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What do we really mean by being open? Being open is a kind of invitation to others to come in, to speak and to share. It is important in letting others get to know how we think and feel. In this way we will be understood and accepted by others. If we aren’t open with others, we won’t fully believe in ourselves or others.
Here are a few ways for you to be more open. First, make your outside behavior the same with your inside feelings and thoughts. Second, share how you really feel about something instead of just opinions. Third, try to change your questions into statements(陈述) and talk in the first person so that people will understand you more easily. For example, you might say, “I feel happy that you’re here,” instead of, “Are you glad that you’re here?” Finally, try not to say, “I don’t know.” This usually means I don’t want to think about it any more.
Remember also that it is not suitable to be open with everyone in every situation. You may want to be more open with close friends, but not with people you don’t know well, because you are not sure how someone else will use what they know about you. Besides, some people may not be used to too much openness. If we say everything we feel or think to them, they will feel very uncomfortable at times.
In all, being open is a good way for us to get on well with other people, but we’d better keep the balance between being open and not being too open.
| Title: Being open |
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| Meanings of being open |
Show others Let others ___ Believe in ourselves and others by being open. |
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Make your inside feelings and thoughts. Try to share your Make statements instead of person. Try not to say, “I don’t know.” |
| Reasons for not being too open |
Someone may use your You will make them feel very uncomfortable |
| Conclusion: It will |
At a day care center in Texas, children were playing outside. One of the children was Jessica , 18 months old. Jessica’s mother, who worked at the day care center, was watching the children. Suddenly Jessica fell and disappeared. Jessica’s mother cried and ran to her.
A well was in the yard of the center. It was only eight inches across, and a rock always covered it. But children played around and had moved the rock. Jessica fell right into the well.
Jessica’s mother couldn’t feel Jessica, so she called 911 for help. Men from the fire apartment arrived. They discovered that Jessica was about 20 feet down in the well.
“It’s too narrow,” they said, “So, we’re going to drill(钻) a big hole beside.”The man began on Wednesday morning. Two days later, on Friday morning, they were still drilling, as they had to drill through the solid rock.
During her days in the well, Jessica sometimes called her mother. Sometimes she slept, sometimes she cried, and sometimes she sang.
All over the world people waited for the news of Jessica. They read about her in the newspapers and watched her rescue on TV.
At 8 p. m. on Friday, the men finally reached Jessica and brought her up from the well. Jessica was dirty, hungry, thirsty and tired. Her foot and forehead was badly injured. But Jessica was alive. A doctor at the hospital said, “Jessica is lucky. She is young. She’s not going to remember this very well. ”
However, her parents, the rescuers, many other people around the world will not forget this. Later, one of the rescuers made a metal cover for the well. On the cover he wrote, “To Jessica, with love from all of us. ” Jessica fell into the well because____________.
| A．her mother was not watching her |
| B．the rock cover was moved away |
| C．Other children pushed her |
| D．she was too young to cross it |
What the doctor said meant that _____________.
| A．Jessica is lucky to have a good memory |
| B．Jessica is alive in the well because she is small |
| C．the hospital could improve young Jessica’s memory |
| D．Young Jessica wouldn’t remember her experience for long |
We learn from the passage that_____________.
| A．Jessica got many people’s attention |
| B．The rescuers had to drill the well bigger |
| C．It took one day for the men to rescue Jessica |
| D．Jessica’s parents made a new cover for the well |
In which order did the story happen?
a. Jessica fell into a well.
b. Rescuers drilled a hole to save Jessica.
c. Jessica’s mother ran to reach her.
d. Children moved the rock.
e. A medal cover was made.
| A．a-b-d-c-e | B．a-c-b-d-e |
| C．d-a-c-b-e | D．d-b-a-c-e |
Which of the following can be the best title of the story?
| A．A Careless Mother | B．A Dangerous Well |
| C．Everybody’s Baby | D．A lost rock cover |
Venice is the"Queen"of the Adriatic Sea (亚得里亚海). Every year thousands of people from all over the world travel to Italy to visit the city. Do you know why they like to go there for a visit?
Venice is a very beautiful city. It is quite different from other cities in the world. There aren't any roads and streets in the city, so there aren't any cars and buses. There are many canals（运河) in the city. There is one big canal and one hundred and seventy-seven small canals. People move up and down the canals in boats to go to work, go shopping or visit their friends.
But Venice is sinking. It is going down and the water is going up. In 2040 Venice will be under water. The Adriatic Sea will cover the city. The Venetians (威尼斯人) love their city and want to stay there. So they want to save Venice from the sea. They do not want to leave. How can they save Venice? They can build some strong huge walls and gates in the sea. The gates will close to keep too much water out. Thus Venice will not sink. From this short article we know Venice is __ .
| A．a very beautiful woman of the Adriatic Sea |
| B．the most important woman in Italy |
| C．a very important and beautiful place of the Adriatic Sea |
| D．the most important city in Italy |
People from all parts of the world go to visit Venice because .
| A．there are 177 canals in the city |
| B．it is sinking into the Adriatic Sea |
| C．there are a lot of kinds of boats on the canals |
| D．it is not only beautiful but also quite different from other cities |
The Venetians usually go to work or visit their friends __.
| A．by bus | B．by bike |
| C．in cars | D．in boats |
Year by year the Adriatic Sea and Venice .
| A．is rising, is sinking |
| B．is going down, is going up |
| C．has risen, has sunk |
| D．will go up, will go down |
Because the Adriatic Sea will cover it, the Venetians .
| A．have to leave Venice in 2040 |
| B．will try to do something to save their city |
| C．want to stay there until the water covers the city |
| D．do not love the city any longer |
Stephen Hawkins was born in Oxford, England on 8th January, 1942. He went to school in St. Albans—a small city near London. Although he did well, he was never top of his class. After leaving school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology. As he himself admits, he didn’t work hard. He was a very lazy student, and did very little work. However, he still got good marks.
