school choice.
F. Key schools and classes are unreasonable. __________ Education should be intended to make better citizens instead of making money. Money can be earned by starting business. It’s time to abolish the industrialized education so that all the people can benefit from real education.
__________ Concrete measures should be taken to lessen the students’ heavy burden. Not empty talks but concrete and solid policies can guarantee all the students grow soundly.
__________ My parents are farmerturned workers. I think we should be treated equally with the local children. We should have equal chances to go to both the local public schools and take the national college entrance exam rather than go back to our native places.
__________ School choice has become a serious educational problem. To solve this problem, we must stick to the balanced development. The government should offer more support to weak schools and have the teachers exchange among all the schools.
__________ The government’s unwillingness to spend enough money on education makes key schools turn to parents for money to build new buildings and increase teachers’ income, widening the gap between key schools and common schools. Therefore, in order to realize the balance of education, the government should offer more help to weak schools.
阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。下面是几部荣获奥斯卡奖的著名电影,首先请阅读它们的海报信息:
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The Hurt Locker US Army ordnance disposal teams disarm improvised explosive device (IED)placed by Iraqi guerrilla fighters. |
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Slumdog Millionaire TV game—show success fuels one man’s escape from poverty in this Bollywood-tinged romantic drama. |
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The Departed A policeman and a criminal go undercover and infiltrate(渗透) each Other’s worlds in this crime thriller. |
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Dances With Wolves A nineteenth—century soldier learns to respect and then love the Lakota(拉科他族人) way of life |
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Brave heart Thirteenth—century Scot Sir William Wallace takes up the sword to defend his people against the English. |
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Gladiator A slave in ancient Rome finds dignity and a reason to live in gladiatorial combat. |
下面是对这几部影片的简要介绍,请把它们对应的海报找出来:Sergeant First Class William James,a battle.tested veteran,arrives as a new team leader in Bravo company of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.) unit to disarm improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2004,replacing Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson, who is killed by a radio—controlled improvised explosive device in Baghdad.
In AD 180,the dying Roman emperor wishes to grant temporary leadership to Maximus, but was killed by his son,Commodus, Maximus realizes the truth,but unfortunately, he is taken to Zucchabar, a Roman city in North Africa,by slave traders。There,he iS bought by Proximo, and forced to fight for his life as a gladiator in arena tournaments.
In the 13th century,after several years of political unrest,Scotland is invaded and conquered by King Edward I of England.Young witnesses the treachery of Longshanks, survives the death of his father and brother.Twenty or so years later, he led the people to fight against the English army, but finally he was killed.1eaving a shout“Freedom!”
In Mumbai,India,eighteen-year-old Jamal Malik, a former street child from the Juhu slum, is a contestant on the TV show of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.and is one question away from the grand prize.However,he is detained and interrogated by the police,who suspect him of cheating because of the impossibility of a simple“slumdog”knowing all the answers.Jamal recounts the incidents in his life which provided him with each answer.
Colin is introduced to organized crime by Irish mobster Costello.Costello trains him to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police.Colin is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit,which focuses on organized crime.Before Billy graduates from the police academy,he is asked by Captain Queenan to go undercover, as his family ties to organized crime make him a perfect infiltrator.