It was at the age of 20 that Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him. He started to bump（碰撞） into things. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his mother was so worried that she made him see a doctor. Hawking was sent to hospital for tests. Finally, the result came back. Doctors said they had no way to help him. He would die before he was 23.
At first, Hawking became very sad, after a while, though, he began to see his life in a different way. As he later wrote, “Before my illness was diagnosed（诊断）, I had been very bored with life. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do.” Hawking married, found a job at Cambridge University, and had three children. He also went on to do some of the most important scientific research.
Today, Hawking still works at Cambridge University as a professor. He strongly believes that his story shows that nobody, however bad their situation is, should lose hope. “Life is not fair,” he once said. “You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.” As a university student, Stephen Hawking ________.
| A．worked very hard |
| B．studied maths and physics |
| C．was the best student in his class |
| D．was lazy and did very little work |
Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him when ________.
| A．he was sent to hospital for tests |
| B．his mother made him see a doctor |
| C．he was twenty |
| D．he visited his family at Christmas time one year |
When Hawking was first diagnosed with motor neural disease, he ________.
| A．made up his mind to get married |
| B．began to see his life in a different way |
| C．thought that nothing in life was worth doing |
| D．became very sad |
Today, Hawking ________.
| A．works at Oxford University |
| B．works at Cambridge University |
| C．carries out research into motor neural disease |
| D．does not rely on a machine to speak |
What would be the best title for this passage? ________.
| A．Motor Neural Disease | B．Life Is Fair |
| C．Professor Stephen Hawking | D．A Lazy Boy |
Have you ever asked your relatives or friends if there is Wi-Fi in their houses Have you ever searched for Wi-Fi when you are at restaurants or hotels. The answers will probably be "Yes". Most of us want Wi-Fi everywhere as if we can't live without it. But we can only use free Wi-Fi in some public places. We still have to spend some money accessing(连接)the Internet at most time. Here comes a piece of good news.
A rich, powerful organization in the USA called the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) has decided to change the age of online computing (计算) completely by giving free Wi-Fi to every person on Earth. They will send up hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit(轨道)in 2015.
This is because they have made a survey and found that only 60% of the world's population have been able to get information on the Internet. And this is also because many countries are unable to offer people the necessary infrastructure(基础设施)to access the web.
We can expect to use free Wi-Fi everywhere in the near future.
| Present situation |
●Many of us want Wi-Fi everywhere as if we can't live without it. ●Accessing the Internet |
| What the organization will do |
●MDIF has made a decision to send up |
| Reasons |
●Only ●Many countries can't |
| What we can expect |
●Free Wi-Fi will |
Usually, students are not encouraged to run or jump around in the corridor (走廊). However, students in a British grammar school really enjoy running on the corridor tiles (瓷砖) and their teachers even encourage them to do that.
Why? It is because the corridor was built with special kinetic (动能的) tiles. When students jump on the tiles, electricity will be produced. After one year, the electricity produced from the tiles can fully charge 853 mobile phones or power(供电) an electric car to drive seven miles. It’s amazing, isn’t it?
The corridor tiles are really a brilliant invention. Students can not only play on the corridor, but also help power the lights in their school corridors and other equipment in their classrooms. Besides, this is a good way to teach students to be creative. They will be inspired to be scientists, inventors and engineers in the future to find clean energy for all humans.
The inventor of the magic corridor tiles is Laurence Kemball-Cook. He was once a student in this school. Now, he is CEO of his own company. The corridor tiles are not Laurence’s only invention. He has also invented a special dance floor, which can be used at music festivals. It allows dancers to charge their mobile phones while they are dancing on the dance floor.Why do the students in the passage enjoy running on the corridor tiles?
| A．Because the corridor tiles are expensive. |
| B．Because the teachers ask them to do that. |
| C．Because the corridor was built with special tiles. |
| D．Because students like running and jumping. |
After one year, the electricity produced from the tiles can provide enough energy for _______.
| A．over 800 mobile phones |
| B．all the lights of the school |
| C．an electric car to drive 70 miles |
| D．the lights and other equipment in their classrooms. |
The underlined word “inspired” most probably means “ _________”.
| A．encouraged | B．forced |
| C．trained | D．allowed |
What else has Laurence invented besides the corridor tiles from the passage?
| A．A mobile phone. | B．A music player. |
| C．An electric car | D．A special dance floor. |
According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
| A．Students are not allowed to walk in the corridor. |
| B．Laurence once studied in the British grammar school. |
| C．Laurence has more than one company of his own. |
| D．All the corridor in British schools was built with special kinetic tiles. |